rural teachers the video meeting on wednesday. now here in germany the government has extended the current coronavirus lock down to mid february although the country has been reporting a drop in new infections german leaders hope further restrictions can slow the spread of more transmissible coronavirus variants that have emerged new rules will also come into effect including the wearing of higher quality masks and more people working from home. just as infection numbers were starting to decline in germany there ian strains of covert 19 believed to be more contagious could undo all the hard work they've been isolated cases of some strains and all thora t's want to get on top of the threat. isn't so if those are the ones that the scientists tell us that it's not yet dominant. there's still some time to contain the danger. it's been a 3 foot of course it would be wrong to conclude from that that we still have all

the time in the world to act. so just over a month into germany's latest lockdown the chancellor in the 16th state premiers agreed to extend existing measures until mid february large parts of public life will remain closed like schools and daycare centers but also shops museums theaters and restaurants. they'll be a lot more of these to be seen medical masks will be compulsory on public transport and in shops the so-called f f p 2 masks off a greater protection but common surgical masks will also be allowed. and there's to be much more working from home the government's imposing stricter rules to stop office workers from commuting as much reducing the infection risk on public transport. germany's leaders are once again appealing for patience is the shelves what we are asking of people is hard but the priority must be protection that is

what we have to take into account and that is what we have taken into account today . for now the public is mostly on side recent polling shows 40 percent happy with stricter measures while just over 20 percent would prefer things to stay as they are but around a 3rd want restrictions to be eased or to end completely before that happens there's likely to be some hard weeks ahead infection rates are still nearly 3 times the preferred level. but with patience persistence and sticking to the rules or thorazine it's hoped the pandemic will start to loosen its grip on germany. d.w. reporter imagine why shies is following the latest on this story for us imo it's good to see you tell us more about why the government has chosen these new measures in particular. well sammy let me begin by i did good news

in that is that's a we do tend to see here in germany a very positive but very timid trend towards a decrease of the number of infections and decrease of the 7 days incidence rates yet this is by far not enough as of tuesday the country registered 1148 new desk a very high they leave desk told that is one of the factor for reconnecting the lockdown that we've already had and also for implementing new measures and the biggest factor i think those new measures really ease the new. been brought into the corner of our is equation which eats mutations and just how dangerous they are how the how more. deadly are they are. faster or easier to spread there has been talk about its summer taisha as being

more easily transmissible towards children which was justified keeping the schools close so they reason a decent radius to try to rainin those new infections and prevent infections of the coming from those new mutations and as us saw the same time a race to is immunize ation we said vaccinations rollout there has been some critique that have been some critics saying this is not going fast enough in germany yet nearly 1300000 people have already received a vaccine at the moment that's 1.5 percent of the german population and bear in mind that some countries haven't even started to vaccinate their population yet so there is definitely a sense of urgency among but it did take the chancellor and state leaders when they met a several hours to come to a decision on new rules why is that. there were there were definitely some points that needed to be agreed upon and may need should we keep the screws

open on that was one bone of contention some regional leaders wanted restrictions to be seen case by case pending on the severity of the pounding a pandemic in each district although it is. ready to reinforce those who pushes immediately and it was also another very important point at ease. when i came from home these has never been made compulsory here in germany up until now it was just a recommendation but these people are in touch with each other even the family transpose on their way to work and all those who do have to be even off if some boss sees it with few too are too though their employees to work from home and that should change dollars since the ministry for work with send a directive to companies that will have to let their employees working from home whatever it is possible or to give them to provide them with certainty come off at

the very least to be in the office. reporting for us thank you so much and let's check in on some other developments in the penn demick now zimbabwe's foreign minister. has died a day after testing positive for covert 19 he's the 3rd government minister to succumb to the disease since depend on make a last march authorities in beijing have imposed a lockdown on 5 neighborhoods after the city reported a handful of new cases china reported 103 new cases country why the number of cases linked to the australian open tennis tournament in australia has risen to 10 after 2 players and a support person tested positive for the virus a total of $72.00 players remain under strict quarantine and the world health organization says the more contagious u.k. variant has now been detected in at least 60 countries that's 10 more than a week ago. we have to the black sea now into

a sprawling complex with its own ampitheater a tea house and a hell of pad who owns it while kremlin critic alexina volley has released a 2 hour video investigation into the complex saying the palace was built for russian president vladimir putin using tax payer money the kremlin has denied the allegations. that calling it's the new best buy in the 2 hour video of only explains how his anticorruption foundation had been able to film the property from above for the 1st time using a drone he says is nothing like it anywhere in the country. without exaggeration it is the most secretive unguarded facility in russia it isn't a country house or a residence it's an entire city or rather a kingdom it has impregnable fences its own harbor guards or churches and checkpoints are no frys zone and even its own border point it is a separate state inside russia. details of the past were leaked by construction

workers said to be shocked at its opulence among its many features this greenmount is reported to house an underground ice hockey rink. this is an m.p. theater. never only points out the exits of a tunnel used by putin to access the beach. he also emphasizes not just the size of the palace but also the vastness of the area its occupies which is 3 and a half times the size of the nearest city. the kremlin rejects all the claims calling them nonsensical. these are ground us allegations they are norms units and a compilation of complications and nothing else that's a pretty simple goal of such documents such pseudo investigations it's a scam we want all the people taken into account the big number of.

valley insists that not only does this property belong to putin which but that it was financed through corruption and the misuse of public funds at least calling it the biggest bribe in history to which the russian president must be held to account . our correspondent yury resetter was standing by for us in moscow hi yuri what about the timing of this why did alexa evolve they decide to release this film now also in their own experience right at the beginning go through video why he's only coming out with this now he says he didn't want to be accused of taking a shot at the putin from abroad where he was safe. clearly wants to go on the offensive he wants to show that he is not afraid of anything he already showed that by coming back to russia of course he didn't know for sure he would be arrested but if they did seem likely he has been accused in the past to me by the kremlin of being an instrument of the west and secret service which has always denied by releasing this week while he is in

a russian prison now he is presenting himself as a russian politician with no plans of leaving the country someone who is prepared to go through thick and thin with people here we saw in the report that the kremlin says this is an old record tell us more about the reactions from authorities. well the official reaction is of course nor surprised mention the press secretary off but an important bit of his golf sat it's and of a played record something that not only has been saying over and over again they had of the duma the russian parliament gets just laughable audion insisted on these being used as a tool by the western secret services and the u.s. to state department all that not only das usat is backed by foreign states and russia would be to prevent such foreign interference as what people's reactions here as in a volley investigation is the top video on russian to you tube it has gotten nearly $20000000.00 views since it was published last night and it's a hot topic on social media of course as well enough ali people have even created

a filter on instagram with which you can use or you can see yourself in the 3 d. model in the rooms of the palace and take a selfie so it's getting a lot of attention what impact do you think this is going to actually have for the kremlin. well it may sound very strange to western ears but the answer is nothing annoying packed probably a western politician would to resign immediately and any case it would be a political earthquake but not here soon not in russia we have to keep in mind that although it's the most spectacular video by not only or if not only so far it's not the 1st mine one this is a typical video one of only in 2017 he published a similar investigation about the event prime minister that interviewed the diff which prompted the protests here in the country but the didn't change anything everyone here already knew that putin was rich oil is rich and despite social media discussions right now state backed media media will of course not accuse putin but

rather present novelli as someone who has betrayed his country and wants to weaken russia yuri rachet of reporting for us in moscow thank you. and d.-w. news n.h.l. what the responders yes coming up next state.

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teaching kids what to do when disaster strikes. i bearish manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us the head of an independent panel investigating the governor which was a response to the covert 900 pandemic has told that up to the pandemic could have been avoided had china acted sooner from a liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf also pulled up the w.h.o. for not having labeled the outbreak a health emergency and a pandemic earlier than it did. if china and given information on the early 19th about a breakout. if 0 had be give us.

a timely anything to get alarm system yes it could have been avoided i think our report here a play the reporter is a preliminary one that was made public in the week of heads of the so-called independent panel for pandemic preparedness and response along with former new zealand prime minister helen clark china responded to some of the findings in this report. someone that's only as the 1st country to sound the alarm against the pandemic we talked prompt and decisive measures even though we had incomplete information at the time. that we should of course strive to do better i think any country whether it be china the us the united kingdom or japan every country should strive to be better off. let's get some perspective on this from dr clare went home food is an assistant professor of global health policy of the london school of economics and has been following the course of this pandemic over the last year dr when i welcome now ellen johnson sirleaf told our channel that if china and the

doubler to act in time this pandemic could have been avoided is that a fair assessment here think. i do think it is i mean i think there are some things that we know china could have done quicker so we know there were some delays in notifying the world health organization about its outbreak and maybe recognizing the severity of this outbreak in the early stages but we have to remember that they were the 1st country to ever have seen this they didn't you know it could have been nothing they were juggling all these things so well as they could have acted sooner china we also you know shouldn't necessarily suggest that any other country wouldn't have done the same in their position. challenge i have is suggesting that w.h.o. should have acted sooner i think the show has done everything they could have done it as outbreak they you know convened an emergency committee they declared a public health emergency within a month of notification now yes it took 2 meetings over the course of a week or 2 weeks to get this declaration but if you think about the

a boner outbreak for example that was almost 8 months after the 1st case that we had the public health emergency of international concern declaration so i think they acted quite quite quickly and they have been nothing but consistent in providing the best evidence and the best guidance to countries across the world i think the reason we're in this the this situation i don't think it's. sorry china w.h.o. i think it's that countries didn't listen to the b.h.a. right countries didn't respond quick enough when they said this is an imagine say pat countries are complacent particularly countries in europe north america who had never really experienced a major pandemic or the diamond before just sort of waited and didn't really do anything and the only things they did do was stopping travel from china which we've seen and it's been widely shown to be effective you have the report says that the doubler throws a lot of response system is our cake and court needs to be brought into the digital

age now you mention the bola every damn eric i do madam given an epidemic like the ball epidemic or those eco virus this would already be a done deal. so i guess that's the part of the post i don't agree with so much i think the w.h.o. system is quite you know forward thinking they have the go on network which you know collaborate data reports from across all sources using you know internet mining using what ports want to make a premed mail which is where doctors can share information with each other and that you know i don't think again that's the problem for me the problem here is in governments responding to that information when they have it fundamentally knowing about this virus a day or 2 soon hasn't wouldn't really change the way governments then responded to when they had the information so what is the role of the doctor or to his playing over here of the if the if you are saying that the problem lies in countries not acting fast enough what is the role that the bubbler tour is playing. so i think

the w.h.o. is caught between a rock and a hard place it's an institution which is a member state institution so it relies on and you know informs member states but it's also you know and it should be empowered by member states of the management what we're seeing is member states across the world departing from w.h.o. advice charting their own course taking national approaches brother thinking about the global level and i think this raises a much more important question about the role of the world health organization how do we get governments to both give it the political power to be able to make that it decisions then follow the guidance and importantly had we get governments to pay it so it can mean it pay it properly so it can it can do all the things that the world expects it to do recently is that a political room a fire door or toward reform the bubbler of truth about the doublet or has more teeth as you suggest. the director has been reform for decades already the problem is is that the way it will get reformed is through governments agreeing to it at

the world health assembly at the world health assembly it's one state one vote and this can member states then go to him the problem is is it's quite hard to imagine a situation whereby governments will give greater power to the world health organization and in doing so that implies that they are then going to cede some of their own national power to be able to make decisions independently as something nations so they really have to recognise the benefit from a public health perspective that can come from having one global act and making the best public health decisions but as we know these decisions aren't just about public health they're also about the economy and so that's where it gets difficult and this is that real problem. or to claire when i'm from the one school of economics thank you so much for joining us. to china next where rescuers are intensifying their efforts to free 22 miners trapped underground in a flooded mine an explosion 10 days back blocked their only means of exit the who

is in the city of. east china shandong province rescuers have dug at least 2 lifeline tunnels to reach the men trapped more than 500 meters underground but rising floodwaters and injuries sustained by some of the men have made it a response time. at the who shot gold mine they're drilling 24 hours to save lives not to find precious metal it's an all out effort to rescue the miners trapped after the explosion on january 10th never mind for now that the explosion went unreported for more than a day according to the influential china youth daily. there are now steady communications with 11 of the miners 1st found alive on sunday when workers pulled up a scrawled and very wet note pleading for food and medicine and warning that water levels were high the work to bring back those miners and search for others

is focused on the men about 540 meters from the surface and another miner further down with whom they had earlier communicated all trapped by the explosion they haven't heard from the lone miner though for several days and are of course drilling further for the missing men. and now one of the 11 known to be alive has fallen into a coma with serious head injuries sustained in the explosion. well john as a woman so we can see him and he can speak with us we can only communicate by phone so we're teaching his coworkers some basic medical and rescue knowledge so they can update us on the situation of the unconscious miner. we were on prominent. telephone lines were dropped down not long after the 1st rations of porridge and pickles were passed through even as they struggle to keep their critically ill

colleague and themselves alive the miners have said they're grateful for food and medicine but must now resign themselves to an uncertain wait for rescue individuals western sort of ac still struggling with the aftermath of last week's earthquake at least 90 people are confirmed dead as searchers continue to dig of the rubble for more victims thousands of people are sleeping outdoors fearing aftershocks tragic scenes the people in the region or nor only too well a little over 2 years ago in september 28th a major earthquake and tsunami struck neighboring central sort of a.z. the disaster left more than 4300 people dead and devastated coastal communities rusty it was the city of fallujah and the nearby town of dong. in the terrifying chaos of a natural catastrophe every piece of knowledge could be key to survival so local schools are teaching children how best to react. a lesson among the ruins.

these children in the indonesian town of dong a learning skills that could save their lives. teach a yawl mill musri is holding a class in disaster mitigation students all survivors of the 2018 quake and tsunami the scars of which still surround them. of course we can't avoid natural catastrophes. but we can at least reduce some of the risk. the. tsunami waves up to 7 meters high tremors that liquefied the ground moments of peril when every 2nd counts i got under the gusty winds are not some level of teaching disaster mitigation is very important because we live in a disaster prone area when the earthquake struck we didn't know what to do the children suffered emotionally but now they learn about it and they know what to do

when disaster strikes again. they might be one winter and i pull back. and keeping a cool head is critical for children practice emergency responses and simulate evacuations. so come on really careful about who on. monday but us the children are learning skills that allow them to take part in the 1st mitigation measures. and of course they can also share their knowledge with their parents and others around them. in the daily routine of school the dangers outside are easily forgotten but education is giving these children a fighting chance if catastrophe strikes again. and that's it for today this morning a website i did up about called forward slash dot com the highest becomes u.s. vice president today the 1st woman with south asian heritage to take the office

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possible who is medical really what moves fast and. who talks to people who follows her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping public and joining us from eccles law stops. now the vaccines are rolling off the assembly lines where they go off to. developed economies are at the front of the. why some countries are starting to vaccinate the super rich or celebrities like here in indonesia where the government inoculated instagram influences. is calling foul. health. before. people

in poor countries it's a problem many saw coming. for equality in the largest vaccine drive in world history. well check this out the news organization vices discovered the wealthy paying big bucks for a specially organized vaccine holidays and travel bans they take a luxury trip. long enough to get it. critics say using their money to jump the queue ahead of the more vulnerable. campaign a new research shows many more people will die if the rich get the vaccine 1st instead of doing it fairly we'll talk to him in a moment 1st health care workers in kenya fear for their lives the vaccine hasn't arrived yet and that is taking out their colleagues one by one.

knobs had job as clinical officer a big part of it though was to work closely with covert 19 patients then one day she got sick herself i saw her call then i went through a lot of problems after i was infected i didn't have a medical problem which problem i didn't and a good source even i was opposed to going on ochs again made both of my sons were infected too it was very traumatising she survived 9 of her colleagues did not and then another shock she had to pay the expensive hospital bill from our own pocket for over a month now she's been on strike with her nurses and medical lab offices more than $30000.00 tough to watch because according to the unions their demands include protective health insurance and compensation for families in case of death if any of us is to die for another 8 hours today. we have fun really it's going investigation. and as if that is not enough then they tell you if you do

not go back to that and save working environment we are going to start. indeed house across kenya have lost their jobs for participating in strikes the government says illegal nobody's denying that he should be getting your money you should. it's energy to meet rates but we're also seeing that when there is this situation in the country let's also visit to get them you know and don't make it look like you are blackmailing the government at his weakest point. as dorcas doesn't feel protected by her employer she's awaiting the covert 19 vaccine kenya expects to receive the vaccine through the kovacs facility among other sources but experts say a 60 percent vaccination target is needed to achieve herd immunity on the african continent meanwhile wealthy nations have reserved more than half of the vaccines even though the home to only 14 percent of the world's population so they've kind

of some selfishness to say live a fuss resign it now for people i think the issue here is that global responsibility issue so you can resolve as many as you want for your country but what is your responsibility to ensuring there while he says to be safe that's also dog has wished for herself and her colleagues probably feel about their opinion of african countries get the vaccination later yeah. we feel like we are not going see that but anyway that's a look that never at least we're hopefully we're going to get them up in this. kenya 1st tranche of 24000000 vaccine doses is expected to arrive next my dog has now hopes the vaccine will finally ensure her safety. well hopes are higher elsewhere leading some to accuse countries of hoarding we'll get to that in a moment firstly though let's look at some of the numbers because funnily enough the welcoming and tolerant canadians

a 1st in line having secured the most vaccines per capita the us as we mentioned it's organized of a 7 doses behead the e.u. with these for india $101.00 half indonesia just one person. and the codex scheme as you can see there to share out shots is sadly struggling. and it did in these director of global justice now and joins us from london nic you've been campaigning for global economic justice for over 20 years way is the justice in this case well it's a really good question because you know we're so impressed with the scientific ingenuity that brought us these vaccines but unfortunately most of the world a lot of access to the united nation that we also desperately need hold it by rich countries and the monopolies on these vaccines are held by some absolutely enormous businesses for the next 20 years which just makes it so much more difficult to

produce the numbers that we need it makes it so much more difficult for those of us who don't want to get the coronavirus because you know if you're going to immunize all vaccinate only half the world it's not going to solve this problem is it. well that's exactly right i mean we're already seeing at the moment mutant strains of course one of them's come from my own country but there's one from now we believe from south africa one from brazil the longer you were allowed this virus to run on checked in other parts of the world the more mutant varieties of it will come back and hound us so i mean on the one hand it's just simply unfair of course i mean nobody in europe would consider vaccinating the richest part of their population and keeping the rest of us in lockdown yet which perfectly happy to do that on a global basis or at least all governments are and i believe that's you know not ethical not right but i mean even if you just look at it purely selfishly and unless we reduce the back of the viruses spread everywhere it's going to come back

and rebound illness potentially in varieties which are immune to the vaccine and we knew there was going to be this in justice that's why this kovacs system was set up a what happened to that. that's right and the kodak system has bought fight scenes for lower income countries greece will begin distributing those taxing soon but it hasn't got enough money to buy all the back scenes it needs and frankly even if it did have the money the banks just simply don't exist at the moment so kovacs was invented for a great reason it was understood that if we gave this vaccine out in proportion to those who need it the most so family around the world at the same time that's the way you're going to cite most lives you're going to immunized those who are most at risk and it could save millions of lives compared to only allowing the rich to immunize their own populations 1st so it's a great idea the problem is that many rich countries like my own decided that they

were going to jump the queue and simply by millions and millions of vaccines themselves so that there wouldn't be enough select on the market why why did they line up why can't the brits line up orderly like the germans. it's a good question we've seen a lot over the last few years but. saluki i mean they that they just decided they wanted you know if they wanted to vaccinate the whole british population then i think seemed pretty immune to the questions of global injustice it's not that they haven't given any money to kovacs they have they've given quite a lot to kodak's actually i think one of the problems with the british government particularly is it always stands behind the pharmaceutical industry some of the companies of which are based and regularly puts the returns of those companies make before the needs. of the population globally so the most recent has happened if i think i mean we only have a few seconds how do we solve this then isn't it

a case of governments having to take over those patients from private pharma. precisely and let's bear in mind many of these vaccines have been produced with public money some of being produced entirely with public money so the idea that you that private eyes that knowledge and allow those companies to make profit off it in coming years is just completely wrong this is a pandemic it's about people's health not about return to shareholders so the government should keep the patents share the technology and help countries around the world produce the manufacturing capability so that they can produce the amount necessary so every to end this virus it didn't global justice now thank you very much it's a pleasure. as part of the show where our science correspondent derek williams takes the reins and says he'll questions on the coronavirus. what makes the new u.k. variant of the corona virus more contagious viruses evolve over time collecting

genetic changes called mutations most of these changes don't make them more effective in some way and therefore payers but every once in a while through sheer chance a variant like the one discovered in britain will acquire changes that give it advantages in this case they appear to have made it more transmissible so it's able to infect more people and to find out exactly what's going on at the molecular level scientists 1st had to look at exactly where changes occurred in the variants genome that made it different from earlier versions of source code to then they had to try to figure out how those genetic changes translated into changes in variant protein structures that could explain why people who get it are more contagious to enter cells sars koop to uses

a structure called the spike protein those are those bits that stick out all over the surface of a corona virus and that's what it uses to latch on to specific receptive ears on a cell surface as it seeks to break into it to make more of itself in the new variant investigators discovered 17 quite recent mutations and 8 of them affect the spike they change its molecular shape in different ways and it's likely that at least some of those changes make the variant better at latching onto receptor and if the spike fits the receptor more snugly the hypothesis goes it's probably better at infecting the. cell possibly a lot better for reasons that are less clear some of the mutations might also drive up viral loads in the throats and noses of people who are infected so so when they speak or cough they spread more of the virus to others those 2 aspects the experts

say likely explain at least to some extent why the new variant is more transmissible. turk williams that if you've got a question just leave it on our you tube channel i'm ben physical and thanks for watching stay safe and i'll see you again sort of like.

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