of the 400 unaccompanied minors according to our estimate germany will take in about 154 in very small. thank god more countries are now taking part but they always take a small share so germany and france will take in 2 thirds of these 400 it's right with if you. remember very. well the european union is calling on all member states to welcome their share of migrants there's agreement that europe needs a new migration policy and the new pact is due to be unveiled at the end of this month. in the meantime most of the migrants left homeless by the fires are not being allowed to leave lesbos. correspondent alexander phenomena is on the island of less posts she has more on the situation there. i'll just read days so being stuck here after it's we night still sleeping on the roadside people are

getting more and more impatient and and weak they started protesting today marching back and forth chanting freedom freedom and point fronting the right of police they told us for you know was held they don't want to be moved to a knob or camp on the island they told us we want to leave nice cannot take care of . many of them wants to go to france and belgium or germany one of them told me your chance or germany's angela merkel said we can do it why can't a germany take us all in. under phenomena reporting from. now israel appears to be heading back into a nationwide lockdown after a record 4000 new infections in a single day the government won praise for its early response to the pandemic but a dramatic rise in kobe cases and deaths needs a 14 day lockdown is set to begin next week used tanya kramer reports.

this area of the emergency room at this hospital and on this kept off limits with the help of remote cameras and money tows emergency physician piece and to steam follow up on the patients suspected of carrying the coronavirus they cared for in isolation rooms the security. of europe and the moment every day we can see more and more patients at the moment because it is almost for we have maybe. one more patient of the true open another department with a rate of over 3000 new corona infections every day the upward trend is boring for a small country israel has a population of just 9000000 every time a new case comes in peace has to take full protective measures it's

a strain for staff and patients alike why is where was hailed for containing the pandemic at the beginning of the crisis it's infection rate is no one dubois per capita top pulse experts like professor of epidemiology go barbash say israel is at a crucial crossroads and needs a more decisive strategy what should be done we should have a look though clear strict look for 3 to 4 weeks to decrease the number of new infections to less than 100 and then manage it. better than we've managed to 1st. on tuesday a nighttime curfew was imposed in communities with high infection rates like here in been a bit. now israel's government has drawn up the plan for a face nationwide lockdown expected to be imposed from next week.

at the simian medical center a new patient arrives and just taken to the isolation board israeli soldiers are also hoping now to manage the crisis here they're taking corona test samples to elapse before understand the severity of this disease. the precaution and the things that they need to do in order to prevent spreading and also bring. some friction through all some people think that they were put there good work snuffy but it's not enough and. celebrations for the jewish new year with start in israel next week they may be happening in a country under knocked down. now to some other stories making news around the world frustrated travelers from england are rushing back home from portugal before a mandatory quarantine for those returning takes effect on saturday in response to a sharp rise in coronavirus cases portugal has imposed

a 10 per cent limit on gatherings and banned alcohol sales after 8 pm. the us is remembering the 2001 september 11th terror attacks commemorations have been scaled down due to the coronavirus democratic presidential candidate joe biden joined victims' families at the 911 memorial in new york city president donald trump spoke at a ceremony in shanksville pennsylvania where hijacked flight 93 crashed. wildfires have forced mass evacuations across several western u.s. states half a 1000000 people fled their homes in oregon a 10th of the state's population washington and california. have also been hard hit . as if 2020 wasn't strange enough already this was the morning commute over san francisco's golden gate bridge this week. small can die from wild fires mixed with the coup pacific ocean air to produce an otherworldly effect

. 1150. crazy 11 in the morning and it's. like the middle of the night and it looks like you're partly right. they are just like the weirdest if you've ever seen zoe. come out and experience it together take a break from work and come out. historic fires are ripping through 3 western states and california almost 5000 square kilometers have. firefighters don't expect to bring the blazes under control until the middle of. some villages have already been lost. the flames advanced. hard and wouldn't. but it was dark and the ashes were everywhere. the bad. bad.

driver in oregon the film the dramatic scenes engulfed the forests. while a bird's eye view reveals the total obliteration the fires left in their wake. the governor told residents to brace for a huge loss of life on property and said this would not be a one off event. we are feeling the acute impacts of climate change we are seeing it's devastating impacts in oregon on the west coast and frankly throughout the entire world. in washington state 2 fires have retard and heartbreak. everything going on. bad everything. continue their bottom across the west coast

meteorologists are warning that it is nor yet even p. g's. opposition activists in russia say they're facing increasing intimidation ahead of regional elections this weekend police in moscow have raided the open russia group and an intruder smashed a bottle containing a chemical substance in the siberian office of opposition candidates boyko he is an ally of election of only a kremlin critic who germany says was poisoned with a nerve agent before that break and. spoke to boy about his hopes that this vote could shake up russian politics. sergey boyko prides himself on being alive and edited social media is the main way the politician is reaching out to voters in novosibirsk he's up for a seat in the siberian cities parliament on his you tube channel the politician promises to clean up his hometown and sweep out corrupt politicians who are and we

have a mafia here boyko is leading a coalition of $31.00 opposition candidates their goal is to push united russia the ruling party out together boyko says the kremlin is watching the regional election campaign closely there's no money of course and their friends are united russia has a thin majority here if we can break the majority can been example for the rest of the country if you consolidate forces and go to the ballot box you contingent the situation and destroy their monopoly. campaign recently got a boost when he appeared alongside his close ally opposition politician i like say enough in a video that has gotten millions of views team expose the alleged corruption schemes they say helped united russia politicians in the get rich and buy luxury properties and he was poisoned shortly after filming this video he uses it to call

on russians to support the candidate most likely to be united russia in the poll a strategy he calls smart voting. can use russia's 3rd the biggest seat. as an example of how to take down the insatiable told that these united russia. novosibirsk is siberia's main industrial hub more than one and a half 1000000 people live here. united russia carli has the majority in the city council and the regional assembly and they're campaigning to keep it that way. regional united russia is the party of the president of the government the party of respect and care we work in the interest of the citizens of the russian federation it's but not everyone in the city feels cared for by the russian government. because. a lot of people live in fear of what the future holds it's not clear who's shops could be closed who might be fired. the

situation now is a far cry from how things why in the ninety's and early 2000 i think a lot of things are good no but a lot isn't. if. we pay taxes like good citizens but who knows where those taxes go. sergey boyko wants to drive the city in a new direction he hopes that if his coalition wins a majority they can turn novosibirsk into a city for its people. people from united russia are not interested in developing the city or talking to voters instead of running the place they are just defending their own personal interests i believe that despite the extreme weather here and the fact that it isn't of the richest planes in the us a beer can be a modern european city i think it says the main challenge is to convince people

their decision in the polling station can break through the status quo and that smart voting against the ruling party here can set an example for change. russia. thank you for watching good of you we'll see you back here at the top of the hour. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. our corona. with 19 special next on d w. i'm not going to think. well i just sometime down the place they're laughing which i. think deep into the german culture of looking at

stereotypes but if you think the future of the country that i'm. here you can see me take this drama day out to you it's all about a new i might show join me to meet the german bund beat up the. post. drug companies around the world are racing to find a coronavirus vaccine what happens then distributing doses to billions of people worldwide will be an unprecedented logistical challenge limited supply and enormous demand it's a recipe for cutthroat competition as wealthier countries shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to secure a coveted 1st access to vaccines meanwhile the most vulnerable are at risk of being shut out. there's never going to be enough vaccine to go around globally access

will be an issue some of these 1st vaccines are likely to be excluding the expensive. certainly well beyond the. the purchasing power of many lower middle income countries. developing the vaccine is only half the battle getting it to people could prove challenge. in the race to find a coronavirus vaccine the stakes could barely be high and not only are millions of lives potentially on the line but whoever wins that race would take their place in the history books as the nation or organization to rescue the world from a deadly pandemic. just days ago russian defense minister sergei show you was one of the 1st people to receive russia's new coronavirus spec seems the job was nicknamed sputnik 5 recalling the pioneering soviet satellite and it was approved

last month international experts were skeptical saying high profile guinea pigs are no substitute for a wider scale testing but the race is on and some countries are confident and effective vaccine will be available by the end of the year. worldwide there are well over 300 potential vaccine candidates 33 of these are being tested in clinical studies 280000 people in 34 countries are taking part. there are very different ideas about how any approved vaccines will be distributed the u.s. for example says it's willing to share a possible coronavirus vaccine with the rest of the world but only if it is adequately supplied itself. astra zeneca agreed with the european union to sell at least 300000000 doses from member states but the company had to suspend a study after one test subject fell ill for reasons that are still unclear. the

chinese say their research is also generating a lot of interest. sign of back biotech and sign a farm even showed off their vaccine candidates at a beijing trade fair. yes you know we've received a lot of orders and proposals to work together from abroad including using our vaccine and clinical cooperation with the world health organization is warning against what it calls facts seen nationalism the 1st priority must be to vaccinate some people in all countries rather than all people in some countries this is not just a moral imperative and a public imperative it's also an economy imperative but who will be the 1st to be vaccinated this question is also being hotly debated around the world should those at greatest risk be given priority. to w h o c just countries receive doses proportional to their populations. but

a group of international health experts says that approach is flawed because the pandemic hasn't hit all countries equally severely they've proposed a 3 phase plan called the fair priority model saying the goal should be reducing premature deaths as well as the long term health impact of a corona virus infection the researchers say 3 basic values must be considered when deciding who gets the job 1st benefiting people and limiting harm prioritizing the disadvantaged and giving equal moral concern for all individuals. and we can now speak to one of the health experts behind that priority model for distributing the corona virus vaccine is the emanuel joins us from the university of pennsylvania's opponents school of medicine thanks a lot for taking the time to talk us through this so how is your interview with. than say like the says by distributing it by population size or doing it by

population age. well if you do it by population size that i like to say is analogous to the physician in the emergency room looking out at everyone who's waiting to be seen and says all right i'm giving 5 minutes to each of you ignoring how sick the patients are treating the person with a sore throat or a fever the same as a person who has a heart attack that seems absurd you would focus your attention on the sickest people where your attention can do the most potential good and that's the principle that we say limiting how are. prioritizing disadvantaged people those are important values and if you think about that that means focusing your vaccine where you're going to do the most benefit in terms of reducing the number of premature deaths then once that's under control mitigating the economic and social harms

reducing unemployment reducing poverty and trying to get people children back to school and that makes much more ethical and prudent sense frankly than saying 3 percent of the population or 20 percent of the population of every country gets into about c.e.o. in the agency room analogy that particular situation relies on the expertise of the doctor to triology and work out who is the priority who does the full 2 in reality and when we talk about distributing the coronavirus vaccine who makes those really subjective judgments. it's not a subjective judgment it looks to data which countries are suffering where will the vaccine do the most good in terms of in iraq being so i disagree with you that it's objective 2nd of all we do you know as you point out or suggest we lack a world government that can order this around we do have international institutions

the world health organization along with dobbie that distributes vaccines have set up this kobe access silly to distribute vaccine a low and middle income countries into countries that purchase it we have vaccine manufacturers themselves that have said they want an equitable distribution and a broad distribution and then we have governments that have to take the moral leadership in this case and the prudent leadership let's face it the world's not going to get back to normalcy unless most of the world gets vaccinated and so there's an interest in making sure the vaccine is fairly distributed what we haven't had until our paper is really a framework to think about what is fair distribution and we're hoping having this framework will galvanize a consensus that that's how we have to distribute the vaccine let me just go back to give episodes if i can just because we're talking about compiling data that could be complicated to compile it could take time in comparison certainly

with just judging it by population size is there a danger that analysis like that could delay the distribution of a vaccine. we already have various groups making the kinds of estimates that we have suggested our suggestion would find to what they're doing they are estimates they're not going to be perfect just like population is really an estimate it's not perfect and we think it's morally much superior the simply distributed on the basis of population here let me give you another example taiwan has have fewer than 500 covert cases and fewer and 7 deaths giving it a vaccine is not going to mitigate much harm compared to say brazil or peru or other countries that are right in the middle of a serious explosion of cove it it doesn't make sense to give. 3

percent of the population of taiwan and give few brazil last doses of the vaccine because you've given it to taiwan that's just not a reasonable thing given the fact that when brazilians die it's really tragic and taiwan is a country that has done extremely well and that seems to be morally important and just quickly because we have running out of time who do you want to head this advice that you know giving well i think international organisations like the w.h.o. that selected the population model the kovacs facility but i think also world leaders who can influence this and want to do the right thing but just haven't known what the right thing is i will point out that justin trudeau of canada led 6 other prime ministers and writing out an op ed in the washington post in the united states saying we want to fair and equitable distribution well here prime minister judo and the other prime minister here's what that would mean now take it and try to get the

rest of the world leaders to abide by it doctors until emmanuel from the university of pennsylvania thank you very much for joining us. thank you and as time for your questions to our science correspondent derrick williams. my tests just positive but i'm asymptomatic should i receive any treatment at home. many people who test positive for covert 19 remain apparently healthy our best guess at the moment is that about 30 to 40 percent of those who contract it won't report any symptoms but if you tested positive you still need to go into isolation just as you would if you had the full blown disease because you can carry just as much of the virus as someone with symptoms and you're likely to be infectious to others even if you feel fine i couldn't find any specific treatment recommendations for for

asymptomatic patients although i'm sure that the standard stuff like staying hydrated and getting sufficient amounts of exercise even if you're indoors they apply and it goes without saying that you should monitor how you feel closely as as many supposedly asymptomatic people actually turn out to be present to magic and they will show signs of covert 19 sooner or later. now let's finish the week by having a look at how the world is doing in terms of coronavirus cases. new cases have doubled in 16 countries and increased in another 77. they're also stayed the same in 11 nations however $72.00 countries have seen new positive cases of coverage 19 go down albeit by less than half. meanwhile 24 have seen cases go down by half or better and 9 have reported no new

cases this week at all 'd. here's how that bar stacks up against the weekly statistics since the start of the year is still a long way to go but when the right hand side of that graphic is all blue again the battle against coronavirus will have been won 'd. thanks for joining us. absolutely.

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