this is. for europe the european. job for the european union so will it help speed up the block. also on the program military level fresh allegations. as it continues its. protests against the military. killed after security forces opened fire on demonstrators. china deals

a fresh blow to hong kong democracy the communist party says only allow patriots to run the territory in future. version of the country's worst disaster in recent history. the more than 18000 people killed massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the north east coast on this day. and welcome to the program be used drugs regulator has approved the use of the johnson and johnson single shot vaccine. for such vaccine to be given the green light by the european medicines agency it's hope this will help speed up the e.u. slow vaccine rolled out which has drawn heavy criticism. straight to brussels when

we join t.w. correspondent go mattison welcome gold how much difference is this going to make for the millions in europe still waiting for their shots a potentially huge difference phil the e.u. has ordered some a 200000000 doses of this vaccine from johnson and johnson which is cooperating with young and where it's been developed and and created which is in the netherlands and just 55000000 doses could be coming to europe in the 2nd quarter alone and if you see that it will just take one jap to get fully vaccinated in immunity that means it actually would help 55000000 people in the e.u. now let me pour some water into this wine because the problem is that huge quantities of this vaccines are actually being produced in europe but they're sent to the u.s. to the so-called sill and finishing step so they're bottled in the u.s. and the concern now on the european side is will those vaccines doses ever come

back seeing that the u.s. has an export ban in place right now this news comes as we hear that several countries are suspending their use of the astra zeneca in 1000 vaccine tell us more . well exactly that is denmark and that has temporarily iraq temporarily stopped the use of the astra zeneca vaccine as a precautionary measure they have made clear the the medicines are thora t. their has made clear that they have no evidence so it's not confirmed that this can be linked in any way to blood clots that have been found in some people and that is also what we've heard from the european commission they made clear that's follow the signs the european medics and agency yesterday looked into the case and they could not a step was a link either but they are monitoring this situation in a number of countries including countries such as norway who are also under the european medical agency follow denmark and temporarily stop the use of this vaccine

markets in brussels thank you. today marks a year since the world health organization officially declared code 19 to be a pandemic the 1st coronavirus cases appeared in the chinese city of group officials that claimed a seafood market was the source of the outbreak virus quickly spread across the world with europe becoming the new epicenter lockdowns a border closures didn't stop moving and before long almost every part of the world was affected by the pandemic. while a year on how countries around the world coping since this official declaration we asked our correspondents in israel south africa and india. one year on israel is one of the leading nations when it comes to vaccination campaigns against covert 19 over 50 percent of israelis have received at least one dose of the vaccine but health officials are still concerned about the new variants and with over 5100 people losing their lives to cope with 19 in this past year the government has

often been harshly criticized for mishandling the crisis but after 3 hard lock downs people are now looking forward to going back to some kind of normality despite the problems that you cannot make people here are trying to remain optimistic and they are reasons for that the 2nd wave was not as bad as predicted especially considering the new mutation of the virus that woods was discovered in south africa for the 1st time also vaccination programs have started and epidemiologist believes that up to 40 percent of the population contract it's covert before which gives some hope for the next waves to come. you know to go india i was just beginning to talk about the corona virus and many of the people we've talked to with skeptical about just how serious it is over the next c.e.o. india experienced one of the strictest down from the world and the highest ever case there would have close 210-0000 daily cases now however average cases every

day are under $20000.00 and the vaccination drive is in full swing with markets airports and even some offices almost returning to normal many are once again wondering just how seriously they still need to take the coronavirus. germany was initially praised for the way it handled the pandemic case numbers and death rates were kept low and testing was rolled out but the country's approach has faltered and restrictions are now being lifted despite signs of the country is already in a 3rd wave of infection and bureaucracy is slowing down efforts to save lives but seemed far away suddenly became a painful reality here at the vip us to a company in late january 1 of them play he was the 1st german to contract coach at 19 from a colleague who had travelled from china the german health minister remained optimistic there is no cause for concern. a few weeks later things looked quite different

infections were spreading throughout germany in mid march the chancellor took the unusual step of addressing the nation on t.v. . if. it is serious please take it seriously to say that there has not been any such challenge to our country since german unity not since what with chu that has demanded such great joy and solidarity based action which has 100 and called germany's 1st lockdown started the streets of berlin were virtually deserted museums and theatres had to close and the economy came to an almost complete standstill. schools and nurseries also closed the living room became the new classroom but online teaching was difficult as laptops and software was scott's meanwhile supplies of protective clothing in hospitals providing no doctors for to keep people infected alive early may nearly 7000 of them diet the high number was

relatively low in comparison with other countries infection numbers started to for the lock down worked that reduce the burden on hospitals. finally some a time restrictions were eased people return to the streets but the easing of measures brought new infections. by november the numbers was so high that people were told to stay at home again what became known as lock down life began. the months parts of the population have been protesting against the restrictions. but lock down light wasn't enough shortly before christmas infection numbers reached such a high that public life was entirely shut down again with alcohol bans in public and even nightly curfews in some places at the end of the year germany's vaccination campaign had kicked off politicians promise that those who wanted the

job would be vaccinated by the end of summer but many vaccination centers remain empty due to a shortage of doses but the 1st rays of sunshine many are no longing for move freedom one year after the outbreak restrictions are being lifted bit by bit but in the meantime you take an infection numbers are rising again. i will take a look at some of the other developments in this pandemic starting with the olympics and the international olympic committee is to offer chinese vaccines to athletes and teams preparing for the summer games in tokyo and the winter games in beijing the european medical medicines agency is reviewing an antibody therapy to treat covert 19 used drugs regulators evaluating the 2 substances being developed by u.s. pharmaceutical company eli lilly and the richer members of the world trade organization have blocked a push by more than 80 developing countries to waive patent rights in an effort to

boost production of vaccines for poorer nations. now to be a mom where the military john to has leveled fresh charges against deposed leader aung san suu kyi accusing her of accepting illegal payments with $600000.00 as well as gold while in government so far they provided no evidence to back up the charges when one at least 6 people have been killed in myanmar after security forces fired on them during demonstrations they were in the town of men taking part in protests against last month's military coup which overthrew the elected government there are also reports that at least one other person has been killed in min and me and most largest city young guns this latest violence comes after the u.n. security council demanded the military restore democratic control. it is absolutely essential to respect the result of the elections and to a low for. situation in reach we move back to a democratic transition. let's get more from journalist to under now comes in who

joins us from young guns welcome andrea. let's start with those deaths in min and in the young gun that followed just hours after and turn and turn your attention made that speech yeah well so we've heard that there have been protests in. plenty of time since the coup this is the 1st time that we know that they've opened fire with deadly force there's obviously been other deaths in yangon before but it all feels kind of random like he could just on some days tells curity forces that they can go out and kill people and i guess the intention is to give all protesters the impression that any day they go out they could be killed and the military says it only uses force when necessary and as far as we can see watching the t.v. clips the protesters are peaceful so what's your assessment.

yeah i think that's just flatly not true like you said the overwhelming majority of the protesters have been totally peaceful and are and we have seen you know teenagers young women shot in the head it really doesn't reflect what the tatmadaw was saying about only using force when necessary they seem to use force totally indiscriminately. i was i'm searching the country for my civilian leader she's facing new allegations that seem much more significant than the 2 shot you see face before yeah these are the big charges she had been charged for some kind of kind of silly things before violent night seeing her stretch in illegally importing walkie talkies i think these were kind of placeholder charges while they tried to dig up something

a little more serious corruption charges i've seen people sentenced to prison for as long as 30 years so i think these are the charges that they're really hoping are going to permanently sidelined on some suchi from politics right i'm one of a saying that she has done. well like you said they haven't offered us a ton of details they said she accepted illegal bents $600000.00 in cash and gold they said the information came from the n l d e s cheap minister and yang. but all we have so far is the military support. meanwhile. the shooting continues in the protesting continues and no one seems to be giving way. yeah i mean the tatmadaw seems to really be digging their heels in they haven't responded very well to any suggestions for diplomacy or dialogue and i think the n.l.

deeside kind of feels like they shouldn't have to negotiate or make any concessions because they wanted no action in overwhelming landslide so under what normal circumstances with the wedding party have to make any concessions so both sides seem quite far apart thanks for joining us and your neck i'm certain and young go thank you. china's palm to spot the communist party's plan to tighten control of hong kong by overhauling the city's electrical system the national people's congress voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution granting beijing powers a veto of accountants to ensure that the cities governed by what they called patriot's critics say the changes will eliminate all remaining opposition calling it a final nail in the coffin of hong kong's democracy let's get more from dwi correspondent phebe kong who is in hong kong welcome phoebe so talk us through what practical

difference these changes will make. beijing has taken the controversial powers to push their actually phone for home by bypassing its locoed scrutiny so a new venting all the nice asian will be set up to screen the candidacy of all major local elections in hong kong in the future and proposal will also give greater power to our electoral commentary which is largely stacked spec is that even the past day it was originally responsible for picking the chief executive but in the fish other we're also being charged for deciding the candidates and some of the winners in the low. and that means that they will have the power to decide who can run for the reaction and although the size and the composition of their actual committee and.