chris kolber on berlin. welcome to the program. germany has announced that the west will impose additional sanctions on russia after allegations of war crimes in 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. all the 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 the full band seeing wreak havoc on the economy and risk social unrest. right, let's some factors with christie plants in my colleague dw business, said christie, of the german chancellor saying a ban of a ghast deliveries from russia would wreak havoc on the economy. is he right? well, he 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 is 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,

calls for targeting target versus energy sector. they are growing, we have 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 there's 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. of course, i'm talking there about the corona virus pandemic. i know what we saw during that is that lock 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. chrissy blossom, thank you. and now to some of the other global business 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's supply before the band. the taliban tax farmers growing the crop. it 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 $13000000000.00 bank accounts had been opened across the country and increase of 9 percent year on year. tesla has informed that staff that work at its largest factory will not resumes planned after shanghai extended discovered

lockdown. the current hauled production makes one of the longest suspense suspensions since production at the factory began in 2019. tesla makes 16000 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 legal 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. next 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 the help of a small pump. the mix is often sent into the sewage tank and then out to see a few see fairies dare to speak out those who do risk their jobs and ultimately their koreans. oh, it is expected. everyone move silently participated. pundum ended up with in the night. but it was diluted. woodward was woodard. oh, you know, it becomes even easier to order builds dumping is the shipping industry's dirty secret? the reasons are financial every delay in this tight modern business costs money. but there is another way to find build 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 container vessels light up because 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 are 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 is 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 in this, i'm not joined by max, they're not his are gender list in the researcher and one of the lead offers of this investigation. welcome to the studio max we heard of reportedly 1500 build

dumping sites in the last 18 months. how big is this problem must be massive. yeah, it's very difficult to estimate the total of 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 vigorous so on the satellites 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 anzio. estimates that the total amount globally could be as high as 5 times the exxon valdez oil spill, which was one of the worst environmental 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 whistle blowers and one of the obstacles was also getting them to talk because people who speak out are being blacklisted and they told us their freight of not being able to find work anymore. which is why none of them spoke to us with their name. we had to anonymize the 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 a 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 last or that internationally, by an international maritime organization. but what we found us that enforcement as 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, indonesia, one of those hot spots and done also the 1st. what happens when a polluter is found? for example, in europe, science can often be quite low, sometimes as little as 15000 euros in the u. s. there is a whistleblower system, meaning that fines are often higher and if the 100 millions and

whistleblowers got a portion of that fine as a reward. so they get their share a briefly, if you could, or their efforts growing internationally to tackle this problem. so o, derm weren't more satellites, which means up sort of area of ocean that's being covered as growing. and it's also becoming cheaper to sort of, monet 20 oceans 247 which isn't happening at the moment at the moment. and satellites can capture an image may be $2.00 to $3.00 times the day in the european union, less so in other regions. and so when that um sort of um, coverage increases stan at might become easier for countries to actually enforce that. so technology can help journalist max bernart, 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 cabinet. he is 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, and berlin. thanks for watching. have yourself a successful day? thing with

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