you're story trying always to understand this new culture. another visitor another you want to become a citizen. migrants your platform for reliable information. a setback for equal opportunities between men and women coronavirus pandemic has pushed back to gender parity by a generation that's according to findings of the world economic forum we'll talk to one of the authors of the report also on the show it's the biggest i.p.o. in london for a decade but shares of delivery service delivery route plunged on their 1st day of training our correspondent has more on that and tired of working from home why not rent a room with a few stars overnight guests hotels are turning beer from the basement into office

. i'm for scoble welcome to the program the pandemic stis proportionate impact on women could reverse years of progress towards gender equality now that's a stark warning from a new report published by the world economic forum it shows that at the current rate of progress it will take another 133 years to achieve gender parity in the areas of economic opportunity political empowerment education and health the biggest gap remains in politics where globally women occupy just over a quarter of all seats in parliament this despite the fact that female leaders have one particular praise for their handling of the pandemic one big problem is the so-called double shift so at the crisis women have taken on more childcare and home schooling demands than men as a result stave become more likely to drop out of the workplace less likely to

senate leadership roles and unsurprisingly have experienced more stress. now earlier i spoke to the world economic forum managing director saadi has a t.v. and asked her what sort of long term impact she believes the pen demick will have on gender parity i think if 15 years of measuring this data has shown us anything it's that there is nothing natural about the gender gap it exists because off decisions that are taken are not taken and therefore proactive efforts to day that and then carry tea into the economy of the future last was going to be a game changer and this is a great moment to do that because so many things are shifting entire sectors are being disrupted to acknowledge the mass amount of automation and digitize ation is

moving forward at a faster pace than ever before so this is in many ways the right moment to embed parity and that's going to require efforts from both the government and from the business sector not the same time you say when it comes to the changes in the job world that we're seeing today the mass of the. undertakings that are happening there industry $4.00 your report also states that despite these changes it's going to be harder for women in this new world of jobs to succeed. yeah there is a mixed picture here right so the jobs that will be growing in the future a very large set of them happen to be the roles that to deploy a lot of technology or broaden the science technology engineering and math skills and that is one of the very few areas of study where fewer women are going in than men and so that pipeline happens to be more male dominated than female dominated

now of course there are some sectors of the economy which are highly dominated by women and are expected to grow in the future supreme sampled the caricom me or the education sector both of these are likely to grow in the future and tend to employ more women but they also happen to be lower paid sectors and so even though the overall employment to me a rise in those sectors when it comes to women the economic gender gap is still likely to expand because of this growing segregation between higher paid sectors and lower paid sectors and the gender balance within that and study of recently iceland. on top in your reporting of for gender equality yet again what are they doing better than other countries. well they've got in place the care infrastructure you refer to that double shift that women are facing they have got in place the care infrastructure that supports working families and it tends to

work equally for both women and for men they also have a fairly good track record when inspected station and parliament and ministerial positions female heads of state and that's also working well and then of course within the business world there are a lot of measures in place that ensure that women are not just hired into roles but there is a very clear and objective path to professional 2 to progression and promotions that helps close some of those gender gaps and some of those implicit biases that intend to exist in the corporate world so that together that is how i see is maintaining its number one position including you in this endemic idea of the world economic forum thank you it was billed as the biggest i.p.o. in london for a decade but shares of delivery service delivery plunged on their london stock exchange to abuse stock fell by as much as 30 percent in one of the steepest

trading debut falls for a major company on the mc market for years deliver has seen a boom in demand during the pandemic bringing food from the ones closed restaurants to customers in locked up. let's get more from our correspondent in london bigger quite a dire debut there what's behind. well it looks like a lot of investors did not participate in this i.p.o. due to an environmental and social concerns delivery really had a lot of negative press over the payment of its writers who earn much less than the minimum wage in the u.k. the u.k. being the biggest markets and there is an expectation that that might change soon so that's obviously a warning for investors that the profit margins of delivery could be impacted even

further the other issue seems to be an issue of governments unequal voting rights and the ability of the c.e.o. to retain control of the company says those seem to be the biggest issues that made and western investors be quite wary of participating in the i.p.o. never get on that point that you mentioned there deliverers 100000 writers are self-employed the company doesn't guarantee pay or any other benefits why is it surprising that surprising that these social aspects have such an impact on investors. well more and more investors seem to be looking at social and environmental and sustainability issues when they are deciding what companies to invest in and that definitely has been the talk of the town and here here in london the focus seems to be much more on these issues and when we look at delivery route it's really a right in the middle of this debate so the right is and london is one of the

biggest markets for deliver and i live in central london and i see them on street corners congregating and all this is waiting time for them and is a time when they're not being not being paid so interesting to you there have been some court cases here in the u.k. and so far the courts have supported delivery's argument but just recently there has been another big court case. that favors drivers so now has to really restructure the way it pays its drivers in the u.k. and the expectation is that something similar could be in store for delivery so those who really also materially would would make and of investors really look at this and maybe wait for this possible court case and very briefly what does this somber debut by delivering mean for london as a financial hub now outside the e.u. . well much has been made of the u.k.'s

new strategies post-breakfast strategies and one is to try and attract more fin tech companies and it's difficult to draw some parallels with with this sort of sluggish i p o one analyst told me that it's more to do with the inherent problems that deliver is facing that we have talked about more than any reflection of the british chancellor as opposed to exit strategy when it comes to financial services. now to some of the other global business stories making news swedish fast fashion chain has reported a 1st quarter loss chinese consumers have been boycotting h. and m. after the company expressed concern for human rights and the seen young region and to stop buying cotton produce there it has now back saying it was dedicated to regaining shoppers and partners trust in china chinese telecom giant hallway

notched up a record profit of nearly $10000000.00 yes last year but revenues were hit by the pandemic and the effect of u.s. sanctions over security fears more phone sales were flat after the u.s. cut huawei off from key components and banned it from using google's android operating system and its hands its the international monetary fund says that economic growth led by the united states and china is accelerating but warns of the risks of an an even global recovery faster u.s. recovery could cause a rise in interest rates and lead to significant capital outflows from developing economies says the old ization chief bristol ina. holding back now we all know that the hospitality sector has been heavily hit by the pandemic starved of overnight visitors because of virus restrictions a growing number of hotels are turning their rooms into co-working spaces not for

people tired of working from home the new surroundings are a welcome change. checking into a hotel not for a breakaway but to get some work done kenny most aho booked her office space on an app because of the pandemic she can no longer go to her regular place of work instead she comes here it's cheaper than renting a regular office space today she and 2 colleagues are holding a meeting. you know what that is because i meant the hotels are pleasant places to work i think it's a good solution this way i can see my colleagues again when i'm at home alone i miss them. i'm in their views and god knows of way. it's a similar scene next door where beds have been replaced by tables the steep decline in overnight visitors has forced managers to rethink their business models

some are hoping to create an opportunity out of the crisis. akin to mass on the one hand we have younger more casual customers who generally hang out in the lobby on the other we have managers who come because they don't have offices anymore and want the chance to leave the house. you can. pick us up. in the spanish capital madrid some 70 percent of hotels are currently shut amounting to around $2000000000.00 euros in lost business some have converted their rooms into co-working spaces with breakfast internet and printing included public $100.00 saw the trend coming and developed an app that allows users to look for work space in hotels but. it has for us it's about being able to work in different places it's one of the best developments be able to work on a rooftop like this is just wonderful if you know what i mean yes. for hotel

operators to survive means to adapt especially at a time when no one knows when or even if things will ever return to normal. well. thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection developing. the latest research. information and contacts. virus update. official estimates more than one point to.

return to. visiting friends is that i don't think i'd ever go back there to live where i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. they are in witness global news that matters. made for mines. so far very few children have become seriously ill with covert 19 to the point of being hospitalized about a 3rd of them have a preexisting condition made worse by covert such as a lung disease the other 2 thirds of premature babies children with down syndrome. and a source close to infection can also trigger the so-called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome p i.m.'s a disease that attacks various organs in children whether they have severe mild or

even no covert symptoms at all which makes you wonder why shouldn't children be higher up on the priority list in fighting the pandemic. welcome to the united special i want to get johnsonville and good to have you with us now we all tend to associate old age with frailty and illness right so when it comes to prioritizing of $1000.00 backs a nation we all say the old and vulnerable should come 1st but what about the young and vulnerable is the struggle of a family that feels abandoned by society and serve their. sonia is a loving partner to her husband where suffered from spastic paralysis since she also looks after her son felix the family could really do with some outside help but that's a risky prospect in times of covert you can. go up. to

scrutiny 'd or. it is very difficult. or for me to weigh it all up because if we catch it it will be very bad for the boy and for me too. for. the family has been living in almost complete isolation for a year catching covert would most likely be fatal for the boy and his stepfather getting back summated would change all that but it's been 3 months since the vaccination rollout in germany and the family is still waiting. for the style of you know right now the pandemic clearly shows where the rights of the severely disabled are not exercised seen at all or at which point the un disability rights convention is once again just on paper what of popish. felix shows us this room he suffers from chronic muscle weakness so he has to be

artificially ventilated when he sleeps his mother looks after him around the clock every night is the night shift she tells us. so how is it sleeping with the ventilator is that all right. mostly it's difficult for him to fall asleep if he gets to sleep then it's not a problem. of the past year felix has taken all of his classes online his parents would like to have been vaccinated so he can go back to school once the lockdown is eased it would be a so-called off label vaccination because the vaccine has not been approved for children but says they can't find any support for that either. as. there's no one out there who says please contact us now we will take care of it for you we have been in the circle i want. also hopes that the needs of people with

disabilities be put in focus more. around her i hope this interview will make us be moved visible to everyone proved to be truth. until about happens the family will continue their struggle. and professor marcus kloof is director of the clinic for children and adolescents and here's dr haast clinic in respond and good to have you with us as a pediatric intensive a still critical care physician and in fact your largest would you say the children have received enough attention so find this pandemic. so far the focus of the pandemic has been on the dually especially those older people over 80 years of age in particular high risk of fatal causes and that's why the.

endemic is a pandemic of the elderly let's say are all children do not have a very high risk of becoming seriously ill and that's probably the explanation for the fact that children are not in the middle of the activities around dependent the fight against the pandemic process worldwide so. your question. with monsanto and no children do not have received enough attention during this pandemic process yes they sit in now with the new variants that we see a rise in infections and mansion but why is that. well. we we do not really know what happens if children are in touch with 2 and the mutations so probably. the previously introductory virus

is more or less similar to a corona virus which as more or less frequent and book show the population now of the mutations are something new for the immune system and that's probably one reason why the numbers are going up but it's not good honest there's not a good understanding of how how this this works so do we then know whether all children equally at risk right now or especially those with special precondition. well good news is that most of the children do not have a very high risk to to become seriously ill but. there are also complicated. some complications especially in those children which are risk and those sort of the new bones of pre-term infants or those was underlying.

diseases for example comes under the hot deficiency or immunodeficiency is as well as those children which were treated with immunocompromised medications. in terms of hematoma corrupt ecole a disease and so on there is a relevant number of children with a high risk and one prominent. group of diseases that the down syndrome those children very high risk falls. and fatal outcome. to sasco for 2 and 2 children with let's say. in bone era of metabolisms or assume drums for example at euro sgouros and others at and these children what they react differently mostly to the virus than adults who are elderly with me thin phlegm atory reactions of various organs i mean how

worried should we be about the so-called g.i. mess or am i s.e.z. . yeah this implement tory multi system sundram is. is not very common so we do half also asians of the syndrome and hospitals especially in mile spittle as well but of the muscle our overall overall the muscle and oh so there is not really a mandatory it i'm on this but at least there are some sure don't which are affected by these mass and there isn't the assumption that genetically took to mind. to billet he is responsible for all of these cases so this means it's not random that a child abstracts its previous trial by. and genetical

determined a sus up to the nitty gritty truth as a new fan thank you so much for your time. so step by step we learn more about kobe 1000 and children and about 19 in general it's time for your questions now over to our science correspondent eric williams. do the different vaccines protect people from the long term effects of covert 19. many patients who contract coded 19 become what are known as as long haul or as or people who have long kovac there's currently no way to predict who that might affect although there isn't really an accepted definition for it having long coded basically means you don't return to your previous levels of health even months after sars kopi to falls below detectable levels in your body it's affected millions of people who have

a wide spectrum of longer term symptoms with with chronic fatigue for example a really regular complaint there are 2 big theories for for what might be causing it one is that long that happens when the body can't clear out all of the virus or viral fragments left after infection that basically the virus is able to hide in some people somehow and then the body goes into a kind of of of trench warfare mode the 2nd hypothesis is that long tube it is an unchecked auto immune response so so an off the rails immune system in some patients experts say it could be a combination of both but there's no doubt that for people suffering long coated symptoms the prospect of getting vaccinated must be pretty terrifying i mean could

getting the shot actually make you feel morse well although i emphasize that we still can't say anything for certain there. are a growing number of anecdotal reports that getting vaccinated appears to be actually helping at least some people with long overdue we don't know why. one small study and peer review also at least indicates that more long haul worse feel better then feel worse after been vaccinated the problem is to find out more we would have to conduct trials where so long haul words get posted 19 back scenes and and others get placebos masquerading as covert 19 back since i don't think that's going to happen to be honest in the current climate right now i can only say that the general consensus seems to be that long haul ors should also be vaccinated

and some anecdotal reports say it might help with sometimes. deron williams then he'll be back on some more a few questions tomorrow that's all for now thanks for watching stacy.

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