have died since february according to a local monitoring group. but that hasn't stopped the protesters as they continue their fight for freedom. and the u.n. security council has stopped short of considering sanctions on myanmar because both china and russia are against it well earlier we spoke to political scientist if the heart sounds snyder and i asked him if the threat of sanctions is pushing me and mark closer to china a mere might is in china's arms even without this military coup it would be closely connected to china but the problem is what else could we do we could condemn it equips to step through sanctions and this leads us to this old and familiar debate about sanctions sanctions do have effects yes but most of the time as we can see in russia and in many other cases they do not have the intended effects they are

created for so i would have my doubts whether strong words from western countries even military economic sanctions would really change the behavior of this brutal military regime in the end it will be up to the people of myanmar they take the courage to do the streets they risk their lives they don't need only start strong words they would need anything else but this is what we do not supplied to them they are getting. rhetorical support but that's it in the end that has been the case in the past and look unfortunately it will happen this time as well. and i was schneider political scientist at berlin's free university speaking earlier today w. news meanwhile in germany you corner virus cases have risen to a 3 month high just under 30000 new infections have been registered in the last day almost 200 people have died taking the total number of deaths in germany to almost 80000 the government is seeking to push through fresh control measures health

ministry and sponsor as new restrictions are now inevitable. vaccines and testing alone will not be enough to break the 3rd wave it will take decisive action and hard as it is further restrictions. we can already full see that if we don't stop this trend our health care system will reach its limits that's why the situation in the intensive care units is one of the most decisive factors because our main goal in this pandemic is to prevent our health care system from being overwhelmed you get when you need. the money. chinese health minister speaking earlier on meanwhile doctors without borders as declared brazil's response to the pandemic a humanitarian catastrophe made worse by political mismanagement brazil has the highest number of daily deaths from covert 1000 and the 2nd highest number of

overall deaths currently at more than 360000 the country's health care system is overwhelmed with many intensive care units nearly full source infection rates are being driven by the highly contagious so-called p one virus variant this new strain is causing international concern earlier this week france even suspended all flights to and from brazil in a bid to prevent the variance spread while millions of people in the latin america's biggest country are struggling to put food on the table as a covert 1000 outbreak weeks havoc on the economy. fairly goma's start saturday early she gets up at around 4 am and worried about having enough food for her 4 children to have breakfast. i wake up with the feeling of being in agony i jump out of bed in the 1st thing i do is thank god i'm

alive i look at my children i think to myself today i'll bring home some food for them i leave the house early to fetch bread there are days when i can't manage to bring them any but they run out of the night. lives enough for valor of around 100000 people in south paolo here and across brazil unemployment hit a record high last year this community association helps people living in marginalized areas to find work. we had an 84 percent increase in demand for employment after the government's emergency aid ended and the number of people seeking our help tripled because so many people didn't have any support anymore and it. up. in december government aid of around $84.00 euros a month was cut making an already difficult situation for many much worse the number of people living on less than 36 years more than doubled many families

stopped cooking with gas and started using firewood 27000000 brazilians live in extreme poverty renate tom daley has been researching the featherless for 20 years . noel you pull the data shows that the poor you are the higher the rates of infection. the more on the periphery the person finds themselves the higher the death rate from coronavirus. brazil has added 2000000 more people to the marginalised areas in the past year it's not ethical the brazilians have to choose between going hungry will getting the virus it's an ethical. when should we use. for our dogs live in the home of sylvia de hayes us she's a cook and the only one still to have a job but it's just one day a week she used to cook in other people's homes but they let her go for fear of

infection. that this pandemic is difficult that's going to leave all of us starving and that's apart from all the damage it does to your health look at this q we're all in the same boat. that problem of the melba. with a shortage of vaccines and hospitals overwhelmed it's hard to see a way forward for people in the lowest social groups who are trapped by both poverty and disease. and we can talk now to do a b. corresponds johana ramirez johan i mean we understand that poverty in brazil has almost tripled in the last 6 months what can you tell us and we how dire is the situation in brazil at the moment during this pandemic. basically brazil is going through the worst crisis in its history and 2020 g.d.p. fell down about 4 percent right now on employment stands over 14 percent of

the working population so people it's enough very desperate situation and it's divided people want to go out to work but at the same time people want solutions to the coronavirus and they are scared of getting infected so in this situation everything is a very complicated i was a very some weeks ago just through with the wall ago i was in brazil and the situation is very very difficult the how consistent is in the border of been collapsed and. the problem is that we don't see very solutions in the main in the in the short term now as what you're suggesting there and reporting what you saw a coven 1000 seems to be out of control in brazil but we understand that some officials are making the case or even just easing restrictions why.

on the one hand because people need to war is not on like an american general is not it doesn't work like it been or the european union or other countries where it's calm you know in brazil if people are done to go to work they don't have money to pay their bills and to eat so people need the really to go out on the work and on the other hand some bread you know governments are easing restrictions be there because they are like gerry or both and i was skeptical to go on the virus and even though we are in 2021 and all of the overwhelming numbers off infections on death they continued to downplay. the pandemic and all of these are creating all of these conditions are creating the conditions for a social outbreak i mean the reset began huge discount in between among the population and also among the political class some people are talking about an impeachment so social outbreak is to really of the corner in brazil if define them

it is not doesn't get under control all right so also a lot of political turmoil during this 10 demick in brazil and as we've been reporting france earlier this week closed affectively its borders to brazil all flights to and from brazil to prevent a very contagious variance from spreading how isolated is brazil at the moment because a lot of people around the world are worried about this one variant. many countries in latin america already closed their borders to brazil to get you out void that the people one is throwing all their pressing on this is trying to could come to other conference when i was in manassas i talked to to divide all the just who discovered to be one strain he told me that there is there are some 30 newest trains in brazil right now so if brazil doesn't control the pandemic indoors

they can it can be a very difficult at best affair for the whole region and even for the world because many think we don't still many things about the new strains and we don't know how these news trainees behave because of the the vaccine for example. or here as it reporting thank you so very much. and back here in europe it's been 2 years since a fire rich to the most famous cathedral in paris and shocked the world well now the question is when not to down can open again while french president a menu in michael visited the building site to offer some hope and show that french heritage has not been forgotten and at the coronavirus crisis. moments from april 15th 2019 etched forever in the minds of persians. of all the french. of anyone who has visited the city of light or

wants to someday. but from the dramatic scenes turning the beautiful monument ugly to the dramatic felling of an enormous oak tree in western france. the 1st of a 1000 hand selected to rebuild the spire and roof of the cathedral. and make it beautiful again. the wood from the trees is being dried some of it on site part of a 5 year reconstruction plan that has 3 years and many miles to go. in fact the work so far has mostly been to secure what was left after the fire and look what i mean is all going up. still there we are all gather and mobilize through to restock at all then to give gifts. of french architect of god we got to take their back to the wall and then back to the world indeed our stick with us

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i'm british by naji welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us japanese prime minister your sheet asuka is said to be the 1st world leader to visit u.s. president joe biden on friday reports suggest an increasingly assertive china will be a key theme of the talks japan is also a security ally of the united states and both have defined the nation as a quote cornerstone of peace security and prosperity in the indo-pacific region i'll be discussing that further with an expert in a moment but 1st this report. and the president and a prime minister new to their leadership roles but each with years of experience treading the fine line of tough diplomacy. increasingly the main

tools of such diplomacy look like this. u.s. exercises with asian allies meant to deter aggression. aggression especially from the chinese who have just this week sent fighter jets to skirt taiwanese airspace. taiwan itself proclaims its strength by showing off new naval hardware. all this as u.s. diplomats diplomatically tell the people's republic of china the p.r.c. to back off our commitment to taiwan is rock solid we've of course taken note. with great concern the pattern of ongoing p.r.c. efforts and attempts to inseminate in the region including in the context of taiwan taiwan will likely be a major part of prime minister sukkos talks with president biden in addition to the

topic of what to do about china's disputed and military backed claims over islands that japan claims in the east china sea. with little under no country can protect its peace and security by itself amid such a complicated environment. and cooperation among allies and friendly nations is essential to. get the debt in just as japan needs assistance from the likes of the united states the u.s. needs to maintain japan as a strong ally. japan is course the world 3rd largest economy the most powerful democracy in asia and a critical advance to. knology partner with whom the united states are going to be looking to both you know deter china from threatening taiwan punish chinese aggression or human rights violations and prevent china from accessing some of the

world's most advanced technologies that it could use to build additional military power the japan-u.s. summit follows hot on the heels of frosty high level talks between the u.s. and china late last month in washington japan sukkot will be pressed to firmly support the u.s. but he'll have to return home to life as a neighbor to the americans global rival. and joining me from washington d.c. is she lost myth he's author of the book rearmed the politics of military power and a senior fellow for japan studies at the think tank the council on foreign relations welcome ms smith is china and its activities in the indo-pacific going to be a focus of talks between prime minister so go on president biden well thank you for having me i'm delighted to be here yes of course china large in the region and lives large in u.s. thinking about the region and of course japan sits right next to our already as you

now are going to sit in a meeting quad the very rich japan in the united states attending it's a 2 class 2 meeting in tokyo secretary of state linked in a chance to fence austin so the alliance is already tree charged if you will to have a fairly in-depth conversation about how to move forward on japan in the united states to have a security alliance but how exactly does washington see talk ules role in the region. well the interesting thing about the alliance today is not it's not just how washington sees tokyo but also how to go see washington that matters and i think the japanese have been very astute and very active in the 4 years during president trump's tenure as president to build a coalition in the region to really make it necessary for the united states to step into a coalition approach the free and open indo-pacific approach as they call it so i

think washington is looking to tokyo for ideas but tokyo is also looking to washington to be consistent and persistent in the way in addresses regional tensions how exactly does tokyo one progress meet no time zones and then the pacific well as you noted has wrong a longstanding prohibition on the use of force so japan is not ready to have a very hard power response to china's rising military power nonetheless the alliance is the primary guarantee here guarantor of japanese security and so it hopes to send the message to china that while tokyo a lot to have a dialogue across the region maybe cooperate on a variety of issues including building infrastructure investing in energy resources it also sees chinese activities especially maritime activities as being really counter to its interests and also to the interests of that. you spoke about lot of time concerns does that explain the dialogue that has existed between the u.s.

and japan over taiwan. yes and so taiwan is an old issue in the japan china relationship and the u.s. china relationship as you know it goes all the way back to the 1970 s. and both countries normalize their diplomatic relations so taiwan has a relationship with japan but not a military relationship surely there is no taiwan relations act which is what we have here in the united states that allows tokyo to be a partner with taiwan in its security however if you look at the map taiwan is very very close to the southwestern islands of japan proximity makes taiwan a real consideration when japanese defense planners if china were to up the pressure or continue to up the pressure on taiwan and there was some sort of military confrontation then japan would be immediately affected because it would be and its in its maritime borders not very far away from japanese territory and rather talk about dropping is concerned there is another japanese concern is there

not reduced to balance its trade relationship with china as the biggest export market for japan how does japan walk this line. well that's cheering for every country of the region and even for the united states their economic engine dependence on china is part of our strategic challenge at the moment i think japan has felt the brunt of beijing's ability to use that trade interdependence turn to its advantage and that was back in 2012 when the 2 countries had a dispute over the islands in the east china sea. islands and that point the chinese halted supplies rare earth materials are generally not very important for manufacturing in japan but you see the increasing use by china of this economic engine dependence with other relationships as well so chilled here in washington in addition to camera and the jelly i've been talking

a little bit about how to build resilience how to be a writer stand pressure may emanate from a sink or lots of talk over to have to have a tariff of the time being issued us made from the council on foreign permission thank you so much for a time thinking rationally. and just as india thought it was easing its way out of the pandemic the country has been hit by a 2nd wave with a record high rate of infections controversy has erupted over the vaccination drive with the hardest hit states saying the government is not giving them enough vaccines as the issue threatens to get politicised fears grow that india may be running out of jobs a 4 day vaccination festival the government proclaimed earlier this week appears to be more of a drop in the bucket. i dislike private hospital people who are struggling to register against called in 1000. that the sharma is one of them

almost 70 he has come for his post short. from the end doctors and frontline local stores they are safe after work the nation and does not hurt really sick even if they become infected well i decided to get it as. you didn't want to get infected or at least i want to be that sick if i do. but the crowd here today is larger than usual. one staff member called it. this hospital in one point had to turn people because they had run out of vaccine in the past few days many hospitals in this area including the one right behind me face up over 1000 back shortage why some of done on the number of people they were vaccinated every other stop the vaccination process entirely for a few days these reports came at a time when several states in the country are. including at the moment if

the worst hit state the hospital did receive its stock in fact seem to day after having gone for nearly a week without people hopeful they can get the job. well there was some hesitancy to get vaccinated earlier the past few weeks have seen demand increase rapidly. move. people have started coming. for their wards and. india is recording an alarming number of new coronavirus cases every day and infections are now spreading much faster another hospital in the area which also a vaccine crunch has its hands full with a spike in cases because of the interaction we have increased. to.

222 beds we are also working on our human resources one pound or so but i'm going to costar present situation as hospital scramble to increase capacity there are clear signs the indian health care sector is again coming under severe strain. doctor. who founded a chain of hospitals offering affordable care cause the 2nd be a tsunami the numbers are mind boggling. struggling struggling. to find beds. 7. birds. is needed to provide the facilities that are to be. spanked that mike says he's disappointed that the lessons from the past year have not been learned adequately.

for the people waiting here there is some really. big are getting their short. hoping that he'll give them some protection against this. and that's it for today you can of course find more information on our website www dot com forward slash and you can check us out on facebook and twitter as well we're back to moral . the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. as the rate of infection in developing . the latest research. information and contacts the coronavirus.

recurring. grief. to me remains. the solutions that. join me for a. green transformation for me. for the. vaccines are turning the tide but they don't without risks especially for women they break ace's of blood clotting even fatal ones leading some governments to slow down vaccinations we have. with. each delay puts more lives at risk as the corona virus spreads it's

a balancing act between speed and caution in the fight against covert 19. the risk of dying from cove it is much higher than getting a blood clot from a vaccine but even more concerning is a new report from oxford university that shows catching the corona virus puts you at even more risk of a deadly blood clot in a moment we'll talk to the johns hopkins university 1st this report. astra zeneca $1000.00 vector vaccine has hardly been out of the headlines since last december in till now it's been instrumental in the success of the u.k.'s vaccination program but from now on its use there will be restricted to those over 30 years of age there have been worries in the european union about its effectiveness and potential side effects germany initially restricted its used to under 60 five's now berlin is recommending it purely for over sixty's those worries

were compounded by several cases of a rare thrombosis type following astra zeneca vaccinations some of them fatal. the european medicines agency in amsterdam felt it was time to take a stance on the job its director stressing that the benefits of the antiviral agent far outweigh any risks. this vaccine has proven to be highly effective if it prevents if severe to season hospitalisation and it is saving life so 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 scientists have been investigating the reports and circumstances of the throne both seize britain's medicines and health care regulator agency says 20000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine had been at ministered by the end of march with $79.00 cases of thrombosis later reported 19 of which were fatal

the cause is thought to be a rare immune reaction most of them presented some 2 weeks after inoculation there are no apparent risk groups such as age or sex several countries like germany france and canada have tightened restrictions on the use of astra zeneca as covert 19 vaccine others have suspended it totally waiting for the e.m.a.'s verdict it has now recommended the continued unrestricted use of the astra zeneca jab regardless of any rare cases of thrombosis. so mixed messages there about vaccine safety to impact this let's bring in coastal kolaches a vaccine scientist an infectious disease physician at johns hopkins university in baltimore maryland. so let's start with astra zeneca as as we heard that's being given to more than half the adults in britain and is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives i gladly take it but authorities here in germany and other

countries of blocking its use and offering no timely alternative isn't that in itself putting people's lives in danger. so when you have a pandemic that's out of control and we have let the curve it maintain pandemic then any facts then you have to weigh the risks and benefits of any available preventive such as a vaccine or treatment and for the astra zeneca vaccine it has been shown to have saved millions of lives already and so the the potential benefits might outweigh any risks now there are some very serious risks associated with it in very very rare circumstances and i think i think each country but also each individual needs to be able to weigh that risk benefit equation for themselves to decide whether or not they're willing to take that risk for the potential for the protection against the virus when you have

a vaccine that's available and that's not being used people can die and that's something that each each government and each person needs to weigh and this isn't only a problem with astra zeneca we've now got johnson and johnson 6000000 immunized in the united states and yet it's on hold because 6 people may have had side effects isn't one of the 1000000 an acceptable risk level during times like these. so i think that the equation in the united states it's a little bit different because we've vaccinated so many of our high risk individuals are ready and we have 2 other approved vaccines that are that are more available than johnson and johnson facts even is and i and i think where is europe has been gathering information about the astra zeneca vaccine for several weeks we are just starting to learn about any potential risks associated with the johnson and johnson vaccine and so i think the pas is to gather that information to truly

understand what that risk is is it one in a 1000000 or is there something higher is it even associate is the class at least with in those and fortunate women associated with it and so i think the. the pas is appropriate while we gather that information and make a decision about the risk benefits but i think in places where there is the virus is increasing in terms of the transmission and there is no alternative vaccine that it should be seriously considered to use this vaccine while bag data is being gathered. in the u.s. the calculus is a little bit different because we do have to upturn it if vaccines and don't seem to have that same risk the strange thing though is that and this is what will get many people especially women worried about this is that those people affected by calling were women in a certain age group and it's been a similar profile for astra zeneca as well so why is it being blocked for everyone

or everyone under 60 or so. i am that is probably due to a logistics and programatic issues but also because while we're gathering that information we need to understand better what that risk is and who truly is at risk while the majority of people who have been affected so far seem to be women there were men in europe who have had this unusual rare blood clot hammon there was one man in the trial in the united states who had this unusual but cloud occur and so we need to gather that information and understand the process better and who truly is at risk to be able to maybe target the vaccine to people who are at lower risk but you know it's interesting that you see it because there is a lot of adverse events from vaccines that seem to particularly affect women and especially women in their reproductive years and that's probably because our

hormones are different then in the pre imposed reproductive period and also from men and that may put us that let me rest at an advantage or a benefit but they may also put us at. some increased risk from the adverse events if you look at the anaphylaxis cases that are happening after the m.r.i. a vaccines in the united states a vast majority of them are happening in women as well. so there's just there's a difference in the biology between men and women that we're just are you stand can go as far as saying that vector vaccines could be the problem in terms of the that's been seen exactly. for terms of adverse events in terms of recording and or adverse events. so each fact scene is going to have it it's different adverse events each extreme have form has different kinds of

adverse events that happen and so for the better vaccines especially for astra zeneca potentially fatal for johnson and johnson as well it looks like clotting may be an increased risk factor. that we didn't see with the m r n a vaccines and in the united states over 100000000 people have now been vaccinated with at one of the 2 emran a vaccine is without the same sort of signal that we've seen with the with the with the at with the at the various vaccines but this nest hasn't necessarily been seen with other at no various facts scenes in the past so we need to better understand what is happening and i think that this pause allows scientists and researchers to really dig deep into each of these cases to better understand what's happening and also to understand the mechanisms a little bit better has been fantastic having you on the show explain to us what

all this means because at our lab of johns hopkins university thank you very much for being on the show today. you very much take care. whatever the risks of vaccines they had to stay for now more on that from derrick williams. will we only have to be vaccinated once or will we need regular booster shots. once again the straightforward answer is we don't know yet but a lot of experts do think it's very likely that even fully vaccinated people will need booster shots in the future there are a couple of different reasons why that might become necessary the 1st involves the fact that the vaccines we're using now have been approved for emergency use because they were safe and the vast majority of people have gotten them and also extremely effective at least in the short term but we still don't know how long that

effectiveness on average will last don't forget it's been under a year since the very 1st subjects' and trials received their 1st shots but based on what we know about naturally acquired immunity to the disease and what we know about other coronaviruses the general expectation among immunologists appears to be that most vaccinated people will remain largely immune to cope at 19 for at least 6 months and likely retain at least some immunity for a year or 2 assuming the virus doesn't mutate faster than we think however nearly all the experts i've read now also say that down the line variants of sars toby 2 will change enough that we'll have to modify current vaccines at some point so

the companies that make them are already in trials looking at possible ways to prolong vaccine induced immunity and a lot of those trials will involve giving test subjects booster shots of tweets vaccines. you heard from jerry williams i've been fizzling thanks for watching stay safe and see you again sir.

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