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athlete. the program. $2000000.00 people have now died from covered 19 in just a year since the outbreak began governments around the world are racing to vaccinate their populations but have so far failed to stem the relentless a rise in deaths and infections by early march of last year as the virus began ravaging the northern italy the death toll crept past $5000.00 less than a month later that figure had surged to more than $50000.00 by september or 9 months after the disease was 1st detected deaths had reached

a 1000000 in just 4 months since then that number has doubled to the 2000000 figure we see today the u.s. brazil india and mexico have reported the most deaths there worldwide but the u.k. is fast catching up with almost 88000 germany which received praise for its handling of the 1st wave of this pandemic a seen deaths shooter panties now in 12 place with more than $45000.00 fatalities well brazil has the world's 2nd highest death toll it's more than 200000 covered deaths in the early stages of the pandemic present dr bowles an hour was widely criticized for playing down the dangers of the virus and indeed became infected himself so far lockdowns a failed to reverse rising infection numbers and the authorities in one city in central brazil now 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 mouth. and now it is the capital of amazonas a state hit particularly hard by the pandemic overburdened hospitals are now running out of their most vital supply of oxygen. this growing shortage is costing lives. ever more here was 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. over q 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 man 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 manaos is quite small in percentage terms. delivered by the more knowledge. 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. here in europe as a setback in the battle against the pandemic us vaccine make a fire that has informed the european commission that it will not be able to fulfill all of its promised deliveries in the coming weeks because a building works intended to boost production at its plant in belgium canada will also face delays their supplies to the united states will not be affected. well his european commission president joseph on the market reacting to the news i got like many of you the news today that pfizer and knowledges de lay's i

immediately called the c.e.o. of pfizer and he explained that there is a production delay in the next 3 weeks but he reassured me that all guaranteed to doses of the 1st quarter will be delivered in the 1st quarter he's personally on the case on reducing the delay periods and to make sure that they will catch up as soon as possible that was very important to convey the message to them that we urgently need the guarantee doses was in the 1st quarter we had to go to. brussels bureau chief alexander from norman welcome alexandra this is bad news what sort of reaction has there been from the. e.u. commission president was a lot of fun the line was very quick to say that she called the c.e.o. of pfizer immediately and that he reassured her that all the guarantee duces of the

1st quarter are going to be deliver delivered in the 1st quarter but of course you can imagine then member states are not happy they are very concerned 6 of them and monk them sweden denmark and finland stay wrote a letter to the e.u. commission complaining that this situation is not acceptable that it does not only complicate and delay the planned vaccination schedule but also it decreases the credibility of the whole process and germany also colter the delays regrettable and surprising and we have on to understand that the block is now in a very critical phase many states are toughening. anti covered measures to curb new infections there are growing concerns about the new highly contagious variants of their virus spreading across the european union so

what the user needs right now is good news not this what consequence is likely to have will be countries just just fill the gaps with different vaccines from other suppliers. well what is the case is that there pfizer a biotech vaccine is not the only one in the european union. modern a vaccine has also been approved for use in the european union and its rollout is going to start next week and we also have a 3rd candidate ford astra zeneca vaccine they have applied for for approval in the european union and the agency in charge is going to decide about that at the end of this month so we don't have a reason to panic but people are of course frustrated and tired of being at home

that's waiting and of being told to be patient ok thank you for that on xander from norman in brussels couple of other developments in this pandemic the u.k. has been travelers from south america and portugal over concerns about a coronavirus variant that's been identified in brazil and police people arriving in france from non e.u. countries will no longer be allowed to enter by presenting a negative result from a quick code test jobless must not take p.c.r. test which can take several days to produce results to other news from around the world a powerful earthquake in indonesia has killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds of others and struck on the island of soloway zee damaging buildings in and around the district capital moment you well sources fear more victims are trapped in the rubble. the un refugee agency says the number of people fleeing violence in the central african republic has doubled in a week to nearly 60000 the government has been battling revelled groups seeking to

overturn the results of last month's presidential election amid plains a fraud. the government of the netherlands has resigned dutch prime minister mark ruta 100 his government's resignation to the king is coalition has taken political responsibility for a scandal involving childcare welfare payments in which thousands of people were wrongly investigated this fall it's just the resignation is largely symbolic and i just weeks ahead of planned elections. u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined the $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus an economic recovery plan includes more than $400000000000.00 to come back when the pandemic directly is goal is to speed up the delivery of vaccines and provide financial help to households struggling with the pandemics prolonged economic fallout. ring of steel has been erected to protect washington d.c. as america pass for next week's hondo of power from the outgoing trump administration the new team and the president elect joe biden more than 20000

troops are standing by the f.b.i. as one of the pro trump extremists the planning violent protests in all 50 state capitals the w.'s at catalina chinmoy has a special report from washington where residents have mixed feelings about this unprecedented security operation. you shall not pass that seems to be the message all around the capitol soldiers from the national guard have flooded 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 some have already lined up behind me the city has never seen something like that and people there are scared of the city's even clearly. on inauguration day one danger is too dangerous scary you are supposed to be you know you know civilization the marker see. we've come to this this is this south

side of this 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 have a prayer like lester. behind the fence it's all hands on deck. 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 said they are proud to be here and to defend their democracy. but it's also

a logistical challenge. for now they're waiting this might look like a military base but we're actually in the heart of the capitol building the soldiers are resting here they're having lunch and they're getting prepared for a general trend in operation. nobody knows what awaits. the faults still bears signs of last week's riots. and or. perpetrator. from the earth. and now they are here to fix it. well here in germany chancellor merkel c.d.u. party is about to elect a new leader it's a key vote that will shape the party's future direction and could represent a 1st step toward selecting the new chancellor after more than 15 years in the top

job chancellor merkel is not seeking another term and 2018 she was replaced a c.v. you leave the column about failed to stand alone far too young party and announced last year that she would step aside the race for the leadership appears to be wide open with 3 candidates on the all male ballots the widow won't necessarily become the next german chancellor so does the current chancellor have a preference yes and the makeover does have a favorite to succeed what's her try not to show it when asked months ago with of the man next to her has what it takes to become chancellor. that the middle of always said that i won't interfere in the succession of the position i have or had and you see do you party leader will be elected i mean life said is a candidate and a state premier of north rhine-westphalia he brings many qualifications to the table. by medical standards that's strong praise. and laughs it

stands for post medical continuity something he demonstrated in the candidate debates bring him it i bring to the table experience in government as leader of a large state balancing out interests and it might come in handy that i've actually already won an election as these next elections are just science's. matts wants to turn the c.d.u. back to its conservative roots he wants left politics after losing a vote to anger machall a man keen to see the end of machall style centrist politics. we need is competition for the best ideas to define the political center to put it more bluntly i believe that in politics nothing and nobody is irreplaceable no about what ministerial career was also once dented by macros political dominance still the underdog he has carved out a chance at the leadership by pushing his vision of

a germany asked her to tick global player. strength is the answer and strength only comes through unity so we need a european china strategy and that also means that germany has to stop simply seeing china as just one of its most important markets also mark the spot where the next party leader will also be in pole position to run as chancellor the latest polls suggest it will be a close call when the 1001 party delegates vote on saturday with mats slightly in the lead. but when seaview supporters were asked who would be most able to win the federal elections in september and become next chancellor a stunning 80 percent named someone not even on the list marco sudha he leads the c.d.u. sister party and bavaria and there's another dark horse

with potential germany's health minister yet spawn is leaving his options open to. so the on so who will succeed america as chancellor may still be months away yet saturday's vote for a new party leader will decide how her c.d.u. defines conservative politics in the future. will we get more from dublin chief political editor. covering the seaview convention welcome so no clear preference from c.d.u. supporters now it's up to the delegates which way are they leaning. that's a tricky 11001 delegates voting alex phonics the from the comfort of their own home and that in itself could change results because you have none of the dynamics that you have as an ordinary party gathering and this has to be held digital fast so. difficult to put your money on someone flips mattson is the one who's furthest apart from going to macro style centrist politics he's clearly seen as

a favorite of the big question is whether. to stands for kind of a magical 2 kind of phase or no but oregon can actually clinch a slight advantage to make it into what is likely to be a runoff between the 2 you know saying i'm trying to duck the question tell you right now so one of the biggest problems waiting for whoever takes over as party leader it's uniting the party because there was a bitter contest over the party leadership in the past we've almost forgotten that anecdotes come congo where the woman handing over the office was supposed to take over as party leader and eventually become chancellor can that's not happening there were bits of divisions in the party and that's what the party is now afraid of with those looming elections in september that whoever wins needs to demonstrate that they can bring everybody behind them and really live up to the title of the

big tent party that's also what we heard from under the macro addressing that gathering this evening that this is a big tent party that has to unite different opinions rather than divide this because conventions about the c.d.u. leadership candidates for chancellor will be decided later this year presumably in march so what will be important to delegates invalid's vote. that's who ever gets into pole position as chance a candidate to truly become the successor of uncle americal actually it can mobilize voters and that means old style conservative voters but also younger voters c.d.u. party really faces the challenge of finding new voters of persuading those who often change i mean there's a big tradition here in germany of of coalition politics and also switching parties

. that the green the greens may be an option for a coalition but that the cd should become the strongest party and here we see very different approaches ranging from 3 days mats he says i want to put the conservative back into the c.d.u. kind of a traditional style but also look more do political and germany's role to the other 2 really saying that there has to be a younger dynamism and also more women although of course all candidates male. don't lose their chief political adviser because it could for thank you some news from around the world now starting in uganda where the opposition candidate bobby wine is claiming victory in the country's presidential election rejecting the results showing that veteran president yoweri museveni has won 2 thirds of the vote the wind is a former pop star favored by young voters and he says that's a complete sham he also says he feels that thread after soldiers surrounded his.

army vehicles make their presence heard soldiers keep a close eye on the streets began to ease and preparing for war the counting votes after a tense election campaign by government crackdowns an almost daily violence. that remained switched off much of the country is locked down. even showing up for work only to find doors locked. and. some people are still afraid. there's a still waiting for their candidates to be announced as the winner. most offices are still closed to come to work but i cannot access the building. i mean i think if they don't think was a bit less than ideal choice they can try to deal with the fact. incumbent yury mr veiny has been in power for 35 years and is seeking another term

initial results showed him with a commanding lead over his main challenger be one of the former pop star turned politician one has refused to accept the results saying he has video evidence of fraud during the voting i am very confident that. we have suddenly one and. one is now reporting that his finds have been disconnected and at the military surrounded his house before jumping the fence and taking control of his heart the military says they are there to protect him despite a history of arresting and harassing wind and officials from his campaign.

having survived association on the campaign trail and now being confined still we being that duct i told my so yes and if. you've not told us why they're here. the vote counting is ongoing but with the main challenger calling the results a sham and a leader determined to stay in charge a clear result may take some time. and the former manchester united striker wayne rooney has hung up his boots at the age of 35 to move into the manager's chair at derby county considered one of the best english players of his generation rooney school reports $53.00 goals for his country and his manchester united all time top goalscorer to join darby as player coach a year ago at his now taking the hot seat permanently in the english 2nd tier side

after taking temporary control in november. go to munich has sentenced a german doctor to 4 years and 10 months in prison for his role in the years of illegal doping in sport the landmark verdict concludes the 1st major prosecution of the german anti doping legislation introduced in 2015 the doctor identified only as mark s. because of germany strict privacy laws admitted giving illegal blood doping treatment to new results leads mainly in cycling the winter sports he's also been fined 158000 euros and banned from practicing medicine for 3 years. as the trial drew to a close mark s. apologized for his doping practices blood manipulation was his modus operandi he and his accomplices would take samples from athletes enrich them with red blood cells and reintroduce them via transfusion the guilty verdict has been hailed a milestone in germany's anti doping campaign which. is finally

a clear and significant punishment has been handed. one of a severity and a clarity that sends a valuable signal also in regard to the uplink ation of the anti doping law. as it says. in the case of austrian wonton biker christina coleman foster the doctor experimented with hemoglobin poder meaning he was also found guilty of grievous bodily harm. has been in custody since february 21000 raids on the doctor's house in germany led to his arrest at his practice hunty top income painters believe the judgement will act as a deterrent but others are not so sure. just. germany has been around since 2015 and this is the 1st and so far only case of doping in elite sport brought against the personal doctor in that sense the investigative quarter is in my opinion small and many will know that this is more or less an

isolated case as both parties have a week to appeal the verdict. if you're in lockdown and missing at night is a driver in greece who may have the perfect solution. to double up the private nightclub konstantinos backyards transformed his cabin and noticing that his passengers were often stressed just in a mood because of the pandemic he hopes his mobile disco will raise people's spirits jury locked down and give them a chance to let their hair down as i travel from a to b. . and over yet you can always get they don't be news on the go just download from google play or from the store give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news if you're part of a news story you can also use it to send us photos and videos of what's going on.

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a guy up what goes up almost. what i'm going to miss you know what i'm with what an organizer i know what is it there. was here it is as if to say yes it could i've only said that i caught it going on where they're being funded. today just over a year after covered 19 was 1st identified in the chinese city of woo han the worldwide death toll has passed 2000000 but hope is on the horizon vaccines are being developed at record speeds medicines regulators are giving them the green light and vaccination programs being rolled out in country after country so what makes a good vaccination program and when will normal be normal again i'm phil gayle in berlin and this is the day.