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of business groups. from the u.s. markets small companies in particularly are struggling with bureaucracy life outside the. it was a highly anticipated call. conversation with chinese president. u.s. president joe biden criticized what he sees as. the same time heavy terrors would remain in place. for certain technology exports may be. trying to stress the need to. call for tolerance of differing political views it was the 1st phone call between the u.s. and chinese presidents since last march. a short while ago i spoke to frazier how we china how list and book author and i asked him what in the call struck him as most interesting in terms of economic and trade policy sure well i

think the most obvious thing in is that he isn't winding back trade measures the trumpet couldn't place you know by and especially done a lot of executive orders rolling back the damage that he sees that trump has done and you know when it comes to tablets when it comes to sanctions on chinese companies they're all still very much in force and it essentially has its own planning its garbarino out and there's no back to normal or back to usual when it comes to china is it wise then to keep up this tough stance on china keeping up the terrace even announcing your restrictions on technology exports well it's a case of it just defines so wise if you like in the sense that china for many years has been taking liberties of the world economy geopolitics geopolitically liberties and so it's trying to see replenishment in jonker bit and i was the obviously in hong kong and so from that they all deserve a response and i think it's been basically the west and the rest of the world to

just fail to respond hourly are so i would also say it's not a case of be wise or not these measures are ultimately long over. a years it has a said president biden's dealing with beijing would be quite practical hard headed and clear eyed what does china expect that to mean. i think to be honest i think they're guessing i think trump was very easy to reach because trump basically wanted trump's name in lights and his much attention aren't them as you want to be flattered and adored and so that was very easy to play to trump i think biden's going to be much harder he's not going to you're not going to be able to flatter his trunk i think he's going to be much tougher on china because he's going to be courted more coordinated by china to try and work with allies so i think the chinese are very concerned is that we are things are going to go. nevertheless chinese officials have expressed cautious optimism that relations with

the u.s. will improve under president biden do you share this optimism and if so and which areas could dies be thawing look i think obviously that these are everyone expresses autumn is not to start with then that reality hits i think though there's clearly going to be a different sort of well by then it's certainly going to be tough it's going to be more coordinated it's going to go much more civil dialogue it's going to be a much more logical dialogue it's not going to be the violence and under all of the trump years with a lot of noise and you so it's going to be a much more substantial type of discussion is clearly it is for the need to work together as the world's 2 largest economies the always a huge role to play in the global economy in terms of climate change and they make their son out of it it's where they will lead to get least cool in the right direction if not i write a lot of it so they will have to work together at the same time america is going to be a lot much tougher for china to handle going forward. pressure how do you see us china

relations in the immediate future then it doesn't look like beijing is willing to make any concessions when it comes to human rights the state of on kong or taiwan or other areas where the u.s. and its allies are putting pressure on china. yeah no i don't think i don't see we're going to see any concessions immediately or china i think in the states as well nothing's going to be rolled back i think those are probably going to go get us a status quo lull not think an immediate future biden's one going to want to get all esteem in place. where things stand and then move it forward so i regard not quite a honeymoon period but i don't expect any major bit so now i get it there for sure howie thank you very thoughts. thanks very much and to some of the other global business stories making the news singapore airlines is beginning flights today manned by crews that are fully vaccinated against covert 19 the 1st carrier of the world to do so airline says pilots and cabin crew on 3 international flights from

singapore have received their 2 doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine astra zeneca posted a $3200000000.00 net profit last year the big driver for that was cancer drugs whose sales jumped by almost a quarter the british swedish pharma giant issued an upbeat forecast for the current year estimate does not yet include sales for its covert 19 vaccine fox wagon microsoft are joining forces to develop autonomy as vehicle driving and connectivity software foss wagon which also owns audi and porsche says it's aiming to speed up development of such connected systems as they rapidly become the norm across the auto industry. here in germany federal and state governments have extended the country's coronavirus lockdown until march 7th speaking in front of parliament today chancellor angela merkel said she understood feelings of loneliness and frustration

and said the lockdown would not be imposed longer than necessary but the for structures are necessary now to curtail the virus variants chancellor merkel added that future policy should be tied to infection numbers rather than dates business groups had pushed for earlier reopening warning of pending insolvency. for some more analysis i'm not joined by our financial correspondent chelsea delaney in frankfurt chelsea what have some of the reactions been to this decision to extend the lockdown. well many businesses are obviously very disappointed that they're going to be remaining and locked down for several more weeks especially for companies and businesses in the retail sector and the hospitality sector hotels all of these companies have really been pushed to the brink by the past through over 3 months of lock downs they've really basically gone through all of their resources

and they now are on the brink of bankruptcy and there's also a big concern because the government has set up help for these companies bridging aid and which the government is helping to cover some of their fixed costs like rent or electricity bills but for many companies they haven't even received the help from november and december that they were promised so even though they are being promised aid they're not getting it so that raises a lot of concerns among these businesses as well now there are a few exceptions here dresses for example are allowed to reopen sooner is there a plan on how to move ahead with other businesses should in such numbers continue to decline. so they've decided that once the level of infections falls below $35.00 factions per 100000 residents that businesses should be allowed to reopen countrywide we're now at about $68.00

infections per 100000 residents so we're still a bit away from falling to that level but this is also been a big point of criticism from the business community while the government is laying out at the rush holt for reopening they haven't really put forward what the actual steps would be what businesses would be allowed to reopen so there still isn't a lot of clarity on when and what will be able to reopen once we do have that threshold now the slow moving vaccination campaign here in germany has been irking many people here germany's economics minister has offered support to covert vaccine makers what is that supposed to look smart. so this is from a letter that. peter i'll fire that the economy minister sent to 9 vaccine manufacturers it was a very specific he offered state aid and the german government has offered already hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to some of these companies but it's obviously intended to get vaccine manufacturers on on their feet and really

producing at a higher level chalcedony in frankfurt thank you. it's been 6 weeks since britain ultimately left that you single market and you can companies are still trying to get used to the fact that soon as explored to many of their most important customers is a thing of the past now small businesses are particularly hard hit and some of them are now seeking a future outside of the u.k. the tasks of stream cutting and punching done by small and mid-sized companies an important part of the u.k.'s economy in london kind that produces trades in cambridge who rise and makes retail space the company's export times you and i've many small exporters they know face problems delivering that products abroad will rise it's managing director andrew must try to explain to you customers that they now had to pay the $80.00 sales takes to get the deliveries. not

one of them was willing to do so because it involved too much paperwork it just wasn't worth it for them anymore a real desperation because we had hundreds of thousands of euros of good site here in the warehouse that we just couldn't deliver we had customers desperate to receive these materials we had customers natally in germany you know demanding deliveries that week and we simply couldn't do it we were letting customers down. the huge increase in administration is the main problem for kyle it is well. managing director mark really is most annoyed by a lack of support from british authorities we did what we could to prepare because we kept being told prepare prepare prepare and then we realise it was the government that wasn't prepared because the information isn't there it's not easy for us to figure it out to do what we need to do with spending time.

looking searching on why asking other people what do we do. we approached the department of business energy and a desk this strategy for comment but received no response the u.k. government insists that regs it does bring new economic opportunities and also that they're working closely with businesses to guide them through the changes however it's not clear whether the problems that many small firms are currently facing are merely teething problems or whether they're here to stay displayed maker andrew moss doesn't think these problems would simply go away the issues that we're facing now will be the issues that we face in 6 months time and in 6 months time we won't have any customers and if we don't have any customers in europe we don't have a business the new awareness is going to be up and running we've got 7 the horizon solution is to set up a warehouse and legal subsidiary in the netherlands and relocate the company's

sales operations to it we very quickly locate some warehouse space we've signed a 3 year agreement with we're starting the process of incorporating horizon in europe. the relocation means some u.k. workers will lose their jobs while their company begins hiring in the netherlands. and that's our show thanks for watching ever self a successful to. 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 special next on t w. can inspire change the

people making. the africa fantastic right. join them as they set out to save the environment learn from one another and work together for a better future for. many cars do you all for tuning in the cold air for go. on d w. a single shot back scene and enough for the world would put an end to this pandemic but that's not the reality most require to jabs some have to be stored in a deep freeze and many still await approval. plus not all of them are as effective . china is supplying developing countries with vaccines that don't work as well and

the global rollout of covert shots is slowed less than 2 percent of the world population has received just one dose of a vaccine so far. serbia is showing the way in europe the prime minister was the 1st european leader to get the pfizer biotech vaccine or internal affairs minister called the russian jab ad the health minister posed for one of china's shots the message vaccination should be about geopolitics it's about our health but it's not always that simple. even during the pandemic customers still come in for their coffee. georgevitch has run this cafe in belgrade for 3 years a topic often discussed by patrons is which vaccine is the best u.s. company pfizer and russia have so far only delivered a few 1000 doses china has already sent a 1000000. would i choose to get the chinese vaccine chinese people have been

getting it they wouldn't be harming their own people maybe i'll take pfizer's vaccine they are an economically strong company it's a bit of a dilemma for me. serbia's government has promised to buy various vaccines from providers all over the world it's then up to citizens to decide which one they want to get. at the chinese or russian vaccine not the pfizer one it was not missing then you see if i had to choose i'd take the russian one. the russian one i like russia i have russian friends i trust. who to trust there's a lack of detailed information about the various vaccines that's why many serbian doctors are hesitant with their advice. and is not as i get at least 10 calls a day people asking whether they should get maxon ated and if so using which

vaccine ya said cause we only have information on the pfizer vaccine pis it will work i just don't know enough about the other one is. known as. no one seems sure but plenty of people are driven by their fear of getting sick older citizens can receive the vaccine at a total of $200.00 special sites like at this exhibition center in belgrade serbia purchased 8000000 vaccines from western supplies from russia and china but only china can deliver millions of those of copied 19 vaccines in a short period of time so china for potations on the balkans is on the right in the meantime boy in georgia which has made his decision not someone. who does not work through any of my customers who come here no more than i do about vaccines would do so now i have to sided to get the chinese one wouldn't work you know but i don't. like many. they take the pragmatic view that the best vaccine is the most valuable

one and here china seems to have won the race. well i thought it was a race against the corona virus isn't that what we should be focusing on. which. technical officer for the vaccine preventable diseases an immunization program in europe why aren't we the world winning this rates. thank you for having me and thank you for this question we go believe the theo meaning the race you have seen. invented in the heyday of the less than 5 years the sorry tell months. before so generally last year there was a general all. night in south of i was available to the scientific community and in november december it gave the 1st access of beating the market there is more going on this show and there are about those that you want but there are still many more to go because as you all know all of us are still as all around the earth

there are many cases and many people to be a moments we've managed to achieve the unachievable according to so many people but the simple things like the lack of information on the various vaccines in many countries why can't we solve that sort of thing. it's at least of challenges and you cross look it's scientific information 1st is a new product it's always hard to have complete information a lot of and how and what can be related to and on the other side it's a significant formation which is not easily transformed into a language it's acceptable to have to budget and is easy to follow so it's about all the addition of any crime is that he has in this situation to make a better acceptance in public odo's new products and to have people mock away to look at human eyes drug on is not something the world health organization should be

doing and is responsible for. and it struck cindy that the fact that they had doing on the basis of the scientific approach there is a procedure for creek approval although any congressman to come in if you are facing called an emergency so i think that will h.-o. is using our mechanism to collect as many as also both technical information us and get it leaving any of pro emergency you was of death grow took to be there at all around earth to fight aids. epidemic in the case that it's not to find no activities continues or the meaning that that's product of mass to be born again is the monitored and controlled for the quality for safety and efficacy and that's how they're ensuring that the all the countries and book or nation he's receiving the high quality program it's relevant for the global well

because not all the countries have capacity by their own national guard this go through and the programs and it's also kind of the mechanism that you already have in place for the you on the supply and the callbacks that every single country canada lie on these results and have the technical information and they got it's giving the proper information we are trying to haul off all these things are information to get additional question send us or send communication but also for the operation but also for healthcare marcus how they can communicate the quality and benefits of the exam to people to go well being at the w.h.o. os specific vaccines most suitable for specific regions that. no they have all the vaccines which are approach are equally also in and bottled over in this moment that is on leave on the scene of each received images he was listing but to be whole field the means of february this year to have to be or for more of them is

money that not the other is us that as an act that there is a procedure in any shape that is for that since produced in china and international so we hope to have more available tools to fight it is beyond me i just want. and again need the existing knowledge for the plane as they have status and really mean to us as i want to contest in the different parts of the earth all it seems are showing something else to see in preventing our money station of the said our case of disease dads and preventing their burden all and the better knowledge on the health system which of course i'm proud of in this moment of the pandemic tell me what you recommend for a foster global brolan out of these covert vaccines. well we have many would say states are staring procedure of approval also inviting all the manufacturers to continue. to say just block lying get permission for use of the oxy in there is

a critical need to increase capacity to produce physically more dollars of our same because we need to then again as for us also go solar is better and it's also they should that it should be equally this year going to the on the global level meaning that through the cost system to thier but they see paid thing we would like to see that all people on the 1st level of the face and all people belong to the 1st lady's groups mailing at least people and people who go back now that conditions and he see that scene as well as possible we are not as masha's safe globally and they'll give out of us a safe and preventing all of the cases is also preventing all of the further mutation of the areas with the virus which is normal for that i was so there ever whoever is getting what i said and as many of us get the internet is better for all of us and i could reach from the w.h.o. europe thank you very much thank you. is that part of the show when derrick

williams takes the floor to answer your questions on the coronavirus. if you test positive can you be vaccinated anyway or should you 1st recover then get the vaccination. this is the biggest back seen campaign in history in just a little over 2 months about 140000000 doses of vaccine have been injected worldwide and around 5000000 more are now going into arms every single day so it's no wonder that questions like these are common the answer to whether you should be vaccinated anyway if you test positive for the disease is actually simple but the explanation is slightly complicated the 1st thing to understand is that if you already have covert 19 then it's too late for a vaccine to fix things it takes at least 10 days after

a 1st dose for your body to start ramping up an effective immune response to sars kovi to do so so getting a vaccine right after testing positive for the disease won't help you the general recommendation is that you should wait to recover before even thinking about vaccination since aside from the dangers that getting vaccinated why are still sick might pose to your own health it could also expose others everything i've read indicates that if you've completed the recommended isolation period and are symptom free then it's ok to go ahead with vaccination although the c.d.c. also recommends that patients who are treated with monoclonal antibodies or or with convalescent plasma that they should wait at least 90 days before getting a shot in general the experts say the. the chances that your contract covert 19

again within that period are very slim anyway as naturally acquired immunity caused by the infection seems to remain strong in practically every water for at least that long. there are volumes there and keep sending in your questions to our you tube channel i'm been fizzling thanks for watching stay safe and i'll see you again birching you're ok w. of i.

mean. more. and they're crammed into overcrowded cells under main conditions. in russia thousands of the volley supporters have been arrested on so many big jails in and around moscow in our 1st sting at the scene monte years are providing aid to the jailed. demonstrators because the prisons are cold and food is

in short supply some goods from europe. to do things like spawn d.w. . into the conflict zone with tim sebastian for years now the government of bangladesh is being criticized around the world for its human rights record my guest this week from back eyes gallery's me foreign affairs advisor to the country's prime minister well below 40 stop denying the truth about the repression babe inflicted and clean up their act complex so for. 90 minutes. it's about billions. it's about our work. it's about the foundation of the new world order of the new silk road.

china wants to expand its influence with this trade network and so in europe conflicts are inevitable the consequences unpredictable the guinness book of the shaking of the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal a good question and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world in a fairly good job of course. china is promising its partners rich profits but in europe there's a sharp warning you could never accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on it. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on w. played

last. player. played . just a few minutes live from her lead chancellor merkel defense before parliament germany's continued lockdown she expressed empathy for how hard the restrictions are but calls for a few more weeks of patience so the country can conquer the pandemic. also coming up prosecutors on bail chilling admissions to take their case against donald trump

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