if they don't know why it's wrong. thing about anti-semitism 11 teenagers 11 stories. hey i'm jewish i'm so. young german and jewish starts feb 22nd on d w. a new global juggernaut for a commodity in red hot demand taiwan's global wavers has acquired a majority stake in germany's still traumatic forging the world's 2nd biggest producer of silicon wafers also coming up a secret letter to suggest the german government offer taxpayer money to appease the united states and use fears over the north stream to pipeline bring in more on that and amazon investors demand the company stop interfering with the efforts by its workers to unionize couche will vote is

a complete. welcome to the program shortage of silicon chips is forcing automakers to cut back on production u.s. car giant ford is now drastically reducing output of its top selling f $150.00 pickup truck while general motors says it will suspend work at 3 north american factories to 2 u.s. carmakers are the latest to react to what has become a global problem germany's dimer b.m.w. and false wagon as well as toyota and many other car manufacturers said that they will halt production at their factors due to the chip shortage this comes just as they began recovering from penn demick forced plant shutdown. now these semiconductor chips they power everything from planes to cars to computers and silicon waivers are a key component by the market for these waivers making them has been now by

dominated up until now by 5 companies so tronic of germany is one of them and global waivers of japan as well but now those 2 companies are joining forces global waiver say as its 4400000000 euro bid for a controlling stake and still drawn it has been successful for us combined they'll become the world's 2nd biggest silicon wave producer at a time where need for the product has never been higher semiconductors are in demand and money is cheap tech heavyweights have taken note and are on a shopping spree with their strengths out on europe's relatively small and affordable companies after all europe is a huge market that set to grow rapidly. that's why 2 companies changed ownership this week german micro chip maker dialogue now has japanese owners silicon wafer producers still tronic was snapped up by a taiwanese firm british based chip designer air m.

is also the target of a takeover bid nvidia and the u.s. wants to buy it for 33000000000 euros. authorities could still intervene 18 member states declared the semiconductor industry as strategically important back in december. the industry is set to receive billions and subsidies to maintain europe's technological independence. the world's chip makers are mainly concentrated in asia with a 70 percent market share the world's largest supplier ts m. c. is based in taiwan american firms have a roughly 20 percent share of the market while europe likes behind it 8 percent. european firms long underestimated the importance of microchips just take cars and trucks europe long specialized in high quality mechanical engineering but today's vehicles are increasingly resembling drivable computers europe has neglected the semiconductor industry long seen as low margin and volatile that's now become the

continent's achilles heel. for more let's bring in our business correspondent charles villany chelsea worried about the troubles the shortage of semiconductors are causing to the auto industry in particular will this deal now help resolve the problem. no the shortage in semiconductors that is likely to last for several more months at the very least despite these mergers and this is particularly a problem for the auto industry because we've seen a huge increase in demand for semiconductors as there's been a boom in sales of home tech equipment people moving to home office people buying things like play stations and it's much more profitable for semiconductor makers to make the products for that tech equipment instead of the auto equipment it's a very low margin business so all of the capacity right now is being directed at the home tech market in some of these these mergers that we're seeing it will in the long term likely boost production but for now automakers are really low down on

the priority list for semiconductor makers and it takes a long time to ramp up capacity but chelsea in a different aspect of the story german political leaders have been words recently about german companies including their technology being taken over bus or employers what's the mood regarding this takeover of trauma by global whatever. it's actually causing anxiety both here in berlin and at the broader you level because the e.u. really is pushing forward with the digitalisation that's really the future they see and that future is dependent on access to chips and the e.u. doesn't want to be dependent on asia or the us for access to semiconductors because we've seen how that technology can be used as a pond in some of these geo political conflicts like with like we've seen between the us and china in the past few years so the e.u. really wants to secure its own independent base of chips and deals like this raise

concern that's not going to be possible to delay any thank you. and now to some of the other global business stories making headlines japanese carmaker toyota profits jumped 50 percent in the its october to december quarter of the company made around $8000000000.00 mostly helped by cost cuts though as operations are still suffering because of the pen demick travel restrictions have hit the hotel industry in germany riffle force in 2020 the number of overnight stays fell by almost 40 percent to a record low of 302000000 that's the lows level and almost 20 years since fall overnight stays and hotels have been banned heineken is cutting 8000 jobs after profits plunged due to the lock down the grew of i'm still tiger and more ready beer saw 2020 was a year of quote president a disruption and restaurants have been closed in many parts of the world.

and more mentalists have called it a quote dirty deal a letter of taint and published by a german nonprofit group suggest the german government offered to in this building euro zone facilities in germany for receiving u.s. liquefied natural gas in order to prevent u.s. sanctions on north stream to the u.s. is opposed to the russia germany pipeline claiming it will make europe too reliant on russian gas the german government is yet to comment on the letter dated august last year between german finance minister off false and then u.s. trade secretary steve min of german. for more on this i'm not joined by the environmental action germany executive director is. what come to d.w. xhosa in this letter the finance minister is in essence offering to build infrastructure in germany for us gas in essence north stream 2 is infrastructure

leading to germany for russian gas what's the difference. well there is no difference in this being gas that we do not need there we have enough gas supply and we are reducing goes to meet our climate commitments so what we see now is a duty deal between those 2 infrastructure projects with which made it even worse for the climate it's a bad package deal for the climate of the. taxpayer how's it a bad deal for the climate and they determine task very well they're not too popular is by far the largest possible energy infrastructure project in all over europe even right now we get to. compose 13 percent of germans greenhouse gas emissions and that would be in addition to what we already have but we want to reduce the same for the ecology fracking gas to another so that are supposed to be built at the northern german coast they would comprise something between $30.50

tons of c o 2 and that together is something above 6 percent of german c o 2 emissions together this will lead us into a situation where we have a lock in the fact and cannot meet our climate targets anymore. those that are not only contains the offer to up german vestment for liquefied natural gas on the united states but also to secure the status of ukraine and poland as transfer countries transit countries for russian gas do you oppose that as well. well the 1st thing that does it to commit taxpayers' money by the way without asking german parliament he's supposedly private energy infrastructure project so it also mentions in passing that there would be securities given to ukraine in poland this is kind of weird because poland is an e.u. partner and the projects that i mentioned in the letter are e.u. priority projects anyway and that germany underlines that the system is not an additional commitment is just something that is obvious what do you expect from the

finance ministry now that this letter has been leaked. well 1st we expect from them to to to say with a list of postal stance when they talk to the new administration and i understand that the biden administration also wants to reach out on climate change with the german government and you also expect them to explain to the german parliament so where for god sake of the that $1000000000.00 comes from it's no work and the budget plan and no one a lot of private a lot the finance minister to commit 1000000000 of german taxpayers' money to a foreign government. environmental actually germany executive director thank you for your time thank you very much. and here's an unusual team up a group of more than 70 amazon investors demands that the company stop interfering in a union drive at an alabama warehouse as voting there is under way. how many items does a warehouse worker scan persephone too few and the workers received

a warning too many warnings and the worker gets fired the same applies have too few boxes are packed the pressure is huge union supporters at the bessemer warehouse outside birmingham alabama say they feel they're being treated like machines not human beings if the majority of the $5800.00 workers here both for the union bessemer would be the 1st of amazon's 110 fulfillment centers in the u.s. to have employee representation and that could set a precedent something that amazon definitely wants to prevent. this is still the most aggressive anti-union killer we have ever seen amazon's not spirit preparing to oppose it don't need some basic i am a joke white understand why they are doing this why if they refuse to do better or fear workers the corporation has now launched a campaign called do it without do things amazon put up

a website that shows what workers could afford with the money that would otherwise go to monthly union dues amazon also stresses that the starting wage at the fulfillment center is more than $15.00 per hour including health insurance and company pension workers' votes will be counted on march 29th and finally during the event i'm exuma conferences have being become ubiquitous replacing in person meetings for most businesses but that doesn't mean that everybody understands how exactly the concept works like in this court from video and i believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings. and you might want to. it will bind up which could you hear me judge i can hear you i think it's a filter it and that is of the will how to remove it brought my sister here she's trying to put off i'm prepared to go forward with it and that's

a mere lot of votes not that i'm not a cat. i care sorry claims of missed. if you want more business news and background information check out our website at the dot com slash business or as our status. thanks for watching ever suffer success of. the phone against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update 19 special. on t w. life on earth one of a kind and. gigantic coincidences.

where the improbable happened. to the office for the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery. one story for unique starts feb 11th on d. w. . vaccines have saved millions of lives in the past century. for now they are the best way out of this crisis but there are exciting new prospects waiting in the wings. the practice of vaccinating dates back thousands of years through private spines touted cowpox and feel a scientist's today viral baked goods and r.n.a. technology have been instrumental in fighting covert 19 and another technique could give. d.n.a.

based vaccines the beauty is that scientists can design them on a. her in a matter of hours but people are worried about their own d.n.a. being altered italy is said to stop trials of a vaccine based on a d.n.a. fragment next month its drug regulator having approved the coated events in occupation more on the safety issue than a bit 1st a little history lesson. as early as the 10th century in china secretions from smallpox past jewels were dried and rubbed into superficial scratches in the skin or inhaled this is considered the 1st inoculation using attenuated pathogens to cause a reaction by the immune system. in the 770 s. english physician edward jenner discovered that people infected with cowpox which was relatively harmless did not contract the much more deadly smallpox disease. in 1796 he vaccinated an 8 year old boy with past from the milkmaids cowpox lesions 6

weeks later the boy proved to be immutable hence the name vaccine from vaca the latin word for cow. originally vaccines were based on injecting or administering small doses of attenuated live or dead viruses into the body the immune system then attacked them and created antibodies and subsequently an immunity. with more complex viruses such as sars kovi to around about method is necessary. that's why research teams try to produce only certain fragments of one viral protein the spike protein which when safely introduced to the body would stimulate an immune response. genetically manipulated d.n.a. and r.n.a. vaccines are also being tested here the body produces

a protein by itself that triggers an immune reaction. and another possibility is the viral director vaccine in this case a harmless virus is disguised as the sars kovi to virus the immune system responds and remembers the characteristics. and. side effects of vaccinations are usually limited to a bit of swelling or mild symptoms for a few days permanent vaccine damage occurs in very few were there was vaccinated and the belief that vaccinations lead to autism has been disproven by many studies . is a professor of the role of ji at the university of pisa just for the record d.n.a. vaccines get alarm bells ringing for some people just how safe are they. but actually that's been a lot of studies meanwhile and what you say it surprisingly they found very little

integration some studies just found ciro of it all slowly fog clearly found the d.n.a. in the organisms so apparently they seem to be safe but apart from the close to 0 result i mean is there is there something to be concerned about that why are you always have to keep an eye on that that's for sure and this is why there's all these safety studies after the box you know has been rolled out is just observed for long longer term effects if you want and you there's nothing in biology there's nothing you can explain to 100 percent but just to keep that in a perspective of vaccines like if you use a d.n.a. virus vector is in fact already you know boxy in it's just enclosed in a virus shell but from the point on when and how it has entered the cell it's basically the same as a teen a vaccine and i guess we can't be 100 percent yet because they don't ready for

humans they're being tested on animals it's correct yes to owner of accidents or at the time. what sort of animals and what sort of results have been achieved it. well what one is for horses about west nile virus and the others for solomon it's called infectious him want to pour it in a crosas virus which is the route of viruses related to rabies basically and in both cases they found them to be safe and efficient this is why they are licensed and if you can can get them as a vet so apparent as seems sorry i was just going to say the safe and efficient and a proven quite successful why are they in a vaccines lagging behind other sorts of vaccines that. i think exactly because of the concerns you just expressed and these are relaxed

concerns no doubt about this and they have to be checked on and on but safety is always doing all those clinical studies the 1st issue the 1st thing to be checked rather than efficiency that comes later on. as i said so far it seems to be ok but the other ones are most of them apart from the messenger r.n.a. but scenes are like established platforms all you had to do was to put your favorite sas coronavirus tool and a chair on it and let it expressed by your backlot and then off you go so that's easier because there's always that's all already plus liason what seems on these platforms ok well let's compare the m.r.i. in a vaccines to the d.n.a. vaccines and how they both work the d.n.a. of x. and introduces genetic code of a piece of a virus like this spike protein for example into a person's cells. just like an m.r.i. in a. vaccine shot it then has to get into the nucleus where it's transcribed into an

r.n.a. which instructs the cell to produce the spike protein priming the immune system for the real virus so the d.n.a. has to get into the cell nucleus to make the m.r. and why not just take the m.r.i. in a vaccine in the 1st place well that's perfectly correct and the only thing is simply messenger r.n.a. vaccines are much more expensive like 10 times as much at least so it's also a question of economy and d.n.a. is just very very simple to make very cheap to produce in you to mons it is something that the people are genuinely worried about though injecting that d.n.a. into the nucleus of their cells i mean could it hom cells could it all to the genome . well it's fact if you have a vaccine you have to harm the cells to some extent because besides the expression

of the end you need to have a little interest to be set in order to allow an immune system so this is always goes hand in hand if you want and in fact what we do is we apply the d.n.a. as an electric shock so you get a little a little shock yes with the device it looks like a pistol it has certain amount of electrodes they're still experimental how many there will be in the end and. after this little shock that the an 8 has entered the cell not necessarily the nucleus that will be the next step and will not happen in all the cells but when cells are dividing the nucleus is solving actually and it's in the open and intrude kind of when the cells half divided form again and then this bust be d.n.a. is ending up in the nucleus you're making it sound better and better with the electric shock and piss to tell me how. videos of people they survive if.

they survive a script to tell me how a d.n.a. vaccine could actually deal with something like me taisha which is on everyone's minds right now i think with the d.n.a. vaccine one is as flexible as with a message our new vaccine over the i don't know virus vector for example all you need is your new sequence either you insert if it's just one mutation you can insert it like by hand in the lab everybody could do that in the lab but if it's more mutations all over the gene and you just exchange the whole routine but this is basically norma lab work not much of a problem if you heard from them on veba a professor of neurology at the university of cases thank you very much. the only i can thank you and let's get you over to our science correspondent there at williams he's been looking into your questions on the coronavirus. how does the

pfizer buy on tech vaccine work. i've answered this before but the question is posed it again and again so i guess it's maybe time to go over the details again 2 of the vaccines that have now been widely approved one developed by biotech and pfizer and one produced by moderna or what are called a messenger r.n.a. or r.n.a. vaccines now the technology behind them has been at the focus of a lot of research for decades but but this is the 1st time they've received widespread approval from health care authorities unlike vaccines based on traditional platforms ones that for example used in activated versions of the virus the biotech pfizer vaccine leads to an immune response of the body by delivering information in the form of a special molecule messenger r.n.a. . emira name only kills are single stranded chains and what are called nucleotides

that fulfill a very important function in cells they're kind of the blueprints for making proteins and act as messengers between a cells headquarters in the nucleus and it's protein building factories out in the side applies them and hence the name but the protein these new m r n a vaccines in code for it isn't a human one it's a protein made by the corona virus and when that day is injected it causes your cells to begin making that viber all protein and that viral protein provokes an immune response just as if you caught covert 19 sending in the pretty simple quick to produce m r n a code molecules to make these complicated proteins and getting the body to do the work is a great solution to a complex problem and and there are high hopes that m.r.

any vaccines which seem to have finally come into the road are now set to to revolutionize a range of fields in medicine. and keep sending in your questions to our you tube channel thanks for watching stay safe and see you again so.

everything online. the labor market completely digital and this start up even much comes out of the printer. what about working from home an e-mail here a time as is there one zoom call away from burnout more psychological hygiene or you'll get a remote telling off from the doctor maybe he needs more screen time is out of the question we have to turn back it's really going to be game over for me to enjoy. the 30 minutes on w. . this beachgoer doesn't leave any crumbs

behind because there's enough plastic a miner around in town 10 in to nothing. for cycling this is a make or break show and educating. kids see the bigger picture they will they get the kill where they live. for. 90 minutes on w. how's your view of the world. where i come from but oh is that it doesn't go it's just like with chinese food doesn't matter where i am always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany china so it is one of the things i miss the most . but that taking

a step back i sees things i need to differentiate now and then of forwards 1st as they're going to asia and that includes the other part of the war haven't been experimenting in china that's new but i'm not the type of people wondering if they're going to say it but if you have the right to unlearn place that is this is their job just under the my how i see it i guess that's why i love my job because i tried to do it exactly this hour a day my name of the uninsured and my war added up your.

claim. that the c.w. news live from berlin the us senate gives the go ahead for donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial democrats say the truck must be held accountable for the storming of congress last month his lawyers insists the trial is unconstitutional. also coming up a longer lockdown in germany chancellor merkel will push today to extend to cope with 19 measures but not all state leaders are on board we have the latest and international condemnation throws us myanmar's military type.