close additional sanctions on russia, after allegations of war crimes and ukraine, reports of the latest atrocities or adding pressure on western allies to take more radical steps. amid those calls for a boycott of russian, oil and gas are growing louder. over the weekend, germany's defense minister also said such a step needed to be discussed as europe receives 40 percent of his gas from russia, germany shazlaw will have shawls rebuffed calls for a full band, seeing it wreak havoc on the economy and risk social unrest. right, let some factors with christie plaids in my colleague dw business, say christy of the german chancellor saying a ban of a gas deliveries from russia would wreak havoc on the economy. is he right? well, he's certainly right in the sense that germany's economy would feel the impact of cutting off imports of energy from russia. but the jury is still out on exactly how

much of an impact this will have. we do have experts working on a modeling for this, but they will admit that this is a completely novel situation for germany. and that makes it difficult to make a reliable forecast. now what we do know, and what the chancellor certainly is aware of as well, is that it's going to be a industries like the chemical industry, the steel industry, energy intensive industries. essentially that work are going to be hit, the hardest, were they, were they to cut off this energy supply. and if anyone who's familiar with germany is economy knows that these are major players here. just last week we had a industrial groups coming out saying that if we were to stop taking russian energy that they could be closing shop within just a matter of weeks. so this of course could be an unemployment which could have a ripple effect into further industries. and that's obviously very hard to forecast . and this is a certainly something the chancellor has a mind. kirsty, nevertheless, coals for targeting target versus energy sector. they are growing. we have

a bolan's prime minister saying that germany is the main road block to tougher sanctions on russia. so how much longer will the stance of the german government prevail? right, well as he said, we saw something of a shift change just yesterday when the defense minister came out and said that the you need to consider banning russian energy us. so she basically saying that this needs to be an option that's on the table. now at the same time, on the exact same day, we saw an article out of quoting, the finance minister saying that he is still against this move. so they're certainly not a necessarily unity on this at this point. um, now, as we said, this is a very unique situation for germany, but they have something of a benefit of still coming off of another recent unique scenario. and of course, i'm talking there about the corona virus pandemic. and now what we saw during that is that locked downs and supply chain issues meant a cut of 5 percent, g, d, p. it in 2020 in germany. currently the most pessimistic modeling for the situation

with russia shows a cut of 6 percent. so we can see that it's maybe not that different and that might be something that the fit officials we thinking about now christy blossom, thank you. and now to some of the other global was and stories making headlines and understand that other than has been the cultivation and trade of poppy planned used to produce opium and haron, the country blues as at least 80 percent of the world supply before the band, caliban tax farmers growing the crop. there was a key resource for the group to generate funds. china is planning to roll out its digital urine called the easy and why? traditional city saying the pilot programs have been successful by the end of last year. more than 13000000000 bank accounts have been opened across the country and increase of 9 percent here on here. tesla has informed that staff that work at its largest factory will not resumes planned after shanghai extended discovered, locked down the current hauled production makes one of the longest suspense

suspensions since production at the factory began in 20. 19 tesla makes $16000.00 cars at the factory pu few of us realize that when goods are shipped around the world, there are hidden costs like the creeping contamination of the oceans through illegal oil discharges by container vessels. it's an environmental crime that goes largely undetected. dw teamed up with lighthouse reports and other media outlets to investigate. this is a ship out at sea with a suspicious trail. most likely, a toxic mix of oily waste water, chemicals, and detergents. cargo vessels produced several tons of this noxious brew every day. it's built water from the engine room that is supposed to be treated on board and then disposed of on land. but the double units,

media partners have found that many crews don't comply with these international regulations with a help of a small pump. the mix is often sent into the sewage tank and then out to see few see ferris dare to speak out those who do risk their jobs and ultimately that korean oh, it is expected. everyone move silently participate and pundum ended up with in the night. but it was that youtube at ward was with our oh, you know that it becomes even easier to order builds dumping is the shipping industry's dirty secret? the reasons are financial. every delay in this tight margin business costs money. but there is another way to find bills will to spills satellites trolling through images,

environmental what shock sky truth identified more than $1500.00 potentially illegal dumps around the globe over the course of 18 months. it's anna corrina tippins job to catch these offenders. the police officer in hamburg inspects incoming, contain of vessels, light up a comb. unfortunately, in hamburg, we don't get information from whistleblowers for us to investigate. that just doesn't happen. what's happening? another problem is that spills quickly dissipate, making them hard to verify. but even if they are no longer visible, the oil droplets i ingested by marine organisms like plankton fish larvae, for example, of very sensitive to toxins. when exposed to oil, they become deformed. in some cases, it's fatal. whether the pollution moves all the way up the food chain is still being studied or has

a mixture of several 100 different camera codes and compounds. and these are toxics, and if animals and plants are getting in contact with, with oil, the, this is very dangerous. experts all agree on one thing, the less contaminated water ends up in the ocean, the better. ah, but with tens of thousands of cargo vessels out at sea, at any given moment, policing them all is next to impossible. for more than this, i'm not joined by max bernard is or journalist in the researcher and one of the lead offers of this investigation. welcome to the studio max. we heard of reportedly 1500 build stumping sites in the last 18 months. how big is this problem

must be massive. yeah, it's very difficult to estimate the total size of the problem because the crimes happened at sea away from anyone's eyes. but using satellite imagery, we caught a glimpse of what the total figure s. so the satellite, we used only capture about one 5th of the world's oceans. that means there is still a much larger dark figure off both happening sky truth, the environmental angio. estimates that the total amount globally could be as high as 5 times the exxon valdez oil spill, which was one of the worst and very mental disasters today. next, tell us about the main obstacles you encountered during this investigation of what i just mentioned already on happens out at sea. so it's very difficult to sort

of got an inside look at what's happening aboard a ship. what we try to do is find several whistleblowers and one of the obstacles was also getting them to talk because the people who speak out are a being blacklist that they told us they're afraid of not being able to find work anymore. which is why none of them spoke to us with their name. we had to and only my accounts. yeah. max, as you mentioned, it doesn't take sophisticated technology to circumvent these environmental rules. and we also saw that in the report it takes that pump and a couple of pipes from what i understand, how are these rules being enforced in an industry that spans the globe. and that has so many dark corners, as you mentioned. so the,

the last or that internationally, by an international maritime organization. but what we found us that enforcement the 1st from country to country, sort of some countries that are quite good at and for thing and finding polluters. but there's also hot spot where and force mand doesn't happen almost at all. authorities turn a blind irish. yep. so for example, in denise as one of those hot spots and then also defers what happens when a polluter is found. for example, in europe, fines can often be quite low, sometimes as little as 15000 euros in the u. s. there's a whistleblower system, meaning that fine are often hyatt and hundreds, millions and whistleblowers got a portion of that fine as

a reward. so they get their share a briefly, if you could are there f a growing internationally to tackle this problem? so, oh, damn warrant more satellites, which means up sort of area of ocean that's being covered is growing and it's also becoming cheaper to sort of monitor the oceans. 24000 which isn't happening at the moment at the moment and satellites can capture an image may be 2 to 3 times the day in the european union, less so in other regions. um, so when that um sort of um, coverage increases than at might become easier for countries to actually enforce it . so technology can help journalist max bernard, thank you for your visit. thank you. and he has a reminder of the top business story we are following for you at this hour after ukrainian allegations of russian war primes. scenarios outside of the catholic he

of germany and other western countries are discussing a new round of sanctions against russia. germany continuing to oppose a band of russian gas. that's our show for now. if you want more, check out our website at d. w dot com slash business. i'm chris kolber. berlin, thanks for watching. have yourself a successful day with with a,

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