this is deed of news live from berlin the white house backs lifting coronavirus vaccine page and protections others move could prove a boost to efforts to bolster the global vaccine supply but how fast could production realistically be wrapped up also coming up no facebook for donald trump at least for now facebook's oversight board upholds the decision to ban the former u.s. president for inciting the riot at the u.s. capital. plus after germany's top court rejects

a key climate laws inadequate look at the country's ambitious new plan to reduce emissions. i'm told me all logical a warm welcome to your we start with what could be a big breakthrough in the drive to boost the world's coronavirus vaccine supply the white house has announced support for waiving vaccine peyton protections the u.s. trade representative said the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic made the move necessary the u.s. had previously resisted efforts at the world trade organization to suspend intellectually intellectual property protection the biden administration says it will negotiate the terms of the arrangement with the w c o. correspondent all of us on that in

washington d.c. joins us over good to see you know what exactly is u.s. president joe biden advocates as well so we're with every vaccine that is currently used around the world there are intellectual property rights and they protect those vaccines so and that certainly also includes the big names like bio and take pfizer of all journal johnson and johnson so they're all protected by their patent there and what president biden is proposing now is basically following a proposal that was initially made in october by india and south africa and that is to lift those property rights and pave the way for the production of cheap scenes especially in developing countries like asia and africa like in asia africa so countries that are hit particularly hard but hardly have any vaccines available as of now because so practically what could this announcement mean global vaccine axis

well the goal is clearly that other companies could produce those vaccines but without asking before hand and that will certainly also facilitate those developing countries to access vaccines faster and more comprehensive flee the reasoning behind this is that the pen demi can only be fought globally of course otherwise you will have new variants new much ations and that would backfire in the long run a little earlier white house press secretary general psaki gave a press conference let's listen what she had to say. we're really talking about the u.s. position as it relates to the w t o part process and that process will take a series of months and requires a unanimous point of view to move forward so what we are the consideration now is the u.s. position our objective overall as we look at this decision is how can we provide as much supply in the most cost effective way to the global community. all of us

voicing its support for patients to be waived is obviously a huge step but we just heard jen psaki herself just mention that this still a long way to go isn't that. the other thread though that's exactly what she was referring to 1st of all the w t o member countries have to come to an agreement and we know that around $200.00 countries worldwide all supportive of this idea to lift the intellectual property rights but the w t o has around 160 member countries also earlier today u.s. trade representative catherine tai you made clear in a tweet that this is a consensus based process so all member states have to come to an agreement and yes we will have to be patient here it seems ok you don't get correspondent all of a sudden in washington d.c. think you would like to apologize for the pool audio quality that.

and jenelle demond from our business desk will be here after this news bulletin with more on how markets have been reacting to this news so stay with us for that. staying in the u.s. facebook's oversight board has upheld the social media giants decision to suspend donald trump's account but it said it was wrong to ban the former president indefinitely facebook has previously argued that mr trump was banned for violating rules against praising violence that's after years of making exceptions because these comments were deemed newsworthy now the oversight board has given the company 6 months to determine what it calls a proportionate response thumbs up but not for donald trump facebook's quasi independent oversight board up held the former u.s. presidents ban for now it said facebook's decision to suspend trump's account was justified due to his actions but it also said an indefinite long term ban was

unreasonable we are giving facebook 6 months to conduct this review it must either restore mr trump's account by adding that the period of suspension has met its purpose make the suspension permanent or suspend the account pretty permanent period of time facebook banned trump at the beginning of january as did twitter and you tube after trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol building the risks of allowing the then president to continue were simply too great said facebook head mark zuckerberg the oversight board was originally created to examine search decisions trump has already established his own way to communicate with his supporters with his new website his followers can then of course share his messages via the major social media networks. now let's bring in

james grubel man he's a professor of digital and information law at cornell tech and cornell law school in new york james good to have you on the program now donald trump responded to his suspension from facebook by saying his free speech had been taken away from him there's some truth to that well in one sense he lost the ability to incite insurrection against the awful government the united states but that's no great loss and he retains the ability to speak on all kinds of other platforms including his own website i think very few people in the world have better access to media than. ok so safe book can decide what appears on bad platform but should they have the power to decide what's harmful to society at large if they're in a very difficult position because there are some things that id has decided are some harmful they should be illegal and what forms are already under duty to

promote that in this case but facebook is doing is kicking off to the board of the hard questions about what content is so harmful and not to be removed from the platform they want to have rules they can follow but not be responsible for making those decisions in the 1st place. so you talk about i mean they talk about this problematic posts from donald trump could they have simply just deleted or red flag to these posts rather than closing the whole account i think partly they were waiting to see what the oversight board would say they made an independent to give the oversight board a chance to weigh in and i think the oversight board really emphasized proportionality of response so that it might be a short count and is it necessary but instead something like treat posting review under which your facebook employees look at each think post work. ok james

cromwell man professor of digital and information lloyd cornell in new york would have to leave it there for now thank you for joining us and we have to apologize for the audio quality on that line now here are some more stories making headlines around the world. u.s. secretary of state and the blinken has arrived in ukraine for talks with president vladimir selenski he is expected to reassure kiev of u.s. support after russia amassed more than 100000 troops along ukraine's eastern frontier the country's anti-corruption efforts will also be on the agenda. 29 nigerian students abducted almost 2 months ago have been released they were kidnapped from a forestry college in kaduna state on the 11th of march or originally more were taken but some were released early on. israel's president riven rivlin

has asked opposition leader jarod to form a new government a day after prime minister benjamin netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition before an overnight deadline if mr lapp its coalition building a successful if you will and mr netanyahu is 12 year premiership the german government has announced plans for more ambitious cuts to carbon emissions the changes follow a constitutional court ruling that the country's current climate laws are insufficient but there are questions about whether the new goals are real commitment to more action or simply an effort to gain more votes ahead of upcoming national elections. the climate change activists probably surprised themselves with what they achieved young environmentalists have long accused the government of not taking action fast enough on climate change and last week germany's highest court ruled they were right now politicians have to respond young people remind us that

we are too slow rather than too quick we need to take action more quickly because of rules that according to our basic law are not just the freedoms of those living today has to be protected but also the freedom of future generations. to go again that's one thing the decision to speed up germany's transition to renewable energy has a lot to do with the upcoming national elections chancellor merkel's coalition government wants to finalize plans on how to move away from fossil fuels faster by next week finance minister or life choice said the cabinet was unanimous about the changes we have had the clean we reassessing our climate targets for 2030 we have to achieve more early on and we are formulating a plan to reduce emissions by 65 percent we want to develop an intermediate plan to reduce emissions by 88 percent by 2040 and much quicker than previously discussed

we want germany to become carbon neutral by 2045. 1000 from one. with the new goals both coalition partners the conservatives and the social democrats are showing they don't want the green party to dominate the climate change debate is specially in an election year and here are some more stories making headlines around the world. south africa's government a.n.c. party has suspended its secretary general a smuggler surely who is facing corruption charges the move is in line with the a.n.c. is tough anti corruption statute which gives members charged with corruption 30 days to step aside or face suspension. india's delegation to the g. 7 foreign ministers meeting in london is self isolating after 2 members tested positive for corona virus the group of leading industrial nations is discussing the

distribution of vaccines at the end of 3 days of talks india's foreign minister will attend via video link. to sport now and when does leader club have fired former germany and asked no goalkeeper lemon from their supervisory board after he sent a racist message on tuesday lemon sent a what's up message to sky's autumn pundit and former germany international dennis i'll go in which he referred to him as a token black guy lemon later tweeted that he had contacted ogle to apologize. the champions league and chelsea have beaten real madrid 2 nil to advance to the final to open the scoring for chelsea midway through the 1st half and mason mt sealed a victory with only a few minutes left in the game chelsea will now face manchester city in an all english final on may 295. now from the champions league to

a champion of childbirth in casablanca a 25 year old woman from mali has given birth to not one not 2 but 9 babies the woman had been sent to morocco for special prenatal care after she was told she was carrying 7 babies the 2 additional little ones came as an added surprise doctors say all 9 children and their mother are doing well. and don't forget you can always get the news on the go just download from google play all from the out store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use the d.w. app to send us photos and videos of what's happening. my colleague will give you all the latest business news mixed in the meantime remember to visit www dot com to stay up to date on twitter and on instagram follow

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a tree because it often stores places mine places where inform goes one week. 12 can really guess. we still have time to work i'm doing. u.s. president joe biden's administration is backing a global waiver on patent protections for coal with 19 vaccines the w.h.o. calls the move a monumental moment in the fight against the pandemic. also on the show the e.u. suspends its controversial investment deal with china as relations worsen between the 2 sides. over chinese abuses in sindh jiang and hong kong. this is business i'm just so happy you can join us the biden administration is backing

a proposal before the world trade organization to waive intellectual property rights for covert dying teen vaccines a waiver would remove obstacles for firm super deuce copies of the vaccine potentially ramping up supply especially in developing countries proponents say the waiver is in the w t o's tool box already and argue that a once in a century pandemic is the time to use it. here knighted states trade representative catherine high made the announcement saying this is a global health crisis and the extraordinary circumstances of the covert 19 pandemic call for at sir ordinary measures to new york for us here and tell us what's the response been. yeah there has not been immediate comments from the pharmaceutical or biotech industry but you could clearly see a reaction saw on the stock market and that especially true for those smaller vixie

and makers like they do not have any other product. to offer but the vix seen so that stock could took a dive once we got. the news some of the same was true for a cure wake or beyond take both trading at the nest egg tech exchange we have to clearly wait and see how this whole story develops as far as i understand all 164 members of the world trade organization actually have to agree to this peyton decision and we will see if all 164 members will follow suit which of by the way we had heard from. even before this ruling if you want to call it that that they would be availing to actually license the patents to other makers of pharmaceuticals and then the pharmaceutical industry in general they were quite

opposed to. letting go was the interaction of property there saying the real issue is that we need more material to not necessarily share the peyton's with other. vixie makers thank you very much yes quote they're there for us i'm now joined by sapna kumar she is a professor of intellectual property law at the university of houston welcome to the program sapna put this move into context for us how much impact is this new from the u.s. going to have in terms of ip protections for covert vaccines. well on one hand this is very significant the u.s. government has a long tradition of punishing countries that import or produce drugs without the pharmaceutical companies permission even during times of crisis on the other hand significant obstacles do still remain in terms of whether the european

union and other key players will ultimately agree to join the u.s. in supporting the us why is the u.s. doing it at this stage the biden administration had promised the ip rights would not be an obstacle to the cove in 1000 response so part of this is filling a campaign promise and part of this is sort of a growing realisation that pharmaceutical companies have really been calling all of the shots and that perhaps they haven't been acting in the public interest and maybe it's time for the government to take a more aggressive approach what kind of pushback do you think we can expect from this what we can expect is for pharmaceutical companies to claim that this will reduce incentives for than to invest large amounts of money in future

drug research if we take away too many of those incentives then the next time there's a pandemic who will develop the new drugs on the other hand it's worth saying that governments such as germany such as the united states have paid a lot of money for this research and that only a small sliver of pharmaceutical companies profits come from lower income countries how will this work in practice. my guess is if the countries come together and agree this will come in the form of a waiver such that countries are free to produce vaccines without having to pay royalties to the pharmaceutical companies that hold the relevant patents and this would be a departure under current law if they are required countries are required to pay

compensation when they use patents to produce drugs without permission professor software kumar thank you very much for your time today thank you now to some of the other global business stories making news. india has released $6700000000.00 in cheap financing for hospitals fact scene makers and other health firms to counter the devastating coronavirus surge gripping the country reserve bank of india governor shakti counted us also vowed to deploy unconventional measures if the crisis worsens india reported a record $3780.00 deaths in 24 hours. exercise equipment brand peloton is reborn reversing course and recalling its treadmills the company known for its interactive by classes says the recall covers more than 130000 units the u.s. is consumer product safety commission says adults and children are susceptible to

being pulled under the belt of the machine. general motors has reported a higher 1st quarter profits despite a shortage of computer chips that has slowed global auto manufacturing the u.s. government says it hopes taiwanese chip benefactors will allocate some of their supply to american companies. and staying with the auto industry tesla's new factory near berlin is key to its european expansion but work has slowed there lately where the plan july opening now push to the fall in the fast moving electric car market where big brands are gearing up to challenge tesla every delay is cause for concern authorized personnel only here at the site of tesla's new plant wonder construction just outside berlin this fire safety contractor is excited to be allowed in because as a boss is my 1st time here we got a call because they're having some difficulties they want us to take

a look at our goal which is always want to plant is almost finished but it still lacks final approval by the regional environmental authorities a sign of the snail's pace of german bureaucracy if you're like whoa i think it's sad actually officials in germany need to be a bit quicker and in cases like this push things through if we're going to get something in a very. if like this we need to adapt a bit and move things along on fossil guscott the addition of a huge battery factory next to the car plant means yet another round of approvals and permits are required the site was planned to open in july but one report suggested it may not open until january 2022 tesla says an october opening is the new plant whenever the plant finally opens the model why earmarked for production of the new factory will be key to tesla's growth strategy we think well i will be selling. it will be a call of any in the world and the next year it's an optimistic forecast but

carrick spert said the risk for dominance in the economy is far from over especially in europe. it is c.d.'s a little oldies classic automakers are building electric vehicles these days folks wagon is moving full speed ahead. that means the competition has become very very steep. when car buyers here are more likely to turn to the tried and trusted brands less engine. emerged that will make it harder for tesla to grow in europe. you know. locals are watching closely to see what happens next environmentalists are worried the plant is partly located inside a drinking water reservoir raising serious concerns over future water consumption and possible shortages but the local economy needs a growth spurt the population here has declined for years as people move away for work take who are taking vehicle to move the high tech automotive industry means more industrial jobs they need all sorts of industrial suppliers the plant will

attract service providers and that's an opportunity for mid-size companies to fill orders and take part in the project for. this man is also helping the factory with bring him business to now he's visited the gigafactory for the 1st time he's hopeful he can secure a contract with the american economy. to e.u. china relations now the rocky road to ratification a just got rockier the e.u. has shelved its efforts to win approval for its massive investment deal with china aster tit for tat sanctions were imposed over beijing's treatment of its weaker population here p n commission vice president al distant brodsky's said tuesday that future efforts to ratify the deal depended on how broader in u. china relations evolves investment pact was pushed through by german chancellor angela merkel in december but had been expected to face opposition in the european parliament. now amid this atmosphere of growing mistrust the european commission is

also moving to tighten rules on foreign investment with china in mind one key aim is to limit the ability of companies supported by foreign state subsidies to buy e.u. businesses here's you competition chief by plate of a standstill now companies have been free to use foreign subsidies to buy up this disses here in europe. some that being able to undercut their competitors in public tenders not because they're more efficient but because they get financial support from foreign countries and that's not fair to force those companies who do not get that kind of subsidies. and a reminder of the top story this hour. the biden administration is backing a proposal before the world trade organization to waive intellectual property rights for covert 19 vaccines a waiver would remove obstacles for firms to produce coffee's of the vaccine potentially ramping up supply. to the e.u.

has put on ice efforts to win approval for a comprehensive investment deal with china in response to recent chinese targeting members of the e.u. parliament which the european commission said are unacceptable and regrettable. thank you so much for watching. you know. it's now known as a century of going to. a very old ground and found the syntax. people have harriers whilst being to europe find a final resting place. anonymous. forgotten by the well it's. never mo i'm all focused on your. next.

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the stars on the beach. hello and welcome to a new edition of focus on europe thanks for joining us today nato is pulling its troops from afghanistan and that includes the german buddhists via the consequences of this move can be seen in europe. around 10000 soldiers are deployed at the hindu kush now they are packing their bags and returning home

critics fear that once they leave a new civil war may break out. and with it we could see a rising number of people fleeing afghanistan and taking on that the dangerous journey to turkey right now many who have succeeded are arriving in van town in the eastern part of the country i mean a sufi is a dame and her son part this got here 3 years ago but they know that many don't make it and that's why i mean and part of this are determined to keep alive the memory of the unknown bit. i mean as the interest on power vs it is always difficult to come here. the symmetry of the nameless is a belief place. motherhood years it didn't make going to the people who are buried here all had mothers brothers and sisters they all had someone who loved them but now their families don't even know that they are here but it breaks my

heart that there is no one who comes and prays for them mobile how dare you not active. duty in the that is why i am lean and harvest pray here on behalf of everyone else. they too fled from afghanistan why iran to turkey illegally on foot over the mountains it's a long dangerous journey and many who don't make it end up here in the eastern turkish city of van in an unadorned grave with no name. i myself buried a man here who was found dead in a mansion. and once we brought women's bodies so their fingers and toes were frozen off in the cold. and yet only a few are discouraged by the risk the number of people trying to get to europe where this route has risen sharply in recent years most of from afghanistan

pakistan bangladesh and what was once a tiny cemetery has long since become a mass burial ground. recently turkish police stopped a truck in the area people smugglers had crammed more than 100 children women and men into the back. more than 50 migrants died last year after their boat capsized on lake van. turkey is now building walls everywhere in the region to stop the migrants hundreds of kilometers along the border with syria has already been closed off the wall to iran is still under construction. human rights lawyer mahmoud cook chan says walls won't stop the refugees. fear only make their journey more dangerous. the shape of a in some want to be if your remember the. people will always look for ways to

enter the country. even if it means risking their lives. what turkey has been ignoring for too long is the fact that people smuggling in this area has become a kind of business sector so. people can make a lot of money in a short time at a relatively low risk. ameena and power this this still clearly remember their own flight from afghanistan that was more than 3 years ago the smugglers took everything from them they say. here in van the family is now trying to get by on low paid jobs. people only to those can work. in a little money alexina garbage or selling fruit and vegetables at the market and we simply can't make ends meet. like so many

others they want to continue to woods europe but they cannot afford to do that and the trip is not without its dangerous either back to afghanistan they say that's out of the question i have lost everything in afghanistan it's a war zone our house was destroyed how can we go back there when there's no safety for our children. but if we have to go back they will kill my son that's not an option. so they are holding out in eastern turkey stranded in their new existence. and they think of those who lost their lives and are buried here at the symmetry of the nameless. a new life in safety that's what many refugees arriving in the u.k. hope for and this was the same decades ago before the 2nd world war more than 10000 jewish children found refuge and new homes in the united kingdom's safe from the

nazis lord dubs or was one of those children he is now 88 years old and he has been fighting tirelessly for children who are fleeing from war in terror and who are on the move all by themselves. having to leave your family your country and everything you know behind you. north dubs knows what that's like when it was just 6 years old alfred doobs was placed on a train and cried as part of a kindertransport evacuating children from nazi occupied czechoslovakia the train was bound for london where his jewish father had already sought refuge his mother was denied a visa. and put on a train. saying goodbye anxious parents at the station german soldiers. i suppose that was quite traumatic. give me some sandwiches for the journey and when i got to love that i had no problem at all hadn't touched them but all they

had my father was waiting for me. at liverpool sensation are very very lucky that his father died not long after and all those mother made it a lot and she was never happy there but the 88 year old's doesn't like to talk about those things he prefers to not change through political progress and a seat in the british house of lords in parliament dobbs advocates for underage refugees well as they cater for the 1st half of what the minister said i was slightly less certain about the 2nd half of this cross party initiative has enabled 480 children mainly from war zones to come to the u.k. even if the government cut back on the numbers. i think saving one person and giving them a chance of a decent life is one victory so without sounding too pompous about it that is a victory. but behind every victory is

a story of hardship must it was 13 when he left somalia fleeing from islamist terror groups. over the next 3 years he traveled through war ravaged libya over the mediterranean to italy before reaching the refugee camp in cali france known as the jungle he was all on his own. he said he was beaten and witnessed other migrants perish. people died in the sea of shoes him in the water on the icy i love boat was on life wasn't safety i didn't have another choice this is his 1st meeting with the man who brought him to england says nice to meet you here today must a lives in london and study supporting college young just want to say thank you for . 'd only being here without just how could i came as a child i was 6 i was young i was 6 years old well i never thought this these

things happen in life quite unexpectedly but of a lot of i thought i'd be here doing this. more dogs asks must be what it was like to live the company tally and about his experiences of the civil war in libya to discover they're both manchester united fans it's a conversation between 2 refugees 18 and the other 88. i was called legend he has been a lover v.j. and done a lot of things to help him a lot younger be able because he understands and he was that situation and know how it's fairly not been in somewhere like in cali or clegg so has he done brilliant on the i want to be like him an official head along for his what unites me is a fellow feeling that we've all fled to safety britain gave me fantastic opportunities. and i'd like to feel that other people coming the child refugees

will be given the same opportunities in the same old welcome that i think. it's present unaccompanied minors in european refugee camps have little chance of coming to the u.k. legally your dog's considers that to be an acceptable i'm just fighting for the law to be changed man. i would argue that the least we can do is to share the sponsibility of other european countries and that means we should take a few more shouldn't take them all. right but we should we should take a few more we can do better than me and i would argue that that is our humanitarian response to both. nor dobes plans to live up to this responsibility over the next 10 years he wants to u.k. to take into account. the same number as one skein on the contrary transport. and that can lead to wonderful encounters like the one between large dubs and

massive from somalia. last year was difficult for hotel and restaurant owners in european course the summations like the italian island of capri many people stayed whole or only travelled within their own countries now that we have several vaccines against the coronavirus there are hopes for a better holiday season visitors this year capris population is being vaccinated as quickly as possible but this is this pleasing to sam on mainland italy. this stunning view belongs to capri. the island usually some 2000000 holidaymakers every here. locals are used to the many visitors. that surprise this year they are still having to wait for. the jewel in the gulf of naples is especially beautiful during these months as the garden of the where no coordinate systems.

their live and products and legendary we. you if you look we have blossoms and lemons at the same time. such an intoxicating smell oh we had so much rain that everything is grown well look at this branch it's bending under the weight so i don't think about how much ice cream and cakes are going to make meanwhile and the fear come out a luxury boutiques are being spruced up for affluent tourists who up until the pandemic brought in a large part of the island's revenues. the islanders are now hoping that the cocoa creek capri campaign will help bring about their return. with all goes to plan the entire island population will be perhaps needed by the summer and the dodgy beach atmosphere can be restored half of already received their 1st shot. but now the

island is being criticized by other tourism spots on the mainland capri has been accused of trying to jump ahead with its vaccination scheme to attract more than its share of tourists local mayor marino lembo denies this. i. think this is the whatever there is a real disagreement just different approaches simply up the pressure so that more attention is paid to tourist sites on the islands. on the mainland at the famous site of the ancient town herculaneum people are also waiting for tourism to pick up again. and 2019600000 visitors came here. last year it was only $60000.00. something like that we can return to and we have life that may not be the same but which places like these can be visited again are so important for everybody

arsenals also need nourishment. the archaeological site is also the financial lifeline of that. a small town near naples. used to attract only daytrippers but now it has around 2000 tourist beds. every guest counts the local mayor says coppery has luxury problems whereas here the fight as for survival. i don't think it would be rights to prioritise capri or procida and to forget pompei herculaneum naples and the sorento coast on the other muffy coast tourism should only begin after mass vaccinations and not because one island has been vaccinated. but many hope tourists return earlier than that. when of course sisters have added class divisions to their ice cream parlor and preparation so that they can work without wearing a mask. and

only a gun will be so you know we have to work and we want to work absolute but we have to be safe and so do our customers move on that easy. prey is known for its beautiful waters. and hidden caves. santa has spent countless hours ferrying visitors around. he has certain tourists will be back soon thanks to the vaccine was loaded. with all of this to the philosophy of our region which is that you have to use a barrel when it's full because it makes no more sense when it is an empty bottle they dream.