this is the dublin news live from berlin the new u.s. president says america is taking the lead in the fight against climate change joe biden assigned executive orders aimed at reducing rising global temperatures biden will host a global climate summit in april saying that the u.s. cannot meet the challenge on its own also coming up nationwide protests in poland

as a near total ban on abortions comes into effect critics say the country's conservative government has gone too far. and the fallout continues over a vaccine shortfall the european union ups the pressure on the drug maker astra zeneca to mandate that covert 19 tax liens made in astra zeneca british plans to be shared with the e.u. . plus block down beauty secrets we report on how the ongoing closure of hair and nail salons is leading some stylists with little choice but to take their trade underground. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program a huge turn in the u.s. his position on climate change u.s. president joe biden says america must lead the global response to the climate

crisis biden made the remarks at the white house before signing a raft of executive orders aimed at curbing rising temperatures worldwide viewers a stablish climate change as a major national security and foreign policy issues for the u.s. biden says the climate crisis requires a national effort and he likened the threat to the coronavirus pandemic. and just like we need a unified national response to cope with 19 we desperately need a unified national response to the climate crisis because there is a climate crisis we must keep we must lead global response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the united states alone we know what to do we just got to do it. early i spoke with washington bureau chief in us pull about what's in biden's climate plan but i just want to remember all of us that he the 1st day in office already made

a pledge to rejoin the paris climate of cream and and cancel the construction of the keystone pipeline pipeline this is a big big deal here in the united states and the test fight over for several several so the white house has made plans to move towards investing in clean energy projects and just today president biden signed another executive order to halt new all and gas leases on federal lands that's also seen as a big win for climate activists here in the united states. police in the russian capital moscow have raided several homes and offices linked to jailed opposition leader alexina vonnie authorities targeted the headquarters of his anticorruption foundation as well as now van is in the valleys own apartment where they arrested his brother police say the searches are linked to alleged violations

of covert 1000 rules during mass protests last weekend on sunday tens of thousands rallied in cities across russia to demand of arnie's release from prison. police also raided a rented flat when of on his wife yulia has been living w. spoke to her lawyer about the searches. think of that we can see that there are mass searches the homes of the employees of the anti corruption funds today. they are clearly being treated in a biased way by authorities and their rights to legal protection are being violated . the trust her lawyer i would say that at the moment you know is rights being violated and so the rights of others who are not being allowed to see their lawyer is. suitable unfortunately at the moment this is a common practice. in poland

a near total ban on abortion has come into force sparking nationwide protests that brought thousands into the streets the new restrictions mean that all abortions in poland will be banned except in cases of rape and incest or when the mother's life or health of or to be at risk. once again they took to the streets once again demanding their right to choose the new law only allows for an abortion if the life of the mother is in danger. now protesters say the government has gone too far. stop lying about abortion saying it's not taking place stop lying like the far right and the church do and nuff is enough. polan is one of europe's most devout catholic countries it already has some of the strictest abortion laws in europe and the good steady at was the m.p.

of the you know top of the constitutional court decided to tighten the law even further triggering weeks of massive protests across the country. abortion rights activists have announced more protests in the coming days they have no intention of keeping quiet and that is that we have to stop protesting again this is the only way we can prove to those who rule us that we are not tired we are not fed up we do not lack strength and we are all united. critics of the new restrictions say this is not only about women's rights in poland. but also about the soul of a country that seems to be sliding further away from the basic values of the european union. to discuss this further i'm joined now by political correspondent jared reed jared what did these new. restrictions mean for poland

as we heard it just about completely outlaws abortion so poland already had some of the strictest abortion laws in europe but last year the highest court went further and ruled that abortions in the case of fissile abnormalities were unconstitutional and these abortions for fetal abnormalities make up the vast majority of a. type place in poland so with them not allowed anymore then basically almost all of the oceans will be banned in poland this of course led to huge on rest last year we're seeing that happening again now because of a bit of a wider context poland is a strongly catholic nation but there wasn't a big public appetite for these laws to be tightened most people surveyed were happy to keep them as they were as it stands very few legal abortions do take place in poland there's a $38000000.00 population there are only around a 1000 take place each an estimated 82120000 women go overseas to seek abortions.

the focus has been on the government and all of that in this what they've been concerns about the way the government approaches the rule of law. that's right poland is led by a right wing government which is led by the ruling laurent justice party and for a while now this party has been accused of a roading democracy like reforming and politicizing the courts generally having an undue influence on the judiciary this is led to concerns over judicial independence and the e.u. is. bringing legal action against poland over this there have been the party has also. began and began what many see are attacks on free and independent media we're also seeing an increase rhetoric and policies against the community what we're seeing though is that the ruling party could be in

a little bit of trouble it only narrowly won last year's election and support is on the decline we saw as we saw last year these big protests arising over abortion so it could be that in a couple of years time there are more young forces would like change ok. thank you. the european union has told the drug maker astra zeneca that it must supply the block with more of its dozers with models of its covert 19 vaccine or brussels as publicly expressed its frustration after the company announced delays to deliveries which have blamed on lower than expected production at its e.u. base power plants astra zeneca responded to the use demand by describing the delivery dates in its contract with brussels as targets rather than legally binding deadlines but the e.u. says the shortfall should be made up with those was produced in the u.k.

which astra zeneca says should go to britain because it placed its order 1st i hears you health commissioner stellar career it is. 27 you know are you night. commitment you know. we provide a. front. binding company to you even before. not do you need money. again. and. need. d.w. correspondent guild matters is on the story in brussels and he described what kind

of pressure the e.u. could put on astra zeneca obviously this contract is confidential the e.u. now has asked us resenting to put the contract in contract into the public for everyone to see that there is a commitment as the you commission has set a legal commitment that those vaccines that have been promised that have been prepaid refinanced even much more than 3 $100000000.00 euros to build up the capacities in those factories and now the commission says to point towards. best our best effort clause is just a lame excuse and there is no hierarchy of factories if there is a supply problem and everybody should suffer the consequences at least that is the argument that has been put forward by the european commission. now here's a look at some other developments in the pandemic portugal will suspend all flights to and from brazil beginning on friday and that's due to

a surge in covert cases in brazil french drug makers enough he says it will join forces with its rival pfizer to help reduce the biotech vaccine as its own vaccine isn't ready yet and the cannes film festival has been moved from may to july in the hope of being able to hold the event on the french riviera in person in belgium health sorry hair salons rather have been officially closed for weeks due to the lockdown but that hasn't stopped many cya stylists from performing their craft more and more of them taking their trade underground and they're finding eager customers who've been forced to do without them for months. even inside this shopping bag is a tiny hair salon. hairstylist louis is visiting a client at her home in brussels it's his 7th appointment of the day he risks a 750 euro fine if he gets caught but he says he has no choice so

it's do or die if i don't work i'll be forced to sell my house all my savings are gone you could be about his or there's actual to appreciate his client is pleased with the clandestine service no one knows when hair salons will be allowed to open again you know given some people may say that her dresser just isn't necessary right now but it's something i need i'm doing this for myself as well as for him. even some manicurists and tattoo artists have begun working again illegally whether in their clients' homes or in their own basements. of course it's like we don't understand a lot of down rules that's why more and more people are rebelling and want to open despite the ban people are starting to get real impatient the situation is quite tense experience here. it's hard for the police to catch violators want to. proving an offense is taking place it's very

complicated to do that you have to go inside someone's home and that means building a case and getting a warrant from a judge and it's not just in brussels that hair salons more remain closed in the weeks ahead and people will secretly try to bend the rules. were. what's not to like about newly fallen snow for the elephants and i resign as not much employees captured these images of baby elephant pansy and her family frolicking in the florida keys while most of the others who are in malls close it up inside the shelters pansy and her sister did some splashing in the enclosures pond and a little slip and slide in the mud. as the keepers say it was penzeys 1st ever snow fall so no wonder she enjoyed every single moment of it. great fun there it watching the news from berlin coming up next is doc film with

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oh. it is often said that fruits and vegetables used to taste much better. and that they were healthier but with a renewed. the i could immediately cut in paris is the fountain of knowledge regarding old plant for i a t s. between the old agronomy publications we find something special. in the trishul composition table for fruits. vegetables it is the kids of. the fisherman and mineral content of each and every variety.

and indeed over the last 60 years many fruits and vegetables seem to have lost some of the any traditional back. so how did. they discover american biochemist donald davis next is on the subject. i'm here to tell you about an important problem that many people are not aware of nutritional declines in foods. davis works at the university of almost in texas and has analyzed the development of 43 vegetable varieties between 950 and 999. i think that most of these declines are caused by increases in yield when you go up those last nutrients per weight of the food

a lot of agricultural scientists may not know about how big these effects are this is kind of embarrassing of their they're always wanting to increase you if modern breeding was causing increases in flavor and increases in nutrients i think they would talk about a lot more. to most of it is one of the fruits that has lost a lot of new trends looking back it is clear that this has to do with that the royalties as well as the sea. foam is all over the world series based seeds from brushes like this. disappear. agricultural groups such as syngenta b.s.f. and down. the scales arguments are based on size shape color and a high i.q. . the

abbreviation h f one or if one is important here it means 1st generation hybrid. the breeding of hybrids works respond. take the plant of the variety see that for example has lunch but too pale to. process with another variety whose fruits of beautifully red but much too small. from this cross-pollination the hybrid is creating a plant that contains genes from both the large pale tomato and the small red one. from as early as the 1920 scientists around the world have been using this technology. their main goal is to produce and indestructible tomato. we know about crash tests for cars but for to tell us.

only with the help of genetic engineering was this possible. in 1994 the flavor saver to marceau was launched in the usa. one of the problems was that older tamar's a variety of spoil quickly. began looking for the eternal tomato. led them to israel. for more than 70 years families here have managed to bread free and vegetables in the middle of the desk.

at the hebrew university of jerusalem we meet one of the creates his of the almost immortal to mars have. been of it's. the 79 year old professor emeritus continues to develop perfect type of plants this is a breeding greenhouse so it's plant is different and i say was this planted look stronger than this one flintstones definitely more than this one we look for these differences in order to develop something which is better than the existing material. for the research and his team work at the university but on behalf of private companies they work is currently funded by the french seed produces a new novel. it's owned by them i cannot i cannot give it to anybody else this is exclusive to exclusive to them you are the only one to get into these greenup's that beside you no one can get. one of the 2 men are creating

a tomato for southern europe used to be one of the more i know looking to have a winning eye birds in the bucket market which of us would size the rounds free on the grounds that. it's a macho as big as a great frog and it should grow horizontally last hour which is the flow organize. usually is a class that has some dimensions of fruit growing every possible direction a people like today want to call a fishbone kloster from back in point of view if you're 3rd dimension it's very difficult to park in a box when you have a to go mansion you can put one on top of the other and it's much easier. for the design time bridge to single variety plants across the flower of the moon is pulling a stick with the pollen of the other it is the way stuff pulled you need to come to open a flower. this is what's been called off the fish and. it's really you know what it

is. that. just moves the bras and put. can go up over. to. you can see you know dust. and he took days and we come we did all that and i would make that for the nation. how many crossing you'll make for us to have the one i bring i be and. to make a commission i believe will be $400.00. $400.00 like that before i moved every year . sometimes it's coming on to find a saudi or so we can go through a good not. just as house kind of benefits and his team off to thousands of cross-pollination screen ated be eternal to me in the late 1970 s. their invention revolutionized the world market. where you begin to work on the

long shelf life because because of this waste the 40 percent of the who the used before this mutation the limit was to 3 days full days at the most when we export at the models to europe and we exported that look i'm off the wall we used to fly by openings because every place to go by boat form is route to most saves the mother would be moshing nobody nobody would go. to extend the shelf life the scientist uses a mutation he discovered by turns the purpose of the storm onto is to disseminate his seed for the next generation so. the moment the sins are right. it will fall off the boat. bumping into the ground. explode and all these jews will will run all over as far away from the mother plant as possible in the

other 2. we don't want to. trade for human. and here we have a mutation. provide the solution. for the new hybrids b. israeli research has crossed plans for the classic to massive horizon peace process runs out in 3 days with mutated plants whose genes prevent the fruit from ripening . the result hybrid that decomposes much more slowly after harvesting. we're going to do a simple experiment on the right a perfect flawlessly beautiful hybrid fruit. on the left a traditional pharmacy tomato. it is anything but perfect with yellow spotted skin and small flowing. now we just have

to wait. after 3 days both to mars has a still fun and presentable. after one week the farmers to monitor is unsellable the black spots indicates a deterioration. and the hybrid unchanged even after 2 weeks the stem has come loose but that's not a fall. only after $25.00 days is the hybrid tomato deemed not fit to be solved. developed mildew you spoke and loose skin. the normal tomato and now looks like this. on the supermarket shelf only the hybrid is able to be displayed for 3 weeks.

eternal youth has its price. you can taste even. paste. the genes for. maybe should i begin to be sure. curry were very. negative traits. for instance flavor that they sed deteriorates and i weigh out less than a trace but i don't know because we know it's never measured it only late in the ninety's and early 2000 we started looking into the quality traits i also had a project like that too many said companies even gave it a name i called it a case with me. and they said it would be much healthier we don't have it in. this. the industry is they don't care. the industry the seed

produces. the israeli company his spirit is one of the heavyweights in the seed market is there a ince millions with the eternal tomorrow. in 2003 his era was pulled out by the multinational limit congress with an annual turnover of several 1000000000 years. following the acquisition of his era limo girl became one of the largest sea produces in the world. in the middle of the negev desert the company is experimenting with new hybrid variety. of your own she rests is the product manager responsible for the worldwide marketing of tomato seeds you know rosenfeld is the press officer this is for you and you don't do it for the court for some

information. all 120 has 0 varieties are grown in this greenhouse. we're going to show you for example the tomatoes that we call it lamb your face is very famous a tomato in turkey today it's a green part of the tomatoes it's like a mustache you know there is a special gene for a dismissed that's yes yes so you see very very nice a color very from tom i don't know it's coming from a long shelf life family also and you mean it has a long genes genes inside but this is a person that all your verity but has i didn't calculate what i assume today around 5050. youngster flies as a problem for the long shelf life in the in the for for

a long time we saw that it was influence to reduce the taste of the tomato and now we are going back and try to increase the test again of the tomato year on she rests once to prove to us that durable tomatoes can also be delicious taste. ok. like a little bit we said that it was said that not all the tomato need to have the taste because if you had only one and salt you don't need these. things. i thank you i don't know what is the method to make this is ok now ok yes. there is a worse. but the mountain for what they want this is ok what we're looking more and more is it to have a good color and a good firmness and a good taste and the nutrients in tomato are still it's

a small player in the market for cooking and it is hybrid breeding the main reason for the loss of nutrients into my. southern front leg of. one of the last traditional seed produces in france lives that. does not produce hybrid tomatoes. he creates what he calls own varieties. this is how we obtain the seeds. because it will seed stay on the bottom and the skin floats to the tongue was to look to you to. everyone used to know this technique of producing seeds for themselves. through to the farmers knew that the next harvest depended on the seeds and they were very careful when producing them physics or something you ate the

tomatoes yourself but the seeds were always the most important thing that's most today no farmer produces them anymore but. the big companies do that. a dying tradition yes almost an orthodox i teach. for. in this greenhouse there's only cultivates only the old farm bryants he's. 100 percent mate. effective also it seems a bit wild and chaotic because i only have a small area of land to work with it is that to make the most of the space i squeeze the tomatoes in close together only working with soil and without chemicals

from what you do you. i don't use any 3rd party products at all in this greenhouse so i grow about 20 different varieties of tomatoes from earth what do they all have in common no hybrids no cross-pollination. but do these old for contain more nutrients than modern hybrids we decided to analyze them but. the tomato is. and here is a similar looking hybrid from the supermarkets. we sent both off on the same day to a state of poetry to evaluate the ingredients. 3 weeks later if the results are available. in the case of the hybrid tomato all 5 values they can pead

much lower. the hybrid contains 63 percent less calcium 29 percent less magnesium and 72 percent less vitamin c. . the hybrid contains less than half of the antioxidants 9 campaign and less than half the homes promoting secondary plant compounds of poly phenols than the farm is tomatoes and. is consistent with the idea there is a relationship between turkish and nutrient content and this was from wish by any professor cleary at the university of florida and he made the observation in this paper that many of the forever components of tomatoes are derived from human nutrients when you eat or tomato that has good flavor that means that it probably also had good amounts of the nutrients that were used to make that flavor

it's a consequence of bridges. breeders so work for you but they're also looking for other economic traits in the process making. cards or changing the chemistry of the tomato. the parent company of his era is a global player in the street business. for you know many parents the journalist believes leasing meets the vice president for international affairs who's if you are part of the management of a globally operating seed producer have you ever analyzed the nutrient content of your tomatoes. so it depends on the growing conditions not on the variety and value so this problem is not a concern of yours so i didn't say that the nutritional quality of our products is

a very important issue for us the value to. the ice. is where we met professor rabinovich you know do you know him. you know he invented the term a though that last 2 or 3 weeks. yes it was a case because he explained to us that the longevity gene blocks the ripening process of the fruit and affects the development of the nutrients. i stand by what i've told you i think the tomato growers have the greatest influence on the anatomy of the tomatoes and the responsibility of dealing with this is there is as they have the most significant impact. if one hybrids have another huge advantage will see the supply as they see it can only be used. if you plant seeds from the freezer for hybrid tomatoes the mixture of genes becomes

a game of chance the next jenner. ration re produce tiny small all rapidly approaching fruit this is why farmers have to buy new tomato seeds every year. and . a profitable market for producers like his era in israel. and the small seeds are incredibly expensive how much is one kilo of seats so this kind of filmmaking this kind of tomato today can reach 400000 euros what's 4 kilograms of seeds what 400000 euros. or more yes you can buy a house was this i've heard that tomato soup or more that the sort of you know of the seeds just the margin of our margin in size and we can get into my adult life because it's expensive expensive seats as a result of demands so yeah it's

a good business for us if it's not we're not here vote 100000 heroes for one kilo of these yellow cherry tomato seeds normal tomatoes cost around $60000.00 here is peculiar more even than gold if only you produced the seeds in exactly georgia today in $22.00 different countries being all over the world and like which kind of country like like israel in thailand like in chile with in spain in india in many places. 'd seeds that are moved there you go 'd produced in low wage countries where labor costs little. next course of cool is. 'd this pressure is the reason for the long journey. seen an investigation by the dutch human rights organization every stone ready. they claim that 16 percent of the

work is in the seed business our children under 14 years of age. for example in the indian state of karnataka the remote villages are among the poorest in the country. the climate in south india is perfect for growing vegetables every year 160000 kilos of tomato seeds are exposed from here. all global play is in the seed markets have a presence in india. b.s.f. duple buyer monsanto syngenta and limit. rafi ron she works on behalf of reason in this region and fights against the

exploitation of child labor. i took these the day before yesterday. around 12000000 children in india work under the worst conditions since 2016 it has been forbidden for children under 14 to work. out of the. aisle but in the majority we observe from a distance and count the workers see how big or small they are the value of it. ravi says that the seeds of hybrid tomatoes are mostly collected by children. and many children were working capital but now the harvest is over. the fields are almost empty. but in a green house we can see human silhouettes. this company works for the multinational corporation syngenta faced in switzerland.

about 10 women and girls of pruning tomato plants. when the smallest of the girls sees us another worker signals that she should squat down. how much you were. up to the 5th grade now you don't go to school anymore now how old are you. she's 17 and you find matey why don't you go to school. there are 9 here. only the primary school how long have you been working. for 3 years. but she started before me. is

1st in the market and since when do you work since she left school at 11. this girl is supposed to be 17 we all find it hard to believe. in gentle purchases that seeds from around 25000 mostly small hold farmers throughout india. this was small to national how it feels about child labor. the answer sounds good but it's nonspecific. syngenta complies with all labor laws this in gentle fair labor program promotes decent working conditions and opposes child labor. children cheap labor but there's another reason why they are so often used in c. production as the author of the report soil seeds knows too well.

absolutely ben curtis well lou is an independent researcher and has been researching child labor in hybrid seed production for 15 years. the british an activity is very very delicate it requests a lot of. stills the children are preferred because they can do this is a party to activities really foster dogs. and also. we can see. who children can do the walk off. that is the kind of calculation farmers have beating in and financed the farm is depend on child labor because they are poorly paid by the corporations . the farmer starts struggling actually to have

a. good profit margin or if the how to. good into the bucket the margin will be. something that would be a new margin for department. but not only children are exploited. what is evident in can attack and i need women in the seed producing to march if you. damage man explains this to us on his. face. but age includes we have 20 varieties. close is a subsidiary of the mark on the french seed producer has hundreds of fans under

contract in the region. she's across pollinating the plants right now. bent 8 hours a day the women pluck pollen from the flowers with tweezers beneath the scorching sun. but why are there no men working under the model. of good luck on their career many more expensive we only hire them for cutting and to carry loads they cost $300.00 rupees per day women work for $200.00 in. their daily wage of less than 2 euro's 50 is illegal even in india. in karnataka the minimum wage in agriculture is $350.00 rupees around full year and the day. these women only received 60 percent of the legal minimum wage. why do you work here.

because there is no other work right now normally we work in the rice fields and have a strong.