all right laura fund daniel is from the german institute for international security affairs thank you very much for joining us here on be on day to you business thanks for having me . now for a quick look at some of the other business stories making the news. australia says it will appeal to the world health organization over china's hefty tariffs on over 80 percent on barley imports the move comes a day after china threatened an informal ban australian. relations have soured after canberra proposed an investigation into the origins of the covered 19 pandemic. the us federal reserve is joining a group of central banks focused on climate change the group counts over 18 members including the bank of england and the european central bank the fed has been communicating with the group for the past year. apple shares rose to a 3 month high in tuesday's session me company had announced plans to run for iphone production by 30 percent in the 1st half of next year japanese business daily nikkei says apple expects to make 230000000 handsets in the coming year. and lloyd's of london and fin tech

the administration seriously harmed all right laura fund daniel is from the german institute for international security affairs thank you very much for joining us here on be on your business. thanks for having me. and now to some of the other business stories making the news germany's new lockdown will delay its economic recovery that's according to a new forecast by the country's institute economists there lowered their g.d.p. growth forecast for 2021 by almost one percentage point to 4.2 percent the report. foresees by economic activity returning to preplan demick levels by the end of 2021 . germany's new lock down is keeping its largest package delivery of busy d.h.l. expects up to 20 percent more volume in parcels this year as more customers turn to online purchasing and shipping instead giving gifts in person d.h.l. expects to ship 1800000000 passengers through the end of 2020. the u.s. federal reserve is joining a group of central banks focused on climate change the group counts 8 team members including the bank of england and european central bank the fed has been communicating with the group for the pa