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expert. as techies, laira keeps tumbling will be the bulgarians crossing the border to profits from that better buying power and demand for private jets has hit new heights during the pandemic. we'll hear why. business travelers have been ditching commercial flights. is d to be up as they saw robots in berlin? welcome to the pro. europe's energy crunch is fueling tensions with russia. moscow has denied restricting gas deliveries to its neighbors, insisting that to blame for their own problems. like a natural gas pipeline has been running in reverse from germany to poland. after russia stopped flows in the other direction me while western europe is sourcing extra supplies wrong, the u. s. as the energy crisis deepens, this earthquake in northern holland was recorded on surveillance cameras over 70 quakes have been recorded and groaning in this year. court fosten still remembers

one strong quake in 2012. i was sitting behind my desk on the, on a desk chair with her, with wheels underneath, and i was moving forward and backward for about 20 centimeters. so it's really shaken. what's happening here. fosten belongs to us citizens initiative that blames natural gas production for the constant earthquakes. that's why pumping stations are being gradually shut down. in 2023 production will stop completely because the damage is only getting worse. is that the costs of strengthening, strengthening houses in order to be able to continue gas extraction was rising too much and to 3rd, to set the guess field is for 1890 percent empty. at this moment, the netherlands will soon stop being a major gas supplier. the country will even have to import gas itself from places like the gas storage facility in raiden in lower saxony. here gas is stored under

ground, mainly from russia. but because gas storage facilities are only half full gas market, experts are worried. a bit of a sudden the gas levels are already very low. they have not been this low at this time of year in the last 10 years. and because it has been cold in the last few days and cold weather is forecasted for january, the storage facilities are emptying relatively quickly. this is a situation that is already worrying market participants. you can see that in the high prices, as critics say, gas prom which has close ties to the kremlin, is keeping delivery volumes low in order to put pressure on the you. that spat stems from the e u position on the ukraine conflict and the slow approval pace of the controversial nord stream to baltic sea pipeline. the situation is worsening for over a week. gas prom has not sent natural gas via the critical your mall pipeline to

this pumping station in brandenburg. the prices the prices are so high now that we are actually worried about the security of gas supplies. so if you strategic restraint, no longer makes sense here, and we are actually destroying our prospects as a reliable gas supplier for the next few years out for latisha, osley for gone, for the next yogurt doubts around gas problems. reliability are growing as our fears that russia's president putin will use natural gas as a bargaining chip in the future. a potential ease of his sleeve in this political poker game with the european union. now turkey's currency has fallen 60 percent against the dollar this year. the government of president edwin has struggled to make it's an orthodox economic policy work lowering interest rates despite inflation spiraling out of control that hits the pocket of the average turkish person. however, for tourists from neighboring bulgaria and greece, it's

a chance to snap of products at bargain prices, including hair at the border city of it in ah, it's a smooth process crossing the turkish florida. here's a deer. now. the border guards are well used to day trippers by now. 20000 visitors come to dinner every week by car bus or train, especially the weekend when they pack out the bizarre. she will maze good, little political. it's more convenient for me to shop here. a buy clothes and food and whatever we need for the children and grandchildren for christmas. bulgaria is much more expensive than here. if you ask how much love we exchanged, i exchanged $500.00 left. it's plenty for all of us. knew lisa to set the vision. stevens, us each key to love one lab is worth almost 9 lira just 3 months ago. it was only 6 the back lava bakeries around the bazaar also busy. the turkish sweet pastry is

also popular in bulgaria. to baker's advertise their goods in turkish, bulgarian, and greek usually will yet, but a little live on the bulgarians. come to a deer and big groups and shop like crazy. sometimes they buy 5 or 10 of the same item. we're planning to sell it on or thinking they won't find these again. we'll have another them salt lake and they really do some serious stocking up. take the products back to bulgaria. yes. or gotten them that you disposal your verola the unit in lewis? i actually in the supermarket, it quickly becomes obvious who's turkish and who was bulgarian, while turks can afford less and less because of the falling currency. the bulgarians and greeks are cashing in the shop. a tourist spend an average of $500.00 euros per person according to the university of a dinner many by enough goods to last several weeks. the city is currently trying to persuade the day trippers to stay longer, not with even lower prices, but by expanding what it has to offer. next year, they're leaving be

a christmas market. quite a novelty for predominantly muslim turkey. as some of the other global business stories makes the news, china's complained to the un after it's space station almost collided with space sex satellites. twice this year in mosques company is planning to place $12000.00 small satellites in orbit to provide global internet access. currently $1800.00 of them already circling the earth. research suggests for out of 5 german hospitals struggling to fill job vacancies nationwide. more than 22000 jobs remain unfilled according to the countries hospital institute. that number has tripled since 2016 hospitals are blind restrictions on operations during the pandemic for the loss of workers. now, airline passengers are facing another day of major disruption over 10000 flights have been canceled world wide since christmas eve. many airlines suffering staff shortages due to ami kron outbreaks over 2000 commercial flight schedule for

tuesday, have been cancelled according to the website flight away. the unreliability of commercial air travel during the pandemic has led many high and business travelers to look for alternatives. as a result, demand for private jets is sky high. being able to choose when you want to fly, as well as who you want to fly with. are obvious advantages. during the pandemic industry bodies estimate the number of seats airlines could offer passengers. harvard in 2020, that means more than 2 and a half 1000000 fewer seats. private aviation industry operators are picking up the slack and are in high demand about in said with these and in times like these some flight connections aren't available or out adapted to their schedules for business people or government officials. but also, there are families who want to fly on holiday and can't reach their destination any other way. depending on the size of the aircraft, charter rates begin at around 2 and a half 1000 euros an hour. so way, the cost of

a chart, a jet flying $5.00 passengers from paris to frankfort and back around one and a half hours each way. that gives a total of $7500.00 euros. so i the same 5 people in business class. and the bill's going to be around $5000.00 euros, but that comes with the time wasting and inconvenience at commercial airports both ends plus the risk of infection from other passengers. while in a private jet, there's the chance to prepare for that important conference or business meeting while on route. worldwide, the number of business jet flights in november 2021 was almost 60 percent up from the same time in 20. 20 chatted. yet. operators are struggling to keep up with the demand as is implemented as really look at the moment. it's very hard because of a pandemic to get aeroplanes as an aircraft operator. as an airline in the business of aviation,

we have to realize that the market is empty. secondhand aeroplanes are just not available, and even new orders take 2 or 3 years at the moment. a moment. so far, the major source of growth has been in the united states. but since the appearance of the omicron strain of the corona virus demand in europe is really taking off. meanwhile, the pandemic is brought tough times for the global fashion industry. consumers confines to their home spend less money on clothes and should have shops couldn't sell them. anyway. fashion designers have also been struggling with lucrative showcases often can sort. we met one such designer in india, videos from 2019, bring back fond memories for a fashion designer blue mika cheda. she was at the top of her game back then with models at india fashion. we can, ma'am, by before the pandemic business was booming.

people who are not paid for me, i know that i believe that it is not that invention, not the baby ah, but they want to, but it just that the dime that difficult slide from my heart again, unity i believe for them that if their businesses are good, if they do good. ah, if they come out of the situation quicker and foster, i think even i'll be in a better position. and then my money can be to leave. the pandemic drove the tourists away to on the street and mom by fashion stores of clothes down in droves . booming kancheta also had to close her store. everybody, one of the has closed down the business over a year. and this, it ordered was one of i shouldn't have had begun renewed as a days, but giving up is not her style. she could no longer afford her old design and sewing workshop. so she moved her business to a much smaller location,

less than 10 of her 45 sewing machines, remain in operation. and she was only able to keep a handful of employees. you know, jesse and deciliter, this is i will, i me, come got the will, the impact on work has been too much. earlier we had a very big staff. we had 110 or 111 people working except where, but i'll be watching somebody now that's not the situation right now. we only of 8 to 10 people working here as we don't have as much work as before. it's like having no work at all relative like ami made us of leg work. come cut the me, which will graduate fabrics and patterns fill the store rooms. before the pandemic, the workshop was a roomy, 400 square meters. now the boss can barely find a seat through all my vibrant line is concerned. oh no, i'm not going to shut it. okay. so slowly,

gradually. oh, earlier than i used to make for myself, my own brand, and i used to explore the noise. that transition has been to sustain and sort of i, i am making other, but i'm sort of him. now, the new thing for them i design and mix them both for the brand on which they give the order these days boomy. ca cheda only gets to designed late at night in one of her shops which she's converted into a grocery store. another step in her crisis management plan. not so from us by ah, ah, the beginning of the story that moves us and takes us along for the

ride. it's all about the perspective. culture information. this is the w news. w. made from mines. ah, oh, what people have to say matters to us. mm. mm, that's why we listen to their stories reporter every weekend on d. w. or this is did other news asia i'm british banner g. s 2021 comes to a close. we're taking a look back at one of the biggest stories of the. yeah. the taliban takeover of afghanistan, we look at the situation of guns,

find themselves in after 20 years of democracy and look at what the future might hold for them. ah. after decades at war, the us and its allies called it quits, leaving the poly bond in charge. and if there's a set of images that best capture up how of gonna react it to the poly bond takeover? it is these desperate people clinging on to a u. s. military plane as a default. gobble airport images from the 16th of august the day after the taliban into a bowl. the city's airport would want to see what teens of death and hopelessness as people struggled to leave the country. all of this leading to inevitable finger pointing at the united states for court abandoning of god's president joe biden

would have none of that. american troops cared not and should not be fighting a war and dining a war that afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. there is some truth to that, while many brave guns will just did, 5000 did surrender to the power button for guns. of course that meant dealing with the taliban, they feared, would exact revenge on people who worked for western nations. 1000 stamped out and mock and waste outside public, or hoping to be lifted at suicide bombers. killed more than 100 and just oz before the august 31st deadline. the last us soldier voted the last military plan out, leaving the poly bung fully in charge. not only that, the feel is one of many who was there at the thought about to pull up. he's and i've gone john this to my spoken with over the years about development in i've got his son, he's in the now and i reached out to him to ask what it was like in kabul in those

weeks of transition. we took to be quite honest, everyone thought that you know, the day the tall bon would come, the world would and that there would be, you know, mass killings on the st. blood everywhere. that would essentially be like an armageddon. and luckily it didn't turn out that way, you know, there was a lot of fear, especially like the day on august 15th, when there were rumors that the taller bond were coming into the city. you know, i was out in a very busy, highly traffic area of the city. going to meet a friend for lunch when, you know, i just saw hundreds of people just running in each direction. it looked like a disaster movie. and you know, i was the last time i had my headphones on the street, they call, well, i take off my headphones and i'm like, what's going on? and people are saying,

the tall bonner coming the telephone are coming. and everybody was running screaming like just trying to get into cars, trying to get away just panicking. it turned out that it was a completely false alarm. and you know, that ended up coming until the middle of the night. but that was the level of fear going into it. and then the initial things after they actually took over and they can be seen everywhere on the streets of cobble. you know, the streets were very emp, the people were afraid to go out. they didn't know how to behave, they didn't know how the tall a bond would react. you know, there was no economy, most most stores, most restaurant, most businesses were all closed, the offices are closed. so not a lot of people are going out. and then slowly, you know, like more and more p started going out more and more women. although to be fair, you know, to this day there's, there's a lot fewer women out on the streets of major cities, including caldwell than there would have been in years past. and even 56 weeks ago,

ah. but now what's happened is that the biggest issue for people is that there's no money. there's no money anywhere and you know, honest on is an entirely cash based society. it's the kind of play where if you don't have physical money, you don't eat and that has become the reality for everybody in the country now. you know, even if he were, you know, a 1000000 is a little harder dropped, but it's like, it's something that we're seeing for 1st time. our correspondence have been to problem behalf soon, but it basically leads me to ask you, do you think that the polar bond can actually run a country so far? they haven't shown it because if you look at it, it's been 4 months since they took power and the taliban have not shown anything that shows how they would run a country, you know, they haven't put forth any specific exact laws thing. this is exactly what we want,

you know, they haven't set up say like a specific tax code. they haven't, ah, they haven't made any official statements to say that these are, this is the way we envisioned this country. you know, it's been 4 months and i can't think of anything that they did. that is a concrete example of how they want to run the country or in achievement or forward . i'm, you know, we're still using all passports from the republic. people are still getting documents that say the stomach were public on top of it. ah, you know they, they haven't, you know, that there's nothing. there's no specific law. there's no, deb really, there's no guidance and into what they want a country to look like. we left and even there with the time being a little joining us from a don't have at the very 1st person perspective. thanks so much for joining us today. thank ok. thank you. so the taliban have done the fighting. now they need to do the governing and based on what i mean, that if you just said they appear to be failing. if something did correspond,

nick connelly witnessed firsthand when he wasn't gone to the time in september. this is his report with a canister foreign reserve, frozen taliban administration has chosen to paralyze the banking system in an attempt to stop hard currency flooding out of the country. in the process. they brought the whole economy to a grinding halt. i'm just waiting for my salary. i don't know the fusion, no one is ok. everyone is depressed here and no one dares challenge them for now. but i've kind of stones new telephone rulers know full well that tensions arising as ordinary africans, cash reserves run out. and new jobs prove almost impossible to come by. these tradesmen tell us they haven't worked in weeks before i would only work as a carpenter. now i'll clean toilets if i have to. we might end up starving or killing ourselves. and the taliban will cut your hand off if you feel like you're going to get me to someone in

a country when nearly all basic food stuff from rice to oil and flour or imported clothes banks. and currency controls been rising prices and scarcity. and then in october, the u, instead at least 14000000 gone. so that's about one 3rd of the population was caught on the brink of starvation. european union pledged 1000000000 euros in 8 for granted on, but as well, food program told me back then promises me nothing without follow through. what does the international community need to be doing so that you can do your job? and i've got a son to the international community. we thank you for the bridges that you made, that we really would appreciate the cash flow so that we could get food into our warehouse. and since then, some cash has started to follow. france, for example, has delivered to 25000000 euros to the un world food program. the it group hasn't food convoys over the border from just on into afghanistan. russia and china have

also delivered winter supplies. the united arab emirates has reopened its cobble embassy. there are reports that saudi arabia and india intend to do the same. and china has met with the thought about in doha. qatar is acting as an intermediary for other western countries. one can only imagine that efforts, such as these, we gather pace in the coming months. the people of abundance on need the world and the world will hopefully step up. but while small steps are being taken for the people have gone, if it's women appear to be moving backwards since coming to the taliban, have made it nearly impossible for older girls to access education for women to work in company jobs and be visible on tv screens in a flash, some 2 decades of progress in women's rights have been lost. a back in september, just how one public university student described to us what she was feeling. you know, like when, when,

when the gleaming flow for debate or like working. when he went to, to do that and suddenly and one night if you can just damage just imagine. and now i might, if i'm in a room, we only get it, you know, go for the, you know, whether or not this is the feeling have right? well, and joining me enough, i'm all is not just now and she's from a minister of mines and petroleum of, of gone is done. she joins me now from our slow down into days of gone this done. can women and girls be hopeful of a bright future? i was not love because the, you know the situation and follow them and they can pull up. their guns are not allowed to be. a woman are not allowed to have what the woman that they have

business all going to sit here and love their woman journalist. and after that i'm not able to continue to work. so there is nothing even that long with given the hope that the change i want the office either. why had there was confused been dealing with all of them and demanding from the thought of on the left thing at the policy and tell me yes, great policy for one woman. but so far we do see any change in policy. baby b, b 3 is just focusing on woman. that matters is not the only woman woman before being an active part of this is the only need to help with galen mc on. how would you say the world from engage with the regime,

but believes that women have a secondary place in society. a very close fact to leave with the father, especially there and we know that the be want to get them back and they don't have any. we have a good policy, but a woman to go stuck diplomatic engagement, isn't it continued that. i don't think your relations in place is better for him to meet equal give ignition, including fun with. i'm thinking it was a woman and been often don't be getting and i still, i don't think that they would continue like that. and part of this, it consistency persistency and working together. one was leading. we'll leave it there for the timing. thank you so much for joining us to dinner just behind working together with one voice for the people have gone on. i'll be honest, it sounds hard to bet it isn't impossible. as we showed earlier, that is already a trickle of an effort underway. and here's hoping it turns to

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