and in the end i will. do to. this is g.w. news live from berlin a grim milestone in germany as the country reports more than 50000 deaths from cope with 19 but the government tells people there was reason for hope and asked about not to let their guard down. also coming up a showdown between the australian government and search engine google is threatening to escalate we'll tell you why the battle is being closely watched

around the world. plus u.s. president joe biden announce a sweeping new measures to combat the covert 19 crisis he says the pandemic is international are merchants and born things are going to get worse before they get better. i'm serious illness kind of thank you for joining us germany has recorded more than 50000 coronavirus that's since the start of the pandemic that number has risen sharply over recent weeks even as infection numbers are finally declining hundreds of deaths sometimes more than 1000 have been reported daily across germany over recent weeks in some parts of the country intensive care units and crematoriums have reached their limit the situation has prompted the german government to once again extend the country's lockdown. germany's health minister again spawn has been

giving an update alongside health officials he says the coronavirus case numbers are encouraging but still too high this time dr detroit suing the skipper vaccination program is giving us hope in the current situation. the crisis is at its peak but we're beginning to leave the penn demick behind us step and to me because. i know it's made me feel that this is not happening quickly enough and i would also like to have more vaccine doses that bailable so that more people can be immunized that should it just may have to get and. let's bring in our correspondent jared reid who is following the latest on the story for us hi jared we mentioned that granma number 50000 deaths here in germany bring us up to speed on the situation. that's right sumi very sadly 50000 over 50000 people have now died from all of it 19 in germany they've been around 2100000 cases

so far but there is encouraging news in so far as that in fiction rights are on steady decline as they stand today 6 and write is 115100000 of population over a 7 day period as i say that number has been steadily declining but not fast enough which is why the government and the states agreed earlier this week to extend current restrictions until february 14th this shuts down continues to shut down large parts of public life like schools and. shops as well and they are encouraging more medical wearing and there is going to be an obligation on employers to make sure that more of their employees work from harm so that the infection risk in offices is reduced and also on public transport the big worry at the moment is these mutations that are starting to be seen in germany there have

been isolated cases of them and healthful thirty's really want don't want these mutations to become dominant well those health authorities have been speaking to journalists today and tell us more about what they've been saying. that's right we've just been hearing from who's the head of the robot called the institute which is germany's infectious diseases body he has been saying that there are 16000 new missing homes in germany and currently of those 16900 are experiencing quite serious covert 19 outbreaks and he's saying the ones that are doing better are the ones that have the results as an expertise to to manage this situation and he hopes that those that are managing it so well will get the results as like staffie that they need he's saying that people continue to be a significant risk group here in germany too and jared how are germans taking all

of this the extended restrictions. largely this supportive a recent polling shows that around 40 percent of people surveyed here in germany were for significant really significant hardening over a restrictions around 20 percent wanted them to stay as they are but by and large consistently over the last few months we have seen that public support for restrictions he is has been consistently high are political correspondent jared reed thank you well no where in germany is the death rate higher than in the eastern state of saxony there are so many people have died that funeral homes are struggling to cope as we report many of those left behind are in shock over what has happened. there should be a moment of prayer but there's no time for that there are simply too many coffins

too many deaths arriving at the do a bone crematorium in saxony. and in some days there are more deaths than we can actually cremate on a single day this is strenuous for our employees because there's also no end in sight in that our positions. there if. we're standing in the morning hall of our crematorium. it usually accommodates 90 people for the funeral services. unfortunately we had to convert the hall into a storage space because we could no longer keep up with the deaths strictly for the elephant. it's a difficult situation for us. because relatives can usually say goodbye to their loved ones here. but at the moment that's not possible because

the move leaves. no room for a funeral service not all of the coffins represent deaths from the coronavirus but many of them are marked so. these people had to end their lives without a final hug from their loved ones. luth spanish cares for the bereaved he is a pastor and. families sometimes only realize how dangerous the coronavirus can be once they've lost a loved one to it. when this year a liberal by family and i have contact with families who have lost a relative because of covert 19 to scorn or they're in a state of shock and reconsidering things this 1st phase of mourning the so-called shock phase lasts longer for them because something inexplicable something in comprehensible has been added namely that this pandemic is a pun dimmu. the pandemic is far from over many more

christians will be carried out here get a hold monster is worried about the future they're not always going to assuming that the number of infections remains high it follows that the number of deaths will to if they are referred is in the to and so on and that means we won't see any relief here until mid february at the earliest of the carnage one of them. it is a winter of mourning and as it is in many places in the world during the pandemic. let's check in now on some other developments in the pandemic in spain the easing of travel restrictions over christmas to allow families to get together caused a huge spike in infections intensive care admissions have increased by 60 percent in the last 2 weeks china's capital beijing is kicked off a drive to test 2000000 people and just 48 hours the city is rushing to stem

a local cluster of cases believed to be linked to a new more transmissible variant of the virus and israel has vaccinated a record 224000 people against cope with 1000 in a single day so far 2400000 people in israel have received their 1st shot of the vaccine. well india has started vaccinating its population of 1300000000 people frontline health workers are among the 1st to be offered the shot but the rollout has been slow the government says one reason is a mistrust of vaccines that is being fueled by misinformation on social media some are also concerned that one of the vaccines was approved before face 3 trials were completed. reports. put 37 year old. it's a big day today she's going to get her 4th of the corporate 1000 vaccine. has been working as a nurse at a private hospital in delhi put 3 years and has been

a health worker for over 20 years now as a health worker during the pandemic she has been worried about the safety of her family against the virus. i have to take care tony and there are little children in our family and i was concerned about their health i had to stay in a separate room keep my clothes and shoes separately and maintain proper hygiene constantly used sanitizers i had to take care of the smallest things maybe. it is one of the 1st in line in the country to receive the vaccine for the widest. india is in the middle of what is being called the boys' largest school with 19 immunization programs. in the 1st round of the vaccine rollout the government aims to vaccinate about 30000000 health workers and other frontline workers. to a vaccine so far have been given images the use approved by the countries of quality the oxford astra zeneca corby she live in india and vaccine and indigenous

vaccine developed by part of biotech. but as the country takes a crucial step towards battling the pandemic many concerns loom large there are questions being raised on core vaccine getting approval from indian authorities without its efficacy data in place as its 50 trials are still underway some experts say that this is a break from established protocol and could lead to a loss fear of death just among people who however there's no clear consensus on this issue in the medical community dr verrinder as john a leading that's knowledge it says the approval to call vaccine has been given relying on the data of immunogenicity and safety he says such image and see government approvals are not uncommon in unusual circumstances. masses and masses have to accept progress. to accept produce to communicate

transfer communication. and communication know should not be confusing to people even though there are actual voices regarding the emergency approval many working in the health care sector are confident that vaccination is the right step to take . we are in that very very in with the numbers are going down so we'd be very imperative that if we can vaccinate as many people as possible it would be able to would be po'd be improving good after getting the vaccine 'd. everybody read. and differently get vaccinated. this is a highly contagious disease so it was important for the vaccination to stunt. he does now almost through the monday 20 minute observation period post waxen nation she said she has started feeling more secure against the corona virus and is eagerly awaiting the 2nd dose. let's get

a round of now some other headlines from around the world the white house has announced president joe biden will seek a 5 year extension to the new start arms control treaty with russia it's one of the new administration's 1st major foreign policy decisions the treaty was due to expire on february 5th it limits the u.s. and russia to deploying no more than $1550.00 strategic nuclear warheads each. funerals have taken place for the $32.00 victims of 2 suicide bombings in iraq's capital baghdad the services were held in the early hours of friday in the shrine city of najaf so-called islamic states claimed responsibility for the blasts it is the deadliest attack on baghdad in 3 years. and japan has dismissed a report claiming its government is privately concluded that the 2021 tokyo olympics will have to be cancelled due to the pandemic a british newspaper reported that japan's focus is now on securing the games for tokyo in the next available year 2032 well the 2020 of and was already postponed

due to the pandemic it is set to open on july 23rd. google says it will block its search engine in australia if the government does not back down over a new media code forcing the tech company to pay for news content the code put forward by the government aims to make google and facebook page australian media companies for using snippets of content from their sites the government a setback a google saying it will not respond to threats. australian news outlets one google to pay them a $3.00 or face a hefty fine for publishing their content in its search engine a corresponding law was drafted in december google says that's unacceptable and it retaliated at a hearing before the australian senate. the principle of under strict at linking between websites is fundamental to search and coupled with the unmanageable

financial and operational risk if this version of the card would have become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making google search available in australia this would be the 1st time that google had pulled out of an entire continent but australia isn't taking it lying down. to strive you makes our rules for things you can do in a strike that's done in our palm and it's done by our government. and that's how things work here in stride and people who want to work with that in australia you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats google has a lot to lose if australia goes ahead with its demands other countries could follow europe has long post a challenge for the tech company after months wrangling with french publishers on thursday google finally agreed a payment framework for including their content on its search engine. and let's get

more on the story now we go to a.b.c. reporter max walden in newcastle new south wales hi max tell us about this new legislation how likely is it that it could be pushed for. yes a look at some proposed digital media courage should make companies like google and facebook have to basically a local media companies here in australia for providing that content both in searches but also sharing that content on social media platforms. the government seems very serious about about pushing through this it has been sort of back and forth with these companies for for a number of months since at least last year and as you mentioned scott morrison the prime minister was saying today that you know the government won't respond to threats he also said that these strongly in parliament lays out the laws under which you know businesses are allowed to operate you know. so certainly they don't look like they're going to back down so i think these laws in some form do

certainly look like the government will do something for but what about this threat from google to block the search engine in australia i mean how serious is that that being taken. well very serious as well course as you said the the head of google here in australia no silver told the parliamentary inquiry today that it would you know indeed it was untenable for google's continue operating in this trial she also released a public video in which she said that it would break google search you know if they were to proceed and it's certainly not just google and facebook in actual fact tim berners lee who invented the world wide web has also said that it would make the web unworkable around the world that was his words and you have other groups like this trailing business council that have spoken out against this particular raft of

lords so. one expert described it to me is basically a high stakes game the that the government is playing with these tech giants and certainly yet it looks like neither side is going to back down it's a high stakes game that a lot of people are watching max and what precedent do you think that sets for other countries that are trying to curb some of the power that tech giants like google have well that's precisely i think the reason that companies like facebook and google have really gone on the assault with this is that they do fear it could potentially of course start the president for bigger markets of course this trail is not particularly large market for a company like google but you know they they certainly do fear it could spread to other parts of the world in a day become kind of a president for other governments to follow so i do think as you say people will be watching this very closely and i think google alternately will probably be looking to to to come to some sort of negotiation i don't see that the government will back

down completely but i think it's probably in both parties interests to to come to some sort of middle ground a.b.c. reporter max walden with us thank you thank you. u.s. president joe biden has unveiled a new plan to tackle his country's covered $1000.00 emergency it will include tightening rules on wearing masks stepping up testing and accelerating the country's axa nation program in the future travelers to the u.s. will also have to test negative and quarantine on arrival biden has warned that the pandemic will get worse in the coming weeks with the death toll likely to rise from 400002 half a 1000000 next month. joe biden promised to take action against the coronavirus so the 1st full day of his presidency was bound to be dominated by a get out and told americans that help was on the way but he also had a stark warning take

a few moments to think let me be very clear things are going to continue to get worse before they get better the death toll will likely top 500000 next month the cases will continue to move. the state of the coronavirus pandemic in the us is indeed very bad over 400000 americans have died from the fire of. vaccination centers such as this one in new jersey have been inundated several states have reported they are running out of vaccine despite the huge task ahead biden told americans the pandemic would eventually come to an end we will get through this we will defeat is pandemic and to a nation waiting for action let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way biden signed a raft of executive orders most of which are aimed at kickstarting his vaccine plan

. but it will be months before the plan will make a dent in the number of americans catching the virus and falling ill. it has not been helped by the news that the trumpet ministration had not developed any comprehensive program to get the vaccine from warehouses into people's arms. you're watching news still to come on our show dortmund to end a slump well look ahead to tonight's crucial game again i mentioned god i cannot afford another loss. but 1st russia is facing a growing problem with garbage the country produces around 60000000 tons of trash every year but very little of this is recycled environmental organizations say more than 90 percent is dumped in landfill sites often close to towns and villages activists say these not only produce a horrible smell they also endanger the health of nearby residents as they don't use your ear shadow reports some russians are becoming increasingly desperate. is

this this is the election skip it it's as big as $45.00 soccer fields and is just one of dozens of garbage dumps on the outskirts of moscow presidents say just a few years ago with peter was still deep in the ground now it's a hill and as is the garbage piles up the health problems due to the dump lies just a few 100 meters from the village of. us home town the mother of 2 says that some days the smell from the side was so bad she couldn't even open the windows and the kids. and well often sick fantasy of a finally had enough she and her children moved to clean and several kilometers away . the little ones were constantly sick one day their pediatrician told me your

children have rattling sounds in their lungs i didn't think about it for a very long before starting to look for an apartment for us here and clean later after we moved we went to the same doctor surprise surprise the lung rattling had disappeared how did that happen simple we moved away. if family's fate is no isolated incident. removal is one of russia's most pressing concerns only 6 percent of the country's garbage is either process or incinerate that is the rest just simply dumped environmentalist who are in these landfill sites around moscow in particular a ticking time bomb a rarely conforming to safety standards of a preview to the soil the ground water and the air. readings taken by the state civil protection agency show the area surrounding nixon skip it is also

contaminated 3 years ago after it is found to that hydrogen sulfide levels were $25.00 times the acceptable amount. but nothing has been done to protect a local residence. it was mother is another of those affected the 67 year old's house is dangerously close to the dump but unlike her daughter she says she can't move. where would i go who would i sell my home to with that horrible smell outside who cares about someone like me and how would i even get by in the city my pension is $190.00 euros per month but i'd have to pay $130.00 euros for a one room apartment. and to the other residents have tried repeatedly to stand up for their rights in court but to no avail. but that's the one said i don't know how much longer we can fight against the

system there aren't that many of us and we feel desperately helpless. meanwhile the mountain of rubbish keeps growing and to there are plans to expand to the elections could dump. to be honest like a football now darkman will be looking to get their faltering title challenge back on track when they visit for a sandwich and got tonight a midweek loss has left them well off the pace another defeat but put a massive dent in their title hopes. things are not going to plan for dortmund's this season tuesday's $21.00 defeat at fellow title rivals by a labor couzin has left them 10 points off the top of the table and it doesn't get any easier with a tricky trip to receive mention grab back tonight. we discussed the laver couzin match in great detail and we agreed that it can't go on

like that but again we expect the guys to perform differently in this game or. i suppose in coach marco rosa the match could be akin to a job interview he's tipped to take over at dortmund in the summer after impressing at grab back the most to me. i don't want to comment on speculation we have an important game against dortmund we really want to win it wouldn't have been. after their midweek victory grab back have the momentum but history is not on their side they've lost their last 11 league games against dortmund this one could be pivotal in the race for the title. now in northern turkey a devoted dog a spent days awaiting side outside a hospital where her owner was receiving treatment the dog named von joke followed the ambulance carrying her owner and then made daily visits to the hospital even

though she was being cared for by a relative she would repeatedly run off and return to keep watch outside the hospital all day. finally bun joke was reunited with her owner jamal and she could barely contain her excitement jamal has since been discharged from the hospital and a little bunch of is said to be taking good care of him at home. thanks for watching.

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full lives with sensory impairment in good shape. lives to the dogs. it's about billions. it's about power. it's about the foundation of a new movie order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network also in europe conflicts are inevitable the consequences contradict the book but instead of what a god ever since a chinese investor got involved here our situation has changed before the war was privatized all work was much better and easier to. china these promises foreigners

from rich but in europe there's a sharp warning whoever accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on it the commitment of the shaking the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world to be fair sycamores going to. china's gateway to europe storage feb 19th on d w. hello . in good shape the greek philosopher i was total said we have 5 senses hearing sight smell taste and touch and even german speakers says that we don't have our 5

senses together usually means that we are not in full possession of all abilities but is it really true does it mean that if somebody cannot hear all see is really limited i don't think so our senses are much more complex that we usually think of do you know that somebody can see with his ears take a look at this. guy on his way to school jason a t. so makes loud clicking sounds with his tone he was born blind. the echoes produced by the clicks help him perceive his surroundings. there's a wall on the left. on the face and to the right i'd say it's more like a head. or heck message with a song for the right but it's

a car wish. jason uses sonar or echolocation it's similar to the technique used by bats back as an avant awo sounds closed off somehow more solid i'd say. and the hedges are more like a wall with holes and when you have done it. before he enters the schoolyard he has to put on a mask like everyone else that does make things harder for him. this kind of makes the echo sound less distinct i might be able to hear the car something there but it's not as clear as it is without a mask. his day begins with soccer training. because of the pandemic it's just jason and his coach. today. jason is an accomplished soccer player skilled at processing and responding to

a complex set of acoustic cues not just the rattle in the ball. watch of the i'm which we let other players make sound the ball makes a sound the opposing team talk to each other but there's usually a trainer talking to him of a thought he has to distinguish all of the. hard. and quick to. horn or investment to locate members of the opposing team on his own to go. into. it takes jason just a few seconds to find his coach. if i'm looking for someone to start walking and eventually i'll hear something. like spotting something out of the corner of your eye. if i turn in that direction they're right in front of me and i can walk straight up to them. after

sports jason meets with the school's mobility trainer klaus. who is also an echo location expert. region by the name of borden after having clue if i take a ball and throw it on the ground that sounds quite different than if i throw it at the blackboard or against the wall i'm just looking we have 3 different sounds and we use them to make a differentiation picture of our surroundings and you know kind of us who want to. run the special thing about echolocation which was only discovered a few years ago is that children who've been blind since birth form are adults who click the way jason does to a shorter more precise click because he's mechanical process what they hear in response and their visual cortex not their old atari cortex and. in visual and context. the visual cortex process the sensory input from the eyes but it turns out that an expert echo locators the visual cortex is activated by sound so with the

clicking sounds jason is creating a spatial map of his surroundings through echo location jason can navigate the world around him it's a technique and a skill that helped him lead an independent life. the 14 year old lives in an assisted living home. but he doesn't use echolocation there. i know my way around here so i don't need to. like many other teens jason loves computer games and there are some for people who can see. around 260000000 people worldwide visually impaired or blind and in many countries

of the world access to any medical services market. people who hear very little or a deaf are in a similar situation and they live in a world that sounds like this. but they still can communicate they can virtually hear through their eyes using sign language this is their word for instance. there are about 200 different versions of signing age and even some dialects a long time ago signing which was denigrated and was allowed to be used at school but nowadays it's part of. our having a conversation they decide to buy some flowers. i've seen and seen the guy when they're both deaf and talk in sign language to each other and to

people who can hear. me not coming to get them that we use just as some facial expression absent if we can them by a lot big and small for example. people who can hair are open to us impatient it works well if they're anxious and closed off it doesn't. involve combat because immediate family are also deaf so he grew up with sign language from the start. with i mean it's not a tool it's my mother tongue lower i think it's your mother tongue and the way spoken language is for people who can head. is a performance artist and sign language interpreter and works for television new show he provides an invaluable service to many people who are deaf helping them to engage with the wider world cup. a big city is loud but not for

someone who can't hear sight and the other senses are called upon to compensate. in my gut i conveyed this thought of my will to silence i don't hear anything that i haven't met but i sense feelings when i notice when a car passes by me i feel the vibration even though i don't hear the noise. i sense in my body what's going on around me. many sounds are not so hard to understand as a little green demonstrates. passers by are asked to identify 3 famous politician us . 3rd try to get up. putting. the tag. from. an act in. the song. and i know to no.

poetry in sign language. the world is fresh and doing. in the early morning sun. from a hill in rapture into the spring green valley below. with all. the harmony of beautiful harmony of souls. in my heart we're related and that's why i love them. as a child dr feelgood 1st went to a regular school where he was expected to learn spoken language then he switched to

a school where instruction was in sign language and he gave up learning to speak many of his friends or consign if things get complicated he writes down what he wants to convey. i did not need to i don't think i ever really wanted to learn to speak if i thought because i don't know what it sounds like because i can't herrick as i grew up with sign language. but maybe one day i'll try out speaking perhaps because it's not an urgent question and wouldn't sign language is my language or my culture i miss profit my my half ways to communicate so i don't need speech as well. i have always edited out i'm sorry. and same faces speak volumes lives and bodies listen closely there are many ways to communicate. and here's how today's interview and i say hello to many computer. in order to be loved by more i'm joined

today by layla finkbeiner and alone. we also have a sign language interpreter welcome. most people know very little about side like. when you tell us a bit more about it. makes it so special to be on. indian media. media coverage tends to focus on the person's hearing status. or it treats sign language as some kind of cute. but the barry is on to topic the barriers that shape our daily lives. who owns the sign language is part of our culture but it's not the entirety of it i mean there's more to us than just our sign language. we have our own history and our own communities in

a commune and i want to see greater focus on that in front of. you just mentioned barriers or barriers to you encounter on a day to day basis. and how can they be overcome dolmetsch of them so we need to sign language interpreter as an aunt used often enough there's no emergency call system doctors and medical staff have no idea what our situation is and how to provide treatment i could go on all day and when we go to a doctor's appointment we can't communicate we need an interpreter these adornment but this entire proceeding is tactiles this requires proximity and human connection is highest all to mention the near aunt god it is a near. right now because of the pandemic that proximity that closeness is a no go at all that's a huge barrier. and we also need

a lot more education about tailoring and visually impaired people and deaf blind people. there are still plenty of barriers in everyday life in fact sure there are interpreters on t.v. but there's so tiny on the screen time you can have to go right up to the screen to see them. sing to me talk to people who can hear really need so much of the screen. real them to whom you know you can do to hear. you know. here in germany under says leyla the term deaf mute is still in use in mentioning a lot of people think that word is ok we find it extremely discriminatory it's outdated. as it implies we have no language where deaf and dumb and we can't hear or speaking. we have wonderful language sign language so we can talk to each other speak carry on conversations we have something to say

comical to heighten the cannot. afford a life you also train medical personnel on how to deal with patients who are what they need to be in essence that this is fish dish 1st of all medical staff need to receive training about definitely people and their culture as well as sign language was mentioned they need to learn how to communicate with us. it is not the sign language to be in bed it involves going. in and knowledge about a people high def should be a standard element in all health care and medical training and also domon. fog of war in iraq so much for that in liking conversation. or you could buy under 6 years. it tends to reactivate our sense of hearing

date back a long time in 79 t. any tell 1000000 scientists tried to stimulate his own auditory with electrical current and all the hurt of the sound of boiling water. nowadays hearing aids have greatly improved but they're of no help if the hearing is not wrecking right the so-called cochlea but there's help with cochlear implants . i was more or less death from birth but that disability hasn't prevented me from helping people in distress younger he has a hearing impairment but for the 24 year old that's no reason not to work as a volunteer firefighter since the age of 4 he's had a copier implant and on the other side he wears a hearing aid and. the hearing.