why we're the 1st to know i don't know is a very good vaccine development typically takes you it's. and he does not feel comfortable getting the vaccine then just pushed out so quickly he believes many others in india also prefer to wait and watch. and the low turnouts and lack of long queues attacks in mission centers seem to be proving him. india is lagging behind its axing mission targets which could be riots the country has now made the vaccine available to everyone above the age of 45 another reason could be to counter vaccine based in a meeting with state leaders as prime minister marry into more the emphasize the need to talk to the east of vaccine doses. we must take the problem of lack seem very serious. every back scene based it is also a waste of someone's right to vaccination we cannot destroy someone's rights that. may bring it to predation the high rates of vaccines being wasted part of the

problem lies in the parish ability of the vaccines each vaccine vial has tended. and once opened they must be used up within 4 hours if 10 people don't want to show up within that period. the remaining doses must be started. on. vaccination centers like this one c. there are simple beast account of east we only open the bible when we have people waiting to be vaccinated some people call their friends so we call those who did just that but couldn't get a vaccine that we would make sure we have enough. people under $45.00 and not officially eligible for inoculation opinions are divided on whether they would take the job vendetta and come. people might each can't keep waiting for the vaccine we can also get covered we should all get vaccinated as soon as possible but. we are

young and i'm going 5. so there's no need for over. once my is comes into that. figure we're going in. for now the government is hoping for a big surge in the number. vaccinations and has put its exports on hold a stop raise in daily infections me just cause a shift in go in india's vaccines. that report from did a while and she joins us from delhi with more on the story. does india have enough doses to really ramp up vaccinations even more so i mean the government definitely . does not vaccinate everyone intelligible we need to do is this and it is credence to the scheme by the fact that india has gotten its exports the astra zeneca vaccine manufactured of the sentiment stude of

india 21 ordered a lot the last over the last week especially and this is an up this is seen as an action and as of india's one we had cases to date that turn out after our missions and as has already been deported asked was do with everybody about $45.00 is being vaccinated in addition the government has also announced today that too loud what private and public vaccinations and does today mean off leash knows all too and he is into what he wanted to do another full of stores a vaccination for the nation you mentioned this surge in infections what does lead to this increase in cases right now. that's only one of the usual suspects of course that there's been a stack and in there the cautions been taken by the public are out and about there on the destruction that have been gatherings but again this was also true in

previous ones and in guess on average case of latchkey strays i don't turn count as going back to yesterday when in the us local the 70000 pieces off don't want to put another choice is that the issuance may now we're going to be and that busy meat caused last boss to spread because of all communications that have been found have been seen as more defections and we've seen that the surge also seems to have international implications as well or what can you tell us about that but one of the key aspects of the u.s. vaccine drive has been its vaccine diplomacy india launched its vaccine. friendship program over the last couple of months in its mortared and even don't need it millions of however the country has put these exports unquote and this is impacting the un's and on the world about how does me back to try it specially in order countries as india is appointed judge which watch abused of these countries for

example and me when the dr was gone times to 1000000 asked and of those is donated by india and that seems like it's gotten to you on board and people who go to the fullest oh i'm sure when they get the 2nd job because it's but she's a little too willing to assist or do india haven't. did as well reporting there from delhi thank you so much. now france will close down schools for 3 weeks to fight a rapid spread in corona virus cases president warned that the authorities risk losing control of action is not taken parliament is debating the new measures include a nationwide curfew and a one month ban on domestic travel the infection rate is surging with almost $60000.00 new cases reported in the past day. intensive care units in hospitals all over france are running out of free beds at this medical

center an hour north of paris their i.c.u. is full and they've been forced to add temporary beds to cope. feel this wave hitting us hard and we're hanging on people need to be warned that they should not gather we had a mother and her son die at the same time in 2 different intensive care rooms all because of a family gathering it's unbearable for us it's a very difficult situation to manage. spring weather has drawn people on to the streets despite the dramatic surge in covert 1000 cases images like these led medical experts to demand stricter measures and the government responded schools are nonessential shops will close and domestic travel is banned. presently man or mccrum pleaded for cooperation.

in the coming months each one of us must make an extra effort this is what i ask of us collectively this evening. mccraw also promised to increase the number of i.c.u. beds from the current 7000 to more than 10000. and to speed up the sluggish vaccination program across the country unlike his european neighbors didn't tighten restrictions when numbers dramatically increased in january. i think it's a good idea because something has to be done. because the situation in the hospitals . is very concerning specially for doctors so i think he had to do something. probably maybe not enough because people still go out during the day. these measures should have been taken in january when it wasn't as sunny as now should have anticipated this. this would be effective at all especially as the

french are sick of all these contradictory measures with regarding how far away from your home you're allowed to be. a document or not or for just those you want to put the place you want to put up with the latest lockdown will be in place for at least a month mccraw hopes to reopen some cultural venues even restaurants and cafes by mid may. in me and mar the junta is further tightening its grip deposed leader aung san suu kyi she has been charged with violating the country's colonial secrets act according to her lawyer this comes as the un special envoy for me and maher warned of a possible civil war amid intensifying clashes between the army and ethnic minority insurgents since the military staged a coup 2 months ago crowds have gathered daily defying the regime's violent crackdown which more than 535 people have died in neighboring thailand has called

for an end to the violence. let's talk more about the situation in myanmar right now with david he is an activist and he's joining us from the city of mandalay and we're not using david's full name in order to protect his identity david we mentioned the violence has been escalating for weeks now what more can you tell us about what you have been observing on the ground where you are. oh. i just happen to be able lawyers are this often do 2 or 3 pm and what i saw was astonishing and quite surprising because the holy bible wasn't protesting they were just minding their own business and military force sneaked in from different alleys and started shooting randomly and so far there that 5 people were shot death and one for sent died in my hands it happened are all 3

pm so best that's the western part of the city and across the sea view there's also means that that kind of random shooting and it looks like. they are trying to. or no not just cracking down the protest over trying to intimidate everyone in the c.b. so that we will start. printing and raising all voices. ok so you're saying essentially the military is using indiscriminate force this is something they continue to deny a we saw the united nations warning that mean maher might be on the brink of a civil war is it. i i believe so because so with this kind of oppression from the military and and continuous effort from all forces it is very likely that there will be a civil war you know last time and i would like to you know a few to the united nations to do something about it because we could see

a lot of sanctions coming from the u.k. them to the united states and that's it and i'll show you a few countries but they hasn't been anything new form sanctions coming from you and when it's just i and i know it will take time but this is a very delicate moment where a single meeting or a single decision can see a country that would be like syria which has been going on a civil war for 10 years or or a country in which predicts wipes and democracy and i think this is really a critical moment ok so you're pulling for a more immediate support from the international community what about the situation in myanmar with activists i mean at this point what would it take to be able to possibly resolve this crisis is there any avenue for example for for dialogue or for talks. all the military regime has. been will she would anyone else and in there are going to be press

conferences they repeat the or make false evidence and you know trying to or trying to you know get rid of the winning party democratic elected government so i i don't think there is a way to find that law except our china is willing to help because i think the military. is the really us into china and china has all what to do you know get in between and try to find a way to open a dialogue with the international community as well as a legally elected government the c.r.p. each. will have to leave it there activist david speaking to us from mandalay thank you very much. let's get a round up now some other headlines a court in hong kong has convicted 7 leading activists and politicians for their role in anti-government protests in 2019 they include veteran pro-democracy

politician martin lee and media tycoon jimmy line sentencing will take place later but they face up to 5 years in prison the verdict is the latest blow to the democracy movement pope francis has begun celebrating marking the christian holy week of easter he's led a mass in st peter's cathedral in rome the pontus traditional foot washing ceremony has been canceled for the 2nd year other events over the weekend will be restricted . air traffic to the sicilian city of kut tanya was temporarily halted on thursday due to renewed volcanic activity on mount etna eruptions have been occurring frequently since february sending plumes of ash into the sky and reverse of lava down at slopes scientists say there is no way of predicting when the spectacular explosions will and. and 4 people including a child have been killed in a shooting at an office building in orange county california 2 others including the

suspect were wounded it is the 3rd deadly mass shooting in the u.s. in the last 2 weeks. u.s. president joe biden has unveiled a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan biden called it a once in a generation investment that would allow the u.s. to outstrip china on the world's economic stage. 50 years people in. future. time roughly 2 trillion dollars. spread largely over 8 years. generated story. historic. businesses to compete create more revenues well now the stimulus package would modernize 32000 kilometers of road while repairing thousands more bridges it would see the

construction of half a 1000000 charging stations to accommodate the ever growing number of electric vehicles and it seeks to boost the return of industry to the u.s. from asia for example by investing in chip production. let's get some analysis on this now with boris fun man he's a professor of politics at bard college here in berlin hypothesis good to see you so we're talking about a 2 trillion dollars plan to upgrade infrastructure and to overhaul infrastructure from everything i'm from bridges to water systems but when publicans are calling this a recipe for stagnation and decline why is that well i mean this kind of reaction is not surprising given the last 5 decades of the market less affair rhetoric so i am not i'm not really shocked but this kind of analysis what's interesting though is that infrastructure is mostly or it happens to be one of those issues where sometimes bipartisan discussions at least happen hillary clinton

made a suggestion when she ran for president trump donald trump was also in the wincing a big infrastructure package that never happened but at least rhetorically there is some openness and some opening also on the side of the republicans so who knows maybe there might be some individual republicans but i think the polarization is deep and probably where the democrats will have to will have to be very disciplined to get this through let's talk about how this plan works because the administration just passed a massive pandemic aid package so where exactly is the money for this infrastructure plan going to come from. well i mean this is the interesting part which is taxes on the rich and on corporations and of course there will be some resistance on their part as well this is also in part a way to repeal the parts of the trumpet legislation parts of the trump took the tax cut and biden has been emphasizing again and again that that tax deal at the

time was mostly benefiting the rich so when he's and he's trying to make a working class argument how much of this package do you think that he can push through without the support of republicans and what might he have to do to get some republicans on his side well i don't i mean he's been trying to reach out on the right conservative media people have been emphasizing that this was mostly a gesture which wasn't meant seriously it's true that polarization as i said is deep and probably he won't get much support by republicans he will probably also use the same strategy as at the time with the with the earlier package you mentioned so he's going to use the budget reconciliation procedure which means this cannot be filibustered he'll be able to do it with just $5050.00 votes in the senate but he can't afford to lose a single vote and he can't afford to lose more than 3 votes in the in the house of

representatives so it's going to be tough yeah it's going to be very tight that we should say that both of biden's predecessors donald trump and barack obama they made big pledges on infrastructure investment and they failed to deliver deliver so do you think that joe biden's administration can do any better. it's interesting that china is also part of the discussion and the competition with china and when we look at the 250 years of history of the u.s. every time major infrastructure was built it was either at a moment of war mostly at a moment of war civil war cold war the the new deal era and the and the world war and mostly it was done with cheap labor even with slave labor so the conditions under which this happens are under immense competition so to to kind of muster the political will that is needed to build this kind of infrastructure needs exceptional situations i'm not sure of the pandemic is exceptional enough boris from one professor of politics at bard college cher and berlin thank you so much

for that analysis thank you. europe has come under renewed criticism over its treatment of migrants for years now thousands of asylum seekers have been living in inhumane conditions in greece 5 greek islands near the turkish coast have become known as hotspots where refugees live in overcrowded unsanitary conditions more than a 3rd are children mostly without access to education the e.u. says turkey should take them as part of a deal reached with ankara 5 years ago but many experts say that deal is a human rights disaster max and a reports on the situation on the island. of. the. migration. commissioner. earlier this week journalists were given a rare opportunity to visit the nicer parts of the overcrowded facility scenes of women exercising in the spring. these pictures from last winter when residents had

to hold on to their tents while they see flooded their homes we need from the democratic republic of congo he tells us he has been here for 16 months we are living like animals without documents i've had my asylum interview already but haven't heard anything since this. feat we face. more than 13000 people are stuck in the north as part of a system designed to help greece cope with high numbers of irregular arrivals as part of the e.u.'s 2016 migration deal with turkey greek authorities with e.u. support have to examine whether each person arriving here has a right to asylum those whose claims are rejected must return to turkey and as long as asylum seekers don't have an answer they can. critics claim this model is simply not working that creates a situation of deep injustice because people in some cases for many.

the conditions there are appalling they're really not effective and if we look at the coach of order to report on the hotspots for instance they show that they are extremely expensive and not serving the original purposes of rapid decision on cases instead of setting up appropriate infrastructure to deal with asylum cases in a swift manner 5 years on from when the deal was signed with or to use our operating emergency even you commissioner you aren't on the grid this system has to change i don't want to have i would like to have proper exception facilities but people should not stay for long and then have a better return and relocation system we need to europeanize migration issue and to stand by each other and not leave member state or island alone. the e.u. commission has proposed a new approach to

a synonym under which the commissions would be processed within days of the blocks external borders but critics fear this might lead to a situation similar to what we're seeing today hot spots all over again. to sports now and there are less than 4 months to go before the rescheduled tokyo olympics but there are growing concerns over staging the games in japan the olympic torch is currently touring through the country with strict hygiene protocols in place but the governor of saka has now said he does not want to host the relay in his city mid rising coronavirus cases he suggested that this upcoming leg of the event be cancelled or held without crowds around $10000.00 runners are participating in the nationwide tour. in football north macedonia stunned germany winning 21 in a world cup 2022 qualifier into a spurred midfielder l.g. fellow must score the decisive goal late on in the 2nd half that ended germany's 18

match winning streak in world cup qualifiers it was also the germans final competitive game before this summer's european championship the result sparked wild celebrations among a few north macedonian fans that had gathered into a spurt who ended up singing with the national team players outside the stadium. oh. the. now a kayaker and she lay has accomplished something that has never been done before i know said associates from spain land of the 1st ever double kick flip over a waterfall. now he started with a 25 kilometer descent down a snowy volcano before entering lush forests and then he topped it off by nailing the world's 1st double flip in a kayak and. on this 1st attempt. all

right coming up next on news asia we meet the founder of one of hong kong's political parties on the day she and several fellow activists are found guilty of organizing mass protests in 2019. plus to china withhold critical information about the origins of the coronavirus a world health organization report leaves more questions than answers. melissa chandler w.'s asia up next.

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