leaders have held a summit to discuss how to ramp up the supply of vaccines export bans are on the table after drug maker astra zeneca failed to meet delivery targets but not all members are in favor of the bank. this is deja vu news live from berlin stephen beardsley is up next with the business news stick around he will be right back. to sift through the do keep a day about the people both for over a match and home the 4th time for the most recent as we can about. the bottom of the fannies at the last dragon this one has called the whole. books on. can you hear me now yes yes we can hear you and how the last 2 years gentlemen talk so that we bring you i'm going to a man called do you never have before surprise yourself with what is possible who

is magical really what moves her and want. to talk to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping huddling could join us from eccles last stop. another positive sign for the u.s. recovery weekly jobless claims sinking below 700000 their lowest level of the pandemic can the u.s. try to heating economy out of the viruses shadow and regain the millions of jobs still missing. also on the show it you know nike audi dos 3 western brands are under attack in china for their stance on forced labor and she calls for boycott spreading what does that anger mean for companies increasingly caught between china and markets elsewhere. and germany was once heralded as the model of pandemic

management has changed and businesses are especially frustrated. walk into the show on c beardsley in berlin and we begin in the u.s. where jobless claims have fallen to their lowest level of the pandemic last week the latest sign that an economic recovery is under way earlier than expected in the country the 1st time filing for unemployment a proxy for layoffs fell from a record of over 6800000 at the same time nearly a year ago to 684000 last week consumer spending is meanwhile rising and hiring also picking up however some 10000000 jobs remain lost since the beginning of the pandemic. and for more on this our financial correspondent jose luis de harlow joins me from new york hello jose. a big focus of u.s. policy has been restoring these these missing jobs there said the number around 10000000 what sectors are branches or economists going to be looking at to see if

these things are coming back. steve in contacting tenzin histories and mostly services and bad as that vaccinations that keep increasing the last time that i look around the over 47000000 people have already fully vaccinated hearing to us that 10000000 job gap that you mention should start at closing but we need to keep special attention in the heart of its he the industry is saying here we're talking about leisure and hospitality for example we should they really need to create a word 3500000 jobs in the next coming months that to recover at those of 1000 levels but so far because of the all those stimulus that monetary and fiscal ones are it seems that economies and even secretary of treasury janet yellen are competent that we can go back to a full employment as soon as next year there was a there is a lot of talk right now a lot of optimism about the way the recovery seems to be shaping up in the u.s.

what are the soft spots in this recovery where could it stumble. will the recovery seems to be stronger stephen but but there are certainly many risks i would say that in the health perspective we need to still take a look to the different strains of the virus and again back that they could have in their back scenes and fact if ness also from the economic perspective we need to take a look to overheating and especially overseas inflation which if it is persistent it could become a real nightmare for for the federal reserve and shorten the economic cycle also we need to be aware of those pockets of. asians risk taking which could become also. symptom of financial instability and holes are all discovering in their structure as current for the economy after dependent right jose luis toro in new york thank you very much. our list of topics and go to china where western brands

including nike him and adidas are increasingly under fire following their prior statements on forced labor in change when they resurfaced in public now each company had previously voiced concern over abuse allegations allegations that have been thoroughly documented activists riposte of those statements this week after the e.u. and us imposed sanction sanctions rather on chinese officials due to this change on abuses 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 alone its nemo 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 edging them annika statements haven't been received well by people in china. to let him back to nigeria's chinese we must show our patriotism i don't 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 jiang 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 weald 2nd largest economy. all right alison stewart allen is chief executive of international marketing partners in london she joins me for more on this topic alison good to see you again is this what we're seeing right now what's taking place in china is this a passing concern for these brands or is it a critical issue. well i think that's a critical issue i think these brands are now quite concerned because of course all

of them have an agenda around e.a.'s g. and environment social or societal and governance and of course this falls into possibly the governance buckets and these companies don't want to appear to be caught out from a moral point of view and again alienates their customers around the world in every other market but for china. to what extent will consumers in these other markets punish them to the extent that consumers in china are punishing them right now are we seeing that kind of demands about these abuses which are well documented in change wrong. i think. that we have time still ahead of us to see consumers mobilize and we know that consumers can do this because of social media platforms it's been made incredibly easy now we have means for

transparency to scrutinize companies and what they do so yes those brands and no doubt others will feel the heat and will need to maybe reconsider their sourcing around cotton and look at everything else in the supply chain what they pay their stitchers what they pay people in other parts of the supply chain so yes this is quite a big deal and an indicator of things to come to what extent is the chinese market becoming less predictable these are big brands they have savvy public relations departments there this isn't their 1st time in a very big market that's very sensitive but it seems like politically tensions are hardening or positions are hardening between the west and china some say is that going to make life more difficult for businesses. i think it will certainly mean that companies will need to understand the chinese business culture understand how to navigate the chinese political landscape and you know there are some lessons no

doubt that every brand can learn from the experience of adidas nike h. and m. and no doubt many others in terms of do we change our approach in the chinese market or do we leave china altogether for the time being or invest less but it is certainly important that companies appreciate that you can't just go into an overseas market be it china the u.s. other places without doing your homework and really understanding the implications and these are playing out right now in real time and they will have a very serious consequence for these brands outside of china as well unless they do something all right fascinating to watch develop stuart allan c.e.o. of international marketing partners in london thank you as always now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. the u.s. and britain have announced sanctions against 2 military own companies in myanmar

both businesses are involved in industries as diverse as beer tobacco tirzah and banking the aim is to drain the military sources of funding amid the ongoing crew in the country. a team of experts from the netherlands have arrived in egypt to join efforts to free a giant ship blocking the suez canal but a team official warned that removing the ever given could take weeks it ran aground in the key trade route on tuesday. it was only a year ago that germany was being praised for its exemplary handling of the pandemic his numbers were low in the public largely adopted hygiene measures and restrictions things aren't going so well now queues are quickly rising the country is still a lockdown and vaccinations are moving sluggishly germans and their businesses are losing patience. once the poster child for managing the pandemic germany has now fallen behind other developed nations after a sluggish vaccine rollout and months of lockdowns businesses have lost their

patience. 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 and the u.k. and other countries are leading in the vaccination process how well they have organized so meadows and how badly we have organized it. earlier this week the number of doses administered every day in germany fell below 250000 meanwhile the u.k. hit a new record of more than 840000 daily doses on saturday business representatives say germany's lackluster rollout is just one of the many things that angle america's government has to fix. well changing that is the big scene procurement certainly improving the banks a nation strategy and the logistics that testing and opening that has to go hand in hand which is very important afonso this person of the state financial supports 'd

less bureaucracy on these formulas 'd and certainly not a drop by drop payout to small business owners that i desperately need up the promised funds that's a 1st. perceive and that will only be one step the survival and recovery of businesses will depend on more than just government funds the lives of their customers will have to get back on track. well if you're anywhere with a mask requirement you know the problem every time you want to eat or take a sip of your drink you have to remove the mask potentially putting yourself and others at risk well here's a possible solution the nose only allows you to take a bite while maintaining at least some level of protection but perhaps less dignity it's been invented by researchers in mexico where street food is particularly popular although it's better than nothing the dubby a joke points out that a mask that covers the nose mouth and chin is best. all right next to me that's it

for me and the business team as always find out more online dot com slash business it's watching. entered the conflict zone results are back on between afghanistan's government and the taliban with renewed urgency as the u.s. increases pressure on reaching a political solution before a may 1st troop withdrawal i guess this week is afghan. stance ambassador to the u.n. nato follows the laws how is this government strong enough to deliver on human rights . another unfulfilled promise conflict the film 16 a. place where all such

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and young people clearly have the solutions. to see. the 77 percent at least on d w o. o. this is dean everything is africa on the program today new accounts of the killings happening in ethiopia to bribe egypt government troops were seen executing civilians this week it comes up to a stunning admission from the prime minister about the forces involved in the context. and the growing thirst for freshly brewed coffee in nigeria we need one entrepreneur who's hoping to cash in.

hello i'm christine it's good to have your company new and gruesome accounts of atrocities are emerging from ethiopia's to gripe region in the latest revelation a team from the humanitarian organization doctors without borders say they saw ethiopian soldier has ordered a full civilian men from the bus and they execute them now the report comes just days after prime minister made admitted this week after months of denials that troops from neighboring iraq train were also present into and had similarly committed acts of extreme violence against civilians some of which could amount to crimes against humanity. mourning their loved ones. their relatives buried in mass graves after fighting broke out and each o.p.'s northern chief cry. now one of the biggest humanitarian crises

on the horn of africa. thousands have reportedly been killed and hundreds or thousands have fled over the last 5 months. there is no food and there is no shelter and there is no that basic needs so if you can yeah after this they want you to come sort. for weeks international human rights groups have reported how both ethiopian and air tran soldiers rate killed and destroyed people's homes every port from ethiopia is only human rights commission that investigated one incident in the town of x. some include dozens of witnesses describing how it train soldiers killed over $100.00 civilians.

people are still fleeing ongoing fighting. this we are suffering very much i cannot explain it we came here because of the wall we've been robbed of our things and our animals were taken and. it is this kind of evidence that appears to have forced the theo paean prime minister into what some are calling a stunning view turn for months he claimed the situation in t drive was an internal conflict but now acknowledges that he trained troops were in the region and had been fighting the people's liberation front and thereby may have committed atrocities you. know going to. be a trans army crossed the border and was operating in ethiopia any damage it did to our people on acceptable we don't accept it because it is the air tran army and we

would not have accepted it if it were our soldiers would. the military campaign was against our clearly targeted enemy you see it in the i'm not against the people you know with the. united nations is calling for an investigation and has urged etran troops to withdrawal from she cried. and to get some analysis on the story of the fighting william davidson on to the program he's senior analyst on ethiopia for the international crisis group welcome to the program william why is this admission by the ethiopian prime minister that eritrean troops have been present into christ so significant and it's significant because the presence very trained troops has been denied by the ethiopian government since the outset of the conflict in november they said that the allegations eritrea was a bolt in the conflict were just a matter of this information by their opponents the leadership it's

a great regional state and on top of that eritrea's military has been there is plenty of evidence that the trade military is engaged in systemic looting of public and private property into great which is added to it's a great anger considerably and they've also been involved in serious atrocities against a grain civilians most notably almost heavily reported so far in axum city so this is a very significant admission i think also represents the mounting evidence but also the diplomatic pressure that is now on ethiopia's government over particularly over the eritrean involvement and their behavior. and on that eric strain involvement why are ever trained troops into iraq. they share the same objective as ethiopia's federal government which is the eradication of the great ruling party that the great people's liberation front. as a political entity eritrea's government particularly its leader president is isaac

what he is a long time opponent of people if they had a very fractious relationship during their reputation and then in 1908 ethiopia eritrea fought a war eritrea suffered very heavily in that and that was led in part by that sepia left and then subsequent to that ameritrade since national isolation was also partly. the president desires plane that also want to graze leadership so they have a very. long a long political history. william the latest account of the atrocities that happening into granny comes from a scene from doctors without borders who say they witnessed ethiopian troops executing civilians what are you hearing from your sources about the extent of the atrocities being committed into cry. well i mentioned the act situation that was a massacre by richer and troops of civilians in that city in late november that has

now been very very heavily documented including by. a federal institution of beat your government human rights commission we've also seen all sorts of similar acts allegations of atrocities against civilians across to great none of them as heavily documented as the accidents then but i think what we have is this m.s.f. witnessing ethiopian soldiers taking passages from abbas and executing them a terrible atrocity which m.s.f. witnessed by chance that's another worrying indication about the as yet unknown scale of atrocities here we've seen reports of very large go. and they are still coming in but only a few of the instance so far confirmed that's of course because of the information blackout integrate and the relative lack of access for journalists and human rights want to and others who can shed some light on this. when the last time we spoke on to say she said that this military operation by the ethiopian government would

likely become a protracted war is that still you'll view. what we seem to have i mean in short yes i mean what we seem to have now is the resistance led by to grays ousted regional leadership seems to have stabilized this year after they suffered significant defeats in november and december but the rebellion that they are leading seems to be somewhat entrenched in rural areas that is the major confrontations with the ethiopian and eritrean militaries and then there are the more political dimensions of this particular perhaps particularly related to those atrocities we talked about it seems to me huge amounts of tea grain anger about what's going on that anger at the federal intervention the role and behavior of the eritrean troops and also the fact that i'm horror region has taken parts of to graze territory as part of this war that has led to what seems to be quite widespread support for the you know it's a great leadership and for the rebellion that is further reason to think that this

conflict is going to be ongoing as it is just not clear how the federal government can comprehensively overcome this resistance because of how popular it is integrated right that's one of dave's and from crisis trip talking to us a thank you some of the stories the kenyan government has ordered. to shut down 2 refugee camps in the country the dead dad and kakuma refugee camps in northern kenya host of a 400000 people from somalia and south sudan they are the largest refugee camps in africa now it's the 3rd time that the kenyan government's try to have the camps closed they say they pose a security risk previous attempts were blocked by the kenyan high court which state that such a would be and constitutional. 2 transgender women arrested for wearing women's clothes in cameroon have been denied bail the judge adjourned the case and since then back to jail shakira who's

a local media celebrity and her partner patricia are charged with attempted homosexuality the 2 could face up to 5 years in prison if found guilty human rights groups say camerino forty's have recently carried out a series of actions and a wrist against the al g.b.t. community. now the couple's lawyers say that the conditions in prison were relatively difficult will very difficult excuse me and that the 2 were also facing threats of being sexually attacked by other inmates is not only easy on them because it only shows that you need the job done in the use of may be why are you. only double in this for example he could be 19 weeks in funding we know there is police there are threats of body are a lobby not used since only mail order inmates who are today are living in a very deplorable only shown on the that depression is causing the local gun that it is entirely on the side of.

sedate magic or in strength only a tiny amount of coffee but that is changing more and more people are taking up the hot beverage but even though the country grows coffee much of the coffee consumed is imported now we met one entrepreneur who's say's the coffee industry could add a significant boost to the economy but the sick to needs support. a few coffee be. blended and freshly brewed the. building a coffee shop has always been the dream of a day to kenya and now she has 2 shops. you know looking at the nigerian coffee market there are lots of solutions you can create so what we did was we used blend a coffee and create. a tieback form out of it sometimes power still a problem didn't we want to but still have the opportunity to enjoy

a freshly brewed coffee nigerians are nuts traditionally coffee tree but as a result of a shed and a growing young well travelled company showed the demand for coffee is expected to rise over the next 5 years. i like coffee because it's something like a gun isn't it take you when going out with a gun because on the home using you buy from those who are selling when i want to take off you have required me row one repeal one. just to keep me option. at fishing from whatever i do take he now wants to cater for this new demand for coffee with our old blamed of coffee coffee is grown in 15 out of 36 states in may but there are no government policies that's what local farmers policies are support local production what happens is our farmers still don't have

any major incentive to grow coffee techie believes that investing in the coffee value would help support the country's struggling economy. and that's all for our program. of stories. africa see you next. what people have to say 1st to us. that's why we listen to the. reporter every weekend on d w. children to come to. one giant problem and get in on the scene.

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in moscow are reports that was at the preview. there's a new album from techno and house music d.j. hale and it's got an artistic twist. orlando by virginia woolf is a fantastical piece of literature that sees the hero's journey between 3 centuries and 2 genders now german choreographer actress jansch book has reimagined the piece for the bolshoi ballet observers expect it to make waves and in a conservative society that's not known for its tolerance of the l.g.b. t.q. community books imaginative staging might also rustle feathers. her royal highness queen elizabeth the 1st played by a man but this is no campy drag queen playing for laughs in a nightclub this cross-dressing portrayal is serious and dignified it's part of german choreographer kirsty books production of virginia woolf's novel orlando book

plays around with gender identities and questions the established male and female roles in a playful manner but he's doing it in a country known for its traditional even conservative values is that a deliberate provocation. is kind of it's not a provocation at least that's not my intention rather we take a very poetic approach to having a man play a queen or that the orlando role is danced by a woman. and of hog tons of the novel tells the story of the magical transformation of orlando a young nobleman into a woman book has cast that role with a woman who dances with such lightness and elegance that changing genders seems like the easiest thing on earth the character also lives to be more than 350 years old without aging the role our 1st an opportunity to delve into. or rich for a variety of expressive characterizations the story has

a decidedly dreamlike quality. than that on monday i didn't understand the strange novel by virginia woolf right away there was a long process of finding our way in the material the choreographer wanted me to stay natural and remember that i'm a woman even when playing a man i kept that in mind despite the challenges and those challenges weren't just inside the theatre russia is in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and has the 4th highest number of covert 1000 infections in the world the capital moscow has the highest number of deaths from covert 1000 in the country yet nearly all restrictions have been lifted bars clubs and restaurants are open as are theaters. we set about to see a month and i got sick during my 3rd week here and had to self isolate for 3 weeks in my hotel room. but now i'm immune from seniors it's a strange picture for those of us from europe but it's the decision of this country to open things up so i've made my own decision to continue keeping my distance from

the team here and being cautious about it and fly on 48. by hiring spoke currently the director of the zurich ballet the bolshoi ballet has been able to mount an international production despite the pandemic for his part the renowned choreographer has enjoyed taking advantage of the bolshoi as an elite training ground for classical ballet miners paha comply language comes out of classical ballet so i respect the tradition of the bolshoi on all levels i mean huge admirer of this company and of this house. but i know it's a story about space and time and that appreciating the here and now is especially important that's a valuable message for these uncertain pandemic times. now to what extent is creativity the preserve of humankind in animals or computers produced art that was the question on everyone's lips when what's created by

a robot went under the virtual shama but it's not over yet sophia the robots name has a special surprise for the lucky by. well in the last minutes of the auction of a world premiere the 1st so-called n.f.t. artwork to be created by a robot and then the hammer falls. an as yet unidentified art collector has bought the works sophia instantiation for just under $700000.00 it's a 12 2nd m.p. for file showing how the humanoid robot sophia uses a real portrait as the basis for an artwork of its own. and the piece is not finished yet the robot will now study the successful bidders face and incorporated into the evolving m.p. for file the robot sophia has just turned 5 and only recently broke out in a new role as a creative. term for the network an art and other group of

patients. who i think creativity only 3 films differ from a person complementary i think margaret put you need a partner that never existed in the world or so i think the machine can be creative sophia's maker david hanson described the process behind the work a collaboration between sophia and italian artist andrea been a cheeto as iterative loops of evolution here is. sophia from. emerging as an artwork herself generating artwork that then was later inspired by andrea upon a chair of artwork through many iterations of art then fueled more art resulting in this purely digital work very rich fueled by art history her own works andrea's work. and this is the. main piece

that we put on the nifty drop nifty gateway where sophia's work was sold is an online marketplace where digital artists can sell their work previously it wasn't possible to be the sole owner of digital artwork but now a kind of digital certificate of ownership has been developed called n f t's or non fungible tokens also known as nifty it's become the latest investment craze with some artwork selling for large sums of money but artist and day i was mostly interested in the collaborative possibilities of what he wanted to do was make a statement in the war then even more of the war of. ai robots and humans call it what. you know. and you know but what was sophie is actual role in all this the robot might be able to paint but according to critics it's nowhere near as creative as it's made out to be they say

it's nothing more than a chat but with a face. ignoring the naysayers sophia the robot is looking to the future. i'm excited and hopeful we're all like her are i hope people like my work in order to collaborate in newark writing we were. impressive in other news no mad land has clinched another award the producers guild of america has crowned it best film the road trip movie about semi retired americans living off the grid stars frances mcdormand and is directed by chloe zhao it already has and golden glow you. know. and it's a frontrunner for this year's best film the p.g.a. has predicted 10 of the past 13 best picture winners.

items belonging to stars including elvis presley marilyn monroe and bob dylan are being trained online on saturday the top lots are the guitar played by presley jewing the 1968 t.v. special marking his return to live music after years of making films and the gloves used by mohammed ali to train for that rumble in the jungle for decades deejay hail has been an institution in the techno and house music scenes the german music producer who's real name is helmut gaia has headlined festivals worldwide in 2020 he founded a record label and curb aerated for the 1st time with conceptual artist you want to turn maser the pair have now released an album. it's the surprising result of a surprising collaboration missile times hell d.j. hell got artist your time is a to join him in the recording studio. the sounds are by the d.j. using text fragments uttered randomly by the artist in their tradition of data is m

. u. i think it's a russian. myself so. i thought it was really free form of art can be a. d.j. hell is a pioneer of techno and house music and the founder of the label international d.j. gigolo originally from very a human to berlin a few years ago is considered a legend of the electronic dance music scene unit and maser is one of germany's most iconic classic artists loud strange and provocative but also extremely successful d.j. hell commissioned him to design an album cover them they ended up making an album together it's quite well known artist quite. are quite expensive not my leap you know also i said instead of paying you something we go to

the studio and do some music the result is not just the salver but a fuck published in a collector's edition the project also features love songs that d.j. held wrote with the ticket to me isn't the 91 year old mother and manager of his collaborator. looking for new excitement for new things thanks that's not done now and new compilation saw. so we quite quite similar on that. thanks to the coronavirus pandemic d.j. hell has been unable to earn money with live gigs. but he doesn't miss travelling around the world to play in clubs close he's been busy at home in the studio and

he's got a new plan for when clubs do open up again. i didn't tar of myself and he will perform in the future on festivals and clubs so the good thing i don't have to travel any more because he will do the performances so all i can hope for like a simple talk on. bookings or or party. australia marry turn maybe some in europe at the same night 3 shows maybe more. than out with leaves the 58 year old d.j. more time for future musical experiments such as this one. will. finally the us kids' show sesame street has 2 puppets of color a video posted on the show's website features an african-american father and his son talking to elmo about skin color the message despite our differences well human

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the conflict zone he's also back on between afghanistan's government and the taliban with a new the urgency as the u.s. increases pressure on reaching a political solution before a may 1st troop withdrawal that dogs my guest this week is afghanistan's ambassador to the u.n. nato for most a long time is this government strong enough to deliver on human rights. another un facility. conflicts on. the. whole. they've been robbed of their soul that's what a people experiences when they're taken from them. countless cultural riches were brutally stolen from africa into carted off to europe by colonialists. each artifact has blood on it from the inside that have yet to feel.

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world we need to take a closer look at the. experience knowledge. this is d.w. news these are our top stories. leaders have been holding a virtual summit to discuss how to ramp up the supply of vaccines export bans are on the table after drug maker astra zeneca failed to meet delivery targets but not all members are in favor just over 10 percent of e.u. residents have had at least one vaccine shot. german lawmakers have extended the country's.