besh lee for the country's health system and therefore this appeal by both speakers today to absolutely take every precaution possible to flatten curve a never ending long night here melinda are we seeing so many new cases because testing is to go phenomenon mr viewer the head of the center for disease control said that in fact they are seeing increasingly serious cases of the new variant in populations that with formerly thought not to be all that vulnerable so working age people young people children and again that has very serious implications for intensive care units across the country yesterday chancellor merkel called upon germans to be more optimistic how realistic is that. it's difficult to the fact is there's been so much back and forth on how to deal with this pandemic with state federal state and federal government authorities putting into

place one plan and seeming to revise it at the beginning of the week this week they were talking about a hard extended lockdown over easter that has now been rescinded and it's unclear exactly what is supposed to be put in its place and if you look at the surveys people are frustrated both with the politicians we're seeing poll numbers fall for chancellor merkel's christian democratic party and if they are also frustrated by the inconsistency on the corona restrictions interestingly enough a declining share see the current restrictions as just about right appropriate but it's not like they all want them to be lifted in fact 36 percent of those answering such surveys say they'd like to see stricter rules put into place so there's definitely confusion fatigue and frustration here. chief political

correspondent melinda crane melinda as always many many things that grim outlook for germany comes as pressure grows on the european commission to step up the distribution of vaccines after a virtual summit on thursday e.u. leaders announced they'd be implementing stricter controls on vaccines leaving the block there's been growing acrimony between the u.k. and the e.u. over vaccine supply the u.k. reports more than 40 percent of its population has had a 1st jab that's compared with just 10 percent here in the e.u. . export controls are prompting cries of vaccine nationalism so what can be done to boost vaccine production not just in the countries currently manufacturing for more i'm joined now by mark boateng and he's an member of the political grouping that calls itself the left in the european

parliament mr boateng a welcome to d w what exactly are you proposing. i think we need to lift right now all obstacles that are blocking this ramp up in production that we really need to obstacles we know one of them is payton so intellectual property rights you know they're basically impeding other companies from producing the vaccine all over the world not just in europe and secondly we need a technology transfer you know we need to be sharing this technology with as many companies as many countries as we can so we can ramp up boost production and get out of this as quickly as possible well let's stay with that train of thought then what's stopping countries from simply forcing these companies to share their patents. well 1st of all it's import it's not a technical issue let's let's be very clear about that you know we have technical proposals we've got a proposal of the world trade organization that's being carried by a coalition of $100.00 countries we've got a mechanism at the world health organization as well as

a technology access pool so all of these mechanisms exists even inside the european union there's a european citizens initiative no profit on pandemic asking concrete measures the problem is political and perhaps even ideological the european commission has been seeing these companies as partners not even considering the fact that these companies have their objective which is profit making and they want to make a profit out of the vaccine but this is now in contradiction with the public health imperatives we have to get more vaccines as quickly as possible. well you just made the point i mean these are not charities d. or for profit companies so some people might consider this a cynical question but wouldn't an exemption on patents on vaccines reduce the incentive for pharmaceutical companies to develop them in the 1st place well i think it's very important here to point out that much of these vaccines and much of the research and innovation has actually been done with public money and true universities think about the entirely new technology of m.r.

and a like that the new vaccines right that are the basis of the vaccines of pfizer modern and so on you know this has in large parts been sponsored by public money and when at the european level this is quite interesting in 2017 the european commission proposed to put in more money into let's say research on. pandemics or potential public health crisis many of these companies were actually until yesterday because the vaccines were not considered profitable enough so i think if we see this if we see that there is this public boost for innovation. then there should also be and i think public safeguards and secondly let's be honest we've all had so much of our rights so much of our daily lives. you know troubled and overthrown really by this pandemic is it too much to ask that these big pharmaceutical companies put in the effort as well we only have about half a minute left but but i am curious mr bojangles or you optimistic that the e.u.

will change course on this issue of intellectual property anytime soon at least for the global good of course. no i am always optimistic because i see that many more people are mobilizing now for it i've seen that there's been signals from the italian parliament from the polish government and so on so i remember 6 months ago a year ago when we started this battle we were all by ourselves and i'm seeing many more people joining now so i think if we can really change and shift the discourse that we've got to hope to really put public health 1st and not profit. with the left in the european parliament really appreciate your time thank you very much switching gears now the 2021 formula one season starts this weekend with the who in grand prix last year saw a lewis hamilton win a 7 titles high in the record set by german racing great michael schumacher this year hamilton is seeking a record 8th championship but will have to get past another schumacher to do it

michael son nick is among the competitors. the stage is set in bahrain for the return to formula one of one of the biggest names in this sports history house driver make sure america will make his debut this weekend. and i'm happy to be here i'm happy to proud to have brought back. into formula one you know the see i've done it with chairmanships on my back so you know we've proved that i'm able to drive race car 22 year old schumacher is last year's formula to champion and before that he cut his teeth in formulas 4 and 3 now he's arrived at the highest level of my past and is like you know the proper read one passes just like you know it's amazing i remember seeing my dad having one and i was like always i want to one but i was had to get one but anyways i have one now and it's amazing and i'm really

looking forward to it schumacher cvo was also 22 years old when he made his debut 30 years ago he went on to win a record 7 f one championships a record that was equaled last year by the driver of this car and now lewis hamilton is looking to go clear with an 8th title. of the rive more excited i think i have in a long time. to sit excited to get going we're going to have a real great battle one way or another. that's we're always up but in bahrain this weekend all eyes will be on the heir to the schumacher dennis the as he takes his 1st steps on the racing's biggest stage. well orlando by virginia woolf is a fantastic piece of literature that sees their hero journey between 3 centuries into gender now

a german choreographer has we imagine the work for moscow's bolshoi ballet russia is not known for its tolerance of the. community and critics are expecting the production to cause quite a stir. queen elizabeth the 1st played by a man but this is no company drag queen playing for laughs the cross-dressing portrayal is serious and dignified. german choreographer christiane spokes production of virginia woolf's novel orlando plays with gender identities questioning the established male and female roles a provocative choice for a country like russia where conservative social values still hold sway with this kind of cuts you want someone to say it's not a provocation at least that's not my intention rather we take a very poetic approach to having a man play a queen or that the orlando rule is dance by a woman and of all the times. the normal

describes the magical transformation of a young nobleman orlando into a woman. spoke last august morneau over in the role the lightness and elegance of her performance makes changing genders seem like the most natural thing on earth. her character orlando lives to be more than 350 years old without aging. done that on monday i didn't understand the strange novel by virginia woolf right away there was a long process of finding our way in the material the choreographer wanted me to stay natural and remember that i'm a woman even when playing a man i kept that in mind despite the challenges. and those challenges weren't just inside the theatre russia is in the midst of the krona virus pandemic it has the 4th highest level of covert 1000 infections in the world moscow has the highest

number of deaths from covert 1000 within the country yet nearly all restrictions have been lifted in the capital bars clubs and restaurants are open theaters. by hiring spoke currently the director of the zurich bali the bolshoi has been able to mount an international production despite the pandemic there were 9 choreographer as enjoyed working at the bolshoi. my despotic and my language comes out of classical ballet so i respect the tradition of the bolshoi on all levels i'm a huge admirer of this company and of this heis. books are on there was a story of space and time and the importance of appreciating the hero annoy a valuable message for on certain pandemic times. coming up next indeed news asia chinese citizens debate the government's call to boycott western brands over their criticism of rights abuses in chin jan and indian prime minister modi

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i'm british welcome to news asia that you could join us china has hit back at western sanctions over and edged of rights abuses in in kind beijing on friday sanctioned 9 british lawmakers and several entities who have criticised its changing policy and china has launched a p.r. war against western brands critical of alleged forced labor in. chinese state t.v. called for a boycott of swedish retail chain over its statement of concern last year at least 1000000 people and. mostly muslim minorities have been detained at work camps in changing this to many of sexual abuse and torture has emerged but china rejects the accusations as for them lies. that you should the chinese people do not allow some foreigners to eat china's rice while smashing china's bowl joined with the way.

and a warm body double dip or to harm friends our friend welcome how successful has this be out of china being tell you it has been very successful but maybe let me tell you what's happened 1st so a couple of months ago released a statement saying that it was not going to use produced in nothing to use cotton produced and she and john citing forced labor concerns and that was released last year actually it went largely unnoticed and just this week it got picked up by a group linked to the chinese communist party on chinese social media way wall and then all of a sudden it's spread like wildfire and in just a couple of hours not just an m but also other western brands like for example nike also under attack and the reason why nike is also under attack is because it also released similar statements last year and now the cashback i love she has

become one of the most popular ones on chinese social media wave war and on the web sites and that this has tech posts been shared billions times millions of times people have commented on it and the state media people staley has even created a me me saying i love joe i support young cotton and it has been shared by many other people including stoss and in fact stoss even those who are ethnic we have also shared this and also saying that i support she called and we should support this our home country sorry i love our hometown and many other stars who have had contract with action and have cut ties with it and. store online is now off so it's not on the e-commerce platform anymore or it's

a stall. and what are people saying i mean you mentioned these are studs what are people saying internation to these. many people are buying into beijing's narrative that the west is spreading rumors about the situation in that there is no false labor and one you say for example says people outside of the country do not know the truth do only thing that these artists are supporting discrimination so referring to those artists posting the hashtag and please focus on telling foreigners the truth and not on how to feel better about ourselves and other uses says boycott hurts us too if we cut our economic ties with these companies that's exactly what the west wants but if we pretend nothing happened and continue to buy these friends it's like agreeing with the insult they have thrown at our country i feel so bad i feel like i can't protect my country so basically they agree that

the claims about forced labor by the by the west. are false and many other saying that we have boycotting action and nike and they said i'm not going to use their products we have about 40 seconds left before hunger and as you mentioned the statement from it and i mean like you know from last year or is it causing us all now i think we are under a time when u.s. and china ties are. getting worse and the divide between them are getting bigger and she of course is a very thorny issue and when the u.s. used to board genocide is a very strong word so china said the u.s. is spreading hatred and so i think we will really have to see how this goes on out of 7 of the last word on this i'm sure over time trend thanks so much for coming in and break this down for us.

indian prime minister narendra modi is visiting everything by others as the country marks 50 euros of its independence more this visit to india's biggest trade partner in south asia comes as both missions look to strengthen ties that have been under strain in recent years his visit to bangor there is also highly symbolic given the part indian forces played in securing the country's freedom. december 971 indian and pakistani troops are locked in a bitter battle to liberate a car. the vent capital of east pakistan when it would all but ensure an independent state for the bengalis. bangladesh at the time was known as east pakistan on the eastern flank of india it along with west pakistan from the nation of pakistan. but led by this man shaikh module of amman east pakistan and gullies feeling alienated and abuse revolted against their government. a brutal military

crackdown ensued. soon india's hand was forced and it intervened militarily. pakistan lost the war and with it the state of bangladesh was born. with woman as its 1st president. and in a bloody conflict that cost an estimated $3000000.00 lives according to government figures. and displaced more than 10 times as many. since then has seen political assassinations and coups. throughout much of the eighty's the country was run by the military. by the 1990 s. democracy had returned. and in the 50 years since bangladesh gained its independence its praise for turning its war torn beginnings into a hopeful future for its young population. when it is a research fellow of the bond of asians to do with of peace and security studies

and he joins me now from talk with that welcome and happy independence day i know it's a big question to us but i'll ask it anyway on their 50th year of independence to most hopeful about their future in the country. thank you very much it's a pleasure to be here indeed was my mother she's not only feel beautiful but they feel very optimistic about the future we have traversed a lot of ground in the last half a century our economic indicators our social indicators are absolutely marvelous and the last decade and a half has seen bottom of this on a very impressive economic growth trajectory of course we have also put a lot of challenges ahead of us as well and how we navigated the over 9000 pandemic in and its aftermath is one of those many challenges that we face but overall the people obama with this specially you feel

a deep sense of optimism about the next 50 years but where does or india fit into that picture over the next 50 years given their historical connections between the 2 countries. you are right in the amount of this shared a very historic to be a very close relationship india was a very little partner in bottom of this is independence struggle and the 2 countries share one of the longest land borders in the world they're also civilizational an historical and cultural ties. bumbler this wants to grow and deepen its relationship with the india prime minister narendra modi as a arrived in town today for the visit which also coincides with the 100 that he personally of the birth of the fall of the nation on the ship but there also needs to be a very realistic thing on the relationship in a dress of the challenges well one of the hopes that we have from the visit is that

there will be. further deepening of ties in terms of connectivity. given the economic and cultural impeachment and also realistic on addressing some of the challenges that. face in the british in the in the near terms or given . the exchange of vaccines or rather the delivery of folk over 1000 vaccine for example from india to body levey's does that provide some sort of a template of relations moving forward. the goal in time to vaccine engagement is the need some quite encouraging our dishes during the vaccines from india and we hope. that this would be have good template for taking the relationship forward and engagement in terms of combat in the pandemic and other traditional security challenges as well. yes so we are hopeful about that we hope that the acts in diplomacy in the play

a role in strengthening the relationship there are there any specific expectations of bangladesh has from not anymore these visit this time around. the expect issuance it is as i said earlier a deepening of the connect to begin the economic ties and also. some resolution on some of the outstanding issues like the star watch up which has something actual in the relationship in the past but we are hopeful i mean like all neighbors and friends there are. sometimes challenges in the relationship but the 2 countries have. reached a stage where in a very mature manner and through a bilateral in the achievement and. other for us they can dress all the challenges and move forward but we are going to go through from the visit. in addition to strengthening the good will some tangible our councils are competent and hopefully

that happens we'll leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to us just got money from the bangladesh institute of peace and security studies in tycho thank you so much i think you. i'm relieved today with images of celebrations across by you know there's as it marks 50 hours of independence and 100 has since about the founding. back on monday. but by.

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the a. cool. the covert crisis has taken a psychological toll on ole of us but teens are especially hard hit. instead of going to class and hanging out with friends teenagers have been banished to a life of screens so the chewed and uncertainty. school closures and social distancing have cut them off from their support networks the risk of developing anxiety and depression is higher. psychologists say the needs of teens are often overseen when it comes to covert restrictions.

and being physical and thanks for joining us the struggle continues covert hasn't gone away it's one way valve after the next and lock downs become part of life for many of us that doesn't make it any easier teen mental health services are overwhelmed in countries like belgium. rosebush had reports. long months of locked up and have been a vattel for many young people. teenagers in acute mental distress come to them in hospital for psychiatric care often after traumatic events or suicide attempts among the residents is this 17 year old we're calling alexandra covert it was an extra thing that just made me kind of it was the one thing too much to have my high risk so i had to. kind of isolated from my from. most. of. my parents alexandra is not

alone in struggling to cope with covert but she's one of those fortunate enough to access this hospital's help director sophie math says new admission requests for troubled teens have skyrocketed since january. mass thinks that's due to exhaustion exam stress and dashed hopes for a return to normality. although makeshift rooms were added there are no places left and no even the waiting list is closed. can you choose between a societal 15 year old and a suicidal 16 year old it's impossible with a doctor must believe the authorities could save lives by prioritising teens as society reopens the best and the poor we need to create spaces for play for joy and for conversation and so all young people can once again be part of the social fabric of life something so crucial for teenagers. if not there's

a real risk their mental health will keep deteriorating and i'm truly afraid to sue sue said rates increase what it feels like we're at the edge of the tsunami and we need to build flood defenses. as the young people living here a build up their emotional defenses to reenter the outside world alexandra hopes sharing her story will give strength to other teens who are suffering. we're all struggling with this is. the fact that we're all still here and we're all still fighting against is something very positive and something that will make him grow and will be able to look after and say wow i once through these tough times i made. her priority is getting better as soon as she can which could open the door for another young person who needs help. because it's

a really is an associate professor in psychology of the car alinsky institute. one year into this pandemic you afraid the number of teens with mental health problems will keep rising. well yes i am our study was conducted over 20 in me last year and already then we could see quite severe effects on both children and their parents and i think it's important to notice that although we examine the effects of homeschooling i think that this was certainly not limited to just effects on the academics but also on mental health issues so how has harmed schooling affect the mental health of children and parents based on your studies. our study included about 7000 ratings from parents on the effects of that on their own life and on their children's and data was collected in 7 different european countries and about 25 to 35 percent of the

parents reported negative effects severe negative effects i would say on their child's life and as many as 35 to 55 of the parents supported negative effect on themselves. and with the court to their effects on the children i think that a lot of. children had really large problems carrying out homeschooling they were really large demands on them and doing a lot of studies and they at that increased their you know mental health problems and parents also reported a lot of worrying and a lot of stress because they had to carry out most of the home schooling where the children yeah well apart from the extra what the extra the added stress what about positives for new studies i know i had a bit of a hard time at school when of mind skipping the buses and long walk to school as well. well that is true and actually that the transportation issue he says is something that a lot of parents are actually talking about that it saves time that they don't have

to travel to school especially for the older children which they might have a longer time to get to school and back and that's time can of course we set spent on for example exercise and family time so a lot of the pay or not a lot but some of the other families are reporting you know more family time they do things together and they have lunch together but that's of course dependent on if the parents are also at home and working where as we do have also a sub study on or a subgroup of children with mental health problems who are actually bullied in school and don't have a good social relationships with their peers and they are of course also happy to be at home so some of those kinds of positive effects can also be seen but i should be careful and say that this is really a subgroup of people reporting the positive effects you said you talked to thousands of families what were the most significant differences between countries

. well i think the largest differences between countries were actually in how homeschooling was carried out. and that of course also had effects on the negative and positive effects so in general we saw that a lot of the home schooling was carried out studies or in contact with the parent and very little homeschooling was carried out as online teaching but this really vary between countries and in the u.k. and germany for example about 5 percent of the time was spent online teaching whereas the corresponding numbers were about 25 to 30 percent in sweden and italy so this was really had a huge effect of course on that these families. this also resulted in large difference with differences with regard to how much home schooling that the children actually did in u.k.

for example quite a lot of the children only got about one or 2 hours of schooling each day and this was of course you know of huge difference compared to the children in for example sweden and they had a lot of online teaching so briefly what's the best way to educate kids in a pandemic. well i think that we doing them to do more online teaching especially i mean even for younger children i think it's doable we have seen that some schools have been managing on like teaching for for young children as well and i think it's it's really not possible for parents to do to take such a large responsibility in the home schooling if we should have funded well functioning system. i also think it's important to take into account the new technologies that we have that we can use to make this school teaching more adaptable and actually be adapted to the needs of the individual students but this

of course requires that we have you know each student needs to have their own computer they need to have a good internet connection and they need to have a quite place to sit and do their home schooling and this is of course lots of reality for a lot of children in europe today not always a given these are terrelle thank you very much for being on the show today thank you. and for the last time this week is derrick williams with another about fuel questions. have we seen any impact on babies born from covert positive mothers. i was really surprised just how complex this answer turned out to be and just how many issues are involved the 1st is the breakdown of access in many places during the pandemic to 2 routine prenatal care for expecting mothers now that's definitely having

a big impact on child health though the one that's hard to quantify the good news the experts say is that babies born to mothers infected with sars code to actually very rarely get severely ill themselves and studies show that in general the virus appears not to cross the placenta however they also show that pregnant women who catch covert 19 are at more risk of developing severe forms of the disease and this is key that an infection during pregnancy likely contributes to a higher risk of giving birth pre-term one estimate says 1000 in the mother makes pre-term delivery this 3 times more likely and that's something that unquestionably has a negative impact on newborns in previous face a whole range of unique medical and development issues many of which can be

mitigated by a simple yet vital measure which is skin to skin contact with parents that's also known as as kangaroo mother care the problem is because of the pandemic babies are being separated from their infected mothers at alarming rate. is it lee to protect the child's health but according to the w.h.o. that's doing actually a lot more damage than good in a report published last week it said the practice was putting newborn lives at risk and in a big way and encouraged hospitals to allow mothers and babies to share rooms even if the mother has an active covert 1000 infection because although it seems counter-intuitive kangaroo mother care will generally help the infant much more

than a coping $1000.00 infection would hurt it. thank you derek thank you for watching and stay safe in sort of like.

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