india is densely populated and yet mass gatherings including fist state elections in west bengal have been allowed to go ahead. people have been gathering a lot there's been a lot of gathering in terms of people going out to the markets there have been some rallies going on and people have been going to different festivals. for all health workers across india the situation has become a nightmare it's reached a point where crisis is a very mild word for it. but the battle to keep this country breathing must go on if you don't have joining me now is our delhi bureau chief amrita change another day and then another record increase in infections mean this crisis will seemingly continue for some time yet and rita how are people coping. anthony

guess it was another a bad day for india as the number of infections new infections rose by another record people obviously ike st be right hospitals are under great pressure and in the air running short of supplies of oxygen it's known as hospital beds the prime minister today had a meeting with his council of ministers and the now board in the army and to have the army in india is often used in disaster situations of they have great experience and they have a big reputation so big now being asked to set up field hospitals set up isolation wards and quarantine still rooms but at you know but the situation is really grim another mike at the grim reality is it's not just essential supplies like oxygen which are running not but also space in commission grounds and burial sites the number of dead being taken there is simply to latch everything is in short supply here health officials are opening up vaccine availability to every adult from

saturday but what does that really matter the time we're also hearing about chronic vaccine shortages. is huge disappointment especially among those between 18 and 44 who'd been hoping that their chance had not come because from tomorrow the illusion but to be vaccinated and then it turns out that this simply not enough vaccine many of the states it's going to going to delay and postpone the start of the expansion of this vaccination dive because they run out of supplies because some of the supplies actually given to them by the central government and some of the supplies they have to source themselves this is of course also a big setback in the government's strategy because this is all vaccination as a keep going in the end to bring down the numbers of people who are infected by breaking the chain of transmission as the crisis continues to deepen how can you sum up the public sentiment toward prime minister narendra modi's government at this month. and jeanne we've been seeing in our report just such a sense of desperation and anguish and despair at the moment and obviously some of

this is joining in to anger people are asking themselves why didn't the government anticipate a 2nd why didn't the government actually listen to some of its own task force members who were seen back in november that the meta. politicians the guys might be running out and we should prepare for that and be dusting why weren't these big religious gatherings allow that the good may not you know to do that 9100000 people attended a religious festival over 4 weeks then it election rallies that we saw in our report to politicians and been killed and they had huge turnouts so big it is a fair bit of anger but the bottom line is at the moment actually people are still focused on getting the essential supplies they need to keep and i didn't get their loved ones and i know everything else can wait there now folks and just getting to the next day and staying the night i'm going to cima doubly bureau chief in delhi thank you so much international in the form of oxygen and other medical supplies

has been arriving in india to relate a critical shortage of some of the country's contributing is germany which is providing 50000000 euros of goods ahead of its infectious disease i didn't see said tackling india's coded 19 surge is vital in battling the global pandemic. a little bit of india in berlin this hindu temple is in the middle of the german capital the temple is still under construction before the pandemic artists traveled here from india to work on it that's unthinkable now many in berlin are concerned over the spiraling crisis there. looks horrible so i feel quite helpless in a situation i don't know what to do really i think as much help europe. is good and europe has promised just that the german health minister and nouns that assistance will soon be on its way from his pocket of the health ministry will

contribute to the overall government aid package goods to a value off 50000000 euros sponsored by those our 120 ventilators medicines especially ram does india and masks which we have in stock and should help and this emergency in the north india and. the head of germany's infectious disease agency says berlin must help india curb the spread of covert 19. to me this pandemic will stay with us for a long time and it can always come back to us as long as not enough people are vaccinated and that's why we have to keep our eyes on the development in other countries. the 1st lot of aid will be sent to india on saturday the lynas think it's coming not a moment too soon. mind actions and germany is a rich country if we can afford it why shouldn't we help our. men if nate don't have the possibility to do what is needed and it's right to help.

india has received offers of support for me at least 40 more countries next wednesday germany will ship an oxygen production plant off to india. and a remarkable have much more on the situation in india after this bulletin indeed news asia and also in our special news coverage beginning in an hour's time kind of a festival of joy has turned into one of israel's worst tragedies so i say medics who treated the victims of a horrific stampede at least $45.00 people were crushed to death after chaos broke out in an over crowded event it happened at mount merapi in israel's north where ultra-orthodox jews were holding the country's 1st big religious gathering since the end of coronavirus restrictions. wrapped in extatic song and dance footage from social media shows the crowd at the annual lag or celebration shortly before

a disaster struck. at around 1 in the morning i witnesses said they could feel a crush beginning to build. there was a terrible load and what happened then was like a carousel one person pushed another person so everyone was pushed right and left and after 20 minutes people started suffocating so they wanted to get out but no one was able to get out. there were people under me who weren't breathing anymore there were horrible screams of i can't breathe and slowly there were also places where the screams had stopped. my legs were trapped i couldn't move them. face down i could lift my head a little. i tried not to strain too much and keep calm and strengthen my faith god will save us. mayhem unfolded rescue teams rushed to the scene ferrying the injured to ambulances. children separated from

their parents were hoisted into the arms of emergency workers desperately trying to reunite them with their families. police closed off road access and the military was called in to assist efforts to clear the area. through the worst. terrible disaster on. the floor of fire the. authorities say panic broke out on the steps in this narrow passageway after people slipped and fell and those behind them stumbled. many of the victims were either trampled or suffocated to death. it was the 1st large scale religious gathering to be held legally since israel lifted most coronavirus restrictions. but despite their successful handling of the pandemic health authorities had warned against holding an event of this size

. religious festival is particularly popular with israel's ultra-orthodox community . police report nearly 100000 people attended the gathering which they say is 4 to 5 times as many as should have been in a location like this. one from jerusalem day doubly correspondent kind of criminal has more for us we're learning more about who the victims were what is that. well i can say that israel is certainly still in the middle of this tragedy you know over the course of the day you know the focus wasn't treating the injured in the hospitals bringing people back from the area and of course identifying also the victims now we understand that 12 of the 45 victims who lost people who lost their lives in this incident overnight have been identified and their families have been

notified so also the 1st names of course now have been published and then gives people here the faces and the names of the victims that's especially difficult within the altar also docs communities now many of those victims are from all over israel and many are young and particularly the case of 2 young brothers 2 pairs actually of brothers one aged 9 and 14 in the other age 12 and 18 and that brings of course again you know the scale of this human tragedy much closer to home here for many people. many of the funerals have also begun can you give us a sense of the atmosphere in israel now the people are trying to come to terms with just what has happened. well only a few funerals have begun it's very important that people are laid to rest before shabbat which will begin shortly that's the weekend here according to jewish

tradition but of course the mood is you could describe it as somber and israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has declared a day of mourning on sunday you know all day we'll probably hear on the radio stations very somber music being played a lot of activities also in non-religious communities here all over israel's have been canceled at the same time of course an official investigation has been launched and a lot of questions are being asked now whether this could not have been prevented because this is festival happens every year except for last year when it was almost canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic it's always attracts a large number of people and just it was known that the holy site is not safe for so many people for tens of thousands of people to go there so a lot of tough questions will be asked in the coming days but now these days are of course the focus is on the trauma and the shock of what happened overnight.

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week. how much worse can really get. we still have time to work i'm going. to subscribe and like. broadcasting from berlin this is a deep up to news special edition on india's unfolding coronavirus crisis more than a 1000000 and a half cases in just a week and thousands of deaths every day india is overwhelmed trauma totems are working overtime hospitals can take in more patients and some medical supplies are running you know how did it come to this and will things get worse before they get better.

i'm british manager welcome to this new special on the tsunami that india's 2nd wave of covert cases has turned out to be but it's a tsunami that hits the country every day in case numbers more than 380000 in the past 24 hours and the numbers of dead more than 3500. india bureau chief is reporting through this growing crisis and joins me now from delhi another day and another deadly record for infections. that's right british bad numbers coming out. another regular shift the number of new infections today a record of the number of deaths in delhi and hype was pretty beat up 21 percent across the country hospitals. as you mentioned and in track the cheaper the army stuff is mr prime minister and he's offered military hospitals even for non

military person and so there is most i'm hearing is that also the military hospital has a pretty full capacity in another development some 350 scientists have a piece to the government to provide the most scientific data for example the sequencing of variance and new tunes tracking clinical results from vaccines help people not to stay to see the need this what the granular data to get a better sense of what this night another dream to mine to of what we are going to write down some to the hospital beds and oxygen that we are running out in theory but also space in commission grants and baby is simply not enough space for the number of bodies and the numbers are in the midst of all of this. to begin vaccinations for anyone above the age of 18 from saturday how prepared is the government. not very benefit comes on it was much touted that on the 1st

if you want to be 18 could be vaccinated as it turns out that simply not enough vaccine supplies under india's sentence structure the government of india and get certain number of vaccines to each state and the rest states themselves most peculiar and some of the states finally don't have enough vaccines to get thinking if they did meaningful postponing the start of this expansion of the vaccines and some. cities like mumbai that still vaccination want to get the opportunity is because they have the supplies. back for the government because that's the mission . in this task. and break down # the chain of conservation and bring down the numbers and other countries are also helping in there's a lot of aid that is bored in is this enough or does the government need more aid really government in time so look you don't seem very proud of this says the lines this time get on the need to be happy to welcome it coming from some 40 countries

some he just didn't stop it coming in some still on the reef the decent thing is how funds can be used to people who need it most not just in the question because this is serious is this aid enough this crisis of this kid and the country dislodged i think all of this more would be that. i mean that your own thank you very much for that did of the news bureau chief in delhi please stay safe the deadly chaos of the 2nd wave of koran about as infections is in stock cross to the fast last india have dealt with that by imposing what was called the world's strictest lock down india streets fell empty and coronavirus case counts dropped eventually seemingly contrary to warnings about the danger india faced. even before the corona virus spread around the world epidemiologist warned that

india could see the worst of it. some of the most crowded cities on earth coupled with an ailing health care system foreshadowed disaster but the 1st wave of the pandemic seemed to have spared india at the end of march 2020 prime minister narendra modi ordered a total lockdown of the entire population for 3 weeks the most severe step taken anywhere in the world at that point. it appeared to be a success by the beginning of summer the country of 1300000000 people was still recording a small number of daily cases. when monsoon season head cases rose steadily peaking at over $90000.00 per day but in october with the virus and decline government scientists speculated that india had reached herd immunity. and modi spoke at the world economic forum at the end of january declaring the virus defeated. and she. feel

it is. just seeing the world. into her if you will. all of these are trying to do i believe. when india began vaccinating it took pride in exporting vaccines to other countries in need. then came spring and with it the spread of 2 new coronavirus variants british an indian cases began rising the government imposed some restrictions but millions gathered to celebrate the holy festival of colors and mayla at the ganges river. india's 2nd wave was swift and unstoppable the case count in april has doubled every 10 days and exponential curve . even the most optimistic models predict india could see another month of this

before the 2nd wave peaks. to double correspondent joins me now from delhi you've been in the thick of this deepening crisis speaking to patients doctors what are they saying will things get worse before they get better. the graceful patients simply have to find it seems people need to look at gates of hospitals completely out of breath mean there is no who cannot be helped push and it is all of these patients scouting social media twitter looking for medicine and oxygen as well but those relatives who managed to get that lockbox to get it into a hospital that is considered of the actually already doctors are under immense chest insist that they will continue trading on the keys of sporting in everybody in the house and this in itself is

a massive javits they do point out to me that india had laid down its guard and that could be why this is as massive as it is but they doubt he thought it's coming to then it's crumbling as well to not only cheap these patients but to even give them the medicines and oxygen speaking of. back in january prime minister narendra modi had said that india had the wild how to effectively battle the pandemic what do indians now say to that claim. pretty safe to say that there has been criticism almost across the spectrum not just journalists and the opposition but many citizens as well thought out to ask what exactly happened how did such massive misdeeds for example blow warnings that supplies of oxygen should be shored up by purity if they were not there is a crisis one in teenage a city and literally just are being hit very hard as well but i think what's

concerning for many people is the government's own denial of any knowledge of their being the have made the handling of this crisis as as well as simply as much the head still all india had said that india has turned the endgame of the battle damage and earlier today he pointed out that india has that it was huge at the rate there are concerns that if you do not acknowledge a problem you cannot solve it. trusts government i wish indians will. give in moscow they will respond to restrictions. but the trust element to me very diminishing so a lot of political discourse in this country most people are only sentient that supports the government or those who criticize and oppose it now or bored or gifty or doesn't the government also question what exactly happened how did we get here.

that's affecting everything. you're watching a special edition of india's crisis still to come on the program researchers around the world are trying to find out. just how deadly. it can be done to prevent the spread. of the corona virus pandemic is having a massive impact on india's public health system but what about the mental health impact on people who are not sick with the virus we speak with young indians trying to cope. and dozens of countries around the world including the u.k. the u.s. and russia sending aid to india planes carrying oxygen generating plants ventilators antiviral drugs and protective equipment for india's health workers have been landing in india for days the european union has activated its civil protection mechanism and is also sending shipments of medicine and equipment to

help fight the spread of course in india. let's bring in. the european commissioner for crisis management he joins me now from brussels mr. what kind of support is the e.u. providing to india. india requested assistance in the following forum they asked for oxygen oxygen devices like concentrators generators and cylinders and antiviral medicines as well as ventilators upon the receiving such a request we can immediately activated of civil protection mechanism we reached out to all member states of the opinion and we have received extremely generous into quick response by now more than half of e.u. member states have already offered assistance on these particular items that india

requested what about vaccines scientists are saying that india also requires vaccines is the e.u. planning to send vaccines to india. india has so far not requested vaccines from the european union super the action mechanism works in the manner that we respond to specific request in the specifically question india so far has not yet included big cities is there a plan within the european union that if india water request for vaccines vaccines would be readily available from the e.u. . i would not exclude that the fact is that almost half of vaccines produced in european union are being exported from day one so utopian unit has already displayed solidarity with the rest of the world and i would not exclude its readiness in the future to also share its success can you put a number on this readiness to share vaccines how many millions of dollars can be

used at a moment's notice. i don't have the current number but i do know that. about $150000000.00 doses have been administered so far within european union and almost the same amount of taxes have been exported from the european union including to the so-called kovacs facility which is intended to provide the box. to $92.00 low and middle income countries all over the world there are also calls growing for vaccine technology know how to be shared with other countries that can produce these vaccines is the new open to sharing that technology. european union supports. and voluntary licensing in order to ramp up the production of the vaccine was initially the big issue facing hugo as well as the world was limited production capacity this has now been improved also through

the measures like coal abrasion and licensing are you why did that their kind of pandemic that we are seeing deepening every day in india with potentially harm india's the supply of vaccines that india can deliver to the rest of the world including the e.u. is that a concern in the e.u. right now. we are concerned because of the situation in india very much 1st of all because of the situation affect the indians themselves but 2nd also because india is one of the biggest if not the biggest producer of acceptance worldwide and until the current crisis india has exported tens and tens of millions of folks since produced in india to other parts of the world this exports have now stopped and this may have negative impact on the availability of exodus is in large parts of the world so we are concerned.