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d, w. science show we face up to the phenomenon of super recognizes. welcome to to morrow to day. a lot of people have difficulty remembering faces or telling them apart. the key is their cognitive abilities. cutting edge technology can help us to correctly identify faces. as we all know, computer assisted facial recognition is now used to keep track of people in cities around the world. but some of us have similar faculties, and police forces are eager to recruit the services of these super recognizes london. 6 august 20, 201414 year old alice ross went for

a walk that afternoon. 6 at 4 26 pm, her image was recorded on cctv. and then she disappeared. the pl search for alice gross was the biggest in london since the 2005 bombings. the video footage provided vital clues in the cctv capital of the world. an estimated 1000000 cameras track people as they go about their daily business. footage from these cameras is viewed in the headquarters of the london metropolitan police, also known as scotland yard. this is where the so called super recognizers work. people with particularly good recall when it comes to faces. they identify faces time and again, even partly concealed in crowds or in very grainy footage. yeah. it's

a skill that long when unrecognised, an unused to 94, i realized that the police weren't using see she tv properly than that of images just were being news like fingerprints and dna in a systematic way. so started to develop systems to gather images, to catalog them properly. and as i circulated them more and more, you realize that for every 100 identifications, some offices would, might want to. but some mood might 10 or 20. so it really stood out that those people who are real note this is how the world's 1st super recognize are unit came into being it's now led by elliot pour it, who'd also been unaware of his special talent, was on he really in about 2012. the metropolitan place i said is new on a super recognized lesson. my 1st thought was, well, water, super recognizers. and apparently was because i was making successful

identifications. i'm from in a wanted posters of criminals. this ability turned out to be the key to solving the alice gross case. a few days after the 14 year old went missing, a woman living in the same district in london reported her partner is missing. he was already known to the police and was identified as a possible suspect. the super recognizers poured over cctv footage along the route that alice had taken to see if they could spot the man just on his way home. and sure enough, eliot pour it, and his team spotted him, they noticed that the possible suspect kept returning to a particular spot at the riverside after alice grosses disappearance on. so he went back to the senior officer who's investigating a case, and he said, look, we think we've found sal tons and changing his closing of that to the crime scene.

and that was when they found her just over a month after her disappearance, the parents of 14 year old alice grass had their worst fears, confirmed the body of the young girl was found in the river. brent. at that stage, there was still no sign of the suspected killer super recognizers can also help solve other crimes. apart from murder. one of the most successful cases we've had, i was with a serial shoplifter. we had one super recognizers who, you know, separated by a couple of weeks with memory when that you have seen that guy before. i shall seen him in the, in our database. and then we started seeing him for 5 times and then we really went hunting nazi of ontario, having a database of all images of criminals and images from crime scenes. because then

we're able to go back for these on so crimes and we had him eventually for about 40 free ah offences. facial recognition software wouldn't have helped. here it needs better footage. the la detectives generally have access to agreement university in london. psychologist josh davis is studying super, recognize her powers, using tests that he's continually refining with the help of the police investigators. i want to understand the science behind this. i also think that the more we know about this, the more we understand about human memory, and maybe it's got further applications that no one's even thought about yet. a few days ago, davis showed one of elliot por, it's team members, short video clips of people that she's now being asked to identify in photos

with the test is intended to reveal how long super recognizers memory skills last davis and pour it are happy with the results the super recognizers team leader sees the work with the university as vital because we're operating in an area of a place where that is pretty much undefined and as you know, experimental, it's almost piloting. um, all the forces from around the world are looking our models. in the case of alice grass, the body of her suspected killer was found a few days after the discovery of her body. the 41 year old was found in the woods. he hanged himself, apparently for fear of being captured the police are convinced that he would have been convicted. the evidence found at the crime scene

was too damning, like traces of his dna on the teenager shoes and a cigarette stub. but the tip that led the police to the body in the 1st place came from the super recognizers. while the super cannot unit in the future, i think will expand or across the world. the 1st a murder, solve with fingerprints is about 2 miles from where you all know 19. 05, no to scotland yard out. so take that out and show everybody else. so to do fingerprints. and then dna came along and, and the british police out to the same. so now we're super recognizers. this is the 3rd step. and and so we got to expound this because there's no reason why there are no super recognizers in germany or in, in america or anywhere else in the world. super recognizers tend to be deployed to solve crimes after they've been committed. but sometimes, for example, during big events, they can stop planned crimes, some control rooms,

they monitor events by a video link. if they identify known criminals or suspects, for example, police can intervene. but of course they can't do anything if for example, an unknown sleeper is planning an attack. so even in the cctv capital of the world, there's no such thing as total security. there are animals that use tools to secure food and learn through observation. so the species are known to have an impressive level of intelligence. parents have develop their own solutions for specific problems and use form intelligence to improve their efficiency. while dolphins are not dissimilar to humans, only intelligence front. and there are countless other animals where we know how

smart they are. but our next report deals with the species that are higher flyers than you might think. scientists and bo, whom university have known for a long time, the pigeons aren't stupid, but are in fact highly intelligent. their visual memory is phenomenal and their masters of rote learning. they can memorized 700 images and recall them with ease. this is lam pigeon, 094. she is about to prove how powerful her working memory is. to neuroscientist some, ne, 7 chick. these are the images, the pre prison to the pigeons, the prison dental pipes of items. one of them contains images with the ship information and color information, and the one can compress this route. only colors are great snow check informational

color information. and at the end of the day, we want to see if the information like the amount of information to provide to this animals can effective or commitment from us. this is the main aim of hers. pigeons tenacity, and their equity are legendary. they peck away at the monitors for hours on end, but it has to be quiet. we need to whisper shows it as simple as it's hot and miss presenting. imagine difficult said, and that it waits 6 seconds. and then each bag aside, it back to the answer here was wrong. so that's why he shouted the lights and didn't provide food. but as it regards them, you know, that provide food. so did critical thinking that they see stimulus. they keep it in mind for 6 seconds, and then that you, according to this, was

a correct responses. i got the hold already. and this is how they spend their time . it takes exec to one notation for them between these into all down all can that go and then country 094 is off to the racist. she doesn't know what give up means owner a good to current wants to better understand why thought processes and such different brains as pigeons and human brains function. so similarly, our own working memory is a good place to begin for a comparative experiment. vengeance the father or when we have to remember the color red then inside ourselves, we secretly repeat, read, read, read, read, read. so we'll store the idea of you. but how does the pigeon memorize it with us? and what we're looking at now though, i'm still not sure we'll find it out, is could it be that a pigeon rather than using words which it obviously can instead codes these stimuli by a different movement and it was on the copy legal, good,

such as doing one thing on read, the less must, and another on green, 0 us more. i'd still an open question. the bottom team has been able to shown that the cerebral cortex with which we think is not only found in mammals. a new laser technique has shown that bird brains also have a structure resembling our cortex, with its typical horizontal and radial layers where complex thought takes place. you would, he that he can j make an extremely detailed analysis of everything they see with a vertical layer landing. they coordinated all with the radio layers, the oddest me data. just want these structures are capable of becomes visible under the microscope. but museums it, i've lucy here, individual nerve cells marked in dark wood into tissue and with the technology we used, you can see these dark colored cells communicating with other nerve cells, smith and of enough and saying,

we can practically see who's talking with wholly to, to meet them. the recently made discovery as groundbreaking, something as complex as this was expected and mammals, but not in birds. of that is conflicting. at 1st glance, the 2 brains look so differently money, but the near you go in the more closely you look at, you can see the same basic principles throughout the beds. the closer we look, the more they look the same. that doesn't make master minds of pigeons. in the bird world alone, crows are far superior. yet pigeon still possess astounding cognitive abilities. it's impressive how they recognize and contextualize pictures, and even learn if a sequence of letters forms an english word or not. pigeons are totally underrated . doesn't we seem to submit a shame because they're running about all over the place? and it would be nice to say, wow,

a grand master of working memory comes to visit hilton. does that will be cool? ah! if our blood is red, why i gave you, there is no such thing as to smart, right? if you have a sons related question, then as the video text or voice message, if we answer it on the show, we'll send you a little surprise as a thank you. come on, just does scientifically, memories are generated by information they stored in our sensory memory for a few seconds. working memory, stores information for a few minutes. and our long term memory stores information for hours, at least, and usually for many years. but memory is not always reliable.

ah, the human lenary is a huge archive that works like a well oiled machine. well, most of the time, but not always. sometimes there are things we just cannot retrieve while the memories land on us uninvited. and there is some we simply can't shake off. here are 3 classic tricks our memories play on us. oh, 1st up, the tip of the tongue phenomenon. something we've all experienced at some point. what was annex his name again? hang on. on the tip of my tongue for, for ah, this is what's going on upstairs. my recollection of one particular person is

stored in a number of locations. their appearance individual center sounded their voice in the auditory center. and the approximate number of syllables in their name and the language center. new, identify the person, the brain has to dig up and piece together a sufficient number of those features. and that's where it's easy to get confused. a similar sounding, they might 1st pop into your head because it's available sooner. so what's the solution? want to turn your attention to something completely different. southern removes a center in the works and eventually the penny dropped. oh, john claude van damme, of course. drink number 2, factory memory. that is come in reasoning to odor. it's not just on solicited visual memories that sometimes bothers smell. i don't know that from again. suddenly you might be haunted by a distinctly unwelcome memory. why is that?

it's pretty simple. with all our senses, smell is the only one directly connected to the brains emotional center, the a medulla, and also to the adjacent hippocampus, the area where memories are created. therefore, odors and the recollections associated with them are particularly video memory, cues, o. number 3, the e were more catchy tune memories that refused to go away. it can be very annoying. like a song you just have to sing along to songs that you can't get out of your head tend to resurface when we're busy doing mundane tasks. and now working memory has some free capacity to stave off board amount brain browsers through its archives and pulls out a specific song in a similar style to a record player. and in our heads,

we are the he emusic. we adore all that. we absolutely hate this triggers the stimulus that makes us repeat the melody all there expect to ourselves. that creates a never ending loop. as you're singing leads to you hearing mattoon internally, which in turn encourages for the singing remedy. research is recommend listening to the song once bull away through to the bitter end and then bury the memory deep deep down in your brain's archive. 2 2 tend to music and the days met that is a superstar of classical music in his own day. and now he composed with 1000

i and those legs and said to have magical effects on this i just listening to mozart really make you smarter. the so called mozart effect was identified by researchers in 1993 o. b gave a group of college students a 10 minute audio sample to listen to. oh, with soundtracks ranging from silent to a relaxation tape options you oh to a mozart piano concerto. oh, the students were then asked to take a spacial intelligence test. oh, oh,

oh. oh, then those subjects who had been listening to mozart performed better than the other groups. registering spatial i. q scores, 8 or 9 points higher. not a huge leap, but certainly jumped. and that said the intelligence boost lasted all of 15 minutes, said most. and then it disappeared. but that surprising if short lived effect triggered a media frenzy. mozart makes you smart, was in all the headlines. ah, the impact was especially great in the united states. babies born in georgia and tennessee were given a mozart cd, while kindergarten, kids in florida were treated to an hour of mozart music every day. the scientific community also seemed enthralled. researchers reenacted via original experiment, but struggle to confirm the mozart effect. it was replicated in some tests,

but not in others. o. meanwhile, there was a suspicion that the music merely improved the mood of test subjects giving their brain some brief stimulation. another question soon arose. does it have to be mozart? oh, as it turned out, music by other artists had the same effect, whether as sonata by schubert or a song by the 19 ninety's british band to blur i. so the notion that only mozart makes you smarter and permanently so was just a myth. but the big question remains. how does music affect the brain? oh,

or grey matter is in fact colored by practically every thing we do. that includes listening to music and even more so playing music. what ever the music, practicing and performing leave a mark in drummers the neural pathways linking the 2 halves of the brain tend to be fewer but thicker. which is perhaps why they're so good at certain swift and complex movements. surely a well trained fit brain is capable of more than a standard specimen. well, there are plenty of studies that claim playing music makes you smarter. experiments showed that people with a musical background, we're better at certain things. they might have better language memory skills, for example, or were better able to remember things they had seen movie

children in particular performed better on the memory front and in intelligence tests. if they had at least a year of music lessons, the problem is even if playing an instrument goes along with higher i q test scores, it doesn't mean the one cause the other. ah, i played the violin and was an ace in physics. wouldn't he have been a science was even if he had never learned an instrument playing music and being intelligent, may well co occur. but whether one contributes causally to the other is highly questionable. more than a 100 studies over the past 20 years have claimed there is a causal connection without sufficient evidence to back up the claim. like muscles, the brain can be given a workout. but training and one activity doesn't mean you perform better in others

. if 2 skills are very different, being good at the one is not likely to make you better if the other, practicing the piano all day is likely to make you a better pianist. but will it make you better at solving differential equations? ah hardly. ah. still practicing an instrument not only lets you play music, it can also teach you that practice does make a significant difference. that can boost your self confidence and willingness to really apply yourself. so to recapitulate, does music make you smarter? well, there's no straightforward answer, but quite apart from any possible link to intelligence. music is a treasure and a joy in its own right. whether in the form of mozart pop or hip hop

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israel begins trialing, a 4th dose of the corona, virus vaccine. but some experts want additional booster programs could actually prolong the pandemic. we'll find out why. south africans began a week of morning to ana, archbishop desmond, to to the nobel peace prize laureate, and anti apartheid icon will lie in state as cape town, city hall and table mountain lit up in purple, the color of his robes. and later in the show, we take a look back at some of the vest wonderfully goals from the 1st half of the campaign . ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. talks over iran's nuclear program are resuming in vienna. it's the 8th round of discussions aimed at saving the 2015 agreement, which was meant to stop tehran from developing nuclear weapons. the talks between

germany, britain, france, russia, and china as well as iran. since the u. s. pulled out of the deal in 2018. tyrone has increased its enrichment of uranium and is restricted inspectors for the iranian delegate. an oil exports will be a major bargaining chip and present iran and shipping less than a quarter of what it was in 2018. and when dw visited the capital to run, it was clear that that has helped create oblique economic landscape for every day iranians hope is in short supply in this commercial district of old t. ron, as the talks and far off, sienna, rec, on, even the small items on offer here are getting more expensive by the date, too expensive for many. most people we meet, don't dare to speak out about politics. and those who do i disillusioned manager in that, oh, if i don't reach agreement,

then it will be young. people like me who pay the price 7 i'm as of the economy is in a shambles. and there's no work in even if you find a job, everything is so expensive when you're young, car, nice. the caught on the road with one another. my get only amiga buddy in cash offer quantity. even if they sign a deal you nothing much will happen. normal, your, i don't think anything in the next year or 2 will have a positive impact on my life to present your manner or your father or because it was thinking with one. i'm just like a little my 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 does not even close to any this. how the it won't work out to successfully a family mafia 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 of pressing objective,

but official willingness to cooperate with the west. is that an all time low? this political analyst at t, ron university, tells us over the realizes that the of are dealing with a country that's not reliable. it's called the united states at b or left the agreement. once it is this american saying that you fooled me a once. shame on you, if you called me twice. shame on me. so the racy administration. mister, there, you see other people around him a don't the, don't want to be full twice. many ordinary iranians also feel duped, not only by the international community, but also by their own leaders, as on the southern california estie. but the nuclear deal should be made when the basis of these law, mac republic is corrected. but from the very foundation,

as only the 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 only to do retro fission. has the people in charge think only about the benefits to themselves, lamb only, not about the 85000000 people living in this country hasty which was 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 as both person to the iranian foreign ministry edge, all participants in the talks to strive for an agreement. here's what he had to say, b m over time on mucous bible, yet we advise all the participants in the negotiations to come to vienna with the will to achieve a good agreement. busy ambia on talk about what is unbearable for these la mic republic of iran about is the fact that some parties are mistaken in their

calculations. are you thinking that they can waste the time and energy of others with their campaigns, of false denials, or falsifying the facts? adnan said that the bias and iran expert and co founder of the center for applied research in partnership with the orient. he joined us. he joined us now diesel doff at non welcome to de doubly bracing for the worst we had it there. just how crucial are these talks for iran? what's at stake for the iranian people? i guess clearly the prospects for better economic livelihoods is what's at stake for the iranian people. and the prospects get, of course, better if sanctions relief was on the horizon. and i think this is what matters to, to the wrong and 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 had advice i will have to say in that with respect to not urging back into the deal. if we all recall that by the administration came into power, 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 trump sanctions as leverage. so to speak, to game more from iran than 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 non to that, to by speaking to me a little earlier. a israel has begun trialing a 4th dose of the corona virus vaccine, 150 medical staff at a hospital near television being given a 4th shot of the bio tech pfizer vaccine. some medical experts, a warning that widespread additional booster programs in rich countries may prolong the pandemic. this doctor is one of the 1st people to get

a 4th corona virus vaccine. he's taking part in what's thought to be a world. first trial. all the participants or medical staff who had 3 vaccine doses, but were found to have low antibody levels. i'm excited to be the 1st person, apparently in the world who god the 4th booster of lee called lexan, to paraphrase and all thing, a small job in the shoulder probably joins there for mankind. israel's health ministry is considering an expert panels recommendation to give additional boosters to medics and people aged over 60. some experts urge caution. i really don't know if will only the 4th of those. i think it's a big question. hah, i think that's why it's so important to have a research now before most of the world is even thinking about a 4th. you know, we need to see whether there's any added benefit to giving for almost 45

percent of the israeli population is already triple jabbed. but this concern about the spread of the army con variant with some 2000 recorded cases. and one known death. prime minister natalie bennett, has already ordered preparations to begin for rolling out the 4th dose. if the plan gets approved, it would go against warnings from the world health organization will blanket wooster programs are likely to prolong the pandemic rather than ending it by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage . giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mitigate the trial will test the safety and efficacy of a 4th shot. but politicians must decide on the ethics of boosting in the face of global vaccine inequality. let's turn out some other stories making headlines this hour. some aaliyah's prime minister has called on security forces to follow his

orders and accused the president of an attempted coup. president mohammed abdulla, he mama mohammed earlier suspended prime minister mohammed cassandra blay, from office on allegations of corruption. the 2 ladies have repeatedly clashed over delays to somalia parliamentary elections. somebody local polish president andre duda has vetoed a controversial media law saying he could not sign the bill in its current form. demonstrations against the law attracted thousands of people. it would have bad companies from outside europe, from holding a controlling state can polish media companies. its critics say that would have curtailed press. freedom to dams have 1st in north east in brazil causing severe flooding and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. water swept into the city of it, tom bay and by his state after the dams gave way 18 people have died since

torrential rains began pounding the region in early november. sarah weddington, the lawyer who won the landmark roe v wade case in the united states, has died at the age of 76. a victory in the u. s. supreme court gave american women the right to an abortion she died in her sleep at her home in austin, texas. south africa has begun a week of morning to honor archbishop desmond tutu. he'll be laid to rest on new year's day. the anti apartheid icon is being remembered around the world as a champion of justice and human rights to to was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1984 for his efforts in the struggle against whites only rule. across south africa, mon is a pain tribute to a beloved icon of the struggle against apartheid. here at cape towns arch for arch monument. many had wall memories of the late archbishop adhering the party. did you,

as one of the guys was going out, follow people in the legacy of discipline, to whom of go on? he will never forget. there are trees contribution for ease loving joyful attitude and his peaceful attitude. he told people in a very nice way, so they willing become offended. others notice his sadness over south africa's political path in recent years. he envisage a new south, south africa. i'm with her with her, with a better life, all for all of us. and am many years later and he was rather disappointed. the city of cape town is also paying its own tribute to, to, to illuminating landmarks in purple, the color of his old robes. we hope in the small way that when this image of, of these kept on icons go around the world, that it helps every one to remember. this remarkable man is celebrated love to to

regarded by many as south africa's moral compass will be laid to rest on new year's day. until then, bells is set to ring out in his honor. the day was listeners asked to pause in tribute. i shifting gears now. we tend to sports and germany's bundis lager. here's the look back at some of the best goals from the 1st half of the campaign while the lake is on a winter break. this goes with gary oldman. stay home on the whole defense with

concentrate. today he's not going to be able to go with a lloyd, could it be cooking and one as they get south again on january 7th, don't forget you can catch all the highlights from every match date right here. all day w news. we are watching the date of the news. his reminder of the top story we're following for you. negotiate has a meeting in vienna, again to try and save the iran nuclear deal. the current us administration says it wants to return to the deal, but as acute the count iranian government of making new demands in exchange for

abandoning its enrichment of uranium latin is update this hour, but don't go away. coming up, offer a short break and stay deputy business with rob watts tablet volley alias will be here with the headlines next hour. i'm rebecca, written in berlin for me and the entire yes, thanks very much for watching. ah, [000:00:00;00] with

how long does it last for an eternity time it can be measured precisely and did every one experiences it differently as if there are different forms of time time? ah, the phenomenon a dimension. we know we won't live forever. an illusion. about time presenting futures past starts december 31st on d. w. ah, the new year and a new hope german businesses say they're expecting a significantly better 202220. 21. 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 the host the winter olympics will get the latest and the rest of the world goes nuts. the california walnuts will hear house supply chain problems. mean, there aren't enough to go round. this is day to be a business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. roll 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, or 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 to explain to us why there's so much optimism among german businesses that, 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 i story 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 mentioned. 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 of 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. colds, micron about 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 and forecast on the only front is a base may be strong, but without

a smaller impact 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 that may be 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 of having a knock on effect, we're seeing inflation as a result of that was saying i of energy bills is on. it's not 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 just sticks. 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 order 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 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 is 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 short a time, or you go by in the true. so now i'm not scared. i said, all we have to do is follow quarantine instructions 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 should in 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 sick after getting infected with cove in 19 bad weather. also kept many plains on the ground in north america. david related flight cancellations, continued on monday to russia. 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 yar mile europe pipeline, which supplies western european countries. public data shows the gas link has been

put in to reverse this week, allowing poland to receive deliveries from germany instead and trouble. chinese property developer ever grant 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. um, this load is going to germany. these in shall walnuts are going to lebanon.

ah, these loads are going to japan. but this year the boxes are piling up in the warehouses. not how it should be. exports are grinding to a halt. gold rivers president is worried. a 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 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 an 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. customers, retailers, for example, no longer necessarily look for quality in times of 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 gay

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 is potatoes from canada among other places. but due to corolla, virus related logistics problems, as well as flooding near vancouver, fewer deliveries are arriving from canada. many japanese are disappointed if i go to get up 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 can still get the small. they just have to settle for 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, and jo, men, fast food lovers will have to dial down their expectations. and now a reminder of 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 mo, 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 use youtube channel on facebook to next time. ah. will go to the dark side where intelligence agencies are pulling the strings. there was a before 911 and after 911, he says after 911,

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