this is live from berlin the united states processed 500000 coronavirus steps. each person we've lost. lives they live. candles light the white house says president biden leads a nation in mourning but he wants months of suffering are still ahead. also coming up. israel reopens its economy with extra freedoms for the already vaccinated should the so-called green pass be

a fast track to normal life or is it discrimination. facebook and australia's government and a standoff that sold down on sad news pages so will the social network pay for the tent on its platform. riveting new footage from the red sox. releases the 1st video of its perseverance. descent. onto the surface of. welcome to the program the united states has a mountain of a somber milestone in its fight against the coronavirus countries related deaths across the threshold of 500001 monday just over a year since the pandemic claimed its 1st known victim in the u.s.

president joe biden led the nation in the dead. today we mark a truly groome heartbreaking milestone. 500000 71. dead. that's more americans who died in one year is pandemic. than a world war one. war 2 in the vietnam war combined. that's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on earth but as rig knowledge the scale of this mass death in america remember each person and the life they lived with half a 1000000 lives lost the u.s. house us the president just said more covert fatalities than any other nation on the highest death rates. on the list of unseen ones as more from washington.

500000 death by covert 9000 in the united states the washington post titled the number almost too large to aggress. president joe biden try to get through to the american public with his white house memorial ceremony and make sure that everybody understands that this is not just a number that 500000 lives were lost here that also means that all their relatives families loved ones are still suffering mourning and there's more suffering in the united states because of covert 19 economically marcela stickley millions are still without work millions are still trying to get enough money every month to pay their rent and think their children a correspondent from washington in britain prime minister has johnson has unveiled a road map to ease the coronavirus look down for england he told his plan

a cautious but irreversible passed back to normality infections and have been declining in england helped by a rapid vaccination rollout more than a quarter of the u.k.'s population have received a 1st those. pupils across england just still learning is home but in just 2 weeks they'll return to the classroom opening schools is the 1st step in boris johnson's plan to successfully ease looked on measures every 5 weeks. there is there no credible route to a 0 britain or indeed a 0. word and we cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy our physical and mental well being and the life chances of our children allowing people to socialize again is the priority with restrictions on outdoor gatherings relaxing just before easter next on the list is reopening non-essential businesses by the end of april followed by pubs and

restaurants by mid may all limits on socialising could then be lifted by the end of june everything stop that there's an awful lot of people that need to pay their rent feed their kids so i would like to see things like that quicker but i think if we did a long time now i know it's not 9 to 15 long now i mean potentially some. distance on an awful lot. that's something johnson wants to avoid with hopes of a complete end to lock downs pinned on the vaccine rollout the biotech pfizer and oxford astra zeneca jobs have so far offered strong protection the prime minister says the plan will be adapted if infection numbers rise but also insists that measures must be eased soon. we can't escape the fact that lifting lockdown will result in more cases more hospitalizations and sadly more deaths and this would happen whenever lockdown is lifted whether now or in

6 or 9 months because there will always be some vulnerable people who are not protected by the vaccines the government is investigating a controversial proposal to introduce covert status certificates that's despite ministers repeatedly denying they would consider the use of these vaccine passports fearing they could be discriminatory a report of the review is expected to be published before june. israel's vaccination campaign has been surging ahead with more than 80 percent of the population now with at least one shot that's allowed the country to start reopening after 2 months lockdown as of sunday many shops and services are back in business again but they're not open to everyone some only allow customers who are fully vaccinated with the so-called green past. as. since

september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and christen but only those who hold a green pass the paris issued by is versed in history of hers that is given only to vaccinated people or those recovered from cold at 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone is vaccinated so there's no fear and it feels slight and apparently we are broadcasting the classes that are taking place here we are broadcasting them for people who still did not vaccinate on sunday is rare for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown malls museums and stores have been opened for all but gyms cultural and sports events will be made accessible to queen pass holders of over 4000000 people have received at least

a 1st try and take prices so israel is one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions often emitting personal liberties as there is someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is a balance we are not doing that for good you can really enjoy a cultural life are you willing jos you willing joe you know going to the gym. in this time of the temporary base on the show we will let only people being vaccinated we covered for 2 of the green posts it remains unclear whether international travel could also be linked to the queen pass for now is bengali an app poetry remain closed for another 2 weeks to keep barris variants at bay travelling is not yet on the mind of this group or for long term friends into

recent m. 3 aged between 80 $4.95 they had to play their favorite chinese boardgame are shown on line for the cost year after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet i feel like at this point i am sorry i mean just to be able to talk to people you know and it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's ok and remain pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's a 1st but cautious step back to some kind of normality. this report and joins us now from jerusalem time what else can people with this do things they still. are. well this game

hearts system is part of a government plan that will come in stages to roll back some of those major restrictions that were put in place for the country's 3rd lockdown now as you heard and the report since sunday people can visit malls such shops have reopened markets have reopened you can go to museums and libraries that is open for now but it's restricted to green pass holders it's actually better storing for gym classes going to swimming pools to hotels. that is what is restricted to green pas hold us now and that will be planned out in the coming weeks according to the infection rate it has only started to drop actually last week there are still people also see seriously ill people hospitalized and still people dying here also in israel from cope with 19 and also because it is still also unclear whether

people who have been vaccinated can still infect other people they will be a 3rd stage said will be decided still about restaurants to opening a fresh trends and coffee shops and we are also expecting for the jewish holiday of karim that next week there might be some restrictions being put back in place so once you accept that what do average israelis think about the possible from an ethical point of view. well i took 2 people mostly those who have been vaccinated and there is a large support among this group i think you have to look at the numbers no haaf of the population of 9000000 has now started the vaccination process about 1400000 have at least had their 1st shot and over 3000000 people have gotten the 2nd dose

and one week after you're fully vaccinated you can download this passport a lot of people read actually downloading it there were some technical problems even to get to the site over the weekend and we're talking here about people over 16 that can be vaccinated now of course there are people also who don't want to be vaccinated this is a group we're talking about roughly maybe 1000001500000 who have not gone to get their shots for price reasons i talked yesterday to someone who said well i just didn't find the time but you also have those who don't want to go there just simply don't want to go vaccinate vaccinate and there are some groups also on social media with conspiracy theories but there are also those for health reasons they are hesitant and i think at the moment the focus here is off the government off the house providers to get people to go and vaccinate and i think this debate only just

started now about you know the to strike the balance between you know personal choice personal rights and. doing this for the greater good of old. thank you very much. facebook will reinstate access to news pages in the coming days after reaching a compromise with the government for over paying for media content facebook blocked the pages after camera unveiled the legislation requiring social networks to pay the news outlets social media companies have been fiercely opposed to the law fearing it would create an international precedent in the compromise camera will not penalize facebook if the company reaches some deals with local media companies or facebook has read friended astray. and astray in news will be restored to the facebook platform and facebook has committed to entering into good faith

negotiations with a strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content of a more on this let's cross over to australia for more details from journalist michelle harrison the she joins me from sydney rochelle can you tell us more about the deal that was reached to restore news content to australian facebook feeds. well facebook has turned the news tap back on reversing the ban out of the australian government agreed to make amendments to its proposed contentious media bargaining war that would fulfill tech giants to pay for news at crucial amendments is that at the code may not apply to google in facebook if they can show that they signed and not deals with news outlets before the college becomes law and the government will consider existing commercial agreements out before the take our names who

designated under because of the deals that google for example cut recently with some of the country's biggest media companies will work in its favor so basically if the tech giant sign another commercial agreements they won't be required to operate under the cloud anymore out of the card is lurking there in the government will use it as leverage if it satisfied. that the companies have made if it's not satisfied rather than the companies that made as efficient deals in good faith wave straight in news outlets and we know from treasurer josh frydenberg that facebook. is advanced in a number of deals and so actually today it's signed its very 1st deal i would 7 west media one of the countries that big play it's so many australian facebook users who aren't happy about this episode has all this creates it's reparable damage to facebook's reputation the country thank you. well

treasurer josh frydenberg said the move damaged the company's reputation in australia especially when it lost access to facebook pages that had nothing to do with news outlets you may have heard at the facebook had blocked a whole slew and facebook pages with their baby pages the charities fire and emergency services and domestic violence and eyes ations government help pages in the midst of a pandemic so they was understandably widespread backlash that even if a school played a said that you need those in the block those pages that he didn't mean to block those pages it was a brazen move that if it did millions of facebook's users it also come to warnings that the ban encouraged the spread of this information at a time when actual credible information is needed more than ever especially again

and it's a global pandemic i can't speak to how many of facebook's those 100000000 australian users on install the app in the wake of this route but it certainly made people think long and hard about how to candid people are looking for when it comes to finding out news and it made people seek out methods of getting informed such as a just perhaps downloading and use up directly on to this. city thank you thank you. some of the other stories making headlines at this hour authorities in the democratic republic of congo blame from london hutu rebels for the killing of italy's abbas about the envoy was one of 3 people killed when a convoy from the world food program came under fire the president of the p.r.c. has called the bush a terrorist. e.u. foreign ministers have agreed to impose sanctions on 4 top russian officials who

they say are responsible for jailing opposition leader alan cena vonnie the use says it's a signal that the bait and protest must be allowed in russia the kremlin has called the decision disappointing and unlawful. former u.s. president donald trump has lost the supreme court appeal against his tax returns being released to prosecutors the manhattan district attorney's investigation trumped for possible tax and insurance for years despite the court ruling confidentiality rules mean the tax returns will not be made public. in israel thousands of volunteers are working to clean up a massive oil spill that has forced beaches to close authorities are investigating the source of the spill which has affected wildlife such as turtles and seabirds it's been described as one of israel's worst ever ecological disasters. the military regime in myanmar is facing growing pressure both at home and abroad 3

weeks after it seized the european union has warned that is it is considering sanctions and the u.s. has already penalized 2 more generals protests continue to swell in your mother's right the authorities right to use force against the crowds at least 3 protesters have been killed even though the regime insists the that police are using only minimal. now let's bring in journalist dave byrne about for 4 more days the military is warning that protesters could suffer a loss of life seems to encourage more protests. certainly with the turnout that happened yesterday you saw that they weren't backing down but clearly the demonstrators are taking this seriously i mean a lot of demonstrators yesterday they wrote their blood types in the cockpit integration for the next of kin on their arm i mean the movement to demonstrate against this military coup is incredibly powerful the numbers that we saw yesterday

the work stoppage that we saw were in so many communities commercial activity basically so many communities came to a halt practically and the number of government workers who refused to work yesterday a lot of them if you brzezinski close down at the same time though everyone there is keenly aware that this is a military coup in the past has gone down massive numbers of protesters such as in 19182007 among others the question now is where's the line where the military would cross and potentially go that route again well the u.s. has lost an additional 2 generals and the e.u. is considering sanctions on businesses owned by the military do you think that will help to force generals to rethink their absence and i mean that's a pressure point but in the end it's not going to get the generals to give up on the coup and just go back to their barracks it's not going to do that but you really need to get on board or asian countries that have some influence over the military such as china southeast asian nations and while these countries have said

you know don't gun down the protesters release aung san suu kyi none of those countries have shown any appetite to pressure the generals to reverse the coup and that's where you would really need to see that happen. the european union says it will not counsel special trade privileges that tariff free access to the u.s. market what's the reason for the. so this is a trade preference that gives industries such as the textile industry tariff free access to be used 450000000 consumers i mean it's led to tens of thousands of jobs and many of them are filled by people who come from rule villages they come to the cities to work in these in the outskirts of the cities in these textile making plants and they send most of their income back home to their families you take those jobs away which is what would happen if you cancel these trade preferences and those jobs are gone and it's not the generals who are millionaires who get punished it's the common working people who make subsistence level salaries

practically and they'd be the ones who is punished and the reason for taking this route is from lessons learned from sanctions in the past when you had widespread sanctions from the u.s. and europe and it punished the common people but it did nothing to really impact the salaries of the generals. thank you very much. thank champions league football now and later tonight by munich will play the 1st of a competitive match against lots euro the italian side reached the phase of europe's top club competition for the 1st time 21 years and go into the match knowing they'll need to avoid the mistakes of recent bundesliga. by in munich have been coming face to face with their weaknesses in recent days they don't have the same depth in their squad as last season which has become more of an issue with players missing time due to positive coronavirus tests. travelling during

a pandemic only adds to the stress. as they prepared for their 1st game of the champions league knockout phase away a lot c.-o. the flick knew what he was up against. they have to get up to speed as we can also said i don't want to make excuses but we know what's happened in recent days and so it's an issue just being is on 5 course i want my team or our team to be present from the very start on so forth from one fund. click won't want to see more scenes like these from saturday when byron failed to track frankfurt just 5 days after only managing a draw against bielefeld at home but he'll need his team to step up their game if they hope to prevail against a lot c.e.o. at rome study olympic oh. yes absolutely i have absolute faith

that the team will perform well on tuesday tomorrow at lot c.-o. i'm completely convinced of that. before the team has the quality and so we're going to put it to use this autumn and presence on the sets by our have always stepped up to the task in the champions league under the flick now they'll have to dig deep to rediscover their good form and find success in rome. and out of some spectacular new footage of last week's. rover perseverance made its gentle touch tone the red planet is off the travelling nearly 500000000 filaments has its mission to search for signs of life. a 1st look after a nearly 500000000 kilometer journey to subsonic and it has been separated the removal of the heat shield that was preceded by the opening of the perseverance his parachute the planet's rust colored terrain drew ever closer and after

a few tens minutes the 7 month wait was finally over. that's now confirmed. ready to begin picking the bands of perhaps right person. will gather rock and soil samples but images like these will also allow the public to share in the excitement of the mission or that these are pretty cool videos and you know we will learn something by looking at the performance of the vehicle in these videos but a lot of it is also to bring you along on our journey our touchdown to mars and of course our surface mission as well. in addition to video footage the rover has also already transmitted the 1st recording of sound on the planet a cost of wind heard across the galaxy. the rover is also beaming back photos from the martian surface doesn't collect and

store samples it's hoped that they could be brought back to earth by return mission in the early 2030 s. the year that we were our new environment that we're going to explore. about here a planet earth snow and ice have been causing some serious suffering for some parts of the united states in recent days but the big freeze can also bring great beauty . of the famous snuggle foals froze over haiti huge abstract ice for sheets as the main current rush down the whole span the border between canada and the united states and have a vertical drop of more than 50 meters. this is the news here's our mind off all top stories u.s. president joe biden has led americans in observing a moment of silence on the country's coronavirus death toll cost 500000 people by the americans to set aside partisan differences and fight the pandemic to get.

that's it from me and the news team coming up next a close up look sent everyday life in nairobi. at least it's not us watching. the but.

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