pull from the winning party the n l d to be released that's what we all want. my theories or nothing. it isn't only support for one party or even one later these demands for democracy run fun to. look i know where very glad that the protests are happening in the entire country. we will fight until we win. and there are signs the tide is turning among all thora t's to this video posted on social media appears to show a policeman shaking the hand of a protester before they open up the barricades designed to hold protesters back. in his 1st t.v. address to the nation where the country's new military leaders sought to justify a coup repeating allegations of fraud in last year's election. where it is to getting the responsible for a tease regarding voter fraud. promised fresh elections but gave no timeline for

when they might be held. the comments have done nothing to quell the anger and defiance of these protestors he say it's too little too late. they want the army out and say compromise is no longer an option. and for more i'm joined now by an activist from mandalay and for security reasons he is wishing to remain anonymous so i'm just going to call him sam sam welcome to the program what's happening where you are. yes i'm totally i'm mentally. well earlier today there was a large crack down to the protester in a street and i saw. the police are using water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowd and right now. another group of large protests there has gather to again protest. ok and protesting we have to say despite warnings from the

military are you and other protesters worried about a crackdown from the military and we have some reports of shots fired at protesters and one female protester killed in the capital what have you been hearing. yes then you have spread like wildfire. in facebook so. the police showed up to. be peaceful protesters that were just. stunning to me on the streets and fairly i'm very proud of one person has died at least 3 has been injured and emotionally. more than a 100 people has been detained and arrested by the police and probably for obvious reasons i'm not only inside the protests but are right close to the actual truth of

your protest and as we wait for verification of those reports tell us what is the mood right now among protesters and what is the sense of resolve and how far are you another activist willing to take this given you know the challenges that you are now facing. yes for. for for the cause we're willing to go to the end and the mood amongst people use like. we're not going to give up. we're going to go chanting in the streets very low. so i can definitely feel the fear is not we do know that he will. ready to go from the. sound we thank you so much for joining us to tell us a little bit more about your experience out there on the streets of mandalay. as we

mentioned you are an activist and we appreciate your insights. now 6 months have passed since fell over since presidential election triggered the biggest protest of the country's recent history against alexander who goes 26 year role since then the regime has not let up in its crackdown on protesters in fact it recently intensified it he's an economy has been speaking with but young belorussians to find out how the events of last summer have changed their lives. on how. much.

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question. now the ongoing crackdown in belarus that we've been hearing about from those individuals firsthand it continues to provoke debate and outrage in many countries including in germany over the weekend chancellor angela merkel have this message for president lukashenko feel from the producers who will be calling on the political leadership in minsk to immediately end their repressive acts and to release of political prisoners although we call on you to respect the rights of your citizens is a free expression of opinion in germany and the european union will continue to

hold accountable all those who are responsible for the ongoing human rights violations in belarus as we've demonstrated with the round of e.u. sanctions. and the chancellor also announcing details of the german government's so-called action plan for a civil society envelop which is aimed at actively supporting the bell overseeing opposition support will include offering refuge to persecuted opposition activists the easier visa access germany would also offer treatment to traumatized victims of torture and there's a plan for scholarship programs that are intended to help young professionals and independent journalists. in a hospice on the story she joins us now from berlin nina tell us a little bit more about this action plan and how it helps or rather it intends to help the bellaver see an opposition. well germany is putting some $21000000.00 euros on the table that's according to the foreign ministry for this

action plan for civil society in belarus and the idea of course behind this plan is to step up pressure on the political leadership in minsk and to send a clear signal whose side the german government is on and that is the opposition side and so more concretely in a 1st round the government would help people get out of the country and find refuge in germany and that would concern people who are very acutely in danger and don't see a future for themselves in belarus we have not been given any more details so far by germany's foreign ministry how those people would be selected for example but those people could be politically persecuted as well as medically injured people we're hearing and germany would offer them medical treatment including professional trauma treatment for victims of torture for example the german government has also said that it would hold human rights abusers responsible what could that look like . well the german government says that it's unbearable that since the demonstrations started some 30000 people have been arrested and there are 200

political prisoners and not a single trial has even been started against security forces and of course as we all know that you has since then agreed on 3 rounds of sanctions against belarus but this current action plan that's in the works by the german government can also be interpreted as a sign that they are conceding that these sanctions are not enough to send this clear signal and to have a real impact on the political leadership in belo rousseau they want to step up pressure and germany and others are working on ways to document human rights violations in a way that those would be court proof and they're looking at 2 ways of doing that one would be via the un human rights commission in geneva and the other would be to commission n.g.o.s on the ground with collecting evidence and that means that in the long run they're not ruling out that there could be an international criminal court for belarus. in berlin thank you.

here are some other stories making news around the world of court in hong kong has denied bail for jimmy july a prominent newspaper publisher and government critic he faces charges under the territories new national security law why was arrested in december and a crackdown on pro-democracy activists protesting chinese influence in hong kong. german exports tumbled to 9.3 percent in 2020 due to the coronavirus trade disruptions according to new government data meanwhile new lockdown measures have hampered a trade recovery that began in the 2nd half of last year in december and german exports edged up just one tenths of a percent. rescue efforts continue in the indian himalayas following sunday's dam pull ups 26 people have been confirmed dead and some 170 more are still missing the dam was overwhelmed in a flash flood after part of

a collation broke off. now in just a few hours' time the 1st mars probe from the u.a.e. is set to enter orbit around the red planet the all a model arabic for hope is the 1st weather satellite due to orbit mars its goal is to obtain a comprehensive picture of the martian atmosphere over the seasons and maybe even to answer the question of why earth's once life friendly neighbor has become a frosty desert of ice and dust but 1st of all a moment has to get all systems operating correctly after entering mars orbit remote control from earth will no longer be possible and we're joined now by her excellency sarah beenz use of a myriad she is minister of state for advanced technology in the united arab emirates and chair of the country's space agency thank you so much for making time to speak with you today 1st of all congratulations on making history 2nd of all i'd

like to ask you how hopeful you are that mission hope succeeds especially given the complexities of mars missions and the failure rate which sends it around 60 percent . it's a pleasure to be here today and i'm comfortable the spacecraft as currently stand we've been operating it for almost 7 months now on its journey. and it's been operating according to our expectations with my and i'm comfortable due to this entire procedure being tested by the team we are waiting for a sequence of entering orbit around mars. comfortably waiting and just the anticipating our entry into space exploration as a nation and we know that this is the arab world's 1st interplanetary mission why is the u.a.e. going to mars now the 1st reason for us going to ours is to develop our skills and skill sets and genius and science in the emirates to design and develop

complex systems and as you mentioned earlier this is a fully autonomous system very complex piece of technology that needs to operate on its own for most of its journey that has accelerated the rate of development of capabilities within the emirate for both sciences and also engineer and we're hoping that spills over to other industries and issues in the country it's both important from a scientific perspective this being the 1st satellite markets give us a better understand dynamics and climate change on a neighbor who looks somewhat like us and to get a better understanding on how planets transform and change through time i'd just like to ask you before we go if i could get your assessment perhaps on a personal level because you know we've had much reporting about the number of women in fact that are on your team it's been reported that you know some 80 percent of your science team in fact is female do you consider yourself a role model in a country where i am see international for example says women continue to face

discrimination in law and in practice. so what we're looking at in terms of women in science in the words is we just go back to number of graduates 50 percent of graduates in stem where the course last and women so the percent of graduates the call is degree are one. is that reflected on to the. overall it's the spacecraft and that's designing a very next mission from the him are 34 percent women like you mentioned are science teams 80 percent women are they are based on merit based on what they contribute but for the design and developments our mission i might call her not face any adversity throughout my career abuse working at the the russian space center for from almost 12 years ago always becoming a mixture within the cabinets and also has representation in the thinking with our parliament that is today if you percent and they did to be women sarla mary

a minister of state for advanced technology in the united arab emirates thank you so much for joining us here on news and we look forward to hearing more about how your mission proceeds. now lebanon's medical systems are in a crisis as the country battles an increase in covert 19 infections the government has begun using its 24 hour a day lockdown even though the number of deaths is still rising lebanon's economy is also in freefall with more than half of its citizens now living below the poverty line that's forcing many health workers to look for work abroad. every bank here is full. staff working round the clock as they risk their lives to save lives. like their patients here at refugee camp near a university hospital in beirut they too are frightened.

let me help you i see my children every day but every day i live in fear the die may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks of what i see wears off and we have about 20 patients and emergency all waiting for them and give it to her this is it really is very exhausting for all of stuff. for almost a month the country has been on dry 24 hour a day care few to try to tackle the spread of covert 19 but anti lockdown protests in cities like tripoli push pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers

the number of. infections and the community is still hard we have more than 20 percent positivity and if we prematurely open the company that will lead to the reversal of the all the gains that we have. in our chief. more patients here are receiving the best care available a shortage of medicines is making the job for health professionals even tougher. the economic crisis is also forcing some to leave lebanon altogether. we can't see the skilled helps with kids at all livest they are looking forward to leave because i don't have exact numbers but a crystal ball from a hopeless tejas. it's to show who's still looked at stuff to have to sit through 30252 dishes like 60 people have devoted they have left which is it puts you to

live. in the middle of a pandemic hospitals like this calm to afford to lose a single member of staff. with lebanon in crisis they may have no choice. the world health organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus of that investigation its investigations out on covered new information but not dramatically changed the picture of the outbreak the head of the mission there ben embark said that the team's research suggested that it was extremely unlikely that the virus leaked from a chinese lab and that it most probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary species the w.h.o. team also said that there was no indication of covert 19 in the chinese city of all han before december of 2019 the team spent several weeks visiting sites in the city where the virus is thought to have originated. let's bring in correspondent

bollinger who is in beijing who followed this w.h.o. press conference for us mathias how are these findings likely to be received. well the findings were not conclusive. or did not come up with results that the virus originated there and then it jumped like this and then this is how it emerged but that was also not expected because that this was just ground work but it's very interesting that they have come up with a ranking of hypotheses and this ranking is probably going to be received quite well by the chinese government i think it is important for the chinese government that the w h o has practically not totally because they would never exclude completely something they don't have enough information for that but they're not recommending

to pursue the hypothesis of the virus jumping from a laboratory that has been a part of this is that has been extremely popular with the for my u. s. administration and it would certainly if it if this was true this was certainly embarrass the chinese government so they would be relieved about that and they will also probably see quite positively that they hypothesis that frozen foods might have played a role in this present of this infection in the very beginning in one hand is still on the table although it's not the mont most probable one the most probable one is that it might it would have jumped from an animal via an intermediate animal to humans for example from bats to something that people eat more frequently

like another wild animal or some other animal and then via consumption of this meat to a human so this was the most probable hypothesis from the very beginning it was where people had talked about before. no all the political fights started. so from the chinese side this problem they're probably quite happy with how this mission went of course not many people will look into this and we'll see the final report which is not out yet and see whether there's anything that w. h. o. might have overlooked in the ts media reports. show the w.h.o. team getting access to a variety of different sites even getting access to the lab talk with us a little bit about you know that the difficulty is to come to a clear conclusion at the level of access indeed that they did have and also the timing of this investigation as well there

are lots of questions regarding the access that they really have hot so father press conferences still going on so far we haven't heard a clear word about what they were able to access and what they were not able to access it's also clear that they are visiting one here after the initial outbreak although this visit have been planned for serious july when there was a preparatory mission for it that is to suit their many people who suspect that china might have to be brutally delayed this or that they might have not. been able to agree on the conditions of this mission earlier so there are questions regarding the timing as well but even if this had been even if they had all the access they needed it would still be very difficult to determine the origin because you would need to find patient 02 people have a clear answer mathias bellinger in beijing thank you.

and with that now you're up to date on the w. news i'm sorry kelly in berlin thank you so much for watching coming up next it is kicked off with the bundesliga highlights.

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catch of the wind has world cup winners sammy could direct and bring much needed stability but a happy people in this league of return was never really on the cards as how to host it league leading by. fellow strugglers shall also busy shoppers strivings gaudron was stuffy straight into the fire against lights but the leak 2nd best side went particularly perturbed by shell because new comers once again flexing their attacking muscles. lay the fuse and also brought in reinforcements in january though there established stars did just as much heavy lifting in their explosive dismantling of stuttgart. match a 20 with funky fashions. need faces. stormy weather and goes a little. let's get started with hats and. there's

never a one minute to test the building this week i saw in the world cup winner to help them in the battle against the draw. have to hope sami can direct can provide much needed leadership. he's a big name with a big career but with some question marks as will hear its last full match for the previous club even to schools in september 2019. so it was no surprise to those who have followed his recent career that could hear a started this match on the bench when he watched his new club create the 1st chance in a feisty 1st top performance play went back and forth and by never really managed to gain the upper hand. but 11 minutes in the guest were

awarded a golden opportunity the penalty. the matter for robert levin dusky who hadn't missed from the spot in 2 years until now. well perry but when he asked don lemon belsky's run of 16 consecutive converted penalties screeching to a halt. the fact that byron would take the lead just 10 minutes later had more to do with luck than anything else. kingsley kimonos harmless shot was we could lead afflicted by nicholas stock leaving our stein helping us. by and headed into the break with the slimmest of leads. to tierra isn't the only new signing in berlin left wing and the money ever gone yet she came on to his hat and a blue and instantly improved their attacking play. the

serbia international is online from a limp say and looks like he could really help his new club. by and meanwhile struggled not only did live in dusky mrs penalty this was his 1st goal this game in one matches while berlin left they biggest chance for the 2nd half of the 89th minute. came agonizingly close the house again. katha could and should have done more in this match but it wasn't meant to be one of the ill the final school. final playing to the 3 points they came for and then wanted to get out of building asap but were hitting the fee for club world cup in doha and had a plane to catch but the snow that slowed them down the lane has an overnight flight ban and buy ins plane missed the cut off point by tree minutes.

the team spent the night on the tarmac and arrived in qatar very light saturday afternoon. back to naked shores and let's not forget that this could erupt he came on with 10 minutes to spare and one incident to show for it figure the yellow card for complaining but he also told his teammates a thing or 2 about attitude there's no longer any missing with. others my experience after have them i have to push them are not the most is that duration so i try to give them confidence and by the most important of them on the pitch to. show my quote of his soul's in what i see that he is really match fit which is different than in training that he can really play and then there's not much left to say. grogan if you were to look. assad berlin a failed to win the last 6 matches and they newcomers click quickly and have to up

the only club to place their survival hopes on a world cup. run mistah fi returns to gemini his blunder. he's a former world champion with germany of course and brings plenty of much needed top level experience to his new team and for shellcode right now beating the drop looks easier than winning the world cup. and the new signing from austin all wasted no time making an impact his immediate mission was to ensure that it would not be plain sailing for lights h. . he had been unable to join a single training session key to coronavirus quarantine but was clearly not asked of practice on the tackling front. and for a while at least he and his team mates managed to keep the visitors in check.

but going forward the host's only threatened the lights is gold just once in the 1st time off and even that was off for a mishap from nobody ricky aly and it's striking mark root felt unlucky there there was worse to come a shout because danger man had to the subject off with the sly injury. and while things were already looking bad for shell. lukey headed light into the lead given far too much space by the stuffing the man brought in to shore up the shock a defense. in the if the for at least shall come ascot elvin still looked sort of upbeat but in the 2nd half missed all feel looked out of form and off the pace as 2nd place let's say who really took control. they gave a footballing lesson in the 73rd minute

a no nonsense but super slick move seal's by skipper must sell some bits to nail. this was mr face 1st game in his native in this league but here he wasn't feeling at home and if anything was looking increasingly last. towards the end something resembling a chance for a shocker but there was no way either was stuffy or anyone else was ever going to beat paycheck lushly to this free kick. let's see fed better with that set pieces. with 3 minutes left of billy or bandmates rain heading in from a corner. no chance for famine and none for shall come either. it was hardly a dream to have you for one man. it's in for 30 or globe is artistic that's not the mantra for an organisation on fear from israel so as

a central defender you need to lead and organize the team from the back side. i found that difficult today because you don't have much time to think on the pitch and there are a couple of names i haven't quite memorized yet. but they're a great bunch of lads so i'm not giving them any blame. game stuff he will not want to memorize. one match that was certainly less one sided was the be between and which featured on a match day here at. the

very. places left the building. feels great we knew would be tough here at club but we believed in ourselves we had to stay tight in we were ruthless enemy and follow your heart. is a wonderful kid i can tell you as a coach it's a joy to have players like him in your squad they're devoted into everything for the team. they are. for the compact and more from. performance.

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my whole know downs have it covered but what i need to do with a double deflection. most of the action that followed was more of the let's say for a variety. but it was got back who served up the game to colognes liking. thanks to stephanie lined up putting the winning goal on the plate for rex the chinese. say one man's doll be bragging rights. confused on seeing the new jerseys worn by his new club spot the pandemic months were as always sporting a multicolored tribute to the calm of all season. it was party time indeed as they

earned a penalty against whom you don't believe in. an easy work had the ball past and negotiate a bit. but the stamp on the 4th. spot. mine said previously put away 29 penalties in succession. cuts a 30. it turned out to be the winner about might be cancelled but in mind the win wasn't. 9 trash truck clips of the team of the moment they didn't dally as they took an early lead against a from holland. but it hostage with the. prank but then took their fish off the pedal and he to see hoffenheim see last the sweep

through their ranks for the equalizer. pick chin up frank let's thank a custom each with a philo reinstalling the evans indy car and the visitors came front. and it was constant she again delivering straight to the head of andre silva. frankfurt steam on as they dream of a top 4 finish. felt it was really hard but germany's cold snap their match against braman was postponed it's now said to go ahead. post good looking out the ready inside spot. and against alex book my mess with the magic as the bulls started with the same trusted team for the full games in a row. all of the glass in his winning

formula is based on the same. can best defense in the bundesliga. with statistically the best shortstop around their current catch steals with a 73 percent safe rate and that coupled with a highly effective attack and those quick counters took their toll against alex blog. about the cost with his 14th of the season. and wheedle both who is also good for a goal that's his 4th of the campaign not bad for a defender. to nail and to easy for the wolves. it's not often you see kristen strike happy. dortmund had stumbled. out of sorts away so i got off 2 or 3 a start. smashing the ball off the bat.