what connex people should do in the midst of the stuff. is so strong that it can't be changed. we celebrated the 30th anniversary of germany's realistic ation october 3rd on t.w. . google is cracking down on developers dodging its apps rules it says it will begin enforcing a rule that apps so through the play store have to use google's payment system which takes a 30 percent of any revenues also coming off the coronavirus pandemic is expected to lead to an increase in the number of east asians in poverty the 1st increase in have a 20 years. and as the world records its 1000000 coronavirus deaths we'll look at

innovations in taiwan and germany that could help us through the crisis. moving on this is a business on robots in better than welcome to the program google is warning outside developers to stop circumventing its payment system and has given don't just one year to comply among the companies in its crosshairs on netflix and spotify both of them have disputed or attempted working around payments on google devices which show a 30 percent commission from the tech giant frustration over commissions levied alike by google and apple has been growing among about affairs in recent years.

and i'm joined in the studio by businesses stephen beardsley welcome to the program so what's behind this from google. so basically google is saying that it wants to clarify its rules that basically it hasn't been forcing these rules are already been set up it's very nice way of saying all right it's time for us to start doing this it's time for you to start listening and really what it comes down to is as you mentioned spotify companies like spotify and netflix companies that have been taking their app users to their websites to make purchases instead of going through the the app itself and google's payment system or in the case of apple apple's payment systems and so google is saying look it's time for this to change we're going to give you a year to put in place and this comes as apple's also been trying to be a bit more forceful and as it's been responding to some complaints by app developers against this 30 percent cut that's really what it comes down to this 30 percent cut we should mention that goes on a 15 percent after one year of an app use but everyone's focused on a big number and it's basically fuelling lawsuits and some complaints from apple

users that frankly is too much in its anti competitive you know one developer has gone further than just complaining about this when they had a fit. games suing apple and google have this 30 percent cut if they got much of a chance against these giants right will rather mean that the environment definitely seems much better for right now at the games isn't alone it's probably going to be joined by spotify and others we're seeing app developers starting to work together and start to drop some of their complaints and they do have a better case now because they're not going to be alone because also europe has already made many of these similar european justice european. commissioners i should say have already made plenty of these arguments they've already taken companies like google and apple to task for what they consider anti-competitive behavior as it relates to app stores the u.s. government is expected to do the same in the coming months and so now we're actually seeing silicon valley companies starting to do the same thing what this comes down to is the idea of anticompetitive behavior that companies like google

like apple by owning so many different aspects of the market from publishing apps to also making their own 3rd party apps that they can dominate in a way that others can't that you have to play with them or no one else and just briefly apple's defended the present cut saying you know it's it's kind of standard for product distributors like travel companies they go to point to some extent they do have a point of course you know your book store is going to take a certain cut from the sales of your product travel booking as you mention but it's same time there's only a handful of these companies there's not a whole lot of variety you can go to you either have google's place or you have apple's app store and so you can't really go anywhere else and the bigger issue here is though that these these companies are also producing their own app so they can draw from mission from 3rd party apps and then create their own apps with that that's problematic stephen basically thanks for bringing us up to date thanks rob. now the world bank says the number of east asians living in poverty is likely to rise this year for the 1st time in 2 decades the coronavirus pandemic is set to

push the region to its slowest economic growth for more than half a century. streets usually teeming with tourists. police are checking to see if everyone is a tiering too strict lockdown measures nearly everyone has to stay home and it has lead to job losses poverty and hunger could be looming for an additional $38000000.00 east asians this year the world bank warns most of them are in myanmar where 85 percent of households already risk of losing earnings due to the coral not spend demick in indonesia and can bollea it's 79 percent of households and there's more in other countries. the world bank says most east asian countries have managed to contain the pandemic now is the time to help those who are most affected by the lockdown measures of the international lenders says governments should do more to help the poor. global deaths from corona virus have now topped

1000000 as the pandemic continues to take lives it is also preventing people from being able to make a living key to getting the world working again will be testing and testing fast now a time when his firm has developed a robot that can return results within 3 hours meet key vs $96.00 the taiwanese robot 3 arms and it doesn't have to sleep either if say it's invented vs 96 when mass produced it could make a huge contribution to the world's economic recovery. can produce around 2000 results per day with $100.00. deployed in j.f.k. airports or singapore airports this airports can fully resume their flight in the passenger travel safely and bring back the country economy. for now though q. vs 96 is operational radius is restricted to taiwan to places like this taipei

hospital normally patients here have to wait at least 2 days to get their test results from the lab the robot to manage is a turnaround time of around 3 hours and it can distinguish clearly between solids cave 2 and influenza viruses and. this machine can be of great help when it comes to striking a balance between epidemic control and economic growth it can help people come together and contribute to the economy again while also effectively preventing the spread of the virus. and with the infection rates rising in many countries right now q vs $96.00 would have its work cut out. along this let's cross to our correspondent in frankfurt ashutosh panday ashutosh the coronavirus continues to be the dominating feature for european economies how are they coping.

over the rug the sentiments are certainly turning negative after seeing strong rebound after those restrictions were lifted earlier this year after the spring lock downs so the sentiments are turning negative and that's because the way it's case is resurfacing the cases are rising specially in france and spain and these economies are dependent a lot on the services that they offer and the it's the services sector that's going to suffer a lot if the cases are continue to rise and restrictions will have to be put back again i mean 2 can restrictions like the one we saw earlier this year so these economies seem to be suffering there but germany seems to be performing better there thanks to a strong demand from china and also its strong dependence on exports and as we passed this 1000000 deaths mark how are some of the other major world economies doing. its recoveries and even so the

economies which are dependent on services. are not fairing as well as the others and also do the economies which are still struggling to get the pandemic under control like india they continue to struggle if you talk about country specifically then china and south korea clearly they are the outliers the above only really with the recovery has been strong thanks to the way they've managed to hold on to the can do the pandemic and also because of government support and the us has been struggling because of all the bickering over the stimulus plan so that's a concern that emerging economies are also still to come into the groove and they're not performing as well that's a good again because the cases are still rising in those most countries in the emerging space indeed i should toss pandey in frankfurt thanks for bringing us up to date. now if and when a coronavirus vaccine is eventually ready transporting it is to me a major logistical challenge it'll have to be kept at a more than

a little chilly minus 70 degrees celsius to manufacture tech makes thermal containers specially designed to keep sensitive goods at a steady temperature for days at a time this monday looking cooler is actually packed with cutting edge technology each is tested before it leaves the factory to ensure that inside panels are 100 percent flawless they have a special ability to maintain steady temperatures inside for very long periods regardless of the outside temperature there inventor york is a physicist and develop the containers vacuum walls at university his business model was born out of that experience. it's on the box i know principly of books is a kind of thermos flask in a book form or contain a form to it besides that it's lined with special high tech accumulator storage materials which can store heat energy at a given temperature 10 times more efficiently than conventional materials. and this

combination of vacuum insulation and heat accumulating materials is what delivers the long term performance. even then these are longer performance. the coronavirus pandemic has put rocket boosters on vacuum techs business the votes based manufacturers containers have been used to transport some 300000000 kovan 1000 test kits around the world the kits are temperature sensitive and have to be kept at a steady minus 20 degrees celsius but even if pharmaceuticals are the mainstay of the vacuum tech business they're not the sole activity. untempered. the demand for temperature load logistics is growing worldwide we're not only talking about pharmaceuticals and biotechnology materials on and off we're also dealing with specialised goods like special chemicals adhesives optical equipment and even art works. on. there's a huge sector that requires constant temperatures over several days and that's our

business. there's no obligation to wear masks at work here the employees are tested for over $1000.00 on a regular basis over time has been the norm for months now and york and cohen has warned his staff but it's going to stay that way and if and when a coronavirus vaccine emerges it will have to be transported at a constant minus 70 degrees celsius in boxes made of these panels that's when vacuum will ramp up to 24 hour production. so for me in the business to provide.

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is called spectrum if you like and information on the chrono lara's or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you go your podcast can also find us at dot com slash science. the coronavirus pandemic has put the spotlight on the often difficult relationship between finance and politics. in the scientific world. researchers tried a slow and methodical cop in the search for truth but for some politicians the rush to deliver quick and easy answers to complex questions has made scientific research into a political football. how does the virus spread. to mosques really protect their wearers. is most at risk from the pandemic. our government

researchers are still learning about the virus trying to understand how it behaves and devising strategies to fighters. they need politicians to turn their findings into public policy but got collaboration is often far from straightforward. this is news covert 900 special i'm paid ferguson thanks for joining me here in germany chancellor angela merkel has warned that the number of corona virus infections could rise to almost 20000 a day by christmas if the current trend continues she says the priority must be to bring numbers down while keeping the economy alive the right the pandemic she's been shaping her policies around the latest advice from germany's scientists and researchers among the experts that have her ear is the country's most well known for custom causton. where a mask wash your hands and maintain distance people in germany are accustomed to

following the safety and hygiene guidelines yet despite this the rate of infection is climbing with more than 2000 new cases in a single day the highest count since april germany's most prominent virologist christian thorsten sees the development critically he recently spoke at a conference in berlin and detailed some of his concerns in an interview with deutsche avella. that other countries look at france the u.k. spain what we're seeing there is what we will see germany. if we don't react. very early on. in a way that needs to be adjusted that needs to be. let's say bearable for the economy and at the same time target and this is a very difficult task to find the right point of time thorsten has praise for

germany's coronavirus policies and the response by the country's leadership during the pandemic he says germany has been efficient and measures have softened the pandemics impact but he also says the government could do a better job of explaining why certain decisions are made it is not sufficient to impose rules that people don't understand so that cooperation off the plate and especially in the coming weeks and months. over over of autumn and winter. is probably one of the most important functions in the whole concept 2 to intervene thorsten says from a global perspective current developments in india particularly worrying the virus is spreading there almost uncontrollably and he says the situation in many western countries could also become more threatening there are areas including in europe where there is little control where countries already go into autumn with

a high. background incidence i believe. there are countries including europe. will have to impose stricter measures very soon as germany and the world prepare for a likely 2nd major wave of new covered 19 infections in the coming months now more than ever politics and science need to work hand in hand. that's bring in professor or they d.n.i. go he's a neurologist at berlin shotty hospital on the founding director of the qwest center for transforming biomedical research capacity and i got thank you so much for joining us how has the coronavirus changed the relationship between science and politics i don't think this relationship has changed in principle scientists provide evidence and politicians may or may not act accordingly but what i use is different for example to the scientific council because i think climate change is

that it is in the nature of an emerging pandemic that the available evidence is often tentative new evidence leads to new into patients and new recommendations potentially even rehearsals so in general politicians don't have a good track record to be following sound scientific advice i mean climate change again is therefore no big surprise to me that politicians have difficulties in following scientific advise if it is based on preliminary evidence and reckoning by statistical models now as we saw in that report there here in germany kristie and also he's become a household name how much influence what you say individual scientists have on politicians. i just have to ask the scientists generally the downplay the influence but for us observers it appears that some scientists are indeed highly influential i guess it's obvious who's on sweden with the stated emotion and just taken who has to say or officially or anthony fauci in the us although he seems to

be marginalized by the problem but i think the u.k. for example it's quite likely that new focus meant his model of the potential death toll triggered a policy reversal in the u.k. and led to the lockdown what is problematic in my view is that it's and it's not the scientists who are to be blamed for that scientific advisory is presently not guided by 4 relevant principles advice research be inclusive it is included many sources expertise stakeholders it should be rigorous that's comprehensive free of bias independent review and transparent that it should be clear that conflicts of interest assumptions limitations gaps and you should also be accessible that is freely available in a plain language and we don't see that at the moment in any country and expanding out what you're saying they do you think find that they're under pressure to advance a certain pleasure that all of us. well in every country politicians now claim to act according to the best available science but what is this best available

science someone has said that it's a case of survival of the ideas that fit so politicians tend to favor the kind of science that alliance with existing preferences what special to political actions or inactions in the pandemic is that they are felt immediately in viscerally by everyone it's days instead of years as the climate change so is a prominent epidemiology this recommends closure of schools and the government indeed close the schools as scientists becomes an immediate target for those opposing this measure so i guess this puts tremendous pressure on scientists giving advice. and i'm not hold that what you say the attention they cloned a virus is getting right now is good or bad for science. i guess a little bit of both and the jury is still a bit positive or negative effects will prevail science hopes to contain and eventually a predicate to threat this will receive a positive on science i hope on the other and then many of the measures taken hits

on you ted consequence is harming many people and as i said just now therefore as it's straightforward to blame scientists for all the negative consequences even within science because it's not black and white on the positive side our new forms of disseminating it in scientific discussions which are currently popular us think for example prince. scientific collaboration also gets a push but on the other hand we see what's been called the coli does a sheet of research resources and expertise is followed by a from here is which just so include tension t v cancer and there's increasing noise made you need to focus on the signal that's the robust and relevant research results plus you see what has been called research exceptionalism and that's on the bench bad data is better than no data and that's clearly dangerous especially in the conditions of a pandemic some pros and cons f.f.s.

they are they cannot go from for an insanity thanks so much for speaking to us. thank you very much. time night on fire one of your questions about the corona virus over to our science correspondent eric williams. if i think i have the virus but couldn't be tested could the vaccine actually be dangerous for me. well we don't know at least not yet but presumably the answer to this question and others like it will be provided by the extensive phase 3 testing that a number of vaccine candidates are going through now they involve tens of thousands of volunteers and some of them i'm sure will have already had covert 19. in most other diseases there aren't mechanisms that would cause someone who had to react badly to subsequent vaccinations i think the assumption most experts would make is that with covert 19 vaccinating someone who has already have the virus will

generally act more like a booster shot reminding the immune system that sars co 2 is still around and putting it back on high alert which isn't to say that potential vaccines won't have any side effects in fact reports so far imply that some if not most candidates are pretty react oh general which means they can cause discomfort ranging from from headache to soreness at the injection site to fatigue or fever but the big question is whether those side effects are seen as acceptable in terms of tolerability if some people get a headache for a couple of hours the day after a vaccination that would probably be considered an acceptable trade off if their temperature spikes dramatically then it wouldn't that's at least in part what phase

3 testing in vaccines is about one thing it's meant to do is identify as many rare adverse events as possible in a big test coworkers to evaluate as many potential dangers as possible before you give a vaccine to the wider population. and we leave you with this spain has been one of the european countries hard to tell it by covert 19 over the weekend activists play thousands of amish flocks in a park in the capital madrid to mourn the over 30000 people who've lost their lives to the disease in recent weeks the city has become one of europe's coronavirus hotspots the secret auction was also meant as. sign of protest and a call on the government to do more to stop the spread of the virus.

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