i don't i've only safe but i thought when i'm going to be a fun people are going to point mackenzie it because as you've suggested. this is due to reduced life from girl and back to school with a still festering pandemic schools reopen their doors for personal learning in germany with education interrupted for months can children and teachers be kept safe in the classroom also coming up early rebuilds and remembers 2 years after a deadly motorway collapse the city of jenin one inaugurate still a placement bridge but critics say the celebration could overshadow the push for justice for victims and their families.

thank you so much for your company everyone we start here in germany where it's the 1st day back at school for some children german states are beginning the process of reopening schools after the summer break but with the pandemic still ongoing and schools are having to adapt to a normal after months of online learning and reduced in cursive class time germany has vowed to get kids back in the classroom by the end of the summer but it will be business as usual many schools will be starting with fewer classes and several states have already said students will be required to wear face masks. and the education minister of the 1st german state to open its schools again after the summer holidays joins me now. right here in vision bettina martin a minister thank you so much for coming on 1st of all how did the 1st day of school

go to most children return. and oh yeah well most all children returned and we had a very good 1st start and you said it we prepared this new school year very diligently with with the experts and the help section and we had a very good 1st day very structured very orderly and everybody was very happy to finally get back to school it's the 1st time that people were really looking forward to school this year and so many of them and it is mixed with. looking how will it go and can we be safe and i can only be sure that our regulations that we gave into the schools to regulate school in the classroom such that people are safe safe that our children are safe that they are working and that we are constantly reviewing that it's going to be safe in our schools we can

also return true to education because kids need education we had months of. you know days without school and it's now the turn for the families and for the kids to go back to school and to have the right of an education back absolutely but it has to be done safely of course now a lot of countries as you know are struggling with this question that you have now tackle trying to figure out how to reopen safely how are you keeping kids distance and are you keeping teachers safe how you going about doing that. well 1st of all we accompany the whole thing was a strategy of testing all teachers are allowed to be tested if they want to it's voluntary 5 times until the fall break then we do separate different groups we structure defined groups in the classroom so that the kids who

don't belong to the same group don't meet each other during the school day and so also if something happens if there's an infection which we hold out hope but we cannot exclude the possibility that you can quickly find the chain of infection that we can close certain sections maybe of the school maybe a whole school but what we do want to avoid is to go back to a lockdown in the whole state now as you know for working parents a school is basically child care i mean nobody says that but that's the truth especially for those with young children so can't people in your constituency rely on you to keep the schools open because you just mentioned that you know there could be an outbreak and so you might have to close schools again. well we do have the coronavirus in our society also in making a book called on one even though i must say and really stress it's our state is the

state within germany that has the lowest figure stuff infection we came through this so far through this pandemic in a very good way and we want to keep this we want to be still leading in the states who have low figures. if we have to react we want to react fast if we know there is an infection we will close either a class one you know the class or the whole school and will test quickly and it all has to go fast and it's very important that you know the infection chains and this is in close cooperation with our health administrations in making the phone line in our state and. we do hope to avoid that we go back to a statewide lockdown but we also as

a parallel are building up our digital learning which is very important because if there is. a possible closing off a school we will have to teach dickinson that will be a digital learning right nothing like face to face learning there so we do hope that you all stay healthy thank you so very much about you know martin education minister for western pomerania for joining us thank you minister thank you. and a debate has erupted here after a big demonstration in the capital on saturday what we're stiction is on the right to public assembly are acceptable in a time of pandemic also thousands of people took to the streets of berlin protesting against pandemic restrictions refusing to wear face masks lawmakers from across the political spectrum lashed out at the protesters for failing to observe the corner virus rules. protesters called it the day of freedom without masks and

without social distancing according to police 20000 people talked about in streets on saturday to protest against current virus restrictions which they say violate their rights and freedoms. journalists and camera crews were also targeted a reporter at german public broadcast as that day half filmed the chants of shame on you and the league and press on lying press. here bombed with me there was a pretty diverse mix of people from the fall left to the far right we met people who were faxes people who believe bill gates is responsible then there were people who say there is no corona then there are people who say the measures i'm proportionately get through it because i heard this music artistic retreat on monday commentators were left asking can this be even allowed the debate on how to

deal with mass protests during the pandemic is now playing out of federal level. kotick was an idiom criticism must always be possible in democracy in this respect the attitude of the german government has not changed at all but the pitches that we had to see at the weekend unacceptable for us and that was the of all from the beginning that the requirements will not be met or cannot be met then the question arises whether such a gathering can be allowed to think of. the effect of the protest on the number of new cases is still unclear but the number was already ticking up ahead of the weekend prompting fears that 6 months of efforts to curb private 1000 could go to waste in the blink of an eye. a lot more i want to tell you about here are some of the other stories making news around the world government forces have retaken control of a prison in eastern afghanistan after a prolonged battle with islamic state militants with 300 prisoners are reportedly

still at large the battle began on sunday night after suicide car bomber targeted the prison where hundreds of i asked members were reportedly being held 29 people were killed. a massive wildfire is spreading in the u.s. state of california east of los angeles fire protection officials say the blaze has consumed around 80 square kilometers of dry brush and timber only $8000.00 people have been forced to evacuate their homes. the former northern irish politician john yoo has died at the age of 83 hume was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1998 along with david trimble for their efforts to end decades of violence in northern ireland he was a founder l. leader of the social democratic and labor party and campaigned for the nonviolent reunification of ireland. a new motorway bridge will be

inaugurated this very evening in genoa italy to replace a structure that collapsed almost 2 years ago 43 people were killed when the randy brit. broke up as vehicles do move over it in 22 it was one of the least worst civil disasters in decades a new branch called some georgia was completed a near record time was designed by star architect renzo piano who was born in chicago. and to be a correspondent. is standing by for you gentlemen charlotte what significance does this day have for general and it'll get large. there i think what you have to understand about this is the bridge collapse here almost 2 years ago was truly a national trauma still is but it's really here is sent to both of fear through so many people when they saw those images of the bridge collapse into these vehicles plummeting to the ground 43 people losing their lives the fear of course was could

this happen again the tragedy really shone a light on the aging infrastructure here in italy that still is this trauma here we spoke to a spokeswoman for the relatives of those who lost their lives she has lost 4 people in the tragedy she said that she won't be attending the ceremony that's taking place behind me today this still is a real sense of anger that this was allowed to happen she considers all the efforts that's been put into this new bridge very painful she said had this been done several years earlier perhaps the lives of her loved ones that would have been so bad she doesn't want this army to overshadow the loss and their quest for justice on the other side of this though this really is a success story if it's really at a time when it truly needs it is really suffered so badly from the corona virus crisis and it's using this opportunity to feel a real sense of pride in this new bridge the speed at which it was built just over a year miraculous speeds for the design of this and of course it's been designed by

the star it's hardly an object renzo piano now we spoke to him earlier today and he really described to you feeling that it's a sweet sense of emotions at this opening ceremony. out of one of the beach to start i mean the bridge was bid in $67.00 i was a nice kid but it was to be mean that. everything coming down to jingle for the week that was my own way to do just go. you see in me that i mean is she going to the beach i love it that was a brave expression of engineering so when a girl laughs. it's. just if you could say. so legit the multis easy to swallow today as it did just they reopen the new book. for the new beaches. well. the stink of the place will build well. she's

a mix. of the soul of what up there but the slow play. will be able me. in a community of more than 1000 people with war zone stuff so did pride to have been able to rebuild. bridges. our it's a recipe out of our speaking to show shall we get a sense that this was really personal for mr piano now the new bridge is being called a model for italy why. well if the marandi bridge designs to exhibit to the west of its knees infrastructure this new bridge really is thought to exhibits the best it surely is a state of the art safety has been at the heart of this construction the construction manager himself was explaining to us as we walked along the bridge yesterday there are 2 robots running on each side of the bridge that intended to help with maintenance as the dehumidifying system is well to limit the effects of

corrosion one of the contributing factors is alleged in the collapse of the marandi grid this construction is really was against the all day experience terrible weather it was a race against time to try and get this bridge done as soon as possible none of course the pandemic hits as well we're told any one member of the 1000 people working on the construction site at any time at the bar is that this really is as we've heard from so many people here a matter of pride to show what it's like in the face of b. when it rolls up its sleeves and when it gets on with an endeavor than a with a project just like this. the reporting from general i thank you. up next on the business news one of the world's most popular apps faces a u. west bank trial that ministration a security concerns about tick-tock is the sale to microsoft's solution. steven pressley will have that story and a whole lot more for you coming up but in just

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