now the c.e.o. of pharmaceutical company astra zeneca has told media that the firm is not legally tied to a particular delivery timeline when it comes to coverage 19 vaccines pascal sort of those comments came after the british swedish company announced a cut in supplies to the e.u. in the 1st quarter the european commission has publicly expressed frustration at the company over the hold up and take a closer look at this and other matters arising with dr us we're swami nathen who's chief scientist for the world health organization joins us from geneva welcome to day w. but what do you make of this around. well you know the fact that we are at this stage where a year after discovering a new virus we actually have not one but 7 vaccine candidates that are ready to be use in people is in itself i think something to celebrate and this was not expected

or anticipated by anyone in their wildest dreams and it's really a testament to scientists all over the world both in the private and the public sector that have gotten us to this point now having said that of course the epidemic is surging in many parts of the world cases are increasing deaths are increasing and people and governments are getting increasingly desperate and the fact remains that you know vaccine manufacturing you know takes its time to scale up the number of doses and we're expecting doses in the hundreds of millions and billions of entry from each of these companies so i think the also have to get photonics additions and and understand what the supply you know what their practical limitations are and then plan accordingly which is why the done here jill has been saying we need to prioritize people who are at highest risk because our 1st priority should be to reduce deaths in the most vulnerable in

countries across the warden and around the world at the same time and then want to vaccinate in more and more people so that we can we can stop bringing transmission are so so we need to take a view that's realistic and at the same time fair and equitable and just all not put the point of fairness and equitable equitably equitability of there being good lots of calls from your own organization and other international organizations about the need to avoid of this so-called vaccine nationalism so putting the arguments against national vaccine national into one side. if we are w.h.o. ready to tell governments that have access to vaccines to leave sections of their own populations unvaccinated in order to send those supplies to people half right way around the world who don't have supplies. yes that's exactly what we are

seeing and what the director general called for last week he said it is really unfair that the young and healthy and relatively less at risk people in some countries get the vaccine while people a very high risk are still continuing to get the infection and dying in other parts of the world and therefore we must focus in these 1st few months of 2021 when supplies are going to be limited from all the new vaccines that are coming out and hopefully there will be more vaccines getting approved over the next few weeks but supplies are going to be limited demand is going to be huge and so we need to distribute what we have equally so that we can save lives in the short term and then scale it up you know to others eventually of course we want to vaccinate large parts of the population in order to bring an end to this fund demi but we have to do it step wise because i think it's not only march right but also economically like because otherwise are going to have health systems collapsing in some

countries just because they're overwhelmed and health care workers are also getting sick or dying and again you were good enough to give me a straight answer the question i asked it's just important that that i know which bit of it are you saying yesterday so governments national governments who have vaccine should say to their own people we have it but you can't have it you can't have it because we're giving it to someone else. well i think he does have to explain to the people it's not that they don't need to protect their own people yes you know and that's what's happening now we have i think of something like 60 countries where vaccines are being deployed got entry and majority of these are high income countries that are only 2 or 3 law or lower middle income countries where roxanne's of even started being deployed so i think people you need to take the view of not a solid added unit or leader start getting that message i think it i think ordinary people will understand that we've got

a few days ago where british prime minister parties johnson announce that they coronavirus variants identified in the u.k. appears to be deadlier as well as more infectious what is of w.h.o. severe yeah it's a good point about the variance and again this is something that's that's actually fueling the insanity in many parts of the work because of the emergence of these variants and thanks to the sequencing. capacity particularly in some countries we've seen. not unexpected actually to see these much but. we have at least 3 or 4 variants that we're watching very closely the one that was described in the u.k. the the one month 7 days one that's been described in in south africa the 138 and then what's called the big one that's been described in brazil now many of these variants have been now found in dozens of countries worldwide even though they were 1st described in one country. there are 3 things that we need to worry about or

consider the 1st one is the impact on transmission and it seems to be clear that all of these new variants savage nutrition that's helping the virus to spread more efficiently transmit on fish and in the wadi dead of course is that you need to put in place much wants ginge and measures to have the same effect on cutting transmission that and you did early on and we really have to double down on on those public health and social measures the 2nd thing that we want to noise is that more deadly strain which has these mutations or these changes. and that's where best and we do so data of the initial indications were that perhaps it's not more severe at all causing more deaths but as you said the prime minister of u.k. mr johnson did say that iraq has some evidence thoroughly and so that needs to be watched very closely and very diligent with your firm having to if you want. yes once more infections you will see more deaths so there is

a correlation between one infection and more death i depart from what. if it's different the thought point is the efficacy of vaccines and and therapeutics that monoclonal antibodies and again the emission studies done within the academic labs and by the companies that pfizer and madonna show that the u.k. variant seems to respond. quite just the same as the as the nominee by was bolted to the seat in front covered the antibodies dick and recovered from vaccine eased however the the mutation seen in the south african variant and potentially in brazilian betty and are much more concerning because they do not. get literally stock yield by the seed are from boards the goblins and vaccines even though it's not like the boxing are not going to be effective i think that such a message the vaccines induce a strong antibody response and a broad spectrum of antibodies at the moment we believe the back scene started here that

a lot that are effective but we will need to watch to watch the further development and evolution of this thanks so much for joining us dr dr sonia us from enough and chief scientist at the world health organization and for germany record it are more than $13200.00 new coronavirus cases on wednesday at the slight drop compared to the same day last week the country's disease control agency says daily infection numbers are steadily decreasing but the situation remains serious outbreaks of still being reported across the country particularly in nursing and care homes and the death rate remains very high and 182 deaths registered in the last 24 hour period. so here's a look at how at some of the other developments in the pandemic the number of covered cases worldwide has now passed 100000000 but according to johns hopkins university amid a drop in new cases moscow is easing its covert nice covert restrictions by

allowing bars restaurants and nightclubs to remain open through the night and the woman in china has been sentenced to a year in prison for hiding virus symptoms before boarding a flight from the u.s. to china last march she took medication to suppress a fever. in sport english club chelsea have confirmed thomas 2 who as their new coach he signed an 18 month contract with a london club is the latest a german coach to try his luck in the premier league so what can chelsea expect from the new man well it's a look at mr 2 whose career so far on this been very much made in germany. thomas took old likes to do things his way the german coaches tactical accu men 1st became apparent sad lonely bundesliga side minds with his unique football philosophy the nickname long break. will still sport this suppression as a guns for we broke up thinking patterns in sports structures very old fashioned

thinking patterns that are present across germany in our 1st season in the business league or we played with different systems. that's attention to detail went as far as making the team all eat together. because the 1st. you have to imagine a buffet for a buddhist league team has its own from different soups and poultry to grilled fish and 3 kinds of desserts before i could even finish the c. part of the team and already gone. circle cemented minds his place in the burn this league before following in the footsteps of yogen clawfoot friends he led them to the german cup in 2017 thanks to his brand of attacking football but unlike circle was unable to win the league with dorman's he was sacked the picked up his career in paris which stuff started p.s.g. more trophies followed but the one they really wanted the champions league eluded

them that so many cost so called his job now a new challenge awaits in england's. zoo in the peruvian capital lima has just had some good news to new born endangered american krakatau crocodiles. crocodiles these 2 beauties wait 45 grams and measure $35.00 centimeters each but can grow to become several metres long this is the 1st time zookeepers in latin america have managed to successfully breed this type of endangered crocodile after artificial incubate the hatchlings were bought a big january and the only ones to survive of the 24 eggs made by them. reminder the top story the job in politics is paid homage to the victims of naziism another genocide it's a holocaust remembrance day of the ceremonies are taking place around the world with an emphasis on the importance of from vigilance against the rights of hatred.

still to come a day w. news asia will look at the chinese city it was a safe haven for european jews during world war 2. the respondents we will have a story i will use asia in just a moment i'll be back at the top of the top of the.

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a lot of money at his disposal of the book and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world the food. china's gateway to europe . starts feb 19th on d w. took to. the base tuesday dublin use a shot coming up today the chinese city that save jews from the nazis. shanghai provided refuge to thousands of jews mean jobs you have prostitutes during world war 2 on holocaust remembrance day we look at how the 16th came to be a lifeline. for a community in peril. making tanks to. explore . providing. compelling in.

the face of death threats. to the olympics as a break down. the dangers. welcome to. join us at a time the china is facing criticism for alleged human rights abuses against its weaker population and the dissidents it was surprising to many that the chinese city saved thousands of jewish lives during world war 2 shanghai became a place of refuge for thousands of jews who fled a modest nazi regime in new york today on international holocaust remembrance day as the world remembers the 6000000 jews and other victims of the nazis we look at the central role shanghai played in their rescue and how china is keen to highlight

it. 13 cell the names 13 cells and destinies only a few traces remain of the safe haven jews refugees found in shanghai during the nazi era a giant 4 to wall is a centerpiece of the museum dedicated to the shanghai kettle. at the peak of the holocaust 20000 jews lived in the chinese coastal city. which include a supporter of those of the education of parties and this period of history is long time ago some of the refugees in the descendants have maintained this special connection with sang high and a very deep friendship between us is also wheelchair. in the city was one of the rare places that didn't require and try these are a small number of wes's jews had been living in shanghai since the 19th century the community supported the european jews who fled to santa in the late 1930 s.

some took the weeks long journey by ship from italy. some went by train through rush on the transceiver and bravery to vladivostok and further on crossing the sea from japan to china. during the darkest period of human history when jews were very few of you are sure we know the jews really know how to germany. after world war 2 most of the jews left china but in recent years the community started growing again. i must say this is perhaps one of the very few places in the world that when you walk on the streets and move here to people behind you see in the local language this person is jewish . you are not afraid. and you know that if you turn we hadn't stopped you'll be

greeted with a smile. not many people know this chapter of shanghai sister marie the city you know wants to help make sure it's never focus. i'm here to germany nazi atrocities are indeed not forgotten and commemoration of events this year celebrate 1700 years of jewish life in the country. india's 1000000000 strong population carries with it a 1000000000 stories and indian filmmakers are finding new ways of telling them streaming services such as netflix and amazon are providing indian creatives opportunities so far not seen in mainstream bollywood. delhi crime tells the true story of a brutal rape case. and of the women who solved it one of them just don't have the details yet but i noticed something tragic. it's t.v.

like india has never seen before. i think he's. doing. this crime is not just terrorists. it's insanity. crime in november the delhi crime became the 1st indian series to win best drama at the international emmy awards. project was led by women it was financed and put together and released by women this crime was so by women this is the courage of those women and all women who not only must endure the violence so many men think on them but are then tasked with the problem you know that i'm. going to take on. the nasty side of indian fall objects is the focus of the new amazon series times articles which is billed as an indian version of house of cards. for the show.

political corruption and nepotism are nothing new to india showing them like this in a t.v. series it definitely is because he. has been. since i was a boy is likely to be a show that. has been hammered into my skull. the yawning gap between india's rich and poor is the focus of the white tigers on netflix had a patient of the booker prize winning novel by i have been. i have i i drove the car. i was the one. thing that. they made me sign don't confuse. me with you. this is an anti slumdog millionaire like where virtue is punished and the only way for a poor boy to make it in india is through corruption and violence. breaks free.

streaming giants are giving him. begins a new view of themselves and it's not always a pretty picture. let's bring in tom no talk about he's an independent journalist an award winning film critic based in delhi. welcome now we've both grown up with mainstream hindi language cinema so-called bollywood and other regional language films but what is netflix offering that these films are not. i mean i think all the platforms are you know that place and. they happen in martin street even in you know if. you don't know of any more experimental conditions more people out there one of the locals to read any piece. of the

short very well read it or go and meet a lot of people in general you know there has been the games they think. there's still a lot of waste and they want it is even possible to be on hold for me and experiment stories and teams and we don't have to wait almost instant shipley sure as usual look for them in the past in fact just last year you had the investor short you know such as well you know all your scamming those really need to get not just in the last year netflix showed that he could end this charging in their words so i think i do think it's a mix of these things i mean. they're moving into this they are able hooks and rachel nichols has sort of meet when you look on their future but how moscow is this is the consumption of. these sort of firms i mean is it still is netflix still

very much a niche commodity in india or has it expanded enough to become to be called a mosque a product. i don't think netflix is nice anymore in fact just last year alone. was sharp it's financially our of course it. hasn't been intrusion and does not look as if. it is all over it's our. chase as much but i didn't see catching up with the early last issue with anyone. on. that and the late. i don't want to release anymore if you really wanted to be any ask me. what's he. going to talk about

censorship. online platforms such as netflix have recently been brought under the direct purview of the indian government that wasn't the case earlier and you already seeing or cd's like thunder of something that we featured in our report already heading into legal trouble over admittedly hurting religious sentiments i mean how much of a challenge is this for filmmakers moving forward. i mean yes and it was a definite yes he said or what it is by a normal means that i now believe. we have seen shows and says look. secret beings. as you may just be the target off a lot of vicious attacks on length of slaughter sort of badly teams that allegedly flew the sentiments of the country's majority these are the sort of sure there are numbers and. little and things like that. as you make of the fact

there is as. off ministry only pollution broadcast t.v. things should. be all of the one up manship that. i don't talk or present oprah thank you so much. as we love this next piece of news that went to $24.00 paris olympics are set to feature breakdancing as a sport for the 1st time and that's given one young woman of the motivation to walk towards a dream despite the threats she's facing along the way. many sure tash wants to be taken seriously as a woman and an athlete the 18 year old started breakdown thing 3 months ago as well as breaking down the she's determined to break down stereotypes in full specific sions. since they are not many girls in this profession i want my name to be known

as a good athlete in afghanistan not for people to kami a dancer i want people to know that this is not a dance but a sport you know before i am going to stay. but that's a dangerous attitude in afghanistan where the ultra hard line taliban is gaining more influence many in the country belief sport should just be reserved for men. moment that they say we are muslim and dancing in afghanistan is a sin because it is a muslim country. even have even threatened and said if we find you we will cut you into pieces. despite your threats many she and her teammates have high hopes breakdown single be added as an m.p. exports at the perry scales in 2024. what. we have 4 years to train more goals in afghanistan and introduce at least one or 2 of them as break dancing athletes to international competitions but is only going to live if you look at. the training and routines on cheesy but many share is hungry and

even more hungry for success. and that's evident it is more now website of the the us leisure. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. is quite as simple as it seems. to understand the world

better we need to take a closer. experience not. islands and immunization for indonesia a logistical nightmare. it's the world's largest archipelago. of shipping shots to hundreds of millions of citizens spread across more than $17000.00. for their keep you from actually taking a public boat is not an ideal condition for distribution of vaccines or drugs.

but it's just not safe to carry vaccines in crowded conditions that you cannot even but i don't for my guests. and the country's vaccination campaign is highly controversial it prioritises younger people over the elderly. the government argues that they make up the bowl. the country's workforce that have bred when its . critics say they're more vulnerable could lose out. in asia has dropped $1000000.00 coronavirus cases and to clamp down on the soaring infectious rate it's launched one of the world's biggest banks and drives but its strategy is contentious. the 1st shot indonesia's national vaccination program president joko widodo getting the jab to inspire confidence among citizens but the plan is already controversial as a prioritises younger people over the elderly even influencers have been put at the

front of the line they include resource saraswati a singer and writer who's been vaccinated since last week. so i. along with health protocols vaccination is one of the best solutions to the pandemic had up see the limit in you so i hope that with vaccination people who lost hope last year due to inaction and neglect will regain their excitement. and join the vaccination drive says he would head up on a lot of the good it'll be but smile not. but older people are less than joyous the vaccine hasn't even been tested on them yet although recent data shows that people over 60 in indonesia are nearly 20 times likelier to die of cove at 19 than young people rossland the most and it's boring just staying at home when hopefully the

vaccine will be made available to the elderly soon caught and so that a calm wonder now i hope that apart from protecting themselves the young people who have been vaccinated that will also protect the elderly and children who have not been vaccinated. the government justifies its vaccination priorities largely on economic grounds. we see that the majority of these young people are those who carry out economic activities in supporting their families they are actors in economic activities so we prioritize those aged 18 to 59. meanwhile the elderly tend not to do activities outside the home because they are not the backbone of the family's economy. yet the vaccination scheme has sparked debate in the community a story you see i do not agree the reason is because the elderly are the ones who

need it the more. these there you are you agree because there is no vaccine for the elderly. i don't think i agree because the older ones are more vulnerable than young people. and on the what the health ministry says the elderly can expect to start being vaccinated in march or april when the buy in take pfizer and astra zeneca oxford vaccines arrive. so what happens to the elderly while they wait what happens if they catch it i pose that question to dr hauser upon how to plan who's based in. so they have 1st they have to stay at home and. dancing and also and they have the catch of the conflict in a levy. our health care system that's ready to treat them i guess it's easier to keep an elderly person at home rather than a young person but what makes you think this is the right strategy when the rest of

the world is taking on a very different approach because then the number of. arrive in the 1st phase is very very short and also that the number of the proportion of the 3 in indonesia is low compared to other country and also we have the crises in the house our system for we have to keep our how to work or for us we're already seeing case numbers full in some countries as a result of a vaccination campaigns is your country already seeing results. not yet or all that said it all the. vaccination around one week ago and. also the number is very small proportions we haven't like to see any you know any the crease of the number of the coffee 1000 indonesia how much does logistics play a pot here i know it's very different difficult to distribute the vaccine in

indonesia. right now we have 3000000. workers and we have to pull. all of this and then from. real distribute to the hospital and also the. indonesia and this is a hot mess and what about the resistance among indignations is that a difficult task i know indonesia was the 1st outside of china to approve an emergency code in 1000 vaccine developed by the chinese drug make a scene of iraq despite its low effectiveness does that worry people. it is it is a big problem here indonesia has to stand on the the general population but also help the workers but this is the thing that the government has you. think attention and then try to. see from the gut from the people of indonesia and the

other factor that could see some resistance what about how loud vaccines because of your large muslim population. so the hollow is in indonesia especially for the muslims of all the facts seen that we have to take as this should be a positive start from the muslim council so all the fact scenes should have tested by this organisation. thank you very much for joining us today. picking up on the point of efficacy all those numbers can be a little confusing it's in from outside states decided to take a look at some of the rates and the history of that. we've heard a lot about the african c. rates of covert 19 vaccines us pharma firm adonis says it's covert 19 vaccine is 94.5 percent effective. pfizer biotech coated 19 vaccine has an advocacy of 95 percent of final. russian sputnik the coronavirus vaccine trial shows encouraging

results but what does this mean unlike the history of 60. plus explain the 1st ever vaccines for smallpox it was introduced in $796.00 the disease was then declared eradicated nearly 2 centuries later in 1900 and the vaccine was 95 percent effective in preventing small pox measles 97 percent effective but in spite of the strong maxime measles continues to spread looking at you and doctors polio has nearly been eradicated and the vaccine is 99 percent effective the flu vaccine is a tricky one as the virus mutates regularly so people have to get flu shots every year to help protect against the most common strains generally the effectiveness of the flu shot hovers around 50 to 60 percent when scientists started work on covert 916 so the world health organization said one except a vaccine efficacy of just 50 percent so with these reason phase 3 clinical trial

results are showing vaccines that have north of 90 percent efficacy if we want to be hopeful about well yes but i knew their view but just because the results have been good so far it doesn't mean we can instantly go back to life as we know it not everyone will be able to get vaccinated that includes people whose immune systems are compromised or weakened by existing conditions and they will take a while to get vaccines. everyone can be vaccinated so now after the death and thing and the way it's going to be for a while yet. and now over to our science correspondent eric williams he's been looking into your questions on the coronavirus. british strain off 19 really more deadly. last week the british prime minister caused quite a stir when at a press conference that he led with this in addition to spreading more quickly it

also appears there is some evidence the new variant the very that was 1st identified in london in the scythe east may be associated with a higher degree of mortality the announcement was based on an assessment made by a group of scientists who advised the british government they'd examined new studies and called the idea that the variant was more dangerous a realistic possibility that even put a number on that around 30 to 40 percent more deadly to clarify what that means exactly an official used the example of 60 year old man and those who today are infected with earlier versions of the virus around 10 out of a 1060 year old men die if it were 30 percent more deadly the new variant

would kill 13 of those men the thing is a lot of experts including the ones at the press conference by the way they've been reminding people that the estimate is still based on some pretty preliminary data and and also horribly complex surrounding factors not least the fact that of course we're pretty sure now the variant discovered in the u.k. is is more transmissible than earlier ones and of course higher transmissible. and he will also lead to it killing more people simply because more people will catch it and perspective is also important even if the new variant does turn out to be somewhat more deadly it's still unlikely to prove to be as lethal as the original virus was at this time last year because back then we knew a lot less about how to treat covert 19 now we're able to save

a lot more of the people who end up developing severe disease. more and more every day williams there i've been fizzling thank you very much for watching stay safe and also you again very soon here at the deli about.

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