to me cultural leaders commemorating the past taking creative risks and building community 700 years of jewish life. this week. in culture. commodity prices are soaring is this a new super cycle investors expect an extended to boom in commodities and this also raises hopes for investment in clean energy we talked to an analyst also coming up the world is facing 2 major challenges the pandemic and climate change will show you how innovations in bio fuel could make aviation more sustainable. and the world food organization warns of a renewed locust plague in east africa that affects 3 and a half 1000000 people

a software aims to track the past before it can create problems. hello and welcome to do that you business i want to get germs in berlin good to have you with us prices for commodities are searching the likes of iron ore copper and nickel have soared following a pandemic slump early signs that the global economy could rebound faster than initially expected that's fueled buying construction materials are highly sought after 2 has risen rapidly since the start of the year some analysts say that commodity prices could be entering a so-called super cycle meaning an extended to boom in prices. well earlier i spoke to simon flowers chairman and chief analyst of wood mackenzie a large consultancy specializing in natural resources and commodities and i asked him if this rise in commodities prices is a return to normal or indeed a super. cycle it is partly

a return to normal after the crisis but i really understate what's happening in 2021 so this year we're expecting global g.d.p. to jump by 4.3 percent now that would be the equivalent of adding another german economy to the global economy this year and that speaks stream lee unusual so we see a big bones need column e. and it's really good for commodities just what's happening this year look there's a little bit early to say is the start of a super cycle ok that's fascinating with with an additional demi cami be there being added to the global economy especially also they have only been 4 of these so-called super cycles in the past century so far what are the ingredients in order to create such a super cycle well you need strong consistent demand for commodities the last super cycle was when china started to industrialise at the very beginning

of this century and they raise demand for commodities across the board to a new level it's stretched supply of these commodities and therefore pushed prices up and pushed prices up a lot so we need sustained higher demand for commodity is now i think the 1st stage of what could be as design call is what we're going to see unfold through this year into next year as governments around the world stimulus to drive investment and lift the world into the recession and as i say i think you get 1st stage at how is this supercycle if that's what it is going to impact the green transition i mean will there be one that's made in clean energy for infrastructure mobility answer in the likes. you know i think that's the main driver through time we're going to need a lot of investment in the green economy. to deliver the carbon energy the solar wind the new technologies like electric vehicles suit them

into the mass market behind all of these things and we see governments particularly e.u. which is leading the way start to set the scene to stimulate investment in these technologies and to meet that reduction of carbon emissions which is all which is what the big investments all of iraq's we're going to need all commodities all or most commodities good outweighs particularly good for steel we can support infrastructure electrification is going to happen electrification also need a lower cost per for electric vehicles are going to need our money in all the bashing components as well and we may even find it pretty pleased with some of the fossil fuels bizarrely new gas is going to be a key part of the green economy right not to mention oil oil oil is an unusual one because there's been a lot of under-investment the last half decade in oil and we may be reaching a squeeze point for or where demand is still pretty high cause we need offer

mobility is knocking out the best part of the reason why we're seeing oil rallies are strong at the moment. is there from what i can see thank you. the bottom line is green investment looks on the rise and that should make it easier for a variety of sectors to create more sustainable products including plain make us they have moved to go green has led to developments in so-called climate neutral fuel boeing for example has announced that its planes will fly exclusively on bio kerosene by 2030. its reports almost 7000 liters of aviation fuel have been pumped into the wing tanks of this cargo plane and they're not even have full yet the flight from frankfurt to shanghai in china is a long one but this flight is something special because the cargo subsidiary of germany's largest airline is operating this freighter c

o 2 mutually using bio kerosene. and basically it's a plant based fuel that means that the c o 2 in the fuel had already been sequestered by the plant no additional c o 2 has been used in. a plane using bio kerosene and it's 80 percent less greenhouse gases the only problem is that the climate friendly fuel cost between $3.00 and $6.00 times more than normal jet fuel in spite of that many customers want to improve the carbon footprint left behind by transport like logistics company d.b. shanker which chartered the flight c.e.o. your contests piece for a climate neutral flight to china every week. yardman faltered a miracle but we also talked about this project with several of our customers are the advantages and i got a very positive response now we want to win over customers for the project in the summer flight schedule those who are willing to bear the extra cost for that are carbon credits there's $5000000000.00 for the name of. the climate be true kerosene

is produced at this refinery in portable finland an hour's drive from has a key for more than 10 years sammy has been working on replacing kerosene for evaluation for. with sustainable raw materials. our production process is using waste and types of. fats for the future we are exploring new role materials such as municipal solid wastes 100000 tons of bio kerosene per year are produced here a drop in the ocean compared to the $300000000.00 metric tons that the world's airline operators burn annually. in believes that a breakthrough in climate friendly aviation fuel is a matter for policymakers. what we need. to create the market. to create the requirements for

a 4 industry to. become more sustainable. in addition to many other airlines such as japan's. air france and american airlines are already buying sustainable kerosene more and more passengers and freight clients alike see the advantage in neutral flight. a 2nd look now at some of the other business stories making news. the german economy is doing better than expected that's according to the latest reading of the purchasing managers index the industrial sectors benefiting from stronger exports to china but the service sector remains weak due to the stores and restaurants being closed. u.k. drivers are entitled to worker rights such as minimum wage and paid holidays that's the ruling of britain's supreme court a group of 20 drivers has sought employee like status from the company has always insisted that drivers were self employed the judgment to see into half wide

implications for the good economy. not west is pulling out of ireland after more than a century in a move to free up capital the 2nd largest british bank lost 870000000 euros last year too due to a spike in bad loans forced by the pandemic not to assists have made majority owned by the u.k. government as it has not recovered from the financial crisis in 2007. and french automaker over no one has booked a record loss in 20 twentieth's the coronavirus pandemic hit its performance and looks set to weigh on the outlook this year as well won or lost 8000000000 euros last year and for 2021 worries about the ongoing health crisis as well as electronic components supply shortages. since 2900 of locusts have been invading east africa again and again some countries such as

kenya hadn't seen the pest and up to 70 years the infestation affected the food supplies and livelihoods of about 2 and a half 1000000 people according to the world food organization this year's pest could be even worse affecting some 3 and a half 1000000 people in the region. lucas town starts at dorn. pilot kieren allen wants to track down the pests before they settle in the fields here in central kenya where they'll eat away all the crops when alan gets a call from the locust control center on the ground he heads to where the swarms a gathering. a community on the foothills of mount kenya has reported a swarm the pilot calls a 2nd plane which will arrive in a few minutes to spray the bugs with pesticides everything has to happen quickly to stand a fighting chance against the plague

a year ago in february 2020 we had 2 aircraft in kenya able to spray and very very minimal group quantity of business i know in kenya we have 10 aircraft operating so the time the time between the moment we can sports there's a locusts and the moment we can treat is much faster which means that the damage or so is very reduced on vegetation on bio most of the world food organization is working with a company that has developed software to track these swarms of locusts it collects data via a special hotline which village heads and train scouts around the country called to report locust sightings. you know our approach has completely been changed by by good data by timely data or by accurate and you know without searching for kenya and this this way we've stopped we've stopped 80 percent getting back into the bread basket where last year we were dealing with

a very different situation. but despite all the successes there are still millions of insects attacking the fields here in marin one mount kenya the farmers are fighting desperately to save their harvest to save their livelihoods. before the locusts arrive 20 years to harvest 25 bags from an acre of maize but now we don't expect anything because they eat everything up we don't expect to harvest anything this time around. the locusts can multiply 20 fold every 3 months for the insect hunters it's a race against time. that will leave you with this story sure why smartphone business is suffering from the impact of u.s. sanctions it said this week it was more than half the output of handsets this year smart phones don't work there are always pigs yes the chinese take giant announced

that it was working on an artificial intelligence pick farming project it is also working on innovation for the coal mining industry i guess you have to find some way to bring home the bacon and as your business of day here and e.w. this hour for me and the team in berlin as always thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus 10 damage. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update. nineteen's. w. hi neal and i'm game did you know that 700000000000 land animals are killed worldwide cheer so that we can get but it's not just the animals that are suffering

it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the ignition if you want to know how or when clicked the priest and the cultures changed anything says listen to our podcast on in the green. trying to beat markdown fatigue some europeans have been crossing borders fleeing to countries where they can enjoy more freedom like switzerland and spain only arrest all the others just. seeing the restaurants open is a little shock because in paris it's depressing everything is closed all the blinds are lowered here you can feel there's more human warmth and you can finally eat at a restaurant on a terrace it's a feeling that would been missing for quite some time. so it's not just sun

seekers what so many tourists really want is a slice of the free life they feel their countries no longer offer. but what does that mean for everyone else. while the snow is melting in much of europe case numbers are falling officials are easing restrictions and tourists are on the move again the question is with different parts of the continent moving at different speeds and with the ongoing threat of new variants could we find ourselves in trouble again. meeting friends and enjoying drinks in the sun a rare past chinese days but possible in madrid and that's why the spanish capital has become a refuge for young tourists from fronts. it's so so depressing being in a country but is nothing's open it's gloomy all day you have to be back there's a curfew it at 6 you can even see your friends or no cafes there's no you know you can't sit down with anyone you literally can't do anything in france. in madrid

coronavirus restrictions are less strict than in other parts of europe and negative p.c.r. test was enough frenzy today $92.00 to come here she didn't have to quarantine and also brought a friend i come here there's there's friends there is. to mazing it's a dream come true. a dream that theodore starts and i you koby have also precede the students live in germany and are spending a few days here they planned the trip with friends knowing that germany has advised its population to avoid traveling tyrus countries. you feel bad if you travel because other people are self isolating and you're not supposed to travel at the moment. but i don't think you can stay at home for a whole year either. we want to see the world while we're in the prime of our lives . madrid's police sometimes have to break up illegal parties held after curfew

with participants ignoring current contact restrictions which is ideal for the spread of the virus this party was organized by french tourists. we've had to intervene on several occasions all the participants were foreigners who had come to madrid for a short time 2 or 3 days they ran an apartment and then they partied. for a few fines for these offenses during the pandemic starts at 600 euros spanish authorities are in contact with their french counterparts. illegal parties also worry dr laura's sons in the end they all contribute to more infections that get in america so we already have to be very careful with family members and in our everyday lives unnecessary contact has to be avoided the young people we met this afternoon in the

dread i think both can work being responsible and enjoying the freedoms of life we do all the p.c.r. test and everything we wear the mask when we have to we don't want to bother spanish people you know we just want to leave again and in france we can to do that from now madrid is one of the few cities in europe that still lies some leeway though that could change at any time. is an environmental and health for such a with the spanish national research council the grass is always greener on the other side but what can be the consequences of a little trip over the border to shake off the quarantine blues so to say. well the main consequence is that you may get infected people may see more complaints and they look at the average infection rate but actually they're going to be small almost like.

they're doing. it. on the elite much more it's much more says i no longer think somewhere you will have people. around you. trying to fight this is because you see what is going to do about it when we. just cross the road. and then you will have new cases in very different places so you are going to be serviced and unfolded. and what's the likelihood of their actions leading to not only the spread of the virus but also the creation of a new and possibly deadly a variant. the thing is in them all cases we have i guess is a lie that will get you fired and so i am as you see what you find out about reese . of course and that was lead to concho you know my son comes on you and it's only crazy they are friends is me and i'm very friendly regions so going to and

where there is higher number of places it at least one in greece and not only your model of community but also aki the rest of it no rest of europe basically the rest of places where all or cure is maybe coming also police less so what's the solution close the borders and close them quickly. i think the solution is. the morris to t.g. it would i'm a lock in a stone nation on your own level you sadness and integrating on long term planning that really acknowledges that this is a long term fight and that we need to be cases and all that is something and when it's when they are tightened he'd be a waste of money a light then what i would suggest is to have a system of press forcing with different measures are in force and only. hope the country who grows older is to protect all those by personally is that countries

close in borders and people coming in and in fact it is not the solution under solution east where you have infection rate being the ones that most horse protect the rest of of the night or for the rest of you or so which countries here in europe of god that strategy right would you say. it i mean we have only the worst examples on the under best example of the worst examples are all include a u k where it was very i mean and you need some roads and not totally. out of our ip and you are right across europe and any growth borders a guy on. the outside our spoke always another has to be but they. then proceeded all the state and i thing about raleigh is one of the best examples it has been very proficient thank you messages in the beginning of the epidemic and

then when he did number of cases both borders and i think the main reason was that that. was to be the way it was percent and then in between i mean most countries. approach the problem probably being this would be very happy on europe and starting to think that it is actually locking the funding to support others strategies for slow play or the lake louise why can't the politicians get it right i mean they've got you guys the scientists who are such as in the area. well this isn't a good it's always if you will and i understand that there has been a essentially for google and if i did and then it probably isn't in general our paper so that has been exceedingly over to them i reckon. we're all ready to make sure of it. and it you know elections of fighting some

fights. going the way it sort of planning all of that and then it is the worst combination juries though is that about i thank you very much for joining us today from the spanish national research council and so i keep sending in your questions his alice science guy derrick williams with his latest q. and a on the carotid virus. what will the longer term impacts on the generation growing up with called the 19 b. . this is a very tough topic for kids and young people and also their parents and i think it makes sense to look at it from 2 different angles the 1st is the question of how the disease can affect a young person's physical health which in some ways for me at least as a parent has surprisingly turned into the less scary aspect of the equation that's

because it's grown clearer that as a general rule the younger the person the less severe the symptoms of coded 19 tend on average to be if you get it i don't want at all to imply that children or young people out there haven't suffered and died from it many have but that happens a lot less frequently than it does in adults especially in older adults the question of possible long haul or effect saying kids this is kind of a separate one data is still too sparse to say much of anything about that with certainty we'll only know more when more time has passed what's also already clear however is the longer term effects that pervade 1000 will have on the other important aspect of this issue it's psychological and it's developmental impacts for a lot of older kids and young adults all over the world the opportunities like internships

and entry level jobs that provide a springboard into life is not dulled have just disappeared in the last year and that's led to a social crisis of unprecedented dimensions in that age group i think that will unquestionably have long term consequences and for younger children and teenagers where we're socialization play. it's such a key role in developments and because education is so closely linked to certain stages of it educators and experts say the effects of shutting preschools and schools are going to be severe and long term just how severe will depend on how much longer the pandemic continues.

finally the pandemic has brought back a fable winter tradition in canada we leave you with the backyard ice rink families are installing personalized patches to avoid skating old playing hockey in crowded places so the instructions are easy to find online the number of family outdoor rinks in quebec has doubled from past winters to almost 1600 days here. thanks for watching.

more. to the point. any clear positions for international perspective such. can anybody still of china's surge to global dominance that's perhaps the biggest foreign policy challenge facing a new u.s. president joe biden so how would he respond there would be communication open confrontation find out onto the point short cut to the point. near 30 minutes on d w. america is back in the new president's words to the war on clear

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blame. this is deja vu news live from berlin germany commemorates a somber anniversary it's been one year since a racist con attack and now killed 9 people relatives of the victims say there are questions about how it was allowed to happen remains unanswered. also coming up as countries race to be the 1st to get their populations immunized we'll take a look at how vaccine nationalism is diminishing the dream of protecting the world against coke at 19. ok.