the 43 year old shooter had posted a manifesto and videos online full of conspiracy theories and racist rants. his victims all had a migrant background. in the wake of the attack there was an outpouring of solidarity across the country. and strong condemnation from the german government. yes this was racism is a poison hate is a poison and this poison exists in our society and is responsible for far too many crimes we stand with all our strength and determination against all those who try to divide germany. last night. one year on from the attack the wounds still run deep and for many questions remain over whether more could have been done to prevent the events of that terrible night. earlier i spoke to.

a terrorism researcher at the max planck institute in dresden i asked her what has allowed far right extremism and ideology to flourish in recent years one big problem he faced and a moment is that a writing sentiments to racism and prejudice has arrived at the middle of society i mean if right wing political parties like to if he don't differentiate themselves enough from right wing extremism it is only a small step that some individuals will feel called upon to act upon that sort of resentments and to wake up to stepping masa so to speak like to program that by the deed propagated by the and i because of the 19th century and here we also have a situation that the new forms other forms of terrorism that are strong now also learn from the past leftwing terrorism from islamism from the anarchistic and we have a as head of a pacifist pasha's name in germany but have to consider is also the presence of mr corona pandemic for example you have a new city. conspiracy theories of torching for example that migrants are spreading

the. virus is not sticking to the current 10 rules so there's a clear connection to right wing extremism here by those conspiracy theories so that creates a climate in which which is conducive to radicalization of a few individuals who will feel called upon to actually act and break up the muscles which is if you touch upon what you think could be done better for example international cooperation but what do you think are the biggest priorities to tackle this issue in society today. i mean it. is actually society here i mean as i said the middle of society is one of the problems in our society has to be strengthened education can be done i mean this is a long term task of prevention proactive measures not only repressive and reactive measures and this touches upon what you said earlier couldn't have been prevented and prevention is that on the whole it's a long term task to strengthen cohesion within society and set up integration

programs context between different. strata of the society and. that is a difficult task because it doesn't. have immediate effects but this is very important. things from the max planck institute for social anthropology in dress and thank you so much for joining us well relatives of the one hour attack victims have complained that despite a year long investigation they still have more questions than answers did you caught up with the brother of one of the victims and here's how his life was turned upside down by the tragedy. in lost his brother gu khan in a racist terrorist attack in hono one year ago. he basically walked in and blew our lives apart or this couple he wrecked everything nothing was left in place. by us. kin was just 37 years old following his death his family fell apart 100 father died of

cancer 5 weeks later his mother can no longer cope without medication. and his son matt are not able to go to work and on sick leave the diagnosis post traumatic stress disorder it's like i mean for me it's been a whole year of sleepless nights when it gets dark you lay your head on the pillow where your head is filled with questions and being kissed and. commandant the frog . consumes you. to do to ken and his son matt on the way to the crime scene because he was shot by to b.s. at this kiosk just as he was about to finish his shift double my brother was lying over there under those 2 electrical sockets in motion there were blue lights flashing and a crowd of people at 1st we didn't realize what had happened to this day many questions remain unanswered for example how was it possible that the perpetrator

was in possession of a gun license even though he was mentally ill or why was the emergency number of the one our police apparently not sufficiently manned on the night of the crime. 2000 and the other relatives are still searching tirelessly for answers demanding clarification and consequences to do this they founded an initiative. of we are called on the stage government to investigate the failures and also to imagine how late the officials acted on the night of the crime and also before and after the crime and one year on there is still no explanation and there are still many many questions as to how it could have come to that flew off in a fog these are perhaps a white collar quantum neither the state government and nor the hano police want to talk to us about these allegations the police union had this to say before and saying the police were responsible in the sense that it one point or another they

could have done this or that and then it would not have happened i do not agree it's a little cheap to say after the fact is that the police should have known everything before him and since the attack to 18 group he can no longer feel safe in germany he's scared when he goes out at night or when his son is late coming home. now to some other stories making news around the world the u.s. says it is ready for talks with iran on the 2050 nuclear deal the biden administration has also moved to restore policies that were reversed under former president trump tehran's repeated calls for president biden to lift all nuclear sanctions saying it would immediately reverse its retaliatory actions. the trial of a journalist and doctor accused of releasing the medical records of a deceased protester started in ballard's the victim died from brain damage after he was arrested and an anti-government demonstration last year on thursday

a courtship jailed 2 journalists for violating public order while reporting on the rallies. the editor of a popular malaysian news site has been fined almost $100000.00 euros over comments left by readers on friday the paper malaysiakini was found guilty of contempt for publishing comments that criticised the judiciary media groups have condemned the ruling as an attack on press freedom. now trying to immunize people against covert 19 as quickly as possible has turned into a scramble to get as many vaccines as possible in theory every country in the world should have access to safe cheap vaccinations through an organization called kovacs which is backed by the world health organization u.s. president joe biden has agreed to donate $4000000000.00 to the program that will help boost the distribution of vaccines to poor countries but the plan is currently falling short of its goals. as it's built some on the big idea the kovacs

pillar is founded on the principle of access this means any country regardless of their ability to pay has the same access to vaccines but in reality the big idea is struggling as countries race and at times fight to get the populations vaccinated 1st. the head of the world health organization which code leads the kovacs program put it bluntly good vaccine nationalism might serve short term political goals but it's ultimately short sighted and self-defeating we will not the pandemic anywhere until we ended every were part of the problem is that wealthy countries have joined the kovacs initiative but have also made separate deals with vaccine manufacturers this is created an imbalance while poor

countries are completely dependent on kovacs richer nations are accused of using it as an added extra and there's another issue the astra zeneca oxford university vaccine accounts for almost all the doses that the kovacs program wants to start distributing later this month but south africa is delaying the rollout over concerns that the drug may not be effective against a new variant which 1st emerged there. and up to the situation vaccinated 1000000 people or 2000000 people that seem to me not being effective in preventing hospitalization and severe disease other countries are now stepping in china has only recently joined kovacs it's now offering the program 10000000 doses but beijing has already sold all donated large quantities of its 3 vaccines to

countries around the world. 50000000 doses are being bought by turkey alone. and moscow to prefers to do its own deals. iran just the latest to get russia's sputnik v. vaccine. the kovacs program still hopes to deliver more than $2000000000.00 vaccines by the end of the year scientists warn if that fails the world will pay the price it's not about $1.00 country versus another it's about one. protected. now to some of the latest developments in the pandemic japan says a new variant of covert 19 has emerged in the country's east more than 90 cases have been found mainly in tokyo brazil's health ministry says the country has surpassed more than 10000000 coronavirus cases and the dutch parliament has

approved an emergency nighttime curfew law after a court banned the measure earlier this week the curfew led to rioting when it was introduced in january. the leaders of germany and france will discuss the future of transatlantic relations with u.s. president joe biden during a special virtual mini edition of the munich security conference it'll be an opportunity to show how much or how little the e.u. has in common with a new washington administration. chief international editor richard walker gives us his take on some potentially thorny issues. 24 years of the trumpet ministration were a toxic age for transatlantic relations. could barely conceal her relief after joe biden's fake tree it's. president biden we simply have a much wider range of political agreement. but that doesn't mean that the u.s. and germany suddenly agree on everything they really don't so we're going to take

a look at 3 issues that are right at the top of the transatlantic agenda. first up north stream into a russian natural gas pipeline under construction to germany that team biden says must never be completed. because it divides europe it exposes ukraine and central europe to russian russian manipulation and because it goes against europe's own stated energy and security goals the us is even threatening sanctions against companies involved in the project here of berlin the government says that that is no way to treat an ally so the big question is can merkel and biden find some sort of compromise next china the rising giant challenging u.s. leadership in almost every thinkable way and shocking the democratic world with its crackdown on freedoms in hong kong. the u.s. and china are entering a period of profound confrontation and biden wants u.s.

allies on side was on that merkel seems decidedly cagey. we've pressed her on this just. essentially asking why she seemed reluctant to line up behind the new president on china and. believe that it is very important for the european union to have its own china policy he know pretty cut it's really no surprise that machall is so cautious china is after all a massive market for germany's export driven economy but they could come a time when biden says you have to pick sides. finally in the biggest crisis of all for the world perhaps more hope for transatlantic togetherness climate change is back as a top priority for the u.s. after 4 years of denial john kerry is the new team's climate czar a high profile name raising hopes that the u.s. and europe can make progress together on cutting back on carbon but there's one

thing that transcends all of these global issues for leaders watching biden from here in europe they remember how his presidency began with washington bracing for violence after its very democracy came close to collapse their biggest question will be can biden restore some stability to america because if he can't they fear another trouble could be on the way. well as we said the munich security conference is kicking off later today let's talk about that with our political correspondent jared reed hi jared what exactly is the european security community expecting from president biden that he will reset the button on the transatlantic relationship. will suit me i guess they're expecting some attempts at relationship repair and their commitment to multi-lateralism and and some if it's too i guess undo some of the damage that's been done over the last 4 years and

there are signs that things are heading in a positive direction on thursday i need to come with the german defense minister told g.w. that dealing with the bided ministration there was a markedly noticeable difference in tone in dealing with these administrations and the trump administration she just come from a meeting with her new u.s. counterpart so i guess that is encouraging news but there are significant issues to do with one of them as we heard in that report being china the u.s. sees china as a strategic threat where is the e.u. is pursuing deep ties with china through things like the investment deal it reached with beijing last year also russia germany and the u.s. . significant points of difference when it comes to north stream to the gas pipeline coming from russia to germany but they see

a more eye to eye when it comes to the treatment of political opposition like alexei no valley in russia so some significant differences but signs that point to common ground given these points what are we going to see discussed at this conference. well this conference is taking place in a pandemic so it's been drastically cut back from what it would normally look like so the pandemic is kind of looming large is going to be discussions on how to better cooperate during this pandemic and possibly future pandemics what the economic recovery from covert 19 is going to look like also talk of vaccines how to make sure that poorer countries have better access to vaccines we're expecting an announcement from the biden ministration a multi-billion dollar if it for this cause also iran by the administration has signaled that it would be willing to return to talks with other world powers and

iran on a possible return to the nuclear deal that the trumpet ministration left our political correspondent jared reed thank you very much. and if you want to see the whole special edition of the munich security conference you can watch it live on t.v. use you tube channel at youtube dot com slash to get you news. now nasa is celebrating the successful landing of its most advanced spacecraft yet on mars its space rover perseverance touched down safely inside one of the planet's craters after a nailbiting descent the robotic vehicle will make history by collecting samples of martian soil to be brought back to earth that could help scientists determine if life ever existed on the red planet. at time confirmed i am sure that they. became apparent by. the moment scientists had he could be

a way to. describe the 3rd part of the 1st and this is what it looks like as the 1st images beamed back from os small high quality images will be sent back in the coming hours and days. i feel relieved to have be excited ready to get to work or a part of the science team let's go do some science it's been a long 8 years and we're ready to go. it was a high risk landing. presidents are going about one kilometer per 2nd at an altitude of about 6000 kilometers from the surface of mars. this 7 month journey followed by what scientists call 7 minutes of tarot. president out of the bird to subsonic bees and that he still has been separated.

when the troll picks a cue to its delicate landing maneuver without help from the os this mission control. over the next 2 years perseverance will make history by collecting samples of masin soil. scientists believe that around 3500000000 years ago this creature was home to a report just filled into a lake making it a good location to start looking for signs of life. this mission is amazing on its own science technology and catching samples back to earth but it's also part of our bigger exploration plans for right which involve really understanding mars and the evolution of mars and whether there was life ancient life but also preparing for eventually human missions to mars bringing the samples back to earth would be another song and complicated journey.

involving several of the rocket launches and spacecraft meeting up with perseverance in space to pick up its cargo. if all goes according to plan those precious samples without a private back on earth and spirit he has 2031. let's talk about the story now with all this from the d.l.r. institute of planetary research in berlin good to have you on the show just how difficult was this landing it was exploring there is the most difficult space minnow run another planet ever done and had similar to sister in 2012 but this time it was even more sophisticated this new gimmicks you're into geese and so it was absolutely great but now supports all they landed except me on the spot they did wish and where they wanted to land and they did so you mentioned the predecessor curiosity which bit which has been roaming around mars since 2012 so what is nasa

expecting this new rover to find. this time nasa has on the wrong experiments that can read you take it live station look for bio signatures that are on the rocks or even in the rocks they drill florida analyze it and in the best case they can directly on the spot to analyze that they have to take it to life and if not so they will deploy about 38 different samples that will be collected see the end of this dictator early the next occasion return to earth and then we have to be deliberate tori's all over the world where we can look for the signs of life in these samples that's pretty extraordinary in itself that the scientists are planning to bring martian rocks back to earth for the 1st time explain to us how that happened. well it's a very interesting geologic area so they will have plenty of opportunities to have different locations to look for these bio signatures they have very good analysts

and now this is of course the area made before so it was a 5 year process and says a cylinder is lending side and we think it's the best place to look for life on mars and it would be the 1st to take action of life on another planet and i will leave it there from berlin d.l.r. institute of planetary research thank you so much for sports now and north america basketball league the n.b.a. has confirmed its all-star game will take place next month despite criticism from top players but bron james is among those who is question why the exhibition game is still going ahead during a coronavirus pandemic the n.b.a. said this year's event which features its $24.00 best players will be slimmed down to a single night players will be isolated in their hotels and no fans will be allowed to attend the game. now to the football official blazing a trail in the palestinian territories. is only one of 2 female referees

officiating top level men's and women's matches they're now at the age of just $21.00 she's got her sights set on the international game. running the i used to worry honey mariam but now the 21 year old assistant referee feels right at home and has high hopes for her future. i dream of being a famous referee and i hope to reach an international level as an assistant referee . before matches abu maryam takes part in a briefing with other match officials conservative islamic clerics here say this is no place for a woman but abu maryam has defied those voices to pursue her dream. as long as my family supports me i don't care about anything else it feels nice to be one of the only female referees and i will keep going and hopefully i will continue

on this path. it's been 4 years since the palestinian football association allowed female referees every mariam is working her way up through the leaks one day she says she hopes to be officiating at some of the world's most iconic stadiums. coming up next our debate show to the point looks at the rising rivalry between the u.s. and china stay with us. now

for. to the point. clear position the international perspective such. can anybody still for china's surge to global dominance the traps the biggest foreign policy challenge facing a new u.s. president joe biden so how will he respond the beach communication or confrontation

find out on to the point. to the point. but next the talk of w. . is back the new president's words to the world are clear but is. america. too damaged to leave a lot has changed in recent years and the big question is how our own allies position sounds de w.'s richard walker explores that samaritan's momentum global dominance simply coming to an end. the past 60 minutes on d w. young german. and jewish. i'm jewish so was i. not does that

mean. in daily life. and at school isn't it some we shouldn't be given a special status but be completely normal beyond this look of shock like wow there's a jew at our school that's the bad thing 11 teenagers 11 stories. 8th i'm jewish and so is. german and jewish starts feb 22nd on d w. who can stop china's surge to global dominance it's woman huge question and one huge challenge that is facing the new u.s. president and joe biden. biden has inherited a divided and don't read in america from his previous answer donald trump meanwhile she jinping is china is both expensive and off are a tarion its 2 rival systems apparently on collision course so want to the point we

are asked by dence america again she's china struggle for suprema same. well thanks very much for joining us here in the studio where my guests are. some from d. w.'s asia desk who believes china has the beans to become an even more influential international player but is the global north ready for a normal western leadership. also with us is felix leader has written a number of books on china and worked there for many years as a correspondent he argues that america's tough stance on china could aggravate the conflicts and make things more difficult for europe. to warm welcome to tyson from the german council on foreign relations he says the bite have been astray she said

to turn to europe with new ideas about a common front on china so how will europe respond. thank you once again all 3 of you for being here today felix i'd like to begin with you if i might and i think it's fair to say that a lot of a lot of people assume that everything would change when joe biden replaced the donald trump in the white house but it's not quite so sanctions between beijing and washington remain just as high you surprise action not because. joe biden already or had this administration all already so that they will keep on being tough on china and this is also i mean of course trump did a lot of things wrong in the relationship with china in his presidency but that's only one part the other part china became a much bigger rival not only 2 of us to the whole world of especially on the xi

jinping so i'm not surprised at all that biden is following the tougher stance and you can also see that under the obama years if you can compared with the obama . obama already said pivot to asia we focused more on asia and he didn't do much in his presidency. now biden knows he doesn't he doesn't not only have to continue what the obama war started view has to be more tougher ok tyson against the backdrop of war to fix is just been saying there are a lot of commentators who are saying the relations between the 2 sides have plummeted to that worst level in many many years and of in a very long time is that scaremongering a result realistic i think there's some realism behind that i mean if you look at what happened in the united states in the trump yours trump was clearly very hawkish on china used it a lot in his rhetoric but he at the same time negotiated the phase one trade deal which has not delivered the what was promised and has really stalled in the

meantime we have the cove in 1000 crisis which has accelerated everything a more aggressive china greater dependencies. more ip theft and the population in the united states very divided as we've noted all throughout the population and in the halls of congress there is one thing that continues to unite and that is the question of how do we deal with china china is a real systemic conflict so that is one thing the one. key policy issue around which america can unite this point in time that is it's something that i think most americans and most people in washington see as something from from the fluff to the right as as a real challenge and something that needs to be taken on then one difference i would say between biden and trump is biden says we want to take it on with allies with like minded partners because this isn't a conflict about countries necessarily or people this is

a conflict of ideologies let's bring in sujit and joe biden and she jinping recently spoke at length or about 2 hours in fact and it was a meeting where we're told that they were they were adults on most issues joe biden came out afterwards and said and i thought it was an extraordinary statement china will eat our lunch what did you make of that. yes i i think that and trump. the u.s. has kind of alienated a lot of the international community and i think biden as the newly elected president has a lot to live up to he promised to enforce democracy and universal values and he wants to bring back i think the u.s. as a global superpower a global player and i think he will pick up. the center of the sound a distinctly ruffle to do some commentators said it was just

a quip this comment about china well it's our lunch but for my for my view it seemed like he was he was ruffled and very constant natured about the future is i mean i think he has reasons to feel a bit ruffled as you say because china has a xi jinping has said you know he wants china to become a technological powerhouse as the made in china 2025 which is soon way on its way to success and then we have the very expensive belt and road initiatives that china policy in infrastructure and the developing the manufacturing industry i think the u.s. feels slightly threatened and i think washington does not want to lose the game of course and they want to kind of address policy revisit the china approach and so that they are not left behind and catch up to china. meeting that i just mentioned between the 2 leaders joe biden voiced concerns of burbridge ings coercive and

unfair trade practices as he put it concerns about hong kong concerns about beijing's treatments of muslims engine jarring and about its approach towards taiwan is not exactly a way of sort of making friends and influencing people no i think the awful lot of point of that he has a lot of. i mean the europeans criticize it to all these points because this is where china really become. a threat not only on other countries in the region but on ideas so this is a systemic rivalry which has been which has grown and which hasn't been before she. china was all before there was also a communist country but they were not so aggressive china has become under so i think it was exactly his purpose of mr biden to point this out

well while the u.s. and europe have been distracted by the massive impact of the crisis on their societies china has been the lead nation in the creation of a big new free trade bloc that was signed into life at the end of last year. it's a triumph for china after years of negotiations 15 countries in the pacific region have signed the r c e.p. free trade agreement joining the states and western allies south korea japan australia and new zealand these countries represent one 3rd of the world's population and its global economic output china also has an investment agreement with the e.u. and with the silk road project the middle kingdom is forging new alliances and relationships in central asia and africa. meanwhile china is vigorously pushing its own agenda for example the country imposed sanctions on

goods from australia because among other reasons the government barred a chinese company from building a 5 g. network. the message if you oppose china you're in trouble how dangerous will china's expansionism be for the u.s. . so she let's begin with this conflict between china and australia what is going on there. i think. for example it's very close to china and china has very much closer relations to china and in a more direct sense than for example the us and europe graphically and demographically there's also a large chinese community in australia and however i think as china is seemingly more aggressive on the xi jinping in the pacific asia region a strategy and now in the last few years one thing to kind of tighten also

its policy against china and also impose tariffs and be more cautious and because they are more direct in contact with china and they feel more threatened and i think that but to the reactions from the region i think the you're up and the u.s. can now kind of look for us and use australia as kind of a example of what would happen if. at the beginning of the show we have this quote from you where you served us where the global north would be willing to accept known western leadership rosary intriguing to us a little bit more is i think that of course there's the debate washington's kind of putting forth that it's not about fighting china it's about fighting an authoritarian state because i think it's a narrative that's easier to catch on to in the global north where it's something

very difficult to dispute you know universal values and but i think china is very prepared to expand its influence it has very strong economic and bishan however i think the question is an interesting question to look at as well is is the world ready for china as a global leader because this is debatable but china is now. the fast non weston country with a non weston population that is getting the title of a superpower well let's see what tyson has to say about that question how far will the west go it accepting known western leadership i mean i don't i think that the west is trying to countries in europe and the united states canada etc really trying to redefine that they don't want to be geographically narrow they do want to be as as was mentioned values based and that's why you're hearing a lot more let's talk about the west and more talk about like minded countries

working together and i think that's really the strategic advantage when you look at how china interacts with its neighbors in its near abroad let's say or even countries in the global south it tends to be a very extractive relationship these are not relationship building exercises that build political capital and deepen trust and we've seen time and again in the past 15 years the relationship between china and brazil the relationship with africa in the late in 20072008 that a lot of times countries and populations become disillusioned with the chinese because they're so attractive so this idea of building an alliance system is something that really is a unique advantage of countries like the united states and its allies in europe and japan south korea which are not obviously western countries for me. yeah i mean it was definitely a mistake by the trump administration to give up the free trade agreement which was were started in southeast asia but also in europe and trumpeted wanted and got rid

of it and china stepped into the this whole the us left behind so that this was definitely a mistake on the other hand. especially as a south east asian countries and not only australia and taiwan a lot of them distrust china and this continuous although they haven't trade agreement now with china asia and countries the still the distrust is still very. very very high and this my be a chance not only for the us but all for all of this i would say whoa whoa did you describe it is like my life minded countries have to start to think about common china strategy how to deal with this aggressiveness which comes from the xi jinping government yeah i suppose i mean the question is does it always need to be does this question ultimately confrontational communication which is the right path to go down i mean it depends i mean of course it would be always better to

communicate with each other. but on certain points it's probably not possible i mean what china did on hong kong. to give up or to to. to. and other example the attrition young is this is something where i think there's not much to communicate any more you have to criticize the very shy and this is what i was a little bit missing is specially from the european countries and you have to have frankly consequences right i mean consequences and treatment the international system the systemic theft of intellectual property which people have described as the greatest wealth transfer from the west the united states japan to china in the history of the world that is we criticize the trumpet ministration for many things but one thing that we can't criticize them for is having let's say the courage and

they really change the culture in washington to impose consequences on china even if it meant that it was going to cause some sacrifice at home is this the beginning of the show we had you know statement saying that the u.s. will turn to europe with new ideas about forging a common line on china is that what you're referring to that i think that that's part of it i mean big question is market access can we deep in the democratic space and at the same time harden the requirements to enter the democratic space with products with services with infrastructure with procurement with ip with data are these things that we want to say to china you know if you want to provide social media services 5 g. equipment all these kind of things you have to abide by the rules of the system which has not been the case since they entered the in 2000 c.d.'s so one headline this week e.u. coast between the fronts between the fronts of china and the us is that how you might see it. yes i think that is described like that because i think.

there's you know washington there's the u.s. in one hand and there's also.