and injured suspect was detained in the incident at a supermarket in boulder colorado is the 2nd multiple killing within a week president joe biden has called for commonsense gun laws reforms. to. the european union the united states and the u.k. have imposed sanctions on china over human rights abuses against its we go muslim minority the e.u. is blacklisting high ranking chinese officials beijing has hit back by sanctioning several e.u. officials and organizations claiming they maliciously spread lies and disinformation . this is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at the news of visit d.w. dot com. astra zeneca today announced that its u.s. trials have shown the coronavirus vaccine to be very effective and that is good news but europe not the us needs the astra zeneca banksy the company has only delivered 30 percent of what it promised for the 1st quarter of this year even if there were no shortage there's no guarantee that europeans would take it tonight the astra zeneca vaccine europeans have been told twice that they can trust it so why do so many say they don't bring gulf in berlin this is the day. we've had our congress is the answer to that scene driving the stakes in now. gives others increased focus. now going through the process of preparing a submission. to the approval by the f.d.a. in some of the release and the lives of 30 to 30000000 doses this is a very effective and safe. and off the debts average we will deliver $15.00 to $20000000.00 just. to get to the americans. also coming up for 30 years the european union has avoided confrontations with china over human rights violations that was left to the u.s. while europe was able to focus on business ties today sanctions were slapped on china by the u.s. and also by the european union. rather than change its policies and address them it concerned china is against a blind eye and these measures that will and acts unacceptable. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine and the people who need it and the people who don't today the drug maker announced that its u.s. trials have shown its vaccine to be effective against 9100 percent effective in preventing hospitalizations and astra zeneca is expected to apply for emergency use authorization in the united states here is what the company's vice president of research said today. what i think is very pleasing about this is it is a single study with a single. rung across countries and i think for me you know we've had ousted congress the if the device inviting saying this data now. gives other has increased this is a very effective and safe from say well this is definitely good news but there are really 3 vaccines in use in the u.s. and vaccinations are ahead of schedule will there be astra zeneca shot it may go into the use if and when needed category let's go now to the united states our washington correspondent for more she's been following this story for us good evening to you carly did these numbers from astra zeneca they are very good without question but does the united states does it need the astra zeneca vaccine. as you know we are living right now in a world where countries are competing all the time to get vaccines at all and the vaccination rollout in the us has faced challenges on supply and in supply and distribution and although it is true that to both the production and the administration of shots have picked up reasons recently we know for example that 2 and a half 1000000 people in the us are getting a vaccine daily and this is indeed a significant change if we consider that the ever affects and aged people into an aria was about 500000 but still many people who want a vaccine can't get one and the stockpiles of us are as anika vaccine that can't be used in the united states and till this shots gets the f.d.a. of there is a sense oh yes the u.s. needs more vaccines and the approval of the esters anika could help the government to accelerate the procedure in the country reaching that goal of getting enough doses for all adults by the end off may the answer to the good bank scene was supposed to be the work couper's of the global banks now was seeming the if t. in the u.s. grants emergency use authorization for this vaccine do we know what the u.s. plans to do with the vaccine that will be menu furniture dear. the government said it has 7000000. dozes off this vaccine and in total the country has ordered $300000000.00 doses including a contest for $200.00 stills exclusively for the department of defense here in the sates but there is also a different aspect brands that we should consider last week president biden and his administration they announced they have plans to send $4000000.00 us off the stockpile of exene and the united states to canada and mexico as a low and ahead of potential theories asia and official said there is no deal of finalized back to that as far as anika findings are a victory for both the u.s. supply and the global fight against the virus so this shows how of the vaccine it's also being used as a diplomatic tool so if all americans would get the vaccine soon and the u.s. would have more than enough vaccines regardless of the maker of course of this vaccines will probably be used as a political tool that is actually already what what china and russia for example are doing you know the europeans very we'll tonight or washington correspondent they really need to more clearly thank you. while the u.s. has an abundance of coronavirus vaccines to choose from the european union does not and its vaccination rollout well it has turned into more of a crawl out 2 weeks ago european union countries they began temporarily suspending use of the astra zeneca vaccine on fears of a link to blood clots last thursday the european medicines agency announced for the 2nd time that the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and effective and that the benefits of using the astra zeneca vaccine outweigh any negatives but public hesitancy towards the vaccine has only grown add to that a dispute between the european union and the u.k. over astra zeneca vaccine exports take a listen. in our contract with the show's any kind they are even 2 sides in the u.k. that are put in the contract for potential deliberate deliveries for the european union we're still waiting for doses to come from the u.k. pool of us including we don't european friends were saying for the pandemic it would be wrong to turn it over to fear we ruefully contract that supply if the situation does not change we will have to reflect on how to make exports to vaccine producing countries dependent on their level of openness. and supporters who are having this conservation is normally what would you care if you came up with to object when other countries with respect to produce the right part of production we are in the crisis of the century and i'm not ruling out anything anything for now because we have to make sure that europeans are vaccinated as soon as false and for more i'm joined now by my colleague did of the reporter alex forrest why do you know this is this is becoming a serious rail between the u.k. and the european union yes temperatures over really prizing you can see it on both sides they're. basically saying look these vaccines produced in europe should not have been exported to the u.k. the u.k. saying just because we're doing well with our vaccine program you're better about it you need somebody to blame and you're blaming us and you can just look at some of the headlines in the british newspapers that we've had the daily star accusing either leaders of vaccine nationalism and terrifying people into an early grave while the daily express and london's metro are going for a mix of cheers and tears after britain vaccinated nearly 600 sorry 850000 people on sunday alone and even the broadsheet the times says british leaders are warning the e.u. don't stop. not a vaccine war so you can just see that just how how much feeling there is about this and in the u.k. for the numbers they do tell the story right the u.k. is doing an impressive job of vaccinating its population the european union cannot claim that no it certainly can't i mean look at the u.k. it's more than half of british adults have had at least one dose of the vaccine in the e.u. it's just over one in 10 so a very very very different state of affairs and yet more than 10000000 vaccines being produced in the e.u. have been exported to the u.k. since february and also what's really infuriating brussels is that millions of doses of the astra zeneca vaccine that have been produced in a dutch factory are jew to be going to the u.k. to london and they're very cross about that don't want that to happen obviously they're already furious with astra zeneca because they were supposed to be delivering millions of vaccines that have to be rolled back because it can't be done so it is now going to meet on thursday to try to work out what they can do with the explosive possibility that they could put in place an export ban to the u.k. to the vaccine for you know that would be the worst case scenario if a ban were to be put into place would that nation efforts in the u.k. well even the british government is saying that it will prevent them from reaching their target of getting a free adult in the u.k. vaccinated by the end of the of july some saying it could be 2 months late boris johnson has already spoken to the german and french leaders but you can tell that the e.u. is divided over this about which way they go and we've already heard from the irish prime minister who said that any kind of restrictions would be a retrograde step and let's not forget the key point here that there are many astra zeneca millions of astra zeneca. seems in the installation not being used because many people don't want them but leaders have to show they are trying to do something maybe that clutching at straws but they've got to be saying to be doing something there is definitely a trust problem not only for the vaccine but also for politicians making public health policy decisions and was as always thank you. it was 1989 after the tiananmen square massacre that the european union last slap sanctions on china since then the economic ties between the e.u. and china have exploded which is partly why there have been the sanctions placed on china in some 30 years well that all changed today the european union is imposing sanctions on 4 chinese officials for human rights abuses against china's we go minority the decision to impose sanctions was unanimous all e.u. countries voted yes a huge sign of solidarity and one that has gotten china's attention today beijing a tip for tat response also imposed sanctions on your. do you foreign ministers meeting in brussels usually they're of verse to confrontation with china but not this time sanctions would be imposed on beijing. this package includes 4 individuals and one entity from china who has had the knack to for all in good design and implementation of the change policies in jean jacques. we wear make that wear during the meeting that china has retaliated to those sanctions and rather than change its policies and address our legitimate concerns china is against a blind eye and these measures are without the wall and next unacceptable china's retaliation blacklisting 10 even the vigils and 4 entities the e.u. wasn't alone though imposing sanctions over china's human rights abuses in changing province the u.k. the u.s. and canada also approved penalties so much and will be used this to china you know ringback only you know right the chinese people and the basic response i heard these that the are the shoes if you all nod to be sentient by. the u.s. you are the country because you have successfully safeguard national sovereignty. the u.n. says at least 1000000 weaker muslims are detained in camps with reports of forced labor torture and sterilization beijing denies the claims and says the camps provide folk ational training and help in fighting extremism. experts are questioning whether this coordinated pressure campaign goes far enough to cause a real impact on china. well for more now i'm joined by julie millsap she's with the campaign for we go as a group promoting and advocating human rights and democratic freedoms for we students good to have you on the program before we discuss today's sanctions i'd like to talk about your story you used to live in china and i understand you witnessed what is being done to the weaker minority there what did you see. really what i observed was just an overall deterioration and human rights situation in general particularly under siege. i was not living in the weaker reason i was actually in the inner mongolia autonomous region and even there we began to witness the discrimination that we were facing across the country it was really really striking and while they face decades of oppression it's very clear that things have really deteriorated in the last years today's sanctions they are the 1st international response to the situation for weak years in china their situation our knowledge of their situation that is nothing new so do you know what triggered this coordinated response from the u.s. the u.k. canada the european union. we're very pleased to see i believe that this is really building up of what president biden and secretary of state anthony blinken have said about a need for a stronger alliances to confront china we really see this as a really positive sign that they are committed to that approach and we believe this will be affected. these are saying sions on individuals just for people targeted by the e.u. sanctions for example do you think that's going to make a difference will is that they go far enough. i wouldn't say that it goes far enough but it is a very strong step and the symbolism of this is extremely important especially because china the chinese regime cares so much about face this really sends a strong signal including to the chinese people in spite of what the chinese foreign ministry has said this does make it clear that this is not a us versus china issue as easy as trying to paint it as but is in fact of such an egregious nature that even europe is getting involved and everyone is coming together on it it's extremely important step on your group's web so i guess the question is posed why are we not talking about the wigger genocide there has been coverage in the media and yet it hasn't captured the public's attention what do you think that is it is several reasons one being it's very slow to attain information because of how information is heavily censored in china a lot of the things that we're analyzing now are actually from several years ago and the media has been sadly quite slow to report on some aspects of it for example the fact that people are dying in detention while the international community is kind of have a scholarly approach to debating whether or not it's genocide in fact early on there have been indications of how the genocide convention was being breached so part of it is that the lack of access to information and of course another aspect of it is just willful silence of many governments because of their economic ties to china enjoy let me ask you before we have to let you go ward what are you lobbying governments to do next. several things one of the big things i think that all governments should be looking at is participation in the 2022 olympics while that may not seem like the most high priority issue it in fact is extremely important to beijing and sending a message regarding what we are willing are not willing to accept so we all are encouraging all governments to consider at very least implementing a diplomatic boycott as we've seen even today with these sanctions and you can no longer deny the gravity of what is happening in china and what the regime is committing and so it's very important that we make it clear and continue to send those clear messages that we will not be involved in anything that china is pushing for that while it's connected to act of genocide surely millsap director of public affairs in africa see ad campaign for we really we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you. both some of those e.u. foreign ministers who voted to impose sanctions on china will be meeting tomorrow as part of the nato military alliance ahead of that w.'s brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena spoke to nato secretary general yes. she asked him about the alliances response to pressure from rivals china and russia as well as the united states return to a more active foreign policy secretary-general the meeting of nato foreign ministers at the 1st one in person since november is also the 1st one with the us secretary of state blinken who is coming to brussels in a show of american support for nato is this a new start for the alliance. we have a unique opportunity to open a new chapter in the relationship between north american united states and europe we have seen a very strong commitment from the new administration to transatlantic unity working together we did it in partners we have the nato 2038 initiative project to adopt and strengthen their lines and the old out together is a great way to open a new chapter in our relationship and then yes administration seems to be toughening its stance on russia and many eastern european allies are also very concerned about the kremlin's increasingly aggressive behavior how will need to respond to nato has all the responded by the largest reinforcement or collective defense since the end of the cold war was very much triggered by the. by russia's aggressive actions against ukraine the legalization over crimea but also seen other aggressive actions by russia on the at least interference in our election process cyberattacks also seen. attempts and also targeted killing of opposition leaders so so so so all of this is a pattern that has triggered a response from nato and it will need to continue to adapt but we will continue to pursue what we call 'd the dual track approach to russia stronger terms defense but also a dialogue we need to talk to the russians not based on issues like arms control and therefore also welcome the fact that russia not the states were able to agree an extension of the new start of humans nato doesn't have joined china strategy and the trouble is that some allies do know it's see china as nato is business and others are worried or afraid that putting china on their toes agenda could antagonize an important and powerful trade partner so what can we expect here. there are so john are provides opportunities for a night on. as for trade for our economies we need to engage with china on many issues including for instance on the climate change at the same time they're also trying on also poses some serious challenges china as a rising power soon to become the largest economy in the world a 2nd largest offense a budget a power that doesn't share our values and we have seen that in the way they behave in hong kong how they. suppress opposition in their own country but also the way they are and the minute to space the order so we need to us and nato alliance to deal with both deal between this but also the challenges. and we also have to understand that nato should remain a regional lines north america and europe but the threats we face are more and more global cyber terrorism but also the security impact of the us will try not china is coming closer to us enlisting in our critical infrastructure we're seeing discussion about 5 g. . networks and the consequence of foreign ownership. china's coming close in cyber we see in the arctic in the in africa so that so we need and they're working closely with more and more closely with the with the russia so there's no way we can add value to addressing the security consequences for our region alliance there are so. try not to shift in the global balance of power and that's exactly what we do. for you probably wouldn't believe it if it weren't happening this week israelis will go to the polls again for the 4th time in 2 years yes 4 elections in the span of 2 years israel has become the picture of political deadlock will the 4th time at the polls change their time ukraine reports. every vote counts and every detail action of support to. an i pad 2 sniffs next to the gaza border and south in israel she's out in the streets to remind people to vote she has no doubts about who should remain prime minister binyamin netanyahu said directly so it's the moment of the elections i'm here to remind people who is the best to vote for him bibi netanyahu a little good that's all that call the 1st election in 2 years is once again seen as a vote for or against benyamin netanyahu the leader of that he could party run his election campaign on the much admired covert 19 vaccination drive and the reopening of the economy this time he has several challenges all running on an anything but netanyahu ticket he led pete with his centrist yes a tea party is 2nd in the polls. actually could politician get on with new hope also aims to replace netanyahu just like right wing enough taliban and from yemenia who's left it open whether he would join a coalition with netanyahu we have about 3 to 4 leaders of the entering that danielle camp standing divided against that then you know so if you stand together but you are divided. the ability of co-working is very limited so the ability for them to form a coalition that will be able to govern and will be able to survive. is improbable to reach a majority in the knesset the israeli parliament and to form a government parties need to get 61 out of 120 seats for many israelis netanyahu has become an increasingly divisive figure he's been in office since 2009 and he faces corruption charges in court allegations he denies the now of us mitten yeah it was days are over he has been our prime minister for 15 years that's it and we need something new look at a different prime minister up that question which i believe because sure i think baby would be reelected because this nor one more promising although i want to believe there is someone else i want to be the treasurer a little i want the same prime minister to stay because he's good for everyone to look around you should people are living thanks to the prime minister people in our life bibi netanyahu our. opinion polls suggest that netanyahu is likud will remain the strongest party what's less clear is who can build a coalition one still votes are counted. john the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter. or you can follow me on t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see even a close. because india temp better than the market economy 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