player. play. this is news live from our lead but global vaccination drive suffers a setback u.s. regulators recommend causing the use of the johnson and johnson shocks after reports of rare blood clots the company says that it's now into letting its european roll out. also coming up the u.s. is reportedly planning to withdraw all of its troops from afghanistan by september 11th this year but with peace still far from being secured what will this mean for the stability of the country and in minneapolis the city is on edge

a 3rd day of protests over the fatal shooting of a black man by police and in the same city as the trial of the police officer charged with murder in george floyd continues with the defense arguing the use of force against him was justified. i'm sorry welcome to the program. the rollout of the johnson and johnson vaccine has been caused to the u.s. europe and south africa after reports of rare blood clotting in a very small number of people health authorities say that they were that they were halting the use of the shot while they investigate the cases and that they were doing this out of quote an abundance of caution now the astra zeneca jab was also recently temporarily suspended in some countries after being linked to

a rare blood clots. authorities are calling it a short pause the u.s. is johnson and johnson vaccine has hit the same stumbling block as the u.k.'s astra zeneca jab did last month a likely link to a rare and deadly blood clot use of johnson and johnson's janson vaccine has now been halted across the u.s. with health authorities investigating 6 incidents of clotting in younger women one of them fatal. in the us developed a vaccine uses an adenovirus to trigger immunity the same mechanism as the astra zeneca vaccine janssen accounts for roughly 5 percent of vaccines delivered so far in the u.s. . so i had a j. and j. that seemed appointment today and. i saw the news about it getting kind of revoked so i called and i asked and they said you can get the pfizer vaccine instead of my wife just to say that that's. like 3 days ago and so you know i'm just hoping that

i don't think that it's going to happen to her but you know anybody that that to take charge. this is a setback to europe to johnson and johnson announced it will delay its rollout on the continent the company had already started processing an order from the e.u. of 200000000 doses. your magical i imagine there will be repercussions as we're waiting for millions of doses but this means the controls are working if we need to be cautious we need to be cautious that it wouldn't get his input in the janssen job has been partially rolled out in africa where a majority of countries don't have enough vaccines even for their own health care workers the african union signed a deal for 220000000 doses this year but u.s. authorities remain hopeful they're saying it could only be a matter of days before the rollout resumes and for more on this i'm joined now by

to o.p.'s current to epidemiologists and professor at berlin's charité hospital thank you so much for joining us this morning was it the right decision to pause the vaccine. yes it is the right decision because we need to be careful this is a measure of caution to have to investigate those 6 cases 7000000 vaccines have been given to people but nevertheless this is a concern as much as it was a concern was the astra zeneca vaccine what will this delay now of the johnson and johnson rollout mean especially for europe's vaccination efforts which have already been stalled. well the whole depends how long this hold will take if it's just a few days then i think there won't be too much difference but if it this is weeks or months even that they have to delay the rollout and certainly do suppose slow down the vaccination programs in germany and europe and globally ok so what we just

have bring it into the bigger picture now i mean we we've seen you know restrictions put on on astra zeneca and some age groups now this johnson and johnson delay what could this potentially mean for vaccines for example like sputnik or vaccines from china are they the next ones which could be stopped because they're all part of this this group this viral vector vaccine group. it's speculation at this point but certainly there's a concern that this group of vaccines nations so will a cost is very rare blood clot so people and investigators and agencies look very carefully if there are any reports coming in and then look very carefully if this can be linked to do that scene or not so we have to be careful but nevertheless the real problem is to corona virus and i hope that we can continue to vaccine people as quickly as possible how about the new variants i mean we we've heard now about this this this 3rd wave for example in germany which has been acknowledged by the

chancellor is now being being the toughest what do you make of what's going on right now with the new variants and and the way that the measures in place are trying to to get the cases under control. well certainly it's a setback also develop. as you as you know are not to reacting as well to the defects in nation as the wild type and nevertheless it is important that we continue through all of the vaccination to not create more mutants invariance in the future so hopefully there will be a decision maybe the vaccine cannot be given to certain age group but it's very important that we continue to allow the vaccination programs to be as cut epidemiologists and professor at berlin charité hospital thank you so much for joining us on day happiness thank you for having me let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. iran says that it will start enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity

a big step toward weapons grade uranium to iran made the announcement 2 days after an explosion it blames on israel hit a key nuclear facility the islamic republic denies that it is seeking to build a nuclear bomb. exiled former president blaise come porter a has been charged with complicity in the murder of his predecessor he will have to stand trial in connection with the killing of thomas' son carra who he ousted in the 1987 coup the circumstances behind some cars death have been shrouded in secrecy well the u.s. is reportedly planning to withdraw all american troops from afghanistan by september 11th of this year president biden is due to announce the plans later on wednesday there are about $3000.00 american soldiers in afghanistan serving alongside some $7000.00 additional nato forces by the plan extends the may 1st

withdrawal deadline set by the trump administration by 4 months u.s. officials say that will give washington more time to coordinate orderly withdrawal with nato allies but the taliban has threatened to renew attacks if foreign forces are not out of may. for more on this let's bring in. who has the view from brussels bads this withdrawal it would mark the end of 20 years of war in afghanistan for the americans how has that gone down with washington's nato allies who rely on the u.s. for its troop presence in afghanistan. at least there's a sense of relief that there is no plan for an orderly withdrawal the trump administration wanted to leave afghanistan already on the 1st of may that would not have been workable and feasible and so the nato can plan for 4 more months and the ministers of defense and the foreign secretaries of nato will gather later

in the day in a video conference to talk about how to organize this stronger because you have to keep in mind that 9000 troops in afghanistan 2500 from the americans but 7 thousands from at least 35 other nations in germany the 2nd biggest. supplier of troops in afghanistan so all of this has to be organized now because the main goal of nato is of course to get the troops out safely and the taliban of concer already threatened that the tech troops may 1st so this would be a very difficult operation to leave gunderson after 20 years and they're threatening to attack those troops after may 1st because that is the date that the chump administration agreed to with the taliban for the u.s. withdrawal you know given that they're now talking about september about 1st of all what does this mean for the future of peace talks with the taliban and 2nd of all

what does it mean for the stability of the government in afghanistan what sort of situation could could the u.s. be leaving behind. but a spokesperson for the taliban already announced that they would not take part in the next round of so-called peace talks with afghanistan which risk turkey at the end of this months and the taliban the level of while insists is still high and of god has done it's targeting the civil population the civilians and the taliban threat to attack the troops again so this bill of caused the whole country and the troops if left it's no less sure that the taliban do take over again and that we reach the same status we had 20 years ago when nato went in ok this potential withdrawal bound also coming as nato is facing a threat much closer to home as we know that's on the russia ukraine border where

moscow has been expanding its military presence in recent weeks it's drawn sharper of ukes from nato members including the u.s. just like to hear what the u.s. secretary of state has had to say on this and they get it get your reaction there after united states stands firmly behind the sovereignty of turkey for terry ukraine that it is time warner we're seeing unfortunately. russia taking a very provocative act want to touch. the largest concentration of russian forces already since 2014. diplomacy in high gear over ukraine what's been happening that. well the native ministers really reassure ukraine certainly today of support but they will not send any troops or something to russia and they all look know a washington because president biden is inviting the president of russia vladimir

putin for a summit to solve all these issues you know the relations are very bad that they do is hoping that biden can resolve these issues down to record and brussels thank you the white police officer shot a black motorist in a scuffle in the u.s. state of minnesota has resigned the chief of police also offered to terminate his employment the mayor said that he hoped that this would help calm the situation protesters meanwhile taking to the streets for a 3rd night in a row on tuesday despite a curfew tensions are also being fueled by the trial of the same city in the same city of the police officer charged with killing a black citizen george floyd. minneapolis remains a city on edge for a 3rd day people gathered to protest the death of yet another black man at the hands of a police officer. don't you right was shot

have to use arrested during a traffic stop. police say body count footage of the officer who shot him shows that she mistook her gun for her taser shooting right by accident. oval office and the local police chief have now stepped down but that's not enough for many here not far from where don't you write was killed another black man george floyd died in the choke hold of a police officer derek shaven is currently standing trial for his murder. outside the courthouse the families of both florida and right stood united in grief . they're very much. doubt very much.

you know my son you don't have a dad his dad didn't get to see him for his 2nd birthday or for any of his birthdays and i'm just so messed up about it because i feel like they stole my son's death from her. really apple you are ok sweet devoted to her getting more that was we're here and we will fight for justice but it's family just like we'll fight bob rudd. meanwhile inside the courtroom on day 12 of the george fluid trial the prosecution rested its case and derek shaven stiffens started presenting their arguments you. they will try and prove that choose ins use of force was not excessive and that it was drugs and poor health dr kildare annoyed will believe that's what the outcome of this case could either mark a step in healing racial wounds or it could further inflame the tensions that are being felt here in minneapolis and far beyond. you're watching live from the

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