i think you, i mean this is not a trace of oil industry for gold. thomas, it's starts to simple for you. on today's show we have creatures, great and small. all of them useful, like derek house, which supply us with valuable milk and cheese, which perform a vital function as pollination. but their diversity is increasingly under threat. and even some worms that have a surprising superpower all their own. hello

and welcome to tomorrow. today the science show on t w images of plastic waste in landfills and our oceans have become so commonplace. we risk becoming immune to them, but plastic is a serious problem that won't go away on its own. more and more plastic is manufactured every year. in 2018, most went to packaging 12 percent was used for consumer products. we should all reduce our plastic consumption because sooner or later it all ends up as waste. but how can we tackle all that discarded plastic, tiny part of the solution to this gigantic problem? our reporter kristen collar decided to find out and made

a few new friends on the way. these warnings are doing something that we always thought was impossible. but yet they creating the non-bank readable jesting, the non digestible. they're even plastic. this is how they would use a piece of styrofoam in just the week. 'd if we could harvest their super power, we could get 3 or 4 plastic trash in weeks, rather than send to reach. a could see from countless animals help to clean the environment and avoid toxic plastic incineration can prosecute in bags, help solve our plastic problem. busy sure

they are. oh yeah. yeah. i had to say that mine that night. she spit the cup at the molecular biologist who in 2017 made an important discovery by not cleaning water, maybe hide, it was basically what they used to find. but the swarms managed to eat their way out of the plastic bag. this is something to grasp the importance of this discovery. we 1st need to understand more plastic is plastic is a mysterious material. frankel, a science writer, author,

and real plastic. in the natural world, natural substances, they're sort of broken up by bacteria. go back to their essential elements. water, plastic doesn't do that. it just gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller, but it's still essentially last. that's why michael plastics stained the environment for centuries to be plastics, resistance to back a few years, a curse. but we forget that it's also part of it's miracle. plastics really transformed the world. they really created our modern or a world that is more colorful. the world that came before for most of our history, we have built things with stuff we found in nature,

rocks and metals. but there's the ward, modernize there was a growing demand for properties that already scarce natural elements processed things like raisin silk or ivory. in the mid 19th century, you were worried that so many elements were being able to make billiard balls and the elements were being driven into extinction. eventually obeah, the ball manufacturer promised the reach prize to whoever could find a more abundant substitute for ivory that caught the eye of an american. and john wesley hyatt, who spent several years to bring in his workshop benchley, came up with the stuff. so you like the plastic age, it begun. adverts like visa celebrate division with the hype up there that it made everything that no walk away washable really, that big a problem. my wife said,

i'm going to replaced tortoise shell coral and mother my long replaced silk. and bucket like to replace the raise enough to lock people. it's funny because in the early years, plastic was seen as sort of a celebration of nature. and today we look at it is one of the sheep enemies of the national plastic is no everywhere. some are light and just spare and like plastic bags, all those are extremely resistant, like bulletproof vests. what they all have in common is the palmers, which just basically means they're materials that are made up repeating atomic units. and i think of them as like beads on a change, but plastic looks like how it feels, how it behaves, all of that demands and having them together. and the reason why plastic lasts so long in the environment is that nothing evolved to break down to stipe of bombs or a key piece that's what we thought

they have called me awards. and you can actually buy them online and watch them become as if you them with styrofoam organisms themselves. it's the bacteria, those organisms probably if you see he's a professor of structural biology and he knows everything about any things. it's exciting fans and science places actually to face those facts here on the surface. they just think that their goal is to find new bugs and bacteria that came. they just plastic,

isolate their enzymes and then inhance and must produce them in by reactors. obviously we can't just bring some of these technology can't help with the plastic already in the environment. however, it could revolutionize our recycling system to really recycle something. you have to break it down to its basic elements so that you can rearrange them into something else. because we can't break down plastic bonds, we can only recycle it once or twice before it becomes unusable. and deaths, wifey's warms can be a game changer. if you think about bio recycling, what you can do is take that grid and reuse it infinitely, in fact, sounds like scifi, but it's already on the way. for example, a french company named carpio's is a radio using again signs to recycle bottles like these. and not just once or twice,

like in fuel, infinitely, if you can increase the value of the waist high in sensitized, the market move forwards, my reflect, back lost in the 1st place. and instead of people actually giving money to goods and why i'm still saying people will be big money to take it back home again and we use it. so the technology was not scalable yet, and it's still more expensive than virgin plastics. oil and gas is really cheap. that means it's cheaper to make of oil and gas than recycled materials. we need to get these technologies were actually a much bigger scale that we're currently doing now. in order to make it, i do believe that we really need to work hard so can my warms with their enzymes solve our plastic problem? i think it's great if we can find things like, you know, me or worms that are,

you know, the bacteria that while the last is really a design problem, it's that we're taking acid and we're using them all too often to make things that are trivial under necessary and serve, you know, kind of we are in a toxic relationship with plastic. we invented it to substitute and repel box. and now we're turning to bugs to get rid of it. and i don't think you want to live without it. i mean, you know, i like the fact that my glasses lie on my face so that in the middle of the road, i respect, there are just things people want to demonize lastic issue is seriously issue is how we take it, how we use it. you build those and here is, well my screamy friend 7 important lesson to teach us they have adapted to leave with plastic. 'd we should do the same.

my friend here we are. go now. free. go and save the war eagle. the last incidental meal worms usually used as chicken feed or fish base. have another surprise and storm scientists at stanford university already knew that bill worms can eat various forms of plastic. now they've established that the worms can break down the toxic additives in plastic with no ill effect. so in theory, the mealworms could die non-plastic and then still be used as animal feed. and now we turn to another industrious creature in economic terms. how many bees

have always punched above their weight, as pollinators and honey produces, they contributed around $2500000000.00 euros a year to the german economy and not to mention their contribution to the natural world. biologically speaking, there are 9 species of honey bee. most of them are native to asia. probably the best known these days is the western honeybee, which has been spread by humans and can be found all over the world. and the next report will take a look at some subspecies of the western honeybee and explore how its genetic diversity could best be protected. and not a beekeeper is getting a visit from agronomist, here to the west of berlin. this is the moment of truth. let's see if i still find any drones in the regular works for the institute for be research near berlin. he's come here hoping to find some rare bees. a huge problem is that bees species

diversity is declining dramatically. carny on honeybee is the one we have that's most genetically diverse. but the real gem is the european darkie, which is now very rare. mr. skakel is one of the few people who breeds it, and that's why we're here today to get samples vegan has instituted, setting up europe's 1st honeybee gene database. banks for cattle, pigs and sheep have been around for some time. but there's been nothing of that kind of corby's anywhere in europe. it's needed because the genetic diversity of rb populations is declining fast. there are constantly new parasites as well as challenges due to climate change, that we can only meet them at our bees. genetic makeup is as diverse as the challenge is to make the database as comprehensive as possible, the scientists have been collecting samples from many colonies across germany. they

vary widely in terms of the properties of such as gentleness, diligence, and swarming behavior. some types have become extremely rare. for example, a european dark b. . until the mid 19th century, it was the most common honeybee in germany. but then it was displaced by the kani olan honeybee economy. you know, the carny olan honeybee expanded through breeding, and it prevailed because it is also relatively gentle with a relatively low swarming tendency. so people like tim and the dark be declined. that's gone so far that they are no more dark b. colonies originally from germany. the only ones we have now, one or 2 percent of colonies are descended from re imports. but the european doug b. is alive and well in hot months. got because hives. he had his 1st bees at the age

of 10, and he's more interested in the colonies themselves than in how much honey they yield. skegness sees the duck be as part of germany's history or with over there are lots of drones. so all start collecting yakov vague and carefully picks out the drones in the comb . please leave me a couple. i have a few young queens here that i need them to mate with one last drone. then vega collects a few worker bees for good measure. he needs samples of drones and workers from this colony for his gene database. another one is got out of and luckily they're being nice today.

back in his lab in who are now and off starts to prepare the material for the database. 1st he preserves the frozen work of bees and alcohol that way he has a record of that typical shape to help distinguish the different beast then come the drones, can mail bees extract under the microscope. it's high precision work. it's a routine procedure for him, but still you have to realize that the drone always dies when it is jackie lates. it would do that if it were mating with the queen. we only do this because we really need his sperm in order to preserve his traits for the future of bees here

or elsewhere. in the precious sperm is stored in liquid nitrogen at minus $196.00 degree celsius. a process known as cryo preservation. later they're going to examine samples of the drones, frozen together with a professor who heads the institute. the researchers want to know how good the quality of the sperm is, once it's defrosted, here, because you can see that after it's thought, you know, the sperm cells still remain in the flagella, can still beat strongly and indicating that it's good. you could inseminated queen with it and she'd be fertile. yes, it really looks like fresh sperm. looks really good. first genetic database where honey bees is just the 1st step towards a larger goal. diversity among honeybees is endangered around the

world. here in germany, they undergo a lot of selection, and that decreases the genetic diversity. but globally, the situation is even more dramatic because these selected species from germany and austria are exported around the world. that means they displace the sub species that are well adapted to the local conditions, and that's why our database is so significant. it can preserve these genetic resources for the future. it will take time before genetic databases for honeybees can be built up across europe or worldwide. but in germany, these research as a hoping to have filed away material from some 300 colonies by the end of 2021 here in that gene bank of b. biodiversity. if outlet is red, white flag, i'm leaving it to you have a science question you'd like us to answer tell you again if we featured on this

show, you get a little surprise as a thank you. just awful. you'll find us on the web. dot com slash science, or check us out on twitter. the new traditional components in milk include lactose, fats, protein minerals, and fishermen. mammals produce had to feed their young till they're old enough to fend for themselves. for us, humans, milk remains an important source of meter and even into adult it. that is despite estimates that 3 quarters of the global population have difficulty digesting lactose. but a special kind of could be a game changer. this milk is said to be

easier to digest. dairy farmer, cool stuff always has a little in his morning coffee. it's known as to milk that he hopes to ensure the future of his business. today is debuting his own 1000000 delivery service. housey feeling about the new venture as well. it's another step, one of several we've undertaken since 2015 to diversify away from dairy production . we have to wait and see how well it's received. if we get customers, we don't know exactly what to expect. models of octal to first, he visits his camps to see if they're all in good shape. now that he's also making deliveries, he's working on a tight schedule. township is pretty standard,

but it's human toll cattle are not, at least not all of them. and also michelle from the outside, they all look alike, but there is a genetic difference. we haven't investigated vs animals yet. we still need to do a d.n.a. test to find out which are a one and which are age 2. it's been expensive. we had to break up the herd and sell the cows that were a one. then we bred more of them from the basic stock. that's why the price of milk went up. those prices for different fruits produced milk with different proportions of the a one and a 2 variants of better casein guernsey's have a lot of aid too, as do some jerseys, and some cement historian. surmise that selective breeding over the ages change the composition of milk into the argument goes, is the older form. nowadays,

most european cows or anyone gets video. we have $140.00 cows producing 6 and a half just 7000 liters of milk a year. that's about $22.00 leaders a day which runs from today, but that's only 3 quarters of the yield of the dairy cow widely found in intensive farming. but gavin's cows also in young good meat, unlike their high performing industrial counterparts. whether milk contains only are mostly a one or a 2, it all looks the same, but the difference is significant. that in known to seed new, it's clear that they're different. we see it ourselves. there are people with milk intolerance who buy their milk from us. and can drink it without a problem, but not the other card. and lots of foreigners buy our milk. you know, there must be something different about it. but of course we can't prove it scientifically. we don't have the money to do that. it's not going to really love

a $1.80 to denote 2 forms of the beta casein protein made up of $209.00 of the no acids. but there is one difference between them in a to milk. an amino acid called proline occurs in position 67. anyone in addition to delivering, gavin has set up a little kiosk where people can buy his milk. his customers seem happy. yes, i mean to milk is great, very wholesome for the children too. we like it a lot. some kind of pushed it to. i'm not milk intolerant. i just feel the other kind of milk isn't is right for me. while this one is so new and not just guess that we had visitors recently. i always have this milk at home because after one of them said he can't drink milk at all. if he does, he has to rush to the bathroom. i told him i had a 2 milk, you know, he tried it and it was fine. so it really seems to work for him to do that. i'd say

there's one hypothesis is that it might work in the case of milk, protein intolerance, where enzymes cannot clean the proline in a to milk. whereas they can cleave the histidine in a one milk. but this releases a protein fragment called b c m 7, which could cause gastrointestinal problems. this doesn't apply to lactose intolerance though. since a 2 milk also contains like tose, as well as other key components of a strong immune system. that's especially important for cabs. to stop dad and wants his girls as he calls them to be as healthy as possible. they're fed on a diet of grass corn and wheat before the afternoon delivery. the farmer has to process the milk and fill the bottles, which he does in his own onsite. plant sales manager,

both on our hands explains that with normal milk. this is a job usually done by the dairies. i'm not with a chew, milk. you need another step in the goods flow chains. a whole new handling path in the logistics chain and a large dairies aren't ready for that. so we decided to do it ourselves. you need to be pioneering visionary. but there was a media demand. approximately $800.00 households need to buy the product for it to be profitable for all times to visual news from these are for us personally, this was the only way we could get around agricultural policy and price dumping in the milk market. in that respect, it's the only alternative by common and the only way that dad and family can ensure their diri farm survives there are

no scientific studies that prove a 2. milk is more digestible, but the market exists. you can buy it in a number of countries. that's all for now. thank you for joining us. for morning grossing stories about science and technology visit, our website will be back next week with a fresh edition of tomorrow today. until then, by the

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say firearm. this is news life from another breakthrough in the 19 vaccine u.s. drug. and i says it's experimental vaccine has a success rate of nearly 95 percent on the heels of similar results through 5 bomb test markets jump on the news desk hopes of an end to the pandemic growth. also on the program, the e.u. prepares for a new crisis as poland doesn't hungry block, its long term budgets and coronavirus rescue package. the 2 countries oppose measures tying

a new funding to respect for the rule of law will bring you the latest from brussels. on flying drones near airports can cause danger, as well as travel chaos. german researchers say they've come up with technology to stop the habit and identify drugs. trouble makers. welcome to the program has been another breakthrough in the race for a vaccine against covered 19 u.s. pharmaceuticals. company but dennis says it's experimental vaccine is 94.5 percent effective. it's been tested in a mate stage, trial involving 30000 volunteers. the treatment involves 2 injections and does not have to be stored in ultra cold conditions, but then expects to have enough safety data for u.s. regulators to approve and rollout the vaccine this year. the european commission

says it's working to sign more supply deals with vaccine manufacturers. so let's find out more about it. i've been speaking with erica feigele, dame. he's an epidemiologist and senior fellow of the federation of american scientists. i asked him what madonna means when it says this vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective. means that it's 95 percent for the 1st, half the people out of people. dummy up with hugo and out of the 9590 of the cases were in placebo and only 5 were in the immunized group. and so that's how you get to 95. it is 95 percent, which is really good because the other backs you last week finds it was around 90 percent. so we're getting more data that we could. this virus is ok so that this all sounds like good news. one of the things that people are going

to be concerned about is the speed at which these things are going to be a being developed. normally, it takes years for these things to be developed to hit the market. we've done this in less than a year. so does that mean that safety is being compromised or, or what has happened to allow this to happen so quickly? your safety is not in for anything. we're actually slowing it down in terms of base 3 trials. remember a couple months ago we were trying to speed it up politically and i was not good. what's actually happening is 8. the money is now flowing at a much faster rate. we're in the middle of a global pandemic. really financial resources are readily available. and in terms of infection, vaccines rely on natural infection in the community to observe. and then, then you can conclude. and in certain ways, infections are soaring across the world as you know. and that actually allows, you can actually see the effects much more quickly. but i do want more,

and these are very preliminary results. there's 30000 people and you need to follow them for months and years. so these are just a early signals, but it's promising now how long the immunity last that we have to see and how many people will take it. that's the other concern, because you could have a 100 percent effective vaccine. if only half the people take it on half as effective propagation. so if you have to follow the if it steps are said to follow the results for months and years. what does that say when manufacturers are hoping to get this out of the market and into people's arms or whatever in the next a month or so? yes, so i in terms of racing to get it out. we, we know that in terms of that early thing, it's so you know, months and years we're trying to answer is, does it have, for example, immunity that lasts for months and years, where the long term question is, or 32 years down the road. that's what takes much longer. and in terms of,

you know, severe events, the fact they're all, all 11 serbia events observed or were in the placebo group and none in the immunize group. that's actually a really good sign. so, you know, we'll see more more safety data in the coming month or 2 and downtown's out, well, which correlates pretty good. then we can start rolling it out. and then for long term immunity we'll have to wait. but well, good talking to you. this is so looks very, very hopeful. thank you so much for joining us. and there's an epidemiologist and health economist. thank you. we'll have much more on this breakthrough in the business with robots and about 10 minutes. and meanwhile, it looks as though germany is about to say stricter coronavirus restrictions as infection numbers remain stubbornly high. a chance i met coal is holding virtual meetings with leaders of the country's 16 states to discuss next steps. partial

lockdown measures were introduced a 2 weeks ago, forced the closure of bos, restaurant, museums and gyms, this spike, this numbers of new cases have not dropped significantly. according to germany's public health body in new infections rose by nearly 11000 on monday. the european union is facing a fresh political crisis after poland and hungary blocks the new long term budget. the 1.8 trillion in your 0 budget was due to come into effect on the 1st of january, and includes a 750000000000 euro coronavirus rescue package. e.u. leaders finalize the deal last week with poland and hungary oppose. the new mechanism that would tie funding to respect for the rule of law. they fear the e.u. could withhold billions of euros. the a use accused poland and hungry of the roading, judicial independence and may be afraid, and it's going straight to brussels. and i d. w correspondent barbara variable could put this into perspective for us. welcome, barbara. how much of

a surprise is this objection? from these 2 countries, no surprise at all, phil, because both countries, the hungary and government as well as the polish government, had enough owns that they would veto the agreement. victor over in the hunger and prime minister, had talked about you being like communist russia and interfering in hong garion affairs. and the polish government said that this was in slave meant what the era of european union was doing because they wanted to tell poles what to do and what not to do. basically, this is a huge misunderstanding on the side of these 2 governments because that obviously never read the e.u. contract that they signed there. it says not only that the countries have the right to receive payments from brussels, which both poland and hungary insists upon. but it also says that countries who are

members of the e.u. blige to stick to democratic rules. and those countries, as you said, really have been sliding more and more away from it. and so their ongoing infringement procedures about this is so you know, it's a crisis that had been announced. everybody had just waited, was bated breath whether they would really do it. and they did this afternoon here in brussels, and service is a crisis. this is not, this is just not, this is not part of the normal negotiation. this is going to have a big impact on the e.u. . no normal negotiating is over and it has never happened before at this point in time that the e.u. budget had been vetoed. there was always a lot ahead going and going back and forth. but after the summit and after the european parliament has said, ok, we agree on this or that package that was it done deal, but this time now the both countries are now sort of really sticking it, putting a stick into the spokes at the very last moment what happens now is that they can

be found technical work arounds. the european budget can just continue on the basis of last year for a while. and the corona recovery fund can buy a complicated procedure made into a different type of contract that only 25 european governments agree upon. but all this is going to take time and create a major headache. everybody is really angry about those 2 and on thursday we will see what happens because there's going to be a virtual summit of the european leaders. and they might very well sort of gang up on hungary and on poland and say, do not to do this unless we will really tell you what will happen next year in other issues. if you block this now, we'll see how hard landing going to be. but it's an s u situation to be in. if you have partners like this who need you don't, you don't need friends really very easily in brussels. thank you for the

we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. and the leader of ethiopia's tigra region has urged the u.n. and the african union to condemn ethiopia for using high tech weaponry, including drones and his military offensive against the region. the 2 week conflict threatens to trigger a civil war that could destabilize the region. a man accused of trying to carry out a terror attack aboard a high speed train is going on trial in paris. he was tackled by passengers after he emerged heavily armed from the toilets of the amsterdam to paris train overstaffed 2050. he joined the islamic state group earlier that year. and the last few years there's been a spike in the number of people flying drones close to airports. is, can cause travel chaos if runways are forced to close, not to mention the potential danger of flying a drone close to an approaching aircraft. german research is looking into ways of stopping this from happening, say experiments using radar technology. have shown some success. drones flying over

frankfurt airport, but they don't signify danger. unlike key center team from germany is air traffic control are doing a primary system check to find out how drones can be located on and we fly missions with different drone types. some are very, very small. they range from 250 grams to 2.5 kilos and have different flight characteristics and speeds. it's easy to see what the system recognizes. drones sighted at airports often bring operations to a standstill. for example, 2 years ago here at london's gatwick airport. drones were repeatedly cited over a period of a few days. this resulted in 140000 passengers being grounded. the worst case scenario would be a drone colliding with a civilian aircraft and causing a plane to crash. that's why flying drones me on airport is

a criminal offense. the punishment is up to 10 years in prison. around 500 drones have been sighted at german airports over the past 5 years. most of them in frankfurt. there are many drone sightings every year, but last year in 2019. there were 7 sightings categorized as concrete dangers. that's when the federal police come into play. this year we had 6 incidents where the german air traffic control actually had to suspend takeoff and landing permission. anneli key says team has now spent 3 months experimenting at airports in munich and frankfurt, infrared, and radar technology were used and the experiments were successful. drones and other flying objects can be identified and located. there's a radio signal between the remote control unit and the drone and detection technology can source this. so we can determine not only the position of the drone,

but that of the controller too. by taking advantage of this technology, most drone pilots can be quickly located and arrested. these results have been forwarded to the federal ministry of transport. unlike east has done her job. on to sports, amid talk of a 2nd breakthrough vaccine against it 19, the presence of the international olympic committee thomas back says he's confident that spectators will be able to attend next year's tokyo summer games event with japan's prime minister as part of a 2 day visit. to the country to discuss the virus measures jordan the olympics. he says that if a back seat is widely available before next july, the i.o.c. will strongly encourage fans to be vaccinated, but won't mandate it. or makes even more if the next year or a reasonable number of spectators in the stadium for

the spirit. quick reminder of our top story this hour. there's been another promising breakthrough in the hunt for a covered 19 facts in the u.s. drug makeup. but douglas says it's experimental bats entire success rates of nearly 95 percent on the in germany mob, a chance of i'm going to back blisters make the state leaders to discuss tighter coronavirus restrictions, according to the country's public health cases clenching movie and 11000 on the get your doorstep 10 news on the go, just download from google plus for me op. still given access to all the latest news from around the world as well as put the haitians. the breaking news part of the story in kosovo. music centers, photos and videos of what's happening in

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beethoven is trackless. over his fork through beethoven 202250th anniversary here on bamma firm says it's a great day after announcing the results of its coronavirus vaccine trials. the american companies claim that it is 95 percent effective. comes hot on the heels of biotech and pfizer is similar breakthrough last week. also coming up, asia pacific nations have signed the world's biggest free trade deal, but what does it mean for the other 2 thirds of the world who aren't involved in

nairobi's, growing population is bringing a growing waste problem with it. but apparently, garbage eating, fly larvae, good food, this is due to be a business i robot in berlin. welcome to the program. u.s., biotech company says it has developed a covered $1000.00 about c., and that has proven almost 95 percent effective. has been developed using messenger r.n.a. technology, which is the same method used by germany's bio on tech. that company announced the success of its vaccine last week and is working to mass produce it with us pharma giant pfizer. other companies have also recently published optimistic data is based in cambridge, massachusetts has delivery deals with the e.u. and other governments already lined up well on tuesday. the use expected to confirm an order for doses of a potential vaccine being developed by germany's cure back. but for now,

it's pfizer biotech who appear to be winning the race to get to market is more from a financial correspondent in frankfurt. chelsea delaney. both of these companies now are saying they could potentially apply for regulatory approval of their truck candidates, potentially. and the coming weeks, that means we could maybe see a candidate vaccine candidate approved by the end of the year. of course, there are still lot of distribution challenges, a lot of production challenges that mean we likely won't see this ship to a large part of the population for several more months. but it is obviously the very 1st step to getting the global economy back on track. chelsea delaney that covers nearly a 3rd of the entire global economy. the original comprehensive economic partnership just signed by 15 asia pacific countries will create the world's biggest free trade area asset. see pay whatever you call it. that there is impact or go far beyond the countries taking part. nearly

a decade in the making the regional comprehensive economic partnership or c, p is historic. many in asia hope it will help speed up recovery from the shocks of the coronavirus pandemic. by lowering tariffs, exports of member countries are expected to grow by more than 10 percent by 2025. according to international think tanks signifies that i rage and which has been the most economically dynamic region of the world in recent decades in still committed to openness and tried. and that we will use that as a platform and a springboard for recovery in the post era. a notable absence is india isn't wanted to join too, but withdrew over concerns. its local industries will be devastated by cheaper chinese manufactured goods, as well as political tensions with china. china is already looking beyond your c.e.p.t. deal to bring asia's 3 most technologically advanced countries,

even closer together. for chandeliers, for the level of integration and stage of economic development in china. japan and south korea are relatively high. so the next step is our 3 countries will try and reach an ore c e p plus free trade agreement based on the orsi e.p.a.,, agreement. you got e.p.t. huldah, some r.t., according to the american peterson institute for international economics, china will be the biggest winner of the free trade agreement. a common criticism is that china is too dominant within the or c b. i will be able to call the shots on important trading terms from japan to new zealand. this fear became much stronger when india pulled out so that's the impact for the countries involved in our c, e bay and the e.u. . but what are africa? which has its own major free trade area. let's put that question to our

correspondent in kenya's capital, nairobi joy during barry. thanks a lot for joining us. can you just tell us what does being mean fafnir can countries well wrote there's not really much that africa can teach our agreement right now except that it's going to increase retreat for the 15 countries that have signed that. and so all africa that has also been looking at the african continent of 3 trade area, their lessons that it could be it from the economic integration and use that as well to expand, treated within the continent because africa easily the largest continent. but doesn't really trade much with the itself, and each africa treat only accounts for 16.6 percent of its exports being below countries. and so seeing their regional comprehensive economic issues being

signed by the ships of the countries could be also an eye opener for african countries. this is all about trading with your neighbors. so is there anything to be learnt from before the african nations looking to trade more with countries in their own region? right, absolutely. and it's a lot because africa itself, these just about a 2.5 trillion g.d.p. economy. you know, makes sense that treats more with itself looking at the poultry 16.6 percent into africa treat. we can only hope that from 2021 as many african countries to recover protocol in 1000 pandemic effects. that it will also seek to integrate and make stronger some of the trade agreements that it has for a long time neglected both across the regional blocks and also the into regional blocks that we have seen from both the not the south east and west,

and central africa as well. so we hoping that this would be a chance for africa to also and look at its wealth markets like nigeria, which is the largest economy at the moment. speaking of nigeria, we had just last week that they have signed up to africa's own free trade area. the african continental free trade agreement that any kind of force last year that is improving us access for now, it is really had to tell how much but has come out of the african continent of free trade area because it only took effect in may of last year and when it was ratified, it was only or when it took effect, it was only $24.00 countries that have ratified it. and so at the end, the pandemic happened and not much can be said about the success that it's so far. but what can be said is what it is likely to achieve if it is fully implemented

with all countries comment and to rethink within or amongst themselves. and so when you look at a country like nigeria, it's also important to note that he'd had taken its time in ratifying this agreement because it was a freedom of how much trade would stifle the school and love the manufacturing economy, manufacturing industry. and so are there those risks, but it is an important agreement to take africa forward in the future. so during the era in nairobi, thanks for joining us now to some of the other global business stories making the news. saudi arabia, state oil, producer around, says it will sell dollar denominated bonds to boost its finances during the current slump in global demand for crude. a range between 3 and 50 years. net profits for the 1st 9 months of the year. so would almost 50 percent australian airline quantas is marking its 100th birthday mark the occasion with a low level flight passed at sydney harbor bridge. the 100 minute flight flew

a 100 employees, as well as frequent flyers. qantas has struggled during the pandemic grounding the bulk of its fleet and cutting 30 percent of its workforce. now, nairobi's, growing population is bringing with it a growing waste problem. however, a sustainable solution has been found involving rubbish, eating markets, check out meat, the small flies who perform a big task can't get enough of them. these are the black soldier flies and when you see their butts, they seemed like this is means that they're laying eggs. so each female lays between $400.00 to $800.00 eggs every month. each gram of egg is $30000.00, new black soldier flies and they're helping get a handle on kenya's. none to fill sites in east africa. we don't really have waste management systems in place yet. so this gives us an opportunity to do it's green

from the beginning. so for evil to take all they're going to quit for my ruby and convert it into high value protein and 1st lies are with 4500000, residents. nairobi produces more than 3000 tonnes of rubbish each day. almost 2 thirds of it are organic waste. black soldier flies keep these levels in check. it works like this. caesar and sort of hatched, and they've come out of the tree. after a 5 year olds, we incubate them in the wastes, where they start to take. this is now day 0 from be 0. we go to day 4, as you can see, they really like wood to moments. from before we have the 8th, they're starting to get a bit dark brown in their faces. and on day 10, there are a nice caramel color and ready for harvesting 90 percent of this is harvested and is turned into feed mill. 10 percent. continue the process to become flies again. the leftovers from the process that turned into animal feed and compost soon

instead to process it will be producing 40 tons of animal feed a month. it's a win win situation, especially as it reduces nairobi's reliance on imported animal phrase. studied agriculture at university, but nothing to do with insects. this is all accidental. so we started looking at alternatives for soy and fish meal and we came across insects. and what would usually be considered pests have proved to be highly useful creatures and investment and even providers of work. the company has more than 50 employees and rising in this food, mostly because of i think it's passion and does that fulfillment of that you get working with love you or the same passion that thomas who was share as we see the beauty within the beast. so that's what's me tell people, it's beauty with tons of potential,

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