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to have you with us google has announced plans to invest $7000000000.00 on new offices and data centers across the u.s. saying it wants to be part of the nation's economic recovery c.e.o.'s and darpa chive made the announcement in a blog post it's the latest signal that tech firms like more traditional corporations ciro working as a necessity of the pandemic and not a long term strategy google now expects employees will return to offices in the fall but has said they'll still be allowed to work 2 days a week at home. and here's what c.e.o. p. chaya had to say about the importance of being at the office coming together in person to collaborate and build community is core to google's culture he said and it will be an important part of our future. and let's go over to our financial correspondent. in new york and korda for more

yes that seems like a pretty clear signal there from google's boss if you want to go up you probably need to be in the office what about this future of remote work that we all talked about about a year ago. now well i mean quite obviously working from an office says not entirely vanished and if you look at the tech companies that's interesting google was one of the 1st big tech firms a year ago or in the summer to tell their employees they can work from home at least for a year if not longer and all of their one of the 1st big tech firms to even invest into office work or well especially the big tech companies they have been the winners from the pen demick sold they have the money to invest and then also if you look at commercial real estate prices they have dropped quite a bit so it might be a good opportunity actually to get those spaces so what i believe we might see is some kind of a hybrid that some people will come back to work some will work from or maybe

a 23 days a week and then come to the office but having that said before the carmaker just on wednesday actually told the 30000 global employees who are working remotely they can continue to work so it still won't be fully back to where we were before the pandemic i guess some kind of a hybrid model that's going to be the new norm but then also especially here in the united states is a service industry so you have person to person business and for those people it's not even a question if they're working from home they actually have to go out if they want to or not you know what about there in manhattan where you are in the financial district are you seeing people start to return to the office as vaccinations are picking up. yeah i mean people do come back to the offices but actually just in very small groups and i guess one of the biggest best indicators is if you look in the subways before the pandemic on an average weekday you had about 5 and a half 1000000 riders each day and now we are at about $2000000.00 so that's much

better than what we've seen let's say a year ago but it's far away from those highs that the saw before and then also if you look at a lot of offices there's still closed when i go up to my office the elevators are empty usually there are lines in the morning and now you're basically the only person in new york it will take quite some time to really go back to the levels where it's been before and that's also hurting business of just talk to someone yesterday who used to work in a sushi place in grand central and that place had to shut down because all the lunch people they have not returned to the city and so finally the place had to shut for good all right yes hoard it in new york thank you so much. is that a biden bump or hopes for economic recovery a new survey by the american chamber of commerce in germany shows businesses in both countries have a more positive outlook about trade compared to last year the group's members said

they wanted president biden to focus on trade and climate issues with international partners a survey also found that u.s. companies in germany had weathered the economic impact of covert better than german companies in the u.s. so most men it is vice president of the american chamber of commerce in germany good to have you on the show in many ways this outlook this year was bound to be more positive than the one from last year i would think where you had the big beginning of the pandemic and then you had of course an election year with trump still being a wild card are there any surprises in this outlook. yeah there are some so i think all our members from m.g.m. germany looking positively into the new relationship with the buying that ministration and they think and that should not be a surprise there should be a more reliable. bullet political relationship especially when we're talking about a trade relationship which our members look at focus more than anything else on the

other hand there is a bet surprise and that is since 92018 when the u.s. company set of germany is 1001 percent of the u.s. companies that germany is a good of very good location not only 63 percent said that so we lost 10 percent every year so i think there is really a call for action for the german government and the new german administration to do something but there is a window of a unity what's behind that loss. there that is say the taxation that is digital infrastructure that is cost of energy and cost of labor so how has a different government began to resolve some of those are $1.00 of the most critical. in my opinion and i think in the opinion of our members it is the digital infrastructure so there is too much paperwork no easy way to

transmit data there's no standard between the e.u. or germany to transmit data so for all new businesses we need reliable and good standard to stansfield data and have a good interest option and that is not yet given we need investments here in germany in that area small you mention the trade tensions of course seem to have eased we saw the setting aside of those punitive tariffs to the boeing airbus to spirits at the same time it doesn't seem like the 2 sides are getting any closer to the beginning of a trade deal what's the outlook there i wouldn't expect it to be. one and all trait agreements coming now because we have we will have a new administration in autumn so i think there are unfortunately we have a standstill for a period of time and we need small signals and working and partly working with the

e.u. where the e.u. can say we will not have that terrorists in the next month we will not increase terrorists so that is a good positive signal to the u.s. administration writes among men a vice president of the american chamber of commerce in germany thank you so much thank you stephen was a pleasure now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. and we begin with a growing point of contention in transatlantic relations u.s. government has warned workers and companies involved in the north stream to pipeline and to live or russian gas to germany to abandon their work immediately or face sanctions u.s. has said the project gives russia too much leverage in europe. air france is testing a digital health pass in the form of a q.r. code on a number of flights from paris to guadalupe martinique and the u.s. one scan the certificate allows officials to verify a negative covert test and the flight information the trial will run for

a month. or frankfurt is again among the world's top 10 financial hubs thanks to brags that in the ranking of the global financial centers index frankfurt is the 9th place of cirque paris and luxembourg another brags that when or at least in the financial sector is amsterdam. faisal reports for them sometimes new business district so he does he's doing enough to fin to companies started relocating from the u.k. last year trade is now falling in their wake. fortunately the united kingdom has left the european union and therefore is not able to to to continue business on the same way out of the european market as they were before and now amsterdam is taking over the parts that are specifically related to 2 trading this is the oldest stucky change in the world through a number of merges over the last years it turned into europe next it has now taken

the 1st price share trading from the city of london in december 2020 london had over $17000000000.00 trades per day and amsterdam $2600000000.00. this picture changed dramatically in generally 21 amsterdam saw a steep rise with a 4 fold increase in trade dealing more than 9000000000 shares but has this huge amount of trade coming from london to a state that all depends on equivalence being granted renault at the moments i think that jobs is not as i understand it also from regulators that. very big that that will happen. so yeah in the meantime i think of course we should as a netherlands stay competitive also in our regulatory climate dutch traders fear the introduction of the financial transaction tax and other european regulation and of course the market here might become more fragmented i think we have of quite

a good starting position barrister's more focus on our own banks. i think frankfurt also has a good good starting position but let's let's see how that develops but can amsterdam really topple london as the leading financial market amsterdam is good at in specific knishes and so for example high frequency trading payment systems but of course it's a much smaller and i think what does well really important for the financial industry it's a concentration of human capital and mind you if bracks it has really a bad effect on the u.k. u.k. economy and that will of course you know that will be a metaphor of yes then you might well see shift or financial industry also amorphous financial industry too was the continent is still at the moment the mood and amsterdam's financial markets is altogether rather bullish. that's it for me

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have you mike a junior welcome to the program tributes have been pouring in from world leaders mourns the death of president john michael fully his aides say the 61 year old died of heart failure but tanzania's main opposition leader out to lisa alleges that his death was a result of the cone of virus fully howden been seen in public for several weeks and he had previously played down the risk of covert 19. many had been speculating that tanzania's president john mega fully was in bad health because he'd been absent from public life a nearly 3 weeks. it was vice president some e a saloon who the woman who will replace him who confirmed to make a fully would not return. to moti will you come quick. futile arrangements have been made. and you will be notified and. our

country shall be you know mourning period of 14 days. when the flags fly at half mast and. mega fully suffered heart complications for over 10 years the popular leader was elected in 2015 and made a name for himself as a corruption busting man of the people he support as expressed dismay at his day. job i feel very sad and i am suffering because we had our leader our president we loved him and he loved us. hit us hard the whole of tanzania as a nation has been hit hard but for me personally i am deeply affected. it was only last year that magath really was reelected after the polls opposition figures accused him of cracking down on dissenting voices most recent criticism was focused

on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic he drastically downplayed the effects of the virus calling on people to use prayer instead of masks. in all this government no one wears a mask including me. proves there is no corona virus and god loves this nation nothing is impossible for god. to these do one more obvious political wishes will be granted that some media salute tanzania's 1st female vice president will become the nation's 1st female president to talk more about those we are joined by a child journalist in tanzania. charles thanks for joining as you've been in touch with people on the ground what are the mixed reactions to his death. thank you eddie 1st of 4000000 people are mourning the death of president john emotionally

and the majority of the majority of gamers. are talking over. this statement that was announced yesterday by the place president of tanzania dr michael fully was 1st taken to the hospital on the 6th of march so all of. those rumors that were previously creating a social media and fully what was it was. the government his for the all time dismissed accusations so many people saying why was the government tied in truth about he's his health status so some of the people saying that maybe the government will provide enough it's about that well you know after that monthly maybe the acceptance of the news will be will be. maybe not that much that like what happened yesterday is not what you really think because that's really what my next question was going to be because tanzanians had the right to know about the health condition so really why wasn't the government open about it

until his passing. we cannot tell what made the government remain quiet about health for them to join him i'm fully because although he does especially those top leaders like i mean it's of towns and yet to see much of you know a. few weeks ago i can say one week ago on friday he said he talked to president john emotionally and the president was healthy and continuing with he's well but later we are told the president was seen as. much to see a soul we cannot really tell what was behind it how you know he's information i mean. ok now what legacy house michael fully left behind both for his country and africa. in tanzania we say that mugs really left a legacy as an outstanding and

a president. especially by by punishing those who seem to to to to to. to be $99.00. we like those core of you does. morpheus who started. what we say the discipline in the government fully will be uninstalled he died of. an african east because of all the people died here. has never went abroad so he remained here in tanzania and saying he was. ruling the country while in the country so all the martyrs and times i was fighting them while in the country not going to travel i mean i wrote ok that's pretty interesting so what next how does tanzania move on from here according to the times identical situation when the

president is dying he has died the vice president who is. who is my son your son will be sworn in. not more not longer than 25. and 5 in 5 hours or so we are waiting to see you president. will be the 1st president of tanzania to i woman to lead the country and i think what we're waiting it out is will go through. you're waiting to see what her government will be in in the near future for your great inductees almost 5 years. so quickly before you go giles what kind of approach do you think governments will take in tackling the covert ones in pandemic. because of some yes aloha sun. she has been in the government since 2015 and also she

experienced that the face wave of calling 1000 in last year and of course the 2nd work that is believed to be this year. i know maybe she'll come up with a different approach because the. government that was led by because it's going to make a funny is its own unique approach compared to any country in the world like. to to use a local remedies especially stimulation maybe she'll bring about a mission to come to call this beautiful good 19 is there a sense that she could take it a bit more seriously i think she may take into consideration the seriousness of the disease because it has taken a lot of lives of people hinton's and the and the world at large maybe she will come up with approach that will be more serious will people i've already been. talking was then taken that he says just a moment i'm going to commit too many deaths. ok charles can be

a journalist in tanzania thanks for your time. now let's go meet a very dedicated woman who against all odds pushes for children to have a better chance in the central african republic for more than 20 years the country has been in constant conflicts in my charity of children has been left stranded deprived of education so the best must change says john at some t.v. . genet santelli wanted to help the children of the central african republic who because of ongoing war were missing out on education saw the restaurant owner decided to set up a school in be more in the eastern suburbs of the capital bangui. generate invest that one savings to get to school up and running and to make education available to those who would not have it otherwise she feels

a deep sense of responsibility towards the children even if they are not on. nevertheless she saw the border. she feels like. to see my mother used to run all kinds of businesses to provide for us she never went to school as such herself but what she did was so much more than just work hard for us my parents instilled values in me and my siblings we adopted them this is why we have to provide the basics for these children and the basics start with education education will enable the children to prepare for their future. and in doing so they will be preparing for the future of our country the central african republic. the central african republic one of the poorest systems in the world for over 30 years it has been plagued by on the raised and repeated wars schools suffer from

a lack of material on human resources on ensuring the children's ongoing education is extremely difficult due to insecurity. and precarious living conditions schools are closed in most parts of the country brings you know if you've been year old people who attends and it's who knows but even when it seems all hope he's lost a bit of future can still take shape i am i love that war and coronavirus forced us to flee from the democratic republic of congo and find refuge here we didn't go to school there but i feel good about this school it's my future i am determined to succeed in life i want to become a school principal i came to school to prepare for a future which will enable me to take care of my parents this by the pupils determination to study the survival of the school like so many of us in the central african republic depends entirely on the goodwill of individuals people like it months pregnant schoolteacher bernardin. most of these children here their parents

don't have money to pay for their tuition. even me i teach these children for free there are very few trained teachers in the country but once the children are in class i can't abandon them war has interrupted their education terribly they start to study then war breaks out so they return home later when the fighting stops they return to school here you will 2 have the children of the central african republic already so far from the years we've. been. in the region continues there will continue to be casualties. that's it for now we leave you with pictures from king goodwill as well a team in south africa where this 519 restrictions many came to bid farewell became passed away last week i found out about scenes so.

i'm sure that it was. in support of. a view. over. the degree of what. it was trying to get famous like a bunch of the clique because i wanted to see if germany would make the last few years have been quite override. and learned that moment when it comes to be as and

of course always look right in the eyes for a chance to have something new all the time i'm going on the grid i want to be in the news there are pros in their account but when you feed him off the building they're realizing just another way of living are you ready to meet with evan and 3rd me right just do it. coming up on arts and culture the art market takes a beating but one galleries crisis is another's opportunity and later on the show the artistry of florence's paper making families techniques that go back centuries . well it's a scary time to be an art dealer last year the global art market shrank by more than 20 percent but it also shifted with galleries closed due to the pandemic more and more collectors bought their art online and some galleries see that as an

opportunity like your. cronies is known internationally for his success as a nearly blind art dealer in other words someone who can overcome a challenge. after an almost 4 month absence visitors are finally allowed back at the your one current gallery in berlin despite the lock down the gallery says it's doing quite well. it was a very successful year we were able to develop new formats that allow us to sell in a cost neutral and c o 2 neutral way. for example this installation by japanese artist she hired was sold to a client in asia trade taking place almost exclusively digitally is not a problem for the busy gallery owner. the gallery website invite visitors to take 3 d. tours. alongside digital trade fair presentations there are also live chats

with artists. and. it's clear that the art world is becoming ever more digital social media for instance our 1st unique opportunity as you couldn't do the social media satisfies a need for the. exchange of ideas if you look at things like groups on the tele graham messaging app or the clubhouse audiotape chat room app but there is maybe a generational problem and innovation problem when it comes to organizers. so is the age of big international trade shows coming to an end sales plummeted last year the spring shows from 2021 have already been postponed organizers have had to improvise museums are also feeling the pinch especially in the u.s. sponsorship money is drying up some institutions have sold off or words to survive . hamburg collector how i can back off and displays works from his collection at

the hamburg. he used to do the rounds of the art fairs on the lookout for new works he's not a fan of virtual presentations. can look at 250 works like a string opposed i don't remember where something was better for our psyche myself there at that gallery i saw 2 works go back in 2 hours to see if that might be something and i look to see if other exhibitors have something from the same artist . taken back is a distinctly old school collector he knows the market like few others the gallery owners and artists he's built up a network over the years the click and collect mentality is not his world. maybe one day it will be like amazon online retail the artwork arrives and due to consumer protection you can send it back within 4 weeks but i'm still waiting for

that. things are also changing at auction houses on line auctions are now the norm but doesn't an auction without a crowded and electrified room lack something. i think that personal networks are more important to the seller. the bias and i would also say there's a generational aspect as collectors become younger they will be increasingly comfortable with digital communication and accept these channels as equaling. the art market is becoming more digital there's no going back on that even though it's also clear that the real world experience of art is irreplaceable. to w. reporter adrian kennedy's been following the art world shift online adrian last year more art was sold online than ever before you've been to

a few virtual exhibitions since the pandemic started what's your experience do you love them it's great that it enables you to take part in events all around the world from the comfort or the confinement of your home the technology is very advanced the stays it's really quite impressive. it's not just galleries that are doing this now a new study shows that at the height of the 1st of the 95 percent of all museums around the world were closed many of them focusing on going digital so that we can enjoy more online there's a systems out there but is it a substitute for the real thing the real visit to the sistine chapel well maybe not but it's a good way to feel connected for many people who are stuck with no alternative ok so still going around an empty virtual exhibition i mean it's also kind of

lonely i would imagine compared to going to a museum. just now it doesn't have to be i was. recently which was organized by the artist kim avignon each visit was present as and. you can see me that's not me there i am on the left there. graphic sufficient to talk to other people you can enjoy a class wine and it was actually a very moving experience has been very successful and every nuance next verney song party is on march 27th so maybe i'll see you that bobby the platypus ok so very recently one artist here is managed to break out of the isolation how's the pandemic affecting art production in general though well we visited the artist . cine in lean she obviously has

a lot of time on her hands because all her expressions have been cancelled she's trying to do some drawings but much of the arts is about the confrontation with the audience she does installations and here the interaction with the arts work in time and space is of vital importance also installations. the production involves people coming together and that's not possible now so she can't do it to work so you know i know you and i still prefer art experiences in the here and now and time space continuum thanks so much thank you. more culture news now james leviathan the longtime maestro of new york's metropolitan opera has died at age 77 line served as the mets chief conductor for more than 40 years he was one of classical music smoke respected figures until sexual abuse

allegations led the operative fire him and $28.00 team vine sued the met for defamation and received a $3500000.00 settlement his doctor confirms that he died earlier this month. officials in france are preparing to restore the by your tapestry the almost 1000 year old 70 meter a long embroidery tells the story of william the conqueror invasion of england in the year 1066 but restores say it also contains $24000.00 stains and $10000.00 holes france had promised to lend the iconic work to the u.k. next year but that's now looking unlikely. at a beach an england team of artists await the sands to create this 60 meter wide picture of an ethiopian girl carrying water the work is meant to raise awareness of how climate change is impacting people's access to water ahead of next week's world

water day the image took 4 hours to complete then the tide washed it away. while the italian city of florence gave birth to artistic geniuses such as leonardo da vinci and bought a charlie of course most of us can't afford to buy their paintings so another one of the city's legacies though is more affordable high quality decorative paper also along florentine tradition. the italian city of florence is the center of arts and culture it's also home to paper making tradition that dates back centuries from sheets and cards to book pages and binders handmade florentine paper. can still be found in a few places here these pay for is now called florentine pay. even if the caret or region is smog old pay for it's a very all technique of decorating paper. mario.

a family business now in its 6th generation. its florence's oldest marble paper maker and one of the few places where it's still handmade. mario also holds workshops on how to make marble paper i'm going to to make it to prepare the model paper so. just spreading some callers on today's jelly thing gelatine and step by step i will creates a pattern. the process is interrupted and time consuming with lots of attention paid to detail. from start to finish maria needs about 20 minutes to make one sheet of paper. for each new sheet she has to repeat the entire process using new colors . the end result

is always unique. this is quite different from the machine printed paper which is largely taken over here at the rusty paper making factory the company also specializes in foreign team designs but they've been using machines to print their paper since 1931. in this factory we bring that with all the machines as well. using old machine since last century but the renew it with the new technologies these printing machine can produce 20001500 sheets our. the process wasn't always so fast this is original press from the late 19th century could only print certain items one at

a time. and. this is the 1st machine and. the beginning of these company my grandfather on don't you know it will start the with these oppressor printing or some carts in the techniques for making decorative florentine paper may continue to evolve but the patterns remain steeped in history and tradition. and italy of course is also known as the birthplace of opera i'll leave you now with the opera francesca di do you mean by composer a cargo of tragic tale of love and betrayal about a woman in love with her brother in law hear it as a live stream premier by the door shut up or led by for now.

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