any world yet to seep out these days atika. and in detroit because of the trail. went on to find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back a paris court is set to rule later on wednesday on the case of a french girl allegedly raped by 20 firefighters the case has sparked protests across the country with demonstrators demanding legal changes to introduce a minimum age of consent which currently doesn't exist charlotte devinsky has the details. on wednesday this court is going to be center stage for a case that's provoked outrage here in france it involves a woman known as julie who says she was raped by 20 firefighters between the ages of 13 and 15. it all began when julie not her real name had been assisted by a firefighter following a severe anxiety seizure at 13 in 2008 now it's claimed he obtained her number for medical records and then grew before asking her to undress via webcam it's then claimed he passed it details on to other firef

small study that they produce which was only 2000 young people average age 31 shows that the ice just atika vaccine is not effective against mild all moderate disease it has no information about most of a disease and that's what we need to find out you know the study found disappointing protection in moderate and mild cases but let me ask you what about trying to prevent hospitalizations and severe cases shouldn't that be the number one priority right now. absolutely and by comparison with the other vaccines that have been child in south africa or including the noble that's right and the johnson and johnson vaccine then that gives us hope because both those vaccines gave us around 60 percent efficacy against very severe disease and all spittle isolation i think many of us who have looked at the data around the astra zeneca office for a vaccine believe that a nice of a disease that vaccine will also be effective a decision to stop the roll out of the vaccination program in the middle of a pandemic i mean it appears to be drastic it doesn't necessarily protect the public health anymore isn't

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have clashed over facts and supplies germany has threatened dusters atika with legal action over vaccine delays saying the company should face penalties if it gives britain preferential treatment if it turns out that individual companies do not complying with the brigade since a decision must be made to both legal consequences. while for the latest developments on the story we're joined live by correspondent peta all of these and peta politics and health it doesn't seem like a great combination what's going on here. well while we've heard of threats of legal action from peter out by just there the german economy minister there are some signs of a report on being attempted to be made but in this 3 way dispute between the european union the united kingdom and the pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca the vaccine manufacturer has said that an extra $9000000.00 doses of the job will be sent to the european union in the 1st quarter of 2021 that will take the total to be delivered through till march open to up to $40000000.00 now that's still well short of the 102120 1000000 at the e.u. was promis

to be respected a plane carrying south africa's 1st 1000000 coronavirus vaccine doses for masters atika has arrived in johannesburg the country is battling a 2nd wave of infections driven by more contagious varian 1st identified there has been concern over the effectiveness of vaccines against the mutation south africa is the worst hit country on the continent with almost one and a half 1000000 cases and more than 44000 deaths drugmaker pfizer has pledged 7 additional $75000000.00 vaccines to the european union for the 2nd quarter that brings the total number of doses for the block this year to $600000000.00 according to european commission president lyon use a vaccine rollout has been slower than hoped in part due to supply issues drug maker astra zeneca has reduced their quota of doses to the block by over a half those are the headlines talk to al-jazeera is coming up next. february on al-jazeera under strict access to iran's nuclear program is about to end will u.s. president joe biden overturn trying sanctions and help rebuild relations al-jazeera sets out on a journey to the heart

relieve that suffering the american rescue plan does just that relieve the suffering it is time to act atika has more from washington d.c. on what it means for most americans. the $10000000.00 americans are out of work right now millions of simply lost their job to no fault of their own but because of the pandemic and because of the economic fallout from that so basically their benefits were going to decrease or if not cut off what this bill does if it's passed it will give them additional federal unemployment aid up to about $400.00 a week increase it's now about $300.00 but the bigger part is it extends it those are set to expire these that will then go till august so that gives people peace of mind to know that they're going be able to pay for certain bills in the weeks and months ahead well the wait while we all wait for the economy to recover it's also going to go towards increasing covert vaccine distribution increasing testing obviously that is something that's very frustrating for americans there is a huge demand for this vaccine an incredibly short supply of it so it'll help they sa

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