of course the serum institute of india is the world's largest maker of vaccines and the head of the serum institute of india has asked u.s. president joe biden on twitter to lift the u.s. embargo on exporting raw materials needed to make over $1000.00 vaccines the u. has also tighten restrictions around vaccine imports how much is all of that having an impact on the manufacturing of vaccines in india cars has a huge and impact i mean the ember point itself right now is if if at this point it is lifted up it is going to play a huge huge role in helping us and it in us to ramp up the production of vaccines and i think that is the plenary this was why he chose to tweet about such a sensitive topic and i think even by didn't was you know he should realize that at this juncture we should keep aside our political defenses and help each other in combating this pandemic because you know outsourcing and insourcing raw materials from these places are embargo has been implemented is really going to help us and hence our production being as doctors and their mentioned we eat by september

your talking about the institute of india. the serum institute of india is the world's largest maker of vaccines, and the head of the institute has asked joe biden on twitter to lift the u.s. embargo on exporting raw materials needed to make covid vaccines. that you has also tightened restrictions. how much is that having an impact on the manufacturing of vaccines in india? >> it has a huge impact. the embargo in itself is going to play a huge role in helping us, and aiding us to ramp up the production of vaccines. that is the plan reason why he chose to tweet about such a sensitive topic. even biden should realize that at this juncture, we should put aside our political differences and help each other in combating this pandemic outsourcing and in sourcing raw materials is going to help us enhance our production. as the doctor mentioned, by september, i said i am not worried about production. i am worried more about transmission. that does not defy the fact that we need to ramp up production as well. right now, we are vaccinate

than the african union is dropping plans to secure astra zeneca vaccines from the serum institute of india it says is not because of concerns about a potential and extremely rare link to blood clots. more than $5000.00 coronavirus infections have now been reported in yemen the un those says it's nowhere near what the real figure is likely to be health workers are trying to increase the amount of testing and vaccine distribution over 5000 covered 1000 cases have now been confirmed since the start of the pandemic this number has doubled in just one month signaling an alarming dangerous surge in the virus fatalities are on the rise with almost a 1000 deaths having been recorded so far 3rd of those have been confirmed since march since mid march we know that these figures greatly underestimate the country's actual disease burden due to limited testing capacities and under reporting as well as challenges of access to any treatment as of today yemen's humanitarian response plan which seeking $3850000000.00 is only 13 percent funded. ruling generals are targeting more of their critics at home and

institute of the second wave. the serum institute in _ of the second wave. the serum institute in india _ of the second wave. e in india is one of- of the second wave. the serum institute in india is one of the l institute in india is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of vaccines including covid vaccines, so what is the vaccination programme like in india at the moment, is it going well or not? there is a huge population to vaccinate, so perhaps it simply can't keep pace, the roll—out with the size of the population? roll-out with the size of the population?— roll-out with the size of the “oulation? ., ., , , population? no, that is absolutely ri . ht. we population? no, that is absolutely right- we have _ population? no, that is absolutely right. we have an _ population? no, that is absolutely right. we have an inoculation i right. we have an inoculation programme that has been under way for the past couple of months and by the end ofjuly, there is a target to vaccinate 300 million people. but we have heard from the head of the serum institute of india which is manufacturing the 0xford—astrazeneca jab

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raw material needs that they have and as requested by india we will provide raw materials for the production of astra zeneca vaccine at serum institute of india. i'm now joined by a correspondent in daily to fall minister is all of this international aid making a difference on the ground. well the students right now actually not making a difference for the last 3 weeks have been experiencing a massive sojourn and has again crossed the country. and that as a scout it's bullshit media looking for oxygen and beds and medicines you can possible just up what you want to use on social media and people are simply not getting that get at the us the us has been to decide it's in india but blocking supply of all materials and that while seeking the why it's just going to push back the nations can help boost india's arts and they should program but right now it just sparking some to see it documented it doesn't constantly just chipping in it's going to leave you and you know him massive price. and massive because rating it's the 6th day now that the number of new cases of is above 300000 but it's said that the real number is even higher yes the

citizens and exported a similar quantity to 76 other countries but political pressure on the serum institute of india the world's largest maker of vaccines to reserve more for domestic use has resulted in delays for up to 90000000 doses which were destined for developing countries under the un backed kovacs program. for a difference of the axis came true crews are going to be rescued. from mr senator from media from the. country. she said. because they have the structure the african union had planned to vaccinate 30 to 35 percent of the continent's population by the end of the year any delay is likely to make that target impossible. now it can provide the all important boosts to african vision or is the africa prize for engineering innovation awards ambition and sowing local challenges with scalable solutions this year's shortlist is out and among the 16 nominees is a group of software developers in ghana see reports. in this small room in ghana capital accra this young tech savvy interpreter is a busy developing software thick team is led by a ram a major he co-founded the company with 2 other colle

manufacturing for vaccines largely through the serum institute of india kodak's facility is expecting to beach 2000000000 doses it through the kovacs mechanism this year and fully half of that more than a 1000000000 doses would come from the serum institute in india of both the astra zeneca as well as novak's and trying to balance that against the needs domestically with a population of 1300000000 and trying to make doses available to other countries around the world puts india and certainly institute in a very difficult position to try to balance all of those needs we need to see more vaccines actually become available with less reliance and what's a really concentrated market right now so some of the good news is that we're starting to see increases in manufacturing capacity of some of the m.r.i. on a platform vaccine so with pfizer and biotech now saying they can get to 2500000000 doses this year hopefully that opens up the possibility of a significant uptick through kovacs where right now it's a fairly small commitment of 40000000 doses that could pot

citizens and exported a similar quantity to 76 other countries but political pressure on the serum institute of india the world's largest maker of vaccines to reserve more for domestic use has resulted in delays for up to 90000000 doses which were destined for developing countries under the un backed kovacs program. for a difference of. crude out and west. from astra zeneca for media from the. country. she said. because then because the structure the african union had planned to vaccinate 30 to 35 percent of the continent's population by the end of the year any delay is likely to make that target impossible. now it can provide the all important boosts to african vision or is the africa prize for engineering innovation awards ambition and sowing local challenges with scalable solutions this year's shortlist is out and among the 16 nominees is a group of software developers in ghana isaac collette see reports. in this small room in ghana's capital accra this young tech savvy interpreter is busy developing software that team is led by a ram a major he co-founded the company with 2 other colleagues in 20

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>> this institute of india has agreed to many fracture 200 million doses of the malaria vaccine.ve huge impact on malaria across the world. bbc news, nee robie -- nairobi. >> the president was killed by rebels in clashes in the northern area of the country. we have reports. reporter: thousands of people gathered in a main square here to pay their last respects for the one who has been there president for the last 30 years -- their president for the last 30 years. his coffin, draped with the national flag. among the mourners, his wife of 16 years, who said an emotional goodbye. >> life has deced your departure, and i must say goodbye. the people have loved you. give into god. reporter: also in attendance, the french president, emmanuel macron. a longtime ally in a war against islamist militants. >> france will never let anyone question and will never let anyone threaten, either today or tomorrow, chad's stability and integrity. reporter: before the ceremony, macron and his counterparts met with his son, mohammed. expressing support for the government antimilitary transition within

the african union is dropping plans to secure astra zeneca vaccines from the serum institute of india and says it's not because of concerns about a potential and extremely rare link to blood clots they will still receive astra zeneca shots through the kovacs assistance scheme. there's been more disorder and fighting on the streets of northern ireland the police fired water cannon to disperse protesters who threw stones and petrol bombs anger over post trade issues has compounded other frustrations. the u.k. has accused me and maher of bullying its own after the envoy was locked out of the embassy in london min has been removed from his job after condemning february's coup. there's anger in turkey after the italian prime minister mario draghi compared president. to a dictator his comments followed an all could meeting on current tuesday which left the european commission president. without someplace to sit votes have been counted for the day in a landmark unionization push. in the u.s. so far the numbers are showing workers have rejected forming a union up next football rebels kim we'l

india. the prime minister wants to see the efforts ramped up that there are reports of vaccine shortages. even with the largest manufacturer in the world, the serum instituteply for domestic use. that will have a knock—on effect for global vaccination efforts too because less doses will be sent overseas. global cases have been rising for seven weeks and the world health organization has warned countries against relaxing restrictions too soon. the trajectory of the pandemic right now is growing exponentially. this is not the situation we want to be in 16 months into a pandemic. and there was more from the director general. the who says the pandemic could be brought under control in a matter of months if governments take a consistent and co—ordinated approach. another of the countries hit badly is brazil. the latest daily death toll of nearly 1500 people is down from a high of over 4000 from last week but cases still seem to be on the rise. the government ofjair bolsonaro has been criticised for its lax response, with hospitals overwhelmed. mark lowen sent us this report, from sao paulo. the cloak of darkness brings no respite when brazil's dead keep coming.

well i reached out to the syrian institute of india and they wouldn't comment specifically about this but they did emphasize that the existing deal is with the kovacs program but over the past 2 weeks we have already seen the number of vaccines whether it's the serum institutes manufacturing with astra zeneca or even the indian manufacture of virus biotech's code vaccine we have seen the number of exports come down drastically exports to foreign countries over the past 2 weeks and that's after the indian government decided it had to prioritise that native people at home and that's the 2nd wave cases of rising much more rapidly than the 1st wave and the indian government was under criticism for export more vaccinations than the number of people it had inoculated at holland and over the past few days we are now hearing reports of vaccine shortages in india the worst affected states might astra the health minister has said that the state's going to run out of that so nations in the next 3 days we've seen $100.00 vaccination centers and one of the worst affected cities of modest recruitin

not speakers of concerns but a potential and extremely rare link supplant quotes the serum institute of india will still supply astra zeneca vaccines the african nations to the kovacs global vaccine sharing facility but there's the problem of press information the head of the africa centers for disease control and prevention says fighting vats remains a priority. i think it's a strong wish from the africa c.d.c. to continue to encourage african countries to take up the vaccines quickly because the i will no longer work quickly because without that snitching quickly then we would not be winning the battle against 19 i think that is really my message to all of us that it's a collective effort it's a collective responsibility and collective accountability that will be able to rule our vaccinations across all member states remember vaccines because that's nation it was an economy. the c.d.c. director also spoke a it's about a sounds just anika and concerns over those potential links to blood clots catherine saw tells us more. he did say that they still recommend that african countries continue us

and the african union is dropping plans to secure astra zeneca vaccines from the institute of india it says it's not because of concerns about potential and extremely rare link to blood clocks. now the sister of a british woman who died from a blood clot after receiving the astra zeneca shocks is still urging people to take the vaccine 59 year old pharmacist neil assholes died 10 days after getting his 1st dose allison are still says she is angry and she's in shock but she's also sure the benefits outweigh the risks. despite what has happened to mail and the impact on our family i still strongly believe that people should still have to have the vaccine if you travel around. the 2nd if you haven't tightened shet make sure the exam hall will save more lives like people having the vaccine not so the best of luck is very very small and my brother was extraordinarily unlucky but even given the situation up on this and i would strongly encourage everybody to go ahead and help if we can if we can save your life one of the family as a result of this then that would be worthwhile. there's been

meanwhile the african union is dropping plans to secure astra zeneca vaccines from the serum institute of india that's the world's biggest supplier be a used disease control body says is not because of concerns about a potential and extremely rare link to blood clots they'll still receive shots through kovacs that's the program that aims to distribute vaccines to poorer countries south africa has already stopped using astra zeneca for me tamil is in johannesburg explaining now how the vaccine program has been slow to recover. earlier this year south africa suspended its vaccination program using the astra zeneca jab that after a new strain was identified here and a trial show that astra zeneca would not be as effective against the strain and since then about a 1000000 doses of that vaccines been sold to other african countries are now so africa says it's been refunded for the other $500000.00 doses that would you to be delivered the government has been criticized for potentially wasting money but it says it's continuing to engage with astra zeneca as they continue to research and any developmen

the institute of india has been saying that biden administration is blocking exports of raw materials that it needs to make covid vaccines. the institute has also urged president biden to lift that embargo. so i wanted to ask -- which raw materials are at issue here? do you have any plans to address their concerns? andy: so dr. fauci, i don't know if you have a response or any details. dr. fauci: you know, andy, i don't. we can get back to you on that, i'm sure. i don't have anything for you right now. andy: let us get back to you. suffice it to say we are taking very seriously the global threat from the pandemic. have been a leader in the funding of covax. has done several bilateral transfers of vaccines. and are looking very hard and taking very seriously all of these complex issues. we'll get back to you on specifics. next question. >> tamara, npr. reporter: thank you so much. i have just a couple but i hopefully won't take too long. one question i have is whether you're seeing rural-urban divide in the uptick in new cases. and also whether that divide is showing up in vaccine hesi

are reports of vaccine shortages, even with the largest manufacturer in the world, the serum institute of indiaa knock—on effect for global vaccination efforts too because less doses will be sent overseas. global cases have been rising for seven weeks and the world health organization has warned countries against relaxing restrictions too soon. the trajectory of the pandemic right now is growing exponentially. this is not the situation we want to be in 16 months into a pandemic. the world health organization says the pandemic could be brought under control in a number of months if governments take a consistent and directed approach. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we take to the waters off cape town with the campaigners trying to preserve an underwater forest. pol pot, one of the century's greatest mass murderers, has reported to have died of natural causes. he and the khmer rouge movement he led were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million cambodians. there have been violent protests in indonesia, where playboy has gone on sale for the first time. traditionalist muslim

question in the sense of the production capacity of the largest manufacturer in the word freedom institute of india a significant bottom trade was used for approximating indian india indian population what are the capacity of that insecurity or so is not good enough to come out of the people so essentially that was the media when you thought of the 2nd that you said it was 55 they're using all that scene so even to gather all the shooting and all that scene number 3 was very 95 of them made it clear evidence i've lost. 60 plus age group part of the 1st time after we were close and saw after 45 years in the power of egypt will these 2 hour or so story to complete their kudos to support sunni earlier and are we going to die in iraq or anything plus the government in india has been severely criticized for how it's managed the crisis you yourself said they provided to some of the political leaders at least and religious leaders a bad example or officials now recognizing how bad things really are. at off issue that they think 19 big cars just by across 15 or have a horse before stray be added back up th

manufacture introduce any that means as required now either one out of the sea or up student institute of india which is the largest class in many factor so that you really need to base up on an actor to need to be increasing demands and that still has to do it actually needs. the government to be able to do so and the other that in many factors also need to base up their production to meet the increase in demand now there are people who are saying that the vaccine to felicity. india is what is going to get us right now which means we are exporting a lot of that scene but the government has denied these claims seeing that gave not exploding that thing that a lot of that are planted by indians but another thing to note is that they want it we saw the king in the cave the number of cases soaring india didn't it's that in export to meet the domestic demand now what impact will this temper a shortage of vaccines have on this new wave of the pandemic well it will definitely leap days 80 raising among people b r barely into the 2nd b. of the pandemic and the floods are saying that the 2nd wave of spr

importantly it can be manufactured at last the large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they will be able to produce 200000000 doses or more on registration of this vaccine and so far very importantly the vaccine looks serve in small numbers 450 trials some jerks we know are planning to go into a much larger trial and try to get there's a scene registered so it can be used ever were quite a bit with with the coronavirus pandemic we're almost getting used to seeing vaccines being developed and then rolled out almost instantaneously given that how soon do you think you can expect this vaccine to get rolled out and start going into the arms of children. well we do know that we are drawing exactly that analogy 4 times as many people died in africa from malaria last year as died from code and africa has registered many. vaccines on emergency legislation so if we could do the same for malaria we would get rid of much faster assuming the the results are good enough because the last malaria vaccine that went into phase 3 took another 6 years to get a decision from the

importantly it can be manufactured at last at a large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they will be able to produce 200000000 doses or more on registration of this vaccine and so far very importantly the vaccine looks serve in small numbers 450 trial some jerks we know are planning to go into a much larger trial to try to get this is seen registered so it can be used for times as many people died in africa from malaria last year has died from code and africa has registered many. vaccines on emergency use legislation so if we could do the same for malaria we would get rid of stretch and much faster assuming the the the results are good enough because the last malaria vaccine went into those 3 took another 6 years to get a decision from the regulator real authority that really is too slow these days the international olympic committee has confirmed that athletes who make political or social justice protests at the take care games could be punished athletes showing their support for naman slike black lies not so happy come common but the i.o.c. say wasting a fes

chain and cries a lot of quality assurance so it's not easy to be able to cut the slack from from their manufacturing in india. from your point of view the fact that the serum institute is not able to meet its commitments when it comes to the kovacs initiative the fact that so many developing countries are counting on these vaccines from india how concerned are you about you know what the situation is in india and how that will affect the rest of the world. ready much concerned as i help get a little because i want everyone should be vaccinated as at me as possible because if even if infection a few get infected after vaccination by section is very mild and it has it has a protection so that everyone should have seen it and i am much more concerned about fluster and foremost well they'd be a people that everyone in india should get vaccinated as empty as possible and after that the whole made the whole world line or that everyone is dependent as you already said that it is a pharmacy of the world so everyone should get vaccinated and because every life i have seen people dying on the roads and it is very difficult to see them die because of this infection so they all

of money available to the countries to cover the $1000.00 vaccine manufacturers that's the institute of india and also to bought a biotech so they can increase production to meet the demand because there have been many reports over the last weeks of vaccine shortages and the government really sees vaccinating people as a key strategy to reducing the numbers which are the greatest they have been since the pandemic began and many states and many states because of those numbers are also introducing more and more restrictions of problem bring is the latest situation in india thanks very much this. russian state media reports in moscow plans to block parts of the black sea to foreign ships for 6 months u.s. as russia could restrict access to a cranium ports in the sea of as of. another attempt by moscow to destabilize the country conflicts between kids forces and russian backed separatists in ukraine's east has been escalating the use top diplomat says russia has deployed 100000 troops along the border to a structured has been to the front line in eastern ukraine and sent this report. ukrainian so

citizens and exported a similar quantity to 76 other countries but political pressure on the serum institute of india the world's largest maker of vaccines to reserve more for domestic use has resulted in delays for up to $90000000.00 doses which were destined for developing countries under the un backed kovacs program. for more in the store in the spring indeed over here correspondent new year ah in mumbai india how effective is this domestic vaccination drive likely to be. so right now as you as you have heard in the study that students students and a lot of pressure because they're osteen deferred action now. just because. of. 1000000 people who want to call what estimates people as half a keystone to 60000000 people in the deep and well back pseudomonas do you think is that because they are the biggest benefactors of them back seen in the war so they have been asking me should they have to get out of their production and right now it's being effective as they have been used to get also but more and more people need to be vaccinated as in a hospital because these are fighting in the biggest cities

of the african countries are using astra zeneca then the issue of this shift from procuring astra zeneca from the seram instituted in india to johnson and johnson came up and he said that last week the african union signed a deal with johnson and johnson to secure a 400000000 doses of vaccine in the 3rd quarter of the year but he said this is in no way linked to the concerns in the problems that are being seen with astra zeneca he said that the program astra zeneca vaccines will still continue being distributed on the continent through the cover program but what is happening is that the african union wants to. you know secure more and more. scenes from different quarters wants to send more bilateral deals because this is all complimentary he says that they want to get in as many vaccines as possible on the continent about as many people as possible can get vaccinated and even if there are some success stories here in africa the vaccination drive is still very low and they want to change that catherine sawyer there with an update for us from nairobi thanks so much catherine well that might all be moot because india has tem

the african union is dropping plans to secure astra zeneca vaccines from the serum institute of india and says it's not because of concerns about a potential and extremely rare link to blood clots will still receive astra zeneca shot through the kovacs assistance scheme. turkey's condemned comments from the italian prime minister mario draghi who's likened president wretch up tire birder one to a dictator druggie accused murder one of humiliating the european commission president obama to lie and she was left without a seat during a meeting and anchor on tuesday turkey's foreign minister and some of the italian ambassador to explain the remarks the u.k. has accused of bullying its own ambassador after the envoy was locked out of the embassy in london chose schwarm in has been removed from his post after condemning the coup on forever the 1st one calling for the release of the democratically elected leader aung san suu kyi votes are being counted for the day in a landmark unionization push at a warehouse in alabama belonging to amazon final results may not be known until friday but so

important lee it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they won't be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in pristina faso where there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawk al-jazeera. u.s. president joe biden's called on global leaders to work together on a transition to clean energy this on the 2nd day of his global summit on climate change biden laid out how washington will achieve the target of cutting carbon emissions in half by the year 2030 he invited climate advisors and business leaders to look at what he called the valuable economic opportunities of tackling the crisis among them bill gates who urged governments and the private sector to work together u.s. lawmakers and activists meanwhile have been rallying against the construction of an oil pipeline in the city of memphis environmental

the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, the serum institute of india, has already agreed to manufacture 0dhiambo, bbc news, nairobi. the reality tv star and transgender activist caitlynjenner has said she intends to run for governor of the us state of california. in a statement on social media, the former athlete said she would provide californians with a road map back to prosperity. the 71—year—old long—time republican is hoping to unseat the democratic governor, gavin newsom, who is facing a recall bid over charges of mishandling the state's coronavirus response. well, the academy awards are taking place this weekend in la. one of the frontrunners for best picture is nomadland, with six 0scar nominations. 0ur west coast correspondent sophie long has been out to the nevada desert to meet some of america's real nomads. nomadland is the story of one widow's journey through grief and the american west. but it's a story that resonates with many who dwell in the vans that dot the desert landscape here. it's kind of simpatico with fern�*s story. my husband died, and we don't have kids. so ij

manufacture introduce and really that means as acquired now either one out of the sea or student institute of india which is the largest that many that are so that you really need to be stuck back to do need to be increasing demands and that still needs to do it actually needs to get out of the government to be able to do so and other that the manufacturers also need to base up their production to meet the increase in demand now there are people who are saying that the vaccine diplomacy. is what is going to get us right now which means we are exporting a lot of that scene but the government has denied these claims saying that gave not exporting works and that a lot of that are planted by indians but another thing to note is that the what we saw the give the number of cases soaring india did want its act in export to meet the domestic demand now what impact will this temporary shortage of vaccines have on this new wave of the pandemic well it will definitely of leap days i'd be raising among people would be our value to the 2nd be endemic and the saying that the 2nd be the spreading much faster than

important lee it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they would be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in brooklyn afonso but there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawke al-jazeera at least 8 people have been killed in. india's border with china that happened off a part of a class you have collapsed and without a cond stays on friday it had a group of laborous who were working on a road indeed all day was able to save 430 people in a rescue operation. rescue teams are continuing their battle against time to find an indonesian submarine that's missing with $53.00 crewmembers on board it's as supplies are calculated to run out search crews are working in waters around the island of bali with several other nations helping but a navy spokesman said that that been no progress israel's army says that

make a lot more money available to the 2000 back to manufacturers in the country so you have institute of india and also to bottom biotech to increase their demand as much as possible to try to get jabs and to people's arms and most recently we've also had some reports on local media through a right to information act from the government reporting that 23 percent of all the vaccines and dhea this year have actually been thrown out the vaccine wastage rate in india up to the 11th of april 23 percent elizabeth thank you very much indeed we'll come back to you as that situation develops for now elizabeth put on thank you. i am. was the jury in the murder trial of former minneapolis police officer derrick sovan has begun its deliberations he's accused of killing george floyd of the kneeling on his neck for more than 9 and a half minutes sean is facing 2 murder charges and manslaughter john hendren has been following the trial in minneapolis. otherwise we are in recess until we hear from the jury in their final words on the most highly charged us civil rights case in decades prosecutors told jurors

important really it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they would be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in brooklyn afonso but there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawk al-jazeera saudi arabia is closing its borders to lebanese fruits and vegetables until further notice the decision comes after illicit drugs in the form of $5300000.00 pills were found in a pomegranate shipment going through. lebanon's agriculture minister says it'll be a big hit with fruit and vegetable exports to saudi arabia worth $24000000.00 a year. for the 1st time a recycled rocket is carrying astronauts to the international space station the space x. mission blasted off from kennedy space center in florida reusing a falcon rocket and dragon capsule this is part of the company's plan to make travel to the final frontier c

manufacturing for vaccines largely through the serum institute of india kodak's facility is expecting to reach 2000000000 doses it through the kovacs mechanism this year and fully half of that more than a 1000000000 doses would come from the serum institute in india of both the astra zeneca as well as novak's and trying to balance that against the needs domestically with a population of 1300000000 and trying to make doses available to other countries around the world puts india and certainly institute in a very difficult position to try to balance all of those needs we need to see more vaccines actually become available with less reliance and what's a really concentrated market right now so some of the good news is that we're starting to see increases in manufacturing capacity of some of the m.r.i. on a platform vaccine so with pfizer and by antec now saying they can get to 2500000000 doses this year hopefully that opens up the possibility of a significant uptick through kovacs where right now it's a fairly small commitment of 40000000 doses that could po

the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, the serum institute of india, has already agreed to manufacturea 0dhiambo, bbc news, nairobi. the french national anti—terrorist prosecutor has taken charge of an inquiry into the fatal stabbing of a policewoman near paris. police officers shot dead the tunisian attacker after he stabbed her in the throat at the entrance of a police station in rambouillet, south—west of the capital. paying tribute to the 49—year—old officer, the prime minister, jean castex, said france had lost one of its everyday heroines to a barbaric and cowardly act. translation: my first thoughts go to the family of this official - and to all those close to her. i came to the scene immediately with the interior minister to give all our support to the officers and officials of the rambouillet police station, who as you can imagine, have been very hard hit by what's happened. i would like to pay a great tribute to the police officers who managed to immediately neutralise the perpetrator. i want to say to all french people that our determination to fight against terrorism in all

kovacs it sets other countries outside of that scheme as well it is india really has become though workhorse of manufacturing for vaccines largely through the serum institute of india kodak's facility that you mentioned is expecting to reach 2000000000 doses it through that kovacs mechanism this year and fully half of that more than a 1000000000 doses would come from the serum institute in india of both the astra zeneca as well as novak's and trying to balance that against the needs domestically with a population of 1300000000 and trying to make doses available to other countries around the world puts india and certainly institute in a very difficult position to try to balance all of those needs. i mean how disastrous could this be for africa because we're talking about some of the world's poorest countries they want to vaccinate countries in africa want to vaccinate 35 percent of that population by the end of the ad that's clearly not going to happen if astra zeneca doses being produced by the serum is to cheat at being essentially taken over by the indian government. yes we absolutely have to think about other contingencies so we need to see more back sc

importantly it can be manufactured that loss at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they will be able to produce 200000000 doses or more on registration of this vaccine and so far very importantly the vaccine looks serve in small numbers 450 trials some chicks we know are planning to go into a much larger trial to try to get this magazine registered so it can be used for times as many people died in africa from malaria last year has died from coated and africa has registered many. vaccines on emergency use legislation so if we could do the same for malaria we would get rid of much faster assuming the the the results are good enough because the last malaria vaccine went into phase 3 took another 6 years to get a decision from the regulator it's already that really is too slow these days. nigeria is one of the west countries affected by malaria al jazeera has more on that from a budget. it's a very serious problem niger accounts for more than 20 percent of cases global cases and nearly 20 percent. of deaths here and more than half the population is a great s

important really it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they will be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in brooklyn afonso where there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawke al-jazeera. at least 4 people have been killed including a child after an air force helicopter crashed into a house in a farming area the helicopter was on a training mission with 2 pilots and a technician when it disappeared from radar zimbabwe's air force complained its helicopters and fighter jets are old and they haven't been able to buy new ones because of sanctions from western countries. u.s. president joe biden has called on global leaders to work together on a transition to clean energy during the 2nd day of a global summit on climate change biden laid out how washington will achieve its talkative cutting carbon emiss

important lee it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they would be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in pristina faso where there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawk al-jazeera. at least 8 people have died after an avalanche near india's border with china it happened after part of a classy a collapsed in with our current on friday it hit a group of labor as it will working on a road india's army was able to save 430 people in a rescue operation. israel's army says that it struck an observation post belonging to hamas in the gaza strip israel says that it was responding to at least 10 rockets which have been fired from the palestinian territory it's the worst cross border violence in months some were shot down by israel's. defense system u.s. president joe biden has called on global leaders t

important lee it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today that they would be able to produce 200000000 doses or more. making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research. entered greek you know found so good there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough no inches for science but for humanity. 0. so history is being made in earth orbit as for astronauts travel to the international space station on a recycled rocket for the 1st time the space x. mission blasted off from the kennedy space center in florida reusing a falcon rocket and dragon capsule there's only gallagher reports from florida it's hoped it could dramatically cut the cost a few just space travel. and launches from the kennedy space center in florida are among the most spectacular 3 to one. on friday mornings blast off did not disappoint this is the 3rd crude launch from space 6 in less than 12 months the 1st time the company reuse their fall can 9 rocket and

important really it can be manufactured at last at large scale and we're hearing from the syrian institute of india today they would be able to produce 200000000 doses or more making the vaccine affordable for those who need it most will be the next challenge still for this small clinic research center in brooklyn afonso but there have been decades of efforts against malaria this experimental vaccine is a breakthrough not just for science but for humanity nicholas hawke al-jazeera chad's long time president intrastate he has been laid to rest he ruled for 30 years it was a close ally of france he died from injuries sustained on the battlefield last weekend now his son how met interstate he is in power and will lead a transitional military council for the next 18 months the opposition there described the succession as a military coup ever morgan but the support from in germany. with these charts chad's army and people said farewell to their former leader. 4 days after the announcement of his death a funeral service for the president of 3 decades was held in the capital's largest public square. it wa