but what is happening what you really do see is the health system getting close to the brink of what it's capable of delivering and there's one example here in berlin if you look at the number of people in intensive care in bell and house hospitals 34 percent of intensive care hospital beds are taken up by covert patients right now just one month ago that was 24 percent so that's a very significant jump just during the course of this past month and of course what german politicians are really worried about is the german health care system getting the kind of situation that we saw in italy and spain in the early part of last year where in regions of those countries the health system couldn't cope any longer and they had to start turning away some patients from the care that they needed that would be scenarios that no politician here i think wants to get the blame for so i think that is driving this kind of sense the politicians likely are on the side of caution when they next meet the cautionary tale that staring over

all the thinking here would also this 2nd lockdown affect schools in kindergartens where there is debate around that so there is a lot of pressure for schools to reopen at least partially so that children can get back into education because you know this is a growing awareness of the psychological impact on children of being cut off from from really good quality teaching in schools. but there's also a growing awareness that schools do play a role in infection so you know one suggestion has come up is for example to allow younger children back into school but for the children to be still at home the children being both more independent and capable of working from home during their studies from home and also potentially putting a posing a high risk if they did go into school so you can expect some debate around that this week that's for sure richard briefly germany started its mass vaccination program on december 27th. of course i think it's safe to say it hasn't gone very

smoothly that's right i mean there's a huge debate opening up around this. excitement just before christmas when these vaccines started getting approved you know there's the biotech vaccine that was also develops in germany getting approval these huge vaccination centers being opened up in constant holes airports around the country. but these don't have enough vaccines to actually get properly to work. and the head of that company the c.e.o. of that company biotech has actually come out and said why didn't your opinion order more of a vaccine they could have done and this kind of goes to the heart of this debate because the european union has taken on a very central role within europe of ordering facts seems now they say of course they had to divide up that among different companies because they didn't know which one would come through 1st. but they are facing accusations of not ordering enough i think one thing we have to emphasize that when discussing this is the the e.u.

is in the fortunate position of being able to afford these vaccines which of course many countries around the global south simply can't at this stage jackley. richard walker thanks as always richard well india is testing its nationwide coverage 19 vaccine distribution systems as he prepares to roll out an inoculation program the trial includes the entry of data into an online platform that will monitor vaccine delivery the dry run comes a day after regulators approve the vaccine developed by astra zeneca and oxford university for emergency use in the hopes to inoculate 300000000 people in the 1st 6 to 8 months of the year. for more i'm joined now by our correspondent in delhi just felt. india has reported over 10000000 covert cases 2nd only to the united states it says it hopes to and not some 300000000

indians by summer is there any concern about whether the government can actually pull this off this is definitely of massive not just to challenge michael and the government has laid out of very detailed plan on haiti it's for us that's to talk and 30000000 people who will be considered front line local. has you know a group of cost and then sadly she listens to chart people but the true challenge will emerge when we then move to the other 70000000 people that india will to lacson aid by the some long which includes everybody about the age of 50 as well as the little one the age of 50 who have but it is now this isn't on the time that it's got to be to or did in an organized manner and you know he is in the country so now the priority lists are being built across the country people will have the option to enjoy on the bridge to the platform point who are not they would be given

a pre-designated slot to show up and get their pre-booked vaccine but of course checking his date of the should be a crucial step and this and he seems and us will find it seems that it will only get you out a 100 vaccinations but did which means that thousands of sites and doesn't be needed across the country looking at proficiency to head this docket. india's health care budget is only a small proportion of its g.d.p. yet millions of people have to be reached including some in remote and rural areas as you know what are the challenges here. by michael india and you know what a key is to draw on experiences it has had in the bust even though nothing of this kid has been got to know india has a robust your loss even as he programme which backs needs which gives out hundreds of millions of dollars is all back to nations do young mothers as men it's intense and this is been jumped up significantly over the last decade which has improved

india as we have seen and structure which is basically how a lack seems didn't support it from the delivery point still actually in operation with the base and in addition it is also bad to rely on its mostyn elections begin to spend millions what in a single day is a similar wanted in a fashion but of course the out significant challenges the quenching in storage and mentioned it is useful for not acting that people through a vaccine which is quite a step because it would really do and 8 degrees but then you look at something that provides that x. seems to quite as temperatures of minus 70 degrees this is do think this is too massive a challenge in a country like india and that is not the be much more difficult to pull off that is also consulted on the timeline it's meant making sure to be back on a 2nd goal was following up on observations of the people who get the vaccinations and of course preventing recent. correspondent michelle for us there in delhi really appreciate it misha thank you. let's take

a look now at some other international stories japan is considering declaring a new covert 19 emergency after a record surge in cases the governors of tokyo and 3 nearby prefectures urged the national government to call a state of emergency to stem the spread of the virus the government says it must 1st consult with health experts. french police have been recording the details of revelers leaving an illegal new year's eve party in the western region of brittany some 2 and a half 1000 people from france and abroad attended the rave it was held in violation of a nationwide curfew and ban on gatherings and continued until saturday morning. iran says it plans to store it enriching uranium to 20 percent at one of its nuclear facilities the move would exceed the threshold set by the iran nuclear agreement tensions between tehran and washington have mounted since u.s. president donald trump pulled out of the international deal back in 2018. the

united states has delivered a major rebuke to donald trump with just weeks left in his presidency republican and democrat senators came together to override the president's veto of a major defense bill the vote passed by more than the required 2 thirds majority in follows a similar bipartisan motion in the house of representatives it's the 1st time congress says overridden a veto the move unlocks more than $700000000000.00 worth of military spending. correspondent oliver sal it centers to discern dates from washington a humiliating blow for donald trump on the last days off his presidency and it's also a 1st because never before has congress overridden a veto or trumped since he took office and that's particularly important because the republican hold a majority in senate that has been extremely partisan throughout all times

presidency just think of the impeachment proceedings about a year ago where a lot of damaging material was produced against still the republicans and senate back to him eventually exonerated donald trump now it looks like the tides have changed the republicans in senate approved a defense bill against the will of the all trump and then also challenges donald trump's plans to pull out some 1236000 u.s. troops that are currently stationed in germany that plan is effectively put on hold no meaning another blow for donald trump now the big question the big overarching question is what is happening with the republican party right now and how we seeing the republican support for donald trump beginning to crumble. switching gears now here in football germany shaka will be hoping to end a run of $29.00 games without a win when they face or berlin later today they're on target to set an unwanted

record the longest winning streak in the bundesliga the current holders of that title or burley in team called manya who set the record back the 1960 s. and despite the negative connotations tasmania are not keen to relinquish their place in history i was money a bellino known throughout germany for $1.00 thing the disastrous $96566.00 season the cup went $31.00 matches without a win in the campaign the bundesliga record they also hold the record for the fewest goals scored in a season and the most goals conceded i thought form a player that's a beca says the small club is still proud to this day of competing for that one season in the bundesliga. and i can say that we were of course proud to play at least one season in the honestly sometimes just to meet the expectations and also to never disappoint and to eventually realize when the opponent was simply

better than us i'm through i can and being a bit. but now their winless record is in danger of falling current bundesliga side shall cut doing their best to use up. they haven't won in 21 matches for the 7 time german champions it's an embarrassing predicaments. it's a threat to their identity to become surprisingly attached to this undesirable record and don't want to take a make lorry. maybe it would be portable that tried to break this record but i can't imagine that we did it in one season and tried to do it over the truth season so there's a. competitor for us through the. shell to have just 2 games to save their reputation with a victory. their biggest cheerleader will be. they want their record as the bundesliga worst ever team to stand i well don't forget you can always get the news

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a young woman tells her story. is battling the long term effects of covert 9 tain when she became sick in march she had few symptoms but it's now devastated her life. but because. i only became gravely ill months later in june. at the time i thought that everything would eventually be fine but things didn't improve i was extremely ill for many many weeks which turned into months and i never got better. piccy is one of 40 close good survivors here suffering from long term effects of the illness but germany's baltic sea coast their symptoms are being treated at a rehabilitation center. after the virus piggie felt burnt out she suffered from

dizzy spells and chronic pain. the cognitive i'm seeing in some cases i also had cognitive difficulties like my head wasn't functioning properly i couldn't hear had poor vision and couldn't follow conversations well. often covert patients like peggy say their concerns aren't being taken seriously by the doctors. it's very difficult for some doctors to understand when they look at me i look healthy physically i'm reasonably strong at least i appear to be and then you get dismissed very quickly they say her mind is not ok. i'm not afraid but i still wonder if i will ever be the same again.

as a coded survivor peggy has officially recovered from the illness but she says it feels like corona virus has stolen her healthy body and left her with a sick one in its place. the world is just falling apart because of the pandemic right now at the moment life is dramatically different for everyone. i think i'll be a different person than i was before. says that's ok. peggy grant has 3 more weeks of rehab ahead of her. all she wants to do is get back to a normal life again. according to experts more than 1000000 people mostly beakers are being held in detention camps in motion john region in china despite this faux falcon is the only major car manufacturer

that has a factory there. a room key the capital of china's western shin jang province home to we goes and other michelin minority this is one of the most heavily policed regions in the world china's repressive policies against ethnic minorities have been called a genocide by some a room key is also home to german carmaker folks flagons most controversial investment v.w. is the only international car maker to have a plant in the region. we made the decision to build this factory more than 10 years ago it was a decision made solely for economic reasons there was no political motivation the fact there is no in a politically and socially sensitive environment worries us. china has covered the region with a massive system of prisons internment centers and reeducation camps australia's e.s.p. i instituted has documented 380 facilities across the region hundreds of thousands

possibly millions have disappeared in these facilities. on a recent visit i was constantly followed around and stopped from throwing some of the facilities are official prisons some are unmarked and some are cynically designated as vocational training centers. some are kind a cause that born in china has spent several months in one of the so-called vocational schools and 20. what they had to learn there had little to do with professional skills he says. we make it in this camp we had to sing in the chinese anthem and other communist songs. they taught us that china was the strongest country in the world and we had to study materials about the 19th communist party congress. that's in there what was. china is portraying the master tensions as a means to provide opportunities on the job market but there is growing evidence of forced labor inside the camps or after release and former detainees have been

forced to sign up with employment agencies v.w. says there's no indication of forced labor in its operations a lot of you act here but we hire all our employees directly they send their resume and we have a job interview and then the hate charge department and the operating department make a decision based on the resume and the impression they gave me what has happened to them before is something that is hard for us to know all this stuff that's yes is through extreme shriya and after footy v.w. says it will stick to its investment but the control this is likely to remain economically w.'s investment never paid off instead of planned $50000.00 vehicles a year it so is below 20000. in kenya terminating pregnancies is only permitted under specific circumstances every day women die as a result of illegal abortions and aid organization is trying to improve the

situation. we call her mercy but that's not her real name she was 16 when she fell pregnant she was scared because she knew her mother would not allow her to keep the baby her mother forced her to have an abortion now for fear of repercussions nursy hides her face. i went to a local medicine man i stayed there for 3 days he gave me herbal medicine and i took it and. then on the 2nd day i started seeing blood and i was very afraid. there are people who were aboard and they seemed fine and that i thought i would die. the she was lucky many girls and women don't survive such ordeals it's estimated that in kenya 7 women die each day from unsafe abortions like the one mercy had marginalized and poor women are

especially vulnerable such as those here in the month or islam abortions are illegal in kenya there are only a few strict exceptions women cannot simply go to the nearest hospital for help instead they come to this man he's well known for carrying out abortions along with other procedures even though he has no medical training he's respected in his community as a christian medicine man for people who can't afford hospital treatment. merci says she came to him too she paid the equivalent of 8 year olds for the abortion we ask the man directly he denies performing abortions but still wants to hide his identity you're going to keep going you know if you do it in the government finds you you'll be jailed and i refuse that nevertheless he knows exactly how an abortion is done i'm not. given an injection drug unless sent home the pregnancy can terminate there many of these women die if there are lucky they do

die if they're lucky the pregnancy terminate safely it's usually bad however if. you assign them by that's why in most cases the women need professional help after the abortion international aid organization marries stopes office around the clock help for women who can't afford hospitalization there but good for much experiences and therefore we're finally put in that we start with the counseling part we also offer emergency treatment which includes. we give you a to about 6 pain killers and even sometimes you have to stick it to theatre if the injuries that have happened to the will of course mercy would have preferred to have seen a real doctor 3 years later she's still suffering from the traumatic experience i mean is a similar to i would save someone wants to get an abortion they should go to a hospital. because those men will just give you some kind of medicine and then

tell you when the pregnancy has been terminated they only want your money in the end you are the one who has to suffer in a battle. despite the stigma she faces from her community she thinks every woman should have the right to a safe abortion. the white stork which is native to germany flies each year from europe to south africa and back. many of them avoid the route over the mediterranean and take a pit stop in the jordan valley. time for break for flocks of white storks in the jordan valley and the occupied west bank at dawn on you thought of just yasi leshem is up early to observe the birds at this huge garbage dump twice a year distorts navigate their way thousands of kilometers from europe to southern africa and back israel and the palestinian territories are like

a bottleneck they're one of the main micro tare routes for millions of birds. because they avoid to fly over their mediterranean so we are like a highway because circulation between 3 called good herds so we are lucky to have effect 600000 stalks twice a year over year although almost all the world population of words talks about how the $50000.00. $6000.00 or so we are lucky to be at their best high rate of the job would still. rather than taking the shorter route over the many terrain in like smaller birds stalks fly over land to catch up board streams of warm air pockets to write a thermos to conserve energy. the landfill is like a pit stop for the storks to just stay for the night to rest to feed and gather

strength before setting off on the next leg. but in the last 10 years they know to look for. places where you're catch a fish but for garbage that of course they have plastic bags and stuff like that which is of course dangerous but they go where they have these before although bird migration happens twice every year it still amazes us who studies to birds for decades unlike most humans to storks don't need g.p.s. to arrive at their destination it's time for this truck to take off every day they fly between 302500 kilometers next stop the egyptian sinai before they continue their exhausting journey towards their winter home in southern africa.

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