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. in south africa a corona virus variant now accounts for almost all new infections today the country halted the rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine on signs that it may not protect enough against a mutating virus tonight the corona virus is changing can the vaccines change too or should we change our expectations just how effective can the vaccines really be i'm bring gulf in berlin this is the day. we can expect this kind of situation to even touch the piece of these bars this will seek to out with this with that person to change a bulb to survive with a nap and they do that is to try and protect our people if we can have one be it is

we can expect that we will have many more in the future we continue to be pretty cool in these variables from the mutation with the virus to the way strikes out with us and we've just got to make sure we get a way out which is. also coming up on the eve of the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump but there is still no consensus should a former president stand trial when he's no longer in office and why bother if there aren't enough votes to convict there's a greater danger in not prosecuting him because by not doing it. where are more or less the ng ok it's all right that he did that we could go on obviously we want to show biden well. a great movie could do it is to say you know what and talk to his friends in the house and senate state stop it it's too symbolic it's meaningless he's out of office. but to our viewers on p.b.s.

in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the pandemic and this nagging growing worry over the vaccines that we just can't seem to shake 1st the positive news in the u.s. and here in europe it appears that the peak of the pandemic may now be behind us the number of new infections hospitalizations and deaths from covert 19 remain high but are trending lower and now the worry will the new virus variants will they change that in the u.s. the u.k. variance is spreading quickly doubling the number of infections in about a week's time millions have already received either the buy on take 50 or the mcgurn of vaccines in scientists say so far the protection seems to be holding they cannot say that in south africa today the country stopped its mass vaccination program with the astra zeneca vaccine a new study shows the vaccine offers only minimal protection against the variant

which now accounts for 90 percent of all new infections so what now the w.'s adrian crease reports tonight from south africa. it was supposed to be the turning point in south africa's fight against corporate 19 the arrival of 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine last week presidents who are on a pause and the health minister came to receive it personally but instead of being vaccinated the doses will remain in storage for now and you study suggests the vaccine appears to offer only minimal protection against mild and moderate disease from the new variants that was discovered in south africa the government's rollout plan is now on hold. the 1st thing we want is our scientists risk what do we do with. it just dream that is working with what and what answer to upload it so there is no potential sense because we speak is to find out how to deal with it or it is clear however that health workers will not stop

receiving their vaccine as planned this week and for the rest of the population there's even more uncertainty and that is quite unfortunate because we actually thought the vaccine was going to help people especially in south africa that we needed a lot actually i needed this in. on that note that i'd always really no vaccine means nicole was going to go along and that means a longer lockdown for all of us meaning people in jobs meaning. when they going out lackluster would get into that and then i need to be in town and how loud they do the homework on. top of that scene that they getting in scientist citing evidence that the vaccines prevent grave illness and death while astra zeneca said it's believed it's a vaccine could protect against cv a disease by religious chabi a modest says south africa could see an upsurge in infections once winter

approaches he suggests knots to completely abandon the astra zeneca jep convert 1000 vaccines protesters any guess release and change if it seems. safe for most of the us save and even though they are question marks in terms of the effectiveness of their senate vaccine against severe disease do we want to take that risk of not defects in aiding hiatus groups not knowing that cannot can of course but they can make the perfect that they can save you a disease thought africa is now pinning its hopes on the johnson and johnson vaccine that delivered promising results against the new variant new deliveries are expected in the next weeks but in the long run it is scheduled to be manufactured in south africa. over more tonight let's bring in lawrence young he's a viral adjust and professor of molecular oncology at warwick medical school in the u.k. fessor young is going to have you on the program let me get your take is south africa right to halt the rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine well i think it's too early

to have done that in this small study that they produce which was only 2000 young people average age 31 shows that the ice just atika vaccine is not effective against mild all moderate disease it has no information about most of a disease and that's what we need to find out you know the study found disappointing protection in moderate and mild cases but let me ask you what about trying to prevent hospitalizations and severe cases shouldn't that be the number one priority right now. absolutely and by comparison with the other vaccines that have been child in south africa or including the noble that's right and the johnson and johnson vaccine then that gives us hope because both those vaccines gave us around 60 percent efficacy against very severe disease and all spittle isolation i think many of us who have looked at the data around the astra zeneca

office for a vaccine believe that a nice of a disease that vaccine will also be effective a decision to stop the roll out of the vaccination program in the middle of a pandemic i mean it appears to be drastic it doesn't necessarily protect the public health anymore isn't this decision isn't just going to scare people i think it is that exact very negative effect even today within the united kingdom been concerns that this might be a lot from having the astra zeneca vaccine where as we know from data published last week that in regard to the most common variants in the u.k. and elsewhere in europe the astra zeneca also the vaccine is very very effective and in fact in the last trial over 12000 people given the vaccine not not one of them needed to be hospitalized we know that the british prime minister says that he

has confidence in all of the vaccines that are in use at the moment the european union it's not offering the astra zeneca vaccine to people over the age of 65 but now we have the south african variant of the vaccination stop how do you explain professor different governments reaching different conclusions with the same science. you know i think we've got some different interpretations of the science we've also got dare i say it a little bit of politics creeping into some of the decision making and we've always known that one of the issues is going to be supplies of vaccines so the most important thing is that we all get across the world as many vaccines approved for use as possible and we also realize that thing that there would be changes in the virus as it grows in us and that we might have to think about ways of updating the vaccines in the future there are dozens of groan of virus vaccines in the pipeline

eventually we will be able to pick and choose what we've been told will that be the answer then to warding off any new dangers that may arise from new variants of the virus i think there are 2 things here one is making sure that whatever vaccines used these gives the best possibly new response and that individuals use need to receive 2 doses because the larger and bigger and stronger the protective immune response is the better to protect not only against disease but also this whole question now of whether any of these vaccines are going to prevent transmission because the lead bit of data i guess today from south africa suggests that the astra zeneca vaccine may not stop model disease and what that really means is that people could still go on and transmit the virus and that's going to be a problem which will require a. total modest modification of the vaccines in the future we have this medical

miracle of having effect of vaccines which were developed at record speed and as you say that can be altered according to the viruses mutations this is all very encouraging are governments are they communicating this well enough in your opinion . no i don't think they are and i think and it's very difficult you know we're in the middle of a pandemic we almost don't have the luxury of being able to sit back and think more about better vaccines and better approaches what is for sure is that the vaccine program is important but also we have to recognize the whatever variants are generated they all spread in the same way this virus is a response spread in aerosols and droplets and person to person contact we need to really look at that again to we need to be sure in each of these cuts is as much as possible we're operating social distancing and hygiene and face most q.c. because that will stop infection and the need to run that type of approach those

type of. affects to prevent infection alongside the vaccine and one final question for you professor the news from south africa today should it alter our expectations that the vaccines will deliver us album of this pandemic i think we need to be cautious about what he will is telling us is that we're in a very strange phase now a difficult phase of this pandemic where the virus is adapting to our bodies we've seen that certainly in the u.k. with their research generated here in she's more exceptions and we are going to see continuing changes in the virus as it adapts to our bodies and i think we've just got to try and keep up with those changes and think about the ways that we can use both vaccines as well as other medications actually to to prevent the virus from causing severe disease the priority has to be in all our countries to protect the most vulnerable from getting sick from this disease more john professor of

molecular and college of warwick medical school in the u.k. professor we appreciate your time in your valuable insights tonight thank you thank you very much. like in many other countries could 1000 prevented children in india from attending school for most of last year while some schools have now reopened for many children in india's villages going back to school is not an option anymore millions of parents are now jobless meaning their children now have to step up and become breadwinners. for us and them on started apprenticing 6 weeks ago at this one in a village in it that for this the shy 12 year old has been hot part of the listening to instructions is clearly not enjoying it. i want to go back to school. meet my friends i don't want to work here. but he

doesn't really have an option nor does his younger brother who joined him here a few days ago but bought off following their father's instructions up to him on is out of work himself. with school schools for nearly a year now and due to the good one of iris he has given up hope that education would secure them will see him on says he's only looking out for their future is will the way schools are being closed they were starting but they aren't doing anything now we've asked them to work out of desperation so that they can learn something hopefully a livelihood schools reopen and they leave would lose out if they stay and help to survive there's no advantage in going to school now. the state government has just announced the junior classes are set to 0 but a sudden i'll just need to stay at school to support their family. high school

classes resume back in october but children younger than 15 us have hardly studied for the better part of. at best the by the way that i'm playing with their friends at the worst they are forced into labor or a matador. to the inch or that he has weathered endlessly about this especially about the 400 children who attended his school his class is much smaller now he just helps his own daughters with their studies private school slight sure that he's educated close to half of india's children often for very little money. now his own school survival is at stake tawdry waved his hundreds of being a approximately bundle monthly feed jawed in the lockdown he still feels that many can't afford to continue sending their children a lot of the chair will mob of most of the children our company their parents to

work. i fear 70 percent of them will drop out we try to appeal to the parents to keep educating their kids but they just say if we don't have money how are we supposed to send their children to school. children on bread from the lack of resources also the without online education toddy says. if parents already can't afford a nominal fee how can they pay for multiple smart schools for all the children at home education has not been a priority in his village he says and a tad been an uphill battle even before the lockdown hit charges he is excited to see the children again soon but he's also realistic. he knows that even if just a quarter of them show up. he can't count it as a victory. in the united states there is the sense of political deja vu this week just one year after

he was tried on impeachment charges and acquitted donald trump is about to do it all over again tomorrow the 2nd impeachment trial of trump begins he's accused of inciting the riot at the u.s. capitol last month just like the 1st trial in his 2nd trial trump will not appear in person and he will not testify this will no doubt be history in the making trouble become the 1st and only u.s. president to be tried for impeachment twice he will be the only former u.s. president to stand trial but these are momentous markers in u.s. history not meant to be safe not for democrats not for republicans not for america . it's been over 2 months since election day but trump seems to be as present as ever in rural pennsylvania and his upcoming impeachment trial is finding little support here michael. paula lynn

grew up in piketon a small village on the outskirts of harrisburg eve about america we're not trump followers we want somebody that represents. long time america and where we came from america is at a crossroads and pennsylvania is a prime example for the divide between rural and urban on the one hand you have trump supporters who still believe that the election was stolen on the other hand you have democrats who want to hold stolen trump accountable for the storming of the capitol ungenerous 6. only 20 minutes away an opto in harrisburg the political landscape changes from deep red to bright blue the democratic phenomenon which can be found all across america i'll be happy to give it all up front and his supporters why because the. capital

you know i mean the lies that was lost for what i talked to 2 pennsylvanians state senate is. because of covert restrictions is it really worth taking the risk to deepen the divide of the country even more with the impeachment there's a greater danger in not prosecuting. this by not doing it where are more or less ok it's all right that he did that. 'd he committed a crime. and he needs to be held accountable for the crime you know his words and the republicans have a different take soccer to do anything that you know the nation i thought i'd obviously we want joe biden well. a great move he could do it is to say you know what and talk to his friends in the house and senate state stop it it's too symbolic it's meaningless he's out of office yet back in piked on paula does not

feel optimistic about our country's future now that trump is no longer president it will be a big divide. it's scary actually very scary because we're patriots or not going down easy and the next generation might be still living in a fractured nation on this the new president can preach that divine. art for more tonight let's bring in jeanne healy he's a vice president at the cato institute think tank in washington d.c. his research focuses on executive power and the role of the presidency she is going to have you back on the program trump's lawyers say that this trial is a nonstarter because it is unconstitutional is it well no this isn't the 1st time the senate has tried something that's no longer in office you know there are translators arguments seem to be the house too fast and.

thereby tonight from due process but the senate moved too slow because they didn't get it with a week left in trump's term they weren't able to run a full dress trial if only to move just right you know the fact is they don't want a trial they don't want to hearing of all this and did i think what the jurisdictional argument that they flashed on is something that's just a politically convenient. rationalization for senate republicans who would like to avoid it. well i mean it sounds like what we've got here is the president's lawyers are arguing more about process rather than substance in other words the trial is not constitutional but they're not really going way out there to say that the president didn't incite the right to. no date but yes they did the

bulk of the argument is on the jurisdictional question and there's another facet involving the president's 1st amendment rights that more or less as long as he didn't say he couldn't be crowd criminally prosecuted for incitement to riot then he's home free that's not the way it works or has ever worked in ph you can lose your job or be disqualified from office for behavior that is that they can't send you to jail for the standards that the supreme court is apply to the cruel is a shoot of political speech or there are properly very odd artists and someone in jail for something he said in a political speech that's not at all what we're talking about here and so it doesn't quite get you to it acquittal to simply to say that the prosecutor would

have a hard time of pressing criminal charges against trump for his january 6 rallies . you know during the 1st impeachment trial last year the republican majority at the time prevented witnesses from being called in to testify the democrats said that witnesses are fundamental to a fair trial this time around the 100 senators in the chamber they happen to be the witnesses as well should that make it easier to convict the president. well you would think that some of them would. take this somewhat personally you know many of them spent january 6 hiding you know it in their offices and many of them were driven out of the capitol building this was essentially a i don't know if incitement insurrection is the right way to frame it but in plain language who's president of the united states riling up

a mob in the hopes of intimidating congress while it was in the process of counting votes for election loss. you would think that having been there in their building when the work place was stormed and think that you know the institutional loyalty for the for the senate would make them take this very seriously i am afraid that a lot of senate republicans are going to. to reach for this jurisdictional question about whether you can try an ex-president who's already been a peach i think that is going to be a convenient way to put this to 2 to avoid ruling on the merits you know and it looks fairly clear tonight that the majority needed to make the president is not going to be reached because of the republicans who is there any point then to this trial. i suppose the point is the expressive

value of a bit of the practical after one of the reasons they were they didn't press that is because the hopes of getting to disqualification you don't get to disqualification disqualification only requires a majority vote but you can't get there until you have 67 senators to vote to convict in the 1st place and that takes 17 republicans it doesn't look like they will get close to that. but they are they're going forward with the trial and yes because. they're supposed to hinder because it does have some expressive value of finishing what what the house are in a way it's like a constitutional censure vote. center but i think it's me my last question for you got 30 seconds jeanne if the senate were to vote to bar trunk from holding public

office in the future would that be a satisfactory outcome yes or no what do you think. well i think it would certainly be satisfactory for the house managers i don't think. you know it's certainly something that trump could challenge in court if each wanted to get on the ballot and whether the supreme court would hear that case is a different question entirely genially with the cato institute joining us tonight from washington d.c. jeanne as always we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thanks for having me on. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the w. news or you can follow me at brant golf t.v. remember whatever happens between now and then. another day we'll see you then everybody.

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