dear jules. the history of the slave trade isn't africa's history. you just want to tell the greeks for power and profit plummeted and entire continent into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on g.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 a mob 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 wednesday the u.n. says 38 people died making it the most lethal crackdown in a single day since the military seized power over a month ago and u.s. is calling on china to intervene to stop the violence. italy has blocked a shipment of corona virus vaccines to australia rome ordered the export ban 125-0000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca job is the 1st time a european union country has implemented export controls introduced in january astra zeneca has delivered millions fewer vaccines to the e.u. than agreed claiming production issues. which is due to the news from berlin you can follow us on instagram and twitter at 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 at a tell on board golf in berlin this is the day. we're at the threshold of a new phase of the pandemic the 1st drug 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 into the gulf

coast our job now to make sure that the next step to meet. i'm smart on the phone with everything i'm happy to say that what's written that's pretty on plan 3 confusing the steps should allow us to open up a bit more but at the same time these shouldn't set us back months in the pandemic in this country step by step business be community 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 on 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 welcome we begin the day with the german coronavirus locked down 5 months and counting but there may be an end in sight 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 month of life in the lockdown but 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 released her strategy on corona trying a new daunting balance in the face of a 3rd wave. and we are taking steps to open up but they must not set us back in our fight against the pandemic a drastic departure from her strategy so far which saw a lockdown after lockdown when infections rose the chancellor and her health minister young span under pressure businesses are struggling and public opinion is shifting over the past year angela merkel has used lockdowns as hope prime 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 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 i don't know 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 not to look of 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 a 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 cuff to a chancellor increasingly on the defensive over these coming weeks and months her legacy may be written of a corona. simon young talks through germany's latest steps in combating the virus with coral. 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 grade 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 to vaccination saturday so that we have a 1000 delay between the 1st and 2nd fix a nation so that we can provide more all elderly people with 1st explanation also believe it is correct to use the as 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 sergi to let's go against a sort of wave which we are currently and countering 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 the 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 to the lock downs that we currently have so there 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 said decisions from yesterday. we will not have the current

payroll as the surveys 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 for not happen so you agree with the varian leader marcus survey who 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 and loosing 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 suspect was there yesterday very important decisions and to us and asian testing says testing as a wedge technology so there is a perspective right at the strategies based on testing as you say are there enough

tests self test and quick test available in germany at least we do know that enough tests could be put your stingy. we now make to make sure we cannot allow a mistake here we have to make sure that the tests that can be put 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 let's hear risk groups next and they'd 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 over. 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 the ones we have the. facts in it that the majority of the population that'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 a year after year our correspondent funny for 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 are left to fend for themselves and they are poor. and they're trying to live day for their. life and they are angry various politicians have been here they say but nothing has changed see me may 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 and they think that we will live from this gift all year 9 minute. but. 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 so 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 the same life through them or not i've been struggling for so many years i'm most sorry for my wife to morrow that 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 axis and then there is the key legal hurdle to improving their lives and the money . 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 have 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 and the local government in belgrade did not want to answer all questions about the living conditions here. mark i said you have each he's not surprised he's been advocating for the rights of the romans to be for yes living without access to the very basics is a serious health risk at any time but especially during the current pandemic he says is the clinic for knowlton a mental and physical their health is extremely affected both physically and mentally by parole and this may at some point asking are you with or they are sporadic housing programs for people living in for most settlements that there is no systematic approach to all informal settlements is them stupid east of 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. to improve the living conditions of. together they are one of 3 quiet ones to join the european union one day but such plants and 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 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 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 want 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 want to candy and adversarial when it must be there was us secretary of state anthony blinken there china's leaders use the national people's congress as an opportunity to roll out important new law. 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 the entry 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 so the economic nerds are going to be looking much more 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 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 it wants to ensure hong kong is firmly under the control of the party calls chinese patriots. we've already seen some very difficult days recently and on kong and over the past few months use in a again and again and beijing it's common to be set rules and change the laws if they die to action and i think it will be very all eyes there to see is the n.p.c. at this thing going to be getting more laws which are going to die out and i and all cross i'm reducing the role of on hong kong own 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 in 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 claw. the loss we carry a sea we must wait we have 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 maria lucas wine of a whites none 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 janet still joins me tonight from life

in the netherlands she is 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 that or if you read way too much credit it's there were many people express people that expressed their grief and their anger and their frustration about the choice that was made by minerals and i was only one of the people and i was the person that wrote that opinion piece and maybe danced and you can see it as a last drop. so your question how how did i receive how did i react only new shell i think. because they had a failed made. the best decision 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 tearful on this what is now coming to her with me as to all of us let me ask you what made writing if the wrong choice as i understand it run the field 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 background as and then.

also a woman and again to emphasize the fact we're 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 effects that's only on one thing or an effect that's when he can because of that if else it's white and a minute is play but i've never ever said that's a white person comps translates a black 1st version or fired 1st but again despotic or poets in this and this particular fall and also in this specific specific moment in time i think they should have given that 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 a b. 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 because of the coulee and of the that her being i'm known as sir sir certified translator was not brought up that 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 if i translate her. but we need a make a vehicle so that if even dolts reach the city that she read that in english and on the contrary all those all are. persons of not are.

writing both in english any more a day has a big feeling of the senate and comprehensive ranson off when least not to speak into writing it i just couldn't and still can't imagine how anyone could suggest that if out as a dream candidate for infestation well. amanda gorman as we understand it shows reinfeld and was elated when reinfeld accepted the offer i mean were you aware of this when you wrote the article in the newspaper. yeah but i don't i don't know what's what we. use a job 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 america corman 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 better in the or into few of others didn't write my least the name of my student the aim of my piece was also to bring dollars tenants into step into the spotlight because we all focus all 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 1st i have to say i have to say that i have to say goodbye because we're out of time janice do it yet that's some of the limit 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. in trafficking and brute force in the netherlands 16 drug dealers are now on trial it is the largest criminal case. and in involved the kind of violence that the netherlands has never seen. at the heart of the issue lies one question who truly

controls the country. some discourage. next on d.w.i. . the general trend is clear. the economy. companies are making the revenue from technology. and the trend is on the rise. but how harmless will they be in a run for consumers and be anonymous. made in germany. 60 minutes on d w. i am. going. to be.

subscribed to. documentary. a low and welcome to focus on europe with me liz show i'm glad to have your company today recently german authorities seized the largest haul of cocaine ever found in the country the drugs were discovered in containers at the port of humbug they were

hidden in tins that were supposed to contain walls filler but when officials cans the cargo they found a total of 16 tons of cocaine. apparently the officers had been tipped off by sources in the netherlands this doesn't come as much of a surprise given that the country is a major gateway for drug smuggling to europe but now dutch authorities wants to take serious action and some high profile drug lords have been charged in one of the biggest trials ever in the country defense lawyer vito is familiar with the drug scene and he knows a lot about the brutal world of his plans. scarred to streeter's defense lawyers public prosecutors and judges arrive at the heavily fortified courthouse some of them of kept their identity hidden because of death threats they're working on one of the biggest criminal cases in dutch history.

centered on this man reader one time. police have offered 100000 euro for information about his whereabouts. he was one of europe's most wanted fugitives until his arrest in dubai 16 other defendants are now on trial with em. it's about vast sums of money in the drug trade. and on president acts of gangland violence and about whether the state has it under control for instance there was a herd that was caught off it was found in front of a seashell large. lawyers are being murdered or sometimes over feeling like they put some inspiration from what they see in columbia. numerous shootings and attacks on torch soil have been linked to these underworld figures but who are they and how could they become so powerful. this building in eastern i'm so damn houses vito sugarless office the attorney defends individual standing trial for murder and drug

trafficking some of his clients belong to the so-called democracy mafia whose members often have moroccan roots grandmas they take over in those neighborhoods and they show the boss there and people listen to them and they see if i commit a murder i can also drive a nice mercedes 'd and also have a nice watch and also have a for women and champagne bottles and a club. for cocaine trade is highly lucrative each day some $40000.00 containers arrive at rotterdam's a vast port only a fraction of them are checked criminals have infiltrated the ports system. last year an estimated 600 tons of the drug often hidden among bananas and other fruit shipments arrived here cocaine worth at least 50000000000 euros reached europe via the ports of antwerp and rotterdam with that amount of cocaine a lot of money comes in and people get rich very fast and if someone is upside up

it has for ahmed a 500000000 to his dispose and. hire hit men to do as he pleases it undermines the whole government structure. the mafia bribes officials and business figures and its influence doesn't and there. on one occasion a cocaine shipment was concealed in a principal consignment small as way as if you have someone in the harbor who knows where it and there is who can check the computer someone who picks it up with it with with a truck you also have to have the right papers so everything else it has to fit perfectly you know. the cocaine delivery hidden among the pineapples was intercepted but most shipments go undetected and demand for the drug is growing that's why more and more criminal networks want a piece of the pie and. last summer released down

a major blow to the mafia. for weeks investigators had been reading criminals encrypted chat messages. when the operation risk been exposed europol agent struck. seizing weapons drugs and arresting suspects all over europe. authorities even found a torture chamber with a repurposed dentist chair. vito she successfully defended one individual accused of accessory to murder his legal skills have gained him a strong reputation in gangland circles sugarless has arranged for us to meet one of his clients who wishes to conceal his identity the man won't talk to us about the ongoing trial of the you want to bury them and they give up a little younger generation needs to consider the kinds of problems they could have . what will they do with all the money it won't necessarily keep you alive and

what's the point of all those expensive toys when you're dead in a coffin or the barricade though going against the man says he now has a car dealership and a few other businesses as he puts it we ask why he defends suspected criminals i know how to feel because i used to be one of those children back in the days when i went to school. people also tried to stop me to go to the gymnasium sometimes you don't get the same opportunities. in a different way the police and the prosecutor's office like to describe. public prosecutors have called the crime network a well oiled killing machine that says the state wants to prove it is not succumbing to narco gangs but the cocaine shipments keep pouring in for trial in amsterdam looks set to go on for some time accused going leader tacky as mark prosecutors during the to hunt down a life sentence meanwhile others have already taken his place in the underworld.

this woman was a pioneer her name is valentino. and in 1953 she became the 1st woman to travel to her successful mission made her a role model for women everywhere meant was also a symbol of gender equality in her home country but almost 60 years later there are many jobs that women in russia are officially banned from doing because they are allegedly too dangerous for example it was not allowed to drive a subway train but this year things changed. women are finally in the driving seat and are pushing full speed ahead on gender equality in the russian capital. is doing her dream job as a metro driver she started working at the moscow metro almost 18 years ago at the time she didn't know that women couldn't legally drive the subway trains now they

finally can and the rena says for her it was worth the wait the study of yeah exactly i can alter my dream the myth i used to. planes with the boys would say you know my father is a pilot i like technical stuff because i was little so by the metro that somehow it drew me in to the fact that it's underground i guess it's like flying but under the ground. before every shift irina gives the metro train she'll be driving a once over she looks for damage and vandalism and checks that all the fire extinguishers are where they should be a moment of calm before the empty cars fill up with commuters again irina has a lot of experience dealing with passengers she worked as a station guard on the platform for years now as a driver she tries to get a sense of each individual metro train her connection to the train she's driving

feels almost spiritual to her. in russia people say the way a ship sails depends on what name you give it the flight train like a person and i think each train has a soul to. one train i drove had a little for the most of the nothing. for the feeling of driving the metro it's like people happiness. i'm happy when i'm driving. irina is proud to be one of the 1st 12 female metro drivers after all the moscow subway is legendary its construction began in the 1930 s. at the time the soviet government wanted to build a palace for the people for commuting workers and it shows. in the 1980 s. the government banned women from the driver's seat of these trains they said the metro is too deep underground too loud and too dark to be safe for women and they said the constant vibration from the trains could damage women so-called child

bearing function. a new generation brought new trains and a drive for change though it's not quite a u. turn for now women drivers are only being deployed in the most modern trains and only on the field line which runs over ground for part of its route and that's just by the fact the women have the exact same training as their male counterparts. we don't differentiate between women and men through training program all the metro drivers need to know which at the base of course there are still the 1st women themselves this metro line is less busy with volume of passengers isn't quite as high. and because this line runs mainly over ground it is less of a health risk than the most of the moscow metro has been celebrating its new generation of women drivers they've even released a limited edition barbie for the occasion admittedly not the most clear cut symbol for gender equality their advertisements for the dolls in the subway itself you can

be who you want to be is the slogan but for women in russia that's still not quite true. metal manufacturing like the work in this steel mill is still off limits to women mining and drilling on an oil rig are also considered men's work $100.00 jobs are still bound for women the list of found jobs. was initially introduced after the 2nd world war to drive up the birth rate this year the russian government published an updated list but lawmakers in the country are still driven by traditional family values and deep seated patriarchal attitudes. vision and news not. really treat women with care here. just like this tough jobs on hard labor are still seen as men's work in our society. also women are mothers. so providing for and taking care of their health and their reproductive functions

is important. that is why we used recommendations from doctors to determine factors that are harmful to women at work. that it. is on her way to work she does her commute there on the metro to mixing with the other passengers ahead of her shift. i think the moment will come when the government allows women to carry out the bound professions i'm sure they are working on it to read. the balance must be in place for a reason the government is taking care of women. i would tell other women to keep believing and keep hoping and that dream will come true to you. no matter who you want to become everything is possible. already has her dream job and the next group of women will start training to become drivers soon but outside of these metro tunnels gender equality is still

a long way away. paving the way for others and her new job is much better paying than many jobs normally done by women in russia. home schooling is pretty challenging for many parents during the cold at 19 pandemic how do you come up with ideas to motivate and keep kids busy nathan jones was faced with that same question only that his case is special lives in the u.k. with his son noah but 12 year old boy has a physical disability is bound to a wheelchair and he can't speak so his father designed an art project that has turned noah into quite a celebrity in now goes by the nickname background bob. these are the one expired international artists in collaboration with background bob 12 year old noah and his father nathan. oh my suffers from cerebral palsy and

epilepsy he's unable to speak but he can paint with nathan's help. the 2 of them create backgrounds and other artists then out their designs. nathan explains that it all began last year to give no us something to do during the look down. we went out to the carriage to our smoke our order and we just started enjoying it york are not. just your friends not all america shopped out just as a bit found to see some artists will collaborate with you. and by the end of the 1st day i think that you are artists already involved and it just grew from there they began sending their colorful backgrounds out across the world and a whole load of artwork returned from spain australia colombia and many other countries. no one loves getting posts that

isn't from his doc says that a little out in background although it's becoming a new name i would infinitely our iraq for his cool background although he really really loves it he loves all of the attention no one needs help coordinating his movements but he communicates what he wants very open to interest the colors so i hold up 2 colors on which are one he looks at using eye gazing is the color. of the parish inside and and he worked his magic song goes only cobwebs and doesn't . start for trying to read nicely and then also goes on to slink off and i was there if you read. the background book was an instant success on social media it was even a real life exhibition the family can hardly keep up with the demand for backgrounds

and now the focus come out to showcase the works the next step is to auction off the artworks with the proceeds going to hospitals and clinics whenever it gets his treatment.