colon issues. after german children had a hard time because they were a reminder of the german defeat. exclusion and control culminated in some sterilization under the nazis. the 1st documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. the children of shame. starch january 11th on d.w. . it's your it's hope for taking on the tech giants of asia and the us the guy x. cloud service is supposed to be faster and more secure than its international competitors but will it help your paying firms to compete also coming up. google employees unite hundreds of staffers at the internet giants have unionized and

a major step for silicon valley workers. a new car giant stomps over the horizon after shareholders of p.s.a. and fear chrysler. and betting on bio gas will look at the energy source the germany hopes will help it and its reliance on fossil fuel. this is due to be business on. welcome to the program. now when it comes to customer data commercially sensitive documents or even secret production plans companies no longer storing them on servers in their basements they're using cloud providers like amazon google and microsoft and there is no unified standard to speak of but since last year a german french initiative has promised a european alternative guy x. aims to stand out against the competition by being quick secure and using

a set of rules that everyone dares to more than $300.00 organizations are already involved in guy x. including major unknown europeans such as amazon microsoft and china's far away so what would the advantages be for european companies well that's a question i put to suzanne damore from bits com which represents thousands of firms in germany's digital sector well the general idea of guy is to create a cloud data infrastructure in europe that complies with the needs of cloud technology uses and doing so by actually creating a consistent set of rules an architecture is that provides the needed. data protection i.t. security but also flexibility and interoperability and

yet for european companies this is it sounds to get a bigger range. of a variety of services. that meet their needs right as it's often been described as you know for europe by europe who we are seeing these other companies like microsoft like amazon google chua way getting involved with this 2000 a mine that principle. well i don't think so i think. a mfg i.x. is to generate attractive and interactive services and really concrete to use as a value and as long as. it's all the companies involved can agree on a set of rules. i think you don't have to exclude anyone who is ready to submit to what they settle troops what about the companies that the become represent they

getting excited about guy or x. . well it certainly is something that they quite closely and many are involved in in working on all the special rules that has to be a greater hall so yes it's quite a big deal for many of our member companies as on a day more from becomes like you very much for joining us on day to be business now unions and big tech haven't exactly been eager bedfellows over the years there's been a noticeable absence of employee representation in silicon valley however that may be changing with a new unit google seeking to give a more formal way for workers to have a collective voice. companies such as google have seen little demand for unions over the years will handle things ourselves seems to have been the motto but times

change google has seen several protests recently including on the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace the newly founded alphabet workers union now wants to give such protests a structure. so what this announcement really is. now that we. were at. rather than by individual that we are. fair wages with out exploitation or discrimination as well as a greater say in company affairs are the main goals however it remains in huge pursuit of the more than 130000 employees worldwide only around 225 have joined the new union but the example has been set efforts have also been made at amazon for some time now to an established employee organization. now shareholders for fear

chrysler and france's p.s.a. have overwhelmingly approved a merger between the 2 or to make us creating the world's 4th largest car company the resulting firm will be coat stolen tests and will be home to 15 brands including persia citron jeep opel and dodge in today's increasingly challenging car market the company has as has its work cut out. the 2 car companies couldn't have made it on their own neither fear 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 the still lantis group so if you measure up to 2 times 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. it was a bumpy road but now p.s.a.

and fia chrysler will together form the world's 4th largest car manufacturer after folks toyota and the new nissan mitsubishi alliance. it's opel and chrysler are just 3 of the new 14 groans and that could be a problem before the pandemic the 2 sides have promised that no grand would be eliminated. the promise not to give up any brand will be hard to keep to daily have 14 of them but i don't think the 20225000 cars worldwide today will survive the next crisis. which includes you still and his might have just come together but it may yet have to slim down for the auto market of the future. now let's get more on this with financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea delaney chelsea how does becoming big thanks to lantis

competitors well as we heard in that report being big getting bigger and it's having some sort of scale it's really the only way to survive in this auto market the new company hopes to save about 5000000000 euros a year in part by cutting costs for things like administration by sharing production technology as well as being able to strike better deals with its suppliers because of its new size and that should allow the new company staunchest to really invest more in to. the future technology for the industry electrification electric vehicles they've really been lagging and they haven't had the ability to invest the 10s of billions of euros that other large car manufacturers have been investing into this line so they really are hoping this position. positions them more as a competitor and this industry. you know they'll be the 4th biggest car making

group so it is that it's big enough. being big in itself it's not going to be enough to help them survive do you really need to. expand in a lot of markets they are lagging behind in terms of. electric vehicle investments they're also lagging behind in china which is a really crucial market for all other makers right now so they do have their challenges cut out for them. so the delaney in frankfurt thanks for bringing us up to date. now less than half of the power generated in germany comes from renewable resources solar wind and hydropower account for 40 percent including biomass as well by 2030 that number should go up to nearly 2 thirds of the overall energy production more than half of all energy renewable and renewable energy is supplied at the moment by wind turbines and almost

a 5th of it comes from solar energy about as much as is produced by biomass plants the rest of it comes from hydroelectric and other resources and germany's 9400 biomass plants are expected to play a key future role by filling in where there isn't enough sun or winds to go around but they need to grazing bio gas plants are also being updated to create new ways of powering germany farmer use of pole meyer is not risk averse and he's happy to be a pioneer he's invested big in the future of his farm near munich airport his latest innovation is a plant that produces renewable natural gas also known as bio meeting it's processed and then fed straight into the existing natural gas network the plant cost pelham are hundreds of thousands of euros the farmer hopes it's worth it.

we are currently testing a bus at munich airport for example was what we thought it would be it's being operated with l. and g. made out of bio methane. didn't it. one of the world's largest bio meeting plants that feeds fuel into the gas grid is located in the eastern german state of saxony on how to around 30 local farmers supply the plant with corn and sugar beet pulp to bio meeting produce to c o 2 neutral. plant operator yes bartos and his colleague hope to sell more a new c o 2 tax which took effect on january 1 and makes fossil fuels like natural gas and diesel very expensive does not apply to bio many thing still until now bio meeting has always been a nice product in germany. there was

a series we set ourselves the goal of phasing out fossil fuels for energy production by 2050 but 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 is just as tough on. the ends of our to see short term opportunities refueling trucks bio meeting could replace liquefied natural gas and diesel but at the moment bio methane costs about 6 times more than natural gas so earning a profit is still uncertain farmers are reluctant to invest in bio meeting as its capital intensive. you'll suppose maher was able to build his plans because he had a financial partner however 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 a bio gas plant. buy a meeting in accounts for about 2 percent of the fuel market in germany increasing by a meeting production could significantly reduce c o 2 emissions it does however require the pioneer spirit. that's over may the business team here in berlin until next time by taking. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. e n

u you mean no years years we can hear you and how lousy is german chancellor when you bring your uncle out mascot as you've never tired her before surprise yourself with what it is possible to do is magical really want to move and want. to talk to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from adult last up. empty classrooms and empty playgrounds and nursery schools. it's pretty much the same picture around the world. to curb the number of coronavirus infections schools and kindergartens remain shut. when can they open again and if so under what conditions that's the question most parents ask. children need an education but

they also need to be protected from the virus a difficult balancing act. welcome to our carbonite in special and it'll be in use i want to jones and berlin good to have you with us it's 2021 and the pandemic still dictates our life and that of our children of course now there's talk of prolonging the lockdown again no school no kindergarten but our kids really at risk a recent study implies yes they are. children are generally not considered to be driving the spread of the corona virus but researchers in munich analyzed blood samples from $12000.00 children and what they found has the more. we have and can know with them and children for antibodies against the corona virus and we found that around 6 times as many children have had the infection as would have been expected so we do if. it's used on going on when the a c.

in history shows us that children definitely do get infected and that they can take the infection home with them how was it. that so many of the samples from the children tested positive came as a surprise to professor siegel who headed the study she thinks that in many cases the children only had mild symptoms or none at all so the infection wasn't detected $1800.00 in the 1st we had no idea what the rate of undetected cases was but now we see that it 6 times higher that can reflect the fact that children tended not to be tested as often so the number of cases was underestimated and yes we can get side on the shots. that children often don't get tested is something this father experienced. when covert 19 broke out in his son's daycare center it was mainly the educators who got tested the children were just sent home to quarantine

. concerns on this new to have to say that i was concerned brutal so we decided to play it safe and have the children and ourselves test so as to have certainty. if. it turned out that both his children had indeed been infected even though they exhibited no symptoms. nevertheless the local health authority didn't have all the other children in the daycare center tested you're going to house them back says it should have. how does finagles was on the stairs because i think it was a big mistake not to test the children apart from my tooth. i was basically the only one in quarantine about the phone or the parents of the 90 other children continue to go to work. went home and they may have spread the disease without knowing it by talking on a service and. another thing house them back can't understand is that although

adults are being told to not meet up in their free time in the daycare center all the children are in one big group rather than in small groups. of course not every risk can be eliminated says professor siegler who carried out the munich study but she says that if the government wants to keep schools and daycare centers open as long as possible they have to institute stricter hygiene rules. on always we have to assume that children definitely also get this disease and i think that we have to take more precautionary measures in schools and take care centers. and the same rules smaller groups social distancing hygiene ventilation should apply there too. just like everywhere else if only because children also contribute to the spread of the infection. so that

means that at present that hearing to strict hygiene rules and carrying out more covert tests in suspected cases is probably the best way to keep infections in day care centers to a minimum. and for more i'm joined now by donna father professor at the department of microbiology and immunology at columbia university and she's also the co-author of an article on distinct antibody response is to sars kind of 2 in children and adults across the covert $900.00 clinical spectrum and she conducted a study called children's untrained immune response. seems to be key to eliminating sars coast to a lot to talk about here and that would be the very 1st question so from what we've heard children infected with the risk of 2 they often don't show any symptoms why is that well there could be 2 main reasons for that one is that the virus just doesn't infect as well so there might be something about the cells

in the respiratory track of children that are different that just don't allow as productive had been sectioned so we still don't know whether that might be a reason and the other is that the children mount a very effective minimal bust immune response and are able to clear the virus before they get severe symptoms and i mean a child's immune system still has to learn a lot as opposed to an adult if i understand it correctly and my t. cells seem to play a key role here kids a better equipped it seems lies that. well children are designed to respond to new pathogens because they have a whole arsenal of t. cell that are new t. cells that have the ability to respond to pathogens these are called naive t. cells and children are producing these all the time whereas adults don't have many

i.e. t. cells because we've generated memory over a life time and we aren't producing new teasels anymore so children are well adapted to respond to new pathogens they have these new t. cells see they mount a robust response however adults only have memory cells and or they have mostly memory cells so they're going on what they've seen before so normally adults are better equipped to respond to pathogens that they've seen many times like influenza are a city so compared to a child dulce are responding much more effectively don't get as sick because they've seen these over time have built up these memory responses with provide protection nearly where is chiltern dealt but now we're looking at a situation where both the children or adults are seeing a new pathogen and now the children have all the cells the new t.

cells to respond were adults are not they do not have as many t. cells to respond but to children they don't have the right do they also have an advantage when it comes to the long lasting effects of covert 19 and we we've heard with adults that there are cases of heart failure of the long term health issues they have to deal with even when they were ill when they're actually had to cope at 19 what do we know about children so far. well i mean we know that there seems to be some long lasting effects of kobe 19 even from adults that are that weren't hospitalized initially and those are there are certain coagulation defects and it could be due to the very strong inflammatory response we know that there's a lot of markers in meters of inflammation that is a virus seems stimulate in children's that can also happen so the severe disease in children there is one manifestation which is called multi inflammatory centrum in

children and that can potentially cause long lasting effects although this far follow up has not shown that these children really have long lasting effects so initially they were presenting it's sort of cardio heart problems but so far this hasn't shown to be long lasting about the coalition defects certainly young adults have shown that and have have have actually developed strokes but in terms of b.b.c. young children there's just not enough evidence to suggest that that's also happening in children so so just very briefly yes or no basically because there's this big discussion about reopening schools and kindergartens yes or no should we or shouldn't we. i think we need to but we need to protect the children in terms of i mean we need to to still be wearing masks and and have these precautions in schools but it would be better to open it because there are they

don't seem to be the super spreaders all right professor farber there from columbia university a joining us from new york thank you so much for your time and your insights. thank you. well time for your questions now and over to our science correspondent derrick williams. is it possible to test positive for cave 19 and it's on to the same time. tricky question to answer it we need a quick refresher on the terminology antibodies our immune system proteins that can be detected by what are called serial logical tests generally from blood samples if you have antibodies that are specific to covert 19 that indicates that you were exposed to the corona virus at some point in the past whether you develop symptoms or not. diagnostics like antigen and p.c.r.

tests on the other hand are for detecting the virus or it's genetic material so they're supposed to tell you whether you have an active infection this question therefore basically boils down to can i have an active infection yet at the same time be producing detectable amounts of antibodies against it yes you can but but finding both involves getting the timing right that's because there's some overlap between when an infection is in full swing and the ramp up of the body's immune response in general experts say it takes a patient's body between one and 3 weeks to produce detectable amounts of the different antibodies that play a key role in fighting off covert 19 researchers in new york found that even patients producing antibodies in those measurable amounts however could continue to test positive for the virus for up to 4 weeks after their symptoms resolved what

the team couldn't determine was whether that viral genetic material was actually coming from active viable virus p.c.r. testing doesn't tell you that although that's really what you want to know it just tells you whether there are intact pieces of viral r.n.a. in a sample. we'll be back tomorrow keep your questions coming that's all for now from me that he thanks for watching.

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