this is news to live from berlin and india appeals for help as hospitals scramble to secure oxygen the e.u. planter's fresh aid to india as the covert crisis threatens to turn into a catastrophe hospitals are overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers of critically ill patients daily new infections are in the hundreds of thousands also on the program more than 80 people die after a fire sweeps through a covert ward in a baghdad hospital iraq's prime minister calls for an investigation. and from the

scientific team behind the astra zeneca covert vaccine comes a potential game changer in the fight against malaria. a michael thanks for joining us the european union israel and germany have promised aid to stem an unrelenting 2nd wave of covert that's ravaging india and threatening to turn what's already a public health crisis into a catastrophe in factions are rising hospital beds are scarce and lifesaving oxygen supplies are running out the government is already diverting supplies from industry in a desperate attempt to help those in need but with new infection rates breaking global records for a 4th consecutive day the worst could be yet to come. overwhelmed and under-supply. this delhi hospital is one of thousands across india besieged by

the country's 2nd coronavirus wave as the dead are carted off patients too sick to move languish on the pavement. helplessness spills into anger. her mother on the verge of death a woman tries to this hospital is useless. inside there's almost no room to stand and patients are forced to share beds. there's disbelief that hospitals are under equipped to deal with a crisis distraught relatives appeal to the government for help. please. do something and these releases some hope to supply people needed here people need better dear people we've made here you can leave wards here people leaving dictions . you believe medicines health experts blame the surge on the highly contagious

variant it hit after the government declared victory over the virus in january now it's urging patience. and go back to when encountered with serenity and be most people get well by taking care of themselves at home. there's no need to create panic and i run to hospitals for little things for service but oxygen and medicine are not little things for people battling to breathe with the underfunded health system in a state of paralysis others are stepping in to help the sikh temple in delhi has secured oxygen for the infected. them to their most girl members there are people dying at home because they lack oxygen and others who aren't getting any help from the administration or a hospital they're going to go and we are helping to save lives in the order to preserve our guard our 1 authorities are now diverting industrial oxygen for medical use and wrapping up efforts to get it to hospitals quickly. but even when

supplies arrive india will need more than just oxygen to contain its devastating 2nd wave. for more i'm joined now by d. . in delhi i'm rita delhi has declared a lot dan can you tell us more about that news michael in delhi has declared a highly anticipated lockdown it was already under curfew for weeks but now the local government has decided to extend that like another week and jenny now has the wind in cases of clearly not 19 and the number continues to rise 357 people have died overnight another record and this is just your perception of the local government only that the quote at this time of these infections was due to strict measures to stop not to meet the contact and the government said that

this is the only weapon to stem the flow of more infections and bring down the positivity rate which are going up to some 37 percent in the last couple of days it's gone down to 29 percent so therefore this this trend will continue because the situation in davie at the moment is very pretty yeah and those images we've been looking at are showing that critical nature i'm curious delhi authorities have asked the national government for supporting getting oxygen how is the government responding. when did india has a pretty good structure so that you don't keep government in jeopardy since it needs more have their local government says they have 700 what they need to 700 tons of great oxygen or that they have 50 percent of that so they've appealed to the national government the national government says it and do all it can but they look a government is also these 2 other states in india saying who ever has any self this

oxygen should send it to delhi because there is an oxygen emergency and the national government on its own and. all india meeting yesterday were to find minister. live on missions how to make the supplies of oxygen oxygen going to as he created the enforces being mobilized on forces. to bring the oxygen oxygen has been and if to in singapore and. not to inflict. john is of the essence. all hands on deck only about half a minute here every time but is india getting support from other countries absolutely given the kind of emergency that we're seeing in india has passed the common good germany has offered 25 oxygen generating which are due to live here in a few days the united states the u.k. foreign office had as little as russia said it's going to have oxygen equipment as rent as elks and cylinders so yes

a lot of pressure coming in but as i said. yes and it's a matter of life and death and yeah. delhi bureau chief and rita as always thank you very very much. to iraq now over 80 people have been killed and a 100 more injured after a blaze broke out in a covert ward of a baghdad hospital iraqi prime minister was tough economy has called for an investigation into the cause of the blaze and declared 3 days of national mourning . it's the stuff of nightmares a covert war would overrun with smoke and flames patients who were already struggling to breathe is now on the verge of suffocating. oh. rescuers such specified as in the dark of the night pulling body after body from the gutted wards. this video

posted on social media claims to show the moment an oxygen tank exploded and started the fire out. c in just a matter of minutes the situation is out of control. oh desire that in the beginning there was an explosion it started from that the 2nd explosion was over that i found a girl suffocating she must have been about 19 and she was suffocating she was about to die. the event has filled anger about a health care system worn down by decades of neglect and left on able to cope with the pandemic officials say the hospital had no fire protection system and that fall ceilings helped spread the blaze the prime minister has now suspended the health minister amidst public outrage. iraq has already been

struggling to control curve of 9 tain on wednesday the number of coronavirus cases suppost 1000000 the highest of any arab state. let's turn now to some other stories making headlines around the world at this hour a state of emergency has come into effect in tokyo in an effort to stem a widening coronavirus outbreak department stores bars and theatres will stay closed for the next 17 days in japan's capital 3 months before the city hosts the summer olympics. germany is switching gears in the fight against the pandemic after parliament approved a legislative amendment paving the way for a more central centrally coordinated response on saturday night authorities patrolled cities across the country to enforce the most controversial of the new measures or curfew between 10 pm and 5 am. supporters of somalia's president mohamed he mohamed clashed with those opposing the extension of

his 4 year term on sunday residents reported hearing gunfire in the capital mogadishu the president had signed a law in april extending his mandate for 2 years. and albanians head to the polls today in parliamentary elections the balkan country is deeply divided with incumbent eddie rama making his 3rd run for office against the conservative democratic party led by newsom bhatia all parties say they will deliver the reforms needed for albania to fulfill its stream of joining the e.u. . well today is world malaria day and new hopis on the horizon in the fight against one of the world's deadliest diseases promising new vaccines based on m r a technology such as that used in 5 years covidien 19 shot are proving effective against malaria 2 scientists say they could help reverse the partial reemergence of

malaria as healthcare systems worldwide strain to cope with the pandemic. malaria had children the hardest. the disease is spread by mosquitoes but it's preventable and treatable. according to the w.h.o. 21 countries eliminated malaria in the last 2 decades. but due to the current a pandemic it's harder for patients to be seen by doctors and be tested and diagnosed if you have a malaria inspection especially if you're a child or pregnant woman and you don't get adequate treatment quickly then you can bury. most severe malaria and from the child being quite well to being dead within 24 hours. larry symptoms also complicate matters as fever is one of the main indicators just like to cope with 19 another hurdle for medical care. mosquito nets

vital to controlling the spread of the disease a given out on a house by house basis not ideal during a pandemic. malaria is spreading and the current vaccine is only 40 percent effective of a new candidate has just been shown to be highly effective in trials human trials for malaria vaccines using m.r.i. technology similar to but used against hope it on the horizon. so there's a chance that covert 19 could not only make the malaria epidemic worse it could also shed light on how to end it. earlier we spoke to dr richard good kind of a gene that we discovered about 10 years ago that's gratian of anti malaria still pre-clinical it's an animal testing taken just takes advantage of a gene that we discovered about 10 years ago that's seen takes advantage of this protein product called p.m.s. and by vaccinated against it the host can clear the infection. and we combine this

vaccine engine with a new type of r.n.a. called cell amplifying or in a in many ways. it's a 2nd generation of the m.r.d. vaccines currently used for covert because it persists at the injection site for about 6 to 8 weeks so you can inject a very small amounts it can be produced much more quickly a much lower cost $1.00 can make about a 1000000 human doses in a liter of synthetic so 3 fluid so it would be potentially much easier to distribute much less expensive and it could be produced at sites around the world in a military affected countries dr richard bucolic professor at yale school of medicine talking to you earlier a little bit of sports now in bundesliga football dortmund beat both bird to nail

to keep their champions league hopes alive thanks to a pair of goals from early holland a major blunder by riddle of baku fed the ball straight to holland who needed no 2nd invitation to open the scoring it was the young norwegians 24th goal of the season and with dortmund a man down in the 2nd half holland netted his 25th the 2nd most in the league there was no stopping him as he barreled forward with only the keeper to be. now let's take a look at all the bonus legal results so far on match day 31 rb leipzig beach stood guard which means byron will win the title until at least the next matchday laver couzin defeated frankfurt minds upset by or dortmund down vote on berlin defeated bremen and freiburg share the spoils with hoffenheim on friday cologne start passouts berg and god bought vs bielefeld you see the results there and due to her to berlin's covert quarantine clash with shaka is. next up militias who

will through fear and violence you're watching news. got some tips for your bucket list. corner. for some. and some great cultural memorials to. all we go. through that whitehead. this keeps me maybe maybe to entrap let's say. the countryside of the north eastern congo is beautiful certain fear of attack by armed militias over 120 such groups have been operating for more than 2 decades on

the territory of the democratic republic of the congo along its northern borders to south sudan uganda and rwanda neither the government nor tens of thousands of un peacekeepers have been able to stop them and the people suffering inevitably leads to more suffering as victims join one rebel group or the other since they killed my father. they killed every one of my family. that's the only reason i became a fighter. a woman grieves for her murdered child an all too common side in the north eastern congo the militias killed around 2000 people here in 2020 alone the worst of them

called themselves the allied democratic forces or a.d.f. their islam ist rebels who have been terrorizing the local population for some 30 years. but of us this moment they kill people with bullets they kill people with machetes. they killed my brother with machetes. the islamists attack every few days often under cover of darkness they leave devastation behind burned down houses and beheaded corpses the local people feel like the congolese army and the un peacekeepers have abandoned them. we joined up with a un patrol in beni one of the trouble spots. attacks by the a.d.f. on the civilian population here have been on the increase in recent months.

the u.n. patrol checks up on a clinic in maine it's been a frequent target of a.t.f. attacks in bouzouki wolf is the clinic's director. wife of the militia comes here and massacres people if you saw the sheer hatred that drives the killing they chop heads off and you find the brains all around and chopped off feet that leaves you terrified and traumatized. but once the islamists tried to abduct 4 of his nurses. the guard they took them hostage in the waiting area when the people there realized it was the a.t.f. they were scared but then the militia said nobody would die it wasn't a day for killing. many in the area live in fear you and soldier was he said was x knows the clinic and the people who work there very well. you can see other nothing that will not prevent war then

a few people question they are told and identified they are the ones that are targeted to be this cancer and they can correct it at the birth like everybody else . the constant threat level keeps the clinic. closed all but a few hours a day many patients are left without treatment. and they further with whom they cannot go in particular going from they have to stay at home they cannot move through any kind of both of course. so far the u.n. force has failed to establish and maintain security often enough the more than 18000 troops from nearly 50 nations can hardly even get themselves coordinated many of them are inadequately trained or at least not trained with the relevant skills the local villagers aggravate the problems with often unjust accusations that the un troops are a pack of thieves only concerned with their own safety many of the congolese no longer put any hopes in the un troops at all. and the local people too often find

themselves caught between france when their daughters and sons actually join the a.d.f. so the parents end up cooperating with the rebels supplying them food for example in return they're left in peace but if they refuse they may be killed. sometimes or content sometimes we're afraid. the militias can show up any time they've become part of our daily lives. most of the local people are afraid to appear before the camera one man who didn't want to say his name gives vent to his frustration. the government should help or the international community should help our government with the situation there are so many people have suffered the a.t.f. got to be finished. in the meantime the a.t.f. keeps on murdering as soon as the cameras off many people here say the soldiers come too late only once the attacks over and people are already dead we meet jonny

boom only one of you a local representative who's been studying the a.d.f. for years in his view the u.n. mission has not achieved its goal very much in. the quantities here really ought to be secured according to my research as many as 4500 people have been killed right under the un forces knows it and what's their job again to protect the civilian population but more are getting killed every day. the a.d.f. was founded as an islamist group in uganda in the early 1990 s. experts have estimated their current strength that a few 100 fighters they're seen as excepting only cruel and intent on establishing islamic sharia law in the territory they control. they want to create a space a grey area where the state has no authority. they intend to control this area and exploit it. it's what they call. the islamic state of central africa the

caliphate of central africa they've already set it up. to them this state is already up and running. in march 2021 the united states designated the a.d.f. a terrorist organization with ties to the islamic state but some observers doubt the 2 groups maintain any direct contact besides the a.d.f. over 120 other militias are active in the eastern congo after the 1994 genocide in neighboring rwanda some hutu militias fled to the congo and kept on killing that prompted the formation of armed groups originally for purposes of self-defense they do not make it easy to contact them to do so we had to leave the area under central government control halfway their militia fighters meet up to lead us to one of their bases among them is mummify eda she joined the militia about 20 years ago

after an armed group massacred her family she was forced to watch as the men killed her parents with machetes then 6 of the men raped her she was only 15 years old at the time. i felt defeated my life had defeated me. i saw what they had done to me and how they had murdered my family. i couldn't keep living my life the way i had. so i decided to become a fighter and drive them out. when a former teacher came to her village to recruit young people for a new militia she joined him many of its members have experienced similar horrors it is in essence a militia of traumatized and emotionally scarred people. they killed my father. they killed everyone in my family. that's the only reason i became a fighter. her own community cast her because she'd been raped too great was the

stigma the militia offered her a chance to take revenge and to survive they control around 20 villages in the region protecting the inhabitants who in return keep them supplied with food it's a simple trade security for food but we got the impression it wasn't always a voluntary arrangement. didn't speak openly until we moved some distance from the others. they have heard that others are fleeing the group but how could i run away i have nobody to help me i don't own any land i don't have anyone who could help me build a new life. now she places all her hopes on her children her hope that one day they'll have a choice. with the blessings of god i might at least arrange for them to get an education . if they are blessed at least that. i myself will never be able to do any other

job. i can't help them by myself. hardly any other region has suffered atrocities by the militias as badly as the congo's eatery province we go on the road with the norwegian aid organization over a distance of just 60 kilometers we pass through about 20 checkpoints of various rebel groups as well as the congolese military. by the side of the road a few are carrying guns though concealing them often they ask for money as they are doing here but a few words convince them to wait for another day. 'd to draw draw it is

a camp for internally displaced people it's one of many in the congo about 5 and a half 1000000 of the country's $105000000.00 people are displaced more than anywhere else in africa logo joel row barely escaped her village when a militia attacked it she was on the run with her children when she realized her daughter was missing. oh i decided to go back to find and save her but i was convinced she was still alive but unfortunately she was already dead. i was so sad just devastated when i walked past them they shot at me i had no idea if i'd survive i gradually lost all my strength i heaved and was breathing harder and harder than i slipped into some bush i didn't really have any hope anymore i was sure i was going to die. she survived but her 4 year old daughter was murdered.

as soon as the hospital released her she gathered her other 5 children and fled to this camp. even if food water and medical care are in short supply at least they are safe here. in. kenya. many people here have stories like to tell they live in desperation and resignation the trauma runs deep. and like. although they don't have the money to send them to school they still put their hope in their children and so another generation is growing up without education as easy potential recruits for the malicious.

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