glad. you asked. her as. this is d. w. news live from berlin the military has seized power in the arm to mark the army declaring a state of emergency and taking control of the country government officials including defacto civilian leader aung san suu kyi have been detained international leaders are urging the military to restore democracy without delay. also coming up security forces cracking down on protesters that russia tens of thousands are taking to the streets in cities across the country to demand the release of jailed

kremlin critic complex scene of only police arrest more than 5000 a. day and discretion grows over the slow crawl out of vaccinations in germany the government and vaccine makers meet in an effort to stop find a solution. close in the pole in the sea that id trouble for worlds worth 3 goals the 3 points have moved them into 3rd place on the table. thanks. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program 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 kyi now the military accuses the government of failing to act on claims of voter fraud in last november's election several countries have condemned the coup and called for the

immediate release of those who are 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 predawn. 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 drawn strong international condemnations it's nothing short of. deeply disturbing this is unacceptable the international community rejects what is happening. there. on the streets of me in mar 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 this government and a government elected by our people. i'm not then you are countries just a bird learning to follow the law like you know the army program. given medical.

that's me in mars catapulted towards an uncertain future many are 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 couldn't found 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 was they when they 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 puts it 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 demonstrations by the people that would be quite a move to make because this is a country keep in mind it 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 in all of that background and context in 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 3 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 are going to have to try to keep bring in 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. did 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 they going to manage that how they're going to manage the economy which they completely mismanaged during 50 years of june to rule and how they're 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 of going to bomb putting it into context for us so we really appreciate that. and mounds arni is a burmese academic and human rights activists based in london joining us now on the program doctors arnie thank you so much for your time i understand that you have said that the coup exposed the big lie of fragile democracy in myanmar what did you

mean by that. well the big lie that you know we have been fed by the burmese military and in fact as with the health and science suit is that burma is democratizing you know under the leadership of our son suchi but we are some of us who have studied this you know new country for the last 30 years professionally and also been involved in politics no this is completely untrue if you look at the constitution of you know 2 $1008.00 which was drawn up and adopted by the military itself this coup has been preemptively made legal and constitutional there are 9 pages in this constitution that preemptively legalizes any clue that is deemed necessary by the commander in chief

on grounds of national security if you read the burmese language statements coming out of the office of the commander in chief the chief coup maker you will know that the military is juicing the language of national security not simply you know widespread voter fraud and also i think this is also a very very all well he and cooed and that the coup makers call on san suu kyi and m.p. it legs selfish ambitious anti democrats that are jeopardizing the democratic system therefore the coup is presented as a move in the right direction so where is the hope than given all of that for me on my right now i mean do you do you have much faith for example in the international community is perspiring to and the ability to exert pressure on the country. i

am afraid not much i am not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel 10 years and you know 3 years sorry to election cycle of the yes to election cycle since 2010 and the international community so called you know un a u.n. member states for investors and what not. they have failed to end even you know what is the textbook example of full fledged genocide against you know one national minority and they cannot be expected beyond you know empty condemnations to do anything to reverse this anti-democratic trend but like i said you know that one big casualty in a way a good one is that the big lie that we as

a country moving towards democracy that has been proven completely untrue by the very military itself and so there is nothing that i welcome all those who is you know something that no democrat would welcome a very sobering assessment of what is happening right now and me on mar we thank you so much for joining us from his academic arnie we appreciate it. elsewhere the kremlin says that many of those involved in protests against the jailing of opposition politician alexina volley are hooligans and provoke a taurus spokesperson dmitri peskov was speaking a day after tens of thousands rallied in cities across russia to call for and of all these release more than 5000 people were arrested during the demonstrations critics accuse the police of using excessive force. they were warned but they

marched anyway anti-government protesters all over russia demanding the release of opposition leader alex saying of omi they defied a ban by the kremlin the response was brutal and a show of force many were arrested some were beaten some hits with his alike devices. over here in moscow alone thousands marched constantly changing their route in an attempt. the police some gathered outside the prison were all like scene 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. in a political battle for used to being told what to do being controlled by the 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 what you would go ready it's a disgrace what they've stolen everything from us. i live near

oil and gas fields and they're just standing is all. 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 a tree that my son will grow up with him and i don't think anything will come of it for years that 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 11 time zones but so did the forceful response by the authorities. 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. as printed up your correspondent emily share when emily a walk us through the russian government's reaction here. well sara we heard today as you said from the kremlin spokesperson who called the protesters hooligans and provocateurs he basically said that the police force that we saw yesterday was justified because you can talk to hooligans and what we also have been seeing is a bit of a crackdown even over the past few of the past week since the last protest that happened last week on opposition activists on protesters with criminal cases being opened with administrative cases being opened for taking part in an unsanctioned rally for a blocking traffic and for breaking the rules of gathering during a pandemic to day. news wife was fined for taking

part in the protest that apparently blocked traffic so we've been seeing and we continue to see now a bit of a crackdown on the opposition and on state t.v. the reporting has basically just been painting these protesters small very insignificant and also painting the protesters as violent. given that reaction and really just could just put it into context for us how how big of a threat is this on rounds to these protests pose to vladimir putin. i think that any protests are real threat to the kremlin basically street protests are the kremlin's nightmare i would say and these peaceful mass protests that we've been seeing that we saw this weekend that we saw last weekend as well are particular threat because they're not just taking place in moscow and st petersburg

which is the normal scenario for russia they're also spread much wider over cities across the country over 11 time zones you know from cities in the far east and vladivostok to siberia to the urals so that's a new an unprecedented elements to these protests and also it seems that a lot of the new people have been coming out people who usually don't take part in opposition protests a lot of the speak people that i spoke to here in moscow said it was their 1st time last week and this week as well apparently around 40 percent of protesters last week had never taken part in opposition protests before and many of the people that i spoke to said that this is about much much more than they said that this is about corruption in the ruling elites also the way that alex enough viney has been treated by the prison service by the court system which many perceive as unfair and they say they just want a different russia

a more democratic russia and only just briefly what is likely to happen to not only . well there's a court hearing tomorrow that could turn his suspended sentence into real prison time we'll have to wait and see whether he gets that jail time and how long he'll be put in prison and i think that most likely the kremlin people in the kremlin are thinking about what to do with him especially after these big protests they don't want to make a martyr of him and cause more people to take to the streets correspondent emily sherwin with the view from moscow thank you. but get a check of some other stories making headlines around the world hong kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon jimmy lie has been denied bail after being charged with violating hong kong's national security law it was the 1st major legal challenge to the legislation imposed by beijing last year. after months of silence

india's prime minister narendra modi is condemning the country's long running protest against agricultural reforms farmers have been demonstrating for more than 3 months events took place took a deadly turn last tuesday when they took place thousands of farmers descended on the capital delhi and clashed with police one person died hundreds were injured. thousands of brazilians took to the streets on sunday demanding president try adipose and autos resignation they accuse the government of mismanagement in the country's coronavirus vaccination program many save those lack of leadership has led to an oxygen supply crisis in the amazon capital one else. the european union's vaccine rollout has faced criticism for its sluggish start amid production shortages but there have been some promising developments pfizer and its german partner biotech have said they could produce up to $75000000.00

extra doses the german government is set to hold a summit with vaccine producers in a bid to speed up the pace of inoculations. but what does the german public think well many people are frustrated that the vaccinations aren't happening fast enough but how would those before. i feel like if only be you had started to come up with the vaccination strategy months earlier. we would now be at the same vaccination breed as the u.k. . some of i did a phenomenal 300 for the pharmaceutical industry i think this some of these seem truly as a sales meeting. as far as the politicians one can only hope that the negotiators have been thoroughly briefed by health and pandemic experts expect. a miracle. chief political correspondent linda crane is standing by in london as we've been hearing germany's vaccination drive far behind other countries around the world people could be frustrated what has gone wrong and will today's summit

finally bring some urgency. well the fact is that the e.u. gave regulatory approval later than countries like the u.k. or the us there were some legitimate concerns about little liability and and also about the thoroughness behind that but therefore the vaccine rollout didn't get going here until just before new year's and even after that it took a while for the gaps in inefficiencies in the rollout to become apparent that's because germany's federal system divides up responsibility for vaccine procurement and distribution and that contributed to lack of transparency and also accountability for bottlenecks but the sense of urgency definitely is there now and in the run up to this summit the heads of several federal states have been calling for decisive action including a road map with quantities and dates that would detail exactly how the government plans to meet its goal of administrating vaccines to all citizens who want them by

the end of the summer the health minister though his practicing expectation management saying he doesn't expect today's summit to provide concrete solutions tell us a little bit more about about those calls from some politicians calling for more radical measures namely an outsourcing of vaccine production directed by the state is it realistic. well the fact is some leading politicians from both governing and opposition parties bear in mind that we are at the outset of an election year here in germany they are calling for the government to actually intervene to compel pharmaceutical firms to produced increased quantities of vaccine and to collaborate with one another in doing so even if that means overlooking patent laws now in theory the government does possess such emergency powers but the fact is it's unlikely to happen there's been a good deal of push back and clearly for the health minister the preferred approach

would be voluntary cooperation with companies and we heard just that from him today let's listen. to those miners this is a big deal in my opinion it's a very very important that we both had today's vaccine summit in there after all explore together with the companies what can be done more quickly on the short term in many different areas and moreover that we move at the same time to secure production capacity and also as a precaution or measure for us for that reason we in the federal government want into place orders either via the e.u. for european colleagues your view that's one nationally so that we secure vaccine doses also for 2022 and especially from producers here in europe you know all of us who have. just briefly that concern there about 2022 has to do with the fact that the health minister is worrying about mutations possibly requiring option of

vaccines that are already produced and also the need for a booster shot so he wants to get well ahead of the game. meantime let's move on to some some some promising news hopefully tell us a little bit more about buy on tac pfizer and buyer they had some announcements this morning what's the context here. indeed we heard a moment ago about biotech and pfizer that they will be providing over 70000000 doses of vaccine in the 2nd quarter and this morning we also heard that the german pharmaceutical giant by year does plan to work together with the cure back to produce up to 160000000 doses of cure of xico 1000 vaccine and that would essentially implement on a voluntary basis exactly the kind of cross industry collaboration that some german politicians are calling for mandated by the government chief political

correspondent linda crane thank you. here's some other developments in the pandemic around 2000000 people in australia have entered a strict lockdown after the discovery of one of the corona virus cases in perth china has recorded its lowest daily increase in duke over 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. to someone to think of a fall and news of an incredible travel for the surprise team of the season the season was burke 3 goals against freiburg men 3 points and a move into 3rd place. a call of intimidation the votes unbeaten at home this season and they want everyone to know

about it. when fireworks struggle to neutralize a corner 20 minutes into the game the waltz pounds thanks to john anthony brooks. the ball and it right it is feet. the u.s. international smashed it home for his 2nd goal of the season. the hosts came knocking again 20 minutes later about the course this time the striker double post books lead with his 13th goal this season the credit goes to a quick thinking and not the stephan who have the vision to play it in from a cost. but the wolves were hungry for more yani made it 3 no minutes before the end. ladle baku with the assist and all get out how to do was tap it and. while most work defend their fortress and jump to 3rd in the bundesliga table.

that denmark have been crowned a handball world champions after defeating underdog 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 nicholas landon made a stunning 15 saves to demoralize the sweden attack the 2 goal cushion was then enough for the danes to secure a 2nd consecutive title against their upstart rivals. and congratulations to them a quick reminder of the top story that we are following for you here on day deputies. the military has carried out a coup d'etat in the yanmar they have seized control of the country and to taint key government officials including de facto leader aung san suu cheat day accused the government of failing to act on voter fraud in last november's election.

and coming up on the w.r. environment magazine eco india looking at how to reduce noise pollution in delhi is always more on our website d w dot com you can also follow us on social media not to be honest i'm sarah kelly and for lent thanks for watching.

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from housing boom boom town this is where. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend on d w. each of our actions has consequences when your career lies in the moment if you plant a tree or a cycle to work the air our children and grandchildren we will be much better than what we built today for example but if you do change course if we continue wasn't pollution piling up man foods with garbage dumping plastics enough. planet may

become an inhabitable stock taking action we may need to can fix july's the problem and the solution better that's what we're here for how welcome to equal india i'm sunk that. if you're standing in the middle for 4 years it's quiet and peaceful. but if you're close to a construction site one jackhammer things 90 decibels of sound studio. let's go one large hire if you please its engine will expose 120 decibels of some. noise over 70 decibels for a prolonged period of time stops for damage. but what happens if the city you live in is a noisy city a city which is too loud for. we spend a few days and to find out.

driving on the roads of one of the most polluted and noisiest cities in the hood it is not just an assault on nursing but also what is yours he has been driving is in india's capital city for the we're going to years. braving the could go off and of traffic and relentless exams has become routine to. you. i would like the government to ban it even if you are trading at it ignite. it. then you get ready in the model and this is the 1st thing you encounter doesn't effect you would be. i am in a terrible mood throughout the day but how many people can i fight against no one will understand it beep. to understand they would not feel the need to have.

these on the road 8 to 10 hours a day when i asked him if he was afraid that all the noise pollution could be harming him he was dismissed. disturbing what can i do not be able to arnie any money or that way. in india where noise permeates every day life if you are aware of the health implications it can cause permanent damage to people here. there were more than 10000000 vehicles on the streets of denver in 2008 the normal ambient sounds of the city have become a steady roll and the c.d.'s and hazard that such as.

little little younger bhushan is a veteran and van meant to stay and founder of i phone a delhi based think tank he studies noise pollution levels and using a basic he shows us how pervasive the problems. by government for noise in the daytime for that's eventually eddie is $45.00 to $55.00 decibels. almost double. header making process and the noise level just shoots up and this is not a very busy road in delhi this would be a normal road and. busy intersection so this at this level should be at around $9095.00. and that is the problem when the noise level rises by 10 decibels the strain on the ears increases significantly the damage. this is.

not noise pollution is a big problem in india specially in metropolitan city big cities you know every year sentence pollution control board publishes our data on noise pollution in metro metro cities the latest report was in 2017 i did chores that each and every metro city. and all the monitoring stations were not needing the n.b.a. noise standards where during the daytime or during the nighttime industrially area in. india is eventually. among the few countries with extensive laws in place on noise pollution. noise is regarded as an according to a lot of years ago. with different.

however unlike. most pollution is mostly ignored. the 1st issue is that the ugliness level is really really poor compared to air quality and water pollution if i compare then the enforcement action on noise pollution is very limited to enforcement is given to police you know unlike air and water pollution where inforce mint is in the hands so pollution of parties bullis doesn't have you know enough knowledge on this issue they do not have technical. and they generally try not to take action on noise issue because they believe it is going to get out of social tensions. to get a sense of how noisy. cities. the problems associated with noise are not of course to the strict humans as field biologist and scientists in charge of the for. it also adversely

affects the ecology of the city. birds on local aviation and songs so they have songs and. we make them to bring. protect them from the british and therefore to. sound of apocalyptic it makes all these different. dog don't i personally seen that how birds have acquired the outer form of historical white whether they've been overtaken on the road noir nor are they no contact. so if that is known why is most of the birds started moving here and there and nesting success has grown in many many forward. noise poses a threat to the wildlife that campers animals ability to communicate interferes

with their ability to detect look at their prey and also to look after their offspring. at the heart of the problem is a serious lack of a very extensive noise is said to be one of the main factors reducing people's quality of life in big cities and be impacting different. has a studied the impact of noise pollution on graphic person the doctor is at the forefront of fighting noise pollution. yet it also isn't is a list of the phenomenon for example when you would go well this could take log there's a low budget that so then you had this buzzing yo yo for a couple of 5 and then the getting comes back to normal that's called it then put it it's a short shift but when you get exposed to loud noises all want to know what again the bodies says news this is love to come back to normal and then it is becomes

pullman and that's called the pullman and. when that happens you're hearing becomes the most of the damage and it is looking at me and there is no medicine that can get your hearing back. or study the spot of the ball getting in front of the ring in the words loud to cities leads to hearing loss equivalent to a person 10 to 20 years old other studies have also linked noise pollution stress depression and cardiovascular problems but the problem won't be dramedy on this focused brick and conscious efforts on me. nor is about 2 years could be one solution there is a growing market in india for soundproofing to consumation solutions but the problem also needs to be addressed at a more fundamental that we have to reduce the outside noise and the baby can reduce it is by 1st of all making sure that vehicles are meeting the standards in fact

people have to make sure that they can. get the noise levels are really high we will have to start putting noise values to residential and other critical areas so i think there is construction related mitigation measures that you have to do for noise and i'll give it to you people have to all of us will have to come together and reduce noise. and one mental measures can help to say as scientists for ya. noise can be reduced with trees and shrubs the ticket before the more efficiently you can see the sound and figure out noise what is going to be. no eyes there is very interesting. and would be getting air pollution but also cutting noise pollution because if it gets. to the noise if noise if there is a noise in a corner. it cannot but i've been through what is called. bark

but i was it got built it but it did have plastic and therefore impact. to the birds any most anybody with a human being. people like nursing paul migrated to daddy because it offers them a chance to earn a livelihood living this noisy city is not really an option the best you can do is appeal to his fellow citizens better judge. delucchi is not really an exception most cities in the world. and many of them have another big problem if pollution the city of bangkok for example with millions of daily commute is coming in and out of the city traffic is a huge problem is that a feasible and sustainable solution to this let's take a look. welcome to bangkok and to endless clawing streets

the traffic crawls along if it moves at all. most of the drivers here are commuters who live in the tiny capitals quiet suburbs. it's eerie jitter party ma is one of the millions of such commuters she lives in the lock sea district of northern bangkok at 7 am she begins her journey and eats her breakfast at the wheel . it's a pattern repeated. commuters all over the city most choose to leave early as they don't know how long they'll need to get to work. the traffic various from one day to the next some days the congestion beginnings right outside my door other days it starts somewhere on the journey but more or less the entire route from my place to work is congested it's around 20 kilometers . the journey takes an hour and

a half she once worked out that she wastes $32.00 days of her life every year stuck in traffic not to mention the impact on the environment by all the exhaust fumes. monitoring stations across the city measure the air quality and deliver the results to the city authorities officials here say particulate matter is a real problem in bangkok as they know from personal experience. personally i'd like to go for walks in the city. sometimes i notice that it's difficult to bring. there but there are times when i get home and my eyes of watering down the corner. and sometimes when i walk into the house my family starts now using as if i had brought the particulate matter with me.

and this is one of the worst culprits the all diesel powered buses that crisscross the city most are around 25 years old they're popular because they're cheap to ride they account for around one 3rd of all journeys made in the city but they need to get stuck in traffic around 60 percent of journeys are made by private car that will have to change if thailand is to meet its pledge of reducing greenhouse gas. simitian by 20 percent by 2030. the government transport department says it's on the case. the. first thing we have to do is build up a better public transport network and that. only then once there are enough public transport options for people to use we start tackling the issue of private cars.

still insist on using their own car they will have to pay a charge. charge. one of the main plans is to expand the elevated rapid transit system for sky train as it's known by 2029 the network is sent to cover 500 kilometers right now the train service remember to me small number of people only 3 percent of our bridge ernie's are made on the sky train or underground metro system. for those who don't live near the train line there's a relatively new service available and app that allows them to book a took took which will then take them to the nearest train station the auto rickshaw trick for.