trees and saving pandas anymore. that's survive or not survive it's really good realizing there's a radically different way of living it's rather. starts november 6th on d w. a 2 person race including some pesky wrangling in the quest to find a new leader of the world trade organization the united states is backing the candidates from south korea invoking another standoff with the european union also coming up 4 days of talks for a fresh 5 year plan communist leadership in china conclude their meeting over the future economic course of the country and germany's labor sector braces for the government forces restaurants bars gyms movie theaters and others to close over

spiking coronavirus infections. i'm chris bowen welcome to the program and of course it could be. the wrangling over who's to become the future leader of the world trade organization continues with the u.s. throwing its support behind south korea candidates in the 2 person race now the move comes just days after all 27 e.u. member countries announced their backing for the candidate from nigeria. way all the looks set to gain the top post of the w t o after 4 months of campaigning against 7 other candidates the nominations committee proposed the 1st african and 1st female leader to its 164 members all countries supported the nomination with a notable exception of. one delegation could not support the can be doctoring goes easy and said they would continue to support south korean

minister you. that delegation was the united states of america the u.s. is the only country left backing south korea's you myung hee the w t o could go ahead and appoint dr goes the anyway but is hoping instead to get the us on signed i think the overwhelming preference of every one of our members is to decide by consensus and consultations will be held between now and the 9th of november to try and achieve that consensus critics have called the w t o in transparent and weak the trade dispute between the u.s. and china has heightened concern over protectionism whichever of the 2 entities these dollars is the new chief she'll have a lot on her plate and that itself let's take a closer look at the matter with my colleague conrad who isn't in frankfurt conrad goes. is the dearest former finance minister she has

a degree from harvard she worked at the world bank she even has a u.s. passport next to her nigerian citizenship why is the you u.s. so opposed to her leading the world trade organization. the problem for the americans is that ms. is also backed by china and given the strong influence that china has in africa also due to the many loans that china has given to african nations some in the united states fear that the candidate from nigeria might become too friendly to china and opposed to the united states also in the past ms or contrary valla has sometimes criticized industrial nights nation she has nations she has pleaded for more influence and a better standing of poor nations for example she criticized the way how many

african economies in the past were forced to open up too quickly that was you know perceived as statements against for example the united states and there and the way they behave in the national trade relations now there doesn't seem to be much consensus much ambition to reach a consensus before november 9th will next week's election in the united states make such your concerns easier. well if trump loses the election of course the hardliners in his administration will likely not be able to pursue their agenda in such an uncompromising way. and on the other hand of course if trump wins the election well the w.t. o'rielly risks to lose its grip the deadlock within the organization is likely can to continue and the united states such an important economy is likely to

continue its america 1st agenda that's not in favor of the w t o w's contribution on the wrangling over the new w t o leader connor thank you. it's to china now and the country was the 1st to experience cove it 19 the city of war on has become globally synonymous with the outbreak now after struggling to bring the disease under control life inside china has been returning to normal now the question is how to move beyond the crisis and the new 5 year plan the communist leadership has been discussing for 4 days is a centerpiece of that. china has brought the epidemic under control they're virtually no more domestic transmissions and people are enjoying a return to a more normal life. you know i spent the last half

a year at home it's only recently that i've been going out again i feel like i've been liberated like i thought when i get up it's great the disease can't tarnish our enthusiasm in china we feel the country's responded very well. there's still measures in place people have to use a health up and scan a code to register at certain locations tourist sites have limited visitor numbers estimates put the number of tourists during the season at 550000000 people that would be 2 thirds of last year's figure. if you know you can see it in the street there are far fewer people than in other years. and there are fewer people so the atmosphere isn't as lively as usual and people soft to wear masks. china's economy has returned to positive growth government spending on infrastructure and construction has brought workers back into the cities but the growth is

a lot slower than in recent years. household consumption in particular is lagging behind companies have cut wages and cancelled bonuses for their employees. in downtown beijing the traces of the past 6 months are still visible. experts have long warned of china's imbalance growth too much investment and too little consumption overnight team has made these warnings even more urgent. and now to some of the other global business stories making headlines samsung says its profits reached a 2 year high in the 3rd quarter of 2020 with the company raking in over 9000000000 euros the south korean giants all strong sales in computer memory chips smartphones and appliances the bridge auto industry is in a production slump and would be devastated without a e.u. trade deal that's according to an industry group reported thursday of their production in the u.k. has fallen to $990.00 s. levels as demand drops the u.k.

exports 75 percent of its cars its manufacturers german car maker fox wagon return to profitability in the 3rd quarter of the 3000000000 euros in earnings compared to the 1500000000 year as the company lost in the previous quarter strong says in china help offset a weak demand elsewhere. germany is preparing for a so-called soft to lock down starting next week bars and restaurants will have to close that means fresh coronavirus aid will be needed to prop up affected businesses and that's still being discussed in the german cabinet but the plans would cost 7 to 10000000000 euros over the 4 week period it's cold comfort for many restaurants many of whom they would rather stay open than receive the aid. at sean restaurant in dusseldorf the owner and her staff are strategizing for germany's 2nd to lock down this time they have

a routine ready. on the bus and i think we need to cancel the grocery deliveries i already took care of that. it's sad for them to close the restaurant again although they have implemented all measures to the best of their abilities they hoped the worst was over now it will be really hard says cares to drop sean she doesn't know how her business will survive the next few weeks this is this is horrific it's a huge catastrophe i expect politicians to come up with a catalogue of measures for our industry and all the other industries that are affected by the lockdown they need to help us to make sure that we really have a chance to get through this. that's exactly what axel bosher a wedding and event photographer thought during the 1st lockdown earlier this year but the hurdles to get financial corona assistance were too high he also can't collect welfare benefits because his wife has a job now he lost his last customers he had to cancel his life insurance to make

ends meet over the next few months his next gig isn't until april 2021 that's almost all that means my wife is now the breadwinner for the both of us we used to have 2 salaries now it's just one and that one it was cut back by her boss she's on short time work now if all else fails that means i must close down my business i'll go into insolvency. it's the self-employed working in the event industry who've taken the greatest financial hit. jazz musician til brenner is demanding help for all infected with his art. earlier i spoke to a cross and jesse chief economist at i.m.g. germany and he thinks that even though the new measures are called a soft lockdown there are likely to be an enormous blow to the german economy when you look back in the in the 2nd quarter we had a drop of jura g.d.p.

by more than 10 percent yes they named a lot on was horribly off these supply chain disruptions because china was in a lockdown so it's still hard to put some numbers but just you know to give you some indication the entire sector of hospitality for culture we they are more than 5000000 people are employed it is more than 10 percent of total employment in germany sued just assume that private consumption will go down. and also assume that even all economic hit it will go down so in my view we will definitely see it contraction of the journey economy in the 4th quarter the only question is how severe this contraption will be. just kind of i n g germany speaking there now finally a russian tupolev 154 has made the models final commercial flights before being retired by on our airlines not only russian government agencies and the army who

operate the plane designed in the mid 1960 s. flew for soviet carrier aeroflot and was the backbone of russia's air transport system for decades the seen as the soviet competitor to boeing still legendary try to hit the 727 though it never came close to its rivals international sales duction of the 2154 ceased in 2030. and that's our show for more you can always have a website at the v.w. dot com slash business was called roland thanks for watching. successful.

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beethoven is for. being told it is for. the big beethoven 2020 the 50th anniversary here on. that i'll bet. friends and very old friends indeed there's evidence that humans began to domesticate dogs some 30000 years ago long before we tamed the horse or started keeping livestock. and this is the nose that always knows the dogs the sense of smell is about a 1000000 times better than that of humans dogs also inhale up to $300.00 times per minute in short breaths that means they're all factory cells a constantly supplied with new odor particles and it's because of that amazing

organ that dogs are being brought into the frontline in the fight against coronavirus. welcome to this t.w. covered 19 special on rob what's in berlin it's great to have you with us we know that testing is crucial to trying to control coronavirus millions of people the world over have already received a swab to the mouth or nose in the name of stopping its spread but researchers in finland are trying a new way of sniffing out 90 for a treat preferably cath this now to can be programmed to find it just about anything more all to bed bugs cancer now it could change the course of corona virus detection meat. rescued from being euthanized as a puppy in spain he's returned to that fever for years sniffing out deadly disease

for the wise new smell detection association and then learned as coded 19 began to spread his he was asked as an experiment to try to detect it he took it 7 minutes to figure out that this is what they want it to look for so that. you know dog be able to change training sense in 7 minutes. the team quickly learned canines can detect a coded $1000.00 infection even 5 days before symptoms appear with almost 100 percent accuracy helsinki airport is hosting a pilot project through december that will include cross referencing canine results with those for medical devices if you pop the skin so here it just takes a simple swab from a restore neck here and there it is terrible yes and a great couple of seconds a dog can tell immediately if

a person has contract it coronavirus and. the only receives the link if it is all of the voluntary tests are proving popular but no positive signal yet from the finnish government about scaling up the program so since dogs are incredibly war effective much less expensive and far less intrusive than other ways of detecting the virus why aren't public authorities everywhere rushing to use their noses instead of ours we found one who is. is deputy mayor of vaughan the site of the airport i course he did it in 2 minutes took me 2 minutes out and get this budget covers the free tests offered to all arriving passengers he allocated 330000 euros total to the 4 month dog study meanwhile he expects it will cost up to $300000000.00 euros per month for the medical option the nasal swab it's quite expensive operation of course but the docs are like $7500.00

a month. to says the data from this study should help bring in federal funds for expansion of canine testing as well as legal adjustments to upgrade the virus sniffing dogs authority to that of their counterparts working in customs because i write about ita oaks which i like that they can split. and they go through many people be both on a human bjorkman is thinking far beyond. airports we could train dogs with the same samples with the same train areas to open up. you know the concert halls or or being fair is or go to big working places hospitals or elderly homes football matches whatever both your command and bobby line and mourn if dylan doesn't harness the potential of the dog program itself they'll unleash it elsewhere we can well because there's still a lot of warm. she says health authorities from all over the world want to learn

what these noses know well i'm delighted say we can speak to professor holga folk who is chair of the small animals department at the university of veterinary medicine. thanks a lot for joining us can you just explain to us what exactly it is that the dogs are smelling during these tests. and thank you for the question and it's quite interesting i mean at the end of the day we don't know because the virus doesn't smell but we do know that the virus needs a cell and they hijacked that cell and then they changed the medical system in the cell and that is something the dog can smell so how can we be confident that what they are detecting is corona virus. so that's a very good question to ask what we have done in our study is that we compare people

who had an infection with corollaries and actually have clinical science or work over 1000 patients compared to our control and in those groups we were able to find a difference of 94 percent it rate saying that what we didn't have and that was people who had personal friends are liars because at that time when we did the study there was no influenza season so that's what we're doing at the moment to see how with the dog also to able to discriminate against other viruses like influence our or also other medical one of ours us the stakes are pretty high if the test comes back in the results is it is wrong do we know how the reliability compares with more conventional coronavirus testing you know it's quite it's quite comparable i mean you should never forget that the dog will never replace a p.c.r. test so it's just a very fast weaning mechanism and there think you will where else and you know what

you could see how fast these doctors actually able to sniff out the people. so when you look at the fuel and you have 96 percent specifically an 83 percent sensitivity so it's probably more comparable to the antigen tests which are out there and then obviously for us the gold standard test was the p.c. archosaur all our patients were confirmed but it was up so if we were to roll this out further maybe nationwide worldwide indeed it would have been a strain of dogs to detect corona virus to actually carry that out. i think you know one of the challenges we're facing is that we often simplify our world too much and what i mean with that is i think you need different test scenarios for different circumstances if you run a workplace i mean you know also

a lot of them and they are part of a doc but if you but if you have a workplace even a hospital one of the things you don't have it's time so until you get your p.c.r. test results by who makes at least a day sometimes 2 or 3 days under then you already have quite a limited workforce so where are these underage and has all this never got to come in is that you can actually do a very fast cleaning and hopefully then get this confirmed by a p.c. ourselves so i think that's where i could see the dogs being able to do for a look at or if you go to a concert or you go to any other social events you know they are you could potentially see that big with your lives into or. just quickly so if it's quick it's noninvasive and per test it could be cheaper than conventional tests that we're seeing so what is stopping this being immediately rolled out. yeah that's a good question and i think you probably are asked these my my colleagues in helsinki as well i do probably. i'm not i to be honest i'm

not one of those and sure i think what it stops is that we can't believe that doctors can be so good in detecting in medical things we totally. believe when they sniff out a bomb but we somehow that they are able to sniff out people who have a certain infection so perhaps we need to trust our 4 legged friends a bit more professor holger folk from the university of veterinary medicine hanover thanks a lot for joining us thank you to. and now is the most of the program way you get to ask the questions to us science correspondent deborah quickly. how come there are so many fewer covert 19 problems infections and deaths in africa do africans have better immune systems than the rest of the world there have been some pretty dire predictions over the months about the pandemic and africa the belief

was that if the virus has done so much damage in europe and the americas including in in many countries that have advanced health care facilities what would it do to the underfunded systems in many african nations around one in 6 people on the planet lives on the continent so with around 43000000 coated 1000 cases worldwide so far you'd expect at least 7000000 of them to have been in africa but there have been only about 1500000 reported it's the same thing with deaths statistically you'd expect around 200000 there so far there have been only around 40000 reported why. under reporting could explain some of the discrepancy but the experts think other factors are also involved especially the average age on the continent which is only around the 20 that's that's the lowest

in the world and young people are of course less vulnerable and there are also a lot fewer homes for the elderly and africa than in europe or the u.s. where where facilities for seniors have often turned into deadly hotspots people in many african countries have also often had previous experience with other epidemics and generally seem to have followed health screening and social distancing advice for covert 19 high humidity might have played a limiting role in some countries of the virus seems to spread better and drier cooler. environments and there are indeed some theories that many africans might have more robust immune responses to sars code to due to previous exposure to other pathogens but that hypothesis still hasn't been backed up by by convincing evidence. science correspondent derek williams

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