their fight against prejudice i got called gay boy i did nothing and just getting up and for gripping. your little stores on the big stage. it's a scotsman 70. running on hydrogen. it's not science fiction but real. fuel cells can power vehicles and he tones without emitting any c o 2 greenhouse gas at point of use. could this help solve the climate crisis. we'll take a closer look on today's program. hello

and welcome to tomorrow today the science show on d w. $766.00 to the discovery of the elements hunter. in 1988 the idea of the hydrogen oxygen fuel cell was formulated saif i write it jules verne's speculated water will be the coal of the future. but progress was slow fuel cells as a source of electric energy just didn't catch on. but they were used in the apollo missions to the moon many saw the technology as too dangerous and too expensive. but over the past decade interest in the energy source has soared. and germany wants to lead the way in the world of high.

hydrogen is ever present in our daily lives it's a basic building block of plastics chemical fertilizers and paints it's an ingredient in laundry detergent even chewing gum contains hydrogen. and it's found in skincare products and alcohol. it was like the hydrogen is the lightest element and the most abundant it's very important for the chemical industry and for industry in general. on earth hydrogen is mainly. on form. water for example consists of 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom in its pure form h 2 hydrogen is an invisible non toxic gas.

and it has a lot of potential a liter of hydrogen contains 3 times as much energy as a meter of gasoline. and hydrogen does not pollute when it's burnt. but there is a catch. the bus will go to get pure age to a huge amount of energy is required to produce the necessary chemical reaction and here forms would work and. currently extracting pure hydrogen creates a lot of environmental pollution as it requires the use of natural gas in a process called steam reforming. natural gas c h 4 this mixed with steam and separates at $500.00 degrees celsius and to water c o 2 and to. this process uses energy derived from fossil fuels.

hydrogen extracted this way is called grain hydrogen because it releases a lot of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. and visit us more than $60000000.00 tons of hydrogen are extracted each year that means $600000000.00 tons of c o 2 more than one percent of average projects the o 2 in the atmosphere comes from extracting hydrogen. bill. gray hydrogen is no miracle weapon in the fight against climate change caused by human activity energy expert. explains why the industry still uses the natural gas method of extracting hydrogen. hydrogen is needed for industrial processes manufacturers want to cheap so natural gas is used. cheap but dirty that's why german chemicals group b.s.f. is researching how to extract hydrogen from natural gas without creating any greenhouse

gas as a byproduct the project is financed by the german government. me think pyrolysis works instead of c o 2 pure carbon is produced during hydrogen extraction. but it actually comes out like this little grains that are very pure ordinary carbon in the form of coal here there's nothing mixed in that we wouldn't want like sulfur goes with you know. this carbon can be used in batteries or in the steel industry the process works on a small scale but there's a long road ahead until it can be used in large scale industrial production. so alternatives are needed but there's also blue and green hydrogen. the german government is counting on them but what are they. blue hydrogen is produced just like hydrogen but the polluting c o 2 doesn't end up in the atmosphere instead it's sequestered underground but such

storage facilities don't exist in germany. green hydrogen offers the cleanest solution no natural gas is needed to produce it instead water is used. energy is used to split water into its components oxygen and hydrogen. the method is called electrolysis. the german government has high hopes for green hydrogen it could be used in hydrogen powered trucks in a clean heavy industry that runs on hydrogen thanks to wind and solar parks and ships that sail and airplanes that fly without emissions but green hydrogen has a drawback. about as good there's one really inherent disadvantage a huge amount of energy needs to be expended to extract the hydrogen $56.00 times

as much energy it has to be sustainable and that's the challenge with electrolysis liquid is a more sustainable energy for use and hydrogen extraction could be generated if there were a massive expansion of wind parks but forgot fashioning says that alone won't do. this and we've already gone some way and shifting to renewables but the share of renewables in the energy mix is just 15 percent in germany at the current rate we need another 100 to 200 years we have to quadruple or quintuple what we're doing now and we know that solar and wind energy production rates vary. if germany were to massively expand renewables it could produce enough green hydrogen but that would probably mean lots of wind turbines near residential areas the government wants to import green hydrogen from sunny continent such as africa or australia but that too would be problematic. for each individual stage and each kilometer of transport causes losses if you transport hydrogen by

ship the ship in the fuel so again you'd lose some of the energy we also know that importing is expensive so it's unrealistic it would be $3.00 to $4.00 times as expensive as if we were to make it efficiently here in germany. so only if there is a massive expansion of renewable energy production will the world one day be able to run on green hydrogen. switching to renewables and slashing c o 2 emissions is crucial. and the effects of climate change are already being felt in many parts of the world. for example in india the region of logic is a high plateau in the himalayas it's one of the driest places on earth as dry as the sahara. the mountains keep monsoon rains away and climate change

is making the situation even worse an indian engineer has come up with a clever way to make more water available to local people. this is not a remnant of a melted. it's an artificial reservoir shakes like a buddhist sanctuary a stupor may devise the idea was conceived by so no one choke an engineer from lead back in northwestern india. is our ships which have a minimal surface area for the so the sun cannot melted as quickly as it does on his own flat and therefore it melts slowly as the summer approaches and as it melts it gives its water to the farmers. his famous for the world's highest altitude cold deficit in a region which gets only between 50 and 100 millimeters of rainfall annually the glaziers have been a life source for ages. they provide water for the cities.

and for the farmers as well. but due to climate change almost 20 percent of the glaciers in the area have been lost in the last 50 years although the clay sea is a melting in summer there is still water scarcity during certain months. what many people don't understand for farmers the challenge of water is only in spring time it played in me which is when they need water and which is when the glaciers are still not warm enough there so they don't melt. the wood in scaffold serves as a skeleton for the ice stupor in winter scarce melt water from the mountains is transported in underground pipes to lower regions due to the difference in pressure

it shoots up all by itself. and the minus the air will extract the heat in the water and then it falls down and freezes in the ship and the beauty is that you don't need machines are pumps or electricity or fuels or pollution none of that it's all gravity simple pipes. it's summer now this stupor is 5 months old built by the inhabitants of a nearby village originally it held over 15000000 liters of water. about 50000 liters melt daily. with the water flowing from the ice stupor the village in the valley has enough water available for the tiny irrigation of the fields. so now i'm one shook is co-founder of the students educational and cultural movement sec model because

the young people will one day have a say in the fate of the region they need to know how the stupors help the farmers however in the long run artificial glaciers are only a makeshift solution. i stupors are not just method of making water but it is also a message from the mountain people to the people in big cities of the world it is equally important that you in the big cities. everything to get climate change and . my message is that. simply in the big cities off the so that we in the mountains can live. there and now about 25 i stupids in the region to create them it needed just a leap of the imagination what's needed now is change on a global scale. and

animals grow bigger and bigger. and then they just stop but why is that. that is going past one of our view is. growing once they're adults why do people reach a certain size and stop growing. girls tend to stop growing by the age of 15 and reach an average height of 1.63 meters. or 17 and then average 1.74 meter. people. you can estimate. it will eventually be.

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interesting science stories at d.w. dot com slash science and i'm no twitter feed. fluids. we all need a steady supply. without most head we wouldn't survive more than 3 or 4 days. if we get dehydrated say by running around the body sends us a warning message we get thirsty we need to drink more says. but what's the big deal about water anyway. it's abundant on our planet a molecule made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom h 2 o. water most of which is in the earth's oceans. but on land just as it travels along rivers and streams that flows through our veins here everything appears dry but thousands of liters of water are hidden inside of people. though

it can't be seen with the naked eye each human being is comprised on average of 65 percent water. babies are closer to 80 percent water as we age the share of water in us declined dipping to as low as about 50 percent among the most elderly. still that's a lot of water. we each carry on average 45 liters of the stuff. in water gives shape to our body. blow. cells are full of it too. without it they would shrivel. the same is true of our muscles. they'd shrink 70 percent without water. as for the brain it's made of up to 70 percent water as well.

it's hard to imagine how humans would look without water. the water in our bodies fulfills a whole range of functions. it's a transport medium for other substances. were riddled with a network of channels the blood vessels. blood to is more than 80 percent water with all kinds of stuff swimming in it such as immune cells and red blood cells which transport vital oxygen and reach every last corner of the body. water also helps clear out things the body no longer needs access your ai for example. the kidneys filter waste products there flushed out in water. it makes up the bulk of urine. which gathers in the bladder then we eliminated about a leader and a half

a day. so we need regular refills of water. we tend to drink fluids several times a day. water also functions in many chemical reactions and as a solvent. important substances such as salts are only available to the body when dissolved in water. many of them derive from the food we eat. all around the body h 2 o. is integrated or transformed into other substances. countless reactions occur every 2nd. our entire metabolism depends on water. and it has at least one more important function especially but not only when it's hot as a coolant. when we get too hot sweat emerges from pores in the skin.

the water in it evaporates the transition from fluid to vapor takes a lot of energy and that energy is in the form of excess body heat. perspiration is a key regulator of body temperature. we would be nothing without water. all the other creatures we share the planet with need it too. there are more than 300 dams in germany. there used for hydroelectric plants to prevent flooding and to store that can be filtered and delivered as drinking water into our homes. but dance can cause problems downstream such as in the river dune in western germany where the fish are none too happy. the water if they do in this plane but. biologist malina and even skinned and her

colleagues are here to check on the fish how are they doing any better than the year before. there were searches countermeasure fish they 1st briefly stung with an electric current from a battery in their sampling. over route 323 grayling 253. morehead 65. thank. you. if. they want to they don't want to be measured like a specimen of another species makes an appearance to the delight of doc to leave a young stone loach. no mark in normal bodies of water you find hundreds it's nothing special but here it's unusual because they've gone missing i

think. that holds true for other species as well in the day and the reason is to be found upstream at the dam and in the huge reservoir behind it the 2nd biggest in germany. one problem is that migrate to re fish can't get past the 63 metre tall barrier. another goes somewhat deeper. is continuously released from the dam to feed the river downstream for decades it was drawn from the bottom of the reservoir where it is between $4.00 and $6.00 degrees celsius all year long so the river downstream was also always chilly given the uncertainty all the animals and plants in the water are cold blooded that means they're the same temperature as the water but there are fish that can thrive in cold water they just don't grow they might lay eggs but that's it nothing happens.

so all the creatures that like some warmth have disappeared here. barbells and shabbes loaches and minnows which should by rights all be here. to find the right. to make the din more hospitable to fish the regional water will surratt the book of a band launched a project that is the only one of its kind in europe thorsten look is an engineer who works for the also writing and. we measure the temperature of the water entering the reservoir. devices on the water extraction power also measure the temperature at various depths in the reservoir so we can determine at what depth the temperature is the same as that of the water flowing into the reservoir fruitful for us. say water enters it 18 degrees in summer then the water discharge downstream should also be 18 degrees but the depths at which the water in the reservoir is at that temperature keeps changing as the water level rises and

falls so the engineers devised a pivoting pipe and attached it to the tower it extracts water at just the right level it's 9 meters long and went into operation in 2015. toast and make sure the mouth of the pipe is always at the right depth so the temperature of the water discharged downstream matches that of the intake into the reservoir. has this actually been good for fish my lean they leave a skinned and her team regularly review video and data from a device called a river what shift fish counter they installed downstream from the dam fish heading in either direction have to pass through this channel. 4 to please me most was to spot a sea lamprey because they're very rare they're big too and you hardly ever see any . but of course i'm happy about any plump salmon who comes up here.

salmon are definitely something special they represent our greatest success so far after we installed the valkyrie fish counter we had one salmon the 1st year and 51114 and last year 24 i'm quite sure it's thanks to the pipe in the reservoir salmon are happiest in water the 16 degrees the water discharge from the reservoir used to be just 8 degrees in the summer so obviously that wouldn't go well if it was to run. things may certainly be looking up but there's more to be done. we've done some damage leave all the animals that like a warm vanish from the system over a quarter of a century you might say it's an arduous task to get them to come back up the river from its mouth they have to get the message oh here's an ecological niche for us and it's not occupied and it's cozy and warm let's go and settle there. the country

softens even. leave us ken says it could take another decade till the didn't is once again home to own its rightful residence. that's all for now from tomorrow today. with look forward to seeing you next week for another fascinating edition of our signed check until then good bye.

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this is the w.'s life from lebanon and the e.u. prepares to welcome tourists again of national vaccination program speeding up the block plans to open its borders to more foreign travelers in talking for the summer holidays also on the program indian hospitals make emergency appeals for oxygen a supply from the crisis shows no sign of improving despite assurances from all

sources. in germany to close down. one of the world's biggest child sex abuse platforms the boys town network allowed hundreds of thousands of members to share images and videos depicting serious sexual abuse. i'm still going to welcome to the program european commission has outlined plans to reopen europe's borders for nonessential travel and boost the block's trouble's tourism sector commission president turchynov found alliance of the proposals would apply to travelers who received at least one coronavirus shot with an e.u. approved vaccine travelling to the e.u.'s currently limited to visitors from just a few countries with no infection rates the proposal still need to be approved by all $27.00 e.u. countries we can get more from. the matter say in brussels

welcome back i hope so tell us more about who's going to be allowed to cross a u. borders. basically filled all looking at 2 categories of people one if it is the category you've already mentioned 7 countries currently in that category who have low infection rates so countries like australia for instance where people are allowed to travel for nonessential travel to enter for non-essential travel of the european union and new is a category of people who have been fully vaccinated in other words who have received the last shot of their vaccination in most cases to vaccinations and for their children it would apply that if there's a company in miners who are under the age of 16 so we can't be vaccinated as yet by the way only where the vaccine approved by the yury medicines agency or the w h o so only those vaccines count and of children accompany them they should have a negative p.c.r. test ok and if approved would this be binding or would member states still be able

to make up their own rules. no because this isn't the 3 year of health politics it is a nation states decision in the e.u. so it's not binding and that is why for instance greece has already opened these categories for people who want to visit who have been vaccinated twice as of already flown since a couple of weeks can enter greece for non-essential travel particularly tourists but the idea is to facilitate tourism because tourism is essential for the e.u. and the idea is to make a grand scheme. which is then political to all human persuades. this proposal would come with an emergency brake mechanism just explain to us well the idea here is that the list of numbers of countries who can send people for non-essential travel so tourists a gross quickly the fear always is of course that if certain variants of the virus

like for instance we have seen in india and then come up that quickly all of the you could say we we block entries from that country and will be the agency for disease control in europe an e.u. agency whose will send out a signal in the future but then again it's up to each an individual member states to take up that recommendation or to all keep receiving tourists from that particular country and it is likely to be in place before this summer's holiday season that's exactly what the u. commission hopes of course the vaccination rollout has been really picking up pace and it will be a game changer is what they say here in brussels and if that remains true then things stand good the investors are discussing it this week end of may the member states will decide on it so if things go well this is good news for europe's tourism sector. matters in brussels thank you so much. germany is also planning to ease its restrictions but only for people who have been fully vaccinated against

coronavirus those people will be exempt from some of the toughest pandemic measures including night time curfews and limits on personal contact the bundestag is expected to approve the new rules this week but with only about 8 percent of germans fully vaccinated the plan is controversial. for months germans have been told to stay at home public life has been heavily restricted it's been a long and bleak winter but now with the vaccination campaign picking up speed here a debate about lifting restrictions for those who are fully vaccinated has begun. since easter we've been saying based on expert recommendations that people who have been vaccinated will have equal rights to those who've just tested negative. but i think. in some german states that sedated people can already access services that are open to those with

a negative test at the moment with the country in lock down that means they can go to the hairdressers and a few other shops but further exceptions are also being discussed being able to meet more people in private for example and an exemption from one time curfews in many areas giving some people their rights back before restrictions are lifted for everyone is hugely controversial and intensive care nurse spoke for many when he confronted the health minister. i don't understand how we can already be promising privileges when we haven't been able to offer everyone a vaccine yet we should only be talking about privileges once every single german has been given the opportunity to get vaccinated. but others disagree they say people who have been fully vaccinated don't pose a significant risk of infection so they should be able to live their lives without restrictions so i think it's a question of constitutional necessity to basically people's.

freedoms to be taken back because otherwise there is the disproportionate. however this debate may be short lived if germany's vaccination campaign continues at its current rapid pace it may not take long before a lot of the population has been vaccinated and can live a much for your life on the pandemic of course the cancellation of germany's october fest for a 2nd year summerfest is the world's largest most popular beer drinking festival in regular tracks around $6000000.00 visitors from around the world to the bavarian capital munich states premier barker certain certain events had to be cancelled because the your financial commitments and risks were too large even the un certainty about when the pandemic might ease up a. second look at some small stores are making news around the world u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has criticized china for acting in increasingly

adversarial ways but he stressed that a military confrontation would be against the interests of both countries secretary blinken one has said his office will launch an investigation into friday's deadly stampede at a jewish festival 45 people were killed in the crash which was the deadliest civil disaster in israel's history the government independent agency said it would have it could have been prevented. by young activists in may and now have staged nationwide rallies calling for others to join them in a spring revolution reduces a security forces shot and killed several demonstrations and a series of explosions that rocked the city of yangon it's been 3 months since the ministry seized power. in hospitals appealing for emergency oxygen supplies the shortages worst were castor and the t.v. reporting 28 people died overnight because of a lack of oxygen the shortage is exacerbating

a 2nd deadly 2nd wave of infections now approaching 20000000 cases the government is facing intense criticism for its handling of the pandemic. india is struggling as the pandemic 2nd wave crashes over the country death and desperation are spreading so too is the fear that the government can stem the surge and end india's suffering. when the cases started rising up on the plan. but turns out that if you put in the 1st week understood that the governments have no idea they're not prepared for anything they don't have it up until later than one hospital get about all the whatever we need for the entire city or the entire nation in just one example a dozen covert 1000 patients died this weekend when a hospital in the capital ran out of oxygen supply for nearly an hour and a half of one of them in to go free to fulfill that mission. is the oxygen

they need support because these are to be so across the city. of increased demand in the hospital a court in delhi says it will start punishing government officials for failing to deliver lifesaving items but it's impossible to give what is not yet available the international community spent the weekend sending supplies grieving relatives and scientists blame elected officials for the catastrophic situation saying they ignored medical advice and warnings about barry and. prime minister narendra modi faces intense criticism over his handling of the pandemic and his decision to allow state elections to go ahead amid this urgent cases despite heavy campaigning his party failed to win the key state of west bengal or to make significant gains in other state assemblies. police here in germany say they've shut down

a major internet platform and shared images of the sexual abuse of children officials said the site on the so-called dark net was one of the biggest in the world with more than 400000 members and have been operating since at least 2019 months long international operation coordinated by europol them to a series of raids in mid april and the arrest of 3 men in germany and another in panic why. well you need a 70 vote from the d w digital desk us to research the issue of child abuse to organize through the docket for the w.'s magazine program shift welcome to the studio. how significant is this latest series of arrests it's actually a major sensation for german investigators i mean this platform boystown we're talking about people around the globe share videos and images of sexual abuse on

this platform it is said to have had 400000 members so it's really a big if you put it in perspective the last big platform of this kind that was taken down in germany that had one 100000 accounts and now we're talking about 400000 members around the globe that actually makes it one of the biggest platforms of this kind right that we know of presumably and that brings me to my next point because of course these are illicit activities that done in secret this dark web so that they must be particularly difficult to to to investigate yes indeed they are i mean what you have to know about the dark web is that it's a different part of the internet so that you can only access through specific software which allows users to remain anonymous and of course this anonymity makes it really hard to investigate these platforms which is why we've seen also this international cooperation right now you're a pole germany initiated the task force other countries were involved that you as

the netherlands' and you know what investigators basically do is they try to infiltrate these platforms they try to talk to the members in the chats to just get any kind of information they can to have an idea where any admin might be located to take them down in the end well 400000 members forests here in germany so that a lot of people i would imagine. just waiting for the knock at the door yeah we would hope that but still i mean now they arrested the admins but we don't know if they can actually get to other users as i said this anonymity makes it just so hard to actually locate the people and also the people that use these platforms they they talk about encryption methods in chats that we see on these platforms though so they are aware of the fact that they might be taken down and yeah we also have

to worry about actually taking to another platform which often happens so i mean it is a big sensation of course this us that this platform has been taken down but yeah we have to see in the future that there hopefully won't be any other platforms of this kind to talk to you thanks for joining us i mean a seminal. and one of the world's top selling artists is beaming a message of hope that a post pandemic age is dawning david talked to his created a judge on the way to sunrise to light up london's piccadilly circus the videos also show throughout my day you go to tokyo and some day 3 year old to do the work on the top let's hope in france. i think you're up to date i'll have more world news at the top of the business update with is next could be.

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this is the w. business i'm joined now the lane so happy you can join us the maker of the hit game for tonight faces off with apple in a u.s. court today at stake. troll over to very lucrative app store at the games that brought the case after it was kicked off the app store for implementing its own an app payment system by passing out pulse 30 percent commission on app purchases the case could have profound implications for how apple charges company is a crucial part of its business model. and this parody of the famous apple commercial $984.00 epic games takes a swipe at the giant but unlike in the original here apple is portrayed as a kind of big brother suppressing humanity the video is part of epic games attempt

to win over gamers in the dispute with apple in this is really the 1st shot across the bow toward apple intrusion defending their move what they charge developers and apps is for nigh to old to be a go off of that store and these do it themselves and this is something it's not just about epic it's about the industry everyone's watching this closely to see if our poor old thing we could defend that's moot or if there's any sort of judgment against it which would have a massive ripple impact. spotify dating out maker match and many other companies also say that apple's 30 percent commission on all app store sales is too high apple says such sums are not unusual there are similar fees on playstation x.-box and google play stores. apple argues running the app store is expensive $500.00 apple employees check every app around the clock for damaging bugs or

viruses. the case is so serious apple c.e.o. tim cook will also testify in court brings. and this is something they're not he can why you know who is really a back aggressively and that's why we should be the jobs of those who are accused as well as all the testimony that comes out and it's no shock at all the who will be testifying it's hard to tell which way is the case could go one thing is clear the verdict should be made at the end of may in any case ethics hoping to take a bite out of apple's hard won reputation. to a milestone now in the german corporate world the span spans of the lens gary who has taken over as c.e.o. at german pharma merck now of pharma firm she's the 1st woman to single handedly

run a company and the 1st woman c.e.o. in america's 350 year history good news for america studies show companies with diverse leadership are more profitable but female executives in germany are missing men dominate boardrooms of listen companies here with a total of $614.00 seats women occupy $86.00 seats germany is lagging now in the u.s. women occupied more than a quarter of boardroom seats and the largest corporations almost the same case in the u.k. and germany women only hold 16 percent of boardroom seats now those figures are from the right foundation a nonprofit organization promoting women and diversity in executive roles i'm joined by they rector of the foundation that kristen bell come to the program ok to get this out of the way you of course are heading up an organization jointly that wants to promote women women in leadership so you are a man is this not emblematic of the situation we're talking about.

well an abandoned her parent organization together with a woman's were a man and a woman we need to get it together or want to have more women on the top level is better for the companies and the better put society sims says. ok so since so since you are a man and a woman heading up this organization what can it men do to close the gap when what men can do is the course to accept that women should also be on the course to promote women to recruit more women to decide to decide of not only a man that's 53 years old uncle thomas that's very common in the boardrooms here is suitable for the company so that's what these very used to do her in germany used to have men dominated boardrooms it's a conservative society with a tech system does support. women not working full time that must be a change under the company's selves must change the mindset said we want women to

be here now you've talked a bit about the conservatism of german society but can you tell us a bit more about how and why it's taken so long to get a woman finally heading up a daks company singlehandedly. i think is a good conservative society needs that here you have a picture of having women staying at home taking care of the children and not working full time and this mindset you also have in the boardrooms just think that the manager should be a man and you're recruiting basically copies or or himself is recruiting so you have a lot of men basically having the 2nd background but it does the main reason in other countries you have a much more progressive and wanting to have their women in the top new companies. you know we live of course in crisis times and we often hear these days that the pandemic has hurt the professional prospects especially of women how was that

impacted sort of the quest to get more women into more leadership and executive positions i think you had a sister having it crossed over to society here you had a backlash that many women staying at home taking care of the children because that's what's expected from them you would do it who's got home schooling if you were a woman the man continued to work by the many companies that you see this is not the way that you chair you need to have these women or their leader because of the company some more effective more. profitable and so on so seen a change in the mindset in many companies now say ok now we must take this chance we have to bring the women to the top and i think that is what you started to see in our beat but you're getting more and more women it's a competition to get the best women on the top well let's hope that is a sustained change thank you very much christian bagge he is the director of the albright foundation thank you remarked

a look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. a shipment of more than 300000 doses of the pfizer bio on talkback see it arrived in south africa on sunday pfizer has pledged to send 4500000 doses to the country by june south africa has been one of the african countries worst hit by the pandemic. and speaking of the pandemic it hit earnings for half of all people worldwide according to u.s. polling company gallup job and wage cuts affected people in the income countries most the survey polled 300000 people in 117 countries. the effects of climate change in kenya like droughts and floods have been felt for years that's why climate risk insurance has become essential for many especially in the agricultural sector here's one kenyan startup offering the service to millions

of small holders not just that home but across the continent. means walky manolo from kenya make sure living from it she's a farmer thought her latest harvest was damaged badly she lost 3 quarters of it due to drought well you mean the end of it and was the long and we're doing oh well the weather conditions have really changed especially the rainfall in the past the rains were enough to get a good harvest but now would rains for only 3 weeks and then the plants just wither and die in the heat. the 38 year old mother was lucky she was insured by pula a startup company that specializes in environmental disasters and other climatic influences the company's employees are surveying and testing the fields she bought insurance for the few kenyan shillings which has become her lifeline they paid out

$12000.00 shillings or about $92.00 euros in compensation which she needs to pay her son's school fees. things to do that and in fall in the 16th and in 4 weeks cause he's there for landing and and stumps when it's less than 4 weeks course he's not done but angelos are still coming in things to do with anything that tonight said ok limited that's likely to affect their farm agriculture is a vital economic sector in africa like joachim loew more than 600000 kenyan farmers have bought the insurance it costs between 4 and 8 euro's the east african country has been hit repeatedly by un usual weather patterns the plagues of locusts in the north of the country made the news but floods in central kenya have placed a heavy burden on many small farmers there the price of the insurance is affordable and can really fend off economic disaster. these insurance policies are extremely

important to us they motivate us when we grow corn or millet for example we can concentrate on making sure the crops grow and thrive like they should. already has 4600000 farmers in africa under contract the business is conducted digitally with their payout from the insurance policy joachim when yellow can now hope for a better harvest in the future. tech news now vala copter says its battery powered electric air taxis will get you from the airport to central paris in just a few minutes by air and for the price of a taxi a normal flying taxi the countdown is on to the 1st flight in a real environment in the french capital. test conditions the small are ideal sunny hardly a breath of wind very little of their flight activity. voto copter executive christiane power is waiting for his even taught the electric multi rover helicopter

to take off. pilots came to b.s. cohen already flew the aircraft in public instruction 29000 still he and the team keep testing the electric chopper. to test the code to test flight as part of one of our crewmembers pilot training basically the more you fly the better you feel that that's the best. that's why the volvo copter 2 x. is taking a 2nd flight today what's remarkable the evy tell with its 18 small electric motors is much quieter than a conventional helicopter an important detail. you avoid this we want to be the urban concept we're very quiet and our concept means we're very safe and can provide very comfortable transport to support. the air taxi will only have

a 35 kilometer range current buffy power doesn't allow much more than the. manufacturer of all copter based in southern germany is currently readying its easy tal for passenger transport and it's awaiting permits for its upcoming volo city model but it takes time and lots of money investors have already pumped 200000000 euros into the venture. due scheduled it's have ended these phones are now being used to make our certification market ready get voted city serial production going and of course to enter partnerships with cities and authorities that they had in. the volvo city is lined up for its maiden flight in a few months photocopier is also developing takeoff and landing pads with various cities paris shanghai dubai or perhaps tokyo could soon offer the electric air taxi service the timeline is firming up. thanks for watching.

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