entry still. starts may 21st g.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin millions of people fleeing their homes at this hour as a massive storm bears down on india and bangladesh cycling is already lashing the coast with landfall expected to bring more flooding and landslides the storms also jeopardizing coronavirus response efforts we'll go live to delhi also coming up.

in the pushes ahead with the tense presidential vote that despite the coronavirus there voters choose a replacement for the nation's longtime leader and his worries about post-election violence. plus a time capsule pops up here in berlin and it's groovy. good here's a trip back to the 19 sixty's for more hold elected stein and more one of the world's biggest collections of off art goes on display. i brought in thomas great to have you with us today millions of people in india and bangladesh are fleeing their homes as a huge storm races and cycling is packed. in dangerous hurricane force winds it has

already brought heavy downpours and major flooding is expected as it moves inland is also hampering the response to the grown a virus in both of those countries. howling winds and heavy rain nature's full force is about to be unleashed. india's eastern coastline and bangladesh across the border are bracing for the storm cycle and i'm fun is predicted to be one of the fiercest storms to hit the region in decades making landfall with winds of up to 180 kilometers per hour. in some coastal villages sandbags are piled up as makeshift barriers against tidal waves. more often authorities asked people to head for shelters that were hastily being readied but with the corona virus spreading rapidly this concentration of people bears its own risks. for the 1st time ever we're dealing with 2 disasters similar

taney asli the 1st disaster is ongoing covert 19 which you all know about and while this outbreak is happening there is another disaster looming in the shape of the site clone. as the virus spread silently and the winds begin to blow the calm before the storm is coming to an end. let's get the latest on these dual disasters with our correspondent nira choudhry joining us from delhi mirror good day to you what's the latest you're hearing from the areas in the bay of bengal all they are especially under threat right now. well those regions are bracing themselves for the cycling which is expected to strike just in a couple of hours from now and the eastern states which are going to be impacted out west on an already saw. over $400000.00 people have been evacuated so far and they have been moved to image and sea shelters and over 40 disaster management teams on the ground

a section of the indian navy is also standing on standby prepared to deliver medical aid whenever required what's it looking like at this hour how big of a storm is this weather just quite a fear cycle and the last one was such intensity to hit india happened in 1990 and then that cycle instruct us to to 40 again over 10000 lives are lost and this again is being cited one of the most powerful cycles to hit both india and by one of these about 48 hours ago this was being characterized as a super cycle on but i think in the past 24 hours the wind seems to have a weakened a little bit and now it is being called as an extremely severe cycle instead of a super cycle nevertheless the damage it can cause is still quite a lot because they do the expected to gain the speed of up to 185 kilometer. when it crosses certain regions of bengal and beyond of these and the foliage is expected to be off 5 meters so it can definitely inundate many you know lying areas

near a hunch is our sins of people are are fleeing this search how's the coronavirus pandemic complicating the evacuation plans. it's actually quite complicated because a couple of those districts in west bengal which are being evacuated are actually. because they have multiple cases of coronavirus have already been discovered there so in any back mission. it's very difficult to maintain any kind of social norm so these are definitely facing that kind of challenge right now because hundreds and thousands of people will be put together in the emergency shelter then it's very difficult to maintain any kind of distance that and it's not only about today when they're preparing to deal with the cycle but for the many coming days when they'll be rescue missions when they'll be trying to provide food and other medical need they will feast of challenge manure thanks so much for bringing us up to date on this storm from. let's take

a look now at some of the other stories making the news this hour 11 people have been killed in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan and one of them gunmen stormed the mosque in parwan province the other attack was in the eastern coast province a targeted a family returning from a mosque the taliban's denying involvement the so-called islamic state has carried out similar attacks in the past. taiwan's president citing when has been sworn in for a 2nd term in office in her inaugural speech she rejected china's claim of sovereignty over taiwan and called for talks so that both sides could co-exist beijing responded by saying it would never tolerate taiwanese independence. think a major political blow for french president emmanuel mccaw defections by lawmakers critical of his economic policies of cause his governing party its absolute majority in the lower house of parliament. because struggling to revive the economy

after 2 months of locked up. german prosecutors have dropped charges of market manipulation against 2 top v.w. executives the car makers making a payment of 9000000 euros to close the case the executives had been charged with withholding information about diesel missions to. all the world cod it's delhi carbon dioxide emissions by 17 percent at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month a new study shows a huge reduction in global greenhouse gases lockdowns people at home in cities around the globe of course so roads virtually empty the skies much clearer than they've been in many years or week in april the u.s. cut its carbon dioxide levels by 0 for one 3rd study was published by the journal nature climate change the world's biggest emitter china cutting its carbon pollution by about a quarter. well one of the study's co-author is rob jackson stanford told us about

his hopes about how this crisis will change how we work and how we travel it's a hoax i think one thing the virus is allowing us to do is rethink mobility and transportation. you know cities are keeping streets closed to cars that they have allowed us trains and bicyclists to use we're all getting used to telecommuting and may want to continue that at least a few days a week and nobody misses spending time in rush hour and finally i guess the biggest change we've seen is the beautiful blue skies that have come from from putting our cars on the street and garages and and and if we can have that every day by coupling electric vehicles with clean energy what's not to like we don't even have to shelter a home rob jackson there of stanford university let's break it down some other coronavirus developments global confirmed cases now approaching 5000000 the death toll of more than 323000 brazil has confirmed a record rise in delhi deaths from zs 1179 people dying from the virus tuesday

south korean high schools have reopened after being shut down for 2 months hundreds of thousands of older students returning to the classroom under strict controls and new zealand's prime minister has suggested that employers consider a 4 day working week as a way to boost tourism and business activity. voters in going to the polls in a crucial presidential election could see the 1st democratic transfer of power decades this comes after 5 years of political violence following the last election over accusations constitutional the coronavirus could also be posing a threat. since 2005 but surprised by not seeking a 4th term. successor. is an army general considered too close to the government's alleged crimes nor as someone who tried to stop them in

other words a compromise candidate. i would like to tell you that since founding no president has supported his successor because i too have never benefited from the support of my predecessors. that sentiment reflects. his history in the transfer of political power. to the top in 2005 as the result of a peace deal that ended over a decade of. critics say his decision to run for another 5 year term in 2015 violated that deal the resulting violence cost at least $1200.00 lives that's on top of hundreds of thousands of deaths from ethnic strife in the decades since. 1982 landlocked is one of africa's smallest and poorest countries the world bank estimates that 75 percent of its 11000000 people live in poverty. there's no money

nothing since morning just been sitting here looking but we can't find any customers. in the government. says a new cycle of violence. and accused of rape torture and murder rights groups say the president himself has encouraged crimes against humanity and campaigning has gone ahead. without regard for the coronavirus pandemic as has public life in general critics accuse the government of covering up the true scale of the public health crisis something the winner of today's vote might not have the luxury to ignore. here in germany museums have reopened to visitors and if you happen to be of the 1960 s. well you are in for a real treat one of the largest collections of that decades pop art is now on show at berlin's museum of prints and drawing. it wasn't just flower power in the

sixty's campari was all the rage. in bringing the bounty of it hardly anyone is familiar with it now it's on display for the 1st time. so this is the moment to show everything we've accumulated it's one of the biggest collections of its kind in germany if not all of europe used. to berlin state museum has an impressive collection of pop art including works by the artist who made it world famous andy warhol. culture for the masses as in stars like you do in a new era in the art world suddenly the monday features of everyday life names of on both the big screen and canvas as pop art. the artists went out into the world and discovered shopping malls open stores and supermarkets. even free themselves from the bonds of artistic concepts and found reality. let's let's note is that pop art had its own 1960 s.

birth in what was west germany. painters like printed his arguments series a revolutionary act of art. german pop art was more critical than its american counterpart less think big and more irony. the. american market was very direct perhaps the most innocent aggressive and just. psyching movement blackout in contrast to european palm art who look. into a whole page in the great atmosphere of the postwar europe call when along came this offensive way with almost a missionary spirit of commercialism and guys has come with all the new products and bright images of the united states. in the us and europe pop art with a male demean women where news is our sex object pure and male projection just like in advertising as the old adage goes sex sells and that certainly applied to pop art. but this exhibition turns that on and ted.

women were revelation. in him and by many a lassie a man wields a cook's with him could it be he's actually at work in the kitchen some would say now that's the right kind of pop but and high time for it. have you ever thought of investing in museum quality pop art or even better yet how about of owning a picasso you know of a chance of doing just that for 100 euros that's the price of a raffle ticket the winner of this still life by a will cost is to be announced at christie's auction house in paris and. while on canvas paintings valued a tween $2.00 and $3000000.00 on the open market. proceeds of this raffle will be

going to a project to supply clean water and sanitation to these schools go ijaz in west africa. that's all we have time for i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being here don't forget to follow us as well. so. any time any.