this is u.w. news live from berlin and beyond maher protesters remain defiant in the face of a police violence. t.v. and goes through. this is not. this country. tens of thousands took to the streets in anger after a military coup that overthrew aung sang suu cheese elected government also coming up after weeks of searching for clues about coded 19 the world health organization

team fails to find the origins of the pandemic flu go live to china to get the details on what the mission didn't cover and a spacecraft called follow among all the arabic for hope is about to reach mars is orbit it is the 1st arab interplanetary mission and its aim is to want to travel the secret of whether on the red planet we will speak to the head of the nation's space agency. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. security forces and myanmar are using water cannon and firing shots to disperse crowds after people to fight a ban and demonstrated for a 4th day against a military coup there are also reports that women a woman excuse me is in a critical condition after being shot. in the head by police now the hunter has

imposed a curfew on young gone and mandalay but pro-democracy activists say they will continue to fight. that a ban on gatherings hasn't deterred from here in the capital naypyidaw police fired water cannon the protesters rallying for their freedom. demanding a return to democracy and the release of elected leader aung sang suu kyi from naypyidaw. to mandalay talk to the 2 young gone. a week of military rule and man man has triggered a groundswell of demonstrations right across the nation. everywhere the same demand. from mine i want unsung suchi and president when meant to be released quickly we want all the people from the winning party the n l

d to be released that's what we all want. in mit missing out of. it isn't only support for one party or even one later these demands for democracy run fun taper. you know i know i know where very glad that the protests are happening in the entire country. and we will fight until we win. and there are signs the tide is turning among all forat least to this video posted on social media appears to show a policeman shaking the hand of a protester before they open up the barricades designed to hold protesters back. in his 1st t.v. address to the nation that the country's new military latest sought to justify a coup repeating allegations of fraud in last year's election. we're investigating the responsible for eighty's regarding voter fraud you know. he promised fresh

elections but gave no timeline for when they might be held. the comments have done nothing to quell the anger and defiance of these protests does he say it's too little too late. they want the army out and say compromise is no longer an option. and for more i'm joined now by an activist from mandalay and for security reasons he is wishing to remain anonymous so i'm just going to call him sound sam welcome to the program what's happening where you are. yes i'm totally and mentally. all we are today there was a large crowd on to the protester in the street and i saw. the police are using water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowd and. another group of large protests there has gather to again protest.

ok and protesting we have to say despite warnings from the military are you and other protesters worried about a crackdown from the military and we have some reports of shots fired at protesters and one female protester killed in the capital what have you been hearing. yes then you have spread like wildfire. in facebook so. the police showed up to. be peaceful protesters they were just. standing there on the streets and fairly arbitrary and out of one person has died and at least 3 has been injured and emotionally. more than 100 people being detained and arrested by the police and probably for obvious reasons i'm not only inside the protests but are right close to the actual truth about your protest

and as we wait for verification of those reports tell us what is the mood right now among protesters what is the sense of resolve and how far are you and other activists willing to take this given you know the challenges that you are now facing. just for. or for the cause we're willing to go to the end and the mood amongst people is like . we're not going to give up and i can hear people chanting in the streets very low right now so i can definitely see that the fear is not with you know very much anymore and we are ready to break off from the fear and for 2 years military. to you. sam we thank you so much for joining us to tell us a little bit about your experience out there on the streets of mandalay. as we

mentioned you are an activist and we appreciate your insights. and here are some more stories making headlines around the world a court in hong kong has denied bail for jimmy lie the prominent newspaper publisher and government critic he faces charges under the territory's new national security law ly was arrested in december in a crackdown on pro-democracy activists protesting chinese influence in hong kong. german exports tumbled to 9.3 percent in 2020 due to coronavirus trade disruptions according to new government data meanwhile new lockdown measures have hampered a trade recovery that began in the 2nd half of last year in december german exports edged up just 110th of a percent. police in haiti have fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating near the presidential palace in port au prince tensions have been rising over who should be

the country's legitimate leader opposition politicians say that the current president's term has expired and have named their own interim head of state the government has accused the opposition of an attempted coup. the world health organization team looking into the origins of the corona virus said that its investigations had uncovered new information but not dramatically changed the picture of the outbreak the head of the mission peter ben embark said that the team's research suggested that it was extremely unlikely the virus leaked from a chinese lab and that it most probably jumped from fats to humans via an intermediary species the w.h.o. team also said that there was no indication of covert 19 in the chinese city of new han before december 29th team the team spent several weeks visiting sites in the city where the virus is thought to have originated. for more on this let's bring in

correspondent mathias bollinger who is joining us from beijing has been following the story for us mathias how is this statement. likely to be received. well it's likely to be received quite well by the chinese government because one of the. one of the theories that would have been a most harmful to the chinese government here ie about a lap accident has practically been ruled hour which. the most likely theory that it might have jumped from bats by an intermediate host to humans that was the original hypothesis. is somehow less controversial there is also a 2nd most probable according to these experts hypothesis is that it might have been transmitted via frozen foods although it is something that the chinese government has been trying to push because it might include the possibility that the virus has been into introduced from abroad this is something that chinese media

have been pushing the during the last few months and telling their population many people in china believe know that the virus was imported into one. w.h.o. experts have been very cautious about this and and they have not supported this but they also north completely ruled this possibility out so. overall i think for the chinese government the mission went well now the w.h.o. is going to publish a detailed report and then people all over the world will probably dive into this report and we'll see what's really in there what they might have missed what is not . coming out of this report what information is has not been found and on the ground and then we will probably know more that was never the expectation that this might point us to the at the to the origin of the virus directly committee has stuck with us

a little bit about the level of access that that have had because only seen as media reports showing that seen having access. a lot of different sites even being transported to the loo hon lab. you know why was it then so difficult to come to a clear conclusion. i think on the any circumstances it would be difficult to come to a clear conclusion because one needs to find patient 0 and see how what he has been or she has been in contact in contact with a man who is already very difficult because the disease work not was not detected in the 1st patient but only when it was spreading more over of course the experts are visiting one on one year after the initial break and are entirely dependent on evidence that has been secured by the chinese side in the early stages of the outbreak on the records by the chinese. is situations so there is of

course the chance that at the time something was overlooked and this is of course not something that they cannot find now there would depend on. on on what the chinese side had organized with them although they have been able to see quite a few places and to talk to a lot of people and they seem to have gathered a lot of information mathias baldinger and beijing thank you. to india now where in as many countries as in many countries around the world covered 1000 has prevented children from attending school for most of the past year while some schools have now reopened to many children in india's villages won't be going back that's because millions of parents have no work and so it's up to their children to become the breadwinners. i sent them on started apprenticing 6 weeks ago at this one official in

a village in it that for this. the shy 12 year old has been half heartedly listening to instructions. he's 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. bought off following their father's instructions of the gym on is out of work himself. with schools closed for nearly a year now and due to the corner of iris he has given up hope that education will secure them will get him on says he's only looking out for their future. schools are being closed they were studying 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 reopened and they leave work to lose out if they stay and help

to survive there's no advantage in going to school now. the state government has just announced a junior classes are set to resume but a sudden i'll just need to stay here cool to support their family. high school classes resume back in october but children younger than 15 years have hardly studied for the better part of a year. at best the vital way that i'm playing with their friends at worst they are forced into labor or a matador. to the inch or that he has flooded 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 slightly odd that he is educated close to half of india's children often feel very little money. now his own school survival is at stake. told that he gave his hundreds of being

a approximately bundle monthly fee jordan the lockdown he still feels that many gone before to continue sending their children but it's not about your 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 our children to school. or we're going on. the lack of resources also the without online education towards he says. if parents are already gone before the norm a new theme how can that be 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. georgie 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 count it as a victory. and the united states donald trump's lawyers are condemning his impeachment trial as an act of political theater the former president's 2nd impeachment trial will open before the senate today trump is accused of inciting the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol on january 6th and democrats say they have overwhelming evidence of his guilt of republicans and trump's lawyers argue that the trial is unnecessary and unconstitutional. a solemn procession through the halls of the u.s. capitol. with donald trump's future in their hands. democrats from the house of representatives set in motion a 2nd impeachment trial for the former president by delivering the single article of impeachment to the senate. article one incitement of insurrection donald john trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence

against the government of the united states the democrats say donald trump's baseless claims of election fraud were an incitement to violence culminating in a speech he gave before congress was set to confirm the election results of america we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen you don't concede that. shortly after these remarks a violent mob breached the u.s. capitol building. here. rioters took over the building for hours and forced lawmakers into hiding 5 people died during the assault. while several republicans had criticized trump after the riot on january 6th members of the g.o.p. are now softening their stance and are increasingly criticizing the impeachment proceedings. so i think the trial is stupid i think it's counterproductive.

democrats say it's important to hold trump accountable. look everyone wants to put this awful chapter in american history behind us but sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing the only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability which this trial affords the impeachment trial will be a test for both parties at a decisive moment for donald trump's legacy. well china appears to have blocked the audio app clubhouse just a day after it was introduced in the country posts containing the trending hash tag clubhouse were also censored on social media over the weekend several large chinese language chat rooms were set up on the invite only app where guests discuss topics like the ongoing crackdown against the winkers engine jiang democracy in hong kong and sovereignty of taiwan by monday evening clubhouse users in mainland china

reported that they could no longer log on to the op now a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said the china's action on clubhouse was an issue of national sovereignty. firstly what china's internet is open the government money which is the internet in accordance with the law and regulations secondly china's position on the relevant issue has always been consistent and clear call to china has its own swabbing determination to defend its national sovereignty security and development interests as well as to oppose interference by external forces. and correspondent in taipei william yang has been following the story for us we just heard it there trying to says this is about sovereignty what are other saying. right but in fact most of the people including the chinese users of this actually considers this as yet another attempt that the chinese government is trying to censor speeches that they consider as

sensitive and possibly going to really. stage an attempt to probably a rock and also like really disrupt the whole system of the government so they try to really close this all before it grows big. you were following some of the conversations which took place in china on clubhouse in fact you know we have to mention that a lot of people were actually not they had downloaded the app through the chinese app store that they were finding other ways actually to get access to this and conduct these conversations what stood out to you content wise so most of the major themes on some of the chinese chat rooms are in fact focusing on like you said. prosecutions of the weekers and the hong kong democracy movement and also a time when sovereignty these are considered as some of the most sensitive topics inside china and

a lot of the people consider these conversations as somehow having a reconciliate reconciliation purpose and they were able to somehow reach a concert like very genuine dialogue and exchanges with people that usually in real life they would have had very different views and perspectives a lot of the conversations critical of the government ultimately how high is the fear of repercussions. in fact most of the users of before they even start using the app they neared the block is going to come very soon as always of the chinese government as always reacting very quickly to these very large scale an unprecedented level of discussions about topics that they would feared is going to really create some discontent among the civil society so a lot of them actually have been discussing rather using the a.t.m. to access the ad and then discussing about even if they got to call you know into

the police station to drink the tea as most of the locals call it they would not be afraid of that because they know some of these exchanges that they have with people outside of china have been very valuable and have been something that they've been looking forward to or it can't even really imagine before the arrival of clubhouse in china well yang in taipei thank you. in just a few hours the 1st mars probe from the united arab emirates is set to enter orbit around the red planet the allam all arabic for hope is the 1st weather satellite to to orbit mars its goal is to obtain a comprehensive picture of the martian atmosphere over the seasons and maybe even to answer the question of why earth's once life friendly neighbor has become a frosty desert of ice and dust 1st the all them all has to get all systems operating correctly after entering mars orbit remote control from earth will no

longer be possible and we're joined now by her excellency sarah been to you so if she is minister of state for advanced technology in the united arab emirates and chair of the country space agency thank you so much for making time to speak with you today 1st of all congratulations on making history 2nd of all i'd like to ask you how hopeful you are that mission hope succeeds especially given the complexities of mars missions and the failure rate which stands at around 60 percent. it's a pleasure to be here today and i'm comfortable the spacecraft as currently stand we've been operating there for almost 7 months now on its journey. and it's been operating according to our expectation with mind i'm comfortable due to this entire procedure being tested by the team we are waiting now the sequence entering orbit around mars. come to lead waiting and just the anticipating our entry

into space exploration as a nation and we know that this is the arab world's 1st interplanetary missions why is the u.a.e. going to mars now. the 1st reason for us going to ours is to develop our skills and the skill sets and genius and science in the emirates to design and develop complex systems as you mentioned earlier the fully autonomous system very complex piece of technology that needs to operate on its own for most of its journey that has celebrated the rate of development of capabilities within the emirates sciences and also engineer and we're hoping that spills over to other industries and sisters in the country it's also important from a scientific perspective this being the 1st satellite markets give us a better understand the dynamics and climate change on a neighbor it looks somewhat like us and to get a better understanding on how planets transform and change through time i'd just

like to ask you before we go if i could get your assessment perhaps on a personal level because you know we've had much reporting about the number of women in fact that are on your team it's been reported that you know some 80 percent of your science team in fact is female do you consider yourself a role model in a country where amnesty international for example says women continue to face discrimination in law and in practice. so what we're seeing out in terms of women in science in the rinse is we just go back to graduates the percent of graduates in stem where the course last year and women so the present graduates the culls degree are one. is that reflected onto the entire team overall it's the spacecraft and the signing a very let's mission from the 34 percent women like you mention are science teams 80 percent women are they are based on merit based on what they contribute but for the design developments are the mission i myself have not faced any adversity

throughout my career abuse working at the the russian space center for from almost 12 years ago always becoming a mixture of within the cabinet and also has representation of the same thing with our parliament that is today 50 percent needed to be women sarah palin mary minister of state for advanced technology in the united arab emirates thank you so much for joining us here on news and we look forward to hearing more about how your mission proceed with. you. quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you security forces in neon mark have been firing shots and using water cannon to try and disperse crowds after people to find balance and demonstrating for a 4th day against a military coup there are also reports that a woman is in a critical condition after being shot in the head by police. coming up next closeup takes a look at corona virus vaccines remember you can always get the latest news on our

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operation vaccine are now. you know so at 1st initiating the global fight against her own a virus the large industrialized countries have secured the vaccine for themselves while poor countries are being left empty handed out in the back seemed to be only distributed to the whole world is the hard road out of the pandemic close of. next on d. w. .

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discover the right. place to. subscribe to a documentary on you tube. lead. operation vaccination a huge task unparalleled in history and the challenges involved a massive. many dust on nations of already secured millions of vaccine doses to be given to the shia but what about the poor countries and i think this idea that you know really if we were protect ourselves 1st and then we would worry about others but it is of course selfish but more than that it's food it doesn't work it is

a condom use the pandemic want to be over until it's over all around the globe biased. how can the trauma of the coronavirus pandemic this year with the vaccines that are available. digimon city of maine it's come to the quarters of a firm that up until a year ago a few people outside the medical field had hit it off with the start up and violent take it was known for developing innovative drugs to fight can something. in january 2021 corona virus began spreading around the world company founded in halted ongoing research and mobilized all forces to focus on a new goal of developing a vaccine for the virus last fall we were among

a few camera teams allowed to film with the company. behind must see that the right to find 3 goals firstly we needed a back scene that triggers a powerful immune response and for then we needed to conduct clinical trials that prove it's affective and safe and thirdly we knew we'd need sufficient quantities of the vaccine for the for food. with many countries around proving the vaccine production is being ramped up the demand is huge it's a new. type of vaccine known as messenger r.n.a. it contains the blueprint for a virus tracy mccool says the body cells to develop a small amount of the virus so that it then produces antibodies to fight it to develop the vaccine quickly by on take introduced a 7 day work week and supplied regulatory authorities with joshua's clinical trials progressed to speed up the approval process. they called it our lightspeed project

life we knew we had no time to lose it this year but we were also very clear that we didn't want any short cuts that we wanted to work past the not overlook anything i think on the show that the record even while the vaccine was still mean developed by ontic was preparing for mass scale production joining forces with american pharmaceutical giant pfizer and chinese to implement foes and. no amount of rise of the demand normally you wouldn't focus on production until later in the 1st test whether you have a viable back same on it but we moved forward with both things at once and we built partnerships with other companies that would allow us to manufacture the back same and make it a bailable anywhere on the planet warthen planet. some 200 other research groups have also been working since january 2020 to develop a vaccine scientists in the u.s. and europe as well as china russia and australia only looked in the race to find

the pandemic. nomi it takes years to develop a new vaccine but this time she managed she couldn't quite that long wolfy governments around the world poured billions into research. we will become. premier. drug store better. and so it's our responsibility to work together globally. national pride and propaganda played an increasing role as the international race for a vaccine gathered speed that we're almost they're going to announce very soon we'll be ready before the end of the year. medical research became the focus of the international community as never before and the pressure on scientists grew as the political rhetoric increased there was going concern that the rush to have

a vaccine might lead to compromises on safety and adequate trials rushing a preliminary approval to its vaccine before it had gone through the all important phase drinking before trial with a vaccine is tested and found people that contravened international procedures. china also began to ministering to vets seems to members of the military and medical personnel well before clinical trials were complete. in the u.s. the trumpet ministration pumped billions into its warp speed program to produce vaccines and situation u.s. manufacturers the pole position are like anything our country has seen since the manhattan bridge. in the end it was biotech and pfizer who were the 1st to have a vaccine approved at least in the western world.

in early december after britain issued emergency approval for the vaccine 90 year old margaret jean and became the 1st received the bio on tech jab. to stop their. coverage of the paper. canister in the united states also. the biotech pfizer vaccine. the companies are pledged to live a 200000000 doses to the u.s. by maine.

just before christmas a 2nd vaccine gained emergency approval in the u.s. made by american company montana like the one from bio on take to listen m.r. innate that same. the bio on take your dinner vaccines was shown to be 95 and 94 percent effective into an equal shot. and a fair vaccine has now been approved to a so-called viral vector produced by oxford university and the british swedish company astra zeneca it's thought to be up to 70 percent effective against the virus back to a higher rate than required to be approved for usage. bot despite these encouraging developments it's been clear all along that to begin with there wouldn't be enough vaccine for everyone so who should get it 1st like many countries germany is prioritizing the elderly can seek. a new books who heads up the genetics council help to draw up the guidelines for

distribution effects aim. to have and that's i don't you didn't select the elderly for preferential treatment as if to play the different generations off against each other that's your gain and ours zondervan as is todd said it's just the case that the data showed very clearly that old age is the greatest risk factor x. that is equal to. what is good and there are some groups especially very elderly people in nursing homes for many. 100 times more at risk than say someone like myself. last but is everyone in germany willing to be inoculated i echo finance of the vaccine have been protesting for months fearful that they could be coerced into getting inoculated it gets they will. represent an incentive a sloshy showed the number of people in germany willing to have

a covered 19 vaccine trucked as the most cost while in april 70 percent said yes they would get an occupation by the end of november that number had dropped to just 57 percent. and yet experts say between 60 and 70 percent of the population needs to be inoculated to achieve head immunity. and their willingness to be vaccinated dropped in many industrialized nations last year including deal less. on the safety of the vaccine i am not sure i wouldn't want to be one of the volunteers to try it i wouldn't be to care about taking a brief that's something i have to do it's something i have to do. surveys in the us change 66 percent of those asked in july were willing to get vaccinated that dropped to 50 percent in september that didn't rose back to 63 percent.

was a possible to protect the global population of nearly 8000000000 people. on the public curb the pandemic that scene's need to be accessible and affordable for every country yes it is this fish think it's important that we consider a vaccine as a global public good bit tough that they're. bound to expect seen alone won't be enough to end the pandemic. you can't be mean and the kind of work of endemic doesn't care which countries have rolled out a backs a nation program what's important is that we achieve blanket immunization all over the world in our own nunchuck. no one company can cover that kind of demand is that i need to work together and we need to help each other so that we're all in a position to make a vaccine available as soon as possible and so. one solution could lie nearly

7000 clunkers wife from biotech's german headquarters. in india. the city is 3000000 miles southeast of mumbai in the indian state of maharashtra. tuna sandwich the world's largest banks a manufacturer of serum institute of india. the pharmaceutical company says it produces of a one and a half 1000000000 doses of various vaccines every year. specialized in supply in the developing world and emerging economies who can't afford the vaccines produced in the west. to. discern institute says its vaccines are used in 170 countries worldwide. after months of seeking to contact the institute out team was finally gratified

mission to film pm last fall and speak to the head of research and development challis crowd. see the minister for india reporting lot of your 1st story you. helped end our global. supply of large oil your vaccine seagram is normal to really take care of for this is better than in a low income countries border countries and making it quit able access to all the people. norm. these by reactors and used to produce vaccines to guard against polio and other diseases now the company has reserved a large part of its capacity to cope with 19 vaccines. so the major challenge is when such a pandemic comes so everybody wants larger while you accuse 5 to 7000000000.

to be manufactured in short time. to meet the expected to mad to soon institutions country can fish in one of its new factories it was built to manufacture the drugs but not produce coronavirus vaccines. generally lot of people do when there is a pandemic they start from the scratch so by the time the how will facility which can be were billions of those is probably says don't nobody is interested in deeper and it is a big plus of cinema's to india we always expanded and created large facilities in anticipation of global new gulf several of that since as of a lead pandemic we can really handle such kind of products. 5 kinds of 19 vaccines are currently being produced here in. one of them is the vector vaccine developed 5 of it's beginning 1st city and astra

zeneca in india it goes on to the name of kofi shield. the same institute has signed a contract with astra zeneca to manufacture 1000000000 tons of kofi shield doses of distant expressly for developing countries and india. right now we. are awfully about 25 to 30000000 doses of all sort of racing is already manufactured by us at risk. we are continuing doing that. we got rid of a case for the 60000000 doses someone. the oxen vaccine has now also been given emergency approval in india. but only on condition that in the initial months at least this earnest to choose only sells the vaccine to the indian government. thanks to its industry which indeed has been able to

start a large scale vaccination driest but what about other emerging economies in the developing world. the manufacturers of astra zeneca biotech pfizer and want to own a said together they will produce 5300000000 doses of vaccine in 2021. in theory that's enough for 3000000000 people so over a 3rd of the global population. but the majority of those doses have already been reserved to 27 member states of the european union and 4 other industrial countries have already prefer ordered hot those doses. the supply and their populations will be generous canada for example has secured nearly 9 doses for every single one of its residents followed by the us with just over 7 per head of population the e.u. with nearly 5 and india with just under 2. the problem is these countries who have

secured however the vaccines to be produced in 2021 only account for 13 percent of the global population. for poor countries that means there won't be much left over at least not for the forseeable future research is that you could invest it in the us a calculated that most people in these countries will have to wait until 2023 or even 24 to get the vaccine. german business journalist enrica hammond is skeptical about the behavior of wealthy nations in the current crisis. dr so initially of course that the pharmaceutical companies needed money risk capital to push ahead with the whole production of understood and so it's logical that governments want vaccines in return but let's be clear there's a certain amount of nationalism at play here and this will get into an economist

jayati ghosh wants of the dangerous consequences of vaccine nationalism this is exactly why i called it a vaccine i bought it because it means that the countries with that are made sure that their populations have the 1st access they will be the 1st storage governed not just from the pandemic but also economically and the countries that are already poor already devastated by the health conditions they will wait so they will go through another year of economic devastation and illness. but the impending lack of vaccines for the global south is not elite and if you wish. to get by this is not respected in borders so the idea that you can protect your own population and not worry about the rest and that you would ever be safe is very foolish it's a consensus but more than that it's foolish it doesn't work even if vaccine

nationalism sit to increase the inequality of our world. but it's not even in the interests of the industrialized nations to behave this way according to german economist bank right now. as this is comes it's very important to understand that in addition to the medical and moral arguments there are also strong economic arguments for not just focusing on our own markets and of marginal dog wouldn't among those i'm just saying this globalized capitalism really doesn't need a virus like over 19 or not you will help because there are gay. local supply chains and our entire economies are based on people being able to travel than on the hundreds or trade partners are economically on their knees because of the pandemic countries that supply wrong materials as well as the countries that import our men a fractured goods that cannot be in our interest. to kill try to risk of poor countries not having enough vaccine to world health organization created an instrument back in april 2020 cooled kovacs it aims to ensure equal and fair access

to covered 900 vaccines of the blunt participating countries pain to a joint fund which the w.h.o. uses to purchase the cost facts scenes send the wealthiest states financed the poorer ones. we now have the largest most dynamic court folio of back scenes anywhere in the world we expect we have countries that cover 90 percent of the world's population that are agreeing to work together to get the best possible prices the best possible values and the best possible timing for the rollout of these vaccines around the world. the job you may chose distribution plant comprises 2 phases in the 1st phase one participating countries receive facts into inoculate them medical personnel and in the final groups. then in the 2nd phase vaccines are supposed to go especially to countries with the situation is most urgent it sounds

cool to them or problems with 1st place simply muddy we need a substantial amount of money to be another $5000000000.00 to be able to buy the vaccines that are going to be needed especially for low income countries. the 2nd challenge that we have of course is we're seeing a big 2nd waves of disease especially in the northern hemisphere it will be a huge political pressure use the vaccines there 1st and to move back. from the commitment to your equitable rolled out across the world. politicians could face a difficult balancing act. because often 2000 so often in the world of politics there are different rationales at play here firstly politicians ask how do we fight this pandemic worldwide but then there's the more in the biju a one off what do voters want from me of one. fundamental problem with the kovacs

initiative is becoming increasingly obvious it depends alternately on the goodwill of the donations if domestic politics dictates they can just withdraw all their pledges and that's not all. when i think there were 2 fatal flaws with kovacs one is that you know some important countries didn't join then the other concern with gov acts is that it didn't prohibit the country so we're joined from doing the side that should not be allowed because that goes against the whole spirit of good acts . but there are alternatives to the model of free will donations. on october 15th the w.h.o. discuss a proposal put forward by india and south africa. and then aim was to achieve a temporary white out of the so-called trips agreement which also protects the patents of pharmaceutical firms the agreement contains closes that can be invoked in a medical emergency the way it was to ply only to comfort 19 health products

a similar move in 2001 relating to hiv treatment for example gave millions access to laugh saving drugs. and to how we learned from the hiv aids pandemic that where there are patents protecting drugs there is always the danger that hundreds of thousands will die. simply because they just can't afford the necessary drugs and need to come and so south africa and india wanted to have covert 19 paper suspended for the generation of the panda. so the cheap generic vaccines to be produced for poor countries but the motion was overruled by wealthy nations unfortunately what we find is that multinational drug companies are able to lobby their governments very effectively it's very strong in the united states government they really respond to the drug lobby but it's also unfortunately strong in europe. patients huge huge profits for the pharmaceutical companies and allow them to control prices at the vaccine companies have received billions in public

subsidies. just a 10th of what happens protect companies to protect innovations and so forth. but the fact is that a large percentage of the funds that went into developing these vaccines came from public coffers by a specification. there are legal alternatives such as compulsory licensing with commission has given for patients to be used without the consent of the paint hold up almost a patient pulled it could be set up for corona virus vaccines and drugs to be shared but this isn't support for either option right now. take co-founder isn't keen on additional strikes intervention i think. is this is a saw this as a pharmaceutical company is simply an organization that is involved professionally

and making safe drugs that's not offensive and that can only works when you have the companies get to the point where they're able to make a profit that they can reinvest in new research projects and developing new drugs when they are found that sent because. the biotech spec scene is in any case not suitable for use in poor countries of the global south. they're by on taking the beyond tuck approach is extremely intelligent but it's also extremely complicated i'ma lend more countries don't have the infrastructure to be. to store and transport a complex drug so you need a very robust vaccine that will also work in the heat often affords and the. hope for poor regions could come from the very country with the pandemic 1st started china. while questions remain over the efficacy of china soon a vaccine what's clear is the chinese companies have developed a number of facts seeds that are easy to store. if you mean for the chinese

are developing vaccines that are suitable for the global south because they're not dependent on a cold chain but they're also building up a kind of silk road for health products right off the ball on for months now chinese companies and politicians have been active in africa latin america and the middle east. that is that is another prospect that's a little uncomfortable for the west that in the not too distant future we're going to start seeing international diplomacy. and china's effect scenes of being welcomed with open arms at the end of december the 1st in the recent effect since you know from iran to morocco and egypt a gift from the united arab emirates vaccine has since been approved for use in china itself or. the distribution of vaccines is at face value a medical issue but it's also an ethical one.

forced along dusty the prospect of some wealthy countries inoculating their population as a whole year earlier than poor ones violates principles of global solidarity and justice so i think it's only right that germany and europe are supporting and they should haves that aim to ensure vaccines are distributed worldwide as fast as possible. does this may sound cynical but because the virus is a threat to us poor countries do indeed have to. leverage and persuading the north to show solidarity. by the end of 2021 it's highly likely that the whole range of the vaccines will also be available . to help us get the pandemic under control. and will continue to control us. with us as i hope the vaccine will mean we can get back to normal can come.

back scenes will definitely help us they will help us to produce antibodies and the level of fear will go down we will. obviously i think this this pandemic will probably end around never in one year the pandemic will look very different it is still be a new normal because covert will still exist but we should be able to resume much more electricity much more in economic activity here that order requires everybody doing their cars single biggest carriage of that today a little choice about whether the finances work which we have got to. get is a certainty that without global cooperation you're never going to get rid of this problem and ok today to try to sell it. we will be some other thing

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