the crime fighters are back africa's most successful in radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of his those are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters to mindanao. jamal khashoggi was an exile saudi journalist who was killed and then butchered inside the saudi embassy in istanbul have a since his film say has been fighting to bring to justice the man identified by u.s. intelligence report as being behind his murder crown prince mohammed bin sultan band of saudi arabia so what does have teacher jenkins hope to achieve for him not at film say the man she calls her soul i'm from galle in berlin and this is the day.

we immediately when i got in found report read it and released it and it is now read as what happened. and after the victim was killed his body was dismembered by those who killed him and it was then taken out of the consulate building whether it was legal and we don't and the sanction against him ruled that against an order to move. we can't get any justice we are going to hold him accountable for human rights abuses saudi arabia stands in the international community with its records and. we. do that. also

on the day the bass have been awarded at the international film festival but the bell an hour and the bass are like never before. this is the most awaited moment in the festival of the moment where do we know as of the 71st that edition will be announced our golden goose 'd to 'd. all 'd really poor those who were just as. good legislation for most of us. welcome to the day last we hear s. president joe biden released an intelligence report identifying saudi arabia's ruler as the one who sanctioned the brutal murder of saudi dissident and u.s. resident jamal khashoggi but mr biden decided that the diplomatic cost of directly punishing crown prince mohammed bin sound was too high this despite describing saudi arabia during his election campaign as a pariah state with no redeeming value or mystical showcase fiance isn't giving up

she's now at the center of legal battles from turkey to the u.s. and germany to bring his chemist to justice it's a state killing and as such. that the state of saudi arabia behead to countable historically the united states through democratic and republican presidents has not typically sanctioned government leaders of countries where we have diplomatic relations so far more are going to be united states as not are not in the actions are too lenient on these findings i lie m.d.t. and responsibility on fog crown prince mohammed bin sometimes you tease extremely i am in my view magic and make sure that they in fact you know if they want to deal with us they have to deal with the way very human rights abuses are not about how jews that failed sorry how teenager janitress joins us now from istanbul welcome to

day w last week president biden released a u.s. intelligence report into pronounce calving it concluded that crown prince muhammad approved the murder but then the u.s. government imposed no sanctions against the prince what did you think when you have that. i think that the only significant moment finding the 8 but i told all so i think it is not enough we don't any sentient or antiquing get any steps against the criminals and they all review at least the report we don't get in any action lots it is needing or it is needed and it does not to mean anything. what should joe biden do about the us. and its roots now couldn't clear more debt and he is

a time and he can do more he can do take action against the criminals it couldn't come trans. saudi arabia has convicted 8 people over to my house killing a sentence 5 of them to death was that justice. i don't think so because many did not know about any try hope. me or publicly we don't have any information about people and what state did why why dick huge amal and what is his body no answers all our questions. and it date degas not publicly and openly day trial they did not share with doing it to people we made and warts and there is no any real evidence to believe

them right there's a trial at the moment in turkey 26 saudis being tried in turkey over in the saudi arabia is refusing to extradite the suspects what do you hope to come out of the trial in turkey. what's happening in turkey it's according to talks law it's gold. rights worry and the me and my mind lawyers who fought. this case in talkie and wants to work at it from the beginning. and on to the surface to do or it and shared through a divorce and now. in turkey it's according to chris low as i told you now so. the 1st station just happened yesterday and. being the follow to case. you're also

suing the crown prince and a us court. what does it feel like fighting such a powerful mob. it is it actually it wasn't my. personal choice but why when they just come out of bed i think it's you it's it's like kind of. part of slow and that i feel that i shoot i should ask more because i lost my mind when my husband michael my only friend and mine if you will the receipt for me the time and i said i thought a big responsibility on racial there so i couldn't talk any way just this way seeking justice for somali and and and for he thought and for heath

principle that he already who are surely the same. creation and mission and it's time to ask or respect our laws on the tube. what does justice for jamal look like what do you want to see happen. actually. it is kind of how long story and long. and history sometimes getting justice or seeking just justice take time. but i don't know actually does it all until when or what we get justice in the end of the lot but i don't think what will happen in the future but i'm doing my torn my back as. i feel that i hope.

in and. or and one day we will get justice together and you will see i believe what i'm trying to mount was achieved so much in his life but obviously he made a lot of powerful enemies did you ever feel in danger because of his work no i do not feel any danger. we are talking about this issue and i asked him and he told me. this same donor is not worry about our lives and a secretary or care or something like that i was not actually did i know of any against general i wasn't no any. any you know dangerous. for for his life for i

was not is there tights and i know a lot. more when jamal i mean when you think of jamal how do you think of him what what image comes to your mind what sort of man will say yes i am mr jamal. as a person and sir john. i miss him or i i wonder. when i feel something very incredible or good i want to share with him. i miss hearing his voice and he was. actually a. really. really different person for me like a businessman and. intellectual part was very. pretty or different for me and. i i feel

a lot of good seeing say sometimes when i feel bad that. i do remember him directly i need to repeat mate it's made me more comfortable more peaceful. when was sort of your last and we thank you for joining us here at the job you have to judge angus thank you so much you are. british prime minister boris johnson has long hard what many might call a creative relationship with the truth as a journalist he was sacked for making a quote as a politician he was sacked for being allegedly dishonest about an extramarital affair but it was the claims made during the 2016 campaign that brought his talents to a new and much wider audience particularly his assertion that leaving the e.u. would mean an extra $350000000.00 pounds a week for britain's national health service well britain voted to leave the e.u. mr johnson became prime minister and his government has just awarded n.h.s.

work there's a one percent pay increase for many vets about an extra 3 pounds 50 a week. well my next guest had mr johnson pegged as an unrepentant and inveterate liar not particularly diplomatic the language for someone who was france's ambassador to the u.k. during the other 2 britons decision to leave the e.u. as well as being in london during those turbulent years of campaigning silberman was also to france and russia and china now retired from the diplomatic service and she's free to speak and write her mind her new book goodbye britannia is out now welcome to the doubly. as we take stock of not your leaders around the world britain the united states and russia amongst them a naive person might ask what's wrong with being an inveterate liar what look what he gets you. well i think precisely the lines are not as

important as. well and you should everything when no you should. read as you remind us. when he was a correspondent. for the times when he was. telling. you. you're a meat and very choice inventions of the. nations. except. for the people and so off once it was a sense this is also because he was charismatic also. as we used to do in political life and by the way what i said in the group is that he was not. and say no. no i said i know from your words not in

your answer pretty spiffy so true maybe not. yes so it's a well known fact it's not a secret so everybody knew that's exactly what you should. ok the answer. and so cause britain has now left the you and he we are in the middle of a covert crisis and as the e.u. countries struggle to vaccinate their way out of the pandemic i'm just a little bit jealous of the way that the british speedboats as a sort of on the line described it has been able to get its people vaccinated while the european tonka is still wondering whether it's vax vaccines are ever going to arrive. well i think we've been to see who. regret it. not necessarily a question of comparison but a correction. the british for their strategy you know i. think we should

of course have seen also and this started before us not because last breaths it's because of that. transition period they were from. that's it's a start that you hope you we will accelerate from germany in europe and actually think we were right to do. this because certainly they're important. are smaller countries hard to struggle. while their laboratories it wouldn't have been groot unfortunately we don't know where you are in ok that's not. you served in russia for a couple of years so let's talk about vladimir putin who is believed to be behind assassinations here in germany in berlin and of course in britain even expelled 3

european diplomats while the e.u. foreign policy chief was in moscow is he now out of control. i don't think it is an article i'm sure all but it's sure that it's a. boy's name off benny of course was not. 96 but i don't know if you didn't even see. the infosys by the. russians also never said it was a question. first and our 1st 3 or diplomats during visits are just a bar was a very bad decision i think it's perfectly i don't think it is wise when very e.u. . mission to russia just to. be the.

largest neighbor russia and we need to happen to relationship and sometimes it's because of the that we don't have a strategy to what's there what's russia at the start just. come and say well the result was massive. thank you for joining us from the french ambassador sylvie bam. thank you. many communities and police departments in the united states are still struggling to build or indeed rebuild trust following last year's so-called summer of racial reckoning following the killing of george floyd in minneapolis almost 9 months ago . has been to moses lake that's a small town in washington state and many communities across the country it has redefined its relationships with police on almost daily basis despite this it

seemed untouched by many of the problems plaguing the us police departments stephanie reports. it's 6 o'clock in the morning shift change at the moses lake police department the handover is done quickly or the overnight team leaves for home but they cite officers and to their patrol cars. moses lake is home to roughly $25000.00 residents the majority is white the largest minority is hispanic accounting for 40 percent of the population african-americans account for only one and a half percent the town is considered a so-called high crime area its crime rate of 43 pull 1000 residents makes it a community with one of the highest crime rates in the united states we are with officer rudy valdis on his patrol. you know this is my hometown i grew up in.

so it's very near and dear to my heart i know a lot of people here and you know a lot of the. people in the community that i've grown up with myself and it's important for me to be able to get back to my community back at the department we meet with police chief of moses lake kind of infer the 53 year old has 30 years of experience in law enforcement he took the job as chief here 5 years ago and manages 42 officers now. one of the biggest challenges that we have is that we have a fair amount of gang activity drug activity. violent crime and then a lot of property crime and many police departments all across the u.s. still struggle to maintain or to rebuild mutual trust with their communities after the killing of george floyd in minneapolis almost 9 months ago however moses lake police seem to be completely untouched by problems of police overreach of police brutality of problems related to systemic racism an implicit bias how is that

possible for the chief recruiting staff that mimics the fabric of the community is a top priority however there is more that makes for good policing and for running a police department well says for accountability a lot of the issues that we're facing nationwide a lot of the reason for all this police reform is because chiefs and sheriffs are holding their people accountable he adds rigorous officer training relationship building transparency and constant communication with his staff and with the community equally significant i will give my staff my officers the support the training you name and i will give them everything they need to be successful knowing that that day's going to happen when someone is going to screw up and i hope that when they do make a mistake and it does become public that we've got a good enough relationship with the community that i can go out in front of them

say you know what we made a mistake. perhaps this small town and its police department could offer some lessons for of a community's. in the belly an international film festival has awarded its top prize is on its closing day and the golden bath for best picture went to bad luck banging on looney. talk about some of the other when it's just a moment 1st of us take a look at the jury's favorite photo. this woman is a role model she's a teacher even she has a right to privacy but these days private lives all too often end up on social media. in this case a totally private video has gone viral it shows the teacher having sex it's no one's business but everyone has an opinion should she be allowed to stay in her profession and continue to teach children. the teacher is now suddenly in the

public eye. to feel pleased to meet the love of god they're all reversed on appeal by i got that but it's out of it but that was it the film is about chauvinism conspiracy theories and hypocrisy in post communist romania told as a biting satire for the jury of this year's belly nala it was a stroke of genius. well well that's good for your opinion of that 8 of those movie buff and chief. culture scott wrote for welcome scott what do you think was a deserving winner. i don't know i mean bad banging or loony or i mean the title alone deserves surprise so give them. the field itself i mean the footage that we just saw doesn't really give it a do it credit because there's also some pretty extreme core imagery definitely not

suitable for work by bill maher it was like paper film i have to admit the $1000000000.00 but it's a decent sort of social commentary social satire film for me it was a little bit missed in terms of the comedy comedy targets that it was aiming at but i think or a sort of understand why the jury picked it because the way this film was made. it was made in lockdown in romania so everyone in the film including all the actors wear masks all the time and there are socially distance so it's it's very much of its time is very much says this was filmmaking. in 20202021 this is what cinema looks like right now so it's very much much of its big question i have is were you going to care about this film and in 2 or 3 years. but for right now some of the other winners for us were there. yeah i mean a lot of pics by the jury i definitely agree with. the 1st time this year prelim

didn't have a gender. and so they had a single war best leading performance which went to a modern german actress requirements in. screwball comedy with the sort of 5 twists that it's called i'm your man and she placed the german scientist who is a single and a bit weary of relationships and she's assigned a robot and android played by day and stevens the british actor of don't have a thing and he's been programmed to satisfy her every need things don't work out just as planned and they end up in couples therapy quite fun a nice twist on sort of that site by concept that was one of my. films but there was another german film that won prizes special jury prize was a documentary that i really liked called him and his class and its final argument about a school teacher in germany and he has a. class of almost entirely migrant children or children of immigrant backgrounds

and these are kids that we hear a lot about in the news in germany but we very rarely get a chance to actually see them to hear them to see what they think about the world very very very you know emotionally emotionally was also one of my picks from michigan and a brief word about the bell our itself is 1st have online edition how did it feel. the films were great i really love that but i mean watching all the films from my myself. just isn't the same they're going to have a real in personnel in our this summer i'm really looking forward to that because you will be on the big screen not just on a lot right to say here on our big screen. as ever thank you. i mean instead be done the conversation that continues online you can join us on twitter i'm at stand up live news so you can follow me out of phil gramm don't forget to use the hash tag that i was watching

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goals. we take a closer look at international program helping countries in africa to vaccinate some of their most vulnerable against covert night. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program pope francis has arrived in baghdad on the 1st papal visit to the war torn iraq he began with an appeal for an end to sectarian violence and religious strife and also remember the victims of a suicide attack in baghdad cathedral in which dozens of worshippers ok hold in a country with a dwindling christian community he called on the iraqi leaders to guarantee equal rights for all on saturday he's to hold that unprecedented meeting with the country's top shiite muslim cleric and despite the pandemic huge crowds are expected when he celebrates mass. is

a pilgrim of peace as pope francis called him self is aware of the risks he's taking made an ongoing pandemic and regional. conflict. i'm happy to be making trips again. but he is not traveling alone he's protected by one of the largest security deployments in recent iraqi history $10000.00 personnel by some estimates including special forces 24 hour drone surveillance undercover intelligence officers in addition to the pope's own bodyguard entourage. it's the 1st visit by a pope to iraq and comes just 2 days after a rocket attack that seemed to put the trip in doubt his 1st remarks in baghdad acknowledge the difficult days most iraqis have had to endure without a military escort. over the past several decades iraq

has suffered the disastrous effects of wars the scourge of terrorism and sectarian conflicts often grounded in a fundamentalism incapable of accepting the peaceful coexistence of different ethnic religious groups different ideas and cultures he said a new chapter in iraqi history was urgent. the name of god cannot be used to justify acts of murder exiled terrorism and oppression. iraq is home to some of the earliest christian settlements the christian community here is diverse like few others in the world roman catholics live side by side with l.d.n. catholics protestants armenian orthodox christians and others. then politicize. an emotional day we are sending a message to the pope and the world that we are here to know more we the christians are remaining on our land our roots are here it is impossible to leave the homeland

that embraced us yes yes that this is not not a gentle heart yes. there were as many as 1400000 christians in the country at the start of the iraq war in 2003 sectarian conflict drove most of them away in 2014 the so-called islamic state began targeting christians driving hundreds of thousands more from their homes the pope's visit is a sign of victory over this tide of violence he is set to visit mosul a former stronghold of the islamic state which was recaptured in 2017 by government forces and the head of the catholic church plans to meet with iraq's top shia muslim cleric grand ayatollah ali al sistani who has never met with the pope a big moment for christians and muslims alike. let's get more from d.w. religious fast. gak welcome this is san francisco's 1st trip after a long travel hiatus because of the pandemic why did he choose iraq.

well the situation of christians in the region in iraq in particular in the region in general that's more or less fallen through the way sides as sort of most of the news cycles and the tension was turn of the you know germany placed on the call weight and current crisis and sort of china came to occupy a brahman into space over the last year or so one of the reasons why the boat travels very often it's to you know vague back into foggy a sort of bring you back to the tension of you know public opinion and i think that this is no the friend in the particular case of iraq christian population is he i've heard has really gone through a severe severe contraction i mean most a lot of people have left and there are about 250000 left into the country given the situation in which he's really quite precarious this is this trend is expected

to continue i mean this is something that for this is important to revert. that they're going to be big crowds at these events they must be concerns that this is going to turn into some sort of coven super spreaders event. yes i think that there is particular concern around sunday's mass in the north because it could attract thousands of people and it's not clear that iraqi authorities are capable of essentially managing large crowds also the country's under severe you for structural pressure which means that you know in many areas the possibility of really facing a wave of its release but of course the decision of the rhotic and he says that you know the church has to be were the people are and i think the decent attend and trying to do precisely that so the expected crowds and this is clearly i significant event for iraq's christian communities. very much so and i think that

it far exceeds you know the confines of the roman catholic church in a sense i mean. community it's all christian communities will have to some degree at least a spokesperson carries a lot of international weight so that means that all communities do very cold years are the dogs protest and senator and of course got to lose yourselves we'll actually have you know for at least 4 days a very strong defender like on on the ground so i think that this is a very significant event thank you for that date of the religious vasilis martin gak you're welcome now here go much of china was shut down to contain the corona virus well now with the pandemic largely under control its latest want to get the economy back on track around 3000 delegates are taking part in the annual national people's congress the country's biggest political event

where the rubber stamp laws drawn up by the party elite and said political priorities for the next 5 years one of those is economic growth. neighborhood security offices patrol beijing streets when they're around it's a sure sign that an important chinese political gathering is underway the offices and to prevent displays of dissent during the event the mood at the gathering is optimistic china has largely managed to control a kind of a pandemic and the economy has begun to recover after a virus induced slump ging in fighting the most important goals for this year are an increase in g.d.p. of more than 6 percent and the creation of another 1000000 new jobs in urban areas . like. among the parties are the plans a large increase in the military budget and great investments in new technology to make china less dependent on the rest of the world. china is also planning to

tighten its control of a hong kong turn electoral reform that said to be approved by beijing's national people's congress which family it thinks you can say you go to the phones and we want to ensure in principle that patriot through home kong and. mass arrests have already weakened hong kong's pro-democracy movement activists fear that these changes could deny it a voice in the city assembly. take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world will start in miramar where police have opened fire on protesters in mandalay local media reporting that one person was killed fresh protests have broken out across the country following the crackdown by the militia chancer which still thought 38 deaths this week the u.n. security council is to meet to discuss the crisis. they have been fresh clashes between police and protesters in the senate police capital dhaka demonstrations

demanding the release of the country's detained opposition leader mansong result who was arrested on wednesday before he was due to testify on of rape charges one person has been killed in the unrest. the e.u. on the us have agreed a 4 month suspension of terrorists linked to a long running dispute over illegal subsidies to airbus and boeing this covers around 9 and a half 1000000000 euros worth of trade goods you chief found alive struck the deal in a phone call with u.s. president joe biden. while some wealthy nations have already you know like i said millions of people against kobe 19 many african states are struggling to secure even a small number of doses the world health organizations kovacs initiative aims to help poorer countries roll out the vaccines now nigeria kenya and rwanda started to integrate health workers and other vulnerable people. it's an historic moment for

these medical workers they are the 1st kenyans to receive a cold but 19 vaccine. by the time we discover someone is somebody. that i want you know. the east african nation has begun rolling out dozers from the global kovacs program initiative launched by the world health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to maxine's. it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent on thursday kenya's president stressed the importance of global corporation vaccine nationalism is something that you should. be thinking like think. if you ask any expect there is no single country that will be able to be safe unless all of

us are safe so we have an obligation to ensure that this vaccine is made a very widely as cheap. and as quickly as possible to the citizens of the globe. this week the 1st batch of more than 1000000 astra zeneca doses arrived in nairobi kenya hopes to vaccinate 1200000 people by june. in football but in munich host a brasier dortmund in one of the bones is league is the biggest fictious fixtures known as their classic or in the past years the 2 giants have been closer in the standings and now now league leaders by on our face in a dog inside at risk of missing out on next season's champions league. one of the biggest thing is biggest attractions also features the league's top strikers

byron's robert levin dorothy and dog means ayla knowledge both scored a goal when they met earlier this season but it was buyers. that left the pitch with 3 points. at the speedo. it is fair game again storm and it's always special for us that's been shown in recent years the games are on a high level. byron haven't lost a dog men in the bundesliga since 2018 endorsement are in need of a win now more than ever with champions league contention hanging in the balance dortmund will need to bring their a game. we just have to hold on to the things that we do well and accept that there will be phases where we have to suffer and that's simply part of football when you play in you know any change but that doesn't mean that you can't be brave and still be dangerous we've shown that in the past and be a good sized in africa height. a few seasons back captain marco royce netted 2

goals in dorman's last win over buyers in the league. but that was endorsement. for them to get one step closer to the champions league they'll need to defeat byron in munich dortmund last visit didn't go so well in 2019. byron barry dortmund for me. the burley an international film festival has awarded its top prizes are its closing day the dark comedy bad luck banging on looney poland won the golden baffle best picture it tells a story of a high school teacher whose sex tape ends up on my. best. interest performance went to marin agate for i'm your man it's the 1st time the balance has a 100 out a gender neutral prize in place of best actor best actress the winners will be

presented their water at the ceremony into. the house. up to date and more at the top of the hour up next here on the w. kate ferguson is your business update have a good day. and this is climate change. happiness in 3 books. this is the book for you. to get smarter for free good morning to.

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statements at this year's national keep both congress. and portugal's health care system still hossam for coverage from the country's budget slashing costs we speak to medical stops on the front lines of the pandemic. this is d w business on tape ferguson welcome to the program. after experiencing its worst contraction since world war 2 the u.s. economy appears to be on the rebound some 379000 jobs were created in february the majority of them in the leisure and hospitality industries the lifting of some locked and measures on the country's swift vaccine has given both sectors a major boost to the views car haul has more the leisure and hospitality sectors made the biggest hiring gains now that lockdown restrictions were starting to ease according to the latest report by the u.s. labor department federal reserve chairman jerome powell said the secret to economic

recovery would be job creation and vaccination predicting an upswing as more of the population gets the jab we've got rising vaccination we've got cases of lower levels we've got strong support from fiscal monetary policy and while there are still risks there's good reason to expect job creation to pick up you know coming months and we need that because we're still 10000000 jobs short of where we were 10000000 fewer people are working than working when the democrats were in so it's a it's a lot of ground we have to cover he said he wouldn't consider raising interest rates until the country hits maximum employment less than 4 percent unemployed and inflation stabilized above 2 percent warning that he didn't expect that to happen until sometime next year. let's bring in his facile correspondent yes cos in new york hi yes so unemployment is coming down and that's good news that we're nowhere

near preplan demick levels are we. yeah well as we've heard more than $9000000.00 actually jumps are all we have and that about $9000000.00 jobs less right now than before the penn demick started in the leisure and hospitality industry alone which includes some restaurants we are shy about sui and a half 1000000 jobs but if you compare it to last year in april of 2020 we had an unemployment rate of about 15 percent now that came down to a good 6 percent so the trend at least looks. the right way and if you look what happened now in february basically almost all of those jobs games games came from their leisure and hospitality industry and if you look that the weather is getting warmer so outdoor dining will become a topic again and then also is the vaccinations that are definitely speeding up there is hope that the labor market will continue this speedy recovery even if we

might not see the same level of jobs was then this year that we've saw on earth that we did saw a good year ago and hands me while u.s. president joe biden has had a phone call with european commission president fund on life was pretty significant what can you tell me about us. it's a never ending story kate it's about the subsidies for our boys and for boeing both sides this fight is going on of this dispute for 16 years both sides claiming that the that boeing got subsidies that are not legal and the same is true for airbus so now there was this important important phone call and the 2 sites agreed at least for a 4 month period to take those tariffs back that were implemented because of those illegal subsidies and we will see where that leads economically that won't have

a huge impact we are talking about exports to the united states in the amount of $8000000000.00 that had been a tariff on the other side we saw exports to the european union in the amount of $4000000000.00 that's all that extra tariff it in general if you look at $29000.00 for example trade between the 2 parties in total was more than $700000000000.00 so it's not that much money we're talking about here at this point but it's clearly shows that both sides have an interest in having a friendlier tone and who knows maybe really finally get rid of that dispute that as i said last thing now for 16 years some phone call a diploma think baguettes got to in new york thank you very much. now the united states isn't the only economy that is hoping to come back with a role that china has i find an ambitious growth target at its most high profile

political event of the year the annual national people's congress the world's 2nd biggest economy is aiming for growth of more than 6 percent this year as it pursues a longer term goal of becoming a global leader in telecommunications and big tech the proceedings are also being closely watched here in europe where the question of strengthening ties with china is the source of a heated debate. china's economy is emerging from the pandemic stronger than it was before and is already showing accelerated growth but the chinese communist party wants more they want china to become the world's tech leader. to that end the government plans to invest one and a half $1000000000.00 in the sector over the next 4 years businesses in the e.u. also hope to profit from that china is an increasingly attractive market for the e.u. as chinese consumers will also use the growing disposable income to buy european

products some german companies already make a large part of their sales in china like xstrata which makes components for the semiconductor industry car maker v.w. and chip maker infinium a joint investment agreement which the e.u. and china finalized in december could make the chinese market even more accessible to european firms among other things it aims to ensure fear of competitive conditions in the future of course china's 5 year plan is primarily about their own progress the people's democratic republic wants to become more independent particularly in light of recent trade disputes with the united states that too could create new opportunities for european companies. now to some of the other global business stories making news a u. regulators are reportedly preparing to file an antitrust case against apple but charges relate to the company's payment system its ebook service on the treatment of music streaming service sponsored fi on its store. authorities in

rio de janeiro have placed restrictions on bars restaurants and beaches as it struggles with a fresh wave of covert 19 infections this is just one of the growing list of regions that have really entered a partial lockdown in brazil the country is currently experiencing its deadliest week since the start of the panda. coronavirus self test kits are to hit the shelves of discounters albion level across germany on saturday a pack of 5 tests will retail for 25 euros major drug store chains have confirmed they'll follow suit and will begin a such test on tuesday germany is pinning its hopes of reopening the economy on widespread testing. now our next report brings us to portugal where there's recently been a move away from the a seris the matters that followed the financial crisis still though the legacy of

those cuts are being felt throughout the country especially within the health care system. an intensive care unit in port-au central hospital doctors and nurses are fighting to save some 100 gold 19 patients lives here it's clear the clinic needs more than just a fresh coat of paint but thanks to successful improvise ation the staff are still in control of the pandemic. was the fault of the saw no staff shortages. of course were exhausted because it's a strenuous situation this but he added we managed to respond adequately to the challenges forced by you and others that. in lisbon things are worse some patients even need to transferring to hospitals elsewhere like us tello branco. here banners tell a story of serious problems with staff there are calling for fair pay. since he said that simply sums up the professionals we don't worry about money or careers it's

about the patients but also about conditions you give everything you've got for an undignified pittance we look at neighboring countries and see where the worst pay despite the better training they make is one reason for that is that after the global financial crisis portugal was forced to adopt strict austerity measures besides cutting investments jobs were axed and wages slashed in recent years a lot of people saw no alternative but to emigrate. schemes we needed more staff and couldn't employ them i knew some who just finished their training and found all hospital doors were closed to them. research a tiago career has uncovered another long term effect of the e.u. troika austerity package the portuguese live long lives but not necessarily good ones especially the poorest. so my eyes will not have an economically weaker

population less access to social security. which is therefore more vulnerable to illness is an open goal for covert 19. feet urgently needed work is now underway on hospitals in places like lisbon porto and castillo branker it began even before the pandemic struck after 12 year old plans for it were resurrected. we need investment in essential modernization that's behind in many quarters. you know there's still no him to better working conditions or fresh hiring in portugal's coated ravaged public health system. and finally the weekend is just around the corner and that has many missing a nice house in their favorite bars but what can you do if you can't go to the pub well if you're lucky enough to live in brighton in the u.k. then the pope will come to you the manager of the holland in holland has started

a drinks delivery service for her customers complete with a mini brewery in tow regulars say the roving pulp helps lift their spirits and give them badly needed sense of community during these socially isolated times. and on that half you know that brings us to the end of the day so thank you so much for watching for more you can always go to our website dot com slash as that's from me and that's here it's goodbye and stuck. to the point strong opinions clear positions international perspectives. francis is visiting iraq a country seen as the cradle of christianity brings with him a message of peace and reconciliation but who will be listening in iraq with the christian population density base to find out on to the point. to the point that

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