my name is the about of people and i work at. the air. bases data but the news live from berlin germany tightened security around the vaccination program the government warns anti bax's conspiracy theorists and saboteurs could try to disrupt its coronavirus immunization supply chain and says that it's prepared also coming up the european union ways up its next move against russia following the arrest of kremlin critic alexei novell me and the detention of

thousands of his supporters. and the bundesliga by an improved their title hopes the team extend their late at the top of the table with a win against shall all the goals including this one from robert leavened coming up . i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program the spread of a more infectious mutation of the corona virus is adding to a sense of alarm here in germany at the continued high number of daily cases of bird in hospital was closed at the weekend after some of its staff and patients tested positive for the mutation that recently emerged in britain the fastest spreading variant is just the latest twist in germany's battle with cope with one thing no new patients no visitors for at least

a fortnight and more than 1500 stuff and 400 patients in berlin's whom boat clinic and now in quarantine. it's not nice for the patients they're not allowed any visitors i'm really sad my daughter is inside she's waiting for food and drinks and i can't go in. the hospital's closure comes after 14 patients and 6 staff members tested positive for the highly contagious new coded 19 strain that originated in the u.k. stuff who tested negative only allowed to travel between work and home all patients and staff will continue to be tested but things aren't looking so good yes thank you and the 1st results are starting to come in now and we are not optimistic we hope 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 as it's 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 axis 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 coated 19 he said it made him feel fantastic. the german government's no doubt hoping it'll have the same effect on people here. let's bring in our chief political correspondent melinda crime who's standing by for us at the home on hospital linda as we understand stuff 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 shut 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 they will match 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 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 $117.00 taishan that's the british mutation that is so very highly infectious 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 travelling 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 does that mean then 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 may 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 of 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 just are saying that these new mutations are 6 to 8 times more transmissible than the then 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. let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic now mexican president andres manuel lopez opera door has tested positive for covert 19 israel will close its international airport to nearly all flights in a bid to bring a raging outbreak in the country under control egypt has started vaccinating its population using the chinese made since shot and oxfam says the covert 19 process is increasing inequality in reports the antipoverty organization want to many of the world's richest people are profiting from the pandemic while the world's poor will need years to recover. a farm ministers will debate possible fresh sanctions against russia during them meeting today in brussels officials will discuss how they'll react to the detention of kremlin critic alexei novelli and to the rest of thousands of his supporters during protests this weekend here you has already imposed sanctions on russian individuals close to president person after novelli is

poisoning in organist but calls are growing among some member states to toughen the starts. and before the meeting german foreign minister heiko mosse called me on the arrest of protest is to be released immediately. started because the german government we already made clear at the time of mr obama's arrest that we cannot comprehend this move and demanded mr of all news 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 so 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 that's why we expect the peaceful protesters who were unjustly detained to be released immediately so that's no one

for it sort of going to partners. i'm joined now by our brussels correspondent. 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 3000 $500.00 protests over the weekend and the foreign ministers were also demand of the immediate release of these people but you diplomats tell us that there will be no decisions on 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 fall 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 more sanctions why does the e.u. struggle to find a unified voice when it comes to dealings with russia. for the baltic states as foremost probably the neighbors of the russian know and they are feeling more threatens and they often have a descending voice in the descending opinion when it comes to measures against russia. and also the european parliament is demanding partial sanctions against russia even the stop of construction of the north stream pipeline in this pattern from russia to germany which is critical for many you states but in the end you ministers rooted the issue one single statement they will speak with one voice but this words will be weak at least seen from moscow. all right peter is correspondent in brussels thank you when attempts and other stories making headlines this hour chinese state media is reporting that 9 miners bodies have been

recovered from a mine shaft after being trapped for 2 weeks the death toll now stands at $1011.00 of the miners were rescued alive over the weekend the workers became trapped at the gold mine in chandon province after an explosion damaged the exit i hate wave in south 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. on masks space x. has successfully launched a falcon 9 rocket into orbit from cape canaveral in florida it was the 1st mission for the private space contractors bracero program and carried 143 satellites a record number for a single rocket. tens of thousands of farmers are driving their tractors into the indian capital daily ahead of tuesday's republic tank celebrations many of them

have spent weeks camped on the outskirts of the city blocking roads in protest at new laws they say will ruin their livelihoods. and accompanied one determined farmer on his long journey to delhi. so now i'm saying was fascinated by his father's tractor as a 6 year old he would follow him to these fields soon after deciding to leave school and farm for a living. but now he is afraid he could lose everything. thanks to new agricultural reform laws passed by the indian government but he doesn't plan to wait to find out he's travelling to delhi to join the ongoing farmers' protests there. it's better to stay there for 6 months it's better to die there we don't care. if we lose our farms will die anyway so we might as well die there confronting the government. since teenage son good preet will

be looking after the fields while he's a. good pete has already spent 10 days at the protest he does his father to pack extra to brave as he's called. and seeing plans to do just that. with the help of his wife and daughter this is the 1st time he will be spending more than a couple of days away from his family and his feelings. the call to move comes when it is still dark out the farmers have to be on their way at the crack of dawn singh's daughter coleman is proud of her father but also avoided she says she knows he must go because their futures are it stick. the prime minister should understand that he is in his position because of farmers i'd like to remind him that it's the farmers grain the farmers vote that has made him what he is. saying expects to

drive to midnight and then again it was $70.00 the next day. but spirits are high c. there were not alone 40 or 50000 of us are taking care of and to get these black laws revoked we don't care how long it takes we'll stay put until these laws are rolled back. to get out of i'm just a couple over 400 kilometers on still but this meant for the farms but lucky there is a lot of help along to be. a pill but this has only added to singh's determination he has left behind everything he dubs for the 1st time he says he will be sure to make it sound. well let's bring in data. now who offered that report she's in delhi clearly

a lot at stake as worried that they'll return empty handed. but about what then i'll be admitted and job which is one of the main dates there what i mean is that the other one wouldn't be able to succeed even more so because they think there is no option because beyond that they will always absolutely everything more sleep their lack of the fun that they have depended on not just the people of a scene of the protests but for generations at the court etc which we have also visited you will find children as well accepted as a vengeance but death to war against these laws because they believe that this has been a lightning rod for generations of debate are just getting into if these laws are implemented and they do need a few to actually get done until they are really out of looked but there are already been several rounds of negotiations that have failed and how likely is success why they so positive that something will be different this time but what's

remarkable about these protests are back out that they are not the force to be had against the government or even against its new laws and policies however they are already at that step in a fashion because they have actually got the government wouldn't go shooting to murder nor bust but just have succeeded in doing that and 11 johnson and will have seen the government concede a little bit more every time however these families are adamant and david only lived during baghdad's full of just the laws that have walked the most recent off thought was the more significant the government actually offered to suspend the laws put 18 months i'm done it will stations i don't simply because they want these thought s. to dissolve the commerce instead said that this actually shows that the government is beginning to have gone down the slope for and it's going to intensify them for tests and the beginning of that is going to be a massive tractor and that would be had in the national capital only and as republic day which is tomorrow to 26th of january tell us a bit more about the rally expected tomorrow. well there's

a definitely going to be a show of strength the sport that's awarded to been going on put 2 minds at the borders of new delhi and that he actually got us back in punjab started already back in september and this is the time of another long standing in that and to the addition all of these fabulous 100 like you have talents more descending upon the captors they have negotiated for the daily beast to actually allow them to enter the captain and oil such and do it and i want to jesus all of these protests like that what it was is because the bomb was a who blocked from entering the city they actually came to talk to the government directly so this in itself to been taken out into the gap in the significand the day if they actually think it's significant it might still months of the protests and also draw a lot of attention to government actually said that this job should not be allowed because it's bad to sink or even dad don't want it to be happening about me but the families have succeeded at upton songs about security about any violence breaking out the pharmacist being to be exploited and that anybody says that as long as that

was the chapter i could go ahead they give me a correspondent. there in delhi thank you. now to a subject that's heavily stigmatized in many parts of the world including pakistan reports of right there saw it last year but until recently only a tiny fraction of rape cases ever came to trial last month the country's president signed off on a little and speeding up convictions and increasing sentencing i while the new measures help protect the identity of victims they also allow for a controversial punishment so-called chemical castration. as son has been living and sleeping with his family for weeks on the grounds of the hospital in lahore pakistan his son's own 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 meant 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 can now be punished with chemical castration. in this process the convicted person is given drugs that take we 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 they do sing the bourne density and all the. flashes. and also cause depressions and suicidal thoughts 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 yet besides a few relatives no one talks to the mother anymore. campbell 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. wrong we 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 the. lawyer robbie a bunch of aa is a volunteer representing is i mean the boy who was raped and shot for years she has found to ensure rapists were properly convicted. i don't think so i don't think there is a solution because there is also the death penalty for rapists in pakistan so deterrent laws are already in place but they're not applied. even. in the last 5 years no one has been sentenced to death for rape in pakistan so impoverished family waits outside the hospital for the boy to recover from his

injuries and for the perpetrators to finally be punished. as more world headlines now uganda's high court has ruled that the house arrest of opposition leader bobby wine is illegal and judge ordered security forces to immediately vacate wind property the singer turned politician has been unable to leave his home since elections on january 14th which wine claims were rigged in favor of incumbent president you're wearing the 70. dystonia will have a woman as prime minister for the 1st time after the 2 biggest political parties agree to form a new coalition 43 year old lawyer callus leaves the center right reform party the 2 parties will share ministerial positions in a gender balance cabinet. so football and english side chelsea have sacked their coach frank lampard after a run of 5 defeat in 8 league games lampard leaves we have the london club in 9th

place in the premier league 11 points off the top chelsea said the performances had not met expectations this season despite the club spending nearly 250000000 euros on the players german coach thomas took hold it was sacked by paris on my last month is tipped to take over one party. and the german bundesliga league leaders by in munich have improved their title hopes with a win against chalco the 2 tames at opposite ends of the table faced off on sunday . it's lonely at the bottom of the table where shell could sit stuck around at the top where byron have the chance to make stan their lead after their 2 closest rivals both lost on saturday. shaka held the fort for 33 minutes when byron broke the deadlock. the hosts 1st left us were commish and then thomas mother completely on marked. after the break the defending did not improve and

by and got their 2nd robert lewandowski bumbling in his 23rd goal of the season already one small commish was the provider this time with a long range pass to find the league's leading scorer. commish then made it a hat trick of assists teeing up thomas muller for his 2nd and byron's 3rd. the reigning champions now have a comfortable 7 point cushion in 1st place while shell could only have 7 points in total and look ever more likely to go down. france's skase slopes remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic but in one alpine result the snow must go on the town of valois and decided to go ahead with its annual snow. sculpture competition now in its 38th yeah 15 tame survive for the top prize this year when i was

a sculpture of an eagle called the flight of silence. you know watching data over the news we'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour i'm rebecca riches in berlin thanks very much wants. to.

go. she started small and today ships all over the world. globe in cars or inca is a tea farmer from ourselves. his products are getting his farming methods sustainable and export from the heart of the indian team industry.

on d.w. . story so that people of the world come for g.w. or facebook and twitter update and in touch. and you may know years years we're going to hear you in how the last years german chancellor will bring you i'm going to man call and you've never heard her before surprised yourself with what is possible who is medical training what moves and what. we talked to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from eccles last stop. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

how has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the code of special monday to friday on g.w. . we're nearly 8000000000 people here on earth and we all need food. vegetables fruits and meat but most of the food we cultivated most of the meat we eat

a huge imbalance in our environment is environmentally friendly food for all the distant and our food substitutes sustainable and safe consumes all food habits to adopt new ones which would help our planet try if we love all those questions and more of course here on equal india along the world absent that i hope . i can start my day without a piping hot cup of tea like me if you enjoy your morning you might know that india is the 2nd largest producer of tea in the world next story to china the state of us some of the northeast is one of the most important to growing regions in the country there are of course many big players here but what's interesting to watch is that small producers some of whom are 100 percent organic are seeing significant success. was one of the 1st farmers to make the

sewage to organise the north east has been world famous for a century. goban his article started out as a conventional to grow using chemical fertilizers and pesticides on a regular basis but when the mosquito bugs left his crops devastated he asked the farm for new ideas to recommend a different pesticide. thought. i'm not tired put to get a man named the pests vanished in no time but the best side effect and i mean so much that i couldn't be. more. i had such terrible stomach complaints i don't have a number. that was when i decided to find an alternative to the special sites yeah because. that was around 20 years ago since then he has made his own for the life primarily from garden. goban no also grows

green tea in addition to the black variety even after the harvest the work is still done by hand the leaves are 1st left out to dry and they are all stood. let it. fall my hand me. just went out in the walk that it that day if you. hit. the green is very laborious to make iraq. i need to steam it then dry it in the shade to get rid of the moisture. and then in the evening we have to roast it by. half a kilo 15 needs to be roasted clear about 2 and a half hours. so green tea production is slow but the market demand for green

is high. the grower process is around 400 kilos blackbeard most of it dusting for canada cambodia and kenya demand has risen in recent years to the point where he has trouble keeping up with orders until a few decades ago still had large scale plantations many said by british colonial era companies and all the small holders took over conventional farming techniques with hazardous chemicals process organically grown up on years here but they are a tiny minority of one percent. the decades long deployment of pesticides and chemical fertilizers have left the saw in groundwater badly polluted studies conducted by greenpeace india and others have found pesticides residues in the tea plant

a situation that the state board of india is well aware of there's no doubt that if you if you're going to avoid spraying chemicals on your belief it's much better i mean i'm fail agree it's much better the problem is your come down a lot so if india were more completely organic he was concerned come down from 1x4cw8cw. organic growth is how i will say the program output is not significantly smaller dancing but those lives around 300 kilometers of it from go up in and on the border of bhutan he also exports most of the t. he grows. and look. there is a misconception that organic means less well that's what all the work in the soil is done by natural organisms if you make your farm productive using good quality

natural fight allies as you can grow as much as conventional to growers organic meat. both farmers are eager to pass on their experience. has already persuaded a number of conventional farmers to make the change like farmer rice farm psyche or . organ equivalent of mr gavin also explained the drawbacks of organic farming it means a lot of hard work but the result will be very good i didn't have any issue with doing hard work but we'll be financially better off which is why i was open good idea of organically growing us not to financially i was just making too but now having embraced organic growing i would say i'm better off. because. i'm doing this to help farmers learn a trade they can live off of the town where the barranquilla battle of demagogue. i

want to show them what i do that you can produce the leaves manually and still export and do not require a machine for that purpose with export. a methodology there in any case they wouldn't be able to afford a machine and were told i'm within. the organic farmers certainly can make a living from their efforts they can explore duty for a good price least 10 times as much as the conventional farm their livelihoods and also have benefited as has the unwind. and increasing the world population needs an increasing amount of food a long time ago it was clear that this in demand can only be satisfied with genetically modified lots more chemical fertilizers and more pesticides but over the last few decades we've learned about the consequences of this development

a lot of apples in the supermarkets of new york for example come from the rule in italy was 2 of them last produced unsustainably but some people do allow one farmers to stop using pesticides in their apple plantations. substances that so division in italy is alpine valleys pesticides are in widespread use a fact that has angered some locals and sparked a heated debate between conventional and organic farmers. take flu as a name it says on the packaging that it can harm unborn children in the womb just imagine this sort of product just doing the rounds is the video service there goes most at risk would be us the fruit farmers we're the ones who handle this stuff and it's concentrated form once it lands on the sprayer it's been diluted by a factor of a 1000. the village of miles is located in one of europe's most picture rest

landscapes in recent times the local pharmacy has become the center point of research into the presence of pesticides in the air. back in 2018 an independent environmental institute set up 2 measuring devices in the pharmacist's garden the ad was monitored for 6 months although the closest fruit farm is about a kilometer away several pesticides were detected in the air. and this is a small garden surrounded by hedges right in the middle of a village with many houses there's a big tree which is supposed to offer protection but few to more than 25 pesticides have been detected with in god we have models with to fail. at present there aren't many orchards located near the village many locals want to see the landscape maintain its diversity it's

a different story further down the valley where orchards dominate the landscape. one in 10 apples in europe a grown in the region of south to roll 6 times more pesticides than is average in farming in italy as sprayed on these monocultures. assignment is an apple fama. he prefers to use terms like plant protection over pesticide. growing fruit without plant protection products is nearly impossible at the moment. the conventional farmers do their thing they have their means and the organic farmers have theirs but both kinds require plant protection by their. plants and shoots but. nestled between the orchards is all been glued on a curb farm he's previously been banned from selling his produce because it

contained pesticides. now he's invested heavily in foil coverings to protect his plants. if you want to move the air here contains a cocktail of contamination and we're not just breeding one substance in nobody knows what happens inside the body when we breathe in this cocktail of substances the amount of anger. the local farmers association says the situation has improved conventional farmers now have to plant protective hedges if they border on organic farms all set up nets which is supposed to stop the spread of pesticides small steps of this kind of going some way towards easing tensions but the widespread use of pesticides appears to be here to stay. so then i can't really comment on the health risks what we always say is that the substances have been tested and approved by the health ministry guardsmen used to be approved since. all

the stuff that was sprayed 1020 years ago has now been banned at the time they were allowed and i'm convinced that the substances allowed today won't be allowed in a few years. both the film american the pharmacist have set the ball rolling and continuing the fight for organic farming to become the norm in and around models in a local referendum in $2142.00 thirds of the villages voted to ban pesticide use the village also declared itself europe's 1st pesticide free community the farmers association took the matter to court several years later the. accepted the results of the referendum but the fight over the use of pesticides continues. pharmacist. refers to a un report that described the necessity for pesticides as a myth. it literally says the assertion by the agriculture mccool

industry that pesticides are necessary is not only inaccurate but dangerously misleading when. push came from us it came at us like thunder. many conventional farmers are concerned about the future of their businesses the case has now reached the supreme court in rome which will decide whether or not. should be allowed in the region. like meat products and of course substitutes are very popular it's young people in particular. but is it really better think. that comes from cows and if we had to choose between. which would be the best and help find out. for the environment what kind of milk should i drink.

'd sometimes it feels like everything you buy is somehow about the product. yet it often it but some choice of better but i'll. take food it's responsible for a quarter of the world greenhouse gas emissions and most of that comes from animal farming products like beef and dairy. most common. healthy alternative to cows milk right today we're going to take a look at which one is best for the planet. greg is making progress at ease perfection. make up 14 percent of milk sales in u.s. trucks the multi-billion dollar industry is growing by 10 percent each year globally and riding a wave of consumer consciousness that prides itself on being healthy and not screened over the planet asia is the biggest and fastest growing market for consumers in cities from jakarta to getting richer and with that picky it looks

like these have even wider appeal because most adults in asia and africa don't have the enzymes to properly digest the lactose and cow's milk. but there are still dozens of plot up to choose from. so i made this rice hope a 2nd some rice and water and then blending it with a couple of dates and a bit of salt. the problem for the planet is that rice production water rice is growing in flooded field where bacteria also pump methane into the atmosphere these parties are one of the biggest methane producers in the world. researchers from the university of oxford and 28 team used data from 38000 farms in more than 100 countries to work out the average carbon footprints of different food they found that a glass of rice milk has

a 3rd of the emissions of a glass of counsel. rice milk is worth of the climate than. because of the meeting generated by growing the.