this is d.w. news live from berlin india's coronavirus cases surpass 4000000 the country is leading the world in new infections but the government is sticking to plans to ease restrictions and open up the economy also on the show a little mercy breaks his silence one of the world's greatest footballers says he's staying at barcelona but only because the club won't let him leave.

america evanston welcome health authorities in india say the country has now exceeded 4000000 coronavirus cases nearly 2000000 new infections are recorded last month alone india has the 3rd highest total worldwide behind the u.s. and brazil even so restrictions in india have been eased as the government pushes to reopen the economy only the worst hit areas are still under lockdown. or for more we're joined now by d.w. correspondent the mission giant's wall who's in delhi hello to misha so a grim milestone $4000000.00 infections in india as we said it's the 3rd highest national total in the world but a closing in on brazil and yet we're hearing that lockdown restrictions are being lifted do most people in the country support this government policy.

well matter and that it is safe to say yes actually because if you step out in cities like new again bombay if you will seek out out can about the enormous number of them already and infections highly infectious disease lock down destructions have almost completely been lifted yet some of the high density place the still not open but most shops markets. are back and tracking deals involved as the afghans to stop you're going there by the end of the month the b.b.c. dripping with the government's belief that india has to learn to live with the glue and i want the economic slowdown boys that are not don't get hard be avoided a little bit is perhaps a lot don't think that some kind of people come out and say this is like not going to have to walk. well as the rest are being eased and we know as you mentioned you know students are going back to the university and hundreds of thousands of

students are also being told to go ahead with their and exams but how safe can that be you just send us a report let's have a look. examinations during a pandemic and. some colleges remain closed as india records the highest price increases in the world. these students are appealing for a crucial test. and it's testing like never before. mosques assigned at the exam center constant sanitization and repeated calls for social distancing themselves from this exhibit i use my parents i am students here are reassured by these measures these see they cannot afford to lose any more time into the pandemic . trying hard. because as all the safety measures are taken so that is going to get better than before the bend and they. could have

conducted this examination. but they push it to july and now because they can't afford any more delays yet not everyone has been listen to you about that many of the competitive exams held every year in india have faced default position this time students have protested online against the risk they favor are being forced to take and have even approached the supreme court all of the students took to social media to trend the hard drives against exams and quit while the supreme court has rejected their demands didn't say forcing them to appeal for the exams is cruel it's probably a good while an aspiring doctor is expected to travel 150 kilometers next week to the test center she hasn't stepped out in 5 months sandstad a fight to do so she would do most all the social media that another exam led to dozens of school with 19 deaths and one i knew many students whose parents are asking them to skip exams this year it is far too risky to go for them nothing is

decided for me either my family is scared they don't know whether i should go for the 6 i'm not. opposition parties have taken up the cause as well as the if you. the more the government of these and i student protesters insists they don't want the exam stansell but simply postponed until it is safe or was a. little bit of the end of county. the parents. or petition for government all of you don't question the prime minister of india. these students however intend to get on with their parents these see their could you have been have to be formed within this new normal. as you reported it seems like a lot of students want to get on with their exams and get on with their lives and others are more cautious but do you feel that most students do just want to get on

with ed what do the majority of students think when i do good to hear majority and i have yeah it was on the one hand hundreds of thousands of students going it out in the. exam including today all of the board made it were too late even people would want to leave act like specter will be up with these exams and we saw students and parents saying we want to be one of the most recent to the semester we do not want to be it's an academic year let's just want to hit it on the other hand we can't deny that's how this massive online but that's the opposition has taken up this cry as well in fact just yesterday the supreme court of india shot down an opposition request was one of these exams but perhaps the bones are one of the light and that the general sentiment that this is life now and it must continue operating and. well one glimmer of hope perhaps is that despite the alarming rise in infections that say taleb the rate in fact remains rather low

it's about 2 percent do we know why that is. no they're not sure you mary and i were definite to get but one fact of the text seem to be the same thing is that india does have a jungle occupation for many of the developed countries that have not done as well and that in theory age groups in there have actually come a better build peter duty it is going better but to the ninety's which suffered more we ought to have told us about what is. going to basically countries like india have high schools or do other cool and i want answers which me actually help people fight off this strain of flu and i was better but if possible it is time to really find out what is the reason going to be asian too late also to dictate and major t.v. maybe underestimated underground. me such as water heading for us from delhi many thanks indeed. all right let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world police in the

australian city of melbourne have made a number of arrests at a protest against measures to stop the spread of coronavirus several 100 people gathered at the rally the measures including a curfew were put in place after a spike in factions in melbourne and in the state of victoria. nato secretary general william stoltenberg has condemned what he called the apparent assassination attempt on russian opposition leader alexei of all name the western military alliance wants moscow to cooperate with an international investigation doctors treating of all name here in berlin say he was poisoned with a nerve agent for its part the kremlin denies any involvement. people have taken to the streets of the russian far eastern city of how botolph's demanding the government release former governors city gave for golf weekend demonstrations have been taking place since july when the opposition politician was arrested on charges

of arranging murder and he denies all the charges calling them politically motivated. well belarus's exiled opposition leader is calling on the united nations to help stop human rights violations in her country is london to urge the security council to condemn the crackdown on opponents of authoritarian president alexander lukashenko well they include actors and musicians who've moved out of the theater and onto the streets correspondent nick connelly has been to meet some of them. the. discovery of this means he has these days singing in public can get you arrested here in minsk every day for most of the coupons come up and sing in front of the theater they've been locked out of the joining tens of thousands. of all those demonstrations against the government. there it plays double bass in the old song

but for at least he used to since the election you know early august he's been out to straighten most daily. now and i think most performers would not be able to go out on the stage and carry on as if nothing had happened for the hour and a ruse is almost unrecognizable since election or was the 9th for weeks now hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in peaceful protest demanding fresh elections they've been met with police brutality in mass arrests now the protests are taking their message off the streets and into people's everyday lives it's a weekday afternoon like any other komorowski market that is until eric and his friends write was the song has become an unofficial national anthem and part of the soundtrack of these protests. the sharpest reaction is no incoming.

another day and a new location. the response from possibly the world state was was as the street protests grow with every passing week police tactics are changing to blocking roads to spit protesters into smaller groups and arresting them in ever greater numbers. of these measures just make alternative forms of protest even more important for eric and his friends. to the north but the government is trying to demoralize us and we get it working with us but we are stronger for it we will wear them out with sheer numbers bit by bit we will get that but that's what you've got to do one thing you hear time and time again from protesters is that they've just had enough police here. to sports now and to lean on messi has announced that he is to stay at barcelona and. weeks of speculation about his future at the club he joined 19 years ago messi had

applied for a transfer but was told he would not be released from his contract the argentinians said he couldn't get into a legal dispute with what he calls the club of his wife but you slammed bar says president for his handling of the case. ok to talk more about all this i'm joined in the studio by anthony howard from. a bit of back and forth wasn't it all the speculation and now suddenly he's stating so was this announcement a shock it was a shock because we've made all these milestones that go with the normal run of events in these situations when someone's going to leave he requested to leave by fax by fax now if you want to call someone up for being a dinosaur a football club send them a fax i know you have them get it but i received the fax. the suit is lined up the debt arrived in town everything was being ticked off we were ready for the real estate room is in manchester and then record scratch we get the news that he wants

to say sorry he doesn't want to stay that he's going to stay just as he had walked out to enjoy his footballing sunset he's had to walk back in again and just like the couple at the wedding he said breaking up with each other that walked into the next party and they're still together ok ok so but what changed i mean why this sudden decision to stay well that's interesting nothing changed the only thing that changed was that he couldn't get out of the contract stipulated the number of things that he had to he to get out of it and that was telling the club on time that he wanted to do a certain thing they needed to be financial. clear that he was going to get a certain amount of money from leaving none of those things happened you could say it's because of. everything that happened everything was talked about nothing got done to be with gold dot com an interview he did not with the club but with another website which is another telling thing here he said what do you think about the project and he said what project. there is no project i saved him up a manager this year and come and he's come he didn't like it in the premier league

and now the best player bolt on has got a manager this is just a continuation of the whiteness he feels about the club so it really seems like it was much ado about nothing in the end anthony you know the club were even by their own standards last season pretty bad we can say and is this the last dance of messi and barcelona going to be anything worth remembering now it's going to be oakwood i think fate is going to get stepped on it's going to be this is a sporting tragedy it's not a real world tragedy but it's a sporting tragedy because someone who earned the right to leave and the right to make use on decisions is not getting the right to do that but as he wakes up with the tyranny saw this morning he's going to walk out of the bedroom through the study for the dawning hope for the 2nd dawning hole in the boat was going to make him a cup of tea it's a sporting tragedy but leno's a very wealthy man and he's going to be oh yeah maybe a bit of bears thing maybe some awkwardness there but he's rich enough to get over it i would correct ok anthony howard from force always

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