stuff will continue to be tested but things aren't looking so good yes they're getting 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 vax is 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 vaccinated. 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. our chief political correspondent linda crane reports now from the clinic as more details emerge authorities are bracing for a raft of inspections. 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 you 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 travelling back from britain or elsewhere in other words it appears that this virus mutation is now here circulating here in berlin and now let's bring in ed he's a science journalist biologist hostile threat level change compared to 2 months ago in the. well i think the threat remains the same in a way but i think our job at containing it has become a lot harder. i think we kind of have to realize that these variants the things that we're concerned about with the variance are different different issues right and just to disentangle it a little bit where we're basically talking about variants that might be deadlier

we're talking about variants that might be more transmissible and we're talking about variants that might be able to escape our immunity or even vaccine induced immunity so these are these are different levels of concern i think and what we're seeing in berlin at the moment with with the 117 is really the highest level of concern because this is a variant where we have very good evidence now that it does spread more easily it spreads faster then and then older variants of sars called u 2 and they were already quite good at spreading so i'm not surprised to see you know local transmission of this we've basically known that this has been spreading in the u.k. in england since september late september so you know countries like germany that haven't tested that haven't done a lot of genomic surveillance haven't really sequenced a lot of viruses you know where and set up to really see an introduction very early on compared to say denmark which is doing a lot of surveillance so i would expect that this is probably in

a lot of places in germany and spreading and that means that we have to do more novel and we have to do a few months ago to keep the virus from spreading we've all been wearing masks working from home we've practiced social distancing what self testing that has been suggested with health. well i think self testing can be part of an answer but i think it is really important to remember that what we're talking about here is kind of you know what we call the swiss cheese model of endemic prevention we know no one intervention is going to solve this issue it's really about layering a lot of you know different inventions one the top of the other like slices of cheese each one of those interventions has some holes none of them work perfectly and i think if there is a possibility that testing is added slice of cheese so to speak. but the big problem there is how easy are these tests really to administer at home we've seen most people who've done a test will have had you know

a swab taken from the parents which is very hard to do there are tests now that are supposed to work through gurgling or just taking some sample from from the saliva in the mouth that would make it a lot easier but there is still a question to how people don't behave with it so i think a lot will depend on having tests that are good already that are easy to use at home and then on people you know not using them in order to then behave the way that they did before but to also act on whatever result they have that's vitally important. thank you very much. some of the headlines from around the world chinese state media is reporting that the bodies of 9 more miners have been recovered from a mine shaft after being trapped for 2 weeks the death toll now stands at 1011 workers were rescued alive on the weekend they became trapped at the gold mine in shandong province after an explosion damaged the exit. uganda's high court has

ruled that the house arrest of opposition leader bobby wine is illegal a judge ordered security forces to immediately leave one's property the singer turned politician has been unable to leave his own since elections on january 14th which wine claims were rigged in favor of incumbent president you were in with 70. scientists say the earth's ice is melting almost 60 percent faster than in the mid 1990 s. as global warming celebrates a new study published in the cryosphere found some 28 trillion tons of ice have melted in the past 3 decades sea levels to rise 3 and a half centimeters. e.u. foreign ministers will debate fresh sanctions against russia during their meeting today in brussels officials will discuss how they will react to the detention of kremlin critic alexei the valley and to the arrest of thousands of his supporters

during protests this weekend the u.s. has already imposed sanctions on russian and vigils close to president putin often of all this poisoning in august because a growing among some member states to toughen the e.u. stance. before the meeting german foreign minister called phone of the n.t. arrested for testers to be released immediately. start as the german government we already made clear at the time of mr bali's arrest that we can't comprehend this move and demanded mr nirvana's immediate release after the demonstrations over the weekend is 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. of sorts which was russia has always been committed to this so that's why we expect the peaceful protesters who were unjustly detained to be

released immediately. and one for going to. go to moscow correspondent is standing by. any comment from the kremlin about the international criticism of the arrests well there hasn't been any comment from the kremlin about your reaction about that reaction that we just heard there from the german foreign minister but the kremlin's position has been made clear and their position is basically that these protests which were not authorized by the authorities in russia were illegal and i think that at the moment the kremlin is actually much more concerned with the internal audience here after all thousands of people took to the streets here in russia and not just in moscow and st petersburg as is usually the case we heard a statement from the kremlin spokesperson on sunday saying not only that these

protests were illegal but actually not very many people came out to protest at all he said that many more people support bloody mir putin and we also which is very unusual heard from vladimir putin himself today usually well he denied the accusations leveled at him by alexina viney that he owns a palace he said that he doesn't own a house and neither do his relatives. and i think it's interesting that he commented because usually the kremlin downplays alexina of on these significance they usually don't even name him by name and now there with all these protests i think there are these protests of really forced their hand and their they've been forced to react. and to kind of comments to the internal audience here in russia stools of these protesters were detained over the weekend and one of the. well i think some of the people who were detained have already been released but the

investigative committee has already opened various criminal cases against some of the protestors and also the activists for breaking the rules of you know organizing mass events during the pandemic for apparently blocking traffic for allegedly iowans against the police and in previous protests with previous big protests we've often seen similar behavior from the investigative committee perhaps it could scare further protestors off of the streets going forward. and we'll have to see whether that's the case. that this really has the potential these rest really have the potential to dent the support for the. well at least in our news team have already announced that they are they are

planning protests for this coming week and they seem to want to keep the pressure on the kremlin up and keep that momentum going i think that needs hardcore supporters will most likely come out to any of the it to these protests in the in the coming weeks or on this coming weekend but many of the people that i spoke to at the protest on saturday said that. this isn't really so much about not finding himself they were saying you know they're just sick of the corruption in the ruling elite and they want a better life they want to better russia so it's unclear whether these less hard core supporters will come out going forward that's hard to predict at the moment. for most from thank you melissa. egypt is marking 10 years since small protests erupted across the country and led to the ousting of longtime president hosni mubarak but the uprising was a part of the so-called arab spring revolution was seen as the new dawn for 4

a new dawn for egypt but a decade later many of those who took to the streets say only little has changed through. they call it the day of rauf. and day that saw thousands descend on cairo's tapir square to demand president hosni mubarak who drew to egypt for almost 30 years leave police and security forces cracking down hard in just a few bloody days hundreds dead and thousands more injured. but 2 and a half weeks after the start of the january 20th levon protests jubilation. mubarak is out. 6 months later the muslim brotherhood takes power

with islamists mohamed morsi elected president. a year later he too is gone in a military coup. in the weeks that followed hundreds of his supporters are arrested. and many killed it grow into seeable but the coup was led by army chief general abdel fattah el-sisi by 2014 he is president el-sisi has done all he can to silence any opposition. and of to changes to the constitution he could stay in power until at least 2030. for many the hopes of january the 25th 2011 buried somewhere here in town here square. in the us the house of representatives is due to send the article of impeachment against former president donald trump to the senate that will trigger

preparations for an impeachment trial which would be the 1st faced by president after leaving office trump is charged with and science in the time on the u.s. capitol by a violent mall of his supporters from previously face impeachment in 2019 over his attempt to pressure ukraine for personal political gains that the republican led senate at the time acquitted him now let's bring in our correspondent in washington innes pull in as some republican lawmakers are concerned about trump's devoted base of voters have objected to the impeachment is that true rift emerging in the republican party. because even though they don't trump is out of office his presence is still fairly so he is still extruding really angry at the party for not being completely loyal to him and actually so are his supporters we hear that all the time when we talk to trump supporters so there is now a really clear d.-y.

between regular republicans and these trunk loyalists and this do why it is starting to fracture the party and republicans are trying to navigate the so-called past posed a world but there are concerns that he can hurt the g.o.p. not just now but also in the future is it also strange to remove a man from office and that is what an impeachment usually is useful who has already left office. yeah well but 3 have to keep in mind the whole trump presidency has been a strange right so also there are isn't much president for the kind of events we witness is over the last couple of weeks specially on this generous 6 so the us never has impeached a president twice and they have never had to face an insurrection in modern

politics by gallup many democrats really have the feeling they have no choice but to make an example of a president that challenges the democratic process that has held this nation together for centuries but will this trial if it if it happens distract from joe biden's agenda. this has been the concern from for many many democrats from the very beginning on when they discussed peaching. for another time but so the impeachment will take place in early february so biden will be able to confirm the rest of his cabinet which is crucial for him to move on and he also will do everything possible to get another stimulus package through the senate as soon as possible to help those americans who are hit the worst by the cope with crisis and this is actually not going to be easy because he only has until march

14th when federal unemployment benefits run out so president biden will be staying out of this whole discussion out of this whole trial and he has made it really crystal clear that his focus is to navigate another major relief package oh washington bureau chief in spalding for us thank you this. tens of thousands of farmers are driving their truck just to the indian capital delhi ahead of tuesday's republic day celebrations many of them have already spend weeks camps on the outskirts of the city blocking roads and protest against new laws that are meant to ease regulations on the storage and marketing of crops the farmer say they will only benefit big corporations and leave them at the mercy of a free market. a company and one determined farmer on his long journey to duty. said non-singing 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's afraid he could lose everything. thanks to new agriculturally formulas 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 that. 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 while confronting the government. since deni a good preet will be looking after the fields right he's a very good pete has already spent 10 days at the protest he does his father. to believe that 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 sings daughter coleman is proud of her father but also voted she says she knows he must go because their futures are it stick. memory of the market 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 farmers vote that has made him what he is. saying expects to drive to midnight and then again for 7 or 8 hours the next day. but spirits are high. c standards are 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 asked a couple of 400 kilometers on still but this meant for the farms but lucky there is a lot of help along the way. across from job those who cannot participate in the protests are setting up community kitchens to support the farmers there is even fee fuel and medical services. even as the light starts feeding since still expects to dry for another 6 hours he says he scored on his back hurts but there is no option they must make it. and driving relentlessly they do ahead of shut your. films of protests well through the cat about. the farmers momentarily forget that exhaustion. everyone we are so i'm happy to be in delhi we're here to fight.

this thing knows this isn't going to be easy. multiple rounds of negotiations with the government have feed dozens of deaths including suicides have been deported. but this has only added to singh's determination he has left behind everything he loves for the 1st time he says he will be sure to make it count. the football now and english side chelsea have sacked their coach franklin after a run of 5 defeats in 8 league games leaves with the london club in 9th place in the premier league table 11 points off the top chelsea said the performances had not met expectations the season is by the club spending nearly 250000000 euros a new players german coach thomas tucker who was sacked by terrace sons on our last

month's is tipped to take over from the park. and the german bonus league leaders by in munich have improved their title hopes with a fall ill will against the 2 teams at opposite ends of the table face off on sunday. gets lonely at the bottom of the table where shall kiss it stuck and at the top where byron have the chance to make stan their lead after their 2 closest rivals both lost on saturday. shall care held the fort for 33 minutes when byron broke the deadlock. those 1st left us were commish and then thomas miller completely on marked. after the break the defending did not improve and by and got their 2nd robert lewandowski bundling 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 miller 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. ski slopes in france remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic box in one end result of the snow must go on its own of decided to go ahead with its annual snow sculpture competition now in its 38 year 15 teams vied for top prize this year's winner was. an ahl called the flight of sun. before i go silent here's a reminder the top story we're following for you health care workers and patients

at a hospital in berlin have been placed in coron team that's 1900 people and at least 20 tested positive for corona virus mutation be this as the german government of tougher restrictions to ward off the ferry. from berlin up next to mark the day the science magazine but also remember to check out our website for the latest stories from your region and around the world as t w. thanks for watching.

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