one out of 8 people suffering from hunger. the world food program is fighting over worldwide. join the fight. jeff bezos is stepping down as amazon and. it's a surprise announcement from the man who founded the company 3 decades ago well look at what's next for amazon. and another big. cases last day in charge of the siemens he joins us to talk about the company he's

handing over. the system to be a business in berlin welcome to the program it's a job that made him the world's richest person but jeff bezos says he's stepping down as amazon c.e.o. later this year is announce his resignation just as the company post 4th quarter profits of over $7000000000.00. what comes next for the world's richest man jeff bezos founded amazon in a washington garage in 1904 and built it into the he met that is attended the business of buying and selling goods the 57 year old has become one of the most respected and feared business leaders in the world and the riches but the net worth of almost $200000000000.00 in an e-mail to employees business wrote that being the c.e.o. of amazon is a deep responsibility and it's consuming. by stepping back he'll find time to focus on his other projects such as the washington post which he

bought in 2013 for $250000000.00. or his rocket company blue origin. phase that was has invested heavily in this business but is lacking behind rival tech basilan musk space x. . meanwhile his successor andy chassis is set to inherit a business that is increasingly under attack. for how wield its platform to undercut or even drive competitors out of business. for how it treats its sprawling network of 1300000 employees who have complained of brutally long shifts poor pay and unsafe conditions and warehouses. as amazon's influence and profit grow so due to the demands terrain and its power it now falls on jesse to answer those calls. let's get more on this from our reporter chelsea the lady who brought us

that reports now joins me from chelsea business is booming for amazon or i suppose you are stepping down now. one that won the one hand it's a very good time for bezos to be leaving he's leaving on a high note after really seeing one of the best years in amazon's history part that pandemic so business is good and that could be a good time to leave but we also have seen jeff bezos really signaling his intentions to leave at some point the company over the past couple of years he's basically been handing off the day to day operations of amazon to other people within the company this of course is a trend we've seen among these big tech giants in the u.s. that were fine founded you know in the ninety's over the past couple of years google. facebook facebook but i am these companies are starting to grow up and they need new leaders so jeff bezos is saying he's going to remain in

the company he's going to remain as executive chairman but he wants to focus more on his passion projects now after having spent all this time building up this company and what do we know about his success and jesse well indeed yes he is a very well known figure at amazon he basically is responsible for building the cloud business at amazon which has grown into the biggest profit center for the company he said to be a lot like just bezos in terms of management style he's very focused on amazon customers he's very focused on details but he's going to really face a very difficult road amazon is facing regulatory invasion investigations around the world many regulators want to split this company up as well there's a lot of pressure on amazon in regards to how it treats its workers so he is going to really face a lot of challenges as he takes over this business. to do anything so bring us up to date. i'm now for

a look at some of the other business stories making the news as protesters demonstrate over monday's military coup shares listed in my own ma have fallen to a 4 year low the best as it concerns the u.s. and european nations will impose sanctions on myanmar over military takeover. chinese e-commerce giant alibaba store profits jump over the last 3 months of 2020 to modern $12000000000.00 that's up more than 50 percent here on year but the strong earnings are overshadowed by an ongoing antitrust private so the i.p.o. of holy father subsidiary and locked. out german industrial giant siemens appears to have weathered a tough year pretty well its latest results show orders and profits are up on a year ago before the coronavirus pandemic it's helped by strong growth in china it means c.e.o. joe case ends his time in charge or positive next. year after taking up the

reins at siemens joe kayser unveiled his vision 2020 plus restructuring plan he faced massive resistance especially from the company's employees but case the fought back vigorously against his critics. within its vision 2020 is a blueprint for growth for innovation and corporate cultural change and not a staff reduction program kayser decided it was time to streamline his engineering conglomerate selling off a raft of subsidiaries including household goods division which made washing machines and fridges carriers are also hived of the medical technology division successfully launching it on the stock market in 20182 years later he did the same with siemens energy parent siemens does still maintain large holdings in both entities though siemens energy makes wind turbines it also still makes turbines for gas and coal fueled power stations but because of germany's push towards renewable

energy that to do in lng market. so the company has just announced it will be cutting $7800.00 jobs almost 50 percent of them in germany one in 12 jobs at siemens energy faces the x. unions and even shareholders of constantly reminded joe kayser to balance people and profit margins equitably and not to prioritize profitable. but germany statistics office to starters says it through subsidiary sales divestments and job cuts siemens to shed tens of thousands of jobs during the 7 year kayser era where we can speak to siemens see joe k.'s on his last day in the job thanks for joining us on business does the pandemic mean that the company your handing over is not as strong as the company that you'd have liked. well you can always prepare to open sleep because if people believe that they are

perfect they should rather lease and leaving it away but i've been far away from from perfect and the company's far away from perfect into the people because there's always new challenges and opportunities but if you look at you know it's even by the numbers specially. the quarter has been you know to you out this morning fascinating numbers i mean bookings were up 15 percent year over year revenue is up 7 percent operating profit up 39 percent the operating margin is 16 percent and so that's not you know there could be much worse and they must not forget that those numbers compared to the same quarter a year ago which was basically preplanned them and now we are in the middle of it so that means actually that we have quite a relative strength in our business compared to peers predominantly and that if you

feel good where i live and the other thing this week makes me feel really good is that we have a very very strong management teams the leader with a long push to take over starting tomorrow and that makes you you know makes it easy to go out and say hey you know we've got a great team it got a meaningful starting point for the next generation you know it feels good to to say goodbye and see you around you just said actually that you haven't been the perfect c. over time do you have any specific regrets from your time in charge. oh yeah so many you know hindsight is a lot of stuff we would do differently if it happened again i mean obviously we reviewed it's i'm investing into this a willing as in the steve rich hindsight we would probably not have done in that. in that way we've been trying to do that as a lot of reasons for that but you know it's more than that the purchase is done

a lot of cool things all to sleep because you wouldn't be there. very are today and i remember when i started as c.e.o. in in 2013 the share price was about 770 now yesterday we had a new all time high of 133 euros plus the benefits of the spin of it was another 12 euro for for energy if you look at the the the i.p.o. siemens healthy new years you know the i.p.o. they met $28000000000.00 and now they are 50000000000 in market cap 50000000000 in market their cap in germany the big thing you know it's way about b.m.w. it's just about the same level the entire i think about this you know formative vision of siemens now is worth more that industrial lichens of picture money for must have done something right and that's what i would you know focus on especially

also the succession plan check eisa outgoing c.e.o. siemens thanks for joining us on t. to be. watching that interview is our financial correspondent in frankfurt. that's the view from the man himself but how will his time in charge actually be remembered. well ok so will be remembered for talking about a lot of topics that usually c.e.o.'s are very hesitant to talk about xenophobia right wing tendencies in germany for example he was very outspoken against all this he also tried a couple of unusual p.r. stunts for example by offering a fridays for future activists a seat on the supervisory board of siemens but and i think in your interview this became pretty obvious case there was also a tough numbers guy who cut tens of thousands of jobs and with the spin offs of

health in the areas and siemens energy did exactly the things that the markets wanted to see. what the case it was not enough was technological visionary the numbers of patterns that siemens registers each year is on the decline from a business in frankfurt thanks. and finally it's dark sweet and tasty but according to german regulators it's not technically chocolate german chocolate maker written sport recently debuted a barcode cap in that uses natural cocoa chooses a sweetener but according to the german cocoa ordinance cocoa juice is not one of the listed types of sugar that allow the bar to be called chocolate or to sports called the rule absurd adding that if sausages can be made from peas chocolate doesn't need sugar either wake up. and a reminder of our top story now i was in founder jeff bezos is stepping down later

this year giving up the role of c.e.o. of the online retail giant he started in his carriage in 1994 to become executive chairman and anti chassis takeover. that's all from a in the business team here in berlin if you do want more from us check out our website t.v. dot com slash business we're also on facebook and twitter to next time go by and take. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update nineteen's. on t w. 2 children 2

continents. one giant problem and when you live in no need to see. if you can eat. how will climate change your. back to us and our children. who are mourning e.w. dot com slash water. violent protest in the netherlands at the start of the year people venting their anger against corona virus restrictions demanding politicians to come up with a long term strategy to deal with a pandemic. easier said than done. in the chinese city of new hand total lockdown broke the chain of infection today things are almost back to normal in the city

where the pandemic began. while most countries in europe opted for temporary lockdown measures with mixed results some countries like sweden decided to go easy on the economy with many elderly bearing the brunt. and populist governments around the globe basically ignore the virus altogether again pushing up their country's mortality rate. and the economies and people are suffering all the same it's time for a silver bullet that ends the pandemic. hello and welcome to our covert 900 special on d.w.i. monica jones in berlin which is still in lockdown case numbers are going down slowly but the virus is still very much active so what's next could the no covert strategy be the answer to our prayers here's what it's about. a new plan proposed by scientists in germany aims to do more than just flatten the curve it

quote ready kate corbett 19 and help get things back to normal their plan basically consists of 3 elements. first they suggest that the government should enact a rigid and efficient lock down. measures could include a stay at home orders travel bans and the closure of schools and kindergartens as well as all non-essential institutions factories and shops. government programs should be introduced to secure people's livelihoods apart from that all contact would be reduced to an absolute minimum the lockdown would stay in place until the number of new cases dropped police iraq areas that don't register any new infections would be declared green zones in those zones the scientists say restrictions would be lifted and life would gradually return to normality. to prevent the virus from entering

a green zone travel restrictions and quarantines would be imposed as well the green zones would gradually expanded merge until individual countries and ultimately europe would be packed to normal. to keep infection numbers down or sororities or trace contacts expand testing and isolate new cases and local outbreaks of new infections would be controlled by strict measures and quarantined. the scientists say they are no covert strategy would be the best way to restore moral and fight coronavirus fatigue instead of ineffective dropped on measures that keeping extended it would offer a clear path towards normality. now earlier i spoke to professor kickbush a much sought after global health consultant who the renowned medical journal the lancet refers to as a global health reform up and i asked her about her take on this no covert strategy

. i think the key thing is that we are looking for a sustainable strategy that involves the population that is motivating and that brings the different societal forces together we want to work together towards you know we want to create green zones that allow people to live an ordinary life and we want to do away with this simplistic contradiction between the economy and people's lives because they really enter twines in so many ways so be a very keen to say this is a positive a motivational strategy and if we look to a stranger and see how people are living their lives now even organizing the australian open with thousands of spectators then it is this

motivational goal that we want to work tools right now before we look to stray let us dissect a little bit to the sustainable approach i believe that this no credit strategy aims for an infection rate of below 10 percent why are these 10 percent suddenly coming from why why 10 percent. well it's the various calculations from the model that help us understand that because then of course the infection rates are pushed down the reproduction rates are low and we actually get an exponential reduction of infections and that also means that people can be traced if there is an infection then there are enough resources to actually try and find out who else where the infection has come from who else this person has been in contact

with so it becomes a really manageable system it becomes transparent and one can work with each individual that is infected the loss or your numbers are all the more difficult it is to have a tryst tracing strategy and that's of course then in turn increases the incidence . once a region is below those 10 percent this distracted she says it is a green sound but how do you keep that green sewn contained do you do you close borders again to keep people from red zones out of their. well that is the strategy the strategy is even to have a source of competition that people want to get their everyday life back and if you're in the green zone that means if you act responsibly that you can actually move around again you can't let go of all restrictions we do recommend

that for a significant period for example even in green zones people still wear masks but yes it is a strategy as we've learned from other parts of the world that the contained area the green zone is the interaction the mobility has to be reduced specif course we have to be realistic so one of the things of the whole of society strategy is that a green zone might have a factory or a company that has many people who work for them in the red zone so we need to clear testing strategies a cooperation with those companies a lot of these things can be managed but there needs to be not only the political will to manage it but also the will of all the other societal actors exactly i think this is a very important point you mentioning there that everybody the people especially

included have to support the strategies you've mentioned australia as a good example now if we have good examples and what you say sounds so easy to do why are 2 foreign teams just adopting it and doing it. well to some extent there is a climate that 'd seems to hinge. be always have a tendency to discuss what qantas bitter we have a tendency to say we are different you know one says oh be continent from taiwan because they're an island i mean taiwan is 24000000 people who live very close to me so you know you can compare it to the u.k. that has enormous high infection rates and is also an island at least influences so i think we have to be much more willing to learn and we have to be willing to innovate to bring the societal forces together and to say you know we

want to do this and i think that this whole approach we are in this together i must say i've lived in a stranger for a while this is what has most impressed me that people have said you know this is for all of us this is not just for me but if my i do my bit we all are going to benefit and i myself am going to benefit because i can go to the express or shop next door. professor kickbush they're a much sought after as mentioned global health consultant from switzerland there thank you so much for your time and let's hope that this new strategy will overcome people's fatigue with a lockdown thank you very much for having me. so let's remember we're all in this together and let's not forget there's also

a vaccine available now brings us to alice science correspondent eric williams will answer one of fuel questions now. how long will it take for countries to vaccinate significant parts of their population. a couple of factors will play roles here the big hurdle at the moment is to produce enough doses to vaccinate 2 thirds of the world's population so so over 5 and a half 1000000000 people manufacturers of the vaccines approved so far say they can provide a significant fraction of what's needed to do that by the end of 2021 but not all of it making vaccines is a complex process and as we've seen in the last few weeks a lot's can go wrong in production but hey it's still only early february right and don't forget several other vaccines are also approaching the regulatory finish line

and i'm confident that in some places at least widespread vaccination will be the rule by say july or august the way israel's going it will be a lot sooner than that but reaching goals in other countries will be challenging as was all too predictable and despite the kovacs initiative it's already clear that wealthier countries that bankrolled vaccine development efforts and placed early orders will be 1st in line when it comes to distribution my guess is it will be pretty much impossible for many poorer nations to make significant progress in vaccinating their populations for at least 6 months simply because most of vailable supplies will be snapped up quo. plate logistics will also as a challenge as some of the approved vaccines require high tech cold chains

so i'd say the answer to the question of how long it'll take for countries to vaccinate widely depends very much on the country some will do it in in months i think and others it looks like it'll take at least a year and possibly more than one. there is williams there and he'll be back to answer more of your questions again tomorrow so keep them coming that's it for today for me in the team thanks for watching stay safe.

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