this is the w. news live from berlin scientists in india accuse the government of ignoring warnings of a deadly new coronavirus variance advisors are blaming politicians failures for the devastating 2nd wave of covert 19 that is now overwhelming their health services. also on the program police in germany shut down one of the world's biggest child sexual abuse platforms the network enabled hundreds of thousands of members to

share graphic images and video their content includes depictions of serious sexual abuse of very young children. and giving a voice to the voiceless today marks world press freedom day and we'll speak to the winner of news freedom of speech. also coming up the tale of an 8 lint creature and her human companion to take a look at the film my octopus teacher a south african film won the best documentary prize at this year's oscars. i'm going alpha's welcome to the program scientists in india are accusing the government there of ignoring warnings of new more dangerous variants of the corona virus a form of advisors says ministers fail to impose large scale restrictions despite

the alert in march mass political and religious rallies have since been cited as super spreader events a 2nd wave of covert 19 has left india battling record numbers of deaths and new infections. india is struggling as the pandemic 2nd wave crashes over the country death and desperation are spreading so too is the fear that the government can stem the surge and end india's suffering. when the cases started rising up on the plan. but turns out that if you put in the 1st week understood that the governments have no idea they're not prepared for anything they don't have it up until later than one was busy get about all the whatever you need for the entire city or the entire nation in just one example a dozen kovac 1000 patients died this weekend when a hospital in the capital ran out of oxygen supply for nearly an hour and a half of one of them in to go free to fulfill the mission. is the oxygen

really support because babies are to be so cross to the city. didn't increase demand in the hospital a court in delhi says it will start punishing government officials for failing to deliver lifesaving items but it's impossible to give what is not yet available the international community spent the weekend sending supplies greeting relatives and scientists blame elected officials for the catastrophic situation saying they ignored medical advice and warnings about variance. prime minister narendra modi faces intense criticism over his handling of the pandemic and his decision to allow state elections to go ahead amid this urgent cases despite heavy campaigning his party failed to win the key state of west bend gal or to make significant gains

in other state assemblies. for more let's go to delhi bureau chief i mean it's a way to the government in fact been warned about the more dangerous virus variant back in march why was that warning ignored apparently well that's a good question get out in fact this consortium of scientific advisors was such a back in december by the government set and a specific task was to look for variants of mutants which could cause a trace to public health now this group of scientists from 10 national universities sent given their findings to the relevant authorities in march as you mentioned and if you want to spoke to 5 of them and i asked them what happened why wasn't anything done and one of them said job is to provide evidence for the job the policy making is that the government basically implying that means the hard science did not drive policy making as much as it should have so how angry are people over

this lack of policy making by the government. people are getting angrier by the day i'm in daily what the situation is really grim hospitals are still without oxygen some of them they're running out of bands of life's they need gripman plasma drugs and people are getting more in line concern says there is a management to deal with this crisis just to give you an example i was not of meeting with my colleagues today and one person said i haven't done any work today i'm running around when i sing a bet for someone another county didn't show up at the meeting she's trying to organize an oxygen cylinder the people here are feeling still bricks select on by the system and the and now let's do the must see an individual acts of kindness everyone in the city has been touched in some way or the other so anger is growing so the anger is growing and how is the government responding to that growing. well

this is one of the ones that has emergencies that india has faced and the government says it's doing all it can to bring it under control and they point to what's all the meetings they've had in the last 2 weeks the lies the army they will bless the employers to get oxygen tank was just at a hospital this announcement just to set up oxygen generating plans but all of these will take a bit of time to become effective for the people who are angry they need help right now it's a question of debts and by the end i'm not very happy with the government of the 6 the government isn't denied bond it's nourishment of this crisis they don't use a meter cheema in delhi thank you meter now to some of the latest developments in the pandemic the pharmaceutical company pfizer is in talks with the indian government over speeding up the approval of its coronavirus vaccine to help combat the surge in caseload that india's northern neighbor nepal has suspended all

domestic and international flights until for the 14th of may as the country struggles to contain its own soaring infections travel to the european union could soon become easier the box of executive recommended allowing all travelers into the block who are fully vaccinated with and e.u. approved job police here in germany say they have shut down a major internet platform that shatt images of the sexual abuse of children officials said the site on the so-called dark net was one of the biggest in the world with more than 400000 members and have been operating since at least 20193 men arrested in germany and a further suspect a tainted part of life in a series of raids in mid april they followed a months long international operation coordinated by europe. well for more on this story let's bring in our political correspondent reza topis he's been following this story for us too is a how did this network come to light. well we don't have all the details yet but

what we do know is that criminal investigations were quite complex and took several months at the heart of them was a task force instigated by germany and organized by euro polled the european law enforcement agency and there were a number of countries involved european ones like sweden and the netherlands but also australia the us and canada for example and what we also know is that the content of loaded to this forum was really shocking the 400000 members of this network shared graphic images and video content of very young children being sexually abused and they were mainly boys and some of them were very very young so what do we know about the suspects. we know 3 of them are suspect it's of been managing the platform as admin's

2 of them are germans and where arrested here in germany and other one was also is also a german and was arrested in power why after living in southern america for a couple of years there 40 to 58 years old and police say they gave technical advice to the members but also advise on how to not be caught by the authorities and the 4th suspect is another german 64 years old and he was apparently one of the most. heavy users of this platform and he uploaded $3500.00 posts to the network and all of them are now in police custody and facing charges the while the network itself of course is offline no there is a problem thank you very much for this update. for that sake a look at some other stories making headlines around the world u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has criticized china for acting in quote

increasingly adversarial ways but he stressed that military confrontation would be against the interests of both nations clinton arrived in london on sunday for a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers where china is one of the issues on the agenda. young activists in mere mon have staged nationwide rallies calling for others to join them in a spring revolution witnesses say security forces shot several demonstrators dead a series of explosions rocked the city of yangon it's been 3 months since the military seized power in a coup. residents along carrying a stone's border with the chicken stock have been returning to their damaged homes days after thousands were forced to flee from clashes more than 30 people died in a flare up of tensions between the 2 former soviet states as he's fond of his to be holding. today marks world's press freedom day and what better day to

reveal the winner of g.w.'s freedom of speech award this year we are honoring an investigative journalist from nigeria from an early age she has stood up for women's rights and called out injustices we'll speak to her in a few minutes but 1st here's some insight into some of the most challenging investigations. a few things excite to portray avourneen more than finding a good story. i've seen is hiring 8 the right to probe 11 through really on dry land in a good trade in male sexual or ground. of warre has been speaking out against injustice and she was a little girl encouraged by have found her she decided to become an investigative journalist. i watched we met a man who treated ted i was doing drained mentri ted unjustly.

i was there in the same been quite nice and all the love in the thing when walking free that coming from so that really laid the foundation for what i do now wanting to be in voice for the voiceless with the power to rethink the world. of worries. work sometimes involves changing her identity all her stories affect her personally but none of them impacted her life as much as her 2013 investigation into nigeria's human trafficking mafia the story unfolded on this street allen avenue a popular hot spot for prostitution for 7 months of war he was an undercover sex worker here it was the toughest most frightening and most challenging investigation one she wasn't prepared for she was raped abused and sold to people beheaded in front of her. i see that it's a depression. that was the trauma. that cause for lots of stress.

are panic attacks at some point and it's quite worth it i became suicidal. of worry is still recovering from that experience her story served as the inspiration for the netflix film follow to your 80 shower not she's made several other award winning investigations and is adamant she's not stopping any time soon . to bora bora that the winner of this year's do double freedom of speech award and here's what it appears director general peter limbaugh to say about her work and all she's achieved. she is a courageous woman but i think such an award will also help her for her work hopefully also for security but we also want to empower other journalists who work on an investigative job and who are in dangerous circumstances when we see that nigeria has fantastic journalists and we from the edge of delhi we work together

with a lot of media houses in nigeria but i think in general it is important that we help investigative journalism in africa that we also help female journalists in africa and i think we can contribute a bit from our side from dodgeville with his freedom of speech will. and i am delighted to be joined from lagos by to bora for a conversations on the award tomorrow 1st of all and let's speak about this 6 trafficking investigation what made you go on the cover to do this. thank you very much. for the i want. it all right and. it will rule out

a court that's up if. a very little had at least that's because she's on the credit because. they caught up with us right. it was the most part people. in any of my traps an aircrew mate. where elite group meet with i think and i have not had anyone to me it was the big. i think that i am have all. of the traffic in the space we are having it in the eighty's oh no not the way it's always at work they are pretty and that haven't been. for tory let me ask you have you had any repercussions from the nigerian

authorities after revealing some of these very distressing aspects of sex trafficking. being. probably. a little matter. given the received 3 coffins yesterday just kept my think it gave and the result of that have had to live how to watch my back. and changing it. i mean wonderful no. he had range calls i tried to change course i mean right and he ran to me. the text message with great concert rule and the package had a picture of you. know that. i

did wear that transfer. but i had every dr. house that i was my path. they had to change. tomorrow i'm afraid we have to leave it here due to the very very poor quality would like to apologize of us for that tomorrow for the winner of did obvious press freedom a was many thanks and congratulations. but most european countries have been relying on her lock downs masks and travel bans to keep coronavirus cases down but sweden has taken a different path as it stop it pretty much epidemiologists doesn't agree with lockdowns that turned the country into an oasis of freedom health authorities are urging people to remain vigilant though but will they listen to the news teri

schultz reports. sweden seen as the land of sweet liberty for those chief ing against coronavirus closures curfews and mandatory masks while most of europe has been in various stages of lockdown over the last year swedes have been skiing shopping dining and drinking restrictions in swedish restaurants mean giving customers space and closing at 8 pm i think we have taken away iran hall. so we have one bank gun jimmy head waiter at the concern and restaurant in stockholm says sweden's done it right. from. the comer taking it we were. just free to freedom the architect of this model state epidemiologist anders techno read it basically the same as many other countries produce it sounds like a different way of trying to do. maybe

a bit more than novices to pinpoint what to do we need to close the. different way has seen sweden record a far higher death toll than its closest neighbors finland and norway a comparison he rejects they all to sweden. very much more true belgium or stray even germany and sweden these. $5.00 to $10.00 countries for the least excess more targeted europe but sweden's care homes in particular were hit hard last year and still now hospitals warn intensive care units are nearly overwhelmed in december even the king said he thought the strategy had failed but techno stands by his recommendations he says the only problem with them is that people don't follow them take masks for example understand doesn't believe they're very effective so on public transportation writers are urged but not required to

mask up during rush hours if you appear to do. so some feel that's a failure of the government's 1000 communications strategy at least journalism professor christian christianson says the lax approach to mask wearing exposes inequalities in swedish society in danger especially minorities you're seeing people who are probably in lower paying jobs service industry jobs must take public transportation they're on packed trains in the morning day in day out with hundreds of people in a small container i think it's reasonable to ask like you know might that not be a possible public health problem if they make it more tight that everyone should make it and should wear a mask that would be very important maybe we could have spent some life through a new emergency law gives the government temporary power to impose a lockdown but it hasn't been used polls show some swedes have lost faith in their country's approach to stuff our blood isn't one of them he still trusts in ender's

technology they represent like this different kind of way crisis in the world we did it in a way where people still could have a lot of different for me freedom is really important i agree blood support isn't likely to fade quickly last year he immortalized the epidemiologist on his epidermis. about here in germany the football association wants its president to resign after he compared his deputy to an infamous nazi judge. admits he made a serious mistake but is refusing to stand down he's been in the job for 2 years the association is the world's biggest single sports federation it was more than 7000000 men this is all. joining me now in the studio is jonathan crane from sports jonathan what is this all about well this is all stem from a meeting that took place just over a week ago it was

a meeting between top officials in the german football federation and during that meeting fritz calla the president referred to one of his vice presidents running a cork as fright and why is that fairly significant will run on friday was that as you said an infamous nazi judge he was involved in vons a conference in 1942 during that conference it was the final stages of the holocaust being planned of course the mass murder of 6000000 jews why the comparison will run a cult is a judge himself in munich in munich now and the president for its color has apologized for his remarks which were clearly then leaked out during this private meeting so khalid khalid football fans ordinary people reacting to this scandal well i think there is a lot of outrage and i think it is being taken seriously by the german football federation there was an emergency meeting at the weekend between the associations that make up the german football federation during that meeting a statement was released saying the remarks were completely unacceptable calla lost

of votes of confidence 26 to 9 now i mention his apology the apology hasn't been accepted by ryan a cock i think that speaks to a white a power struggle inside the federation on one hand one side you have fritz calla on the other side you have cork and the general secretary curtis is very much a kind of old guard versus new caliban you know the other 2 the old guard in this. this dispute i think is the d.f.e. the don't football federation have what 9 presidents in 5 years or something like they've been getting for presidents pretty quickly after after a lot of stability beforehand exactly. how much is that overshadowing the game is the of be trying to redefine itself what is this very clearly it's not a good look for german football is that i think it was an internal discussion where they were worried about the federations image calling for whole fair changes you have to remember fritz keller was born in 29000 to clear up a lot of the math and now it seems like they're back to square one now with all the

problems resurfacing on them granted obvious sports thank you very much you're welcome. and we stay on the subject of football into milan celebrating after they were confirmed as italian champions for the 1st time since 2010. pounds off the team filled midlands bore most after their title rivals atlanta were held to a draw putting into 13 points clear at the top of the table a club is now the 2nd most successful side in syria history with 19 titles one more than city rivals a senior. and our 2 a tale of an 8 limbed sea creature and human companion the film about that bond just won best documentary feature at this year's oscars my octopus teacher is streaming on netflix and portrays the unusual friendship forged by the octopus and

a south african filmmaker in the waters just off cape town. dr. kramer. it's a captivating tale of friendship south african filmmaker and naturalists craig foster was intrigued by a young octopus he found in an underwater forest near cape town foster began to document their daily interactions and the mollusk wowed him and his fellow directors this curiosity turned a personal video project into a full length documentary. i think it's lots of ways and we incrementally built it to be something that could appeal to a group who are not only interested in this sort natural history in this environment but the sort of everything grace going to as a human being is sort of their relatable things he's dealing with guilt

disappointment so he's conflicted about things he's trying to sort of overcome security. and patience and dissemination always of human qualities that are being questioned serious stories just that the context is very young. and the effort is well come on ground in cape town. not because it had a profound effect not just on a winter's image making to finding something. amazing but calling up the building. you know how it had all of that. it's a lesson in how humans and nature can co-exist in mutual appreciation. you're watching t.v. news here's a reminder of all the top stories scientists in india are accusing the government

there of ignoring warnings of new more dangerous variants of the corona virus advisors are blaming politicians failures for the devastating 2nd wave of covert 19 that's not overwhelming the health system. nigerian investigative journalist has one day w.'s freedom of speech award reporting as shed light on criminal syndicates involved in prostitution human trafficking and organ trading. that's all from the other news team thanks for.

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people stood up against corrupt rulers and dictatorship. the belly of the country more security more freedom and more dignity have their hopes been fulfilled. 10 years of after the arab spring. arab only and starts june 7th on d w. userland gets tough on china putting trade relations at stake with its biggest business partner what spot the shift and kept the asian pacific. you know sway the global giant. can be it now compete with its asian neighbors as the manufacturing hub applies the hard for global market for electric cars. and just a dream for women a managerial posts in listed companies in germany what's holding them back.

let's do business career suicide or is little new zealand standing up to trading giant china going to spark a revolution smaller asian nations are closely watching as prime minister just makes a major policy shift that could make things a little messy. when it was time to condemn china's crackdown on the democracy movement in hong kong and its treatment of its minority muslim population in new zealand has been reluctant to sign up to statements from its 5 eyes alliance partners the center left government even suggested its partners were not showing enough respect for china new zealand's biggest trading partner and urged australia to be more cautious in their wording when dealing with the chinese government this prompted an outcry from their allies now the prime minister just is making what looks like a significant u. turn. you will not have

a sky of anyone here that is china's role in the will grows and changes the differences between us and systems and the interests and values that those systems are becoming harder to reconcile. new zealand's exports to china worth more than to the next 4 largest trading partners australia the u.s. u.k. and japan combined tougher stance shows the rising challenge of balancing trade concerns and human rights commitments china's influence expands more i'm joined by our china analyst cliff couldn't cliff it why the sudden policy shift i guess it has something to do with a straight it because this trade has been standing up to china for some time now and paying the price through coal exports through wind and lots of different sectors and the links between australia new zealand are traditionally very close as we know and i think that's very much part of us and then australia is also part of the 5 eyes which includes the us. and australia as i said on them

but these other partners so basically it's trying to do it's trying to now look closer to its western allies than them to china even though it's a trading colossus and it just shows the whole challenge of how you have to balance trade and try measure these out it's a real challenge is much at stake i've done has been vocal about things like the week is engine jang before. and you hear about it time and again here the pressure on the german chancellor to speak out on human rights issues but being vocal is it going to change anything well this is it i mean i think i think it and it comes back to this balance and then how much you actually you actually make an impact with this and i think in the trump era we saw that a lot of the western allies were actually quite divided when it came to dealing with china and china was able to sort of drive divisions there another biden is there things are changing again and there's growing pressure and i say here in germany on johnson merkel to be a bit tougher on germany because she always takes the trade line but things are changing we see some of the other. new candidates coming up are talking about being

tougher on china so i think that if there's more of a common front on the deal with china i think things definitely could change to a rebooting of alliances could it could it change the way other small plays in asia also do business not not just the big players like germany i think it will because i think they're definitely watching this quite closely these countries why do you have loose trading arrangements and loose alliances there they tend to have a more of a bilateral approach when it comes to dealing with china and sometimes they can feel quite isolators it was actually in regions like the south china sea where absolutely says it's ours yeah exactly you know to say this is a big problem and if you're a country like the philippines or vietnam trying to do with these on your own it's difficult but if you suddenly see that other nations that there is more of a common basis to trying finding a different approach to how to deal with china on these issues then i think it's certainly going to be supportive to this kind of situation so a realignment not just in politics but also in global business cliff occurred and

thanks very much for coming in. switching gears and vietnam's answer to tesla says it isn't just interested in taking on neighbors thailand and indonesia he had like a comic been fast has its sights set on the united states vietnam is in the spotlight when fast has raised the curtain on 3 new electric cars. the company has been producing cars since 2017 in their high pump factory. they build a quarter of a 1000000 cars every year. but the car maker hopes to enter the global market with its electric models. we are going to north america u.s. canada and europe at the same time in europe you know we are going to germany friends and then that ends so to start with the street countries in the euro and then at the same time we are starting to expand into other markets in that continent to

even fast was founded by palm not for mutantes richest citizen he made his 1st 1000000 by selling noodles in ukraine today palmer runs an empire of shopping malls hospitals and even entire city districts the car company is his most recent venture he imported all his know how from germany the motors assembly lines and robots are all built by german companies the international joint venture has been successful in inspiring trust a much needed commodity in the car business. at the biggest comes and of the cars the steel lay on battery. durability the cars the battery but what we are doing is we are doing but releasing and. take away will would take over at the resort take away on the concessions from testimony live in fast vehicles offer competition to the big e-car players with

a range of 500 kilometers well. lane keeping system 360 degree cameras and an automatic emergency call system customers have been able to order cars since the beginning of may when fast cars should be on sale in the u.s. and the e.u. by november. a look now at some of the business stories making headlines the pandemic hit earnings for half full people worldwide according to u.s. polling company gallup job and wage concentrated people in low income countries most the survey polled 300000 people in 170 countries. retail sales declined slightly despite a bumpy year for e-commerce a study of 7 countries including the u.s. china and the u.k. shows online turnover rose by over 22 percent to 2 and a half trillion dollars. supply shortages hitting more german manufacturers according to a study by the institute on top of the chip shortage hitting his manufacturers that

need rounds of plastic and electrical power us is suffering. and you zealand will allow quarantine free travel with the cook islands from may 17th userland recently began a similar arrangement with a stray dia as it tentatively reopens to travel from other countries. economic success can often come down to diversity studies show companies with diverse leadership are more profitable but female executives in germany and missing men dominate boardrooms of listed companies here with a total of $614.00 seats women occupy only $86.00 seats germany is lagging in the u.s. women occupy more than a quarter of boardroom seats in the targeted corporations in the largest corporations rather almost the same case in the u.k. in germany women only hold 16 percent of boardroom seats but there's change in the air spain's. has taken over as c.e.o.

at german farm. mack she's the 1st woman to single handedly run a daks company let's talk about that with stephanie though how she's director of the european academy for female leadership stephanie we've finally seeing some sort of change well yes we actually do i mean germany has been so conservative for a long time and i do believe that in the past 10 years things have changed has been a generation of change but also are like him a lot of activists and we had this huge debates about and he made leadership lack a female role models in power positions and i do believe that it's time to change and one of the arguments here was a lack of female candidates is there any truth to that i mean in the u.s. we see all of these female tech entrepreneurs in fantastic positions but not here in germany. well it depends on how you view it i would say 1st of all it

is an excuse i mean if you look at the number for example of women studying computer science the numbers in the u.s. are not high and then in germany at all but i think what you can say is that there has that women have not been promoted enough and the past and have not been given sufficient opportunities to develop into steps management positions and so if there is a lack of suitable candidates then it is the course before they have not been promoted so i wouldn't say it's the lead i mean it's just a few i wouldn't say there's a lack you know from the big pool but from the continuous development there what's changed now though to see this new female executive at mc and also several german companies have taken on female leaders in the executive positions over the past months. well we do see that there is this social pressure i would say

that nowadays because of all these movements in germany but also the global movements about social justice it's kind of embarrassing to not have a few meters to have these you know all male wyatt panels and so on so i would say that now also would say that arguments like business please arguments that companies. are more diverse sports are all created for and the employees are happy that these kind of also feel so and we have quote us of course we got this to north one was passed last year and i mean those laws are not i mean they're i would say also symbolic in a way because they're not you know like protests on and every management position but and they do mean something i mean they set the tone and the norms briefly has the pandemic changed anything. well unfortunately what we can see

now is that it has come to a retreat decision and ization of the well of gender roles because in june the childcare facilities and also schools were closed for long periods of time i mean even now they're not fully it reopened yet and what we can see from numerous studies is that it's mostly the women who do the childcare again and become more as housewives and as them and the men can continue were ripping mostly normally and i mean we do not know what the long term effect of this is right now i think it's definitely has a negative impact ok so one step forward 2 steps back stephanie low house thanks for direct thanks for joining us today director of the european academy for female leadership. and it was back to the dance floor for a couple 100 compositions this weekend moving to the something beats of house music put on by a live d.j. sounds foreign doesn't it for the 1st time in 8 months the spanish city won some of

its nightlife back thanks to a digital pos pilot scheme that authorities hope will allow for socializing without spreading the coronavirus residents could get themselves tested to obtain a digital possible outing them to go to concerts or dine out i got on but i said business with a few. people in trucks injured one trying to treat a city center more and more betty g.'s are being turned away for a. long time seems. to be clicked on the screen demonstrators. people sleep excrete troops. are going to be. around more than

300000000 people are seeking. to ask why. because no one should have to sleep. make up your own mind. w.'s. made for mines. this week on world stories in russia backs in tours of becomes a business model what is the price of freedom in sweden during a pandemic but we begin in brazil where just as it has everywhere else the coronavirus pandemic is hitting the poor especially hard many have lost their jobs

and are struggling to feed their families. fairly or gomez starts her day early she gets up at around 4 am worried about having enough food for her 4 children to have breakfast. i wake up with the feeling of being in agony i jump out of bed in the 1st thing i do is stand guard i'm alive i look at my children and think to myself today i'll bring home some food for them i leave the house early to fetch bread there are days when i can't manage to bring them anything but they run out overnight. goma's lives in a for valor of around 100000 people in south paolo here and across brazil unemployment hit a record high last year this community association helps people living in marginalized areas to find work. we had an 84 percent increase in demand for employment after the government's emergency aid ended and the number of people

seeking our help tripled because so many people didn't have any support anymore and if. up. in december government aid of around $84.00 euros a month was cut making an already difficult situation for many much worse. the number of people living on less than 36 years more than doubled many families stopped cooking with gas and started using firewood 27000000 brazilians live in extreme poverty renate tardelli has been researching the fatherless for 20 years. noel you pull the data shows that the poor you are the higher the rates of infection. the more on the periphery the person finds themselves in the higher the death rate from coronavirus. brazil has added 2000000 more people to the marginalised areas in the past year it's not ethical the brazilians have to choose

between going hungry or getting the virus it's an ethical. no hatchet. 4 adults live in the home of sylvia de hayes us she's a cook and the only one still to have a job but it's just one day a week she used to cook in other people's homes but they let her go for fear of infection. that this pandemic is difficult it's going to leave all of us starving and that's apart from all the damage it does to your health look at this q we're all in the same boat. that the model melba with a shortage of vaccines and hospitals overwhelmed it's hard to see a way forward for people in the lowest social groups who are trapped by both poverty and disease. despite a 3rd lockdown france has one of the highest rates of covert infections in europe

the government is trying to contain the spread of the virus with a massive vaccination campaign. places like these are the new beacon of hope for the french the star disaster just north of paris is one of more than 100 new huge vaccinations and just across the country all of us can live on a combined effect this is a mega operation we are now able to administer mass vaccinations in this center we will inoculate about $10000.00 people per week from neatly organized be a part of a national effort to end this crisis. people here are relief they're finally getting help the stadium is located in france's most destitute departments and sunny which has also been hit hardest by the epidemic with about 800 new infections per 100000 inhabitants each week. that is purposeful and i really hope to finally

see the light at the end of the tunnel it's what we need things have been very worrying for a year now and although we try to make an effort and stay reasonable it's getting very difficult to live without social contacts i think the department of sense under me is very badly affected by the epidemic the numbers keep skyrocketing it's high time they do this if it's not already too late. a faster vaccination campaign is key to the country's latest strategy to fight cope with 19 the government just decreed a 3rd nation might lock down but it's only a 4 week lockdown light and this time people are even told to spend more time outside this fire on a just is not sure that will be enough to bring the epidemic under control. by longer book read after all what works you may we will need to vaccinate 10 percent of the french population with 2 jabs for the spread of the virus to start

slowing down. now bar to do more and are infection numbers are very high as we didn't impose a strict lockdown earlier this year like other countries with that said a 4 week lockdown seems rather optimistic. for sightseeing tour and ask comes with a dose of the russian sputnik buybacks in this business model is gaining momentum in russia and demand is high especially among german charge. a tiny needle prick and a covert 1000 vaccine sputnik v enters hinds get pink n l's bloodstream and. it's certified as being highly of acacias. pinker now is one of several germans who pay 2000 euros for a vaccination vacation his wife is also getting a dose of sputnik v.

. just as there is. a few great i didn't even feel the job knew. it also means we can look forward to being able to travel again in future israel has said it will open up to people who've been vaccinated. the 2 departed from frankfurt today go there among the 1st 18 tourists who booked the 4 day trip to moscow. their return at the beginning of may for a 2nd job. then dutch are coming but you can't count on getting a vaccination in the near future in germany to be honest i think we're being sensible the more people are vaccinated the sooner we recharge immunity and when to take it. the media are out in force to meet the would be vaccine knees russia's government is happy to get one sputnik v. to be a top export 60 countries have certified for use the european union is more hesitant

doubts have been raised about its efficacy so the kremlin could see vaccine tourism as good publicity. tour operator world visitor welcomes the business. sure operator we at least have work for some of our stuff and generate some revenue as we otherwise wouldn't have and for russia it's peor and solves a couple of german problems as well. sputnik the is available to all russian citizens free of charge but only 30 percent of them are interested a quick straw poll shows many welcome the fact that germans are coming to moscow for their shots at. me i don't wish to put a show if they got problems of vaccines in germany they should come here i don't think it's bad boys need to be. with you they should come to russia where the best . with them let them have their vaccinations are vaccine is very good. group

even though sputnik field isn't even certified yet the next few weeks will see quite a few more vaccine vacationers like pink and heading to moscow visitors says bookings are surging. sweden has taken a unique approach to the corona virus pandemic the government's lockdown policy was much lighter than in neighboring countries though the death toll is quite high the approach still has its supporters. sweden seen as the land of sweet liberty for those cheating against coronavirus closures curfews and mandatory masks while most of europe has been in very. stages of lockdown over the last year swedes have been skiing shopping dining in drinking restrictions in swedish restaurants mean giving customers space and closing at 8 pm i think we have

taken away a round hole for the tables so we have one meters per tank gun jimmy head waiter at the concern and restaurant in stockholm says sweden's done it right to it from belgium from prawns from even learn from czech republic they come here taking it we work a share. just the feet of the freedom the architect of this model state epidemiologist anders tecno who did basically the same as many other countries we do this in a slightly different way for all trying to do i think sweden has tried maybe a bit more than others just to pinpoint what exactly we do need to close but tenuous different way has seen sweden record a far higher death toll than its closest neighbors finland and norway a comparison he rejects they all flyers sweden compare very much more true belgium or stray even germany and sweden this among the $5.00 to $10.00

countries for at least excess mortality is in europe but sweden's care homes in particular were hit hard last year and still now hospitals warn intensive care units are nearly overwhelmed take masks for example understand nell doesn't believe they're very effective so on public transportation writers are urged but not required to mask up during rush hours few appear to do so some feel that's a failure of the government's covert $1000.00 communications strategy at least journalism professor christian christianson says the lax approach to mask wearing exposes inequalities in swedish society in danger inc especially minorities you're seeing people who are probably in lower paying jobs service industry jobs must take public transportation there on park trains in the morning day in day out with hundreds of people in a small container i think it's reasonable to ask like you know might that not be a possible public health problem if they make it more tighter that everyone should

make it and should wear a mask that would be very important maybe we could have spent some life through a new emergency law gives the government temporary power to impose a lockdown but it hasn't been used well polls show some swedes have lost faith in their country's approach to stuff lloyd blood isn't one of them. he still trusts in ender's tech now he represented like this different kind of way to handle a crisis in the world we did it in a way where people still could have a lot of their freedom and for me freedom is really important i grew blood support isn't likely to fade quickly last year he immortalized the epidemiologist on his epidermis. plan.

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