to worry to the host of the on the green fence remains to change. join makes perfect sense of the green transformations. for me to use a d w a show coming up today. the hidden impact of india 2nd go of a wave. it travels to india rural areas to see how india coughing with a flood of new infections, mostly without medical help in love, but unable to marry. why in modern the japan same sex couples still can't legally tie the knot? ah,

i'm british manager, welcome to w news, a show. glad you could join us. now images such as these behind me that have come to define india. second wave of corona, virus infections do not adequately capture its devastation. that's because most of these images are from india cities, places with at least medical facilities. but hayden, from new indian villages, where medical facilities either don't exist at all or only name. just as an example in the us, most popular states will tell, has only one dr. barton 19000 people feed up corresponding michelle just for travel to a village in the state, not too far from delhi to assess the impact of india. the 2nd wave of cov, it infections, it has been an exhausting month. yet. your hon. 4 week, his son has been, was jacked by fever and trouble breathing. joe hon, who reads a scatter for

a living, finally arranged a guard to take his son to the hospital in the city, has been tested positive for the corona virus. 40 years later he was discharged. not because he was feeling better, but because they had already jacked up a bill of about 1500 years ago had seen a d. d. b joe own 5 your of the day when he can find work or you didn't improve at all at the hospital, but somehow it, he's an oxygen cylinder at home with great difficulty. i had to borrow money from several people. we didn't have a roofing for your child, you do anything. the family of 30 lives cramped together in close quarters be have been lucky that no one else will speak and beautifully in. and even luckier to get a diagnosis. many a falling stick in this village, which lived a 100 kilometers east of the national capital. but there is no gesture that no

government has facilities in this village. small private clinic like this is one of the only stop gap and i feel that hundreds of complaints of people in the last month alone. they do not have the provision to treat the kiddo and about it. and ref, a patients to the city. but treatment that is expensive and given the call a few, it is very difficult to even travel them. so nice komatt has a guard and good for treatment for his father and siblings. he even of these beds to contact, he lost all 3 of them last week. the doctors asked the family to arrange medicine, but there was sold count, defeat bottles in the oval vend hospital, charged twice as much but recounting the horrors of what he saw. modest, sceptical about the number of that's been reported in the state. i kept getting calls from the authorities for 3 days after my father's death, asking after his head. i told them he'd boss to be. i don't even know if his dad

was counted in the i thought it body's getting out of the hospital, but my father died for my son without diagnosis. fever that's on the right. jemine's o'hana, a social worker described what has been happening 1st. they haven't fever, then they feel better. many eventually die at home. and this how someone died in that house too. so hon says there are 50 fest graves in this cemetery alone rested in k through the b was started spiking after values were held here for local elections last month. and i got your hon. thought of making a list of debts in the village because of debt for most, it's feeble and breathless. almost none of these have been recorded at corona virus, that was a bullying the day. people are dying and nobody has me just now. you haven't been told anything about the vaccine. nobody here has gotten, no doctor,

have visited for the last till this village has been relatively untouched by the pandemic. no, just since identified the field that are recorded cases flagged in open in the group wirelessly. continue to rec, and inhabit and you can get regular updates on the quote on about a situation in india on our website, the w dot com, the world in japan, same sex couples finding more acceptance but not yet. equality for years depends government has consistently denied same sex couples. the right to get married. activists want a symbolic between march, when a court in the city or support or declared the ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional. the ruling has no immediate effect. as the law remains the same, and though many same sex couples long for a legal union, some have decided they just can't wait to wed. for momo

and nana. it's a joyous day. each detail has to be just right for the ceremony celebrating their union started in just a while. so i'm excited. i'm glad that mamma gets to see me this way. we got so excited that i almost had to cry earlier with the condo step, then maybe the most the day he did good. i can just, there was like, i'm on the i almost can't believe it. how will it be? there were i'm so happy come in. the reason their wedding is not official because japan does not recognize same sex marriage. but this buddhist temple near tokyo feels responsible to an even higher authority. buddhist monk more consent doesn't care about the marriage ban. he wants to make

possible what the state does not allow my mother. it's a very important ceremony for both them. but i think i'm just as excited as they are. that's what, what, what, what the ceremony is also a chance for mama and none to raise awareness. the pictures taken here will help the temple advertise for marriage equality and they both pledge to meet life challenges together. avow made in all solemnity. and the best reason for a celebration, the happy couple may feel like their marriage has been sealed. but japanese lawmakers disagree. the same sex marriage is not officially recognized in japan. some prefect years offer partnership

certificates to same sex couples. some people even adopt their partners to stay together. mobile and nono want to have a child. it would help if they were married. in march, a local court made a historic ruling declaring the ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional. but actually changing the law could take years. so momo and nana have to wait, like a buddy. i think it's because people don't make a big deal about their lifestyle. to deal with the sky, given someone got up to go to and also because japan is probably the country where people most fear being culturally different. yvonne couldn't, he couldn't go, i don't know. mamma and nana could still have their big day for real sometime in the future and sealed their union with a real marriage certificate. and jeremy novel

more and the story is come, no dory from human di sports in tokyo. come a welcome. caught recently said that the ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional. why then, does japan not have a law that legalizes same sex marriage? so that decision was able by the sub for a district court. so it's not the supreme court. so japan, you know, the in depend to make, this just meant final, this district court decision is to go to high court and then the supreme court. so us, if supreme court court also approved this as, as. c the constitutional and then the japanese national diet needs to enact a law which allowed same sex marriage. but does the government at all want to enact a law that legalize the same sex marriage? so for it does not, that's why there, i mean, the national diet,

japanese power doesn't have to wait for the supreme court to say that they have to enact a law. they can and knocked same sex marriage today if they want to. but unfortunately, the japanese government doesn't want to have such a law, so that's why we don't have any we don't have the same sex marriage today. what is stopping the japanese government from an acting such a law? yes. well, the depend. i mean, not all the same sex marriage a japan does not have it car pulpit protection for l d. b to people, for example, in employment or in, in any social area. so currently, l d, b, people doesn't have any national laws to protect them. so it's not all the same sex marriage, but why the japanese government not willing to have such a law is because although the majority of japanese public support

known discrimination or same sex marriage for l. d. b 2 people. however small portion of. 7 diet members, japanese parliamentarians are against idea, that's why they prevent that kind of protection of eligibility. people to pass in the diet so far. japan is also under the international spotlight as a host of the olympics, which in its charter bands discrimination of any kind. our lawmakers feeling any kind of pressure to pass l g b t legislation before the games kick off in july. in fact the human right spot and local algebra to groups. pushing really hard on the japanese government to pass non discrimination law for l g b. the people, so diet members fearing pressure and then a for currently the japanese diet is discussing

a lot on eligibility people. however, again a small portion of members, but they are in their ruling l d. p party are against having untied discrimination law. so it is still unclear whether such a law can pass the japanese diet before the olympics. can they though we leave it there for the time, but thank you so much for joining us. can i do it from have a nice much thank you very much for having me. and there's more bits on our website dot com, forward slash issue. we leave you now with pictures from thailand where authorities have detected the 1st locally transmitted cases of the highly infectious grove in 1900 variant 1st found in india. the country has been ramping up its vaccination campaign to fight the biggest outbreak thus far. back on monday then by the,

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luxury group carrying high fashion brands such as gucci and eve, sand low arm holding company, owns christie's auction house. and peter, himself is one of the world's most influential collectors of contemporary art. now, with his 3rd private museum, the old stock exchange in the heart of paris. the piano collection can now showing in all its glory at the both the commerce, 84 year old french billionaire francois pen, no commission to japanese star architect, and go to redesign the listed building. construction work took 3 years in cost, 150000000 euros. a 9 meter tall concrete cylinder has been placed within the room harmonizing with the circular building and its unique 18th century dome. in order for any cable guy to go, this light from

a penetrate through the glass dome is meant to stand for the future. and the concrete cylinder for hope, scuse my architecture, should move people with it, you see and emboldened them through its courage. again, because i was surprised by how quickly he came up with the proposal. i wasn't expecting that it's done by his creativity, but i said right away, i like that. that's how we'll do it. and then he did it with a lot of talent with it. at the beginning, i was amazed by this circle within a circle, but this allowed him to express his creativity in a historical setting and that suits him perfectly. failed. the interior design of the museum was done by the black brothers. this was the difficulty is to create something radically more that can harmonize with what

already exists on to set like making a connection here between this extraordinary 18th century staircase banister 10. this contemporary lamb is serving me now with a contact on a former businessman francois. you know, is a major collector and patron of the arts is collection include some 10000 works by 350 sis with his 1st exhibition. the passionate love is certainly not playing. it's safe. instead of focusing solely on well established artist. he's including outsiders. will he help make looms or stones of tomorrow? settled in the fields can softer because everyone expected him to come with well known works, but big names are worth a lot on the international market. but it was more important for him to exhibit

artists who represents the women and men of today and to raise the questions faced by society today, officers to reflect the current world he wants to many faces to be displayed. it's about looking each other in the again, the more than gotten, they don't issued. it's the fulfillment of a dream for francois p. know now after opening 2 museums in venice, the native of france finally has a museum in paris. the french capital and its visitors can be happy. it's a joy to behold, and from may 22nd. it will even be possible to go inside if you are around the 1990. as you might remember, the 3 brothers and the boy band hansen. well this is hi m sisters, s the danielle and alon. hi me, the trio from california, one. this is brit award for best international group. their current album tackles depression, massaging me,

and insensitive music journalists. california to sparkle. nothing's really as it was, the opening track on the trio. hi, in 3rd album, describe pulling out a lot with the city science and the multi instrumentalist. she passion for rick from rock and roll. 10 family lead vocals, atlanta, drums, and the who the larva lyrics that are a mix of irony and depression,

aggression. the winning tree, i want this phone to get rid of being us personally in questions by now reporters times looking nichols is 3rd album. women in music were used to get the question every interview. what does it like to be a woman in music? and at a point it just felt almost like every time i just wanted to roll my eyes. like why is this even a question? and you don't ask men this question. we thought maybe if we call it women in music part 3, we could say like, hey, that's what the albums called. don't ever ask the question again. i don't ask any, i never ask another girl again. it's words. i assume a time to music is recorded in analog creaking guitar with an attorney driving percussion. the the

app is something we like music that makes us dance. love to dance in the family. we've always loved to dance . even my parents lived down. the sisters grew up in a musical household to the drums that is permanent fixture and the families living room kids. they played with their musical parents and a band rocking hines, a stage experience from the age of 8 more than anything oppression, sixties, seventies, and eighties, rock'n'roll. we grew up listening to those songs and i think we just always loved classic rock. i think when we're recording, we definitely try to take from are kind of our favorite music kind of the sonic,

the sounds of different types of genres and different types of music. she is a friend who dies unexpectedly at the age of $21.00, a love seat with cancer. ah, a little dark experience is transformed into moving pallets time the sound of some of the there's a lot of talk in the fashion world about diversity. so why don't we see more models who are trans have down syndrome or are missing a limb? the founders of visibility modeling and talent agency in london are pushing fashioned toward a more inclusive vision of humanity. and business is booming. the

british talent agency, zebedee specializes in non traditional models, people with disabilities alternative appearances, or who are trans or non binary. the agency wants to increase the visibility of these models in the media in the world of fashion. that would be the end goal is to see like 20 percent of the old fashion. she's all commercial. she is all you know, using somebody who has a disability, not just in front of the camera, but behind the camera and get all the creators on board that, you know, come do this. and it's a true representation of 5 that we proctor launched the agency with her sister in law laura johns in 2017. they were disappointed by the lack of diversity in the industry. today's debbie de has a roster of more than 500 talents in london, new york and los angeles. when we 1st thought to 70 laura's

goal was to see a baby with a disability on not be packaging. and at that point we didn't think that was going to be achievable and my idea was going to be high and brand like get cheap in 2020 eli goldstein, featured in a gucci campaign for photo got almost 900000 likes on instagram making of the brands most popular instagram post ever the thought after 19 year olds model has down syndrome. i think when i see myself, like i say with me or your me hi me. a lot more to k because. but if to fairly knows that she's a role model for other people with disabilities make it was that they

may and more. dora may also make a better cause. i'm not to do that. ah, zebedee represents a wide variety of different models. the was important to me that the agent that i signed with what interested and cad about representing diversity and representing us and allowing us to be authentic. i would say them major is very much like they they jump into a trend. so they're right now is a trend. and so say how long get law we will say because obviously these a lifelong conditions, whatever we have lack because remember there's lots of little boys and girls out,

you know, they need to see this for their own. bring in and their mental health the agency has made a name for itself with many major brands now, hiring it's models. so we proctor hoops for agency will help promote greater diversity and awareness in the world. the more we do, the, the greater impact that we'll have on changing people's opinions. and, you know, i think we still got a long way to go. i mean, we still feel at the bottom of the mountain going the progress is being made. one photo shoot at a time because diversity is defined and you heard that here on d w. well, that's it for this arts and culture. i'll leave you now with the latest optical illusion by french urban artist g l. a canyon under the eiffel tower. check it out .

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news . business news live from berlin, bolts, israel, and how mass claim victory. on day one of the truth and gather palestinian, the finally able to emerge in the open after 11 days of on boardman and begin the mamma. task of rebuilding also coming up a g 20 help thumb it aimed at boosting. access to corona virus vaccine elicits pledges of billions of doses from vaccine makers and bring on some of the fund. jeremy human hearts restaurants and even swimming calls reopened. after

locked down in many parts of the country just in time of the holiday weekend. ah, i'm told me all righty, but welcome to the show. residence in garza and israel are marking the 1st day of peace after an 11 day conflict that killed over 230 people in garza and 12 in israel. the si, fi deal broken mostly by egypt carries no preconditions and leave the conflict key disputes on result. i have a fighting still broke out at the i'll act the most in jerusalem. israeli police fire done grenades and gas while palestinians held rocks beside is one of the flash points that triggered the recent hostilities between israel and hammers. meanwhile,

people in garza and israel le taking stock, the regions worst conflict in years. the streets of gas, i have come back to life. the cease fire has brought relief. but people here know just how fragile peace is, how you know life will return because this is not the 1st war and it will not be the last one. but normal life will return with the will. it is true that our hearts are in pain. fee there were disasters left entire families were wiped out and that saddened us. but it is our fate in this land to be patient and almost little necessity. the truth was welcomed in jerusalem, where tension flared for weeks before fighting began to be done, to be honest with you because of the bloodshed and murdered children

that was killed, that were killed and innocent women do one. sean has a value. so this has to be done, but in this israeli watertown opinions were mixed. bad. hello. this is not a fire. they should not have stopped. what will happen in a year and a half a year to year. so so finally, there is a cease fire here. hopefully there will be peace in the country club of tomorrow. i'm sick of this mass color, but i got of the, those israel and how mass are claiming victory in the conflict. the task of rebuilding now begins with hopes the truth will left us go straight to tanya cram, roberts dw respondent in gather city, tonya, is the sci fi holding?

while at the moment, at least, the sci fi seems to be holding the gaza city. of course that's also on the minds of many people. they're worried about. you know what could happen if it doesn't hold. so at the moment it is quite in gaza, but it's a tense quiet. i must, of course, portraying this as a victory. will the ordinary people bearing guys a c at the same way? well, i think it's a bit of a strange atmosphere on the one hand, of course. hum us and other minute and group portrayed this as a victory, but people here now are coming out enough to 11 days of fighting off on bartman and rocket strikes into israel, and they have to pick up where they left is 11 days ago. so it is not an easy fit all the devastation. you can see it in gaza. many thousands, tens of thousands of people have actually lost, have been displaced. so we saw some people, you know,

slowly going back and seeing what is left of the home. so it is not an easy atmosphere, and of course, there's also worry about whether the fire will hold quite a lot for people to take. and how long will it be for guys to recover from all of this devastation was very hard to estimate because the situation of cause it's not easy. it has been under located for almost 14 years. that means every building material is it's not easy to bring it in either from israel or from egypt. so we know that several 1000 units at least have been destroyed or severely damaged for people to live. and so this will take time to rebuild, of course, but i think at the moment the focus is on you know, for those who have lost loved ones. you know, it's a morning period for those who are injured to, to take care of them. and also for,

you know, the ordinary people are here somehow to pick up their life. and that's going to be a difficult situation for these people to resume their lives. are we seeing any, any support or anything of the sense of the source that will come in a different sense of that? well, several countries have already pledged you many tarion aid. and there was also today because for joining this like where that into gaza. another crossing this is really can shallow crossing also as far as we know, opened for some humanitarian aid coming in. egypt has also pledged to help as another crossing with egypt and the south of gaza. so i think the international community has also pledged to help rebuilding, but of course, this is something that's in the future. so people, you know, for the moment they are here and they have to deal with what is that here on the

ground. okay, w tanya, grandma and gather city. thank you for bringing us up to speed. leaders from the g 20 group of industrial and emerging countries, a holding a health some it aimed at boosting access to corona virus vaccines. host country italy hopes the summit will result in a new declaration for preventing future health crises. participants are expected to recommend voluntary licensing of vaccine pace and to allow more countries to produce the jobs that you announced. it will donate 100000000 doses to the callback back in sharing program by the end of the year. now this come as vaccine produces pledge to donate over 1000000000 doses to low income countries. now joined by d. w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra on nomine, who's at the g? 20 summit in rome for us. german chancellor, anglo medical us pledge for the $100000000.00 euros to the callbacks and if it's

initiatives instead of money, what about empowering low and middle income countries to pretty thorough and vaccines? well, that is actually what the european union and its planning and the germany is also in favor of that. today they to 20 leaders read that they want to enhance global access to vaccines. and the european union, in particular, is planning to invest 1000000000 euro to boost production capacity in africa to establish 3 regional haps to produce more vaccines for africa, the future. and these pledges to share the vaccines with, with these low income countries. when can people in africa, a latin america expect any of these to arrive? well, i talked with the, you commission president or the law firm,

the lion about that and ask her whether, you know, the people that can expect that seems to be donated immediately. she just told us that the european union is pledging to donate those exceeds $100000000.00 doses this year until at the end of the year. that would not be enough this amount of vaccines. but she also added that after talks with exceed, produces 3 of them by and tech more. there are now, and johnson and johnson has all have also promised to produce more vaccines. 1.3000000000 vaccines, specifically for low and middle income countries. and those succeeds are supposed to be delivered this year as well. ok w's, alexandra on nomine in rome. thank you for bringing us up to speed and updating us on the latest. in fact, summit as turn now to some other stories making headlines at this

hour. and the military protesters have turned out for a march in man, my largest city young gone. this comes after local media said the ruling jones with dissolved opposition leader on the chief national lead for democracy party. a local rights group says the treaty forces of killed more than 800 people in a crackdown on the opposition. a german court has sent in the syrian men to live in prison over a fatal knife attack on a gay couple in the city of dread and prosecutor say, he was motivated by homophobia and radical islamist means students across australia. schools the demand, stronger action on climate change, they called on the government to stop funding fossil fuels. and instead, invest in renewable energy. this we camera announced plans to spend up to 380000000

euros on a new gas fired power plant. a here in germany lockdown, restrictions are being used in many cities, leaving people free to visit restaurants, museum than swimming pools. health minister against bonds says the 3rd wave of infection has been broken, though he's urging people so remain cautious. the relaxed restrictions come just in time for the long holiday weekend with many hotel and campsite, also allowed to welcome guests who had a negative coban 1900 test proof of vaccination. that's got more from d. w chief, political correspondent, melinda crane, who's standing by at a, be a god. and for us in the heart of berlin. hello, melinda, now those people we see right there behind, you must be relieved to finally be back out again. absolutely. we've been going around asking people how they feeling what we're hearing most often it's

at last. finally, people are relieved. they feel free. they say they feel things are slowly getting back to normal. and the fact is that this is one of the most beloved to be gotten in berlin. it's. there's been a beer garden on this site for nearly 200 years. and seldom has seen a period of such pro long, quiet as the past 12 months. seldom has it entirely missed the opening of the season on the 1st of april. so you can be sure that management is absolutely determined to remain vigilant. and in fact, there are a lot of rules in place. it may not look that crowded behind me because this is only half the normal number of tables that would be here outdoors. and there are still a lot of spacing, restrictions in place. also, there can't be more than 2 households at one table or 5 people and everyone here has submitted proof of a negative test before they were allowed to enter. plus,

if you see people getting up from their tables, mostly you'll see them putting on their masks that to one of the rules that are in place. so we asked, and most people here are telling us they absolutely feel safe and they just hope this new normal will continue. german health minister says the 3rd wave has been broken. where does germany stand right now in this fight against over 1900? well in fact, indeed, the rate of infection is significantly down. we're now seeing about $67.00 infections per 100000 residents and just 10 days ago that was close to $97.00. so a really major drop in a short amount of time. we're also seeing a very dramatic rise in the rate of vaccinations with over 40 percent of germans now vaccinated for the 1st time. 1000000 nations occurring every week. so definitely a turn from the better. but both the health minister and the head of the country

center for disease control. we're warning today that people must remain careful. they need to respect the rules and they said, we don't want to see a boomerang or yo, yo effect where the 3rd wave then turns into a 4th wave. so in fact, they're going to be watching carefully before any further relaxation of the rules. and people here certainly hoping that things stay they as they are, they can enjoy this early summer freedom. right. optimism coupled with caution. thank you. melinda crane. d. v chief political correspondent, performance from 39 countries have been competing this week in the eurovision song contest, including elaine that agree know representing cyprus. david l diablo is about falling in love with the devil,

and that's got some people in cyprus, pretty upset. dozens of orthodox christians protested against the lyrics. they say promote the faith and worship you're watching dw news business is up next after a short break. stay tuned for that. i'm told me. all right. well thanks for joining us. ah. live in language courses, video and audio anytime. anywhere, dw media center. can you hear me now? yes. yes, we can hear you in high last germantown, we bring you uncle michael and you've never had to have the full price just so what

is what it will do is medical re well. and once we talk to people who follow along the way, admirers and critics alike, in the world's most, how for women taking her to join us for macros. last, the me the vaccine makers pledge more doses for low income countries, but sidestep the issue of pat waivers. will look at the outcome of today's global health summit in rome and check in on cape town, where the vaccine rollout remains halting. also on the show app because electricity, electricity supply, so a step back in 2020 as it's aging infrastructure leads more failures, more blackouts. and it's a special delivery in germany where dozens of containers of hazardous chemicals have arrived from the bay route for clean up psych globe. welcome to the show i'm

seeing there's the in berlin. vaccine makers have pledged 3 and a half 1000000000 doses of the corona virus shot to middle and low income cross countries. in an effort to address the uneven dis, vaccines around the world visor and by on tech, promising to 1000000000 doses over the next 18 months, or they're not another 1000000000 johnson johnson. meanwhile, 500000. pfizer says some doses will be delivered via the international kofax facility, others through bilateral agreements. the pledges came in and a g 20 organized summit, which were that 80 percent of the vaccination. so far around the world have been in wealth. the nations less than one percent and low income nations are the room summit took place and that growing pressure on government's wave vaccine patents. but pattern waiting was not on the agenda friday summit participants calling instead for more voluntary licensing from drug makers and technology transfers to manufacturers in poor countries. financial pleasures also featured big the u

promising $1000000000.00 and investment for manufacturing china offering $3000000000.00 in a to developing countries over the next 3 years. all right, let's talk to the adobe course one else fun gilder in cape town. to get another side of this ellis could to see you. you know, south africa has been such a big proponent of this idea of waving patents for vaccine makers. others have not been as excited. what is the leadership in the country? how are they likely to look at the outcome of the summit? so of course they're happy with any help they can get on the one hand, on the other hand, wider pushing so much for for the, for the captains waivers is that they thing as well. we don't want to be independent dependent anymore. we want to be independent as well. so to solve this price is there is and this way, of course, also what they believe, a drop in the bucket because there's so many people that still need to be vaccinated, not just africa, but in the, in the whole,

the whole continents and sort africa is is leaving the african union now, so they're also speaking on that behalf, so they will keep on pushing that. so they've been spearheading that together with india. so there will be more discussion in the world trade organization for no doubt. ellis, this idea of vaccine unfairness. we hear this a lot, especially on the political level. what kind of resonance does it have amongst normal south africans? also, africans are actually mainly complaining that this, that africa itself has not been doing enough. yes, it's pushing for disease packing waivers bucks, defects nation if so behind in africa, that africa 1st of all field and pre ordering, the vaccines and, and then they finally got vaccines. they got us was in a car vaccine. that's then there were some research that was not attractive enough for that africa for the mutation that is yours, that africa. so they sold it off the african union, then they were basically empty handed. so they're having people vaccinated about

half a 1000000 health care workers. but those were vaccines from johnson and johnson that were basically left from a clinical trial study that was here. and they really only started vaccinated this week with the 5 of axioms. so it's still very little, it's still very late, it's still very slow. so there's a, there's a lot of criticism on, on how does that african government has been handling this? was he touched on this earlier, but 3 and a half 1000000000 dose is a good chunk of money here also pledged will it be enough given the challenge ahead look at it will probably not be enough. know, did the kovacs initiative, which we mentioned, which was going to, the idea was that that was going to bring more more quantity. but that initiative was, was mainly relying on a lot of doses of the indian sermons to do it. and now they're not getting those doses, so i know that they have a big, big gap and it will be very hard to fill. all right, else and gilder in cape town. thank you very much. when

nearly 600000000 people in africa do not have access to electricity. and the situation is getting worse during the pandemic. as governments divert resources to health care and economic recovery, and their debt loads grow in south africa, which has struggled with rolling power cuts for years. the situation is dire. seems like this have become all too familiar in south africa with coal power plants, unable to meet electricity demand, power companies have resorted to scheduling plaque to protect the national grid from collapse outside major cities. the situation is often even worse, with many places not connected to a power supply at all. in africa, over all access to electricity had actually been on the rise over the past 5 years . but the pandemic has reverse that trend. last year, some 592000000 people in africa did not have access to power. in south africa,

coal fired power plants account for 90 percent of energy consumed, says 2016. the u. s. government has invested some $9000000000.00 in the countries fossil fuel industry. but under the current administration in washington, that looks set to change. i'm joined by st. enough, ho, his high representative of the president of the republic of molly for climate, and he spokesperson for the african climate negotiators group. ambassador, welcome to the show. why has electricity supplied become less reliable in africa? well, i think that there's 2 reasons. the 1st is that the global economic downturn in well, in the globe was really created and economy crisis on the continent. this is the 1st recession, but we see in africa in the last 25 to 30 years. so these are diverted. a lot of resources at the government level and also reduce income for from household.

you have to you what we are seen from, from the a and over international agencies that africa need. the bought $35000000000.00 per year. the investments for the next 10 years to have the universal access. so with this the economy downturn, there's a lot of money which has been stuck out of the system and has made less resources available for investment for investments. i would imagine also that it's harder to invest, maybe in the cheapest and best fuels in that case, fossil fuel energy, is that off limits now? well, the reality is that investments, unfortunately in fulfill fuel are better package internationally. i mean, you have a number of the situation, there are less, but you still have a number of bilateral situations and international institutions. we all know how to package those type of investment. whereas when it comes to,

to renewable energy and especially when you talk about energy, oxygen, it's decentralized and decentralized p v store printed in area where communities of less, less included soaking those type of infrastructure investment. all those type of project is a bit more, is a bit more complex. and the reason why you need a lot of public capital, whether domestic capital or international or international capital and the risk now we've grown our crisis, is that we have less of you know, of public investment specifically in those, in those areas and enough, oh hi, representative of the president of the republic of molly for climate. thank you for joining us. thanks. alright, let's take a look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. office sharing startup. we were reportedly lost more than $2000000000.00 in the 1st quarter of

2021. partially due to high costs related to an upcoming stock market listing demand for the company's services. however, as risen significantly and tops pre panoramic levels, that at least according to the company the mobile world congress, the telecom industry, the biggest trade event, will be held in barcelona next month. that's after the coven 1900 pandemic derailed . it's 2020 event 2021. iteration will be a mix of in person and online events. it's expected to draw $30000.00 visitors. it's about a 3rd of pre panoramic attendance. the u. s. reach deal on cobra. 1900 certificates designed to open up travel across the 27 nation block this summer. it says the free certificate will take the form of a q, r code on a smart phone or paper long forty's to see if a person has received a vaccine at a recent negative test or developed immunity based on their recovery. right over to the middle east has been 9 months since a massive explosion devastated the port of the lebanese capital bay route and

germany like many other nations pledge support and the reconstruction. and that's led to a special delivery, almost 60 containers of hazardous waste released by the blast, which couldn't be disposed of in lebanon. not everyone is happy about it through our arrival. the congo ship are more and he turns heads to the container port of the hymns. hoffen after some 6300 kilometers at sea. on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company in northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. its managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day of their industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydrochloric acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon a loosen is a lot of noise back on august 2020,

a devastating explosion ripped across the port of the route and much of the city. the destination killed more than 190 people. an injured over $6000.00 large areas of the port and nearby residential areas were completely levels. the conditions at the country's main harbor work had struck huge quantities of toxic and highly flammable substances were stored without any regard for safety. german experts analyzed the residues with a mo, by a laboratory, classified them and then packed them in containers. since they couldn't dispose of the toxins on site, they were sent to germany. initially, the containers will be stored at williams harvard in the village of v, fails. after that, they are toxic contents will be destroyed by using things like high temperature furnaces. odo kramer has founded a citizens initiative. he's afraid of having the toxins so close to the village. he

feels badly informed and doesn't believe a landfill is suitable for the poisonous cargo. when our fears are ultimately the middle promo that's arriving here with so few eric acid, hydro clark acid hydro floor cas. it in. so on what quantities are we talking about is v as even designed for that? are there any floor plans here for extraction systems? is the fire department involved is the civil protection involved? and we're the, we asked toxic waste expert man for exam 10 from greenpeace. he thinks disposal is a good idea. imagine what would have happened if it was left in lebanon. then it's certainly better to have these materials properly evaluated, as they did, than packaged and sent here to be properly disposed of. you know, we were sitting here, but john gene also says germany can't solve the waste problems of an entire region

. the 3000000 euros needed to dispose of this waste came from the port of bay route and the european union. and that's it for me and the dw business team here in berlin, because always you can find out more about these and other stories online. d, w dot com slash business. also facebook and twitter actually watching the the fight against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research information and contact the corona virus? 19 special next on d. w eco, africa. insects can destroy harvest. but in molly, farmers don't have to rely on chemical pesticides. this tree offers an alternative

name tree. a sustainable insecticide can be extracted from its fruit. what can farmers be convinced to switch to organic d w, the me ah, enjoying a weekend in berlin. discovering the capital of the roman empire. all going for a swim on a spanish island. people's hopes are high after the european union agreed upon a digital covert certificate. a travel pass for those who have been fully vaccinated already had cars at 19 will have a negative pcr test result allowing travel within the you without the need for more tests. so quarantine.