gathering could go ahead provided they were measures in place to prevent the spread of the virus new infections have been on the rise in germany in recent weeks prompting the government to impose stricter measures to keep the virus in check. all right our correspondent thomas sparrow is standing by and demonstration here in berlin hello to you thomas we can already see quite a large crowd behind you tell us what is going on where you are. that's correct there is indeed a very big crowd where we are standing now in the center of their eyes are expecting around 20000 people to gather here in berlin today. to oppose coronavirus restrictions many people that we also spoke to earlier stressed that they want more freedoms in particular there is a big variety of people here from family family members parents but also this is

a protest that has been co-opted if you will it to a large extent by the far right although some people here have told us that that is not the case that there are only a minority that people are particularly concerned about the current situation in the country and that they essentially want more freedoms one person even saying that he believes the coronavirus pandemic is fake now thomas as you were speaking we could hear a chanting in german vias and us fire which means we are the people what is the protestors message what are they trying to say with that statement. basically one person summarize the goal here saying that only dead fish swim with the current so basically stressing that they do not want to go with the current that they express their views on the thinning of the it also expressed their criticism of what is what is happening in this country many people here criticizing the german government and other authorities as well and as i stress this is a wide variety of people here you have people here for example who are against vaccines you have people here who are conspiracy theories you also have families

here who are simply saying that they want to have the right to protest and say what they think about the current situation in germany and also particularly important authorities are concerned about the role that far right groups in extremist groups also have played in this protest although as i stressed this is something that many people have told us that they are only a minority in these protests. now thomas there is quite a bit of a back and forth in the last couple of days 1st berlin authority is banned this protest and said it would not be going for than a court very late at night overturned that and allowed to go forward what was that all about. there has been a legal battle indeed my rianna on the initial authority stressing that it was important to guarantee public health and about was above the right to demonstrate that was overturned by a court on boats why people are also here demonstrating why they've come also from all sorts of parts of different possible germany but also from abroad we've seen

people coming from poland from the netherlands and it's important also to stress that there are counter-demonstrations also hearing in berlin and other parts of the city so it's not only people against coronavirus restrictions it's also people countering these demonstrations in other parts of the city as well so there's a lot of movement today here in delhi and we also expect this movement to continue throughout the day as this protest move and also at the counter-demonstrations also moving on the possibility to w.'s thomas ferro on the ground for us and that anti coronavirus rule demonstrations in berlin thank you so very much. all right let's take a look now at some other major developments in the corona virus pandemic and india has recorded another surge in daily cases with nearly 75000 new infections the total number of confirmed cases now stands at 3400000 authorities in france are warning of an exponential rise in covert 1000 cases almost 7400 new infections were

registered on friday that's the biggest daily rise since march and the chinese city of wuhan will reopen its schools and kindergartens next week the city where the pandemic started has not reported any new local transmissions of the virus since mid may. black panther actor chadwick boseman has died at the age of $43.00 bozeman one international acclaim playing king to china in the superhero movie his death comes after a long battle against colon cancer. it is. before finding fame is the regal black panther in the film adaptation of the marvel comic boseman played historical figures such as funk soul musician james brown and get on up and jackie robinson the 1st african-american to play in major league baseball in

the film 42 jackie robinson. black and white grease i want you to. think about the abuse that he's. your enemy will be out in force if you cannot meet him on. what you're one of these pictures. chad bozeman was a vocal critic of the endemic disadvantages facing black actors you have equal if not more talent at times in which you don't have the same opportunities you don't necessarily have the same doors open to you the same nepotism to be young gifted and black is is all of their it's it's is to have. everything would be quite be able to grasp it and to be able to persevered via

through that though we've been really good to play in the psychic or the sideshow or. backstage or not here altogether. but it was his role playing king charles in the blockbuster black panther that his family said was the honor of his life we did my entire life with. what happens. in terms of tactics. to the rest of the white black panther 13 academy awards in 2019 the film was a huge box office success and was widely seen as a defining moment for representation in hollywood boseman had been battling colon cancer for 4 years his family said on twitter that he died at home with his wife and family by his side he was just 43. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news this hour anti-government

demonstrators in chile have hit the streets in one of the largest protests since the start of the coronavirus pandemic police in the capital santiago disperse the crowds water cannon and made more than 20 arrests demonstrations started last october over a hike in metro fares. the governor in cuba's capital have vanna has announced that starting september 1st new measures will come into force to tackle a new surge in coronavirus cases 2 weeks of restrictions will limit travel and movement and include an overnight curfew of an hour recorded 269 new code cases last week. a vessel sponsored by british street artist banksy has called for immediate help after reportedly rescuing more than 200 migrants in the mediterranean sea the crew tweeted they were reaching a state of emergency with at least one dead and several injured people on board.

in the u.s. capital washington d.c. huge crowds have marched for racial justice the rally. it was held at the lincoln memorial where 57 years ago hundreds of thousands gathered to hear martin luther king give his iconic i have a dream speech pleading for racial equality the recent police shooting of african american jacob blake has reignited tensions over perceived police violence against people of color in america. tens of thousands of people at the lincoln memorial in washington d.c. . nearly 6 decades after martin luther king's march on washington the celebration of king's legacy mixed with shock and sadness at recent events. it comes after protests in konoha wisconsin this week turned violent after the police shooting of jacob blake the black man arson fendel ism then

a 17 year old white vigilante col rittenhouse shown here in exclusive deed of the video allegedly shot 2 protesters dead further stoking tensions. back in washington relatives of other black people shot by police took the stage oh you know there has never been more clear then signs right now is happening right now because we demanded civil rights leader al sharpton cast martin luther king's legacy as one of unfinished business. is dream is still alive you might it kill the dream oh but you can't kill the dream because truth crushed earth shall rise again. one clear theme was repeated over and over speakers encouraged everyone present to vote using the ballot box to make change happen to prevent us from vote in our correspondent in washington state funds demons talked more about

the march and the parallels with the rally in 1963. people came there to really all remember 57 years ago i have a dream and the the push by dr king for legislation legislation to equalize african-american lives with white lies he in america given the same rights and well is that accomplished i think people today beg to differ who were there and there were as you said thousands and again from all walks of life african-americans latinos cook asian white people of course everybody who have an interest in exactly the same push and that is what this event was about to accomplish or to. work for today was legislation legislation george floyd legislation to make police departments transparent and eradicate structural racism

in police departments and in the american justice to soccer now and literal. sense there is no chance that he'll try to sign superstar lino messi because he's too expensive messi who's regarded as one of the game's all time greats has told his club barcelona that he wants to leave well bats but many top european teams on alert. but over it was over there was i everyone it seems wants a piece of leno messy these are the scenes in the salary oh home of messi his boyhood club mules old boys a parade thanking him to return. do you really want to follow leo please come back while waiting for you with open arms lee and let's go. i have a. messy shocks the football world on tuesday by announcing he wanted to leave

barcelona his team of nearly 20 years that's led to speculation about his future destination so what about liverpool the english champions coach jurgen klopp says that while he'd love to work with messi money is the problem. who doesn't want to have messi and it's the end but you have no chance of. the numbers are absolutely not for us we don't even have to stop thinking about it it's all it's all clear now jess. one possible destination is here we actually had a stadium in manchester city a club with deep pockets led by pep squad the older messi former coach at bossa. when i was you have been just the city and make it more difficult to beat them the bitch was already very difficult so that's it for the bromley would be great one of us and having the best. messi epic draw for any club will competition question

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reasons appear to be obvious many people around the world voiding shops and prefer to shop from home the following products were especially popular during the 1st weeks of the crisis in germany headsets. on an increase of more than 900 percent that makes sense as germans are known to be hardworking and had simply met working from home more efficient free weights an increase of 2. 1740 percent for that little bit of exercise between calls for us saw an increase in demand of close to 3000 percent the current shopping has especially benefited one company amazon the american financial analyst tom ford says 19 has been amazon's growth. does amazon do so much better than other businesses that's what we asked the economist from long she says it's based on several factors. amazon takes

a different approach from other companies where the customer is 100 percent the sole focus and their strategies are consistently geared towards customers and their needs that's what makes them so successful. success is based on several factors the seemingly never ending choice on its website there are about 300000000 products for sale price many products are really quite cheap and delivery is often cost free . availability amazon delivers right to your doorstep and usually the very next day . claims exchanging or returning something is pretty simple amazon is becoming increasingly integrated into everyday life i can listen to my music there i can watch movies and t.v. series there are many many connecting points. one shortcoming however is being increasingly criticized. the quality control of products offered by 3rd party

suppliers. with products of counterfeit or poor quality the company tries to make the sellers responsible for not always easy to reach. but despite some bad apples usually on amazon the customer is always right sounds great but what consequences do retailers and producers face when almost everything is bought of amazon. today over 50 percent of. directly on amazon this. hitting small and medium sized businesses especially hard and they are dependent on participating in amazon's expensive shipping program to remain competitive on the platform. james thompson created the marketplace for amazon today he consults other companies on how to successfully sell products there goes your product show up in organic search results does your product have good customer conversion it all comes back you do in fact use amazon to do your fulfillment so that's one example where as a seller you basically have to accept that if you want to store the platform you're

going to have to use the shipping program to be relevant amazon has also started selling its own products directly on its platform in 2009 company founded jeff bezos started the company amazon basics this brand sells everyday products often at bargain prices and the grave is constantly growing because amazon has a very long term perspective they're prepared to lose a little bit of money here in their own individual cells what they want is you the customer to keep coming back to seattle based company has a clear advantage over the other amazon marketplace that gives them access to the competition data this online day said let's amazon identified best and use that knowledge for advertising their own products. they're also persistent claims that amazon copies successful products. stacy michell represents small and medium sized businesses in their fight against amazon there's

a company called green design laptop stand they have done very well on amazon and great customer reviews and then long you will make i don't want any amazon created and exactly. the amazon marketplace can cut both ways it groans companies access to a growing number of potential customers but also collects huge amounts of data for its own purposes. it's labeled as best sellers or the deal of the day most successful the same goes for real supermarkets too for vendors the so-called buy boxes and amazon equally important small check boxes on the website shopping screen that allow cost the most to place products directly into the shopping cart but the algorithm that determines which seller gets the buy votes is kept secret what we do know is that pricing reviews and distance between product and cost them up all influence how sellers are ranked but the most promising key to success is f d a f

b a means fulfillment by amazon vendors that agrees with this the 0 which essentially means paying more for amazon services have high a chances of scoring a buy books stacy mitchell has been monitoring amazon for 10 years and it's consistently causing him more discomfort 3 critical remarks from the point of view . it's amazon's marketplace and the rules of who can sell their on what terms they can sell who gets to see their products how praising works are sent by amazon it would be as though wal-mart you know not only came into your town and opened up a big steward but also bought up all of their commercial real estate and suddenly any business that wanted to open and competing with wal-mart would have to rent from wal-mart and wal-mart could decide whether they got a storefront or not and how much they paid and you know so it's a monopolization on another.

what is true is that amazon actually benefits from counterfeits amazon uses than as leverage against suppliers so we saw this a few years ago with the shoe company birkenstock they had been complaining to amazon because there were lot of counterfeit birkenstocks on the site and they could not get amazon to do anything about it and eventually amazon said oh yeah you have to sell us your full line issues on the terms that we want and then we'll clean up the counterfeits. those that do find a way. may find if they're successful or 2 or 3 years and they actually begin to build up a bit of a business doing it and hire people and think wow this really works well once they sort of get to a certain size a certain amount of say oh this is no amazon kind of notices them at that point and

then it starts to get harder suddenly there are more fees and it becomes more and more costly and more and more difficult to be successful the more successful a kompany is on amazon the more expensive it gets for them to use the platform to sell that sounds like a pretty bad deal for individuals hallo's can we as customers do something about it yes but the alternatives usually require a little work one example checking office directly on manufacturers websites usually that's cheaper than you think and it even might be beneficial for your warranty they also platforms but icons of climate change and sell products which are free of plastic or make sure to use carbon neutral delivery global e-commerce is the extreme and profitable which is why other tech giants i'm now trying to catch up google wants to focus on expanding its e-commerce business and is currently testing a new app shop and the app shows short clips of influenzas presenting products

which can then be directly audit shops target audience is instagram uses so far it's mostly been about beauty products facebook has just introduced shopping on his platform to. increase its paper produces greeting cards for part of a growing trend amongst small american companies from room to business from charleston south carolina uses antique printing presses to mint the carts and the new online shop and facebook to sell them. or get introduced online shops to facebook and instagram during the corona crisis he says it's to help retail. receive some of the financial losses suffered during the pandemic this is going to make up for all of that lost business but it can help and for lots of small businesses during this period this is the difference between staying afloat or going under over 160000000 small businesses use facebook's infrastructure to

advertise products and services they use posts to embed links to their products that 1st users have to leave the up and buy products directly on the retailers websites but not anymore. in meats paper is one of just a few small businesses and though to test the new e-commerce features jamie no june the owner loves it. when like amazon and sellers here don't need to rely on an expensive shipping program. setting up shops is free no programming skills required . we want people to handwrite words of instagram's i mean it's really. kind of helped us and telling that story so as we looked at their e-commerce features that were coming out. you know it was like wow this completely reduces the friction of going to a separate website once your credit card is registered you can use it's on all apps

across the platform and it's convenient and it increases how long you stay on the site institute for local self-reliance fears that facebook is using this as a backdoor to collect data on consumer behavior the whole business model is based on data stacey mitchell says he is using this moment of desperation to position facebook in the market facebook made in a moment be offering a little bit of competition for amazon another way or small businesses to get to market but you know we should remember that facebook itself is looking looking to corner the market dominating the market is key facebook introduced the new shops feature amazon is offering an all inclusive experience and apple has been excluding troublesome cell us from the i o. s. universe who can stop the big 4 heads of state as well as small time online sellers regularly complain about their dominance but then nothing happens that might be

about to change though in the u.s. home to these tech giants opposition is growing the big 4 tech executives came under strong scrutiny in an anti-trust comedy hearing in the u.s. house of representatives whether it's through self preference in predatory pricing or crying used to buy additional products the donna platforms have wielded their power in destructive harmful ways in order to expand that spot on the bigger question is whether the u.s. will take action which means working against the interests of big american companies what do you think do kompany is that dominate the market like amazon need to be broken up or is the market salvatore let us know what you. think on facebook on t.w. dot com and if you want to know more about amazon's founder jeff bezos make sure to check out our you tube channel that's it for me goodbye and your next time.

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