this is d. w. news live from berlin on world aids day. a warning not to forget, almost 40000000 people are living with a charity. but experts say progress against aids pandemic is could be undone by the corona virus. and as a result, one and a half a 1000000, more people could die. also coming up on the show, a 2nd, a coded 1000 vaccine and now waits for a mergence. the approval is asking both in europe and the u.s. for a faster track. go ahead. thousands of farmers, a walk,

roads leading into the indian capital delhi. they fear they'll be exploited under new actor cultural reforms. and they're prepared for a long battle ahead and a week travel to japan and to meet again down the giant of battle robots with an anti-war message. i'm quite richards, and welcome to the show. over 19 has dominated headlines this year. but there is another pandemic that still affects millions of people worldwide. now, united nations of figures show that 38000000 people were living with hiv last year . nearly 700000 of them died as a result of their hiv infection. prevention and treatment measures are showing some promise. in the last decade,

the number of new infections has decreased as hasn't the number of aids related deaths. yet experts predict that this trend will reverse because of the covert in 1000 pandemic and lockdowns causing a shortage of hiv medication. it's estimated there could be an additional $1.00 point to $4000000.00 a deaths caused by hiv as a result. well joining us for more now from geneva is it tim martineau, he's the deputy executive director of the un aids on a world aids day. are you concerned that attention and perhaps more importantly, resources are being taken away from the battle against aids in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic. thanks for having me on the short clip. i think it's an think it's important that we really understand code that 19 is a massive global pandemic that needs a comprehensive response for us in terms of the health and source economically. so this is not an issue of being jealous of our neighbor. we recognize kogut 19 is

a significant issue where we are once again at the same time how it was to really reduce stress. the fact that a child of the kind i mean is that it's still a 5 massive issue and we are slipping and we are not meeting the targets that we sucked as an international community in 2016. and that will have enormous importance into the future for future generations. but if there's any news on the positive developments front, what are the biggest names vance's in the fight against hiv aids? well, he's saying some things, some obvious improvements in terms of new new forms of prevention is injectable and profit prophylactics that can be taken to help people prevent the spread of infection. but we're also seeing quite, i think it's also important to look at some of the innovations in the way that people are accessing treatment and accessing services. so we've had,

we've had modest progress in terms of what we call, what we call differentiated service delivery, where communities take a much stronger role in terms of the delivery of services and the public health care system can take a backseat and a role and supervision support but really, these programs are led by communities. i'm managed by them. and these, these are really making it a sea change and both in terms of the effectiveness of the programs, but also the quality and the costs of these. and that both, both in terms of the final medical developments wissink but also some of the changes in terms of the keep the delivery systems are really important. the things we're emphasizing today really is also about the need to deal with some of the policies and restrictions that make it light that make it extremely difficult for people to accept a services. whether it's discriminatory policies towards sex workers. whether it's men who have sex with men, or people who use drugs, and indeed, adolescent girls and young women, we have 5 and a half 1000 new infections amongst young women in east and southern africa each

week. i'm. this has to be addressed fundamentally, good developments, but we are very, very concerned outside of the cup at 19, a pandemic that we are off target needs to be addressed. and let me ask you this. we are potentially just a week away from a 1000 vaccine yet there's still no assigned. maxine for hiv aids. why is that? there are, there are ongoing trials and it's an exciting if we can investment and research into this. and i think, i think what has been achieved, think of it one thing, but the vaccination just speaks to the ambition that don't what we can achieve with them bishan and what we can achieve if we really seek to achieve our goals. and that's why we're calling for global solidarity this point to see vaccinations as a, as a global public good. that should be available for everybody and not just for the wealthy and something that needs to be for all. 'd countries and pro people for the federal

aids vaccine we have, we have trials ongoing. the fundamental issue is the complexity of the virus and also the longevity of the onus. so it's actually much more difficult to see results from trials and in real time. so we hope to continue to progress on growing investment in inbox and nations, a new treatment programs because they are, they all bring results and do make a difference to people's lives to mighty new u.n. aid. thank you very much. thank you very much. well, as we've just heard, despite great progress in a recent years, the age hiv is far from over, especially in africa. our correspondent adrian krishna reports from cape town in south africa. a country where one in 5 people is living with the virus. for almost 2 decades, the nonprofit organization hope has been an important point of contact for those living with hiv. like here in the cape town township of delft. to 2 years ago,

luis morris worked in a textile factory, but then her life took a difficult to turn, and accident left her unable to work out the whole problems followed. and then she became infected with hiv. but maybe my family didn't want to have anything to do with me. after my h. i.v. diagnosis. they cut off contact. and even now if my neighbors knew that i have hiv, they would only say hi from a distance. they wouldn't invite me to their homes. it means i also keep my distance, it's not easy being a hiv positive, you have to somehow accept that people behave in a certain way towards you. i find it sad. when dr. who's on rainy korea is used to hearing similar stories. at least half of the community has a family member that somebody that they know that they should be positive,

but it's but it's so common here. but people don't speak about it. they people are definitely not open about it. they might speak to us about it and they're mad speak to the service providers about it. but they will, they finitely not speak. they, they're not open about their status. they worried about discrimination. although stigma still a massive problem in many communities, south africa has made mess of progress in the fight against hiv aids. over the past years, most people, the vast majority of those living with hiv, you know, their status and are on medication. and just recently, researchers announced possibly for the good news. the preventative drug prep has been available for several years around 90000, south africans protect themselves against h.p.v. infection by taking a daily tablet. now a study into a similar preventative drug that needs to only be injected every 8 weeks, has found it to be even more efficient. women particularly have challenges

with taking a pill a day, issues of their habits of taking a pill, but also people experience a lot of social pressures. so women are judged as living with hiv. if they're taking pills that look like antiretrovirals, they may have judgments about their sexual activity and partners may feel that they are wanting to be unfaithful. so there are many barriers to taking a pill a day. and what the injections were able to do is overcome some of those challenges by being discreet and convenient. independent researchers also see the injection as an important developments, but further research is necessary to find other options to prevent hiv in women. young women are the hardest hit group in south africa, and we'd like to harden some highly you know, so many jews there

hopefully in cape town, also believes the injection could be a great help, but it may not be available for a number of years in the meantime, more argent issues remain due to the cover. it's been there, make fewer hiv patients are going to kleenex as a result, the number of new infections, a new born cyst on the rise, a worrying trend, after all the hard work to stop the spread of the virus. let's turn now to some other stories making headlines around the world. deforestation in brazil's and amazon rain forest has surged to its highest level in 12 years. according to official figures. the national research agency says destruction has risen sharply under right wing president. but this year alone, an area 7 times the size of london has been stripped. bare officials have upheld a joe biden's election victory in the us. states of arizona and wisconsin biden won

arizona by 10000 votes despite the trump campaign, appealing against the results separately and appointment. biden has named former federal reserve chief janet yellen as his choice for treasury secretary. german chancellor angela merkel is warning some e.u. states are growing impatient as time runs out to reach a breck's a trade deal with the u.k. . the key difference is still remain ahead of the december 31st deadline. grackle says, an agreement is in everyone's interest, but should not come at any price for us, a drug from a modern a is asking for a merge and the approval of it's covert $1000.00 vaccine in both europe and the united states. that means it could be in use in the united states within weeks. his product would be the 2nd drug likely to receive special authorization following another developed by pfizer. and it's a german partner by on tech. finding effective vaccines is

a crucial part of tackling the corona, virus pandemic with madonna filing for and that can see approval of its vaccine. on monday, it could get the green light before christmas eve. any of us told us that our advisory meeting is likely to be on december 17th. it is high possible that between the 17 and christmas you know, the product is approved. if the u.s. food and drug administration gives the go ahead in occupations could start within hours led by u.s. tax, a nation logistics chief general. because stuff panna seems to go to mean and does he is a baby under a year. so as soon as we get approval or urge arcana and these teams are going to get hold of a vaccine, we have and start shipping it in the conference is going to vaccinate americans within 24 hours on the pro or the company hopes its latest trial results. will lead to speedy approval in other countries too. in trials of the vaccine with more than

30000 people, only 30 participants became seriously ill. all of them had been given placebo shots . this makes the vaccine 100 percent effective against severe cases of covert. 19 reported side effects include pain at the point of injection, chills and fever. these symptoms usually result within one or 2 days, you know, on a personal level. when we saw the 1st interim results, i think we were all really, really relieved and enthusiastic. i can tell you when i saw the final results last night, they came in a little bit earlier than that. we had a plan for so it's a cry for the 1st or the company says it will keep monitoring to check for any further side effects. for more on this, let's bring in a coyote cook for schmidt, who is a science journalist and molecular biologist. so that has applied for emergency

authorization in the united states. but let's talk timeline. when do you think went down a could be granted approval? well, it looks very possible at the moment, so they set the date of december 17th. the f.d.a. has set the date of december 17th for, for their meeting. it looks very possible that within days after that they would be granted to prove to be just something like 2 days. and then they said that the day after they want to start vaccinating so looks very possible that people will start being vaccinated in the u.s. with this vaccine as well this year. that's coming up really soon. so in your. 1 assessment, what do you make of my dad as vaccine when it comes to issues of safety? well, it's an interesting vaccine. i think the thing we have to remember is that both of these vaccines going down no one and apply the biotech one. they are a new technology, right? it's m.r. ne, so basically, you know, you're giving the body the instruction to build a little bit of the virus. and of course that kind of raises raises questions about

the safety. but at the same time, you know, 30000 people got the murderer exene. now with any vaccine, what you're looking for is really, you know, side effects that come immediately after you give the vaccine. so we have the data now from the data from 30000 people. in this study we have data from tens of thousands of people in the pfizer by on tech study there. and there were some m r, n, a vaccine that have been tested on a few 100 subjects before. so we have some data that the question that always remains the thing that kind of that people worry about the most probably is severe side effects that come at a very rare rate. so if you have something that only happens once in $100000.00 people, that's much harder to find if you've only tested a vaccine of 30000 people. so that's the kind of thing that you never pick up in the, in the early trials of vaccine. and that's why it's really important that once the vaccine is rolled out, you know, the regulatory agencies and the companies will keep looking for any signal of any,

any serious side effects. but the kind of thing that would be very common or that would happen immediately after it seems that we should have seen at this point. so i worry less about it. and in terms of the mechanism, the m r n a, that is injected, it basically, you know, disappears again in the body after a few hours. and it only stays for a few hours. so the, the cells use it to produce this, this protein. and then it disappears. so that mechanistically, it also makes me feel much better about the fact that the shouldn't be any long term safety issues. well now what kind of side effects are we talking about specifically both the most more serious ones and perhaps the less serious ones at the 2nd shelf? well, the ones that we've seen that are, you know, the very typical vaccine side effects you have, you know, pain of the injection side, reading of the skin, sometimes you know, muscle aches or headaches. so you don't something that a lot of people who've maybe had a flu shot will be familiar with. this is not unusual at all. the big question

really is, you know, are we going to get any signal of the rare side effect, like say, a younger race and rome, which has, in the past, in very rare instances, you know, been linked to vaccines. but this is something that usually will happen, you know, and maybe one in a 1000000 cases, a one in a few 100000. so it's important to look out for it, but it's actually not a safety concern. that would mean that, for instance, you wouldn't deem the vaccine safe enough. and let me ask you, what does the approval process look like for your app? so that's, that's one of the big questions. now it's, i mean, with these vaccines. of course, things are, you know, going in a slightly different way than they used to. now the e.m.e.a. has been, you know, adamant that there won't be any kind of regulation regulator, iraq. but they have done a rolling review process. so basically they're already getting data from the trials while the trials have been going on. so they kind of have a head start,

which means that they might be faster at looking through the final data which has been submitted to them apparently. so they will have a few days, baby weeks to go through all of this again and make sure that they feel the day that it is there for just a suspect. seen is effective enough, it is safe enough to start vaccinating people. you know, millions of people in the, in the youth's first met science, a journalist, and molecular biologist. thank you very much. it's, let's have, a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic, the u.n., it says the crisis has fueled a dramatic rise in the number of people worldwide who need emergency assistance., because of the pandemic of the u.n., it says a record $35.00. a $1000000000.00 will be required for humanitarian aid and next year. and the head of the red cross has warned that vaccine and misinformation could create a so-called 2nd pandemic. francesco rock said measures were needed to build confidence in vaccinations that will be critical to fight the pandemic. meanwhile,

vietnam has reported its 1st locally transmitted case in 3 months. authorities have introduced a temporary lockdowns. well, while india reports the 3rd highest number of covert cases in the world, it doesn't appear to be slowing the rate of infection for more than 3 weeks. the national number of new cases per 24 hour period has remained below with 50000. but experts have been alarmed by the unusually high number of cases in the capital delhi. it's feared that severe air pollution is making people there much more vulnerable to the disease. delis crime, atory m is being expanded. the indian capital is a coronavirus hotspot on the number of victims is rising and the rest of the country they're falling. but delhi is different. its 20000000 residents have not issue and it's proving deadly small. i'm going to make gets into your eyes on the

water. breathing is difficult in the smog means you can hardly see a finger. this isn't a new phenomenon for delhi, but one that persists in doctors' practices. more and more people are turning up with similar elements. dr. guard has noticed that the severity of his patient's symptoms are getting worse, and treatment is difficult. people you shouldn't, is lake if it is a lung which is already damaged. in the dark. obviously the disastrous. every day life has become dangerous for, people like v. not by note this and by the way going, yes, you can,

he more the problem mainly comes from vehicle exhaust fumes, smoke from factories and the burning of fields by farmers. now, the effects are being exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic for, well staying in india. india's government has invited a farm, a union leaders to talks, as thousands of farmers continue to block roads in the capital delhi, they're protesting agricultural reforms that they say will leave them at the mercy of big corporations. prime minister, narendra modi has said, protesters are being misled by opposition parties, and that the laws will benefit them. these $20000.00 farm is going anywhere their trucks and tractors, blocking major highways need in the is capital h. about tract is loaded with russians for up to 4 months until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws,

none of us will go back. the farmers feel their livelihoods are under threat. new laws mean the government will soon stop buying grain at guaranteed prices. the pharmacy claim that could leave them at the mercy of corporations who won't pay enough for their crops. india's prime minister's trying to placate the groups because their protests, a causing disruption and threaten to cost him politically. i want to tell the citizens and farmers not out from the banks of the river ganges. and the holy city of daraa nasi, that we are working with intentions, which are as pure as the water of the river ganges. and without any intention of betrayal, modi's government says the laws give farmers the freedom to sell their crops to private bias rather than through the state. they insist the laws will drive up

prices. but the pharmacy remain unconvinced. but we have always suspected the government's intentions because they have become a slave of the corporations. they want to turn us into this slaves as well. it is that by the pharmacy protests have been going on for months since parliament passed the new laws in september. but they only caught the country's attention in recent days, when thousands of farmers clashed with police security forces used tear gas and water cannons to prevent protesters from entering delhi that was stopped just outside the city. but the now determined to camp out for the long haul and it's to japan now where engineers have been putting an 18 meter tall robot through its paces. the creation is a spinoff from a popular 1970, s. anime series called mobile suit. and i'm featuring an enormous battle robots

piloted by humans. now, grand am is the main attraction at a theme park in yokohama, due to open later this month, rowboats, a big in japan. and this one is larger than life. can damn stanza just over 18 meters tall and weighs 25 tons. more too on this book, i've been, a fan since i was a schoolboy. in the 1980 s., the models were so popular, they were always sold out. i used to queue up to get one for the service and decide that i could pick up the condom was born in 1999 as a children's toy. this is a model that spawned a whole science fiction universe, a hugely popular and i'm a series of movies, manga has and video games that have grossed more than $20000000000.00.

now the whole world can see how much we japanese love anime, games and manga. so maybe we have a primal desire to create something gigantic. it used to be blood and now it's gone down. gundam is an icon in japan. so much say that the organizers of the tokyo olympics sent him into space on a mini satellite to promote the games. because of the pandemic. he will have to stay in bed for a while longer, but the one change his mission to get ticketed to go to the story of them teaches us that there is no friend or foe. everyone has a bit of both in them, but what he wants to tell us is that war is always a tragedy. that we must be civil and in check and lactic message that the robot be promoting god. and of

a giant olympic rings are back on display at tokyo bay after they were taken down for maintenance in august organizers, hope their return will get locals excited and to show that the games are getting closer. the 2020 summer olympics and paralympics were pushed back by a year due to the corona virus pandemic, and her minder now of our top story on world aids day, experts are warning that i've decade of progress made against hiv aids. couldn't be reversed because of the covert. 19 pandemic with lockdowns, causing a shortage of hiv medication. estimates say there could be an additional 1400000 deaths as a result. and us a drug from a modern a is submitting its covert 1000 vaccine for emergency approval in the u.s. and european union, putting it on track to start distribution in december. another vaccine, a pfizer and bio intact, is already up for approval in the e.u. and the u.s.

. that's a news update at this hour coming up next as close up and looking at how africa's forests can help save the world's and claire richardson in berlin for me. the entire team, thanks so much for watching. in

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