the future. is 66 me using sea levels starts june 5th on d. w. . roof. this is the w. news life from birth that millions flee their homes as a massive storm hits india and bangladesh cyclonic on fun turns deadly as it makes landfall with widespread flooding and landslides expected the storm is also jeopardizing coronavirus response efforts to get the latest from dead also coming up germany's but these are disappearing and environmental activists say humans are

responsible it's fixed up a political fight it's because it's environmentalist against. coalition. troops a time capsule pops up in berlin and it's quite groovy. visitor back into the 60 s. from wall to lichtenstein and whole of the world's largest collections of bombs goes on display. gathered as welcome to the program millions of people in india and bangladesh are being evacuated to emergency shelters as one of the fiercest storms in decades makes landfall cycle and unfun is packing dangerous hurricane force winds and authorities say it could trigger a potentially devastating storm surge along the low lying coast authorities are

also worried about the spread of the coronavirus cyclon shelters where they say social distancing is impossible. some talk respond but here i challenge anyone here over the storm is making landfall as we speak what are you hearing from the bay of bengal where the storm has now apparently major. well yet the landfall of the cycle on has begun we are already receiving regime lose all heavy rainfall and really strong winds lashing in parts of west they want to know the saw according to the authorities over 500000 people have been already evacuated they have been taken to the safety shelters in bangladesh many more people have been evacuated over 2000000 make one for the reports so at the moment according to the only to be logical officials the cycle may go on for a few more hours and even though it has just made landfall in the coming few of there's a possibility of seeing reports of some casualties as well. put this into perspective

for us how big is this storm it's quite serious actually the authorities are saying that for many hours the power and the communication lines will be affected in these 2 states or for east and west bengal and the last cycle of such intensity to hit either of the 2 countries in the end one of these was actually happened in 1909 when a large huge cycling struck the state of. between somewhere between 10215000 people lost their lives at the authorities are also saying that this cycle can actually take up the speed of somewhere between 185 to 190 kilometers per hour this kind of speed can actually have devastating effects and they're also predicting that it can take a soldier about 5 need to which means many you know lying areas can be inundated with this storm hits very difficult times as the coronavirus pandemic and this recent shutdowns complicated evacuation plans. it is going to be

a big challenge because as you know in any evacuation mission it's almost impossible to maintain these physical distancing norms that the countries have been trying to follow to contain the spread of colon virus according to the visuals we have seen it's very difficult to maintain such norms especially when you know hundreds and thousands of people will be put together in these shelters and it's not only about today and about the past 48 hours when the evacuation will happen and even in the coming few weeks when we'll see the aftereffects of the cycle when people will need medical eat will see these challenges coming up again and even the hospitals we don't know whether the hospitals will find it up to their capacity to deal with the victims or disciple as well as the possible patients of coronavirus. very thank you very much. time for a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world 11 people have been killed in 2 separate gun attacks in afghanistan one in one gunman stormed mosque in power want the other attack in eastern cost province targeted

a family returning from a most the taliban has denied involvement the so-called islamic state has carried out similar attacks in the past. taiwan's president in when has been sworn in for a 2nd term in office in the inaugural speech sorry rejected china's claim of sovereignty over taiwan and calls for talks so that both sides could exist beijing responded by saying would never tolerate taiwan's independence. thousands of people have been told to evacuate their homes after 2 dams collapse in the u.s. state of michigan structures failed after several days of heavy rain the governor has declared a state of emergency state of illinois has also been hit by flooding. it was a major political blow for french president manuel marco defections by lawmakers critical of his economic policies of cost his ruling party is absolute majority in the lower

house of parliament. struggling to revive the economy after 2 months of law. and prosecutors in germany have dropped charges of market manipulation against 2 top folks executives the comic who is making a payment of $9000000.00 euros to close the case. been charged with withholding information about diesel emissions cittie. the world cut its daily 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 and cities around the globe so roads were virtually empty and the skies clear and they had been in many years for one week in april the united states cut its carbon dioxide levels by a full 3rd the study was published in the journal nature climate change the world's biggest emitter china cut its carbon pollution by about

a quarter. well one of the study's co-authors wab jackson of stanford university told us about his hopes how this crisis will change how we work and travel it's a hope i think one thing that the virus is allowing us to do is rethink mobility and transportation. your cities are keeping streets closed to cars that they have allowed pedestrians 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 that the biggest change we've seen is that 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. well jackson there of stanford university that's because you know on some of the other coronavirus developments global confirmed cases are approaching

5000000 and the death toll is more than 223000 brazil has confirmed a record rise in daily deaths from the zs 1179 people died from the virus from the virus on tuesday alone south korean high schools have reopened after being shut down for 2 months hundreds of thousands of older students have returned to the classroom under strict hygiene controls and britain's aerospace manufacturer rolls royce says it's gotten at least $9000.00 jobs a 6 of its overall workforce because of the fall in global and travel. much of germany's focus remains on the crown of the virus here but environmentalists warn of another disaster if the country doesn't x. germany's wilde's be population has drastically declined these crucial pollinators and their disappearance is adding pressure to the world's food system the bees backers are up against big business of large scale agriculture who would rather

they've. this is where i'm alina and captain rule 2 of 10 queen bees here at the german parliament named after the 2 most important women in germany's green party. daniel host stan started here 5 years ago with one colony now half a 1000000 bees a buzzing in the parliament's garden. but he says of us to. have become the symbol for all the insects that we've been losing over the last few years is bees have it tough in agricultural environments because the number of trees is declining so there's less blossoms in fact bees in the city a much better off than those in the countryside. and best. this may look pretty but monocultures kill bees and insects say these demonstrators outside the parliament building in berlin half the while the species in germany are threatened with extinction. make the feels buzz again say the protesters. a

moment in the act offered along under the current rules the e.u. subsidizes large scale farming for quantity not quality and we want farmers to get money when they actually deliver a service to nature and the environment and the chuffed at getting. the used green new deal plan sets and wishes goals for agriculture to become greener and more insect friendly but politicians sympathetic to farmers warn against simply reducing the use of pesticides. you know this i believe we can invest a lot in research to develop alternative pesticides that have a small lake a logical footprint and those we have now. offered you know yes. so where does that leave the bees the german government has a so-called action plan for the protection of insects but even the environment minister concedes that it's not enough. the state of nature here in

germany is not satisfactory there are many areas where more needs to be done the situation is slightly improved with beach forests but cities and forests but is still dire when you look at the german agricultural landscape. so the consensus is that that more needs to be done to protect bees and other insects but consensus alone will not save them. germany museums have reopened to visitors and if you happen to be a fan of the $960.00 s. you're in for a treat one of the largest collections of decades pop art is now on show a museum of prints and draw. it wasn't just flower power in the sixty's. in philly there's a bounty of it hardly anyone is familiar with now it's on display for the 1st time . 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. the brylin state museum has an impressive collection of parts including works by the artist who made it world famous andy warhol. culture for the masses have been stars that should give a new era in the art world severing the monday features of everyday life landed on both the big screen and canvas as pop art. the artists went out into the world and discovered shopping malls and stores and supermarkets before they can free themselves from the bonds of artistic concepts and found reality. what's let's note is that pop art had its own 1960 s. birth in what was germany. painters like printed his arguments series a revolutionary act of art. german pop art was more critical than its american

counterpart less sing big and more irony. american was very direct perhaps the most innocent aggressive and striking movement in contrast to european part. in the great atmosphere of post-war europe when along came this offensive way with almost a missionary spirit of commercialism with all the new products and right images of the united states. in the u.s. and europe pop art was a male demean women were muses or sex object 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 a 10. revelation. in the can man by. a man wields

a cook's with could it be he's actually at work in the kitchen some would say now that's the right kind of pop and high time for it. i was there the odd wild have you ever dreamt of owning an original picasso and better still paying just $100.00 euros for it well that's the price of a raffle ticket for the stila flood spanish artist and the winner is to be announced christie's auction house in paris a bit later today the oil on canvas painting is valued at between $2.00 and $3000000.00 on the open market the proceeds author awful mortgage a project to supply clean water and sanitation facilities to schools and villages in west africa. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you here w. millions are fleeing their homes in india and bangladesh as

a massive storm makes landfall cyclon unfun better to bring flooding and landslides is also jeopardizing coronavirus comes and. this is the don't you news remember you can keep up to date with all the latest news on the website that's on. dot com do follow us on twitter and instagram. i'll be back with an update at the top of. the. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning.