short run however recall upon all vaccine producing countries to allow exports and to avoid measures that disrupt supply chains the patent waivers are not expected to come quickly u.s. trade representative say negotiations at the w t o could take some time let's get all of this from leaders go got matters in brussels welcome again even if you commission president are sort of on the alliance says the commission is willing to consider this idea of waving peyton's this is not a huge decision is it. exactly it's not an e.u. decision but look she will she will need consent from member states but look i what i would say is here we're facing a different situation and in fact another problem when it comes to sharing vaccines europe has been the continent that was most willing to share of x.-men this hasn't

been an export ban millions of doses went out while the own population was waiting for vaccines and still is waiting for a vaccine so that's not really the problem to have member states on one page here the problem is more a practical one let's say for instance germany would publish the recipe for a j. great german lager which by the way is compared to the complex production of a biotech pfizer vaccine a piece of cake that would require special staff coming for instance to countries like india train the personnel on the ground and that is why the e.u. says and by member states say we need to think about a way how we can do that how this stuff is being paid it is really you need a big concept of for that and you will need special licenses and that is why the e.u. has been for a while now looking at special licenses what is good now about this approach from the u.s. is that the pressure increases to actually come up with a solution that is practical terms will deliver more vaccines but as early as maybe the end of the year or next or the next year we'll go about this in brussels thank

you with infection rates falling and vaccination numbers now rising germany is easing restrictions on people who've been fully inoculated parliament has approved a proposal to grant more freedoms to people who've been vaccinated a gates coronavirus or who have be covered from infection meeting people outside or going to the headdress that without restrictive measures could be possible as soon as next week the government says the changes are not about granting privileges but about reinstating constitutional rights germans themselves however decided on this issue. a month off if you can create too much disparity within the population but at the same time you have to make sure that you somehow find a balanced solution. and. in the process i'm in favor of giving freedom back to those who are no longer pose a risk but it would mean that people who don't get vaccinated for whatever reason

are 2nd class citizens so i'm all for it but it's an injustice towards some people but. i'm not ok with the fact that the non vaccinated also have to reckon with considerable disadvantage as we can all know so is this the right way to go well andrew a woman as a doctor and a member of the german parliament with the opposition f.t.p. welcome to d.w. so your party criticised the government's most recent pandemic restrictions but abstained from today's vote why well basically we were opposing the law that was passed just 2 weeks ago in the german parliament stating . restricting the basic or fundamental rights that we have are our constitution including those who are backs in need or just recently recovered from qubit 19 which really doesn't make sense it is important to know that a state or country has to really well explain why they're keeping fundamental

rights back and to do the coalition seized a little bit back to back on their law that they passed just 2 weeks ago and we abstain from the vote because it didn't go far enough for our opinion because we still have a curfew going on at night which really doesn't make sense that those who are vaccinated cannot leave their homes so do you want that clear what you do want do you want all restrictions lifted for everyone who has been vaccinated or what. well basically if you hold up or get rid of all those restrictions it is hard to differentiate for between those who got vaccinated or not but we're asking for is that those people that were bax need or just recovered from infection do not have the same requirements for being tested they go into shops opening

restaurants and the outside as well as the inside if they are fully vaccinated because they do not oppose threat to citizens in our society so that is one our one way to look at it but of course our party is not seeing that pandemic is over we're not seeing the up and up is not thing i thought from danger it is a dangerous pandemic and a very dangerous disease of course that we still have to keep our discipline and keep our masks and to those people who say that the situation that they would like to see discriminates against people who for no reason and half not yet being vaccinated what do you say to them. well i think we are on the best pace to get everybody backs and i'm not fully vaccinated either yet so i have to comply with those laws. and so do many millions of people in germany as well however we have to see what rules are out there what are the

restrictions that are put up there and what is not really clear why do we forbidden our country restaurants to open the outside and keep people on their distances because on the outside you hardly have any arrows all development that could we could contract the virus and you can i just and i also how i understand the drug you know your obsessions i just i'm just i mean obviously this is a complicated issue but just for the point i just wanted to be to be clear you seem to be saying that as far as the people who have been inoculated or who have recovered from the from infection you would like to see old restrictions on them lifted and for the rest of us who have not that's just tough well not quite the have to keep all those easier rules like wearing masks keeping your distance and follow the hygiene rules that is going to stay in place that is important but they do not have to get tested on a regular basis and again how do you keep them away from stores again the important

part is they do not pose a risk for other people and then again those hygiene rules mask distance. that is easy to keep it's not a fundamental right that is endangered if you follow those rules understood dr thank you so much for joining us and explaining about just ducked under well only from the german parliament the half the pay thank you very much and it's not easy always to explain. let's take a look at some stories making headlines around the world the international criminal court has sentenced a former ugandan child soldier who became a rebel commander to prison for group crimes dominick on one was given 25 years behind bars for charges including murder rape forced pregnancy and using child soldiers when he was the leader of the lord's resistance army. have been fresh clashes between police and protesters in the colombian capital bug this is the

latest violence in days of protests against economic inequality and police brutality at least 24 people have been killed in unrest this week. german chancellor angela merkel is one of those speaking at a virtual global climate summit the peace is bad dialogue is being co-hosted this year by the united kingdom and is focusing on gaining greater commitments to curbing greenhouse gases. britain and france have sent navy and coastal patrol ships to waters near the island of jersey in the english channel this after about 50 french fishing boats a sail to jersey to blockade the island's main harbor francaise the new brags post rules unfairly restrict the ability of french vessels to work in u.k. waters. french fishermen and women pour into st tele air harbor blocking any large ship from leaving their angry the island of jersey is

a self-governing british crime dependency and has become the epicenter for the disagreement over prospects at fishing rights the island is closer to france than it is to u.k. and many french boats used to fish in the surrounding waters. you know who will be going through whether to we come today because we have always fished in these waters we've always fished here and then over night they take away all our fishing rights. these are agreements we've had for a very long time. but now they must apply for a pair met from the jersey government they say the process is unfairly restricting . the guard who are not happy with the licensing restrictions they handed out to us we should have had licenses to fish as we wished without any restrictions on the species. u.k. authorities have pushed back claiming that they have done all they can to

accommodate french concerns as you've already licensed so before you vessels great price. they will be clear that there's no process to relating so you know so. for the days or so i think it's fair isle except also maybe they saw. both countries sent navy vessels to monitor the situation tensions over fishing rights have been simmering for days after their requirements for a fishing license were published last week france even went as far as threatening to cut off jessie's electricity. officials from jazzy met with some of those blocking the port but the 2 sides failed to reach an agreement. french boats have now agreed to leave. now to scotland where voters going to the polls today in an election that could decide the fate of the scottish independence movement scotland has been part of the united kingdom since $1707.00 but many scots say they feel

poorly represented by british decision makers in a referendum on independence in 201455 percent of voters favor spain in the u.k. but 2 years later a firm which r.t. opposed to leaving the european union 1st minister nicolas sturgeon says a fresh majority for her scottish national party would be a mandate to pursue a 2nd independence and drive the doctor's birkett mass went to scotland to hear from people on both sides of the argument. how we need is a 2nd generation kill to make it during the last referendum he voted for scottish independence his stance is still basically supports i feel scottish 1st scottish society is different we have our own culture and music language history or but since the op he gave us of bragg's it and the corona pandemic he believes it's become a risky proposition i only want an independent scotland that is good for scotland

and the scottish people and it feels too much for the party rivalry as opposed to thinking on a business level of how is actually going to work scottish nationalists are trying to convince their compatriots that now is the perfect time for a new beginning they're promising a modern and liberal scotland that could become a member of the european union and lisa marie hughes and michelle campbell a scottish nationalist candidates in glasgow but you know scotland resource on top when i'm to st rush nation we are i mean it's almost entirely polled by electricity but it's generated ecologically much better fashion you know we are looking our own future for what is best for scotland and being part of projects that platinum versailles be in and dependent scotland and europe as no contest. breck's it has

been a boon for nationalists but the path to independence is spain no means a sure thing scotland was taken out of the e.u. against its will and support for the e.u. still remains strong up here but that does not automatically translate into an overwhelming backing of independence. cattle farmer john elliott voted against brags that in the referendum he self evident angus t. is in the e.u. but he believes the union with england is more important. from his farm he can see the chav yet hills straddling the england scotland borders beautiful work on shopping everyone is always going back and forth if there were any trade barriers are very very difficult in this area because at the moment a lot of the communities are integrated between england scotland and the scenery and i think that's. a shame of those any sort of barrier scotland is very dependent on its trade ties with england the nationalists are set on seeing that change post

brags it scotland has become a nation in search of a new identity. sustainably news has still to come another time most seniors in the dritte have got their vaccines that they're getting out and about and the 1st visit to enjoy some 12 love stops. or so the democratic republic of congo seeing a surge in violence over recent weeks attacks by militants and into community conflict has forced a millions of people to flee their homes the un says the fighting is making it difficult to reach people in many areas the w correspondent mary on board travel to tory one of 2 provinces in the north east of the country officially under a state of siege. hardly any other region has suffered atrocities by militias especially as come closer to a province we are on the road with a nerve agent aid organization over

a distance of just 60 kilometers we passed through about 20 checkpoints controlled by various rebel groups as well as the congolese army. a militia checkpoint 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 camp for internally displaced people intro drill it's one of many in the d.r. see about 5 in the whole of 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 realised her daughter was missing. i decided to

go back to find and save her i was convinced she was still alive but unfortunately she was already dead i also said just devastated when i walked past them they shot at me i had no idea and survive i gradually lost all my strength will be i was having difficulty breathing then i slipped into some bush i lost all hope i was sure i was going to die he was the you i'm up on get my they did it. she survived but found her 4 year old daughter that. was was wonderfully well. as soon as she was released from hospital she gather to 5 other children and fled to this camp food water and medical care on short supply but at least they're safe here she says you can. reporting from the turin you can find more of our coverage from the region on our

website and stay w a dot com and let me take you back to our top story u.s. president joe biden taking up the call for patent rights on coronavirus vaccines to be waived after previously resisting efforts by the world trade organization to temporarily suspend intellectual property protections on these substances the u.s. now says extraordinary measures are needed to end the pandemic let's get reaction to this from a radio going who's head of the office of a covert facility whose aim is the equitable distribution of vaccines around the world welcome to the w. you must be very pleased about this development. and yet you welcome the decision that the united states government and yours are all but mechanisms also books or increased global equitable access 99 innings this is quite a significant. move but it's also to your ministrations commitment on many

other things that you are a leader on increasing the raw material production that is going to have an immediate impact on getting more current 1000 back east india and brazil have been lobbying for these changes for some time why do you think the u.s. has just got on board now. i think it's important that we think about the fact that we're a long way from have nots in equity at the moment and until more toasters start arriving in lower and middle income economies thereby that we have today in terms of global act i think that it's only going to widen and i think that's not news of course for those who are not being able to have access i think but it's also not good news for those who have access but you will see that the virus will continue to rage and you take. anything that can be done to make sure that we have

a truly local. solution to come in 1900 i think is very well well give us an idea of how this might work said let's say hypothetically this was approved tomorrow how long before i mean fact it is felt in areas that don't have vaccines at the moment. so i'm not going to be the one to comment on the mechanics but when we think about what we have ahead of us right now what we need is urgency for doses and to get to lower income countries and actually that's thing that can be done in the short term is to have access there is donated from the countries who have excess supply through to to lower income economies through because that solidity and then other mechanisms like technology transfer like having access not only to intellectual property but also to know how will be i'm

porton elements in terms of increasing the supply available globally so just just so we're clear if this change happened now about wouldn't solve the immediate problems faced by those countries who are dependent on kovacs for the vaccines. there are a couple things that can have an immediate impact the 1st and foremost. us ministration has committed is increasing access to the production of the raw materials that. are important for everyone to act that and then alongside other mechanisms like intellectual property like the production the transfer of know how our whole building blocks that will come and important for increasing access over time on talk of the fact of joining us already are going to come back to 70

intraday thank you. meanwhile spain has administered millions of vaccines and a painter verified the pandemic with a focus on teaching priority groups like the frontline health care workers and senior citizens now elderly residents are finally have a chance to get some outdoor activity after being stuck indoors. it's an outing this group of elderly residents in spain could have only dreamed of after months of living in isolation and cooped up in a nursing home it's finally become a reality around 50 residents and stuff from the cause of their day care home a newly vaccinated. and now they embark on a journey of fresh air and the wonders of madrid's 0 inhabitants. spain's 1st wave of the current virus pandemic told through the country's care homes killing nearly $43000.00 people last year many of the residents faced tough restrictions on movement and visiting rights authorities have since launched

a nationwide campaign to inoculate all frontline workers and the elderly. point is a little it's good to leave to break the monotony of the nursing home especially as we've been confined there for so long it's nice to get outside so i decided to go out and see the world. first stop on next question is meeting beings ing the giant panda as he waits for lunch. in the next step flamingos gathering in their dozens. and an elephant getting his daily wash. for residents and stuff the outing was a delightful change to what had long been the new normal only to see or. whatever.

i feel as if i was in my village many years ago in the middle of nature listening to the birds which i haven't heard for a long time so for me it's a great day. i'm a bit tired but it's compensated by the pleasure of seeing and hearing what's around us. yeah i know you're doing a i did a lot i let it out on the other day was a very exciting day they were really looking forward to coming out again to getting back to normality it much of being able to do this activity in the open and enjoying nature the animals at the zoo it's really good today we had forgotten about paying us i mean baby and i know you know so much will be all that is a lot of us. as spain looks to relax it's locked down knows some of the most vulnerable when it's taking back their freedom and look forward to venturing out another day. as do we all updates a lot more world news at the top of the hour up next on the

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