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this is date of the news the live from berlin serious charges against myanmar as generals from the u.n. special repertoire is growing every day fishing in their religion related boy saying. crime should get. he says it crimes against protesters include a murder torture and forced disappearances also coming up on the show another vaccine for the european union regulators approve the johnson and johnson shots on life the other is already being used this one only requires
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a single dose. and japan a mourns the more than 18000 people killed in the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the country 10 years ago. hello i'm claire richardson welcome to the show it is a severe indictment the u.n. human rights investigator on myanmar says the new military regime is likely committing crimes against humanity with its deadly crackdown on people protesting last month's cooed special repertoire tom enders told the un human rights council that the military junta had murdered at least 70 people and that more than 2000 have been unlawfully detained he's calling for sanctions against the country's military leaders let's take a listen at so what he had to say. as of this moment credible reports indicate that
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mean more security forces had murdered at least 70 people that a president those murdered were fathers sons mothers daughters husbands and wives they were educators they were engineers they were students they were many ages look we're going to have all of those murdered were members of generation c. or young people under the age of 20. mattered president their country or me and more is being controlled by a murderous illegal regime its current leadership perpetuated the atrocity crimes that are the focus of the charge of genocide before the international criminal court of justice there was un a special rapporteur on myanmar tom enders speaking there his comments followed news that 9 protesters were killed by security forces on thursday leaving more families mourning the loss of loved ones. like she has a son is 2 months pregnant and a husband who is determined to join protesters on the streets of me and i don't know only what he goes to the protest every day even though i ask him not to. the
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little i told him there be trouble if something happens because we have a child and another baby on the way. to go and i can't stop any money out i knew that. what foods children would be raised without a father or husband chipman food shot dead by security forces at a yangon protest. you know downer any said it's worth dying for now i know he's worried about people not joining the protests. if so democracy won't return to the country he's worried about democracy now what that has passed away. was the violence isn't slowing down and me and my. peaceful protests are met with the fishes for oppression and what rights group amnesty international is calling the killing spree. more protesters were killed across the country on thursday. the
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bloodshed not intimidating doors at the demonstrations oh my lot we knew that we protest peacefully but they cracked down on us violently got it it's ok the more they crack down the stronger the revolution is we will continue until we win something now that. the protests started last month in response to the military seizing power and detaining civilian leader aung sun suu kyi. the ruling you into my den most serious allegations against her to date without evidence they claim suit she took illegal pints of $600000.00 us dollars and gold and pay from her party denied the allegations. the military also reiterated that they will remain in power until the new elections are held but haven't offered a date. that isn't good enough for the protesters who are valid to continue their demonstrations no matter the cost. well the european
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union's medicines regulator has approved the use of the johnson and johnson corona virus vaccine that's the 4th to get the go ahead in the e.u. and the 1st to require only a single dose let's hope this will help speed up the use vaccination rollout which has been criticized as going up to a slowly in trials that johnson and johnson shot was a 67 percent effective and it's already being used in the united states for the approval comes as several countries several european countries have paused the use of the astra zeneca vaccine they say it's a precaution until they can rule out a potential link to blood clots. denmark norway and iceland have temporarily stopped all use of the astra zeneca vaccine after some people develop blood clots authorities say it's very rare and there's no known connection to the vaccine but they want to investigate that for sure should they do the surgery i think it's the right decision to put the astra zeneca vaccines on hold for the time being until we
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have a. rough medical reasoning for continuing the vaccinations of course i'm as upset as everyone else about this and the potential consequences but it's probably too soon to conclude on this matter when there is a risk of course it has to be uncovered and put in there saying not i am a basically just gets you from now to the european medicines agency says so for the data shows the incidence of vaccinated people getting blood clots is no higher than unvaccinated ones of you echoed by the british regulator 11000000 doses have already been administered across the u.k. . those countries that have decided to pause delivery they've made a choice on balancing risks i think ultimately it's likely that this will be found to be not a. not a cluster that's causally related to the vaccine but that choice is to wait until
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it actually proves. the french health minister said he saw no need to suspend use of the astra zeneca vaccine france and germany are among the e.u. countries that will keep using it. what we call the risk benefit ratio which are the benefits from the vaccination as at this stage judged to be higher than the risks and of course investigations into that are in progress in france and other countries. intensive research will now be carried out and only time will tell whether the health authorities in denmark norway and iceland were justified in making their difficult decision. and earlier we spoke to epidemiologist eric final doing and we asked if suspending the use of the astra zeneca as a vaccine could undermine people's trust in it. you know this is a very tricky thing because every time we pause. the vaccinations it makes the public nervous about it and i think that is there is a valid concern at the same time i think it's even worse if we didn't pas and
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later discovered that from our investigation that there is risk and we should pause so i think in certain ways you know between 2 different avenues of approach is the precautionary principle is still better and there are other thing is we do have more vaccines now is not that is the only back seat and without by suspending it we are stopping all vaccinations no there are still many backfeeding so we can use to continue to back you know fruits. i mean while the governor of the u.s. state of texas has loosened covert 1000 restrictions in response to falling infection rates all businesses are now allowed to reopen and a state wide umask mandate has been left at critics say the move is irresponsible as texas is still in the throes of the pandemic some cities in texas do still require people to wear face coverings in public but many are already celebrating what they see as a return of personal freedoms. a different kind of texas barbecue of the day they
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have all been waiting for the mask mandate is history and members of the w.t.f. biker club burn what they think is a symbol of suppression 'd. it is an extremely happy day for us we are elated out here we put the savannah to gether and invited the community to come out and it's been a great turnout and we are all celebrating you know our freedom and that's really what this is about. at the university of texas in austin vaccination is under way but with new variant spreading many here think that it's still too early to drop the mask mandate we're nowhere near herd immunity so. myself again i'm going to wear the mask it certainly doesn't mean the pandemic is over and i think it could like we were into another spike i honestly think it wasn't a smart decision made by i know that things next 2 months march and april are very
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important and crucial in 2 countries like being able to be more in control of pandemic mask or no mask the topic remains hard controversial in texas and it could end up in the courts. the city of austin has issued its own mask mandate and that has led to a new dispute the state of texas threatened to sue the city of the mayor doesn't drop his mask mandate the question of wearing a mask continues to be a highly divisive topic here in texas and across the united states bar owner taylor ziebart has reopened his brewery but continues to demand masks for his customers he says the state left him and the hospitality industry alone with the pandemic with an asse mandate it gave us a lot of power to enforce these rules and it's the onus is on us now to. keep 4 people safe and keep the public safe and we don't really have a you know a last line of defense there and. within the state are friends or for know w.t.f.
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like your club members are they've given their mess. let's get you up to speed now one's mother stories making news around the world u.s. democrats are making a new push to an x. the 1st major new gun control laws in over 2 decades the house of representatives today wrote it in favor of legislation to expand background checks on all firearm sales but the 2 bills that will require significant bipartisan support to get through the senate. tens of millions of the daffodils have been left unpicked because the u.k. government failed to include flour farmers in a scheme to admit migrant farm workers after breakfast many growers have also abandoned exports due to the new e.u. border checks. well japan has marks the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake that set off a tsunami and triggered
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a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant it was the world's worst nuclear disaster since true noble and 10 years on its effects are still being felt. at 2 46 pm life in japan stood still for one minute. and people in a walky in the fukushima prefecture joined to remember the moment of horror. i can't believe it's already been 10 years since my grandmother died. when i watch videos of march 11th or when someone says the day out i think of her and remember all never see her again i think. on march 11th 2011 a quake off the east coast of japan released the tsunami it was so powerful it destroyed towns and villages up to 10 kilometers inland more than 15000 people were
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killed the floods also breached the fukushima nuclear power plant which wasn't connected to the tsunami warning system important safety systems were missing this led to the collapse of the power supply and the cooling circuit explosions and core meltdowns occurred in 3 reactor units large amounts of radioactivity were released and more than 160000 people had to leave their homes many areas around the nuclear power plant are uninhabitable even to this day and hardly anyone has returned since neighborhoods were rebuilt. on the 10th anniversary of this catastrophe emperor naruhito acknowledge that for many survivors the disaster is still not over. who annoy you i believe that it is important for all of us to unite our hearts and to forever stand with the people from the disaster affected
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areas and the prime minister assured the nation he will never forget the lessons learned from the catastrophe. i once again pledge here that we will continue to review life protecting disaster prevention and mitigation policies. but there is only one thing the prime minister did not promise that japan will phase out nuclear energy. but it is freezing in russia and one ballerina has used the subzero temperatures to go dancing on the water. is going viral with this video shot at minus 15 degrees celsius. sheets up to the frozen gulf of finland performing a scene from a swan lake to boast of the footage in protest against plans to build courts because the construction would destroy popular with both people and.
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that is your news update at this hour stay tuned for news africa with tomi oladipo enough that there's always more on our website dot com and richardson in berlin for me the whole team thanks for watching. imagine home many portions of old love us thrown out in the world climate change a different awful story this is one place where inform goes one week. how much work can really do. we still have time to our time during this. process. and you hear me you know here's we're going to do to you and how the last 2 years general so it's now we'll bring you on going to battle and you never have
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the full surprise do so with what is possible who is medical really what moves. all this up to 2 people in full. along the way myers and critics are right joining us from apple's lifestyle. this is the dublin years africa coming up on the program the troubling aftermath equitorial guinea struggles to come to grips with the recent tragedy the nation mourns victims of the weekend's devastating blast. and where's tanzania's president john michael felice nearly 2 week public absence raises questions about his health.
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i'm told me a lot of glad you could join us the nation of accra turtle guinea is still struggling to come to terms with the devastation from the weekend's deadly explosions in the city of battle the military said a fire at a weapons depos sparked off the massive blasts a sense shock waves across the city the official death toll stands at 105 but human rights activists say the true number is far higher. state t.v. on sunday just moments after the catastrophe struck those still living cleve a towering cloud cast up by the blast the injured you can still walk limping to safety. hospitals in fact overwhelmed people left to tend to each other. the vice president who is the son of the state president visited the same day shell shocked residents were still trying to save their loved ones on tuesday he returned
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with his father the president they had the accounts of families ripped apart. and lives destroyed. my father left the house after the 1st blast. 10 o'clock hits his head and we try to rescue him but he dined at it and the. satellite images show the destructive force of the detonation this is a military base before the explosions and this is the scene afterwards the barracks blasted into nothingness. the base was in the suburbs of batter equitorial get its largest city with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. president teodoro obiang nowhere much has blamed the tragedy on fire started by local families and negligent handling of munitions only those who left the dynamites near an ammunitions warehouse. those are the ones that we need to accuse. he also said that the blast a damaged almost all of the buildings in batter thousands of residents have fled to
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the surrounding countryside. still in the city left with the grim task of pulling the dead from the rubble. the government has appealed for international help and spain the former colonial power alongside the u.s. and the u.n. are responding. but there are also warnings of the dangers that may remain concerns are rising over the response by unexploded ordinances including explosives rockets and other munitions to remain at the site. as the days pass more and more questions remain unanswered what caused the blast how many lives did they destroy and who is responsible for the tragedy that shattered and entire city. that's now here from 2 to alec and a human rights lawyer activist and the founder of equitorial guinea justice souter's good to have you on the program 1st of all what
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a devastating in that and why do you question the death toll. well we question their thought because witness accounts come from people there were at the scene. and lead us to believe that you know what's significant here and it is accounts from people including members of the military members of the unit in charge of rescuing people who are on blind war. in march higher numbers one he got me reported so it is not only a man lying in his side if you look at this site the late image it is you are not you will see that now that given the devastation over here the damage has been marched much higher here we know that in addition to the soldiers there is a nice military barrack their families live there so and most of these military barracks have more than $100.00 sort of living in there so there's not only
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undermine their numbers are much much higher and why do you think the government would want to downplay the numbers when we should not have the government of ecuador again it has never ever been transparent this is not a government not for in transparency quite the opposite isn't gone and it's not for ease of for his inability that their citizens the truth about election results they're about resources that he can see how about just just in you know soul we cannot it's the only government the government because in other the damage done here is is unsurmountable and it's psychological them into libya it's huge you know so that they have no interest in doing that it will deter. and your calling for an investigation. well one would hope that the following blast plan this there would be
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a military of defense or someone with common save clear we know from census data for me that those answers do that then we have x. amount of people in the year when it's only a member in this is war and we fear this is how many people feel we have lost that has been one would hope that somebody would come and say not the sort of. hillary that went off here in this pics and the lingering effect is why so you hope that their information is forthcoming from the government one would hope to go and say ok we know x. amount of families have lost just this money i was looking at pictures of kids joint training that ended up in. the ground a couple of priests and nuns then end up in. kindergartens and hopeless and because they have lost their parents or somebody needs to be accounting for that not that it's not happening so we definitely an investigation not so on one should
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investigate possible and the other thing that is. carry over the years the amount of prayer they have indulged in people's lands and peoples houses then the government is now finally going around it call it doing what i believe. just from a sit com but there's a couple things that you know you need to not. is there a danger of any of these prayers my spirits blood and any lingering effects from the dust settling from the blast there when all of what you see is an expect right to alekhine territorial gain and human rights lawyer thank you for speaking to us. let's now check in on some other stories making news across the continent now u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has described the violence in ethiopia as tea
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growing region as ethnic cleansing and called for the withdrawal of eritrean troops washington's most senior diplomat calls for a reconciliation process to restore peace thousands of civilians have been killed since war broke out in november. ivory coast is mourning the death of its prime minister who died in a hospital in germany after a battle with cancer amid back yoko played a key role as a mediator during the country's civil war in the early 2000 he was considered a possible successor to president alassane ouattara. one of guinea b. cells most prominent journalists says he was abducted and beaten by 4 unknown attackers on tuesday until a new alley silva who's a regular critic of the government revealed his injuries after being given medical treatment human rights campaigners are calling for an investigation into his assault now where is he it's been nearly 2 weeks
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since tanzania's president john mughal fully was last seen in public his absence has prompted speculation both at home and abroad opposition politicians are demanding the government lift the lid on the president's condition and this suggesting mughal fully might not even be in the country. let's go to our correspondent edith kemeny in nairobi kenya it is good to see you what are activists and the media reporting about mr magoo foley's whereabouts and his well being. well i wouldn't exactly call it reporting i would say basically speculating and all this really started with to do so the opposition leader when he went on twitter and demanded really to know where the president has been because he hasn't been cited publicly since february 27th now that's on its own is not unusual but because he also missed some critical meetings such as heads of state east
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african community meeting the questions were being raised also noting that he wasn't present during his sunday services which as we know michael for years a very devout christian people started asking a lot of questions and it's because to me so now suggested that he might be ill and in nairobi that's where the flurry of rumors erupted from with some suggesting that yes he might be actually in a ruby and secondly that it could be because of complications due to kobe and. so if people are speculating what then is tons and government's response or as you say they're saying he could be in kenya or was kenya also saying surprisingly there hasn't been any statement either refuting or acknowledging this at least not an official one from the tasmanian government the closest i've come to a quote or fishel communication was the minister of information mr innocent. and he basically was urging members of the public as well as the media to not listen to rumors of what he was saying that any official communication will come
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from official parties which of these words is are we still don't know yet but still no clear word on whether or not this is true or false. and why is this causing such a frenzy. well for starters if you have huge implications for president for you particularly among his loyalists because he has insisted from the very beginning of this pandemic that komen simply doesn't exist in tanzania and for the large part to his supporters have believed him in fact they've been through things like scenes made out of hugs in order to prevent this they've also gone for prayers and even recently most fully appeared in public together with some of his officials holding a drink which reported could cure this virus but of course in neighboring zanzibar which is a semi autonomous state this saying that the story is completely different to the 1st vice president's there passed away with what appears to be covert related complications on the potty insists that there is covert diskin money our
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correspondent speaking to us from nairobi thank you well that's it for now be sure to check out all the stories on d.w. dot com for slash africa or facebook and twitter we'll leave you with these images from south africa of health workers on the front line against covert 19 year since the world health organization declared a global pandemic we'll see you next time by phone now.
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drama series continues only because those are available online the course you can share and discuss on w africa's facebook page and other social media platforms a crime fighter to me and now. to cut. one year since the declaration of a global pandemic while a 3rd wave looms europe's vaccination efforts are a mixed bag johnson and johnson gets the green light while some countries here suspend use of astra zeneca as a vaccine. and to another song or a milestone on the 10th anniversary of the fukushima disaster japan stillborns those who were lost we look at how the disaster change the world view of nuclear
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power or did. this is the w. business i'm joined on in berlin happy you can join us the european medicines agency has approved the use of the johnson and johnson single shot colvin 19 vaccine the job is the 4th one so far cleared by europe's regulator it's hoped adding j.n.j. will help accelerate the sluggish pace of vaccinations maize said the vaccine is 67 percent effective 2 weeks after inoculation however it's not clear how much of the job the e.u. is getting the drug maker has told the e.u. before that it is facing supply issues that may slow plants to send all of the promised 55000000 doses in the 2nd quarter our financial correspondent joins us now and seeing as europe really needs those vaccines what more can you tell us about j. and j. supply and our likelihood of getting it. yeah i've seen reports that
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there might be some issues with some ingredients that johnson and johnson is not getting so it's the supply chains that obviously are causing some trouble we've heard similar stories from other industries too if you think about the semiconductor industry for instance so that really seems to be the issue with johnson and johnson if i see that correctly it might still be possible that by the end of june maybe those 55000000 doses might be delivered to the european union just recently johnson and johnson and merck actually agreed that the competitors so merck is some helping johnson and johnson to produce the vicar scenes or what you need to actually get the vaccine send in the arm and the arms off of people but that doesn't really help if you don't have the necessary ingredient so that's really it seems to be at the core and then maybe one more word in the us there
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might be a pro you achieved to get the vaccine to americans 1st and we have heard from the u.s. government once they have enough or too many big scenes here then they might also start to export an america 1st strategy for vaccines now here in europe yang's astra zeneca is running into some problems denmark iceland and norway suspended as to seneca vaccinations over potential blood clot concerns that's also not approved in the us do we know why. well i mean i could imagine that when the u.s. do see those reports that there might be actually some site the fix was to fix scene some so that the united states is hesitant to approve this vaccination and then on top of it why should america rush to approve astra zeneca in the united states we basically have enough of it seen so there are all told the reports that actually by june by mid or end of june there might be we might have the capacity to
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fix the nation's to 400000000 americans in their own use 330000000 americans so there really seems to be enough mixi in here in the united states and no real need to rush it to get the astra zeneca approved in the united states the stock by the way from a stress any cow that also gets traded at the new york stock exchange was a down 2 percent or nothing to a dramatic and in the thursday session america has enough vaccines that must be nice our financial correspondent yes quarter there in new york for us. online retailer coupon considered south korea's answer to amazon has raised about $4600000000.00 from its initial public offering making it the biggest i.p.o. in the in the u.s. this year shares rose over 60 percent in the 1st few minutes of trading successful offering kongs as investors flock to technology companies that have benefited during the cold in 1900 that. it was the largest initial public offering from an asian company since ali baba went public 7 years ago kupang had priced
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$130000000.00 shares in the i.p.o. at $35.00 each but investors were in a bullish mood and sent the stocks soaring 81 percent to open at 6350 on the new york exchange. kupang operates an online marketplace that sells everything from fresh groceries to toys and runs a food delivery app as well founded in 2010 by korean american billionaire boehm silk kupang rose to prominence after launching its guaranteed same day or next day delivery service in south korea since it opened up shop kupang as revenues have risen exponentially in 2016 the company brought in $1700000000.00 and since then has almost doubled its business every year in 2022 pangs net sales jumped 91 percent year on year to $12000000000.00 couponing spectacular debut further
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bolsters the recent fortunes of soft banks vision fund which owns around 35 percent of kupang goldman sachs ellen and co j.p. morgan and citi group are the lead underwriters for kupang as i.p.o. which is shaping up to be the biggest in the united states since went public 2 years ago. now on this day 10 years ago a tsunami and earthquake hit japan's fukushima nuclear plant triggering the worst atomic disaster since chernobyl. earlier today japan held a minute's silence to mark the decade since the natural disasters and the following meltdown and for now ruhi to an empress must sokal both took part in the memorial event in 201118000 people died as a result of the quake tens of thousands more are still an able to return to their homes near the fukushima nuclear site. the accident sent ripples
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all over the world in germany it led to a decision to phase out nuclear power elsewhere however the at the tight for atomic energy has increased over the last few years when it comes to nuclear reactors the united states leads the way u.s. president joe biden sees atomic power as a key part of fighting climate change friends comes in 2nd the german there wants to modernize older plants next on the lists are china and russia and even in japan where the consequences of the fukushima disaster are still painfully apparent nuclear power appears to be there to stay earlier we spoke to. gucci he's a professor for international political economy at k u university's graduate school of cysts of system design and management in tokyo he was also a special advisor to the cabinet of former prime minister shinzo body here's what he had to say japanese energy. could not go green without
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using the nuclear power japanese terrain japanese geographic uniqueness makes it a little bit hard compared to other countries which have large plane lands to have solar power wind power and so on so thermal power may be one source of energy at any rate by the bottom line is you have to take advantage of the nuclear power plant with maximum safety and reassured. now to some of the other global business stories making news diamond sales plummeted over the last year due to the pandemic industry rival you fell 15 percent to $64000000000.00 as consumers tighten their belt however sales in china and the u.s. are showing some signs of rebounding aircraft engine manufacturer rolls royce has posted a 4000000000 pound loss for 2020 thanks to the collapse in air travel and 29000 at
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pulled it off 583000000 pound profit but the british firm has had to cut 7000 jobs and raise cash from investors to stay aloft. now as a 3rd wave of the pandemic looms over europe analysts say that recovery here is going to live behind the u.s. is rebound by at least a year in a bid to keep the gears grinding the european central bank said today it would step up support measures for eurozone economies take a look. some regions in europe may be relaxing pandemic restrictions and even allowing limited shopping but the pandemic still has europe firmly in its grip the european central bank is still on high alert it's leaving the key interest rate unchanged at the historic low of 0 percent and accelerating its pandemic emergency purchase program we will continue to conduct net asset purchases under the pandemic emergency purchase program with
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a total envelope of $1800000000000.00 euros until at least the end of march 22 and in any case until the governing council charges but the koran the virus crisis phase is over. europe's monetary watchdogs want to keep the financing conditions favorable for the 19 euro zone countries. our financial correspondent chelsea delaney sent us this analysis. the main message from today's meeting is that they remain very committed to keeping borrowing costs low across the euro zone they say they will significantly increase their purchases of bonds and the coming months and that should help keep borrowing costs for companies for governments for households quite low thereby boosting spending and economic growth for countries across the eurozone this comes after we saw a bond yields across the world including here in europe really start to spike over
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the past couple of weeks investors are now looking forward and anticipating higher inflation higher pricing pressures as the economy start to reopen around the world saying that's not what they want to see right now this tightening in financial conditions especially now that countries here in europe are starting to see 3rd waves of coronavirus and factions as well as slow vaccine roll out the e.c.b. is saying that now is really the time to double down on stimulus. and finally the rise of the internet has spent fewer people heading to their local bookstore over the last couple of decades that has also been the case in china but one extraordinary chain is bucking that trend. you'd be forgiven for thinking you had walked into a cathedral where the national these paperback palaces have been popping up in cities all over china the architect says they're a celebration of the beauty of books in a country where the volumes available are tightly controlled. and that's it from us
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thanks for watching. 3 d. . counts for us and for our planet. global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make see the screamer how can we protect habitats what to do with all our waste. we can make a difference by choosing smart new solutions overstrained said in our way see above
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the ideas fundamental series of games moving through thousands on d. w. and online. more than 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction boom. with christianity firmly established there is a greater demand for houses of worship. and both religious and secular leaders are eager to display their power so churches become palaces. the race began who can create the tallest biggest most beautiful structure. stone masons builders and architects compete with each other to build a good projects. this is how
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massive churches with towers that pierced the clouds like skyscrapers are created a. contest of the cathedral starts to feel 12th on d w. going inside protests against a man called. last dictator a new documentary film shows the courage of a group of actors risking their freedom to speak out against bellaver says leader alex and. that story later on arts and culture and. from across the world at the moment. why filmmakers around the world want to work with lebanese born cinematographer christopher. but 1st an
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exhibition years in the making and months in waiting finally opens the works by artist are monumental both in size and in subjects q 4 often deals with the dark chapters of german history as critics like to say his work is too dramatic even to big well now people can judge for themselves the exhibition in the city of modern home is now open by appointment under germany's newly eased coronavirus restrictions. 60000000 piece pressed into lead a play on the german term for being accounting this was a reaction to germany census in the late 1980 s. it's a protest against the collection and storage of people's personal information a topic that's still timely.

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