teams of 11 out of 12 countries that qualified for ice hockey at the games. the only exceptions being the hosts, china, and 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 toothless bird like pharaoh pod has been called a baby. a jingle, young scientists say the embryo was in a tucking position, which had long been thought unique to birds, but now appears to be present in numbered dinosaurs. business update with chelsea delane. these next more world news at the top of the hour by people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families with extreme dreams.

getting 200 people around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah! ah! visors at home coven 19 treatment get the green light and the u. s. the pill has been shown to be highly effective at keeping people out of hospitals. what impact will that have as the spread over chronic celebrates? also coming up in airline hope,

the worst of the pandemic was behind them. now the owner con variant and the return of travel restrictions threatened to send them back to square one. i'm shall spill any in berlin. welcome to the show. and we start with drug giant pfizer who's covered 19 pill has become the 1st at home treatment to secure us regulatory approval. visors pill pack for bed was shown to reduce the chance of hospitalization or death among high risk people by 89 percent. up until now, anti body treatments have mostly been administered at hospitals. it will begin shipping the pills in the coming days. pfizer, c. e o said packs love, it will quote, change the way we treat cove at 19. as similar pill from merck is also expected to be approved in the coming days. now, our course been our correspondence corda in new york has more in this. yes, i remember how much excitement there was on markets when the 1st vaccines were

approved. do investors see this as a similarly groundbreaking moment? well, it, it seems to be a big step in the fight against the pandemic, especially as people can get treated at home was just taking those pills. i mean, clearly not everything changes overnight, even if find the pfizer announced that the 1st, the doses, so to speak of the 1st appealed them. it can be delivered within the next couple of days, but not the entire pandemic bill of venice. but at least people in the high risk area, if they take those pills them early on, they could avoid to, for example, to go to the hospital. so in that respect, that could be really a great step for the entire health care system here in the united states. i mean with cape is increasing tremendously in the past couple of days. some hospital really are getting close to their limits. so if that pill is working and will be

delivered to and that would be a blessing in that respect. now again, stay with us. we're going to have some more questions for you and a couple of minutes. meanwhile, amazon workers have walked off the job for about 4 hours, wednesday morning at 2 delivery stations in chicago. the stoppage comes at a crucial time with christmas just days away. it was the 1st time ever that amazon workers organized a work stoppage, impacting multiple sites. the workers are asking for raises and other quote necessary improvements to our working conditions. amazon, now employees around a 1000000 people in the u. s. it has faced repeated criticism of its treatment of workers. they tried to be a little ha style. yesterday they did threaten. they said that whoever walks out might as well, just leave their badges and, you know, we're not going to be pushed around. now, yes,

it doesn't seem like this is just amazon. it seems to be really a big moment for the labor movement in the united states. why is that? yeah, definitely is, i mean, i live in this country for more than 20 years, and i have to say that in many areas working conditions have not really improved during that time spend. but now what we're experiencing in the united states is the shortage and the labor market. and that gives the workers a much better bargaining tool. and then they probably had in a decade that we just heard to him. yesterday the kellogg workers decided to end their strike that went on for 11 weeks. and as far as i've seen, of the workers got all their demands fulfilled them. we have people in hollywood threatening to go on strike. and we have people in google having their demand so. so yeah, definitely there is a big movement going on and with the labor shortage and workers definitely have

a historic chance to make and push for some changes yann's court at new york. thank you so much. now ryan air expects its annual loss to more than double things to travel restrictions being put in place to contain the spread of the omer cranberries. in europe, the largest airline by passenger numbers now expects to lose up to 450000000 euros . it also is forecasting only 6 to 7000000 passengers in january, instead of its previous forecast of 10000000. the irish carrier blamed new travel restrictions being put in place. and the u. k. france in germany as well as restrictions on travel to morocco. and it's not just ryan air, the return of travel barriers could deal a major blow to the entire airline industry. most airlines have only in the past few months started to see trouble pick back up the industries fragile recovery and

their hopes for a better 20. 22 is increasingly up in the air for checking and most passengers are standing in front of the check encounter. for the canary island, 10 aretha they're looking forward to their christmas in the 22 degrees sunshine. but the number of corona virus cases is rising sharply on the island. and the risk of an infection with the omicron variant is considered high for those who have been vaccinated only twice. and those who have recovered principal, if i knew how bad the situation is, i probably wouldn't have booked this trip or shyness most abort. i've taught them, but it's still nice and we really need the rest of the order because it know young are still young and we've survived everything so far will be fine. then that's in october. ashley. if we knew in october, we wouldn't have booked it at all. a book, a bitter pill for an lines to swallow. while recovering from the pandemic. lufthansa had to be rescued with billions in government aid after the lockdown began. now omicron is threatening the recovery with new quarantine rules looming,

aviation experts are warning that the virus has to be brought under control soon them on a mission. and if we don't get this under control quickly than the industry would, of course, face further losses and the billions them, the airlines would have to massively reduce capacity and try to write it out and listen fullness lighter. it's also possible that government aid would have to be provided against it for those who can't finance it on their own line. if an unseen curtain and something else worries the travel industry. the corona virus has made travel, complicated, uncertain, and inconvenient, leaving many with little desire to plan, then next vacation. now, omar kron infections are multiplying across europe, and the world health organization warns start within weeks. omar crime 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. those include restricting private gatherings for vax needed people up to 10 people before new years as well. fireworks will be banned this new years. spectators will also 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 robert cock institute, which is responsible for these can disease control and prevention here in germany recommends maximum contact restrictions that should start immediately. they've also discussed a possible lockdown, including the closure of restaurants and essential shops, non essential shops, excuse me. it also urged the reduction of travel to the absolute necessary. i mean, in our full cost, we see over from recovery after this winter, i mean all the elements for recovery in place and as soon as the most recent way

for the current wave, of course it will be controlled. we think that the um economy will be strongly covering because, well, it has been held back by, by a lack of, they might conductors in 2021. the manufacturing industries, they have full order books, so they are going to produce as soon as summer conductors, they are just the germans, have saved roughly 200000000000 years in excess to what they usually would have saved. and they're going to spent that as soon as infections come down in the spring. meanwhile, in south africa, the spread of the omar con variant has the government considering another hard locked down. covey 19 infections. there have been rising at a rate of around $20000.00 per day that the rate of death remains low from the virus. many small businesses are tired of seeing virus app outbreaks up in their business, and they see the african continent 1st vaccine mandate as the solution. this bottle

printing factory in johannesburg is one of many businesses struck down. after the discovery of all micron in africa's most developed economy, the rapid spread of the very end has led to a proliferation of infections and workplace absenteeism. a lot of people sometimes are not as good as the previous way, but people will take 3 days to pick initial travel bands and government warnings to respect social distancing. after all, microns emergence, so shocked to the tourism and hospitality sectors of the economy. but now other companies like this hairdressing salon, are also feeling the pinch as the possibility of another hard lockdown looms large . at the start of south africa main holiday period. corona dropped our business

turn over by 60 percent. we are now gearing up for the vista season buying extra stock. another lockdown would result in us closing down our business. the south african government is currently considering the idea of enforcing africa's 1st vaccine mandate. this would require all members of the population to get vaccinated or face refusal of entry to workplaces and public spaces. are we know that vaccine mandates have been very up in the air globally. some countries have already implemented them and others are considering them. in the case of south africa, our government is looking to implement some sort of vaccine mandate. but by now we've already seen many big businesses as well as the labor unions coming out in support of this. this in our world will actually help to prevent business outages in the long run. and for enterprises like bottle printers, such a mandate cannot come soon enough often thought they do those

with becoming possible to deliver them. already all to come up with a mandate. already. we can get on with all and all mcclellan threatens and nice and economic recovery from previous covered waves. it's hoped a vaccine mandate may cushion the blow and you're up to date with d. w business. i'm chelsea delaney in berlin for me in the whole business team stay healthy and thanks for watching the fight against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? the corona virus update because the 19 special net on

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