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in terms of mr forrest. used to do. after all informed his interests like. make up your own boring. w. made for mines. china attacks foreign closing and shoe brands over shing shang this after sports and nike said she was concerned about reports of forced labor there and that it does not use cotton from the region. also coming up my job germany's a favorite island in the mediterranean looks forward to a revival of tourism while germany's hospitality sector struggles through a seemingly never ending lockdown. welcome to your business i want to get
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johnsonville and good to have you with us and a furious china is lashing out against global fashion brands u.s. sports apparel make a nike is facing a backlash on social media in china after saying it was concerned about reports of forced labor off in the shing shang region the fallout comes after the e.u. and the u.s. imposed sanctions on chinese officials for alleged human rights violations there. nike is trending on social media in china but not in a good way it's facing a backlash after a statement on china's policies in the change young province saying it won't use cotton from the region. and it's not a look at jeannette was singled out this week for issuing a statement last year in which it said it was concerned about allegations of forced labor engine john both annika statements haven't been received well by people in china. the utility of back to nigeria's chinese we must show our patriotism i don't
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buy these brands and now i will ask my friends to boycott them too. to come on the scene those foreigners making money from china but scolding it and discrediting cotton frontin junk i will not buy those foreign brands i will support domestic products. or. western brands are caught in the middle of a feud between china and western countries which have imposed sanctions on chinese officials because of the allegations of forced labor but while taking a stance on change young cotton is potentially a human rights issue it could hit their bottom lines in the world's 2nd largest economy. and china specialist clifford coonan is here in the studio with me while jesse delaney joins us in front foot hello chelsea i'm starting with clifford 1st because 100 china is making a lot of noise here and the concerns mentioned by several global fashion brands
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they seem to have had enough i think so i think actually what we're seeing here are the opening salvos in in what could be quite a serious trade conflict we've seen it before with with korea where over political concerns they they used economic weapons basically to attack korea we see with australia and now we're seeing it with the e.u. and i think this could evolve to help and h. and m. issue just a. it in september nike statement was in in july last year so clearly these aren't new they're just being sort of weaponized or instrumental eyes now to press home to china's message that it's angry at the way the e.u. has introduced these sanctions so if we're looking at some real friction there also in terms of trade turning to chelsea now i wonder how global retailers and fashion brands in particular how are they watching this development given that china is such an important market for them. well it is
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a lot of it's going to be a major concern for basically every global retailer if this does escalate we've already seen a lot of retailers trying to really insulate themselves from this human rights and issue engine john over the past several years these statements we've seen a lot of companies this saying they're either going to remove this cotton from their supply chain they're going to cut ties with suppliers so they have been willing to take that step but they can't really afford to lose the chinese consumer it isn't the major market for a lot of companies right now it's expected to become only more important so this sort of threat that if you boycott us we're going to boycott you we've already seen that really being reflected in the market today for example here in frankfurt the dax the big the dax biggest loser today is the details which is also getting hit online for in china for these statements as well all right so so there are some jitters there chelsea thank you because. this week the e.u. together with the u.s.
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with canada they imposed sanctions on chinese officials beijing didn't take kindly to that but do you feel that the west is now ready to actually take on china i think i think what we've seen since biden has come in since joe biden has come into power in the u.s. we're seeing basically a much more concerted effort by the west to address these issues whereas before was a very fractious kind of approach and i think that's really going to be i think what's going to start playing out of this could be interesting to see what germany does because germany has really been behind this this trade deal with with china it's very important for the german economy now it's going to be a huge question for the big european powers like germany and france of course whether they're going to be able to balance the need for economic growth coming from china with the political requirement with the blues a go aspect about human rights and other areas and hong kong and jiang itself so i
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think we're in for some very difficult a difficult period in you john relations interesting times. thank you so much. there of course from the front stock exchange thank you so much. now just home of the other global business stories making news the japanese owner of the ever given cargo ship says he's facing extreme difficulty refloating the freighter it has been stuck in the sewers canal since wednesday after being hit by strong winds blocking one of the world's most important trade routes. the international monetary fund has approved another tranche of a $1500000000.00 loan to pakistan payments have been suspended in $2900.00 enough to pakistan fail to reform its economic policies it's been reinstated to help the country amid the covert 19 pandemic. anger is
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mounting among germany's hospitality sector which is still in lockdown on holiday makers are headed for much your car soon after bill and declared the island a safe destination hotels there of course looking forward to some income but strict measures there are still in place to prevent another way for the coronavirus right these cyclists are among the 1st getting the tourist season in majorca back on the road again for these 2 germans it's also an escape from the pandemic back home where it little storm is raging about whether to take mark down over the easter holidays. it's not the returns of usually one reason warming york or vacationers a look down on with many saying we shouldn't be allowed to come here at the moment that's a view i really can't get my head around as if the rest of it. i think the strategies they employ on me oil and here along with all the turns to mean we're relatively safe so let's just make sure we keep those numbers down. anti pandemic measures
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begin on arrival where a negative p.c.r. test is required the german planes landing on majorca over the weekend were all fully booked even though the lifting of a travel ban is not the same as a recommendation to go somewhere but the craving for sand and sun is huge. and to him finally i was last year a year ago and i'm so happy to be back. we're really happy to help things along for the people of new york. the pandemic has sent the spanish island spinning into an economic crisis doubling the number in poverty in just a year almost all jobs here depend entirely on tourism now after months of uncertainty maria sierra can finally return to her job in the hotel man well. my boss rang me on wednesday and asked me if i wanted to come back i'm simply over the moon about it. a little but good amount of after henchmen is also lurking
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everything mossville has to be done to make sure infection numbers don't start climbing again as the tourists return majorca simply couldn't withstand another wave of the virus so masks are compulsory and a curfew kicks in in the late afternoon bars cafes and restaurants all have to close at 5 pm the landlord of this german bar is rather dubious about it all and wants to take things slowly like a good german beer. has already decided a sort of pilot project to see if it can work but it could easily backfire. easter is also testing spaniards patience they can't leave their region holidays and trips to relatives during the holy week are banned only the germans are doing well out of the eased travel restrictions. today i went to palma city we were a bit shocked as we strolled around there. the desire for carefree travel is understandable
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but is now the time that's a question with far broader implications than a single high season in majorca. so my job is open for business to some extent but to germany certainly isn't and that's a big headache for the country's small and medium sized companies yet again is the secretary general of germany's s. and association and he's joining us now good to have you with us 1st of all mean how are you members holding up in the current lockdown back and forth well some are holding up quite well but 70 percent are definitely struggling right now as you know the as amoebas knows the middle stunned how we call it here in germany is the backbone of the economy it represents 99 percent nearly 3 and a half 1000000 companies and 70 percent of them that's a big number is currently struggling with the policies in place where. everybody is
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a struggling one way or the other unfortunately despite the lockdown and all these measures case numbers are rising fast against the what should the government do to support a business and to keep citizens safe well changing the disaster of the big scene procurement certainly improving the vaccination strategy and the logistics the testing and opening that has to go hand in hand which is very important a foss this person and of the state financial supports less bureaucracy on these formulas and certainly not a drop by drop payout to small business owners that are in desperate need of the promised funds that's a 1st that which you support and mandatory tests for companies something that the government has so far been reluctant to decide. well it should be i think in every area way you have a crowd of people that gets together it would give everybody more comfort if
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testing is done the problem is we can't even at this point distribute the tests fos and up we have no bearing vacation process or it in place except in a few areas and what's more important it has to go along with opening of shops that are closed right now and closing down everything definitely does not help the economy and ultimately doesn't help the people at and how does the current situation actually reflect on germany's reputation a lot of as emmys are active globally what's the view from the outside well you can say in one sentence from made in germany we are now a producer of a tragedy you see that israel the united states that the u.k. and other countries leading in the vaccination process how well they have organized so meadows and how badly we have organized it another thing that it's important i
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think to mention at this point is that the government has to support trial graham with a monster and as such we hoping that big changes are coming. because he again the secretary general of germany's s n e s association and we have to leave it there but thank you so much. thank you all that's your business update thank you for joining. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update . on t w. hello guys this is the 77 percent is the platform for this group to teach issues.
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so quick to talk to. young people did he have the solution to the future. 77 percent now. m d w. the fight against covert has been immense but it's setting back years of progress in the battle against other diseases a pandemic appears to be reversing the global gains we've made in the fight against hiv aids tuberculosis malaria malnutrition and maternal and child mortality the crisis is seen in 25 percent decrease in diagnosis and treatment of tb in south africa indonesia and the philippines health officials say it's time to find tuberculosis again. will the disease is usually transmitted person to person
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through the year and fried's in crowds it primarily affects the lungs can also occur in any other organ the world health organization says more than $10000000.00 people develop tuberculosis every year deaths amount to about one and a half 1000000 and sadly that's often ju-ju in adequate treatment. the problem at the moment is access to health k.g. to lock down supply chain disruptions and rewording of global health resources into covert countries like mexico of paying the price. here and dr alberto medina's private practice they used to vaccinate babies against tuberculosis but since september new government rules means they have been able to get a new batch of b.c.g. deliveries. but it won't. say that the kind when you ask the people who are supposed to deal with importing vaccines they say days hasn't been set yet they
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told us it would arrive in january but now some articles are saying they won't arrive until spring. there has been a public sector shortage of tb vaccine since the start of the year in 2019 the shortfall was between 76 percent and 96 percent the number of tb cases jumped from 17245000. health specialists estimate the lack of tb vaccines will affect 2 tween 200300000 newborns. mexico isn't the only country where tb is still a health threat around 85 percent of all newly infected people live in africa and south these days are with india indonesia and china particularly affected. in mexico the vaccine shortage is mostly down to the current government changing
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the system of how medicines that required and distributed but vaccine shortages began under the previous government. this prompted the reemergence of diseases such as measles which went from being almost wiped out to $60.00 to $200.00 cases annually. this is according to a study by the mexican association of facts and ology which also reported complaints against the current shortage. so to look at only might because. we've had a shortage of some vaccines for the last few years. we're referring to vaccines like b c g m.m.r. the double vaccine that. olivia. according to dr medina young families needn't lose hope because the tuberculosis vaccine can be administered during the entire 1st year after birth not just the 1st 10 days but
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the extended vaccine shortage continues to increase the overall public health risk like khan is medical director at eye of the global and international health n.g.o.s active in asia and africa what impact would you take over 1000 has had on the diagnosis and treatment of tb. so thank you ben for having me here i it's been a journey for t.v. it's been devastating 2020 gend we recently had data that came out and which show that about 20 percent decline in t.v. diagnosis and and treatment which is huge when you look at infectious disease which has similar you know as a respiratory package and just like over it but however who's so this is what people opposed do because of. all the you know infrastructure was started to get used before. whether it's a lab infrastructure or service delivery
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a community work everything so there has been a huge impact and no doubt the lockdowns really affected t.v. service delivery so it only grave effect here is covert covert covert in a lot of young people i guess would never have even heard of tb would you say though that this setback for tuberculosis has been a fair trade off for the inroads that have been made in the fight against that not at all i think it's not a fair trade off it or the we're going to see further decline if we don't do something you know something quickly adapt as well the new normal whatever that is and i hope i just do hope that we're going to realize how similar the 2 diseases are in dom's of you know some of the key finding as well as in other strategies and at so that we can find synergies and optimize you know you to use you know things like contact leasing and other work force as well so that we can tackle both
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diseases so the threat to tb from coal is real but what about opportunities are there any opportunities coming out of this all of the research all of the focus on the medical fields. absolutely still there has been agreement back like i mentioned but then there has been amazing amazing collective you know knowledge that we have now for infectious diseases as a result of this cloud global collaboration which itself is an opportunity just learning that you can truly corroborate whether it's for vaccine development and having something in a year which certainly we haven't seen and then there is the data that has come out that or some of prevention knowledge and dissemination of prevention the case finding strategies like using more bio health tools you know drive through. it's a meaning to see all of these things also the screening having noise disease are so similar and you can screen it like i mentioned earlier so there's a lot of contact racing like i mentioned as well not to forget because there's so
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much that you can learn in terms of what to do and what not to do which we can do with t.v. because we don't have a lot of resources is there more that we can learn from co the 19 to improve tb care is well. absolutely i mean service delivery methods like there are there is you can have we've been using deli held for t.v.'s well but for but also you know showed us how to use some digital help platforms as well and because one thing that's really important is to understand that countries have developed some of these tools and it's not something a global tool that is being standardized saw the lots of things that one can adapt and use to local you know context so yes. iniquities have been uncovered through this covered 19 pandemic which is a. it's a lot of inequities i mean everywhere infectious disease is something that i have seen and i keep on you know as an advocate of advocate i keep on seeing is that we
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were is that you know it's an intimately a disease a farm you know it's an intimate disease our indians are far you know related to poverty and therefore it's all about human justice and. ethics around how you treat people with corbin we've seen the same thing although tb is a disease of the poor but over the affected everybody and then you saw that you know people who were at the most vulnerable got it you know suffered and in domes of access in garo having food support they don't know what social distancing means and you know how do you do that when you're living in crowded you know homes so that is is there a message you'd like to get across on this well tb day just just a sentence or 2 for us so i think the important message is to non back to the important learning is around social inequities and i would like to talk about
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that too because when we talk about scientists and researchers and people nor everyone has of the knowledge globally we have a lot of tools and collective wisdom but what we don't have is we work in silos and i wish we would collaborate on these kind of infectious diseases that are borderless and whether it's in poor countries or whatever it should it does help us reinforce the idea that it shouldn't take up and then require us to realize things and we should get our collective wisdom on for science as well as become advocates for people who point was a conduit to medical director and i r g global thank you very much for joining us today thank you very much. and time to hand you over to derek williams a science correspondent is still cooped up in his home study looking into your questions that. one of the vaccines is less potent could it help to take different kinds. with vaccines still
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scares and in high demand it'll take a while for this to to really become an issue but but let's take a theoretical approach for a minute say from the perspective of next year when at least in some places it's fair to expect that a wide range of vaccines will be available more or less on demand. but you've got to look back to look forward so a little history 1st in the last few decades the idea of mixing and matching vaccines to trigger a more powerful immune response has gained a lot of traction in the field of immunology it's been explored in experimental hiv vaccines for instance the concept is known as had a raw legace prime boosting and the aim is to capitalize on the fact that different vaccines can stimulate the immune system in different ways so so taking more than
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one time and could help strengthen immune memory by causing your body to make a wider variety of defensive cells against the disease so mixing and matching back scenes might prove to be a good idea in the fight against hiv at 19 but it could also potentially have harmful consequences when it's been done in the past with other diseases the mixing and matching mostly took place with vaccines that were pretty similar but some of the covert vaccine. the proof so far are based on very different platforms so to rule out potential risks we'll have to perform controlled testing with specific combinations of products i think that we'll see a lot of trials like that in the long run some are happening already but but they'll take time
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a lot of time so for now even in places where mixing and matching do happen it's only in rare circumstances and authorities still try to avoid it as much as possible. eric williams there are benches all in thanks for watching stay safe and secure against it. to. thank you. to.
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