see when you try. to. stop december 25th. visit deal to be done companies in the u.k. and europe brace as the deadline for a trade agreement nears with negotiations at a standstill at stake are businesses and jobs on both sides of the channel. including those of french fisherman who take a look at how one village stands to be affected if the e.u. loses access to british waters. welcome to the show i'm stephen beardsley and berlin britain and the e.u. are still wrangling over trade terms bringing the prospect of a damaging no deal brags that ever closer to both sides stood by their positions on

tuesday after recent talks failed to yield progress u.k. prime minister boris johnson now says that he's going to brussels on wednesday and the 2 sides need to come to an agreement before january 1st otherwise from that day on work tariffs will have to be paid in goods entering the u.k. from the e.u. and the other way around so what's at stake for the world trade organization puts the figure at 3 point one percent for customs tariffs for goods from the e.u. to the u.k. and 3.3 percent for goods heading the other way and that's not all certain types of products could even have much higher duty much higher duties rather come the new year cars and agriculture could see tariffs as high as 13 percent while products like milk could even see something as whopping as 36 percent and with the economies on both sides of the channel suffering to the coronavirus crisis neither wants bragg's it to happen without a deal in place. i'm joined now by over a shock him and he's head of foreign trade for germany's d.v.m.

a mechanical engineering association well mr ackerman thank you for joining us and all i wanted to ask you. how are your members approaching this moment right now as the negotiations near. yeah they the member companies have to adapt to heartbreaks it ought to move back said that means they have to adapt their international archie processes they have to prepare the relevant custom document and if outback sit com see if to pay customs duties but what is open now is how real the impact of the border controls speed on the delivery times for example and what is the availability of trucks and contain us on both sides so we have a lot of questions open now we're going to cost are you seeing put on your members as they just prepare for either outcome. i have recently had

a. conversation with me a medium sized mechanical engineering company and they explained to me that only the customs declarations cost $4.00 of them as a medium size companies is around $280000.00 euro and also this company has to increase its stocks in the u.k. for finished products and for spare parts which is binding several millions of euro in capital. are those tariffs that could come about in the event of a no trade or are those going to make or break any of the businesses that are part of your membership no i don't think so because the terrorists in machinery sector on both sides are relatively low for example on the us side terrorism machinery sector is 1.5 to 3 percent which is not a not a very high figure so we will not have any significant effect about this. are there other concerns facing your members if not the tariffs themselves and there are other concerns aside from customs in terms of standards are obviously one issue that are facing both sides how does that affect your industry you know we have to

stand all over europe and states that means you have a machine here directive and safety standards all kinds of machines and it's still open and what will happen with the u.k. they want to have control back that means they didn't mean do they want to develop their own stand and this was a business with united kingdom and then lastly do you see any benefits to bragg's it from your side at all or is it all just pitfalls for your businesses no we see no benefit at the end. result for the europeans and also for great britain because business. after the break say that it was before right or a shocker man with the video and thank you very much for joining us ok thank you so much. and let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea delaney chelsea good to see you. we talk about the uncertainty that businesses must prepare

for and the costs that come with that how does that weigh on markets are we seeing it there. we have seen a little bit of pressure on markets both in the u.k. and europe over the past couple of days as the hopes for a trade deal to him a little that we've heard today for example from prime minister boris johnson $100.00 k. that really people should not be getting their hopes up that out a deal at this point but of course i would say markets are really under pricing the risks that. many investors remain quite optimistic that that the logic will prevail of the economic consequences will drive these leaders to reach a deal but i would say that investors are really not prepared at this point for. right chelsea's linny was in markets in frankfurt thank you. all fishing rights have turned into one of the sticking points of bragg's the trade negotiations the industry itself represents actually

a small sliver of the economies of both sides and yet it has a certain emotional resonance especially in places like the long french fishing village that depends on access to british waters and without which as many as $5000.00 jobs could be lost. meter by meter these french fishermen slowly unfurled their nets into the water. on the bridge captain mark gourlay steers the sun jump through the english channel. throw the nets out at 9 50 am at around 1250 we haul them back in a. mug or lays on the waters near colorway there's a lot going on in the english channel not just fishing boats freighters are also crisscrossing the waters here and this is the shortest stretch of sea between the u.k. and continental europe. the fishermen pull in the nets hauling in swarms of fresh

catch. every few hours they repeat the procedure around the clock it's hard work. the fishermen catch around a ton a day all of which gets sorted below jack. and now this is a herring and that's a squid this goes for $0.30 and that for 7 euro's so of course we want to catch those and then to. the fishermen often find themselves in british waters because there are so many fish there almost half their catch comes from the english channel if the e.u. and the u.k. fail to secure a brig's a deal for fishing rights it will be all over fishing in british waters could become illegal the french fisherman's livelihoods would be on the line. of a terrible we go out regularly in fish and british waters that would be a disaster for us to be honest. at 2 am the ship returns to the harbor captain

marvel a make several short trips a week to boulogne soon to offload his catch. today their 1st in line the fisherman. a run short with the future will bring. people to see britain is an island it's insame how much coastline they have compared to that france has hardly any at all mostly in the mob only uses a crane to lift his catch ashore just as he does fishermen from long superman have been trolling the channel for generations. without a bridge that deal work for these french fishermen could very well dry up. and let's take a look at some of the other business stories making headlines for the u.s. may not be able to quickly acquire more doses of the biotech pfizer coated vaccine beyond the 100000000 it has already ordered reports say washington did not exercise

an option to buy 500000000 more doses and may have to wait behind other countries if it wants more. but german court has ordered electric car maker tesla to stop additional tree clearing on the side of its new factory near berlin the temporary injunction followed an emergency filing from environmental groups many trees in the forest area had already been felled tesla had requested another 82 had tears be cleared for a waste water line. japan has announced new economic stimulus worth over $700000000000.00 the package aims to cushion the blow from coburn $1000.00 assists changes in the economy and boost productivity through digital eyes ation japan has already deployed a combined $2.00 trillion dollars in response to the coronavirus crisis. a 2nd u.s. judge has blocked restrictions on the popular video sharing app to talk that would have effectively banned it in the country the judge said that the commerce

department moves were likely illegal washington fears the chinese owned up could be used to gather data on u.s. citizens something that tick tocks owner denies. the known as black diamonds and they're just about as expensive black perigord truffles are a french delicacy the traub ayers from around the world and within france they are cheap traditionally costing hundreds of euro's particular gram now the pen demick and the closure of russia was forced by pushing prices down. the town of brown tome isn't as familiar to foodies as other namesake places in southwestern france like bodo or cognac but it does have a tasty speciality the black berry gore truffle they can fetch hundreds of euros per kilo for the lack of restaurant trade due to the pandemic has put pressure on prices. i used to sell a lot to restaurant owners but this is going to hurt us maybe that's why it's going

to break the prices to today i sold them for $550.00 euros per kilo but last year our sold them for $650.00 euros. trying out the wares is also different this year normally potential customers can have a good sniff of the product to see if it's fresh bought hygiene restrictions have ruled that out. on them but you were a bit worried that we don't have the right to smell them to start with so we only touch them we have to change gloves for each person the weekly winter market is going ahead with fewer stalls this year at this early part of the season it's not a problem but as the harvest picks up many vendors are going to struggle to sell this season's crop at least the stallholders can hope for an uptick in home truffle cooking and reassure themselves that by this time next year everything should be

back to normal. and from the music world universal music group publishing arm has bought bob dylan's entire back catalog of more than 600 songs the value of owning music rights has soared in recent years due to the success of streaming platforms such as spotify the financial times as universal may have paid dylan into the billions for the collection as dylan would say don't think twice it's alright. that's it for me and the business team here at the lead to check us out online dot com slash business facebook and twitter as well as watch.

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say necessity is the mother of invention the coronavirus pandemic has thrown that into stark relief from innovations enabling us to live with the realities of the virus to devices that make it say to action possible here's the story of 2 entrepreneurs who say a diagnosis is just a breath away. christoph and thomas wolfe have a vision they want to return some normality to this called 19 times 4 months have been working on a breath test that can identify the novel coronavirus they're now confident it works. taken in august from a technical point of view this device can get to areas where normally only a dog can sniff things out. a device that's almost as sensitive as a dog's noles the technique is similar to a breathalyzer for alcohol. this is a stimulus when what we have here is a sterile mouthpiece. and you take off the packaging and then what happens you blow

into the mouthpiece and you just breathe. in there start out the brothers develop highly sensitive sensor technology from aspect troll meters pull industry and labs for a new type of diagnosis in real time in an automatic and we can see all sorts of things using breath analysis like whether a patient had coffee yesterday afternoon or not we can identify his nutritional status and we can see different amino acids different fatty acids all of this from the breath breath as a direct window into the human body. the brothers believe it could recognize a cop in 19 other researchers also say breath analysis could work in principle to test for the corona virus. the challenge is to is to get the. methods that you run on the equipment the way the equipment is used to chew on and the analytical technique of mice with verified biomarkers

are reliable. once we've proven that then you have a corrupted 19 breath test ready to go conventional swab tests are reliable but often only carried out when the infection has been there for a while and the result usually takes 2 days the breath test detects metabolic changes in breathing caused by the virus while it is not yet 100 percent reliable it does give an immediate result. the researchers believe that they will be able to deploy the tests as early as next summer in places like football stadiums. passengers could also be tested at airports before check in the accuracy of the test is currently around 80 percent however the researchers are expecting efficiency to increase significantly in the meantime a lot of detailed work remains to be done. people are complicated and you're looking for a small signal in a snowstorm a blizzard of information. but we've found we found the signals we think are

helpful young christophe and thomas both originally developed their test for very different types of bad gnosis one problem with a cover 1000 tests is that they have not yet been able to carry out studies on patients with the virus they are hoping for to go to the next sisters of processors access to resources to allow us to carry out a validation study on the site in a hospital or an airport test center and with that it becomes very easy to determine whether this would be a way to bring back some normality to people's. analyzers could be a way to detect cov in 1000 infections much faster than before. matthew harris joins us now he's a clinical senior lecturer in public health at the imperial college london mathew so glad you can join us now you've written and the scientific journal nature about how the response to coded 19 has been distinguished by so called frugal in

a sense what exactly does that mean well thank you through litigation really is the term that we give to the kind of innovation we see in the resource constrained so situations of extraordinary time pressure or situations where we don't have the kind of resources that we normally like to have when we where we develop health care innovations and the word frugal oftentimes is referred to as sort of cheap or good enough innovation that actually frugal innovation is health care to patients that's actually as effective as the kind of innovation you would normally see but just in a way that is far more affordable far more sustainable maybe if you are sort of complexity or functionality but that gets the job and undercoat it of course we've seen around the world some extraordinary difficult situations at national level in terms of exposing the fragilities and i hope to systems but also the real increase

in healthcare demands and it really has necessitated a new type of innovating in innovating that pace rapidly using resources that we just find around us so kind of improvising if you are 'd. this is the kind of innovation that we call through innovation so it's about reacting quickly using what you have but did how then examples of what a frugal innovation could be. well absolutely in the early days of the covert response we saw in those in several developing countries and really interesting examples of frugal innovations so for example where there was a lack of personal protective equipment we saw clinicians improvise the use of simple acetate sheets the kind of such as a sheet that you'd use for overhead projectors in the old days and by simply putting some holes in either side of the s.t.a. sheeting threading some ribbon on either side those became very effective face

vices to protect not only the clinician but also the patients in front of them when they were interfacing and this was of course extremely cheap and actually very very effective since then baseball has a vote and become more sophisticated but it was a very good example of a frugal innovation at a time another good example of innovating at a pace was the construction of hospitals and on the 10 days in china actually eventually also in the u.k. where i'm from we saw the construction or repurchasing at least of conference sense as into into intensive care units and hospitals also in very very short amount of time as a sort of idea of repurchasing the resources you have but also very very quickly the characteristic of through innovation now that the crisis has focused minds and mobilize so much in terms of responses as you've told us there is also kind of dying down side to this kind of concentration of response to the crisis.

well i think the pope it obviously has recorded a deviation of resources from other health care to focus our attention on covert response and as a result some other areas have if you like suffered in terms of research going into them and also the health care delivery the different chemical conditions i don't think there's a downside to frugal innovation and i think it's been a really revealing how we've been able to develop such effective health care responses in a short period of time. without scrimping on safety checks or effectiveness or clinical effectiveness for the patients that we serve so i don't see a downside to through elimination which tends to be far more fordable the health care systems as long as the necessary checks and balances are in place to ensure the safety of those devices or technologies you've written that this kind of

innovation could lead to a leveling in global health care equality what does that look like. well it's a level in the sense that code has made us really reflect on the fragilities in the health systems even in the high income countries settings and it's made us pay much more attention to the kind of innovations that arise from knowing them countries is something we've been up to pacing for many years and what code is doing is making us pay more attention to settings that traditionally we haven't really noticed in terms of healthcare innovation thank you matthew harriss there talking about putting human resource lowness up at the center of our cove in 1000 response he's a clinical see our science correspondent derrick williams is ready with announcer. taking into account to patients sex and age what do the statistics say about complications. one of the clearest pieces of information that's come out of the statistics is that from the age of about 40 on women in general are

a lot less likely than men to have severe outcomes data from both the c.d.c. and the european center for disease prevention and control a reveal how stark the difference is this graphic for example emphasizes how much more likely men of a certain age are to end up in the hospital or the i.c.u. numbers of men are represented by the blue bar and a numbers of women by the red one in europe men between 40 and 80 make up around 3 quarters of all intensive care cases and recorded deaths after 80 the split is more even but that's almost certainly due to the simple fact that a lot fewer men lived at that age so statistically the chances are a lot higher that in the over eighty's a woman is going to get coke at 19 ben a man is going to get it there's

a lot of speculation about why and there and there doesn't seem to be a single reason that accounts for all of the described. and c m several factors are likely playing roles we know though that people who have diabetes or high blood pressure or heart disease are at greater risk of severe outcomes if they contract to cope at 19 and aging men are more likely to have those co-morbidities than aging women are but another possible contributing factor involves immune response the male and female immune systems are different experts say because on their 2nd x. chromosome women have another copy of many of the genes that are involved in fighting off disease it's been theorized that's also why women are more likely to develop certain auto immune diseases than men but in this case it could be helping them keep covert 19 or it's medical ramifications more effectively at bay that's

hard to prove though. and that's all from us thank you very much for watching and stay safe.

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