and you know what takes time all voices. on the 77 percent talk about the issue. from politics to flash from housing boom boom town this is where. the bulk of the 77 percent. this weekend on the g.w. . germany's state leaders along with chancellor merkel have agreed to extend the country's coronavirus lockdown until the end of march after 5 months of this lockdown it is clear that the public's health has to do with much more than just a virus a shattered economy a generation missing school and the french or mental health of everyone all of that is now part of a difficult and delicate calculus tonight leaving the lock down one measured step

and it's. often berlin this is the day. we're at the threshold of a new phase of the pandemic. i don't want to be in this medical shoes i couldn't do it any better that's why i'm cautious with criticism and it is our job now to make sure that the next steps we take are smart ones placement and it doesn't have to say that what's written as pretty on plan very confusing the steps should allow us to open up a bit more but at the same time they should set us back months and these pandemic have until this country step by step business with the anybody to do that. also coming up with the chinese model for the world fast pandemic management

minimal economic pain it may look impressive to europeans and americans yes but there is more to this picture of performance than meets the eye. china is the only country with the economic diplomatic military and technological power to seriously challenge the stable and open international system all the rules values and relationships that make the world work the way we want to because it ultimately serves the interests and reflects the values of the american people. want to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states into all of you around the world well we begin the day with the german coronavirus locked down 5 months and counting but there may be and and insight late last night german chancellor angela merkel emerged from a 9 hour meeting with regional leaders and announced that there will be at least one more months of life in the walk down by the chancellor has her eye on more than

just the data from doctors she is also taking the pulse of the public which is telling her more than ever it is time to begin leaving the walk down behind us or beginning with schools and hair salons the country is reopening albeit carefully and gradually miracle made it clear just before midnight last night that this pandemic will not make way easily for its own twilight i'm going to america has just resettled his strategy on corona trying a new daunting balance in the face of it that way. it's good to definitely saying we are taking steps to open up but they must not set us back and i'll fight against the pandemic at drastic to part from his strategy safe which the lockdown after lockdown when infections rose to the top health minister again spawn under pressure

businesses are struggling and public opinion is sifting. over the past year angela merkel has used lockdowns as ho prying tool to keep covert at bay now growing frustration at the slow rollout of the vaccination program here in germany is mixing with lockdown fatigue and many are beginning to ask whether angela merkel still has the right approach when the chancellor 1st directly addressed the nation on coded right at the beginning of the crisis she vowed that her government would think on its feet these are standard this is a dynamic situation and we will continue to learn as we go along so we can change course and react with other instruments adam and any time. biotech pfizer came up with that instrument everyone wanted the 1st market ready vaccine but germany and the you had vaccinated just over 5 percent of their people by the time israel celebrated vaccinating almost its entire population taking the european way may

have prevented an e.u. meltdown but it was painfully slow and the too late course the vaccination effort was slow to get going. it's only now that germany is adding rapid test centers and home testing to its pandemic strategy months after austria merkel's new approach of opening up as mutations gather pace is the wrong move says the opposition i don't think that the measures which are taken between regional leaders and chancellor merkel yes that they will fit you would situation and i think we are right into 3rd way overall support for the government's coronas strategy is still solid at around 50 percent but it used to be more than 70. within 12 months and that machall went from being europe's coronal leadership champion who managed to flatten the kerf to a chance

a increasingly on the defensive over these coming weeks and months her legacy may be rewritten of a corona. with a w's simon young talks through germany's latest steps in combating the virus with coral well her boss a member of the german bundestag who has become a voice of caution carlotta back is chancellor merkel leading germany in the right direction in this pandemic. this is a very general question and i'm not giving. i'm not in a position basically to provide grades for performance that is not what i would like to do i think that the decisions that we have come upon yesterday have a couple of very strong points for example to show to change the vaccination that a g so that we have a further delay between the 1st and the 2nd fix the nation so that we can provide

more. people with 1st explanation also believe it is correct to use the as the seneca vaccination for the elderly and also believes that it is correct to use the test and national testing strategy and evidence based national testing terje to lead to go against the sort of wave which we are currently encountering general position about what she has what merkel has done and not what we currently do with basically a common performance by the governor's office the. federal government and even parliament the chancellor talks about an emergency brake if infections go back up you don't believe in the emergency brake i believe and the emergency brake once we are up there will lead to an incidence rate of $100.00. per 100000 inhabitants per week. we will come back to the lockdown that we currently have so there's the

emergency brake and i do not only believe that this is an emergency breakouts a belief we will have to use it right you've tweeted that the strategy will cost us a lot of covert cases and it won't help the economy on she being too pessimistic. i don't sing on too pessimistic what's going to happen we will have increasing case numbers because we are in a sort of wave and so this asian form yesterday will not help the current tail of the surveys and as the same time we will not be able to help the economy because we cannot open restaurants or bars or anything because when there is an increase in caseload such openings were not happen so you agree with the bavarian leader marcos sir he says that our hearts tell us to open up but common sense says be cautious don't people need to have a perspective of how lockdown is going to end

a little think we have a perspective a perspective is here a vaccination where everyone was prepared to get vaccinated to speed up the vaccination bahjat we have come up with important decisions or suspected said yesterday very important decisions and to use and asian testing says testing as a bridge technology so there is a perspective right and the strategy is based on testing as you say are there enough tests self tests and quick test available in germany at least when to know that enough tests could be put your censure we now make to make sure we cannot allow a mistake here we have to make sure that the tests that can be put us in germany will be produced and the laws will be used in germany so that is very important. you made a name as a critic of rapid easing in this pandemic and a warning voice what do you think is the most important thing that the government

should do going forward we should have made it very clear that a sort of wave is not a minor problem that is not a small way before everyone gets the vaccination but we. risk groups next and it would have another couple of months to go that is a very long stretch in order to go through waves so we have to be very very careful. and you ought to have to make the population know where that person locked on the spot to think that everyone hates them may be necessary can you predict when lock downs will finally end in germany i think that lock on and then john new ones we have let's see. vaccinate that's the majority of the population that's a lot about thank you very much like the. house is made of scrap material no running water no electricity if you think this is

texas after a winter storm or a forgotten refugee camp think again this describes home for thousands of roma families across serbia many of them ended up in serbia 2 decades ago fleeing the war in kosovo their temporary shelter now permanent hells the entire makeshift neighborhoods that serbian authorities seem to overlook a year after year our correspondent funny even char visited one of these settlements on the outskirts of belgrade crossing the road to a life no one wants to live a social worker takes us inside this roma settlement it's in the middle of a forest people here and left to fend for themselves. they are. trying to live for the. lie and they are angry the various politicians have been here they say but nothing has changed me and my you damn in them make it back to

they only come when the elections are coming up they give us some flour sugar or oil and macaroni and they think that we will live from this gift all year 9 minute . this settlement started out as a makeshift camp for refugees fleeing the war in kosovo more than 2 decades ago that's when sampson arrived back then a teenager now a father of 7 children it's. he welcomes us into his house made of scrap material his youngest child is only a couple of months old. because i don't want them to live in the same life through them or not i've been struggling for so many years i most sorry for my wife she has to do laundry by hand i would buy a washing machine but i have nowhere to turn it on.

with the ongoing pandemic the children had to drop out of school without internet no axes and then there is the key legal hurdle to improving their lives so. we have encountered a lot of problems because i did not have any documentation when i came here we did not have the time when we left kosovo. he stories that of so many here one of their biggest obstacles to proper housing and health care documents without i.d.'s people who live here have become legally invisible in serbia. there are hundreds of informal roma settlements but this camp is one of the worst people here are living in inhumane conditions with no electricity no running water they feel ignored and overlooked by the government the local government in belgrade did not want to answer all questions about the living conditions here mark of us yet each is not surprised he's been advocating for the rights of the romans to be for years living

without access to the very basics is a serious health risk at any time but especially during the current pandemic he says are used to connect or not to turn a mental and physical that out of their their health is extremely affected both physically and mentally by people and this may at some point ask an auditor with or they are sporadic housing programs for people living in for most settlements that there is no systematic approach to all informal settlements systems to police to the problem that she needs he believes this is due to discrimination of a community already marginalized in so many parts of the world. they are already various action plans and national police in sioux bia to improve the living conditions of froma together they are one of the requirements to join the european union one day but such plants and require a stronger political will to implement them so settlements like this one cease to exist. it's one of the world's most

spectacular displays of political theater china's annual national people's congress it starts on friday but delegates welcome to president xi jinping in a ceremonial bit today all the congress largely rubber stamps decisions already made by the communist party elite it does good some indication of where china is heading. and that trajectory is on america's radar the u.s. secretary of state has warned that washington will not shy away from confrontation with beijing in his 1st major speech anthony blinkx described china as the 21st century's biggest geopolitical test the challenge posed by china is different china is the only country with the economic diplomatic military and technological power to seriously challenge the stable and open international system all the rules

values and relationships that make the world work the way we want it to because it ultimately serves the interests and reflects the values of the american people our relationship with china will be competitive when it should be collaborative wanted kennedy and adversarial when it must be there was u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken there china's leaders use the national people's congress as an opportunity to roll out important new lol. red flags are flying on tiananmen square head of the most important event on china's political calendar this year's national people's congress takes on a special significance as a coincides with the centenary of the founding of the communist party and i mean. it's been a big year for china the only major economy to grow during the pandemic delegates are expected to approve its 5 year plan a blueprint to expand the middle class which already counts $400000000.00 people.

it's quick rebound from the coronavirus means china couldn't see america as the world's largest economy by 2030 so sort of economic nerds are going to be looking much for us where the economy is in terms of momentum through 2021 year over year comparison but it's going to be you know it's good growth. that they'll get around 7 or 8 percent would be my guess. president xi jinping will aim to keep the focus on national pride innovation and self-sufficiency. in the run up to the congress he launched a major propaganda campaign to claim poverty in rural china was over the congress will also move to quash any criticism of the communist party china wants to tighten its grip further in hong kong the high profile trials of hong kong democracy activists has brought attention to beijing's crackdown in the territory 7 it wants to ensure hong kong is firmly under the control of the party calls chinese patriots

. we've always seen some very difficult days recently on kong and over the past few months in a again and again and n.b.c. beijing his comment to be so he set the rules and change the laws if they go to action and i think it will be very all eyes rare to see is the n.p.c. at this thing going to be getting more laws which are going to direct him and our car and reducing the role of on hong kong people running on. the congress also gives an insight into china's defense budget last year military spending fell to its lowest in 3 decades. rising international tensions especially over taiwan but also over the south china sea could see the congress approving more money for the armed forces this year. she was the voice that carried the inauguration we all remember that moment on

january 20th when 23 year old amanda gorman approached the podium the new u.s. president and vice president behind her the country and world and her future all before her and then america's 1st ever youth poet laureate spoke and showed us the hill we clock the las we carry a c we must wait we've braved the belly of the beast we've learned that quiet isn't always peace in the norms notions of what just is isn't always just if. governments poem was a message of hope and inclusiveness it seems only right that it is now being translated from english into every language you can name including dutch but the dutch author he was picked by amanda gorman to translate the hill we climb after initially saying yes has now said no. my next guest played

a key role in that decision or that is how it appears last month in a dutch newspaper janice do a cultural activist wrote that hiring america lucas wine of a whites non-binary person to translate a black woman's poem was for her in comprehensible it created such an uproar that 3 days after accepting the job decline chan is still joins me tonight from live in the netherlands chances good to have you on the program the news there is that reinfeld declined the offer to translate the poem which was that your intention. well let me start by saying firstly to throw away too much credit there were many peoples that expressed that people that expressed their grief and their anger and their frustration about the choice it was made by middle and i was only one of the

people and i was the person that wrote that opinion piece and maybe debts can be considered as the so-called last drop. so your question how how did i receive how did i react only knew shall i think michael because if i had a failed mates. the best the situation in this case and i'm really sorry that the puppyish the publisher put her in this difficult situation i think they should have sheila here for all this what is now coming to her leaving us to all of us let me ask you what made writing that filled the wrong choice as i understand it wrong until she won the booker prize last year which is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world and you think that the field is not qualified to

translate the text is that correct well at sets. i want to take nothing away from the literary qualities of that if it's a great writer integrates poets but in this particular case i think. mike mike my question was that it was a missed opportunity to use a spoken war artist with the same ethical ground as and then. also a woman and again to emphasize the fact one has also a better unspoken words to be more precise to in slam poetry is to separate jar of spoken words and in the all the reaction around the world people focus on the facts that's only one thing or at effect that's what he can because of that if else is white and a minute is perfect but i've never ever said that's

a white person const translates a black 1st version or fired 1st but again despotic or poets in this and this particular fall and also in distress as a fake specific moment in time i think they should have given that for spoken word artist off our was young and feeble was what i said just let me ask you then if it's not if you you know if you believe what you say there why did you write in the newspaper article why did you say that one filled is white and that one filled is non-binary gender why is skin color in gender identity why is it germane to the ability to translate this one public no no it's not about ability to translate it's because of the clear and of the her being. a certain certified translator was not brought up the quality to be able to

translate was not brought up in the case of many could because in an if else it was only brought up as a must have quality when i and other suggest or other suggest that other poets of color and then suddenly people were saying well but they are not so sure to 5 translators. but mido us make an equal so that if even dolts previously that she's really bad in english and on the contrary all those all are. persons of not are. writing both in english any more they have a big feeling and he said it's a comprehensive reference and off of english in august began to write english what i've just still can't imagine how anyone could suggest they could because then it out as a dream candidate for infestation well amanda gorman as we understand it shows

reinfeld and was elated when writing failed accepted the offer i mean were you aware of this when you wrote the article in the newspaper. gobbets i don't i don't know what we do say joseph and you say if she takes her that's in my understanding as if i either through art they suggest it's her and she said ok why not she is the booker prize winner and i guess that the team of amanda corman did not realize and they don't didn't know that we have here in the meadows we have an abundance of black female you'll spoken word artist who bring her message across that's our into or into feel of others didn't write write a piece of the aim of my student aim of my piece was also to bring dollars tenants in to stay into the spotlight because we all focus on the greats the greatest of

amanda horman and we are totally right by doing so but then again we have a huge. very much people who can who are also dying to give to get a chance until jan this is unfortunately right and to be seen as innocent i have to say firstly i have to say i have to say that i have to say goodbye because we're out of time janice yeah that's some of it with that thanks for your time tonight we appreciate you being on the show. thank you all right today's almost on the conversation continues online let us know what you think we'll see you tomorrow.

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this is. from berlin tonight washington d.c. on high alert a ring of steel around the u.s. capitol building as police act on a tip all right wing extremists could again be plotting to storm the building. also coming up germany's washdown extended by 3 weeks chancellor angela merkel agrees to move towards a gradual reopening but

a leading medical expert tells us the plans will not stop a 3rd wave of infection it's. good to have you with us tonight the u.s. capitol is on high alert security has been ramped up in washington d.c. after intelligence officials warned that a right wing militia may be preparing an attack on the capitol building the f.b.i. warning that far right conspiracy theorists have made plans to storm the legislative building in an attempt to return former president donald trump to power although police say the plans credibility the house of representatives canceled all sessions planned for today as a precaution the capitol complex has been on high alert for 2 months now following the january 6th riots that left 5 people dead. or earlier we

asked our correspondent all over salad in washington d.c. about the situation at the capitol to the. well the capitol really looks like a fortress right now so there is this giant fence that surrounding the whole capital area so you can't get anywhere near the premises there is razor wire on top and quite frankly it really looks almost impossible to client that fans also there is for some 5000 soldiers deployed waiting on the other side of the fence that were carried there this warning so i was just there and looked at the situation myself really more police and journalists than anyone else on the streets near the capital area and it really shows there is a tense atmosphere right now and the drummers are enough to put police on high alert right now and the situation there's a lot of fear that the scenarios in the insurrection of january could be repeated and therefore capitol police just a day requested that the national guard would stay another additional 2 months

there was overzealous reporting from washington here in europe germany is extending its coronavirus shutdown until the end of this month though some restrictions will be eased to allow more shops and businesses to reopen where infection rates are relatively low the retailers say this plan is too cautious they say it's a disaster chancellor angela merkel is also under pressure over these slow roll out of vaccinations. on the streets of berlin the government's new step by step plan met with little criticism even some sympathy. is read to understand if i don't want to hear mrs merkel shoes i couldn't do it any better that's why i'm cautious we got it just as a medic you have of this country step by step isn't that it's the only way to do it if i was on it was i don't know what the alternative is opening everything up again i think you have to do it partially simply because the people want to see some restrictions easy problem mr. but there was also a fair amount of confusion critics say the careful opening strategy that

anglo-american and state leaders agreed on this too complicated. because every song i have to say that what's written there is pretty unclear very confusing it's almost as if people aren't supposed to understand what's meant to happen as. restrictions will be eased in 5 steps each dependent on infection rates remaining below a threshold of between $50.10 per 100000 people access to 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 15 you die we're at the threshold of

a new phase of the pandemic in annoying thoughts or define the mean it's a phase which we can't go into carelessly but i think it's important to say with justified hold the heated argument. given the plan has already come under fire from opposition politicians. it's might not even if 3 percent of germans have been vaccinated with both doses and despite that what they decided to open up even though enough assets aren't available yet it doesn't and vajrayana just a warning that with infection numbers inching up again and new more infectious variance spreading fast that governments new opening strategy could prove very risky w. so i mean young talk through germany's latest steps in combating the virus with coral well the ball he's an epidemiologist a member of parliament he's become known as a voice of caution. about is chancellor medical leading germany in the right

direction in this pandemic. this is a very general question and i'm not giving them. i'm not in a position basically to provide grades for her performance that is not what i would like to do i think that the decisions that we have come upon yesterday have a couple of very strong points for example to show is the change the vaccination strategy so that we have a 1000 delay between the 1st and the 2nd fix a nation so that we can provide more oil elderly people with 1st explanation also believe it is correct to use the ass as an aircar vaccination for the elderly and also believes there is quick to use a test and national testing strategy and evidence based national testing sergi to let go against us are the wave which we are currently encountering by the general

position about what she has what merkel has done and not what we currently do with basically a common performance by the governors of the states and as a federal government and even parliament the chancellor talks about an emergency brake if infections go back up you don't believe in the emergency brake i believe and emergency brake once we are up to let's say an incidence rate of a 100 per 100000 inhabitants per week. we will come back with a lockdown that we currently have so that is the emergency brake and i do not only believe that this is an emergency breakouts a belief we will have to use it right you've tweeted that the strategy will cost us a lot of covert cases and it won't help the economy on she being too pessimistic. i don't sing on too pessimistic what's going to happen we will have increasing case

numbers because we are in a sort of wave and so this asian form yesterday. we're not here to current payroll as a certain way and at the same time we will not be able to help the economy because we cannot open restaurants or bars or anything because when there is an increase in caseload such openings were not happen so you agree with the varian leader marcos sir he shares that our hearts tell us to open up but common sense says be cautious don't people need to have a perspective of how lockdown is going to end a little saying we have a perspective the perspective is here a vaccination where everyone was prepared to get vaccinated to speed up the vaccination part we have come up with important decisions a suspect was there yesterday very important decisions and to us and asian testing says testing as and which technologies so there's

a prospect right and the strategy is based on testing as you say are there enough tests self tests and quick test available in germany at least we do know that enough tests could be produced in germany we now make to make sure we cannot allow a mistake here we have to make sure that the tests that can be produced in germany will be produced and the laws will be used in germany so that is very important you made a name as a critic of rapid easing in this pandemic and a warning boyish what do you think is the most important thing that the government should do going forward we should have made very clear that a certain wave is not a minor problem that this is not a small wave before everyone gets a vaccination but we in order to let's hear risk groups next and they'd have another couple of months to go there's a very long stretch in order to go through so the waves so we have to be

very very careful. and you have to make the population. on the spot to think that everyone hates them may be necessary can you predict when lock downs will finally end in germany i think that locked on to. the. vaccinate that the majority of the population has a lot about thank you very much. for here are some of the other developments now in the pandemic if only has blocked 250000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine from being shipped to australia it's the 1st time an e.u. country has blocked a vaccine shipment under the new export powers that took effect in january the medicines regulator is reviewing russia's sputnik v vaccine paving the way for its potential approval sputnik has proven to be more than 90 percent effective in

clinical trials and the world health organization is warning europe to increase its vigilance for new highly contagious strains of the corona virus in 1000 infections here in europe rose by a 1000000 last week ending 6 weeks of decline. 30 people were killed in me and maher on wednesday the bloodiest day since last month's military coup the german parliament has condemned the army take over the foreign minister who is calling for the release of all political prisoners and a return to democracy a demand echoed by the united nations. yesterday she was a protester today perception carries her body through the streets of mandalay carlson and 19 year old university student shot in the head during a protest against the military on wednesday. at her funeral relatives surrounded her open coffin as mourners passed by paying their respects all singing

revolutionary songs and chanting and. mourning protests gave way to new violence as security forces and protesters faced off again protestors know their defiance could cost them their lives. we don't want anything from them we just demand that 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 that. women leave and i don't. the military too has ramped up its response of a 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. well here's some of the other stories now that are making

headlines around the world a series of powerful earthquakes have struck off northeastern new zealand triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders for some coastal areas the 1st trimmer a magnitude 7.2 was centered off of the north and it was followed by 2 more powerful quakes farther north near the kermadec. spain has destroyed more than a 1000 weapons seized over the years mainly from the basque separatist group prime minister petro sonship xp resigned today as the arms were crushed at a ceremony in madrid the event was part of a tribute to the victims of terrorism. well the latest space x. effort to send people into space has ended and explosion despite this space x. founder musk says the test was a success the company's as in 10 unmanned prototype space ship just minutes after landing the touchdown represents the 1st successful landing of this type of rocket

shortly after celebrating touchdown blue you see it it burst into flames later tweeted rest in peace as intent on arrival discharge the rockets are being developed to carry people to the moon and more. all right we've got time now for a look at some winter sports scenes extreme winter sports scenes from the eastern swiss alps where women in minot custom to catching ocean winds and riding ocean waves they tried some of the white stuff instead the athletes came together as part of something called the x. project there was no real problem with social distancing most of them are messed up anyway the extreme sports include snow windsurfing speed riding snowboarding and worse and snow 'd. and i understand there are no sharks in that snow. or here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you security has been talk that

the u.s. capitol after police revealed a possible plot to storm the building the house of representatives has canceled a scheduled session 5 people were killed when supporters of the former president double trump invented the capital in january. you're up to date and keep ferguson will be up next with. stick around she will be right back. can you hear me now oh yes we need you and how often. that we bring you i'm going to back off and even have a surprise to sell with what parts of the policemen who really want a new sat and want. to see people. the way myra's and critics

telling us the medical stuff that's. different.