high ranking officers of the nazi regime judging by the allied forces. were the 1st criminals to be held accountable for their crimes for. their favor now them are. going through dark pair new year's eve frazier. that our 2 part series for the 3rd reich dark starts november 12th on d w. music is one of the oldest forms of cultural expression and language of immense diversity that has accompanied us across time and space for tens of thousands of years. our brains seem to be able to process music from an early age music itself might be rather ephemeral but ancient instruments pay testimony to bygone cultures.

a fresh look on human history welcome to tomorrow today we use side show. mayan civilization was once one of the most dominant cultures in mesoamerica. centuries old buildings still bear witness to their amazing accomplishments and their might. and most archaeological research in the region has focused on them. but recent finds have shown that other peoples lived alongside the 1000000 a. week ago on an expedition to north east and one tourists. this is the sleepy little village of what a loop on the northeast coast of honduras. the result of daily life here in.

around fishing but there's now a new attraction archaeologists from germany and switzerland believe the area used to be inhabited by an ancient civilization but there's been very little research on the ground taken to date. and we had to start from scratch were there even any archaeological sites here and if so in what condition we had absolutely no information. about the same followed clues from old records which suggest that this area now covered in forest and bush land was once home to a network of towns and villages their inhabitants appeared to have conducted trade with the legendary maya the archaeologists are based in a house just outside guadalupe from where marcus kind of the seas operations. the location was not a random choice it's been 4 years since the project began. this

a curious situation was pretty precarious which is why we looked for a place where we'd have safety and found the grounds of a school surrounded by a wall and conveniently for us archaeologists there was a settlement mound that looked extremely promising the 1st place. that's where we decided to start a pilot project to gauge potential for excavations. the project also means job specific young local man while the school principal is fascinated by the notion of people having settled over a 1000 years ago. i would never have thought that there was a window into our past right in front of our noses finding out what's behind that window is very exciting. we love to have to show everyone acquire the loop might have a whole new previous history. that i study. history

that peoples could profit from in the near future. around the corner in the excavation h.q. the archaeologists have busy analyzing the a ready evolves in france they found over 100000 francisca fresh is writing high doctoral thesis on the project says i know you know and this is one of a number of as we found out you can still play them and they produce a lovely sound. they were found in a place where people deposited items of particular value to. them we've also found cylinder seals. they were used to paint patterns on fabrics or on top persons. they were told like this let's just add for the 5 off target. and then there are these delicate little green stone and then now since we have done they are indeed made of jade and the nearest source of shade is in guatemala

so the people who lived here had very extensive trade routes which titles touch but . a number of the artefacts indicate that the communities who want settled here had trading relations with other peoples like the mayans but at the same time they retained an independent identity. dozen people here in northeastern honduras had a unique culture of their own not just. the team plan to search the entire region for last settlements and on the archaeological sites not an easy undertaking given the size and inaccessibility of the chair rang. our work involves exploring areas on forward and talking to local people is also very helpful. in the physical a lot of farmers here have discovered things in their fields that provide clear evidence of old settlements of places thanks to the help of locals the

researches keep on uncovering new sites. they're located along ancient past ways that centuries ago may have been important trade routes connecting inland areas with the fenced. another little village by the sea turned up a very special site discovered by a resident while he was digging a new latrine. that really got our attention so we went down there and take a look when single forthwith. the artifacts found here indicate the existence of not just any settlement but one that could be over 2000 years old. so what are beauty. among the finds is the head of a small ceramic figure an exceptional discovery that's also the subject of speculation for the archaeologists. but there is probably

a body attached here it's going to might be a toy but it could be anything. there from here we can start scanning straight away . the next step is to create a detailed record of the head piece for further research archaeologist michael lyons uses cutting edge technology for the task in the shape of a laser scanner. just minutes later the computer has created a perfect a virtual copy of the sculpture it would take several days to draw something comparable by hand. the software even enables the researches to reconstruct a complete bowl based on one single shot and in the long term that technology will help them to compile a more complete picture of this previously unknown civilization in honduras. the excavation in honduras has also been affected by the corona virus pandemic. the

archaeologists had to stop work cover over the dead sites and return to europe practically overnight. then left behind the majority of the objects that they discovered in honduras. we spoke to marco and asked him how the project is now fairing. yamuna you've documented objects like that little ceramic head in great detail using 3 discussions here is does that help you to pass the time while you're away from the site. yes it's in the top yes indeed it does. yes it's cool it's not just because of the corona virus that we don't have access to our finds shtick on. it's standard practice to spend several weeks or months on the ground not documenting objects and the sites where we dig columns and then we take all the documentation back home and work on it for the

rest of the year. done get us to see how it was meant to see on. what we did with these pieces of pottery scan them in 3 d. . so that's an added bonus. it's like we have them right there in front of us just in virtual form. we can turn them any which way as if they were real 3 dimensional objects like the one. gives this interface what can you tell us about the discoveries you've made tank and. that's just well we've learned quite a lot. it's very fascinating to see how this one little site we conducted the dig was connected to the wider world of central america or even mezzo america. we have a range of techniques to analyze what we found the pottery and other things and

they let us piece together the history. she's difficult we can also reconstruct the relations or networks these people maintained back then. these are mentioned. terms you know and how to guide us so you know working in hunter s. with a german citizen team i suppose he you dug up treasure and took some of them with you to any lies back home and i was young it's condoms actually just listening to my say that it all sounds a bit colonialists you make how do you respond to that humans act and it's actually . that's. the case for the i would most definitely disagree archaeological excavations are quite different nowadays. we don't just take everything we find with us just a very very small set of samples that we want to analyze using techniques not available in the country where we do the dig. we export them for

a limited period of time and then we send them all back. what we also find is that people there are really interested in the past suddenly they're looking at thousands of years of previous history. that changes the way they feel about themselves. plus there's the idea of seeing the objects going on display in a little museum there it's a really big deal so times have truly changed since the colonial era. many thanks for those exciting insights and for taking the time to talk to us. sure . this is what an open rino like the ones found in 100 sounds like. a musical he has to be a fundamental human need possibly dating back to the very dawn of our existence even if the forms that it takes differ from culture to culture.

a good one is music so important to us. c and how does it influence self feelings. this number has gone down in film history it's the music that ratchets up the tension and literally gets and asking. how come missing one can measure the way music affects up to 50 different parameters in the body. and. listening to music changes the brain waves heart rate and certain hormone levels. is a psychologist who studies what music does to us and how it does it he says music

is closely tied up with our emotions. music probably originates in the melodies of speech people took something of the emotion embodied in speech and transferred it to music that theory suggests that we can manipulate people's mood and mental states through music. through restaurants often play music in the background it influences what we choose to eat how fast we consume it and how much with protests. to passe. an experiment in england showed that with classical music playing guests who are willing to pay 10 percent more for their food even if they were not fond of that kind of music. you don't have to be a great fan of classical music to feel that it's somehow meaningful and dignified.

and as we listen to it we tend to ascribe those attributes to other things we see around us would be able. other studies found that people adapt the rate at which they choose their food to the music that listening to fast beats can take. a slow tempo safer. if the music feels slow dinah's linger longer and drink up to 40 percent more in fact at least when it's moods. still when it comes to our taste buds there are limits to the influence of music. as is their money and so it's not as if the music playing in a restaurant prevents us from registering the quality of the food. as its power

doesn't quite extend that far and. musically like activates areas of the brain associated with pleasure if a genius exceeds in firing up the limbic system being it pumps out dope to me commonly known as the feel good old man that not only makes you feel hot page it said it also makes you more relaxed and more active and you know this is your home and. not holds true it's claimed was never in your. dining. hall shopping restauranteurs and retailers want you to feel great. hang around and . if a department store wants to have music playing in the background it has to be music that appeals to everyone but the public is diverse school kids buying sweet's elderly people with lots of time on their hands if you want to manipulate people by

means of music they all have to like it but thank goodness it doesn't always work out that way. a study from the us found that when a wine shop played french music it sells more french wines. and more german lines when it played jim in music. things and not always so simple when it comes to the impact of music on the propensity to purchase things. they can work well for example in a jeans shop you hire a d.j. to play live and the audience are all about the same age and it's clear what kind of music they listen to in their free time. so if you play that you can achieve quite a lot that's the strategic goal but in general one should not overestimate the effectiveness . of. the best laid plans can come to even the gracious staff it's to appeal and manipulate. to the desired outcome.

music is not entirely accessible to scientific study. there's always a human being behind it who composes and engages with us on the basis of intuition and emotion. that has to be just right if it's to hit the spot. good into one study music can trigger at least 13 different emotions. are you getting goosebumps. even from canada has

a question about that. why do some people get goosebumps when they listen to music. music can affect us deeply. it can spark emotions and move us profoundly personal tastes aside. it can trigger memories and transport us back to a place where we heard it before. several areas of the brain are activated when we listen to music but studies show that some of us get goosebumps and some of us don't. research as a found that people with musical training and people who are open to new experiences more likely to feel chills right up their spine in response to music.

this could be because they have denser fibers connecting the auditory cortex of the brain to the areas that process emotions which means these areas communicate better if you're the type of person who experiences intense emotions you're more likely to get goosebumps from listening to music too. of course some music makes your hair stand on end of for the wrong reasons. the researchers also found that luke human voice is what most often causes goosebumps. was. the cello and the viola are also very moving and incidentally if a piece of music gives you goosebumps you're more likely to remember it

2 2. or maybe it's mozart's music that stands your emotions all helps keep your cognitive state. yesterday compose it was sincerely a superstar in the world of classical music. he created more than 1000 pieces of music works that are often said to have almost magical power. just listening to mozart really make you smarter. the so-called mozart effect which was identified by researchers at $993.00. all they gave a group of college students a 10 minute audio sample to listen to. with soundtracks ranging from silence. to a relaxation tape can see who else to a mozart piano concerto. the

students were then asked to take a spatial intelligence test. for. those subjects who had been listening to mozart performed better than the other groups registering spatial i.q. scores 8 or 9 points higher not a huge leap but certainly a jump. that said the intelligence boost lasted all of 15 minutes at most and then it disappeared. but that's surprising if short lived effect triggered a media frenzy mozart makes you smart was in all the headlines. the impact was especially great in the united states babies born in georgia and tennessee were given a mozart cd while kindergarten kids in florida were treated to an hour of mozart music every day. so the scientific community also seemed enthralled researchers

reenacted the original experiment but struggled to confirm the mozart effect it was replicated in some tests but not in others 2. meanwhile there was a suspicion that the music merely improve the mood of test subjects giving their brain some brief stimulation another question soon a rose doesn't have to be mozart. as it turned out music by other artists had the same effect whether a sonata by schubert or a song by the 990 s. british band blur. so the notion that only mozart makes you smarter and permanently so was just a myth but the big question remains how does music affect the brain.

our grey matter is in fact colored by practically everything we do that includes listening to music and even more so playing music what ever the music practicing in both forming leave a mark. in trouble it's the neural pathways linking the 2 halves of the brain tend to be fewer but ficker which is perhaps why they're so good at certain swift and complex movements. surely a well trained fish brain is capable of more than a standard specimen well there are plenty of studies that claim playing music makes you smarter. experiment showed that people with a musical background were better at certain things. they might have better language memory skills for example or were better able to remember things these sea.

children in particular performed better on the memory front and in intelligence tests if they had had at least a year of music lessons the problem is even if playing an instrument goes along with higher i.q. test scores it doesn't mean the one causes the other. einstein played the violin and was an ace in physics wouldn't he have been a science whiz even if he had never learned an instrument. playing music and being intelligent may well co-occur but whether one contributes constantly to the other is highly questionable. more than a 100 studies over the past 20 years have claimed there is a causal connection without sufficient evidence to back up the claim. like muscles

the brain can be given a workout but training and one activity doesn't mean you perform better in others if the 2 skills are very different being good at the one is not likely to make you better at the other practicing the piano all day is likely to make you a better pianist. but will it make you better at solving differential equations. hardly. still practicing an instrument not only lets you play music it can also teach you that practice does make a significant difference that can grow your self-confidence and willingness to really apply yourself. so to recapitulate does music make you smarter well there's no such. great forward answer but quite apart from any possible link to intelligence music is a treasure and a joy in its own right. whether in the form of mozart pop or hip

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video and. this is the deadly news live from step closer to a breakthrough in the corona virus pandemic pharmaceuticals john. coronavirus seen as more than 90 percent effective in it. also on the program u.s. president elect joe biden has. some pushes ahead with his transition a little trump has so far refused to concede. i'm the new era in the u.s. germany relations german chancellor. joe biden. action victory and called

on both countries to stand together in tackling the pandemic. until gail welcome to the program we begin with some hopeful news 90 coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by u.s. pharmaceuticals john pfizer and tech which is make a say is 90 percent effective in preventing cough and 19 infections u.s. president elect joe biden has welcomed development as a cause for hope the company said they found no serious safety concerns it's the most successful result so far trial of such a vaccine be developed. to supply 50000000 doses this year and up to 1300000000 in 2021 plans to see authorization this month for emergency use in the united states

several other possible vaccines are also being tested around the world the number of covered 98 infections worldwide has now exceeded 50000000 according to johns hopkins university in the u.s. so let's explore this with to be our supports who's an epidemiologist a brother and sherry to a hospital welcome to d w how significant do you feel this news is well i think this is a significant step and we know that several companies are working on back scenes and they were hoping to hear this news. soon and so today we heard the news however we have to understand this is an interim analysis so does this not the end of the trial that is currently still ongoing and it's a press release so we have not seen the data in detail but we are very. positive that this data hold true and that a lot of people who are vaccinated are protected from getting corona so are you

able to see from the details that have been released so far be able to see what it is 90 percent effective at doing and for how long. as far as i understand there were 2 acts in nations necessary and after these 2 vaccinations a certain number of people still got 6 or 90 percent doesn't mean that everyone is protected but from the people who are participating in the trial 90 percent did not get it after 2 vaccinations but again this is an interim analysis more data coming in right field results so you're saying these are results from trials so what now has to happen successfully before any vaccine can be rolled out. well we need to wait until the closure of the trial we also need to follow very say very carefully the safety information which you already mentioned so far there do not seem to be concerns about safety and then we have to see when the facts in is ruled

out that we follow people who have been vaccinated to really see whether any issues occur and we also have to understand that when the drug is released to the market that not suddenly the problem is solved because people need to get vaccinated and not everyone will have the vaccination in the 1st days or weeks or potentially even mums. this vaccine uses a new technology called messenger r.n.a. technology i wonder if you could explain that to us a simple. yes or what you tell you do not take the virus on and to join you take messenger r.n.a. from the and the gent off the virus and inject that to the body and the immune system cells are taking this messenger r.n.a. inside of the cell and then producing the antigen on the surface of the cell and by that attacking the virus so this is a very neat way of of a vaccine important also is that there are very different ways of that since conley produced so if this is not working for everyone and maybe the other ones are

working for those in which this vaccine is not working. maxine's often take upwards of 10 years to be developed yet here we are not even a year into this pandemic what will have what cause will have been caught what will not have been that usually gets done to get a vaccine this far this fast. yes quick 19 is new but the coronavirus isn't so this is not like we developing a drug there with absolutely no information before so there have been some work before and that was the reason why the companies are able now so fast to actually find a potential solution to produce a vaccine so what we have to follow is really to see what's happening on the population level is it really as a fact that there isn't a trials and or decide the facts are not so are there concerns about potential adverse long term reactions to the coby drugs being developed just because.

development process has been so contracted. i think that everyone's working very carefully and specifically we are concerned about safety and so this is really this information is really collected very carefully we also know from other vaccines that there are no major side effects and the long term consequences obviously we know in a couple of years but taken together all the information from a lot of work since i did not expect any major consequences in particular now what we know from the from the trial short term side effects are not expected so given what we've heard and i appreciate you say it was a press release is about gene you would take. i would take this vaccine if offered to me and again i would like to see the data before but this data will be released i'm sure and the officials in the united states as well as in europe are very carefully looking at this data before it's actually released to the public so many many people are looking at this very carefully and no one has an interest that

something is released which will cause side effects only issues we hope to solve the issue of kobe to solve the issue of that and them a cannot fully that we are slowly getting back to a life that maybe not what we used to live but certainly without the fear of a massive pandemic wave good talking to you thank you for joining us dr to be a skirt from the balance sheet a hospital thank you for having me. take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world starting in italy which is one of the country struggling to cope with the 2nd wave of this pandemic long lines of cars a form that testing centers with some people so short of breath and had to be given oxygen while still in their cars. who are leaders of congratulate you joe biden on his u.s. election victory 2 problem and exceptions china's and russia's vladimir putin a kremlin spokesman so congratulations were not appropriate before the official

results on. german chancellor angela merkel has described ties with the united states as a mutual treasure that should continue for generations the chance i'm speaking tavi for the 1st time since joe biden's election victory the united states of america and germany as part of the earth a new union must stand together to tackle the make sure challenges facing us in this day and age we must stand side by side to cope with the test that is the pandemic we must fight against global warming. we must fight against terrorism stuff and stand side by side for both the global economy and for free trade with this is the foundation of our class parity on both sides of the atlantic well the u.s. president elect has signaled that he wants to get to work on forming his administration immediately and he's named the members of his coronavirus task force

so biden has made tackling the pandemic is top priority the new administration plans to step up nationwide testing and people will be asked to wear masks biden concerns include the economy tackling racism and climate change which means rejoining a parent's climbs agreement as powell has yet to concede defeat and his lawyers say they'll be launching more legal challenges. greeted by chance of loser. the u.s. presidential motorcade weaves its way to trump national golf course for the 2nd day in a row. donald trump taking a shot at forgetting that i lectured los. he spent the morning in stopping to know all of his defeat refusing to concede to democrat joe biden and giving air to disproving theories of election fraud several prominent republicans in congress

have made supportive statements saying the elections not over yet. there's a lot of shenanigans going on here if our president trump i would take all this to court i'd fight back and from a republican point of view mellon balloting is a nightmare for us the post office is now the new election center now more than all the republicans have expressed more confidence in the electoral process while saying trump's legacy will endure. while he is without question the most powerful voice in our party. he will have an enormous impact on our party going forward. i believe the great majority of people who voted for donald trump want to make sure that his principles and his policies are pursued. with the trump administration planning multiple legal challenges over the voting process and concession speech still seems far off get more german political reaction i'm from you're going to

team he's a green member of germany's bundestag and a former environment minister welcome to d w one chancellor machall says the u.n. the us should work side by side but what do you see as the priority issues i think the ongoing conflict on interest between the us and europe will go on but the form we discussed these conflicts of interest would change. with change from trump boyden i see one area where we can get real progress very fast if the us come back to paris greeted. there will be depends for a good cooperation between europe and the u.s. in the question of climate change and this also can give

a push to china because china has done a lot of very ambitious announcement but is still not on a track for example bringing down their generation of electricity by co so i see an opportunity and a freak of climate change for a new transplanted pulp ship ok so that sounds like a good and yeah good news so do you see it there as far as your consent do you see a biden presidency as being a good thing for europe. where there will be conflicts and we're going to look on the last days there is still a battle on terrorism both sides the us as europe have subsidized illegally on with a view to standards of w t o dare it aircraft industry on one side boeing on the other side is an airbus there is an opportunity to negotiate on that that do war on terrorists

that is coming and in the place up the us are still in place terrorists that this forms will end we can cooperate in the question of the. new bodies the size of bodies of the w t o that has been blocked by the administration but i'm very skeptic that. joe biden will go back to a policy of open markets and free trade he is perhaps a little less but he is a protectionist and he has to do so because this is what also his constituency wants and so just as you're of need to be reactive in this relationship or all other priors is that that europe can compress ahead and say to a new american administration this is what we want from you. and i think we should do so we should take.

that's what i was you're going to say now speaking to us a little earlier your technical problems that's coming up next here they wor rob what's will be here to take you through. business updates will be taking a closer look at the coronavirus that development and. economic a bounce back as part of the. joe biden election victory. you have at the top all right in just a moment i'll be back at the top of me for the day.

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for the film industry. the lights going out for. a lot going on. our topic this week arts and culture on d w. it's a breakthrough in the global battle against the coronavirus german pharmaceuticals firm by on texas trials of its vaccine candidate works 90 percent of the time. in the program post-election optimism about the future transatlantic relationship hasn't been enough to stop the new imposing tariffs on u.s. goods. that swelled into its 2nd decade. to impose one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns but now south africa's economy is starting to show

signs of recovery. this is due to be a business sign of what's in berlin welcome to the program and we begin with that major breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus german based pharmaceuticals company by own tech says one of the vaccines it's developing with in the u.s. is more than 90 percent effective against covered 19 biotech is published the results of large scale clinical trials saying it's found no serious safety concerns pfizer biotech all the 1st drug makers to show successful data from a trial of a coronavirus vaccine on that scale hoping to apply for emergency approval to begin distributing it later this month. let's cross to our financial correspondent in new york yes quarter yes lovely to see that this is a major breakthrough in the the race to find a coronavirus vaccine how are investors reacting to it in the u.s.

. well i mean there is definitely some ends of the as i'm on a wall street and the weather couldn't be a more accurate beautiful sunny day in new york about to any degree so he has sent if you look at the dow jones industrial average at one point almost gained 1500 points in value up by more than 5 percent at the beginning is still good chips up by a good this 1000 points that we see the stock market on fire pharmaceutical stocks but also if you look at companies in stocks from the airlines so from hotel chains of from movie theaters just to name a few they're gaining 10203040 percent of a season at the end is the key to really get the economy going again to really reopen the economy and that hope is driving the markets i'm here at the beginning of the week. so the 1st day of trading since joe biden became president elect

always seeing that biden bounce we've been hearing so much about. yes we do that differently also helps the market investors are just glad that the whole fighting is over they're hoping for more normalcy and going down the line we will have to wait and see how good joe biden for the it really is for the stock market we shouldn't forget the stock market has been on fire under barack obama with donald trump in power be good wall street was also up a good just 50 percent so we have sky high valuations on wall street on one side and we still have to deal with the effects of off to a corona pandemic and so if we will wait and see how good joe biden is for the stock market but at least for the moment then everybody is just happy that this entire fighting and the struggling is over. yes they wanted a decision either way didn't they financial correspondent quarter in new york

thanks a lot bringing us up to date. well that's the picture in the united states european markets also received a biden bounce let's hear from chelsea delaney who's in frankfurt for us. the markets are really supercharged today by this news from paes and beyond that they do expect to submit their crown of our stock seems u.s. regulators by the end of the month and we've seen this optimism really reflected in the industries that have been hit hardest by the coronavirus destructions as are the stock of tons of the german airlines which have about 20 percent in trading we saw for example i see that owner of british airways surged up 30 percent so clearly investors are feeling hopeful that will at some time soon see a return to some sort of normality public health officials are a little bit more cautious they're warning investors to not go ahead of themselves because there still is a long road ahead to getting distracted distributed to the entire population and

a lifting of these restrictions that are really a battered economies around the world. chelsea delaney in front 4 is that many european leaders. have shown they're hopeful the election of joe biden will give a boost to transatlantic relations however he is nevertheless pushing ahead with a rate of tariffs on $4000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods it's part of a dispute over states of cities paid to boeing by the americans and by the europeans the rouse lasted 16 years and counting. the decision means selling harley's in the you could get a bit more difficult and the problems don't stop at the bike shop american whiskey run tobacco fish fruits and many other goods totaling $4000000000.00 will be affected by the tariffs. the us has already had $6300000000.00 worth of e.u. goods with tariffs that after w t o verdict in response to illegal state support for european plane maker airbus

trade ministers here hope washington will want to strike a deal we remain open for negotiation and solution our reports all remains on table so that was also a. negotiated settlement as it got future disciplines is still way ssion so far the us has not agreed that was the role of. the hope now is that a biden administration would be more willing to foster better transatlantic trade ties german economy minister peter out myers says the biden victory is a chance to quote reconfigure trade policy. and alice look at some of the other business stories making the news the head of turkey's central bank 90 arbella says it will take the necessary he'll take the necessary monetary policy steps to reverse a slide in the lira the currency rallied by more than 5 percent on monday it follows

a turbulent weekends during which turkey's previous central bank boss for sacked the country's finance minister resigned. norwegian air says it's fighting for survival after the government turned down a last minute plea for a bailout according to bosses the struggling airline was on track for a profitable year when the coronavirus it in february last month a low cost carrier operated less than 20 percent of its entire. soft bank has reported a net profit of more than 6000000000. well as for the 3rd quarter compared to a net loss of nearly $7000000000.00 in the same period last year japanese investors says the strong was also thanks to the success its technology stocks a bomb following a rebound in the economy. and virgin's hyperloop has completed the world's 1st passenger a ride on its super high speed levitating bob system carrying 2 passengers in a safety test system may 1 day carry 28 passengers at speeds of around 1000

kilometers an hour a test is seen to pave the way all the certification around the world. almost 3 quarters of a 1000000 south africans have so far been infected with corona virus way more than in any other african country the economic fallout has been massive but some economists are claiming there's light at the end of the tunnel. south africa's borders reopened to tourists in october and glimmer of hope for hotels and lodges. with just a handful of domestic guests they've just barely been able to keep afloat the coronavirus pandemic has shaken the country in the 1st quarter the economy contract at 1.8 percent from the previous 3 months and in the 2nd quarter g.d.p. virtually collapsed plunging more than 50 percent it's catastrophic for a country in which half the population already lives below the poverty level many

predict a bleak future for south africa still others believe there will be a speedy recovery the number of new coronavirus infections has dropped dramatically and the restrictions which led to the economic collapse have largely been lifted. but one of the optimists is christoph neve he analyzes financial data for south africa's 1st national bank christopher what's the data saying that makes you so up to mistake. yeah look it rather than having to predict the future we can actually use that day so what we what we've seen is that the economic fallout was because of the severe lockdown measures so i pull was a shocking math on our you can be base we saw a 60 percent fall in expenditure on from any country speak of across our base we saw 26 percent drop in income so their visual statistic showed 2000000 people didn't get paid and that's 13 percent of workforce we we showed double that effect

from a financial perspective a 26 percent drop in innings the good news is though that it actually drink very rapidly so so maybe it was already better because we went from lock down 5 into lockdown 4 and they need to lock down 3 things quite rapidly improved 2 to the point where when we wrote this article you know it's been 2 weeks ago we were sitting at minus 3 percent on income and expenditure and for the month of october we just got out that last 2 days and we're actually up we were up and we're up year in year in spain so sunni and a big thinker of the economy has actually and has actually gotten out of the groan of blues yeah when we talk about recovery we are talking about 2 pray coronavirus levels but the south african economy was struggling even then you know 30 percent unemployment rolling blackouts so how to mystics of south africans actually been. yeah absolutely i think that people people have 50 different standard here so i mean getting anywhere close to breakeven i think you know is pretty good so so i

think a lot of the bad news is already baked in and we saw the banks posting you know 40000000000 rand hiring. jew numbers than then would normally have been the guys you know with but you know those are those accounting for core support looking so you look at consumers yeah we're consumers in trouble yes they're typically have it out and they're recovered yes i think the arson remaining areas of concern certainly we've saw we saw the lowest think of and ironically the highest think of individuals suffering more i mean that is quite natural like what we typically expect in a in economic downturn because that's where the job security is the lowest and at the high end people or you know more bearable and salaried and the business owners and the business the city have taken some strength when we look at business to notice that although business are numbers again are back to 2 good relabeled so so that's not you know that's not bad news at all on a on a go forward basis christoph where we're running very short on time so i could just

ask you briefly i feel like we should mention the election of joe biden in the u.s. what's the overriding feeling of the impact on of that on the south african economy . well the stock market has taken a. great rebound so well and the rand i think if they basically international statement has improved significantly obviously the international outlook on us i mean for it for a biden brings the presidency is just so much better and then donald trump used to be you know he's not like the u.s. is it me like the law place and outside of the u.s. for africa it takes a particular already so we are running out of time and i didn't really get to answer the question christoph neavitt from south africa's national bank thanks for joining us. and that's all from me in the business to threats.

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