international news channels. one moment i'll be very proud off was when we covered the napoleon quake of 2050, a terrible natural disaster on the story that needs to be told from the hall of the affected area. to be then to tell the people story was very important at the time. there was a time to be direct. there is a growing realization that rights can be taken away in this country to cut through the rhetoric. how can we resist this narrative and hall dangers and demand the truth? join me, mark him on hill for up front. what alex is here. it's one of the biggest he beg for african music and creativity. artists from across the continent, gathering senate gov of the 8th edition, the old african music award. join us for coverage and update on how to get here. ah.

hello, i'm lauren taylor in london. the top stories, routers, era security forces in brazil have arrested around 1500 people involved in the storming of government buildings in the country's capital. right. police were started clearing a camp of both narrow supporters. outside brazil is army headquarters. and dozens of buses have been deployed to transport those arrested to regional police headquarters. they were seen waving flags through the windows of the buses for latin america, tennessee. a newman has more from sao paolo, on what brazil's justice minister has had to say. it described the people who overran the, the 3, the receipts of democracy, the 3 institution, the headquarters in brazil, ya as whom longer terrorists and vandals. this is something that particularly angers these people because they consider themselves as patriot. he also said that no one will get away thought free,

that they will all be punished. and that the government will be launching an investigation as to how this happened, who is really behind it, who is financing it, or who may have financed the camp of anti lula pro bowl for nato activists who were outside of only a kilometers for weeks and weeks in brazilian j kilometers from the presidential power, the supreme court and the congress building pakistan's as donors have pledged $9000000000.00 to help it recover from last year's devastating floods. it's been holding a major conference in geneva with the u. n. to rally support officials from 40 nations, including the french president, emanuel mac, or attended among the countries pledging help of france. the u. s. saudi arabia and china. the u. n. says it was pakistan's worst disaster in decades mailing when the post disaster needs assessment. my government has prepared

a comprehensive framework plan for recovery and he have detention and reconstruction with resilience. bearing in mind the minimum funding requirement of $16300000000.00, half of which is proposed to be met from defend the mass digger sources and the other half. for my own development partners and french, we must match the right response of the people of pakistan with our own efforts and massive investments to strengthen delcom communities for the future. rebuilding back is than in a resilient way will run in excess of $16000000000.00 us dollars and far more will be needed in the longer term. and this includes not only flood recovery and rehabilitation efforts, but also initiatives to address down things, social, environmental, and economic challenges. kevin 19 has spread rapidly in one of china's most

populous provinces. health officials say 89 percent of people in central hannon region have been infected. adequate 218888 half 1000000 people. all the 7000 nurses have columns strike at 2 major new york city hospitals. they say they've been forced to act by a failure to tackle what they call a crisis and on the safe staffing nursing unionist want war and management of putting patients at risk. yes. so the nurses died all my time. i have basically come together to say that we're tired of being exploited. we're talking about patients being abused and most of all, we're tired of seeing them not difficult they deserve. we came to nursing to take care of people because we care about them, come from compassion and it's very difficult to come to the hospital every single day and know that we're able to get them. we can do truly deserve work through the pandemic. and we have short staffing. they brought in traveling nurses doesn't fill the gap, we still have a bunch of vacancies and we're over words. so we really nice and it's hard on the,

on the patients because when you say staffing for them, iran has handed down 3 more death sentences for offences related to anti government protests. triggered by the death of master me in the custody of so called morality police. that despite international condemnation, over the 2 latest executions which are carried out on saturday, the, you, in a number of european countries who summoned iranian diplomats to protest to stay with us time of pandemic is next. looking at the driving experiences in the global south when use after that ah presently were being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep forest.

primarily because planet earth is better known now as planet farm animals that are reservoirs for av pathogens are coming up right up against new agriculture spilling over into the livestock. and then from there, spreading out onto the global travel science is in the middle of a political battle. what direction are we going to continue to conduct our civilization? are we going to continue on this pathway? or are we going to choose a different path? in the path that the lends itself to have

a better balance between our right to be here on the planet and survive. and the animals and landscape upon which we depend in order to do that. human societies have long faced the threats of disease. and despite so many breakthroughs in modern medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic. so we struggle to contend we have destroyed out by that, we have harmed the plant and the planet will eat so at our expense at the expense of these global marketers, it's just an inevitable. the worry is that there's no handle. this thing is going to be a force all of its own southern

africa. i saw recently live series, the worst impacts, the h i. v. pandemic. millions of people have died. millions of lives have been turned upside down. and then along comes covert and we have another pandemic to tackle on top of h ave. the h i v experience taught us a lot about science, vaccines and healthy justice. but when it comes to cove dine t. did the world learn anything from us? ah, before i became a filmmaker, i worked in

h. i v. prevention back then. hard lessons were learned. not just in south africa, but globally. we learned the few people suffer and die whether a strong commitment to public health and that where this, the political will, every one can have access to the medicine they need. as i said, we learnt this the hard way an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now a danger that has become a threat to his old. it is a deadly disease and there is no known cure. so far as being confined to small groups, but it's spreading. if you ignore aids, it could be the death of me said, don't die of ignorance. many roasts were 1st introduced to

h r v. through this kind of messaging. the implication was, if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame to the people who are most affected by h r. v was somehow narrow down to the poor h's. according to the u. s. center for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patient parent, alex, and whom affiliate or we were told the virus originated and asked the monkey which we now know to be true . with the lack of information about how the virus jumped from one species to another, led to some pretty offensive conclusions. and stoked the blame game to the emerging

health crisis. we were going to fix the subject matter if so obscene, so remoting until we are ready to discourage and do our dear level best to eliminate the types of activities which have caused the spread of the aid. lever them a god only wherever. going to solving 1978 representatives of 134 countries, 67 international organizations. and i've also asked h h s to add the aids virus to the list of contagious diseases, for which emigrants and alien seeking permanent residents in the united states can be denied entry. ah you so when you ask a question, does h i the pause aids? the question is does a virus cause and syndrome?

how does a virus course, a syndrome? it gone in the 19 ninety's and becky had argued against the science and was deeply skeptical of anti retroviral drugs. well enough again, his argument was that h r v was part of a continuing conspiracy against africans. treatment of aids was declared near impossible, impractical and not cost effective. dod, i'm blue haired on deep the nihilism and lame. he was so adamant about her toxic intervals were that it almost seemed that he would do anything in his power never to allow them to be used in south africa. yet more children have been infected with h. i v in south africa over this today conference then will be infected in other,

the united kingdom or the us in the whole of this year. and i think that's an important and frustration was ronnie. hi, because richard nations had a access to the new drugs developed to treat h r v. but not south africa. not unless you had lots of money that is, for most of us, h r v infection was a death sentence. we had to fight medical schools really hard around the exclusion that they had about which person was considered innocent enough to access a r v. as those were regarded as nurses who had needle stick injury, somebody who was raped could access allergies, but not somebody who was gay. that somebody who had consensual sex and then became h i v positive. those are really difficult in dock times and i think as a young lawyer activist, it really opened my eyes. the

family off as dog does, doesn't lie with science. the failure of not treating a chevy lies and in the political will of all a government to chic distance. it was a difficult time it to the power of the people through the treatment action campaign to make a our retreat. not the reality. we demanding that i know to swear to our last dominion as well as problem. becky, tried to deny the existence of treatment action campaign put up the entire miserable effect of a tri county space. it

is deborah escaping from maloof and community or wyoming and getting health care services and robin school. oh, your dental and vision. in the course of a few years, the treatment action campaign aided by former president nelson mandela, ensure that the she, she was firmly placed on the international agenda. as the lead is of the global health response president george bush onset, by championing their charitable efforts. the doctrine rural south africa describes his frustration. he says we have no medicines, many hospitals tell people you've got a's. we can't help you go home and die in an age or miraculous medicines,

no person should have to hear those words. the program spearheaded by doctor antony found she it benefited from the decision one of the major companies to drop their payton's voluntarily. this led to drugs being made available at a fraction of the price. but just for the developing world, for millions around the globe, the aid came too late. in south africa alone, we currently have 9000000 people who are h, i v positive law, twin and when available, and at the time in the ninety's there were no pause. you see a peasant changing to a skeleton uses me so scary. so yeah, i h o v, i don't know when i'm a good i was great. it was,

it was me me just having one of the largest android volatile programs in the world. we still have not been able to control the transmission so just in terms of what's done. and so i turned my attention to working in

a shabby vaccine research so that we could find effective ways to prevent transmission. i'm so glad that you've chosen to participate in the study. thank you for contributing to finding solutions personally for myself at home, linda or my whole family. if i get a bit emotional when i'm, when i'm talking about h i v was my mother, my father, my uncle's, everyone. so we suffered a lot when i lost my parents, of course for the ha, how do you owe us health? mister lucas was willing to 12. we had to go live with people. yes, we got big food from people because of h i v. i understand if my mother was still alive, my parents until i my life and a chain. so h o v is. i don't know how to explain, i'm very scared of

h i v. so that's why i will is what, when i try to something those can i help in the future for this it appears to be prevented. glenda gray is leading an international collaboration to find at h. i v vaccine spearheaded by the h i v vaccine trout network. larry curry hedge up this vast organization that is publicly funded through the u. s. government vaccines had been left to the development by pharmaceutical companies, bailey essence, with the side. what vaccines they were gonna investigate. and the reality is,

is that that often is the balance between their perceived market and societal need for a couple of in h i v, it was a huge the sale the need. there is an enormous amount of infection in the under developed world. and the non pharmaceutical market world. so you saw very rapid drop out rapid dis, investment one really needed to provide the clinical infrastructure to do the clinical trial. this is the most expensive part of doing drug development. and we are going to, as a society, create an infrastructure i'm

learning about the wonder of antibody mediated prevention, a clinical trial with the most beautiful cutting edge vaccine science. it is taken decades to develop something the targets h o. v's unique ability to evade a traditional vaccine. it feels like we're on the cusp of something really big here. the reason we call it number one of your c o, one was the 1st potent antibody that we were able to obtain from one of the volunteers turned out to be an individual who was in clinical trials volunteering at an age donated his blood and the serum had these tremendously potent antibodies against the virus, he was happy to volunteer and he knew that we isolated the satellite from the time

and when that was done, several apps found and were actually able to make in the lab protein, the embodied protein that was able to kill block each very pump where recommend using those i did in the amp study, we're not giving a vaccine, we're actually giving the antibody protein itself. if a person at an individual had those antibodies before they were actually exposed, it could be completely prevented from exception. so we're almost taking a step beyond a vaccine. we're skipping a step and actually giving the body the immune proteins itself. the humanness of this, that someone who has h i v infection could actually provide someone who doesn't have h, i v infection to actually prevent them from getting which idea what a wonderful story. what about what a while and their fall example of biology. the

genesis of this undertaking started on a napkin on the 19th floor of this hotel. we sit down and sort of draw it on a napkin, like how would we test this was end up being a pretty massive undertaking. global pandemic sneak global effort more so when you're dealing with viruses that are rapidly mutating. the reason we know what we know today's because scientists have cooperated across many countries patropolis we've been moving increasingly in the direction of research becoming a private affair. determined by competition. and exclusivity the big take out from h r. v was the only massive investment into public health,

which sharing research could contain a deadly pandemic. in 2020, this put us in a prime position to collaborate in numerous international covey tracks. he travels to have been involved in a whole lot of covet vaccine opportunities, intensity technically said. and we need to make sure that even though we deem these trials, we have to make sure that we have access to make sure they found to be cases with say, i good

then does it get better? he does make it. yeah, i. so we have to be committed to the end game. yeah. and end game is an affordable intervention for the poor. and it feels like a festival. when we started with h ivy, it was very difficult to isolate an antibody from person in 20192020. we can do that in a matter of weeks and we can do it 10 times a 100 times faster and more efficiently. we have isolated antibodies from cov, it infected people by the hundreds in a few weeks. i think of h, i v a little bit like the nasa space program. it, it brought to bear all kinds of technologies that are bearing fruit in other areas . and one of those areas is emerging viruses like kogan,

the biotech firm, modernity therapeutics announced this morning that the 1st 8 participants in the 1st phase of its cobit 19 backseat trial, develops some antibodies after just one single dose. now that's a promising sign from the trial, done in collaboration with the national institutes of health nations, with vaccine producing capacity, pulled billions into development of cope with vaccines in return for funding the manufacture of vaccines participating drug companies like madonna were given full intellectual property rights over the finished product, governments have essentially stepped into the risk investment. and in an ideal world, public money should be greater public access. tens

of thousands of volunteers signed up to participate in clinical trials. i to joint one of the trials in the beliefs at my country would gain access to those vaccines . that was successful. lou. right now we've got the us get his old baby, fort vaccine and forth from 3 of the reading groups that are developing bricks. yes . so that means our opportunity to gain access to it as vaccines are very limited as an individual country. this was perhaps the 1st sign that things were going astray with south africa's access to vaccines as a middle income country and one so involved in vaccine development. there was no excuse for us not to have pre purchase supplies for our own population. still,

they would always be kovacs. the kovacs pillar aims to ensure that every country gets fair and equitable access to eventual cove at 19 vaccines. it's not about one country versus another. it's about one world. protected. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found she for decades, he's been behind all the key interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. ebola zacko saws you name it. but his life's work, his passion has sent his around h r v. in, excuse that an academic priority should ever ever come to for the health of the people that you're working with. there's no question about that

witness inspiring films from around the world. they shall not stop the violin and killed the power is, bears witness intimate portraits and epic struggles. because leadership is also not just the people witness, the human spirit and bitter reality. there fill men, believe women, a property witness award winning voices telling groundbreaking stories. witness on al jazeera, ah, with

in 2021. the turkish security services arrested. 15. suspected 5, allegedly recruited by israeli intelligence, the most sad to report on arab palestinian islamic figures into kia. but sometimes they regret you and you don't even realize you've been recruited. allergies your world explores a doc surveillance underworld beneath that diplomatic surface, more sardine stumbled on al jazeera. why did what a toilet was? decorated cops flee the country in fear of his lie. prod, investigation, one or 18th revealed exploits validation. a police corruption on out to 0, lou

lou norton taylor and under the top stories on al jazeera security forces in brazil have arrested around $1500.00 people involved in the storming of government buildings in the countries capital. right. police have started clearing a camp of both scenarios. supporters outside brazil is army headquarters, and dozens of buses have been deployed to transport. those rested to a regional police headquarters. they were seen waving flags through the windows of the buses for sales. justice minister said writers would be identified and listened to by elements of the federal police. focused on says donors have pledged $9000000000.00 to help him recover from last year's devastating floods. it's been holding a major conference in geneva with the un to rally, support officials from 40 nations, including french president emmanuel mccall, attended among the countries pledging help of france. the u. s. saudi arabia and

china. the u. n. says it was pakistan's worst disaster in decades, and the 1700 people were killed and more than 30000000 affected berlin when the board does offer needs assessment. my government has prepared a comprehensive framework plan for recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction with resilience. bearing in mind the minimum funding requirement of $16300000000.00, half of which is proposed to remit from different domains digger sources and the other half form our own. we went been partners and friends. covered 19 has spread rapidly in one of china's most populous provinces. health officials say 89 percent of people in central her non region have been infected. that equates to 88 and a half 1000000 people. most cases is said to be mild or asymptomatic. iran has

handed down 3 more death sentences for offences related to anti government protests . triggered by the death of massa, many in police custody, as despite international condemnation over the latest executions which were carried out on saturday. the you and several european nations of summoned iranian diplomats in protest. 17 people have been sentenced to death so far with 4 executions carried overnight. demonstrations took place outside the prison, where the most recent sentences have been handed down. time to fund emmys continues next. ah

ah ah ah ah, science vaccines healthy justice? i'm trying to find out if the world learned anything from r h i v experienced in south africa. for this time of global coven, 19 human societies have long faced the threats of disease. and despite so many

breakthroughs in motor medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contain. excuse that an academic priority should ever ever come before the health of the people that you're working with is the question about that. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found she for decades, he's been behind all the key interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. ebola zacko sauce. you name it, but his life's work. his passion has sent his around h r v. why don't you just want to do that? why don't you do that? watch to that you have to play on most successful vaccines or against diseases in which ultimately the immune system clears the virus. so when you do a vaccine, you designed it exactly to act like

a natural infection. don't want to do that with h id was, you know, the natural infection doesn't reduce the good immune response. so you gotta do better with ha. now managing sam wasn't killing sommerling, his internal medicine. hi guys flow by monday, the to me companies go appear, know a man mother whom window. so pile. as infinite. simmons is a condom moon is been language when i was all the elements, so tele medicine and then given i know if i lose some coverage is of a positive for me. i was in cali. void, hey, accordingly, didn't a my in the queue i known as tucson would have to come with

a previously it visit. i would allocate, or i would say about it had so total perform wanna know how much i was witness to san angelo mckesson sub what day. and it was a cousin pierre on york south ah, vaccine is the agent that woman need. it's the agency. we don't have to worry about applying a chevy because you have something in your body to protect it. as an empowerment tool. with the thought in mind that covered an h, i v are only 2 of the many zonati viruses that have jumped into humans. we

need to know why in recent decades, this is happening with increasing occurrence presently were being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep force and spilling over into human populations. and that seems to be increasing since the start of the century. there's been some brilliant work done by scientists to illuminate the origins of h. i. b. but trees han and her group in 2006, we're able to identify 2 chimp populations in southeastern cameron that were hosting simian immunodeficiency viruses, that were the closest related to h i. b,

one a group of that follow 2 years layer led by michael or a b, were able to put a date on that spill over event. the event happened in 19 o 8 gifford take 20 years on either side of bad. what was going on in 19 o 8, in this particular spot in south eastern camera, it was a period of a colonization. and you had the french and germans attempting to subjugate a local indigenous groups into a new global economy. the login of central africa's reign force required a large workforce to keep up with the demands for exports from the global north to feed. all these workers, corporations actually employed people mass, to hunt bow, bush meet. ah

ah. they will probably individual jumps of virus from chimps, the humans, because they use it as bush me. a man gets infected, he's out hunting, which him, he gives it to his wife. she gets affected there monogamous. they both get sick. they both die. you don't notice it until you perturbed civilization. it could have happened 50 years ago a 100 years ago, 200 years ago. but it happened with the right constellation of perturbing society,

peoples, god doing trucking. they stay away from home. just the normal practices of your society, lead to the spread of infectious disease. ah, the same flattery, lance can be shifted upon colbert 19. miss thorns one emerged in 2002. it came out of bats and central china and a lot of work since then mapped out all the different types of corona viruses crossed central and southern china increased

exploitation. the landscape increased that spill over events into all sorts of other species that are suddenly finding themselves being sold at market ah, planted heard is better known now as planet farm. there's a lot of focus on the gps coordinates, the actual spot in which the virus emerged in the focus that was serving as a means of greenwashing, the broader global radical economy. that was in fact driving the emergence of these new pathogen with we began to look at what are call circuits of capital, our capital moods on one side of the world to the other. we came to the conclusion that places like london and new york, hong kong which are the centers of capital,

are the worst disease hotspots on the planet. in part because as being the source of the capital, driving the deforestation and development from one side of the world to the other, they were serving as the primary causes for the spill over events of pathogens, from wildlife into a lifestyle in humans with . and then one day, a virus jumps from a debt to another animal to human, and then now it's not sexual practice. we're unlucky enough to have a virus that spectacularly efficient in spreading from person to person by the respiratory route. and there's not much you can do about that, but as you guys would do in an effort to locking yourselves into your house,

but you can't do that forever. and that's so a respiratory infection spreads. every time we have an epidemic that's just an affirmation of our seamless we all have the receptor for the virus and her nose. but the fuel of the virus is density. the fuel virus is close. interpersonal contact. people who live in high density so is disparity. so brought out magnified in all populations throughout the world. you got to understand the social determinants of health. you know, in the united states with cove it, we have an extraordinary disparity. where is african americans and latinos, x and asian americans? their infection rate and death rate is enormously higher. ah.

so when you broaching a disease, you need to understand that if you don't understand it, you're not gonna get your arms around the disease. which for many ross, particularly if you're black and poor, he doesn't matter. if you are in the global south or living in a wealthy nation, you're hanging on to life by a threat. then these pandemic come along, covered i chart v and the oats against you to stack up. ah

ah, how do we manage an epidemic when we have no support for the poor? and we have no support for the sick. and so not only are we going to see people dying from cove at 19 in our country, we're going to see people dying from other diseases like h. harvey and t. b. new york state now has more reported corona virus cases than any country in the world. world wide, it's clear the public healthcare systems, or the last fortress against pandemic, watson birches, and in the united states, the pioneer of privatization cove. it showing how the ladies can modify the social right to house the u. s. was now prepared for this pandemic. it had in effect,

abandoned our public health of the cove at 19 outbreak show this in open ah clarity. when the trump administration took over, he ended the pandemic preparation. he divested out of public health. that's in part how we've arrived that this apparent clash between science on the one hand in trump, on the other. ah, when i catch up with toby, found him, he remains diplomatic about the deep riffs that fall between him and the then president. we were consider the best prepared country for a pin them. but as it turns out, when you get a walker, like coven 19, you're never as prepared as you really want to be. so that was the tension that

sort of merged into some political divisiveness in the country. a 28000000 americans are without insurance, even after obamacare. 24000000 americans are under insured. o slots of the country are in essence disconnected out our of our capacity to intervene in their health insurer. mm. ah. and i think actually h r v vaccine to get where it is. but with covering what we're looking at the end of this year. well, it's been more than a decade read. we started at vaccine, we're in h r, the 1986 to 7. the amp study,

if it works, if we do get protection, will be the 1st in a multi step process of getting very good protection. my pass a transmittal in. definitely worth the investment. particularly among women in south africa who are at such enormous risk of getting, in fact at around the same time as the 1st covey vaccines were gaining emergency approval, early results of the ab trav released, providing some hope i lost foot h r v vaccine. and now i'm going to show you the results came in. okay. so this shows you that the,

that they infection rate was lower e, in the, in the treatment arms in the infusion arms. it shows us that the infusion that were cookies surround, they would say easy, that then she a positive, a positive result. very happy is an amazing, amazing, well, this is a legacy to your parents. okay. so by volunteering and study them with a good results coming out of the i'm trial a vaccine that prevents h r g is finally incite. but what will this really mean for the world's poor? who's a vaccine get to the people who need it?

or like covered who, payton be used to limit supplies, ensuring hard profits for a small group of powerful companies. there is a growing concerned, as we end 2020, about why it is taking so long for the country to receive the cove at 19 vaccine. the entire world has promised solid guarantee at the beginning of this pandemic. but at the same time, which country is what already buying up supplies, what we call the advance market commitment, or pre dosages of something that was not checked on the market. 13 percent of the world's population who reside in rich countries had bought up more than half of the world's potential supply of vaccine. this current vaccine nation is a new, a new to vaccine nationalism they bought for their own countries. in fact, some cases to create one cuz even 5 times the amount that's required for the

population gentle here any comes to other vaccines that they're feeling introduced into public immunization programs against life threatening diseases they can, can to 20 years before those vaccines become available in lowing from countries compared to india could you can high income countries. this is where we were with the h. i. v. pandemic. 8 years after the therapeutics were available in the west. we have not received them. and we lost 10000000 people. is the old movie again. we have no access to vaccines. and we were led down the garden pass. okay. we got to december believing that the whole world was coming together to

purchase vaccines. not knowing that we had been curled into a little corner, whilst others ran off and secured the supplies. it was deliberate. those with the resources pushed their way to the front of the queue and took control of their production assets. the same thing they paid out in age of 8. if you rely on charity and if you rely only on the benevolence on the pharmaceutical industry, you work secure nothing. and in hindsight, to take such a risk to pack a whole, nation's health and welfare on charity at york seems crazy to me. especially as we know that some variance are causing worldwide concern because of their ability to dodge antibodies. surely the safe thing to do would be to flood the world with

vaccines to get the virus less room to mutate. viruses do not mutate unless they are allowed to replicate and spread. if you prevent the virus from spreading, it will not you take and you will not get another very using the idea of this being a gigantic clinical trial. dr. glenda gray, i'm professor larry curry. organize a shipment of 500000 vaccines into south africa. that would work against the verite dominant at the time, i'm beginning to overwhelm our hospitals. long, long, long, long, day, along a long, 14 days. hopefully we'll be able to fix needs, half a 1000000 healthcare is that we then get the vaccine to them that before the 3rd

wave, their game to be burned. time is this going to be misery when we have millions of immunosuppressed people in our country and these millions are potential ways of was for variance of concern. africa becomes the cesspool of variance of concern, and we don't have vaccines. and so i think that this going to get worse and worse throughout africa. we have seen that wherever h i v became endemic. so did tuberculosis. the waves of infectious diseases are influencing each other. at the same time, the higher the burden of disease, the more public health systems get on the mind. then because we

can't care for our sick, we are threatened by deadly mutations. that one day may not be able to respond to our vaccines at all. this is a vicious circle playing out in our life time with deadly consequences for the entire whoa. the patents prevented people getting h i v medicine was devastating for the global south. the failure to learn this with cover it has in my view, be nothing less than a crime against humanity. it some be capitalism marching us towards our mutual destruction. surely, it's time we finally break our dependency on the pharmaceutical companies. as we began to do, sir 20 years ago with

h i v drugs to water society learnt from this time offender mix that we have encroached upon nature to the extent that now it's only a matter of time before we face another threat. that seems clear enough, but what about the more difficult issue of how prepared we are for what to come cove, it has revealed that our current approach to public health is simply not working. maybe this is our last chance to go back to an older path. we once traveled health as a basic right, not letting the market determine who gets access to innovation. not treating the

global south as a charity case and turning us into a petri dish of variance. not letting the crest for profit, they just all further into catastrophe. is it really such a radical idea to put people 1st? oh ah ah, here's your weather update in a minute 15. good to have year long will begin in southeast asia with

a focus on the philippines. lot of what, whether they're all has to do with monsoon. we'll talk about that in one sec, but 1st southern vietnam, cambodia, the shield of rain pushing into thailand. this is a bit unusual, for example, hotel men, city. these should be some of your dry as months of the year, but it has been saki over the last few days, trench of downpours, so city, devout, there's extreme flood advisories in play for just how intense a monsoon rains have been. temperatures while above average for china greatly not $21.00, that's a good 10 above where you should be charged for the south in the southeast and off to japan, we go, you guess it more see effect snow in the forecast. northern western areas, i think on the top end of things about 40 centimeters over 12 hours down under alice had is what is january day and more than 20 years. so that's move in right across the interior for the se, fairly calm conditions here. that heat waves still persisting for w a but things will change. he said 3 day forecast, down to 27 on wednesday. that is below average and post tropical cyclone hail

moving in to new zealand. north island, rain and wind warnings in play here gets been could see about 2 months worth of rain and 24 hours see a later ah, but the american people have spoken. but what exactly did they say? is the world looking for a whole new order with less america in it? is the woke on the decline in america? how much his social media companies know about you, and how easy is it to manipulate the quizzical look us politics? the bottom line? are they protect us or profiteers of free speech of lago, documenting facts on the ground or a purveyor of the state line unchecked, the media can distort narratives and reshape realities. the listening post keeps watch on al jazeera. ah.