isn't. using a. new . rule. the goal is for president trump to be removed from office are growing louder meanwhile the world watches on in shock at developments in the u.s. we'll ask what it all means for those who want to work with washington also coming up. germany's kill back is teaming up with big pharma as buyer in a final push to get its coronavirus vaccine to market. and as many homeless suffer through the bitter berland winter visit to the beer bar that serving up to

helping out. the city to be a business owner of what's in berlin welcome to the program. now the fallout continues from wednesday's mob attack on the u.s. capital by supporters of donald trump several of the president's aides and 2 cabinet members have resigned and there are increasingly loud calls for him to be removed from office 5 people including a police officer have now died as a result of the violent protests and at least 68 have been arrested some have encouraged supporters to march on the capitol building where a joint session of congress was certifying joe biden as president elect. u.s. industry groups and chief executives from some of the nation's largest companies have called on president trump and other officials to put an end to the unrest and deliver a peaceful transition of power the business round table group of chief executives has tweeted the chaos unfolding in the nation's capital is the result of unlawful

efforts to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election the country deserves better it says the national association of manufacturers has also commented it quote on those you quote those who stormed the capitol on thoughts and it's urged vice president mike pence to seriously consider working with the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to preserve democracy now the type of amendment allows members of the president's cabinet to remove him from power and i speak to president of the american chamber of commerce in germany frank sports and laurie it's great to have you on de to be business now we don't normally see chief executives industry groups commenting on political developments why are they so keen this time around to call for calm in washington well i mean what we've seen is also something that we think goodness don't see it

very often mop you know a mob of the rage citizens stormed into the u.s. for me as an american that was shocking or fine and actually quite embarrassing the world so that. you know it's an extreme circumstance and i think it's not a surprise that people are very very concerned about where this could all end and once cooler heads prevail which fortune i believe is what's going to happen what about businesses outside of the u.s. for example here in germany that work with the united states how important is it for them that the institutions there seem to be stable. actually that's interesting you mention that very point because we do in the end you will survey we call our business barometer and it touches on the things that are viewed as positive the negative by american companies in germany germany companies in america and one of the things that over the past few years has been increasingly looked at

as negative is the political stability in the us and certainly the seams that we saw yesterday evening on t.v. the were very disturbing however i will point out what happened at the end democracy alert they went until 4 o'clock the next morning got their work done there's a new president elected and president trump is agreed you know that our so you could if you want to view it as half full or more than effluent full democracy is that up to the test nevertheless what this is may quite clear is that president biden when he takes office he's going to have to be looking mall domestically and we might have thought as more problems a source out that not looking outwardly as trading partner as might have hoped so was an implication does that have for those who were hoping to improve their relationship with the u.s. in the coming 4 years of say. well at 1st i would point out during the past 4 years

we've had a lot of turbulence we've had unexpected tariffs we've had all kinds of conflicts that were not imaginable 5 or 6 years ago transatlantic businesses continue to be very strong and oftentimes we focus on the headlines of trade in the negotiations or big companies or this and that in fact it's you know the backbone of this business is particularly from the german side of the. medium size the famous middle that goes to the u.s. in this very successful there and then it has gone on and broke and i mean if you go out if you look at washington off to the side and go out you know to nebraska to elena to where people set up their companies and where there's an unbroken interests and penetrating the u.s. market it's a vibrant markets fast growing and any german term you would be very foolish to let itself be put off by what's transpired over the past years or particularly the past

couple of days and what are you hearing from businesses are they repositioning themselves for a new administration in the united states well we did a snap survey of our members after the election both before and after the election before the election everyone said we'd prefer a change of administration after the election basically 90 percent of our members sat good this is going to be something that's good for us and certainly. president biden as a whole. coal that for us getting the economy going and cetera and you can see those are domestic issues but are they really mean beyond tekken pfizer or operating even you know he comes up with that with infrastructure bill that will require all kinds of expertise from companies you know that every prevalent in germany so nowadays we view the entire marketplace transatlantic and i think this is going to be

a lot of opportunities once we start getting politics picked normal if i can say it that way in dealing with each other with each others as partners i think the up in this optimism is justified knowing there were over tonight going to go back or world where everything was perfect frank spoke to laurie president of the american chamber of commerce here in germany thanks for taking the time to talk to us and the pleasure thank you let's cross to our financial correspondent in frankfurt now at chelsea tonight he joins us on business and washington remains in a state of disarray about how markets taking it. well it's been a record high left and right over the past couple of days here in frankfurt the dax is hitting another record high for the 2nd day in a row the s. and p. 500 the dow the nasdaq and the u.s. the tokyo index all have hit record highs over the past couple of days so there's

an obvious contradiction between what we've seen in terms of the political drama in the united states as well as the continued spread of the coronavirus the increasingly alarming calls from the hospital sectors. lockdowns that we're seeing extended across the world all of that's quite negative but investors completely brushing that off and really looking towards the future which now looks like by an administration in the u.s. that could really pass a strong and large stimulus bill that would benefit the rest of the world as well as the vaccine rollout so all of that giving investors a lot of optimism chelsea to lenny and frank thanks for the update. jim and by company cule back pharmaceutical giant by pumping up partnering to bring coronavirus vaccine to market the firm hopes used by expertise in studies on regulator issues to get its job approved and may be the 1st collaboration but it

probably won't be the last. german biotech firm cura barca's developed to cope with 19 vaccines similar to that produced by madonna and pfizer biotech but easier to store and manufacture. is parting with pharma giant buyer to mosque produce the job do the logistics and use buyers network worldwide to distributors the partners palm and producing several 100000000 doses of the vaccine as soon as they are granted approval by or will decide during the 1st quarter whether to money factor the vaccine for cure of arc. the cure of link up is similar to the partnership between the german vaccine developer biotech and the u.s. pharmaceutical company pfizer or the collaboration between researchers at oxford university and britain's astra zeneca. in all 3 cases it's the small companies and research institutes that do the development well the drug industry's heavy hitters produce and market the vaccines. their business partnerships work billions with all

of them fighting for market share the demand is huge for the biotech companies and research institutes that develop the vaccines one thing is clear they need the huge corporations infrastructure to get their lifesaving vaccines distributed. time now for a quick look at some of the other business stories making the news boeing will pay a $2500000000.00 fine to settle a u.s. justice department investigation into 2737 max crashes the company admits that employees misled regulates as about the safety of the aircraft crashes killed 346 people and led to the grounding of the model. and the local government in germany has come up with a way it believes will protect controversial gas pipeline or stream to from sanctions state of mecklenburg western pomerania is putting all the no extreme associated companies into a foundation trust measure could legally show the companies involved from u.s. sanctions. now the bell in winter can be harsh with temperatures

barely getting above 0 sometimes for months on end is particularly tough for the homeless but one of the city's most popular bit boss has found a way to help them. berlin might be on lockdown but there's plenty going on in the health right house kitchen chef dennis schmidt is preparing something perfect for this time of year a hearty dish that sticks to the ribs. today we're preparing a coachman's kulacz made with pork knuckles onions gravy and dumplings. nina is a regular here she's 35 years old and homeless the relief organization to have her berlin has teamed up with the whole fry house to help people in need for nina this is the only way to keep warm. especially with the temperatures around 0 degrees or less it's hard to be outside all day and for me it's the cold

air i breathe in cold air all day long and my body can't manage to keep warm. an estimated 10000 homeless people live on the streets of berlin the pandemic has made their situation even worse many state run aid facilities are closed because social distancing regulations can't be observed there the hope right house has 2 floors with around $3000.00 square metres of space so there's plenty of room to socially distance around $120.00 people come by at lunch time to warm up and eat before the pandemic up to 5000 liters of beer were served here every day for the manager bjorn trots it's not a money making venture he donates the rooms for free the berlin senate pays for the food and the personnel. that our motivation is really just to do something good we have a central location right at alexanderplatz and we're empty we're closed and we have nothing to do we're only allowed to do deliveries so we can't even use the space

anyway. nina can relax in the her fright house but the respite is all too brief after about 4 hours she'll head out onto the streets again. so for me in the business team here in berlin for more do visit our website www dot com slash business you can also find us on facebook and twitter to next time and take up. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research. information and context around a virus update 19. w. d t you know that 77 percent. are younger than 60. that's me and me and you. and you know what it's time all voices.

the 77 percent. this is where. the 77 percent this weekend are d.w.i. . it's 2021 began with a world wide ambition to vaccinate as many people as possible against code 19 but in many parts of the world it's been a slow start there aren't enough vaccine doses available yet and sometimes logistical problems add to the shortages. that's mighty u.k. decided to simply delay the 2nd vaccine dose to increase capacity we should prioritize having as many people getting the 1st dose as possible. and that and

that will allow ours to get protection to more people more quickly than then otherwise. others think looting germany discuss this option. but there are no clinical trials available supporting this move what if it goes wrong. what indeed hello welcome to our covert 900 special i want to get jones and like many of you i'm waiting for my turn to get vaccinated but i don't want to be a guinea pig so i'm not quite sure what to make of those developments and in a moment i'm going to ask about role of just about this but 1st a look at where we're actually at swiss covert 900 back scenes. only a handful of different vaccines have been authorized so far some countries have already kicked off x. in nation campaigns. supply remains extremely limited despite manufacturers ramping up their production capacities. most of the vaccines

require an initial job and then a booster shot some time later to provide adequate protection. with a global population of 7800000000 people that means that almost 16000000000 doses need to be produced for everyone to be vaccinated producing that amount will take years some experts say. but time is of the essence the longer the virus keeps spreading around the globe the higher the likelihood of mutation just recently scientists discovered 2 new variants in the u.k. and south africa that appear to be much more contagious the fear is that those mutations could render even strict lockdown measures useless and eventually even the vaccines now experts are trying to find ways to get more shots into more arms the discussion is focused on 3 options. the 1st

option is to delay the 2nd dose that would mean more people could have a 1st shot which might provide some protection the u.k. and denmark have approved the measure and are about to put it into practice but some experts warn that immunity might wane in the weeks following the initial shot that could create ideal circumstances for the virus to mutate and become resistant . the 2nd idea is to cut the doses in half which would double the number of people that could be vaccinated while there are indications that the immune response is the same experts say we can't know for sure. the 3rd option is to combine 2 vaccines so that the composition of the booster is different from the initial one the reasoning behind that idea is that both the astra zeneca and bion take vixens target the virus despite protein but with 2 different methods. the problem is none of the proposed alternatives

has been tested so far. trust is everything and for many getting a brand new vaccine is already a leap of faith so let's talk more now with julian tung he is honorary associate professor and clinical biologist at the university of leicester good to have you with us tell me isn't it a bit risky to change the way we use those vaccines on patients without proper clinical trials to back up those changes as to how the vaccines are administered. ok so we do have some data on 1st if it is c. for both the vaccines. and the others and the vaccine although little trials were not designed to test 1st as if that is the only d.c. some protection we there from other vaccines our experience with those vaccines is that the 1st those actually just most of the work with the 2nd this is being abused so most people respond the 1st is the 1st as well as use

a sufficient sufficient immunity that commute for the bees to exposure the virus in the population rise of a 2nd those ready but but this is not how they were designed certainly by and take pfizer already mentioned that they they have been dubious about extending the period between those wanted to doze to so how big is the risk that extending the period between the 1st of the 2nd gap or reducing the vaccine dennis' which is also talked about that that creates a vaccine resistant strain of the virus. here so this is a theoretical risk because you don't have complete immunity but this this fact mr nugent can even arise the 2 doses so if you suppress replications fission really won't those the risk of that mutant arising is a lot less of the notice of the top so if you know this whole the population 2 doses of the hope of nothing is also a risk nuisance may arise not in the hall where there's no vaccine protection at

all so the risks are relative and i don't think they'll be any worse with just one dose was no dose to what you know of the population essentially all right well there are various kinds of vaccines so before we go on let's just take a look at some of these different kinds because one is created with the activated or dead parts of the virus another one is called the vector vaccine and it uses another harmless life virus as a carrier to transport the genes from the dangerous virus into cells in the recipient's body the immune system then detects the offending protein and creates antibodies. and then there is or there are big scenes that use messenger r.n.a. a part of the genetic viral code and these vaccines prompt cells in the recipient to produce viral proteins themselves which in turn then provoke an immune system. so with that in the back of our mind julian tang from from the university of

leicester there is talk about combining different vaccines to make up for shortages or even boosting vaccines if it is a is that safe has the been done before. so we've got some experience with the new macbook about since we have perth nar 7 since rex $10.13 mixing and matching is on the doses certainly in singapore though in that without a trial if the box is thought the same antigen the s. protein with a little m.r. nay or primary and the virus or even supply protein vaccines like the flu. vaccine design i think the minister even if it is the will be fine do you feel that people will trust this kind because this this is all going extremely fast and on the fact that we have a vaccine already within a year do you think that people will trust all those different combinations. so they will not explain to the people and make them understand more about the

vaccines to give him the confidence that in fact what we do is just delivering the same antigen and use the same immune response with just slightly different areas and the carriers shouldn't really make that much difference to the current is just in just immune response to react even more against that particular antigen and delivering it in a different way to the body to produce the same immune response the same integer to predict protect against the same virus so if you explain this to people trying to understand that we listened to strategist just like with anything all right and do we actually know how long immunity will last once we do get vaccinated. so some of the studies do have long term follow ups and overturn has long term follow up a few 100 days after senator vaccine has follow 250 days in the face you can go trials protection against this is no boxing versatile against water infection for at least 5 months so we do have some long term follow up for that

data and of course the longer you leave it the longer the minutes the more immunity will wane and then that's what a 2nd dose at 3 months is going to come in all right julian tanka honorary associate professor and clinical neurologist at the university of leicester thank you so much. know what most of us conned way to finally be immune to this virus speed for 100 days 150 all maybe up to 3 months there are still tons of questions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines available and he has one such question you sent to a science correspondent stan mcwilliams. that scenes prevent infections entirely are do they just reduce your symptoms if you catch the virus. ok to answer this we need to go over the basics of how immune response works in a healthy adult immunologists distinguish between 2 different aspects of it the

inmate and the it down to veneer and responses and you can think of the innate response as as kind of the body's shock troops its different components react quickly and and nonspecifically to invaders especially those the body has never encountered before new pathogens also set an adaptive response in motion as the body learns to home in on the invader churning out antibodies to flag so so highly specific killer cells can can recognize and and dispose of it the adaptive response which takes time to care can also retains a memory of the invader that allows the body to respond quickly if it ever encounters the same pathogen again and you become immune to it however in new is kind of a loose term it just means that you are resistant to developing the symptoms of the disease again after having it once or being vaccinated for it but that doesn't

necessarily exclude the idea that if you are exposed after that you could actually carry the virus for a while or maybe even transmit it just not develop symptoms because you are adaptive immune system jumps on it pretty quickly the real holy grail. vaccine development is what's called sterilizing immunity that's one of a very rapid immune response whitesell the invaders subsequently so fast that it has practically no time to reproduce although trials in approved vaccines show that they mostly prevented vaccinated people from from getting ill those trials board set up to show whether people acquired sterilizing immunity until we collect more data on that even people who receive the vaccine should therefore go on the assumption that even if they are very unlikely to develop symptoms after an exposure they might still be contagious to others.

so it's all about collecting and analyzing data and i'm sure you still have tons of questions about the corona virus so keep your questions coming derek will be back tomorrow to send an e-mail to feedback dr english out to deal with you dr khan the type expert in the subject line or leave a comment thanks for watching. to

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. the bag. this is deja vu news live from berlin criticized across the world for stoking the storming of the capitol building u.s. president donald trump now condemns the rioters. to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent your country but that is too little too late for democrats they want the president out now before inauguration day. also coming up the e.u. doubles its order of the violent tax pfizer vaccine adding another $300000000.00.