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the number of deaths in germany hits 50000 there are. countries vaccine roll out is too slow in that the european union isn't doing enough to make sure vaccines are distributed fairly and while the wrangling continues so does the dying i'm. in this is the day. light in the windows the light of morning. a lot of compassion. put a light in the window because we know people are suffering everywhere in our country . these are not just numbers these are people who died in loneliness these are these are people whose families are. let's not let up now the weeks ahead to.

put it to be worth it together we will emerge stronger from this. also coming up a life without google thinkable for lots of us but australia has plans to make google pay for news content he uses has led to the internet giant are threatening to withdraw its search engine from the country stright. rules for things you can do in a strike that's done. it's done by government. and that's how things work here in australia and people who want to work with that. you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats. welcome to the day we begin with sobering news here in germany where the number of deaths from corona virus from the corona virus pandemic is now past 50000 the head of the country's public health agency has described the figure as distressing and is

urging the government to maintain the tough national lockdown until there's a significant drop in deaths the new infections are the country's biggest problems is the situation in its nursing homes. the vaccine rollout is well underway in german nursing homes but they remain a big 19 hotspot there are currently outbreaks in hundreds across the country he even as the overall infection right steadily falls it's a reminder that germany isn't out of trouble yet it's. hardly know of around $900.00 outbreaks in nursing homes there are probably on reported cases. but there are homes we very few or no cases of covert 19 of these homes are often better results to have better sanitary measures and more professional knowledge and support should be the case in all nursing harbors the chief concern for hill for thought arties 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 data and trying to bring down the stubbornly high real number of infections and deaths each day. it's on in vacancies the numbers are heading in the right direction but they are still too high it's almost a month and that's what he sees all down. intensified if it's reach and not easy if you get info call it isn't so good mines and press so that we can bring the numbers down to a point where we can gain control over the pandemic once again me neither can clear but it's germany's president is encouraging people to light candles to remember the 50000 people who've died from coated 19 in the country france 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. 2 months ago adultery youngish

damas on the medical front line coordinating covert 19. now he's a member of the german parliament for the opposition green party and since on the parliament health committee welcome to day w dr how would you rate the german government's handling of this pandemic well what we once were a champion in the spring last year about looking outside numbers at the moment and it's a very very slow. vaccination campaign and i am very very concerned not only because of high numbers but because of your breach haitians which are a serious threat to our health care system and so whole fight against awful pandemic so why is the vaccination program so slow. well there are different reasons on the one hand side there is not enough vaccine and total all over europe but if we compare the measures over here in germany compared to

denmark or spain we still are too slow wished implementing the vaccination that szell national strategy especially when it comes to risk groups and older people we only focus on care homes and some off but lots but we miss the people who live in their private homes which are on similar risk so when given not contradict county are you able to explain why this then this slowness is that why these people being missed is this is just the way that the rollout is designed. well the main problem is that we have like a very centralized strategy so we try to bring old people to a centralized vaccination point where we try to give them the information they need and to vaccinate those people but when we think about our old grandparents sometimes it's hard for old people to have the ability to come to such places and

that is why all it takes it becomes a very very slow step by step and i think. we kind of miss the more mobile strategy of vaccinating older people. and then the european commission of course since on top of that this whole. vaccination process what sort of job has it's done do you think in terms of coordinating the rollout across the the co-incidence. well i think there is. well a lack of enough vaccine all over the globe so i'm not blaming you not giving it up back to you know the moment but i think information is so important part so to inform national governments and also local or regional teams about when you.

will arrive so that's one part and another thing which i think it's more important that we have to have like alternative strategies if we don't have enough vaccine at certain points in our strategy at the moment. i'm glad you brought that point up because i'm getting prime minister viktor orban he's so unhappy with the e.u. response that he's ordered 2000000 doses of russian sputnik 5 vaccine and he looks like he doesn't want to stop there we'll hear from him and then we'll come back to you in a moment dr suppose all of them moving on according to the vaccination plan the next will be category 3 but the that's the group of our compatriots who have chronic illness only but they're few and they're over the age of 60 which means almost $2000000.00 people anyway and at the heart of the look we would actually have that much chinese function if it had been licensed we could save them or at

least we would be able to free them from the risk it would human clinical council of war so we haven't told them they're proposing an alternative strategy and 2 weeks ago germany both 13000000 extra doses of the bugs that pfizer vaccine now we see you hungry also doing side deals that bypassing the e.u. procurement process is not the right thing to do do you think. well it certainly shows that we kind of we didn't prepared it and bounce and it would would have been a good saying for germany especially if we look on to if either by on take back seat to build up more capacities to produce more vaccine over here in germany which would have helped not only people in germany but all over europe now at the point where we are. yeah i suppose of the point that i'm getting out really is was germany right is hungry writes to say look european solidarity is all well and good

but people are dying so we will go outside the e.u. procurement process well i'm not so sure because if you look at the situation at the moment a single national wave wouldn't help basically because we would get you instructions for from everybody all over the country and all over europe so i think. european way where we help each other and scale up productions not only for our own reasons but for everyone over here that would be a good way so basically site deals only can like. strategy in addition to like european way ok so as a medic turned legislator i wonder how few so have you been able to identify within the the pa german polish entry system and the way it organizes this

i mean look and say right this needs to change if we change this one thing this would have such a dramatic effect on the way that we're hunting this pandemic. well basically there are 3 saying on the one hand side we really urgently need to hone cares test strategy we we really have a lack of good test to identify you inspections all over in germany so that would be in very a very important seeing especially careful and another saying is i think we really need to. bring those more say for a mosque like the p 2 mosque 2 more people over here in germany there are still like many places where the people barely where any mosque or just like ordinary mosque but not like safe medical mosque which are a good area as specially for the new imitation switch onboard righteous and asserts searching what i'm thinking of this yeah basically we need to stay more home in

germany many people are still working in their normal tech 3 story that all the offices and it is now not the time i mean we we are in a state of emergency and we need to stop that thank you for joining us doctor dr jaenisch dominant green member of the german parliament's health committee thank you so much. although in germany is the death rate higher than in the eastern state of saxony so many people have died there funeral homes are struggling to cope a many of those left behind a struggling with the shock. there should be a moment of prayer but there's no time for that there are simply too many constants too many bodies arriving at the dubai owned crematorium in saxony. home target and in some days there are more bodies than we can actually cremate on

a single day i'm finishing this is upon us for our employees also because there's no end in sight. that if. we are standing in the morning hall of our crematorium. it usually accommodates 90 people for the funeral services. unfortunately we had to convert the hall into a storage space because we could no longer keep up with the deaths in fact if there was an additional. it's a difficult situation for us. because relatives can usually say goodbye to their loved ones here. but at the moment that's not possible. to move leaves. no room for a funeral service not all of the confidence represent deaths from the coronavirus but many of them are marked so. these people had to end their lives without

a final hug from their loved ones. lutes banish cares for the bereaved he is a pastor and do about. family sometimes only realize how dangerous the coronavirus can be once they've lost a loved one to it. when a liberal me and i have contact with families who have lost a relative because of covert 19 to score they are in a state of shock and reconsidering things this 1st phase of mourning the so-called shock phase lasts longer for that because something inexplicable something in comprehensible has been added namely this pandemic plan to me. the pandemic is far from over. many more cremations will be carried out here get a hold monster is worried about the future. then. the assuming that the number of

infections remains high it follows that the number of deaths will too if the elephant is in. and that means we won't see any relief here until mid february at the earliest. ones in. it is a winter of mourning in durban as it is in many places in the world during the pandemic. well as you heard earlier hungry so fed up of waiting for the use slobo buying process that he's ordered 2000000 doses of the russian sputnik 5 covert vaccine the country's medicines agency has granted initial emergency approval for the drug and 1st deliveries are due to arrive in the next 30 days. i know that the test batches of the sputnik 5 vaccine have shrunk good results in hungary and we support further cooperation in this field. just addition are agreed provisos with access to a vaccine batch sufficient for the vaccination of 1000000 people get. well as go to

budapest where we join our correspondent stefan both so welcome stefan what prompted viktor all about to take this action. well what's really. extremely upset about brussels and the european union he believes that the are not very fast in rolling out the vaccines and he is extremely frustrated about that. day that. sense. are dying. in. force at the same time the. rolling out. the heights meet you at the university they are involved in the project as well and they are looking forward to. the fights that seem to be rolled out in hungary. of course in the european union because it has been approved by the

e.u. medicines agency. well that is so then it will know who you talk of course the government be saying that we are getting in have a handle on it and your hands are almost 12000 people reportedly died deaths already because of the corona virus situation here on a population of 10000000 so slowly but surely people are wondering what a stick government really doing for us now i have to say that people are very suspicious about that that seems i've spoken 'd with several areas not all of them are really standing in line or rushing to stand in line to get that zenaida and there was also quite frankly concern about the russian at that scene and of course 'd the chinese faxing because ethan debt is being considered this evening. and that

now when we when we consider. he's looking to russia and china to help. control you have to think the context to face it he has a long standing with brussels so how does a fit into the. yeah that's a very good point you're a stair because indeed he has a lot of trouble swiss brussels effect e.s.p. criticised by the e.u. all for his perceived out of critic style and the way he has been treating the media and the you dish arete so in that sense of course there is such a concern we see in the government that the e.u. is simply singling out on greek. the to be criticized so i think hungry wants to show and especially to prime minister that luc we really don't need necessarily brussels if really necessary we do it alone for instance wist of vaccines so i think he wants to show also to be a strong leader you also send

a nationalistic message as well and don't forget elections are coming up next year and that's i think also a reason behind he stands today. thank you so much for that stuff on the bus in budapest. right there where google says it will block its search engine in the country unless the government in canberra backs down over a new media code that would force the tech company to pay for news content the code put forward by the government times to make a google and facebook a media company is for using content that sites the government hit back at google saying that it would not respond to threats. australian news outlets won google to pay them a fee or face a hefty fine for publishing their content in its search engine

a corresponding all was drafted in december google says that's unacceptable and it retaliated at a hearing before the australian senate. the principle of honor strict it linking between websites is fundamental to search and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the card were to become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making. this would be the 1st time that google had pulled out of men tire a continent but australia isn't taking it lying down. to strive you makes rules for things you can do in a strike that's done. it's done by our government. and that's how things work here in stride and people who want to work with that in australia you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats google has

a lot to lose if australia goes ahead with its demands other countries could follow europe has long post a challenge for the tech company after months wrangling with french publishers on thursday google finally agreed a payment framework for including their content on its search engine. well let's take a closer look at this with stephanie head who is a researcher and writer covering the ethics of technology she joins us from london welcome to you is google bluffing when they says it will withdraw from australia if it doesn't get what it wants not necessarily i mean a security is not a huge part of google's business and it could walk away absolutely had to you might want to do something like that if it wanted to send a signal to other countries around the world that are more important to business say it's a pretty extreme threat and i think we're going to see more negotiation on both sides before we get to the point now of australia so just help us to understand

what exactly the australian government is proposing because it seems well it seems completely uncontroversial to say this so what if you're going to use all the stuff then you should pay the people who are actually producing it. yeah so that's the thing is that we've seen a real hollowing out of the journalism business model sense these social media companies really started to take over and google is no exception in australia it represents something like 95 percent of searches that are done by australians facebook also is very dominant in this area and people get a lot of their news from facebook so i think that's one part of the problem with this law is that it target google and facebook specifically and not other companies or the u.s. government has actually weighed in on that sent and said can we just get a sort of voluntary code or some sort of regulation rather than just targeting 2 american companies the 2nd part is that it really comes down to again this whole is are these companies publishers are on the platforms and they like to argue that

they're just platforms and therefore they shouldn't be cherished for doing things like sharing links that they do a lot more than sharing they sometimes reproduced content they might even give you like a little extract or a preview and of course they're not just displaying information they're also taking your information when you have a link when you click onto it all that's being recorded and i think that's what the australian government is saying is and also the french government of course as well which is has its own success story in negotiating with google just this week they're saying there's something going on here you're taking all of this money out of journalism we need it for democracy you need to pay ok so let's let's look at the why the context heya we're seeing lots of shots over the last couple of weeks about twitter i was in cloud services having too much power when they acted against the president of the us and also we have the right wing social network policy so it begs the question why have legislators being so casual about regulating these

massive companies. because these massive companies are really really rich and they spend a lot of money lobbying politicians to not regulate them. so what does that say every time yes these tech companies will always say we want self-regulation we can police ourselves we can mark her own homework and politicians for a long time have been really happy to go along with that because they profit from it themselves we're starting to see i think a reckoning and also a desire to really maybe change the power dynamics between the big tech companies and governments around the world it's going to really be which countries move 1st and what dictate the new terms of that relationship ok so i'm not the e.u. has had a go at regulating these companies with its general data protection regulation so how much difference as that may be on this having to having more boxes to click i think know before we get to the columns that. well it's not even so much the g.d.p.

arm which was from 20 teens that's been a few years in. the big one is actually what france has just done and which all of the other e.u. member states can do up until the 7th of june of this year that's when the implementation deadline is for this new model which is about copyright but in fact so much more it's really about what france has just done which is negotiating on behalf of a bunch of publishers around 3 or $400.00 french publishers that they will get money from google in exchange for publishing links or a little previews to their content so i think we can fully expect to see other european countries follow the path of france the big difference between what france and australia is doing is really simple and it comes down to one thing in australia they want it where if google for instance is not able to come up with some sort of agreements on paying publishers then it has to commit to going to arbitration in france they're just there's no arbitration obligation they just go into the negotiations straight with the companies so that's what google and facebook want to

avoid they don't want to have to ever go before a judge it's very clear if i get so much for joining us stephanie have technology research on who writes the thank you. i'm a day isn't even done the conversation of course continues online you can join us on twitter i've outstayed over the holidays outside the field that's watching good . boy.

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