it's. a good. thing you suspends its controversial investment deal with china there was no shortage of critics of the deal which vowed to further open markets on both sides despite chinese abuses and shane john and hong kong. also on the show who's in the driver's seat no one has tech giant baidu test its autonomous taxi service in beijing. and strong results for siemens energy in the 2nd quarter the new spin off from parent companies even doubling its profit from last word. flowed

welcome to the show i'm seeing beauty and berlin the e.u. has shelved its efforts to what approval for a massive investment deal with china after tit for tat sanctions were imposed over beijing's treatment of its weaker population european commission vice president valdis dombrovskis said tuesday that future efforts to ratify the deal depended on how broader each china relations evolved investment pact was pushed through by german chancellor angela merkel in december but had been expected to face opposition in the european parliament. brussels and beijing signed the ca i and the simpler it's meant to establish a framework for trade and investment in each other's markets to enter into force the cme must be still must still be ratified by e.u. member states and the european parliament where it faces opposition the deals that offer european companies more predictable access to chinese markets and smooth the path for more chinese investment in europe it also sets level playing field rules. here's part of the official e.u.

commission statement after those statements by brodsky is that chinese retaliatory sanctions targeting members of the european parliament were quote unacceptable and regrettable and that the future of the investment deal depended on how the situation evolves all right for more on this i'm joined by the to do correspondent in brussels and by businesses clifford coonan here with me in studio good morning to both of you gentleman ben i want to start with you 1st does this announcement that we've heard these this statement and the comment by the e.u. commission this effectively kill this deal. no the agreement is not that but it's put into the freezer the e.u. commission also the parliament say for weeks now that this door to the freezer will not be opened unless the sanctions china imposed some e.u. deputies from the parliament will be lifted and the plan was originally to hammer out the legal text of the reman it's still only

a political ticker ration what we have so far to hand out the text of the agreement to the end of the year and then to start the process of british occasion in the parliament so this is shelved now where it's a clifford this was highly criticized from the moment it was signed back in december and this was of course just a preliminary deal we should we should emphasize why was it so heavily criticised well a lot of it was down to political opposition there's the economic argument is the political argument and basically in march you imposed sanctions against china for its treatment of the weaker people in and she's young and there was a feeling that it would face difficulties in the parliament because the commission had pushed it through so it's looking out it's basically down to the political reasons the human rights aspect hong kong. back to you we know that right now today in fact the e.u. commission is actually announcing new restrictions on state backed firms investing

in european companies this is and clearly at china though it may not be said is the e.u. commission speaking more with one voice these days when it comes to its approach to chinese business. but the message from brussels is we want a level playing field for european and chinese companies in both continents in europe and in asia the announcement today is part of a bigger industrious study of g. the e.u. is aiming at what they call an independence and strategic independence from other producers around the world when it comes for example for data storage or data processing for green technology and other things and is china's of course part of it because china is the biggest trading partner of the u.s so those are dependent on each other but the e.u. is now more insisting. pre-requisites also at least a minimum of respect for human rights on the chinese side there are countries like

france and germany pushing harder than other countries that 16 countries in europe that have special relations vis china in this news to the road in this are to so the message from brussels is still many fold but they try to con to concentrate on one clearer message now so france and germany really behind that push for the investment deal clifford how important is china for european businesses well it's very important it's such a huge trading partner has been just mentioned and particularly for the big players like germany and france it's a massive market so a lot of the pressure is going to be political and it's going to come from people like i'm going to merkel at the chancellor and here in germany who this is been a pet project for her and she certainly will do her best to make sure that i imagine to make sure that this deal goes through a lot to be seen what happens by clifford couldn't from the business been very good from studio in brussels thank you both. and we

stay in china where the country is a leader in autonomous driving technology tech giant by do has now launched a robo taxi beijing bid to become the 1st commercially viable driverless taxi service take a look. beijing taxi drivers are famous for their banter how a robot compete here in beijing shogun park we're about to find out a fleet of 10 driverless apollo robo taxis pick up and drop off passengers at 8 stops. tech firm by do better known as a search engine than a robot car operator has states autonomous driving demonstrations before but this is the 1st time that no one is behind the wheel although a safety monitor is sitting in the front passenger seat in case of emergency the driverless taxi operations are in a park on the side of a former steel plant to avoid beijing traffic hailing a robot taxi straightforward passengers call a cab and the apollo go up and scan the health code the taxi only moves after

detecting passengers and fasten their seatbelts. when driving we've all had experiences like other cars jumping ahead in the queue or changing lanes suddenly people have emotions while robots don't at least for now maybe the robots won't be able to calculate and deal with the emotion changes. to get out of that by do plans to expand the apollo go robot taxi service to 30 cities in the next 3 years. let's go over to some of the other global business stories making headlines. india has released $6700000000.00 in cheap financing for hospitals vaccine makers and other health firms to counter the devastating surge gripping the country reserve bank of india governor shakti confidant also vowed to deploy unconventional measures if the crisis worsens india reported a record 3780 deaths in 24 hours as well as 382000 new cases.

u.s. trade deficit hit a record high for the 2nd month in a row the deficit rising 5.6 percent to $74000000000.00 march analysts point to increased imports from china and growth in demand for foreign made consumer items. biden ministration is working to send 20000000 dollars worth of copan 1000 medical supplies to brazil the package would include drugs to aid into baiting patients brazil recently topped 400000 kroner ourselves. pfizer is raising its covert vaccine sales forecast by 70 percent to $26000000000.00 company partnered with germany's buy and tack and pfizer says revenue for the vaccine is expected to account for more than one 3rd of its 4 year sales and 2021. energy doubled its profit for the 2nd in the 2nd quarter rather to almost 200000000 euros thanks to its wind turbine subsidiary camisa as your major contracts for offshore wind farms in the u.k. the netherlands and friends the company also hopes to benefit from the new

multibillion infrastructure program in the u.s. siemens energy's coal and gas fired power plants however did not do as well as many countries shift towards more renewable energies company was fun off the german engineering giant siemens last year. are joining me now for more on this is maria ferraro she's c.f.o. of siemens energy maria good morning so good news it appears improvement considerable improvement over the 1st quarter for your company at the same time revenue down what should we make of these numbers. thank you stephen good morning yes we're very pleased with our 2nd quarter results we see a solid performance a quarter over quarter for us at siemens energy in both the siemens khamees a renewable energy space and gas and power i think it's important to also think about the fact that this is behind a very challenging market environment orders are very solid actually almost 40 percent growth quarter over quarter we're very pleased with that you talked about

revenue so revenue yes slightly declined on a reported basis but this is really if you exclude the currency translation headwinds which we still feel almost $400.00 basis points then we're at par with last year what we're really pleased about is our income which over doubled for the group which was fantastic and as a c.f.o. you know i really think about cash in this was an incredible improvement quarter over quarter almost 700000000 better than quarter last quarter last year what about the scale back over time of these coal and gas power projects siemens energy has worked on what should we make of that is that a natural movement of the marketers or something to be concerned about. yes stephen you know we announced already in our 1st quarter that we're exiting pure production coal power plants and this is exactly what we're trying to do is siemens energy we're here to accompany our customers and the market through the energy transition and i think for us we can see that with our portfolio whether it's from

our c o 2 reducing generation business all the way through transmission to renewables we're well poised to look at all challenges and the coal production plant announcement that we made very proactively indicates this looking ahead one of those challenges a positive challenge could be this infrastructure package in the u.s. proposed right now it could come through what would that mean presume as energy's bottom line. i think looking ahead how one of the things that we did also is look at our outlook which we've confirmed stephen which was great from an avatar perspective of 3 to 5 percent we are delivering on what we committed and we are very well positioned to meet our targets this year also looking at top line we reduced our revenue band from 2 to 11 to 3 to 8 percent for siemens energy that's wonderful if you're thinking about the u.s. and the biden administration like i said earlier we're well poised and we welcome

any changes which a company and even further progress the energy transition we at siemens energy are always happy to help they're all right maria ferraro c.f.o. of the ins energy which reported a doubling of profits in the 2nd quarter from the 1st thank you very much for joining us. and finally for those with a little spare change and some wall space to fill you head over to kristi's online of course and check out the spring sale to be held next week it's focused on 20th century art featuring works from caso and roscoe all the way to banksy highlight however is of magnificent head painting by john michel busk out it's expected to fetch more than $50000000.00. or much of our top story this hour the new has suspended efforts to win approval for a comprehensive investment deal with china pact had been pushed through by german chancellor angela merkel in december but now the e.u. says the recent chinese sanctions targeting members of the european parliament were

unacceptable and regrettable that the pact would not be moved forward. that's it for me and due to be business team here blent you can find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business chicks are on facebook twitter as well i'm super busy and let's just watch. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update coming. on t w. hello guys this is the subject the 7 percent of the platform for africa is suited to the species used his share i do.

you know his son now looks quite. young people didn't have the solution good few jobs a month. to 77 percent now. on d. debt. indian film star deepika padukone is taking a stand for mental health as the pandemic rages she's raising awareness of psychiatric problems and the ways people can get help. thousands are dying every day in india as it experiences the biggest wave of coronavirus infections the world has seen. the health care system is in danger of collapse and millions are suffering from anxiety and depression. deepika padukone searching

people to get help she set up the live love laugh foundation that helps connect people with mental health services like telephone hotlines and suicide prevention centers. she says no life should be lost to mental illness. robots in berlin welcome to this day that we covered 19 special now india has reported more than 20000000 cases of covered 19 although the actual figure may be much higher than that as well as the immense physical toll of the pandemic it's also putting enormous strain on the mental health of indians lockdowns death illness and job insecurity or have an impact on how people feel. breakdowns feel in. these other words 29 year old uses when asked about how

she's coping with the 2nd week of school with 19. and her father has been in the hospital for days brussels only been an emotionally ham in the 2nd move my dad became a victim and a very serious one and it's made me realise how crazy things are at the moment the car runs an online mental health platform mind. which connects people to terrorists. and the statistics are enough to tell her that she is not alone. about feelings depression and grief that many are already experiencing she says a lot of young people we end up suffering with p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder last year there were about $50.00 to $60.00 pet peeve that were coming in in one day and right now from the last 3 to 4 weeks at least that has started to feel the 2nd wave has been catastrophic images of people

gasping for breath and collapsing in front of hospitals when no beds or oxygen are available have impacted the mental wellbeing of many some experts are convinced this we've had 3 good a mental health epidemic. and we can now speak to dr parikh joins us from delhi he leads the department of mental health behavioral sciences at fortis healthcare thanks for joining us we've just been hearing from indians particularly young indians talking about their struggles with their mental health during this pandemic is the health care provision van for people to seek help. to ask mr. eakins mental health billions if you look worldwide depletions in the hunt has 2000000 people globally something from it the leaders have more than 500 percent for developmental an expert in our country that is legal

now what we need to understand is if yes what commendations will be happening maybe a lot more people people are talking about it heard so many so this is all true visions are not merely about experts an explanation when it comes to our part of the world it will also involve the family support friends social media are communicating with your primary physicians and it might give a little stick i not say cause little support and i did that what of the how well. you mentioned help coming i suppose from within communities rather than necessarily from health care professionals but one of the things about india is that it's enormously diverse does that make it challenging to have ensure that all groups are getting the sort of help they need. but that's not theists i mean. even if you look at it again i need to use the employee common example because it

gives the context to it that the largely have more explodes of a blunder the mental instability the india and as you move down to linear the percentage will expose bookham dull so what happens is in excess simplicity the abuses the law it's this ability to do this is naturally there is more stigma is most to change we there is more discrimination there most troubles because it is not available and it could be something as simple as let's say having an episode of the scientists and needing a certain form of expertise but in terms of guidance on many occasions ringback so yes it does make it difficult but at the same time i must see this thread are laid at the start of course in one study medicine was allowed in our country what it has showed all of us is that digital interferes and dealing with this it is probably

going to be in years to come a long term solution for a bank plus diverse country like ours because you have somebody said in my easily not having an expert for a lot of minds right now and just fell off a bike to get exploited by these medications counseling sitting with the diplomats is where they are because of the internet access and i think that the transition they call it is big and i truly believe that in the years to god then it interferes is going to bridge the indias gaps he has made less notices another change that you mentioned just earlier was that people are talking more about mental health now than before earlier in the program we mentioned campaign by deepika. padukone who is an actor who's been talking about her own experiences of mental health is it possible that. a positive change in attitudes could come as a result of the pandemic the difficult one to answer

isn't to tell. you what level i feel. sad that would we need to bring them in to lovely mughal nation the midland mental coalitions have been increasing over the past decade or not the example if you go you came off of him a non-celebrity years ago musician which is a few years now so it's not do it go away has been talking about it much earlier and then more and more people start blocking the world mcglynn the issues the fact the gifted can help it does have an impact we have good except the old models and clintons have an immense impact specially on the other population that that's an absolute fact and what's happening during call it is there and individual may not realize that they are talking about mental health but it is mental health has been addressed for example the fear of getting an illness of the fear of what if something happens to your family fear of getting treatment under all of these

inside these reheard stresses later examination sub results jobs it cannot be all of these psychosocial factors do give stress so that people start talking about it you know and that's also primarily in direction of badly hurt because none of them bottling it up you are talking about it because you realize it's only you mustn't. forget them it is a better them because it is than so now look at ness about it distress is so and you didn't share anything about it has become law as pointed as and which i did was also you know me and to mention fall a country they guard because they can see explication is not dissolution the strength of india always had be it did the big and family system social system so the more connected and gauged their.

communication that happens it. this this so should leave you with the stupid let's get it all out of all of these that was it is that we have that continues to be a strain the family system lukewarm isn't it actually increases you know automatically or flossed you know love make living through into this happy show india's fastener says in this case perhaps its strength dr sami apart from forces how it has been fascinating and what you've had to say thanks for joining us. now is trying to answer another of the questions you've been sending interest stays is also about the effects of the coronavirus on the mind over to our science correspondent there aquariums. what are the neurological symptoms associated with covert 19 and long. coded 19 can

affect different people in very different ways and a certain number of those who contract it develop neurological symptoms by some calculations actually a lot more people experience them than than people who don't in the active phase of the illness those symptoms can include dizziness confusion tingling or numbing strategies a loss of smell and taste and then more serious cases delirium seizures and stroke doctors say the neurological symptoms could be caused by a number of factors in patients who have serious respiratory distress for instance oxygen deprivation in the brain can play a key role but but an out of control immune response could also contribute to symptoms and in some patients at least the virus appears to also directly infect

the brain or nerves and some symptoms can persist or or even 1st appear after survivors have supposedly recovered from covert 19 as an aspect of this still undefined condition often generically called long cove it a recent large scale study looking at a wide range of neurological and psychiatric outcomes in patients 6 months after infection found that around one in 3 had complaints in those areas most often anxiety or mood disorders so what are generally classified as mental health issues and although there was some correlation with disease severity with the. people who had bad cases of covert 19 more likely to suffer serious neurological complaints many long term symptoms were also far from

uncommon in people who had moderate cases of the disease. derrick williams that mouse or from listening to you calling 900 special from all head over to the coronavirus section of the day to read websites to read i'll call . it.

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