the health minister said what was meant to be delivered by the end of the year of 2020 was delivered and the expects for more 1000000 more doses by the end of january so he is optimistic that the program will be carried out judy thank you very much d.w. correspondent julia so deadly. you're watching v.w. news business is next with rob watts. rocking emigrants. they know the police will stop them. they know that the road is not a solution. they know their flight could be fatal. but going back to using i'm not an option. i'm on and property are stuck in the spanish

border area along side other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts january 18th on d w. it's your upset hope for taking on the tech giants of the u.s. and asia the guy at x. cloud service is supposed to be faster the most secure than his international competitors but will it help european firms to compete also coming up. a new car giant stumps over the horizon not their shareholders for p.s.a. and 50 cries for their approval. and betting on buyers gas we'll look at the energy source that germany hopes will help it and its reliance on fossil fuels.

this is the doing business on robots in berlin welcome to the program. now when it comes to customer data commercially sensitive documents or even secret production plans companies are no longer storing them on service in basements they're using providers like google amazon and microsoft has no unified standard to speak of for these cloud services but since last year a german french initiative has promised a european alternative guy at x. it aims to stand out against the competition by being quick secure and using a standard set of rules that everyone at dia's to more than $300.00 organizations are already involved in gaia x. that includes major non europeans such as amazon microsoft and china's far away so what are the europeans behind it hoping to achieve well it speak to seize on

a day move from bit to come which represents thousands of companies in germany's digital sector welcome to g.w. business it's great to have it so what are the advantages supposed to be for european companies of geir xx. well the general idea of off guy x. is to create a cloud data infrastructure in europe that complies with the needs of technology users and doing so by actually creating a consistent set of rules are not protected is that provides the needed. data protection i.t. security but also flexibility and interoperability and yet for european companies this is a chance to get a bigger range or a bigger variety of services. that that need meet their needs right

it's often been described as you know for europe by europe we are seeing these other companies like microsoft like amazon google choir way getting involved with this does that undermine that principle. well i i don't think so i think. aim of guy x. is to generate attractive and interactive services and really concrete to use as a value and as long as. all the companies involved can agree on are on a set of rules. i think you don't have to exclude anyone who is ready to submit to what they settle through hoops what about the company is that the become represent they getting excited about guy or x. . well it certainly is something that. i look at quite closely and

many are involved in working on the all the special rules that has to be a greater. so yes it's quite a big deal for many of our member companies. well suzanne a bit susanna from this is on a day more even from a bit come thank you very much for joining us on day to be business thank you. now shareholders for fit cries land france's p.s.a. have overwhelmingly approved a merger between the 2 carmakers creating the world's 4th largest car company the resulting firm will be called still lantus and will be home to 15 brands including persia citron jeep opel and dodge in today's increasingly challenging car market the company has its work cut out. the 2 car companies couldn't have made it on their own neither fee at chrysler nor p.s.a. could keep up with the competition when it came to electric cars now they want to

reach for the stars together as they're still lantus group so if you measure we're responding to the major challenges of the automotive industry we need a certain size in order to become more efficient in research development and investment but also to put ourselves in a better position worldwide which will go off. it was a bumpy road but now p.s.a. and fear at chrysler will together form the world's 4th largest car manufacturer after folks toyota and the new nissan mitsubishi alliance. fiat's opel and chrysler are just 3 of the new auto giants 14 brands and that could be a problem before the pandemic the 2 sides have promised that no brand would be eliminated. b.m.w. will miss the promise not to give up any brand will be hard to keep today they have 14 of them but i don't think that brands that sell 20225000 cars worldwide today

will survive the next crisis. which includes usually still and his might have just come together but it may yet have to slim down for the auto market of the future. let's get more on this without financial correspondent frank that chelsea a bigger isn't always better how is becoming big and makes the lantus more competitive. well the hope 1st lantus is that they will be able to cut costs that's really the key benefit of this merger and the companies say that they think they will be able to save about 5000000000 euros as a result of the merger and that's going to be through things like getting better deals with suppliers because they're ordering more and combining some production technology platforms and that should free up money for so on to us to be able to invest more in really the future of the business things like electrification of

their vehicles that's really where they're hoping to benefit. the 4th biggest carmaker in the world is not big enough. it's going to be a challenge for so on this even as the 4th biggest carmaker they are really behind on this move towards electric vehicles they're really lagging behind and the key auto market of china and there is a history of big auto merger is really falling apart we've seen this for example with time one chrysler earlier and the 2000 so it will be quite challenging but they say it's really their only hope. so still any in front but thanks for bringing us up to date. and i would read a positive side effects of the coronavirus pandemic is that germany met one of its 2020 climate goals carbon emissions for the year were down more than 40 percent from 1990 levels

a move towards gas could be key to keeping up the progress. former use of pomona is a modest man but he's invested big in the future of his farm near munich airport his latest innovation a bio gas plant that produces so-called bio methane the renewable bio gas produced is processed by a special plant and then fed right into the existing natural gas network. the plant costco model millions. the farmer hopes it's worth it. we are currently testing a bus at the munich airport for example. it's being operated with l. and g. made out of bio methane. didn't it one of the world's largest bio methane plants that feeds fuel into the natural gas grid is located in the german state of saxony are not around 30 farmers from the area supply the plant with corn and sugar beet

scraps a special certification of the crops used guarantees that the bio methane produced is c o 2 neutral. plant operator yes and his colleague hoped to sell more due to the new c o 2 tax which took effect on january 1st the price of fossil fuels like natural gas and diesel have gone up dramatically until now by a methane has always been a small niche product in germany. reset ourselves the goal of phasing out fossil fuels for energy production by 2050 that means that anywhere that natural gas is being used it can be replaced by bio methane in the future it works for heating your house it can be a heat source for industry and it can run your vehicle. that's just the fun. to see short term opportunities refueling trucks. bio methane could

replace liquefied natural gas and diesel but at the moment bio methane costs about $6.00 times more than natural gas so earning a profit is still uncertain. farmers are reluctant to invest in bio methane it's expensive and they often lack the technical know how. use of power meyer was able to build his plant because he had a partner with the necessary capital he says to proceed with caution. i don't want to drive my colleagues into insolvency. you have to calculate quite clearly with a sharp pencil like in some cases the best decision is to shut down the bio gas plant. bio methane accounts for about 2 percent of the fuel market in germany increasing by methane production could significantly reduce c o 2 emissions the question is whether it's worth the financial risk now in

november american chocolate maker she did something unusual it bought its cocoa beans from futures markets rather than directly from produces the company was accused of trying to get around having to pay a premium to farmers in ivory coast it insists it wasn't the case but some growers have been left with a bitter taste. helco farming is hard work it takes around $25.00 of these pods and the cocoa beans inside to make a kilogram of chocolate. farmers have to find and cut them down with out hurting the soft bark of the tree. but more and more farmers like these here in ghana are saying the price isn't worth it the local farmer is not in a future because of the price and quality is the key by the price on the market said stuart was still right for us when the like. over

a pool so they're poised over for the like is wondering if the coverage has just increased everything for us because we spent time in our energy mostly in the side of the business but. after all good nothing. in 2019 gonna ivory coast and big chocolate reached a deal to prevent the undercutting of cocoa farmers for each ton of chocolate which costs about $2600.00 the companies pay an additional $400.00 this helps to shore up farmers income and pay for and certify sustainability programs such as preventing child labor and preserving forests when when right. well now ivory coast in guyana say that hershey's and mars are taking steps to avoid paying into the fund that you governments say that without the funds they will have to cancel programs both companies deny the claims and say they support the initiatives. the cocoa is

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