and young people clearly have the phoenicians to do just. that in the 70 percent now. on d w. this is e w news and these are our top stories germany is halting the use of astra zeneca as corona virus vaccine for people under 60 years old health officials say there are new concerns over unusual blood clots in a small number of cases people under 60 can still decide to take the vaccine it's only off the medical consultation. and international donor conference raising money for the millions of syrians suffering extreme poverty has failed to

meet its targets virtual talks held by the united nations and the european union raised 5 and a half 1000000000 euros that's 3000000000 less than hoped for. and the rubbish is piling up on the streets of me and mars main city young gong pro-democracy activists have staged a garbage strike against the military regime more than 500 people have been killed since the on this is power 2 months ago and removed the elected government. this is news from the land you can follow us on twitter and facebook or simply go to our website w dot com. you're bored. the united states leads the world in banks of nations against the corona virus but

it may not be enough to stop a new surge of infections president biden is calling on states to reinstate mask mandates and pleading with people to remain vigilant here in europe the astra zeneca shot is becoming the disaster of zeneca tsonga possible side effects prompting germany to ban the vaccine for all people under the age of 60 as vaccination drives remain slow the message tonight better to be safe and late then sick and sore i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. because of that for the people of europe right now that i hope that they can get that rolling out the way we are here and i feel sort of the. earth is exciting coming to the end. of the road. and i'm going to work on

the brain killing i have. we also have so much to be sorry for. nearly 1000 americans dead are still dying from copd not to. as we approach 550000 deaths. also coming up at last year both gary as prime minister faced angry protesters demanding an end to his mafia government this year the prime minister and government remain instead of marching protesters are heading for the ballot box now gary is gearing up for an unprecedented election with new parties and alliances. but according to the polls all of them fall short of a parliamentary majority and then there is voter apathy only 45 percent of all bulgarians who walk

a little to vote have indicated their willingness to do so. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the persisting perils of the pandemic here in europe the number of new infections continues to rise at a warming read at a french hospital doctors have now discovered another variant of the corona virus that may be more resistant to vaccines italy is now requiring all visitors coming from european countries to self isolate for 5 days and today germany banned the astra zeneca vaccine for people under the age of 60 signing fears over possible side effects on the other side of the atlantic there is more reason to hope and more reasons why that hope may soon be dead despite administering more than $2000000.00 shots per day the u.s. is facing yet another surge in infections and it comes as many states lift

restrictions including those all important facemask mandates last night the dangers facing the u.s. were evident in the face of the woman who leads the centers for disease control take a listen and i'm going to reflect on the claim feeling i have you know we have asked so much to look forward to some of the promise of virtue and some of where we are and so much reason for hope all right now i'm scared we have come such a long way really historic scientific breakthrough and i asked him and we are rolling him our very fast. and so i'm asking you to just hold on a little longer to get vaccinated when you can so that all of those people that ryall mom will still be here when this you have done it and well siena over the last week or so is a steady rise and she says what we've seen before is that things really have

a tendency just searched and searched and bruno the travelers up and i just worry that we will see the surges that unsolvable summer animal and are again. you know the head of the c.d.c. they're obviously very worried about the situation in the u.s. the u.s. we have to say is one of the world's leading nations when it comes to vaccinations against the corona virus early in the pandemic the u.s. took a gamble in order to a large number of vaccines that were in early trials that gamble paid all the vaccines turned out to be very effective and the u.s. has a population of $328000000.00 already 20 percent of adults are now fully vaccinated that's $52000000.00 people and that includes nearly half of americans over the age of $65.00 and to give you a comparison across the european union only 5.3 percent of adults have received both shots president biden expects to have enough vaccine doses available to all u.s. adults in just 3 weeks from now biden saying as soon as everyone in the u.s.

has had a chance to be inoculated america will begin sharing it surplus shots with other countries all over salad has more. at a university campus in los angeles u.s. army soldiers are now fighting an invisible enemy their weapons of choice a syringe is loaded with a bio and take pfizer vaccine. below. the site today since then right you have your little car and all the items i just find it. debbie share is about to receive her 2nd shot on. she is now one of the around 50000000 fully vaccinated americans makes me feel very grateful that we here i mean of course we had the worst response really initially and now we're having the best backfill response but

because of that for the people in europe right now that i hope that they can get go rolling out the way we are here. but that the nation. site at california state university is one of the largest in the u.s. sergeant lewis herrera and his comrades who have been deployed to overseas missions like afghanistan are administering up to a 1000 shots per day all right all the other day i'm very proud to be selected as a member to come out here and do this because at the end of the day we volunteered to protect our country to protect the people within it so if it includes administering vaccines and providing medical care that's what we do we're here to accomplish that mission at the united states have come a long way in this pandemic from the world's hardest hit country to one of the fastest nations in administering the vaccine a pragmatic rollout is one reason a new kind of vaccine nationalism is another one president biden vald that at this

pace there could be enough vaccines for every american by the end of may a little bit about what. the federal emergency management agency takes pride in this new cooperation between the u.s. army national guard and her own authority it is very historic because the federal government f.e.m.a. has never done a vaccination site so this is a truly whole government approach we're working to get our partnership to make sure that this runs us movie as possible that people get in and out when they come here that they're not waiting a very long time and their experience is a good one. while the speedy rollout brings relief for many americans critics say the lack of exports to developing countries might cause new problems in the fight against coal that 19. and my 1st guest tonight is a political science professor who says this pandemic is revealing why foreign

policy and helps diplomacy or help policy should go hand in hand to the. teachers at the university of minnesota it was her paper in title health diplomacy in pandemic times that caught our attention i'm happy to welcome professor for his all to the program professor it's good to have you with us maybe you can sort of help by telling us what do you mean exactly when you're talking about health diplomacy thanks for having me on today i want to talk about health diplomacy i think of it as international aid or cooperation and that is being used for one of 2 main purposes either with the am of promoting health globally or locally or are to promote foreign policy and we're seeing health diplomacy used for both purposes sometimes at the same time but sometimes not plenty during 1010 demick and how do vaccinations how do they fit into this know that the united states and the u.k.

they've been accused of vaccine nationalism. well if a vaccine nationalism we mean prioritizing your own population for a vaccine against then yes that's certainly what we're seeing in the case of the united states and also the united kingdom from a global health perspective this is of course quite problematic here i think it's really interesting to think about the call from dr tadros who is the director general of the world health organization and he made a suggestion a number of months back that country is that might have enough vaccine and to vaccinate their own health workers should then prioritize instead of their own the rest of their population naxa needing health workers globally and he saw this as a way of excel or aiding the end of the pandemic on a global scale but of course from a political perspective this would be not only challenging but i think also infeasible domestically for leaders of country is that have developed and produced

the is fact be really hard not to focus politically on vaccinating your own population but also as you were just discussing a moment ago both the u.s. and the u.k. despite being very rich countries have done exceptionally poorly in terms of their response to it but to cut it 19 and so you know there there is i suppose a public health argument for focusing on vaccine in countries that have had the highest disease burden but by that logic you would see much more vaccine going to countries like brazil which is not something that you see today what do. what do they do in this situation. well poor countries have if insofar as they're canning vaccinated or getting vaccine at all they're getting them from a couple of sources one is through kovacs which is the world health organization's that scene facility and that is primarily i think serving the poorest countries in

the world countries that are maybe one or 2 rungs up on the economic ladder the lower middle income and some middle income country is are increasingly getting their vaccine ends found china and part of the reason for that is just supply and demand the astra zeneca fazer and the derna vaccine and are not really being made available to these countries and in some ways this is actually quite it's problematic in the sense that chinese banks and sign a farm send it back and can see no i haven't received the same kind of public that ng and period you know as the vaccines that were developed in the united states and in europe and even again a lot of action vaccine has been peer reviewed in the lancet right now yeah this is a very good point to make you right that the world needs a stronger multilateral health policy help helps diplomacy system with a pandemic has shown us that very vividly about a quote from the paper that you wrote where you're talking about the world health

organization and this is what you write the world it rose to the challenge of sars with unprecedented scientific collaboration in public health determination in coordinating the global response to w.h.o. aimed at the outset to help contain transmission in affected countries sealed off opportunities for further international spread and prevent sars from becoming in demick we can not say this today can we were talking about the w.h.o. and this pandemic. you know we cannot the w.h.o. has not certainly the impression and the world has gotten and i think there's a lot of accuracy to this is that the w.h.o. has not gotten such high marks and 20202021 as it might have been given in 20 in 2003 during the sars epidemic that i think that there are a couple of reasons for this that we would want to keep in mind the 1st is that the

w.h.o. is in a different place today than it was in 2003 in some ways i think the expectations and certainly the capacity is a w h o we're lower than and so it was it had maybe a lower bar to meet and today the bar is a little bit higher but at the same time i think that are often times our expectations of the w.h.o. are too high it is of course the major international institution that is supposed to address global health but it is also an intergovernmental organisation its members are states and states are jealous of their sovereignty so they're not going to be very excited about giving the w.h.o. a lot of power to surveil their population and their health data reporting practices as we've seen during the cove in $1000.00 pandemic so i think we want to be careful about how how realistic our expectations are of what the w.h.o. can do ok so the issue of his all political science professor at the university of minnesota professor we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you it's

been a pleasure. org ariens chanting mafia of state and down with the government thousands of protesters of all ages across the country took to the streets last year demanding that the incumbent prime minister boyko burra solve his cabinet and the chief prosecutor resign over corruption allegations that did not happen or solve survive the protest and the protesters what did they achieve our correspondent funny for char reports tonight from sofia as bulgaria is gearing up for parliamentary elections this coming sunday april 4th this figure is turning heads in bulgaria's capital sofia a new opposition party called rise up muffy out ridiculing prime minister body self many here consider him in corrie gibli corrupt as does dimiter dimitroff an

activist in his twenty's we meet him in front of bulgaria sprawling in building which used to be the house of the communist party that iran is long gone but autocratic rule is still present he says fortunately is a captured state institutions and the people working inside them do not serve the interest of the citizens but the interests of. the all the guards are all this demented joint thousands of others in nationwide anti government protests last year they took to the streets to express their frustration over politicians when rich themselves disregard the rule of law and protect powerful tycoons at the center of the corruption allegations of head of the ruling party he survived the protests. and the protesters the protests energy died oh both the protest. short europe and the world the real face of our prime minister who sleeves next to

a pile of gold of hundreds of euro and a good on his bet now bulgaria is gearing up for an unprecedented election with new parties and alliances. but according to the polls all of them fall short of a parliamentary majority and then there is voter apathy only 45 percent of all bulgarians who are eligible to vote have indicated their willingness to do so whom to vote for a debate over a cup of tea even an autonomous they too called for the resignation of body self and his cabinet last year they too dreamed of change but there was no their act out . it's like saying the home make for change is fair but like nothing had happened. appointing us and also

a lot of people from the political parties go to protests and kind of. tried to take adventure vantage a body self and his party get reelected they say they've considered leaving bulgaria for good but the country has already seen many of its educated youth leave in the past and the method he says he wants to stay he decided to turn his anger into politics and he's now running as a candidate for an opposition alliance called democratic bill garia hoping to reenergize the protesters that no longer come to this square. well for more tonight i'm joined by peter she's a political scientist and sociologist in sofia he is the author of ethnic entrepreneurs' unmasked political institutions and ethnic conflicts in contemporary area mr jellicoe of it's good to have you with us tonight the report the report. good evening to you the report that we just saw it paints

a bleak picture the activist calls bulgaria a captured state who have stolen. well i don't think the exact there moved me to say that the country has been stolen. your state or state capture isn't there in political science which means basically a dead situations of the state are not working nor serving the public good but their work as far as interests and all the guard is concerned saw that we catholics systematic corruption in the country so i think while the myth of seth one of the people who have been interviewed at these actually correct now who has stolen it it's a rather big topic but we can say that the political elite which is ruling well gary which includes according to. according to the official data the core of the ruling party and will get to get it according as well the last results of the

parliamentary elections we had a party like m r f which is not officially a member of the government but the part which has a serious effects on the government we can say that politicians from this political party form sort of only garko orkneys the reason indication of done i'd like you to take a listen to what the nato secretary general un stoltenberg had to say this week take a listen we fully supports the efforts by bulgaria to tackle russia's malign activities on its territory i think what you see in bulgaria is is a pattern of russian behavior where they try to undermine. our democratic institutions to fit in and domestic ample it takes and we know that the fia has expelled a string of russian diplomats for spying can you tell us how pervasive is vladimir putin's influence in your country. well i can give you some data which i think will

be quite enlightening from 2080 there has been a all which indicating that 70 percent of bulgarians like russian president vladimir putin this is an exact or so we can say that russia is russian president are very popular in bulgaria according to the same poll 37 percent of the bulgarians are actually in favor of an autocratic government and only 42 percent are in favor of democracy so i'll say that this type of strong can't all 3 terran role is quite popular in bulgaria but just to get some other qualification and insight so that we can have the official report on the rise of human rights in bulgaria by the american department of state which has been very critical actually of bulgaria talking about. strong dependence since as far as the judicial system is concerned sold and there is systematic bias in the operation the judicial system

there has been censorship as well in the media and this report is and also criticizing the state of human rights in bulgaria not only in general but talking directly about police brutality in particular police brutality against their government brought this the protests there which were active in the summer of 2028 and then just a final note a famous british political scientist of course called mark not at all he says that corruption is the strongest ally of russia in the balkans and he will get i've got the systematic problem with corruption according to transparency international is constantly run as the most corrupt state and european union let me ask you before we run out of time there's one study that says between 5 and 19 percent of votes in bulgaria's elections are bought people get money favors even 3rd in return for

their vote. is bogus true democracy. i would said quite far away from democratic i do i don't think anywhere in the world you can see a true democracy as it is that because in the books but we're more i think going in the direction of the retailer and no 3 terran regime that is. is suggesting it's place ok mr pitts to look off political scientists and sociologists joining us tonight from sophia we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you where the world hasn't seen or heard much from a former u.s. president trump since he left office twitter and facebook permanently banned him after the january 6th insurrection at the u.s. capitol those 2 platforms were trump's direct line of communication to his base and to the world so what's a former commander in chief without

a platform to do well create his own platform and that is exactly what trump and the former 1st lady milan you have done this week they launched a website that celebrates the 45th president of the united states and it does it in typical trump style which means a history told as donald trump wants it to be told or give you an example one paragraph reads when the coronavirus played a ride from china afflicting every nation around the globe president trump began refilling the country's depleted stockpiles of medical supply. now the bite and ministration says that when it it took power from trump it found stockpiles of medical supplies that were completely empty. well the day is nearly done the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or you can follow me at brit goth t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we're going to leave you now with one of japan's most famous sites the annual blossoming

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