is densely populated and yet to 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. you know 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 you know what earlier i spoke with our delhi bureau chief amrita cheema and i asked her how people are coping with the steadily rising number of infections people obviously ike street the market hospitals are under great pressure on the iranian oxygen is that his hospital bed the prime minister today had

a meeting with his council of ministers and the now in the army and you have the army in india is often used in disaster situations that they have great experience and they have a big reputation 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 of my disagreeably out 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 do not watch house that delhi bureau chief and rita cim have it was the corona virus reges in india brazil is also struggling to get in and up ahead of the pandemic purcel is now the 2nd country in the world to have lost more than 400000 lives to cover one thing that's after the united states. a group of brazilians now took to rio de janeiro's famous cup of the

beach to highlight the bleak maka as laid out body bags across the sand as a way of mourning brazil's date. now for a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic and the united states is now fully vaccinated $100000000.00 people it's covered not in germany and u.s. company files aside they have filed an application with the european medicines agency for the use of their vaccine in 12 to 15 year olds and france is to open up vaccinations for all adults by mid june ok let's take a look now at the other stories making headlines around the world in hong kong for democracy activists have pled guilty to charges of illegal assembly for a rally in june of last year activists joshua wall was among them and of thousands of people gathered on june 4th to commemorate the 989 crackdown on protesters in beijing's ganymede square. russia's financial monitoring agency has added

opposition leader alexei navalny his network of campaign offices to the list of terrorist and extremist groups the network disbanded on thursday in another development one of these lawyers yvonne pablo's has been detained by police. meanwhile russia has bought european officials from entering the country band include that it's a solo at the president of the european parliament and. vice president for values and transparency european commission the foreign ministry is an announcement comes in response to e.u. sanctions against russian officials last month accuse the e.u. of undermining independence of russia's domestic and foreign policy. correspondent in brussels barbara fazel has more on this story for us barbara what did these bands mean for the use relationship with russia. it means in the way anthony that the relationship is going from cool to cold right into the deep freeze

because we seem to now descend to the level of diplomatic bare knuckle fighting i and 8 of yours you been 6 of mine and so on and so forth the question is what's the endgame here how many more deployments and politicians of each side other 2 sides willing to bar in banned from entering the country how many assets can be frozen in the european union the political idea behind this seems relatively clear from the russian side president putin that's what russell things at least is throwing down the gauntlet to the european union and daring the europeans to carry on was their policy of sanctions and that at a point where the e.u. thought to be e.u. foreign ministers thought they were being quite measured when they banned only for russian security officials after the poisoning of. say not only is so did

question here is where is this going politically you point a vivid picture there of the relationship between the e.u. and russia going from cold to the deep freeze but the relationship between the e.u. members and their attitude towards russia will then you not the block against moscow. it might very well be that the pressure the increasing pressure from russia sort of concentrating the minds mung the european wonderfully because the follow ups the friends of who to look increasingly isolated here the last change about change we saw in the czech republic in the czech republic where officials reacted very angrily to finding out today a bomb to take some years ago was august rated by the russian secret service secret service a bomb to take that head to death and so it means that the europeans i know are being more united in their stance viktor orban the hungarian prime minister looks

increasingly isolated austria who tried to try to sort of hold up the flag of where the media age is between the 2 sides can't do this alone and so putin might get to might push the european union to a point where they probably would have never gotten to at their own that they build a united front against russia but then again the question arises what will come next nobody really knows every fazel in brussels thank you so much. well festival of joy has turned into one of israel's worst tragedies medics bitrate of the victims of a horrific stamp ain't there at least $45.00 people were crushed to death after chaos broke out of an overcrowded religious of it 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 corona virus restrictions.

wrapped in ecstatic song and dance footage from social media shows the crowd at the annual lag or celebration shortly before 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. slow 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. of the worst. terror. yes there are. still a great. fortified. authority 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 have 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. from jerusalem day doubly correspondent tony kramer 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 and over the course of the day you know the focus was and 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 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. here the funerals have also begun can you give us a sense of the atmosphere in israel now that 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 which will begin shortly that's the weekend here according to jewish tradition but of course the mood is you could describe it as somebody and 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 deuce 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 to focus on the trauma and the shock of what happened overnight. correspondent in jerusalem thank you so much. you're watching data believe news more headlines coming up at the top of the hour 6 from. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. grappling with such. expressed feeling. i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist

mandate looking for new perspectives. to help not to be replaced but with the camera doing things differently. come to the place where we reflect on society. come on he took. the shot that makes all the difference indian celebrities like filmmaker come out haasan getting an ocular later for all to see to encourage a country of over a 1000000000 people to follow his example. if only there were enough jobs available for everyone instead the country that's making vaccines for the rest of the world is faced with a massive shortage how could this happen. india's vaccination rollout to all adults is hampered by a creaking infrastructure and

a new aggressive variant that spreads fast of anywhere else india fails what does this mean for the global pandemic right. welcome talk of ignited special good to have you with us especially if you're joining us from. india i hope that you and your family well and safe because the figures we get from india are absolutely shocking almost 390000 new cases of infection and more than 3 and a half 1000 deaths within the last 24 hours international help is getting underway with the 1st imagine c. aid supplies arriving from the u.s. but in the end it's all about getting millions of shots in arms s. a.s.a.p. . prime minister narendra modi seen here getting his vaccination generally likes promote india as the world's pharmacy but now the chief of the world's biggest vaccine producer has slammed the indian government because they didn't order enough jobs in the last few months suddenly the government is left

standing empty handed. we don't have enough vaccines right now we let you know as soon as we receive the vaccines. compared to other countries india trails the u.s. with just over 42 percent of the population having received at least one vaccination in india 157000000 people have been vaccinated at least once of a lot of people which is 9 percent of the population. the most popular vaccine in india is astra zeneca under the name covert shield. after 3 weeks she would offer 76 percent efficacy. after the 2nd job at 12 weeks this rises to nearly 83 percent. is manufactured in india with a license from the european pharmaceutical company astra zeneca until recently half

of the production went from here to destinations all over the world. but because of the steep rise in the number of cases of home the indian government to stop exporting. this also applies to the 2nd vaccine produced in india kovacs in. it currently can also only be used in india. kovacs and has to be administered in 2 doses 6 weeks after the 1st vaccination it offers protection of 78 percent the 3rd indian vaccine is awaiting approval psycho wajid come onto the market from mid may . but will this be enough to vaccinate against the pandemic in india. the big question. is chappell assen at the center of social medicine and community health and job 100 are nehru university in new delhi he joins us now to good to have you that's a nation obviously seen as the only way out of the pandemic is it also the only way

out of the crisis in india now the current crisis is really of providing clinical care of providing intensive to very large numbers of being able to maintain infrastructure and supply chains that really is the current crisis also a very large requirement of it when resources. that clearly this is what's the bone in problem now that's the mission of course is crucial but explanation is not going to address this problem in the short run which is a few weeks that we are talking of now but surely you are trying to still get as many shots in arms as possible how does this actually work in terms of distribution do hospitals order vaccines themselves saw who is who is deciding who gets the vaccine. well the indian government's prioritization strategy had mean by risk

categories which meant health workers and other 1st care responders bust which is a which was shouted over the 1st 3 months and then age group 60 and then age group $45.00 in the above that's what the prior days ations had to do was and from a 1st which is tomorrow it will be open for all adults about the age of 18 years but several states are facing a shortage in vaccine supplies and therefore realistically it's not going to begin for the 18 plus group from tomorrow they will certainly have to wait till the supply situation stabilizes how is it possible that there is this shortage given that india is actually providing the rest of the world with vaccines. what's understood at this point is that this rapid expansion to 45 year age group it was earlier 50 plus who it. would it is this meant an additional demand of

202250 1000000 those as which was not so readily available and add to the fact that now that it's 18 years plus it's a lot more those of vaccines that you are talking off so this putting that scene from russia has been approved. got the emergency authorization the 1st batches that expected perhaps in a few days in the 1st week of may as a direct import from russia before being being manufactured in india by one of the indian companies so even if this were to make arrives on this show it's still going to be several weeks before actually months can be met and therefore several states have certainly postponed this 18 plus age group. till a few weeks down the line and given the fact that there are already 2 indigenous let's call them maxine's collect scene we had in the report already approved and

then there's another one psycho d. which is due to get emergency approval inmate will those vaccines be for indians only in order to hopefully as soon as possible turn things around. the current emphasis certainly is to be able to minimize as much as possible again going by these by these private eyes ation principle. as we understand it will take still a few weeks for adequate vaccines to be back into the supply system to be able to at least clear the depending those as particularly up to age 45 so all of these are certainly going to add to the kitty but the next few weeks things are going to be slow and i don't want to i don't want to even imagine what this delay means for the situation that you're already in at the moment nevertheless this may sound

heartless but what is this crisis in india what does it mean for weald wide vaccine supply will there be a knock on effect for example when it comes to the kovacs program yes it's very likely at least by current projections the contributions from india are certainly going to be delayed if not actually less so i'm sure they call that group would be worried about it. i think i think what sort of got misconstrued initially was that india produces 60 percent of the global vaccines which is true in the aggregate of childhood vaccines but in this category of influenza vaccines and so on this contribution is actually to the tune of 20 percent that experts say so that 60 percent figure is is not entirely applicable here just very briefly what lessons can the rest of the world learn from what's happening in india

right now i mean we're talking about a pandemic we have to overcome it together. shelby have to overcome in coming together we have to learn from each other i think the issue of variance of the of the newton forms is very crucial in the responded to it in a certainly the u.k. strain which as we know then spread or nearly a 100 countries worldwide became a dominant strain at at at several in several countries similarly the indian strain the b 1617 is also considered to be playing a really crucial role right and i think reasonably need to learn from each other to go out variants that we managed to desk there from. the java harlan near university in new delhi thank you so much and to do stay safe thank you thank you you took time to answer more of your questions now over to derek. how can you navigate be helpful in fighting not coming pandemics.

genetic engineering is one of those phrases that get thrown around a lot but i found a surprising number of people don't actually know what it means so so let's define it before moving forward when you genetically engineer something you use tools from fields that are usually mell grouped under the label biotechnology to manipulate and modify an organism's gene of the goal is to make it do things the organism wouldn't do otherwise for example produce a highly specific medicinal product or produce it in faster ways or produce event larger amounts genetic engineering methods are now common in areas from from crop science to waste mitigation to sustainable fuel development but when it comes to modern medicine genetically modified microorganisms play

a really central role nowadays for instance microbes have been engineered to churn out much of the insulin that people with diabetes need to survive and gene editing methods are also key to designing new medications they use not only to manufacture complex biologics like monoclonal antibodies but but also vaccines viral vector vaccines like those made by astra zeneca are like like poster child examples of products made with genetic engineering they work because the designers were able to splice genes from stars tovey to into a harmless add in a virus there that when injected can help make you immune to cope at 19 so genetic engineering is much more than helpful in the fight against pandemics it'll continue

to be a crucial facet of her. reacting to them and containing in the future. before we go buy and take pfizer have asked european regulators to authorize take over 19 vaccine for 12 to 15 year olds and they also plan to seek authorization as a regulatory authorities worldwide thanks for watching.

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