That and more coming up to tune into tomorrow today, the science show on d. W. Whether by Smoke Signals by pony express or with optical devices, people have always felt the need to communicate over long distances. Picture often used to carry messages to far away places. With the invention of the telegraph, the goal began to be connected with electrical soon, everyone had the receiver. Today information continues to flow at an ever faster rate. And it seems as though bad news travels fast just how does that affect the way we react to the news . And what role does the media itself play . India, alan a Record Number of new coronavirus cases on sunday. Hundreds of elephants found dead in recent well being described as nonstop. Bad news is the world really in such a thoroughly terrible state, a country in the region. With, of course, the current coronavirus pandemic is indeed an extraordinary global crisis. But if you take a longer term view, you see there have been many positive trends. Infant mortality has never been lower. And the number of People Killed in natural disasters has been averaging downwards and taught still, we often get the impression things are just getting worse and worse myself included. Even though as a journalist, i dont just consume news but also help shape it. Why are we more sensitive to bad news . Doesnt have something to do with the brain. Im on my way to see neuroscientist martin. She has researched precisely these questions that him for i wanted to meet the brain processes negative news faster, better and more intensively than positive or neutral news or just we also remember it better heal us in terms of evolutionary biology and processing negative information better than positive information has been helpful because in the age of the saber check, tiger and woolly mammoth, missing a piece of bad news might well mean thats it for you. How truly studies have shown that test subjects from different parts of the world became more excited. As soon as they were shown, bad news, regardless of their looking shit and culture, many Media Outlets use this effect to their advantage. Negative headlines sell more copies and get more clicks. Its showed that the media are publishing more and more of that news, especially online. And this isnt about how is it a problem . Its the media rabble and bad news and asked of you 1st and foremost, it makes us all have negative expectations. So we go through life with the worldview in which we assume the world is worse than it really is. Was the impact of media reports can be extremely strong. Take the Boston Marathon bomb attack in 2013, for example. Some people who follow the news obsessive more stressed and frightened than others who had been physically present. So what does this mean, hazardous else . 1st of all, it makes people less likely to take action. You might think the realisation that we all have a worldview thats too negative, would actually prompt people to become more active. But many psychological studies have shown that that is precisely not the case. So i just, whats more, it can promote chronic stress. We know that chronic stress can be a factor in many diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and Mental Illnesses such as depression. How can be depressed when you doubt, if you can trust the coronavirus pandemic is a good example. After months of bad news, many people have grown weary of the crisis. They feel helpless and wish things would go back to normal. As a journalist, i have to consider whether i might be contributing to other people having a misguided view of the world. What can the media do better . And absolutely, you can see journalists could ask themselves what now, fast, in addition to the usual who, what, where, when, and why. And they could pursue the matter further. Do more research in energy and focusing on what can we do about it is of course its still important to describe a problem, but then go on to talk about possible solutions. Ask people for their ideas, always keeping in mind the question. How can we solve the problem current, inspired by her research malvern, on a perspective daily, a constructive online magazine, which compliments news stories with ideas for solutions. But its not just Media Outlets that could or should change. We can all do something good for ourselves and our brain and you dont have to reach for your phone or turn on the t. V. Or radio as soon as he wake up. You dont have to consume information nonstop. We can be more discerning in our use of the media, helped you flick to talk. It is also a good idea to choose media that are trustworthy and present the news in a responsible and sober manner. As a for the sake of your brain and your well being accessed the news wisely. And you can also simply take a break from it all. Take a break and just turn off for a while. Sounds good, right . We asked you what you do to take your mind off too much bad news. Robinson from colombia doesnt want to read or watch any more bad news. His way of keeping his Mental Health and trying to quit as he is to try to be indifferent to it all. For rosie from costa rica burying your head in the sand like an ostrich is not an option. She says its better to face reality to be empathetic and help others and enjoy distract himself with nice things, watching series of films, reading books, but not too many newspapers and going outside for some fresh air to clear his head. Clearing your head, thats what these people are buying to do at the space on competition in self korea. As contestants work on zoning out says monitor. If its too fast, just not enough. Noise from mexico said to the question about that. Why are people lazy doing nothing relaxing . Taking it easy. What counts as a lady is hard to define, but historically, people seen as lazy or frowned upon in europe. At least this attitude stems from the protestant work ethic that took root in the 18th century. In the ancient world, in contrast, exertion was scorned. Philosophizing was seen as a noble cross to be pursued at leisure, a perfect excuse to be lazy. In other words, extreme laziness can be harmful even to your health, but now and then its good to kick back it gives us time to regenerate on top of things. In fact, Scientific Research suggests that lazy people are more intelligent. They enjoy spending time in false. Other people get bored quickly and need to stimulation of activity. Innovation has often been driven by a desire to avoid efforts. Comrades who was invented the worlds 1st programmable computer, because by his own admission, he was too lazy for abridgement to our ancestors didnt always feel like hunting and gathering. They would put it off until the next day and spend their time developing new tools and strategies instead. This improve their chances of survival. According to researchers, theres a genetic predisposition to progress elation and laziness. Its to do with a gene that helps regulate the production of dopamine, which plays a role in brain processes such as attention, memory, and motivation. Or laziness seems to be an ace. And not just in humans. The problem is right. Why are a lot of the things you say that if you have a science question thats been bothering you, send it in as a video, text oh, voicemail. If we answer it on the show to get a little surprise as a thank you. Come on, we just asked to find us on our website. Ditto you dot com slash science or look for us on twitter at g. W. Under school site tech. Maybe mobile phones already come equipped with cameras with built in face recognition, official recognition technologies or f r t can help Police Identify criminals and so contribute to public safety. But what about a surveillance camera with f, a r t that scans the faces in the shop, finds the associated profile on social media and sends out personalized ads. Thats not yet reality, but its not far off. Like so many things that just a short while ago sounded like science fiction. You know, this is the year 2054 as envisioned in the movie minority report. Its not a pleasant scene. Tom cruise is on the run, but he gets recognised wherever he goes. The film dates from 2002, but the massive agency conjured up is already reality in many places. China has hundreds of millions of surveillance cameras, many of them with facial recognition software. The state wants to know what its citizens are up to. And in germany at airports, faces a scanned and compared with the biometric data stored in the passport chip to determine whether you want to really use the technology was developed by the company tech company in dresden, germany. Its a major player in Artificial Intelligence powered facial recognition. Its products are used in automated check ins and Border Control systems, as well as Video Surveillance by security agencies. Is often hard to ask if the software 1st looks at this point on the face of the distance between the lines, the distance from the nose to the corners of the mouth and the features of the surface of the face of the bombs and hollows. When i was decent, all the data together, a profile of each face. With the help of such a digital profile, the software can distinguish whether the corresponding person is standing in front of the camera or if its just a photo. So it cant be tricked. Its smart and its getting smarter, even if it only gets to see part of a face, it can work out if the person passport, but long together or not. By comparing what it seems to photos, it already has it takes just a few seconds to compasses valence camera footage. With vast databases. The accuracy is said to be high, but 100 percent accuracy will never be a change. But in the industry, the advances of the past 5 years have been dubbed the facial recognition revolution because accuracy has improved so dramatically and us money and the systems are now very, very reliable. How reliable in 2017 tests, but volunteers in then yielded success rates of 70 to 80 percent depending on the software. Thats good enough for us to consider installing such systems. So are we going to be at the mercy of the state as it deploys mass surveillance and imperfect facial Recognition Technology . I. T. Experts in journalist marcus speck of doubt warns of the dangers 15 percent put out always following the problem is many people dont really want to think about these Technological Developments at the same time. Surveillance tends to be relatively discreet, which is to say, we dont necessarily see whats going on. Bus stop, lawyer ft. Thats dangerous, because it will lead to ever more surveillance if it doesnt meet with any resistance in society. And thats not all. Theres now emotion recognition and analysis to a Software Program thats able to deduce a persons emotional state based on their facial expressions. But feelings complex and how that reflected in our expressions is not straightforward. Either. Scientists at the found the institute in allen and are using Artificial Intelligence to develop and improve such software. But do happy, sad, surprised, or angry faces look the same in all cultures. And for various aspects of the face correspond to emotions, movements of facial muscles, happy, sad, angry, and so on. Im there understood, in most cultures what we humans see in facial expressions, we can teach software to see as well for the very, very high degree of accuracy and is using photos of very clear facial expressions to help train the software. But what is the point of having it identify emotions at present . I didnt read all the time. And the typical application for emotion recognition would be in the context of human machine interaction. On this project we have one interesting project teaching a robot to help autistic children learn to interpret social signals and facial expressions. So tallis acknowledges it in another areas, cars recognizing the state drivers are in whether theyre distracted or feeling stressed or overwhelmed. Thats all sounds pretty harmless. These technologies could, however, also be used to monitor people to manipulate them. Thats one reason why its so important to understand the technology and its possible that implications, which we can only do that if we take control of it is going to stop the short of competition to postpone the next move the team in atlanta and say that their emotion recognition system is not currently used anyway in mass surveillance, but that could change. Facial recognition has already revolutionized massive. Aliens says these technologies could transform our society once conform. We are going to become more conformist and less free in our behavior. Because in the back of our mind would always be worrying about being observed. So smile, casey tried to use these voters against you. The us is on the reality t. V. This is already happening in china. Route one voice. I hope we never end up in a state that up here in germany, so much invade leading value. China has already developed a vast surveillance infrastructure and uses it to monitor each individual. The aim is to maintain control. Reality has caught up with hollywood, even if he wasnt famous, tom cruise would have a hard time including detection today. In the real world. Please. Lets stay in china for a moment where another dystopic vision of the future has already become reality. In some regions, fruit trees have to be pollinated by hand because there are hardly any bees left. The colonies are being devastated by diseases and crowding them in hives like this. They make them more vulnerable to these natural lists, quite different to most as martin rose and Antonio Grady actual run a project called b embassy and they are there to be ambassadors. Their mission is to create natural style homes for wild honey bees. Out in the woods here theyre installing one of their log hides. Its a hollowed out section of a tree trunk. Honeybees natural habitat isnt woodland. To get wild honey bees out in the woods, look for cow, disease, and trees. Theyre often created by woodpeckers or for not really, but what weve done is create an artificial tree trunk. Its the perfect home, the bees look for the my livorno beenish out. They want to find out if there are any wild beast in these woods. And if they will take the liking to the new home theyre being offered is naturally occurring tree cavities are becoming ever rarer in managed commercial forests. Trees with holes dont last long. Theyve attached their log hives 6 metres up the trunk of an outreach. They say bees like the round shape and feel safe up there. The arm of the learned from the army being we have learnt to see with the eyes of a b. This is not about honey or any other proverbs. Its about having resilient be under the strength of humans who shot from that means honeybees that can fight off parasites and diseases. An Alarming Number of managed colonies die prematurely, girlie actually became a beekeeper in 2012, but soon became dissatisfied with standard modern methods. He learned about honey hunting, a practice common in the middle ages that involved making nests by cutting holes in tree trunks. He decided to adopt and update the technique. He found that bees did much better in such nests than in standard artificial hives. The question is, why standard box hives have been in use for a century and a half. They can be stacked and the at habitants of each one yield up to 50 kilograms of honey. But other bees happy. Another experiment is underway in the botanical garden, in frankfort tree hives have been installed here too, and they are equipped with a range of sensors. The actual and rollers are collaborating with top in shifa, a biologist, and the expert. Hes found that these round wooden hives offer bees a stable and pleasant climate. By contrast, the temperature in box nests varies a lot, and moisture can accumulate in the corners of the park like and you believe this, ive been for a colony has to work 20000000 hours more just to maintain the right temperature. Or if we average it out, because there are 3 times as many bees in a hive as in the nest, thats still 7000000 hours, extra work time in which they can do what bees naturally do. And if theyre always carrying nectar and fermenting honey, they cant get on with grooming. And thats a lot of extra stress for beings, and its not good for them. Another problem schiffer has identified is that box times are too big, often 4 or more times the volume of a natural treat asked. So its keepers keep adding honey supers, so the top levels never fall. That makes the bees slave to their strongest instinct stocking up to ensure Food Security that weakens down and makes them more susceptible to parasites and disease. Many beekeepers lose a 3rd of their colonies each winter. So how are the bees doing in this tree hive . Regular check ups are part of the experiment. If i found of a row of mice vero, i might say, are the biggest parasitic threat to honeybees. Thats a given. That shell has been bitten and sure enough, a look under the microscope confirms the bees evidently fight back and into the viral mite. You dont see that kind of behavior in box hives. To be a cause, if you can go to these can defend themselves. They need time Spare Capacity to do so, but if theyre always in a panic about maintaining supplies, they cant fight off the mites. In the tree hives the bees share their home with a natural ally, the house pseudo scorpion torben. Schiffer is a great fan of these tiny scorpions have long maintained a symbiotic relationship with bees. They eat everything that can harm them, but dont hurt the bees themselves. Its a micro ecosystem that has been eradicated in conventional beekeeping. Complex schiffer says beekeepers should welcome how pseudo scorpions into their hives. All in all these live better lives in nests or log hives until you also makes log hives that are suited to hopping beekeeping. The bottom section is home to various tiny creatures such as the household pseudo scorpion. The middle section is where the bees build their honeycomb and store their honey and the upper story conserve. The beekeeper, as a honey super wears an extra honey for humans to harvest accumulates. There are no frames inside the bees build their homes as they see fit. The drawer lets you check for very well might said the door provides access. So that you can harvest between up to 7 or 8 kilos of honey a year, but no more. And its about keeping bees in a way thats good for them and not about honey. And still, the beekeeper can look forward to harvesting a little without harming the bees. You know, through the beneath you to want to scale up production of what they call natural habitat types. Back to the log hive in the forest. More than 2 months have passed. Have wild honey bees moved in and made themselves comfortable . Oh my goodness, they built a huge the colony it turns out is made up of different species of be expanding. The gene pool can also enhance the resilience and adaptability of future generations and fall into this is an endorsement of our work. It also confirms the hypothesis that bees came from the forests and want to go back there with a hidden one for ones own blood. Our log hives amount to a further argument in favor of keeping bees in a way thats good for the race to be an outdoor as to give you become beautiful. Here bees compete. They build everything by themselves, no input from atsic. If commercial beekeeping switched to these methods, there would be lots of happy beings, but wed likely have to pay more for our honey thats all for this week. 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Thats how the un describes the killings of more than a cofounder of farm workers murdered by armed men on motorcycles. Also coming up, tens of thousands flee the deadly fighting in ethiopia. Its a growing region, refugee groups, a half of those displaced are children, plus the long road to recovery. Some cover 90 survivors who overcome the infection, then struggle with long term after effects. Well hear about the toll its taking on their health and a spectacular crash leaves racing fans breathless, a formula one driver on monk or jacques escapes with his life and walks away from the great qualifier. Mark, thank you so much for your company, everyone. Well, we begin this broadcast in nigeria, where more than 100 people have been killed in what the u. N. Calls a massacre in the countrys Northern Borno state. I witnessed this, said militants on motorcycles rounded up and killed farmers who were bringing in the harvest. The victims of a gruesome massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. The reports say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents on motorbikes. While they were harvesting rice. Someone shot others at their throats cut. It is that there were 6 of us in the bush, then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got there. Like on the move, we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went through a nearby village called good though. We met so many people fleeing from our village without knowing where they were going. The huge amounts of harvested rice was set on fire are used as you well know. This is the most violent attack on civilians and bonus state this year. The region in northeastern nigeria has been gripped by a jihad just insurgency for a decade. Both the Islamist Group boko haram and a rival group. The i. A. S. Affiliated socalled islamic state, west Africa Province operate here. The 2 groups have been blamed for attacks on phone isnt fishermen who make use of spying for the army and progovernment militia. But so far, theres been no claim of responsibility. I dont want cus, i came with come work around, it killed many of our people because we need assistance. We need weapons because we have young men who can guard our farmers while they work. Please, please, for gods sake. The democrats dont like it when the Nigerian Military has been unable to quell the insurgency in which tens of thousands have been killed or abducted. There are reports that several women may also have been kidnapped in the latest incident. And the number of men remain missing, raising fears that the death toll from this brutal attack could still rise. And the did abuse west africa correspondent, a funny for star says this attack follows government airstrikes, targeting geodes, insurgents in the countrys north. It remains unclear just how many people have been killed in this horrendous massacre on saturday in borno state in the north east orphanage area. The state governor there speaks of at least 70 People Killed. And regardless of the actual death toll, one thing is certain. This is one of the worst attacks in recent years. He nigeria, a country that is suffering because of violence because of jihadism because of the uprising that began in borno state in 2009. Now, so far, mill group, no militant group has claimed responsibility for this attack, but it definitely does carry to trademark the signature or of its splinter groups that associate themselves with isis. The Nigerian Army has actually carried out several air strikes in november saying that they do see and observe a resurgence of terrorist activity. And president , are you seeing that the all me has received all necessary support to protect the citizens to protect the population of nigeria . Unfortunately, this massacre tells you a different story and that is that this situation here in a remains very volatile, very unstable, very secure. Unfortunately, with no improvement in sight, and fish are reporting and we have to east africa now where the top rebel leader in the to grind region of ethiopia says his troops are still fighting government forces. All this the day after is the o. P. s government declared victory. Their military leaders say they have seized control of key installations, including the regions main airports, and that they are now trying to track down any last rebel holdouts. Red cross or civilians are struggling with shortages of food, medical supplies i mean, while the fighting and to grow has sent tens of thousands rather of refugees streaming into neighboring sudan seeking a safe haven. Figures show that half of them are children of use. Grandmother reports now from a camp, just inside the sudanese border. Likes to sing songs he learned growing up in tikrit and he misses playing with his friends and especially with his older brother in law. I miss them all and i want to go back home because i want to play with my brothers. I miss my friends and my brother. Its been 3 weeks since i saw his family. His mother had brought him to his teachers doorstep when the bombs started falling on the hometown and home era. She said she had to search for her 2 older sons a safe way yasser recalls without a 2nd thought. She took him and ran recess again. We jumped over dead bodies, our neighbors were dead, but we couldnt bury them. So we just kept running. And europe saw a lot of things, a 70 year old shouldnt see, says and see for us all shes close. Friend of his mother has known him for years. He trusts her many other children who fled to die when not so lucky. The un estimates almost half the 40000 refugees from the region. Actually, its not clear how many of them arrived in sudan on their own, but the Health Ministry is currently registering all these as especially vulnerable. Because we face multiple problems 1st, an important one. We have to find out whether the family came to sudan or not. If the family was killed, we need to explain that to the child. After that, we look for a solution as safe for us, so hopes that she will never have to explain that to a europe. She believes his parents live, but with no phone and no communication blackout in today. She cant reach anyone in their hometown. If god lets me live long enough, and if theres peace, ill take the boy back to his mother. Now im a refugee, but i will do what ever i can for this boy. Hes like, my own son. Live at the campus, heart up in s. F. Was still wearing the same clothes as when they left home. Often they have to try 3 or 4 comes to get water, but still sometimes a safe who manages to get a up Something Special that i love because it takes care of me and she buys me bisquits fruits and candies. Everyday i love you. And a study now with some of the stories making news around the world. Iran has held a funeral for the countrys top Nuclear Scientists killed in an ambush last week. More symphonies a day was credited with the stop wishing Irans Nuclear program. In the early 2000, tehran has blamed israel for the killing has vowed revenge fresh way to say authorities are charging 4 Police Officers in connection with the beating of a black music producer. The incident sparked outrage after the release of Security Camera footage, showing the assault nationwide rallies against Police Brutality have been overshadowed by clashes. Dozens of demonstrators were injured and more than 80 arrested. And a riot sparked by rising corona, virus infections broke out at issue alive in jail on sunday. As the 6 inmates were killed and dozens injured, it follows weeks of growing unrest in prisons across the country, over surging virus cases and overcrowded facilities. Well, dudley is covered, 19 can be most patients do recover from the virus fairly quickly. But theres now growing awareness that some patients suffer a range of Health Issues even months after getting over the initial crisis to be met with one covert 1000 patients who told us about the illness shes endured for 8 months. Peggy good is battling the long term effects of coated 19 when she became sick in march. She had few symptoms, but its now devastated her life pretty confident. I only became really ill months later in june. But at the time i thought that everything would eventually be fine, but things didnt improve. I was extremely ill for many, many weeks, which turned into months. And i never got better. Is what a nice piccy is one of 40 covert survivors here suffering from long term effects of the illness. Germanys baltic sea coast. Their symptoms are being treated at a Rehabilitation Center after the virus piggy felt burnt out. She suffered from dizzy spells and chronic pain. The cognitive im staying in some cases. I also had cognitive difficulties that my head wasnt functioning properly. I couldnt hear had povich in and couldnt follow conversations. Well, often covert patients like peggy say, their concerns are being taken seriously by their doctors. Its very difficult for some doctors to understand when they look at me, i look healthy physically, im reasonably strong, at least i appear to be and then you get dismissed very quickly. They say her mind is not ok. Im not afraid. But i still wonder if i will ever be the same again as a coded survivor. Peggy has officially recovered from the illness, but she says it feels like corona virus has stolen her healthy body and left her with a sick one in its place. Betty has been here for 2 weeks now. Her main goal is to get her Mental Health back on track. I need you live your life. 5 days. It was a weekend and so on. My life might be more intense than it was before. On the one hand, id like it to be like it was before on the other. The world is just falling apart because of the pandemic right now. At the moment, life is dramatically different for everyone. I think ill be a different person than i was before. Says that should have a take a good and has 3 more weeks of rehab ahead of her. All she wants to do is get back to a normal life again. Lets bring up to speed now with the other developments in the corona virus pandemic, the United States top Infectious Disease expert is warning of a surge after surge of new cases. Is that a spike or 2 to 3 weeks after last weeks things, giving holiday is likely to be followed by another after christmas. And American Drug maker robertas says it is applying for emergency authorization for its coronavirus vaccine. In the u. S. And europe return, us says its vaccine is 94 percent effective with no serious safety concerns. Ours is for snow and in formula one, the racing at sundays a behind gone play was overshadowed by a fiery crash. A french driver was slightly injured and has been ruled out of next weekends race, but he was happy to walk away one piece. This was the moment when formula one held its breath careers into a crash barrier and is engulfed in a ball of flame. Miraculously grows on a marriage to relatively unscathed from the inferno. But this was an accident that seemed to come from a bygone age. No car had been split in 2 in a crash in 1991, while a crash hadnt caused the car to catch fire since 1990. But there was an angel and grows on the shoulder, the halo. The titanium structure protects the driver from head injury. Yet there was much skepticism when it was introduced in 2018. Not least from the money whose life it almost certainly saved. Was the full, the, those things good to great things that both full blooded does though they knew it would feel they faced a fool to go suck up to see you and want you. But susan, this is a good another former hill skeptic World ChampionLewis Hamilton thanked the sports governing body for what he called the massive strikes theyve taken in try for safety. But while the sport rightly cuts itself on the back, the postmortem has already begun a sense of a crush that made scrap iron of car and barrier alike was able to happen at all. This isnt every news, life, or stick with us up next prisoners news for drought watson. Ill be back at the top of the hour with your world headlines. Is for me is for you as for hell, beethoven is for is for beethoven is for us is for beethoven 2020, the 250th anniversary year is applying for emergency approval for its corona virus vaccine. Its the 2nd pharmaceutical firm to seek the go ahead for its job in the u. S. So how close are we to having a vaccine ready for rollout . Also, the program opec and its Oil Producing allies consider whether to extend major production cuts. Look at the damage the Falling Crude prices done to the nigerian economy, migrants make up an increasing proportion of these entrepreneurs will explore the opportunities theyve found and the challenges they face in a pandemic economy. This is the to be a business on welcome to the program. Its copied 19 vaccine for approval in the u. S. And e. U. That would put it on track to start distribution in december. The companys data suggests the vaccine is 94 percent effective with no serious safety concerns, giving it a high chance of securing the go ahead of the vaccine developed by germanys biotech, pfizer is already a regulator approval in the e. U. And the us get more on this from our correspondents in new york because their journey to this point is kind of amazing, isnt it . It definitely seems to be quite unprecedented. It is a rather small Biotech Company based in cambridge, massachusetts, founded all by scientists from harvard university. And so far they have never ever developed a product that is on the market would be their 1st m seller and it would be a top seller, gets a revenue of 13000000000. 00 from this next year if things are working out well and they are hoping that this will be a good advertisement for other products, other vaccines that they might have in the pipeline. By the way, today, up by about 15 percent at about 18. 00 at the beginning of the year and all the trading almost at 150. 00 a share and especially in the past couple of weeks that played a major role. Weve almost gotten every monday now in the month, specially when it comes to vaccines and we most of the time and had quite a boost to the stock market to leverage just last week for the 1st time ever reaching the 30000. 00 point milestone for the month of november by the way, blue chips up by 13 percent and was that this november would be the best months in that weve had since generally of 1987, so the vix played a big role. Even if todays announcement, we do see some profit taking of the stock market by that had been a stellar performance. But overall we shouldnt forget the main driver. The main boost to stock prices is not the vaccine. It is all the money from the government, from the federal reserve. Were talking trillions of dollars. So thats really got the markets going in the past couple of months. Now overdue, says are watching on anxiously as the cartel opec and its upon is made to decide whether to extend dramatic production cuts that helped lift tanking prices. This year. Recent vaccine news has helped benchmark brant crude and west texas intermediate recover after the coronavirus pandemic. But it Global Consumption nigeria among the opec members pushing for output to be stepped up Africas Largest Oil Producer and to recession last week were counts for roughly 10 percent of the nigerian economy. So officials there saying restrictions on pumping are hurting g. D. P. Well, lets discuss this with johnson chil crew who is an economist at carry Asset Management, and he joins us from the nigerian capital lagos. Thank you very much for joining us on t. V. Business. Just tell us how serious the Economic Situation is in nigeria, the leverage. Thank you for having me. If you look at what has happened and you get to do, as you rightly pointed out, economy went into this a show in itself, but that contract and by that point 62 percent contraction was like they didnt buy the lock down effect of liquid 19. But beyond that brought 6 segments of the commonly contracted there is a talk on by the bottom of what it does that another basic of it, but most of it doesnt. So we ended up with a contraction of it by 62 percent. And did you, did you know, to what do you see it we have to see that if i dont, or you production in india, on the average 1670000 barrels per day, thats what i did by that out. Or you very beautiful today of India Economy by that, comes for just a bit in one, visit the d. D. P. , but also account for 70 percent of the government budget today. Been you and the vanity 5 percent of it in any sense. So when are you prizes . Are you actually this law passed and you have to comply with it . What are you realize that a government so its going to look at its not so easy. So it isnt so much that, you know, all prices are already falling before the coronavirus demick came along. Is it the case that its a contributing factor or, or can you blame the recession on the Oil Price Drop . What i would say is its a contributory factor and i wouldnt limit it on the drop, you know, you production or your prizes. Where are you is critical to the economy. What if we have about 6 . Are they going to be that common that you want without it going to grow you . Then we might have the various little groups as you had to do, just what else we would have going into the station. What teddy are you . Has it disproportionate impact on today . What are you . Yes, im not disproportionate impact. Is there a plan b. For the Nigerian Government to, to, to mitigate for the fact that the oil economy relied on what is going to have been pushed into a diversified economy . If i said no, not because its always going to come on, thats one piece of it g. D. P. But unfortunately, agriculture as the subsistence is not doing that in front of it, and its somewhat it in part of this house on the economy that sector, that astro also not sports oriented. That led to some additions that could argue by one of the timbers and the top quarter is also not sponsored. You do so you find other missiles are put in the stadium is, are you disappointed what the devil tried to structure up or up to because of economy . We have good advice for you know what it is and its ok. Johnson sugar from Asset Management will have to leave it at it. Thanks a lot for joining us. My pleasure. Now to some of the other business stories making the news, the u. K. Has announced it will ban telecoms providers from installing flyway equipment in its 5 g. Network beginning in september. Existing parts from the chinese firm will have to be removed by 2027. The u. K. Has described as a Security Threat over its alleged links to the government in beijing. Meanwhile, chinas factory activity expanded at the fastest pace in more than 3 years in november. The Service Sector also grew to a multiyear high. The data suggests the worlds 2nd largest economy is on track to become the 1st to completely shake off the drag from widespread coronavirus shutdowns and work on the controversial german russian gas pipeline. Nord stream 2 is set to resume next month. After a one year break. The u. S. Opposes the project saying it will give russia an economic stranglehold over germany and allow its to cut off transit countries like ukraine. Now a quarter of new german businesses in 2019 were set up by immigrants. And according to a report by the countrys state development bank, the figure marks a significant rise from the year before. But it comes during tough financial times, financing remains tight for all founders, and the pandemic is challenging on 2 printers, like never before. Cutting hair is mahmoud. How laughs job and his passion. He fled syria in 2015 in germany. He was given additional training. And this may, he took over the hair fantastic salon in central hamburg. He had to put up as own money to buy it. During the pandemic, banks have been reluctant to give loans for business startups to the website, the products doing remodelling online and playing all of that costs a lot of money. And because the banks were stepping back, he had to cover all the running costs myself. But i absolutely didnt want to give up. Other immigrants in germany have also taken the step of starting their own businesses in 2020, despite or perhaps because of the coronavirus pandemic. From afghanistan has lived in germany for nearly 10 years. He had the idea of starting an Online Platform for middle eastern grocers in hamburg. His Business Plan is complete, but he needs advice on how to negotiate with the banks. I have products that are partially ready, and by that i mean the software, all of that has done what i need is a market presence, and it has to be done well. So ill be needing a few employees to give me support. His advisor says there is one reason why more and more immigrants in germany are starting up businesses. Many of them are highly motivated because they are trying to get access to the job market. And they see being selfemployed as a way to improve their professional chances. But some selfemployed immigrants have seen the pandemic destroyed their businesses or, and drawer from israel was something of a workaholic. When he opened up his pretzel bar in berlin 12 years ago. The cafe and bakery that offered catering and delivery, employed up to 31 people. But these may be the last cafe au lait, hell be serving here. Drawer cannot afford to keep up all parts of his company. Thats his and you believe in scott, its a fight for survival. Every day is mental stress. You feel this inner turmoil and youre always anxious about whats going to happen without the delivery orders and without the catering, the cafe would not be able to survive. And its a problem many businesses face at the moment. In hamburg. Fewer customers are coming to mahmood how laughs alone in germany is limited. Lockdown, he was forced to reduce the hours of 21. 00 of his employees, but hes still standing. And he says that with the support of his customers, hell make it through the pandemic. From a the Business Team here in berlin for a moment to check out our website, www dot com slash business. Were also on facebook and twitter for me to buy and why are people forced to hide in trucks . There are many reasons. There are many cancers and there are many stories that make up your own made for minds. This is the dr. Coming up today is hong kongs prodemocracy movement dead. A mass resignation of hong kong, all positions all because now to move any resistance in governments to beijing, we follow one lawmaker who joined in this standoff to finance what a protester tells us this defiance the best time for devastation has already passed. And the impact here now to this minimal state, you know why he believes hong kongs