to authorize with our member states these vaccine exports to berlin our dominant cain joins us live and could tell us more about what's behind these export controls . it's a very strange situation isn't it that one e.u. agency positively referring to the astra zeneca vaccine as being a key part in our 3rd vaccine approved for use inside the e.u. supposedly to provide relief to people that there's extra weapon as it were in the fight against corona virus and yet a colleague of hers from a different part of the e.u. institutions effectively introducing export controls on vaccines created in the e.u. well that appears to be particularly targeted exactly at astra zeneca although of course there is another vaccine which is created in the e.u. which is the bio on tech pfizer vaccine which was the 1st one to be approved for use anywhere in the world well now you have the scenario where the people making this vaccine we were hearing about the approval in amsterdam but disapproval as it were in one sense or disagreement about what's happening with astra zeneca from brussels the point here is the

going to marco prepares to step aside after 16 years at the helm as for a correspondent in berlin dominic cain so tell us who the new leader of the c.d.u. is and which direction will he be taking the party. the man the christian democrats have just chosen as their new party leader has been seen by very many people in germany as the continuity candidate the man who if given the chance would keep his party but also his country on the same sort of course that angular magical has set is this country and her party for the best part of the last 15 years or so the point here is that in essence what mr lasher it is doing now is not replacing angle americal as chancellor or as chancellor candidates he is merely filling the position of the actual leadership of his party which had been in the hands of another person and that can't count on bar for the past 2 years also but now mr lasher it is the choice of his party at least the delegates at this conference but there are many many journeys ahead as it were many steps ahead for him as he plots his way as the new party leader. he's led germany's most popul

bring in our correspondents alexandra go for is in moscow we'll talk to her in just a moment 1st dominic cain joins us from berlin so just looking at those pictures pictures dom 0 social distancing onboard the aircraft but everyone is wearing a mask so that's a plus assuming he doesn't get detained do we know what mr novell the is expecting missed in a volley will do when he gets off the plane. well the point that mr advani was quite clear in making money announce to the world that he intended to fly back to moscow was that nothing could prevent him from going back that he always knew in his heart of hearts that he was going to go back to moscow once he got to a position with russia or at least once he felt able to do so that was his firm intention and he has as we know been a staunch critic of the government of president vladimir putin for some considerable time the point also is that he's leaving germany but in so doing he knows that the german government is saying that it has furnished its russian counterpart the or thora tease in russia with copious amounts of evidence given by mr vanney

because virus mutations have been found in germany the country's been unlocked and since november dominic cain has more from berlin. overall not just in berlin but across the entire country the trend certainly in the course of the last week or so perhaps 10 days has been slowly downward so that. $859.00 deaths announced today but there were fewer and fewer today than the previous day than they were for that and so forth and so there is a feeling of among some analysts some scientists that perhaps the rate of new infections the rates of new deaths is starting to stabilize generally the point behind what angle america and coalition partners and ministerial partners have been saying is that their view is that what is really concerning them is the potential for the new variant 1st and identified in the u.k. to get to really take hold in germany that explains why they have been insisting upon the wearing of masks that are stronger than just fabric masks where they refer to the f f p 2 mask requirement which will come into force in here in berlin on sunday so that it that informs the perspective tha

chancellor in elections later this year and a murky old set to step aside after 16 years in power dominic cain reports now from berlin. he's led germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia finale for years now arm in russia will soon be leading his national party with a clear direction in mind in mid after i'm voting divorced i'm aware of the responsibility of the strobe and i will give my all to walk to give a through this year to win the regional election in only a few short weeks and make sure that we will win the next general elections and provide the chancellor of germany thanks although this vote needs to be confirmed by the entire party membership on friday for many arm in russia is a continuity candidate his slogan was that i am the representative of the executive branch so if you vote for me you can be sure you get a leader you get someone actually who had won elections so none of the other 2 candidates actually ever won an election. governing in his state during the pandemic has been an ordeal for lash it the numbers of infections and deaths there have been among the highest

would be delayed its lead to threats of export blocks and arguments over contracts al-jazeera is dominant cain has more on this now from the german capital ballin. astra zeneca vaccine is not officially available for use in across the entire e.u. until it's approved by the e.u. now the approval process is supposed to happen tomorrow on friday but interestingly we have seen here in berlin that the scientific commission which advises the german government the german health ministry about vaccine approvals and that sort of thing is said that because of an insufficiency of data regarding the way that the vaccine operates in those over 65 that it believes that the vaccine should not be approved for those over $65.00 until more data has been collated and has been analyzed now interesting lee the federal health minister who in effect that commission reports to the end sram the federal health minister has said has played down this these suggestions that there's anything definitive there because of course the decision might devolve to him anyway certainly in germany and he said well let's wait to see h

there things will have to go for all this white the government stated commitment to a green future dominic cain al-jazeera. well joining us now from berlin is kind my birds he's president of the german league for nature animal and environment protection nemesis not welcome to the program 1st of all what do you make of this leveling off of emissions in 2019 is it just a blip we could be back this year to more burgeoning emissions you know and i think at the moment where in a very critical phase from a climate perspective we can see that there is something happening in the international economy going more deeply into the changing transport sector going more deeply into changes in electricity sector and perhaps this is one of the reasons why the carbon dioxid and site emissions are not rising as much anymore as they have been done in the last years and although there are certain changes with more coal in the maze leading towards renewables yet we have $50000000000.00 being pushed towards new coal fired production yeah and we still have 500000000000 dollars each year that are subsidizing the fossil

him ahead of the course verdict he shot the question democrat politician outside his own home dominic cain is following that story from berlin. this is a case which shocked many people around this country the murder of a popular german center right politician who had been advocating for pro-immigration and advocating in favor of receiving refugees into the community the man who killed him who the court has decided murdered him well this person had admitted the killing but in very different types of evidence being given had changed his story time and again but the courts in reaching its verdict and then passing sentence said that it believed that this was a man from the far right that this was a known neo nazi the court had been told that the police had been aware of this individual stefan that he had far right views it's also worth making the point here that mr lucas had himself sensed that he had received threats to his life had received all sorts of different comments to him by people from the far right once his views about immigration had become clear and now as i say this case really s

tussles with the company of the delayed supplies and faces criticism of a slow roll out there is dominate cain has more now from berlin. this is the astra zeneca vaccine in use available to british patients most at risk from covert since late last month and from now on officially so too for many e.u. citizens most at risk from the pandemic it's a real pleasure to be here and to announce the 3rd positive opinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of vaccines available to e.u. and a member states which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e.u. except that far fewer e.u. citizens will be able to receive the vaccine for the next few months after the company cut back what it could deliver to the block astra zeneca a british swedish firm blames production problems at some of its plants and said it can only deliver fewer than half of the $80000000.00 doses promised the europeans have complained and decided to protect all vaccine stocks made on their territory as a commission because a lot of strictly targete

moscow as alexandra go for we begin however in berlin with correspondent there dominic cain dominic do we know where he is right now his flight is due to depart in the next half hour or so so presumably he's actually physically at the airport yes that is the safe presumption there are some reports that suggest that german police will be giving him security right the way up to the door of the plane so high stakes as it were in this particular scenario and it's also worth pointing out that in so far as the wider elements of this case are concerned we know that the german justice ministry has this weekend said that it has provided the russian or thora tease with considerable details transcripts of interviews that they performed with mr van they once he had recovered sufficiently to be able to speak to them and also says the german justice ministry it has sent on to the russian or thora he's certain items of clothing and blood samples from mr nirvana and they say that this particular crime in their words needs to be solved in russia that it is in russia that this must be solved and that ch

under quarantine on saturday after an outbreak of the more infectious variant was found there dominic cain joins us live from berlin dominic how are these variant infection numbers unpacking. so far the vast majority of the infections that are announced every day have been from the original corona virus no doctor virus it and the trend of those infections being announced every day has been downward for some considerable time and yet the main concern emerging now from ministerial circles but in berlin birds elsewhere in germany too is about the new variant 1st identified in the united kingdom this one hospital in berlin not very far away from the studio that i'm broadcasting to you from now well that's in fact those infections were 1st announced were 1st discovered rather some time ago more than a week ago and yet the hospital was placed into quarantine only at the weekend and that has sparked some concern about how many of the people inside that hospital are population in other words of patients but also a staff of 1500 perhaps more than that of how much contact they may have had with the

that was dominic cain there from berlin. the european commission president is urging health ministers from eve member states to stick to a joint strategy on coronavirus vaccines the e.u. is negotiating contracts with vaccine developers as a block but some members may be breaking away to make their own deals with suppliers europe's lead negotiator for vaccine contracts is briefing m.b.p.s. on the latest developments police in the u.k. will be getting tougher on lockdown rule breakers there london's police chief says people who breach restrictions will be more likely to be fined and the policing minister hasn't ruled out stricter measures either infections are rising sharply in the u.k. the office of national statistics says there are more than $90000.00 excess deaths last year that's the highest since world war 2 paul brennan has more from london. well kit malthouse the crime of policing minister has been doing the rounds of the broadcast studios this morning and outlining the fact that from his point of view the government i

completely meaning arm in lash it has much to do if he wants to replace angela merkel in the autumn dominic cain al-jazeera. let's speak now to mark a voter up who's the author of angry merkel europe's most influential leader joins us from london for skype. lash it gets his party's selection do you think he can go on to get the big ticket of chancellor. i think that's an open question really didn't speak ill just because i mean the german magazine said it's going to be what he has in front of him that is the battle of his life there is marco certifying the c.s.u. as a c.s.u. whenever they've had the chance to candide that they have lost big so in that sense historically he would have a better chance but they also again spawn who is the most popular politician in germany has the health minister and he is been doing a really good job so i think it's going to be quite tricky for him to to get the. get the role of the cat charles for camp at the sea. and dr markel when she was elected leader back in in the beginning of the century did not get the chance to run the 1st time around she had to way wait

correspondent dominic cain joins us live from the bureau in berlin morning dom so what effects has the trumpet ministration at on relations with the e.u. well most analysts both in the e.u. and based on continental europe would say a pretty poisonous effect on relations that it's been a struggle for many of the leaders of the e.u. over the course of the past 4 years who felt that well we heard it there from from the lion from from the sort of underline the president of the european commission that they're looking forward to having a friend in the white house well contrast that the obvious implication being that they did not believe that they had a friend in the white house in the previous 4 years and it not just from an e.u. perspective that that approach will change that that that hope for a change approach will come also from the european countries who will have looked back on the previous 4 years under the trumpet ministration and some of them would have shattered certainly that is the approach that that's the opinion that many analysts have suggested has been the feeling behind the

original deal in 2015 as vice president soon he will have to react as president in his own right dominic cain al-jazeera early in. iran says its nuclear projects are for civilian purposes and not to attain weapons but the whole point of the 2015 deal was to restrict iran's path to a nuclear bomb and lift sanctions once you are a new ms enrich to 20 percent to get much easier to increase its purity and 90 percent refinement needed to make nuclear weapons is then just a technical step away but you also need enough fissile material to make a bomb in 2019 iran broke the deals limit on how much enrich uranium it can hold the i.a.e.a. said in november that iran stockpile was at 2442 kilos or than 10 times the limit set by the nuclear pact how long it could take for iran to assemble a bomb is still unclear. a u.k. court says wiki leaks founder julian assange will not be extradited to the us he's wanted on espionage charges for the publication of thousands of secret american military documents in 20102011 us authorities are expected to appeal against the decision he's back or reports from outside the

virus mutations that have been found in germany the country has been in lockdown since november dominic cain has more now from berlin. overall not just in berlin but across the entire country the trend certainly in the course of the last week or so perhaps 10 days has been slowly downward so that. $859.00 deaths announced today but there were fewer and that there are fewer today than the previous days and david for that and so forth and so there is a feeling of among some analysts some scientists that perhaps the rate of new infections the rates of new deaths is starting to stabilize generally the point behind what angle america and coalition partners and to ministerial partners have been saying is that their view is that what is really concerning them is the potential for the new variant 1st and identified in the u.k. to get to really take hold in germany that explains why they have been insisting upon the wearing of masks that are stronger than just fabric masks that what they refer to the f f p 2 mask requirement which will come into force in here in berlin on sunday so that it that infor

perspective we have dominic cain in berlin to bring us the reaction from europe with harry for sit in israel with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been speaking but 1st in tehran we have to also jabari iran had told the i.a.e.a. that it was planning to do this but is the timing a surprise. it certainly is it was something we certainly didn't expect to hear we heard from the government spokesperson eileen rebbie who told a local news outlet that the orders have come from president hassan rouhani to start this process of the 4 doe nuclear sites to begin the enrichment capabilities of up to 20 percent now it's important to note that the iranians had given a letter to the i.a.e.a. on december 30th saying they were going to do this and based on a law that was passed in parliament in early december there were a few things that the parliament wanted to see happen with the country's nuclear program one was to go back up to 20 percent enrichment capabilities but also to limit the additional protocols that iran was abiding by when it came to spec sions in the country that meant

charlie angela will join us from london's heathrow airport harry forceable be live in west jerusalem dominic cain will join us from berlin and step vasant is live in amsterdam 1st this report from jessica washington in jakarta indonesia are now supporting 1000000 cases of covert 90. on indonesia's most populous island java hospitals are stretched to their limits he's covered 900 patients were able to get treatment but many others are missing out added to the not fastened on among we have rejected so many people in the hospital reject patients every day because there's nothing else we can do the doctors having to reject critically ill patients is a heavy burden for the new well i gotta say and it makes me so sad to turn down patients i read the files of patients who are referred to our hospital they can hardly breathe but we cannot help them. the indonesian hospitals association says hospitals on the island of java and bali are close to collapse doctors are forced to turn away patients because of a lack of intensive care unit beds and a shortage of health care workers. indonesia's covert 19 task f

are just taught to cain reporting live from berlin dominic many thanks indeed. pakistan's supreme court has upheld an earlier decision to release a man convicted then acquitted of murdering the wall street journal reporter daniel pearl in 2002 john just dismissed efforts by danielle pols family and the pakistan government to keep the british born ahmed omar saeed sheikh in jail the wall street journal's editor in chief has reacted calling it an infuriating it in and unjust decision he says they'll continue to support efforts to hold to account those responsible for the brutal murder of danny fizzles the key is a lawyer for the parents of the late daniel pearl he's also a constitutional criminal lawyer and joins us now live from karachi in pakistan good to have you with us. first of all your reaction to this court order upholding the decision to release this man my 1st reaction is of course one of sadness that the agony of the bad and so all the late daniel. has not ended has not been ignited again because of this judgment which is daily a travesty of justice. on

let's go to europe then out as there is talk that cain is in berlin what's been the reaction from the other signatories to the 2015 you clear deal dominic. first reaction from a european perspective came from the e.u. from a source in the european commission saying that this is a considerable step away from the terms of the agreements which was thrashed out by the 3 european countries britain france germany china russia and of course america the united states under the barack obama administration the hasn't as yet been formal reaction from germany at least nothing from the foreign ministry or indeed the chancellery what's interesting is that before the announcement of this decision in tehran to enrich 20 percent before the christmas holidays the foreign minister here heikal massive the social democrats and said that he felt that there was a window of opportunity in the new year for the deal to be saved but he said the iranians miss not over overplay their hand now obviously those remarks were made prior to this morning's announcement of the decision to enrich 20 percent which effectively means as we were hearing from those that iran is