very grim picture that the international aid that is actually beginning to come in now is that a pup of all difference that one can feel on the ground. well it is that the bill and the difference is that if you have access to that not generally has sent a huge oxygen generating plant which will be deployed in the coming days if sentience will get medical stopped and been discredited and military and it is capable in its operation on generating 400000 liters of oxygen a day now it's going to be deployed in a military facility in delhi which has opened up to civilian patients because they sit in hospitals just sulu bent and then the patients don't have access to this kind of pacific and this amount of oxygen it will certainly make a huge difference to them ever to speak of oxygen all week we've heard that the supply and supply chains really are the part of the problem with the oxygen is it

getting through. well you didn't like genes i guess is just one part of the problem people are talking of systemic failures but they're also talking about having it all get oxygen supply because oxygen is distributed by the central government of the different states and states like delhi feel this simply not getting enough this didn't need 700 metric tons they're getting about half of that so obviously supply chains are a problem but only part of it and the other issue is. that the amount of oxygen demand has gone up by 7 fold in the last few weeks so even read it was enough oxygen people are struggling you have to remember reports coming out it from hospitals in chennai receptive people died in a hospital bed oxygen ran out you have cities like bangalore where you're sending out s.o.s. messages saying they don't have enough oxygen now that line is john has a high powered meeting and he is calling to deal with and invested some of these issues that they're facing the oxygen supplies. didn't use deliberately for me to

see my reporting there thank you i mean to. a neighboring nepal is also struggling to contain an explosion in cases bhasin short supply and only hard for those tested are positive it's a fear the situation may be as bad if not worse than in india suspended in an attempt to halt the virus. getting out while they still can. these passengers are on the last flights out of kathmandu as nepal suspends international air travel. over you because you just i'm glad that i'm able to leave nepal where the covert 19 situation is getting really bad. like neighboring india nepal is reeling from a deadly 2nd wave of the coronavirus the porous border between the 2 countries has contributed to skyrocketing case numbers. nepal's main towns and cities are in

lockdown the health ministry says the situation is unmanageable doctors and nurses are being pushed to their limits. to date we have not turned anyone away without providing them with oxygen. but the situation is getting complicated. but if you are going to go. our colleagues are working very hard they are on duty for 24 hours we have even been giving oxygen to patients in chairs. nepal has called for international help as case numbers hit record highs the country's neglected health care system is facing collapse. with the lockdown in place many migrant workers have returned from the cities to their homes in rural areas while katmandu is hospitals struggle to save lives fear is growing of outbreaks in the remote regions lacking health care infrastructure. we spoke to us

much love the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies in the hall and he gave us the. and they record has also been supporting the public authority the health authorities in getting vaccinations up people right now the shortage of that scene's this is area that we really need to do more with the international community and with not only in the paul round a well i want to stress the fact that no one if they unless everyone is safe. as models are speaking that germany is difficult about cost to lift intellectual property protections for corona virus vaccines the push by the world trade organization to temporarily suspend patents is gathering pace the u.s. backs the idea of a european union say it's open to discussion bought the german government is so far

siding with the drug makers arguing that protections are essential to maintain expensive innovation. in the global race for corona virus vaccines by antec finds her was 1st out of the gate a proud achievement for buy on tac the german company that went from start up to pharma superstar now in the debate over waiving patents unproven 1916 the german government is siding with drug makers saying the protection of intellectual property is a source of innovation and must remain so in the future the limiting factor in the production of vaccines our production capacities and the high quality standards not the patents. germany says industry and government should work on transferring technology to new manufacturers if they want to scale up vaccine production quickly and in a jab at the biden administration german health minister again sean had this to say the least if the real problem isn't patents but production capacity and

availability then i'd be delighted if the united states is now willing to allow the export of doses manufactured there just like the european union. was indeed and was also an export fights with. the us is just one of the wealthy nations accused of vaccine hoarding extending their immunization programs far beyond their vulnerable populations while poorer nations go without the pharma industry says that problems should be fixed 1st. but it's pictures like these from crisis hit india which have brought the problem of vaccine shortfalls into sharp focus prompting more than $100.00 countries including now the us to support patent waivers as a way to boost global supply for many global health advocates it's the right way forward. companies have earned a tremendous amount in this this year alone on covert back to $7000000000.00 u.s.

dollars for pfizer that seems like more than a sufficient amount to be investing in innovation in the future moreover patent protection didn't deliver the fact that we have no significant government intervention and government investment from across the world has done that for us in india meanwhile the pace of vaccinations has fallen sharply for these people help from the global community can't come soon enough. joining me now is stefan levy he's a member of parliament for the opposition socialist left party mr levy what do you think about the german government's move to refuse. patent wait. i think this is a very very bad decision if you look at our neighbors it's a polish government or it's a french government or it's a secretary general of god health organization or the u.n.

general secretary and when you're with tariffs everyone is supporting this waiver only the german government is on the side of the pharmaceutical industry i don't think that this is a very wise decision. very little immediate impact because of bottlenecks in manufacturing and delivery of vaccines what impact do you think a waiver would actually have. we have seen this this report from a few minutes ago and the engine government was asking begging on the side of south africa for such a way of not all stupid people there and over 100 governments are asking for this waiver i don't think that the german government is much wider if it is only bringing a little bit to help this covert crisis we should do it. trade representative of

the u.s. government catherine tate has said we are in extraordinary circumstances and this needs extraordinary measures we are supporting the u.s. government but our government doesn't the german government said intellectual property is a source of innovation pharma companies that have invested billions into developing these do they have a point. yes but the german public's the german taxpayers have invested a lot in those companies so we have helped them to invent all these very very important vaccines and we don't want to cancel intellectual property rights at all it is just about covert 19 vaccines and i think this would be a very good and very important step but finds is already selling their vaccine cheaper to low income countries on a nonprofit basis don't you think that's enough. i'm on

the side of india of south africa of over 100 countries of important organizations like doctors without borders and so on i think you could wait to see some gifts from companies but you can make decisions too and this is what states are about and this is what sort of all trade organization is about and i i really cannot imagine that the german government would block such such an action if the u.s. government is supporting it stephanie is there a member of the member of parliament for the opposition socialist left party thank you very much. thank you and joining me now for more on this is thomas quinn he's a director general of the p.m.a. that's the global association of pharmaceutical research companies are you opposing this patent waiver and if so why. the baton waver wouldn't really

address the problem because when you look at the images speed from india on a part of which we have just seen we need immediate action and immediate action the best we can do right now is we need more solid ality from the rich countries with the current countries because of the indian emergency situation as supplies from indian manufacturers to curb access to globe resided ality initiative have triggered and we need to act fast what we see it right now is you have the u.s. and some other countries not vaccinating hafer young adults and in africa we have almost nothing therefore we need for major countries europe started debate who wouldn't give you a single edition. because the bottlenecks are different and we are deeply conscious of doing everything we can leaving no stone unturned to expand capacity and by the way to work with the developing country vaccine manufacturers we have 275

partnership deals we have more than 200 technology transfer i've just 10 days ago had a media conference with the leaders of the indian vaccine manufacturers and they said the same sweetie did d. focus on peyton's is basically ill conceived because it wouldn't rest in eat for know how to not screw for erling that those manufacturing pate at the vaccines do have this case sets. pfizer has already sold $3500000000.00 worth of this vaccine and critics are saying. pfizer and other drug makers have made enough already enough sales already through this pandemic would you agree. this is not about you know making money when i look at we have had several of the largest vaccine manufacturers like m. is t.

like sun off e like g s k they don't have a vaccine yet which means you had companies like pfizer bio ent ag succeeding johnson and johnson as for seneca and what they are doing is acting socially responsible they do say these vaccines at not for profit or at full cost or even below cost and to developing countries that's what we need to do they do team up with partners in developing countries we do have a new partnership for example with a company like bear on about this they would not even in the vaccine business dev nih come to help out and that's what's happening we have convened coconino a global vaccine supply chain manufacturing summit where we looked at what are the problems the problems are to try to balance starting by the way we do you know states with the defense production act which kinda sex will ensue from gradients to india to problems of scarcity of raw materials and it's not quite true that you

know to private sectors just benefited from public money when you look at bio integra madell not to with messenger on and they take knowledge this goes back for 2 years and they got a lot of. times going that the director general of the global association of pharmaceutical research companies many thanks. thank you. as a look now at some of the other stories making headlines today in the u.s. state of idaho a 12 year old girl shot and wounded 2 students and a staff member at her school the shooter was designed by a teacher authorities in the town of rigby are investigating how the girl got the gun. beijing has dismissed warnings from u.s. military experts that a chinese space rocket could crash into people or buildings the craft is expected to reenter earth's atmosphere this weekend the long march 5 being the rocket

carried parts of china's space station into orbit you're watching news still to come visit from space a bottle of wine ancient in orbit is up for auction with a price tag that really lives out of this world. but 1st to brazil where at least 25 people have been killed after heavily armed police stormed a poor neighborhood in rio de janeiro police say they followed protocol when targeting a drug trafficking gang but residents and rights activists accuse them of using excessive force united nations is calling for an independent investigations some viewers might find the following pictures unsettling. these people are calling for justice. they used to violence in this community. but rarely have they seen it on this scale. human rights groups accuse the

police of carrying out a massacre here. this trail of blood shows the last efforts one suspect to escape and hide. the police shot him dead in a child's bedroom. although given they didn't give the boy time to say anything my only reaction was to protect my family my 9 year old daughter so everything she will never want to sleep in that room again and that's why our. security forces launched the raid in the early hours. they say the area known as jackson a senior is the home of one of brazil's most dangerous criminal gangs and that they began recruiting children to carry out a violent crime and hijack trains. but critics say the operation appears to violate a ruling by the supreme court last year suspending such raids cheering the pandemic they also accuse police of acting without restraint and carrying out summary

executions. the police deny such claims. i want to make very clear that the police do not act on emotion before any doubts arise to carry out such an operation there is a lot of planning and we follow many protocols. police say they seize hundreds of automatic weapons and drugs and that several suspects are in custody but rights groups accuse police of disproportionately targeting young poor black men. they also say such violence is more likely to escalate tensions than to prevent crime. journeymen heads into an election later this year with the leadership race wide open for the 1st time in nearly 2 years the environmentalist green party is now leading in the polls. 4 points ahead of conservatives the greens recently selected . to run for chancellor in september and she's proving to be

a very popular candidate for. right after the nomination of imo they loved their book as chancellor candidate for the greens polls showed her party in the lead ahead of chancellor angela merkel's conservatives a temporary bump many thought a brief surge on the back of her designation and a difficult few weeks for the ruling conservative bloc but almost 3 weeks later the bear book effect appears to be sticking. the greens are now pulling ahead of the c.d.u. c.s.u. with a 4 percent increase compared to a month ago the conservatives have dropped 4 points and their partner in the current government the social democrats have also lost some support it's not only the green party and the innovative of herself is riding high 28 percent of germans would vote for her if the chancellor could be elected directly a few percentage points above her opponents for the conservatives and all of shows

for the social democrats the rise of the green party goes hand in hand with the drop in the government's approval ratings. a majority of germans now say they are dissatisfied with the work of the government after record approval in 2020 skepticism has grown about the government's crisis management during the 2nd and 3rd waves of the coronavirus pandemic and it shows the election is still more than 4 months away and anything could happen in the race but these numbers show that the greens pose a serious challenge to america's conservatives. headlines around the world today. have staged more marches of young. people's defense force to protect civilians 800 people have been killed in a crackdown since the military. indonesia's mount cinnabon

has erupted again spewing ash nearly 3 kilometers high villages near a volcano have already been evacuated because of the recent activity there are no reports so far of any casualties sports now this weekend sees a major of boxing showdowns. faces billy joe saunders in a super middleweight fight bout in dallas could attract the largest u.s. crowd since the start of the pandemic several world title is up for grabs with as many as $70000.00 fans are looking at britain saunders is undefeated with 30 wins in $35.00 it's. only one loss in his entire career and that was 8 years ago and things did get out of hand as a promotional event for floyd mayweather is upcoming celebrity boxing match with you tube star logan told the brother of mayweather is opponent jake decided to get

involved in some trash talk with the 44 year old former world champion before stealing his cap and running off with a brawl swiftly ensued mayweather says selling a 5 should not mean crossing the line. target beat the greatest history fighter of all time a fight real fighters history fighters so guess what i we're going to fight both and say no. 7 no you and me. now a bottle of wine is said to sell for up to $1000000.00 but of course it's not just any old wine it's. 2000 and that's spent over a year in space to test where the wine ages differently in 0 gravity conditions now it's being auctioned off and a space age bordeaux might well become the most expensive one of a sold. this wine truly is out of this

world station used to man through it recently returned to earth from the international space station where it spent 14 months maturing in orbit you'll be able to tell them apart. but the journey through the stars comes with an astronomical price tag so a petrus 2000 normally will cost around $7000.00 euros. and the estimate for this piece is in the region of $1000000.00 u.s. dollars. tasting was conducted to determine any extraterrestrial tannins. they were. the ones with. very me the difference between the space and earth wind and it wasn't easy to define i'm not sure i got it right if

i'm being honest it was difficult. for the winning bidder will also receive a bottle of the same wine that remained on earth in order to compare the galactic version with the terrestrial that is should they decide to open their one of a kind space age whining. and we stay in space in a way british rock band coldplay the latest single high apart by beaming it up to an audience and space. but tomorrow we send you some music because right now we we are able to play for anybody on earth so we thought we'd just for you. right now everybody go back to your station start i am not a good listener listener is french astronauts thomas parquet on the old international space station. feeds all the moon for all players.

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truth the point is strong a clear position. international perspectives. a number of museums here in germany have large collections of strong women african arts but the government here is now talking about returning at least some of the priceless treasures to africa so why has it taken so long to find out on to the point shortly to the point. where the next minute on the t.w. . in good shape. sometimes it's not easy to

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they are little stars on the big stage. kids' sports may 17th. germany how's it seems accepted that it must return priceless works of art saluted and stolen during colonial times most expect. child killer legal authorities here in berlin have now agreed to hand back to nigeria at least a share of a huge collection of plundered artifacts known as the bennett bronzes it's been called a turning point in germany's approach to its colonial history so on to the point we ask africa's stolen treasures is it time to give them back.

well thanks very much indeed for joining us here on the show and with me in the studio. rule bordeaux from the campaign group burley in postcolonial who says more important than the return of cultural artifacts is the return of the remains of our ancestors also with us is professor bond ventura so jane and dick only here is a cameroon born curator and educator who believes it is no secret that colonialism is in all its forms a crime against humanity. and a warm welcome to the acclaimed and for apologist corona lentz who joins us on the line from mines the western german city she's at the same time president of germany's goods institute and she argues that the long overdue return of artifacts

from the colonial period is also an opportunity for cultural exchange between germany and europe and the countries of origin. of all sort about. her would like to begin with you if i may figure experts say this at least 80 percent of africa's cultural heritage is housed in european museums a lot of it simply gathering dust it seems shocking to me how does it seem to you it is it is also shocking. to me and it leaves me i have been. been an octave is for quite a long time demanded is. and in the long period where you have been one to face what has changed in the battle you have. changed that you 5 and in the last 5 years at least we come in to kind of

negotiating to get but you not to really but what does he early surprised me it is way in your head that jim and has decided to give. the bend the bronze back and was the feeling you had a good here was a possible big leap forward in the making. yes for me i see this is a step. coming to a process of healing because if we heal the wound so which we have and are still it is an aspiration of all the facts to be returned back to africa. is there i thought yes my ancestors

remains which are housed in museums in clinics in you visit is all over here in germany will you be timed back i guess 8 i prayed for that. i see as as touch ok fascinating words thank you very much for sharing that with here and let's go to carol and in minds carla the german foreign minister has come us reflecting what we've just been hearing ses the return of the betting bronzes represents a turning point in germany's approach to its colonial history is he right. i would say it's a culmination of a long process that has been ongoing with lots of actors one important group is exactly people like mr burrel who are in the diaspora and who have been raising their voice and voicing their concerns which is very important for germans to listen to the 2nd group is the museum people of course then scholars and then

finally politicians and i think that now we are. have a sting the fruits of a long process of negotiation but it is also a new paradigm and when you sing along the process of negotiation why has it taken so long. because it has a lot of actors on each side in germany you don't have the central state as the proprietor or owner of the objects but the local buddhist lender and you have even cities who are in charge of museums on the other hand in african countries or in other former colonies too you have various actors at play you have the nigerian central state you have the. nigerian federal states sorry the federal state is the central so don't always get mixed up with the terminology sorry about that and you have the king and now they have formed

a legacy restoration trust which brings all these actors together and that has really given a big push to gether with the so-called 1000000000 dollar league group which comprises people from austria from great britain from germany and other countries from the netherlands and belgium so i think that has taken the time behind the scenes it wasn't so visible perhaps but now it's. i'm very happy that it's a big leap forward so it's out it's your happy home and people are talking a very one of them through our d. kong about a dialogue of equals is that possible a dialogue of equals in this post colonial context. at least we're striving towards that and i think any other thing would be you know problematic we have to speak to each other we have to find common ground and when we find the common ground we have to speak as equals you know we have to dismantle their symmetries that exists to be able to speak as equals you know the power gradients that have been put in place by

the colonial enterprise have to be dismantled and we're all working towards that and i want to say thank you to people on board or and in and all the other activists that have been going on the streets you know for decades you know advocating for the restitution repatriation of some of these so-called objects you know so we have to create possible. coming together. roland rightly mentioned that people have been working in the background with all this different groups but we have to bring this thing to the foreground and i think this is what is happening at the moment you know it's coming to the fore but this is just the beginning it's the beginning of much more the has to be done you know much more have to be sent back much more communication has to be done and insist on the fact that he has to be done on an equivocal we you know the so-called. you know german people people discussing what i need to discuss as equals yes.

i think it is you you are talking about the extent to which progress is or not being made or not being made and how optimistic we can afford to be or not for me it was a fascinating and wonderful moment this morning when i read my daily newspaper here in berlin it had a headline nigeria praises germany. seems to believe that germany is getting something right here. fair enough nigeria should praise germany because something has been done but again that is the beginning and i have to see we owe we have to complicate the conversation a bit more nigeria praising germany doesn't suffice you know we have to speak to some of the people to this. actually belong you know and that is why i want the 2 priests chairman me being you know the king the representative of the people of benin should brace then i know something is going on right i want the people on the

street in been in despite the multiplicity of opinions to acknowledge to see that something is happening and for that to happen they have to be able to go back to the palace of the and see the been in bronze is there. so matthew i'm not sure of nigeria praising germany but perhaps you know as well where do we go next from you know praise is good promises have been made but what happens next was top and the next even i was to myself what it really. does to texted one more year we each i don't understand it but it does the leave that now yeah via praise and jim money for doing that out is just to what i think about. the was a given that as far as i know nigeria was and

a british colony it was not on budget money. andy when they themselves because the objects where looted by british cannot by jim and jim us but from the british 100 now the even them back of course instinct in their 2 way they need a perris but me myself coming from a contrary which was cohen ised by jim once i am wants to know not even a single object has been given back but for jim months anyway or so i praised it easiest. it is this time i need to gives me now enough for room a space to say hey ho so you did. it's back to nigeria what about what about in nigeria what about kameron what you told

all these counties where totally and i j man. there was a short period of german colonial rule but in terrible things happened let's just let's just rewind a little bit just enough to like a short period of calling yes i'm calling on ism is calling out isn't the time you know i think we have to be very precise about this you know the vile it's a violent end of the absolutely ok just a week or so ago where we now know germany actually differently once this is on but yes yeah i am trying to make myself heard i just wanted to support and say i think that we need a multilateral european effort to it's not there useful to play one colonial regime against the other and use that as mutual excuses in the worst case so i think that in all these initiatives of coming together and speaking on equal terms it is important to bring in other colonial powers as well and the

methods may have been different but in the end it compounds itself to one colonial tea in the present and then of course the different european countries. with different perspectives on their colonial past and i think ok germany can be a trendsetter and man some respects but france and britain and portugal etc also have their own ways of doing that with much larger diasporas from their former colonies which changes the terms of debate hugely important points you just be making because for some of our viewers i'd like to just go back to these the agreement that germany has apparently reached now with nigeria to return at least a share of plundered artifacts known as the bend in bronze it is we don't know how many let's find out 1st of all though a little bit more about these works of art before talking about the damage done to africa by european colonialism. to this day bronze sculpture is still produced

in nigeria following accosting method that is over 7 centuries old and new unique in africa at the end of the 19th century the german empire patches for over 1000 of these drawn statues from english colonialists the artworks were plundered by british forces during a raid on a city in present day nigeria many german museums are proud of the stolen goods as these valuable exhibits are even listed as you next day world heritage. decades african art experts and historians have been demanding baby return and arguing that the bronze is a part of nigerian identity. you can look up the soul of a people these athlon logical museums are like prisons. we defend music. now the german government has cleared the way for the return of the bronze is to many this has come as a surprise since at last and that's tonight's what is happening is sensational and

that's 1st when we my girl it's a paradigm shift as a person suddenly returning precious objects to africa is no longer a problem at all. can this be germany's chance to redeem itself from its colonial crimes. that's a big question can this be germany's trance to redeem itself from its crimes or are you i walked i heard a very strong sentence in that report was these ethnological museums like prisons yes i do would prefer to be you know they are like prisons unfortunately but not only of the souls of people but also of your histories and the knowledge of you know it might serve. you know the europeans to have these so-called objects in there but many of them. you know they have

subjectivity and they were meant to be used and you know in performances in rituals you know so taking this depriving people of this is really it's in some way killing them a slow killing a detailed to realize ition of the people so they don't even know that they lost their bearings you know and i think this is a very important thing so we need to freed them from this presence. i'm surprised a little bit about the the mood of optimism at the moment especially among people sort of insiders especially in germany are saying this is a paradigm shift a big move forward but really we're talking about. a certain number of artifacts will be returned by 2022 of the earliest you know. that doesn't sound very fluffy these these figures that are being bandied around it doesn't sound like a real change is.