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>> doctor: exactly. >> brennan: on the world health organization, i want to ask -- nothing gens celebritys of vaccines. on the world health organization and what dr. fauci was saying, i know you must be looking at this. he said, yes, the white house is talking about it, but he has no indication of what policies there might be regarding patent protections of pharmaceutical companies who make covid vaccines. the world health organization chief has endorsed this idea of lifting it in order to help some developing countries get access. what is the implication if that happens? >> doctor: well, look, i think the implication is you'll provide for the future. the reality is looking at the practicality of it, the rate is not the intellectual property around these vaccines. these companies -- including pfizer, which i'm on the border, are producing as much as they can. there is just a limited global supply of those highly specialized inputs. if you appropriate the intellectual property and give it to other companies to make the vaccines, they're not going to be able to make them efficiently, and th

so robin the watching of 0 life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the world health organization says there's no reason to stop using astra zeneca as covert 900 banksy after several countries suspended over 3 years of blood clubs. and the year after became the 1st western country to head into lockdown italy prepares to do it all over again. free and open in the pacific is essential each of our future leaders of the quad grouping hold talks for the 1st time it was seen as a bid to present a united front against china. welcome to the program and we begin. our government have raided a college and taken a number of students hostage the armed group targeted the forestry college in kaduna state late on thursday officials say 190 students were rescued in the early hours of friday but 30 remain unaccounted for school attacks in the north of nigeria are becoming more frequent for ransom kidnapping is a tactic commonly used by armed groups and criminal gangs in nigeria the city international says it's been escalating since january. there are 2 mass abductions of school children in february

house correspondent says the united states has stressed it still wants to work with the world health organization. >> the united states under donald trump said it did not have any confidence in the world organization or the trump administration had pulled the united states out of that body, said that it was too close with china, something joe biden rectified when he came to office, so it was important for the white house press secretary to note that there is still confidence in the global health body as a whole. what they are talking about specifically in terms of concerns is the study itself, and that is why they are looking forward to a phase two where there can be more transparency and more data in terms of how this is conducted. what the united states is doing is essentially not trying to cast any blame, but really, to make sure that this never happens again in terms of the covid-19 pandemic that has killed more than 2.5 million people worldwide and more than 500,000 people here in the united states. >> countries around the world are joining forces to prepare for future outbreaks. the world h

much official explanation from the government and from the medical experts and from the world health organization't have almost nothing. so, how can governments best offer simple explanations about what's a complex subject to the public? given you addressed the world health organization directly, i think we should go to margaret harris, who was smiling at your question, hopefully a positive smile. margaret, over to you. nice to meet you. i'm sorry you have not heard anything from us because at the beginning we had daily press conferences and we still have twice—weekly press conferences on this very subject, and also our regional director gives weekly press conferences. but perhaps you are saying you wanted to hear the more simple information about what the public can do and what they need to know. and sometimes it is difficult to get that. but i promise you we've got it, but from what you are saying, we need to do better. so, it's important to hear. thank you, margaret. how can government best offer simple explanations about the virus from official medical experts? i think the best way would be l

covert vaccine go unused in europe made questions over its effectiveness but it comes as the world health organization warns of a lack of shots in poor nations. it's 3 am here in russia's capital and you're watching the weekly international i'm donald quarter taking you through the past week's top stories welcome to the program. a constitutional showdown is underway in armenia after the president rejected an order by the prime minister to give the country's top general the boot it comes as crowds in the capital continue to demand the p.m.'s resignation thousands took to the streets of year of on for a 3rd day calling for the resignation of nichol pasha and yon they're angry at his handling of last year's war with thousands by john which many view as a humiliating defeat although protests have been on and off since the war ended in november new demonstrations erupted on thursday when posh and yon defied a call 'd by the military to resign and accuse the army of a coup attempt here's how the situation has unfolded. the prime minister and the government of i'm no longer able to make adequate decisions in

. >>> today marks one year to the day since the world health organization declared coronavirus a global pandemic. the virus has since killed more than half a million people across u.s. and over 2.6 million people around the world. there has been a dramatic drop in covid-19 hospitalizations in the bay area. monday there were 500 covid patients in the hospital, 146 in the icu. but that is a decrease of 77% from the winter peak of 2200 people in the hospital. >>> happening today, santa clara county supervisors plan to announce united stance in its decision to opt out of blue shield's vaccine distribution plan. this is as county reports a vaccine shortage. the shortage is forcing the bay area's largest county to stop scheduling first dose appointments. this is the message that pops up. all vaccination sites are currently full due to low than expected vaccine allocation. county leaders report decrease by a few thousand doses despite increase in the number of doses the state received. >> we were assured by the state that we were going to get sufficient doses to cover all of our second doses,

the world health organization says it is safe. . vaccination. s anything more than this time correlation. the german institution says there is something that is happening more frequently than you would expect, a rare event, so that is why they have decided to stop it, which they did not do at the end of last week. ok. the concern — not do at the end of last week. ok. the concern is, _ not do at the end of last week. ok. the concern is, and _ not do at the end of last week. 0k. the concern is, and this is what professor finn was saying, it is doing reputational damage to the astrazeneca vaccine and is probably encouraging people who are a little bit hesitant about having the vaccination in the first place, may be to not have it. in the long term, what that means is more people will get coronavirus, possibly get ill, possibly die. get coronavirus, possibly get ill, possibly die-— get coronavirus, possibly get ill, possibly die. quite rightly so. it's a ma'or possibly die. quite rightly so. it's a major complication _ possibly die. quite rightly so.

plans to overhaul the — world health organization. nization. plans to overhaul the criminaljustice - world health organization. plans to i overhaul the criminaljustice system and england and wales path in the commons with the bid government majority. and mamma mia, will we go again — how british theatres are hoping to attract audiences after the pandemic. hello and welcome to bbc news. from the likelihood of a so—called dirty bomb attack by terrorists to the threat posed by russia, borisjohnson has been outlining britain's foreign and defence policy priorities after brexit. it follows a year—long review which sees the uk shifting its focus towards the east, to countries like india, japan and australia. so, where does that leave the decades long relationship with the eu? here's our diplomatic correspondent james landale. a warning, his report contains some flash photography. for years, britain's place in the world was defined by its relationship with the european union and the united states. but brexit changed that. now the government's

our next guest may have the answer dr allison chauffeur is the program manager for the world health organizations initiative for mental health she joins us via skype from iraq thank you for your time so why is mental health so neglected gee you know mental health has been neglected for decades and there's probably a multitude of reasons and we know that mental health care is a lot of stigma and discrimination around it and people often don't see mental health as true suffering as a health condition so a lot of people might actually prefer to fund services that they might consider life saving but we're starting to get a picture now that mental health is also part of overall health it's. fundamental health and can be as lifesaving as other healthy debate and even just looking at the numbers for every $1.00 spent on mental health you get a $5.00 return on productivity i mean that must be the easiest sell for governments who are concerned with the bottom line. sure the returns on investment are substantial and you know those statistics are actually based on just addressing issues of depression and an

vice president since the work of the world health organization row who have been recalled who are going to. she seems to me very well suited for this position and i think she will be dictatorial. or president michel who over the course of time the tendency is it will very uncertain become who's like the united states that said though she wouldn't completely throw away everything he was doing he seemed to be very strong on things like infrastructure and the corruption things which were welcomed. well that's true he was very popular because of his anti-corruption program he was known as that all those are for trying to do away with him but that was to some extent offset by means by reason of his position on one of virus which was not helpful he was effectively a denier of a virus and in fact the 1st vice president of zamzam bar died not long ago because of that 19. there are a lot of tanzanians i think were very concerned about the virus and it's time the country take the illness seriously so with the greatest amount of respect to the late president it is perhaps an opportunity for tanzan

have received the vaccine the world health organization said it's an excellent vaccine and no causal relationship has been established and while the e.u. is meds and regulators says there is currently no indication that the vaccination is cause these conditions vaccines benefits continue to wait its risks let's get some thoughts from dr ali phantom regular contributor to us at al-jazeera he's a vax and all just a professor at the university of michigan he's in ann arbor for us nice to see you again dr. 17000000 doses and i think it's only a little over a dozen maybe up to 20 cases of blood clots. not to downplay the importance specially for those people affected but it's a very very small number exactly i think that there is a there is an issue here of you know we have if i were observing any side effects or anything that could have a chance to be caused by the vaccine it's a normal that and the standard of behave think procedure there that we would be e.m.e.a. or the f.d.a. will call for an investigation and therefore are going through the whole process now with the host so many 100

declared countries around the world are joining forces to prepare for future outbreaks the world health organization and the leaders of $23.00 countries a calling for an international pandemic treaty to create better alert systems and ensure universal access to vaccines the time to arcot is now the world cannot afford to wait until the parliament is over to start planning for the next one. we must not allow the memories of this crisis to fade and go back to business as usual. a russian health official says a 3rd wave of corona virus infections is emerging in the country due to rising cases a deputy health ministers comment conflicts with president putin's belief last week that the country would reach herd immunity in the summer he predicted that restrictions would soon be lifted the latest figures showed more than 8000 new cases in 24 hours more than 4000000 people have received 2nd jobs. in australia britain is going into a 3 day snap lockdown after more than a dozen new locally transmitted infections were detected queensland's state premiers says the cases are of the highly infectious u.k. strain

declared countries around the world are joining forces to prepare for future outbreaks the world health organization and the leaders of 23 countries are calling for an international pandemic treaty to create better systems and ensure universal access to vaccines the time to art is now the world cannot afford to wait until the parliament is over to start planning for the next one we must not allow the memories of these crises to frayed and go back to business as usual. a russian health official says a 3rd wave of corona virus infections is emerging in the country due to rising cases the deputy health ministers comment conflicts with president putin's belief last week that the country would reach herd immunity in the summer he predicted that restrictions would soon be lifted but latest figures showed more than 8000 new cases in 24 hours than 4000000 people have received 2nd jobs. german health officials are suspending use of the astra zeneca vaccine for people under 60 years old comes after the country's drug regulator reported for 31 cases of people developing rare blood clots in the brain after gett

from there reporting, a joint world health organization china study on the origins of covid-19 says the transmission of the virus from bats to humans to another animal is the most likely scenario, that a lab leak is extremely unlikely according to a copy obtained by the associated press. the findings were largely as expected and left many questions unanswered by the report provided an in-depth reasoning behind the team's conclusion. further research in every area except proposed further research in every area except the last week's hypothesis. the washington examiner, robert redfield says covid-19 most likely came from the wuhan lab. from there reporting, the chinese government worked investigations into the origins of the virus which has killed 2.7 million people worldwide. dr. robert redfield, the director for the centers of disease control and prevention under former president donald trump, said covid-19 likely originated through an accidental escape from the wuhan institute of virology. joining us on the phone this morning is a reporter with the washington examiner who reports on th

the origins of the drone a virus was blocked from accessing key chinese data a group of world health organization scientists has concluded that the virus probably went from bats to humans by another animal but the head of the body says china refused to share crucial information with the team on its visit to the city of new hand the report also concluded that a leak from a laboratory was an extremely unlikely cause but didn't rule it out. or than 20 world leaders and global agencies have called for an international treaty on pandemic preparedness but what that includes isn't clear world health organizations chief was joined by the leaders of the u.k. and italy to call for a collective commitment it suggests surveillance and what it called a framework for cooperation but much of that already exists within the world health organization when i'm in mars' biggest ethnic minorities is calling for international help as it fears an assault by government troops many people have fled the karen region for neighboring thailand but say forces there turned thousands of them away a local rebel group says thousa

bloc countries like austria want this to be in place as early as next month but the world health organization says it's too early given the slow pace of vaccination in the e.u. dominic kane reports from berlin. almost sunny parisienne morning pettily job walks his dog has recently been vaccinated and has the badge to prove it but he would welcome something more official. a covered 19 health pass would allow us to travel to get back a little bit of freedom by june those wishes will be a reality because the european commission plans a digital green pass which all e.u. residents would have on a smartphone proving they have either been vaccinated recently recovered from covert or had a negative test with this digital certificate we aim to help member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe responsible and trusted manner but for some e.u. leaders that goes neither far nor fast enough we want to but we don't want to wait for implementation by the robber will take the 1st steps on the national level many in the tourism industry welcome the e.u. proposal as a. vaccine certificate is essent

are there we are bringing you some of that world health organization from geneva, we'rejust hearing ofuse the oxford astrazeneca jab. we do that countries have suspended the use of the jab. the who are saying that for the time being the world health organization saying that countries should continue to use that. also more information from the european medicines agency. now they are saying that they will hold a special meeting on thursday to decide, quote, further actions over the astrazeneca vaccine adding that the astrazeneca vaccine adding that the benefits of using the jab still outweigh the risks. that's what they are saying. based in amsterdam and they said in a statement that their safety committee will further review the information on the vaccine tomorrow after several more countries, including as i say france, germany, italy suspended its use. those countries suspending the use. those countries suspending the use over fears of blood clots and there have been some incidents. the regulator adding that they have called an extra narrate meeting on thursday, the 18th of march to co

he and other bureaucrats the world health organization came up with an alternative explanation for the virus, they explained from the world, had most lately emerged from an exotic mammal that for some reason was being sold at a seafood what market in wuhan, that's what happened. the media bought that explanation. later we discovered it was not true, there was never any evidence that covid infections had originated in a pangolin. he did not apologize, he kept deflecting attention from the lab. in april he told the show democracy now that the idea this virus escaped from a lab is pure baloney, it's simply not true. i have been working with that lab for 15 years, some of the best scientists in the world. he has pushed that line ever since, relentlessly. last summer he wrote an op-ed in the guardian entitled ignore the conspiracy theories, scientists know covid-19 wasn't created ina a lab and he made the point on twitter repeatedly. "gain of function research has nothing to do with the origin of covid unless you believe the conspiracy theories. why mix the two together if the virus came fr

[laughter] >> brennan: i want to ask you about this forthcoming report from the world health organizationbut also specifically guidance from the chief of the world health organization this week, who h endorsed this idea that intellectual property rights for pharmaceutical companies that produce the covid vaccines, that those should be waived. south africa has asked for this. india has asked for this. do you expect the white house to get on board and waive patent protections for pharma companies? >> doctor: margaret, i can't go out and say what the white house ultimately going to do. i can tell you everything is on the table. discussions on every aspect of this. as you know, we're playing a major role in helping other countries get vaccination. we have the $4 billion pledge we have going into this. we joined covax. we have given away surplus vaccines to mexico and canada, and we will be c m e. but with rerd to the intellectual property, that is something we always will consider and keep that open. >> brennan: we'll watch what happens. on the report t is forthcoming from the world health or

prevent other variants from emerging while the pandemic continues to affect all our lives the world health organization and leaders of 23 countries are calling for an international pandemic treaty to deal with future i breaks. the time to act is now the world cannot afford to wait until the pandemic is over to start planning for the next one we must not allow the memories of this crisis to fade and go back to business as usual. well we have 2 correspondents covering this report spy the job which is likely to be published any moment mary. barra here for us with reaction from washington d.c. some u.s. officials are expressing skepticism a birds the investigation but 1st let's go to katrina were you there is in a way for us. just how much we're waiting for this report obviously but how much like it's a really expecting this report to shades given the the challenges that investigators face swollen. that's right well according to a lead to version of the report there are no firm conclusions made according to the findings of the w. hates the main points are that it's very likely according to this report that

countries like austria what this in place as early as next month, but the world health organization saysis too slowly given the slow pace of vaccination in the eu. we report from berlin. reporter: on a sunday morning, patrick walks his dog. he has recently been vaccinated and has the badge to prove it, but he would welcome something more efficient. >> the covid-19 health pass would allow us to travel, to get back a little bit of freedom. reporter: by june, those wishes will be a reality because the european commission plans a digital green pass, which all ee residents would have on a smart phone, proving they have been vaccinated, recently recovered from covid, or have a negative test. >> with this digital certificate we aim to help member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe, responsible, and trusted manner. reporter: for some leaders that goes neither far north fast enough. >> we do not want to wait for implementation. we will take further steps on a national level. reporter: many in the tourism industry welcomed the proposal. >> a vaccine certificate is essential to make

the world health organization says it is safe. thousands of people have turned out across the rebel held city as in syria 10 years since the start of the war the un security council has met and heard calls for a renewed cease fire and political settlement. a day after 50 people were killed in anti coupe protests across me in mar the deadliest since the military took power on february 1st live ammunition is again being used on protesters it's got harder reports. the deadliest area on the most violent day of protests on sunday was in an industrial suburb of yangon on. and on the protesters were killed with live ammunition. some of the protesters there targeted factories financed by china many protesters say the country is supporting the coup global times a chinese state run newspaper said factories were attacked and set on fire by so-called instigators and causing 30 $7000000.00 in damage it prompted the strongest statement yet from china calling the situation very severe and urging myanmar's generals to stop all acts of violence pu

wolf, there's also about two dozen countries the in addition to the european union and the world health organizationhat are wanting to form some kind of internal treaty to basically have a better preparedness for the next pandemic if one comes. of course, health experts have said that is potentially likely. right now the biden administration says the u.s. does not plan to enter into those talks or negotiations because they said they do not believe the timing right now is appropriate. >> let's discuss with dr. celine gonder. thanks so much for joining us. the cdc director says she fears what she describes as impending doom if states don't stop lifting public health measures. as an average of nearly a thousand americans continue to die from this virus every day, that's the average over the past week, do you share her concern? >> wolf, there are a couple patterns we've seen over the course of this pandemic, one of which is, when you see a plateau in cases -- and we have been plateaued at somewhere around 50-60,000 new cases per day for several weeks. every time we've had plateau like that, that is foll

also coming up when will the nightmare and one year after the world health organization declared the coronavirus to be a 10 demick and a threat to the entire world are we any closer to returning turner malady or is the worst still to come. and in the united states a major win for president joe biden of the democrats as congress approves a landmark relief package aimed at helping the economy recover from the coronavirus crisis. i'm assuming so much conduct's good to have you with us japan is marking the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that destroyed towns and triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster. minute's silence was observed across the country at 2 46 pm local time the exact moment of magnitude 9 quake struck and set off the deadly way and bernardo hito and prime minister yoshihiko led an official ceremony in tokyo to pay tribute to some 18000 people who lost their lives nearly half a 1000000 people were displaced and towns around the fukushima daiichi power plant remain an inhabitable. the effects of the disaster are still being felt especially at the site

maggot foully was more than a coronavirus skeptic his government stop sharing data with the world health organization last year and declared tanzania covert free divine intervention the official tally still stands at $500.00 in 9 cases and $21.00 deaths all these months later he displayed a disregard for health advice focusing on prayer and local remedies while also claiming the vaccines were dangerous this true condemnation from the w.h.o. and the roman catholic church. denial had turned into policy for a nation of 60000000. that the ministry has no plans to receive vaccines for 19 which are already in use in other countries the w.h.o. has repeatedly asked the government to adopt preventative measures such as wearing face masks to start reporting cases and to share data foreign embassies began warning of a significant increase in the number of kobe 1000 cases that could overwhelm tanzania's limited hospital capacity in late february maggie farley finally began to change his tone warming to the idea of wearing locally made face masks that was just days before a shocking press conference from his fina

where the 1st case of credit were detected went into lockdown she is now calling for the world health organization and the n.h.s. to publicly recognise the historical significance of her father's passing as the u.k.'s 1st private fatality just through that he should go down in history as the part of history now isn't there you know it doesn't matter what you read in the books you know there's always that 1st person and i think my dad should really have remembered well 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown and president jane says it's not just about her father's. legacy but about correcting the official records but the government says there was little transmission present at the time of peter. every death is a tragedy there is no evidence that there was sustained transmission within the community in january 2020 we acted swiftly to curb coronavirus and at all times we have been guided by the best available evidence to deliver a strategy designed to protect the n.h.s. and save lives for jane doe questions still remain unanswered about what actually happened and

but the world health organization says there's no reason to stop using the astra zeneca vaccine thailand and will carry all the latest countries to delay as roll out on thursday denmark and norway and iceland suspended use of the job after several reported cases of blood clotting including one death but the w.h.o. says it's not currently concerned about the reports and in fact thanks see them as a positive sign. astra zeneca it is an excellent arm a vaccine as are the other vaccines that are being used and as i said we've reviewed the data on deaths there has been no days to date privilege of being caused by vaccination so it's very important to understand that yes we should continue using the asters any given axiom. we're looking at is what we all know is not any safety signal must be investigated in fact it's very important that we hearing safety signals. italy is planning to impose another nation wide lockdown over easter weekend in april the government is trying to control a surge in crow the virus cases and hospital admissions people will be ordered to stay home from april the 3rd t

and take you live to geneva where the world health organization is giving an update on the use of the astra zeneca covered 19 vaccine let's listen in to investigate them and it shows that the surveillance system works and that effective controls are in place deadly to advisory committee on vaccine safety has been reviewing that our vailable data is in close contact with the european medicines agency and will meet tomorrow but the greatest threat that most countries face now is lack of access to vaccines almost every day i receive calls from senior political leaders around the world asking when their country will receive their vaccines will call box some of them are frustrated and i understand why they see some of the world history just countries buying you have vaccines to immunize their populations several times over while their own countries have nothing we welcome the commitment by the acquired countries to deliver up to one $1000000000.00 of vaccine in the asia pacific region so-called works and we continue to call for all countries to work in solidarity to ensure that vaccination

then dominic so germany is the latest to hold the use of the vaccine even given what the world health organization is saying. he's saying. we've just been hearing from the health minister the federal health minister here yet in an emergency statement he confirmed that he has followed a ruling from the relevant competent government agency that reviews and approves vaccines for use in this country and said that following their recommendation he has to suspend the use of the vaccine in this country but when pressed by reporters what effect this would have on the german governmental vaccination strategy he said it was too early to know and could not talk about swats ramifications this might have for the very many tens of millions of people who are expecting to receive a vaccination in this country over the course of the next 6 months it's worth making the point that not just in germany but around the continent lots of different countries will have had different strategies for the different vaccine vaccines that are physically available whether that's the bio on tech pfizer vaccine the more down of fac

has begun rolling out dozers from the global kovacs program an initiative launched by the world health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to back scenes it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent on thursday kenya's president stressed the importance of global corporation vaccine nationalism is something that we should. we take a life thing. if you ask any expert there is no single country that will be able to be sued unless all of us are safe so we have an obligation to ensure that this vaccine is made a very widely. and as a special to the citizens of the globe this week the 1st batch of more than 1000000 astra zeneca dozes arrived in nairobi kenya hopes to vaccinate 1200000 people by june. nasa's mars rover perseverance has taken its 1st drive since landing on the planet 2 weeks ago take a look at this vehicle covered a 7 metre trail in a trip last in just over half an hour images sent by the probe showed real tracks in the red dust perseverence landed in a deep crater on the washing surface which scientists believe may once have been a c. perse

despite the fact that the cdc and the world health organization has said not to use such terms so as not to associate any disease with a geographic location or ethnicity, that it would cause great harm. donald trump doubled down and got his followers to even talk about it that way even more. that's what chip roy is doing. he's just talking about it that much more. it is shocking the way that they have treated this whole issue. when we had an anti-hate crime resolution on the floor in the