rate of vaccination will pick up here in germany soon and the e.u. vaccine chief said on tuesday that herd immunity in the u. e.u. could happen by mid july given the hiccups that we've seen here in germany is that realistic well it took germany 3 months to reach the stage that it is now where just about 5 percent of the population have been fully vaccinated so i think goals here in germany are a little bit more realistic than that the hope of the german government is such a need that the vaccination program will speed up in the next few weeks in particular as g.p. and family doctors are now involved 'd but there is such a lot of criticism towards the german government when it comes to the vaccination rollout and a lot of pressure to improve things in the coming weeks our political correspondent tom aspera reporting for us there thank you so much meanwhile portugal has started easing its coronavirus restrictions after a strict lockdown that lasted more than 2 months cafes newseum since shops can now

welcome back yes it's under strict hygiene get the guidelines it is a comeback story for portugal back in january it had one of the highest corona virus infection rates in the world didn't use young philip schultz went to the capitalist been to see how they did it. sitting in a cafe with friends still a dream for millions possible again in portugal nearly everyone spent the last 2 months at home this was forbidden but now shops primary schools and cafes are open again and people are delighted. it feels almost euphoric simply to be able to sit here and watch people walked. on today was in no way against the lockdown it was very important but i think we now all really need to be able to enjoy life again instead of just going to work and then looking at our own 4 walls . what i miss the most was just looking out at the water and drinking

a beer. central lispund looked like this for the last couple of months everything was closed the government ordered most people to work from home i read it in response to a disaster portugal had the world's highest corona infection rates the health system couldn't cope intensive care units were overwhelmed blocked on took daily infection numbers from more than 12000 at the start of february to fewer than 400 just 9 weeks later here outside lispunds largest hospital more than 40 ambulances had to wait in line in front of the emergency ward during the worst days of the pandemic now only a few covert patients have to be treated in the intensive care unit and a field hospital on the other side of the street was close to weeks ago some observers are already talking about the miracle of portugal but it has a new initiatives more in science than miracles and if you're damn ologist he's

a member of the portuguese government's coronato advisory group he says one of the most unpopular lockdown measures could have been decisive. sequencing to learn numbers went down somewhat when we 1st closed the shops and made remote working compulsory but it was only when we closed all the schools that the infection figures really started to fall apart you devious whom we fighting to get out. he says despite the progress the danger is not over and the pandemic will continue to affect people's lives even into the next year and the locked on was tough on the economy pushing unemployment up by a 3rd right now though many portuguese people are enjoying a moment in the sun. now to some other developments in the pandemic in france the number of patients in intensive care is at its highest in almost a year france is now in a month long lockdown india has hit another new record number of daily cases new

delhi mumbai and dozens of other cities are imposing curfews to try to slow the soaring and sections and a top official at the european medicines agency says there is a link between the astra zeneca vaccine and rare blood clots the agency is expected to release a new assessment of the drug later today. the european union's top officials say enhanced ties with turkey remain conditional on the country improving its human rights record their meeting with president baritone on monday was a sign of a recent thaw in relations but differences over rule of law rights and migration remain sticking points. it's the years since the european union's most senior officials last met the turkish president both sides say they want to improve relations which have become increasingly strained but the europeans have serious concerns about turkey's assertive foreign policy and its often heavy handed create

command of minorities and political opponents the rule of flu introspect a fundamental rights all true values of the european union and we should we spread into other den oh deep roots on the latest developments in turkey in this respect in fact if you look on the freedom of speech and the thought it interfered to put it into media. and today show michelle and i clearly underlined that respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law are crucial for the european union this must be an integral part of our relationship jackie must respect international human rights rules and standards. there's a lot at stake millions of refugees who fled from syria's bloody civil war are living within turkey's borders they would otherwise head for europe and ankara once

the e.u. to pay more to support them. turkey for its part is keen to advance its stalled bid to join the european union. thousands of demonstrators turned out recently to protest against turkey's decision to pull out of an international agreement on women's rights ironically that school the istanbul convention both the e.u. emissaries condemned that move is sending the wrong signal on rights. another area of dispute is turkey wanting to drill for gas in the mediterranean in areas which greece and cyprus see as their territory the latest talks between the e.u. and turkey aimed to mend fences but there are still huge differences to overcome thanks to sports now ed and football there were 2 champions league quarter final 1st legs played on tuesday night manchester city hosted berthier dortmund the

german team suffered some heartbreak when phil foden scored in the 90th minute to get city the win meanwhile your club's liverpool club were completely outplayed in real madrid the reds will have to make up a 31 deficit in the return leg. tonight one quarter final of the champions league cup holders fire in munich host paris on sharma the team they defeated in the last season's final byron are looking to successfully defend their title they suffered a major blow going into this match their top striker robert love and has been sidelined due to injury and he's not the only byron player that will miss the action. a career season in the making for robert live and all ski has been put on hold by after the striker got injured during the international break with poland. just so of course robert is a very important player for us so we approach this in a positive way yes it's

a challenge but we'll face it so it's ghana. and says cannot be will mr p.s.g. match after testing positive for kobe 19 but bahrain have plenty of depth on their side to help pick up the slack from thomas moolah the bonus league has assisted leader to midfielder leon gorecki who's been key in recent weeks or striker eric show promoting could be the barn player to fill the void opponents' p.s.g. believe they know where byron strange lives. special for him is his quote effective and i think when you will be unusual and the champions league on the. middle of the club i think it is because you have a squad this is where the body is strong byron say they're confident and combe ahead of the rematch of last year's final while p.s.g.

with their stars in the line up will be looking for their 1st victory over byron since 2017. now in iceland hundreds of hikers have been evacuated from the site of this an erupting volcano that's after new fissures opened up on the mountain stealing lava smoke and also steam the spectacle as proved a huge draw for tourists since of all came a war to life last month. a sight to behold iceland's spectacular nearly 3 week old bookending corruption has entered a new phase 2 new fissures have opened near the rich no side in the gelding a dollar a valley measuring 200 meters in total and lot of us also spewing from the new openings. some of the most impressive thing is this river down into the valley actually more than the fissure itself good research. the new lava river is flowing

down through the hills for hundreds of meters from the fissure and into neighboring united to live valley. we have new cracks opening up for the rights of our rich people or. but we've cleared out they are there to try to figure out what is happening to. the people who are good people they're not. productive are there to grab you and. it's beautiful but possibly dangerous authorities have sealed off access to the side as a precaution and began evacuating sightseers more than $36000.00 people have visited the site since the ruction began in mid march iceland has more active volcanoes than any other country in europe but an eruption like this hasn't happened on their

reiki honest peninsula since the 13th century. so let's get a reminder now of our top stories here and amnesty international says global inequality has grown during the pandemic with women health workers and migrants among those worst affected in its annual reports released today the human rights group also accuses governments of using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to stifle dissent. and top the e.u. officials have held talks with turkey's president everyone in uncorrupt was enough on the line and childish as said they express concerns about turkey's commitment to human rights migration and refugee policy were also nature. and you can always get to do that you news on the go just download or out from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well that's push notifications for any breaking news that if you are

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19 vaccine vials. business i want to get johnson bell and good to have you with us so all prices edge higher today on the prospects for stronger global economic grows the international monetary fund said in its latest world economic outlook reports that unprecedented public spending to fight covert 19 would push global growth to 6 percent this year a rate not seen since the 1970 s. but the rebound will be far from even and for some there might be permanent scarring let's take a look. if all goes according to plan it would be the fastest expansion of the global economy since the i.m.f. started tracking growth in 1988 the fund says such an optimistic forecast is only possible thanks to a rep and fiscal response to the pandemic but there's no doubt some sectors have suffered irreparable damage now because the crisis has exhilarated the transfer made of forces of digitalisation and automation many of the jobs lost are unlikely

to return requiring work or reallocation across sectors which unfortunately often comes with sylvia earning penalties swift policy action worldwide including 16 trillion dollars in fiscal support prevented far worse outcomes the i.m.f. predicts the rollout of covered 19 vaccinations and huge sums of government guide will trigger a powerful rebound from the pandemic recession. but the funds chief economist warned the recovery would be an equal with already poor countries falling further behind without additional efforts to give all people a fair shot cross country gaps in living standards could widen significantly the i.m.f. predicts the global rebound will gradually lose momentum and return to precut at levels of just above 3 percent annual growth countries will once again have to deal with the same obstacles they faced before the pandemic including aging workforce as

in most rich countries as well as in china. well despite its aging workforce there's certainly one country that is on a rapid expansion path and that is china over the next 5 years the world's 2nd biggest economy is expected to account for more than a 5th of total global growth the u.s. boyd by a huge spending program is also firmly on the up emerging asian economies like india a rising rapidly to now europe's biggest economies on the other hand germany france and the united kingdom a lagging rather far behind in comparison so are we seeing an ever widening divide between asia and europe to find out more about that i'm joined now by needy rice she's a journalist based in mumbai and we're also joined by our financial correspondent chelsea delaney in frankfurt hello to both of you and i would like to start with unity because india is mentioned by the i.m.f.

as one of these strong asian economies but where's all this growth actually coming from. so interested to be a. banker it's bank in the country has also come up with a monetary policy if you give it a go right now yes. even though even though they call me is face it some tallish suppose the 2nd graders do they are going to buy a point and remind strong. market are walking the i'm hoping the open market and therefore some green shoots. from their. list so that nobody is lukewarm on the fact that how the 2nd back the economy really did wireless pushing that point need to know these people are all still in some will say that there will not be a complete go down and the business is not be completely shocked ok so this is

what's happening right now the forecast of course of us looking at a more longer term 2 to sas and $26.00 and giving india as a thumbs up there unlike europe chelsea when you think about it the u.s. and europe actually accounted for about a half of global growth back in the 1980 s. combined they're now responsible for about 30 percent growth but the out of the europe is pretty dismal what's going wrong. well these are changes that have been to some degree expected for a decade now in china taking over as the world's largest economy that's been expected for quite a long time and part of this is just population trends china has 4 times the population of the united states double that of europe and as china but also economies like india industrialize more as they get wealthier they come to make up a bigger part of the economy but the pandemic huston lea accelerated this shift and

global power because china has recovered so much more quickly than the rest of the world particularly europe it has it's now becoming a bigger part of the economy it's now expected to become the biggest economy in the world by 2028 that's about 2 years earlier than previously expected and what's this mean for europe i mean this is saying the difference between europe and china is that china has it's time for europe to come up with a plan or are they happy to be dependent on china. well europe does have a plan they mostly put in place the $750000000000.00 euro stimulus package it's 6 it's been called the next generation you find a lot of that money is supposed to go towards efforts to modernize the e.u. economy things like climate infrastructure technology and building out things like a semiconductor industry as well as digitalisation so it does have a plan but the question is is it too little too late this effort even for the

stimulus package has been really the sat by political differences by the e.u. bureaucracy is so as china races ahead as the u.s. prepares trillions of dollars worth of stimulus in europe is still very much struggling to get even that small amount of money into the economy and need even india is currently struggling with this 2nd strong wife the outlook if we believe it is pretty good with strong strong growth. i mean how will this shape the country if this is actually come to fruition and will will everybody benefit equally a will it even widen the gap between the rural community and the city in the. exists even though i'm excited about it but i mean and i mean as you know. i'm the latest on the missed. nor i c. c he said that since exploited is that why you didn't will start it when back.

all. the hotels the restaurants they have all been shut so all it is is going to be it's going to be all that law is going to be for it but it is a good thing because they didn't use any quarter why would they voted it down it's manic they should all be a challenge to us i don't want everybody things and i also believe what you have seen the last 20 years and we can. meet there is this inequality gap whiter and if this keeps happening this is going to be the biggest challenge for the country and. media by their agenda is based in mumbai and to date always tells you to lenny and frank thank you both so much and now to some of the other global business stories making news. samson's profit for the

1st quarter rose 40 focus and from the previous year to $8300000000.00 this was largely due to strong sales of smartphones the worldwide move to working from home has also seen consumer demand rise the device is powered by some sense chips as well as home appliances such as t.v.'s and washing machines. facebook says the data leaks of more than half a 1000000000 of its users occurred during a breach in 2019 the social media giant says it's fixed the breach more than a year ago users can use an online tool to check if their telephone number birthdate and e-mail address book compromised. the world's richest man jeff bezos says he supports raising taxes on the u.s. companies including his own amazon that comes after u.s. president biden said he wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent for years n.g.o.s have been criticizing amazon for avoiding paying taxes are shifting revenue and profits to no tax countries. swedish clothing giant h.

and m. says it will lay off more than a 1000 employees and close 30 stores in spain due to the pandemic the retailers that it would prioritize voluntary departures wherever possible while sales at stores have falling sharply online sales have jumped 40 percent in the past year. the vaccination is key to ending pandemic restrictions but the rollout is slow in many european countries including here in germany millions of people are losing their cool they want their covert 9000 jobs now a vaccine manufacturers are barely keeping up with current demand so now german equipment manufacturers are building the machines needed to fulfilling and packaging vaccines and they're in high demand. one last chance this equipment used for the sterile feeling of vaccine violence is running one clockwork they're ready to be packed and shipped off it. this machine fills $24000.00 vials per hour

and can be operated around the clock they'll each file contains several vaccine doses the plant can fill up to $4000000.00 vaccine doses a day something rigidly needed during the pandemic german companies that build these plants for the pharmaceutical industry are among the most successful worldwide they export their equipment from southwestern germany to the entire world . knows who often is one of them they boast annual sales of some 260000000 euros. the family business employs 1600 people. but when we build the machinery for many components we take it completely on line until it works properly and then it's dismantled into parts again and shipped to the customer site you know the order books are full on average it takes about a year to plan and build

a filling plan for vaccine doses it will go faster if the pharmaceutical industry agreed on the uniform standards for plants but every customer wants something different they've reached their capacity limits they can't do more than keep on building maybe prioritize a bit we obviously are in their current priority is the construction of filling facilities for corona virus vaccine doses but continues to supply pharmaceutical companies with a variety of machinery so that they can also fill doses to treat other diseases your mother course we have to make sure that other important areas of utilization are also being addressed for customers and you have to bear in mind that cove it's not the only disease out there. the worldwide pharmaceutical industry is increasingly relying on domestic production to minimize the risks associated with international supply chains for german machinery manufacturers that means that demand for filling equipment will continue to rise. and. finally linked in

workers right now are enjoying their additional paid week off the move came as a lot of companies are trying to find ways to help zoom's the teet employees to avoid burn outs a survey among its workers had revealed that the weight of the pandemic and working from home really took its toll well almost all of linked in 60000 full time employees benefit from that decision. crazy idea that's a business of. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19 special. on d w. is

a master of the art of confrontation this is wrong a veteran of formal combat doesn't mean you're going to see for yonks why the undisputed champion of tough political talk trying to frighten people you know it's a fact everybody understands it is that you enter the conflict zone and join tim sebastian as he holds the powerful to account this is a big failure whichever way you like to spin the conflict zone. d. w. . the problem in society we have at the moment is that everyone is afraid of making a mistake what may happen if we don't do. the pandemic has changed life as we know it. but what comes next. will our fast paced lives pick up again.

will we continue to innovate regardless of the cost. live lives profit driven. and globally connected. or has this pandemic sparked irrevocable change. how will we live in the future. after the pandemic. hello and welcome to covert 900. 11 well this week we're taking a look ahead at life after the pandemic from what it means for cities 2 economies even nutrition today climate change as the world focuses on getting past the pen demick the urgency of climate change has taken a bit of a backseat but slowing global warming could actually be critical for preventing

future disease scientists warn that it warming planet will provide fertile ground for viruses and other pathogens and introduce disease carriers to new habitats. a german climate activist and author david nellis has been mapping out some of those dangers he spoke with us earlier take a listen you know one example is the type mosquito which spreads to the in your fever and that you could come you're going to possibly live just in the south asian regions because of climate change it's warmer you have sort of mosquito came to europe and there for reasons to be affected because if you if you're in germany organized. german climate activists and author david nellis there for more on this let's talk with he's dean of the party school of global affairs at boston university professor now jump thank you so much for joining us this connection between changes and wildlife habitat and disease as the benjamin helped make this clear to normal people and perhaps added some urgency to climate change. i hope it

will i'm not sure it has certainly had the beginning of the pandemic until there was a bit of fear mongering about how it had come here but all concerned about it about you know how did it get here and because you know places that it had transmitted from sort of the zoological system or into the human system there was this concern that maybe we will again sort of start looking at meijers the end needed i hope for what will happen and is happening not as much as i would like but i hope the great message is that we have to live in coexistence with nature that nature has a huge think that nature it is what not issues knots and if we restrict the space of nature to fritter strip the space on biodiversity then nature will hit back in the vs for example that your guest was talking about we're doing it all in the view that we have seen it could have bias that in some ways the big lesson is that there

is no human held without ecological help that the 2 come together that's about the management of climate change managing the pen demick has required an incredible lot of collective action and sacrifice which climate change will also require based on what you've seen so far from the pandemic should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the fight against climate change. at this point and i did but i do do hope that we should be varied a flicker of about what has happened we should try to think part of it we're just happened we're going to learn about ourselves about our own behavior and we should have a concern in some ways this pandemic give you an early warning if you will of what it truly order to matter because you've heard it before what are truly global crisis looks like you know we've talked about climate as as as a as a crisis possibly in the future and having this in your face meek's you pain can should make you think there are good lessons and there are some disturbing this is

the disturbing lesson is that this was not a very global moment our immediate reaction especially in the beginning was closing up. it was getting tribal was building walls was trying to blame the other was trying to put more workings are ok i have too many too many problems myself i can share my ventilators i can't really give you my mosque if you go back to march of last year the good lesson if you want is the lesson of vaccine development for example the lesson of science coming in to help the lesson of listening to knowledge and intervene in the choice that we will make really to do in the future in somebody is the sad part is and this is what is very much like climate change some to act surprised there's been damage happen but there was no surprise in the burnett we knew about it he talked about but never actually prepared or he said we prepared for going to mix and yet we didn't kim we have ignored it so often that

vivid found dukie unprepared that is exactly the story with climate change at the same time i wouldn't you happens no one has the right to free surprised when we look at climate change versus the pandemic the pen demick has very specific in that as we all get to a certain number of vaccines we reach herd immunity with climate change there's no solid there there perhaps does that make it more difficult for someone to imagine tackling climate change versus the pen demick. it might it might make it more difficult but it also makes it more urgent you're exactly climate change does not have a vaccine whether it is pfizer or no our astronauts go wherever they're going to come up with a vaccine or build that you're going to walk in and climate change will be solved yes that out of the is that what's going to duck dish and we will have to adapt and adapt issue will not be comfortable in a dark patient will not be be be cheap and give you learn that in the end have ended but never if you know what is it that issue means something bad happens and you adapt to it you learn to live it so you build your buildings higher if seed sea

level is rising. i mean it was triggered because of discord i wound up being where that is exactly depend about what we did with the pandemic we had that are we learned how to build a mosque we don't how to lock ourselves up we learned how to not meet friends we learned how to not hug people we love how much act is what are not dictionaries and the list is a definition is not comfortable how much harder will that shift be will those adaptations be especially as we're going from the end of the pen to make to climate change i get the feeling that not many people are in the mood to talk about personal sacrifice right now but they'd rather be rewarded for a period in which they feel like they've already sacrificed a lot so maybe taking more trips things like that. yeah i think i think you have night i am happy i don't want to begrudge them sort of going out and sort of you know after having me locked up for a year but on the other hand this is why this should be a moment or for inflection this should be a moment of learning because you've also got so many things right we have learned

good lessons we have learned the lesson that if you spend a dollar in advance to overt a crisis you will save millions of dollars when if the crisis hits so i think those are the lessons that come not in terms of climate in bendemeer can particularly in the beginning there was a little sort of target ok we were driving as much and we won't be using energy as much and because auction will go down i'm sure not sure that has exactly happened maybe it's happened in a few cases to the extent it does happen you know strategy should not be locking people up in their hopes. and on the other hand we found there you know we have a consumptive species we find new ways to consume wheat be other people who go and travel on our behalf and emit carbon on our behalf and develop and drop food to at our doorsteps but the r e v p r e smart species we should learn from this i hope the biggest lesson we learn it's

not that we will all become sort of self-sacrifice that's that i don't mean that some are over the question is not some sacrifice there's question a smart behavior we do not get pleasure out of emitting carbon via pleasure out of quality of life and i hope for the better known it also teaches us is that what you know of life means more than just getting into your car and getting stuck in traffic or i will have to leave it there for now professor. with university thank you so much for joining us. and let's check in now with our science correspondent eric williams for another question related to climate change. demand for meat is growing and that has consequences for human health and the environment how does science trying to address this problem our hunger for meat contributes in a major way to climate change and environmental degradation and the conditions in

which billions of animals are kept also poses a direct health threat to humanity since experts say intensive animal agriculture provides a nearly perfect breeding ground for pathogens to evolve so what's science doing to help improve the paradigm well 2 things jump instantly to mind one is all that research behind plant based meat alternatives that look and taste like the real thing but are mostly made from the ingredients like soil or or peas or mushrooms discoveries in a range of scientific fields especially those that involve how we process taste and texture are improving the experience of eating those products which is reflected by a recent big boom in demand. the other science driven approach to the meat problem

involves the cutting edge field of cultivated or cultured meat it's based on the fact that animals themselves are actually pretty inefficient meat factories lots of what you put in comes back out again as as problematic waste or it goes towards creating unwanted by products like light skin or bones so so why not just grow only what you want the mean directly from the right types. of cells replicated in giant bio reactors the science behind doing that in a commercially viable way has actually proven pretty pathetic a maybe you remember the hype around the 1st lab grown burger back in 2013 which cost 250000 euro's to make but the technology has come a long way since then and production costs are coming down fast the big question

of course is how willing people will be to buy it. our own sons of birds eric williams there that's it for us today thanks for watching stay safe and we'll see you consider. to submit.

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this is g w news live from berlin the crushing impact of the pandemic on human rights and the sea international paints a grim picture in its annual report saying already vulnerable people have been the hardest hit by the coronavirus and its fall out amnesty secretary general tells you how she's using her platform to push back against abuse. also coming out party.