much will happen normally 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 when i'm to us are kaylee. don't 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 does not even pursuing this. highly of 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 oppressing objective, but official willingness to cooperate with the west. is that an all time low? this political analyst at t ran university tells us over the realizes that the of dealing with a country that's not reliable. it's called the united states. at b,

i left the agreement. once that there was this american saying that you hold me a once. shame on you, if you fooled me the toys. shame on me. so the racey admiral assertion, monsieur, you see other people around him or gone no more 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 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, he, his article has as long as that doesn't happen and agreement will not be reached when he can do right through official has the people in charge, think only about the benefits to themselves, lamb on, not about the 85000000 people living in this country has they, he's most retina,

lot gift. and so iranians are bracing for the worst. they know that no agreement is likely to mean more sanctions. and even the possibility of the military confrontation and that they'll be the ones paying the price. well, i spoke to person from the iranian foreign ministry, urged all participants in the talk to strive for an agreement. here's what he had to say. bmo with hamil, mucus, referee. we advise all the participants in the negotiations. so learning to come to vienna with the will to achieve a good agreement, busy and beyond. on talk about what is unbearable for these la mic republic of iran . that is the fact that some parties are mistaken in their calculations. ok, thank you. thinking that they can waste the time and energy of others with their campaigns of faults, denials all or falsifying the facts. kathy showed it. well, let's bring in alley photonics. he's

a political scientist focusing on iran and joins us from here in berlin. highly good to have you on d. w. and tell us what's at stake for the iranian people. well, a lot is at stake. as one of the interviews from ron also pointed out, it's even unclear if the j. c. u. s. revived and sanction lifted in how far this will benefit the iranian people at large. because after the implementation of implementation of the j. c. k. in january 2016, where we have economic growth that came back that came on the backdrop of revitalized oil exports. it is exactly what the iranians are also now aiming for. as you also suggested, that the money did not trickle down on to the average iranian, so that's income inequality had in fact, risen. so it is very unclear what's the song republic will do with the money in the wake of

a revival in how far it will benefit the iranian people. all right, well now iran and the united states are not actually holding direct talks, but time is taking now around one's guarantees that the u. s. won't pull out of any deal in the future. and they also want the easing of sanctions and controls, which is a thorn in the side for the us. now, how much to the u. s. and around actually one this deal though. well, it seems that the buy demonstration is still very much interested to see the j. c. p o, a revived, but also patient is running out on the western part, given the kind of kind of massive boosting of iran's nuclear program. that has been a concern. now, with those countries, but also with israel. so there is a risk that this kind of strategy that is pursued by iranians, by the iranians, which is to increase their bogging leverage through a much stronger nuclear program, how much it could backfire,

and how much it could provoke more conflict and, and instead of lessening it, so i think so, so there is some kind of a mazda monitor from the iranians to basically drive back some of the parts of the program. but the, what the iranians are asking for is also very much important and it is quite unrealistic that for instance, the u. s. will be able to guarantee that any future us administration will not pull back from the deal. so there is a lot of uncertainties here. and not only because of those maximum maximized or mystic demands from the iranians. but also in how far the u. s. is willing to concede on the sections issue because it's a very complex architecture of sanctions that is not very easily, you know,

dismantled because it depends on the various policy areas on terrorism on diamond writes, not only on the nuclear issue. right, well we'll be keeping a close eye on those that talks. now ali, i told an edge i thank you for joining us on d. w. thank you. israel has begun trialing a forced dose of the crone of irish vaccine, a 150 medical staff at a hospital near television are being given a 4th shot of the biotech pfizer vaccine. but some medical experts or warning that widespread additional booster programs in rich countries may prolong the global 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've 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 got the 4th booster of li vixon to paraphrase and all

thing, a small job in the shoulder. probably dice 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 it, 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 jobs. 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 mediate 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. is going to roundup of some of their headlines. now. smiley is prime minister, has called on security forces to follow his orders and accused the president of an attempt to coo president, my homage. abdulla he mohammed earlier suspended prime minister mohammed, who sang rosalind from office on allegations of corruption. the 2 leaders have repeatedly clashed over delays to somali as parliamentary elections to dams have burst in northeastern brazil,

causing severe flooding and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. water swept into the city of tom day in by. yes, state, after the dams gave way 18 people have died since torrential rains began pending the region. in early november, germany started its vaccination campaign against coven, 191 year ago. today, that the 1st ever crone of irish vaccine was developed in a german lap. and when the country's 1st shot was given to 101 year old, edith could void salah, right after christmas, it was a big moment for the country, but most residents have to wait for months to get their 1st shot and watched as countries like the united states and the united kingdom distributed their doses at a much faster pace. f d. w has been reporting on germany's vaccination campaign through it's ups and downs. and my colleague william clue croft has all the details. that's right. pablo we've come so far. we still have so much longer to go here in jeremy,

but we can show you where we've come from, where we're going in this last year or the 1st year of vaccinations, starting on december 27th, 2020, with just a few tens of thousands of doses that are about 70000000 adults in germany who were at 1st eligible for the vaccine. it got off to a slow start with just $10000000.00 of those adults getting vaccinated in the 1st quarter. really picked up a supply started coming in and as rule started dropping away, but who could get those shots in the 2nd quarter. but you see things leveling off as we've got closer to where we are now. and that has had the government here in germany, very frustrated that it can get more people vaccinated, which is why they set a goal for the end of this year to have 30000000 new shots in people's arms by then since november 28th, excuse me. no, our 18th is when we're counting from how we made the goal. let's see. it looks like we have created a health ministry to day on christmas 2nd day of christmas,

we reached over 30000000 vaccinations here, both 1st and 2nd shots and boosters. so we've made it by christmas that leads us to our next goal. pablo was wondering, 3000000 william. does it look like the next gold is doable though? yes, so they're looking for another $30000000.00 by the end of january bumping. the, the at least one dose rate to 80 percent. there is some concern. a car lauterbach, the health minister said there's some concern about supply going into the new year . he is trying to snap up supply every which way he can, he says was going be tens of hundreds of millions of doses coming in over the 1st quarter of next year. now that's great news for germany, but as we heard in that report earlier, lots of places not as lucky to have such purchasing power that germany has. and as we know just from the omicron variant, when the pandemic is not over everywhere, it is not over anywhere. that's right, t w's william blue cross. thanks for your reporting. all right, when you're watching detail the news coming up,

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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 round the state of your 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 workers. at 19 of them said that the number of employees will remain the same while 8 of the business associations are actually planning to cut staff 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 a business just to explain to us why there's so much optimism among gym and businesses than 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, they're 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 john 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 have the on the con very and now in case numbers are rising. how businesses feeling about that today? 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 an forecast on the only current is a vase may be strong, but without a smaller impact on the hospitality situation. nobody else and the riot 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 far as 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 on guns a lower problems on the supply side. the logistics systems which are really in trouble due to the closing of ports in east asia, for example, have we, we expect to, to solve these problems that will 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 demand, which is still in the order statistics. ok, me had 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. 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 sick after getting infected with cove in 19 bad weather. also kept many plains on the ground in north america. they would relate a flight cancellations, continued on monday to is 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 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 graham 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. ah,

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 chilly are also important not suppliers. so is europe or customers retailers, for example, no longer necessarily look for quality in time, so 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 trouble as 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 i'm, 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 go to set 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, that i would find it a bit sad for the people who liked mcdonald 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 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 in 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 use youtube channel on facebook to next time. ah, the landscape reflection of a turbulent history. the cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. v ron's mountains reveal

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