strike. the students are the best. training successful. just. starts october 30 w. . crowds and busy city spaces have become a problem in times of covert 19. how can we maintain social distancing and get back as far as possible to our normal lives. g.w. science magazine takes a look. welcome to this edition of tomorrow today. empty public squares deserted streets and restaurants familiar images the world

over. normally these spaces are bustling with people but it's hard to imagine how we could maintain social distancing and stay safe under such circumstances. computer simulations and risk analysis could point the way. in many parts of the world life has been returning to city streets people are travelling on trams buses and trains again but social distancing remains a priority even if it's not always easy to maintain and it's busier during rush hour but not like it used to be before the not too crowded social distancing is ok sometimes it's a bit overcrowded so you can't maintain the minimum distance with us there's quite a lot of space and people tend to stay apart while they are far out of luck.

negative experiences because people do as they please a lot of people aren't being very careful so. preventing overcrowding is something these people specialize in accurate is a munich based startup made up of a team of i t and simulation experts. the coronavirus pandemic has brought them new challenges normally they work on emergency evacuation plans security concepts for bigger events and passenger flow analyses. now they're also working on ways to help protect passengers visitors and workers from infection with the coronavirus. because one of the coronavirus crisis has shown us that simulations are more than just a way to analyze the behavior of crowds so they can also help us figure out how to maintain a social distancing that's important in office buildings for example court but also for ensuring passenger safety in railway station as. the simulation zeus'

forecasts based on the behavior of these human avatars or agents which follow realistic movement patterns social distancing rules have added a new twist to the calculations the agents aren't supposed to get too close to each other which is hard in tight quarters. here we've already incorporated social distancing the agents are surrounded by a green circle with a diameter of 3 meters or a radius of one and a half and. now they all have to leave but there's a bottleneck what would be the 1st to leave the doorways just one metre wide but you're supposed to keep a distance of 1.5 meters some of the agents are now turning red that shows they haven't been able to maintain social distancing for a certain amount of time. which. they don't yet have specifically coronavirus related data to incorporate into their simulations who keeps their distance who tries to. barge through but they can draw on many experiments with crowd behavior

carried out over the years. wherever we have pedestrians in downtown areas railway stations airports or queues outside concerts we have to know how the flow of pedestrians tends to work where do bottlenecks develop. that's useful to know in all sorts of contexts like evacuating crowded sports stadiums or schools or figuring out whether a train station is just busy or whether it's actually overcrowded. is so far the simulations function without the fear of the coronavirus as a parameter to help the agents maintain social distancing research is looking for new ways to guide pedestrian flow. you think we already have queuing systems in place at entrances to supermarkets for example the kind of research we're doing now draws on similar concepts. we're trying

to understand and describe what's happening when people are waiting in line. all. those insights could help us design queuing systems in other contexts. social distancing can even help to decrease queues and crowding. in railway stations and stairwells a one way system can keep pedestrians flowing smoothly. this is a huge opportunity the authorities have fast tracked are up occasion for a research project that will allow us to expand the scope of our stimulator we could make a real contribution to getting life back to something more like normal. that will entail combining real life pedestrian and commuter volumes flows and well times with true to scale architectural data to help daily life in cities flow more smoothly. the brazilian city of manassas was hit so hard

by the corona virus that it was forced to bury its dead in mass graves because symmetries couldn't keep up. but then infection rates suddenly slowed for a time even though few measures had been taken to protect people from the virus. it looked as though the city might have managed to write the 1st wave of coded 19 paradoxically due to widespread infection a phenomenon called code immunity. sadly rising numbers now seem to say otherwise. but how can we even gauge immunity. am i already immune some people hope a rapid antibody test could answer that question and potentially provide reassurance. the test involves taking a blood sample and generates a result within minutes but it doesn't detect the virus itself it shows the

presence or absence of antibodies that may indicate past infection. unfortunately there is a chance that you will test positive if you have antibodies linked to other types of corona virus including the common cold. false positives of this kind are possible. and even if the test correctly identifies antibodies against the corona virus it doesn't automatically mean that person is immune. our bodies produce different kinds of antibodies in response to the virus but only those that actually help put it out of action offer protection the so called neutralizing antibodies to be sure you would have to perform a 2nd test to demonstrate the presence of neutralizing antibodies using real viruses in a cell culture these kinds of tests are complicated and have to be carried out in specialized lamps. so immunity can only really be shown in

a follow up test but even if you do detect neutralizing antibodies specific to the corona virus one problem remains it's unclear for now how long community actually lasts following an infection. aspects of the immune system could also explain why africa has been less hard hit back have a 19 benefit it's possible that the immune systems of people living there are more used to coping with infections. we asked one researcher why certain parasites might be linked to milder cases of covert 19. 1 of the dominant features is that there was ensure their survival for 10 years and longer in the body by suppressing the immune response and the prophecies are is that this overshooting

immune reaction that comes with severe 90 cases might be mitigated because the people who are was in heavily eunice oppressed general. status. these insights about parasites help us find drugs to treat kev at 19. this long sought to carve out the beneficial parts of the immune response of a parasite immunosuppressive mold avoids the talking parasitic infections that this is very tricky you have to imagine that the parasite was about 10000 different proteins and even more of the molecules 'd that it can play with in order to exert down regulate the immune system not to speak about the infection of the locality and all these things it's very complicated so far. except for a few molecules that for example. i have been shown to the.

outcomes of those decision receptors as it is part of. the immune system also play a. role in setting infections or they can be addressed by small molecules but they are still in the brutal development so we are not yet there and definitely the longer. perspective. seeing which seems to be. highly parasites are in the scientific spotlight some insect species are quietly disappearing. to assess the situation of 6 legged friends a german conservation organization is harnessing the help of the general public to keep tabs on the insect numbers. a fine example of citizens silence.

these people are in the garden. here's something really tiny and i meet these 2 in a farmer's field down there. and these people are in a forest meadow there you see. but they're all doing the same thing. they're. they're counting insects for germany's nature and biodiversity conservation union for the past 2 summers the organization has called on the general public for help and it's a fun thing to do but the situation is serious because insects are on the decline in germany part of a global trend. among my own studies the results of the insect count she says the initiative is very important. for me it doesn't work on song we have a greater decline now than what we saw in the past and we urgently need to start

collecting data that we can show what's happening. that's fun. the goal is to take an inventory of insects in various locations for one week members of the public were asked to count insects for one hour following a set pattern within a radius of 10 meters gobby and new to our searching in a wildlife garden a pamphlet showing pictures of various insects plus a photo app on their phone helped them to identify the most common species their garden is a treasure trove. it's been quite about i'm happy and surprised to see so many honeybees there's these everywhere baqir. and perhaps even more important the pair also finds bumble bees and other wild species population numbers for wild bees in particular have plummeted. hover flies have also taken a hit 30 percent of hover fly species are threatened with extinction benson hartmut

meanwhile are struggling to find much of anything in their chosen field until recently that was we going here now after the harvest the field is a desert. millipede here. and despite it there and that's it. it was a long time before we found on the thing that i love and then only small insects that probably arrived after the harvest. before that the fields would have been treated heavily with chemicals of course to use the yield. intensive farming monocultures on the use of pesticides have all taken their toll pests that damage the harvest like the colorado beetle are being targeted but many useful insects like the green dot people that eat sweets are also suffering other species that live in the forest like the stand beetle are also endangered. in this forest many

of the when you zone semen are being kept busy there's plenty going on at ground level he. where they find grasshoppers in particular this area is the launch of the wild life to nature butterflies are also out in force here. butterflies are also in decline they make up the 2nd largest group of insects after beetles but in the last 10 years alone their numbers have dropped 10 percent. but it's not clear which species of butterfly are most at risk in order to understand what's happening in detail precise scientific studies are needed. entomologist gal into lima has set up traps with bottles of alcohol to attract flying insects so that she can check their numbers for traps that look like tents have been set up in nature reserves that are located near agricultural fields.

the project is funded by the german government and continues a long term study into insects that ran for 30 years. in 2017 that study showed a dramatic drop in flying insects in western germany at least in terms of the overall numbers of insects caught. in our study we have chosen 21 representative locations that are spread all over germany and we record the specific species not just overall numbers we decode the d.n.a. of insects to produce a barcode and then we can say exactly which species were in the trash can all based on. this study will run for 4 years allowing the scientists to see which insects are endangered and to what extent then they hope to have exact numbers.

lists here sagal is to produce recommendations for the politicians on how best to preserve insect diversity in germany one owns a law student. one useful practice is the plant a flower bed along the edge of fields one not sufficient it does show how important diverse vegetation is for insects alive and just what's flying in the air there is a 100 times what's here. after a whole hour banton hot moat found only a handful of insects the reasons so mostly grasshoppers and butterflies in the forest meadow but still they counted more than 70 of those. from this i think that's quite good because they play an important role in nature bees are of course vital for our lives and they're declining fast from. all of us can do something to help and insect friendly garden is one option. to find the most insects by far

counting more than $150.00 in one hour they also have the largest range of species . with some other and even amazing results we found so many insects it's great. next summer germany will launch another insect counter in the hope of safeguarding the very future and ours. if our love is right why our great writer i've never seen you have a science question you'd like us to answer. send it in if we featured on the show you'll get it didn't surprise as a thank you. come on just ask. to find us on the web at t.w. dot com slash sons or check us out on twitter. this week's question comes from kevin me.

why are mammals born blind. some not all mammals are born especially helpless blinded with no fur to protect them and this means their parents have to spend more time caring for them before they can fend for themselves . it's not until they've developed signs and the ability to roam by themselves that the young animals need their nests cames or hideouts a model is common among predators. that's because a long pregnancy is not advantageous for the mother it would stop her from hunting . that's why her are born before they're fully mature they're not yet properly developed. are born fully developed. right away and are born with vision they're also quick to get

on their feet. the group includes jarana ups and. to them survival means being able to seen and fully speed off from the babies are able to feed themselves. and the 3rd group. around one parent usually the mother carries the offspring around with her kangaroos are an example. blind when born. others in this group. are born. only some kinds of mammals are born blind. so what about humans. newborns can see time distance of about 30 centimeters they can hear too but they can't walk so are carried around by their parents.

but there are also some young people who take their time cleaning the nest science has yet to come up with an official term to describe that phenomenon. the age at which young people leave their parents' homes varies a lot across europe well many swedes leave when they're 18 people in montenegro 33 on average the e.u. average is 26 just like in the us. in south american countries there are also like stasis. there it's not just about money or the need to look up. elderly relatives living in extended families is just more part of the culture. with young people with jobs. to set its streets abandon stations but this time it's not because of the pandemic. and unexploded world war 2 bomb has been on earth

in a residential neighborhood jimmy still has lots of undetonated ordinance in the ground a fund like this means emergency services have to organize large scale and disruptive evacuations. a researcher in southern germany is trying to help them against the risk more accurately with some rather dramatic experiments. like. this is the kind of destruction that could be unleashed if an unexploded bomb from the 2nd world war suddenly detonates. but the device creation that shockwave is not old munition but a compressed air con.

this is a controlled experiment at the front over in situ for high speed dynamics in south western germany. the pressure wave shatters windowpanes and cause a cloud of glass and even hurled chairs across the test room. for alexander stalls the destruction delivers vital insights his aim is to optimize the evacuation of locations following the discovery of unexploded bombs. among the tools at his disposal are high speed cameras which can identify the size speed and direction of the glass flying through the air right down to the tiniest shards.

the engineer has conducted dozens of such experiments under a variety of different conditions the results are fed into a simulation program the more data he collects the better he can predict the physical fallout from an explosion. and the authorities always cordon off a huge area around the mission to find. out but if there's a hospital in that area with intensive care patients that's a problem. they then have to be evacuated which constitutes a danger to those patients. because the bomb really pose a threat to the hospital or is a vacuum waiting or perhaps unnecessary. the red spots in the simulation represent areas that are extremely vulnerable to the shock wave the blue regions less so. here the hospital takes a direct hit some sections see a convergence and amplification of the shock waves. and the

subsequent analysis the red areas show where windows would be shattered this hospital would be devastated despite being 200 meters away and theoretically shielded by the buildings in between. under shockwave is not the only danger of an old munitions go off. the researchers conduct a 2nd test to look at the effects of shrapnel. this is not your typical 200 kilogram bomb but a small metal cylinder containing just 250 grams of explosive material. the damage incurred is evaluated by its impact on a sheet of metal safety 1st which means the researchers retreating to an observation bunker.

even the high speed camera it seems has trouble capturing exactly what happened during the explosion. but one broken down the footage shows how the shrapnel pierces the metal sheet on the wooden board behind us meaning. the force of the explosion took its toll not only on the concrete block but also on the metal. and it's not meant with any of the standing here would have sustained serious injuries from the shrapnel possibly fatal ones good. with a real bomb that kind of damage could be caused up to 100 meters away another factor for the researchers to incorporate into their simulations as they seek to pinpoint areas that really would need evacuating. that's

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i'm so welcome to the program you foreign ministers meeting in luxembourg have agreed to impose sanctions on russia for the poisoning of kremlin critic. the frozen pay from germany from frankfurt after independent voters found that mr ballmer happy for the soviet era nerve agent in paris believe moscow must have been involved foreign ministers are also considering sanctions against the leader. of the political crisis in his country. from brussels from data to correspondent. who is that welcome so what decisions what's what's on the table that in brussels. what's on the table is 2 sets of sanctions as you mentioned the 1st and the more important ones at the moment because it is not the big step is the

sentients against russia because of the poison attack the navi truck attack as we know against opposition leader on the scene of dull need and it was remarkably quick there was a political agreement to the proposal that germany and france had put on the table saying russia had a chance to explain they haven't taken that chance they have give new logical or credible explanation for what happened there where this novacek this prohibited the chemical weapon substance is otherwise have been coming from other than from russian laboratories so we hold russia responsible for this attack it's a breach of the convention that prohibits the use of those particularly chemical weapons and so therefore we have to respond and do what this shows really is a hardening of european policy towards russia if we remember 2018 when the it

solves some attack happened also it was not a chalk in the united kingdom it took european foreign ministers almost a year off sort of moving up and down and back and forth to place now this time it's just a good 2 months since the event and it seems they're really fed up with russia in this bubble bozo in brussels for them thank you. it would turn to some of the other stories making news around the world starting in baton rouge where the government says it will now allow police to use lethal weapons against protesters if necessary the interior minister's ministry said it was responding to what he called the vatican of anti-government protests on the roofs as a mass protest every weekend since the august presidential election but off the group say it was rigged. both sides in the conflict in the border and then the going back regions have accused the other of violating of russia brokered ceasefire

in moscow russian foreign minister sergei lavrov called on armenia and azerbaijan to adhere to the truce which came into effect on saturday and it's a people have died since fighting broke out last year it's. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg announce that the platform will ban posts that did not distort the holocaust uses to search for information about the nazi genocide will instead be directed to all forces of seoul says the change is part of facebook's attempt to tackle conspiracy fears and misinformation ahead of the u.s. presidential election. he says a seismic survey ship will be soon be gas exploration that's raised tensions between turkey and greece but recent months and press said the vessel would serjeants off its coast is several small greek islands the dispute over sea boundaries has raised fears of a military confrontation between the 2 countries. so far germany has

fared better joining the coronavirus pandemic that many brits european neighbors but the number of new hotspots across the country is on the rise especially in urban areas that's prompted a range of new restrictions which differ from state to state even many people uncertain about the rules. 2 weeks of fall vacations are in full swing for many people across germany but travel will be difficult this year especially for those living in the country's so-called corona virus risk areas. various areas have surpassed the threshold of 50 infections per 100000 residents over one week including german cities like berlin munich frankfurt and cologne. to try to stop the spread of the virus many german states have introduced travel restrictions for people who live in the risk areas in the states they can't stay in

hotels or guest houses unless they show a negative covert 19 tests no older than 48 hours or quarantine for 14 days but other states haven't imposed restrictions the picture is chaotic making it hard for people in germany to understand where they can travel to and under what conditions the federal government is the fending the measure but critics say the domestic travel restrictions won't help stop the pandemic and will put a strain on germany's testing system. in my opinion really a reasonable. measure because most travelers are no really infectious so they are low risk. of very important and very very p.c.r. tests in order to make sure that. it is also very burdensome for the travelers and it is basically useless for controlling penned makers in germany. the

new restrictions have disrupted travel plans at a time when many families across the country normally go on vacation people are frustrated by the lack of clarity. on the one hand i think it's confusing for example i live in brandenburg and work in berlin and sometimes i wonder which rules apply where this always leads to some confusion and i would have liked more consistent rules i would prefer some uniform rules citizens would be more aware and maybe the rules would be communicated better. and if people understood the measures better maybe more would respect them. german chancellor angela merkel will meet with state leaders on wednesday as. this isn't of the accommodation band grows they will try to bring some order to the chaos. or the u.k. has recorded europe's highest pandemic death toll the new infections there are

growing at an alarming rate especially in the north of england prime minister barak's johnson has just outlined a new system of measures to control the virus telling parliament that targeted restrictions are the way forward. but we must act to save lives and the evidence shows that in changing our behavior in restricting transmission between us our actions are saving lives. left unchecked each person with the virus will infect an average of between $2.00 and $3.00 others but sage assess the current are nationally is between $2.01. so we're already suppressing that are to well below its natural level which is why the virus is not spreading as quickly as it did in the straits and undermanned where we join t.w. correspondent mass welcome big national lockdown had been feared for the u.k.

that's not going to happen what else did we learn. well we learned feel that as you said an alarming increase in those people that need to go to hospital we are more or less in a similar situation as we were in lockdown when you look at the number of people in hospitals not the same amount of deaths yet but we know that doctors particularly in the north of england have been warning and one of the doctors described it as a tsunami coming towards them so doctors really fear that hospitals might soon be overwhelmed if the spread of the virus is and stopped and this is where boris johnson has acted today not in national lockdown because he wants to also balance the needs of the economy with this fighting the virus as every leader around the world is is trying to do but he has announced a system a new system which is going to be england wide see if we are in a medium high level of alert what we're seeing now so pubs for example need to

close at 10 and happen mixing between households is restricted but not forbidden and then there is a scale but so far not a national lockdown to talk about the high alert level water restrictions would be imposed for those areas. well also the higher alert out level is not a complete lockdown and for example schools will remain open but pubs for example would have to close and household mixing would be more or less banned so it's going to be quite an imposition on people's daily lives and the way that people go about prime minister boris johnson is trying to regain trust the opinion polls of late have showed that many people have not are not trusting the government to have a good grip on the crisis there's been a lot of criticism particularly from leaders in the north of england that measures seem arbitrary and for example also that the government was too early to come out

of lockdown and that particularly the north of england that those regions weren't ready yet and that everything happened too far so that the numbers went down enough so that this is the numbers that we see in hospitals in the north of england are now a result of just opening up the economy to the so a lot of criticism towards the government and the prime minister would hope that with these new measures he's trying to get agreement and control the situation better get my ass in london thank you there at the united states senate has begun the process of filling the very conceit of the country's top court and cementing a conservative majority there before november's presidential election republicans are rushing to confirm president trump's normally a meek only one to go for days of questioning on her positions on with health care abortion and gun rights and no relation goes back to parties on fives over filling

vacancies court seats in the election years if approved by the holy barack would be president james thurber court appointed excellence. if you take a closer look at this with william blue cross from do you know the u.s. election to welcome william so what sort of start of these hearings going to have to well so far a respectful one at least on the surface republicans that run this committee because they are the majority in the senate are saying you know this is a highly qualified appointee she absolute deserves to be on the court and they want to have a respectful 4 days of hearings to let you know the world let america get to know who this potential new supreme court nominee will be and democrats are walking that fine line not to attack her personally but to say that she's completely out of step with what a many americans find important especially when it comes to health care which with the backdrop of coronavirus is something that they're really trying to make a big election issue it's pretty clear that democrats know they're not really going

to win this battle they're not really going to keep keep her off of the court keep republicans from confirming her both out of this committee and then after that from the full senate this is very much an election pitch there speaking to americans to try to remind them what is at stake which is 1st and foremost the affordable care act otherwise known as obamacare which is something that republicans are trying to dismantle for years now democrats have been defending many american support and will be coming up in the next you know supreme court period which could be very decisive in putting a final nail in that in the coffin of that health care the way you've summed it up this is almost as though we're talking about a politician. a judge why all these choices so controversial i mean this one specifically because we are so close to an election it is fairly unprecedented to be going through this kind of nomination process these hearings so close to an election and polls show that some americans or a slim majority of americans would prefer to wait till after the election for the

next president to choose this pick but there is nothing unconstitutional about what republicans and what donald trump has done it is fully in their right to do what they're doing many people are saying disk. they have the right is it right but to step back every supreme court nominee is a controversial topic and a controversial issue as lean as us politics has become more and more partisan as congress has been able to seemingly get less and less done is put more responsibility and more focus on the court specifically the supreme court to get stuff done actually doing things not really supposed to do the courts are not supposed to legislate and i'm supposed to create law that is the job of congress and the courts are supposed to decide if things are constitutional or not if laws can stand or not but in the absence of congress the one turning more towards the courts which makes these picks all the more important and with a $54.00 split in favor of conservatives democrats are looking at a possible $63.00 split in favor of conservatives which could you know determine the the course of american history american politics for decades to come. in

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want to know their story in full migrants terrified and reliable information for margaret's. out the nobel prize for economics goes to 2 u.s. economists for milgram and robert wilson for their research on options very we'll speak to one analyst who called it also coming up. there's good news for gardeners cocoa farmers that you get more money for their beings but will it be enough to bring them out to the public seems. to be taking a look at why china is gaming industry can be grateful for the coronavirus time to . welcome to business on robots in berlin it's great to have you with us and we're starting with the economics nobel prize which has been awarded by the royal swedish

academy of sciences this year's laureates are americans polled milgram and robert wilson. who are on it for improving auction theory and inventing new auction for maps to stanford professors or seen not receive 150000 euros and a medal of course the world has ever closer this year's nobel prize season. so let's talk a bit more about this award and speak to professor hakim von back who is president of the. center for european economic research it's great to have you with us and you called it you said that wilson and milgram were in line for this this year what is it about their contribution to the field that's so significant you know they are actually tested research is this that it's that research in the eighty's and early about the internet is can still be defeated today and you know watch and

yet you know they offer where you are in this 2nd so it will be brought also brought to sell a good system and who build a strong lot of options and what they will 90 swarthy speaks to more and. more and so it's not as it's a great book in theory but it also glad it worked then i think it's very impressive you know this you don't mock the design arm into research because it implying it to all into little or to little situations and what are the real world situations where we might encounter those the sort of work that they've been developing. last year we had reason going to spectrum auctions it's fired from auction earlier in the ninety's or was the starting of all the spectrum auctions around 2 books that's just what it is that's the it's for auction where all of us still involved in these i think who is for this or that answer is here subspecies run or

answer everyone is running office or hasn't always been but it's a really developed was he really and his options and now we much better understand you know what is the right hoops or the right circumstances so different circumstances need different rules and said pops you got it yeah i was going to ask what what what is it about auction theri that makes it so significant that we should be seeing nobel laureates named because it. yes i will give you one example so if somebody is using an auction where you know it has a say and did some article the other wanted a meeting sought and they have building up a surprise why ensnare didn't you know say sell the. person. that's earth was a crisis of prestige step by step into this and now i want to get it right and so did my part to break introducing him to what is decreasing and you know people can

say what's the matter that make it different that it makes it huge difference in some situations you should use the others they should you should doesn't it in big things or work much better understand which can be used as its options and applying it to the real look or the spectrum auction journey it was what kind of grass to get it result it took more than a 12 year lead will meet so it was a big event and it's usually not going to took months to be a lot of schools and businesses look it's you know it's an understanding so holy book and hold it in there well professor back from the life and center for european economic research thanks for joining us and we'll have you on again next year to see if you can call it 2 years in iraq and then here and here ok farmers in ghana are seeing their incomes increase after the government announced a 28 percent rise in the price paid to produce as in the upcoming season the policy

is the result of a push by ghana and ivory coast to overhaul global cocoa pricing to help farmers and enough to live on produces have welcomed it and are hoping for further government interventions to help lift them out of poverty as a callet see reports. sanson and his wife are working on their cocoa farm in eastern ghana in preparation for the harvest in the coming weeks it would really be not so the harvest this year has been delayed samson says that's largely due to climate change. so you would do. it in a private and it would. favor you you come back to square one we see this. during. those newer and you sort. of become grid my prematurely. talent. what's making the problem worse

ethyl says is that some farmers are felling trees. forests are depleted which is contributing to climate change both the quantity and quality of the local crop has declined as well used to harvest 90 bags of beans from his 20 acres of land this year he expects just 70. but the government's 28 percent increase in the guaranteed cocoa price paid to farmers is good news it went into effect this month and as bill says it will make a big difference. i'm going to enjoy a lot of money to see because a lot 5 farms. so. when i get about 21 because if you give me 10 bucks and condiment out i'm going to enjoy to see. farmers will now turn $1800.00 in $1000.00 per tonne of cocoa when they

sell to the country's central cocoa marketing board $400.00 more than last year for the price increase is in part due to the implementation of a living in can differential of $400.00 per tonne of cocoa on the world market. it was introduced by ghana and i rico's for the coming season they can name and government says it will help lift farmers out of poverty. most from is the truth is i poor. farmers are moved beyond the level in which they find themselves to be able to do better for themselves money their farms but. it's not clear how long this recent price increase last but sanson ethyl is hopeful he depends on cocoa to earn a living and is planning to keep his farm going into retirement. and i still hope government will launch even more initiatives to raise the value of cocoa

beans for the farmers like him will be able to earn a decent living from their work. now look at some of the other business stories making the news. crews will step down as chief executive of british airways as part of a wider management shakeup at its parent company i.a.g. cruz have been overseeing a restructuring that's already seen some 8000 jobs cut and we replaced by sean chief executive of irish block area lingus. china and cambodia signed a free trade agreement according to the chinese communist ministry talks on the deal were already completed in july and you will trade between china and cambodia is worth around $8000000000.00 u.s. dollars. and over a 1000 workers from milan's entertainment industry of how the large protest outside the italian city's famous cathedral over pandemic restrictions hits in the sector observing distancing rules as they bank equipment cases they called for new regulations to allow them to work more. now we've just heard how the coronavirus

pandemic has devastated many industries where as an example of at least one sector that benefiting from it china's gaming industry is booming again despite strict censorship rules until a short while ago those rules proved too harsh for some companies which went bankrupt but then came the coronavirus lock down a millions of chinese looks for destruction. it has been 3 months it was 1st game went online the 5th great invention is a simulation of ancient chinese woodwork techniques can start up the game has been working on it for to use. the rhythm of life our lifestyle has changed a lot we have a lot of access to new things people's attention has been driven to modern multicultural crazies but china has a lot of traditions that should be preserved. trying to. sell out

at $600000000.00 users china has the biggest gaming market in the world and during the corona epidemic this market has served sales of games were up 20 percent year on year during the 1st half of 2020 the 5th great invention went online in june. constructing a look how we have not profited directly from the extra time spent online injuring the lot but we also know that this is not just about a lot on time when everybody are setting a pro not people who had never played online games before the start of playing. genotypes or used to work in an architecture firm where he learned about ancient chinese would work taking his game is also in line with another trend in china's gaming industry strict essentially lawyers have been targeting graphic violence sex and gambling but also what the government holds the wrong depiction of history the 5th great invention is one of just over $500.00 games that were licensed so far

this year because it's celebration of traditional culture the company is on the winning side of this practice the after the no i think those who feel that their business opportunities have been limited or their business model has been affected are producing content that is there just being not these things should not exist in a healthy gaming environment. your shoe. the new policy has turned china's gaming market upside down almost 30000 gaming companies went bankrupt in the last 2 years but the lockdowns have reversed that this year alone 20000 new companies have emerged the 5th great invention was downloaded 2000000 times a week and. it's a bit less than we expected but it's not too bad we're hoping for our game to be successful in the long term. it's a tough game with delicate issues but jenna's confident that he has made the right

path. and that's all from a in the business team here in. take out. the for. the body.

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