me and chefs who are having a very difficult time right now and put a spotlight on our profession and that's a good thing. with the pandemic raging on foodies will be unlikely to be able to book tables at his or any other restaurant any time soon. that's it from me on the news team for now chris cuffe that will bring in the business news in just a moment stay tuned for that and again you can always stay up to date on our website that state of any dot com will be back and i know and the next hour i'm rebecca because thanks for watching. it's about billions. it's a dollar an hour. it's about the foundation of the border. the new

silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network code so. china is promising its partners rich. but in europe there's a warning for except money from the new superpower will become dependent on it china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. i. the 10 demick made it possible working from home but the numbers of telecommuters in germany have been falling even with infection numbers rising the government wants to make working from home writes also on the show even in the us is coal country as the winds of change are blowing our reporter sees how wyoming is moving

to renewable energy. from chris colfer welcome to the program does germany need to rethink lockdown measures that's the question facing chancellor angela merkel as she's meeting with the regional leaders later today along with stricter limits on. movement companies could be required to allow their employees to work from home that's got bosses worried are calling it unsafe too expensive and often impossible and many people lack the technology meet. now with the number of covert 1000 cases soaring in germany political leaders companies and unions are promoting the idea that more employees should work from home in germany working from home used to be rare but that changed quickly after the 1st lockdown in spring soon almost 30 percent of employees where working from home that's according to a study by the hans buckler foundation but after the lock down that number fell to

16 percent and during the 2nd wave in winter it dropped even lower to 14 percent the number there is from industry to industry and software group s a p r r 90 percent of his workers do their job job from their kitchen table or their living room germany's largest insurer alianza it's around 70 percent and chemical giant buyer has 2 fifths of its employees working from home but germany's chemical industry association warns against a tighter lockdown after all vaccines and disinfectants can't be produced from home now let's get the latest on that from our financial correspondent chelsea delay me in frankfurt chelsea give us an idea which ideas specifically are political leaders floating here. well the main proposal is coming from the

labor minister here in germany and what he's proposed is basically instilling this right to home office and writing it into law as part of the general occupational and health safety law that covers offices of the general rule that determines what the health and safety standards are for offices this is obviously going to be very controversial because for one who needs to work from home what jobs can be done from home that's quite a subjective determination but also many industries are quite concerned about this as well so it is a proposal but it also is going to face a lot of backlash as you say if you do. those above past. leaders to these problems. well there's obviously a huge divergence between industries on this the tech industry for a while and has really embraced this home office idea and we've seen around the world some big tech giants like google moving all employees for the long term to

home office but there are other industries that just can't work from home as effectively especially here in germany the industrial industry the manufacturing side of the economy and we've seen really every major it manufacturing and industrial union come out saying that this would be really catastrophic to their industries as well we've heard from several unions and several business leaders that this would be much more difficult for small and medium sized businesses that haven't really set up the infrastructure and given the economic backdrop don't have the money to invest in home office right now just to deliver new friends thank you . experts from the london school of economics say that exports from britain to the european union are likely to shrink significantly that is they spied a new trade deal they say the 10 years have to resit sales and deliveries from the u.k. to countries are likely to be one 3rd lower over to see for exporters are already

frustrated parking 20 of their trucks near parliament on monday at issue are new lengthy customs procedures for shipment from britain to the e.u. . for businesses losing their catch now help cannot come soon enough take a look. scottish fisherman ian mcqueen would much rather be out on the water right now but what would be the use the language he catches are no longer reaching his main customers in the e.u. since bret's it became official he's only been out twice off the west coast of scotland. the forced. catch never go any farther. because the paperwork was. chipped it was written off it never made it never made it to the court and a life neil mcqueen's langoustines usually end up exclusively at fish markets in the e.u.

like here in bologna assume air france but at the moment hardly any cargo comes through from scotland since bret's it an array of additional paperwork is required including new health certificates for live catch no mistakes are allowed. to then correspond with the order travel. on the glory of the plane. and if the slightest if the paperwork doesn't notch up in the slightest way then it's rejected. many fishermen in scotland feel the same way as mcqueen in the scottish port town of oban there are a few trucks waiting for fish crabs or mussels destined for europe. but many fishermen like mcqueen want to wait and see if the problems can be solved before they send their precious cargo into the unknown. an entire region his nearly come to a standstill many people here are angry i think it's

a load of nonsense absolutely besides of the end of the line that. just had no help whatsoever bentley and all weather service for us and i'm trying and a lesson in the county even among the figures show can been mine 62 percent of the scottish population want it to mean what breaks it and this is exactly why the 1st . we know it just for the shellfish but for a lot of the projects from school and was going to you know. neal mcqueen usually works with 3 men now their future looks shaky. and prices. to get to where we were and it looks as if it's all just. going to have to. convince there's no easy fix additional bureaucracy is the least of new problems that come with bracks it for many fishermen in scotland and elsewhere there's no clear vision for what their

future will look like. now in europe hopes are running high that u.s. president joe biden will get rid of the record terrorists donald trump imposed on goods made in the e.u. but so far mr biden has been quiet on the topic and the next report in a serious journal looks at what comes after america 1st. as early as his 1st election campaign in 2016 donald trump has called the e.u. unfair citing the trade deficit at the start of his presidency the amount of goods the e.u. sold to the us was worth about $147000000000.00 more than the goods the us sold to the view to punish the e.u. for perceived trade abuses lushington slapped a bluff with steel and aluminum tariffs in 2018 and here's a related occupation that the high share of exports destroys american jobs trump singled out german carmakers in particular that's even though german automakers

have long since stopped exporting their cars from europe and instead produce them locally employing thousands of american workers despite repeated threats car tariffs never did materialize but the tariffs that did didn't accomplish much. i think there will be a lot more. you know mending relationships with previous allies such as to your in union but also multilateral approaches for common problems at the w t o level the world trade organization so overall a much more consistent a more predictable presidency in terms of trade and engagement ok so at the very least the tone is going to change under biden which is a start but it's also important to realize that transatlantic trade tensions did not start with donald trump in fact the e.u. and the u.s. have the longest running trade dispute in the world the boeing air bus aviation

subsidies dispute has been going on for. 16 years the european union and the united states claim that each others' airplane manufacturer is unfairly subsidized by the government therefore skewing competition in fact the 1st big move in trade policy after biden's election when it was announced was a further escalation of this conflict on nov 9th the e.u. moved to start imposing tariffs on u.s. imports worth $4000000000.00. the target list includes airplanes why inspirit frozen fish tractors suitcases and produce from onions to carries so for now it looks like america 1st will be followed by america 1st for now but its allies have come knocking already anyway hoping at the very least for america and friends sooner rather than later. gillette's in the u.s. state of wyoming is american as a self-proclaimed energy capital the fossil fuel industry has been the backbone of

the community for decades but now the winds of change all roaring through the form of clean energy generation. gillette has hit a rough patch coal mining here and elsewhere in wyoming provided a whopping 40 percent of the total electricity mix in the u.s. within the last 10 years that figure has dropped to 20 percent many tools for more prosperity mia memorabilia these days and things are not likely to get any better for the state's fossil fuel industries on the contrary president elect biden candidate biden said more than once that he intended to move the united states away from fossil fuels and we take him at his word and that's going to be tough and we will we will do all we can to fight it but the oil and gas industry in wyoming lost a 3rd of its jobs from 13000 down to 9000 in just one year the coal industry lost 2 and a half 1000 jobs within the last 4 years now only about 4500 people work in coal

a far cry from what once was i think we're not losers for a coal industry in particular it's going to be a tough 4 years at least however the changing face of wyoming is looking increasingly like this wind turbines as far as the eye can see the pacific or when park build the top what used to be the glen rock coal mine sports 158 wind turbines generating clean energy now warren buffett's holding company berkshire hathaway owns pacific corp it plans to invest a total of $6000000000.00 in wind and solar and while that sounds good but there is a problem clean energy doesn't generate enough new jobs and they tax revenue to offset the combined losses suffered by the declining fossil fuel industry back in july that the city is betting on technology and new research that will allow coal to become better carbon capture new coal products and hopefully a good working relationship with the incoming by the administration for the mayor

this will make them when there's. any give me the option because we are looking forward we have already been working with your part. vanity and if you take president like biden at his word i mean he just wants us all to work together so i take comfort in that because that's what i want to do. seems like it's not all gloom and doom for wyoming embracing change will be key. thanks for watching episodes of. their. us currency. 1720 imprisoned in pakistan's largest psychiatric hospital not all of them suffer from mental illness they are sick of domestic violence discarded by society and

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