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a history of anti semitism is a history of stigmatization and exclusion of religious and political power struggles. it's a history of slender, of hatred and violence, or even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. a history that he semitism this week on d. w ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, now he'll know that war leads to hardship and hunger and that those knock on effects can be felt well beyond the countries directly in vote. but in this edition of made will look at how conflict in europe is proving disastrous for african
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nations. also coming up, petro price pain, how the rising cost of filling up phase hitting the united states carbon for cars could c, o $2.00 provide a replacement. the other fuels and trouble at check in a closer look at the at foot staffing crisis. but 1st, the ancient egyptians knew the horace of famine throughout history from the middle ages to now starvation is something that has plagued humanity. conflict is one cause drought or flooding ought to others. in the 1840s, a potato blight caused islands west ever famine, claiming a 1000000 lives that he has later algerian self. if the deadly effects of drought, political violence has also been responsible for mass starvation as well. 30000000 people were killed in communist china and the soviet union. meanwhile,
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germans went hungry during the 1st order and following the 2nd as well. today, the nation's most vulnerable to famine are less wealthy countries, particularly in africa. the knock on effect of war means that once again facing disaster as multi audi schmidt reports, the ukraine conflict is making it impossible to ship a badly needed grain to poorer countries. red prices are rising worldwide. some countries refused to share their large stockpiles of weeks. before worried that the number of starving people willing crazy or young cause for a global food crisis, how might not be averted? a bakery in rwanda in east africa, most of the flower here comes from russia and it's still being delivered. but the bread is betty affordable. so over the talk with me now i spend more than 10000
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francs awake on bread, where as i used to spend only 5000 francs. so i'll have to reduce my consumption of products like read you a hole. no one knows when it will end, but the food situation is endangering every one's lives a above poem. dediker tell was that if the commission of bakeries across the country of fighting for their survival, the imported wheat flour is costing them a lot more. but they can't pass all of the price increase on to their customers who yogurt you will console. mom. i've lost almost all of my business because of what's happening on who are the poor people hardly eat cereal products anyway. we are home that the others have stopped buying our products because we've reduced their size and increased their price. red chip moody, also i've had to slash production agenda would say know what this business is going nowhere well with weak prices have been on the rise for a while,
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but the war in ukraine has made them sold more and more people are going hungry is this a feud fall, it's definitely a question of the size of your wallet. augment there a 1800000000 people who live on a lot rate all as a day or less, will that and if they face the smallest price increase by although he a wed talking about up to 40 percent of hog, then the question is, how much money, do they have left to spend on food? yet there is in fact enough to go around. many grain warehouse is as well stops, particularly in china, the reserves that would be largely sufficient to make up for the drop in ukrainian grain exports. the and z thought i'd use with the chinese be prepared to decrease their grain supplies a bit to take the strain off the global market and we don't know and 0, they're very dependent on imports of grain and oil seed. that's why having large
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amounts is very strategically significant to them. and we can't really assume that they would be forthcoming with them. it's easy to fulfill, launched in, ah, the west could do it spit to stop a global food crisis. the admissions did we, how should dramatically reduce the cultivation of cross to make by healed to or stop eating biofuels die because land is being used for the production of gasoline rather than the very got food now good at the moment. about 12 percent of arable land in the european union is used to grow crops full by a fuel and the u wants to keep it that way. as in the guns vista got a very important lever in the medium to long term is definitely the reduction of our meat consumption to fly. every kilo of meat that we consume require several kilos of grain and oil. see to be produced. torque too bad. i don't mean that we
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should ban or vilify the eating of meat and but for instance, rather than eating 60 kilos per capita a year in germany, we could all a very happily from 40 kilos per capita. he will continue to enjoy, meet and get some by and make a considerable contribution to easing the pressure on global markets and from i know he pollution by trucks. interesting that it back to last o smitley countries light. rwanda will have to help themselves by largely growing their own grain to do that. they need to increase their yields. but some farmers like hyacinth, no one the rang way can hardly afford the fertilizer necessary. quote, when it's safe and few farmers including may have been able to find fertilizer to push on their fields. and this means we will not produce sonata, but as you know, the price of fertilizer has risen a lot. and traditional manure is not adequate for our fields. this is an added worry to on how go with us. so i shall clue. the prices for phosphate fertilizes,
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for instance, have doubled within a year. also due to the war in ukraine. they used to cultivate grain here in the past and bread was cheaply available. that's inconceivable to day ingles or moody missiles rage in used to produce a lot of cereal products, particularly wait for that climate change means we can no longer rely on anything. we don't cultivate these crops much any more than not. so people have difficulty finding enough to wait on while they're still some sir production and other agriculture. but the yields on high enough. we need agricultural experts to help. the long term strategy is to produce flour from domestically grown sweet potatoes. in the short term, developing countries are dependent on billions of dollars in financial aid to stave off famine. now in every crisis,
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there are also winners businesses to find profits where others find only hardship. an example when it comes to the war in ukraine is the price of petrol rich remains extraordinarily high. despite state health oil companies, such profiteering has resulted in violent public protests in the past in haiti in 2018 and this year in sri lanka, increasingly there a cause for windfall taxes to readdress. the imbalance between the winners and losers of global disasters. the war in ukraine has generated astronomical prophets for range of companies from oil suppliers, to fertilizer producers and arms makers. now countries such as italy want to tap into those excessive revenues. essentially, it's a windfall tax for what you might call war profiteers does the typically it's shown oh, visually, it's based on the principle of looking at which companies have seen
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a substantial increase in profits in recent months. which means 2 or 3 fold up since the crisis began in for gleiss to for cleaning the torture of fair move. say most people in europe according to surveys, but dangerous for companies. say most industry experts, doc, it seems a bit arbitrary, is the windfall tanks justified more even feasible excess profit taxes are not new . britain in the us introduced a similar scheme during the 2nd world war with corporate tax rates reaching 95 percent. the legislation applied to all sectors, the government's limited affective profit margins, to 9 percent. the thinking was that company should not be allowed to take advantage of a crisis situation. that then the concept of excess profits, taxes enjoyed widespread approval, wouldn't go uneasily with their laws. basically,
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those models fulfilled their purpose, which is why the idea has now re emerge, told me the current war is clearly a very special situation. so they're deciding to turn to those methods again. oh, look. has for 2022. italy was the 1st country to make the move unveiling plans for an excess profits tax on oil multi nationals and other energy companies. they're called windfall taxes because the profits have been handed to companies on a plate through good fortune rather than savvy business strategies. so it's only fair that these bonus prophets be subject to additional taxation. right. and good is this. it's a good idea. generally speaking, in moments under normal conditions, you probably wouldn't do it a lot, but these are not normal times you would fix your people are really feeling the high inflation rate, which is above all driven by energy prices. and if you want to help out little with lower incomes, that money has to come from somewhere he and him. but how does it work?
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first, you look at the company's profits over the last couple of years. if they've doubled the state steps in and collects up to 50 percent of the excess profit, that's what the proposals usually envisage. with the resulting revenues going to those suffering from a high energy prices. taking the windfall, taxed to its next logical step, would mean vaccine manufacturers also paying up due to their $1000000000.00 profits . from the pandemic crisis. stressed ins cuz it violates the principle of equal treatment sucks. profit should be treated the same way across all sectors. on a can. nissan you can say the likes of bias tag i flu of also made huge profits. are the good guy meal. so we won't increase their tax burden, destroy and venetian stacked up, but we will with the bad guys. you bestow on via stacker. and then there's the fundamental question of who are the good guys and the bad guys who's
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a companies tend to only take risks when there are big profits to be made. so the windfall tax might inhibit innovation. randazzo jeanine. yes. lucas, if a company has come up with a great new product or some other innovation, thanks to their own entrepreneurial efforts, and then you wouldn't apply any kind of profit taxes to could have been slayer. they pay the regular rate, it's how they cancel modular. you can either lease windfall jacks plants are still in the pipeline for now. and there is a range of issues that still needs to be clarified. not least when does profit qualify as excess profit. now with its long open roads, the usa has always been a drivers paradise. the cheaper fuel state side has also traditionally been a draw diesel was usually around half the price. it was here in germany for example . and that does continue to be the case. but american drivers have recently seen
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that costs shoot up just as much as car owners here. and how can effect of the war in ukraine for a nation that's been used, paying much less for its gas. a new reality is taking hold as to hand simon's reports. oh, nothing says l. a better these days then? well, this forget hollywood, beverly hills movie stars and oscar. los angeles is about traffic jams, about wasting time in your car, which also means wasting precious and very, very expensive gasoline. ah, californians, despite being somewhat used to effect of paying more for their gallon of gas than anybody else in the country are now in shock and awe. whenever and wherever they began, station take it from an expert. there is nothing like high gasoline prices in the
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united states to just aggravate the, you know, what are the people, there is something about a high gasoline price and you see it on the marquee. and you literally can see visceral reactions. the world out there, rush us war on ukraine, oil market volatility, supply chain issues, supply and demand squeezes. all that is adding to the existing misery of filling up in california for millions of commuters in and around los angeles. escaping the snarling highway traffic is one thing, waiting in long lines at the local discount gas station. to shave off a few cents per tank, is another other things in life had to get sacrificing, or that means smaller meals or shorter trips. maybe we even have a skip like a vacation just to make it up for everything. it's hard to price is raina and
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having a family, well, it's pretty hard. not that gray are not sustainable at all. honestly it's gonna get harder for a lot of people that are part of the low income community and everything. it takes right now about $200.00 to fill up my car. it's not going to look good. i got to see the 1970s. ah, when we weren't line up having to go any one who had an even number would go on a certain day. and everybody who had an odd number would go on a certain day. so i think we're going to actually eventually be there ah, volatility and chaos in the markets. persistent supply chain problems, even higher oil and gasoline prices. could this trigger a recession even? that's at least what many professional commercial truckers seem to predict for the near future. take it from joe rascal watch. he's the communications director for the western states truck association or w estie
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a. joe is warry trucking has always been referred to as the barometer, the proverbial canary and the mine shaft to the economy of the u. s. and frankly, any other western democracy, trucking as the canary and of trucking starts to feel it, you're gonna see the rest of the economy you feel in right now we have a confluence of a whole lot of different of us. fuel prices couldn't come a worse time here and dos. main concern are not the big trucking fleet operators, but the little guys in the logistics and transportation business. they can't keep up with rising gasoline and diesel prices in food truck friday is back in granada hills, a neighborhood of los angeles operators and customers had to do without it throughout the cobra. 19 pandemic. now back,
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most operators face another blow. you guessed it, gasoline and diesel prices. this big truck haul from gas that we raise the price. we look up. i ran out of bags. i'm not serving bags anymore. just because the hurt . i'm sorry customer, but i'm serving you all. you get a delicious in the back. sorry, but because what you spend on base goes now in the gas, correct? moran remember? nothing, says l. a better these days than this. you're driving to the sunset will cost you dearly now. and soon. perhaps even more. ah. but could there be some relish coming down the road and could it come in? a very surprising form. this here is my colleague act much collage e. he's been following an experts, attempts to find
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a new fuel for the future. and it's made from a substance seen as a cause of the world's problems, not the solution. a, have you heard about this? you can fill up with the greenhouse gas c o 2. and use it to drive or fly for power to ship. crazy. fuel made out of thin air no need to burn fossil fuel any more using something that is c o 2, newton, impossible. asked him. he makes this kind of stuff. hey tim, how does it work? dean, dean forgot. no return is a combustion process on its head. we take energy, water and c o 2 and use it to produce synthetic fuel in court. and that way we closed the carbon cycle and produce seo neutral fuel. okay? it works the other way around to really understand it. i think i have to go to al up then,
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please correct me if i'm wrong. you say you take water. it's 2 o an energy, lots of energy in the form of electric power. that electric power splits the water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen. no need for the oxygen. we only need the hydrogen. and here it comes. you combine the greenhouse gas t o 2 with hydrogen. and what's your good is fuel glue fuel that recycle c o 2. instead of emitting it, oh good. is it really that easy? good. i just put your scientific fuel in my car instead. gonna vince the sun. exactly. if there were sufficient quantities of gas stations, you could fill up with this too. i know this is a really big opportunity for the seo technical fuel because you can use existing
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infrastructure. we're books and come okay, got it synthetic, you'll make dirty god. as long as the word growth is powered with lean energy. well, not a lot to think about now, after the pandemic sent the global aviation industry into a tailspin the wildest finally returning to the skies, but all those planes need flight attendance to staff them. and that's where there's currently a problem. what's more, the demand for plain staff is that to really take off over the next couple of decades, boeing reckons will need another 340000 flight attendants by 2040 to says the asia pacific region alone lost hundreds of thousands more for europe and north america and tens of thousands more for growing aviation markets in latin america and africa
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. but that's just the staff on board. a major problem right now for folk heading off for this summer getaway is a shortage down here on the ground. apples across europe struggling to keep the queues of passengers moving the departure loungers, dusseldorf, airport passengers at security have to be patient getting through can take more than 4 hours. seems like this have been common in recent weeks. the weights caused hundreds to miss their flights business. all were angry because we're on vacation. we organized everything and came 5 hours early on. it's simply a waste of time. we could be doing something else was on the so letting may not powered on through my neighbor works at the airport. and he said it was because of a lack of security personnel and that she pets. you pay a lot of money, feel flyer to so it's annoying if you miss it, especially since they laid off security staff or they quit. not during the pandemic
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victim, nickel will not side $200.00 minimum. the corona virus pandemic brought the airline industry to a standstill worldwide. now people are eager to travel again, but airports have been caught off guard by the surgeon passengers. in the german capital at berlin brandenburg airport. the lines aren't anything compared to dusseldorf or frankfort. but it spokesperson knows why so many airports are experiencing problems with our community. the pandemic of out of our partner, staff, ground and security staff are just no longer available for we lost them to other sectors of all we need them again. ultimately, all of them in our busiest periods are by the police staff, have to be recruited, retrained and vetted again. he believed we are, gibson shouts of upward verb. and therein lies the biggest problem. anybody working at the security screening needs a squeaky clean record. the required background checks take at least 6 weeks,
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usually even longer. hiring new staff, a real headache with rocketing passenger numbers is no quick fix solution. martin heather is in charge of keeping the luggage belt at berlin's main airport. running for him. the increase in passengers means more problems, like jammed suit cases. but we're not. i'm not known with it during the coven pandemic. we had about 20025000 pieces of luggage day flight. now we have about 20000 talking 225000 pieces of luggage group that of course also means more work for the ground staff. those and perhaps more stress to relation was in there for as a spokesperson for the german aviation association says the chaos that many airports is unfortunate, but little could have been done to prevent it doesn't call one upon him. he had a poorly corona virus. pandemic has presented the industry with major economic challenges, unfortunate
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a staff reduction as were necessary at the same time after 2 years of the pandemic demand for flight says, saw to the google and the government lifted covey 19 restrictions with little warning. so that wasn't possible to plan properly for the rain on easter gala bows i to ream has a different view. the asian expert advisors, members of the verde trade union, who worked for security at disorder airport, that a state is ultimately responsible for this task. but it puts it in the hands of private security companies and we will, and of course, they want to earn money and they're not social organizations at spot. and how can you cut costs by keeping staff levels low? we have a serious staff shortage diflucan, especially in passenger screening. we are all passengers have to pass through security. i'm not enough people were hired now. you're seeing the results result in the union say the private companies pay little he to working conditions with
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dramatic consequences. a security screening employee from a german airport spoke to us, but wanted to remain anonymous. mazetti gunston mentioned, mustn't you see huge crowds of people in the terminal stand at some point we need to take a break, but neither the federal police nor our employers are currently making provisions for that. and for the just want to keep passengers glowing through security between it's a risk chair safety kind the loft, to hide mcgiver last it. meanwhile, germany's leading airline. lufthansa blamed sluggish ground handling for the recent cancellation of almost a 1000 flights. anybody hoping to fly in the coming weeks will need to be patient asked. it's a tricky time for travelers, but also for those staff who are working at the world's effort. so the extra nice to the next time you're flying, you never know you might end up with an upgrade. thanks a lot for watching this edition of may see to we is business magazine. and so next
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