now at risk of overtaking the united states with the world's highest rates of infection and deaths. the president's opponents nowhere to point the finger. i do know but as you presume 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 about people but about government especially both. 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 slower the spread of the virus with no lockdown in sight brazil will continue to bury thousands every day. thoughts get some more perspective on the story with just barry shoop he chairs the ministerial committee on vaccines in south africa welcome

to g.w. we are seeing a very young 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 are all being rolled out or they have been just the jane jackson the pfizer vaccine which are about 2 year old out to the general population very very soon and they have been shown to be pretty high if you can see a case of the 135. but the more we see a variant spreading in brazil how much of there is this risk that we could see mutations that are then resistant to all of the existing vaccines at this point. always a worry you know this is a virus which does mutate but fortunately the 351 which seems to be the kind of against the most concerning all divisions 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 now 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 there does seem to be some evidence that is mover isn't causing most of the disease the 351 the 105 it's maybe slightly more variant but it doesn't seem to be. evidence of aggressive areas 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 and by the end of this year how realistic do you think that is. particularly that the emissions. scenes are quite easy to adjust and to tweak to make them the deaf people 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 i remember a 1st generation of vaccines i think with the 2nd generation of a it seems they will be able to come up with a 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 $1000.00 as well. i think is what happened maybe not every year doesn't seem to be as changeable as influenza virus but certainly they will need to be regular next nations if it's not annually maybe every 2nd but certainly regular vaccinations will fall to be part of how we control this virus barry. 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 now some other developments in the pandemic indonesia has announced a ban on travel during the upcoming muslim celebration of eden made to curb virus

transmission many people typically travel during the holiday iran has seen a record number of new infections for the 3rd day in a row of more than 22000 the spike follows recent persian new year holiday celebrations and 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 way several countries have restricted 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. suggested that those under 30 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 trying to fix. the european union's drug regulated 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 to fifty's 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 my 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 review has reinforced the risk of the suspected 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. here's a look at some other headlines from around the world a lesson of only has been diagnosed with 2 spinal discourage according to his lawyer the imprisoned russian opposition leader is said to have lost sensation in his legs and hands me is on hunger strike in a penal colony. rescue crews have managed to board

a cargo ship abandoned in rough seas off 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. and rescue divers have freed 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 writing rising floodwaters it took rescuers several attempts to reach him a monk is now being treated in the hospital. leaders in northern ireland have condemned a 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 peace walls earlier a bus was hijacked and set on fire police said over 50 officers have been injured in clashes with crowds authorities have accused outlawed paramilitary groups of

inciting people to riots. let's bring in henry macdonald 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 to blame if there are 3 main issues the overarching one is the protocol between britain and the e.u. which sucked of lee korea 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 cooled regulation in for example irony control and also

a general sense of knoxville ism on the march and you're seeing a response to that my year in delta and other parts of northern ireland to this is widespread it's not just in the city these are in market times on the 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 up 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 the one on the comfort of the rest of the u.k. i think that's the thing the will and the could potentially intensify violence and i think this prediction i think the next fee is all loyalist response ofter the scenes you're seeing 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 and belt law 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. security response at the end of the day to be called off our intensified by the loyalist part of the letairis ok neither is our unionist politicians you will see at the position but i think everything you can use want companies to the political . will the british government to 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. is new law is being cut off because it's in the e.u.

single market and the problem is the arguments were correct it. is poisoning the office here hostile for some time i've been warning about this coming . we see it on the streets but i think even broach dreamily turbulence some are even love them and let that thing is going to dress properly. and build them as well as on the. we'll have to leave it there author and journalist henri mcdonald speaking to us from both us thank you very much now to how a chair or the lack of one has dashed hopes for a smooth meeting to reset relations between the e.u. and turkey 2 of the european union's top leaders or is it off on the line and shot michelle visit a turkish president. in uncorrupt on tuesday but as the 3 gathered for talks there were only 2 chairs present what happened next has gone viral. it was a meeting that said hopes for a reengagement between the u.n.

toki but spending time has got off to a rocky start with 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 perch a cold or slush fund ally and 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 their relationship but the spokesman for the european commission says she wants to focus on the issues at hand . shows that marriage ties substance of the questions of form or per typical and that sets in they want european citizens would have expected of her and it's 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 nationwide protests against femicide where domestic violence and murders of women are 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 technician officials are pointing blame at the e.u. . goodish rather than join russia when i was on their request of the e.u. are meant 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 this 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 this incident and use the school kazan to play off the 2 e.u. institutions against each other because it is now in that sense of president of the council standing for the member states and also 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 in the fall out in social media was devastating as

a hash tag sprang up on her gets her chair and lucy a new member of the european parliament quipped i would have erred on the chair he visits me at home even even though he is a man so the. degre and so now there really is busy and 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 and they're robbed of tiflis diplomatic way we behave the way we did in order to sort of save the meeting that small 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 for himself 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 shock me shelly the council president just looks like a real don't and that the geisha well barbara what do you think the effect the fallout of all of this is going to be. the fallout is that the their destiny or not the 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 was the who is that missed

a lot of rough and moscow and he was being upstaged the most terrorism and of the entry to the bombing of glee and he sort of just took it was out sort of doing anything against it and so they had being made to look bad again and is just the optics is awful and particular with regard to slough underlying protesting against ankara leaving the is simple trust call i mean women being treated badly in public we needed a demonstration of that did we. right dave evans barbara visa with the latest on this story for us thank you very much now israel is marking its annual holocaust remembrance day in honor of the 6000000 jews who died in the genocide led by nazi germany. sirens blared across the country for 2 minutes this morning israeli stood in silence and traffic came to a standstill the country's leaders took part in

a wreath laying ceremony the event marks the anniversary of the 1943 warsaw ghetto uprising one of the most significant significant acts of jewish resistance to the holocaust the israeli and german air forces have been cooperated to honor holocaust victims at one of the camps where jewish people were once murdered one israeli pilot shared his experience of taking part. a joint flyby over germany and the dr concentration camp last year for the 1st time the german live in the israeli air force honored holocaust victims together for this young israeli pilot it was a very personal experience. one of us here in germany specifically to fly over over and over an issue was probably the most important thing definitely wasn't one thing that i've done in my army service and one of the most important things i've ever been a part of in my whole life and it was such a such a great symbol of how humans can get over even the worst and the darkest conflicts

and the worst things that can happen. especially for me as well my from my grandfather was a pilot in the british air force and in the 2nd world war and on my other side obviously my family was. murdered in the holocaust so for me it was very very special as an active fighter pilot he can't be for the identify and he emigrated from a steel yet to israel one of his grandfathers was a spec fire pilot in the royal air force in world war 2 a scorching raids on nazi germany he survived and moved to israel his grandson followed in his footsteps and when you think about the past and what happened you know in the darkest times 70 years ago. you know i guess the worst enemies almost and now we're flying over germany together as a tame but i think it really really shows the best side of humankind how we can forgive each other and you know we still remember the storm and what happened and

learn about it but. we can move on together and be friends meeting with other young germans was an important part of the joint military training last year another way of keeping the memory of a shared past a lie there's still people in the world. who want us to be destroyed as a country and as a people and i think that remembering what was in the past is the key so that word it won't happen again in the future. these days the art market is going digital investors are spending enormous sums on artworks that exist only in digital form until now digital art was so easy to copy that it did not make much sense financially but now that has 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 the art 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 what and there is a technical stand there to make a digital work of art were any just that any. essence unique so you get a talker well to 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 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 i. can squish time stream. 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 so right now. that . come to the market in a lot of forms with really open i didn't have much knowledge of the markets and our enemy and. 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. where we just have a quick look at sports now there were 2 champions league quarter final 1st legs played on wednesday night paris on your mom b. to defending champs byron munich 3 to thomas miller levelled the scores for the title holders but a kill in a goal settled the result for p.s. treat and shall see have the perfect night in porto a to know when as them perfectly positioned for the return leg in london. coming up next on news asia election results in south korea's biggest cities signal a big conservative swing the head of national elections next year what could that

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