in other news the world health . news the world health organization says the number of deaths from theimes higher than official figures suggest. the current official number is around 3.5 million. but after analysing what are known as excess deaths by comparing the number of dust to the predicted average the world health organization says a more realistic figure would be between six and 8 million. dr samira asma is assistant to the who director general — and a leading specialist on data and analytics. as of today we have about 3.4 million deaths that are currently reported which is close to as he said to— three times higher. this is likely a significant undercount and the world health organization along with the un and manyexperts around the world are looking at it very closely and gathering data from countries and it is always changing to get the actual count of the human toll of the pandemic even before the pandemic it was a challenge to get the cause of death and registered deaths. so there is a lot of underlying reasons for us not to have a true count at the moment but countries are

this is the world health organization on that. g , ., world health organization on that.ricans have - that. just set of latin | americans have been that. just set of latin - americans have been fully vaccinated against covid—i9. and we still have a long way to go to ensure that everyone is protected. go to ensure that everyone is protected-— protected. the united states has promised _ protected. the united states has promised to _ protected. the united states has promised to send - protected. the united states has promised to send 80 - protected. the united states - has promised to send 80 million vaccine doses to other nations by the end ofjune and says latin america will be a priority. courtney bembridge, bbc news. nigeria's chief of army staff, lieutenant general ibrahim attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash. nigeria's military said one of its aircraft came down near kaduna airport. an unknown number of the general�*s aides were also killed. the cause of the crash is under investigation. general attahiru was appointed to lead the nigerian military injanuary in a s

this is the world health organization on that.still have a long way to go to ensure that everyone is protected. the united states has promised to send 80 million vaccine doses to other nations by the end ofjune, and says latin america will be a priority. courtney bembridge, bbc news. to myanmar now, where the militaryjunta regime will dissolve opposition leader aung san suu kyi�*s national league for democracy party — that�*s according to local media and the shadow government there. thejunta overthrew aung san suu kyi after november�*s elections, in which she won a landslide victory, claiming voterfraud. they have promised to hold new elections in two years, but it looks unlikely that ms suu kyi, who has been under house arrest since the military coup, would be allowed to run. kenneth roth is the executive director of human rights watch and gave me his reaction. it�*s important to recall that the november elections were won overwhelmingly by aung san suu kyi�*s party, the national league for democracy. indeed, the head of the mili

prime minister's residence in the town but the interesting thing there the director general of the world health organization there outlining the challenges facing the kovacs vaccination program the kovacs vaccination program is the u.n. driven w health world health organization driven vaccination program getting the vaccines into the poor countries around the world he was also saying that what should happen now is that the g 7 when they meet and get together in a month's time they have got to come up with a role for themselves being the driving force when it comes to financing the shortages and generating more vaccine and get over the situation where we're seeing a shortage of vaccines around the world he knows of course that there is a g. 7 meeting going on right now the 1st in 2 years in london more on that for you just as soon as we can. at least 26 people have died after 2 boats collided in central bangladesh police say an overcrowded speedboat and a vessel transporting sand got into an accident that happened on the part of my river in the my daddy poor districts around 30 passengers were o

the head of the world health organization condemns what he says is the scandalous inequity of access to covid vaccinations around the world. in gaza, we meet one community grieving the loss of seven children and one young man in the recent clashes with israel. and he's sold more than 125 million records and his songs have been recorded more than 6,000 times. american icon bob dylan turns 80. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the european union has agreed to hit belarus with sanctions after the forced re—routing of a ryanair flight, in order to capture one of the passengers on board. the eu is also urging airlines to avoid the country's airspace. the passenger detained was roman protasevich, a 26—year—old journalist who's a well—known critic of president alexander lukashenko. eu leaders described the incident as "state terrorism" and "aviation piracy". 0ur europe correspondent jean mackenzie has the latest. armed police greet the arrivals on board the plane belarus is accused of hijacking, all to capture this young man — roman protasevich. a journalist and political refugee, he fled bela

if history of the world health organization.— organization.were very limited means of - organization. if there were l very limited means of access actually to that initial group that went to investigate what hope is there full and full and transparent and cooperative scenario for another investigation to take place to actually establish where the virus came from?— actually establish where the virus came from? first, we need to establish _ virus came from? first, we need to establish that _ virus came from? first, we need to establish that is _ virus came from? first, we need to establish that is what - virus came from? first, we need to establish that is what is - to establish that is what is required and the world health assembly is meeting now, representatives of governments are meeting and the world health assembly should be demanding the kind of full investigation that is required. then, the question is will china continue its ongoing cover—up or will china open up? i certainly hope that china will end its practice for the last almost a ye

you have to have you know animals consent is just heard basically every country is part of the world health organization and the u.s. is not the only country to up until this point oppose the temporary lifting of the patent rules nonetheless the urgency is there we've seen what's happening in india how desperate the situation is there and india is one of the largest suppliers of vaccines to the world they stop exporting vaccines in order to supply their own country kovacs the international consortium of vaccine supply to lower and middle income countries say they need 20000000 vaccines just in discordia alone to make up for that shortfall so there's certainly a lot of demand to ramp up supply and lifting patents patent research is it is seen as one way of doing it and of course the pharma industry is hugely against this you know they've making a lot of money out of the vaccine development also it should be said it costs a lot of money to develop these vaccines as well well you know glue kroft thank you . and here are some other developments in the pandemic india has reported over 412000 new

this is the world health organization on that.9. and we still have a long way to go to ensure that everyone is protected. the united states has promised to send 80 million vaccine doses to other nations by the end ofjune, and says courtney bembridge, bbc news. raised their ambitions on tackling climate change. g7 environment ministers say they'll now aim to keep the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees celsius — a much more demanding target than the 2 degrees celsius they are currently committed to. it'll mean they'll need to work much harder to cut emissions now, rather than putting things off for the future. so what action will they take? our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt has been taking a look. the uk is due to host a landmark international climate conference in glasgow in november. so here are the key commitments made today. first off, coal. india and many other developing countries receive subsidies for polluting coal plants from foreign donors, including japan. today, the environment ministers of the uk

biden has urged the world health organization to launch a second investigation.lier this year the who concluded the theory was unlikely while acknowledging the scientists based difficulties getting access to data from china. we will bring in our guest in a moment but first a report. >> with more than 50% of u.s. adults not vaccinated, president joe biden is turning his focus to the origins of covid-19. he has given his team at 90 days to investigate how and where the virus first emerged. most controversially, the report will look at whether the virus was leaked from of this chinese lab in wuhan. >> china needed to provide more access to the lab, cooperate more fully with the scientific investigators and we do not think they have met that standard. >> was dismissed as a conspiracy theory, now leading scientists say the possibility of a lab leak should not be unaware -- ignored. >> we are hearing about people who work at the lab becoming sick with an illness, we have seen the chinese government be reticent to repress the origins of the virus. all street journal rep

and this is likely a significant undercount and the world health organisation, along with the un and experts around the world are looking at it very closely and gathering data and it is challenging to get the true count, the human toll of the pandemic even before the pandemic it was a challenge to get the cause of death and register deaths. there are a lot of underlying reasons for us not to have a true count at the moment but countries are working hard to submit the data to the who and we are hoping by the end of this year we will have a true global count but also, countries's estimates of the pandemic, both direct and indirect, the reason that we have data for latin america and europe, including americas and europe, including americas and europe, is because we have good underlying data systems at the moment. but we are working with other regions to gather the data that is needed. one year on from a crash involving a pakistan international airlines flight in karachi, many families are still seeking justice. 97 people on board were killed, as well as one person on the ground. the cras

us not going to the world health organization and ask what happened?ganization is meeting right now, martha. the one country that sounded the alarm that said this is what is happening, there's human-to-human transmission, taiwan is still not being to allowed be an observer in that meeting. how is that possible? i'd be railing at the u.n. right now. >> martha: an interesting point. i would encourage everyone to think about the scientists that were silenced or may have died. some died in covid before they were speaking out about what they saw going on in china. so would you use this as olympics leverage, you think the white house needs to say unless we get the answers we want, we're not coming, we're not showing up for your international olympic moment? >> we should absolutely boycott the chinese olympics. other allies and friends should do it. australia has asked for an investigation and trying to work with us. canada has asked for a boycott go to japan, india and other allies and say look, until we have a full investigation of that lab, until we know w

of challenges in addressing this and demick, and i think the world knows that now and preparedness is one of our absolute most important health issues in the world. and moving forward, we're going to need to, we have a new institution or, or new ways for current institutions to work and to be more effective. we've seen it before with the global fund, which, you know, with the gobby alliance organizations that were set up in some ways to, to, to fill in for shortcomings and existing organizations and agencies. jacqueline way out of time manufacturing date for being with us. talk to how came javala victor, girl and jeffrey lazarus. as always, thank you to for watching. don't forget you can see the program again at any time just by going to the website out of here a dot com. and for further discussion, join us at our facebook page, you'll find that at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. and you can join the conversation on twitter handle at ha, inside story for me, adrian, for again, the whole team here though. thanks for watching. i'll see you bye for now. the news news, news news . the broker started cheerfully in

world knows it now. and demick preparedness is one of our absolute most important health issues in the world and moving forward. so we're going to need to, we have a new institution or, or new ways for current institutions to work and to be more effective. we've seen it before with the global fund, which, you know, with the gobby alliance organizations that were set up in some ways to, to, to fill in for shortcomings and existing organizations and agencies. gentleman way out of time. many thanks for being with us. talk to how came javala, victor go and jeffrey lazarus as always, thank you to for watching. don't forget you can see the program again at any time just by going to the website out here a dot com. and for further discussion, join us that our facebook page, you'll find that at facebook dot com forward slash a j inside story. and you can join the conversation on twitter handle at ha, inside story for me, adrian against the whole team. here though, thanks for watching the news me be part of the debate to end closing in the us or in the u. k, because it will just come back again when no topic is off the

world health organisation, or a link to it, are ready to be called to account, and this is the firstt says, and so obviously, it has just come out, and it will be poured over with great care, but i think there's a of useful material this report. stand great care, but i think there's a of useful material this report. and the recommendation, _ useful material this report. and the recommendation, to _ useful material this report. and the recommendation, to set _ useful material this report. and the recommendation, to set up - useful material this report. and the recommendation, to set up a i useful material this report. and the i recommendation, to set up a separate body to monitorfor recommendation, to set up a separate body to monitor for future events, is that helpful? is that workable? well, that, ithink, is really important. the way in which these international challenges are handled is the leaders of individual countries come together within the united nations, and they discuss and then negotiate and then agree positions, and decisions are made. and so the world health organisatio

the head of the world health health organization is calling on nations to look beyond the current pandemic, and learn lessons for future outbreaks to address at the nama. gabriel. susie is pushing for an international treaty to help the world plan for similar crises, rather than countries looking out just for themselves. the defining characteristic of the pandemic is the lack of sharing of data, information, pathogens, technologies, and resources. these are the challenges we are facing. we have been facing since the pandemic started and even before a treaty would foster improve sharing trust and accountability and provide the solid foundation on which to build either mccarthyism is for global health security. while a new report says, the economies of some countries are going to recover faster from the pandemic than others, but it says, a lack of vaccines will hold back. poor nations. south africa's economy has been one of the hardest hit and it's likely to stay that way. next year, that's according to the organization for economic cooperation and development. the country has record unemplo

the news ahead of the world health organization says it's time for the world to come together to prevent the next pandemic. ah, robustness and this is not just a life and also coming up and then it locked on, send india into its worst recession since independence times of fears. worse is yet to come. more evidence vaccines work has a city in brazil because 95 percent shopped in corona via was dec following the occupation of idol and china will allow couples to have 3 children because population is getting older and that could affect the economy in the head of the world health organization is calling for nations to look beyond the current corona virus pandemic, and learn lessons from this crisis. federal hunger brace us is pushing for an international treaty that would help the world plan for similar situations in the future and work on suitable responses. the defining characteristic of the pandemic is the lack of sharing of data, information, pato jeans, technologies, and resources. these are the challenges we are facing we have been facing since the pandemic started. and even before a 3

this is likely a significant undercount and the world health organization along with the un and many and it is always changing to get the actual count of the human toll of the pandemic even before the pandemic it was a challenge to get the cause of death and registered back. so there is a lot of underlying reasons for us not to have a true count at the moment but countries are working hard to submit the data to the who and we are hoping by the end of this year we would have a true global count but also country specific estimates of the pandemic. both direct and indirect. everything that we have data for latin america and europe including the narratives and europe is because we have good underlying data systems at the moment. but we are working with other regions to gather the data that is needed. could one of the reasons for the underreporting have been fitted with diagnosis? people not knowing or perhaps a country being lit to admit that covid—19 is rampant? perhaps a country being lit to admit that covid-19 is rampant?— perhaps a country being lit to admit that covid-19 is rampant?

the head of the world health organization condemns what he says is the scandalous inequity of access to covid vaccinations around the world. in gaza, we meet one community grieving the loss of seven children and one young man in the recent clashes with israel. and max mosley, the former head of formula 1's governing body and campaignerfor tougher regulation of the press, has died at 81. hello and welcome. the european union has agreed to hit belarus with sanctions after the forced re—routing of a ryanair flight, in order to capture one of the passengers on board. the eu is also urging airlines to avoid the country's airspace. the passenger detained was roman protasevich, a 26—year—old journalist who's a well—known critic of president alexander lukashenko. eu leaders described the incident as "state terrorism" and "aviation piracy". our europe correspondent jean mackenzie has the latest. armed police greet the arrivals on board the plane belarus is accused of hijacking, all to capture this young man — roman protasevich. a journalist and political refugee, he fled belarus two years ago,

but the world health organization team that visited wuhan all but ruled out a lab leak.e of them told the bbc if the us has evidence that lab workers got sick, it should share it. they've been saying that for almost a year now, so if there is real evidence, then i think the responsibility of the us is to share it because then it can be followed up. the debate will continue, but evidence is what matters, and there's little prospect of china allowing another investigation on its soil. john sudworth, bbc news, taipei. earlier, i spoke to professor yanzhong huang, a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations and an expert on china. i asked him what he made of biden�*s call for a deeper investigation. i think this announcement is not based on new data supporting the lab leak theory, it'sjust based on a revisit, a reassessment of the hypothesis. he's taking some political risk presumably given that he is currently trying to rebuild relations with china. yes, being critical on its human rights record, particularly towards the uighurs, but also saying th

now the difficulty with — next world health assembly.tic inquiry is that the politics are that much more kind of confrontational, potentially. because it sounds like this inquiry that the who has been even of the debbie which even critical of the debbie which are itself has been quite candid in that sense. are you worried, i mean from your conducted an inquiry for a government, be of the hong kong government, be of the hong kong government, are you worried at all about our motives and wanting to have this inquiry, whether there is the mixed desire which is we want to learn lessons, but we also want to blame someone. yes, and i think what we learned in hong _ yes, and i think what we learned in hong kong, — yes, and i think what we learned in hong kong, we were an international group _ hong kong, we were an international group who— hong kong, we were an international group who went into hong kong and we were very— group who went into hong kong and we were very clear right from the start that we _ were very clear right from the start that

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the official global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is around 3.4 million — but the world healthworld�*s biggest economic powers have raised their ambitions on tackling climate change. g7 environment ministers say they�*ll now aim to keep the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees celsius — a much more demanding target than the 2 degrees celsius they are currently committed to. it�*ll mean they�*ll need to work much harder to cut emissions now, rather than putting things off for the future. so what action will they take? our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt has been taking a look. the uk is due to host a landmark international climate conference in glasgow in november. so here are the key commitments made today. first off, coal: india and many other developing countries receive subsidies for polluting coal plants from foreign donors, including japan. today, the environment ministers of the uk, the us, canada, japan, france, italy and germany said they will stop any new funding for coal—fired power stations in poorer countries by the end of the year. now, that isn

shouldering the boxing crisis requires that we pull out all the stops the world health organization approves china's cinna farm vaccine the move will open the door to a far wider distribution around the world. my . daughter al-jazeera live from a headquarters in delphi and there you know again tells of coming up warnings of a major crisis and a pall as it registers a massive spike in clover 19 infections with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen. giving the green light for overseas travel the u.k. unveils a list of countries its citizens can visit without mandatory quarantine on their return. and an attack on democracy the maldives president to bounce is a bombing that seriously injured his predecessor. my. bottom to the program another coven 1000 vaccine available will soon will soon be available to help in the fight against the virus the world health organization has approved the chinese made since farm making it the 6th to receive the agency's stamp of approval for emergency use this means it can now be added to the u.n. back kovacs scheme which distributes coronavirus vaccines to poo

instead, they want the world health organization doing this, which has been under fire over its closes to china. senator tom cotton says americans need a real investigation into the origins of the deadly pandemic. >> what matters most to me is that the american people get answered. the chinese responsible down that government is responsible for unleashing a pandemic on the world. the combination of negligence in these labs and the covering it all up. that's why we need answers and a credible investigation, not another whitewash by the world health organization. >> kayleigh: dr. marc siegel, starting first with you, on january 15th, before the end of the trump administration, the state department under mike pompeo put out a report and said that this investigation had come up with three conclusions that there were scientists who were sick at the wuhan institute of virology. number two, they determined that there was a gain of function research being conducted, and finally they concluded that this institute had actually engaged in military operations or research to some effect, but this

even with a more effective world health organization we're going to need more globally. this lack of preparedness i thai spoke about at the very beginning is going to require a long-term commitment to building the early warning and rapid response systems around the world. it's publicly to cost at least five or $10 billion figure every year just for the low income countries for at least a decade and that my is not going to go through the world health organization, the global fund which congress has find in the latest iteration, and callbacks which is a major commitment by the u.s. to vaccines -- covax -- but were suggesting a very clear way of measuring progress, calling it 717. .. stack by having that kind and understanding the world has to be better prepared, i think we can make a huge difference in driving down the risk everywhere. >> doctor, i thank you just answered my last question to both of you which is, essentially what measures would be put in place now in order to prevent the next pandemic from happening or combat it once it does hit us? senator barrasso, if i

we need a reformed world health organization fit for the purpose.need to figure out how to hold countries accountable for failing to uphold commitments to international health regulations, including by actively suppressing global health data. we need better early warning symptoms to identify threats in real time as they emerge and we need the fire department capable of responding to the earnings so they can put up claims before they spin out of control. the very recently released study that who commissioned really underscores how important the fire department is to getting on top of this quickly. i was pleased to see the president's first national security number memorandum included a commitment to better coordinate the u.s. global health security and diplomacy overseas, a prominent leadership by the department of state and interest in establishing a financing mechanism to help committed partners close the gaps in the health security that threatened also. these are concrete ideas grounded in nearly two decades of experience in combating another glob

and that's why your work, police on horseback moved in to clear the area ah, the head of the world health organization says it's time for the world to come together to prevent the next pandemic. ah, i'm about this and this is all alive from. also coming up more on the city and brazil is recorded and 95 percent drop in corona virus desks after maximum yearly. it's got a little rivals of israel's prime minister joint forces to form a coalition government without him but admit are facing many challenges. major shift in policy, china will allow couples to have 3 children because this population is getting older and that could affect the economy. ah, the head of the world health organization is calling for nations to look beyond the current corona virus pandemic, and learn lessons from this crisis. federal start to 100 good places is pushing for an international treaty that would help the world plan for similar situations in the future, and work on suitable responses. the defining characteristic of the pandemic is the lack of sharing of data, information, pato genes, technologies, and resource

attack on gaza, as palestinian militants continue firing rockets at israel a warning from the world healthrganisation that year two of the covid pandemic is on track to be far deadlier than the first. as the un warns of more migrants dying as they try to reach europe by sea, we have an exclusive report on a dramatic rescue mission. and we hear the story of a transgender teenager who's been documenting hisjourney into young adulthood. violent clashes between israeli troops and palestinians have spread across much of the occupied west bank, following days of hostility in gaza. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has warned that israel's biggest offensive against hamas in gaza in years is not over yet. it's estimated ten thousand palestinians have had to leave their homes to flee the israeli bombardment. rockets were fired by militants towards israel from the territory for a fifth day. at least 122 people in gaza have been killed, and 9 have died in israel since fighting began on monday. from jerusalem here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. the sectarian crisis nobody expected

in fact the united states has rejoined the world health organization with no condition.is despite the fact that american intelligence can prove that the world health organization lied and people died of course as a result of those lies. even now tonight the u.s. government has not launched a broad and serious investigation into where the coronavirus came from.he h if you can imagine. they have not done that. at the same time saying the 9/11 style commission every aspect of the january 6thh incident at capitol, but covid-19 who killed 3 million people, which it has. never mind, somebody else can figure it out. speaking of people who were right from the very beginning and roundly denounced, jimmy months old may be the original whistle-blower. he is not a conservative, he is a liberal, from the clinton administration and sounding the alarm on where the virus came from since the very beginning and who we thought it would be nice to speak to them tonight on the eve of his vindication. thank you so much for coming on. and i am embarrassed that this is the first time we have ha

maria: world health organization advisor on how the pandemic started and why china is trying so hardo stop the investigation as dr. fauci now says maybe covid did not develop naturally after all, all of that and more right here, right now on "sunday morning features". ♪. maria: versus morning texas reached a major milestone last week recording an entire day without any covid-19 deaths for the first time since march of 2020, the good news does not stop there the lone star state was the lowest number of covid related hospitalizations and more than 11 months and the lowest a7 positivity rate that the pandemic began this lease president biden with egg on his face after he criticized greg abbott for dropping the mask mandate and reopening texas in march. take a look. >> we are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way we were able to get vaccines in people's arms we've been able to move that to the end of may to have enough for every american to get a shot in the last thing we need is neanderthal thinking they get in the meantime every

but they want the world health organization to do it even though we know the world health organizations morning thanks so much for being here. >> what do you make of the administration shutting down the effort to get to the bottom of the covid-19 origin. >> well they didn't like where this might go donald trump at the time was the world's best intelligence services behind him was investigating this you heard senator tom cotton early in process look at it like tradition media so many washington have done maybe the or jun of this virus did originate in the lab they should have pursued it with all the vigor that they had but they didn't. and it is appears as if the biden administration was trying to put brakes on this, to for purely political reasons it was just fundamentally wrong. maria: there were two amendments made to a bill this week yesterday the senate advanced bipartisan measure bans all federal funding, for chinese run state labs including the wuhan institute of virology amendment introduced by joanie ernst included in the act a bill that help u.s. compete with china in research

this week called on the world health assembly -- called on an independent investigation at the world alth assembly. host: your piece includes the quote "many proponents of the lab hypothesis say a lab with an infected that -- while the lab hypothesis is being taken more seriously, the debate is still colored by political tensions, including how much evidence is needed to sustain the hypothesis. if we are not getting answers from china -- sustain the hypothesis." if we are not getting answers from china, can we sustain the hypothesis? guest: i have talked to officials who say we may not know or it will be many years and decades before we know. there are two leading theories, one is the lab theory and the other three is that the virus came from nature, from a bat perhaps from eating an animal. that is part of the investigation. the problem is that no animal or speeches of animals have been identified -- they have not been able to find a transition -- a transmission chain. early on without the on wet market was the place where the virus kicked off. it is now known that is not true, it wa

so it has been almost a year and a half the world has been experience a globe will health crisis unlikething we have seen in our lifetime. in the u.s. government is absolutely committed to doing our part in playing a leadership role that the world is accustomed to seeing for the united states to help lead the world out of this pandemic. and to do that in a way that we can do in a better way to detect biological responses. the work that i am leading will be central to this effort, and i just want to talk through some of our plans for tackling this next page -- phase of the pandemic and the challenges it holds. i last spoke to them for months ago, in that time the number of fully vaccinated americans has grown from 10 million to 124 million and rising thanks to the ministrations robust focus on accelerating vaccine availability. so we are making significant progress, but we also recognize that no matter how many people we vaccinate at home, the united states will not be fully safe as long as the virus rages on and continues to replicate and generate new and more dangerous variants the cur

health and beyond. if investigators point to china one of the most powerful and sensitive countries in the world, it could ignite a global diplomatic firestorm. health officials complain that china has hampered investigation into the matter and a finding could remain elusive despite the president's directive. wednesday's move is suggesting he's growing concerned about china's possible role and some scientists caution despite the renewed interest no significant new information has emerged in recent weeks and urge the president to ensure that intelligence officials provide clear evidence in their report which they are typically reluctant to do. fill in some of the pieces in that excerpt from your story this morning. >> yeah. i think one of the keys to remember here is that there isn't actually any new development that is fueling this flurry and this renewed attention on the theory that this virus could have come from a lab in wuhan. it's not as if a major scoop has been had. there's -- what has happened, this is just sort of unusual in big stories like this, but what has happened is, a lot of facts that hav

tedros of the world health organization that this is a monumental ment in the fight against covid-19. it is not everything, obviously, and in fact my colleague at georgetown university calls it one piece of the covid-19 vaccine access puzzle. and i think he is right. the immediate need, of course, is to get shots in arms. this ip waiver is not going to do that overnight. rich nations have hoarded vaccine doses, in fact they are sitting on 1.5 billion unused doses, excess doses that they don't need. the most immediate requirement is that richard nations donate them to low income countries now, ideally through the covax pool. that is actually, in my opinion, the most urgent thing they can do. however, that is not something that is necessarily long-term and sustainable, that is a charity model and eventually they will begin to shift from a charity model to a sustainable model where low and middle-income countries are making vaccines themselves, and that is why this intellectual property waiver is so important, because it will unleash companies in low and middle income countries to be abl

media automatically just leave the chinese communist party and world health organization that works inthat government over a sitting senator and president they have intelligence to say otherwise? like we talked about, it's not just i disagree with you, we should debate this, automatically it goes tom cotton is a conspiracy theorist, donald trump is one as well and dismissed them out right and i wonder how the u.s. media would have been so sure it didn't come from the lab we have journals expelled from china once the pandemic began because they might actually find something that would lead to what we are seeing now growing evidence the wuhan lab may have played a significant role for the role here. >> and going back to the beginning, people were talking about the origins of the virus but obviously there is clear evidence that was covered up from the chinese communist party in terms of cases, hospitalizations and deaths and now there's more evidence that may have been coverups regarding the possibility of a lack origin. now that president biden state there may be a new investigation, how

the world health organization says the coronavirus variant 1st identified in india last year is being classified as one of global concern some initial studies show it spreads more easily it comes as india's 7 day average of new cases hit a record high on tuesday of over 390000 experts say the actual numbers of infections and deaths could be much higher the government is facing growing calls for a nationwide. well those dealing with the sick and dead say india's approach to distributing back scenes of oxygen has failed. another kovac 19 victim brought to an already overcrowded crime a turion in the city of bengaluru so ring case rates have now spurred the city to impose a lockdown. police in some areas of beating those violating the strict rules and seizing their vehicles. with support. of the very body all of them. will be in the system and. then the ball settles. for now bengaluru is markets and stores are closed. love will there aren't many people here but they don't maintain social distancing after providing some relief to the poor there's nothing wrong with the lockdown. vaccinati

talk about since the world health organization hailed as a historic step along the. distribution of vaccines also on the program angry french fishermen stage a protest in the english channel. limiting their access to waters close to france the u.k. french and british governments to send vessels to monitor the situation. and german business leaders voiced their concerns about the proposed targets after germany's high court ruled current laws insufficient. time for welcome to the program the movement to boost access to corona virus vaccines received a shot in the arm after u.s. president joe biden voiced support for a waiver on vaccine peyton's now the e.u. is signaling that it may be open to the idea as well suspending intellectual property rights for vaccines would allow other companies to create generic versions critics of the idea say it's unlikely to address the cute vaccine shortages. it was a stunning change in policy for the u.s. the trumpet ministration resisted efforts to suspend peyton's on covered 19 vaccines but president joe biden chose a different tact t

but even with a more effective world health organization we're going to need more globally. this lack of preparedness i spoke about at the beginning is going to require a long-term commitment to building early warning and rapid response system around the world. it's probably going to cost at least five or $10 billion a year every year just for the lower income countries for at least a decade and that number is not going to go to the world health organization . it's a global fund funded in the latest iteration and go back which is a major commitment to the us are examples of what can be done we are suggesting a very clear way of measuring progress . we're calling it 717. that every single country and community can be able to identify a second output within seven days, report it within one day and implement effective control measures within seven more days. right now, very few places around the world are doing that or even measuring it. and by having that kind of a galvanized target understanding the world has to be better prepared, i think we can make a huge difference in dri

shouldering the buxom crisis requires that we pull out all the stops the world health organization approves trying to. see in the move that will open the door to a far wider distribution around the world. are watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm dating also ahead warnings of a major crisis in nepal as it registers a massive spike in covert 1000 infections with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen. on extends coronavirus restrictions in tokyo and 3 other areas raising questions about the upcoming summer olympics an attack on democracy the maldives president did announce as an explosion that gravely injured is pretty disgusting. just in the past hour of a chinese covert 19 vaccine made by sin a farm has become the 6th to receive the world health organization stamp of approval for emergency use this means it can now be added to the u.n. back to back scheme which distributes coronavirus vaccines to some of the world's poorest nations. this afternoon they. gave emergency use listing to sign off on beijing's 19 vaccine making the 6 vaccine to receive validation for safety

is a loud voice but only one voice at the world health organization they would need unanimous consent from all the members which is almost the entire world to actually pass a temporary waiver generally the united states is a strong advocate for patent protection for in intellectual property rights for protecting their industries for good for maintaining that incentive of the profit incentive for developing new technologies in all kinds of fields and it's often china that the u.s. points out as as china cheat on intellectual property rules to develop their own kind of a rip off of different kinds of products but it's a campaign promise of joe biden he said that he would he would support this kind of waiver at the show and now he's coming through with this after an intense pressure from other democrats from progressive groups and from world health advocates so if agreement can be reached what will this mean for global vaccine nexus. well we're talking about generics right generic versions cheaper versions of a name brand product whether it's the pfizer vaccine astra zeneca danno the num

the world health organization has given its approval of a chinese made a vaccine for emergency use.his vaccine has already been given to hundreds of millions of people in china and other countries. it becomes the first covid vaccine made by a non-western country to get backing from the world health organization and it could pave the way for millions of doses to reach poor countries through a un program. >> for your money tonight and more stimulus checks are on the way for those who have not received them just yet. the irs says it is distributed its 8th batch of the 3rd round of stimulus payments. that's 1.0. 1 million checks worth more than 2 billion dollars. the maximum amount for this 3rd round of checks is $1400. a person or $2800 for a couple with this latest round. the u.s. government has sent out about 164 million payments worth 386 billion dollars since those checks started on march 12th and more help is coupling for struggling restaurants this week. the biden administration launched the restaurant revitalization fund the national restaurant association says restaurants have

independent panels that are presenting their findings to the world health assembly today. that's quite a few more patients than we otherwise have heard about. >> suggesting the first infections may have occurred the first week of november or more likely october, which is not in the w.h.o. report. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. the death toll among victims at a california railyard is up to nine tonight. we are learning new details this evening about that employee who went on the shooting rampage. senior correspondent claudia cowan is in san jose again tonight. >> authorities say it was a methodical, carefully planned ambush by a long-time employee at the valley transportation authority. the gunman firing 39 rounds, killing five people in one building, two in another and fatally wounding two others before taking his own life. >> i think he was a coward who decided to go out in a blaze of glory and there is nine victims and families affected. it's terrible. >> 57-year-old sam cassidy had worked for the vta since 2012. but, according to h