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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR July 13, 2024

Plight of many who are out of work and struggling to survive during the pandemic. Also ahead well look at how the Coronavirus Crisis is changing when and where well work in the future. Im going to go with sports. To germany after 10 months sat down there are 6 games in the benz league on saturday but with Strict Health and safety rules in place and no fans stadiums. Signs of cautious optimism are emerging in europe as many countries begin to ease travel restrictions and reopen some sectors of their economies italy has announced it will open up travel to and from the country starting next month it will scrap 14 day quarantine rules and low previously banned trips within the country but you. He is also easing some restrictions with people finally now allowed to travel across the country the government is permitting people to head outside not just for exercise but is cautioning them to stay alert in greece beaches can now be enjoyed by the general public but there are rules on the number of people allowed and how close together they can get sport is back in germany with the return of the bundles legal football matches their 6 games we played on saturday but spectators will not be allowed lets talk to rory chalons in a 2nd after we get the latest from priyanka gupta. Empty tables deserted holds rooms steeped in history left without visitors theres no one to the gilded walls of italys finest Luxury Hotels instead a ghostly silence on the once bustling terraces the symbol of a pandemic that swept through italy leaving thousands dead devastating its economy is that this hole would have been crowded noisy with people chatting at the bar visitors passing by and appreciating the beauty of these halls now its empty lonely is the 1st time in almost 80 years of the history of this hotel which was built in the thirtys is empty and closed but there are signs of hope the government is allowing people into and out of italy from early next month free travel within the country will also receive a number they want to look forward to the reopening of borders and then there might be the possibility for travel forecast the not positive but we are very optimistic. Along italys coastlines hotel owners are preparing for a different kind of summer but on the other were ready to host tourists who come to the veneto coast in these last weeks we work to adapt our beaches our hotels and our campsites to the Current Health emergency we were able to guarantee the celebrity of a seaside holiday caution is a critical point industry that contributes per 1000 percent to italys g. D. P. And employs more than 4000000 people the Economic Impact of the pandemic has been devastating of the life you know the line of were estimating that will lose about 18000000000 dollars in tourism this year but we need to understand what will happen from tomorrow on wards if hotels have a possibility to reopen in june giving foreign tourist the chance to reach italy we will limit those damages with many countries district and travel tourist numbers are predicted to fall by between 60 to 80 percent of this locally. But maybe hope that with enough vigilance business can get moving again and the lights can finally be turned back on. On sr. Ok lets move now to the beaches of brighton in the u. K. On the south coast on the saucers coast where restrictions have been lifted rory chalons joins us live so rory how many people are they expecting there this coming weekend. No and thats the thing i was just speaking to a counselor here who is for the green party and he was saying that its against every fiber in his body to say this but hes advising anyone who is thinking of coming down to brighton on a day trip either from london or or elsewhere in the south of england just dont do it because if you come here in great numbers you risk bringing. The disease with you again at a time when the country is just starting to find its way back to well its not normal life yet but trying to get in that direction and if you can look behind me you can see that these beaches are pretty deserted on any normal weekend in the late spring or summer in any normal year these beaches here would be absolutely rahms but theyre not the moments and the message from from the counselor that we had here in brighton is being repeated in. Local Authorities Saying the same thing all around this country after the governments slightly ease the restrictions are in the week with Boris Johnson dropping his stay at home message and replacing it with a much ridicules stay alert message instead the message coming from the places is we still want you to stay at home dont come here and there are plans for schools to start reopening just in a few weeks how likely is that. Well that hangs in the balance as well. As for ready primary schools to open in some capacity. June it wouldnt be all the years going back to school it would be 2 or 3 years going back for. And then see how that goes the others may follow down the line but there has been opposition to this coming from unions that represent teachers and also for the British Medical Council basically saying its too soon to do this the unions that represent teachers saying we have to see evidence that you can safeguard the health of teachers before you allow a significant number of peoples to come back into schools again it is of course bit of an argument. When he gets bodies like the unions and the British Medical Council arguing against what the government is doing then that makes news its made so much news that the childrens commissioner. Longfield has stepped in and said for gods sake that stop squabbling we should all be working together at this time lets do whats right for the kids and lets see if we can find some way of working this out amicably and is maybe worth restating here as well that we are just at the moment talking about england i guess as well because if you go north and go across the border into scotland or go west and go into wales different administrations different governments have got a different reaction to where the entire u. K. Is as of now in the fight against covert 19. Yeah absolutely you know while the the u. K. Government based in westminster has primacy there are devolved governments in parliaments in scotland and wales and also another one in Northern Ireland and the devolved parliaments and governments in scotland and wales have nots lifted any of the restrictions so you do have this rather strange situation in the u. K. Where there are effectively completely open borders between england and wales and england and scotland and yet there are different rules being implemented are suppose its another example of the full lines of the u. K. Being exposed and we have seen that happen in recent times with bracks its and were seeing it happen again with the coronavirus pandemic laura thanks very much well as we were saying earlier germany is taking some steps back to normal life the bundles league or football tournament is resuming and the country plans to open its borders to european travellers but protests are planned with many people demanding an end to virus for struction all together to berlin and aljazeera as correspondent my colleague dominic cain dom good afternoon so the blunders leader is reopening but theres a twist no fans allowed. Yes 6 matches today a match tomorrow all taking place and the remember that the man in charge of the bundesliga has said he knows that that his league resuming their resuming as it were under probation and of course there are no founds in any of the stadiums which will be hosting matches some darby matches taking place today and yet nobody there to see the games of course some of the games will be televised so it will be possible to see these games but clearly this is what they called in german guys to be the ghost games as it were where no ones really there taking place behind closed doors but the imperative here coming from the officials they want to get the Season Completed they want to see a title awarded they want to see sport resume as far as possible and theyre also aware that many leagues around europe many people around europe so fans will be where you switching on to try and watch some football because they havent seen any in their own countries but also the football associations in many other countries are looking upon germany looking at the bundesliga now and saying well is this a template we can follow to be clear about this piece or the regulations brought in not just that there are no fans there but the teams are having to submit themselves the coaches the players to very regular testing for the coronavirus and on the basis of that testing they are then able to field squads that can take part of your teams or other can take part in these matches but as i said the man in charge of the league has said that that he realizes that its starting again but under probation and still a few fringe protests planned across the country today how big do you think theyre going to be. Well certainly over the course of the last few weekends there has been a growing tide of process no i dont want to to give the impression that its many many hundreds of thousands or anything like that its not the case but whats happening is you are finding protesters demonstrators a mixture of young people who perhaps feel that the coronavirus is not something they have to worry about perhaps wrongly in that case but then also you have people from the far right fringes of society certainly thats been the case in on previous weekends and indeed on the 1st of march there were quite a few right wing protests the 1st of may may day in the important day there were some protesters out but also left wing extreme protesters but whats happening generally speaking is that the far right is trying to get people out onto the streets to say weve had enough the interesting thing though peter one last thought on that opinion poll out today says that around 80 percent of German Society accepts the the lockdown restrictions as they are right now so it really is only a minority who do not accept them don thanks very much. Plenty more ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including these stories babies are ready to be taken home but their parents cant come to collect them well tell you why. More bold claims from the u. S. President but experts warn against his suggestion of a covert 19 vaccine by the end of this year. An english football star whos helping a lower league team close to his heart so it is coronavirus pandemic. The 3 trillion dollar package in the United States aimed at helping those struggling to deal with the fallout of the pandemic has passed its 1st hurdle in congress but President Trump is threatening to veto it its hard to jocasta its at no time since the Great Depression have such a large number of americans sought help after losing their jobs and never in u. S. History has their spending at stores and restaurants fallen so quickly and so far now some of the members say lets take a pause lets take a pause do you think this virus is taking a pause do you think that the rent takes a pause do you think that putting food on the table and or the hunger that comes if you cant take a pause House Democrats advance yet another coronavirus rescue package on friday the 5th of a pandemic this one totaling 3 trillion dollars it seeks to extend Unemployment Benefits and send more checks to American Families and would bail out the Postal Service and address Election Security republicans who control the senate have called it a bipartisan ideological wish list that will never become law the senate will not consider this bill the president will not sign it into law speaking from the white house rose garden into a background symphony of Truck Drivers protesting his handling of the pan. Demick President Trump announced the formation of a Fast Track Program to develop a vaccine and have 300000000 doses available by january when a vaccine is ready the u. S. Government will deploy every plane druck and soldier required to help this tribute it to the American People as quickly as possible but trump into sized that with or without a vaccine the u. S. Economy is ready to restart thats contrary to the advice of Government Health officials whove warned reopening too soon could trigger another outbreak now people are getting a little antsy with the mass. They really want to come out more than 2 thirds of u. S. States have now canceled or significantly relaxed stay at home orders now as more people and their weeks of social isolation its far from clear how safe is the world they venture into. Castro al jazeera Silver Spring maryland well president from certainly has a lot of planes trucks and soldiers at his disposal but can operation warp speed produce a safe and effective vaccine in such a short amount of time he did provide some clues as to how this might actually work while we accelerate the final phases of vaccine trials operation warp speed will be simultaneously accelerating its manufacturing and manufacturing process in other words were getting ready so that when we get the good word that we have the vaccine we have the formula we have what we need were ready to go as opposed to taking years to gear up were gearing up its risky its expensive but well be saving massive amounts of time will be saving years. Well there are sort of timetabling has never been tried before hundreds of millions if not billions will need to be produced while human trials are still taking place something could be ready by january but theres no guarantee it will actually be effective this years flu vaccine is only 45 percent effective were talking there about the ordinary strain of the flu the record holder for the fastest vaccine ever approved that was for mumps took 5 years but Safety Standards and regulations have been dramatically improved since then the vaccine process usually takes a decade but sometimes 2 or 3 and only a fraction of the vaccines are ever approved for public use lets speak now to chris smith whos a consultant just at the university of cambridge as well as host and editor of the naked scientists podcast chris welcome to aljazeera walk me through how to make a vaccine from scratch well right now lets take a look at what the space looks like around the world for corona virus vaccines there are more than 100. 00 projects currently in train in Different Countries and theyre exploring at least 10 different avenues in facts in development these range from the good Old Fashioned ways of growing viruses in dishes busting them apart and then injecting the chemical shrapnel to see if you can persuade the immune system to respond right through to very new cutting edge techniques where you inject just the Genetic Information corresponding to one part of the virus and then you rely on the immune cells picking up that genetic message translating it and then educating itself from that information ok its a raft of different ways of doing this but of course the thing to bear in mind we have never made a corona virus vaccine let alone corona coronas virus vaccine in under a year ok is there a happy medium between what donald trump is talking about on the one hand and reality on the other hand. Well the reality is that we urgently need a vaccine and at the moment there are 8000000000 people on earth give or take the maybe 4000000 or so who core coronavirus who are all susceptible to this and one sure fire way to solve our present situation is to confer immunity on everybody by getting a vaccine to everybody but that doesnt mean that we jump the gun and we make the situation worse we have got to be very cautious about this because we know what the risk is from corona virus and we know that about one percent of people may lose their life to it well if we make a vaccine that actually has a bigger risk profile than that then actually arguably its better to catch coronavirus and take your chances than it is to take the vaccine and thats what Clinical Trials are for but at the same time there are situations where sometimes you have to take short cuts because the loss of life potentially that you are avoiding is greater if you can get a vaccine into people than if you do go the long route take your time and guarantee that its safe to your basically trading safety against potential loss of life if you dont move faster ok heres the thing if we got 7 and a half 8000000000 people around the planet who need access to this vaccine who do you phone who is the company that you call when you say ok we need 8000000000 of those little glass phials to put the vaccine into we need hundreds of thousands of people who can administer the vaccine how does that all play out. Well a good thing to look at is the situation for flu because this is a well oiled machine which has been working for decades of making flu vaccines now flu is a very different virus but at the end of the day youre still doing the same thing youre producing a vaccine which you then deploy into whole populations that scale millions of doses there are Companies Many of them that a very well sorted for doing this they actually have a good production process for making vaccines and making safe vaccines but the difference between that and where we find ourselves with the corona virus is that we understand how to make flu vaccines its a well tried well tested system if we have to make a whole new vaccine in a whole new way which is what this corona virus vaccine will end up being its not going to be going down a well trodden path so we have to assume that we can do it as well as we can do it the flu but that is an if it is a guess we have to hope but that would be the way you do it that actually you then use the machinery thats already in place with these very large corporations Big Pharmaceutical Companies that know how to do this and they have the network for deployment and theyve also got to work at government level because this is some

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