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seeing here in berlin. vaccine makers have pledged 3 and a half 1000000000 doses of the corona virus shot to middle and low income countries . in an effort to address the uneven distribution of vaccines around the world, pfizer and by on tech promising 2000000000 doses over the next 18 months old. there's another johnson johnson. meanwhile, 500000. pfizer says some doses will be delivered via the international kofax facility. others through bilateral agreements pledges came in and a g 20 organized summit, which were that 80 percent of the vaccination. so far around the world have been in wealthy nations, less than one percent and low income nations. the room summit took place in the growing pressure on governments to wave vaccine patents, but pattern waiting was not on the agenda for the summit participants calling instead for more voluntary licensing from drug makers and technology transfers to manufacturers in poor countries. financial pleasures also featured big the u

promising $1000000000.00 and investment for manufacturing china offering $3000000000.00 in a to developing countries over the next 3 years. all right, let's talk to the course one else on gilder in cape town. to get another side of this ellis could to see you. you know, south africa has been such a big proponent of this idea of waving patents for vaccine makers. others have not been as excited. what is the leadership in the country? how are they likely to look at the outcome of the summit? so of course they're happy with any help they can get on the one hand, on the other hand, wider pushing so much for for the, for the captains waivers is that they thing as well. we don't want to be independent dependent anymore. we want to be independent as well, who to solve this price is there is and this way, of course, also what they believe, a drop in the bucket because there's so many people that still need to be vaccinated, not just africa, but in the, in the hold on a whole continents and sort africa is, is leaving the african union and now,

so they're also speaking on that behalf so they will keep on pushing that. so they've been spearheading that together with india. so there will be more discussion in the world trade organization for no doubt. ellis, this idea of vaccine unfairness. we hear this a lot, especially on the political level. what kind of resonance does it have amongst normal south africans? also, africans are actually mainly complaining that this, that africa itself has not been doing enough. yes, it's pushing for it in the past and waivers bucks defects, nation. it's so behind in africa that africa, 1st of all, field in pre ordering the vaccines and, and then they finally got vaccines. they got us was in a car back saying that there were some research that was not attractive enough force that africa for the mutation that is yours for africa. so they sold it off to the african union, then they are basically empty handed. so they're having people vaccinated about

half a 1000000 health care workers, but those were vaccines from johnson and johnson that were basically left from a clinical trial study that was here. and they really only started vaccinated this week with a 5 a vaccine. so it's still very little, it's still very late, it's still very slow. so there's a, there's a lot of criticism on how to, for african government has been handling this. i was touched on this earlier, but 3 and a half 1000000000 dose is a good chunk of money here also pledged will it be enough given the challenge ahead look, it will probably not be enough. know, did the kovacs initiative, which you mentioned, which was going to, the idea was that that was going to bring more more quantity. but that initiative was, was mainly relying on a lot of doses of the engine sermons to do it. and now they're not getting those doses, so i know that they have a big, big gap and it will be very hard to show. all right, else been gilder in cape town. thank you very much. when

nearly 600000000 people in africa do not have access to electricity. and the situation is getting worse during the pandemic. as governments divert resources to health care and economic recovery, and their debt loads grow in south africa, which has struggled with rolling power cuts for years. the situation is dire. seems like this has become all too familiar in south africa with coal power plants, unable to meet electricity demand, power companies have resorted to scheduling plaque to protect the national grid from collapse outside major cities. the situation is often even worse, with many places not connected to a power supply at all. in africa, over all access to electricity had actually been on the rise over the past 5 years . but depend, demik has reverse that trend. last year, some 592000000 people in africa did not have access to power. in south africa,

coal fired power plants account for 90 percent of energy consumed, says 2016. the u. s. government has invested some $9000000000.00 in that countries . fossil fuel industry, but under the current administration in washington, that looks set to change of join now by seen enough. oh, he's high representative of the president of the republic of molly for climate, and he spokesperson for the african climate negotiators group and basket. welcome to the show. why has electricity supply become less reliable in africa? well, i think that there's 2 reason. the 1st is that the global economic downturn in, well, in the globe was really created and economy crisis on the continent. this is the 1st recession, but we've seen africa in the last 25 to 30 years. so these are diverted a lot of resources at the government level, and also reduce income for from house old. you have to you what we have

seen from, from the i e and over international agencies that africa need. the bought $35000000000.00 per year. the investments for the next 10 years to have the universal access. so with this the economy downturn, there's a lot of money which has been stuck out of the system and has made less resources available for investment for investment. i would imagine also that it's harder to invest, maybe in the cheapest and best fuels, in that case, fossil fuel energy, is that off limits now? well, the reality is that investments, unfortunately, in fulfill fuel of our better package, internationally. i mean, you have a number of the situation there are less, but you still have a number of bilateral issue to sions, and international institutions. we all know how to package those type of investment

. whereas when it comes to, to renewable energy and especially when you talk about energy, oxygen, it's decentralized and decentralized. tv still can area where communities of less, less included soaking those type of infrastructure investment. all those type of project is a bit more, is a bit more complex. and the reason why you need a lot of public capital, whether domestic capital or international or international capital and the risk now we've grown our crisis, is that we have less of, you know, a public investment specifically in those areas and enough, oh hi, representative of the president of the republic of molly for climate. thank you for joining us. thanks. all right, let's take a look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. offer sharing startup. we were reportedly lost more than $2000000000.00 in the 1st quarter of

2021. partially due to high costs related to an upcoming stock market listing demand for the company services. however, as risen significantly and tops prepared to make levels that at least according to the company the mobile world congress, the telecom industry, the biggest trade event, will be held in barcelona next month. that's up to the coven. 1900 pandemic derailed. it's 2020 event 2021. iteration will be a mix of in person and online events. it's expected to draw $30000.00 visitors. it's about a 3rd of pre panoramic attendance. the e u is reached, deal on cobra, 1900 certificates designed to open up travel across the 27 nation block. this summer. it says the free certificate will take the form of a q, r code on a smartphone or paper long forty's to see if a person has received a vac. seen at a recent negative test or developed immunity based on the recovery. right over to the middle east has been 9 months of the massive explosion devastated the port of

the lebanese capital bay route and germany like many other nations pledge support and the reconstruction. and that's led to a special delivery, almost 60 containers of hazardous waste released by the blast, which couldn't be disposed of in lebanon. not everyone is happy about it through our arrival. the congo ship are more and he turns heads to the container port of the hymns. hoffen after some 6300 kilometers at sea. on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company and northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. it's managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day of their industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydrochloric acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon or losing a lot of noise back on in august 2020,

a devastating explosion ripped across the port of a route and much of the city the detonation killed, more than 190 people. an injured over $6000.00 large areas of the port and nearby residential areas were completely levels. the conditions at the country's main harbor work had struck huge quantities of toxic and highly flammable substances were stored without any regard for safety. german experts analyzed the residues with a mo, by a laboratory, classified them and then packed them in containers. since they couldn't dispose of the toxins on site, they were sent to germany. initially, the containers will be stored at williams harvard in the village of v, fails. after that, they are toxic contents will be destroyed by using things like high temperature furnaces. odo kramer has founded us citizens initiative. he's

afraid of having the toxins so close to the village. he feels badly informed and doesn't believe a landfill is suitable for the poisonous cargo. when our fears are ultimately the middle promo that's arriving here with so few eric acid, hydro clark acid hydro flora gas it in so on. what quantities are we talking about? is v as even designed for that. are there any floor plans here for extraction systems? is the fire department involved is the civil protection involved and where we asked toxic waste expert man, for exam 10 from greenpeace, he thinks disposal is a good idea. imagine what would have happened if it was left in lebanon. then it's certainly better to have these materials properly evaluated, as they did, than packaged and sent here to be properly disposed of. about 6 o'clock sent on, but sanji and also says germany can solve the waste problems of an entire region.

the 3000000 euros needed to dispose of this waste came from the port of bay route and the european union. and that's it for me. and the dw business team here in berlin was always, you can find out more about these and other stories online, g, w dot com slash business. also facebook and twitter. thanks for watching. the news to describe, read, a cheaper way to go over mentioned home the force and some of the most recent email that we can, which mr. fanny that the last dragon had called the home w books on his lawyer culture, the high hair super

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