this is e w news live from berlin and the global vaccination drive suffers a setback u.s. regulators recommend causing the use of the johnson and johnson shot after reports of rare blood clots the company says it is now also delaying its european rollout. also coming up the u.s. is reportedly planning to withdraw all of its troops from afghanistan by september 11th this year but with peace still far from secure what will this mean for the stability of the country.

i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the rollout of the johnson and johnson vaccine has been posted the u.s. europe and south africa after reports of rare blood clotting in a very small number of people health authorities said that they were halting the use of the shot while they investigate the cases and that they were doing this out of quote an abundance of caution astra zeneca job was also recently temporarily suspended in some countries after being linked to rare blood clots. authorities are calling it a short pause the u.s. is johnson and johnson vaccine has hit the same stumbling block as the u.k.'s astra zeneca jab did last month a likely link to a rare and deadly blood clot use of johnson and johnson's janson vaccine has now

been halted across the u.s. with health authorities investigating 6 incidents of clotting in younger women one of them fatal. the u.s. developed vaccine uses an adenovirus to trigger immunity the same mechanism as the astra zeneca vaccine janson accounts for roughly 5 percent of vaccines delivered so far in the u.s. . so i had a j. and j. that's in appointment today and. i saw the news about it getting kind of revoked so i called and i asked and they said you can get the pfizer vaccine and said my wife just did that and that's. why he did it and so you know i'm just hoping that i would not think that it's going to happen if i was you know anybody that she had a job. this is a set back to europe to johnson and johnson announced it will delay its rollout on the continent the company had already started processing an order from the e.u.

of 200000000 doses. magical i imagine there will be repercussions as we're waiting for millions of doses but this means the controls are working if we need to be cautious we need to be cautious and i mean. the janssen job has been partially rolled out in africa where a majority of countries don't have enough vaccines even for their own health care workers the african union signed a deal for 220000000 doses this year but u.s. authorities remain hopeful they're saying it could only be a matter of days before the rollout resumes. and for more on this i'm joined now by to p.s. kyra to epidemiologists and professor at berlin's charité hospital thank you so much for joining us this morning was it the right decision to pas the vaccine. yes it is the right decision because we need to be careful this is a measure of caution to have to investigate those 6 cases 7000000 vaccines have

been given to people but nevertheless this is a concern as much as it was a concern was to the astra zeneca vaccine what will this delay now of the johnson and johnson rollout need especially for europe's vaccination efforts which have already installed. well the whole depends how long this hold will take if it's just a few days then i think there won't be too much difference but if this is weeks or months even that they have to delay the rollout and certainly dispose slow down the vaccination programs in germany and europe and globally ok so what we just have bring it into the bigger picture now i mean we we've seen you know restrictions put on on astra zeneca and some age groups now this johnson and johnson delay what could this potentially need for vaccines for example like sputnik or a vaccine from china are they the next ones which could be stopped because they're all part of this this group this viral vector vaccine group. it's

speculation at this point but certainly there's a concern that this group of vaccines nations will cost this very rare blood clot so people and investigators and agencies look very carefully if there are any reports coming in and then look very carefully if this can be linked to that scene or not so we have to be careful but nevertheless the real problem is to corona virus and i hope that we can continue to vaccine people as quickly as possible how about the new variants i mean we we've heard now about this this this 3rd wave for example in germany which has been a knowledge by the chancellor is now being the toughest what do you make of what's going on right now with the new variants and and the way that the measures in place are trying to to get the cases under control. well certainly it's a setback also developing and as soon as you know our knowledge are reacting as

well to the defects in nation as the wild type nevertheless it is important that we continue to rule out a vaccination to not create more mutants invariants in the future so hopefully there will be a decision maybe the vaccine cannot be given to certain age group but it's very important that we continue to roll out a vaccination programs to be as cut epidemiologist and professor at berlin charité hospital thank you so much for joining us on day that eunice thank you for having me. and here are some other developments in the pandemic. infections in india have reached a record daily high almost 185000 cases recorded there on wednesday with the total so far nearing 14000000 south korea has reported its highest daily jump in new infections in 3 months health experts are blaming increased travel which they say shows public vigilance is falling and there's just $100.00 days to go until the postponed tokyo olympics despite doubts it can be staged safely olympic officials

are insisting the games will happen let's take a look at some other stories making headlines iran says that it will step up and start enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity of except toward weapons grade uranium tehran making the announcement 2 days after an explosion it blames on israel hit a key nuclear facility the islamic republic tonight is that it is seeking to build a nuclear bomb. south korea has condemned neighboring japan's plan to release radioactive water from the fukushima nuclear plant in 2 years' time seoul has asked officials to explore possible international litigation against japan but tokyo says disposing of the water into the pacific ocean is safe and essential in order to decommission fukushima. the white minneapolis police officer who shot dead a black motorist has resigned along with the police chief dante wright was shot

after he was arrested during a traffic stop protesters took to the streets for the 3rd night in a row despite a curfew. egyptian officials have impounded the huge shift lock to the suez canal last month because of a financial dispute with its japanese owner they are demanding more than a $900000000.00 u.s. dollars and compensation international supply chains were thrown into chaos with the ever given ran aground for almost a week. now the u.s. is reportedly planning to withdraw all american troops from afghanistan by september 11th of this year president biden is due to announce the plans later on wednesday there are about $3000.00 american soldiers in afghanistan serving alongside some $7000.00 additional nato forces by plan extends the may 1st which girl deadline set by the trumpet ministration by 4 months u.s.

officials say that will give washington more time to coordinate an orderly withdrawal with nato allies but the taliban has threatened to renew attacks if foreign forces aren't out by may for more on this let's bring indeed up use bound riegert who has the view from brussels this withdrawal it would mark the end of 20 years of war in afghanistan for the americans how has that gone down with washington's nato allies who rely on the u.s. for its troop presence in afghanistan. at least there's a sense of relief that there is no plan for an orderly withdrawal the trump administration voted to leave afghanistan already on the 1st of may that would not have been workable and feasible and so they too can plan for 4 more months and the ministers of defense and the foreign secretaries of nato will gather later

in the day in a video conference to talk about how to organize this stronger because you have to keep in mind that 9000 troops in afghanistan 2500 from the americans but 7 thousands from at least 35 other nations in germany the 2nd biggest. supply of troops in afghanistan so all of this has to be organized no because the main goal of nato is of course to get the troops out safely and the taliban have guns are already threatened that they really are a tech troops may 1st so this would be a very difficult operation to leave of gunderson after 20 years and they're threatening to attack those troops after may 1st because that is the date that the chant administration agreed to with the taliban for the u.s. withdrawal you know given that they're now talking about september 1st of all what does this mean for the future of peace talks with the taliban and 2nd of all what does it mean for the stability of the government in afghanistan what sort of

situation could could the u.s. be leaving behind. but a spokesperson for the taliban already announced that they would not take part in the next round of so-called peace talks with afghanistan which was scheduled to turkey at the end of this months and the taliban the level of widens is still high and of god it's done it's targeting the civil population the civilians and the taliban also a threat to attack the troops again so this bill of cause the whole country and. the troops if left it's no less sure that the taliban do take over again and that we reached the same status we had 20 years ago when nato went in ok this potential was draw down also coming as nato is facing a threat much closer to home as we know that's on the russia ukraine border where moscow has been expanding its military presence in recent weeks it's drawn sharper

of ukes from nato members including the u.s. just like to hear what the u.s. secretary of state has had to say on this and they get it get your reaction there after united states stands firmly behind the sovereignty of turkey for terry ukraine. or whether it's time warner we're seeing unfortunately. russia taking a very divided back i want to we're now seeing the largest concentration of russian forces already since 2014. diplomacy in high gear over ukraine what's been happening back and. well the data minister is really reassure ukraine certainly today of support but they will not send in the troops or something to russia and they all look not a fortune because president biden is inviting the president of russia vladimir putin for a summit to solve all these issues you know the relations of very bad as they do is

hoping that biden can resolve these issues down to record and brussels thank you. in the champions league byron munich have been knocked out of the quarter finals by paris. the defending champions $11.00 nil in the 2nd leg and france both lost on away goals after a 3 all aggregate result neymar twice hit the crossbar and the post for p.s.g. in the 1st half but it was erik maxime chill who motoring who grabbed a goal for byron after 40 minutes it gave the germans hope that they pushed for another goal to send them through but with striker robert levin dusky out injured they just didn't have what it takes. c. a quick reminder of our top stories the rollout of the johnson and johnson vaccine has been almost in

the u.s. europe and south africa after reports of rare blood clotting and a number a small number of people health authorities said that they were halting the use of the shot while they investigate the case says and that they were doing this out of quote an abundance of caution. and before we leave it's time to let out some of that covert 1000 frustration with a bit of rock n roll rolling stones legend mick jagger has teamed up with david grohl of the foo fighters to release a pandemic anthem but jagger says it was inspired by coming out of lockdown let's have a listen now to this track easy sleezy we're actually going to leave you with this now so thank you so much for watching take care and enjoy.

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