w. . every journey begins with the 1st or a different language the 1st word the word. the coaxing germany. why not born with. its simple english on your mobile and free. will be using the learning course. german maybe see. this is deja vu news and these are our top stories 2000000 people have now died from cope with 19 in the years since the outbreak began governments around the world are racing to vaccinate their populations but have so far failed to stem rising numbers of infections and deaths new variants of corona virus that scientists believe are more transmissible have been blamed for the surgeon

infections. he was vaccine maker finds or has informed the european commission that it will not be able to fulfill all of its promise deliveries in the coming weeks because of building works intended to boost production at its plant in belgium canada will also face the least those supplies to the united states will not be affected. by german chancellor angela merkel's c.d.u. party has begun its conference taking place digitally this year due to the pandemic delegates will elect a new leader to replace on a good column by a who is standing down 3 candidates are in the running for the job the vote will take place on saturday and the winner will become firmed in a week's time. this is from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website d.w. dot com.

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 a record speeds medicines regulators are giving them the green lights 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 lynn and this is the day. if you are really. there it's not that it's heartbreaking i mean if you start really believe in this vaccine i also got it and this week i'll get the 2nd guards. people. who can use that are now becoming.

we are determined and really happy that we're getting vaccinated. to replace. them to the day if this country is raised to vaccinate their populations they covered 19 death toll continues to rise at an alarming rate the number of people who have died of the disease is just past 2000000 and that rate is getting faster by early march last year as the virus began to ravage northern italy the bethel crept past $5000.00 in less than a month searched 5 fold 250005 september. after the novel coronavirus was 1st identified deaths had reached a 1000000 well just 4 months later that number has doubled to the 2000000 we see today. the world's highest death tolls are brave in the us india and brazil with the u.k. fast catching up with more than 86000. to $6000.00 there are germany which had been

praised for its efforts during the 1st wave the scene death rates shoot up with a total now approaching $45000.00. 1 of the countries making headline grabbing progress with its vaccination program is israel the government there says it hopes to be knocking out every israeli citizen around $9000000.00 of them in the next 3 months time your credit reports. nurse money miss ellie and her team work almost around the clock to administer the biotech pfizer vaccine here in bad a town south of tel aviv about 150000 people are being vaccinated daily throughout the country. so an e-mail with a miami now business owner there. i really believe in this vaccine are also got it and this week i get the 2nd dose. we didn't have then got any allergic

reactions it's like a flu shot it is a very gentle back scene it's good. back to make will soon mail it will be mailed still. the cultural center turned makeshift vaccination point is run by clearly to one of israel's poor health management organizations which provide care through their own clinics as every citizen has to be registered with an agent or using the highly digitalized infrastructure has proven decisive for the fast rollout 1st priority where people over the age of 60 health care workers and people with underlying health conditions now it is the turn of the over fifty's. where the order is great i didn't even feel the shock of it i work as a special needs teacher and we're all kind of in the line of fire it's an absolute must to be vaccinated. younger people are also called up to receive surplus

doses of the vaccine which would otherwise be wasted the early purchase of the biotech pfizer vaccine by the government has contributed to this speedy imma. ization campaign however corona virus infection rates are still high and the government tightened the country's 30 look down once again last week while challenges vaccinating and earning enough time so that it says we start to work in on the other end we have the. 5th 3rd wave in israel which has been rising in the huge number of severely sick people hospitalized in the hospitals now monday in the israeli occupied west bank a covert 19 testing center infections remain high but here people will have to wait to receive their vaccines the palestinian authority announced this week that it has signed deals with poor companies to secure vaccines among them also the russian

develop vaccines sputnik of what to do you know how to look in the news days say it is not yet approved and they want to give it to us we don't know what will happen. but at the end we hope that through the get the appropriate exene and who will be done with this crisis. how do you want all of us to take it to feel psychologically it because we are in a constant state of lorie that matter and they will have other options palestinians have also signed up to the kovacs program which aims to help low income countries to get a fair share of that scenes for around 20 percent of their population. senior fellow at the center for global development and a professor at insead elaters and global health and social medicine at harvard medical school in the us and has a particular interest in health care supply chains and operations management the perfect person to give us

a snapshot of where the world is in terms of its vaccination programs welcome to you in those countries that have vaccination programs where is it going well and where are you seeing problems. so i think we as a museum or israel as a country are going to be seeing very cost rates of vaccination part of that has to do with how the planning is spent we're going to place before the start of explanation we also have to do with the underlying structure not system receive considerable pictures unity in states across that you asked we also see some countries in the european union doing considerably better ask others i think in the end it boils down to how well is a system too many getting information in 2 directions one being from the central planning the federal agencies in the country to hear the last clinic which is vaccinating and then information flowing back from the clinics to the planners at the central role and you know i think there are countries mentioned around is there

other countries which have been the 2nd part which is an organ is really focused way too much on just thinking about it really have some sense of that is all of the same time in the end actually to add up and the techniques for matching the remnants of i want us to think about. those reservation in ways that are different then just when we're going to ruling was not what it's about skinner supply being allocated to known to man i'm intrigued by this idea of matching matching demand and supply so it's not just a simple as get as much of it out to as many people as we can. yes i think of it the same us we started with. our actual participation which needs real prospects and they got rigs are made based on big ben very astute and what that does is the number of people who are supposed to show up in a clinic in

a day and so being must have extra courses which read and he figured out what to do with what is instead we do for our son e.t.s. . simultaneous vaccination with the priority. all of those who aren't responding and allows us to crash the medicine by the 2nd does it mean fragments the demand into multiple smaller clinics then the uncertainty demand is high when it's needed all it and do it in a mass vaccination clinic such as a stadium community center or. are a lot of large hospital then i think we all the demand and that's what it's all we've got and actually. ok that's very clear and i want to listen now to the executive director of the world health organization mike ryan speaking today in geneva warning that vaccines are not the sole solution to this pandemic and we did

. also warn in 2020 that if we were to rely entirely on vaccines as the only solution we could lose the very control measures that we had or disposal at the time the vaccine is light at the end of the town it is a hugely. and it's a massive advantage but it doesn't answer and it won't address every question that we have we have to continue doing the other measures right so suppression yet out of this they'd sounds like but even if we do have mass vaccination programs and they are successfully rolled out we're still going to have to wait some time very turn to a masculist society and put it that way. yes let's keep in mind that rats are most important to all but not the only 2 and we have to continue on the. distancing or better mental mission tree st isolation all of those measures

to beat. their rate of threats and nations will help us get faster too or in. that. and so the so when does it stop because it sounds like ok the vaccinations that helps us get the number of cases down to help us to get but the test and trace systems working and so when when when when can we just be normal again. very hard question to answer and i'm not unless you star or are a person who has been training to be outrageous but my 1st reaction would be only when you vaccinated a large fraction of the little omniscience and not just the opposition not individual countries but globally much the beast i'm probably at $5060.00 some the global population actually that's probably that time read such thinking about becoming liberal actually are all that matters and so that that fits in quite

neatly with where somehow be thinking about because we have this kovacs system where less rich countries it can actually pay for these these vaccines for what you've said they sounds like it's in everyone's benefit in the rich countries benefit for poor countries to have these vaccines because of otherwise no one gets anywhere. you know so it's a combination of all 3 are our only in our insubordinate and are also sure about the 1st mobile access to prove not save idea if you're still going back to back scenes because it's house. the world as a whole not just our population it's what live in developing countries from her populations and from countries equally you know. us and i think thank you so much for joining us oppression and yet out from harvard university medical school thank

you we are to kingdom has been plunged into further crisis by a new variant of the corona virus that the number of cases and death has been skyrocketing things december but the hospitals are overwhelmed with covered patients and are no longer able to carry out other operations c.w.c. show itself in pill reports this is taking a huge mental and physical toll on the population and on medical workers trying to save lives i never see save many hundreds is queuing and i've never spent such extended periods of time with people waiting for a space. over the last before which 'd the book or 2 pages call now rotavirus annoy people every region and has more people in hospital now than they did in the 1st wave in spain. you know basically for an hour down to the number of patients listed in london admitting they can rid of a really big hospital every single day whilst having higher numbers of staff from

staff who are off sick or isolating or tested positive themselves. i've just finished 10 days of isolation because my wife tested positive she's also a paramedic the person potentially period that we were wearing was fallout perspective not quite enough and a number of our friends and colleagues were in the same situation and they've also tested positive over the last few weeks. i think the impact of the new image is just. more factious 150 percent more factious where we were at the beginning of the service thinking we had it with the stored suddenly we had the surge and of those so huge with the proof of the magic that we've been spared and that's we will sit here and spread so he's exposed that while for the school to sort by surprise the new parent just made absolutely explode and again you know we waited too long

to stem damage but there's still more to come from this wave of the pandemic threat if you. look at what we're seeing fall people being admitted seeing intensive care units that are now becoming overwhelmed synopses in the southeast and now canceling a cold 28 day cancer staging the people he had surgeries cancel and now having to add knowing that he was carrying and for some of them by the time safe again they might not be operable anymore and that they have lost that wind you know so i mean that to me is a kind of our kind of mental thoughts at. hold a. lot of people that formed a group told one of my friends had to make he was just helping someone having a panic attack the other day that people are having nightmares about the really hard thing about big stuck a hospital for 5 hours is there only to tell you that you're there you're here with your colleagues in the control room hosking for ambulances to be available to get

there to other imagine seasons of people that need your help and you can't get that constantly in a situation where they know that not doing the best for the patients or that trying to pass but i just know i don't position to be able to do that and that's something that people are wrestling with quite a lot of is knowing that you know who they think they might have better to do some more if they had arrived earlier the day they might have been able to. change the outcome for a particular patient bunch or it's having a toll walking down the country i don't think we have a choice we just throughout this. that's true we're trying to do the. crucial work its people. its heart and it's taking its toll but we know that we're doing the best we have a 2nd chance and. if we didn't go out there more people would die it would suffer as a result of not having. people working on the front line. now

with the new president in the white house the leaders are preparing for a new era in relations with the united states especially given the numerous international crises that need to be resolved so can they expect of relationship resets to the pre trump base. reports. they've already sent him an invitation to visit and for them to the plan fund joint transatlantic action for europeans joe biden see now gratian is a chance to get relations with the united states back on track here in brussels do you commission has been already working on a new e.u. us agenda managing and overcoming the coronavirus pandemic is definitely the most urgent issue that we all have to face and it is clear that cooperating with the united states on this is definitely something that we will

promote skloot use fossil with the new administration there coronavirus pandemic climate change the rand nuclear deal trade disputes the list is long joe biden has also made it clear that he wants to form the united front to counter china he says aides urged iraq to delay a planned investment deal with beijing but the you push to hat and decision the european lawmakers like to call for believe sent washington the wrong message is it really want to demonstrate it. so-called european strategic autonomy towards washington but demonstrating. that they have to reckon with a reinvigorated transatlantic partnership i think that's just the wrong priorities geopolitically the new e.u. china investment agreement is facing a lot of criticism but after 4 years of donald trump in the white house many

europeans believe it's time for the you to put its own interests 1st even if the u.s. doesn't like it. and last week storming the you asked capitol served as a reminder for you leaders that a deeply divided u.s. will continue to look inward even with a democrat in the white house it can no longer be taking for granted as a band a factor and protector and that's why europe has to enhance its strategic autonomy says clement bonn french secretary of state for you a p.f.s. means that europe should take more responsibility should define its interests its values itself certainly not against the united states we should work together i hope we can work better together with a new light in her is a mystery but it means we have to be clear about what we want as europeans when it comes to nato joe biden is likely to push europe to spend more on defense just like his predecessor trump's goal was to withdraw u.s.

troops from afghanistan and biden's decision on that will be crucial for the nato alliance says he unless a vice president of the german marshall fund the objective an exit in afghanistan but i do think this administration absolutely excepts this long held nato idea of in together out together joe biden see now gratian will see the white house become home to a trance atlanticist once again but a simple return to hold things were before trump isn't likely america has changed but so has you rob. well let's have a closer look at some of the differences with charles coach on who's a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and professor of international affairs at georgetown university in washington d.c. he's also author of isolationism a history of america's efforts to shield itself from the world welcome to d w is a relationship with the euro pile on joe biden's foreign policy this i think it

is in part because biden has witnessed along with the rest of us the fragility of the experiment in liberal democracy that americans and europeans have been engaging in for the last couple of 100 years and i think his top priority is to get america's house in order europe's house in order and to rebuild solidarity across the atlantic and let's be honest 95 percent of europeans 55 percent of americans can't wait for january 20th they will again be a person of integrity in the white house and he is an atlanticist i worked in the obama white house i was constantly on a plane with joe biden to ukraine to the balkans to the nordics he cares deeply about europe let's hear from joe biden's nominee for secretary of state anthony blinken speaking in november about how joe biden's foreign policy is going to look

now we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence humility because as the president said we can't solve all the world's problems alone we need to be working with other countries we need their cooperation we need their partnership and so the brain can have talking about partnerships could you give us some examples of perhaps of where the united states sees a europe as being a useful or indeed an equal partner in any partnership. well i think one of the most destructive aspects of trumps america 1st has been that you don't lateral ism and we will see the united states go back to being a team player i think you can expect us to rejoin the paris agreement to rejoin the world health organization to renegotiate the iran nuclear deal right out of the box and i think biden will look to europe like previous presidents have looked to

europe for help on every front i do think that you will continue to see the u.s. pull back particularly from the mediterranean and the middle east as trump has been doing and that's in part because the demand stay at home for investment and demick infrastructure worker retraining will be very high and biden will look to europe to pick up more of the slack whether it's in libya whether it is in the eastern med whether it's in the corner karbala and so i would urge europeans to get ready not just to spend more on defense but to really don't but to be ready to do more to be a more equal partner of the united states. and listen about china as well which was mentioned in the report as a very good tries to slow china's climb towards economic dominance how does the biden white house view this a huge china trade deal. you know as as your reporter said just a couple of minutes ago this is not going to be an easy issue to address across the

atlantic in fact if you were to ask me what's the one issue that is going to cause the most heartache i would say it's china and that's because the underlying differences of opinion with china that became apparent during the last few years human rights trade geopolitics those aren't going away europe i think has wizened up toward china become more skeptical over the course of the year but there is a strong and powerful incentive on the trade front on the investment front to do more with china and so that's why i think biden will want to start very early on a transatlantic conversation over china and to include japan south korea australia other democracies outside the transatlantic space because in the end of the day listen china will have the words largest economy by the end of this decade if the democracies are going to stand up to china they have to do it shoulder to shoulder

a good time to start is after january 20th now you mentioned the middle east new events that iran is likely to be right up this far as joe biden is concerned donald trump pas of course made some progress in the region we have in the u.a.e. sudan and morocco all establishing diplomatic relations with israel that's not a small thing is it. no and i think the trumpet ministration deserves credit it's a big deal to have relationships between israel and the gulf arab countries moving toward normalization in some cases but in better relations more generally and that's going to continue biden will pocket that but i do think that there is in this country exhaustion with what we now call the 4 ever wars afghanistan iraq syria libya and the democrats as well of the republicans have had enough so i do

think that the europeans should expect continued pullback including from afghanistan but more diplomacy the trumpet ministration other than on the israel front has pretty much been missing in action on the diplomatic front and so even though i think biden will continue the strategic pullback i think you'll see more america when it comes to diplomacy in the broader middle east and particularly with turkey where that relationship between the u.s. and turkey and between the e.u. and turkey is particularly fraud that's with us pretty clear i hope we'll speak again and say how much of this comes to pass we made charles a cuppa the council on foreign relations thank you so much our pleasure. and that was a day as ever the conversation continues online to find us all twitter outstay w. news of the.

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