the president goes on the line speaking ben now we're joined by political correspondent. reduction of vaccine deliveries what more do we know so we heard from the german health ministry that pfizer communicated the news to the e.u. commission who then forwarded the message to e.u. member states germany expects a reduction in the delivered vaccine doses by pfizer over the next 34 weeks the cause of this delay is that all vaccine doses produced for countries outside of the u.s. are all manufactured in pfizer's plant in belgium now this plant has to be upgraded so that the production can be increased and that means a delay over the next 34 weeks in a reduction in doses now we don't know exactly how much a reduction that will be and germany however expects that the next delivery planned

for monday january 18th will go ahead as planned and the reduction will start after that the heart of the german government react so germany's health ministry made known that they received the news very last minute and that it wasn't expected so we see some surprise also within the german government the health ministry said that they regret the news especially because pfizer had promised binding dates for deliveries until mid february and germany has asked the commission and pfizer to give more clarity as soon as possible as to what this reduction means in concrete terms how many fewer doses will germany receive. that's double the consequences will it be possible to replace the expected supplies maybe with a different vaccine. so pfizer has promised that the doses that were meant to be delivered by the end of the 1st quarter of 2021 will be delivered but if overall

the doses will remain the same this could mean some delay in the vaccination process over the next few weeks because we will see fewer doses coming in now germany at the moment has vaccinated just over 960000 people and. some of the doses that are coming into germany that is more than what has been administered are being set aside to be administered as the 2nd job that makes the vaccine fully effective but germany has also been criticized for the vaccination process being too slow and so we've seen the vaccination process picking up over the last few days this could mean that fewer those could mean a slowdown of the vaccination process w. political correspondent julia saw daily thank you julia. the global death of the

pandemic about to pass 2000000 governments are coming under ever greater pressure to get infections under control despite its elevating vaccination programs the covert 19 death toll shows little sign of easing new and more transmissible variants of the virus are being blamed cross the world authorities are tightening 2nd lock downs but mostly without much success. brazil has the world's 2nd highest coronavirus death toll more than 200000 people have died so far in the early stages of the pandemic president also narrow was widely criticized for playing down the dangers of the virus and indeed he became infected himself lockdowns have so far failed to reverse rising case numbers and the authorities in one city in central brazil admit that its health care system has collapsed the ambulances keep on coming. they bring a relentless stream of coronavirus patients to the hospitals in the brazilian city

of monologist. manaos is the capital of amazonas a state hit particularly hard by the pandemic overburdened hospitals are now running out of their most vital supply oxygen this growing shortage is costing lives. i'm all yours my grandmother died today because of lack of oxygen there were 21 patients in the intensive care unit and my grandmother who is 84 years old didn't survive she needed 15 leaders of oxygen and didn't get it. the. protesters are blocking roads and picketing hospitals they're angry at the government and demand answers. some of you know i've been here since 9 am and seen just how desperate people are i don't even know how to explain what's happening in our country and in our state it's unacceptable for there to be

a lack of oxygen. and there is absolutely no explanation for this. safe because all the government has responded by flying in additional supplies to the embattled state the shortage has given rise to a new type of crime. police footage shows oxygen cylinders that had been illegally withheld to drive up the price. amazonas has been here before last year's dramatic images of mass graves carved into the rain forest shocked the world. brazil's health minister blames local authorities for the crisis. no one knows did not have an effective action plan for early treatment with clinical diagnosis basic care and that has greatly impacted on the severity of the virus also the specialist care hospital infrastructure in manassas is quite small

in percentage terms. by the more modern. war but as the ambulances keep coming in a country 2nd only to the us in corona virus deaths there is plenty of blame to go around. a powerful earthquake in indonesia has killed at least 42 people and injured hundreds more the quake struck late at night on the island of so the ways in damaging many buildings in and around the district capital. authorities fear more victims are trapped in the rubble and they're warning that strong aftershocks could trigger a tsunami. in the rubble rescuers look for victims and survivors the poor weather hampering the search the hardest hit city as in the mood you woke up to devastation following a 6.2 magnitude quake just after midnight the search for survivors is still under

way. and one of the. good deed being gutted by a partner of the search and rescue aging with as he has deployed 4 groups who have been sent to several locations in memory to safety. at the moment and we are still the evacuating and the victims. a survivor is pulled from the rubble of what's left of the local hospital as many as half the buildings in the new do city have either collapsed or all patia damaged and there are fears that more damage is still to come. moving on to look good you know because the epicenter is near the beach there's a possibility of underwater landslide. that's why this is still tsunami potential is the next aftershocks at the center is on the beach or near the coast. and even you.

for now many fearing the aftershocks are choosing to stay on high ground wondering if they'll have to go back to. some of the other stories making headlines around the world the ugandan opposition leader of all the wind says the military has quote taken control of his earlier he claimed victory in the country's presidential election alleged he has proof of fraud during voting results for president yoweri museveni at 62 percent wind trails with $21.00 final results are expected on saturday. u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined a $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus an economic recovery plan that includes more than $400000000000.00 to combat the pandemic directly by the goal is to speed up the delivery of vaccines and provide financial help to households struggling with

pandemics prolonged economic fallout. the ring of steel has been erected to protect washington d.c. as america profess for next weeks and over of power from the outgoing administration to the new team under president elect joe biden more than 20000 troops are standing by the f.b.i. is warning that pro trump x. extremists are planning more violent protests in all 50 states capitals the ws carolina as this special report from washington where residents of mixed feelings about the unprecedented security operation. you shall not pass that seems to be the message all around the capitol soldiers from the national guard have fled at this. first came the fence then the barricades were expecting our own 20000 soldiers from the national guard in washington d.c. on an operation day sam have arrayed lined up behind me this city has never seen

something like that and people there are scared of the city is a completely. on inauguration day one dangerous too dangerous scary you are supposed to be. you know civilization the markers he. recalled. is a creek that they've done since wednesday is definitely needed and i do feel better about it but i think that the brightest still there at the current is shaky i just want to make sure that this time that they're actually doing their job to protect the city as opposed to you know they are prepared like lester. behind the fence it's all hands on deck. and soldiers from 11 states have arrived in washington d.c. they are organizing their equipment checking their weapons and getting ready in case violence returns to the city. they still don't know for how long they will

stay deployed here. but the ones who spoke to us say they are proud to be here and to defend their democracy. but it's also a logistical challenge. for now their wait this might look like a military base but we're actually in the heart of the capitol building the soldiers are racing here they're having lunch and they're getting prepared for generally trying to inauguration day. nobody knows what awaits. the faults seal bear signs of last week's riots. they are not untrue or. perpetrator. or perpetrators. and now they are here to fix it.

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community development reliable food and water. the united nations development program is listening and working with communities to protect forests for the future we want if you're hearing what we're hearing find. one of our most basic human needs 6. coronaviruses make something as simple as a hug to. interact with people and having touch and without that right now you know we're really at a loss so how can we get the physical intimacy we need experts have offered advice from who we should be doing it with to how we should be doing it for many of us sex

has become a burden for others a real problem. someone once told me means sexually frustrated desperate times call for desperate measures but which measures are the right ones is some advice from my colleague and sexpert kaz at the 77 percent to you to show for africa. because i could profit is crazy but what is it what's going on what's happening talk to me. honestly can't take it anymore josh is driving me crazy ok the tale was happening well you know we've been together for like almost a yemeni and everything was going great but once the lockdown started things just started to change with him especially after he lost his job. sounds like you grieving and i can't imagine what you're going through is easy but i see what you're doing if you're just saying i've tried and tried to make him comfortable about the situation i'm still able to cover the bill. i just don't get it he's

become so desperate and he sits in front of the t.v. all day we haven't had sex in months. i just don't know what to do more have you tried having an open conversation with him because he didn't tell me why do you have what you think you have dr bob. that's a tough one but also quite common i mean i think josh might be depressed. maybe a form of intervention might get someone professionally preferably come to use that have a conversation between the 2 view you know because you know some men struggle to open up because they think it makes them look we can we have the patriarchy to thank for that maybe you feel like you can no longer act as the provider which also traditionally is expected of men. but he needs to learn that he still has that you'd like given time and opportunity to heal i think that's the best you can do but what if nothing changes oh only if you refuse to listen then it's on you you

have to decide if it's the kind of environment you want to foster relationship is going to happen next time things go tough you need to take care of your own mental health too. i suppose that makes. but what about those say x. rays in the. last year my rapist is. totally normal to the effect gray would have separate from depression believe me but we patient with you know but in the meantime you can meet your own me. ok ok ok that make that that ok enough about me how about you that when you do really oh i'm going late. for such a raquel pill joins us from my hometown brisbane raquel good to see you there tell me is your best sexual partner yourself during these difficult times. fully depends on you a single person looking for someone you are or are you already in

a relationship so if you're single what you reckon well you just single then you've really got to consider the safety issues we've depend emic so i guess for me it doesn't necessarily mean that you why your best partner if i want to have sex with someone i would be wanting to have that conversation about safety have they been checked for coronavirus would they consider getting checked prior to engaging in sexual activity but isn't that something that will scare people away. look when it comes to love and relationships anything with care is a way for willing to go away but i think you feel if this is something that you want i think that conversation is warranted if the same conversation around safe sex wearing condoms we need to have that conversation what about what the terrence higgins trust advised in the u.k. back in august last year to avoid kissing where

a face covering and choose positions that are face to face during sex that sounds a little complicated. it really does and i think it the 5 that i would give is have a conversation it's a lot more logical to talk about safety to be open with your partners around whether you've been tested around the really you would consider being tested it does considerations to avoid intimacy that's just not feasible it's not something that we can as human beings do for too long we aren't truly clean much better to connect and i think the better advice is let's connect in a safe manner how long is it healthy to abstain from sex. look i don't have that number for you i would just say look again as humans we are intrinsically motivated to do it so being told that we can't do it i don't think that's the right thing the right thing would be how do we do it raquel what about cybersex

why not seem to see it the key element is intimacy we can be intimate online so i think that's a good alternative especially for couples to have been separated by the pain that make to keep up the intimacy i would say online sex but also conversation so it's a way to keep connected any i have actually heard from people who have been kept apart the found other ways to connect that their relationship actually got better how how how did it get better can you give me some examples yet if you go better because well one they had to be a little bit more creative with how they connected why isn't it just sex but also communication and in that human occasion they were able to tell each other what they like and don't like and sometimes in that when we act together in the heat of sex when we might not be a particular minicab all we want but in that online environment they had an opportunity to communicate and say well i like this i don't like that moron couples

lots of couples are in crisis right now it's a pressure cooker scenario how can you save a relationship in times like these. yeah it's look couples who are in conflict right now are couples who already had conflict in their relationship and because of the pain that makes those conflicts sort of came to surface one thing that i often say is to watch for the ratio of interaction that you have with your partner so it should be a ration between $5.00 to $1.00 so for every one negative thing they did if interaction that you have of your pattern then you need 5 positive interactions so that balance tractions of your panna finke about how you communicate with them meaning that instead of using you statements so you don't you days or you make me upset about this use i statements talk about yourself and how you few turn things around so you can address conflict. can you just leave us with one more piece of

advice that will get us through this crisis make us perhaps a little less frustrated yeah one piece of advice. i think. i think is safety is the feeling that it's about the rain bothering you have a conversation with your partner about safety i often hear people talk to me about how how do i be safe how do i change things have a conversation for what it is to be safe change of regime if need be because if you are going to be locked down you need to start communicating a lot more you know different health feel thank you very much for joining us today a look at some of the numbers now and we're around the 2000000 mark of officially record cover deaths worldwide that's according to figures from the johns hopkins university the united states accounts for nearly one in 5 dates globally as you can see them it's followed by brazil and india mexico and the you kate.

and looking at the countries with the highest proportion of deaths in a population san marino has more than 1900 deaths per 1000000 belgium is next and slovenia easily and both india and heads of government. questions on the coronavirus of a 2 hour science correspondent derek buds. should pregnant women get these new vaccine. i've often been asked how dangerous covert 19 can be for a pregnant woman or her unborn baby and i've talked about that topic a few times over the last 10 months but i've never discussed this aspect of it whether trying to prevent catching the disease could pose

a danger so so let's look at what reliable sources are saying about vaccines and pregnancy i think the most important thing to be aware of is that we just don't have as much information on pregnant women receiving approved covert 19 vaccines as we do for other groups because women who knew they were pregnant weren't included in the large scale trials that led to emergency vaccine approvals of course so women became pregnant in the course of those trials and i found no reports indicating that they or their unborn babies suffered any ill side effects attributable to a vaccine candidate but the fact is we still simply know less about what might happen to a pregnant woman being vaccinated then we do about other groups so so so that's quite rightly causing health care authorities to to adopt a conscious approach the general consensus among leading organizations including

the w.h.o. and the c.d.c. is that there's still just not enough evidence to recommend covert 19 back scenes to pregnant women on a wide scale but they also make exceptions for women at increased risk of exposure for example frontline health care workers those women made. consider being vaccinated after talking to an expert about everything we know so far about covert 19 and pregnancy that's because we also know that pregnant women are in more danger of developing severe forms of the disease if they catch it if women from those high exposure groups choose to be vaccinated and agreed to be tracked in their data will flow into further studies which should in the near future tell us a lot more about any possible dangers many experts currently seem optimistic though

that the benefits of vaccines will outweigh any risks for pregnant women too but the jury is still out. thanks for watching stay safe and see you next week.

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