peon union and its demands for greater fantasists. we are standing on 27 feet and so it's always very easy for china in order to cause dissonance and rifts within the european decision making process. for example 70 plus 112 countries from the eastern european bloc as well as 5 that i actually not your members and china sit together in order to discuss business something i guess brussels doesn't read it like. to speed said the marquis tax sense and competitive disadvantage is china stresses its right to protect its industries in order to catch up with the west is it going to change i think china's own pace and i think the kind of control they want to maintain over their economy will only let let us have a small portion of the whole game so it's a serious problem with the market. and i don't see it becoming much easier frankly

. nevertheless business is flourishing for companies such as e.b.m. pops to tomas newman baggett is being rooted for his success in china with a new posting back to germany as global sales director. one thing i often complain about is how socially minded the germans up it can get in the way of ambitious people some of the rules go against you for wanting to get ahead in life your career or in how you invest but if anything goes wrong in life and to fix your health in particular which will happen at some stage it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg like in the united states the germans invented the social welfare system chance the reform bismarck set up the 1st welfare state in the modern industrial society with social welfare legislation that was back in 18 eighties imperial germany the system still going strong.

and i was one of the along with my name is who was our i'm 66 years old i trained as a stove fitter and i worked for 20 years. but now i'm retired and living in poverty so i get a pension of $321.00 euro's a month i want to show. we work hard carrying stuff up 5 floors and through 3 or 4 courtyards per house tearing out of them's retiling the new ones mixing grout i fitted the new ovens my back and my knees are totally destroyed no one takes that into account. because of its weight on the head so i was in a bad car accident in 2013. screws and 2 plates in my right leg absolutely so i

couldn't work my leg kept getting worse and they couldn't find me a job any more. here of course who you could get 120 meals a day in the course of the week we send out about 500 liters of stew to various social service centers since it's out of. here come out to a list. of people who come here are disadvantaged. people with low monthly incomes. who are struggling to get by. on diets of just like. in 20193200000 elderly people in germany were considered equal or in other words subsisting on less than 60 percent of the country's average monthly income less than 781. so having her for so

long or they might have been on low wages when they were working might have been jobless for long stretches most likely in the early nineties after reunification they might have switched jobs frequently these are all reasons for poverty in later life so i thought on whether this is absolute that i'm sorry it's a sad indictment of a country like germany that these food banks have almost become institutionalized. yar tell us we're now part of the system these services have become vital to keep poor people afloat and ensure that they can get by each month on dr b. admitted. hoover's hour and his wife elaine go grocery shopping once a week. leave because my view that we can't afford doesn't ask you what we're

99 cents of i'll go in let's get it. or come up with. the very public of course publicly slice the salami for $0.99 and feel not 400 grams it's really tasty 'd and we can afford it and it's a better value than in other supermarkets i'm not. going through the cakes so some crackers. and how to treat it. you know we could use a living simply because i'm a pension of and. you don't need much to be happy if the girls is the most important thing.

every tuesday the couple visit the food bank there are 45 of them in the german capital 150 people here today they have the funds to the food banks been here for more than 15 years it's for people who need help who are on welfare benefits and can't quite make ends meet it's good the support exists in every society there are people who fall through the net because there's stuff that we wanted to give to . others to go home on with no one should go hungry because they're too ashamed to take support poverty among the elderly is a problem there are people whose pensions aren't enough to live on. from the food but they're often job to shame to admit i need a bit of help in the use of the for. i'm not ashamed i'm used to it i mean love

outweighs poverty and poverty. from reducing the gap between rich and poor to pay divide between men and women in germany women earn 18 percent less than men. because they work in sectors all professions the pay less but that's not the only reason the way women negotiate can also have a big impact. for years women have said gee when i negotiate like a man i'm described as too greedy or undescribed is pushy or aggressive and you know finally studies are bearing this out that when a woman does negotiate like a man she is described as all those things all of this happened to me as well i started working to be a preteen and since then i have a 1000 negotiations with fergus boxes and all of them are men. and women often see they go she ation as confrontation as opposed to negotiation 'd and

so they need to understand with using the tools that are designed for women they can go in confidently to negotiations and get the things that they want dr lawrence frankel is a bestselling author and told by since women don't talk to advocate for themselves more effectively and here are her 3 strategies for women on how to negotiate better by jennifer calling in what you want coming out too often what happens for women is they say they want something different it may be more money or it may be a different office or you know it could be any number of things that they want maybe i want to have more perks like men as well don't leave it up to the person you're negotiating with to guess what you want you need to be crystal clear going in what you want coming out i think work for such a long time here and i think i do

a good thought i like the projects i'm working on but find time to take up a lot of time the further from the front of the phone. i just get more money women are great at building relationships they're not so great at capitalizing on them men don't have to capitalize on relationships necessarily because when they go in and negotiate. just seeing is good negotiators going in we somehow need to get an upper hand through positive good strong professional relationships and affectionate truth when i have a personal contact that i can use to open doors it doesn't have to mean that i'm being unprofessional my work would still be elitist critically however my personal connections could help me to become noticed in the 1st place understand that there are different kinds of negotiations there are transactional and personal

negotiations now transactional ones are ones where it's simply one thing in exchange for another right it's money in exchange for service or for a product so an example here might be if i go out to negotiate for a car i think i'm not going to see that car dealer again for at least a couple years of late if ever now that doesn't give me the right to treat that person rudely or disrespectfully but it does give me more latitude in going in to negotiate from a very strong transactional position but of course don't forget that their personal negotiations and these could be at the workplace with superiors for example or they can be was your spouse or your significant other that's where you're going to depend on the relationship that's when you're really going to see how do i create a win win because at their best personal negotiations are when whence do you feel more empowered know i have to let go negotiate. nice to have you along i've

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is the news of live from berlin a u. turn and an apology from germany's chancellor over easter lockdown plans aguilar merkel scraps a 5 day holiday standstill saying the closures were not feasible and that they were a mistake also coming up. brazil's kovan 1000 death toll tops 300000 the 2nd highest in the world president jalal also not all says vaccines are on the way but among the people anger is growing. and chill

a puts its hopes in a 5 g. rollout to boost industrial production as long as it can avoid being caught up in a trade dispute between the u.s. and china. i'm told me on lobby welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has made a surprise you turn cancel plans for a strict nationwide shutdown over the easter holiday merkel and regional leaders had agreed on a 5 day standstill to tackle germany's 3rd wave of corona virus infections the chancellor now says the hastily drawn up plans were impractical and a mistake and she offered an unreserved apology. the idea of a strict easter lockdown has many here in germany up in arms and the chancellor has self acknowledged the measure was a mistake in an extraordinary address to people. here as an easter

shutdown was proposed is the best of intentions because we urgently need to slow down and reverse the 3rd wave of the pandemic nevertheless. this proposal was a mistake and fear and fear a mistake must be acknowledged as a search and above all it must be corrected as soon as possible. place was at the same time i am well aware that this and tire situation is causing added uncertainty and ideally regret days and i ask all citizens to forgive me for . the sudden rollback of the measure added fuel to the fire especially for opposition parties at the parliament to. discuss our suspects the kaos whose perfect start yesterday was like this 2 days live stats nobody knows what their rooms are anymore and their knowledge of

a faded from the chance of though she takes responsibility that nobody really knows what this admission i don't know when it comes to chancellor's decision this serves respect however it also means a deepening crisis trust when it comes to the fight against the pandemic just because government has failed in its way to fight just hand them a coffee and now we need caution and common sense to be able to overcome the 3rd wave. kind of the letisha and aren't the only ones being left with more questions than answers germans are increasingly but why is it by the government's handling of the crisis. you can't adopt and how can it be that people who have means can fly to new york but nobody is allowed to travel to who can island where their perspective go measures to curb infections and. one half of the globally just clarity so people get set clear deadlines is a clear schedule on how to go forward with definitions but i'm not really impressed

that they've changed the rules and in fact we had wanted to travel but unfortunately now we must stay at home all the time with it's good on the one side but i don't think it's enough. it is the 1st time that the chancellor has admitted so openly that there was a glitch in her decision making but why some see to move as laudable others see the . determines governments did miss approach to the pandemic. by report by political correspondent hugh manual shahs and human you know joins us now. what led to this you turn on the apology can you expound on where this pressure came from. well you know when did this edition was taken 2 days ago to implement these very short strict lockdown nobody is to weekends well could cause an uproar because

a lot of confusion among the population and the chancellor back trochee to face possibility for what she calls her mistakes she says that this was not doable also for companies to implement such short notice extra days off etc and that's the reason she gave she takes full responsibility for research acknowledge is a mistake which is a lot of little but at the same time she also didn't really say seize that opportunity to to offer others to other solutions to try and curb the infections here in germany and you mentioned those infections they're still pretty high germany's in the middle of a 3rd wave is the country doing enough to stop the spread of the virus. exactly if we look at the figure is the nearest 7 days in fiction a rate nationwide which keeps rising up 280800000 inhabitants nationwide that

there moments 15 more done $15000.00 new infections and more than 240 deaths for one day alone germany doesn't have a handle on the pandemic and their measures taken don't seem to suffice to say is this testing strategic which is being of the moment but has a lot of criticism for example when it comes to traveling there's no trouble to moment just ask the easter holidays are about to start there's a lot of criticism on the vaccination rollout for many here in germany this is not going fast enough especially since well variants of divine rays are spreading more rockets the among the younger population and there are apparently more infectious more adventurous more lethal the original strain of the virus and this is all a major test for medical and c.d.u. paci how will the scales affect them especially with the elections coming up later

this year. well in saying that it was her and her mistake and her mistake alone i'm going to america and in no way protected their conservatives and conservatives are already under fire the last 2 weeks so while they have been in the center of a number of corruption scandals also they there are criticize photo handling of the pandemic because the governing coalition is they try to come sedatives and the social democrats are the latest regional elections they also didn't fare very well so the next test for the cause that is low def of a bit of parliamentary election in september. political correspondent emmanuel chavez thank you. while the world is desperately in need of more corona virus vaccines almost $30000000.00 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine have been discovered at a plant in italy those were found during an inspection by italian authorities after

a request from the european commission is not clear if the doses were export bound the discovery could worsen the use relations with astra zeneca which is the last to supply a top best of the block britain also wants access to the company's e.u. produced doses. we spoke to our correspondent in brussels and we asked him who's to blame in this latest round of finger pointing between the e.u. the u.k. and astra zeneca. clearly astra zeneca has not been able to keep promises it has made i think that's a fact then the u.k. obviously made a lot of good bric magic decisions but also they have the quantities they have the vaccines and a lot of those vaccines as we have heard have come from the european union not just not just astra zeneca but also biotech pfizer and madonna 10000000 doses what the e.u. was not aware of what they did not calculate in their strategy is that the u.k.

had a u.k. 1st clause in their contract so one way of looking at it is i think it's to say that the e.u. was a bit too naive was trusting too much into open markets in their strategy of getting vaccines. brazil's kovan 1000 death toll has topped 300000 the 2nd highest in the world behind the us right when president. has launched a crisis taskforce the outbreak is being fueled by a local variant of the corona virus also narrow says vaccines are on the way but is growing. brazil's grave diggers have never been busier with reports of overflowing marks the cannot bury the dead fast enough families given little time to process their grief so we are in a situation that affects the whole world and no one has so far been able to contain

it. only the united states has paid a higher price under fire president yarrow ball snarled try to soothe public anger in a t.v. address. that i'm going to throw out of paul i want to calm down the brazilian people and to assure you that the vaccines are guaranteed by the end of the year we will have more than 500000000 doses to inoculate all the population very soon we will return to normal life my sympathy goes out to all of you who have losses in your families i mean. but as he spoke to the people they pounded their pots and pans in protest. from the windows and balconies of rio de janeiro sao paolo and beyond they made their feelings had some chanting bolsa now roll out . even amongst the vaccinated the frustration at the government's handling of the pandemic runs deep. i really

believe that we are as we are because everything was very badly managed since the beginning i never imagined living in a country where the president of the republic is in denial so that made everything difficult for everyone. to see and there he says i'm i have action nation has to be faster faster a lot of people are dying they are very sick when. meanwhile pan-american leaders are warning that exploding case numbers in brazil are causing the virus to spread faster in neighboring countries. a roundup of the stories making news around the world. cuba has begun testing its own covert 19 vaccine on health care workers it's hoped most people in the capital have and i will get the sovereign to jab by may cuba has been developing a vaccine since the one $980.00 s. because of a longstanding u.s.

trade embargo against it. to social media celebrities have been arrested in a restaurant in cameroon the transsexual woman are being charged with attempted homosexuality homosexuality is considered a crime in cameroon and the 2 could face up to 5 years in prison if found guilty. police in washington d.c. have cleared away most of the security fencing from around the u.s. capital only a thin in the barrier remains security was stepped up after supporters of the former president donald trump invaded the building in january. chile is planning a 5 g. rollout that could leave its south american neighbors in the dust superfast networks should boost industrial output and their hopes of attracting big name foreign firms like amazon but 2 major trading partners the u.s. and china arguing over the security of 5 g. chile needs to tread carefully. 5 g.

coming soon to a smartphone near you if you live in chile that is the government here wants to have speedy 5th generation networks covering most of the country within 2 years. there are various studies that say thanks to fried chiles g.d.p. could increase by one percentage per year between now and 2035 means an extra $30000000000.00 of the economy if we just innovate and develop each application based on the basic infrastructure that is right now that. if they're single. as it installs its networks chile is having to take extra care he needs to avoid upsetting 2 of its biggest trading partners china in the u.s. washington is surging allies not to involve chinese firms like walk away in their rollouts saying it'll give beijing an easy way to steal data from now chile is

avoiding taking sides leaving it up to the telecoms firms to decide who supplies their equipment they damn well yet are allowing the companies that provide the service to make their commercial decisions free and provided the technical standards are respected in this case cyber security. whether the government can maintain that stance will only become clear as it works to put 5 g. in the hands of millions of more chileans. japan has officially launched the olympic torch relay kicking off a 4 month countdown to the postponed tokyo summer games the olympic flame lit lips the torch after being flown in from greece about $10000.00 runners will carry it across japan until the opening ceremony on july 23rd organizers hope the relay can help restore the prestige of the games many athletes and fans of all staging the

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