well for more on this we're joined now by rasmus hansen he's the c.e.o. of air finity a science information and analytics company welcome to the program. mr johnson why is the european union struggling to secure its vaccines well will the e.u. has has made some wrong bets early on in independent make they haven't scaled up production at the same speed as other countries have been laid out to to make the deals and therefore they are having more supply issues to and then the u.k. and also the u.s. at the moment. and how will these export controls affect the use vaccine supply. well i think the problem is that in with these controlled everyone loses out right because you have to look at broader than just export of a few if finished vaccine right that goes a lot of ingredients into the vaccines in the 1st place the come from all over the

world you need syringes unique while vials and also you need fuel and finished in other places so the moment we don't have a free flow of medicine across borders the whole production will actually eat it is at risk of being being hold it so i think it won't benefit the e.u. a lot you know you would get maybe a little bit more of device a vaccine have to stop the built in plant folk exporting that to the u.k. but we're talking 30000000 and you know with the with the u.k. . population that's not going to make a huge difference now w.h.o. is also worried about the effects that this will have on vaccine production at not just in europe of course globally and how will the rest of the world be affected by these vaccine export controls. well so so so short term i think you know there isn't a lot of exports going on yet at the moment most countries actually tend to to to

to use their own domestic production but longer term this is incredibly dangerous to take a country like india india is said to produce civil billions of vaccines of india start saying we're not going to export any of that then the whole kovacs many low and middle income countries will be schuessler brisk and also going back to the e.u. if you look at epic happy to perspective the e.u. doesn't actually have a lot of production inside the e.u. for approved vaccines u.s. has many mall u.k. has more and also a country like switzerland the e.u. might be dependent on already is for them we don't import so even was also longer term actually risking having some of its own issues so so short term it won't make a big difference and long term it really puts puts the whole world at risk. rasmus hanson of analytics company air finity thank you germany is imposing a travel ban on countries most affected by new coronavirus variants the measure

came into effect just hours ago and will remain until at least several 17th berlin says the restrictions are necessary to prevent a surgeon new infections the fear of new coronavirus mutations israel in germany it's also one of the main concerns for german authorities to prevent them from spreading frosts in the country but government has now announced a new travel restrictions the interior ministry has imposed an entry ban until the 17th of february for travelers from countries that are particularly affected by them brazil learned portugal south africa the u.k. listen to and a swat team. mutations have not hit germany as hard as other countries but a radio hospital in berlin was forced to halt admissions after several cases were folland of the mutation 1st discovered in britain and health officials are stressing that the situation could deteriorate the most negative and also we have

to assume that if the more contagious variants continue to break in this country they will lead to even more cases in the near future and the situation will probably get worse we must work together to prevent that look this one downturn is missing the good ones i'm thinking that. the travel ban on the scene is a step in that direction but it is still unclear how effective it could be. german chancellor angela merkel has appealed to the public for patience as a weeks long lockdown stretches on in her weekly video podcast she noted some encouraging signs but urged people to stay vigilant. to all of our efforts the infection rate is dropping. we are making progress but at the same time we must be mindful of the danger posed by the new highly contagious meeting. the full in the coming weeks we must proceed with caution we're not yet in

a position to reopen schools and take us into as the more consistent we are now observing social distancing and following hygiene rules and wearing masks the sooner that will be possible again. well for more i am now joined by political correspondent hans hans now the german chancellor has asked for more patience this comes as the incidence rate is coming down here in germany for restrictions are going to continue and of course this travel ban from certain countries has been imposed how is her appeal going down here in germany. well if you look at recent polls on this the support for stricter measures in germany is still somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of the population so on paper as it were there is a lot of support for continuing with these kinds of measures if you look more at tall people actually behave one sees that the infections are not going down as

quickly as everyone had been hoping that the dissatisfaction and the restlessness in the society in amongst people is increasing and that is why this appeal from macro and from other members of her cabinet for continued patients for continued this supply and basically is very important after all there is a real fear that these more infectious viruses that were 1st discovered in the u.k. in south africa and brazil could lead to an explosion of new. of new infections and destroy the progress that has been made in recent weeks well of course to slow rollout of the vaccines has been now also a controversial topic here in germany with frustration growing now in an online discussion on saturday german health minister he appealed to germans for understanding but. at this stage don't actions speak louder than words

well you could say that indeed and in fact there were high hopes that these vaccines would lead pretty quickly to. how could i say a victory over the pandemic that lots and lots of people would be vaccinated pretty quickly within the next couple of months and that as a result there was a hope that things would get better more quickly than they are in fact getting better so yes the health minister was in a town hall meeting taking questions from the public let's hear what he had to say today. one of. there's no doubt that we got off to a difficult start in the last few weeks there was certainly a lot of frustration about the hotline's handover why more vaccine doses were not being delivered i understand very well why people are impatient but i also want to emphasize that a 3rd vaccine has been approved it's unlikely that anyone would have dared to predict 12 or even 6 months ago that within

a year of the beginning of the pandemic we would have 3 approved and effective vaccines. as a german health minister there appealing to germans for patients essentially now the problematic vaccine rollout will of course be a topic on monday when chancellor merkel meets with the governors of germany's 16 states what do you expect from this meeting and well this is a special meeting as it were of that kind of covert corona control body that has been meeting over the past few months again and again i call the chancellor and the central government role together with the 16 leaders of germany's 16 regional states and those has been you have been in the positively fractious meetings and here again at the moment the dissatisfaction also in germany's regions who actually are doing the vaccination will actually have to organize it has been growing because the vaccines aren't arriving while the infrastructure has in fact been put in place so this meeting on monday is likely to attempt to calm the waters

a little it's also an attempt i think on the part of the health minister and the central government to spread the responsibility for the vaccinations on more shoulders as it were there will also be representatives of pharmaceutical companies that will participate and there is some hope that the backlog the bottleneck of vaccines arriving in germany can in some sense be overcome testing times indeed the w.'s political correspondents hands plan thank you very much for that update. so there are news now from around the world the younger brother of kremlin critic alexina valley has been put under house arrest for allegedly violating coronavirus restrictions authorities say only broke the law when he called people to join anti-government protests this sunday he's one of several opposition figures to be detained ahead of the planned demonstrations. portugal's parliament has voted to

legalize euthanasia the bill passed by a large majority and to the lives assisted suicide for terminally ill patients the bill still requires the approval of the conservative president if he signs it into law portugal will become the 4th e.u. country to permit the practice. at least president is trying to resolve disputes between party leaders following the collapse of the government earlier this month he's given the squabbling factions 4 days to form a new coalition prime minister to step to contain resigned this week. sports news and in the bundesliga stuttgart hosted in friday night's match the home team were rainbow striped wore rainbow striped jerseys in support of diversity on and off the pitch it took stood guard 55 minutes to get on the scoreboard sasha collide sic took the centering pass to head it in stuttgart went on to win it.

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a flying car airport might look when a temporary installation opens in november. restaurants in new york city or a buy to welcome back patrons for indoor dining starting on valentine's day in his latest briefing new york governor andrew cuomo said restaurants can reopen their inside spaces at imagine home any portion of us right now in the world climate change you could recall the story this is my plan for the way from just one week. how much we're going to really get it. we still have time to and i'm doing. it. so i said. it was the night of september the night when refugee camp morea on the brink come into. play some on the finals proved. started by people driven by just one wish

to get out. the following day large parts of europe's largest refugee camp play in ruins. what was the reason for the fire. the more yes if it gets done and more hasn't just recently become a problem in the movie at the conditions in the camp had been a problem for 4 and a half well yes estoy a fire like that was foreseeable for has it. in many german cities citizens demanded that refugees from syria be taking they called upon politicians to put a stop to the humanitarian catastrophe on the greek islands. the people stranded here have placed all their faith in europe but does europe have

a net so. they can need to flee and we cannot be content with our european migration policy to get we don't really have one saw. what the e.u. has delivered to date is an absolute disgrace to european values you are absolutely absolute. september 2023 days after flames engulfed morea thousands of huddled on the streets outside a discount supermarket we're looking for a file you can she's only 11 and has spent the last year with her parents in to c.p.s. in the morea refugee camp like most people here she and her family fled afghanistan now after the fire they don't have a preferred that they had. camps residents take to the street they want freedom

they want out. the police try to contain the situation but it spirals out of control it said the stones were thrown the police respond with tear gas. they fired tear gas even at the small children their eyes were full of tears. now the nosedive family 2 adults 3 children are on the straight. home gentlemen everything was on fire in front of us behind us there was no way out. we haven't had anything to eat for the last 2 or 3 nights we all hungry there's no clean water we drink dirty water at night the children cry out they're so hungry mummy give us something to eat which is that of course no food no water the strategy of the greatest artists they are intentionally starving his refugees to force them into

the new camp that's being set up. i. nearly half the people here the children. most from afghanistan few are from syria or africa. but how much were you going out of the camp why. did you know they say there is food there was none i don't know what it was like a poor like many the north a family has suffered an exhausting journey to get 4 years ago they fled from afghanistan to iran finally get could only piece of illegal schools his father was deported 3 times then he placed all his heart on europe he was offered no more lease the one who brought us here. now he regrets it.

like the us says that there's nothing we can do. we've been here for over 12 months one year nothing has happened and things have only grown worse. now when i feel i can't go back to afghanistan i was in danger there. and iran things were very bad for us afghans and mark on our face. after the fire at the villages the morea trying to regain their stride money at monte ellis witnessed the file $100.00 of her all of trees been down that night to her and amidst loss we were lost. because we fear. for my opinion is that it is better to close i think so that. it would be not a prison to new camp is now also in view of her restaurant. i

guess family is worn down that parched and starving even though they feel they won't be back out they venture into the park. after the fire destroyed the 1st camp many refugees hoped they could leave the island to continue their journey towards a better future. instead a new camp is set up many feel afraid and the facilities are even worse than before . flora ana binya is a german lawyer who spent years fighting for refugees rights on the greek islands via n.t.p. kristof and in pezzo he received reports from people on the site saying there are very limited water resources and i meant only one mail a day and it is almost and after in addition the people are stuck behind barbed

wire and it is all moved and basically the situation is even worse than it was even morea. but now the e.u. wants to turn over a new page 2 weeks after the fire the e.u. commission introduced a new pact for migration and asylum in brussels it was designed to end years of bickering among e.u. member states. for years previously european governments had already attempted to reach an agreement on how to handle the crisis with no success. countries like hungary rejected any obligation to take in refugees. or johansson is the european commissioner for home affairs as the politician responsible for the new pact she calls for a measured approach. of course it's natural to be emotional because you talk about people hurt human beings and then many of them are in

a crisis situation and of course it is good that you have emotions towards people in a crisis but just solve the problem and to be able to find a political solution i think that we should try not to dramatize migration i think that's really part of the problem we have seen too many drama queens in this debate actually and i think that we should be a little bit more sober and pragmatic. and so the proposal is full of technicalities it calls for a maximum of 5 days screening at the e.u. out of border during which security and identity checks are to be conducted in most cases this is to be followed by a fast asylum procedure within 12 weeks. member states unwilling to take in refugees are instead obligated to support the process of returning rejected asylum seekers to their country of origin no state is to be obliged to take refugees in.

but it remains unclear if these provisions are enough to bring the skeptics in budapest warsaw and prague into line but the basic approach is still on changed because they would like to many age the migration and not to stop the migrants that's different kind of approach this deal on that the bank seeing how to manage while though i agree. we are very you parliamentarian balazs he'd be from hungary's ruling party says the proposal doesn't go far enough the real breakthrough would be if the commission had said that illegal migration must be stopped altogether. and they didn't say there so let's see what the negotiations will bring our position together with a number of other countries. have been clear i think. but even those willing to

take refugees in a skeptical e.u. parliamentarian teaneck a street from the netherlands green party says the new regulations won't really change anything what is very clear is that the biggest obstacles that we face now will remain an important obstacle is the principle of the rule of the current up a regulation that the 1st member states were the asylum seeker and there's europe is responsible for the application and for the whole procedure and this will stay. in practical terms that means the countries along the mediterranean such as greece and italy will still shoulder the biggest burden and the past years have already shown that this approach doesn't work. migration expert from the european stability initiative also has his doubts. it's smart and

sensible to aim for a faster asylum hearings for anyone arriving at the unused orders but if you don't look at the why that hasn't worked in the greek islands in the past or ask yourself what's missing if you keep tuning that out and simply insist on faster hearing it then the next attempts will fail just as much as the previous attempts have then people will once again be trapped in camps or months and conditions will say as bad as they have vents and if it doesn't leave. there are 5 such camps on the greek islands on less bo's chios say most liberals and course they're all just a stone's throw from the turkish coast at the height of the crisis nearly $42000.00 refugees were stuck there waiting for their hearing. when the corona pandemic began in early 2020 the morea camp unless both was placed under quarantine

20000 people locked up in a camp designed for 2800 inhabitants spoke of heightened aggression fights and stabbings it was a good advantage for the us they weren't allowed to leave the camp when the authorities started building fences around moria the inhabitants panicked that panic they fear they were being imprisoned in addition to being in lockdown to that lifts of his own. food was in short supply as were blankets heaters electricity some had been living here for almost 2 years they felt that europe had forgotten them. in march 2020 several edu member states offered to take me a 1600 unaccompanied minors and other vulnerable individuals out of the camps one month later the 1st migrants travelled to. luxemburg and germany to understand

the idea behind camps like moria and how they even came to be built we need to look back at 2015. if back then hundreds of thousands of people headed west for europe. they were fleeing from the wars that had destroyed their homes in syria iraq and afghanistan. the fact that the situation in refugee camps in neighboring countries had become unbearable. if we didn't look pretty good so i don't find it looking back at 2015 i think it's important to point out that that year was a complete exception to the norm as the middleman in focus again on the for the mediterranean hadn't seen anything like it for the past 50 years of things cut us off that's because the world's largest refugee crisis in decades had unfolded right

in front of europe's gay flight into an opossum thing from that perspective it's a bit unprofessional to say we're preparing ourselves for the next time a 1000000 people come our way them out of an enemy and there won't be another $1000000.00 migrants within a year in the forseeable future it's recent new ever claims there will be is just trying to stoke up fear and that steers the debate in the wrong direction. for years germany too had opposed the distribution of refugees among a huge member states citing the dublin regulation that made the country of a rival responsible for incoming refugees. then in 2015 chancellor merkel decided to let hundreds of thousands into the country for humanitarian reasons. to doubt so if it does. the vast majority of people in germany are still willing to take an refugees and other vulnerable individuals. we do have to go off on him and i think that shows that

a large percentage of the population does not consider this to be a disaster or disaster of argument. but even back then merkel's decision of vote mixed emotions in europe. i really admired america but taking that initiative and making clear also to other member states we should do that we shoot off for protection to refugees and it's really to blame for the other member states to shy away and leave merkel alone with her attitude. many blamed brussels for not creating european consensus on.