this is do w. news live from berlin and indonesian airliner crashes into the sea naval search teams headed for the sign where the jet went down just minutes after taking off from jakarta dozens of people were on board also on the show floor trump on twitter the social media platform confidently suspends the u.s. president's account due to the risk of further violence depriving him of his favorite megaphone in the waning days of his term. and as more cases of

a new coronavirus variant appear in france the government pledges to speed up its vaccination program but it also faces a skeptical public. omarion evanston welcome we begin with a tragedy in indonesia where a passenger plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from jakarta the gentle went down just for minutes into what should have been an hour long flight to pontianak tracking data shows this really giant airplane disappeared in coastal waters indonesia's navy has said search teams to the crash location officials said the 26 year old boeing 737 was carrying 62 people among them 7 children and 6 crew. members. joining us from jakarta for more on this developing

story is journalist. dan krisna hello to you what's the latest that you can tell us on what happened to this flight there good evening. late that. i have. to get local fisherman and a look at that he has located to d.c. in the what that is not a car by in the different debate it's on that i was in ireland and and that this. seems like to be the part of the aircraft. that is some car and some part of the prophecy and also. we're still going to be even the board of the search and rescue will be found something like it seems like the

inventor and all i mean i didn't see sly from the aircraft so that. led to said. it's only about. do you mean it's from parked up or in north of jakarta all right so you mentioned that some debris has been found but is there any indication that there could be any survivors how are the search and rescue efforts being managed right now. at the moment. it's sin there and there is not a fire for has been found and then also on the list is that i heard from. this search and rescue agency that the actual the exact. location of the wreck it hasn't has not been found under bridges in the surface but be known to look asian is between while and 1000 island in not

of doubt that's so. that our. rescue. has been dispatched to the location and found. approximate location but to be exact to morrow do we pinpoint where the wreckage location actually ended and when they found it made a real half. try to to do. the wreckage. journalist press nast traveler my dad thank you so very much. twitter has permanently banned u.s. president donald trump's personal account citing the risk of further incitement of violence made the move after trump supporters stormed the capital last wednesday twitter said trump's recent tweets calling his supporters patriots amounted to glorification of violence in response trump accused twitter of trying to silence

him the company's decision comes amid growing concerns about the president's orders making plans for armed protests before the inauguration of president elect joe biden. well to talk about the implications of trump being cut off from his favorite social media megaphone i'm joined in the studio now by peter dahl from our us elections team hello to you peter so just how much of a blow is it really for trump to be now permanently banned from twitter is this a problem i think it's a it's a big blow i mean president is increasingly finding himself isolated after wednesday's a band and this certainly adds to that it comes after facebook on the thursday also announced that it was. temporarily banning his account and threatening also to do that permanently you tube and streaming platform twitch threatening similar steps now why does this matter it matters because throughout tribes presidency he's

really use social media in a way that essentially render traditional media obsolete he's is why he could get away with bashing the media because he could speak directly to his 90000000 followers who then go out and tweeted to their father was right and so by suspending trump twitter how specifically now taking away that super power that he had critics. should have happened months if not years ago but it's not as black and white he is still the president of the united states and as such what he says is so public interest. even when that inflame tension away even threaten nuclear war with iran for instance which he did not too long ago so by suspending trump twitter is essentially saying you know not saying that he's a threat only to national security but they're also really downgrading him from president to private citizen before he's even left office all right but is this really a problem for trump i mean couldn't he use some other platform to reach all of his

supporters well he's even talked about creating his own social media platform and what he said was like he will not be silenced and not so complain that we've heard from conservatives especially for months if not years they say that twitter and facebook become essentially liberal companies pushing liberal policies and agenda or trying to shut them up result is that we've seen many of them start to move to more alternative platforms like parlor gap both of which have reported a sharp rise in users since twitter and facebook announcement for outsiders spoken in both platforms really look more like alternate realities where this information flourishes and trump never really lost the election is also home to really radical personalities some of whom openly discuss storming the capitol wednesday as we heard there also still discussing. an upcoming insurrection ahead of your ration

and the irony is i think still twitter and facebook really the way that they're set up or engineer to for warding stream and content and now that they're trying to clean up their act they're really those have been radicalized on twitter and facebook well now could even deeper underground and our division as a society are likely to grow deeper because of that. thank you so very much for your insight with you thanks. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world. snow storms in spain have left at least 4 people dead and caused transport chaos across the country the capital saw its heaviest snowfall in nearly 5 decades on friday more than half of the country's regions remain on alert as storm filomena continues to wreak havoc one person has died and at least 30 others suffer as smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in mexico city's metro control building the fire brigade were at

the scene within 5 minutes and took over 4 hours to extinguish the flames 6 subway lines were suspended. hundreds of thousands of people flocked to a church in the philippine capital on saturday for the feast of the black massereene ignoring government appeals to stay home several 1000 police were deployed to ensure social distancing it comes as the actual procession which is one of asia's biggest religious events was cancelled due to covert 19. authorities in france have imposed a 6 pm curfew on the city of marsay after more than 20 cases of the new coated $1000.00 variant were found in the mediterranean port it's raising new fears about the government has not done enough to protect the population of vaccinations began last month bought france has been lagging behind other european countries to w.'s

lisa lewis reports from paris. the opening of france's 1st vaccination center run by a town hall is a big event not just for the parisian suburb of plus c. france hopes that centers like this will play a crucial role in its vaccination strategy. when your do produce cycle we will know that's an 8 medical personnel over 50 and then in 2 weeks people over 75 there will be 10 search centers in our department ilene and 300 across france this will allow us to inoculate up to 500 people per day here and very quickly the entire french population across the country i hope you have actually lost. the vaccines can be stored for up to 5 days on site the mayor is glad that local governments are now playing a bigger part about him getting even arised their thought we set up the door to see

. it's important to be part of this unprecedented moment in history as mayor of 4 c. with its 40000 inhabitants want to show that we can really help in the fight against this global pandemic what do you suppose to be to me. but until now france has vaccinated considerably less people than many other european countries that has some people worried. or that roy up a lot of france is as usual or lagging behind the british invented the 1st facts in louis the 16th was only vaccinated against smallpox after his grandfather who the 15th had died of it was on a demo if we're actually we really need to speed up so that we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel the vaccine is humanity's biggest hope was the main problem seems to have been moved just 6 the only available seram so far is the one

by pfizer. and bio and tech that needs to be stored at minus 70 degrees but paris says it's now better equipped. for sure. we're bringing forward the vaccination of certain groups such as medical personnel and we'll soon receive vaccine so that we need to be stored at these extremely low temperatures for a prefer to take our time initially and proceed with caution to eventually reach the same result as other countries. move was. put on as a bridge. but even if france catches up with other european countries there is another problem france is the world's most vaccine skeptic country according to a recent poll in 144 countries with only 4 out of 10 people planning to get a covert 19 job one reason for that is that the french just don't trust their

government to handle the crisis the very slow start to the vaccination campaign is unlikely to help win back people's confidence. the country is facing a double challenge it needs to convince its citizens to get vaccinated while not being left behind even further by its european neighbors. now to some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic twitter has removed a post by iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harman i do to it's misleading content the spiritual leader had called covert 1000 vaccines produced in the u.s. and u.k. untrustworthy in the u.k. queen elizabeth and her husband prince philip have been vaccinated the royals are 94 and 99 years old putting them in the highest priority group for the job and more than half a 1000000 germans have received the coronavirus vaccine the government has been under fire for the slow roll out of the vaccination campaign. sports now and in the

bundesliga an american teenager is the toast of shocker after scoring 3 goals and a victory that saves the club from equalling and unwanted record they'd be tough at home for until the royal blues have won any of their last 30 lead matches but things looked promising in the 1st half when matthew hobby scored his 1st ponderously goal to give his side the lead then scored 2 more goals in the 2nd half and bad means his club do not equal the league record for games played without a win. ok here are the other results from saturday's blunders the game's sic wasted the chance to go top of the table in a 31 home defeat by dortmund jade and century when erling holland's classic double sealed the with liver cruisin could only draw with braman when young berlin also drew blood freiburg one mines loss to frankfurt and replaced at the bottom gladbach

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what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus and the coalition special monday to friday on. this week on world stories. devastating smaug encourages stock. gymnast's sound the alarm on abuse in germany. but we begin in china things have returned to normal and will haunt from which coronavirus originates and the city is celebrating its success. it is almost as if nothing had

ever happened here life is back to normal in the city where the coronavirus 'd first emerged china has brought in. section rates down to almost 0 in an exuberant exhibition the communist party celebrates victory in what it calls its war on the epidemic with tributes to soldiers and medics who work themselves to exhaustion during the outbreak but 1st and foremost the party celebrates self and the general secretary xi jinping was hailed as the man who led the country to victory. john hi is one of them he is on his way to the municipal government. but isn't this the people's government taking pictures is not allowed. to look like the country i mean i think they should change their name from the people's government of one hand to the bureaucrats government of on one hand. john hi

normally lives in this southern city option but returned home to one han in january when his father broke his hip the elderly man received free treatment at a military hospital this was where he caught cold and later time. john high says his father would still be alive if the earth or a g.'s in one han had not covered up the early stages of the outbreak he is trying to file a case in court against the government. so. i've been very upset since i came back to war. i'm sad and angry at the same time go food that's my current state of mind which. for that i can't stand all this propaganda about the achievements in the fight against. of all the people who died the innocent people who left this world have never been paid proper respect. but few

people still speak publicly about their grievances many others appear to have put the experience behind them night life is back on the streets especially young people enjoy their newly returned free was one of many places in the words 'd to struggle with the pandemic the city where it all 'd began is moving on. in international air pollution rankings chinese cities are normally ranked the worst but recently that title has belonged to the curtis capital of bishkek. call is selling like hotcakes in the freezing cold winter temperatures in the city of bishkek average at minus 6 degrees celsius call is an essential good because homes on the outskirts aren't connected to the city's central heating network.

bishkek made headlines several times in december for being the number one most polluted city in international air quality ratings that people here say the smog is a problem every year in the winter kicked in it's just there's a god of fish character that's like this when you leave the city the sky is clear but you don't wish. i think this is because of the negligence of the government and no one is monitoring the situation and the smog as a direct consequence of that. lies in a valley and smog covers it like a lid get it is authorities admit they don't know the exact source of the pollution the country's prime minister recently said this mainly coal powered heating plant could be behind up to 20 percent of the emissions he ordered the government to look into switching to gas. for now though air quality sensors in the city show the air is hazardous to people's health the concentration of cancerous particles is several

times higher than the norm and. environmental activists feel authorities are all talk and no action they're protesting against the city's latest planning document they say new buildings are blocking the wind and locking the smog inside the city. the plan is only in the interest of the construction lobby the building companies and big all of dark. in other countries they would have declared an emergency situation by now but here they just pretend nothing's happening. but for now local environmental inspectors are stuck in forcing existing norms today they're checking the quality of the coal used to heat the boiler at this local school even many government institutions are still heated with coal. regular people will keep eating with coal because it's the most cost effective we can ban the use of coal in the winter people have to live they have to cook. once

everyone has access to a gas connection and to an affordable electricity supply there's simply won't be small here anymore. so when you. but kyrgyzstan's gas provider raised prices this year and the coronavirus has hit the country's cash strapped economy hard so for now the move away from coal and from this layer of smaug fields far off . some young gymnast's in germany have been subjected to intimidation humiliation and painful training from their coaches 2 of them share their stories with d.w. . mayumi and ruby vandyke learning to love gymnastics all over again for many years their love for the sport had disappeared. aged 10 and primed for big things

between this move to an elite training center near cologne but when their performances dipped they say they were called fat and lazy by their coach that's slim's the fact is the worst thing was when he said he wouldn't come to competitions with us because we were embarrassing him when you're 14 or 15 you need a coach who supports you no matter how badly you statement one on one occasion during a boss exercise naomi said she was purposely dropped on her head to teach her a lesson before i had he pushed me 2 or 3 times to go down lower but i knew he wasn't holding me properly that's why i didn't go lower and then i did under pressure but he let go of me and said there you see. mr. they complained to the local gymnastics association but say they weren't taken seriously or believed and makes a field day with the problem with devastating affects on their development. at the

time naomi and repeat were given 3 options either put up with the coach quit the sports or as they ended up doing move to the olympic training center in chemicals earlier this month problems. spiegel magazine does another gymnasts accuse the head coach in kenya. of bullying them and making them train through injury naomi and ruby say painkillers and injections were handed out freely without prescriptions and without the knowledge of athlete's parents but the twins felt they couldn't speak up because of the baggage they'd come with. through b. that acceptance came at a price and she was forced to ignore her constant back pain with one coach telling her it was just competition. and she would often tell me i was imagining the pain in my back that i didn't know the difference between so muscles and real pain that went on for a year and a half and at some point i believed i was imagining it is that you can run up

a lot of matters now and i don't know if it wasn't her imagination though really having been denied access to her mit scans would eventually need an operation. fraser who's been suspended pending an investigation has called all the allegations baseless and says she never overstepped the mark it was her strong denials that prompted naomi and ruby to tell their story. these days the twins only compete in the national league no longer trimming of international success but at least now they can perform again with a smile on their faces. long commutes to school or a huge problem for many children in south africa. and then geo wants to change that . as he

charges starts the day with a very long walk to school there's no public transport around her children often a rifle late at school or just don't go she goes to include primary school the deputy principal says a number of issues need to be addressed this problem of late coming as it is also other than this and that is the issue that driving and those that are in school girls walking wonder or there is this program of crime nor the crimes of we can figure out there is the problem with. a few kilometers away is the base of an ngo that wants to solve the transportation problem for poor local children not iraq's most i am to muslim gamey and some part of the team of sweet bike. there are loading 400 and 72nd hand bikes recently delivered from switzerland they'll go to kids at various schools here in the area around market 140 kilometers south of.

seoul basically when a new concern arrives i feel like a small child who has a bottle opener like a park and if this is the change their future into the country doesn't have the feeling that i did when. i was pretty good. sweet by got going are still here and has already provided more than $1800.00 bicycles to schools each one 1st has to be assembled and tested at the sweet bike workshop the project depends on donations. depending on how much money comes in something and the team buy an import up to several containers full each year. the workshop has 5 trainee mechanics now is in charge here together they process about 40 bikes a day vocational training is another core element of sweet bikes mission the aim is to enhance skills and create jobs and new opportunities in bicycle

assembly path and distribution the idea is at the end of the year to equip them we have enough skills so they can either open their own workshop or be placed in a drab but you can see in the field these spikes of 4 in kulu primary school. progress is slow on the unpaved road. the children are excited about the bikes. especially as the child. for her it had been a long wait. balancing on 2 wheels takes a little practice but to seal a child who is keen to learn and would like nothing more than to cycle to school the very next day.

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