his subscriber one more minute, like how long does it last or an eternity time. it can be measured precisely, and yet each person, it seems it differently, as if there are different forms of time. time, a phenomenon, a dimension and illusion. about time starts december 31st on d, w. mm. ah, for global supply chain issues, be the grunge that stole christmas. we take you to southern california were one of america's busiest trade hubs is working around the clock to clear out a backlog of ships and get people their presence on time. and it's not all just

rain gear games. when climate change is an existential threat. we take you to the arctic circle. i'm chelsea delaney. welcome to the show. america. second busiest port and long beach california is running at full speed. but even a 247 work schedule hasn't been enough to keep up with a massive wave of consumer demand is holiday season. long beach is far from alone. shipping bottlenecks have led to delayed deliveries. surging prices. an empty shell was around the world that has also sparked calls for a rethink of our immensely complex, complicated global supply chains. ah, nothing absolutely. nothing is beginning to look like christmas here at the los angeles and long beach ports in california. these trade harps of the world's 5th

largest economy or anything, but in the holiday spirit. both ports are battling a supply chain crisis. they are working on a 24 seventh's schedule now. however, it's too little too late for the hungry american market goof. not an issue here. sorry. california is that every major container gateway in this globalized world, here, the aftermath of the 2020 co would condemn it looks like this. at any given day, in average of almost a 100 ships, most of them from asia are forced to line up and wait, anchoring off shore for weeks wasting time until they can finally dock and offload their cargo on to american soil. as you are aware of the epicenter manufacturing and the world is asia, more specifically china. so obviously when we talk about the corporate 19 buyers, if at any point in the supply chain, it's impacted by the buyers because of the impact oliver and the impact in terms of closures of factories and manufacture centers. this is

a domino fest. americans want to buy things, lots of things. however, they're often face surprise and disappointment when strolling through the aisles foster we're all when browsing online. this is the cup house in san marino bike and plant shop and here is where the logistics challenge and the supply chain problem hits actually home. how with those hits bikes, for example, there's just about a dozen. he anomaly. this shop has many, many, many boxes of those kids, vice ready for consumers to grab for christmas or any other time. now, that's all they have. it's not just customers affect the temper for businesses big and especially small across the country. it's a disaster for the pandemic. you would just go to a brand website, would buy everything on a b to b, which is, which is the backend where retailers go to buy things and you would just order at will. now we take deposits for sometimes over a year out for

a bicycle. the latest deeds find a majority of americans regard the so called supply chain crisis. as a big concern, there seems to be no easy fix. the underlying reason for the supply chain disruption and shorter just a multi dimensional and complex example. the tracking that the american trucking industry says it is 80000 truck a short, not enough people want to become professional truck drivers anymore. energy nursing teenagers started this trucking, driving academy just 3 years ago. permission training, a new generation of truckers and bringing real change to the industry. so when you talk to companies, especially larger companies who are trying to recruit large volumes of drivers, they are recognizing that they are working. i think that they were not with the flow of people's demands. and so they're recognizing that work life balances are important and benefits are important. besides those new reform for it's tina things,

the entire logistics industry must change more fundamentally. sentiment echoed by many experts. so what we can use to or last 30 years is taking manufacturing across the globe and pinning everything under one node, one country, one continent. and we created this long string supply chain. and we've really lost the true supply chain resiliency which is to diversify your network. and not put all your eggs in one basket back to the los angeles and each ports processing around $20000000.00 containers a year now. and with more to come will be a major challenge. it will take the rethinking and reforming of every aspect of the global supply chain for more or less talk to young corda, our correspondent on wall street, the ends we've heard for months now. warnings that global supply chain issues could

ruin the christmas shopping season. we have a few days to go. is it actually all that bad? well, at least here in new york, when i look around, i do not see empty is shelves. maybe some a products are tough to get to game console. for example, that still seems to be an issue like last year, and maybe you just have to rethink and get your child, for example, something different than what you expected originally. what is the difference is if you might be a small shop or a big chain, because some of the big chain, for example, they reacted to those. so supply chain issues with chartering their own cargo ships . so that to help them change like a wal mart, for instance, if you're a smaller toy store, let's say, i mean that's a different story. and then clearly the big question is how much longer those issues might be going on. we for it from nike, for example, just yesterday evening, that they are hopeful that all those issues will be solved within the next year. so

some hope on the horizon, their supply chain issues also haven't been a burden for everyone. boeing for one seems to be benefiting yeah, that's a trend that we are seeing that at least some of the business that usually would be done by it or across the ocean is done with traffic. so our cargo has picked up quite a bit in the past couple of months and it seems to be to the benefit of boeing when we talk about boeing. when we talked about going in the past couple of months, it was mostly was all the issues that they have with their passenger planes. but if you look at some of their cargo planes, they're actually has been erected to years. so just today they've got to another agreement with u. p. s over the united parcel service to deliver an additional 19

cargo planes. and that news actually did help. and boeing quite a bit, the stock gain and almost 6 percent here in their tuesday session. and was that boy was one of the big a winner. some here on wall street in general, by the way, also quite up to market environment at the ends quarter in new york. thank you. now to some of the other global business stories making news, the international monetary fund has extended debt service relief for $25.00 low income countries. the last tranche of a, nearly $1000000000.00 debt relief program went mostly to african countries as well as haiti. and paul and some central asian nations to help them cope with the pandemic, than a region oil company, acro, b, p. 's says it plans to acquire the oil and gas services of sweden's london energy.

the merger is valued. i close to $14000000000.00. the company will be the largest operating purely on the norwegian, continental shelf, and a new heavy weight to rival nor waste state owned energy giant equal nor, and just stays after the electric truck maker nicola delivered its 1st vehicles the company has agreed to pay $125000000.00 in a fraud settlement. the us securities and exchange commission have charge. nick, allow with misleading investors about its products. technical keep keep the capacity and business prospects. nikolai, which would public in 2020, confirmed the settlement with days to go until christmas santa might be somewhere out there worrying about how to deliver all his presence with his team of reindeer. meanwhile, and finland, just north of the arctic circle. real reindeer herders are struggling with a much bigger problem. climate change is threatening their very livelihood. when

and or leila and just the corral or rain, you're getting excited. that's because already that brings food, pay or tweaks of i b. they don't like it as much as liking, but they it helps them to survive. the reindeer need, the extra help for years winter has brought more rain. when rain falls on snow, it freezes, locking in like and, and other plants the animals are unable to smell the food or dig for it, and warm a winter's aren't the only problem. oh so summers are getting ah, warmer and reindeer is not very good handling heat air, it cannot sweat so ah, it very easily overheat and leaf might get hot. summers might kill a lot of rain at a climate summit in glasgow. this past november, walt leaders agreed to fight climate change and keep global warming under one and a half degrees. but that doesn't reflect the situation north of the arctic circle.

the nose is actually the temperatures, those going faster is not like go the $1.00 is a, it would be a threshold there shouldn't be or crossed. but i mean, here we're going to go beyond that. i mean there are some projections or they even talk about 3 degrees. there would mean incredibly tough conditions for reindeer, who are still an important part of the economy in finland. they are kept for their meat and milk, but their fur hides. and even the andersen hoofs are also used usually for clothes and tools, but hurting the animals in warmer conditions as expensive. you'll guarantee the economic profitability behind there so much. because you have to put a lot of money in there compared to nano situation that the radio it leaves out there in the way though to finding it on a whitening his own fault. and you have the key with your no people usually call

they'll where they have the economic profitability, they'll get they living. but for some her nurse there's also optimism. i'm hopeful bit reindeer herding because we have lasted so far and think we have a good future future in head of us, but oh, the use needs to be more active, politically and that's our show for me. the team here in berlin, thanks for watching with the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what are the latest research, se, information and context? the corona virus off day?

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as the british government says it's facing a tidal wave of new infections. fuel by omar crohn, the u. k reported a leap of 72 percent and the number of daily cases compared to the week before, at over 82000 cases per day. it's more than any time during the pandemic. g. w correspondence. charlotte chelsea. toll reports from london. ah. midst of children, the streets of london once again bringing holly thompson, hospitality may all be open. christmas party still allowed to go ahead as planned. but cove it is costing its dark shadow as the days ahead. is experts warm the omicron tidal wave is coming and it's coming at a phenomenal pace. what we know is that it reproduces very, very false. um, a week ago a school. so we said it some reproduces every $23.00 days or 3 times a week. i'm putting it very simply. that means in one week you get 8 times as many

sections, 2 weeks, 64 times as many for a weeks, 512 times as many says coming up as like an express train. you kay's already recording record cove cases with omicron. now the dominant variance here in london resisting calls from some for further restrictions. the government's focusing instead on its booster campaign, resulting in lengthy queues at vaccine sites across the country. obviously though, the kron is growing so rapidly london, and we just wanted to get in as quickly as possible. so many people i thought of getting covered again from last week out of the office policy 1460 and them got cove. it clearly on the corn is really spreading quickly. it's very relevant or very important for me to come her to learning for in 5 hours. not that i want to make an issue of it. brother, i live with my mother and father who of, in their ages. i want to ideally get it done for i went to go and see relatives and people over christmas. i can't feel my toes there,

but it's okay. it's okay. the government's throwing the doors open to every adult in england to get boosted by the end of the year. they're hoping to offer up to a 1000000 jams a day is early data suggests the 3rd vaccine is key to combating omicron. this is a massive undertaking for the health service they're being asked for. another major maxine push to try and vent hospitals like this one from being overwhelmed. but there are concerns. it won't be enough. as people here lie, not for that boosters. there are already people in hospital with omicron hospitalizations, all climbing and one person's confirmed to have died with omicron. while it's not yet clear how severe the very intense, the sheer number of cases alone could prove overwhelming. in the shadow of this vaccine center, a reminder of what's at stake, a memorial wall commemorating the 10s of thousands of lives lost to cove it. and it's with the pain and sacrifice of the past. that this weary nation is now facing

the threat of another worrying winter to come more for more on the situation in the u. k. let's talk to julian tang a clinical ver ologist at the university of leicester julian. i thank you for joining us. the situation in the u. k is already bad, but recent models from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine indicate it's about to get a lot worse. therefore, casting between $2575000.00 from overcome by the end of april. what will the coming month look like for the u. k? yes, of some questions about those models and they have been wrong before arithmetic? no, that's in cases that one of the key things about the model is that they're trying to model the severity of illness. from, from neutralization studies dark in the lab as well. we know from previous attempts to rows of illnesses, very hot model. and that way, i suspect that the number infections may be close to the mark with the new

apostrophes. asians may be less than the most predicts, in the most pessimistic scenario, even in the most optimistic scenario, where maybe not as many hospitalization. so just to wait and see, and those we know that these are responses are also very important in keeping people out the hospital and have more severe disease. and teeth responses are not really correlated in the model of the many fixed antibody utilization that results . but no matter what way you really look at this, the u. k, the rest of the world is facing more cases. more hospitalizations is that avoidable and the u. k. now is difficult as if left it very long was you stop see the peak of these cases. now. she's erma crohn that if it is actually the horses bolted. so even though you impose restrictions, now, there are a lot of viruses to lot people out there who are seeing the on con, though very, and across the population. knuckles delta hasn't gone away either. the restrictions

will reduce both the variance, answers of infections and death and hospitalization and death hopefully. but now it's very late on to do this. and when christmas new year already upon us, this as low as asians now will have increased even as we speak, you know, even behind closed doors, we've seen in recent days that countries like the netherlands returning to locked down. do you think leisure is? that's rector, a potential lockdown are coming in the u. k. so from a purely virus point of view, i think that's probably what's needed if they wanted to achieve that goal of actually reducing was fro, omicron, and not just for 2 weeks or so i've said already, i think for at least 4 to 6, we're gonna have to use that kind of measure to really lock down the virus. but then of course, if the concert ha, slunk hotly, hospitality industry and the economy in a, in a wider sense sort of social, psychological welfare. so as can be really hard to struggle balance between that, those 2 extremes, one of the challenges here seems to be that we don't know

a lot about america right now. there's still a lot of unanswered questions about how deadly it is. and how can governments, including the government in the u. k. draft health policy is when our understanding of this very, in a still quite limited. so this, the issue of the precautionary approach, infection control, if you're not sure about how severe the virus is, how fast it spreads, you put in place measures that will cover those eventualities even at the most pessimistic level. but of course, that has a knock on effect for him education as society and economy. but if you could look at control the virus or some of the sockets, asian cultures have done very well as, as the kind of restriction of measures that you need to impose early on. and then you can reap the benefits of that later on. that when you open up was of ours is down to, you know, virtually 0 for them over the u. k. of you in countries the, and it was just far too high for that. so what you're looking for as a mitigation the of the peak and hopefully something we can live with as well as,

you know, an overwhelming your local health services. you mentioned there that net effective measures they've seen in, in southeast asian countries. what exactly did you mean by that? can you elaborate a bit on what those have been? yes, so rather than getting the panoramic when they weren't sure about the viruses, well, the original hands train, the went to universal masking and forced isolation, quarantine of effects and contacts. there will be had security tax on, on risk ankles and mobile phone apps to track. they've been what he broke, those isolation, quarantine orders that even new friends they had to that they made, it won't stay at home and they need a written permission slip. so to leave the house for essential business that, that kind of measure that did actually work very well to stem the tide of carrot in the service wave. now has more people vaccinated and hung had left in unity than the risk of severe disease. and death is much less at moments, but if you want to reduce that risk of over one of the health care service,

because they're dealing with the things that in the winter winter months that the you may need some kind of locked down or at least something similar to restrict those numbers that even further that given that gloria, 80000. now. so gillian, taking the long view here many in europe had really helped his christmas would be different than the last. it doesn't appear that that's going to be happening. do you see a risk of this pattern every winter, just repeating itself and from now on there's a list put a lot to listing some of my colleagues. i think this versus no doubt into the human population. the number of spike person mutations, though rapid spread with less severity, from data to we had to south africa and also so early they to know from hong kong and also chambers suggest that the vice wrecked gets better than the upper or lower sparrow to track and these are all changes i'd expect the sci fi virus, but better adapt his human population host over next few years. i think what you can see is that a mother marvel device on my spread more rapidly,

but for which most people may not need vaccination. that is julian tang, a clinical neurologist at the university of lester. thanks so much for analysis. you now it's your turn. here's of your question for our science correspondent derek williams. oh, my husband was vaccinated then 2 weeks later tested positive for covered 19. could that be due to the vaccine? oh no, but depending on what kind of testy took for different reasons, there are basically 2 different types of diagnostics. the most accurate is called a polymerase chain reaction or a p c r test. now, it works my amplifying tiny amounts of sars, covey, two's genetic material in a sample, up to levels where it can be detected exactly why vaccines can't cause a positive pcr result is complicated scientifically. but more or less comes down to

the fact that most of the currently approved vaccines don't use a full version of the rio virus to kick start an immune response. they instead contain short stretches of genetic material that, that don't replicate that the grade fast. and cells and that aren't detected or amplified by pcr. the 2nd class of detection diagnostics called androgen tests. they work by revealing the presence of certain proteins that are specific to sars covey to. they're cheaper and faster, but also less accurate than p c r. because some vaccines cause your body to produce the corona, virus spike protein to, to kick, start your immune response to the pathogen. it doesn't seem impossible that an antigen test which detects proteins, might be confused by that. however,

to avoid any confusion, most commercial antigen tests are not designed to detect spike protein, but other corona virus pro. and in addition, vaccines are injected into the arm, but detection tests, they swab the nose or the throat, the cells, there are not the ones producing spike proteins after vaccination, so long and short vaccines don't cause coven 19 tests to turn up positive on the presence of the virus does, thanks for watching. ah, ah, ah, with

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