now. we'll have good. rudolph. for sure. our 2 part series the 3rd reich. starts nov 12th on d w. as counting continues and one of the fiercest election battles in u.s. history we take a look at what the next 4 years could mean for transatlantic trade. also coming up 2020 has been a disaster for the aviation industry around the world airlines and even airports are on the brink of collapse. britain's 2nd lockdown is expected to hit small businesses especially hard now that the bank of england is stepping in.

this is business i'm kate ferguson thanks for joining me global markets are on course to end the week higher as investors expressed optimism about the prospect of joe biden becoming the next president of the united states in asia indexes in hong kong and shanghai traders 7 on the expectation that the united states under biden would lead to an improved trade relationship with china hopes are also rising among european investors who believe that i trade reset with the u.s. could prove a major boost. let's take a closer look at transatlantic trade with found lying a chairman of the european parliament's committee on international trade welcome mr lying in the last 4 years have turned the transatlantic trade relationship on its head is there even any going back at this stage. i hope of course

to survive moby looks for that because indeed we have a lot of serious problems is that our trade is with the lust for us because both borders the terrorists on to the the expression of. the state the. approach target was drawn and this is really a pause in the for the international trading system now before it trump became president they u.s. and the e.u. were negotiating a trade deal should biden when the selection would you like to feel that back on the table a shot that missed by change the attitude of her trade of asians he mentioned quite clearly that he would stick to as much as a system that he could give a more emphasis to the w t o. but in conflicts through the basis. of

cause. possibilities place in our partnership but it's also korea because of our you know that's a different situation in some areas of competition and regarding different interests no possibility to have a comprehensive trade agreement likely to fight in the teeth in their decisions and looking ahead a trade ministers are meeting on monday what's on the agenda there. yes of course you're looking to the government joe as you know looking for a job $160.00 smee try to freeze i'd save also nigerian can you get over the united states have a different view hopefully this can be solved also as a new president musician of course the look on the relations of china

as a new president have also tasco was fired and now it's just tossed off because you can you needed you know the states to look on our common interests by the void in the universe it would hurt us by the taliban lying i thank you so much for your insights. about and of course all these discussions on trade will be overshadowed by attempts to cope with the economic fall ice of the pandemic industries across all sectors have been decimated but none perhaps more so than aviation and as you'd expect it's not just airlines that have been suffering airports to our faith thing a crisis that take frankfurt airport one of europe's major hubs as an example 54000000 passengers move through its terminals and the 1st 9 months of last year this year it was just a 3rd of that number. air cargo is another source of revenue for airports it hasn't

actually fallen very dramatically in frankfurt there as you can see but that could be because it has devoted cargo holds munich though has seen a much steeper drop in cargo and one likely reason for that is that the bulk of cargo shipments to the airport in 2019 came on passenger planes. and of course it's not just europe that suffering airports around the world are expecting to see revenue losses of between 55 and 64 percent in 2020 so what is the sector needs to survive an aviation industry summit taking place in germany state might offer us some insight transport minister and is attending albeit online aviation journalist and author and they have spit has his eye on events and joins me now from 100 welcome to the show for what is the industry hoping to get from this meeting today. is in dire straits and.

small stage support as you all know look times are already received. this but all of. your rules other players in the industry for example the pawns are also the out of control owns asian viewers as hasn't been receiving anything yet. and you know what specific help the 2 airports need to turn this crisis. and jenny the problem that all the opponents have been staying open through the whole crisis since the spring and this many have pointed in germany we have a system of some very big many smaller regional airports in between and i actually saw theme of them were technically insolvent right now though they're keeping open the keeping the services open to any evasion that might be around though many of these airports probably haven't seen any alcohol for days in the depths of the

crisis earlier this year and it looks like to be quite bad right now going towards winter as well so the urgently need a bailout and there's talk among almost 2000000000 euros that i needed to keep the outhouse running for the time being now and then as one thing that will need to be transported all over the world is a future that 19 that seen how much of a pin this could this prove to the industry the international scale you outline on is a sneak the other day call this upcoming operation the biggest congo operation of the century is actually a huge challenge to distribute and in fact seen that we hopefully might have soon around the world in a very timely manner and it said that about 8000 fully loaded freight jumbo jets are needed in africa has happened to distribute this and of course the clue to the place is not only at profit also the inference trucks on the ground

especially the need for it cold chain of transport so that the sea needs to be chilled at any difference a part of the journey and that's a difficult and turns out of the industry but in general it will be another shot in the arm for the congo industry that's already doing fairly well for the 1st time recently that even had some results there above 2019 and that's quite unheard of this year else that nation. some silver linings there and it has fade thank you very much. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making global news revenue as e-commerce giant alibaba jumped 30 percent in the last quarter thanks to china's economic recovery and a rise in online shopping the company is currently evaluating the effect that the suspension of amps group's i.p.o. has had on business. and groups major shareholder.

has more than doubled its profit forecast as sales rebadge from the coronavirus crisis the japanese automaker now expects to earn nearly $13000000000.00 in the current financial year the big driver of the up these folk is rebounding demand in china. general motors is also recovering from the pandemic with a rebound intimate for its chevrolet and cadillac vehicles the detroit auto maker reported a 72 percent jump in earnings for the 3rd quarter fueling a strong rise in g.m.'s stock price. now with parts of britain in lock down and once again the bank of england is stepping up support for the economy by ramping up purchases of government bonds the idea is that this will fund stimulus spending keeping businesses afloat as the krona virus continues to weak how fuck the economy. mandaeans london malaysian restaurant

is empty yet again her business barely made it through britain's 1st spring lockdown and its economic aftershocks in recent months her sales were often just 100 pounds a day. the u.k. 2nd lockdown could prove the fatal blow for many small businesses like hers i think this will force thousands of to close. because how can you afford you know to be close for 4 weeks and have no income. the streets were empty across london on thursday as bars dine in restaurants and non-essential shops were ordered to shut their doors that get in for the next 4 weeks. the measures couldn't have come at a worse time for jim hsu an hour south east london pottery studio she was counting on a full schedule of christmas events to revive her business now she's bracing for losses

she fears could reach $100000.00 pounds christmas is special november and december is our chivalry of course it is also or was that just because we write you guys a based on christmas so it would be the social events of the family poet now they all know if you happen i was so close in to so this is. is a very big loss i will say. even before the new lockdown the u.k. economy was experiencing its steepest contraction on record now economists are bracing for things to get even worse the bank of england forecasts the economy will shrink 11 per cent this year instead of the 9.5 percent previously expected and also warned that a full recovery is years away. and finally to another stormy economic relationship astray as trade minister simon birmingham has described the prospect of a chinese bond on a street in imports as deeply troubling a strain. media have reported that chinese buyers have been told not to purchase

key imports including lobster barley copper coal and why in some $6000000000.00 worth of astray in exports have been targeted beijing is angry at canberra's coal for a probe into the source of the coronavirus. and that's all from the in the business team here in berlin for more check out our website t w dot com slash business for me it's goodbye and again.

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a weekly radio show it's called spectrum if you like and information on the quantum arash or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever your podcast can also find us at. science. the 2nd wave is crashing over europe and intensive care capacity is close to breaking point. germany could hit its limit next month france and switzerland my crack by mid-month. belgium could overrun capacity this week or next. what seemed like huge investments to expand hospital capacity now look totally inadequate. warning bells should have been ringing in early july after the

spring lock downs were east but only a few recognized the vibrations that heralded a tsunami of new cases. the experts warned us and for many countries the 2nd wave is already more savage than the 1st health systems are running at their limit in parts of eastern and western europe in belgium doctors and nurses a struggling to keep up the incidence of coronavirus cases there is the highest in europe at $3956.00 per 100000 people. this used to be the recovery room for patients who've had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for cope with 10000 patients on life support hospitals in the belgian province of liers are no the epicenter of europe's 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not able to admit any more so if a patient comes in the emergency room with a severe disease we have to transfer him to another of. the flemish part of belgium

will be also for the devoted also says teams not only short of beds but also personnel for one in 5 nurses in the region have tested positive for the virus themselves but the pressure is so high that those who don't have symptoms continue to work under strict safety precautions doctors and nurses. are working tirelessly to take care of covert 900 patients some of them are even infected themselves but despite all efforts the health care system here in belgium has reached its breaking point as the overall number of infections continues to rise the actual number of infections is likely to be higher than the official figures across town at least as university hospital testing is ongoing. and i can't smell or taste any more and i have a headache. after the medics here can conduct 280 tests every day with these

tests are strictly for those who have a doctor's prescription family members friends or coworkers who have been in close contact with them but don't show any symptoms cannot get a test for them or as the moment we have so many positive cases the problem is there are far too many contact persons given the huge number of people who have symptoms we'd be unable to test them as well as all the people they've been in contact with at least not with the amount of tests we have currently if we had more tests we probably could back in the covert ward doctor duvall fears the lax handling of the crisis in summer will put him and his colleagues in a very difficult position very soon when you have only one bet and 10 people out of a thing for the same bit to choose between the team but which one you. know doctor want to do that's one thing it's like you know we are not doctors who do that kind of thing we're all booked up to treat patients not the truth which patient treating germany has started to take patients from belgian hospitals with infections

expected to continue to rise here in the coming weeks the medical staff already at their limit will need all the help they can get. so you want to is with st joseph's hospital in the hardest time what sort of capacity does germany have to take on patients from other countries right now. well we have an everett nearly twice as much as you bet speck up a tad and the rest of europe. and current d. in germany are on 75 percent of the german i.c. you bet. so there is still a place room to move and we could take patients especially in. regions in germany from other european countries but they are regions also in germany where the free capacity is below 10 percent and intensive care patients have to be moved to other hospitals and that binds intensive care physicians which

is a very scots results so when you think of a passage these you have to keep in mind that the peak i.c.u. utilization we 2 weeks after infections have peaked and there they haven't yet so there's still a marathon to go with when could they be. well nobody knows. it depends on how good the people. bind themselves to. the things. to stop being close together and to wear masks and stuff like that we have a new high. highest value today in germany too with 20000 new infections this day how practical is that flying around covert patients from one hospital or country to the next. it's not very practical especially when they are empty it so you have to plan that in advance and try to bring

patients who are not that's that severe ill who haven't been on ventilation yet so it's not easy to plan that because patients we know that it's not good for patients being ventilated and they have to be brought on on the long term the stuff shortages we hear about in belgium and the netherlands they've seen noting homes and hospitals are asked doctors and nurses to keep working if they tested positive but asymptomatic is that safe i think that should only be done in a worst case scenario because the my our t. of i.c.u. patients still do not have cold but other serious diseases and when these patients contract the guy iris from and checked it stat they are grave dangers so you have to keep in mind s. a bit of magic people that doesn't mean they are healthy so we think we

should prevent this and our staff has to say i'll see and get a quick l.c. and this is very important because if you have to let these people work with the virus it's really not say well why then is the e.u. not coordinating a concerted a joint approach where we see countries helping out each other but not everything having to be dealt with on a bilateral level well we could have that done that. methods let's say with the corona happy we could have done that from the beginning all together. we didn't do that i don't know why would have been better i think so yes how foreseeable was all of this. the 2nd wave was clearly foreseeable people travel and they solved the lies they

enjoyed themselves and the sun and we have tried to do as much as we could by building and buying respirators by training people but especially i.c.u. nurses. in an all out all in europe a scarce resource and it takes 2 years training on top of the regular nurses training so kind of we have to work with what we've got and we have now in germany especially we have it's very important to take away paperwork from them so that they we need can spend all that time. with the patients and the other thing we could do is childcare you know to improve child care in hospitals so especially during off hours what about high risk groups what else can be done to protect them so that they don't end up in intensive care in the hospitals. it's you have to reduce the actual contacts use

of as a p 2 must possibly antigenic tests possibly but these measures make only sense when used together one is no substitute for the other and when you when we are talking about isolating risk groups we have to be an mind that. that in germany. the number are for germany at around 20 percent due to the demographics and due to the illnesses of our population belong to a risk group so targeting only risk groups with a color on astro city it will not work so sunny on a pleasure having you on the show today thank you very much thank you have a good day. if you want to hear more about europe's fight against code 19 in belgium you can download our weekly polka science unscripted train travel to the corona hotspot of the edge to bring you the latest time for our science

correspondent derrick will you look into your questions on the coronavirus keep sending them in on our you tube channel. what impact is the parent gimmick having on the hunger crisis. predictably qubit 19 is making it a lot worse according to the united nations world food program which is the organization that was awarded this year's nobel peace prize the number of people worldwide who suffer from crisis level hunger could almost double by the end of this year it also says that the region hit hardest so far is latin america that's followed by central and southern africa and and oxfam estimates that if we don't do more to limit the social and economic impact of the virus up to 12000 people a day could soon be dying from the effects of undernourishment just to compare even

on the very worst days for mortality so far in the pandemic there have never been more than 10000 tatts attributed to the virus in 24 hours i think that the most this has aspect of this crisis is that with the exception of a few countries food is actually available in many of the places that are suffering most famine isn't being only driven by a lack of food but also by the simple fact that people no longer have the means to buy it the hunger crisis isn't only expanding rapidly because of disruptions in supply chains although that's certainly contributing to the problem it's also due to dropping income and many of the world's most vulnerable the poor who simply. can't afford to buy food for themselves and their families anymore and the crisis isn't just limited to regions that faced problems before the pandemic began tobit

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