contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. examines the few traces that remain of their existence. coming up today vaccinations planned for the world's 2nd largest. medical walk among 300. everyone on the front lines and when we find a vaccine. and a plan to revive. the. thousands of communities.

i'm british welcome to. glad you could join us india could begin vaccinations for its people from january next year the government says it's hoping to knock around $300000000.00 people by august that's roughly the population of the united states to be vaccinated within 8 months india has yet to approve any vaccine though that least 3 candidates in the fray and based on available guidance so far elderly persons and frontline health care workers would be 1st in queue but whether that covers people such as under 3 featured in our next report is as yet. 21 underdog georgie has not taken a single day off the from book in over 5 months now he says he loves what he does

but he had never thought it would put him on the frontline of fighting the pandemic one day. and it was a lapdog mission working in a private by policy. his main job is to conduct arty p.c.r. test. tests to determine whether someone is. every day he was it houses or potentially infected people to collect this. and he understands that every day his work of getting infected him. in the beginning when i started doing this test i used to be quite scared. there was a lot of fear but then slowly i got used to this if i let fear take over. the modern thing i have to take care of is that i should not get infected and if i

am infected i should not possibly to anyone and that is why the whole process involves proper sanitation from start to finish. and hope is one of the thousands of frontline health workers in delhi struggling to control the spread of the writers. as india works towards developing the covered $1000.00 vaccine these health workers are likely to receive it on a friday basis as they are at a higher risk of contracting the virus due to regular exposure did governments are preparing lists of people across the country identifying the health workers who will be the 1st ones to get the. un above says he's not show when he will get the vaccine that means to take months to come. so he has to ensure that he protects himself then at all i'm. going to have technicians like me get the vaccine we will be less worried labeling that junk and if you it would also help us keep our family

safe. and above understands the importance of his job he says he is motivated by his desire to do his bit to have to deal with the pandemic writing at night the man one gets quite dieting i start my day at 8 in the morning and the work goes on till late i don't even get the time to have a sip of want to on sundays as i have back to back sample collections i have been suffering from dehydration for the past 3 months because of that about there but then if you don't work that will that it would seem that it comes from the patients won't get that people could get it and stand. right on about his family hope there will be a vaccine so he says he knows he may be carrying out these tests for a long time to come. let's bring in he's a researcher in bioethics and global health policy and has been following india's vaccine development plans closely he joins me from the pope in india dr bond welcome now the indian government says vaccinations could begin as early as january

next year but india has yet to approve of the vaccine what does that happen so i think either one of the. companies have put in applications but they have been told that they need to come back more beat up it's likely that this will be an on we process the fact that many other regulators and countries have started to believe maxine is going to be a factor but it's also the case that it's like bodies that are more than not more difficult in the law just because i'm interested in cost that you know black seeds which are easier to use. have a reference but we don't do it with a regulator to make the final decision and then maybe i don't know what is this father government has said that health care and frontline barker's will be among the 1st to be vaccinated now does that include people who work outside of hospitals as well as such as diagnostic labs all funeral homes for example. yes that i would tend to think that that would be an individual not

a lot of this is left at the state of provincial level to decide they need to be given about health workers being 1st and then frontline workers and all of these individuals given that is that asked of transmission especially by virtue of the book that they do certainly qualify and i think it would be certainly the case that they would be godor and this is up to also the states to ensure when they do that history or as part of the that is asian existing is a crucial question though is that a once of vaccine does become available once it has been approved by the indian government we people have to go through the government and through government vaccination centers all will be able to get themselves vaccinated privately as well . yes or the companies seem to be certainly interested in the private market as you know we have a mixed health system in india every also have huge mccloskey and upperclass which would be just read by black seeds if they were to be able to foresee it i think

those question is going to be one of equally if you have a prior to an exercise in the garment sector and you have to go to that janitor and before you're done can you actually skip that queue by going to a private market and getting a vaccine and i think that's an equally sure which the government will be what i lobbying for private cd there might also be the case that there might be some vaccines which are only available in the private market because they're not something which can be degraded into the government program given cost and logistics concerns but i guess they don't wait for a. gun to somebody who lived it and then companies are decided and garments to and also learn based on what the government is saying dr bon government wants to vaccinate roughly 300000000 people by august next step i'm wondering if that means that from september 2021 roughly the pandemic will be manageable already of an over in india. yeah that one would hope so but i guess we all know from private

experience over the last many months that you know the vaccine and the pandemic is a bit unpredictable vaccination is one important component of that is spawns but it's also going to be a fact of if we are seen a 2nd wave of any kind what is the kind of distribution of our vaccine and also if there is any good if the addition which is a cause for concern etc so it's likely that the vaccination will be an active part of that is sponsored and going into the next few months hopefully that would help it would you know any kind of besides of the disease with the last few weeks we have seen a decline in the number of cases which is i think getting treated and it's important for us to keep you know working to ensure that that continues and there's every indication that it's going to be to shots of a vaccine that is going to be to quieten we're talking about $300000000.00 people to be vaccinated in months enough those is going to be available

yes or the government has announced that the atlanta into. the maze for that number of those is and you know they have to find the finances for that we would also probably find out a little bit more in the forthcoming budget on how that financing is being organized but it seems to be the case that these for that to the end of 1000000 population that i don't think that the government is going to do it big active role in finding the funds to pay for those vaccines and then also ensuring that goes out and mr intruding into remote locations across india just one final question dr bond when these new vaccines whichever they may be invalid be effective against new strains of the vitus such as the ones that are evident in the u.k. and south africa. piazza one would hope so i mean i think that's a concern but so far the indication is that the vaccine should hopefully be able to cover these streets we also have an actual experiment happening in the u.k. because you have obviously these new strains and also vaccines already i know that

in china contracts are already being administered at mosques so if there is a concern it should come through in the u.k. don't survive expedience as they had over the next few weeks and that trip flag issues i don't know if it gets the and straight companies but that is also something that india would have to keep a close watch on which would you know excel in and took out because it puts to it so that we are keeping track of those what actually did and we're not perceived inefficacy on the bomb thank you so much for speaking to us. as of overfishing have taken their toll on china's young server in shell's longest waterway to the plan to start speeding has introduced a 10 year fishing ban starting next year that's forced many communities along the river to adopt. at this riverside junkyard what could be a group of fortunes made and lost. these fishing boats once roamed the coastline of the young the river in

a trade that's gone on for centuries. but since beijing announced a catch ban fisherman like you have had to adjust to a new life. there though i grew up here on the young the river my family has fished for generations. we don't have any other skills those living on a mountain live from the mountain those living near the water live from the river. beijing roads out the 10 year fishing ban in 2020 in an attempt to reverse years of was the fishing and massive pollution. to replace lost income young has turned his home in the chongqing province into a guest house and games pala. the 52 year old also bought a ferry to carry passengers and the ok tional sack of caring but fishing was much more profitable. than make

a living from transport boats alone the government's policies we've got subsidized for giving up our fishing boats. but a scion vested so much money on this transport boat if there are no tourists here on the weekends it will be very hard for us. like young tens of thousands of other fishermen have also lost their licenses their fishing boats to have been grounded by authorities. the fishermen missed their old lives but say they understand the environmental concerns. over harvested young sea bass and once accounted for 60 percent of china's fishing output that's now shrunken to less than one percent. what i missed was the happy feeling when i caught the fish. we have to protect the mother river and protect the

ecology of the young. you can break the law. and so young leaves behind a profession he's had for 2 decades and begins the next chapter of life with this name fairy this way his connection to the river won't be completely lost. that's it for today we're back tomorrow with you about. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. a i call you meal and i'm game did you know that 17000000 land on the move or killed worldwide shari'a so that we can get into but

it's not just the animals little suffering it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the machine if you want to know how old one click to the priest and the hopeless changed we think is listen to our podcast on in the green sense. since the beginning of the pandemic numbers are playing an even larger role in our day to day lives which is better standing 1.5 meters apart or 2 meters what exactly is the hour rate do i have enough masks and how no can i wear one for . the numbers inform decision making how many kids can be safely in one classroom or how many people should i be allowed to meet with.

between new and changing numbers coming to us every day what's important and how do you keep your head from spending. with so many statistics associated with the coronavirus pandemic is imposed was give on top of them all or even to understand them well if all these numbers are leaving you know allow us to help you out by explaining a few of the key ones. the 7 day incidence indicates how many people tested positive within one week measured per 100000 inhabitants for example let's assume a city with 129000 inhabitants has this number of positive tests in one week we add up all the positive test results. and then the 7 day incidence is calculated 48 times 100000 divided 512-1000 inhabitants

giving an incidence of 37.2. the number allows you to ascertain the current infection rate in other words how many people are currently infected in a region and since it refers to 100000 inhabitants one can also say so to speak what the percentage of new infections is. a value is considered problematic for a region once it becomes difficult to identify all contacts and in fact a person has had in germany that is a 7 day incidence above 50. the effective reproduction rate are describes the average number of people an infected person passes the virus on to an r. value of 2 means that one infected person passes the disease to 2 others meaning the virus spreads exponentially. if the effective reproduction number is less than

one the number of new infections decreases. or you can talk incidence you know out of the 7 day incidence offers in initial estimate the reproduction rate gives you an idea of the dynamics how quickly the infection is currently spreading from one person to the next. they gaze fatality rate indicates how many people who tested positive die from or with the virus. if for example one out of 10 people die is the case fatality rate is 10 percent. if we take a look at the latest case fatality rates from different countries we see a very inconsistent picture with the world average hovering around a case fatality rate of 2.4. if

the number is important for considering how threatening the infection is for an individual patient but it also has notable problems on the one hand the number of unreported cases is very important and the number of undetected cases also depends on how much testing is going on in other words you might get a distorted picture if you test very much or very little if you look as if you need to test it and that's the problem with many of the key statistics depending on your test capacity the figures change nevertheless the measurements provide valuable information with the arc of it in short it's about relative changes and you can see those quite well in these figures. and the goal remains the same all through the pandemic super vet healthcare systems from becoming overburdened. let's speak to maria barber also who is a mathematician at the frank the institute for advanced studies thanks for joining us maria so many numbers too many for anyone to really keep across so can you help

us out here is that one number that we should be paying more attention to the no the other is. well there are really many numbers concerning independent make and care have been many coming across during the months. we are currently paying very much attention to numbers which indicate disagree disease like hospitalization and i.c.u. requirement. so people who are in severe conditions because of disease disease and does are numbers to us which inform us a bit more about. the severity and health care requirement roger did only numbers concerning the detection so like 7 days incidents or r.t. number so you say that's what you're currently focusing on is the number that's most important change of the time. this this change of course

we have been tracking them essentially since the beginning of dependent make it became quite clear to dizzy disease they require or might have a seeing severe course and hand up in deaths or require us because asian and health care and does is of course an indicator which which is not stable depends very much on. on the health care capacity of the country but i believe it's less effective for a tracking capacity is or testing activity in the country. so we have all these numbers they are number 7 day incidences and stuff to the general public need to be across these numbers i can understand why government's decision i can see my newspaper what about i can we just stay at home and do as we're told without getting caught up in the thickens. well i guess it probably is 1st time

at least since i'm aware of that and as surely the 1st time to people became so informed about the meaning of the production number were even seventy's instance for any disease. this numbers are reported for a number of diseases but usually are kept in in control systems in health care facilities so people who are working wouldn't so now if they went into a community and i guess it was because of making people aware or making people. aware of this a very key dependent make of the weight credits. but of course and then the number of the numbers that we get or the more number steadily gets dissed can meet people were confused a might not know what they are looking at it's there are some indicators like overproduction number or which we should not like temperature measurement it's

depends on under cases that are reported and this are in case of cold feet for sure or not all cases which we have out there you know i suppose misunderstanding the numbers could cause more problems than not knowing the metol anyway marie above or also thank you so much for bringing us your expertise from the front that institute for advanced studies thank you very much. now is the pasta the program where you get to ask the questions you've been submitting them through our you chew channel so now let's put one of them to ask science correspondent derrick williams. should people who have already had 1000 continue to wear masks. i answered this question a few months ago in the guidelines haven't really changed but it gets sent in so often that i guess it's it's maybe time for a reminder the short answer is that

a lot of aspects of covert 19 immunity are still pretty hazy because people simply haven't been recovering from it long enough to provide solid long term data based on what we've seen so far with the disease people who get infected once do acquire some immunity for a period of time the big problem is we still don't really know how long on average that period is so for some framework it makes sense to look at what we know about other coronaviruses that in fact humans and and studies there have revealed that immunity can wane pretty swiftly a number of them convincingly show people can be really infected with some of those pathogens within a year of catching them once so far there have been a few dozen documented cases of that also happening with coke at 19 but as as proving reinfection is quite

a complex challenge the real numbers are almost certainly higher in some of the documented cases the people who got it again showed no symptoms the 2nd time around but but in others they got the disease worse and we still don't know whether they were infectious to others so until we have better data guidelines from health authorities like the c.d.c. recommends that you continue to wear a mask especially in. indoor public spaces until we have more information and you should assume that mass is still in effect of way to protect not only others but yourself even if you had to pick 1000 once and recover from it. and you can submit a question for derek through you chief of channel d.w. news now i know we've already thrown a lot of numbers at syrian today's program but bear with us here we have just

a couple of more for you because with the vaccine production starting up around the world we asked you through our social media channels if you would take a jab against 19 say are the results the largest proportion over 40 percent said they'd rather wait and see before taking a vaccine 38 percent said they offer paths to take the vaccine and around 16 percent said they would not be willing to get immunized against covered 90. that was a bad as mentioning that are all just say immunization is the only way to get a grip on the coronavirus pandemic but it seems there is still a fair bit of skepticism around the vaccines we've seen developed in recent months well that's all from this edition of the call it 19 special for the latest developments on the corona virus pandemic go to our website d.w. dot com slash covered 19 can so next time take at least a healthy. or

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bases you know view news live from berlin and the head of the german dax maker biotech says he's confident his company's vaccines will work against a new variant of the corona virus but if need be will be shaking says his company can also build a vaccine specifically tailored to the more infectious version of top 19 in just 6 weeks. also coming up to you kate ports as standstill as europe blocks british cuts to they're worried about bringing in a new coronavirus variant which has emerged in england. russian opposition leader

alexei navalny said he knows whom to nearly killed him but twice in the last august an associate of the colonies tries to confront the of legit hitman and is detained by police instead. of christmas in the holy land it looks different this year notorious in batman but santa is still out to bring a slim seasonal cheer even if it means he has to adapt. i directed them welcome to the show. german a drug maker by on text says it's confident that it's widely approved vaccine will work against the new variant of the corona virus detected in britain the company says that if needed a version of the vaccine that specifically targets the mutated variant could be ready within weeks text existing shot is already authorized in more than 40 countries. the chief executive has told the new variant is not that different and

the vaccine already in use should still be effective scientifically the likelihood is high that this is the case because even though there's no value in test mouth of a mutation it's only been percent of this protein is changed and that means 99 percent is still the same and we know that our sponsor the response that is induced by a big c. and this is attacking this protein on multiple sites so that the likelihood is it's high and that the vaccines will stay but we will get to the sides into 2 weeks and then we can be sure. joins me for more his overall adjust with lancaster university in england dr mare welcome back on the program we just heard the bio on tech c.e.o. saying he is confident that their vaccine will work against the new virus variant what do you make of his assessment. yes clark that is pretty true the reason is

that event somebody has vaccinated basically the vaccine not only part of it despite it being multiple sites but also induce other level of protection as well like our blood cells which are the that our blood all 2 pronged attack on the virus and also the complete system p.c.l. responses and light at a of responses are used so if the antibody related protection is a little minimized because of this mutation we have other at is to work on to at made the vaccine effective so therefore i'm pretty confident that this vaccine would protect against this new strain whatsoever as it stands but the problem really is not at this moment the problem is that as we move along this what is we're proper propagate into the human population that really dominate levels at its keep accommodating more and more the mutation that are ultimately it would least we're tipping point at that point we need to what he did about the vaccine i think it's about as it stands now i don't really think that would be any problem and given that information can really say how dangerous is this variant of the crime.

at this moment what we know that this new variant has it on 43 mutations and out of those 23 mutations awed into the spite of the nobody could equal state that is making this flight is more transmissible so it moves from one person to another person from one community to enter the community quite effectively this means that if it carry on increasing infection rate and we do know the hospitalization and the death all associated with the number of infections for timothy it would have some impact but that is not because of the highly. ability of this vaccine at this that ian to cause infection but is just that it will take a high number of people to get sacked and that's all it was last year game 2 high impact on to be out now the head of germany's national disease control center was asked today whether he thinks the new variant is already in germany let's see if we can take a lesson it might say. dusty's of a young we know that the variant in the united kingdom was 1st detected in

september we also know that it was found in the netherlands and denmark. restraints or is a likelihood that this variant has already reached germany undetected i think this probability is very very high who would rather back here dr nair given that information doesn't make sense for countries to have blocked travel from britain as many have done. that is very important i think this particular strain was 1st going to fight in kent back in september and since then it being propagating that into the human population i know it sort of has that and why do we know that it has been a very limited movement within the countries but that doesn't mean that it was a pseudo moment so i'm pretty certain that this strain has already reached to multiple countries not within the euro but also across other countries so it's having border closed at this moment doesn't really make a big sense hold over the important thing is that all those country do seek was at

the level as we do here in the u.k. different strains of the virus is to be a leader in the fight if that is the case because if that is the case important is that really to emphasize that and i mean lies really the impact of this that you can strain within the population how do you think that there are steps that governments should be taking other than this well this strain has certainly impact onto the truss miss ability so it's moving within the population quite fast. and probably the vaccine would have really any problem with this one and also the disease ability is not really high so what i would like to emphasize is that particularly coming into the festive season is that do follow those all those public health been simple that we put in place those are of no import and more than ever to not to allow this widest to penetrate into the psyche and mutate and it's sort of there right in point where it's there from the honey or from lancaster university thank you very much thanks for having me. the european commission has recommended that e.u.

nations lifted their blanket travel bans on the united kingdom where a new variant of the krona virus is spreading rapidly brussels says nonessential travel should be discouraged but that people should be allowed to return home as long as they test negative or quarantine dozens of nations have banned flights to the u.k. stranding passengers at airports but there could as soon be some respite for the long lines of trucks stuck waiting to leave britain trucks have been backed up for several kilometers outside the port city of dover in southern england. and let's across straight over to our correspondent to charlotte to chelsea hill who is on a highway in near dover charlie good to see you what's the situation like where you are now. i'm sure you can see behind me there 6 are still hundreds of lorries here backed up across the motorway back to back drivers here waiting to find out exactly what will happen next there is the face of

a very frustrating wait many of them here for the 3rd night it's a night potentially as they wait to find out what resolution will be come up with to get them across the border into france now one suggestion that has been proposed is the drive is issued people tested the current virus before they are allowed to cross into front said dr atomic is that something that they would be more than willing to do if it meant that they could and could leave but the question really is one of logistics is that possible to set up a mass testing site for the hundreds and hundreds of drivers here and if it is possible in what timeframe so many drivers tell me that they are simply very concerned about getting back for christmas and then of course there is the issue of potential food choices that we've been hearing a lot about in the english media here concerns that while there has been a lot of stockpiling that's been done by supermarkets they could be an issue with fresh food if this is allowed to go on for much longer over the coming days that

this really is quite a high stakes issue that's unfolding him and i understand you've had the chance to speak to some of those drivers what have they been telling you. perhaps a frustration really is a building with every tom thing our driver's head just wanting to know what will happen next many of them have told me that had they had any warning at all that this was going to happen they wouldn't have embarked on that journey in the 1st place now i am joined by 3 drivers who have been stuck on the motorway and now they tell me since yesterday evening can you describe for me what the last 24 hours has been like for you. because i'm thinking about it from 80. first to frustration situation for me now. though this situation today i don't know why not after the new year do something like

a stock operations. but we're now waiting. i don't know if. it's a very sad. how about you you can stand that you might not get home for christmas i hope i come to business that to my family my 2820 howlers and the smoke and we have no information why how long what don't. we have for. everything but you know he's a mason who works with. us i don't play when we go home now he's not. home on the 1st my style is so much. talk on the. lawn one time. thank you so if you can hear that very big concerns now among the drivers that they're simply not going to make it

home for christmas and what you have to bear in mind clare is it's not just drivers like the ones stuck on the motorway behind me there are a couple filling up full of lorry drivers just simply waiting to see when they can go home and we do if you know that incredible line of trucks behind you trying to test until reporting from dover thank you so much. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world israel is heading for its 4th election in 2 years the coalition governments of 2 main parties have voted against a proposal to postpone a budget deadline if the government doesn't pass a budget by midnight on tuesday it will trigger snap elections. at least 5 doctors and health workers have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in afghanistan's capital kabul people gathered at the site where prison staff had been on the way to work the taliban to say they were not involved in the topic. and stargazers have been treated to a once in

a lifetime spectacle after jupiter and saturn appeared closer together in the night sky than they have in 800 years their lining orbits meant this was the 1st time in history that the giant gas planets were seen at the same time through a telescope. the fallout over the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei navalny has intensified moscow has now imposed travel bans on officials from germany and other european states have sanctioned russia for allegedly carrying out the attack last summer a volley has published a recorded phone call with a russian agent who he claims was involved in the poisoning let's get more and go straight to our correspondent emily sherman in moscow and let's talk about that phone call there you are what details as move on he say he learned about the poisoning there. well i think the main takeaways from that conversation are 1st of all that we learnt. apparently where that poison was actually put and it was

put on the vine knees underwear on the interest seams of his underwear there was a lot of talk about that in the video they even talked about the fact that it was kind of put in the crotch area of the underwear we also heard that the f.s.b. agents apparently later took those clues that the clothing including the underwear and kind of washed it several times in order to destroy the evidence and the other thing that that alleged operative on the other end of the phone he was speaking to confirms is that essentially he thinks that he would have died in the air on the plane that he boarded in siberia if the pilot of that plane hadn't landed the plane early in an emergency landing and if the emergency responders the doctors on the ground hadn't treated him so professionally right away chilling details coming out in that story stay with us let's for now take

a look at the latest events in this unfolding story. going to confront an alleged would be assassin. alexina bound his lawyer. arrived at an apartment block in moscow. according to novell me a man who lives on this street he's one of the security service agents who tried to kill him yes and you see the show. after waiting many i was outside his home police arrived in tight so all the way. you know it's you know whether he was with me at that. the prominent critic of the russian government an anti corruption investigator fell ill while on a plane in russia back in august. he was treated at a burl in hospital and recovered. laboratories in europe confirmed that he'd been poisoned with a soviet era military nerve agent norby chuck. now

an avanti says he's uncovered new details on the plot to kill him. on a video of a phone call he says he duped a member of russia's domestic security service the f.s.b. into revealing details of the plot to kill him. during the 49 minute call the alleged agent admitted that nabil chalk was planted in a van and underwear and that if the flight had been any longer things would have turned out differently. in response the russian government said novell me is suffering delusions of persecution and the f.s.b. said the phone call was a provocation and foreign security services were involved. despite that response.