but. then respects. this is g.w. news a live from berlin and prosecutors rest their case in the 2nd impeachment trial against donald trump they're urging senators to convict the former president for inciting the storming of the capitol on january 6th a stable violent mob was acting on his orders to try to stop the certification of joe biden's election we'll go to our correspondent in washington d.c.

for more also coming up on the show the german chancellor angela merkel admits to mistakes in dealing with the 2nd wave of the coronavirus pandemic but she insists fast 1st spreading of viral variants make it necessary to extend the country's national walked out. as a buyer never pull off a what only one other club has ever done before 6 major titles in 20 year now including a world cup championship. hello i'm claire richardson welcome to the show day 3 of the impeachment trial against donald trump has ended with the prosecution wrapping up their arguments that the former u.s. president incited insurrection the impeachment managers focused on providing a clear link between trump's words and the actions of the violent mob that stormed the capitol on jan you. or

a 6 week prosecutor jamie raskin argued that if trump wasn't engaged scenes like these could happen again trump's legal team will take the floor of the senate on friday to present their arguments. correspondent stuff and simons in washington is on the line to talk us through day trip day 3 of this trial jeff and house prosecutors have a wrapped up their case how exactly did they try to make that link between donald trump's words and the insurrection that followed. all right so that was the 2nd time the 2nd day of deliberations of presenting the case democrats or house impeachment of just presenting the case to a half republican senate that was the challenge for them so they try to convince republicans of course that i don't trump is guilty all for inciting this insurrection and therefore has to be found guilty and convicted in this impeachment now how did they do on the 2nd day of the presentation they focused on the remorse

or the lack of remorse by donald trump after what happened on general these things before that they had as you pointed out showed in very very graphic detail with new video with graphic video with details which we had not seen before and not known before how violent and. cruel this day actually transpired with protesters or ransack arrested insurrectionists going into the into the capitol ransacking the place and endangering the politicians and the process which happens there. on the 6 of generally however so this day is over for them they are done now and they can only hope to convince those republicans those 40 or $45.00 republicans. convicting of course donald trump likelihood is it's not going to happen on friday it is a trump's lawyers turn what are we likely to hear from the defense.

the defense he will probably try to poke holes in the argument of the house impeachment managers of the democrats pointing out perhaps that there was an edit here and added there in the video presentations that the president can not be charged or found guilty for anything the democrats are charging him with or want him to be charged and found guilty with they will be expected to not take 2 days you know each day 8 hours 16 hours for the defense to it is expected that they're cut there's a little bit short because they already lost the argument of the unconstitutionality or the constitutionality of this entire trial so the senate has found in the beginning of those 3 days the last 3 days that this constitution on this ok to impeach the president and that they have the jurisdiction to do this so that's a gone argument for the defense so they will try to make their best case and put

their best case forward their program probably busy now streamlining that offense tactic for tomorrow jeff and simon's in washington d.c. thank you very much and here in germany chancellor angela merkel has admitted to failings in the handling of the 2nd wave of the corona virus outbreak she told parliament that the government response had not been careful or fast enough opposition members gerrard as she defended the decision to extend the national lockdown and local businesses are furious germany's streets will remain empty and stools closed for another 3 long weeks at least because while in fiction numbers keep fulling more reserve a dangerous me tyson's remain germany's lock down will be extended until sunday march the 7th but those despairing of the bad pen demi k. can go a week earlier than that to the south lawn schools and kindergartens will begin

reopening in february already and the government to sit in and be shoes new target for the 7 day in fiction right. chancellor angela merkel told parliament that while people are exhausted by the pandemic restrictions this is not a time to be opening back up again. not with the others also of course we're told the research is still ongoing but we shouldn't doubt the assessments of many experts here in germany and abroad. all 3 mutations are more aggressive and significantly more contagious than the original virus which was merkel in the state premiers haggled over the next steps long into wednesday evening the states insisted that schools and day kids should reopen markel would have preferred more caution on this point by into giving in as she's done before merkel sought to remind the public of the thousands of lives the pandemic has ended

in germany in the fashion. well over 60000 people have now died they are our mothers fathers children relatives friends who we can no longer predict morning game it's always on our minds when we make decisions in this pandemic is that. the vaccine rollout in germany has been much slower than heart to the opposition it's an obvious failure of the government. form pumping we've gone from masters of the pen to make last spring to europe's vaccination stranglers today our vaccination centers have been empty for weeks millions of citizens stuck in queues for hours on end and you say nothing's gone wrong we're behind remain behind greece behind slovakia on vaccination this through. even though his will begin reopening in a few weeks they'll be subject to strict hygiene measures many other businesses that will just have to ways for better times. south africa's president cyril

ramaphosa says his government has secured millions of doses of vaccines to fight a highly infectious variant of covert 19 that is now dominant in the country he made the announcement during his annual address to the nation is also promised measures to revive the struggling economy and to tackle record unemployment. and nation battling the devastating impact of a global health emergency. which has hit south africa harder than any other country on the continent. president serial around a poser has come under fire for delays in acquiring and ruling at vaccines a topic which he focused on in his state of the nation address. must undertake. oxygenation program to save lives and dramatically reduce

infection across. however many south africans are skeptical about getting vaccinated. the president sought to reassure all the medication imported in south africa. morning turds like i waited 1st to get it inspected and registered it was all up and going to help productivity groups to record. the pandemic has wrecked havoc on the country's already struggling economy. the unemployment rate is at a staggering fair to 6 percent and continues to rise. graham oppose a pledge to increase economic growth and raise standards of living. we must overcome poverty. hunger joblessness and the

economy in our country. we must overcome the legacy of exclusion and disposition that continues to impoverish our people under which this is from them because the worst of. coronavirus case numbers inside africa are falling but the economic recession in the country is far from over. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines at this hour china's a broadcasting regulator says it has banned b.b.c. world news saying it violated guidelines by airing a report on the treatment of the country's weaker minority becomes a week after britain revoked chinese channel c g t n's broadcast license after concluding it was controlled by china's communist party. president alexander lukashenko says he's defeated a foreign blitzkrieg to overthrow him the hardline it leader denounced 6 months of

protests against his role as a rebellion and directed from outside the country the opposition claims the election he won last year was rigged. legendary american jazz pianist and composer shaikh korea has died at 79 and 23 time grammy award winner died of a rare form of cancer which was discovered very recently according to a statement korea is considered one of the 20th century's most influential pianists . and the family of a saudi women's rights activists have thanked us president joe biden for helping to secure her release from prison and jane a little spends nearly 3 years behind bars after campaigning for women to be allowed to drive biden welcome to release calling it the right thing to do. jane is at home this is the caption her sister posted on a screen shot of lou jane i have to lose 1st video call after her release from

prison but the 31 year old is not free she won't be allowed to leave saudi arabia for another 5 years because of the injustice she has suffered plans to sue says her sister. is not free she's just. a nice addition. and we want now is that. reaches. back in 2014 legion of how flew used videos like this to call for an end to the ban on women driving in saudi arabia she also set up for women's rights abroad and criticized the legal system in her home country in 2018 she was kidnapped and imprisoned for allegedly attempting to destabilize the kingdom u.s. president joe biden welcome to release earlier he had announced a tougher stance against saudi arabia because of human rights violations she was

a powerful advocate for women's rights and releasing her was the right thing to do . over the past few years crown prince mohammed has granted women more freedoms they are now allowed to found companies without the consent of their guardians and the ban on driving has been lifted but many women are still in prison for standing up for their rights or criticizing the royal family. time for some football news now and a new chapter in the story of germany's most decorated club byron munich the bundesliga champions edged mexico's team to win the future for a club world cup and make it a clean sweep of all 6 major trophies that they could win within a year barcelona was the only other club to do it way back in 2009. out of the starting blocks she gripped to show they had every intention of battling man well neuer put a stop to this attack. but it remained a physical affair throughout neither team giving ground easily. fired appeared to

go up in the 18th minute. i only to have the goal disallowed by a video assistant referee for offside. leroy's sunday had a great chance but rattled the crossbar and the 1st half and it scoreless but by and got on the right side of the v.a.r. in the 2nd half benjamin kovach banging the ball in an assistant referee immediately called it offside but with the match on the line video replay over ruled the goal was good off the usual commish cross one nil by and that's how it staged by iron our club world champions and winners of an historic sex couple. and organizers of the oscars have announced a very different looking awards ceremony this year as the movie industry continues to grapple with the pandemic academy of motion picture arts and sciences says this

year's event will be live and in person but from local multiple locations including its traditional venue hollywood's adult. the decision to decentralize the ceremony is aimed at prioritizing public health. as your news update at this hour stay tuned for news africa with christine for us but you can always get the latest news on our web site that's still to come and heretics and in berlin from the entire team thanks for watching. what secrets lie behind the scenes what. discover new. ventures in 360 degrees. and explore. the. world heritage 36 to get here now. passion drama

competition marvel marketing numbers atmosphere at a time in transition 8. 1000000 fans from 5 star. because for me. to go off on you tube. this is g.w. news africa on the program today in security in the central african republic people are being forced to leave their homes as rebels push on to seize the capital the u.n. say is more peacekeepers on needed to keep the public safe. and on the international day of women and girls in science i'll be talking suit zimbabwe's stephanie travel

she's made history as a black woman in formula one. hello i'm christine wanda it's good to have your company rebels in the central african republic say they will temporarily allow the passage of aid convoys to the capital . but the u.n. is calling on the rebels to end a blockade off the major road that leads into the capital the rebels who control about 2 thirds of the country and at one point have surrounded the capital have lost some ground the central african republic. military along with randon and russian allies retook a series of towns in recent days at the end of last month they head of the un peacekeeping mission in the c.a.a. are requested additional reinforcement he said the security situation was testing

the ability to keep people in the cia are safe. you get an ha 6 children are some of more than 2000 people who fled the fighting invalid umballa a lot of the capital bangui now they've settled here at this monastery compound close to the residence of the country's president it's hard to adopt to be a new lives now where we're better off in our homes my children didn't have any difficulty keeping themselves clean look at what the war has done to us today we ran away to take refuge here look at the mattress that the children sleep on some of them are getting sick we have nothing to eat well this war really end one day i fear for my children's future. the central african republic mine president since independence period to peace accords and many years of bariloche groups yet insecurity still looms large in the country where people have had enough and want

protection. as a result the book to the streets of the capital of few days ago protesting the arms embargo imposed by the united nations security council in 2013. i am a shopkeeper because of the insecurity we can no longer go to the market to sell our goods and take care of our children we can no longer pay our rent so that's why we have come out today to tell the un to lift the embargo so that security can return to our country i am a widow how am i going to look after my children. after the on successful attack on the capital bangui the government tightened security by imposing a curfew and declared a state of emergency in the entire country for international aid organizations work is becoming very difficult most organizations have pulled out of the risk zones in

the capital. but go direct all of the united nations form for population activities says that they are all worried what will happen to the people left behind this crisis is having a negative impact on our activities very far on the lives of women and girls in this country mostly because of the big teams of people on the move we have to stuff outside of bangui on mission and we had to bring them back because of the density commission operate it is the year when the situation is calm forever over for development activities attacks are still ongoing on the outskirts of benghazi and the reason economic meltdown because supply routes from eastern come rule to benghazi have been blocked by rebels the government is rejecting any form of dialogue with the armed groups one thing is certain the central african republic is a country under siege its 2nd look at some other stories making news across the

continent now gunman have killed 5 united nations peacekeepers and wounded another $28.00 in an attack in central mali it's not immediately clear who was behind what u.n. officials described as a well planned assault on groups linked to al qaeda and the so-called islamic state group regularly attacked peacekeepers in the west african country. protests have erupted in parts of sudan over the high cost of living authorities in north darfur and sell to full provinces have closed schools and imposed a nighttime curfew saddam's government faces a tough toss up reviving the economy off to decades of mismanagement rule and buicks sanctions. and the maybe is cash strapped national carrier has canceled all flights and promised to refund customers despite years of bailouts and the may be it remains have been the end days and now faces new the day shift the company's

lax relieved more than 600 stall from bows and. it is the international day of women and girls in science and a saying goes we need science and science needs women it's true because women around the world have made groundbreaking scientific research yet gender stereotypes and gender based inequalities continue to prevent many girls and women from taking up and remaining in korea is in science across the world but as you're about to see in the case of zimbabwe that is slowly changing. gracious. and his colleagues are fine now your students if they had at least 2 of technology . erupted the growing number of female students studying for a science related degree in zimbabwe it's a species that has traditionally been dominated by male students but that appears

to be changing i'm starting came to enforce this is simply engineering which is the degree that incorporates the temple ratios that we encounter in my day to day lives so can go crazy that's why i do almost every industry whether big or small. but what attracted gracious to take up if you would normally dominated by men i'm a mets person i love doing math made safe and everything that involves messiness comes to me naturally so that's one of the things that makes me so excited about science being around now but it's. even though women and girls make up more than half of the number of zimbabwe's students they have traditionally pursued other subjects. then christian examples of women succeeding in this dim sicked are are now inspiring men to follow in their footsteps. we have seen an

increase in the numbers of. in stimulating subjects and this may be attributed to increased. mentoring because now they seem to be more in the field. the girls although many girls and women in the country could be breaking barriers in embracing science related fields this to remain many gender stereotypes to be broken nose leg graciousness run anger could benefit from connections between them in seniors in the industry. and stay on that my guests today beat more than 7000 people to get the job that she currently has stephanie travis from zimbabwe is a trackside fluid engineer for the formula one team petronas it's great to have you

on the program stephanie but 1st let's get this out of the way what is a trackside fluid engineer i know you studied chemical engineering. thank you for having me today as a trackside new image and then i monitor underlines the fluids up trust and trust science so the since you mention the well to tell me about functional flows you might feel i'm doing this to ensure that we are compliant with the sports governing body regulations the f.i.a. and also to see whether we have any potential problems looming so i monitor the wear in the engine and gearbox and can pinpoint exactly where we may have a potential problem ok that's it that's incredible stuff stephanie but what's even more incredible is that you made history by being the 1st black woman to stand on a formula one podium what was that moment like for you it was such

a surreal moment i wasn't expecting to be asked because the podium so when he asked me i was in complete shock and i didn't have time to call my friends and family so i just embraced the moment and went on the podium i caught him going into something that i look back on and i'm right so i thought to say he has a question a whole put me on the podium for to represent the team collecting the construct the tree it was an immense occasion for myself and my family and something our remember for the rest of my life yeah i mean it's incredible right because i've read a little bit about you and your whole thing was you grew up watching formula one to be a dad and this is this is something that you always wanted this is an industry you always wanted to work in and see if they were having this conversation on the international girls and women in science day and i want to get your thoughts on how we can get more women into into professions that industries like the one that

you're in because you look around you and i'm pretty sure there are not a whole lot of women in the space that you're in so how do we do that because i know that you're involved in some initiatives as well. so i think it's very important other young people are interested in the sciences a ma to just continue working hard in those subjects and to really explore when you get the point where you're deciding what degree part of korea because you want to explore all of them you can do a lot of research and ultimately there's so many careers that aren't in the limelight all that young people don't necessarily get to see that are so fun to do push it legal myself i was introduced the formula one saloon young age i was really enjoying watching this boston go to a quaint way i began researching how i could get into formula one so i think any little spark of interest that you have as a child she persevered here with that and push and see whether you can get into that korea as ultimately your working life for the majority of your life on the

driving course and do something you're passionate about that's right if you i mean i don't know if you've had a whole lot of time to think about this but but way to from yeah for you for now i'm actually racing what i'm doing at the moment i love being attracted to jeanette and i haven't really thought that far into the future especially with all that happened in 2020 i've just right and why were you. all right kids that says 50 travis trackside feel it engineer for the for me to want team patron as the good having you on the program stephanie has thanks very much. i'm so proud of these ladies all that is it for now be sure to check out al of the stories on com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter we look forward to your engagement it's always interesting to know what you think about the stories that we have on the program and the stories that we should be followed you

just heard from it's a will leave you with 4 pitches and you try this at work with the sadie's am cheap the trainers will be don't want to see you next time back. to the point. clear position on the international perspective. as coverage 19 takes an ever harsher told to their hopes on vaccines developed in record time yet in many places there rollout has been patchy the race for covert

vaccines rich against poor are topical. to the point. he's been such an audience. they want to know what makes the germans you just get the jump. on banning the way from. i'm not even allowed to board my own car and everyone with leader holding everything. are you ready to meet the germans then join me right just do it on d. w. . joe biden criticize the chinese trade practices and his firm. phone call with premier she jean pain but will biden continue on the course that i'll buy his predecessor donald trump researchers say china is already falling behind on a trade agreement struck by trump last year. also on the show volkswagen turns to microsoft for help with self driving cars it's just the latest partnership between

big tech and big auto. and mexico's eager to get back to business even in the middle of a pandemic we'll hear from workers and shoppers in mexico city were stores are reopening. global off into the show. it's good to have you with us u.s. president joe biden told his chinese counterpart xi jinping that he had fundamental concerns about chinese trade practices during the pair's 1st phone conversation biden called chinese policies coercive and unfair according to the white house she stressed the need to continue dialogue and call for tolerance of differing political views the relationship between the 2 economic powers has been strained in part by a u.s. led trade war biden has said he is reviewing tariffs and policies currently in place. now the new president has called china america's most serious competitor here he is thursday talking to reporters but you know they're going to

you know get moved to the road through this new billions of dollars to do with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation the environment. as we discussed a step up. by its predecessor donald trump referred tariffs in his relations with china extracting an initial trade deal in 2020 among other things the agreement required china to increase its purchases of u.s. goods last year and this year by whopping $200000000000.00 compared with 2017 and for more on that i'm joined by mary lovely from the peterson institute for international economics in washington d.c. the nonpartisan think tank has calculated that china is not on track to meet that commitment mary it's good to have you on the program chinese purchases of u.s. goods 420-2040 percent lower than that agreement called for why is that well there's a lot of reasons and i think the 1st one is 1st at the park purchasing targets were always unrealistic the president former president from demanded

a big number and he was given a big number but it was always going to be a difficult stretch part of the problem was that you know u.s. exports to china fell during the trade war but these purchasing agreements are here and are paced based on what we did before the trade war in 2017 so we have to get back to where we were then just to reach these new targets are as maybe some other realistic goals there but can we at least at this and grieve it did push china to make some concessions that we haven't seen before for example the areas of technology trade or a force technology transfer i should say our market access as well. well china was already on its way to doing a lot of those things so it's very unclear that this phase one agreement really push any of those forward there were some minor concessions they made to the united states such as reducing technical barriers to u.s. exports in agriculture but basically it's hard to see how all this pain

you know really produced anything that was near the cost of the whole train war to the u.s. we know that trump was very focused on the trade balance between those 2 nations is that the right measure of the economic relationship you know unfortunately it's not it's one that resonates with a lot of people but the trade balance you really have is not a balance it's as you know our benefits our costs are out our net benefits our net costs are so high or so low they trade balance really reflects you know the fact the united states actually consumes more than it produces as a country we have a deficit deficit ends up as a trade deficit with other countries we have trade deficits in many other countries besides china. i think the trade deficit will actually increase as the u.s. begins to roll out a recovery and stimulus stimulus package coming up under the vine administration

and again that's not going to be a judgment about the wisdom of that package so basically no it was not ever a good measure of how this trade war was going and we already saw that actually you know the trade deficit with china is bigger than it was before the trade war began so maybe briefly if you can should joe biden rip up this trade deal. that's a good question you know on the one hand we don't want other countries thinking that they can just ignore legal agreements that they've made with the united states on the other hand divina ministrations been very critical of the agreement i think president biden shalit for ways to scale back and move to alternative policies with china hopefully in conjunction with our allies particularly those in europe all right mary lovely with the peterson institute for international economics in washington d.c. thank you very much thank you over the wall street now we're dating app bumble has become the story of the day with shares shooting up

a whopping 76 percent at one point on its market state view before settling a bit now bumble styles itself as a woman friendly women friendly dating app founder women wolf heard was part of the founding team behind tinder before leaving the company at 31 she's one of the youngest c.e.o.'s to take a company public. or a let's talk to court our financial correspondent in new york what is it that made bubble so attractive. yeah well i mean the story is just a very fitting to really get investors so excited especially in times where the stock market in general and then the i.p.o. market in particular are a red hot whitney wolf and actually is the youngest woman ever to bring a company public as you mentioned she did start with a tender but then later there was a sexual harassment suit from her and and then she started

a bumble being the 2nd biggest online dating company behind. which owned some tinder by now and the stock. was up by more than 60 percent at the end of the trading day giving a bubble a market valuation of roughly $14000000000.00 and it is very interesting because mitch group tried to buy a bundle a couple of years ago for 450000000 dollars so obviously it was a good decision by whitney wolf to say no at that time all right not a bad start in new york thank you. to the car industry now we're volkswagen has announced that microsoft will provide the cloud based software for its vehicles and an already existing partnership between the 2 companies and it comes as more tech companies are partnering with auto companies where demand for digital software soaring. cloud services secure data transfer and

artificial intelligence on the one hand automotive know how on the other microsoft and folks fog and hope to work together to speed up the w.'s development of automated driving the software situation at the auto giant in its 12 brands including audi sets godor and porsche has before now being chaotic with each unit doing its own thing v.w. then consolidated its software development program into one subsidiary car software org now microsoft will lend its cloud computing expertise traditional car makers are feeling the pressure not only must they contend with tesla the undisputed leader in the electric car market but also they're facing ambitious u.s. tech giants who are hoping to carve out a slice of the automotive pie google and apple they're working together on software for autonomous driving meanwhile amazon has bought a firm that produces robotic vehicles. software is playing an ever bigger role in

our cars for instance in steering or onboard entertainment with increasing digitalisation the auto industry is approaching across rates. or let's go to some of the other business stories making headlines. today as europe's largest share trading center now that britain is out of the e.u. stock exchanges in the dutch capital are trading at $9200000000.00 euros per day in january after picking up a chunk of u.k. business london during that same period traded at $8600000000.00 euros per day. astra zeneca posted a $3200000000.00 net profit last year the biggest driver cancer drugs for sales jumped by almost a quarter the british swedish pharma giant issued an upbeat forecast for the current year although its estimate does not yet include sales of its covert $900.00 faxing. well shops in mexico city have been allowed to reopen this week

despite the still high numbers of corona virus cases there and mexico as a whole so average in well over a 1000 covered 1000 deaths per day nevertheless there is an eagerness for many to get back to work. opening up for the 1st time in 2 months many retail workers in mexico city are relieved to get back to work even if it's far from business as usual limits on the numbers of customers temperature checks for shoppers and the mandatory provision of hand sanitizer make for a very different experience. there helps all of the q.r. codes sanitizer in temperature checks but i think it's more down to the individual to use their common sense. and they have been restrictions for so long that we're starting to get used to it but we do need to be able to just go out for a few minutes and then we'll go back inside. the mexican capital is still technically on the highest level of alert for corona virus cases. but the need to

make ends meet has proven over powering with many mexicans feeling forced to return to work for you have to support my children you support your sons in law and most of your grandchildren too it's chaos because then there isn't even enough to eat but. you're working behind closed doors which is not the same as working with everything open so let's hope that after this 2nd closure the economy will start to pick up again. but that's a gamble if the reopening of shops however clean causes a spike in corona virus cases it may only prevent mexico from finding its way out of the pandemic. or i we talk a lot about vaccines well now for a different kind of unfair injection from right here in germany in bavaria where confectioner is offering customers a jab of donuts filling the customers can choose from different flavor jams and

inject them into freshly baked donuts among the offerings are limon genger and passionfruit coconut chia to fling for something definitely something for those ailing from say a sweet tooth sort of other it's. all right that's our show that's it for us at the d w team here in berlin and you can always find out more about these and other stories the w dot com slash business mix watch. every day counts for us and for our planet. living light is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities rebirth how can we protect habitats what to do with race.

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german photo artists. whose meditative worked. documents the traces humans leave on the world around them. and europe is the news that inspires german artist and when it was created a mural of monumental proportions all of it in pencil. signature film festival the belly not that was the last of the 3 major festivals to take place normally one year ago in february before the world was so radically changed by covert 19 mo since then the organizers have been working hard to salvage the essence of what's known as the world's largest people's film festival and the european film market of course in the grip of a tough winter lockdown they've had to be creative and so we'll go over to bonnie now to our resident film expert scott roxboro to see how the festival will shape up with lockdown restrictions at the highest they've been so scott this must be strange for you normally the belly knowledge would have kicked off today but

instead there was a press conference to announce a modest program tell us what's happening.