this is the never use live from berlin a brutal search of the coronavirus batterers brazil authorities there confirm the 1st case of a highly contagious variant discovered in south africa it is a fresh danger sign for brazil already facing the world's worst daily death toll. also coming up several countries restrict the use of astra zeneca vaccine for people under 68 after european regulators listed blood clots as a potential rare side effect. 3 leaders but only 2 chairs the seating

arrangements at an turkey summit has turned into a diplomatic scandal over gender inequality. and a look at how technology is reshaping the arch market collectors are paying top with points for digital works some see profit while others worry it is a bubble ready to burst. i'm sorry so much scott it's good to have you with us brazilian president jarboe so narrow has vowed to keep his country open even as the daily death toll from coburn 1000 mts now the highest in the world highly infectious variance and a slow vaccine rollout are further complicating the situation critics of the far right leader say the government's inaction is at fault and fear brazilians may pay the price with their lives. health care. pushed to the limit this makeshift

hospital in brazil's largest city san paolo is struggling to cope as covert 19 cases. experts have warned the district lockdown is necessary to slow the virus one of brazil's leading public health institutes cruz said without lockdown measures the country's health system faces collapse. but the president disagrees. but what was we are not going to accept this policy of staying at home of closing everything down the virus will not go away this virus like others is here to stay and will remain for a lifetime it is practically impossible to eradicate it what are we going to do until then. the country has registered more than 13000000 covert 1000 cases since the pandemic began it is now at risk of overtaking the united states with the world's highest rates of infection and deaths. the president's opponents know where

to point the finger. at it but as. brazil is a time bomb a breeding ground for corona virus creating new strains variants because there is a total lack of control of the pandemic and of life for this reason at this moment we are ashamed not of our people but of our government especially both scenario. without measures in place to control the spread many health experts fear brazil will hold back global efforts to contain the virus brazil lags behind much of the world in buying up vaccine doses and the rollout has so far failed to significantly slow the spread of the virus with no lockdown in sight brazil will continue to vary thousands every day. let's get some more perspective on the story with fire all of just barry shoop he chairs the ministerial committee on vaccines in south africa welcome to g.w. we are seeing a very concerning developments in brazil it has now confirmed its 1st case of the

highly contagious variant that was 1st detected in south africa how worrying is the situation there. well. we do have some vaccines and they're all being rolled out to they have been put just the jane jacks in the pfizer vaccine which are about 2 year old out to the general population very very soon and they have been shown to have a pretty high if you can see a case of the 1351 dominant. but the more we see a variant spreading in brazil how much of there is is this risk that we could seen you take that are then resistant to all of the existing vaccines at this point. always a war you know this is a virus which does mutate but fortunately the 351 which seems to be the kind of against the most concerning the at the moment. of art as a variant of concern. the number of the vaccines do seem to be affected the ones i

mentioned up to know these variants are more transmissible how dangerous are they are they more deadly. the preliminary evidence is particular the one from the u.k. the b 117 that does seem to be some evidence that is moving read and causing more severe disease the 351 the one in 5 it's maybe slightly moved very late but it doesn't seem to be. evidence of a greater variance as yet we do know that if we are talking about possible resistance to the vaccines that are existing that vaccine produces a promise to be able to provide a booster shot to protect against variance up by the end of this year how realistic do you think that is. oh yes you know i think particularly that in the mission deck scenes are quite easy to adjust and to tweak to make them the devil's to the to the days i think this is what is being done presently undergoing clinical trials or

this is just a variance i think this was going to happen these are remember up to now we go through this generation of vaccines i think with the secure generation of axioms they will be able to cope with the variance help us look ahead here you know we have influenza we have new strains that need new vaccines every year are we going to have that for cover 1000 as well i think is what may well have been maybe not every year it doesn't seem to be as changeable as influenza virus that certainly they will need to be regular the explanations if it's not annually maybe every 2nd year but certainly regular vaccinations will be taught to be part of how we control this virus very show viral interest and chair of the ministerial committee on vaccines in south africa thank you so much for sharing your insights with us thank you very much thank you not some other developments in the pandemic indonesia has announced a ban on travel during the upcoming muslim celebration of eda in may to curb virus transmission many people typically travel trying holiday iran has seen

a record number of new infections for the 3rd day in a row at more than 22000 the spike follows recent persian new year holiday celebrations new zealand has now suspended all travel from india that came after india reported a record number of new cases and one day it is struggling under a new wave. well experts are blaming large gatherings for india's outbreak nearly 127000 cases were reported there on thursday that is the highest number ever prime minister narendra modi urged citizens to get vaccinated while he receives a 2nd $1000.00 dose today india is trying to scale up its vaccine rollout which is only reached a small fraction of the population state leaders have complained over vaccine shortages and they are demanding an expansion of jobs to younger people as they struggle to contain the surge. in delhi with more. 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 100000 pieces in a thing the spike now this has created an alarming situation most of the states are issuing fresh guidelines and restrictions including the national capital right now delhi has no imports 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 to need it will be allowed back to us now what are people. concerned about distressed by what do they think about the night and are they what it that the country can go back to a state of a nation wide lockdown let's find out. 100 . i'm concerned oh how much it can spike for the night was a pretty good idea because generally of people who work in the days and then they

come back so i miss it he going out and. the people who. do are doing. and the. more there is definitely a sense of urgency experts are saying that the spread of the. can be with much faster than the 1st one and that of people concerned there's also a growing demand for making that the nation available for all of these groups people are anxious and while many of them believe that restrictions like a night good few are important they're not entirely sure how effective such measures can all be in curbing the spread of the 2nd wave. several countries have restrictive the astra zeneca vaccine for people under the age of 60 following a review released by european and british regulators on wednesday the u.k. suggests those under authority should get a different vaccine the european medicines agency says that blood clots appear to be a very rare side effect of the shot but the benefits outweigh the risks trying to put

to rest any concerns 1st 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 baxi in preventing qubit 19 over 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 if it prevents if severe disease and hospitalize ation understood saving lives vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against cope at 19 and we need to use the doxies we have to protect us from the devastating effects to more immediately it comes as u.k. authorities recommend that the astra zeneca vaccine should not be given to adults under 30 were possible but again they stressed the continued use of the vaccine our view has reinforced that the risk of this respite to the side effect remains extremely smooth. 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. now some other stories making news around the world the european court of human rights has

ruled in favor of government mandated vaccinations for children it rejected the case by czech parents who were fined for failing to inoculate their children against various diseases it is the 1st time the court has ruled on compulsory backs a nation's election of only has been diagnosed with spinal discourteous according to his lawyer the imprisoned russian opposition leader is said to have lost sensation in his legs and hands now while he is on a hunger strike in a penal colony. and rescue crews have managed to board a cargo ship abandon of rough seas are from norway since monday the ship started listing dangerously when its cargo shifted in stormy weather its crew were evacuated by helicopter the ship is now being towed to a port avoiding a potential fuel spill. leaders in northern ireland have condemned the new wave of violence following almost a week of nightly clashes the region's fragile peace has been unsettled by anger over breadstick related trade problems with the rest of the united kingdom last

night protesters in belfast hurled explosives across so-called kiesel earlier a bus was hijacked and set on fire police said over 50 officers have been injured in clashes crowds authorities have accused outlawed paramilitary groups of inciting people to riot. let's bring in henry mcdonald now he's an author and journalist he has reported on and written about northern ireland for more than 3 decades henry it's good to have you with us it does sound like there is more than one issue that's really behind this latest violence what do you think is the playing of your dream in issues the overarching one is the protocol between britain and the e.u. which effectively creates a border during the irish sea it creates the impression in the minds of prove union unionist people in northern ireland especially in the working class loyalist areas the. northern decoupled economically from the rest of the. i think that the minute

issues or other issues abide policing accusations allegations that the police are more inclined to be softer on the irish republicans you bring food regulation in for example iris in rules and also a general sense of knoxville ism on the march and you're seeing a response there that night here in tulsa and other parts of northern ireland to this is widespread it's not just in the city that these are in market times on other places beyond belfast and i think it's going to get worse before it gets better said nationalism on the march henry are you worried that we're seeing historic wounds being torn open again. it wasn't very much so i think the the biggest potential is the protocol which creates a kind of different economic policy for more than on the comfort of the wreck of the u.k. i think that's the thing the will and the could potentially intensify violence and

i make this prediction i think the next fee is all loyalist response officer it seems you're saying not to speak disorder will be some talk in the next few months on the institutions of the protocol in porch for example physical infrastructure which may come under attack i think my sources are certainly telling me not involve the within the loyalist community that would be a worrying escalation henry would see northern ireland leaders condemning the arrest saying it's completely unacceptable what can they do to stop this well of our party calling for a gun having them security response at the end of the day to be called off our intensified by the loyalist part of the latrice ok neither by unionist politicians you will see the position but i think everything you can just want companies to the political. will the british government could do this punishing on the economy in northern ireland well. checks on the porch. for goods coming into

northern ireland and on the left the impression. that this part of the u.k. it's new law is being called a lot because it's in the e.u. single market the problem is the arguments were correct that the e.u. is poisoning the outlets here hostile for some time i've been warning about this coming. we see it manifested on the streets but i think even broach dreamily turbulence some or even love them and let that thing is going to dress properly not brussels and tell them as well as one that. we'll have to leave it there author and journalist henri macdonald speaking to us from belfast thank you very much. now how a chair or the lack of one has dashed hopes for smoother relations between the e.u. and turkey 2 of the european union's top leaders or the fonda line and china show

visit a turkish president russia tiber to want in on tuesday but as the 3 gathered for talks there were only 2 chairs present what happened next has turned into a diplomatic scandal. it was a meeting that said hopes for reengagement between the e.u. and turkey but spending time has got off to a rocky start. one of the e.u.'s most powerful female executives was left without someone to sit instead of being placed in equal rank according to diplomatic protocol arcilla found a lie in the european commission president was placed on a sofa while the men took center stage it draws stock comparison to previous years where un turkish leaders were seated in equal standing whether the optics were intentional or not it may have added further strain to the relationship but the spokesman for the european commission says she wants to focus on the issues at hand . she shows that marriage ties substance over questions of formal per typical and

that sets in they want european citizens would have expected of her it is not my job to judge what was behind the fact that we offered one type of seat over another a key focal point for the e.u. was for turkey to improve its human rights record. on car recently withdrew from a treaty that protects women against violence and discrimination the country has seen a nationwide protests against femicide domestic violence and murders of women all on the rise and the diplomatic focus has sparked outrage online. some cold out the political strains between the e.u. and turkey others say it reflects how women are treated in the country and took aim at the european council president for not playing his part in standing beside the european commission president tech has officially appointing blame at the e.u. . goodish rather than join russia and i was in their request of the e.u.

are met and the problem protocols applied in the scope of this high level meeting that took place in our presidency the seating arrangements were made in line with the e.u. suggestion because for now it may be a long road ahead to establish better time between the 2 sides. faisal is following the story for us and joins us for more. as we heard there's a lot of debate about this so was this intentional or was it an honest mistake. do we believe in father christmas who made this is the question here seriously it does look as if the turkish officials use the. incident and use the school caijing to play off the 2 e.u. institutions against each other because it is now in that sense the president of the council standing for the member states and from the line the president of the commission the executive branch of the e.u.

standing for brussels that they have a problem with each other to put it mildly about precedence and about who gets to have the 1st political cult and so this was sort of something that really played up into that and the fallout in social media was devastating as it has check sprang up on twitter get her a chair and see a new member of the european parliament quipped i would assume they're going to cherish it even to me at home even even though he is a man so the. degre and so now they're really it's been the impulse of to sort of trying to pick up the shards and wipe the water off the floor you know what's the reaction been in the european commission. the european commission is a very angry in the rada type diplomatic way we behave the way we did in order to sort of save the meeting that small and that's what they say it had i been

or so from the line i would have walked up to the to the turkish president and say oh mr president that might be a chairman's thing here or the obvious solution i mean the one that is most obvious is of course that charles michel bit of giving up his chair and offered it to the fund on line and sort of asked for another chair fund self so this situation would have been sort of could have been saved but they didn't like the sort of. the momentary spirit and truth of make something else and it does leave the e.u. looking a bit stupid particularly child michele the the council president just looks like a real don't in that that geisha well barbara what do you think the effect the fallout of all of this is going to be the fallout is that the desk in another diplomatic gas in the european union i mean they want to be a big international player they say we have something to say be want to play

a bigger role on the stage and that it then that they don't even manage those so important protocol questions how stupid does that look and there's many people in brussels who look at that at the meeting that that will rattle the e.u. head diplomat head to with the who is that missed a lot of rough in moscow and he was being upstaged the most terrorism as a treat the bombing of glee and he sort of just took it was out sort of doing anything against it and so they have being made to look bad again and it is just the optics is awful and particular with regard to sluff underlying protesting against and to relieving the is simple trust call i mean women being treated badly in public we needed a demonstration of that did we. right that every is barbara visa with the latest on this story for us thank you very much time for more headlines now britain has condemned nian mars military rulers for locking the

country's ambassador out of its london embassy diplomats loyal to the military seized control of the embassy on wednesday supporters of the ousted ambassador call the move a coup and asked the u.k. not to recognize his hunter appointed replacement. for jordan's king abdullah has broken his silence over a public wrist in the royal family and told the nation that the worst political crisis in decades is over it was sparked by an alleged plot involving his half brother the king statement said that recent events had caused him shock pain and anger. and rescue divers have freed of a buddhist monk who was trapped in a cave in thailand for 4 days the monk entered the cave on saturday to meditate but was stranded inside by rising flood waters it took rescuers several attempts to reach him the monk is now being treated in the hospital. these days the art market is going digital investors are spending enormous sums on

artworks that exist only in digital form until loud digital art was so easy to copy that it didn't make much sense financially but now that's changed and the implications for the art market are huge. the magic word is n f t or non fungible token and it's revolutionizing leonhard market this technology records the owner's 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 standard to meet the work of art were any just any. accidents you need so you get it to when me. was the artist what was the edition size. and that you bought it and you are the rightful owner in this online gold rush

a flying cap sold for $650000.00 but 21st several 1000000. crypto cats were 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. but it does scare him of us and i think when there is 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 i. can squish 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 our market and our enemy and our house and just really go by. 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. of guitar minor of our top story now brazil has confirmed its 1st case of a highly contagious corona virus variant discovered in south africa amid a brutal surge and covered $1000.00 cases the country now has a world's highest daily death toll of nearly 4000. coming up next our

interview show complex out of 10 sebastian speaks to go head receipt international affairs advisor to bangladesh just prime minister stated.

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 me foreign affairs advisor to the country's prime minister well we'll start you stop denying the truth about the repression they've been afflicted and clean up their act conflicts of. the most. oh.

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thoughts the great books of the 20th century. present a hoax and. crazy memory. starts may 3rd. and show you want to talk good things about your country because that's what you're paid to do every question you left off you have bugs me is that the legacy is bangladesh and i think of giving pardons to convicted murderers so the certain 50 of the rich you are. in many ways it's a surprisingly for years now the government of bangladesh has been criticized around the world for its human rights record but its reputation received another jolt this month with the release of a new documentary alleging high level bribery and corruption my guest this week from baca is gallery's me foreign affairs advisor to the country's prime minister

the movie authority stop denying the truth about the repression they've inflicted and clean up their act. now here is very welcome to comfort zone. your country has become a byword for egregious human rights abuses which your government routinely did noise as an academic who's used to dealing in truth why do you serve a government that seems to have so little regard for that commodity a missile sebastian i think this question needs to be qualified. when you say egregious. rights violations might pay. explain that hoover's human rights is

a very large. word well let me remind specific then let me be more specific arbitrary detention torture in force disappearances extrajudicial executions all of which your government is accused of by the un human rights groups around aisha human rights watch amnesty international the committee against torture that's what i had and i well. i wish i could accept the allegation in its entirety i will run we did i know that there have not been instances of. some disappearances. when you talk about torture there is no documented evidence of torture for the best of my. knowledge when committee against torture is certain that it's carried on for 18 li it's received report after report that it's

carried out routinely by your security forces and you would know you would have us believe that they've all got it wrong and where bangladesh i would not i would not deny it and i would not say that they have it wrong but i do also want to say that as far as the government is concerned culture is illegal and we try to make sure that carter doesn't take you know why i was objecting to the way you posed the question mr sebastian is because so many good things have happened in bangladesh. could a bangladesh is one of the spectacular successes of development yes and you're very good at promoting the successes economic successes for in front of your country and the like but that's not what i have come along about i'm not what i'm asking you

about i'm asking you about the things that have gone wrong in your country your government for instance claims 0 tolerance of corruption where the boss of transparency international bangladesh himself summed up the extent of corruption when he accused the government of going after only what he called the small fish the activities of corrupt leaders at the top are beyond our imagination he said we don't see repast investigation or effective legal action against any of those big clients so so much for the the promise of 0 tolerance for corruption. if you if you recall about 6 to 9 months ago there was a big. action against various corrupt individuals and organizations many of them have been arrested police investigation is taking place. the anti-corruption commission is an inquiry.

at the end of the day we have to follow additional process and this is a time consuming process i am not saying our process is perfect i have got faith that there isn't sometimes a political. considerations also go into it these things are true but where i object and sebastian you are such an experience. is that the great you read the picture is also one sided that you think you will really work the end up getting the wrong impression that well if i have i'm not i me painting the picture i'm relying on reports from internationally respected our organizations like human rights watch amnesty international committee again active in that it is allowing me to a balance that picture with the reality as it happened on the ground yes which is

which which you are doing but but all this is pave the way for a high profile documentary which was released this month by the al-jazeera network which alleged shocking levels of corruption among senior officials of your state and your government's immediate reaction was to brand the film false defamatory and the smear you didn't even bother to investigate 1st that's not the sponsor banani government this. inquiry is taking. it is being inquired but let me really also. ask you the title of that a documentary was all the prime minister's men and we were told that it would expose corruption around the prime minister lew relievedly that documentary succeeded in doing that was there is a single evidence which intimidated the prime minister in the alleged.

corruption i mean this this is where i think as sensible academics and journalists we should. stand back and ask ourselves what was the evidence. given to intimidate the prime minister's involvement and yes this whole document this was big. as to show how corrupt the regime countries we have come to respect looking looking at the film which was produced by al jazeera he was a television team that was able to locate 2 high level fugitives from justice convict. whose elder brother just happens to be your serving chief of the army general as this up met apparently your annoying forstmann couldn't find his brothers who were on the run but they did that's pretty embarrassing for you isn't it. certainly but on the other hand again i'm not going to be defending everything

but the way you are putting the question to me i flew it is. should a person be judged guilty because of the guilt of his brother i think this is a question we need to us now if the brother has earth if. the brother in. law has helped his brothers to invade justice to avoid. further his criminal activities this accusation would be extremely extremely. valid what happened was long long before this gentleman. became the army chief all right well let's let's just look at some of the details which came out in the film about the general general aftermath brothers 2 of them are nice and harris were found guilty of

involvement in the 1906 murder of a member of a rival party and both absconded from justice and went on the run now 3rd brother joseph was also convicted and spent more than 10 years on death row magically just before his brother as this was promoted to head of the army joseph gets a presidential pardon how did that happen is bangladesh in the habit of giving pardons to convicted murderers who gunned down their opponents on the street in cold blood is that what you did you give him a president. sebastian the certainty with which you are the king in many ways is a surprisingly and you have linked the appointment of our which he and his brothers released. into one school let me remind you it is one of our a dr no no no no no mr sebastian little one for you has to be pretty well connected to get a power for cold blood letting you know that let me give you the facts then you

draw your conclusion please let me give you the facts. the the brother in question has served about 20 years in prison that is if. law in the country that after serving a certain amount of years you may be given for were ought clemency by the president all this happened long before months and months before even the vacancy to list the brother was appointed or arose it happened completely separately this man has 35 years left in the armed forces worked his way up are with a fairly record so why should be maligned and lynn lynn these 2 stories together i would like you to look at this time i would

like you to look at the timeline of the 2 events these are 6 months apart all right ok talk to me 3 the point is also which the film brought out is that your army chief knew perfectly well where his 2 other brothers were the ones that were on the run and apparently didn't tell the relevant authorities is not worth investigating it would be worth investigating but please also you know as much as i do what this gentleman outside the jurisdiction of bangladesh. and yet if this information had been available we would have tried to have extracted extradited them and provided we had an extradition treaty with this book and in fact in many cases we have done and there is no reason to believe that we would not

have done and you are quite right. that if this had provision had been available to the government the government would have taken action well perhaps this is all just too close to the higher echelons of power are too dangerous to delve into in the fact that nobody in your country wants to delve too deeply into suspicions of high level corruption do that too many people disappear and end up dead if they say the wrong thing and ask the wrong questions don't say fact of life in your own country no dodo this is the best year. we we are proud however perfect we have proud of our liberal democratic system we are proud that we have a prime minister who has. very low in tolerance of corruption our armed forces a family under civil control and therefore who says that.

corruption is connected at the high level but how do you get how is it how is it then that in a state which is supposed to have a functioning justice system that these 2 fugitive brothers of your army chief anderson harris convicted murderers actually a report we turn to return to back are in broad daylight in 2019 to celebrate a family wedding. there aren't many fugitive killers who can shop in a big society wedding mingle with the president of dignity a mess they have protection right at the top you know that as well i do i we are we are both you are absolutely right if it was known to anyone that this gentleman have returned to bangladesh. immediately they would have been apprehended there is no. question about it but they were pictured at the wedding doctrine let let let let let us know i mean military club

to convict murders uncles of the bridegroom happily celebrating with everyone else we at telescoping something that happened over 25 years. into a single incident the the brothers had committed a crime in 1906. long before gen and this had even joined the army as a cadets we now. go forward 25 years later and we are saying that these 2 men came back to bangladesh and if they did and as the photographs had yes this was absolutely a great failure of our. just

a distraction and the. immigration police in the airport that is the question about that but you will also have to understand that these people had acquired different passport which unless it was known to the government unless that was on the watch list. it is quite easy for them to have slipped in along with thousands of other people who come in and wow i am not running for one moment suggesting that this has not been a failing of the government it has done a lot of different. that's arisen. in a democracy with the kind of free press that you've claimed exists in bangladesh all these allegations from al-jazeera would be plastered all over the newspapers in the broadcast media but hands of a.