arms control treaty in the united states and therefore even more important russia ready called for an extension for this no parent treaty for some time by the time ministration had rejected it and even the potential extension for one year and was rejected and for biden this has obviously been one of his priorities regarding russia terry you have the opportunity today to talk to nato secretary general. to ask to get his reaction as us now to a part of your conversation and then i'd like to you to weigh in please and they promise have made it clear that they all support. the new store pigment on call on your show to respond in a way to the u.s. . proposal now is terry why is this treaty so important to nato. willie as curly mentioned it is the last remaining arms control treaty between washington and moscow so the europeans have seen these other cornerstones

of their stability crumble the last one the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty under the trump administration just within the last couple of years so while the europeans are not parties to any of these agreements they are the land mass in between the 2 countries that hold the most nuclear weapons in the world so nobody wants there to be any freedom for missiles to be flying over our heads here in europe so they are very much hoping that the u.s. and russia despite all of the other problems in the bilateral relationship can really nail down this treaty for another 5 years and then move on to renegotiating what other weapons might be covered under it what other countries might be covered under it it's really important for the europeans right now to keep this last thread of arms control intact family in moscow now to you according to nato the ball is in the kremlin's courts and a new reaction there. well i think the kremlin is also likely to

be on board with extending this treaty even though the reaction that we have heard from the kremlin spokesperson to me through his golf has been rather cautious and almost you might say a bit coy he said that he welcomed the fact that the u.s. wanted to extend the new start treaty but he also said that of course russia would have to wait to look at the finer print to look at the details it seems to me that the kremlin is almost playing a bit hard to get with the new administration in the u.s. especially considering that vladimir putin himself called for an extension a 5 year extension of the new start treaty as recently as last year and russia has always kind of in the last few years on the trumpet administration very much portrayed the u.s. as the side leaving international treaties leaving international arms treaties as well including the i.n.f. treaty as well and one russian expert that i spoke to here said that really the new start treaty is kind of what remains the bare bones of arms control that remains

between the u.s. and russia and i think that especially considering how frosty relations are between the u.s. and russia at the moment with the threat of potential new sanctions from the biden administration hanging in the air with kind of the tension between the west and russia over the arrest of opposition politician i like saying of any russia will certainly also be on board with extending this this key treaty and we sure in moscow brussels and. washington thank you all 3 for your reporting. now for a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. the trials impeachment trial over his role in the u.s. capitol riots could begin as early as next week house speaker nancy pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment against the former president to the senate on monday mr trump has been afforded since joe biden's inauguration on wednesday.

funerals have taken place for the $32.00 victims of 2 suicide bombings in iraq's capital baghdad the services were held in the early hours of friday in the shrine city of new jobs so-called islamic state claimed responsibility for the blast it's the deadliest attack on baghdad in 3 years time. a spokeswoman for the jailed kremlin critic alexina vali has been sentenced to 9 days in jail after calling for a demonstration carryin wishes hearing lasted all of 5 minutes she was detained along with other nov on the protests so see it's ahead of protests planned across russia this weekend in support of the jailed kremlin critic. some a sobering news here in germany to report the number of deaths from the corona virus pandemic as crossed 50000 while the head of germany's

a public health institute said the figure was distressing he's urging the government to maintain its tough national law down until there's a massive drop in both deaths and new infections one of the biggest problems is the situation in nursing homes across the country. the vaccine rollout is well underway in german nursing homes but they remain a big covert 19 hot spot there are currently outbreaks in hundreds across the country even as the overall infection right steadily for it's a reminder that germany isn't out of trouble yes it's not good we currently know of around $900.00 outbreaks in nursing homes there are probably an reported cases. but there are homes with very few or no cases of covert 19 these homes are often better results to have better sanitary measures and more professional knowledge and support this should be the case in all nursing harbors the chief concern for health

authorities now is getting on top of the threat posed by covert 19 mutations this is one of the main reasons germany's current lockdown was toughened and extended until mid february that and trying to bring down the stubbornly high real number of infections and deaths each day. if you can see the numbers are heading in the right direction but they are still too high. and that's what this is all about. intensified if it's which are not easy. so i don't mind them for so that we can bring the numbers down to a point where we can gain control over the pandemic once again. we conclude it's germany's president is encouraging people to light candles to remember the 50000 people who have died from cove at 19 in the country. is planning a memorial service for after easter sadly by the end they will be many more victims

to add to this week's terrible milestone. a terrible moscona indeed let's bring in political correspondent linda crane who's tracking that situation for you 50000 people who have died melinda put this in perspective for us what is the situation currently in germany well as we heard there the numbers are coming down somewhat from the peaks that they reached in december at that time germany had nearly $200.00 new cases per 100000 members of the population that is now gone down to around 115 we had 17000 new cases in 24 hours announced today but as you heard the health minister is saying that absolutely is still too high too high particularly in view of the fact that we do have new mutations that have been found here in germany as well that mean the virus

is much more transmissible and 17th 2000 new cases means lots of opportunities for those mutations to go to work so definitely lock down measures set to stay in place here and authorities warning that even the much hoped for respite in spring and summer may not look the way it did last year that germans may need to remain very vigilant well into the spring how do they feel about that. well polls show there is still a very high level of willingness to comply with the restrictions but fatigue is also setting in because the restrictions are often announced on a piecemeal basis and then extended peace for peace and that's especially hard for people with school and kindergarden aged children who look forward to them

returning and then are told shortly before an announced date that in fact it's going to be extended so there is some frustration there and a great longing for real clarity now you you mentioned of course the variants that a lot of health officials are worried about the brazilian coronavirus variants we haven't heard about that yet here on the continent feared to be particularly infectious was detected today in germany for the 1st time that's correct it was found on a traveler returning from brazil apparently he was asymptomatic but when he landed here in germany he was tested and found to be positive and the fact is there have been calls on that basis for tightening travel restrictions e.u. leaders met yesterday to talk about that with the chancellor of germany. pushing hard for tighter talcott travel restrictions for now the e.u. said it doesn't want to go down that path it especially wants to keep borders

between you countries open but there will be some leeway in terms of countries imposing travel restrictions to 3rd countries like brazil like south africa like the u.k. so expect to see some moves in that direction starting next week like a correspondent on the crane thank you for your reporting. here's a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic the european commission says it will seek clarification from pfizer over new delays in delivering over 1000 vaccines to e.u. countries earlier the 2 parties sick there would be no further delay next week after supplies slowed in recent days and british police have raided a wedding with $400.00 guests held where $400.00 guests health secretly in a london school england's current lockdown rules allow weddings with a maximum of 6 people the organizer could face a fine of more than 11000 euros and media reports in hong kong suggest tens of

thousands of residents will be placed under lockdown for the 1st time to contain a new outbreak the measures will cover a small but densely populated part of the code and insula. something uplifting now in there northern turkey a devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital where her owner worse receiving treatment the dog name is meat. followed the ambulance carrying her own are and then may day leave is it's to the hospital even though she was being cared for by a relative she would refute leave run off and return to keep watch outside the hospital all day finally bunch of girl was reunited with her owner jamal and she could prepare and we've been saying her excitement your bias has been discharged from the hospital and little bonsa is said to be taking great care of him at home.

i can't get enough of that stuff all right or a mountain out of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour moscow has welcomed a proposal from u.s. president biden to extend the u.s. russia a nuclear arms control treaty by 5 years the accord which caps the number of nuclear weapons each country can deploy is set to expire in 2 weeks' time. but is it for me a little rock n roll and on behalf of all of us thank you so much for spending this part of the day with us up next to business update with steven pressley. the fight against the coronavirus tend to have a. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. n u g m

e no yes yes we can hear you and how the last 2 years gentlemen sound so that when you bring your uncle a man called and you've never touched a surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical really what moves and want . who talked to people who followed her along the way my runs and critics alike now is the world's most powerful woman shaking her head like it's diagnosed by medical . experts hailed the coronavirus vaccines as one of humanity's greatest achievements . it took a matter of moms as opposed to years or decades but we're still in uncharted territory. in no way 33 seniors died after being inoculated against covert

19 authorities are investigating whether there was a link. there's been the already issue in the past with other vaccines and that's why the world in setting up monitoring systems watching out for side effects that may not have been seen in big clinical trials. still hopes are high that this is the best vaccine in history. it's a race between injections and infections and israel is winning it's an alkie lated a quarter of its population scientists are closely watching to see how effective the vaccine is when given to an entire population and checking to see if it's safe . this basketball stadium in tel aviv is now a vaccination center people under the age of 35 are already being immunized here while residents are getting their 2nd jab. the vaccines are being administered in record time by intact pfizer is delivering millions of doses in return the pharma

companies are receiving valuable data that allows them to measure the advocacy of their product. i mean i don't have a problem with the data agreement or pursuit and i don't feel like i'm part of an experiment. we're leading the. 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 buy and buys are 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 a 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 anonymous data medical data today can be transferred to be non anonymized if you have the right tools and the right technology we want to have a kind of an offer sites experts that will make sure that this data is not going to be exploited later by 3rd party. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has to 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. the ambitious target coincides with parliamentary elections which netanyahu is hoping to win but while the number of vaccinations are shooting up so too are infections a race against time that israel is determined to win. still we don't know how long immunity lasts and if there are long term effects let's look at the immediate effects with all of heaven from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies i asked him what i should do if i get a headache fatigue or other symptoms after the injection well it's absolutely normal to have. transiently mild reaction to a vaccination like the ones you've mentioned all raised and vote for awhile this

sort of thing so if you experience that you're probably don't have to do anything but just wait for a moment if it's longer a little thing or if it's small sivia the best thing all the important thing to do is really report it to the doctor and make sure that you all possible side effects get reported to the authorities what would be more severe or serious side effects that and force are regulated to say act. well if they are. if they are more prolonged really they don't go away and of coals they really have to react to reports when they're. when the symptoms need hospital treatment or if they are in some way really frightening i say this is all being monitored but what about in countries where there's no reliable

safety monitoring going on. they used to be a pretty huge problem but that's been progress in recent years. you edge over the world health organisation has work. to do to create so-called mad safety app that's an app that can be used on mobile phones. this enables everyone to report 'd side effects and so because many even who are a country's now days have mobile phone networks this is really a way to spread. reporting system even results pull settings mr can you tell me the people being monitored have got that same being given the vaccine are they also being checked to see that they don't get sick and pos on the virus. this is checked this is part of the

clinical trials to find out it's not as easy to find this out as it is to see if people get symptomatic of it 19 or not so it takes longer to find out and part of finding out is off calls to see if when you vaccinate people in the search and region. does. decrease they've pandemic mall that is just explained from having people for themselves they immune to the virus in the meantime some of us are going to have to wait a long time to get this vaccine i mean shouldn't i just wait and see how it goes with other people. well the diseases than. the virus spreading keeps spreading keeps mutating and we see new

versions of the virus which are probably even more easy to contract so far everyone who has the opportunity to get a vaccination this is certainly a much better option than having the risk of getting infected so i don't have to pay for allowing. well in germany. european union. the governments pay all the vaccination. and various countries all side e.u. this is also the case of calls doesn't apply to every country in the world. they're from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies let's take a quick look at what is the 1st photo of kofi 2 until now images of the microscopic menace that plagued the world being computer generated models but not these

technicians at night a graphics a spinoff from b. as technical university of use 3 d. technology to scan the virus having color it gives us the most detailed view yet for such as hope it will help them fight the disease more effectively as the actual shapes of the particles and now clearer than befall credible something so little and pretty and cause so much trouble. and if that's not enough to fascinate you maybe derrick williams will is his daddy segment answering your questions on the carotid virus. how does the pfizer buy antec vaccine will work. i've answered this before but the question is posed again and again so i guess it's maybe time to go over the details again 2 of the vaccines that have now been widely approved one developed by biotech and pfizer and one produced by my dear no are

what are called a messenger r.n.a. or already made vaccines now the technology behind them has been at the focus of a lot of research for decades but but this is the 1st time they've received widespread approval from health care authorities unlike vaccines based on traditional platforms ones that for example use inactivated versions of the virus the biotech pfizer vaccine leads to an immune response in the body by delivering information in the form of a special molecule messenger r.n.a. . emira name only kills are our single stranded chains and what are called nucleotides that fulfill a very important function in cells they're kind of the blueprints for making proteins and act as messengers between a cells headquarters in the nucleus and it's protein building factories out in the

side of plaza and hence the name but the protein these new and more and they vaccines include for isn't a human one it's a protein made by the corona virus and when that day is injected it causes your cells to begin making that viber all protein and that viral protein provokes an immune response just as if you caught covert 19 sending in the pretty simple quick to produce m.r.i. in a code molecules to make these complicated proteins and getting the body to do the work is a great solution to a complex problem and and there are high hopes that m.r. any vaccines which seemed to have finally come into the road are now set to to revolutionize a range of fields in medicine. finally even in a pandemic is romance a british couple who were critically ill with the virus has married on the code

ward elizabeth and fiance simon of bryan her adieux and strive was so sick doctors told them it might be their only chance to tie the knot both are still receiving oxygen and they'll have to wait a few days for their 1st kiss the bride says she's content to wait. very. good luck to both of them i'll see you next week bye bye.

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