flooring, the delving into history and the present i would never have thought that could be live. so i need to remind myself because i grew up in a completely different way. broad explorer, the jewish in europe. the 2 port documentary starts july 5th on d, w. i the how to fight to china's growing global influence. that's one of the question facing leaders of a g 7 as they meet in the u. k. president biden is pushing allies to help compete with beijing belton road initiative. germany's groundbreaking supply chain law has passed through parliament today. so hold large companies accountable for abused by

that supplier will ask if it'll work and pay power. apple pay and google pay may soon have a european competitor, will show you the payment method that's helping spaniards to spend the state of your business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. the g 7 meeting in the u . k. but the u. s. president hoping to convince allies to join efforts to compete with china, joe biden, the code for massive global infrastructure spending to rival beijing's belton road initiative. china has invested in projects around in around a 100 countries is increasing its global influence along the way. this weekend, the g 7 are expected to back in infrastructure partnership that could help counter that build back better world aims to promote climate friendly technologies and prove health care and to give a boost to global digitization. it also promotes gender equality and high

occupational health and safety standards. so can the u. s. hope to counter growing chinese influence and bring allies like europe along with it? or we can now speak to roderick careful puts, who is a senior analyst at the maqueta institute for china studies. thanks for joining us on d. w. business. just explained with how much influence bout road has given china around the world. developing road initiative has grown extensively over the years at the moment, roughly 139 countries have formerly endorsed this initiative. what i've done, they said it's definitely moved the world economics time for gravity towards china and increasing investment, increasing trade, increasing people to people, contacts, and connectivity with china. countries have become more dependent on chinese economy. chinese politics, chinese good will allow pages to shape the norms rules and standards of these

regions. basically, belt approach is the lower lives ation. with chinese characteristics, a lot of roads are being built, but they're all lead to beijing. china is policies towards the west and you have been aggressive. in fact, your own organisation has been sanctioned by china. so do the g 7 need to be counteracting 1000 wrote i think what a lot of companies are looking for is sustainable alternative to golf and road cars at the moment. there isn't much out there what is needed for difficult democracies to be up to scratch and to meet the challenges that the world facing climate change co, my team economic development building back after as biden has. and this is also in the grant context of the systemic conflict between liberal democracies ad

authoritarian governments, liberal democracies have to show that they have answers to the challenges the 21st century and that they can provide leadership. if they don't, other countries will fill that void. have they not left this a little bit too late? i mean, the, as you've said, john has already been able to exert influence. it's bell road initiative has got projects in half the countries in the world. can they counteract that? well, a lot of time has been wasted with the trunk administration. you could say a fight and has understood that the name of the game is different. it's not about beating china, it's been better than china and he's also understood that the u. s. can go alone. the u. s. needs like my department. that's what the g 7 summit is all about. not just including the g 7, but also including india, south korea,

australia coming together and finding a common approach to all these challenges. i highlighted climate change, infrastructure development, cobra. my team build back after world is exactly that approach. trying to build a common alliance of like minded partners that provide the world with leadership on climate change, infrastructure development, cobra. my team plan is to donate 1000000000 faxing notices. so this is what it's about, right. so over the weekend we should see how far they get in that cooperation. roderick capital puts from the location institute for china studies. thanks for joining us. update your business. thank you for having well, the gym and parliament has passed, a new supply chain law is a require, large companies will make large companies punishable for any human rights or environmental abuses by their suppliers. the aim is to make corporations accountable for every inch of their supply chain. wiggers speaking cotton in china,

seen jung region. the muslim population here has been repressed by aging for many years, abused, put an internment camps and made to work and force labor. much of that product used to end up in shoes and shirts sold in germany and other western countries. the supply chain law prohibits forced labor as well as child labor and work threatening or destroying the environment. it applies to all companies selling to germany, and it's met a position from industry bodies, hyphen as feel for feared i'm diligence. we think it's wrong to respond to a global problem with a national law. this doesn't change the global human rights situation at all. it does, it creates additional competitive disadvantages for our own companies here, which are global leaders in terms of their standards and gauge conveyed by ma, stop. few, vincent,

the industry argues that german companies might have to stop doing business with some countries, making the situation for people. they are even worse. but berlin once change, we are too young on 72 long. we have accepted the exploitation of people and nature developing countries for too long. we have holloway child labor on a large scale, but children laboring on plantations or in mines. the german government wants to end all that and set an example for others in the you and beyond that it can be done. let's get more on this from our financial correspondence in frankfort, chelsea delaney chelsea south has 3 parliament. was the response been to the law? well, this has been a very divisive law since it was 1st proposed, and the response has been equally divisive. on the one hand, you have industry groups who think that this law, while it has a good aim of course,

everyone is behind the idea of stopping human rights abuses. they say it's just going to be to bureaucratic is going to require some businesses to, to monitor, potentially tens of thousands of suppliers, and it will make german business uncompetitive. they also argue that, you know, this is actually not companies, responsibilities shouldn't be, it should be governments who are really advocating for, for human rights across the world. on the other hand, you also have companies that are, you have activists and in law makers who have the wall doesn't go far enough because it only requires companies to monitor businesses and their direct supply chain. when really, most of these abuses are happening much farther down the line. as you mentioned, some companies have thousands of suppliers. how easy is it going to be to actually implement this? well, the government has said that they want to take a reasonable approach. that's because it could be an extremely daunting task for some companies to certify the labor conditions at the mines or the

the cotton fields where their products are coming from. so the companies are responsible for monitoring their own suppliers, their direct suppliers. but everyone below that, they only have to respond if they have some sort of credible complaint from down the line. this has been a point of contention, but they say that should make it easier for businesses to implement. chelsea delaney in frankfort. thanks a lot. now let's take a look at some of the other business stories making headlines. chinese right hailing giant g d cheese thing has filed to list it shed in new york. popular app dominates the market in china and has over 15000000 drivers. it could be one of the biggest pianos this year. there are reports that the listing could raise as much as $7000000000.00. the u. k. economy grew by 2.3 percent and a phone is locked down,

measures east. it was the strongest growth in a year and followed a contraction in the 1st quarter. it was rising, g d p was driven by the service sector as consume as once again started to visit, stores, restaurants, and bars. in a european 1st the french and swift central bank trial cross board of money transfers using a digital currency. the final project was the a large number of investment banks using the new system to finance credit transactions. they hope it will be security and efficient. now paypal, google pay, and apple pay have at least 2 things in common. one that all instant mobile payment services and to they're all based in the united states. multiple attempts have been made to develop a european competitor, but with little success of an out as promising candidate in spain. among the saturday evening in spring, a group of friends are enjoying themselves in under lucio eating and drinking. when

it's time to leave the usual scene, the bill arrives. one pays until now everyone would have been rummaging through their pockets to pay their share. but it's easier in spain, things to beeson. it's a service that makes direct transfer as possible using only a smartphone and the recipient's phone. number 15000000 spaniards use the service with 20000 new users joining every day. they last year to us, we managed to offer a service that was needed, but it didn't exist given our customers added value to see what is going. and we have it in payments between people or now online retail, where you only need your phone number to pay out information for an existing vendor . going to online merchants have been using the payment service for just over a year now. and 11000 stores are already taking part beeson offers in alternative to the well known giants like people. absolutely those who want to continue using paypal can of course, but the reason offers other advantages. it's super fast,

but the success of the payment service is clearly due to the fact that all of spain's banks are involved among them is the 2nd largest b, b, v. a. payments between individuals are free, the banks are and they're cut with online retail. true for both the money sending bank and the receiving bank with bank of merchants report widespread acceptance or other commit. it is something we went to and some even say that visa is being used more than pay pounding bill to reflect in the common sense. so barrier that a reason only works in spain. the european central bank pushed an instant payment initiative back in 2014. that's how beasen was born. now there's new momentum would spring solution work for all of europe. and they're pretty, we're looking at all existing options. the option of these becoming a european payment service is on the table. if beeson were in all of europe, you,

consumers could pay conveniently securely and above all, directly with a cell phone. rummaging for a small change would be over. and that's all from me on the dw business team here in belgium. thanks a lot for joining goes. if you want more detail dot com slash business, you can also find us on facebook as d, w dot business. and you can find more of our stuff on youtube, on the w news. news, your child by the the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research information and context corona virus. 19 special next on dw,

you ready to get the places in europe are smashing all the records into a venture. just don't lose your grip. the treasure map for modern globetrotters governors. some of us are wicker breaking you know, also in book form me the o experts say school closures were a necessary evil to slow the spread of the corona virus. that they picked it, 80 percent of children worldwide forcing most to study from home, placing an extra non parents modern technology helped in many cases. but not all

the pandemic could see millions of children left behind. can generation covered, make the great and what happens after school? are we talking about permanent damage? will this affect students chances on the job market? all questions for our guest in a moment. first, this report, the 7 year old roost guy was accompanying his mother's jenda and doing for him to work. like most days. due to the panoramic charter schools have been shut for over a year. john don runs a private kindergarten on the outskirts of his stumble. there occasionally allowed to open, unlike schools in china or son attended school for 6 months before authorities ordered, all schools closed now, ruth guy spends his time at his mother's kindergarten or at home attending virtual

lessons. something the 2nd grader doesn't enjoy latoya to feel i preferred math classes in school, but i like to know teachers sometimes got angry at us for the past year. remote learning has been the new normal for ruth gar, a challenging situation for him to single mother. with car struggles to stay focused in front of the screen. you know, he still can't read or write properly. the kids have lost interest in everything. they don't want to leave the house anymore. again, we are losing touch with the outside world. over 10000000 turkish children and teenagers haven't attended school in month. they're only allowed to pack for exams, like these pupils at an stumble primary school.

many parents are fed up with the government strict stance on schools. it took a small off educate should be their top priority. instead of holding conferences and party conventions without heating any corona restrictions, the education sector is being neglected on a real. while most of the european countries have tried avoiding school closures took his education and science workers union. warren's turkish pupils are falling behind language lessons are not very effective. we didn't have basically lost an entire year of teaching. we never understood why schools supposedly posed a greater infection risk and cafes or restaurant. look on the call for those who are allowed to open. amanda turkish school closures has hit per families like the lands hardest. some for 1000000 turkish school children don't have internet access

at home. that means mohammed azlan must rely on the educational programs on turkish state television. what do you allow? people with money can send the children to private schools and pay to to, to help the children catch all can, we can't afford the most of it to be can our children have to resort to educational television shows, look good if it, if it isn't wealthier parents like sundown, good friend are finding turkeys. economic situation increasingly difficult to john done says more and more parents are taking the youngest out of a kindergarten. if the trend continues, she may go out of business. but mothers are even worse for turkey. school children . they are the ones paying the highest price in this pandemic. when for longer is assistant professor of social policy at the bells and university k u. and so can we expect all these children just to catch up once the pendant mix for the

overall are we looking at long term effects? for example, job prospects? well, i have to say, i'm afraid we are looking really at these long term effect in terms of educational obtainment in terms of job prospect. and if we don't try to mitigate the impact of the school closures on the most vulnerable children, students, i'm afraid weebly jeopardizing the future. it's kind of well known that educational obtainment and in particular you're a higher education attainment is really is really important for you later job prospect. and so if those children don't have this higher education attainment, you know, they will have trouble finding decent jobs later on in their life. and this might reinforce the cycle of, of inequality that we are witnessing just how many children are we actually talking about? how many schools were closed during the pandemic? well, you know, at the peak of the 1st way from april 2020, we'll be talking about one and a half 1000000000 children worldwide,

who have been affected by these by this school closures. but even today, after a 2nd wave and sometimes a 3rd wife, you know, at the global scale we, we still see that over 200000000 children are affected and their schooling experience still learning has been interrupted. and even today, also in europe in countries such a german, your belgian norway, for instance, schools are still often partially close to many students still have to deal with remote learning. so it affects a lot, a lot of children on a global scale. absolutely. when we've been talking about learning and also the fact that these kids have been having a hard time and having to catch up. but what about something as important as social skills that kids also learn at school, which are so important later on in life? yes, i mean, i mean, i mean, i mean the schooling outcomes are very important, of course, but schools are more than that. as we all know. right. else is social places,

social environments, places where children meet all the children. my children play were children sort of, you know, also can eat healthy for instance. that is one important function of a school besides learning entity cation and we know that school closures have had detrimental effects on the other, on, on that part, as well on that account as well. and of course, affecting those most foldable children, those most disadvantaged children who you know, who stand to gain the most from having social context with other children. so this is absolutely a problem as well. besides, you know, the learning outcome issue. so give me some solutions. what are we going to do about this can, can we change the situation? well, i think, you know, one of the key lessons that we learned is if we switch to remote learning, learning needs to continue. i mean, i'm absolutely convinced that digital technologies offer a lot of opportunities, but you know, most schools and teachers were not really equipped with knowledge and right tools

to offer high quality remote teaching. so one thing we need to do is we need to really start improving the competencies of teachers and schools. we need to invest in digital infrastructure of school. so if we switch to remote learning at learning can continue for all children that all children can access high quality remote teaching. but of course, you know, we know that many children grope and disadvantage families, popular for instance, in environments which are detrimental for learning. if you have to follow online courses with 5 children in one room, for instance, you know, it's impossible to learn properly. so we need to make sure that remote learning, you know, is sort of adjusted to the situation of the most disadvantageous children. one simple example can be if we give assignments to children, for instance, in a remote teaching environment, make sure that it is possible. it is feasible for the children to make their assignments on paper. that's one very simple solution that we can implement. you

had it from when for longer. thank you very much for being on the show today. happy to be there. thank you. lots of good advice. their time to hand you over to derick williams again. now science correspondent, he's got an interesting question today about coded and age. oh, how does the average age of patients in the severity of cubic 900 change since the beginning of the pandemic? oh, this is such a complex question on so many different models that it's nearly impossible to really answer adequately and i can't, but i'm happy to talk about why 1st thing that we can track averages implies that we had adequate surveillance measures in place from the very beginning of the pandemic, but we didn't, it took months to get large scale testing up and running, even in the industrialized world. so the statistics from the early days in

particular about how many people of what age actually have the disease and how badly they have to be taken. not just with a grain of salt, but with a whole handful of it. and in many countries, those statistics still do. then there are a host of other slippery variables, for example, that doctors have gotten a lot better at treating cove at 19 as the pandemic progress and, and they gained experience with those treatments. finally, the introduction of vaccines to different age groups at different times in different countries. that's also changed. pandemic dynamics and ways that make blanket statements really just pretty untenable. just to illustrate, let's look at the situation here in germany. one thing we know for sure is that the older you get, the more dangerous and potentially deadly contracting cove 19 becomes that hasn't

changed. what has changed here is that as the vaccine drive progress is an increasing number of high risk people, so those over the age of 50, they're protected by vaccine induced immunity. in the most recent wave in germany, which is hopefully the last, a lot of doctors anecdotally reported that they believed the average age of patients in intensive care had dropped pretty dramatically compared to, to earlier waves. but the actual statistics are kind of hard to interpret. one complicating factor, for instance, is that if a younger person ends up in intensive care, there are a lot more likely to survive for weeks before they recover or, or die occupying a bed for much longer than a more frail elderly person might. but those kinds of trends are specific to here.

they can't really be applied to other countries because they depend on a wide range of factors. everything from the state of hospital infrastructure to the vaccine priorities that germany has said. 4 different age groups, me, derek williams. there i'm bent as well, and thanks for watching. stay safe as you get. ah, the news . the news

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