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to. the death of 53. accident. i'm british welcome to. join us the world's 1st covered 1000 outbreak continues to spiral out of control in india for the 5th straight day on monday the country recorded more than 300000 cases the highest global surges ever recorded they increase in caseload has far outstripped available medical supplies but of oxygen the u.s. u.k. germany single pole and the european union among others have stepped forward with help help that's badly needed to relieve the pressure on india's. overstretched

health care system has more from the democrats on the show dress well there is an expectation that i'm not to be so excited these invented eternities oxygen bonds and dangers should be seen in gas the ones the ability one suppliers to a single poor they're all small plants from the delete key saudi arabia and the other countries in the neighborhood as well even china. result is to support the e.u.'s the us have spoken out knowledge that we need to ensure that any supply maxime might actually od in jest because this was well thought. you know deception well democracy the us has been criticized for your teams up like to sure that seemed wrong but you did over the last few weeks but now i don't want to buy my stats and i'm glad i was accepted the what do you know i don't buy milk prices much like india support of the us when it's right it's useless it's stretched

during the bad ending and in the midst of the crisis in the country social media platforms like facebook and twitter are very large as life savers literally indians are shutting pleas for help and information on availability of beds oxygen and other medical supplies but it's also prompted criticism of the government's response to the crisis criticism that the government has decided to go after last week following a request from the government twitter blocked over 50 tweets in the india the 4 most critical of the government according to a media report the government felt these posts constituted social media misuse. some of the post censored were those of organizations and opposition politicians average sure some of these tweets but not in their entirety as these have been banned in india a member of parliament from the opposition congress party 11th readies tweet pointed to the collapse of the health care system in india due to the more than 200000 cases being recorded daily

a minister in the state of west bengal molloy got awk lamented that the government had underplayed the coronavirus situation in the country west bengal is one of the indian states worst affected by the rise in cases and for more on this i'm joined now by prefixing our he's the co-founder of or news a fact checking portal in india for the joins me now from about the rest of india to take your focus on a daily basis on weeding out fake news and misinformation online in india did most of the tweets that have been blocked meet that standard not at all those new misinformation these are people expressing their opinions about the ground situation for example one act of unequal massing saying that it is difficult to get medication other you know member of parliament from another political party saying that you know the prime minister should be held responsible. a journalist

a senior journalist from organization call him to be news saying that you know you criticize the publication mark incident in which happened where the muslim community was criticized for walling a religious congregation but you're not doing the same for hindus who are who are similarly his congregation in something of camilla so these are all genuine criticism that the new element of misinformation i hate and does not at all on meet the standards of twitter as a platform to police these tweets so is the government then using its powers to block dissent on social media. absolutely all of these tweets which would be considered critical of the government and the government is forcing platforms and unfortunately the platforms are buckling as well but the government is forcing patents to adhere to certain lines where you know that dissent is corrupt

but he mentioned the platforms are buckling up to the government's instructions why . because in india if you have to do business you have to be friends with the government if we keep talking about ease of business but is ease of business of friends and of we have seen this in other platforms also or even in facebook there are individuals who work in very high positions who at one point of time used to do propaganda for p.d.p. so this is not a case of just one platform all platforms in india social media platforms want to do business india is a huge market for them and for them to be successful they have to be friends with the government what exactly other legal powers of the government of india has that allow or to ask source for media platforms to remove content deemed objectionable. so everything is not illegal ron right there can we use things we have seen in india that. you know for example of position political parties or media

organizations recently subjected to income tax states raised by the enforcement directorate and things like that so go home and can. pressurize business houses and multiple ways you know whether it's permission for a new building new land there are multiple ways in which a government can love the progress of a business that is not only in the realms are you know through though they have also used those kind of threats that as you know if you don't take down the set of trees in the past when there's another problem at a hash tag that was stranded government you did use legal threats as well but that is not the government has more means than that to intimate it distances us but overall our social media platforms are helping in the current crisis i mean the number of tweets that we have seen for example you have citizens who are meeting and organizing amongst themselves trying to find responses to this nationwide

crisis is that a major positive to come out of this. it does but these are 2 distinct issues definitely twitter especially has been a huge platform for you know this kind of crowd sourcing resources and or use as a not for profit organization every month we do get our funding and twitter is one of our biggest platform to be able to do that and that is the nature of the platform and we appreciate that appreciative of that but but that that is a very distinct matter from the policing ad or from their inability to take down here speech. there multiple times and you have written to twitter about accounts which have been suspended which come back and continue to put out hate speech and which is not which is against the policies and they don't act at all so these are 2 distinct possibilities distinct issues that you know a platform in useful and our platform is buckling under government pressure speaking of buckling under our government pressure do you see in the midst of the present coronavirus crisis is there actually an increase in misleading information

and deliberate fake news that is being spread absolutely there's a huge increase in both medical misinformation as well as political misinformation the last one year has been just. in you know any less amount of political and medical misinformation political misinformation is very closely linked in india to current affairs and it is organized that is it is used to set a narrative so and a lot of it comes from the right wing government so if things are going wrong then false negatives are created using social media so good and it is done in a very organized manner and we have seen a huge uptick of that i think that our co-founder of old news thank you so much for breaking that down. thank you and this force continuing updates on the evolving coronavirus situation in india on our website to double dot com and on facebook and twitter as well.

morning after the country's military confirmed that all 53 crewmembers of a submarine that sank last week are dead photographs are from the wreckage of the. submarine lying on the sea floor off the island of bali at a depth of more than $800.00 the cause of the sinking is yet to be determined. the crew of the some kind navy vessel in happier days singing the indonesian song some part. by. little did they know that it was a prophecy of their fate. good day kartika one of the 53 crewmembers aboard the sunken submarine. now that he's gone his family hopes that at least his body can be salvaged.

since they've been declared dead according to our believes we pray to god almighty so that the body of our nephew can be immediately removed from the sea that way our family can perform rituals according to our teachings. the submarine went missing last week during training exercises off the island of bali. ships and aircraft from various countries search frantically. until the navy discovered the ship's wreckage over that we can. there's no chance of survival. experts try to find out the cause of the sinking presidential has offered condolences to those who lost their loved ones. but. what the name. the

members by promoting them one rank higher and with a star medal for the services and contribution and i. got that. but none of the awards can bring the victims back. retrieving the wreckage and remains will be challenging if it happens at all. the family members will have to be patient while hoping at least their prayers can reach their loved ones. there's more updates on our website it ever dot com forward slash despite rising numbers of coronavirus cases india continues to hold local elections some 8600000 voters eligible to cost their ballots in the state of west bank gold today the state is one of the worst affected in the current 1000 outbreak in the country massive election rallies here in the past few months have been in part blamed for

this we leave you with these images and we'd see you tomorrow at the same time. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts. on a virus update. on t w. ready to go to extra.

places in europe or smashing the records of steps to ensure. just don't lose your. treasure. trotters. good for some of. us. also in book form. it's tough being a teenager at the best of times during the pandemic it's so much worse home schooling no hanging out with friends massive stress all because of code 19 in fact more and more young people are getting infected in germany the number of cases among teens rose 11 percent adolescents have until recently been tested less

because they aren't as impacted by the virus but they. could be asymptomatic carriers recent outbreaks have been linked to them spreading the virus. doctors say vaccinations for kids are key to achieve the levels of immunity we need in our community. welcome to our coverage 19 special i want to get jones and like millions of us still waiting for my shot now the good news is worldwide more than a 1000000000 doses have by now been administered and teenagers in the united states have a clear advantage those age 16 and up can now receive the buy on take 5 shots and anyone 18 and up can get the modern a shop for all of them this means the days of isolation assumed over. daily training during the pandemic that's how these 2 brothers have gotten through the last month both. get vaccinated yes as promised teenagers address the

near future being that age is hard enough with the cold restrictions it has been even more challenging i think for me it's a mental health and of course like school that thing i was worried like getting bag but then i went to school. behind but i think their ways to catch up with academics might with growth and socialization you know it's it that's hard it school has been moved into the living room the boys convoyed to get their bikes and. i think. so it keeps the people my people around me safer and i will keep myself safe to experience will bring a little normality back around this school exactly by the people in school because you know it's really difficult to interact people and start people. and yeah i

mean he's an awesome guy he's just my brother. you know friend. put them in additional obstacle mosques it's very hard to see people's expressions and it just gives a sense of like you're talking to a wall. this is a body you. know you look at the u.s. this quick with vaccinations but what if as in other countries restrictions remained it would definitely obviously right social skills. already played very well the more social on going person. but. i think that would not really be good for me that's why i try to go back to school b.c. brown is a social worker and sees the huge opportunity in teenage makes the nation teens need to be with their peers and need to be taking social risks and doing things on

their own outside of the confines of their family home for a teenager to have the opportunity of accident i think is tremendous to give them that freedom to move about with a lot more confidence for both themselves and for their parents that they can go about their lives and do the things that they're developmentally supposed to be doing right now. outside of the u.s. most teenagers don't have access to the vaccine yet they have to find other ways to keep going. so the question is how long until young people can be vaccinated on a grand scale let's ask him k. he science communicator of the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies that's the. a good to have you with us as you know case numbers among young people are rising here in germany the number of new cases among teenagers actually know equal to those of older people of over 60 and so far as i know

there's no vaccine in sight for the younger age group is there bearskin use one company has applied for approval for its vaccine for adolescents so it seems we're only weeks away from an approved vaccine for this age group also some other companies of developing their vaccines for this age group and even for younger children so most likely within the next months this year we will get 'd more vaccines which are approved for this h well that is good news indeed but i wonder why can't we just use the existing vaccines on teenagers just like they now do in the united states we need not change anything in the co-op assertion. it's all about safety so we can use those vaccines when we know that it's safe to use them in the as this age group also

with children we can use the same vaccines but we need to know what is the good appropriate those things. so what are the risks that we know about teenagers and children getting vaccinated will most likely the risks will be no. for adults this is something we need to know and that's why clearly called trials mate with various age groups to see if the risks indeed. and the benefit is high now of course this takes time i mean you say we're just weeks away from at least one vaccine for children which is brilliant in the meantime however do those risks outweigh the risk of catching the iris which as we know by now can lead to severe inflammatory reactions in children notice. or also long covert well that's what trials all fall by are designed so that you

see that indeed vaccines are safe and once they are approved you can off of them to the parents and their children. with. a come from safety. and who is actually investing in that scene trials for children well all the companies that have. far developed vaccines for covert 19 they invest in such trials right from the start they expected to develop vaccines for all age groups and the e.u. also expects company to do so you just mentioned earlier and i have to get back to that because that is good news indeed is that we may have a vaccine ready for children in just a few weeks from now and there are several other trials on the way. will this

vaccine only be available for children here in europe are we talking about a vaccine for kids all over the world these vaccine trials that are have being carried all of just being carried out they will lead to safety and efficacy data which can be used all over the world to apply for provable and that's what the companies have in mind also the chinese companies which have to follow vaccines they have also included children in their trials so that they as well it can offer vaccines are suitable for children so hopefully within the next moments we will get a set of vaccines that are approved for all age groups and the benefits to politics and the logistics to get them out to every child in the world all right well let's

hope that politics and logistics are not getting in the way to get everybody vaccinated. from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies thank you so much for your time thank you. so vaccination is one way to train our immune system against the virus another is catching it and recover again but there's there's always that time to ask. do asymptomatic people develop weaker immune responses than people who have more severe disease. ok this is going to get probably horrendously complicated because we're still so far from unraveling the immune system which which immunologists compared to to a ball of spaghetti which is a really brilliant image even understanding just why some

people can be infected yet show no symptoms is a really complicated task early in the pen down there are studies that focused on antibody levels in patients and former patients indicated that people who got severe cases of coded 19 might have longer lasting immune responses and that asymptomatic people might be at more risk of getting the disease again at some point but but antibody levels are just one aspect of immune response a recently published study has no helped fill in some of the other gaps it looked at blood samples taken from several 100 male migrant workers in singapore who lived in densely inhabited dormitories during an outbreak there last spring and its findings agree with other research in one sense that levels of some antibodies

against kobe at 19 and the men who got it a symptomatically did indeed fall more after convalescence then and those who had symptoms other immune response that's how the. including ones involving what are known as t. cells they remain fairly robust even in the asymptomatic group and that's being carefully interpreted as a sign that immunity might generally remain strong for some time even in people who caught the disease but had no symptoms so so lots of ifs ands and buts like i said it's complicated. talking of complicated the relationship between the e.u. and astra zeneca it's anything but easy the european commission has just announced

it's launched legal action against the british swedish drug maker for not respecting its contract for the supply of coke at 19 vaccines $180000000.00 vaccine doses were agreed to for the 2nd quarter of this year but astra zeneca said it would aim to deliver only one 3rd of that to the block. kitty akitas the european commission of health and food safety explained the decision on twitter saying every vaccine does counts every vaccine doses saves lives. and that's all for this edition thanks for watching.

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