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easy to do some very courses into active exercises are available at the w dot com slash doors on facebook. all in the germans are free with cdw the us unemployment. take another step in the right direction. the number of new job lists blanks fell again last week, bringing unemployment to its lowest point in a year. we'll look at like the locust eating up south africa's crops, threatening aspects of his penis case. so the country's economic recovery will hear from correspondents in cape town. and what to do with old car batteries that still have some juice then the start of in berlin is getting them like the way

business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. your application for unemployment benefits in the u. s. have fallen below 400004 the 1st time since that pandemic pique. your new claim was submitted last week and expected and continued on a downward trend on the previous week. the labor department says it's assigned the panoramic massive impacts on the market is nearing its n. last year, weekly, new jobless claims shot into the 1000000 after several businesses close their doors . improving picture has been helped by a successful accuracy enrolled after rising for local. let's get even more on this from susanna street, who's a senior market analyst at harvey's lands down in bristol, thanks a lot for joining us on the program. so what is behind this improving jobs picture that we're seeing in the states? what i think really it is the vaccine vote, and it's interesting that texas and florida are kind of leading the charge.

certainly vaccine bo, that have really accelerated in those states. and it's meant that actually the number of americans fighting u. k is for an employment benefit has fallen below 400000 for the 1st time since the panoramic began. so this is a way to good side. about reopening, we've had some other data coming up as well. showing that private payables increased the most in 11 months. in may, there is now really much more robust demand because the economy is reopening social distance. they restrictions easing. but there are still crunches ahead. not least the supply of stuff. i mean in many different countries around the world. people who've been on furlough been able to do, sir, jobs have gone into other sectors instead, such as take away industries. but now when other sectors we hiring there are shortages elsewhere. and he was saying in sector like hospitality that

she pretty hard to get hold of star. now, all of a sudden fear feeds into inflation fears because we can't get hold of stuff, have to pay them more and that could feed in to rising prices. so as you can say that we've seen a permanent change in the job market in the us on the streets or thank you so much for joining us here on top of your business. south african farmers in the central free state province are being terrorized by huge locust swarms threatening the production of maize wheat and even neat the bread basket of southern africa is battling millions of the pests which have arrived from arab namibia, south africa. the agricultural sector is bracing for a devastating impact just as the country tries to kickstart its corona virus recovery. it's overwhelming. after just emerging from the devastating economic impact of a once in a century time demick. this south african capital farmer now has to contend with

hungry locusts. money spent to start his by this locust. interesting, the serious, especially for us farmers. i've never seen anything like this in my whole life. and old people have even age and more. haven't seen something like this either, and he's also a block has seen it and also struck arriving a few days ago. they've left devastation in their wake destroying hector's of productive farmland. in a matter of hours, it is to be on the back, the long slur. but this 200 had 2 piece of land was prepared for 18 months to plant corn, for dune on the plant. it was already 5 fingers high before the locusts swarmed in. and as you see, there's nothing left so she can sing as he next we're me and being in

a 4 year cycle. difficult to make up for this long. this is by and we are community for lease optim mark after the best rings in decades. south africa, agricultural sector was experiencing an economic resurgence despite the 1900 pandemic. and growing year on year by over 13 percent, in spite of one of the strictest corona virus locked downs in the world, have us put the sub, i think, an economy on the severe every cultures propped up largely. we've been having very difficult weather conditions lately. and then suddenly some fantastic grains, which brought beautiful crops, beautiful locust forms, unfortunately as well. we don't know what the last thing effect of this is going to be on our economy, but it's not going to be good efforts to kill the swarms are proving successful. so far, but farmers will have to move quickly before the lucas lay eggs and leave

a future generation of pests behind. to terrorize them later. stories look a buyer's unable to believe stressful. we might survive this year. and what about next year? if there's less green grass, what can you think these location that will eat them? that's my biggest stress. the next? correct. the free us, bottom of the full on the off. that's close to our correspondent in cape town. ellison hello and discuss this a little bit further. this is obviously devastating for the farm is that involvement could, could have knock on effects for other south africans beyond the cultural effect. well, it did the agricultural sector and so therefore it is quite vast and quite varies. and in quite resilience. and as this fall, more thing they're good and pest control on top of that winter is stalking here. so that hopefully will kill off some of those the locust forms as well. so although it

might have an effect on an individual, farmers like the one that you saw in the report, i think over all that the agriculture sector will be back and actually seeing it as one of the cornerstone stupid declined. we've seen during this grown or kinetic yeah, i was, we were last just where you're saying at the end of that. but you were just touching on how important agriculture is the south african economy and how big a role is expected to play in the recovery from the current of ours pandemic. oh, mass simply message. we start africa feels that it is a cornerstone of getting out of the economic decline because of the mimic. although we've seen decline in jobs and agriculture sector during corona, we just heard at 100000 jobs in the elk culture sector has been lost so far. we actually also hear positive stories. one of them is that after years of drought,

we're now looking at the bumper maze harvest on top of that, if you look, for example, at the citrus producers, they are exporting record high numbers mainly to asia. they weren't mind, they weren't lemons, as so there actually are really good positive stories there as well. and for africa really hopes that i can bank on that and increase that and get out of the recession right now. one of the uncertainties is that he would appear that south africa was essentially answering a 3rd wave of corona virus cases is not expected to continue to deteriorate and potentially more economic measures taken. yes, actually. yeah, actually, so i forgot has now just declared that we are in the 3rd wave of the corona, and then we hit $6000.00 new infections, almost the post 24 hours. so that is really to force that africa. i'm not sure if they are going to put up so many restrictions during the 1st wave in africa. so

africa went into almost a food lockdown economy. came to a standstill now to just calling to for that we just saw a record tie of new unemployment figures this this week at 32.6 percent. so i don't think we'll see a lot of economic measurements in place and that they want to keep the economy and the business is going telephone held her in cape town. thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other business stories making headlines. global food prices jumped to the highest level in nearly a decade in may, soaring by 40 percent from a year ago. according to the un food and agriculture organization, the sharp rise in food prices as be covered, 1900 panoramic has thrown millions out of work added to food security.

britain and the you have reached an agreement on post fishing rights that will allow both parties plates to fish each of those waters until the end of this year. the deals that's quote, as a shared fish stops now to look at the life span of a battery. so it can start off being made from all sorts of materials like lithium that need to be pulled from the ground. but what about when they step they use and are ready to be thrown away? well, the start of in berlin is giving them a 2nd life. busy berlin bay start up, batteries has found a solution for electric vehicle batteries. right now her name and his team are giving them a 2nd life. so gotten the ball and so this is how we received the batteries. they still have about 70 percent of the 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 killer storage batteries. they provide energy and our environmentally friendly time to load up this talk. talk a 2nd life for former car batteries is practical, providing clean mobility for all situations. currently was previously a rolls royce executive now he's motivated by green technology but for that he needs industrial partners. busy 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 get batteries a 2nd life. this is an example of how it could look for containers full of 50 for 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 $9000.00 households. on the banks of the river, san, and paris, the car, batteries get a 2nd life in the port, boat owner, d d. a spot also relies on the new technology. the show. this is the future of everything that has to do with transportation, and of course it applies to both to, to, especially since they're being criticized for polluting the environment and so on. the ultimate, the other pollution i spied wants to retrofit all of his posts with 2nd life batteries. he already uses them in a small ones. his plan is for his, hopefully to be entirely electric by the 2024 summer olympics in paris.

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