oh, as if there are different forms of time to time the phenomena, a dimension and the illusion about time starts december 31st on d w. mm hm. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the pandemic overshadows and now the holiday season as christmas begins for many people are faced with the top choice of taking the risk of seeing their families and friends or going it alone for the 2nd year in a road. also coming up,

a police officer is found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of young black man . dante right, came pato said she confused her hand gun with her taser. when she shot right dead in february and wants disgraced and convicted of corruption, the format south korean president parkin. hi, is given a pardon. ah, i'm rebecca rich as welcome to the program. holiday travel plans being disrupted in many countries as cove at 19 infections increase because of the all micron variant . airlines in the u. s. as trailer and other countries have cancelled hundreds of flights as employees and passengers are exposed to the virus following the spike in cases. it's the 2nd year running where the panoramic has overshadowed the festive season. ah,

another curve at christmas and another difficult choice. as emma crohn continues to spread millions round, the world must now decide between cancelling their travel plans or taking the risk . for some in the us, the choice was made for them when several major u. s. airlines cancelled christmas e flights off to staff came down with them are grown. others of turn to tests and boosters to help keep christmas alive, including thousands of new yorkers as their city braces, 1st surgeon cases after the holidays was affordable, took my family. i took her mother's elderly after small children, so as not so much for it, for myself as it is to protect bosom across the atlantic, christmas travelers in spain of facing the same tough choices. cove at 19 cases are at an all time high. but for many seeing their loved ones is worth the risk. how gay and noiseless mccoy and there are,

this is not the best situation. i have had to evaluate whether to leave like last year, when i could not do this or to take only to risk. and i have taken a risk out event number one handle maybe a value half way across the globe. australians of also facing christmas with their micron cases here have sold to new records peeled by the variant residents doing their best to keep safe. we had our mom, we've done the rapid ended in testing. so a big effect we can and sang as much as we can, like li, ready, but with a micron, already racing. santa claus, around the world, many seem set for another unmarried christmas uncertainties worldwide. well, for more on how on the con is affecting christmas plans. this year i'm joined by my colleague roger evans, right. thanks for coming in. like so many people this christmas eve also had personal experience with this. what happened? i haven't did. yes. well my daughter,

she said is in the united kingdom. and in fact, i spent the last 24 hours trying to help her get home to germany for christmas. and the problem that she's faced, and the problem that many people are facing at the moment, is that the rules keep changing because of the army kron variance and the threat that supposing governments are constantly reassessing the situation. and changing the rules that affect international travel in particular. so for example, here in germany for people traveling from the u. k, the government introduced a quarantine rule early this week. and then yesterday, without warning, they change the testing requirements so that you didn't need just a lateral flow test, but a p c r test to travel my daughter to, to fly yesterday. and suddenly she was required to find a piece your test, as you know, it takes quite a while to get a result from a p c r test. and that kind of thing is causing real problems for people trying to get home for christmas. how can they change it so quickly? well indeed, i don't know. that's just as you said, you know, with the for you the and see what you can. i suppose she has a quarantine as well for 10 days. yes. just according to him, for 14 days. in fact, there's no exceptions to that rule. even if you're fully vaccination,

you have to have to quarantine if you're traveling from the u. k. into germany at the moment. and again, that's what a lot of people off traveling this christmas christmas is normally the busiest time of year for travel. and my daughter, she has actually just made it onto a plane now to she's in the air as we speak in fact. but she told me before she flew, that there were just 12 people on her plane 12 passengers on that plane. so it means that there was a whole plain load of people who didn't make, of course. and as we saw in that report, we also have the issue with staff shortages, airports, and airlines also being hit by people calling in sick. and that's making the travel season this, this christmas really, really k or to yeah, sure. is i apart from mandated time home with the family? is there any other good news out of this? well, there is won't be the good news. i can share with the rebecca, which is that we have heard from both canada and australia that they have cleared the air space before the christmas. a negative to throw the children out there watching and worried about where the father christmas will be able to come to know it's you can show you he come, he's been cleared for trouble. that is excellent news. i'm sure the kids will be

happy. roger evans, thanks very much. you're welcome. south korean president, moon j in has pardoned his disgrace, predecessor park going hey, for the sake of quote, national hominy park has been in prison since 2017. after receiving a 22 year sentence for crimes including taking bribes from samsung and other companies known said the former conservative latest release is meant to he'll pass divisions and promote unity in the face of the pandemic will be free from jail next week. correspondent frank smith joins me now from so frank y as president moon decided to pardon park now. well, i think there are a couple of things influencing this decision, which even the democratic party here in south korea, moon jeans, own party, says, was the decision was the president's him himself. she is any help. she's had an operation on his shoulder. also you mentioned that she had served 4 and

a half of her 22 year sentence, but president moon jane is now at the end of his term, his single 5 year term. they're said to be election and election next, march 9th for the next president. so 3, so it might have to do with that. also this is sort of amnesty season and the president granted part into a number of, of political figures including a former prime minister who is in prison for a bribery and also a boat. 1000000 people that had been given clemency for smaller infractions, including traffic violations, presidential election, as you mentioned, is due to take place next march. is that going to have any impact this event rather going to have any impact on that? well that, that depends who you ask in the political divide here in south korea,

you talked to e j young and those in the democratic party, they were largely against the decision that they say that the president made again on his own. and they say that it won't have that, that big impact. however, on the conservative side, you took your, he's the sort of front runner right now for the presidential election. he was in favor of her getting a pardon despite the fact that he was a prosecutor, chief prosecutor, involved in putting her behind bars in the 1st place. the conservative block also considered a consider this something of a trick by president moon g and to divide the conservatives as they move into a presidential campaign season here. frank smith in. so thanks very much

when i turn out to some other stories making headlines this hour, at least 37 people have died after a crowded ferry caught fire in bangladesh in a river near jello. cut the some 250 kilometer south of the capitol dot com. really say most of the victims died in the fire. others drowned after jumping overboard to try to flee the flames. hundreds of women have protested in saddam following allegations. that security forces had sexually attacked at least a dozen women and girls. several western countries had condemned the troops, youth of sexual violence as a weapon and demanded an independent investigation. the american also joan didn't, has died at the age of 87 from complications from parkinson's disease. the novelist playwright an essayist, was best known for her descriptions of american culture during the tumultuous 960 s . she was one of the pioneers of the new journalism movement, which combined reporting with

a literary voice a police officer and the u. s. city of minneapolis has been found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a black man. dante right. officer came pot said she mistook her gun for had ties up when she shot rides. the case reopened, racial divisions in the same city where george floyd was killed at the hands of police. the mother of dante wright 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'm the moment that we heard guilty on the manslaughter. 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 and pleaded not guilty in the fatal shooting of rise in

brooklyn center, a suburb of minneapolis, minnesota, in april in emotional testimony, she claimed she mistakenly drew her gun instead of a taser on killed a 20 year old 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 who's been out there that has supported us in 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 a recent study in australia revealed at 70 percent of cove at 19 patients who were treated in intensive care still have symptoms 6 months later. many people with what's known as long covert suffer

ongoing breathlessness, sand associated anxiety. in one of our more notable reports of the past year, we looked at how the english national opera is using a variety of techniques, including of course, singing to help long covert patience. blowing bubbles to help with young co susie zuba is a trained vocalist. she is develop special greeting, exercises, covey patients. and for some of them, it's a bit too hard work at the moment. but what it does is it just allows your voice a little bit of a chance to an press. sheba says it's thanks to susie that she feels well again and is able to take of new hobbies. just a year ago, she was suffering from a lung infection and needed oxygen. 3 months on i remember feeling so fatigued, breathless. i mean, literally from my bed to the bathroom,

i would just get breathless. ah sheba never dreamed of people. singers from the english national opera would be the ones to help her breathe. arms down to show the height. in weekly zoom sessions, participants learn to relax and improve that posture and most of all, to pre and just hold that for a moment. we think a lot about low in breathing down because if you're over breathing, you're taking in lots of air and actually tend not to be expelling the air. so just giving people tools to slow things down and anchor them in the moments is really helpful. oh, i mean part of a group is hugely important on me. don't forget her again to me. i could have never imagined

coming out of that dark mass all by myself. so it's been a huge the board system for me is like my family now. we had, i guess you can say a common purpose to get better and would be more beautiful. wait till thing are long for out, and heal them at the same time. music and meds that have come together in this unique project. and it's been so successful that it's now being rolled out in coven clinics across the u. k. so my o sheba dreams of singing on a real estate together with others like her. and that dream could come true. oh, as soon as school with restrictions allow english national opera plans to state it very special opera with cooper patients with love to breathe again through singing ah,

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360. get the out now. i the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection developing what measures are being taken? what does the latest research say? information and context. the corona virus update the coding scheme, special monday to friday on d. w. ah, ah, is europe's energy crisis shackle to its political crisis with russia. a spike in natural gas prices this week, and russia's frustrations over the certification of a new gas pipeline with germany. have both sides claiming the other is playing politics. we'll take

a closer look also on the show. semiconductors are in short supply around the world that has automakers rethinking their sourcing, especially as a new crone of ours. varian threatens more supply chain problems. hello, welcome to the show. i'm seen beardsley in berlin or supply chain issues have plague businesses for months. now microchips are among the items most desperately needed and among those hardest to find, especially for automakers, even basic car models need at least 50 semiconductors. they control everything from gps to air conditioning even rear view mirrors, and as not to mention safety and comfort features that you might find in more upscale cars. according to one estimate, 11000000 fewer cars were to be built in 2021 due to supply chain bottlenecks. and that sums up to around $210000000000.00 in missed sales. now the vast majority of semiconductors are made in asia. that makes the u. s. and europe strongly dependent

upon imports to get those ships. and so now many automakers are exploring partnerships which hip producers to make their own semiconductors. some experts, however say it's too little too late. they blamed the industry for t shirts are short term planning, and it's lack of investment of more that i'm joined by reggie biz was his executive director and asia pacific chief economist at i h s. market where she could have you on the show. is it fair to say that these automakers were perhaps short sighted by not really securing their necessary supplies to something is an absolute vital component. i think what we've seen during the pandemic is something quite exceptional. and it's brought out these supply chain vulnerabilities for older mater makers that hadn't been there in that kind of form before. i mean, what we've seen is lost production in 2021 of millions of order units. and that's meant that demand has been much greater than the ability to supply. so we're

seeing a new kind of problem for the auto industry that they haven't seen in a similar way before. so i think they're reacting to that and of course it will take time and whether it's true their concept of building their own semiconductors plants, which is obviously a highly complicated area for them to move into. or another possibility which is being suggested by companies like intel, is that they will build factories specifically for the auto industry to help alleviate some of those concerns about disruptions. and i think at a government level, we're also seeing a lot of action to try to reduce that vulnerability of supply chains. reduce the supply from asia in the u. s. for example, the u. s. government's pushing ahead with a chip act that's going to put in about $50000000000.00 us dollars to help ship

makers build more facilities in the u. s. and in the e. u. a very similar projects under way to try to boost the production of chips within the e u. m to about 20 percent of total requirements. so these kind of actions are signaling that both companies and governments are trying to reduce t o supply chain vulnerabilities. and he won the league concern if i may interrupt them. so you just mentioned asia there. we've seen that china has just locked down an entire city sheehan. of 13000000 people. it's shown how seriously it's going to go against any sort of outbreak. china, of course, a major manufacturer for many, many companies. these supply problems are going to continue. is that fair to say? well, i think even leaving aside the situation and china, which obviously is very concerning and has a lot of potential implications for supply chains. if this were to spread more widely, but even even leaving that aside,

this backlog in areas like semiconductor supply is still going to continue in to 2022, even if the situation of dependent might improves through the year. so i think we are looking at a 2022 with continuing problems and oh, with our sector. and if on top of all of that, the pandemic creates new waves and use plots are options. then clearly the risk is that you have a whole new set of disruptions to supply chains, not only for semiconductors, but potentially for many our areas, old manufacturing that are critical for industry as well. so we are very much looking at those downside risks for the 2022 outlook if this o micron very and turns out to be a big disrupt her. all right, we'll have to leave it there. cheapest was with i just market. thank you very much . thank you. was speaking of supply crunches, wholesale gas prices in europe briefly spike this week after

a russian pipeline began reversing its supply to germany. a russian president vladimir putin now says the move is not political, although it does can side with right coincide rather with rising tensions between moscow in the west. the europe was already facing a winter of high gas prices due to lower supplies. some now, few the tensions with russia are going to make things worse. guess from the jamar pipeline usually flows from here in siberia to germany, but flows had been falling since saturday. on tuesday, the gas stopped and began to flow back in the other direction. the more than 2000 kilometer long jamara pipeline links natural gas fields in siberia with poland and germany via bella ross. it's one of the major roots for russian guest to europe. some western politicians and industry experts have accused russian president vladimir putin, of withholding deliveries to europe and met political tensions over ukraine and not string to something that he denied during his annual news conference for the vol to

him with by them. they lie all the time. they mix everything up. gas from supplies, all are requesting gas volumes, under current contracts. and not only that, not that it's also increasing the volume, or are we measure of the contract spokespeople for our w e and uni power, which among gas prompts, biggest gas by us and germany set the russian company was still meeting delivery obligations by measurements. show that gas volumes flowing through the m r pipeline have been reversed. some western politicians believe protein wants to put pressure on not string to. it's another pipeline which is set to deliver gas from russia through the baltic c directly to germany. germany 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 in europe over the coming months. it's going to drive up demand. and i'm joined now by his lawyer side. he's director of energy climate and resources at the raise your group. that's a political risk consultancy, and thanks for coming on the show. you know, russia says that it's meeting its obligations here at the same time, some in europe are crying foul. can you help us understand what is going on? it's thanks for letting me know. so one of the main problems is, of course, one size that we're meeting all the obligations. the other side is saying we're not having enough gas. so what's happening is gas is meeting probably it's minimum annual obligation, so they have long term contracts with customers in the u. and they are meeting that, but they're not sending any further gas. so if you want to have received more gas because it's cold, for instance, or you're a customer who doesn't fully contract its annual gas supply, then it's hard to get that guess because i'm really isn't sending more gas in. it

absolutely has to the moment. the question is, of course, whether the gas form isn't sending the gas because it can't or because it doesn't want to that we're not entirely sure sure of. we don't really know where the gas form is sending all the gas. it can with it is actually withholding that, and that is sort of the mystery here in europe programs, of course, the gas market is tight. we do need more gas and energy is coming from a markets around the world by shipping to europe, but it would be good if it came from us from russia. right, so europe says the pollutants playing politics here, put and says the same thing that the you is playing politics with north stream to. is he not correct there? well, i mean, no, seem to, and it's, but it says the notes from 110 years ago, they are highly political projects. you are linking to major consumer producer blocks together with the physical pipeline infrastructure. it is political by nature and this politics when it goes well, it's good, it's a big producer of the consumer and it improves politics. but of course,

when politics get sour, as they are now between russian europe and the west general over ukraine, for instance, which of course, is the gas trans, it routed traditionally, it was. then if things get complicated and that is the issue now, yes, both sides are playing politics. however, the approval process that has been put on hold is a commercial one. and this is important to keep in mind the approval process with a bonus next are going to, in germany is a commercial process. and all stream to and gas from has to comply with the european market rules and in its current form, it doesn't. so that is a separate process, but then of course there is politics that the german government, the americans, brussels, they have become skeptical about the political liability of this pipeline. not just its commercial liability. or i think last time with your age group. thank you very much. thank you. and let's go now to some of the other global business

stories making headlines. united airlines and delta have cancelled more than $200.00 christmas eve flights. they say the spread of the new oma tron variant is taking a toll on flight crews and ground personnel. the airlines are trying to reboot travelers as soon as possible. tick tock has surpassed google as the world's most popular website. that's according to cloud farrah tech, from the tracks online activities. more than 1000000000 users sign onto scroll, tick tock, monthly, mostly children and teenagers. tick tock was launched in 2016 by china's bite dance . intel has apologized for angering the chinese government after called on suppliers to avoid goods and services in the sheen john region. 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 there. and finally tis the season when many indulged their sweet tooth,

especially chocolate. and especially here in germany, it turns out that germans eat an average of 9 kilos of chocolate per year. that's about 90 traditional sized chocolate bars and back puts the country squarely in 1st place globally for chocolate consumption. close 2nd, the swiss a christmas is the main season for chocolate. germany's chocolate ears have sold 160000000 chocolate centers this year loan. right, that's it for me. and the dw business team will be back in a little bit with more headlines. in the meantime, find his online. he to be dot com slash business from seen. beardsley, thanks for watching.

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