everybody. is very safe. to say. this is the the news live from berlin regulators in britain approve emergency use of the. vaccine. for early next week we will start the program fascinating people against covert night seen here in this country. britain becomes one of the 1st countries to greenlight a vaccine in what's being called a historic moment in the fight against. also on the program 3

pro-democracy activists sentenced for their part in last year's hong kong protests the latest crackdown on dissent in the chinese rule territory warning to others are jailed for between 7 and 13 and a half months. western german city of tears left in mourning after a man plows his car into pedestrians killing 5 people including a 9 week old but. as welcome to the program britain has authorized the emergency use of the covert fax in jointly produced by the us. and german company by aunt speaking at a press conference by a chief medical officer said the rollout of the vaccine in the u k. will happen in the next couple of days meanwhile pfizer is calling it

a historic moment in the fight and the coronavirus. booze and is headquarters in mines part tell us more about what the scientists say . well it was a very impressive press conference impressing i think because dr. who is you know the founder one of the 2 founders and heads of research here at biotech together with his wife dr as. he described in very humble very calm very relaxed way you know the innovative invention his company came up with this m.r. in a technique that sends you know genetic information into the body and tells the body basically to fight called it that is very new very innovative and well it obviously is also

a big business opportunity the share price of this company biotech since the beginning of this year has risen 230 percent. kind of a milestone is that for for small for a small company like allied biotech. from the share price side. oh well it is a big song given that you know by and company that was founded very long ago has never come up with a product to turn out a profit and now they produce a blockbuster like this but it's not only you know a milestone for the company itself it's a milestone for the area here the ryan mining area in germany which has a traditional pharmaceutical companies but for a couple of years has not come up with huge research innovations you know that have such a worldwide impact it's also a big story i would say for germany and let's not forget biotech is not the only

german a company developing a vaccine against called it there's another small biotech company biotech company cure back in the cart which is also working on a vaccine so germany has really had here. before. but the u.k. is the 1st country to start rolling out this vaccine well that means you have vaccine doses for other countries oakum production people. well the companies involved try to make sure 'd that. nobody has to be concerned whatever the contracts were made they should be fulfilled $800000.00 doses will now be delivered delivered to the u.k. and then hundreds of millions of doses have been ordered by other countries the united states the european union and many more biotech says next year it plans to deliver a producer deliver a $1300000000.00 dozes off this vaccine it's going to be a huge job i mean you know you have to if you want to store this you need to

temperatures in freezes down to minus 70 degrees celsius it's not going to be easy to provide this it's got to be a huge challenge for not only the companies but the logistics firms and everyone else involved. o'connor this has been developed jointly by pfizer and by. who's making the lion's share of the money then. well the lion's share of the money is probably with the developers because of course pfizer being the large partner that provides the production facilities and the logistics fertility is the distribution facilities. is a company that has a lot of costs too of course those companies don't really talk about the details of the contracts that they have and it's likely that both companies will want to continue to work together on other products as well so whether or not those

partnerships are really the most peaceful and the most friendly ones on the inside is not something that they tend to communicate a lot about calmer boozing. orders in mines there thank you. know british prime minister boris johnson has hailed the authorization as fantastic news and says it will enable the british people to reclaim their lives but the fans are buying vaccine is also awaiting approval in many other countries as it does after 10 months of fast track research and development a trial participant is given the fines are by on tech posted 19 vaccine in the german city of minds he's just one of thousands he's been part of large scale clinical trials that have already proved the vaccine is 95 percent effective in preventing the disease now gemini's by on tech and us pharma giant

pfizer have been given approval for their vaccine in the u.k. making it a world 1st. from 'd early next week we will start the program of vaccinating people against the covert 19 here in this country and as we know from earlier announcements this vaccine is effective the mh already have approved it clinically safe and we have a vaccine so it's very good news there are challenges though the vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees but the british government says its health service is prepared the vaccine which uses novel emma and a technology is still awaiting regulator ie approval across the rest of the world he will thirty's say it could be authorized within weeks meanwhile to other western

drug companies astra zeneca and madonna have also reported trial success for their vaccines and inoculations developed by chinese and russian researches have also shown positive results some of already been approved for emergency use. the u.k. was the 1st country to reach an agreement with pfizer and by on tech for the supply of vaccines. it's already ordered $40000000.00 doses with several 1000000 expected to arrive before the end of the year. well let's go live to london on the big. boys johnson called this of course fantastic news as he does. is there's also that that's also a a big personal victory for him isn't it. well yes it is i

mean after all the hammer him that britain has in the last 12 years old movies i think with the breads and process where his government was under a lot of criticism and obviously we're still hanging in there and waiting if there is a trade deal with the european union so a lot of let's say negative views across the world in the u.k. and this is a victory the u.k. looks to be the 1st country where actually jabs are going to go into office so yes no surprise that parents johnson is very very happy about that as both johns that is of course the moment in the parliament. questions that one of the questions is how could the u.k. approved route of vaccines so quickly. it was an absolute emergency process so normally approvals like this take about 10 years but this one was different and that the regulator was actually like in other countries across the

world as far as i understand was working alongside the company so it wasn't that the company was doing all the research and all the trials and possible into the regulator in order to see if everything was that he had to all the safety procedures but they were actually involved in everything so they were alongside the companies looking that everything was going about in the right way and one expert described it quite well i thought it's he said if you imagine you're going through central london normally there is gridlock you know it takes hours to get through but this time all the lights are on green you don't have any other cars on the road and you have a police escort so it's sort of breakneck speed and really really different to other. 2 to the way it normally works because we're just we're seeing live pictures of the supporters johnson addressing parliament what is the plan for rolling this vaccine out of. well the plan has always been that health workers

will be the fast ones to be tested after that long side will be resident and have home so we're really looking at who is most vulnerable and older people are the most vulnerable. to couvade so they are going to be fast in line and then it's going to slowly be rolled out we know that hospitals already on standby about 50 hospitals as what the health secretary said are ready to go so we're expecting that the jobs the 1st jobs were actually already happen next week. and there are people likely to be queuing up for this or is there some resistance against being vaccinated in britain as there is for example in germany. well yes we know that also in the u.k. that people there are there is about a 3rd of people that's what polls have shown wall uncertain whether they want the job or not and about 10 percent of them are saying that they're quite unlikely to

get it we know that about 80 percent of the population will need to get the job in order to for it to be effective i suspect though that when the people will have had the job that you know people in the u.k. will be looking closely and if it goes smoothly and the 1st weeks if we don't see many adverse reactions i think a lot of people will. decide to get the job because the u.k. is one of the countries really severely affected by couvade we have at least 60000 deaths that are being attributed to cope with so if everything goes smoothly i think a lot of people will in the end get the job. because most in london thank you very much for these. a court in hong kong has sentenced leading pro-democracy activist joshua wong to a total of 13 and a half months in jail for charges related to last year's anti-government protests

this after mr war and 2 other pro-democracy protesters pleaded guilty to charges including inciting an illegal assembly speaking through his lawyer mr wong said the fight for democracy and freedom would continue in prison he's been a central figure in the pro-democracy opposition for years. headed back to jail after his sentencing on wednesday joshua wang seen here in black pled guilty to charges which included inciting and illegal assembly fellow activists agnes chauhan ivan lamb also received jail terms one has been a prominent figure in hong kong's pro-democracy scene in 2014 he helped spearhead the umbrella movement for months of protests heard by a government plan to prescreen candidates for local elections one was front and center. everybody here has to stay alert this demonstration has been peaceful

and the police haven't bothered us much but now they have brought tear gas and plastic bullets we have to do all we can to protect ourselves. he was arrested at the age of 171 became an international political figure in 2016 he founded a new political party demo sisto aiming to define hong kong's long term future. one himself was too young to be a candidate though that didn't stop him from trying to run for office. in $29000.00 he was jailed for 2 months but went free in time to join widespread protests over a proposed new extradition law to mainland china this time around the demonstrations were much more violent wong was arrested along with thousands of others. in july 2020 things went from bad to worse for pro-democracy activists china passed

a new security law for hong kong that made wang's demo see still party illegal the party disbanded and wang went to trial for his activities in last year's protests undeterred he told the w in a recent interview he would not back down. for some boss never stopped me from activism and thinking critically if it is such a difficult time and awesome all of us were arrested since last summer and 2000 people were to be prosecuted is still important for us to stay and fight. after wednesday's sentencing wang renewed his commitment to the cause he released a statement on twitter through his lawyers saying it is not the end of the fight ahead of us is another challenging battleground we are now joining the battle in prison along with many brave protesters less visible yet essential in the fight for democracy and freedom for hong kong. despite his defiance one sentence will

likely keep him out of the public eye for some time to come. for more on this let's bring in cloudy m oh she's one of the opposition legislators in hong kong who recently resigned in a show of defiance towards beijing bismo there's this sentencing of sutton and a half months for just what will surprise you. claim will lead me and then the most people who are expecting it because that we've been speaking in terms of years that he will get to and will then the 2 years or something it's now with the team then the whole month and see you there when it comes to sentencing a young and small and trial situation it's actually passed secure shit because the authorities at the just there will not try to understand what's really heightened and protests is nil at him that's on their part to try to get into the

reasons behind all these protests campaigns and uncombed and this is just not right well there's untile position alleges that is including you resigned on top of this not because like just one are facing jail sentences now has beijing succeeded in silence and the opposition. well they're trying to introduce this sort of political inertia in song on that one challenge everyone. there who get the cashier were great at breaking the law or in any way there are judicial consequences and so on and social order but then you do not. ask to mate hong kong people state or nation to fight for the future with the best of the one on the one country 2 systems and committed to systems we're supposed to have plenty of room to mind our own business and now it's only one country

and there they are trying to tell us how to live legally under this new rule to the new national security law coning is wrong yes getting it wrong in every way in these days. but given the covert instructions on gatherings and beijing's hardline stance is moccasin movement likely to continue what do you think when the short term things may look rather bleak because of all of those the social restrictions on it and you can take to the streets and protest that i don't sound to go to you know but democracy which is what we're fighting for democracy is humanity and humanity will always win so we will let the

persistent i should think thank you very much claudia mo one of the former of us is no legislators in hong kong. thank you. time now to look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world the u.s. justice department says it's found no evidence of voter fraud in the presidential election the statement from u.s. attorney general william botha is a blow to president trump trump's been challenging the election result and still refuses to concedes joe by. hungary a member of the european parliament has resigned after breaking lockdown rules by attending what's been described as a gay sex party in brussels it was the shi'a who has previously backed. the legislation in hungary admitted attending the party which was broken up by police shi'a belongs to hungary's ruling conservative party is an ally of prime minister viktor orban. a german man will appear in court today after driving

his car into pedestrians in the western city of clear police have confirmed that 5 people were killed including a 9 week old baby the driver is a local man and now in custody no motive as yet been established. as a city in mourning outside candles were lit at a makeshift memorial for the victims. and inside the city's cathedral a service for those killed and injured. just a this is the darkest day in the history of tria since world war 2 we're all used to seeing these kinds of pictures all over the world but no one ever thought it would happen here we were very much mistaken as we painfully found out today if you like. the baby was one of the 5 kills when

a 51 year old local man drove an s.u.v. for around one kilometer to the center tria hitting people as random authorities said he was stopped by police. social media for that showed the man being arrested investigators said he had consumed a significant amount of alcohol. and i'm not going to talk to us we have no indications that the motive is of a terrorist political or religious nature i know. escaped there are indications that there could be a psychiatric problem involved movies of eyes on shock wishes conk out. here. as is the case across germany christmas markets have been canceled in terre but despite the quiet atmosphere police urged people to stay away from the city center on tuesday evening. joins us from.

what do we know about the victims so far. so there were 5 victims of this car rampage and you might see people here behind me who have come to tears last landmark the part that needed to pay homage and mourn these victims one of the victims was a 9 week old baby and another was the baby's 45 year old father so certainly a heavy toll here in the city the baby's mother and an 18 month 6 year old sibling are in hospital there were 3 more victims a 2552 and a 73 year old women all from clear and there are still a dozen people injured some of them severely injured in hospital. the police have a suspect in custody what do we know about them. the suspect is

a 51 year old german man born in clear and residing in the area the prosecutor leading the investigation has said the man did not have a fixed address in the last few days he was living out of a car the same car that he used to commit the rampage and that was loaned to him by a friend of the man was drunk he had drunk had significant amounts of alcohol in his system when he committed the ramp and he was alone in the car and he resisted police when they arrested him. well authorities happy with this arrest is the investigation still going into other directions as well what can you tell us about the investigation. so at the moment the suspect is being interrogated the police have said that he is currently talking to them investigators have excluded any terrorists political or religious motive but they do not know what has driven the

man to to commit the rampage he is today expected to be brought in front of a judge who will have to decide whether to send them to jail or to a psychiatric facility and further psychiatric examinations are also expected to take place. out early in the tree reporting for us thank you for. the coronavirus pandemic has brought much of life as we know it's to a standstill that's including venice as famous normally the boats will be busy ferrying tourists around the cities in aus with barely any international travel and important source of income has dried up leaving cities. desperate for work. they are the symbol of this city for centuries gondolas have been an integral part of life in venice but the covert 19 pandemic has emptied its famous canals

gondoliers can only sit and wait for the tide to turn in their favor. no surprise since there's no money coming in this last summer was a disaster international tourism is gone from america china japan australia canada before the whole world came to venice. in the past millions visited this city each year now gondoliers don't expect more than one booking a day since venice relies on tourism job alternatives are few and far between. but any hope we will recover in the short term but we can't make any predictions because we have no control over when this pandemic will end this virus which has hit the whole world and which has hit venice so hard as well. i mean can come in or. a place that was once

struggling with an overflow of tourists is now fighting to keep its economy afloat without them he was alone in captivity for years but now the elephant known as the world's loneliest finally has a new life coverall was transported from a zoo in pakistan to come both after animal rights group sent us saying that chad launched a campaign to save him from miserable conditions like many other travelers cov on how to cope and test before is flight he's now settling in alongside several other elephants. you're watching the news here's a reminder of all top stories britain has become the world's 1st country to approve the coronavirus vaccine by pharmaceutical partners pfizer and violent but british prime minister boris johnson the vaccine does not mean the end of the struggle against the virus in while germany's biotech says it's

a discussion with additional countries over supply the votes. of course in all its jails 3 prominent pro-democracy activists for between 7 and such and a half months for their part of last year's protests speaking through his lawyer after his sentencing just one set of fight for democracy and freedom would continue in prison. does it for me other news stream up next equal africa look at why waste is a growing problem that's a pencil. term

. going trash into treasure is a massive challenge even if we should know better the amount of electronic waste produced worldwide is greater than ever before what could the solutions look like. small we assume it's a good climate said it's

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started rails against a couple of shots violence to cause. despite coming from a poor family loves to become president. could. be challenges around those. are. the incredible story of bobby wine. mom starts december 10th on g.w. . dot. did you know that in 29 war than 50000000 tons of electronics did the want but sadly hardly any of it was recycled well welcome to the special edition of

focusing on electronic waste i am. here in uganda's capital come and i am now coming to you from nigeria's federal capital territory. yes electronic waste is definitely an issue that needs solving in search of answers we traveled across africa and europe here's a look at what's coming up on the show today. south africa looks for ways to enable countries to mine precious metals for military waste. in germany we followed a debate on electronic waste devices and what they're calling the right to repair. and in their own design pain shows us how one person really ease another person's treasure. what happens to be environments when we fail to use our resources sustainably at the major theme here on eco africa where we try to present not just the problems but some possible solutions to today we turn the spotlight on

electrical and electronic waste meaning this crowded refrigerators cell phones televisions computers and things like that but 1st here are some facts about the impact it has on the planet. from and consistent to kitchen gigs. t.v.'s and smartphones every year we throw away more and more electrical appliances according to a u.n. report the world produced over 53000000 tons of electronic waste in 2019 equivalent in weight to 350 crays linus' urine was the area with the highest volume at. waste per capita. income growth urbanization and increased mobility leading to a constant increase in demand for electronic products. many of them have

a very short life span as a result the waste is growing faster than any other kind of refuse. just 17.4 percent of waste was recycled. a sizeable proportion of phased out and products are exporting it illegally and end up on unregulated landfills dumps and scrap yards in eastern europe asia and africa the un assumes that the vast majority of non-recyclable waste is not disposed of appropriately. electronic waste contain significant amounts of hazardous substances that contaminate the land and water and can cause serious health problems up to 50 tons of the highly toxic heavy metal mercury are released into the environment every year they're joined by chemicals that are used to cannibalize old equipment. 2019 also saw a major increase in the number of discarded and conditioning systems and

refrigerators their disposal cools the release of around 98000000 tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. devices also contain valuable metals such as i and other minium as well as gold and rarer. in total the value of natural resources in the waste last year amounted to $57000000000.00 us dollars. only a small fraction of annual waste is recycled this means that the quantity of extract and to keep up with ever increasing consumer demand continues to grow. our guards show that a problem that we need i'm sure. perhaps than mining could help it's an expression ari 1st in the process of recovering valuable metals mechanical and chemical treatment that doesn't just apply for i am a copper these days you find some very rare metals in your electronic devices that

is right and in cities you often find huge quantities of electronic waste recycling these materials saves time and money and it is much better for the environment outside the university of cape town one professor wants to introduce that idea not just in south africa but across the entire continent. it's resembles a meat grinder but this machine grind subcircuits broods instead of pork. is sent to the spot of an innovative research project in south africa finding out how to recycle the precious bits of circuits prudes. can do when judging peterson from the university of cape town figured out anyway. we were trying to crash the circuit board so that we can access the internet for the copper that sandwiched in

between is layers within the board access in the metals like copper all move valuable gold is difficult and costly most of south africa's eat waste is purses to overseas by companies that operate huge furnaces. also realisation. we have in south africa a lot of people who just collect a few boards and take them to recycle. just crush them up and since them overseas and research. process mature here create jobs with that. the challenge for the scientists finding a method that works at a smaller scale and price point that also does not contaminate the environment they developed a chemical extraction process for copper a fiend ammonia solution trickles through to ground 0 circuit boards over the course of several days the solution extracts the copper indicated by the blue

coloring the a 1000000 mixture can be used to several times which makes it even more environmentally friendly. the concept of recovering bread metals from electronic waste is called urban mining like many african countries south africa only recycles a minority of its waste so far more than 50 percent of it and so i've been landfills or as in the case of waste is shipped over seas monitoring waste streams experts say is one key incentive to up recycling you wouldn't recycle wise just for the goodness of your heart the people. doing the make at least a small profit on it and so the idea is to say what is valued as material so if you can extract a value then it is a worthwhile. undertaking small and medium skill businesses such as circuit board manufacturer tracks where the research project is set up could make

a profit while reducing waste. there is a social responsibility for me to try to look at the waste you produce and. circuit board manufacturer saying look you know view circuit boards that end up in products that become obsolete recycled in the corner reuse them but if you can reclaim the copper from them then there's some commercial very at the moment you can give something commercial value preventive ending up in a landfill the idea of the waste recycling project was developed here to hide your mythology lad of the university currently the team is still in the research phase through day terkel lection they want to refine and demonstrate the effectiveness of the chemical extraction not only for copper also a little retrieve in gold of parts from lower energy in such a costs the method has another advantage but what excites me about this project is

the fact that we are trying to develop technology for our local infuses for the african case where we're dealing with very low volumes of electronic waste relative to what other countries have but still being able to find green technologies that can help us recover from it without doing much harm to our environment in cape town's industrial area judgement peterson visits a local recycling company that is still exporting eve waste peterson is looking for new good material up until now the researches have used identical model foods to make results comparable but in future the method has to work for any type of circuits. the project could reach pilot phase by 2022 the approach is not limited to south africa the scientists are convinced it is transferable to every

other country on the continent. to europe now if you're struggling to repay on. household appliances that you've broken do not wiring you are not alone they are sometimes surprisingly difficult to fix one problem is that a lot of modern machines and other devices can't be repaired not even by professionals in many cases products are designed to wear out after sutton period of time this is expensive for the consumer and a waste of valuable resources and energy so the right to repair movement is growing in many countries we joined a global gathering of repairers tinkerers and activists in germany take a look. electronic goods are the fastest growing waste stream in the world in less than a decade the lifespan of a television in germany dropped from more than 10 years to less than 6 of the best

ways is the ways that you don't produce but when you look into the container you see is a really old laundry machines are some really old dishwashers which i could not be repaired which consume so much energy better than makes sense to have a new one for example can be repaired has discarded a products account for less than 10 percent of all municipal waste in the european union but extracting the rare earth metals used in many devices typically requires sulphuric acid and creates more toxic waste activists like your hands you do a calling for a radical change. the social costs and environmental costs are completely externalize they're not integrated into the price that's why while meticulous of every. another important aspect of the debate is the planned obsolescence of half products the american branded london came up with this time in 1932 he thought it would be a good way to boost the economy because it would force customers to buy more all.

the argument it's incredibly flawed because what we're seeing is a type of innovation that actually does not put meat on the planet nor people of the same. hoover lurie is a co-founder of the restart project a u.k. based organization that supports repair initiatives the european commission has recently ratified a new set of regulations that will make repairing easier from 2021 it will force manufacturers to make spare parts available to repair shops but crucially not to customers. now that doesn't make any sense and that's why people want a real right so it's not something that is designed to limit what people care. the pressure is mounting for right to repair based on 3 key pillars. first access to spare parts for all of the products for everyone. second access to repair

manuals. and 3rd design of products so that they're easy to take apart. while our devices are increasingly complex the solution to the problem doesn't have to be a comprehensive right to repair has the potential to benefit both the customers and the environment. staying with the theme of repairing and reusing we head back to africa now random is one of the leading nations here on the continent for digital technology but the increased use for nick devices has also led to a mosque increase in waste now with the help of the was bank there one of government house opened a state of the yacht the west dismantling recycling facility in addition to benefiting the environment it also created jobs and given that occasion system to. each of the 450 pupils in this school in biggest sarah really does have

a lot to fulfill us not all of those a new many are recycled all the models which breakdown get prepared within cities good business is up to you because you help us to expand on the wage. bill countries committed to recycling dommage and discarded electronic devices in hospitals schools government offices and companies picked up by employees in virus or an international recycling company. behavior is taken to in virus salves plant in fukushima 60 kilometers from the country told here it's recycled and restored it's one of the biggest plants of this kind in. on of africa. we want to have. the process to. proper system for in 20 west management established and one that's that's all i mean. our main target and we want rhonda to be

a model for for other countries not so many countries have. this kind of facility in virus so its business model is to sell the refurbished equipment more than 50 people in walk here showing him it ever since he started walking with one virus of collecting i've been able to support my from line up and they get health insurance and had no problem paying for me children's education of. your with. rhonda is seen as the i.t. innovation hobby in east africa that's why this sector is attractive to the younger generation it attracts people like that if we are all right eric. he left school early but begun collecting electronic was 2 and he was 17 now he has his own company employing 35 people. if you're going to. buy these electronics from different places and from people who don't need it yet but for us

these electronics are valuable after collection we saw that electronic equipment just separate the ones which can be reused and resold after.