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a premise you rush back to fool normality. a number of countries across europe are significantly relaxing their rules. that despite rise in numbers and concerns, but highly contagious, delta variance that w h o insists the pandemic is not over yet. and for the waves of infection could surface. later in the year. all of the countries of the america, we still have 91000000 cases. week 1000000 a week in the hook up, it is an over am and the same in europe, in europe, in region. we've half a 1000000 cases week like this thing has gone away. so i summers of this sense that everyone thinks it's all over. and we're just getting on and to an extent, i understand the sentiment, understand why people want to feel that way. but for a lot of the world, unfortunately this thing is only getting started. we just need to be a little more patient. remember last summer where we had everything got good and

then everyone kind of relaxed and then we kind of arrived in september, october and ended up in huge trouble. but i think that's where we're going again with a much more transmissible, very at this time around on the same day that warning was delivered, the british prime minister announced that most cove, if 19 restrictions in england's will be gone in 2 weeks time. or is johnson acknowledged? they'll probably be more infections that people have to learn to live with the virus live now to sonya guy, a good guy, you go. she joins my life on london. and sonya, the england seems brace to fully reopen there. is this a sign then that the you case heralded vaccination program has worked well, yes, you can certainly say that the vaccination program here has had enormous success. however, interesting to note that while bars johnson, the prime minister, was making his statement yesterday talking about if by the 12th of july for tests

that he met, that england would unlock on the 19th of july. his scientific and medical offices standing by him did a note of caution there as well. both of them saying that they would continue wearing mosques in doors and in crowded situations as well. so far from, again being a situation where victorious unlocking is, is announced to the really are plenty of caveats built into that as well, of course, or as jobs and left the message to the scientists to the medical officer to off those notes of caution as well. but there has been also significant criticism from the scientific medical community here saying that really, as with the case with mosque, there is no need to discard them, that it should not just be a question of personal responsibility because the pandemic have not gone anywhere

at all. cases are rising, in fact, the health minister, the new health minister, such a job, it said on tuesday that cases could rise. why as much as a 100000 cases a day during the summer, very worrying, of course, because that could give rise to scientists, to dangerous new variance which could prove resistant to the vaccines. and if that goes the way, then all that good work, all the effort that has been put into the u. k. vaccination program would've all gone to waste. okay. for her guy. yeah. go that bring us the latest reaction from london. sonya, thank you. well, after months of criticism that covert 1900 vaccines weren't reaching, developing nations and occupation drives around the world are picking up. but the role lights come as experts worry about the impact. so that delta variance, charlotte balice reports vaccine drives the gathering pace and countries around the world. this is 1500000 doses of the medulla vaccine flowing into el salvador. as

a donation from the united states, l salvador has administered just under 3000000 doses. enough to fully inoculate 22 percent of its population. it's an amazon called for me. so we have a special commitment to the entire region and we are not going to stop until all countries have vaccines. they require to protect older citizens in ivory coast housework as a visiting market to get as many people vaccinated as possible. though visit 130 in the capitol abbey, shawn in the next 2 weeks. in some countries, in africa, covered 19 case numbers, a doubling every 3 weeks. i have just received my vaccine and we were leave because i had been waiting to do it for a long time, and i came to the market. i saw the people in the campaign, so i took advantage of it. in russia, the government has opened its largest vaccination center in moscow. russia reported a record high 737 corona virus dates on tuesday. and

the last week showed a slight decrease in the incidence of covered in moscow. but nevertheless, the level of hospitalization and morbidity itself is at a very high level. but how will the delta or other mutations behaves or expecting other mutations? it's a question. health authorities are asking around the world. israel's health ministry really started that the 5 by and take the vaccine is just 64 percent effective against infections by the delta variance. it had been 94 percent effective against previous strains of the virus. although they reported it is still more than 90 percent effective, keeping people out of the hospital. the delta variance is accelerating the spread of outbreaks and places that had previously escaped the pandemic. the g went an entire year without recording any community corona virus, cases until the new strain arrived in april. on tuesday it reported

a record 636 cases and 6 deaths. it does hurt you in some way, and it does also let you know that, you know, we're not with far from over the i see you the main hospital and the capitol sousa is full. so as the cities morgue, 10 percent of the genes are fully vaccinated. officials are hoping to increase that number to stop the spread charlotte bellis out 0. let's get more now from d. t grid a sunny. she's a clinical epidemiologist, the senior lecture at queen mary university of london and jones is not by skype from london gets heavy with his own you sir, it's delta variance of the crew and vars clearly a worry, but we do have vac scenes. no. so how effective are those vaccines against this particular variance? so there's no doubt that there is a level of escape with the does have a and that means that there is, there is a level of reduction in protective immunity with this particular band, even with vaccines. the good news is that with 2 doors of vaccine,

that is still of a high level of protection for individuals against severe disease like hospitalized ations and deaths. but protection against infection and transmission may be much lower as we hear him from recent reports from israel, which might explain the sort of searches we are seeing in places like israel and the u. k. where, you know, 50 to 60 percent of the population are fully vaccinated and that has important implications for reaching heard immunity, which means reaching a level where the pad that may start drinking by itself. so it's very likely that until we back to me many, many more people cases will keep growing even in places that have generally high levels of vaccination. well, let's, let's talk about the effectiveness of these vaccines that haven't fat creed to you define effectiveness of a vaccine because the people are so contracting the virus if they're vaccinated, spreading the virus if they're vaccinated. i mean, what looks like an effect of character against the vaccine at this point.

so effectiveness is that different levels to this protection against infection, which is the lowest level. and that's generally the lowest for vaccines. infection against transmission infects against developing symptomatic to be so mild to moderate disease and then protection against hospitalizations and deaths. and that it is generally preserved even with more escape from radiance. but what will be affected here will be people getting infected with even we know double vaccinated. people can not only get infected transmitted, we've seen, that's an outbreak. for example, in singapore, where food officials, who are w vaccinated not only got infected but transmitted into the community. and it also means that the duration of immunity might be reduced, particularly for more elderly people where they start from a lower level immunity. which means that we might be booster vaccines only at them . you wouldn't need that before. we prefer vaccines are one thing, but there's a large chunk of the world, but it's not how does 1st dose of actually let alone seconds. if these vaccines don't stop the spreads of the virus? what, what next?

i mean, you can't walk down the world forever. so this is why we don't vaccine only strategy isn't sufficient and we definitely need more equitable sharing of vaccines in the you won't be seen. but the level of vaccination is that while cases are searching at least hospitalisation and death are low. so it seems that we can back links and if we can, we can that live across the world, which of course means that there needs to be much more access to back to across the world. and this would help, but it also means that vaccines cannot be our only way out of this. we still need measures in place. and that doesn't mean just restrictions. that means focusing on things like recall, transmission, mosse and ventilation, particularly environment. this is happening at schools and workplaces, and also having good surveillance test rates and isolate strategies that can keep up with the wireless. i'm actually prevent spread happening into the communities aggressive control measures that are applied only as a virus and, and also preventing the virus entering through very strong border restrictions and quarantine the we have countries that have these very strong border restrictions.

i'm thinking of astray lea, a, where a streamlines to have been vaccinated can even get home and the virus is still spreading there. so it is a complicated situation for governments exceptionally difficult for them. the difficult choices they have to make, but there have to be a balance here, which is why you have governments talking about living with the virus, from an i, to me, ologist points if you what exactly does that look like? what does living with the virus mean? does it mean vaccination every birthday as we do with, with, or just facts, anything elderly people as we do with flu? because the current situation is not sustainable. well, i mean, i sort of disagree that there is a balance between you know, between for example, even economy and health and health and restrictions. because the debate here that all the things that tied up would get on top of the ban dummy. and yes, this is heidi transmissible, very,

and that is affecting control even in previous elimination zones. but you know, living with devices, not an option because living with the buyers looks like even with high levels of vaccination, looks like what we have in the u. k. where in the last week we've had quarter 1000000 of people getting infected, which will lead to thousands of people. 32000 people living with long i'm not going, but i think they're not dying. these people there are going to be sexual, but they're not dying. and that's the main thing is to try to protect health services so that you can live without emotion. no, no 400000 people in the you have chronic disability. they've had this for more than one. we are having symptoms more than one year, 400000 people in one country. 1000000 people have longer with here, 2 thirds of them report problems with day to day activity. we cannot possibly ignore that. i mean, you know, looking at hospitalisation than death, the known and letting transmission continue among young people on mitigated is what brought us a generation of people who have chronic disability. and this will continue unless

we change our focus. look at transmission and not just hospitalizations and that ok, i'm afraid we're out of phone but great to get your thoughts fair. that feel good. a sunny clinical epidemiologist from queen mary university london. thank you very much indeed. plenty more. so hands on this user, including israel, government suffers its 1st big pile of entry to see failing to extend the controversial citizenship. local tropical storm elsa has cuba horse and hundreds of thousands of people from their home still have to laces from havana and in sport, brazil are one, went away from another corporate america title far will have and all the rest of the fort lisa ah, lebanon's caretaker,

prime minister is warning his country is face away from what he calls a social explosion. her son is appealing for international help to resolve the economic crisis, inflation soreness, the lebanese currency hits you lose fishing, thousands more. people in support for t. c obsessed the global community must steppin now and when ashley though i would come by play to day to all the king's princesses, presidents leaders and l i and friendly nations. and i call on the united nations and all international agencies and public opinion to help save to live in a people from death and prevent the destruction of the country. leaping on is it a short distance from a social explosion, and the liberties are facing the stock site on their own. more now from xena hoods or who joins as lives in a year in bay rates, just give us a sense of high fives. life is for everyday people in lebanon is the country,

days away from social collapse. us hasn't the claims well, the country is in crisis. it has been in crisis for more than a year. the space is near nearly bankrupt and it's just a daily struggle for every lebanese. we're outside one of the gas stations here and you see the long lines, people wait for hours just to fill up one 3rd of their fuel tank. there is a fuel crisis just there is a lack of medicine after people fill up their cars with gas, they go to pharmacy to start looking for medicines, which more often than not, they do not find. and then there's hyper inflation, the price of food. it has more than tripled in recent months, yet the minimum wage remains the same. and the majority of the lebanese people turn in the local currency, which is now worth less than $50.00. the reason is if i were to

die that destroying god without writing gods, we have money. we're gonna buy anything. we have money, really. we have money, but you gotta buy anything that's not there goes on. there are those people who still earnest salaries, but unemployment is on the rise. it's now 35 percent and research institute say it is going to increase to 40 percent of the. this is a country which is starving for dollars for hard currency. on the central bank, mandatory reserve is drying out, and the central bank was giving importers dollars in order to buy fuel medicine at an affordable price to subsidize these goods. and like i mentioned, it's running out fuel prices have increased by, by 50, by 50 percent. so has the price of bread. so people are struggling and you just heard that man there,

those who have money in or able to buy something just can't because they cannot find it in a country which imports almost everything that it needs. i mean, it, he said it best didn't see the guy in the motor bike. this isn't life. this is hail . given that situation, i mean, most the lebanese government actually doing how people are claiming that the countries on the speech for the international community. i mean, really yes, well, he's a caretaker prime minister. he has limited powers. there's been no government for nearly a year. politicians have been bickering, they're engaged in a power struggle on who is going to control the next, next governments. and they're blaming the international community for bailing them out when the international community has said time and time again. time around. we're not going to give you the billions of dollars which has really been wasted over the years mismanage. there's no basic services in this country. there's no

infrastructure this electricity crisis, people don't get those get other tricity more than 2 hours a day, and those who have money to pay for private generators, which also cost a lot. so this fall, additions are blaming the international community for demanding that a government that is able and willing to carry out administrative and financial reforms as well as fi corruption is formed before they unlock international assistance. what they have is trying to say no valence out helps 11 people before doing that. yet all these people are trapped, are trapped in what many call it corrupt system us government. these politicians empower for decades that really are responsible or are blame for running the economy into the grounds. ok, zayna holder bringing us the latest from beirut. fina. thank he. israel's governments is narrowly last of all

a parliament raising giants viability. if you call ition, it fell to renew a contentious flow that bars palestinians in the occupied territory from settling permanently with their spaces in israel. 15 members voted in favor anthony call number voted against it faster and all nights can asset session or the head needs half more for walkie by east jerusalem. there was a lot of back and forth between the government and the opposition. and when you think about the opposition, and now it is benjamin netanyahu, the former prime minister, who is the head of the cood. now the party and opposition who was heading the the efforts there to stop that bill from passing. now that is a bill that has been there since 2003. it was impose at the time of the 2nd intifada. and at the time it was said that it was because of security

reasons. israel needed to have that citizenship low and also to protect the jewish character of the nation. now that law had been renewed every year, including during the premiership of age. i mean it and you know what happened overnight that the opposition made its best to make sure that that law did not happen. you do see in the israeli media, reportedly benjamin that i know had said that as a closed door, lee could session before this message meeting. that actually it was more important to overthrow the government than rather past the citizen as ship law. and that is exactly what happened because something he was so adamant about doing his premier shape. well, he wasn't adamant about any more. so as a fact, a result of it is no more citizenship low in israel at the moment. a virtual court

hearing has just begun unsafe africa were former president, jacob summa is fighting against a prison sentence. assume i have been ordered to spend 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry. he is, defies a 5 day deadline to himself and his keys judges of bias. ive nice mr. miller in pisa merits berg that court hearing is taking place for me. when are we going to find out if j consumer will indeed go to jail? well, the expectation is that the court, the high coach and peter marriage book should war ideally, in theory, should have a judgement today because wednesday is the deadline by which police have an order from the constitutional court to a with the former president. and that's after, as you say, he didn't hand himself over by sunday. and so what he's trying to do is call to at least his lawyer is to get an interdict to stop. that's

a risk. and we've just heard from his lawyer trying to explain to the judge presiding over this case, why they're there, they're seeking this interdict. he's also outlined that the former president is 79 years old. he's not a flight risk. and that the, there are various parties who are not opposed to this application, but we also know the constitutional court has said that they could potentially be an issue of a to restriction. and this is what the judge in the case has also reiterated just now that the biggest issue at hand is one of jurisdiction. because the constitutional court gave that judgement earlier this week. it's the highest land in the court, in the highest court in the land part to me, and it can't be appealed. so they all questions around whether or not a high court can order into that to stop the risk. and if it does that, it's also in predicting that judgement by the constitutional court given the

specifics of this particular case and the position the former president has taken this is quite unprecedented. and most likely would be a landmark ruling if the high court were to say anything else besides dismissing the application. but the former president is relying on it to not get arrested between now and wednesday. and it is rather astonishing all of this message is to send about so because just a system that you can escape prison if you accuse judges of apartheid, that's exactly the dilemma that's being faced. the, there was a lot of criticism around the judicial process by the former president saying that he was being vilified. he's been targeted and that the judge who is overseeing that inquiry into corruption is targeting the former president. he's biased and he can't be objective, and that's why previously he wanted charged condo to be refused because they had

a personal relationship which on those denied and said that he doesn't see why you should choose himself. but this is what the former president continues to say. even into sunday when he defied that order to hand himself into police thing all i was asking for was the refusal of this judge. he refused to have you down that i would have spoken to those on the commission. but we also know that the former president has done everything he can in a number of instances to try and not to be accountable with. it wasn't going to the inquiry into state corruption or it's his corruption trial that he's also facing later this month. that's ongoing. with youth issues of health or legal fees they have, but there's always been a reason why the full president has been opposed to appearing, appearing in court, and certainly why he's refusing to be arrested. now, even though he has previously said, he's ready to go to jail, to stand by his principles. and there is

a prisoner of conscience. but he is very much relying on what happened in court today. and the issue that the courts are having, as you mentioned, there was one of credibility and independence. they hadn't necessarily been run of weather necessarily been issues around the courts conduct. but in this particular instance, supporters of the former president believe him, they say they don't trust the court. they say that he's being vilified and they're ready to support him. and that's also the limit that's being faced. what could happen once he is rested, given the promises and threats of war? his supporters have made in recent days. ok for me to miller, that break from pizza. maddox berg. thank you for me to at the trial of austria, the former vice chancellor hines christian struck her on corruption charges has begun in vienna straw her who is also the leader of the right when freedom party is accused of offering to change a law to help a party donors, secure public funding for his private hospital. it's part of

a larger scandal that led to severe corruption allegations. the so called a beef a gave scandal. the book in 2019 led to the fall of the previous coalition government with sebastian court an industry group that includes facebook, twitter, and google says tech joints could still offering their services and hong kong over proposed changes to the data privacy laws. the amendments target the malicious sharing of people's information. no one has dock thing, but the asia internet coalition says while it's against doc, saying the draft laws vague words and could leave local stuff open to face criminal investigations. and prosecution. companies have also faced new challenges after b gene and post and national security low in hong kong. which critics say stifles freedoms and defense. on comes chief executive, kerry lamb says the territory is willing to listen to the concerns before any

legislation is finalized for you. for your hate. i like the amendment exercise, needs to address the issue of doc, saying that the privacy commissioner has the power to take action and carry out investigation. if online companies express their concern, i'm sure that the privacy commissioner is happy to meet with them and listen to their concerns. the belief in hong kong of arrest of 9 people suspected of a bomb quote, very keys of making explosive supplants, and multiple sites across the city. fix, secondary school students are among the suspects. adrian brown has more now, from hong kong. the police addressed the media several hours ago saying they had floated, what they believe was a campaign to carry out a series of bombings in hong kong. the targets, including the cross harbor tunnel, as well as course. what makes it so shocking though, is that some of those arrested are just 15 years old, 6 teenagers, 15 years old,

as well as the secondary school teacher. now the police say that during the raid, they seized a number of bomb making chemicals. they've also frozen the assets of the group that amounts to about $70000.00 us dollars. now they didn't go into a great deal of information in detail about how they found out about this group. but it's quite clear they be monitoring this group for a number of weeks, if not months. they say that the school children were recruited because it's, believe they and their families. would you to leave hong kong in the next few months. now why this is important, is it just a few days ago, a police officer was stopped by an assailant who then killed himself in an operational police described as a lone will terrorist act. i'm not really upset the hong kong government as well as the police, as it a lot of people offered condolences to the attacker. and that prompted carrie lamb

on tuesday to issue a warning to people not to support acts of violence. the security key here in hong kong, they said that people who show sympathy the terrorism then become supporters of terrorism. so heads on out to 0, get the job or lose your job. one of the fusion to be vaccinated could be costly for some employees. returning to the office in the us, ah, and his food is agreed to be a canadian hockey fan for. i will tell you why later in the program. ah hello, they're wasting a lot of heat over europe at the moment. and with that we're getting quite if you warnings up in the north.