this is d w news live from the berg lead lengthening germany is locked out chancellor merkel will post today to extend covert 1000 restrictions but not all states leaders are on board we have the latest. also coming up international condemnation grows as myanmar's military tightens its grip on power and raise the party headquarters of detains leader aung songs to cheat but to find protesters are back on the streets for a 5th straight day. and donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial gets the go ahead democratic

senators say that trump must be held accountable for the storming of congress last month trump's lawyers insists the trial is unconstitutional. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. the stage is set for a battle of political wills in berlin later today as germany decides how to move forward with coronavirus restrictions chancellor angela merkel is set to meet with the country's 16 state premiers she's already made it clear that she wants to see the current national lockdown extended until the end of the month but some states are expected to push back having already drawn up plans to begin gradually reopening schools and childcare centers from next week. let's get the details from our political correspondent nina has who is standing by with

a view from berlin what is going to be discussed today what are the main sticking points. well sarah i think it's important to remind everybody where germany's standing at the moment so we've seen infection numbers go down over the last couple of weeks but that is mainly due to the fact that we have been in a nationwide lockdown for almost 2 months now and so lot of people are asking for the new excuse me country to reopen again gradually at least but there is a big fear at the same time of the coronavirus mutations especially the u.k. variant is widespread in germany as well and so politicians are very wary of reopening too fast because they don't want to risk a sudden spike in new infection numbers of course so this is sort of the ground that they're going to meet in and at the same time uncle americal and the state premiers are going to discuss just when this 1st reopening steps can be taken so

the draft paper that we've seen that is the basis for the discussions says that the lockdown will continue till the 14th of month of march now this can of course still be shaken up but then we're expecting a long debate as well about just which infection rates need to be reached in order for the states to reopen gradually everybody agrees that schools and kindergartens need to come 1st and there the graph paper says that that will be up to the regional leaders to decide ok if those surveys are really decisive day in terms of those measures you know you know also there is a bit of a debate going on in the country right now we mentioned that america is meeting with the 16 leaders of the german federal states because there's a federal system in place in the country lots of the about how effective that structure has been when it comes to officiant concrete and streamlined action phyllis and there. well there can be no doubt that germany did do very well in the

1st wave a year ago and that was largely due to its federal structure because of course local clusters of new infections could be targeted locally without dragging unaffected regions into a lockdown and so it's important to remind everybody that angle americal can't really decide very much in this regard it is up to the 16 federal states to make those decisions but of course in the vaccine rollout that started in december this federal structure has now added to the process being very complicated very slow there's a lot of criticism and also of course there's always the risk of neighboring cities that belong to 2 different political districts having completely different rules once the whole reopening process starts so if you take the example of had dresses that might open already on the 1st of march if they open in one district with low infection numbers and then everybody from a neighboring district where the numbers are higher but the headdresses are not open drives over then there is of course the risk that they take the virus with

them again so this complicated set of rules does not allow for a unified approach really and that is our doing to the current corona fatigue that is growing here in germany neither has it in berlin thank you let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic 2 new covert 1000 variants have been identified in england one of them deemed a variant of concern the u.k. government adviser say that both have similarities to the variance which originated in south africa and brazil south africa is restarting its vast vaccination campaign using doses from johnson and johnson that after the astra zeneca vaccine was found to be less effective against a new variant that has spread in the country meantime south korea says that it will greenlight the astra zeneca vaccine for all people including those over the age of $65.00 it is the 1st vaccine to be granted approval in the country. well despite the development of

a variety of effective vaccines many people are of course still going to catch the virus so researchers have been working on finding an effective treatment that stops people from developing severe symptoms or dying of the disease here's a look at the most promising medications are you may know the name hydroxy chloroquine it was often uttered by former us president don't trump who had hoped it could help win the fight against copa 19 say he was a let's see if it works it might and it might not i happen to feel good about it but who knows but science disagreed with that feeling after studies showed that the decades old anti-malarial drug was ineffective against the new virus u.s. authorities revoked its emergency use authorization. now a year into the pandemic researchers are getting a clearer picture of what works and what doesn't back to trump and this time a success story. when the president himself ended up in the hospital with tobit 19

he was given a drug cocktail made by the company regenerate. trump quickly recovered and became a walking advertisement for the treatment. the region cove to treatment uses artificial antibodies that bind to a virus cells and prevent them from replicating. so far studies have shown promising results now the german government has ordered 200000 doses of antibody treatments from a general on and competitor lilly at a price of around $2000.00 per dose. another promising prospect interferon beta it's a protein produced by the body when it gets an infection and early findings suggest that when it's inhaled by an infected person it could keep 80 percent of hospitalized patients off the ventilator. and this rare sea animal off the coast of spain has become an unlikely source of hope a substance extracted from it is being used to create

a drug called plate today absent or applet in which can slow the spread of the corona virus in the human body early studies show it to be 30 times more effective than the ones hyped are and as of year. one problem all of these treatments are expensive and will likely only be available in the world's wealthier countries demand for widely available drugs like ivermectin has surged in latin america and sub-saharan africa ivermectin is an inexpensive anti parasite drug but scientists warn its effectiveness is still in doubt some doctors in developing nations are instead putting their hopes in affordable steroids treatments like dex m f a z but for the world health organization the focus is still clear vaccinate enough of the world's population over the next year to put the pandemic behind us. and i am joined now by ralph hunka from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies he is one of the leading experts when it comes to therapeutic medicines against covert 19 thank you so much for joining us we were

just hearing there about some promising new medications for people who are already and infected but just to be clear here these are treatments that can help in symptoms but none of them actually wipe out covert 19 is that correct. well known of those mad sons is capable of just switching off the disease so to speak but they can actually do more than just kill sometimes so several ones of them really address the viruses directly by prevent them from multiplying and so they may give the body the op a hand to fight off the disease ok so so then given what you're saying there tell us is there an affordable and easy to use pill or any other innovative game changer when it comes to medication and development right now that you're especially enthusiastic about. well there are more than 300

different manson's in valuation at the moment they are in various stages of development some of them are already tried tested with patients of us on a look bartra stage and we see some good interim results which lead those to think that we can see you improvements within the next time of year but if there are some who may be in a combination can really guarantee kind of. hailing within 3 days we don't know at the moment why is it so important to continue work on these kind of medications i mean why not put all available resources right now into getting more vaccines for example. well it will take time till everybody got a vaccination who wanted to have it we will also have

many people who choose not to have a vaccination and of course we have patients or people who cannot get vaccinated right now like other lessons and show them since of the vax ins on alt approved for them and will not pay for several months and of calls the virus is likely to stay with us even the pandemic is over so there will always be people who need treatment and so we have to develop them now one thing that we have to mention all of these medications that are in development already on the market that they haven't in common is that they're very expensive there's been a lot of talk about providing equitable access to vaccines and treatments including through the kovacs program do you think that the same should be done to to greater extent when we're talking about medication as well. well in last september

a number of pharma companies and the bill and melinda gates foundation together published a statement where they said they will actively work for equitable access so the prices we see now need not be the prices we will see later so at the moment all those medicines are in the evaluations and we have not large capacities to manufacture them and we have not had negotiations between for example the e.u. and the companies we have not seen or it is possible when more companies join the manufacturing network so. we will see and it's too early to say how expensive those medicines will be in the end thank you so much from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies we really appreciate

it for. i'm going to check of some other stories making news around the world. security forces in israel have clashed with hundreds of ultra-orthodox jews who gathered to protest coronavirus restrictions police used water cannon to disperse the crowds it comes amid a wave of public anger against the ultra orthodox community which has continued to hold large weddings and funerals despite antivirus restrictions. rescue workers in india are searching for dozens of people trapped inside of a tunnel 3 days after a call they sure collapsed and set off a massive flood more than 170 people are still missing following sunday's disaster more than 30 bodies have been found so far. and a submarine from the japanese navy has collided with a commercial ship while surfacing off of japan's southern coast 3 crew members suffered minor injuries the sub's mast was damaged but it was able to continue

sailing crew aboard the other ship say that they didn't even feel the impact. turkey has unveiled a new 10 year plan for its new space isn't seen clearing missions to the moon satellite systems and launching turkish astronauts into space the president brought to bear to want says that the program would aim to land a spacecraft on the moon at 2023 2. soldiers in the on mar half rate of the party headquarters of detained the leader aung sang suu kyi the international community has voiced its growing concern as myanmar's military tightens its grip on power and steps up its violent response to a nationwide protest but many demonstrators they remain defiant they have returned to the streets for a 5th day to demand the reversal of the military coup and the release of their elected leaders. it looks like a simple quirky demonstration. but this group of young protesters and gang gone

risking their lives. i know new name for this is a protest idea from the young generation we are always thinking about how to be more creative because we made international attention for one of the group remains on the target up to choose days of violence in which police fired rubber bullets and water cannons the protesters the military leaders who staged a coup on february 1st and declared such illegal there were also reports of large ammunition being fired. at least 2 people critically injured. began to i'm a little you know now we say that the military is taking brutal action against us. but when young people will leave the protests through various groups in every pace for a way don't refuse to mix demonstrate is

a calling for an end to the military genter and freedom for the nation's elected leader and sunset she and her allies they are also calling for a new constitution. and more democratic freedoms their cause has attracted international support with the us and un condemning the use of force we repeat our calls for the military to relinquish power restore democratically elected government release those detained and lift all telecommunication restrictions in to refrain from violence having gauge with. india do us draw here and discuss this you do a shoot just today with the chinese foreign minister. we all agree on the need to quick response or the military justified their coup by claiming widespread voter fraud in the november polls which soar a landslide victory for searching the claims were not supported by man mas'

election commission a curfew under strictures on gatherings have been put in place but they are yet to prevent fresh protests from breaking out across the country. and i'm joined now from young gone by a pro democracy activist who for security reasons will run remain anonymous we'll call her sue thank you so much for joining us here and everybody as we mentioned that this is not the 5th day of protest it seems to be a little bit more peaceful and calm and yesterday what have you been seeing and what is the mood as you've been experiencing at. ok i was at the protests for 4 days and i've seen the videos of that 1000 years so i'm female protester who was shot in the head by the police and maybe don't they're covered as. she was wearing a red t. shirt just standing there in the group at the station and not actually crossing the barrier gates or not doing something against the police they were previously using the water cannons. and now the realistic but it didn't stop the protesters from

doing what they are doing such as banking the possum pens at 8 pm and protests on the streets joining by tens of thousands of people by shouting out loud what they want and what in a slogans such as you know reject a military coup release the detained political leaders we dissed of democracy is a truck despite the coroner virus despite the new law or thinning from gathering more than 5 people and having that got us as a not so the protesters even more like creative with their own designs as you said earlier to get the attention not only from the locals but also from the international commission for the help of creative and we understand also very young many of the protesters in their twenty's and thirty's you individuals such as yourself is it mainly the younger generation that's concerned about democracy in myanmar and is taking out to the streets and you know perhaps you can tell us why

that might be. well for me i was not the advice before but i'm always interested in politics and history so i roughly know about what we were facing mainly such as about the constitution the power of the military and the you know of a law and of a lot of areas of the nation during 5 years range of energy but i have to say that i'm not a strong and of these supporter. and a current pride that is not about the fight between energy and the military it isn't really about the right and the wrong according to law and it's about the fight between the public who won just before the government actually voted and you know due to ship so where we are doing all we can do we want to us what help from the international governments and organizations like you know as you can see even the u.n. children's hour so it will be in this so even the end as then the importance of it so. thank you so much for telling us

a little bit more about those efforts and also you know the call to action that you have for international organizations the international community to joining us from young gong you appreciate it. thank you. and the united states senators have voted to proceed with a full impeachment trial against donald trump the senate was divided largely along party lines and backing the democrats' argument that the trial is indeed constitutional now the former president stands accused of inciting the storming of the capitol that left 5 people dead early last month. in this book 56 the day 44 a clear decision in a divided chamber donald trump will face a 2nd impeachment trial. show pursued with a trial the senate vote affirmed that the trial was constitutional. stop this deal. to make their case the democratic prosecutor showed

a video as evidence of trumped firing up his supporters ahead of the storming of the capitol on january 6th. can vote fraud and through it breaks up everything does it when you catch somebody in a fraud you're allowed to go by very different rules you ask with a high crime and misdemeanor is under our constitution that's a high crime and misdemeanor. and head of the vote republicans had argued that trump could not be convicted once out of office this was dismissed by the prosecution. their argument is that if you commit an impeachable offense in your last few weeks in office you do it with constitutional impunity you get away with a great body. to recall employers also resorted to video are joined at the trial was politically motivated and divisive. on the issue of dogs which vote yes i

would for gas i would i would go. with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for a great many americans see this process for exactly what it is a chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate donald trump from the american political scene. in a congress still reeling from last month's events it is partisan politics that makes it very unlikely the prosecution will get the 2 thirds majority required in the senate to convict trump. now in football news german side byron munich is one victory away from making history set to play in the. club world cup final on thursday by and would become only the 2nd club ever to win all 6 domestic and international tri titles in a single campaign. the flick has almost done it all by

the number one club in the world one a handful of titles in 2020 everything from the bundesliga to the champions league the ventura league became part of byron silverware collection that season now in qatar bahrain have won more title to go winning everything plus the fifa club world cup is tantamount to football perfection it's only been done once before back in 2009 by barcelona. winning the final am at the club world cup could be the cherry on top. with all of the titles we've won. and then win this additional one. navy at 1st you don't think about it that much and it also but in the end when you know only one team has won 6 titles in the season is on the soft and you have the chance to be the 2nd team it's a chance to make football history for us and i've been chasing history robert levin

dosti fief is reigning footballer of the year has scored $27.00 goals this season and he helped by and reached their 1st fifa club world cup final since 2036 s. with a cheery to the dream season hansei flicks already had admired in his 1st season in charge. to the south korean capital now where efforts are being made to rein in the number of co the 19 cases among its pet population stall is offering free testing for any animals owned by people themselves infected with the coronavirus the effort to test the quarantine and quarantine these pets comes just weeks after a kitten in seoul became south korea's 1st conference case of an animal with co 5900. this is no ordinary trip to the veterinarian

health care workers made a house call to test this dog for the corona virus. after some coaxing the animal emerged from its cannell for a series of swabs. as of monday house pets can be tested free of charge if they meet their requirements. the. dogs and cats that came into contact with the confirmed patient can apply for testing that if it's determined that there are symptoms you can contact the animal department and a team of health care workers will visit your home to collect the sample from 2 it's a get into. pets who test positive must remain in isolation for 14 days at home. around the world other animals including zuko realist and mink have tested positive for covert 19. the officials here aren't taking any

chances after months of rising cases the numbers in south korea are now on the decline restrictions are slowly being eased and the 1st vaccine has been approved in the country. other local governments plan to follow in saul's footsteps to ensure these 4 legged friends are also free to roam. and finally during the pandemic zoom conferences have become the norm replacing in person meetings but that doesn't mean everyone understands exactly how it works like in this courtroom video in which a u.s. lawyer struggles to remove a filter from his image travelogue. you might want to. know where to find out the number george i can hear you i think it's a filter in there is a no move. he's trying to. all.

of us are here a lot of outsmart a molecule. the day of the cat showed up to court next sunday their views of his eco africa do have news environmental magazine has more now website w dot com you can also follow us on social media at the event i'm sorry kelly and thanks for watching.

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a illegals large area it's good to have you with us for another edition of show. with a focus on africa here are some topics coming up today. why bike reply sneaks in the world the oceans are beginning to sink. you venture that's far given up south africa's beaches. and polish on these twigs and some leaves from the dreams your kids cultures. but 1st we head to west and offer west songbirds from your rope like to spend the winter i mean it's of them migrate to senegal mauritania and for the south with landlocked walk in a fossil while the hobby to its increasingly on the threat from intensive farming steal a number of calls a vision they still doing what they can to ensure migratory birds can still find a way to home in sub-saharan africa. to.

the fruits of the kodiak trees. tamari needs and a good place for reminisced. divided davis off season coupler a time of a national park in south and booking a fossil office favorable even conditions for many species of bugs. nevertheless bought conservationists are concerned migratory bugs from western europe such as the kingfish are becoming increasingly rare. the woman has other girls as well and so while a very migratory birds are indicators of the health of an environment today we can see there are fewer and fewer migratory birds here and this is clearly due to their due to radiation of the nature of the hobby to a large degree about still not true then there are. just a few kilometers away from the conservation area where diversity is a thing of the past only show trees as far as the eye can see there was metrics

industry past where she is driving up and farmers like a nice man are profiting from meat book in a fossil is the while 2nd biggest exporter of shit mouths which i used to make cooking oil and skin products well the idea of going to china is very profitable for us sometimes i sell mots but it on more with a bottle of prime. but awareness is leading to a shift in practices now the farmers are starting to restrict that is to diversity and that begins with creating healthy sort of i'm a jew my son works for a dutch angels which is concerned with the survival of migratory birds he shot the farmers how to make compost from biological west including cow dung and misleads the campaspe is to place official for tell lies as which keep insects an important food source for the bites. or secure pornography regarded as one who said our goal is the protection of dogs but unless the pharmacy direct financial benefits they

aren't interested that's why we walk to include business aspects in the project. business group was very. nice for mom frankly money has a radio the number of customers for some time to them about how can i save a lot of money every year on a patient little lasers and the food is much more vital now and we are all much healthier. the n.c.o. convinced him that it will be better to live through standing in his food he now knows that in heavy rains the topsoil doesn't wash away so easily the roots of the commons for tree hold the soil will no longer send the water care a lot under their proper water from a mom i used to remove all their wishes and young trees on my fields now i practice what is called assisted natural restore ration it's simple you cut back week branches to help the stronger ones grow quickly into

a tree then it can flower for bees and other insects truck buyers. up with and of all the you know home movies model. that's the idea behind angel afrique lots competing to teach farmers about keeping beasts she'll farm out denise nano also on extra money from the advantage she already has a big even a spinster but is happy to have a fresher coach how does one use a small car to companies when is it time to harvest the honey nearly patted 1000 farmers have had training in the last year. and repairing object to fly fast objective is on an environmental level to create biodiversity because the bees pollinate fruit trees and trees in general so this pollination will help the trees and in particular it will help if she had to look

at it. this year i noticed that the she had reproduced more fruit and pans to a strong nation i'm really happy to have the blues is the one. although people will continue to plan she'll trees in the future they're more likely to leave other trees time allowing more nature to belong and right. it's a prediction here in the shocking every time experts have calculated that by 2050 plus to the oceans well we fish that is correct if you are qualifying 1st bit and the effect of luck to give me a marine life would but not just in the u.k. a look into that in the micro plastics would already be having on that one help let's take a look. what's on the menu plastic. bottle cap dim sum. or maybe some lego sushi sounds strange but that is roughly

equivalent to the amount of microscopic pieces of plastic that we in just over the course of a month 20 kilograms over the course of a lifetime. we do this by simply reading and drinking water and eating fish the oceans and rivers in particular are full of my correct lastic says malcolm hudson a professor of environmental science he conducts research on the marine pollution from plastic particles those plastic particles if you like a little time bombs waiting to break down smaller to agree absorbed by wildlife or by people and then potentially have harmful consequences. because plastic does not biodegrade it turns up everywhere flooding the beaches and choking marine fauna and flora and plastic production has risen sharply over the past 50 years there are now over $400000000.00 tons worldwide per year smaller and smaller particles are created by wind and waves friction and sunlight ringback does so small that they

could be absorbed into our blood through the stomach researchers see this as a danger to humans experiments with celko. has already shown that large amounts of numbing particles can be toxic. what we can say i think with some certainty is if we carry on at the moment as we're going producing more and more plastic not managing the waste very well eventually we weeks levels where our thresholds exceeded and there are harmful effects on the environment and potentially even on ourselves. the total impact on humans is not yet clear experts fear that the tiny particles could trigger immune reactions over least toxic substances into the body just one more good argument to put an end to our love affair with plastic. that all sounds very rewarding plastic can really mess up our world it is bad for the animals and for us but i'm scared we won't be getting rid of the anytime soon

fortunately a lot of people coming up will be trusting solutions to tackle the problem one of them comes from sabbatical and it is a pretty cool idea it isn't a regional way of getting rid of the micro plastics what away you are on the chip. there's nothing in this knows you can't go. no item of plastic can escape the jaws of this giant vacuum team crisscrosses using what's called the enviro buggy to collect rubbish in the train cape town's beaches because a vacation is to works with the organization see the big picture which developed the prototype a couple of years ago every day an estimated 100000 tons of plastic a found in south africa's many beaches that's a lot to clean up according to crisscross the beach cleaner can even suck up

caustic particles just one minute made so small a special cvs system separates the sun from the past then 100 people on the branch we weren't really making we weren't making as much of an impact as we could regarding the micro plastics are those came about trying to make the micro plaster collection a lot more efficient and quicker calls and these n.g.o.s recently joined forces with a local recycling company on the outskirts of cape town. to follow us sort out various items into recyclable materials some 20 people on shift every day even the rubbish not classified as recyclable can be put to good use. this is a make or break here so it's all the plastics that cannot be real used to research purposes to recycle go into one of these. compressed as best they can and

used as a building material in local building projects and around the community. other initiatives start at an early stage they concentrate on rivers the community of marina del gamma responded to see resolved nets with different sizes to catch plastic along waterways before it gets to the ocean. peter ryan. a marine plastic researcher at the university of cape town estimates that between 60 percent and 90 percent of marine plastic on the beaches that's arrived via waterways like this one just standing here we can see all of this rubbish coming down the canal here this is a major source of letter that we're concerned about in an urban setting in south africa so 'd poorly managed waste on land getting into waste water systems are being carried down into the sea and initiatives like this where we're actually intercepting this letter before it gets into the sea or starting to make

a significant difference. for the north in the township outside johannesburg these volunteers are unemployed locals they're removing plastic wastes from literature apps positioned in the head office river. did man being charged explains that mountains of plastic that accumulates in the space of just 2 weeks. we start with the mates in the beginning of the rainy season try and stock exchange at the ranch and in fact in the winter a lot of stuff gets. put up dumps income streams and stuff sort of stuff that's washed down rains and so it keeps on the whole summer but if it were struck it's going to be trying to stop it. not only is the engineer working to get the hang ups of waste is looking into some of the main pinchy beaches off the pollution and back at the ocean the miss it if see the bigger picture encourages young people to get

involved studies in south africa have shown that on a clean up nearly 90 percent of the plastic latrine the beach east can be collected still even that is only a 1st step once we can teach them the dangers of many in plastics and they all think that they kill where they live and we'll try to stop that speed at the source so instead of. throwing things on the road outside on the beach will actually be allowed to dispose of everything properly. crisscrossed and his team currently operating the enviro body it's been already do the work of about 30 people the plan is to start producing the machine and ultimately return south africa's beaches to the once pristine condition. while those images remind us that we need to keep up with the fine left of the ship we all tend to throw we want to much

stop the can actually be we say. you are absolutely right sandra kahlil silver from cape verde. has come up with a clever way for using cooking. in cakes mary j. one entrepreneur is teaching to clean up the environment one bar of soap at a time. tara very day is an ecological soul which carla silver makes using vegetable oils green clay flour and other ingredients. he tries to source most of the ingredients locally. and was only. 8 years ago i started out producing so from cooking oil. could be used to wash dishes and then later i began making this eco soap for people to use in the. silver desire to help the environment motivation to move to

producing ecologically sustainable cosmetic products. everything we use ends up in the sewer which will then contaminate the rivers oceans and groundwater. silver has now also measured parts of the production process. even the machinery uses. made from recycled materials. he can now be g.'s more bars in much less time. but if used to take me a town has to make a batch now it's only 3 a lot of the steps automated now. carlos silva hopes to sell his terror of a day soap on the international markets. then how about you if you're also doing your bit jealous.