e.u. countries were having trouble rolling out their vaccine programs many vaccination centers like here in france have been standing empty because there are not enough jobs available and frustration is growing among a population weary of ongoing restrictions. we're joined now by jacob kirkegaard a senior fellow at the german marshall fund welcome to the program sir the e.u. says its new measure is not an export ban is it no it's not an export ban but it's obviously potentially an export very and that and basically when you're asking private companies to to get certified or approval for any exports it's not quite there but it's certainly a 1st step and i think the fear is that companies are going to be has its and in having a free flow of vaccines and the components to make vaccines as

a result of these you measures and i think the problem with that is that as we go forward and recognising that this isn't a matter of supplies of vaccines the next couple of weeks this is about vaccine supply in the next months if not years and therefore i think it's very important that we have as much access as free access to vaccines and the cupola it's for making vaccines not just in the e.u. or the neighboring countries to the e.u. but the whole world so i think this step by the e.u. is on warrants it sends the wrong political signal at this moment in time. the w.h.o. is decrying vaccine nationalism is a utopian union in fact guilty of that and for that matter the u.k. as well. well i mean we don't know what's in the contracts yet there was a lot of redactions in the astra zeneca e.u. one that was published yesterday but we do know that apparently in the or we have heard at least that in the u.k. contract there was a statement saying that you know vaccines produced in the u.k.

should have priority to. the u.k. government so there is an element of that no doubt about it but again i want to emphasise that the particular issue regarding astra zeneca in my opinion concerns a company that has promised to watch it has might maybe even promise too much to the u.k. but so it is for the e.u. but we should be clear that the $70000000.00 doses short fold that did you know is happening you know there as resetting it promised $100.00 they're going to deliver 30 in the month the coming months that's $70000000.00 hasn't been exported from you factories to the u.k. that just hasn't been made because of production problems so who is to blame for that is an issue but you know the question is what is clear is that the answer to this question is not baxi nationalism that's for sure jacob kirkegaard senior

fellow at the german marshall fund thanks so much our pleasure to other headlines now about the pandemic from around the world algeria has launched its vaccination program the 1st inoculations where it ministered in a town south of the capital algiers where the 1st cases of covert 19 were detected last march algeria is using russia's sputnik vaccine for now with shots from china sign a farm and astra zeneca set to fall. hundreds have camped out near the peruvian capital lima waiting for refills of oxygen canisters for sick friends and family more and more peruvians have been attempting to buy medical oxygen in recent days that's as covert cases surge all but overwhelming the country's hospitals. mexico's president says he is recovering from covert 19 a week after he was diagnosed with the illness andres manuel lopez obrador said he

was quote over the critical phase of his infection he has been receiving treatment as his residence in mexico city. germany has imposed a travel ban on countries most affected by new coronavirus variants the measure effects among others britain portugal brazil and south africa restrictions will remain in place until at least february 17th berlin says the ban is necessary to prevent a surge in new infections the government has been widely criticized for the slow pace of its rollout of vaccine vaccinations. meanwhile chancellor angela merkel has appealed to the public for patience during the weeks long lockdown in her weekly video podcast she noted some encouraging signs but urged people to stay vigilant. it's 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 we take the full in the coming weeks we must proceed with caution when i want to get in a position to reopen schools and take hasn't as the more consistent we are now observing social distancing and falling hygiene rules and wearing mosques the sooner that will be possible again. for more. political correspondent. welcome the german chancellor asking for more patience there is the incidence rate dips but restrictions are going to continue in a travel ban from certain countries has been imposed how has her appeal been received so far well obviously this is not the 1st. government issued and whenever there are official polls. you will

find that up to 80 percent 70 to 80 percent of people. support government restrictions and some of them even plead for stricter restrictions on the other hand if you look at society in general people behave at the fact that infections are dropping not dropping as quickly as everyone but it seems that in their daily lives people are not sticking as closely. as one might have hoped there is a sense of fatigue in the society and this is why i'm. doing these appeals because there is a. real fear that the progress that has been achieved in recent weeks pushing the infection destroyed by critics of the much more infectious variant. in the society not only in germany. as you well know the big story around here has

been the slow roll out of the vaccines people are increasingly frustrated on saturday german health minister yen spawn appealed to germans for understanding but at this stage i. speak louder than words. yes yes indeed i think there was a little bit of too much hope that was raised by the government when vaccination started in late december there was a feeling in society that this was going to happen very very quickly even though it was clear from the beginning that the amount of vaccine that would be available would not be sufficient for everyone initially and then there were all these problems with supplies from various suppliers so that in fact everything that had been hoped for and something that something should have been promised by the government could not be in fact. realized yes indeed the government is under a lot of pressure and the situation it has become

a political hot potato this is one of the reasons why there is that. really quite acrimonious dispute with the astra zeneca manufacturer at the moment because political politicians all over europe and also here in germany are very much under pressure. to get these political correspondent there hans fran thanks so much on. to other news from around the world now russia is warning activists not to join protests in support of the jailed opposition leader alexina vo name security forces have sealed off parts of cities including st petersburg were demonstrations are planned nearly $4000.00 have been detained at rallies since the volleys arrest earlier this month. in paris clashes have erupted between police and protesters opposed to a proposed new security law the legislation would criminalize so-called militias publication of photographs of police officers civil rights campaigners and

journalists want the measure to be scrapped. italy's 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 ministers are separate conte resigned this week. farmers in india have begun a one day hunger strike to protest the government's planned agriculture laws they say the laws benefit large private buyers at the expense of producers the demonstrations come after a week of unrest that has seen hundreds injured in clashes with police. thousands of farmers are in delhi venting their anger at indian prime minister narendra modi they say new agriculture laws who crush them financially while giving large corporations a big advantage. we have decided that we won't go back unless foreign laws are repealed if we don't have anything then it's better to die here than at home.

this one day hunger strike is part of a movement that started 2 months ago against 3 pieces of legislation that passed parliament last september these protests have been the biggest challenge to prime minister modi since he came to power in 2014 he says the new laws are necessary to modernize indian farming but farmers believe the changes will turn agriculture corporate and leave them behind so they say giving up isn't an option not to be able to tell the 3 laws or take him back we're not moving from here but. you know obviously oregon. the hunger strike coincides with the death of indian independence later mahatma gandhi protesters hope to rehab their image which has taken a hit and recent days because the sport mischa's with the police. was farmers here

hope the rally on this day of remembrance will reaffirm the peaceful nature of the protests. in the bundesliga saturday's early games are finished and there was a big win for biron they often hard for one revenge for one lost earlier this season and beat frankfurt one against her to. drew just like braman and shaka saturday's late game between heavyweights leipzig and laver causing kicks off shortly on friday stuttgart minds on sunday cologne host billy felt and. play for. take a look at some of the action from that friday night match between stuttgart and mines that the home team wore rainbows drive jerseys in support of diversity on and off the pitch it took stuart god 55 minutes to get on the scoreboard saw collided

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take off in electrically powered flying vehicles many cities are choked with traffic but in the sky there's still plenty of room and also the prototypes as opposed to be less harmful to the environment so when will flying cars claim the skies and when they really improve our lives here's what experts have to say. about the hard to predict what will hit cars will go mainstream. or the necessary infrastructure as well as a social acceptance. but i do believe that flying cars will eventually transform our lives you don't know. then. in cities like new york hollow shanghai beijing and other places where space is scarce the global elite people

with money want to be able to move around quickly they create demand this will probably just be a solution for the mobility problems of a very small percentage of society i'm ability elite fancy speeds those for the super rich that's not what i had in mind in japan they're not spending for the rich by 2023 japanese megacities want to have commercial sky taxis that's why the government investing in businesses like sky drive in aug 2020 the start of announce its 1st manned test flight my colleague cassandra ball got an exclusive glimpse of what happens inside the secret research center. this is japan's 1st flying cars. i definitely need to see this and of course fly in it too when i think of flying cars i think of back to the future disney's meet the robinsons and my childhood cartoon the jetson's are saif i imagine

nation is now becoming a reality. my team and i began our journey to skydives research center from tokyo before embarking on this trip we had to sign confidentiality agreements why the secrecy in strictness because the technological details and detesting location are top secret i'm allowed to say this much though we're about 300 kilometers southwest of the capital in the middle of the mountains what a thrill right now i'm standing in front of the are in the center of sky drive and the location is top secret kind of makes me feel like i'm in a james bond movie. because the air mobility start up was founded in 2012 and is backed up by toyota and behind these doors it's where the magic happens and here is where it's parked sky drives

prototype with 8 little rovers to be the place doesn't immediately scream high tech sadly i'm not allowed to test it without a pilot's license well at least i got to sit in it and it was awesome just time travel into the future well not literally but the kind of use like it. some experts say flying cars will reduce traffic jams in urban areas lower pollution and save travel time. sky drive as one of about 80 companies worldwide there are currently working on so-called e.-v. towards electric vertical takeoff and landing these flying cars run on batteries and they can land and take off from the tiniest bases trouble already exists but it's still very inconvenient our goal is to create a compact and quiet find a vehicle so that people can fly every day little bit. currently the prototypes

flight time is limited to 3 to 5 minutes this is supposed to change soon though the developers are hoping that only 2 years time their flying cars will be used as air taxis in tourism or for emergency medical services but there are still a number of technical obstacles left to overcome. this cause this will provide greater safety but when you increase the number of motors you have to build a bigger and heavier so the goal is to figure out the right number of motors in order to assure safety but at the same time keep the aircraft as compact as possible. it's a fine balance test pilot toshio on though tells me that for this year the next milestone for the project is already in the works launching the 2 seater to fire across tokyo bay and one of these i can't even begin to imagine oh this has been

quite a journey i learned a lot about flying cars and i even got to sit a warrant but let's be clear the ultimate goal for these vehicles is autonomy's fly and until that happens there are a number of technical obstacles that we have to overcall and even more importantly these project. depend heavily on public acceptance if you'd like to see what else because sandra bullock has been up to check out you tube channel sky drives a model is made for air travel but hybrids goes step further traveling in the air and on roads sounds great there's just one huge obstacle for many of these ideas you need a runway the dutch company pal v is coming close their vehicle has already been approved for roll to traffic at a top speed of 160 kilometers an hour it could turn some heads when it's propellers unfolded the pelvic turns into a gyrocopter but along with a driver's license and

a pilot's license you'll need 300000 euros in the bank. most flying car models are made for road traffic but work like helicopters or drones they're called even stands for electric and vital means vertical takeoff and landing and they're quite spectacular check this out. is this the mobility of the future these prototypes are electrically powered aircraft that can hover take off and land vertically they're called multi copters or evie told so which company will bring the 1st model to market global players like airbus and boeing have already joined the race as have started out like volvo copter from germany. to digital. technology is really very simple which allows you to build a vehicle taken off line with muscle for the helicopter other than just for the

fact that there really quiet the mission free music for tired. but so far none of these sky taxis can fly longer than about 20 minutes. for safety reasons though they need to be able to remain airborne 30 minutes longer than their longest trip. current battery technology just isn't up to that. bad weather is another obstacle e.-v. told can't fly in strong wind or heavy rain still there are developers believe these flying vehicles will revolutionize mobility and sooner than we might think governments will also have to give them the green light germany's transport ministry seems open to the idea quite interested in seeing sky taxis become a reality here in germany in 2017 we passed new regulations governing the use of

drones and unmanned aircraft the next step would be to institute regulations specifically. take that to sky taxis for the most part this will happen on the european not. enough so how exactly will this work perhaps sky taxis will fly set routes and use clearly defined landing spots on skyscrapers for example to handle both manned and unmanned aircraft air traffic control systems will also need to revamp so none of this will happen overnight. that still leaves a lot of open questions like the short flight time of 20 minutes and even those sky taxis won't need paved roads they will need the right infrastructure so when they expect they will fly in vehicles take to the skies aerospace experts define even that believes it will take at least 15 years but who will be flying them leave a dock but they'll be professional pilots very highly skilled and certified and

they won't allow the passengers or people on the ground to be exposed to a higher risk than with an ordinary helicopter. over their fathers what is space infrastructure will be needed. how exactly is going to work to hear things like whether we'll need an external agency that will set the flight routes for example or if that's something that companies because it more or less themselves it's all dependent on the factors like traffic density and the infrastructure and data connections available to us and how realistic is autonomy is flying at this point in time you put in the regulations for transporting parcels already quite rigorous depended on the size and weight of the economy aircraft and there will be a lot of rules for instance you'll need a flight terminations system to ensure an aircraft with technical problems doesn't crash into residential areas so we're still in a way off from having human passengers aboard. most developers aiming for

autonomous sky taxis even if they're still a long way to go no pilot also saves money and space at this year's c.e.'s general motors gave us a preview this video is still a simulation but the u.s. car maker hopes its cadillac e.-v. toll will soon become a reality the electric and autonomous flying car is designed for short commutes in urban areas. this model has room for a single passenger but general motors is also developing a 2 seater for the 1st and last mile passengers can switch to an autonomous road cadillac. a year earlier at sea south korean car manufacturer presented a similar vision of the future. taxi that takes off and lands vertically after a test phase with a pilot this flying taxi with room for 5 passengers would eventually be autonomous

. passengers could switch to a car or transfer to another taxi flying taxis clouding the skies whether it's transport drones or sky taxis it's clear that we need to think about what the future will bring a recent survey in germany found just 18 percent of the population could imagine commuting with flying taxis just over 50 percent would be willing to use sky taxis in emergencies for myself i'd be keen to test a prototype so what's your take could you imagine taking this guy takes you to work or do you think it's not safe. on you tube facebook dot com that's all for today take care.

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