this is e w news live from berlin a massive show of opposition in myanmar protesters turn out for some of the biggest anti to demonstrations yet they turned streets into parking lots of blocking potential routes for security forces their goal to shed doubt until terry claims its widespread public support for its seizure of power. also coming up to stand and fight or abandon the war against the taliban in afghanistan nato defense ministers take up the crucial question in

a summit today with no end in sight to the violence in the country and street protests erupted after a spanish rapper is arrested for his controversial lyrics and tweet did he cross the line into terrorism or was it free speech. i'm sorry welcome to the program. demonstrators in myanmar have gathered in their largest numbers thus far to demand an end to military rule opponents of the february 1st coup doubt that the military's promise to hold elections and handover of power now deposed leader aung sang suu kyi remains in jail facing obscure criminal charges hundreds of thousands joined rallies in cities across the country despite fears of a violent crackdown. a battle cry for democracy

tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of young gone stepping up their open revolt against a military takeover car she says road blocks to keep security forces from moving around the commercial capital. in this cat and mouse game it appears to for now it's the mice who have the upper hand internet shutdowns another attempts to disrupt the demonstrations have largely proved futile even the judge says assurances of free and fair elections have been met with deep skepticism exacerbated by fresh criminal charges against sons who cheat. but the young people of this generation don't have to believe in the military's promises they lie before and they hold an election back in 1988 so we've already learned our lesson from the peach of history. who scrolling concerned that myanmar's bloody history could be about to repeat itself the u.n.

says it's received reports of soldiers being ready for crackdown and young gun sparking fears that scenes like this are merely a taste of what's to come. but i do know but is this activist told the daily news they're not backing down no i'm not afraid i'm not afraid we've seen that we have been and i think it's a rehearsal for years so this is that we have finished this i we we we we when i watch were given crazy we no longer want every anyone. else. as the world watches with bated breath for many here me a more there's only one way out of this. for with their fists hard even if no one knows where the world will be them. and let's get more now we are joined from me on mars 2nd largest city mandalay by activists david david thank you so much for being

with us here on t.w. we have heard these warnings from the united nations that they are expecting potentially violence today and i'm just wondering you've been out on the streets what have you been observing. first of all thank you i was out since 8 am this morning and the true test is for about 4 hours so and during that time tens of thousands of people gathered and we walked for about 9 kilometers and. at that time i didn't see any. police force or any human rights violation but i don't think that creates the whole picture. since monday the police force and the military has addressed each change their strategy the cut of internet from one e.-m. to 9 yeah and during that time we don't know what they would do or what do you have

done. and just last night in one of the streets in mandalay there were some firing off from bullets and some kind of bullets were fired at civilians who are sitting inside the home and the other day there were some beating by the police force across the. city and. why and some protesters try behind the fence it's obvious people's home they. put their rifles in the ranks of us and shoot at them so i think it's a complete violation of human rights and i say you're talking about how you believe the security forces are changing their tactics you're changing your tactics as well as we've mentioned you know protesters have been blocking streets for example what do you hope to achieve today. our family target and our very reason for doing that is to achieve 100 percent of

civil disobedience movement and by blocking the way the media groups and by having the car group down in the middle of the street we hope we will achieve some delay in the process as well as we could deter the tanks and what it can in cars and so far we are doing something and we do hope to achieve civil disobedience movement 100 percent we are not aiming to harm them we don't have any intention to fight with police we just find fall right. david joining us from mandalay myanmar's 2nd largest city as we mentioned protests underway today thank you for joining us to tell us a little bit more about it. now let's look at some other stories making news around the world hung kong media tycoon jimmy lie has been arrested again while over

a day in jail he is suspected of assisting a fugitive who fled china and was captured at sea lion is set for a bail hearing on thursday after having been charged with violating china's new security law for involvement in hong kong's pro-democracy street protests. the wife of north korean leader kim jong un has appeared in public for the 1st time in more than a year resul jew attended ceremonies commemorating the birthday of her father in law the deceased former leader kim jong il the secretive couple was married in 2009 and are believed to have these 2 children together. the u.k. and the u.n. are calling for evidence that a missing dubai princess is alive after she released a video saying she's being held hostage in solitary isolation chica latif is he a daughter of shaikh muhammad leader of the united arab emirates she said that she had no access to fresh air or to medical care materials

president mohammed who bihari has ordered a rescue operation after a gunman kidnapped dozens of students and some teachers from a school staff said that one student was shot dead in the attack school staff also said that large numbers of men dressed in military uniform hauled away students from the government science college in ca gar in the share state a few of those kidnapped managed to escape a local government official said that most of those taken were children the abduction follows other recent kidnappings with violent gangs blamed for these attacks. let's go to do correspondent now it was a loss to his standing by with a view from a buddha what else is known about the kidnapping so far. what we know doc is new. student kidnapped which has risen to

27 there are some members of the 5000000 members of the staff and then there was there one student that was cute will do it trained to abduct him you to see stay open fire and the house cutie agencies have already taken over at the school to school is design all students have. to death parents because some of them slept in the bush and escape to recess. tell us more about the potential motivation what is behind the kidnappings. no group has come out the year it to klym responsive billet but the lead this is has been happening in dot may just hit the. gone men by indeed kidnapping for ransom it takes sometimes the food to communicate i see we are the

one who did it and this is the amount of money demanded to collect it it's not the 1st time a new reference to some previous kidnappings that these big kidnappings that have have been happening in one area walk us through the steps that the government has has been taking in order to to deal with them more effectively. the group then all is kept on public just to. day deploy i need to deploy the military personnel to deploy. the detectives. in years well until. nigerians i send there are yet to see died in reality because. with time part of nigeria is affected by disc it not been which has become into a kind of embarrasses tuition because they used telephone to communicate and demand

for us some on the positions we put on and around some of the old dog the governor of ny just had just finished his q.b. to meet and now. they are trying to rescue the student into their finally these and he is insistent that they are not going to be at pindi for a. while so interesting joining us from a buddha thank you so much. while nato defense ministers meeting virtually today will take up the question of whether or not to withdraw from the afghan war it is the 1st such gathering since the us election meaning a deadline set by the trump white house to withdraw all foreign troops by the end of may is now in doubt here's a look at what's at stake for the major players involved and crucially for the people of afghanistan. that tax on police and civilians roadside bombs targeting officials afghanistan

continues to be hit by violence despite the ongoing talks between the government in kabul and the taliban at this very tickler juncture with such kind of the deterioration of situation we are getting closer to a situation of chaos and the need to ministers should really that he knows of this based on the other global maneuver so obligations of protecting civilians no one wants to troops to stay for ever or ashraf nemat says but a responsible with trolls should be based on conditions on the ground that seems to be a notion shared by many in afghanistan. for the average person rather than just on what they want is a decision that will lead to an end to the fight so that they can come to market like this without work for the government what they want is an answer they want to know that what was once and what made

a one thing and when then that's it all they want is an answer they can plan. and this is one of president biden's most challenging policy dilemmas if he you ask pulls out of afghanistan by may 2021 as agreed in a deal between he's and the taliban the country could plunge deeper into chaos if the troops stay the taliban could retaliate the administration will be looking if they can do 2 things the 1st is to withdraw a more measured way that will solve it saddam stability from the situation in afghanistan and secondly leave the united states and coalition partners with some capacity for counterterrorism and do all of this in close coordination with its nato allies the biden administration has strongly signaled that they will listen to the experts and will remain in afghanistan for the foreseeable future this is

a major policy shift from the trump white house and this will be biden's 1st major policy decision for the middle east and could have a deep impact on this presidency americans have grown exhausted from endless wars and it will be a tough sell to the public that remaining in afghanistan is the best course of action. nato allies welcome the change in tone from the us administration the alliance relies on you as forces for logistical support in afghanistan and secretary general stoltenberg made it clear that nato wants leave before the time is right to clear hands that there may deadline could be extended there's no decision or ongoing event in this case and that from what we miss you can only decision to say. as it is for

a meeting that means he continued but how they continue remains a big question after 20 years of military presence in afghanistan elyse are growing increasingly war weary they've been successful in defeating al qaeda they had to realize they didn't have the capacity to reinjure near afghanistan they wanted to coordinate their next steps knowing that the price for leaving too soon could be very high and earlier we spoke with her tired us lieutenant general ben hodges about the challenges that nato is facing he told us that more european commitment in the alliance is key. the secretary general has talked about the need to prevent large capability gaps especially with the growth and speed of technological change this is important but i think the strategic concept is also about ensuring we have a strong european pillar not

a european hero as the united states looks to china as its long term strategic rival and so the united states does not have the capacity to deter russia or contain iran for tape locums and deal with a rising china live by the chinese communist party so our india wyatt's focusing on its core mission of deterrence and defense in europe is really important. and that was retired lieutenant general ben hodges speaking with us earlier south africa has started the rollout of its 1st kovan 1000 vaccine with president cyril ramaphosa getting the jap today in cape town 80000 doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine will be distributed across the country with health workers getting inoculated 1st as part of a research study. this comes after the country dropped plans to use the astra zeneca vaccine after a study found it failed to prevent illness caused by the south africa virus variant

. brain correspondent adrienne crease who is following the story for us from cape town i join you at a hospital there and tell us a little bit more about the rollout what is being planned what is happening where you are. right i mean behind me you can see a vaccination station so this is where the 1st health workers of this hospital in getting their vaccine there is time to move move of happiness here and let us actually bring in one of the health care workers here doctor who can call he's been working on the front line through it with covert patients and you just got your vaccine i was here with you in late december when there was the 1st speaker the 2nd peak actually of the coverts cases and you showed me around here it looked quite crowded dozens of people the room where people are vaccinated now was packed with patients back then coughing sitting waiting for a bed now it looks much better but to tell me why is it so important now for the health care workers to get this vaccine being. being

a front line worker it's very important. for this vaccine. for long to get these weeks in and become very very important because we've seen what this virus can cause and we need to create. anything we need to create. a kind of immunity in the community and the only we really to fight this disease is to get vaccinated and that's why the frontline would need to. be on the front lines so i need to be vaccinated be protected be immunized so that i can continue fighting for the disease in saving lives or to become color thank you very much for your time and all the best for your work but he was not the only one who got the vaccine obviously other health workers but there was a surprise guest coming here today the president of south africa serum up was also came to this hospital to get the vaccine basically to show people it is safe

because in the past weeks there was quite a lot of confusion here you mentioned the astra zeneca vaccine delivery that came here and 1000000 doses 2 weeks ago shortly after was a study was published that said well it might not help against miles disease from the new of the raw and that is dominant here in south. africa that's why the government decided to put the rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine on hold that was pretty much criticized from a lot of people around the world just to say well it's could still help with a mile to the east but the decision was done by the government now it is the johnson and johnson vaccine that is vaccinated here and you have to remember this vaccine is also not in use in any countries yet it's not approved yet even here in south africa so what we see now the vaccinations are still part of the face 3 trial and this is where the president said well i have to show people it is still safe it can still help because when it comes to the johnson and johnson vaccine there were 1st studies that proved that this vaccine can help with a new variant. crease joining us with the view from south africa there as the

inoculation program gets underway thank you so much for your reporting. on the corona virus is spreading and mutating throughout africa but officially at least so far it is not devastating or has not been devastating as many countries as an other parts of the world each country however of the african continent has its own policies to deal with the pandemic with various degrees of success and impressions from nigeria kenya tanzania and seychelles show how differently the global vaccine shortage is being tackled. high tech at nairobi's airport 3 robots maintain social distancing between travellers and health workers. yes sirree can check up to $100.00 travelers per minute now we have a system that is helping us to manage this temperature checking and we're maintaining coverage but to both these 3 metal helpers cost 1800000 euros and were

donated by japan but while high tech is here the vaccine is not unlike for the east in the seychelles usually a paradise for tourists the archipelago is now attracting viral exists its 100000 residents are expected to reach herd immunity within 2 months faster than anyone else in africa. the vaccine used here came from china which donated the 1st doses buying the next batch is unlikely to pose a problem seychelles has the highest per capita income in africa. meanwhile tanzania's president who holds a doctorate in chemistry sees things very differently. i think that i have asked the minister of health to be very careful about importing vaccines because it is not always good for our country. on t.v. the minister now makes his lemons garlic ginger and onions into

a potion that she says will ward off the virus. tanzania and the seychelles are the 2 extremes but most african countries fall somewhere in between the 2nd wave of covert $9000.00 hit the continent's most populous country nigeria with full force hospitals are full oxygen is running low and doctors are desperate for the vaccine we're looking forward to that and i hope that it will come to us at a sort of as big as possible quickly is not likely to happen in the medical journal the lancet scientists are warning that the industrial nations have already secured 70 percent of the vaccines that will be produced this year 70 percent for just 16 percent. the world's population. and all the people. and the biggest. wealth inability to solve health problems in the world. it's.

the w.h.o. originally wanted to distribute the vaccine equitably and centrally through its kovacs platform but now the little that is left for poorer countries can only cover 20 percent of their populations this year 3 times that is needed to reach herd immunity in kenya for instance that may take a long time. 2022 going to 2023 we are hoping that they will even be more box inside and therefore cover even many more people despite the robot's herd immunity here is unlikely before meant 2023 this poses a serious threat not just for kenya but for many african countries at least time for new virus strains and resistance to develop the west with them be the winner in the global vaccination race without reaching its goal. and let's catch up on some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic germany's health minister

says that the more infectious u.k. variant of the corona virus is spreading rapidly u.k. health authorities have given the green light to expose volunteers to cope with 19 in a new medical trial 90 health candidates will be exposed to the virus to better understand its effects and japan has begun inoculating health workers after approving the 1st facts seen the vaccination program is viewed as essential to moving forward with preparations for the tokyo summer olympics gaza's population of 2000000 people has received the 1st shipment of vaccines from russia chronically ill patients are 1st in line. that violent street protester ruptured on tuesday and several spanish cities following the arrest of rapper pablo herself she was sentenced to 9 months in prison for his song lyrics and tweets which authorities say glorify terrorism and insult the monarchy his supporters have portrayed his case as a fight for free speech several 1000 protesters turned out in barcelona.

chants of freedom for pablo has said echoing through the streets of barcelona scuffles erupted between protesters and the police with trash container set on fire and shop windows destroyed demonstrators are calling for left wing rapper. to be released from prison. earlier on tuesday police have stormed the gate the university in the country's northeastern catalonia region and the rest it has said who was holed up there with dozens of supporters after he missed a deadline to turn himself in in 2018 the rapper was sentenced to 9 months in prison for glorifying terrorism and insulting the spanish monarchy and some of his songs in tweets they included references the paramilitary separatist group and called former king juan carlos a mafia boss his case has garnered widespread attention in spain and spurred the

debate on freedom of expression after the arrest the deputy prime minister said in a democracy like spain there should be few limitations on free speech because some moved. because we think that in all matters stemming from freedom of expression if nobody safety is put at risk then imprisonment is not an appropriate punishment within the freedoms granted by a democracy. the government confirmed its landing to reform spain's criminal code with lighter punishments for free speech offenses and protection for artistic and cultural forms of expression. a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you here on news protestors in new young maher have been gathering for some of the biggest anti cooed demonstrations and yet some have

started a broken down car campaign in order to block security forces on the streets the u.n. has a warrant of filings after reports of troop build outs built up excuse me outside of donkey kong. up next it is in for africa i'm sorry kelly in berlin stay with us if you can thanks for watching.

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hour we'll be showing you some amazing environment ideas from europe and africa here is what is kind of shortly. in kenya tories maybe stay in the early part of the time to use our. planting trees can be fun as well as an eco friendly nation. i need to wear a helmet to fungus. with reporters a lot about electric cars and the reduced impact on the environment it is certainly better to drive electric than the force if you apologize because bandt what happens to the electric batteries once they used to simply throwing them away isn't a sustainable option now a german company has found a way of giving the batteries a 2nd means of life and some of which will be used by projects in africa taken to.

driving a 3 wheeled electric honda is a major step towards independence for these women and once in zimbabwe. it allows them to take their vegetables to the market on their own. the start up to mobility for africa and rents out the many electric transporters for a reasonable price. our home but is in better mentally friendly it's doesn't pollute the air nor noise pollution as it. is it doesn't have those exhaust and those fossil fuel engine at the moment the homo's are outfitted with standard lithium ion batteries which are often discarded when they run out of power the same holds true for those in the around 4000000 electric vehicles worldwide. we are all very happy that you mobility is finally taking off but if you know

carefully regenerator the next problem in a couple of years from now millions of these use batteries will come on the market was no home we said can we find a way to give this better is a 2nd life it's at that point that to start ups came together simple ways mobility for africa and batteries in berlin its founder i know who has years of experience in the automobile and airline industries says that he wants to see discharge batteries return to service for another 7 to 10 years wherever power supplies are patchy. these batteries when they come to us have around 70 percent of the initial storage capacity so they are way to where to store them and wait we actually can this better where we have $48.00 modules can build 6 of our bed repacks each of an e-card is $48.00 battery modules is tested for capacity and then. 6 are bundled together to create

a battery brand battery pack the modules may not all be in the same condition but the berlin based company has come up with the technology for i having out the difference. these electronics controls the safety of the bedroom pack and make sure that we can handle slight differences this in the aging and quality of the modules it's taken 2 years to develop better is blue and gray casing the new battery packs are watertight and dust proof and user simply have to remove the old power pack and plug in the new one which can be charged with solar generated energy. the honda is ready to roll on zimbabwe's roads to boost the women security and prevent theft the recycled packs are fitted with smart technology that allows mobility for africa to track them anywhere and better it gets real time data on the state of their power packs as well. we can see in the bedroom in zimbabwe

dust so we can manage we can all or at the customer say no it needs a bit of repair or maintenance so we build more than the ecosystem around the battery to optimize its usage and make it is easy for the customer as possible the goal is to go into mass production and to take back used packs to prevent them from landing in electronic waste in africa or ensure they are properly recycled. for we work with partners resulting specialist logistic specialist we have regional operational centers to make sure we can guarantee the brought that it's hoped the experiences gained in zimbabwe will transfer to other economically weaker regions in africa asia and latin america to be humble is one use case but the main other use cases rip. for recruits or is primary power

for. the classic. situation the battery packs are getting their 1st road tests in zimbabwe driving lessons are booked out and mobility for africa plans to expand. the service providers. because for example. operational. after launching in zimbabwe better wants to go global. to have 300000 units like 2030. reusing items. but wouldn't it be even better if there were more projects and processes all the fust place in

a team of young technologists. from really interesting stuff. at 1st glance the helmet by a technologist schubert is wearing might look normal but he's hoping that it could spare had a green revolution. the entire interior of this bike helmet consists of fungus my sealy i'm an agricultural waste their foots extremely sustainable and a very good return it if to the plastic interior of conventional helmets. a helmet made out of. bizarre. schubert and his 2 colleagues it makes perfect sense back at the lab in the technical university and all they need to do is to take the cells of the tin the fungus and mix them into. this then add it to hemp. waste a perfect snack for the fungus within some 10 days its roots the my syria saw the

defy the contents of the back. and. it's a shock absorbing material that can compete with petroleum based materials in many ways that was our main motivation there are so many products materials that end up in the trash cans such as p.s. foam expanded polystyrene that's the material that we're replacing in this helmet tyrion makes up 30 percent of plastic waste in landfills worldwide that's a lot of. questions. first tests have shown that the helmet can even outperform conventional ones in safety terms so if the team still needs to come up with a sustainable outer shell and to ensure that the product is long lasting once they've sought those problems they want to go into business almost one in 4

cyclists in germany wear a helmet. that time schmidt another by a technologist at the technical university of berlin discovered the novel he uses for found each year in a citizen science project that he led. these fascinating organisms on the other animal plant they come in many shapes and sizes. they love rainy days like this one and they have lived on this planet for millions of years. a fungus may well be the biggest living organism on earth will be over when they stick their heads out that's not even the tip of the iceberg but only a very small part you don't see the main body it penetrates the entire forest floor everything here is creating a communication network with other organisms that is constantly in operation the organisms don't always like each other there is fierce competition.

generally this contest for nutrients and territory completely passes by except when it's obvious for all to see as on the street trunk that's covered with the tinder fungus. for trees this means a slow end there are also some of the tufts feeding on the organic material here. the more most celio of these 2 species meet inside the trunk it would be interesting to see how they interact with each other their competitors after all both want to decompose would. their ability to break down organic material is what gives them the energy to grow other materials that will smith tend to steam discovered that the local tinder fungus works best for their big plants for the fungus compas it. after the initial growth phase it can be broken up into recrown and molds to create different forms and sizes. but also put them up before i could

certainly imagine that you could build whole walls from funky and the supporting frames from other components like wood if you wanted to remain recyclable i can certainly imagine that you could build a large house with it of course. although the lightweight funky bricks are not a load bearing they could replace many of the building materials once they're dried and the growth of the mycelium is halted the brakes could replace polystyrene for example providing a much greener form of insulation. it's compas it is also very flexible. at times schmidt and his colleagues are planning to scale up the work working together with architects and engineers to see where the material can still be optimized. to boys and by talk licensed ones on their part we want to make a contribution towards solving global problems of where do we get our resources from how can we switch to

a circular economy and how can we recycle used products and i think that funky material covers all those bases that's working pretty much where i'm supposed to. grown in a controlled environment funky could just be the stuff to help build the houses of the future. we are all having a tough time doing this pandemic but when nature it has actually brought some bit of relief in many countries including kenya tourism past declined sharply indeed as has sandra usually the bitches there ought to mean with torres but not have the sound almost to themselves and they've come to next that's prompted locals to pitch in to protect the harshly. making a break for the ocean i newly hatched green sea turtle leaves its nest on to the beach its journey monitored by volunteers from a local organization the t.v.

title police on king and south cost. solaire macumba is one of them they need it it is dedicated to protecting the green sea turtle which is on the red list of in the just pushes he's happy that numbers are rebounding. this is. all used to. a few months ago a few matata went ashore near here and laid eggs now as the animals are hutchings so lame a company is worried because they're more sluggish than usual and on the away into the sea they face many dangers crabs siegel's beach dogs but also humans. what. people posed the biggest threat to the tuttles because they used to eat them

but it got mobilized terry and tatters and turtle eggs are no longer being eaten by saying the biggest danger to tuttles still comes from humans. i was a long. way to meet tuttle police was founded by the owner over small beach or turtle. in cooperation with the king a wildlife service and the local fishing community they patrol some 12 kilometers off coastline monitor nast's and pick up the last request although the members are all volunteers they're going ization has been helping them during the pandemic. when. they get out of the program is helping us and we are getting some money but when we are on duty even even go out to sea for 2 days we know that we'll receive some income later we can then at least use that to. take care of our children. are protected but a lot. thanks to the partridge the tiny reptiles have

a greater chance of survival and more are harshing than before the members of the team we turtle police receive training in total ecology and pass on their knowledge to the community. i've seen what their project has since 2019 we have not heard of any reports of anyone consuming tattoos or anyone killing or injuring tuttle's so the number of turtles that are dying has gone down and people have begun to understand even out of the water. what. about. only a few meters separate the baby turtles from the south those who make it will travel pounce.