corrupt rulers and dictatorship. all these moments. deep box in my memory. they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity. have their hopes been fulfilled. in years after the arab spring the rebellion starts june 7th on d w. the cold clash between apple and epic heats up a blockbuster trial could change the world of most take and mean cheap perhaps for us. is a game over for the giants of the sea the pricey suez canal blockade has shown that is not always better. and the promise of sun and see the portuguese island of a direct tries through during the world's growing population of digital knowing

that it's. been physical and let's do business this could have consequences if the games attorney accused apple of forming its own app store into a monopoly walled garden luring in developers and users then squeezing money out of them apple's lawyer said it's no more a monopoly than a grocery store competing with other shops and that it's secure and integrated ecosystem is there to protect the privacy reliability and quality consumers want. meet the guy taking on apple the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization it's tim sweeney c.e.o. of epic games creator of the fortnight video game his legal arguments are packed into 20 boxes using apple's own internal documents epic games attorney catherine forrest accused apple of turning its online marketplace into a digital walled garden monopoly that lures in developers and users then squeezes

money out of them by charging a whopping 30 percent commission for sales on its up store. apple fired back telling the judge that epic suit as part of a self-proclaimed war against mobile platform fees that defies the law and the facts. i think epic has a good argument that policies are solution and that they're anti-competitive and so you know based on what i've seen so far i think the epic has a good case epic games wants developers to be able to offer competing up stores if epic wins the case apple would lose a crucial part of its business model. to stop this happening apple will send c.e.o. tim cook to testify during the trial he's expected to argue that apple's fees are not unusual there are similar fees on playstation x. box and google play stores. it's hard to tell which way the case could go the

verdict is expected by the end of may. well let's check in with chelsea delaney al franco correspondent josie what do you reckon who has the better argument epic or apple. well we're just on the 2nd day of the case so it's going to take a while before we really see the full range of arguments and even after the case is decided we're likely to see years of appeals from both sides no matter which way it goes but in any any way this this this case is decided it's going to really break new ground in terms of antitrust law really the question that's at stake is what is a monopoly in the digital age this is a question that we haven't really seen decided by by court so far so apple is saying that it's not a monopoly because you know you could also get a fortnight from that big games on a playstation on an x.-box epic says that that's really not the case because apple has complete control over their own devices and what can be downloaded on there

this is a bit of a technical argument but it's going to have really big implications for for smartphone makers and for really the entire digital ecosystem chelsea delaney praying for thank you to another story a massive container ship the gold stuck in a canal and blocked global cold most for a week it hold of billions of dollars in maritime trade the shipping company wants the owners of the cargo to share the cost of the damages you'll see why when you take a look at the bill. the ever given may no longer be stuck in this was but it's hardly home free it's still detained as the egyptian government demands $916000000.00 in compensation from the ship owners it's another number on top of an already has the price tag from the grounding. so we estimated the cost of this $1.00 strip since you between $30.00 and $60000000000.00 so you can really reach beyond that we are

very tiny little things in the world the global trade in that one you know ship very simply because you know could actually block some big that looks like a very well or. the incident shown a spotlight on how big ships have gotten in the last decades as they link manufacturing from asia to growing consumption in the west today's largest ships are able to hold around 24000 containers. so as consumption grows in trade volumes increase does that mean ships are going to get bigger and definitely it seems as if container ships right now have also found somewhat of a maximum at least if we go also by. that record amount of water where 45. ships were ordered and most of those were basically in the size of 15000 and not 232-4000 that was

that was the preferred size for for investors in almost placing orders by the end of last year but the birds are one part of the story the goods they carry are another the grounding delayed deliveries at a time or the pandemic already caused shortages of parts and products leading companies grappling with their supply chain it's a complex affair and resorting to something very complicated sort of trick because you can't move to soloist in august but you get on the food for the money go to start rebuilding confidence rebuilding the know how. even for a searcher if you or don't it takes time. but other industry observers say there is a larger discussion to be had beyond the paths that bring products to consumers it's less about thinking about resiliency or look lessons of white teens about reducing consumption about building supply chain models that are not as reliant on constant constant growth big ships little waterways and supply chains that's down

the world from the effects from the every given incident are still creating ripples because shifting is the string holding modern capitalism together governments business is consumers and regulators need to decide what lessons to derive from it and how best to act as a result. well the ship was on its way to water down in the netherlands when it got stuck at storm joins us from there he's founder and c.e.o. of avian containers an online shop for the sake of our reporter ginnell described shipping as a string holding together modern capitalism is that delicate a matter i think you can say that we're relying totally with our economy or all 'd society. and i think that's what we have just experienced once more you know so does the japanese ship on a stand a chance of getting the owners of all that cargo who paid for it to be shipped and they're still waiting for it and i'm sure they've got costs of their own to think

about as well to help out with this astronomical damages bill. i'm not a legal expert but what we see happening right now he sees things we couldn't imagine before and i think he did give it a try and if you have your cargo on the ship and you want to guard a cargo to be released i think you have an interest there to get the ship moving again you're right we haven't seen this before and this is also highlighted the global supply crisis that's hit so many manufacturers at the moment because of the pandemic as well which you reckon is going to drag on tell me what do you know that . well it all started when coakley broke out last year with chinese ports closing blank shadings or shipping lines ports got congested and the whole flow well from trainers across the globe has been disrupted and. it will take time to billings out again so we see shortages in

areas in the world like in europe because containers are immediately moved back to china at the moment and this will take time and it's hard to say how much time it will take. assured her but it could easily take until the end of this year because we do now have a vaccine and things are looking up and orders are also moving in that direction do you think though that this could spark an entire rethink about how business is done how they contain a business is also done and supply chains operate. i think it's important that we as we become aware of inefficiencies and improvements we can make so for instance one in every 3 containers is moved empty and i think it's a. way still for c o 2 emissions but also costs for repositioning containers there's a lot to be going to and a lot to be improved and i think i think this is kind of

a wake up call that we all should be working on this. isn't over for these gigantic container ships no i wouldn't say that it's not so easy i think what you see is that everybody is working in fixed better instead they're used to and i think we do still realise 'd that we just don't think that everything will continue as we are used to extend change and we should become more aware of how we are doing things and there are some big challenges in its own extreme to sustainability for instance we need to we need to improve you know traits and and. move forward you know to from a young contain c.e.o. ed stone thank you very much for being on the show today you're welcome thank you finally if you've joined the growing global ranks of the once infamous digital nomads you may have heard the portuguese island of madeira has thrown its hat into

the ring and you may well need a hat sunny's add some sun block if you're going to spend your hard working days as a beach bum. this is the fuel exxon to the pub from his office since february the self-employed web developer has been living in the era has set up as part of a scheme authorities have established to draw remote workers to the island. so i can count on not after a year for lockdown it's good to be outside better living being of the sun and eating outside. he's one of $100.00 digital nomads on the town off point at those solar. the idea for the project came from this man gonzalo hall who lobbied local authorities to invest 26000 euros to make my dear an attractive place for remote work. high speed internet is free for new arrivals as is the work space . interested could we have 6400 applications pending

it's a really big success will have to expand faster than we thought this was only the pilot project now too many people want to come. just a lot already got this from the most of their income going to. the arrivals integrate with locals by taking part in yoga seminars and walks. in return they bring money to the area by dining out or by simply doing their grocery shopping. and segment. it's a very important market you'll survive because they've become ambassadors home of their office by sharing their experience but it's a small investment with a huge impact and. the hope is that this will help cement madera as an attractive destination both for work and play.

and a reminder of our top story this hour is apple's app store a monopoly the courts will decide that to. make an epic games has brought against the tech giant it could change the world of. guys doing business with it. the for. the for. the fun against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update. on t w. true kids live flushing weeks

extravagant outfits and glitter glitter the glitter. of. the fighting against prejudice and called cable life. for recognition. of the stars of the big stage. true. it's stored in 17 w. . herd immunity could be our best chance of getting back to enjoying ourselves together if enough people have the antibodies for covered 19 the entire population can be protected but is that an impossible dream can global herd immunity ever be achieved without it with a pandemic ever be truly over as vaccinations ramp up these are the questions being

asked around the world. from robots in berlin welcome to the doe we use covered 19 special now we've been hearing the herd immunity throughout the pandemic in the early days when some was suggesting we should let infections run riot to achieve it as fast as possible and nowadays with vaccinations making it possible to boost the population's protection in a controlled and or the safer way but how does herd immunity actually work let's have a look. what is herd immunity. if many in a herd are immune to a disease the pathogen cannot spread further that's when herd immunity is achieved . why is herd immunity important. we can use it to protect the weak babies for example they're too young to be

vaccinated against some disease it's for people with chronic diseases as well because they can't tolerate vaccinations those with a weak immune system such as after chemotherapy also benefit because herd immunity reduces the risk of getting infected. how many have to be a new and. that varies depending on the disease the important factor is the reproduction rate of a pathogen it indicates the number of people on average that one infected person will pass on a virus to the higher the number the more infectious it is for measles the basic reproduction rate is 15 for cover $1000.00 it's about 3. hours herd immunity calculated. very simply with this formula where h. is equal to one minus one divided by r.'s 0 for the corona virus that means that the herd immunity h. is one minus one divided by 3 which is 2 thirds that means 2 thirds of the

population must be immune to have heard immunity and germany that would be over 50000000 people. what conditions must be met. the prerequisite for herd immunity is that the antibodies we produce an infection need to protect us in the long term with covert 19 it's not yet clear how long someone who has survived the disease will be immune what is certain is that people who have been infected are protected for at least several weeks. when i speak to edwin michael here's an epidemic ologist university of south florida called. of public health thanks for joining us on the cover 19 special you've been modeling timelines for immunity so i suppose the place to start is is it possible to achieve it and if so when and if you look at the models which are. predictions of you know the fraction of people that we need to demonize to get herd

immunity that is a function of you know the competition rate it is a function of the efficacy of the vaccines you know so those 2 will vary between places and if you look at how people are mixing if you look at you know the the normal models of e.u. which is the worst case scenario if you assume people are mixing randomly then you can work out what fraction of people might need to be immunized to get herd immunity and that works out far. between 80 to 95 percent. 80 to 90 percent of the people who need to be vaccinated to get her immunity not answer your question we are now above 50 percent just above 50 percent of people who are immune year in the u.s. you know it's a combination of acquired immunity as well as vaccine india's immunity so that

means we have to go you know another 30 percent of the people need to get immunized you know to achieve herd immunity can be acute herd immunity well that's going to depend on people taking up the vaccines and that kick up is slowing and also there's a substantial people who are going to resist getting the vaccine now we were just talking about 90 seconds here there are way we're just talking about the united states can you name it i mean a head i mean she seems like a tangible concept there although that there are a lot of people who still need to be persuaded to get a vaccine to get that but what about for the entire world can it i mean is it realistic to say that you can get there for the entire world. yeah i mean if you look at you know if you look at vaccination rates you know and i don't see huge difference. between countries the top countries would be israel as we know united arab emirates you know and among the major countries is the u.k.

and the united states you know and they are reaching 50 percent of both already and if you look at europe and the european countries in general the other european the e.u. countries he's between 20 to 30 percent you know and so they're a long way to go so you know just so the countries that have started back in 18 very early of reach very high levels of immunity already the rest of the country africa's going to be a concern not much is known and you've seen what is happening in india with just below 10 percent of the population being immunized you know and the danger with that is if you release ocean my here is you're going to get the kinds of spikes or the waves that he had seeing in india which is devastating you know that country so you're right there's a long long way to go before globally we're going to achieve herd immunity and so i think when one meets a law that had

a nice account if. we're talking about say herd immunity to specific strains of corona virus only talking about in a to 2 to every possible incarnation of the corona virus that's a really good question you know and that is going to depend on the kinds of immune responses which are been in use by the vaccines right and if you look at a vaccine yes the m.r. and the rx in there are you know the immune response you know is induced a spike protein yes but you know that is a whole range of immune response of spike of good he's not just one particular response to the spike protein. so if you've got another strain on just that strain you know the mutation the strain is completely novel and completely you know elsewhere from the spike protein you know that is going to reduce the accuracy of the vaccines you know it is the happy because the rates which is going to go up with the passion of people there be need to immunize not evolutionarily

you know getting to duck kind of on a brand new street you know if it's a long shot you know for the wireless as well so we could us right now was similarly i think could be looking at needing multiple herd immunity is right it is not actually they are aiming to end this pandemic with had immunity is that we need herd immunities to the various different variants yeah i mean yes because africa's is world very you know. between strains you know the vaccine or to ghazi's and that's going to dig you know the amount of people that you're going to need to vaccinate but in general you know really even if it can present in a difference in the africans the rates in all the vaccines against the different strains we're still looking at dad you know that window of you know 80 to 90

percent right i keep a need to be vaccinated at or might of been a vegetarian if because you're right you could get you know globally you want to see the end of this pandemic it's a global phenomenon but we're get there one day hopefully and when michael from the university of south florida's college of public health thanks for joining us thank you there now you may be one of the lucky ones who has already been vaccinated against covered 19 if so you may have also asked yourself today's question for our science correspondent very quickly. how long with the vaccines of protection. we don't know yet and even when we do know more there won't be a single answer to this question since about a dozen different vaccines are currently in use around the world and since they're made by different manufacturers and are based on

a range of different platforms they almost certainly won't all protect people for the same periods of time on average what we can say is that the makers of some of the 1st vaccines to enter use widely last december are now reporting back that levels of antibodies have generally remained quite high in recipients which is an indicator that those people are still well protected 6 months after getting their shots those results have researchers hopeful that immune response at least that induced by those that seems will last at least a year and possibly a lot longer but developers aren't leaving it to chance and most have already started modifying and testing the next generation of vaccines some of which specifically target variants of concern trials involving

a 3rd booster shot with them are ongoing and don't forget. though there is no sign yet that vaccine induced protection is beginning to wane even if it does that won't happen overnight and even if immunity does start to drop faster than predicted health care authorities would notice it early and a lot of the experts i've read seem to be pretty confident that we'll be able to crisp on quickly. derek williams that if you got a question for derek you can submit one through our you tube channel we're putting as many of them a many of them to him as we possibly can and before we go things are starting to look a little bit more like normal in the spanish capital madrid where the 1st bull fight has been held since the pandemic began seating was restricted and spectators wore face masks as they watched master doors take on 7 bulls in

a charity event to raise money for out of work both ices attempt just take another dog and another tradition was also back animal rights protesters outside raising their objections while remaining socially just. not so for me and this covered 19 special if you do want more check out our website so next time you buy.

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