it looks like. the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding the asserting its status in position in the world. chinese gateway to your. storage feb 19th w. . and then there was one. of her main competitor in the race. is set to become the new head of the world trade organization will look at the likely policies of the 1st female and the 1st african. it's the biggest tech. shares in chinese video up quite a show triple in about a year after its listing on the hong kong stock exchange will ask why the tick-tock competitor is so valuable. that its super bowl weekend it's always

a major money spent ever look at the economics behind this year's pandemic friendly . welcome to the program. the next director general of the world trade organization is all but decided the withdrawal of south korea's you myung hee from the race means only one candidate remains form a nigerian finance minister no cozy a conduit in a way alla she will become the 1st woman and 1st african to lead the w t o the organization had been due to announce a winner in the contest by the end of last year but the process was delayed by disagreement among member countries. the top of a conduit agenda would be sorting out the organizations failing dispute resolution mechanism which has no serving judges for the 1st time ever she also says she wants to rebuild trust by mediating between the u.s. and china in their trade disputes and several members have also push for reform of

the body including how it rules on state industrial subsidies. is clearly aware of the challenge ahead she says what are the words you hear about the do it now this function is paralyzed or it doesn't do anything relevant that's something that she's clearly hoping to change next shares in tick-tock rival quae show almost tripled in value on the hong kong stock exchange debut on friday and followed an i.p.o. from the short video sharing app that raised $5300000000.00 that makes it the largest tech listing since the wright share service in $2919.00 even the app based in china saw its share price almost rise by almost 200 percent so $43.00 u.s. dollars the company is a close competitor of bites downs which earns the globally popular tick-tock. let's

get more on this from our correspondent in taipei it's on hand so just explain to us 1st off because people have heard of the miners have heard of quite shares what what is it. well quite so is the 2nd largest short video platform and china as you just mentioned is like tick tock it's like a short video platform where people can upload their funny dio's every day life video and now tick tock in china has around 600000000 users well quite so it's catching up with almost 500000000 users but if you use them you'll find very different features on them and very different talking groups to talk you'll see a lot of content based life streaming of young influence and celebrities with their glamorous lifestyle unquiet so it's like its model to embrace all kinds of lifestyle you'll find a lot of ordinary people crass through users shot their videos from everywhere from

china remote villages or in small cities so it's really getting popular because it seemed to be an app for everybody but both of the apps they make money through e-commerce like get me and ally market it behind it have some resumes the value of christ show i mean it share prices triple after it's listing why are investors so excited about it well after tick tock exit the hong kong market quiet so becomes the only short video platform company in the market so it's making this like investor feel a very very special b it's getting very popular among the retail investors especially for them it's like a very exciting game to see this i.p.o. so before the i.p.o. 1420000 people signed up for the lottery is the highest number ever and the winning rate was only 4 percent so it's amazing for the investors as to see such

a medium sized company to rise to like other big companies and become one of the market with one with very high market value. are there any risks for chinese companies listing this well there are some the 1st risk is china's anti-monopoly rules emmet to digital platforms we all remember how the end group was forced to quit its i.p.o. and the management reshuffle afterwards so this time we don't know when the chinese government will probably step in and set more limits and the 2nd risk is its copyright problems just before the i.p.o. the chinese government started ask. removed almost $10000.00 allegedly infringing videos and the government. has another 500. another 155000000 infringing videos so the industry believe that this may lead to future

lawsuits between kwai still and its investors so non-sale in taipei thanks for bringing as of today's time now for a look at some of the other business stories making the news indonesia's economy has shrunk for the 1st time in 23 years of its soaring covered 19 cases in the country is g.d.p. fell by just over 2 percent last year compared to 2019 household spending transport and tourism are among the hardest hit sectors. ford has announced a $1300000000.00 loss for 2020 after the pandemic wreaked havoc on its business the global chip shortage is also causing its huge problems the comic a says it may lose up to 2500000000 dollars this year due to that issue alone. let's discuss that further with our financial correspondent in frankfurt conrad who is and so we have a worldwide shortage of microchips how is this happened. you know rob the

situation is a bit like with the corona vaccines half we ordered early enough which country gets we we get enough doses and when questions like this are asked at the moment in many different industries and for many different products for the car industry that means that planning is very very difficult if not impossible you know what can you do with the slump the economy has seen last year and what kind of recovery can you expect uncertainty about this really has disrupted supply chains there and order chains and what's more the pandemic has pushed demand for computer chips because digitalisation got such a push so there's a competition for cool gets served 1st and the chip industry serves 1st who pays most contribution and frank thanks for bringing us up to date.

now google has launched a news platform in australia it's being seen as a compromise in its raw with the australian government over new laws they will force it to pay royalties to news publishers google news showcase will pay to host articles but not all of the news providers are on board and google's threat to pull its search engine from australia still stands doing so would have knock on effects for many australian businesses. done outside and with plenty of space for social distancing drone piloting is a pandemic friendly activity. at this drone it class instructors say they've had lots of success attracting students online thanks to the world's most popular search engine google to search your just organic results no i hit. a look at a couple they compared is the ratio to them but they have a good feel for some students drone flying isn't just

a hobby they're getting pilots licenses to set up their own businesses and say mapping or photography google has helped create a marketing ecosystem interested people can find the school new students means drone and stays afloat and graduates of the program start their own drone related operations but now google is threatening to pull out of australia over a proposed law that would require digital platforms to pay local media outlets and publishers to link to their content and news feeds or search results. that's bad news for drown it nor anyone listening now going to try to go comes from google you know there would be a lot of challenges we have to you know learn. learn being you know maybe they do work in very similar ways spot overall we be much happier say when. the government says the proposed law simply asked tech but he missed to pay their fair share since they received value from displaying australian journalism google says the law would give australian news media in unfair advantage meanwhile competitor microsoft has

signaled its prepared to fill a gap with its being search engine if google does pull out for the students and instructors here in sydney the dispute means quite a bit of turbulence that the hopefully learn to navigate. and it's super bowl weekend the big game between the tampa bay buccaneers and the kansas city chiefs is in tampa or on sunday it promises to be a great contest albeit a little different this year only 20 percent of the seats will have fans in them with cardboard cutouts filling the rest but there are other changes too even for fans watching at home. this is the arena. and these other gladiators patrick my home's worst tom brady it's the bucs versus the chiefs. have another match up won't be happening this year coke

versus pepsi because of the pandemic many companies have to side it not to throw millions into the annual advertising extravaganza both companies have seen revenues dip during the pen demick as restaurants in the u.s. and in many other countries around the world were closed. also sidelined the famous but was a clydesdales the brewery giant plans to forego their traditional ads and instead invest in public service announcements to promote the covert $1000.00 vaccination effort. still c.b.s. who's producing the super bowl has almost sold out it's available ad space at a clip of $5600000.00 for a 32nd commercial that's just about the same price tag as last year expensive but for the companies the investment pays off. this year in

particular you have fewer super bowl parties people aren't out at ours where maybe the t.v.'s are on silent so i think this year you're actually seeing more people really engaging with the ads and spending time watching the ads more so than in the past you know your families may be gathered together in smaller groups so they can actually listen to you and hear the ads they think actually is attractive for the marketers that are buying into the game this year. even for france they'll be a lot of entertainment crammed into the ads including some big names matthew mcconaughey and mindy kale ing mila kunis ashton kutcher and shaggy all selling doritos. to this other commercial feature actors michael b. jordan and will ferrell. and for younger

football fans even the cookie monster makes an appearance a good idea. and that's all from me in the business team here in bell and if you must check out our website slash business you can also find us on facebook and twitter and so next time go by and take. the fight against the corona virus endemic. as the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update. on t.w. . to go. as we take on the world. we're all about the stories that matter to.

whatever's eastment going. to be on fire makes us feel. he was a symbol of courage and resilience and now he's the latest publicly known casualty of this content make captain tom moore a world war 2 veteran who collected millions of pounds to support the british health sector in its fight against code 19 now so thomas succumb to the virus himself and britain's a beating him for well past. but most covered 9000 deaths happen in obscurity far away from the public eye. and

often without a proper sendoff. more than 2200000 people have died from the corona virus worldwide so far some countries even have to create new space where the graves of many cemeteries are like assembly lines of wakes and funerals. the country make has made one of the most traumatic experiences in a person's life even harder to cope with. welcome to our coverage not in special want to get germs and i have to say those images are hard to bear but that's the reality millions are living with since the start of this pandemic the death toll is overwhelming also for those whose job it is to give the deceased a dignified sendoff. there

should be a moment of prayer but there's no time for that there are simply too many coffins too many bodies arriving at the dubai crematorium in saxony. and some days there are more bodies than we can actually cremate on a single day or this is when us for our employees 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. of. those who would say it's a difficult situation for us. because relatives can usually say goodbye to their

loved ones here. but at the moment that's not possible because the move leaves. 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 lute 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 does your liberal me and i have contact with families who have lost a relative because of covert 19. they are in a state of shock and reconsidering things this 1st phase of mourning the so-called shock phase lasts longer for that because something inexplicable something in

comprehensible has been added namely this pandemic. plan to me. the pandemic is far from over. many more commissions will be carried out here get a hold monster is worried about the future. that if i was going to assuming that the number of infections remains high it follows that the number of deaths will too if the other food isn't there to and so on and that means we won't see any relief here until mid february at the earliest of the kind of problems and. it is a winter of mourning in durban as it is in many places in the world during the pandemic. tossed in the bank is a fun attala just at the university of paseo which means that he engages in the academic study of death and dying and he joins us now good to have you with us now people die all the time we all know that but is losing

a loved one now during this pandemic harder than normally or is that just our perception what i think it's hard all the time doesn't really matter what circumstances are if you lose a lot warn you you deal with different things than just the cause of death i mean of course it's tragic to have a pandemic and so many people die it's a sheer mass that. really makes us feel uncomfortable when reading the news but for their families for the bereaved ones i don't think it really matters so much but i made the difficult part of mourning and i know that from personal experience is the part of letting go and that is usually helped by rituals and ceremonies that counted take place now how can we compensate for that to help us get closure. well that's true the problem is that the pin emic has some effects on all those rituals you can still have rituals of course but you cannot have the dition a way of letting go in the burial for instance and you cannot talk to the funeral

directors in a way that you could do before corona struck us and people nowadays tend to individualize their morning more than they did decades ago so for some not much age because they say if i lose the last one i will treat this problem in my very personal unknown way so i don't meet those collective rituals that's the one perspective but the other perspective is people say i need the usual the traditional surrounding i need to traditional rituals i meet a. you know i need a way to let go that is that has traditional bones with everything that i've learned from my childhood on how we treat the dead and those people are really desperate because they cannot have what they are used to or what they expect from. letting go and losing someone they love i joked i talked to some people who said i

wanted to go to the funeral director and all i got was an e-mail link and i should do everything online and type in what my my wishes are no one was willing to talk to me in person and i just have to pay that and just be good on a regular basis and for them it was really terrible right and they need something to death death is an extremely personal experience as pleasant as it can get if we tend sides let's talk about those on the other side i mean how important is it for a dying person to have family or friends around because this is something that a lot of those who are left behind really grapple with. yeah that's true most people that die and i consciously know i am dying for instance in a hospice or maybe of cancer or something like that and most people want their loved ones with them definitely their friends step partners to children that's the usually very small minority say no i don't want that with me because i don't want

to you know give them an impression of a person dying and having these these pictures in their minds forever but this is a minority most people feel more comfortable and due to the pandemic this is not or not as much possible as it used to be in the 1st round and in the spring of 2020. dead lock down even on those hospices people were not allowed to only one person was allowed to attend to recent someone this is now changed in many parts of germany at least but still it's far from being perfect because you know if you want to see someone who's about to die you don't really it's not the 1st thing on your mind is the hygenic elements of it or the roots that come with it you just want to be that this person is an emotional mental and emotional that is a not really cannot be compensated by rational measures and i tossed a bank of that. just at the university off pasado so somebody who really studied

death and everything related to that thank you so much for sharing your insights with us. of course to prevent as many cold 9000 deaths as possible we tend to have vaccines but the virus is not making it easy time for your questions now and correspondent eric williams. wouldn't modifying vaccines due to new variance be a huge undertaking. modifying vaccines would be a lot easier and faster in some ways than you might think but it would still be a pretty big deal most of the vaccines approved so far work by getting your cells to create viral proteins so basically the shot you're getting contains genetic blueprints for example in the form of messenger r.n.a.

which instructs your cells to make the spike protein that dots the outside of sars kopi to those proteins provoke your immune system to recognize the virus without ever being exposed to it when despite protein changes due to mutation making a new variant more transmissible for instance then in theory we can quickly figure out what's causing the changes at the genetic level and just update the blueprint in our vaccines to tell the body to start making a variant spites in addition to the original ones so it's not all that complicated theoretically but but the reality of changing back seem production processes even a little would pose some pretty major challenges i think and makers are facing enough of those at the moment already then there's the question of the kind of trials that outdated vaccines would have to go through to be considered safe and

effective would manufacturers have to start from square one again no probably not but but altered vaccines would certainly have to go through. some testings so so changes would take months to implement fortunately we have some experience with this overall situation flu vaccines have to be updated regularly to remain effective so at least there is a framework in place to help guide healthcare authorities. back to captain tom moore he may be gone but his legacy lives on the super fundraiser has inspired 11 year old football image and papa hydel she is using her skill at skippy up piece the tricky art of keeping the ball in the air without letting it touch the ground to raise thousands of pounds for key workers and she's

also inspired others to use their skills for a good cause. my shortly before he died captain tong said image and efforts world tour i want to leave you with that thought that's all for this edition of the 19th stay safe.

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day and most of the time we don't either. think about it bringing fresh oxygen into all the cells engine moving commandant exhaust on it's not only got those gases it's a lot of photos to stay on the lies you know nobody everything about breathing in good should. 90 minutes on d w. the power of words. where i come from i never saw the sun the way to. heaven on earth in brazil the sun was always a man since the portuguese word for sun it's masculine when i move to germany as a 10 year old i want to come to him on t.v. and that will change how i see the world because in german this family.

found the same now but the side of a girl is so much time with a ponytail instead of a deep voice extraverted guy seemed absolutely incredible. i realised how language shakes thinking how definitions of fire not only mental image just put our hope 1st have some of the role. inside save my life and was one of the reasons i became a journalist i'm a storyteller and i use my words to help with intercultural understanding my name is the in one way you can i work and to town.

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