so surprising into the very heart as power to host us. when the game, diplomatic poker, trick power plays and alliances behind the scenes of the kind of summit starts august 5th on d w the, the, the e u is set to announce ambitious new climate plants. the green deal will affect many parts of life in europe, but when it punish the wrong people, we'll dig deep up and the digital euro is coming. the european central bank will announce its roadmap in just a few minutes, but will consumers and businesses accept the new money? we'll ask our correspondence. meanwhile, el salvador is taking a different approach. bitcoin will be an official currency that from september. we'll find out want the welcome to the w business. i'm daniel windsor in berlin

clad. you could make it they, you was set wednesday to announce its green deal, which is expected to have a massive effect on citizens and businesses. the commission will outline its most detailed plans yet for achieving ambitious climate goals. the 13 policies will aim to lower greenhouse gas emissions, 55 percent by 2030 european commission calls it the biggest transformational operation in living memory. after all, the new rules will touch on practically every facets of european life. the most controversial measures were expected to include a ban on the sale of new combustion engine. cars by 2035 or 2040 a tightening of the use emissions trading scheme, which would raise costs for many sectors, including energy, heavy, industry and transport. and the creation of a board attacks to keep non you firms from having a competitive advantage. business bosses, no drastic measures,

are needed to reduce carbon emissions. but many argue they need support from governments. they say being punished for polluting is exactly what stopping them going. green, what, what's happening is that companies are being burdened by the tightening of european emissions trading. and they're just being deprived of investment funds that they actually urgently need to implement green steel projects on queen stock put in disrespect to this package. and if it's implemented, as we expected, this is actually a threat to the start of green steel in germany offered in hawk, which we all wanted installed, endorsement in the, on television. now, while it's clear, europe won't reach its climate goals without drastic action. not everyone is on board. poland is refusing to shut down a massive brown coal mine despite a court order. politicians that say they don't want to put 6000 jobs on the line and that the country needs the coal for electricity production. with opposition and neighboring germany, and check your mounting. the government is under pressure to take action. in war

saw workers from the tour roof open caf live night. mine demonstrate to preserve their jobs. they want to keep using the environmentally damaging soft brown coal to generate electricity right up to 2044, regardless of climate change. they won't even consider environmental effects. they claim it's more about business than environmental protection. the notion that a get the right to stand supposed to europe in union is forcing us to become dependent on other countries for our energy we'd have to import it from abroad, so that wouldn't be good for the environment, talk out. so the polling generates 80 percent of its energy with league nice. the open cost mine a to roof is a 225 meter depot. that's eaten away 25 kilometers of countryside. opponents populace nationalists government gets its way. it will be eating up the landscape

for another 25 years to feed the nearby power plant. the mayor of budget senior close to the mine has just been confirmed for another term and office in park because he was 100 percent behind keeping the mind in operation. if this was stolen conduct were in close contact with the repeating commission. we sent several letters clarifying opposition to them. would you know the menu, the reply that came from commission president fund lion said that the aim is to do away with coal as an energy source by 2030. that's not enough time for us to allow a fair transition to take place and transfer the mind. keep 6000 people in the area in work. you ideas are burly, emerging on how to attract new companies to the region. one idea that's been moved it is to refurbish the old town, a bug, a tenure to attract tourists. but the problems are huge.

the whole malesky family works for the mine. mother is a geologist. father is on shift now as an engineer. and when she's left school daughter, isabel can also imagine herself in the same line of work every day after that, i'd like to go to technical college and study chemistry. and after that, i consider a job with the mining company and pay is very well trained, is that the european court of justice recently rules that the tour of mine must suspend operations to allow an environmental impact assessment. so far, poland has ignored the verdict. now a quick look at some other business stories making headlines. folks wagner is wrapping up its plan to increase fully electric car sales over the next decade. and now 17 percent of its european cost sales to be petrol, free by 2030. according to

b, w. c, e o her. but this is all part of a plan for the company to evolve from a pure card, built into something of a software and services provider. and staying with the company. a dutch court has ruled that thousands of folks and owners are entitled to compensation in the diesel debt case. the court in amsterdam says that compensation of up to $3000.00 euros per car was warranted. the owners had filed a class action suit over the german common cause reeking of diesel emissions and its earnings season of the top wall street banks. that is big lenders are seeing shopping high profits in the 2nd quarter. as the u. s. economy bounces back from the pandemic. j. p. morgan's earnings more than doubled from a year ago to almost $12000000000.00. while goldman sachs is revenue, it's asset management. hit an old time hon. the european central bank is announcing plans for the e euro in about half an hour, a new digital currency. proponents say it will strengthen europe's digital and

monetary sovereignty and keep your own competitive. digital euro would have the same value as analog, cash, all the money in our bank accounts. it will be issued by the e. c. b, all national, central banks to private persons. and companies in euro deposits would probably be kept at a value of around $3000.00 euros. that's to make the eas fears that the digital coin could make the easy be a competitor to banks. for the survey by germany. central banks say that by the by jones about central bank size. most consumers here reject the digital euro, 56 percent of household saying it would add no additional incentive of a current payment methods. and they're worried about the new euro security. so let's get more on this from conrad boone who's in frankfort for us and has got all of the details on this. so conrad, is this going to be the years on the, on such a big coin or are we expecting something rather different than that?

i think we have to expect something fundamentally different. you know, bitcoin is completely decentralized and anonymous. you can transfer money from one point of this earth to another point of this earth without the people who transfer the money, disclosing their identity. it's not likely that the digital euro will look like this. it will be relatively centralized. the european central bank will have the control over it. and it's like not likely that it's going to be completely anonymous. the central bank wants to know who gets that interest. so euro because it also wants to have some sort of control over how the money is to. so there are going to be differences that i have to say. the details are not out yet, and likely they will only come out during the next years while the digital year old will be designed and tested. okay, so in the next few minutes, we're expecting the more to announce a kind of a roadmap. what,

what do we expect into commerce if not all of the detail just yeah, well, what is ex been expected is that the c, b will announce a 2 year design phase, followed by a 3 year test phase. this is what is going to happen with the euro. and the, the design phase, of course, will include many discussions with any stakeholders in this process with the banks, with consumers, with politicians, etc. so that after this, these 5 years of, you know, designing and testing the see be, can say, here we are, the digits of euro is there, it's a good product. we want to, you know, go to the market of international currencies with this. ok, cindy, very interesting. whatever happens conrad in france, so thank you very much. and of course it's not just europe experimenting with digital coins. the government of el salvador has decided that from september. bitcoin will be an official currency that alongside the us dollar. but not everyone

is convinced. tire dealers, talavera gonzales is getting ready for the introduction of bitcoin as ill. salvatore's new official currency. he says it's hard to believe his country is the 1st in the world to do so. will i am very careful with money, but if between work then i think i'll try and maybe you can give me a bit of a server because all it takes is a smartphone, an internet connection and an app. but there's the 1st problem. el salvador is a poor country. many people live from hand to mouth. roll some mora has neither a smartphone nor mobile data. i meant that there are a lot of people who don't have a suitable phone. how am i supposed to get the $0.30 for the rules? i fell on the street in the rank one and then bang out, but i didn't. 11 an hour away in the tours town of ills on bitcoin

is already widely in use. international bank transfers work particularly well. many here receive money from relatives in the us and with bitcoin. they don't have to pay any bank fees. store transactions are also quick and easy, says maria, aware, but rates can fluctuate significantly. big coins can be worth much less from one day to the next. you know, so money will one day no longer be there. if that happens, i won't have anything anymore. my daughter said i should withdraw my money and keep it in a safe place. bitcoin can massively go up in value, which can turn people into speculators overnight from a who value rises and falls. i'm constantly having to keep an eye on it, but you can make gains and that makes bitcoin interesting. saying that as a muffler, because there is no central bank behind bitcoin,

protecting its value. sounds little gonzalez thinks the currency is risky, but he's hoping to do good business with it. we're going to press on that there's already a demand for it. and a lot of people are gearing up to use it. yesterday, a customer asked me when they could pay with big coin. i said from now on, i'm ready to be on the i use them. bitcoin value may fluctuate massively, but people here are still used to try it. el salvador has suddenly become the bitcoin guinea pig. and finally, italy has banned the cruise ships from entering venice. unesco, had threatened to put the historic canal city on the list of endangered world heritage sites if the giant vessels weren't kept out fighting concerns about pollution and environmental damage the dock at a nearby port until a permanent solution can be found. the decision provides compensation for the workers and companies. and a reminder of the top story, this our, the e u is set to present the most detail plan yet for achieving its ambitious climate

goals. the 13 greenville proposals are expected to include a band on the new sales of combustion engine cars for 2035 or 2040. i'm tied to emission standards for industries. measures aim to gradually lower greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent like 20 and you're up to date with d. w. business. thanks. the. the fight against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research say? information and contact the corona virus. 19th special next on dw, sometimes a seed is all you need to allow big ideas to grow. we're bringing environmental conservation to life with learning backs like global ideas. we will show you

how climate change ended or mental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can all make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now for me. oh, strict locked down, save lives. that's new villains philosophy for dealing with covered 19 type one avoided them, preferred tests, quarantines and mosques to contain the viruses spread. initially, both islands enjoyed success. but that changed for taiwan. what happened at is one government's approach beta ah, broke into the show line, ben for jolen. today we'll be talking to the co author of the report assessing the

outbreak responses of new zealand and tie one. it was recently hit by the alpha variant. it hit hard despite the government's expertise and dealing with outbreaks of other diseases like saws running in and out every day. 39 year old mister chan delivers 300 orders a week. the reason copied outbreak and tie one has brought him more orders, but he has to take more risks since nearly 85 percent of taiwan population isn't vaccinated. well this, i know i live with my 5 children, my wife and my mother. you asked me if i'm worried about them. of course i am. i have so many children and i worry that i might get them infected to lose johnny bravo. as a father o 5, he has no choice, but to go out and make money. so i hope the government can offer food delivery drivers, vaccines as soon as possible. we're in contact with so many people,

dozens, if not hundreds, every day by the you know, too many are still waiting. the vaccination program for high risk groups started rolling in june. so far, just 15 percent of tie ones, 23500000 people have been vaccinated. there isn't enough vaccines portfolio and we have an, a vaccines. can we do math explanation? that's the 1st layer protection for all the people that some say success containing the virus. and the insistence on developing domestic vaccines might have delayed tie one vaccine acquisition. and it was our ms judgment last year. not being able to, for seeing that there will be some vaccine shortage. and we might have being a bit too confident about what we could do in terms of our own,

dramatically developed a vaccine to taiwanese drug makers, revealed phase to clinical trials in june and applied for emergency use authorization. but there reflectiveness still needs to be examined. whether its applications or not still remains to open question, but at least there sufficient scientific data to think it might be efficacious in such regards. it just to have it approved in case of need to so we can use it while the tower need vaccines. await authorization. the government is trying its best secure, more jobs overseas, so that people like mister chen, no longer need to worry that they and their families could get infected. amanda closer it is, an epidemiologist at the university about target. wellington,

what went wrong in taiwan? in your opinion? it's been very hard watching time long struggle to contain this very large up for someone has done so well. so far in the panoramic, i haven't posted have to come in destruction and the public response of connections . in the south break, it's been interesting to see how different ones response has been compared to museums and museums. when we have our breaks, we react very swiftly and decisively to extinguish them straight away. and sometimes that means dying straight into the short, sharp locked town, on the other hand, has avoided using lockdown as a pandemic response. and that may have kept the break going a little longer than it needed. and amount of what i find striking when we look at

the numbers is that outbreak you mentioned in taiwan and in comparison to new zealand numbers, the spike is really sudden and then tie one manages to bring those numbers back down, but not to the levels new zealand has been enjoying the whole way through this pandemic . they've managed to keep the numbers down so low once it's done, right. i think the most important thing that musicians has got right is to have the right strategy. and it's the the limitation strategy. the strategy centers population, how we don't tolerate cases in the community. we react to even just one positive case of the community by moving to extinguish that outbreak as quickly as possible . that's meant that we've had very few cases when she deaths, half services continue to operate. it's protect me,

it's protected us treated and lot of sense, right? just from that initial impulse to protect your population. what i think is also really important to point out is that both countries as flow to immunize which is a problem in taiwan, but not for new zealand. where you can argue that on both sides, actually, on the one hand, yes, you doesn't need vaccines. and the vaccine should be used in classes were still occurring, that should be used in cases where that can immediately save lives. on the other hand, we do feel vulnerable. we know that we get some our break. most of our population still vaccinated but couldn't. and even more virulent and infectious strain pop up at any time and hit new zealand to that's right. and learned about that. in fact,

he weeks ago an australian travel to new zealand. i spent the weekend in wellington holiday with that australia. and on the monday, they started to be unwell and tested positive delta variance. now that pissed me during the weekend had visited a large number of places around wellington museums, restaurants, shops will replace. it doesn't actually know, watching experience for us. we were waiting to hear whether we got to have a very very large outbreak. as it happens, we don't like camera doesn't that it has been a warning sign for us of how badly things could go wrong. so the warning signs are there. what is the best way in your opinion then of containing, not only covert, but also all of its variance? well, the interesting thing about this pandemic, and this is something that we in the asia pacific region have. if at the time it is

control, it can be stopped. we have so many tools in the toolbox. now we have protections. we have our public health infrastructure, that's that test and tracing all of those measures. and we have mentions but can keep our community safe. optimizing ventilation, one of those things wearing a mask to protect others, supporting people to stay at home when they're sick. we've learned so much in the last 16 months how to stop his father's. i feel confident that it's not really a question. if can we do it but all begun to choose to do it? interesting stuff from a man call trick epidemiologist at the university of chicago. wellington, thank you very much for being on the show today. a brief look at some other corona wire stories making headlines. malaysian officials have been forced to temporarily

close a covert vaccination center after nearly half its worth is tested. positive malaysia is struggling to deal with a surgeon. infections the country recorded 11000 new cases on tuesday. it's most in one day and for president manuel my cause says, getting vaccinated against cause it will be made mandatory for all health care staff and other workers who come into contents with loanable patients. it's part of the latest measures to contain the pandemic in france, where the delta variant is taking hold. that was part of the program where we put one of the questions to our science, corresponded derek williams. paul, will, manufacturers need to modify maxine to 5 syrian so this is really just another way of asking whether a storage to be to will mutate so much that modifying vaccines makes sense. so. so let's approach this question from that angle. the answer is we still don't know,

but. busy a critical moment experts say, will be large numbers, the fully vaccinated people start contracting a serious enough case of covert 900 anyway, to land in the hospital. that's not happening, at least not yet. even if some variance are infecting more vaccinated people than earlier versions of the virus dead in trials, none of them is viewed as what's called an escape variance, in other words, immunity and people who had the disease or who have been vaccinated appears by and large to be holding up pretty well, but if that suddenly changes, then, manufacturers will indeed have to tweak vaccines to, to help manage the threat and they're already doing so. the good news is that this isn't a new problem. it's one that we've had to come to grips with in the past. for example,

with flu viruses and flu vaccines have to be updated regularly because flu viruses evolve really pretty quickly. so the background that we already have in redesigning vaccine fast to meet that constantly evolving thread that will come in handy. now, according to the vaccine alliance, garvey, updating messenger r n a vaccines, and viral vector vaccines is still uncharted territory, but it shouldn't prove too steep of the challenge. manufacturers are also saying that they can tweak back seems to provide protection against emerging threats within weeks rather than months and, and trials with tweaked vaccines are already going on. but some experts don't think that escape variance will develop. so the question of, to what extent will actually need modified vaccines?

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