so interesting this certificate would be free of charge member states can decide themselves which would be accepted for example they could also approve vaccines that have not been approved by the e.u. yet for example russia sputnik vaccine so the vaccine passed what will what will the border patrol for instance be able to tell from that past what's what's in that past. the idea is that they will tell you what if you have been vaccinated against call it 90 or if you have recovered from a covert 19 deceased or simply if you've got a negative test result and that's not to not discriminate against people with that not have not had yet the chance to get the vaccine or it's as we know are many people here in europe because big scene rollout has been very slow here and the aim in the medium term a long term or so so to make this system interoperable so that not only states can

access it but also other countries outside of the european union all right and next week i understand leaders e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels where you are for an e.u. summit what are the chances they will reach an agreement on this vaccine pass. you've said it already you've mentioned it that states such as great or spain and cyprus can't wait for such an ear why is it if a kid's to be introduced they rely on travel they rely on the tourism but others say we 1st have to see if people if the vaccinated can really not spread the virus further we're not sure yet on a scientific level the commission's aim is to introduce to sit if it had by june so come summer comes to certificate but the problem is this is quite optimistic because not only european countries but also the european parliament would have to

find a common approach would have to agree on this and they already said they will look into this really is specifically because they also want to take a look at how data is protected and i stress reporting from brussels thank you. a moment ago the world health organization has urged governments not to stop using the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine while the pandemic is still in full swing while it says the benefits outweigh the risk of possible side effects a number of e.u. member states have suspended the use of the shot due to cases of a rare form of blood clots in the brain in germany the decision to pass the use of the astra zeneca shots has shaken confidence. every adult in germany has been promised a vaccine shot before the end of september without astra zeneca that will be hard to achieve the immunization program is about to be expanded including 3 general

practitioners like dr saw me in berlin he was getting ready to give the jab to hundreds of his patients every week now he's been put on hold as. we were prepared to start vaccinating we wanted to get going early we've spoken to the medical bodies set everything up here in the practice and alerted many of the patients. and then came this big surprise. the government says if it is asking people to get the vaccine it has a duty to inform about potential risks but many doctors say the cautious approach will cause delays. i think they've not done the vaccination campaign any favors but safety 1st i think it was important to put patient safety at the center of things so it was the right decision but then you need to publish the information behind it immediately into. the european medicines agency is to give its verdict about fears

that astra zeneca causes blood clots on thursday but even if the vaccine is given the go ahead for a 2nd time confidence in it has been dented from information that we get is that the value of astra zeneca is greater than the risks but of course having any risk is not a night. feeling for this country i don't know if the. actually the risk of getting other people taking this my time is worth it or not because its people are not being very clear about this situation if i have to join so i would take but on thing but if i have no choice it would take astra zeneca. doctor for he me hopes downs will not get the upper hand with the 3rd wave of covert infections approaching he says that would be bad news coming. as i can only say from what i hear many people are still willing to take it or.

germany has a shortage of vaccines a problem that will be much worse if hundreds of thousands of astra zeneca doses stay in the box we're now joined by. montgomery a chair of the world medical association a very good day sir thank you for your time now as you know the german health ministry said yesterday that based on the blood clot cases recorded in the brain which are rare but still there was a slight uptick it would not have been defensible to continue with the astra zeneca vaccines but you i understand are critical of that decision can you explain. no not critical of the decision of our government when the health minister gets advice from his scientific bodies that there is a problem a new problem an unknown problem with the vaccine even if it is only one in 150000 minutes a doses of vaccines he has to check he has to verify he has to have scrutiny isn't

studies on that then he asked the european methods in the agency is just like 11 or 12 other countries of the european union and we're going to get a verdict on thursday and then we know whether we can continue that's a knitting with us present or whether we should take other vaccines because we have a choice there are other vaccines they are all rare they're all in is very scarse at the moment but we have a tentative we have alternatives but as you know the deputy chair just released a statement reiterating its confidence in the astra zeneca vaccine the a.m.a. yesterday did the same thing they said listen it is safe to take can you explain to us in terms of you know the regulators and the national health authorities the bind that they are in at the moment because they have to seen ultra cautious dot every i turn over every stone but in the meantime we're seeing this uptick in cases in countries like germany. yes but even the high uptake of cases in germany does allow

our store to stop and think for 2 days and then continue i personally am convinced that we will continue vaccinating with us doesn't it but i can understand public regulators especially in a very sort of argumentative situation because the press officials have been behind the cases so we have to be certain that the of the risk the chance balance of the of the vaccine is still safe to the complications cerebral bose's is a very rare disease it normally happens in about 3 cases in $1000000.00 inhabitants in a year so that means we have about $250.00 cases in germany play here but we had 7 or 8 cases in the last 2 weeks after us and i feel that minutes that this has to be scrutinized ident scientifically we cannot just simply go on and i can't understand

the w.h.o. because w. hotel has made so many faults in the past they've been so late declaring pandemic they've been so late in helping us this is not very helpful wait till thursday evening and then we have the evidence and then we know what we can do and this is of course the biggest issue at the moment isn't it the issue of trust actually vaccine is trust and health authorities and all these competing almost are differences of opinions that we are seeing surface here so what would you like to tell the general public who should they believe at this stage. they have to make their own opinion and i mean we do have to have transparency we have to have total transparency and then every person has to make their own choice and we have to hold those who do who will not take us president to go we have to hold them of the vaccine there's no point in sending them home and say ok you've had your chance you're not going to get anything because it is our public interest to

get the whole population vaccinated if we don't have heard immunity then we will never come back to a conquer this. this disease so it is our own personal interest to get these people that's in a good and that means in this case that we have to convince them and we can only convince them through transparency through offering them choices and this is the way the german government goes and i support them do you think that this could backfire in the long run because there now seems to be a false choice between safety of the vaccine and safety of being vaccinated. yes absolutely astra zeneca had a very bad host of all the studies which they published did to get the approval of the a.m.a. rather difficult because as we all know they made a big mistake at the beginning by administering only half those is the 1st study group so this was already questionable then they had in the figures you have only

59.5 percent then in some countries people above the age of $65.00 had to be excluded because in the study group there were not sufficient candidates above the age of $65.00 so from a communication point of view this is a total disaster but it is still i think it is a safe vaccine and because a complication of one in 150000 is a very rare complication but we have to assess the risk new and we have to compare it to other vaccines which are available then we have to come to a decision and halting suspending the vaccinations for 2 days is not a problem. montgomery a chair of the world medical association sir thank you so much for joining us thank you very much. get you caught up on some of the other stories making news this hour . a court in japan has ruled the country's ban on same sex marriages is unconstitutional

a landmark decision set the failure to recognize gay unions denies couples their right to equality japan is the only country in the g. 7 group of developed nations that does not allow same sex marriage. he shares government says gunmen have killed at least 58 people near the border with mali the attacks targeted a convoy returning from a market and a nearby village no group has claimed responsibility but several armed groups are active in the region linked to the so-called islamic state and al qaeda. u.s. president joe biden says he agrees that his russian counterpart vladimir putin is quote a killer president biden told a.b.c. news that president putin would pay a price for allegedly undermining his campaign in last year's u.s. presidential election whether he agreed mr putin was a killer for mr by replied i do. well america's top diplomat to has condemned chinese aggression and the authoritarian regime in north

korea secretary of state anthony blinken has been touring the asia pacific region to strengthen u.s. alliances and chinese aggression and the authoritarian regime in north korea secretary of state anthony blinken has been touring the asia pacific region to strengthen u.s. alliances and counter the growing might of beijing the u.s. and south korea have stressed their strategic alliance while talks and so also focused on stalled negotiations over the north's nuclear program all right let's get you more on this correspondent frank smith joins us now from south korea's capital seoul a very good day to you frank now mr blinken and his south korean counterpart reiterated that their countries and i'm quoting are committed to their strategic alliance including their commitment to address and resolve issues with north korea how do they plan on doing that. well i was in front of the defense ministry

today well finance ministers met in the answer to that question how to do that it depended on which sort of group of demonstrators you were you were observing one group suggested it was through a stronger alliance with the united states and more pressure on north korea and on china to contain beijing's growing assertiveness in the region and to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons another group said that you know the u.s. was full minting tension in the region with an increase and in weapons ills here to south korea in the good plumbing to an anti ballistic missile system just a few years ago and they say that you know north korea needs to be engaged and brought into the international community through peace building negotiations that's been the line of south korean president moon gins policy so far. and remind

us please where do things stand right now as we speak between washington and pyongyang because of course with the previous administration we saw a flurry of love letters and affection declaration in public how has the response been this time round. well that flurry of affection between now u.s. president former u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un ended sort of poorly in hanoi vietnam with the breakdown of that summit and no subsequent progress in negotiations between the u.s. and north korea. president biden through his back channel diplomats has reached out to north korea to try to bring north korea into some type of negotiations diplomatic discussions north korea has burnt those which are and just this week kim jong un's sister that's the north korean leader kim jong un his sister community said you know advised the u.s.

not to make a stink or it wouldn't sleep well over the next 4 years indicating perhaps that north korea has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons at any point and is maybe tiring of criticism along those lines and this comes also as so screen the u.s. we're engaging in military exercises in the region. all right and the 3 seconds that we have left together in terms of you have anthony blinken is there to shore up alliances in asia what kind of reception do you think he will get. well he's going to be meeting with the chinese and alaska in a day or 2 south korea and the u.s. are in a different position so korea's largest trading partner is trying so it doesn't

want to antagonize china or joining necessarily in a strong contingent of china and it's a different position with north korea as i mentioned it once he's building in engagement there so in south korea there is this sort of structural dissonance between the u.s. and between the south korean positions at the same time relations between south korea and the u.s. may be getting smoothed over with the by the ministration being a little bit more predictable at least than former president donald trump correspondent frank smith reporting from seoul thank you for your reporting. starting today right hailing company where will treat its thousands of drivers in britain as contract employees instead of independent contractors on the decision to follows litigation and a recent loss for the company and the british supreme court the new designation will give tens of thousands of drivers access to social benefits like paid vacation

and pension payments on it's a major victory for campaigners fighting for expanded employee protection and so called economy. let's explore what this all means that every reporter aaron thompson joins us and now aaron what does this mean for the are self employed for the last or is a previously in the u k. well this is actually a huge victory for the some 70000 drivers. in the u.k. and while it may sound a little bit kind of like an academic difference the difference between a contract employee and a contract it really kind of get that's the heart of the federal office of the economy because it's all based on the side of the good employers like. the independent contractors they can afford to pay them less if they don't pay them social benefits next use the overhead really low now that lets them pass those savings on to the consumer which is part of the reason that their services become so popular in the last 10 years but if you really think about it you know consumer

isn't paying for the low price and the employer can incur the low price i mean those low prices are really kind of built on the backs of their employees and they're the ones who are actually paying for that is value now this rededication actually gives legal employees access to social benefits they didn't previously have now that means they have access to a federal minimum wage pension payments and see how they so on the one hand it is a major success for them but many of the drivers and health say that this comes way too late in the negotiation process may actually save the company isn't going far enough to honor the spirit of the court decision ok well tell us what robert said have a except of course decision. well in their standpoint they have but the crux of the debate now kind of goes to the fact of what is really work over are these that should it should only be simple and when they are face to face with customers in the car so basically after somebody got in the car and driving them the employees the drivers and so they know when they're sitting behind the wheel after open

waiting for consumers they should actually as well and they some also like i'm under different but this dallas i'm a council approved 50 percent over drivers time so that has a huge. and of the month now leave today we spoke to james farrar driving with the lead plaintiff in the case we're talking about right now what kind of witness to his assessment of today's. well i i'm thankful that we've moved a step forward in hooper has accepted the judgment but only in part. has decided that he will observe the ruling that workers should be protected but only from the point of the job being dispatched in the app will you drop off the passenger but the supreme court said that we must be protected under the law all from the period you log into the app until you log oust so that means about 45 to 50 percent of your working time is still not being recognized by hooper that's

a hell of a hole in your wage bill at the end of the weekend so that is not acceptable because it's not what the supreme court ruled so 1st trying to do something that's far below a legal minimum and that's not acceptable. so we just heard there it sounds like into the perspective of the drivers the next one that litigation is pretty much preprogramed now of course over air and operates worldwide could there be global ramifications. to actually on it i kind of doubt it because you have to think about it this is really a u.k. decision and the court doesn't have to and. should behave behaving rather with its employees in the african nation and russia germany or can i just doesn't have the reach if anything though this does seem to be kind to look at making sure many of the employers like it because it basically says government and courts around the world i think you know long and hard there is this model which some people have called exploited in the past and basically said they want to enjoy similar success

to the things that they had over the last 10 years and make me to my current director of the model in terms of service to reflect a more. cooperative. business model for their employees or parent health and reporting thank you so much. next we turn our attention to israel because israeli archaeologists have discovered new fragments of the dead sea scrolls a collection of ancient jewish texts found in the west bank in the 1940 s. and fifty's where experts are calling it the most important discovery of its kind in decades. a race against antiquity feeds these archaeologists sift through caves looking for signs of ancient life old scrolls and parchment have been turning up on the black market which led the antiquities authority to intensify their operations in the judean desert. this is known as the

cave of horror named after 40 skeletons were found here 60 years ago. and there are signs robbers have already paid a visit but they didn't dig deep enough. at the hockey only just discovered fragments of 2000 year old biblical texts. what we found is new fragments of a scroll that we have known before that had been discovered in 1000 fifties and early 1960 s. but what we found is no power to the puzzle of this rather large manuscript the manuscript is of a translation into greek of the. 12 minor prophets. and that from the bible the fragments are believed to have been hidden during the bar kochba revolt an armed jewish uprising against rome. they weren't the only

discovery researchers found a 6000 year old mummified skeleton of a child coins clones and remarkably a 10000 year old basket thought to be the oldest ever found. well this is by far 1st place it's the most amazing thing guy and counted i felt i seen in my life it's kind of huge hits it contains about between 90 to 100 leaders and it's all intact this is as far as we know the most biggest intact basket the oldest intact basket that we know of archeologists the findings will lead to more understanding of the beliefs of a little understood jewish sect. and now of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour the european commission has unveiled plans for a digital vaccine caused a problem the condoms tourism industry amid the pandemic dollars proposed allowing

e.u. citizens to show a digital certificate to prove that they have been vaccinated have tested negative or have recovered after contracting it to the core are. sick with us next up is our business magazine and made in germany and a story about how to successfully start a company during the pandemic stick around for that to and we'll be back at the top of the hole with the world headlines thanks for spending part of it to us.

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