to re, as in the, your manner or your father or the car students. thank you. one, i'm to out fuck a little my i think our president does not even interested in reaching an agreement as when i drew honey wanted one, but didn't manager on my that him. i mean, the new government is not even pursuing this hobby. it won't work out to successfully, man, i am off out here to on what their lives. the foreign ministry leading the nuclear negotiations is just across the street. no representative wanted to speak to us priorities have shifted since iran's new hard line government took over. sanctions relieve, remains oppressing objective, but official willingness to cooperate where the west is at an all time low. this political analyst at t, ron university, tells us over the the are lasers that oh, the of are dealing with a country that's not reliable. it's called the united states at the i left the agreement once there is this american saying that you hold me

a once shame on you. if you fooled me twice. shame on me. so the racy admin assertion, monsieur. you see other people around him or don't the normal to be full twice. many ordinary iranians also feel duped. not only by the international community, but also by their own leaders as almost by telephone hasty, but the nuclear deal should be made when the basis of these la mic republic is corrected. but from the very foundation, as i wanted to listen shows when the people in charge them have gone where they belong them, his article has as long as that doesn't happen and agreement will not be reached. when you can do right through official has the people in charge, think only about the benefits to themselves. i'm only not about the 85000000 people living in this country has the, his most retina hot care. and so iranians are bracing for the worst they know

that no agreement is likely to mean more sanctions and even the possibility of a military confrontation and that they'll be the ones paying the price. and and about the bias and iran expert and co founder of the center for applied research in partnership with the orient, he joined us. he joins us now from diesel. doff our non welcome to day w bray thing for the worst. we heard it there just how crucial are these talks for iran? what's at stake for the iranian people? i guess clearly the prospects for a better economic livelihoods is what's at stake fully run in people. and the prospects get, of course, are better if sanctions relief was on the horizon. and i think this is what matters to, to be wrong in population most. and one of the aim of today's talks is getting the united states back into the agreement. why is the biden administration reluctant to do that? yeah, unfortunately, there was some,

some head advice i would have to say in that with respect to not urging back into the deal. if we all recall the by the administration came into power and there was still the previous iranian government that was, that was much more positive on the talks. it could have been an easy return. but there was this idea to use the from sanctions as leverage. so to speak, to gain more from iran. and i think this is where the problem is right now. we have a new government in iran, which is obviously on its part also playing a bit harder than the previous one. iran analyst at none to that, to my speaking to me a little earlier when germany started its vaccination campaign against coven 91 year ago today. the 1st ever corona virus vaccine was developed in a gym and lab and when the 1st countries at 1st of when the country's 1st shot rob was given to 101 year old edith quite sol out right after christmas. he was a huge moment for the country,

but most residents had to wait for months to get their 1st shot and watched as countries like the u. s. and the u. k. distributed their doses at a much faster pace. d, w has been reporting on germany's vaccination campaign through its ups and downs. and my colleague william glue cost is here with the details. william, tell us about it. yeah, remember those 1st pictures as dramatic pictures gain us for shots and so much has changed since then. we've gone through so much. we have so much more to go. let's have a look of where we've been this past year, at least in germany. how things have shaped up since december 27th, 2020. starting with just a few tens of thousands of shots that there's about 70000000 adults in germany and only 10000000 of them got their shop in that 1st quarter rather slow. there's a lot of frustration, their supply issues, things picked up in that 2nd quarter by 30000000 people got their shots in that 2nd quarter. but you can see the curve starting to slacken there. and that's or we've been on this trajectory the last several months,

even as infection rates have picked up, they just haven't been able to get more people convinced to get their shots. and as a result of that, there's been this goal that's been put forward by the german government since november, november 18th, to get 30000000 new shots into people's arms by the end of that year. and how are we doing on that 30000000 goal? well, as of yesterday 24700000 new boosters since that november 18th start date and 2800000 have gotten at least one shot. so we're getting quite close. the german government says we're already very depending how you're calculating the numbers. but we probably will get there no matter what, by the end of the year. well, that's a huge number of basis. that is quite impressive. how's gemini managed it? i mean, so last year we had that slow start because there were supply issues. there also lot of rules about who could get the vaccine and not now no supply issues or very little supply issues. and they're just telling everyone, go get your shot. there's been huge amounts supply secured directly with

manufacturers to the european union by moving up orders that were supposed to come later. there's been just a massive effort to get as much supply as possible. the german government is saying, we do not want people to not be able to get their shots because of vaccine shortage . but nonetheless, we should remember lots of countries and not as fortunate as germany has lots of countries that don't have such a great vaccination, right. and as we know from omicron, if the pandemic lot over everywhere, it is not over anywhere and that is the big goal now to get everybody vaccinated as much as possible. definitely winning blue cross. thank you very much for doing the number crunching. and now, as a pandemic filled year draws to a close, we want to take a look at some of the lasting images of 2021 in india, a huge 2nd wave of cove at 19 swept through the country 1000. that died crematorium to burn the dead were overwhelmed by the numbers they held mask formations. sometimes that wasn't even available for people and they had to burn their relatives bodies where ever they could dw namisha joyce while met one health care

worker who experienced much of the horror at 1st hand georgia july is done with his hospital shift for the day working in patient care is demanding but manage it. he says it is a fall. try it. from the 18 months he spent working in the maturity through the bullets of the pandemic you was, allah has only booked deos and healthcare in another life. he was a performance, autism, or dallas as he took to the state of the age of 10 and loved every bit of it as an organizer, makeup, artist, and answer. all of this came to a standstill when the pandemic hit. an darla needed woke. when a friend refused to walk in the mortuary of delhi, the biggest go now i'd as hospital dollar stepped in what they had any during the 2nd to be anyways, he recounts losing track of the number of bodies coming in,

piled into ambulances. darla worked frantically to provide dignity to the victims, families in the gales. there was no end to his ships of you. he in a space for a 100 bodies. oh, there were 2 or 300 wild one on top of the other. your plague. i, my job was to sorta do identify a mock though not good. that it was the worst day of my life tiger. and then when it got worse, fontanello who dollars younger brother took it, you own or jalap, lead it for a bed at the over bell and hospital. he worked at him, but it was too late. his brother thought for life, for 5 days, days in which allah wasn't given the time off to with the 11. okay. go through gum leisha dallas mother. he's been invited endlessly when he started working in the grammar, told him, losing her youngest compounded. her fears taught you beneath. i never imagined this

. what happened to me? the 2nd corona virus with one to me until the day i die. i'm terrified. i have only 2 children left. i just want them to be safe, but i just want to spend my last year with them. because yeah, ex, let's say that the 2nd b however, maybe the reason why cases are currently low in india. tests. sure that good when i was antibodies have been found in large sections of the indian population, essentially acting like an additional vaccine. those. this could bump eyes and gifts as expected, omicron here, hybrid immunity, which essentially means of natural infection, followed by recognition, provides as good a protection, a t shirts. and that is really not to believe that in, in population right now, or in the future, it might be quite seen booster who july is already seen more much on cases rise in

his hospitals and doesn't get it done to any names on his hopes for 2022 are far simpler for that, and he wants to come home and diane on and sit down to mosque with his family. he suspects that even this dog, maybe to ambition. his round up of some more developments in the pandemic. china has reported more than a 116. you covered 19 infections in the past 24 hours. that's the most since the beginning of the pandemic. israel has begun a trial for 4th covered shots on health care workers who had a booster dose dose in august. the country is gathering, is considering rather sorry, offering yet another round of boost as to its population. and the french government is expected to announce new restrictions after france registered a $100000.00 daily corona vars. cases for the 1st time on the weekend. oh, to have a round up. now of some other headlines before we leave you,

the lawyer who successfully argued the landmark roe v wade case that gave american women the right to an abortion has died at the age of 76. there. weddington was only in her mid twenties when she faced the supreme court. south africa's archbishop desmond tutu is being remembered around the world as a champion of justice and human rights. he died on sunday at the age of $92.00 to was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1984 for his efforts in the struggle against apartheid to dams have burst in northeast and brazil after wakes of heavy rain in the region, 18 people have died since torrential rains began pounding by his estate in early november, tens of thousands have had to evacuate their hunts. watching date of the news is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. negotiate is a meeting in vienna again to try and save the iran nuclear dale. the current u. s. administration says it wants to return to the deal,

but has accused the current iranian government of making new demands and exchange for abandoning it's enrichment of iranian. and watching the state of the canoes coming out next. his date of new business with rob watson rebecca rate has are having more headlines boy at the top of the next hour. thanks very much fortune with a master of the art of confrontation. this is wrong. a veteran of verbal combat. i

mean, you're gonna really, i try the undisputed champion of tough political talk. you trying to frighten people? no, i so far, everybody on the side there, except you enter the complex zone and join to him. sebastian, as he holds the powerful to account, this is a big failure, whichever way you like to spin conflict zone. oh, good news. on d, w o d, up to date. don't miss our highlights. the d w program online. d w dot com highlights. ah, ah, the new year and a new hope, german businesses say they're expecting a significantly better 2020 to 2021. will look at why despite supply problems and the ongoing pandemic feeling. so it's

a race against time. china is hoping to eradicate rising corona virus numbers as it prepares to host the winter olympics will get the latest and the rest of the world goes nuts. the california walnuts will hear how supply chain problems mean. there aren't enough to go around. this is d to be a business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. role on 2022 german companies are expecting big things from next year, despite all the concerns about a new corona, virus variance, and supply chain shortages. as according to the latest annual survey by the cologne institute for economic research, they asked 48 business associations representing almost 3000 companies about their prospects for 2022. and you'll see that 39 of them say they expect high reduction or greater business activity next year. the other 9 say things are supposed to say

are as they expect things to stay around the same level, not a single association expected their sector to be worse off in 2022 than 2021. now a wide variety of industries are optimistic on was across the board, really among them are machine and plant manufacturers. we've also got retailers, the i t sector is banking on more security contracts next year. and last but not least, we've also got construction. and the pharmaceuticals sector, however, when it comes to creating new jobs, the survey is not quite as bullish. only 21 out of the 48 associations. so they're sectors will be hiring more people among the manufacturers. electronic equipment and craft work has at 19 of them said that the number of employees will remain the same. well, 8 of the business association are actually planning to cut stuff next year. well, let's discuss the findings of the survey further with the director of the cologne institute for economic research. michelle, thank you very much for joining us on

t to we have is this just explain to us why there's so much optimism among german businesses? and i mean, i think 3 arguments make clear why the german business sector is optimistic 1st. we're still out of the way of crisis. and the 2021 wasn't disappointed mongrels, and we traced all the supply side problems you mentioned already. and this year and the next year 2020 will be a year catching up again. and we hope to come to the repeat process level again. so it's still year of catching up. second on we have a lot of more in the auto statistics of the german or nearly on the historical level on the highest level. so there is no demand side problem. the only problem we have the only maybe michael budget, it's the supply settler rooms you mention. so we expected the joint business as in

the general expect that there was a problem next year. so all this is base is the basis for optimism button more. most important, we have no demand side problems. in germany, we do have the on the con varian. now in case numbers are rising, how businesses feeling about that? a factoring that in when they think about how, how good 2022 is going to be for them. you'll be asked to answer for the company's end of november and the 1st time of december. so that was still in the situation that they were faced of the fact that there is a new, very variant of virus called micron a. but what can you do? you can only ask for a month flexibility edgelog production scheme. you can try to be flexible in the, in the uses of your workforce and all is already done and the companies are working on the vaccination campaign. so this is not very simple task to, to make an forecast on the only one is a vase may be strong, but without a smaller impact on, on,

on the hospitality situation. nobody knows. and the right is between standstill of production that will be the worst case and an ongoing production. and maybe the best case that we have not really an effect on that. so in this case, you can only ask for flexibility. and he went about supply chain problems as far as having a knock on effect, we're seeing inflation as a result of that was in higher energy bills is on if that expected to resolve itself during 2022 it takes more time as we expected during the year 21, but for next year the company's us indicating that they will see an ongoing, a lower problems on the supply side. the logistic systems which are really the travel due to the closing of ports in east asia. for example. have we, we expect to, to solve these problems ever come back on the, on the new quality on the justice and the companies react as already mentioned, was high us cost. so right, this is still uncertain,

but there are more hope that will solve the problem next year. and this will the most important for coming up with all the demands which is still in the auto statistics. ok. michelle hotel, director of the cologne institute for economic research. thank you for joining us. welcome. that china is seeing its highest numbers of corona virus cases. since february of 2022. over $200.00 reported on sunday. most of the cases are in the northern city of she and where almost all businesses have been ordered to close. residents must say confined to their homes. as the authorities carry out what they call a full disk infection of the city. the usually bustling city of $13000000.00 is more like a ghost town. only one person from each household is allowed out every 2 days to buy household necessities. all non essential businesses have been ordered to close by may not like it, but 2 years into the pandemic, people are getting used to it,

stocking their fridges, and preparing to sit it out. that's a schanzer. ya were me. but now with experience, we know that locked down a large scale contact tracing and investigations of infected cases as well as quarantine are very effective. that's our china has been able to curb the spread of a pandemic. what might be in such a shorter time, or you go by in the trees. so now i'm not scared. i said all we have to do is follow quarantine instructions home and the pandemic will go away soon. if you might have a good china has implemented a strict 0 covert strategy since mid last year, using tight border restrictions. targeted, locked down st. lengthy quarantines and population tracing technology. managing to slow new cases to a trickle. the country is implemented even stricter measures as it prices for thousands of international athletes for the winter olympics. in february, foreign spectators are mostly banned. all participants must be fully vaccinated.

and once they enter, the olympic bubble will undergo daily virus tests. but with the virus expected to become a part of normal, everyday life. elsewhere in the world, china's total lockdown strategy is coming increasingly under question to you actually, you shifting younger. now some the other global business stories, making news. airlines across the world cancelled almost 8000 flights over the christmas weekend. according to the flight trucking website. flight aware dot com cruise code in thick after getting infected with cove in 19 bad weather. also catch many plains on the ground in north america. david related flight cancellations, continued on monday to this rush of energy giant gas from has rejected accusations that moscow is deliberately limiting natural gas supplies to europe. polish government says russia has stopped gas deliveries along the yamaha europe pipeline which supplies western european countries. public data shows the gas link has been put into reverse this week,

allowing poland to receive deliveries from germany instead and trouble. chinese property developer ever grand says it's accelerating the delivery of new homes to customers. it wants to deliver $39000.00 by the end of december. that's almost 4 times as many as it did in each of the previous 3 months. at 2021 has been blighted by all manner of supply shortages and the end of the year is proving no difference over the festive period. backlogs at ports have held up deliveries of all kinds of seasonal favorites in the u. s. supply bottlenecks. i'll providing a particular frustration farmers. walnuts do particularly well at gold river farm in california at the end of the year. from here, they're shipped around the world. 30 percent of the global supply comes from the west coast state. so this load is going to germany. these in shall, walnuts are going to lebanon on these loads are going to

japan, but this year the boxes are piling up in the warehouses, not how it should be exports or grinding to a halt. gould rivers president is worried or we are shipping right now less than half of what we should be shipping and could be shipping this time of the year, simply because there's not equipment available. the port of oakland, a key export hub, see routes in major ports like this one are heavily congested due to high demand. ships often go only as far as los angeles rather than up to oakland to save time and money. they're making these decisions to try to get their vessels back on schedule as quickly as possible. and also because of the incredible import demand, they're trying to hurry back to asia, pick up in ports and bring him over to the united states. the woman farmers here in

northern california are losing out the competition on world markets is fears. china and chile are also important not suppliers. so is europe or customers retailers, for example, no longer necessarily look for quality in times are uncertain supply. they're more concerned about availability, which is why the californians have already lost customers. now the global semiconductor chip shortage has been one of the biggest effects of international supply chain troubles. but as you've just seen, food is also struggling to get to where it's meant to be eaten. well, a potato shortage in japan means that mcdonald's restaurants are experiencing a chip shortage of their own. they're particularly popular in japan,

mcdonald's french fries. but for now, they're only available in size small. japan imports as potatoes from canada among other places. but due to corona virus related logistics problems, as well as flooding near vancouver, fewer deliveries are arriving from canada. many japanese are disappointed. he said cordova, ever since i was a little girl. i loved mcdonald's fries. if i could, i would eat nothing but fries until i was full. so i'm a little bit disappointed to the end of it. i don't think it's that big a deal, especially if you can still buy multiple servings. it's not like all the fries are sold out. if they were then, yes, i would find it a bit sad for the people who like mcdonald's fries, but they could still get this small pilot. they just have to settle for a smaller portion, like around 2900 fast food restaurants in japan are affected by the delivery

problems. now, mcdonalds is hoping to fly their fries in until then fast food lovers will have to dial down their expectations. and now a reminder, the top business story with following for you this, our japanese businesses are overwhelmingly optimistic about 2022. a survey of thousands of firms found 3 quarters of them expect the next 12 months to be better than the last from so from, and the business team here in berlin, from all from us to head over to our website, d dot com slash business. you can also find us on a d 2 d to be used youtube channel on facebook to next time you called for her. i'm just kinda, i think that tags and in the end is a me, you are not allowed to see you anymore. we will send you back her are you familiar

with this with the smudges with lions as of the what's your story with. ready women, especially a victims of vine and seen a lot of them take part and send us your story. we are trying always to understand this new culture. so you are not a visitor, not the guests. you want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information this is did other news asia today. i look back if elk grove at 19 impacted southeast asia this year and left not just depth, but also hope in its wake. fast and indonesia, which for the time in the summer became the every center of the pandemic, denisia and were health care workers involved.