it's very very strong buyers say they're confident and comb ahead of the rematch of last year's final well p.s.g. with their stars in the lineup will be looking for their 1st victory over byron since 2017. more world news of the top of the hour with friend of golf today i'll do 100 business update in just a moment. would have to say matters to us. that's why listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d w. and you hear me no no yes we're going to do and how it all stands judgments are

so that when you bring you i'm going to back off and you've never cut have been surprised himself with what this possible congressman called really what you want. to talk to people who follow the way maurice and critics would like to join us from eccles last stop. the world's most widely distributed cold it 19 vaccine is back in the spotlight the european medicines agency says there's a link between clotting and the astra zeneca job but it says the benefits still far outweigh the risks. also on the show we have more on vaccination challenges this time in zimbabwe and gone out to speak to our correspondent on the ground in harare . and the german machinery industry has been called upon to help speed up the

feeling of stare out could become teen vaccine files. this is the w. business i'm. in berlin happy you can join us. the european medicines watchdog has advisor's a possible link between astra zeneca 19 vaccine and blood clots but that the shot is safe and can continue to be used. the blood clot should be listed as a rare astra zeneca side effect but the body said the benefits far outweigh the risks the director of the inmates said no link could be established between age or gender and increased risk of side effects european union health ministers will now meet to discuss how they will adjust their vaccine rollout. again it's worth noting that astra zeneca is the most widely distributed cove in $1000.00 vaccine in the world in part because of the kovacs scheme that helps developing countries gain

access to the shots most countries in africa are part of the program but worries are mounting it won't be enough this that story takes us to ghana and zimbabwe. and this emergency war doctor abana yet has her hands full yet fears of getting infected with the coronavirus resonate with every patient but today there is a bit of hope the 1st vaccines have arrived in ghana i think it's quite a help to receive dab i think nation face because when you look at the parts in which people are quite i think that so we are. more often through this virus with quite even problems too awful vaccines from the big pharmaceutical companies are one of the most sought after commodities in the world and every country wants them that's why the w.-h. health launched the kovacs initiative it's designed to use money from richer countries to buy vaccines and distribute them to the poorest ones but because the

kovacs initiative has been slow to get off the ground african governments are desperately seeking supplies they're already negotiating with russia and china you have. some of the poorest countries in the world are going to manage to vaccinate sufficient. in their countries what has happened is that countries who are western vaccines really did have to take things into their own. zimbabwe for example has bought the chinese sino farm vaccine even though it has not yet been approved by the w h o and there are doubts that it protects against the mutated virus in neighboring south africa it's a bit of vaccine diplomacy china and russia may be using the vaccine to polish their image in the region a number of countries within the reach of countries that is that she said and are increasingly concerned that russia and china are going to proceed he would vaccines

to bolster their global influence by trying to step in and fill in the role that koufax should normally have because they will have a sense. they presented themselves as the savior of your population zimbabwe was hit hard by the 2nd wave and people are afraid that things could get that bad again at his clinic dr yohannes mari said has lost many patients and even friends and family members to the virus he says kovacs alone isn't enough as long as the vaccines are safe he's happy to get help from china and russia but newton 20 percent of the prisoners do nothing who want to improve them into prison and over the provision. so if you voted to imprisoned in through fields were through the inter-community think it's means we are doing nothing or just with. the willingness to share vaccines with the poorest countries could change the global power structure worldwide health is dependent on readily available vaccines and as long

as new mutations continue to emerge even vaccinated populations will not be safe. our correspondent privilege missionary joins us now from harare good to see you privileged that we heard from the doctor there and the report that vaccines are sorely needed in zimbabwe any way they can be obtained tell us more about the situation on the ground. starting from the beginning of the year yes we have seen the vaccines beginning to come in the country highly on donations are from china but recently in the past week we had 1000000 doses that we have pictures to buy the zimbabwe government and from the beginning of the year you would see that people were quite hesitant to take the vaccine particularly the front line with ca's. because of so many conspiracy theories that had been spreading around in the past

months but of late in the past 2 weeks we have seen. it arise in numbers people were now taking the vaccine the government has opened up to everyone to go and get vaccinated. the number that we have had so far just for a day it's about 20 almost 217000 vaccinations. in a single day just on monday we had about 16000 vaccinations that happy and so people are beginning to warm up to the chinese vaccines and going forward the country the government is saying that it needs to be procuring about $1000000.00 doses to month to reach a target of about $10000000.00. by the end of the year now bringing it to the news of today privilege here in europe there is

a lot of discussion around the astra zeneca job at the european regulator spoke today about the risks of trumbo says now is that a discussion taking place where you are to have spoken of at least initial docs in hesitancy in zimbabwe. certainly it's a discussion that is going around because mind you you have people we have access to. information be it social media be eat your your televisions so people are discussing about the astra zeneca and some people have expressed that even if the government was going to be receiving astra zeneca through their facility they were not going to take it people are now believing this and vaccines from china because so far in the country since the beginning of the vaccination program we have not had any official cases or any cases of.

side effects privilege missionary there in harare forests talking about vaccine has a tendency in zimbabwe thank you very much now the aviation industry has taken a spectacular hit from the pandemic as lock downs and border closures made travel and tourism difficult and his 1st remarks the press since taking office the new director general of the international air transport association willie walsh had little optimism to offer he said he sees no light on the horizon for aviation at present. most aircraft worldwide are still grounded like here at london's heathrow airport compared with february 29th gene february 2021 was a crash landing according to ion to do director general international passenger traffic was down almost 89 percent and is showing no signs of recovery in the current environment. a day earlier there was more pessimism from the c.e.o.

of carter airways. based on i artist latest book us global passenger traffic revenue passage a kilometer or on the cape will not return to recall the 19 level until 2024 years it up then previously projected which it would have been for months the global airline body has been pushing for the introduction of a digital vaccination passport on its website that might relieve air travelers fears of having to quarantine passengers can take a rapid test before boarding to have proof that they're not infected upon arrival so far 20 airlines have agreed to test the app. global business stories making news. hungary has begun a gradual opening of shops and services the country has provided one coronavirus

vaccine dose to over a part of it of its population but it's still a death toll climbed on a record to our record 311 on wednesday under the reopening shops must limit numbers of customers and restaurants are only open for takeout and the livery. facebook says the data leak of more than half a 1000000000 of its users occurred during a breach in 2019 the social media giant says it fixed the breach more than a year ago users can use an online tool to check if their telephone number birthdate and email address were compromised. german machinery producers are leaders in the production of equipment used in the sterile filling of medicines such as vaccines as vaccine makers or race to meet the mad bottling line manufacturers are seen very busy days to our correspondent visited them. one last test this equipment used for the sterile filling of vaccine viles is running

like clockwork they're ready to be packed and shipped off to see what this machine feels 24000 miles per hour and can be operated around the clock speed until the trial contains several vaccine doses the plant can fill up to 4000000 vaccine doses a day something originally 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 whole thing is one of them they boast annual sales of some 260000000 euros. the family business employs 1600 people. there 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 limit they can't do more than keep on building maybe prioritize a bit 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 course we have to make sure that other important areas of utilization are also being addressed for customers you have to bear in mind that kobe 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 that's it for me and the business team from or

you can always go to our web site that is. slash business are also on facebook and twitter thank you so much for watching. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update. on d w. 26 a that's a good bunch of the queen because i want to see if germany was there maybe the last few years have been quite a ride. and learned

a lot higher but when it comes to gemma bit and of course always look right in the eyes virgin is perhaps the biggest guns a new hobby of mine i'm going down the river and i love to be the beauty there are there isn't there a comfort when you feed him all the giving you realize it because of the another way of never say are you ready to meet the 7th and broadway right just do it on. the problem in society we have at the moment is everyone is afraid of making of what may happen if we don't do. the pandemic has changed life as we know it. but what comes next. with 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 irreparable change. hello and welcome to the show this week we're thinking about life after the pandemic we're asking experts in areas like urban planning climate change and even nutrition to tell us what they've learned so far and what those lessons mean for the future today we look at crisis management and began with a report from taiwan located near to airports told in hospital was one of taiwan ski keepers against the virus authorities had to stand the 5th of come from cases here for cheek men since the start of 2020 but in january this year and infected duck church aker the fresh outbreak several of his coworkers were later tested positive taiwan faced its biggest koren the virus crisis since the start of the

pandemic in the ground and she's a seasonal hospital acquired infections very serious and hard to control the patients in the hospital need health care workers to take care of them. there next to each other it's impossible to just quarantine hospital workers and leave patients alone and you are in. most of the wood. wong works have a central epidemic command center histon decided to set himself up in the hospital to directly oversee communications from the command center but woman. we had to contain the virus conny time was. in the large hospital of more than 2600 employees and they were all 700 in patients one wrong decision coolly to the charge of the similar to the 2003 sars outbreak then the government locked down a hospital where even healthy people were not allowed to leave leading to 154 infections and 31 death. it was ok when there were only one or 2 cases in the

hospital bridge but when there were more and more people come from positive we were definitely nervous though we were afraid of getting phone calls in the middle of the night hearing about yet another new case for your chance at this time the command center reacted quickly tracking all possible contacts and hold quarantining over 4300 people they also chose for its negative test to patients to other hospitals to decrease the workload on the staff after 14 days with no new come from places all hospital employee is happy to do mass testing to convince the public that the hospital is safe in 44 days it was contained with only 21 cases and just one death transparency and honesty is the very important and you have to give the people the reason why you want to have. a very stringent context and very

stringent home quarantine and that everything is we have to show that everything is there. very useful to prevent a future pandemic chad said no car cheese can fight alone but i would like to emphasize that important thing is the prudence of it as we have to keep our all the possible. in all the countries to prevent its spread off now tell me in hospital is back to relative normality this seris experience reminded the government and its people not to let history repeat itself a lesson not only for taiwan but for the world in its approach to tackling this mass branding virus. martin reeses co-founder of the center for the study of existential risk an interdisciplinary research group focused on studying and developing strategies to risks that could threaten humanity martin's good to have you on the show 1st of all let's start with the pandemic before we start about talk about exit the existential risk rather than fairly can say the word we just saw

about taiwan and how its management of the pandemic has been shaped by sars but at the same time other countries have had their own experiences with infectious diseases and yet they've struggled in their management of the pandemic why do we see that it differs so much from country to country when i think we in the u.k. . because we didn't have the expense of sars and of course coronaviruses need different preparations than you particular. and it's hard to develop a vaccine a church or so we in the u.k. were badly. i think in some respects. european countries and i think the taiwan under government that was more trusted perhaps than our u.k. government was by its people and not. do you believe that we're worse long term planners than we believe we are potentially or do we just lack imagination or is it a combination of both. and i think real worst long term planners obviously we can't

predict when the pandemic will strike but no one could say it was unlikely given that we had mers in the past and i think there's some lessons we can learn obviously one is that it pays to build in a bit of slack in the system or resilience and in france as i know in germany you had more empty beds in your intensive care ward than we normally have we try to keep in full time which means you've got no that's their capacity and also we shouldn't spend so much on supply shades for manufacturing because if you have just one long chain and one link breaks that screws up a lot of manufacturing so i think we've learnt that it's more put have resilience than maximum efficiency ok so perhaps not the best long term planners for things like pandemics even though actually they're quite likely what about for truly existential threats where you're focused on that could be anything i gather from

a more serious illness to an asteroid potential asteroid strike what's that mean for planning for those threats. of course you can't they're just extremes and i should say that lerma astronomer i'm not kept awake at night by asteroids threats etc because they are small threats and no bigger now than they were of the dinosaurs they are rare but the threats that we do worry about are those which are caused by humans and either collectively change the climate and causing mass extinction or by misuse of powerful technologies. that are so does everybody about and they will give us a bumpy ride through this century they could cause a complete extinction i think that's frankly very unlikely we're concerned with these extreme risks which we need to prepare for and going back to the covert 90

it's going to cost the world at least $20.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years and then at the specs given it was a dozen likely we should have spent probably hundreds of billions of dollars in the kind of preparation making sure that we monitor all the places where the disease can transfer from humans lanham us to humans it's etter and dream all prepared to stock up on the plate of clothing in all mass we've learned our lesson that it's worth a bigger investment if you will prepare that investment that preparation that readiness that always comes with other costs not just money for example but there are certain social costs that come with that as we've seen in the pandemic as well just responding to the crisis that's been a great cost in terms of social well being perhaps in terms of economic wellbeing for for livelihoods have we had we fully measured the social and economic impacts of the pandemic what does that mean for our planning for crises. well we have it and i think one plus a believe the 9 effect crisis is to really realize how important workers

are not just in the health service but delivery drivers keros and people like now who in our system are under supported poorly paid and in secure jobs and i think one lesson you ought to learn is to. minimize will reduce inequality this would have been actually accentuated by the pandemic and people like myself for instance who go on working from home cetera but many people can't and those who are in cramped apartments with no guards etc and the really tough times i think the experience of the pandemic has excess rated the effects of inequalities which many of us think are far too great anyway and i hope we pressure to reduce them aren't rhesus co-founder of the center for the study of x. existential risk i'll get that word right especially martin thank you so much for

joining us thank you very much well our science correspondent there quince is also thinking about the future curious with a question on the future of m.r. in a technology. we came up with vaccine for covert in under a year what do developments like that mean for the future of health care. couvade 19 has sparked advances in a really wide range of fields but i want to focus on one advance in particular that experts say will change health care in fundamental ways and that's messenger r.n.a. technology in cells and more and a is the molecule that allows information from the archive of the genome to be turned into into the physical metabolic reality of proteins and

controlling and tailoring proteins is a tool of incredible power the scientists have been trying for decades to harness the m.r. in a information system to fight a huge range of diseases then the pandemic hit and all that hard work ended up turbocharging the development and the launch of the m r n a vaccines now in use the 1st ever to be approved that's released the floodgates i think and we can expect more vaccines based on the platform to hit the market in the next couple of years including highly individualized vaccines that help your immune system for example 0 in on cancer mastering m.r. and they will allow us to shift treatments for many diseases away from today's approach which is to mitigate symptoms with medications and towards addressing

the real roots of diseases and that's huge. and that's it for today's peak in the future check back with us tomorrow thanks for watching stay safe so you can. the be.

more than a 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction good. christianity from established itself. both religious and secular leaders want to display their power . to trace me against. and create the tallest biggest most beautiful structures. stone masons

builders or get a chance to compete with each other. this is how massive churches were created. konchesky the good. scotch. on t.w. . about above. coming up on arts and culture the art world's digital revolution how belloc chain encryption technology is reshaping the art market and possibly even the music industry and later on the show a monument to life on hold one artist's take on pandemic lockdowns. but 1st many jews in israel and around the world are marking. or holocaust remembrance day commemorating the 6000000 jews murdered by the nazis or meanwhile

here in germany a massive effort is underway it's a preserve the victim's memory volunteers are digitizing millions of records of people imprisoned and slaved and murdered by the nazi regime and it's all happening in the tiny town of. here's more. tucked away in an industrial hall in western germany is an inconceivable room the arrows in archives with 17500000 names of people persecuted by the nazis the most extensive archive of its kind index cards from concentration camps deportation lest clothing remnants from exuma bodies . there are the names of jews forced laborers concentration camp prisoners in unprecedented memory of suffering. the goal is to make the archive available online for everyone to use taking part in the digital tagging

of the millions of slips of paper is a new way of remembering the action hash tag every name counts is an invitation for everyone to participate. you just need access to the internet and you come to our website and from there you can access documents you can put the names and birthdates of nazi victims into our database and then these names will be published and will be accessible worldwide forever for everybody globally looking to find that fight. good or yosh from both of them is one of 17000 volunteers already digitizing documents often the records are handwritten in old fashioned script or with abbreviations or simply illegible no automatic machine can transfer these last biographies into. current technology it must be done by hand. and that's pretty standard on the one hand it of course benefits the people who are looking for someone and can't completely trace their history but it also helps us

to be even more aware of what happened back then and to deal with the topic in a completely different way yes i'm often the guns on the horizon the shift if you go to yosh works in city government she says that's further motivation to participate in this project because people like her used to fill out these cards and were part of the un just nazi state. the random generator shows you go to yosh a document for a viennese man indicates how i feel it became a political prisoner in 1943 by simply reading a leaflet in the future everyone will be able to trace the story of. he came to boston vide via oceans allied documents show that he survived the war by migrating biographies to the internet the arrows in archives are helping preserve memories and to prepare us for everyday life. seventy's and i think raising awareness of the

historical depth of discrimination and patterns of discrimination anti semitism racism that's not history that's still happening today every day in europe and all over the world. 17.5000000 names and every single one counts. so far they are as an archives have digitized 3 and a half 1000000 documents and these days the art world is also going digital with investors spending enormous sums on artworks that exists only on computer networks until now digital art was so easy to copy that it didn't make much sense financially but now that's changed and the implications for the art market her huge . the magic word is n f t or non fungible token and it's revolutionizing the art market this technology

records the owner's identity in a blank sheet while the work itself remains publicly visible on the web for anyone to see. so what and it is a technical spec there to make the work of art were any good that any. essence uni so you get it well to me. was the absolute size and that you bought it and it you are the rightful owner in this online gold rush a flying cap sold for $650000.00 but 20 for several 1000000. crypto cats or virtual basketball cards sold for millions. and now christie's has got on board auction ing every days from artist people as its 1st tokenized peanuts. the sale not only meant recognition for digital art but

it's helped christie's reap millions in a win win situation. it does get him of us and i think when there is money at stake people take things seriously so many people who used to not really take this art form seriously are now having a closer look and that's great and of course the artist who created this work will go down in art history on that site so it's a conspiracy so i'm sure. the buyer was a singapore based fund that had made a fortune with cryptocurrency 90 percent of the bidders at christie's were unknown is a new crypto elite divvying up the market. people they're all right now. they're . onto the market. forms with really open i do not have much knowledge of the art market and our enemy. and just really go by.

that could end the traditional dominance of art galleries and museums when it comes to determining what art is valuable and important for crypto art could turn out to be an unprecedented speculation bubble but even if that bubble bursts it's still likely to shake up the art market. and let's talk a little more about how an f t's are shaking up the art market i've got d.w. reporter michael kruger here with me so mike a lot of people are asking is this the new art market or is it just a bubble or do you think well 1st of all 2 words have met here on the one hand this young generation knew it's with a pocket full of bitcoin cryptocurrency and on the other hand the very professional investors who are not really interested in art and yeah and this is maybe the reason why we have these incredible sums that being paid 5 now what if the value of

trip to really increase in the future is something we still don't know the excitement will go down i'm quite sure and the art will return at the center again but nevertheless people like me pull will be a chapter in the history of art where there's a lot of excitement now also though in the music industry some people are saying and if these are going to shake up that world what's that about. well there are really threatening the monopoly of streaming services right now with the subscription base economic models because after the streaming services the record labels the musicians seem to be at the end of the food chain and this could change with an f.t.c. they are back in the control the music is back in their hands and they can decide the value of a song. so this is a really thrilling development and the list of musicians who are experimenting with end of teas is growing longer and longer we have festival grimes we have shown man

this and the king of limbs for example but everyone in the music world is that into n f t's there with the with the criticism well in the moment it's still a very exclusive sokol right now because if you buy and the see and if the music you you were by it all you woodstock and that means it's it works just for the musicians who are already very famous i mentioned grimes for example and she's already rich hospital is one of the richest man in the world and another really big question is what happens when the own a dice is ownership of an n.f.t. inherited and but one thing is quite clear once you own n.f.t. it's really safe from being stolen well i'm going to leave it there for now michael krueger thanks so much because speaking of theft and art theft dutch police have arrested a man they believe store priceless paintings from 2 museums on lockdown security

footage shows a burglar smashing through reinforced glass at the singer laurie and museum last year in march before taking this painting by vincent van gogh entitled the parsonage garden at noon and spring and 5 months later a 15000000 euro work by dutch master fronts holes went missing from another museum that's actually the 3rd time it's been stolen since 1988 police say they have yet to recover those 2 paintings. and if you're into art mysteries netflix has just put out a 4 part documentary about the world's biggest ever art heist the series this is a robbery examines how 2 thieves dressed as police officers ripped off 500 $1000000.00 worth of art from the isabella steward gardner museum in boston back in 1990 s. including a painting at the dutch master or rembrandt the works are still missing to this day

. all over germany are red and white mannequins have been popping up on public squares a kind of monument to life put on hold to the coronavirus the traveling art installation that is stopping pedestrians in their tracks. at 11 am in front of cologne cathedral artist dennis hughes if measured against his 111 manager. he calls his installation it is like it is it's meant to symbolize the coronavirus pandemic and its social. represents the movement restrictions that we have during these corona times we can't do what we'd like to do and move around the way that we're used to especially in times of crisis we see how our lives can change and things we have taken for granted can suddenly become a thing of the past. history an area around cologne cathedral is just one of many

places where the artist has staged his mannequins since the beginning of the pandemic last year they've already toured more than 30 german city. plays posed in front of the berlin stock. conquered pottstown. and occupied the old bridge in limbo. the figures wrapped in red and white warning take symbolize social distancing and the standstill of public life. even. on a ski slope. i don't limit vision the mannequins come from different places for example from boutiques that have had to close their doors during the pandemic but also from a hobby hardware store that had to shut down so i was able to buy all the mannequins at a reasonable price. in may dennis fields of music will be awarded the crayola creativity

prize in zurich for this project and if conditions permit he plans to take his mannequins on tour to other countries. that's it for this edition of arts and culture for more stories though check us out any time at d.w. dot com slash culture see you next time. i'm. going.

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this is g w news while i go from berlin tonight to one else mentioned one message the u.k. and the european union say there may be a leak between the astra zeneca virus vaccine and blood clots the head of the european medicines agency and its british counterpart today both said clogging is a potential rear side effect though they continue to say the bin if it's of the vaccine still outweighed the risks also coming up tonight brazil records its highest ever daily death toll from cope with 19 more than 4000.