mr clarke. joined them as they set out to save the environment learn from one another and work together for their future. many cars do you all for turning it around for good. on d. w. . this is news and these are our top stories authorities have increased security at the u.s. capitol after police revealed evidence of a potential plot to breach the building capitol police have also requested that the national guard extend its deployment out the complex for 2 more months i came up of donald trump supporters stormed the capitol in january sending lawmakers into hiding for hours. thousands of people have attended the funerals of protesters killed by security forces in myanmar on the wings to the

u.n. this is a 38 people died making it the most lethal crackdown in a single day since the military seized power over a month ago a u.s. is calling on china to intervene to stop the violence. italy has blocked a shipment of coronavirus vaccines to australia. ordered the export ban 125-0000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca job is the 1st time a european union country has implanted export controls introduced in january astra zeneca has delivered millions fewer vaccines to the e.u. than agreed claiming production issues. is due to the news from berlin you can follow us on instagram and twitter at g w news or visit our website w dot com. 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 i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. we're at the threshold of a new phase of the pandemic and. 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 even with everything the have to say about what's written that's pretty on plan very confusing to the

steps should allow us to open up a bit more but at the same time they shouldn't set us back months in the pandemic. it's going to step by step business because the unique way to do it. 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 it 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 inside it late last night german chancellor angela merkel emerged from a 9 hour meeting with regional leaders and announced there will be at least one more month 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 resourceful it has started to uncover and that 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 not fight against the pandemic at drastic to part from her started to be safe which the lockdown after a lockdown when infection throws 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 prime tool to keep covert at bay now growing frustration that the slow rollout of the vaccination program here in germany is mixing with lockdown fatigue and many are beginning to ask whether angle americal still has the right approach when the chancellor 1st directly address the nation on covert right at the beginning of the crisis she vowed that her government with 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 and going off and it's 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. thought 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 i'm going to machall went from being europe's corona leadership champion who managed to flatten the curve to its hansei increasingly on the defensive over these coming weeks and months her legacy may be written of a corona. with a w's simon young talk through germany's latest steps in combating the virus with. a member of the german bundestag who has become a voice of caution. about is chancellor merkel 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 2nd fix a nation so that we can provide more oil elderly people with 1st explanation also believe it is correct to use the us as an aircar vaccination for the elderly and also believes there is quick to use a test a national testing strategy an evidence based national testing sergey to let's say irgens or start a wave which we are currently encountering by the general position about what he 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 similar genes to break 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 as an emergency brake and i do not only believe that this is an emergency brake i also believe 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 decision from yesterday. i will not have the 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 bavarian 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 think we have a perspective the perspective is here a vaccination where everyone was prepared to get vaccinated to speed up the vaccination poggio 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 around the strategies 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 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 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 voice what do you think is the most important thing that the government should do going forward we should do that 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 lead to have the risk groups vaccinated have another couple of months to go there is a very long stretch in order to go through so all the wave so we have to be very very careful. and you also have to make the population aware that. this box of things that everyone hates them may be necessary

can you predict when the lockdowns will finally end in germany i think that locked on and in germany once we have the. facts in it that the majority of the population there's a lot about thank you very much. 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 housing entire makeshift neighborhoods that serbian authorities seem to overlook it year after year our correspondent funny even charge 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 room a settlement it's in the middle of

a forest people here are left to fend for themselves and they are poor. and trying to live day for their. life and they are angry that various politicians have been here they say but nothing has changed samir may you damn in them they keep back it too much good luck to you they only come when the elections are coming up the they give us some flour and sugar oil and and they think that we will live from this gift or year 9 minute. but that's this settlement started out as a makeshift camp for refugees fleeing the war in cost civil war then $2.00 decades ago that's when samson arrived back then a teenager now a father of 7 writes us. 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 the same life through them or not i've been struggling for so many years i'm most sorry for my wife and 3 more of those she has to do the 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 access and then there is a key legal hurdle to improving their lives so. one of the problems 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. he story is 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 living in

humane 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. market us yet each is not surprised he's been advocating for the rights of the roman syria 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 is that an employer not to turn a mental note is it because they're out of there their health is extremely affected both physically and mentally and this may at some point escalated before they are sporadic housing programs for people living in informal settlements because there's no systematic approach to all informal settlements is them skippy's to the problem that she needed 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 subiaco to improve the living conditions so for. together they are one of 3 clients to join the european union one day but such plants and police require a strong the 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 ceremony today all the congress largely rubber stamps decisions already made by the communist party elite it does kid 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 blink 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 wanted to because it ultimately serves the interests and reflects the values of the american people our relationship with china will be competitive want to should be collaborative when it can be an 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 all. 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 hit by 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 people it's quick rebound from the coronavirus means china couldn't sees 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. but it's going to be you know it's good growth. will be 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 with 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 it wants to ensure hong kong is firmly under the control of what the party calls chinese patriots. we've already seen some very difficult days recently on kong and over the past few months to sin again and again and see beijing as commenter beastly said rules and all wrong change the laws if the night action and i think it will be very all eyes will be there to see is the n.p.c. yet this thing going to be getting more laws which are going to direct him and all kong i'm reducing the role of on kong own people running on call to 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 last 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. gorman's 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 maria lucas rhein of a white nun by mary 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 janice dill joins me tonight from live in the netherlands james it's good to have you on the program the news there is that line of failed declined the offer to translate the poem which was that your

intention. let me start by saying firstly that or if you read way too much credit there were many people express people that expressed their grief and their anger and their frustration about the choice that was made by middle and i was only one of the people and i obviously was the person that wrote that opinion piece and maybe against and you can see it as a last drop. so question how how did i receive how did i react when you shall i think they can because they had a failed mates. the best they situation in this case and i'm really sorry. that puppyish the publisher put her in this difficult situation i think they should have a tearful. yes what is now coming to her let me ask you 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 to use a spoken war artist with the same ethical background as and then a gorman who's also a woman and again to emphasize the fact one has also a background in spoken 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 effects that's only on one thing or affects what he can because of that if it's white and a minute is play but i've never ever said that's a white person const translates in black 1st version or fired 1st but again despotic are poets in this and this particular fall and also in just as a fake specific moment in time i think they should have given the let's form 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 line of filled is white and that one filled is nonbinding ery is gender b. why is skin color in gender identity why is it germane to the ability to translate

this one poem oh no it's not about ability to translate it's because peculiar and of the that her being i'm known as sir a certain certify translator was not brought up that the quality to be able to translate was not brought up in the case of many critical santa felt 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 certified translators. but mido was make an equal so that if they even dolts previously if he's really bad in english and on the contrary all those all are. persons of not are are used to. writing both in english any more they have

a big feeling and he said it's a comprehensive ranson off of english not to speak and to write english i've just hoots and still can't imagine how anyone could suggest that it out as a dream candidate for the sensation well amanda gorman as we understand it shows right in the films and was elated when reinfeld accepted the offer i mean were you aware of this when you wrote the article in the newspaper. abbotts i don't i don't know much but 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 a man that corpsman did not realize and they don't didn't know that we have here in the minutes we have an abundance of black female you'll spoken word artist who

bring her message across that's our india or into few of others didn't write write a piece of the aim of my student aim of my piece was also to bring dollar statements into stiffler to spotlight because we all focus all the greats the greatest of amanda gorman and we are totally right by doing so but then again we have. very much people who can who are also dying to give to get a chance to jam this is unfortunately right and to be seen as it is i have to say 1st i have to say i have to say that i have to say goodbye because we're janis to it yet that's still available but thanks for your time tonight we appreciate you being on the show. thank you all right the days almost done the conversation continues online let us know what you think we'll see you tomorrow.

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