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for the rather sluggish vaccination program. yes and potentially more widely than that a blow for the overall trust in and therefore efficacy of the wider vaccine program island joining a list a short list but potentially a growing list of countries now signaling safety concerns and temporarily halting their use of the astra zeneca jab as you said that was announced on sunday morning the immunization or thora t. in pointing to a report by the norwegian medicines agency a couple of days ago a report into 4 cases of serious blood clotting events their words concerning health care workers for them in their thirty's and forty's and that age group for this sort of thing to be going on they described as substantially unusual norway taking its decision to temporarily halt the use of the vaccine at the same time as denmark and iceland pointed to similar instances and events and then this of the ripple effect spreading out to the likes of bell garia most recently in the european union and even more widely than that to thailand also temporarily halting its use of the vaccine on the irish authorities very express lee pointing out that they have not detected nor their legend specifically a direct link between the vaccine and these blood clotting events they've taken this decision as they say out of an abundance of caution and as soon as it can be proven that there is nothing more than coincidence involved between the 2 they will look at this decision again astra zeneca the u.k. based manufacturer the pharmaceutical company has leapt on it of course robustly defending its vaccine saying that it is safe proven so in large scale trials and saying that out of $17000000.00 doses so far administers they are administered they have found no evidence of any increased risk of parliamentary embolisms from most is that sort of thing beyond what would ordinarily occur in a sample population sample size of that. size in other words 70000000 people who hadn't received the vaccine would show at least this number of this sort of blood clot in the european medicines agency similarly cautious again and for sizing the safety of this vaccine saying that the benefits outweigh any potential risks at this point pending a further review they say rollout should continue and big european countries the u.k. of course not least among the but also germany france have in the last few days come out and reassured their citizens that the vaccine is safe that rollout of the vaccine should continue well speaking of are allowed and given that this is a partially persists developed vaccine and it's very heavily reliant on it for the u.k.'s program how is the u.k. handling orifice. at the other sort of government level the foreign minister was in norway during the last couple days when this news broke he dominic rob was keen to defend the vaccine again to defend its safety record the medicine regulator here has pushed the safety proven on look a lot of scale basis and pointed out that out of 11000000 doses administered in this country they have been no obvious adverse effects of this type it is a big deal of course in the u.k. as you say this is a u.k. made vaccine manufactured by u.k. based pharmaceuticals company put together and designed by british scientists and it is the cornerstone of britain's so far very successful vaccine roller but it is a vaccine the astra zeneca job that has had its share of controversy in the last couple of months political disputes delivery delays and now safety concerns everybody very key thing to try and tamp down the potential for widespread panic here jane have there with all the latest for us from london thank you very much jonah well let's dig into this now with simon clark he's an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading and he joins us now from there simon i want to start with a question that i'm sure everyone who is watching is wondering does this potentially mean that the vaccine is unsafe. good afternoon no it really doesn't mean that it is potentially unsafe it has been tested widely and there have been no reported problems beyond what you would normally expect with a vaccine. with any that say really the occurrence of these thrombotic events these blood clots is no greater in the vaccinated population than it is in the home vaccinated population so quite why regulators in these countries have taken the decision beyond big screen be cautious is not really clear so let me ask you then if the w.h.o. is insisting it's safe to use but some countries have decided to hold their all out there's a going ahead how should people be reading that are some countries then potentially taking bigger risks than others here well i think you can turn that around and say some countries are big overly cautious and that of course exposes their population to increased risk of infection. and that's potentially bigger toll on suman health or health in those countries so i don't think this is unsafe and to be perfectly honest if somebody would come in here now with a syringe full laxey i would happily take it well in most countries you honestly don't get to choose the vaccine that you get so i'd like to ask you to address the people out there who are scared to take the vaccine if they're being offered the astra zeneca vaccine what should they be doing. my advice to them is take it if i were offered it i would take it i know friends of mine. received it my own fathers would see that. while there may be some slight side effects there are often now with vaccines that they are. much less much less of a problem than the facts of getting to over 90 even the minor and milder and that means it's so beyond the astra zeneca vaccine specifically there is already this huge amount of vaccine skepticism particularly in certain communities and this obviously won't be helping that could something like this put a broader vaccine rollout in jeopardy. inevitably and unfortunately it will make some people double down when they're questioning or people who are pretty good about the vaccines are risky they will point to this it's incumbent therefore people like me to push back on that. i think it's also incumbent on regulators in countries like ireland to explain exactly why they feel they need to suspend the use of the vaccine when really the currents of these robotic events these blood clots is no higher in the back snaking population and it will be in the unvaccinated population they really need to be very clear simon this is also one of the cheaper vaccines that's been a prayer for why do you think it's really being rolled out at scale especially in the developing world how far does this set back those efforts of some countries are hesitant about rolling it out. well potentially inevitably makes people ask questions and doubts things and that's why it's unwise to do these things unnecessarily you know that this vaccine you quite rightly point out is relatively cheap that's because astra zeneca are not making a profit on it unlike companies that are producing other vaccines it also doesn't require really strict stringent freezing which frankly in some parts of the world just isn't possible and therefore if you don't have vaccines like this but which do work and are safe then you're exposing millions who tensely billions of people to cope with 97 clark from the university of reading an associate professor in cellular microbiology always great to get your thoughts here on out of there thanks for being with us again. now moving on and man law security forces have killed at least 38 protesters on sunday state television says one police officer has also died from injuries sustained at a protest now earlier the acting leader of myanmar ousted civilian government urged supporters to stay on the streets he also calls on ethnic armed groups to unite against the military john to reports. defiant protesters again marched through the streets of mandalay on sunday in strong voice and in large numbers they were clearly on by the violence of the day before that's when the security services shot dead at least 6 people in a crackdown in the 2nd city and injured many more but with the death toll rising a call for revolution from the former vice president now leading a civilian administration in hiding. this is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment when the dawn is close this is the time for us citizens to test their resistance against the dark moments speaking of a new federal democracy the message was clearly aimed at bringing diverse ethnic groups together to overcome the army and their coup in order to win forming a resistance unity plays a vital role despite our differences in the past this is the time we must grip our hands together to end the dictatorship for good. these diverse ethnic groups are scattered across myanmar's borderlands divided they don't represent a significant threat to the military who've been fighting them for decades united they could be a considerable obstacle but there's long been distrust between these groups and the n l d the national league for democracy bringing them together would be no small task. in peaceful defiance protesters break the curfew to honor the dead in candlelight vigils across the country you know that. we can go on the street to show that we are against military dictatorship by breaking the kofi order imposed by duhoux review continue fighting it is the military continues with its brutal tactics on the streets calls for a revolution it's not so peaceful meek gain increasing support tony ching al-jazeera on our ethnic armed groups have thrown their weight behind the civil disobedience movement against the military coup but just how unified are they while there are dozens of armed ethnic groups in myanmar mostly along the border regions among the largest the arik an army the caption independence army and the myanmar national democratic alliance army in all their estimated to control a 3rd of the country's territory now 2050 in the government was able to strike a nationwide ceasefire agreement with most of the largest groups after decades of fighting with the recent government takeover by the military genter could reignite conflict. groups are also well resourced the u.n. estimates there and up to $1500000000.00 from the illegal opium trade in 2020 alone allows them a steady flow of money and weapons we can all speak to ryan and lee he is a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london he joins us now from there these obviously aren't new conflicts or armed groups can you talk us through the landscape here just how active are these groups and the conflicts that they're actually fighting in. well very mean for a large number of people in myanmar they've lived in a state of civil war for up upwards of 5 decades but these are people who live mostly in the borderlands of the country their ethnic and religious minorities and they've experienced extreme brutality from me and mullahs military quite quite frankly for generations what we've seen though in recent weeks is that many militaries brought the sorts of tactics that it's routinely used against ethnic minorities in in can chain state and shan state and against groups like the ricky gets brought those tactics war crimes crimes against humanity genocide or violence and it's brought them onto the streets of cities like yang gone and mandalay so what what's occurring now is that me and muslim majority is really experiencing the same brutality that the ethnic minority and religious minority groups have experienced for decades and they're incredibly unhappy about that as you can imagine they're also prepared to make some common cause with ethnic and religious minorities that wasn't politically feasible before that's been there's been a real concern from from ethnic and religious minorities that that the majority civilian administration of on since the national league for democracy really didn't take seriously ethnic and religious minority claims around their rights and particularly their claim to federalism that's changing now what we've seen in the last 24 hours and it's a really important reaching out by the leadership of the deposed civilian administration talking directly to the can religious minority groups and using the sorts of language that they've been desperate to hear from from that administration for many years it's around unity and it's talking about federalism well right and given the level of mistrust of all those years and the fact that each of these groups really has their own agenda how realistic is the idea of some kind of unified front for them especially given that they haven't managed to actually do it over all of these he has a fighting the same military essentially. the military's often used divide and rule tactics that's that's been one of the one of the shrewder moves they they elevate one group at the same time as they're taking on another and we we've seen that in fact this week the military which had previously declared an armed group in rakhine state the ira konami as a terror group it's taken them off that list it's an attempt by the military to reach out but i think i think they have left it too late think from a military point of view they they have managed to unify virtually every group within the country against them from young people and we're seeing them in the street protests street protests in the urban centers the union movements united against the military obviously the established politicians in the national league for democracy but but now we're seeing ethnic and religious minorities realizing that this is their chance they've achieved federalism on the political agenda in a way that they haven't been able to achieve for many many years and i don't think that they'll be minded to now jump back in bed you need any way with me and most military i mean the military just has nothing to offer them they see this is their opportunity to remove the military from politics permanently and to achieve the political demands that legitimate political demands around federalism that they've been making for many years so i think i think. the protest movement and the civil disobedience movement in myanmar really has everything to play for here the military certainly on the run their finances have been squeezed the banks are closed they can't pay their people i mean members militaries that the sort of organization is better understood as a as an organized crime gang and if they can't if they can't pay their people and their cronies and it's been shown that they're not able to do that with the banks closed they'll become increasingly desperate but increasingly weak on a sounds like a tipping point may then be approaching when and live there and visiting scholar at queen mary university of london great take your thoughts out there thanks for being with us. well there is plenty more ahead few this news hour including dutch police move against and he locked down protesters we'll have all the latest live from. generation exile syrian refugees describe their reply almost 10 years since peaceful protests turned into a war. and in support well champions by and united have stayed in control of the german title race all the details coming up shortly with andy. and the police in the netherlands have used water cannon to dispense people protesting against coronavirus restrictions thousands gathered for that rally in the hague now the approved capacity for that protest was just 200 and all comes ahead of parliamentary elections on wednesday vasant is in the hague watching those protests for us step we've obviously seen this anger really build there over weeks and months and now these protesters are hoping they will potentially be political consequences. absolutely we've just seen some clashes here between police and the hundreds of protesters against the lock down when he's actually used the water cannons but also firecrackers fireworks were thrown at police and bottles several people have been arrested so quite a bit tense situation here in the hague there was a demonstration in the amount of $200.00 people but many more showed up showing the frustration the increasing frustration about the lockdown here in the special and especially this nighttime curfew that part's been going on since january and what you've seen here is not only concerned citizens who are praying that they're going to do their business but also. but also people from the far right and the right parties have actually been tapping into these increased gratian and anger towards the locker. you can see things basically for the parliament. but also the right. thing. to get away we went to one of. the country. friends who remarked his style has been compared with former us president donald trump ignoring covert restrictions the leader of the anti immigration populist party. is trying to attract voters by calling covert 19 a common flu and blaming international conspiracies for being behind the pandemic. hundreds of people at the moment are in the hospital right suffering from corona many people in an island have died more than 15000 so it's a serious issue that's a normal number for a serious flu we've had for thousands of years everyone does have complained to hospitals are full they can't cope with the workflow. well those stories are highly disputed just party became the largest just 2 years ago but fell apart after racist anti-semitic messages to make it public are now a stepping in to a growing sentiment against a lockdown with an american style campaign based on conspiracy theories and the tax on the media. sentiment in the netherlands against lockdowns has grown especially after a nighttime curfew was introduced in january riots broke out in several cities and covert testing facilities were attacked far right parties might form for democracy appeared to be benefiting from this anger economy and the stuff i can't go anywhere i want to and even if i didn't go out i should have freedom that has been taken away from us and that is horrible. i like what he says about freedom i want schools to reopen i'm a 1st year student and i can barely follow my studies because it's all online i was in line. well good as party is polling around 3 percent of the vote another anti immigration party the freedom party of this is predicted to win around 20 percent come the 2nd largest like it did 4 years ago the 1st time it's not about immigration or islam it's about corona yeah it is and we take a responsible view it as well as a people because we're really in for. public health as well and making that a big issue not a problem for you that's not about immigration well if you look at the polls it's not i think a responsible few that we will benefit from it but it's not it's not like you want to benefit from a pandemic i'm just doing my 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