relation is willing and young people clearly have the solutions that do job loans to 77 percent. now, every weekend on the w, fierce floods sweep to germany with catastrophic consequences. rivers burst their banks. after relentless rains, water races down small town roads inundating entire areas, lives lost home, swept away carts piled on top of each other. and it could get a lot worse. the intensity of floods taking everyone by surprise crews frantically searching for those still missing, terrified residence era lifted the deadly deluge. bringing the climate crisis front and center with new urgency, layla, rock,

and berlin. this is the day the me when i arrived here it was a catastrophe. entire road behind me was covered in branches and wrecked cars all mashed up together up to this height. damage couldn't be, was the plate and the droids come again. we can find the words. it's impossible to move in via the only if we act decisively in the fight against climate change. can we keep the extreme weather conditions we are now experiencing in check? also coming up a lebanon in the throes of an existential crisis, clashes breakout after prime minister designate saddle heddy calls it quits almost

a year after a catastrophic blast, 9 months. the field talks in a near to your economic crisis. the ruling class failed to put their differences aside and form a government lebanon's battery citizens running out of food, fuel and medicine. and they have no one to turn to the country is burning inflation. it's storing, there's no milk, no medicine, no fuel food, not the poor can't even afford past when you're good. what is that to be done? we should just shoot this country down and be done with it. we all dead anyway. i do my. ah, we begin the day with some of the worst flooding to hit germany into decades. severe storms in the west of the country turn streets into rivers, to swing homes and sweeping away cars. police have raised the death toll to more than $100.00. and over a 1000 people remain unaccounted for. we have this report another mock of these

devastating floods. a landslide collapses houses into the mud evacuated residence had already started to return home. now many a few dead in other towns, the cleanup effort has already started in volatile time. residents peak through what's left of their homes. they say they had almost no time to react before raging flood waters hit the town of miles. and all of a sudden the water breached the damn all the houses here, the same height. so when the water came up from the cell at lightning speed, we all jumped in our cars and drove up the mountain out of a part of itself in back walker farm. we had to get ourselves to safety. hundreds of thousands of houses without power of clean water. the internet is being cut and phone reception is down. volunteers have come from nearby areas,

bringing whatever equipment they have to help clear roads and houses. yeah, i've been here under come. when i arrived here, it was a disaster for the entire road behind me was covered in branches and brick cars or mashed into one up to these heights. and if you couldn't access the building left and right, and we didn't know what we'd find in the rubble and we were warned that we might come press body and that we should allow the fire brigade and the police, the police, i am of many towns are still cut off some major roads of flooded or broken apart. germany's defense minister had called for the army to make rescue f. it's a top priority. as late as share, the shock at the ferocity of the disaster is the target to get us. it is a tragedy that so many have lost their lives. it leaves me stunned helix,

the dimension on the land, many people in our country feel for those who are grieving for their loved one with the nurse. i'd like to express my sympathy to those families. my thoughts were in the authority say overflowing dams could still be threatening more homes enforcing residents to stay away while the weather has cleared in some areas. more rainfall is expected when i 1st guess tonight is a flood forecaster, someone who provides early warning of extreme weather events. i'm pleased to welcome to the day sean harrigan from the forecast department at the european center for medium range weather forecast. and you join us now from the united kingdom of very good day. is this a once in a generation flood, or has it been a slow build up of extreme weather? hello, good evening. this is indeed a very extreme event. this unfortunately is the largest have been seeing and some

of the generation for many people affected. and indeed the reports from people on the ground. they have never witnessed this type of event that the intensity of the event was particularly extreme. unfortunately, we don't have to look too far back to see float that was especially expensive and we think back to the summer floods. in june 2013. the affected the other part of germany. more to the east and the south. and the overdone your basement flooded. you know, that was just 8 years ago and we've seen something on that scale yet. again. this is a huge down poor. i mean, it must be extraordinary what has caused this precipitation? indeed, this event has been extreme for a reason that it is such a large and slow moving event. so it began the jet stream, which is the one,

but there's a lot of our weather system tie in that the sphere was traveling across the u. k. area the at the, at the start of the week, we have an event known as a cut off lobe when a storm system kind of comes off the jet and travel more slowly towards germany. picked up a lot of moisture, the travels across the north sea. and these events, these cut off load tend to be very slow moving, that slow moving aspect, that was the main problem. and that when a right over lounge at then had the opportunity to dump a muscle, mike water on the growing and how to do that because it is the climate crisis and making these areas more flood prone. well, it's very difficult to attribute any single event necessarily to climate change. there's so many possible factors, large body of evidence that we've seen, and that's been built up in the scientific community on flooding and europe,

unfortunate. this is entirely consistent with what we've, what we've seen. we've seen the floods are getting bigger. and this part of europe, we see the types of storm systems and the ribbon this event are expected become more frequent in future. and these, the size of floods that kind of a fact multiple countries across central europe are also shown to become bigger. and increasingly, between what i'm wondering, do authorities not have the technology to monitor the flooding. and precipitation causes in real time so that they can respond in a timely fashion. so the forecasting capabilities off many countries in europe in germany, belgium included and, and other countries, is very advanced. and some of the most advanced technology possible in the world. they've been doing this for decades, and indeed the technology we have super computers that are running these forecasts

every single day and real time. and indeed, they're the forecast for extreme station was forecasted by the many authorities across the world. but the translation from an extreme forecast and to events on the ground is a very complicated, complex chain of communication. and doc is probably going to be the biggest thing that will be left out over the coming days and weeks. and what lessons can be learned, right? and how can this be avoided in the near future? one hand, the communication on from, from the forecast point of view into the local household obviously, is something that's going to be looked at put in the longer term. and as, as the affected areas. that's been devastated. start to rebuild. there's a possibility of re rebuilding back better with floods in mind. unfortunately, flooding is not something going away, becoming something new we're going to have to live was better. and so the short

term fanny of rebuilding those hoses in properties back to be more flood proof as well as a longer term planning and how and where do we build or, and restructuring, how it is in future. so near the river and how to manage that is going to be something which is really going to be coming to for i think over the coming weeks for scientists, sean harrigan, thank you for waiting. and thank you very much. the the me the dramatic scenes,

their 11 on right after prime minister designate the said hetty and now he is stepping down after failing to form a coalition government or the country remains without a government for nearly a year. political squabbling has repeatedly obstructed efforts to form a government and sent the currency to unprecedented. lowe's imported medicine and few are increasingly on affordable anger is rising up in beirut, one by this time the relatives of those killed in last year's port explosion. taking the protest to the court. 8 demanding that immunity granted to senior politicians is lifted show their loved ones can finally get justice but not one of the immunity to be elected. and to get this untruth, that's all we want. we're not asking for the impossible. she stopped deadly day

last summer. lebanon's problems have only got worse, long lines of cars, it gas stations tell the story of a country running out of money. unable to pay for fuel and forced to rush in it. and the people to are running low on hope. they killed us like august for the bomb and they rode 2nd, the economy pricing. we want to like become something and society but like the whole damn thing is like pushing us down is all the poor people. how would they get money? how would they have? so many ladies, a baby's walking down the street very sad pharmacists, a warning of medicine shortages. the state can't afford to subsidize them. going on, right on strike every week. just to says the light about the crisis, because we don't have enough quantity to 2 thirds of indication to the people that

is sorted in medication. power cuts are a regular feature of life, but no black coats like this are going ever more frequent. casting the safety and the country into darkness. i like to welcome now kareem to have a lebanese a journalist in beirut. he's also a non resident fellow at the headed institute for middle east policy, a very good day. thank you for coming on. what is the situation right now? well, the situation continues to worse and, you know, as, as you saw earlier, the economical being of much of the population produced continues to diminish and as well as their living conditions. but the resignation of prime minister doesn't talk. how do you do it means that a political deadlock will persist and any sort of viable reforms to unlock key developmental aid and to make the call me bible a gun is nowhere near on the horizon. why is it so difficult to form

a government 11 especially now when the situation is so dire? yes, exactly, that's, that's a very important question. we'll talk to matter as though this is what we have learned. we learn that even with the country on its knees, with over half the population, living in poverty with food inflation, about 400 percent loving. first leadership is focusing on their shares of power and government rather than the well being of their people. the political paralysis we have seen the bickering between father had eaten presently shut on, is very similar to the bickering scene between them and other political leaders for decades now. and this is a huge issue regarding that that's sort of reveals, well, is could lead on revive economically with the leadership, the other that it's hard for such a long time. and, and this is, this is a huge concern. log on economic crisis is getting worse with nelson exercise with

pencil cross at this point. and one can argue that where we are right now, we could be facing national security crisis. talk to us also a little bit about the lebanese people who have been really through so much i haven't been able to catch a break at all these the past 2 years. how are the coping? who can they turn to? who are they turning to so really, i think the last lifeline for so many lebanese people are friends and found living by osburg, lebanese people have a large passport population living around the world from europe to north america, their goal to even australian and south america. and with the summer, many lebanese, or visiting their families here and under suitcases. they're carrying things like power, banks, medicine, all sorts of things that are hard to find right now. and love and on you know, you go on social media,

you see people asking if they know people could grab some real boxes of their, their mental health medication or other like the medication. which has been cut short or had become part one affordable here in love and one. this is the last lifeline myself because people, you know, all these currency of law funds for some of the values are shortages. so people's purchasing power simply diminished. the question is favorable and the answer is no . but the people are coping right now and it's very soft. and now of course 11 on a has been through a civil strife. it has been through a political assassinations. a dire economic crisis. is there still a way out of this crisis? i mean, we know the lebanese people many are astounded by their resourcefulness and resilience . i mean, is, do you see a way out of this current crisis? to be honest, i think with existing leadership love on has right now the secretary and political

system which is based on power sharing rather than actual political meritocracy and direct democracy. i think it's very, very difficult to implement any forms of, of a valuable reform. loving government has tried to appeal that or national community . it has failed to negotiate to deal with the i m f. it's failed to even implement a single reform among the law of the laundry list of international community has pushed and these reforms not are not just economic structural reforms. what reforms like having a central bank called in to find out where all the looted public funds have gone. reforms including re, legislative reforms to make sure the judiciary is independent from the government that can operate without any sorts of political influence or very simple thing. and let on, can't get any of these things done. and they've been trying for for years, which shows that there is a futile political system. and this is why there was a massive uprising. people realize that they're going to be stuck in this lock. john, if, if, if no serious changes happened the country in conclusion, i mean,

could this be a turning point though? i mean, looking, looking a glimmer of hope here for the system to completely be overhauled and not to be based on secretary and support. i think, you know, i think the one thing that, you know, morale is very low right now. but you know, a lot of independent political parties in suicide. the groups are trying to bank on syndicates elections and parliamentary elections, which may or may not take place in 2022 to try and make a break through politically. but unfortunately, right now, because the constitution is so dire for a lot of people that took place in the protest in 2019 their priority. right now it's the survive and our probably the truck from sending a lot of time, but they would have spent probably organizing vertically and mobilizing and protesting and probably volunteering for different groups. so the, i think doc, the situation right now, and there isn't really much, a lot of people come, you don't get very hopeful and their priorities to survive. it's unfortunate,

but this is how it is harry metro, a living he's journalist, and they route and also, nonresident feller, i think the heavier institutes for middle east policy. thank you very much for doing the math is sort of world we need to stand up step up. but if you don't understand what's going on and you need to wait, cuba is a unfortunately, a failed state and repressing their citizens. they are standing up to cuba as authoritarian regime. their basic needs are not being met. and they are understandably exhausted. i'm tired of the mismanagement of the human economy, tired of the lack of, of adequate food. and of course, an adequate response to the call that can demick communism is a fail system. universally fail system, not only the for kill vote events, so q,

but then this is a world event. this isn't about politics is about saving, lives is about unity, not the vision. and bottom line is the by taking action. a selection of the voices this week reacting to events in cuba, which felt the biggest demonstrations against the communist regime in decades. on sunday, people across the island took to the streets to vent their frustration at food and medicine, shortages and record code. with 900 infections. authority came down hard on the protesters and exiled rights group says as many as 150 people were detained. my final guess tonight is and that is said tara, a historian, specializing in cuba, latin america and the caribbean, and it's very good to have you with us on the day sir. welcome, cubans. turning out on the street. extraordinary scenes that we've been witnessing just how significant is this open challenge to the cuban government?

first, thanks so much for having me on. i think that this is largely unprecedented. since 1959. there are some, some, some precedents sort of the crisis 1980. but that was an immigration crisis, though with fossil fuel by discontent. 1994. you had the only post 1959 major street protests the government, the government. and that was several 100 people in havana. this was across the island, thousands of people. we still don't know how many thousands, possibly tens of thousands of people across the island in what seems to be largely unprecedented protests. and it whether or not it will evolve into a systemic crisis. and that is a whether or not as an extensive, existential threat to the government is still kind of unclear because of how early we are in the protest. now me will a canal, a d. s is taking a hard line against these protests. he blames the united states,

how much pressure that the sanctions and the trade embargo we imposed under the trump administration ad on the cuban economy and the hardships of cubans. i think that the embargo against cuba is a major factor in what we're seeing. although it's not the only factor. it's the the sanctions under the truck machine government have made life much harder in cuba. but it has also been a part of u. s. foreign policy and changes in latin america that have also made the cuban government position harder. for example, a major source of income for the cuban government has been doctors abroad. programs of foreign government pays and cuban doctors go give treatments and other countries . both scenario expelled the brazilian one kelly, expelled the salvador, and once the bolivian ones were also expelled to i'm not sure, but the new government is if they're, if they're back, those are also majoring income streams that have been cut off tourism with largely

last overnight because of the kobe pandemic, and so you kind of just have this perfect storm of factors among which is a very brutal sanctions regime, which doesn't hurt be common cuban people most. it doesn't really hurt the government as much as it does, does everyday cuban people. and on top of all the shortage of medicine, tort shortages, there are now rolling blackouts and in the middle of the brutal brutality that has been the heap of summer interest in a perfect storm of really bad situation. a bad situation politically does president joe by and have room to maneuver because as you know, he was vice president under president obama, who tried to normalize relations with cuba, a kid. what should he do? can he do anything? so i think that if his interest is really to help the cuban people, one thing that he can do is to ease sanctions for humanitarian reasons. and to

facilitate the supply that would allow for cuba to vaccinate as population has vaccine. but it needs to back back to the people. i don't think that those should be political issues. i think those are basic humanitarian issues. but politically, i think biden is in a very composition because while his me, his government had kind of put cube on the back burner so far and just been reviewing it. cute trumps, keep a policy and focusing on domestic matters because of these protests, i think the air has been sucked out of any kind of normalization. and there's a lot of pressure, especially from florida because of the political implications of florida in general, general election, national politics, presidential politics, to kind of go after, at least, maintain the sanction in order to make political gains for domestic reasons around cuba. and this is something where both the cuban american, bright and democrats, cuban american democrats are both seemingly salivating to try and, and get the most of the domestic political re. now there is

a viral phone that you might have heard of by 3 or a v doubt. by a group of miami based musicians, which means homeland and left, it has been described as an anthem for these protests, what impact are popular cultural influences having on the mood in cuba? so i think what's important to understand about q, how q works is for a long time. culture is a proxy space for political debate that nor would that can't really be channeled through normal part party politics. it's a one party state. there are other spaces for those kinds of discussions. and so that song really did become a big hit. and i think it, well, it was written from abroad. there were look cubans, it living in cute, participated in it. and the, for example, and one of the, some of the participants were from head to this, one of which is a very popular musical press. so that helped to just become popular on

a what intellectual? this where this is where a very popular group we have to leave it there unfortunately, and storing, specializing in cuba, latin america and the caribbean. thank you so much for joining us on the day. and the day is done, but the conversation continues online. you'll find this on twitter, d, w dot news, or you can call me as well. thanks for sending me the news

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the news this is, you know, we do live from rural in no, let up. catastrophic flooding kills at least 120 people in germany and western europe over a 1000 are missing. rescuers. search for survivors in town varied under mud and rebel. the dutch prime minister declares a national disaster. also coming up living on crisis. and political squabbling has left a power vacuum desperate family struggles to secure the basic during an unprecedented economic meltdown. and the sell to don running team who travelled early to japan to

get a head start on their training for the 2 year. will it be 2 years on they're still there and finally, ready to raise ah, only log on to our viewers, don't b, b s in the united states into all of you around the world, a very warm welcome. well, we start with those devastating floods which have killed at least a $120.00 people in western europe. historic towns have been reduced to rubble in 6 countries. thousands have fled from their homes in the netherlands is dikes overflow. the prime minister has declared a national disaster. meanwhile, here in germany, more than a 1000 people are missing near the city of cologne, in the worst flooding in decades. the disaster is pushing climate change up the political agenda, and the run up to september's national election. another mock of these devastating

floods. a landslide collapses houses into the mud evacuated residence had already started to return home. now many a few dead in other towns, the cleanup effort has already started enveloped time. residents peak through what's left of their home. they say they had almost no time to react before raging flood waters hit the town of miles. and all of a sudden the water breached the dam. all the houses here are the same height. so when the water came up from the salad and lightning speed, we all jumped in our cars and drove up the mountain. out of the pocket of this often back hawker farm. we had to get ourselves to safety. the hundreds of thousands of houses are without power of clean water. the internet is being cut and phone reception is down. volunteer to come from nearby areas,

bringing whatever equipment they have to help clear roads and houses. yeah, i've been younger come when i arrived here. it was a disaster. the entire road behind me was covered in branches and brick cars. oh, mashed into one up to these types. and if you couldn't access the building left and right. and we didn't know what we'd find in the rubble. we would want that we might come across bodies and that we should let the fire brigade and the police reports. i am many towns i still cut off some major roads flooded or broken apart. germany defense minister, his cold for the army to make rescue efforts a top priority at the latest share. the shock at the ferocity of the disaster. this is time to try to get us. it is a tragedy that so many have lost their lives. it leaves me stunned dimensions on

the land. many people in our country feel for those who are graving for their loved one with his nurse. i'd like to express my sympathy to those families. my thoughts are with in and the authority say overflowing dams could still bass, threatening more homes enforcing residents to stay away while the weather has cleared in some areas more rainfall is expected or that's checking. now with our correspondence, kate martyr. who is in of all port is time. what's the latest where you are so it's been a really long day trying to start the keynote passage after the heated everyone kind of later in the evening now and everyone who's ever leaving the village because there's still no electricity. there's very little internet connection and all the villages, the village would normally be full of lighter people at this time and it's

completely goes on this evening people. there were many people here in the village throughout the day who have come to help that family. so there were many relatives and friends as well. some had come from nearby cities, which is born in cologne to come and help people. and by the end of the day, everyone was really exhausted. one woman said to me, she was pleased how far they've managed to come today are in terms of trying to trying to clean the house. but really those are kinda off ration issues. huge. not just people, possessions laying outside on the street like that. brooks and photographs or people who's beds and sofas, either or lying out in the street. there's not just this, but there's so much debris lying around and everyone is just kind of has told me that they just really found that they don't. or who is actually going to come and collect the really big bits of debris and the huge trees lying and the cause of

lying throughout the city. you know, certainly kind of please how far they've managed to take between up after today. but they'll really amazed that and they're really know what to do about the cleanup efforts. right now they've the houses, but okay, now that most of the water is gone, is there already an estimate of the damage? so or in terms of the financial damage, i spoke to some people today. one person told me that for themselves, possibly it would run up to the millions and millions of years just for themselves . and i spoke to some other people today. they were renters, and they said that they at the rent, they don't have insurance to cover the entire damage of that home has, has experience. and so for them, they say they're not even able to, to decide to, to even meet that costs or to cover all of their belongings that they lost because

they lost absolutely, absolutely everything. and that's just, that's just the financial damage as well. so people are talking about the emotional and human cost to this. i mean, how traumatized are the people that you spoke to in who share their experiences with you? everyone i spoke to today said that they found it really difficult to speak to a journalist. he was here because they said it's kind of possible tragedy for them because it's something so possible went back home and many told me that they just didn't really even have the was to describe the kind of last experience i spoke to one woman and she told me that the house that got damage was actually her grandmother's house and her grandmother passed away when she was quite young for her. it was like this really passed no kind of connection to her grandmother that she lost and she said she always felt her grandmother back in the house when she

was visiting. and she said, now she just doesn't really have that connection. that kind of emotional connection to her grandmother, mary agonizing, harrowing experiences there that people are sharing with you. thank you so much. d . w reporter, kate martyr reporting from vol ports. heim, at least 20 people have died and another 20 are missing in flooding in belgium. national day festivities normally celebrated next week are being scale back. instead, there will be an official day of morning with the rivers still menacing. the residents of pippins to begin the long hard task of cleaning up the floods have wrecked home, destroyed cars and ruined live. in this small belgian town, everyone. everyone is crying. everyone is only now seeing the real damage of them on that. most people have had enough. all the love to talk to

it's distressing, like you were all your life to build something and, and even with the water levels receding. the danger remains during an interview with the towns mayor, a tv cru captured the moment a house partially collapsed. that makes, that is just a music eclipsed with its residence. still inside. the such scenes of devastation have unfolded across the country and are set to continue to new the scale and the extension of the weather related disaster. a national state of emergency was triggered yesterday afternoon. let's address your situation is changing minute by minute. and in many places, it remains extremely critical. as they sift through the wreckage pincers,

residents can only hope that the worst is behind them. when i say now, but somebody of the story, so making headlines around the world. yeah, south africa presidents, they're run proposal has called on people not to panic by food saying there was no shortage of supplies. well, his plea came after the days of violence. they claimed more than $200.00 liars and led to looting of malls, supermarkets shops, present from oppose. this is the instigators will be found and brought to justice. the telephone fighters were treated in pakistani hospital after clashes with gun troops at the border of the special forces were attempted to re take the strategic spin bullock crossing, seized earlier this week or orders, photographer was killed. the united kingdom has reported more than $50000.00 daily corn of iris cases the highest since mid january all,

despite the massive search and warnings from british and international scientists, the authorities in england will lift all non travel point of virus restrictions. on monday, a russian passenger plane carrying 800 people that were missing during the flight in siberia has been found. the anton off aircraft made a hard landing after disappearing from radar on its way to the city of tom's authority. say all passengers and the crew survived. love it on is facing a deepening political and economic crisis. prime minister waiting said henry is stepping down after failing to form a new coalition. well, there's been no government for year. last administration collapsed following the deadly explosion as they were port. and earlier a d w news caught up with corresponding to bethel i. d. d, and asked him why it is so difficult to form

a government thing to the ignited or former prime minister. now, in an interview last night with a look in the tv channels, he said that the reason behind this say get you to 1st of all, that the nice guy, presidents refuse to take the cabinet, the, the line of what you 4 minutes. which consider how do you, by how do you that it is the, the, the best government or the best cabinets to do that he wants to take the, by the end of its crisis. second, that was the main obstacle, the president on his son in law under much mister, refused to do this. do that. how did he went to of the christian minister that people lot used his thought. how do you the accurate in the interview last night? his will law that he didn't enough question before the new government. and so this is what based on how do you do it. but on the other hand, we have from other obstacles, which is all of us that the kind of secure relation,

the crises in and it's still hard for anyone to take to have that it's so it is, it seems like mission. i said i did the reporting from lebanon now, dozens of protestors who marched against the tokyo olympics with the opening ceremony just a week awake, public concern remains high. despite the organizers banning spectators from the athletes and staff of the positive for over 19 officials are urging fans to stay home and watch the games on television. well, nonetheless, excitement in building before the opening ceremony and 2900. the south sea don running team went to japan to acclimate train and pursue their olympic during while 2 years later, they're still there. w chris harrington has more. the sell sudanese team got a head start when they came to japan. and even though koby 19 put the games on hold

for one year, the team never left. what's the reason why we have to see the mission we came for internet countries. over the past year, the team have immerse themselves in japanese culture. they've taken language lessons and are part of the local community, thanks to donations in tax revenue. the teams host city, my boss, he raised $300000.00 us dollars to support the athletes. some of it even came through this vending machine. but being far away from home is challenging us doing something, then you have to be always ready to be no matter what the circumstances are. so, 15 can do this for my country. mean that i could find anything we've been my time with the family or watch it, but she did. tokyo 2020 will be the 2nd appearance at the olympics for sale, sudan,

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the voices, the, the way i tend the top is to create my own. the see they're standing stories, me, women in asia this weekend on d. w. me the day where of doing business in hong kong, that's the message. the us government is giving to american businesses. it says the situation in the parish re is deteriorating after china's in possession of a new security. while america european allies are under pressure to take a stand on a sion jag after the u. s. senate passed the bill of bombing inputs to the chinese region. shade is one of africa, fastest growing exports, but success. bad news got to be business bought

in berlin. welcome to the program. the us government is warning businesses about the risks of operating in hong kong, new advice from the state farm and so conditions that have changed since chinese introduction of a new national security law is left protest in the city last year. the vice warns of potential reputation or regulatory financial and in certain circumstances. legal risks on friday, china again said it was determined to resist us interference in hong kong. let's have a listen to what president biden had to say, just before the advisory publication to issue courage, deteriorated, and the chinese government is not keeping this commitment made how to deal with with the hong kong. and so is more of an advisory as to what

may happen in calm. it's as simple as that and as complicated is that let's cross to our financial correspondence in new york, jose luis to haro, jose, what all the risks that the state department talking about here. basically rob, we are talking about 4 main risks. the most important one, it's related to data privacy. washington need to worry that gene is going to be able to access that data from american companies as it pleases and with no restriction. also related to the sense of transparency, maybe the lack of transparency. it's also going to be something that is going to affect the american companies operating in hong kong and related to today's the access to critical information on top of all these and other main concerns of washington. it said that the. 3 american companies directly or indirectly, there are going to have some kind of relationship with entities and individuals that are already been as sanctioned by washington. the us industries that the us

government particularly concerned about in terms of their exposure to these risks. some of them are we need to have in consideration that mostly financial and tech companies have a big presence in hong kong. according to the latest full though, of the american chamber of commerce, around 42 percent of the american companies that have operations in hong kong are right now considering moving them, or maybe just having some doubts or what's going on there. but it's also important to bear in mind that con, calling is still very attractive for american companies in terms of infrastructure and also it's consider door to mainland china and we can see big financial companies. we're talking, for example, citigroup planning to hire 1000 people over the next 5 years, or even goldman sachs with that as we speak. it's

a hiring around 320 people in deliveries to the new york stock exchange forest. thank you. now this all comes as america, european allies face to face pressure to join the u. s. in planning a ban on inputs from china's sheen jang region. the bill passed by the senate follows claims from washington. i'm human rights group that atrocities are being committed against the muslim weak minority, the rights groups say at least 1000000 weaker are being incarcerated in camps. engine jong, 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. 1 has sanctioned chinese officials over rights abuses, actions against businesses that may use force. labor engine young remains sparse. earlier this year, french prosecutors opened

a probe into retailers who may have used, forced weaker labor, including japanese owned unit clo, spanish owned zarbara, and french ready to wear clothing. company s m. c. p. german automaker. volkswagen has meanwhile faced criticism for its john production facility. the auto manufacturer says there's no indication of forced labor but admit they can't rule it out. to live, don't have a shifting law to the fact that we hire 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 me. what happened to them before is something that is hard for us to know. if it was exclaims, we are enough to keep 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 will 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. they cannot simply divide us from on peaking, captain le hm. does it go up? no, no dividend. as the e u and u. s. work to strengthen ties is the e you willing to match the u. s. as a sort of stance towards trying to as action engine john? well to answer that we asked economist l yogic from the constance university of applied sciences. if tough a sanctions from the you would make any difference in the scene 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 on this 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 eco long, it's packed that costs for china, of the regional tar just chunk sanctioned are negligible for 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. a quick look at some of the other business stories making headlines. the biotech 5, the cobra 9 team vaccine is on track to become the 1st orange of approved in china . chinese regulations completed experts review of the m r n. a vaccine. china looks set to use the job as a booster or those who have received 2 shops of homemade and fintech company

square is planning a new firm that's focused on bitcoin. not according to square and twitter as the jack dorsey. he wants to create an open, develop a platform to make it easier to provide the centralized financial services following the pattern for squares previously. and digital wallet, a bitcoin boys. i know them gone as not harvesting season is a crucial time for many rural women who earn a living, making shape butter. but a search in multinational companies exporting the roar nuts is now threatening their livelihoods. i saw su reports, i had a motor, i had a nice among dues, profiting from my knee increase international interest in gun is not industry. he buys the produce from thomas, assess it on to more to national. this particular budget dest him to be shipped to

techie business. he says, is me, as a 2018 and 29 q coffee. i supply more than $10000.00 to my company, and $29.00 in 2020. i sell about 18000 metro dos. ganna is, was the largest exporter of the money in booking for sue during the countries not season. many women get temper wake in the industry and installing the produce. they industry have really reliable source of income. many women would prefer to run us when not exploited. then now the good morning, the ra not is not good for us. they rush and buy everything cheaply and there won't be some in the system. again. we prefer the empower with skills to add good values on it. that way we will be empowered about that young man

would share, but becoming more popular when a woman uptake him to put this in the not themselves. but michel international qualities panda through me major challenge less than 10 percent of the got up. we're doing gun portable. this has led many women employed in the industry to call on the government and companies to provide them with the steel to produce better quality. but instead of allowing less to export, one of the companies could come down to educate as well on how to produce quality butter for them. that will benefit us, given them a lot that that, that they could even by the nuts and bring it to us to process the better for them . we'll let you down that way. they empowering us. what they are doing is crippling our businesses number. what would export targets on the right?

there are some attempts to a woman training in ship, but up to system minutes. that if nothing is down to regulate the export, brionas will many years face a trade to the alive and who with this big companies, we are really, really afraid of what's next. the better is for us to, i mean, see how the government can come in and help us to reduce the exports of the out the for many women. and we're gonna the chance to have ski lim, food, use your own share butter. could be key to sustaining an income for the families. and just finally, the eiffel tower in paris has reopened to visitors after 9 months of shut down. it has have been eager to return a pre books around 70000 tickets to take them to the top of the tower bus and the round half the usual number of people being allowed in. this is will student also

need to show proof vaccination or negative test results? landmark hadn't been closed this logs in a 2nd world war in paris. hopes the reopening is assigned, the tourists will soon be coming back. the. 6 and that's all from us here on the business program until next time. take the the show that the issue is shaping the continents and the news africa was gone. men the what's making headlines, what's behind the streets, to give you in the reports and insights, all the trans stuff to use next, dw,

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