biala gassed. managed by. live from russia rolls out its vaccine against covert 19 with a mask. 2000000 doses are available for high risk groups but amid concerns about how fast the vaccine was approved. to be lining up to receive the injection. the united nations warns of a possible humanitarian catastrophe in ethiopia. it says continued fighting is

hampering efforts to deliver aid to those displaced by the conflict. and after 6 years and 6000000000 kilometers a japanese space mission is set to deliver samples from a distant asteroid they could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our planet. michael welcome moscow has launched a large scale vaccination campaign with the russian made sputnik vaccine against covert 19 the country says it's produced around 2000000 doses to date and will distribute the vaccine free of charge doctors teachers and social workers are among those 1st in line to receive the shot the rollout is going ahead even though clinical trials have not yet been completed it comes as russia reports its highest

number of new daily infections since the start of the. sergei said 10 of ski took the leap after seeing friends fall ill with covert 19 a journalist at the w.'s russian service says he did a lot of research into the vaccine before signing up for trials it's just a little better so i decided for myself that at the very least the vaccine is safe and in the best case it will be effective if they give me the vaccine rather than the placebo before they vaccinated me they told me it was safe but they gave me a life insurance policy anyway in case of death my relatives will receive the equivalent of around 22000 euros in compensation in case have become disabled they'll get up to 17000 euros but i doubt that will happen. around $40000.00 people have already taken part in trials for sputnik to be one of the 2

russian vaccines trials for both are ongoing but the vaccines are already registered and being rolled out across russia doctors and teachers are 1st in line to receive the jab which authorities have emphasized will be free and voluntary but there have already been media reports of people being put under pressure by their employers to sign up. the union of medical workers is being put under pressure to agree to getting vaccinations but we have also seen mass refusals and even resignations of course that isn't improving our health care system. and you know. not all teachers say they are on board with the vaccination scheme i either. a warning we are supposed to sign saying we will carry the risk so if i got vaccinated i would be risking my health without any guarantees that the vaccine won't have a negative effect on my body and that's why i would like to have the choice whether

i want to get vaccinated or not. and russia isn't just rolling out sputnik b. to its own population it has already delivered samples of the vaccine to serbia hungary and venezuela and it also has production deals with several countries including india and china experts say the goal is to show that russia is a scientific superpower. vaccination can be compared with a space race the main thing is to stake a claim on being 1st the 1st country it produced a vaccine and the 1st to start vaccinating people we won't find out what effect the vaccine had until a year or 2 from now or which one was the most successful this one the british one or the american one. but sergei said enough skis hoping for more than politics after getting the 1st of 2 jabs he had a fever but quickly felt fine now he's hoping the russian vaccine will keep him safe from the coronavirus along with thousands of others getting the job across the

country. earlier i spoke to muhammad in the near who's a viral infection and vaccine expert at lancaster university in the u.k. i asked him how unusual it is that a vaccine still in phase 3 clinical trials is being rolled out for mass vaccination . having deploy a vaccine at that scale a 100000 or even more than that people without having backed up that i think doc is there to be dangerous moving forward 1st because vaccines are required to go to testing and that's one of the reason that we took a dr long time to come up with a vaccine that we can over trust so vaccine that is not because you tested it which certainly be concerning moving forward because it's not just the russia itself that would be setting an example for other countries which it haunts the vaccine has a tendency on hold for more efforts to have a high coverage because so many major concern is not just having the vaccine concern it that all weekly and hope of widely we can deploy it because until we

don't immunized 75 percent of the people that are fact of the vaccine would be significantly low which we don't really want to see that's mohamed near from lancaster university many many thanks dr so let's have a look at some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic the world health organization has warned that the vaccines on the horizon should not lead to complacency it says the virus is still spreading fast in mass and other measures will be needed for the foreseeable future portugal has extended its state of emergency by 2 weeks much of the country is currently under lockdown to curb the spread of the virus and the u.s. centers for disease control is for the 1st time recommended the universal use of face masks outside the home because viral transmission is now at such a high level in the country. highlighting some of the other stories now

making headlines around the world at this hour at least 18 people have died after monoxide leak in a coal mine in southwest china state media report that one person was pulled out alive authorities are investigating the cause of the disaster which happened as workers were dismantling equipment inside. the new chief negotiator michel and his u.k. counterparts say they've been unable to reach agreement on several key issues after a week of intense talks on a post trade deal british prime minister boris johnson and european commission president. will hold talks by phone later today. a u.s. federal judge is fully restored the obama immigration program known as the program provides work permits for some young undocumented immigrants and shields them from deportation it's the 2nd time a u.s.

court has overruled the trumpet ministrations moves to cancel the scheme. it's been a week since ethiopia's military declared it had retaken control of the region from rebel fighters but the united nations says there are reports of continued fighting humanitarian agencies are still struggling to get into to guy where thousands of people are believed to have died in the month long conflict these images were broadcast on ethiopian state media they purportedly show the military taking control of the to grow region the army says its forces are now closing in on a mountain holdout of rebels from the to gripe people's liberation front little independent information comes out of to grow by transport and communication is restricted and aid agencies say they still can't get in. there is still no fool and unimpeded by the. court. says the need.

to provide assistance and. actually goes to those who need it across the border in sudan relief organizations are struggling to help the 10s of thousands of refugees who have fled at this camp in. people wait in line for hours to fill water bottles . tension sometimes boil over. they came here on foot walking for days bringing only stories of conflict and grief. this man escapes with 3 of his children amid explosions but was separated from his wife and eldest daughter. abigail we have lost everything it's hard to sleep we are suffering and thinking about our family we are alive but not much better off than those who died. those here in the camps in sudan know nothing of the fate of loved ones left behind aid agencies say up to a 1000000 people may be displaced inside to grow they fear what they may find when

access is finally granted. japan's 2 spacecraft has successfully released a capsule carrying rare asteroid dust and rocks it's expected to land at a remote base in australia in a matter of hours scientists hope the 4000000000 year old samples it delivers to earth can help shed light on the origins of life. 10 santas a patient space fans in tokyo followed the live streamed progress of japan's set to spacecraft as it made its way home after 6 years and 6000000000 kilometers of space travel now back in earth's orbit it successfully dropped off a capsule containing rare asteroid samples. the capsule will turn into a fireball during entry into earth's atmosphere and is expected to land somewhere in the australian outback but the exact location is difficult to predict.

we know very accurately where the higher bruce said who is travelling but we cannot control the winds on earth so we anticipate the capsule will fall somewhere in this large red oval area on the diagram. japanese and australian space agency officials are waiting on the ground ready for the search and retrieval mission. scientists believe the asteroid fragments collected on the distant asteroid where you grew container cannick matter that hasn't changed since the solar system was formed they are hopeful that these rock and soil samples will help shed light on the origins of life but high a boo said to use work is not done yet it is already headed for another far flung asteroid on a new mission that is expected to last a decade. let's bring in bonnie from d.w.

science department for more on this. capsule is making its way back to earth even as we speak what more can you tell us about the samples it's carrying. i got to say 1st of all what's amazing is it's hurtling towards earth that about 30000 kilometers per year every 2 hours this is an incredible feat where the finger back asteroids real you go asteroids you know they say they live in the so-called asteroid belt which is between mars and jupiter so this soon as i say mars i think a lot of people start thinking about human space travel going to live on mars in that sort of thing so essentially what we're trying to do is find out what the rocks and other bodies the planets around that area the moves around that area what and made all asteroids are made of rocks and metals so we think immediately of resources new which is very important but also by investigating whether it's an asteroid missed sense or comments as it was with t.v. the european mission on rosetta is we are discovering about the origins of life

where this is because these are pristine bodies you know they're very untouched by any kinds of life i think human life that he has we hope to find other things like walter resources particular as we look forward to which human spaceflight and i could tell us how we made progress because it's one solar system and all these different bodies are dead progressions different bolts and they're sort of cycles of life so we can learn about everything basically where we go that's big that's big stuff that the hybrids used to mission was launched 6 years ago as you know what was the main goal of the mission and where does it go next. well i think as with all of these missions it's international collaboration you know there's a german french instrument on board it was a mascot you know to the page is not something really speaking what this is about is proving that the space community can go sue a comet says sorry in the sense an asteroid a comment a world moon and actually come back pick something up and come back because you know the thing about spaceflight and schuman space and light and this hasn't been

done since the sixty's and seventy's you know bringing stuff back the thing that we have the southbound going to mars is going if you go there you never coming back and you know that's the one thing that freaks people out and so what we're trying to do is prove that we can go there so we've got an american you know we got the chinese actually on the moon doing the same thing with the so-called sample return mission right now as we speak the americans the europeans are trying to do that with mars as well to bring some back from mars in the next few years to the japanese themselves they're trying to go to folks one of miles is moons to bring some pulls back and of course the americans will so just send a helicopter to go to mars so we just want to find how do you provide out these objects and can use it like pick stuff up and come back to work is actually what we want to do and also we want to find out what's out there the minerals can we build bases on the moon is there enough stuff out there for us to live and perhaps use in space or bring back to earth so we just try to learn about all sorts of things and basically by the life i mean that's really the big picture for me i get even more excited just listening you talk about it dead you still the core of bonnie thank you so much really appreciate it. well that's it you're up to date now on d.w.

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