plants there. all of europe is behind this i also spoke about this with the portuguese prime minister who now holds the european council presidency and we want to do everything we can to help india the united states has pledged to send india some of its millions of unused vaccine doses but it could take weeks before they arrive. so just to be clear we have right now we have 0 doses available of us years and that we're talking about what the f. the f.d.a. needs to go through a review right to ensure the safety and it's meeting our own bar and our own guidelines. for health workers in the country is overwhelmed hospitals that help can't come soon enough. what do i do. what do i do that is open because these people came on whatever support we can they're trying to organize a big somewhere to go to. get me. because somebody out there somebody that somebody that. we don't have anything every. day.

on the front lines against covert 19 doctors and patients are measuring time and breaths not days or weeks. dr juggle kishore a secretary at the delhi branch of the indian public health association and vice president of the indian association of epidemiologists i asked him how the how things have got so bad. actually there in the 82nd largest country in the world as far as the publishing is concerned and even if you see you know 17600000 of people have suffered from this coverage and we have only just point 2000000 dead and then again clinton comes out then it is not even one percent of the cases i bang but this number is such a huge and big. you know for any small country it can be a nightmare so of many guns to

a number then i think it is you know topping the list and very soon we are going to actually be able really has the highest court of the everyday cases of point 3000000 lake in your forty's 1000000 cases so because of this you know we have exhausted all our resources. so is it possible to bring this crisis a back under control or do you have just have to white until it takes it's course. abutting to i predictions it is going to be ended in good because a large number of patients almost i think 70 percent or 75 percent of the you know . you don't publish is going to be suffering from and it will be you know looking towards the immunity so in some states make them had us try and believe of the have reached to the highest peak in not

a number of cases that start decreasing so in some estate the elberta be able just to get a leap of the have you know receiving no and in some state like the u.t. and our sun in the heart we have to see seen some upraising but at the national level you know it is not you know almost i think we're reaching to the how you speak thank you for joining us dr dr dr drivel can surely from the indian association of epidemiologists thank you. but i look at some of the other stories making news around the world starting in may and now where sources say the military has bombed villages in territory controlled by ethnic minority qur'an forces the strands came out after the rebel group attacked an army outpost near the type border the qur'an rebels are close allies systems with against 5 years ministry. 7 sprains foreign ministry says 2 bodies found in brooklyn a fossil appear to be those of spanish journalists who were abducted on monday

alongside an irish national and the local soldier the group was ambushed while on an anti poaching patrol in the palm of forest reserve in bikinis east region. french finance minister bruno lemaire and his german counterpart olaf shoals have voiced the hoard for a u.s. proposal to impose a global minimum corporate tax rate of 21 percent. u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen said she was working with g 20 countries to develop the climate bill roses exiled opposition leaders for lara to car sky is calling on the international community to take stronger action against the regime strong leader alexander lukashenko mystical skya says hundreds of people who were arrested after taking part in mass protests against the government and are serving lengthy jail terms. for more alexander kolesnikov got the last letter from his daughter maria one and a half months ago she said from prison. maria kolesnik over as one of the

leaders of the mass protests in belarus in jail since september she writes she's doing well triggering some optimism in her father. the ruefully the protests haven't disappeared that just on ice at the moment. but certain events could lead to them starting again at any time. to bring movie with movies this is minsk today that the rusian capital is clean in a really quiet. there's no reminder of the events of 8 months ago. as many as 200000 people took to the streets to protest allegations of fraud during august presidential elections. but the brutal response of the security forces 1st led to protest leaders like kolesnik over disappearing from the streets. then the mass protests themselves faded. those in power did everything to leave those

grassroots protests without a leader and if a protest movement without a political strategy like this one comes up against north oratory and regime it can win. the had. has also been subjected to pressure from the government the human rights activists fell into disfavor security forces searched her office and home she was then imprisoned in your thirty's threatened to take a son away. my husband and my son had to emigrate they can come back and i can visit them. we live in different countries now. the authorities gave her husband and son 48 hours to leave. the family only see each other by video chat.

it's a deliberate strategy. to use the use protection office to put the parents on the pressure. xander kolesnikov would like to see his daughter again but he's not allowed to so he's planning to send her a parcel for a 1st birthday behind bars. trying not to think bad things only about good things. i hope the truth wins and i can see my daughter again soon. but that's no more than a hope and also goes for the relatives of the more than 350 other political prisoners and by the us. the british prime minister boris johnson is under pressure as he heads into regional elections following

a series of damaging leaks from his office multiple media organizations claim the prime minister said he would rather see bodies piled high in the thousands than impose a 3rd coronavirus lockdown mr johnson denies reports and says his office is investigating the source of the leaks this follows allegations of corruption made by the prime minister's former chief advisor he claimed that mr johnson asked conservative party donors to pay for the be furbished rent of the prime minister's official downing street residence w. correspondent mass in london can talk of strew this downing street drama. where to begin. well quite some extraordinary developments fell over the last weeks and days when one of the prime minister's most trusted advisers dominic cummings practically the mastermind behind his leave strategy the bread strategy

that was ultimately responsible for boris johnson becoming prime minister so really one of his closes dates or his close aides now turning against the prime minister and saying when it comes to the recently fabric of the downing street flat where boris johnson lives with his fiance that the prime minister acted possibly illegally and an ethically because the allegation is start johnson didn't pay for the refurbishment himself but that somehow through the conservative party money from conservative party donors was channeled into the rift havisham and now downing street are saying that boys johnson is paying all the money back but there is definitely an allegation that something has been going on that is not transparent and this is something that the labor opposition party obviously feeding on and they are saying that if there was any such money being donated to the prime minister

then that has to be made transparent and of course the other comment about the bodies piling up high in connection with corona virus that also doesn't go down well at the moment with the british public as well messy so it is likely to have any consequences for mr johnson. well it doesn't look good because at the next in the next in the next week we are having local elections scottish elections for the scottish parliament so it does give the conservative party quite a lot of headache at the moment and they will see if their polls are dropping as a result of this i think it's the sort of drip drip of allegations of of sleaze because of the refurbishment issue up of the flat is not the only point that came up there were other allegations that business people like for example james dyson the businessman had access to johnson and private messages and that boris johnson

from this to fix a tax issue that the businessman were facing also lobbying by david cameron the former prime minister on behalf of financial cut company lobbying with the government and there are quite a few allegations that are beginning to the people are beginning to notice it but i think the most worrying one for the bridge you know in the guise of the british public i would think is there are the remarks the alleged remarks of course johnson when it comes to the victims of the coronavirus crisis is. allegedly a very flippant remark that he would rather see more bodies pile up and go into another lockdown i think this remark is being seen by a by people definitely as very inappropriate if it was tree oh you mustn't london thank you. in football are real lives example your novels man will join munich on

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against prejudice i got called cable life. for recognition of. the stars the big stage. drinking its starts may 17th on w. . this condemning has shown us how vulnerable we all are whether it's india where the number of cases is currently skyrocketing with over 300000 new infections a day. or in europe which has reported the highest death toll for a long time and about vaccination is still very slow. everywhere in the world resources to fight the virus are limits. that is why there are priority lists for vaccinations 1st we must protect those most at risk but are we really doing that

what about children their way down at the bottom of any priority list besides there's not even a vaccine available for them yet. that leaves children with special needs especially vulnerable. and in special i wanted. to have you with us and you just have to admire kids and their ability to deal with new situations i see kids every day on their way to school or in supermarkets with their parents and they're wearing their little face masks with such ease as if it was the most natural thing in the world but not every child can adapt easily and for some this virus is an additional risk to an already challenging life. physical exercises especially for flavia the 14 year old has down's syndrome normally she doesn't do that with her mother

but her physio therapist but since the coronavirus pandemic started the family has severely restricted their contacts because for flavia covered infection could be fatal. and infect your own booked by mention madonsela of people with down syndrome and infection harbors much greater risks than. additionally we know very little about long term effects of this illness so even if she were to survive an infection you wouldn't know what would come after that. this is after the 1st family and how harmed. therefore the family keeps to themselves physical contact with others is restricted the children are only ok finally allowed to play with. school happens online all of this puts a strain on flavia what's wrong. with my go bye

bye i cried quite a bit because school was closed so we had to do it digitally and that was stressful . and massive our flat. to top $1.05 we've noticed that flavia suffers enormously from this loneliness she sits in her room for hours she talks to herself more and more she makes noise she just isolates ourself. want a cup of thaw. getting flavia are vaccinated against covered would help the family but no vaccine has yet been approved for under 16 year olds in germany clinical trials are still ongoing in his intestine as a sort of on time guns explain these trials different age groups are tested and the close observation that way the research is congressionally find out how the drug reacts with certain groups but they haven't finished that yet so using the pixie

now is a bit like walking into a dark forest sort of speak and don't invite good villains of it. the family hopes that this dark forest will clear soon they don't know when the vaccination will be approved for children until then they will do everything they can to protect bad daughter. of a more i'm joined by dr unca who's she's assistant professor of epidemiology and environmental health at the ronan school of public health at emory university in atlanta good to have you with us. please tell us 1st of all how much do we actually know about coded 19 in patients with d.s. and monica thanks a lot for having me yes actually you know we classically 21 was a society conducted it last year study on and you just have done some poor man. and what we found when investigating more than 1000 and you just doesn't and

probably 90 is that it is a 1000. much more likely to die after having killed 19 than the general population so for example individuals with down syndrome and. so there are talented rates out when they are cardiac comparable to those from the general population who are 70 so and their mentality we're just as much higher than the general population why why is that what puts them at such high risk. so there still different reasons one thing is that if you don't have down syndrome in general often staff have harmed premature aging so for example interviews with down syndrome are cowards or very likely to develop dementia at a very young age so in their forty's many of them already have to mention and

another reason is that they also often suffer from immune dysfunction so as an example individuals with down syndrome aren't so they are known to be most vulnerable to all the other kinds of especially disease and not knowing when you're quite sample so it's unfortunately it's not surprising that they are some honorable chilcote 90 right so when when the mother in this report that we just saw says she's she's terribly worried about her daughter you just basically agreed that she has every right to be that worried how can she better protect her. yeah so 1st of all i really want to highlight that the high mortality rates that observed among it was down some who are particularly present for the u.s. was down syndrome about the age of 40 so we only found very few. deaths among those down some of us really really rare but just similar as in the

general population so that's at least one good thing i don't because nevertheless that doesn't mean that parents of us with down's syndrome don't have to worry because as i already mentioned death is not the only yet outcome of this disease and we still know so little about the long term effects of code 19 and also. other. complications might be more prevalent in my daughter's dance on them than in my actual who was out on some soft cast and as a part to protect them but the other problem is that it's arsenal. yes it's a hot thing to do and i have to certainly cause especially kids with downs and grown they as we are going to be so in the video and we they really need a special care not only for their physical health but also apply cutter and mental health so it's always an act of balancing and benefits and. at the

moment our highest chance to really protect them as suspects a nation vaccination i know that in the united states teenagers at least from the age of 16 on words can now be vaccinated does this include teenagers with down syndrome. yes absolutely so and december the students included dance around our products and some of us high risk medical complications 19 so and then and january right and the rollout staggered most states including the leader was down syndrome and out for 1st 2nd priority group so and since march early april the whole country the whole country and it was done for can be vaccinated against hope at 19 and that includes all of you out on teenager starting at the age of 60 and i know that most european countries now are not

now answer vaccinating interviews with down syndrome as it does now well known that they are at a higher risk for us to be a community so so many european countries are so bax nathan is down syndrome starting at the age of 16 all right so now we have to look forward to that and of course to vaccines for children that are even younger than that but for now thank you so much dr phil's from the road school of public health at emory university in atlanta thank you so much for your time thank you for having me. and of course we all hope that vaccination will bring back the freedoms we've enjoyed before the pandemic some sooner than us perhaps time to austerity. germany or the e.u. be implementing a vaccine passport. yes though it won't be called that as it'll

also document people who've had the disease or have recorded recent negative tests the e.u. is moving forward with what's being called a digital green certificated to facilitate movement within the block though it's still not yet clear exactly what rights it will confer there's opposition of course but but but proponents say government's current li really have few other options after all long before the pandemic hit tourism had become a key pillar for nearly every economy on earth and the last 15 months have just cut the industry off at the ankles europe relies on tourism heavily and desperate attempts to to restart it somehow someway have been going on since the very 1st days of lockdown over a year ago so what are the issues well there are many ethical questions but

a lot of critics think the most serious is that a certificate could lead to discrimination against people who for whatever reason haven't been vaccinated or or at least not yet especially if the documents are used to limit their activities and their own countries by their own governments there are also big practical and technological barriers to overcome in play mentoring certification systems especially when it comes to to data privacy and secure. the potential fraud is another big issue despite the many hurdles the plan is to have the program up and running by june in order to make travel between e.u. member states easier for people who are vaccinated or who have recovered and and not just for europeans talks have also begun with the us about the best ways to

allow fully vaccinated or or recovered american tourists to begin returning to europe. that's all for today thanks for watching. the big. flop.

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