smart farms are constructed from. the state of the news live from berlin myanmar's ousted de facto leader on some sort of she will remain and custody for at least 2 weeks 2 days after a military coup overthrew her government police have filed formal charges against her she's accused of illegally importing walkie talkie radios meanwhile more and more people are joining the campaign of civil disobedience against the military

also coming up. to portugal welcomes german military medics arriving to help battle the coronavirus crisis the country's health system has been overwhelmed as an infection spiral out of control. and a new u.n. report says modern agriculture is the biggest killer of biodiversity and that's changing the way we eat it's key to saving the planet's wildlife. on the coastal is welcome police in myanmar have formally charged ousted leader suchi the move provides the insurgent military with grounds to keep her and custody the authorities say illegally imported walkie talkies were found at suit she's home if convicted she could face up. 2 years in prison

a national campaign of civil disobedience has been growing since this week's military coup protesting medical workers say they will not work for the new military regime and are refusing to provide non-emergency treatment. packets of the finds too noisy to ignore residents of young gun buying pots and honk their car horns for a 2nd night major demonstrations against the military for now have not taken place earlier in the day health workers and hospitals across myanmar wore red or black ribbons and refuse to do any non-emergency work much of the civil disobedience is being organized online. activist fans are showing les ye is one of the driving forces behind the campaign airing. different men now young people in your ma we have it up how are we have it a device we have to do just so this is the only platform was the we may use it this

is the one quest you are was that we are opposing the military gender and a heavy military presence is on full display here in the capital naypyidaw tanks and soldiers were on patrol. the country's military chiefs appeared on state television and 11 members has been appointed and will rule under a year long state of emergency. the whereabouts of myanmar as i've said leaders including own son suchi remains unclear several charges have been brought against her including possession of unlawful communication devices the military have claimed the reason for the coup was allegations of fraud in last november's elections which suit cheez national league for democracy party one members of the party have condemned the coup we're going to move to military action to take

control of the country is not a good thing considering we've had democracy peace the national ceasefire agreement . and we've had a well managed system to deal with covert 19 this isn't good at all for the citizens. despite international condemnation and open disobedience jamar as military appears determined to undo the course of the country's past to change. earlier we spoke to caylee long she's a myanmar researcher from human rights group amnesty international we asked her about her fears for the people in myanmar and about what she expects from the international community will be and the bit broader political crackdown they concerned about human rights defenders in general about activist civil society and generalists as well as the humanitarian situation in the country where over 300000 people are displaced and we're not sure what the story is yet with aid access under the military really hoping that it will take strong action and obviously we've had

there has been security council convened yesterday and didn't fail to come out with a statement and we hope to see something stronger than that we're calling for i.c.c. referral to the situation in the entire country and these are really extraordinary circumstances and they were in a very serious response. hospitals across portugal have been overwhelmed by what has become one of the world's worst kovac 19 outbreaks now a team of german military medical staff has traveled to the country to help in this battle against a fierce 3rd wave of the coronavirus they've delivered much needed medicines as well as hospital beds and ventilators but the most important thing right now really is trained personnel. the much anticipated age on a rival h. doctors and 18 medics from the german military will remain in portugal for the next 3 weeks to help get the worsening coronavirus situation under control an advance

team was already in the country last week to assess the situation now the german medical personnel will assist portuguese health care workers to treat covert 19 patients idea she is going to be able to be outside i have just sent a message to my german colleagues to thank them for best support and i've already received a reply from them they wrote that's what friends are for especially all of it but he's settling for me and help us desperately need it intensive care units across the country are completely full portuguese media reporting that patients are spending hours waiting and violences before they can be admitted to hospital many portuguese were relieved to hear it was coming from abroad that the situation is really bad so every little bit calmer than i could it gives with no way of course it's just a drop in the ocean at the moment we definitely need more help but i did shows how good it is to be part of the euro. by portugal has been shut down since mid january

nevertheless infection rates remain high many experts believe that the rep it spreads of new virus mutations are too late the arrival of the german medical team is a big topic in the portuguese public many commentators emphasise that germany is the 1st country to sense the doctors and nurses will start working tomorrow already that intended to support local stuff in several hospitals here in this upon further delivery off medical supplies from germany is expected to arrive soon and other european countries including austria and spain have also promised to provide support. all around the world people are painting their homes on vaccines as a way of deceiving the virus well now a new study suggests the oxford astra zeneca shot could indeed prevent people from spreading cove at 19 the research by oxford university is the 1st to show a vaccine stopping the corona virus being passed on as well as protecting against the elements the university says the vaccine could cut transmissions of the virus

by 2 thirds scientists also found that a single shot can offer a high level of protection for up to 12 weeks more than 10000000 britons have are ready been vaccinated the british health minister matt hancock has welcomed the study's findings this. report is a very good news it's 'd backs the strategy that we've taken and it shows the world that the oxford vaccine works effectively and the really good news embedded in it is that it not just reduces hospitalizations there were no people in this part of the trial who were hospitalized. with covais that after getting your job but also it reduces the number of people who have actually even a symptomatically by around 2 thirds. good news indeed but will this

be enough to stop community transmission of the virus earlier we spoke to par our hunter he is a professor of medicine at the university of east anglia specializing in infectious diseases and epidemiology we asked him about the significance of these new findings there's no doubt that the if you have the vaccine and it stops you actually getting infected then it will stop you as an individual spreading that infection on but the crucial thing that you've got to remember is that it only does that about 2 thirds of the time so there is still a substantial proportion of people who can still after the vaccine get the infection and potentially spread it on and couple of weeks ago we published a paper looking at the available data then which is still a political and we the our conclusion was that although yes it will reach do go

a long way to reducing transmission it won't be sufficient in itself and indeed no vaccine will be sufficient in themselves to reduce the r. value to less than one and so with most of the vaccines that we're using at the moment with reasonable estimates of how likely they are to be taken up in vaccine coverage i don't think we are at all looking at anything close to being able to stop transmission in communities from vaccination it's too early to get our hopes up that's our take a look at some other stories making news around the world u.s. vice president come on harris has sworn m.p. put a church to serve as u.s. transport secretary as has been chaffed and participated in the ceremony holding the bible but a judge as a former democratic presidential contender and the 1st openly gay man to serve any u.s. cabinet position. by matt ministrations says it has prolonged the

new start treaty with russia until 2026 that's after russian president vladimir putin signed off on the extension last week new start caps the number of warheads the powers and the boy it's the last bilateral arms control treaty still in force between the 2 country a. former european central bank chief mario druggy has agreed to try to form a new government of national unity in italy the governing coalition collapsed last month after a splinter party withdrew its support mr druggy often referred to as super mario is widely credited with saving the euro during the 2012 currency crisis. plant and animal species are currently dying out tens if not hundreds of times faster than the average over the past 10000000 years that's according to a new un report and who's to blame well unsurprisingly it's humankind and the way we eat has a lot to do with it. still feel and solitary cheetahs may not be the

biggest of all the big cats but they certainly are the fastest reaching speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour to catch their prey but despite their speed their numbers are falling to are you c.n.n. estimates that almost 7000 of the animals can still be found in the wild most in sub-saharan africa that's down from 100000 just over a century ago like many other animals found across the world their population is threatened most important is that some of. the most. because. farming in agriculture are a major driver of habitat loss and a key threat to more than 85 percent of the $28000.00 species at risk of extinction

that's according to a new u.n. report released wednesday together with animal welfare organization compassion in world farming and british think tank chatham house. at the heart of the problem is a cheaper food paradigm say authors which aims to produce ever more food at ever lower costs. around a 3rd of language is currently used as a group cultural land with one 3rd of that use for crops and the remaining 2 thirds for grazing livestock. to battle biodiversity loss humans would have to lower their intake of meat reducing the need for more land and significantly cut our food waste say authors of the report changing our global food system may be an uphill battle but saving biodiversity is paramount say experts.

almost. loss of. life. or diversity without reform destruction of ecosystems and habitats won't only accelerate biodiversity loss for animals like the cheetah say authors of the report but also threaten our ability to sustain human populations. $600.00 australian open players officials and support staff have been told to isolate a quarantine hotel after hotel employee tested positive for cope with 19 this is just 5 days before the start of the year's 1st grand slam and will affect all 6 warm up events in the city of melbourne the positive test breaks a 25 day of run of 0 community transmissions in victoria state capital but doesn't

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1200000 venezuelans need in colombia and illegally. why return to the way of a. visiting friends i don't think i'd ever go back there to live where i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. witness global news that matters. made for mines. this is due to every news africa on the program today the country with no plans to procure covert 19 vaccines tanzania's health minister has been promoting a herbal medicine she say's will ward off viruses dr dorothy watch even say's the ministry has no plans to receive vaccines for covert 19.

the chefs in south africa catering for the hungry and needy using projects that would have otherwise been thrown away. hello i'm christine it's good to have your company tanzania ses it has no plans to accept coronavirus vaccines the country's health minister dorothy i insist the country is safe instead she is encouraging people to practice hygiene and use traditional medicine to fifes disease else has any us president fully as face international criticism over his handling of the current virus pandemic it is unclear how the country is fairing at this stage but the african c.d.c. director says that quote if we do not fight this as a collective on the continent we will be doomed close quote. mosques

and social distancing president john microphone lead last week at a public event. well he keeps denying the seriousness of the decease and insist. you all would. without providing any proof he even claims vaccines are dangerous. sometimes and he ends recently went abroad in search of corona virus vaccines these people brought the virus into our country when they returned. let's stand firm this vaccine is not good at all. the government haven't published any coronavirus data for almost a year back then the country officially had just over 500 cases and 21 deaths president musharraf we has one people only to report official information on the virus and some activists have been arrested on the streets adar salaam many people

still have faith in their president. or know about it we don't have corona virus in tanzania if the country have the virus the relevant ministry would issue a statement but for now people should stop being fearful and work hard. but opposition politicians and some church leaders are speaking out telling their followers the virus does exist and seeing people must take precautions yes most other countries prepare their vaccine rollout tanzania's health minister sees no need. for how you know. the ministry of health does not have any plans of receiving the covert 19 vaccine that is said to be in use in other countries but. instead the minister is promoting a locally produced herbal remedy of lemons ginger and garlic. and

i'm now joined by journalists. welcome to the program sami so we we hear president for you and other senior government officials downplaying the seriousness of call that 19 what kind of an impact is that having on the tanzanian public. well i was so one of the biggest impact has been you know confusions reidy about the public because you know a lot of times it is fall and use and the how of the nation you know we did a region not a country so you know did you get dates about what's happening in the country you know we learn about the rest of the war doubting you know how they're fighting to virus and then into country you hear a lot of confusing messages from from costco and you know she choose to go on will remember for instance last studio prison mostly i know god has healed the country

from coronavirus and then sometimes he saves people should follow advices from health and she shows and i write she didn't record since so there's been a lot of confusion brady right and you talked about there being no official records but one of the countries health has been saying those at the front lines a lot in the hospitals the top says. unfortunately we haven't been able to hear a lot from the government made it very clear that the only people who are allowed in official standing in official information regarding kroto virus you know that the script the minister of health the prime minister and president himself and sort of not even doctors cannot speak about what they're experiencing in the hospital so we haven't been hampered here by doctors to hand accounts of doctors and how to fight. a semi apart from encouraging people to practice hygiene the hand washing and tranquil herbal mix this has the government putting a residence in place this way that the virus sounds for example. nope the

government has not put any such measures and the president has made it very clear that lockdown is not something that he's going to consider to cut and paste was way back since last year when the coronavirus was confined to the country and say to the government you know economy fast people have to go out and you know and they're being calm and so did he was not planning to true to issue a lot of that even just a few weeks ago when he repeated that statement in saying that the government is not planning to impose an octal. to tell us more about the role of the church is that it yourself president before he who is a devout catholic quoted as saying that god had eliminated call the 9000 from tanzania. but the church leaders who have spoken out they're preaching a very different message how important is that. so at the moment the church leaders and really just the does at large i would say that they've been seen as

really if building in that gap of leadership in terms of encouraging people to continue taking measures that we had for instance from you know i actually saw. this sunday telling a congregation plainly that a coronavirus is in tanzania and he repeated say that the virus is in tanzania and that people should continue to technicolor since he people to a country wearing must washing hands and w. together inks and things like that and this is very important because tanzania it's such a religious country you know almost everyone in tanzania identify system self as item wills lanes or christie and so some other. you know some other allegiance and so hearing these from very spiritual leaders talk spiritual redress is really kind of showing leadership in the country at a time when there's been a lot of consumer confusion is really at the state of coronavirus in the country so it is very very quiet. says that there are no official members coming from the

governments people have been muzzled inst into speaking what is likely the reality on the ground most countries on the continent are experiencing a very brittle 2nd wave any indications of what could be the put in tanzania. it is very difficult indeed to know what exactly is the picture but if we had for instance from again from from a top catholic bishop just last week actually he sayed there is something that they are not to see which is quite unusual they say usually for instance in of an area they would buy it maybe there would be cold store attend some funeral services maybe once a week but recently he ses they've been asked to a tour to officiate this is to. get together every almost every day of the week but we also seeing a lot of you know the news here on social media by to feed us quite

a lot quite unusual actually especially compared to how it was for instance before december and even throughout last year a lot of people coming forward saying i've lost my power and have or lost my uncle or lost my parents and so there's been a lot and usually increasing number of deaths from our reporting so that is the only indication but again we cannot confirm what exactly these people are dying we know coronavirus it's a disease that has been taking lives of many people so it's really not that pleased the situation that assange. and it is to south africa now where more than $10000000.00 tons of food go to waste every year and that's despite the fact that there are almost $60000000.00 people in the country who go hungry every single day now that food would have ended up in landfills but it's now saving hundreds of lives every day a group of local chefs calling themselves chefs with compassion are gathering waste

food that's that for human consumption cooking it and feeding thousands of people who have been burdened by covert 19. month trip to calculate. the intercoms big events up to 100 in and employed i don't believe. that you on the ways over to west. this comes from the chefs with compassion. that's the good of chefs they are the ones who take over food for dogs and keep it up for those in need it gives all of us and especially the guys and my core group around me a great sense of pride and a great sense of satisfaction and knowing that we have made a difference in so many lives and we have saved so many people from the brink of

hunger and starvation. tons of unsold. and i believe that the organization is where almost from the biggest price for just every day. tells the story in supermarkets also for the hospitals to eat expiry date. careful to sort out what can be turned into a match and not. put a group we've been looking for me for. some of the work that we thought about if. we have all. one sorted the focus here. distributed to more than that to send out a bunch of hospital. activists does it produce this and all kinds of this just looks many to me. who more than one would believe me don't you since ships would question stuff to be much nastier. made to show you one of the

chefs to make 2 displays to feed the block the pain that i saw within those people reality motivated me to carry on cooking and there's going to be no stop to this cooking as far as i am concerned. some of the centers of the country that they need to produce and believe but even as food parcels to children's homes homes. and individuals in finding something just don't be you know p.p.c. free weeping ever see. the movie 100 voted involved in the project out of their achievement to see the west and more importantly how different in 200 pennies. and that is that for now be sure to check out all of the stories on dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter now shares of compassion on the only project producing nourishment for the needy and south africa

so they will navy with pitches off community kitchens and a vibrant project that's still available they see it next time about. into the conflict zone 2 so. many countries are watching anxiously to see how the new u.s. administration will we set relations with them my guest this week from jerusalem is the community affairs minister. how will his government react to joe biden's new policy on the road and he's reigning tolerance for the expansion jewish. comic book

to. 60 minutes t w. t w. prepares for life after jeff bezos at its helm look at what his successor and he jesse could bring to the world's largest online retailer and what challenges for the company. also on the show joe kayser swansong at siemens is pleasing to investors years german industrial profits and orders.

the show. it's good to have you with us well jeff bezos is synonymous with amazon the company he built from a modest online book retailer into a 1.7 trillion dollar everything store basis is now stepping back active in july and heading his company to one of his top deputies and many ways amazon is in prime for raking in profit like never before what challenges do loom. what comes next for the world's richest man jeff bezos founded amazon in a washington garage in 1994 and built it into the he met that is offended the business of buying and selling goods the 57 year old has become one of the most respected and feared business leaders in the world and the richest but the net worth of almost $200000000000.00 in an e-mail to employees business wrote that being the c.e.o. of amazon is a deep responsibility and it's consuming. side by stepping back he'll

find time to focus on his other projects such as the washington post which he bought in 2013 for $250000000.00. or his rocket company blue origin. base that was has invested heavily in this business but is lacking behind rival tech boss ilan musk space x. . meanwhile his successor andy chassis is set to inherit a business that is increasingly under attack. for how wield its platform to undercut or even drive competitors out of business. for how it treats its sprawling network of 1300000 employees who have complained of brutally long shifts poor pay and unsafe conditions and warehouses. as amazon's influence and profit grow so due to the demands terrain and its power it now falls on jessie to answer those

calls earlier i spoke with alison stewart alan she's chief executive of international marketing partners in london and i asked her what's expected of the new c.e.o. and you just. so he currently runs the web services business which basically hosts the cia's website and a number of other very important websites to perhaps even go chevelle as and this is an incredibly successful large and growing business that provides that infrastructure for other companies and provides that platform for them to have their websites and interactivity and sell merchandise for many retailers as well so it's quite important it's an infrastructure business it's not a consumer facing business it's not a retail business but clearly this is the bet that you know just be source and andy jassi are both making on the future of the company that doesn't mean to

say it isn't about retail in the future but it does mean it's about the data and clearly from hosting all these websites around the globe as amazon web services does your amassing quite a bit of information there particularly skilled at analytics so that's that's where the future bet is. alison stewart alan there let's go over to our financial correspondent younes cord in new york for a quick market something yet another tech company google having a big day on wall street working tell us. it's been a stellar quarter for google's company alphabet they had a profit off a good $215000000000.00 that was almost $5000000000.00 more than a year ago and specially if you compare the last quarter was what happened in the 2nd quarter and a lot of companies in the midst of the pandemic had to cut costs and was that spending we solve it then quite a drop when it came to the edge revenue but that definitely changed them at revenue

in the past quarter by a good 22 percent due to pet a very strong performance with the revenue increase of almost 50 percent and also the cloud service from alpha bit had an increase of revenue advice of about 50 percent even if that business is not profitable yet there's a lot of investment that needs to be done but overall a very strong quarter and revenue is back so that's probably the big message for google and the stock was up by more than 7 percent so reaching an all time high here on wall street. with the latest from wall street thank you german industrial giant siemens appears to have weathered a difficult 2020 quite well its latest results show orders and profits up on the up are up on a year ago before the coronavirus pandemic hit in particular by strong growth in

china for c.e.o. joe keynes or that ending his time as c.e.o. on a positive note. joe qasr was known inside siemens as a reformer under his leadership siemens was radically restructured from a global conglomerate that had gotten too bloated to be efficient to a slimmer siemens eiji was several spun off divisions siemens health in years went public in 2018 siemens energy and 2020 and despite the pandemic siemens 1st quarter results for this fiscal year were strong with income soaring by 1500000000 euros on the year so who is taking over the home of the german engineering giant that would be deputy c.e.o. roland bush who wants to signal a forward thinking stance. in coming. in the next decade the global economy will reinvent itself the backbone of our economies will be completely transformed by digitalisation industry infrastructure mobility energy and health care the pandemic

has already accelerated this emotional and. shareholders now hope that the company will continue to find ways to remain profitable but just this week the siemens energy and which siemens still holds a one 3rd stake announced it was slashing nearly 8000 jobs including 3000 in germany employee organizations hope that their workers won't be left in the cold during this transitional and often to mulch us period in siemens history. or oil saw its biggest gains in a year wednesday as investors hope for a rebound from the pandemic price drop a drop that cost oil companies billions last year but a bigger question looms over the industry as the world tries to d. carbonized are the best days of fossil fuels behind us even the major players are sure to take b.p. it's divesting many of its oil and gas assets and it's revving up investments in renewables here's c.e.o. baron ard looney you can see that clip i don't think we have him up. well he said

we all want energy that is reliable and affordable but that is no longer enough it must also be cleaner that's what he said in a statement to his company in february now compare that to exxon mobil the american company believes that oil and gas will remain viable much further into the future and here's c.e.o. dan woods in a memo to employees saying that we conclude that the needs of society will drive more energy use in the years ahead and an ongoing need for the products we produce that from an october memo to his employees so 2 different directions there and to help sort of sort this out for us i want to talk to ron buso he covers oil and energy for reuters from london thank you so much for joining us. why is it that the past year has sharpened the thinking from oil companies so much to their future yes there's no question that the collapse in energy demand due to the virus demick

really kind of got. executives thinking hard about the outlook for energy consumption in general and for their company specifically and for many of the europeans oil majors. they saw that or their forecasts of the epidemic actually accelerated all the scenarios or peak oil contract in demand for gas. so that helped them focus on their new strategies to shift to renewable energy and gradually move away from oil and gas even if these are very long term strategies so we saw that 2 companies they're taking different directions what do investors think we have a sense of how investors see it. well you have a very clear sense that. they're not really buying into into either.

side of the pond. b.p. shell and to the european ones and others presented vicious. strategies to the crease there are greenhouse gas emissions over the next decades with. no more renewables who are more solar and they were welcomed in concept but shareholders actually didn't buy into it and their shares didn't really really poorly over the past year b.p. and shell are there on something like 40 percent over the past year. same for exxon only that. it has its own problems even regardless of the transition how difficult is it for companies this big to suddenly transition i'm guessing suddenly may not be the right that word there but how hard is it for them. it's

extremely extremely hard these are companies that are 12150 years old they kind of invented the more than energy system in many ways they have a very loyal and focused on business and they know what they're doing here and they're now trying to shift into a completely new business model a new type of energy renewables and even a new kind of customers because they're seeing you know that consumers will start driving up in petrol using petrol cars and move to electric vehicles so they're offering has to move from oil to electricity which is something relatively new to them so it's huge huge huge task for them and they think they have kind of the big ideas of how to get there the europeans at least but now right now in the year into these strategies we started to realize that the details are so

important and managing to to remain such a big companies while transitioning into a new type of energy is truly a tremendous challenge which many people question if they can or even should. are afraid we'll have to leave it there right buso covers oil and energy with reuters thank you so much. right that's it for me and the v.w. business team here in charlotte as always you can find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business and facebook and twitter thanks for joining us. you know that 77 percent topic are younger than 6 o'clock. that's me and me and you. can feel what time it all forces what. the 77 percent so called tough mobs up front

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orchestra. we begin with the winners of the sundance film festival in america which was mainly held virtually this year and the biggest winner was undoubtedly the touching coming of age drama. which garnered 4 wards including the grand jury prize the audience prize and best director of. the film is about ruby the only hearing member of an otherwise deaf family she's a talented singer and is torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning parents. sundance is famous for its documentary section and another big winner there was the summer of soul which took the grand jury prize and the audience award to sew a documentary about the harlem culture festival of 969 which has been dubbed.