the class. to sing along you see has to come from super. interactive exercises. everything is on line misfile interactive and jamming to friends with demi. on both sides of the atlantic in the u.s. and the u.k. the speed of corona virus vaccinations is going from fast a faster there are so many vaccinated people that the centers for disease control has issued new travel guidelines in america if you've had the shot you can fly again the british were hoping to hear something similar today when the prime minister announced an easing of walk down restrictions non-essential stores and restaurants will soon reopen but will there be summer holidays tonight the official line is yes but best not to book anything just yet i'm burnt off in berlin

this is the day. we don't want to see the virus being reimported into this country and. i think it's going to take a while for the whole world know what we're going to do to the global travel to our schools is going to report later on this week we're going to have to believe that maybe people will not be able to get the cookies my apps but i love to be able to be able to do more things i used to do for example fully vaccinated grandparents and fight it in there helping out. my grandfathers i have 6 grandchildren and i felt that. also coming up for practically the entire 20th century polls showed that most americans. belong to

a church in the 21st century a dramatic departure an exodus from religion. i grew up with raise something that my whole life it was my world to me i got something got through. it to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with britain reopening with baby steps today british prime minister boris johnson announced plans to ease the coronavirus lockdown restrictions with the country's vaccination drive the best in europe and with summer quickly approaching there was much anticipation ahead of today's news and there was a good dose of disappointment to the good news is that non-essential restaurants pubs and shops will begin reopening next week but nonessential travel outside of the country that will remain a no go the earliest date for resuming international travel is mid may but even that could be delayed of surges in new infections continue elsewhere now this all

means for now going out to dinner yes going on vacation not yet here is prime minister boris johnson i can today confirm that from monday the 12th of april we will move to step 2 of our road map there is absolutely no question of people be off to produce certificates no covert status report when they go to the to the shop so to the pub. or to the head dresses or whatever obviously we're hopeful that we can get going but only from may the 17th well hopeful but i do not wish to give hostages to fortune or all to under estimate the difficulties that we're seeing in some of the destination countries people don't want to go to we don't want to see the virus being reimported into this

country from abroad. all right let's go now to our london correspondent charles until she is covering these locked down easy for is tonight getting to you charlotte sim let's start with the positives here you will soon be able to go out to dinner again you can get a haircut even if you're boris johnson and you can go to the zoo that's all good right. ryan well you really have to bear in mind here is just some of the background the context of this is well how it's now which is has a huge bearing on how it's being viewed hey in the u.k. i mean they've been months of a very very strict lockdown to say as recently as last month it was only possible to meet one person outside for exercise now we're hearing you to meet in groups of up to 6 in pubs now outside it's all cause of boris johnson and latest just what he's calling his roadmap to freedom and he indeed says that he asked me was going to be celebrating this latest step saying that he cautiously but if they be in the

pub on monday next monday when they play sister stations are 7 i wouldn't be drinking a pint to celebrate i mean you know u.k. has that was the highest death toll in europe and in fact it was just a year ago this farce johnson himself was admitted to hospital weeks copus 19 so desperately needed news here in the u.k. that restrictions on now being eased now we know that this being is being fueled by the u.k. very successful back same program in fact the hoff of adults now in the u.k. have received a festivus of the vaccine out of the 31000000 people 5000000 have received a 2nd dose and we had just today that that effort is going to be boosted by 3 testing recognize that testing twice a week for everybody in the u.k. so it really is full steam ahead here at the moment but what we don't know as you alluded to just now is exactly when it will be able to travel for the holidays.

through airport today issued a statement saying that they were disappointed in the lack of clear of the coming from the prime minister this means simply put they want people to fly again yesterday. well of course and i'm sure you can understand it is the same everywhere in the well but they've been restrictions on travel so a good deal of disappointment not just from the in the aviation industry which was hyping some more clarity but also of course from countries which benefit from tourism to take you from british tourist given the speed is about same program that when many countries spain for example he was saying that the british tories and british tourists would be sort of a shining light and what could potentially be quite a dog on the given the but the way that we pan across all the parts of europe now is that it's so giving a date on on when international travel would resume forrest 1 jones and said the

prime minister has said that it was too soon to say at the moment non-essential travel is legal now because british tourists and the reason that he gave is just too much concern at the moment about the risk of new battery and potentially plundering all the banking assets that have been taking place in the u.k. undermining the banking program now the one bit of clarity that we did get was it's been confirmed that there will be a trust that client system introduced when travel regimes that would be sort of a red amber or green system web by though be a different rules for different countries based on their own back seen programs and there have been a thief that is he's the genome sequencing testing for a new battery and so potentially countries like the us israel could be on not greenness making travel and little bit easier but as you say at the moment tourists here in the u.k. are being told not to because holidays you know joe we've got about

a minute left talk to me about the plan for vaccine passports and why is there already opposition in parliament. yeah about 6 stream a controversial picture of this issue of domestic boxing possible internationally it's generally accepted that there might have to be some sort of quite a criteria whereby people have to be vaccinated should travel but the big question is do you need to be vaccinated 20 pop in the office about is if currently on clay but the opposition from across the political spectrum from and civil rights groups as well is based on the idea that it could be discriminatory how can you not allow people who are contacting the medical reasons to access the same things that people who have vaccinated offer that clearly is going to be something that proves continues through to be controversial in the weeks ahead for the very own charlatanism people with the latest tonight from london charlie as always thank you was knowing we can say with certainty that germany would willingly trade positions

with the u.k. when it comes to corona virus lockdowns vaccinations remain slow here the number of new infections continues to rise and now there is talk of a tougher and longer walk down today the head of germany's conservatives and a possible candidate to be the next chancellor proposed what he calls a bridge to carry the country until most people are vaccinated now this could mean a lockdown for all of may and june with nightly curfew. not shoot during a visit to a vaccination center last week the approach of him and other state premiers to the pandemic site from the chancellor he salvo would return a call for more talks until the measure is. and that's why i think we need a bridge lock down. we have to build to preach to the point in time where a lot of people the fact senator i'm my own eyes i know there's

a lot of people are tired of the pandemic but also because a lot are ready to go a step further i mean shit so in. that it wants more people working from home and stricter curfews but there's few restrictions as possible for schools and kindergartens he says he has allies including the chancellor but not everyone is on board. i think a lot of what mr lasher says is unclear bridge locked down this temporary with what measures are not supposed to go on until many people have been facts native what does all that mean i don't think mr russian has thought things through so i can't see any point in calling the state premiers back for talks earlier than planned so in a minister position conferences. the problem is simply the time we've lost one for a month we've known that the numbers are going up so it's clear that we need decisive measures now. and she. is a man next to lash it is a leading german intensive care doctor and he warns. the need for the next

fortnight or so we expect the number of infections will continue to grow we'll have 5 or more 1000 cope with 1000 patients in intensive care the situation really is very dramatic you know august as a. margin with. the health minister says vaccinations will not break the 3rd wave only about $10000000.00 germans have had their 1st job so far. i my next guest is dr eric dane he's an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he joins me from washington d.c. tonight it is good to see you again german leaders are as you heard there calling for a harder lockdown calling it a bridge to carry the country until enough people have been vaccinated i mean what's your take do you think a bridge too late or is a bridge to nowhere well certain things are water under the bridge but right now we do definitely need to lock down because you know in germany is seem

a possible rises soon you know its neighbors are having huge huge rises just east of it in for example in hungary in oman and also in france so i think right now stopping the transmission before this gets out of control is so critical especially with the more transmissible b 117 is surging in numbers and replacing the old strain and also p. one strain that's now circulating through many go corners of the world not just in brazil is series a critical critical time in germany is not one of the top vaccine. nation countries hungary in many other countries are actually ahead of germany so germany has to be very careful at this stage and since let me ask you about the united states over the easter weekend the number of passengers flying hit a new pandemic high there are still areas in the u.s. with surges in new infections of well what are you expecting to see in about 2

weeks' time from now. you know every month predicting that there will be some kind of increase there is more dramatic in the coming weeks and us we're already seeing the majority of states 2 thirds of states are actually seeing increases last week compared week before and i think this is just the tip of the iceberg u.s. is definitely not out of this but hopefully with the vaccines are rolled out really insult fast and so our u.s. can get ahead of it and hopefully temper whatever small surge it will be us is actually at well over $3000003.00 and a half 1000000 people a day now u.s. could be catching up with ultimately by this summer potentially on earth immunity but we're not there yet and herd immunity only guarantees that you can slow and surging epidemic from peak it does not mean that you can stop it right

away and that's what we have to really mitigate before we get to that nation in a speaking of airplanes and air travel the c.d.c. the centers for disease control has issued new guidelines for vaccinated people who want to travel is this a green light to go. i think don't mess to travel is still tricky i would encourage people to watch how are you. is the case is surging and where you want to go and if you are also in one of those places with i number of cases it cautioned is very risky i still think it's best precaution is to stay home as this close to where you are as possible c.b.c. they are encouraging more busy you know especially people who are vaccinated there relaxing lot of measures but in certain ways mark these measures are misunderstood

when they say that's new people can be to your hurt now elderly people who are vaccinated now going to bars and i don't think that's really good ideas you know protects you from illness but it still has a small chance that you can still be transmitted transmitted yet and carry especially to those who are not vaccinated yet when you still have to be very careful is there a communication problem there could be that but what you're saying is you know you and i know that but there's the public know that all of these nuances that come attached to this vaccine. you're going nuances are because somewhat lost like for transmission we we know that you will stop about 75 to 95 percent of all transmission depending on the next scene but it's got its last minute you will think oh vaccine you're protected now you're protected message is completely lost and also just so you know the one segment in some studies. it's the

protection against some of these other variants is not nearly as high as we hope it is and so we have to be extra extra vigilant especially since we don't have enough sequencing people just don't understand people here message whatever usual amount of you don't want one driving down the road at high speed but you don't pick up the new ones in the new ones in your still potentially trend many says please stay home or we are not ask dr eric fighting as always they're going to talk with you we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. hungary has one of europe's highest per capita coppa 19 death rates and that despite being one of the european countries with a relatively high vaccination rate something somewhere is not working but leaders in budapest apparently don't want the media to report it that way hungary's government is clamping down on independent reporting connected to the country's

vaccination campaign and the number of hospitalisations d.w. correspondent funny for char spoke with one doctor who told her it is clear there are 2 stories being told here the government's and then there's the reality soldiers money for people checking into this hospital treating call the patients when we start to film the building go there and do you know to the thing over there if they ask us to film the parking lot according to staff inside the hospital is that capacity. one doctor has to take care of 10 patients and oxygen is in short supply these are just some of the claims for hearing from inside the hospital from a doctor but we cannot verify these claims as. independent media from entering that doctor. we meet him after his shift 120 hour working weeks. but the government says everything is under control. from the prime

minister for those who get sick you shouldn't worry they will be cured that we have strong medical staff. every day we are left wondering why did we not have time for today. that most of his colleagues don't want to talk in public because they are worried about repercussions we need to reach to people and tell them about this illness not to create panic but you see this is what this is about and this is why . i wrote in an open letter to the government a large number of journalists requested access to hospitals. prime minister viktor orban responded in a televised interview. this is not the time to go inside hospitals and produce bogus videos and fake news. is a photojournalist he too would like to show what's happening in hungary right now stop filming the hospital this is a public space or it's

a very common situation says martin was a sign not a share after he asked this of facts to people who want to know the real situation inside the hospitals we know that more than 300 people died today it's our job to tell the story behind those numbers. as a form to fill out and for them again but. meanwhile many young people in hungary are starting to shed their masks without knowing what's really going on in hungary hospitals to them it might seem as if the pandemic is already over. i think as christians were called to be a people of community. and many would argue. with all of the electronics we can have communities separate and we've done very well as a society doing that over the past year but it's being together where we can hear and see and smell each other where we can commune together we haven't had communion

for over a year. well that was craig foster the deacon of the trinity episcopal church in columbus ohio speaking about easter sunday services that was that church is 1st in person service in more than a year because of 19 is of course a challenge to congregations of any creed but it's not the only challenge for people who consider themselves religious for the 1st time in more than a century the number of people in the united states who think of themselves as members of a church a synagogue or mosque it's fallen below 50 percent and a new gallup poll shows a dramatic drop since this century began 20 years ago 70 percent of people belong to a house of worship a number that remained unchanged for decades but by last year membership had dropped to just 47 percent and that's also roughly the same percentage of people who say they consider religion to be important and my next guest

has dedicated her career to studying america's religious congregations and she says the growth in religious lee an affiliated people is no surprise nancy ammerman is an award winning author of numerous books including her 2013 book sacred stories spiritual tribes finding religion in everyday life is a mormon was also a sociology professor and recently retired from boston university and she joins me tonight from the great city of boston and it's a moment it's good to have you on the program gallup says church member church membership. numbers were constant for 80 years and around 2000 the numbers began dropping do you know why. well i think there are 2 primary things driving that particular trend one is actually a basic a background context is that membership in form organizations has really begun

began to decline in the seventy's and eighty's the sort of don't trust institutions attitude of the vietnam war era years and the years after that have seeped into american culture so that people simply aren't joining anything as much as they used to but driving the particular religious aspect of this are 2 important trends 0 one is simply what we call cohort replacement that is older people who are much more attached to being members of congress geisha and serve any kind of organization or timing off and younger people who've been much less attached are coming into the population in greater numbers so you get an overall decline but the really interesting thing about this trend i think is the

link between that decline and the kind of public perception that religion equals conservative politics and that really became very strong by the next 190 days people began to see you know i don't want to be religious because that would align me with these people who don't believe in birth control or don't believe in same sex marriage were don't believe in lots of things that i think are important so that so is the politics that in the country that you're saying it has maybe turned people off to being members of a church or synagogue or mosque. we actually have really good research that that backs that up a number of studies have shown that there is this link between seeing religionist wanted to conservative politics and. ceasing to be

affiliated with a religious tradition i know that you are the daughter of a baptist preacher and so there are some of the southern baptists they remain what is it the the largest protestant denomination in the united states 2nd largest christian denomination after roman catholicism have the preachers have they led their congregations to the future or have they led them to nowhere i would say that those eventually go preachers like the southern baptists certainly are have led there are congregations into what a no win position they're defending aspects of culture in that the vast majority and certainly the increasing number of younger people are not aligned with and in spite of the fact that you're so visible and maybe even because they're such as. they are. turning people off from you know religious

membership you know yeah it is this is why i should just get out of southern baptist ok ok good i would bet that in your bio that you were not but but you were a preacher's daughter i said i have to bring that up people would love that they had them and we appreciate your time and we appreciate your sharing your thoughts with us tonight please come back when we have more time we'd definitely like to talk with you again sure happy to do it thank you well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter news or you can follow me at brant go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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this is g w news live from berlin tonight in germany a call for a harder longer coronavirus walk down the head of germany's conservative c.d.u. party and a possible chancellor candidate says tougher restrictions would slow the 3rd wave of the pandemic in be a bridge until more people are vaccinated also coming up tensions mount in eastern ukraine after russia defends its military movements near the border the ukrainian president accuses moscow of posing a serious threat and the prime minister who's going to court in trying to form a new government at the same top israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu launches

coalition talks as witnesses are called in his corruption trial. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us after half a year of walk downs germany may be headed for longer tougher coronavirus restrictions tonight more german leaders are calling for a harder lockdown easter weekend so a slowdown in kobe 1000 backs in nations in several german states vaccination centers have been closed appointments restricted and local health officials say they are short on vaccines the health minister says the vaccinations will pick up pace in april as supplies increase and local doctors begin administering the shocks well one of those calling for a harder lock down is our main wash it he is head of germany's most poppy. state

north ryde was failure and he leaves chancellor angela merkel's conservative party . would disrupt open the i mean that's why i think we need a bridge locked on you mustn't we have to build the bridge to the point in time where a lot of people are vaccinated you know i'm my own i know that a lot of people are tired of the pandemic. but also that a lot are ready to go a step further and then i may or june to enter a new phase on. my own me in and i large majority of citizens are willing to take this step so that we have a better outlook and more planning security. toppan he's in st we saw here in the book it so the bridge to a breakthrough success in testing means we need to double down on noise and a lot of areas feed into and move towards a locked on. to the. well we asked you don't use chief international editor richard

walker for his take on law should call for a harder walk down. the reality here in germany is not just about the prime demick it's about the politics and what we have what we've been witnessing over the least last couple of weeks is really a power struggle happening on 2 separate levels in the very heart of german policy on the one hand you have a kind of power struggle between the federal government led by angela merkel and the individual states which all have their own leaders like common lash it in north rhine-westphalia angela merkel has generally been pushing for tougher national line to deal with this 3rd wave the individual states who have different views but what unites many of them is that they want to defend their own turf it's up to us to decide what goes on here last it is at the head is at the center of that power struggle and has even been openly bickering with his party clearly angela merkel so that's the one power struggle the other one is about who leads uncle americans

parent party into the national elections coming up this september angela merkel has said that after 16 years in power she's not going to stand again last it is the new leader of a party with this cd you have been plunging in the polls amid the you know the slow pace of the vaccination campaign corruption scandals and many other things and he has a more popular rival emerging into the limelight marco souter who is the leader in the state at the varia so all of these politics all of these power struggles going on at the same time is this relentless the way he's moving up maybe it's it's no wonder that germany is in such a muddle elliptically over what to do but what's interesting is that the public don't seem to be in such a muddle or so and this was referred to as well that a majority of the public do seem open to taking a tougher line they see those numbers they see those people in intensive care so the public seems to support this is partly that the politics has to catch up with

that. that was richard walker there here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world former hollywood producer harvey weinstein has launched an appeal against his conviction for rape and sexual assault he's arguing that the trial judge made errors that denied him an impartial jury weinstein was convicted in new york city in february of 2020 and later sentenced to 23 years in prison in the george floyd murder trial the minneapolis police chief has testified that kneeling on floyd's neck violated department policy the chief said the actions of former police officer derrick shogun were not part of police training now the statement contradicts a key argument of the defense which maintains show been was just doing what he was trained to do the united nations says at least 40 people have been killed in sudan's western darfur region during clashes between 2 tribes the fighting started on saturday and is reportedly still ongoing tribal violence in darfur earlier this

year displaced more than 120000 people the clashes pose a challenge to sudan's transitional government that seeking to end decades of unrest. ukrainian president is expressing a law about russian troop movements near his country's eastern border in a tweet today he called last year as actions a serious challenge to the security of ukraine the kremlin has denied its troop movements near the border pose a threat the united states has asked moscow to explain what it's calling provocations on the border. ukrainian troops that are russian backed separatists in the eastern donbass region both accuse each other of committing deadly attacks rising tensions after a long quiet phase. just a few days ago kiev accused moscow of moving large numbers of russian troops to the a cranium border. this has awakened grim memories of 2014 when russian troops also

amassed at the border. should cease military escalation and immediately and unconditionally reaffirm its commitment to a political and diplomatic settlement and a cease fire regime. the kremlin sees no cause for concern saying russia is free to move its troops within its own territory presidential spokesman dmitri peskov has instead warned the u.s. and nato against stationing their troops in ukraine or near the russian border. such a development would lead to heightened tensions near russia's borders and of course this would require additional steps by russia to ensure its security. since 2014 more than 13000 people have been killed in the conflict over eastern ukraine a peace deal agreed and 2015 has not been implemented both science in that conflict agreed to a cease fire in july last year. joined by our correspondent david

stern he's in the ukrainian capital kiev getting it to you david so just how tense is the situation tonight. well i would say that ukrainians and including the government obviously are very much focused on this happening in the east and on the ukrainian border and in crimea which russia annexed from ukraine back in 2014 as you heard from the report on their reports of. troops and equipment moving into these areas there's a lot of posts on social media reportedly showing that as well and we've also seen a great deal of flurry of diplomatic activity and and statements as we also heard there. ukraine's allies expressing concern most importantly u.s. president joe biden making his 1st phone call to president selenski since biden became

president that's very significant but as you hear the russians say that there's nothing to worry nothing to worry about there at the ukrainians are very much focused and concerned of what's happening at the moment on the borders and the timing of this why is this conflict flaring up again now. well it really obviously that's the the key question why now and there are obviously there are a number of. surmises you know theories this is not the 1st time we've seen troops and equipment letting on the border and if this is happening number of times over the last 7 years of this conflict this may be just a pressure con technique should be said also that the peace talks are going to have been in a stalemate and perhaps maybe this is a way of bringing pressure on to ukrainians these are what is being bandied about here in kiev obviously the ukrainians are looking for the possibility that there

could be. an attack or more troops moving across but it's it's difficult to say exactly at the moment what the russian if there is a plan behind the russian movements what exactly that is we know that u.s. president biden he has sent clear messages about his stance on russia on putin and ukraine did the ukrainians do they feel a higher level of support from the united states at this moment yes well as i said this was the 1st phone call that biden made to. beyond the what the the other ukraine sorry the other u.s. officials were saying this obviously is a step up in the ukrainians very much welcome this and it was. not long after the phone call and it made his own statement talking about how it might how welcome this was how he felt the support of the united states and obviously this is

something that ukrainians we have been waiting for for some time since biden had become president all right correspondent david stan with the latest in kiev tonight david thank you. in israel attorneys have called the 1st witnesses in prime minister benjamin netanyahu is corruption trial the prime minister was in a jerusalem court today to face charges including bribery and fraud he could go to prison if found guilty the case is unfolding with israel in a political crisis and struggling to form a new government. israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu didn't want to appear in court but he had no choice the judges insisted on his presence while the prosecution read out the charges against him. he's accused of trying to orchestrate positive coverage in israeli media a massive abuse of power. netanyahu denies all charges which is why witnesses were called in. but before they could testify netanyahu left the district

court in jerusalem to the cries of opponents. and supporters. who wanted to know i came here to support and strengthen my great leader only as the great he's unique he saved the jewish people and the people of israel i can't beat him they can't i don't know what are we trying to demonstrate for the rule of law and the democracy in israel we've been demonstrating for 4 years nobody who has been accused of crimes should be prime minister of israel. and this is the man who would decide that the netanyahu will remain prime minister israel's president wife and rivlin no political camp received a clear mandate after the elections 2 weeks ago forcing rivlin to choose a candidate to form a new government to help him decide he's been consulting with the various parties elected to parliament. i think and i can say that now after

talking to you and the likud party that the people of israel should be very concerned that the situation could worsen enough to drag us into a 5th elections. riven hopes the decide by wednesday ethical concerns may play a role he says hinting at how netanyahu is corruption trial could influence his decision. well benjamin netanyahu is already israel's longest serving leader and seems determined to stay in power even while standing trial for corruption earlier we spoke to avraham borg a former speaker of israel's knesset and a former interim president of israel we asked him what this tells us about the state of israeli democracy. as a people both with time and again and time and again and is a very very persuasive conservative leader that the reason for generation who was born grew up whole way and you created into the situation of nobody else

but netanyahu so the fact that he is such a strong leader like helmut kohl was at a time in germany like other leaders around the world are worthless so many for so many years is in a way a very good point to his site to the downside of it is it looks as if the opposition known it which feels it is corrupt it is stuck in a tit he cannot believe her anymore he actually prioritizes paris on the agenda over the state's agenda took over at the fall see the actions just happened and we can do weeks ago so now the jury's out is it possible that netanyahu would have is again once again cabinet with an alternative to rise and today the negotiations started and we do not yet know the jury's out the results and business news is up next my colleague jenelle tamale and sitting around she will be right back.

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a disincentive as companies to stay in the u.s. democrats say well money for infrastructure spending has to come somewhere where do you land well i mean that money has to come from somewhere and we don't just have this infrastructure program but we also have to in lightest of aid package in the amount of $1.00 trillion dollars that somehow has to be paid for joe biden would need every single democratic vote and there it's been already some concern for example from a senator from west virginia saying that he believes the corporate tax rate of 28 percent just too much so who knows if we might meet them somewhere in the middle and then also there is a lot of the debate if you look at the situation in the united states actually the economy seems to be on fire just here on monday we had to fresh figures from the service industry and we've got the best data since 1997 so there is the question mark if this money if this $2.00 trillion dollar infrastructure package might be to

pick. now some people saying there why fix it if it's not broken i guess but stay there yan's because there's more i'd like to discuss now as a response to that much feared exodus of companies from the u.s. and janet yellen and her 1st major speech as treasury secretary has urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax which could move which could make moving away from the u.s. less of an option here's what she had to say look the consequence of an interconnected world has been a 30 year race to the bottom on corporate tax rates competitiveness is about more than how u.s. headquarters headquartered companies ferry gainst other companies in global merger and acquisition. it's about making sure that the governments have stable tax systems there really is sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and

respond to crises in that all citizens fairly share of the burden of financing government and its fact against carter in new york yes sounds very ambitious what more can you tell us about the. well i would say that janet yellen so the head of the treasury it was those words. that it would be a problem for the united states if the country goes it all along and then we could see this race to bottom to new wing as she clearly are the united states clearly need the support from let's say some other g 20 countries we do not know where those countries stand at this point and even if there would be agreement among the the british it's the industrial states in the world that could mean that to maybe some emerging countries might try to sneak in as i mentioned the u.s. economy is pretty strong not just what it said about the service industry we also just on friday got

a very strong jobs report later lately we've got the latest numbers on the many effect during industry in the u.s. so the best figures there since 1980 s. we saw some other countries could get jealous and might be less eager to really go it all the way with the united states all debts going to be a long debate i guess in the next couple of weeks and months nothing that we will figure out soon. international cooperation versus international competition it's a never ending story thank you again start at their end you york for us. many countries here in europe have been celebrating easter monday but few are feeling festive as covert 19 cases continue to rise german leaders are calling for tougher restrictions france has just implemented its 3rd strike locked out for the next 4 weeks the economic life is yet again coming to a standstill all in a bid to keep case numbers doubt. shops all over france have been closed since the

start of the weekend's like here in paris strict rules were already in place in 19 of france's $101.00 departing mom now the whole country is heading the same way the government will strictly cut tail freedom of movement for the next 4 weeks journeys combi longer than 10 kilometers a curfew is in place from 7 pm to 6 am mosques are mandatory outside of the home even if not everyone sticks to the rules many oppose the measures and worry what the lockdown will mean economically so much for a joke around a photographer we're talking about significant losses and complains have stopped the event sector which is significant to us is at 0 i know some people who've declared bankruptcy for their businesses which had good earnings but now stopped working it's serious. in germany the city of cologne has called and off places where crowds would normally gather such as on the banks of the rhine restaurants and hotels are closed business associations are raging against the closures instead

the federation of german industry wants to see what it calls creative solutions like here in the small sex and town of augustus book and he one who tested negative for the virus gets a q r code allowing them to visit all restaurants and hotels for 3 days but the government in germany is considering the opposite further tightening just like in france. london's. heathrow airport has expressed disappointment after the british government refused to unveil a timeline for when international holidays can resume the government said it was too soon to decide when to reopen international travel and suggested it could be pushed back beyond the planned date of may 17th prime minister boris johnson said his country would test a contentious vaccine passport system as a tool to enable safe travel and large events to return to britain has seen a sharp drop in 1000 cases and deaths in recent weeks. from. now to some of

the other global business stories making news. shares in tesla surged more than 4 percent after the electric vehicle maker posted record quarterly deliveries strong demand in china helped offset the effects of a global shortage in auto parts in the 1st quarter of this year a test of the liver of nearly 185000 vehicles. the head of the italian central bank has added his voice to the growing concern over the pace of vaccinations biscoe spoke ahead of the virtual g. 20 meeting of finance and economy ministers this week in an interview with the financial times at biscoe said international cooperation on vaccinations was essential to stimulate economic recovery. now chess may go back 1500 years but the award winning netflix series the queen's gambit has caused a more recent surge of interest in the game worldwide the lock down from the board game gained millions of new fans and chess sets are in huge demands huge demand one

small would be your company in spain is profiting from the new hype a park in barcelona is the center of carbon the row will be here almost every game to play chess. the 2 have always been diehard chess fans but since the coronavirus lockdown many spaniards have rediscovered the game of kings. you just can't get my street you'll end up at a chess as a hobby is regaining popularity you do to the pandemic i think it's unstoppable because once you've found your enthusiasm for chess it won't let you go as you. know all the award winning netflix series the queen's gambit has also know a thing jessamy trench the queen's gambit is the story of beth harman an orphan girl who becomes a champion in the men's world of chess here in a large and back and thinking life elf say and the netflix series sparked

a boom for the family owned a rich i pod those fair companies and it's 16 employees. join fair a 3rd generation head of the company is inundated with new orders. he's currently trying to double annual production from the usual 20000 chessboards 240000. that's because the casual and chessboards appeared in the netflix series without the manufacturers prior knowledge to get rid of. the series caused chaos in our company. suddenly a whole avalanche of orders came crashing down on us it drove us a bit crazy. i know it was the final scene in the netflix drama that made the small company so popular the us champion beth harman plays against russian world champion vasili borg off on a chessboard produced by rich i pod most fair. the

board design is distinctly baroque or. according to the company boss. despite his newfound success he has no plans to expand it just wouldn't be practical. if. we are limited by the fact that this is a hand crafted product it doesn't work by clicking a button on a machine and producing a whale of a lot of it is done by hand board by board. and so each one of our chess boards is unique. and. the companies not feeling any more new orders this year even though many stores have already sold out of the chessboards until next year customers will have to cultivate something needed for chess anyway

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