africa is not a country. they are the most favored trading partners and some of those countries where china has less of a relationship. angola and south africa are particularly important. china has tried to crack nigeria with different degrees of success. on top of the products that --the raw materials, typically, that china seeks to secure, it needs the support and growth. it is very familiar to the economic engagement resources that other industrialized countries seek with africa. one of the differences is china, as a manufacturer of cheap products, is there is a lot of informal trade that is not captured in the data between china and africa. until that, there were regular flights from china to parts of africa where small traders were picking up things you sell at markets. the picture is not always captured by the new data, if you might. there has been a deep relationship from the top as well as the bottom that africa, even where chinese interests focus on particular and small set of countries. anchor: xi j

africa. the can china avoid criticism over taking advantage of natural resources and startling, developing nations with unsustainable says, this is inside story. ah, ah, ah. hello the hello robin. welcome to the program. chinese president cheating ping has promised african nations, 1000000000 corona virus vaccines and it's pledge to continue economic investment in the region. she made the comment virtually as part of the annual for among the china africa corporation. as the to day summit in senegal comes to a close, china emphasized how crucial a partnership is. china is africa, largest trading partner with nearly $190000000000.00 in trade. so let's take a closer look at china is long term investment plans in africa. chinese foreign direct investment in the continent was almost $3000000000.20, totaling all those $50000000000.00 ever all, almost a 3rd of that investment has gone into the construction infrastructure development areas. now that's helped me, china africa's biggest trading partner

so he truly believed in reconciliation in south africa. but importantly, he, he understood that the part it was not only, you know, it was not in oppression only for black people, but also white people also press articles of ignorance and often fed that black and white will press bar arctic one. those will press for the cisco, but up white people as well will press because will vague notice, but this is another side of bishop to dog. so you wanna get to that question. yeah . but if he was a, he was a fun loving plenty. you know, he was a man of corporate joint, a good laugh, often joking and, and making fun of others. one anecdotal quickly was when nelson mandela started with an indoor malay chefs and bishop to, to questioned his fence all of style, criticising mandela's patients. monday letter towards him. i say it's finally printing from the mental addresses official don't to who, who i enjoyed a good love, a good dentist whenever there was a moment. fareed the man of the church who was hoping to see a vibrant nation thrive off to the en

africa's apartheid system to an end. his death was announced by south african president, cyril rom, oppose up to 2, was also a human rights activist, and he received the nobel peace prize in 9084. we take a look back at his extraordinary life. ah, this was the moment desmond tutu called the most beautiful moment of his life. february 11th 1990. the day nelson mandela was released from prison. the freedom fighter and the priest united against apartheid we, we intend on creating building up a new kinder society, a society that is a passionate carry. since the 1940s racism had become south africa state doctrine, a brutal regime in which the white minority oppressed the black majority. at the time, desmond tutu worked as a teacher, but he soon joined the anglican church and became a priest preaching against the oppression of south african blacks. he called for peaceful resistance and soon became one of the most important spokesmen of the anti apartheid movement. in lean, you install a humming coming green. you're going to be

. less than 10 percent of africa, or people in africa had been fully vaccinated. and that number is especially low when you compare it to other parts of the world. have a look at asia, europe with almost 2 thirds of its population vaccinated eddy. yeah. unfortunately, the such spark contrast when you compare africa to the rest of the world, but it's not just an issue of vaccine inequality. racine skepticism has been prevalent across africa, and many people are still hesitant to get that job. now, some governments are thinking about a possible solution. vaccine mandates. some of the coffee, 19 of mesa that i put in place in kenya, i that you have to have your must gone. you have to sunny days, you have to maintain social distance. the positivity rate in that country is at 1 point one percent, and that's necessitated the government talk to you turn down some of the problems in mission that are put in place. the government has come up with a mac sin monday. we see that people have to be much submitted by to 1st of december and the minister of healthy. it is necessary

. find in south africa. and inspirational - in south africa. and inspirational voice l in south africa. and i inspirational voice for in south africa. and - inspirational voice for you, a challenging voice actually from new zealand at the time through the 70s and the 80s when the springboks and the all blacks were prepared to compete against each other. i presume that was part of the reason for your own commitment to the cause? , , , cause? yes. it is shocking, reall , cause? yes. it is shocking, really. that _ cause? yes. it is shocking, really, that new _ cause? yes. it is shocking, really, that new zealand i really, that new zealand accommodated white tour rent teens from south africa all that time up until the mid—i9 80s and teams went from new zealand two south africa as well and desmond tutu's voice was heard against that and this helps to mobilise new zealand for change, and that change began to happen with the government elected in 1980, 84, with our prime minister at the time, david longley, a moc

as a nation, africa as a unit, africa as one. ifeel very, very, very down emotionally right now because he was somebody that almost everybody liked, especially the kids, they loved him. very sad, it was a real shock to us. he was a great man. somebody to look up to, we are really going to miss him. tributes have been coming in from leaders around the world. the president of south africa, cyril ramaphosa, has posted on twitter saying... the prime minister of india, narenda modi, said... and the uk prime minister, borisjohnson said... let's get more now from our nomsa maseko whojoins us live from soweto, outside desmond tutu's home. i should imagine that there is no great surprise in his death. he withdrawn from public life, he had just turned 90, but the loss of such a good figure, a revered figure, and an controversially powerful figure must be felt very deeply in the community. it must be felt very deeply in the community-— must be felt very deeply in the communi . , . ., , community. it is a great loss here in south africa. _

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so i corresponded in south africa. paula sla explains. dozens of canadians are stranded in south africa. after the canadian government announced it would not accept the results of covert tests done in this country. the uproar led to a last minute change. now, if you book a flight to frankfurt and only frankfort, no other germans city and you arriving canada within 48 hours of leaving south africa, you'll be lit in confusing and stressful to say the least. we know you've now heard the bad news, but you're not going to be able to board the flight. my. a group of travelers was kicked off a flight at the last minute after they arrived at the airport. and we're waiting to board a plane out of the country. first came the announcement, the canadian citizens were only allowed to fly back to canada via ethiopia, where they would have to get out of the airport. go to a hotel, do a covert taste and wait for the results. but get this. ethiopia is on canada's no fly list because of the civil war they. ottaway is potentially prepaid to hom, its own citizens safety. rather than having to a co taste in

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so it is a loss if 444, south africa. but definitely even the, the reaction that came from different people, it will show you how important in this person is president obama. paul, same self describing him as a person coming from enraged and alicia and yvette and pointed generation in terms of the contribution that he made and the ness emma de la foundation describing him and as an extra what not a human being showing exactly that to a divide with that, contributed south africa, no one else. i could feel that his shoes, that was dw, corresponded to suca milo there in johannesburg speaking to us on the death of jasmine tuesday. moving on now, the bodies of 16 iraqi kurdish migrants who drowned in the english channel in november had been returned to ebel, the capital of iraqi curtis done 27 migrants died when their dingey deflated as they tried to make the dangerous crossing from france to britain. it's being described as the worst disaster on record involving migrants. trying to cross the channel they left searching for a

. ♪ >> could vaccine hesitancy derail africa's battle against covid-19? hundreds of millions of jabs are arriving at last, but africans are reluctant to get one. what is needed to turn things around? this is "inside story." ♪ hello and welcome to the program. developing nations in africa have waited months for covid-19 vaccines as richer countries hoarded supplies. the shots are arriving. the world health organization says 430 million doses have been delivered continent wide so far, but only 7% of africa's 1.3 billion population is fully inoculated, far behind the rest of the world. the w.h.o. wants 70%, but that is not expected to happen for another three years. hesitancy to get jabs is another problem. south africa delayed shipments from both pfizer and johnson & johnson because of concerns its stockpile may expire before being used. our correspondent found similar issues in senegal. correspondent: a precious and life-saving vaccine free of cost, and yet no one at this vaccination center wants to take it. some passerby's ask if the vaccine will make t

build up connectivity in africa as well as in other parts of the world. from the chinese perspective we welcome genuine investments in infrastructure and connectivity. host: luisa, we have heard china welcomes the competition, but is wary of the political undertones of this. do you see political undertones in the global gateway initiative? >> no, i think it is clear the model is different than the chinese model. it is based on transparency, reciprocity, but definitely maybe these principles are not totally in line with what china wants. we have always been very clear, we have infrastructure in place that was built under development road initiative. i think it does not make sense to create parallel initiatives when we have infrastructure there. it makes sense that we create connections. if we do this and the mobile gateway with european money we need to do it with european rules, and these european rules based on sustainable development , the respective social rights, environmental rights and climate change, if we do under these conditions i do not see why

south africa, presidents, several rama pos. i quarter to a patriot without equal and the leader of principal and pragmatics, m fellow south africans are observing a week of national morning before his funeral on new year's day had me the miller reports for us from st. joe's cathedral in cape town. archbishop desmond tutu rose to prominence in the 1980s, not only as a religious figure, but also a very strong anti apartheid activist. he spoke truth to power. that's what people to day say in terms of the work that indeed during the struggle against a party. but even after his retirement in 1996 as archbishop at this cathedral saint georges could still in cape town, he continued to speak out against what he considered to be various injustices. he was also critical of the african national congress, the governing party in south africa, talking about issues around corruption, poverty and still trying to deal with the racial difficulties and challenges that south africa continues to experience. those who have come here to paid tribute

but for africa as, as, as a nation, africa, as a unit, africa, as one. i feel i feel, i feel very, very down emotional right now. because he was somebody that almost everybody liked, especially the kids. love him. journal. how takes a look back at desmond tutu life this is jasmine to, to hearing the news that nelson mandela would soon be released. he was seldom one to contain his feelings. it just triggered me off this to twos responses, head of south africa, the truth and reconciliation commission on hearing details of atrocities committed by both sides. if not to mention, then we have a blessed desmond and pillow too, too was born in a mining town outside johannesburg. at a time of strict segregation, things would get much worse. as he grew up to 2 was 17, when the national party came to power in 1948 racial inequality became law. apartheid. he wanted to be a doctor, but became a teacher instead witnessing 1st hand the government's policy of depriving black south africans of education, consigning them to servitude. and the protests that followed the li

basically, you need to have it to even start africa. you just get on the flight to germany, then you need one in, you know, in transit. then when we robin toronto, we have a case, we then have to current teen in a hotel. and so we get back negative. if it's negative, we allowed to go home that have to current teen for the 14 days as well as get a taste on day 8. and even if it's negative, we still have to quarantine for 14 days. i just don't understand why they want to fix that problem me, but then in place to maintain this, it's actually causing chaos. in south africa, i've had a group watson group over like a few weeks now to 100 people and everyone's in a panic. so those canadians come and there's a massive scramble to swap tickets by new ones and get covert test results. no mean feat when south africa's covert figures are wising and the pasting centers cannot promise, they'll get the results out quickly. options are running out for those canadians stuck in the country as they try to navigate confusing travel rules. simply to get bac

but what's other africa is also saying, and even for the neighbors in southern africa is, this is what we've observed. but this is a particular context, and they're also putting down some of their findings to the issues around protection people have had a coven 19 before. and so perhaps have antibodies that protect them. and also the vaccination rate. it's sitting at just 44 percent in south africa, but that may be making a difference. and if that does indeed make a difference, that is the problem for other african countries where the vaccination uptake is very low, where there isn't the availability. and also in situations like nigeria who this week destroyed more than a 1000000 doses of astrazeneca vaccine because of its shelf life. so that continues to be issues around a rollout of vaccines in africa, across the continent. but south africa is donating about $2000000.00 vaccines in the new year over a course of a year to other african countries. thank you very much for that update for minimal life for us in johannesburg. ok, let's get some more analysis. now. some doctor by rat pang

and extremely unusual here in south africa. so he became somewhat of a thorn in the side of some leaders of the anc who still greatly respected him, but found him, as his daughter said, an equal opportunity irritant. >> and on that point, a decision by the late president mandela to appoint him to chair the truth and reconciliation commission that body, which is often attempt tobd replicated in other wartorn areas, but his role there and the fact he did that job was essential in many ways to the sort of south africa of today and the peace of today. >> reporter: it was an extraordinary role, and you saw the weight of it on his shoulders. that many months of witness testimony, of questioning of those who committed the atrocities of apartheid and those who lived through it or family disappeared because of apar apartheid. i remember clearly when desmond tutu, chair of the reconciliation commission, himself broke down. he was a small man, but he had broad shoulders in terms of dealing with the weight and the pain of events in south a

you name it, africa needs to build it. the only problem is that stuff all costs a shit load of money, money that most african nations don't have. but in recent years, many of farn countries have found themselves a new sugar daddy: ( as trump ) gyna. >> over the last several decades, china has been pumping resources into africa. the country has invested hundreds of billions of dollars across the continent, ranging in everything from transportation and infrastructure to real estate and technology. >> large african infrastructure projects would be viewed as risky by any traditional bank and would, therefore, struggle to get financed. but china's export-import bank doesn't care. >> this bank will give low- interest or no-interest loans to african countries so they can build these trains or dams or other projects. china touts the fact that their foreign investment and aid is no strings attached. with no respect for human rights or democratic elections. >> we do not interfere in the internal affairs of african countries, impose

regionally across africa, he played a huge role as well. pm across africa, he played a huge role as well.— role as well. an immense role, es, role as well. an immense role, yes. indeed- — role as well. an immense role, yes, indeed. he— role as well. an immense role, yes, indeed. he was, - role as well. an immense role, yes, indeed. he was, for- yes, indeed. he was, for example, the president of the all african council of churches. headquartered in kenya, nairobi. but he was a man for the youth, the young people. hejelled with him and he resonated and he understood their dreams, their aspirations, so he was a man who was loved right across africa. in fact, the headquarters of the african council of churches, desmond tutu house. and an unconventional man with a cracking sense of humour? tremendous, almost a wicked sense of humour. he was absolutely amazing. i recall one incident when he and the archbishop were meeting, and archbishop were meeting, and archbishop to him," are you trying to sound sexy?" three of us just burst out laughing

. ♪ >> could vaccine hesitancy derail africa's battle against covid-19? hundreds of millions of jabs are arriving at last, but africans are reluctant to get one. what is needed to turn things around? this is "inside story." ♪ hello and welcome to the program. developing nations in africa have waited months for covid-19 vaccines as richer countries hoarded supplies. the shots are arriving. the world health organization says 430 million doses have been delivered continent wide so far, but only 7% of africa's 1.3 billion population is fully inoculated, far behind the rest of the world. the w.h.o. wants 70%, but that is not expected to happen for another three years. hesitancy to get jabs is another problem. south africa delayed shipments from both pfizer and johnson & johnson because of concerns its stockpile may expire before being used. our correspondent found similar issues in senegal. correspondent: a precious and life-saving vaccine free of cost, and yet no one at this vaccination center wants to take it. some passerby's ask if the vaccine will make t

it is a complex picture in south africa.— it is a complex picture in south africa. , . ., , south africa. very complex. i was rereading _ south africa. very complex. i was rereading what _ south africa. very complex. i was rereading what desmond south africa. very complex. i - was rereading what desmond tutu said about fw to cloke. he did welcome his announced reforms and the release of mandela and he said words to the effect that someone has emerged here who is greater than we expected. so out of an unpromising background of the national party which brought apartheid to south africa had come a reformer. and in the bleakest hours someone who will emerge from a system like that and say we got it wrong. the base had to be laid in south africa for that to happen and, again, let's not un—as that might underestimate the huge role contribution of desmond tutu. ~ , , role contribution of desmond tutu. ~ ,, ., tutu. with the passing of desmond _ tutu. with the passing of desmond tutu _ tutu. with the passing of desmond tutu and - tutu. with the passing of desmond tutu and he - tutu. with the p

and meghan made to south africa-— south africa. as you saw and we all saw, he south africa. as you saw and we all saw. he was _ south africa. as you saw and we all saw, he was receiving _ south africa. as you saw and we all saw, he was receiving the - south africa. as you saw and we all saw, he was receiving the baby, . saw, he was receiving the baby, which was fantastic. but it's a joy in his face. it's the love oozing out, as you can see them sitting together, and it was amazing. but it was just desmond tutu. the other dimension i should say about him, what i came to discover, when i became the secretary of our church of the province of central africa, he was very good friends with the archbishop, and he would come to botswana and take time, but he would always join us for the prayers botswana and take time, but he would alwaysjoin us for the prayers in the mornings. and i realise this is behind the scenes that here was a man who was rooted in god, and that's where his strength and humour and energy came from, and that's somethin

, as a stalwart of south africa. , ., ., africa. is a personal level as a riest africa. is a personal level as a priest who _ africa. is a personal level as a priest who worked _ africa. is a personal level as a priest who worked with - africa. is a personal level as a priest who worked with him i africa. is a personal level as a l priest who worked with him very briefly, his legacy will be his love for all people. he used to be a father to us, his wife used to be a mother to us because he used to bring all close to us, used to come to my mum's house and bring close for my mum, bring shoes for my mum, and my mum was also appreciating whatever he was doing. today, on the announcement, niclas kjellstrom—matseke is the chairperson of the desmond and leah tutu legacy foundation. a little earlier, he shared some of his memories of desmond tutu. many memories, one is a close out the one where he grew up with ancestors in soweto and so on, but it's also the more professional one where we would both, he would be the chair of the elders an

also coming up, a prolong drought is causing crops to fail in east africa. we'll see how people are coping in kenya with a situation made worse by climate change. and later in the show, we take a look back at some of the best of wonders league goals from the 1st half of the campaign. ah, i'm married evanston, it's good to have you with us. we're all leaders have been paying tribute to south africa's archbishop desmond tutu who's died at the age of 90. 2 to was a key figure in bringing south africa apartheid regime to an end. and he won the nobel peace prize for this work in 1984 south african president 0 ram, oppose announced churches, das praising him as a leading light in bringing racial equality to the nation. ah, this was the moment desmond tutu called the most beautiful moment of his life. february 11th 1990. the day nelson mandela was released from prison. the freedom fighter and the priest united against apartheid we, we intend on creating building up a new kind of society, a society that is compassionate, caring. since the 1940s racism had become sou

. less than 10 percent of africa, or people in africa had been fully vaccinated. and that number is especially low when you compare it to other parts of the world. have a look at asia, europe with almost 2 thirds of its population vaccinated eddie. unfortunately, the such stark contrast when you compare africa to the rest of the world, but it's not just an issue of vaccine inequality. racine skepticism has been prevalent across africa, and many people are still hesitant to get that job. now, some governments are thinking about a possible solution. vaccine mandates. some of the coffee, 19 of mesa that i put in place in kenya, i that you have to have your must gone, you have to sanitize you have to maintain social is that the positivity rate in their country is at 1 point one percent. and that's necessitated the government talk to you turn down some of the problems in mission that are put in place. the government has come up with a mac sin monday. we see that people have to be much submitted by to 1st of december and the minister of healthy. it is necessary so that

in asia, africa, the middle east and latin america. they, you is china's biggest trading partner, and the project was allow it to promote its geopolitical influence. aging has extended its own reach during the 8 years since it launched its own initiative. while the belts roads program is launched, in 2013 its president cd pings signature project to connect china to the rest of the world. aging is investing more than $800000000000.00 and over $13000.00 projects. and 165 countries in return, china gets access to the wrong materials. it needs to few its growth. but critics say the initiative has pushed many countries deeply into debt. well, the european commission president says the book will be a trusted partner and will provide high quality projects. we want to take a different approach. we want to show that a democratic value driven approach can deliver on the most pressing challenges. we want to show that it can, on one hand, meets no local needs, but also on the other hand, to tackle the global challenges we have and thus in a way al

are in sub-saharan africa. 91% of hiv-positive children in the world live in africa. a million people die of aids related illness in africa each year. to talk more on this, we are joined by a unicef advisor on hiv and aids across west and central africa. thank you for being with us. it is the fight against hiv and aids being one? the statistics in africa are awful, but do you feel the battle has been one? -- won? guest: we can say as we mark world aids day this december that 40 years in this pandemic, the children are the ones who are paying the highest price in this pandemic. we can record significant progress in access to hiv prevention and treatment services for others. we cannot record the same progress for children. i think if the battle is win -- won, it has to be one for children first. mark: there is a gap between the rich countries and the poor countries. in a rich country, someone can have the right call tell -- cocktail of drugs that can give them an untraceable level of virus. in a poor country, that will not be the case, and the children will get the wors

in the case of africa today. we know that if any in this i read it and he's going to be in. if it continues to be trying to using military life, even though it has to rely on a and b c from a framework that really this african problems will have to be fixed by itself under the african and the regional organizations, such as the economy, community and there are military friends work for b, a g to be handed the policies in order to address the only other as long as the political and development current g from within these countries are addressed you with before i give you the benefit from the reach of the countries in africa, countries, in the case of france, i believe a france is taking too much, it can trying to control or african nation and that one doesn't have to come up with in the order of one. i do believe we need to have a class with a, a it will continue on and on and on like it is done in other 40 and the on the line there. and it will be a real quick. that means you put the financial means that we have with well, if you need the clause not done with the rest of the

but for africa as, as, as a nation, africa, as a unit, africa, as one, i feel, i feel, i feel very, very emotional right now. because he was somebody that almost everybody liked, especially the kids love him. for in our other headlines, the united nations, the thing it's horrified by report to the mass killing in the and the child remains of study a people of founding highest date witnesses, age military rounded up civilians and shopping, including children and the bodies of 16 people who drowned across the english channel and lay to rest in northern iraq relatives the kurdish migrants gathered a bill app or received that remained for they were taken for burial or more than 7 and a half 1000 flights had been cancelled around the world since friday. as the highly infectious on the con, very into the corona, virus springs, holiday chaos to millions of people. airlines are saying they just don't have the staff to get planes off the ground. the to was effected airlines a china, these china eastern and china by scrapped around 20 percent of their flights in the period so far on sunday alone a

the horn of africa is in, in crisis. and the middle east and gulf countries seem to have gone to an improvised reactive way of engaging with the crises in the horn. and in all of this, we really don't see the kind of influence from the european union, the u. k. or the united states that we, we have seen in the past few decades in this part of the world. they just don't seem to be the primary international actors any more across the region, promises of democracy has been delayed. millions of people remain displaced by conflicts malcolm web al jazeera. so for a check of the weather on the news hour here is jeff. hello, good to see. here's her headlines for the america shivering, in, cold, not seen in decades across western canada and also western portions of the united states. i painted on the colors here, the darker the purple, the lower the temperature, and quite the divide. we have a between the north in the south. we'll talk more about that coming up. but 1st to the west we go. and cooper sides 1st white, christmas and

saying that that in fictions in southern africa, in south africa in particular at this point, are driven by that variant. and that's why we've seen an increase or an average increase of 82 percent infection rate in the last 4 weeks alone. and this again is why they bringing in the importance of vaccinations. the one concern, though, from the cdc, is just africa's lack of capacity to produce its own vaccinations and relying on western nations and donations. we do know that south africa will be manufacturing $2000000.00 doses of vaccines for distribution in the new year. but it is a slow process. this week alone, nigeria destroyed 1000000 doses of the astrazeneca vaccine due to an expiring date issue and its shelf life. so these are the kind of challenges that african countries are facing in terms of procuring vaccines, distributing them a retreat, for example. the cdc says they have very little information at all about whether or not there is any sort of vaccine rollout. so there is a very different picture in different parts of the continent, the cdc saying a number of challenges and qui

in johannesburg, our africa correspondent sent this report. reporter: behind their masks, south africans have watched the omicron varia's bear -- spread through this country. the early data is now being widely interpreted as encouraging. take the number of people needing oxygen and intensive care in the city where omicron was first detected. >> in the past three weeks, about two out of every three patients admitted for cases of severe illness. right now we have only one out of four cases that is severe. a marked difference. so it looks like at this stage, early days in, we don't want to over interpreted, but the signs are certainly looking good. reporter: that applies to other important indicators, too. >> this is the first wave, the second wave, the third wave. comparing the fourth wave in south africa with other waves, we see less mortality rate than the other waves. we just make a comparison, i would say there is no need to be worried. reporter: you do need to be careful when comparing south africa and britain, the population here is far yo

the africa cdc and africa union got together and began striking deals with j&j and others, so it is a more diversified environment right now i wish low income countries are finding vaccines. covax will continue to be important and very reliant upon donations. host: on the low income countries and the smaller percentages of vaccines, is logistics the main problem of getting vaccines the number one problem? guest: what we are beginning to see very clearly is that for low and lower mingle -- lower middle income countries there are three major problems they confront. one is affordable, timely, predictable, manageable supplies. not all showing up all at once and having an ability to predict and not showing up with expiration dates two weeks. that is problem number one. problem number two is the ability to deliver those vaccines. to take delivery and manage the distribution and get them into people's arms. we are seeing many countries failing in that regard. we saw a million doses in nigeria past their expiration date this past week. the third problem that has been grossly underestimated an

i'm dead in obligates on developing nations in africa. have waited months for coven 19 vaccines as richer countries hoarded supplies. while that remains a problem, the shots are arriving. the world health organization says 430000000 doses have been delivered. continent wide so far. but only 7 percent of africa's 1300000000 population is fully inoculated. far behind the rest of the world's b, w. h o 170 percent, but that's not expected to happen for another 3 years. hesitancy to get jobs is another problem. south africa has delayed shipments from both pfizer and johnson and johnson, because of concerns it stockpile may expire before being used. or correspondent nicholas hack found similar issues in senegal, a precious and life saving vaccine, free of cost. and yet, no one at this coven 19 vaccination center, in downtown to car, wants to take it. some passer buys, asked nurse, been dead yellow if the vaccine will make them sterile. others wonder if it will give them a heart attack? or if they'll go blind up despite her assurances the vaccin

policy, our teeth, johannesburg, south africa, run notes, the ceo of south africa, the largest private health insurance is down. so the testing in this country are groundless. our genetic screening of samples in south africa is outstanding, the best in the world, and hence lead to this early detection on the wrong. so, you know, failure to accept kind of a testing from south africa. ready is confusing, it's a great sadness when politics interferes in science and it is a very distressing. ready situation for many people who are seeking to travel at this time of year punishing south africa this way by limiting travel and effectively imposing a lock down from external countries really does incentivize those kind of behavior from around the world. so it really is difficult to understand. failure to provide equal worldwide access to vaccines, may result in new coven strains emerging. that's the warning from the president of the international federation of the red cross. he gave an exclusive interview. he was here at our to discussing not only the war on cove. it also the poland, beller is m

our africa correspondent, andrew harding, looks back at his life. raise our hands and we say, we will be free! desmond tutu was a man of hope. a south african priest who became one of the world's great moral voices. it was during south africa's long and violent struggle against white minority rule that desmond tutu rose to prominence. a diminutive priest, defying the apartheid government, comparing them to the nazis. the system of this country, apartheid, is immoral! the system of this country is evil! while nelson mandela was imprisoned for decades, tutu became the face and voice of south africa's liberation movement. desmond tutu was somebody at the height of the anti—apartheid struggle who, when nelson mandela and his leadership comrades in the freedom struggle were locked up on robben island, roused the faithful, inspired people. tutu was fearless, condemning the brutal apartheid state, but also urging black south africans to shun violence, to remain united. in 1984 tutu was awarded the nobel peace prize. and he used his global prominence to c

in fact, the numbers are fluctuated in south africa, but according to the africa, c, d. c, the increase. so the average increase in new infections in southern africa, alone over about a 4 week period has been 203 percent. so yes, they continues to be that concern around just how contagious this variant is. but because the south africa lay experts and sciences and authorities, here are things few people in the hospital and when they are in hospital, they stay for a very short time. and they're also seeing very few debts. the highest number at this point of the 4th wave in south africa has been 99 deaths in one day, and that is far less than what was experienced previously. so they are cautiously optimistic, but also they're saying in south africa there's a particular context. it may be around the vaccination rate, which is at 44 percent, not terribly high, but you've also got people were previously infected and may have the antibodies to fight off the new variant, even though there was concern about an escape around immunity. but they're saying that this is a particular c