2 children younger toasters robust. what's your story take part sheriff on info mike greenstock. this is the w. news live from berlin tougher restrictions look to be on the way for germany i made an already tight lockdown chancellor merkel brings forward talks with state leaders over what can be done to stay ahead of more transmissible closes 90 variants. also

coming up and washington d.c. preparations for one season on duration are overshadowed by fears of further unrest in the capital our correspondents for port from behind the security cordon about a city on edge plots how far would you go in the pursuit of good health. the muscovites you say but a traditional ice cast on orthodoxy if any can do wonders. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel and steve leaders have brought forward to a meeting to discuss extending coronavirus restrictions in a bid to keep ahead of new more transmissible variants of the virus now here is how germany's incidence rate has developed over the past 10 days it's an import. an

indicator that reflects new infections per 100000 people and as you can see here there is a slight downward trend from 154 in january 9th to 132 today but there is still a long way to go for that number to drop below 50 which is when the spread of the virus would be considered under control germany's current measures are due to expire at the end of the month but now an extension and even stricter measures could be on the way. what streets and berlin and most who do venture out are wearing masks and it seems to be helping there's been a slight drop in the number of coded 19 infections but the government is preparing to further tighten restrictions in bilin is say that's a good thing nobody is doesn't i think being strict to make sense and i'm hoping this will finally bring it all to an end. i really hope that we realise that we'll have to put up with these restrictions until at least the summer. when their new

name. perhaps they should were chancellor angela merkel will discuss tougher restrictions with state leaders that made concerns that new virus mutations could cause a surge in new cases. highly infectious variants of the corona virus have been detected in germany one very into sprayed 3 great britain the other through south africa and at the moment we have further watering reports from brazil . some opposition politicians are calling on the government to do more to stop people from going to work. perhaps at least possible for about 40 percent of all office workers to work from home last week only 14 percent did so we did better even during the 1st lock down so there is room for improvement. mosques are also on the agenda after birth varia made f f p 2 must compulsory in shops and on public transport they have higher filtering

capabilities and it said the federal government is considering a nationwide adoption of the measure but these masks are more expensive people who can't afford them will receive vouchers. with health officials saying case numbers remain too high tougher restrictions are likely to be announced. political correspondent you know has us on the story for us nina is a tougher lock down on the way. what does seem clear at the moment is that the existing measures that are already quite strict will likely be extended until the 15th of february so schools will remain closed as will museums the it is in shops etc and the hope of course is that we will all have more information on the new mutations of the virus and that we can then better assess the risks that those variants probes and other than that there are 3 new measures that are on the table and are being debated number one the report mentioned the professional face masks

that bavaria has made compulsory on public transport and in shops and the discussion is whether professional face masks will be compulsory nationwide and the compromise seems to be that this measure would also extend to face masks worn by doctors in hospitals so not necessarily just 2 masts that are more expensive but also the slightly cheaper version of it the government also wants to force companies to have more people work from home office workers that is that is number 2 and then 3 there is a debate about the nightly curfew but there is a lot of resistance from some regional leaders and they ultimately have to enforce those measures ok so there are some some new measures though and they're included in the list of possibilities but how about and you alluded to this as well better in forcing the measures that are already in place. the feeling that we're getting is that a lot of the current restrictions apply to people's private lives and that politicians

are reluctant to send police people into people's homes to check whether people are really adhering to those restrictions that apply in the private sphere and so at the moment they're trying to target the workplace more with those new restrictions so that more people work from home which would mean that fewer people use public transport for example and it is a bizarre situation if you look at what's happening at the moment you can meet one person outside of your own household in private that is likely to stay in place but then at work when you're in office working together with 10 or so colleagues for 8 plus hours in the office and that of course is beginning to undermine people's acceptance of those measures that have been many appeals by politicians to employers but now politicians are saying that they might well have to use the last resort and actually force employers to prove that it's necessary to have people work in the office if they can prove that then people will have to work from home

understood you know can you explain to us because we mentioned at the beginning of the program that there is this slight downward trend in the country when it comes to new infections is there a reason for cautious optimism there. i think you have to keep in mind 2 important things one is the numbers are not going down as fast as is necessary in this fast as people had hoped even though large parts of public life have been closed since november essentially and then the 2nd big point is that there's a huge fear of those new mutations of the virus nobody knows just how transmissible it is yet also among politicians there's a big fear the hospitals are feeling the strain they've been under strain for months now and $6000.00 people per week have died on average so they got a lot so politicians are under pressure to impose more measures of course vaccination has started but it has been off to

a very slow start some some really important contacts there due to views you know thank you. and let's level look at some other developments in the corona virus pandemic an independent panel has criticized china and the world health organization for their response in the pandemic the panel said that china could have been more forceful with the measures that it took and that the w.h.o. should have declared an emergency sooner an estimated one in 8 people in england tested positive for corona virus antibodies in december suggesting they had kovan 1000 previously that's roughly double the october figure and russia's consumer health watchdog says that russia's 2nd vaccine against kovan 19 is 100 percent effective based on the results of clinical trials russia began mass trials of epi vaca rono which is being developed by siberians vector institute in november. tuesday marks donald trump's last full day as president of the united states trump

will leave the white house with what some opinion polls say are the lowest approval ratings of his 4 year presidency he will also leave washington d.c. in a state of high alert the f.b.i. is vetting all 25000 service personnel involved in president elect joe biden's inauguration on wednesday officials have expressed concern about a possible insider attack or other potential threat now security concerns have gripped the city since a violent mob storms the capital on january 6th. downtown washington usually buzzing with people and traffic know a ghost town. on the other side's traffic jams and checkpoints a city split into the center has become a militarized zone. and the u.s. capitol remains under a strict lockdown just days before the presidential inauguration we are just

outside the closed perimeter and this is close as the general public can get to the u.s. capitol which is currently cordoned off by a 3 meter high fence and razor wire which is currently installed on top of the fence we're going to go inside the perimeter and out to get a glimpse on the preparations that are underway for an inauguration day that will be unlike any other in american history. soldiers instead of visit or is some 25000 members of the national guard us securing the capital grounds there has been some concern about a potential inside threat as not everyone is happy with the new president it's a sticky situation it's forced politically and. i have my own i have my own thoughts below but in uniform i you know i can't convey them but i'm here to do a job i'm here to follow one or 2 organizations do it and we're carrying on with that mission. the president of the united

states joseph jr on the west side of the u.s. capital some normalcy is coming back rehearsal sense soundchecks where 2 weeks ago thousands of trump supporters stormed the symbol of american democracy. the rehearsals for the inauguration ceremony were just completed and on this very long usually thousands gathered to cheer for their new president well this year many things will be different fear of an attack on the president means. ceremony with hardly any guests the national mall will remain shut down and authorities asked citizens to stay far away for the sake of their own safety. and the aerial buildings have been boarded up again after a year of protests and a pandemic these views have become a common sight for many washingtonians but businesses are suffering the business was not from last 8 months because we in the commercial area this is the commercial

hub of all the offices around us are closed and the security is beeves of so much uganda and we are moving over delivery business but mostly all the roads are closed . a life behind fences and roadblocks those who live here can't wait until the new president is sworn in. and for more i'm joined by a correspondent clue kroft are william what's expected on inauguration day and how long could these increased security measures last. well as we just saw in that report huge security presence more than double the number of national guard troops at this inauguration than normal inaugurations of course a presidential inauguration a presidential event is always going to be very high security but there's all these extra layers that we've been hearing about the last several days since that attack the u.s. capitol by a mostly white fundamentalist mom really and the threat of the the acute threat is

being said that it might extend to thursday a day after the inauguration but let's not forget that the far right groups white supremacist groups these anti-government groups they did not start in this election cycle they're not going to end in this election cycle and while washington has long been a very high security zone especially post 911 it was always looking towards an international and particularly in islamist threat but if you watch a lot of that video from inside the capital i've watched a lot of it a lot of the language and the religious imagery from these people have professing to be christians very similar to the kind of islamist extremism that we saw that we've been hearing threats about for decades now and that threat is going to going to continue into the by the ministration as f.b.i. and law enforcement officials have long said has long been a threat towards the united states and pretty bleak picture here painting also i'd like to ask you about another aspect here we know that outgoing president donald trump has not been seen in public for a week what does he get up to. well as you mentioned at the top before that report

he made this statement that they were he was going to allow travel especially from europe again because the united states is going to start requiring negative test proof of negative tests if you're coming into the country the bizarre thing is of course that's going to happen starting january 26th which is 6 days after donald trump ceases being president and joe biden becomes president biden ministrations so that's just not going to happen we're going to continue you know keeping the corona dragnet so to speak a very much present. it should be noted there's been really mixed signals from the scientific community this entire pandemic whether blanket travel bans even work if they're the most effective way to control the virus but the c.d.c. the centers for disease control has said that by march they're fearing that the dominant strain infecting people and spreading in the united states is going to be this extra extra vi rulon strain that we've seen starting in england in the last several weeks and that's why they're trying to prevent

a willing just quickly tom planning to pardon as many as 100 people and his last day in office according to reports what are you hearing that's right and i think more importantly on who might be on that list is who doesn't appear to be on that list which is many of the controversial figures in trump's inner circle members of his family who have not been charged any crimes but could theoretically be preemptively pardoned even donald trump himself preemptively pardon which would be of course a very constitutionally questionable and also his aides are saying don't do that because it would incriminate him it would be basically be an admission of wrongdoing but he still president through noon on wednesday and he can effectively do whatever he wants in that realm of carving out to see what actually comes out of his announcements glue croft reckon it down for us thank you. first let's take a look at some other stories making news the kremlin has dismissed calls to free opposition leader alexina valmiki who has been jailed for 30 days following his return to russia on sunday the vul me had spent the past few months in germany

recovering from poison in the finger of agent the kremlin also described his calls for mass protest against his arrest it was troubling. police in guatemala have broken up a group of thousands of migrants from central america who are trying to reach the united states officers used the tongs and shields to force the migrants back toward the one door and border the migrants had camped out on the road overnight after authorities stopped them from continuing their journey north. you're watching d.w.t. is still to come with restaurants feeling the. reeling excuse me from the end of it we'll see how this year's michelin guide and the stars that it's awarded are bringing some badly needed cheer to an industry in crisis. but 1st rescuers in china are stepping up efforts to try and reach $22.00 miners trapped in a gold mine in eastern china the men have been stuck underground since an explosion

at the site in chandon province 10 days ago authorities have managed to establish contact with some of the miners but fears for their survival are growing. for more than a week now these emergency workers have been doing all they can to reach the miners . 22 men are stuck more than 600 meters underground. rescuers have been drilling holes in the rock to try to create a way out for the men. but the local man says they're facing serious problems ball drop. due to the heavy accumulation of the struggling materials the shockwave formed by the blast cause serious damage to the facilities inside the shaft good work pipelines cables and equipment of the steel structure were all twisted together and piled up sheets so the current clearing work is relatively difficult woman function that she. and the pressure is mounting using

a wire that was fed into the mind of the trapped men were able to send up a note describing the horrific situation they found themselves in all. regions of it said the water was rising around them and they were breathing in toxic fumes they said they were exhausted and urgently needed medical supplies some were injured and they begged the rescuers not to give up. since then the authorities have managed to set up a telephone line to talk to the men. they've also been able to get food and water to them but so far 10 of the 22 miners have given no signs of life since the blast . one miner appears to be stuck alone 100 meters below the others. china's mining industry has a pool safety record but in this case questions are also being asked about why the incident was not reported until one day after it took place authorities have

launched an investigation but the 1st priority is to try to save the lines of the miners. well now it is the bible of fine dining the michelin guide its stars are coveted by chefs the world over the widespread lockdowns and restaurant closures mean that compiling the guide this year was especially challenging inspectors had to wait for restrictions to be used before packing in as many restaurant visits as possible but the work was borne fruit and it made for some very happy chefs 030 that overcome with emotion after winning a 3rd mission in stockholm in the midst of to much us times for the gusto anime industry this was a chink of light for chef alexander musya despite the coronavirus pandemic forcing chefs to close their restaurant doors months the michelin guides annual french edition went ahead with its awards for 2021 and its reward restaurants who got creative touring looks down. am restaurant was among them during the streets last

year with the food truck when the country's gastronomy was supposed to shot to him the star is a much needed boost. the hogs it gives us energy for when we reopen so we're going to prepare ourselves for that prepare ourselves to be at this level you know it's like a top level sportsman has a serious injury you do everything you can to prepare yourself to be able to return to that pitch again. it'll make us even stronger to be able to bounce back. some other feed lists have cancelled their rankings but michelin widely seen as the world's best on in the bible said they decided to bestow their verdicts to help highlight the industry in what's been a brutal year remember memphis is now more than ever it didn't make sense for our teams to waste this year even if we're coming out of

a terrible year and even if there are difficulties ahead of us on the contrary we had to be there because not giving out the stars to be unfair to the chefs who worked at the cia the struggles who are creative and even in some cases succeeded in taking another step forward. chefs of us and has restaurant flowed to purvey one a michelin star last year. he said that while the lockdown meant his restaurant wasn't able to reap the benefits of winning the star he still welcomed the much needed recognition for the trades. i think if the michelin guide can help french restaurant to me and chefs who are having a very difficult time right now and put a spotlight on a profession then that's a good thing. with the pandemic raging on food it'll be unlikely to be able to book tables at his or any other restaurant any

time soon. and in sports a new sumo wrestler is emerging on the scene at the tender age of 10 japan's car you tackle maggie is already a world champion for his age range and is twice the size of other competitors his father believes that he could be the next big thing in the traditional japanese or it. is no ordinary 10 year old. he trains 6 days a week in his bid for sumo stardom here he is already the under 10 world champion with kids he's own age just too much of a pushover. he weighs 85 kilograms and consumes up to 4 fires and calories a day. bulking up means he has been able to take on and win against competitors who are 5 and 6 years older. than hugh

it's fun to beat people older than me. his father moved the family to a district of tokyo famous for sumo the training there is expensive but he hopes it pays dividends and. money matters a lot of money time. but i think it's worth investing. going to be i don't gamble. but instead i'm rightly betting everything on this to be complete the. kid is otherwise a normal 10 year old boy who plays with his friends and attends school like everyone else. it is in the ring where he really stands out use even started wrestling with adults. and finally here's a different kind of sporting activity from russia a seasonal one that is said to have lots of health benefits but also health risks

every year on january 19th for the feast of the epiphany a devout and hearty russians take the plunge he has your ear a shadow showed up to document the physical and the spiritual refreshment. this is one of the coldest winter i see moscow has ever seen. in the last a decade i've lived here for 5 years and i've never seen people taking the plunge in such a call to it's minus 20 degrees celsius. even so these brave muscovites have come here to the moscow canal is they all want to take part in a popular off a duck's christian tradition. because celebrating this way has become popular among nonbelievers too as it's sad to that greek ice bath can be good for your health. 2

for christians believe that on january 19th today so is the day when the jesus christ was baptized all water became holy and taking a dip in a natural spring can wash away your sins and even your illnesses. usually the ice hole is blessed by a priest is the night before people jump in the see a many christian communities are warned to leave us not to take an ice bath because of the coronavirus. nevertheless as our own 50 official public ice holes in and around moscow the moscow city administration has even set up a rescue service points there and i'm going now to ask these russians why they're doing these to themselves but i also would like to know if these people actually

believe that the visual has miraculous healing power was. discussing why are you doing this. it's a christian each day so we have to wash away all our sins just of us are you think the water has magic powers. no idea but believing is everything. that you've heard it's so cold why are you doing this to your body. as a startle if i know the cold it is the warm of the water feels seriously this isn't my 1st time it's a really a russian holiday and i like it. the water has miraculous powers yes really miraculous i have never gotten sick i've been here when it was wet and this holiday weather was slashed i was never sick. so there are lots of health benefits as we just today but apart from the health

benefits says there are also a lot of health risks associated with this i swimming so it's not advised for those who are not to used to such activities plus you definitely have to be brave like these. for a n.d. and with that you have to date on the news up next it is close up thanks for watching take care.

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did it. for so long sometimes i get so angry. i start screaming like a crazy woman. i can sometimes feel the rage welling up inside then i just want to end it all. so and us to 3 full 5678912 years. that's how long i've been here. before all the men there i feel like i'm suffocating the drains overflow and it all flows into the building you can hardly breathe you know it is not so sad when we live in such crowded conditions disease spreads quickly. so us could only anger grows. beneath them all down over the.

musician has been stuck behind us. she can see the sky. only through the. the building is in one of the poorest districts of most. complex the resembles a prison. the women here live behind bars the looted salutes and ideas go round and round free them up. to be a decent it is the largest psychiatric facility in asia. to a decent nation is a world for organization that can be seen all of the pakistan in many areas it's

taken over the responsibilities of the state's. foundation runs orphanages maternity wards and violence services along with facilities like this one a hospital come shelter for women. 15 years ago there were 400 women having here. now there are 1700. every evening as the light fades the volunteers staff prepare for new arrivals. i. thought she is a city of 20000000 people amongst us and this evening the monster who spit out another woman that nobody wants.

to watch in iran cheese huge it's a dangerous city for young girls and for women especially their. decision years no comment below has driven through the docking streets of the city if the night. would be updated at the end of a big day is it going to be here that there's a woman wandering around on her own at night we immediately take her off the street and bring her back to the center because it's very dangerous for a woman to be on her own at the train or bus station or even at the police station a station robot there while they sit here they charge us a. lot of the larger share of the women that we find out on the streets of karachi maybe

suffering from mental illness all they may have been rejected by their families or they were beaten and fled. i tell you what if you still. be upbeat about it i just got a call from the police place picked up a young girl job it. is the duty officer there. was even knowledge of this. is everything ok. is that the girl you're sallow once your name that i left. cindy she doesn't speak sending only positive. her name is carlita. she

says she comes from sha town. but i call the police there and no one knows her or has reported her missing. it's very late so we called you. at least she'll be safe with you killed a. man she seems a bit bewildered at the way of a chap's that's why she got lost i missed this all your lives the better say. well if she kept up that this 2 possibilities either she wandered off from her family or her parents threw her around jobs we don't know yet exist for the. full. fat was it a bad. plan

. to reach it doesn't really understand what's happening to him right now my. interest on people with psychological problems is seen as a fact that families so many just want to get rid of them. is but you're going up the trauma she can sleep here in the center kanaka like kind of like that's got a 1st she'll have something to eat then she can have a bath and we'll give her some clean clothes but if they find that has sleep 1st and then in the morning after breakfast we'll try to find her parents but as i get the car that. is star the case is ma'am but in cases like hers the parents really turn up on the are very few come to collect their children it would be

a miracle if they came that most of these girls end up staying here and grow up here a lot of positive body would that it's quite possible that we'll look for a husband for her one day you may see how they got the mommies that got us out of. just a little. mohammed takes her with him. was i. the was. the was i. that i. i just met at 1st i cried every day on the way home from work. i and

everyone said i should give up my job but i didn't want. i believe god has chosen me to care for the poorest of the poor of our focus he. joked in a scene he spent a quarter of his life in his car doors. she runs the center she's all she familiar with how society in general few so-called crazy people i hear this or those they just go to the families in pakistan have no idea about mental health problems so they don't want to consult a doctor in june the tunes for and yet these conditions could be treated right from early on as soon as the 1st symptoms emerge the doctor. starting a was not like i was at least a bit depressed or mentally ill sister or wife is considered

a disgrace and so it's to be. a benefit to them bob. i did a lot that he allegedly said never again i believe they remember what they shouted not just on any area or left out that was. when they. turn aggressive the family started get down it's sometimes they find no solution of them got the was. that was and then they get even more aggressive the women break things they are restless hit out at others threaten to kill them and so people bring them to us. generals and you don't live until sometimes they arrive in chains or throats tied around the hands and feet and the but those are all one though i did i i was i in.

there are 2 categories of patience. it war 2 is the firstly there are those with genetic conditions. and they have congenital defects so they're born with it for months a mentor who. was ordered and then there are women who are quite normal soon but they were subjected to abuse whose husbands own mother in law's hippie of them half of them up on mistreated them in some other way. and that gradually drives them insane. to hideous bother all the digital but they just reach a point where they can't cope. and they develop personality disorders. and in the end they can't be kept at home anymore as he would have got milk the coffee.

kalimba hero. and are you doing or. are you taking her tablets yeah well what are you taking an antidepressant that is a feeling better or do you still feel depressed as your father visited you know of one who has never been not even once so ok. i. know. that day i woke up packed a few things i got in the car and came straight here over to go up to the car does my. dad drove. me or not my name is

here i'm a force a mother that my father locked me up here 2 years ago because of depression. who committed depression. will deliver he doesn't want to take you back i don't know what it's so i talked to him on the phone a year ago he promised he would come and get me a bible help me go back home again bob you need to convince your father to come and get you he brought you here only he can get you out call them and let me talk to him. again this is how we argue about the royal we let you talk to him before a year ago. but only if you want i'll call him again. if he comes to get you no problem and you can go the most welcome. are you still waiting for that call it's our only chance of getting out of here.

she's 31 years old but she can only leave if a member of her family agrees to it. the same applies to women in. all of them hope to leave once they've received treatment and become stabilized again. you know when this guy. oh my the boss this is not. her husband brought her here in 2003 he shot me i'm not about that for the past 10 years she's not had a single visitor here couple be very obvious today as she's been insisting on it and because she's more stable now and we have her address what we're going to try taking her home very much but that's already made out. you know i was issued with.

this is now is issue the father brought her here in 2006 and said she was sick major yards or out he said this is my daughter keep her here at the center and give her treatment. oh you're very doctor their duty is made out or make sure that you are started with their. mother to tell lady permission needed my family beat me and didn't give me any fit if it is that they hit me and threw me on the film. london but this floor they beat me with everything they could find their shoe his mistakes. made us i am sensitive i mean i couldn't take it anymore i started my horses. i was doing really badly they were very difficult times for me. so then they want on the negative. and if they start beating her again. that's my biggest yeah

but that was 12 years ago now so it will be different today maybe they'll take me back and not have me anymore.