the but. beyond the bowl above . this is g.w. news live from berlin germany considers drastic steps to stop more mutant coronavirus variants from entering the country chancellor merkel says she is against a complete ban on travel but with no end to the pandemic in sight international flights into germany could be cut to almost 0 also coming out who's to blame for the delay of millions of preorders doses of the covert $1000.00 vaccines from drug

maker astra zeneca as recriminations fly over the slow roll out how will it affect those most vulnerable to the current. on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp a holocaust survivor tells us why it is important to never forget. and football made in germany is in demand in the english premier league thomas 2 will take the reigns at chelsea jordan to join in your control and doesn't go in the top tier. thank. god i'm so much going to thank you for joining us germany's a biggest newspaper is reporting that the government sheer is considering additional radical steps to slow the spread of covert 19 the daily paper didn't build to says plans have been drawn up. cut international air traffic to germany to near 0 the

arrival of new more infectious variants of the virus in the country is fueling concerns at a time when the rollout of vaccines is slower than expected and germany has reported over 2000000 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic more than 52000 people have died from it. let's bring in our political correspondent nina for more on this story good morning nina so the government is considering additional restrictions tell us what's on the table. we're hearing that sounds like america has told fellow party members that she wants to restrict travel even further you said it apparently she said everyone agrees that now is not the time to be traveling and she's apparently looking into plans put forward by her interior minister of aussie open from the conservatives to massively reduce travel into germany to near 0 and to impose much stricter border controls germany is of course surrounded by 9 neighboring countries so we're in the

middle of europe and of course there is a big concern that the new mutations of the virus have it very easy to come into germany the office said that israel could serve as an example where of course the main airport has essentially been closed as part of an effort to avoid bringing in more of those mutations of the virus if these restrictions do become stricter now will people go along with it. well that's anybody's guess it's exactly a year ago today that germany recorded its fast case of the then new coronavirus so we've been dealing with this pandemic for an entire year now of course people are tired germany went into strict lockdown in the spring the situation got a little easier during the summer with low infection numbers but the 2nd wave did hit germany hard in the autumn so large parts of public life have essentially stood still for a couple of weeks now here theaters museums etc been closed since november schools and shops have been closed since before christmas and the measures are in place

until the 14th of february for now but it's highly likely that they'll be extended again chancellor merkel and the state leaders will meet again soon to discuss that topic can you have to keep in mind that the numbers did go did go down for a while germany's new daily infections but today germany reported 13000 new infections again today that's twice as many as yesterday and 982 more covert related deaths of course what is different to the 1st wave is that now everybody knows somebody who has been affected in one way or another bike over it and that does trigger in people a feeling for the seriousness of the situation but there are also politicians who are saying people do need some perspective and they do need hope so they are putting forward plans how that easing of restrictions could happen which criteria would need to apply our political correspondent you know as

a thank you so much. well the european union is demanding answers of the millions of until liver doses of the coronavirus vaccine that it ordered the chief executive of drug maker astra zeneca said the e.u. is late decision to sign a contract to supply the vaccine meant that there were still glitches to be smoothed out in its production process but all $27.00 e.u. countries are facing heat for a slow rollout and politicians are asking whether vaccines produced within the e.u. are going to higher bidders outside the block. talks and more talks have done little to less than anger about astra zeneca european officials say the firm has failed to adequately explain why it was slashing its back seam deliveries to the e.u. . europe invested billions to help develop the world's 1st covered 19 vaccines to create a truly global common good. and now the companies must deliver. they

must honor their obligations. astra zeneca has delivery cut for the latest setback to e.u. plans to vaccinate 70 percent of adults by summer earlier this month fires are said it would temporarily reduce its deliveries to the e.u. was well citing production issues. but u.k. health officials say they expect to have enough supply to meet the country's vaccination targets that reality is fuelling tensions already that. i think the thing to do now is not to. go down the sort of the dead end of the nationalism is to work together to make sure that we protect our people that's my priority is to protect the british people to protect the knocking of but also to protect the whole world is no one to save the little city. but divisions over how to fairly distributed vaccines will likely persist in the near term south africa's

president lashed out at wealthy countries accusing them of buying up the global vaccine supply. now rich countries in the world won't need vaccines and we are say these the excess. that you have you have a ordered and hoarded south africa still needs to secure 14000000 more doses to accomplish its vaccination goal by contrast the e.u. u.k. and the u.s. have signed contracts with drug makers to acquire more than $200.00 times that amount. well you heard south african president cyril rama posed in that report accusing rich countries of hoarding vaccines but is anything happening globally to ensure fair access we put that question to rachel silverman she specializes in global health policy at the center for global development. and the truth is it's

complicated and the truth i mean fundamentally this truth is there is just not enough vaccine supply to go around to everyone right now and so what we're seeing is no country actually has access right now everyone is struggling to get enough supply to back to meet their citizens and is trying to keep up with demand however what is true and i think what president oppose i was referring to is the fact that rich countries have preordered much more than they will need in aggregate so by the end of this year assuming supply projections happen as expected many wealthy countries will have much more than they need while court countries probably still will be struggling to meet the needs of their populations so what i'd like to see is some commitments to back me to do any of the excess vaccinations one time trees have know that they have enough to bury their own populations and what norway is doing actually is donating some doses in parallel to their own boxing stuff or

right let's come back now to germany's approach in battling the pandemic as we mentioned earlier the government is considering bringing international air travel into germany down to 0 and we can get some perspective now with patrick sense for he's a member of the german parliament for the christian democrats of the c.d.u. good morning mr stanbury so the travel association the german travel association has said here that freedom of movement is a basic right and that the government would actually be better served by concentrating on vaccinating as many people as possible do they have a point. of course there's a quite understandable opinion and we don't think about reducing our air travel to 0 we're just thinking about the possibility that if mutations will come to germany and we can control it and we are far away from the situation then we have to have options one option is the controls and the other option is to reduce at travel but

right now we're just having plans of this we're not taking any measures right now what about the other part of that point from the travel association that the government should rather focus more on trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible in the next the nation rollout here has been very slow that's what we do and that's what we tried to be as fast as possible you showed in your. film before about the discussion about. how we have and we have some other possibilities we're talking also before we talk about reducing our travel we talk about more tests when you arrive in germany right now you can come from countries like egypt dubai was out having a test when you were landing in germany this was it measures that come before the discussion reducing our air travel why is that still the case that you can arrive from those countries and you're not getting tested that is a good question so we say we do go into parenting enough for 10 days or you make a test but i think in this situation we have to talk about mandatory tests when you

arrive not bringing a document with us that you have been tested before you had to be tested when you arrive in germany and parents you know should be controlled more but this is a big task because many many people come to germany and to control these people if their own home current you know is quite tricky. i want to ask you something that we heard from chancellor merkel yesterday she was quoted in a meeting as saying the situation has slipped away from us and that actions have been taken too slowly why didn't the government act faster even on as you said testing people who are coming in from other countries germany is a federal country we have got 16 states and we have a different situation in the states it's not quite easy for the federal government to bring all the states in one line of the measure so we have some states who have their is low in the measures of the states of faster and now we're discussing if we need more measures in traveling testing when you arrive better control of the home

currency not a thing that's a discussion no discussion is not bringing no actual down to 0 we'll have to leave it there patrick sanford from the c.d.u. german parliamentarian thank you thank you let's get a look now at some other developments in the pandemic the number of cobi cases worldwide has now surpassed 100000000 that's according to johns hopkins university the kovacs vaccine sharing platform says it hopes to supply 1800000000 doses to poor countries this year president francisco so i guess they has ordered the total lockdown of the capital lima and 9 other regions following a surge in new cases there and a chinese woman has been sentenced to one year in prison for hiding her virus symptoms before boarding a flight from the u.s. to china last march she took medication to suppress a fever. to lebanon now where hundreds of anti-government protesters have clashed with security forces for

a 2nd day including in the capital beirut and the 2nd largest city tripoli that's as the country hit a new daily record for corona virus deaths people are angry at the worsening economic conditions and a strict lockdown that they say is driving them into poverty. they are angry and desperate as coded 19 cases are soaring protesters took to the streets for 2nd night hundreds of mostly young men clashed with police there with dozens of injuries many here feel they have now reached their breaking point. the pain of the people has driven them to the streets. after today with nothing changed we want to overthrow the system from head to toe what we see today is the pain of the people and what you soul is all pain. and poverty. more than 2 and a half 1000 lebanese have died from the virus and the government has imposed one of

the strictest lockdowns in the world including around the clock curfew. but many are being pushed into poverty. there's no stability the dignity of the people what's the red line what we see for a 2nd day in tripoli is the result of a very hard reality without any plans to feed the people at texas dr burns just over $10.00 how can we tell him to stay home when he can't afford to buy bread for his family. dependent make has hit with the country already experiencing a diet konami crisis. between close have brought lebanon's health care system to its knees and now many of its people into a state of rage and desperation. let's have a look at other stories making had. signs around the world the netherlands has seen a 4th consecutive night of protests against coronavirus lockdown measures although

the latest on the arrest was more isolated than on previous nights the country's 1st curfew since world war 2 came into effect on saturday as a precaution against a new virus strain from the u.k. . u.s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin have reached a deal to extend the new start nuclear arms control treaty the treaty was supposed to expire early next month it limits the nuclear weapons washington and moscow can deploy the trumpet ministration refused to extend the pact without concessions from russia. ugandan opposition politician bobby wine has been released from house arrest he had been unable to leave his house since disputed elections on january 14th one by long serving president yoweri most of the soldiers and police surrounded by the winds compound stood down on tuesday a day after a court ordered an end to his confinement. the united nations

says cyclon eloise affected a quarter of a 1000000 residents in the mozambique port city of beta and surrounding regions after making landfall last weekend the powerful strong storm brought to wrench all rain and strong winds up to 160 kilometers per hour destroying houses farmland and vital infrastructure. today marks international holocaust remembrance day it commemorates the $6000000.00 jews and the other victims of naziism with every year that passes there are fewer holocaust survivors still alive to tell their story one man who survived the auschwitz concentration camps spoke to d.w. about his experience and about the importance of never forgetting. peter you know handcart oss had a shelter childhood in a jewish family in transylvania. but it suddenly ended when he was 13 years old and . the germans occupied transylvania in 1944 the

german army a short time later we were deported to auschwitz my entire family was murdered there. through various coincidences or i can also say with god's help i stayed alive. his sister and mother were immediately killed in the auschwitz gas chambers. you had in cardassian pretended he was older and was sent to various concentration camps for forced labor. i was affected by the whole persecution. and the year it auschwitz and cover thing might have hardened me emotionally or scolded me up. i was no longer able to react to things as a normal person would. shortly before liberation got off managed to escape he later

went to university built a career and started a family. with. my wife and i lived together for 7 years before we got married and i never talked about my past with her with. sometimes i feel as if it were sunk in concrete and cement. instead. now it is important for him to talk about it and about anti semitism today that worries the 19 year old very much. a store was selling grape fruit from south america and israeli grapefruit from jaffa i thought those from java not out of jewish solidarity because they're better they taste better and the lady behind me said don't buy from jews. regrets that he can no longer go into schools as

a contemporary witness due to the pandemic talking to young people brought him much joy. is keep mum 90 now. there aren't many survivors of my age left i guess there won't be any of us left in 20 years. so it's good if it's recognised in schools and history books. but you can't make the young generation and the next young generation and the one that follows them all responsible for it you can't do that all you can say is never forget. and we will be following the commemorations for holocaust remembrance day being held at the german parliament live starting at 11 o'clock central european time. for now italy is facing new political turmoil after the resignation the prime minister. he stepped down after

a small coalition partner pulled out of his cabinet that left him facing the prospect of a humiliating defeat in parliament this week in a vote on judicial reform but observers believe he may be in position to form a new government with broader political support. just last week giuseppe conti seemed in delish form as he addressed the senate. on tuesday morning he was being quizzed from the critical palace having informed the president of his resignation. and. president of the republic sergio mata rela has received this morning at the kernel palace the prime minister just said because. he resigned as his head of government . to do the country's undoing lay in his inability to secure support for proposed additional reform. this former coalition partner

material renzi was the man whistling a different tune with the the party chief has come under intense criticism in italy though he looks the most relaxed manner own. concept our modern 7 runs he probably had good reason to show everyone that this government did not have a sufficient majority. vote i think that they will find a solution because italy deserves a good government. that now but not everyone in rule missile sure. confidence in the government or not at this point. especially with all the games being played as they look for one extra member of parliament to reach it already this is not the way you going to countries take a country like italy braves. it's over one year old and so most of it i'm not very confident frankly because i think the behavior particularly of some political

parties has been very irresponsible response of the. president marks a relic of no charge kaante with forming a new government if he can find additional support whatever the outcome italians must know deal with political upheaval to add to the turmoil caused by a financial crisis and the condé make. well earlier we spoke to matteo got he's a german italian political scientists at the center for international studies at the university of oxford and he explained why we're seeing this crisis in italy now and whether it could have been averted. there was no way to delay these these reckonings so to speak because a very very small party that supported a majority called the kind of evil that italy alive which has probably 3 percent of the open vote in opinion polls pulled up to go and so to give way to the number of

the where needed. these could never be less the result fairly quickly because a person or a public will pursue a number of avenues the 1st one is to try to see whether does it become to conform with your government in the means name by bringing in. a number of m.p.'s that are no not aligned and could support his government. the 2nd option would be to call for a technocrat to step in and form a go with a very broad majority across the parliamentary spectrum in their names that have been made in the past i want to drive you to the former president of the european central bank as well as marco rubio who is the former. head of the current supreme court. 3rd option would be to go to vote however i think this is the least let you

know and the option of the present republic will try to avoid at all costs. because of the pandemic so on health grounds but also on common grounds he means a government that can restart economy as we get possible. to some sports news now and the english club shall see have confirmed thomas took well as their new coach he signed an 18 month contract with the london club to call is the latest german coach to try his luck in the premier league so what can she also expect from their new man we take a look at his career so far one that's been very much made in germany. thomas took over likes to do things his way the german coaches tactical accu men 1st became apparent said lowly bundesliga side months with his unique football philosophy to the nickname long break. was still

a sport that is so patient as the guns folk broke up thinking patterns and sport structure is very old fashioned thinking pattern that's a presence across germany in our 1st season in the bonus league or we played with different systems and that's attention to detail went as far as making the team all eat together. because the 1st thing. you have to imagine a buffet for a brand is really get seen has it's all from different soups and poultry to grilled fish and 3 kinds of desserts to for i could even finish the see part of the team and already gone big. circle cemented minds his place in the burned his league before following in the footsteps of yogen clawfoot friends he led them to the german cop in 2017 thanks to his brand of attacking football but unlike clark circle was unable to win the league with dorman's he was sacked but picked up his career in paris which star studied p.s.g. more trophies followed but the one they really wanted the champions league eluded

them that also really cost chokehold his job now a new challenge awaits in england. that was you in the peruvian capital leave has had the pleasure of sharing some good news to new born endangered american crocodiles also known as tunis crocodiles and now these 2 weigh 45 grams and measure 35 centimeters each but they can grow up to become several metres long and this is the 1st time zookeepers in latin america have managed to successfully breed this type of endangered crocodile after artificial incubate sion now the crocodile hatchlings were born in mid january and they are the only ones to survive of the 24 eggs laid by their mother. get a reminder of our top story now germany's government is considering drastically cutting

travel from abroad to reduce cases of covert night cheating with more infectious variants of the virus arriving in germany chancellor angela merkel reportedly wants to practically banned tourism much as israel has done that's according to members of her cabinet. up next our documentary series close up looks at 10 years since the arab spring staged. to.

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