says his orders sacking a top general has come into force but the president and military leaders are pushing back also this hour a new step to reconcile with its colonial past france is to declassify secret documents related to algeria as war of independence and russia slows down access to twitter accusing it of failing to remove banned content critics say it's another attempt to silence kremlin critics of their own piece of it all the sports news consumer nelda and you ventus have crashed out of the champions league in the last 16 but a more later this new. hello and thank you for joining us south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organisation to drop pay to interest strictures on covert 900 back scenes more than 100 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations according to a campaign group called one rich countries are hoarding excess doses preventing poor nations from getting them at sesame to the surplus of doses would be enough to vaccinate the entire. dulled population of africa john hopkins university found nearly half of those who've been fully vaccinated so far were in the united states and only 10 countries have been able to vaccinate 75 percent of their populations the u.n. secretary general antonio terry says the inequality of the vaccine distribution is widely an even and unfair from him and i begins our coverage with this report from johannesburg. on the whole it's been a year since the 1st 1000 in fiction was identified in south africa since then more than 50000 people have died here and 1500000 have been infected while richard nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower. another important step is to remember that it could. south africa and india are leading a movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights for covert 1000 vaccines but many high income countries including the united states and those in the european union have rejected the idea they say waiving the peyton's would put off private investors and slow down scientific innovation and existing regulations allow drug manufacturers to make their own deals with generic manufacturers while some developing nations that garner ivory coast in the suit to have begun receiving their 1st doses to the u.n. back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa are being left behind. there is a capacity for mr companies to produce things like i said in america. it is essential that the wealthy states stop blocking or putting in legal barriers and delaying essential kozel ahead. of the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert 1000 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not received a single dose this is not the 1st public health emergency that south africa is facing it has one of the highest hiv aids rates in the world in the 1990 s. millions of people in this country and other developing nations died without access to the drugs they needed simply because they were too expensive so africa is once again calling for access to cheaper drugs to save lives with some arguing that despite covert 1000 vaccines been tested in africa many nations on the continent still remain at the back of the queue for me to al-jazeera johannesburg. when i speak to nick dearden about this he's the director of global justice now and he joins us via skype from london very good to have you with us nick on the news hour so the w t o today is hearing a proposal by india and south africa to waive peyton's on call the 1000 vaccines will in your opinion waiving intellectual property rights alone solve vaccine access. it could make an enormous difference it's not enough on its own we also need to compel the corporations that are really nice fraxinus to share the know with countries around the world but it could make just an enormous difference to what's been described as a vaccine apartheid where countries like my own. many times the vaccines that they need leaving over 100 countries haven't even sniffed exene yet. and when those countries come to the w.t. i would say this is unfair please allow us the ability to produce or in fact seems britain the u.s. and other european countries turn around and say no no there's no problem at all don't worry you'll get the eventually right what pharmaceutical manufacturers make are saying that peyton's are not the issue really when trying to expand over 1000 vaccination that production. but rather ingredients shortages and manufacturing capacity is the issue they say do you buy that. i don't buy it because we know we've seen creasing reports over recent weeks that there are centuries lying idle around right the way around the world including in europe actually and they can't produce the vaccines because they don't a relay don't have access to the papers that would allow them to produce it and bear in mind many of these vaccines have been produced entirely with public resources or largely with with public resources they've been trialled by people around the world is absolutely wrong that research has been tried to tie monopolized by a bunch of super rich corporations who are keeping that techno technical know how out of the public sphere another argument of those who oppose this proposal also make is that you know freeing up they say ip intellectual property for vaccines is a thaw different proposition then can post 3 licenses issued decades ago for a same press small molecule drugs including treatments for hiv aids they say the 1000 vaccines are. much more complicated they have hundreds of ingredients that's also not valid you have to imagine. well they would say that with a no i don't believe it is if you actually look at what we've achieved over the last 12 months factories that have never produced before being kidnapped within just a very short space of time within just a few months to produce especially the newer versions the madonna in size of versions of the m r n a it's called scenes these can be much more easily produced you don't need massive factories you don't need huge amounts of experience but you do need to know how you do need the technical knowledge to be able to produce a minute the moment that being kept secret led by corporations for the right purposes because they want to be able to profit from these vaccines for many years ahead and we think during a global pandemic that's just completely wrong right to vaccine distribution center has highlighted global inequality beyond the catastrophic moral failure that's been described by the cheetham south to what extent do you think and how long well this adds to what extent will it adds another layer to the profound disparity in wealth education health that we see already around the world today and we absolutely right the pandemic has exacerbated what was already an enormous inequality on a global scale before this pandemic happened and if we go down this route and some countries cannot vaccinate a sufficient portion of that population to be safe from this virus until what 2024 people are saying now the inequality will just be enormous how on earth are those countries supposed to protect the livelihoods and the health care of their citizens when they don't have access to technical know how that's been paid for by the public sector and that we already enjoying in countries like mine right now thank you very much for talking to us about this thank you for being passionate about this issue then as director of global justice now joining us via skype from london . in a european 1st 10000000 doses of the russian sputnik vaccine will be produced in italy production is set to start in july with all good jobs expected to be made by the end of the year russia wants to expand production across more nations and has deals with spain france and germany the e.u. joint vaccine scheme has been criticized for its slow progress brazil meanwhile has recorded its highest number of deaths from corona virus in a single day nearly 2000 fatalities where i just said on tuesday the country has had more than 11000000 cases and is facing the worst phase of the pandemic yet pushing its health care system to the brink of collapse a surge in govan $1000.00 cases in jordan is forcing the government to impose new restrictions a nighttime curfew will be extended and some businesses will have to shut other measures including school closures and a total lockdown on fridays are already in place more than 7000 cases were reported on monday driven by the spread of the more contagious u.k. variant. in iraq tens of thousands of shia pilgrims have been travelling to the capital baghdad to mark the death of. is a 7th of 12 revered by shia is muslims but this year the event comes as a country faces a cold 1000 pandemic iraq has recently been in the great of a 2nd wave with about 5000 cases recorded osama bin javac trade for some back time and. every year tens of thousands of people travel to the iraqi capital baghdad to commemorate the anniversary of him and call them one of the trolls considered holy by shia muslims and this israel they've been coming in their droves many walking for days to try and reach the shrine but what is different this year is not just the security threat but also the threat from a pandemic cases have been striking in iraq in the last week or so every day there about 5000 new cases and more than 12 people have been dying consistently for the last 7 days that means the iraqi government says that it has been trying to make arrangements to try and keep everyone safe but people who've been walking to work the commemoration say they have not received any arrangements in the journey here when. there are 0 preventative measures for corona nothing at all there's no compliance with safety measures and those pilgrims are walking for a faith thank god we didn't see any affections among the pilgrims concerned i used to walk every year but due to the high number of cases i didn't come last year it's a little bit of this year to take away this plague it's a fatal disease but we have faith and they will protect us they are all source of health and mercy although some restrictions are in place the iraqi government has made mandatory overnight curfew started 3 put it over declared the day of the anniversary a public holiday this is not the 1st time that thousands of people are gathering in less than a week for her religious event because the pope was visiting iraq for the 1st time he went from the south in the garden. a north to limit and in the kurdish territory even thousands of people god there is really rough fragile hope here system in struggling with the rising number of cases of total christians are concerned that this could give rise to more cases of people have not be adhering to the rules of social distancing and many have not been wearing mosques. 20 more ahead on this news hour including. why would die all the dead solution because it was extreme situation a senior official from yann martel's al-jazeera about his dramatic escape after last month's military coup. long term explode exposure 10 years on from the fukushima nuclear accident while residents will feel the effects for decades to come and boston only look to overturn a full one deficit when they visit p.s.g. the champions league is over here with the story in sports late. the dismissal of armenia's army chief of staff has come into force 2 weeks after the prime minister fired him a call passionate man accused the military of attempting a cool last month after it demanded he resign but the stocking has brought was blocked by the president army leaders have regenerated their calls for passion on to step down some in the army say the prime minister mishandled last year's war with as a by john thousands of armenians were killed in the 6 week conflict over nagorno-karabakh al-jazeera as robin foresee walker reports from yet yvonne on the challenges for some of the war small seriously injured voters that is a veteran from recent war with job is adjusting to his new life a life without forms. that lost his arms rescuing his own brother who'd been wounded in the leg. it's almost too much for their mother leanna to remember that day. virus that was with his brother in the ambulance when the shell struck by and despite his pain my brother came to help me the medic and driver also wounded the interior was on fire the mattresses were burning but we drove on while my brother tried to put out the fire. officially 9094 armenian soldiers were wounded in the 6 week war over nagorno-karabakh thought to treat some of the most seriously injured at this rehabilitation center in central yerevan. as summoning to get back to something you never get used to all of this it's very difficult to see these young soldiers and many of them are helpless as a doctor it's terribly difficult for me to tell some of them that they will never walk again that burden is on me. physiotherapy and dry needling is helping hikes depan year with the pain in his stumps he tells me the prospect of returning to sport keeps him motivated. heike is one of 300 patients at this center receiving therapy therapy that wouldn't be possible without the support of charitable funding because the state here is simply not in a position to cope with the sheer scale of the problem that's a little bit too short the center will soon have a prosthetics workshop paid for by a dutch are median charity there are a lot of empty ated people they are waiting for prosthesis in a short time and that's a big challenge but i think it's a big plus that they are generally healthy and de are very motivated to do to walk with percy's armenian tax payers also make mandatory payments into a soldier's insurance fund but voters that needs advanced prosthetics costing tens of thousands of euros the kind that would enable him to hold his own cup of coffee again or mission they've told us these kind of prosthesis is beyond our reach as are going to cost maybe this is a huge amount of money and people like us can't afford these types of artificial limbs but what does that say about us if we can't afford it who can if the home land was worth sacrificing my arms for why should new ones be beyond my reach. what is that hasn't wasted time since his interviews he got engaged to his girlfriend. is to hope that he lives an independent life to get. to 0. france's president says his government will speed up the declassification of secret documents from its colonial era the decision will make it easier to access information relating to the algerian war of independence but critics say the blocking of thousands of once public documents shows there's still a long way to go in january a truth commission was set up to look into france's colonial history historians have called for victims' testimonies to be included algeria as war of independence lasted from 1904 to 1902 and was one of the world's bloodiest conflicts algeria says more than 1000000 of its people were killed let's speak to use of one del about this he's an algerian professor of political science at qatar university also a specialist on human rights issues in the maghreb region he joins us via skype here in doha thank you very much use of bonding for being with us so the french government is scenes is making another gesture perhaps to reconcile france with its colonial past what will declassifying secret archives on the algerian wars achieve how will it help the process of reconciliation. think we have 2 extraordinary to say which will happen because there is a law in florida the. documents over the last 50 years old should be made public with this also updated people diddy's either in 2011 but says the government needs to have a say in what mark on the house has done up until now though it is something that they need to become of they need to commend the on that because nolan has been done before he wants to tugun the friendship he's great and it's logical for her to call you bust particularly towards a majority of like you said a little and it was. french they've been professional history of getting decent official but to be installer who urged the french government to the close you file you the documents he admitted. florence are dismayed that the total of what of each owed the citizen more this order to sympathize with the algerian war and last week he met with the far media of arguments of lawyer. for the last of 2 by different right so you to see yeah i just just signed national audience can understand and i'm glad you're making all these points about my call it has to be said indeed that he has done much more than his predecessors towards healing the wounds on his 1st trip to algeria he called colonialism a crime against humanity he he recognized his responsibility in the death of ontarian dissidents and in the pendants fight is like a woman joe which you mentioned but he has also ruled out apologizing for france's role in algeria why why won't france apologize for algeria is calling up colonize a ship. this is basically do 1000000 dollar look a question i think that the police in these documents and the other crimes we did get a long way toward start let's not forget gotten reports by benjamin should just to make it available in the archives but he also ruled out a total jeep and i believe that michael has made significant steps to apologize for florence's behavior in not julian would not be the would not be good for his electrical company some people might why this is a show why is this a show of apologizing so sensitive still today in france 60 years on and not just among far right nationalists but among the french population in majority as a whole but bit is that i believe that they get an opinion site has not been called in for that. the pope of the day because the algerians have not made so much effort in these demands and also there are so many people in florence who do not necessarily believe the reason was it but they believe that the french adventure in our journey up was too civilized that was shove edges its flowers not create a journey of its fullest but believed that you've just got to you know judea and the fall they have nothing to apologize for if that is in opposing it should government be on jenny and the terrorists who committed that there was of course it is right now that the changed yeah and i want you talk about the french perspective then next here remark of course the success anniversary of the end of ontarians war for independence what is the view though from algeria how does a majority of the population in algeria which has to be said is very young view this period of history. what did the like you say to the moderate your father julian's. less than 35 years old they have not leave the wall and so on and so forth but if we see the about 40 instant these a bit of protest over the last 2 years you know julia. of course that hasn't been india because of the pandemic but when we see what people were calling for fall i'm a lot of things based and flinches dominance of financial or finances interference in our journey in the 1st though so many are julia stevens today who was parents grandparents have been killed by the french just so many people you know julia who feel that these children dominated. the country in the economically even politically and therefore they want to see the atrocities committed by the floods in algeria and the younger generation who doesn't believe the war is the one that is called in for an official apology from the flood of lunch thank you very much yourself wonder for your insight thank you for talking to us about the essence of vandalism professor at the university here in doha. thank you. the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by the 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