smart way to go. read. this is deja news africa coming up on the program questionable democracy. with ugandan opposition leader bobby wine facing another weekend confined to his home rights groups call for an end to repression in the country. giving back despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on football leagues worldwide the nigerian stock inspires goals to follow in her footsteps and achieve their goals.

i'm told me a lot of ball glad you could join us there are growing calls for ugandan authorities today and the defacto house arrest of the country's opposition leader robert shadowline e popularly known as bobby wind has been unable to leave his home since january 14th after soldiers raided his property the military is now standing guard outside his compound while we one will have to wait until at least monday to learn whether his petition to remove them will be granted his lawyers say the confinement is a political ploy to stop him from appealing the results of last week's disputed elections which saw a long running president yoweri museveni elected to a 6th. mentally he is a he is a bit of a he is a competitor. physically like any other person with the united if would. to try to you. very strong and determined to rid uganda of the tyranny.

bobbie one supporters to our defiant though many feel intimidated some have said they are ready to demonstrate on the streets if called upon. the way their own way . is not accepted even. good. at this get something. now we have to wait and see what what he does. get something from the people. who are visit him and this group is. to get more on this i'm joined by r.e.m. jako of human rights watch r.e.m. is in can power for him thank you for joining us the government decides issues of national security relating to bobby wines confinement is that justified. i don't think it's justified. reason that the government has to confine but why not

any other. presidential candidate. after the elections. i think that if there is any reason to detain him he should be. due cause it should be followed and he should be arrested and charged. and. instead of what the government is doing which is it's a restriction on his rights the elections appear to be a done deal the internet which was off during the elections is partly restored what's the mood like currently in the country. i think the mood now is. also where is there's a sense of resignation people are moving on to their daily lives. we just constant it. not all government elections days after general elections and it was not what

the turnout i think mostly because people just want to continue with their lives people are very aware of what's going on with the wind it's been in the news almost on a daily basis but i think you go into a very accustomed to this kind of situation and you describe the situation human rights watch has been documented for example of the run up to the election and around the election those related violence and the abuses and of course we talked about the situation of bobby wine what do these events mean for democracy and human rights in uganda. well i think. the main message is that. the election season and process really wasn't free and fair caught him into providing an equal playing for playing field for the opposition not just by the wind but all of the other presidential candidates faced a number of hurdles just getting just accessing the coalition to to get them to to

hear that and so mute and that. that is obviously very problematic and shouldn't be the case should the. question do you place them in the space where the last 4 elections. all rights are a miracle of human rights watch in uganda in kampala the capital city thank you very much for your insight. football has suffered under the covert 19 pandemic with leagues disrupted worldwide and clubs cutting costs this is left many professional players who are free agents now in a state of limbo one of those is nigerian defend on or may be a women's football star in the country she became the 1st african to play in 5 cops and now teaming up with the organization a common goal maybe is helping educate and encourage young girls.

i don't know may be is in a class of her own. i stepped in for my mom's womb it's safe to call a no may the queen of african football in 2019 she entered the record books as the 1st african footballer to play in 5 people world cups and no mates play professionally from sweden to turkey a bona fide icon in the sport might go off and i'm still. she was supposed to be playing football in china but cove in 1000 change that at the moment she's back in her hometown using her spare time instead is to give back. i can't help i think gills i don't have a what's in it to help. because i really have the thought and. i know may's new goal is to help girls like miriam a student from lagos nigeria every morning it's the same routine tidy up in off to

school miriam like many nigerians live below the poverty line. because something in the end a lot of chinese. and my dad used to walk and do not give them some sense. today's a special day for miriam she gets to spend time with a local legend thanks to a common goal in organisation where football players and other people involved in football donate some of their earnings to good causes. always i don't and i insist on that helps people so at. the end goal and help you know the. other big stars have signed up to common goals since it started in 2017. it helps organizations like yeti an outreach program based in lagos to tackle local issues

and solve real problems and no maze achievements mean she can make a real impact on these kids including mary thing and. about. being their own man. and i like to. know me and common goal together are tackling social issues and now i know me is there helping hand in source of encourage me for a younger version of herself. we can hear more from on a maybe she joins us now from lagos nigeria and i mean it's great to have you on the program tell us more about your experience working with those girls in lagos i was yeah at 1st when i got there i'm like because the place was so you know small . what i was going to do he had because i was thinking now and will go well i

enjoyed my so that because their mind me or my child you know i see. intelligent young girls. willing to land and. she goes so i enjoyed my so with them and you you inspire girls but you also giving back including a portion of your names with this common goal initiate if they are part of why did you get involved with that yeah like mine just. come and go. here's the intermediate how it goes and i say yes i will i will look to join them because you are trying to have my own you know foundation that i can use to help young girls so i see their goals in becoming a professional football player saw it all given banks a common goal and convoys like an organization that helps me out again to myself

right now. to achieve my goal given back to the young girls you know that i want to play football so that's why i had to come and go. and what would you say is the is the attitude right now do you think major in. families major societies are are more supportive of girls getting into form of professionally. yeah i think china is but i don't then when i was young now you know parents are beginning to will see. the greatness and women's football on like when we were young that operators don't allow us to play because they want us to go to school and you know become doctors i know that but now all the life that might start there like so far we're going out with us and n.g.o.s is that the show a lot. more orders professional are so women parents how willing to allow the actually owns

a plate because they're seen the success of our kind and it then i'll see that for milk and while it's not what they used to think it's dion that you know that they that it signals can live with but i know that you've seen the different they're still in their improvement on how clinical work is going away now so i think it's more better now than it used to be right and you've made huge strides in the game you're the 1st african to play in 5 while cops are going to make it a sex worker yeah i'm working towards that raised. and overall what what what are your major future plans. yeah i'm still i'm still into don't blow a lie on your persona because to worm up or question on what was all i do. if you're talking about after the war. look at i'm still in i would still go into cold war like maybe football as an administration or be the coach or something i know i

was still be into football i mean that i don't leave it to concentrate boards or ok hours to. go up so we currently that's where you actually are and i wish you all the best with that ana maybe thank you for joining us thank you so much thank you so much. and that's it for now there's more on ford slash africa check off facebook and twitter pages leave you with these pictures of a whale shops off the coast of tanzania during their annual migration so you next time i found.

i'm sure that it was. in some. degree of. it kind of like a bunch of the queen because i wanted to see if germany was there maybe the last few years have been quite o'brien early. and learned the moment when it comes to

german beers and of course always look right in the eyes virgin is perhaps the biggest and the new hobby of mine i'm going down the road for it i'd love to be in the news there are pros in their accounts but when you think the good thing they're realising because it's just another way of living are you ready to meet the servant then find me right just do it. 10 years after egypt's failed revolution an author in exile speaks out most of the police a lot of us wanted his novel the republic of false truths tells the story of a revolution he says isn't over yet that's coming out on arts and culture. but 1st music fans were shocked last month when folk legend bob dylan sold his entire song catalog but dylan isn't the only star looking to cash out investors in

this coronavirus economy are spending unheard of figures on old tunes there's more . bob dylan's deal was the biggest they felt star and nobel laureate 250000000 euros from universal music for an entire catalog of 600 songs made in rocker neil young signed off a half share in his music rights to british company hypnosis which also bought out the song catalog of colombian pop superstar security. behind this investment gold rush is the boom in the online stream. something that really stuck you know i 6 used to be to take all sort of the new format our music be suz and it's been very strong run since then and even more people who invest into music are you right now it's also expected to continue to. hold music is making money again fleetwood mac's seventy's hit dreams have

a streaming when the songs on tech cock but young artists who don't have a back catalog of hits are being left with digital pennies one of my friends who is an extremely successful young songwriter and wrote a track. the biggest selling all the fastest selling number one album in the u.k. has made 100 pounds from the number one record which is ready. to pay your rent. so that when singer songwriter believe bragg however is optimistic young artists will find new ways to make money online without selling off everything. from them will become huge already so we'll know the names of but many of them will find a way to make a living and be able to. enact the most important step in any of his career which is where you give up your right now day job and start to earn a living doing to bring you i love doing that so that's

a meet the definition of singing. and hanging on to your right you have a better chance of doing that than you do if you people your money away to a corporation just because they're going to pay you a huge amount of money one. eventually this online music gold rush could mean more money for music makers big and small. my colleague adrian kennedy has more on this ok dream we just heard that this big sale of music rates could benefit all musicians but how exactly without work well these music set off so if you like motivated by increasing streaming revenues and the speculation on the part of the bias is that if they amass big catalogs they can the for which that to get even more money from the streaming services and if that works that would benefit all musicians ok i see it let's talk

a little bit about the timing of this i'm wondering if it has anything to do with the coronavirus with mr revenues from tours that can't happen is that a factor well we asked about less it doesn't seem to be the case this trend began before the pandemic and analysts say that actually tax issues are a bigger factor especially in the u.s. where higher taxes are feel under the new administration ok ok so a tax avoidance strategy for the already rich let's talk about musicians who are getting started what's their best bet well saying that billy bragg who we spoke to in that report was quite positive he pointed to new ways that musicians have getting their music out there to just social media his big example was sea shanties tick-tock sensation in 1000 evans he started posting his covers of centuries old songs on tic-tac and sparked a. viral craze tick-tock now hosts 1600000000 see shanty videos and lo and behold

breaking news evans has just signed to put it all records and has done just what bragg talks about he's given up his day job as a post man should he be working to sell the rights or should he be keeping them adrian. history is littered with examples of people who sold the rights for lump sums but died destitute one counter example is dolly parton who didn't sell half the rights on her song i will always love you elvis presley's manager wanted elvis to sing it only if elvis got co-composer credit on it dolly parton said no way and payoff came 20 years on when the song was a massive hit for whitney houston and featured in the movie the bodyguard course that held for dolly parton a very rich woman but we keep hearing about streaming and how artists really just don't make much on streaming where they don't have the individual small but you can

reach bigger audiences global audience is much more easily and most labels have strategies for expanding reach now we have an example of this in the news today billy irish singing in spanish for the very 1st time a collaboration with spanish. law vidar we can take a quick listen i think. both are winning by expanding their audiences streaming revenues might be. a song for example bad guy has 1600000000 place today on one streaming service alone that can add up to a tidy sum. you know i can't really do the math a.j. and i know you're better at it thanks so much for bringing on this us the story on

selling of song rights and the big bucks yes thank you well if i have a 1000000 i know where to invest it now and speaking of billie eilish it's been almost a year since her new song for the james bond film came out and now hollywood executives say it will be another 8 months before you can see the movie now if this sounds like old news to you that's because it's now the 3rd time that m.g.m. has pushed back the film's debut due to the coronavirus no time to die it was the 1st major movie delayed by the pandemic it was originally said to be released last april. and salisbury england one of europe's most famous gothic cathedrals has been turned into a coded 1000 vaccination center hundreds of elderly people have already received the pfizer vaccine and the cathedral's 800 year old name for where there's plenty of room for social distancing they're also getting free concerts from organists who

have been playing soothing music to help calm the patients nerves. and a very different turn and we're on china our young people there are out and back on the dance floor revelers in the former coronavirus epicenter have to get their temperature and their tracking app checked at the club door then it's masks off and party this saturday marks one year since we were on went into hard to walk down to try to stop the corona virus from spreading. on january 25th 2011 tens of thousands of egyptians took to cairo's tahrir square demanding the ouster of dictator hosni mubarak soon mubarak was out but egypt's turmoil didn't end there now with another authoritarian president in power egyptian writer allah allah swanny is remembering his country's failed revolution nearly 10 years ago and what could have been as novel the republic of false truths is due out this year in

english. egypt sions took to the streets of cairo in january 20th live in hoping to bring about a new egypt they wanted democracy and an end to the mubarak regime. their protest was part of the movement across the region that became known as the arab spring. soon the thousands turned into millions farmers finding common cause with young people and intellectuals such as noted writer alan swan any d.w. interview he explained to the local residents of the old ruling party are still in power. as of the old security forces the people are still being arrested and tortured but now we have a voice with the purpose of. 10 years on our last one in our lives in exile in new york his latest novel the republic of france truths which tells the tale of an unfinished revolution is said to be published in english this april for him the

story is far from over i believe that egyptians or leave. it to ship or egyptians or leave. egypt should who used to live for global news i wish you a lot of forget this 6 year. old age 40. majority are real important. laws young people will be given you should they will all go to the novel 1st published in 2018 is about the 2011 protests recounts the story of those yearning for egypt to transition peacefully the young in the disillusioned who see an opportunity for something new but it's also the tale of those who fight against the protesters and stand alongside those in power. there was great hope when president hosni mubarak

stepped down under the pressure but the people's disappointment was then all the greater once his old comrades in arms took over power palace wanny knows the subject of his tale all too well because he was one of the initiators of the demonstrations his novel doesn't tell how events transpired but we know the story mubarak was brought to justice and sentenced to life in prison for corruption and abuse of office in 2012 the fundamentalist mohammed morsi of the muslim brotherhood then became president in 2013 the military completed a successful coup against morsi who was arrested since then i've done fatah us. the sea has been president of egypt in the country's darkest hour yet with a new war. everything. has to be approved by. many people i have few friends.

and the electoral zlata multigrade is a little more still floods of the police. under r.c.c. are as ronnie was immediately banned from publishing his work even though he's considered one of the leading writers of his home his novels and essays have been translated into nearly 60 languages and millions of copies have been sold but the arabic edition of his latest novel could no longer be published in egypt only in lebanon still out as one e knows that despite the bam his book is selling has illegally pirated copies. swanny never wanted to leave egypt his home but when a military tribunal threatened to try him in court for insulting the authorities he went into exile in 2017. now living in new york he teaches at universities holds online writing workshops and publishes political analyses on you tube and he continues to write. well that's all for this edition of arts and culture but stay

turns to d.w. in the coming days for more coverage on the 10th anniversary of the arab spring and egypt for now for me and all the crew here in berlin and thanks for watching have a safe weekend. and.

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it's about billions the book is about our work. it's about the foundation of the new world order and the new silk road. the china wants to expand its influence with history network and so even europe the conflicts are inevitable the consequences one critic took in his book other shaking the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal but shouldn't and that's how it's expanding that can asserting its status and position in the world could be a fairly good one for the china case promising its partners rich profits but in europe there's a sharp warning you could never accept money from the new superpower it will become dependent on. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on going to.

cut her. leg cut. play. this is in every news live from berlin the clock is ticking with just 2 weeks to go before america's last remaining nuclear arms deal with russia is due to expire and president biden says he wants to extend the treaty for 5 more years will find out how the kremlin is reacting to his proposal also coming up a staggering death toll over 9000 has now claimed more than 50000 lives in germany but the government tells people there is reason for hope and asked them not to let their guard down.

tom lehrer thank you so much for your company everyone we begin our broadcast in the united states where president joe biden is looking to extend america's nuclear arms control deal with russia what's known as the new start treaty well the existing accord was signed a decade ago it caps the number of nuclear weapons that both countries can deploy but it's too to run out in february and biden once a 5 year extension the kremlin has welcomed the move and says it's now waiting to see the details of the u.s. proposal. all right we have team coverage for you clearly much more in washington teri schultz in brussels the seat of nato and emily sherman in moscow with the russian angle to this developing story a very good day to all of you curly i want to go to you 1st why is president biden proposing extending this nuclear weapons treaty with russia.

well you have this is a treaty that would limit the united states and russia to no more than 1550 deployed nuclear weapons would of course help to ensure civility between the united states are russia but also on an international level let's not forget that we're talking here about nuclear weapons a potential existential threat for the world and this is again an effort to keep an extent international arms control and specifically for the united states well white house press secretary is that he underlined yesterday that the new start treaty is in the national security interest of the united states also because and we should point that out this is the last 3 maining us russia arms control treaty in the united states and therefore even more important russia ready called for an extension for this military treaty and for some time by the time ministration had rejected it and even the potential extension for one year i was rejected and for

biden this has obviously been one of his priorities regarding russia terry you have the opportunity today to talk to nato secretary general. to ask to get his reaction is this a no to a part of your conversation and then i'd like to you to weigh in please. dollars have made it clear that they all support. the new store degree meant on calling or szell to respond in a way to the u.s. . proposal now it's terry why is this treaty so important to nato. well lately as carolina mentioned it is the last remaining arms control treaty between washington and moscow so the europeans have seen these other cornerstones of their stability crumble the last one the intermediate range nuclear

forces treaty under the trump administration just within the last couple of years so while the europeans are not parties to any of these agreements they are the landmass in between the 2 countries that hold the most nuclear weapons in the world so nobody wants there to be any freedom for missiles to be flying over our heads here in europe so they are very much hoping that the u.s. and russia despite all of the other problems in the bilateral relationship can really nail down this treaty for another 5 years and then move on to renegotiating what other weapons might be covered under it what other countries might be covered under it it's really important for the europeans right now to keep this last thread of arms control intact family in moscow now to you according to nato the ball is in the kremlin's courts and a new reaction there. well i think the kremlin is also likely to be on board with extending this treaty even though the reaction that we have heard from the kremlin spokesperson i mean to this book has been rather cautious and

almost you might say a bit coy he said that he welcomed the fact that the u.s. wanted to extend the new start treaty but he also said that of course russia would have to wait to look at the finer print to look at the details it seems to me that the kremlin is almost playing a bit hard to get with the new administration in the u.s. especially considering that vladimir putin himself called for an extension a 5 year extension of the new start treaty as recently as last year and russia has always kind of in the last few years on the trumpet administration very much portrayed the u.s. as the side leaving international treaties leaving international arms treaties as well including the i.n.f. treaty as well and one russian expert that i spoke to here said that really the new start treaty is kind of what remains the bare bones of arms control that remains between the u.s. and russia and i think that especially considering how frosty relations are between

the u.s. and russia at the moment with the threat of potential new sanctions from the biden administration hanging in the air with kind of the tension between the west and russia over the arrest of opposition politician i like saying of me russia will certainly also be on board with extending this this key treaty and we sure are in moscow to brussels and in washington thank you all 3 for your reporting. now 1st a look at some of the other stories making headlines today you know the interim simpy schwinn trial over his role in the u.s. capitol right it could begin as early as next week house speaker nancy pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment against the former president to the senate on monday mr trump has been in florida since joe biden's inauguration on wednesday. funerals have taken place for the $32.00 victims of 2 suicide bombings in iraq's capital baghdad the services were held in the early hours of friday in the shrine

city of new jobs so-called islamic state claimed responsibility for the blast it's the deadliest attack on baghdad in 3 years. a spokeswoman for jailed kremlin critic alexina vali has been sentenced to 9 days in jail after calling for a demonstration carry on which is hearing lasted all of 5 minutes she was detained along with other volley associates and of protests planned across russia this weekend in support of the jailed kremlin critic. and now some sad news very sobering news to report here in germany the number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic have crossed 50000 all the head of germany's public health institutes at the number was distressing he's urging the government to maintain its tougher national lockdown until there is a massive drop in debts and new infections one of the biggest problems is the

situation in nursing homes across the country. the vaccine rollout is well underway in german nursing homes spot they remain a big cove of 19 hot spot there are currently outbreaks in hundreds across the country he even as the over roll infection writes steadily fulls it's a reminder that germany isn't out of trouble yes it's not good we currently know of around $900.00 outbreaks in nursing homes there are probably on reported cases. but there are homes we very few or no cases of covert 19 days times are often better results to have been his senator images and more professional knowledge and support this should be the case in all nursing harbors the chief concern for hill thought arties now is getting on top of the threat posed by covert 19 mutations this is one of the main reasons germany's current lockdown was toughened and extended until mid february that and trying to bring down the stubbornly high real number of

infections and deaths each day. it's only if you can see the numbers are heading in the right direction but they are still too high. and so much once he sees a look down he's intensified if it's reach and not easy if you know. so i can mine some press so that we can bring the numbers down to a point where we can gain control over the pandemic once again. which can clear but it's germany's president is encouraging people to light candles to remember the 50000 people who've died from covert 19 in the country front is planning a memorial service for to east sadly by then there will be many more victims to add to this week's terrible milestone a terrible milestone and although germany has recorded more than 50000 coronavirus deaths new infection numbers are falling nonetheless authorities in germany are

concerned and have toughened restrictions earlier i asked our political correspondent linda crane how people here are taking that there is so restriction fatigue setting in polls show that there is still a very high willingness to be compliant with the restrictions but people are somewhat exhausted and frustrated by the fact that these restrictions are often imposed on a piecemeal basis then lengthened appear to kill or lay for families the closures of schools and kindergartens have made it very very difficult and again they're just when people have got used to one time frame suddenly it's being extended for now till mid february but we heard people some of the official saying today that in fact we may not seeing a lightening of the infection rate as we go into spring and early summer as we did last year there may be different circumstances in place and that's

a very dreary prospect for a lot of germans. well nowhere in germany is the death rate higher than in the eastern state of saxony there so many people have died that funeral homes are struggling to cope and as we reported next hour many of those behind are in shock over what has happened. there should be a moment of prayer but there's no time for that there are simply too many coffins too many bodies arriving at the dubai owned crematorium in saxony. we are on target and some days there are more bodies than we can actually cremate on a single day apart but this is a trend us for our employees also because there is no end in sight. yet if. we are standing in the morning hall of our crematorium. it usually

accommodates 90 people for the funeral services. unfortunately we had to convert the hall into a storage space because we could no longer keep up with the deaths if you strictly still finished with. those who would say it's a difficult situation for us. because relatives can usually say goodbye to their loved ones here. but at the moment that's not possible because there's no purely. no room for a funeral service not all of the coffins represent deaths from the coronavirus but many of them are marked so. that these people had to end their lives without a final hug from their loved ones. look spanish cares for the bereaved he is a pastor and do about. family sometimes only realize how dangerous the coronavirus can be once they've lost a loved one to it. when this year

a liberal me and i have contact with families who have lost a relative because of covert 19 to score and they are in a state of shock and reconsidering things this 1st phase of mourning the so-called shock phase lasts longer for that because something inexplicable something in comprehensible has been added namely this pandemic. plan to mean. the pandemic is far from over. many more cremations will be carried out here get a hold monster is worried about the future then. the assuming that the number of infections remains high it follows that the number of deaths will to go for these. and that means we won't see any relief here until mid february at the earliest the carnage bottoms and. it is a winter of mourning and as it is in many places in the world during the pandemic.

there is a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic. us is in it has informed the european commission it will not be able to deliver the agreed volumes of its covert 19 vaccine once it attains regulatory approval which is expected at the end of january the company blames the delay on a glitch in production meanwhile british prime minister boris johnson says there is evidence that the new strain of corona virus 1st identified in britain is not only more transmissible but also more deadly the nation's mortality rate has risen nearly 15 percent over the past week meanwhile police in london have raided a wedding with 400 guests held secretly in a school and once current lockdown rules allow weddings with a maximum of 6 people the organizers could face a fine of more than 11000 euros. that does it for me on mylar

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is part. of the 77 percent he told. you this is where you. are 77 percent this weekend on d w. google threatens the globe search engine from australia as a dispute over publishing rights heats up we'll explain how things got this far and why other countries are paying close attention to what happens. when the show the pandemic is trapped 400000 barriers on their ships around the world what will it take to get them back to their families and keep shipments moving will ask an expert's opinion. and cleaning out your closet during the pendency show you have discarded shirts or shorts in. turned into something more useful. welcome to the

show. it's good to have you with us a world without a google search engine might be hard for some of us to imagine but could soon be a reality for 25000000 australians but the novel threat the tech giant is now making in a dispute with the country over publishing rights. australian news outlets won google to pay them a fee or face a hefty fine for publishing their content in its search engine a corresponding all was drafted in december google says that's unacceptable and it retaliated at a hearing before the australian senate. the principle of honor strict it linking between websites is fundamental to. and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the card would have become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making. in stride. this would be the 1st time that google had pulled out of an entire continent but australia isn't taking it lying

down. to strive you. now rules for things you can do in a strike. it's done by our government. and that's how things work here in stride and people who want to work with that. you're very welcome but we respond to threats google has a lot to lose if australia goes ahead with its demands other countries could follow europe has long post a challenge for the tech company after months wrangling with french publishers on thursday google finally agreed a payment framework for including their content on its search engine. google also making news in a different part of the world its parent company alphabet announcing friday it was shutting down its balloon based wireless internet project designed to bring internet access to remote parts of the world including kenya the loon as it's called what debuted in 2013 was launching self navigating balloons in kenya as

recently as last year after partnering with local company telecom alphabets of the loan program was no longer sustainable part of the problem customers in rural areas couldn't always afford the necessary 4 g. phones to connect. over to the u.s. now with joe biden's expect to sign new executive orders friday aimed at ensuring worker safety during the pandemic and expanding emergency benefits for americans amid a flurry of executive orders the new directives would allow workers to claim unemployment benefits if leaving their job over fears of catching the virus as well as improve collective bargaining rights for federal workers and other order would expand food subsidies biden has made economic recovery a priority of his administration while also seeking to expand the federal safety net for the unemployed. a biden is also pushing a $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus to cushion the pandemic flu now i asked former

u.s. labor secretary robert reich that was enough. 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 and 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 demonstration needs to be as bold as is possible for us labor secretary robert reich there for the full interview you can go online dot com slash business now is not just washington celebrating the inauguration of joe biden but much of europe leaders there hope to benefit from an

administration likely to withdraw tariffs and probably even cement ties but could they be getting ahead of themselves here's our financial correspondent chelsea elaine. from trading floors to corporate boardrooms hopes are sky high across europe for the newly inaccurate at the u.s. president traders hope that joe biden and his democratic led congress will unleash trillions of dollars worth of stimulus and for an economic boom that will set off a buying spree of european goods. businesses and officials in brussels meanwhile hope that the era of twitter diplomacy and trade wars are in the past on the 1st day. i address them proposal to the new u.s. president's. built a new phone dinged packed full of europe for america and for better words. european stocks have been riding high on the wave of optimism with the

records being set across the continent since november election victory. but are markets getting ahead of themselves the fate of europe's relationship with the new u.s. administration is likely going to be defined by a very trying to be an issue china biden wants to enlist the help and pushing back against china's trade tactics that europe has been less willing to court conflict with china and december the e.u. signed a landmark investment pact with china despite a plea by biden to hold back until his presidency was in full swing. the e.u. is in a very tough spot many european leaders do you share the u.s. concerns about china's economic policies and its human rights violations but by picking sides in the u.s. chided debate europe risks potentially alienating crucial sources of investment and trade. while the u.s. remains europe's largest trading partner in 2019 early data from last year showed

china on course to overtake the u.s. for the top spot. washington may be celebrating a new era but that doesn't change the global backdrop of the world economy is being shaped by the battle between china and america for supremacy and europe is caught in the middle. it will take more than just a fresh face in the white house to change that. or into the high seas now shipping is essential for world trade but spare a thought for the crews who operate those ships particular particularly in times like these now since the pen demick began many sailors have been stuck in quarantine on their ships they can't go home and they're not being paid of the international crew change system is in crisis and this dire situation applies right now to about 400000 seafarers worldwide but according to the international chamber of shipping if something isn't done that number could rise to as high as a 1000000 now the international labor organization ruled in december that many

governments have disregarded basic seafarers rights by violating the maritime labor convention of 2006 that guarantees mariners the rights to access health care as well as return home and of course have annual and shore leave now the international chamber of commerce is demanding that seafarers receive priority covert 1000 vaccinations so they can finally leave the misery of the last year behind them. so for example see the us need to be recognized me wanting them to respect right to travel and transit without unnecessary restrictions and for this fine many to become reality what needs to get new technologies and to place confidence that seafarers who are passing through a narrow boarding ship correctly are doing alright because housing good they're from very union which represents some of those seafarers time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news. and south africa's

struggle against corruption president cyril run a poser has signed a law requiring political parties to disclose donations of more than 100000 rand about 5400 euros anonymous donations are still possible although the law does prohibit donations by foreign states until now south africa had no regulation at all on private political party funding. frustration across nigeria as millions try to switch to a new national rather a national identity number had a february night deadline if they don't register in time telecom operators say they'll block their mobile phones the critics say the process is slow complicated and even dangerous as applicants are forced to wait in large crowds. the value of bitcoin has plunged fueled by fears of stricter regulation under president biden cryptocurrency has been trading at just over $25000.00 losing more than 10 percent in a single day it shut almost a quarter of its value since record highs earlier this month. a lock down measures

have been a disaster to many sectors of the economy including brick and mortar fashion stores and by the end of the winter a half 1000000000 pieces of apparel could have gone unsold that detail coming from the berlin fashion week which is taking place digitally this year so what happens to a lot of that unsold inventory take a look. the coronavirus pandemic lock down time to get rid of clothes. this one or that one right the 2nd spread or that yes. it costs you one of my or a lot of effort she wants to sell some of her clothes and donate others. as i hopefully ever sort out old clothes i don't buy things because i've run out i just buy because i think they look nice i still wear all of it and enjoy clothes shopping. something shoppers can't do in traditional brick and mortar stores these

days usually these merchants sell between $10.15 fashion articles per day now it's all just gathering dust on store shelves. most of it i hope will get stored and we can take it out next year or in the fall. and that won't work with everything or fashion loses value quickly the trendy or the goods are the less i can still sell them next year in a cinema. some fashion retailers are now hoping that lots of people will sort out their old clothes during the corona pandemic and buy new ones but in collection points for used clothes like here in the berlin textile port a steady stream of textiles has been arriving since the 1st lockdown. you've got home that people have had a long time to look around at home and get rid of things they don't need they've given us so much of that stuff it's always a challenge to find ways of doing good with it plus. every german sorts out an

average of 15 kilos of old clothing per year much of it is damaged dirty inferior quality or not appropriate for the needy they could be turned into racks or clothes hangers they're made out of things that couldn't be used otherwise. for a while now the chemical engineers been making clothes hangers and of these otherwise useless textiles that she gets here in the harbor. we take it from them but we also work with sun fashion brands that may have defected goods or returned goods that they cannot sell we collect it and then turn into a material which is basically a alternative to plastic so by this we solve 2 environmental problems at once we solve the plastic waste problem sorry textile ways problem and then also the plastics problem meaning that you never need crude oil or fossil fuels to produce plastics alina brassy is dell looking for investors for her startup she wants to

use these low quality textiles with a high price to content to produce furniture. and that's it for me and the business team here in berlin as always do check us out online d.w. dot com slash business you'll find more about these stories and others i'm seeing beardsley let's watch. a game day in the middle of the week close down the 1st half of the season. for kusa and took down during their 1st win 5 games. show lost against a long letter to a leader's 1st half of the season. to 16 d.w.

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