your story you are trying all with understand this new culture. you are not the visitor of yes you want to become citizens. in 4 migrants your platform for reliable information. a major shift for the geek economy starts paying minimum wage holiday pay and pensions follows a long legal battle over the right hailing companies treatment of its drivers also coming up beijing cracks down on major tech companies accusing them of one a political hay dia we talk to our correspondent in taipei to find out more. welcome to the w. business i want to jensen will end but to have you with us starting today right hailing will treat its $70000.00 drivers in britain as workers instead of contract

minimum wage paid holidays all include it the move follows litigation and a recent loss for the company in the british supreme court. it was the day this model came to a sudden stop driver celebrating victory over the right hailing platform at the u.k. top court last month after judges ruled that bar must provide workers' rights to thousands of drivers. i'm just so delighted thrilled and relieved but the state has a right and we've got the right touch. no one has implemented that ruling offering to pay minimum wage holiday pay and pension contributions today is an important day for all drivers in the u.k. and the reason for that is because from today any driver who on the platform and

that's over $70000.00 drivers in total will be able to be paid for holiday time they'll be enrolled in a pension and they'll be able to earn at least a national living wage as a floor and not a ceiling. critics however say the benefits are based on time driver spend paired with a customer not time spent waiting for work despite this from the court the growth would also owns the funding of employment. the purposes the legislation the claimants working turn was not limited. to periods when they were actually driving us interests but estimates it also included any period when the group was locked into view in the room. analysts say the ruling could have huge ramifications for the exploding gag economy not just drivers but cyclists too not just the u.k.

but farther afield as governments wrestle with the distinction between workers and contractors. for now though it could be taking a trip back to court soon over claims its new changes still don't comply with employment law. well hopefully we will get james for our use of just when the report for mobile driver who brought that legal case on the line in just a moment in the meantime the e.u. is also looking at bringing in regulations to support geek economy workers so could the development in britain spill over to europe let's bring in our business correspondent continent of booze and. cause. i'm just telling you that about one in 10 people in the e.u. works in the good economy as you know the e.u. wants to improve their lives how significant could this development in the u.k. be for the e.u. . it's very significant you know i have the total number for you 24000000 europeans at least are working or work in the economy for at least

3000000 among them the income from these jobs is the only source of income so for them it's very. important and as we just heard not only for people working for ride hayling services like but also food delivery services in a number of court cases in europe for example in italy in spain but many more countries there are court cases pending. judges have been very underling to grant the companies any exceptions from the way how the workers are seen and what kind of privileges they should get or what kind of protection they should get also of course next to the question of whether or not a person should be seen as an employee of this other question becomes more and more important when are geek workers actually at work when they log into the app or when they drive around passengers and when they drive around food deliveries for example

this question is going to become more and more crucial and obviously in the case in the u.k. . what wanted to be quick by accepting this compromise before a court would say hey you have to grant people who are working for you payments also when they're waiting in the car with looking for jobs all right so there are still questions that certainly was in europe need to be clarified not glisten thank you so much and now to some of the other global business stories making news. b.m.w. says it expects profits to grow significantly this year as the economy recovers from the pandemic the german luxury car maker says it's speeding up its transition to electric vehicles despite lockdowns 2020 and its strong thanks to growing sales in china for. new numbers show tesla is spending a 5800000000 euros to build its factory near lynn betts according to documents obtained by german public t.v.

does last 1st plant in europe is set to open in july and will make up to $500000.00 vehicles per year. germany's economy is set to grow by 3 point one percent this year the council of economic experts has slightly lowered its forecast for 2021 despite the ongoing coronavirus prices industrial production has been picking up with demand for german goods rising. and china as well why said it plans to license its 5 g. technology to smartphone makers like apple and samsung collecting royalties could become a lucrative revenue stream for who away it comes as many western countries some who are way over fears its equipment could be used for spying. for. the chinese market regulator is on the warpath in its sights the country's largest tech companies accused of running monopolies authorities have

a slack huge fines on at least a dozen companies in recent months alleging they broke monopoly rules among them e-commerce platform alibaba gaming company 10 cent shopping side nature when android hailing for d.d. mobility wiping billions of them markets values now the intensified to scrutiny has rattled confidence in the hang seng tech index it's down 22 percent in the past month as investors flate. so so high on in taipei what problem the chinese government has with those tech companies. beijing as long being concerned about the influence these tech companies have over the financial sector by this time is a bit different chinese president xi jinping directly code on the regulators to step up their crackdown on these companies so that brought this issue to a totally different level and there are different ways for him to do it to deal with the end group china may require to behave more like

a traditional bank instead of the tech company and for ali baba and 10 cent their media accepts like south china morning post chinese twitter wave pool and other media presence are seen through us through the chinese communist party and it's very powerful propaganda parrot so the chinese government will want the big companies to sell them but where will that leave companies like 10 centimeters wiped out for something thomas of money from their market value it is china's biggest take company one of the biggest ones certainly with a 1000000000 users on its reach it messaging platform it's huge what's going to happen to it tends that is a bit different and again in as one of its most profitable businesses. it also has investment in music and movies so compare with that and group is less aggressive in our life financial services so the tighter financial regulation is less that is dating for a 10 cent then 4 and group it may be required to set up

a separate holding companies but it will survive. investors don't like too much state intervention could backfire i mean will those companies simply leave. or is the 1st time tech companies have faced regulatory backlash and china one way to understand is that beijing is going to restrain these big companies but not to ruin their businesses space and still want them to be seen as viable invest the investment vehicles for global financial markets and also expect them to be able to compete with the u.s. companies by for 3 innovation so these companies will still thrive but under supervision right suits in taipei they think you so much for that going back to the story of good economy because precarious work is not only to be

found there in italy 70 percent of all women work in sectors that after been hardest hit by the coronavirus lock down and those sick this tend to be the ones in which contracts can easily be terminated. when valeri had constanza go shopping for her family she has to watch every penny she can spend money on groceries the way she used to last year. i can't buy expensive things i used to buy salmon for example to make avocado when sam sandwiches there's no way now. in public the 41 year old worked for years as a freelance tour manager she guided tours hts and planned their travel for them now tourism is gone and she's unemployed. and i did my suitcase was always open just a quick change and then back out again it's gone from one extreme to the other from constant movement to complete standstill. that full time

employees can't be fired in italy during the coronavirus crisis but the rule doesn't apply to women like the area who work freelance or with a temporary contract the situation for women on italy's labor market is getting even worse. than the petition 70 percent of all women in italy work in precisely those sectors that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus lockdown ceo's hotels and restaurants tourism and housekeeping and all these sectors are the ones in which contracts can easily be terminated without any consequences that are gaza faith or particularly considering italy's government knows it needs to get women into the workforce if the economy is to grow sustainably but over 2 thirds of those losing their jobs are women here at the aid organizations of a mama in rome they also feel the consequences the number of families they provide with food donations has quadrupled in the past year. the woman who. you know i mean

if the mother loses her job or the father loses his. sin if i mean it plunges families who are on the borderline between poverty and normality into the abyss of money there are. a lot of italy's government has announced it wants to improve prospects for women on the job market something that's more necessary than ever before. and a theme park in china has opened to what it's calling the world's 1st polar bear hotel it has 21 rooms that offer round the clock views of polar bears a spokeswoman said it is already fully booked at rates that can reach $350.00 u.s. dollars a night conservationists have been quick to criticize the business saying polar bears belong in the wild not in hotels. and here's a quick reminder of the top story we're following. right haley started treating it

$70000.00 drivers in britain as workers instead of contractors this fall a supreme court ruling that means that drivers can now receive minimum wage paid holiday and even pensions it's unclear what this means for operations in other countries. and to business update here in detail the you at this hour for me of the team thanks for watching state. of. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. children to come to terms. one giant trouble him and maneuver it in on the scene now.

even denied in a very thin blue led if you leave town feeling. how will climate change affect us and our children come. w dot com slash water. the measures meant to protect us from the coronavirus aren't always inclusive. take social distancing not at all easy and sometimes impossible to adhere to for people with disabilities. roughly one in 6 people have already experience a form of disability. must make communication hard for the hearing impaired like this you. a man in uganda who otherwise relies on lip reading.

at coffee houses just sore is the 1st sign language in the cafe uganda's capital kampala indira coffee says it wants to create employment for the deaf community with the ultimate goal of raising awareness for this marginalized group of people especially during these even tougher times of the pandemic. as a customer. is dave so he uses sign language to communicate he's worked as a barista at this coffee shop in kampala. when i make good coffee and i serve the customers order perfectly and i get a positive feedback that makes me really happy especially if it comes from different customers. graduated from university 3 years ago but since then he's had real difficulty finding a job uganda has one of the world's highest youth unemployment rates

resources that being dave makes it even worse. i would apply for jobs write letters send evils and all of that but whenever i mention that i was deaf they became afraid of working with me in the end they wouldn't give a chance they wouldn't hire me. as workmates had left too but that doesn't stop them from offering great service to their customers and by employing them the owner of the company wants to help break it down stereotypes i guess the big. we wanted to inspire the you have a companies and their brands out there to employ different people because we are capable and want to use these people here as role more doors. according to official feig as uganda has 1800000 different people but is about 3 percent

of the total population activists see this number could be high yeah. sees that if people. taken into account by the government he cites the recent distribution of free fish most cities did you know to put into their needs into bericht consideration. on advisors the international disability alliance and joins us from new york when it comes to covert 19 aap people with disabilities more vulnerable. definitely yes 1st of all 80 percent of persons but disability all over the world live in poverty and poverty means they have difficulty is accessing their very basic things required to protect themselves against covenanting for many of them. social distancing is really not feasible thank you madge and i am

a blind woman myself and how can i make sure that i am 6 feet away from people in a supermarket if i go shopping or how can i get help from people to cross very busy in accessible straight new york. so that's it like so because of that studies have shown that persons that disabilities are much more of all of all especially for example persons down syndrome are up to 60 time more likely to die because of that 90 why is that in the in that case why is that. the reason is that they have nearly the underlying health condition and because of their all like their condition of the central and because of the lack of access to information because old information really relevant to how to protect yourself against coverage 19 is not really provide it in a format that they can access it should be plain language for persons bit down

syndrome should be in sign language for those who are death captioning should be out a little but none of these are really provide it so they don't learn how to protect themselves and if cash uncovered nineteen's purses the disabilities are more likely to experience more serious symptoms and lose their lives well it's like so much in this crisis things have been thought through to the end have they had how inclusive would you say coronavirus restrictions have been for people with disabilities. well not really we had cases where example of the uganda that a deaf person boss shot by the police just because he didn't hear that there was a curfew. we have cases that essential services have been decided without the being you know considering the situation of persons the disability is that for example fixing your real chair or your hearing aid is considered an essential service so these measures have been taken proper consideration of persons the

disability and if you ask me why i would tell you because they didn't invite persons a disability and or presented to organizations are on the table then they were talking about. coverage 19 restrictions if they had some of us are on the table the would have told them what to do and what not to do to include us sure what what about the when the rollout of vaccines were those groups invited to the table to advise on making. that at least more inclusive. well not in many countries in some countries we do have inclusion and here we are asking for prioritizing persons that disability and accessing vaccination because we are in higher risk groups as i explained so if rolling out of the vaccine should happen on the basis of at risk we are experiencing more risk should we should prioritize and sometime

trees pierces the disability have done successful advocacy not 100 percent successful but at least they have achieved some priority but in many countries we have been left out from vaccination what about women with disabilities how have they been treated during this pandemic. well i don't think with the difficulty imagine because imagine you're living as a woman you're living as a woman with disability in poverty you're already experiencing a lot of barriers and then such a situation like a pandemic happens your defers to be less alt so you have to have cases that women with disabilities could not access. their sexual and reproductive rights. to alliance and have you is and couldn't complain because they were relying on family members to give support and of course then you are relying on someone for support

we don't any monitoring it puts you in a situation of being dollar for the games. and fortune. you oversee many countries and receive reports from various regions any good examples of inclusion joining the pandemic. yes there have been examples for example in some time trees they have started broadcasting at public briefings at all cobbett 19 in sign language which means that if persons can also access it and sometimes trees social protection schemes have been introduced to provide additional support for persons with disabilities and their family members. and together we are allies the national disability and development cost $30.00 m. and we as the alliance of organizations all persons for disability have introduced a few campaigns since the pandemic hit and we have managed to gain some success in

making the global. fight against coverage 19 more disability inclusive for example health organization has started to provide captioning in their public briefings which means that those who cannot follow the audio can rate what is being set but still i mean a long way to go good to hear at least that there are some inroads being made to see if she advises the international disability alliance thank you very much for being on the show today european medicines agency says there's no indication that astra zeneca is corona virus vaccine is the cause of reported blood clots it says the benefits of the vaccine continue to outweigh the risks the regulator adds that the blood clot events very brain but need to be evaluated several countries have suspended the rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine following reports that people who received the job in denmark and norway developed blood clots. let's get you over to our science correspondent now derek williams he's been looking at the questions

you've been sending us on how you tube channel. how long can fact seem side effects last conforte indicate it's working. i want to leave all the speculation about blood clotting and the astra zeneca vaccine behind for a minute and focus on what we know for certain about common minor side the facts reported in connection with covert vaccines pretty much all of the ones approved so far in various parts of the world appear to be pretty react to janick which means they regularly cause mild side effects like like pain and swelling at the injection site as well as things like like fatigue headache fever chills or aching joints the single shot johnson and johnson back seen appears to cause

those effects somewhat less often in 2 dose m.r.i. they vaccines they seem to occur more commonly after the 2nd dose while the opposite seems to hold true for the astra zeneca vaccine. another point worth mentioning is that younger people seem to react more often and more powerfully than the elderly it's thought that's because they have more responsive immune systems authorities say the symptoms can last a few days but in most of the firsthand reports that i read they subsided within 36 hours the good news is that side effects while unpleasant are actually a sign that the vaccine is the doing what it's supposed to do which is laying the groundwork for an immune response so the. if you are infected with the virus your

body can get to work straight away wiping hell out personally and more than happy to experience a day or 2 of discomfort if i know that i'll be protected afterwards from a potentially life threatening case of tobit 19 that sounds like a really great deal to me and with terry thanks for watching. the be. good.

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reefs on kenya's coast and are disappearing in the no morning range of marine conservationists are trying to stay ahead of the decay and preserve what's left. they are counting on the support of local fishermen. kolkata furka. 90 minutes on. housing a view of the world. where i come from but over that's good to cisco it's just like with chinese food that's a measure of where i am as a bilious reminds me of home after decades of living in germany china's food is one of the things i miss the most but better taking

a step back and i see things i need to differentiate knowledge then affords a person as american nations that exist to add the part of the order haven't been implemented in china that's new for a lot of chinese people wondering if they're going to say it but if you have the right to learn all that is this is their job just as a mom how i see it end up this is why i love my job because i tired to do it exactly an hour a day my name is out into it and i work at g.w. . 2.

this is d.w. news live from berlin the hughes medical regulator tells governments to keep using astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine the head of the european medicines agency says the benefits outweigh the risks of side effects an investigation continues into reports that the vaccine could billings to rare blood clot is also coming on u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken arrives in south korea as washington tries to get asian allies on side in the face of growing chinese influence.