a surprising glimpse into the very heart of power. negotiations minus the flattery and incentives, but best laid plans often go astray who will win the game of diplomatic poker. intrigue power plays and alliances behind the scenes of the climate summit starts august 5th on dw me the it was anglo merkel, the last visit to the us. miss chancellor. but did she managed to take off any items on her political bucket list? we'll take a look ah, and the u. s. is poised to ban all imports from the chinese region of ching giant cues in china, refusing false labor among the muslim with the minority that will get the expert

assessment. also coming up last hands is pushing tourists. travel is it speaks to make up for low demand from business passengers. it's even launching a new line brand. we take a sneak peak. hello and welcome to dw business. i'm daniel winter in berlin. german chancellor angle merkel. and us president joe biden maintained their disagreement over the controversial note stream to pipeline during her visit to the white house on thursday. both however stressed the need for ukraine to remain a trends at land for russian gas. the u. s. ones, germany to scrap the deal altogether with russia and has put sanctions on the project. germany meanwhile, has defended north stream as economically necessary. also on the agenda at the meeting, china with the us pushing europe to take a firm a stance. here's what the german chancellor had to say. you know,

we have talked about china and there is a great common understanding that firstly, china is a competitor in many areas. does the trade with china has to be based on us having a level playing field? that means that the standards are the same. incidentally, this was a major point of negotiation in the u, china investment agreement. but i believe that the foundations of our dealings with china are simply based on the common values that distinguish our countries with a lot of. meanwhile, the u. s. senate has passed a bill to ban the import of products from china's gene jang region, washington and several human rights group say the muslim league population that is being forced to work for domestic and international companies. the u. s. house of representatives still has to vote on the bill before president biden can find it into law. but the move is already putting pressure on the you to consider some of the actions rights groups say at least 1000000 weaker are being incarcerated in

camps engine. john washington band imports of solar panel materials from one chinese company and placed trade restrictions on for others accused of using forced labor. europe has been more cautious while the block has sanctioned chinese officials over rights abuses, actions against businesses that may use force labor engine. john, remain sparse. earlier this year, french prosecutors opened a probe into retailers who may have used, forced weaker labor, including japanese owned, unique clo, finish owned zarbara, and french ready to wear clothing company as m. c. p, a. german automaker. volkswagen has meanwhile faced criticism for it's john production facility. the auto manufacturer says there's no indication of forced labor but admit they can't rule it out. more than the other shifting and low to the act. the higher all our employees directly. we send a resume and we have

a job interview and then the hate charge department and the operating department make a decision based on the resume and the impression they gave was happen to them before is something that is hard for us to know. i just wanted to see if it was exclaims, we are enough to see chinese authorities have vehemently denied reports of forced labor labeling those who make these allegations as quote, western liars policy analysts say the us and europe should show a common front globe. i think it would be a good idea for washington and berlin to send a signal just now we are ready to work together and make it clear to beijing. you cannot simply divide us from pekin carlton lohan does is on

the dividend as the e. u. and us look to strengthen ties, is the e you willing to match the u. s. is assertive stance towards china's action engine, john? economist at all yell change from constant university of applied sciences is with us. although what i'd like to know is what kind of effect economically speaking, would banning all imports from james jang have well, i think for a comprehensive assessment, it is very important to amplify. the tension between china and the west and country, particularly with us, can be seen in 3 areas. it's about trade, policy and practices. it's about the geopolitical object of china and how trade policies use. and the 3rd pillar are human rights issues in china. and in the st john case, we talk about human rights politics which are problematic from the rest and perspective. but when we look into the experience in the data,

how sanction targeted some since one of the special area on the constraint area affect the policy in countries like china and russia? the answer is very clear. there will be no change in china policy. and one reason is also that the economic impact, the cost for china, of these regional charges, chunk sanctions are negligible. china, the more important question i believe is it help or other countries will align their policies in the coming months of years with us. and also our bill to increase pressure on china. okay, so, so what you're saying is what the u. s. is doing with this kind of blanket banned from that region. that is the most effective course, if they're really going to have an impact when it comes to human rights and the each year they want to do the same, should follow up with the same kind of measures. what i see is that, that's the reason why i mentioned this broader picture with the various problems that are increasing between china and west. this is assign don't,

by not ministration actually continuing now on human rights, a path to increase pressure on china. donald trump has increased pressure on china in order to increase it to, to, to create a level playing field in terms of the business condition. but then on the other hand, we see like countries in the european union, you mentioned germany, german counselor, they are taking a different stand. they say, well let's see how things develop. we are doing a good business. we are earning a lot of money there. they're afraid of reprisals from china because you in china us do china the economies a highly coupled just briefly how serious is that threat of reprisals? absolutely. serious. china in terms of goods trade is the most important partner for example of germany. and we will not see an immediate change in germany's foreign policy. we have 3 trade, sorry, an investment agreement negotiated between china and you and actually it was

already settled, but then the, you understood that they cannot proceed without the us and give them all the problematic development. so if china, on the other hand is going to counter react with compet sanction, what we can expect is we are really in a risky situation. go to meetings, will be worsening. and that's what i think a lot was, i'm sorry, we have to leave it that we've been out of time, but thank you very much for that. thank you. and now a quick look at some other business stories making headlines. finds a bone take cobra, 1900 vaccine, as i'm trying to become the 1st foreign job approved in china. chinese regulators completed an expert review of the m r and a vaccine in china. looks set to use the drug as a boost of those who proceed to shots of home made. maxine american airlines is calling 3300 flight attendants back to work counseling their extended leaving planes of the holiday season. american also plans to hire 800 new flight attendants

by next march. it's the latest sign that measure travel in the u. s. is recovering more quickly than expected. the pandemic and last tons has unveiled its new holiday carrier, cold hero wings discover, showing off it's brand new branding. it's an event in frankfort on thursday. the company will start off with a fleet of 7 planes with its 1st flight next week to mombasa in kenya, dall so some special holiday destinations like kilimanjaro and victoria falls in africa, but also the dominican republic. it's all part of last hands are extending its reach in the tourism market due to a drop in business, travel. europeans desperate to go on holiday after 18 months of staying at home. and it's just not as simple as travel used to be. both passengers and airlines are having to adapt to the new normal co pilot team goblets, his carrying out his pre flight inspection. love tons of like one to know. i know it's due to take off for santorini in an hour's time. the greek island is one of some 50 tourist destinations. germany's flag kerry didn't serve before the pandemic

. but now it's falling back on holiday make is to boost ticket sales captain under as rice. it says it's important with flight instruct accompanies pilots as they return to the cockpit after months of minimal flight time. i hear from all our colleagues that it's a lovely feelings that have the company doing more business again. the things are on the way up again. and we're flying more houses and the customer base has changed vinegar. we've got few business travelers and more tourists who are also more enthusiastic about flying water. on the other side of the airport building, it becomes obvious that times have indeed changed for air travel drive in corona virus tests right ahead of check in martinsville and his friend flying to bulgaria so that they need a negative p. c r. test one segment out you drive up in the car, don't come into contact with others in enclosed spaces where you might pick the

virus up. and that's why we're taking this opportunity to move to scott yvonne drive in testing is certainly one way of making pandemic at travel a bit easier. especially when it's coupled with check in in the testing bay. the test swabs are already in the lab. 100 meters away, passengers get the results sent directly to their smartphones. so those in a hurry inside and now by the lighter normal testing is like a bakery doing $100.00 loaves at a time and a couple of folding. that's ok. you've got time to retest. we don't have time to repeat tests here. so each one is done separately, which takes a lot of effort over in the terminal, the center. any passengers, a boarding, more than 25 percent of lift hands is destinations now. a tourist destinations with more being added. it's a ray of hope for flight attendant getting is outspoken during the pandemic sofa. she's only been flying once a month. she says the new focus secures jobs and also generates

a new atmosphere on board. and everyone's full of anticipation, of course. many of them fly only once or twice a year of all sorts of questions. a few of the flying and most the holiday begins on the aircraft. it's not long before centurain is in sight. flight 1290 is passengers will soon be revelling on the beach there. but the crew and it gets a quick peek at the landscape. 45 minutes later, they will be on their way back to frankfort. and our men in frankfort conrad has more in this forest so cornered this repositioning from lufthansa. is it working? it's working so so i would say bookings are recovering only very, very slowly. i found a number from the german travel agencies to say that in the 1st half of this year, the bookings are still down 57 percent compared to the same period last year. now this might be slightly different for us comes out where often people book their flights directly. so i think it's fair to say people here in germany as to very

hesitant to fly abroad and for good reasons. take spain and portugal, for example of both countries until very recently, were considered safe to travel to now they've had many you coffee cases, which means they're unsafe. so of course all this is weighing on the outlook of times like it doesn't all other airlines who fly to these estimations. thank you very much. conrad and you're up to date with d. w. business. ah. just 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? because the 19th special next on d, w a little guys, this is

a 77 percent african issues and share ideas. you know, just be a way to get young people really have the solution, the future 77 percent now every weekend on the w alone, lockdown and uganda is helping to make co, the case number's full, but livelihood just now. frank, one in 5, you get it and have lost their jobs during the pandemic. to help the government handed down flower and beans during the 1st month down last year. now authorities have gone digital. they using mobile phones to provide cache payments to those

struggling. it's an awful approach in east africa and in physical, unwelcome uganda is in a precarious situation. case, numbers are easing but shortages of oxygen and vaccines could see a sudden turn for the worse intensive care units are still in high demand. we'll talk to someone on the ground in a moment. first detail, we use julius mill, gambler reports grace, mostly mommy, as a coffee, 19 survivor. every day he performs breathing exercises. as his doctors told him he must do. a month ago he was discharged from one of uganda's public hospitals. they have been overwhelmed by the demand for oxygen. for corona virus, patients. the city does basically shed by many people. so you get to cylinder. it has to pass in oxygen or 50 percent oxygen. it's been

used by other people and probably they've died or they've been discharged. mostly mommy feel other patients die as they waited in vain for oxygen. 2 weeks after he was discharged, one of his close friends died at another public hospital. after one no, i could not talk to him. i called the whole evening the whole night in the morning, only to reach the facility. and i was told old peter vet what he passed on last night. uganda 1st confirmed corbett 19 death at the end of july last year. but case numbers have spiraled recently. the highest number of deaths in a month were recorded in june. the government wants to vaccinated people, but has been having trouble getting enough doses. the. we have

hard to fly to the over and media and those is into the country. and yet we have a profession over 22000000 people to work, submit mid or does, but still on standby. so it's the over the rocks in that you're letting lithium got down authorities introduced a 6 week partial lockdown in june with more transmissible delta there in spreading in the country and last month steep increase and infections grace mercy, mommy, fears that not many will be as lucky as he was tell who was a senior advisor for access to finance the royal danish embassy and compiler just how bad others shortages of oxygen and vaccines check in with us. they keep the health set up. we had very many cases being admit,

being admitted to us because, but what really happened was that the install capacity for oxygen, but it was, it was far all straight. it's almost 3 times what was being stored in the public and private sector. so it's so people. busy need oxygen, they can't get teams. i was on the, the, the private sector came in the industry they, they be very often manufacturers stepped in their production capacities and we had been public, other entities donating walks into these hospital at no cost to sort of get a distribution. but as we speak now, this district and escalating, as we see more induction in admissions. so covert is obviously impacting people's lives and livelihood. to report you what part of revealed 2 thirds of respondents and you gander and can you experienced income shocks due to the crisis?

can you tell us more? yes, the look, the doctor was really yes. and what we open up in this we used to, we just want to hear the people say of loss of jobs. i lost my job by disclosing that because of this, the severe lockdown measure. but what is due to me by the government, by then and for awesome, you've done that. and then for on canyon, it was, it was better. strict. the country was these 2 countries was locked up and people had to buy, for instance, the subject signal was totally annoying. and you get into that because the fact i was lucky but the supply chains, wiley, capital, look at the inductive demand function as well as what we wanted to understand how it will hopefully cope with these severe pain or blocking down their businesses.

and that's all we did that the study and the point, what it put to numbers to some of these things that we are hearing around. so that it coming from the planning planning ahead because we're going to be less, but people's lives must continue. what about people in real dire situation? so what's, what's being done to support the poor in uganda considering such a long lockdown? no public transportation, little work going around, but out of the 8000000 people, what company, what do we know? what about $510000.00 even cash cost and they want to upload the payment for these for this initiative, data has been abroad. it means the payment that is uploaded to the listing on monday is sent to the form directly or both beneficiaries. so it's just from the telecom committee for bearing and we,

i think it's one of the innovation that has come up funding charles was speaking to me earlier, they're the author of that study on the economic impact of covered 19 on uganda and kenya is and more than 2 thirds of households have experienced income shocks and worse and food security, i thought those digital payments get through to those hit hardest and more supply of oxygen and vaccine become available for you guys. it's a little look at some of the other developments around the world. 80 has received its 1st shipment of cobra, vaccines. half a 1000000 doses donated by the us government. it was distributed through the co back sharing scheme for poor countries. only 22 percent of haitians. they they'll accept the jap, south korea recorded 2nd highest daily corona buyers tally on thursday, 1600 new cases. infections is spreading beyond the hot capital where officials have enforced the countries covered social distances restrictions. the government is

urging citizens to cancel their plans and stay home. rockies are protested outside of burned down. coca board, calling for justice. at least 60 people died, lays out his st. hospital in the city of another we are on monday evening was the 2nd such deadly firing rock. in the past few months, both were lamed on the explosion of badly stored oxygen bodies. sidney is reporting a slow down in new code cases, as residents enjoy the 3rd week of lockdown, australia's largest city is trying to suppress the highly contagious delta variance subtle infections across the harvard city and the 900 to get it been reported the 1st for the country this year and growing corona virus class is on the neighboring state, victoria still locked down for 5 days. now an interesting question on variance and strange that one of our view was sent to the w science correspondent derek williams. call please explain the difference between

a new strain and a new variant. this is tough to do since even by rob. i just seem to view the differences as fairly fluid but, but let's start by maybe going over some of the other biology basics that you've, you've probably learned this year already. first is that, although it's technically not considered alive, a virus evolves constantly as it replicates. just like living things do, it's genetic code changes because mistakes happen as the code is copied by a living cell that gives rise to what are commonly known as mutant. now for complicated biological reasons, not every mutation leads to actual physical changes in a viruses structure. but, but when it does,

you can begin thinking of that mutant as a very guns. now a variant is generally considered a strain when it's wandered even farther down that road and acquired characteristics and behaviors based on its new structure that clearly distinguish it from other earlier forms. so you can say that although all strains are variance, not all variance or strains. let's maybe make a comparison from the macro world. we've been genetically engineering dogs for thousands of years through selective breeding. and it's pretty astounding how, how different they can look. but dogs all share common characteristics that allow you to instantly identify an animal as a dog, whether it's a chihuahua or a newfoundland. the dis breeds can be viewed as various on the canine

genome. but go far enough back and split off another evolutionary branch and you end up with the modern wolf, which has a common ancestor, but some distinct characteristics and behaviors that allow us to instantly identify it as a waltz. so if they were viruses, then breeds of dogs would be variance, while dogs and walls would be strains. now, i'm the 1st to admit that the analogy is imperfect, but maybe it makes the terms a little easier to grasp. finally, spain has held it 2nd ceremony for the victims of the pandemic ends who pay tribute to health care workers is what king felipe. they had to say, are you ready? i'm marseilles, to order today. return to the place because we need and much remember all of those

who until the 1st tribute and those since then i no longer with us. you must show our deep respect, recognition, and admiration for the health personnel. from the beginning of this life. for. hi leslie. good as nice. you're stuck horsing this cancelled. thanks for watching. stay safe and i'll see you again soon. the news . the news news. the news

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