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this is good of news ally from berlin e.u. leaders say lifting vaccine peyton's won't be a magic bullet in the coronavirus pandemic they've held a 2nd day of talks and are pushing the u.s. for a concrete plan india's prime minister who is facing a domestic crisis to join them via video link. dozens are killed in multiple explosions near a school in the afghan capital most of the victims are you most students aged between 11 and 15 authorities in kabul want the death toll is likely to rise.
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by munich when their 9th straight one does leave the title with 2 weeks to spare the variance celebrated after a crushing blow back on saturday evening. i'm told me a lot of both a warm welcome to you e.u. leaders have wrapped up a 2 day summit dominated by the covert 1000 crisis in india they agreed to restart trade talks with delhi but there were divisions over a u.s. proposal to waive patents on coronavirus facts scenes. heads of state and government gathered in spring sunshine in the portuguese city of port au upper most in everyone's minds the relentlessly rising death toll in india. the european union stones want to be buried with india. we
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always. owned 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 patent protection. should. some member states also criticize the u.s.
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and britain for stockpiling vaccines. for liberalizing vaccines other simpler things should be done such as removing the export blocked at 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 alexandra. was has been following the summit in porto and sent us this update. i think it was very telling that both sides the european union and india praised their summit as a pivotal moment
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a moment of geopolitical importance they showed that they were determined and willing to deepen their partnership and to boost cooperation in many key areas including climate change digitalisation and of course straight the announcement to restart negotiations negotiations on free trade agreement this announcement was very important for the european union of course because they want to have a better access to the market in india and they also would like to see tariffs on european products reduce birds we have to add to that the trade policy will be the true test over whether both sides are really able to improve their relations coming 19 was also on the agenda no doubt about that and the european union made clear that they wanted to help india however they also stressed that they think that india's proposal to lift intellectual property rights on vaccines is not going to
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be the silver bullets to improve the situation on the ground there are saying that instead it is very important to increase vaccine production and they also calling on other nations western nations to export more vaccines. here are some of the stories making headlines around the world. fighting between militants and government troops has resumed in ethiopia's region international food convoys were unable to reach civilians after the military blocked a major road ahead of ethiopia's off a duck's church has accused the government of congo the 6 month conflict. israeli police and palestinians have clashed for a 2nd night in jerusalem a day after violence rocks the mosque compound thousands of muslim worshippers gathered there on saturday for the holiest night of ramadan palestinian medics said
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more than 50 people were injured. crow independence parties have won a majority in scotland's parliamentary election 1st minister and leader of the scottish national party nicholas sturgeon says there is no democratic justify justification whatsoever for london to block a new referendum on scotland's independence from the u.k. . one of the biggest oil pipeline operators in the united states has suspended operations after a cyberattack colonial pipeline which transports oil from the gulf of mexico to the east coast says its network was hit by a run somewhere as one of the biggest digital ransom attacks ever reported. at least 40 people have been killed and many more injured in multiple explosions near a school in kabul it happened in a largely shia muslim neighborhood that has faced attacks by so-called islamic
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state in recent years no group has so far claimed responsibility afghanistan's president is blaming the taliban it's denied the attack instead pointing the finger at eyes militants. just hours before they were school children preparing for the future now they're covered bodies lying on a hospital floor it is a sight that has become all too common in afghanistan. multiple blasts went off outside the. school in western kabul as lessons ended for the day many of the children killed would have been on their way home to break the ramadan fast with their families. i was with my classmates we were leaving school when suddenly an explosion happened my classmate was killed 10 minutes later another explosion and then a 3rd one everyone was screaming and there was blood everywhere i couldn't see
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anything clearly the attack comes just 8 days after a truck bomb at a university entrance south of kabul left $27.00 people dead. remnants of a chinese rocket are expected to make an unexpected and uncontrolled fall in the next ya was. exactly when the pieces will come down but chinese authorities maintain the risk of harm is low. this chinese rocket lifted off last month carrying a core module of china's future space station into orbit it was the 1st of 11 missions needed to complete the project now the $800.00 ton 1st stage of the rocket is falling back to earth expected to make impact sometime this weekend. chinese officials say most of it will burn up in the atmosphere and is very unlikely to put anyone in danger. i think what you
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are as i know this type of rocket has a special technical design and most of its components will be destroyed and disappeared during the reentry process the likelihood of causing harm to aviation or people on the ground is extremely low so the relevant government departments will promptly report the situation to the public. some experts have criticised china saying the rockets reentry is out of control they say potentially dangerous to bree could escape incineration and that it's impossible to say for sure where exactly it will land. it's not uncommon for space craft to fall back to earth sometimes even causing damage but the sheer size of this one is keeping the international space community on alert. for more on this let's talk to keith cowing editor of the space news web site nasa watch the com keith it's good to have you on
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the program nucky tell us more about this massive chunk of metal plunging back to earth and how big a concern this is well right now you should this rocket is unlike united states and russia when you look at your rocket you have the ability for it to come back and crash in a very specific location it just chinese rocket does not and so if i can use my props here it's tumbling it's difficult to predict exactly when it will come in the right you know you can see 2 very professional accurate guesses one shows a coming in over the south pacific and the other shows it coming over there with that wind we're not going to know probably until an hour or so before the actual impact in i i would need to guess where it's going to come in that's the issue you not know we know where it's going to committed civil less than and is it coming in as one piece old do we expect it to fragment. sure it's
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a large woman and it weighs 20 metric tons than a large aluminum cylinder and most of it will burn up in reentry but the large engines at the bottom and some of the internal parts may survive to come in and land and that's what you might want to be worried about except most of the ground that is covering is ocean so the chances of it's going to hit lead or hit anybody where exceptionally small but not 0. have been similar cases where debris crashed back to earth is there anything that can be done where it's a crashed to earth or heaven you know wherever it lands to prevent any large scale damage well normally i get asked you know can you shoot it down in you know the idea is you would you know shoot it and you have hundreds or thousands of pieces all of which are still going to continue hurt somebody so the idea is you know you would rather not have this happen in the 1st place but if you do have a one large item that they break into several smaller pieces is easier to track and prepare for than if you just try and blow it up like you do in the movies. is that
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any regulation on how to navigate space devery and you know prevent. any further you know catastrophe or anything that could could happen that could go wrong well there's there's progress towards the issue space debris which you know when you have something like this break up you get pieces left in orbit and so forth some countries are working towards this standards of practice and behaviors and norms and things like that but again when you have something this big coming in tumbling and so forth you know they're pretty much states that there was really no effort made to prevent this problem and that really needs to be addressed ok cowan from the space news web site nasa watch dot com thank you for giving us that insight pleasure. football by munich abundance league champions for a record 9th time in
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a row the title was confound before they even kicked a ball on saturday as dortmund 2nd placed. on the day it means have wrap things up with 2 games left to play and has given a perfect sendoff to coach to leave the club at the end of the season. and that saw the champions in a relaxed mood again. which spelled bad news for the visitors especially with lethal striker chasing a record of his own. in munich none was the magic number biden's 9th street title was in the bag before kickoff well up front their number 9 robert levin was on a personal quest to break miller's record of 40 league goals in a single season the polish predator scented blood and he punched after just 2 minutes for good $37.00 of the campaign. club but still harbor hopes of european football next season no wonder they were so frustrated when thomas miller's weak
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short squeeze then to kill byron. on 34 minute live in his 2nd a sumptuous volley for goal number 38 then the poll showed his unselfish site to set up kingsley command and by referral going into the break my goal 39 arrived from the sport 66 minutes and even zoos red card couldn't stem the flow of goals. this time it wasn't even dusky. rounded off a humiliating defeat for bloodbath in 86 minutes before the celebrations started it was as much a farewell to fancy flick as it was a championship party the coach signs off in style ending his brief stint in charge with the 7th trophy to his name. you're watching the news from berlin coming up
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