it's typical buckboard. trying those gateway to europe george feb 19th on d w. this is d w news live from berlin it's been one year since germany recorded its 1st corona virus case now deep into a 2nd wave of the pandemic the country's daily infection numbers are on a steady decline but the death rate remains high with almost 1000 people a day dying with copd 19. asked concerns over coronavirus variance grow the

government considers more drastic steps chancellor merkel says she's against a complete ban on travel but flights into germany could be cut to almost 0. and on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp a holocaust survivor tells us why it is important to never forget. i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us germany recorded over 13200 new coronavirus cases on wednesday that is a slight drop compared to the same day last week germany's disease control agency says the daily infection numbers are steadily decreasing but the situation does remain serious up bricks are still being reported across the country especially in nursing and care homes and the death rate remains very high with 9. $182.00 deaths

registered in the last 24 hour period. and let's bring in our political correspondent nina hasa with the very latest on the story nina as we said the numbers are trending downwards but the situation remains serious and now the government is considering a new restrictions tell us about that well there's just a big fear of the more contagious version of the corona virus that is coming up here in germany as well and we're hearing that chancellor angela merkel has told fellow party members that she wants to restrict travel even further apparently she said everyone agrees that now is not the time to be traveling and those reports continue by saying that america is apparently looking into plans put forward by her interior minister hoffa to massively reduce travel into germany and to potentially impose much stricter border controls 0 for was quoted in an interview as saying

that israel could serve as an example where of course the main airport has essentially been closed but chancellor merkel has not said when those new measures would become necessary so at the moment there are potential plans in general how is germany dealing with the pandemic right now. germany today reported some 13000 new infections that's twice as many as yesterday 982 more people have died the numbers yes they have been going down for a few days but they're still very high and vaccinations have started but it's been a very slow roll out and there's a lot of pressure to speed up the process here and germany is of course still in a partial lockdown and has been for weeks now with schools kindergartens shops the it is museums etc are closed and politicians scrambling to come up with yet new idea is to bring down the daily news infection numbers even further and america and the state leaders will meet again soon to discuss whether to extend the current restrictions because they're in place until the 14th of february at the moment have

officials given any indication any sort of timeline of what their strategy is going forward. it is hard for them as well because the scientists are telling them that the new mutations of the virus that they are a lot more contagious and so of course the goal is to stop them from forming cluster infections here in germany and so i don't think that it's likely that the current restrictions will be lifted anytime soon and there's a lot of pressure also i've mentioned it already to speed up the vaccination process because of course that is way too slow and we've been dealing with this pandemic for exactly a year now so of course people are getting tired and of course one thing is that what's different to the 1st wave is that everybody now knows somebody who has been affected by covert in one way or another so people still do take this a situation very seriously but they are getting tired and the new measures are

being questioned here and there and there are politicians in the northern state here in germany who have put forward a plan to say just which criteria need to be met for them need to be able to ease restrictions again and then which orders that since then happened they say it's definitely not the time to open up again now but they argue that people do need hope and a clear vision to be able to discipline now when the freedoms have been limited for such a long time already our political correspondent nina thank you so much let's take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic the number of covert cases worldwide has now surpassed 100000000 that's according to johns hopkins university french drugmaker sanofi has announced it will help produce on 125000000 doses of vaccine developed by their rivals pfizer and biotech the vaccine will be made at sanofi plant in frankfurt starting this summer amid a drop in new cases moscow is easing its covert restrictions by allowing bars restaurants and nightclubs to remain open through the night 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 had a new daily record for coronavirus 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 asco with 19 cases are soaring protesters took to the streets for 2nd night hundreds of mostly young men clashed with police there were 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 our 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 was 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 tex's 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 at dyea 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. 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 t w about his experience and about the importance of never forgetting. peter johan qadosh had a sheltered childhood in a jewish family in transylvania. but it suddenly ended when he was 13 years old. germans occupied transylvania in 1944 the german army was a short time later we were deported to auschwitz where they know my entire family was murdered there. through various coincidences or i can also say with god's help

that i stayed alive. with. his sister and mother were immediately killed in the auschwitz gas chambers. hardened guard 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. 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 god 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 a nice. sometimes i feel as if it were sunk in concrete in cement. 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 bought those from java not out of jewish solidarity but 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. 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 are 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 live at the german parliament at the top of the hour. let's check in now on some other headlines from around the world the netherlands has seen a 4th consecutive night of protests against coronavirus lockdown measures although the latest on breasts 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 the new virus strain from the u.k. . the chinese government says it flew warplanes near taiwan last weekend as

a warning against foreign interference and separatist forces on the island taiwan scrambled military fighters to monitor chinese aircraft in its air defense identification zone on saturday and sunday. 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 limor limits the nuclear weapons washington and moscow can deploy the trumpet ministration refused to extend the pact without concessions from russia. in football english club chelsea have confirmed thomas to cool as their new coach he signed an 18 month contract with the london club 2 who is the latest german coach to try his luck in the premier league so what can we expect from their new man we'll 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 lowney bundesliga side minds with his unique football philosophy he earns the nickname wrong breaker. restore a spot to sit in her suppression of guns for clues we broke up thinking patterns and sports structures very old fashioned thinking patterns that's a presence across germany in our 1st season in the bonus league or we played with different systems. that's attention to detail once as far as making the team all eat together. because the force and goofy but the bonus the job you have to imagine a buffet for a business. the good team has its own from different soups and poultry to grilled fish and 3 kinds of desserts before i could even finish the seed pasta team and already gone big. circle cemented mike's his place in the bundesliga before following in the footsteps of yogen clawfoot suleiman's he led them to the german car in 2017 thanks to his brand different attacking football for time like croft

circle was unable to win the league with dorman's he was sacks but picked up his career in paris which star studded p.s.g. more trophies followed but the one they really wanted the champions league eluded them that so somebody cost so called his job now a new challenge to whites in england. it's now a zoo in the peruvian capital lima has some good news to newborn endangered american crocodiles these are also known as to crocodiles these 2 weigh 45 grams and measure $35.00 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 croc crocodile after artificial incubate the hatchlings were born in mid january and they're the only ones to survive of the 24 eggs laid by their mother. let's get a recap now of our top story germany's government is considering drastically

cutting travel from the broad to reduce cases of it 19 with more infectious variants of the virus arriving in germany chancellor angela merkel deported li wants to clean banned the tourism much has as israel has done that's according to members of her church. up next doc film a documentary about the use of artificial intelligence in the art world stage and. life on earth one of a kind and. gigantic coincidences. were culpable happened. it's a bit like winning the lottery. or unique.