Hong kong make good on their threat to resign on mass up to 4 of their colleagues are expelled from parliament. China condemns what it calls a blatant challenge to it. So far, im still gala welcome to the program. Germanys Public Health institute is warning that covered 19 infections could spread uncontrollably and some parts of the country case numbers are still increasing despite a partial national lockdown. Despite this, they robert coherence issued says the infection is likely to start flattening sim. Germany is in its 2nd week of a 4 week partial shutdown, but the covert 900 situation remains serious. More than 20000, new infections have been recorded in a single day. The head of the countrys Disease Control agency, the robot cock institute, warned of more deaths to come from. And you need to accept that the situation is going to get worse over the coming weeks. Some clinics could reach the limits of their capacity and it is possible that patients will not be able to receive optim
Restrictions that were put in place are actually having the desired effect or whether authorities have to tweak them and maybe increase them as well in the next few days. There are Big Questions as to whether this is being effective in particular, because germany continues to record very high numbers of new cases over 20000, for example, in the last 24 hours. And that is something that is obviously concerning for thors at the same time. There is a big concern among german hospitals. Many saying that the situation is even worse now than what it was in april, for example, during the 1st wave of the pandemic. So yes, there may be some positive signs, but the situation remains very serious and thats something the German Authorities have been very clear when they talk to the friends about these kinds of things. Christmas is only 6 weeks away and no government wants to go down in history as the one that canceled it, untold millions of people. They can go home and see their families. So tough
A nice 3 people are stabbed to death in paris. The teach us time in a petty is decapitated for showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed in his classroom. President mccall wants to take vehement action against islamists and to forge a European Coalition against terror. France has been particularly hard hit exactly. 5 years ago on nov 13th, 130 people were killed in islamists attacks. The terrorists stormed the better cloth theatre in paris, and shot dead dozens of young people at a concert. France never really recovered from the shock. These 2 men will forever be united through the attack for many in france, and its particularly remarkable that they together are standing up now against hatred and for reconciliation. It inflicted a National Trauma on france, the attack on the buttocks 90 concert goers. Most of them young people were brutally killed in the heart of paris by a commando of islamist terrorists. One of the gunmen was 28 year old who was shot by police before blowing himself u
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The roll out of covid 19 vaccines has boosted hopes the virus can be tamed, but it will have to be a worldwide effort if its to be effective, and right now the signs are not so good. While tens of millions have already been vaccinated in the rich west, the worlds poor are facing a very long wait the phrase Vaccine Apartheid has already been coined. My guest is the chief scientist at the world health organization, dr Soumya Swaminathan. Is Vaccine Inequity undermining the fight against covid . Dr Soumya Swaminathan in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. Lets start with an overview. Is there any reason to believe that we are getting on top of this Global Pandemic . Well, one year ago, the Director General of the who announced that this covid 19 was a Public Health emergency of international concern. That was on 30 january, 2020. And he said that there was a window of opportun
Now on bbc news its time to hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The roll out of covid 19 vaccines has boosted hopes the virus can be tamed, but it will have to be a worldwide effort if its to be effective, and right now the signs are not so good. While tens of millions have already been vaccinated in the rich west, the worlds poor are facing a very long wait the phrase Vaccine Apartheid has already been coined. My guest is the chief scientist at the world health organization, dr Soumya Swaminathan. Is Vaccine Inequity undermining the fight against covid . Dr Soumya Swaminathan in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. Lets start with an overview. Is there any reason to believe that we are getting on top of this Global Pandemic . Well, one year ago, the Director General of the who announced that this covid 19 was a Public Health emergency of international concern. That was on 30 january, 2020. And he sa