they participated in those clinical studies so while the results are very clear from the clinical studies for younger age groups there is some doubt about the efficacy and the safety of this vaccine for older people so the german authorities are saying it's better to err on the side of caution and that is why they have to started to use it only on people that are younger than $65.00 ok now this announcement comes amid disputes between the e.u. and the british swedish company over supplies the vaccine and the widespread dissatisfaction with the speed of the vaccine rollouts here in germany across the e.u. so hans brands will come back here in just a moment and head of that will take a look at this report. accessing this vaccination center in brandenburg in eastern germany it's harder than it might look to get an appointment for a covert 19 job you need staying power only those determined enough to get past the

overloaded hotline will get an appointment like manfred in head to green bag both are over 18 when on to germany's number one high risk group. hope your mother got the appointment for us but it took you a long time to get through and arrange the time. as in other vaccination centers in germany things are moving slowly many birds remain empty because there's not enough vaccine. only 70 people a day can be immunized instead of the planned 600. the situation is even worse in other regions this center in cologne is not even open appointments are being made for february but it's not an easy process. is calling them to be kept on hold for hours and then you don't even get an appointment machine. to me my appointment was made online by my son right on the thursday morning.

line in northern ireland is failure is overwhelmed. other countries are moving faster israel for example has already vaccinated almost half its population about 4000000 people britain has immunized 10 percent the us 7 germany has vaccinated around 2000000 people 2 percent of the population in line with many other countries germany social democrats say that's not good enough and it's the envy of the sinew say israel britain and the us are all making progress but there are a lot of problems in the european union and we need to address them quickly vaccine manufacturers contracted to supply e.u. member states are now reporting production delays not good news for this facility in brandenburg or others around germany filling these chairs is likely to take some time. let's go back to her brand. 60 five's of course

comprise a vulnerable group so how will germany's effective bag of this for them affect the country's vaccination strategy for them. well obviously it adds another level of complication to an already very complicated situation in fact a circle kater that angle amount of a chancellor has decided to call a special vaccination summit on monday where she's going to meet with all the leaders of the 16 regional states in germany as well as representatives of the pharmaceutical industry in germany and various other members of government concerned about this and they're going to try and coordinate efforts in germany a little bit more closely vaccination efforts and also going to look at the possibility of other companies in germany manufacturing these vaccines for these companies that have already licensed them it's a very complicated problem it's politically a hot potato at the moment so yes things are not going well at the moment ok thank

you for that and brant. now take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world started russia where a court in moscow has rejected their like saying the valley's appeal against imprisonment the kremlin critic appeared via video link he was arrested for parole violations and remanded in custody for 30 days after returning to russia from germany where he'd been recovering from a near fatal poisoning. and the a total ban on abortions has come into effect in poland sparking nationwide protests of people came out in numbers late on wednesday to protest against new measures which the country's human rights commissioner says condemns women to torture polls indicate that more than half the population opposed the new legislation. pakistan's supreme court has ordered the release of the british born man convicted over the killing of american journalist daniel pearl 19 years ago

a panel of 3 judges acquitted ahmed omar saeed shaykh of involvement in mr kirk pearl's kidnapping and beheading these 3 q.'s were acquitted last year. and one of germany's most closely watched trials for decades has ended with a guilty verdict and life imprisonment for a right wing extremist who murdered regional politician felton took 2 years ago was to look as a member of angular machall c.d.u. party and had spoken out in support of refugees stefan and shot him in the head at his home near the west german town of castle. it was a trial which brought the specter of far right violence in germany into sharp focus once again defendant was charged with murdering an elected politician valid to look there was a well liked local leader who defended angela merkel's policies on migration it turned him into a target for extremists stefan and recorded this video at

a meeting where 5 to luka faced far right hecklers. you have to stand up for certain values is anyone who doesn't agree with these values is free to leave the country that's a freedom every german enjoys. so there was a shooting. 4 years later look it was assassinated at his home in june 29th in his body discovered by his son. 2 weeks later authorities arrested stefan and over the course of the trial he confessed then retracted and later confessed again today they called found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. or a few. cases of stephen easy involves a high number of crimes and there's a spiral of violence that started when he was a young. luke is killing is one of several high

profile attacks linked to the far right in germany in recent years casting a spotlight on the dangers extremists pose to democracy. now sara middle east where unrest has returned to the lebanese city of tripoli on thursday after overnight clashes between security forces and protesters that left one man dead and security forces of 5 tear gas a crowd angry at the lack of compensation for workers during the coronavirus lockdown protests started on monday in a spreading to areas outside tripoli at a time when the country's already struggling with the pandemic in the worst economic crisis for decades. we got more runs on sound i'm in beirut to welcome so what the protesters want i believe nixon when the critics have been back to tripoli for 7 days for several

days now and the questions they're asking for the meanest cities like what's your it just that you keep i just know that security is one of the poorest areas and one and it's has the richest and most fortunate to get interest some of them. and she has and some of them when i was a former prime minister and they witnessed it as how tycoons in florence 1000000000 it's. right and so what is the government providing support for people the during the pandemic and of course that the country's economic crisis. well said that the government has to get it now and said to sam in his own house who depend on his income and the ones with our economy and finance conditions let's look at only nation with the delusion that the country has let it sink which it's more than 80 percent of the currency devaluation against against the us and with

other economies a kind of programs this and ours has the come in significance especially that. the average street of the income for the people who are people that ship it was worth modesty is less than $2.00 pretty well ok so all this of course and in the midst of a pandemic how is lebanon's a vaccination rollout progressing. away since the country has opened an online platform for people to register for the vaccines and the care security minister of has had that has and has announced to him it said the 1st batch of vaccines with arrests in up they prioritized in the frontline test were curious and want your people and citizens with their underlying health conditions.

and it includes a plan to execute when did actions arrive but says some hospitals have informed human rights watch that they haven't they are not aware yet of how the operations will be executed it's. more thank you for that reason reson solomon. now i see me targeted assault on wall street individual investors on reddit of coordinated stock buying and inflicted huge losses on hedge fund pros friends of trading has resulted in soaring highs and crushing lows the most prominent company is beleaguered videogame retailer game stop today the u.s. companies share prices hit the high as more than 40 times the stock price at the beginning of the year. they are placing their bets a group of small time speculators not professional traders have been coordinating

the purchase of game stop stocks in online forums even though the retailer is virtually broke this has been causing share prices to skyrocket since the start of the year the price per share has risen nearly 2000 percent while it played out that those who are pushing the share prices higher are on the winning side but those hedge funds that are short the stock. believe that the price will be going down are getting squeezed and so the concern is that we maybe we end up with some hedge funds that have financial difficulties. game stops rising share price has already cost problems for some short sellers who have bet that the nearly bankrupt firm stocks what drop in value now every penny they increase means a loss for the short sellers and the scramble to buy only and upward pressure on share prices. result watching b.w. news live from delhi don't forget you can always get news on the go just down i

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to this. one giant problem and nearly get in on the scene of the jury and. we'll be taking a full accounting of. how well climate change affect us and our children. and e.w. dot com slash water. this is the place this is the plant indoor lining get it north a lot of heavy reading. the white house finally has its own plan for distributing vaccines. 100000000 doses in a 100 days. the new president also wants a 100 you better nation set is. that when least scores of for type doctors trained

nurses and medical students. we will get through this we will defeat is pandemic into a nation waiting for action let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way . the coronavirus has a. factored in killed more people in the us than anywhere else in the world. or by the better get cracking close to half a 1000000 people have died in the united states officials are converting sports stadiums and grocery stores into vaccination centers mobile units are on their way to underserved areas the plan's ambitious but it needs to be surrounded by the coronavirus in her illustration it's all i think about visual artist sandra battleaxe expresses her feelings about the pandemic her biggest hope was getting

a vaccine and the date was already set when i got the appointment i called everyone and told everyone i got a client that i was like what are you a lot of but the new york city ran out of vaccine doses. i didn't know that it had been changed until i saw something on the news and some friends sent me things saying that they were canceling all the rest of the appointments on thursday personally no one e-mailed me no one called me she's one of at least 23000 people in new york city whose appointments were cancelled 15 vaccine have shut down over the weekend new york authorities blame the federal government new york blames the federal government. they said they had additional dosages in. that they would send they say it will increase the supply. they never did this is one of the facts you know house here in new york city had to close due

to the vaccine supply shortages thousands of apartments had to be cancelled and many other parts of the us by experiencing very similar problems to by god ministration is under serious pressure to solve this problem quickly this is the plan better vaccine distribution is part of joe biden's coronavirus strategy. but if you want stronger federal coordinator in the entire vaccination process by contrast former president donald trump left most of the decisions up to the individual states experts warn current problems won't be solved without increased production. i think number one is increase maxine supply very very important motivate companies to accelerate the production of. meet the demand. americans have high expectations.

for almost a year now. and i really want them to get vaccinated too so it's not just new york it's everywhere that. kind of problem so the federal government needs to step in but i think there's a lot of order that needs to take place in these testing and vaccination sites that are asking a lot of patient people that people are going to rap for. sandra bad lex appointment was rescheduled but after the last cancellation she's now much more skeptical and just like hoping that they're going to come through with it but now i don't believe them anymore you know i trusted them last week but not at all it'll take more time until the vaccines free americans from the virus. how much time monica gandhi is a professor of medicine and associate chief in the vision of hiv infectious diseases and global medicine at the university of california san francisco good to see you again monica attard how much longer do you think this will take this

vaccine dr yes we have been plagued by a many difficulties in the us with this transition of power but president biden has committed to purchasing 200000000 more doses which meant that we have 400 before supposedly 600 this enough to vaccinate the entire u.s. population with its huge oses and the current estimates are by the end of the summer so things are slower than we had hoped and anticipated in the united states what about his promise of 100000000 shots 100 days going to achieve that. we are not yet at that goal 'd either but i actually think that that can happen i do think that can happen we he signed in what's called the national defense production act last week actually was one of his 1st executive orders when he came into office which allows more supplies in sort of

a war urgently like situation to help produce more doses so we thought we had the doses and we didn't have the doses so i think 100 is achievable biden also wants to release all available vaccine for immunization according to reports rather than withholding half of it for the 2nd doses trump planned how wise is that. actually that is a very good idea the image of necessity or the amount of an a by production that you get with a single dose is actually extremely high and of course we do need the 2nd dose that ultimately what's required but increasing the duration between those 2 doses is likely to have no harm in the ultimate efficacy of the vaccine and the purpose is to get as many people some immunity as we can we've been the epicenter of the pandemic since march 26th the united states we have had the poorest pandemic in the world so anything that we can do to increase vaccination rates is indicated if

you're waiting though these these poor people who are waiting weeks to hear whether or not they're going to get that 2nd is how much longer can they wait. so i mean that 1st dose will at least give over the 1st couple weeks 52 percent efficacy in depending on the vaccine it can go up to 80 percent they can go up to 6 right now the c.d.c. has said 2nd dose can be given 6 weeks later while. there is no even though the trials of 3 in 4 weeks. in vaccines in general increasing the duration usually does not diminish the efficacy and word of urgency situation so this one dose strategy and then given a 2nd later i actually think is biologically obsolete decatur the u.s. also wants to boost surveillance of new variants a critics call for a systematic nationwide strategy for sequencing the genomes of coronaviruses i mean

don't you need to be able to act quickly on mutations. yeah the problem. with that is there's actually very little you can do about new variants in less they feed the vaccine so there are 3 things new variants can do they can increase transmissibility they can crease very limits and they can evade the vaccine luckily we haven't seen the latter to any great degree and increasing surveillance does little in less we can get the vaccine out into people's arms so if i were to focus on anything or focus on vaccine rollout but it's certainly surveil will always be able to hopefully tweak the vaccine in the future if we must to evade the variance but the vaccine codes for the entire spike protein and these variants have little point mutations along the rest and we're focusing

a lot of the variants when we should be just literally there's nothing more important than getting people need to be against this virus in this episode or the pandemic really briefly if the u.s. does get its act together what sort of a difference can it make a broad by by saying in the world health organization for example and back in kovacs to get vaccines to poor countries yes i completely agree that actually no country clearly is safe from crown of arson tell we have at all of world wide distribution of these vaccines so i think it's imperative to kovacs it's imperative to have other companies that patents. make sense not during an emergency this is an emergency and so with equal distribution of vaccine we're never going to reach herd immunity without worldwide distribution monica gandhi university of california san francisco thank you very much for being on the show again thank you. derek williams

a science correspondent has been looking at your questions on the coronavirus. possible adverse events are they looking out fall as makes proof and rolled out a notch number of temporary side effects like fatigue or headache or a slight fever are fairly common with many of the vaccines that have been launched but but around $70000000.00 people worldwide have received at least 1st doses so far and major adverse events remain extremely rare a handful of people per 1000000 have had serious allergic reactions after vaccination which is a side effect that occurs by the way occasionally with vaccines for other diseases as well but so far no deaths from an awful lactic shock have been linked to getting a covert vaccine in norway over 30 deaths recently among very

frail elderly people that occurred soon after they received the shot might have been linked to their vaccination and authorities there have adjusted guidelines for the moment but only for that specific group a few isolated cases of facial paralysis usually temporary have also been reported but the experts say that any link they are is very tenuous monitoring systems are of course in place to to watch out for any other possible adverse effects that might not have been identified in trials for example anything that might be longer term moving forward authorities will be looking very closely to see whether for example certain rare or auto immune disorders occur more frequently in people who've been vaccinated although there's current. lee no

evidence that the vaccines that have been authorised so far can actually have those effects in general experts are in wide agreement that with a few exceptions almost everyone should get vaccinated when they had the chance because the benefits simply far outweigh any potential risks. you heard it from derek williams i've been fizzling thanks for watching stay safe and see you again say.

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