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1st post brags that new year's eve was less than celebrate torrie with police out in force to discourage crowds. in the chinese city of will hand where the 1st cases of covert 19 emerged just over a year ago revelers hope the darkest days of the outbreak are now in the past. new zealanders were partying like there's no pandemic the country successfully eliminated the coronavirus in 2020 combining strict measures with a unified national leadership that meant large crowds could gather to ring in the new year a rare oasis in a world of scaled back celebrations. meanwhile countries around the world are rolling out vaccination programs in an effort to stop the spread of the corona virus but many are falling far behind projected goals and that's making governments reconsider the way they deliver the doses. a familiar sight from
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coronavirus testing but in this florida drive by people are now receiving something much more hopeful vaccine shots and yet the race to inoculate millions of people across the world against kovac 1000 is off to a slower and messier start than expected insufficient supplies and complex logistics are bogging down the process many countries including the us and germany are falling far behind projected rolled out speeds the main issue is that the biotech pfizer vaccine the 1st one to be widely approved requires cumbersome refrigeration at extreme temperatures and 2 shots within 3 weeks to be the most effective. this has sparked a debate among experts about whether the time between doses should be stretched to 3 months some argue that it is better to give many people some resistance to the
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virus and to give fewer people full protection. the immediate urgency is for rapid and high levels of vaccine uptake. recommends that delivery of the 1st dose of covert $900.00 faxon should be proud ties for both the pfizer vaccine and astra zeneca vaccine britain recently became the 1st country to authorize the vaccine developed by oxford university and astra zeneca trial data suggests it is somewhat less effective but much easier to store and to transport it just needs normal fridge temperature rather than the minus 70 super cold storage the vaccine requires some experts say it could change the situation entirely unlike its buy and take pfizer competitor this vaccine could be more effective when the 2nd dose is given 3 months later leaving enough time to knock you late much of
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the population and endowed them with partial immunity the u.k. plans to vaccinate a 1000000 people per week from january 4th but what may turn out to be the most promising development on the horizon is still pending approval johnson and johnson's yancy and vaccine requires only one dose that could simplify the logistics considerably if approved this single shot jab could be in use by february the pressure is now on governments to speed up this crucial process. and let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines at this hour german chancellor angela merkel has handed over the e.u.'s presidency to portugal germany's presidency ended on december 31st and in a video message merkel wished for trickle every success and said that germany would support portugal to the best of its ability the presidency rotates among e.u. member nations every 6 months. microsoft says hackers recently access
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to some of the company's source code the tech giant assures customer data is safe and that its systems weren't used to attack others it was part of a hacker campaign against the thousands of companies. pope francis has pushed through ill health to deliver his traditional blessing on new year's day he had missed earlier ceremonies due to leg pain the pontiff urged people to remember the children suffering in the ongoing war in yemen he spoke from the papal library instead of st peter's square to discourage crowds. and after a half century partnership britain has finalized its split with the european union rex it appears off to a smooth start at a key e.u. u.k. trade link support of a while things are going smoothly now both european and british businesses are warning of massive disruptions to the flow of trade in people once the holiday weekend comes to an end. and i'm joined now by due to his very own breck's that
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analyst for as white and alex hello is so far we haven't seen the kind of chaos at ports that many expected was this all just overblown. don't see night when you're looking at those pictures but i don't think that is the case because on a normal day there would be about 10000 lorries and trucks that would posts through dover in the south of england so why the using the channel tunnel or using ferries and the estimate that today there were only $800.00 not partly that's because of the time of year that we're in but also because many haulage companies chose to keep their trucks stationary they didn't want and possibly that because they were concerned about the issues with more paperwork more customs checks and certainly they are saying that in the days and weeks ahead they're expecting more of that to happen at the moment some of those checks have been waved on the u.k. side but that's not going to last for. many of them are worn warning of sort of
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science disruption to come even though as we're seeing at the moment it's looking ok on new year's day i will see have to keep an eye on how that progress is as traffic picks up now british prime minister boris johnson is delighted that he did get a trade deal but where do we go from here what comes next it's a good question look boris johnson has had a torrid year particularly because of covert 19 he's been blamed by many for not locking down the u.k. quickly enough of the various moments when he could have but yet within his own party he's been accused of locking down too much and destroying the economy so he has had to have a win bricks it has been that win for him certainly uniting his own party and many people in the u.k. pleased at least it's over those who were in favor of brics it but he can't rest on his laurels he made it all about sovereignty and politics now he's got to prove that the economics work the government is already estimating it's going to cost
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about 7000000000 pounds that's all. most 8000000000 euros just in bureaucracy for british business is he's got the issue of services the services industry in the u.k. makes up about 80 percent of the british economy that's not covered in this new trade deal so he's got many things that he's got to trying to sell to and to prove that brics it is still going to wait for the u.k. now if i understand there is one a product that is going to be cheaper to buy in the u.k. without tax rolls can you tell us about that yes there's a summitry product so for women the so-called templeman tax now that has cost about 5 percent for everyone in the e.u. because of the u.k. being a member of the e.u. it also had to impose that levy that's now gone because the u.k. is no longer in the e.u. so many is saying that that is a win for women a saying that is a win for equality right bracks and alex for his waiting thank you so much but i.
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know about $1000.00 migrants in bosnia spend new year's eve out in freezing conditions after being forced to return to their burnt out camp bosnian locals prevented an attempt to take them to new quarters prompting authorities to cancel the relocation the camp is in lipa close to the border with croatia which is a member of the european union it's almost called the balkan routes used by people trying to cross into the e.u. as they seek a better life the un says almost half of the migrants in bosnia are living without any shelter. now bosnians religious leaders have joined humanitarian groups in condemning the treatment of people in the camp are receiving. for hundreds of men many from afghanistan or pakistan it's back to camp a site that's been on and habitable for a week now on tuesday both need a 30 cent buses to transport them to a new camp but they never left in the town now we're heading to there were heavy protests from locals the migrants spent the night waiting in the buses. they didn't
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give us any updates they were saying that we have to we're going to take the decision so they didn't take any decision and finally said that you have to go back to your. leave but the situation is spiraling out of control the bosnian red cross and fallen tears of providing them arguments with one ball meal a day. the camp was set on fire over a week ago after it was closed down with no alternative accommodation arranged. why the camp was set on fire is still unknown the bosnian red cross describes the situation as an all time low for human dignity. but it's catastrophic those who make the decisions about the moderates should see what's going on here something has to be done and we can't just wait for tomorrow.
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but other camps in bosnia robo filled and further accommodation projects are being met with massive resistance from locals and regional politicians with. that of sports news now and in tennis andy murray has pulled out of the season opening del ray beach open in florida saying he doesn't want to risk a contract in coronavirus ahead of february's australian open the 3 time major winner and former world number one had accepted a wild card to play in the florida tournaments only last week of the britain who had a injury plagued last season has now decided it isn't worth the risk murray has slipped to 122nd in the rankings after playing only 7 matches in 2020. and staying fit and healthy has become even more important to jaring the pandemic social distancing permitting of course for an older generation of often addicts a relatively new version of the game has been keeping them on their toes allow me to introduce you to walk in for. it's the beautiful game only with the brakes
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on walking football started in england and is now spread across the globe right here to australia. walking football in care has been around for 2 years now. quite small with players. nearly over the $200.00 mark. the rules are very similar to the full throttle version only the pitch is a record for the size it's either 5 or 6 or size and of course there's no running allowed the game skated towards the over fifty's with the minor adaptations required passing to people who call it rog you can't put the ball 3 yards in front of them with goby to their feet i been watching football with my dad since i was a little girl i played for about 14 years didn't start till i was 40 years old i just love football. playing well into their advanced years but loving it just as
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much as they did these teens. they're there waiting for a chance that will probably never. shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . hello there friends welcome to music i asked that my name is along the alabama i'm a conductor from mexico and i just want to invite you to enjoy this wonderful show where you will need to amazing musicians from all over the world and see the backstage life and their stories of how they put this beautiful music together. welcome to the next episode of music a master this time i'm in copenhagen in denmark and i will be working with a danish radio orchestra and in this episode we will get into the world of
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percussion i will take you through what it is like to play in a large because a section of our symphony orchestra and what are the challenges and also the lots of joy and fun that they can have there. yeah. that you deem it but. the book about the didn't. know the. time not to get. the ticket to get it to get it back to get it to get it.
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so i have to come with a plan that whatever happens it will work but then it's great when we can take it much much further and you came and said you know that that's very good how how we were going i said but do you think you should be a bit more flexible i. i really love that contribution because that's exactly what i wanted and. the story of this film is a sort of romeo and juliet story but between the mayan princes and a spanish conquistador so it's an impossible love story from my country and the
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music is just incredible. when you play in a big symphony orchestra even as a percussionist we used to just have the pulse and but in the peak of his like this always some small adjustments we have to do small adjustments all science and that's quite difficult because we have 13 players that used to do that just once in sort of the same time so that it needs a lot of a lot of ice a lot of us is set of like a football team you know we have someone to run fast and some are just just you know their experience and know how to keep calm when when it's you know it's growing on your then you have to have. people experience people just this is this is where i have to risk that don't go wild.
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to sort of this is sort of a master class and we'd like this because in classical music normally written place to the melody has not this time the military has to play to the reason. i mean like the black sheep of the sound samples. because i'm not a classical trained physician i am a self-taught jazz guy. i love it when we get the sense from other types of music it's so enriching and many times i think that if we've we need to be classical musicians need more here where
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else to do what we do because it's all intertwined it's not so for you. you're. here. this is a big pleasure playing with someone like you who are rhythm because we feel immediately that you are with me you have this. you're grounded for me as a conductor it's always good to go to the stores and talk to they're the ones who are experts on each think and i've learned so much but most of what i've learned i've learned from the players i'm happy to meet you that's with while you were in the band i mean. the manner is that you're thank you very much. i was so happy to be part of the band and it's always an honor to become so they're part of a band. and
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this concert it was a very special opportunity for me to work for the 1st time with my partner you can play out there in a sec 2 sets of songs one by mother and one by have a will but the entire program that we put together and is about love stories especially the impossible one and to get to do this with a yearly and it's such a joy and pleasure and we've had a lot of fun together. the rules. or laws.
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the poor. easy. to move. forward. 'd we're here in copenhagen after the rehearsal with the danish remark that's. the group. yes because there are they are giving a concert with. with your partner in life is something special everybody imagines big conflicts in during the preparation and fights about who is in charge. well i better don't question that the conductor is in charge. and she better doesn't question that i'm a tenor so this we can avoid
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a lot of fights i think well you know. i think you know i will always be able to work together well because we met working so for us the relationship through music and through may conducting and him singing was the way we actually met because we met while doing the magic flute at the state opera and berlin and so our 1st relationship was of colleagues and so i think for us is no problem and we both know and respect each other. in a way that it's really pleasant it's really nice. was.
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what you're hearing about the mother songs. this is the 1st year that to sing them is the 1st time that i sing the mother songs with august so if some of the piano version on the chamber version so today was the 1st time without restaurateurs time that i heard this orchestra like but i was within the orchestra with this whole world of imagination. things. like this. was. when i looked again at the at the date of composition like 8485. this is i know other music from the time of a song. like you has promise who voice. it's so different in terms of its simplicity but also in terms of protests in the
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simplicity so many layers of truth. of life his approach to music is is really like describing the world and not only describing it and painting it but making you live it as if you're in the moment living all this. elements was easy. it's really cinematic because we're in the center of the orchestra and we're hearing birds on the horn calls and and. the trees and leaves and nature coming out from every direction like like like it's really as if you were saying it's moving now keep you going.
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to. eat. eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat sleep. eat. and then you suggested 70. 5 weeks on what. i think is a beautiful contrast of no suffering of no problems. but and so it's 5 songs that talk about the beautiful day of wedding it starts with waking up the bride then seeing the church and how the families get together and then the posing off the broom like look how great i am of pistols and a saver and i'm so handsome but you are the one i love.
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species find. such important ingredients for a delicious curry are ground truth and farmers are preventing the spices from the car. to dance and dance on. similar to but not a single drop of water is wasted and they are in lounge quickly turned me. on to tell you. in these new. the colts hines this is especially important to us to wish you all a happy new year on the final status compass of modern family and friends or here and it's easy to see your long essentially during this holiday season we at u.w. want to tell you my dear when the moon for the in season one morning tomorrow
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morning this is you we went to my mommy new year new me new year and moon and stars into the news of the new year everyone to meet you and your in the face and how much your mistakes. the pandemic is in the broken tree brought families closer together especially at the dinner table the last doll has also dropped to the fold on the need to rely on locally available produce and food obviously the king at a fundamental shift in other nations should put forth that's what we talk about to me hello welcome to eco india. coming to you from this.
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