our documentary slavery routes starts march 10th on w. . this is day w. news live from berlin the united states passes 500000 coronavirus to. remember each person we've lost the lives they lived and loved ones are left behind . candles like the white house says president biden leads a nation in mourning but he warns lumps of suffering are still last. also coming up

to germany sends a medical team to help portugal's overwhelmed health system i just heard of solidarity but is a luxury chinese owned hospital the real winner of a special report. western power stepped up the pressure on me and mars generals as protests against the military coup tougher sanctions to ward off the rising threat of violent. i'm sumi so much god that's good to have you with us the united states has marked another somber milestone in its fight against a coronavirus the country's covert 1000 related deaths crossed the threshold of 500001 monday just over a year after the pentagon it claimed its 1st no victim and the u.s. president joe biden led the nation in honoring the death. today we mark

a truly groom harper if you milestone. 500071. dead. that's more americans who died in one year's pandemic. than a world war one. war 2 in the vietnam war combined. that's more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth but as we acknowledge the scale of his death in america remember each person in the life they lived. let's talk more about this with peter chin hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the university of california san francisco peter thank you for joining us let's talk about this tragic milestone 500000 deaths this is one the highest death tolls per capita in

the world there's been many phases of this pandemic but what do you think the u.s. has gotten wrong in tackling the code $1000.00. while to me i think there was several things the 1st was that there was no national strategy for most of the year and secondly there was no alignment of science and politics for much of the year we acted like 50 different countries instead of 50 different states of one country because of viruses and no. you know any borders it was very easy exploiting this this synchrony in the way that states handle this virus at the same time if you look at the situation right now the u.s. is one of the leading countries when it comes to vaccinations are up 13 percent of people have already received their 1st shot so how is that changing things at the moment on the ground. so there are 2 ease in which this is changing things one

concretely it's already affecting the incidence of cases and deaths in nursing homes where you know more than 80 percent of individuals have already been vaccinated. they have been multiple reports of. this decline in deaths and this sort of immunity bubble the 2nd when which is affecting things i think it's metaphorically so that people have hung on to vaccines as a way of a hope in this time of darkness and i think that is really something that's really affected everyone on the ground but at the same time people have been frustrated because you know those expectations of waiting for the vaccine have really been matts of people of all been wanting the vaccine as soon as possible because you know of the way that politicians have handled the rollout yet really has been different from state to state hasn't it i mean you talked about the fact that new

virus cases and deaths have also slowed do you think we could say that the country is rounding a corner or are you worried about a possible 3rd wave with virus mutations for example taking hold well sumi i think if we don't have replication you're not going to have mutations so i think that strategy has been to hit hard and have as many people immunized as possible that because with such a large and diverse country it's going it's been very difficult to immunize that quickly in such a efficient manner so i think that you know time is really what we're battlement with right now in terms of the variance we'll leave it there peter chen hong professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the university of california san francisco good to have you want to have you thanks to me. now israel's vaccination campaign has been surging ahead with more than 80 percent

of the population now with at least one shot that has allowed the country to start reopening after a 2 month lockdown as of sunday many shops and services are back in business again but they're not open to everyone some only allow customers who are fully vaccinated with a so-called green pasts tanya kramer has more. since september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and christened but only those who hold a green pass the kindness issued by israel's ministry of health is given own need to vaccinated people all those recovered from cope at 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone nisa vaccinated so there's no fear and it feels like and apparently we are broadcasting the

classes that are taking place here we are broadcasting them home for people who still did not vaccinate on sunday israel for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown malls museums and stores have been opened for me but jim so those cultural and sports events would be made accessible to create pass holders of over 4000000 people have received at least the 1st try and take place there so it's really this one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions of limiting personal liberties as they're someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is balance we are not doing that for good you can really enjoy a cultural life you will enjoy those you will enjoy you know going to the gym but in this. i'm only temporarily based on the show we will let only

people being vaccinated all the coverage for 2 of the green poems it remains unclear where the international travel could also building to the green palace for now israel's been googly on at poetry remain closed for another 2 weeks to keep virus variants at bay travelling is not yet on the mind of this group or film term friends and to recent memory aged between 84 and $95.00 they had to play their favorite chinese board game john online for the cost year after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet. i feel like at this point i am free i mean just to be able to talk to people you know it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's ok and remain pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely

and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's a 1st but cautious step back to some kind of normality. now to some other developments in the pandemic mexico has received its 1st a shipment of russia's sputniks the vaccine seniors the mexico city's marginalized communities will be source to get the shots the world's biggest vaccine maker india serum institute says it's been told to prioritize its production of the astra zeneca vaccine for the indian market and a study from the university of edinburgh us found that vaccinations from biotech sizer and oxford astra zeneca have led to a substantial reduction in hospital admissions in scotland. and now to some other headlines from around the world facebook says it will lift a ban on australian news pages in the coming days after reaching a compromise with the government over paying for media content the australian government has agreed to make changes to a law and not to penalize facebook if the company reaches some deals with local

media canada's parliament has passed a non-binding motion saying that china's treatment of weaker muslims and shin jiang amounts to genocide prime minister justin trudeau in his cabinet abstained from the vote china has condemned and rejected the motion from. the leader of georgia's main opposition party has been arrested become aliased attention comes days after the prime minister resigned amid a debate over whether to take the opposition politician into custody elliott faces charges of inciting violence during protests in 2019 he dismisses the charges as politically motivated. and authorities in the democratic republic of congo have blamed rwandan hutu rebels for the killing of italy's embassador he was one of 3 people killed when a convoy from the world food program came under fire the president of the d r c has called the ambush a terrorist attack. earlier this month germany sent medical

personnel and equipment to portugal the goal was to assist a fellow e.u. member state what it's called a crisis but now it seems the mission has also benefited a chinese owned luxury hospital and lisbon. reports. german soldiers sent into battle against covert 19 in portugal its capital city lispund it's an act of solidarity between 2 e.u. countries but as we discovered they are also a small part of a much bigger story of chinese investments that reach around the world this is what those german soldiers were probably expecting portugal's public health system is struggling to cope and your lenses line up outside completely overwhelmed hospitals but this is where the soldiers are fighting the disease a 5 star private hospital this is the hospital lose its football legend christiane ronaldo came for an operation on his foot some years ago on its website the

hospital says it's proud to be continuing all of its normal services despite the pandemic those services cover a wide range from 10 such treatments to cost metrics not only that in its latest annual reports the hospital says it will continue to focus on profitability despite the pandemic the hospital isn't providing the intensive care unit fun nothing the portuguese government is paying. the operating company behind the hospital is in the hands of a chinese congo marriage we asked the health ministry representative who was paying for want. there's an agreement with the private hospital yes to have the patients here so you'll have to pay the creditor for money return or you can use the perfidious because we are using the services the hospital did not want to speak with us offering a statement instead. new sounded group considering the critical stage. portugal is

going through does not intend to benefit financially from the situation but above all to help the country chinese kong its own many host companies in portugal a trend that worrisome number of observers louis bardo as an investigative journalist found out that in the 1st 6 months of the pandemic the portuguese government's paid to the loose i would group around $40000000.00 euros for covert $900.00 services it's interesting to see that these 3 biggest. these 3 companies that got the most amount of money. obviously connections and shared. news was really had a key role. although of course is government and will depend i mean do you think this will increase europe's and in part a growth dependency on china i think in your base as europeans we should be sure. they are just 26 military medics sent from one european country to another

about their work of us a glimpse of a new reality that reality is of e.u. countries relying on a hospital owned by chinese companies as part of their for profit business. while our report they're looking at one example of chinese investments and that you in the questions that they raise let's talk about that trend now with clifford coonan from business high clifford tell us 1st of all more about the backdrop here this china trade agreement what is that what is it going to do. well china is now the biggest trading partner it's just overtaken the united states and the aim of the trade pact is to level the playing field as far as your was concerned because china did have some advantages trait and it will also give each each and china greater access to each other's markets so that's the background to this. and how

has the pandemic affected chinese business and influence in the e.u. well the pandemic is that the chinese economy as the only major economy does actually growing at united significant way so it's given china a lot of economic muscle and it's also given it quite a lot of political muscle with the trade pact as one example you know where the e.u. overrode some of the u.s. concerns about the trade pact for example because they wanted to ally themselves closer with the e.u. instead the e.u. is sort of going it alone and a lot of that is down to the fact that china has developed this economic muscle because of the pandemic and it was all about quantities of pharmaceuticals medical equipment personal protective equipment and medical supplies from china as a direct result of the pandemic which is really boosted imports and up trend looks set to continue so i think in broad terms of how democrats really accelerate the chinese business as given the kind of influence that it would have taken it was

probably going to happen anyway but it definitely would have taken considerably longer had had it not been for the pandemic so beyond the pandemic how are chinese investments translating into political influence in europe. well one thing was i spent 15 years in china as a correspondent every year annually every year the german government would arrive with the huge trade delegation and it was just really obvious to see and to close links between trade and political influence and i think we've seen that you know we see that different we see da diner for example is large its biggest shareholder is a chinese tycoon with very close government links and also. very big and also a state owned car company so and we also have our way which is another app example where even those been controversial in the u.s. in the e.u.

a lot of companies out brushed aside to the u.s. concerns about security after using while away because action is political influence is now so strong in europe and so i think that and chinese investment that directly translates in many ways into political influence. and that's something that's probably going to continue and we have to wait and see of course what happens with the relations with the u.s. but for the moment when all of these factors are brought together the situation is that the e.u. is definitely looking to boost its its relations with china and china's influence is set to expound incredibly over the next few years did have a business reporter clifford cohen thank you so much. mars' military regime is facing growing pressure both at home and abroad 3 weeks after it seized power the european union has warned that it's considering sanctions and the u.s. has penalized 2 more generals the protests continue to swell and me and mark

despite the authorities tried to use force against the crowds at least 3 protesters have been killed even though the regime insists that police are using minimal force . and let's bring in journalist dave grusin bombed for more on this story hi dave good to see you so the military warning that protesters could suffer a loss of life if they continue to go out in the streets that seems to only have encouraged protests more hasn't. brought out tremendous numbers of protesters yesterday i mean you saw the mass crowds it was the biggest number of demonstrators we had seen so far as there are some estimates that across the country there may have been a total of a 1000000 people demonstrating and i would not be surprised at all that number was accurate the same time though a lot of these demonstrators they take that threat very seriously some of the protesters yesterday and today they've got on their arms their blood type and the contact information for their next of kin because they know this is

a military that in the past has gone down protesters on the streets 20071988 other times so now the question is where is the military's line this time where they would potentially use deadly force again let's talk about the sanctions here dave we know that the u.s. p. has penalized 2 more generals the e.u. right now is considering sanctions as well is that going to force the military generals to change their attitude. no sanctions from the west that's not going to get the generals to give up on the coup and just go back to the bunker they they knew these were eventually caught when they went forward the coup on february 1st that made those calculations before february 1st. look the west needs to do is to get some asian countries on board with pressure to pressure the generals to reverse course asian countries that would have influence on the military generals such as china and some southeast asian countries but here's the thing these countries while they said don't gone down protesters releasing some sushi none of them have shown

any stomach to say hey reverse the coup that hasn't happened and until that happens international sanctions are going to have a huge impact on the generals how to play shows what by targeting business interests the european union says it will not cancel special trade privileges that allowed me and mark tariff free access to the e.u. is market what do you make of that. well this is an important thing because these trade preferences that mean markets now it allows industries such as textiles and myanmar to get true excuse me terror free access to the emus 450000000 consumers i mean it creates tens of thousands of jobs i've met some people who fill them in a lot of them they come from these remote villages in the countryside and they come to the cities to work in these plants and they send most of their pate pay back home to their families it's a big deal you take away that tariff free access to the e.u.

and those jobs are gone and this is a lesson learned from sanctions of the past when the west had really harsh widespread economic sanctions on myanmar during its 50 years of military rule and the people who paid the price during that were not the generals they still found ways to make millions of dollars but it was the common people who didn't have jobs and were living in poverty in part because of that so that's why now you see the west aiming for targeted sanctions at the generals and military aligned businesses as opposed to widespread sanctions like they had in the past journalist dave thank you for that now says. sure thing. dozens of boeing triple 7 planes have been grounded worldwide after united airlines plane suffered an engine failure over the weekend large sections of the engine broke off and sell on a residential area in the city of denver boeing recommended grounding planes with the same engine type until an investigation has been carried out. moments of horror

for the 231 passengers and 10 crew members aboard the boeing 777-2018 route from denver to honolulu one of the plane's engines exploded into flames and debris rained down to the ground. and it was late there was 20 minutes i was just brain and i was like the kid. i was in use these billy the oldies but goodies in there we had ladders for mon. and my life would be ending late that. the plane made an emergency landing in denver no injuries were reported but united airlines announced that it would ground 24 aircraft until the national transportation safety board finished its investigation. a total of $128.00 boeing triple 7 zar affected the large twin jets are grounded for the time being most are older models and that includes the 26 year old united claim all of the

boeing 777200 in question have pratt and whitney p.w. 4000 engines boeing has delivered 6800 of the planes japanese authorities have now issued a flight ban as a precaution affecting japan airlines and all nippon airways this is not been the 1st problem with the boeing triple 7200 on december 4th there was a similar engine failure. to sports in champions league football later tonight by in munich will play their 1st ever competitive match against lots heal the italian club has reached the knockout phase of europe's top club competition for the 1st time in 21 years byron go into the match knowing that only to avoid the mistakes of recent dislike of games by a munich have been coming face to face with their weaknesses in recent days they don't have the same depth in their squad as last season which has become more of an

issue with players missing time due to positive coronavirus tests. travelling during a pandemic only adds to the stress. as they prepared for their 1st game of the champions league knockout phase away a lot c.e.o. coach flick knew what he was up against. you have to get up to speed if you can also said i don't want to make excuses but we know what's happened in recent days and so it's an issue just being designed for of course i want my team or our team to be presidential from the very start of us wins on so fun fun fun and. won't want to see more scenes like these from saturday when byron failed to track frankfurt just 5 days after only managing a draw against be the failed at home but he'll need is team to step up their game if they hope to prevail against a lot c.e.o. at rome study olympic oh. yeah absolutely and i have absolute faith

that the team will perform well on tuesday tomorrow at lot c.-o. i'm completely convinced of that that means absolute for the one team has the quality and so we're going to put it to use we've done this or that was that's by and have always stepped up to the task in the champions league under the flick now they'll have to dig deep to rediscover their good form and find success in rome. now to some spectacular new side edge of last week's mars landing now says rover perseverance made its gentle touch down on the red planet after traveling nearly 500000000 kilometers its mission to search for signs of life. a 1st look after a nearly 500000000 kilometer journey 2 subsonic steve and a teacher have been separated for the removal of the heat shield that was preceded by the opening of the perseverance his parachute the planet's rust colored terrain

drew ever closer and after a few times minutes the 7 month wait was finally over. that's now confirmed. ready to begin picking up dams and perhaps by perseverance will gather rock and soil samples but images like these will also allow the public to share in the excitement of the mission. and these are pretty cool videos and you know we will learn something by looking at the performance of the vehicle in these videos but a lot of it is also to bring you along on our journey our touchdown to mars and of course our surface mission as well the surface of mars in addition to video footage the rover has also already transmitted the 1st recording of sound on the planet a gust of wind heard across the galaxy. the rover is also beaming back photos from the martian surface as it collects and

stores samples it's hoped that they could be brought back to earth by return mission in the early twenty's thirty's here that we were. all right up next what the pandemic is meant for bangladesh's textile industry rabat says that and much more coming up next on new business. model.

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