social promised to be filled with life the fear distribution of vaccines is a big part of the outlook for a post pandemic world now but the bite of a waving patients because it's not in jabs is of a shadowing some topics at the e.u. social summit the world trade organization supports the idea along with the u.s. and several other countries but germany has voiced caution saying it's not the best way to ensure vaccine equity and the protection of intellectual property is vital for. in the global race for corona virus vaccines by antec pfizer was 1st out of the gate a proud a chief meant for by on tac the german company that went from start up to pharma superstar now in the debate over waiving patents on covert 1000 vaccines 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 spun had this to say the least if the real problem it 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 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 problem should be fixed 1st. world we need to do is tackled the real problems such

as caller id range comes face to share those is within the next few days or weeks not in 45 months of to be vaccinated everybody in our countries we need to look at the trait barriers we are which are hindering the ramping up of supplies and we need to improve the efficiency because there are scarcity and bottlenecks in supply chains the patent wouldn't give you a single dose small but for many global health advocates removing patent protections is the right way forward companies have earned a tremendous amount in this this year alone on covert back $7000000000.00 us 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 now significant government intervention and government investment from across the world has done that for us. the discussion about patent waivers is only just getting started and it could take

months whatever's decided it wanted dress the immediate issue. of making more shots to end the pandemic. brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena is in porto for the summit alexander welcome joe biden has backed away before vaccine peyton's is that one powerful voice and not to make it to the top of the agenda among european leaders. well yes indeed this indeed to this issue is very high on the agenda here and this must be a bit disappointing for the portuguese government that organized this summit to talk about social issues and social problems and the european union. the e.u. leaders are definitely going to talk about a potential covets they've seen patent waiver and this is also understandable because the you asked and now it's been has definitely put a lot of pressure on the european union and the e.u.

leaders to find a common position. germany's position is that it wants to protect the intellectual property of drug companies what's the position of the other e.u. states. well we have seen a couple of very positive responses the dutch trade minister for example said that this is a good idea to waive intellectual property rights on vaccines we heard from the foreign minister saying that there must be an equal access to patents and the french president. told reporters here in porto that he is open to discussing that idea however earlier he also stressed that the bottlenecks are not patents or prices but the production capacities and vaccine exports and this is seeing this seems to be a position that many other governments in the european union assure that there was

a letter sent by the french spanish and swedish governments and the belgian government saying that they are very willing to share knowledge and technology proactively with auburn nations so that didn't sound like they would be willing to really give up the patents beyond the hot topic of patents it's being called the social summit what makes this different from previous e.u. summits. both front and center of this meeting was the idea to really talk about taking more action to tackle social problems in the european union especially when we think about the economic fallout of the pandemic and the european union has been criticized for example by the united nations that they are not doing enough to to salsa economic and social problems in the block. and says that more than 20000000 workers at the european union are at risk of

poverty due to a precarious work contract that was the main topic of this meeting here in porto however and overshadowed by the discussion about it. still call that a vaccine patent waiver. alexander phenomena import of many things. to india now where the coveted 19 caseload continues to rise at a record pace on friday alone the country reported of 840-0000 new infections and nearly 4000 deaths actual numbers a feared to be much higher still international aid is starting to trickle in but for many in a country ravaged by the pandemic that helping hand comes to light. this is the bitter reality of india's coded emergency nearly a quarter of a 1000000 lives lost as the bodies mount the crim atory a struggle to cope. and there's no end in sight to this crisis.

hospitals to a buckling under the pressure. there's a lack of beds and a lack of staff but the one crucial thing that has made this 2nd wave different and more devastating than lashes emergency. is a lack of oxygen. for the completeness of. those. more than for people and also. the recording of. these people could have a greater chance of surviving the crisis there in the queue to be vaccinated but the roll in slow jams are in short supply. international aid has begun pouring into india. supplies of medical equipment are now arriving from all over as

other countries wake up to the scale of the tragedy and the threat posed to their own populations. but the aid cannot arrive quick enough to slow down the dying. families are helpless as their loved ones succumb to what researches say is a far more infectious strain of the virus. but there is anger too. with some asking why the government has decided to allow election rallies and other large events. call it the system or government or whatever was it necessary to conduct elections right now not. for this family and countless others that question comes too late. or we can bring in. what's the situation. well at the new some extent the numbers speak for themselves

and now that you should recognize new infections now obviously their bias is on the rampage across the country in some areas though this some signs of improvement daily for example so it's like dropping numbers in the past 24 hours and also gone by there seem to be signs of improvement there these 2 cities were the hardest hit but the iris has spiked in other parts of the country in states in the south and in the east and we heard in your reported by election rallies in tract some of the states the elections legalese and you have seen a huge surge the most worrying at the moment is actually news coming out of rural areas for example in the incident put at the least people say the situation there is dire and infections are really going up and right away here that international aid is arriving is making a difference on the ground or if it's reaching the people who need it yes it's making a difference jenny for example sent

a huge consignment yesterday and today and yes that is my oxygen generation and this is going to be assembled and become operational in the next few days 18 was going along with the understandability which was set up this. plant as well as trying to keep it going to use it and that capacity it has anthony is it can generate 100000 liters of oxygen a day people who have access to that kind of oxygen in the medical facility which is being deployed on the outskirts of delhi it's a huge. outside of those particular examples what's the latest on oxygen supplies across the country are there any signs of relief and is it reaching those who need it. i mean this is still a big oxygen crunch in the country and if you also think about the scale of this and i think needful oxygen has gone up sevenfold in the last few weeks so there wasn't like david suggested you know getting enough they want 700 metric tons they

have missed and he was carried out for example it had all students someplace and now it's troubling people in stories and largest all city of chennai inch in southern india where people are just like hospitals are not just run out and bang and all of that lou is the latest hot spot where we're getting distress calls but you know how oxygen isn't very sure that like the prime minister has a meeting with his ministers and he's hoping that's all of these thoughts as to any problems and some of them what we need to all get the supplies of oxygen up jack to . delhi bureau chief emory to cima many thanks and here now are some of the other developments in the pandemic germany's health minister says new covenanting cases are falling but wants of weeks or months of restrictions to come u.k. officials have said the people under 40 should be offered an alternative to the astra zeneca job due to the risk of blood clots and new york city wants to offer

vaccines to tourists jabs would be given out of times square and other attractions . or thirty's and egypt are worried that the ramadan fasting month could accelerate the 3rd wave of corona virus infections the government is ramping up counter measures but it's not only social gatherings causing concern there there's also a growing vaccine skepticism. evening means customers can break their fast and order food at how some one off his restaurant in cairo. he's delighted to see them and glad to be able to open during the 3rd wave of the pandemic. it would be terrible if we had to close again i would have to stay at home and would not be able to feed my family this is the only job i know how to do it. if you out on the street wear face masks doctors have been warning for weeks that socializing during ramadan could act as

a super spreader but most people are not worried. if you get it we're not afraid god let us safe he will decide. we're not getting vaccinated but we're careful so far so good. only around one in a 100 gyptian have been vaccinated so far many are reluctant because they don't trust the vaccines even though there are plenty available. the biggest issue i think when it comes to the rollout of the vaccine isn't actually supply i think that there is quite a large supply at least for the beginning stages i think the biggest problem is the market 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 and he's worried it could become the next india. because it's got a lot worse since the start of ramadan i've seen it myself even the expensive private hospitals are full imagine what it's like at state hospitals here. 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 . the big one what then 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. ok 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 unrest broke out of an eviction threat against palestinian families the u.n. has urged israel to call off the of fiction. in the u.s. state of idaho a 12 year old girl shot and wounded 2 students and a staff member at his school the shooter was disarmed by a female teacher with artie's 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 ring into earth's atmosphere this weekend along much 5 b. rocket carried part of china's space station into orbit. or germany heads into an election later this year with the latest ship race wide open for the 1st time in nearly 2 years the environmentalist green party is now leading the polls surveys put them 4 points ahead of under the medicals conservatives the greens recently selected and only in

a big block to run for chancellor in september and so far she is proving to be a very popular candidate. right after the nomination of a no 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 enough they have 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 joining me now is our own holt's he's a member of the german parliament for the environmentalists scream party mr holt what's behind the greens popularity at the moment the big question is it just a reflection of voter discontent with the other side of politics in the government . i think it's more than than it is for many years

i think the greens have toppings running. arrived in the middle of the society. it's topics like fried fighting instruments change the global justice issue of social justice and especially this year i think that the pandemic in particular has relentlessly viewed the errors that have occurred in many years of our community over many years and the vote does recognize that germany needs to change so that we can talk of the century global challenges which are of course the climate crisis the global had crisis and on other sustainability goals of the u.n. john un general 2030 let's talk a bit about the effect as it's been called here in germany how much of a role how much of a factor has the party's candidate for chancellor and a little babcock 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 a 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 insecurity policy issues to climate protection and the issue of living conditions of certain she knows what she's talking about she's very sympathetic and i think people just like her and if the politicized like and enough 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. well 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 we've got a lot of people in the world who have government experience but who do not come under him 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 the agenda setting and with the brawn specialist knowledge and her human nature she's exactly the right person for. elections up 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 when 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 focused excited about change i think that we can viken that they can convey them that we are reliable that you can be great trust in times of change and i think that if they trust our green party concepts the end then we can also not only have i poll opinion poll numbers but also in the end the polling station. on health member of the german parliament for the grains thank you very much. well to brazil now we're at least 25 people have been killed after a heavily armed police stormed a poor neighborhood in rio de janeiro place said they followed protocol when targeting a drug trafficking gang residents and rights activists accuse them of using

excessive force the united nations is calling for an independent investigation a warning before it played the piece that 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 of 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 while. the security forces launched the

raid in the early hours. they said 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 during 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. from sport is now in manchester united villareal have punched their tickets to football's europa league final. but united 32 but the english teams win in the 1st leg means they go through on aggregate arsenal versus very very are ended scoreless the spanish side advance after winning the 1st match. you're watching the deadly news on that anyhow and i'll be back in berlin here at the desk with more news at the top of the.

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