all right it comes after a german research institute confirmed the country has entered a 3rd wave of infections last week saw the highest number of daily coronavirus cases in 2 months and a massive corruption scandal over facemasks has now reached the top with the health minister facing questions our europe correspondent has the latest. the federal government here in berlin has extended covert 19 restrictions across the whole country but that is amid a mask crisis which is ensnared a new face the german health minister a report over the weekend in the online version of news magazine dish bagle claimed that again spawn authorized the purchase of more than half a 1000000 masks from a company called bird bird as berlin boss mr spawn's husband himself down your phone care the company insists mr frewen care had nothing to do with this transaction that no commission was paid and denies any wrongdoing whatsoever and 1st on to order media that the board of hooper bird media over the health ministry to assist with mask procurement when the german government wants an urgent need for this the c

that i asked about what the german researchers uncovered so scientists from the university of cairo side which is in northern germany got 6 blood samples from the palace institute which is the german federal agency for their prove a thick scenes and they say that they studied these blood samples in great detail and that they were able to connect the vaccine that has any comic scene to special form of immune response which leads to the formation of the blood clots that have been observed in these patients we have to keep in mind that they only looked at a very small number of samples only 6 that samples and that their results have not been approved by other scientists and they have not even been reviewed by the poetic institute we do know that in general young women and middle aged young to middle aged women are at the highest chris of developing this kind of from bose's but we don't even really know if the astra zeneca vaccine actually heightens the likelihood of developing this form of from vs at all on the other hand the good news is that because the scientists were able to study that mechanism in such detail they're also pretty convinced that they'll now be

marcel fratzscher president of the diw german institute for research. you for spending time with us. coming up, back to that giant container that is blocking the canal. one of the world's biggest waterways. we will get the latest for you on that story. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: welcome back. 7:41, just 20 minutes to go until the start of the trading session. we see the markets looking weaker. we talked about lockdown measures and we will continue to do that. we will get an update on those shortly. i know you have been thinking about correlations that exist in markets, the rolet yields have been playing in writing other assets. the relationship with the dollar. what are your thinkings? mark: there is something big going on in markets that is subtle. the relationship between the dollar and yield it is reverting to wear was last year. the fed, we sought yields collapse in the u.s. and we sought the dollar weaken last year. the u.s. yields and dollar were positively correlated, both or weaken last year. a month ago, we started to get really excited by the

claudia comfort she heads the energy transportation and environment department of the german institute for economic research in berlin and correspondent sagna blasko she joins us from tokyo sana let me start with you it has been a they of morning in japan tell us more on how the country has been commemorating this crucial day well during the day a lot of people lends to the seaside they broke flowers they got their hands together in prayer and. i mean it's been a very tough and emotional day for many people i think. it's you know it's not ending here also because of the nuclear plans especially that people think that there is for them this with will be a much longer story. here in berlin as we heard before his human disaster has led to the government's decision to phase out nuclear power tell us on what that has meant to europe's biggest economy. well it meant that we now have a concrete deadline so in the next 2 years is. still in place nuclear power plants would be shut down and we increased so germany has increased the sheriff renewable energy jessica lee and to substitute it but we have time now to deco

we can get more on this from our research fellow at the german institute for global and area studiesn hamburg. welcome to dw. turkey has been taken action against hdp lawmakers for years. why is ankara only now trying to ban it? what's thbasis for the ban? >> day's news might sound like tragic and bad news for people in the opposition, the people supporting this party, but first and foremt, it's really talking about the bad news that tuey's facing. the turkish government is facing a huge political economic and political crisis -- a huge political and economic crisis. they accuse the party thout having good proof. it stirs up this conflict and gathers people to support erdogan more, supporting the image of him being a strong leader, even though he doesn't know his way around the crisis. phil: this is a distraction tactic, you say. but this has drawn a sharp response rhetorically from the eu and the u.s., among others. is that likely to have any impact on erdogan? >> and the eu, youeard criticism last year, especiay from france, cyprus, these were e countries that were the criticism. a

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research. institute says the united states accounted for more than a 3rd of the global arms sales in the past 5 years or saudi arabia was the number one import a german weapons exports grew by over 20 percent in the 2nd half of the past decade . you may remember tesla had its battery day last autumn well today it's fox of our turn to present its power day dedicated to the growing hunger for battery cells and why because as the market for electric cars is growing rapidly so is the demand for batteries at present though production is largely centered on asia of china's biggest battery producer c a t l is the leader with a market share of 24 percent south korea's l.g. energy solution is not far behind and japan's panasonic comes in 3rd that's left the european union trying to pay catch up it's hoping to grow its share of the electric battery market to around 30 percent in the next decade about 3 makes to 40 percent of the value of the finished car so whoever controls that part controls a big slice of this new creative industry let's talk a little bit more about that now with ashutosh hyundai who joins me now. bashes fox let's talk about this power day 1

science told us what those german researchers had uncovered so scientists from the university of cairo side which is in northern germany got 6 blood samples from the palace institute which is the german federal agency for their prove effect scenes and they say that they studied these blood samples in great detail and that they were able to connect the vaccine that shows any comic scene to a special form of immune response which leads to the formation of the blood clots that have been observed in these patients we have to keep in mind that they only looked at a very small number of samples only 6 that samples and that their results have not been approved by other scientists and they have not even been reviewed by the alec institute we do know that in general young women and middle aged young to middle aged women are at the highest christe of developing this kind of from bose's but we don't even really know if astra zeneca vaccine actually heightens the likelihood of developing this form of from those at all on the other hand the good news is that because the scientists were able to study the mechanism in such detail they're also pretty convinced that they'll now be

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international peace research institute or sipri says the united states accounted for more than a 3rd of global arms sales in the past 5 years while saudi arabia was the number one importer german weapons exports grew by over 20 percent in the 2nd half of the past decade. stripe is now the most valuable private startup in the u.s. valued at $95000000000.00 the online payments company was founded in 2010 by 2 irish brothers it drew $600000000.00 in its latest financing round. let's go over to the auto industry where the race to mainstream the electric vehicle is heating up folks wagon announced monday its plans to create 6 european giga factories by the end of the decade with a combined annual production of 240 kg gigawatt hours now facility in sweden will begin production in 2023 and gradually ramp up to 40 gigawatt hours of output annually plans call for a 2nd facility in germany and 2025 volkswagen has made no secret of its goal to dethrone tesla as the world's leading electric automaker german car maker also announcing plans to expand its network of charging stations 5 fold but 2025. are let's go over to our financial correspondent in new york. yes everyone is focused on tes

international peace research institute or sipri says the united states accounted for more than a 3rd of global arms sales in the past 5 years while saudi arabia was the number one importer german weapons exports grew by over 20 percent in the 2nd half of the past decade. stripe is now the most valuable private startup in the u.s. valued at $95000000000.00 the online payments company was founded in 2010 by 2 irish brothers it drew $600000000.00 in its latest financing round. or let's go over to the auto industry where the race to mainstream the electric vehicle is heating up folks wagon announced monday its plans to create 6 european giga factories by the end of the decade with a combined annual production of 240 kg gigawatt hours facility in sweden will begin production in 2023 and gradually ramp up to 40 gigawatt hours of output annually plans call for a 2nd facility in germany in 2025 volkswagen has made no secret of its goal to dethrone tesla as the world's leading electric automaker german car maker also announcing plans to expand its network of charging stations 5 fold but 2025. are let's go over to our financial correspondent in new york. yes everyone is focused on tesla