crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech the mention and sustainable charcoal production. all of a sow's are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. insiders tune in now. this is the news africa coming up on the program demand is high and supply is not. infrastructure how many countries on the continent are ready to receive unvaccinated people over 19 also coming up. on this 1st winter. of monday's elections by the position n.b.c.

has rejected the result seems they will go to court. the name is welcome to the program now to effectively fight over 19 the continental needs 60 percent of its population that's according to africa center for disease control but it will need about 1500000000 doses of vaccine infrastructure out to achieve that goal in concerns that countries once receive enough those as and out there is not enough capacity for rollout this is this fight the world health organization's kovacs initiative to ensure access of low income countries like malawi to cope with 19 vaccines. here in southern malawi people are waiting to get their scheduled fix seen jab but they're concerned that

when the promising corona vaccines finally arrive they may be at the back of the line that it made me to hurt 19 has affected every country if they choose to start with a few countries only it means people in other countries left to wait will have died by the time the vaccine reaches them. they were a minute in malawi doesn't have the capacity to handle the vaccine on its own it would have been better if a non-governmental organization gave a hand to make sure that everyone gets the all important vaccine and i think that is that i think about every 4th of the country already has an effective vaccine program called expanded program on immunization or e.p.i. but the ban tick fison would earn a vaccine which promise 95 percent efficacy require ultra cold storage something that can provide. the kind of equipment that many countries

including the law it's not the out of court kind of equipment. assessment will look at that but however with the vaccine is going to come into the country. the oxford astra zeneca vaccine seems more promising it can be transported at standard refrigerator conditions and stalled for up to 6 months authorities here are hopeful about a possible covert $1000.00 x. in roll out in the near future. as a country we are ready because the e.p.a. program already hires these facilities and malawi is one of those countries in the on the continent that does well in this immunization program so we have infrastructure in place already you know the you know the regions that we have warehouses that can keep this well in. the health minister hopes malawi's $18000000.00 citizens will start getting their jobs by the middle of next year but

africa's center for disease control says a much bigger challenge is the entire continent that will need one and a half $1000000000.00 says exene. for more on this here is viral or just professor he's the chairman of south africa's minister advisory committee on the court of owls vaccine development hello and welcome sir now what are the major challenges in distributing covert 19 vaccines across africa. the main problem in distributing it is 1st of all storage. you know one of the vaccines as you probably know requires very altered freezing stories octomom 70 that would not be practical in africa in fact in africa the only practical vaccines for storage considered to be those that can be stored in the order for 0 to $10.00 to china for the whole continent that's number one number 2 of course is vaccine reach in many parts of

africa including south africa they all parts of the country which a lot service borrows for example and to get vaccine right to the delivery point is going to be quite a challenge that's a challenge with conventional that scene program to show many good towards infants and children and it's going to be a lot more of a challenge of course trying to get through to the entire population and number 3 is trying to find who are the co-morbidities because initially of course is not going to be vaccine for everybody we need to define who are the priority groups they will agree the front on health care workers with and the elderly and then we come down to the next group which i will but it is underlie illnesses and then also priority groups but how to finding out to democrat. circumscribe who's going to be those people is what's going to be a major distribution challenge and also of course the just thinks of getting to the

countries and the problem ok so. a lot of challenges but we know the what's the way around them. i mean the way around them is that it's got to be we'll play and we'll organize this is a new situation trying to minimize the entire population so a lot of thought has gone and has hester still got into it and this is one of the challenges of africa because obviously in the high income countries in europe and north america those problems and those challenges of not usually as acute as you are. getting the vaccine which was also going to be a challenge for africa but we can come to that maybe just know but once we got the vaccine to try and get it to try and get that coverage after such a level that it's going to affect the population unity to try and get to herd immunity we're going to have to call to do a lot of careful planning of planning careful planning the tequilas planning that has to go into it at this stage. confidantes about.

vaccines. well i mean this is this of course that's a big big question and one of the day after remember it related to that is that the epidemic in africa so fall is not nearly appears to be as severe as it is in europe in north america africa seem to be a lot less severely of old and the many reasons for that name to it but the number of reasons was probably in africa it's not nearly as severe so the kind of impetus to call it should be the urgency to get it actually in africa is not quite as acute as you go particularly unwished in europe yes i think africa will only get vaccines well off 'd to. europe and north america but hopefully we will be able to get fairly soon through the kind of exercise enough of an initial tranche of eckstein

to vaccinate the high risk groups population immunizations are going to have to write ok wow. professor. chairman of. the committee. in development and many thanks for that insight thank you thank you very much. president has been reelected for the 2nd time in office with the narrow win of 51 percent of the votes ahead of his rival john muhammad who are 47 percent of the result of this closely fought election had some residents of the competence. well 1st of all i think. very great. descending now democratic and what i think about it is. everyone's reaction towards it i mean a lot of people are no happy but when you look at. everybody with their results and

they're just moving on with life over there we just want a better life peaceful happy day. for. i'm happy with the current presidents are sworn in this election and also what i want to do is to create a job for you it's it's not it's it doesn't be easy for me do you insult you for jobs i was looking for a 3rd party honestly speaking. these people coming to do the same thing again for the next 4 years it's going to be the same thing nothing will change because you know it's like. you coming ok going to politics for 4 years i'm giving you powerful 4 years the next 4 years you come in. i was nervous josh to devote generally free and fair but your position and back in the other main candidates john muhammad rejects the result and says it will appeal well joining me now is

peter deputy general secretary of the m.d.c. party hello and welcome sir why is your party rejecting the result. well clearly you have. flaws and the tabulation arrows and the eighty's that you know confronted despite the lessons you would have decades whereby most of the places in the stronghold of the ruling government you had already printed. would you know you see star power do got a stumble but the news most of them were arrested in the stronghold and you had a case where by most order is also coming from. mr ridden by an extra 30190000 votes and. you would realize that when you look at the results from the electoral commission there were some tabulation arrows and if you guess that they gave you

how to change it to 5 from last night this morning they have changed the figures they have declared 3 times in each of the cases when you out it goes to a runoff so it is not a one time victory we think that this results as flawed it is discredited it is 50 shows and we have rejected it we do not accept this result we would not recognize this and president as the president elect and we are going to use any. means possible to reverse the suggestion of the will of the people so how exactly are you going to go about this what are your next steps. well. you know we we have big venues that we can use to seek redress. the people always remain powerful and the strength of the people the voice of the people remains the. nation and the people. there i think is supposed to be done we are going to use the people we are going to use public court of public

opinion we. will use every means possible to. reverse. and will certainly keep you posted about next moves it's also going to deputy general secretary of the n.b.c. see that talking to us about ghana suppose it's going to contest the results meanwhile we elected president stressed that it was a close call the 2 parties will have to work together in parliament and that that's the will of the people. now is the time for each and every one of us irrespective of our political affiliation to unite join hands stand shoulder to shoulder and walk out to place gonna where she deserves to be that's it for now stars go to. africa or visit our facebook and twitter pages we leave you

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described as soon as it sinks. into the world. to take a closer. to . the ballet world faces a reckoning with the racism dancer chloe vote as gomez is speaking out about her experiences at berlin's state ballet company and the world is listening. we'll be hearing from chloe lopez gomez coming up here on arts and culture and

later on the show. british virtual band gorillas but doubts to be strange times with 3 global live concerts. but 1st berlin's prestigious state by the way it now admits it has a problem with structural racism that admission came after the 1st black woman to join the company chloe lopez gomez accused the shots by that berlin of mistreatment in a letter signed by several colleagues the french dancer later went public with her story after she found out the ballet wasn't renewing her contract. to legend of the white swan for ballet dancer chloe lopez gomez swan like it's no longer just a fairy tale. for skin as white as swan's fact there's some european companies have dancers powder their bodies no tesco mess says the training director at berlin

state ballet told her she would need extra pounds. specially mistress come to me and she told me not you will have to keen. on the very sight that's unfortunately no one was to protect me. lopez gomez says the company directors eventually told her she didn't have to powder herself white but did nothing to stop the racist remarks when the office gomez joined the shots ballot in 20 teen she became its 1st ever black female dancer soon she realized the ballet mistress had a problem with her skin color and. it was sometime i'll just come out like chloe on the timeline and we can only see you because you're black or you're not musical and we can only see you because you are black and during the rehearsal i got there and she was giving some what best that's we were supposed to

put into our heads and one can see much wrong she told me i cannot give it to you because it's a very white and you are black and she laughed in my face. the interim artistic director says the decision to not renew the dancers contract had nothing to do with lopez comesa skin color and that she preferred to handle the matter internally. this is to hide supercontinents yet it's this week that's just very complicated so i don't want to comment on that i learned through the media that fear is apparently an issue here it's just too much. but i also know other voices from the ensemble who say they've never experienced such an open atmosphere as here in the state ballet starts by the way lopez gomez has now received support from the world's most famous black ballerina misty copeland the principal dancer at american ballet theater praised her courage on instagram copeland has long been vocal about

racism and ballet last year she posted this image from russia's bolshoi calling them out for using blackface berlin state ballet is now planning a new code of conduct and says it must do more to fight racism chloé lopez gomez says it's not enough. he still bad he said to fire me but i have to regret that he didn't take any action regarding this is barely mistress who discriminates me because she still working at the stats like nothing happened. chloe lopez says she was fired on that ballet mistress's recommendation she's now hired a lawyer and plans to take legal action. well it may be the most technically ambitious live music event of the pandemic the british band gorillas is playing a concert like you've never seen before with special guests live streamed from different countries some of them as holograms over the last 2 decades gorillas has

become the world's most successful virtual band virtual because the official band members to date murdoch and noodle are cartoon characters. 7th album song machine brings together styles ranging from bossanova to acid house. guerrillas 3 concerts will blend real time performances from the basement of congress studios in london with animation by band co-creator jamie hewlett. being in a room. where there is no wardens you can really. you can use the trickery and technology that we now have available we ship which was not available 20 years ago. special guests who appear on song machine the band's new album will also perform. some of them of their in in the flesh

but they're all as holograms which is an amazing thing and the carriage has moved to the russell brand new to there as well. interacting with us and it's going to be. one highlight will be a live performance from rock icon elton john performing gorillas to the pink phantom. century it's a whole new thing with no one's ever seen. so that's if you've got that. knowledge you works on on the day because it is. put together the new album in a lockdown the band released tracks online as animated episodic media was. a really. great. result for about.

guest artists such as cure front man robert smith sang their parts down the phone. despite the new technologies cutting yet bandleader damon albarn wants to get back to live in person concerts as soon as possible. so you can't be lost. now we. are wise we are wise we stand perilously on the best of the did of the digits who. were you know. we slowly become a significant. gorilla special performances december 12th and 13. and here to talk gorillas and this musical experiment my colleague scott roxboro

scott how are these live performances actually going to work yeah it's seems incredible i mean what we're going to do is they can do 3 live performances from london from their studio there and they're going to stagger them so like one early the morning on saturday 1 in the evening saturday one afternoon on sunday so that they can reach for the entire world the people be awake it could watch them from around the world and they're going to be really a combination of virtual and and watch you have. the 14 piece a grill is band lee led by damon albarn in the studio performing live i mean have those animated characters which are the official. bers of the band they'll be there visually being performing and then you have people who contributed to this new album there's a song machine who'll be piped in including john and will to be piped in as hologram so they'll be you'll be able to see the image of them while they perform it sounds completely credible i have no idea really what a super trippy but of course the gorillas are known for mixing our brianna lady

with not reality they are a virtual band after i think the most famous popular virtual band and history of course or even 2 other how many virtual bands are there i have no idea but it's. a physical well yeah. no of course i mean this is sort of the what girls have always done i mean years ago 2006 i think they opened the grammys it with a duet with madonna where madonna was live on stage and they were performing as holograms i mean so this is nothing super new for them i mean even look at like older videos they also like to combine this sort of combination of the real and then the virtual and i mean it's interesting in some ways this is an art project i mean the whole idea was started as a comment a bit on the artificiality of pop music but what i find so interesting about this is even though they are the world's most artificial band i mean they're literally created in a computer they have a huge dedication to live performance and always have them from the get go ok so

these virtual performances may be they won't be sticking with virtual performances post pandemic no definitely not i mean damon albarn has said very clearly he must get back on stage as soon as possible and they've already are poor planning to kick off a world tour for this new album a song machine next summer you know safety permitting ok i want to switch gears for a 2nd let's talk about the coronavirus or rather not the coronavirus here in europe everything of course is shut down culturally for the most part ironically over in china where a year ago we heard about the 1st cases of the coronavirus they've got a big film festival up and running euro sort of film expert what's going on there. yeah the festival it's the international film festival happens every year it's a big big event in southeast china it's usually also a big sort of international event you have big hollywood stars to come johnny depp is gone that's mickelson has gone nicolas cage this year of course it's a bit different but it is happening it's taking place in person

a physical event of course because of safety conditions it's a bit different people have to wear face masks in the cinemas but there are these sort of big hollywood stars the real focus this year on on local and chinese films but i think it's interesting because. it shows the great difference between. countries now because last year china was sort of shutting down because of coronavirus now in china the cinemas are open again and in some cases a box office is booming while over here in europe almost all cinemas are shut down and you can't get into the movies aren't they the biggest economy or the biggest consumer of movies now yeah it is it's really really interesting because all the big blockbusters this year basically have been out of china you had a film of $800.00 which is a big war movie which made $460000000.00 just in china and for the 1st time this year china will be the biggest cinema market in the world passing united states the 1st time in history that is absolutely true peace crocks perhaps things are very much. a few headlines now

a low key live streams were placed glitzy while galahs the nobel prize ceremonies took place online with none of the winners present the swedish academy honored us poet louise glick this year's nobel laureate in literature greg actually accepted her award though last weekend at home in a private ceremony becoming the 16th woman to receive the prize now she's actually admitted to having conflicted feelings about receiving so much attention for her very intimate work with these great new collection of poems is set for publication next august. and meanwhile in germany is a roaring twenty's t.v. series babylon berlin that won best drama at the dog awards the prizes for international broadcasting were awarded during a virtual ceremony what else the documentary desperado about german filmmaker them vendettas won the arts category british major documentarian david attenborough won

the lifetime achievement award and us late night host james corden took the special prize for innovation in the time of code that. and in a war that's not taking place at all the bad sex in fiction prize normally handed out by britain's literary review has been canceled the judges said with so many bad things already going on this year they didn't want to subject the public to bad sex as well thanks for watching.

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this is interview news live from berlin a turn for the worse germany sense a new record for daily coronavirus cases the head of dieter of germany's disease control agency raises the alarm as covert continues to rage around the country and the death toll mounts also coming up in a high stakes summit e.u. leaders meet in brussels to try and seal

a tentative deal with hungary and poland to approve a budget and willy's pillions of euros incl and irish really funding. thank you so much for your company everyone we begin with a grim new milestone for germany and deaths from the corona virus have passed the 20000 mark in this country weeks of a partial lockdown have not done enough to limit infection numbers. has already made a passionate plea for people to limit their social contact and now germany's top scientists warn the country will have to introduce tougher restrictions if people don't reduce social contacts voluntarily. german scientists are once again sounding the alarm despite the partial lockdown coronavirus cases are rising

again and deaths are soaring to record highs but if it's your screen country the infection activity we are currently seeing can quickly rise back into the exponential phase again if you extra cases could be enough to spark that. and ladies and gentlemen this we must avoid it for the virus has spread widely across the population into the so-called germans are being told to drop their christmas travel plans for now shops are still open and some stand selling mulled wine have sprung up across many cities. the loophole dina germany's academic advisory panel to the government says this has to stop it has called for schools to go on their winter break early and for all non-essential shops to close now a full nationwide lockdown is looming in parliament on tuesday chancellor merkel made a passionate plea for all states to take immediate action. so how does his ass how

does this leave i know how much love gets poured into those christmas stands and i'm sorry from the bottom of my heart but if we have to pay the price of 590 people dying every day that's just not acceptable in my eyes and we must take x. and accept the players to decide this is. the question seems to be whether germany's 16 states will impose more restrictions before or right after christmas by the way people are prepared for a different holiday season this year. i've decided not to visit my grandparents sign a i think it's better to make an effort to keep them safe. and it's not about how it feels it feels terrible for everyone but we have to get this under control somehow. daughter will only come for a short period of time we have to accept that i hope this will not be my last

christmas with enough. i think i'll go back to sleep but i will not see them maybe . or maybe just. isn't this a room that's really. been really. some german states of already introduced their own tougher restrictions it remains unclear where the miracle will try to get all 16 states to commit to more nationwide measures before christmas or whether each state will continue to go its own way. let's find out more about this with simon young who is covering the story for you assignment is surely losing the fight against kobe 1000 particularly when it comes to the elderly the most vulnerable group well over the numbers have got a lot more worrying in recent days and that's really what i think the robot call institute the big public health institute has been saying today that the overall

picture is very worrying they're warning of a possible exponential growth in infections as you've said a record number of infections over the last 24 hours and what we're seeing also is a picture where no longer the infections are concentrated into just a few hot spot locations which obviously is easier to deal with pretty much the corona virus is now spread across germany and so it means it's time for drastic action another thing that experts are pointing out is that there are twice as many infections now in care homes in old people's homes than there were in the spring and of course those people. are more likely to suffer serious effects and death and now deaths in germany from carbon 19 are above 20000 so very worrying sign indeed now the merits of easing lock down over christmas are currently being hotly debated

are they now definitely off the table considering the rising number of infections. well the hopes of easing easing restrictions over christmas are still there but again as the president of the robocall constitute lots of dealers said you know the aim is to get in contact. and they haven't reduced by 60 percent which is he's tall good he said if that can happen through voluntary changes made by the population then a tough lockdown will have to happen they looked at the united states experience over the thanksgiving weekend which seems to have led to a significant spike in infections germany wants to avoid a repeat of anything like back over christmas and so that's why at least those experts are saying we can't afford to loose in the measures during the christmas period sam and young are reporting thank you meanwhile u.s.

authorities look to be on the verge of authorizing the country's 1st coronavirus vaccine the food and drug administration advisory panel has meant to scrutinize the data from bio on tech pfizer manx vaccine the same one that was rolled out in the u.k. on tuesday many in the u.s. are hoping for emergency authorization as cases there soar but the panel will also have to consider 2 were ports of allergic reaction to the vaccine in the u.k. this week ringback. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic. new data released in spain suggest the country's coronavirus death toll from march to may was almost 70 percent higher than previously reported the new figures would put spain's new death toll at some 65000 that's higher than the united kingdom's and the 1st western country hit by the virus elite reported 887 coronavirus related deaths on thursday a sharp rise from 499 the day before and russia has agreed to

a deal in which it will supply argentina with $10000000.00 doses of its sputnik covert $900.00 vaccine the agreements means the country will be able to start vaccinations leaders this month. today marks a human rights day and this year it's no surprise that the united nations theme for the annual occasion is linked to the cone of iris the focus is on rebuilding a better world by ensuring that human rights are central in the recovery process the social and economic toll of the pandemic has hit the poorest members of society the hardass inequality and discrimination on multiple levels have been exposed and some governments have also used the pen demick to curtail basic rights. we turn our attention now or to the e.u. european leaders gathering in brussels in an attempt to salvage the

a use $1.00 trillion euro budget this includes hundreds of billions in coronavirus relief funds which the bloc cannot deploy until member states reach consensus poland and hungary which have been blocking the budget now appear willing to make a deal the 2 countries objected to a provision that would prevent them from accessing funding if they continue to defy the rule of law provisions germany appears to have come to an agreement with them over how to proceed but that will still need to be approved by the rest of the member states. all right let's check in now with my colleague again matters who is in brussels garrick i believe you have news for us. that's right and the news of big news because sean michel the head of the european council has just announced that there is a green light for the european budget as well as the massive coronavirus recovery fund and the green light comes because poland and hungary have withdrawn their veto

will on that package and have so in other words the compromise proposal that has been organized by particularly younger machall has apparently worked out there used to be a route here as you have explained between the conditionality factor of a rule of law mechanism to funds that mainly in the e.u. go to hungary and poland to the 2 states that receive most funds in the e.u. but also the 2 states that have been violating democratic freedoms like the independence of the traditionally for instance and now what this compromise for sees is that it is the european court of justice that will now have to provide a legal declaration that this mechanism in the future is proper to work and it's legitimate and garrett is everybody breathing

a sigh of relief or you are. i would say so very much of course on the one hand and german chancellor angela merkel made it clear at the beginning of the summit is these you need to be workable there can't be an e.u. where you have unanimity on big issues but if you have member states who use their veto constantly to pressure to force the rest of the club to change their mind on other things that of course makes the e.u. in a need to fish and particularly in this case and that is why michelle said today we can now build back our economies if this was about releasing the money not just for the 7 year annual e.u. budget but also for those vital recovery funds the corona related funds where the e.u. has set up millions and billions of euros in order to bring back our european economies after the corona pandemic motus are reporting their own breaking developments out

of brussels where e.u. leaders have reached an agreement on the 7 year budget thank you so much garrick. all right let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. israel and morocco have agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the u.s. called it a historic breakthrough under the deal the u.s. will recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara is the force to arab israeli agreements and for months after the united arab emirates the hainan and so don all recognized israel. a female television news anchor has been shot dead in eastern afghanistan while a a may wind was killed along with her driver as she travelled to work in jalalabad she was also an activist who spoke out on women and children's rights is the latest in a series of attacks targeting journalists activists and politicians. lebanon's prime

minister has sunday has been charged with negligence over the bay which poured explosion that killed over $200.00 people in august 3 former cabinet ministers were also charged d.m. says his conscience is clear the blast was caused by explosive material that had been stored at the port for years. a space x. test launch on wednesday complete at the highest and most elaborate flight yet for its prototype starship rocket the spacecraft nearly reached its goal altitude of 12 kilometers but engineers still have a few kinks to work out before their planned mission to mars and back 3 to. a picture perfect start for starship number 8 the rocket is the most ambitious space x. test yet in the company's audacious quest to make human travel to mars possible.

it climbed for several kilometers before leveling off its stainless steel hull glinting in the sun. after 4 minutes and 45 seconds of flight the starship switched off its engines and began its descent but just as a flawless journey seemed within reach the ship was engulfed in a ball of flames. despite this dramatic finale the test is considered a success by space x. the company believes the dr collected will help to develop a space ship capable of carrying both crew and cargo to the moon mars and beyond. spy 6 found a long musk with enthusiastic to eating miles here we come. there will be more tests soon here in the texan desert construction of stock ship number 9 is almost complete. french world cup winner on twinkies man has cut ties with chinese

telecom giant while way while this comes after reports earlier this week claimed that the company is involved in the surveillance of weaker muslims she's mine posted the news on social media the parcel and a forward wrote following strong suspicions that while way has contributed to the development of a weak alert through the use of facial recognition software i'm immediately ending my partnership with the company. you're watching t.v. news stick with us up next as you know we use of business with some layla rocked i very much for see tomorrow. it was the sanctuary for trick monarch. trade.

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