this 300000000 initial order from biotech pfizer now of course buying them is only part of the problem you also have to ship them and store them and with this vaccine in particular this is been a problem because of course it has to be shipped and stored in ultra cold conditions so that has created some problems and backups in getting the shots from the initial purchase into the arms of the public the european union the regulators have also allow doctors to draw up to 6 doses from each single vial of the virus in made by bone type why is this important that's right and this just came out today that the european medicines agency says that 6 doses are available in each vial now i looked into this before coming on the air and it would of course be immediately very dramatic if we thought we could be vaccinating 6 times the number of people but it turns out that that people minister in the vaccine already knew

that 5 doses were available in each vial so in fact what the e.m.e.a. is saying is that there is actually most likely a 6 available dose in each bottle if you use a very specific syringe and needle combination so while every additional dose is of course a very significant this does not mean that we can. increase by 6 the number of doses available but it does mean that there may be an additional single dose available in each of these vials. has been called the vaccination process how is it going in general. well as we've just mentioned in this single. session it has come under a lot of criticism for being too slow to buy an insufficient number of doses and then too slow to actually get these vaccinations in hand not all of that can be blamed on the european commission the production facilities of course need to step

up and they are doing this as fast as they can but there is a new controversy coming up and that is specifically related to germany it emerges that while germany was president of the european council the 2nd half of last year and urging all countries to negotiate their purchases through the european commission and all of them did agree to do that on the side germany went ahead and purchased additional vaccines just for germans and this is something that we've now spent hours discussing here in brussels this week whether germany broke the rules that it in fact was responsible for for negotiating and the european commission and ursula vanderlei and her herself have been quite tight lipped about this vanderlei and reinforced today that all e.u. governments should go through the european commission in precursor to curing their vaccines so this is something we haven't heard the end of yet socials in brussels

thank you. tess from the coronavirus have reached a new peace here in germany despite a nationwide lockdown the public health agency says that we're just on the 1200 covert related deaths in the last day and almost 2000 new cases that's just below the previous peak in december health ministry official says the government has agreed preliminary deals with 2 german vaccine supply was included biotech for $50000000.00 extra doses in the summer. well to talk some more about this when i was joined by dr johnson's he's the head of germany's critical can emergency medicine association so he answers what's the impact on german hospitals looking at these new record figures you know that hasn't changed much in the last few days we are still on the higher pressure but fortunately the numbers of cover 19 patients at the moment do not increase or the

very slight decrease of coverage 19 patients in germany has used but overall there's a high load and this is a result of high infection rates over the last 2 months and we fear that people still come in with infection because they get on christmas eve they come together on new year's eve and that will perhaps add to the load but numbers are still very high what's the impact on german hospitals look at these record figures if you must know and that is well known that over and between christmas eve and new year's eve there were only a few tears because the g.p.s. closed their offices and all the officials didn't measure so many tests so that today this high number may be the result of additional testing which was now

done in the last few days so i still and we still hope that in the coming 2 weeks there will be the slide to decrease although just as i mentioned christmas time and new year's eve will add perhaps on the load of infection rates so surgeons 1000 new cases per day we have locked down after lockdown but germany does not seem to have a grip on the pandemic does it. yes but if you look at the situation before christmas in november december the light looked down didn't break and we started with the hard lock down just before christmas but i think all the family meetings and all the coming together with friends will have had a lot and if you look at the scenes of when to brick when the people when seeing and so on that was quiet depressing to see there although everybody says tried

to stay away from each other the people who just came together and i think this will perhaps add to this at the moment not so good situation with infection rates i'm quite sure about that so what do you think is needed then to ease pressure on hospitals and decrease infections as well as. stricter lockdown i think it's inevitable to stick to the measures we are taking and i think we please everybody to stick to the recommendations to the age 82 to keep distance social distance but also physical distancing and to where the mouth and nose. face mask is and does at that moment the only measure we can recommend and we hope that the states in germany will keep to the recommendation that not every state now stars on illusions the recommendations of

the chancellor merkel and minister presidents and set a few days ago. off a journal critical can the medicine mess in association thank you very much for the time i thank you so much. coming up later in the show how doctors are improvising in order to save lives in south africa where a deadly 2nd wave of covert 19th is raging out of control. first let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this is spectate mastermind of the 2002 bali bombings that killed more than 200 people has been released from an indonesian prison authorities as a cleric ababil karr bashir will now and at the radicalization program he was jailed in 2011 for his links to a militant training camp. heavy flooding in central malaysia turned roads into rivers local media say at least 4 people have died tens of thousands to leave

their homes the emergency response is being hampered by malaysia's soaring coronavirus. make a boeing will pay $2.00 and a half $1000000000.00 to settle a u.s. justice department probe into 2 of 2 crashes of its 737 marks alanah the accidents in indonesia and ethiopia killed 346 people and led to the aircraft being grounded globally the settlement includes compensation to allen's money for victims' families and a fine. to the u.s. now where president don will trump has finally acknowledged that he will be handing over power to joe biden the outgoing officeholder has conceded after an attempt at insurrection and 2 months on from the presidential election in a twitter video from condemned the rioters who stormed the capitol this week calling it a heinous attack

a police officer has died of his injuries following clashes with approach. a couple of days too late fresh fortifications around the u.s. capitol building after an angry mob invaded the altar of american democracy. those who attacked journalists. and police and now being attacked by their leader who himself is under intense fire the demonstrators who infiltrated the capital have defiled the seat of american democracy to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country and to those who broke the law you will pay we have just been through an intense election and emotions are high but now tempers must be cooled and calm we store truck stop short of actually conceding defeat his statement

contrast it with those prior to the storming where he urged attendees to fight to overturn the election results doing we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen or shortly afterwards hundreds of people were marching through the halls of the capitol for protesters died in the chaos one of them of gunshot wounds and a police officer died from injuries inflicted in the melee. america's next president joe biden lays the ugly insurrection squarely at trump's feet you know unleashed. and all out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset and yesterday was but the culmination of that henri landed attack while some normalcy has returned to washington d.c. the city is clearly shaken even trump supporters in the capital were shocked by the violence what happened yesterday is just. i mean i am

a trump supporter they did. it with. we don't support that rid of them that we don't support them that is you know they they. overcame police and they overcame barricades that's not lot order and for some members of trump's cabinet wednesday's events also went too far several have since resigned including the transportation secretary and most recently education secretary betty davis. joined by peter by he's a lawmaker from the governing city and the coordinator of germany's transatlantic cooperation policies mr baez what do you make of the developments in washington of the past 2 days yeah we have seen an attack on the very democracy all that off the on the democratic structures the institutions and i don't think it's only

a national thing sent shock waves around the globe and i fear that it's not over yet. are you surprised by the simple. yes i well we've seen over the past 4 years especially because prompted by the rhetoric of rhetoric yesterday the folks what they did for us today it's really horrible some of this embolden right wing extremists here in europe do you agree. i don't think so i mean we have the concern is is there any of the right wing populist movements or is there throughout many european union countries we have them in germany in the parliament even and in other you member states as well we have to fight to counter that the best way to do that it's not true you know counter violence or something but by you know seeing and convincing people that democracy is the most attractive attractive model for societies of living together

we have to engage and we have to stand united both across the atlantic and within the european union. so what do you expect now from joe biden and terms of repairing the transatlantic relationship. you know with regard to the transatlantic relationship i think as i said earlier damage was done over the past 4 years to the to this really special relationship which is important for a future so we extract you know the restoring of trust for example one of the 1st things is doing away with steve in the room and taxes and being prepared for impishness negotiations and everything that has to do with trait but also engage in nato talks that is what we have to do together and within the nato alliance to modernize this very important organization and also we have to come to terms with our china upon it takes that is something we need to do and face transatlantic when

there is something we we want to where we want to engage with europeans. from the government. and so many many thanks for joining us here on news. the pandemic is hitting african nations hard especially south africa where case numbers have been surging since the start of this year is the worst affected country on the continent with more than a 1000000 cases w.'s oddly unfinished how small. this isn't a waiting room it's the treatment room for qubits patients at the hospital in khayelitsha one patient calls out to us to tell us she'd been sitting and waiting for 3 days waiting for beds to become free next door. recluses going to choose who we think will be good and distributed it. to. dr susan you can call it has been working here for 9 years and this pandemic is

pushing him to his limits the 3rd of his colleagues have already had the virus so how do you feel if he offered a little sometimes if you call it was going to be enough speeds sometimes we don't give enough oxygen when we need you for our use and you know it's the one point in the difficulty doing something you truly. do you 1st do it looks just so you should we just stop that sometimes you think it's. on average one person with coverts dies in the hospital every day there's a small room next door with somewhat better beds for acute patients waiting for an intensive care bed at another hospital. the local health minister at mit's that not everyone can get an i.c.u. bed most are already full if that doesn't 55 but then i see. that

remember i did it in my own i.c.u. and that is what it is but it was on fire so this is actually the waiting all the waiting area off the hospitals where people would normally wait for their treatment but you can see it. people with related issues emergencies being treated because they need the space. for potential cases. south africa meanwhile has reintroduced tougher lockdown measures there's a stricter mosque requirement alcohol sales are banned and beaches have been closed but police are overwhelmed with enforcing the rules. only patients over the age of 45 are now being tested at the state clinics the demand is overwhelming. here in viral load just both gun kaiser's laboratory every 2nd test is positive the peak of the 2nd wave is expected in south

africa in mid january but even after that experts anticipate further waves. i fear. that experiencing. some time into. the 20. will be able to make a big difference the government announced it is already in talks with the manufacturers but there are no details yet. however there is hope initial studies show that during the 1st wave up to 40 percent of residents will already infected and possibly even immune social distancing remains impossible for many here. dr cole and his team they are forced to bracing for a tough few weeks ahead of them. the european union says it will help fund accommodation for thousands of migrants living without shelter and. foreign

affairs chief joseph says 3500000 euros will alleviate completely unacceptable conditions bosnia is not an e.u. member but it borders on. which is part of the union human rights groups say migrants often suffer rough encounters with gratian police including beatings and being forced back into bosnia that's a charge for asian authorities denied nearly $9000.00 migrants estimated to be in bosnia more most are from afghanistan pakistan or syria more than a 3rd are living without any shelter many were left homeless when a camp in libya was evacuated on december 23rd of the bosnian authorities failed to prepare the camp for winter the army has set up a new tents but n.g.o.s say more permanent shelter is needed to have used marina strauss reports. asked for comments angry and he's not the only one of feels that

way going on a year in tempe is up but yes they are guys that same problem they are suffering a lot of us men tells us he was forced to leave his home in pakistani controlled kashmir 2 years ago due to conflict in the region now he's one of several 1000 migrants and refugees here in bosnia-herzegovina right at the doorstep of the european union most of them have only one goal answering the e.u. us mint has tried several times to reach crazy but says he was always violently pushed back by border guards we had a human being we want to live we have a family there are guys not i'm not giving it another terrorist we don't have a gun we had a very pleasant aftermath is now stuck here in camp which made headlines just before christmas when it was 1st cleared and then burned down these damaged bank beds are a minder of what happened since then people here have mostly had to fend for

themselves some are collecting rain water to drink. we're not allowed to enter at this camp police told us they're just following new instructions from the government but they could not explain to us why journalists are not being permitted inside boston authorities have faced harsh criticism because of the appalling conditions the mayor of the nearby town of beotch suited fashion it's says the national government and the e.u. share the blame if you know on his parents so much money in my crises but the hatch has not received any any euro we have been dealing there on the door money with our resources european union on. should treat migron crises as a european problem as a global problem the e.u. says it is helping for example by sending a former ref. shelter in be hutch but after repeated protests it was closed down in

september and replaced by kempley some residents of the house are still gathering here every day because they fear that a migrants could move back in. they said to us that we are our sister we are not us is 3 years we suffering and helping that people they don't want to stay in bosnia they just want to go to the border in europe and dear europe open the border take them this is what many and can bleep are hoping for as well but for now they have to cope with the little they have. last year march 26th seen as the hottest on record according to the news climate change agency that's despite a dip in emissions and 2020 caused by lockdowns extreme weather events could become more intense and more frequent as temperatures rise scientists say the need for action is more urgent than a. fine is eat up

a large swathes of the straightly in bush land in areas left tender dry by drought dozens of people and millions of animals died in the blazes at the turn of last year. but these images were no peculiarity in 2020. month after month other parts of the earth burned or melted in record breaking heat. the cumulative effects of human made climate change. the state of the bread the broken. your friends humanity is waging war on nature these suicide all. the pandemic lockdowns caused a temporary dip in greenhouse emissions but that did not stop 2020 becoming the hottest year on record tied with 2016 scientists are calling on governments

and corporations to slash emissions to have any chance of meeting the goals of the paris climate agreement aim to survive catastrophic climate change. every year and. to reduce them on the rich and reducing them are actually arguing about. with extreme weather events likely to become more intense and more frequent as temperatures rise the need for action is more urgent than ever and experts say the crisis caused by the global pandemic presents a rare opportunity for countries to rebuild their economies to work for all of nature not just humans. you're watching news that's it from me the world you see in a fall now don't go away though coming up next eco india looking alternatives to

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