lead a. lifestyle you're a. g.w. . person a drama competition rivalry marketing numbers atmosphere power fight that's how intuition and love hate money. stands prime's 5 spams and friends all. go off on you tube join us. u.s. president elect joe biden and they have a massive stimulus plan one point tonight trillion dollars to pump life back into the coronavirus the u.s. economy if congress supports the plan also coming up the uncertain future of a highly controversial energy project work on the north stream to pipeline may or

may not resume as planned we talked to our chief international editor from one. of you to try to a smartphone that's made in germany we show you what's on the. bottom to do the business i want to get johnsonville in as always good to have you with us now less than a week before his inauguration u.s. president elect joe biden has rolled out his american rescue plan to prop up the u.s. economy which has been his hard by the coronavirus pandemic and central to the stimulus package is a direct payment of $1400.00 for every american citizen now that adage to the 6 $100.00 checks already agreed this equals the $2000.00 checks outgoing president trump originally wanted and didn't get also in the rescue package $400.00 more per week in unemployment paid targeted at millions who lost their jobs in

recent months and the minimum wage is set to rise to $15.00 per hour now there will be also additional money for state schools and for a national vaccination program as well as expanded testing to come back to cope with 19 but the price tag for the whole plan a whopping $1.00 trillion dollars an amount of that joe biden says is absolutely necessary to spend no what i just described has not come cheap. the failure to do so will cost us $2.00. the consensus among lead economists is we simply can not afford not to do what i'm proposing. all right let's talk a little bit more about that now with our financial correspondent corner standing by for us of the frankfurt stock exchange khana good to see you so we just heard that if passed by congress we're talking about $1.00 trillion u.s. dollars what kind of impact would this have on the economy and would it actually be

enough. when monica the amount is huge dealy $2000000000.00 u.s. dollars that is if this is not a trillion images or if i can a conference i don't know trillion we're talking about yes really and 11.9 trillion u.s. dollars that's $1900000000000.00 and i can't imagine 1000000000 i can't even imagine billions but a trillion is like number a way out of my imagination so it's a huge amount of money and if that doesn't help i don't know what would help in order to help the economy this money is supposed to stabilize american households many of them of course are struggling to pay for housing many have to sell their cars both having a roof over your head and owning a car are preconditions for many americans in order to be able to go to work so this is where the stabilizing its effect is expected of course the wall will also

be boosting effect for the economy and what's very important that a lot of the money will be spent on an improvement of the culvert $19.00 vaccinations in the u.s. only if the u.s. manages to get the virus under control and reduce its risk then the economy can restart. ok i wasn't in frankfurt there and me intervening there just shows what an amazing amount of money that is very very difficult to imagine god was no friend for thank you so much for this. now work on the controversial north stream 2 was due to resume today despite the u.s. threatening sanctions then the consortium in charge announced they'll be a delay and even this announcement has now been challenged on this back and forth seems symbolic for a pipeline which will deliver gas from russia to europe and which is one of the continent's most controversial projects. about 150 kilometers to go

just before the end of the year the north stream 2 consortium said it had completed laying pipes for the project in german waters work is to continue in danish territory but the project has turned into much more than an engineering challenge. a 1200 kilometer underwater dual pipeline north stream one has been delivering natural gas from russia to germany since 2011 north stream 2 was to start operating last year it's nearly completed but construction work has been disrupted in recent months. that's a no small part due to harsh criticism by the us government the trump administration insists north stream to undermines europe's overall energy security and provide to russia with a dangerous amount of leverage also the us is eager to increase its own natural gas sales as a result washington has been threatening to impose sanctions on companies that are

involved in north stream 2. in germany the state government of mecca and burke western pomerania has created a foundation to promote natural gas as an environmentally friendly bridging technology. but the foundation will also purchase essential equipment from north stream to aiming to guard companies that are part of it from sanctions. yeah for more let's bring indeed obvious chief international editor richard walker richard i am very much confused can you please bring us up to date so what is resumed or is not resumed or is delayed what is going on. well the company itself the consortium is playing this down simply saying that it now has the green light to resume construction but that technical checks needed before it actually gets on with that but it was very very hazy about when that construction would actually receive you so it really does raise the question whether something else may be

involved here as we heard in in the report there any money of many any number of reasons that could be involved you know 1st and foremost really this threat of sanctions which is still very present the united states strongly opposed to this project and has threatened sanctions on companies that get involved in it in any way and not just you know things like installing pikes but even you know providing services such as insurance to the projects so it's possible that that is a factor in what's going on the moment right and we were talking about a european energy project it is controversial granted but what's brought what brought to this this disabused out to a head in the 1st place. yeah i mean it's controversial many levels of course environmental in terms of the business case but us it's hard it's really geo political dispute that we're talking about here now for donald trump this was a real slap in the face for the united states he said wind should europe expect the

united states to spend billions of dollars have 3 year on europe's defense through nato at the same time as europe is spending billions of euros every year buying natural gas from russia and increasing its dependency on russia but it's important to stress that it's not just donald trump opposition here there's wide opposition in the united states to this project and joe biden himself the incoming u.s. president has been critical of it in the past plus it's not just controversial in the u.s. it's also here in europe eastern european countries particularly critical of it countries that feel vulnerable towards russia now the german government position has always been kind of tuneful 1st it says that you know this is a commercial project qantas weighed in and pull the plug on it and secondly it says it won't be over reliant on russian gas through this project but it is diversified

well certainly controversial and with half a minute to go richard talk a little bit about this foundation how can it shield companies involved in north stream to from u.s. sanctions. yeah extraordinary steps from the foundation ostensibly for environmental protection but apparently also a conduit for funding from the north stream consortium to wardes companies that would be involved in building it or to shield those companies from any sanctions that could be on the way opponents of this say that it's really a matter for negotiations between the government kind of legal trickery as this appears to be in critical ice is not the way to handle a dispute of this magnitude all right well we'll certainly keep an eye on this search of international editor richard walker thank you so much for that. well time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news general electric is suing german rival siemens energy and they alleging it exploited its trade secrets the

story goes back to 2019 when the companies were competing on a large contract for gas turbines siemens maintains it has done nothing wrong. delta airlines lost 12000000000 dollars last year due to the pandemic while the u.s. carrier is hoping bookings will pick up as vaccine dollars continue look at if international business travel is expected to recover those lonely. now we announce it at the beginning the global smartphone market is many dominated by products from asia and the u.s. but did you know that there are also smart phones made in germany and they're sustainable to. silicon valley it isn't but the little german village of is home to high and sustainable mobile phone technology brothers karsten and samuel of all that are media designers who are unhappy with the big smartphone makers and so shift was born. in some few dimensions people said we were

crazy when we started shipping. how they said it won't work it can't you can't make smart phones in such small numbers designed in germany and made on a small their production line in china it's not possible to go into. the snake. well it's been possible for 6 years now with investors and so far the 2 brothers have sold 60000 mobile phones mainly in german speaking countries your design. we use repair statistics design our gadgets and that's important because we want to make sure our devices last as long as possible shifts battery and components are easily replaced that makes the phones long lasting on top of that shift buys back used phones and sells them on this stand over model helps the company's 40 employees generate 7000000 euros in sales last year

before i'm going to do is to move toward not interested in making a stack of money we want healthy growth and if that means operating in his needs then that's fine but we do see that we're gathering a considerable following an outsider sustainability. and. its mission that could perhaps be because shifts are not pairs well with other brands and if set up right collects far less data than standard google android gadgets grows and . that's why we've got shift o. s. lately it's basically the same operating system but without google services. the regional consumer protection agent philip pelts has come across shift phones a few times the same with a fair phone even if the 2 companies are small operations he says they're important . it's really great we've got these 2 phone makers they prove it can be done sustainably that the things can be easily repaired that you don't have to rely on

android's market dominance that you can impact their sales. of all their brothers have other projects in mind a touch pad with an innovative keyboard hits the market this year and they want to turn their village into a tech hub. this house will soon be converted into co-working spaces and a shop. and as you business up to the you at this hour you can always find out more on our website of course d w dot com slash business for me in the team thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus 10 damage. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update. on t w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most

successful radio drama series continues this season for stories focus on hate speech color of prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of his suits are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now. blood plasma is saving the lives of people with coke at 19 but there isn't enough of it. that's why scientists have been trying to recreate the antibodies it contains in the lap and they've done it. they've developed defensive proteins that can successfully fight off coronavirus the us president was

even treated with them. but these antibody drugs aren't in wide use even though they could make the difference between life and death. all sounds great we still don't have definitive dr but trials are set to get underway like so much of this crisis it's learning by doing and it's thanks to some brilliant minds from the world of science. this blood plasma can stop a coronavirus infection in its tracks the antibodies of recovered patients can be used to treat people with covered 19 it's already proven effective for patients including lute who does she. one point was at the start i was very sick my wife sent me here in an ambulance i spent 2 days in the normal ward but then they decided to send me to intensive care and i was just drained and. yeah my.

bluetooth condition became so severe that he was placed on a ventilator and it was then that dr how burned his team gave him plasma from a recovered patient and had the patient receive the plasma after his risperidone condition and his lung function to terri aerated significantly within a day or 2 he stabilized and we were able to take away the breathing support. to get the plasma you need blood donors who have already survived covered 19 their blood has neutralizing antibodies that can render the coronavirus harmless. the plasma is given to the patient through a transfusion then the antibodies within it get to work fighting the virus before the patient's immune system has produced enough defensive proteins of its own. the class clearly did the trick for lou to duchy but the successes remain isolated cases and the general effectiveness is yet to be proven in studies over doctors say

plasma therapy is helping the most severely ill patients. many doctors would like to use plasma more often ideally giving it to patients in the early stages of the disease when it's likely to work best but the problem is there isn't enough of it. to realize that everyone who recovers from corona virus has a different amount of antibodies in their blood only those with a high level can be suitable donors. but can the antibodies be produced without the need for a donor that's exactly what researchers in braunschweig are working on. evolution in addition to contains an entire gene library so a collection of genetic material in acca lection we have 10000000000 different genes that's the entire repertoire of what our body has available to produce

antibodies. to be. in this gene library the scientists found an antibody that works perfectly against sasco 2 in lab tests it completely prevented the human cells from being attacked they were then able to reproduce the antibody based on its genetic blueprint and produce the 1st dose of that antibody drug. it has major advantages over the plasma therapy because it can be manufactured in large quantities and as a consistent quality with the right funding human trials of the teams drug could begin as soon as next month in the scientists work can begin to save lives. and let's talk to stefan jubal who featured in that report we just saw you holding up a chip to the camera what was in there. actually this very small vial contains literally the complete immune reaction of mankind in respect to 20 bodies so more than 100 people from all over the globe donated blood and be

extracted from their blood the blueprints to build antibodies against almost everything so more than 10000000000 different blueprints in form of genetic code for antibodies against different diseases are in this wild and my letter atory has now developed a technology to identify one specific antibody which binds to sascoc to for example or to other viruses so this antibody can then neutralize the virus and can be used as a doc to fight the disease and it's a molecule which is made in our own bodies so it's not a chemical or not an artificial substance it's a molecule which is identical to the one which is in our body anyway if we get the infection can you briefly briefly let me in on a secret had how did you actually pinpoint that out of how many did you say 10000000000. how did you do that. it's

a trick which i co-invented about 30 years ago together with some other people and it's a. trick where we managed to connect the blue print though the genetic information to the function which is the proteins in front of not all particles so we have 10000000000 different not all particles which can be then selected by a simple. experiment. for the binding itself and when you have the binding of the protein it has the genetic information inspect back and be done but get it back and isolate their own and get the underbody so you've managed to produce antibodies otherwise only found in the blood plasma of covert survivors are they just as good though. well that has to be of course has to be shown in the clinical studies but in principle our antibody is derived

from the blood of patients and performed in the plot. and performed in the experiments we did in the preclinical studies very very effective and neutralized the antibody in the lungs and it 100 percent protected. against infection so it's very efficient in respect of protecting against to what about these clinical studies of anybody therapies that show severe side effects like the overreaction of the immune system how can you prevent that this is a very important point and we thought of that since the beginning of the design of our own to eat of our antibody and we managed actually to address this problem by changing the signal it part of the n.t. body a little bit by a logical means so that we completely avoid the simulation of this overreaction

so in the clinic we expect not to see any of these overreactions which are seen in the other antibodies and just tell me briefly do antibody treatments provide long term protection against the virus they provide immediate protection which is different from the back side but then they only last for about one to 3 months and have to be repeated but they can be given repeatedly 100 thank you very much interesting stuff and congratulations on your work and take a look at some of the other corona related stories making news preliminary results from a study show recovering from covert protects against infection for at least 5 months public health england trying to $20000.00 health care workers and found a previous infection provided 83 percent immunity similar to a vaccine. the world health organization is looking at introducing covert 19 vaccination passports for travelers some countries are already trialing them

critics call the passports discriminatory and w.h.o. scientists are now in the chinese city of new plan to investigate the origins of the pandemic the long delayed trip follows months of diplomatic wrangling beijing argues the virus may not have originated in the southwest as scientists suspect. of it out to our science correspondent derek williams if you've got a question here's the email feedback dot english at the w dot com type expert in the subject line or leave a comment on our you tube channel. if you get a 1st vaccine shot made by one developer what happens if your 2nd shot is from a different developer. as the pandemic reaches a really critical stage in many countries in one of them britain health authorities have changed some rules on how they're going to vaccinate. one of them was this

that for the 2nd shot in a 2 shot regime in some rare and exceptional circumstances for example that the individual concerned as they ought to be immediate high risk vaccinators will be allowed to mix and match vaccines if they don't have any more of the product from the 1st shot so just to clarify there are 3 candidates currently approved for use in the u.k. from pfizer biotech from a donor and from astra zeneca and they all require 2 shots of the same vaccine to work as well as trials demonstrated this decision means that if someone there gets the 1st shot say of the madonna vaccine when they come back for the 2nd one they could theoretically receive one made for example by astra zeneca if the authorities have run out of the madonna vaccine the thing is nobody yet knows exactly what kind

of impact that could have because there have been no mix and match trials on each manufacturer carried out their own trials involving only 2 doses of their own product so the question of how interchangeable they are is really wide open one american professor told the new york times that in his view the british authorities in the current emergency were trying to guess their way out of the mess the british guidelines however call the move reasonable since in different ways all 3 vaccines target the same area on the virus what's called the spike protein and experts in the u.k. think a 2nd dose of any other approved vaccine would be better than no so. is that all i'm to be honest i don't know enough about vaccine science to make any confident predictions and opinions among those who do know enough are divided but i can say i think basing decisions like this on on the reasonable assumptions rather than on

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