the rules. for when. gaza. is in the. hands. of. the world's largest electronics supplier who wants to venture into the electric car business and foxconn isn't alone in its ambitions will get the latest from our correspondent also coming up we take you to dubai where tourists can stroll shop and laws like the pandemic never happened but this openness comes at

a price. i'm for scullery berlin volchenkov the program the world's largest electronics supplier foxconn saw profits drop 4 percent in its most recent quarter despite strong sales of the i phone and other telecommuting devices for which foxconn provides chips revenue is up 15 percent driven mostly by strong demand for smartphone chips the company which is fully staffed with honors under strict coronavirus safety rules projects growth of 10 percent for the coming year stronger than expected foxconn shares surged on the news. let's cross over to frankfurt and our financial correspondent conrad booze and conrad business obviously booming at their projections very strong 10 percent growth for the year and the company has a specific plans on how it wants to spend the revenue foxconn wants to build electric cars how much of a surprise is that announcement. well foxconn is not totally new to the

automotive industry it has partnerships with the chinese car maker ulong group and also with chrysler providing parts and handling supply chain management also fox concept boss has experience in the car industry he was vice president for china at ford and he was the chairman of the chinese operations what is surprising surprising i think is the approach that foxconn is taking here at the scale of the project foxconn really wants to become a technology hub it wants to transform how electric vehicles are made just like the n droid operates things operating system once transformed the whole you know smartphone industry in order to do this foxconn is planning partnerships with a large number of companies including infinium the german chip maker and with the

mobility being all the rage these days the field of competitors is growing a chinese smartphone maker show me also wants to build cars and wants a slice of the pie here. yes the market is getting really crowded it will be so interesting to see who will survive this for the german comic because this means that they have to totally reinvent themselves their expertise in making highly developed combustion engines is less and less in demand and they're facing competition from many different sides sides and from companies who weren't even there a year or 2 ago conrad burns in frankfurt thank you. and now to some of the other global business stories making the news more than 100 ships have passed through the suez canal in both directions since a giant container freighter that had been blocking the waterway was does last

that's according to reports by egyptian state t.v. the ever given had run aground last wednesday putting traffic through one of world's trades arteries on hold the european union markets watchdog has fined credit ratings for movies nearly 4000000 euros movies is accused of negligence which resulted in breaches of. including failure to disclose conflicts of interest the fine of wise to 5 movies entities based in france germany italy spain and the u.k. global banks may lose more than $6000000000.00 following the downfall of arcadius capital a new york based private investment firm arcade has defaulted on equity derivatives bets that had assets of only $10000000000.00 but have stock options worth $50000000000.00. the huge explosion in the port of beirut last august reduced large parts of the lebanese capital to rubble that also left hundreds of

people homeless but many lebanese were fighting for the livelihoods even before that for years the country has been mired in political and financial uncertainty. these people are protesting the never ending financial crisis in lebanon hundreds took to the streets in the capital beirut over the weekend the domestic currency the lebanese pound has fallen considerably in value nowadays the majority can barely make ends meet. and that lebanon is currently going through a real monetary crisis that has led to a financial collapse lebanon's money was stolen at the central bank wields power that no other central bank in the world has. a lot of money. it's people like assaf who are being hit hardest by the worst crisis since the end of the civil war in 1900 the former policeman depends on a plate of hot food from a soup kitchen something he could never imagine in the past. because

i used to be middle class but now i've fallen below the poverty line. the retired policeman a former teacher even former university professors come here regularly. the n.g.o.s that runs the soup kitchen sees the impoverishment happening on lebanese society. above all its retirees because with the monetary devaluation they've totally lost their purchasing power they don't even have the power now to buy their own medicine or to pay their rent or buy food or anything at all. too many international observers are already referring to lebanon as a last country as rampant corruption also becomes increasingly widespread and the country's own politicians seem as helpless to deal with the crisis as the people they're

supposed to serve. now here in europe not only germany is grappling with a 3rd wave of coronavirus infections in germany's neighbor poland staveley infection. raids have been breaking one record after another now the government in berlin has declared poland a high risk area which means that anyone wanting to enter germany from poland needs a negative coronavirus test which is a real hurdle for thousands of commuters. instead of a quick trip to the construction site construction supervisor. has a long wait at the german border polish commuters now need to show a negative coronavirus test to enter the country. picks up some new colleagues and it's glad that he came despite the difficulties at the border the phones the boss to reschedule the work here your commuter i.d.'s and the company certificate that you're employed by them in an emergency show them that as well as your current

corona test or. waiting in line for hours and paying for the pleasure resend meant among commuters it's noticeable. we're getting ripped off for driving to work but fun and at last. and his colleagues turn it cost 3 hours of waiting and $23.00 euros he hopes he'll get the money back the polish ministry of the interior has just announced it will cover the cost of at least $1.00 test per week. but now it's off to work i'm relieved but for how long soon i'll have to queue here again for several more hours and pay again that's pure stress. they made it this time they can go to work whether that will involve overtime doesn't know fortunately most of his 20 or so polish colleagues got in today but the boss is worried things might not stay

that way. i know one worker is missing he probably saw the queue at the test center when he got to the border and went home again you know the situation is that the guy is just under 60 years old. and he told my other colleagues today that he's not going to put up with it any longer. he'll probably quit. you can go back at the border bridge and fun foot everyone entering germany gets checked polish daytrippers can only cross with a negative culvert 19 test result for commuters proof of employment is sufficient though they still have to wait in line some here half way that 7 hours today just for a test now even during the coronavirus endemic dubai has continued trying to attract tourists after all every tense job there is dependent on visitors coming in and spending money that's why hotels stores and restaurants face very few

restrictions but this kind of openness comes at a price. dubai has been open since last summer the sleek hub on the persian gulf attracts tourists from around the world with a mixture of maximum freedom and minimum restrictions hotels stores and restaurants are all open up to 7 people are allowed per table no curfew and no quarantine a negative test result is sufficient for entry. the openness was born of necessity the tourism industry collapsed when a hard lockdown was imposed a year ago one in 10 jobs here depends on the industry tens of thousands of foreign workers were sent home. the largest city in the united arab emirates was on the brink of collapse but after the reopening came a turnaround the government is optimistic. we do see a good recovery that will come you know we want to use this summer as as

a launchpad to reintroduce. the safety and the assurance in global travel is. just to show that you know by safe. as your phrase that we are all for. luxury hotels are filling up bargain prices and discounts are tempting a flight for 2 people can cost as little as $1300.00 euros everything almost feels like it did before the pandemic masks on the beach are rare but cocktails are plentiful half price at happy hour german gas are already enjoying the sun sand and beautiful views it's almost like over $1000.00 doesn't exist. it's so different and so nice to be free people can take things for granted nowadays it's crazy it's almost like a new life here. it's great to escape germany right now because even though you

have to wear a mask here you can eat outside and in germany everything is closed but here you can go shopping and even do sports for example. the fact that democracy freedom of expression and human rights are not well regarded in the autocratically ruled emirates does give some tourists a bit of a headache but in the end most aren't willing to let this information spoil their holiday. i mean this is a little bubble here we don't have much to do with it now but human rights of course i'm for it. the opening policy does have a price the infection numbers have skyrocketed at the beginning of the year in the emirates $2100.00 infections per day in a population of $10000000.00 people dubai is currently considered a high risk area. and reminder of the top story we are following for you at this

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a virus spread. through the town. and. if you would like and the information on the crawler or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcasts you can also find us at. science. at 1st it seemed as if children were immune to it was just adults who had to worry about getting sick but at least their kids were safe. schools reopened after lock downs it became clear that children could not only carry but also see. rate the virus. then came the variance and

with them a rapid rise of infections among younger children but some getting seriously ill. more children up you know admitted to hospital then before so are the new virus variants making kids sikka or are simply more children being infected than before. it's not pleasant i'm doing that every day oh my well come to our coping 900 special i want to get jones in berlin and schools here are currently closed for the easter holidays that means kids can catch the virus there at least for the next 2 weeks but what about meeting friends or family and how big is the risk for children anyway well here's what we know so far. for.

them if they're. not. making a. lengthy making out. and the coronavirus ringback it's supposedly harmless for them but is that true. a year after the pandemic struck hospitals are reporting an increasing number of young admissions they're suffering from the so-called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome or pimms. worldwide doctors have seen this condition emerge weeks after a covert 1000 infection the w.h.o. keeps track of the severe illness in children and young people but says it's rare luckily children in adolescence tend to have more mild disease and even most children tend to have asymptomatic infection which means they don't have any symptoms at all. but since most children are asymptomatic it's hard to know when they're infected so the virus is transmitted. often it's completely under technique

and some studies show. we were examined children for antibodies against the corona virus and we found that around 6 times as many children have had the infection as would have been expected so we do it. on going on when you see history shows us that children definitely do get infected and that they can take the infection home with them how's it going and so far nurseries and schools haven't been seen as covert hotspots but that may be about to change virus mutations like a b 117 variant which emerged in the u.k. are far more contagious amongst children as well scientists want to apply the same strict hygiene measures to them as for adults. the same rules smaller groups social distancing hygiene ventilation should apply there too. just like everywhere else only because children also contribute to the spread of the infection.

and because the corona virus does pose a serious threat to some children vaccines are needed pharma giants pfizer and madonna have begun clinical studies in the u.s. some on babies as young as 6 months but with initial results not expected before summer it will be some time before a safe vaccine is available for children. and for more i'm joined by yvonne amount of nato she's an epidemiology is an infectious disease specialist at stanford school of mates in and she joins us from palo alto in california good morning to you good to have you with us at least tell me how worried are you about the rise in infection numbers among children. yes it is a concern but we have to remember that it is still a case that world why that children do not make up a very large percentage of people who are infected with the virus for example here

in the united states about 13 percent of voluntary actions are children under 18 it is true however that children can be infected they can become hospitalized and rarely children can die from the disease so we do have to be careful and in addition as you heard before children can become infected more likely without symptoms so they can spread to other rest we have to remember that all our family members must mask and distance how big a role does the so-called british variant the 117 play when it comes to children well the b $17.00 variant is going to play a similar role in children as it will in any other age group and that it is this virus is more infectious so whatever we see in fact infections in children we're going to see more maybe 30 to 50 percent more infectious ness of that fires and children as well as adults but subtle make them basically at those searching does it also make them sick it because we see more children hospitalized now yet we

don't know that if that's the case just for children we have seen data for the 1st here are that the b. 117 does seem to cause more severe illness but most of those data came from adults we don't know yet about children you haven't seen enough data there right now i know that you and your colleagues a working on a code 916 suitable for children how will that vaccine differ from the ones already available for adults. well we know that pfizer on the journal and johnson and johnson will be using their vaccines for children and we're going to be starting in the other few weeks to use the pfizer vaccine here at stanford and then maybe johnson and johnson after that and my journey is also started their trials the doses with will be starting out with smaller doses to see if they produce any allergic reactions for example and say make sure that they're safe and if they are the doses dosing will be increased potentially to the same level as what the adults

are receiving and there's a different timeline understand for adolescents and to smaller children could you just briefly tell us when we can expect the vaccine for adolescents and then in particular for fatah to los and perhaps even babies. yes so bias or vaccine here in the united states received emergency approval for 16 and 17 year olds so we imagine that for a major now and johnson and johnson there may be approval for 16 and 17 year olds for their vaccines hopefully by this fall but for younger children that is those say 122-155-2128 may take longer maybe later this fall certainly for the little 16 months of age to 2 years we don't expect that scene will be available all the trials will be going on this year he probably won't see any available approvals until 2022 right i mean i know that it's a bit of

a nasty question but do we actually need a vaccine for children given that the w.h.o. stresses that most children infected with the coronavirus are asymptomatic. well you know there are 130000000. births a year and this world and we know that children are a big proportion of our family members that can go out of the house and become infected so we think that children are as important as adults and be protected for their own health as well as for prevention of transmitting this virus in households in all around the world so yes absolutely it is critical that children become vaccinated but we need the vaccines to be as safe and effective as possible and just briefly in the meantime what do you advise for what we parents. yes i think that the same advice should hold true now as it did a year ago if we know that children should be monitored for

safety again and. not going out in crowds making sure that children can wear masks children over 2 years old can easily wear masks they're very safe and to luton 2 years above and just unseen and hand hygiene are still in that age group as well. and they do from stanford school of medicine thank you so much thank you very much. may i ask you a question did you catch cold this winter come down with the flu no well over to derek and one of your questions now. what happened with flu in the 2021 winter season. a huge fear of going into this winter in the northern hemisphere was potentially having to deal with with waves of cohabit and flu at the same time this sort of dreaded twin demick that would put health care systems under even more pressure and and one

of the most positive things you can say about how things actually developed is that those fears never materialized in fact a flu infections worldwide have fallen so far during the pandemic that it's kind of hard to find the right adjective to describe the trend but it's staggering maybe look at this graphic on the topic from the w.h.o. for a minute i'm on the left hand side you see the numbers of confirmed cases of flu back in early 2020 when those lockdowns happened everywhere back in march and april the numbers nosedive and they've remained at truly historic lows ever since most experts think this dramatic drop is due largely to measures like mask wearing and and social distancing implemented during the pandemic but i can hear you saying well if those measures worked so well against flu viruses why have they proven so

much less effective against sars kovi to at least part of the reason could be that influenza viruses were already endemic on a global scale sort of migrating if you can really use that term of the virus between the northern and southern hemispheres in a in a regular winter season rhythm so when killed 19 hit a year ago lots of people had some immune. into the flu because they had it fairly recently then another significant slice of the population has since acquired some unity from flu vaccines many scientists if the arise that that throwing social distancing and frequent hand washing and masks into that mix possibly put flu viruses over a critical transmission threshold where they they simply can't spread effectively but even today relatively few people globally have acquired any protection from

sars kopi to do infection or vaccination so it can spread effectively at least that's the working hypothesis and a significant turnaround for the country which at one point had the highest death rate in the wilts. the united kingdom says it's already administered at least one dose of its coded vaccine to over 30000000 people that's close to 60 percent of the adult population and we leave you with these pictures thanks for watching.

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