because the 19 pandemic, the fines against environmental defenders increased in latin america and journalists is raising awareness for these attacks. but can journalism have an impact beyond creating visibility? or discussion? is china cracking down on its tech giants? dangles its anti trust laws over big players like ali baba and tencent and markets react. we'll talk to our financial correspondent. speaking of alibaba, e-commerce retailer cashes in on singles day. as the world world's largest sales event this year, it's even bigger. and the shine is wearing off albania's proem industry, with orders down due to the pandemic and workers concerned for their livelihoods.

hello and welcome to the show. i'm stephen beardsley in berlin. it's good to have you with us. the shares of alibaba and 10 cent fell sharply on wednesday. hit by concerns of a new anti trust legislation by the chinese government. beijing has published a 1st draft of the monopolistic rules aimed at the country's tech giants. well, they are not accused of any wrongdoing. investors fear that new rules could impact their growth in the future. alibaba shares were down more than 8 percent on the day . that on the same date announced record turnover from its singles day sales promotion. beijing's actions come on the heels of growing regulatory action elsewhere against tech. the u.s. justice department suing google for antitrust violations last month and european commission filing antitrust charges against amazon. on monday. let's go now to our financial correspondent in frankfurt, chelsey de laney. i do not believe that is jealousy. maybe we can get chelsea up. there's jealousy. good morning,

josie. going back to china here. what is the reason for this crackdown on tech right now that we're seeing all china is clearly sending a strong message to its homegrown tech giants that this age of freedom that they have had over the past several years. it's allowed them to grow into these giants is really coming to an end. and china was known for having quite a light touch towards regulating it's tech companies. but it's starting to share the same concerns that we're seeing playing out in the west, which is that these companies have too much power. they have too much consumer data and they're really creating an environment where other companies just can't thrive . and we are seeing a consensus not just in china, but in the u.s. and europe as well. that that's really bad for business. that's bad for, for the tech scene. and that's bad for consumers as well. not just with engineer the e.u. in the u.s. also pursuing similar in the trust measures or investors bracing for an era of greater tech regulation. absolutely,

these companies are under really an unprecedented amount of pressure. we're seeing, not just china cracking down, but the u.s. the e.u. all are really taking new action against these companies. and what they're looking, at now is not just fines that we've seen over the past couple of years. the e.u., for example, is handed down several multibillion dollar fines to companies like apple or alphabet. it hasn't really had much of a fact on these companies business, in part because they have really immense amount of cash on their balance sheet. but now we're moving into a new era where come, where regulators around the world aren't just looking at fines. they're also looking at really reshaping and rewriting tech laws that would directly target these companies ability to grow. and that definitely is a big concern for investors to delay me in frankfurt. thank you very much. alright, there was also good news for ali baba on wednesday. singles day shopping event

that's been likened to black friday, but bigger is raking in record sales. originally singles day was a kind of anti valentine's day celebration, thought up by chinese students on 1111, a date with all ones in it. and that was before alibaba hitched itself to the date to offer heavily discounted items. that's a move that paid off. in 2015, alibaba did more than $14000000000.00 u.s. dollars in single day sales, and it's only gotten better. so far this year, alibaba has done $56000000000.00 u.s. dollars worth of transactions, but there's a catch. the company extended the event this year, stretching it from november 1st to midnight wednesday. so that's 11 days worth of sales. now let's talk a bit more about this with samuel ye, he is a market analyst for mintel in shanghai. samuel, it's good to see you. what is it that has made singles day so popular

things that are because the number of cancer ever seen that in 2019 with a shopping by reached over 260. if you will, in section 4 this year are notice it has exceeded 370000000000 being today early morning. the basics, seeing as chinese consumer has drawn, willingness to purchase and shopping, has penetrated into our once daily life. there on a traditional e-commerce content. e-commerce such lie live streaming. commerce is also increasing fast and driving more consumer attention in destructing festival. and in the meantime, i think that the brand and e-commerce platform of this con and a promotion to encourage a consumer's increasing their shopping wish list as much as possible. and we are not. we also notice that the earth single days and the whole promotions the then sides being extended and actor the promotions started randa early oft november.

so i think that at this, seeing as the drive to make the singles day is at a very big and a bigger and bigger. and some you, you mentioned the growing move toward shopping online. what has the pandemic changed for chinese consumers? i would imagine that's even pushed things further along on line. yeah, the pandemic has affected the china economy significantly and 1st a half a year. and i, we, but we can see that at the e-commerce play a critical role for the economy in china. and also i seemed to most impulse in seeing for the consumer chinese consumer doubt and for that, in addition that the good concho of the carbonite operate, also stress and china, the consequence of financial competence. and the constantia unwillingness in there were tele, in there were toast,

spending for future also increased. and i think that the most important thing that china has a very strong e-commerce infrastructure. and also we have strong religious ticket capability and easy digital payment. and also some companies have the omni channel divot, the parliament deployment. this things can also join play. how e-commerce the pandemic are here. it for china. ok, we'll have to leave it there. samuel, you with market research, firm mintel from shanghai, thank you very much. thank you. well d.d. choosing is another chinese tech firm. in fact, the country's most popular ride sharing company. a d.d. has been turning heads lately in shanghai where it's autonomous program is testing out. driverless cars and suburban streets are correspondent and for a ride. this is what driving might look like in the future. there is only

a drive in this autonomous car for security reasons. the computer is actually behind the wheel. shanghai suburb is the 1st place in china where passengers can test ride autonomous cars. when the normal traffic around it doesn't feel much different from name a car with a new woman trying to cause a quip with radar sensors and cameras along that track. additional cameras and sensors collect data on the traffic situation. the remote control center monitors vehicles on the street traffic information is automatically transmitted to the car . 20 chinese cities have so far opened parts of their roles for autonomous cars. china wants to be at the forefront of these new technologies. it wants to shape this down that's for these technologies. d.d. is china's most popular right. hating up and the 1st company to allow passengers on their autonomous cars. the goal is that clients will one day be able to order an

autonomous taxi just like any other car. a lot of challenges remain. the traffic in china can be quite chaotic. china has 80 cities with over 5000000, people, and frequent traffic jams are common. it is also an important testing ground for international car companies, mysie dispenses among those who run the autonomous cars in test sites and the open traffic. he, china is important for us because we want to test our technologies with the clients, use them, so that china is the world's biggest car market. companies who want their technology to succeed will have to succeed. well, as the pandemic continues to rock international commerce, it's not going to facts are often being felt and poor corners of the world like albania. the country's chromium industry normally supports thousands of jobs, but a huge drop in demand from china has seen orders dry up. mines, closed workers,

laid off, mining and albania is dark and dangerous work. and these men are lucky to be doing it. thousands of jobs have been lost to plunging demand for chromium. this metal sells for $150.00 a tonne and compared to 400 in recent years. it barely covers the cost of this day to production. on the mirror, the pandemic house heads are life's hard. but there is more, the cruel market is in crisis group. and if the mining closes with longer be able to feed our families, bookies as mines are, its life blood. and the miners in the shaft, the worried about the fates of their town. new work lives with its mines and without mining bulky says it's not happens

production at this nearby, foreigners will also be hit here. they take the role chromium and radio for international markets during this period of, pun, demick, that we're living in 2020. the most difficult thing is uncertainty. nobody can see how we're going to get out of this crisis that frightens companies, but also employees would be in for a new wonder. this is nowhere baucis is chromium comes to rest. small mountain sits in the port without exports are a 3rd of what the where in 2016 when china has keys is the place you know, being near to suffer a direct blow due to lack of demand for chrome, chrome in the economic anxiety here. a reminder that many developing nations are at

the mercy of international trade wars and one day make that he couldn't resist. and finally, people aren't the only ones having a tough time during the lockdown. pandemic restrictions have cut progs zoos visitor numbers to 0. and that means it's revenue as well. so it's inviting the public to help pay for animal feed. in return for pictures of the animals and the zoo needs 400 different kinds of food daily, just to partially offset an expected loss of nearly 4000000 euros this year. and that's it for me and the business team here below for more details are online dot com slash business cinders. and let's watch

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his final a year in office and his impressive career limiting the last cultural diplomat starts nov 16th on d. w with news that a vaccine might be around the corner. you ethical questions are on the horizon, who will get it 1st. how much will it cost? will the rich or poor be 1st in line? for the most vulnerable, like this woman here, she's living in a bomb shelter because of the young mean azerbaijani conflict. kogut is

running rampant in these tight quarters or should doses go to frontline workers who put their lives on the line. like here at a testing station in frankfurt. questions remain, especially on the news that brazil has suspended its trial of a chinese candidate vaccine. there are no easy answers. welcome to the show. all this week, we're talking vaccines and coated 19 on monday used broke that there could be a vaccine by the end of the year. america's pfizer, germany's biotech were 1st to announce successful data from a large scale clinical trial of a crowded virus vaccine. they say it's more than 90 percent effective when not going to be able to rely on just one vaccine to inoculate the world. and then came the unfortunate news. brazil's health regulator has stopped clinical trials of china's corona vax organizers of the trial say it was a death, but that it was not related to that same let's start on those

developments with henry ford because professor of bioethics, me, i are the if that were the result of the death were linked to the trial. how ethical would that make it to the trial doesn't pay, you know, whether something bad happened trial was dropped or it's just last year that cross should work to write those down. and he thought everything was done to keep that risk premium, or there wouldn't necessarily be any problem. but a participant is he being exploited. so are being offered here is our how drugs mission of cool. we're doing very dangerous. that can kill people in

those areas. you're taking risks because our people who use this scene after it's been proved safe in your operations. this is still there are still caring of the sick and because it's a reasonable date, and they're there already dropped. we mentioned one corona vaccine being very successful, one less successful there. there are hundreds in development right now, but what is the most ethical way of testing a more promising one then a less promising one. you know, we don't know we've seen successful this time, but it's a bit like when the elections things will change when there are signals that want to seem more promising than another. it may be tempting to say, always,

not very many were each other were offering that went less promising, but seen a list promising not to remember the election. it is just briefly why is it important to test vaccines on, on the continent or country in which they are to be used? well, it's actually very important for the country and its population. it's not easy. but this is the worst. it's also important for the inhabitants. you can know this in people out our traditional environment, you need genetic characteristics. it will also not that good reacting can believe, you know, we kind of, we will be getting seeing it's key. so there are got to be a lot for it seems ross ok new stay where you will return to later in the show. 1st

of all biotech and pfizer have sparked a surge of optimism. but the unsung heroes of this tale of the thousands of unpaid volunteers taking part in clinical trials, many in latin america. however, it's not clear when latin americans will actually get the vaccine. insall paulo biotech researchers have already tested the vaccine on hundreds of people, either with an active ingredient or placebo, not in america's one of the world's main vaccine testing grounds. largely in brazil, volunteers are not allowed to talk to the media. their own paid for many of the attraction is that they will at least be vaccinated by taking part in our test subjects and not just health workers. they're also ordinary brazilians who have to get up early to take the bus or subway for hours to get to work. they get to go there, all sportspeople, recuperating. brazil is the country with the 2nd, most coronavirus related deaths in the world to the people here feel like guinea

pigs in a lab. they need to question is a risk. that's unavoidable. when testing the vaccine. monday's announcement showed the biotechs research was more advanced than any of its competitors vaccines. the german company stressed the test results were early and still incomplete. give us, we believe that this vaccine from minds will be efficient. it will probably be one of the most important vaccines in the world. another german pharmaceutical company, cure of attack, is also testing a vaccine in latin america. in panama, the high infection rate among the population makes it easier to get speedy results . the panamanians are hopeful that the cooperation will allow them to manufacture the vaccine itself. later, technology transfer in return for helping with the testing phase. as working together with the german vaccine company certainly gives our country a competitive advantage over other countries. is also

testing in peru for the inhabitants of the poor area. bella, vista, mirador, the testing process itself is not the main issue for them. it's simply about surviving the pandemic. the people here fear they will once again be left behind when it's time for the vaccine to be given out. but i doubt government will provide us with the vaccine here. it's almost impossible, we feel forgotten. the now very real prospect of a vaccine this year is largely due to the contribution of people like the residents of bella, vista, mirador, but when latin america will get the vaccine remains unclear. well, something else that could speed up the process of finding is excess, will vaccine a human challenge trials, hysteric williams on that other countries do their own challenge trials now that the u.k. has announced it's doing so. challenge trials involve intentionally infecting

organisms with a pathogen, to find out how well vaccines or medications work at stopping that pathogen. there are thousands track method for determining safety and efficacy. and we conduct them all the time usually on animals, especially primates. but in ethical terms, schuman challenge studies, like the one proposed in britain can be pretty charged. if the plans are approved, starting this january researchers, there will be going to liberate lee infecting young healthy volunteers with stars cove. to initially to find out how much of the pathogen it takes to make them infected. once the scientists have determined that they can begin giving other volunteers vaccines then subsequently challenging their immune system with that preset those of corona virus to see how effective the vaccines are doing things

this way can provide precise data quickly. so it can really speed up the development process. that's because instead of just giving a late stage vaccine candidate to thousands of volunteers and the placebo to thousands of others. and then basically waiting to see what happens, researchers have a lot more control over the entire process, but they don't have control in one key area. because we still don't have sure fire therapies to treat someone if an induced covert. 19 infection turned severe. the possibility that a human challenge trial could cause a volunteer long term damage or even kill the that can't be ruled out. despite those risks, britain is apparently not the only country to consider conducting human challenge trials. according to the science journal nature, at least some exploratory planning has commenced in belgium and the us as well.

ever turning to our professor of bioethics, near what's your take on human challenge trials? i think that charles, quite distinct from what we've discussed so far are regular fuel rods. john rawls, are also in my view and cooled down. that's a consensus view than the one of the earlier john rawls would be my own view because their wrists, although they exist, remain law were the craft that everybody except such as dr. keating to the nation. after this piece were. ready doing, did not throw out, burst forth with the fortunes of being put at risk, but to go hundreds and thousands, millions of people. if we can get through it seem faster, i think it's on balance justified within 4 percent of courtiers. in what ways can

they help speed up the development of a vaccine in multiple ways in a few crowd, waiting for people to get exposed to the virus. that sometimes isn't happening. it has not happened in the early draw or a viper room virus in the u.k. . it has happened in that trial. so are other types of arse careers in china. so if there will be enough virus in a regular trial, we will know for many, many months to get the person off the job problems to whom they were being fair. people. the flip side of this is then normal, the worst school hours. and you could find within weeks, their results. there are also other things you can find out if you can, you know exactly where you infect them. so you can assess that eurasia scene

protection. you can assess very accurately the exact mechanism through which the system gets filled. in who they were seen were. so it's very, very well bioethics professor, thanks for being on the show today. and that's what you'd like to play the game because it's

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