be ruled out in the fight against cove it wanted golden within. i believe that with the measures we agreed on. we can master the pandemic in the coming weeks. but we do not want to categorically exclude anything money. we will consider everything if necessary. currently, that is not the case. lindy, l. yes. is the pony stevie ah, while protests against mandatory vaccines and coven measures continue. many germans support the new restrictions as a so i'll be honest. the numbers are actually going down again a little bit. but i have to say in order to finally end the whole thing, it's actually quite good that we haven't the locked down so that everything just comes to an end limit so that we can maybe celebrate again afterwards. vaccinations will continue during the festive season. as people hope this is the 2nd and last cove at christmas. i'd like to welcome and now we're paula. p. shutter. she is

a member of parliament for the green party and a radiologist herself. thank you for your time. germany appears to be ahead of the arm across very and especially a compared to countries like denmark. for now, at least, why is the government putting off measures for another week? we are not truly putting them off. i mean, what we agreed on now is one of the most potent non pharmaceutical measures against co it meaning contact restrictions to 10 people. and the holidays themselves. they are kind of a natural covert breaker because schools are closed university closed, a lot of businesses are closed. so we are thinking that for now, this is quite an adequate response. but it is important to say the co with, as always, nothing is off the table and we are going to evaluate the situation constantly. do you fear that this might send or send a wrong mess signal this delay,

i mean lulling people into a false sense of security over the gravity of alma crohn. i think if you, if you see all the communication that a stand right. no, i think that no one can say that we are not alarmed and that we are not communicating that the situation with on the, on the quad to be. and i think also looking at those people from berlin you just showed one minute ago. i think most people, the majority of people, the majority of gems have understood that all can is quite an important threat that we have to deal with from now. and can you give us the lay of the land? how confident are you that critical infrastructure in this country can continue to function? if in the unfortunate event, many people get ill some simultaneously? i think they are quite some critical things. we have to keep them keep in mind and have to keep an eye on that is

a bolstering the functionality of those structures. for example, making sure that the staff is adequacy staffed, etc. but it's also important. we can reduce the spread of on the can, even if not perfectly, we can reduce it by doing as many people as possible. and that's why we are pushing so hard for the vaccination campaign, especially for boosters. and we want to achieve 80 percent explanation raid by january. and that's when you go to the german ethics council. we understand is now backing, extending the vaccine mandate beyond health and care workers to all adults. is that the way forward? i think when you compare the different measures that could be taken out against the 4th and 5th possible covert wave, i think it would be the mildest solution to have a general explanation mandate because it is just not sustainable for society to

have coup. few to have the context was written because restrictions over and over again for more than 2 you. however, if we lucky enough and i going to have very potent medical opportunities like back living in the future, they might be able to give us the opportunity to not have to think about facts and mandates. but i think that is still unclear. nothing right now. the mildest opportunity for getting control over cobit is of ex, in mandate and jimmy our p shot a member of parliament for the green party and also a radiologist. thank you very much for your time. thanks for having and some news. in brief, now, britain has reported more than 100000 new infections for the 1st time. the country is one of the worst affected in europe by the alma chron variant. it's government is urging adults to get a booster shot immediately and as announced as buying millions of antiviral tablets,

ukrainian military forces have test that u. s. anti tank javelin missiles in the countries east that says military tensions with neighboring russia peak. a country security council chief says 120000 russian soldiers are stationed near ukraine's border. they have been carrying out shooting drills. libby, his long awaited presidential election has been cancelled. a parliamentary committee said, holding the vote. scheduled for this friday would be impossible. libya's election board has proposed postponing the pole to the 24th of january. the election was part of a un led process to bring peace to the country. the world food program has issued a dire warning to the international community. millions of people and war ravaged. yemen could be pushed into starvation because the program has been forced to reduce food rations for 8000000 people starting january. now the u. n. agency says donors

have failed to step up and provide funding to feed the desperately hungry it's meal time for this year, many mother and had 3 daughters. the families village was destroyed by air strikes . now they live in a camp for internally displaced people relying on i'd from the world food program, seventies of fighting between hoops you rebels and sadie back government forces has created what many consider the world's worst humanitarian crisis. food and medical shortages are causing millions to suffer, including many children in the children's ward of the al sabine hospital in santa, the suffering is plain to say dangerously malnourished. their bodies bay, the marks of war. and this is happening even with the current levels of food assistance provided by n g o's. soon families will start getting barely half of the world food programs.

daily minimum ration you in agencies including the world food program, received only about 2 thirds of nearly $4000000000.00 requested from donors this year and food prices of more than doubled in yemen. currency to valuation and hyperinflation. a driving economy to new collapse. that's as fighting continues to force families to flee their homes for camps like this one. if don't countries don't step up soon, these people would know where to go. we'll be left with nothing to 8 to the u. k. now and when the abernathy hope family lost their son billy in a motorcycle accident 3 years ago, they decided to start a project to ease their pain and keep his memory alive. they created a new local currency billy chips to help homeless people. billy chips can be used by the homeless to purchase food and hot drinks,

and the u. k. homelessness is on the rise, where charities estimating that up to 8000 people don't have a roof over their heads. did abuse. bigger mass reports from the southwestern english city of bristol. ah, not simply to walk on by, but to help others. that's one thing meghan abernathy hope learned from her brother bitty right. is there anything that i can get you? she often stops in bristol city center to talk to homeless people like laura. i think you need a bit of courage and a bit of humanity because he's just like having a chat with anybody out. and i think that fair and worry of approaching people is what stops that love and that transaction. and i'm happy for megan and her father, john, it's the way of channeling their love for billy to all of us who needed. he was only 20 when he was killed in a motorcycle accident, but he was already concerned about those with no were to call home really said,

why don't they just invent a token that you could buy and then exchange for food and drink. and i think he saw that that would reduce the barriers because people would know it was a safe secure thing to do. and then people would also communicate more with homeless people. after billy died, john and megan decided to go ahead with a project creating tokens which can be exchanged and cafes for food and drink for the homeless. the chips with q r code on a window sticker is while dozens of outlets in and around bristol, have joined the scheme using the tokens known as billy chips. they cost $2.00 pounds each enough for a hot drink with an awful have change in the whole thing. and i think it best something about the reassurance of how it will respond, which is good as well. the right of the own charity say the number of homeless people in england has doubled in recent years. many of them in bristol have come

across megan and john and the billy chips. yeah, they're really good. what do you like about them getting free coffee is absolutely vital to have a warm drink through the cold night. if you're on a visa. mm hm. phenom, why would you even though the economy, those people will still give money? but john and megan hope the billy chips will reassure homeless people that they to are part of the community. we poured our love that was our grief. we could no longer pour into billions, and we put it into the belly chip. we created a legacy. we've in a way, immortalized the key values that billy had as a human being his father and sister know that if billy was still alive,

he would be proud of this scheme named after him. one of the best preserved dinosaur embryos ever seen has been discovered inside a fossilized egg in southern china. the at least 66000000 year old specimen which belongs to a tooth was burned like thorough pod dinosaur has been called baby young liang signed to say the embryo was in a tucking position. this has long been thought unique to birds, but now appears to be present in non bird dinosaurs. mind flowing well. it is just a couple of days before christmas. and guess who's coming to town. you'll probably recognize him straight away with his bright red outfit and fluffy white beard, and that sack full of presence. he's joined by his fastest reindeer and has another

one in reserve when case would off gets tired. he speeding across the snow. we whiles of lapland, on his way to bring presents and joy to children around the world. so you better watch out for this guy over the next couple of days. and it does have rise up next business news with my colleague, daniel a winter and we'll catch you later. literature invites us to see people in particular. i to see myself as the kid define the strange grown up world may only objective whenever it is to share with the same beautiful dw books on youtube,

a were interest in the global economy, our portfolio d w. business. beyond here, the closer look at the project, our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance. east versus west. get a still head with the doing business beyond on you to ah, ah, us china relations are worsening yet again as china slap sanctions on for americans . meanwhile, the chinese foreign office hailed a phone call between germany's new leader and president, she an opportunity to repair broken relations will ask an expert also coming up on

the cron, running rampant. germany's government introducing new measures to combat the virus . but will it be enough? and weld global supply chain issues be the grinch stole christmas. we take you to america's busiest train up welcome to dw business, and daniel winter in berlin. china has put sanctions on for americans seated on the u. s. commission on international religious freedom. the country has frozen their assets and banned them from entering that in response to us sanctions on china. the biden administration had levied earlier this month criticizing human rights abuses in china shing jang region. meanwhile, the u. s. relations with u. s. relations worsening chinese president ching ping had his phone 1st phone call with german chancellor, olaf shoulds the chinese leader telling sholtes that the 2 countries should actively explore new areas of cooperation, such as in the new energy, green and digital economy. china is germany's biggest trading partner and the

single most important market for the german automotive industry. got into chinese state media. she asked sholtes to provide a fair business environment for chinese investors. and small, i'm joined by phrase a how we alter the book, read capitalism. it's always great to have you on friday, so thank you very much for joining us. i want to focus in on germany and china. what's the state of play here between the 2 countries? well, of course it wanting better relations, but of course under america we were very good relations with china. certainly lots of business done she a year ago, pushed through the final, the comprehensive agreement off investment. so in that sense, things were relatively positive for china. but since the end things are more difficult, the green party is going to be much bigger. se parliamentarians are much, you know, back on germany, our side, back on china. and they're looking to germany. it's leading power. and it was so

much trade in being done with china to take the lead at that to basically reset relations and say, look what's going on in the past, isn't i? we're going to operate going forward. so relatively good relations, but room for improvement from germany's perspective. do germany in the you need to play in increasingly tougher role here. after all, there is criticism that the u. s. is backing more and more away from the world stage? sure, well i certainly think it's an important it's, it's a way that you to germany can take a bigger role on the world stage. but i also think it's just simply a realization that engagement with china on an always on a stool. so economic basis is not really an agent for change with in china and that human rights abuses for one unfair trade practices. all which the european chamber of commerce is less than $900.00 recommendations to improve the environment for you to be in businesses doing, doing business in china. you know,

there's lots of room for improvement there. and there's a feeling that china isn't playing fair. and simply knowing those concerns, i think i want to pick you up on that actually because as she said that he was hoping that germany would treat chinese companies fairly. so what do you make that statement? it sounds like you believe that the criticism should be going and the other direction. well, the crew certainly should be going another direction. china is notorious for body or stay and train all sorts of ways. they may not be 5 years, but it certainly could be approvals, it could be very financial treatment, all state arms. so there's a whole host of ways. it's an uneven play. and of course, that's boilerplate stuff at the 1st meeting, clearly wants a better environment for their businesses. but i think that's a very thing with china in terms of business practices. all right, well for as a how a china analyst, it's always a pleasure to have you on. thank you very much. thanks so much. nasa loser to talk

about covered again omicron infections of multiplying across europe. the world health organization warns within weeks on the crone could push already stretched european health care systems to the brink. that's why the german government has announced new measures which will take effect after christmas, including private gatherings, vaccinated people to a maximum of 10 before new year's eve. and of course, no fireworks must be sold. spectators will be banned from concerts, cultural shows, and sporting events, including football matches. but does that go far enough? some experts insist on much tougher restrictions the whole but caught institute, which is responsible for disease control and prevention, and germany recommends maximum contact restrictions that should start immediately up to a lockdown, including the closure of restaurants and mama central shops. it also urge the reduction of travel to the absolute necessary. well, let's speak now to sebastian de leon, who is from the hands buckler foundation and is a macro economist. thank you very much for joining us,

sebastian. now have we got better at managing the harm caused by the virus, or is it just as damaging to businesses in the economy as before? i mean, we have clearly gotten better in managing that if you remember the 1st way for in 2020 basically supply chains all over europe collapsed and we had the deep dropping economic activity. we didn't see that last year. and i would guess that that we won't see this this year either. i mean, definitely we are going to have a difficult half year driven economy is set to to stagnate or shrink or very lightly over the winter. but that still comparison to, to what, what the hats in the past. now i've, i've struggled sebastian to try and find a positive message in our covert reporting is 2022. going to get any better. what do you think? i mean, in our full cost we, we see a very strong recovery after this winter. i mean all the elements for recovery i'm

place and as soon as the most recent way for the current wave, of course it will be controlled. we think that germany economy will be strongly covered because, well, it has been held back by, by a lack of semiconductors. in 2021, the manufacturing industries, they have full order books. so they are going to produce as soon as the semiconductor, as they are just the germans have saved roughly 200000000000 years in excess to what they usually would have saved. and they're going to spend that as soon as infections come down in the spring. so german company is ready to pounce as soon as the opportunity comes along and but now we have a new government in place in germany. what does this government need to do to kick start the economy? while this whole pandemic is continuing? i think they don't really have to do much. the recovery will come by itself as long as the government just to, to protect businesses from,

from going bankrupt over the winter. and they have the instruments in place for that. in addition to that, the government has latch to to increase public investment, which is important for the medium and long term. so i think we are on the right track to to very strong expansion in 20222023. well, thank you for helping me to deliver a somewhat of a positive message amid all the doom and gloom that we've been having. sebastian de leon, macro economist. thank you very much. thank you very much. america's 2nd busiest port in long beach california is working at full tilt but even a 247 work schedule hasn't been enough to keep up with consumer demand for christmas. long beaches far from alone, shipping bottlenecks of lead to delayed deliveries surging prices and empty shelves around the world. that's also sparked coals for a rethink of immensely complex global supply chains. our reporter stuff and simon's investigates. ah,

nothing absolutely nothing is beginning to look like christmas here at the los angeles and long beach sports in california. these trade helps of the world's 5th largest economy or anything. but in the holidays, both boards are battling a supply chain crisis. they are working on a 247 schedule now. however, it's too little too late for the hungry american market. issue here and tell you that every major container gateway in this globalized world. here, the aftermath of the 2020 cobra condemning looks like this. at any given day in every 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 the cargo onto american soil. as you are aware, the epicenter manufacturing of the world is asia, more specifically china. so obviously,

when we talk about the corporate 1900 buyers. if at any point in the supply chain, it's impacted by the buyers because of the impact on labor and the impact in terms of closures of factories and manufacture centers. this is a domino effect. americans want to buy things, not a thing. however, they often face surprise and disappointment when strolling through the aisles of the store or when browsing online. this is the top house in san marino bike and plan shop and here is where the logistics challenge and the supply chain problem hits actually home. how with those kids bikes, for example, there's just about a dozen here. normally, 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 effective for businesses big and especially

small across the country. to do that for the pandemic, you would just go to a brand website, would buy everything on a b to b, which is, which is the back end where retailers go to buy things and you would just order, i will now we take deposits for our sometimes over a year out for a bicycle blade is deeds find the 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 trucking business, the american trucking industry says it is 80000 truckers, ford. not enough people want to become professional truck drivers anymore. and g nursing tina started this jerking driving academy just 3 years ago or mission 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

a large volumes of drivers, they are recognizing that they recognizing that they were not with the flow of people's demands and sell their recognizing that work. life balances are important, benefits are important. besides those new reform efforts, gina thinks the entire logistics industry must change more fundamentally or sentiment echoed by many experts or to what we became were used to or last 30 years is taking manufacturing across the globe and painting 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 language 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. and the reminder of the top business story was following for the sour, gemini and china seek a close relationship in new energy green and digital economy, that's from a readout of a phone call between the does all actual teaching things. both sides also want a level playing field when it comes to investing on either side and you're up to date with dw business. i'm daniel winter in berlin from me and the whole business team to stay healthy. thankful. 3, according to our tradition, men, arms to period to women. russians believe e p v t z not seen the tragedy. the law allows men to be say, why women working was supposed to be subservient example good for them. it gives me

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