contradict. it it's time to get out from right here. as we examine. the 1. 0. 0. a push for equal access to private 19 vaccines south africa and india appeal for the suspension of patience of the w t o. their i missed on here today this is al jazeera live from dar also coming up the armenian prime minister says has ordered his orders sacking to his order saw sacking

a top general has come into force but military leaders are pushing back. a new step to reconcile with its colonial past france is to declassify secret documents related to algeria's war of independence. these cherry orchard may look innocent or not but they're part of a mounting debate here in chile over chinese investment and possible control over this country's most important and strategic industries. africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to drop a centrist directions on carbon $1000.00 vaccines more than $100.00 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations now according to a campaign group called one rich countries according excess doses preventing poor nations from getting them it's estimated that that's up plus. a virus as would be

enough to vaccinate the entire adult population of africa johns hopkins university found nearly half of those who've been fully vaccinated so far are in the united states and only 10 countries have been able to back so that's in a more than 75 percent of their populations and the u.n. secretary general antonio terra's says the inequality of the vaccine distribution is wildly uneven and unfair for me to reports now from johannesburg. on the border it's been a year since the 1st call over 1000 infection was identified in south africa since then more than 50000 people have died here and 1500000 have been infected while richard nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower . another important step.

as well low. production. south africa and india are leading a movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights for covert 1000 vaccines but many high income countries including the united states and those in the european union have rejected the idea they say waving the peyton's would put off private investors and slow down scientific innovation and existing regulations allow drug manufacturers to make their own deals with generic manufacturers while some developing nations like garner ivory coast in the suit to have begun receiving their 1st doses to the u.n. back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa are being left behind. there is a capacity for mr companies to produce things and i stayed in medical. it is essential that the wealthy states start blocking opening illegal barriers and

delaying essential crows all ahead of the troops of the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert $1000.00 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not received a single dose this is not the 1st public health emergency that south africa is facing it has one of the highest hiv aids rates in the world in the 1990 s. millions of people in this country and other developing nations died without access to the drugs they needed simply because they were too expensive so africa is once again calling for access to cheaper drugs to save lives with some arguing that despite covert 1000 vaccines being tested in africa many nations on the continent still remain at the back of the queue for me to milan al-jazeera johannesburg we can now speak to winnie be on your machine is the executive director at u.n. aid she joins us now from the bridge or miss when you are i know it you and it's

you've been championing the access of all communities to these lifesaving drugs and revathi know how critical that's been particularly in fighting the epidemic across africa but getting these roles out especially that the more expensive advanced drugs i know that was a huge fight when it came to the hiv aids epidemic are you now saying history repeats itself. yes indeed and sadly small and we're saying it doesn't need to be that way when demi was actually high temp you. found people who people on an organ. and lives with that virus but you don't die early. people in cost countries 10000000 people in poor countries die before the parent has came down and the vaccine and treatment was up they know it will fall there is doesn't have to be the case and i'm fortunately it is sold out you just sit to do the problem the fundamental problem is that the supply and

indoors is being made and not enough to go around a well this is a local problem needing up not the solution but a proxy not quite a apartheid has been created today more than 300 doses that have been mistakes so far or to most create 10 rich countries 120 other countries not a single girls has been a minister at this is not just and share our book but it's all goal she would child because the fairness is mutating it will come back to haunt all of us these days. because companies are all doing their technology and the i know how mean that the whole country the whole world loses even the rich countries don't have enough and even they will not amount to this and this we all have enough buses as soon as

possible you mentioned the global response i want to 1st look at the kovacs initiative to try to get vaccines to poorer countries now that was largely pushed by bill gates who has his own max mass vaccination global programs they've really been premised on the idea of protecting intellectual property and patents by man's time that's what's really made those world out so successful where the w.h.o. had previously failed he was building this response within the existing capitalist system so is the issue here actually manufacturers protecting their patients or the countries who are then hoarding vaccines. no. let me see that the court works initiative is helpful so far for example in the last 2 weeks coolmax out ship to $26.00 countries in $63.00 johns a couple of $1000000.00 is maybe up is that in $1000000.00 it is and will be distributing more by the end of the house when t.

it 27 percent of the populations in these countries developing countries will get some boxes full of parts that is not too mouse it is not enough the problem will scarcely do the soul when the technology then know how to open its leaves and it to know which is shared and there is more protection. so we all shocks bill gates d.h. or garcia all the europeans what what mining what works we said thank you but it is what up took so we don't see but it is not a global solution we need to get all white but it seems we need to share equal to all and we need to share income not our and there are ways to do all of these when nobody loses agree ok i want to ask you specifically about that because misc and uma buy my understanding you were once an aeronautical engineer yourself so you

will have experienced personally just how important the protection of intellectual property was especially around incentivizing the development of technology i know what's being discussed now is a temporary suspension of patience is that a good compromise how do you take back intellectual property because surely would it inevitably result in a huge amount of generics going forward. absolutely absolutely due to your rules provide for these rules why they waive being intellectual property rules in times of crisis such as these the problem is that companies have become so powerful. they are a voice much as more before governments and the whistle citizens so now what south africa and india are asking for is absolutely reason it will let most be waved and that technology then can be shared but moreover even even without that we need to eat their last deal when he's. sharing them

by sense w.h.o. created what you see top this is the origin of virus to acknowledge the axis along with the technology share under certain mechanisms of sharing royalties on sort and you can still hot max my seeing production so their moves can be waived their opportunity to waive them exists india has such a asking for these rich countries and. it's important to write this to them or for a global solution on all of the secretary general for global fractionation. and to that table and use this mechanism to put that gun in place and let me lastly then ask you about the practical implications of this right what would a suspension of peyton's actually achieve because in order for production to be

massively around top as you believe that it's not just about removing these legal barriers but would actually involve big pharmaceutical companies actively sharing their technology so who actually has the authority to make them do that. well i support the entire the chips is that mechanism or stay that beauty or their global and make that way you are happy if there is some green ant so it's a global mechanic but you need don't remit all that aren't so that's why but there are also i don't want you sent down 22 you see now we know for example that oxford x. transgenic is doing better in terms of sharing its technology than the produce that's because it has licensed what it does even at one time one seems to several

sites around the world so but there's more production this is also a possibility and niño the companies are not using need and year that they have benefited from public funds to make their discoveries they have governments who lean on them to share too unless it's not giving away for free it's about licensing others to produce so that it's all on the phone to tell us it is that other option they seem to have is another rock sean and they wait for is another option so we need to use explorer that you saw all of these options so actually much of mice action are on the up and to get out of this as fast as possible the international shipment census to me to act big but also in the courtroom it will use a 9.2 to me on dollar now as by these delays and that awful that gnaws is to the rich countries themselves so and to you this is clearly of any interest to go whole

it's a global problem and and the global need to rise together to meet the challenge when you get me a man there the executive director of u.n. aids thanks so much for joining us here on out of there thank you. now moving on and the dismissal of armenia's army chief of staff has now come into force 2 weeks after the prime minister fired him nicol passion yanick yours the military of attempting a crew last month after it demanded that he resign but that sacking was then blocked by the president army leaders have reiterated their calls for passion and to step down now french president emanuel says his government will speed up the declassification of secret documents from its colonial era the decision will make it easier to access information relating to the algerian war of independence but critics say the blocking of thousands of once public documents shows there's still a long way to go in january a truth commission was set up to look into france's colonial history historians of

called for victims testimonies to be included war of independence lasted from 1954 to 1962 and was one of the world's bloodiest conflicts algeria says more than 1000000 of its people were killed while use of wonder as professor of political science and international relations at council university he says some algerians believe french colonial rule benefited the country. i think that the releasing these documents and the archives will get a long way toward start let's not forget gotten reports by benjamin should just to make available to him the other case but also dulled. i believe that much has made significant steps but to apologize for france's behavior in nigeria would not be the would not be good for his electoral campaign leave that until human side has not been called in for that.

the pope of the day because they are dreams have not made so much effort in these demands and there are so maybe people in florence who do not necessarily believe the reason was a but they believe that the adventure in aunt julia was to civilise those salvagers its flaws that created a jury of its followers but believed you flustered and therefore they have nothing to apologize for if that is indeed a bonus it should come from the un julian terrorists who called me to do was of course it is how still ahead here on al-jazeera russia slows down access to twist them accusing it of failing to and there's bad content critics say it's another attempt to silence kremlin question. and off limits we look at the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on one of christianity as most sacred sites.

it's time for the perfect gentleman the winter sponsored by qatar airways the weather's been fun to try thought japan recently but things set. to change as we go on through the next couple of days from last area of high pressure which will gradually get squeezed out of the way little area of low pressure also pulling away from hokkaido that produced a little bit of snow into northern parts of japan thursday doesn't rain will make its way out of central and southern china easing across the east china sea as we go on through friday that west of where the sweeping across the korean peninsula into q into haunts you ahead of that in tokyo sheltered by the mountains still seeing those temps it getting up into the high teens once again dry but it does come back a bit higher for a good part of china but down towards the southwest you can see there is some rain

in the full cost because i'm right in the forecast 2 from northern parts of in the little westerly disturbance rowlings for his so we do have ample warnings in falls for the potential for some very heavy downpours possibility of some flooding here across northern parts of pakistan along with the fall north of in the some shops i was to you for a time into the far south of india but elsewhere it looks warm dry and sunny once again that will be a few showers up towards the pool we could see some heavier showers too for a time making their way across butan by the weekend. qatar airways. wants season to alice. now to a man. known as the japanese if we women teachers daily struggles with isolation and battles with physical hardship.

sacrificing their family lives to be education in the future generations. women in the way on al-jazeera. oh and i'm starting a tender that's reminder of our top stories this hour south africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to temporarily drop peyton frustrations on co the 19 vaccines they said would allow more countries and manufacturers to mass produce the jobs. french president among your background says his government will speed up the dea classification of secret documents from its colonial era that decision will make it easier to access information relating to the algerian war of

independence. and the dismissal of armenia's army chief has come into force 2 weeks after the prime minister fired him passion me out accuse the military of attempting a crew last month after it demanded that he resign i mean leaders have reiterated their calls for passing on to step down. some in the army say the prime minister mishandled that war with azerbaijan robin forrester walker reports now from yerevan on the challenges for some of the was most seriously injured voters that is a veteran from meany is recent war with azerbaijan he is adjusting to his new life a life without. voters that lost his arms rescuing his own brother who'd been wounded in the leg it's almost too much for their mother liana to remember that day . very was that was with his brother in the ambulance when the shell struck the despite his pain my brother came to help me the medic and driver rule so wounded

the interior was on fire the mattresses were burning but we drove on while my brother tried to put out the fire. officially knowing 1094000000 soldiers were wounded in the 6 week war over in the go no care about. talk to treat some of the most seriously injured at this rehabilitation center in central europe . as so many get back to something you never get used to all of this it's very difficult to see these young soldiers and many of them are helpless as a doctor it's terribly difficult for me to tell some of them that they will never walk again that burden is on me. physiotherapy and dry needling is helping hikes depan yen with the pain in his stumps he tells me the prospect of returning to sport keeps him motivated. hike is one of

300 patients at this center receiving therapy therapy that wouldn't be possible without the support of charitable funding because the state here is simply not in a position to cope with the sheer scale of the problem looks a little bit short the center will soon have a prosthetics workshop paid for by a dutch armenian charity there are a lot of empathy ated people they are waiting for prosthesis in a short time and that's a big challenge but i think it's a big plus that they are generally healthy and de are very motivated to do to walk with these armenian tax payers also make mandatory payments into soldiers' insurance fund. but but as that needs advanced prosthetics costing tens of thousands of euros the kind that would enable him to hold his own cup of coffee

again all mission they've told us this kind of prestige is beyond our reach going to cost maybe this is a huge amount of money that people like us can't afford these types of artificial limbs but what does that say about us if we can't afford it who can use the home land was worth sacrificing my arms for why should new ones be beyond my reach but as that hasn't wasted time since his interviews he got engaged to his girlfriend. there's still hope that he lives an independent life again robin for an. al-jazeera . now police in myanmar have dispersed protesters in the city of mandalay. as you can see there people fled as gun shots were fired more than 60 protesters have been killed now since the military took over in february the u.s.

state department says it's repulsed by the use of lethal force the u.n. security council has called for a stranger but failed to agree on a statement condemning the troop when the chinese government is being accused of breaching every single act of the un genocide convention and its treatment of. a report by more than 50 global human rights experts says there's clear evidence that china is responsible for committing genocide against the muslim world because it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the shenzhen region china denies allegations of human rights abuses. well russia has restricted access to accuse in the social media platform of failing to remove banned content the country's communications watchdog says it's slowed down the website speed and they've warned it could be blocked entirely unless action is taken on tuesday russian authorities announced lawsuits against 5 social media platforms for posts related to opposition protests according to the interfax news agency. 3 jury

members have been selected so far for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd in the us city of minneapolis you can read. he was on. they were interviewed in a courtroom in their identities have not been revealed freud's death in police custody in may last year triggered wild wide protests former officer derek servan is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter the court has set aside 3 weeks to choose the 12 jurors now israel has partially reopened its airport to foreign arrivals but only to those granted special exemptions tourism remains off limits and that includes the religious pilgrimage is so important so life in the old city of jerusalem are a force that has. jerusalem's catholic patriarch leads a lent

a procession down the ancient steps to the church of the holy sepulcher normally the priests would process through throngs of tourists and pilgrims but now the square like the church behind stands all but empty. first dedicated as a church by constantine in the 4th century on the site where jesus is believed to have been crucified and buried it's shared by 4 christian denominations and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. to a set situation that they're not here at all i hope the corona will be. minimises if they get to the poplar and they will start coming this is the holy places as usual as they did before between 20162800 more than half of all foreign tourists to occupied east jerusalem came here the old city's most visited site now in the run up to easter its giant doors are officially open again but israel's main airport is still partially closed only handfuls of specially permitted foreign

nationals are allowed in a far cry from the more than a 1000000 christian tourists who would enter in a normal year living interest from this is a place i've been to pretty frequently and when it's full of devoted pilgrims from around the world it has a real emotional power but on a day like this when it's all but empty in some ways the ancient nature and beauty of this place a more fully revealed those who are here now we found a mix of foreign workers academics and locals have the place almost to themselves no competing for snatched moments in revered spaces details that might have been lost amid camera clicks and excited shouts now gleam quietly undisturbed but this period of quiet comes at a cost in the form of missing religious donations and struggling shops in the alleyways outside merchants say 95 percent of their business has simply disappeared . adeeb judaize family has held the keys to the church for nearly

a 1000 years even in that context he says these last 12 months have been extraordinary. it's been a year that we're suffering and the old city is the most affected and within the old city it's the tourist reliant businesses and places of worship. there is shared hope among priests and shopkeepers but the talk of a vaccine driven return to international travel will indeed soon materialize and this place will once again welcome the world back through its doors hard force it occupied east jerusalem. chinese state owned companies are gaining a bigger fuss hold on chile corporations are extracting billions of dollars a resource and some politicians are suggesting ways to stop them at last in america at a selling stand human reports now from. from the $1000000000.00 acquisition of one of the world's largest salmon companies to the purchase of copper and lithium mines

to wineries and fruit fields. china has set its sights on chile it may be a small country but it has a very long and strategic pacific coastline and lots of resources that the agent giant needs but that's not the only attraction the most important thing for china is. window shop in. their region. to say. you know you here we are in. america but while chile is economic growth a great deal to china members of congress are warning of an aggressive investment offensive not from private capital but from the chinese state yes you might want if you don't regulate the participation of reforms light in your economy that economy could be nationalized not by our own country but rather by a foreign state that's what we've presented a bipartisan bill to level the playing field for everyone because we're facing an

offensive by the chinese state the wants to take over strategic sectors of the economy the congressman has called drafted a proposal that seeks to regulate farm state ownership in strategic and geopolitical sectors of the economy on the top of his list is the chinese state's majority control of electricity distribution in chile cherry orchards like the one you see here may not seem to fit that description but chinese companies are increasingly buying more and more agricultural land like the song. arm to produce one of chile's prime exports fruit especially cherries and that's raising concerns that china may be moving towards producing packing and exporting its own fruit eventual eliminating the chilean entrepreneur altogether. 6 weeks ago at the height of peak season $1000000000.00 cherry exports to china ground to an abrupt halt.

it's very suspicious exactly when we started buying this bill in congress who social networks in china who are controlled by the slight became denouncing that out sure he's had traces of courage at 19. chiles foreign ministry refuses to entertain the notion of foul play at least publicly but nevada role is not alone in suspecting that china was sending a veiled message that there's a high price to pay if chile decides to limit china's economic influence in human al-jazeera. that is al-jazeera these are the headlines south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organization to temporarily drop on time in $1000.00 back scenes they said would allow more countries than manufacturers to mass produce the jobs.