it was an incredible feeling that people were liberated, the more security, more freedom, more dignity, of their hopes, mental filled in. where does the stand today? 10 years after the arabs spring and rebellion starts june 7th on d. w. the growing pushback over climate concern energy companies are grappling with investors and core decisions that put environmental issues front and such. also coming up the chemicals, make a buyer as you're doing the future of life based read killers. after a judge rejected a $2000000000.00 plan to settle future claims over allegation,

the herbicides call him and after years of suspicion and sanctions from the west, duran, sweeping new partnership with china. because cobra, welcome to the program. the all industry is grappling with growing pushback over climate concerns. exxon mobil has lost at least 2 board seats to an active hedge fund shareholders of chevron, endorsed a call to further reduce its emissions. and according to netherlands, as ordered, royal dutch shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030 saying the oil giant has been falling short of its obligations under the paris climate accord. wow, yeah. climate activists in the netherlands celebrate after a landmark judge milligan, royal dutch shell, have court lube oil and gas company has a legal responsibility to fight climate change. now shall miss drastically accelerate its efforts to use its carbon emissions for the 1st time that we will

manage to pay to address climate change. so i thought i'm happy myself for my sake . and all of the children in the case was brought by environmental groups and over 17000 dutch citizens, their success, enforcing a major company to abide by parents. climate agreement goals is the 1st. it's very, very, very happy that we have the groundbreaking ruling where the chord is crystal clear and the fact that the cooperation shoot, shoot, and d to contribute to solving the climate crisis based on human rights law shall meanwhile says it's considering appealing the decision from all spring and alexander and gas off is the spokes person, the german mineral oil industry association. welcome to the w. now this court ruling could have far as the consequences for energy companies around the world.

shell might have to sell large parts of its business. how are your members prepared for these? well, this challenge is not new to us. we already, we already had the decision of the german supreme court at the end of april, towards more climate protection. and the all companies operating here in germany have made a pledge to fulfill the requirements of the 2015 paris agreement. and moreover, have committed themselves to push the c o 2 emissions towards ned 0 until 2015 on the case of germany until 2045. so we are already on the way towards a net 0 goal. now we learned that despite promoting green energy, much of the investment at shell, at least is still going towards fossil fuel projects. it seems that the transition of the sector is not happening fast enough. while this transition is going to be very ambitious to all of us to all of our company, however,

this is an ongoing process that has started quite a few years ago. companies use the profit at this point in time that are still made in the oil and gas business and invest them into the climate friendly business, such as green hydrogen. but there's an energy source for the industry as well as for heavy duty trucks, for instance. and in offshore wind parks already, they invest in power charging points for electric cars. you name it, so the transition is already on the way. now you mentioned that germany's constitutional court has been saying the countries climate goals have not been ambitious enough. they need to be more ambition. what does that mean to your sector? how do you aim to comply with the countries obligation to stepping up climbed goals as we are ready to do? so 1st of all, in car traffic for instance, we see a very steep increase in electric mobility, which is a very good development for the environment and the climate. and at our gas gas stations in germany and all over europe or petrol stations. the built up of foreign

charging points so called superchargers for battery electric cars to swell and away . and its good news that the german government is supporting this insulation and process, but we need more solutions for plains shits, chemical industry for heavy duty trucks. green electricity will hardly own not at all poses solution. we have almost $50000000.00 cars in germany running on gasoline and diesel. and this means in order to become climate neutral. we need green fields like biofuels or so called synthetic fields for transport and such. so this is where we need to come forward and this is where we need politics support to support us. we have one more point. we have 70 percent of energy imports in germany, and this needs to be replaced with new climate friendly energy as us can be all electric. this need to be fuels where under way, what we do need government support. alexander from gas of the german mineral all association. thank you. welcome. german chemicals make our buyer

says it's not going to increase the $2000000000.00 put aside to deal with lawsuits against its round up. we'd care of that comes after us cor projects of bias proposal to offer compensation exchange for limiting losses. blaming lead roundup and other products containing life that cause cancer buyer says the link is unproven. goes all of our tar financial correspondent conrad boys. in for more colorado buyers keeping the costs around the losses under control, this should be good news for investors sooner. well, chris, while of course, this is good news for buyers short term balance sheet. that the company is now paying less money for these lawsuits or compensation in the united states. of course, this is not good news for all investors who were hoping that finally finally,

buyer might come to an end with these lawsuits in the us. the share price of buyer this thursday is significantly under pressure more than 4 percent. bio says that the proposal for compensation, which was now rejected by the judge in the united states, was the fairest and the most efficient solution for all parties involved. obviously, many investors believe the same, and obviously many of them are now disappointed and countered by also says it is considering stopping the sale of around up to customers in the united states. is that likely to happen? it is likely to happen, as you know, it is impossible to predict is more americans who bought and used round up might become ill with cancer in the future. and whether or not they might be inclined to su buyer. this is a risk which is impossible to calculate with,

and that's why it's very likely that bio will reduce the sales of round up, or dr. for say, that's the chemical name of the product to professional uses in the united states. here in europe, the days of the product are numbered as well. in many european countries, life are said, all round up is already forbidden and germany, this is going to happen by the year 202400 dollars in frankfurt. thank you. and to some of the other business stories making headlines around the world and you study has shown more than half of german companies have no women on their executive boards. earlier this year, the government said it was introduced a quota on executive board, which is expected to pass a law before elections. in september, the united states and china have held their 1st conversation on trade. joe biden became us president. china said the phone call was frank pragmatic, and constructive. china is pressing biden to unwind is his predecessors terrace,

but disputes over the u. s. trade deficit and chinese human rights abuses. remain, profess is concerned about the safety of a staff in india and potential threats to use the freedom of expression. the online messaging platform is in a tense stand off with the indian government over controversial new media regulations. the president of switzerland says his country has scrap plans for a sweeping new agreement with the european union. after more than a decade of talk, it would have improved switzerland access to the u single market. the european commission says it regrets deets with decision talks about reviving the west nuclear deal with iran are ongoing, and china is long. the countries negotiating the talks come at a time when beijing is aiming to strengthen its ties with around in march. both sides agreed on strategic cooperation, providing chinese investment a return for rain in oil. now,

not only the united states was fearing it could lose its leverage, turn his presence in iran is unfolding play on the streets of tehran, john gun, friend and jack. i just 3 of the chinese car brands available in the country and they gradually replacing european models. it's a reflection of iran economy or says cyrus resolved. he runs a consultancy firm into iran and advisors foreign investors. since the us left the nuclear deal, he has lost 80 percent of his european clientele. a gap in the market that china has been quick to fill you on has decided that he cannot wait forever for g c p. away or for a breakthrough, between you on the west, the development of the country cannot wait. at the end of march, china's foreign minister visited iran and signed a massive deal that involved spacing, investing around 330000000000 euros over the next 25 years. the focus will mainly

be in the energy transport and telecommunication sectors. in return, iran will provide china with cheap oil, but some iranians are skeptical because we haven't been told the details of the deal. i don't think it will be good for us. the way everyone's talking about it, it sounds like the government has told us out of the chinese and by the hotel. i hope that we, the people get something out of the deal. otherwise deals like this or no use to us . iranians are facing a number of challenges, unemployment and inflation. arising. the currency is down. more and more people are falling into poverty. and the new flagship stores are filled with chinese products that are too expensive for many iranians. the benefits of chinese

investment happen a little help to cyrus resolve his company, but that may change. he also hopes european firms will return to iran was a lot of our top business leaders and engineers have been educated in places like germany and austria. and so they have this affinity for european quality for european innovation. and for the way of doing business with europe at the moment though, that's all still a way off for now. people in iran are hoping that the economy will rebound and that daily live here will become easier again. and finally, 3 indian navy ships a scramble to help long tackle a fire aboard. a container ship ship has been ablaze for week leading to fear the huge oil spill. if it's haul breaks, that could have a devastating effect on the nearby fishing and tourist industries. authorities are,

are the clearing up cargo and every washed ashore by the disaster. and his reminder of our top story for you at this hour accord another in another land has ordered wines shell to cut a carbon emissions by 45 percent by the year 2030 saying the oil giant is falling short of its climate obligations. and so i show for more check out our website at the w dot com slash business for our social media over. belinda, thanks for watching the result of the the fight against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research information and contact the corona virus not change because the 19 special next on dw, sometimes

a seed is all you need to allows big ideas to grow. we're bringing environmental conservation to life with learning back like global ideas. we will show you how climate change and mental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing, download it now for me . the data show candidates 1st dose fast strategy is working. relatively few covered cases have been reported off the one job and the hospitalization age has fallen. teens are also getting immunized. after i get my vaccine and i know that i'm protecting the people who are around me every day. that the opposition criticizes the government

for taking doses from the kofax facility set up to benefit poor nations, and not using the hundreds of thousands of astrazeneca jabs that other countries could make use of. ah, the criticism got loud when it was revealed, candidates signed enough supply contracts to vaccinate every citizen 10 times over . we'll talk to a canadian doctor about that in a moment. first, more on the quest for ne, believe, love coming from the other side of the border with the united states. the there are among the unsung heroes of the pan demik, the truckers transporting goods back and forth between the us and canada. one of them is out of driving from winnipeg in the canadian province of manitoba, right across the usa, always driving into the hosp wasn't going to drug stops where there's guys from all over north america there as well too. we're all within 6 feet sometimes.

so surprisingly that we haven't been the one spreading it around. atom has to the depth to pick up his load. this time is to take so friday the texas bus comes out to wish him luck. today's a very special trip for adam is going to get back to make it against cozy 19 in the u. s. actually quite excited about that. i've been hoping to get it for some time. no way wife has been vaccinated already 1st and 2nd because he works at the hospital. so it was hoping for a matter of time and i get my supporter between canada and the u. s. has been closed for over a year, but truckers transporting essential goods have been allowed to cross even without vaccination. but now health is waiting for the canadians in fargo. the 1st

major stop on the american side. people here happy to share. we have extra vaccine in north dakota, and so if people want to be back suited, i personally welcome them all to come and get it here. if they, if they choose sure, that makes sense. if they are going back and forth a lot. and vaccines are available, you might as well get it to as many as you can. so why not? i think it's a good idea to get it out to as many people as possible. canadian truckers can take the next highway exit and head rest area where they can get back to ages. wednesdays to fridays. the relation comes just in time for adam. canada is currently in the grip of the 3rd wave and the risk, the truck is growing. adam has nothing but kind words. so his neighbors. thank you for for this cooperation series coming together like this for truckers

is a big plus for sure because sometimes that feels that we are forgotten. frontline, for sure. the 18 canadians on us soil is the only way of getting around the u. s. ban on vaccine exports. next up, it'll be the teachers. here in north dakota, the america 1st mentality has given way to putting neighbors 1st known mcdonald is a professor of pediatrics in canada. as we heard in that report, we see truck is going across the border to get their immunization. although canada seems to have quite a lot of doses itself. how would you rate canada is vaccination drive in all actually it's been very good been week of the dose is that we've received and it's a large number. 27000000. more than 89 percent have been distributed to the provinces and territories across the country. and most of those probably just in

territories, more than 80 to 90 percent of our are already in arms already immunized. so you wouldn't agree with the criticism that there's been a dis, portion that back seen in taken in canada like some other o e c d countries as well. so we have more orders for vaccines than we have population. but whether all those vaccines will arrive is not even clear at this point. so as an example, we have large orders in for my, during the vaccine, but it's not coming as you know, there been real problems and delivery of madonna. so candidates decision had been to order from a number of different countries in case there were delivery problems. so it's always different what you've ordered and where you actually get and you know, if we were gonna look at who has had the most faxing, well it would be israel by population. sure. canada is going to be

a different strategy though a single dose covered 19 vaccine strategy. is that working? i mean that they're telling some people to, to wait so much longer than others in some cases up to 4 months. so what happened is to the public health chief public health officer for british columbia was the 1st one who really push for the single dose. she was extremely worried. they have large numbers of seniors proportionately in that province. and she wanted to make sure that all the seniors, all those over 65 got at least one dose as opposed to waiting and to get any dose. and then that was picked up across the country. well actually she was really quite prescient because we now have data to show that with the back seems that we have both the m r and a vaccine and the viral back to backseat. waiting longer than your 4 weeks actually is better because the 2nd dose is actually a boosting dose. your rates don't go down rapidly after you've had your 1st dose in canada. what this has meant with our 3rd wave of cobit,

we're not shifting senior people that are over 65 if 708090 in the hospital. those who have been immunized, they're just not their be our average age are in the hospital now. it's in the fifty's with this 3rd way because in all the ones above it have been, well, i mean i stood my province and those between 75 and 7999 percent. i've received at least one dose, but not getting sick vaccines working. another point of contention mosque policy, what, what do you think about that as far as people who've already had the virus or of being vaccinated in terms of their b at what they can do now is that terms of having yeah, there's been a big controversy about mass, cuz you know the center for disease control in the us that if you've been immunized with 2 doses and or you've had to see you're fine,

you're good to go. you can go into a restaurant or any bar or amusement. parker sported in canada has been much more quiet about this. number one is, most of our people have only had one dose. they'll have had a 2nd dose by the summer time, but only one dose so far. second one is how do you know who's had vaccine and who has not, and this is discriminatory about your being able to do this because we do know, even if you had 2 doses, a vaccine, it doesn't prevent you from being colonized. having a symptomatic infection with cobit and then taking it back out into the community again. so candidates being much more cautious than the us on a sidebar. did that the us thought that this might increase people's vaccine acceptance because hey, i could now do more things. if i was immunized, we've not used that as a strategy because right now, surveys have shown, well over 80 percent of adults in canada from 20 years on up want to get tax unaided and

a very high percentage already or we're already ahead of the u. s. in terms of those who actually had one dose and actually so we don't see it is the same issue as they do. and we don't think it's a really good strategy really briefly. just a yes or no, no the you've had both jobs. your husbands had one job so far. i've had one as well . if you finally see some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. yes i do. if you look at the countries where they have very high percentage for people like israel in the u. k who received that one or 2 doses of vaccine. they are not having the same problems with the 3rd wave of cove it and there will be a 4th wave and probably a 5th wave. so yes, it's really effective. mcdonald, thank you very much for being on the show today. you're welcome. now he's a vi question. only touched on there. let's see what derek has to say about it. call. if you are fully vaccinated,

can you still carry the virus and spread it to others? this issue has really been top drawer concern, among health authorities for months, but we now know that so called breakthrough cases, which is when someone tests positive for covert 19, even after full vaccination, that they're actually really quite rare. we also know that many of the authorized vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious disease in those rare breakthrough infections. a number of studies have confirmed that if you're fully vaccinated, the chances are more or less 0 that you'll be hospitalized or die from covert 19. if you end up contracting at anyway, still the worry about vaccinated people catching and possibly transmitting the virus to others. that's persistent for months while the data has slowly built up

about exactly how much of a danger they really pose for the centers for disease control. in the u. s. the data is now convincing enough to have real world consequences in a move that took a lot of experts by surprise, america's public health agency earlier this month, changed masking guidelines. it now says that fully vaccinated people can feel free to go without a mask in most situations because and thus studies like this one from israel show that the number of breakthrough cases is indeed very low. and the chances that those individuals might transmit the virus to others is extremely low as well. that's kind of an about turn and it's really sparked some controversy. some experts don't like it or agree with the agencies division. but i think it's fair to say

that the evidence is quite strong. now that if you've been vaccinated, fully vaccinated with one of the highly effective vaccines and waited for a couple of weeks, then you're unlikely to carry the virus or, or to spread it to others. for at least a few months after vaccination. me derek williams. aaron ben facility and thanks for watching. stay safe to see you again. ah. i lose lose, lose.

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