the prime minister eddie roma says albania as early lockdown initially saved the country from the soaring infection rates of western europe. what happened in italy scared us a lot. so it was a bit like running home and we were if you recall, well the 1st country after easily to impose love, now our down was very, very heavy. then we did the many things faster than others because of the, of the table. fear that if we would not control this to be us, but albania didn't have the resources to keep workers at home during the 2nd wave of the virus. herd immunity was achieved through infection at a high cost. officially 2 and a half 1000 people died of cove at 19 in albania. but the us based institute for health metrics and evaluation estimates the figure at nearly $16000.00 because that's how many more people died here over the past 9 months than would normally have died in the same time period. we've heard immunity achieved infection rates plummeted in time for a general election in april and 17 percent of the population has now received at least one vaccine chart. far above the global average

president's role is considered a political but matter has regularly clashed with prime minister eddie roma. nice 10 workers carrying land mines in northern afghanistan has been killed. the government is blaming the taliban, but it denies responsibility. please say. gunman entered the captain baghlan province and opened fire violence has increased in that area. and recently i spoke to james cohen, the chief executive of the hello trust, who those mine work is working for. he says the taliban came to the aid and does not think the armed group is responsible for the attack. i've got the biggest program. we have nearly 3000 and stuff that they were very part of the fact that the africans through employed by us locally that come from all the different communities within afghanistan. and they do amazing work to save lives and we're still livelihoods within that very more effective country, you know, have on and just kind of some is at the moment, most of our work across country we can operate safely. what seems to happened is that this group entered, they wanted to find specific people, the part