this is d.w. news live from berlin the new u.s. president says america is taking the lead in the fight against climate change president biden assigned executive orders aimed at reducing rising global temperatures biden will host a global climate summit in april saying that the u.s. cannot meet the challenge on its own also coming up coming up the fallout continues over the vaccine shortfall the european union ups the pressure on the drug maker astra zeneca demanding that coated 19 vaccines made into a pasture seneca's british plans to be shared with the e.u.

. and on the international holocaust remembrance day the world is called on to remember and never forget the 6000000 jews perished under the nazis. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program a u.-turn in the u.s. position on climate change u.s. president joe biden says america must lead the global response to the climate change crisis biden made the remarks at the at the white house before signing a raft of executive orders aimed at curbing rising temperatures worldwide the orders establish climate change as a major national security and foreign policy issue for the u.s. biden says the climate crisis requires a national effort and likened the threat to the corona virus pandemic. and just

like we need a unified national response to cope with 19 we desperately need a unified national response to the climate crisis because there is a climate crisis we must keep we must lead global response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the united states alone we know what to do we just got to do it let's bring in news washington bureau chief in s. poll. president biden saying the u.s. must lead the world response to the climate crisis is quite a turnaround compared to his predecessor. it is indeed told me i mean it's major steps that ration is accepting climate change and are telling the american people that it is real you know we have to remember all the cells that donald trump just did night climate change so president biden use the opportunity today to talk

again about the importance of wool tie in lateral agreements and he made it clear that the u.s. is willing under his leadership to take the responsibility to lead in the global fight of the climate catastrophe so what's in biden's climate plan. so it would just underline the importance for president trump i just want to remember all of us that he is the 1st day in office already made a pledge to rejoin the paris climate of cream and and cancel the construction of the keystone pipeline pipeline this is a big big deal here in the united states and it has a fight over for several several years so the white house has made plans to move towards investing in clean energy projects and just today

president biden signed another executive order to halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands that's also seen as a big win for climate activists here in the united states and how is the country the rest of the country responding to this climate agenda that president biden has brought up. mixed there are still many communities in the u.s. that depend highly on the oil and gas and coal economy and they are warre that they will lose their jobs. in the speech in his speech president biden deliver today was actually fairly emotional i have to say he addressed those fears and made it clear that he really understands the reality of the situation and promises that he will invest in creating green jobs ok in

washington thank you for bringing us updated. let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. moscow police have raided properties linked to the jailed opposition leader alexina valmy and arrested his brother authorities searched the headquarters of the vollies anticorruption foundation as well as his family apartment it comes after tens of thousands rallied across russia on sunday to demand a volleys release from prison. at least 53 people have been killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a fuel truck in western cameroon authorities say more than 20 others were injured in the crash near the town of jan. officials say the truck was illegally transporting fuel and it was speeding. large crowds have been out in the polish capital warsaw and other cities to protest an almost total ban on abortions the

ruling by the country's top court means abortions are now only legal in poland in cases of rape incest all when the mother's health is endangered. the european union has told a drug maker astra zeneca that it must supply the block with more doses of its covert $900.00 vaccine now brussels has publicly expressed its frustration after the company announced delays to deliveries which it blamed on lower than expected production at its e.u. based plants the company responded to the e.u.'s demand by describing the delivery dates in its contract with brussels as targets rather than legally binding deadlines but the e.u. says the shortfall should be made up with doses produced in the u.k. which astra zeneca says should go to britain because it's placed its order 1st here is the e.u. health commissioner stella can react it is. but 27

european union members are 9 but after that it can lead to deliver on its commitments in our agreement. the launch of could these agreements. we provided in government are wrong in order to get a binding commitment from the company to prepare to use them before it gets real clear on station not being able to ensure my respect for incapacity is against the law and the spirit and reject. them. correspondent diogu matis is on the story in brussels and he described what kind of pressure the e.u. could put on astra zeneca tapia sleeve this contract is confidential the e.u. now has ask us resent it got to put the contract in contract into the public for everyone to see that there is a commitment as the u.

commission has set a legal commitment that those vaccines that have been promised that have been repaid refinanced even much more than $300000000.00 euros to build up the capacities in those factories and now the commission says to point towards the best the best effort clause is just a lame excuse and there is no hierarchy of factories so if there is a supply problem everybody should suffer the consequences at least that is the argument that has been put forward by the european commission. and as the vaccine spat goes on the world health organization is rich countries to give up some of their supplies in order to help the vaccination roll out in poor countries the w h o's chief scientist sonia swaminathan spoke to g.w. earlier and called for more global solidarity it is really unfair that the young and healthy and relatively less such as people in some countries get the vaccine by

people of very high risk and still continue to get the infection and dying in other parts of the world to have i think something like 60 countries where vaccines are being deployed gotten people and majority of these are high income countries that are only 2 or 3 you know or no middle income countries where i didn't stop to being deployed so i think people need to take the view of global solidarity and or you just start getting that message i think it i think ordinary people really understand that. let's take a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic portugal will suspend all flights to and from brazil that's beginning friday and that's due to the surge in covert cases in brazil french drugmaker sanofi says it will join forces with its rival pfizer to help produce the biotech vaccine as its own vaccine isn't ready yet and the cannes film festival has been moved from may to

july in the hope of being able to hold the event on the french riviera in person. germany's parliament has mocked international holocaust remembrance day commemorating the 6000000 jews who perished under the nazis that day falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the nazi. concentration camp speakers at the ceremony in the bundestag warned against the resurgence of anti semitism. day of remembrance for the victims of the brutal nazi regime representatives of the country's jewish community took part in the commemoration alongside german officials including chancellor angela merkel and president frank. this year the ceremony also marked 700 years of jewish life in germany shiloh to canoe block holocaust survivor and former head of the central council of jews warned of

a worrying recurrence of anti-semitism. it was initially but i don't need to present you with a timeline of anti semitic incidents in our country they take place openly blatantly almost daily conspiracy theories are becoming more and more popular thing once again anti semitism is bringing in votes it has become socially acceptable again the been just tykes president echoed cannot block's concerns. need us. it's devastating to have to admit that our culture of remembrance does not protect us from a brazen reinterpretation or even a denial of history as you thought me nor does it protect us from new forms of racism and anti semitism such as those reading in schoolyards on the internet or in conspiracy theories will still be in for pied. but the ocean death can't remain the chilling reminders of just where such thinking can lead this year the site lies

empty due to the pandemic with the 76th anniversary of its liberation marked online by an ever smaller group of survivors there is concern that the lessons of the past could die with the witnesses the director of the site's museum says that virtual events are no much for a visit. to the spot you took over there for nothing will replace the opportunity to experience the place the authentic space because this isn't just about seeing and listening this is about looking around walking around touching experiencing the perspective and understanding. it's even ski hopes the site can open again soon so that people can once more come to remember those murdered in the name of naziism. the international olympic committee president thomas back has addressed concerns about the viability of the tokyo olympic games saying it's not

a question of if the rescheduled games will go ahead at the end of july but how the i.o.c. boss would not elaborate on what exact coronavirus protocols would be in place but said the individual sports federations were already leading the way when it comes to coronavirus testing during competitions. and you read. the directions with 817-5000. and. 8 where the competitions could be run be organized in one of the competitions. and this is why. we are. so so. frenchman charlie doll became the 1st yachtsman to cross the finish line of the von de globe single handed round the ward won the world yacht race on wednesday evening but he'll have to wait

2 more hours to discover if he's actually the winner of the epic race after 80 days at sea the race around the globe is a sprint finish to yachts that diverted to help rescue another boat could yet be declared the winner as germany's boris and sea explorer is one he must cross the line before 2 36 am but when time to win the race. you're watching news from. africa is up next or christine will remember you can go to our web site for all the latest news from your region and from around the world and that's d.w. dot com follow us as well on social media twitter and instagram the handle is at e.w. news i'm told me all logic will be on the team thanks for watching. and

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why not tell me. it's simple mine on your mobile and free. t.w. zealand in course. german made easy. this is g.d.p. news africa on the program today the hunger crisis in magic aska desperate families have been eating claims mixed with leaves because they have nothing else the world food program say space but no response from the international community so it's funny for change. it's a sad day for zimbabwe as the nation mourns 3 national heroes. 9 to. zimbabwe holds a state funeral for 3 senior government officials who died of cold at 19 last week

. and kickboxing is seen as a men's sports where patricia grew up but that hasn't stopped her putting up a tough fight. it's good to have your company the world food program ses there has been no response to an appeal it made for humanitarian help for people facing hunger in madagascar last week the u.n. issued a so-called flash appeal be i live in countries agricultural season was ruined by the worst drought in a decade now because of that drought more than a 1000000 people inside madagascar will need food aid this year of the pandemic has added to the hardship the seasonal work that people often rely on has been a fix it by the lockdown. a country desperate.

children malnourished. parents trying but often failing to find food. for my children didn't eat for 3 days and then died because i their mother couldn't feed them i know it was the famine that killed them this is madagascar's 3rd consecutive year of drought in the south one in 3 people is facing life threatening shortages of food and water. there then live in a we're so poor that we have nothing to eat because of the drought in desperate efforts to keep hunger at bay many and now mixing white clay with tar and fruit and eating it. story if we had something proper to eat we would never of eaten it but we didn't know that white clay was edible before i tried to mix it and it what

. the u.n. has launched an appeal for $76000000.00 u.s. dollars in emergency aid the race to feed madagascan has been made more complicated though because of the global pandemic. we are trying to be out there urgently right now to save lives. which are at risk the covert 19 situation has of course made everything much more difficult. without more help soon this humanitarian crisis will only get worse. for more on this we've invited john doe busy bill onto the program he is the old food program's country director for medic ask him to to the program mr is the blow we've we've just heard that the hunger crisis in medicare is going to

worsen if help doesn't arrive soon how how urgent is the situation would you say. the situation right today is a very alarming force of a reason because there has been an extreme drought for the past year and. basically no rain except one single raining december in order so some other guests . this are going to reason is that the harvest in last year which is taking place in a pretty major was extremely cool and therefore the people have exhausted most of the. stuff so you have the un's appealed for 76000000 done is to address the crisis has that money come through no to disfellowship beat as it did coordinate has been lunched together by the united

nation and international community and the government of mother guessed that so far we don't see any result that or what does that tell us that they could be this this this crisis all these people going hungry we just saw in our report families resorting to eating clay and leaves to survive and yet people aren't responding to this ocean to feel. let's say that this is this is quite a normal situation in terms of the langs the timings of the respond to this kind of upbeat we just hope that disappeared will be heard by the international community that it will be widely do spread and then some response is positive responses will come in the coming weeks and months if it doesn't come. in the sense that we are

hoping you really we think we. unfortunately we go from a very critical situation do you prefer i mean situation if nursing. is down in that the shadow of what we are doing which some as a bot nurse. already to i live you are suffering of just people. that's shuttled the bill from the world food program and medical thank you. thank you. our next story is in zimbabwe away 3 senior government figures who died in 1000 have been buried in state funeral they include foreign minister cecil moyer transport minister and prisons and correctional services commissar. some but were initially recorded low numbers of called the 1000 but has recently experienced

a spike in cases it is believed a new more infectious variant up the virus came to the country when thousands of zimbabweans living in south africa returned home for the holiday season. he was at the state funeral in the capital harare and he sent us this report. it's a dark day for the zimbabwe as the nation mourns 3 national heroes who said come to call the 9 to zimbabwe has been struck by the new strain of the call the 19 virus about 32000 infections they've been recorded so far and more than 1000 there it's today we witnessed the burial of a of 3 of zimbabwe's top hierarchy in the political circles zimbabwe's so far last fall ministers to call the ninety's and citizens are now

calling the government to procure vaccines in order to simply got the nation from further cornered by the. government has already said it is now negotiating with china and russia to procure some of the crop scenes that are needed in the country . it's a privilege reporting in some way and to now and now the funeral this one in ghana jerry john rawlings the former president of the country and one of the country's most beloved leaders has been laid to rest his burial in the military cemetery in accra followed a service attended by dignitaries and the general public jay-jay warnings as he was fondly called later military regime for more than a decade before running in democratic elections and winning twice rollingstone november last year the force of his stand has not been made of the.

many names came out to pay their last respects to j.j. warnings at the burial service and they told us how they will remember him before long before his cars might meet him. you know those are. his given. to us so. there is a. very big huge. he was a father to all. that type of person who is very. he wouldn't hesitate to speak his mind so i wish. he would be. because i'm not bad he said. and i hope that if you tell him. you know i'm. strong and.

well kick boxing champion patricia has humbled many opponents in the brain but she says her success is often undermined by prejudice but that hasn't she hasn't let that stop her now she's training and mentoring other women and girls and she's determined to stand sexual harassment in sport. with 13 titles to his name patricia is the reigning world kick boxing champion in the female lightweight division. a lot of courage to stand up it takes a lot of courage to have to make it to the top i never know when you make it to the top some people still doubt but if you listen to the voices of other people than listening to yourself you find out you block out your story from what really you want to be. true i'll take area she has faced

negativity in discrimination in uganda kick boxing is considered immense on the sport so patricia rise to the top was an uphill struggle. people are not born chumps that's what i want to change. you choose to be one or you just want to. i choose to be a champion swash because when i was a young that i had a lot of truth but dreams don't come usually. so i reached a point grab i said i have followed enough but good luck turning me but why do i have to tell myself the 2 time world champion isn't just a tough opening in the ring she also supports female athletes who have suffered sexual harassment and violence poll large has a very clear message for the paper traitors people are mentally sick because you

have something to show to the wild but someone is actually limiting access to reach where you want to go one of the girls were crying about sexual harassment a lot of them but it's never occurred to me because one i sure didn't want to want to. no one even ever thought about coming that hey patricia december's of course for me my school days i'll bid the hell out of today patricia knows that she conscious men have fists speak for themselves in a home field in goa the 29 year old ponders a club for mostly young female kids boxes she believes that hope for a better future that's where the young generation is specially if he does also work towards creating a safer environment to play the develop their talents they can do this we come out cheerfully to a greater than we are actually we are the beginning of everything. this year she is focused on defending a world title she is convinced that his achievements inspire more african girls to stay focused on their dreams. well she's inspired me that

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why do you use these homes way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities scream how can we protect habitats we can make a difference. good morning to you are going to series of who throws a. ball. a combination of crises gets a boeing a battering the plane maker announces a record loss for 2020 it will find out why. just as they're recovering from coronavirus shutdowns carmakers take another hit a shortage of semiconductor chips is forcing production lines to be halted. this is the w. business i'm joined now the out in berlin glad you could join us boeing has announced its 1st ever annual loss that nearly $12000000000.00 that those airlines

held off on orders for new planes as they struggle to make ends meet during the pandemic a few american plane maker was also hit by a very expensive delay to the delivery date of its newest model as well as the 21 thing grounding of the 737 plane max plane following 2 feet all crashes. regulators lifted the safety ban on the model allowing it to fly in the e.u. again. for more we're joined by our financial correspondent yes from new york what more can you tell us about boeing's troubles. you know well one of the new troubles clearly is that the layoffs there are triple 7 planes that were originally planned to basically take off around this time of the year but now it looks like it will be to the end of 2023 there had been some production issues think clearly was the pen demick there

renegotiating those deliveries when they will be available with their customers some and so also all the regulations and such if it gets a take longer after the problems it was the 737 plane so altogether it's a really a costly delay for boeing and the stock to last a more than 4 percent in value in the way and say a session being the biggest loser in the dow jones industrial average. but misery loves company ends as we know and u.s. stocks are seeing their worst one day slump a sense october what's going on. you know the blue chips were down by more than 600 points the worst days since i'm told i mean overall stocks really had quite a streak in the past couple of weeks and month and maybe it was about time to take some profits then we also on wednesday finished the 1st 2 day is session of the

federal reserve for for 2021 there were no big surprises but fed chair. was pretty cautious when it came to the economic outlook especially because nobody can tell what's going to happen with corona in. infections and so he was saying that the u.s. economy is a long pass away from their original goal so maybe that was another factor that put pressure on stocks here on wednesday a busy day for against quiete in new york for us. now does this carmakers were recovering from plant closures during the pandemic they're being forced to pull the production breaks again because they're short on computer chips from places like china and taiwan some german firms including 5 southern and dialer have already cancelled shifts and cut production numbers during the pandemic they've bought far

fewer of them forcing some chip makers to retool to supply home electronics instead now as demand for automotive chips returns the companies can't just pivot back as their own supplies of silicon are running low earlier i spoke to peter fenn toll from the global engineering consultancy outran i started by asking how serious the situation is for the auto industry general thanks for having me. very serious to put a number to that crisis due to the shortage of flora control systems or angel taman systems it is estimated that the around 2000000 vehicles lobel each can't be built this year you know the ultimate defeat astri was on a test a recovery we expected around $88000000.00 us need to be built this year and now $2000000.00 of those concrete produced and delivered to clients a serious problem but carmakers have outsourced flexibility to suppliers for years

and refused to stock to store stock and warehouses as is the largely a problem of their own making. partly i think it's as you said the automotive industry they relied a lot of suppliers and sub suppliers right to integrate the chips into controlled units for example so what we have seen is was a reaction to 2 to do the. whole supply chain so i said last week was less controlled units less chips and less. silicon has been has been ordered so and now the ripple effect is in the supply chain and what the automotive industry had to learn now east that. they are just a customer among many others who bought their business in so that production slots for the automotive from this the air taken now and now they need to play catch up. playing catch up europe is way behind on check not a factor that's heavily reliant on foreign suppliers why is there are so many now

and. i think we need to differentiate a little bit here when it comes to specific ships europe is very good for example automotive great ships on my credit strong except for for acceleration censorious and so on. europe has very good companies and has very good steps but if you look to see to human affection with a highly integrated sheets with the structures indeed such facts are such foundries are missing in europe and the european union and the key governments they do a very good thing into looking into this and trying to bring these these set at this moment of securing capacity but also to skills needed for these back to europe much like what they did to these 3 and selman of 6 jury now do you see this affecting the long term prospects of carmakers. i think 2000000 less

it's a huge number but in the long run they bill it dept on one hand they will recognize how important their steady supply of state's critical components is so that we look just their supply chain a chance to meet a picture is worth intially to try to do all source it and at the end we will also see a more resilient supply chain in the future we've had the production capacity close to dominica sex tourists here in europe pierre offend all there from outran for us thank you for joining us on a business. the devastating effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the tourism industry has been well documented in many places berlin where we are is no exception but smaller companies here are arguably in an even worse position to weather the storm we visited one it would take otel in the heart of the city.

here a lawyer greets her only guest she opened her hotel in berlin last summer at that time the hotel was running it 65 percent occupancy but 6 months later on into the pandemic it's empty kira loyce phones are slowly running out. and on the name is our enterprise is completely privately financed we had no sponsors and we didn't take any big loans so our reserves are gradually getting used up. granted slangs an affable. many have had the same experience 3 quarters of restauranteurs and hoteliers are now fighting for survival now they want more state financial support and they want government to speed up the process . patrick frank is kira loys life partner but they're also business partners they applied for a loan before opening the hotel but the bank didn't want to take the risk.

and we had a problem back then one day before we opened the bank pulled out of the loan which they had already approved overnight it was reversed so who is standing there one day before this mess of challenge and with this huge fear of whether we could really do it we were forced to fund it with whatever finances we had. realistically the hotels should have closed down already but that's not possible either the owners have concluded long term contracts and invested hundreds of thousands of euros in the interior design. you know we both have good families that are supporting us but that's of course not a long term solution we think we can hold on until february or march and then it would be nice if things started to pick up again. the hotel had just 12 percent occupancy in december the company only starts to break

even when 60 percent of the rooms are sold the state assistance so far hasn't been adequate if they don't start taking in customers soon. will have to close. in belgium the hair salons have been officially closed for weeks due to the lockdown but that hasn't stopped some stylists from performing their craft more and more of them are taking their trade underground and they're finding eager customers who've been forced to do without them for months. hidden inside this shopping bag is a tiny hair salon. hairstylist louis is visiting a client at her home in brussels it's his 7th appointment of the day he risks a 750 euro fine if he gets caught but he says he has no choice so it's do or die if i don't work i'll be forced to sell my house all my savings are

gone you give up his or there's actually appreciate his client is pleased with the clandestine service no one knows when hair salons will be allowed to open again you know some people may say that her dress or just isn't necessary right now but it's something i need i'm doing this for myself as well as for him. even some manicurists and tattoo artists have begun working again illegally whether in their clients' homes or in their own basements. we don't understand a lot of down rules that's why more and more people are rebelling and want to open despite the bad and people are starting to get real impatient the situation is quite tense experience here. it's hard for the police to catch violators. proving an offense is taking place it's very complicated to do that you have to go inside someone's home and that means building a case and getting a warrant from a judge. and it's not just in brussels that hair salons more remain closed in the

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music composed between 933 and 145 was mostly hidden away and forgotten as the nazis were in power now 75 years later with a project called laban's melodeon all melodies of life the clarinet is no been shot himself the grandson of holocaust survivors has brought this music back to life i'm one of the resulting concerts is in a synagogue here in berlin on the occasion of holocaust remembrance day. this is a melody of lines. peace was composed by mario medley when he was a very young man living in florence. a short time later.