so americans are being asked to wear masks for the next 100 days travelers flying to the u.s. will need to quarantine on arrival. you're watching news up next is steven beardsley with a huge business news stick around he will be right back. to . the top. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons. there are many answers.

and there are many stories. make up your. job made for mines. but other week another dispiriting number of jobless claims in the u.s. 900000 americans filing for the 1st time according to the latest figures which call as the country struggles with a pandemic well look at the market reaction and we'll speak with former u.s. labor secretary robert reich. welcome to the show stephen beardsley in berlin. it's

good to have you with us really 1000000 americans filed new applications for unemployment benefits last week that's down slightly from the week before but it's still well above the single worst week of the great recession the number of new claims swells to 1400000 with adjusted to include government funded programs for the self-employed good workers and others who don't qualify for the regular state unemployment programs the services sector has been especially hard hit during the pendency affecting lower wage earners in particular who are look more likely to be women and minorities. now for more on this we turn to our financial correspondent in new york ian's korda. about 900000 new claims is what we're hearing put this into perspective for us if the numbers came in a bit better than expected but clearly there are strong recoveries that we didn't see in the labor market over the summer months has definitely stalled and there are still about 16000000 americans who depend on benefits on

a regular basis but the one thing is all this statistics the other is what's really going on in the country if i look at one of my neighbors for example he can't afford his rent anymore so he moved out and to refurbish in our view from a friend and live somewhere in the hudson valley another neighbor who lives works i mean the advertising industry his salary got to cut down to 40 percent he's still lucky he mentioned to me that at least he still gets some health insurance and his wife who is it was a musician that has not no work basically since last spring thaw in their hold of those stories and that definitely underscores how important and how extremely dire the situation still is sent to a lot of work needs to be done all right yes court in new york thank you very much . earlier today i sat down with robert reich she's former us secretary of labor under bill clinton and a professor of public policy at the university of california berkeley we talked

about the future of jobs in america after the pandemic and why rush believes the u.s. needs to spend big very big to prepare for the future that's coming take a listen. professor thank you very much for joining me once again we've seen a high number of jobless claims this week is it fair to say that some jobs aren't coming back anytime soon even if we do have a vaccine recovery in the near future. absolutely there are many jobs that are simply gone forever some of them in retail some of them in other service industries some of the jobs that are gone forever are in small businesses that simply have collapsed and so it's i think a little bit of a mythology to believe that once the coronavirus is behind us the economy will suddenly bounce back to life it's going to be a rather bumpy road that seems of a lot of implications for worker training what does that mean for the stimulus

packages as you've seen them propose that is the biden proposal is 1 point one trillion is that enough to contain the measures necessary. it's good for the next 6 months that is it will help tide people over and till the economy has a good chance of getting back on track but it's not a permanent solution or it's not even a long term solution to what we're now experiencing it i believe we need to reach deeper and farther and be bolder in terms of restructuring the economy creating a brand new economy in many sectors if we're talking about green technologies wind turbines and solar panels and the rest if we're talking about medical technologies the importance of changing our health care system if we're talking about education that is not just a matter of technology but about a restructuring our educational system all of that requires fundamental change and

also fundamental reform and i believe the by the ministration needs to be as bold as is possible it also requires a lot of money a lot of debt that's of course one thing that opponents are going to rally together on what do you say to those concerns. debt is not a concern and should not be a concern there's no sign of inflation we have huge amount of underutilized resources not only people but also real estate structures we have in this country the capacity to grow dramatically without igniting inflation the other point is that many of the kinds of spending that i'm suggesting are really investments in the future productivity of the country infrastructure for example or education if you don't make those investments actually you have slower growth than if you do and if you have faster growth because you made those investments that

shrinks the debt as a portion of the total economy. what kind of spending could you foresee then after this $1.00 trillion assuming that even passes which itself is of course in question if you had your druthers what kind of spending would there be or could you imagine for the next 6 months year whatever well the biggest after coronavirus the biggest goal is both infrastructure that is roads bridges everything including the energy infrastructure of the country but also education and nor missed deficiencies in education and health care now if they are big enough i'm not suggesting that the by the ministration do everything all at once but what it does do has got to be significantly big and bold to make a difference in people's lives and there is such a deficit of public investments over the last not just 4 years of donald trump but really over the last 102030 years that the public needs

a great deal of help and support for business as opposed to make that investment with a trumped trump tax cuts while they were but they don't businesses you know the the mythology i would have expected by now that american policymakers as well as policy makers the world over would understand that so called supply side economics is bunk nothing trickles down you give businesses tax cuts you give the wealthy tax cuts subsidies bailouts with the expectation mythologically that somehow all the rest of american workers are going to be better but that never happens we've seen all the way back to donald. ronald reagan and ronald reagan's huge tax cuts for business they did not spur average incomes in fact for the last 40 years in the united states the typical worker if you adjust for inflation has not

had an income increase whatsoever. were there not some gains by blacks and women especially through the trauma economy that came after that stimulus whether or not some gains in terms of market participation labor market suspicion yes but that was primarily because unemployment got down to around 3 and a half percent if you can get unemployment down very very low if the economy can be moved and moving at a very very very fast speed then you can see some labor market gains and wage gains for people in the bottom half it also happened in the 1990 s. when unemployment got down to 3 percent a lot of the fears the policymakers have had over the last several decades about low unemployment igniting inflation if they were justified 2 or 3 decades ago they're certainly not justified any longer. of course we talk

a lot about income inequality that's one subject that you're really passionate about is there a contradiction between bringing back jobs quickly which of course is the concern as we recover from this from the spending and making sure that there are good jobs . there is a little bit of attention obviously and that's why i am advocating a restructuring of the economy don't just bringing back old jobs because a lot of those old jobs cannot be brought back but really rethinking and re-imagining whole sectors of the economy such as energy health care and so forth but by the same token there are many things that government can do to provide wage supplements for example we have something called the earned income tax credit which is a wage supplement it's kind of a reverse income tax that can be expanded we can also provide a universal basic income something that many countries are looking at the united

states has not taken it terribly seriously as of yet but there should be a subsistence income available to all people because poverty is a drag on the economy it's a drag on society and also it's a humanitarian disgrace or i'm afraid what leave it there even of us is a fascinating topic robert raj former labor secretary and professor at u.c. california at berkeley thank you very much for joining us. thank you. all right from the u.s. to a very different system cuba's communist government now for decades the nation has deeply subsidized many expenses for normal cubans regardless of their employment status but this year the government is implementing a deep financial reform that among other things reduces subsidies to many this has come as a shock. just $0.75 that's how much cubans would pay for a monthly basket filled with $19.00 basic products like meat coffee eggs and soap that was until the end of last year now the prices increased almost 10 fold and it

doesn't end there. well riding the city bus now costs to pay so electricity and many other things have also become more expensive it's shocking. to government is increasing prices in the hope of boosting productivity and the economy 7000000 cubans are of working age but around 40 percent of them are not looking for employment getting by on what the state provides them officials hope the higher prices will motivate many people to enter the workforce where they can look forward to higher wages also only the cuban peso will remain in circulation. by eliminating these universal subsidies the government is sending a signal. if you want to be in a moderately comfortable situation you have to get a job. with. the changes come as cuba

struggles with the coronavirus pandemic which has crippled the communist island vital tourism sector the u.s. trump administration sanctions have also weighed on the economy with cuba's g.d.p. for last year expected to drop by 11 percent. right that's it for me and the business. as always you can find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business. also facebook twitter it's watched. conflicts in terms of feel in britain kids just free trade deal for the post directly to you now at least in the u.k. there are some a couple of realities to deal with one just this week from aberdeen scotland is down to bali conservative m.p. and vice chairman of the conservative party was boris josue so you can only go over

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pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of the code of special monday to friday on t.w. . the year. this is deja vu news africa coming up on the program struggling to deal with the pandemic south africa is vastly in the 2nd wave of coover 1000 infections hospitals are bearing the brunt some even having to set up tents outside to care for patients also coming up. the u.n. says fighting in a few just to grab a region has caused a humanitarian crisis where food and water i shot some plastic and. with

less than a 100 left in the wild these mountain bungalows in kenya are close to extinction but conservationists are doing all they can to prevent that. you're welcome to the program in south africa take over 1000 mutation is wrecking havoc hospitals on cemeteries struggle to cope with the 2nd wave in recent weeks john is very that dead like never before the number of daily infections that's on hospital admissions has almost doubled when compared to the friends wave i want to hospital in south africa's capital of pretoria has been pushed to the extreme. of reports. steve biko academic course is

a specialized institution that includes on the complicated medical cases these patients are usually could call cases and 3rd by other hospitals and so it is not normally expected to fill up however the 19 has placed it to the meat and the lick of space means some patients have to be treated outside as that number has doubled that his tent the parking lot into a fully fledged case one to one with medical procedures carrying on just as there would be inside once they is a back on bed inside the building some patients at take it in one others other faiths to other health institutions hospital authorities say putting patients in tents is a decision that was not taken lightly he came not. to my g.p. for talking to the same last thing to keep saying to you should i keep him and

i think this thing just stops you from eating anything otherwise but does across the country experiencing the same question and and now increasing the number of beds. the government is also activating field hospitals set up during the steps to waive that up an increase in $1000.00 infections and hospitalization as authorities by surprise this surge came march 1st then we had to secrete it and it became worse than we actually knew she had expected the number of those dying from 19 has also doubled across the country putting immense pressure on an attack as decision to go. is very very worst when you board. your courtship of 45 are a lot of 45 some experts believe there are still tough challenges. head shall be

demanded of this it officer from cosmic moves citizens to brace for the west since that it is known about the new variant in the current wave of infections. get the 2nd rave probably is going to be more severe than the 1st. the number of people going through the number of people. as yet if the number of people that might die from quote 19 when the 1st bit of the facts is expected to arrive at the end of this month. we get to see 10 to one no one in that i could not. aid agencies are raising concerns about that diane humanitarian situation that has resulted from the conflict in ethiopia. there are reports that civilians are dying from a lack of healthcare services. this feast food and water shortages thousands of died and more than 300000 people have fled their homes since the war began in november

2020 let's talk more about this with chris meltzer senior external relations officer with the u.n. it's yeah in ethiopia hello chris welcome to the program now i understand you just arrived from. tell us more about the situation on the ground. where it's a dire situation for the people there not only the refugees but we actually signed between the long run. out of. the refugees. declared that they had no food they still have no clean water but at least they were not in the center of the comet in the northern part we still have no access so we can't really say we can't can see with our own eyes what's going on there but all the reports we are receiving from refugees and people they are very disturbing . it's it's a bit disturbing hearing that you do not have access to actually help the people in

need but for what you know what help do the people need to survive. well the 1st thing is of course food and clean water and we were able to distribute it with our very important partners the world food program the suit for the 2 southern kansas for something and thousands of your future east but they are still at least 20000 refugees in the north and they have no food and no access to any help and we have even heard that they are eating tree bark out of this for a show. or i don't even know what response to give to that and then when you say you don't have access to actually give support what then is the government doing why is the government blocking aid 1st of all and even what i'm doing. what the government is a part not and superman country so what are we doing here we need truth of the

government of course it's for us always too slow always too little this is how rich the agency is really agency the government and sales needs time to to get through or something. but we hope it's getting better and it least we have not 2 of the 4 cams fixes but of course we want to have access to all refugees because they are really in a dire situation in the definitely help so considering how dire the situation is how long can this goal for for those that are suffering can do go without enough food and enough portable water. well we hope that we can provide for the 2 southern camps food in the states maybe maybe even today or tomorrow so the concourse on the way and also since they are new to the stations

from the from the from the conflict we also think that the infrastructure is good enough to provide clean water very soon for the 2 southern camps but again this year we really have to distinguish nearly 27 of the 2 northern cams so the situation around the city of. this is very desperate and we just have no idea when we will have access to the refugees when we can finally go. 20 seconds do you are you confident that there's light at the end of the tunnel. otherwise i would be wrong in this job but yes there is light at the end of the tunnel because it's getting better every day but it's of course too slow and for the refugees every day every hour counts ok chris moyles a senior external relations officer with the u.n. in syria and it's you via many thanks for your insights. let's now take a look at some of our stories making headlines across the continent. ugandan

opposition leader robert struggle and popularly called the wine has filed a petition to the country's high court as well as econ playing to to the un protesting his the throttle house arrest security forces have confined juggling need to his residence in the capital kampala since friday after you gunness elections which he lost to the long 7 presidents where 70. the un is calling for emergency humanitarian aid to help more than a 1000000 people in south and madagascar who are suffering the west drought in a decade as a solution has been made whereas vatican over 1000 pandemic and the results and lock downs which i've driven up unemployment. and now requires travelers from brazil and portugal to undergo monday cheek over 1000 testing on our rival one that airport this is in response to a new variant of the corona virus from sunday flights from those 2 nations on south

africa will be suspended until the fiction reads under control. to kenya now where an animal that was once found in abundance is teetering on the brink of extinction now this behind me is the mountain boom and i'd say yes of decline of the hands of humans there are fewer than 100 left in the wild but all hope is not lost conservationists are taking the unusual step of bringing booze back from zoos to try to build in new wilds of elation. they are gentle but so so elusive picking their way through the undergrowth mountain bongos with their white stripes and spiral horns their forest antelopes found in the wild only in kenya and even here there are a rare sight. the initial move that species led people to hunt

it is a sport on tests and it will from lead to a normal capture and treat we can we tap in to read a lot of bone was being kept out from here and being treated to zoos particularly in the united states. beyond being hunted and captured for their horns bush meat or prized coat the mountain bongos grazing grounds have been every day in recent decades taken over further by humans and their livestock that's why with less than 100 mountain bongos left in the wild specialized breeding efforts have come to the rescue like using bongos brought back to kenya from zoos in the united states. and it's working. in the last 5 years we had more than 70 business so all population is healthy and is the future

for kenya to be able to release some of the morning the wild as it is defined in the national strategy that national strategy also defines the need to have places to re wild the mountain bongos that are bred and reared here new conservancy has helped but kenya like so many countries in africa and the world has far to go to ensure the recovery of one of its prize animal species. just like the mountain but this is where we jump out of the show. stars go to d.w. dot com slash africa or check out facebook and twitter pages we leave you with these pics as 42 of us city where thousands this week come and read said jesus optimism in the river jordan mark in the office christian holiday office funny also known us some cut next time by.

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with her fame and later on our culture. singer songwriter. her. just out of. number one and number 2 on amazon in the us that was right after. the president. and by the way. a poet steps up to the microphone and the whole world listens is amanda gorman was the star of the inauguration stealing the show from the politicians and pop luminaries who came

before her through the sheer power of her words being american is more than a pride we inherit it's the past we step into and how we repair it. the 22 year old told reporters that her inauguration poem had been influenced by the violent scenes at the capitol on wednesday january 6th. i wanted it to be a message of hope in the unity and i think that wednesday for me really just underscore how much that was needed but to not turn a blind eye to the cracks really needs. her work deals with racism feminism and repression she sees her poetry as activism but on this day hope center stage for there was always like if only were brave enough to see it if only were brave enough to be a. this was

a big day not only for the new president joe biden but also for amanda gorman. the young poet from los angeles touched hearts at a moment when many in the u.s. are yearning for healing and unity. amanda gorman and overnight sensation i'm joined by my colleague adrian kennedy for more enduring what do we know about her well she she's not completely unknown she was of course the youth the youth poet nori it's in 27 saying when that program started the very 1st one that was quite an achievement to win that national competition held at the library of congress was still a teenager over the last year or so she has also written stirring poems on various occasions thanksgiving independence day and as a response to the black lives matter protests poems that were board cost on the major networks morning show but of course the research contribution to the

inauguration of joe biden that's now catapulted her into the public consciousness that's why you mentioned her 2 books going to the top of the box charts. twitter account went from $50000.00 followers before the inauguration to more than a 1000000 in less than 24 hours so a whole new level of fame wow and of course she was $22.00 so her instagram blew up as well here she is reacting. literally. not a gleam not. followers and can't even post any and have an. angel support coming via the apps it's been. very excited i think it's actually more than 2000000 now goldman also posted pictures of her mother who is of course referenced in the poem with the line a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by

a single mother she showed her mom giving on the heels of. story are very very human and here's her with the clintons hillary clinton later tweeted about the young poets stated desire to run for president in 2036 saying i can't wait well an amazing day for gore a man who clearly has a lot of charisma her poem very big hill we climb also demands attention with listen in to another key moment. we are striving to florence or union with purpose to compose a country committed to all cultures colors characters in conditions of man and so we lift our gaze it's not what stands between us but what stands before us we close the divide because we know to put our 1st we must 1st put our

differences aside we lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another we seek harm it's quite a performance and what really struck me is how she stressed that america is this unfinished project yes and also democracy is an unfinished project another line was democracy can be periodically delayed it can never be defeated so this idea this philosophers idea of a democracy that has to be constantly reforged. also have echoes of langston hughes his poem that america be america again goldman said she also studied martin luther king before writing a poem i think that shines through and she was wearing a cape. ring in order of the poet maya angelou and she obviously has been blowing up the internet but she is not the only one adrian there was some idle chatter about a few others too there were

a lot of maims for example of left leaning senator bernie sanders who was a democratic presidential candidate is very popular progressive he made an interesting fashion statement with his mittens people had a lot of fun with that and lady gaga was also a subject of conversation about her dress and whether she was channeling the hunger games mocking her. with the giant. but also plenty of praise for her impressive take on star spangled banner. amazing that a man the government even managed to put lady gaga in the shadows hosts the dream kennedy thanks so much thank you now to another young woman making headlines 17 year old disney star olivia rudd rigo her debut song driver's license hit us charts at number one this month and it just keeps breaking records.

grigory go now holds records for most requested song in a day on alexa and most streamed song in a week on spotify fueled by the songs popularity on tech talk. an art installation of pink seesaws stretching across the us mexico border has won a prize from london's design museum the temporary installation back in 2019 briefly allowed families on both sides of the border to play together the prize for its creators came as new u.s. president joe biden halted construction on the hotly debated barrier wall started by his predecessor donald trump. and china is marking the upcoming one year anniversary of the lock down with a huge propaganda exhibition celebrating the city's triumph over the coronavirus the people's republic has been working hard to control the narrative around the

anniversary it wants to portray the pandemics epicenter as a city reborn. well even if you don't know very name out as oboe you may have heard her music on t.v. series including grey's anatomy lovesick and dark the danish musician writes her tender melancholic pop song as a lark usually at night. when night falls in berlin on us all those starts getting created. in. the danish musician wrote most of her latest album myopia at night she walked the empty streets of her adopted home of berlin in search of inspiration.

i think i like the night because things. are in their way turned. into up with it so. it's also a time when you're alone with your own thoughts you can't run away from. sort of the moment of truth and i. will composers her songs by herself in her studio. the 39 year old often works in complete isolation just honest oboe a piano and the solitude of the night. can get this feeling that you are left all alone and everybody's forgotten about their so in

a way they can feel completely left alone in a way and i think i like that for making music. she often starts with an improvised melody. wrote that thought. like a story like somebody. telling story like this. construct their story around them in a day and then i was. jumping with it i'm going to pull. together what i mean there we have. the artist has released 4 studio albums since 2010 she hasn't burned up any charts

but she has gained a worldwide following with her delicate often melancholy songs they've been strained millions of times. combines classical instruments like the cello and piano with digital effects in her compositions sometimes her pitched voice is barely recognizable. the. the. in. the. for live appearances she arranges her nocturnal solo sessions as concert pieces to be performed with several other musicians here she rehearsals for a tour that was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic ready. we have been playing with other people. and they also i mean our ideas you have like. the p.a. . like it's not exactly something real tangible.

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