com for some of europe's record sites. also book form. this is g w news coming to you live from berlin india's covered 9000 death toll surpasses 200 pounds its darkest hour of the pandemic so far shortages of oxygen medical supplies and hospital staff compound the problem of infections tearing through the country also coming up $5000.00 music fans rocking out at europe's biggest indoor concert

since the start of the pandemic organizers say it was not a super spreader events we take a look at how it worked. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us india's covered 9000 death toll has surged past 200000 this is one of the highest death tolls in the world the numbers are rising fast driven partly by a new more infectious variant countries around the world have begun sending medical aid to india is student wave of new infections overwhelms its hospitals forcing them to turn patients away as authorities scramble to get equipment to those who need it most. in some indian hospitals the oxygen supply has run out.

people who might have survived the disease are dying as a result. there's no oxygen in all of town. my mother was admitted 3 days ago i was told she was fine and recovering all the tests were done then last night they said they didn't have any more oxygen she passed away. from. hospitals and i.c.u. units across the country are overwhelmed after weeks of a sharp rise in cases the health care system is collapsing. oxygen has become the most precious of commodities. i'm buying or to going to put it toward your order of refrigerator come to that level. they are lowering the oxygen level was. but it needs to be higher. so this is a problem. with oxygen and hospital beds running out the

government is scrambling to get equipment to the areas that are hardest hit. we have come to stocks and that's moving across the country using the country. to get it to the places that need it the most emergency supplies from the u.k. have begun arriving and more help as promised from abroad to be getting it after the final details have been clarified with the indian side the 1st shipment should be on its way in the next few days. but in the meantime many indians are left to fend for themselves. doing all they can to care for loved ones some dry for hours in search of oxygen. i don't know man i have come from very far to collect oxygen from my father. that i'm scared that although the oxygen is available today what will we do for it's not available tomorrow. but until help arrives on

a larger scale many people in india are left gasping for. more now i'm joined by tariq he also rabid she's a spokesperson for the world health organization in geneva switzerland thanks for being with us this morning 1st of all we've seen pictures of hospitals in india being overwhelmed for days now can you tell us whether or not the pandemic in india is peaking or quit there's still the worst to come there. well morning to it's very difficult to predict. how the situation will all but it's important really that you need for the health system in india. people try to protect themselves as much papers possible and if they follow the device that is being human how so aren't these as in any country when you have

a sort of a combination of factors such as new variants that are likely to be more transmissible. gathering when the vaccination levels are low and people are reacting you know personal protective behavior we can see do sort of explosion although we had not seen in any other country on the scale that we need to need to stand with with india now and try to help as much as we can what role or the new virus variants that we're hearing about in india playing in the pen down like there. well the virus is odd changing and this is normal we don't need to show we are following and monitoring the changes that occur as a virus transmitted from population to ovulation. we have that fight over in the

preval young that have been 1st seen in in brazil in south africa and here came that's amore life only to be transmissible you know in a fox in way that original once when there was a new you want to test a new densify when you have primary studies ongoing we need to understand more but it seems that this barrier as well has the capacity and potential to attach human cells more easily dutch would obviously you need more people being infected and that would lead to more hostile ization has and walt that's what we need to now is really try to contain as much as possible this transmission ok rule of making sure that the people who are sick or follow devised to cook necessarily go to a hospital but think you are at home one possible try to isolate here the government is trying to provide the right information to a hotline there is also

a consideration of having community screening center providing information you know where bad out of a little areas of course what about the oxygen situation in india does the country have enough medical all children or are oxygen supplies just not getting through to the areas that need it quickly enough. well there are reports of shortages of oxygen different parts of india the government. being got back trying to increase the production of oxygen in different parts of the country they're also using their air force to try to to dispatch supplies were immediately as you have already said in your program there is also is a national mobilization. is providing more 1000.

concentrators you as has already committed to provide $10000.00 and 1st always have already arrived other countries like singapore or russia are saudi arabia have also have also started as well as european union started to do to marginalise to put in your dues it is important to say that in the absence of all drugs hoping thank you we hope only one that has been. recommended for progress at a court because mary's next semester zone oxygen is a lifesaving and commodity and we hope that that shortages will be or comes from. mr yes or a bitch thank you very much for talking with us that was tariq yasser a bitch from the world health organization in geneva. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today a u.s. navy ship fired warning shots at iranian military vessels in the persian gulf on

monday 3 a rainy and boats came within 100 meters of a pair of u.s. warships the incident comes as world powers are seeking to bring iran back into a nuclear accord struck in 2015. 200 migrants have been rescued in the mediterranean by the ocean viking rescue ships they were found on overcrowded boats off the coast of libya when the vessel picked up distress calls importing to the aid group s.o.s. meditate on a. the family of the late samsung chairman lee could he is to donate tens of thousands of rare art works to help fund a huge inheritance tax bill the levy family expects to pay $10800000000.00 in taxes reportedly the largest ever amount in south korea believe died last year. well it's being billed as europe's biggest indoor rock concert since the start of

the pandemic a concert in spain that what it had with $5000.00 unvaccinated music fans in the audience and it's organizers say it did not trigger a jump in credible recent actions everyone wore masks at the indoor bed but there was no social distancing here's how it worked. on stage in barcelona one of spain's most popular bands indie rockers love of lesbian. on the floor of crowd dancing swaying and cheering together wearing masks but with no assigned seating and no requirement to keep space free between them. excited fans gathered a month ago for the eagerly awaited event the 1st big concert without social distancing since the start of the pandemic. concert goes were given a coronavirus test before they were allowed in an experiment to find out whether

mass events can be safely held music promoters worked with one of barcelona's main hospitals to put on the concert and doctors say fears of a jump in infections have proved unfounded. noise when it was not a super spreading event there's not been an excess of cases and in fact there is no sign that transmission took place during an event in which a public health experts believe that a combination of ventilation face masks and testing can work the venue holds 17000 people but only 5000 were allowed in. because of the some of that that we had detected 6 people who tested positive after the concert 4 have been able to identify the exact moment when they were infected. for example 2 who attended were later infected by their mother in law but it is that this isn't going to kill it's

now hope the event will be the 1st of many. it's the sort of these are good results that can help open up the culture sector again to the point. there is a lot at stake. a spanish study shows the european music industry lost 3 quarters of its income last year. in lawmakers have voted on a post break that trade agreement and even though many are dissatisfied with the deal it's expected to get the green light on wednesday when the results are announced the vote was delayed because london has yet to fully implement customs checks in northern ireland it's the new normal one form after the other after the other after the other all too often a confused glance and all they're transporting are eggs. this company delivers groceries to northern ireland supermarkets most of the meat and vegetables come

from within the united kingdom but they still need customs documentation. whenever you look at the amount of paperwork that's associated with one of those commodities when. documentation is a problem one of those $3400.00 lengths truckstop custom checks between britain and northern ireland are an unfortunate result of bragg's it but so far full customs checks have not been applied jus to a transition period in place. here 6 separate markets a lot of what's called from northern ireland simply wouldn't have got here we were seeing empty shelves and that would have brought all sorts of problems within the province with the worst still to come the british government unilaterally extended the transition period for traders until the end of summer without consulting brussels and against the wishes of the e.u. . if the e.u.

is going to be very very dogmatic and you can't bring british sausages. into nor then frankly i'm going to have to take further steps but the rules on the northern ireland issue are binding the e.u. has already taken legal steps many in the european parliament are skeptical of the british government especially the center right conservative block and they voiced their mistrust ahead of tuesday's vote. in d.c. the northern ireland a practical implementation and how johnson behaves the message is i don't care i don't care even about my signature european commission president fund a line called on lawmakers to ratify the post break the trade deal but at the same time hinted at possible sanctions and let me be very clear we do not want to have to use these tools but we will not hesitate to use them if necessary.

many lawmakers were reluctant to ratify the deal but reluctance to compromise on both sides does not help those delivering goods to northern ireland the paperwork is only set to get worse they're hoping to see a little more cooperation to help find solutions which will work for the future of northern ireland. you're watching t.v. news coming up next it's a business with janelle to long term watch thanks for watching. we have important news. smoking healthy poster signs are good for the being. doesn't exist. if you don't believe those.