in the region. because. that's the thing that chad offered was debility i mean this is a a very volatile region 3 decades the west supported. his death could herald a new period of uncertainty to the troubled region. precarious situation there indeed want to talk more now about what's unfolding in chad with david smith he is the executive director of copy consulting and hide your son and on a stone and a radio that broadcasts from general in charge and northern nigeria he joins us from johannesburg where he happens to be at the a moment sir a very warm welcome we get we understand the situation right now in china is very precarious please outline for us what would happen if there was instability now in chive and what that would mean for the sahara region. thanks for having me on

i should start by saying instability in chad is not something new it's been in stable for for many years decades in fact it's not the 1st time that rebels have come close to injure a man a to attempt to to unseat the late president debbie and i should i should add that some something i heard in your report a moment ago about borders being closed they have now open the borders are open again. and there's a heavy military presence in the streets although that's not unusual in an jermain of there's often a heavy presence whenever the president moves around there are what is known on affectionately in in jamaica as tappy rouge red carpets meaning that nobody can move anywhere as long as the president or one of his senior officials as moving around so this is just a greater a greater inconvenience added to the inconvenience that regular citizens of in jamaica have to face every day. because muhammad is

a general in the chaldean army as it's not likely that there's going to be much difference between the way things operated in chad before and the way they're operating now in the report that preceded speaking to be you mentioned the these the rebels moving towards and to maina at the moment they're not really going anywhere because the chaldean forces in a battle in which he was present and and killed thanks to french intelligence they were able to beat the rebels back it's unlikely in the short term that the rebels will make any move on and remain until they figure out what the lay of the land is now and whether or not the people of chad accept what the new status quo in imagine now you manage a radio that broadcasts. to the lake chad region where unfortunately the terror

group boko haram operates mr digby was at the forefront of the fight against terrorism which of course made him a darling to the likes of president mccaul what are the implications now of that terror fight well interesting because chad is a member of 2 very important regional organizations that that that fight instability in the region one is the multinational joint task force. a grouping of armies from chad cameroon niger nigeria and also been in that has been has been fighting boko haram and other insurgents in the in the lake chad area for the past 5 years debbie and chad rather is also the. revolving president of the g. 5 say you know the grouping that includes chad needs air protein a fossil mally and mauritania. what remains to be seen is what

role mohammed the son and the new military leader will will will take in both the g 5 say hell and as a as a member of the multinational joint task force i don't think it's going to change very much the yemen g t f is headed by a nigerian general and there's been no change in the politics of nigeria recently. nor have there been in the know has there been in the other countries involved in the m a g d f what what what remains to be seen is how the military will operate in domestic terms rather than regionals or we have to leave it there david smith executive director of okapi consulting and radio and our son and thomas and i thank you very much my pleasure. now russian president vladimir putin has been delivering his annual state of the nation address he warned that moscow would respond in a swift and harsh way to any foreign provocations mr putin's speech comes as

tensions with the west are increasing over a russian military build up on the border with ukraine while there is also now a growing international concern about russian opposition leader alexina vollies deteriorating health but mr putin's speech focused mainly on internal issues like fighting the pandemic. and at this juncture i like to welcome mr mann fred waver he is the leader of the center right european peoples party bloc in the e.u. parliament the p.-p. mr a very very warm welcome thank you so much for your time you might have heard that mr alexian of all these doctors are saying that he could literally die any minute now and that's a quote what is the european union able to do. well 1st of all no valleys as you're off in the fight of democracy on the rule of law in

russia and and what we can do is to show to putin and to his whole system how high the price could be if things went in to go in a wrong direction that is what we have to show and that's why for me it's clear if . really hopefully not but if this really will happen that he will die then i think for example that north stream you cannot be finished can it be finalized is approaching we have to tell putin the price is high please respect international obligations and rules so that is the leverage that you intend to use but i'm just warning does that you have any influence over the russian president because i mean he seems to frankly openly scorn the block and prefers to deal with individual you member states individually. that's always

a precondition for european strength to be united and generally speaking when it is about to question to activate sanctions against russia like we did in the previous years europe was capable to do so zones ukraine policy and the defending of ukraine as a partner of europe and in supporting the democratic opposition in russia for the moment i must say that euro voice cried quite united against sanctions on the base but i must say i was a little bit disappointed when i saw the latest development on council site on monday the foreign affairs ministers met and they were not ready they were not capable to tell putin the price for further provocations and that's why for the moment we see again a signal of weakness i as a member of european parliament can tell you that is european parliament we are strongly united in being you being strong and firm against the put in a prison so i mean it is evident that the government in russia clearly distinguishes between its political relationships and investments so should the

e.u. hurt russia where it hurts most i.e. investments. all tools are on the table all options must be on the table because next to the never new case which is at the moment in these hours the most the most important one next to these things we have the troops next to the ukraine border so we see a cli escalation and frankly speaking that has obviously also a lot to do with the growing opposition in russia so the system can only on this demand of citizens in russia the demonstrations out in history to few weeks ago the people who are now running for the local and regional column and also for the for the national column and they only can answer this demand of i'm not i'm a critic and the more rule of law based the russia this is strengthened vis authoritarian power and that is very very so maybe see this development now in russia again for. europe there is no alternative you know the region of rule for

all the other rich enough democrats cv believe in the european way of life and that's why old foose on the global level to fight for our values must have fuel their side my favor a leader of the center right to in the e.u. comments are thank you for a time. thank you so much. and some sports news now for you the brand new european football super league that was announced just sunday has crumbled all 6 english clubs abandoned their plans to join the breakaway league last nights and other clubs from spain and italy have followed today only real madrid and barcelona remain officially and volved in the project. chelsea fans hearing that their club had backed out of the super league. the. a stunning backlash to the super league had worked to reverse an attempted radical

shift in the european power structure to take in the competition a sport that now could be paneling where you can get relegated from a great season okoye has eventually no point just craziness in it taken away was only for a screen we know gain nothing from it was our main stay cool everything we love inside the stadium players for brighton chelsea's opponents on tuesday night showed what they thought of chelsea's earlier super league ambitions u.k. prime minister boris johnson celebrated the withdrawals this is because i welcome the decision taken by the 6 english football teams not to join the european super league the announcement was the right result for football fans for clubs and for communities across the country all 6 of the powerful english clubs had pulled out of the super league 48 hours after it had been announced i want to apologize to all

the fancy porters of liverpool football club for the disruption i caused the past 48 hours goes without saying but it should be said. the project put forward was never going to stand without the support of the fans super league clubs learning a lesson that it's never a good look to have fans coaches and players rooting against club bosses and owners . they're reminded of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour germany's parliament has passed a new law that could mark a watershed moment in the country's fight against covert 19th the move could force long downs and curfew was on areas with high infection rates strongly pals and there was a wave of car of ours. sick around it every day asia is up next and i think at the top of the hour.

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this is. coming up today pummeled by. india is reeling under the more infectious 2nd wave of the. its health infrastructure is stretched to breaking point and it has prompted this warning from the prime minister. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against corona virus and there. was some intel a few weeks ago the situation was under control. but this 2nd pandemic wave came in like a storm. i'm british manager welcome to did of the news asia that you could join us just over

a month ago in government thought it had beaten the cord on about us but now the country is one of the worst in the wild it's experiencing a devastating resurgent of the but the number of new cases breaking records almost daily they increase in case count also means more deaths. on. and more families have to cope with the loss of loved ones. some states like modest dry and deadly have been posed to control the rise in cases thousands of migrant daily wage labor has to flee to cities for their little homes. and the country's vaccines rollout now appear sluggish many vaccination centers are reporting a shortage of stocks. prime minister narendra modi and other political leaders have been accused of allowing the virus to spread out of control they permitted huge political rallies and the hindu festival to go ahead when it was clear infections

was more the is now calling on the public to abide by destructions to save the country from an economically devastating nationwide. we have to save our country from going into a complete lockdown i. urge the state governments to consider lockdowns only as a last resort. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against coronavirus. until a few weeks ago the situation was under control. but then this 2nd pandemic wave came in like a storm. and it's a storm that's being accused. oxygen and flow of the hospital with health infrastructure on the verge of collapse the city

government has announced. deserted roads. looks just like it did in 2020 at the beginning of india's harsh. except now. the daily beast mode is much worse. the national capital has been put on a 6 day lockdown and silence reigns again. but delhi's largest over the hospital is a different story even while it is stretched to capacity patients continue to be. many delegates of those admitted here to camp out right outside the hospital they prefer to be close to their loved ones instead of traveling a few these women have spent the last few days together they met on saturday when both their husbands were admitted with symptoms. pretty dubious set out at 9 am

looking for help after being turned away from tree hospital she finally found a bed for her husband here 18 hours later. told he's only $33.00 and even someone like him developed such severe symptoms so suddenly that we thought he stopped breathing so someone with preexisting conditions will be much worse off. han was told her husband could not get the dialysis he needed because he had called the symptoms. she struggled to find a hospital which could treat him for boot as he ran out of bread. we're not this is i'm not worried about myself i just want my husband to be well like he was i don't want anything more i have nobody other than him and my 2 children. both men are doing better now getting admission to a hospital is all the deal with tree during this. india is part of 3 to 4 think

over 200000 care for every day several states are reporting a shortage in hospital beds oxygen and even medicine it's probably the worst to 50 in the country. the delhi government is now converting stadiums in schools like this one into covert facilities to combat the shortage of beds each of the $125.00 beds in this government school they'll be supplied with oxygen $1500.00 more beds are planned doctors here tell us that these are not foot intensive care the hope is that of patients who can be shifted off but observation and monitoring critical care beds in hospitals can be freed up to struggling the daily still is trying very hard to maintain a pace in fiction i mean the speed of the spirit and i don't think. plan is to control the speed of it so that the infrastructure of the health care

facility. and the lord is clearly immense this 1500 bed hospital is full yet this man suffering from that listener's needs help he's also to wait in delhi's fight to help people like him the next few days off lockdown. will be critical. for more i'm joined now by dr raj he was the president of the indian medical association recently and joins me from near delhi in yemen and dr shah my bones come out now you've seen the impact of the coronavirus in india up close why are we seeing this case is. so full. of you know no. and frankly we let the guard down people had a false sense of security that they just don't something and elections have been in

and big big could i leave and it just got to me. and my mouth for being late to the search and we had such big for developing. and also mutations of a lot of situation we're just waiting. to talk a bit about these mutations we've heard about these double mutations vetter being detected in india are these more infectious then only versions of this virus yet this team will be more even if it didn't know especially when they use time to super spreaders last year do you put much but this time we have seen you mortality rate in the younger people over and in some cases even in children. and. wouldn't have been detected even with that. one needed didn't island. and later the 40 foot there was also the director.

on my own religion they chose to state elections as 1200 in big way you were talking earlier about people letting their guard down are wondering if the government to let its got down given that you were talking about these various elections also and religious gatherings that were allowed to progress my 1st treatment was we let our guard down we thought the health police prepared and. we were not really admitting when we are seeing sharply the brother. oxygen and. again the government has wanted to do more dangerous makeshift hospital. but what is the reason you think that the government did not take the long time if i can call it that between some time last year and this year

in march when the cases were not so much as now why didn't the government take this time to prepare i think some of the overall sense of confidence that they didn't manage number lazying that monsoon rains it is affecting no families it's huge communities but. the. people are getting more. but a lot of people are quoting off like this and actually we had a sort of what we buy but this will give me your honest opinion doctor and this is something i ask of you because you've worked in india for so many years and you also are headed it's a body of doctors again in their fight this current wave. a

definite theme the biggest effect of india is. under his influence and now in the private sector than last year it was the fear psychosis and really going to have for this this time but i would take the time when people are not ending beds and are already working overtime and taking call would be. slowed immediately i think 2 to 6 weeks we should still be there and lukas decontrol of my listened and vaccine. because that everything was delayed or actually before yesterday in a meeting the plan was to release him to laze that drugs to the states allowing more spirits to have her to. believe that it is available off the shelf at a cost. but then a lot of the vaccine supply stocks are running out and many vaccination centers.

or would they have given our keys and wouldn't you can we should all of it. and then come to company that even under good. soul. we should know you don't even need a group has been the word we. what would you say is needed most at this time in india to fight the 2nd wave. what is most needed is whatever you might do must not forget or do or might more do. and people how to relate that mocking and hand hygiene is still leave best medicine . or. prevention is better than cure what sort of fighting do we leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to us dr rajan sharma bost president of the indian medical association. and that's all from today when even now with

some images from as your head is kind of a severe wave of the cold a lot of. the soldiers and. i'm stressed out. by.

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the crisis in brazil is going from bad to worse but i'd like other countries the virus is killing many children. some doctors blame any extreme immune response to the virus multisystem inflammatory syndrome. critics point to government mismanagement for the 2nd highest covert death toll in the world. doctors without borders calls it a humanitarian catastrophe it says authorities refusal to adopt evidence based public health measures has sent far too many to an early grave failure goma's starts her day early she gets up at around 4 am 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 and 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 anything but they run out overnight. lives in a for valor of around a 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 imagine c 8 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 favelas for 20 years. no outdoor pull the data shows that the poorer you are the higher the rates of infection. the more on the periphery the person finds themselves in 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 or getting the virus it's an ethical. when the choice.

for adults 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. with a shortage of vaccines and hospitals are overwhelmed it's hard to see a way forward for people in the lowest social groups who are trapped by both poverty and disease so life's become even more of a struggle for many brazilians money nicholai is from doctors without borders just how catastrophic is the situation in brazil. yeah the situation is really bad in so the end is if teams are working we'll why in 70 countries we have supported health

facilities in the response to kuwait and in the beginning it was difficult everywhere what we see now a year after that the situation is still very very catastrophic in brazil and our teams together with the stuff on the ground is overloaded they don't have for instance the drugs to into bits to give them the right and stevia so we we have images where nurses are sitting on the ground next to people dying because they don't have the beds they don't have an oxygen they don't have enough medicines to treat the people properly so it puts immense pressure on the who health care system but especially on the stuff as well and people are dying the numbers that we have that's every day these unprecedented especially on trees are some of those numbers might be as out of a population of 211000000 there are about 14000000 official cases close

266000 confirmed infections every day and to put it into perspective the death toll globally has passed 3000000 of the hof a 1000000 of those in the u.s. and brazil about 375000 why such a poor record. yeah well this is the right question if you put the numbers on the screen so this is exactly why we have taken the microphone to speak out about this because there's no coordinate response we don't most of this pandemic in the intensive care units you have to have actions in the population as we all know or in europe and elsewhere if we have to do things not only vaccinate but we have to go measures like wearing masks keeping physical distance. work reduce nonessential mobility. do testing and contact tracing all these things are not done in accordance with in brazil and the health authorities are not putting

themselves behind this and it's scientific it's knowledge that we have constructed over the last year and it's not being implemented in news is brazil's leader at fault here in this case well we we are 20 and one individual it's the autoroute it's defend our government and it's the health authorities mo government we work very well in local level and the people there are overloaded is well they're crying out for help we need a plan we need a good plan that is implemented and we're not asking for very complicated issues it is common knowledge now does it you need a package of elements to implement. those to try to stop the transmission look at the numbers you put on the screen every day the number of people that are getting infected and the health structures cannot go in a country as brazil because brazil is not one of the poorest countries in the world it has a very good system in place normally let's call it. what's your explanation then

for cover killing so many young brazilians including babies. yeah we don't have a good explanation for that so we're also looking into this book together with with with other scientists what exactly is it that makes it of course there are new forms of the virus in in brazil as well so we have new modes mutants of the virus if you don't have a collective response that we're asking for burial we see the funeral there's a collapse or places to to bury people it's horrible if you speak to brazilians everybody has his somebody that has died or are is is being interviewed but i did you really cannot get completely explain there are new mutants if you don't have a collective response you get the virus us ability to create to escape the the system into some right but the new mutants do not just explain the situation if we

compare it to southern africa for instance where we also have new mutants they have x. and it less people proportionally then in brazil but they are reducing their peak because they put other measures in place so they really 'd tins don't explain the situation in brazil and we need a public health plan really briefly this multisystem inflammatory syndrome or m.i.a.'s which is being blamed for some of these. deaths amongst children is that what could be the main cause. yeah this is something and this is not for us to comment on it is doctors without borders this is very technical the right research is have to look into this i would like to make any you know our hypothesis and estimations on it is it's dreadful the junk children drive the disease when brazil the whole population is suffering all families are and where we are calling

for it stop the disease in the communities by doing the right things and we know what we need to do. have to live in my new life from doctors without borders what have you on the show today thank you. of the 2 house sides correspondent eric williams who has a viewer question about the european union's vaccination if it. why is the e.u. reacting behind their backs and. this isn't really a science question but people here in europe have asked it so often in the last few months that that i wanted to talk about it for a minute 1st of all i think it's important to say that compared with a lot of the rest of the world e.u. member states aren't lagging behind at the moment it's countries have on average injected over 20 doses per 100 people and are currently inoculating over 2000000 people

a day the global vaccination campaign has certainly certainly chugged along faster in some places notably israel and the u.s. and the u.k. but even so in many many other places the numbers of vaccinated are growing at a much slower pace still there's no question that you stumbled pretty badly out of the blocks and it's vaccine campaign and that mistakes were made that will cost a lot of european lives critics say $1.00 of the biggest is what at the time last summer was viewed as a strength which is that the e.u. negotiating as a block drove hard bargains with manufacturers but then neglected to get the iron clad agreements on delivery and the result was that in the 1st quarter of 2021 only a little over half of the contract of doses were delivered the e m

a has also been slower to authorize some vaccines than its counterparts elsewhere and end vaccine destroyed. fusion has proven problematic in different ways both at the e.u. level and in individual member states but there are hopes that the block is now turning a corner of sorts and and many leaders say they still expect to meet the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the adults in europe by the summer. finally this could win over some back saying skeptics joints for jabs new york recently legalized marijuana so long time activist donna bill set up a booth in union square handing out blunts to anyone who showed they covered 900 that's a nation cut under its cane a giveaway ended with a smoking. iced finish on

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