viney: private room, better food, those sorts of things, a choice of menu.some of it is about choice of your own doctors. but some of it is actually about getting quicker access. kozicki: the whole sense of waiting for me, like, with endometriosis you could be in bed, like, chronic pain. so, that could mean a year without working... two years without working. and that's not feasible either. brangham: a private health plan makes sense for sarah kozicki. she's training to become a nurse, and every couple of years, she needs a costly surgery for endometriosis, which is a painful disorder involving the uterus. kozicki: so, for that, i choose to ve private health insurance that i can go and have surgery when i need to have surgery. i can do it in a private hospital, or do it in a public hospital as a private patient, and i get tohoose my specialist. brangham: we were in australia in mid-march of last year, right as the who declared that covid-19 was officially a "global pandemic." there were only about 200 official cases in the country at that point, but infectio

unlikely of course from the russian point of view from the point of view of the russian authorities viney is in prison for embezzlement charges. himself says that those are politically motivated but letting him free would be tantamount to admitting that there is essentially no rule of law in russia so i think that's very unlikely to happen but if you are asking me whether protests like the ones that we saw last night make a difference to the kremlin i think they do make some difference the kremlin is certainly concerned i think now having seen people taking to the streets not only in moscow and st petersburg where protests are traditional but across the entire country in cities across the entire country so it can have i think in effect public opinion matters to the kremlin especially ahead of duma elections which are planned for this coming september we could see some limited concessions from the kremlin for example they could meet another one of the protesters demands which is to let me see one of his doctors and what about the opposition does the russian opposition think it has enough s

worth pointing out that most russians or many russians at least still don't really know who i see now viney is most people aren't necessarily following the story state t.v. doesn't report on it even though he has you know gained more refuge here i think recently with the poisoning last year with his return to russia and also his arrest more people do now know him but among his supporters i think many of those people will be now breathing a sigh of relief after all this week we saw big protests across the country calling for doctors to be able to see alex a nonviolent people were really worried at those protests that he could be dying some people were even on hunger strike with him over a 100 people across roth russia apparently were on hunger strike with him so i think those people will certainly be very relieved at this announcement d.w. correspondent reporting from moscow thank you. and we turn our attention now to india that country has reported the world's highest daily count of new coronavirus cases for the 2nd day in a row more than 330000 new infections were recorded in the past 24 h

happening are pretty much slim to none after all from the point of view of the russian authorities viney is in prison on embezzlement charges which of course self say it says are politically motivated letting him free would be tantamount to essentially admitting that there is no rule of law in russia but if you're asking me whether street protests can have an effect in russia i think they can have a limited effect the kremlin certainly will be concerned after the protests that took place yesterday across russia not just in russia's biggest cities but also in smaller cities as we just saw in that report for the kremlin public opinion does matter especially ahead of the upcoming duma elections which are scheduled for september so we may see some sort of limited concession he won't be let free but perhaps eventually he could be allowed to see his doctor is which is one of his key demands. does the russian opposition the vollies supporters think that they have enough support from the international community notably from the united states the european union. i think international support is d