worried. to get even though they're not afraid god let you post safe he will decide i'm not getting back late but we're careful so far so good. only around one in a 100 g. for the beginning stages i think the biggest problem is the march infections are rising sharply one doctor says the situation is much worse than officially admitted . he doesn't want to be identified for fear of reprisals but says egypt needs a strict lockdown he's worried it could become the next india. it's got a lot worse since the start of ramadan i've seen it myself i'm even the expensive private hospitals are full imagine what it's like at state hospitals. but the health minister says everything is under control she blames medical staff

for setting a poor example only around half of egypt's doctors have signed up to be vaccinated . while what the sunset signals the end of the daily fast restaurant manager ha some is hoping the pandemic will soon be over but he's not sure whether he wants to be vaccinated himself. and here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world 15 palestinians were arrested after another night of clashes with police in east jerusalem the rest are not fiction threats against palestinian families un has urged israel to call off the evictions. in the u.s. state of idaho a 12 year old girl shot and wounded 2 students and staff members at a school the shoot was disarmed by a female 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 the chinese space rocket could crash into people or buildings the craft is expected to enter this weekend the long march 5 big rocket carried part of china spy station will go into. germany heads into an election this year with the leadership race wide open for the 1st time in nearly 2 years the environmentalist green party is now leading the polls put them 4 points ahead of conservatives the greens recently selected to run for chancellor in september and so far she's proving to be a very popular and right after the nomination of i know they love 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 then of babcock 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 in lash out 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 well joining me now is our fun holtz's a member of the german parliament for the environmentalist green party mr holt what's behind the greens popularity at the moment the question it begs the question is it just a reflection of voter discontent with the other side of politics in the government well i think it's more than than a discontent for many years i think the greens have kept topics running on the agenda that have now slowly arrived in the middle of the society. it's copies like fried fighting instruments change the global justice issues social justice and especially in this year i think that the pandemic in particular has relentless

really viewed the errors that have occurred in many years of our community over many years and the vote does recognise that germany needs a change so that. back of the century global challenges which are of course the climate crisis go with crisis and on other sustainability goals of the engine. 2030. let's talk a bit about the effect as it's being called here in germany how much of a role how much of a factor has the party's candidate for chancellor and a little bit played in fueling this popularity of the greens. well i think and then in a bad book caps keeping the popularity of green issues alive because she has a very. she's she hasn't she is a good reputation she is she embodies these topics the green issues as she has worked on very different areas in her political career from foreign in

security policy issues to trauma protection and the issue of living conditions of children she knows what she's talking about she's very sympathetic and i think people just like her and if we're to politicize like anadin of all of the people like and then she knows about what she's talking about this is a very good mix of or somebody like her to. chancellor of germany or. you say it works in a 5 naturally but could that backfire this popularity after all that she doesn't have the experience in government when i know about these issues but i don't think that will be a reason government experience doesn't actually mean that you can do better with a lot of people in the world who have government experience but would not come under well so in the end there's a whole team behind an early november of many with experience in government also

but i think most important for her south is that she retains. and with the brawn specialist knowledge and her human nature she's exactly the right person for . elections more than 4 months away and the greens have fallen at the final hurdle before it's a cautionary tale how are you going to keep up the momentum from here and make sure it doesn't happen again. well of course we are happy now. about the good poll numbers we currently have this is primarily a good motivation boost for our many thousands of members for the upcoming election campaign but also we know this is a snapshot of course there is still a long time to go before the election now i think for the coming months it is important that we keep both as excited about change i think that we can vikrant

that they can convey them that we are reliable that it can be great trust in times of change and i think that if they trust our green party concept the end then we can also not only have i poll opinion poll numbers but also in the end at the polling station. on health member of the german parliament for the grains thank you very much thank you to. brazil now where at least 25 people have been killed after a heavily armed police stormed a poor neighborhood in rio de janeiro police say they followed protocol when targeting a drug trafficking gang the residents and rights activist accuse them of using excessive force the united nations is calling for an independent investigation some viewers might find the following pitches i'm settling. 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 of one suspect to escape and hide. the police shot him dead in a child's bedroom. although there were they didn't give the boy time to say anything my only reaction was to protect my family my 9 year old daughter saw everything she will never want to sleep in that room again minutes while. security forces launched the raid in the early hours. they said the area known as jack a senior is the home of one of brazil's most dangerous criminal gangs and that they began recruiting children to carry out violent crime and hijack trains. but critics say the operation appears to violate a ruling by the supreme court last year suspending such raids during the pandemic

they also accused 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 man. they also say such violence is more likely to escalate tensions than to prevent crime. sport now manchester united and villa have punched their tickets to football's europa league final run a big united $32.00 but the english teams win in the 1st leg and they go through on aggregate meanwhile arsenal vs villareal ended scoreless the spanish i advanced

after winning the 1st match and a reminder now of the top stories we're following for you. germany has rejected proposals to remove some protections from wanting vaccines the government says manufacturing capacity is hindering supplied nourse intellectual property rights in the u.s. and the e.u. back towards. you watching david lee news coming up next the state of news asia and paul seems a huge spike in coverage not change cases of crisis in the making that could be even worse than in the neighboring india. and drawn across fields also spreading at mt everest dozens of sick on the safin evacuated from the base camp some of them later tested positive. that and more with melissa chan and news agency shortly in the meantime remembered visit dot com the steps about it any time of the day are also on twitter and instagram and follow us at the news that's it for me from now

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i'm melissa chan thanks for joining us the covert surge in india has spread to nepal it's seen a record number of cases almost double since its previous peak last fall over the past week doctors have reported almost 70000 cases according to the red cross and red crescent 44 percent of covert test conducted are coming back positive and the cases per 100000 people or about the same as india's 2 weeks ago in other words it looks like a repeat of india's disaster and with a weaker health care system than india's and a slower vaccination rate the challenge for nepal will be that much bigger. getting out while they still can. these passengers are on the last flights out of kathmandu as new poll suspends international air travel. over you because you just i'm glad that i'm able to leave nepal where the card 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. in the polls main towns and cities are in lockdown the health ministry says the situation is unmanageable doctors and nurses are being pushed to their limits. today we have not turned anyone away without providing them with oxygen. but the situation is getting complicated. you know oh but you know when they get 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 have the nepal head of delegation at the international federation of red cross and red question societies joining us from the capital kathmandu let's start with kathmandu tell us what's happening there. yeah katmandu is one of the hotbeds for as a 2nd wave of deadly cobra 19 and you also have the other districts along the border with india i just want to say that. in the lock few weeks the number of infections have gone up by 50 times all over 50 times and is still rising if you look at modify the figure that mocks were talking about 100

cases a day in the last few days it was over 700000 or so over 7000. pounds so some daoism from a 100 a day 2 months ago those death rate is 50 over 50 a day and this is sort of unprecedented in the next hour context. obviously you've heard of the very day the very end and this variant is much more contagious much more aggressive and is spreading poor brewarrina spectrum of the population including younger people and you have power. the vaccination rate so far it's the no one percent compared to about $3040.00 plus and many of the richer countries this is a major challenge and you're right i want to actually ask about the vaccines how good is the distribution is there not enough is there a vaccine hesitancy tell me a little bit more. yeah but the 2 little daughters that they have received

have all almost been fully used on the red cross volunteers have been very active in what we call in gauging the community to or will count anything back themes so i think in some way that faith is sort of over with the intervention there and you have a main challenge now is the lack of vaccines and wondering if it isn't as has been coming into the country. so far it's called bashir from india and so you know if i'm from china interesting interesting and in our report just now it also show people especially migrant workers traveling going back home because there is no work in the cities with the lock down but i'm wondering that also means possibly spreading the corner virus to more rule areas isn't that a problem in a challenge. yes there is there is and there but if you look i mean right now the

government not only caught my door and some of the border town the restriction of returning migrants and the red cross is also helping authorities in some of the border areas are you know the advantage measures like sanitization like social the like mask. it's after. yes and you know that not only in their power but in many countries where there are people living below the poverty line challenge between restriction and livelihood is a life and death one. as much last thank you so much for joining us right here. one additional know nepal held large religious festivals this spring something the government did not discourage and the country's leadership including the prime minister has spread misinformation he said at one point that gargling on

wobble leaves can treat cove it no part of the country is immune including mount everest nepal's economy relies on tourism dollars and the government reopened the world's highest peak to international mountaineers earlier this year physically fit climbers have expressed shock they could contract cove it but the coronavirus doesn't discriminate and more than 30 people have had to be evacuated from base camp. this is where the klein starts. it's not unusual for more than a 1000 people to be camped at the foot of the iconic mountain but right now things feel very different. for the group there were other groups having. you know that some time before the climbing of course and then but now i see that many groups are putting in some line to not to cross they said please do not put

a call the night chains tradition last year the pandemic devastated nepal's tourism industry so this year authorities have eased quarantine rules and issued more than $400.00 climbing permits a new record that maybe allowing the virus to spread uncontained on everest to try to stop this climbers are not allowed to socialize before they start their absent and customary religious ceremonies to pray for saith expedition are now smaller more private affairs but the local sherpas guides and cooks who depend on tourism and climbing for their livelihoods are worried. you can see it's in your time and we're working here cities and we're making sure we follow all protocols so that we can save ourselves from cold at 19 and it's only outlaw you could jam. although you

know i try not to mingle we used to have a lot of fun at base camp so we would sing and dance. but we don't have any of that now just we keep to ourselves and speak only within our teams so much additional to stop it with some of the good i got but i just. health professionals at everest base camp say they do not have the capacity to test for the disease dozens of people have been flown off base camp in recent weeks and at least 2 tested positive afterwards yet the government has yet to confirm a single official covert case on everest. we ended this week with a story about a camel named roche on who has a very important job fighting illiteracy in pakistan ro seanna lives in the country's boleh just on region which has the lowest literacy rate in the country at just 40 percent so when schools closed because of the pandemic the camel library

came to the rescue russia and the camel is on an important mission. his slow plodding through this hour a desert terrain is in sharp contrast to how urgently he and his cargo of books are awaited. russia has been a lifeline for children in this district during the pandemic he carries books to 4 different villages making the journey every other day. children can choose the books they like and give them back the next time russia returns. i like picture books because when i look at the pictures and the photographs i can understand the story better. you know the camel library is the brainchild of recchi my jalali a local school principal and of her sister a government minister. could or not when the current virus spread to the entire

region and all the schools were closed there was a real atmosphere of depression old and young alike the region where i live there's no entertainment for the children at school no place to announce the only activity is the children going to school and then coming home again or after the schools have been closed for 8 or 9 months because of coded would you start thinking about what we could do for the children on the year so we could start some sort of activities that would keep them busy and also be of benefit to the giant virtual corps fly them in john. has big ambitions for the project if she can get more funding she'd like to expand its reach from 4 to 40 villages and that's something the russians i know would be very happy about. i used to collect wood and sell us in the market then the camel library project asked me if i'd like to carry books on my camel i was surprised but now i carry these books to 4 villages and the

children love it i'm very happy and so are all the people in the villages so now it's continuing and i'm happily doing it. pakistani schools have sausage reopening but local officials say there are many requests for the common library to continue. that's it for friday you can always check us out on social media and on d.w. dot com for it slash asia we leave you with whatever e.w. news asia team found a bit of levity in a week of intense co big news pictures of a giant squid sculpture that's what one japanese town decided to do with its covert relief money thanks for watching have a good weekend and goodbye. to

. the phone against the corona virus. as the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context. of virus not. on w. . it turns the famous like a bunch of the queen because i want to speak of germany with a mate the last few years have been quite over a day early and. i've heard it a lot higher but when it comes to german beers and of course i always look right in the eyes for a cheer up perhaps the biggest on the new of the blood i'm going to all go for it i love to be in the news there are pros and there are

a pump but when you've been to most of the giving to realize it because of the another way of living are you ready to meet the servant then voted me right just through it. whenever a shipment of biotech pfizer coronavirus vaccine arrives in south africa it makes the headlines. because the country's vaccination program has been struggling because after a late start 1st using astra zeneca job but that was stopped over its ineffectiveness against the variant spreading rapidly in the country. then south africa turned to johnson and johnson's vaccine. that rolled out due to concerns about side effects. with the 2nd wave of infections now behind and life is starting to appear normal in

south africa but it may not stay down where. look into this covered 19 special on rob what's in berlin the coronavirus situation in south africa has relaxed in recent weeks the country is now one of the world's hottest lockdowns 2 worrying waves of new cases behind it the number of new daily infections around 2000 a day just a 10th of what it was in late january the 2nd peak you can see there but the improvement it's a spite a slow start in south africa's vaccination campaign and its battle with a new taters fire variant creech reports. camps bay in cape town concern about the pandemic seems far away here in the last days of summer many people are still socially distancing but the mask mandate is rarely followed to be honest i'm just enjoying the phoenix today and the start of. the law i feel like

the weekend is just 2 minutes. you know i miss the guy. i am happy that i'm free i'm able to come to the beach and have. on a train for quite some time we must the beads you see ring do but i've even seen dog. you seem to like all of a sudden. people couldn't come to the leads. away from the fish enjoying the sea you know. but this is life. life was coming that the normal the economy's been open like in europe we had many of those. and the. humans are going to. be random opposite. and then me anymore and maybe one. more. and you know what that. antibody studies show that almost half of the

population of cape town has already been infected in densely populated townships the rate is even higher the excess death rate suggests that more than $150000.00 people have died of corona virus during the pandemic. virus just involve composite worries that the mutation could be more resistant against vaccines as well as the antibodies people develop after early infections similar to the brazilian mutation time but this hasn't been verified by studies there's still no proof of a higher death rate among the new mutations and there are glimmers of hope. district with in cape town but they were badly fictive during the 1st wave seems to be less badly affected during the 2nd wave and that makes one think of 1st somehow protect if some some like it didn't hold some protective effect even after a picture with the previous tabar is no it came to the very end but would be think

is that if you had in fiction with newberry and virus you would be immune also against any preceding war and that is the good news. highs and his team are already preparing for the 3rd wave and their increasing testing capacities since so many rules aren't being adhered to the number of new infections could start rising again . but we can now speak to cheryl cole. and here is the head of the center for responsive tree disease at south africa's national institute for communicable diseases thank you very much for joining us on the covered 19 special how would you characterize the coronavirus situation in south africa is there a feeling that it's over the worst. so thanks for having me i think you know right now in south africa case numbers are at a relatively low level and they have been reducing since the peak of our 2nd wave around the new year but i think me you know wouldn't characterize it as the. risk

is over and we know from from previous waves you know case that has reached a high levels and then they came down but they sit in the remains am a risk to case numbers may increase again so right now you know except in a small number of provinces case numbers are generally at a low level but that doesn't mean at all that they be complacent will feed the baby society will remain at this level you know you're working on the assumption that there will be a wave or a you i suppose hoping that it can just be avoided. well so i think. you know if we look at or think about the possibility of a 3rd wave we know that we have no experience to large waves in south africa but there have been a number of studies looking at population immunity a proportion of people that have been infected in the country and while some areas of the country immunity levels appear to be fairly high even as high as 60 percent

the scenes i mean in the areas of the western cape we we we know there's been in teens transmission other areas have much lower levels of people that have been affected just sitting around 3030 percent so so based on that i mean it would appear to be lackey that there will be a 3rd wave. and and you know that also taking into account the fact that restrictions have relaxed substantially since the peak of the wave mostly around trying to get the economy going and generate economic activity so i think most experts would agree that it is likely that it will be another wave inside africa as opposed to difficulty steps to to predict the timing and the magnitude of where one of the things i suppose you're hoping is have that wave off with facts and nations but the vaccination program isn't going as well as you might have hoped . so i think pixelation got off to

a slower start then was hoped largely related to concerns about about the new period which which did emerge in south africa really around the time of their running out of the vaccination program so to happen till now at about 350000 health care workers have been vaccinated through a program. really focusing on health care workers out of about 21500000 potentially eligible health care workers but i think south africa is planning over the next few weeks in fact to move into a match more x. kale intensive vaccination program the plan and number of several 1000000 doses are expected to arrive in the country over the next few manned. their target group is expanding within the next 3 weeks to include individuals over the age of 60 with a plant you can really decrease that age been quite rapidly over the subsequent months i'm certain there is a planted need to abscond explanation rapidly and eventual target is really to get

to about 2 thirds of the population vaccinated towards the end of this year in 2 into next year but you know he had restrictions song for example of the use of the astra zeneca vaccine and also there was a pause at the johnson and johnson baxi as south africa tied its own hands by making these restrictions. well i think i mean i think the 2 issues are different i think the johnson and johnson was a pause with regard to safety concerns and i think that you know that's quite a normal thing in media other countries in europe and other parts of the world also instituted a pause in response to the safety concerns until we got information that there confirmed that the vaccine was safe yes that may have had a negative impact on the existence of the vaccine but you know i think that again may have been experiencing in other parts of the world with regard to astra zeneca

and i think it was it is a complex decision and you know i think if you are but i wouldn't say we've tied our hands i think now the government has really secured. you know supply of a number of other vaccine products which are suppose coming into the country over the next few weeks. thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us cheryl cohen from south africa's national institute for communicable diseases. now it's time to answer more of your questions about science correspondent derek williams. is there any conclusive evidence for avoiding alcohol before or after receiving a covert 1000 vaccine. asking for conclusive evidence for anything in this pandemic is setting the bar pretty high which is why most of the commentary that i read on this topic has has been pretty head and and i couldn't find any really clear directives issued by trustworthy health care bodies like the c.d.c.

or the w.h.o. saying you should stop drinking completely before or between vaccine shots maybe it's best therefore to start by looking at the conclusive evidence that we do have we know alcohol abuse is bad for your house pretty much everyone agrees on that and there are convincing studies out there showing that one of the things regular heavy alcohol consumption impacts negatively is immune system response there are other studies however showing that light or moderate drinking doesn't have the same impact and even some indicating it might actually bolster your immune response so so most medical professionals appear to be adopting a kind of middle of the road approach to this question and saying hey it's fine to have a celebratory beer or

a glass of champagne after you've been vaccinated but adding that it's never a good idea to overindulge particularly after receiving a vaccination after all aside from the potential direct health considerations of that having a hangover would almost certainly make any potential vaccine side effects even less pleasant to deal with. eric williams that and before we go a reminder that nowhere is safe from covered 90 not even the highest place on earth more than 30 climbers have just been evacuated from the foot of mount everest after taking over from coronavirus. suffers a 2nd wave of infections the country's tourism sector depends on the thousands of people who come every year to climb the world's tallest mountain it's now trying to recover from a total shutdown of the himalayan summits last year. that's all from this data you

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