for more security, more freedom, more dignity, have their hopes, mental filled me. where does the stand today? 10 years after the arabs spring, rebellion starts june 7th on dw the try to singles out western clothing brands for what it called hazardous products. they just happened to be many of the same brands involved in a spat over force, labor and change young providence look at the dispute and what it means for companies and the concept of ethical sourcing. and what to do with old car batteries that still have some juice in the startup in berlin is giving them a 2nd life walk into the show. i'm seeing basically in berlin. we're trying to government has formerly accused an array of western fashion brands of selling

substandard children's clothing, and post potential health hazards among companies that name their swedish brand h n. m. american sports, where maker nike and spanish label sorrow. i'll try to customs agency. listen 81 batches of important children's clothing, products for quality and safety risks involving dresses and shorts, but also shoes, toys, tooth brushes, even baby bottles. many were cited for harmful dies or other substances. interestingly, those brands, among others, have already been under intense pressure from chinese consumer boycotts following. their pledges not to use cotton from china's western change, young province due to a legit human rights violations against the weaker population living there. and western brands are walking a thin line and in the dispute, china is a major market for them. consumption, they're expected to reach more than 10 trillion euros by 2030, according to morgan stanley. but of course, the same firm's face intense criticism back home if they continue to source from change young. for more on this, i'm joined by china analysts, cliff recruitment,

here in studio, and i'm joined by anton peeper. he is a analyst with the world economy ecology and development institute in berlin. both of you welcome, clifford. i want to start with you. this issue that we've just been talking about with this listing by the cousins agency. are we sure that's related to this larger spat about sheen. john? i think we're pretty. we're pretty certain there's some connection. we're definitely seeing a pattern here. we've seen how australia had restrictions put on some of its goods, such as its lobster and its wine and his body. in a similar way by the customs officials, a similar spat there between the 2 countries. exactly. over this call, in their case a call for investigation, the origin, the cobra. but also because it's expressed concern over the situation, the human rights situation and, and john province. anton, i want to ask you, you know, china has so much leverage against companies because of such a big market. how difficult does that make your job when you're pursuing ethical

sourcing for companies? makes it more difficult. definitely, because what we can see here is a politic chinese reaction to and that must ferric transformation of very trait. this is a trade measure which comes close to what one could call actually to trade war in west and governments. increasing the incline to the pressure of civil society organizations such as wheat, but also others and progressive international companies to fort re for due diligence legislation. that is to say for laws that i aligned with international binding human rights standards such as i hope conventions also on about 100 basis. it always should be guidelines for my national enterprises. and the standards clearly forbid human rights abuses, such as child labor, which is the case on cotton plantations in some young when a clifford,

it's up to companies right now to try and figure out how they want to do it if they want to appeal to the major market or if they want to try and follow the standards essentially, how are they navigating? well, it's a very difficult process for them to navigate docile until now. a lot of people have kind of turned a blind eye to a lot of things going on in china and just focused on the market. but now we're seeing that this has consequences. for example, we had a case because the u. s. has imposed sanctions and they recently last month they blocked the shipment of unit low clothing from the japanese fast retailing company . because of they said that it was made by the engine young by the cotton companies there. so it's a big problem. also 20 percent of the world's cotton comes from seems young. so there's a lot of them balancing to be done. a lot of it's going to be reading the needle exactly as a, it's a big question for firms now dealing with which and young and you and i talked earlier about this, you would argue that governments should be providing cover for companies through

basically put, providing the laws that force them to make decisions on this order here to certain standards. absolutely. that comes down to the question question of voluntary versus legally binding measures. what we are doing, as we talked to companies and proposed concrete measures how companies can actually implement you and guiding principles and comply with international human rights standards. just to give you a very short example of what that could be, for example, robust complaint mechanisms. but what we have been witnessing over the past years is the failure of voluntary approaches in many voluntary approaches. and this is all right. i think we're having multi stakeholder initiatives and they're quite highest. okay. can you still hear me? yeah, we just lost there for a moment. i want to finish up with one more question to clifford anton,

i think we got the gist of that answer right there. that a lot of those voluntary measures aren't quite working. staying with that until there are laws in place. clifford, you know, is the ball really in china's court here? because i imagine there are plenty of chinese consumers who do want some, these major brands. they want to wear nike, they want to wear adi dos. it's true, i mean, the fact is, such a huge market means that it's a very difficult one to ignore. i. i'm just trying to work out how things are going to proceed. you know, we saw that the chinese investment deal recently, the e u china investment to you, sorry that that's been frozen largely over these kind of concerns due to the sanctions. but china is, it still seems to be sticking to its guns on this and it's going to be, it basically feels that it has the economic muscle to weigh these political concerns in the west. so we're going to see quite, quite some friction over the next few months, i'd say, right, clifford phone and here in syria and on paper. thank you both very much. all right,

we're going to go now to look at some other business stories making headlines written in the you have reached the agreement in principle on cash limits for shared fish stocks. the agreement establishes, total allowable catches for $75.00 shared fish docs for this year. as well as several deep sea stocks for 2021 in 2022. the european union's top court has ruled that germany breached you laws by failing to control its air quality in 26 regions, including major cities like berlin unit and hamburg. the european court of justice said german authorities did not take quote, appropriate measures to limit evolution from nitrogen dioxide. it's largely caused by cars, trucks, power plants, u. k, has received the boost to its efforts to expand trade links outside of europe. the 11 member nations of the trans pacific trade deal, the c t t p. p. have agreed to allow britain to start the process of joining the pact. post breaks, post for exit. rather the biggest radio so far has been with japan.

i hope to latin america, the growing value of lithium as made mexico a bit wealthier in recent years, at least on paper, the government still needs to extract the valuable mineral mineral, which is a key component of batteries using devices and electric cars and plans had called for nationalizing mining activity. now, mexico says in these private help, the world's largest love him. deposits are located in the state of sonora, northwest, and mexico. but mining here is expensive. it's because the valuable raw material lives in layers of clay, which is difficult to process the government just looking for private investors. but if you could make, you could think of some properties that we need mexico to have its own studies to sit at the table to negotiate with objectives towards national riches this mining material so that investors can do business in mexico. cornered paper, glossing their new stuff currently 36 mining projects,

or waiting for government approval to start lithium mining on more than 500000 heck doors of land. the price of lithium carbonate has been rising sharply since december after falling steadily for years. but the man has grown again, lithium is a vital component in the production of electric car batteries. many companies are anticipating a boom. here, the main customers would be the u. s. and china. still it's uncertain how demand will develop in the future. the long term investment may not pay off if prices fall again. so there's look at the front end of a batteries lifespan. the lithium necessary for the cells. what happens at the back in that is when the battery is eventually junked. many still have a lot of juice left in them. now a start out of berlin is giving them a 2nd life. busy berlin bass start up,

batteries has found a solution for electric vehicle batteries. reiner hernon and his team are giving them a 2nd life. so gotten the ball and so that's how we received the batteries. they still have about 70 percent of their original storage capacity. first we disassemble these 48 modules, check them, and then use them to produce our new better package. the better packs are compact. 35 kilo storage batteries. they provide energy and our environmentally friendly time to load up this talk to a 2nd life or former car batteries is practical in africa and asia providing clean mobility for all situations. her name was previously a rolls royce executive now he's motivated by green technology. but for that,

he needs industrial partners the idea which was born in berlin will be implemented on a large scale in paris, where the 1st factory for automobile recycling is being built to give batteries a 2nd life. this is an example of how it could look for containers full of $54.00 electric vehicle batteries and 6 columns, many power plants connected to the local electric grid that could act as a buffer to offset any energy fluctuations. busy the for containers can supply an hour of electricity to nearly 9000 households on the banks of the river, san, and paris, the car, batteries get a 2nd life and the port boat owner, d d. a spot also relies on the new technology. ah, it has to be sure this is the future of everything that has to do with transportation. and of course it applies to boats to buy too,

especially since they're being criticized for polluting the environment and so on. the ultimate field to push the spade wants to retrofit all of his boats with 2nd life batteries. ah, he already uses them and it's small ones. his plan as far as hopefully to be entirely electric by the 2024 summer olympics in paris. the and finally, the famed las vegas strip is back in business starting monday. the city's most prominent stretch has reopened. the 1st time in more than a year. instances are now allowed to be open to full capacity, no masks or social distance required us vaccine rollout has provided a much needed economic shot, the arm for the city. that, of course, largely depends on tourism. jobless rate, in las, surging to 34 percent last spring was one of the worst rates in the country. now,

hotels are at 80 percent occupancy leased on the weekends. all right, that's it for me and the d. w. business team here in berlin. as always, you can find out more about these and other business stories online, w dot com slash business. i'm sitting there watching the news . the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research information and contact the corona virus, not the 19th special next on d, w i, we need to see what they are there arise to the on the scene. our new global 3000 theories about the

threat we are facing. and the heroes taking a stands for global 3000 series starts june 21st on d, w i me, faxing the maiden pakistan with chinese know how this factory in islam about aims to produce 3000000 doses a month across the border in india, infections and death spiking due to a new mutation, pakistan's health ministry has detected at least one case of the new very end from india known as a delta variant. experts warn it's likely more contagious. will

pakistan vaccine push be enough to stem the tide with what counter covered? $900.00 special, i want to get some berlin. thanks for joining us. now the good news 1st, the number of new infections is seemingly going down in pakistan, though the accuracy of the data is in question. and how sustainable is this downward trend given that neighboring india is grappling with an aggressive variant . it may all depend on pakistan's ability to ramp vaccination across the country. and there's a lot of catching up to do. the, it's a busy day at the rabo pin d vaccination center. every resident over the age of 19 can now register to get their job with vaccines bought and donated from china and allocations from the you . in back to kovak scheme, pakistan has now secured more than 18000000 vaccine doses and it came to get them out into the population. initially, there was quite

a bit of vaccination hesitancy here. but many have seen what happened in india, and they're worried. they came to the edge of the next wave that coming could potentially be the worst yet when we watch a video about what's happening in india, in the people scrambling for oxygen, and then later on we get scared that it could be like that here. so it's important everyone gets vaccinated, so now you're going okay, i would say that every pakistani should get the corona vaccines. otherwise we'll have a similar situation as we see in our neighboring country of india. we need to avoid what's happening there. the find me what a little actually says. people were very scared. they were unsure about the side effects and all. but now there's awareness. people are coming to get back to pakistan, desperately need to increase its vaccination rate. so far, only about 2 percent of the population has had a shot. infection rates have been declining over the last few weeks,

but the country has only just come out of locked down. since he'd, there's been a loosening of restrictions. markets and mosque are once again busy. but in some places miss about the corona virus persist mine when it cannot be muslim. i believe that while the corona virus exists, it doesn't harm us inside the month when we come here to pray and come to the left is gone. did put on the wrong again, come inside the mom. this is got home and i believe that corona can't come inside it. let's just call in your a. what in many mosques, masks are worn and social distancing. rules followed all if the goody hire people to take care and follow what the doctor say so that we can avoid what's happening in india in the okay. yes. how about the, how much sick pakistan recently detected the variant responsible for the recent rapid spread of new infections in india. but even if infection rates go

up again, doctors are competent that a crisis like the one in their neighboring country can be avoided. these have arranged almost 2 to 3 times of our routine services. in this hospital we have extended our ice used from 18 birds to 50 birds in recent days. and similarly, the number of oxygen port number of what regions birds have been increased to 234. meanwhile, everyone here is hoping that these new resources won't be put to the test. of a more i joined by a hotshot doctor, he is associate professor of use right, institute of pharmaceutical sciences and national infectious disease specialist at care. monica international in pakistan. so very good to have you with us and we have a case number's going down there. hospitals also seem to be well prepared for new cases. just all of that mean that pakistan has the corona,

virus pandemic under control. will you still date the count of 19 get his it has been including all over the world including bargenson. and i would like 1st we're thinking we have interpretive, we have learned a lot, hospitalized beard. and yes, you can see that if they're in control now. but if you look toward the stacks of it's still on the alarming site. ok. explore the alarming because certainly we hear from the world health organization that when it comes to the number of new cases, there seems to be a discrepancy between those that are confirmed and those that may not have been reported. how worrying it said, well there's a, there's a good question. i guess get it done. many, many patients,

they go to the local clinics, many are not conquered. many like there's a huge difference between d and, and so the count and the start the number, they are not willing equity. it as if you, if you talk about box them, but still did issue of him too many people said no medications is also high. so we assume that the suspected it is they are much higher and reach out to the border. ok. and especially a symptomatic infections of people with that don't, don't show any symptoms that obviously also keeps spreading virus which is dangerous. how big a role would you say just to cobra mutations play in pakistan right now? ah, me, this little impressively bug is done. have been voting. the full, you know, sequencing from the start of the demick and

a tanks to the national institute of health august on which was led by media doctor on medic. um, we reported the the you give it in, the reported, the brazilian variant reported the saw that it convenient. and this, these millions do have role in, in the spread of covered in buckets on last week we heard around then, you know, sequencing in august and 7 out of 10 word south. if you convenience, one out of 10 was the indian radian, and in last 36 hours, we have around for more any of the. and so it is, it is the don't fall off deterred them, but still the video and the question here. ok, so vaccination is key probably to keep all of those in check and the vaccination rate, however, it's still very slow, is the reason for that that people basically refused to get vaccinated all the

other problems the supply. perhaps if you talk about the legal, it says they're just around 3 percent debt bucks done is the candidate now but, but to hear the population in august, the news huge. it's around over 200000000 people. and the vaccination in target on now today is around more than 300000 per day. so we are doing all of this and it has also been commercially available now. so we hope that in the near future we will be able to go back now. right, commercially available means it costs money to get vaccinated. yeah, mostly in a more than 90 percent is free. but still if actually the government has divided it between the age groups and professional life. so the healthcare workers and the, the other professionals, they were a candidate 1st,

but who cannot for the for the done, he can go and, but she had it right. professor actor reporting here about the situation in pakistan right now. thank you so much for your time. thank you. thank you so much. now, one thing is, certain vaccines. the key, the pandemic has for science to react quickly and develop vaccines that can stop stars cove too. but can they do even more than that time for your questions though, over to our science correspondent derek williams. oh, you could 19 dixies and protect you from other types of corona viruses all depend, dominic has turbocharged research into corona viruses. we've learned a huge amount about them in the last 15 frantic mines, including in an area called cross reactivity, which involves how the immune system can react to similar structures on the

surfaces of different types of viruses. in other words, how your body might not have to learn everything from scratch about a pathogen if that pathogen reminds it of a bug. it encountered in the past, say, because it has similar spite proteins. all corona viruses have spikes. theoretically, at least, that means that teaching your immune system to recognise, sorry cubby to spy proteins, could maybe also help it recognise and prevent infection with other corona viruses . yet the spikes are similar enough. among others. a study published last month by researchers at johns hopkins university in the us shows that the idea isn't farfetched. the researchers looked at the response of what are called t cells, which, which play an important defensive role in the immune system response. and the study

reported that after people were given a vaccine against over 19, their t cells also responded powerfully to a related corona, virus that causes colds. the assumption is that cross reactivity was providing some protection. there are still much to learn, but a lot of experts thing to work, being done in the fight against stars covey to will lead to a real revolution and how we address future corona, virus threats. some even believe we're not far from developing one shot vaccines that will work against a wide range of corona viruses. lots of attempts to make one are already in animal testing me. now who says bank holidays are a waste of time in the united kingdom. any one of 18 could get

a shot on monday, waiting in the some thousands spend this phone call a day to get vaccinated against koby 19. well, not much distance keeping a new trend, perhaps. that's all for this edition of our covey. $900.00 special thanks for watching. stay safe with the news. news. news .

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