in this talk of the year there has been an increase in infection rates and also deaths related cases and that is something i'd is worrying to. we have about 80000 cases have been confirmed we are also talking about. 580 deaths so far even though people have recovered saying is that there has been an increase in infections and that's related to the virus and to be quickly contained and i 2nd understand that you talked to people in today about how they feel about the vaccines arrival and if they are keen to take that shot in their arm let's take a listen and then we'll look up the conversation right after that i am very excited that it. is good. also because in ghana sometimes some medicine doesn't wake. as sick and they give

you some drugs doesn't kill you serious brain. he. says i mean. last year. a lot of. jobs and we. could see it that said that is of course some people that are very positive about these vaccines arriving tell us about how the rollout is going to look like. so the rollout is going to be full calls on graphic. officials have identified hot spots for the infection or the virus spreading among people and so you're looking at areas like the country tall city across a commodity the 2nd largest city in the country and some pos of the central region and areas that's really have

a high cases of the vox virals that is what is going to hop into vireos vox in sorry will be taking to health centers and then these individuals i was spoken about to operate and people would then be vaccinated what non-government is trying to focus on is to educate people to opera should the fact that the vaccine is important and all to be taking and so people will have to do away with the recent response section about the virus about a vaccine that indeed is not safe for them to take you know use. in accra ghana thank you for your reporting and i'd like to welcome now says berkley chief executive officer at global of vaccine alliance a very good day sir thank you for your time this is the 1st major shipment which countries are next. well what we're trying to do of course is cover the entire world that haven't received doses yet a vaccine today

a plane landed in our croghan our which was the 1st in africa we've also had some doses go to india we'll be seeing next dose is going to coach you are hopefully d r c as well and then over the course of the next couple of weeks dozens and dozens of countries how a vaccination is going on the african continent set the stage for us people. well up until now there has not been a tremendous amount of vaccines in developing countries there have been some countries that have gotten small amounts of doses through bilateral deals and donations but there hasn't been a systematic coverage of vaccine doses and that is what we need to change we need to make sure that every single country gets dose is because we are only safe if everyone is safe either countries that need to be prioritized well at

the end of the day the priority really needs to be within the different groups at risk our belief is that health care workers across the world need to be protected 1st because they are at the front lines and then moving into the elderly and after risk groups and so that's the way it should be prioritized of course there are some countries that have bigger and disease burdens than others but in places like africa the surveillance is fairly poor so we're really not even sure exactly what the disease burden is in different countries which is why it's important to make sure we can protect the health workers everywhere have wealthy nations most notably the global north morally failed the global south by basically hoarding vaccines supplies. well the whole idea of kovacs is to try to get 2000000000 doses out to these countries and so in a sense we're doing that with support of the global north in trying to make sure

that there are doses available now of course right now it is hard to get access to doses and there has been with the new variants almost a vaccine panic that has gone on with everybody trying to buy the axioms quickly the most efficient way is to get vaccines out to all populations at the same time in the priority risk groups that have been a den of fide and that's what we should be working towards in terms of recovery how long do you think of what able to take for the world to recover from this pandemic well the 1st thing that's going to have to happen is we're going to have to stop seeing the disease burden and that's why the high risk groups are so important once that happens then we can better understand the transmission of the fire us and hopefully reduce that is as well because what we really want to do is return to a world where we can have travel tourism commerce and we can't do that if there are

large pockets of virus in different parts of the world that in essence put the whole world at risk we've seen that recently with the. new variants that have popped up and now threaten many different countries around the world why to set berkeley chief executive officer of the evac scene alliance thank you for taking out the time to speak to us or. my pleasure. next it's the 1st verdict of its kind worldwide never before has a member of president bashar al assad's regime been convicted of atrocities outside syria now a german court has found a body but guilty of being involved in crimes against humanity and jailed him for years he was convicted of facilitating the torture of syrian opposition protesters a decade ago in damascus the secret police agent slipped to germany where he then was subsequently arrested while torture victims testified in the case and are

hoping it will set a precedent still when you spoke to one young syrian here in germany with a heartbreaking story there always fresh flowers next to allie mustafa's portrait he was forcibly disappeared in syria 8 years ago the few remaining photos of him i was daughter waffles most precious possessions just look at them a 1000 times trying to conjure up his presence the day it happened was i was away her mother then living in northern syria had meant to visit her husband in the mask because they hadn't seen each other in months 15 minutes before she arrived she called them and said that i need 15 i'll be there in 15 so he said that i clean the house everything is perfect and i'm just waiting for you'll. see our christine minutes later she added i and doubt she called him and he never responded.

i mean of the day but i am so pointing to neighbors armed men had come to take the most stuff away wafa her mother and sisters had to flee syria one week later and leave him behind they still don't know anything about what happened to him the last time. when i actually survived by leaving syria and not getting killed there maybe i've physically survived somehow bought you cannot just get used to the fact that you lost your dad they want to 2nd you know you cannot just used to the fact that used to the fact that he just disappeared for nor isn't. my 1st father's one of 130000 people who have gone missing in syria investigators believe most of them were disappeared in bashar al assad's prisons but jim court has not convicted one former intelligence officer for his role in the torture of prisoners in syria and

other officers trial is still ongoing when the trial began wafa sultan amongst the portraits of 61 to 10 years and held a vigil in front of the courthouse. i live in mind myself and i don't mind the whole word every day that my dad was political was against a dream he only demanded freedom justice and a state of law and for that reason he's been this appeared for almost 8 years now and this is not acceptable i'm not going to be silent about that today were for feels at home in berlin. though she could see herself eventually returning to syria and rebuilding the country in the meantime it's important for her to be in germany at this is story moment i think this is the whole war for many syrians in very many we are working our best to be accepted part of the decision making regarding syria because you cannot just this gas and decide anything about us without us.

wafa hopes to reunite with her father one day until then show you mind the world of the fate of syria has disappeared. like a brand now for its strife he is a human rights lawyer for the syrian center for freedom of expression he followed this trial from the beginning and is joining us now from the german city of coal plants good to see you again sir these abuses took place in syria why did this trial take place in germany yeah good afternoon from collins i think there is so remote that laird actually this question 1st of all and international justice and international court was an option that i.c.c. in the eighty's national crude oil and it was an option because syria november stage united nations security council has been blocked by the us and by russia mostly so that wasn't obvious enough for 3 special international actually you know and then secondly i think it's important to know that germany has since the beginning of the century the necessary law and there is

a code on the national crisis which used journey to get to the jurisdiction on the most shortest crimes he wrote against humanity and genocide and it doesn't matter if those crimes are committed to iraq by a foreign nationals again is foreign nationals and internally it is if you didn't want to know here that germany wants to prosecute these crimes and wants to put a capacity into resources and to do so including because it asked somewhat of a moral obligation as well of course many 800000 syrians living in germany if you follow this trial very closely for over a year what have you learned about this syrian secret police officer. well i think over the months and also still today became clear that this specific individual was one small piece in the larger structure in the criminal structure that communicates against humanity back into the night and 12 that was now found to be the case by the court for the 1st time in approach this defendant was really

a small piece in that structure and i think at the very day of 4 years and 6 months and history is that and in the judge in oral decision that he made out today made a point of that that this man is not convicted for as a present by a criminal court that crimes against humanity happened there this is going to be a direct precedent for the 2nd case that and that is going on in this trial again is this going to be defendant or how they are making this and i'm sure are and then barry is supposed to come in at some time to volunteer you know to do it or we don't really know for sure so that's a direction that the president and then outside from that in germany for sure and in other european jurisdictions that are preparing cases against former syrian regime officials and of course will look at this and they will see this as a 1st step towards holding the former syrian regime officials accountable for their crimes for strife human rights

a lawyer for the syrian center for expression thank you for joining us thank you. and in a nother high profile trial also incidentally here in germany a notorious iraqi preacher has been convicted of recruiting young people to fight for the so-called islamic state the man known as abu allah is believed to be the group's leader here. after 3 years in the dark the verdict was handed down guilty of belonging to a foreign terrorist organization helping to plan subversive violent acts and financing terrorism. find out the law was known as the leading authority in the fundamentalist salafist scene and he and the other defendants primed young men theologically and ideologically for missions for the islamic states they arranged contacts with smugglers planned travel routes and gave the men

money to leave the country and want to go to the order that i think of you. this is the mosque in hilda's heim where i preached holy war he was also known as the preacher without a face for his online videos where he had his back to the camera. among those he radicalized from the mosque were german twin brothers who blew themselves up in a suicide attack in iraq in 2015 and a teenager convicted of bombing a sikh temple in germany and 2016. he also had links to his armory who mounted a deadly terrorist attack on a christmas market in berlin the same year. abu alaa was arrested in november 26th teen investigators had him under surveillance for a long time. the preacher chose to remain silent during the lengthy trial he was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison. 3 co-defendants were handed down sentences ranging from

4 to 8 years. would like to update you now on the other stories making news this hour police in the german port of hamburg have seized 16 tons of cocaine the most ever found in europe the drugs were hidden in cans shipped from para white 7 tons of cocaine were also seized in the belgian town of and twerk. joe biden has held his 1st virtual meeting as u.s. president with canadian prime minister justin trudeau the leaders discussed their policy goals on china and climate change they agreed to work towards achieving net 0 emissions by the year 2050. and we're now into british naturalist david attenborough has issued another impassioned plea to world leaders to act on global warming surrender 0 have told the united nations that continuing on our current path would lead to the collapse of the natural world and the

breakdown of civilization. germany has approved 3 covert 19 rapid tests for home use the kids should become available in the next few days well tests have so far only been carried out by medical professionals some officials say testing could be a big help in easing the national lockdown self testing kids have been available in other countries since last month health minister. had been criticised for moving too slowly on a national testing strategy. all right now let's cross over now to do his chief political correspondent editor i should say mikaela shiffrin who is on top of this story as always mckayla health minister spano just questioned by parliament did he get a grilling. well really we thought we had to get a lot more of a grilling but he set me on the defensive because he initially announced that there would be 3 tests for all from the 1st of march he had to revise that after

sensibly the corona cabinet decided that that might not fly particularly with those regional states and also with the finance minister so that's been delayed and he's been on the defensive for months now because of course there was a delay in those vaccinations being rolled out here in germany to be on a par with the united states britain or dare i say israel who is the clear front runner there so we saw a minister here who was time and time again mentioning the word federal federal states the federal regions and that's because a lot of those decisions are taken that a lot of the technicalities have to take place to roll out both tests and vaccines and here he has responsibility but he can't really influence that terribly much so attend to be frustrated german health minister yes well that i mean that brings me to this next question in terms of like how was he managing expectations is he

coming under political public pressure now. he is an oppressor the whole government is under pressure here because patience is wearing thin with this lockdown although the majority of germans by far back it there are a lot. of cracks in this lockdown already and we're seeing individual states move forward ranging from widest school openings to huge differences in opening up again for instance garden centers will be opened again in bavaria from the 1st of march they have been for all along really in lower saxony and it's getting more and more sketchy and there's a lot of competition it appears now between individual states to declare a parcel reopening against the backdrop of those whole varying the figures here in germany which are hovering round about the 60 incidence rate and the target here in germany was 50 infections per 100000 people per week ideally 35

before a real lockdown next week angela merkel's meeting up with the states and i believe we will then see her do what she wanted to avoid all along which is announce opening while at the same time warning of what she already calls a 3rd wave if not a new pandemic here that sounds ominous chief political editor reporting thank you to israel now and an ecological disaster there a massive oil spill has it the mediterranean shoreline leaving black sticky tar it's causing extensive damage to wildlife and as did only you correspondent tanya creamer reports the cleanup could take up months or even years. it's a meticulous task clumps of tar like the sand on is was mediterranean coast one in tears and soldiers are cleaning the peaches by hand the all spill has been

described as one of the worst environmental disasters in decades it has affected more than 170 kilometers of shoreline b.b. so good it does it give you tons of crude oil reach the beaches of israel from the south to the north and crucial ecological systems have going to affect and these are pictures where people. nature with animals and plants living in the water have been affected by somebody have died she fell you but my. me for get. to the tower was detected after heavy winter storm last week the cause of the all spill most likely from a ship off the coast is currently being investigated but the case has been put on the controversial media gag order. and by a mental activists have called the disaster a wake up call for the government to put better environmental protections in place

this group is out at sea to help with locating potential oil remnants and the water the overall effect on the reader life us to be assessed but for some it is too late like this turtle found over the weekend but it's not good time. and so we have a small brown turtle and you can see what the title did today and look at the extent of this disaster as a small turtle. doves but i'm sure no one has money like. authorities say the cleanup operation could take a long time the task sticks to rock and pollutes the sand volunteers are determined to do their part in the cleanup effort and they got a lot closer to the. i think it is important that every israeli who usually enjoys the beach and need to it's important that we all come together and help with this mission and yes it is a part of friends and. for now the affected beaches have

been closed to the public for an indefinite time. tonya kramer reporting there now some champions league football for us when this league club byron munich beat lot c. 041 in the round of 16 and stormed to a 3 nil halftime late thanks to goals from rob 11 down skinny jamal mashallah and leave after the break a lot own goal made it for me for hockey in korea pulled one back for the italians also on cheers a chelsea got a one nil victory against atletico madrid only video hole scored the only goal of the match. and what is the good team. are marking their return to the knockout phase of the champions league in a few hours time clubs are up against a premier league leaders manchester city they're led by the former by an coach pep guardiola just recorded their 18th straight victory over the weekend meanwhile are

without a win in their last 3 matches now due to covert 19 travel restrictions the match will take place in hungary stead of germany. for i let you go our mind out of the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour. a german court has found a former syrian secret service agent guilty of facilitating state sponsored torture in syria in the 1st trial of its kind of defendant was charged as an accomplice in the torture of opposition activists in 2011 and an iraqi preacher has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in a german prison for radicalizing and recording young people to fight for the so-called islamic states is believed to be the group's defacto leader in germany. that's your news update for now made in germany is up next with a look at how the endemic is increasing economic inequality you can get more on that you don't use out by head and on to give me

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