this is news coming to you live from berlin u.s. president joe biden announces sweeping new measures to combat the code 9000 crisis he says the pandemic is a national emergency and must be treated as such but he also has a warning things are going to get worse before they get better also coming up india has started vaccinating its population against kobe is 19 but the rollout has been

slow as the government struggles to counter misinformation and questions are raised about the safety of the home. plus fish down to tween the australian government and search engine google is threatening to. we'll tell you why the battle is being closely watched around the world. well i'm terry martin good to have you with us u.s. president joe biden has unveiled a new plan to tackle his country's 1000 emergency announcing the measures on his 1st full day in power he said drastic action is needed it will include tightening rules on wearing masks in public testing will be stepped up then travelers to the u.s. will have to test negative and quarantine arrival also wants to speed up the vaccination program he's warning though that the pandemic will get worse in the coming weeks

with the death toll likely to rise from 400200 1000000 next month. taking charge of bringing the pun to make under control. this next one of those keeping workers say. do. it day into his new job president biden signed a raft of executive orders to ramp up the federal response to the coronavirus for the past year we could the federal government to act with the urgency and focus and coordination we needed and we have seen the tragic cost of that failure. over 400000 people have lived in the u.s. and biden warns the toll is likely to rise to half a 1000000 in february but he hopes the strategy he's putting in place well eventually saved many lives is in good hands here our national strategy is

comprehensive it's based on science not politics it's based on truth not. in this detail our plan starts with gresson safe and effective vaccination campaign to meet our goal of administering 100000000 shots and our 1st 100 days in office we're on day one this will be one of the greatest operational challenges our nation has ever undertaken. the u.s. is currently administering almost a 1000000 doses a day but the rollout has been rocky on several states have complained of scarce supplies. biden's deploying the defense production up to help vaccine manufacturers increase production he's also implementing measures to improve distribution and after being effectively banished from trumpet ministration briefings the nation's

top infectious diseases doctor is back in effect she says he feels liberates at the science can speak. he's optimistic faxon's can suppress the virus despite new variance submerging just if we get 70 to 85 percent of the country vaccinated let's say by the end of the summer middle of the summer i believe by the time we get to before we will be approaching a degree of normality said to be perfectly normal but one that i think will take a lot of pressure off the american public. the message from the biden administration it's clear hope is on the horizon but it will still take many months to overcome the pandemic and the devastation it has rolled. as william blue croft is covering the story for us well what's different about joe biden's approach to fighting the coronavirus compared to what we saw under donald trump. i think we heard about it right there in the report you know word science

biden already said during the campaign when he was president elect that he would let science dictate the agenda and not politics like we saw so often on the trump administration not just politics but trump's own wishes and things that would make him look older thought that he would look good. we also heard in the report how dr anthony fauci who's the white house's chief science advisor infectious disease advisor saying he feels liberated that science is going to lead the way that basically he can come to a meeting to advise the president biden and his advisers on what to do if he doesn't know it's ok to say you don't know you don't have to make things up just to satisfy him that said this is a very ambitious rollout independent science and medical people are saying 100000000 doses is a ambitious and b. might not even be enough it's also uncertain if 100000000 doses means 100000000 people or it means 50000000 people if they're going to go the 2 dose route there's

also is a enormous amount of federal agencies that the u.s. government can deploy and they want to see if they will happen for example osha that's the federal agency that oversees workplace safety they've been almost a wall throughout this entire pandemic well to see if joe biden turns to this agency as just one example to make sure that places that work place are safe for workers so a lot to see how this $100.00 day plan really really works out well biden's plan also includes a strong emphasis on mask wearing for example how receptive do you think americans will be to his new approach. it seems americans have for a long time just mostly needed consistent messaging from their elected leaders polls show that a majority of americans take this pandemic seriously and disapproved of donald trump's handling of it and so really what's needed here is consistent strong science based messaging and while the federal government and joe biden is somewhat limited in what they can do because state and local authorities have

a lot of authority when it comes to health measures and in for example enforcing masks they can definitely set the tone that creates more of a universal response to the pandemic william thank you very much that was did william good cross now for a look at some of the other stories making headlines today the u.s. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell wants to push back the start of donald trump's impeachment trial to february that would give the former president more time to prepare house democrats signaled they want to move ahead quickly with the trial saying trump must be held accountable for his role in the capital storming. the central african republic has declared a state of emergency for the next 15 days authorities are trying to reign in political violence across the country since last month's presidential election tens of thousands of people fearing for their safety have fled to neighboring homes.

e.u. leaders are strongly discouraging people from traveling across the continent for non-essential trips the warning came after a virtual conference to discuss the spread of new variants of the corona virus the leaders said borders would stay open but warned some travel restrictions could come in the following days. well here's a look at some of the other developments worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic germany's public health body the robert culp institute says more than 50000 people in germany have now died from coronavirus in spain the easing of travel restrictions over christmas to allow families to get together caused a huge spike in infections intensive care admissions have increased by 60 percent in the last 2 weeks and the number of people dying by suicide in japan has risen for the 1st time in over a decade as the pandemic reverses years of progress combat a high suicide rate japan's health ministry says women and children in particular

are taking their lives at higher rates. india has begun vaccinating its population of 1300000000 people frontline health workers are among the 1st 3 off for the job but the rollout has been slow with less than 60 percent of the target being met so far the government says one reason is a mistrust of back scenes that's being fueled by misinformation on social media some people are also concerned that one of the vaccines was approved before phase 3 trials were completed w.'s minera chaudhary has this report. put 37 years old. it's a big day today she's going to get her 4th do is of the call that 1000 vaccine. he does has been working as a nurse at a private hospital in delhi put theists and has been a health club for over 20 years now as a head worker during the pandemic she has been worried about the safety off her

family against the vitus. i have to take care tony there are little children in our family and i was concerned about their health i had to stay in a separate room keep my clothes and shoes separately maintain proper hygiene constantly use sanitizers i had to take care of the smallest. detail is one of the 1st in line in the country to receive the vaccine for the widest. india is in the middle of what is being called the voice largest called the 1000 immunization program. in the 1st round of the vaccine rollout the government aims to vaccinate about 30000000 health workers and other frontline workers. to a vaccine for far have been given images the use of proven by the country's. quality the oxford astra zeneca job. india and vaccine and indigenous vaccine developed by part of biotech but as the country takes

a crucial step towards battling the pandemic many concerns loom large there are questions being raised on core vaccine getting approval from internet without its efficacy data in place as its 50 trials are still underway some experts say that this is a break from established protocol and could lead to a loss of best trust among people who however there's no clear consensus on this issue in the medical community dr verrinder as john a leading that's the knowledge of it says the approval to kovacs and has been given to lying on the data immunogenicity and safety he says such images see government approvals are not uncommon in unusual circumstances.

and communication. using 2 people. even though there are actual voices regarding the images the approval many working in the health care sector confident that vaccination is the right step to take. this is a highly contagious disease so it was important for the vaccination to stunt. that is now almost through them and be treated to minute observation period course waxen nation she said she has started feeling more secure against the corona virus and is eagerly awaiting the 2nd dose. of a more on india's vaccination drive i'm joined now by millennium i solace she's a public health professional and works with the all india drugs action network especially thanks for being with us this morning india is the nation rollout has been underway now for a week what's your assessment of how it's going so far so given that the vaccine rollout has been long awaited in india it has actually

started off with a very muted response and this seems to be due to some hesitancy from the health care workers who are supposed to receive the vaccine in this 1st phase reports have been coming in from all parts of the country about a much lower turnout than was expected. there to vaccines being given in india understand and one of them has not completed phase 3 trials is that a problem. you are very right the one of the few vaccines and this is not a biotech school vaccine has not is still in the field 3 trial and therefore when it was approved there were no efficacy data available and saw this this could be a factor in the acceptance of the vaccine by have got workers who generally have a higher level of medical literacy then maybe you're feeling among them that they

can hold off for a few more months until the efficacy of the big become available which is certainly a reasonable choice to assert. and so this this certainly might be one of the fact those needing to some hesitancy ok you say that there's been some reluctance for in terms of take up you say that we know about this von back scene that has gone through the phase 3 trials so there might be some reasons to be skeptical but there are other reasons affecting it too can you explain to us why this is there's such skepticism about the vaccination rollout program. so the government has been trying to issue communications to encourage health care workers to take the vaccines but there are some really important imitations to those communications so for example the government is currently not in a position to know about for the efficacy of either of the 2 vaccines so the focus has shifted to seeing that the vaccines are absolutely see if however the

procedures for investigating any adverse events or even cases of deaths following immunization have not been clearly laid out and this can also damage confidence there need be some in misinformation circulating and some tall schemes about the vaccines which you know we would expect to see in any part of the world however this time there may be a stronger role for the indian government to play in overcoming the misinformation ok. thank you very much for talking with us was pulling it out of the india drug action network. it's now israel which has vaccinated a higher percentage of its population than any other country nearly 30 percent have received the job so far the government says all israeli citizens will be inoculated by the end of march and that it is hoping to become the 1st country to reach herd immunity the data are being collected in israel could also prove vital for the

response of other countries. this basketball stadium in tel aviv is now a vaccination center people under the age of 35 are already being immunized here while older residents are getting their 2nd jam. the vaccines are being administered in record time by untucked pfizer is delivering millions of doses in return the pharma companies are receiving valuable data that allows them to measure the efficacy of their product. i mean i don't have a problem with the data agreement and i don't feel like i'm part of an experiment. we're leading the world on vaccinations and israel offers the right kind of infrastructure. it's israel's health care system with its universal insurance that makes the country so interesting to biotech visor. insurance companies allocate doctors to patients streamlining the vaccination program. the digitalized and centralized nature of data collection has created

a treasure trove of readily available information. if one wants to understand how a real world rollout of the vaccine program impacts public health then israel with the digital health repositories and it's very strong with the logical capabilities and it's very good outreach of public health and clinical health to all of the citizens is probably an ideal place to do that. the main objective is to find out at what stage the vaccination drive achieves herd immunity and to figure out ways to get there fast the data used in the research has been made anonymous but that hasn't stopped critics from sounding the alarm people are saying what's the problem with animal anonymized data and the problem is that anonymized data medical data today can be transferred to be non anonymized if you had the right tools and the right technology we want to have a kind of an offer sides experts that will make sure that this data is that going

to be exploited later by 3rd party. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has him for sized that the findings will benefit the rest of the world. but his prime focus is the impact that the vaccination program is having in israel itself. you know we will be the 1st country to defeat the pandemic. the deal i have struck with pfizer allows us to vaccinate everyone above 16 by the end of march. it's. the ambitious target coincides with parliamentary elections which netanyahu is hoping to win but while the number of backs nations are shooting up so too are infections a race against time that israel is determined to win. google has threatened to block its internet search engine all in australia if it's forced to pay news

organizations for their content google's representatives spoke at a parliamentary hearing into new legislation intended to make tech giants pay media companies for using news snippets australia's prime minister said he would not respond to google's threat like in other countries google dominates interest net search and searches in australia according to the company 95 percent of searches are done through its portals. let's bring in max walton here from a.b.c. news in new castle australia max tell us about this new bill that would force google to pay media outlets for content are lawmakers likely to pass it. yeah look the proposed digital media. strategy is looking at companies like google and facebook have to pay local media companies for providing that content in search and also in sort of sharing content on social media there is some very strong

support from from certain commercial media outlets and the government does seem very serious about it as you mentioned the prime minister scott morrison asserting that strategy doesn't respond to threats and he also said that the parliament here in australia sets the rules by which businesses are allowed to operate so certainly the government does seem very serious about it and one x. that i spoken to describe it as a high stakes game between companies like google and the government. in a word do you think it'll pass or not well look it's really hard to say but but it's likely to i mean it could be there's a very interesting case in in france today where where france has pushed forward with similar measures and certainly goole pushback against those and we've actually

seen after an appeals court pushed google to to negotiate we've had maybe at companies that they've actually done so and obviously the conditions of the slightly different however i think that is quite interesting but nevertheless i don't think we can say that it's exactly the same set of circumstances right now google spurgeon director has threatened to block its search engine entirely in australia which would be a huge blow how serious is this threat. yeah well as i say i mean google also seems very serious facebook and google for months now have been running quite public scare campaigns if you go into you true for a while there they were saying you know you tube will be taken down then today of course the latest from mel silver who runs google in a strong she also alkaloid a video. expressing the same concerns but more publicly not just talk parliamentary

inquiry and she said it would basically break how google works and it's not just her it's actually team berners lee the guy who invented the world wide web has sort of echoed the same sentiment and he doesn't necessarily have any interest in google so so i do think it's a really really difficult problem in that both i think both sides probably need to come to some sort of negotiation. ok max thank you very much for filling us in there was journalist max bogen reporting from newcastle australia. well russia is facing a growing problem with garbage the country produces around $60000000.00 tons of trash each year but very little of this is recycled the environmental organizations say more than 90 percent is dumped in a landfill sites often close to tell and villages activists say these produce not

that horrible smell but they also endanger the health of nearby residents as the w.'s yury rachet her report some russians are becoming increasingly desperate. is this a this is the pits it's as big as $45.00 soccer fields and is just one of dozens of garbage dumps on the outskirts of moscow presidents say just a few years ago with the pit was still deep in the ground now it's more of a hill and as if the garbage piles up the health problems due to the dump lies just a few 100 meters from the village of novel shop of all. of us hometown the mother of 2 says that some days the smell from the side was so bad she couldn't even open the windows and the kids jaroslava and well often sick video save i finally had enough she and her children moved to clean as city several

kilometers away. the little ones were constantly sick one day their pediatrician told me their children have rattling sounds in their lungs i didn't think about it for a very long before starting to look for an apartment for us here and clean later after we moved we went to the same doctor surprise surprise the lung rattling had disappeared how did that happen simple we moved away. families fate is no isolated incident 3 move is one of russia's most pressing concerns only. 6 percent of the country's cabbage is either processed or incinerated as the rest is simply dumped environmentalist's of warner these landfill sites around moscow in particular are a ticking time bomb i rarely conforming to safety standards of a poll new to the soil the ground water and to the air. greetings taken by the

state civil protection agency show the area surrounding alex inskeep it is also contaminated 3 years ago after it is found that hydrogen sulfide levels were $25.00 times of the acceptable amount. but nothing has been done to protect a local residence uli if it was mother is another of those affected the 67 year old's house is dangerously close to the dump but unlike her daughter she says she can't move. where would i go who would i sell my home to with that horrible smell outside who cares about someone like me and how would i even get by in the city my pension is $190.00 euros per month but i'd have to pay $130.00 euros for one room apartment. as you see it and to the other residents have tried to be to do to stand up for their rights in cold but to no avail.

but that's what's at the i don't know how much longer we can fight against the system there aren't that many of us and we feel desperately helpless. meanwhile the mountain off rubbish keeps growing and 2 there are plans to expand to the. and finally we're going to rule austria now where 4 young flyers have taken on the world's most notorious downhill ski run in a wing suit and parachutes just days before the hull income races the 4 daredevils drop out of a helicopter 2 and a half kilometers above kits and executed a world 1st flight sweeping down the course known as the life they reach speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour. take a look. that's

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