this is a g.w. news alive the from the vote counting is underway in the u.s. state of georgia where the results of 2 key you runoff elections will decide which party has control of the u.s. senate margins are thin with most of the vote counted also on the program germany extends its lockdown until the end of january. go and say it leaders also announced new tougher restrictions including limits on movement in coronavirus. and the olympics superfan with

a record streak. she's attended all the summer games in the last 30 years and is hoping to continue her tradition this summer in tokyo. welcome to the program we begin in the u.s. state of georgia where republican incumbents and their democratic challengers are neck and neck in 2 u.s. senate races with less than 2 percent of ballots left to be counted democratic candidates raphael warnock and john also are trying to unseat republicans david and . democrats need to win both races to take back control of the u.s. senate. the eyes of the nation fixed on georgia as millions went to the polls

on election day after a long buildup and a record number of curly ballots cast these voters finally had the chance to make their voices heard. i usually vote republican across the board but this time i went democratic. but thought they were more capable ok but it was no mystery we want these should become normal. and tell us if you would share with us who you voted republican. in just one well i think that they have the sharpest ideas for running the country in the digital or not comes off if you tell us a little levy what you. want to i want or agree new deal on the government health care i want everything they're streaming and i think it's time for not just georgia but american exchange. with control of the senate hanging in the balance candidates were still on the campaign trail on tuesday one last appeal to get out the vote

georgia voters have never had more power than you have today that's the reason the whole world is watching us in georgia that's the reason everybody needs to get out to the polls and make their voices heard but as the vote began to be tallied on election night results revealed a race that was still too close to call. d.w. correspondence all of a solid is in atlanta georgia all of others is said nail biter what's the latest on how the candidates are failing. it really is all it's been a back and forth the whole night in one race raphael warnock the democratic candidate is in the lead in the other race between john ourself and david produce it looks like a tie at the moment but polls continue to be counted especially in democratic leaning counties and so the democrats are really hoping that they can repeat history the history that is just very young and happened in november when the

democrats managed to win this traditionally very heavily republican state and so the hopes are they can do this again of course but we why not know this tonight counting will continue tomorrow on wednesday. now these elections are really about the balance of power in washington what's really at stake. technically it's about the majority and senate but of course it's not only that it is really about the fate of the biden presidency because joe biden wants to undo policies all 4 years donald trump of the trump era in order to be able to do that he needs control over both chambers of congress of the house of representatives and over senate and that's what it's about there are 2 seats in senate up for grabs if the democrats don't win those 2 seats then republicans will. control the senate

and that will be they will be able therefore to obstruct his policies and make joe biden a weak president from the day he takes office who right now it will be a big day in washington on wednesday it might be a dramatic day what's happening there. well tomorrow is a big day that's right the senate is going to certify the electoral college vote so yet another technical step in the on the on the path basically that makes joe biden the president but let's not forget he already won the election so that cannot be undone but nevertheless some republican senators are trying to block that process that's going to take place in senate tomorrow they want to overturn the election result of very anti-democratic move that is unparalleled there are several pro tromp demonstrations to law or to be held in washington d.c. even a lot of protesters are in tone already all trump will deliver remarks from the white house none of this has really chances for success but it will certainly stir up

chaos and further confusion in washington d.c. . all of a solid reporting from atlanta many thanks for staying in the united states where prosecutors in the state of wisconsin say they won't file criminal charges against the police officer who shot a black man last august in the city of can no show jacob blake was hit several times in the back as he tried to enter his vehicle civil rights advocates criticized the decision and say they are ready to reignite protests that rocked the city last year. when the shooting of commercial resident jacob blake prompted protests in the wisconsin city. police were responding to a domestic dispute when the shot of the 29 year old hitting him 4 times blake was left paralyzed from the waist down. this week smaller demonstrations preceded the

prosecutor's announcement. after months of reviewing the evidence prosecutors will not meet the demands of protesters. no law enforcement officer in this case will be charged with a cruel offense this is not a case where there will be any dispute about any of the factual circumstances of this case except for one piece of the law and that is self-defense police say blake had a knife found fired the shot says they feared he would use it his lawyer says he was attempting to break up a fight between 2 women and his family now aim to seek justice in washington d.c. . battle must go in front of congress it must go in front of the senate we must abolish the right for policemen to be

seen on a higher plane than citizens of the united states you cannot have a bill of rights full of lese and then have a bill of rights for the people at the height of the protests in august during clashes between protesters and militias teenager col recent house opened fire with an assault rifle killing 2 men and wounding about. now 18 he has pleaded not guilty to all charges including homicide. thanks very much not guilty pleas to all counts contained meanwhile the state's governor has mobilized 500 national guard troops while connections city council has given the emergency powers to deal with potential unrest. now to some other stories making news around the world. in hong kong authorities have reportedly arrested dozens of opposition figures on suspicion of violating the city's national security legislation it's the biggest crackdown since beijing imposed the

controversial law last year among those detained as politician clarice young pictured here being issued an arrest warrant at her home. venezuela's new parliament has met for its 1st session with president nicolas maduro as party in almost complete control of the national assembly his united socialist party won more than 92 percent of seats a month ago after the opposition parties led by one guy door boycotted the elections they plan to maintain a parallel parliament. for migrants have been found dead after their boat reached the spanish island of tenor reef about 40 others survive the journey from north africa more than 1100 migrants died last year trying to reach europe. germany is extending its national coronavirus looked on by 3 weeks in an effort to

reduce stubbornly high infections and death rates the decision follows a meeting between chancellor angela merkel and the country's 16 state leaders where they also agreed to tighten some restrictions including curbs on social contacts and limits on people's movements in the worst affected regions germans have been feeling the effect of tougher corona restrictions since last year but the lockdown is about to get tighter still. if. we're going to extend the leisure's which we agreed in december until the 31st of january and in some areas we will have to introduce even tougher measures. shaphan. infection numbers have not dropped as sharply as hoped and there is a new fear of the fastest spreading variant of the virus which could put massive strain on the health care system if it takes hold in germany. there

is really major concern about the virus mutation if it's true that mutated viruses tend to displace the existing strains of the more aggressive we could be facing difficult times ahead what's happened in great britain shows we must not underestimate this kind from interest rates and so the chancellor and state premiers have agreed an extended lockdown private meetings will be limited to the members of a household and only one other person where infections are high people will be told to stay within 15 kilometers of their home schools and many shops will remain closed and people arriving from outside germany will need a corona test and have to spend at least 5 days in quarantine restricting movement infection hotspots could prevent a repeat of scenes like these at the weekend when hundreds of people ignored police warnings and headed for ski slopes but so far it's not clear how all the new rules will be enforced hopes for progress in rolling back the pandemic now rests on

vaccination new vaccines are set to be approved but it's expected to be many months before enough people are immunized for now germans face a longer lock down and no clarity about when it might be lifted. here's a look at some other developments in the pandemic. the european union is negotiating with the makers of the biotech pfizer vaccine so ordered between $50.10 additional doses according to the reuters news agency the english premier league has announced 14 you coronavirus cases among football players and stuff that's more than twice as many as last week indonesia will begin a nationwide vaccination program on the john you're on january the 13th and mexico has approved the use of the astra zeneca oxford vaccine the 2nd vaccine to get the go ahead for it now to the world of sports and

a super fan who refuses to miss out 51 year old kyoko issue has been to every summer olympic games in the past says she is and the tokyo residence is the term and to attend the one shuttle to come to her hometown this year many japanese believe the event should not go ahead because of the pandemic but is hoping to keep her record unbroken. kyoko ishikawa has done her summer games superfan attire every 4 years her traditional outfit in hachi marquee had been started out at the barcelona games in 1902 and along the way she's collected memorabilia at every game since the tokyo olympics were postponed until this year due to the pandemic just last month tokyo organizers banned cheering in stadiums which means.

kyoto will have to leave her whistle at home even with a muted atmosphere of the tokyo games believes could serve as a symbol of hope. i think i did i mean doesn't that mean that when it despite the difficulties i want the tech games to be a place where people around the world feel that the flame of hope was protected. to come to doing that humanity kept it alive. not that i know the. planes to take part in the rescheduled torch relay she's also looking forward to adding to her collection of memorabilia the tokyo games are set to open in under 200 days. you're watching d.w. news live from berlin coming up next is a documentary on a semi nomadic group unless you know whose way of life is now threatened for more

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is the most species rich and oldest rainforest on. 130000000 years old. * whole new. meaning. it's located in the malaysian part of borneo it's still home to 40 tribes and asked new groups including the pentagon. they want to know by sight but i think that what we think the when the forest we find wild boars talk of fruits and medicine itself when the forest pressure

wonderfully and we're connected with our ancestors the political and i dealt with you but now it reminds us of a beautiful time when the forests were still intact. and that. valid thing environment is threatened. by huge palm oil plantations are eating their wife found out and fight over into the ancient forest and destroying the rain forest ecosystem. is what and i'm called back home it means both forests and wild 16009 live in this part of malaysia only a few dozen are still no matter roaming the forests like ancestors did as hunters

and gatherers. look at the leaves i hear is this right but he did not say the hole is too small for the lot of. goods and. anti-gun belong to one of the last small communities of forest nomads in borneo. in the forest searching whole. lot he would you would be too good for the poison of the tar gem tree. still come here to tap the poison this is a part of our history this is how our ancestors lived hoping for a wild boar for animals and full of god and it also allows us to defend ourselves against the enemy that.

their ancestors also tapped the strain for the poison inside. thousands of indentations in the box bear witness to this ancient tradition. and his tribe lived in the forests of the malaysian state of sarabhai located on the island of borneo until a few years ago the virgin forest here covered an area. of germany. 90 percent of it has been cleared by timber companies. the habitat of the pentagon is becoming smaller and smaller. and the others have

set up camp for a few weeks on the merry eat river. les small community consists of just 9 people. it's a sustainable life in harmony with nature. hunting parts food on the table and the forest provides the necessary poison. yes in their day weather wild boar are muggy all animals die from this poison within 10 minutes we've. learned to eat if you're pretty or salt with it bill died within 5 minutes because it's all cause of us there but they didn't do it just.

makes in the poison is a long process. it must seem up and senate has become a thank this cursed paste. the women are responsible for the domesticated animals the dogs caught the camp while the monkeys make noise if any poisonous snakes try to clive's. the boys and is evenly distributed on the arrows and dried in the fire. so if you got the 9th with them last they not now will go to a place where there's a salt lick. the maybe some monkeys or dear will come along or they're

not and this is. the forest gives the pentagon people everything they need to survive. it's a garden pharmacy and supermarket and all rolled into one. you. know. when i was a small boy i went down to the river to hunt animals. i like to see a. few. the rainforest is the central part of the pentagon's identity it's the final resting place of that i'm sandstones and the center of their spirituality culture and history.

these forest nomads have no written record of that culture but i know about 2000 words for trees and fonts as the forest dies so does that language and that culture to timber companies want and landed all costs they have already offered paying my good money motorcycles and a calm. these legs are my car i don't need any of the other forest as a bank created by god i got interested in your money the forest provides us with everything we need i live here with my children my grandchildren grow my people but i can just go away i don't want you here that's what i told them and i knew that. you only knew. the

hunters imitate the cool of them once jack in order to extract it. one poison dot one hits. however this time it wasn't a deer. elated that i shot this world with the poison we got yesterday in just one minute it died. just so. the forest is vital for their survival that's why they treat the environment with the greatest respect. but a tough fight has begun.

in the nation timber companies are invading fail won't. want to clear the forest but plantations. will get to hold the bulldozers of multinational firms the pan-am sent simple wooden block a. one a 5 times we said ok and each time they destroyed it again with one unit that i know now if they destroy this house as well we don't know what will do we want a house in the middle of this logging road to stop them. the idea did actually temporarily stop the timber company a small success in an otherwise on fan fight a fight that revolves around the question of who actually owns the forest. meant

that not the love me the idea that the rain forest will be destroyed worries me i don't know when the storm will return and call myself a cup of forest as a whole we have to take care of it in the i mean if something is broken it must be repaired that water because the bad weather the storm can come back at any time but now we know the timber companies are our store and. a warning to the longest to keep off this land but one house alone while nonstop the logging companies for long. people like penn macoutes are an enemy of the industry. trade in tropical timber is a $1000000000.00 business malaysia is one of the world's largest him back supporters with a turnover of almost $5000000000.00 euros it's. the only $1.00 money for value and that money that if no $1.00 pays attention to the forest to the mountains and no one protects the animals of the forest then the

destruction will get worse we will continue this blockade as long as necessary. so i got all and so i got if they're not here we can move freely and you know but it got no new thanks to the blockade they haven't been showing up. but they'll come back some time we just don't know where we're going to homework i thought i can on . the loggers unpaved trying to come through the jungle connecting the tribes with one another and my guts uncle sager gave up his old life in 2000 these forest no man's became settled farmers they now live in a house with a corrugated iron roof.

there's an electricity here from diesel powered generators. but. it would have sat if you compare our old life with today it was better in the past and our life today is more difficult because of the many illnesses. and there are other problems in the forest one could temper companies don't care about what happens to us and it's not fair about the not the god but the word got to. souvenirs some of the past 15 side of plastic back. their home government and i think i get sad when i look at these pictures and other

women where we were happy when we lived in the forests in the mountains and by the rivers. these photos are a treasure because they remind me of this past life and know i mean that on me. the reason for giving up the old life was his youngest son james. not that i knew that my child was disabled you know when we settled down because we could no longer carry him through a forest. since then we've been living here permanently. you got them and eventually swellings appeared all over his body here and here. his skin became infected it became sore at will and he melted lightly wax in front of our eyes that was the end of his suffering then he died it was

a terrible disease. but mccann or a few severely disabled some on those sedentary life had that price so lies sega had to sound parts of his forest to a timber company. and it's not an either timber company is at the edge of the village excavators from the state oil company petronas digging through the forest to build a road to a nearby pipeline to sell ice age or benefit from this god you know to do that a provide us with solar cells and electricity for lightbulbs so we. light at night this should improve our lives our new government has initiated this.

new comer minds with the old sunshine norma's contrasts challenge the pentagon's way of life every day. the move towards a new reality is inevitable it comes at the expense of our so sufficient life in the forest the decision is out of the hands. but what about that even though we now live here as farmers. we still go hunting in the forests of the board and we'll never forget our culture and our way of life. that he thought or it will always remain a part of us that we are going to be made for them.

with this new way of life comes agriculture basic foods no longer have to be laboriously sorta in a forest there comes a very did near the village. to say good tree is one of the most important food saucers the palm contains a carbohydrate rich starch that can be extracted from its pulp. where the way that it takes a long time to plant a rice field but with sago mine we only have to cut it down and we can eat it the same day a month in one now compared to that growing rice is very time consuming that although if the field is going into we can have a yield all year round him. the conservation of dry rice is something the pentagon have learned from british

colonisers missionaries and neighboring indigenous tribes. in number one in june we got the small trees that july and august we burn the fields in september we planted one in the in march we start harvesting. the rice is right now that will allow it well. made while they are saying. dry directly off to the harvest and then processed. and turn it into a tough white that served with almost every meal it has little taste and hardly any nutrients but it provides them with the necessary carbohydrates.

the pentagon's way of life has changed considerably since the middle of the 20th century they still live in the forest with a few exceptions they're no longer in a magic in the last 50 years communities have settled down in one place. on sundays a bamboo cane is used to people to a church service. the over the last century the original animistic pan and were converted to christianity and about ties to by australian missionaries.

however a belief in the spiritual power of animals and the forest is still deeply rooted in that culture. thanks of the destruction of the forest can be found directly every day game which is a vital source of meat is becoming scarce the native bearded pig is increasingly ragia . more likely. but that is the 2 of us went to the to learn river because the rain forest there is not yet destroyed. at 5 o'clock in the morning we saw

a wild boar taking a mud bath and we laid in wait that morning we shot it with a blowgun and then tracked it down a dollar at 6 o'clock in the morning it threw up and died with a. in pen on culture the collective stands about the individual everything is shattered because everyone knows that at some point they'll be dependent on others sharing is a survival strategy. everyone has a role to play including some wise wife juma loss of. well you know. we make baskets bags and blowpipes to earn a little bit of money and that's how we survive you know.

make up new not very good if the company takes all the timber all the sago trees and all the rest town and what are our chances of survival. the forest is destroyed the wood has vanished and they haven't even compensated there is no more rice no support what good is a polluted river. and his tribe the last living as forest nomads for them the day begins with a laborious search for food. unlike in his uncle's village the sago palms here live many miles inside the forest and must 1st be transported down the river before they can be processed on the banks everyone helps.

i . thank the good c. youngest son and his 2 siblings were born in the forest he doesn't know how own he is age and time play no role in the life of the pen and. there's not even a word for birthday that finance a the day on which the child found from the mother's womb and onto the forest floor . i thought why lie i never went to school when i only feel safe in the forest the forest is my school i know how to make arrows so

at 1st i learned to shoot birds and then squirrels and then i learned to hunt bigger rodents and monkeys were always and. this is the school we had as children in the forest or land that wouldn't if fs. i support my father because he protects the forest which is the right thing to do now where do we get food if the forest destroyed we must protect the forest if we don't find food will face a huge problem. of not. only the forest of soraya this is the question that every. thing else revolves around. the banana were already living in these forests long before the remains of the british crown colony malaria singapore north borneo. became the kingdom of

malaysia in 1963. but under malaysian law indigenous people who want to claim land rights must prove that they lived in the area before 958 the pan am lack the documents to prove this. they have 3 children or girls and 2 boys all 3 were born in the forest but we have no birth certificates. without a birth certificate there can be no citizenship and that one hope remains i am a good dancer a treasure in a plastic notebook for 15 years been an teams together with cartographers from

switzerland man surf and have been mapping the territory of the indigenous people a total of 10000 square kilometers they have charted over $7000.00 rivers and streams and more than $1800.00 mountain ridges on through. before they woke up. with this map we can prove that this is our territory and that our villages are here legally so that the that's why it's so important for us and them that we're not mean by rebel and that by the way with these maps the pentagon can for the 1st time demonstrate the use of van territories and their historical boundaries in 2011 accordance around whack recognize the indigenous land rights of the banana for the 1st time. since then more and more of them are going to court. because i have the same problem. in this group led by chief who count

has taken on the palm oil company radiant lagoon. in december 28th seen the malaysian company illegally invaded traditional pen and territory on the edge of the goo known national park. last march when the logging companies began to massively invade our forest we set up this blockade to protest. for months the pentagon occupied the access roads to the rainforest in august 1900 they filed a lawsuit to be faultless supremum court of seraing the verdict to stone pending in the meantime and ungrouped continued to patrol the area to prevent the palm oil

company workers from returning. them. and some people are angry at us because they want to get money. but this forest doesn't. our forests. they are angry with us we don't care. products are popular with chinese traders. visiting the national park. we have to protect.

there is. if we don't have. evidence against the palm oil companies now. it's. not fair. but. if it didn't make it that means that those communities are like. that. and. when you passed by. this.

speak it. said basically. yeah and we said. it from here is that. when you. start. this is the footprint of. when you can lose it it's. really just a few minutes. or so in this place is very good place. yeah you can hear.