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hunger here. how data from paul this is helping to keep track of crop shortages and disastrous departure. we report on the staffing problems the amsterdam ship, all air force the getting holiday make as hellish start. this is data we business on robots. in berlin, welcome to the program, and we begin in the united states where there's hope that inflation is coming under control. during april prices rose at a much less severe pace than seen in recent months. the personal consumption expenditures price index, edge the by not point 2 percent. that's the smallest gain in 18 months. that compares with a note to point 9 percent rise in march is seen as the key measure of inflation in the states. but economists are warning, it's not yet time for the federal reserve to breathe a sigh of relief. left cost to our financial correspondent in new york. yes. go ahead and discuss this further. yeah. and it was behind the slow down in inflation
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. i mean, clearly a rope, it is true early to celebrate, but at least inflation is pointing at the right direction south, so meaning downwards, or we shouldn't forget that for the month of march, we actually saw the biggest increase in this inflation measure since 1982 so in 40 years, so at least we're coming down a little bit from that level of having that set, those inflation measures are still way higher than where there were before the pandemic started. but it is definitely a little bit of welcome use. we have to wait and see if there's a speak inflation recently. for example, we did see that the price of gas in the united states has been increasing again, but at least for one months we saw a little breather. jessica, a welcome news comes at the same time as some other positive news about the us economy. what more did we learn on friday about how things are going yeah,
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about the economy and especially about the very important consumer. because at the end of the day it's consumption. what drives the economy in the united states. so we got to figures of for a consumer spending up by point 9 percent and also a consumer income, some up point 4 percent. so what we're seeing with those numbers is that americans are spending despite inflation, but we also see that they're spending more than they make a meaning. the savings rate actually is falling. we've seen the savings rate now being the lowest in about and 40 and here is but overall it was a pretty good sign from the us economy at this point. and we saw a shock reaction on wall street for the week. actually, all major indices are up by a good m 6 percent. and with that,
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we could stop multi week a losing streak and the s and p 500 had been down for 7 consecutive weeks. so we haven't seen anything like that in 2001, but at least for now. so we could not just see inflation going the right direction, but also the market recovering a bit from those deep losses in the past 2 months. okay, some reasons to be cheerful, heading into the weekend. thanks a lot young quarter in new york for us. now we've reported a lot recently on the threat that the war and ukraine passes to weld food supplies tons of crucial exports of crops like wheat are being blocked by russian blockades . while researchers are hoping that space to play apart and enjoy, there's enough fears to go around the european space agency is living planets, impose him. it's taking place in the german city of bon this weekend. technical solutions are needed to tackle world hunger and some of europe greatest scientific
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minds. clearly on the job, it's not just ukrainian farmers that can see the state of their country's wheat fields. satellite scan to, it takes 6 days for the european space agencies, satellites, to map every field in the world. space information on a cli culture brings the transparency tour agriculture markets, helping them to avoid speculation in the market. the pricing of certain crop, a staples, such as wheat and mice. this is what the satellite data looks like on a computer. these are the fields east of key. if the high resolution images can show the state of vegetation and harvest. different filters help analyze the images . for example, the various stages of photosynthesis can be tracked, research institutions and private companies use this data. those features can tell
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us something on how good or how bad the plants are growing. what kind of plans are going on? those fields and also, and which management techniques, well not all of the agricultural management, but a lot of difficult amendment are being implicated on the field. we do evaluate the satellite information and combines it with other data from drones, for example, with it even individual ears of corn can be wanted. the data enables software and artificial intelligence to deliver more accurate harvest forecasts. the main interest for data like this is coming from governments and international organizations. but there are also private players that are interested a large, large agrifood industry, but also farmers themselves are interested in this kind of information. this year, ukraine's wheat harvest is expected to be just 2 thirds of its usual size. that's
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according to a french company which analyzes the satellite data. even though shortages cannot be avoided. this information can help to adjust them by the seo of the european space agency, joseph ash parker has been out the world economic forum meeting in doubles this week. our editor in chief manuel a caspar claridge, spoke to him and asked him what he says, satellites could tell us about the state of the world's food supplies. the state is, sir, actually, i would say alarming in some countries, especially ukraine. now ukraine, of course being no, no sir, as the, the area where most of the wheat is being produced for from any other countries, not only for russia are not only for odd for the, for our other part of the planet. so yes sir, there we see of course, a huge impact because many fields are not being rebuilt because they cannot be better because of the conflict that is ongoing. so yes, there we will miss. so are huge. sure amount. so for of harvests which will not be
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coming and yes, we can, we can see that the question then of course is how can we identify other areas are in order to compensate for that under and, and work on this. and this is something that we use for dean li since many decades already are in africa, for example, where we use our satellites to estimate the production of agricultural cop, sir, in the country of certain copyright under this is sir. actually one of the oldest applications are of earth operation, where in order to really determine the use or for the use of the satellite for food to kill it. well, the colonization of space seems to be gaining speed. now, what's your take on that? are what may take her. of course, this is something that happened globally. europe is a little bit behind this curve for because the commercialization goes much fast and us. we see it of course, through our space x and amazon, and other gog either would say which people who are investing it, but also many investors are in silicon valley, for example, are creating
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a completely new environment. and that's also happening in europe. and that's something that i also would like to do, because i would like to create an environment or in europe are, where are small companies start up, sir, can develop businesses or those who are new services or new constellation. so new activities they're building up and yes, commercialization is a big job because of for me ahead of the european space agency years of asperger speaking to tito. he is editor in chief manuel r casper klerge in dallas that alice take a look at some of the other global business stories. making the news. mercedes benz is recalling some 235000 cars in the us to fix a software problem. the glitch stems from a bug in the sim card software that could disable the emergency call system. it could be solved with a software update by a mobile connection or at the dealership french feed group done and says it's sending an additional half a 1000000 packages of medical,
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great baby formula to the united states. u. s. is suffering a major shortage of breast. no substitute because of production and supply chain problems down and says the formula it's sending is suitable for babies with allergies to cows. and the court has ruled in favor of more than 1200. ty, workers who produced large array of brands, including victoria's secret, there received more than $8000000.00 after being laid off last year without receiving severance pay. it's the largest settlement related to wage that at a garment factory. so the netherlands now and dutch airline k l m has suspended ticket sales for flights from amsterdam triple airport until monday . the world famous transport hub is struggling with staff shortages as global air travel bounces back from the debts of the pandemic. a lack of security staff in
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particular is causing a chaos in the departure halls. passengers have to endure extremely long. waits at amsterdam schiphol airport. the waiting areas are overcrowded and travelers are running out of patience. may may think of the things going fairly smoothly in the netherlands. it always takes around 15 minutes, but then the line is gone. i don't know, i hear it takes hours a new like it did you know that we were well prepared. we knew, but we didn't expect this. this surpasses everything we've been working all year and save money to go on vacations, and then you have to stand in line for 5 hours while your flight is about to leave it's horrible. declination, skip or faces. an acute shortage of security staff that's affecting passengers every day. not just during busy holiday periods. it's just one of many airports struggling to find staff after laid off workers were forced to look for other jobs
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. during the pandemic, newly hired employees have to be trained in an effort to prevent even greater chaos during the peak summer travel months. the airport is adding 500 new security staff . a 100 have already undergone training. that's all for me on the business team here in berlin, from mo, from us remedy, can always head over to our website to see the we dot com slash business. we are also on the date of in use youtube channel. and on facebook as data we use, dr. this is from man that business team here to next time to kat. oh, standing in the crowd. when he spoke to t ah, into lindsey dangerous an extent with $1500.00 foot jenkins on preventing mass panic. and making gather
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