these blood clots for caused by the vaccine in the in a night argue that these side effects also. not unusual because they also appear in the regular vaccinated populations and we're talking about like 40 cases out of 17000000 vaccinations that applied already so the numbers very very tiny and also the w.h.o. the world health organization has already said there's no evidence so we expect that the a. certain income once the a.m.a. has spoken is that the final work and then inoculation with the aesthetic of vaccine restart you know that's not the final vote because the european medicines authority only gives recommendations the member states of the 12 of them have suspended as the senate as of now not obliged to follow this recommendation they can all decide on their own but

a number of ministries already said they will follow for example island that we don't know about any of them they can decide otherwise and in no way the authorities a little bit more skeptical because they had 3 death cases in norway which they cannot explain as of now and in conclusion should the astra zeneca shot get the green light again from the a.m.a. has the damage been done. but of course many said many experts say that the trust into the vaccine and also the vaccination in general has been undermined by this where they can actually say by this drama over the last week denmark started it last thursday and then all the other countries followed suit because. these vaccinations will be the vaccines will be money told in the next months and years even and it's not unusual that there are side effects and if you do stop the vaccination campaign every time this appears then there's no rollout you can speak

of because it's always interrupted and this is nothing that really promotes the oxidation campaign in the u.s. says it all to the w.h.o. the benefits of the vaccinations are far higher than the risk of side effects badgley direct reporting thank you. hides and next we turn our attention to italy that country is observing a national day of mourning prime minister mario has commemorated the more than 100000 italians who've died from covert 19 year has passed since the death toll in the city of bergen and it was so high that an army convoy had to transport confidence out of the city burgo is once again under full lockdown as cases rise. don't mario cut him enough he shares

countless memories with many of the people laid to rest here. he was a member of the parish i was leaving about to come out of the hole almost everyone buried in this section of the cemetery died from cove it this is the 1st time don mario has visited it since the pen demick struck the region. you know my thought on that. it's like going back months like reliving the moments of the people who are no longer here to. these harrowing images were seen around the world military trucks loaded with caskets starting in march the bodies of deceased were transported to other cities across italy discriminatory and were overwhelmed by the numbers as part of a mo became the epicenter of the pen demick in europe more than 3000 people died here in baghdad. when the pandemic 1st struck italy found itself alone among european nations confronted with an unknown threat the authorities were slow to

react and when the government finally did mandate lockdowns 1st in the region and then in the entire country it was too late for back. this was the frontline in the battle against cove it. seems from march last year when doctors and nurses were caught off guard everybody we spoke to here had just one comparison in mind war. remember one night 8 o'clock maybe i was looking for body bags because i finish all that but the backs were too poor to the. body of people who were dying moments like that are now a thing of the past says dr who said joe and. the pen damage is far from over but for him and his team there is hope with x. nations on the rise and important lessons learned but we will have a different way sometimes because i we have all the british and us of

a virus that vantage now is that so we know very more i know you we're not we're not alone are the enemy. these pictures of the trucks leaving town loaded with bodies soon became iconic images of the tragedy that ship italy and the whole of europe to its core before their departure don't come to me not to used to give his final blessing to the deceased here at his church which was serving as a makeshift morgue at the time the community suffered this kind of me not the stood by its side during the church bells to notify loved ones under lockdown at home whenever trucks left the compound loaded with the dead with a 2 key if you need that upon the me of and with the with the what of that i told my priests that at the end of the pandemic we should be able to look ourselves in the mirror. he should be shepherds and not run away when our flock is in trouble and suffering has got a muslim up we going to be called in and want to grieve from the from the course the. one year later he feels fear has given way to

a sense of solidarity but overcoming the collective trauma will take time not just here at the church but in the region as a whole. and germany has recorded its biggest rise in new coronavirus cases in 2 months more than 17000 new infections have been confirmed in the last day on more than half the latest cases involve the so-called british variant of the virus and lockdown restrictions have been lifted but experts say germany is now experiencing a 3rd wave they warn a significant jump in cases is likely in the next few weeks. let's fill you in now on some of the other developments in the penn demick a study in the lancet medical journal shows most people who recover from covert 1000 are protected for at least 6 months france has reported its biggest one day jump in cases since its 2nd lockdown in november tighter restrictions are now expected and japan will not extend

a state of emergency in the tokyo area beyond sunday but officials are warning against complacency. joe biden is facing his 1st major diplomatic crisis of his presidency moscow has recalled its ambassador to the u.s. after mr biden confirmed on television that he thinks the russian leader is a killer on the president also promise to hold a president vladimir putin accountable for allegedly meddling in last year's u.s. election. director of national to this was the interview that galvanized 2 huge nations the u.s. and russia when in an exclusive interview with a.b.c. news george stephanopoulos asked president joe biden election so you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. to do so what price must he pay the price he's going to pay will you have seen shortly the interview comes as the united states is thought to be preparing new sanctions against russia for its meddling in the election at an earlier meeting

biden made a point of a mark to putin he said no he doesn't have a soul i did say that to him yes and to and his response was we understand one another i wouldn't be in a wiseguy i was alone with him in his office that's how it came about it was when president bush had said i've looked at his eyes and saw a soul i said look through eyes and i don't think you have a soul look back we say we understand each other it's unclear what kind of a response moscow will have but no doubt u.s. russia relations have seldom been this low on for more let's bring in our correspondent emily sure and she joins us now from moscow am mr putin has reacted to president biden what did he have to say. well let me put in essentially laughed off biden's comments or at least initially he said this was a case of biden essentially calling being the pot calling the kettle black and he said that usually we see in others the qualities that we have in ourselves before

proceeding to. take an almost profit soria look into us history he said that the us is founded on essentially the genocide of the native americans and on slavery so kind of pointing the finger of blame squarely back at the u.s. and essentially a biden. and he also though said that russia was prepared or will be prepared to work with the u.s. and with the biden in this administration as long as it suits russia's interests and that russia will go in the in the future as well be willing to defend those interests fiercely. no emily the kremlin rejects. election interference which is at the heart of this spats how they addressed any of the specific allegations that. are found in the u.s. intelligence report. the kremlin hasn addressed any of the specifics

in that report the kremlin spokesperson to meet you can scoff yesterday called the report wrong unfounded and the evidence in it unsubstantiated this is kind of the usual response that we hear to the repeated accusations leveled at russia over election meddling but the real news i think here in russia is really this statement from biden about putin being a quote killer and we've heard a lot of different reactions from russian politicians who have been calling biden on presidential have been calling those remarks hysterical one parliamentarian said that this is very much a red line for russia and that the next step after russia recalling the u.s. ambassador or the ambassador to the usa would be to sever diplomatic ties completely you have to understand that this kind of personal insult is really kind

of i think shocking even for russians in a country where putin usually remains almost untouchable even on the political landscape kremlin critics usually criticize the government but leave a lot in there putin out of it so what does this mean for russia ties with biden. well i think the putin government here and russia and the russian government overall didn't have very high expectations of the biden and ministration from the get go but i do think they had hoped for kind of biden being a more reliable u.s. president in some ways when it comes to talks when it comes to shared goals in issues like ferguson for example arms control and i think that they hope going forward as well that they will be able to keep some kind of

a bare bones relationship going but i think for a leader like vladimir putin who definitely values personal ties and personal relations with leaders when it comes to diplomatic relations between countries i think this is certainly a bad start for that putin biden relationship going forward and we show and reporting from moscow thank you. let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. several allies of jailed russian opposition alexina vali have gone on trial in moscow along with 2 members of the. band pussy riot a number of have only supporters were detained in january over anti kremlin protests local media reports say some house arrests have been extended by 3 months . turkey's pro kurdish h d p party is fighting for its political survival after

a prosecutor asked the top court to close it down the party is accused of having ties to the outlaw are out law and k.k.k. militant group the h.t. piece says the case is part of a long campaign to stifle opposition to president and. that's prime minister margaret it is set to begin talks on forming a new government after a comfortable election victory exit polls put his center right freedom and democracy party ahead with just under a quarter of the vote and there's a form a coalition with at least 2 other parties to hold. a gunman accused of killing 8 people in the u.s. state of georgia has been charged with murder the 21 year old was arrested after a shooting spree at 3 parlors in the atlanta area most of the victims were women of asian descent. and independent reports by the

catholic church has uncovered hundreds of allegations of child sexual abuse in germany's largest diocese cologne the study found more then 300 victims going back to 1975 and more than half were under the age of 14 the investigation cleared colognes archbishop anne or maria bell key of a breach of duty is under pressure now to resign accused of hushing up the allegations. will get more details in just a moment a 1st we met with a victim who has spent years seeking justice. if you can make it good. natured i remember sitting in a cell and the bathroom area next to the sleeping quarters overlooking the courtyard lick of of doing close to home i was crying to myself and calling for my mother or i was just 11 what about if you i kept crying i can't

anyone hear me. you're my. guy now carl how cool was a boarder at a catholic school where a priest abused him for years how could still haunted by terrible memories several years ago he felt so overwhelmed that he tried to kill himself it was only later that he realized that he wasn't alone what had happened to him had happened to others but the church state silent. on. the list of the 2 to instruct on arms the church is an institution that speaks and acts from a highly moral standpoint. so it meeting wrongdoing like this is very difficult anyone can see that. but our accusation is that the burden of the church silence or falls on the victims. because. of course in there but often and not if the us was fearful of. how could and other survivors to cope

earlier this year when the cologne archdiocese announced that it would publish a report naming those responsible for abuse but things turned out differently the archdiocese changed its mind it told the victims that the report was unreliable and poorly done survivors felt browbeaten into accepting that the finding stay secret door and. they needed us as a kind of seal of approval to justify this decision to suppress the results these especially those who are still dead were confined to a g.p.s. and no one from the archdiocese wanted to go on camera to comment meanwhile traumatized all over again the suffering both physically and emotionally but often avoided annoyed or not mention the victims have been exploited once again

people who were damaged in the past by priests have been damaged and to protect the institution or when i finally understood what was going on all the crimes that happened thank then came back to me opting out of our support in that i must talk to seen one down much how he says that he's lost his faith and the church once and for all. of these religious affairs correspondent martin got pulled over the findings of this report martin what struck you the most. i think that the most remarkable thing about the report is to realize that 2 years after the story broke or was broken by the boston globe and it really became you know a global global scandal we really well do you buy detergent put this church word for less did a few decades anywhere between new zealand and glasgow so to say the church

was still going to church in cologne was in cologne was still going full steam on exactly with the same business as usual and some other 5 what the study finds with the research finds is that between 20042018 there was a consistent spike in sexual abuse cases and these basically goes to show not only that the church is initially incapable of policing itself but that even with the full attention of the bubble a can sort of major major political pressure not only they were not willing to aggregate all of acting they say surely continue to preserve a system in which children were systematically abused so you know would these really is for the lack of a better term it's not a word they use often but it's really quite shocking that shocking indeed to talk to us about the position of the arch bishop cardinal he has been under fire for the way that he's handled this affair in the past what does this report say about his

involvement and how is how is he reacting to these a new revelations. well i mean really just not you know it's not being accused a repeat of the religion of duty or basically bridging he's he's he's duties the list of people that are essentially were going around him. are people that were you know named in the reports and us he took this morning the step of basically putting 2 high ranking members of the church one of them a deputy. bishop of the region and the leader of the d.s.s. incurred essentially on indefinite leave but this really just seems too little too late and to a large no to a large extended really seems completely completely. where do we go in sorry it's really just looks like. crisis

management in a sense this is just not really address any of the major issues and i think in my mind they're really just 2 that the church continues to struggle with when it is itself the scandal and the cover up in the u.s. but the 2nd is the complete lack of trust which was fully reflected in the report that you've just shown the lack of trust of the general public in a church that basically has been unable to be transparent and really you know bring bring clear results to what he's a major major conflict well just affairs correspondent martin gak thank you you're welcome. tanzania's president john michael fully has died at the age of 61 while his aides say he died of heart failure but doesn't he is main opposition leader has said his death death was the result of a corner of our wrists like a fully hadn't been seen in public for several weeks he had repeatedly played down

the risk of the coronavirus and warned against taking vaccines. many had been speculating that tanzania's president john mega fully was in bad health because he'd been absent from public life a nearly 3 weeks. it was vice president sami a salute to the woman who will replace him who confirmed to make a fully would not return. to moti. funeral arrangements are being made. and you will be notifying. our country shelby and a mourning period of 14 days. when the flags fly at half mast and. mega fully suffered heart complications for over 10 years the popular leader was elected in 2015 and made a name for himself as a corruption busting man of the people he support is expressed dismay at his day.

job i feel very sad and i am suffering because we had our leader our president we loved him and he loved us. hit us hard the whole of tanzania as a nation has been hit hard but for me personally i am deeply affected. it was only last year that magath was reelected after the polls opposition figures accused him of cracking down on dissenting voices most recent criticism was focused on his handling of the corona virus pandemic he dressed downplayed the effects of the virus calling on people to use prayer instead of masks. in government no one wears a mask including me. proves there is no coronavirus and god loves this nation nothing is impossible for god. these

defines one more of these political wishes will be granted that somy a salute to tens and he is 1st female vice president will become the nation's 1st female president. and some sports now for you in the champions league the top club tournament in europe defending champs by munich are through to the quarter finals of this season's event thanks to a 2 legged victory over italian t.v. last c.e.o. robert levy down ski scored 1st and byron went on to win 21 wednesday night in 62 over the 2 matches well meanwhile in london chelsea advanced as well by defeating atletico madrid 2 nil and 3 nil on aggregate. here's a rundown of the top stories that we're tracking for you just how are. the european medicines agency will shortly deliver its verdict on whether astra zeneca strong a virus vaccine is safe more than

a dozen european countries have suspended the shot after some cases of blood clots and a lot of reporting has hit back at u.s. president joe biden's remarks labeling the russian leader a killer mr putin says he will work with washington to moscow advantage but condemn to mr biden's comments as the pot calling the kettle black. you're watching your news from berlin up next the focus on europe's spotlight on people and i'll see you again at the top of the hour. to.

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historic buildings and alleyways is dominated by a powerful mafia clan called the camorra once it gets.