spell with the toxic congress still on board. the thinking ship has already caused one of the country's worst environmental disasters. let's get the latest on the story now. we can speak to jemila hussein. she's the deputy editor of the daily mirror in colombo, jamilla. thank you for joining us. we mentioned that the, the navy, the coast guard, have frantically been trying to stop this ship from thinking bring us up to date on the latest. when high, the latest, what we have from colombo is that the timing operations have come to a standstill because the end of the vessel has hit the sea bed. and while the ship is now hot, the salvage company is trying is best to prevent it from thinking any further. what operations, which started in the morning to tour the 15 articles miles into the seas has come to a complete standstill raising fear that the ship can think even overnight. so right

now the discussions are going on between the government authorities and the salvage company to see how they can prevent a major stripy from happening. because that appears that the, the ship thing that can be a massive oil leak. i was just in fact into the navy and while ago and what they were saying is that they are in fact prepare for the leak. and if this happens, that want to try to continue within limited space because they do have the facilities so that the towing operations are concerned, that is why we have that it costs and operations have come to a sense to me, how was this ship allowed to burn just off the coast for so long. so basically, the ship entered she, duncan, bosses on may 20 may 19th in fact and may 20th, it caught fire. the sheep had come from the u. e. when i had contacted the divine authority, they said that the she was clear, then he said,

but at that time it could not going to the indian court, which is why she's not going to authorities. had you any permission to enter the columbia seeds still an investigation is going on as to how the fire actually started. i mean teams on board because the fire was actually on the late last night, which is why the team teams on board at the mormon. so that investigation is still ongoing as to what actually foxes and how it caught fire from an environmental point of view. what is the bigger danger right now? is it that the ship's car, both of the plastic, plastic waste the chemicals or is the potential of an oil spill? more of that scene as an imminent threat. the only one is concerned, the only will be i'm not seeing any speed as yet, but like i told you before, they the threat that might happen within minutes or even hours so that you've been

closely monitored by the authority, then hopefully that shouldn't be contained within a limited area within the closer to the ship and bad the marine environment. it's actually disaster has already happened because as of now, as i speak to right nowadays, the fishing band is all the way from the room, which is the sudden court all the way up to the gun, which is the best course. and you know, she lack of being island country, the facilities that brings in a lot of foreign exchange and also a lot of cash. and now come to offense, did also the beaches along the southern course. after the rest course has been completely damaged, completely destroyed because as you know, this was carrying chemicals and this was also carrying we said now wash the show and what authority is now here is that these are my break into smaller papers in the coming did friend this is going to be huge,

use us on monday. like already we have the in the disaster happening because a lot of my life has died and you'll be watched the show will have to leave it there. jamila, hussein, deputy editor of the daily mirror in colombo, thank you so much for joining us. thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world. the largest dealership in the iranian navy has sunk in the gulf of oman. after catching fire the vessel called, the car was dispatched to international water several days ago. it is unclear what caused the place. state media for hundreds sailors and cadets on board escaped the vessel. 33 suffered injuries. israel's parliament has elected the veteran politician. i care for the country's new president. he will take up the largely ceremonial roll. next month. it comes as our position. lawmakers scramble to forge a coalition to unfree prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they have until midnight local time to reach an agreement to columbia started what it's government calling

a gradual opening of the border within as well as comes after a 14 month closure to stop. the spread of the corona virus colombia has been the chief destination, prevented. wayland laying their countries social and economic crisis. the 2 countries do not maintain diplomatic ty and germany has blocked flights operated by russian airlines from arriving in its territory. that comes after moscow failed to issue permits for german and french carriers that was after western carriers. we routed flights away from the air space of rushes, ally bellows. now concern is mounting over russian authorities widening crackdown on dissenting voices ahead of parliamentary elections. this september prominent opposition activists under people, bottles appeared in court. in the southern city of crescent are the judge rule that she will face up to 2 months in jail, pending and investigation. what people thought of is the former director of open

russia, a defendant pro democracy group who was pulled off a plane just before take off for poland on monday. and we can speak now to tatiana with minova. she's joining us from the city of cross adar and southern russia, and she is an acquaintance of andre people. a lot of that can. i thank you for joining us that you were present in court today. and i heard that decision from the judge 2 months in custody, pending invest the investigation, tell us what it was like today in court. hi. yeah, real in now, and my daughter was in the order in the morning. it was their emotional moment because i so i put the words in english, but she was like these and he couldn't move his hands and their police was standing around him and they didn't want us to talk to each other and push them. honestly, i didn't, i didn't,

i was not thinking that he would be put in jail for 2 months because it was the disability that he would spend these times at home and we found for him their house and and but the board, the sign, he's very danger person, because he made a post on plays board. so in russia, if you made the post on facebook, you are going to jail. authorities say he is also violating laws because he was working for what they call an undesirable organization. and we mentioned the open russia group and it was actually dissolved the day earlier in part to prevent people like under people that are facing criminal prosecution. so can you explain why this happened? no, i cannot explain the course. i can. i can explain what people think about worker

who are in power were now when russia we had the election, the september. and of course everything happening and our is the bars of the huge pressure we have on the position this this, this summer. okay, sure thing, this is part of putting pressure on opposition. he said you weren't expecting and a pupil about of the face 2 months behind bars. so what is the next step for him? ah, well, now we will have the disabilities. we have the dental ation. i'm not sure if i'm in english, but we have one more thing you weeks and maybe this station will change and, and maybe the board and that will decide this and they can spend this time not in jail, but on the freedom. i hope it will work, but i'm not sure. tatiana,

there are fears that russian authorities are essentially trying to stamp out any and all form of opposition. do you see that happening in russia? are you absolutely rise? i feel this situation all my friends. not to all, but almost all my friends who are who are involved in political life and russia. they are, they are, they are rolled or they are, are in russia, but they are in jail or they are on the home or. and so i'm sure that you're in the summer we'll have more chords and the elections in september will be, will be absolutely him to. we will have all the candidates from their party and power, but nobody else touch in just briefly. do you fear a rest yourself? ah, honestly not. i can, you know,

now i have no time because i'm thinking about somebody and my friends all the time . and they have to talk to journalists, i have to think about the complaint, how to protect he and what can i do? how can i help help him. so that's why i'm in russia and they cannot leave him here alone. so i'm going to stay here. i'm not going to go abroad. tatyana was minova opposition activists joining us from casner crescent. our thank you very much. thank you. thank you. alright, let's move on now to the corona virus pandemic and take a look at the latest development stair health officials in the u. k, say more than 3 quarters of the adult population have received at least one dose of vaccine. and nearly half of all adults in the u. k. are fully vaccinated. a study in israel showed a possible link between the bio tech pfizer vaccine. and hark the inflammation in

a very small number of young men who got the job. the countries still plans to press ahead with plans to use by on tech, to vaccinate children between 12 and 16 years old. and a corona virus lockdown in australia, 2nd biggest city, melbourne, has been extended by another week following a cluster of cases. right. one more item for you. a young woman in california got a little closer to nature that is probably advisable. after tackling a bare in her garden surveillance video shows the mother bear taking her cubs for a walk along a garden wall in a suburb of los angeles. and that did not go down too well with the family dog. so instead of 17 year old hailey maureen nico to separate the animals, haley says she only thought about saving her dog. and although she escaped with just the scrape and a sprain, she advises don't do this at home. let's get a recap of our top story off the coast, a free lunch, a smouldering container, ship that filled some of its cargo chemicals and plastic is now partly sunk. it was

already the country's worst ever marine environmental disaster, like now will big oil spill is a possibility off. next are cove at 1900 special, looks at how pakistan has whether the 3rd wave of the pandemic that you choose to fight against the corona virus. pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and contact the corona virus because it's 19 special. next on d w. can you hear me now? yes. yes, we can hear you and germans house and i we bring you uncle mack or you've never had

had before the prize just so what, what is who is the medical really want moved back and also talk to people who follow along the way. admirers and critics alike, and how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy? join us for macros. last, the me faxing, made in pakistan with chinese know how this factor in islamabad aims to produce 3000000 doses a month across the border in india, infections and death spiking due to a new mutation. pocket on health ministry has detected at least one taste of the new very end from india known as a delta variant. experts warn it's likely more contagious.

will pakistan vaccine push be enough to stem the tide with what counter covered? not in special. i want to jones and berlin, thanks for joining us. now, the good news 1st, the number of new infections is seemingly going down in pakistan, though the accuracy of the data is in question. and how sustainable is this downward trend given that neighboring india is grappling with an aggressive variant . it may all depend on pakistan's ability to ramp vaccination across the country. and there's a lot of catching up to do. the, it's a busy day at the rabo pin, the vaccination center. every resident over the age of 19 can now register to get their job with vaccines bought and donated from china and allocations from the u. in. back to kofax scheme, pakistan has now secured more than 18000000 vaccine doses and it came to

get them out into the population. initially, there was quite a bit of vaccination hesitancy here. but many have seen what happened in india, and they're worried from the cam. does any of the, the next wave this coming could potentially be the worst yet? get lower when we watch a video about what's happening in india, in the people scrambling for oxygen and ventilators. and we get scared that it could be like that here. so it's important everyone gets vaccinated, so now you're going okay. i would say that every pakistani should get the corona vaccine. otherwise we'll have a similar situation as we see in our neighboring country of india. we need to avoid what's happening there in the find me what a little actually says. people were very good. they were unsure about the side effects and all but now there's awareness. people are coming to get back to pakistan desperately needs to increase the facts, the nation rate that i mean so far, only about 2 percent of the population has had a shot. infection rates have been declining over the last few weeks,

but the country has only just come out of locked down stampede. there's been a loosening of restrictions. markets and mark are once again busy. but in some places miss about the corona virus persist mine when it cannot be. and i believe that while the corona virus exists, it doesn't harm us inside the mouth. when we come here to pray, a 100, it is candid, put on the wrong. i can't come inside to mom. this is got home and i believe that corona can't come inside. it was just leaving us in many mosques, masks are worn and social distance thing rules followed all if the goody hire people to take care and follow what the doctors say so that we can avoid what's happening in india in the okay. yes, a lot of the home which like pakistan recently detected the variant responsible for the recent rapid spread of new infections in india. but even if

infection rates go up again, doctors are confident that a crisis like the one in their neighboring country can be avoided. we have arranged almost 2 to 3 times of our routine services. in this hospital we have extended our ice used from 18 birds to 50 birds in recent days. and similarly, the number of oxygen port number of what we don't. birds have been increased to be 3 4th. meanwhile, everyone here is hoping that these new resources won't be put to the test of a more on joined by a hash on actor he's associate professor. i do use right. institute of pharmaceutical sciences and national infectious disease specialist at terminix, international in pakistan. so very good to have you with us. and we have a case number's going down there. hospitals also seem to be well prepared for new cases. just all of that mean that pakistan has

a corona virus pandemic under control. will you still date the count of it? 900. it has been including all over the world, including pockets on and with every like 1st the 2nd and 3rd, if you have learned a lot hospitalized beard. and yes, you can see that if there are no control now. but if you look toward the stacks of it's still on the alarming site. ok explore. a the alarming because certainly we hear from the world health organization that when it comes to the number of new cases, there seems to be a discrepancy between those that are confirmed and those that may not have been reported. how worrying it said, well, that's a good question. i guess get in progress done. many,

many patients go to the local clinics, many are not counted. many like did a huge difference between d and, and so the count and the start the number they are not willing equity. it as if you, if you talk about them, but still did issue of him to make people said no medications is also high. so we assume that the spectacle is they are much higher and reach out to the border. ok. and especially a symptomatic infections of people with that don't, don't show any symptoms that obviously also keeps spreading virus which is dangerous. how big a role would you say just to cope with mutations play in pakistan right now. this little impressively bug is done have been voting the for you non sequencing from the start of the damage and

a tanks to the national institute of health august on which was led by media doctor on medic. um, we reported the you give it in, the reported be brazil invariant reported we saw that the convenient and this, these millions do have role in, in the spread of covered in buckets on last week we heard around then, you know, sequencing in august and 7 out of 10 word, south convenience. one out of 10 was the indian 1000000000. and in last 36 hours, we have around for more any of the. and so it is, it is the don't fall off deterred the but still the video and the question here. ok, so vaccination is the key probably to keep all of those in check. and the vaccination rate, however, is still very slow. is the reason for that that the people basically refused to get

vaccinated all the other problems supply. perhaps if you talk about delete, you'll see that on 3 percent debt box down is that it now but, but the population in august, the news huge. it's around over 200000000 people and definition do it in august on now. today is it more than 300000 per day? so we are doing this and it has also been commercially available now. so we hope that in the near future we will be able to go pick now. right, commercially available means it costs money to get vaccinated. yeah, mostly in a more than 90 percent is free. but still, if, actually the government has divided between the age groups and professional life. so the heads give workers and the, and the other professionals, they were

a candidate 1st. but who cannot be done? he can go and, but she has it. right. the professor actor reporting here about the situation in pakistan. right? no, thank you so much for your time. thank you. thank you so much. now, one thing is certain vaccines. the key the pandemic has for science to react quickly and develop vaccines that can stop stars cove too. but can they do even more than that time for your questions though, over to our science correspond derek williams. oh, you could 19 that sees some pretty to the types of grown up viruses. all the pandemic has turbocharged research into corona viruses. we've learned a huge amount about them in the last 15 frantic mines, including in an area called cross reactivity,

which involves how the immune system can react to similar structures on the surfaces of different types of viruses. in other words, how your body might not have to learn everything from scratch about a pathogen if that pathogen reminds it of a bug. it encountered in the past, say, because it has similar spike proteins. all corona viruses have spikes. theoretically, at least, that means that teaching your immune system to recognise, sorry cubby to spy proteins, could maybe also help it recognise and prevent infection with other corona viruses . yet the spikes are similar enough. among others. a study published last month by researchers at johns hopkins university in the us shows that the idea isn't far fetched. the researchers looked at the response of what are called t cells, which,

which play an important defensive role in immune system response. and the study reported that after people were given the vaccine against over 19, their t cells also responded powerfully to a related corona, virus that causes colds. the assumption is that cross reactivity was providing some protection. there are still much to learn, but a lot of experts thing to work, being done in the fight against stars covey to will lead to a real revolution and how we address future corona, virus threats. some even believe we're not far from developing one shot vaccines that will work against a wide range of corona viruses. lots of attempts to make one are already in animal testing me. now who says bank holidays are a waste of time in the united kingdom. anyone over 18 could get shots on monday,

waiting in the some 1000 spent this phone call a day to get vaccinated against co, with 19. well, not much distance keeping, but a new trend. perhaps. that's all for this edition of our covey. $900.00 special thanks for watching. stay safe with the news. news. news, news . news.

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