cold alternative facts i have deep respect for the role of a free and independent press in our democracy and for the role all of you play as i noted earlier there will be moments when we disagree and there will certainly be days where we disagree for extensive parts of the briefing even perhaps i believe a common goal which is sharing accurate information with the american people meanwhile vice president come about how our us took up a post in the senate swearing in new members of georgia with the new law make is the senate is now split 5050 between democrats and republicans house's vote to tip the scales the meaning the democrats now have control of both houses of congress and the power to push forward with president biden's agenda. joining us now from washington is our correspondent all over salat all over i understand u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi spoke moments ago and has reacted to president biden's inauguration. she has she was delivering her 1st weekly

press conference since joe biden took office and there she was praising joe biden's message of unity as you know joe biden in his inauguration speech on wednesday made clear that he wants to be a president of all americans a time when the country is really divided and polarized so that for one so she was very supportive of course of that message she did not give an exact timeframe of the planned impeachment trial at the senate she argues that this impeachment would not undermine joe biden's unity ministry because that is the big concern right now of course that it will alienate republican voters so i understand she is going ahead with the trump impeachment trial. that is the plan yes but she does not deliver any details on the time frame she said congress is ready to proceed she also said it will happen soon we don't know exactly when this could be might happen on friday but might also happen next week so we might see then the articles of

impeachment then delivered to senate this is where the trial will take place as we know joe biden is not a big fan of this impeachment proceeding he therefore does not want to push congress to move on quickly that's what we hear from the wide halls he really wants to focus on his policies right now coal that is the top priority as we speak and get done as much as possible in his 1st 100 days as u.s. president because of course this also goes against his message is inauguration message that one urging unity yeah that's correct and in order to be able to do so of course you need to reach out to all americans there is one half who would not support or say at least the supporters of the child will not support such an impeachment proceeding so he will probably be remain neutral on that issue and leave congress with it this is what he said times and times again

and as you know then therefore the biggest challenges colditz the economy and that's what he really wants to focus on to show that he is a president that is trying to tackle the problems and get over the polarization that the country has been suffering from obvious out reporting from washington thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. mongolia's prime minister has resigned after public outrage over the treatment of a coronavirus patient and her newborn baby crowns took to the streets after the woman was moved to an infectious disease center wearing just hospital pajamas and plastic slippers at minus 25 degrees celsius. chinese state media reporting that a worker trapped in a gold mine for more than a week has died as rescuers continue efforts to save 21 others 11 have been contacted but the fate of the other 10 remains and. the

german airline is losing a 1000000 euros every 2 hours because of the decline in global travel the dutch carrier kalen has also announced up to $1000.00 job losses a covert $1000.00 restrictions have left several airlines on the brink of collapse . well the threats posed by new coronavirus strains is topping the agenda of a video summit of leaders this evening they are considering measures including further border restrictions and better coordination of lockdowns chance on america defended her decision to extend and tighten germany's national lockdown she says too many people are still dying and is urging germans to take the new variant seriously or face a 3rd wave of infections. some unusual january sunshine in berlin

arrived for journalists questions with a more sober message declining in fiction writes fewer people in i.c.u. is just not good enough when still so many people are dying in germany from covert 19. today alone we have lost over 1000 people this is terrible these are not just numbers these are people who have died all alone these are families who are mourning we have to keep reminding ourselves of this. the big worry now comes in the form of variant strains of covert 19 they have been isolated cases of them in germany so far they're one of the major reasons lock down measures were extended to meet february and some rules tightened he you leaders want to stop these strains from spreading across the block but without having to cloyd's borders pongal americal says germany isn't planning to do that yet bosh so be quite frank if a country with an infection rate twice as high as germany's opens all their shops and

we still have ours closed then of course there's a problem. and when it comes to vaccinations another call for patience and enormous global demand and not enough doses has led to a slower than expected rollout in germany uncle americal says things will improve repeating a promise that everyone in germany should be offered a vaccine by the middle of september. at least 32 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a double suicide bombing in iraq is the 1st major attack in the capital baghdad in 3 years 2 bombers wearing explosive vest blew themselves up at a crowded market authorities believe the incident could mark the resurgence of the so-called islamic state. security forces assess the damage from the deadly suicide blast and are met with pools of blood and widespread destruction. medical workers tend to dozens of injured victims.

and we were there by the stands someone came and fell to the ground instructions complained that his stomach hurt then he pressed the detonator in his hand and it exploded immediately people were torn to pieces many died and were injured. these kinds of attacks were once common in baghdad but have been rare since the islamic state was driven out in 2017 tensions have heightened over forthcoming elections and in economic crisis no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing but authorities are presuming at terrorist link. is the wall there. the way and the enemy are clear. as far as i know there has been no declaration but it is likely that the terrorist organization the islamic state is behind this criminal incident. which.

forces are on high alert in case of further attacks. while this was the 1st deadly suicide attack in baghdad since 28 earlier i asked. a journalist for the a.f.p. news agency in baghdad why it happened now. it's an interesting question there haven't been many details that have been revealed so far by security agencies about the incentives or the. reasons behind the attack now but one connection that people in the street and some some security officials have been making are the legislative elections that are set to take place later on this year iraq has seen similar rounds of violence before previous legislative elections a bluff that you mention in 2018 actually came just a few months before the most recent parliamentary election that year and so some people are in the connection between increased political tensions right now across

the country and a potential rise and this kind of violence that we saw this morning. and that was semi out of a way of the a.f.p. news agency reporting from a botched dot that agree so weren't like sailors testimony has forced people to confront issues of sexual abuse sophie big arturo has accused a senior sports official a sexually assaulting her testimony has sparked shock and anger and helped others to speak out. when safia beckett's already carried greece's flag of the 2016 rio olympics it was reward for her years long service to sailing she'd won a gold medal at her home games in athens in 2004 but even then she was burying a dark secret now she's testified to a prosecutor about her abuse at the hands of a senior greek sailing official in 1998. and i want to tell is that i hope on this

occasion other women and people who have experienced sexual abuse will come forward so that our society will be more healthy and we are no longer be afraid. beckett's or as testimony is a watershed moments in greece initial denials by the greek sailing federation sparked a backlash in a country where sexual harassment is considered to be beckett's already revealed her abuse during an online conference last week saying the official had performed a quote lewd act in front of her. i told him no i repeated that i did not want to go further he joked saying it was nothing he was telling me he would stop if i didn't want to but whatever i said didn't make him stop when he finished and got off me i left crying and ashamed. since beckett's oras revelations many more women from sports and other walks of life have come forward with their own stories of abuse and greece's president south

remeeting earlier this week has praised beckett's oro for her courage in speaking out. tickets rule that austria now where 4 young flyers have taken on the world's most notorious downhill ski run in win suits and parachutes well just days before the one come race is the 4 daredevils dropped out of a helicopter 2 and a half kilometers about kitzbuhel and executive a world 1st flight sweeping down the course known as the strife they reach speeds of up to 250 kilometers an hour just. killed a. amazing not for the faint of heart a reminder now the top story that we're tracking for you this hour joe biden his

beginning is the 1st full day as president of the united states he signed executive orders to rejoin the harrison klein accord and the world health organization fine is also unveiling a new national strategy to fight the pandemic. on the rock n roll land that thank you so much for spending this part of your day with a stick around up next pentacle and with our covert 19 special shown i'll see you at the top of the hour. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. passion drama

competition wife marketing numbers happens here to help fight. that's intuition. sandstorms fire. because we love. to go off on you to join us. as the world faces down the coronavirus infectious disease experts are becoming central to our lives advising world leaders and us on how to survive. but these scientists are just battling a virus while under heavy media scrutiny they're also finding misinformation politicized messaging and even personal attacks. their research information and

advice is becoming even more critical as more variants emerge with unknown mutations. scientists are often happy to be behind the scenes working on experiments or trials hoping to produce a success that may end up in an academic journal one day but the pandemic has catapulted this next one from the lab into the spotlight like many of her scientific p. is. is a microbiologist and just at the university of costa rica and joins us now 1000 feel to suddenly be at the center of government decision making. well it's a difficult task because as you said scientists tend to be in the lab and do experiments and trying to have like interested life and because of this pandemic we have to jump in and trying to give advice and try to give our cholo what

we know and what we can prove or not prove or have evidence for it has been them that difficult thing to do playing that advisory role how much time does that leave you then in the lab will that's a good question actually before coronavirus i used to work with dengue and seek a virus with our viruses and i have a lot of i'm going projects and i else would peach i mean i'm a professor so it's difficult to manage all the time too in order to read and learn everything from these new virus and to see all the tsunami of information that's coming from all the scientists all around the world and to really have time for other things actually my life right now it's like 80 percent of my day time is corner virus and like 20 per cent is teaching so i have

neglected all other things it feels like that for a lot of us to tell you the truth. how how much influence do you really have as an advisor how much of all that information that you get gets through to the politician. well that's a really good question because we science advisers have to learn that we have just percent if they have to if the percent evidence and to suggest things but at the end we're not the ones taking decisions we're just there to china in politician to make a better or the best decision that seek or she can make so it's kind of a difficult thing for example for me it has been really i have a lot of influence for example in diagnostics or how we handled the seas or how we understand the virus or what's happening with all these new environments that you

said before but. the actual mistress' like for example up down or economical consequent having economical consequences and it's part of what the politicians should do so i'm not that powerful but i think that for at least here in costa rica the government has been a really good opening for all of the scientists this lot so that we can go through it and suggest what about the message of mosques then some scientists reportedly played that down to prevent a mass public russell mosque financial supplies to medical stuff what went wrong may. well i think we were naive actually all of us that we used to study coronaviruses before we were. we knew about current a virus sars one and we knew that we were we were able to control it so when all the cases were starting to come up in china we thought that maybe we'll this is

this looks like start maybe something similar maybe we can control it in the same measures that we used in 20022003 i think we were kind of hoping and naive that thinking that it was going to be like cyrus one but we were surprised actually we when we knew all at that moment after rouhani went into lockdown and after china went in to love them that it was going to be quite a difficult time and. and i think that scientists were. kind of by us thinking that the pandemic was going to be another virus like for example in one some virus we were actually some of us were thinking about the corner virus and there were there but we were not that. sure and i think it was

a problem and the w.h.o. also was a little bits lol trying to to declare this an emergency and to to prevent we're also putting out a problem with a vaccine a lot of people are saying it's not 100 percent that we know 95 percent is fantastic it's one of the best acting we've ever had. if it's the best thing that we ever have the problem is that these were spread to require assists so the buckskin probe is not that a 100 percent effective preventing infection but it's good preventing these. patients and dying so it's a great vaccine actually it's kind of you have to wonder of the achievement of this scientific achievement it was so good it is so fast and so effective actually i think it's a lot of misinformation and social. social networks that start to have this kind of of a conspiracy theories and all this stuff but it kind of affecting how scientists.

show what's going on and be and explain what's going on they will have to leave it there you know here thank you very much for being on the show today thank you for having me but as well there is battling surgeon coronavirus cases on top of a drawn out economic crisis along downs forcing thousands of people to pack up and leave which is complicating the situation for colombia. to carry what used the moments when i made steering he left the hospital he's colombian and spent 36 days in intensive care then he saw the havoc the covert 19 has caused in the hospitals of kooky. in general the attention of the doctors and nurses was very good. but i also saw that there are lots of people who are left on their own abandoned you get there and you are practically left in

a disposable diaper. connected to a machine. in an effort to curb the spread of the virus authorities closed the colombian venezuelan border but that has not stopped the flow of people non-governmental organizations estimate that some 100000 people continue to move between the 2 countries every day. they do it along illegal trails like this one where the authorities. to carry out any health checks. it puts more pressure on city hospitals some of them have reported a 100 percent bed occupancy. being someone who comes infected and crosses it using these illegal trails ends up being a spreader of the virus to everyone around here. and the number of people he can infect is really impossible to calculate.

coronavirus safety measures are barely respected in kolkata many do not maintain social distancing or even wear a mask even without the illegal border crossings if you demonologist fear that a 2nd wave could soon hit the region that could bring the already alarming death toll in the border areas sinew highs. as i part of a show where our science correspondent eric williams tackles your questions on the corona virus. which vaccine is currently the safest and most effective one. around 10 different vaccines are currently being given on a on a pretty wide scale to people in various countries around the world but some still haven't completed trials or published all their data it would be irresponsible at this point to recommend one over others but i'm happy to take a closer look at the 2 so far that have checked all of the boxes for emergency

authorization in the e.u. both are what are called messenger r.n.a. vaccines and they're the 1st ever based on this technology platform to be approved one was developed by german biotech company bio on tech and pharma giant pfizer the 2nd comes from a u.s. based biotech company called madera let's look at safety 1st both vaccines were tested in trials involving over 30000 subjects half received the vaccine the other half were given a placebo some of the people who got the candidate back scenes reported mild issues especially after the 2nd dose like like headache or fatigue or pain at the injection site but those usually passed quickly with with no major adverse events reported since they've been rolled out

a few dozen recipients have had more serious allergic reactions to them what's called anaphylaxis but don't forget the 2 vaccines have now been administered to tens of millions of people some deaths in fragile seniors in norway who received the pfizer buy on tech vaccine are also currently being in. investigated and recommendations in the future might also change for that small group but as of now all those candidates have lived up to expectations that they would be very safe to take possible long term effects will only be revealed in time of course but there's no sign of any so far when it comes to effectiveness trials showed the 2 pretty much neck and neck both the madonna and the pfizer biotech vaccines prevented the development of covert $900.00 and around

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