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the city. manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us india has reported a new double mutant variant of the code off of testing samples in a western region it isn't yet yeah if it has been sponsible for sergeant cases in maharashtra state the news comes as india marks one year since the government imposed one of the strictest just lock downs in the wild now the country is facing a possible 2nd wave of infections despite increasing availability of vaccines. finally he's getting the job. haman c'mon michel fell ill with coffin 1000 a few months ago and the vaccine is a reason for hope for him after a tough feel both of them will be the biggest problem was that there wasn't any

medicine or cure. so when a person suffers from a disease for which there is no medicine. he suffers mentally as well. 300 people remember who dear bob i did a year ago today all of the prime minister more the announced a nationwide lockdown with just a few hours' notice. the sudden shut down was meant to curb the spread of the virus but it put in large numbers of people out of. migrant workers left big cities and headed back to their villages on foot. images of thousands of workers trying to don't draw it without food and shelter went to. a humanitarian disaster the country wasn't prepared for. as the number of infections and deaths draws the country face another crisis. health care infrastructure appear to be on the brink of collapse without enough hospital beds for patients. this man lost

a family member to call 1000 last year he ditched the hospital but the staff was too overburdened to give medical attention this was not the only such incident then professor kimchi not ready a public health specialist says the lockdown brought hardship to many but was necessary i think we did gain time for preparing our health care of social systems and with economic systems to some extent for responding to their commitment to make with a greater level of preparedness for what followed it also did have an impact on the immediate discount and the current ask east count beat in september the government stepped up efforts to tackle the ban to me and took some comfort from the country's long mortality and high recovery rates since january this year india has put its focus on a massive vaccination drive against call the 1000 privatizing health care workers

senior citizens and people with co-morbidities despite some progress there are now fresh concerns as we compete a year of the world's largest carbon $1000.00 locked down we have come to a point now where india is experiencing a 2nd 3rd of the wires with multiple states reducing measures and instructions in an attempt to help the spread is that if a survey says the country ought to be better prepared now to know we know the bees have the public precautions that really helped bring down the prime to make later on in multiple places and if you let their guard down like you were a bit like many parts of us then you will pay a price for that knowledge we have but it's precisely the experience of the previous year that has got some people brought it about. rise in numbers again it's uncertain the future aboard business about what's going to be happen next whether it would be not going to spread move spread less they believe this is

a prediction we have. people are becoming careless they're not wearing masks properly people are going out to shop i'm not maintaining distance distance. i thought i'd don't need to take isolation if i take it that actually but because of a sudden increase i took it actually with a year of dealing with the pandemic behind us the country is facing a familiar challenge yet again at the 2nd wave of the virus begins to creep. in there is among several countries which abstained from the u.n. human rights council resolution authorizing a probe into alleged war crimes western countries that passage of the motion while 7 asian countries voted against it the u.n. believes up to 100000 people died in the decades long conflict that ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist timon tigers rights groups say the sri lankan government has tried to conceal the past atrocities by current leaders has condemned the un measure as unhelpful and divisive. it's clear that the

resolution has had no mentor to be approved of the concept this is the reality why do they want to see and you know these resolutions that transcend and that septa ends of the country. cannot be implemented that is the basic principle and for more on this i'm joined from colombo by because south sudan often she's a former commissioner of the human rights commission of sri lanka the sri lankan government has essentially said it won't accept the council's resolution how effectively being without sri lankan cooperation. well i think. france it will not be effective because if the government is not there instance even meant recommendations in the resolution like conducting inquiry into very

aryans into allegations and walk right in the prevention of terrorism act except that they have of course they're going to be any progress on that but are not a level that we can see of their progress to what accountability because the office of the high commissioner for human rights will be gathering analyzing. documentary evidence that a view to taking the accountability process forward and they would also be monitoring the human rights situation and reporting back to the human rights council battle the human rights situation is not far off the radar but it continued to be on the human rights council. but does the government at all care about you or another year in here when rights council resolution given that the government is trying to frame it as a recruit to the large majority of patients didn't for quartered that i think we have to say yes they refused to accept it but that does not mean

that they did not care because the fact that they are putting in a lot of effort to part trade as a victory means that they at a loss of face and for them it's important it's something that is important and also for the fact that during the last few days they are very active lobbying you know with family bash with india. there or i see countries that shows that to them this voice importance where they do not agree with the results of the beat and not discount the importance of it to that. there are a lot so for activists within shouldn't go who had been lobbying in the run up to this forward and who for years have been demanding accountability from the government is that a fear that the government will double down on its already poor treatment of minorities like tunnels and muslims and other activists that is back

here in concern and rightly so because they have seen streaming of it it's basically it's easy agent interaction and of civil society and as you pointed out you know it's going to nation modulation of talent and muslims and we would if we saw in the boston police that it's mostly that maybe $10000000.00 muslim activists also are loving faubus and there is definitely that concerns about possible groups i write that definitely. lots more to talk about popular to leave it there for the time being for today all because of going on often thank you so much for joining us and here. now this structure right here behind me in the modern day pakistan is more than 4000 years old it's part of the ancient city of morhange of the toe the center point of the bronze age indus valley civilization but more than a century after it was 1st discovered it continues to hold more questions than

answers for research as particularly for a german a killer just who spent 5 decades at the site. the remains of a once flourishing civilization. $100.00 r.-o. was one of the world's most advanced cities of its time. when archaeologist michael young 1st saw the ruins he was amazed at what he found. more of rebar when i was in the 100 daro for the 1st time i found the bricks used to construct walls i thought i was back in germany. the same brick the same format that we still used today in germany in europe is the european standard it was perfected 4500 years ago in mahindra daro. more andrew brought up tomorrow and the. 100 dollar also had

a complex water supply and sewage system. and says it was better than many modern day cities. a highly technical society with a complicated water supply system wells how can you build such wells these are highly modern drainage systems in the 1900 centuries even in europe until recently brussels had no sewage system a phenomenon that still exists in most cities 4500 years ago daro had a perfect drainage concept. the 83 year old german archaeologist has spent 5 decades helping investigate and preserve $100.00 r.-o. . for his work and was honored with one of pakistan's highest civilian award however he believes a lot of work still needs to be done to promote the state locally and

internationally. this. must bring this knowledge about the culture to schools the children have to learn that they grow up with it and if you grow up with it you will take responsibility for the preservation of the cultural heritage and. there's a lovely unesco slogan. from the promised to the future. nor we can only exist if we have a past. and as the ensign has shown in mohammed although the distant past was often anything but primitive. that's a full body double to bore but if. you might catch of the images from morhange about all that we leave you with today thank you so much for watching about.

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coming for florida. we still have time to an ongoing. success. to subscribe for like this. from. the fight against it has been immense but it's setting back years of progress in the battle against other diseases pandemic appears to be reversing the global gains we've made in the fight against hiv aids tuberculosis malaria malnutrition and maternal and child mortality the crisis has seen a 25 percent decrease in diagnosis and treatment of tb in south africa indonesia and the philippines health officials say it's time to find tuberculosis again.

the disease is usually transmitted person to person through the air and thrives in crowds it primarily affects the lungs can also occur in any other organ the world health organization says more than 10000000 people develop tuberculosis every year deaths amount to about one and a half 1000000 and sadly that's often in adequate treatment the problem at the moment is access to health care to lock down supply chain disruptions and rebooting of global health resources into covert countries like mexico of paying the price. here in dr alberto medina's private practice they used to vaccinate babies against tuberculosis but since september new government rules means they haven't been able to get a new batch of b.c.g. deliveries. the people who are supposed to deal with importing vaccines they say date hasn't been set yet they told us it would

arrive in january but now some articles are saying they won't arrive until spring. there has been a public sector shortage of tb vaccines since the start of the year in 2019 the shortfall was between 76 percent and 96 percent the number of tb cases jumped from 17245000. health specialists estimate the lack of tb vaccines will affect 2 tween 200300000 newborns. mexico isn't the only country where tb is still a health threat around 85 percent of all newly infected people live in africa and south these days are with india indonesia and china particularly affected. in mexico the vaccine shortage is mostly down to the current government changing

the system of how medicines that required and distributed but vaccine shortages began under the previous government. this prompted the reemergence of diseases such as measles which went from being almost wiped out to $60.00 to $200.00 cases annually. this is according to a study by the mexican association of facts and ology which also reported complaints against the current shortage. we've had a shortage of some vaccines for the last few years. or less were referring to vaccines like b c g m.m.r. and the double vaccine that implemented olivia. according to dr medina young families needn't lose hope because the tuberculosis vaccine can be administered during the entire 1st year after birth not just the 1st 10 days. but

the extended vaccine shortage continues to increase the overall public health risk . why khan is medical director of the global and international health n.g.o.s active in asia and africa what impact would you say to 1000 has had on the diagnosis and treatment of tb so far thank you ben for having me here i it's been a journey for tb it's been devastating 2020 gend we recently had data that came out and which show that about 20 percent decline in t.v. diagnosis and and treatment which is huge when you look at infectious disease which has similar you know as a respiratory package and just like over it but however who's so versus what people opposed to because of. all the you know infrastructure was started to get used before called it as well whether it's a lab infrastructure or service delivery

a community work everything so there has been a huge impact and no doubt the lockdowns really affected the service delivery so it only grieve in fact all you hear is covert covert covert in a lot of young people i guess would never have even heard of tb would you say though that this setback for diversion loss' has been a fair tradeoff for the inroads that have been made in the fight against covert. not at all and i think it's not a fair trade off it or the we're going to see further decline if we don't do something you know something quickly adapt as well if the new normal whatever that is and i hope i just do hope that we're going to realize how similar the 2 diseases are in terms of you know some of the case finding as well as in other strategies and so that we can find synergies and optimize you know you can use you know things like contact leasing and other work force as well so that we can back aboard

diseases so the threat to tb from cold is real but what about opportunities are there any opportunities coming out of this all of the research all of the focus on the medical fields absolutely still there has been agreement back like i mentioned but then there has been amazing amazing collective you know knowledge that we have now for infectious diseases as a result of this collaboration which itself is an opportunity just learning that you can globally corroborate whether it's for vaccine development and having something in a year which certainly we haven't seen and then there is the data that has come out that's or some of prevention knowledge and dissemination of prevention the case finding started genes like using more by health to you know drive through. it's a meaning to see all of these things also the screening having knowing that both diseases are so similar and you can screen it like i mentioned earlier so there's a lot of contact racing like i mentioned as well not to forget because there's so

much that you can learn in terms of what to do and what not to do which we can do with t.v. because we don't have a lot of resources is there more that we can learn from coding 1000 to improve care as well. absolutely i mean service delivery methods like there are there is you can have we've been using deli held for t.v.'s well but for but also you know showed us how to use some digital health platforms as well and contextual because one thing that's really important is to understand that countries have developed some of these tools and it's not something a global tool that has been standardized saw the lots of things that can adapt and use to. you know context so yes. iniquities have been uncovered through this covered 1000 pandemic which is a. it's a lot of inequities i mean everywhere in infectious disease is something that i have seen and i keep on you know as an advocate of tb advocate i keep on seeing is

that tb we were is that you know it's an intimate a disease a farm you know it's an infamous disease our indians are far you know related to poverty and therefore it's all about human justice and. ethics around how you treat people with corbin we've seen the same thing although tb is a disease of the poor but over the affected everybody and then you saw that you know people who were at the most vulnerable who got it you know suffered and in domes of access in gary having food support they don't know what social distancing means and you know how do you do that when you're living in crowded you know homes . is is there a message you'd like to get across on this well tb day just just in a sentence or 2 for us. so i think the border message is to land back to the important learning is around social inequities and i would like to talk about

that too because when we talk about scientists and researchers and people nor everyone has of the knowledge globally we have a lot of tools and collective wisdom but what we don't have is we work in silos and i wish we would collaborate on these kind of infectious diseases that are borderless and whether to send poor countries or whatever it should it does help us reinforce the idea that it should take up and then require us to realize things and we should get our collective wisdom on for science as well as become advocates for people who point was a conduit to medical director and i i declare well thank you very much for joining us today thank you very much. and time to hand you over to derek williams a science correspondent is still cooped up in his home study looking into your questions that. one of the vaccines is less potent could it help to take different kinds. with vaccines still

scares and in high demand it'll take a while for this to to really become an issue but but let's take a theoretical approach for a minute say from the perspective of next year when at least in some places it's fair to expect that a wide range of vaccines will be available more or less on demand. but you've got to look back to look forward so a little history 1st in the last few decades the idea of mixing and matching vaccines to trigger a more powerful immune response has gained a lot of traction in the field of immunology it's been explored in experimental hiv vaccines for instance the concept is known as had a raw legace prime boosting and the aim is to capitalize on the fact that different vaccines can stimulate the immune system in different ways so so taking more than

one kind could help strengthen immune memory by causing your body to make a wider variety of defensive cells against the disease so mixing and matching back scenes might prove to be a good idea in the fight against over 19 but it could also potentially have harmful consequences when it's been done in the past with other diseases the mixing and matching mostly took place with vaccines that were pretty similar but some of the covert vaccine. the proof so far are based on very different platforms so to rule out potential risks we'll have to perform controlled testing with specific combinations of products i think that we'll see a lot of trials like that in the long run some are happening already but they'll take time

a lot of time so for now even in places where mixing and matching do happen it's only in rare circumstances and authorities still try to avoid it as much as possible. eric williams there are benches all in thanks for watching stay safe and secure against it.

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