virus vaccines reached south africa she resigned from her post in a public hospital because she didn't feel safe anymore. oh ok since i still smack scenes reached south africa she resigned from her post in a public hospital because she didn't feel safe anymore. oh ok senses are still as curious as they were when i checked. in case you thought you know which i feel is a huge response to you and shows that after all these years you know the odds of some of us a former colleague made this video of civil here she is wearing full personal protective equipment but she says that in the hospital where she worked it was either not available or inadequate sits on the worked in intensive care and as a midwife she's been at home since she left at the end of the year even though she feels guilty about leaving she believes she did the right thing. medical staff are

badly needed but her life has to come 1st. hundreds of doctors and nurses in south africa have already died from cope with 19. i really felt as though i was working in a system that didn't really care about my own life and without was going to make it to tomorrow or not you know especially seeing all the how with this dying the tributes online you can help but think that that's going to be unix. those fears are justified only a few $100000.00 people in south africa have been vaccinated there aren't enough doses to go around at the current rate it would take 16 years to vaccinate the whole population south africa would like to manufacture its own vaccines but the patents are all registered overseas the only way i'd go back is if i would be able to control you know my exposure to illnesses you know and if i am exposed to

illnesses make sure that i have the corrects effective. civil but also needs to be vaccinated but while she's no longer working as a doctor she doesn't mind waiting. and we are now joined by howard catton he is the c.e.o. of the international council of nurses which recently how they were with the african health workers thank you so much for your time sir can you tell us what the situation is right now in the hospitals in south africa. they are close to being overwhelmed to start off are exhausted some are some of scared as well there are issues with numbers of beds scarcity of of i.c.u. beds and of oxygen supplies as well this is of the jane j. vaccine it's it's a temporary and it's a precautionary measure people worried about vaccines being developed quickly and

actually this shows us the detail the scrutiny that's being given to these vaccines we just need to let the scientists and the experts look at the evidence the numbers from the u.s. i think there was 6 cases where there'd been clots out of something like 66000000 and it's not clear whether there's a causal link or or not but the key issue here is to make sure that health care workers and nurses do get a vaccine as quickly as possible for for their health and safety and protection absolutely indeed and that's why i'm wondering what impact does it have to this in this temporary suspension of the change a shot. we are really concerned that there is a gross inequality around the world in terms of the access to vaccines out of all the vaccines that have been delivered administered only about 2 percent have gone to the african continent wealthy countries use their economic might to

preorder and buy are millions more doses than one needed an across the range of vaccines is a form of hoarding and control the consequences of that are that we're seeing younger and less vulnerable people receiving the vaccines in some high income countries before nurses health care workers in africa and vulnerable people in other places as well it could be 202020202324 all populations in some countries are vaccinated more people will die as a result of this inequality there is a an absence of vacuum of moral leadership which i think g 20 leaders need to step up to but also to recognize is actually is in a self interest to make sure that vaccines are shed can you describe for us just the working conditions that critical health workers currently have to deal with in the south africa. they are dealing with many many more critically

ill patients than they normally would do nurses say used to very sick people and and you know bedsteads numbers close to full but this is putting people in a situation where often they're not sure where the free bed will become available from their working conditions wearing p.p.a. for you know long long shifts is really difficult particularly in hate the mental health strengthens pressures that people are under as well just with so many sick people and then often having to stand in the shoes of relatives who can't visit you know the last hand people are holding might be that of the of of the nurse so it's not just the physical it's the emotional burden that it's putting on our stuff and that's why we must do everything we can to protect and make sure they have p.p. but they are prioritized and get the vaccine as quickly as possible howard catton

a c.e.o. of the international council of nurses in geneva i thank you for your time thank you. on how to research from the field of physics that scientists say could be a major breakthrough in our understanding of the universe well it all has to do with the behavior of sub atomic particles called my arms while experimenting every lab near the u.s. city of chicago have shown that they move at a rate that's faster than expected potentially a larking the secrets of a previously undiscovered 5th force of nature. this could be the door to a whole new world of physics for years researchers have been using this ring made of super conducting magnets to accelerate the tiniest building blocks of matter called nuance until they're almost as fast as the speed of light that's when they can observe how myans interact with other forces and particles. and the results

show that beyond actually behave completely different to how current theory says they should up until now something called the standard model explained all subatomic particles and their characteristics such as charge mass and lifespan but scientists have observed with the behavior of these new on suggest particles and forces exist outside of the theory. everything that we can see in our universe everything around us can be explained by a few building blocks these blocks describe the standard model of particle physics . one group of these particles makes up matter. the other's transfer force this theory can explain 3 of these forces but the 4th force gravity can't be explained in this way this is the force that keeps planets

in their orbits and better fix everything that has mass. when the universe was created by the big bang these 4 forces combined that's why the standard model can't explain what exactly happened at the beginning of time. the myans experiment could help us plug these fundamental gaps in our scientific knowledge and help us solve mysteries that have been confusing astrophysicists for decades. but 1st more exact measurements and testing needs to be carried out to make sure the myans unexplained behavior really can be attribute it to a known particles forces. all right these are exciting times let's talk to your him cop a scientific staff member at cern the european organization for nuclear research mr

kopp how excited are you how big of a deal is this. i would say i'm cautiously excited that this has been a result that's been in the making for years. me and my colleagues we've all been very much anticipating this reside and now that it's out and it seems to confirm that indeed there may be something wrong with the stand up model we are excited but it is still too early to be sure so it's. not a less likely that this resides is just a measurement error but of course it still route needs further scrutiny because before we can really be sure that we are on to something really big how right so we are cautiously excited it will take that we heard in the report this could be for get an unknown force or or unknown particles explain to us laypeople what does that mean. so it means that the

mean on to appear to be feeling some force that cannot be accounted for by the known forces of nature so in nature there are 4 fundamental forces that we know of gravity the electromagnetic force and the strong force and that we can care force. but when we tried to calculate the properties of them you want taking all of these fossils into account then we cannot exactly reproduce to 6 per mental result we can do it in calculations with an incredible precision and we can do experiments with an incredible precision incredible precision here means and a curacy of maybe a pop in a 100000000 or so. and at that level the prediction and the experiments seem to disagree with one another and we have to figure out what the reason for that is now in effect that anomaly go ahead go ahead. in fact that anomaly had 1st been observed some 50 years ago already but at the time it was basically one experiment reporting this. the big d.

in the how is that there's not an experimental confirmation of that so there's no 2 independent experiments confirming this and that it's quite sure that this is not just an experimental problem right now scientists like yourself say that this is covering it could help explain some of the big mysteries about the universe what i think hoping to discover what are you hoping to discover what. now might be hope is . that 1st that there is indeed a discovery that there is indeed a new force in nature and that maybe that force has something to do with another big mystery namely the mystery of the document in the universe the reason i'm hopeful for this is that this force that we are talking about here that could explain this anomaly that's been observed in the experiment it from 11 years chicago this for us would have to be incredibly weak similar to the forces by which documented couples to politic us so the hope would be that there is

a connection but of course there is no proof whatsoever that this is the case that we need for the experiments or the theoretical started to make progress on that question while exciting times now on the last mr yohimbe a cup from a cern's the department of theoretical physics thank you for your time great talking to you thank you. all right coming up next indeed every news asia's a luxury liquor that's become china's biggest company and a symbol of power and corruption. that and a whole lot more it coming our right out in the w. news a shot all sealed up we are. the

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. i'm british by magic welcome to dr news asia glad you could join us it's the look of china's elite and. powerful mao tie a famous brand of chinese distil spirit is the preferred drink for high powered communist party officials and features regularly in private gatherings that closeness to the party elite gives the company advantages when it comes to expanding its business interests but is building follows a chinese journalist investigating now ties alleged violations of the law. normally exposes crime and corruption cases now the investigative journalist is on his way to china's most famous lake effect. you know you can already smell the alcohol here at. the southern chinese town of multis also the name of the liquor

produced here the multi distillery is china's most valuable company worth more than the country's biggest back china's political elite is partially to it and us some of the bottles cost several $100.00 euros you says they are the perfect gift to greeks that we did your talent we are corrupt officials prefer multimeters they only drink the most expensive brands but. this alcohol is the most expensive and their love for it lets the prices rise even more jaguars will be the one. the liquor factory takes up large swaths of multi-ton and many more are trying to profit from the big name within sight of the state owned giant is the distillery a family business. customers and people in the industry know that there's a limit to the production capacity of matai that's where we come in and the government lets us follow the lead of the mt i company and profit from them and

that brings in some wealth to us people here of what. his company uses the same distilling techniques the grain is for men to unearth it's the pits give it a pungent aroma minutes and of soy sauce many people outside of china find hard to swallow. the mashes fermented in a dry state during the distillation process steam passes through the mash and releases the. ball and says the liquor mostly to individuals as well as companies they produce special editions for weddings and company any verse or. intimate relationship between china's communists and the spicy liquor began in the 1930 s. when communist troops hid in the area from their nationalist inverse or ease. after they came to power they turned the factory into a state owned enterprise. so i can provide them with liquor. a job i found

a expropriated the factory. and the owner who refused to hand over his business was executed. these close links to the ready lead have caught the old whose attention he's been tipped off that model type also produces in a neighboring town a violation of the who was on geographic origin so he goes to take a look. he finds the company's constructing vast production facilities there. near england and nobody cares what they do here and it's as if the government agencies which should control him don't exist. it's another piece of evidence for the book he is planning to write on china's most valuable company. and for more on this i'm joined now in the studio by clifford goonan from beat up a business he spent many years in the china correspondent. welcome you spent i

think what 15 years in china and during all that time did you develop a taste for. what i drank a lot of us. i don't know if that's entirely thing i do if it's very fair developed a taste 1st basically mao tie lubricated the wheels of commerce in china as it was opening up all through the 2 thousands and it was impossible to go anywhere without being facing these bank with these enormous food bank was at the end of which would be. would be vast quantities of drunk so explain to us this lubrication process explain to us the status that this company enjoys in china's elite well it's huge it's just it was associated with because i mean it's weddings it's not business banquets it's everywhere it's really very very central to how things are done so it became a really it became a status symbol because each different variety is priced differently and one time i had a interesting experience a chinese new year with an air force colonel who was

a relative of a friend we were spending chinese new year there and he had a 1500 euro bottle in a squeegee was a squeegee bottle and a plastic bottle it did not look on its smells like petrol but this was a huge status symbol so it's really really central to the outside of the culture and just for reference i mean 1500 euros is way more than the monthly salary in china isn't it absolutely i think it would have been 3010 times the monthly salary so from one squeegee bottle. to the corruption scandals that have dogged this company well all the way towards the late latter part of who jintao has rein in towards the end of 200-2012 when she didn't bring into power it was very much in my enmeshed in the whole corruption scandals that were going on we had tales of codgers who were who were drinking themselves literally to death at banquets who were with gold watches up their arms and it was all these sort of stories which. when she jinping came in one of the things one of the reasons he made himself so popular was he cracked down on this but at the same time it's how this residual

effect you know it's how this residual popularity it's been able to stay popular it's still got the association with corruption but it's also still so popular and part of the culture that it's managed to become you know as you see in china is china's biggest company now i want to speak. against corrupt officials in your quote rather something around 20132014 when he was cracking down on state banquets which went on for hours on and still continues to be popular is that not a contradiction in terms of what xi jinping was trying to do well i think it's i think a lot of it is cultural just like expensive whisky in in europe or in america is in india and it's very you know people like the more expensive stuff but also people it's still very popular you know i thought it was in have to be as expensive there's a bit of a face element so i think that's what's kept it going and also so much of what's going on in sort of the private sector in china now is also sort of they're still

drinking them out. it's been taken out of that maybe to the state sector and brought into the private sector we leave it there for the time being terrific woman thank you very much for joining us in the studio for that. bilateral relations between india and france are in focus during french foreign minister. 3 day visit to india on tuesday he met to indian foreign minister. both sides are keen to expand cooperation in what's become known as the pacific region cooperation in the matter time domain is an essential part of the relationship as was evident in the recently concluded naval exercise a ruse with so french an indian naval vessels on maneuvers with those from other nations. and joining me now is former indian ambassador to france rockish soon he's got a plea a distinguished fellow at the think tank the observer he searched foundation in delhi a masters who the welcome now foreign minister 3 and visit is in the wider context

of the so called into pacific region what does france expect from india. france's. i think the 1st of the european countries that has because of its longstanding presence in bullets the indian ocean as well as in the pacific because of its overseas territories i'm talking about the french polynesian islands and the new caledonia in this ific and i'm talking of the reunion islands in the western indian ocean therefore france is only is had shared the notion of the in the pacific in the same manner that india is and nol what is happening is that all other european countries have come out with a indo-pacific strategy papers germany and the netherlands so i think this concept

is something that has quarter on and you which says it is working on it in the pacific strategy. paper that at the moment even as we speak so it is quite natural that the matter of time cooperation reflected in the shared perception of the in the pacific would be a major bilateral cooperation and discussion during foreign minister elysium visit i'd like to focus a bit on this a matter of time bought a ship that you were fighting to both countries india and france the naval vessels what reason you're part of the french they will exercise la perouse and they'll be beginning a bilateral exercise vote or not in about 2 weeks time what is the component of this is this essentially a security component in the in the pacific been looking at. well what has been taking place for more than trained no.

it is a bilateral naval exercise between the french in the indian navies and this year. it is i think we will also have an aircraft carrier group on both sites each participating in the exercise the exercise look the rules that you just referred to which has taken place earlier this month. is an exercise that in war the 4 coordinations as well as france indicating the french willingness and desire to be. relationship with the board as well as you know court is not an alliance because india is not an ally india is not an ally of the united states unlike say japan or australia but that war is a partnership because the full countries share the vision often open and independent gender specific which operates according to rule of law not that is

a principle that france also shares with the members of the quarter and hence the exercise look at who's all about that india and france also have a shared vision of a blue economy because of the long coastline that india has and the coastal communities which are particularly vulnerable at times of climate change and the island communities that france has as i mentioned earlier both in the new notion and in the pacific therefore france is also acutely conscious of the need for sustainable economies you know about 30 seconds if we could just talk a bit about the bilateral ties between india and france and one of the other areas of this relationship. well france and india have been strategic partners since 1998 other ties and of course the economic ties particularly in the field of smart cities high technology in the field of biotechnology in the field of

space space cooperation and in the field of counterterrorism and intelligence sharing these formed the pillars of the by the actual strategic partnership that has been in existence for trance since 1908 we leave it there for the time ema thank you so much for joining us ambassador rockers speaking from denny thank you so much. more now website they're back for more of the same time to learn about. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19. on t w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most

successful radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable charcoal production all of a sow's are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters to mindanao. in one part of the world a race to vaccinate. in another the long white. richer countries have plenty of funding and plentiful vaccine doses poor countries that need a they could be years before summer fully vaccinated friesen setbacks with the most accessible vaccines astra zeneca and johnson and johnson on to helping global

vaccination at to speak what does it mean for lives and livelihoods and can anything be done to prevent it. well india is now the world's 2nd worst affected country it's a past brazil putting it only behind the united states the increase in inventions could affect the world's vaccine supply india is. because producer many parts are running short of supplies as in occupations expand due to the surge in cases this comes as hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims gathered at the ganges for a ritual bath as part of the comella festival a low thirty's made efforts to offer coronavirus testing most participants have been wearing masks or distancing themselves best of all their rallies have being blamed for the spread of the virus in india denmark is completely drops using the astra zeneca vaccine and more countries delaying the introduction of the johnson and johnson single shot after the us authorities recommended

a suspension the european union and south africa said they won't be administering the job for now they've been reports of rare blood clots similar concerns with the astra zeneca vaccine probably countries including germany to restrict its use the delay comes as a blow for developing countries they've been counting on the 2 vaccines. and that's raising questions about when widespread vaccination coverage will be achieved by the end of the year in high income countries middle income nations will have to wait another year and poor places not before 2023 if at all a key factor holding back the vaccination drive is peyton's nick did and is director of global justice part of an international movement to challenge the powerful nick how different would things be if these farm firms didn't have peyton's on their vaccines. well we would be able to ramp up production much more

easily then we currently can i mean at the moment we have an artificially constrained supply precisely because all the manufacturers in the world who want to produce dispensing conte in less that he specifically licensed by the company that owns the peyton's and when you bury mines an awful lot of these products were made with public money. huge amounts of money coming from governments like the us government european governments and international institutions is just really scandalous so we've handed over we privatized this knowledge through peyton's to a handful of big corporations who are now deciding who in the world gets this vaccine and who does us and timing you know across africa where we're seeing the most awful wave of corona virus spreading even frontline health workers haven't been vaccinated meanwhile in rich countries like my own people who are far less at risk of this disease are getting vaccinated ahead of those who need it more i

thought i was living in a great place germany but i'm still playing for my shot we have a vaccine which is fantastic but i keep hearing there are production problems but then as you say we're not even using all the production capacity out there because the peyton's prevent that is that right. that's exactly right so some of the biggest vaccine produces in the world are not producing coronavirus vaccines simply because when they tried to create their own back seen it didn't work and they don't have what they call and they have to. give up their production facilities their factories and then manufacturing capacity to produce the vaccines that we've got so it's absolutely great that we've got these vaccines like you say an awful lot of public capacity and public money has gone into creating these vaccines but it's you know we have factories across the world who could produce hundreds of millions more vaccines including in europe it was saying we want to produce this vaccine give us the technical know how and big pharma companies are saying no we're going to keep

this to ourselves and unfortunately rich countries like our own standing behind them a lap and allowing them to do that exactly i'd like to point that out and give our viewers a couple of examples but then as vaccine is being nearly entirely funded by u.s. taxpayers it's being sold at basically a fully commercial price on the other hand we have others like astra zeneca who are saying ok we're going to sell it for much less but they still have the pain rights over supply which means people like me still haven't been vaccinated i mean don't politicians get it that they allowing these companies basically to run amok on. they are they absolutely are. and you're absolutely right about astra zeneca i mean look these companies aren't all the same of course we think it's great that astra zeneca rosette they won't be profiting joining the un demick although i should point out that they can decide when the pandemic is over and at that point they will begin profiting i know with a company like astra zeneca there was some research done a just

a couple of weeks ago which found that the amount of public money that had gone into research and development public and charitable money of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine was about 97 to 99 percent in other words the company has put virtually no money into research and development they've then been given at least $2000000000.00 to ramp up their manufacturing into trials and so on this company hasn't created this vaccine had a university created the vaccine and they then been helped to scale up manufacturing sure paid them for the work they've done but don't for goodness sake allow them to keep up for 20 years and decide who gets it and who doesn't get it and when you do that you've seen yourself i mean even here in the rich world the argument now between the british government and the european union over the contract signed with astra zeneca this is just nonsense it's a public health emergency we need international cooperation not a very very small group of people deciding who gets this in what order only politicians in south africa and india have proposed a temporary suspension of coronavirus peyton's the w t

o like the idea there are signs the u.s. does too why isn't that gaining more traction. well this is really interesting and it's exciting that we didn't expect this to happen quickly so you know it's going to take a while to put this pressure on but the pressure is building we've now got holly wood stars and celebrity you've got former world leaders calling for this to happen and i mean absolutely amazing that apparently the biden administration is considering this proposal from south africa and india to waive titan's that would be an absolute game change it if it happened to date almost all rich countries have so i did with the pharmaceutical industry presumably believing it helps that country's economy in some way if a pharmaceutical industry makes a lot of a lot of money in the country it's based in we completely dispute that and we hope as a result of the problems we're seeing around the world that politicians are going to begin changing their minds on this after all it's really not acceptable that governments like my own can tell south africa or india where there are huge

problems getting vaccines into their own populations there's no problem don't worry about it the market will salt will solve everything in the long run it's not acceptable and we hope that that case is now being allowed and save around the world most countries of the global south demanding a different way of doing this and by the way that different way of doing it isn't just going to help us get out of coronavirus which is really important of course of the foremost of all minds now but it's going to get out to the situation we've got of the moment when most countries in the world are dependent on their medicine supplies coming from a small handful of countries that's no way to run a global research and development medicine there's no way to reduce medicines and if i wait internationally and we need to start. a different means of collaborating on medical research of factories being based all around the world so that people can have a lot more security on where that vaccines are coming from and that's going to be

a big issue for coronavirus because this is unlikely to go away any time soon we've seen that now but for all manner of other diseases we need to have a far more distributed and not a factoring system around the world and i hope that this could be the moment this could be the wakeup call where we begin to develop that new kid in director of global justice thanks for being on the show again that's a pleasure. the what about people who don't want the vaccine hysterical use. how does the refusal to be vaccinated correlate with an increase in mutated virus. this question is one that anyone refusing a vaccine needs to think about on and hard to try to answer it let's 1st go over some basics and that everyone should be able to agree on number one like all viruses sars kovi 2 regularly mutates producing new versions of

itself that we call variants that's not up for debate number 2 more of those variants will of course appear when more people are infected. 3 the chance that random mutations could alter the coronavirus for the worse like making it for instance more contagious or a more deadly the chance rises along with the number of people the virus infects so so for logically to limit the chances of even more possibly dangerous mutations arising we have to limit viral spread to new hosts effectively limiting how often the virus replicates the vaccines that we have appear to do that very well by making recipients a lot less likely to catch the disease which is why the choice to be vaccinated is

not just a personal one but a social one as well even if you say yes to vaccines you could potentially become infected but the chances are much greater if you say no which you might consider to be your choice and you're right but it unfortunately doesn't stop there that she. wastes not only poses a potential danger to other unvaccinated people around you which is bad enough it also potentially offers the virus more opportunities to mutate into something possibly even worse for all of us like a variant that's resistant to current versions of our most powerful defense against it vaccines. there are volumes there before we go sri lankans have been mocking the start of the

sinhalese and tamil new year after coronavirus restrictions or east people visited hindu and buddhist temples in the evening before their biggest annual holiday last year's festivities the band due to the crisis this year they've been allowed to go ahead with small scale celebrations and social distancing case numbers have been falling since february. let's hope it stays that way thanks for watching stay safe we'll see you again soon.

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