stonemason builders in the market to keep up with each other. even projects. this is home massive churches it's towers that pierce the clouds like skyscrapers or create a. contest of the cathedrals stars people twist on t.w. . a higher corporate tax rate for better roads bridges and a digital infrastructure u.s. president biden wants companies to foot most of the bill for his massive investment plan and warns china is counting on the marker seat to be too slow to get it done also coming up the world's major economies agree on increasing the international monetary fund's resources his fortunes are on the world are diverging dangerous and

sweatpants are king during the. show you holding pen demick has been impacting the fashion business and how to look sharp even in your home office. on chris colfer welcome to the program companies in the united states are to foot most of the bill for the plat massive investments into the country's infrastructure and while president joe biden signaled a willingness to negotiate on how much business would have to bay it's clear that the money raised will not just go into rebuilding roads and bridges. the u.s. is making very little progress with its high speed broadband network father has some 50005 g. base stations in the country china is fought head with 14 times that amount china's everett's speed of 5 g. is also significantly higher u.s. president joe biden is determined to change that he says huge infrastructure

spending program includes $100000000000.00 fund for rolling out 5 g. infrastructure take look. do you think china is waiting around or invest in this digital infrastructure and research and development i promise you they are not wait for 3rd car new american democracy to be too slow too limited and too divided to keep pace. over the past decade china has become a tech heavyweight boyd in no small part by the success of companies like buy do and 10 cent beijing has also invest it substantially in the collection and analysis of big data with potentially huge ramifications for society china is to be the global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030 but the united states wants to

stop china and joe biden is ready to spend big on making it happen. my colleague at the stephens is here to talk more about those welcome back but so what is the hill that the u.s. has to climb here well as part of china's. relief packages page $1.00 trillion dollars into digital infrastructure so not just a i but 5 g. internet of things setting up research and development as well. and you know it really really wants to be a global leader on the high tech not just 5 so is it a dead cert that china after all these massive investments the country has undertaken so far will be the world leader when it comes to well not necessarily there's a big problem with chips a moment around the world which are the heart of all of that is so things that surround us and the us leads the way on developing the design for the chips and

taiwan and south korea dominate manufacturing so they need each other. now. joe biden said we're going to quote him here china is counting on american democracy to be too slow too limited and too divided to keep up pace so where do we go from here are we going to see a high tech arms raised well some people say we're already in the midst of a tech cold war. and it's in our china wants to be most self-sufficient with with chips and senators are asking biden to be most of the vision to say there's also 3 penny in people that are not yet on line is going to be a huge race to try and get these people and secure their loyalty for biden as a geo political issue say that stepney going to have top yeah. stevens thank you. the international monetary fund is proposing a $650000000000.00 boost to help the world's poorest countries deal with the

economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and also plans in 6 months long death reprieve for 73 nations calling for its poverty reduction and growth trusts to be expanded to include the middle income economies the organization says it is concerned about for tourism dependent nations and middle income countries that had high debt levels even before the pandemic started. plans now needs approval from its board critics say the i.m.f. 6 month break on debt repayments does not go far enough. here's more on what the i.m.f. chief crystal had to say what this create crisis has shown just how and this capable our shared destiny is now we must build on this brother says of common responsibility to foster a fair recovery and the resilient pulse they make the world. the i.m.s.

crystal give a speech there now the aviation industry has taken a spectacular hit from the pandemic as lock downs and border closures make travel and tourism difficult around the world and the 1st remarks to the press since taking office the new director general of the international air transport association well walsh had little optimism to offer he said he sees no light on the horizon for. most aircraft worldwide are still grounded like here at london's heathrow airport compared with february 29th jean february 2021 was a crash landing according to his new 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 katar airways. based on eye out this latest book us global passenger traffic revenue passage a kilometer or on p. kate will not return to preclude it 19 level until 2020 for it at then previous approach it waits 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. now the lead to german designer call lagerfeld once said sweat pants are a sign of defeat you buy them and you lose control of your life loungewear has become popular during the penn demick with hardly anyone heading to the office or

meetings and many designers and fashion retailers have adapted to the casual wear trend. when monica klein is at home in birmingham preparing her design management classes for the university she likes to wear sweatpants and a hoodie. she might put on a casual dress for a video conference. to see it back on the desk in the dress or in the suit you know it's not so comfortable so. it's more comfortable and maybe a better look i look at a bit lazy to pull do you know the proper the proper clothes the proper office clothes she's not the only one who prefers to dress comfortably these days the trend is also caught on with brylin designer leila pierre de ish she sells her collection from her shop in the heart of berman. to my fest it is that i've been noticing a lot of people trusting much more casually because they're working from home so just at home in general they hardly ever go out hardly ever meet up with

a fan they have less of a desire or need to make themselves look beautiful but i still think you should also make yourself look nice at home and not waste away thank you and such as the office is to hold on to and. germans have apparently not lost their appetite for shopping there are currently allowed to make shopping appointments in stores but it pekin kloppenburg a major fashion chain sales of business clothing are currently sluggish sales of men's suits in germany tumbled 54 percent last year while sales of sweat pants jumped 43 percent and the global market for sports where continues to grow pekin kloppenburg has already shifted its strategy. time for time for one thing we're downsizing our retail space for business fashion for men's suits for example also for women stresses it's been reduced so that we can expand other areas like casual

wear jeans and lounge where it's certainly the result of the lock down mr. klein only bought a few casual outfits and 2020 she wants to wait until she can see her colleagues again in person not just virtually before buying anything else. joins me longtime host of dress code or format on all things style both opted for what is deemed usual business attire nevertheless is the business of dead well no it is not enough but this very often in the last couple years. corona it is not dead for 2 reasons a it's the easiest way to look shop and put together for a man you just pick a suit and a shirt and a tie and you're done and it's not you don't get it wrong and secondly a suit and tie still is the dress code that conveys trust that conveys seriousness so if you're serious about your work that's basically what what you show what you

put on a suit and a tie and people still want to be what you look good and want to show that they're serious about their work so how should we dress in these pandemic times even when we're almost xoom calls yeah i mean many many people working from home now and of course at the home where casual way i do you do it is perfectly normal but if you working from home and if you're in a zoom call for example with custom as and with. your colleagues you're not just home you also in the virtual space you're representing your company and if you want to show that you are taking things seriously you might well as well put on a shirt in a tie maybe as a slightly reduced way maybe not a jacket but there is still a good reason to dress up properly even from the waist down. not necessarily you know you can you can wear sweatpants by pounds from the waist down if you feel like it so where do we go next when this pandemic is finally over are we going to see

a renaissance of smart fashion that's what i think actually because many people. many people work from home and when you talk to them you hear from them quite a lot of looking forward to coming back to the office to see all the cars so i think that many people will actually want to celebrate that and dress up for the occasion. thank you. the year's discard store chain target is to spend more than $2000000000.00 of black owned businesses in the next 4 years it is taking a number of steps such as boosting the numbers of products offered by the company's its flagship stores based in minneapolis where george floyd was killed last year by former us in his office after a public outcry that followed target and other retailers are rethinking their marketing and business strategy committee says it wants to spark change. and here's a look at one of our main stories u.s. president biden says that china is counting on us democracy to be quote too slow

limited and divided to keep pace the warning comes after mr biden announced plans to raise the your score from corporate tax rate to help paying for his infrastructure. that's all show for more you can hit our website at www dot com slash business or follow us on social media. for me and the entire team thanks for watching every self a successful. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update coming. on t w. i mentioned how many push. us right now right now from

climate change the very top story. basis lifelessly went on just one week. how much work can really get it. we still have time to act i'm going. subset. of subscribers and more news like this. the problem in society we have at the moment everyone is afraid of making and 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. of 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 that i want located near the airport told in hospital was one of taiwan keepers against the virus authorities had to stand the 5th of confirmed cases here for cheek men since the start of 2020 but in january this year and infected dr

ticker 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 is the hospital acquired infections very serious and hard to control the patients in the hospital need health care workers to take care of them into their next to each other it's impossible to do. quarantine hospital workers and leave patients a lot of you were in. almost a. long works of a central epidemic command center has 13 decided to set himself up in the hospital to directly oversee communications from the command center but woman. we had to contain the virus county time. 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 tests we were definitely nervous we were afraid of getting phone calls in the middle of the night hearing about yet another new case for your chances 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 have to do mass testing to convince the public that the hospital is safe in 44 days was contained with only 21 cases and just one death transparency and honesty is the very important and you have to keep the

people the reason why you want to have. a very strange encounter and very strange in home quarantine and everything is we have to show that everything is there very very useful to prevent a future pandemic chairs said no car cheese can fight alone but i will. i like to emphasize the important thing is the prudence of it as we have to keep by all the possible outbreak in all the countries to prevent its spread off now tell and hospital is back to relative normality this terrace experience reminded a 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 good to have you

on the show 1st of all let's start with the pandemic before we start about talk about exits the existential rest rather can barely even 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 differ so much from country to country when i think we have the u.k. . but it was you didn't have the expense of sars and of course coronaviruses need different preparations then you protected the rep you want. to develop a vaccine etc so we in the u.k. were badly. i think in some respects. european countries and i think the taiwan other government that was more trusted perhaps than our u.k. government was blunt these people are 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 would strike but no one could say it was unlikely given that we had. 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 have 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 misled capacity and also we shouldn't depend 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 work or to 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 here 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. well of course you can't they're just extremes and i should say that limit 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 visitor or by misuse of powerful technologies bio and cetera 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 19 it's going to cost the world at least $20.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years and in a perspective 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 of places where the disease can transfer from humans lanham us to humans it's better and we more prepared to stock up on protective clothing in all mass we've learned our lesson that it's worth a bigger investment if you will prepare that investment and 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 that economic well being for the livelihoods have we have we fully measured the social and economic

impacts of the pandemic or does it mean for our planning for crises. well we have it and i think one possibly the 9 effect that requires this is to really realize how important workers are not just in the health service but delivery drivers carers and people like not who in our system are under supported poorly paid and in secure jobs and i think one lesson you ought to learn is some. minimize will juice inequality this was to be 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 there's no guards etc and the really tough times i think the experience of the pandemic has excess rated the effect of inequalities which many of us think are far too great anyway and they

have to be pressure to reduce them aren't rhesus co-founder of the center for the study of x x a central risk at work right especially martin thank you so much for joining us thank you very much. for science correspondent there pointers also thinking about the future koreas with a question on the future of m.r. in a technology. we came up with vaccine for covert military what do developments like that mean for the future of health care. covert 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 big in the future. check back with us tomorrow thanks for watching stay safe so you get.

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