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this is the news live from berlin tensions boil over in myanmar police use water cannons to disperse peaceful protesters in defiance of a military coup that demanding the release of all said leader aung san suu kyi and the return of democracy. also coming up at least 14 feared dead in northern india as a glacier breaks on the shipping devastating flooding the search continues for more
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than a 100 people still missing. and winter has returned with a vengeance to much of germany with freezing temperatures and snow and ice putting a stop to most forms of transport possible. and huge celebrations in florida pastor tampa bay buccaneers beat the kansas city chiefs to the super bowl. welcome to the program tens of thousands of people across myanmar have joined a 3rd day of demonstrations against the military's removal of their elected leader police used water cannon in the capital as protesters gave the 3 finger salute it has come to symbolize the. democracy move the protesters are demanding the
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release of the leaders including us on sujit monday marks exactly one week since sochi and other elected lawmakers were detained. for the story i'm now joined by alone i feel make an activist in the economic economic competition down on his obscuring his face for safety reasons the our security forces there handling the protests is there a powerful escalation. on yes at this point everything is a bit unpredictable because there are more balls than the days before that at least double or triple the amount right now so. revenues from a draft draw in younger leaders will use any violence so far they're physically moving around congested areas rather than heavily station or somewhere else and then we have seen some people trying to cooperate with police so all in all
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here is so obvious to people if you will just walking on the streets including nurses medical workers lawyers even from ministry trying to support a civil disobedience and. internet and social media i says have been disrupted yesterday and how are people getting their information how they are contacting each other to organize this protest. right right now we have busy a brief we're hoping we'll have the internet for longer but we're not sure at this point because it's been on and off so for example if we don't have the internet we have to rely solely on like phone calls and as some had there we don't have any whole network at all which happened on the 1st day of the coots than what happens is that we have to use them offline absolutely busy bluetooth messaging and so all
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the state and the industry so our busy concern right now is that there are a lot of support that we need to provide for the vote this fall because movement but right now we're hoping the information flow stay the same because there are a lot of fake news or rumors are running around so we hope to reduce that and then get the correct information across the people. tell me how do protesters feel about . this she still enjoys a widespread support. well in that sense yes but for example you might see there are a lot of yesterday there were a lot of people wearing red and supporting and all the but for today for example there are a lot of younger people wearing black and now blue shirts are just sure that you know it's not just about one party and this is about. everyone for the whole population including minorities and religious people of different age concerns
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everyone in the country and that they want to show that this is the villian against the riparian military regime government. thank you very much alone i activists and filmmaker. thank you thank you very much. at least 14 people are dead and more than a 100 are missing in northern india after part of a himalayan glaciers broke off unleashing a torrent of water that crashed into a dam. a short moment of hope. and then relief as rescuers pulled this man out from the debris alive. he's one of the lucky ones. several people have been reported dead and dozens mainly employees of the regime guarding a power plant are still missing. this amateur video shows the moment the small dam
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was swept away after part of a mountain glacier broke unleashing an avalanche of water and debris. it then cut further through the area hitting the hydroelectric power plant in the valley below. what is it that at the moment i looked up and down but couldn't see anything but then after 5 minutes i saw something that looked like a scene from a bollywood film. 50 to a 100 people running for their lives but couldn't be saved as the river engulfed them some argue optimism under. the tragedy happened in the top of an area of the state of bitter a current in northern india. this region in the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides. most of it what the situation here is still dangerous people are leaving their homes and are fleeing to the forest they're taking their belongings including their quilts and mattresses locals from
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neighboring villages are worried the dam near them could also collapse parking their cars and got to tell you that. rescue operations are ongoing the government has told the local says shelter near the forest as they fear the disaster could strike again. across one of mr just joins us now from delhi nisha how are rescue operations going. i had their own standard working continuously at the location where the disaster took believe that acting on the lot of police force the army the navy s. and i was to look for survivors of oil ease and then of course the disaster response forces from the state and national level as well now while there have been only $178.00 were there missing because they have found do you believe the list from one off project from from 2 different projects that was hit in the debris
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there is also was concern that this dam b.b. got it flooded down could have caused more damage just houses have been evacuated and the search continues separately shopped within dominance as well 12 of these have been rescued but dozens more us that the efforts i'm going to rescue dozens more. maybe have been foreseen and could people have been evacuated in time. i had there was no warning right before disparity that incidentally happened so quickly that the glacier has led to an avalanche and to a mass of not that people did not have to react as we can see from the visuals from guests today how well that have been longstanding warnings by activists by local journalists in my men to gun owners seeing the construction of the longest what of what each is dangerous and that there isn't that is what we need to prevent such
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disasters in the long good on rethinking this construction in backing going to be never massive one school science intervention which caused the loss of life of close to 6000 people which was a glimmer in my mind up above the conditions and the spigot logically sensitive even though there were efforts made after that instilled news rules to prove any further construction however got in what the government has been criticized for really back some of these were some of these was when they came into fire for the 1st time back in 2040 messages are there live for us thank you michelle. let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world south africa has suspended its rollout of the oxford astra zeneca corona virus vaccine as more clinical trials suggest that the vaccine of it only minimal protection against the new covert variant present in the country authorities say they will offer vaccines
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by johnson and johnson and pfizer in the coming weeks. leftist candidate under oath or ours has won a 1st round victory in ecuador's presidential election early estimates gave him over 32 percent of the vote advance to a runoff scheduled for april 11th 2 candidates are neck and neck for 2nd place. iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has said the country will only return to the 2015 nuclear deal if the u.s. lift sanctions but the u.s. says it won't lift sanctions just to get iran back to the negotiating table deal limited iran's uranium enrichment capacity to make it harder for tehran to develop nuclear weapons. george schultz u.s. secretary of state under president ronald reagan has died at the age of $100.00 shots was instrumental in helping improve u.s. soviet relations in the 1980s including negotiating a historic nuclear arms treaty which put the 2 superpowers closer to ending the
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cold. northern and central germany have been hit by heavy snow and icy conditions with disruptions to public transport likely to continue into monday authorities urged people to stay at home road crews have been working hard to keep the highways safe and germany's way way service wants travelers that some services may be canceled parts of the country could see up to 25 centimeters of snow on monday. i know i've never seen so much snow in my life it's really fantastic. but not everyone is as pleased with the big freeze that's hit germany this weekend western areas got more than their fair share of the snow more than they've seen in hears but still less than was forecast. this expressway had to be closed highway police in the west and northwest responded to hundreds of accidents thankfully just few serious ones. it's in full view all the
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snows drifting and another drifts that bear ice we simply don't know where to start or when this will end cars are stuck on gradients and parking spaces and some even in the middle of intersections where they just can't move forward despite their winter tires. in central germany frozen rain stopped traffic on a major expressway snowplows and grid are out in force. the weather is proving too much even for many trains the german train service already started reducing connections on saturday like ian doth mount many long distance trains are staying put. major hubs like hamburg's main station really empty thankfully many travelers were forewarned and stayed at home. those who did stay at home have their own little challenges to face.
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sure it's fun to keep you in good shape but if the trees is again well then things could become more problematic as the snow gets hard and heavy that could be a problem on the roofs. for one of the things that coronavirus got me working from home so this is a welcome little change of pace for me and i think it's regarded. in the capital fun loving berlin us young and old took advantage of the snowy sunday to get some sledding and. we've sent all special correspondent jared reed in to the cold and he's in the house and joins us from that i wasn't feeling. very very cold when we arrived here 2 days ago there was no snow on the ground at all and as you can see behind and all around me the situation has changed a lot anything between 20 to 40 centimeters of snow has fallen across several
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german states here in how no clearing vehicles were out in force yesterday clearing streets that were just completely covered in snow it's still snowing so they'll be out in force again today one of the big problems here in hanover has been the cancellation of trains as we just heard in that report how it was kind of a central point through which many long distance trains travel when day when they go through germany so the cancellation of these trains is a fairly big deal people have been told that evil won't be able to travel at all today all they should expect quite a long delays. train trains there but they're also with other disruptions by the storm right. exactly kind of all of the things you would expect in an extreme weather event which is what meteorologists are calling you so aside from council trained services counseled by services they've also been lots and lots of problems
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on the roads very slippery roads from black hundreds of car accidents have been reported on the streets and highways agency services haven't had to go help people . power lines to even one of germany's top in this league football code matches had to be postponed as well one of the big worries now is that there's a lot of snow around 240 centimeters has fallen in some areas but snow drifts could make that even worse up to one me being told if they do have to travel around to 2 to be careful of snow drifts. and we expect the rest of the week across germany. it's going to snow throughout the rest of monday but then it's expected that should stop sometime today imagine the warnings in place across several states and even
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when the snow does stop the weather authorities are warning people that it's still going to be very cold and the main message is that really winter has arrived. jerry agreed in the cold in thank you drive to the city of melbourne now where the australian open tennis tournament is officially underway sums up in a minute it wouldn't happen amid the pandemic tough measures implemented by the australian government to be 19. is almost a distant memory. to the biggest. while large parts of the world are still under lockdown this is what's happening on australia's beaches. off with the mask and into a swimsuit australians are now enjoying themselves as if the pandemic never existed and in their country that's almost true it's been a long time since there's been a significant number of coronavirus cases. just have.
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to be able to come. back. as a really. harsh lockdowns are now a thing of the past. and the tightest restrictions. up the city was shut down with a comprehensive curfew and stringent enforcement. testing isolation. are hard they're known around the world but. it also imposes substantial fines for violations i think that's a real achievement because it puts us back into a. transmission threat.
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to protect the. community cases that we're not aware of lock down and isolation. on a continent. sometimes not permitted to return home from overseas and tourists are banned altogether but there are exceptions tennis players here for the australian open had to quarantine for 14 days keeping yourself busy can be a challenge but tennis pro. got creative in his hotel room. now bourne is trying to ensure that the coronavirus is eliminated from the 1st major tennis and end of the year. now the biggest event in american sports quarterback tom brady showed us the tampa bay buccaneers beat the kansas city
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chiefs on their home field in the super brady through 3 touchdown passes as the buccaneers thumped kansas city 131 to 9 making this brady's 7th super bowl title in 10 appearances and his 5th also able player award to put the win into perspective no other quarterback in the n.f.l. has won more than 4 super bowls brady also broke his own mark 4 oldest player to win a super bowl at the age of $43.00. joined back residents of sports via skype to talk super bowl $55.00 between the tampa bay buccaneers and the kansas city chiefs price you said tom brady and tampa bay would win. yes i did because i looked at it like this again our tom brady the greatest of all time was going up against the baby go catch my home's it's similar to
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a jordan vs coke beat scenario you know like from the n.b.a. well the way his game started is what i expect the expected top to stay calm cool collected in the pocket and dissect the defense the way he did you know tampa bay got off to an early lead healthy and off instantly they even made records this tight end he brought back out of retirement robbed one county set a record of having them that duo now has 14 playoff 4 postseason touchdowns you know that's an incredible record tom brady had no interceptions the surprising thing was the lack luster off and on the opposite side of the football led by patch moments for me this is the 1st time kansas city has been held in single digits since i can remember you know completely this season and listening has been known for comebacks and so forth you know what tom brady you know did when he did sound pretty brazen stopped leadership and greatness to its name and the result prove that you know there are he's out the lord of the reigns you know if he's in
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a room with great athletes like michael jordan and others they would have to put out tom brady because 7 super bowl rings is untouchable right now will he retired and he's $43.00. you know he said he could play until he's 45 years old quarterbacks have played the record actually those quarterback ever plays the 48 years old that was decades and decades ago but the way tom brady looks no intercessions crisp clean passes i would argue that maybe he could double up maybe he could return i'll see why not you know a lot of rules on place to protect quarterbacks from getting injured i think somebody can stick around for a little bit longer i know his teammates they love that because they are loving their moment right now in a joint with the super bowl in their home city. so entertainment always a big factor that they have time so did you enjoy it. yeah you know it was
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different because you know fans you know 20000 limited fans the weekend it was very visual you know he's the most green r. and b. album he has the most album of all time so he obviously has a fan base east gets 70000000 dollars of his own money into the production and i could see why because it was beautiful you had a choir well quite a live band at one point who just like it with masks i mean i would urge anyone to go back and look at it and one thing i really enjoyed he had one moment where he looked like he had a you know a post can he was hoping the selfie stick or something they're performing you know and i'm sure that really brought to the viewers because it brought me and it kind of what we have of getting a little a little tired and then definitely what you have so it definitely wasn't is it and you know it was nice. to thank you chris thank you. i'm a turn to football now bundesliga in germany i've got front foot collected 3
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important points on sunday after completing a $31.00 win at hoffenheim frankfurt coach. as now faced hoffenheim 6 times during his tenure at frankfurt and he's won on every occasion sunday's triumph saw untaught extend a sparkling run of form and even move up into the champions league places in the german to. reach 16 points from a possible 18 this year frankfurt other inform team of 2021 every reason then for culture at what's out of rio relaxed ahead of his trash week hoffenheim. in the 15th many feel it cost each was $63.00 on frankfurt's left flank and the serbian had the back of the net in his sights peep blasted his shot past all of our men and into the bottom corner to open the schools. hoffenheim drew level directly after the break when eat a spare who kept cool in position before finding the very same bottom corner with
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his finish. but just past the hour mark frankfurt hit back with 2 goals in quick succession. first off a cost each free kick was not by defender evan. and 2 minutes later provided another this time setting up under a silver for the prolific portuguese strike his 17th league goal of the season. 31 the final score as frankfurt's exceptional run of form continues at the hooter side are now up to 4th independently gets a table. a 2nd look at the results of this weekend when the action from ford as we saw got past hoffenheim earlier on sunday league leaders mind munich beat hatter bill in 2nd place live handled show maintained its good for all with a win gotten lost again cologne big brother's blood bath liver causing beach start
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of mines took a rare victory over on your belly in the weather forced postpone postponement of the much and i look at the bonus they got table shows by in munich still leading the way by a hefty 7 points like sickroom and 2nd with both spoke 3rd frankfurt are in 4th leverkusen just behind the 2nd half shows the very bottom shook and minds in the automatic relegation places. football lots of champions league home match against liverpool will not be played in hungary that's because the german government has blocked almost all entries from britain to try to restrict the spread of nuclear variants of the coronavirus round of 16 lead will be played as. in budapest on 5 years 60 the site chosen off of them as the go side request for travel exemption for liverpool was turned down.
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europe's most famous carnival has kicked off in venice where for a 2nd year events are drastically scaled back because of the pandemic know throngs of tourists on some months where this year some locals are donning costumes and masks or the traditional variety after businesses launched a campaign encouraging venetians to rediscover their city without the crowds or the fans unable to visit right now some events are being streamed online for pleasure. they may be. good fodder was it you're watching the news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you police in the myanmar have used water cannons to disperse peaceful protesters as opposition to a military coup grows increasingly bold thousands have taken to the streets to demand the release of ousted leader aung san suu kyi and the return of democracy.
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and that's it from me and the news team for now up next well signs show tomorrow is the day where we'll be looking at a new approach to cancer therapy could open the way in the united nations i'll have more news see you at the top of the hour until then all its news information as usual on our website e.w. dot com as in berlin thanks for.
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