further divide the country find out on. to the point. in 16 s o n t w. and on demand. language courses. video and audio. w. media sector. this is d w news africa coming up on the program. on supply is not. structure how many countries on the continent are ready to receive unvaccinated people over 19 also coming up. in parts of our crowd got this president. went out of monday's elections but then d.c.

has rejected the result seems he will go to court. the name is eddie micah geneal comes to the program now do you have any fights over 19 continental blocks made 60 percent of its population that's according to africa center for disease control but it will need about 1500000000 doses of vaccine infrastructure to achieve that goal in concerns that countries won't receive enough doses and out there is not enough capacity for rollout this is the spies the world health organization's kovacs initiative to ensure access of low income countries like my law we took over 19 vaccines. here in palombo southern malawi people are waiting to get their scheduled fix seen jab but they are concerned that

when the promising corona vaccines finally arrive they may be at the back of the line that it would i mean they're not going 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 related malaria 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 by antic fires and modern of axioms 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 that out of court the kind of equipment. assessment will look at that but however we still 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 stored 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 has these facilities and i was 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. 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 the suffix seen. 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 out mon 70 that would not be practical in africa in fact in africa the only practical vaccines for storage concern redoes that can be stored in the order for 0 to $10.00 but yeah there's a whole for the whole continent that's number one number 2 of course is vaccine

reach in many parts of africa including south africa they are also 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 infant 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 define who are the co-morbidities because initially of course is not to be the accident for everybody we need to define who are the priority groups they will agree the front on health care workers with and they already and then we come down to the next group which i will but it is underlie illnesses and they also priority group but how to define them out to dinner. circumscribe who's going to be those people is what's going to be a major distribution challenge and also of course the just ticks of getting to the

countries of 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 will play and we'll organize this is a new situation trying to immunize 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 yet is a cute. little getting the vaccine as it 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 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 ticklish planning that that has to go into it at this stage. confidence about.

the vaccines. well this is this of course that's a big big question and one of the day after remember related to that is that the epidemic in africa so fall is not nearly appeared to be as severe as it is in europe in north america africa seem to be a lot. of civilian volved 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 that the 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 initial tranche of eckstein to vaccinate the

high risk groups population immunizations are going to have to watch wow. professor . chairman of. the committee. development of many thanks for that insight thank you thank you very much. president has been reelected for the 2nd time in office with a narrow window of 51 percent of the vote that's ahead of his rival john muhammad 47 percent of the results of this closely fought election had some residents of the competition across. well 1st of all i think. very great. i love the. democrats and what i think about it is. everyone's reaction towards it i mean a lot of people. with the results are just

moving on with. life peaceful done. wrong this election. to do is to create a job. it's it's not it's it's. a you and. i was looking. honestly speaking. these people coming to do the same thing again for the next 4 years is 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 paul for 4 years the next 4 years you come in rupie. as a judge to devote generally free and fair but your position and is the party back in the other main kind of a general homma rejects the result and says it will appeal joining me now is peter

deputy general secretary of the m.d.c. party hello and welcome sir why is your party rejecting the results. well clearly you have. flaws and the tabulation arrows and. you know confronted the dispatch of elections you would have the keys whereby most of the places in the stronghold of the ruling government you had already printed. would you know you see stop how did this time nobody knows most of them were arrested in the end stronghold and you have the keys whereby most older results come in from the region in the eastern region by an extra 390000 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 have 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 we think that this result is flawed it is discredited it is 50 shows and we have rejected it we do not accept this result we would not recognise this and president as the president elect and we are going to use. me as possible to reverse the salvation 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 various venues that we can use to. bury my 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're going to use the people we're going to use public court of public

opinion we. will use every means possible to. reverse. and we'll certainly keep you posted about next moves it's also going to deputy general secretary of the. talking to us about this a position going to contest the results meanwhile we elected president and stressed that it was includes call the 2 parties 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 i'm all bastar is going to do. africa all of us at our facebook and twitter pages we leave you with more pictures from god after the election results came out

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british virtual band girl realize the 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 starts by that berlin of mistreatment in a letter signed by several colleagues the french dancer waiter went public with her story after she found out the ballet wasn't renewing her contract. the legend of the white swan for ballet dancer chloe lopez gomez swan lake is no longer just a fairy tale. her skin as white as swan's feathers some european companies have dancers and how do their bodies know pascoe mess says the training director at

berlin state ballet told her she would need extra pound. this badly mistress come to me and she told me you would have to put on your skin i feel very very sad that fortunately no one was able to protect me inside this institution which. i love as 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 1st gomez joined the shots ballot in 2018 she became its 1st ever black female dancer soon she realized the ballet mistress had a problem with her skin color. sometimes we'll just come out like chloe you're not online 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 of i got there she was giving some bad that's we were supposed to put

into our heads and one came so 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. hydropower computes 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 chloe lopez gomez says it's not enough. to me she still bad he said to fire me but i have to regret he didn't take any action regarding this is about a mistress who discriminates me because she's 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 the murdoch russell and noodle are cartoon characters. 7th album song machine brings together styles ranging from bossa nova to acid house. gorillas 3 concerts will blend real time performances from the basement of congress studios in london with animation by band co-creator jamie human. being in a room. where there is no wardens. you can really. you can use the trickery and technology that we now have available which 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 are there in in the flesh

but they're all there as holograms which is an amazing thing and and the characters murdoch today russell newton are there as well on stage interacting with us that it's all going to be live. one highlight will be a live performance from rock icon elton john performing gorillas to the pink fountain. to my. century it's a whole new thing no one's ever seen before. so that's if it got that the best of that knowledge he works on on the day because it is live. girl is put together the new album in a lockdown the band released tracks online as animated episodic media so what do i look good look we've got. a great in the bass player

a great guy to talk about. guest artists such as cure front man robert smith saying their parts down the phone. despite being a technology's cutting edge band leader damon albarn wants to get back to live in person concerts as soon as possible. so you can't be lost. you know if we could. otherwise we were after was we stand parallel. did you did you well you know. we slowly become a significant. gorilla special performances december 12th 13th. 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 they're going to do is they're going to 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 sunday so that they can reach for the entire world the people be awake could watch them from around the world and they're going to be really a combination of virtual and and life so you'll have. 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 members 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 holograms so they'll be you'll be able to see the image of them while they perform it sounds completely incredible i have no idea really whether it's not some 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 i have no idea but it's. a physical well but you. know of course i mean this is sort of the what the 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 gorillas 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 you want to 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 scott 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 bad 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 is a bit different people have to wear face masks in the cinemas but there aren't the sort of big hollywood stars as 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 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 the 800 which is a big war movie which made 460000000 dollars just in china and for the 1st time this year china will be the biggest cinema market in the world past the united states the 1st time in history that is absolutely true but it's got rocks for hoping so very much. a few headlines now. 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 actually accepted her award 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 it won best drama at. the words the prizes for international broadcasting were awarded during a virtual ceremony what else the documentary desperado about german filmmaker them bend as one of the arts category british nature 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 cove it. 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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