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welcome. to join us when we have used tear gas and bitten charges as farmers forced their way into the company to protest a set of laws. to enter the capital. with the military and culture in the heart of the city the celebration of the adoption of the constitution in 1950 which made. public. for 3 months. a complete repeal. they say we hurt their livelihoods and leave them. exploitation by business conglomerates correspondent michelle just paul

was at the site of the farmers valley and sent us this report. broken the. force. the already deployed. the popular. among them the bill will proceed and even more for the timing when the fighting. line. many believe from now on them. coming through in the. truck to protest had already been approved by delhi police beforehand but no one anticipated the force with which it eventually

proceeded the farmers had already been protesting the government's new farm laws for months now the laws opened up the agriculture sector greatly to private conglomerates farmers are saying that the moment that happens get into prices that they get for their produce from the government will become undermined. just fall and shoddy traveled to the northern state of punjab to meet one of the thousands of farmers who want these laws repeated. said non-singing was fascinated by his father's tractor as a 6 year old he would follow him to these fields soon after deciding to leave school and farm for a living but now he's afraid he could lose everything. tungsten you agriculturally formula by the indian government but he doesn't plan to read to find out. he's travelling to delhi to join the ongoing farmers' protests there.

it's better to stay there for 6 months it's better to die there we don't care. if we lose our farms will die anyway so we might as well die there while confronting the government. since teenage son good pre-pay will be looking after the fields right he's a very good pete has already spent 10 days at the protest he does his father extra to brave as he's called. and seeing plans to do just that. with the help of his wife and daughter this is the 1st time he will be spending more than a couple of days away from his family and his family's. the call to move comes when it is still dark out the families have to be on their way at the crack of dawn singh's daughter coleman is proud of her father but also voted she says she knows he must go because their futures are it stick. michael the prime minister should

understand that he is in his position because of farmers i'd like to remind him that it's the farmers grain the farmers vote that has made him what he is. saying expects to drive to midnight and then again for 7 or 8 hours the next day. but spirits are high. and c. we're not alone 40 or 50000 of us are taking care of and to get these black laws revoked we don't care how long it takes we'll stay put until these laws are rolled back. you've got a fantastic couple of 400 kilometers on still but this meant for the farms but lucky there is a lot of help along the way. across from job those who cannot participate in the protests are setting up community kitchens to support the farmers there is even fee

fuel and medical services. even as the light starts feeding singh still expects to dry for another 6 hours he says he scored on his back hurts but there is no option they must make it. and driving relentlessly they do ahead of schedule. so most of protests well through the gadabout. the farmers momentarily forget their exhaustion. everyone we are so i'm happy to be in delhi we're here to fight for those who know something we're seeing knows this isn't going to be easy. but. multiple rounds of negotiations with the government have feed dozens of deaths including suicides have been deported. but this has only added to singh's determination he has left behind everything he nods for the 1st time he's. says he

will be sure to make it down but. the focus is on farmers today in delhi but for those who live in india's capital a daily what he is the one breeds as with other mega-cities across asia principal cause is vehicular traffic and building activity but how can one solve these problems to make cities greener and reduce their carbon emissions it's an important theme being discussed at this year's world economic forum that's been held online due to the coronavirus and from aw i'm joined now by grace food she singapore's minister for sustainability and environment and this fall was a participant at a panel on building net 0 cities she joins me now from singapore his foole pleasure to have you on the program now we're living in the middle of a pandemic that's challenges us all but i wonder if there is an opportunity here to rethink how we live in cities to make them green. absolutely right

that last year has been a challenging mile but i think there are many good things to add to have come out of it for example we appreciate our our surrounding my specs how we enjoyed the blue sky. and the grass around us because this is our place of living in a place a lot but a last minute yet because of not down it's on so we are beginning to look as ourselves and reflect about like kind of living and ryan and do we want it also questioning what the future of these are what will be so we've made major decisions and the debate by worthy just like china japan and korea they helped me pledge this on. climate action targets and now with the new and i did and this station coming back to the paris agreement we're very hopeful that this really positive momentum

to what's a lot greener world and these last economies putting our weight behind and also the e.u. putting but just behind the movement it lets us the inability we have very hopeful that many new technologies new products and new services and more sustainable. will in the market like i think i think all the last the do is really to look at how we individually help make our consumption choices our actions laws the noble for example up to meeting public transportation can we take more cycling instead of our cars because action that we do can impact the mission can impact a cow that they're all responsible and i think if we can take collective action we can make our well actually more sustainable but what about the investments that are

required to make this happen so it is across the world on created in the same way. where does the extra money to make all this happen come from. yes indeed you are right so i think now there is a very big discussion about the role of finance yes i think some of the behave out way to getting questions from their shareholders whether they are financing new ringback investment guests the interval we have seen that happening in europe and also in many parts of the well this is retired because that day i invest is up there down looking for opportunities to invest as you know in the interest rate environment has been very dull so actually they are looking for sustainable projects to could last many decades to come and ashwell if we put our minds to get there able to find you know good investment products good investment projects because you will be sustainable and again it all cities government loans private

sector people say we will look at how to rebuild our societies from the cold it is the rate that might rationalize this actually can find that give us the benefits of the life cycle basis some technology may be more expensive from the outset but if we take the entire next cycle this list save us on the day to day means this includes sumption electricity it's going to make it was well. right a whole slew of actions from greece through the environment minister from a cigarette ball vendor so much pleasure talking to you about thank you. and that's it for there's of course more now web site. there you can find a more in-depth look at the fall of protest from the fields of print jobs for the

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people are fainting they're developing a fever and some are dying after taking the injection that's why i was frightened. it was. a survey indicates as many as 62 percent of indians are reluctant to get the vaccine. or thought on that in a moment with dr randy the author of the bestseller so we win india's fight against the covered pandemic 1st though this report from video we used when you're a child. for 37 years old. it's a big day today she's going to get her 4th doors of the call that 1000 vaccine. giteau has been working as a nurse at a private hospital in delhi for 3 years and has been a health worker for over 20 years now as a health worker during the pandemic she has been worried about the safety of her family against the virus. i have to take

care to leave it 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 who sanitizes i had to take care of the smallest pains. dieter 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 world's largest covered 19 immunization program. in the 1st round of the vaccine rollout the government aims to vaccinate about 30000000 health workers and other frontline workers. to vaccine so far have been given images the use approved by the country's drug. the oxford astra zeneca movie she live in 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 india to targeting 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 best trust among people who however there's no clear consensus on this issue in the medical community dr venter extra han a leading that's the knowledge it says the approval to call vaccine has been given relying on the data of immunogenicity and safety. he says such images see government approvals are not uncommon in unusual circumstances where. mass is a massive have. to accept. to come in the transfer should then. the government should know should not be confusing to people even though there are actual voices regarding the image and see approval many

working in the health care sector are confident that vaccination is the right step to take. this is a highly contagious disease so it was important for the back clinician to start. 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 i'm now joined by dr randy canary he's the director of all india institute of medical sciences a member of the country's covered 19 task force we heard earlier that 62 percent of indians are hesitant to get the vaccine can you explain that skepticism. so i think that's in his twenty's there which is a global phenomenon and it's there in india also a lot of. indians want to get see others get the vaccine and get confidence that it is safe it's picked up now and now it's crossed even 70 percent so i think the 1st

week of 2 acts in roll out in india had a lot of his it in see especially among healthcare workers but now it has picked up and i'm off confident that it will continue to increase over the next few weeks but it was the health care workers and the elderly who had to get vaccinated 1st as opposed to younger working people who are usually more mobile and i know half the population in india is under 20 the type of work that they're doing the full care workers asked year to me just by x. and another one but guardedly our cases are down we are actually seeing a very low number of cases are in our country now and it seems as if the worst is over also our mortality is less and if you actually look at the cases per 1000000. then our numbers are very very low and i think india is actually done really read both in terms of number of cases per 1000000 and arcus fertility rate which is also the lowest in the world what about the speed of this actual vaccine campaign i know

the infrastructure in india can be quite challenging. so we have a universal human addition program which we learn annually. where we vaccinate young children and they need women and that has been the backbone of the program that now is being done for vaccinating over 19 and a number of dryden's have been done to make sure that the court is mundane the vaccination vaccinating sites are appropriate vaccinators have been trained to acts and individuals and of who when has been created so that individuals can be sent a message that you're due for recognition they can come on that particular did you have a huge task even in the 1st. dust that we were in to do we are actually having to rights need 300000000 people so that is a huge number of people that we need to actually even just in the 1st please and that is equal to the population of many countries combined but we're rolling it out

and we're hopeful that we should be able to achieve it in the coming few months how is india managing to do this i know some people have to travel 2 days to get to a hospital for example considering those challenges how is india managing to do such a good job in your opinion at least from what you're saying so we like as told you we have a universal english and programmer we also have hired a possible your program which we've hired over the last few years and we've eliminated all year from india we've also done the do a very aggressive election campaign lectionary every 5 years and state elections are also held every 5 years so using the same model the 2 are like the election modern we will have a vaccination sites in different areas both open and rule in the us colonies itself and vaccinators will be treated there so that it's close to people's house and they can come and get themselves like senator briefly finally can you tell us when india will be fully vaccinated. that's a tough question we have

a huge number of for people we have more than 1300000000 people so it's going to be a huge time but i'm quite confident that at least a sufficient mass of people would be vaccinated in the next 7 to 8 months of by the end of the year so that we see that we have something in a good immunity in our population the height of his group is protected so that the mortality is low and combined with the degree of cases that we have in the immunity up going because of natural infection i think we will have achieved some degree of herd immunity by then by the middle of this year around the canary i thank you very much thank you. sam part of the show where our science correspondent eric williams answers your questions on the coronavirus. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean on the other 5 percent off recipients pashley

protected or not protected at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the companies and rolled over 40000 subjects in what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects' had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got ill the results were evaluated coordinators looked to see how many people got sick and each

of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial participants and 162 of them were in the placebo group so some 95 percent of them among the vaccinated only 8 people had symptomatic over $1000.00 so you could also say that for every one vaccinated person who got it around 20 unvaccinated people dead and pretty much every group and age appeared for all intents and purposes to be protected pretty much equally on to the 2nd question now when they experience symptoms of covert 19 despite having received the vaccine just. well sick did those 8 trial subjects get well only one of them got it badly enough to require

hospitalization in the placebo group 9 people ended up in the hospital so so there was a dramatic impact there as well indicating a pretty strongly that if you're vaccinated there's a small chance that you might still get cove at 19 in spite of that but also an extremely good chance that if you do it'll be a mild case. terrible years that i've been fizzling thanks for watching so safe as you get sick guaranteed healthy.

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this is it our view news live from berlin indian farmers take their grievances to the heart of the capital delhi. can feel a lot of people broken up want to give. back their. point there's no point in the need to play. protesting the government's part of cultural reforms that they say will mainly benefit big business and ruin that also coming up. italy's embezzled

prime minister resigns hoping to return with a new one stronger government will hear whether his gamble is likely to pale. and where is our vaccine anger is growing in the e.u. over the delivery delay of millions of preorders doses of covert vaccine from the u.k. drug maker astra zeneca what is the true reason behind. house democrats in the us deliver a single article of impeachment to the senate launching trial proceedings. against donald trump for inciting in some reaction at the concert. i'm get out of us welcome to the program and we start in india where tens of thousands of farmers again driven to the center of the capital delhi they are protesting against agricultural reforms that they say help big business only at the

expense of small food producers the protests began weeks ago but today is a major national holiday in india republic day the rallies have been one of the most public signs of discontent with the rent remote is government yet. indeed there are. they've been protesting since september calling on the government to repeal what they call look black who was i that is the nation marks republic day india's farmers lost patients. i wanted to look at the new look at this all of us here there are farmers laborers were all together the government can easily revoke these laws but they just want to benefit the corporates of global economy going to deny. things got violent fast. they broke through police barricades. and they

defied tear gas. thankee to be used as well witness the events as they unfolded were very very new but now that. i'm going to army corporal who you. are going through in battle. the foreigners who are flocked to the capital from all corners of india say the new agricultural laws will devastate their income while benefiting big corporations the government says the reforms won't hurt farmers and refuses to repeal them. farmers are india's most influential voting bloc and the growing rebellion enjoys huge support from all parts of indian society that. there are. the protesters were just 3 kilometers from where prime minister narendra modi and india's political elite had been a few hours earlier celebrating republic day with all neatly dressed cavalry's and

a giant parade but his government's offer to put the laws on hold for 18 months hasn't gone down well with the foreigners. and nor has today's tough police response been on or modern day through. tear gas on us how long of the fan the supposed to keep tolerating this we've made polite requests to them we told them we have no intent to fight we are peaceful. mia as tensions rise in delhi the foreigners insist they will settle for nothing less than a complete repeal. let's go straight to delhi and bring in our correspondent mr mishra you have been at the protests this morning as we've seen in the reports of us about the situation right now but again that situation is under control now as to earlier in the day definitely the police have succeeded in gym healing on was from the site such as these forward which was all done by.

the delhi police had decided on in cooperation with the bomb leaders little benefit to the city and moving to the center was not decided but this is that bomb was bad kids in biden school got out and there was a significant pushback on the bullies as well force was used by both sides there are also concerns of the casualty has been reported amongst the bomber of the police forces also critically in a high level security meeting had been did that just led by the head of the last days minutes she had this internet shut down in parts of any security situation why it was very dense for the white house come down which commonly did themselves i just do think themselves from some of the protesters that became violent and since the 1st signs of rapture we're seeing from within the obama protests and so let's go back to the core of this protest why have these become so violent why have these

laws made indian farmers so furious. now you get that peaceful just actually originated all the way back in september but the odd joint one more attention to my father showed up as days but it was actually a demonic push to talk to the government 11 nuns needles you shins were held all you have to eat the government insists that these laws are for the benefit of it actually gives the populace access to better prices bomb us however the government is just trying to pull back on short prices are the families feel they will lose their last. meeting to understand the loss of the bomber 7 despite its ending and they are adamant that the master will is not the government has all been there for 18 months but the farmers that rejected this as well and has lost and however the violently may well be detrimental to their goal. emotions are delivering you very

much and we'll have more on that story and we'll hear more from the music coming up in the news or that's right after this news program. to italy now where prime minister says that the continent has stepped down deepening the country's political disarray his resignation was accepted by the country's president that comes after a small coalition partner pulled its ministers from his cabinet earlier this month the resignation spares kaante a possible humiliating defeat in parliament in a vote on judicial reforms later this week but observers say he now may be able to form a new government with broader parliamentary support. now let's bring in german sima goto who's in rome for us about why it did come to think that resignation was his best move. well here's government was a seeing brought in parliament on a judicial reform bill that they wanted to pass and so it was clear that he didn't

have the majority what happened with the confidence votes last week is that you had an absolute majority in the lower house but in the upper house the senate it was only a relative majority so there was no clear case that this bill and this reform idea could pass through and so rather than risk defeat in parliament he made the decision to resign which you know we buys him more time to see whether he can get that support leading up to centrists as well as our moderate right wing members of parliament or some nonaligned senators who think that perhaps he can build that majority that complete just how likely is this now will he be given a mandate to set up a new government. well what happened today is that he did meets with presidents of jamaat the rela at the presidential palace handed it is resignation the president then said that he will continue in maintaining his position until they find a proper situation in terms of a solution and what the president's going to do is either start consultations these

are formal consultations with the political parties as well as other institutional figures to see about finding a way to move forward he could turn to conti and present him this option to create a good government if he indeed does have the support or perhaps even look towards a government of national unity across parties to try and push ahead with a lot of the issues that it is dealing with the pen demick as well as the financial crisis a 3rd possible option is that mother elam a then decide to dissolve parliament and head towards elections but most believe that that's very unlikely as no one really wants to have an election in the middle of a pandemic and so we'll have to see what happens in the next days and perhaps even week ahead and see most of the pandemic that has the political turmoil that effects of italy is the response to the pandemic well you couldn't have a political crisis here in italy at a worst possible time i mean there has been many government prices here in this

country there have been some 66 or so different governments since world war 2 but this time around it is different more than 85000 italians have lost their lives due to cohabit 19 part of the countries and lock down the rest of dealing with very severe restrictions and then of course the vaccination program that has started but already has hit stumbling blocks in terms of supply so there's some urgent and is that need to be dealt with let's not forget the financial situation and that's why i said to mike the relatives said he's going to move fast he wants the situation resolved because the country has pressing issues that it has to deal with similar to iraq thank you see a. now let's get you up to speed on some other headlines from around the world moscow and tehran have called for a new defense to rescue the 2050 nuclear deal between iran and world powers talks between the 2 countries top diplomats came days after iran urged the biden

a ministration to lift sanctions and reverse what it called the failed policies of the previous administration. we have numbs ruling communist party has opened a 9 day congress in the capital hanoi to set the country's path for the next 5 years more than 1500 delegates are poised to select the country's future leaders communist party general when fortran is expected to be chosen for a 3rd term in the country's top job now the e.u. commission is calling for stricter controls on exports of covert 19 vaccines produced inside the block the e.u. is worried about a shortfall of vaccines after you came out of action astra zeneca announced it would delay deliveries to e.u. members the company is blaming supply chain problems but brussels accusative accuses it of failing to keep contractual promises all 27 e.u. countries are struggling with slovaks in rollouts.

this may sting a little but it's over in the blink of an eye getting vaccinated maybe a speedy affair but vaccine rollouts across the you have proved painstakingly slow the blocks executive is pointing the finger at the pharmaceutical industry think opinion once the order and 3 finance doses to be delivered as soon as possible and we want our contract to be fully traill filled that's a message for a vaccine developer astra zeneca the u.k. based firm recently announced it would be unable to fulfill its you orders in the it reach timeframe. that's down to supply problems in the e.u. possibly here at the belgium headquarter of nova step a company that works with astra zeneca to deliver key vaccine components the astra zeneca jap is due to get the green light from e.u. regulators in the coming days so last minute news of a 60 percent cut in delivery service came as

a nasty shock to lawmakers here in brussels who governments have been rolling out the red carpet for the pharmaceutical companies we do not have the vaccine thanks to them but thanks to populate funneling the public paid for the production capacity on the deal to secure supplies of the astra zeneca vaccine was an e.u. 1st that brought a big smile to the health commissioner's face back in august 2020 the bloc purchased 300000000 doses with the option to at 100000000 more in other words the european union is astra zeneca biggest client it paid hundreds of millions of euros upfront in order to ensure smooth production and supply but with promises unfulfilled the block is not a happy customer the big question is now where have all those 3 produced vaccine doses gone they may have been sold to the highest bidder elsewhere that's why physician and politician peter liza welcomes insurance that producers may soon be obliged to notify the e.u.

before they export any kopechne 1000 vaccines outside the block. we want to cooperate but if other don't play fair the european commission has to show their weapons and the 1st step is to register the 2nd step is an export ben farmer giant pfizer has also been in the firing line recently it too announced delays earlier this month citing production issues said its main site here in belgium producers say they're moving as fast as they can but in the race between vaccine and virus every delay could cost lives. and we're now joined by a lizard you saw him just now in that report he is a member of the european parliament and a medical doctor and speaks for the health of full on health for the e.p.t. group of conservative parties dr is us was in a told the e.u. a very short notice that it will not need to the agreed to supply target what do you think what is really behind this delay there is

a problem with the production inside the european union and seeing this has to be respected by everyone so you cannot produce rex in just like bret or sweets it is.