stories making news around the world at this hour government data in mexico suggests the coronavirus death toll there is likely at least 60 percent higher than previously reported it provides. an international team investigating the origins of the corona virus says it is extremely unlikely that it leaked out of the laboratory the report concludes the virus probably passed to humans from through an intermediary animal the researchers visited the chinese city of one earlier this year where the virus was 1st detected. in the nation authorities say 2 suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside a church over the weekend were a newly married couple with suspected links to the so-called islamic state some 20 people were injured in the attack in self slow way to providence the wounded were attending mass to mark the start of easter. 2 people died in bangladesh when police there opened fire on protesters on sunday they were demonstrating against

a visit by the indian prime minister narendra modi critics accuse his hindu nationalist party of stoking religious tensions in india and anti muslim discrimination. now thousands of people have been fleeing northern mozambique after islamist militants captured the town of home over the weekend they've been using boats to reach the provincial capital pemba through dozens of people were killed in coordinated to harvest attacks aid agencies say up to $10000.00 people are waiting to be evacuated to safety from the economically important town which is home to a multi-billion dollar gas project. defense ministry says it's working to restore normality as if their. security forces reinforced their operational strategy to contain the terrorists criminal attacks and restore normality in parma . then. carried out of aeration actions and the last 3 days

focused primarily on the rescue of hundreds of national and foreign citizens protection of citizens and their property. from a photo i'm now joined by my child oh she's with the africa division at human rights watch miss machado thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us you know the situation on the ground very well what can you tell us about why this is happening now thank you so much for having me why the parma now is just a call nation of several attacks that took place over the past years in 5. we have seen over the past 2 years attacks that were was the one and taking place in. over the past 3 days i think the main difference is that these one for the 1st time there's also target foreigners not just muslims because nationals. and what we have

seen over the past 3 years is these groups that for the 1st time a player did not go but then did 17 it started by attacking village people. get them it moved to fly against security forces and now it seems that is they're into. things like it's done in parma which is a drive in the dow in c.j. berry including one in those where they expired or. communications with palma have been down for days now how is this affecting rescue efforts for those under siege. it depends not only the few but also on the process of has it if i independently some of the facts that we keep getting from sources especially because most of the information that is coming from of

them upon most of the information that we're getting from problem at this stage is coming from the government and to our display chansons where we only heard from the government twice and we haven't heard much why we keep hearing from people who are relatives of doors were trapped in power is that they haven't heard from them since wednesday because small lines were cut off has been particularly the people we were able to speak to on wednesday before the loans were odds we haven't been able to reach them the last time we spoke to them they were disputed trying to find places to hide they told though that they could see bodies laying on the streets they told that the gunmen were firing indiscriminately killing people attacking everything there was found on their way and tagging buildings including bound but i don't use and. infrastructure it's a horrifying picture here

a painting there let's look at a more broadly what implications could these developments have for mozambique. a lot of people are suggesting that these latest. economic investments that have coming into power as you might know my eyes now that there have been of the next oil and gas projects is one of the biggest private the 1st minutes in the continent we're talking about $60000000000.00 invested there and on the day of the attacks only top taliban now is that because resuming their t.v. it is up to he dealt up in the same boat also did you do attacks and the attack on bomber happened just after that announcement which seems to many as a summer sort of thing lost by these gunmen to the fact that.

he not hired by foot enough also will be their way of spreading propaganda because once you start targeting one of them you have the information and media focus on what you were doing which is i think what this book is the one thing for the past 3 years and it is not. everything say that i mean apart from the propaganda that you kill negative propaganda that mozambique we now that that is a that there is also an element of what do we want for the populations of those areas that are being invested as we speak right now we don't know where the population bomb are we don't know where they run to and the government hasn't been able to provide us with information about their whereabouts it means that we're going to have yet another town was a big that is completely deserted because people are but are no way of ghosts of violence and insecurity and it will be left only for the multinationals to operate there with their workers around free searchers and i know how much i know from the african division actually rights watch and can very much for it. thank you so much

. turkey's vaccination efforts got off to a rapid start and mid january when more than half a 1000000 people were inoculated in the 1st few days but the campaign has since slow down getting the vaccine to people in the country's fast back country requires special efforts that has one team of doctors literally climbing mountains our correspondent julie $100.00 ports from the province of baton and eastern turkey. almost 2000 meters high up in the mountains lies the village of today in eastern turkey a few 100 residents one street. and this is the doctor in charge of the coronavirus vaccinations here in the village. they need and i've been to a team come regularly many home visits require some serious climbing but they're almost used to it now. no coronavirus cases have been reported in 4 months

that's why some residents are skeptical about the doctor's visit but they know better out of this convinced that her commitment is important. people in the villages live close together if there is an infection here it will spread very quickly and many don't like coming to the hospitals in nearby towns so we have to come to them. for all of. our hard work well. just getting his 2nd dose today when the doctors 1st came here a few weeks ago he almost keep them out. i was afraid at 1st here in the village they said the doctors were coming to kill the old people or the elderly die from the vaccination i heard and because of that we were scared a lot giovanna boiling over. they never knows that there is

a lot of false information floating around she and her team often tell patients that they themselves have been vaccinated as have their grandparents. that doesn't convince everyone but it did convince ali kazak. your you know knowledge of geography i hardly felt anything it didn't hurt at all less than a bee sting. of your. turkey is a huge country and with vaccination campaigns like this the government hopes to show that it is taking care of everyone even here in the most remote areas and yet critics say that the turkish vaccination drive isn't progressing as smoothly as the authorities would like to portray it. the government recently ease turkey's strict carona measures restaurants are open again and significantly more people are out and about even in high risk cities like istanbul a fast vaccination rollout was supposed to make the reopening possible but it seems

that's exactly where efforts are now faltering the government originally promised to vaccinate 60 percent of the population by may. now they say it's going to be autumn and she had them coral john j. from the turkish medical association things even that is too optimistic. the ministry of health has lex transparency since the beginning of the pandemic how many doses of the vaccine will turkey get and when the public is not properly informed about any of this but it is clear that if we continue at the current rate we will need up to one and a half years to vaccinate everyone. thought. in the tin that it then of arab and her team have given the last vaccination for today the way back to their car is once again perilous. the doctors are responsible for 20 villages and as long as there are doses they won't run out of

work any time soon. the test events for the tokyo summer olympics will resume later this week for the 1st time since the games were postponed due to the pandemic the 18 remaining events function as dress rehearsals organizers have pledged to hold them in what they say will be a safe and secure manner they've unveiled virus counter measures including limiting contact and banning cheering the next test event will take place later this week ahead of the games in july. watching the w.'s i'm here is a reminder of our top story at this hour engineers have succeeded in setting free a container ship that had been blocking the suez canal for nearly a week authorities say shipping traffic has resumed the stock best time and holding up $9000000000.00 worth of global trade as day. up next with our science program tomorrow today with a look at the world blood plays in aging from more headlines can always check out

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suicide bombing there and fighter jets skirmishes they had almost gone to war but the 2 countries appear to be making an attempt to move on helped along by a cease fire agreement recently brokered by the united arab emirates both sides are making overtures. a communique of peace this letter circulating on social media is one purportedly sent by indian prime minister and the renter a modi has pakistani counterpart imran khan in it a wish for cordial relations with the people of pakistan the message of goodwill as described by pakistani officials on twitter came just days after modi wished khan a speedy recovery from covert 19 beast the 1st signs of reproach between the traditional rivals in 2 years. the flashpoint kashmir a region both india and pakistan claim fully control in part and each of these

parts divided by so-called line of control both armies regularly exchanged fire across this defacto border despite an 18 year old ceasefire agreement. tensions reached a high point in august 29000 when india decided to scrap the autonomous status of its part of kashmir. friends i have confidence that through this new step. we can all join together. and kashmir free of terrorism and separatism. india placed a state of jammu and kashmir under a strict lockdown internet and phone services were cut off. it's a pakistan india actions where sign of worse things to come. this action will not stop at kashmir.

tensions between the 2. priests incidents of firing across the line of control. some $7000.00 until february this year when both countries agreed to once again respect to cease fire. relations with pakistan you have always maintained that we are committed producing issues if any in a peaceful manner. a sentiment that was repeated some weeks later by pakistan's army chief who said it was time to quote bury the past and move forward. since then teams from both countries have made to discuss a water sharing pact the 1st such dialogue in 2 years. peace between both nations still remains elusive but there is hope that recent developments bring a world can change. joining us as shouts of jelani

shots why have india and pakistan decided to bring down the temperature now. that's a really good question but slightly difficult one to answer because you know the 2 countries have a long history of deep mistrust if you ask analysts in india davil take a cynical view and say that pakistan has run out of options to pressure india on kashmir its economy is suffering and it is desperate to try to improve relations with india now there is some truth to the fact that box towns economy is indeed hurting it is in debt inflation is high the i.m.f. suspended its program for a year it has just been restored buckstone has been under pressure by the financial action task force the international body that monitors terror financing and money

laundering so bug stands economic problems are huge but i think a more plausible reason would be the change in washington in the government the biden spirit administration is very keen to progress on of gonna stand it needs pakistan on its site budgets on and return once the us due to pressure india to improve relations and so there's a lot of signaling going on in the last month. by the 2 sides and that is a 5 year beginning to see an early signs of possible improvement well i guess it sounds like prognosticating is going to be a little difficult so i'm not sure how much you can answer but how likely then will we see the 2 sides continue down this path. so if you've observed the pattern in india pakistan relations this is something we have seen before. what we are seeing now is carefully choreographed statements from both sides buckstone

leadership talking about burying the past and reaching the hand of friendship the indian prime minister sending a letter of good will couple of days ago and then also reaching the pakistani prime minister well when he was diagnosed or for corona so they are exchanging basic go to seize. and there is on the line of control in kashmir for the last month or so so they are taking these baby steps to try to create an environment where they can gain some momentum to words in gauge moment the next thing to look at is a meeting in tajikistan to moreover the pakistani foreign minister and the indian foreign minister are there for hard official conference on afghanistan and there's an expectation that they meet their might meet on the sidelines they are playing it down they're saying nothing is should do for now but that's something to watch if

they indeed meet we might hear some more positive noises that's very interesting now you had mentioned the united states i want to bring in china pakistan and china have very close relations and last year india and china had a deadly border battle so how has china's relationship with both countries played a part in their decision to maintain friendlier relations now. so we know that the word china is a strategic partner of pakistan it has provided weapons in the past it is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure project in one belt one road. scheme in pakistan but in the last couple of years i would see the excitement about investing in pakistan has somewhat slowed down. a notch or 2 did a means to dziedzic partners india every time pakistan has scored with india in the un in the security council china has come to the rescue so that relationship

between china and pakistan is strong but at the same time johnno doesn't really want constant bickering involved between india and pakistan so it has tried to encourage bargain stand to dissolve its border dispute the dispute with india. i think that the india china border dispute which went on for a couple of months could have focused minds in india about not trying to open too many fronts. but i think for the most part china and pakistan partnership is very much intact now you talked a little bit about this earlier but can you say a little more about the domestic pressures driving both prime minister narendra modi and prime minister imran hung in this. so you know there's a belief in both the countries that. if peace is ever achieved between them it will be trued the hawks on both sides so at the moment we have a prime minister narendra modi who is

a hardline hindu nationalist. in india and pakistan we have the prime minister in iran hon but effectively the government and policy is run by the army and when the army chief in pakistan says we want to bury the past and we want to move forward with trade and other exciting opportunities that save a lot so there is clearly. opposition but in each country there's a strong push miti lobby in pakistan pakistan will want to see some movement on kashmir to try to take a leadership on board so they don't get a sense of being abandoned. but i think. india feels it can now engage with pakistan from a position of strength after having unilaterally effectively annexed meat and now august 1900 it feels it has got nothing to lose. shouts of jalopnik thank you so much for joining us.

it's monday the start of another week and when we all rather be on vacation then working well since travel has been especially difficult this pandemic year here at well at least take you on a visual if not actual trip to one very lavater island in south korea. no there's nothing wrong with your screen these islands really are purple from the purple roofs roads and bridges to the lavender fields and even the locals working in them. in the morning i dress up in purple from head to toe even including my underwear and shoes and it makes me happy when i go to other cities like most. people praise me as i am from the purple islands and i feel great about. terribly. inspired by native flower and

government tourism initiative residents of the bonn welcome back she islands in southwest korea have cleverly transformed their town's into a tourist attraction more than $4000000.00 u.s. dollars have gone into purpling up pretty much everything there are purple hotels and restaurants and there's even purple food. that. we couldn't travel overseas due to covert 19 so we thought about a local trip instead and we found these purple islands so i'm here with my friends and we're all dressed up in purple it's amazing and looks like fairy tales and magic as i'm seeing the grandmas are all wearing purple clothes to it's dreamy for . visitors who wear the magic color are allowed free entry to the islands they can stroll along the 3 purple foot bridges connecting the islands and if they get tired they can take a break on one of these benches i purple you was made popular by

a member of the k. pop band b.t.s. and something which attracts even more visitors. imo big b.t.s. fare and so there's many places around korea that i wanted to visit because of a connection with p.t.s. this was one place that i had seen online and i thought it was so beautiful and wanted to come and when i came it's true it's just as beautiful as in all the pictures and i didn't know that it even would have this year so it's really nice to see all these things as a fan little more than 100 people actually live on the purple islands and then mainly elderly farmers they say they're happy about the tourists now visiting their home even if some do were the wrong color. that's it from us today we leave you with pictures out of india and the annual hindu festival of colors we're back tomorrow see you then goodbye.

the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19. on t w. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word going to be legal nico using germany to cut. why not i'm with him for trying. to suss it's simple mind on your

mobile and free. music the learning course because free german made it easy. at 1st it seemed as if children were immune to stars cove 2 it was just adults who had to worry about getting sick but at least their kids were safe. where they. schools reopened after lock downs it became clear that children could not only carry but also spread the virus. then came the variance and with them a rapid rise of infections among younger children but some getting seriously ill. more children up you know admitted to hospital than before so are the new virus variants making kids sikka or are simply more children being infected than before.

it's not pleasant i'm doing that every day oh my well come to our coping 1000 special i want to get johns in berlin and schools here are currently closed for the easter holidays that means kids can catch the virus there at least for the next 2 weeks but what about meeting friends and family and how big is the risk for children anywhere well here's what we know so far. is there. have been. playing out. and the coronavirus it's supposedly harmless for them but is that true. a year

after the pandemic struck hospitals are reporting an increasing number of young admissions are suffering from the so-called pediatric inflammatory. system syndrome or pimms. worldwide doctors have seen this condition emerge weeks after a covert 1000 infection the w.h.o. keeps track of the severe illness in children and young people but says it's rare luckily children in adolescence tend to have more mild disease and even most children tend to have asymptomatic infection which means they don't have any symptoms at all. but since most children are asymptomatic it's hard to know when they're infected so the virus is transmitted easily off and it's completely undetectable some studies show. with children for antibodies against the corona virus and we found that around 6 times as many children have had the infection as would have been expected so don't do it. on

going on what you're seeing history shows us that children definitely do get infected and that they can take the infection home with them how's it going and so far nurseries and schools haven't been seen as covert hotspots but that may be about to change virus mutations like the b 117 variant which emerged in the u.k. are far more contagious amongst children as well scientists want to apply the same strict hygiene measures to them as for adults. the same rules smaller groups social distancing hygiene ventilation should apply there too. just like everywhere else only because children also contribute to the spread of the infection. and because the corona virus does pose a serious threat to some children vaccines are needed pharma giant pfizer and madonna have begun clinical studies in the us some on babies as young as 6 months but with initial results not expected before summer it'll be some time before

a safe vaccine is available for children. and for more i'm joined by yvonne a mild. nato she's an epidemiology just an infectious disease specialist at stanford school of mates in and she joins us from palo alto in california good morning to you good to have you with us please tell me how worried are you about the rise in infection numbers among children. yes it is a concern but we have to remember that it is still a case that world why that children do not make up a very large percentage of people who are infected with the virus for example here in the united states about 13 percent of voluntary actions are children under 18 it is true however that children can be infected they can become hospitalized and rarely children can die from the disease so we do have to be careful and in addition as you heard before children can become infected more likely without

symptoms so they can spread to other rest we have to remember that all our family members must mask and distance how big a role does the so-called british variant the 117 play when it comes to children well the b $17.00 variant is going to play a similar role in children as it will in any other age group and that it is this virus is more infectious so whatever we see in fact infections in children we're going to see more maybe 30 to 50 percent more infectious ness of that virus in children as well as adults but subtle make them basically at those search does it also make them sick it because we see more children hospitalized now yet we don't know that if that's the case just for children we have seen data for the 1st here are that the 170 seem to cause more severe illness but most of those data came from adults we don't know yet about children i haven't seen enough data there right now

i know that you and your colleagues working on a code 916 suitable for children how will that vaccine differ from the ones already available for adults. well we know that pfizer journal and johnson and johnson will be using their vaccines for children and we're going to be starting in another few weeks to use the pfizer vaccine here at stanford and then maybe johnson and johnson after that and my journey as also their start of their trials the doses will be starting off with smaller doses to see if they produce any allergic reactions for example and say make sure that they're safe and if they are the dosage dosing will be increased potentially to the same level as adults are receiving and there's a different timeline understand for adolescents and to smaller children could you just briefly tell us when we can expect the vaccine for adolescents and then in particular for fatah to listen perhaps even babies. yes so by your back seen here

in the united states received emergency approval for 16 and 17 year old so we we imagine that for major now and johnson and johnson there may be approval for 16 and 17 year olds for their vaccines hopefully by this fall but for younger children that is those say 122-155-2128 may take longer maybe later this fall certainly for the little 16 months of age to 2 years we don't expect that scene will be available all the trials will be going on this year probably won't see any available approvals until 2022 right i mean i know that it's a bit of a nasty question but do we actually need a vaccine for children given that the w.h.o. stresses that most children infected with the coronavirus are asymptomatic. well you know there are 130000000. births a year and this world and we know that children are

a big proportion of our family members that can go out of the house and become infected so we think that children are as important as adults and be protected for their own health as well as for prevention of transmitting this virus in households in all around the world so yes absolutely it is critical that children become vaccinated but we need the vaccines to be as safe and effective as possible and just briefly in the meantime what's your advice for worried parents. yes i think that the same advice should hold true now as it did a year ago if we know that children should be monitored for safety again and. not going out in crowds making sure that children can wear masks children over 2 years old can easily wear masks they're very safe and to live years above and just unseen and they're still important and that age group as well

. the native from stanford school of medicine thank you so much thank you very much . may i ask you a question did you catch cold this winter come down with the flu no well over to derek and one of your questions now. what happened with flu in the 2021 winter season. a huge fear of going into this winter in the northern hemisphere was potentially having to deal with with waves of coded and flu at the same time this sort of dreaded twin demick that would put health care systems under even more pressure and and one of the most positive things you can say about how things actually developed is that those fears never materialized in fact a flu infections worldwide have fallen so far during the pandemic that it's kind of hard to find the right adjective to describe the trend but it's staggering maybe

look at this graphic on the topic from the w.h.o. for a minute i'm on the left hand side you see the numbers of confirmed cases of flu back in early 2020 when those lockdowns happened everywhere back in march and april the numbers nosedive and they've remained at truly historical lows ever since most experts think this dramatic drop as do largely to measures like mask wearing and and social distancing implemented during the pandemic but i can hear you saying well if those measures worked so well against flu viruses why have they proven so much less effective against sars kovi to at least part of the reason could be that influenza viruses were already endemic on a global scale sort of migrating if you can really use that term of the virus between the northern and southern hemispheres in a in

a regular winter season rhythm so when killed 19 hit a year ago lots of people had some immunity to the flu. because they've had it fairly recently then another significant slice of the population has since acquired some immunity from flu vaccines many scientists if the arise that that throwing 'd social distancing and frequent hand washing and masks into that mix possibly put flu viruses over a critical transmission threshold one where they they simply can't spread effectively but even today relatively few people globally have acquired any protection from sars kochi to do infection or vaccination so it can spread effectively at least that's the working hypothesis and a significant turnaround for the country which at one point had the highest death rate in the wilts. the united kingdom says it's already administered at least one

dose of its coded vaccine to over 30000000 people that's close to 60 percent of the adult population and we leave you with these pictures thanks for watching.

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