on the green. and to me it's clear we need. the solutions are out to. join me pretty green transformation for me. for them. this is the wus a show coming up today in the us capital heads into a weeklong lockdown. the boston corona virus outbreak pushes delis health infrastructure to the brink but could this situation have been avoided with in delhi for answers. paging ups the ante on taiwan the chinese military conducts military exercises around the island sending a warning to taipei and its supporters.

are british welcome to news a show glad you could join us in the capital delhi is going into a 6 day in lockdown as authorities contend with a huge over 1000 cases delhi's chief minister says the city's health system has reached its limits and harsh measures are needed to prevent its collapse the number of confirmed new infections has been breaking records almost every day. many in india thought they had got the better of the pandemic. but now the country is being overwhelmed by a devastating new way. no city is as badly hit as delhi. ice cases exploded hospitals there are breaking point. some patients are forced to share a bet. and there's an acute shortage of oxygen. this is

his chief minister says the system has reached its limits. the beds for covert 900 patients often ling up rapidly patients are being admitted to the hospitals very quickly intensive care beds are in short supply and less than 100 i.c.u. beds are available in delhi. authorities in delhi had already imposed a lockdown over the weekend ordering all but essential services to close. local leaders hope the decision to step up the measures will help to mitigate the crisis some welcome the restrictions but others fear if they're not allowed to work the consequences could be drastic. it is essential that there's a lot down here because right now the virus is spreading a lot. the problem with a lot of town is

a daily wage and as you get 100 to 300 rupees a day well we go how will we eat well when we sleep is the government going to come and give us this daily wage. but now with one in 3 tests in delhi turning out positive the government say it must act to avert a greater disaster but the fear is that the surge in cases is due to a new more infectious variant of the virus they're calling on people to be more disciplined about sticking to the rules. but critics are also asking why religious festivals and political rallies that's a fuelling cases as participants return to cities like delhi are still being allowed to go ahead. for tens of thousands of families such questions come too late. and if current trends persist then many mall will find themselves in the same tragic situation. and for more we're joined now by

did oprah correspondent in delhi on iraq how bad is the situation in delhi where how bad the situation is on the fact that the government is increasing the restrictions on the like of you to the meeting of you and to today has announced a week long got you started tonight when we talk about health care just. really all change. there are all of those all of those running out of general beds as the last vestiges of a she's mentally oxygen supply even supply make it go see people running from hospitals all of the looking for bed looking to get their loved ones and we did but that is not happening people are actually seeing that there's a light was out in that in on and out with this week local q. announced recant perhaps here if you don't love my good work or it's all just as well which is of course was literally no no this isn't of course the 1st time

a deli has been in this situation i'm wondering in bar have no lessons been learned from last summer. well they should just lot of those back or do a dr a to the last week for story of the rising he says he clearly said that he hadn't learned a lesson fairly the government would have been better if the bad be had a go to do that people would have been more careful and be are seen as elected to receive the only difference is it is much less much and much more of a fight right now and the doctors and the medical have the sludge that asked for can do in the course of the week are not and it's in their words they say that the situation is out of their hands and it can get much less and there is also just started its biggest ever increasing coronavirus cases of destroying more than 270000 in a single day what is leading to this increase when anna let a jury still out on what would have triggered a weave like does that leave us seeing it is far more infectious than what we saw last year so much saying that it was the cause of ordinary people to closely keep

people stopped following regulations the point political of the government was also last minute implemented that their exploits are also saying that it's had a lot to do with this new edition the last one in the double new jet stream and it's possible and dangerous than what we saw last year but i have a point in what of course is that there couldn't be things which would have been implemented on time into the situation for example if the government allowed to call me i would stay severely the not just in the religious test of will and it's only now off the situation but much worse that some rituals have stopped these are hundreds of thousands of people just as lovely as doing all the ritual of the now these people ringback when they go back to their respective called our villages and states we can see what i didn't actually didn't write and at the same time we have election that is being organized including by the national party that what they didn't vote for now it's all there on the last name sonata no please stay safe and thank you for your reporting.

chinese military aircraft inventor taiwan's defense on multiple times in recent weeks raising tensions in the region and increasing pressure on taiwan to respond the budding administration has thrown its way to behind taipei sending any sort of used to the island last week to reaffirm u.s. support taiwan has long been a source of contention between beijing which sees the island as its territory and washington which supports taiwan's democracy. china is no shrink sure to military posturing in the sea and air around taiwan earlier this month taiwan said a record $25.00 chinese fighter planes entered its defense zone. allow new young and craft carrier has been holding drills near the island raising fears china may be gearing up for an attack. it's why u.s. delegation has visited taipei to reiterate support for its pacific partner.

i can say with confidence that the united states partnership with one is stronger than ever we share deep economic ties. to democratic values and a critically important security partnership where i'd like to take this opportunity to thank the biden administration for repeating the importance of peace and stability across the taiwan strait recently china has frequently dispatched military vessels and aircraft this action also has the status quo in the india pacific and threatens regional peace and stability taiwan's militaries dwarfed by china's that's not stopped it from some saber rattling of its own. the recent unveiling of a new taiwanese amphibious transport ship. china sees taiwan as part of its territory and is trying to head off any ideas of independence the u.s.

visit has. the taiwan issue concerns china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and china's core interests china has no room for compromise the us to have a clear understanding of the situation and history abide by the one china principle and not play with fire on the taiwan issue or. the u.s. has its own presence in the area and has been shadowing allow neighing this photo posted on the u.s. navy web site taking posturing to another level analysts believe china wants to send a warning rather than in tech liberation of war but with both sides raising the stakes the fear is that one misstep could cause tensions to boil over. and for more i'm joined by didn't look at us on the william young from taipei william how has taiwan responded to recent chinese military duty on the island. so just this

afternoon we learned that taiwanese defense ministry is planning to buy more long range missile from the united states and in recent weeks we have also learned that taiwan is launching its own. like defense programs and that was a little like developing that's own weapons as we see china's pattern of increasing the sending their military aircraft into time when a.d.i.z. in the southwestern part of time one. time one has also changed its own strath strategies rather than standing as fighter jets up and intercept the chinese fighter jets all the time shot taiwan is using its long range missiles to try to track and see if the chinese military aircraft has done anything that really threatens time when security talk a little bit about the overall when you strategy we see that china has really

changed its strategy it has become a lot more ambiguous about the intention or the motives behind as military moves and experts have repeatedly warned taiwan if it continues to use its for force to respond that is not only going to put a lot of stress on its financial the air force and the naval force finance but also at the same time it's taking away the time for its soldiers to train boy they need weapons and for other different kinds of strategies that they can use in real battles so taiwan has really learned to become more patient they are smart and at the same time also become more ambiguous when it comes to however spawn to the frequent chinese military threats and aggression the last big u.s. president joe biden and from mr you should he decide you should a joint statement and underline the importance of going to be some stability in the taiwan strait to oppose that being viewed in taiwan. i think that increased

participation from japan side as definitely of being the very positively and we are a lot of the pete most people here in taiwan believe that the united states is behind japan to try to push tokyo to become more committed and publicly like more engaged in the defense of taiwan because at the end of the day experts and japan and the united states government all know that the security of time one is very important for the security of japan if china is able to project its power across and be on the 1st island chain that's the 1st country that's going to immediately be threatened is japan so that's very public and a rare move from both tokyo and washington is being considered as a transition in the long term regional strategy for both. the u.s. u.s. allies but also for the japanese allies and the for japan itself as well were them young in time for thank you very much for that. and of course that is an issue that

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people. want to use today the future of. g.w. dot com for. the melting just. click. the free 1000000 people have died from the corona virus. most of the victims in the united states and brazil. but this whole. half full americans have received their 1st vaccination. have received 2 japs life for them is returning to normal. but mutations could change that if they find a way to body's immune response. the world health organization ones cases in many

countries are still rising at an alarming rate. other nations are confident they're over the worst our correspondent on ukraine i reports from israel where a rapid vaccination program has brought with it some walking free. they're taking it easy at this outdoor cafe in this center have to live before this is censored life is gradually returning to normal the government has rolled back many restrictions owners stuff play her is cautiously optimistic the national government is we have the feeling that it's over it's nice it's a relief i feel the virus is no longer a threat as everyone here has been vaccinated palace manager for colors enough already look even my mask had enough on the case numbers in israel have fallen sharply thanks to one of the world's fastest vaccination drives some restrictions remain such as sparing masks and the green pass sexy nation certificate is required

in some venue. after 3 hard lockdowns people are not taking things for granted sam a creative it's great that things are getting back to normal of course i'm still wearing a mask be a cautious stay still fear you can't shake it off that quickly about my hair over half of the population of 9000000 israelis has been fully vaccinated but israel has been criticized for failing to supply vaccines to more palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza a covert 19 unit in a converted parking lot at sheba hospital near tel aviv 1st closed recently public debate has now turned to vaccinating children under 16 the spread of new variants and how long the vaccines will offer protection going back to school and back to call meals people are back in workplaces and are vaccinated and we see a decline in cases where people are generally very optimistic of course the science

easily could be more cautious and we have to be very careful in assessing the new value in looking carefully at their books in effectiveness. to keep variants at bay travis texans are still in place as here at ben gurion airport furnace he just specially permit to enter only by late may small groups of vaccine need to tourists will be allowed. for now israelis and towing their newfound freedom depend mc is far from over but at least in the bubble of tel aviv it almost feels like it could be. a eyelash on who was in that report that joins us from tel aviv is a director at israel's largest hospital the sheba medical center just how close is israel to the end of the pandemic would you say. by all means israel is seeing substantial decline in the number of concerns however

we're not at the end of the i'm game there are limitations on travel obviously the increase for resurgence of the disease number of reasons and you've still got a lot of palestinians to get vaccinated will the students then walk inside these laden with also. in deer many thousands of then wilcox in did what i understand and i'm not especially eastern international law so the palestinian authority has the jurisdiction only hell so you always and fully incidence of the palestinian authority however as a doctor when it fails and i think israel should do anything in its own will to help the palestinian authority flex in a the population is who is boss. there are others who argue it's israel's responsibility and at the same time i mean what's the point of getting israel vaccinated or israelis vaccinated when its neighbors an option is. to win fro of

people of course in that region and we're also talking about a globalized world here what's what's the use of the country getting vaccinated when other countries haven't even begun. well i fully agree that while this is a globalized world and there are really connections between populations countries need to support each other in trying to achieve the highest marks in coverage globally and not only in specific countries however health inequities are not a new issue or topic in global health there are many health inequalities between the euro pms in the african countries for example in this is only just one specific example of how health inequities impact the global population so from your scientific perspective how should israel proceed to ensure that all of the progress

it's made which is fantastic isn't undone well one a subject that needs strengthening he is the superior lens we need to continue looking for breakthrough cases and outbreaks in try and contain them through classic public health measures such as the cool indian in isolation we need to make sure that people who enter israel form a bold get tested for core lead in do not to risk the population by inserting their files back into israel and of course as i mentioned we need to support the global effort to lower the leask and eliminate the violence eventually you said in that report we have to be very careful in assessing you variance and the effectiveness and your ration of vaccines as a new study which hasn't yet been peer reviewed but it shows a small amount of fully vaccinated people can get infected with the variant 1st discovered in south africa is that or could we perceive that as the 1st evidence

that vaccines may not work against some mutations. will we have entirely if we didn't support glommed effectiveness of some of the vaccines against some of the variants of concern including the value and it was identified in south africa we don't have and we danced due to so-called death to the box inside substantially lower clinic and if it is so in simple words it may be that the vaccine still prevents a bill disease or station in this form is caused by these valiant fight series that people will take then but perhaps the effect is efficacy against transmission in mild infections is low and for some of the valiance dissolution is a good thing as much die tough is possible by subway lines in be prepared the contingency flynn plan by possible changes to the vaccine may

induce until bodies so that they fit know how to dance in. the door says hold those who are boxing or israel is considered a world champion in surveillance as well this study suggests mutations keep finding ways to evade the body's immune response how can we deal with that danger posed by new mutations that. yet so again some fine tuning we are talking about infection there is no evidence that these fully vaccinated people who were infected didn't have did have a simple disease so the vaccine may still be there but the against serbia disease which is the primary objective of folks seem we don't want someone to be severely ill but they may still be infected in the only way that we can control such immune invasion against infection is to define don't work since that are specifically more effective against these valiance of concern why maintaining day

public health classic measures of isolation and quarantine if we see an outbreak of this type of value of consent a lesson the director of the set of a travel medicine and tropical diseases thank you very much for joining us today. and over now to our science correspondent derek williams who has an interesting question today about covert and vegetarian. vegetarians and vegans get less sick if they catch covert 19. i was surprised at 1st at how little clear data i could find on this topic but i guess i shouldn't of bad i mean what constitutes a healthy diet after all has always been controversial but i can say that i found no reliable studies establishing any direct selects between diet and covert severity what i mean by that is that no new evidence in the

course of the pandemic has for example caused the world health organization to change its dietary recommendations although the w.h.o. certainly emphasizes the central role that fresh produce plays in a healthy diet it also continues to recommend the consumption of certain animal based products as good sources of protein that said in direct links to diet have been established because while eating mostly unprocessed plant based products doesn't guarantee perfect tells the many studies have shown that it does help reduce non-communicable diseases like obesity or type 2 diabetes and those conditions are unquestionably risk factors for developing a more severe case of coke at 19 if you're infected so the take away i guess is

that there's no evidence that eating the occasional burger raises your risk of contracting severe pope at 19 but putting on a lot of weight by eating too many burgers over too many years. yours does. and on the subject some good news for diners of fine food some time back we brought you the story of alexander and how his top restaurant in musée was doing takeaway for the 1st time ads had set up a food truck well here it is just a few meters from the restaurant where most of the food is prepared basia has 3 michelin stars to his name says the made lunch he and his team whipped up is pretty pricey between 20 to 36 year as demand has been strong enough for the shift to cole back all of his 17 employees so the kitchen.

stay here thanks for watching stay safe see you again sir.

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