so we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the united states we hope the u.s. side will think about whether it feels reassured saying these things because the us does not represent the world it only represents the government of the united states . and the u.s. secretary of state reasserted america's leadership role i have to tell you what i'm hearing is very different from what you describe. i'm hearing deep satisfaction that the united states is back there were reengage with our allies and partners i'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking but with the mutually agreed diplomatic protocol scrafton john his foreign affairs chief deflected criticism of its own human rights record by pointing back at the u.s. world. in regard to human rights well we hope the u.s. can do a little bit better in this aspect only with us as human rights

issues are deeply rooted it didn't just exist during the past 10 years slaughter of african-americans has always been a problem. so if you think those who went. with a chilly start to the new normal for relations between china and the u.s. the rest of the world is watching closely to understand where they fit in in this new balance between global powers let's bring in u.s. policy analyst liz show to look at this closely why why do you think this meeting started off with so much conflict wasn't it deliberate tactic do you think for one country or the other or did things simply get out of hand. i think you could probably say it was a deliberate tactic from both countries both countries this is a huge moment. that has been positioning itself from long time as

a global power right as the leading global power of the last 4 years america spent a little bit i think the word you could say is hampered it's been a little more hold back a little less able to kind of take up the space that it's taken up in the last decade at least china has been pushing right up against that so trying to was ready they were like we will not simply step aside because america has a new presidency i think at the same time lincoln came in with my guys were seasoned we know it's not with you and we're not going to coming week and kind of expecting whatever you're giving us i think they both just started hugely aggressive standpoints which does not sponsor great conversation that i mean how much cooperation therefore and is going to be possible do you think between china and the u.s. with the new biden administration. it's possible what happened if you ask meetings this is the 1st real. face to face and this might get some

posturing i would love to be optimistic and kind of see that is a posturing on both parts to kind of say i'm the big guy in the room i'm not going to be pushed around you have to treat me as an equal because i think both sides want to be viewed as a strong man or to get me out there i think it's part cooperation i've already heard rumors that there might be some kind of follow up in april and it might be a way to kind of stage face and say we were strong on their side and that is where we were and i think both places have tried to a little bit we do know that i think what's really important is to keep looking back it was by going to have repeatedly said which is at the end of the day this will be the u.s. own u.s. american interests and i think china's going to come to the same table which just at the just makes cooperation so difficult now you've been involved with u.s. china policy development what is your assessment what do you think would be the best way forward. i think recognizing that the

other side. this is a new world order i think you know it's just sad this is a new form of world a clumsy that not your side has experience before what i think will be really interesting is i worked at the state department in an office of intergovernmental affairs at a time when there was a lot of tension between for example u.s. and russia what we continue to see was cooperation at the sound national level you have governors from russia coming to america talking about trade talking about human rights talking about economics and i think you're still going to see those movements with chinese partners and u.s. partners so maybe well on the federal and national level as there is this tension in this stalemate we might see really great productive cooperation at the subnational i want to end governors and mayors across the 2 countries. as a shell k. u.s. policy analyst thanks very much for the analysis. thank you know. when i take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now tanzania has

its 1st female president to some mayor who has a son took the oath as head of state following the sudden death of john magaw foully shills for the remaining 3 years of his term. french prime minister has been an ocular rated with astra zeneca as coronavirus back saying it's part of an effort to rebuild public confidence after france and other countries briefly paused vaccinations of a blood clot fears on thursday in europe a medicines agency concluded the shot was safe and effective. as we heard the a.m.a. has a valid just for the safety of astra zeneca shot now but added it wouldn't it would continue to monitor rick cases of blood clotting a team of german scientists now say they've found out more about the clots and how to possibly treat them. so now joins me now from date of new science so here what did this team of german scientists find out about the

blood clots so scientists from the university of cairo which is in northern germany got 6 blood samples from the polish institute which is the german federal agency for the approval fix scenes and they say that they studied these but samples in great detail and that they were able to connect the vaccine that shows any comic scene to a special form of immune response which leads to the formation of the blood clots that have been observed in these patients we have to keep in mind that they only looked at a very small number of samples only 6 thoughts armfuls and that there is all to have not been approved by other scientists and they have not even been reviewed by the institute right what do we know yet who is at high risk of developing this i mean response. no i'm fortunately we don't we do know that in general young women and middle aged young to middle aged women are at the highest christe of developing this kind of from bose's but we don't even really know if the astra

zeneca vaccine actually heightens the likelihood of developing this form of from birth is at all on the other hand the good news is that because the scientists were able to study the mechanism in such detail they're also pretty convinced that they'll now be able to treat it very well if symptoms are cured while the european regulators said on thursday that the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and effective but of the link to red blood clots cannot be ruled out that's a bit contradictory isn't it can you explain what they mean yeah yeah i think it's a clear case of weighing the benefits against the risk so we do know that in general the risk to develop this special form of throat is is really really doubt and so far only a very tiny fraction of the patients that have gotten the astra zeneca vaccine have developed this for months from bose's on the other hand we do know that the astra

zeneca vaccine is highly effective in preventing a specially severe kovac 1000 cases so i think in this case the benefits clearly away the risks. from day to reassign thanks very much for that update. here in germany vaccinations we have astra zeneca shot have also resume a following that guidance from the a.m.a. health minister am sean is stressing that inoculations remain k. to the government strategy the disease is outpacing the government's vaccine program infection numbers are still rising with variants causing most of the new cases john says germany is now dealing with a 3rd wave. dispute if europe does not just have enough vaccine doses to stop the 3rd wave through inoculations alone even though the e.u. can now count on the reliable liver of drop doses it will still take several weeks until all risk groups are from please be vaccinated so there's only those that will be able to talk about a further loosening of restrictions so we still need to be patient but. joining me

now is going to mark the president of dva the organization that represents medical professionals in germany working in intensive care and emergency medicine for has months thanks very much for joining us covert cases are growing rapidly again in germany how worried are. indeed i am very aware it because we have a steep increase again in new infections today we have 17500 new infections and our 7 days incidence is now in 95 in germany so we have 5000 more new infections and we could go so we are in an exponential increase our value is 1.12 this is due to the taste of the coral of iris b 117 this is now adays here in germany. the joey of infections i due to this mutations are in the meantime 72 percent and when we do not.

be more clear calf will cautious we will have a very high level of in front of us on that professor i mean dv your organization want to gangs to opening up the government in all of those warnings are you frustrated with the response of the german government. well as an intensive us i never look back i look forward and i mean we have our really robust scientific based progress to grow you which we have demonstrated 3 weeks ago as us just indicated and we have now if. i said this is most important right now to go back to locked out on. like we have done before in february and the month before because then we will have we can 3 d. flat and 3rd wave when we wait until mid or even later and prove you have an

incidence of of 200 and then we will see. 56 or even more 1000 patient i.c.u. patients as covert 19 and be ready have to avoid this. well as well as you say we're in the 3rd wave already what can you give us a sense after a year of being in this pandemic gives a sense of the situation now in the hospitals how are particular medical staff coping. well to be honest i'm surprised that yes to coping i think relatively ok but we have a year as you said of endemic and really exhausted and we have still $2900.00. patients go at 19 but you have to realize that we have caring about many other i.c.u. patients obviously other emergencies cardiac patients. surgical patients

she was patients so at capacity our beds are not empty so we have many empty beds in the moment and they're filled with other patients and obviously when we have. and again have to decrease our lot on the care. and very urgent cases and challenges with the care of forward 19 and. just to give you one example we had i did what actions we have to avoid contact that we have less infections you infection s. possible. urgently we know of the wait this protection against infection has been decent talking to you to bond with your groundbreaking discovery is saving lives in life the hood. it's ensuring our social economic and cultural survival. time a person is facts in need and we take a small step back towards normal life and towards the life we miss and the people

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biotech success story as lem 2 of the g. and. physicians immunologists pioneer us here at their company's headquarters in minds they've been working on the next generation cancer treatment for more than a decade using m r n a technology that was until news from china emerged about doctors discovering in the styria snow virus spreading rapidly in the city of new han at 1st the world didn't pay much attention but zine did. i still remember the day we were having breakfast on january 24th when we made the decision that we needed to get started. we diverted all of our resources into developing a vaccine. and the whole company and all of our partners behind. those indian good fortune. so even before the world health organization issued its

1st major warning the biotech team started working around the clock less than a year later they haven't seen was approved in many countries around the world. it's an achievement that's won them praise from the highest levels. it makes the story and the german government extremely proud to have such scientists here in our country. isn't over the past year the couple are fed a huge amount of media attention many outlets focused on their turkish heritage or portray them as scientific superheroes but zion and to never bask in the glory. we're scientists and superhero it just means that that the science that we did is important but we were not alone developing the science so i think the whole

scientific community is a superhero like the rest of the world both are now looking forward to the time when the pandemic is over and they can return to normal life for 2 in that means getting back to work on their original mission developing that new treatment for cancer. reports from myanmar say security forces have shot dead 8 people during a confrontation with opponents of the military coup. local news outlet myanmar now says police in the central town of aung bound opened fire as they moved into clear protesters barricades this is mobile phone footage from the saying where people were also wounded news outlets said protesters were back out on the streets around the country including in the largest city yang gone. are the party of the ousted leader aung sang suu che says its principal spokesman has

been detained by the military regime more than 200 people and known to have been killed as security forces crack down on opponents of last month's. local media outlets say they are increasingly being targeted by author artie's who want to stop the world from witnessing the repression in the country. these. offices in young gone charging after empty military demonstrators and a journalist taking photos of it all several police around ten's or as he tries to get away one puts him in a china cold he's then handcuffed and dragged off this happened in late february 10 zones pictures were to be sent to his employer the global news agency a pain outlets like g.w. then by this material so journalists like him are critical for international media to be able to report on me and mom instead tin's or is now behind bars he and a growing number of journalists and media workers in myanmar and facing up to 3

years in jail under vague charges of violating a public order law. or whatever that is that the 10s or was arrested while he was performing his work according to the video recording and pictures published in the news he was arrested while doing his job this is not related at all to the public order law he has been charged with but that's what they are accusing him off the back of the one off and as a boy. it's estimated that over 200 people have been killed in myanmar in a brutal crackdown on largely peaceful protests since the military's take over on february 1st getting information is becoming trickier to the military regularly shuts the internet down and it's blocked some social media sites it's also withdrawn the licenses of 5 major media outlets. no one is safe and the military

government especially these days you know at the nighttime the reagan reading no media. and media buzz and that's where one of my janitors got raided at that time at his house already pretty but we. are indeed ben as me. there will be no no more press freedom. a decade after the end of the junta in myanmar the military is back in charge it's a major setback for press freedom and for journalists on the ground it means facing censorship threats and intimidation once again i'm now joined by. the executive director of the international press institute the i.p.i. in vienna thanks so much for joining us how dangerous would you describe the situation for journalists in myanmar right now. it's extremely dangerous join a list of we receive reports of joint is being arrested all the time and many are

being also help increase and for extended sentences. and additionally to that you know joint elise are out in the field trying to convert a protest which is per se already very dangerous because there is a lot of violence going on and and recently they have also been facing exactly the risk of being targeted by the police specifically just recently just today the b.b.c. burmese service joining this. dura was taken away by the supposed by militant the military forces but the fact that we don't know his whereabouts so it is extremely dangerous to be a journalist these days in today in our as well as of course the individual journalist being attacked 5 local news outlets have had their licenses revoked and where already having to rely on mobile phone footage of incidents like today's shooting now we heading towards

a news blackout in which the mount military can operate with impunity. well we are definitely getting the year i mean at the beginning when right after the coup on the 1st of february the media wasn't targeted so brutally from the beginning on but recently what has happened in the past week or 10 days has been the increased targeting of new independent news are that specifically to date although there is no single news outlet to that hasn't been banned there so there is this impossible to date the by story there is no single independent news outlet that hasn't been banned this is impossible to by an independent newspaper in myanmar of course they operate online they operate on social media but as we know they're also internet shut down every night the internet has been off so it's also difficult for the people to access the news in a very precarious situation in day. executive director of the vienna based international press institute thanks very much for your time thank you. and some

football now and the draw for the quarter finals of the champions league has been made and holders by an munich faced tough opposition as they look to retain their crown but the varians drew big spending paris suffer a man in a repeat of last season's final the bundesliga is other representatives of dortmund also face a financial powerhouse in manchester city with the 1st leg to be played in england in the other times rail madrid play liverpool and porto take on chelsea the quarter finals begin on april 6th. and watching date on the news from berlin up next eco india the environment magazine station for that i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news and don't forget you can always get more analysis on the last story on the website of state government dot com i'm rebecca richards thanks very much for joining us we'll see you soon. to.

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