passion drama competition rivalry marketing numbers atmosphere colored by at intuition love hate money. fans from fans friends and fans able to go off on you tube joining us. local energy consumption rises every year many people's biological rhythms are no longer in sync with day and night but more with artificial light what does that mean for us energy demands are also depleting natural resources renewable energies could help more if they were more efficient one idea is to use lenses to focus on light more precisely on the solar cells in the panel. welcome to tomorrow today the science show on the d.w.i. .

how do solar cells actually but so hisself are mainly composed of silicone. silicon atoms have full electrons in their outer shell and are stable but then the city kind of split into 2 layers. bosphorus is mixed into one leg it has value electrons and it's an outer shell one too many which can orbit for. the 2nd layer is mixed with boron which has only 3 outer electrons one to feel. that means the layer has gaps which attract the excess phosphorus electrons this creates a flow of negatively charged electrons from one layer to the other one day loses electrons and becomes positive the other gains electrons and becomes negative creating 2 poles eventually all the gaps on the surface of the layers are all. the

holes and the electrons are now too far apart to migrate them with the sun comes in when some light hits the surface layer splits on one mean that each one making a hole under so can select. the electron is attracted to the positive and the whole pulls another electron from another down to replace the one longs which in turn is split off inside. the electrons which have the arrived at the positive return via one head to the negative call that's an electric current. and it flows as long as the sun shines. if solar energy is to enable commercial aviation and satisfy our electricity needs in the future then there's still a lot of work to be done. research is forging ahead. florian gallies has come up with

a new method of extracting even more power from sunlight. but. what we've done instead of using normal silicon solar cells which have a maximum laboratory efficiency of 26 to 27 percent is to use somewhat more exotic cells their maximum lab efficiency is over 47 percent but they're expensive and above his expensive solar super cells galusha months a panel of lenses each of which focuses sunlight on an individual cell throughout the day that boosts efficiency to 29 percent in real life conditions. the main challenge is making sure the light actually hits the cell if it doesn't and it won't produce any energy at all. and then it you know. in gaelic celebratory we get my idea of how it works he uses a model to show how the lenses function each lens in the top panel focuses the sunlight on an exactly defined radius. covering

a super cell. because those cells are tiny barely one millimeter across. we use about $10000.00 sales per square meter and each has to have a high degree of tolerance. but now it's time for the engineers to put the lab behind them. right now we're still almost sticking everything together by hand but now the important step is going from the lab to mass production how can i produce a module every couple of minutes using machinery that's the really huge leap we're about to take that will fit in the of mafia. the european union is giving insulate almost 3000000 euros from its advent solar cell fund expensive science but worth it . including installation our cells are about 20 percent more expensive but they produce 50 percent more energy and. improved utilization of solar energy is one

thing but it's also highly dependent on the weather it only makes sense when electricity storage facilities have been improved. lithium ion batteries are the standard today but scientists at switzerland's materials testing and research institute show us how dangerous they can be if the lithium ion cells insulation is compromised and the terminals come into contact with metallic objects such as coins the result can be disastrous. thanks. our approach to stabilizing the electrolytes involves a highly concentrated salt solution. the swiss researchers have developed a highly soli able salt that only needs a few drops of water here seen in fast motion to function as

a more conductive but much safer electrolyte in lithium ion batteries. that kind of storage battery would be enormously useful for storing solar energy in people cellars or in other very large batteries. to bridge the nighttime gap as well as bad weather. in the batteries or the ideal solution for delaying energy consumption for a few minutes or even day and. solar energy for foggy days or the night time in future we could be storing it in less volatile batteries and we have today. it's energy that could become abundantly available thanks to a new generation of panels to collect it. ideally we wouldn't use any energy at all that's the idea behind the ancient dream of the cultural motion

a machine that moves without any energy source but the laws of physics teach us that it's not possible i can't eat everything up and simply hope the biscuit to pull itself. if i use energy i have to replace it on the other hand and with that in. mind to. phoenix looks like shit but it's actually an airplane or to be precise and unmanned aerial vehicle. the prototype the wings and tail will be added shortly we joined the team amid preparations for the 1st test flight. the researchers have chosen a huge building for their 1st attempt to get phoenix into the air a tense moment for its inventors. scientists from various universities and companies in britain spent 3 years working on phoenix. aerodynamics professor andrew rein and set the teen. says.

the goal was to build an aircraft that could propel itself without the need for an engine. has been around for a long time i've 150 years and it's used underwater for remotely operated vehicles so there are various things are used underwater for surviving but nobody's made it work in air before because there is a sound sometimes less dense in water that the physical process is more complicated phoenix is filled with helium the material for the outer hull had to be developed specially it needed to be lightweight but dense enough to prevent the tiny helium molecules from seeping through. the wings are made of lightweight carbon fiber both the wings and tail carry solar panels to provide the plane with power some is stored in batteries meaning phoenix can also fly at night. this is phoenix in its

fully assembled stage the aircraft will likely be loosed as an atmospheric satellite or pseudo satellite either for telecommunications or for things like land surveillance after natural disasters to see where help is most needed one of the possibilities is as a suit our satellites are being able to do surveillance and monitoring and for that it would fly at 20000 meters and 20000 meters because that's where the weather is is most benign. winds are much lower than they are on the surface phoenix is 15 meters long and weighs just $120.00 kilos without the helium. that means it requires very little power. its huge advantage is that because it has no engine it doesn't need to carry any fuel that means it can remain airborne for weeks or months at a time. the mix as also relatively cheap to manufacture. it's propelled by what's

known as variable buoyancy propulsion this is how it works. and is lighter than air and therefore pulls the aircraft up towards the underside is equipped with 2 compressors which draw in air from outside and compress it filling a bag inside the aircraft. that makes the plane heavier causing it to sink again. the air is then pumped out making the aircraft lighter and causing it to rise again this stability to believe as it were moving up and down combines with the lift generated on its wings to move it forward. half the time phoenix is heavier than air like an airplane. the other half it's lighter than air like a balloon. the model has been through countless tests in wind tunnels.

andrew ray is responsible for the aerodynamics and elements he's keen to improve further tests. using lasers and smoke his team is able to show how the air flows around the model. they needed to establish the most efficient design to allow the aircraft to maximize the use of its kinetic energy which it. after 3 years of development the prototype was ready for its 1st test flight. and it was a success phoenix flew in waves down the 120 metre long hangar exactly as it was designed to do.

we were all pleasantly surprised that it worked as well as it did. we initially had hoped to. do one series of tests where was lighter than air and one had to navigate through so well to begin with that we were able to do multiple transitions between the 2 when it flew forward repeatedly during the flight testing. work is now underway to build the next prototype it's said to be 4 times as enormous phoenix and capable of flying at the target altitude of 20000 meters. the earth by night covered by a ray of tiny luminous dots it could be beautiful in another context electric light does make modern life possible independent from the 24 hour a day night rhythm would have freedom but also what a catastrophe it confuses the environment and least spend too much time an artificial life and also enough an essential sunlight time for an experiment.

these 3 people are exposed to different levels of light during their day. boss john works in an office which means spending long hours in artificial light. thomas is a go to herd and is mostly outdoors. then there's 19. a doctor who works as a surgeon in a hospital and she works at night when her body is telling her it's dark and time to go to bed. we equip our test subjects with a special device that measures the brightness and composition of the light they're exposed to. and then we track them around the clock for a week. we want to know how much and what type of light our test subjects are

exposed to and when. sleep researcher alfred riata and light expert because it analyze the results. what will they show how much like do our subjects receive at what time of day. tomas the go that tends to be out in the open with natural like the lord even in gloomy weather he's subject to several 1000 locks per day. after sundown he manages without a television or mobile phone which both emit a lot of blue light and are disruptive. this shows the amount of natural light tomas is exposed to over the course of several days in the. mall going on site there's a very high a luminance in the morning and around noon up to 7000 lux and looks on and in

the afternoon it drops significantly. around $100.00 lux or lowered looks on need to take off once and at night the light exposure is reduced to an absolute minimum of absolute minimum that would see it is in accordance with the natural day to night rhythm effect the stock knocked over at most and pushed. john's case that day takes place almost exclusively indoors just by having large windows he always turns on the light but artificial light is usually very weak whereas goatherder traumas can reach 7000 lux bastions level is just 2 $120.00 plus gen so spends most of his evenings in front of a t.v. or computer screen in addition to being low light they emit primarily blue light this lowers the wake sleep regulating hormone melatonin and reverses his inner rhythm essentially turning back his biological clock and the result for

a boss john is this modest hour by hour exposure to light on a typical working day there and not have to cut him while working in the office we have $200.00 to $220.00 blocks which is far short of daylight bite and found that august least what we notice is that he still has a relatively high illuminance after work until he goes to bed. who are. at this so and that he definitely has a negative effect on his sleep wake behavior and. and they got the 5. now deemed as a doctor who likewise works with little light most of it artificial. and sometimes with practically none. and. i'm just a ripe for a night shift saturday night which no one likes. but i'm not properly rested even after. we finish. but she needs to be wide awake not

least when stitching up the wound at 1 am. the surgery room light is particularly strong which helps right now but for her biological clock it's unnatural outside of course it's dark. if she's lucky and it's a quiet night nadine will be able to take a break and catch up on her sleep. but it's only a matter of time until she's called to the next patient which means getting up again pronto. the rude enough to. even though my night shift is over and my colleague is now taking over for the daytime shift as a bitch to spy i'm good for that you can't really look forward to going home when you know you'll be back again this evening might with. and this is what her light exposure chart looks like. in. common for the 1st

3 days you can see a relatively good day night rhythm after that her night shifts begin. and then there's no daylight rhythm at all as far as light exposure is concerned at least expose its own gait when she's more or less exposed to continuous lighting. and that constant light is anything but natural. her biological clock has no means of orientation. in order to reset her clock back to normal she needs jail right in the morning between 8 and noon a time of day where our 3 subjects differ substantially in exposure. the blue line shows the light on a typical morning for office worker boss john read who's that of dr 19 and green go to her tomas whose exposure is 10 times higher in those crucial morning hours. so how can the office worker and dr get more like. we'll

have the solution for you in a moment but 1st of all we asked how much you have to rely on artificial light and if you have strategies for avoiding too much of it's. brown says they don't have too much artificial light in nigeria so they don't really depend on it. rising from columbia most have tells us it really makes the set that light pollution means she can see the greatest show on earth the milky way it's like a cascade of diamonds sparkling in the sky. and flutter tells us that pakistan's rule areas have barely any artificial light at night the people there are healthier than city people they're also very strong emotional they stay calm laurie legace and mostly smile thanks for writing in.

even if in some regions night time still looks like night time the world as a whole has been getting brighter which simply. many professions are rescheduling work to happen over night some only work at night but how can you stay healthy despite that. but still a daylight experiment. tomas spends most of his days outdoors so he gets plenty of natural light in the evenings he tends to avoid screens with their blue spectrum output he's just fine but bass john's office job means he has a serious light deficit problem and not just because his office is too dark. an office worker circadian rhythms are completely disrupted and we should try to adjust his biological clock. so he'll be more capable and alert in the morning and

the highest for bastiaan that means 1st thing in the morning it's out into the fresh air and natural g. light not exactly a grueling task skipping one stop on the subway into work is all it takes. we also install a standard daylight lamp on his desk for him to use during the morning that way he's getting 2000 lux even in the office. and in the evening a book is always better than a screen. measurement show just how even a smartphone can influence our sleep patterns normal displayed light is dominated by the blue spectrum that suppresses melatonin the hormone that steers our weak sleep rhythm however many smartphones now feature a filter called night shift it cuts down the blue spectrum component sharply damage come on all it lets you use your smartphone and i needed

a quick feeling guilty about disrupting your sleep with the stuff they started. but others do this is the time the system will start but with the daylight lamp and walking in broad daylight i've got the feeling that i get tired very much earlier at night and want to go to sleep. constructively it gets on my nerves a bit because i like to stay up late. what i don't feel like i'm struggling to get through the day like i used to before this whole experiment publishing issue would be just shoot as it should instead i'm quite often much more alert. than the hospital doctor 19 really gets much daylight and her ships go counter to her biological clock adrenaline is what keeps her remarkably awake at work. to feel she's doing a lot right she's limited by her night shifts of course what is important is that she at least grabs whatever sleep she can when on shift. the sleep experts offer

her another suggestion after a night shift should try specially colored glasses which filter out that studies are melatonin level and she'll sleep easier when she gets home the experiments outcome is that the most important thing is to get a lot of natural daylight preferably in the morning that way the biological clock settles into its natural rhythm and also to try to go without screens in the evening and if night chips are a must then only a few of them at a time grouped together a well maintained biological clock never needs reminding. so some lies is best that much we know it also helps us to produce this mundane essential for both development and also said to boost the immune system but getting the right amount of sunlight is important too much u.v. light is unhealthy the world long ago adapted to the sun is 24 hour rhythm it's

regulated human life for thousands of years but how did it come the balance amos from zambia wanted to know. how was the sun created. it's been burning away for over 4 and a half 1000000000 years and it's not even high. or through its projected life span . one in which human history is just the blink of an eye. but while we may be just a transitory moment in cosmic terms we are at least able to study the life cycle of the sun. all galaxy is home to billions of other stars like it. space telescopes have given astronomers a closer look at how stars evolve. our own son was born from

a cloud of gas and dust over the course of millions of years. it's a magical process reproduced here on a computer. this cloud of dust contains regions of dense a gas like pearls on a necklace. the astral embryos that emerge there continue growing until they have sufficient mass to ignite the sun spire. if outlet is red why of it but only. to you have a science question that you've always wanted on state we're happy to help out send it to us as a video text over a smell if we answer it on the show will send you a little surprise as a thank you can i just ask. you to find us on the web at t w dot com slash science or check us out on twitter. that's

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is the news live from. critics of china's coronavirus narrative a citizen journalist is a troublemaker reporting on the outbreak paid the price for speaking out also on the program repeating coronavirus fascinations became the big questions about supply production of the drug the speed. of the summer olympics. games will go ahead. with the time demick still waiting for questions about whether they should happen.

welcome to the program chinese citizen journalist has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for reporting on 19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic and was detained in may after posting videos critical of the government's response lawyers for the 37 year old say she's been on hunger strike and is in poor health. police pushing journalists back outside the court building for yet another journalist was being sentenced for years behind bars for citizen journalists. the charges picking quarrels and provoking trouble john has been imprisoned since may she went on a hunger strike and her lawyers claim she was force fed through a nasal tube. after i explained to her what kind of punishment she could expect she was determined to follow through with her hunger strike come what may. i reminded

her of the risks but she said she knew in her heart what she was doing was right. during the lockdown and john john put up critical posts on twitter and you tube both blocked by the chinese government her reports dealt with everyday problems in hospitals and official corruption jon jon is one of several citizen journalists who ran afoul of the authorities in. the way but there are many similar cases of human rights abuses in china you never hear from these people again some are allowed to go home others disappear john john is the only one to actually end up in court. the government has reacted harshly to any criticism of its handling of the corona virus outbreak it appears determined to stop journalists like john john from muddying the official message that its response was both swift and effective. clifford coonan has reported from china for many years and can tell us will welcome cliff tell us more about what john john did that got her into so much trouble well basically what

happened was after the pandemic broke out there was. there was one narrative which was the official government narrative of saying that everything was under control that china had been timely in issuing information and in starting the lockdown which wasn't the evidence that was seen on the ground in some cases and so she reported on this and so by challenging this narrative she she she brought attention to some deficits and the response you know was a you know very effective response in many ways so that's what she's being punished for now well despite the attention. it is getting she's not the only citizen journalist to fall foul of the author says no i mean does 3 others on trial around rouhani. should fund b.n. and lead. but we also have his fond of bloomberg journalists she's been arrested accused of endangering national security and it's part of a broader picture of

a crackdown on journalists with china had $47.00 journalists in jail this year which is one less than last year which puts a very near the top of the or at the top of the number of journalists in jail so it's part of a broader picture of china keeping a very very tight control on the media particularly in relation to stories about the pandemic so given that cuba given that china now. the virus largely under control why have the authorities are going after these people well in some ways it seems counterproductive because they have done such a good job and actually maintaining keeping the pandemic under control. they had a tough lockdown but it was very popular in china and people are happy now that they can operate and normally i think with what we're seeing here is very much a power play that it's a reminder that china is very keen to keep a lid on the media freedoms and it's also the time of year around christmas for some reason as you see a lot of legal activity in china we also have because then they know that the west

is not going to be really watching as closely you know so you have people like the the hong kong youths who tried to escape to taiwan who were arrested they're going on trial 10 of them are going on trial today and change and as well so it's part of a broader picture i think of of china showing particularly now as it's coming out of the pandemic and there's a new president coming in in the u.s. the china is showing its strength. couldn't thank you for that for now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making headlines a saudi court has sentenced prominent women's rights activist to jewish on i'll have little to 5 years and 8 months in prison according to local media. has been held since 2018 along with other activists who campaigned for women to be allowed to drive and part of a sentence has been suspended means she could be released in february. bangladesh is relocating

a 2nd group of ranger muslims from an overcrowded refugee camp to an isolated island in the bay of bengal but 1500 people who fled persecution in myanmar are expected on the island on tuesday the facility can hold up to 100000. thousands of people have been protesting in montenegro over the new government's plans to alter a divisive religious flow the laws meant to turn hundreds of serbian orthodox churches and monasteries into state property protests to say the government's undermining montenegro split from serbia. coordinated mass vaccination drive against a covered 1000 has begun across the you thousands of people have not received the bomb tech pfizer vaccine limited supplies of the drug me member states are prioritizing medical staff nursing home workers and the elderly the shortages for debate within germany in one room now growing calls for the government to step in

and ensure quicker production of the vaccine german health minister a young man says the government is working with buy on tech and pfizer to provide additional production capacity but stressed the process can be rushed. he would let me know but i didn't i just that some people have the impression that vaccine production one of the most complicated and challenging fields in the pharmaceutical industry could just simply be ramped up at will in the coming weeks to start producing extra vaccine doses elsewhere in germany or europe to do this preparations need to be made those preparations are underway and our goal is to soon be producing additional vaccine in coordination with my own case cited in my book so that's the simple don't see it in health minister yet on well take a look now at some of the other developments in this pandemic starting in indonesia where the government says it will ban foreigners from entering the country for 14 days from the 1st of january the country's hoping to contain the new more infectious variants of covered 19 israel's sensitive 3rd national lockdown prime

minister benjamin netanyahu says it will last 2 weeks but may be extended if infection rates don't fall and moscow has started offering the russian sputnik 5 vaccine to people over the age of 60 previously only those between 18 and 16 had been one allowed to be vaccinated as it stands still in late testing stage. u.s. president or donald trump are signed into law a $900000000000.00 relief package that will deliver money directly to businesses and individuals the president had previously threatened previously we threatened to veto the bill and has also retreated from his demand that the congress increased immunise checks from $600.00 i don't to 2000 the delay of almost a week meant that unemployment benefits for millions that lapsed and then threaten to pay and threatened the government shutdown the deal also provides more than

a trillion dollars to fund really a federal agencies. u.s. policy policy analyst and liz show k. is a form of bomb a campaign official she joins us from berlin and welcome to day w. why his present trouble changed his mind you think when trump launched his cat opposition to signing this bill into the stands at the $2000.00. he both wanted to garner all the attention in the rio as well we really thought he had the backing frankly just was not there and republicans on the hill are signaling they are tired of this political theater there's incredible pressure from folks at home say this is not the time to the folly politics back in for it it's time to bring real relief to the real families and it's i think rather it kind of getting in the fray risky is he saw they didn't have the support and had to back down from his stance right so $2.00 trillion dollars is sounds like

a lot of money do you think this is going to be end of it or will there be further relief mentions. well just 5 you're going to vote on a standalone bill that provides an additional. 40100000 folks to to bring it back up to that 2000 and it's going to be in the house with democratic who are it's to be determined how the republicans rely on it i think throughout the process this has been how much work measure and rather than looking at this is a long pandemic and even with the vaccines rolling out the impact on the economy is going to be thought for years so i think it's undeniable there is going to be further measures down the line to product small business is extending unemployment and help struggling local governments and this is been a biden commitment hasn't. i just talked about this is it the end that he's going to come in strong he's going to focus on working families and i think a lot of democrats have already signaled the most recent public release had nothing

for student loans had not been for a local governments and a and thout that it was really under certain small businesses and so i think they see a lot of gaps that can still be. double doable it's been said that one of the reasons that donald trump objected to this was because he's perhaps eyeing a campaign in 2024 i do believe think republican party would welcome such a campaign from him. that's an interesting question and one i think the republican party is graduate with i would not be surprised to see a trump campaign in 2024 i'm not sure it would be done i don't himself or perhaps a trust successor i think the republican party has 4 years to really look in the mirror into saturday yes this got a lot of attention and you're a lot of i mean trump is an incredible political operative so he guarded the whole lot of things that they wanted but also an incredible cost any incredible risk to

american democracy so i think there are a lot of people who've been biding your time in the republican party who are going to step up and say that nearly cost us everything we can't go back down that road talking to thank you for joining us and us policy analyst additional come and go having me. the global health emergency has thrown lots of sports events off course including the biggest of them all with this year's summer olympics postponed to next year old arrises insists the tokyo games will go ahead next year but not everyone shares that confidence. the limp it brings up back in tokyo a sign of hope that the 2020 games will likely take place despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. we want everyone to feel that the tour here in peaks will happen next year. the excitement leading up to the games was our last when the

pandemic hit breaking news the 2020 olympic games will be postponed for here because of the coronavirus pandemic the olympics and speed of fun talk you're getting in seattle and i don't sponsor. a decision that was long overdue like many athletes had already said they wouldn't attend but the international olympic committee and its president seemed to lack that clear response at times they came across as clueless. we don't have a blueprint we have no experts to refer to. the athletes initially remained pragmatic they trained inside the living rooms but a year without any competition pushed them to the limit both financially and mentally. the organizers remained confident i.o.c. president thomas claimed to have a set of covert 1000 countermeasures at his disposal he send

a message of hope to the athletes directly from the olympic village in tokyo you will never ever forget these small words in the olympic village in all. but there is a catch. they'll work though you want to be considerate to the athletes or you don't want the village to get crowded and the games are done you want the athletes to leave as soon as possible to. give them to games will look very different from previous ones they will be hygiene measures in place and perhaps and limited number and no spectators at all. the uncertainty is a huge blow even for the locals nearly 13000000000 euros have been spent on the game so far 2 to 1000000000 alone on the postponement many locals are starting to question if it makes sense to hold the games at all and. a large number have already returned their tickets to cope with $1000.00 has brought a new level of uncertainty and one that will decide if the games will come to pass

at all. i thought situ up to date with a group prof will have more at the top they often facilitate hustles business updates next. can emigrants. they know the police will stop because. they know that the road is not a solution. they know their flights could be. going back is not an option. i'm on and property are stuck in the spanish border area alongside other young people there waiting for

a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . south africa is the 1st african nation to look at a 1000000 cases of the coronavirus as a new strain could explain the rapid spread of a 2nd wave especially affected younger people we look at the economic fallout as. an attempt to clear the air the fellas electric a profit from slovenia takes its emissions free. stand it could be the center point in the future and wasn't so for britain's financial sector it's unclear under the brakes a trade deal we talked to a c.e.o. who stitched london for amsterdam. it's a business south africa has become the 1st country on the african continent to

suppose a 1000000 coronavirus cases a new variant of the virus thought to be more rapidly transmissible is spreading leading to travel bans to and from south africa the pandemic has already hit africa's 2nd largest economy hard in late summer the economy had recovered slightly mainly due to the easing of lockdown restrictions front for the holiday season restrictions but tightened somewhat analysts expected to take around 5 years for the south african economy to fully recover from the crisis. but that's a long white how a south african is going to fail during that time as for joins us from cape town ellis which sectors are hurting hardest right now i mentioned tourism of course. yes definitely juror ism is one of them and usually mainly here in cape town where i am this is top season for and for tourism for international tourism you'll hear french german and people from all around the world coming to you senator genera

february because these are well months and actually a lot of the tourism people i spoke to are actually hoping that some tourists were still wanted to come to south africa but then this new mutation of the virus also in south africa and bumped up that might be spreading faster some airlines stop flying altogether are starting again but i think the fear now is just too big and i don't think we'll see many international and visitors back so yet in their home to make up a little bit of the loss i think is gone now as well for the sheer. whatever south africa does the pandemic has hit hard already and it's only set to hit harder why not take the bad medicine and look down properly. yet it has all to do with with this pine balance in south africa between lives and livelihoods i mean to defer just wave we saw there over 2000000 jobs got lost and and indeed now actually maybe

today and the hospitals are actually saying to the government something needs to happen because we don't have capacity anymore for all these stations so soon come up also the president will address the nation tonight so i do think we can expect more measures i don't think that will go back to that hard lockdown basically because a lot of people here won't survive as you said ella something's got to happen is that going to be the best thing. you know we don't have that hope yet here i know it and lot of western countries you know we see the 1st injections orders at least roll out plans and here we don't tell much yet about what the government is planning a board some. scenes i have called vaccination tive from the world health organization in my hardass but that might only come in to 1st half of next year and that would only cover probably 10 percent of the population but what for the rest of the

population and that might take years and a problem is that south africa you know they don't have the financial means to preorder like all these western countries do firstly to see which vaccines are going to work and which ones were best as well in a south african context so there again as well because we don't know yet what's going to happen you're going to vaccines and because it can't take long it also means that the economy won't be able to already go into or into a new mode like in the western countries and that will only mean that inequality of countries that don't have the vaccine yes will get bigger and bigger with the rest of the world that's where it's really going to hurt for a lot of people a lot of families to elephant go to for us in cape town thank you. a brief look at some of the other business stories making news the european commission says officials will distribute an initial 200000000 doses of takes coronavirus vaccine by september it will need vaccines from other supplies to

inoculate the e.u.'s entire population of 450000000. greek police have hit scores of residents with locked down fines of 300 euros for being outside their homes without good reason or failing to wear masks one man who turned his storage room into a small restaurant has been reportedly fined 3000 euros. and reuters says the u.s. environmental protection agency is set to finalize its 1st proposed rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes that align the united states with international standards critics say the rules and tough enough. of flying is noisy expensive and pollutes the planet but that could soon change scientists and companies from around the world are researching emissions free technologies much hope is being placed in solutions like solar power or electric engines this new aircraft from slovenia has been turning heads since its recent certification. it's

not an audio glitch this airplane really is quiet is that it's called the valis and it's battery powered develops is the 1st certified aircraft of its kind instead of a gas tank indicator the instruments indicate battery levels. it was still in the same month that kicked off the company 30 years ago it was to make flying cheaper and electricity is cheaper than fuel it's also quieter it was again another step into this direction where we wanted to approach flying to more people since summer pip distro has sold 50 of its villas planes the aircraft is a sticker price of $160000.00 euros the company was able to do but automakers couldn't they're offering their electric aircraft at the same price as a combustion engine aircraft the slovenian company has pioneered a new way of thinking among pilots. so the market is interesting you know it turns relatively quickly from naysayers for people from people who might in the majority

say this is not practical not useful it doesn't make sense to oh it's cool it works i saw it somewhere so maybe it's time for me to consider it as well but what helps the most is the noise aspect to pilots in switzerland have opened up the world's 1st electric flight school they were only allowed to open the school at this location because the aircraft is so much quieter than a standard plane the only hitch its 140 kilo battery is out of juice after only 50 minutes not a problem though. we have to realize that electric flying already makes sense in basic training because the plane's duration is pretty much exactly the amount of time we need for a flight lesson one lesson last 40 minutes and that's what we can fly without any problems using today's technology. these electric aircraft are undoubtedly just the beginning the slovenian manufacturer has been working on clean

propulsion aircraft for 13 years including this electric motor glider the head of development as to mates that in 5 years the villa's will be able to fly 100 minutes using improved batteries when it comes to the future of electric aircraft the sky's the limit. you could call it a small miracle with a deadline looming london and brussels came together to seal a deal on trade relations on christmas eve a lot was made about how fisheries could sink the deal but that wasn't the only sector in need of clarity. it's a rough life out there at sea cold quite windy but the hard work pays off when the fishermen reel in their nets herring mackerel sole place and policy for the whole market and for export competition between british and other e.u. fisherman has been strong for decades disagreement over who can fish way air and

how much so as not to deplete fishing grounds was one of the main points holding up wrecks and talks after intense haggling both sides seem satisfied. all the time that we were in the e.u. we were in the common fisheries policy. that is a constraint on our coastal communities it meant but fishing industry declined now we have a chance to turn the corner. certainly good news for the fishing sector but what about the british economy in general. phishing represents only 0.2 percent of britain's g.d.p. it pales in comparison to other sectors like the financial sector with banks and exchanges and the city of london which represents roughly a 10th of the british economy. no longer part of the e.u. london doesn't have to play by brussels rulebook and some hold that the country can establish itself as

a european version of singapore using business friendly regulation to learn new partners. the financial sector is of course a gaping hole in the breaks it's you know a brussels correspondent alexander phenomenon spoke with the chief executive of of a fin tech startup we left london for amsterdam because of break that uncertainty. where currency griffin take company we had offices in new york and london but because of bricks that we had to expand to mainland europe and open office in another you member states so we decided to come to the netherlands and particularly . and i think for us the benefits of being here and so this gives us access to a lot of top talent i think the netherlands is really safe we're going through environments and there's a particularly strong and growing fin tech sector and now the european union and yuki agreed on its way to agreements of that still has to be reza sayah but it's it's going to be in place as we expect by the end of determination pay it but it

sets very little about financial services so what does it mean for companies like yours who don't have an office in the opinion you know if you don't have an office you need to find partners to work with who do so for us it meant that we came out here about 2 years ago to set up an office and to be ready for any outcome of brecht's it's because we anticipated that this could be an option all along that there will be no arrangement for financial services how do you see breaks it is the morals of a challenge or maybe it's also no puts you need for financial institutions to operate both in the u.k. and in the e.u. it's always a challenge because you have to find a contingency plan put that in action. so it's a challenge at 1st but it also gave us opportunities not it we're out here to to be announced and to forge a new relationships with other companies who are out here as well. finally we all know the golden arches how about and golden have. a restaurant in the colombian

capital bogota is offering a juicy $24.00 karat gold topped burger for a whopping 211000 pesos 50 euros each sandwich contains the beef patties bacon and cheese and 5 pieces of edible gold leaves imported from the u.s. you know hopes to bring you calorie experiences through colombians on able to travel due to the coronavirus. i just take the exchange was doing business with.

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