certain services will also be based on a negative corona test to make this possible people in germany will get at least one free rapid test a week end to boost germany's slow moving vaccination campaign jobs will soon be available at many family doctors. this strategy marks a significant shift from the chancellor's very cautious approach to the pandemic in the past then fished in if you don't mind we're at the threshold of a new phase of the pandemic there's been an annoying thought or they're kind to me it's a phase which we can't go into carelessly but i think it's important to say with justified hold the key to the argument that it's the afternoon in. the plan has already come under fire from opposition politicians which might not even if 3 percent of germans have been vaccinated with both doses and despite that what they've decided to open up even though enough cast aren't available yet doesn't and

vajrayana just a warning that with infection numbers inching up again and new more infectious variants spreading fast the government's new opening strategy could prove very risky as pick up on some of those points with a political correspondent need a hoss a welcome we have a let's let's start with a block down strategy does the science support and doing the log in the way that the chancellor has described or is this more about politics and people's frustration. viral exists in this country have already come out as saying that they're warning that if it's not done carefully we could run into the 3rd wave which could potentially hit germany very hard and of course from a medical virological viewpoint it would be better to keep everything shots and not any contacts at all so it's clear that i'm glad mark on the state leaders on wednesday had to strike a balance between virological economic and also social aspects so yes

a lot of it has to do with people's frustration with how long this has gone on but financial reserves are running dry people are exhausted and above all the numbers have been rising despite this 3 month lockdown and so people are demanding different solutions so the solutions that were announced yesterday what sort of difference is that going to make to day to day life for germans. basically we saw in this report that the new rules are very complicated and the bottom line is you need to know just where your local area stands in terms of new infections and depending on that figure your regional government can then decide just which areas can reopen or which areas will also have to be subject and with that emergency break so brought their chart with me i couldn't resist because it is so and we've got 5 steps here and here in berlin for example where we are we're below 100 new infections per 100000 people in one week and that means that our regional

government can allow for museums to open from next week onwards with a clear hygiene concept and then we need to wait 2 weeks and see whether the numbers a stable and if they remain under 100 then berlin can allow for alto dining if people bring a negative test result with them and so on but it is very hard to understand and the opposition is slamming the crisis management on the communication of the government as a total disaster this chart for example is only available in other languages. good news germany's vaccination no thorgeir has approved the use of the astra zeneca coronavirus correct rotavirus vaccine over 60 five's so how much difference is that likely to make to what has been a very slow vaccine rollout it has been a very slow vaccine roll out against the health minister is under tremendous pressure to keep his job the opposition want him to resign and of course they snooze is very good news because it will hopefully help ease the supply constraints

which have also led to this slow vaccine rollout in this country because of course we here in germany were working with priority groups when it comes to vaccination and the vast majority of people in the 1st bird group where the elderly and they could be vaccinated with astra zeneca so far that's not going to change and so it's very good news being a digital correspondent thank you so much. well as germany moves tentatively towards reopening many schools are welcoming pupils back for the 1st time since before christmas day w. has been to visit one school in berlin where younger pupils already in attendance were asked teachers how they feel about coronavirus security the prospect of more pupils returning. rapid testing is already routine for the teachers at this bell in primary school the tests have been available since last week math teachers full of see it and call but shots are now administering them twice

a week for their colleagues. we have to do it ourselves and yes i met at a school and the stuff i wanted to get involved. and the pool most teachers take a test in the morning before classes start the result is available 15 minutes later . the tests have all be negative so far. off of him fire does it gives us high security or and and i think it's good that it's done twice away just by muddy waters but some of our debts won't feel truly safe until she's vaccinators. some time it's because we have contact with fortune and different households every day and the alternating classes we teach for and i have it's very important that we get vaccinated and that we have prioritized in the vaccination strategy of 4 kids who haven't alternating classes means the children and great ones of 3 are divided into 2 groups which attend school on alternating

days starting next week the older students are also meant to return to class the teachers are looking forward to seeing their students again but their return will expose the staff to more children which will increase the risk of infection and where teachers will get the vaccine is still unclear. in the ad 5 years ago of years and that's the ideal situation would have been that we would have been vaccinated and the test would have been available for the children and then the schools would have reopened. and maybe if i could proactively speed up the vaccination process i would to you but i haven't found out how to do that yet. and how bad is it i mean i have no idea how i could register my team and so that we could get vaccinated straight away as all my own team and. we had the schools would have liked more active support from politicians to help them shoulder the responsibility they bear for the future day in and day out.

now to me the united nations is calling on the country's security forces to hold the crackdown against peaceful protesters and to release those who have been unlawfully detained 38 people were killed on the bloodiest day since the military coup last month as people gathered to bury and mourn the dead the dead pro-democracy leaders are refusing to back down. yesterday she was a protester today perception carries her body through the streets of mandalay carlson a 19 year old university student shot in the head during a protest against the military on wednesday. at her funeral relative surrounded her open coffin as mourners passed by paying their respects all singing revolutionary songs and chanting anti coos local. mourning protests gave way to new violence as security forces and protesters faced off against protesters know their defiance

could cost them their lives. we don't want anything from them we just demanded our mother and censored she is back and the powers of the people sans we don't want the military ruling the country that's why we're protesting and i'm also ready to die instead of others when soldiers come back again. and i don't. the military too has ramped up its response with the show of force scrambling fighter jets to make several low altitude passes over mandalay. such violence continues the question remains who else will lose their life today for the chance of a democratic future. as to question without a rub it seems executive director of the campaign u.k. and joe that aims to achieve the restoration of human rights in she joins us from the u.k. welcome to day w i clearly this isn't the 1st military takeover of these protesters today likely

to be successful this time. well that said he hopes a protest is in doing everything they possibly can to resist this brutal military coup every day we see them matter on the streets in their thousands and every day we see the brutal response by the way the military led 50 people killed now in the military using every tactic at their disposal to try and intimidate frighten or threaten people resisting the cave people who are continuing to resist every day what we now need to see is a response from the international community to help support those people in the country that are doing their best to overstrain the military and your organization has called on the un human rights council to take immediate action clearly your underwhelmed by the response of the stage. i think cross the border really you know

we do need to see action at the u.n. but we also need to see action from the e.u. and other international governments and the e.u. has response has been dangerously slow we know that they are considering what steps to take they're considering sanctions but they said they're not going to meet and announced measures until the 22nd of march we need to see a response that is urgent in response to this crisis where the e.u. should be imposing targeted sanctions on the military they should be stopping european companies doing business with the military as well as building support for a global arms embargo and a referral to the international criminal court now we know that the e.u. is often divided it's been a policy and that germany does have a longstanding. opposition to stronger measures in response to burma you know we

really need to see the e.u. not united we need to see germany come behind these stronger measures as a matter of urgency just what role should china play in this. when i was c.e.o. china is an important neighbor it's traditionally given. both political and economic support. but you know and it has shielded it from from action at the u.n. security council but i don't think that the power of china can be used as an excuse for the international community not taking action if there are lots of measures that can be taken even if china will not support them or you know continues to block but it's in no way certain that china will do that you know china china's priority is stability on its border with burma it wants access to your trade

resources and so it remains to be seen there how that will play out but again you know that person of china's approach doesn't stop other action that can be taken by the international community that should be taken as a matter of urgency and that's not happening thanks so much for joining us on a roberts from the campaign u.k. . thousands of members of the chinese communist party of preparing for the annual national people's congress in beijing the congress largely rubber stamps policies drawn up by the party elite and gives an indication of where the country's having a new 5 year economic plan and hong kong are likely topics for discussion. material. in beijing following the congress and joins us now welcome to test so being at the congress spokesperson has been answering the questions ahead of the meeting what have you learned. well as you said on kong is going to

be a topic the parliament is going to pass a new law that will further restrict the on call on the elections in hong kong that will be most probably we haven't seen details yet but they would most probably be. very few cation process some kind of an approval process ahead of the elections for all the candidates so that china will have an even tighter control over the city's parliament. ok and the the country's military budget ace going to be one of the items that people outside of china will be paying particularly close attention to have you heard anything about that yes today the spokesperson has defended china's expected rise in military budget the military budget rises every year and it is expected to do so we will see the figure most probably tomorrow but experts estimate that it will probably be around 7 percent that's what

has been i think in that range it has been for the last 20 years or so so every year 7 percent plus on the military budget china has now the 2nd biggest military budget in the world after the united states which is still quite a bit ahead of china and it will say with matters financial because of course a china at the only major economy to grow despite a pandemic its plans for the next 5 years will be laid out at this event what are we expecting. yeah this plan has been in the making if for the past 6 months or so and it is something that will be fixed by several laws that this parliament will take china is changing its course of development it is hoping to change its course of development to solve some of its major problems and these problems are too much investment too much debt and too

little consumption so there are there are hopes or the government hopes to boost consumption to focus more on the internal what they call internal circle the domestic economy and. to get less dependent on exports and investments that's something that we will we will see here in detail during this congress what measures are taken this is not really very clear but it's a 5 year plan so and we are just in the beginning of it it is starting this year and the expectation is that all this is going to go through on the not is it the military budget they economic plans and plans for hong kong it will be discussed but there won't be any contention you've mentioned it before the parliament is often called a rubber stamp parliament because it does not do many of the things that parliaments around the world do they don't quarrel in the parliament they don't

discuss things they don't oppose things and they pass almost everything everything is decided in advance what the laws will look like and then they will be passed they have been very few incidents historically when a minority i like large a minority of delegates have voted against the law and against the their leadership this happens only every few years usually they are passed almost in on a unanimously. in beijing thank you. nigeria and all of the nearly 300 schoolgirls who were released by kidnappers this week have been reunited with their parents and what should have been a happy event was overshadowed by violence mobs began throwing stones at officials and one person was shot in a moment to savor 4 police stations and top security officers the kidnapped girls

are released in front of the press they jenga beguile the stayed overnight at a government facility after spending nearly 5 days in the hands of their kidnappers . it's a big relief to them and their parents. i'm really happy i came back home with time going for everything. on sunday we spoke to some sagada a parent whose daughter was among the 279 he kidnapped girls. i went back to meet him after his daughter was set free got to speak to her on the phone. and i hear. so it in throughout my system of politically and their. early saw. that yes this is my. the release of these girls is no doubt

a big win for politicians but when they wake up tomorrow they will be reminded that they need to do more to protect their citizens is pressure children for diminishes state officials have told me that they are going to beef up security at schools and they will prevent such a developing in the future but they did say that similar promises have been made in the past and yet there are people end up being killed or kidnapped by the gunmen. i asked this a few sure what his government was doing to put an end to the virus is not something that you could finish within in one year this is just a gradual forces so gradually all those bonded will be different. to normal activities for the gals their resolve to continue their education has not faded though their kidnappers give them a strong warning the bandit said to us that they will return to attack us when they

finish their money it's different screw we good that the kidnappers we have paid off though officials deny they paid a ransom to secure the freedom of the girls and the nigerians won't take pretty shuns word for retain the. security teams in the american capital are on high alert preparing for another possible extremist attack on the capital building some right wing conspiracy theorists believe the former president donald trump will return to power today the justice department has charged more than $300.00 people over the violent siege of the building on the 6th of january. report a problem for the ellis welcome problem what do we know about this alleged plot. well what we know is that the f.b.i. and the u.s. department of homeland security joint released

a joint statement saying that there was this at potential threat on the capitol building and according to intelligence an unnamed militant violent extremist group have been plotting this since late february and what they said was that they want to take control of the u.s. consul and remove democratic lawmakers on or of 5 march 4th now the militant group also discussed at persuading their supporters across the united states to travel once again at to washington d.c. to take part in this plot and also they did they say as well using explosives and they are quote at the quote was to kill as many members of congress as possible during the upcoming state of the union address that what we don't know is who exactly is behind this plot but obviously there in the united states felt that it was serious enough because the house of representatives which was jus to me today on thursday has decided to cancel about meeting the senate on the other hand is going to continue with its plans to meet because at the end of the day they feel

that it's more important to meet and push ahead with their president biden's nearly 2 trillion dollar pandemic released bill and explain to us the significance of this date the 4th of march. right well to force the march forward the members of this q a nonce conspiracy theory group. essentially back open till 933 inauguration day actually in the united states took place on march 4th not january 20th which is how it happens or of how it has it has happened since then the reason for that was that the 20th amendment to the u.s. constitution back in 1903 changed that date and the plant the idea is that of course it is march 4th and the real president in this case president trump will become the president again back again as well to back in 1903 same year that it was changed but then president president group of roosevelt and in the united states is

linked to the gold standard and president trump has also said that he would like to see perhaps a return to the gold standard the idea behind these conspiracy theories is i hope i haven't lost yet because it is fairly complex is that they believe that this is the the reinstatement of the gold standard and is is something that president trump has been sent back to do and once he is in order a bit once again as the president on march 4th the united states will return to its former greatness. thank you for. in football german club shall have been playing in the top there is an $82.00 decades but face year it looks like they'll be relegated it's been a chaotic period the club's new coach is set 5th. dimitrios promotes his has been unveiled as the new head coach of the 42 year old's task is clear say shall go from

relegation definitely a tall order. as a great challenge i'm really looking forward to the job and will try to channel more of the energy and power this club usually exudes into the team so we can then show that on the pitch things schulte his new man gained his coaching experience in the lower division in germany but as a player remotes is made nearly $150.00 appearances in the bundesliga he's played in various clubs shoko only managed one victory under his predecessor their 1st all season now the aim is simple when. we now want to approach it all with an open mind we want to push with the boys have fun and play like a game will now do everything for that. to his 1st chance comes on a friday in a real relegation 6 pointer at home vs minds. this is day that we don't forget you

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