this is t w news live from berlin 2 announcements about the astra zeneca vaccine the u.k. and the european union say there may be a link between the shock and the rare blood clots the head of the european medicines agency and its british counterpart both said blood clotting is a potential rare side effect though they're sticking to the view that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks and life in prison in turkey hands down dozens of harsh sentences to former top ranking army officers accused of plotting the $216.00 failed coup. also

a look at how chain technology is reshaping the art market collectors are paying top the big toy for digital works some seen profit while others only a bubble ready to burst. i'm going to look rough welcome to the program we start with yet another setback for the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine the european medicines agency or e m a and its british counterpart have announced there does appear to be a link between the vaccine and a rare but potentially fatal type of blood clot now the a.m.a. stopped short of changing its recommendation to give the vaccine to all ages while the u.k. is advise ing those under 30 to get a different shot trying to put to rest any concerns. first of all i want to

start by stating that our safety committee the pharmacovigilance and risk assessment committee of the european medicines agency has confirmed that the benefits of the astra zeneca vaccine in preventing co bit 19 overall outweigh the risks of side effects. the european union's drug regulator the european medicines agency says after a safety assessment of the astra zeneca vaccine they are still encouraging people to get it that's despite finding a $169.00 cases of a rare brain blood clot after $34000000.00 doses the agency says while no clear link has been found they believe the clots are caused by any means response as a result the regulator will be listing the clots as a rare side effect of the astra zeneca vaccine this vaccine has proven to be highly effective it preventive severe to fees and hospitalized patients and it is saving

lives vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against cope at 19 and we need to use the back scenes we have to protect us from the devastating effects to miami it comes as u.k. authorities recommend that the astra zeneca vaccine should not be given to adults under 30 where possible but again they stress the continued use of the vaccine our review has reinforced that the risk of this ressa spectate side effect remains extremely small. the drug maker itself says the bottom line of the regulators findings is that the astra zeneca vaccine offers a high level of protection against coated 19. the european union has been criticized for what seen as a slow vaccine rollout we asked brussels correspondent marina strauss how the astra zeneca announcement is likely to affect e.u. countries. can only issue recommendations health is actually

a national matter in the european union so it's now up to the e.u. countries themselves to decide what they will do with these recommendations and some of them have already acted before this press conference it certainly does not make life easier here death for sure but we also have to see that astra zeneca has delivered far less vaccine doses to the european union then announced so it's not like there are many many a huge amount of fixie in flying a road in the e.u. that no one wants to use and some countries and experts also try to find a wife call it a solution to this problem for example or to vaccinate older people with yesterday's senate comic scene and younger people who seem to be more at risk risk without the vicks genes on the european market and here are some other developments in the cove in 1000 pandemic australia's government has ordered an urgent inquiry

into the possible link between the astra zeneca vaccine and blood clots it's asked regulators to look at the findings from europe and consider how they should be applied in australia argentina has announced a 3 week curfew after daily infections reached a new record high it will enter into force on friday in the country's most badly affected areas and morocco's nightly curfew remain in place during ramadan when people gather after breaking their fast at sunset the muslim holy month is due to start april 13th. now the daily infections are hitting new records in india too the latest wave is being blamed on people attending large religious and political events as well as weddings and cricket matches now to try to stop rates from rising the authorities are to increase restrictions including a nighttime curfew in many cities but how is that likely to go over with the pen demick weary public he'd abuse mirrors schauder e took to the streets of delhi to ask. india is now well

into the 2nd day of the pandemic seeing a huge spike in the number of cases every day in the past couple of days india has a daily tally of 100000 cases in the thing though the spike now this has created an alarming situation most of the states are issuing fresh guidelines and restrictions including delhi the national capital barely stand right now delhi has now in both a night that means there will be a restriction of movement from dan in the night to 5 in the morning and only movement of essential services and those people who are going to get themselves back the need it will be allowed back to with an ethos know what are people thinking addict and thunderball distressed by what do they think about the night if you and i do what it is that the country can go back to a state of a nation wide lockdown let's find out. yes we have to do scared looking at the lead to for infection order to the mark of $100.00. has been grossed i'm concerned oh

how much it can spike for the night go for you is a pretty good idea because generally of people who work in the days and then they come back so on this is that he going out in accounting of people can be districted them if they want to. do or do i mean more people are not out there compared to night and the chanters over in fiction more there is definitely a sense of urgency experts are saying that the spread of the 2nd be that much faster than the plus one and that's have people concerned there's also a growing demand for making that solution available for all each groups people are anxious and by many of them believe that restrictions like a night go if you are important they're not entirely sure how effective such measures can be in clubbing the spread of the 2nd week. and some other stories making headlines around the world. he has been diagnosed with 2 spinal disc her knee is according to his lawyer she says the imprisoned russian opposition leader

has lost sensation in his legs and hands me is on a hunger strike in a prison criticized for its harsh treatment. i. mean mars a bastard of the u.k. in hasn't been locked out of the london embassy embassy he told british media that military figures who occupied the building embassador have broken ranks with the ruling military junta in recent weeks. jordan's king abdullah has broken his silence over a public rift in the royal family and told his country that the worst political crisis in decades is over it was sparked by in alleged plot involving his half brother the king statement said that recent events had caused him quote shock pain and anger. protestors have set fire to a bus in belfast as northern ireland experiences a new wave of unrest the violence started last week in pro british parts of the region tensions have been fuelled by the pandemic and post barriers to trade

between northern ireland and the rest of the united kingdom. space x. has launched its falcon 9 rocket 60 of its satellites aboard this flight is likely to be the last space x. mission before crew the crew to launch later this month will take 4 astronauts to the international space station. a turkish court has handed down life sentences to dozens of former soldiers for their alleged involvement in the 2016 failed to attempt against president government a total of $497.00 defendants were on trial since 2017 for attempting to seize the military headquarters and it's expected to be one of the last mass trials links to the failed coup. the 1st judgments were handed down just an hour into proceedings while many high ranking officers received life sentences some soldiers were cleared of all charges only the prosecutions lawyers commented publicly. even now we're

still getting wind of the people who want to stage these prosecutions should be a lesson to them that the offenders have been given the harshest possible sentences under our legal framework if we still had the death penalty they would have been given that. there was a heavy police presence at the court building in ankara with drones hovering above none of the relatives or lawyers of the accused wanted to be interviewed. in the night of the 15th to the 16th of july and 2016 part of the military tried to overthrow the government of president red chip typo to one ankara says u.s. based cleric. was behind the move. since the attempted coup tens of thousands of people have been arrested and more than 100000 civil servants dismissed dozens of cases are still ongoing. the detailed written verdicts

of wednesday's court proceedings are still being completed investigators say u.s. golfing star tiger woods was speeding when he lost control of his car in february the los angeles county sheriff's department says the car's data recorder showed that woods was traveling twice the legal speed limit when his vehicle hit a tree the crash left the golfing legend with serious leg injuries there was no evidence that woods was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. there were 2 champions league quarter final 1st leg played on wednesday night byron munich suffered a $32.00 loss at the hands of ours on jermaine thomas millar levelled the scores for the defending champions but a killian imbed a goal settled the result for p.s.g. and thomas to his chelsea at the perfect night in porto a 2 nil win as then perfectly placed for the return leg in london. these

days the art market is going digital with investor spending enormous sums on artworks that exist only on computer networks until now digital art was so easy to copy that it didn't make much sense financially but that's starting to change and the implications for the art market are huge. the magic word is n f t or non fungible token and it's revolutionizing the art market this technology records the owners identity in a blog change while the work itself remains publicly visible on the web for anyone to see. so and it is a technical stand there to meet the work of art where any any. essence you need so you get that token to me. was the artist what was the edition size. and that you bought it and it you are the

rightful owner in this online gold rush a flying cat sold for $650000.00 a tweet for several 1000000. crypto cats or virtual basketball cards sold for millions. and now christie's has got on board auction ing every days from artist people as its 1st tokenized piece. the sale not only meant recognition for digital art but it's helped christie's reap millions in a win win situation. job or just get him of us but i think when there's money at stake people take things seriously so many people who used to not really take this art form seriously are now having a closer look and that's great and of course the artist who created this work will go down in art history on that site so it's not a conspiracy timestream. the buyer was a singapore based fund that had made

a fortune with cryptocurrency 90 percent of the bidders at christie's were unknown is a new crypto elite divvying up the market. people they're all right now. that . come to the market. with a really open i don't have much knowledge of the art market and our enemy. and just really i like that could up end the traditional dominance of art galleries and museums when it comes to determining what art is valuable and important for crypto art could turn out to be an unprecedented speculation bubble but even if that bubble bursts it's still likely to shake up the art market. next hour covered 19 special the meantime you can always follow us on twitter at u.w. news and visit our website t w dot com we will have more for you at the top the hour for now that's all for me

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live lives profit driven. and globally connected. or has this pandemic sparked irreparable change. hello and welcome to the show this week we're thinking about life after the pandemic we're asking experts in areas like urban planning climate change and even nutrition to tell us what they've learned so far and what those lessons mean for the future today we look at crisis management and began with a report from taiwan located near the airport told in hospital was one of taiwan keepers against the virus authorities had to stand the 5th of come from cases here for cheek men since the start of 2020 but in january this year and infected dr ticker to fresh outbreak several of his coworkers were later tested positive taiwan faced its biggest corin the barest crisis since the start of the pandemic in the

gun that she says it's all hospital acquired infections very serious and hard to control the patients in the hospital need health care workers to take care of them in terms of their next to each other it's impossible to just quarantine hospital workers and leave patients alone. you were in for almost a. long works of the central epidemic command center has 13 decided to set himself up in the hospital to directly oversee communications from the command center but woman. we had to contain the virus county time. in the large hospital of more than 2600 employees in the rail 700 impatiens one wrong decision coolly to the charge of the similar to the 2003 sars outbreak then the government locked down a hospital where even healthy people were not allowed to leave leading to 154 infections and 31 death. it was ok when there were only one or 2 cases in the

hospital bridge but when there were more and more people can from positive tests we were definitely nervous we were afraid of getting phone calls in the middle of the night hearing about yet another new case. this time the command center reacted quickly tracking all possible contacts and hold quarantine over 4300 people they also transferred negative test to patients to other hospitals to decrease the workload on the staff after 14 days with no new come from places all hospital employees have to do mass testing to convince the public that the hospital is safe in 44 days it was contained with only 21 cases and just one death transparency and honesty is the very important and you have to give the people the reason why you want to have. a very strange encounter very strange in home quarantine and this

is why we have to show that everything is there it is very very useful to prevent a future pandemic chad said no cockies can fight alone but i would like to emphasize the importance. thing is the prudence of it is we have to keep by all the possible outbreak in all the countries to prevent its spread off now tell me in hospital is factual relative normality this terrace experience reminded a government and its people not to let history repeat itself a lesson not only for taiwan to for the world in its approach to tapping this vast breading virus. martin reece is co-founder of the center for the study of existential risk an interdisciplinary research group focused on studying and developing strategies to risks that could threaten humanity martin good to have you on the show 1st of all let's start with the pandemic before we start about talk about exits existential rest rather can barely even say the word we just saw about

taiwan and how its management of the pandemic has been shaped by sars but at the same time other countries have had their own experiences with infectious diseases and yet they've struggled in their management of the pandemic why do we see that it differs so much from country to country when i think we in the u.k. . because you didn't have the expense of sars and of course coronaviruses need different preparations then you protected the rep you want and it's hard to develop a vaccine etc so we in the u.k. were badly. as i think in some respects. european countries and i think the taiwan under government that was more trusted perhaps than our u.k. government was by its people and not. do you believe that we're worse long term planners than we believe we are potentially or do we just lack imagination or is it a combination of both. and i think real worst long term planners obviously we can't

predict when the pandemic will strike but no one could say it was unlikely given that we had mers in the past and i think there's some lessons we can learn obviously one is that it pays to build in a bit of slack in the system or resilience and in france as i know in germany you have more empty beds in your intensive care ward than we normally have we try to keep in full time which means you've got no their capacity and also we shouldn't depend so much on supply shades for manufacturing because if you have just one long chain and one link breaks that screws up a lot of manufacturing so i think we've learnt that it's we're going to have resilience that maximum efficiency ok so perhaps not the best long term planners for things like pandemics even though actually they're quite likely what about for truly existential threats where you're focused on that could be anything i gather

from a more serious illness to an asteroid potential asteroid strike what's that mean for planning for those threats. well of course you can't they're just extremes and i should say that limit astronomer i'm not kept awake at night by asteroids threats etc because they are small friends and no bigger now than they were of the dinosaurs they are rare but the threats that we do worry about well those which are caused by humans either collectively change the climate and causing mass extinction or by misuse of powerful technologies. that are so busy be worried about and they will give us a bumpy ride through this century they could cause a complete extinction i think that's frankly very unlikely we're concerned with these extreme risks which we need to prepare for and going back to the covert 19

it's going to cost the world at least $20.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years and did not perspective given it was a dozen likely we should have spent probably hundreds of billions of dollars in the kind of preparation making sure that we monitor all are places where the disease can transfer from humans lanham us to humans it's etter and dream or prepared to stock up on the latest clothing enormous we've learned our lesson that it's worth a bigger investment if you will prepare that investment and that preparation that readiness that always comes with other costs not just money for example but there are certain social costs that come with that as we've seen in the pandemic as well just responding to the crisis that's going to create chaos in terms of social well being perhaps in terms of economic wellbeing for for livelihoods have we have we fully measured the social and economic impacts of the pandemic or does it mean for our planning for crises. well we have it and i think one possibly the 9 effect

it requires is to really realize how important workers are not just in the health service but delivery drivers carers and people like now it's who in our system are under supported poorly paid and in secure jobs and i think one lesson you ought to learn is to. minimize will reduce inequality this was to be actually accentuated by the pandemic and people like myself for instance who go on working from home cetera but many people can't and those who are in cramped apartments with no guards etc and the really tough times i think the experience of the pandemic has excess rated the effect of inequalities which many of us think are far too great anyway and i hope we pressure to reduce them aren't rhesus co-founder of the center for the study of x. existential risk at work right especially martin thank you so much for joining us

thank you very much. for our science correspondent there is also thinking about the future here he is with a question on the future of m.r. in a technology. we came up with maxine for a covert no under a year what do developments like that mean for the future of health care. to that 19 has sparked advances in a really wide range of fields but i want to focus on one advance in particular that experts say will change health care in fundamental ways and that's messenger r.n.a. technology in cells and more and a is the molecule that allows information from the archive of the genome to be turned into into the physical metabolic reality of proteins and

controlling and tailoring proteins is a tool of incredible power scientists have been trying for decades to harness the m.r. in a information system to fight a huge range of diseases then the pandemic heads and all that hard work ended up turbocharging the development and the launch of the m r n a vaccines now in use the 1st ever to be approved that's released the floodgates i think and we can expect more vaccines based on the platform to hit the market in the next couple of years including highly individualized vaccines that help your immune system for example 0 in on cancer mastering m.r. and they will allow us to shift treatments for many diseases away from today's approach which is to mitigate symptoms with medications and towards addressing

the real roots of diseases and that's huge. and that's it for today's peak in the future. check back with us tomorrow thanks for watching stay safe so you get. into the conflict zone with tim sebastian for years now the government of bangladesh is being criticized around the world for its human rights record my guest this week from back eyes gallery's meet foreign affairs advisor to the country's prime minister well we'll start you stop denying the truth about the repression babe inflicted and clean up their act conflicts of. next to the edge of. one continent.

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and they share private footage with us that has never been seen before. back atcha. people 20 takes on w. . and show you want to build good things about your country because that's what you're paid to do everything. you have very good the legacy is bangladesh and the habit of giving pardons to convicted murderers the. in many ways. for years now the government of bangladesh has been criticized around the world for its human rights record but his reputation received another jolt this month with the release of a new documentary alleging high level bribery and corruption my guess.