the smiles. the slopes no love. for them which. comes a. world peace in the world. i can't sleep. killing spree. killers. as the plays of blame game over its sluggish vaccine rollout germany's angela merkel says there are good reasons behind the delay will delve into whether or not the problems could have been avoided. with vaccines due to arrive eventually and new case numbers falling will visit the parts of europe where lockdowns elucidate.

and russia has opened up hundreds of jobs to women that they'd previously been banned from some of those who take advantage of the change. in berlin welcome to the program european leaders are sticking to promises to offer coronavirus vaccinations to most citizens by the end of the summer that's despite a slow start to the use vaccine rollout astra zeneca and biotech fire promising to boost supplies having fallen behind on a ship and so far just over 2 percent of the population has received a 1st vaccination dose of 14 percent in the u.k. and 8 percent in the united states. well ahead of german delivery company d.h.l. is among those criticizing the sluggish vaccine rollout frank apparel has told the financial times that governments failed to plan for actually getting jobs to

patients well i've been speaking to procurement experts thorsten schmidt 1st off i asked him to rate how germany had done with it rollout. the performance of the german government has been very poorly and we do believe that a lot of the justifications which have now been happening in the last couple of days would have not been necessary if the conflict in the negotiation and the signing of professional agreements with the manufacturers of the exene would have been handled differently in general you can say that the basics of oil procurement contracts and agreements means that you have the right product at the right location in the right amount of it the right time for a reasonable price many of these variables which are truly the foundation of any

procurement contract have not been properly negotiated and therefore our own valuation in general is a poor performance by the german government as they transferred the responsibility to negotiate in finalize the purchasing agreements with the manufacturers through the european union but without a proper our monitoring and the in advance prior agreement truth several guarantees saying anything the mistake was made by allowing the in to negotiate on germany's behalf. i think that this is not a mistake if you are setting boundaries. by redefining and in advance making sure that certain criteria are part of the agreement of course if you would as a different or to see any or she a she strains but if you simply transfer that responsibility and afterwards you

have a semiprofessional monitoring of this negotiation process this is not a good idea but having the german government and the you to some extent been at the whim of factors beyond their control for example you know the ability of the vaccine producers to actually give them the amount of vaccines that promise well certainly it is a very sensitive project and a very difficult time and if you are in august and you are negotiating with several manufacturers there is a certain level of uncertainty for the next coming months but we still believe that the e.u. with its purchasing power should have as an example negotiated a guarantee of a certain percentage of the production capacity which is not reasonable to ask for if you are negotiating with european made that scene manufacturers lead to ensure

that a certain percentage of the production resources are puny indicated to the e.u. countries this is not part of your dream and what austin schmidt from consulting thanks for giving us your view. now the arrival of vaccines however is cause for optimism for europeans and while countries like portugal and spain continue to grapple with alarming numbers new cases others are managing to loosen lockdowns. cool if line you feel a stick here is one excited girl and many other austrians are happy to as their government loosens colbert 19 restrictions for good enough used to look don't have the good news the lock down in austria was effective but we are miles away from the ideal scenario of a weekly incidence of 50 which corresponds to some $700.00 new infections per day

instead of over a 1000 we are currently counting therefore today all we can do is to take some cautious steps and only combined with intensive safety measures. conceived see here. for. the safety measures include restrictions on how many customers can be in a store and mandatory masks that's ok for those who lost money when stores and restaurants were closed for months as this shop owner testifies. and as i'm looking forward to having customers again and social contacts we've seen this that when no one has here. other european countries are opening up to albeit slowly in italy restaurants and bars are serving lunch again and people can't even eat in. in vatican city the museums are open once again. in

greece for now it's only schools that open up not businesses yet the british isles of man has strapped lockdown measures altogether in the island however is off limits for nonresidents was travel restricted the spread of the virus can be far more easily here it's a different story of course on the continent and many are worried that restrictions are being dropped too soon but then again some controlled steps to open up the economy might still be better than businesses taking matters into their own hands like some restaurants in france and hungry that opened up despite an ongoing ban and the threat of finds. its meanwhile the latest g.d.p. figures for the euro zone show the economy shrinking by no point 7 percent during the 4th quarter let's get more on that from our financial correspondent count the new joins us from frankfurt at no point 7 percent how does that compare with what

we might have expected. this is a slightly better number than what economists on average had forecast and given that you know the new lockdown starting october had such a negative effect on the services sector you know the business of restaurants retailers a cetera this number now means that it's the manufacturers which prevented the gross domestic product of the eurozone to formal steeply still the overall number for the whole year is nothing to be happy about g.d.p. contraction is calculated at 6.8 percent and of course the outlook at the moment. the expectation for this year is still very uncertain to come up as an imprint thank you now time for a look at some of the other business stories making the news. siemens energy plans to cut nearly $8000.00 jobs by 2025 as it prepares for the shift to renewables the

company also confirmed it's being sued by general electric for allegedly stealing trade secrets in order to rig bids for gas turbine contracts worth more than a $1000000000.00. top french football league has failed to sell its t.v. rights for 2021 to 2024 plunging it into a potential financial crisis the league's governing body says bids received so far have not been deemed high enough last betting round 28 team brought in over a 1000000000 your. russia opened up hundreds of jobs to women at the start of this year that were long considered too dangerous the list of banned rolls is down from 456-2100 career paths have opened for many women including one newly trained subway truck. at the helm of this moscow subway chain

if you know dog is breaking along help barrier. dall glic is a train driver for the moscow metro a job she is only now allowed to have after working here for nearly 20 years driving trains or trucks working as bricklayers or carpenters these are jobs that have been off limits to women and russia since 2000 that changed on january 1st when a new law went into force from using 356 rolls from the list of banned jobs ahead of the new rules doled equant through a 6 month training in preparation for her new role. i'm looking from outside of the train if there's any damage if anything is detached . she says some of her male coworkers 1st skeptical at 1st. of the month. in the beginning i felt some vigilance from my male colleagues but

now there's only support and assistance catarina drives a cargo truck in russia she says it's been hard to break into the male dominated industry people often don't take her seriously. you know but it was kind of a submissive and i've been invited to job interviews just to see if it's true and if i'm not joking that i want to drive a cargo truck. many consider it a prank asked me this did you get the wrong door do you know this is about a big goods vehicle and they refused to hire me. because i believe in you know. she's hopeful that better job opportunities will now open up for her like driving a bigger vehicle perhaps a similar trailer truck but while the law may have changed she fears attitudes will take longer to catch up. china's market may not be as open as its trading partners i like but its massive agricultural sector is becoming more

transparent less than a month after the 1st pork futures traded on the diane commodity exchange trading in painted futures began in junk 2. peanut prices are up not just on the 1st day of trading but generally the cost of the oil rich kernels has risen for months and china is stepping up its game as of this week the shanshu commodity exchange allows trading of a specialized futures contract. to go far from the price of peanuts fluctuates wildly for all kinds of reasons it gained 45 percent in $2900.00 that's a significant risk for farmers and other businesses trading of peanuts futures will help provide them with an effective indication of the price and risk management tools. futures trading helps farmers calculate their

profits and companies to control their costs and manage their risk china is the world's largest peanut producer growing just about a 3rd of global supply half of which is sold as a consumer snack the other half is processed to peanut oil and used as a condiment but also less feed for fish and livestock farmers will now have a bit more peace of mind instead of price volatility driving them nutz. so for me the business team here in. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19. on t w. i mentioned how many portions of love us right now in the world right now

planetary and different hoffa story. faces wife leslie way for one week. how much work can really get. with the time to where i'm going. to subscribe. 12 months have passed since the 1st 900 cases emerged in germany meanwhile the virus has claimed more than 56000 lives here more than 2000000 have been infected and the number keeps climbing over the past year we've had to adjust our day to day lives to a new reality that we could hardly have imagined before. it's been

a whole year since the prospect of a family holiday has become a remote possibility even impossible. a year of keeping our distance from friends colleagues even our own families. and every day we witness the consequences of the pandemic restaurants shattered in a city's deserted public life has come to a standstill. welcome to a 1000 special i want to jones i'm going good to have you with us 5608 that's how many new coronavirus cases were registered in germany over the past 24 hours no big deal we've had with us now imagine hearing a german saying that a year ago on thinkable but 12 months of this pandemic have changed us here's how it started it's. germany 1st came across coping 1000 here at the

offices of this automotive supplier in bavaria it's where 33 year old employee caught the novel virus from a coworker who had traveled to germany from china he became patient number one. german officials were quick to assure the public the country was taking the virus seriously but that there was also no cause for alarm. health minister young bond told the public there's no need for exaggerated concern and treatment is a longer get this kind of orange the world health organization echoed this with calls for simple measures like more hand washing self protection is still the best possible way we can go about this but infections spread to every region in germany contact tracing became impossible. germany's hold on the virus gave way to the free spread of covert 19. then just 6 weeks after the 1st

case was discovered in germany announced the closing of schools by the end of march a nationwide lockdown meant the workplace and the school day had to compete for attention in homes across the country. the bulk of people in germany seemed to take the restrictions in stride and agree with them. with the budding spring germany slowly started opening up again. but by the start of may nearly 7000 people in germany had died meanwhile elsewhere in europe the numbers ranged from more than 24000 to over 28000 deaths. in comparison with many european neighbors germany appeared to have weathered the height of the crisis fairly well. many people enjoyed the warm summer months. but then fall arrived and cases began to rise again. by

november a so-called lockdown light was in place despite both calls for stricter measures. as well as protests against them. but the many locked down didn't work cases rosa de lauro ming rates with more and more patients needing intensive care. by the christmas holidays restrictions have been tightened again and after the new year schools and shops remain shut. the latest extension of germany's lockdown will continue through february 14th. a more on john but malibu mushy is an infectious disease expert at the bavarian health and food safety authority and she's been involved in analyzing the new coronavirus right from the start when it 1st emerged here in germany good to have you with us please tell me when did you know what we were dealing with.

it was the very beginning of last year's january when a colleague of mine sent me the link to the w.-h. . report on. cases of unknown origin in china and he asked the man what do you think about these cases are we going to expect something really big here in news asked maybe and i said well no i don't think so definitely not wrong i was it took a while for the rest of the population and authorities to revise the view so when i remember that i was flying from munich airport in late march so much much later than most 1st cases emerge still before the lockdown though and a security team there was tested positive and we were all there without masks i mean a dealing with that situation a year ago it was a learning by doing right. well every outbreak in the city kind

of learning by doing that said it because. because every outbreak is different you have to adapt your methods you have to adapt the measure is you implement to stop the outbreak and. yes it's always unique situation but of course last year there was a very special very unique and it was also very exhausting. and still it's still it's ongoing and even a year into the pandemic now we're now in the 2nd year already we still find it hard to say where a person got infected and that's significant why is it so difficult. well with as you sat with the ongoing virus transmission and we have observed really intense virus transmission in circulation for several

months now it's really hard to. trace back infection chains. why is that say because on the one hand. it takes some time and efforts to reconstruct transmission genes. well. the public health authorities have been working at the limits for some time now and their priority is to. prevent forward's transmission meaning that to prevent further spread of covered 19 and also many cases do not know. where they got the virus from them there are also some cases we do not want to say where caused from yet and all of

that makes it more difficult and on top of that of course now we have the variants that said to be even more infectious than the original virus so it still feels a little bit like learning by doing how has the pandemic changed your life. well. in many ways of course it was a very challenging year for me professionally and. to kids it was those to do with regards to my private life very challenging with home schooling is cetera but also what i would say i have never been so thankful for all these brilliant work scientists do all over the world to develop a vaccine that's a fact is against a novel virus within 12 months or even less than 12 months it's just brilliant and . what i want to say is that's if you get the chance to hear the thing gets your.

shorts when it's your turn to get the vaccination would you eat for your own protection and. protection of the valet human beings right that's certainly a new chapter in the pandemic vaccination melbourne from the bavarian health and food safety authority thank you so much for your time thank you money. and it's time now for your questions over to our science correspondent derrick williams. when will we get back to normal life as we know it and lift it until the end of 2919. i decided to answer this on air because i've asked the question so often and by pretty much everyone and you know what i can't give you an answer no one can i can only guess and you know what

else no one can see the future so what all the experts out there predict is just guessing too though some guesses are of course more informed than others so so that said. here's my best guess it's based on 2 factors that should be clear to all of us by now the 1st is that the only way to return to some kind of normal is through vaccination the 2nd is that means worldwide vaccination until we're all protected we all remain in danger the current flock of variance has revealed how quickly this pathogen can cross borders and the longer we leave it in wide circulation even if it's in other countries the higher the chance it'll mutate into a variant that can do an end run around vaccines so that x. anation programs have to be fast and they have to be global i see it as

a numbers game how much vaccine can we make how quickly to reach herd immunity everywhere which many experts say is around 70 percent of humanity that's around 5 and a half 1000000000 fully vaccinated people since many vaccines require 2 doses let's call it 10000000000 doses for this back of the envelope prediction i added up what makers of different back scenes currently in use are now claiming they can produce 2021 which as far as i can tell is around 8000000000 doses so not enough to round the corner globally by the end of this year granted those numbers change constantly but there's still no question it will also take time to distribute those billions of those says so right now i just can't see

a return to something approaching global pretend demick norms for at least a year and and probably a lot longer though in individual nations with high vaccination rates things will likely grow more relaxed before that maybe as early as this summer. best gets. there and william is there and he'll be back to answer more of your questions tomorrow canal that 6 of them in the team thanks for watching.

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