another was shot through the ribs and many other was severely injured some just very far away and yes indeed i how worried are you and me all the protest is about this escalating military crackdown is so real no. sooner earlier they were there there was going to be pleasure. we're not or we're not scared because this is. we have to you know. prevented this. military coup and so this is a we're going to fight to the end and. i don't know home many people who are going to be 2 in the coming days oh we're not going to back down. where do you see this going i mean from your perspective is there still hope that a pace full solution can be found. soon.

as far as i am concerned don't be any compromise between us and in those rooms or because in the past we all seen the things and of all of us to have brought upon the people and we all know we all know it is we are going to have to you know put an end to this so i decided to do for all we need to. sam frankie thank you for giving us that perspective sam an activist in the city of mandalay his name we have changed to protect his identity. let's turn to some of the other stories making news around the world this hour at least 5 people have been killed in a series of blasts in the afghan capital kabul in one incidence of magnetic bomb was apparently attached to a car belonging to a local polled political leader but he wasn't inside at the time no one has claimed responsibility. severe flooding in the indonesian capital jakarta has forced more

than a 1000 people to flee their homes floodwaters have reached nearly 2 metres in some areas authorities warmer conditions are set to continue as the country expects the heaviest rain of the season in the coming days. the italian coast guard has launched a search for survivors after a vessel carrying migrants capsized off the mediterranean island of lampedusa overnight officials say around 40 people have so far been saved survivors of the accident said 5 people are still unaccounted for. new zealand has kicked off its official rollout of bio intake scope at 19 back saying order and hotel quarantine workers are receiving the initial jabs the country has been widely praised for its handling of the corona virus pandemic and has same just 26 deaths in a population of 5000000. u.s. president joe biden has approved a declaration of a major disaster for the state of texas following a crippling winter storm at least 2 dozen texans died in the unusually cold weather

which also disrupted electricity and water supplies. the snow and ice may have melted but texans are facing a new hurdle a shortage of clean water houston residents queued for up to 3 hours for just that on friday. the water came on for a slight moment i believe on. or late wednesday but it only came on as a trickle i also wanted to get some for my neighbor she's overly and can't get out at all and has no water at all record low temperatures have led to pumping problems bust pipes and water mains across the state even flooding some harms. it's just the latest misery for residents who are left without heat or electricity for days. just. overwhelmed it was doing so you know the coronavirus all lost my job you know my mortgage you know i have

a business and i have all the stuff that you know a lot of. are on this. is the $100.00. 7000000 people are currently under orders to boil tap water before drinking all cooking as low water pressure could have allowed bacteria into the system. the state's governor has appealed for help from the u.s. president to talk with the federal emergency management agency fema the administrator. of the saf community going to ask can be accelerated a response a request for quote it's a different declaration a major disaster declaration so the reading get everything done this we need that's possible to get done. the declaration would allow for more federal funds to be distributed for the relief effort which would be welcomed by the thousands who are still without power and water. a court in moscow has rejected the

appeal of russian opposition leader like say novelli against his jail sentence but it did reduce his sentence slightly taking into account time already served in house arrest he's now to spend around 2 and a half years behind bars for violating parole in an earlier case the kremlin critic was unable to make his parole officers because he was in germany seeking medical treatment due to poisoning with a nerve agent development faces multiple trials with another one focusing on defamation charges. over the latest i'm joined by d.w. correspondent emily shown in moscow emily what have the reactions been to this 1st verdict. well we heard from several of these allies on social media they called this ruling a disgrace and they said that it showed that there is no rule of law in russia after all this is a ruling over a fraud case that there you are a peon court of human rights actually ruled back in 2017 to be arbitrary and

reasonable and now he. has received jail time for apparently not speaking to his parole officer regularly when he was actually in the hospital in germany after a poisoning finding himself has been using today's court cases and also the previous. rulings trials rather hearings of this case. as a platform to kind of show his defiance today we've heard 2 closing statements from him where in the 1st one he quoted the bible and harry potter to say that he doesn't regret having returned to russia that he doesn't feel alone as he says the government wants him to feel at the moment and he also said. the importance of truth and justice dressed the court itself and said wouldn't it be

nice if we lived in a country that had a rule of law he out. of his vision of russia as well again today as a free country a country that is happy and a country that has justice. will be tried today again another case of defamation case what are we expecting from. well this case where our school expecting a verdict on today is about basically accusations that. slander committed slander against a world war 2 veteran that veteran featured in an advertisement on bloody near putin's constitutional reforms which passed last year and took to twitter to criticize the advertisement now he's being accused of slander state

media has very much been using this case to accuse him of being unpatriotic viney himself has argued that the veteran is just being used as a puppet to kind of carry out the government's biddings and he could today face a large fine in this case right emily thank you david is emily shown in moscow and then to the coronavirus locked down same almost in rain chair in germany there are signs the situation might be worsening again for the 1st time in weeks the 7 day average of corona virus cases recorded in the country has risen slightly this comes after a steady full since mid january experts are warning that another wave of infections could be triggered by new virus mutations that are becoming increasingly dominant. and to many of us living under repeated lock downs and strict social distancing

measures it may seem like a lot longer today marks one year since the italian city of condone recorded its 1st locally acquired case of covert 9 tain and that soon was revealed to be the 1st major outbreak in europe a virus tore through the region of one body shifting the epicenter of the pandemic from china to italy. it began with a nasal swab that defied hospital purchase everybody said why why are you deciding you decided to do performance you know that is not as. our protocol does and doesn't suggest that why are you doing it to explain. many time. why you wanted to performance anyway the hunch turned out to be right the man became the 1st italian turn a virus patient. we couldn't believe it we thought this was

a faraway problem that had to do with china but it was already here with us and not just from february 20 but probably from much of. what ensued was europe's 1st major outbreak within a month could don't use death toll more than tripled the virus spread to other parts of italy and the rest of europe had its 1st look at what might be heading their way. one year on the situation is comma but few have been left unaffected by the pandemic. it has revolutionized our lives we are no longer afraid to live the normality we had before the view of a d.v.d. of a normal. life has become completely flattened also for us it has changed us we seem like prison and served. while the number of patients in intensive care units has dropped doctors here are still not at ease we have. seen now. there are new vireo and there are still a lot of positive cases to this situation which will last.

a long lockdowns and restrictions remain in place across italy with the fight against the disease far from over. some sport now and in women's tennis naomi asarco of japan has claimed her 4th grand slam title by winning the australian open a socket defeated american jennifer brady in straight sets without any trouble in the final in doing so the 23 year old has maintained her perfect record in grand slam final appearances she also won the australian open in 2819. turning to bundesliga football involves dismantled struggling bealefeld on friday can to continue their impressive saves in x. a minute on old school the pick of the goals is fine left footed strike capped a 3 nil windfall spec to move up to 3rd place in the table below felt couldn't find

the form that sold them draw with champions by and last weekend and remind deep in relegation trouble. now watching data over the news here is a reminder of the top story we're following for you at least 2 people have been killed and several others injured in myanmar after police fired live ammunition to disperse protesters in the city of mandalay the protesters were repeating their call for an end to a military curfew that took place more than 2 weeks ago. up next doc film.

it's china's make a project the new silk road. a trade network between china and the rest of the world which could turn the old world order on its head. but you're saying. you're going to archive on the. some of the issues here is seems a good job yeah using the. drugs to buy or to. brazil. china is investing in bridges ports railway tracks and roads around the globe. over 70 nations are already part of the new silk road. europe sees the chinese as well come investors the ports of paris has been under chinese ownership for several years and the chinese are now also showing interest interest in italy. italian and italy is of great importance for china again it's at the center of the

mediterranean just of the kind of africa and a strategic point to the new silk ramzan by viral and. the fish she threw for the chinese and i get the radius is the emerald of the mediterranean or what i think the mission of your critics warn that china is using the new silk road to cement its power around the world and divide europe. when they say you make an economic agreement with a country that doesn't respect human rights you are dealing with human rights because it means that you don't care much. the coronavirus pandemic has brought life in grotto a resort in northeastern italy to a virtual standstill. but even though few people visit his beach bar ricardo rocky

auto is still glad to be back at work. he and his family were the 1st people in the resort to be infected with kobe 1000. cause of principle it's not like a similar one will be felt like lepers when the site it's a small community with an a because. in summer it's a well known resort but we locals are all alone on the island in winter and it really is a sort of course on an island everyone knows everyone else i mean it's that's why it was such a serious issue for me at 1st having an illness where nobody knew what it would bring it to that and then the rick and moving on to something about because of potassium. but help coming in from china gave ricardo and his family the feeling that they want a loan. china sent 31 tons of urgently needed equipment ventilation machines personal protective clothing masks and medication and also medical staff. sought power from china some called it the silk road of

help. and there will. be some cindy thaw you see quilt more safe because china came to help us you've got all of us the site look if someone has already faced the same problems before you found solutions but you maybe haven't yet it does give you a feeling of security a sort of cynically to me what i should like remain full to the queen as we see in so the busy because you see these problems building up and you don't know how to solve them in the cycle many start of the world. china as the savior in times of need. whether it was politically motivated or not the symbolism worked well ricardo and his family. in the early stages of the pandemic no help was forthcoming from the european union. and the middle east all want to cheat and not get a prima we saw a china that really experienced

a catastrophe in the beginning she thought the pandemic in china was really devastating the remaining socor so you would still they offered us help us and it showed us that they were prepared i don't know but there are power some of the most and they're afraid of nothing and nobody the economic power of the means in this room. reyes is greece's most important port it's been known by the chinese since 2016. china started investing in the border after the 2008 financial crisis and has made it an economic success over the last 12 years congo handling has increased 10 fold but dock workers here on pier one were here before the chinese arrived and saw the

changes 1st hand. to be a dot org it's an honest job and with it i've managed to feed my family that i'm satisfied with the. forty's panaji or top of those has been working at the port since 2005 like everyone else here he demonstrated against the takeover of the port by the chinese state company costco. alum of the only good everything is been amassed since the privatisation you would ever since the investor got involved here and is only interested in profit and nothing else our situation has changed before the war was privatized our work was much better and easier we worked in fixed groups back then it always has a team of 2 at this now we don't have enough people so that's no longer possible now we're forced to do the work of 2 men that. one shift in 6 was cancelled. new jobs were

created but hardly any of them offered the same social protections as the workers previously had. these proud greek dock workers now working a port which is no longer their own. got that big you know me my seat and we think it was a strategic mistake to privatized the biggest port in the country greece is a country with a huge number of violence the ports are essential. only economically and socially they keep people connected easily the way families fish you know he had to be invisible. greece was forced to privatized the port as part of the new demands to tackle the greek debt crisis. georgios go-go's and his men still blame germany and the e.u. for it. coco's is now trying to save what he can and is fighting to protect his

people's rights. most. probably the best man at my wedding got a state pension. yes because they calculated how long you would work for the poor when it was still stayed on but what will happen to us now. the longest serving workers so not are ranked. no one telling me my best man got a state pension what will happen when everything else because he had already retired right no. it won't be like that at all. but goes union no longer represents all the dock workers so it's hard for him and his men to fight against the threats of outsourcing or temporary contracts. because . i don't know how much longer we can keep this working model with permanent staff dignified work and job security.

we request an interview with the ports chinese managers. but it's the greek press officer who explains to us why paris is so important for china's new silk road. is a furthest laird's utopian port after the crossing of. this is very important for the shipping combine next in order to visit their ports and to use it as it. so they're very large vessels the mother vessels as we call them starting their route from east days yeah. we see the port of. leave here they've got to go what they're very dangerous or caught us and then. a smaller vessel is that with all of them feed their vessels they've got to go in there redistributed. the many other ports.

the dock workers are skeptical. only 70 to 80 percent of the containers are transshipped which won't create any new jobs. the profits stay with the owner of the port. the chinese state company costco. none of it goes to the greeks. i think it's all about the expansion of chinese capitalism. the chinese state has a lot of money and this is its way of expanding and asserting its status. its position in the world the fish if. china is a world power you can't overlook that or be indifferent to it.

if you walk in the street scene and then you wall streets in shanghai you don't need to do any analysis to understand why she's a girl. like here and why some other countries girl 8 are saying as you did the past to china you just see immediately and i've been weakness in 10 years. really important social and economic changes under my eyes i've come back to europe and i don't see any changes the next time i go to shanghai after a few months i will. look at the underground map because there will be new lines

mikaela graci is known as mr china after working as an investment banker and spending 10 years in shanghai as a professor of economics he became undersecretary of state and italy's ministry of economic development and negotiated the silk road deal with china he used to commute constantly between china and italy but now the coronavirus has forced him to do business with the chinese via video calls. really i hope so too i'm cecilia. i'm pinning my hopes on china that the cooperation with china will help the tourist industry to grow in sicily. just. last year we had president xi jinping here cicely wants to see more chinese tourists the chinese are very curious about italy . graci no longer holds political office the government he was part of only

lasted for 15 months but the letter of intent that he negotiated with china is still valid. when i came in i took on these projects and actually delivered it. so i accelerated the process made final agreements with the chinese counterparts and we implemented them we cited and i do think a bit this is the base to economic opportunity that italy has to cooperate with china doing these things together. this deal with china alarmed europe. italy is after all one of the use founding members as well as part of nato. many saw the signing of this contract as a break with the old alliances. the logic of the italian government back then was purely economic. they said everyone else was doing business with china too even if they had no official agreement. there is absolutely no contradiction and no

conflict with european strategy if someone worries about the fact that if china in . the us to give them back something china has invested in germany holland belgium france spain malta istanbul in greece and u.k. all portals in europe have the chinese all the shit. out of the city is a psychologist and author lived in china for 6 years and observed the events around the new silk road development with a critical eye. she thinks the italian government was trying to create an economic advantage for itself but underestimated the plant's political dimensions a lot of the theory could he acknowledged months of this political project by a member of the g 7 had a great propaganda value also in china itself. that an offer of the new silk road

is quite clearly and you know make project and like projects in history in.