discovery. 6 my. documentary. this is e w news and these are our top stories germany is halting the use of astra zeneca 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 target virtual talks held by the united nations and the european union raised 5 and a half 1000000000 euros that's 3000000000 less than hopeful. and rubbish is piling up on the streets of me and mars main city young gong pro-democracy activists have staged or got that strike against the military regime more than 500 people have been killed since the army seized power 2 months ago and removed the elected government. this is news from the end you can follow us on twitter and facebook or simply go to a website w dot com. or . oracle or. 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 disasters it is 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 sorry i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. because of that for the people in europe bring out and i hope that they can get it rolling out of the way we are here and i feel sort of. excited that coming here. it's not. that i'm going to work on the brain yelling help.

but also so much to be sorry for. nearly 1000 americans a day are still trying to cope tonight. as we approach 550000 test to see clique. also coming up at last year both gary is 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 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 sua illegitimate 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 claims feeling i have. we have so much to look forward to some i do promise of bricks and solid where we are and so much reason for hope right now i'm scared we have come such a long way great historic scientific breakthrough for him back in 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 what we've seen on the over the last week or so is a steady rise of what we've seen before is that things really have

a tendency to search and search farai know that travel a lot and i just worry that we will see the surges that unsolvable summer animal and there 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 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 its 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 they already have a little card for the items i just they're finding. debbie share is about to receive her 2nd shot at no one. 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 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. the vaccination. 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 although. 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 back to nation 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 that 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 phones all teachers at the university of minnesota it was her paper in title health diplomacy impaired difficult 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 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 tearing 1000 and an act 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 ends 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 that sedating 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 he is taxi and he would 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 we see today what do. what do they do in this situation. well poor countries have if insofar as they're counting 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 son 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 dairy novak's cnn's 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 sign of acting can see you know having received the same kind of public betting and peer review as the vaccines that were developed in the united states and in europe and even chemically of the vegetation vaccine has been peer reviewed in the lancet right now yes that's a very good point to make you right that the world needs a stronger multilateral health policy help helps diplomacy system where the pandemic has shown is 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 to 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. no we cannot the w.h.o. has not there's 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 to be a lower bar to meet and today the bar is a little bit higher but at the same time i think that our heads 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 and during the cove in $1000.00 pandemics 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. vogue 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 or a 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 mafia out ridiculing prime minister 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 and 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 garia is a captured state institutions and the people working inside them do not serve the interest of the citizens but the interest of. the all the guards around 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 protest 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 for 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 what he saw and his cabinet last year they too dreamed of change but there was no their act. so it's like saying the home like for change is fair but like nothing had happened also when disappointing us and also

a lot of people from the political parties go to protests and kind of. try to take adventure advantage of what he softened 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. for more tonight i'm joined by peter chillicothe he'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 joe acaba it's good to have you with us tonight the very poor the reporting from 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 institutions of the state are not working now nor serving the public good but their work as far as interests and all the god is concerned saw that we catholics systematic corruption in the country so i think while the myth of said one of the people who have been interviewed it isn't actually correct not who has stolen it it's a rather big topic but we can say that the political elite which is ruling bulgaria which includes according to well according to official data of course the ruling party and will get together 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 the politicians from this would party form sort of only garko or at least the risk indication of done and i'd like me to take a listen to what the nato secretary general yang bag 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 is in bulgaria is is a pattern of russian behavior where they try to undermine. our democratic institutions and to fit in in domestic ample it takes and we know that i'm cynthia 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 an ally think from 2080 there has been all which indicating that 70 percent of bulgarians like russian president vladimir putin this is an exact there so we can say that russians 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 today we 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 dependences as far as the judicial system is concerned so than there is systematic bias in the

operation the judicial system there has been censorship as well in the media. this report is also criticizing the state of human rights in bulgaria not only in general but the uk in directly about police brutality in particular police brutality against their government brought this protests there which you are active in the summer of 2028 and then just a final note a famous british political scientists 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 is one study that says between 5 and 19 percent of votes in bulgaria elections are bought people get money favors even sued in return for

their vote. is vogue area a true democracy. i would said they're quite far away from democratic i do you i don't think anywhere in the world you can see a true democracy as it is that because the books but we're more i think going in the direction of the retailer and no 3 terran regime it is will do anything is suggesting to place ok mr page to look off political scientists and sociologists joining us tonight from sophia we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you for 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 of the u.s. capitol those 2 platforms were trumps direct line of communication to his base and to the world so what so 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 watched 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 i give you an example one paragraph reads when the coronavirus plague arrived from china afflicting every nation around the globe president trump began refilling the country's depleted stockpiles of medical supplies. now the biden administration 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 go off 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

of the cherry trees it's been getting earlier for years scientists blame climate change experts calculate that this year's peak bloom is the earliest in more than a 1000 years. now my.

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visionary architects. all of which raises a central question who will actually be able to afford to live in the city of the future according to the i.m.f. sql lobel house price index over the past 20 years prices have risen and risen with a small dip just after the financial crisis. over the last 10 years the cost of many essentials in o.e.c.d. countries has gone down food for example leisure activities closing. others meanwhile the state constant like transportation costs and health. but rents and mortgage repayments have become significantly higher. housing is becoming increasingly on affordable for many and yet it's a basic human rights as laid out in article 11 of the un's covenant on social rights the state parties to the present government to recognize the right of

everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family including adequate food clothing and housing. we met an activist who never tires of or my. ending society of the us. the world cities are drawing people like magnets. but living in urban centers is often an affordable rising housing costs have become a flash point. the global real estate market has long since become disconnected from its function of providing people with places to live real estate is an investment a commodity an object of speculation of profit. in germany alone 2000000 apartments of homes stand empty that just speculative investments. lunny

far says the system is flawed until recently the canadian was the un special rapporteur on adequate housing. she features in a recent documentary which shows her as she travels the world to get to the bottom of the housing crisis. she speaks with politicians investors tenants associations and with people experiencing displacement or a vixen speculate her un mandate ended in april 2020. is still pursuing the issue she now runs her own organization from her home in ottawa . the right adequate housing is the right to live somewhere with peace security and dignity and i actually think it's probably the most pressing social issue facing cities for sure around the world. says adequate

housing is a human right something politicians often don't realize and investors often ignore the home for everyone affordable of a decent size and location. in the film found discusses with experts why this right is being destroyed. more and more. you have human rights obligations and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own but i see insults with bark and they deploy the law in ways that work that stuff is happening and how. we ask arrived at a moment when there isn't gaping holes. in our system. in. most of our major international systems or don't take the individual so seriously.

this is billings crites back district lively cosmopolitan in the center of the city it's especially popular with young people it's also changing for instance number 83 runners tosser was recently bought by an investor. but none of the tenants know what his plans are. carlos martinez originally from the united states lives here with his wife and children. that $75.00 square metre flat has 2 rooms the kitchen and the bathroom. they pay less than $10.00 euros per square metre heat included that's not cheap for. the family is happy here. we know the people in the neighborhood we've seen their children grow up and now we have our own children and we. we just would like to

stay here. will the new owner renovate the building raise the rents and put the individual apartments up for sale that's a common strategy the courtyard has become a meeting place everyone here is worried will they be forced to leave their neighborhood like so many others in berlin. the building's previous owner who passed away in 2016 didn't want the building to be sold but his will was declared invalid due to formal irregularities of the building eventual he ended up on the open market. it was bought by henry coles or a norwegian investor and director of a network of companies didn't answer our requests for an interview. rebecca bushnell has lived here for more than 30 years and has seen her neighborhood transformed not very nice of course he'll raise the rents as much as he possibly can they always raise it to the maximum until it heads in

a turbo capitalistic fashion. for me that means that soon when i say i'll be gentrified out of here. the whole business model is based on the idea of taking square metres of living space and you have i mean this is how they're thinking square meters of living space and squeezing every square meter as much profit as they can so that is the extractive industry of high finance that has moved into an area that happens to be in fact a human right and that's the rub. the residents of the apartment building in crisis back are ready to put up a fight they've named the activist group in memory of really their former landlord . at housing demonstrations they march with tenants from other buildings facing the same situation. for draining sport says this process of just. basement

is really an anonymous one it simply happens one building after the next is brought up on the street the tenants are squeezed out on the outside it's not visible at all unless people get organized. learning farces much more public debate is needed as well as pressure on politicians and investors including legal action. will that work. can the real estate sector change its thinking and approach. i never think about. that it's not possible i think because what is stronger than human rights i believe in the strength of human rights against all of the these are just human beings with greed so i'm on the winning side here that's for sure that that's for sure.

of course no one knows exactly what the cities of the future will be like though one thing's certain they'll be felt the un says that by 2052 thirds of the global population will live in cities traffic streams of commuters pollution some big solutions and needed the smart city model could be one of them such cities a digitally organized and highly efficient and there are already places offering a taste of this future kioto in japan and some dough in south korea. the south korean capital seoul is a teeming metropolis of 10000000 a finance hub and its center for the arts there's plenty of tradition here but not much scope for large scale urban development. that's taking place 40 kilometers to the west some go international business district is being built from the ground up

on 6th where kilometers of reclaimed land. it's been billed as the smart city of the 21st century and your body's pioneering work on the part of architects construction companies environmental and high tech firms and computer network experts. this model city is overseen and run by a giant computer system it's the brains of the city all public buildings and homes are equipped with digital sensors and controls that can be operated remotely and are monitored centrally. sensors relay rooms temperature and energy it's all being tracked and can be adjusted individual that residents can monitor and reduce their consumption miscible staff can optimize the use of resources. they see power consumption at every note and can match

production to demand. the garbage disposal system is also extremely clever trash from apartment buildings and offices travels via chutes and pipes straight to processing plants. the system regulates who may discard what kind of garbage at what time. this smart city only functions thanks to the digital networking recorders monitoring isn't there also a risk of unwanted surveillance. of personal data could prove to be the most valuable product generated in a smart city becomes they are the basis for targeted information or advertising. in kyoto japan u.s. technology group cisco is working on smart city solutions. managing the flows of tourists to landmarks across the beautiful old city. and

energy saving streetlights that only get brighter when people are nearby for all this to work people's behavior and movements have to be captured with the help of surveillance cameras. but what if facial recognition software were added to the mix and if interactive information panels were to collect data to generate profiles of particular individuals smart city technology should make people's lives easier and better but we have to make sure it doesn't meet to total surveillance and control. technology is the one saying there's also new architecture today's housing policies are often about getting apartments built as quickly and cheaply as possible to get a handle on the acute shortage of them that so many architects st pete seem that elevation they want sustainable buildings and a radical rethinking of priorities. the new delhi skyline is

a mixture of modern skyscrapers and energy intensive poorly designed constructions carbon emissions from buildings are often neglected in the climate debate but in india buildings alone and the construction are said to contribute up to 40 percent of energy related carbon emissions. architect has been designing sustainable functional buildings for over 20 years. he says they're more urgently needed than ever but there are still a lot of misconceptions about what green building design really means. the biggest myth that people believe that a green home is one that has a lot of green plants you put in a lot of. law and it becomes green which is not so in the green building it's actually green because it respects nature and it's. kind of uses the replenishable sources resources and reduces restated reduces consumption

and we recycle a lot of materials. one of the world's designs in new delhi is famous for being india's 1st 5 star rated green residential building called green one it's been certified by the research and policy organization the energy and resources institute. large windows provide lots of natural light while double glazing a relatively new feature in india insulates the building keeping it cool in india's hot summer. the building also generates renewable energy and harvests rainwater. it's able to capture 75 percent of its was in needs and also saves lots of electricity. it costs more to build this way but these features pay off over time. i think it is still worth it if you spend

10 percent more or 15 percent more and after 5 years it pays for itself and then after that it runs virtually free of cost and you are giving back to the future generations you're giving back to the environment we're now coming into the concept of you know 0 carbon exit or buildings which are going to you know give back more than they consume i think that's the need of the are right now. the moment in india has around $1400000.00 modern homes built with the green concept which amounts to less than 5 percent of all residential properties. the indian green building council hopes to take this number to 10 percent in the next 2 years and.