ah yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d w. made for mines. ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the pandemic overshadows and now the holiday season as christmas begins for many people, they are faced with a tough choice of taking the risk of seeing their loved loved ones all going it alone for the 2nd year in a road. also coming up,

china is scrambling to maintain at 0 cove at 19 strategy as it prepares for the upcoming winter olympics. will the highly infectious omicron variant b, a game changer? had a police officer is found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of young black man . dante wright came potter said she confused her hand gun with her taser. when she shot rice dead in february. ah, i rebecca writ is welcome to the program. you f airlines have canceled dozens of flights. i think the spread of the army kron karone of ours variant among its staff . united airlines and delta announced 200 flight cancellations today christmas eve . just as the holiday season approaches its peak travel disruption has left christmas plans for many in disarray for a 2nd year in

a row. another covered christmas and another difficult choice. as on the chrome continues to spread, millions around the world must now decide between cancelling the travel plans or taking risk. thousands of new yorkers have lined up for the coven tests and booster shots as the city braces for a surgeon cases after christmas. why supports in my family at the curb and madison's elderly after school children. so is that so much support for myself as it is to protect those along across the atlantic, christmas travelers in spain of facing the same tough choices cove. at 19 cases, a written old time high, but for many seeing their loved ones is worth the risk. how gay noise that meant. although this is not the best situation, if any of i have had to evaluate whether to live like last year, they know when i could not do this or take

a little risk. maria kathy and i have taken a re, sorry about that though, maybe a fathom when i go to visit my family, who is also stayed at home. and we will try to enjoy christmas the best we can, but always with caution. the uncertainties persist worldwide for the 2nd straight christmas. under the pandemic, germany has reported its 1st death related to omi crohn that says, infections with the highly contagious varying are increasing at an alarming rate. so far, germany has confirmed more than $3000.00 on the kron cases up 25 percent in a single day. meanwhile, the united kingdom has reported records 120000 corona virus cases. in the last 24 hours. bought a study shows that the due varying may result in 50 to 70 percent, few hospitalizations and delta. meanwhile, china is redoubling efforts to keep the virus in check ahead of the winter olympics . in february paging has been pursuing

a 0 coven strategy since the start of the pandemic. but it's unclear if this approach will continue to work, given the increased trends miss ability of chrome. there's also been concerns that chinese vaccines are ineffective against the new variant. ah, at this logistics up for the winter games and bridging technology, place a vital role in epidemic prevention. these remotely controlled vehicles reduce human to human contact will be used to deliver goods into the close loop bubble were athletes and other participants will be locked inside during the event. not with regards to logistics, we've put a lot of emphasis on epidemic prevention of delivery goods, including the protection of logistic workers as well as the goods are yet. even before the emergence of the army chron variant, china's capital had taken a tougher approach to containing cove at 19 visitors to be, jing must show

a negative test taken within 48 hours before arriving many flights from high risk areas in other parts of the country have been cut best been a flare up of local infection clusters for almost 3 months now. and the cost of china, the recovery strategy, has become more evident. but with the winter olympics approaching the authorities, or even further stepping up the efforts to keep the virus under control in an updated playbook of coven, 19 protocols for the games. organizers advising but not requiring participants to get a booster dose of 16 more than 10000000 or about half of all people in paging have already had a 3rd jap. people don't seem too concerned about the on the chron variant. i think people have strong awareness that the dentist, prevention, and control in beijing. i don't think it will come to beijing any time soon. still, only crohn's capacity to spread quickly has cast uncertainty over the country and

it's 0 cove at pandemic strategy. early studies show the 2 main vaccines use in china made by sign of farm and sign of vic of almost 0 protection from ami kron infections. in one study conducted by a team at the university of hong kong, researchers said that among a group of 25 people fully vaccinated with a sign of ex corona, vic, none show detectable levels of neutralizing antibodies against a very enter. it is important to continue to monitor the vaccine effectiveness in the field as ro, i'm in our study design, the dest, you generally, there have been good predictors as to what happens in the field. but i, real ultimate, if we are trying to achieve is to protect against severe disease and that china has yet to approve overseas developed shots and has relied on home grown vaccines to protect its population of 1400000000 people. it now faces the prospect of having to develop more efficient once before it can shift from its continuous isolation. it's

gone anto correspondent, savvy and crouch. my he filed that reported giantess from beijing. authorities in china, clearly on high alert, or just this week, china, for the entire city of she, an under lockdown following a minor outbreak there. what's the situation? well, you can call it the most severe lockdown since the early days of the pandemic. he and will hon. the city of $30000000.00 and it's basically sealed off. i mean, nowadays people are allowed to leave their homes, but only every 2nd day. and only one member of every household is chosen to go grocery shopping and that's it. and with that example, you can see that, um, of course, if you cut the or human contact to a bare minimum, then that strategy works. the infection numbers are really low. and even today, there's only 50 cases, mostly in c and the city that is under locked on. so probably they will get it under control, but are clearly the human cost. and also the economic cost is very,

very high school. and we saw some of the preparations. china is making a head of the winter olympics in beijing. and that in your report there, what measures is china taking to prevent an army crown outbreak? yet the organizers have acknowledged that there will be m. r loca infections during the games. i mean, that's very obvious. and, but they try to minimize it. basically the concept is them, they implement a very, very strict covert or bubble during the olympic games, which will be much more strictly enforced and comp birth than what we had in tokyo during the summer games. and so there's literally no contact between the people who are inside of the olympics. soda, the journalist there, fleets, the volunteers at the, at the rest of the population am, i've had a look at the olympic then use. i mean, they are literally fences and different zones, so it's really impossible to have any physical contact with people. in the other

zone, however, window, i am infectious to detect them very early. there will be, am dailey, testing. so every, every person inside the bubble has to undergo a p c r test every day. am, if someone tests positive, then he or she has. so 1st go in, in his or her room to isolate, then there will be a medical person to do another test. and if that test positive again, then the athlete will be carry to hospital and then has to current in there. and that's of cause for concern for many athletes because they don't really know how many weeks or possibly months they have to stay in, in a chinese hospital, a lot of precautions there by the sounds of things. but what about vaccines? and most people in china at the center of actual esanova farm, which as you suggest in your report, don't appear to work against the army crunch. and does that mean that the chinese are in effect, unvaccinated what i mean clearly the, the recent better, the vaccinations at our approved they dont offer an exit strategy from this as you

recovered a strategy that the government is implementing or they did their drops to vaccines the domestic ones, but covert on the crowd was a game changer research us in hong kong. said that even 3 shots of the domestic chinese vaccines don't offer enough protection against amazon. so of course they are developing new of exchange, but so far the authorities here have not approved any foreign vaccines. for example, pfizer madrona, that is not available to the population here. and yet it's basically really bad use because for the foreseeable future, china will not open up its borders and that could last, at least for another year, possibly even longer or i have in thank you, your correspondent fan pressure mount reporting from beijing when it's her now to some other stories making headlines this hour. south korean president, moon j in has pardoned his disgrace, predecessor park, gonna hey, for the sake of national hominy. park has been in prison since 2017 after receiving

a 22 year sentence for crimes including taking bribes from samsung and other conglomerates. she'll be released from jail next next week. at least 37 people have died after a very caught fire and bangladesh in a river near jello. kathy some 250 kilometers south of the capital duck up. but they say most of the victims died in the fire. others drowned after jumping overboard to trying to flee the flames. hundreds of women have protested in sudan following allegations that security forces had sexually attacked at least a dozen women and girls. several western countries have condemned the troops use of sexual violence as a weapon and demanded an independent investigation. the american author, joan didn't, has died at the age of 87 from complications from parkinson's disease, the novelist, playwright and essay as to his best known for her descriptions of american culture

during the tumultuous 1960 s. she was one of the pioneers of the new journalism movement which combined reporting with a literary voice in the u. s. a police officer in the city of minneapolis has been found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a black man. dante, right, officer kim potter said she mistook her gun for her taser when she shot rides, the case reopened, racial divisions in the same city where george floyd was killed at the hands of police. oh, the mother of dante right wanted accountability for her son's death. when a jury returned a guilty verdict on 2 charges of manslaughter, katy bryant experienced all kinds of emotions. oh, my gosh, i am. the moment that we heard guilty on the man's letter. one emotions every single emotion that you could imagine just running through your body at that moment. i kind of let out a yelp because it was built up in the anticipation of what was the calm when,

while we were waiting for the last few days. police officer came potter pleaded not guilty, and the fatal shooting of right in brooklyn center, a suburb of minneapolis, minnesota. in april. in emotional testimony, she claimed she mistakenly drew her gun instead of a taser and killed a 20 euro during a routine traffic stop and slaughter in the 2nd degree. now we've been able to process that ah, we want to thank the entire prosecution team. we wanna thank community support, everybody has been out there that has supported us in this, this long fight for accountability for our supporters of rights. families celebrated outside the hennepin county courthouse after the verdict was announced. potter $49.00 faces about 7 years in prison under the states sentencing guidelines, but prosecutors said they would seek a longer term. we asked our washington correspondent, oliver solid,

whether his this verdict was part of a larger shift in how the u. s. justice system deals with police shootings. perhaps not because of this verdict alone, but we have to look at the bigger picture and there has been police reform happening on the local level also on the state level. but it's a slow process and verdict like this. of course, the more verdict like this come, the more difficult it gets, of course, for similar killings to be repeated in the future. that was impossible, essentially before george floyd or just a few years ago. so again, it's a slow process, but it's raising the question, is this the beginning of a new trend that we're seeing here? and it really raises hopes among many supporters of the black lives matter movement across united states that we're seeing changed with justice system. and it's also for sure a signal to the police that their officers will be held accountable. they dominate all of the xanax, reporting from washington lane, brazil, the rear father,

lot of really villa cordero excuse me, has welcomed a special seasonal visitor. santa arrive, not by sly, about by helicopter to great children, and distribute food event is organized by the c u. f. a grass roots organization created by young pavel residence to promote development. this year santa was played by a black man for the 1st time. the group aiming to present more socially representative santa the food distribution drive traditionally takes place throughout brazil in the run up to christmas with nearly 400000 food. a packages handed out that denise update, this ama will be back next. our thanks for watching, ah, literature invites us to see people. in particular. i to see as the kids find the strange grown up world. my only objective is to share with the same beautiful did you books on you tube?

a man, as we take on the world i, we're all about the stories that matter to me. whatever. lisa, i'm calling with on fire made for mines. oh, intel is in the eye of a chinese social media storm. the chip giant has apologized to its customers and the general public for a letter to suppliers will go to new york for more details. also coming up, europe's energy crisis deepens as russia supply of natural gas to the remains in

question. is moscow playing politics with gas deliveries? we take a look and we take you to the canary islands, where hotel operators are once again facing a wave of canceled bookings due to travel restriction. welcome to d w business. i'm chelsea delaney. thanks for joining us. joe biden. has signed a law banning imports from the chinese region of jong and already one major company is facing retaliation in china. that is in tell the u. s. semiconductor manufacturer that has apologized for angry. the chinese government offered coal that it suppliers to avoid goods and services. and there's and john region, the company set its intent was to comply with the new u. s. law. the united states, the european union and other countries, have accused china of a brutal crack down on the muslim, weaker minority, and the use of force labor camps. and john, now for more,

unless i'm joined by our correspondent in corridor in new york, no yen until has apologize. they said, and i quote that it isn't their own intention or position to ban products from john . but are those just empty words given that intel does have to abide by this law? well, i mean, it clearly is said diplomatic tip toeing at this point. and i mean the us senate has just passed a bill in the last week. so we really have to see how the companies will deal with that in practice. so it's really a bit to, to, to tell if it's just empty words from him. tell how difficult is it for american businesses to cut this entire region from their supply chain? well, i mean, sir radically, the bill says that when you can prove that no forest labor is use, you can still produce in the region. you can still work with suppliers from the

region. and clearly, i mean with the supply chain, everything being so collected in our, today's, the global. well, definitely not easy to make changes from a one day to another. the and we've seen a lot of companies get hit by backlash is on social media and china over their statements regarding ash. and john has not had an impact on their businesses. well, i mean it's really always a tricky to tell what precisely is hurting sailed. so because we did see a couple of companies, them having some trouble in china, but also because the inventory is low in general, have all those supply chain issues. so it is a bit tricky to really pinpoint it to if, if social media and china, for example, does cause some chinese to confuse consumers to stay away from us. the

corporations and bronze. i mean, one thing is for sure it just take intel as an example, they make about a 4th of their revenue in china and hong kong. so that also definitely tell to how important the chinese market overall is for intel. and for a lot of american companies as well. absolutely. that's the core to new york. thank you so much. now to some of the other global business stories making news, a key measure of us inflation has risen at the fastest pace and for decades. personal consumption expenditures climbed 5.7 percent and over november, year on year hitting the critical holiday shopping period. inflation continues to run well above the federal reserve 2 percent inflation target. the us health regulator, the f. d. a has approved berks cobra treatment molded, molded peer of your merck and drug inserts. tiny errors into the viruses, genetic code to stop it from breeding. producing a similar treatment from pfizer was approved

a day earlier. european natural gas prices have sort to do all time highs and recent days that is due in part to questions over the reliability of the european union's biggest supplier, russia. some you politicians accused moscow of using a gas supply as a political weapon that the charge that russian president vladimir putin has emphatically denied. jess from the jamar pipeline usually flows from here in siberia to germany, but volumes had been falling since saturday. on tuesday, the guests stopped and began to fly back in the other direction. the more than 2000 kilometer long jamara pipeline links natural gas fields in russia with poland and germany via billers. it's one of the major routes for russian gas to europe. some western politicians and industry experts have accused russian president vladimir putin, of withholding deliveries to europe amid political tensions over ukraine and gnawed stream to something that he denied during his annual press conference and give the

road to him. what by them they lie all the time. they mix everything up gas from supplies, all the requested gas volumes, under current contracts. and not only that much, but it's also increasing the volume. or are we me issue for the contra spokespeople for our w e and univer, which are among gas problems. biggest gas buyers in germany said the russian company was still meeting delivery obligations. but measurements show that gas volumes flowing through the jamara pipeline have indeed been reversed. some western politicians believe put in wants to put pressure on nod stream to. it's another pipeline which is set to deliver gas from russia through the baltic sea, directly to germany. the e u has not approved the pipeline yet. some experts believe the kremlin is deliberately reducing flows to drive up gas prices in europe, and speed up the approval process. experts warn that consumers in western europe

need to brace for even higher prices. more cold weather over the coming months is going to drive up demand. now hotel owners and the canary islands had high hopes for this winter season. just a few weeks ago, some were operating with occupancy rates of around 80 percent. now that's all changing due to the omer con variance the mag i already here. 10 a reef tries to make this time of year beautiful, but not even christmas as suitable for exuberant celebrations this year. the island is reporting record numbers of new cove infections for hotel owners. the outlook is spitter. letter said i send an infant in the booking sa, getting shorter and shorter a week or 2 with the most. in january, i won't even be at 60 percent capacity at nanina yoseph and beth hotel owner.

paloma molina took out loans to get through the pandemic. she was hopeful that things would finally get back to normal, but instead of travellers insecurity us back, if they get a 100, you have to ask yourself again, do i invest, do i buy things to lay, improve things that blocks you, it blocks me wrong. ha ha. the problem is not only the 10th coroner virus situation on the island, but also where the tourists come from. great britain in particular, is struggling with high incidences. and the british tourists have to take 2 p. c. r tests on their return journey is particularly affects manage a heavier capero. british tourists make up 90 percent of guests at his hotel, several $100000.00 euros, and revenue are gone. as thomas in and got a smoking, sat down at this point, looking at the next 3 months, has cancellations and cancellation soon gone to the field concert of you. the outlook is not only dramatic for tell spot for the entire economy on the islands, but even canada tourism is a major factor in g, d, p,

and jobs in dublin. doyle in blue. the new situation affects the jobs of monica, ernest, 2 and one manuel. and not only them, 80 farmers supply this cheese dairy with gold and cow milk every day, but sales are faltering because restaurants and hotels are buying less product. boss candelabra go to, he is wonders. what will happen next? in us, at the level him alone, when we pick up milk from the farmers, process it and then half no sales. that's very stressful for the entire sector. if we now go back to where we were last year, that would be very bad for us. and then you fell in love at, in the for the currently there are about a 100 tons of cheese in the warehouse. 10 times the normal amount. the high season on the cannery islands goes until easter vacation. so there is still time to catch up, but no one knows how long this current wave of infection will paralyze here up. now

in less than 2 months, beijing is going to play host to the 2022 winter olympics. an already interest in skiing has been exploding across china. but what happens if you don't live near the great outdoors? if you're in shanghai, you can had to the shopping all 6 year old li, wench one already moves like a pro. she trains irregularly. but lee is not on a mountain side in the great outdoors. it's an artificial ski slope on a giant conveyor belt in a shanghai shopping mall. i love ski. i come to ski 6 times a week. skiing here makes me feel the same as skiing on little snow leaders. she wants to win gold at the winter olympics. the games have brought winter sports to the forefront in china. and here sports fans can ski the slopes

regardless of whether and without having to leave this city. the entrepreneur ye guy wants to take advantage of this growing enthusiasm. he opened his indoor alpine simulator business with 2 austrian partners and wants to expand further woman in the next 5 years. we're in the mail and we plan on expanding into china's top 30 cities close on woman that the number of locations will reach more than 300 day away light a long alley millman, m a, desert, she, she so, and the number of indoors ski machine will be more than 1000. she so can always, i doubt you, chinese. and because they're here in the shopping center, shoppers become spectators who later might want to join in on the fun. and a reminder of the top business story were falling for you this hour. you as so my

conductor giant intel has apologized for angering the chinese government after it called on suppliers to avoid goods and services division john region. the company started intent was to comply with the new us law banning imports from the region where china, china stands accused of brutally depressing the weaker minority and you're up to date with you w business. i'm healthy delaney in berlin for me and the whole business team stay healthy and thanks for watching and you know, to nuclear power, that's what the brock doth protest is about. one last time after 35 years of struggle. by the end of 2022, germany will talk to using nuclear power. other countries, meanwhile,

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