work is. in there. was no pay rise or any token of appreciation for the nursing staff. that so many crew the majority a majority rather of e.u. members has approved new legislation aimed aimed at sanctioning states that defy the block's democratic principles and values poland and hungary opposed the so-called rule of law checks on greece government has come under increasing scrutiny over its authoritarian rule but many also have their eye on the colon because of its treatment of the l g b t community. pictures like these are the reason why i bought stock ship ski is getting death threats. he puts up the sign at the entrance to tell me that a so-called allergy p t free zones shining a spotlight on the difficulties gay people face in poland. the situation or we are not trying call for all we are in the closet where we are at our house not showing

that we are i am scared of being beaten i am scared of being. somebody who will wait for me in front of my house almost 100 local governments have declared themselves free of algae bt ideology pigs declarations are not legally binding. but rights groups say that if you'll have a phobia even outside the zones counter protesters have repeatedly attacked members of the our g.b.t. community as you can see here. i have seen do you know if it of this fake is. right we are spreading. that it's not just life it's the people who are drawing stones on to us. poland's ruling and justice party is behind much of the anti-gay rhetoric it claims to be protecting traditional family values here we here we have to defend ourselves against the l g b

t people their way of life is the road to perdition it leads to the dismantling of basic social structures in which the family plays the most fundamental role. the european union has condemned poland's treatment of its bt community i want to be crystal clear l g b t q i've 3 zones are sure manatee tree zones and they have no place in ours union in july and the e.u. commission rejected grants to 6 polish towns that had so-called l g b t free zones. but bart wants to see more concrete action. so i expect that european you know be not the union of empty wars about something more. they are no various devalues that the people are equal in their dignity until that equality becomes a reality in bob's country he will continue his fight against homophobia.

the united nations is set to host a major biodiversity summit after world leaders pledged earlier this week to tackle environmentalists and protect the natural world while delegates at the mostly online summit will discuss strategies to reverse dramatic. loss of biodiversity here in germany the former border zone between east and west has become an important haven for wildlife but despite the transformation the nature reserve still faces threats. this is where the death struck one strand between east and west germany today it's one of the country's largest nature resorts lessons the hard snatch no park was created 30 years ago biologist going to cost to has been making sure that what belongs together grows together.

that's in our pockets that's the unique thing about this national park is that we're giving nature $24730.00 hc tears of space to take its own course it's we have to completely refrain from using the land and leave it untouched by lumber industry so that nature has free reign and that saying wood for the lot is. back when the national park was created and staff had to start from scratch like here in the former days train in 1909 soldiers were still patrolling the border between east and west germany. here the so-called normans line a strange 100 metres wide to prevent people from escaping from east to west the barbed wire and concrete fortifications were practically in some mountable 2 decades later nature has failed this deadly zone with new life. to build the birch trees really won the race this trip was treated with herbicides and

pesticides so heavily that hardly anything could still grow here and yet so much has happened here in the past 30 years. and it's not just the plants that are making a comeback several animal species are also we claiming their natural habitats. lynxes are back after 200 years of being regionally extinct thanks to a reintroduction program. to look out for linux's had lived here in the heart for a long time until they were killed off by humans they deserved to be back in the hearts so in 19041005 restarted reintroducing them to the woods has felt it had to look feel and for braun it was a successful undertaking which took a lot of hard work the biologists spent thousands of hours in the words carefully documented nature's campaign to recapture its territory in the form of quarter

region. despite everything this area has overcome the biggest challenge for this chairman national park still lies ahead dead trees as far as the eye can see here there used to be huge spruces but droughts and rising temperatures weaken the trees and the bark beetles finish them off no more often cost the fines he has to educate hikers presence in the region. this week it's a sad sight when you walk along here with him but if you look closely you can see that new life is an emerging with the old spruce trees have died out they should marry theme it's a colossal task for the authorities from the former east and west and going to cost is not done yet he says he will carry on until what belongs together has drawn together. and i want to talk more

about this with i just to in there on john from the environment good to have you here with us why are leaders meeting so this is a major summit to work out how best to protect nature for the coming decades etc road not pretty for how to reverse these trends of unprecedented decline of nature of this accelerating extinction of species and it's really to set the groundwork for a big meeting in china next year and a good many where well leaders will sign an agreement that's kind of comparable to this 2050 in paris climate agreements are really the international framework for how best to protect nature and how are they planning on going about protecting biodiversity so this is a weird thing they are very concrete targets for 2020 which they mostly have not actually met some of those 20 targets i mean none of them were met all 6 of them apart he achieved one of them is going back in the wrong direction and so it's kind of not necessarily new targets but more just reaffirming what we've already said

there are some concrete actions kind of taking place i mean it's important but that context right side of pollution is still unsafe levels governments are still subsidizing businesses that damage ecosystems coral reefs friends are still dying so it's mainly a case of trying to take what we really know about how to protect nature and implement it so was going to say is this this time around you know what why would they implemented this someone they haven't done it. so the rhetoric is noticeably stronger and so i mean i think on monday $65.00 world leaders including germany's angela merkel signed the letter where they describe the situation where there's a planetree sea and the rhetoric here is pretty strong they talk about this kind of unsustainable production and consumption as being the key drivers of biodiversity of us i mean this is related to climate change as well obviously. and they i mean they say this requires immediate urgent and immediate global action but then you

look at some of the proposals in that letter and you see that they want to reduce they want to eliminate plastic leakage into the oceans by 2050. 3 decades away so i mean whether that's immediate origin to i mean you can understand why activists maybe are kind of skeptical of some of these conferences lots of semantics there that you have to read in between the lines now what you signed to see how big other changes required to keep what biodiversity we still have intact in the us so if you look at the scale of the problem firstly a report from the world wildlife fund a couple of weeks ago found that 2 thirds of the world's populations of wild mammals. fish reptiles is full of by truth since 1977 space of 50 years and i mean the scientists last year when they released this big global assessment of the state of life or not found i mean we need for they call it the transformative changes and this really goes into every aspect of society so we're

not just talking about individual conservation efforts but i mean they they quote very very favorably for quite steering away from the current limited paradigm of economic growth that we're really talking about changing concepts like g.d.p. maybe the world leaders today at this meeting often rely on this believing that i mean it talks about changes that are at a much bigger scale and what's currently being discussed asking for among the whole more for some of the glee over the world economy right there on john of thank you so much thank you appreciate it. and so sports for you now in tennis are in a way as has been forced to withdraw from the french open in paris with an achilles tendon injury williams was aiming to win a record equalling 24th grand slam title while she pulled out of the tournament just before her 2nd round match today saying she was struggling to walk while the 39 year old 1st suffered a flare up of the injury at the u.s. open well here this month. liverpool player it's jago outcome tara has

tested positive for the corona virus after displaying mild symptoms the spanish a midfielder only recently joined live reports from by munich he's played once for the club but missed liverpool's last 2 matches once jago was 18 part of the bahrain team that won 3 trophies last season will now have to self isolate for at least 10 days fired by u.k. health authorities. you're watching the ws coming up in news asia protests in india after the victim of a little gang rape dies in the hospital and after this tells us the police failed the woman. got a lot more coming up here with my colleague here a show about urgent coming in just coming up in just a moment on my block a moment i'll have the headlines for you again at the top of the hour say about.

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hospital. protests have been held in the country as details of a bobcat a crime against a noble cost woman become public we also why such brutality keeps a cutting in india on those regular basis. protests to our games agricultural laws that indian famo say we leave them to the musci of big culprits a protest the death tells us why the government's assurances. in politics. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us this shock and anger in india often a 19 year old gang raped and left for dead by head attack as died in hospital the victim belong to the community the lowest in india cost system she was left

federalized and severely injured by head and that's a tough because all up ok up a cost man they have been arrested but the incident less than 200 kilometers from delhi has raised questions of a cover up as well especially after she was cremated in the dead of night by police against a family's wishes. a family quietly grieving in the wake of another gruesome crime a woman raped and savagely beaten. stark contrast to the scene near a delhi hospital on tuesday rights groups joined in venting their fury at local and national officials occasionally tussling with security personnel the victim had been transferred to the hospital in a last bid to save her life. there's not only outrage and utter pradesh but there's outrage in the entire country the more the chief minister is negligent in taking

decisions the more dangerous the consequences will be the victim's family is not alone we are with the family the victim's father joined the protesters demands for the 4 alleged perpetrators. and i request the government to punish the accused and give justice to my daughter they should be hanged. the victim's father heard later that his daughter had died even if the case will be changed from a. attempted murder to murder and all the 4 accused are under arrest. protesters outside the hospital organized again by candlelight and ramped up their call for greater protection for women and greater protection for members of lower castes tragically in this instance the 2 issues have collided in one shocking case the victim's remains were taken to her home village by police and cremated in the middle of the night the family saying they were not allowed to perform her final

rites. now as you heard the case has sparked outrage including on social media in a number of to tell users have expressed that anger at events captain of the indian cricket team did not call you said the incident was inhumane and goes beyond cruelty he also called for justice to be done in the case on the cole for justice that also voices demanding that accountability be placed on the families of the perpetrators while the actress treaties into highlighting that son's need to be taught to respect women there's also been a criticism of the heavy footed response of law enforcement in the case this year is a saying that despite strong laws india has a system that is failing women every day and last me a tweet from an old climate activist with a picture of the history of danged cremation of the rape victim by police a funeral which her family wasn't allowed to attend. for more i'm joined by your

get up to date activist and founder of a nonprofit advocating against sexual violence mishandle welcome why did police cremate the victim in the dead of night. see that's the exact question we are trying to figure out and my history of working with so many similar cases i have never seen such a cover up it's very fishy if it is evidently that it's not a violation of human it's a complete mockery of law and order system i mean they created a human chain a corpse to prevent the family members to see the body and to cremate the body or to the last rites i mean it's it's it's. a shame that you know we live in this kind of a place and i mean this is this is happening right under our nose i mean this is this big off this kind of

a trust so how much so much highlighted last 48 hours you can imagine what happens with an already case in this country. this is a case of you were involved with a person as well never involved with her getting the complaints registered the victim is now gone could her life have been saved. yes and i hold it equally myself responsible. it is the duty off the machine the administration to see if the victim is critical cannot be you know treated in our district hospital has to be immediately there for to a better hospital they did not do it i mean by people like me are needed i mean i'm i'm so sorry because i feel myself ashamed that i could not be available for this girl because i was having my isolation beat it i'm going to make over it but at the same time i'm again and again thinking whether i mean there must be so many victims like cause they really need in convention and who is supposed to help them didn't

station which feeds their doctors again and again every single day. this is unfortunate sad but this is the reality in this particular case the victim was a gun from their formerly untouchable cost and the alleged perpetrators of a higher cost was this cost crime. yes i annoying and walking in the field on the grassroots level i openly say if there is this guy system which exists and which dominates and makes them more bonded of it specially the women then they can't reach out to anybody as the easy stuff it is them and the big they do whatever they want to do the rebel it is more on the lid to the men and which is a fact also another very eye opening fact off this country and specially in states like the predation and behind understand that so many of the states but you people

declare you that but this is still very much into the very box the custis. just one other question is about all this is not the 1st time we are talking about brutal very popping in india why do crimes like these keep happening because there is no data and that is no intent of a character like message strong message that and the learn to live a good as a society does not mean it's a new normal that it's on you and all of us know so how do we that be good yes. but if men law and order system then you see the clots behaving in this men know what do you expect from the potential rapist do you think they would have got more timid did and more go kind of get up to what a woman yes because if they see the state does like this i mean definitely the best no difference so to the damned is no deterrent the dates will keep happening and this is the mideast sad state of affairs for they were there for the timing with thank you so much for joining us here with of her. thank you so much. india passed

a set of controversial new agriculture bills on sunday prime minister narendra modi says the laws will help tens of millions of farmers and lead to a complete transformation of the industry but many farmers especially small holders disagree they've been staging protests across the country to try to get the legislation scrapped they say will benefit only large corporations and mean many could lose their land and their livelihoods supporters though say it will encourage the much needed modernization of india's farming sector. joining me knowledge again for your other he's president of the political party. and a member of a committee protesting against these farm bills he joins me now from delhi restaurant good mr of the contention is that long term these farm bills will benefit farmers what is your objection to this. that

indeed is the plea of the government and some economists to support the government in this instance and the farmers objections are tools for procedure and substitute procedures the farmers are saying we were never consulted not a single follow organization was the answer to before our. second the government uses an emergency measure if an arguments why these bomblets have nothing to do with the present bent tree the bill is blocked pushed me he says and by of moving all the procedural votes in the apartment so the farmers are saying why are you forcing it on us more substantive sollars i really get pretty conservative why don't these laws promise albany liberalization and private investment in agriculture in effect it would need not privatization but actual complete deed ventilation samas fear that this would be

a way that whatever limited subsidy farmers get from the government there is a scheme of the government which is providing it assures me long price which in reality is given only to less than 10 percent farmers the theory now is that evil that would go away that the government is in a sense signaling to their group sector you are the must see private trade as we are not here to do anything the government of course denies it on the face of it but it is every possible signal to subjects that indian farmers are being left to the most of what is car or plane market but indeed is it completely an archaic 100 people eat each segment of market. right but then the prime minister himself has passed the near shore the per the a short a minimum price to $2.00 out of funding to be made available and that this is not being done away with why don't farmers believe are the prime minister of the country is

a shorting them. the trouble is that this is it will show us the trouble is that the farmer cannot get prime ministers message. to save these churches the trouble is that this issue rents as not all substance the law the trouble is that mr when he was not the prime minister but the chief minister of one of the provinces of india which he had inserted in mind it that this particular process which is partly one supported projects she had said this needs legislative action she had said it should be in our quitting law so farmers are seen still why don't you implement what you yourself had been my duty to interpret so far as a scene if your blood that to please incorporate it in the law we don't have much time here about 15 seconds what produce are the governments more diversions behind passing these laws mr other. for some time it

seems that the government is moving to words privatization up there and that a gradient sector we're at a station of a digital sector that saddam was actually ceding in the government's political priorities and the attempt sure is to all basically help some of the bit awkward roots of india who have been itching to get it through every chart this is meant to support them support every business he supports stockist. and not the farmers. were never there for the timing or thank you so much for joining us from the new you're going for the other. that's it for today there's more no website did other dot com for us. we're back tomorrow at the same time 3 of them about.

combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour carona update. from the cove in $1000.00 special next on d w. sometimes sense known for. the next few years stronger the misplaced. is so strong that it can be torn down. we celebrate the 30th anniversary is for unification october 3rd on d w. the fury of the fire illustrates the folly of war. that is why today i

am calling for any immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the war. millions of people are caught in war zones the un says that's preventing an effective response to the outbreak. of bob hospital can't treat the sick. the virus spreads when tens of millions flee violence in africa the middle east and asia. in much the un secretary-general called for a global ceasefire. warring parties i say. put aside the. silence of the. strikes. but the world responded by buying more weapons and starting new conflicts. the pandemic. famine riots instability and civil war.

viruses we can governments and security forces that's allowed some rebel groups to flourish they mostly face the same restrictions their costs are also rising but they pass them on to those caught in the territories they hold still as. tchiowa reports the response isn't that different to that of some governments. this herd is on its way to the biggest market in the central african republic. some 42 kilometers from the capital bangui where the hurts us sold for traders in this country it means moving from areas that are controlled by different groups. the coronavirus pandemic is an additional problem the straightest complain that many groups have taken advantage of this health crisis by living huge taxes on them so. you don't and we face so many difficulties in transporting our cattle from cagayan

route to the market armed groups attack our shepherds. before coronavirus the rebels asked each of our heads men to pay between the and $18.00 euros. no they've increased to feature almost 125 euros. they demand so much money for taxes and we're all discouraged i. live in bangalore hasn't changed much for most people it is almost impossible to determine who is infected with the coronavirus or not bring the rainy season people have the flu or malaria and that in a country where poverty is notorious it is estimated that about 71 percent of the population live below the international poverty line men and women are fighting every day to get food on the table so far there is little progress in the country

we meet rodriguez political a young activist he specially criticizes the government's money to mentor of the pandemic was on the. we were in a country where we no longer understand anything and the beginning of the cone of i was pandemic we were told that with all of the nations that the government had received over $1000.00 would be a problem the taste was free for instance and now we have to pay for the. party. who can pay that but it's a number of situation for central africans who are more in addition to the security on economic impact of the bottom up and many in the central african republic than 4800 confirmed cases. and in the midst of hoping to measure off put in place by the authorities the fight against these pirates i'm going to respect it in public places. just one example of how rebel groups are ruining people's livelihoods and how some governments are failing to keep promises let's bring in doll he's director

of the bigger institute for african affairs has the coronavirus lead to more conflict or unrest in africa. that's a very good question would be yes and no it has been limited increase in terms of. what can be called so-called code 19 years order this is mainly when people riot because of access to to nutrition and so on and. political repression by government authorities on the whole whoever you know while and has not really a crease at least that's not what the number tell us what we believe is that massive ones can. can happen in the future but only after putin can they shouldn't especially when economic consequences get really really really bad and there's poor management of the result what will picking up on those restrictions you've

said there are certain kinds of conflict that pandemic restrictions are more likely to aggravate what sort of conflicts. especially at the beginning you have you know people are reacting directly to what the government for instance if we have lockdowns you know restrictions social distancing you know people might not be happy with that because they they feel they can you know get food on the table as it was mentioned in. their report before and of course has happened for instance south africa where there was a 'd quite you know strict lockdown on the other hand people might be scared that they are exposed to our wrists. open faction for instance like in the cote d'ivoire when testing center was destroyed because people who. live in this continent you know limited in terms intensity all the forms a while and so more likely to happen. in the more distant future and under unfavorable circumstances one specific rishta could be one economic conditions

become really bad that long or all minorities especially migrants might become scapegoats i think south africa could be an example of that also in conflicts you have a risk of escalation but again the numbers do not show a strawman increase as of yet and we should point out here of course that the pandemic has tame some conflicts. yes indeed it has although i would be a little bit cautious with regard to that as well of course generally i think the traditional us does have you know kind of power to bring people together because they are the common thread and they rally around the flag you know those stick together on the protest against this ethic you know wayne's off the right and he had seen it also in the report that some of the people get more and more dissatisfied you see there on the world politically a more concrete example of of attaining africa a pandemic was in cameroon we have assessed session as conflict in language form

part of it and one rebel group has announced a ceasefire explicitly mentioning the condemning as a reason and as we speak now. i don't have very very good information but the government is a good league negotiating with the rebels so i'm not exactly expecting that the condemning rules over the conflict but there's a billow over to if so how do you get the balance right containing a virus knocking down an economy and preventing conflict. and actually that's a that's an excellent question maybe it's the one trillion. dollar question in from a put put it this way because desert actually you know the key challenge on the one hand you know you know keeping the virus at bay and not on the other hand you know that you harm the economy so a lot that the medicine will be worse that you know than the disease so and unfortunately you know you want to restrict the virus we have to that we have to.

take measures that harm the economy and you know what 11 idea i have in this regard is that you know africa was it later by the virus and that of course of the unity that africa can learn from other countries how do the right way i think we'll have to leave it there thank you very much for being on the show today yeah thank you so much you're welcome. and time to answer your questions on the coronavirus here's our science correspondent eric williams. why is vitamin d. not being promoted more since there is the evidence that it's deficiency compromises the immune system. there's been an ongoing discussion in the medical research community for many months now about whether or not vitamin d. or more precisely vitamin d. deficiency could be playing a role in covert 19 outcomes lots of people don't get enough sunlight to produce

sufficient amounts of it themselves which is why claims have multiplied that supplements of vitamin d. help against sars co 2 there's clear evidence the micronutrient is important to healthy immune system function in other words to how susceptible you are to infection in general a recent study from the university of chicago which a step further looking at patient records the research team they are discovered what they claim is a clear retrospective link between vitamin d. deficiency in patients and covert 19 brid 6. the problem is is that to prove it we still have to carry out what are called randomized trials where where we monitor people getting enough of the vitamin and those with known deficiencies and then track the groups to see what happens over time whether there are differences

in how many people in the cohorts contrivance kovan 19 and if they do how severe it is another issue though is if vitamin d. really does prove to be an effective preventive measure what doses of it should people take taken in excessive amounts as a supplement it can cause kelsie on to build up in your blood and can can even cause organ damage. so there are potential dangers along with the upsides but but in general the experts agree that taking a supplement in safe amounts recommended in national guidelines can't hurt your health and it might help especially if you have been known by them and he deficiency. finally in his general audience on wednesday pope francis said we need to heal the world from the suffering highlighted by the pandemic he said the coronavirus has exposed the great

inequality the brains in the world the inequality of goods health care technology and education the pontiff called for policies that reward participation care and generosity rather than indifference or exploitation and special interests saying a fair and equitable society is a healthier one. put imagining that. we will be able to regenerate society and not return to so-called normality because this normality was sick also before the pandemic alert the premier that up on the mia the normality of injustice inequality and environmental degradation. thanks for joining me for this kind of 1000 special and then fizzle and so you next time.

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