d w. this is g w news wire from berlin and the u.k. and the european union clash over claims of vaccine nationalism british prime minister boris johnson denies his government is blocking the export of vaccines european council president charles michel says otherwise also coming up on the show . 10 years since trip pan was hit by the triple disaster of earthquake tsunami and nuclear meltdown we take a look at how survivors have been recovering. hello

i'm claire richardson welcome to the show the european union and its former member of the u.k. are embroiled in a new diplomatic spat this time over corona virus vaccines for dish prime minister boris johnson has denied blocking the sale of coke in $1000.00 vaccines to the e.u. this comes after european council president michel accused the london of imposing an export ban on vaccines produced on british territory. this also comes as the e.u. faces increasing criticism over its slow vaccine approach ouch. so let's take a listen to what boris johnson had to say in britain's house of commons. let me be clear we have not blocked the export of a single coded 19 vaccine or vaccine components this pandemic has put our

school on the same side in the bargain for global health we oppose vaccine nationalism in all its forms and earlier we asked our correspondent in london charlotte chiles some pill for her take on this latest war of words between the e.u. and britain over a vaccine supplies 1st will be clear on what we're talking about here this is in relation to the astra zeneca vaccine that's the bank seen that is produced the only vaccine that is produced here in the u.k. and this is the latest installment of a spat about the supply of that vaccine to the e.u. now the e.u. is painting a picture here of the u.k. essentially benefiting from a britain cruel as whereby a kid has a priority to reset to for it to vaccinate its population with doses of the vaccine produced in the u.k. and the u.k. here for its part is pushing back very hard on any claims that there is an outright ban on on the export of vaccines from the u.k. z.

mentioned just now the pushback is so strong that it's hope e.u. diplomat was summoned to discuss the claims that such a ban existed the e.u. pointing out that the data just isn't there at the moment to so look at how much the u.k. is exporting the vaccine meaning that it's muddy waters in the u.k. they pushing back very hard. that was our correspondent charlotte. well we are now more than a year into the pandemic and the mental and emotional strain of worrying about loved ones missing out on social lives school and our jobs has taken its toll many teenagers in particular are struggling to cope a quick heads up in our next report deals with young people seeking help for their mental health a reporter visited a hospital in belgium to see how the pandemic is impacting people their. long months of blocked and have been a vassal for many young people. teenagers in acute mental distress come to them in

hospital for psychiatric care often after traumatic events or suicide attempts among the residents is this 17 year olds we're calling alexandra hoovered was an extra in the movie kind of collapse it was the one thing to marge to have my risk so i had to be. kind of isolated for most. of i couldn't hope my parents alexandra is not alone in struggling to cope with covert but she's one of those fortunate enough to access this hospital's help director sophie marks says new admission requests for troubled teens have skyrocketed since january. maass thinks that's due to exhaustion exam stress and dashed hopes for a return to normality. although makeshift rooms were added there are no places left

and no even the waiting list is closed. between a societal 15 year old and suicidal 16 year old it's impossible with a doctor must believe the authorities could save lives by prioritising teens as society reopens the press and. we need to create spaces for play for joy and for conversation and so all young people can once again be part of the social fabric of life something so crucial for teenagers. if not there's a real risk their mental health will keep deteriorating and i'm truly afraid to side rates increase what feels like we're at the edge of for the tsunami and we need to build flood defenses. as the young people living here build up their emotional defenses to reenter the outside world alexandra hopes sharing her story will give strength to other teens who are suffering. we're all

struggling with this is. the fact that we're all still here and we're all fighting against is something very positive and something that will grow. to look after and say wow i've ones through these tough times i made. her priority is getting better as soon as she can which could open the door for another young person who needs help. let's get you up to speed now on some other stories making news around the world former brazilian president. has slammed president. and his handling of the crown of virus pandemic is making his 1st official appearance since his corruption convictions were overturned by a supreme court justice. meanwhile brazil has been posting record deaths from kovac 19 this week marking more marking 2000 fatalities in a single day for the 1st time. the u.s.

congress has approved a sweeping pandemic relief package the 1st major legislative triumph of the biden administration the kofi $1000.00 bill is now set to be signed into law by president joe biden the measures include a direct relief payments for most americans and billions of dollars for schools and local authorities and businesses and by. ivory coast a prime minister ahmed of bacco yoko has died at the age of 56 in southwestern and germany he was when he was receiving a medical treatment in the city of fribourg up in your co was a former media executive who went into politics and was seen as a possible successor to his country's presidency. the protesters are camped outside the parliament in armenia calling for the prime minister to resign and call passion young came to power in 2018 swept into office on a wave of popular anger over his predecessor but now he's facing his own reckoning

with armenians who believe he sold out the country when he signed a cease fire deal after a 6 week war with azerbaijan last year they have been a gathering around the parliament building since tuesday. yet analysis some 2000 anti-government protesters gathered in the streets of the armenian capital given to demand prime minister nicole question ian step down thank us 1st of all we are gathered here today because the situation in the country is unacceptable for us there is no statehood in this country at all and we will remain here until nickel question ian's resignation. was up and going to court the cries for question ian's removal began in november when he signed a cease fire agreement with azerbaijan and then 6 weeks of fighting over the contested region of nagorno-karabakh opponents of the accord see it as a blow to armenia sovereignty. question ian has defended the peace deal saying it was the only way to stop the azerbaijani army taking over even more territory but

has created a rift between pressuring me and the military and last month he fired a top general who had signed a letter demanding his resignation. dirck you can i you know that from today by force of law colonel general only gaspari and has been relieved of his post as chief of the general staff of the armed forces. and anti-government protesters see the general dismissal as another betrayal. in this they disbanded the army in 2018 they imprisoned our heroic generals and open criminal cases against them they have lost the war one might even say not lost but sold and they betrayed our soldiers with its nights off its this it wouldn't go much on its. side off the country's president arm in circassian has called for question in an opposition leaders to meet at the presidential residence on saturday

to seek a resolution to the crisis it is not clear whether the prime minister or his opponents will attend oh. well thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the debt. stating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern japan causing the deaths of some 18000 people a tsunami wave hit the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant power plant causing a reactor meltdown and the evacuation of up to 150000 people only chernobyl compares to the scale of the disaster. a 300 square kilometer exclusion zone around the power plant remains in place and contains the memories of a tragedy that's defined the lives of survivors now me is a ghost town situated just a few kilometers from the fukushima nuclear power plant the only thing left here is memories from march 27th. some yoko

ono grew up here nowadays he rarely visits the family home it lies in the exclusion zone. where it's been too dangerous to live ever since. to grow i don't find the time stood still is that i feel more that everything has gotten worse. now there's just silence here. but sammy o'connor is still haunted by the sound of the tsunami. and the image of the wave destroying everything in its path is stuck in his mind. already there they have to respect nature these are nature's warning signs that you must treat the earth with care. and with your. semi i used to work at the power plant now he wants nothing more to do with nuclear energy. one look at the area explains why the banks littering

the ground are filled with radioactive soil an entire city has been eradicated and almost no one wants to live here. cleaning up the damage will take generations thousands are busy on the site of the nuclear plant but the toughest work is yet to come west. there's no blueprint for the work here and even though we're making progress you still come up against a problem that you didn't anticipate. you can you were pretty much. the workers recover spent nuclear fuel and make sure the reactors a constantly pumps with cooling water the water is purified but it's still contaminated and it may have to be dumped into the ocean at some point. the area is still in a state of emergency according to greenpeace that were only 10 of the nuclear disaster that will be going on for at least the rest of the century

japan has invested billions of euros rebuilt sounds or constructed entirely new ones but they are mostly empty filled only with those who work at a power plant or the elderly. semi o'connor who hates the word reconstruction he says nothing will be like it was before. the gravesite of his family lies in the exclusion zone no sure not over but just look at what i have to put on the kinds of annoying things i have to put up with just to visit a grave site it won't be over tomorrow or in 10 years or even decades from now that's why sammy or kano feels compelled to talk about what happened on march 11th 2011. and japan will hold a minute's silence nationwide at the precise time the earthquake struck to mark the

anniversary and now let's turn our attention back to germany with some sports news when it's legal football and braman it be to viewer felt it to mail in their rescheduled match on wednesday evening this after their game was called off due to heavy snow last month josh sargent opening the scoring at the start of the 2nd half deflected pass landing right at the young americans for for the easy tap in and half an hour earlier kevin move augmented brain 2nd to round out the scoreline to release freeman comfortably in a table below fellows are stuck in the relegation zone. champions league football and in the round of 16 liverpool have beat england as league a side rb led say 2 nil to advance to the quarter finals after also winning the 1st leg one had a solid scored liverpool's 1st goal in the 70th minute and side on monday netted another 4 minutes later also on wednesday mana drew one all with barcelona but go through to the quarter finals on aggregate after having won their 1st encounter.

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this is news africa coming up on the program a brutal weapon of war rape survivors and if your peers conflict reagent seek help after the ordeal so. i was left inside in my home then they were able. to resolder raped me.

i'm told me a lot of both thank you for joining us it's been just over 4 months since the conflict in ethiopia's teague ry region began yet details of events on the ground have been limited that's because the government restricted access to the area for humanitarian workers and the media still there have been reports of abuses by government backed forces against civilians among these are accounts of rape involving soldiers causing great physical and mental damage to their victims. she's just 20 games old and she's a rape survivor now she's found refuge in the safe house integrates capital mckellar here more than 20 women there trying to deal with their trauma they were raped by soldiers so was she assaulted in her home village before she fled on algorithm that night came to every house and forced that the men to leave the house i was left inside in my home then they were. you know mother teresa all jerry's

raped me. after they left me i think did i do because i was bleeding so much money then was it's not if the. women come here from the cities referral hospital most of them are suffering severely from the violence that our women have wrecked out of prolapse. women who have bleeding when i have been there still my. girl is. who are not stable psychologically the psychological trauma doesn't actually. only happen on the victim it happens to you as well when you hear their stories. the conflict integrity began early november that a great people's liberation front is battling the national army and every tree and forces also believed to be involved fighting alongside the government troops and

the killer survivors accuse both ethiopian and every trained soldiers of raping them in a single month the city's referral hospital has received more than $150.00 rape cases several women have come to get an abortion this woman has over 3 months pregnant she was raped while trying to walk to a family home outside of the killer when the fighting started. going to come out ahead of her recently tried to scare me you don't care about you they said we only listen to our urges i didn't say anything after that down what they wanted they left i put my clothes back on and took all my bags and went to the hospital struggling to cope doctors have been pressured not to make the cases public but one gynecologist did speak out. it was very it is very really blessed and there are many. getting pregnant as it allows president who is sexually transmitted

disease we supposed dramatics that i said this. to gray's interim government has promised to investigate the cases but says it is boosting the regional police force to try to bring the perpetrators to justice but many women are still trapped in their villages so there is great concern that the majority of looky says unreported and that alone with no trama. correspondent maria get. reports from mecca and she joins me now from. maria powerful painful testimony from the survivor you met how much help is there for the women who have been subjected to 1st horrific sexual abuse. there will throughout the region help very limited but in the hospital that i visited and so that's their referral hospital there is a small center called one stop center where women can go and make it was asian and

receive some medical treatment that they need but the main problem is that there's a massive shortage of medical equipment and medicine so it's very difficult for the nurses working there to actually provide the needed help to these women and the men within the hospital women who've been raped and got pregnant are able to get an abortion and receive some type of limited psychological support and the hospital also refers some of the women. that i show in the beginning of the report where they receive additional psychological support but also know that help is very limited especially in rural areas where there are many health centers that are not operating and have been looted and very. serious. aspect of the final point you made in the report did you get the sense that these rape incidents were far more numerous than what you saw and do you know how many women have actually suffered this abuse. well we don't have the total number of

women who have been raped and the main reason for that is it's believed that the majority of them are still trapped in their towns or villages that's because of lack of transportation because of the insecurity and also simply because of lack of money and a few numbers that i have been able to gather so that's 150 women in there for a hospital in micheli 174 women in the hospital and a grant that's about 3 hours north of me give an indication and give an indication also of the violence of these rapes but it's widely believed that many many more women are trapped in the rural areas and many of these women reporting the rape are accusing soldiers if you've been soldiers as well as every trim soldiers looks is of rape has been used as a weapon of war is anyone investigating this. so international organizations such as the united nations have repeatedly called for an independent investigation teams

to be allowed into the temporary region but so far no access has been granted as far as i know i met with the interim president. his name is more than a guy who was appointed by the met and he promised that his and his administration is going to investigate the rapes and he said that the rapes are not perpetrated by only one group of people but he also stressed that the security imperative in the region has been significantly weakened and he's there for trying to kind of strengthen the local police force but as far as an independent investigation goes there's been no progress so far and i guess one of the issues that the investigation would probably be looking at is when these incidents happened we have an idea of was it leon in the conflict always the something that's still going on. well i only talked to individual witnesses so it's very difficult to pin kind of a global picture but from what i have seen women have been raped as early as

november that's when the conflict started integrate and i also met a woman who'd been raped at the end of february and with that continuing a fighting in many areas have to agree there's still much that we don't know and so the problem is far from over. and just a quick one regarding your visit there was a revis the greys the region now more accessible to the media well allowing journalists in the region was definitely a big step forward but 1st of all it was only a limited list of journalists who were allowed into the region and there was no restriction per se no one was telling me you're allowed to go there or there while i was working but the problem that we faced is that several translators local translators who were working with international journalists were arrested and intimidated and so that kind of sent a message to other people they were working with journalists and to journalists as a whole so this was the main problem that we faced and that you know people that

were working with us faced while we were and take right to correspondent micallef school in had disappeared but thank you for bringing us up to speed thank you let's take a look at some other stories making news across the continent now. the government of gagne has declared 3 days of mourning for the victims of sunday's military camp blasts it also declared the coastal city of butter a disaster area and is appealing for international aid to help those affected the explosions killed at least 105 people and injured more than 600 others. sudan has started rolling out vaccinations against covert 19 health staff in the capital khartoum received the 1st shots last week sudan was the 1st country in north africa and middle east region to receive

a batch of the astra zeneca jab through the world health organizations vaccine sharon program kovacs. authorities in trying to prevent yet another ecological disaster on sunday chinese flagged trawler run aground leaking some of the $130.00 tons of oil and bored is the 2nd ship wreck in less than a year of the indian ocean occupied ago in july a tanker struck a reef and lost 1000 tonnes of fuel. now to uganda and a boy there who's reaching for the stars 70 year old graham sharma has become a sensation for his wealth of aircraft knowledge he's even flown 3 times as a copilot but as you'll find out not even the sky is his limit. call him catch. the 7 year old boy whose love of flying has captured uganda's imagination graham is learning his way around the flight deck. this is

you. know we can't yet see over the cockpit controls he's already got his eyes on outer space. to me. and nash. was interested in me because i. was. at home graham's mother has tried to nurture her son's obsession with technological turn of terms to the real thing his precautious curiosity for flying all jack's began when a helicopter tore the roof of his grandmother's house. played his part of everything what paint. my phone but much interested in. the story of the little boy with the big dreams has sparked

a national interest with v.i.p.'s keen to meet him but graham is holding out for a phone call from mask i like. because. we have. to learn when. to move. and down she thinks that this may have just been a lesson but it doesn't seem like it will be long until captain she might as flying for real. hope of the young man can achieve his dreams that's it for now but check out other stories on. africa also on facebook and twitter and we leave you with these pictures of senegalese jockeys like. one of his country's most promising talents but plenty of new comers want to knock him off the top spot see you next time by phone now.

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business i'm joined now the one in berlin so happy you can join us. president joe biden's one point. dollar economic relief package has passed congress delivering the president's 1st legislative victory the house approved the sweeping along party lines sending it to the white house to be signed into law the bill will give financial aid to millions of families and businesses struggling under the pandemic but republicans have criticized the measures for being too expensive saying they inflate the national debt and funnel money to unrelated projects. our financial correspondent joins us from new york various now yes certainly for quite a few people this relief bill carries high hopes with it when will americans start to feel the benefits. well pretty soon and 3 times in charm we already got the 1st 8 pickets last spring in the amount of around to 2

trillion dollars followed by the 2nd pick it passed in december another 900000000000 dollars and now we get an additional $1.00 trillion one of the bigot's pieces of the pickets are actually $1400.01 time checks for americans making less than $75000.00 a here and the hope is that this money will be spent so get consumption going in the country and was that support economic growth they are estimates that this package actually could add involved one percent for growth for gross domestic product just was in this hearsay also had been some criticism let's say you and your partner you both make $75000.00 a year that gives you a household income of $150000.00 and still each of you would qualify for those $1400.01 time checks and clearly all of that is going to increase the debt load to a mess of fully in the united states but nobody really wants to think about the

debt at this point by the way joe biden probably will sign the pickets on friday and then on thursday joe biden will speak again and probably announce his build a better plan meaning another stimulus program probably focused for instance on infrastructure so a lot of stuff is happening at the moment but for a lot of american families who are still in pain and millions of americans who are unemployed they can expect to receive for this money soon and one final word on wall street as i'm standing in front of the new york stock exchange also read times as a charm for 3rd time this week we try to surpass 32000 points in that all johnson duster leverage also when trading close then finally we reached that milestone so a new record on wall street around all those news that we got about this money flooding the streets. carter there with some quick math for us thank you very much

now to some of the other global business stories making news aircraft manufacturer boeing is poised to begin paying out a 500000000 dollars victim compensation fund to the families of those killed in 2 air crashes 346 passengers died in lyon air flight 610 and ethiopian airlines flight 3020 thapa rated with boeing 737 max aircraft. apple is to invest over a 1000000000 euros in germany's southern state of bavaria over the next 3 years the company plans to expand its music research and development base to become a major center for chip design. the chief of the world trade organization rosy a conduit has demanded a boost to covert 90 in vaccine production in developing countries she said and i quote the fact is that each additional day the vaccine shortage continues people will pay with their lives but the question is how to increase production poor

countries say waiving vaccine patents would enable more local manufacturing on the other hand richer countries argue that innovation has to be protected it was a matter of debate at the w t o today but a resolution may take a while yet. some 20000000 people in britain have already received at least one vaccine dose in fact the government is hoping to have offered everyone over 18 a jab by the end of july it's an important milestone one that for many other countries in the world still seems a long way off. and it's regrettable that some countries continue to prioritize vaccinating younger healthier i know it's outlawed risk of disease in their own populations. health workers and older people elsewhere. at the current rate the new us israel u.a.e.

and taiwan will have received enough vaccines to cover their entire population by the end of this year. in other parts of the world especially in the southern hemisphere people can expect to wait another 2 years. in south africa and india fears of new virus variants have made the vaccination rollout all the more urgent the 2 countries have both appealed to the world health organization to remove patents on vaccines until the pandemic is over. they argue that countries including cuba senegal south africa thailand and india may not have the money for expensive patents but they do have production capacity enabling them to create their own off brand versions. once a high flyer in germany's finance in payment service provider wire card saw a spectacular fall from grace after serious fraud allegations and eventually filed

for insolvency after admitting that close to 2000000000 euros were missing from its accounts that was back in june but the fallout continues today a parliamentary committee investigating the wire card scandal presented its findings. to the outside world it was a successful dacs group but in reality it was riddled with fraud behind a clean facade criminals were allegedly at work. former c.e.o. marcus brown is currently in custody asia board member yanmar select is a fugitive in estimated 20000000000 euros in stock market value was destroyed by this alleged fraud all under the watch of the state financial supervisory authority a parliamentary inquiry committee has been investigating how this happened today there was an interim report. as well our most important finding is that multiple state agencies failed to do their job properly while there were individuals that

had warned those agencies so there was a kind of collective attitude. to close rolls eyes wired card was once an electronics payment services provider and a golden child of germany's innovation economy but it turns out the balance sheet showed a 1900000000 euro hole sense and then public prosecutors began investigating the company on commercial fraud and document falsification charges there have been rumors for years media outlets repeatedly reported in consistencies but each year the why auditing firm gave wire card a seal of approval the german financial regulator bothin didn't investigate the allegations either quite the opposite journalists who reported on fraudulent dealings at wire card came under pressure further pain and embarrassment could still be on the way in april finance minister olaf schultz and chancellor angela

merkel are set to appear before an investigative committee both had previously championed wire card despite emerging concerns the recent cyber attack on microsoft's email servers is putting pressure on the u.s. government the 2nd major hack in a matter of months has led to calls for the u.s. to retaliate or boost protections for cyber space the full impact of the latest attack blamed on china is yet to become clear. it's relentless the number of cyber attacks being carried out around the world takes up by the 2nd for those charged with finding them and shutting them down by visa busy times we have about $550.00 folks on the ground responding to breaches right now and i'm not sure because it's ever been worse for the amount of work that we have the recent cyber attack on microsoft's exchange service is believed to have affected upwards of 30000 organizations in the u.s.

including businesses and governments they've been left vulnerable to data breaches through so-called back door was created during the hack a trademark analysts say the chinese hackers they put this secret door in every single house in the neighborhood kind of thing and that's what they did here the back door that they put in place is exceptionally consistent with the chinese threat actors this latest attack from overseas follows last year's massive solar winds hack blamed on russia back then joe biden called for action we can't let this go in answered that means making clear and publicly who is responsible for the attack in taking meaningful steps to hold them accountable. now that he's president it's his chance to act the question is how insider if you really assess the domain the united states is actually not rude when it right now in my opinion if we hack

back it's like being in the glass house rocks at a. cyber fire the wrong to made right now to exert force in $88.00 ok to do some force but i would think about diplomacy alliances economics the work carried out by online security firms shows the threat posed by cyber espionage is only increasing nations like the us a still working out how to defend their economies and themselves in a heck of a dominated willed. and finally a danish toy company lego has had a blockbuster year in 2020 reporting the company's a fast the sales growth in 5 years and a strong rise in net profit families and pandemic lock down bought lego sets they could build together and new products like the super mario set which blends physical bricks with online games the classic welcome but he's not profit was a little over one and

a half $1000000000.00 lego plans to recruit one hundreds of computer experts to expand its digital games offerings. that's changed since i was a kid thanks for watching. what's going on here. house of your very own from a printer. computer games that are. my dog needs electricity. explains delivers facts and choose what the future holds. living in the digital world shift. w.

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1st a decade after the earthquake and tsunami that caused nuclear meltdown to japan's fukushima power plant artists in the country are still coming to grips with the catastrophe a new exhibition in the city of mito in the prefecture next to forgive is giving artists space to reflect on the nation's trauma and on how to explain what happens to the next generation. today i. am. this is the fukushima exclusion zone a japanese artists collective has used this no man's land for an art project exploring the restricted area around the ruined nuclear plant and placing artworks the public will only be able to access them once the restrictions have been lifted until then the website for the project remains a blank page that's displayed as part.