coburg facility in south africa built in the eighty's but many countries are hoping to expand into atomic energy in the future as a quick and affordable power source now here to discuss with us this with us is daniel shroff he's a director of renewable energy at the african development bank welcome to the program the 1st thing i want to ask you as whether you could give us a picture of the challenges faced by energy access on the continent what are we looking at. a much stronger moving me to start anew in creating stuff from what we john africa stall asked the huge energy taxes deficit we have some 600000000 africans who do not have access to electricity today just because you got it through a close perspective the small uncertainty presented because of energy excess deficit just concentrated in sub-saharan africa are in fact we have 20 of these the next 5 countries worldwide them are all in sub-saharan africa some of them with an edge in excess rates but in cruel areas below 10 percent but obviously you shanshu the african needs to address requires 1st of all the prioritization of energy

it's a different story at present there is only one nuclear power plant on the entire continent the coburg facility in south africa built in the eighty's but many countries are hoping to expand into atomic energy in the future as a quick and affordable power source now here to discuss with us this with us is daniel schorr he's a director of renewable energy at the african development bank who welcome to the program the 1st thing i want to ask you is whether you could give us a picture of the challenges faced by energy access on the continent what are we looking at. thank you very much an album of any afternoon creeping up from our beach on africa last fall and also the huge energy access deficit we have some 600000000 africans who do not have access to electricity today just to put that into rectal perspective this more than 70 percent of this because of energy x. is concentrated in sub-saharan africa are in fact we have 20 of the least the next 5 countries worldwide are all in sub-saharan africa and the czechs race particular rule areas below 10 percent so that is a huge chance of africa

new york has been honoring those lost a year on from the 1st death from coburg 19 in america's biggest city. photographs of some of the 30000 victims were displayed at a memorial that's been the worst hit city in the worst hit country it's now grappling with a new surge in cases reporting more than 6000 a week. thousands of supporters of brazil's president have joined protests demanding an end to coronavirus restrictions many cities and states have been tightening lockdowns us hospitals are stretched to capacity how much chinese capital beijing as being gulf by a dust storm the sand has blown in from the gobi desert pushing air pollution levels up to the top of the scale much of northern china is being affected and flights have been grounded in the inner mongolia region so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one i want to east inside man must crackdown statement that's watching. an act of youthful defiance. in the morning. the worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle with. syria. the boy who

allegations against italy's costa cruises follows the death of 3 people on board one of the ships from coburg 19 last year a person does of the costa magical claim that they were told about suspected infections and were encouraged by the crew to use the ship's facilities to sure do miss king spoke with one of the passengers. sequoias yes the cruise was a chance to go with my son who was 5 years old to see a magical world and discover the magic of the caribbean instead it was a nightmare i wondered how i would get out of this hell because if i didn't i was going to die stephanie dubois was one of thousands of holiday makers aboard the costa munchak or last year when the covert pandemic hit for her and her then 5 year old son it was supposed to be a dream voyage instead passengers found themselves trapped aboard with little information or what was happening as the virus spread through the ship is all over the refused to inform us that there were cases of covert aboard the ship that they had tested positive there was no suspicion but indeed there were ill people they refused to give us informati

french doctors say hospitals are being pushed to breaking point by the latest influx of coburg 19 patients in an open letter they warned they may soon have to choose which people to save in time a president has to search and not to introduce another full lockdown we have never experienced such a situation even during the worst terrorist attacks in recent years in this medical crisis where there is a glaring mismatch between needs and available resources we will be forced to treat patients in order to save as many lives as possible if you. limit surgery the article is addressed to future patients of the population because in the ill de france region in particular the incidence is growing rapidly there is significant growth and we are afraid we won't be able to cope with the influx of cases there is a gap between the needs of patients and the amount of resources at our disposal this is particularly the case for intensive care beds and this situation has developed against the background of an increase in the number of hospitalized patients we will certainly provide assistance to all patients

he was from france where roughly a 3rd of citizens now say they will refuse to be vaccinated for coburg 19 why would france of all places have among the highest vaccine hesitancy rates in the world it was showing symptoms well before this pandemic and a cocktail of conspiracy theories a growing distrust of elites political and medical has exacerbated that one of the online elements in the mix is a documentary that went viral alleging that this pandemic is all one big plot influencers some of whom traffic in conspiracies are doing their thing on social media the macro government big tech and mainstream news outlets are all trying to bring the french back around knowing that their prospects of defeating this virus may well be right in the listening post daniel tory now on the covert conspiracy theories and vaccine skepticism plaguing friends. nov 2020 france's 2nd lockdown outside police patrol the stark streets. endure t.v. pundits discuss the news just in the possible way out a vaccine that is proving highly effective against the virus. but in many homes people are getting a very differ

the french president has announced a month long locked up starting today after a surge in coburg $1000.00 cases schools will be shut a 7 pm curfew putting in place the restriction 2 are already being implemented in several regions be extended across the country charlotte reports from paris. president machen addressing the french nation or no wednesday night following a meeting of the council of defense where of course they discussed all the options available to them to keep calm backing the 19 pandemic a pandemic that is seen now rates of around 40000 new cases being counted every day here in france that's double the number it was just a month ago so serious that we've had doctors talking about the fact that they may have to wait patients from hospitals now present my corner now it mainland france would be now under a new lockdown as you mentioned from saturday there it's a similar lockdown lockdown light as many people have described it as to the 900 apartments that have already been under these restrictions for the last few weeks including here in paris those restrictions mean that ther

quote coburg 19 vaccine astra zeneca journalist thomas fassbender thinks the timing of the name change is no coincidence. in so many instances possibly patients sitting at the at the vaccination point see on a day with a package and they read astra zeneca vaccine on the package and maybe in the last moment they panicked and refused to accept that that scene so by renaming it there 'd with meat may be. different name and not the astra zeneca on the package or rebranding even a name in the midst of a crisis and we could say that the vaccine. is in the astra zeneca big scene is going through a crisis i would regard as a rather unusual move it is even more confusing when you take into account that there was a recommendation not to give vast as anika for people older than $65.00 not because of blood clots at those time at that time but because of in effectiveness then we had the blood clot subject now it is affecting the the lower 65 age bracket the confusion is absolutely understandable there is not one single person responsible for it but it really comes at a bad time. stria her started t

black leaders says the crowds were largely african-american but the city's mayor says the risk from coburg incidents of violence and gun crime left him with little choice too many people are coming here right well. and too many people are coming here with bad intentions and we have seen images and videos. i've been out there a lot of my colleagues have been as well. although at times it is perfectly fine during the day especially at night there is no question that it becomes a place that feels a little bit out of control or a lot out of control because fuse forced businesses to close restricted access to the beach and may be extended into next month over the last 3 weeks over a 1000 people have been arrested more than half in from out of state the problem with all this is that florida's aggressively encouraged visitors to come here the state's governor rod to scientists openly brags that south florida is booming fueled in part by cheap flights and hotel rooms in a state that's lost over $30000.00 people to cope at 19 what's happening here now is seen as a serious public health risk florida

rollout of vaccines new york has also been honoring those lost a year on from the 1st death from coburg 19 and america's biggest city it's been mourning the deaths of more than 30000 residents photographs of some of the victims were displayed at a memorial it's been the worst hit city in the west a country it's now grappling with a new surge in cases reporting more than 6000 a week. it's a number we can barely imagine. more new yorkers lost then in world war 2. hurricane sandy and 911 put to gather. every family touched in some way and 1st so many families are pain. a pain that is wrong. now syria is entering a 2nd decade of a relentless conflict that's devastating the country there's still no political settlement and while a cease fire is largely holding many fear further military assaults. looks back at how what began as a peaceful uprising descended into war. this is the birthplace of syria's uprising in 2011 but opposition members call this moment the end of the dream of a democratic country it's 2018 and the government has just recaptured the southern province after 7 years of resi

did you is finally feeling better the 62 year old was hospitalized with a severe case of coburg 193 weeks ago please tell me it is hard to be confined you don't see the sun nothing but you just have to deal with it as opposed to a doctor come ology out tells us his patient's condition was serious when he 1st came to this hospital in dunkerque in the north of france with covert 1000 cases rising in the region the hospital has ramped up its capacity working in pens and ignored for one year has left its mark on and his team he considers physically it's hard mentally it's hard it's a marathon in the end is nigh end in sight puppy must persevere we are in a war and now we have to find the ammunition and we have to fight it's of earth so this is just. the doctors and nurses here at this hospital one time kirk's a think so different in comparison to last year they flirt for mistakes and the better equipped but patients are often also younger now and that is mainly due to the spread of the more contagious u.k. virus here in dakar which is only a short boatwright away from britain. don't currently

throughout the block rise we have another green arrow for the best but in brazil this despite a worsening coburg crisis in the nation the reality rose 2 percent to close out the week after inflation data came in above 6 5 percent for february for the 1st time in 4 years and mexico the b.m.v. is up this week the pace that however fell slightly ahead of the next meeting of the country's central bank mexico's deputy finance minister said officials are hoping 80000000 residents would be vaccinated by the end of july and here in the united states we have 3 more green arrows but dow and s. and p. both hit records as president biden signed that long awaited stimulus package while the tech heavy nasdaq recovered from someone from the recent tech sell off u.s. biotech firm novak's shares jumped more than 15 percent prior to market opened after studies show there copa vaccine is highly effective and finally in canada the toronto stock exchange is up this week hitting new record highs benefiting from rising energy prices and the easing inflation concerns heading into the next week we will keep an eye on th

country in fact the director of the centers for disease control and prevention told congress the coburg 19 strain known as b. 117 1st identified in the u.k. now accounts for 25 to 30 percent of u.s. cases for a complete look at how the u.s. is doing you could argue correspondence sites have a. serve brand in the u.s. right now we're seeing an average of 54000 cases per day that's a decrease of 16 percent compared to weeks ago while nationally the number of new cases continued decline you know the trend is actually not down for every single states in fact these 14 states cases a drop anywhere from 10 to 20 percent compared to last week but the good news is that deaths are down 35 percent while hospitalizations also continue to decline now looking at vaccinations where the u.s. is vaccinating it little over $2550000.00 people a day so right now a little over 15 percent of the adult population are now fully vaccinated and as vaccines continue to ramp up states are racing to stay ahead of the growing number of variants specially the very contagious varian which was 1st detected in the u.k.

there are now more than $27000.00 coburg patients in hospitals across the country that's the highest figure this month although more in intensive care is approaching $5000.00 a record for the year the doctor we just heard from who is one of the signatories of the open letter says it's essential not to forget about norm koger patients. as for your medical doctors you'll don't you feel so the sooner the government makes its decisions the better we cannot afford to just wait and see what the result of these measures to curb the increase in infections will be we are already observing a significant increase in the number of cases in addition we don't just have to take care of patients with coronavirus but also patients with more common diseases of the cardiovascular system or with neurological or on collage equal diseases in other words it is necessary to treat both patients with coronavirus and those who do not have covert we will eventually run out of beds. one person has of waterloo been killed and 5 hospitalized after a powerful explosion rocked an apollo building in the russian regio

as new zealand encourages people to call out coburg rule breakers we ask if snitching is becoming a symptom of the pen demick. also this hour the armenian prime minister says he's ready to hold early elections as political unrest over his stand off with the military intensifies. and twitter is in trouble as russia.

absolute sense because our immune system wants to give us time to fight the disease and to recuperate in coburg 19 this is a very long ongoing situation and experts say that you have to take time don't exercise don't do sports most importantly listen to what your body says chronic fatigue is not the only long term consequence of a coronavirus infection. life just hasn't been the same fizzy month since his corona virus infection even the slightest physical exertion leaves him exhausted and 5 months later his recovery remains frustratingly slow see mine used to do a lot of sport but not anymore. done here at knifepoint but the few weeks ago i was out on a very slow one luxury walk with a friend but even that was so strenuous that i struggled to make it back home and up the stairs a soft opted for the next 2 days i was still so exhausted from that stroke that i couldn't do anything other. than that fatigue is one of the aftereffects of a cave in $1000.00 infection busy moms doctor diagnosed lung damage but also found something else. the exhaustion symptoms also fit another illness chronic fatigue

many as 54000 people could be displaced and germany is entering a 5 day lockdown of easter as new coburg 19 cases only essential shots will be allowed to open. so those are the headlines abuse continues on al-jazeera opt out as our world starts with a subject i felt. was . was. was. on the 1st of february 2012th most of our songs and mahmoud traveled from cairo to put sayit team and he was away to animosity and she was out in the. world have good only school limbs the full for had listened to her stead only macanthony out of fluffy and sadly in this thread the needle they are. chat of course in film and smile and a sequel where almost all families when what or how much the same shot from admission. is a made an emotional moment at the time not walkin out in. was pleased that it was not the look ok because you wouldn't get the letter with the if you don't. want that muslim but one has a lot of the but the new mission but then you call us mobile this month if you must and if you caught that he was shot if there's a little less of a. kind of a no i meant that i had to hello to him in a. ver

top stories here on al-jazeera tanzania set to swear in its 1st female president after the death of coburg 900 skeptic john mica foully the government says he suffered a heart failure but the opposition has said that he was sick with covert 19 catherine sawyer has more from the kenyan capital nairobi. this is devastating news to me kindly and they are in shock it's all that we know about people in bass if indeed the moods of transporters they go about their business as they start their day today but it doesn't entirely come as a super crimes president michael flatley went missing in actually late february when people still missing this being the reason of konstanz there was a lot of unflattering teach in tanzania people are asking where is the president but u.s. secretary of state says all options are on the table to get north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons speaking in seoul anthony blinken added china has a critical role to play but blinken meet senior chinese officials in alaska later on thursday it will be the 1st discussions since the biden ministration took office in january and

far harder to achieve one in 4 people in the world who's dying of coburg 19 is a brazilian more than 300000 people have now died there since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. it's recently seen cases and deaths rising to record levels the president jaya both tomorrow who long played down the threat of the virus has announced a committee to tackle the crisis cases in the us have now surpassed 30000000 since the pandemic began public health experts though a cautiously optimistic 3 months into the vaccination rollout covered $9000.00 related deaths of drop below the $1000.00 daily average for the 1st time since november india's report at its highest number of daily infections since the end of october more than $53000.00 cases were reported overnight health officials have detected what's being described as a double mutant variant of the virus a double mutant is an entirely new variant but with the characteristics of 2 other previously identified types astra zeneca slightly downgraded the figure c. of its vaccine to 76 percent it's today's jab was initially thought to be 79 percent e

black leaders says the crowds were largely african-american but the city's mayor says the risk from coburg incidents of violence and gun crime left him with little choice too many people are coming here right well. and too many people are coming here with bad intentions and we have seen images and videos. i've been out there a lot as my colleagues have been as well. although at times it is perfectly fine during the day especially at night there is no question that it becomes a place that feels a little bit out of control or a lot out of control because fuse forced businesses to close restricted access to the beach and may be extended into next month over the last 3 weeks over a 1000 people have been arrested more than half in from out of state the problem with all this is that florida's aggressively encouraged visitors to come here the state's governor rod to scientists openly brags that south florida is booming fueled in part by cheap flights and hotel rooms in a state that's lost over $30000.00 people to cope at 19 what's happening here now is seen as a serious public health risk florida

document showing a traveler has either been vaccinated has been tested negative or has recovered from coburg 19. this is what many northern europeans are dreaming of right now after months of winter darkness and lockdown a holiday to spain would be a refreshing change for many the e.u. wants to make that easier with a digital health certificate for many who make a living from tourism it's a welcome idea if they got a hold of them and then we're done with our islands are fully dependent on foreign tourists so there will be many people who don't agree with but as we're so dependent on tourism and we're suffering from this health crisis that this is typical it will make it easier for foreigners to come and go. the e.u. has made it clear it will not link freedom of movement to vaccines alone what is the function of the certificate it's show was all states whether the person has either been either been vaccinated or a recent negative test or has recovered from covered and thus antibodies we aim to help member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe responsible and trusted man but some

government has previously expressed disappointment after the european union threatened to limit exports of coburg 1000 vaccines to the u.k. there is of course a need for all countries to respect contract law that is the basis of international trade and i'm sure that the european union will live up to the commitments and statements that it is made including president run the lawn herself who has said that there should not be restrictions on companies when they are fulfilling contractual responsibilities of course there should not and we fully. those contracts to be delivered on because there are very significant consequences to contract law well we'll get more european reaction shortly with dominic cain in burn in but 1st let's go to need barker who is outside of that summation center in london in the u.k. government's playing this down not me saying look it's just normal lumps and bumps in the supply chain so why is the u.k. having issues now with its vaccine rollout. there's definitely a move by the government to try and take some of the he said out of all of this describing it as you mentioned