language is the 1st word in the coax in germany. why not tell. us it's simple line on your mobile and free. t.w. zealand in course. german made me see. this is news coming out today by france protest in pakistan. the government makes a deal with a brand islamist group and is now letting parliament decide whether to expel france's ambassador to the country pakistan's top diplomat in germany whether his government is caving in to the demands of religious extremists.

welcome to news asia glad you could join us. to decide if the french ambassador to the country should be expelled the government agreed to take the matter to parliament after negotiations with a hardline islamist group that has led violent protests across the country that they are back pakistan or t.l.p. has been demanding the expulsion of the french ambassador since late last year when french president emmanuel mccraw defended the republican of cartoons of the prophet muhammad in french satirical magazine charlie hebdo the government of pakistan prime minister iran can band of the t.l.p. under an anti terrorism role last week and they arrested its leader but that only inflamed protests further. pressure from the streets has been building for months in pakistan. supporters of the radical islamist group they are enraged at what they see is that government's failure to response of blasphemous comments last november

by the french president. their main demand has been for pakistan to expel the french ambassador. and escalation of violence over the last week has led to casualties on both sides. and a crackdown on the. don't choose day the government appeared to change. it's position. there pakistan after a long talks the government of pakistan and terek a law back have decided that a resolution for the expulsion of the french ambassador will be presented in the national assembly today. among the tactics used by the extremist g.o.p. to force the government's hand was a call for a nationwide strike on monday many businesses comply to show solidarity with the protesters and to demonstrate the strength of feeling when it comes to proceed insults to islam. rather horrible other things that the protests must be recorded

the world should know that what is happening in the western world is not right i think it would be better if this matter is taken up at a higher level. but pakistan's prime minister fears the protests will damage not just the economy but also international relations job harm for our own skin if we expel the french ambassador and cut ties with france it means we would cut ties with the european union as half of our textile exports go to europe that means a 50 percent reduction in those exports which would mean unemployment and factory closures discover the bureau's got a factory up on ordering. now the government is hoping to strike a balance between the demands of the demonstrators and the need to end the disruption and rioting on the nation's streets with

a perspective on this i'm joined by pakistan's ambassador to germany dr. dr 1st of all welcome is an organization and entity. dictating terms to the park is the government. regarding this specific incident the perspective. of. the property. it is very very rare sacred when the rate that. you are better. than it's been sought for centuries and difficult instances have happened in the past also and many hundreds of years it has happened and in the last 10 years you must have heard these things p.-six happening so when when these incidents happen in a country in europe the sentiment in fleet not only in pakistan but

also in muslims all over the world. and you know the government of course also wants. relations with all the countries and wants to move forward to nations. yes but without naming any countries i'll say your. sentiments that were inflamed of course some people some experience. trying to inflame them and there's a lot of things for the government it became very difficult and it has tried to. resolve the situation of a difficult situation to. not want any any let me just complete but one more. place there. and the effort is to engage and to tell them that they are talking to your evil continue as my prime minister said

yesterday you must have seen that the that you talk about the miscreants the miscreants who are basically banned under an anti terror law and the government is now going with their demands to parliament what does that look like. any d.c. that would be taken would be by the parliament our son is a democracy so the video of the people is it effective in a democracy in the parliament as you are relevant to the issue in the parliament i am not there but i am sure that the parliament will debate and open space in media you will be able to see it the sentiments and the debate and the final conclusion really come out of it which can be anything and whatever that conclusion is of course that would be developed the people in it will stand by that my lens is never supported it is never an option by the government by the people you have a peaceful the morning to find common ground on to move forward in our relations

not backwards one additional part we have millions of families living all over europe you are a bit of that about 100000 plus germany so we have a lot of interests in addition to trade economy economy etc etc. europe and we would want to build upon that right we're just going back to what what is happening in pakistan what is the message that the government is sending women since stone and talks to a group it has outlawed and then agrees to take up the demands i get or more into the details but it is not as simple as you said if i follow your line of thinking maybe you would want us to take. 20 banks and 30 pieces on civilians that is not i think what you are that is not what we would want there are only our dialogue and box and we are on dialogue whoever has tried to create violence has been

a fight and the i sincerely would want that they are able to find solutions regarding this that in our parliament and then we engage with europe we are able to . common ground and build upon that down by respecting the right to free speech. which might have even limitations in europe but still would want not to harp on their differences but we were too hard on commonalities and i'm sure there are many and the can be had in the past build upon it and they can do it again there was an incident in 2007 that that was a danish newspaper then move forward on that there were protests and everything so i think the let the problem and speak and let it be discussed that would be indicative of the sentiment in pakistan for our friends brought and maybe

be they useful in how to move forward to home affairs and pakistan's ambassador to germany thank you so much for joining us i made it for thank you. my colleagues as of july me from the division joins me on the line now for more ambassador faisal they're talking of finding common ground with you out of the east a concern in pakistan that europe is disregarding muslims feelings on perceived insults to prophet moment. well the embassador has a very difficult job i mean his main role is to protect pakistan's interest and paint a positive image of pakistan unfortunately the situation on the ground does not go to spawn with what he's saying you only have to look at the images from last few days of you know protestors going on a rampage police using excessive force reports off debts policeman being held hostage and i right you know i think actions speak louder than words no matter what

the ambassador says at the end of the day pakistan has witnessed a lot of violence in the last few days and you know that's something that it's very difficult to reconcile another point the ambassador made was about the spirit of democracy prevailing in august on but how does that explain the government negotiating with a group it banned under an antiterrorism law. so again i think he's just being a bit economical with the truth because these are hard liners extremists group t.l.p. . created a few years ago they are emerging as a major political force they do have a lot of following across the country because the issue of blasphemy is emotive issue in pakistan they are capitalizing on it but there's a strong accusation in pakistan that this group is promoted encouraged financed

protected by pakistan's security services with the aim of fragmenting the society because they want to weaken the stablished political parties who believe in democracy and supremacy of parliament who are against extremism and these kind of groups come in handy now the government of prime minister imran khan has banned the scroope last week and then for the government to go into a negotiation give them that respect as a legitimate partner is puzzling and that is via lot of people are saying that this is seen as surrender as a copulation and essentially appeasement you talked a bit about the issue of blasphemy can you explain that a bit further as to how that plays into the political narrative so british there are more than 50 muslim countries around the world but the issue of blasphemy is the biggest in pakistan because there are laws against criticizing the ridiculing koran and the prophet muhammad. but it is used to target political opponents

a lot of times people settle personal story scores. christian minorities hindus have been targeted but even muslims that you don't like you can accuse them and essentially the occupation is like a death penalty and this particular group is trying on it and there are other religious groups who want to be even more aggressive on this so this is pushing box down towards an extremist bought and it doesn't help whatever it does. european countries say the countries like to extremism will make it unattractive for business for industry and for democracy says it briefly other any voices that all sing. this a religious hardline hardline is i'm so you know you talked about the resolution in parliament which was stable today again there is only one political party talks on people's party which has not attended the session because they don't want to get involved they have said to prime minister iran found this is your mess you have to clean it up but other political parties even in opposition what they're in the

parliament and they want to be a part of it because everybody wants to prove themselves as a good muslim so they can capitalize on votes because pakistan is an islamic country at the end of the day. shows him to money from a dude thank you so much for breaking that down for us that's a bit is of course more stories on beat up and on forward slash and you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well going back to more of the same time so you have to but. i enjoy the dixie cups a day about the people well for over that's on home the 4th time for the. letter that means the bottom of the fannies at the last dragon this word has called the home truth. brooks. 1986. it's their story their very own personal

trauma. the people who survived the catastrophe remember the film. and they share private footage with us as never been seen before. chernobyl starts april 26th on you. greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to arts and culture and here's a look at what's in the pipeline for today's program. norwegian director under us hummers documentary do not split explores the pro-democracy protests in hong kong and is shortlisted for an oscar an apparent source of content concern for beijing. and after 3 years of renovations the house of british mexican surrealist artist

leonora carrington has now opened a museum. well it's not every day that an investigative journalist sees his or her story made into a feature film and even less likely the film will be picked up by netflix for international distribution but that's what happened with all o'toole hey a nigerian crime drama that not only gets under your skin but could have quite an impact on the future and perception of african cinema. in. the shower will not be every scene. and some of the. very so you don't see very good actors of group. slumbrous you know that this is not the real you are who are on. the part of the today feels like a crime writers work of fiction young journalist goes undercover to expose the sordid world 6 work and human trafficking in an injury and city. if you've now my

story but the now famous netflix film was very much based on the facts and experiences of real life journalists. it's very bored of exploitation. i mean social economic it was psychological exploitation of women i had to because it's sex because. i had to become a sex worker and mingling with the sex was. university of yuri lost a friend who she says died after being trafficked to italy. in 2013 you set out to see how young women alluding to the trade she went undercover as a street walker in lagos and then for 7 months. i was able to follow every day lives. and several years

down the line i still trads much as possible. human trafficking is $150000000000.00 global industry young manager and woman i promise passage to europe but the at the mercy of the traffickers in country rape sexual exploitation and forced labor. some of this lady is wanting to. form local. and mean bigger books so i decided to also tries it's with them into the next level in reality i wasn't a sex worker but in the army i was a sex worker i did what they did the only thing. i. was too happy to wiley because i do real costs. the

jury has a high number of traffic victims especially in europe. and believes that since its release in october 2900. 51 has changed people's perspective about trafficking but what it has done in nigeria it has been able to bring 4 of the conversation around trafficking and a lot of people like i remember when the film came out it was trending for a long time on a general social media we're just. creating conversation does. die after the. fall of your t.v. the memories of our deal still haunt her. i spend every day trying to blunt out. demesne memories of the young women i came across even before to find out joining. me is to searching for the woman she met on the street and hopes to talk.

and joining me on the line now from bond today is our film experts scott roxboro hi scott it's a very tough film about a tough subject and it generated a lot of buzz on social media as we just heard what kind of impact do you think this can have in terms of raising awareness to the problem of sex trafficking. yeah i think you could really have a quite significant impact particularly in nigeria where it really exploded on social media i mean this isn't necessarily obviously not a new topic but also the topic for a film i mean just a couple of years ago netflix released a film joy which was also a story of a nigerian woman whose sex trafficked to europe but that that was made by an austrian and while it made some impact here in europe and caused some waves it didn't really implant pack the discussion back in nigeria with this new film maybe because it is told from a nigerian perspective from an african perspective maybe it could have some real world impact. ok so we know of course nigeria's very very well known for its

booming entertainment film industry that's known as nollywood but this really doesn't fit that mold does it. you know this definitely isn't a nollywood film i mean nollywood like like hollywood like bollywood basically is mainstream entertainment and the industry there tends to avoid controversial subjects and this film looks really unflinchingly at a subject that many nigeria that many around the world would prefer not to see now we've seen really sort of socially conscious impactful movies out of africa for quite some time but there's never really been an industry to support the making of these movies in till now that's now it's starting to change ok that's very interesting now you know today does seem to be part of a broader trend whereby the big streaming services like netflix are featuring more african stories by african creatives do you think we can expect to see more of off this type of film in the future. oh definitely yeah that's definitely does work

which were coming i mean netflix is the pioneer here they've made a lot of these type of movies just recently from the british nigerian director and actor chiwetel e g o 4 the boy who harnessed the wind a phenomenal film and the interesting thing about this is netflix now the other team is are looking at africa as a market and they're realizing that if you want to get african an african audience to watch your streaming service you have to give them african stories and if the best people to tell african stories are not well meaning europeans or americans but africans themselves with for the 1st time african directors and have the money and the platforms to really reach a worldwide audience. well that's absolutely great news and we'll keep an eye on those developments and thanks for bringing us those background insights we'll talk again soon scott roxboro in bonn. all the documentary do not split follows pro-democracy protests in hong kong from the summer of 2019 until the new national security law came into effect

a year later it's been nominated for an oscar for best short documentary and following the nomination hong kong broadcaster t.v. be announced that it would not air this year's academy awards for the 1st time in over 50 years well norwegian filmmaker under his hama believes that decision was politically motivated. democracy can't say that. we expect. anything to react to our documentary we are not surprised that they are not. we have been nominated. so we expected them to take action. authorities have set rights and freedoms in hong kong remain intact but more than 10000 people have been arrested in relation

to the protests many activists including us based josue who appears in the documentary have fled to the city to continue that advocacy. i mean. you know me being nominated for us to be a very encouraging and motivating news for the people of hong kong who are still trying so hard to sustain a movement the hope is that they ask us can still be viewed online and hung. and that is another story we will be sure to keep tabs on well she may not be a household name for everyone but the late leonora carrington was one of the last surviving members of the surrealist movement back from the 1930 s. the british mexican painter and sculptor spent most of her adult life in mexico city she absolutely fell in love with mexico and there her house of nearly 60 years has just been transformed into a museum. leonora character best known for her

magical paintings and sculptures. carrington was born in 1917 into abortion our family in england rejected her upper class life in favor of becoming an artist she ran away to mexico and it's here her home 60 years in mexico city it's now being opened up as a museum. if you count that is ok. it's going to have a hard time getting to know the book she read the objects that accompany ted the things she thrives on this was the home of leonora and her family for more than 60 years and that meant filling it up with a bundle of things any family or do. was an asset by now so nothing. like a lion or a particular case i believe that will allow us to know or have a complete idea of who she was what she thrived on in order to create the entire

universe of leonora everything that she created that. they're not our goal ok cheering her long life carrington produced an extensive body of work that celebrations across mexico. museum leonora carrington. have fantastical not explored. since alchemy and the occult. a lifelong interest for carrington. the new studio house museum which holds some 8600 catalog objects and more than 45 of carrington sculptures and not only to show how the suit released today. but it also helps to answer questions about what. fueled carrington as an artist.

something she would never have personally revealed in my life canton refused to be drawn into discussions about the meaning of her work. and i said we found a collection of texts we found underlying phrases or textbooks we found drafts of. all these of findings that definitely for the right person for researches would be useful to explain many things with regards to who leonora canton really was and when she got her inspiration from. one of cantons earliest and strongest influences came from her turbulent love affair with jim and suni least next anstey who against the beliefs of the time greatly encouraged the young carrington in her work it was her son pablo vice her 2nd child to her 2nd husband who convinced her to turn their home into museum after her death. you know to

canton died in 2011 at the age of 94. the story of her extraordinary life as one of the world's leading soon realist artists consumed be experienced when she lived. all that is all for this time on arts and culture in the meantime there's more on the web site at w dot com slash culture and until we meet again all the best for lent. the.

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in the last ship as their candidate for chancellor in september's election putting him in prime position to succeed anglo america is very very unravelled marcus or concedes after a bruising battle for the count of the state. of our thank you very much for your company everyone we start our broadcast in the central african republic of china that country is reeling after the military announced president is dead he died just a day after he was declared the winner of elections that security a 6th term in office on the army has named his son as interim head of state troops have now been deployed to the streets of the capital and jumped up. air and land borders have been closed until further notice and

a curfew is in effect between 6 pm and 5 am. was reportedly killed while visiting troops on the frontline of a battle against northern rebels here's how the chief of staff of child's army announced his death. martial of chad idriss deby it know as he did every time when the republic's institutions were seriously threatened took the heroic lead in a combat operation against terrorists who had come from libya. he was injured in the engagement and died after being brought back to. the year. now turned to west africa correspondent fred who has just returned from chad after covering those elections there for it please tell us more about the circumstances about how president debbie died.

he says. he died when he was called let's. see the opposition and some sources due to how full i'm sure this is not this is not true because i mean they're saying that it's unlikely that he wasn't home but he was fine team and probably he might have been actually killed by his own over he says so that's kind of so far the information maybe in the coming hours good days will know more about this outcome since is around his death but so far that's what the people who chant speak u.a.t. . these of our very fluid situations that is still part of why he was seen on the battlefield. yes exactly that's the question i mean we know from the past the. president is the who i mean nasty i think all of these

title top need to operate. and last year as if. he was still seen as a strong military man and he has been i mean it was said that he used to go in the battlefield to find the. lead times before but not at this particular time when he was waiting for the day or future results to be announced and then he goes into the battlefield to fight inside it's that's what doesn't make sense and this particular time i said does that mean that people think that there have been foul play. yet exactly i should do is i go away i was there in china i was talking to some people and they welcomed this but president idriss deby will not finish his 6 tom he is probably

going to be killed and even when these. rebels are tight. tight shot coming from north to once they will call this a these people are going to succeed there will come to judge and i'm they will see him i mean full people who have been seeing him for 30 years as a top and strong military possibly believing that he can just vileness just like that in a very easy way that is something which is what people don't understand and what makes people think that's probably the there is some sort of pretty here who could be taking over and now in charge who will take power do we thank you. yes and he's his son not gen up mom not teaze the 2nd in command i mean after his father he's very strong strong jenaveve there to survey the salt this is the

guy the meter has announced that he's good to lead the transitional council and what kind of problems in conclusions could arise for a potentially deteriorating situation in charge and in the region. that china has so many problems they have poverty they have inside genes that have completely tone. they did the county and also this a region. so this is the death of president idriss deby might actually make the situation worse but then is that the country though position and they open the issue nancy was so sad the organization rose up a few days ago a few weeks ago saying that we don't want him to allude to start for a son so all these other powers that are going to stunt and they have got

a voice now when there is this some sort of power vacuum now it's likely going to be one us where we're going probably to see more people fighting for the power groups also rising to make sure that they gave what they wanted but also the opposition trying to get to what they wanted to remove prince the east to be but of course there is also some of confidants of former confidants of president is they do also want power. it is west africa correspondent fred thank you for your reporting. they use medical regulator has given the green light to their johnson and johnson kovan 1000 vaccine despite a possible link to rare blood clots last week the company halted its european rollout after u.s. officials recommended putting the vaccine on hold after detecting 6 very rare blood clot cases among nearly 7000000 people who had been vaccinated the a.m.a.

says that the benefits outweigh the risks but a warning should be added to the vaccine labels or correspondence in brussels is gay or what exactly does the e m a decision now mean for the vaccination campaign to really lay low the green light now is good news for the european union which initially had a sluggish rollout and has been waiting for those 55000000 doses of johnson and johnson vaccine desperately if you want now johnson and johnson after these cases occurred announce that they proactive for biotech pfizer in comparison so with this but the matter is still of course that another european vaccine has been beset by challenges how big of a setback is this for a vaccine is developed in europe. exactly so the it's a similar problem that astra zeneca is facing and that is why in case of astra zeneca member states have decided to increase the age level from which the vaccine

can be administered you can expect that the same happens to the johnson and johnson vaccine now because particularly young women were affected so now i'm expecting that the age level is going to 50 or 60 years of both for the johnson and johnson vaccine as well as the european medicines agency makes they clear although both are vector of vaccines would be a donor virus as a means to deliver the d.n.a. off of the corona virus so it's the same technology but there it's yet too early to say if it's its if this is the reason why both the astra zeneca and the johnson and johnson are facing these rare side effects. are you a correspondent a gay or a modest thank you very much. let's spin it was some of the other stories making headlines around the world firefighters in south africa have largely contained a blaze on the slopes of cape town's iconic table mountain it started early sunday

and ripped into words the university campus and residential areas forcing many to evacuate their homes a library containing rare books and manuscripts was badly affected. holding flowers in me and mar hundreds have marched in the southern city of die away in protest against february's military coup it was just one of a number of rallies across the country to show support for the national unity government announced last week by protest leaders today the hunter said it was outlawing that its shadow government. now after a bruising power struggle germany's governing conservatives have agreed on a candidate to succeed chancellor angela merkel in the country's elections this fall are mean has received the backing of both parties in the center right bloc after a week long battle with his varian rival marcus or. he came out victorious

from the conservative power struggle now i mean lush said once to focus on battling other parties he appeared say what counts from now on is which party has the best ideas to a country's future for me it's just base who can pull together the best team to deal with the challenges we're facing or disappears this year and that's why our party union this cd you and see is you need to head into this election campaign is a team this city you will not win this without this year's you and vice versa the acute. team that from now on will be led by him in lash it back to ally carnival king and committed to a strong europe the 60 year old has been state premier of northward of a scale germany's most populous state for 4 years and was elected c.d.u. party leader in january. born in the western city of arson close to the dutch and

belgian borders russia just a former member of the european parliament and fluent in french for the most part his politics are moderate and have really reflect maquettes positions. the long and bruising power struggle within the conservative alliance only came to an end when his very and rival pulled out of the race. top i mean i should i called i mean lushington congratulated him also offered him our full support in what i believe will be the extremely difficult election campaign ahead of us so we will support him without any sense of resentment and with all of our strength i speak for myself as well as for my party the c.s.u. . this support of german voters however is something i mean that we'll have to work hard for in recent polls the majority do not believe he has what it takes to lead europe's biggest economy. as if he's not my type and i don't see him as the decisive leader that i am hoping for and that we might need. him

for his just the other way around he's not determined enough. with the conservatives on really handling it well now they finally have a candidate but they don't even have a program what kind of procedure is that it's like getting a driver's license but there's no car anymore. it's 5 months ahead of germany's federal elections i mean lashon now faces an uphill battle to defend the chancellery against the greens and succeed america. well these days we could all use a story with a happy ending in this one comes from the indian state of maharashtra where one brave railway worker risked his life to save a child just in the nick of time or a drone was captured on c.c.t.v. take a look a toddler fell onto a railway line with a train rapidly approaching and then

a brave railway worker spotted what was going on in sprinted into action. lifting the child to safety just as the locomotive was approaching. that is such a heart stopping moment so happy for that happy ending there are up next steps rob watts we do have are you business. people in trucks injured when trying to shoot a city center more and more refugees are being turned away for the lemon test seems. to be critical of the swedish demonstrators live people leave extreme transmitted to the. olympic movement 300000000 people are seeking. the limits of the law.

because no one should have to flee. the mum make up your own mind play w. . made for mines. to get back to. the world bank says it's now reached. financing. developing countries on the banks vice president development. medicines regulator. blood clots. carbon emissions down to 2020 wiped out.

welcome to the program the world bank has approved to a $1000000000.00 in financing for developing nations to buy corona virus vaccine the money going to $17.00 countries including ivory coast. rwanda the world bank says the financing will come in the form of grants for the poorest nations the organization is expecting to support 50 countries with a total of $4000000000.00 for vaccines by the middle of this year ok now speak to. vice president for human development at the world bank thank you very much for joining us on business not just explain to us what these countries are going to be using this money for. thank you rob for your question the countries can use the money for either purchasing vaccines and importantly for deploying vaccines and this means meeting the costs of hiring vaccine ito's

training them communications stakeholder engagement we know that these 2 are very important at this time because there is a backseat hesitancy it can also apply it can also pay for a cold chain and logistics the way we provide the financing is quite flexible so so countries choose to use the money where they most need some of these are the real fundamentals things like p.p.a. and just being i would say are actually transport the vaccines are some of the countries that you're working with an awful long way away from being able to acquire and effectively distribute the vaccines many countries are. getting their vaccines to kovacs the global alliance led by w h u v and unicef and kovacs is aiming to provide a vaccines to cover 20 percent of the population in developing countries of course

there are supply disruptions and supply shortages at the moment which makes it difficult for countries to get vaccines and that's why the world bank with we're advocating for vaccine equity we're also advocating for countries that have separate saxon's to make them available to developing countries as which are expected wealthy nations to pass at them or by this point and for maybe this sort of financing to not have been necessary. well i think compared to what happened during h one n one previously that countries are getting the developing countries are getting access to vaccines soon up. during the course of the pandemic than we've seen in the past and so that's on the plus side of course much more can be done i'm actually in favor of financing being available to countries so that they can they

can purchase or co-pay for vaccines because this is a way of lubricating the market making things and move so the financing is is is very important and as i said the budgets in the vaccines is one thing but actually distributing and deploying them effectively is another and in the middle of a pandemic having this additional financing when government budgets us trained is really very helpful in getting shots into arms which is which at the end of the day is what we're all interested in and these $2000000000.00 just the tip of the iceberg so far. it's the beginning and we expect to have to approve more financing as as the year progresses as you said at the in your introduction we're aiming to double this abound and and reach more than double the number of countries by the middle of the year and no one knows how the pandemic is going to progress and they may be the need for students. in order to address the

variance of concern so this is this is something that could be a long term endeavor i'm to martin vice president for human development of the world bank thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me. now the european drug regulator the a.m.a. has ruled that the benefits of johnson and johnson's covered 19 vaccine outweigh the risks of side effects clearing the way for its use throughout the the agency reviews a small number of cases of rare blood clotting disorders among recipients of the vaccine in the u.s. the job was authorized in the european union in march but widespread use is yet to begin that the amazed decision showed come as good news for european economies looking to leave lockdowns behind. a vaccine development and approval are of course important but no good if you can't actually get the jobs to patients as we've been hearing that's why vaccine transportation is more critical than ever and

a lot goes into moving those doses. leipzig based pharmacists claudia's amish has been eagerly awaiting this delivery in germany doctor's offices have recently been allowed to administer covert 1000 vaccines before then shots were only available at specially designated vaccination centers pharmacies are in charge of distribution in this case it's the biotech finds her job it's booked in with the supplies are still limited at the moment doctors are not receiving their full orders then. i think things will get better in the coming weeks to start the vaccine was developed here at biotechs production facility in the western german city of marble work many are pinning their hopes on the plant's manufacturing potential. some 400 people work here around the clock the aim is to produce 250000000 vaccine doses by the end of june in the future that could rise to 750000000

a year. frankfurt airport is a 90 minute drive away it's a key transit point for jams going in and out of the country. fill up a lot of that is in charge of pharmaceutical transport at lufthansa us logistics subsidiary . preparations for the vaccine rollout have been underway for some time the japs are transported in cooling containers that can sustain temperatures of minus 70 degrees celsius storage facilities must also be kept at all to low temperatures. and we know for sure at a temperature of minus 20 degrees celsius here vaccines are quite small so even in the boxes behind me you can store a large amount of doses of. vaccines developed at the biotech facility in germany are destined for countries all over the world. and suppliers abroad send

their genitals to pharmacies across germany to. back at leipsic claudia's amish has distributed the 1st doses to doctors' offices demand is extremely high. we are going to have all the facts a nation appointments until mid may we're fully booked within 3 days in germany and around the world finding an efficient way of getting jams to those who need the most will be key to ending the pandemic next the international energy agency is warning that global c o 2 emissions could increase by was 5 percent this year that would offset much of the decline last year resulting from the pandemic it's almost as if the world's biggest polluters are making up for lost time. demand for energy is rising fast across the world and with coal accounting for a large chunk of energy produced the international energy agency expects carbon

emissions to rise significantly not just in asia and some developing countries but also in the u.s. it's a global coal consumption this year could rise by 5 percent to $33000000000.00 tons that's because renewables solar wind and hydro power can't cover the world's growing demand for energy. good news however is that we are seeing a very big momentum. investment you know how much knowledge is so early 2021 is said to be the largest ever in cheese u.d.c. in renewable sources are equally empty because we see now they're very high and that's what the i.e.e.e. is hoping for u.s. president joe biden presents plans on how to reduce carbon emissions in the future and his global climate summit on thursday but u.s. action alone won't be enough a concerted global effort is required. now let's take

a look at some of the other business stories making headlines around the world the u.k. government says it's toughening its targets on sierra to emissions by law the country will commit to cut them by 78 percent by 2035 it's in the target will require more electric cars renewable and nuclear electricity and even encouraging people to cut down on meet and dairy. spain's cash a bank will cut more than $8000.00 jobs as part of a cost cutting plan after acquiring rival bankia the lender now funds to close more than $1500.00 planned branches in the country last month cash bank finalize the deal which has led to the creation of spain's biggest domestic bank. fails in bob way and hoping for much better times this year after their economy shrank by. 2020 tobacco could play a key role in the bounceback at zimbabwe's bank crop accounting for 10 percent of its g.d.p. and 2021 growing season is now possible. to buckle farmer to develop the energy

to go sequel even north east of zimbabwe's capital harare looks at a good harvest season has come through the koran a crisis will like him most of the zimbabwean farmers expect to sell more than last year we are expecting this year to cement their $240.00 tons of effort to the markets so we're hoping that the prices will hold the average of at least $4.00 a k.g. and i think for us that would be would be a good a very good scenes. option floors are opening in the capital harare zimbabwe is still buckle is on demand making the country the top produce a in africa and 6th in the world government plans to increase production to 300000000 kilograms to target a fight 1000000000 us dollar industry by 2025 the problem here is under

$35000000.00 killers the estimates are still being calculated but we think it will be prettier than that. and because of the improved quality i think the prices may be a little higher economic analysts warn that dog growth may be driven by a good agriculture season in 1000 could slow down their progress into the. recovery but on account of the good rainfall that we did we just would fork out and when a quarter does we'll obviously it is a positive effect on the rest of the economy air force there's still a lot of uncertainties with respect to how the corporate $924.00 they're going to be fit with which will probably get to 50 they say that they go to tobacco season zimbabwe expects to harvest more than 2000000 metric tons of grain and cereal crops in the 2021 farming season this is positive for a country that has struggled with food security for more than a d.

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