take a closer look at the story now we can speak to journalist island t.v. who is in kabul and we have banned recruits standing by for us and brussels welcome to you both band let's start with you in brussels actually blink and they're essentially saying what sounded like mission accomplished and this will be the top of the agenda today in brussels with that big nato meeting scheduled that we mentioned what do we expect to come out of this. the foreign ministers and the defense ministers of nato would certainly endorse the american plans to pull out the troops by september and they will discuss how to organize this pull out because you have 9500 troops still in afghanistan from 34 countries germany for example is the 2nd biggest to deploy so this may be be a topic because the taliban are threatening to attack these troops and you know you have to make sure how to get them out the americans the big bone of this whole operation they have to stay to the very end to secure the other troops and there

will be discussions about mission accomplished yes on the one hand al qaeda is gone there's no imminent terrorist threat from guns on anymore but after 20 years 3500 dead soldiers and 2 in one trillion u.s. dollars spend you also have to say the other mission is not accomplished afghanistan is not to secure a state and it's very certain that the taliban at some point take over afghanistan again and then nobody knows what will happen there ali let that brings us to you you know give us an idea of how this huge announcement is going down. so it's base it's one of those things that has been coming people have been waiting for an answer and now the answer is finally here there's a firm date for once and so that leaves people in 2 states you know there are some people who are very afraid of what will happen on september 12th 2022 who worry very much for our system which well it doesn't 21 who worry very much about you

know the people and what will happen and whether they will be attacked and whether the bottle take over and also people who you know suffered from drone strikes or separate from air strikes and night raids and had their family sent to guantanamo in the diagram prison and things like that who you know will be relieved that this force that they saw as you know very violent towards them is finally withdrawing this really as a milestone moment ali coming back to you in brussels a bad you know 2 months ago we heard nato c.n. start very saying there would be no premature withdrawal of nato troops what has changed in that time that nato is now re approaching the strategy there on the on the ground in afghanistan nothing has changed but we have a new administration in washington in place also the biden administration wants to get out of coniston after 20 years to end these endless wars as they say in washington and so nato is just following the american lead here and it's very

difficult because you don't know what will happen then afghanistan and there are no conditions attached anymore to the poor so they will go no matter what and this for example is an invitation for the taliban just to wait and then to take over the country that is something many in afghanistan fear ali you know looking now 20 years after the u.s. entered afghanistan how has the country changed. there's definitely been a lot of change a lot of advancement a lot of regaining of rights. you know democracy has slowly taken hold even though you know it's been very flawed along the way so there has been a lot of change and we have to remember that when the taliban came to power in 1960 it was in the middle it was towards the people were just looking for a way out of that war a way out of that killing and destruction but now you know the odds of people accepting some kind of a tall

a bond of 1906 again it's very slim it's very small. so that's the question is if the told one does come back in any capacity what is their vision of how they will actually rule whether that's part of the government or as the head of the government journalist i mean that if you're speaking to us from kabul and our correspondent there and recruit and brussels thank you both very much for your insights let's get a round about some other headlines iran says it will start enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity a big step towards weapons grade uranium tehran made the announcement 2 days after an explosion it blames on israeli hit a key nuclear facility the islamic republic denies that it is seeking to build a nuclear bomb south korea has condemned neighboring japan's plan to release treated radioactive waste from the fukushima nuclear plant in 2 years' time so has asked the fischel to explore possible international litigation against japan but

tokyo says disposing of the water into the pacific ocean is safe and essential in order to decommission fukushima. at least 20 children were killed in a fire at a primary school in the western african state of nature are numerous other children were injured most of them were still attending preschool a fire destroyed several classrooms and blocked exits its cause is still on no authority as have launched an investigation. the rollout of the johnson and johnson vaccine has been paused in the u.s. europe and south africa after reports of a rare blood clotting and a very small number of people health authorities said they were whole thing the use of the shot while they investigate the cases and that they were doing this out of an abundance of caution the astra zeneca jab was also recently temporarily suspended in some countries after being linked to a rare blood clot. 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. the u.s. developed vaccine uses an adenovirus to trigger immunity the same mechanism as the astra zeneca vaccine janson accounts for roughly 5 percent of vaccines delivered so far in the u.s. . so i had a j. and j. vaccine 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 days after that so he'd like me to go and so yeah hi i'm just hoping that i don't think that it's going to happen you know if you know anybody that legit. 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. magical i imagine there will be repercussions as we're waiting for millions of doses but this means the controls are working so if we need to be cautious we need to be cautious. then . 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 let's get some more perspective on this story with mohamed when there is a viral i just add lancaster university and they u.k. mohamed it's good to have you back on the you do you think that it was the right

decision to pause the johnson and johnson vaccine rollout. to the number of vaccines that if you can get them in the united states as the report indicated majority of them being by pfizer going to the small fortune 5 percent and johnson and this that block blocking can somehow is not being reported in the pfizer and they're not lax and. large scale so this means that there is some serious concerns that need to be considered before launching the whole oh so and then doc is the medical procedure be there any concerns are raised on the last implication post that you haven't time enough to where we think that at and if there is any link then that is something that need to be can see there is no. ok so authorities are taking every precaution here but why do you think that the lay of this rollout will mean for that's a nation effort here in europe where it's also been possible. i think it is

certainly a setback because not only in the european union but also as you know in the sort of seek out the answers they're all oh gosh this vaccine and this vaccine has a certain unique fact is that it's a single shot probably the only single sort of action that you know food can be stored or gravity to do it it can break here and many of the countries we're considering using we don't some don't see that as a comer do to us there's an ego and johnson and johnson was probably one of the few axioms that have safety profile against all 1000 eikenberry and which is one of the most transmissible pathogenic and can't escape the immunity and although all my major concern is that johnson and johnson have been a big part of the pullbacks facility for the european council sort of the low and middle income companies so they have committed around $500000000.00 for all their acts and if this part were continuing or would be a setback for this flexing so he would be a big damage to the last single moment not only didn't develop the nation but also in the developing nations you mentioned that the astra zeneca as you said the

source also then pause in several countries what do you think this means for vaccines like sputnik and some of the vaccines from china do you think that they are the next ones which could that could also be stopped because they all belong to the same group of viral vector vaccines the same type. so absolutely so i mean this is very important because if this link is associated with the johnson joins with the guardian the blood clogs and the same as with any cutback i mean it is more associated is that the technology that is being used not because of the vaccine so this also means this could be all the sign of form from the china and from there has to respect to billy these all of them they're all using the same technology tools also need to be consider well it was simpler all major problem is that most of those maxime inevitable been deployed we don't really have much data on to make me want to sign it and so it's used to experimentally dig into i think that's going to give not much more clues that it is more associated with the technology or it is all that on the vaccine we'll have to leave it there mohamed money or

a virus is just that the lead caster university thank you so much for your insights thanks for having me now infections in india have reached a record daily high almost 185000 cases were recorded on wednesday with the total so far nearly nearing $14000000.00 despite the soaring infections hundreds of thousands of devout hindus have packed a religious festival gathering to bathe in the sacred ganges river in the holy city of how the indian authorities have blamed festivals as well as political rallies and complacency for a spike in cases daily infections in india have risen 7 fold in a month let's go right to delhi our correspondent michelle gys was standing by for us there. how worried are people about these rapidly rising numbers. some even numbered some death from the steep dead of flying especially in the bad them just boss months and they pretty interesting enough excuse to do what 40 or

put 121-121-3000 cases already opulent of pursuits but that has given them to want to buy it just now wasn't that the lowest was in high enough but nothing illustrates not a much higher than yes people speak that those journalists 100000 cases and it's almost doubled as off the last week or so on this jeff no keith and sun's stance on shouting down with more and more destruction suspects well it's 2 states but it also concerns about the lack of political q.b. they've you know and of course these massive gatherings are not helping these massive gatherings 4 big religious festivals nimish and also these big state elections that are coming up so campaign rallies so what are authorities doing to try to slow the spread but it's only going to get national a potties the national government for example does go in sat it steps that have been declared the national politics and politicians have insisted that all that

have full is basically if you must be abided by the must on all 4 vaccinations the prime minister recently declared a 40 vaccination best simply taking cottage john out but on the other hand oddly enough it didn't box even in these political the aisle means autocrats to go to like the one on the banks of the get you even though that was just but you know they got to impose multiple it was at least as well out as actually just festivals steam occupying it the measure was the state of iraq and it was the states claritin yet not john and symbols and some instructions as. to devotees and emissions as well with the latest there from delhi thank you. now the health authorities here in germany are sounding the alarm about the growing number of covert $1000.00 cases today's figures show a huge increase in the 7 day average to more than $150.00 confirmed infections per

100000 people hospitals have been pleading with the government to tighten restrictions doctors also point out that the average age of 1000 patients in intensive care units is getting. so good i'm on the 1st. course after almost 3 i might have busting cough doctors and nurses fighting for the life of a 51 year old father with kovan 19 in this intensive care unit termes 3rd wave of the pandemic has been hospitalizing younger victims since the more contagious british variant took hold. you're seeing a significant drop in age most of our corona patients are between 40 and 60 years old they're much younger than the 2nd wave. and we're also seeing a more aggressive disease because these younger intensive care patients are into baited and have to fight a long time and it's still a dangerous sometimes fatal disease.

despite repeated warnings from health care workers about the urgency of the situation room lawmakers are mired in a fierce political debate over restrictions imposed to fight the pandemic a new law to fight kovan $1000.00 is in the works and a decision is due friday but doctors on the front lines are frustrated. it is difficult when you're here every day fighting for patients up to see that on the other hand the measures to protect against the spread of coronavirus are naaman off to control infections so. the question remains how many more germans have to die before lawmakers do something substantial to stop the surge of covert 19. for more on the story we can speak now to dr

nikolai. the head of the health department of berlin's district. welcome to d w let's take a look at the situation here in berlin the number of covert 1000 cases here is growing so can you tell us how health officials and also intensive care units here are coping well there's 7 days into dense is growing to $120.00 per $1000.00 in berlin and here especially in the district of north korea we have actually had 7 days incidence of a $180.00 the i.c.u. situation in this district is that we have $21.00 bats and they're pretty much busy . he's actually that the system of i.c.u. baths and booking system is a centralized it's a system called safe in which patients get this bit of the old buildings hospitals which as i say you units we saw in a report that this disturbing trend that the patients who are in intensive care

units are growing ever younger is that something that you're seeing as well. right that's the situation and with the younger age there may be the good news that the prognosis is much much better than in older patients but the number of patients that this. really is a problem in the moment you know ok so with the intensive care beds filling up the number of infections here in berlin rising what would your message to the government be right now what needs to be done to curb infections well 1st of all the government is planning for federal emergency brake to pitfalls 1st the bell weather or signal system actually is solely based on a 7 days incident indicator which is quite poor and also quite unspecific a signal to detect it in logical effects and 2nd. the government plan

as a couple of of probations and from the scientific point of view there are a lot of prohibitions actually which simply do not make sense and this is this makes the whole point actually vulnerable even for just the. arguments so we need. predictability of legal decisions in the communities to to be in action so all together this plan is not really a break and dr sense that how worried are you personally about what we're witnessing right now in germany. well i think germany has a great health system and we have all the hospitals all the doctors. what needs now is actually 3 things 1st of all we need to can use our vaccination program and i mean really we need to to start with our tour book 2nd we need more

testing this is also very crucial in containing the situation of the virus and and 3rd very important is we need to communicate i mean we the authorities we need to raise an understanding of for the containment and for for all the measures we take and maybe the last thing is if we're talking about the lockdown then maybe we should really talk about a real lockdown so to speak a shutdown like part of god did for have to leave it there dr nicholas i was gonna head of the health department of berlin's district thank you very much i think now the white police officer who shot a black driver 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 he hoped this would help the calm the situation but protesters took to the streets for the 3rd night in a row on tuesday despite a curfew tensions are also being sealed by the trial of the police officer charged

with killing george floyd in the same city. 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. i. don't hear 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 night by accident. and. both the office and the local police chief have now stepped down but that's not enough for many here not far from went on to 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 floyd and roy it's stooge united in grief. they're very much. doubt very much. you know my son he don't have a dad his dad will get to see him for his 2nd birthday or for any of his birthdays and i'm just all messed up about it because like i feel like they stole my son's death from her. maybe 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 brought up there. meanwhile inside the courtroom on day 12 of the george floyd trial the prosecution rested its case and derek shaven stiffens started presenting their arguments. they will try and prove that chav ins use of force was

not excessive and that it was drugs in poor health that were killed floyd availability of the next witness the outcome of this case could either mock a step in healing racial wounds or it could further inflame the tensions that are being felt here in minneapolis and fabiano was. let's get a reminder now of our top story. the rollout of the johnson and johnson vaccine as then almost in the u.s. europe and south africa after reports of rare blood clotting in a very small number of people health authorities says they were holding the use of the shocked while they investigate the cases and that they were doing this out of an abundance of caution. to. thank you for watching the 4 we go rolling stones legend make chakkar has teamed up with dave grohl of the soon fighters to release

a pandemic which jagger says was inspired by coming out of lockdown let's take a listen now to the track easy sleezy thank you for watching.

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