player. has a state of the news a live look from berlin and germany enters a new phase of the coronavirus pandemic chancellor angela merkel says the country's lockdown that will be extended for a now there are 3 teams that announces steps toward a gradual reopening also coming up on the show security on high alert outside the u.s. capitol in washington the once again this after police received a tip off that english group could be plotting in another attempt to breach the built. against the death toll from myanmar protests cries military steps

up its crackdown against the democracy demonstrators. hello i'm claire richards and welcome to the show the leaders of germany's 16 federal states and chancellor angela merkel have agreed to extend the country's coronavirus lockdown measures until the 28th of march the chancellor angela merkel said a number of lockdown measures would soon be relaxed if infection is allow it. comes after talks between the chancellor and regional leaders discussions are stretched into the night after the state premiers reportedly disagreed on a number of points including the right threshold for business reopening once. and for more i'm now joined by our chief political editor michelle. tell us if you can more about what medical and state leaders have decided. well they forced

a compromise on what is or has been in the past more of a scientific issue so far over the past year german chancellor angela merkel and her 16 state premiers to rising infection numbers with deeper and longer lock downs now we are seeing numbers potentially rise into a 3rd wave again and at the same time public pressure mounted forcing the government to announce some kind of perspective on this crisis and that is now leading to concrete openings beginning from the 8th of march that means that more than just a household in one extra person can meet 2 households can in future meet again children below 14 won't count into that and now we're seeing a 5 step plan leading into the future also adjusting the 7 day threshold previously the target was $35.00 within the space of 7 days per 100000 inhabitants

to allow for at least limited openings of sops of public facilities of sports now that has been lifted to 50 which is easier to reach but still a far cry from what is tangible at this very moment in time here and many with only a few regions being below those 50 so at least it's somewhat of a road map but at the same time there's this lingering fear of a yet deepening crisis once again and with that changing of goal post is this considered to be a victory for chancellor mt merkel or is this not what she wanted to see come out of the games. well she didn't really want to see opening up that is fair to say at the same time she did realize that public's public lockdown fatigue was a problem in itself that needed to be tackled she didn't get what she wanted

everywhere that's quite clear to say that's what we can read into that 7 day incidents being raised to 50 making it easier to be within grasp of those regions eager to offer something to a frustrated population at the same time she got them all united around the table around one piece of paper last time she had to leave it to all of the regions to make up their own rules when it came to school openings we didn't really see that address in any depth quite clearly she is losing the firm grip on a national direction at the same time facing up to a new reality and finally introducing the whole idea and concept of rapid tests of d.i.y. tests which have been used more widely in other countries now finally also here in germany will have an impact on day to day life for germans in general our chief

political editor michelle nichols and i thank you so much that. germany's domestic intelligence agency has placed the country's largest opposition party the far right alternative for germany under surveillance the federal office for the protection of the constitution plans to monitor the party because of suspicions that its extremist positions could violate the country's constitution a.f.d. says the move is politically motivated it comes in the run up to germany's national elections in september. the f.t. starts the days as a euro skeptic. but is emerged as a political force in germany after the 2015 refugee crisis building its support base on migrant anti muslim rhetoric. he says some as an invading force and we refuse entry to europe and to germany of the. far right figures like fear and hook it quickly became the face of the party

for 2 years germany's domestic intelligence agency has been reviewing the a f t's political messaging now it has been pushed under surveillance suspected of posing a threat to democracy researchers say it's a logical step you put i had to study the garci has become more radicalized and has built alliances with right wing extremists outside parliament of the so-called new rice also other actors like pandemic critics to neo nazis it's repeatedly made headlines in recent years so this classification is correct and substance the a.f.p. is now also impressed with the measure is accuse the domestic intelligence agency of being politically instrumental ised in an election year. see the source of the federal office for the protection of the constitution in the short term is

obviously to weaken us some till the elections and in the long term to destroy the only opposition party in parliament thus opposes the dissolution of the nation state. immigration from foreign cultures. to you says it will legally challenge the decision. let's turn our attention now to some other stories making headlines at this hour police in sweden say they are investigating a possible terrorism motive after 8 people were wounded in a stabbing rampage the suspected attackers were shot and arrested by police following the incident in the southern town of atlanta police said they did not have any prior information about an attack threat. in nigeria 279 schoolgirls released by kidnappers earlier this week have been reunited with their parents but the event was overshadowed by violence officials say security forces shot several people after mobs began throwing stones outside the village

school and the girls will return. israel's environmental protection minister has accused iran of links to a catastrophic oil spill off the israeli coast spill is one of the country's worst ever ecological disasters israel says it's found the ship responsible for the slick and it's calling it environmental terrorism and no immediate comment from iran. and security teams are on high alert in washington d.c. preparing for another possible attack on the capital by extremists on thursday that's the day some right wing conspiracy theorists believe former president donald trump will be sworn in for a 2nd term in office the u.s. justice department has charged more than 300 people for the violent capitol siege on january 6th the f.b.i. and others in the law enforcement are facing a backlash for failing to contain the pro trump mob. that's straight over

to washington d.c. and our correspondent all over it is valid all over good to see you there now law enforcement has been criticized for failing to act more forcefully to prevent what happened on january 6th what are they doing differently this time around. and you are right clear in back of the time on january 6th the threat really was not taken seriously enough it took law enforcement hours to respond to the fact that rioters had entered the capitol premises one explanation for that was the police by law enforcement they are didn't really see rioters as a threat police was supportive of donald trump in general and simply because trump has been supportive of police at times of the black lives matter of protest no this time around it is a very different situation clear there are miles off the razor wire top fences surrounding the capitol premises so you cannot even get any close to the capitol itself security has been tied some just for this day tomorrow on march 4th so it's

really hard to imagine a repetition of what happened on january 6th law enforcement really wants to avoid a situation like that a repetition and comes well prepared for tomorrow's thursday that's worth reminding our viewers that for almost a century u.s. presidents have always been inaugurated on january 20th including president joe biden based here so what what is the significance of march 4th for some trump supporters. as fried so but it has been the it was the inauguration day until march 4th 933 and to understand why that is such an important day for trump followers you have to dig into this these conspiracy theories and q and on of course is one of them a lot of militia groups buy into the those theories as well so they believe that the u.s. government was turned into a corporation and that the last real president in brackets of course was that was

inaugurated on march 4th that was franklin roosevelt at the time so there's an intelligence report now saying that an attack is planned by militia groups the house of representatives scrapped a thursday session move the votes for a new legislation to tonight to wednesday and all of that of course in london so of course. and in addition it to these conspiracy theories from q and on what exactly has contributed to such widespread but unfounded doubts among republicans about the legitimacy of biden's election victory or the roller republicans played there in the run up to the situation we're in right now is very important well 1st of all they refused to distance distance themselves from all those baseless claims of voter fraud that donald trump put forward and many members of the republican party joined him in doing so as we know the moment to perhaps get get rid of

all the opportunity the republican party would have had was the 2nd impeachment trial there are only 10 people 10 senators who were supportive the majority still stays behind trump. simply because they believe that trump is the best chance to move on and to win future elections a correspondent in washington d.c. thanks so much as always. it's been another deadly day for protesters in myanmar the un special envoy on myanmar said $38.00 people were killed in the most recent series of crackdowns on demonstrations the citizens protesting against last month's military coup say they were met with live ammunition and tear gas. a peaceful protest of teachers and students soon gave way to chaos.

security forces opened fire to break up their citizen demonstration in the city of man to lead a sending the crowd staffer in through the streets. clouds of tear gas filling the air where the protests chance had earlier echoed. among the victims of the violence a 19 year old woman who was shot in the head. friends and relatives gathered in grief around her coffin just hours later to mourn yes another life lost. reports accumulated throughout the day on local and social media of many more protesters killed and wounded most of them in young gong. was also in smaller cities like mine you are where video images show the security forces carrying live bodies on

a blood soaked street. the u.n. security council is due to discuss the escalating crisis on friday if you see you. thank. you so far is has failed to condemn the military coup the server true me on mars democratically elected government on february 1st. and with the junta by the sanctions put in place by national governments it looks like it will take much stronger action to and the brutal crackdown against the demonstrators. football news now in the quarter finals of the german cup where the 2nd and 3rd place clubs in the bundesliga squared off for a chance at the tournaments final 4 that was like 6 hosting of all spies and the home team came up with the when you said house and scored early in the 2nd half

life stage went on to a 2 nil victory meanwhile the cinderella run of 4th division essen ended against a whole shine kewl. as your news update at this hour stay tuned for d.w. news africa with christine and remember there's always more on our website www dot com and clay richardson embroiling from the whole team thanks so much for watching . we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. the magic corner trick. shots hard for some such and some great cultural memorials to. w. trouble we go. just listen this is the sound of time tossing this for a specific kinds of 25 football fields i'm lost every minute adding to greenhouse gases but what is the sound of

a tree not for us the sound of biodiversity tourism community development food and water. the united nations development program is listening and working with communities to protect forests for the future we want if you're hearing what we're hearing find out more will. this be news africa on the program today to the war in ethiopia we'll hear firsthand accounts of the knaves domestic how to cry against by eritrean troops the u.s. has put the conflict back on the top of the international agenda. and this cameroonian woman had to flee home because of a text. she says she's now forced to work as a prostitute to survive. plus this involving teenage just putting up a fight to braise awareness and save girls on child marriage.

and christine wonder it's good to have your company the u.s. government has the ethiopian prime minister made to end the fighting into and has called for a un security council meeting on the conflict now more stories are emerging village killings in the region as fighting continues communities there accuse eritrea troops of brutal attacks in november during the ethiopian government's military campaign against to gride rebel forces that a great movement ruled ethiopia for decades during which it was a long and bitter conflict with neighboring i'm horace state and ever trade many to grains see the violence they've suffered as an act of revenge. a village in mourning 3 months after death came the government has finally let the media in to

document these people's experiences stories of loved ones taken from them so cruelly. the incident took place back in november on the eve of a major off a duck's christian holiday the people of bengal village see eritrean soldiers came they seized the man and boys and shot them the victims are buried at the spot. some bright colors to mark the graves we thought that way maybe a satellite could see them he says the belts and ropes that bound the victim's hands before they were killed still here. a tragedy all too real for this home she lost her husband 2 sons and 2 nephews. why did you i would rather die than have lived to see this but i can't take my own life with. the villagers say the troops wore eritrean army

uniforms and spoke with distinct accents as the attackers went on the rampage people head in this centuries old church the soldiers threaten to bomb the building if they didn't come out. here and this kind of crime is to exterminate us to humiliate us to make us fall down below them. we hear our church officials in the media they behave as if the churches and people are not their own people that went to gran's are dying they say nothing that's a sign they fear for their lives. if you look here and there extra strongly deny allegations that their troops carried out abuses and extradition killings into greit and neither country admits the presence of a trained troops in ethiopia but that debate will do nothing to ease the grief here the pain is all to rule. and for more on this i'm joined by william davidson he senior analyst for ethiopia at the international crisis group hi william good to

have you on the program the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken his call for the withdrawal of outside forces from to cry based includes her regional security forces as well as ever trained troops you say that there are obstacles to that occurring can you tell us more. the 1st thing to note here is that obviously eritrean troops represent a foreign country and i'm horrified orses up from a region a neighboring region and ethiopia so we did it with with 2 quite different situations there but i think the obstacles that i was referring to are the it was the i'm sorry regional forces were a crucial component of the federal intervention that overthrew takeaways government in november or the fighting is still ongoing. they played that role but the i'm harlem and indeed the i'm sorry regional government itself has now

essentially said that the territory that they have moved into as part of the intervention they have now were claimed as territory that always was administered by i'm sorry and seated and the obstacle is that they show absolutely no sign of relinquishing their hold on this territory that they have now reclaimed or occupied as part of this intervention when the ethiopian government insists that this is a sovereign issue and that they don't want outside is getting involved but realistically could this be solved could this conflict the result internally i'm all in say going to be a need for outside mediation. this territorial dispute let's say between our har integrate really. is an incredibly thorny one and there is no

obvious remedy for it and there is a boundary commission that is as addressed these sorts of issues but it really until these fundamental elements of this territorial disputes are addressed and it's going to be very hard to resolve so there does seem to be you know some form of. 3 overarching sort of fundamental political negotiation and ultimately a political rethink here whether that comes through domestic mediation domestic no to go shay sions or international mediation. you know it's not going to be easy for anyone to resolve these issues that i think that that's what people need to be clear about this stage. there are reports of the un security council sitting down over the to cry crisis. what kind of concrete action would need to be taken at that level and could be possibly see that it looks that the un security council of best is going to make

a sort of renewed call for the federal government to provide unimpeded access because monetary agency is to to great so it's important that the un security council is addressing this issue but simply a call for improved humanitarian access does not look like it's going to dramatically improve the situation on the ground unless there is a rethink a cessation of hostilities and the beginning of some form of political process to the to begin is to bring this conflict to an end right that's william daves and from the international crisis group thank you william. thank you very much. story is in cameroon where boko haram has insurgency has displaced thousands in the north of the country people who. have been forced to flee to safety the country but these cities don't offer many economic opportunities that women are because it's

much more difficult for them to find employment as one and found when he visited the city. many of them have become 6 were to. be quiet streets. to survive. the. village forces. raided our village they killed many people and the rest of us ran away we had no money it was a question of survival but so i found myself in fact work. social worker my veil is it goes around the city speaking to sex workers like i mena he agreed with a comma along with a hidden camera this particular area is the main place where israel's was supposed

to just. the other one is easiest to get in for his child protection a rescue program. the water money the government sex work globally and doesn't pay much attention to these children. i have a passion why helping out. since 2002 i work with children who have no voice they get no support from anyone it's important for me to help even with few resources. or do these focused on children is it financial support to women like i'm enough. just between the ages of 10 and 16 are the dominant group of sex workers in the region. as this is more than 300 girls out of sex walk i refer them to treatment centers where they lead so in an odd across however we don't for an instant aggression program hostile for the moment. there are about a 1000 of these underage girls on the streets

a 1000 of them is the situation is really alarming when you look at the children and night you almost want to cry it's really sad that the insurgency has brought so many problems with attacks by boko haram has this more than 321000 people in this region prostitution is illegal in cameroon but this woman i'm not afraid of arrest like all the girls i mean and between 2 to 60 all aspect lines. i wish things were different i really don't want to be on the road selling my body i know it's wrong but i have to be there to provide for myself i have to do it for my 4 children who need to be fed. on the streets. so she can research work and do something else. in zimbabwe a girl as young as 10 years old can be forced into marriage because of poverty or

traditional practice many of the boys nor girls. told the age of 18 but the practice remains widespread in the country where the u.n. estimates 30 percent of girls are married before reaching 18 but here is the story of one teenage activist who's using taekwondo to build confidence in the married and single girls. kicking and throwing punches. has told. not to hold back but to fight but she wants to stand her ground. this is a lesson the 17 year old wants to share with other girls. i thought since i was in prayer made up most of my friends god in pregnancy and the blood into marriages and then when i went to high school i realized some of them now if he is in defense improved in this that marriage is the only way to take the boat landed up in

fairfield he is they cannot look up to family so i would be to their experience even abusive and this is really a training team. one dream is to make her neighborhood and the bob was capital havre early marriage free. she rallies young girls and mothers in the area to join hands and fight child marriage. tell. young ladies and a young girl is still too damn of. the challenges they're experiencing and always so i'm going to use my sports take quandong encourage them not to get into mary jane and the kid. by teaching the martial art merits of hopes to boost the girls' confidence in a country where an estimated 30 percent of girls cannot fend off a marriage before reaching 18 this may well prove useful.

and that is it for now i'll face of course small. forward slash africa you can also check out our facebook and twitter pages we're interested to know what you think about the stories because they have news africa to see and extract. into the conflict to sebastian. the world how old it was a. sure there is some the fun from the moon some so just so lose billions you throw in the during the pandemic my guess is we forgo the use the european leaders are ready to call the w.h.o. . those who sold them as asians have the guts to stand up to the church. to. conflicts of. the 1600s.

what secrets lie behind small. discover new adventures in 360. to explore world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 starts now. is your internet bright thing about to get more private google said it will no longer allows multi websites on trucking on it services one of our correspondents what this means for the advertising industry. coming up on sunday and i could teacake them in germany's tongue as the phones are hoping the availability of tests might support to reopen the economy. and south africa tourism industry has been on a wild ride but the focus now is on the recovery. of

the business ferguson welcome to the program. google says it is phasing and tracking across multiple websites and will not develop new ways to monitor individuals on the internet the move comes amid rising previously concerns and declining public trust in tech companies you know incident was made in a blog post by the company's director of product management david templeton critics point out that google will continue to track users of its own services and maintain decision will actually strengthen the company's dominance in the advertising industry. that's trying to get to the bottom of this story with the help of our financial correspondent carter. and now i have a question what congress concretely is going to change for you and me when we write the internet. ok i mean in general what it means that

we won't see targeting individuals as much anymore i guess you might also know the feeling i have the experience let's say when i for example googled for. it for a trip to chile for a travel guide i got bombarded with all kinds of offers on other websites with flights to chile with similar tales and she was rental cars and she learned julie that went on and on for months even long after i came back from my trip in times when that will still easily possible to go global travel so this is just one example and that might not be as easy anymore for advertisers in the future so to really target me as and if you're vidual what still will happen is we are hurt that it doesn't mean that there won't be any targeting at all it will be done in groups but that the individual targeting that will probably end and the whole plan is

to stop that kind of targeting sometime next year ok they've internet giants might know a little less about your plans to go on holiday in chile but this could shake up the advertising industry again what's the reaction been fell far. then clearly it's not for travelling alone it's for all kinds of stuff that we search in the internet and if we talk about search and google it dominates a globally about 90 percent of the market and if you look at the market specifically google basically controls about 50 percent of that segments especially when you're a smaller advertising company and i mention what we might see is not targeting individuals but more groups and they also sell those data so bigger companies might have better options and infrastructure to deal was that and it will be a bit tougher for smaller. but once all behind this is actually not

just out of the good of the heart of google there's been a lot of pressure from regulators on google and other companies and the internet world as well and so google tries to go ahead off the regulators piece them so that maybe there won't be as stressed the changes to the industry in the near future than what those companies are hoping for so that's basically also what's behind us so really a piece regulators this step and a lot more to this story than meets the eye and like in new york thank you very much. now u.s. oil giant exxon mobil is facing demands from shareholders to flash greenhouse gas emissions and appoint a new energy savvy members to its board unlike its european by both b.p. and shell exxon has been slow to embrace the growing market for renewables the calls for change come out a time when oil companies around the world have been posting huge losses due to the

pandemic accident itself lost $22000000000.00 in 2020 this after recording a $14000000000.00 profit a year earlier it wasn't alone either british oil champion b.p. posted a loss of over 28000000000 dollars last year and finally turnover at shell collapsed by 50 percent leaving the company with a pandemic based loss of almost 22000000000 earlier we spoke to derek conway he's a legal counsel for climate focus on advisory group specializing in climate change we asked him if there was still room for oil and gas as the world tries to break its dependence on fossil fuels research has shown that even if we exploit all the oil and gas in the fields currently in operation we already overshoot our targets so really oil and gas is yesterday's business and tomorrow's business is renewable energy green hydrogen and electric vehicles unfortunately the regulatory frameworks in place are still favoring v incumbents are still favored northern gaza.

governments around the world are continue continuing to subsidize fossil fuels to a massive massive extent and certainly that's the case in the us is the case here in europe and it's a case in a lot of major oil producing countries in the middle east china knows where. dara conway there across europe ongoing locked eyes on slovak seen rollouts are contributing to make 50 businesses in particular are growing increasingly tired of restrictions and are seeking a papa towards a reopening one area that could offer some hope is the increasingly widespread availability of home tests. more protests against the ongoing lockdowns this time hospitality workers in dusseldorf took their frustration direct to their state parliament they want chancellor angela merkel's government to ease covert 19 restrictions and allow them to open again rapid antigen tests which people can perform themselves are seen as one possible way to make that wish come true. now

from mindon g.m. b.h. was one of the 1st companies in germany to launch a covered 19 rapid antigen test that reliably detects the 2 corona virus. the company has produced and stockpiled 40000000 rapid tests now they're waiting for government approval to put them on the market they hope the tests will become part of the strategy to contain the pandemic in germany. well they need a broad strategy that also includes tests and the more we test the more we find out positive cases and the better we get the pandemic under control think it's actually relatively simple. until now testing has been expensive and the wait for results painfully slow it's hoped that more access to self testing will help the economy open up and give people a bit more freedom. to take the test of security on the day but the vaccination

will be more important. used. by tuesday this week 5.3 percent of the population had been given a 1st vaccine dose and 2.7 percent had received 2 doses the end seems to be on the horizon but just like a mirage doesn't seem to get any closer. one branch that's been especially hard hit by germany's lockdowns is the garment industry even in normal times coating money factor is can struggle to sell their license but with clothes and online. shopping still a work in progress smaller fashion has in particular are struggling to make ends meet. like all fashions most days spring collection has a pretty short shelf life yet almost the entire output of the saxony based fashion house is still in the warehouse orders from german boutiques have dried up and exports the sluggish slowly but surely more days financial resources

a dwindling. if this continues and the least of the season is as good as dead yet again because after that cut throat price wars and gigantic discounts all flare up . and that means profitability for us customers and the specialist traders hits rock bottom. more days c.e.o. told us whistler is considering selling directly to the public after the lock down straight from warehouse to customer with discounts and attempt to generate at least some kind of revenue more day is only one of 160 struggling textile and clothing manufacturers in the region the sector association wants an end to the lockdown upslope will stop the whole thing open the shops again get back to normal life give the companies the space they need to become economically viable again just like destiny and shopping zones are almost deserted her around $50000.00 retailers are

on the edge of going bankrupt small retailers in particular simply aren't equipped to switch to online sales sales that women's fashion houses idle fell a staggering 70 percent year on year this january and february the family and company is over 100 years old it manufactures its collection in germany and sells it across europe to small and mid-sized retailers. retailers are asking why they should order for 2021 right now as far as the numbers in their orders go the forecast is minus 50 percent. and minus 50 percent for a company of our size and probably every company our size. it is a gigantic problem. designed liz hoping to generate a little extra revenue by making personal protective clothing for medical staff hospitals and politicians to feed all skiing if he can produce it yet so far he's hardly been given any firm contracts. now to some of the other global business

stories making news general motors is extending closures of 3 plants until at least mid april due to the global shortage of semiconductor chips the company is using its existing supply for trucks and other popular vehicles last week u.s. president joe biden ordered a review of critical u.s. supply chains in response to the shortfall which was caused by a bias in demand for electronics during the pandemic. the european union is planning to extend pandemic aid for businesses for another 2 years the blocks $27.00 governments have already poured billions into emergency health care tax relief and aid for faltering companies while economies are starting to pick up reliance on government aid remains strong. brazil's economy shrank by some 4 percent in 2022 may lead to the pandemic the contraction added to a bad run for the country which had been recovering from a sharp 2 year recession in 2 $1015.16 there was

a modest rebound in the 4th quarter though spurring hopes for further growth this year. and that wraps up our show thank you so much for watching for more you can go to our website the dot com slash business found me on the team it's goodbye and take a. careful . i don't know who is simply being nice to to get. discovered the way.

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