beginning until this very day human trafficking. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. i think we will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on t w. brussels takes a in of the gig economy the european commission launches a public consultation into the rights of casual workers we talk to the condition of the jobs and social right also coming up how the chips became the oil of the digital age and they'll do it takes a look at the global semiconductor. hellova come to your business i want to get

good to have you with us of brussels is taking on the big economy the european commission is launching a consultation on how to improve the conditions for people working for tech platforms now although they don't call out companies by name the likes of ride sharing apps and food delivery sites to come under increased scrutiny. but it's long been controversial ride sharing apps like say they drive as a self-employed whereas unions want them to be treated as employees with health benefits and paid time off it's the same for delivery workers and others taking part in the so-called gig economy now the european commission is launching a consultation aimed at improving the conditions for platform workers saying some are getting a raw deal. plus europe people who work from platform well they risk to be left without income and they're not always all for national support missions

during knockouts. and even those who have work back their careers of the drivers well they sometimes have really poor working conditions. normal hour shift or little or no social protection should they fall in and no pension shame no access to training or skills development as a 1st step to addressing these issues the e.u. is asking trade unions and employee associations for their feedback on what the bloc should do to support good economy workers it's just the 1st stage on the road to new regulation and the platform operators will be watching closely. to the commission the for jobs and social rights unequal ashmit and i asked him if clamping down on take platforms could backfire and put people out of work. no i don't think so i am not questioning practical work organisation this is something

which is part of the new ways how this economy functions but on the other hand we have to make sure that people who are working on these platforms of all the platforms that the question that they have health insurance that they are also or socially protected that they have an insurance against accidents these are part of our social norm lou social protection systems and we should not build an economy of the 21st century going backwards somewhere in the 19th century before bismarck so i i would not be there if they were that that's why we need some concrete action here. and just to play devil's advocate one to once more by tightening regulation do you think that that could put off potential european homegrown tech startups from innovating that are i think that. first 3

we see that we have already today platforms and apply a normal label or a normal social conditions and they are working they are functioning they have this combination between respecting certainly the labor laws and also social protection and on the other hand also functioning you know quite flexible weight so this is something which is not impossible and that's what we have to create some kind of a level playing field all over europe but we see that the se debate takes place not just in europe in the u.k. obviously because there has been an interesting year ruling by the supreme court if you gape recently and in the u.s. because california invented the new economy and here there was a very strong debate on the. protection of the statute i have

the patent workers with this ruling that you just mentioned in the u.k. you probably refer to. the c.e.o. of badgley recently said that they wanted to improve the working conditions for their employees and for their staff even before 5 you started this consultation face the feeling that this threat of possible regulations is already enough in order to improve working conditions on these platforms well i welcome what has been said and that there is no awareness that there is immediately for improvement of the working conditions in general now you know we cannot just rely on one or one company say i will improve the labor conditions this has to be applied to all the platform workers and therefore we have to have

a common framework common rules all to guarantee that there is fair competition in this sector so i welcome that at least there is the readiness to improve the this has to be. organized and i agreed without putting into question the necessity for flexible working arrangements are and finally commissioner because the timing is interesting why now what was the last straw that made the e.u. commission finally make this a priority. well this was announced at the beginning when this commission and to. took its mandate so this is part of our program now it's the moment to start this we are launching by the way an action plan on the social and to shapiro refers very clearly also to labor to working conditions and this is a sector where certainly working conditions are you know have to be tackled

and by the way i think also that there are there is a strong demand everywhere to agree clarity clarification because now be the germany france i mentioned the u.k. but also in the us courts courts are deciding how people work what kind of protection they have a case by case and this is not a normal situation if there is a gray area we have to green trifurcation because you cannot build a business model just on this lack of clarity we have to bring clarity into this sector and as platforms are transported by definition very often so we're this has to be done at least at the european level. nicholas schmidt commissioner for jobs and social rights thank you so much for your time and i see some of the other global business stories making you. australia has passed

a controversial law that will require digital platforms like google and facebook to pay publishers for news content that requires them to negotiate licensing agreements for text and images that appearance that says the new law is expected to set a precedent for other countries. shares in game stop have been searching again in what could mark a return to frenzy trading that rocked markets last month trading was halted twice after shares more than doubled the stock again nearly 90 percent in after hours trading this after the firm announced its c.f.o. would resign. german chemicals company by a posted a net loss of 10 and a half 1000000000 euros to 2020 despite strong demand for self care health products as a result of the pandemic a us settlement offer claims it's round a killer course is council dragged down the annual result. china's incoming

commerce minister says beijing wants to improve relations with the united states one when tower said the u.s. and china have deep economic ties one also extended an olive branch to australia which has also seen relations with china south. used to make nvidia posted better than expected 1st quarter revenue on wednesday betting on strong demand for its graphic chips used in gaming devices and data center company expects this bill to revenue of 5300000000 dollars that's about $1000000000.00 more than analysts expected high demand he gave me devises and a shortage in the semiconductor market have missed a business and video is the biggest u.s. chip maker by market cap. and as such it has a clear advantage over others because the global semiconductor shortage has been slowing down big industry. takes a look at how chips became the only if all the oil of the digital age. you don't buy them directly but trust me you need them so when the silicon chips are down

what happens well we're finding out. that the auto sector has been hit hard with car companies around the world pulling the brakes on production although they're not the only ones makers of gadgets and popular electronics are feeling it to the chip shortage could be why you're having a hard time finding a p.s. 5 or a flex. about one trillion chips are made a year that's about $128.00 for every person on the planet. suffice to say the world runs on chips slash semiconductors so why are we coming up short the pandemic changed consumer behaviors we're buying personal computers new phones new tablets x. boxes so we can work from home and to cope with the lock down and companies upgrading their physical infrastructure to enable remote working ovies purchases

and dragging up the demand for chips at the beginning of a pandemic we have estimated economic downturn industries such as the automakers they slash the chip purchases and but they qana mean easy. spec sooner than expected with more demands for cars carmakers keep limited m. and tories are right now out there buying buying buying the coronavirus prices to reshape supply and demand chip companies are scrambling and if there is an industry that can simply quickly ramp up production or ask its clients to do without its products for a while our ship that's manufacturing elsewhere rapidly it's the chip industry it's a question to then spread across countries as the cost of communication has gone down along with you know the cost transportation so this is the largely seen as a good thing to spread the production of 7 connectors and other high tech components across countries you know kind of based on some sort of fundamental theories of economics and that by doing so you could reduce the cost of production

thereby increasing efficiency of complex supply chains may stretch around the world but especially asian companies that lead in producing chips taiwan's t.v. s.m.c. is the world's largest contract manufacturer for semiconductors it's since had to reassure governments like car export reliant germany that it will try to prioritize auto chips but the pandemic has already taught a painful lesson. well coal is also short on the global supply chains are are relatively easily destroyed in many industries i mean that it probably needs to be reached and or should lower redundancies built in the supply chain i'm not simply means more sites globally producing these things. it's a little country's interest to ensure a dependable supply research and development manufacturing closer to home having

more and varied suppliers and making the supply chain shorter are going to be key so when the chips are down it's a good time for the countries of the world to think about how best to invest to make sure the supply chains stay up in the future. and a reminder of the top story this hour the european commission is launching a consultation on how to improve the conditions for people working in the geek economy the likes of right chairing apps and food in their insides assets to comment on just increased scrutiny. that's a business update thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. shows

that vaccines are safe and effective they reduce the number of hospitalizations and deaths they protect the vulnerable. but still there are many people who don't want to take the coated vaccine even many who work is at the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus. which is the skepticism come from. the

information war experts say and he bax's a better at spreading fear in the mainstream media is it spreading the news that many nurses and doctors are reluctant to go get the jab in belgium and exit. drive has been delayed due to the just equal problems and then there's the skepticism about vaccines which is especially high among the french speaking population they don't use reports. this is a moment to remember. colleague photographs care home worker christina retreats as she receives her 2nd dose of the biotech pfizer vaccine. 4 months is where i really hope to encourage my colleagues but also my family even the country to come and get vaccinated. like. as vaccination drives in nursing homes like this one in the french speaking part of belgium draw to

a close many stuff still opting out. almost half of all care workers in private institutions alone in the region are hesitating even the director of this home is among the more. kids cuba one of the side effects i'd say in 20 years nobody knows today so it's a bit like buying a car you feel like you could be safe but i want to see the crash test results so personally i am a bit skeptical but for the older people clearly it's a good thing it was kind of excess well put it to some. this caregiver is also one sure he prefers to wait because he's heard some rumors get. ahead yes some production it that can be used. to can be opposite of from this stunt because of those production them that if you're not kind of

a stop you know and this is just the tip of the ice book false claims that the vaccine causes infertility or even death or spreading like wildfire across social media. the french speaking part of belgium appears particularly receptive to these ideas the head of most in home federation fam about things making vaccinations mandatory maybe the only option so far training sessions or online campaigns have failed to convince stuff i did not understand i do not understand that it was so for them this so a lot of rape of every people who died they so the loss of life and it's unbelievable odo's people do not understand that they can protect themself it's a big question and the move. back at the nursing home

this local doctor is trying his utmost to demonstrate that vaccines are safe is this and that's why i tell the staff here you need to get vaccinated not 70 percent of you but 100 percent of all of you in order to win this fight. many of christina rodrigo's colleagues are also taking to social media to encourage others. she hopes each photo will make a difference. how caton is chief executive officer of the international council of nurses howard i know enough people i've got enough neighbors in enough family and friends who are very skeptical about this whole crisis and everything involved on every level but health professionals. so we are strongly recommending health care professionals take the vaccine we have seen infection rights amongst nurses and health workers at

a high level tragically we've seen nurses around the world now the health workers who succumbed to coronavirus this is an issue about their protection and their safety but also our health systems we have no health. no. not. if you on pick the questions that people have. months that's true but that's because there's been this great global effort to develop the vaccines and you look at the processes the steps that have been gone through by the medical regulate tree.

to date and the side effects that were in the trials of the same ones that we're seeing so there's no undue. burden of a mobile phone but the key here is to talk to supplying the facts and the reality so that they do have the vaccine however at the end of the day these doctors nurses and other health care workers and. the stand a certain extent is anxiousness. some people have genuine quest. to human. life but having vaccine do not know whether you may

even in an asymptomatic way pass on the virus to some. vaccine because that's the one that's really got people skeptical. as i understand it the chest the trials that have been done is great fact ignace for people with severe d.c.s. and with hospital but. no this is that's hugely important that we stop people dying and we stop people requiring and needing really intensive hospital care as well none of us can afford for our health systems to be to be overwhelmed i sit

there still work on trials are being done on the effect of in relation to 2 milder diseases and moderate diseases but i say the benefits in terms of severe disease and the impact on. the ethic. important should be reassuring to people millions of people having the vaccine around the world as well which gives reassurance around the lack of. all.

and none of us are out of this. is intimately into twined we don't win this on a nation by nation basis we. get here's a guy with another one of the best friends on the coronavirus. yes and the. vaccine induced immunity will last with copd 19 but this is an interesting

topic to discuss anyway as as with some pathogens you really can achieve longer term effects with vaccines than through natural infection that's because when faced with a pathogen or in the case of a vaccine a facsimile of it the immune system responds with a a cascade of events that eventually wipes that out but also prepares for the eventuality that the pathogen can show up again someday if that happens the invader can be cleared out fast as a rule of thumb more severe disease appears to trigger a more lasting response and then we've learned something cool and over 200 years of experimenting with vaccines which is that severe disease can be faked and we can even to the body's response to some extent we got pretty good at doing that effectively in a dose or 2 of harmless vaccine some people think somehow that immunity acquired

from actually having the disease is somehow better than that you get from back scenes but but there are 2 reasons why vaccine acquired immunity is actually preferable on 1st of course. is that infection with any pathogen can always go badly even in people who are otherwise healthy so if you have the opportunity to protect yourself from that risk you should take it 2nd as counter-intuitive as it might seem at 1st glance because they can provoke a more intense immune response by faking severe disease the longer term protection vaccines provide could actually be more effective than that prompted by getting the sickness itself especially if you had a mild case as so many people do with copd 19 that's why health care authorities

are recommending that you still get vaccinated even if you've had and recovered from the disease. thanks for watching stay safe and see you again sir.

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a puppet of the military and has mismanaged the economy as inflation's fire us my guest this week from islam. it's fall one choudhary pakistani minister for science and technology what has his government's achieved who's calling the shots in pakistan conflict are. you going to minutes to go to. war. how is your view of the moment. where i come from that all of that good does this go it's just like this chinese food doesn't matter where i am isn't it which reminds me of home after decades of living in germany and china so it is one of the things i miss the most pathetic ness that bad i see something new to the difference between now and then of course a president or nation that exists as

a part of the war haven't been implemented in china that's why you cannot help china's people wondering if they're going to say to you but if you don't have the right to learn most of that is this is the job a job that of the maoists see it and understand why i love my job because i tried to do it exactly it is an hour a day my name is the name too and i work at d w. b a.

this is news live from berlin the european union books to step up coordination in the coronavirus crisis leaders are too cold online talks over vaccine production to travel restrictions and muniz ation cost course a year after that kind of extraordinary what is the effectiveness of the e.u. approach also coming out.