china's gateway drug. stores feb 19th gone to. the bad. news. this is v.w. news the live from girl led the military has seized power in the on the arm the army has declared a state of emergency and is taking control of the country government officials including de facto civilian leader aung san suu kyi have been detained international leaders are urging the military to restore democracy immediately.

also coming up security forces crackdown on protesters in russia tens of thousands have taken to the streets in cities across the country to demand the release of jailed kremlin critic alexina vali police arrest more than 5000 act as frustration grows over the slow rollout of vaccinations in germany the government and vaccine makers meet in an effort to find a solution clubs in the bundesliga heidi trouble for wolfsburg 3 goals 3 points that moves them into 3rd place on the table. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program we begin with a developing story the military in myanmar has staged a coup they have seized control of the country and detained key government officials including the country's de facto leader aung sang suu. now the military

accuses the government a failing to act on claims of voter fraud in last november's election several countries have condemned the coup they have called for the immediate release of those detained. will be televised news of the takeover announced on military on television this video one of the few to capture the moment a member of parliament was whisked away in a pre-dawn raid. to is anyone's guess. among the many arrested civilian leader. and other high ranking members of the ruling party national league for democracy in a statement she denounce a coup is an attempt to put the country back under a dictatorship adding i urge people not to accept this to respond and wholeheartedly to protest against a coup by the military the dramatic escalation marks a culmination of a bitter dispute over november's general election an election which saw party close

to victory in a landslide but which the military insists was fraught with irregularities claims that the country's election commission has dismissed as baseless news of the coup has launched wrong international condemnations it's nothing short of. deeply disturbing this is unacceptable the international community rejects what is. there. on the streets of me and maher the coup is seen as a sad setback for many more than a decade after it celebrated its transition to democracy. suddenly now. i feel the army assaulted when it states the civilian government and a government elected by people. i doubt they knew our country's just a bird learning to fly like you know the army program. given medical.

that's me in mars catapulted towards an uncertain future many rushing to stock up on essential bracing for an end to democracy as they know it. and let's get more now we're joined by dave who is a journalist who spent many years reporting from myanmar he joins us now from malaysia what else can you tell us about this coup how it has been organized and how it's unfolding yet what you've really got to just begin by pointing to the commander in chief of the military senior general min long he gets the mandatory retirement age of 65 later this year and it's no secret that he had his eyes on the presidency but given the results of the november elections where the nationally for democracy won more than 80 percent of the available seats and won by a landslide there really seemed to be no way he could get there legitimately any

time soon as you said a minute ago the military it was making strong accusations a week ago saying that there was a lection of fraud but the elections commission rejected when i say strong they were being strong about what they're alleging they didn't show any proof of this so the election commission rejected saying there was no widespread voter fraud and then there were real concern since last week that we could have a coup those concerns seemed to tamp down over the weekend with statements that came out of the military but then we saw what happened early this morning with political leaders being detained put under guard some little black that was detained as well and how about the people of myanmar how is this likely to impact them. well a huge blow to these people while the military does have some supporters and that's the overwhelming majority of this population clearly supports. and actually for democracy clearly against this coup now there was a statement released today by the end of the end her name where she calls the

actions to the country called putting the supports of back under dictatorship and urging people not to accept this the question is are we going to see at some point some some real protests public protests and demonstration by the people that would be quite a move to make because this is a country keep in mind that spent close to 50 years under a repressive military dictatorship that in some cases not only put down public demonstrations not only violently but in some cases using deadly force given all of that given all of that background and context i mean the military says that they will be taking control for at least a year do we have any indications of what they are planning. so i mean this things are very opaque in me and when the military and it's always been that way but the military has got to try attempt to somehow try to bring some

legitimacy to what they're doing they're talking about what they claim was widespread elections fraud we're going to have to try to keep bringing bringing that up but the simple fact is this is that the people there's going to be very little changing of minds over this the people who are with aung san suu kyi believe that the n l d won that election legitimately they're going to dig in deeper and the people who support the military they're going to dig in deeper so now the military is going to be left as an unpopular leading leaders in this country how are we going to manage that how they going to manage the economy which they completely mismanaged during 50 years of june to rule and how they going to manage the health crisis going on with a pandemic as well questions really up in the air right now so many open questions dave going to be putting it into context for us so we really appreciate that. meantime elsewhere in the world security forces in russia have detained more than

$5000.00 people at demonstrations across the country staged in support of opposition leader alexina volley tens of thousands took to the streets of cities around the country to demand sin of all news release from prison now the police put on a massive show of force to try and break up these rallies for. they were warned but they marched anyway anti-government protesters all over russia demanding the release of opposition leader alex saying of all me they defied a ban by the kremlin the response was brutal and a show of force many were arrested some are beaten some hit with 2 selective isis. coverage is in moscow alone thousands marched constantly changing their route in an attempt to evade the police some gathered outside the prison where all x. in of ali is being held for many of them the protests are about more than just the opposition leader's arrest protesters also say they are marching against corruption

and for more democratic freedoms in russia they're also calling in a political battle for used to being told what to do being controlled by a big young people used to organizing themselves that's why i came here today because i wanted to take in what is happening in my country you watch over go ready it's a disgrace. they've stolen everything from us. i live near oil and gas fields and they're just standing is all that i mean yes i have a 2 year old son and the person stays in power for the next 16 years as he's climbing through there my son will grow up with him and i don't think anything will come of it for years though it's. moscow was still asleep sunday when protests started in russia's far east in siberia as dawn spread across russia phone of on the rallies spanned across the country's 11 time zones but so did the forceful response by the authorities to. russia's 2nd largest city st

petersburg was no exception. some call this russia's most aggressive and fear inducing nationwide operation but others say the government's attempts to overwhelm the protests might actually fuel the flames of the russian opposition and the voices calling for change. t w correspondent emily sure went to standing by with the view now from moscow so emily tell us what do these protests mean for vladimir putin is this a threat. well i think basically any protests are a nightmare for the kremlin something that they always want to avoid and these protests i think are a real threat we saw thousands of people come take to the streets yesterday we saw thousands of people take to the streets the streets the week before the unusual thing about these protests is that they're not just centered on moscow and st

petersburg which is what we usually see here in russia they're much wider spread they've been taking place in cities across the country in the far east in siberia in the urals and so on that is likely a worry for the kremlin and also a lot of the people that i've been speaking to at these protests say that this is the 1st time that they've been taking to the streets in the surveys last week showed that around 40 percent of people in moscow had come out for the 1st time and many of the people i spoke to said that this is not just about i don't see now find me this is really about corruption in the ruling elites this is about the way alex was treated in court what people perceive as a lack of rule of law and also this is very much about vladimir putin himself people say they're sick of him so then walk us through how the government is reacting if and given all. well we've just heard a statement from the kremlin spokesperson need to piss off and he called the

protesters hooligans and said that they were provocateurs. basically painting them as violence i yesterday saw a mass of people who were completely peaceful and didn't seem to want to cause any harm but that's what the government here is certainly the picture that the government here is painting also on state t.v. they've been presenting the protests as small kind of showing empty squares and also showing images of violence from the protesters against police including some videos that almost look a bit like they were staged last week we saw after the last protests a crackdown against protesters who had been arrested and also against opposition activists even against critical journalists we saw a huge amount of police searches and criminal cases opened dozens of them and

today as well we're seeing after this last protest we're seeing the same thing happening with the criminal cases for example on wife you is on trial today she could get up to 15 days in prison and several opposite opposition politicians are also being tried today they say for blocking pro brought blocking traffic with this protest and also for breaking the rules during a pandemic emily sure when in moscow thank you. let's get a check of some other stories making news around the world. on kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon jimmy light has appeared in court he is contesting an attempt by the government to keep him in jail all facing charges under a sweeping new national security law it is the 1st major legal challenge to the legislation imposed by beijing last year the whole after months of silence india's

prime minister narendra modi is condemning the country's long running protest against agricultural reforms of the farmers have been demonstrating for more than 3 months events took a deadly turn last tuesday thousands of farmers descended on the capital delhi and clashed with police one person died hundreds were injured. at least 12 people including several children have died after 2 boats sank post report on colombia's pacific coast officials say they don't yet know what caused the incident none of those who died had been wearing life jackets. thousands of brazilians took to the streets on sunday demanding president i are both in autos resignation they accuse the government of mismanagement and the country's coronavirus vaccination program many say both scenarios lack of leadership has led to an oxygen supply crisis in the amazonian capital of the mouse. you're watching still to come on the program. very very small minority but they are getting

a lot of attention the protesters in the netherlands call on the government to end the measures aimed at protecting the population from co the 90. but 1st german vaccine developer by on tax has pledged that it will ramp up deliveries to the e.u. by up to $75000000.00 doses in the 2nd quarter of the year the news from the company which is partnered with the u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer comes as the e.u. battles to buy more backseat the government is holding talks later with vaccine producers to try and speed up an occupation's but as we report the rollout here is beset by problems. in berlin the 6 submissions center is being used as a massive vaccination clinic taxies delivers seniors to receive the shots it looks like everything's going smoothly but appearances can be deceptive german city say the country's rollout has been plagued by logistical problems. we need to know when

the vaccines are arriving and in what quantities so that we can schedule appointments if it were just the public frustration gets off the top. 3 vaccines now approved in germany but they are all in short supply jim and politicians now want to work closely with the pharma companies to overcome the shortfall. but it's not enough to tell companies to sky lab we have to come up with an emergency plan be prepared to pay compensation for redirected manufacturing capacity we have to do more than $20.00. the plan could involve the state ordering pharma companies to produce vaccines even vaccines developed by that compared to were in other words state intervention in the manufacturing process the green support that idea they say companies haven't done enough to speed up manufacturing . to me for. companies really doing enough to scale up operations that would

mean increasing manufacturing gradients training the barber tree capacity and then vaccine production we have to take a close look at all of the states have to get involved with things out working out including by forcing them to license their products to of the. left parties also in favor of piling political pressure on back same produces useem god and upon to me this pandemic is proving that the idea of the invisible hand of the market solving everything doesn't but that doesn't mean the government should do it for them companies must be forced to act sounds good health minister can make them jim and lauren powers him to do so when human. much is at stake at the german government vaccination summit as people white impatiently for their jobs. chief political correspondent linda crane has the view from berlin melinda as we've been hearing there germany's vaccination far behind that of its other european countries where is the sense of urgency to speed up the rollout. well 1st of all the e.u.

gave regulatory approval later than some other countries like the u.k. or the u.s. so the vaccine rollout here in germany didn't get going until just before new years and until then vaccination was something of an abstraction and after that it took a while for the gaps in the in deficiencies to become apparent germany's federal system divides up responsibility for vaccine procurement and distribution and that contributed to a lack of transparency and accountability for bottlenecks but the fact is the sense of urgency and frustration definitely is now present and in the run up to this summit as we heard in the report the heads of several federal states have been calling for decisive action including a road map with quantities and dates detailing exactly how the federal government plans to meet its goal of administering vaccine to all citizens who want it by the end of the summer the health minister though is practicing expectation management

saying he doesn't expect concrete solutions to emerge from today's summit we're also hearing about you know some radical proposals from politicians namely an outsourcing of vaccine production directed by the state how exactly would that work and is it even realistic. indeed some leading politicians from both governing and opposition parties and bear in mind that we are at the outset of an election year in germany are calling for the government to intervene to compel firms to produce increased quantities of vaccine and to collaborate with another in doing so which would normally be problematic under patent laws in theory the government does possession such emergency powers but the fact is this is unlikely to happen and there has been a good deal of pushback by both industry and politicians including the health minister put into context for us if you will some of the more promising news that

we've heard from vaccine producers this morning for example buy on tack and buy or indeed german pharma giant tobiah just announced that it will help cure back produce up to 160000000 doses of cure vax covert 1000 vaccine that would essentially be implementing on a voluntary basis exactly that kind of cross industry cooperation that some politicians are calling for the government to mandate and we've also heard today that biotech pfizer will be delivering up to 75000000 doses more in the 2nd quarter of this year so those announcements bear out something we've been hearing for a while from germany's health minister which is that things will be tough for the next 8 weeks but will start easing up after march chief political correspondent linda crane thank you and another development in the pandemic around 2000000 people in australia have entered a strict

a lockdown after the discovery of one corona virus case in perth china has recorded its lowest alien creates new covert 1000 cases in more than 3 weeks and israel has extended its 3rd nationwide coronavirus lockdown the country of 9000000 people is still registering more than 5000 new cases per day. well along with the frustration of the slow pace of vaccination in many e.u. countries some people are also angry about government measures to try and slow the spread of the virus the netherlands has witnessed scenes of rioting and violence in recent weeks a vast majority of people there support the government's efforts to protect the population but it's max center of reports the small minority is determined to break the rules. don't mistake this for a festival this is a protest each of the participants showed up with their very own message there is

no violence you cannot stop the spread of an iris it's impossible so i find that there are measures that government takes a disproportionate it's not a matter of that we deny coronato but we think there's a different way and. it's going too far at the moment the one thing that unites them is their discontent with how the dutch government is handling coronavirus for the 3rd time now this an authorized event has drawn different groups of people to the museum plain square in amsterdam police presence is high this afternoon and with reason. a week ago cities across the netherlands were overrun by protesters rioters attacked police said vehicles on fire and broke into shops 3 nights in a row and 9 o'clock curfew that was put in place by the government on january 23rd is believed to have triggered the protests the rioting and the looting here in the netherlands has stopped for now but boarded up shops like these serve as

a constant reminder that the threat isn't over yet violent episodes like these shouldn't necessarily come as a surprise sociologist jacqueline french declan book tells us we have like a little bit a little bit and then there's closed and then that close and then sports was not allowed anymore and so on and talk but that was never never a full package it might well be. that eventually. people got extremely fucked up with it by the by the curfew being on top of it and you know in the netherlands freedom is a big thing. this man is worried about his freedoms as well. as one of the initiators of the protests at museum playing but because of last week's violence he's not participating today to underline his peaceful intentions he asked to meet us at the national monument for the victims of world war 2 the rules are too heavy for the problem ok there is a problem as i say there is

a grown up fibrous is there and it is a problem but the rules are too heavy 14000 deaths people means 0.08 percent and if you see the problems we're having in the whole country. shops are. it's terrible for everybody. and supporters want to see restrictions rolled back and they're good to government leave office following the elections in march. but with a majority of dutch people still in favor of both the government and its pandemic strategy this seems very unlikely meanwhile across town riot police have cleared the square this protest might be over but the next one will follow suit. but a state of football now and news of an incredible trouble for the surprise scene of the league this season that is wolfsburg 3 goals against freiburg men 3 points and

a move into 3rd place. khan of intimidation the wolves i'm beaten at home this season and they want everyone to know about it. when 5 books struggle to neutralize a cornet 20 minutes into the game. the boast pounds thanks to john anthony brooks. the ball and it right it is feet. in the u.s. international smash hit home for his 2nd goal of the season. the hosts came knocking again 20 minutes later down the course this time to strike a double box books heat with his 13th goal this season the credit goes to a quick thinking and not a chef fan who have the vision to play it in for a cause. but the wolves were hungry for more yani yeah maybe 3 no minutes before the end. they did baku with the assist

and all get out how to do was tap it and. waltz work defend their fortress and jump to 3rd in the been a sneak that table. film in time denmark have been crowned handball world championship champions after defeating underdogs sweden $26.00 to $24.00 in cairo the scores were close for most of the final despite the mismatch as denmark's captain and goalkeeper nicolas landon made a stunning 15 saves to demoralize the sweden attack a 2 goal cushion was then and nothing for the danes to secure a 2nd consecutive title against their upstart rivals. a quick reminder now of our top story here on news the military has carried out

a coup d'etat in myanmar they have seized control of the country and detained to keep government officials including de facto leader aung sang suu kyi they accuse the government of failing to act on voter fraud in last november's election. next sunday to view news it is business with my colleague robert watts i'm sorry kelly in berlin is always more now. site if you dot com you can also follow us on social media thank you so much for watching take care and system. in.

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the world. this is doing business in berlin welcome to the program less than a week after hyping shares in struggling videogame retailer game stop investors on reddit message boards have moved on to the commodities markets silver prices surged during asia trading at the start of the week they have been driven to 6 month highs after uses on the reddit message board wall street bets organized and investment pile on retail investors say they want to deal a blow to big banks who they accuse of keeping silver prices artificially. low let's get more on this from michael hewson who is chief market analyst at c.m.c. markets it's great to have you on the to be business so the supermarket is a very different beast to the markets to wall street what are these red it is trying to achieve. well judging by the narrative trying to

squeeze the big banks supposedly big short positions and precious metals prices plummet all year they're in danger of passing off an awful lot more than they can chew the supermarket is a completely different animal to something say like i'm stuck where 120 percent of the free flow is still out on love and therefore it's much easier to drug that products now prices have gone back to i was last seen in august last year and actually called slightly above that to a year highs trying to drive silver prices over the same time for i say for example a stock is a much more risky strategy and probably more likely to file about the reason given for doing this claiming that big banks are artificially things that were prices alarming is there anything in that. no there isn't really anything you know i'm looking at the positioning on the silver market and actually when i actually look

at our current positions there own 85 percent low now you can drive prices on that basis but only over a short term time fright and the silver market the rule so there's a big futures market as well when essentially banks can hedge their positions across the curve as well as e.t.s. yes we've seen big demand. on super coins retail is as well for our fear is the smart money might get in very very early and you could end up with some old inexperienced retail traders folding the back in the political fallout from that it's not going to be pretty clearly if these small investors end up here you know seeing huge losses i've seen that there has been a jump in game stop shares at the start of trading today are we expecting a carry over of the madness of last week into this week on wall street. i certainly think at the moment u.s.

markets look as if they can to open higher nothingness a perception ready to move their attention to the commodities market will think if this bet on still will files and decide to move their attention back to the us stock market then we could be in for a topsy turvy session at the moment i'm us markets look as if they can work and stock is around about 6 percent in the problem ok well we'll keep watching michael shiism from c.m.c. markets thanks a lot for joining us on t.w. business now some of the other business stories making in the news ryanair lost 306000000 euros in its latest quarter the irish budget airline has been severely hit by pandemic travel restrictions and want it could post a loss of up to 950000000 euros for its fiscal year. the u.k. is applying to join the trans-pacific free trade block known as c p t p.p.

british international trade secretary liz truss is expected to take the request maker of questioning a call with the ministers in japan and new zealand on monday c.p.t. p.p. currently consists of 11 countries with australia canada and singapore also involved u.k. trade with the members amounted to 125000000000 dollars last year. biotech and astra zeneca are both promising to boost supplies of coronavirus vaccines to the e.u. for the coming weeks the slow rollout of jobs has led to fury across the e.u. here in germany senior politicians are due to hold a vaccine summit to address what some are calling a scandal. germany has received just under 3 and a half 1000000 vaccine doses so far half of these have already been used for

medical staff nursing home residents and the elderly but it's not enough it will be at least another 3 months before all germans over 80 are vaccinated it's feared at this rate it will be 2 years before a majority of germans can get the job it shouldn't be like this much larger quantities have been ordered but vaccine manufacturers have fallen far behind on deliveries due to supply bottlenecks amid sharp criticism from e.u. leaders companies are now working to make up the production shortfall. the german company by on tech agreed monday to provide the european union with up to $75000000.00 additional doses in the 2nd quarter. british swedish company astra zeneca has also been complaining about production problems the european union is expected to get just half of the $80000000.00 doses it was promised by the end of march and that's after astra zeneca agreed sunday to provide an extra $9000000.00 doses under pressure from brussels. isn't good we have made little

progress i now have a difficult phase in february and march without a question hog and the 2nd quarter the johnson and johnson bar scene will become available and the pharmaceutical companies will have to overcome the initial difficulties so we can then expect significantly more doses. can fall in that wealthy countries such as germany are vaccinating at a snail's pace that's despite such countries having ordered so much fact seen there isn't much left over for developing countries. let's speak to ellen out here in his medical lore expert and public health advocate thanks for joining us on day to a business in places like germany in the u.s. struggling to get hold of vaccines what does that say for the chances of other countries well clearly there's huge from internationally. to keeley since the european union's announcement of this export export ban granted

some developing countries are excluded but basically all countries that would be able to purchase their own vaccines are a fact that by this by this measure and that creates creates creates a lot of concern and in fact it is the exact opposite of what should happen and we have to recognize aspirants knows no boundaries it travels around the globe the response to it should also be global and should be based on international solidarity and what we now see happening in europe miss the exact opposite where you've been calling for the poor ling of vaccine technology essentially taking the horse trading with the pharmaceutical firms out of the picture how without work. well almost a year ago already the proposal was made to the world health organization the world health organization moved ahead and the stablished called it 19 technology access and the idea is that through this who the intellectual property didn't know how did

technology that is necessary to produce vaccines but also other technologies that may be necessary in the response to the pandemic would be shared so that more producers can use that knowledge to ramp up production there is now we see a production real production problem and small scale this is now starting to happen within europe but this should really be a global global approach many of the large scale manufacturers are actually based in the philippine countries seneca already has an agreement which they sort of inherited from oxford because we talk about the esoteric affection but it's really the oxford vaccine that's where the vaccine was the knowledge with a large indian vaccine producer that should happen on a much larger scale in fact all the production capacity that exists should be exploited now should now be used and there are cracks in capacity can be built we need to make investments to make that happen and that does require the sharing of the know how and the technology by those who have it in her hands if you to force

companies to share this information and stuff that they've they spent a lot of money acquiring. what incentive does that leave them to preserves. well in fact 1st of all the pull is not based on forcing it's difficult to force companies to share or to do to release that knowledge but we have to acknowledge that in this situation most of these functions have benefited from enormous public investments so those companies have been do you risk when i hear companies talk about this we do this not for profit well there's a different story there because they have almost all received millions if not billions for the development of these vaccines which is a very very good thing that's exactly what you want to do but attached to that funding should have been a requirement to share that maxine we've heard the european commission talk about public global good beautiful words but they haven't taken any measure and haven't

made any conditions only companies when we forked over billions for the development of these facts and that's the long to have a i don't i don't think it's too late i think they can still go back to the drawing board but take an international approach get no harm out there an increase in pressure capacity of production a lot him thanks for joining us on data we have is this. some look at a look at some more business news now india plans to double health care spending in its new fiscal year starting april the 1st the country has unveiled plans for an expanded budget to kickstart an economic recovery the government expects the economy to rebound 11 percent in the 20212022 fiscal year. and intend said its profit nearly doubled in the 9 months through december the japanese videogame maker has seen business people turn to gaming during coronavirus

lockdowns the company also raised its profit and sales forecast for the full year. for games on the only thing that people are turning to is you perhaps may have heard some people are turning to drinking more alcohol during the pandemic if that's you you're definitely not alone but nevertheless german breweries are struggling their revenue for 2020 dropped by 5.5 percent as germans drank a lot less beer because of the closure of bars restaurants and beer gardens they had to shut last spring and again this winter as part of coronavirus lockdown measures events including munich's world famous october fest were also canceled and the retail sales have performed strongly with more people having a glass of beer at. just time for a mind of our top story less than a week after hyping shares of struggling videogame retailer game stop investors on reddit message boards have moved into silver futures surged at the start of the

week reaching the highest level for 6 months. and that's all from me on the business team here in bet if you do a more from us head over to our web site to t.w. dot com slash business plenty more for you that and also on our facebook and twitter pages d w because thanks for joining. us we're all set to go. off this. week take on the. call about the stories that matter. to swim each month on the. fire.

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a grief more public by reminding the country that there are real people behind these numbers. it's the 8 sunday that caused john schmidt has come here to set out candles a visual reminder of those who have died from covert 19. he's not the only one doing this. germany may have done better than other countries at the beginning of the pandemic but the death toll now stands at more than 50000. and that's about it yes during the 1st wave of other countries had these kinds of numbers and i felt like we just accepted it here with a shrug. we thought we needed images to make death something you can see. that's why we started this initiative of. the need for people because. many people come here to talk about the disturbingly high number of new cases others come because they've lost someone who says i'm from a fog or it's just a question of where you can show grief or where can you go to experience this

feeling peacefully like in a cemetery and that's how it should be here. so others want to make a statement to show that the coronavirus is a real danger. and they stink it's a few lity there are so many people who just deny the whole thing we should all just hold back to keep our distance so that this pandemic ends and not so many people have to die it is a few toward even this time. at another coronavirus memorial in berlin ingrid johnson is mourning robert manne sorry a friend from new york he died of covert at the age of 72 she says he was a man of many talents. and then thought valid. none of his many talents was that he was a lyric baritone and sang in different operas and always discounts but said so i

think that this memorial here and this is stork squared is a beautiful place for him especially because so many wonderful concerts have taken place here and he would have loved to experience them. every afternoon a candle in the german president's residence bears witness after easter a state no more oil service is planned for the victims. cold and no electricity in some cases the conditions are deplorable in this neighborhood on the outskirts of madrid drug gangs are allegedly topping power lines and residents feel forgotten by the spanish state. it's bitter cold this morning here in kenya that reality on the outskirts of madrid some 4500 residents live here in what may be europe's biggest informal settlement since a power cut in october they've been without electricity many inhabitants of moroccan

or roma origin most live in poverty conditions how worst in sectors 5 and 6 of the county iowa because of the cold many like a family now don't even have water. i love that this is how would normally wash our clothes and then we'll home our hands by the fire. we don't have electricity we don't have water we don't know what to do authorities blame the power outage on a surge thought to be caused by illegal wiretaps to power cannabis grow operations in sectors 6. most of madrid's illegal narcotics come through here we can film openly here it's too dangerous but people we speak to confirm they too have no electricity. back in sector 5 a mother who wants to stay anonymous invites us into her house the kids are bundled up attending classes online but just as strong as a phone charge and mobile data lost.

when they get upset i try to give them strength i tell them imagine you were sick or he didn't have hands was trying to give them strength i realise that i don't have any more strength myself. it's a similar story for neighbors one man likely died due to the cold and the baby was hospitalized with hypothermia many are resorting to using propane diesel generators car batteries or stoves. it's expensive and very risky says rama from the neighborhood association. she says that at least 40 people here have suffered carbon morningside poisoning. but in all let us be very light fires and when they notice that the fires dwindle and they throw on more logs on to keep the house warm and because the fire consumes the oxygen this has adverse effects they wake up with

headaches or nausea that is their money on the road is that those several n.g.o.s have condemned the situation here. is a. back door of here now but like i know that they are in 2017 the authorities signed a regional agreement and shoring dignified living conditions for the residents of the county are that rare event all this i say this is a compliment of good in this agreement also cover to providing electricity to the settlement to me through electrical some few families have been offered gas heaters and the opportunity to relocate the power utility now wants to shut down illegal taps however many here in kenya that i'll feel forgotten i think that if authorities were serious about helping they'd already have tables clear solutions. landfill sites in russia are a growing health hazard most garbage is simply thrown away on talks in safety

levels at the dumping grounds go ignored for many of the people who live close by moving away is just not an option. but this is the elections keep it it's as big as 45 soccer fields and is just one of dozens of garbage dumps on the outskirts of moscow residents say just a few years ago with the pit was still deep in the ground and now it's more of a hill and as a garbage piles up the locals health problems due to the dump lies just a few. 100 meters from the village of. save us hometown the mother of 2 says that some days the smell from the side was so bad she couldn't even open the windows and the kids. were often sick video

seaver finally had enough she and her children moved to clean a city several kilometers away. the little ones were constantly sick one day their pediatrician told me their children have rattling sounds in their lungs i didn't think about it for a very long before starting to look for an apartment for us here and clean later after we moved we went to the same doctor surprise surprise the long rattling had disappeared how did that happen simple we moved away. families fate is a no isolated incident. is one of russia's most pressing concerns only 6 percent of the country's gabbert is either processed or incinerate that is the rest is simply dumped environmentalist's of warnings eastland food sites around moscow in particular are a ticking time bomb rarely conforming to safety standards that they pull you to the

soil the ground water and to the air. readings taken by the state civil protection agency shoal the area surrounding nixon skip it is also contaminated 3 years ago storage is found to that hydrogen sulfide levels were $25.00 times of the acceptable amount. but nothing has been done to protect a local residence uli if it or see it was mother is another of those affected the 67 year old's house is dangerously close to the dump but unlike her daughter she says she can't move. where. would i go who would i sell my home to with that horrible smell outside who cares about someone like me and how would i even get by in the city my pension is $190.00 euros per month but i'd have to pay $130.00 euros for one room apartment. meanwhile the mountain of rubbish keep scrolling

and there are plans to expand to the. dream job is cleaning the facade of. skyscrapers. she is also the 1st woman to work in this male dominated job in turkey she hopes to encourage others to break free from gender roles. with bucket and cleaning products in hand the crew has to balance along the edge of the roof top attached to a thin wire they slowly move forwards. this red rope is when gets to work now every move is a matter of life and death are met is laid under the safety rope so that the sharp element edge of the roof doesn't cut into it her life hangs on this thread. now the real work can begin.

we are 130 metres up it's a wonderful feeling i really feel free i'm not dependent on anything apart from my rope. knowsley uses mountaineering techniques she learnt during her training it was hard both physically and mentally but she believed in herself against all odds. going through the training pointless you'll never be able to do that job even my friend said that. 5 years ago mostly you almost worked inside a highrise like this at the reception desk for the windows she always admired the cleaners as they scaled down the facade then she asked more out of shelly who's now her boss if he would hire a woman on his so far all male team. proved

that women can do this too. it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman what's important is if you're able to do this risky work or not. today. is the only woman working in this previously all male domain. she doesn't have time to admire the view of istanbul below the skyline of this city of 18000000 live it's 161 skyscrapers has been totally transformed in the last 20 years. for cleaning up here in wind and weather muskets hazard pay manning she earns a 3rd more than the average in turkey just don't drop the sponge.

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this is the news live from berlin the military has seized power in me on march the army has declared a state of emergency and is taking control of the country government officials including de facto civilian leader aung sang suu cheney has been detained international leaders are urging the military to restore democracy without delay. coming up security forces crackdown on protesters that russia tens of thousands

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