to have a better overview of the situation in the coming hours and days but we can already see that the number of cases is increasing. up to those in the us to fight such tight it's a blow to the government which is already facing criticism for extending the lock down and for a slower than expected rollout of vaccines and now the german interior ministry says it's preparing for possible attacks on coronavirus vaccination centers vaccine shipments all vaccine makers by anti of axes and conspiracy theorists germany's health minister is trying to reassure people and says the government say has to offer all germans the job by the end of august. even though we are at the peak of the pandemic now we have started a way out of the pandemic i know that many people feel it's not going fast enough and i too would like to have more vaccines available more quickly so that more people can get back to the natives. bon has also now

announced germany will be the 1st e.u. country to use an experimental antibody treatment to fight the virus that's the one donald trump took to help him recover from kovac 19 he said it made him feel fantastic the german government's no doubt hoping it'll have the same effect on people here you're going to be. well let's bring in our chief political correspondent melinda crane who's standing by for us at the home of hospital linda as we understand staff have been ordered to shuttle quarantine what exactly does that mean. that's correct that means that the 1700 medical and technical staff who work here at the clinic have been directed to travel only from their homes to the clinic and back again and that special shuttles are being provided for that purpose to ensure that the staff do not infect any

passengers for example on public transport or people in shops and as your report said the clinic is completely shot it is taking no new patients and those patients who have tested positive are in complete isolation cannot have any visitors with all the hardships that that entails day with math testing started over the weekend but just how serious could this outbreak become. well we have 20 confirmed cases here so far 14 patients and 6 staff members but as the report said the clinic is now doing widespread testing some local media are reporting that there may be as many as 50 more cases here at the clinic but that number has not been confirmed neither has it been confirmed that in all those cases this would be the be 117 taishan that's the british mutation that is so very highly infectious what we're also hearing from the clinic leadership is that there is no evidence

that this mutation was brought here by a patient or a member of the staff traveling back from britain or elsewhere in other words it appears that this virus mutation is now here circulating here in berlin already in the community what is that maimed and for the overall situation in germany. well that means 1st of all that the new travel restrictions that have been put in place here in germany asking people to forgo any non-essential travel and asking anyone who is traveling from an infection hotspot to provide a negative test and of course to obey strict warranty and measures that those measures will not stop the new mutations from gaining a foothold in germany and in fact the head of the federal chancellor rhee says he expects the mutations to become the dominant form of the virus in germany meaning that germans absolutely will have to double down on the corona restrictions double

down on wearing effective masks double down on keeping social distancing measures in place and we have some of our ologist saying that hopes that these lock down and tight restriction measures could end by mid february nay wind up being disappointed in fact we may see a need to continue a very strict lockdown beyond that point in time mind just briefly because hospitals tired of border control delays with vaccination now even threats of sabotage germany seems to be losing its battle with the virus well perhaps not losing its battle in fact the overall infection numbers are really coming down now in comparison to the peaks that they reached in december but viral logis are saying that these new mutations are 6 to 8 times more transmissible than the than the virus form that we've had here until now therefore indeed the

infection risk remains very very high and it will be essential to see this kind of broad compliance with the measures if germany doesn't want to lose that battle mind a crank thank you very much for the update. meanwhile dutch prime minister mark water has condemned violent protests against a coronavirus curfew at the weekend as criminal unrest flared up in amsterdam on the city of i hope and on the weekend after the government announced the country's 1st night time curfew in more than 70 years police say hundreds of people were detained. anger boils over against the night curfew the 1st in 75 years. on the streets of eindhoven protesters set a car on fire and then rampage through shops and the train station. this demonstration in amsterdam

is illegal but residents a furious at the months long lockdown and now the new curfew. live free. things you can think freely. they say their freedom and future are being sacrificed in the fight against the virus. even in the days when the light and i don't agree with the restrictions on freedom. it's certainly true that elderly people of all nobles but there are also so many young people involved and young people of the future. and it's all this is a voice that is saying no we're so afraid we're going in the wrong direction it may be understandable but it's still the wrong way that they are scared of.

the government says the curfew is a preventative measure the number of new positive tests have been fooling but prime minister mark rotor warned against a possible surge of infections from the british mutation of the virus. hours after the curfew came into force this is all that's left of a covert testing center on the coast and in amsterdam riot police break up a mostly peaceful demonstration with water cannons the netherlands was one of the last e.u. countries to begin immunizing health work because with production delays slowing vaccination programs across europe a return to freedom here and elsewhere still looks alone why of. a foreign ministers will debate possible fresh sanctions against russia during their meeting today in brussels well the scots high how they should react to the detention of kremlin critic alexei valley and to the arrest of thousands of his

supporters during protests this weekend he has already imposed sanctions on russian individuals close to president putin after novellas poisoning in august the calls are growing among some member states to toughen the e.u. stance. before the meeting german foreign minister heiko mass called front of the arrest of protesters to be released immediately. you have started as the german government we already made clear at the time of mr obama's arrest that we can't comprehend this move and demanded mr valma immediate release after the demonstrations over the weekend this now also applies to the protesters who were detained by security forces. according to the russian constitution everyone in russia has the right to express their opinion and to protest this must be allowed and the principles of the rule of law must be applied. that's what it was russia has always been committed to this and that's why we expect the peaceful protesters

who were unjustly detained to be released immediately. that's not one for sort of kind of hardness of. i'm joined now by our brussels correspondent rageh. foreign ministers mulling over how they'll respond what if any action do you think they'll take we will hear a lot of strong words again condemning the arrest of mr in the valley and also the arrest of 3500 protests over the weekend and the foreign ministers for the old so demand the immediate release of these people but you diplomats tell us that there will be no decisions you are fresh sanctions there's already a sanctions regime in place in the novel in the case since october since the alleged poisoning of mist in the valley and the diplomats say this is enough we want to wait to sit and grade until next month and see if missed in the vote and

even be sentenced to more jail time now the bowl kicks states in particular demanding restrictions will sanctions why does the e.u. struggle to find a unified voice when it comes to dealings with russia or the baltic states as foremost problem. neighbors of russia now and they are feeling more threatens and they often have a descending voice in the dissenting opinion when it comes to measures against russia. and also the european parliament is demanding poshest sanctions against russia even the stop of the construction of the north stream pipeline in this part of from russia to germany which is critical for many you states but in the end you mrs root today issue one single statement they will speak with one voice but this words will be read at least seen from moscow. all right davies correspondent

in brussels thank you. and it's time to some other stories making news around the world uganda's high court has ruled that the house arrest of opposition leader bobby wine is illegal a judge ordered security forces to immediately vacate one's property the singer turned politician has been unable to leave his home since elections on january 14th which one claims were rigged in favor of incumbent president yoweri in the 70. 8 wave in the south of australia is stoking bushfires near the city of adelaide firefighters have been battling blazes in the adelaide hills where a number of homes were damaged or destroyed temperatures soared above 40 degrees driving thousands to the beach. chinese state media is reporting that 9 miners bodies were removed from a mine shaft after being trapped underground for 2 weeks 11 others were rescued alive an explosion at the gold mine in chandon province blocked the exit and cut them off from the outside world the men were lifted out of the mine through

a ventilation shaft all over the weekend most of them were able to survive on food and medical supplies sent to them by rescue workers while they were trapped. we're joined now by journalist bob encroachment in beijing has been following this story for us fabienne 9 miners are now confirmed dead state media says that plays bring us up to date with how that rescue operation went. the 9 miners who were found out to be dead today but we already know from before that one other my know is also deaths on total 10 minus have died and their only chance of said one could be still alive so out of the 221 the still trapped alive or not alive since we don't know because his whereabouts are still unknown but the 11 rescued miners from yesterday they are in relatively stable conditions except for one who is in a very weak condition yeah and that is very good news that there's 11 miners were rescued it with that one miner that's been unaccounted for what hope the rescuers

have that he'll be found alive. well there's no communication with him there was also no additional food deliveries we know that the 10 minus been rescued among the 11 there were sent food and they were they could survive without any problem but until yesterday there was also one miner who was actually rescued by chance and he also survived for 14 days without food so it's possible that even 15 days now after the miners were trapped the last remaining could be safe but i mean time is running out and we don't really know exactly where he's located so i would say it's a chance of survival rather low at this point. the mine safety is a problem in china according to official numbers the country recorded almost 600 mine related deaths in 2020 why is safety so bad. i mean it's really a combination of reasons but i would say the main reason is that safety standards

which are. in the law they are really not enforced especially in the provincial that reacts and that companies put profits over human safety and also what happened here in this case there was an explosion and the company didn't report it for over 13 hours to the authorities because they were fearing a negative consequences for their own korea they tried to solve it by their own but in the end those is really precious time for the for the rescue mission which in the end was lost so it's really a very systematic problem crime having pressure beijing thanks very much for the appetite. now to a subject that's heavily stigmatized in many parts of the world including pakistan reports of right there sort of last year up until recently only a tiny fraction of rape cases ever came to trial bust month the country's president signed off on a law aimed at speeding up convictions and increasing sentencing while the new

measures help protect the identity of victims they also allow for a controversial punishment so-called chemical castration is moot as son has been living and sleeping with his family for weeks on the grounds of the hospital in lahore pakistan his sons i mean has been here for months he was gang raped and then shot this sadly is not uncommon the perpetrators now face chemical castration by order of the courts. we would be satisfied with such a punishment we don't want such brutal men to be able to rape ever again what if words could change the situation there would already be a change in the society without real punishment such people will not change and that is why they must be punished. in pakistan following a presidential decree rape cannot be punished with chemical castration. in this

process the convicted person is given drugs that take away potency and libido. these return when the drug is discontinued at the end of the sentence but many medical professionals are wary of the possible side effects. one of the most important is that inducing the bone density and all the. flushes. and also cause depressions and. in muslim pakistan rape stigmatizes the victim as well as the perpetrator and his family suffer adarsh of it is also feeling this her son is in prison charged with rape he's threatened with chemical castration the widow firmly believes in his innocence he should be earning money for the family besides a few relatives no one talks to the mother any more. chemical castration is

a brutal punishment my son is already a goner and now possibly this is inhumane punishment i wanted to marry him off soon but how can he have a family now i had so wished that he would have children but now none of that will come true. in pakistan a person is raped every 2 hours it's often a demonstration of power through sex last year there are more than 3 times as many cases as the year before the government is under pressure and wants to look like it's doing something. strongly believe that there is a need for such a long if we punish some perpetrators like this it will send a clear signal to everyone else. it will have a positive impact on the whole of society. as a. lawyer robbie a bunch of aa is a volunteer representing zein the boy who was raped and shot for years she has

fought to ensure rapists were properly convicted. i don't think so and i don't think man who passed ration is a solution because there's also the death penalty for rapists in pakistan so deterrent laws are already in place but they're not applied. more effectively. in the last 5 years no one has been sentenced to death for rape in pakistan saeed impoverished family waits outside the hospital for the point to recover from his injuries and for the perpetrators to finally be punished. and we spoke to sort of in john's he's the senior counsel with human rights watch in lahore pakistan and i asked him whether chemical castration actually works as a deterrent against sexual violence it does not serve as if it is the government's approach is flawed it to live it is a lot of the level of principle at the level of human rights and it is flawed at the level of efficiency or deterrence so the short answer is like any tool in the

human by this point including this been odds of it you have this by this moment does not serve as a student a criminal justice system which has the capacity and the willingness to apply. to all people to convict people are found guilty of innocence or serious crimes and do that in the right suspecting that it is the so this is a populist move which while it's all human rights friends of buns this knocks me of victims of sexual abuse in the box i really see if what you've got and what starting point would be. if you do have a force which is more sense stops through sexual crimes it's more sense to just like all of women all all quiets of all those divides that provide i think a better theory and resource that it why haven't response that has more women in it

that are required transforming to laws and that. ensure that the station's. goals any government agency but this not all started speeches 2 women in particular. in american football veteran quarterback tom brady is taking the tampa bay buccaneers to their 1st super bowl in nearly 20 years brady who's now 43 through 3 touchdown passes and the buccaneers the green bay packers 31 to 26 they'll face defending champions the kansas city chiefs in the super bowl in 2 weeks' time it'll be brady's temped super bowl appearance and achievement even he didn't expect you know i think. it's hard to envision you know this is a goal but at same time it's

a it's a week to week league so you know where 757 games ago not feeling great you know felt like you know we needed to find our rhythm and played for great games down the stretch to score the season and then after that it was just all bonus because ultimate seems to work and it takes everybody and everybody plays a role and just so proud of this whole team and again just blessed be a part of it one of germany's most high profile footballers mesut ozil has signed with turkish club fenerbahce as will help germany win the world cup in 2014 but quit the tame in $28.00 taking over claims of racism now he hopes to boost his career after being effectively exiled from his previous club arsenal in the english premier league a site many in turkey thought they would never see me as it is a is offended botch a player. i'm very excited always supported fenerbahce. the move follows

a turbulent few years for the 32 year old born in germany with turkish roots the 2014 world cup winner quit the germany team after alleging racism when he was criticized for posing for a picture with turkish president. or one. that one was even the best man it is those wedding opponents say earlier one is an unfair terry and leader but as it has stood up for human rights in other parts of the world i've been called out the chinese government for their treatment of the we go muslims at club level it was gradually frozen out by asshole after the departure of us and vendor in 2018 he's not played for the londoners since march after the premier league club decided he was not enough of a team player despite paying him 400000 euros a week now for and about she had given him the chance to restart his career. you have been a dream is coming true for me as well not just the phone about to i'm so excited to

wear the jersey and hope that i will succeed with all my teammates a lot of those. after all the controversy those will now wants his feet to do the talking for the 1st time is now playing in his spiritual home turkey. francis scase lopes remain close to the crown of virus pandemic but in one alpine result the snow must go on the town of valois decided to go ahead with its annual snow sculpture competition now in its 38 year 15 tames 5 for the top prize this is when it was a sculpture of an eagle called the flight of silence. you're watching news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you the german government says it's prepared for potential attempts to disrupt its vaccination program it says vaccination opponents conspiracy theories and hackers could try to sabotage if it's

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abandoning capitalism the answer to saving all planets. more commodities more production more consumers more consumption more growth and more profits it's a never ending spiral the promise of our economic system. but can this really go on forever unlimited growth on a limited planet. we're already experiencing it's alarming affects our climate is changing storms caused untold damage as do droughts and floods every year 10000000 hectares of fertile land is lost overfishing is devastating all ration these forests are shrinking and with them much of a spiral diversity we've reached a crossroads. now

forests are already beginning to change in many places. these protesters uprising to limit that change and to say about. the activists from friday's will futurist say it's a measure of life and death and many experts agree. it's not just about surviving summer it's about safeguarding a future where we don't have lots of species dying out or entire regions that are uninhabitable and people fighting each other to survive. allowing the climate to warm by 2 degrees celsius or more about pre-industrial levels would have serious consequences but studies suggest it's not too late to avert disaster if that's true why is so little being done. about see it more

lacking and that's the problem is the economic link information on what would happen if we took the necessary action what would it mean for jobs as a people saving that's the information that politicians need in order to decide whether we can start moving toward a climate neutral economy. chaffed i'm playing out on the. green growth is the new password the idea is that the economy can continue to grow steadily while wind and solar power and other technologies reduce c o 2 emissions but many experts say that's not enough. fortunately even if we were to switch to renewables completely we'd still have some emissions in the background because we need to acquire all the wrong. carbon with our view so it's an illusion to think we can have growth there is 100 percent grains let's.

take hydrogen feel it's use doesn't emit carbon but producing it usually does and the idea that green energy can power infinite economic growth is an illusion says business journalist helen what we need is a form of green d growth but that defines the very ethos of capitalism. this isn't in the so often in historically every time energy efficiency improves and the amount of energy needed to produce a specific product declines capitalism says ok then you can grow. when you need less energy to produce the same product your productivity increases and you can use the supposed see. moving to produce more it's this mechanism that needs to change was that deliberate di growth would that even be compatible with capitalism which depends on accumulation and growth if the economy shrinks assets are diminished what would happen to jobs return on investments pensions swiss economics professor

mathias binswanger points out that capitalism isn't all bad. after all it has a very large number of positive elements of. material prosperity it leads to full employment we have a very good standard of living today so the whole thing is a people and as soon as we realize that all these positive aspects of capitalism would also fall away the desire for change tends to evaporate. the coronavirus has seen economies shrink and many are worried about their livelihoods others have learned to live with less less shopping fewer flights could that be a lesson of the pen demming less is more no says like a hammer because right now we actually need more growth. if you live that's the paradox we know that we need to produce less if we want to

protect the climate but because of the covert $1000.00 crisis we need to stimulate the economy right now otherwise we might end up in a severe economic crisis that could allow populists to get into power. with us for listening to what. she says limiting climate change will require not only scientists but economists we need to develop a new economic system a system that's not based on endless growth and the destruction of the planet. in the 25 it's true that you can't bargain with nature of the fridays for future movement is right so the question is will we end capitalism. and time and in an orderly fashion or will the system collapse in chaos at some point because our planet's limits have been boundlessly exceeded cancels most items but others say it's not so simple yob ending topical isn't would be the solution if we had an alternative act rob but we don't you. when father doesn't believe in major

system change he believes the answer will be found in myriad adjustments such as moving to locally produced food companies that are less profit hungry and an alternative system of stocks and shares. try to gradually improve things to moderate our growth and do that some things at the same time ensuring that the economic system continues to function. does that sound somewhat banal but actually it would be revolutionary where i. and even this revolution would involve giving up certain things that we may have grown accustomed to certain privileges that affluent countries and people enjoy but who seek a home and says we'll have no other choice if resources become scarce. we

must give up certain things but it will require planning and the involvement of the state. if everyone gives up their car what happens to people who work in the automotive industry a large majority of society needs to agree that yes we need to abstain make some sacrifices and then figure out how to organize that at the state level. to travel the abstention and sacrifice don't sound that appealing to most philosophers if they believe things will only change when people start to realize that abstention is not losing something but gaining something better. when you picture all the riches beauty and diversity of our planet is things you can just enjoy and don't need to possess that you can live among and savor with all your senses then this question of abstraction is transformed do we really want to

live without birds singing in the forest. or do we want to preserve that pleasure that richness the entire debate an abstention just seems to focus on maintaining our own privileges our lifestyle but those things aren't life itself. this is. existential questions with no easy answers but what is at stake here is life itself. more and more people around the world are starting to value and protect the wildlife around them the u.n. estimates that in recent years more than 13000000000 trees have been planted worldwide. for our global ideas series we went to brazil where our reporter bianca cops traveled to the saturday mantic yet a mountain there she met women who are working to replenish the atlantic forest 90 percent of which has been destroyed. 2

sisters have realized their childhood dream on a power and flavia baldini are growing tree saplings to replenish brazil's atlantic forest up to $130.00 indigenous species many of which are threatened with extinction a large part of the mater atlantic a rain forest has been cut down shocked by the destruction of their native woodland the 2 women founded their own environmental group when they were just teenagers. the atlantic rain forest is among the world's most diverse natural habitats it has a very wide variety of species it's also one of the most threatened natural habitats our work aims to preserve our native forest through protection restoration and tree planting. they started out with great dedication and very little money but the work has since grown considerably. the

biologists now supplied the entire region with plants from their nursery sales are an important source of income to finance the work of their angio. growing about $400000.00 seedlings each year it's just a part of it. is on her way to plant some of their seedlings here in the mountainous region of said i didn't want to get up and southeastern brazil the area is now dominated by coffee plantations and grazing land for livestock there's hardly anything left of the original forest and yet trees play a vital role in preserving groundwater supplies. but efforts to reforest the area depend on the landowners. the natural sources of what people's property drawing these landowners here no longer have any water coming by reforesting we aim to restore the vegetation cover and rehabilitate the

land so that groundwater levels can be replenished in a little bit about. the farmers only recently purchased their property. 30 years ago the land was cleared for potato farming and later used for grazing. this was the spray. level that is water used to flow from here in this direction or . half of the property is forested now the couple wants to bring the forest cover up to the field where they have their organic farm a few days earlier on apollo and her and geo planted 4 and a half 1000 seedlings here now she's bringing a few fruit trees as well. she says the fruit trees need more space to grow well so they're being planted in a more open area. the seedlings are hard to see in the middle of the meadow but within just 2 or 3 years they will have grown into

a small forest. one of us out there oh if you have vegetation cover the ground is protected and there is no erosion. you wanted rains a good part of it filters down and fills the groundwater reservoir. that's how we can regenerate this spring you can school started going on apollo will assist the farmers for 2 years until the trees are well established her n.g.o.s work is mainly financed via donations and company partnerships for the farmers it's free. we've now we're covering the soil around the seedling with grass she explains this way it can stay moist and develop better. on apollo and co by eba have helped more than 200 landowners restore their forests but not everyone is up for it at 1st she and her organization often have to work hard to convince the landowners. so

the ngo has joined forces with a large scale reforestation program called the monkey conservation project it's supported by germany's international climate initiative more than 400 cities universities environmental groups and companies in and around brazil's extrema region are involved. extrema is something of a pioneer in this area laying down environmental requirements for local businesses and providing bonuses for the farmer's market but i was moved to say that because we're in brazil the farmers have always been encouraged to clear the forest to work economically with you and gain more farmland what i would do to well not a new message is the exact opposite they should reduce their grazing land and instead plant forests and be paid for it to. you it has to be of the whole thing is financed by local companies who paid contributions to the community in order to

neutralize their greenhouse gas emissions that are designed so as innocent as you guys are if it is to theodora neeson extrema have set up their own nursery taking reforestation matters into their own hands. but the need is so great that they also get seedlings from the copiah angio 10000 of them just to danny the municipality planted the surrounding forest between 8 and 15 years ago on cleared land it plans to restore $1500000.00 hectares of the atlantic a rain forest as part of a conservation plan involving numerous cities a big step for climate protection in brazil the project is also designed to secure the water supply from the mountainous region it's a vital source of water for brazil's biggest cities and rio de janeiro alone which is 450 kilometers away nearly 10000000 people depend on that water.