no absolutely not off the days of silence he finally made his public statements in person before departing the plane to allen more taxes and he told the white house press corps what we just heard that you once know widens when referring to the days leading up to inauguration him but on the other side he also said. the possible 2nd impeachment would be which funds which would be possibly cost may have island so it's the opposite of kind of really trying to come this country down. he also had a big tech in his sights. yeah well you know instead of really taking responsibility for the actions we keep blamed big tank for the anger as office supporters indeed saying that.

a cow and his accounts being suspended were the reason why we might see more violence in this country. so it didn't come as likely to further insight action from his followers. well we don't know you know i mean now he kind of was calling for calm but we also know that he's changing his mind and mood very fall so we shall see what he says once he has landed in alamo we definitely will follow these developments as well very closely i mean it's really hard to say what what what is in his mind he has been really caught off and what we learn is that he is really really anger because his twitter account was shut down so everything is possible possible over the next hours

in this poll in washington thank you. well let's take a look at some of the stories making news around the world thought your bank will no longer do business with donald trump and his companies after last week's storming of the u.s. capital that's according to the new york times and bloomberg the trump organization has been a major client of deutsche bank with about $340000000.00 in outstanding lives. uganda's opposition frontrunner bobbie why it has warned of possible vote rigging in this week's presidential election the singer turned politician is the main challenger to long time leader your rumors of any new seeking a 6th term authorities are voted internet providers to shut down social media ahead of thursday's poll. india supreme court has suspended the implementation of new agricultural laws that have led to widespread protests from farmers the court will form a committee to hear their grievances thousands of farms have been camped on the outskirts

of delhi for weeks they say the last benefit large private buyers at their expense . spends grappling with record low temperatures after the heavy snow falls for half a century temperatures have plunged to minus $25.00 degrees celsius in areas and gives to extreme winters all sources are urging people to stay indoors to avoid straining hospitals already busy with coffee 19 patients. and several gorillas at san diego zoo have tested positive for coverage 19 of the 1st known case of transmission to apes infection came from a member of the park's wildlife care team who also tested positive the result of most humans close relatives. the drugs maker astra zeneca has applied for authorization for its coronavirus vaccine to be used in the in the european union if approved the drug developed with oxford university would become 3rd available for the e.u. after those from pfizer biotech and maternal the european medicines agency says

it's accelerating its up. procedure and the decision could be ready by the end of the month. meanwhile premier of the german state of bavaria has raised the possibility of mandatory vaccinations for staff in nursing homes the call comes as many medical professionals in the country are openly questioning whether to get inoculated despite the economic tiff proximity to danger w. reported tessa vowed to visit the hospital in burley to find out why putting on his protective gear before entering the room of a covert patient diverting for intensive care no sebastian schmidt he has been working with corona patients for months now and knows homeport need is to protect himself when coming into contact but an even better protection would be the corporal and jab. we see. every day i see people dying from corona

i see how patients are suffering how seriously do they become because of this virus that's why i would definitely like to be vaccinated against it this is the horse most people conclude are going in for nasa and i also find that i have a duty of care towards the public and of who will lift. but not all doctors and nurses in germany share this opinion. in common is not against vaccination in general but when it comes to the corona she says she would rather wait and see. how it could m.s.f. i'm still very cautious when it comes to the vaccines i'm still of the defrayed of it because it hasn't been around for a very long time so i can't say right now i'm 100 percent convinced of it on the website. skepticism about the jab is apparently not rare in december a survey of the german society for intensive care medicine t.v.

show that one in 4 doctors and one in 2 nurses do not want to get vaccinated against the corona virus but according to devi that might have changed now that the vaccination process started health minister. has appealed to nurses and doctors once again. that's why i can only keep calling for health care workers to get vaccinated not only out of a sense of responsibility for themselves but also for those they care for and treat infant doesn't. more information about the corona vaccination is there for plan to be provided and more information is also what nurse vivian kaufman would like to see with that she says she would probably be totally convinced. here are some of the latest developments in the pandemic the german tabloid newspaper built as the chancellor i'm going to battle

a told her party to expect another 8 to 10 weeks of tough coronavirus restrictions germany has received its 1st supplies of the madonna vaccine $2000000.00 doses should be available by the end of march the world health organization is warning that herd immunity will not be achieved globally by the end of this year even if vaccine makers increase production and malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency suspending parliament until august the 2 week partial lockdown is about to begin. indonesian navy divers have recovered the flight data recorder from the wreckage of the airliner that crashed on saturday the device was found on the seabed north of jakarta divers are still searching for the cockpit voice recorder officials hope information recovered from the devices will help to determine what caused the boeing 737 to come down 4 minutes after taking off from jakarta with 62 people on board there is no emergency call no reports of technical

problems. julian bray is an aviation accident investigator he joins us from cambridge in england welcome to day to you what will investigators learn from this data recorder. phil well what is happening now is that this is a recovery mission because unfortunately we're not going to be able to recover all rescue any passengers the plane went into the warsaw 4 minutes into its flight and about one minute to the sea and basically what's happened it's sent out of the sky about 10000 feet in under a minute so we are now looking at wreckage and specifically we need to find the flight data recorder and the flight voice recorder the black boxes now they've located but they've only brought one up to the surface so far. and what's what's on each of them. the one they haven't the moment is the flight data recorder

now this is an endless loop if you like and what didn't you don't recall every electrical signal that the plane is generated so if the pilot pushes about that will be recorded i think causes a lot of movement that will be recorded as well so the idea is this is on a timeline so they cannot cheat piece together when they get this box this black box back to the lab they can find out exactly what happened before it went down now that is half the story the other half of the story is the is the their voice recorder so mary that's not what the data and then you have a complete what was happening i don't was saying and what the atmosphere was like on board the aircraft and it's had a working theory at the moment about the likely cause of this crash there's a lot of speculation around this was

a 28 year old aircraft but it is possible it safety checks the things said $37500.00 this is not the max series that have problems but this is a good old work hole so it's. been maintained a while and frankly there are no concerns or issues with this chick brand cruft so really we have to find out what's happening here we cannot rule out sabotage there could have been a catastrophic event. which calls the aircraft to fall out of the sky so all this will be investigated by the investigators and they will try and do recover as much of the fuselage as possible to reassemble it and try and work out exactly what happened but all the people all waiting for news but just to be clear you say we can rule out sabotage nothing at the moment to point in that direction. nothing

yeah equally congregate in you cannot rule it out but you have to consider why did this aircraft fall out of the sky drop 10000 feet in less than minutes. not go as just went straight down into the sea so that is what they'll be looking at. to thank you that's very clear aviation accident investigator julian pray. it's bold new england patriots coach bill belichick has announced that he will not accept the presidential medal of freedom from donald trump as the bellatrix as a longtime friend of the president and the 6 time super bowl winning coach he said he's turning down the country's highest civilian honor after last week's sage of the u.s. capitol he said he was flattered but that his love for the country outweighs the benefits of an individual award. stunt reminder of our top story u.s. president donald trump has dismissed allegations that he incited last week's rice

the u.s. capitol building in which several people died speaking in washington d.c. the friend of the speech he gave before violence broke out as totally appropriate and to criticize renewed efforts by democrats to impeach him. that's it you're up to date news africa is next i'll be back at the top of the out for the day. after. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update coming 19. on t w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most successful in radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech

a good engine and sustainable charcoal production all of a sow's are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now. the corona virus keeps evolving. 5 as it spreads its mutating taking on new characteristics that can make it harder to fight. variants found in south africa and the u.k. a more contagious straining health services. this mutation has led to more cases than we've seen ever before numbers that can't be explained away by the rise in testing. japan is trying to isolate

a new variant from brazil there's no proof any of them are any deadly but the virus is constantly changing and could eventually make vaccines less effective. or watching evolution take place right in front of our eyes the new coronavirus is doing everything it can to survive becoming clever at jumping from host to host the hope is that where doing everything we can to survive many big economies are back in lockdown including south africa. this isn't a waiting room it's the treatment room for coffin 19 patients at the hospital in kiley. one patient calls out to tell us she's been sitting and waiting for 3 days waiting for a bed to become free next door he's going. to see going to do we think there will be that undistributed. who will. talk to susan mccann colet has been working here for 9 years but the pandemic is pushing him to

his limits a 3rd of his colleagues here have already had the virus. how do you feel the office though that sometimes if you forward it who's going to do not speak from from we don't give enough if you don't want anything you've already you know it's a 1.23 difficulty doing something you're through. who do you 1st be able to do and you should with the thought that sometimes the 50. on average one person dies we've covered 19 in the hospital every day. there's a small room next door with somewhat better facilities for acute patients waiting for an intensive care bed at another hospital. but the local health minister admits the not everyone can get an i.c.u. bed most are already full hold it up that's in 55 but then i see.

that remember i did my own i.c.u. and that is what it is but in that house on fire. for south africans are battling a new more infectious variant of the virus the fast spread has led to tighter lockdown measures including a ban on alcohol sales and the closure of beaches the police are struggling with and forcing them. only patients over the age of 45 a. now being tested at the state clinics the demand is overwhelming. here in viral or just both gun prizes lub oratory every 2nd test is positive the peak of the 2nd wave is expected in south africa in mid january but even after that experts expect further waves i fear that neither the current enormous suge that we're experiencing know nor the arrival of a vaccine sometime in 2 halfway through to a g.

20 won't for small proportion of the population will be able to make a big difference. the government has said it's already in talks with vaccine manufacturers but there are no details yet. emma hold craft is a molecular epidemiologist how much hope should we be putting in these vaccines so the good news is that your body learns to recognise many parts of the virus when it's exposed to these vaccines or when you've been infected with sars kovi too so even if the virus changes a little bit the hope is your body will still learn to recognise it and be able to mount a really good protective response however it's going to take some time to get enough people vaccinated so that we can really see this impact on the number of cases and it's important to remember that most vaccines need 2 doses before they're fully effective so we really need people to keep using other non-pharmaceutical protections like hand washing and mask wearing and being aware aerosol transmission

until we're certain that the vaccines are helping us to keep the case numbers low but why all the concern then about these mutations considering that there is so slight the boss of buy and take told e.w. that there would be one percent and that wouldn't affect his vaccines effectiveness so why we also worried. i think one thing that is important to keep in mind is that a lot of the fear about vaccines is hypothetical certainly it's possible that the virus could change enough that your body doesn't recognize it anymore and then your protection could be impacted but until we have a reason to believe that some of these mutations are really having that effect on real people who've been vaccinated i think it's important to keep our worry a little bit in check now certainly there are some mutations that have some concerns from early studies but importantly these have all been done in the lab and it's very hard to predict what the impact of a lab study actually means in a full size human and a full sized population so i think until we really have evidence that these

mutations will impact vaccine efficacy we shouldn't be too worried what sort of time frame are we looking at i mean could it speed up the the rate of its mutations so luckily sars could be 2 has a pretty consistent mutation rate we actually call viruses mutations kind of clock like because there's so predictable in how often they happen so we don't expect the virus to mutate faster but one thing we do want to keep in mind is that while we have high case numbers where maximizing the viruses ability to explore different people different immune systems and maybe be put under interesting and unique selection pressures and this might mean that we see a new taishan start rising in prominence because it's been in one of these unique situations we can never completely eliminate that this might happen but clearly the fewer people that are getting infected the less room the virus has to play in these different environments and hopefully the last chance that we see

a mutation that would really rather nazi and imma tell me more about what we know about these mutations making people's antibodies less effective in neutralizing the virus. so there's been a few studies on some of the mutations that are found in both the 501 y. v $1.00 and $5.00 a one y. v 2 variants those are the variants predominantly found in the u.k. and in south africa and the news has been mixed here so what scientists do in these cases is they take the virus and then they expose it to what we call the say around the antibodies of people who've already had sars kovi to for some of these mutations it looks like there isn't any impact on how well those antibodies work for some of the other mutations in some cases it seems like it might reduce the efficacy but again these are for single mutations and oftentimes a few people sara so we really need to keep doing studies to find out not only how widespread might this affect to be but does this actually mean that it impacts the

your immunity in a full grown human rather than just in a petri dish and whether this is something we really need to be concerned about the example i tracing or sequencing has become so important. so i do think that one thing that these new variants of really brought to the fore is the importance of janov surveillance and sequencing we can only tell that a new variant might be responsible for a rise in cases if we have sequences that tell us that that virus has a different genetic makeup and importantly because that virus has this unique kind of fingerprint of mutations we can track how 1 it's spread around the world as well which is why we know that this u.k. and south african variants are in different places around the world this is really important as not only does it mean that we can identify variants and the mutations that might be impacting things like transmission we can also understand how the virus is spreading and whether we can protect countries from getting it or how we can contain it once it's there now the number of sicknesses countries are

generating is really different from country to country and it would be great to see a more concerted effort to make sure that we have regular sequences coming in from every country around the world and a whole group of molecular if you give me a logistic thank you very much for being on the show tonight. and let's bring in our science correspondent derrick williams he's been looking at your questions surrounding code 90. miles and visit the same households not always infected with the coronavirus after one member is infected. this is an aspect of the pandemic that puzzled scientists from the start you know it that kind of makes sense to to reformulate this question to something like if this is a novel pathogen that no one had ever been exposed to before then we should have all been equally likely to get it and to get it equally bad right mean especially in a shared space like a household but we apparently aren't one possible reason why is

that prior exposure to other coronaviruses might possibly lower risks for some people so their immune systems were maybe a little 4 armed then of course there are also plenty of people who are asymptomatic even when they do catch the disease they just appear for all intents and purposes to be healthy and they remain undetected even though they're carrying sars cove 2 and could maybe give it to others but we should also flip this question and look at the other half of the equation how contagious someone is so not how come some people don't catch the virus but instead why some of us seem to give it more easily to others there's some scientific consensus that for reasons that remain unclear a subgroup of people often called a super spreaders or super emitters could be driving most of the transmission

some experts think just 10 to 20 percent of people who catch covert 19 pass it along to up to 80 percent of all subsequent cases so. in other words if your spouse or your child has the higher a spot for whatever reason isn't a super spreader they're less likely to give it to you especially if you follow isolation protocols that said there is broad agreement that during lockdowns transmission still happens more within homes than anywhere else simply because sharing a household with someone who has copd at 19 increases your exposure so statistically at least you're still more likely to get it from a family member then you are from a stranger. finally the crisis continues to drive innovation has

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