this is d.w. news live from berlin german lawmakers reject a controversial new ought to outlaw and that increasing the number of organ donation german doctors can only transplant organs from people do expressly choose to become donors before they die but very few people here make that choice meaning long waiting lists for transplants also coming up russia's parliament approved ladder of couldn't choice for prime minister the little known head of the federal tax service in chatham a short stint was caught by the vast majority of lawmakers one day after russia's

entire government unexpectedly resigned. and the rain falls in australia the country celebrates as a downpour brings some relief from the bushfires crisis but now a new problem as forecasters warn of flash floods and landslides. i'm susan was going to thank you for joining us germany's parliament house rejected the controversial legislation aimed at helping people who need organ donations the new opt to outlaw what if assume that every citizen agrees to having their organs transplanted after death on last they sign a declaration saying otherwise when they're alive the german government is looking for ways to increase the supply of organs because the country has the lowest organ donation rate in europe we'll have more on the vote in parliament. shortly but 1st

this report. function as job as a business consultant kept him on the road but then he was diagnosed with genetic lung disease he fought to stay healthy as long as he could but it became clear his health depended on getting a donated long time asked. when i 1st spoke to the doctors and they told me i needed a lung transplant if i was shot as. it's my long and i would have preferred to live the rest of my life with my own along. having someone else's land was a concept he would have to get used to. or just a few more examinations than his name could go on the waiting list for donor like function you know there are around 1500 people in germany who are waiting for lifesaving organs to be donated and many of them have been waiting for us. the problem is dramatic in all of europe germany has the lowest number of organ donors

the longest waiting lists and the highest number of patients whose lives are in danger if they do not receive an organ donation. oddly this is the case even though more than 80 percent of germans a positive about organ donations according to doctors one problem is that death and organ donation are to many families people simply don't talk about it and if it's not clear what the deceased would have wanted most relatives decided against organ donation or even when the patient wants to donate an organ often the donation doesn't take place so organs cannot be transplanted and presents on the waiting list. that was the case 900 times in 2018. or so there is a need to address that problem here in germany but as we said parliament has rejected legislation that would automatically make all citizens organ donors unless they opt out our chief political editor michel because there has been following the

vote in the bundestag for us and she joins us so as we said this legislation has failed to tell us what happened. basically the proposal by the current health minister again which would have meant that everybody is assumed to be a donor unless you opt out has been clearly rejected but there was resoundingly support also now finally through. the parliament for an alternative proposal which is still an opt in solution where people have to actively become organ donors but it includes measures for the german government the state to double up efforts to basically get people to sign up and register to become organ donors once they die so no significant turnaround in policy here but a pledge to do more and a recognition that. 10000 people on the waiting list in germany would germany pretty much bottom of the list when it comes to european organ donors is no longer

acceptable michelle are coming back to this original piece of legislation from the head health minister he ends up on there was a lengthy debate in parliament as well before the vote why has this been such a controversial issue. because it goes all across the party lines and m.p.'s here today were only bound by their conscience and we also even saw a preterist spawn the current health minister who was in the very office and is in the same party being vehemently against this option saying it turned the constitutional relationship between state and citizen on its head that it was too intrusive into people's very personal rights of personal health and that simply wasn't acceptable now this clearly found majority in the parliament here today michelle are looking at what has been decided that you just described this

other piece of legislation we know the problem that germany has the lowest organ donation rate in europe will that change now going forward. well one could hope so at the very least there has been an intense public debate about this that in itself raises awareness. germany will put more funding into raising awareness and ironically when there was a scandal surrounding organ donations and 2012 people illegally moving up the list even that led to more people signing up so yes there's a hope that more people will sign up but there is clearly still no legal obligation for people to be donors unless they say otherwise our chief political editor who is now reporting at the bundestag for us thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump and chinese vice premier league hey have signed the 1st part of a new trade agreement the deal would see china purchasing billions in u.s.

agricultural and manufacturing goods as well as energy supplies stock markets posted major gains on the signing. dozens of people have died in it live in syria in intense fighting between pro-government troops and jihadist led forces opposition groups say government airstrikes on a market on wednesday also killed at least 15 civilians that's just the truce brokered by russia and turkey. police and protesters have clashed in the lebanese capital beirut for a 2nd night the clashes started after a crowd gathered at a police station to demand the release of protesters who were taken into custody a day earlier. russia has confirmed a new prime minister after the lower house of parliament approved lattimer putin's choice for the job and of the president formally appointed him. and was head of the country's federal tax service he was put forward as putin's choice for prime minister after him to give and his entire government resigned on wednesday in

a state of the nation address president putin had called for political reform giving more power to the parliament there's speculation that putin will take on a new role when his current presidential term ends in 2024 if you are going to go to them and when is standing by for us in moscow with more high amily so as we saw there michigan has been confirmed as our prime minister but this was largely expected wasn't. well absolutely putin had kind of suggested him as a candidate yesterday the duma had to approve that suggestion today and that approval is essentially a mere formality today. candidacy or passed with a huge majority in fact no one voted against him there was some of stench and it's interesting now however to see what the cabinet will be that machinist and will propose he said that he would do that in the coming days hill present to vladimir

putin a list of the potential ministers who might take on roles in the government these are huge changes and we took to the streets of moscow to find out what people think of all these changes in government and also of the changes proposed by vladimir putin let's take a look. at then i think it was time for medvedev to retire. yes of the investors with regard to stay after some political system will start and people want something new no new decisions some kind of free i think president putin made the right decision when he shook everything up i mean. you know yup i don't know but i trust putin to make the right decisions good on him but at the shelters minute so i doubt anything will change so maybe in more civilized countries or states when this kind of thing happens people do expect. and things to

get better but not here for. me you know for us all right emily so some mixed voices on the streets there can you tell us more about who the new prime minister is and why he was selected by vladimir putin for this job. well me him has been in government service for many many years and he's been the head of the federal tax service here in russia since 2010 apparently he has the reputation of a good manager of indecision civil servant a bureaucrat more than a politician and someone to get the job done now putin yesterday announced huge economic and social reforms along with the constitutional reforms that he announced so what it comes to internal policy perhaps he just wants someone who will get the job done and he. is a political on known so no one will think that he could be

a potential successor to putin he's not a political threat in that way he is however someone known to modernize things and to digitalize things as well and he said he saw things are big changes underway in russia you know political shakeup in the government also constitutional changes what is behind all of this. well became prime minister because my d.v.d. if resigned yesterday following vladimir putin's speech to the nation where he announced sweeping constitutional changes including changes that would strengthen the parliament both houses of the parliament and weaken the role of the president he also announced proposed rather changes that could strengthen the role of the regional governors around russia so kind of decentralize things in russia a bit people will have to vote apparently on these changes in some way vladimir

putin and all of these changes that we're seeing are just satisfying a desire amongst russian people for change there was a real sense of stagnation here in russia up until yesterday essentially but the main goal observers say is that putin is paving the way for his own political future term a current term as president ends in 2024 he can't run again so perhaps this is him kind of potentially creating a new job for himself within a new political system in the future of our correspondent and we sure win in moscow thank you now if the u.s. house democrats have delivered the formal articles of impeachment against president trump to the senate the trial is due to start on tuesday it will be only the 3rd presidential impeachment trial in u.s. history. ritual with historic significance lawmakers will

comprise session from the house of representatives to the senate to deliver the articles of impeachment house has. read 7 i eat a resolution of point on the right ravages of the peach but. down from president of the united states. just a few minutes earlier house speaker nancy pelosi signed the 2 articles one for abuse of power and one for obstruction of the house she stressed the significance of the occasion this is as serious as it gets for any of us only the vote to declare war would be something more serious than that we take it very seriously it's not personal it's not political it's not partisan it's patriotic publicans on doing the exact opposite this is a political impeachment this has nothing to do with the fact we've shown that there

was no nothing done wrong but that does not matter when the train is on the tracks the whistle is blowing impeachment matters and the only thing that matters a one time where the only rule mirja say here is that there are 2020 election in which the democrats can't stand to see the fact this president is going to win again. the vote that set the impeachment trial in motion took place in the house here that i haven't the journo stance occurred. with $228293.00 a vote launching the along party lines the democratic controlled house that reaches send the 2 articles of impeachment to the senate and trigger at the impeachment trial. the house also appointed 7 impeachment manages to prosecute the case against trump. the u.s. president stands accused of abusing his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate democratic rival joe biden banned for obstructing the house investigation into the

case. the trial is expected to begin next week a guilty verdict that would remove trump from office would require a 2 thirds majority in the senate but with republicans in control of the aperture the prospect seems very remote. a downpour of rain has brought relief to southeastern australia after weeks of bush fires raging out of control australians have been celebrating although the fire service says the downpours will not extinguish all the blazes and authorities are warning that severe thunderstorms and rains could trigger flash flooding the possible swing from one extreme to the other comes as scientists predict that more extreme weather events are on the horizon after the warmest decade ever recorded experts have calculated the effect that massive australian bushfires will have on the global climate here's what they found a thick haze blankets new south wales as exhausted crews continue to battle the

wildfires there the vast cloud of smoke already extends across the pacific past south america but an invisible product of the flames could have a bigger long term impact on global warming the blazes are releasing vast amounts of c o 2 authorities at the u.n. say the problem is 2 fold fires in met carbon dioxide and obviously they burn up those very forests which are so vital for acting as carbon sinks and absorbing carbon dioxide the australian government estimates the country currently in meds around 500 $60000000.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually now experts say that in the last few months alone the out of control fires have pumped an additional $400000000.00 tonnes of c o 2 into the atmosphere. in the past scientists have generally viewed wildfires as carbon neutral and believed fresh plant growth eventually absorb the c o 2 emitted by burning forests but changes in precipitation patterns and drought

are affecting how quickly some woodlands regenerate and many researchers are worried that in a vicious circle wildfires like those in australia could make climate change happen even faster let's get some more analysis on the story now we can bring in capetown joshi he's a science communications expert who focuses on energy and climate policy and thank you for joining us tell us more about what exactly scientists are predicting for our future how it will look. so australian scientists have a bit of a long history in terms of trying to understand how climate change impacts fires in australia this goes back to the late eighty's in the early ninety's big country state science agency it's cool to see a slaughter and they predicted about a decade ago that push by would get worse in australia what they noticed is that this thing called forest fire danger index which measures the conditions required is trending upwards and they're predicting that trend is going to continue past

possibly now so what we're starting to see now is the manifestation of that change with these really severe fires but unfortunately if climate change continues as it is today it will get fall worse probably about twice as worse in terms of the number of days where these really dangerous conditions are present by the you 2030 if you don't is it too late to mitigate the effect that these bushfires have had on the global climate. certainly not there's a lot of different things that a country can do to reduce its emissions of course you can convert to renewable energy you can change the transport system all those sorts of things there is a bit of a lag between reducing emissions and the resulting impact on the state of the planet's climate but there is a relationship so the things that we do today will have a big impact and it really matters that we start acting very soon. he said he found that australia itself is pioneering the denial of climate disaster what did you mean by that and how has that impacted climate action or the lack thereof in

australia. so this is a reference to both the reaction from the government and reaction from some elements of commentators across australia i would argue that they've sort of been stuck in a very very limited cycle for about a decade of denying that the problem exists but i would also counter that by saying that the australian public is becoming increasingly supportive of change so hopefully what happens in the in the 2020 years that the public pressure starts to increase and that results in a change in other parts of australia as well content you confident that will happen that this public pressure will actually translate into greater action from governments not just in australia but across the world when it comes to climate policy. i'm optimistic that that it will happen i wouldn't say that i'm confident because of what not to be confident about too many things when it comes to this issue but i think that australians care a lot about each other they care a lot about their environment and of course the incredible natural wealth in the country and what they're seeing right now is that that natural world is and those people are being really heavily impacted so i think that will precipitate

a big change in the citizens of australia and i think that probably will have some strong effect on the way in the direction of the country in the future. joshi thank you so much for joining us on day. thanks. well concern about the effects of climate change is of course not just limited to australia around the world awareness of the need to reduce the carbon footprint is rising across all aspects of our lives including sports here in germany several football clubs are taking the 1st steps to making their operations more sustainable. the book does legal is booming the title race is exciting and fan support remains strong but the league's environmental impact is a major cause for concern for newsreader fans generate 8000 tonnes of carbon dioxide matchday. of the environment and the climate less plastic these are the topics that are being discussed in politics and these topics are not ones you want as the good teams all big football clubs can

escape anymore. and it's not just the german topflight 2nd division sides paoli and their technical director a violin and are trying to make football more sustainable a reforestation project called a valve's a play only needs name sees fans plant trees for the climate. conference and for planting trees we can try to take a bit of the carbon dioxide out of the air which would buy us some time to change other things. too for. many top division clubs such as might this have solar panels on the roof of their stadiums green energy is a leak standard but some do more than others to stop rubbish piling up most clubs have a reusable cup system with a deposit shall be trying something different no straws no plastic cutlery and fans are encouraged to pick up disposable cups for 50 cups there's a free drink or

a brought 1st on offer. now that you know even if everyone collects just a few cups and it doesn't amount to 50 it's not about getting a free beer so food but instead doing something for the environment is the best. often clubs act on their own initiative environmentalists say a joint strategy with the d.f.l. german football league would be more effective. as they get lax an invite. a mental plan that is worked out by the d.f.l. that they have to be those in charge to pool all the environmental protection efforts with. developments over the last few years have been good environmental and climate action have arrived in stadiums but more has to be done to keep football sustainable. now anti-semitic crimes are on the rise in germany the most recent figures show that anti-semitic offenses rose

by around 20 percent and 2018 compared to the year before and jewish activists in germany say a more concerted effort is needed to stop such hate crimes well one of those activists is this man here the internationally renowned pianist eagar levitt he's been honored by the international auschwitz committee for his outspoken defense of an open tolerant society in germany but that stance has made him a target of online abuse and hate speech. or leave it in the last few minutes before the show meditate and focused. for what the berlin audience at the pierre boulez soul don't know this is no ordinary concert there are security personnel at the stage door and throughout the concert hall the reason death threats against the musician. i do face some. and. it does not produce

fear. but it does produce a great deal of anger and i. know for myself the apathy and the action of so many members of our society of my society this is causing me a great deal of anger that's how i dealing with that i'm going into into actual. leave it is fighting back on twitter he takes a political stance. against anti-semitism racism and massaging many including robert hartwig leader of the german green party supporting others including supporters of the far right party a f t issue death threats pardon my language whatever out there is sending these threats. does not make a distinction between is he an artist a doctor or a politician or whatsoever this fascist will dislike whatever you do whoever you are they will threaten you i can name the a.f.d.

party in germany a fascist party. leave it has found his political home with the greens where he is now a member at a recent event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the party he met former green leader jem as dimia a man who also knows what it's like to see death threats but. he's very outspoken in his statements pro-democracy and anti extremism that's why i really admire him for his courage shown for should these receiving death threats of course we talk about it would say whatever you meyer is good he takes it with humor you know he's not their cut type of guy i was as though i would change my life friends it will affect the way i'm behaving i'm talking i was walking through the streets he doesn't do that. the death threats come as late it is at the height of his career to celebrate 2020 the 250th anniversary of the birth of beethoven live

it has released a mammoth recording of all 32 of beethoven's piano sonatas it's been a critical and commercial hit but beethoven isn't live it's only source of inspiration. this music gives me energy powerful quotes from beethoven's writing this is not sort of my most important source of energy my friends are people who are around here. you're live it was 8 when he left russia with his parents for germany an immigrant and a jew he knows what exclusion feels like buddy quote from american writer james baldwin get some hope. i'm wearing a bracelet here baldwin said i can't think of a pessimist because i'm alive. and i have nothing to at the about. the war leave it continues to fight for his beliefs for tolerance for a better world and his fans celebrate him for that as well as far as music.

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