Indian capital delhi. They fear theyll be exploited in the new agricultural reforms and theyre prepared for a long battle. And we go to japan to me, to get into the giant battle robot that surprisingly has an antiwar message. As welcome to the program, covered 19 has dominated headlines this year, but there is another pandemic that still affects and kills millions of people around the world. United nations figures show that 38000000. 00 people were living with h. I. V. Last year, nearly 700000 of them died as a result of their hiv infection. But prevention and treatment measures are showing some promise in the last decade, the number of new infections has deep priest. And so has the number of people whose death was caused directly by aids. All factors related to the immune deficiency syndrome. Experts predict that trend will reverse this year because of the covert, 19 pandemic, and lock downs, causing a shortage of hiv medication. Its estimated there could be an additional 1400000. 00 deaths caused by hiv as a result. In south africa, one in 5 people in a new drug, however, is raising hopes for more effective prevention. As our correspondent piece reports from cape town for almost 2 decades, the Nonprofit Organization hope has been an important point of contact for those living with hiv. Like here in the cape town township of delft. To 2 years ago, luis morris worked in a textile factory, but then her life took a difficult turn. An accident left her unable to work out who problems followed. And then she became infected with hiv. My family and my family didnt want to have anything to do with me. After my h. I. V. Diagnosis. They cut off contact. And even now if my neighbors knew that i have a hiv, they would only say hi from a distance. They wouldnt invite me to their homes. It means i also keep my distance. Its not easy being a hiv positive, you have to somehow accept that people behave in a certain way towards you. I find it sad. Dr. Hughes on rainy, could, is used to hearing similar stories to me, at least half of the community has a Family Member that somebody that they know that they should be positive. But its, but its so common here. But people dont speak about it. They people are basically not open about it, they might speak to us about it and then not speak to the Service Providers about it, but they will, they finitely not speak. Theyre not open about the status. They worried about discrimination, although stigma still a massive problem in many communities, south africa has made mess of progress in the fight against hiv aids. Over the past years, most people, the vast majority of those living with hiv, you know, their status and are on medication. And just recently, researchers announced possibly for the good news. The preventative drug prep has been available for several years around 90000. South africans protect themselves against h. P. V. Infection by taking a daily template. Now a study into a similar preventative drug that needs to only be injected every 8 weeks, has found it to be even more efficient. Women particularly have challenges with taking a pill a day, issues of their habits of taking a pill, but also people experience a lot of social pressures. So women are judged as living with hiv. If theyre taking pills that look like antiretrovirals, they may have judgments about their Sexual Activity and partners may feel that they are wanting to be unfaithful. So there are many barriers to taking a pill a day. And what the injections were able to do is overcome some of those challenges by being discreet and convenient. Independent researchers also see the injection as an important development, but further research is necessary to find other options to prevent hiv in women. Young women are the hardest hit group in south africa. Do you really want to harm some kind of loss . You know, so no jews are not hopefully in cape town also believes the injection could be a great help, but it may not be available for a number of years. In the meantime, more argent issues remain due to the cover to pandemic. Few a. J. Patients are going to kleenex. As a result, the number of new infections and new borns is on the rice, a worrying trend. So after all the hard work to stop the spread of the virus. A reporting there from cape town, im now joined by stefan exocrine show. Hes the executive director of the aids charity one here in germany. How concerned are we are you if were looking at research that now resources are being pulled away from a to b. Aids because of the corona virus pandemics very word youre for the grown up endemic threatens to set back yes, of painstaking progress and the fight against a chevy chase and we have also seen over the last yes, that funding for the ace response has does declined, and the needs i am, ence, unites calculates that. We need an additional 26000000000. 00 us dollars to for the extra spawns. And of course, now we also have immense funding needs for the corona of a cogent response. But what we, what we really must ensure must not happen is that we play off one pandemic against the other. Both threatening, both are important and both need urgently to be funded as well. It. But if were looking at those 2 pandemics, theres a vaccination on the way folk, ovids and a. T. V. Has been around for nearly 40 years and theres still no vaccination inside. Whys that . Well 1st i think you cannot, you cannot compare the 2 viruses against each of us, of many others. There are differences that make it different to develop a vaccine. But it also, i think, shows what is fundamentally wrong. And i think that is, if you know, because there are, i would say so many more people are threatened by the koran of virus in rich countries. The resources that of court into recent research and development of a corona vaccine are much, much higher than we see being invested in a vaccine against a shot of yates. So it actually shows what is possible and what would be possible with the riots political will. And the right funding behind it could be a lesson learned, i think for. d our fight against hiv yates, we have the tools, we know what to do. We just need more political will. And as always, also more funding, you dont know a political will then of course, what is your or your key demands towards policymakers . Well, there are 3 things that i would ask policymakers to undertake 1st of all. As i said before, we do urgently need more funding for the a sponge. Funding has gone gone down over the last 2 years that needs to be reversed. Again. We need an additional 26000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars for the east response in 2020 alone. So urgently, urgently need more funding 2nd. We must ensure that obviously makers prioritize those hit hardest and those most. Busy vulnerable men who have sex with men, drug users who inject drugs. But also that was also already set. A young women aids is still the number one killer of women under 50 worldwide. So we need to ensure that we specially target those most vulnerable and 3rd, we need to ensure that we unlock more sustainable funding and also strengthen health systems. We need also more domestic financing. So, you know, budgets of countries hit hardest by the pandemic into health, into health systems, but also and the response to finance the question of strategy one here in germany. Thank you very much for talking to us here. Indeed, w. News. Thank you. Eastern europe is the region with the worlds Fastest Growing hiv epidemic thats according to u. N. Aids. Over the past decade, new infections in the region have risen by almost 30 percent. One country thats bucking that trend is ukraine, where prove testing and treatment is helping people to live life to the full connelly talked to 3 ukrainians about how hiv changed their lives. Have had a lot of nos in my life because of my age, hiv status. I thought hiv was something that only affected prostitutes and drug addicts and that if you were quote normal, nothing bad could happen. But i did well go and i will never tell anyone about this. That was my 1st reaction to my age. Have a positive test results. Ive had a chinese since i was born. My dad died of aids when i was 7. A year later, my mum told me i had a child. As a kid, you dont get what everyone else is thinking that your life is over, that youre going to die. My mum told me id have to take pills and that was it. Borger. Were going to close. My partner became seriously ill and the doctors didnt have a clue. One day, the man i was dating, decided to take off the condom without telling me a month or so. Later i had tonsilitis and a rash. I just remember thinking, i know what this is. The pitiful i pad enough of keeping it secret. So i decided to tell my classmates at college. Yes, im a child. Be positive. I ended up telling everyone. Maybe i was just lucky but the reactions were great, and i ended up going out with the prettiest girl in our group, which creates a group of us that each of us. But im telling what, whats the one in the 21st century age i v a doesnt have to be a game changer. If everyone has access to testing and treatment, this disease is manageable problem when you push through. Even i get messages from other people with hiv, thanking me for speaking out about my status. Theyll tell you that theyve had hiv for 10 years, but only their mothers know. So many people are giving up on themselves and their lives. Theyre convinced that theyll never have a serious relationship or a decent job. They just end up cutting themselves off from everything. I tried to show them that its not the age or the status thats doing that to their lives. Its their fears that are the problem. Theres no reason to give up and out of some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. Deforestation in brazils amazon rainforest search the highest level in 12 years. Thats according to official figures. The National Research agency says destruction has risen sharply on the right wing populus president , joy able to narrow this year alone, an area 7 times the size of london been stripped. Bare officials, officials in the u. S. Have held joe bidens election victory in the states of arizona. And wisconsin biden won arizona by 10000 votes despite the trumka in the peeling against the result. Separately in a key appointment biden has named former Federal Reserve chief janet yellen, us his choice for treasury secretary. And weve got news just coming in the drugmaker, pfizer and its german pov now by own tech have submitted their covert. 19 vaccine for european approval statement by the company says the drug could be available in europe by the end of the year. The news comes a day after u. S. Drug, my comment done a full emergency approval of its covert 19 vaccine in both europe and the united states. Finding effective vaccines is a crucial part of tackling the coronavirus pandemic with madonna filing for and that n. C. Approval of its vaccine. On monday, it could get the green light before Christmas Eve and year. Yes, that advisory meeting is likely to be on december 17th. If high people see board that between the 17 and christmas, you know, the product is approved. If the u. S. Food and Drug Administration gives the go ahead and not kill ations could start within hours led by u. S. Vaccination of the just 65 general because stuff. It seems to me, does he has a baby on the way. Yeah. So as soon as we get approval or urge our plan and these teams are going to get hold of a vaccine we have and start shipping it in the contrary, is going to vaccinate americans within 24 hours on the pro or the Company Hopes its latest trial results will lead to speedy approval in other countries too. In trials of the vaccine with more than 30000 people, only 30 participants became seriously ill. All of them had been given placebo shots. This makes the vaccine 100 percent effective against severe cases of co that 19 reported side effects include pain at the point of injection chills and fever. These symptoms usually result within one or 2 days, you know, on a personal level. When we saw the 1st interim results, i think we were all really, really relieved and enthusiastic. I can tell you when i saw the final results last night, they came in a little bit earlier than that. We had planned for i love myself to cry for the 1st for the company says it will keep monitoring to check for any further side effects. Earlier we spoke to for schmidt, whos a science journalist and malaki molecular biologist. And we asked him what his assessment is on the safety of madonnas vaccine. Well, its an interesting vaccine. I think the thing we have to remember is that both of these vaccines are down to one. And the pis, a biotech one. They are a new technology, writes m. R. Ne. So basically, you know, youre giving the body the instruction to build a little bit of the virus. And of course that kind of raises raises questions about the safety. But at the same time, you know, 30000 people got the murder of oxy. Now with any that seem what youre looking for is really, you know, side effects that come immediately after you give the vaccine. So we have the data now from the data from 30000 people. In this study we have data from tens of thousands of people in the pfizer buy on tech study there. And there were some are in a vaccine that have been tested on a few 100 subjects before. So we have some data that the question that always remains the thing that kind of that people worry about the most probably is severe side effects that come at a very very rate. So if you have something that only happens once in 100000. 00 people, thats much harder to find if youve only tested the vaccine of 30000 people. So thats the kind of thing that you never pick up in the, in the early trials of vaccine. And thats why its really important that once the vaccine is rolled out, you know, the regulatory agencies and the companies will keep looking for any signal of any, any serious side effects. But the kind of thing that would be very common or that would happen immediately after vaccine that we should have seen at this point. So i worry less about it and terms of the mechanism, the m, r n a that isnt checked, it basically, you know, disappears again in the body after a few hours. And it only stays for a few hours of the, the cells use it to produce this, this protein. And then it disappears. So that mechanistically, it also makes me feel much better about the fact that the shouldnt be any long term safety issues. Time now to have a look at some of the other developments in the global pandemic. The United Nations says the crisis has fueled a dramatic rise in the number of people worldwide who need emergency assistance. Because of the pandemic, the u. N. Says a record 35000000000. 00 will be required for humanitarian aid. Next year, the head of the red cross has warned that vaccine misinformation could create a quote. 2nd pandemic. Francesco rocker said measures were needed to build confidence in vaccinations that will be critical to fight the virus. And nonessential shops have reopened in belgium. One of the hardest hit countries in europe. Experts worry the change might reverse declining infection rates by encouraging gatherings in the pre Christmas Season to india. Now where the government has invited Farmers Union leaders to talk, thousands of farmers continue to block roads into the capital delhi. Theyre protesting are with cultural reforms that they say will leave them at the mercy of big corporations. Prime minister, Narendra Modi said protesters are being misled by the opposition parties and that the laws will actually benefit them. These 20000. 00 farmers going anywhere their trucks and tractors, blocking major highways in the is capital h. About tractors is loaded with rations for up to full months until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back to the farmers feel their livelihoods are under threat, new laws mean the government will soon stop buying grain at guaranteed prices. The farmers claim that could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Indias Prime Minister is trying to placate the groups because their protests, a causing disruption and threaten to cost him politically. I want to tell the citizens and farmers not out from the banks of the river ganges, and the holy city of daraa nasi, that we are working with intentions, which are as pure as the water of the river ganges. And without any intention of betrayal has not gone yet. Modis government says the laws give farmers the freedom to sell their crops to profit by it is rather than through the state. They insist the laws will drive up prices. But the pharmacy remain unconvinced. But we have always suspected the governments intentions because they have become a slave of the corporations. They want to turn us into their slaves as well. Is that by the pharmacy protests have been going on for months since parliament passed the new laws in september. But they only caught the countrys attention in recent days, when thousands of farmers clashed with Police Security forces used tear gas and Water Cannons to prevent protesters from entering delhi, there was stops just outside the city. But theyre now determined to camp out, for the long haul of a more this story, branded, obvious correspondent, initially in delhi, what can you tell us about the situation right now . Meant that the government has invited us to talk studio and get all the end to citing. We did, and it shows and the girl, no, i was at the top to cite and the family does have agreed to all this time because the also all dos is unconditional. But of course this does not necessarily mean that we have is that you shouldnt do is attack, and this is the target. Such conduct talks between the government and promise. But the june deadlock is just starting over the fact that the government insists that it will not sure that the laws that these laws are very beneficial to the farmers and to the dogs is trying to convince the farmers you find white farmers in this. They will not stop protesting and did all she thought of the will back. Well, what do farmers fear most about these new laws and all these fears are actually justified . My god, its important to understand what these laws actually recall as one of the major proposals this changes. How exactly tom, whats going on prospects helps saw that only been out the senate and gotten in designated 62 markets aspecific price. And now these laws and now them to go outside these markets to markets for the wheat from their base bombs, as well as to private and corporate as well. But how is the law do not mention of people . So that is central to the farms concerns, which is the minimum support price, but in the street, the m. S. B. Is basically obese. Get into price for the government or perhaps to farmers. The new laws do not mention this bomblets feel that gradually they got one to flip back on those possibility of providing this price as well. Prince state will look at leaving them in the lurch and as soon as the government wants to meet farm farmers, leaders today, do you think looking at all this pressure coming from the street, really . Are they due to give in to these protests by giving in to the protest strike not get hot in davids going tracting, the law is drawing back a lot completely. The government has in fact, at least said that theyre not be doing that. So then well have to be some give from either side, probably if the farmers agree to a new law, which in fact at least its began to cry for them missing in the got laws that are needs stroll over people. But its all part of, you know, backing down from either saying thank you very much. The messages are for us in delhi and japan and sneers have been putting in 18 meat, a tall robot through its paces. The creation is a spinoff from a popular 970 s. On a mysterious cold mobile sugandha featuring enormous battle robots, piloted by humans, now guns. And is the Main Attraction at a theme park in yokohama, due to open later this month, was feeling when to have a closer look. Robots, a big in japan, and this one is larger than life. Gundam stands at just over 18 meters tall and weighs 25 tons. More to in this book, ive been a fan since i was, a schoolboy. In the 1980 s. , the models were so popular, they were always sold out. I used to queue up to get one or the some of these at that i could pick up a condom was born in 1979 as a childrens toy this, if they would all look cool. It spawned a whole Science Fiction universe, a hugely popular and im a series of movies, manga has, and video games that have grossed more than 20000000000. 00. And now the whole world can see how much we japanese love anime, games and manga. So maybe we have a primal desire to create something gigantic. It used to be bird, and now its gundam. Countdown is an icon in japan. So much say that the organizers of the Tokyo Olympics sent him into space on a mini satellite to promote the games. Because of the pandemic, he will have to stay in bed for a while longer. But that wont change his mission. To the story of gun them teaches us that there is no friend or foe. Everyone has a bit of both in them. But what he wants to tell us is that war is always a tragedy. And in chicken lactic message, that that colossal robot will be promoting. The giant Olympic Rings are back on display at tokyo bay after they were taken down for maintenance in august organizers, hope their return will get the locals excited and show that the games are getting closer 2020 summer olympics and paralympics were pushed back by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. 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