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you want to know their story in full leverage turn find a marble informant for marc rich. city w. news live from berlin e.u. leaders say the lifting vaccine peyton's won't be a magic bullet in the current of our pandemic they've held a 2nd day of talks and a push in the united states will call creatures that india's prime minister joined up by a video link to go live to talk. to the 1st time indian officials have recorded
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more than 4000 covert 1000 deaths in one day despite aid getting through experts fear that things could get to us will get better. and what goes up must come down time is rocket makes an uncontrolled return to us often launching pontificate spasticity. hello i'm him ahmed you need as have wrapped up a 2 day summit stomach mates by the coven 1000 crisis in india they agreed to restart straight talks with delhi but there are divisions of a u.s. proposal to waste peyton's on current of r s faxing. heads of state and government gathered in spring sunshine in the portuguese city of. uppermost in everyone's minds the relentlessly rising death toll in india the european union tends to be very with
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india at this critical time we always. help make and we are ready to provide for the support e.u. leaders agreed to resume negotiations on a free trade deal with india the talks broke down 8 years ago also dominating proceedings a controversial u.s. proposal to lift patents on covert 19 vaccines india strongly supports the idea as a means of opening up new sources of production but bigger states oppose the plan they want to ramp up their own output instead. i just not believe that giving away patents is the solution to making vaccines available to more people. we need the creativity and innovation of those firms and that is why i believe in
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patent protection. should. some member states also criticize the u.s. and britain for stockpiling vaccines. for liberalizing vaccines other simpler things should be done such as removing the export block that the u.s. and the u.k. continue to maintain bear in mind that the e.u. exports as much vaccine as it gives to its own citizens. as the summit wraps up europe is passing the ball back to the u.s. challenging washington to come up with concrete plans for waiving vaccine patents and to start exporting much needed jobs beyond its own borders. brussels bureau chief alexandra for naaman who is in porto portugal covering the story for us so like sandra what were the key moments at the summit.
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well i think it was very telling that both sides the european union and india praise their summit as a pivotal moment and moment of geo political importance they made clear that they are willing and ready to deepen their partnership and to boost cooperation in many key areas including digitalisation climate change and straight and talking about trade we just heard about the they announced to restart negotiations on a new trade agreement and that is of course very important for the european union they want a better access for tech companies and they wanted tariffs on european products to be reduced but of course we have to add that trade policy will be the true test although whether both sides are really able to improve their relationship very high on the agenda here of course covets 19 and the european union made it
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clear that they are willing to help india but they also stressed that they think that the proposal on vaccine patents was not going to be the silver bullet to improve the situation instead today are arguing that it's more important to increase production of vaccines and they also called on other western nations in particular on the united states to export more of axioms and alexandra how important is this meeting for india. well we have to keep in mind that this meeting came at a very very difficult moment for india as the country is fighting the pandemic as and as a surge in covert 19 infections and that was the reason why prime minister modi was not able to participate in this summit in person he was pushing the european union
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to back his forepaws or to lift intellectual property rights on that scene and he was not successful there but the discussion is still going on and overall when we look at the outcome of this summit in the announcement on trade talks it was successful for prime minister mori especially because he was able to show that the european union is a good strategic partner and that it's important for him in the face of increasingly assertive china in the region right alexandra thank you so much well the meeting in porto came as india reported its highest death toll since the beginning of the pandemic registering more than 4000 deaths from could 19 in just 20. 6 wall the official figures and to count the full extent of the crisis. in some places in india it is hard to believe the country is some crisis in the
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southern city of hit or about muslim celebrating the end of ramadan are out shopping some feeling lax about safety rules. all i'm cool for forcing regular citizens to comply with covert $1000.00 guidelines national leaders and lawmakers need to follow health safety measures them selves then the common people will also follow them agata public shopping going to happen. many mosques remain shut over coronavirus fears despite the weekend's islamic college days and preparations for the i eat festival still others ignored official warnings unless people gather for prayer in large numbers. gatherings like these are driving india's 2nd coronavirus wave it just been much more infectious partly due to new variance of the virus as the number of those testing positive surges so dust the death count relatives are desperate to get help for the infected loved ones in time
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what about it since this morning i've been trying to get an oxygen cylinder for my father and the government says there's no oxygen shortage but look at the number of people waiting here in 2 hours you will see that the 2 or 3 people believe in tears . burial sites ancram atory arms are overwhelmed many are enough for us to bring the bodies to makeshift cremation sites instead. for now india continues to count its losses to depend demick and more fire and smoke. here are some of the stories making headlines around the world at least 4 people have been killed and dozens wounded in multiple explosions near a girls' school in afghanistan's capital kabul the interior ministry says many of the students aged between 11 and 15 no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. pro independence parties have one of majority and scotland's parliamentary
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election so just minister and leader of the scottish national party nicholas sturgeon says there is no democratic justification whatsoever for london to block a new referendum of scotland's independence from the u.k. . and anthropologists have discovered the fossil remains of 9 neanderthal men in the caves near rome italy is culture minister who says the oldest could date back to 100000 years dulls all the closest ancient relatives all humans. now a large chinese rocket is set to plunge back through the earth's atmosphere in the mission that's being closely watched by international experts the $21.00 ton rockets carried the full cost of china's future space station the chinese it government says most of the day pre will burn up on reaction and is very likely to smash into the ground but u.s.
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experts warn that potentially dangerous daybreak could escape incineration and it's impossible to pinpoint where it will land it. well let's talk to jonathan mcdowell an astronomer at the hobbit the sony unsensible astrophysics based in cambridge massachusetts thank you very much indeed sense of being with us here on news some us more about this massive chunk of metal plunging back to earth how big of a concern is this. you know it's a moderate concern individual people shouldn't be panicked because the chance that it's going to hit them is really small but we did see the last 1 time this type of rocket was launched large chunks of metal crashing hundreds of miles an hour into the ivory coast damaging a couple of buildings and really scaring people so. probably because so much of the world is water this will fall in the ocean but there's a significant chance that it won't and so we are tracking this very closely do you
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know where it's heading. so we're starting to get an idea so we built we believe it's going to come down sometime between 23 hours and 9 hours greenwich mean time and that for orbits of the earth's it goes all the way around the earth 4 times during during that time and so we can say some areas now like the western united states or like china in fact are no longer under the potential track of this rocket but there's a lot of other countries that still are so it won't really be until after it crashes that we can really figure out where it came down and you also mentioned previous cases like you said in ivory coast so there have been some like cases where de vry has crossed back to us is there anything that can be done to prevent and the not scale damage in this case not in this case it's too late it's going to come down where it's going to come down it's going to 18000 miles narrow 20000
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kilometers an hour around the earth and it's about 150 kilometers up right now. it's going to burst into flame break apart the debris probably about a ton might survive re-entry and there's really nothing you can do about it all we can do is try and persuade china that before the next launch of this type of rocket they change the design to be more like what other countries do for their big rockets and make sure that this station is not going to orbit. is there a reckon they snow how to mitigate space debris if any. you know there are there's no law right but there are some guidelines that most countries adopt in terms of how long you should let your space debris stay in orbit where it can be but there's no rule right now about not letting big things fall out of orbit and i think there really needs to be there is a liability convention if your rocket falls on me and my country can can get compensation from you but that's as far as it goes right now right that is jonathan
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the dolphin the hobbit the smithsonian sent to full astrophysics thank you very much for the time you're welcome. and when the sega football dortmund beats live 632 loss and 6 title hopes and hands by a new nick the 9th straight title jaden sanchez schooled 2 of dolphins 3 golds he displays some brilliant goal control here and the accuracy to make it so we can also check out how that killed the ball to rafael guerrero then set it back to sun church is still the victory with 3 minutes to go. and as you mentioned by in munich has now won the bundesliga 9th in a row here's a look back it's how they got here. coach andy flick was unable to repeat by a prolific trophy haul from last season and an apparent rift with his superiors likely brought his time at the club to
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a premature end. but on the pitch it was business as usual by and demolished child to 8 no in the opening game of the season. robert even gosh he proved once again his nose for goals he's well on his way to set a new industry go gold record. and get so much about this season was unusual the coronavirus pandemic meant that most games were played without spectators where you just are and there was nothing normal about by and losing $41.00 to hockenheim early in the season the champions responded however in typical fashion by going to 12 games unbeaten and it would be january before the next defeat. but i think their form was never quite as imperious as in the 1st half of the season but they won when it mattered a one no victory at like 6 in the early april all but put an end to the hopes of the closest challenger has just voted to protect even click surprise announcement
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that he would leave didn't dentis players winning mentality of and muncie. again they wrap things up with games to spray out. like it's alfie does in by on and with the position of national coach soon to be vacant could it be. germany. watching news from berlin up next this doctor felt germany's car industry powered by politics. that. you feel worried about the planet. i was lucky on the green fence post and to me it's clear remains true. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation for me to use for the concept.