this is d w news live from berlin and the white house backs lifting corona virus vaccine patent protection the move could prove pivotal for efforts to bolster the global vaccine supply but how fast could production realistically be wrapped up. also coming out called democracy activists joshua long incentives to an additional 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to participating in an authorized assembling classified the eastern by the elite eastern democratic republic of congo instr gray

one of the largest humanitarian crises on the planet and millions are displaced and in urgent need of assistance you have you visited the capital region recently declared undersea. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with what could be a big breakthrough in the drive to boost the world's coronavirus vaccine supply the white house has announced support for waiving vaccine patent protections the u.s. trade representative said that extraordinary measures are needed to and the pandemic the u.s. has previously resisted efforts at the world trade organization to temporarily suspend intellectual property protections on coles at 19 vaccines it now joins more than 100 countries and supported the move chairs of major vaccine makers which is well down and novak's dipped on the announcement. a spring in volume glencross

joins us now from his claim tell us what exactly is u.s. president joe biden advocating here so he's joining the calls to have a temporary exception to intellectual property rules that govern pharmaceuticals including vaccines to allow for a quicker and broader supply to be created all around the world so generic pharmaceutical companies like india and israel other places can produce the very vaccines including the m.r. in a back scenes. without getting permission or having to do deals with pfizer with more data these kinds of companies now should be no the united states is usually a very strong advocate for intellectual property rights for patent protections it's often criticizing china for skirting those rules to protect their own industries and also to protect the incentive for companies to invest in new technologies but

in this case what basically what biden has come out and said is the urgency of the pendennis outweighs those economic and technological innovation arguments talk with us about the timing why now. well this was a campaign promise that joe biden made last year he said he would support this very kind of temporary lifting or a waiver to the intellectual property rules at the w.h.o. and he's come under intense pressure from fellow democrats from progressive groups from world health advocates trying to get him to do this and he's basically making good on that campaign promise of course you have to fight the opposition of the pharmaceutical industry that makes a lot of money off of these patents it should also be noted they also cost them a lot of money and takes a lot of risk to develop these kinds of treatments so that's kind of a back and forth and there's also the diplomacy aspect for example china and russia have been using their vaccines very effectively as a kind of currency a diplomatic currency in relations with other countries in the u.s.

that's been so successful vaccinations at home is under a lot of pressure to show good will to help end this pandemic elsewhere especially in places like india that have been just getting hit so hard by the pandemic and that is something that advocates of this waiver are hoping will help will help get more vaccines out into the world especially lower and middle income countries to blame glue kroft thank you and now e.u. presidents commission president are sluff on our line said that the e.u. is preparing to discuss the waiver as it looks for ways to quickly ramp up vaccine production the european union is also ready to discuss any proposal that address the crisis in an effective and pragmatic manner and that's why we are ready to discuss how the u.s. proposal for a waiver on intellectual property protection for covered vaccines could help

achieve that objective. and we are joined now by down to regard to his joining us from brussels bads i mean the choice of her language is quite interesting there she said we're ready to discuss i mean funder lined lending her backing to waving patent is not so simple as it. yeah that's true this. must be discussed in the format of the w t o the bird trade organization and there were already $100.00 countries asking for that and so far the e.u. and also the u.s. have resisted it seems that the is no able to follow the lead of the u.s. and to take a softer stance but you officials briefing here in brussels also say it's not that simple that i'll go peyton's yet that can be waived it's about licensing so the companies that are producing the jobs must have other companies how to do that so they have to be forced to give that license out and then also the question how will

it be checked that the duty produced generics are really deficient in a similar to the original one so this is not as simple as it seems and the you also says it will take some time until the generic generics can be produced and it would be easier if the eve is only would export its own jets it's producing pfizer is producing in the u.s. so far there's an export ban in place from the states and the u.s. has we are exporting from europe the u.s. does not so this but also be a step necessary back to regard to brussels thank you. on thursday india reported over 412000 kovan 1000 cases and almost 4000 deaths setting records for both the burden on the country's health care is becoming increasingly unsustainable as patients overwhelm hospitals and crucial supplies run short it's

all hands on deck with even medical students being called upon to help out in patient care and this next report we need a young doctor fighting to save as many lives as possible. running low on sleep junior doctor. dresses and protective gear to begin a 27 hour long shift. he's only 26 years old and hasn't even finished his medical training. we're told we had attorneys for this to do the surgery record. to receive the northeast you've been here mark made but that you're looking in the. dark this window frame we are being told to do the. work if you are not there and i just want to be. there is a severe shortage of oxygen and ventilators at this hospital and others across delhi many people come looking for a bed for

a sick relative but these are also in very short supply patients and relatives crowd every available space in some cases people lying close enough for patients to touch. one man is in a storage room surrounded by bins of medical waste real hans's the sounds of his workplace haunt his sleep. that is all this because you know you can read yes you think that you keep the b b. you know you're the. one being used it was enough you know everybody would be. patients rushed from hospital to hospital hoping to find someone who will admit them many turned away left to die on the street oxygen supplies are transported by armed guard and crematoriums work around the clock.

maybe even people would have to be. before the commute was a democracy if. they could make it if you would be with you maybe they'd say if you were going. after 27 hours in the e.r. roland our gov us is he could sleep for 2 days but a friend with a sick father calls. agrees to help knowing that in reality there's not much he can do. and here are some more stories making headlines around the world there have been fresh clashes between police and protesters in the colombian capital bogota it is the latest violence highlighting days of protest against economic inequality and police brutality of these 24 people have been killed in the unrest this past week. u.s. secretary of state anthony lincoln has arrived in ukraine for talks with president followed amir selenski he is expected to reassure kiev of u.s.

support after russia amassed more than 100000 troops along the prince eastern frontier the country's anti corruption efforts the last of the on the agenda. voters in scotland are going to the polls on thursday in an election that could decide the fate of its independence movement 1st minister nicola sturgeon says that a fresh majority for her scottish national party would be a mandate for pursuing a 2nd independent strive to break away from the u.k. . hong kong democracy activist joshua wong has been sentenced to another 10 months in jail for participating in an unauthorized protest wang is one of the most prominent faces of the pro-democracy movement he's already serving time in prison for his role in other protests he was handed this lead this intense for attempting to commemorate in the 1989 tiananmen square massacre in beijing 3 other activists are also sentenced to between 4 and 6 months behind bars earlier i asked

phebe kong in hong kong about the significance of the sentence which is a 3rd received since 2019. last year and you can a life is shown in hong kong was banned by the hong kong police before the fair 1st time in decades but just how long and out of time out of hell activists dispel those tens of thousands of people still turn out to. fall on the judge in the whole cold call today ruled that. by saying that freedom is not a limit that he thought a wall and not a defendant's own participate in that rally with political purpose and the wish carry huge potential security risk and that's why the court has to send a deterrent as a whole which by having down joe sentences that the rally is actually banned by police citing quantify resurrections rules last year because of the pandemic and all and there are actually more than 20 defendants out or prominent prosecution for

the participation in that rally and apart from falwell and dependents jantsch today of the rest of them including me i will face trial next month. i was you'd have used t.v. kong in hong kong the democratic republic of congo has seen a surge of violence in recent weeks attacks by militias and inter community conflicts has forced millions of people to flee their homes the u.n. says the ongoing fighting is making it extremely difficult to reach people in many areas our reporter mariam miller travelled to tory one of the 2 prophets is in the north east of the country officially under a state of siege she met many people taking refuge there. hardly any other region has suffered atrocities by militias especially as close to troop presence we are in the rope with a nerve agent which we're going to see some over a distance of just 60 kilometers we passed through about 20 checkpoints controlled

by various rebel groups as well as the company's army. point it's mostly boys carrying guns their weapons are concealed but the threat is real they ask for money but a few words persuade them to let us pass today. we reached the internally displaced people in truth. it's one of many and idiocracy about 5 and a hole for 1000000 of the country's estimated 105000000 people are displaced more than anywhere else in africa. europe barely managed to escape her village when a militia attacked it she was on the run with the children when she realized her daughter was missing. i decided to go back to find and save her i was convinced she was still alive good but

unfortunately she was already dead and i also said just devastated when i walked past them they shot at me i had no idea if it's a 5 i gradually lost all my strength before i was having difficulty breathing then slipped into some bush and lost all hope i was sure i was going to die he choose the good my they did it. she survived but found her 4 year old daughter and that it. was. wonderfully well. as soon as she was released from hospital she gathered to 5 other children and fled to this canned food water and medical supply but at least they're safe here she says you can imagine. and that was our correspondent mary a lot of reporting from the tory you can find more of our coverage on the web site he's having a dot com coming up next the documentary guardians of

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