doris'. make up your mind has. made for mines. trying to stop child labor far away from dark and dusty sweat shops the german government has evolved a new laws requiring companies to meet social and environmental rules all along their production chains also comes to people in china and all the halls of the world are welcoming the lunar new year with the corona bars lighted here of the rot making way for hopefully more house fish is time just and the government of india and twitter are escalating their disputes over the removal of content from the last

. one for scoble welcome to the program after months of debate germany's government has agreed on a supply chain act the new law is meant to oblige german companies to carry out due diligence regarding human rights and on mental issues in their global supply chains for now only large corporations with more than $3000.00 employees have to make sure their partners a hit here to certain standards including a band of child labor smaller companies have until 2024 to just their operations and also to enforce such standards. let's get more on this from d.w. financial correspondent chelsea delaney chelsea now this law is meant to stop child labor and the abuse of underprivileged workers were just certainly a good thing i can we we all can agree on that what's been the response from

corporations so far. i think theoretically pretty much all businesses are behind the idea behind the supply chain law to stop human rights abuses in their supply chain and we have seen some really big corporations come out in support of this like nestle the confectionery company and we've also seen german companies like ray of course restore chain also supporting this but on the broader business side there is a lot of concern right now about the law and that it will be too complicated. too much investment for companies that are still struggling with the coronavirus impacts as well so we have seen a lot of a lot of criticism from the business community and i think that's one reason why we have seen the requirements to some degree watered down initially when this law was discussed it was going to be in force for every company that had more than $250.00 employees now they're talking about $3000.00 employees so there's certainly

a smaller group of companies that are going to have to face these new requirements josie how does the government. want to make sure that germany's companies based in germany actually get their suppliers far far as thousands of kilometers away to it here. i think enforcement is going to be very difficult everyone acknowledges that many companies have thousands tens of thousands of suppliers and under this law they would be required to make sure that all of those those companies that they're working with who sometimes aren't using you know those traditional business structures they don't have it's our department they have to make sure that all of those companies are are following this role that is going to be very difficult that the german government is saying that they're going to be a reasonably reasonable about it only if you. only face penalties fines potentially if you don't really put in the infrastructure so enforcement is going to be

difficult for sure chalcedony in frankfurt thank you. what a difference a year makes during last year lunar new year celebrations the chinese city of one was under strict lock down more than 50000000 people who were forbidden to leave their homes as they then mysterious virus causing a severe respiratory illness spreading this time around it's another story people the city where the coronavirus from the mic is believed to have started marked the eve of the new year in the streets but for the occasional mass things almost seem normal and water which well it hasn't seen a cold of $900.00 cases in months citizens have been able to engage in much of the activity that makes the lunar new year china's biggest annual economic and then. now for china as a whole the picture is quite different though after several localized outbreaks

authorities had urged the 1000000000 strong population not to travel back home with one in 5 chinese not working where the family is from a normal year sees the biggest annual migration during the festival and subdued celebrations will had other businesses as well here's a correspondent so song han with more. oh this is a very difficult chinese new year for china the korean teen and travel curbs have forced millions of factory workers to give up the idea of family gathering and those with distorted what is traditionally and it would drive for spending overall growth is likely to slow as people spent last transport meals out and presence even though the factory production lies will keep rolling to meet story overseas demand it cannot help the government to make up for a reduction in that you know make profits from $165000000000.00 in spending around a normal new year's time. on hand reporting their long celebrations mean that

offices and factories will be closed and there's another issue weighing on the minds of china's global trading partners because of the turmoil that the pandemic caused in supply chains in recent months there is now a lack of ocean freight containers and transport capacity just as the economy has started to recall the. cities are all decked out for china's most important holiday the weeklong new year festival chinese family celebrate together anxiety is increasing in europe demand for goods made in china is huge traders are filling up their warehouses manufacturers need supplies to revive production but few freight containers are available following last spring's coronavirus crash shipping companies reduce their capacity by about 20 percent now there's a bottleneck that's reflected in the price less than

a year ago it cost $1400.00 to ship a freight container from china to europe now the prices soared to $8000.00 but it's not just ocean freight that's congested assembly lines are at a standstill due to a microchip shortage. steel is also in short supply. and key raw materials such as copper are almost impossible to get the supply chain disruption is becoming a hindrance to economic recovery even though demand has begun to pick up worldwide companies are having trouble getting the materials they need to ramp up production and not just some of the other global business stories making the news bitcoin is closing in on its next big figure of trading at over $49000.00 on friday the speech comes as companies like b.n.y. mellon masa card and tesla have warmed up to the cryptocurrency bitcoin is up more than 60 percent since the start of the year disney's streaming platforms are

growing fast a welcome sign for the company that saw its travel and amusement parks take a hit during depend then make disney reports that its platforms have $146000000.00 subscribers compared to netflix with just over $200000000.00 disney owns disney plus hulu e.s.p.n. and in the us hostile. now the influence of social media platforms on political messaging is a hot button issue now a dispute between the indian government and twitter is escalating as the messaging service the 5 new delhi's ordered to remove certain accounts and content now the indian government is warning want to do business in our country play bar rules. for months now tens of thousands of indian farmers have been protesting outside new delhi city limits there calling for the government to scrap its agricultural reform plans and they've been getting support beyond india including from pop star singer

rianna and swedish climate activist gratitude. the indian government reacted swiftly on twitter saying it was irresponsible of outsiders to get involved government supporters even burn photos of reanna entomb back publicly now twitter faces a dilemma in india the world's 2nd most populous country is an important market with a large number of users though twitter hasn't been forthcoming about how many of those are based in india still the south asian country isn't without risks for twitter the indian government won't hesitate to shut down social media when it gets too critical of the government has happened a few weeks ago during the farmers' protests also the government has been promoting twitter competitor coup an indian messaging service launched last year and coup on which many members of the government already have an account hasn't had to block any users yet. business correspondent us despond a full india is

a democracy with free speech and legal security is it ok for the government to demand inconvenient content be removed from private media platforms. like greece they got only deciding that ready you should actually grants a freedom of expression to. it but that is subject that's not absolute it's subject to the strictures specially when that freedom is being used to create trouble that's the government's stand but there's a slight problem there because the law that the government is using to actually get these online condom block that also has a provision that goes on the authority to actually hear the site of the alleged offender but that's that does not seem to happening in this case i started in government just trying to promote crew as an alternative to twitter as we saw the report has that had any effect so far. then yes there's been a major drive from government ministers ministries are going to. come as the

minister of india. do is close and twigs good to god come and point in time who read the game he just bruised but perhaps underneath knew him but yes there is a lot of movement happening there used to 3000000 people are now in that black from . the business growing many for in the past few days but the big fish are in prime minister met in the woods yet to join and if he were to join them that's going to be 30 of. what is that the next step here. this is so far i mean you don't see this mad escalating there are people that perhaps that would be for linked in and i know if i could say that because the reports suggest that perhaps at the lead to block 97 percent of the constant bindon

government had sought to be blocked so that had been dead because it was actually a pretty situation there were big threats on another then they didn't acknowledge the minister who said that if you you are basically not going to be in india but you have to play by the rules by the laws of the land and really that was a major wanting then lets it with this. senior criminal proceedings against them that could be a loss of liberty but for now it looks like half the issue could be the result but in this case perhaps to do. it seems to be falling in line. here business correspondent ashutosh pandey on the iran between twitter and the indian government ashutosh thank you. and finally a treats and dire times in the bavarian town of long suit a confectioner has found his own way of dealing with the coronavirus crisis

offering customers a jab of donut filling just most can choose from different flavor jams and inject them into freshly baked donuts among the offerings lemon ginger passion fruit and coconut chia. thanks for watching. the phone against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update. on t w. how does a virus spread. through the town. and. if you would like any

information on the coronavirus. science topic you should really check out our podcast. you can also find us. freshly. danger a sense of smell is something many of us take for granted but what if it wasn't there. most of smell the impacts can be serious. noticed. may lose interest in eating into a deep depression. let's look at the strange ways code is tied up with our noses and neural networks. out of all the senses most people say they could do

without smell but have you thought about the consequences for your life and job about 60 percent of those infected with the coronavirus will have had problems. for current starglider falling ill with covert 1000 was a professional disaster the 53 year old did not have severe symptoms what was left on able to smell or taste anything as the owner of a confectionery shop she needed to test the quality of her cakes and chocolates. from vice and i'm if i have a glass of wine for example the same time how to taste a glass of vinegar i couldn't tell the difference but just that this is tied to the both of them taste acidic but i couldn't tell you which one is vinegar and which is the wine that. symptoms are typical. smell loss occurs when the corona virus infects cells that

support neurons in the nose. prescribe smell training as therapy in which patients rely on prescribe sense such as those of roses and lemons. now. after losing their sense of smell patients can do to smell training to stimulate damaged nerve cells and start the process of healing or regeneration. current stargazer has been using 4 different sense of day to reactivate her sense of smell coffee cinnamon chocolate cloves or vanilla are her favorite fragrances it's a slow process but she hopes mel training will bring back her ability to smell and taste things and let's talk about losing your sense of smell with your of scientists rachel herz what i'd like to know 1st of all is if it could be permanent . so small loss with coping 19 we really don't know what permanent leaves so it's

only the end of a year or so that we've been into this crisis and it's certainly the case that with upper respiratory tract infections well loss occurs but there is hope for regaining it in those conditions and i think that probably will be the case here as well and there are different methods that can facilitate that especially things like snell training some people are being experiencing this learn from months and months and months i mean a year can be a long time how how traumatic can that experience be emotionally and psychologically well it's extremely traumatic and one of the problems being in this idea of permanence how long is ringback it going to last is it going to be forever you don't know and so that uncertainty even as mortuary as the very traumatic to lose your sense of smell which people unfortunately ringback don't realize because our sense of smell is connected to everything people assume it's connected to can they smell fire or the gas that you know danger or the pleasure of food but actually is connected to our emotional life in very intense ways it's connected to

our social life it's connected to our personal intimacy it's connected to our sense of self and our memories and our sense of where we are in the universe with respect to other people on the whole world so it can be extremely and grounding and very very disturbing for people to lose our sense of smell so i reckon is this a side effect of something or a logical. so with company 19 what seems to be going on is that the stars could be to virus needs to enter cells in order to in fact the host that is the human and the nose has a passion covielle thankfully if he'll yeah that's where all factories answering their arms are we to text mels also contains 2 other kinds of cells these also is and what are known as supporting cells and these supporting cells have a high number of the kind of enzyme that's needed for the state protein of the sars virus to enter in this case to receptor people may be hearing about so than their

virus can bind very easily to these cells and what happens is it causes disruption and creates inflammation which seems to be the reason why your factory sensory neurons shut down because that's where we're normally detecting smells and then that's the 1st port of entry into the rest of the body so that's the basic mechanism so one of the things i have a kind of pet peeve about is people really need to cover their nose with their mouth because that's the primary route of entry for the star's virus to get into you. know just came across one of those callings in a car as before tell us what does this happen this this loss of sense of smell is is it an early symptom is some health care workers have experienced before even testing positive i mean it could be a great warning in stopping the spread of the disease just like you were saying the warnings of a bad smell of a fire of gas. yes so what we've been involved in i've been involved in research conducted with health care workers and what we found was actually that disturbance

in the sense of smell preceded getting our positive test by the p.c. ari her normal method of detecting you know biologically whether or not you've been infected by 2 whole days so this is actually a tremendous finding that smell osprey seeds getting a positive diagnosis and also preceded sort of feeling sick in other ways and actually is involved in about 80 ringback 6 percent of people who feel very mild symptoms or could otherwise be asymptomatic so having snow loss is a very very important signal to the individuals who 1st of all get tested and secondly to self isolate to quarantine themselves then because you want to be avoiding transmitting it into the population so if you can self quarantine at the 1st sign of notice things no loss that's really important and not only smell os but also alter smell 8 what's known is for osmeña so if you're smelling things that they don't smell right you know one person said to me everything's not like then if you are and so that's also something that's really important signal early warning

sign who in 1000 and we saw that in about a 3rd of the people who reported smell this function in our study of but i believe it's also a signal of old timers of bach and since disease but is it also a symptom of the new covariance. so just to clarify the per us near the altar sense of smell is not really so much as far as we know involved in alzheimer's or parkinson's disease in those things where small loss occurs that is decades before we see other symptoms but if you ask a really good question about the other variants and i have to say that i don't know the answer to that yet there hasn't been any research that i've seen that specifically looked at what variant of the direst is causing this the star is virus red that's causing the elders and whether or not and how that's connected smell us that's a great question i unfortunately don't know the answer to that yet like so many questions in this crisis my last question can you fully breed train your sense of

smell. so the good news is that because of the fact that it's about the respiratory tract infection the cause of smell loss you haven't had neurological damage to the way that the neurons can get into the brain for detecting smell and so forth so generally speaking in these cases there is hope for recovery and the vast method to date is actually exercising your nose where what you want to do is get a set a very distinctive smell so things that's now really different are that you remember smell believe different like lenin or mint and you know somebody's perfume or cloves and things like that and smell those sense multiple times per day smell each for like about 10 seconds and repeat that over and over let's say 3 or 4 times per day for about 3 months and then switch to another step and the good news is that although it's not a 100 percent effective many people start to see improvement in their ability to

smell through doing this sort of smell training it's exercising of your nose so there is real hope you know and it doesn't take that long just as like as that you know a few minutes a couple of times a day and just have to keep keep up with it and it seems what's happening there is it's both training your brain and potentially causing your receptors to become re stimulated again reactivated to bring in more abilities or actually snuff or revise their from your scientists right for us thank you very much for being on the show today thank you very much for having me over to derrick williams now our science correspondent has been looking into your questions on the coronavirus. to see him and his team acquired from the vaccine vary from person to person. yes it does vaccines never provide 100 percent protection although a few that we've developed for other infectious diseases have come close but but

everyone's immune system is difference and will respond to particular vaccines in individual ways trial showed that even after being vaccinated some people who were exposed to sars kovi 2 ended up contracting symptomatic prover 19 but the vaccines being distributed now have proven to be pretty effective at preventing symptoms caused by most variants in most people and and some vaccines have proven extremely effective at doing so. a simplified way of putting it would be to say that trials in some back scenes showed unvaccinated people were nearly 20 times more likely to develop symptoms of covert 19 during the trial than someone who got vaccinated. but the really interesting point is that and trying to return

to something like normal vaccines don't actually have to prevent cope at 19 and everyone if they can just stop symptomatic disease in most of us that would ease the strain on health systems and what would be even better is if that scenes could help slow or stop transmission of the virus so if they not only prevent the disease in most people but also keep people from catching at having those symptoms and spreading it subsequently unknowingly there's new evidence that with at least one approved vaccine that's the case that aspect really is key because it would break infection chains of to do that right now we're still relying mostly on on blunt instruments like black masks and lockdowns and finally there are strong indicators that even if you do catch covert 19 after getting the shot at least some of the

vaccines are limiting its severity so in other words the people who get the disease even after being vaccinated are rarely end up in hospitals. so listen to most things watch him stay safe and secure going to.

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