this is deja vu news live from berlin european union confronts its pandemic problems how to slow cope with 19 search leaders have met virtually to address a frustrating vaccination rollout some want to ban vaccine exports so more shots made in the e.u. get into the arms of e.u. citizens and in the hot seat big tech c.e.o.'s face another grilling before the u.s. congress this time over january's insurrection at the u.s. capitol lawmakers want to know the role their platforms might have played.

a 1000000 books welcome to the program leaders have met virtually to figure out how to get on top of a pandemic that's moving into a 3rd wave of infections across the block a sluggish vaccine rollout is exacerbating the issue and many blame lack of supply even though the e.u. produces many of the vaccines just over 10 percent of people in the e.u. have had at least one shot officials are struggling with how to speed things up. he was a much appreciated guest at thursday's virtual meeting of leaders joe biden was the 1st u.s. president to speak at a european summit since barack obama leaders are relieved that the us history committed itself to the transatlantic partnership we agreed that we have a strong interest in working together to keep global supply chains functioning

and to prepare already for the next challenges to come in this pandemic in an area of pandemics the united states is an important and valued partner to the european union. the global race for the scenes was the most important issue at this summit and even thorough the chance to talk about it with joe biden was welcomed by all some also had criticism. that we as a european union are the part of the world that not only forces for themselves but also exports into the world unlike the united states unlike great britain. and in america has said that you oppose fixing protectionism but still wanted to make sure that the ears own population gets the much needed charts as soon as

possible vaccination rollout has been slow in europe and leaders are frustrated vaccine doses produced in the e.u. do not always stay there that's why stricter rules are new experts could be introduced so this situation justifies us putting in place controls an expert i don't accept as being questioned on our morality. at the same time all the leaders agreed to for the ramp up production facilities within the e.u. let's get more now from do you have your political correspondent and i know she has a manual we heard uncle americal speak for a bit in that report what do you make of what she had to say. well there were several things that were quite interesting when she talked about fighting protectionism protection is an american never made it a secret that she sewed the only way out of this pandemic by all of this crisis is by giving a general

a come on response to depend on it by definition the crisis is global the pandemic is global and only by cooperating we see a way out now tonight she reminded that even if the e.u. succeeded in vaccinating its entire population well that wouldn't be enough because because of globalization because of the global aspect of the pandemic well if other countries don't succeed in their vaccination program well the virus could always reappear now there's also something she mentioned about looking after our own after looking after people here in europe to get vaccinating vaccinated well this is tricky this is. not getting enough vaccine at the moment dece has to this has to change of course but at the same time we like for anglo-american the european union it's this idea that they cannot abandon global cooperation to try

and overcome the virus so this is be some disagreement about exactly what kind of controls if any there should be in the e.u. exporting vaccines where is the e.u. position on this question. it's a very divisive question here in europe not everyone agrees on where to stand when it comes to exports for example tonight angle america is saved by the u.k. debt she wanted to reach a win win situation that's lee has to germany and europe to act politically sensibly when it came to exploits to was the u.k. but also also life on the line and the president of the e.u. commission week. strengthens controls export controls so as to force the vaccine manufacturers and especially astra zeneca money in fact to us to actually deliver the disease of the vaccines they had agreed upon within

the contract so that you would get the e.u. would get the. order it. would you say the export controls are the sticking point here that's what's keeping the vaccine rollout in the you from being more robust or there are other things that play. well if you look at. the vaccine rollout in do you care or india united states well those are country is rich haven't explored teed any bike scene tool is the e.u. and they're faring pretty well you're looking at the u.k. this 46 percent of the adult population which got that least one shot the need to us is one in 3 adults who got one shot of the vaccine this is a meager 14 percent compare isn't which is a european union only 14 percent of the other population gault. the vaccine while the e.u. has been exporting its vaccines but that's not the only problem in europe we also

have to have the production of the vaccine and there's also the problem of the administrating device scene and that's problematic because of a lack of medical personnel to be a political correspondent i know what she does thanks very much. and let's get a roundup of other stories making news around the world. health officials in chile have announced a full lockdown across the capital something jago to curb a 2nd wave of corona virus infections cases in chile have been mounting for weeks taking hospitals to the verge of collapse this despite the fact that chile has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. a lawyer for russian opposition leader alexina the says his health has deteriorated in prison the lawyer says he's now suffering from a back and leg annulments involved he was arrested in january after returning from germany he spent months in germany being treated for a poisoning that he blames on the kremlin. a team of experts from the netherlands

have arrived in egypt to join efforts to free a giant ship blocking the suez canal but it seem official warned that removing the ever given could take weeks ran aground in the key trade route on tuesday. the bank of england has unveiled a new 50 pound note in honor of alan turing the computer pioneer was central india crippling the nazi a big mco during world war 2 but he was later persecuted for being gay the more durable and secure 50 pound polymer note will be issued on june 23rd to coincide with turnings birthday. joe biden has given his 1st news conference as u.s. president he announced a new goal of administering 200000000 doses of grown a virus vaccine in his 1st 100 days he warned the u.s. would respond if north korea increases missile testing and he said u.s. troops would probably not withdraw from afghanistan by

a may 1 deadline. for almost 6 hours facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg twitter's jack dorsey and google sunday are pinch i were questioned on what role does information played during the capital storming in january lawmakers have criticized the c.e.o.'s for their role their companies often play in spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories the hearing was the 1st since the u.s. capitol was stormed by pro trump rioters in january as part of a bigger debate about how to make tech giants more accountable for the content on their platforms. the hearing was widely expected to become yet another grilling for big tech chief technology correspondent . followed the online hearing. so tell us did it live up to the expectations. well william it did i mean those 3 really felt the heat today and you could tell it you know when

the hearing was over about an hour and a half ago after those over 5 and a half hours of grilling at the same time you could also really feel the frustration on the other side with the lawmakers you could feel that through the screen this has been the 4th online hearing from big tech since the beginning of the corona virus pandemic and there's been several of us of course before that and i've watched a number of the and but that level of frustration that i saw today that was pretty extraordinary and that was really something that you could tell in the questions or you could see that in the questions that were being asked yeah and we actually have that so stay with us for a 2nd and while we play a clip of just some of those questions. i ask you a yes or no question i'm just looking for a yes or no so please respond appropriately i want to start by asking all 3 of you . if your platform bears some responsibility for disseminating this information

related to the election and stop this movement that led to the attack on the chapel just the yes or no answer mr zucker chairman i think our responsibility is to build systems that can i know i'm sorry i just want to get i know when it's are ok to try yes or no we always be in a deep sense of press possibility but i think we work hard this election if it was one of our most abstract of if it's not a yes or a no. congressman it's a complex question mr dorsey yes but you also have to take into consideration a broader you consistent it's not just a technology platforms we thank you now what do you make of all that. well you know this was actually the opening question and it set the tone for the rest of the hearing what is remarkable here is that you know for the 1st time with twitter's jack dorsey we do have a top tech executive acknowledging to

a certain degree that his platform had some kind of influence on the riot but i think you know that scene also really illustrates that this kind of is a turning point i mean before january 6th people already knew that online hate can spill into real life violence a brief scene that in myanmar for example with for years facebook was used to incite violence against the real hindu a minority but those things happened a brought that didn't happen in the us and what happened on january 6th hits very close to home for us lawmakers quite a truly and now they seem to be getting serious with regulating the liability of those platforms as well right so let's get into that regulation what is potentially on the table here. well i think you know what's key to understand is that in the u.s. unlike in germany for example as social media companies are they essentially have immunity over what's being said or done on their platforms and that's due to

a piece of legislation called 230 it dates back to 1996 actually a time when those companies that were there today were only just found it and what's up food debate now what we've seen today is you know is whether or not how to update that legislation maybe even repeal it u.s. president joe biden has himself called for fully repealing it the companies don't like that idea they want to reform it somehow although they don't agree on the details about that but what the meeting suggests today is that there is momentum building up that some kind of tougher rules for liability will come but i mean make no mistake it's completely unclear how they're going to look like. his chief technology course by again thanks very much. germany have got their world cup qualifying underway with

a convincing 3 male win against iceland the game went ahead after eunice hoffman tested positive for the coronavirus putting him and another player in quarantine germany wasted no time taking the lead. opened the scoring in the 3rd minute and. added another just 4 minutes later then in the 2nd half no one made it 3 nil this was germany's 1st match after coach if you love announced he'd be leaving after this year's euro. digital artwork by humanoid robot sophia has been sold at auction for nearly $700000.00 the robot produced her art in collaboration with the italian digital artist want to. thank you very much for joining me and supporting. the digital artwork is a 12 2nd m.p. for file showing the evolution of want to take those portrait into sophia's digital painting and it's a company by a physical artwork painted by sophia on

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hello i'm christine it's good to have you. any 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 a bus and then 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 it to cry 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 in ethiopia as 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 the bit you can eat so if you can yeah after this they were ordered to cancel it. 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 axum include dozens of witnesses describing how air tran soldiers killed over 100 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. it is this kind of evidence that appears to have forced the theo paean prime minister into what some are calling a stunning u. 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 tikrit people's liberation front and thereby may have committed atrocities you. know going to. a tree and 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. the military campaign was against our clearly targeted enemies even though not of the people you know with them and the. united nations is calling for an investigation and has urged etran troops to withdrawal from cheek dry. and to get some analysis on the story we've been fighting with him davis and 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 train troops have been present into crisis so significant and it's significant because the presence of eritrean troops has been denied by the 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 is military has been there is plenty of evidence that every trace military is engaged in systemic looting of public and private property integrate which has added to it's a great anger considerably and they have 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 governments over particularly over the eritrean involvement and their behavior. and on that in a train 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 of the great people's liberation front. as a political entity eritrea's government particularly its leader president is isaac

working as a long time opponent of the people if they had a very fractious relationship during their reputation and then in 1980 ethiopia eritrea fought a war eritrea suffered very heavily in that and that was led in part by the left and then subsequent to that ameritrade international isolation was also partly. the president desires plane that also want to graze leadership so they have a very. long a long and bitter political history. william the latest account of the atrocities that happening. 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 eritrean troops of civilians in that city in late november that has

now been very very heavily documented including by. a federal institution of the if you think government human rights commission we've also seen in all sorts of similar acts allegations of atrocities against civilians across to great none of them as heavily documented as the acts of incident but i think what we have is this m.s.f. witnessing. ethiopian soldiers taking passengers from a bus and executing them a terrible atrocity which m.s.f. witnessed by chance it'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 and 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 this issue you say that this military operation by the ethiopian government would likely become

a protracted war is that still legal 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 a significant defeat in november and december 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 be 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 but as for the 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 say thank you some of the stories now the kenyan government has ordered the un's refugee agency to shut down to refugee camps in the country the dab and cuckoo not 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 is trying 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 of would be constitutional. 2 transgender women arrested for wearing women's clothes in cameroon have been denied bail the judge adjourned the case and sent them 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 horses have recently carried out a series of actions and a race against the algae bt community. now the couple's lawyers say that the conditions in prison were relatively difficult will very difficult excuse me and that they too 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 hard time in the use of maybe acquiring. untenable illness for example because he's 19 we can see funding we know there is there are traits of god we are all been abused sexually mail order in leads to opportunity and even in the very deplorable conditions on the net depression is causing the not of done that it is equally on the side of it . says a nigerian 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 conceived is imported now we met one entrepreneur who say's the coffee industry could add a significant boost to the economy but the sick to needs support. few coffee be. blended and freshly brewed. building a coffee shop has always been the dream of princess a day back to kenya and now she has 2 shops. you know looking at the nigerian coffee market a lot of solutions that can create so what we did was we used blended coffee and created. a tieback form out of it sometimes power still a problem didn't we want people to still have the opportunity to enjoy

a freshly brewed coffee nigerians are nuts traditionally coffee drinkers but as a result of obama's aisha and a growing young well traveled pope you need 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 for something i want easy to buy from those who are selling when i want to pick up required me row one repeal one. goes to keep me option. at fishing and whatever i do take kino wants to cater for this new demand for coffee with our old blend of coffee coffee is grown in 15 out of there to 6 states in may but there are no government policies as to what local farmers policies are local production or what happens is our farmers still don't have any

major incentive to grow coffee tekkie not believes that investing in the coffee value would help support the country's struggling economy. and that's all for a program of stories. africa. to the point sean opinions clear positions international perspective such. labeling vladimir putin a killer accusing china of genocide against the leader of people the biden administration consigns russia and china become the us when that's our topic on to the point. to the point that. doesn't mean such images on doubling up. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list.

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model of pandemic management that's changed and businesses are especially frustrated. poor welcome to the show in berlin and we begin in the u.s. where jobless claims to fall 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. 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 as 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 it's healed the industries and here we're talking about leisure and hospitality for example we should they really need to create over 3500000 jobs in the next coming months had to recall those of 1000 levels but so far because of the all those stimulus that monetary and fiscal ones it seems that economists 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 up 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 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. risk taken which could become also. symptom of financial instability and holds all the as current in the structure as current for the economy after it happened i mean all right jose luis toro in new york thank you very much. all right let's shift topics and go to china

where western brands including nike him and adidas are increasingly under fire following their prior statements on forced labor and sheen john when they resurfaced in public and each company had previously voiced concern over abuse allegations allegations that have been thoroughly documented activists repos of those statements this week after the e.u. and us imposed sanction sanctions rather on chinese officials due to the 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 on the pitch and then was singled out this week for issuing a statement last year in which it said it was concerned about allegations of forced labor in change on both edge and them annika statements haven't been received well by people in china. the way i'm back to nigeria is chinese we must show our patriotism i don't buy these brands and now i will ask my friends to boycott them

to. missing those foreigners making money from china but scolding it and discrediting cotton function junk i will know by those foreign brands i will support domestic products. 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 it's a critical issue i think these brands are now quite concerns because of course all

of them have an agenda around the s.g. and vironment social or societal and government set of course this falls into possibly the governance phuket and these companies don't want to appear to be caught out from a moral point of view and again alienate their customers around the world in every . other markets 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 changing 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 to some 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. 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. was only a year ago that germany was being praised for its exemplary handling of the pandemic his numbers were low and the public largely adopted hygiene measures and restrictions things aren't going so well now kids 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 vaccination strategy and the logistics the testing and opening it has to go hand in hand which is very important

fos this person of the state financial supports less bureaucracy on these formulas 'd and certainly not a drop by drop payout to small business owners desperate need of 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 make sense to me

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