for me to come to germany. got my license to work as a swimming instructor. for an hour or 2 children often don't describe as tough as. what's your story take part. in for migrants die. as the number of death in germany hits 50000 better grumblings countries vaccine roll out is too slow in that the european union isn't doing enough to make sure that vaccines are distributed fairly and while the wrangling continues so does the dying i'm ok i'm ballin and this is the day. you can turn lights in the windows the light of morning and light of sympathy and

light of compassion. put a light in the window because we now know people are suffering everywhere in our country. these are not just numbers these are people who died in loneliness these are long lives these are people whose families are mourning. let's not let up now the weeks ahead will be tough but it'll be worth it together we will emerge stronger from this. also coming up a life without google thinkable for lots of us but australia has plans to make google pay for news content to use it as lead to the internet giant or threatening to withdraw its search engine from the country strive you mike's rules for things you can do in a strike that's done. it's done by a government. and that's how things work here in stride and people who want to work

with that. you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats. welcome to the day we begin with sobering news here in germany where the number of deaths from corona virus from the corona virus pandemic is now past 50000 and the head of the country's public health agency has described the figure as distressing and he's urging the government to maintain a tough national lockdown until there's a significant drop in deaths the new infections one of the country's biggest problems is the situation in its nursing homes. the vaccine rollout is well underway in german nursing homes but they remain a big 19 hot spot there are currently outbreaks in hundreds across the country he even as the overall infection right steadily falls it's a reminder that germany isn't out of trouble yet. we currently know of around

$900.00 outbreaks in nursing homes there are probably unreported cases. but there are homes with very few or no cases of cope with 19 days homes are often better results to have better sanitary measures and more professional knowledge and support should be the case in all nursing harv's the chief concern for hill for therapies now is getting on top of the threat posed by covert 900 new tensions 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 sign in vacancies the numbers are heading in the right direction but they are still too high it's almost 7 months and that's what he sees all of down. intensified if it suites and not easy if you get in football it isn't that i don't mind some press so that we can bring the numbers down to a point where we can gain control over the pen demick once again the video which

can tell you about is germany's president is encouraging people to light candles to remember the thief t. 1000 people who've died from cove at 19 in the country. is planning a memorial service for after easter sadly by then there will be many more victims to add to this week's terrible milestone. 2 months ago adultery ganesh domino was on the medical front line coordinating with 19 and now he's a member of the german parliament for the opposition green party and since on the parliament's health committee welcome to day w dr how would you rate the german government's handling of this pandemic well what we once were a champion in the spring last year about looking outside numbers at the moment and it's a very very slow. vaccination campaign and i am very very concerned not only

because of high numbers but because of your breach haitians which are a serious threat to our health care system and so whole fight against awful pandemic so why is the vaccination program so slow. well there are different reasons on the one hand side there is not enough vaccine and total all over europe but if we compare the measures over here in germany compared to denmark or spain we still are too slow with implementing the vaccination that szell national strategy especially when it comes to risk groups and older people we only focus on care homes and some off but lots but we miss the people who live in their private homes which are on similar risk so when given not accounted to county are you able to explain why this then this slowness is that why are these people being missed is this is just the way that the rollout is designed. well the main

problem is that we have like a very centralized strategy so we try to bring old people to a centralized vaccination point where we try to give them the information they need and to vaccinate those people but when we think about our old grandparents sometimes it's hard for old people to have the ability to come to such places and that is why all it takes. becomes a very very slow step by step and i think. we kind of miss the more mobile strategy of vaccinating older people and this is the european commission of course since on top of that this whole. vaccination process what sort of job has it's done do you think in terms of coordinating the roll out across the continent. well i think there is. well

a lack of enough vaccine all over the globe so i'm not blaming you not giving it out back to you know the moment but i think information is so important part so to inform national governments and also local or regional teams about when you vaccine. will arrive so that's one part and another thing which i think it's more important that we have to have like alternative strategies if we don't have enough vaccine at certain points in our strategy at the moment i think the us i'm glad glad you brought that point up because i'm getting prime minister viktor orban he's so unhappy with the e.u. response that he's ordered 2000000 doses of russia's sputnik 5 vaccine and he looks like he doesn't want to stop there we'll hear from him and then we'll come back to you in a moment. suppose

a little moving on according to the vaccination plan home the next will be category 3 but the thing that's the group of. if you have chronic illness only but they're few and they're over the age of 60 which means almost $2000000.00 people anyway aren't at the heart of the look we would actually have that much chinese function if it had been licensed we could save them or at least we would be able to free them from the risk you could human clinical counsel of war so we have a job and they're proposing an alternative strategy and 2 weeks ago germany both 30000000 extra doses of the bugs that pfizer vaccine now we see you hungry also doing side deals and bypassing the e.u. procurement process is that the right thing to do do you think. well it certainly shows that we kind of we didn't prepared and finance and it would would have been a good saying for germany especially if we look on to if either by on tech vaccine

to build up more capacities to produce more vaccine over a year in germany which would have helped not only people in germany but all over europe now at the point where we are yeah i suppose of the point that i'm getting out really is was germany right is hungry writes to say look european solidarity is all well and good but people are dying so we will go outside the e.u. procurement process well i'm not so sure because if you look at the situation at the moment a single national wave wouldn't help basically because we would get you instructions for from everybody all over the country and all over europe so i think. european way where we help each other and scale up production not only for our own reasons but for everyone over here that would be

a good way so basically site deals only can like. strategy in addition to like european way ok so as a medic turned legislator i wonder have you said have you been able to identify within the german polish entry system and the way it organizes this i mean look and say this needs to change if we change this one thing and this would have such a dramatic effect on the way that we're hunting this pandemic. well basically there are 3 saying on the one hand side we really urgently need home cares test strategy we we really have a lack of good test to identify you infections all over in germany so that would be in very a very important seeing especially in care homes and another saying is i think we really need to. bring zola's more say for a mosque like the at p.

2 mosque to more people over here in germany there are still like many places where the people barely where any mosque or just like ordinary mosque but not like safe medical mosque which are a good area as specially for the new imitation switch on or in ranches and asserts as searching what i'm thinking of this yeah basically we need to stay more home in germany many people are still working in their normal factory store and then all the offices and it is now not the time i mean we we are in a state of emergency and we need to stop that thank you for joining us doctor dr jaenisch dominant green member of the german parliament health committee thank you so much. when i went in germany is the death rate higher than in the eastern states of saxony so many people have died that funeral homes are struggling to cope a many of those left behind struggling with the shock.

there should be a moment of prayer but there's no time for that there is simply too many constans too many bodies arriving at the dubai owned crematorium in saxony. beyond target and in some days there are more bodies than we can actually cremate on a single day. this is a tenuous farm cloying also because there's no end in sight. 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 in fact if there was an additional. 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 this move leave. no room for a funeral service not all of the coffins represent deaths from the coronavirus but many of them are marked so. these people had to end their lives without a final hug from their loved ones loot spanish cares for the bereaved he is a pastor and. family sometimes only realize how dangerous the coronavirus can be once they've lost a loved one to it. when this you are a liberal by me and i have contact with families who have lost a relative because of covert 19 to a school they are in a state of shock and reconsidering things this 1st phase of mourning the so-called shock phase lasts longer for them because something inexplicable something in

comprehensible has been added namely this pandemic plan to me. 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 too if the elephant is in. and that means we won't see any relief here until mid february at the earliest. it is a winter of mourning in durban as it is in many places in the world during the pandemic. well as you heard earlier hungry so fed up of waiting for the use slobo buying process that he's ordered 2000000 doses of the russian sputnik 5 covert vaccine countries medicines agency has

granted initial emergency approval for the drug and 1st deliveries are due to arrive in the next 30 days. i know that the test patches that the sputnik 5 vaccine have shrunk good results in hungary and we support further cooperation in this field. just as additional recruitment provisos with access to a vaccine batch sufficient for the vaccination of $1000000.00 people get. well as go to budapest they were joined correspondent stefan are both still welcome stefan victor all about to take this action. well what's really that extremely upset about and the european union he believes that the are not very fast in rolling out the vaccines and he is extremely straight at about that. day that. sense deaths. are dying.

'd at the same time the. facts behind meet you at the university they are involved in the project as well and they are looking forward to. the fights that seem to be hungry. of course in the european union because it has proved it by the e.u. medicines agency. well that is so then it will know who you talk of course the government is saying that we are getting in have a handle on it and your hands are almost 12000 people reportedly died deaths already because of the corona virus situation here on a population of 10000000 so slowly but surely people are wondering what a stick government really doing for us now i have to say that people are very

suspicious about the vaccines i've spoken 'd with several not all of them are really standing in line or rushing to stand in line to get the ax unaided and there is also quite frankly concern about this russian that see and of course the chinese fact see because he found that he's being considered this evening right and that now when we when we consider. he's looking to russia and china to help with. pandemic could control you have to think the context to face it he has a long standing with brussels so how does a fit into the. yeah that's a very good point you're a stair because indeed he has a lot of trouble swiss brussels effect he has been criticised by the e.u. all for his perceived out to critics style and the way he has been treating the media and the so in that sense of course there is such

a concern we see in the government that the e.u. is simply singling out on great sue the to be criticized so i think hungry wants to show and especially to prime minister that luke we really don't need necessarily brussels if really necessary we do it alone for instance with the vaccines so i think he wants to show also to be a strong leader you also sent a nationalistic message as well and don't forget elections are coming the next year and that's i think also a reason behind he stands today. thank you so much for that stuff on the bus in budapest. now to australia where google says it will block its search engine in the country unless the government in canberra backs down over a new media code that would force the tech company to pay for news content the code

put forward by the government times to make a google and facebook pay australian media companies for using content on their sites the government to hit back at google saying that it would not respond to threats. 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 law was drafted in december google says that's unacceptable and it retaliated at a hearing before the australian senate but. the principle of linking between websites is fundamental to the search and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk. if this version of the kite were to become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making google search available in australia 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 mike's our rules

for things you can do in a strike that's done in an apartment it's done by our government. and that's how things work here in stride and people who want to work with that in australia you're very welcome but we don't 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. well let's take a closer look at this with stephanie head who is a researcher and writer covering the technology she joins us from london welcome to day w. it's google bluffing when it says it will withdrawal from australia if it doesn't get what it wants not necessarily i mean last year is not

a huge part of google's business and it could walk away the hand to you might want to do something like that if you want to send a signal to other countries around the world that are more important to the business. and it's a pretty extreme threat and i think we're going to see more negotiation on both sides before we get to the point pulls out of australia so just help us to understand what exactly the australian government is proposing because it seems well it seems completely uncontroversial to say so but if you're going to use all this stuff then you should pay the people who are actually producing it. yeah so that's the thing is that we've seen a real hollowing out of the journalism business model sense these social media companies really started to take over and google is no exception in australia it represents something like 95 percent of searches that are done by australians facebook also is very dominant in this area and people get a lot of their news from facebook so i think that's one part of the problem with this law is that it targets google and facebook specifically and not other

companies or the u.s. government has actually weighed in on that senate and said can we just get some sort of voluntary code or some sort of regulation rather than just targeting 2 american companies that the 2nd part is that it really comes down to again this whole is are these companies publishers are on the platforms and they like to argue that they're just platforms and therefore they shouldn't be charged for doing things like sharing links that they do a lot more than sharing links they sometimes reproduce content they might even give you like a little extract or a preview and of course they're not just displaying information they're also taking your information when you have or over a link when you click on to it all that's being recorded and i think that's what the australian government is saying is and also the french government of course as well which is has its own success story in negotiating with google just this week they're saying there's something going on here you're taking all of this money out of journalism we need it for democracy you need to pay ok so let's let's look at

the why the context hey away with the lots of shots over the last couple of weeks about twitter and i was in cloud services having too much power when they acted against the president of the us and also we have the right wing social network the policy so it begs the question of why have legislators being so casual about regulating these massive companies because these massive companies are really really rich and they spend a lot of money lobbying politicians to not regulate them. so what does that say every time yes these tech companies will always say we want self-regulation we can police ourselves we can mark her own homework and politicians for a long time have been really happy to go along with that because they profit from it themselves we're starting to see i think a reckoning and also a desire to really maybe change the power dynamics between the big tech companies

and governments around the world and it's going to really be which countries move 1st and logic take the new terms of that relationship ok so i'm not the e.u. has had a go at regulating these companies with its general data protection regulation so how much difference has that maybe i'm just having to having more boxes to click that ignore before we get to the content. well it's not even so much the g.d.p. armatures from 20 teens that's been a few years in. the big one is actually what france has just done and which all of the other is new member states can do up until the 7th of june of this year that's when the implementation deadline is for this new ma which is about copyright but in fact so much more it's really about what france has just done which is negotiating on behalf of a bunch of publishers around 3 or $400.00 french publishers that they will get money from google in exchange for publishing links or a little previews to their content so i think we can fully expect to see other

european countries follow the path of france the big difference between what france and australia is doing is really simple and it comes down to one thing in australia they want it where if google for instance is not able to come up with some sort of agreements on paying publishers then it has to commit to going to arbitration in france they're just there's no arbitration obligation they just go into the negotiations strip the companies so that's what google and facebook want to avoid and they don't want to have to ever go before a judge it's very clear if i give so much for joining us stephanie half a technology of research i think you're right thank you. i but they as they haven't done but conversation of course continues online you can join us on twitter i'm out steve. coll me out still get out for watching the good. luck.

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i'm phil guy welcome to the program we begin in the u.k. with disturbing news about the new coronavirus variant that was 1st detected that prime minister barak's johnson says there's evidence that is one of spreading faster than it is also more deadly he appeared alongside his top scientific advisor to brief the public about these new findings. i must tell you the sort of the mood that we've been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly it also appears there is some evidence that the new variant the very that was 1st identified in london in the southeast may be associated with a higher degree of mortality if you took somebody in the sixty's a man in the sixty's the average risk is that for a 1000 people who got infected roughly 10 would be expected

to unfortunately die with the virus with the new variant for a 1000 people infected roughly 13 or 14 people might be expected to die straight to london then we'll be joined burkett mass welcome burkett how does this finding effect but governments pandemic response the prime minister was obviously asked at this press conference whether this means that they need to be tougher restriction but the odds a feel for the moment is no deprive minister says that already we are in quite a severe lockdown only essential travel is allowed schools are closed however we know from data that there is actually more mobility people are travelling more around more than in the fast stopped and so i think this debate as to whether there need to be more restrictions or whether they need to be tougher enforcement by the

police for example or more fines tougher fines whether this has to be the case i think these questions will continue to be asked. and they've been for boris johnson statement the you was considering a travel ban on people entering from the u.k. the netherlands indeed put one in place yesterday how is this likely to hit the u k. obviously not very good news for the u.k. however also here there is a debate as to how britain can protect itself from other new variants for example from south africa where there is a debate at variance that might be less susceptible to the vaccine so this debate is taking place all over europe and the u.k. position is also that here we have quite a successful vaccination program of over 70 percent of the population have already been vaccinated so that the u.k. is also looking to the future and is hoping that this will be successful and in

light of these old say that there has to be restrictions it's a debate that's being had everywhere the moment service announcements are gary about this evening what responses are being served. it's quite new i think people are already quite worried because not only is there now the possibility that this virus is more deadly but we know for sure that it's more easily transmissible if you could around where i am and london the streets are pretty empty so people are taking this seriously and particularly vulnerable people i have a friend for example who used to be quite pragmatic about it but now she's shielding completely so so i think people are definitely worried about the state of the affairs and especially when you also look at the hospitals that are at capacity or maybe even overwhelmed and in parts of london in the southeast so yes it's

a severe situation there in the u.k. at the moment thank you the most in london. well a new coronavirus variant also appears to be causing chaos in ireland but who is there a struggling with a 3rd spike in infections that's followed the christmas holidays ireland's death rate is now i think highest since the pandemic started. with hospital capacities at the brink of collapse and soaring numbers of new cope with 1000 infections ireland is breaking all the records the 3rd wave and there were experience at the moment is much worse than 1st just 2 months ago arland was seen as a role model for europe using harsh lockdowns to look at cope with 19 but all that changed over christmas they opened up the restaurants. you know they allowed households to mix that out 3 house also mango and not was the recipe for disaster because the virus began to spread more and more so looks like as if they were

a bit too you know hasty at loosening up the restrictions i guess numbers began skyrocketing jumping from roughly 300 new covert cases pretty at the end of november to roughly 8000 pre-date 2 weeks after christmas i think it was 8 or 9 people in the house and some have gotten to the haves and everybody can try to go it's so our worst nightmare kind of came to fruition like so many others patrick when burns family christmas went horribly wrong the 27 year old gym instructor was shocked by how hard core would hit him and i had. severe temperature headaches hallucinations and i woke up at one stage like stopping pains in my chest and in my stomach which was so scary i mean like i never never get sick that's how it's happened to me it was really frightening arlin's 3rd wave came around the same time a new more contagious variant of the virus was detected in the u.k.

we don't think a played a big part in the massive increase goes before christmas the numbers were low but there was an article about that but of course since christmas now it is spreading even more are much the concern because it makes it even more difficult. if you're a virus that can spread a 50 percent greater efficiency like in other european countries the irish government is now mulling tighter travel restrictions and an even tougher lock down . but there's also some light at the end of the tunnel. i was told i said it's an honor to be back to be the 1st facts and they said health care worker an ardent after a really difficult and challenging era the most challenging in my career and 2020 working on a cope with words having the vaccine available now it's a real positive start to 2021 and hopefully we can live forever if slowly but for too many slowly isn't going to be soon enough authorities estimate that arland with

its population of just 5000000 could lose 1000 people to cover 19 this month alone . so here's a look at some of the developments in this plan pandemic astra zeneca stove european commission that it will not be able to deliver the agreed volumes of its covered 19 vaccine when it receives regulator approval which is expected at the end of january company blames the eye on production problems police in london have righted the wedding attended by $400.00 people held secretly in a school england's current lockdown allows that weddings with a maximum of 6 they organize it could face a fine of more than 11000 euros and belgium is to ban nonessential trips into and out of the country from next week until the 1st of march trying the spread of infection police will enforce the travel ban land sea and air borders. take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines today funerals have taken

place for the 32 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 najaf be islamic state group claimed responsibility it's the deadliest attack on baghdad for 3 years. google says it will block its internet search engine in australia if it's forced to pay news organizations for their content the company's representative spoke at a parliamentary hearing into new regulations intended to make the tech giants pay publishers are using new snafus australia's prime minister said he would not respond to google's threat. and donald trump's impeachment trial over his role in the u.s. capitol ride 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 is the truck has been in florida since joe biden's you know direction on wednesday. and joe biden says he wants to extend america's last remaining nuclear

arms control deal with russia the new start treaty the current deal was signed back in 2010 and caps a number of nuclear weapons each country can deploy it's due to expire in february and president biden has said he wants a 5 year extension the kremlin has welcomed the announcement and says it's now waiting to see the details of the u.s. proposal. dan smith is director of the stockholm international peace research institute which advises policy makers on disarmament welcome to day w is this good news. thank you very much yes it is good. i think it is not unexpected good news because a i think everybody who looks at the situation closely knew this was necessary and the joe biden committed himself to it and see russia had indicated they wanted to extend their grievances what they're going about 2 weeks to sort it out through the

fifty's the expiring day so they need to crack down but yes it is the u.s. going in with. that that's a deadline that's clearly that's movable isn't it because if both sides are indicated that they want to reach the same place that bet out there in 2 weeks time will say well it's ok to it's done now let's start a flame these missiles about so there's some leeway that there could be some leeway in syria but there doesn't need to be because it is simply. a commission if you like within the treaty to extend it for 5 years for far to 5 years suddenly just have to sit down and say do you want to do this yes sir do you want to do it for 12345 it's a pretty straightforward lugosi assures us control negotiations this one should be verbal or straightforward i would think it really genuinely could be done in a single circle so they don't need to go beyond that at all this is pretty

straightforward and why does this particular deal matter given that so many other nuclear armed country israel china india for example they're not party to it. well 1st of all because russians american between you have over 90 percent of the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons search than china does have like 30325 nuclear warheads but the usa has about 6000 they are ceasar percent number so the scale is completely different such the 2nd thing is that this is the last line natural nuclear arms control agreement stand the others the major one into major nuclear forces treaty which you heard of the old christmas was an s.s. frenzy that diamond trump withdrew from medically years ago so this is the last one and the child who shall architecture not just for nuclear chemical weapons as well

there was put in place to help keep a sense of the end of the cold war does not protect or has crumbled this is the last perilous than it needs to be protected and land that to be the basis of building a new arms control system around. i wonder if these days went on sort of looking and in the wrong place yes it's perhaps it's good to have a sort of nuclear weapons arms control treaties but. that's not where the danger is they say is it the bed the danger these days now it's not so much in conventional no nuclear weapons but in cyberspace. that that's partly true so this is a lier dangers that kind of cut through competition in cyberspace that for example shutting down power supply or hospitals or banking systems transport systems what you like but also the cyberspace competition is partly about to see whether it's possible to get access to each other's. hardware defense systems ross or the

2 or more closely issue than you might think plus an awful lot of scientists if you try to look for a physical location you'll find it in outer space among the satellites right and then the militarization of space is another aspect of their sons who chops so these things even in today's world where there are other threats like climate change or the pandemic that you've just been discussing seeding the nuclear threat still not good talking to thank you so much for joining us dance record for me stockholm international peace research institute. finally a devoted dog has spent days waiting outside the hospital in turkey which has been receiving treatment for a dog called djoko father the ambulance carrying her and made dating visits to the hospital even though he was being cared for by a relative he repeatedly ran off and returned to keep watch outside the hospital all day. on just was find me reunited with owner to now and she food contain

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berlin good to have you with us were u.s. president joe biden signed 2 executive orders friday to help workers hit hard by the pandemic and he began making his case for a large new stimulus package the new directives would allow workers to claim unemployment benefits if leaving their job over fears of catching the virus and expand food subsidies among other things biden has made economic recovery a priority of his administration he also used friday signing to push for considerable new deficit spending to stimulate the economy saying americans were barely hanging on and that economists were on board here's what he had to say there's a growing chorus of topic and top economists that agree that this moment of crisis with this need to us rates as low as they are a story close more fiscal investment including deficit spending and they're

more urgent than ever. are let's bring in our financial correspondent in new york yeah. good to see you there you heard biden there using a condom is to make his case is washington on board this big spending plan. well that's a big question and we did see during this week it was a confirmation hearing for example from janet yellen being the new head of the treasury she made a big case for joe biden and this 1.9 trillion dollar bill and she has big bipartisan support you so you could guess there's also support for the $1.00 trillion dollars package but this is not necessarily true we have already heard from some republican party members that they actually oppose this amount of money and we even if to see if all of the democrats will be on board so it's not really decided at this point if and also we didn't we will get this abuse

a package that yesterday i talked to former u.s. labor secretary robert reich he told me that $1.00 trillion dollars even if it passes would be good for about 6 months and then more would be needed so if you can't even pass 1 point one trillion what are the odds you going to get more what is the thinking from the white house and from wall street where you are on more aid . well i mean wall street always laughs more money so that's not a big issue and nobody really seems to think about the huge debt load that we're seeing on the other side of the aisle because we shouldn't forget already we have a record a government debt we have forever record corporate debt that we have a record and household that but nobody seems to vary about this at this point but if you look at what to joe biden is proposing he's talking about a rescue plan and then a recovery plan so right now we're still in the face of a rescue and that's what this $1.00 trillion solar at

a dollars is supposed to be spend on and then if that is done then we're talking about recovery and probably another couple of $100000000000.00 so at $4.00 at least i'm to get the economy going and if we talk about a rescue i mean the situation in the country still is pretty. a rough we've seen statistics that about 50000000 americans are considered to be. food. so that they're basically hungry and from those 50000000 americans we have about 1617000000 kids who do not get enough to eat each day so those are really some just punishing numbers and that really shows you that yes we need a lot of money for the rescue and then later on we are going probably to talk about recovery and even more debt all right the question whether there'll be an appetite for more debt as you said there yet. in new york thank you very much.

gillette wyoming population about 30000 and until recently something of a boom town thanks to the fossil fuel industry not the more the oil industry is dying rather the old industry says die and the winds of change are blowing through in the form of clean energy not everyone is on board. the 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. media 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 we take him at his word and that's going to be tough and we will we

will do what 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 4005 from the people working a far cry from what. i think we're net losers for our call industry in particular it's going to be a tough 4 years at least. on the outskirts of gillette is the office hangout for coal miners oil workers and everyone else who works in the local fossil fuel industry office on the jay clayton says they're all. peers in this donor energy if your energy prices don't go up we don't have any way to make a living. that's the bottom line. coal oil or gas that's the bottom line the new biden that in this race is a konami plan allocates $1.00 trillion dollars to renewable and clean energy for folks here that's the wrong call we're not into that renewable energy. fuels it's

words. those windmills running down with are not going to save anybody in this country 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 $158.00 wind turbines generating clean energy now warren buffett's holding company berkshire hathaway owns pacific corp it plans to invest a total of 6000000000 dollars in wind and solar 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 select the cities 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. me if you can give me the option because we are looking forward we have already been working with department of energy and if you take the 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 we want to do. seems like it's not all gloom and doom for wyoming embracing change will be key. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news. a new study suggests china is falling behind on its commitment to the china u.s. trade deal the country purchased a mere $100000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods and 2020 despite agreeing to purchase 170 $3000000000.00 worth and that's according to the peterson institute for international economics china blames confusion over what falls under the agreement. donald trump's final financial disclosure us president shows the trump organization suffering a 40 percent decline in revenue over the past 12 months the pen dimmick his hotel

sector and revenues from his golf resort in florida fell by nearly half a bank mortgages on the property are due to mature in 2023 adding up to $75000000.00. europe's number one carmaker volkswagen struggled with cratered sales figures and weeks of production stops as the pandemic spread last year but it still managed to turn an operating profit of 10000000000 euros according to preliminary numbers he says is the result of robust european and german sales as well as the company's chinese activities. british prime minister boris johnson is welcoming news that nissan will source more batteries from britain and executives said the move was to avoid tariffs on electric cars and of the press that trade deal with the e.u. a deal the executive said had turned britain from a risk to an opportunity. a world without google's search engine might be hard for many of us to imagine but could soon be a reality for $25000000.00 australians that's the novel threat that the tech giant

is now making in a dispute with the country for publishing rights. australian news outlets one google to pay them a fee or face a hefty fine for publishing their content in its search engine a corresponding goal was drafted in december google says that's unacceptable and it retaliated at a hearing before the australian senate. the principle of on her street did linking between websites is fundamental to search 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 google search available in australia this would be the 1st time that google had pulled out of men tire a continent but australia isn't taking it lying down. to strive you mike's our rules for things you can do in a strike that's done in our palm and it's done by our government. and that's how

things work here in stride and people who want to work with that in australia you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats google has a lot to lose if a strangely it 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. and finally it's still no time for no time to die the global release of the james bond movie due in april has been postponed. the bond franchise is one of the movie world's most lucrative with pandemic still raging hollywood studios are reluctant to launch their biggest films and he said the most remain closed or there are strictly limiting spectator numbers the film which cost an estimated $200000000.00 to produce is daniel craig's last outing.

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