we. have surprised himself with what. really. some. people along the way maurice and critics like telling us that. this is. coming up today the island that beach called. taiwan has recorded just over a 1000 cases of the cold of august in a population of 24000000 so how did you do it and what for others. countries like the philippines perhaps struggling with an alarming surge in infections that's made hospital scarce. and the stroke. becomes the 1st japanese man.

i'm british welcome to dublin news asia glad you could join us as many countries around the world to battle 2nd even 3rd waves of the coronavirus life in taiwan appears near normal the reason it's success with battling the pandemic the numbers tell the tale a little more than a 1000 registered cases and only 11 covered related deaths for a population of nearly 24000000. strict quarantine controls and destiny. tribute to the island's remarkable success in keeping numbers low something that was visible when a small outbreak hit a large hospital back in january located near the airport toll in hospital was one

of taiwan ski keepers against the virus authorities had to stand the 5th of confirmed cases here for cheat 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 in the. hospital acquired infections very serious and hard to control the patients in the hospital need health care workers to take care of them. next to each other it's impossible to just quarantine hospital workers and leave patients alone you were in. a. long work service center at the demick command center which has 13 decided to set himself up in the hospital to directly oversee communications from the command center but. we had to contain the virus county. in the large hospital of more than 2600

employees and they were all 700 in patients who were wrong decision could lead to the charge of the similar to the 2003 sars outbreak then the government lockdown 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. but when there were more and more people come from positive we were definitely nervous you know we were afraid of getting phone calls in the middle of the night hearing about yet another new case for your chips at this time the command center react to quickly. tracking all possible contacts and hold quarantine 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 employees have to do mass testing to convince the public that

the hospital is safe in 44 days it was contained with only 21 case this 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 strange encounter very strange in home quarantine and this is why we have to show that everything is there very very useful to prevent a future pandemic chose said no car cheese can fight alone but i would like to emphasize the important thing is the prudence of it as we have to keep all the possible outbreak in all the countries to prevent its spread off now to how and hospital is back to relative normality this seris experience reminded of 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

vast breading virus. is a researcher on global corporate 19 strategery of the university of edinburgh and joins me now from leeds in the u.k. jay welcome know you studied global responses to the koran about a spender mic in your assessment what has taiwan done well. well taiwan focused very early on on having an elimination strategy they were not keen on this idea of having community transmission where we've got the virus circulating in a population so that a very early very rapid and focused effort to eliminate any cases and clusters that were emerging from the initial a china connection then how were they able to implement this so if actively developing a previous experience with tackling pandemics that came in handy well the sars pandemic of 2003 certainly came in and they they had the planning they had the

pre coded infrastructure to deal with pandemics well but above all they recognize that acting quickly. and trying to protect public health 1st of all in an attempt to recover economies after the pandemic were crucial and certainly applied those lessons to cope with $1000.00 very well it would appear that what you're saying is it's quite it makes a lot of sense to put it simply i'm just wondering why other countries could not draw the same lesson early on in the pandemic. well it's a difficult question to answer but perhaps one of the reasons is adopting an influenza approach or a flu approach which many western countries had rather than the sas plan i suppose the primary difference between the 2 is that flu favors some level of end a message cie some some speculation in the population to build immunity now the

problem is that sars coronavirus 2 is much more lethal it's much more transmissible and so that approach just simply would not work. it is also down to the fight for earlier on in the pandemic it wasn't really well known how infectious new coronavirus the new coral virus is possibly yes but in any respect that actually enforces the need to drive down cases to as low as possible as quickly as possible when there are so many unknowns exercising what's called the precautionary principle certainly has a lot of value and in the western countries we didn't really see that approach instead what we saw was affirmative to the existing flu plans which were clearly not compatible with this virus right where you live there for the time member thank

you so much for joining us jaipur terrill from the university of edinburgh and one of those struggling with an increasing number of cases is the philippines since march of the country has been seeing thousands of new delhi infections just yesterday for destroying some 11000 new cases the spurt has taken its toll on already stretched medical resources. a covert 19 intensive care ward in manila amid this crisis the sick patients are in fact lucky to even have a bed unprecedented demand has left hospitals turning desperate people away. angelo berra was among them. we didn't dissipate that as it was this bad and the more hospitals we called and went to the more to the panic settled in the war the feeling of helplessness. and general spent 5 frantic hours driving around manila

looking for a hospital that could help his sick father. it was just heartbreaking because even if we went to all these hospitals that said again i had all these writings on there and that you know people were telling us that they couldn't accommodate and there were still people there you know there were still people just begging to go inside. or to be admitted to be cared for and you know eventually became one of those people. his father died on the steps outside one of 15000 filipinos to perish in this tragedy in recent weeks the virus has spread faster with hospitals building makeshift tents to accommodate the result. lest the unworthy not be all last week was are washed scenario we have 400 beds in ward and 100 beds in i.c.u. what happened was i had to borrow 50 i.c.u.

beds like so we had 4 $150.00 beds in ward all of them were occupied and then only 50 beds were left for i.c.u. right. and then 50 beds the ones i see. the government has provided extra money to expand capacity in the system but health care professionals warn that's an acute shortage of stuff isn't even baker can sound. japan is boss king in the north another sporting achievement on sunday he dickey matsuyama became the 1st japanese mom to win one of golf's major titles the prestigious mostest at augusta. after the 1st 3 and a half days of play at the masters tournament. yama seemed to be a sure bet to win with a massive lead of 6 strokes and just 9 holes to play but his home country had to

hold its breath as the leader made a number of poor shots including one that landed his ball in a pond allowing his rivals to move within a single shot matsuyama held firm at the last however to win for himself for his long suffering caddie for his country and for his country's youth. some more hopefully. others will be inspired by what happened here. and maybe follow in my footsteps. back home in japan golfers of all ages picked up their clubs with a slightly firmer grip this academy proudly displays matsuyama as image signature and accomplishments. japan's prime minister meanwhile sang his praises sing out that going on a with the prolonged coronavirus pandemic i think this when really gave courage and

excitement to everyone in japan and then they'd ship gulf ingrates like tiger woods also offer congratulations for making japan proud the legendary jack nicklaus noted the historic nature of the moment but rarely shows emotion but after receiving what's known around the gulf in world as the green jacket of the masters champion he celebrated outwardly briefly the winner of perhaps gulps biggest prize. and that's it for today you can find more on our web site. now this part of record called about a sergeant in thousands of hindu devotees continue to mock the pool from a law festival on the banks of the ganders in northern india concerns are mounting that it's becoming very very much for the koran of artist removal of those images and see you again tomorrow for buy.

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welcome to arts and culture the 74th bafta film awards have been virtually handed out from the royal albert hall in london there was no red carpet no live audience and the winners excepted from home but there was plenty of buzz the prizes were hotly contested but in the end no matter the land almost swept the board winning best film best director and best actress join me to talk about that and the rest of the night is off till experts call it rocks. scott welcome now there was a very strong competition for best film this year but the winner wasn't really a surprise nomad land has been cleaning up this award season at the golden globes produces gayle's etc etc but scorch was the result he were expecting. yeah very much i mean nomad land has been a huge favorite of mine since i saw it at the venice film festival when it premiered last year and it's been sweeping all before it this is

a really an incredible film i mean in some ways it's a classic american road movie but it's done in a completely different style of frances mcdormand who won best actress at the bafta as she plays fern who is a woman who's lost her husband she's lost her job and so she packed up everything she owns into a camper van and she becomes a modern day nomad traveling traveling the earth it's a very poignant movie that looks at poverty and at the failures of the american dream but it does so without any form of judgment and with just an unbelievable overflowing of humanity it's really i think my favorite film of last year even though the director. directed it cost it also included a lot of known actors to playing themselves showing just how innovative as a director but she's also made history. yes definitely she was the 2nd woman to win best director at the back after kathryn bigelow and the 1st woman of color

to do so but i think i was getting kind of accustomed to being such a pioneer i mean she's already been the 1st woman of color to win a best director at the golden globes and various other awards ceremonies and i'm pretty sure she's going to break that glass ceiling at the oscars as well later this month now after last year's award scott bafta was very heavily criticized for a distinct lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the awards but yeah this is all change the fact is made a really big effort to make the awards more inclusive. yeah basically what they did last year i mean there were no people of color nominated in any of the acting awards and so bafta took action and basically changed things top to bottom they diversified their voting base they changed their voting rules to allow people from less represented communities a better a fair chance to get in and it seems to have worked i mean this year we had 4 of the 6 director nominees were women and 16 of the 24 acting nominees were people of color including the 2 best supporting actor we. read many of the other winners and

nominees still have a chance for the big prizes at the all schools which of course take place later this month but let's talk a bit about the others. yeah i mean there's a lot of very interesting winners in the back to have oscar chances i mean my favorite looking at them is probably promising young woman which won best british film and best original screenplay and this is a really clever story it's sort of a meet to revenge tale it stars the british actress carey mulligan and she plays a traumatized woman who basically entraps men by pretending to be drunk in till they take her home and then when they try to take advantage of her she snaps back awake and turns the tables on them very powerful film with a lot of interesting twists and turns on and i think it's got great chances at the oscars as well later this month 2 other things i'd like to point out 2 winners from the past as with the supporting actor nominees daniel british actor won best

supporting actor playing black panther in judas and the black messiah credibly powerful performance from that period of the political turmoil in the u.s. and best supporting actress went to the korean south korean star. who a one playing a sharp tongued grandmother in the american film minority both those films both of those actors are nominated for the oscars and i think they've got great chances coming off this bafta wave but let's talk about the so itself scots hosted phone on didn't so obviously since it wasn't quite as usual but they did try to make it as much of a spectacle as they could. yeah i mean they did they did they did their best i mean these are the shows we're getting accustomed to now these covert shows this was done by the royal albert hall but the guests the hosts were alone on stage presenting the show and presenting the awards to filmmakers who were sitting at home communicating via skype or whatever and not the most exciting thing but then they did have some some moments of magic i mean there were some great live music

performances by liam payne and and celeste and and there was a sort of sense that they were at least trying to put on a show but i have to be honest i'm getting kind of tired of these. award shows i'm really waiting to get back to a real in person awards of at my school we've got about 30 minutes 30 seconds left that quickly would gearing up for the american academy awards coming up in just a couple of weeks how predictive is success in the box does do you think we're going to see a repeat yet the badges aren't actually the greatest predictor of the oscars at least for the best picture they don't have a great record in that respect but i think in this case they definitely got it right i think no doubt land is definitely my pick for the best picture at the oscars and close out for the best director i put money on it right now ok scott well explain born many thanks for your analysis and at the very latest we'll see you again in a couple of weeks to talk about whether you also his predictions come true. looking forward to it. now as well as cinema going lockdowns have put the brakes on

travelling and holidays so we're all having to spend our leisure time closer to home for us here in berlin one of the most popular places to do that is potsdam once of oil capital the city has a host of architectural gems to delight and we're lacks the senses and more than just a taste of italy. strolling past palazzi and palm trees and enjoying some go on a p.r. no it's not italy it's germany potsdam to be exact next to berlin the state capital of brandenburg offers a bit of comfort for people in the region who would really rather be in rome but can't get there at the moment due to the pandemic. the city's italian flair is thanks to the pression kings who also yearned for italy art historian or to divest harder explains that part stems transformation from austere military base

to architectural showpiece began in me 18th century. the president of the seat of royalty was meant to be an ideal city and so inspiration was drawn from italian urban planning and individual palazzi especially in rome in the home but frederick the great never set eyes on rome district father forbade him from traveling there so instead he sent his architects to copy the most beautiful buildings and build somewhat more modest interpretations he wanted to give parts to which he called a wretched backwater that bit more splendor. the month of may you just have to walk around sasa see a palace and look from there to the hill with the artificial ruins to see that frederick was an italian at heart you know about. a new app offers a virtual or even actual tour through the earth that's rome of the pression kings. 30 locations the app shows of side by side comparison of the original italian

structure of the pottstown replica. some of those replicas looks so authentic even italians like christmas are not all and his son almost forget they live an. obvious as if there's more of this kind of thing in italy of course but this wonderful architecture and the flair here are certainly impressive. in course answers this is showing us a stop for the perfect vibe chris says his fellow part stammers could take a more italian attitude towards life but otherwise as the saying goes all roads lead to rome in this case with a detour. now how about a statue of jesus even bigger than we i was christ the redeemer where you guys have

long to wait a new one is under construction in the city of any kind of tired or in southern brazil that will tower over the iconic one in rio de janeiro this been in the making since 2019 but until now it was only a tool so and legs this week it got its head and outstretched arms the statue was expected to be finished later this year. now to a book that was a surprise success when it was 1st published in german in 2015 inspired by a traumatic almost forgotten chapter in german history it focuses on 2 generations of women in one family and what the concept of home means to them this house is mine by dirt is the latest subject of our series 100 german must reads. some nights when the storm came in from the west the house groans like a boat tossed back and forth on

a heavy sea gusts of wind squeal before being dead and by the old walls that's what witches sound like when they're burning the whole thought. this house is mine by delta hines and starts with the creepy sounds of the farmhouse where young and her mother hildegarde have found shelter the 2 of them are refugees not from syria or afghanistan they're ethnic germans fleeing eastern europe at the end of world war 2. they try to make a home for themselves in northern germany in a region that's it dilip full of orchards and thatched roof houses but the welcome they receive is far from warm. you knew your place in your position in this landscape and it always went according to age 1st came the river then the land then bricks and oak beams and then the people with the old names everything that came after that people who'd been bombed out driven away those weary of the city those

without land and looking for a home land were nothing but wind borne sand and washed out. this scar. were born into a noble family but that's no use now has a god marries the farmer's son to secure her and her daughter's existence decades later little vehicle is all grown up and lives on the farm alone and history seems to repeat itself turns up child in tow escaping an unfaithful relationship in the big city. a refugee when she sees one this house of mine is about the illusion of home and about a family of strong women who get by but never quite belong sometimes kitschy deeply moving. and that does sound moving now if you're a book and that's not enough for you there's plenty more where that came from when

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has the right to take action and a trip to the top mainland starts to ease covert 18 researchers a hard long doubt i mean mass vaccination drives that bear fruit spread the government also has a warning for the population. thank you. so much for joining us germany's conservatives are battling to decide who they'll put forward to succeed chance on glim airco germans go to the polls this fall to elect a new government and after 16 years as chancellor angela merkel is not running again on our c.d.u. party and its very insistent party the c.s.u. are trying to pick between 2 candidates i mean alicia x. here on the left has already succeeded miracle in one respect he's the city use

party leader of marcus surtur who you see here on the right also once the job is the bavarian state from year a leader of the c.s.u. visitors national profile has room during the pendency. and today has seen several key developments in the race to succeed chancellor merkel for i'm now joined by due to be corresponding simon young simon earlier the c.d.u. back to mr to fill merkel shoes as chancellor is the leadership contest basically decided now. well larry you would think it would be because the c.d.u. is the larger of these tea parties it normally has priority particularly in this question of who will run for chancellor and so you think you know if the c.d.u. leadership supports the recently elected chairman of the c.d.u. party says the candidate well then that would be 80 to says no i'm not throwing in

the towel we should think about this a little more and we shouldn't only listen to the leadership we should listen to the wide of party local associations activists also members of parliament and he obviously thinks that some of those people might well prefer him to lash it out well let's continue on that now because mr senator is very confident he feels he is more popular among the german public and some of the polls that bear that out and he's refusing now to concede defeat he's not going down without a fight that that is clear cut that tactic succeed in the setting. well it looks like a long shot at the moment zidane self said that he can't be the candidate against the will of the c.d.u. and after this decision this morning by the c.d.u.

leadership to back their man ahmed lash at well it's pretty clear what the will of the c.d.u. is in that sense. has tried to say well you know we should look at policies we should look at the content and how we're going to try and appeal to voters come the general election later this year he is saying that we don't quite have the clear profile he points out that the cd un the sea is you have been kind of losing support in polls and in some regional elections in the last few months the conservative share of the vote has been dropping badly so something needs to be done he says and he thinks that he's the man with the clear a policy platform ultimately to put that to the voters so he thinks he is still the man so there's that mean that this contest is still wide open well looks like it could run on least for the next few days i would say that it all depends really

whether any leading conservative figure has come out tonight or perhaps to morrow and say that they are backing mark has not been lashing out if that happens then that might force the c.d.u. leadership as well to think again about its choice and. possibly ultimately come out with a different choice at the end of this. simon young reporting thank you. and we pivot to the middle east now where israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will never allow iran to obtain nuclear weapons mr netanyahu made the comments after tehran blamed israel for sabotaging its largest nuclear facility israel has not directly claimed responsibility but israeli media reported that an israeli cyber attack was behind the incident meanwhile a spokesman for iran's foreign ministry said his country will retaliate against israel in due time the natanz enrichment site suffered

a large scale blackout on sunday just hours after u.n. even richmond's was restarted at the plant incident took place barely a week after back talks in vienna on reviving the international nuclear accord with iraq. i'd like to welcome and now mr at 9 to buy in distilled or if an iran analysts are a very warm welcome what do we know about who and what was behind the cyber attack . i guess we're still in the zone awls more or less educated guesses and it makes perfect sense to describe the rationale behind this attack to the israeli government and its intelligence. organization. we know the israeli position on the jessie j. is continues to be extremely hawkish and the nuclear agreement that you already referred to which is now discussed in vienna to restore the nuclear agreement is

something that is worrying a prime minister that benjamin netanyahu in israel a lot so this is why everybody's pointing his or her finger to to israel at the moment and now iran says that the centrifuges that were damaged were so important about this particular infrastructure. well the centrifuges are essential to to conduct enrichment and iran has been. using connecting using and cascades centrifuges also in a way to to exert pressure on the parties to the nuclear agreement using more modern more efficient strength centrifuges and this is certainly something that is supposed to raise eyebrows internationally so that the nuclear agreement is more seriously tried to be restored and that's also why this nuclear site is so important and why it may have come under attack from this room the timing is very

significant absolutely it's key and we saw an attack on the iranian ships last week. apparently there are concerns that these talks in vienna are leading to the restoration of the milk or cream and that is something that has some serious opposition mainly in israel but also in saudi arabia and other countries that are allies to the u.s. the arc enemies of iran. now what will the impact be on those talks whether they stand. currently it really looks promising i have to say it looks as if the u.s. and iran the 2 most important parties arguably to the nuclear agreement are trying to work out a path that both sides can sell domestically and to serve the poor the purpose of what the j.c. has been about and the talks in vienna were halted for the moment on friday but are expected to resume as early as this week and there has been some progress in this

respect but lots of. tiny details of it are in fact now in progress and that makes its own sense of sensitive at the moment and possibly such events such as yesterday can make it even more complicated but i obviously hope that all sides will stay focused on what mung on what matters iran analyst and not an attempt to by many thanks for joining us my pleasure. aren't want to tell you now about some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour the global chemical weapons watchdog says it was reasonable it has reasonable grounds to believe the syrian regime used chemical weapons in a 2018 attack on the in the future by the opi c.w. found the syrian air force dropped a chlorine bomb on the town of santa fe the syrian government has consistently denied using chemical weapons in the country's civil war. also leader uncensored

she has again demanded a face to face meeting with her lawyers after the military brought new criminal charges against her so she faces multiple charges charges that could see her barred from office for life she has been in custody since the military seized power back in february. russian prison officials have threatened to begin force feeding jailed opposition leader flexing a volley that's according to the volley was her legal team the kremlin critic has been on a hunger strike since late march purchased in what he says is a lack of proper medical treatment at his prison facility east of moscow. at least 2 firefighters have been hospitalized after battling a massive blaze in the russian city of st petersburg a fire broke out at a historic factory in the city center dozens have been evacuated from the.

protests have broken out in the u.s. state of minnesota after police fairly shot a young young black man well it just identified him as 20 year old dante wright the state governor says he's closely monitoring the situation at a time where tensions there are already at boiling point the incident comes as the trial of white minneapolis police officer derek show been charged with killing george floyd last year is still under way. protesters versus police in the suburbs of minneapolis tear gas and rubber bullets fired i did agitated crowds and all too familiar scene by now. hundreds of demonstrators surrounded the police station in the town of brooklyn center after reports of another black man shot to death dante wright died during what should have been a routine traffic stop. wright's mother said her son called her when he was pulled over. he called me at about 140 that he was getting pulled over by the

bull you. and i thought well why did you get pulled over you pulled them over. again from the arbor with the money. on the ground that you the killing came as tensions were already high with the trial of white minneapolis police officer derrick chauvin charged with killing george floyd last year. her back and keep taking probably still like people for no reason to try to stop you know mental health problems so this is just the way the clandestine solidarity is or that we're not to deal with it in a fair because. who knows that there's maybe a difference in this world would be the last time we all come together like. the town's mayor called the shooting tragic and minnesota's governor said he was mourning a mother and wife of a black man taken by law enforcement. and national guard free has moved into place

in a curfew is in effect. a virus instructions are being eased in england today non-essential shops hairdressers engines will join pub outdoor spaces to reopen while prime minister boris johnson is calling it a major step towards freedom of the openings come after a fast vaccine rollout and falling numbers of corner virus cases and deaths but the government is also warning people against complacency. 43. 1 ladies and gentlemen take your seats at your 1st break they found out it's been a long wait for this pub in london but it was ready to open its doors the moment restrictions were lifted after midnight on april 12th and for these pub goers it was not a moment too soon. yet as when. i've been saying these lot socially for a while when yes it's just good to be well not just almost good to be. tough

measures have been in place in england and in other parts of the u.k. since early january to suppress a surge in corona virus infections that swept the country late last year. along with outdoor service at pumps and restaurants on monday jim's and fitness studios were also allowed to reopen as well as hair salons and non-essential retail shops that's good news for many businesses which have struggled to stay afloat amid several stretches of lockdown over the past year. when you get really really worried and it's my only thought think i'm sorry it's for a lot of pressure on all family as well. britain has had europe's worst corona virus outbreak with more than 127000 confirmed deaths but infections hospitalizations and deaths have all fallen thanks to the lockdown and a mass vaccination program that has given at least one dose to more than 60 percent

of the adult population. who are sick or there's some more news coming up but i did have a business where the robert watson well hauraki and were alone on behalf of all of us here thank you so much for spending this part of the day with this ice we'll see you tomorrow. are you ready for some breaking news i'm christine winblad on the eye on the edge of my country with a brand new deed of the music africa the show that tackles the issues shaping the continent now with more time to also bought into to talk to all of the friends up to you what's making the hittites and what's behind the way on the streets to give you in the reports on the inside. w. news africa every friday on d.w. . what secrets lie behind.

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country. this is due to be business on robots in berlin welcome to the program the new u.s. president has promised a fundamental change in american foreign policy post trump bass raised expectations in africa for key issues are expected to determine whether the new u.s. administration can really live up to those expectations according to the german institute for global and area studies firstly for years washington has paid billions of dollars towards the fight against islamist terror particularly in the sahara region nigeria somalia and mozambique so to what extent will that continue there's also climate change it could be an overall whole market the biden presidency and with his signature african aid program there is already an initiative to reduce africa's dependence on fossil fuels next one of the major corporations between the u.s. and africa has been on fighting diseases such as hiv aids the white house may well

double down on that in an effort to counter balance so-called vaccine diplomacy by china in the region and finally trade between the u.s. and africa it's actually fall in sharply in recent years so is that something that would change under president biden while i put that exact question to christiane from so from the german institute for global and area studies. i don't expect a major drastic change here so the trade between africa and china is way ahead of that compared to the trade between the u.s. and africa but i would expect a more switch each approach a focus on the main goal the main areas for economic cooperation particularly when you compare to other trump administration you mentioned china that china is at the forefront of the white house's mind when it comes to trying to africa or isn't it

yeah so one of the main reasons for that is the particular approach of china when it comes to its relationship with africa they propose provide a package deal when it comes through infrastructure investments so they would provide financing they would provide building an operation even of infrastructure projects just as one example they build a train track from. the capital of if europea to djibouti to the harbor there to provide access to the sea for this land locked country and this really solves the distinct problem the company has and one of the focus areas of the u.s. administration could be to emulate this approach to some extent also to to support african parton's what about money flowing from the u.s. into africa in the form of aid is that again something that's likely to change and

the president biden and where that goes. yeah so to start with there is a all over the last years i would say since the administration from george w. bush actually advanced a fairly strong bipartisan consensus in the u.s. when it comes to u.s. africa policy so i would not expect a major shift here one of the main areas when it comes to development and support is or has been the support for health so tackling. diseases like hiv aids for instance and i would expect the biden administration to follow suit and also off course focus on covert 19 and like fighting fighting this disease and you know aspect could really be a climate change though that more investment go in so carbon neutral energy

production and there is dire need in the u.s. in africa to really strengthen and a good energy production christian from service from the german institute for global and area studies thanks a lot for joining us on day to be business thank you. now than ever trade fair is normally the largest event of its kind in the world however things are a little different this year with the showcase moving entirely online the 2021 edition focuses on artificial intelligence machine learning and rip off ticks and only the city of hanover would be buzzing with guests from across the globe but the coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible this time around germany's machinery companies have proven resilient during the crisis but falling output in february shows they aren't going on affected. a lot of tracting international exhibitors albeit digitally only new nick is developing into a kind of german silicon valley big names from siemens to apple and google are

investing big that it's a pot thanks to both various 1000000000 euro high tech agenda which attracts qualified professionals and help support a lively startup scene. the intelligent robot arm carefully grips the tomato without crushing it the special thing about this robot is that it sees with the help of cameras it was developed by these of the robotics founders nicholas out and stefan lock blown up in their munich based startup their aim is to make robots for everyday use and to revolutionize the market. our core innovation is camera based sensor technology this means that we can greatly simplify robotic hardware we can build robots that use simple motors and are controlled entirely by software and cameras that would allow us to build very inexpensive robots that could be used on a vacuum cleaner for example. critter. the 2 have their office in munich's vaca

a subsidized startup center for 35 digital startups here they conduct experiments and work on their business models. it's not just the building in the infrastructure that you get here you get exchanged with other founders who have similar issues and that's one of the most valuable aspects there is a large network of mentors including large companies which are available here in munich in a variety of ways they're increasingly interested in working with startups to develop the great solutions for tomorrow markets and they can the high tech industry seems to be drawn to bavaria apple has just announced the establishment of its european center for chip design in munich google is hiring 1500 new employees and computer giant i.b.m. opened its development center in munich's high like towers 4 years ago to focus on artificial intelligence. i think we have a lot of advantages we have manufacturing companies here small and medium size

companies there are customers and we want to be close to them we really do have world class universities here where we find a top talent precisely in the areas we need. added to this is a very is 1000000000 euro high tech agenda among other things 1000 new professorships are being planned munich's university is the t.e.u. and ellen you play an important role in the cooperation with i.t. companies. of course it brings new research ideas and enables our students and junior scientists to work on topics that are really relevant. engineers new stephon look borna had started doing research on their robots at the t.-u. munich and continued in their start up they now build intelligent robots for several companies in germany and here up. now for a look at some of the other global business stories making the news stocks in

emerging markets suffered their worst drop in nearly 3 weeks with the turkish lira losing further ground inflation expectations for the country have jumped in recent weeks on doubts over whether the central bank of turkey will keep policy tight it's expected to make a decision on interest rates later this week. french lawmakers approved a ban on short domestic flights they want to abolish domestic flights on routes that can be covered by rail in under 2 and a half hours the government is seeking to lower carbon emissions even as the travel industry reels in the global pandemic. of frustrated restaurants and small business owners have scuffled with police in rome during protest against continued coronavirus restrictions around 200 demonstrators tried to reach the office of prime minister mario draghi the 2 are held back by police in full riot gear. now sudan will receive $400000000.00 from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates

to fund the country's agricultural product production import this year according to sudan's news agency suna it's money that could do a lot of good for farmers that if it wasn't for another major problem plastic pollution excessive waste is hampering growth and threatening livelihoods. on the streets of khartoum they're everywhere plastic bags from local stores and markets way too many in a country that often doesn't have enough in sudan traders pay a ridiculously low price for the bags for customers there free of charge available nearly everywhere. in the plastic bag business run smoothly and users can keep them for a long time and they don't easily break or where. they will get the most. plastic bags that are no longer needed are usually thrown into the streets garbage bins are rare garbage collection is sporadic sometimes not coming

by for weeks and the consequences are devastating every year and estimated $50000.00 tonnes of plastic waste of all kinds and up in sudan's in chanting landscapes on streets in bush's on farmland causing immense damage environmental experts are worried the country is suffocating in garbage this huge amount of fish a given this in the environment affects fed is going to cut short of soy you know that this makes it degrade the soil. and the soil and so. off because she's a production and even the food production for. recycling is still in its infancy here children will sometimes pick up plastic bottles on the streets to earn a few extra cents the bags however are simply left lying around there are just 5 companies in the capital that sort clean and recycle the plastic bottles far too

few they are working at full capacity and struggling with all kinds of problems. you have got obama and we have the problems with the electricity one day it's on the next day it's not but that's the case all over sudan. actually the solution to the plastic plate is obvious educate people tax plastics strengthen recycling companies everyone can benefit. not lists than 50000000. annually if we could make a proper plastic recycling and this is going to sort of the environment that of the plastic and it's going to make profit at the elevation for the fifty's. the government however is asleep at the wheel on this problem people and the environment are unnecessarily suffering from the plastic flood. so

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