because according to the reports. despite the fact that scientists have been so effective in getting of their seem ready for use suit early we know hind that in the rule out. the wealthier nations that are well resourced are ones that are going to get a fair scene. we used. africa as an example. where as in wealthier nations a 100 percent the target is to to have made show they are all the estimated 100 percent of all they citizens in a case of africa just 20 stupid percent clearly the poor nations you know i'm not going to be able to get those passing is certainly not big enough for the next 2 years or 20212022 before we'll be able to do that.

we believe also unless there is global action unless we are assured that nations on systems and nations own research like our center for disease control our part of the fasc in this country and vast seen an application that once again africa and perhaps the other poor nations in other regions will be left behind so what needs to be done now urgently to make the disappears in the roll out as a vaccine equitable and allow access to the continent of africa. i believe the the the different organizations specifically were nice asian can be properly resourced to be the institutional

global institution that will ensure that their sins are equitable distributed distribution systems put into place to make sure that the to reach now only reach the poor countries but reach citizens who are poor countries where you know we have poor infrastructure that will require a lot of support their support needs to come from global institutions such as gary gary has done very well in many of the poor poor nations in trying to introduce dressings and i think if gabby to abroad in would be a show that one might be able to see there. of course it has to be supportive financially because that will bring in the development finance is situations such as the world bank the african development and asian development bank south all of

those and of course partners our partners added by the latter countries that have the resources the european union and the speeches before been a very strong partner to countries respective financing concerns so we know that the old be able to come and come. who wanted needed and collective global system fair to all countries in out of the president and madam president doesn't look likely that that will happen soon because they're facing their own supply issues at the moment but i want to turn our focus now because i have a limited time the world is facing such an enormous crisis could this global pandemic have been avoided if the w.h.o. had acted more assertively and china had been more forthcoming. absolutely 1. if you if china given information on

some of the early findings about a breakout. if. i had the effectiveness of all a timely and effective and lomb system yes it could have been avoided i think our report is very clear. on why this is so we believe that in the issue of communication system is still are here and needs to be in the in the digital age we think also nations could have done more to use preventive measures to ensure you know a mask source so this is in context tracing all of those steps that help support could have been given in order respects so yes i think through a timely and effective alarm system yes this bill to me could not have spread as quickly and ass intensive intensively as the death well that is a very damning

a finding if i may say so at the w.h.o. going by your findings in the panel's findings be overhauled to prevent something similar from happening again. i release so i think we want to wait until our report is finished right now we have we have a report and that's still not ready we're continuing with the consultations and gathering the findings and making recommendations. but yes we have very clear that every issue has not been giving. power and the resources to carry out their mandate effectively in their change is necessary but we also know that only the member states has made this change happen we're hoping that the recommendations are report will bring them to have a bit more attention on what needs to be done and that they will do the right thing

well equity and justice as we try to bring changes in the new world order alan johnson sirleaf former president of liberia and co-chair of the w h o's the independent panel for pandemic preparedness and response thank you madam president. thank you. all germany's latest corner virus the numbers bear some good news and some bad news for a land locked down the good news is that infection rates are trending in the right direction now but as trends on american affairs to meet with public health officials to discuss what comes next the bad news is that the country isn't out of the woods yet. people in germany have preparing for tightened coronavirus restrictions for likely outcomes from tuesday's political discussions in berlin one that the existing measures will be extended until mid february that means large

parts of public life will remain closed like schools and daycare centers and also shops museums theaters and dining restaurants. to an obligation to wear medical masks the federal government wants these to be compulsory on public transport and in shops as is the case in bavaria with f f p 2 masks these offer better protection than regular cloth masks but they're more expensive city new rules would probably also allow for cheaper surgical masks 3 more working from home the government wants to impose stricter rules to stop office workers from commuting as much pushing their employers to let them work from home. for possible nighttime curfew they're already in place in some regions along with stricter border controls but it's unclear whether

they would be imposed nationwide. well a short while ago i talked to rolf of while he's one of the chancellor's chief scientific advisors and heads the european bioinformatics is to tooting cambridge england i began our conversation by asking him whether a longer and tight a lot of doubt would be needed to get the coronavirus situation under control in germany. the doctor is working but we don't know where it is working with no new variant you want ones which created a lot of problems already in the u.k. that is creating a lot of problems and i don't know what's important in spain so we may have an epidemic inside and pandemic and that is this group. is newbury and so while the other variants driven as attempting to move on in the us this may be again. we have a rise of variant and in

a very explosive way with dogs rising quickly again so events why it's necessary to carry on. and potentially also add some additional measures and i personally believe it's necessary to add some measures what those measures be what would you advise the chancellor. well i think 1st it will be a race between. sins as many people as possible and. so it's all not only locked on measures which are important but also. that vaccination as quickly as possible and proper banes of variance blocked all measures i think the easiest and cheapest win for germany would be to introduce much more widespread home office use that is. a relatively calm intervention which is not very costly for the employees and their

employees and is not restricting very much good bulletins of people who measures you mentioned before which i discuss and i think there are other people who are much more knowledgeable about it can judge which ones of these are suitable for driving down the mobility and therefore interrupting potential interaction changed now you brought up the vaccines of course that we had all pinned our hopes on the vaccine that rollout there was supposed to be our way out of this pandemic but the rollout here in this country of vaccines is taking a lot longer than was hoped can this program be accelerated. so negative as you would address it i think the we have. vaccine was vaccine developed in an incredibly quick and short time it's marvelous success

story and of course and you need to produce it you need to deliver it you need to clients things can always go better but i believe overall it's going very well. and with new vaccines coming onto the markets more vaccinations can be done i think it's it could be a bit better but not much better so i think we just need to get through it vaccinate as quickly as possible as many people as possible and then in the end we as a society will win this race oh well there are there is a debate going on because there has been a supply delay because the e.u. commission who is coordinating the vaccine rollout in europe did not order enough vaccines but let's move on to the approach that this country has embarked on it is primarily vaccinating the elderly and frontline workers not the general population do you think that is a mistake. movies was

a choice for saving lives because if you vaccinate the older population we have the ones which have brought the highest different rates among the infected and so the best group priority they are not these patients and these these are elderly most of what you. lot of people actually think cause they usually don't read so much into community and have so many contacts but they are most vulnerable and i think it's the right position of society to protect the most wonderful. file or scientific advisor to determine a chance to thank you sir for joining us. by. going to turn our attention now to the u.s. were joe biden becomes us president tomorrow the world is watching to see what kind of a country he will lead back on to the world stage 4 years of trump's america 1st turned the idea of u.s.

leadership on his head his replacement's 1st task will be to rebuild and reshape some crucial relationships. chaos in washington a pandemic out of control. an economy on the brink they do not get a nation profoundly divided rule like you would not run the us has enough crises going on at home to take up the energy of any new president but the rest of the world looks every bit as daunting. china is now a rival superpower. russia is openly hostile and climate change threatens everything. unveiling his foreign policy team joe biden said he would tackle all these challenges by rejecting trump's slogan of america 1st and reviving american leadership at the head of the western alliance america's back ready to lead the world not retreat from it once again sit at the head of the

table ready to confront our adversaries and not reject our allies this new spirit from biden is being warmly welcomed here in berlin and in other capitals around europe and yes on this crucial issue of china the europeans have started doing their own thing. the e.u. has just agreed a sweeping investment treaty with beijing ignoring requests from the biden team to wait and work together uncle americal herself was the driver of the deal which will be a money maker for german companies. it's not a great omen for biden's plan to hold a summit of democracies he wants free societies to line up together to challenge china seeing it as a growing threat democracy everywhere he'll want europe fully on board european leaders too often condemning china over human rights abuses but that really turns into action and many a wary of being sucked into

a long term conflict between the u.s. and beijing which any european hedging on this could expose the underlying tensions in the transatlantic relationship which burst into the open under donald trump if europeans believe they can remain neutral in a growing rivalry between the united states and china and sort of have equally good relations with beijing and washington and at the same time expect the united states to be the 1st responder whenever anything happens in europe i think they're living in a dream world that that's not going to be possible this was the heart of the crisis between the u.s. and europe during the trump years from school and european allies as freeloaders and that has shaken trust perhaps even permanently because one day trump or someone like him could be back now if europeans look at the transatlantic alliance that is

strong and ukraine of course and that world who are good. and europeans need to build up their own research and their own strategies to be able to act in a more india and the death throes of the trumpet ministration have added to fears that the u.s. has become fundamentally stable a power that allies can never again depend on in quite the same way. ultimately that means that biden success or failure at home will profoundly affect what he can achieve abroad he says america is back but the rest of the world is asking is it too broken to lead. richard rocker our chief international editor reporting there and he's with me here in the studio for more so richard is america too broken to lead the world well of course the great strengths of democratic societies compared to say or thora tarion systems is that they can change you can have

a competition of ideas you can have a transition of power and you have regular opportunities to recover from crises and that is certainly the framework in which biden is presenting his administration both domestically and internationally kind of saying that this is an administration of recovery and consolidation for the united states but on that he faces at least 2 quite serious problems one domestic one international 1st of all domestically democratic norms and practices have been severely undermined and stressed in the last few years now of course we've seen that reach a peak now a crescendo with donald trump denying the simple fact that he has lost the election you know they're showing that there's a kind of unraveling in the belief in a accepted facts and sorting them apart from fiction and that has the potential to really undermine democratic processes going forward as well and then secondly

internationally the matter how biden positions himself there will always be this nagging thought in the back of countries minds whether they're friendly towards the u.s. or unfriendly internationally is that somebody like donald trump if not trump himself could be back you know this really undermines the u.s. position so joe biden will have to show really extraordinary leadership domestically and internationally to overcome both of those issues are i mean that is a lot of doom and gloom read stephanie got is their work cut out for him what can we look forward to the positives from a biden administration of european democratic perspectives certainly you know there's a lot to like in the new. ministration firstly simply you know coming out being friendly talking about multilateralism countries working together as an approach to solving problems and of the reverse of america 1st that of course is seen as very welcome also biden stated intention to rejoin the paris climate agreement to tackle

climate change also to return to the multilateral approach to dealing with the problem of iran's nuclear weapons programs both of these things as things that are seen as very welcome here in europe let's talk now about china is that of course is featuring really really largely when it comes to foreign policy in the u.s. is that the only big issue that biden will have to tackle well certainly not i mean i think it's one of the biggest challenges for the united states and for biden's attempt to work with allies because it was we saw in the report there i think the fear will be for the biden team that when the chips are down for the europeans they want to pursue their interests they don't necessarily blindly want to. follow what the united states is saying on an issue like china and you see that also with the nord stream pipeline the north stream to pipeline between russia and germany which

is bill being built at the moment also has the potential to create significant disagreements between the 2 sides so i think this also comes back to this regional point that the europeans are looking at the biden ministration of thinking we like a lot about this but ultimately we have to look out for own interests too and this could put these transatlantic alliance under serious strain because of course europe is still totally dependent on american defense and from american perspective this is something that came out under trump was the attitude you can't have it both ways that europe cannot continue to live totally under american protection and try to sort of hedge its bets on relations with china relations with russia striking developments thank you so much richard walker the douglas chief international editor crush it. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. police in guatemala have broken up a group of thousands of myron's from central america who are trying to reach the

united states officers used the tongs and shields to force the migrants back towards 300 border the migrants had camped out on a road overnight after authorities stopped them from continuing their journey north . the kremlin has dismissed cause to free opposition leader alexina volley who's been jailed for 30 days following his return to russia on sunday live on these spent the past few months in germany recovering from poisoning with a nerve agent the kremlin also described as calls for mass protests against his arrest as quote troubling. mount etna europe's tallest and most active volcano has erupted again streams of red hot lava have been flowing down the mountain which is situated on the italian island of sicily volcanic ash has covered cars in a nearby village but there have been no reports of serious damage. and some

sports news now for you were a new sumo wrestler is a merger on the scene at the tender age of 10 japanese. guy is already a world champion for his age range and is twice the size of other competitors his father believes he could be the next big thing in this traditional japanese sport. cuticle is no ordinary 10 year old. he trains 6 days a week in his bid for sumo stardom here he is already the under 10 world champion with kids he's own age just too much of a pushover. he weighs 85 kilograms and consumes up to 4 fires and calories a day. bulking up means he has been able to take on and

win against competitors who are 5 and 6 years older. than hugh it's fun to beat people older than me. his father moved the family to a district of tokyo famous for sumo the training there is expensive but he hopes it pays dividends. many make a lot of money and time. but i think it's worth investing. the other schaffel be i don't gamble. but instead i'm rightly betting everything on this that. there. is otherwise a normal 10 year old boy who plays with his friends. and attends school like everyone else. it is in the ring where he really stands out. years even started wrestling with advocates. for courage talent

therefore you're reminded of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour. an independent panel has handed down a stinging were view of china and the w h o's handling of the pandemic there were reports says china should have been more forceful with their measures and that the w.h.o. should have declared an emergency sooner. that does it for me up next is our business leader magazine it kick off with a review of match day 16 on behalf of all of us here thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us also at the top of the.

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minutes from the top teams. only mean proved unstoppable notching up 3 points against laver cusa chicken. on t.w. . it's about billions. it's about power but. it's about the foundation of a new world order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network and so in europe conflicts are inevitable the consequences are unpredictable the guinness book of the shaking of the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal for gambling and that's how it's expanding and

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