i dearly hope that the european commission will take seriously the legal requirements set down in a contract that astra zeneca for instance and claim the vaccines for the population that it has the right to do so based on the contrary we always demanded greater transparency and parliaments and we need that. i'll ask you the question here do you believe that people have faith in the e.u. to administer this vaccine or rollout well because it has done particularly badly so far. it's just a bit noisy here so i think the people do not specifically trust the e.u. ordinary governments or the local authorities they just want help and i think the e.u. still can't be of help with the systems and we need to build back this brand that was a bit badly tarnished over the course of the past weeks thanks for joining us from the european parliament's foreign affairs committee.

and now for some other stories making news around the world to european lawmakers this trip to catalonia former president economist who's tomorrow and 2 of his associates of that parliamentary immunity they could not face extradition to spray over the 2017 catherine independence referendum which the madrid constitutional court ruled illegal. police in mexico city have used tear gas against a march is that an international women's day rally a several police officers demonstrators were injured all sorts his barricaded the national palace. hong kong has announced plans to overhaul its electoral system authorities say the plan promoted by china is to put more what they call patriots in charge other reforms will target schools to encourage loyalty among young people critics maintain the changes are aimed at destroying protests the pro-democracy movement. in sports

a big news in german football national coach rockin love will step down after this summer's european championship the 61 year old famously lifted the world cup in brazil but since then his site has struggled. germany's 2014 world cup triumph was your can nerves crowning glory. he had already been in the job the 8 years at that point but decided to plough on in search of more success. 4 years later and the mood was very different as germany returned from the world cup in russia having been dumped out as holders in the group stage. the fans were in shock but still lives out to continue more disappointing results followed. the 6 nil hammering by spain in the nations league in november led to widespread calls for him to step down. load had been due to stay until the 2022 world cup but ahead of

qualifying games later in march he has suddenly decided to give clarity he has announced he will leave after the european championship for june. he will hold a press conference on thursday but in a statement said i am taking this step very consciously full of pride and with enormous gratitude but at the same time with an unbroken level of motivation as far as the euros are concerned. the euro's being postponed from last year because of the coronavirus means there is little time for the successor to stamp his offer of the on the team the qatar world cup kicks off in november next year assuming to be qualified. how often did it is for can tell us well welcome back and it was a big surprise it was a surprise in that if i was his manager i typically tell someone to stick around until you get sacked and then you get paid out he had time to go on his contract and he after that early that's always a surprise. in football but in the world of volatile movement and people coming and

going the national team job is a longer term thing. i think financially he can afford all of last luxuries he can also afford a metaphorical luxury because he won the 2014 world cup that buys you the chance to make your own decision and that is football's ultimate luxury no one gets that chance it's a surprise to see anyone choose their own time he went to 2014 in rio and 12019 was a disaster public humiliation in russia if you're in the camp to say that this wasn't a shock it's because that story's been written ever since russia that he's lost the dressing room he's out of ideas and the team lacks energy and he had to go he chose he's tough ok so why now that just months before the euros interesting question the team struggled for 3 years in football you've got basically to leave is to pull as a as a management number one sack the coach it's the easy one if anything's going wrong

in football you sack the coach we've got him on twitter and off you go to the rices the football machinery goes into overdrive number 2 and he's chosen this is to inject energy the job is to inject energy and into a stale group of players feel who have been listening to this message man will noise be listening to you give the 15 years he's getting sick of that message maybe this list of white from their shoulders that gives them a china show the hope of change that's coming but didn't have the goal to make it now that i can see it in the future by coming they can't knowing that this is going to be obvious in our city how did i do sport for a clear thank you. what is less clear is what's going on in britain a royal family that is under increasing pressure to respond to claims of racism and lack of support made by prince harry and meghan the duchess of sussex in that tell all interview with oprah winfrey how his father prince charles declined to comment when he visited evacuations have been at a very black church in london paris and meghan moved to california last year giving

up their official royal duties of the 1st airing in the u.s. a british t.v. audiences got a chance to hear the accusations on monday night i have advocated for so long for women to use their voice and then i was silent. were you silent or were you silenced the latter but i knew that if i didn't say it that i would do it and i i just didn't i just didn't want to be alive anymore my biggest concern was history repeating itself and i've heard that before on numerous occasions very publicly so when i asked the question why did you leave the simplest answer is lack of support and lack of understanding prince harry raised in the palace in a life of privilege literally

a prince how you were trapped for up within the system but the rest of my family all my father and my brother they all tromped. let's go to london enjoying d.w. charlotte's and chelsea until has been following this story with all agog charlotte i was being said but now that base has been seen in britain. so when this was in the us there was an outpouring if you were to look on your social media timelines of support for the sussex is make and harry a number of high profile figures in the us coming out to support them i think it's fair to say now that the british public has had their chance to watch this 2 hour long interview tell all interview in full the reaction has been a little mixed so one recent poll that has come out today off to the viewing on british televisions last night suggests that sympathy for the royal family stands at about 36 percent today the herion megane it is 22 percent so it is not

quite the same reaction here from the british public as from the u.s. and to a degree you can understand it the british public still some do you value the role that the queen plays they see her as being filling. they don't like this this does essentially beings to rowing at the royal family there are some as well you say the timing of this was extremely on sympathetic wall and harry's grandfather philip is in hospital and many of the kids the sussex is hereon meghan is trading on their royal name is saying that they wanted to step back from the royal family here step away from publicist to the argument many of the tough choices and yet here they are in a hugely publicized interview so not a clear cut response here from the british public but as i'm sure you can imagine feel this is playing out on in everyone's living rooms conversations on british television this morning that there really is a frenzy here in real time let's remind ourselves of another outstanding moments

from this interview and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born what and who who is having that conversation with you. so it's a whole the whole are out there some of our grandparents or several conversations a conversation with you with harry about. how dark your baby is going to be potentially and what that would mean or look like. charts also tell that must be tremendous pressure on the palace to respond to this i mean absolutely explosive allegation you're right cool dog growing for the royal family to respond i think the silence still to now has been deafening but they're

in a very tricky situation here in part because harry and meghan didn't wouldn't declined to comment on who exactly made that remark only to say through oprah winfrey that it was neither the queen nor her husband prince philip so the position of the royal family is now in is do they say that they've interviewed everyone in the palace everyone's declined to comment how are they going to respond specifically given their mantra up until now has been never complain never explain they might not want to get into this very public family was there but the fact is that this is something that everybody is talking about allegations of racism within the royal family are huge growing calls here for them to at least acknowledge say something perhaps even open investigations and one of them having left the country very european man to be boning their bridges what do they hope to achieve with this interview. well i think listening to the interview they

say that they wanted to set the record straight on a number of issues and they certainly did they wanted to clear up some of the fulls narratives that were playing out in the press during that time in the palace one for example being megan's relationship with kate middleton will william's wife they want to have that say essentially now that they have left to explain how this unfolded and i think it's a proof that they did everything that they could to remain in that the it simply became too fractious and they weren't supported enough the fact is though that in giving this interview and just the allegation off the allegation explosion after explosion jury not interview they really put the royal family in jeopardy so many questions here being off not just about about race but about mental health meghan saying that a point she was driven to suicide this really is extremely damaging for the palace shot at chelsea and clearly in london thank you. i said show

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enjoying the. music at age 100. times welcome to double musician glad you could join us continued undressed in myanmar is forcing countries around to take notice some members of this whole situation of southeast asian nations are now looking at ways in which they could calm the situation minimize a member of this 10 nation grouping and other countries such as indonesia and singapore are now making their voices heard. in the grip of unrest the military coup on february 1st unleashed a wave of protests across the country and a chorus of international condemnation now there's a growing expectation that myanmar be reined in by its neighbors. 7 united

kingdom supports the role of regional organizations in particular. in resolving the crisis. it's a view shared by washington and beijing but just how much leverage does have the association of southeast asian nations over its 54 year history is kept each other's politics off limits. very often the country sort of very carefully. not really interfering in. domestic affairs. but there are signs the coup and the crackdown on protesters is shaking vet tradition. and meeting just this month blunt criticism of mia miles military most notably from indonesia. but i just thought us the democracy we must pursue the restoration of democracy. indonesia

underlines that the will of the interest and the voices of the people of myanmar must be respected. indonesia has taken a leading role in the regional response foreign minister written i must suit he was the 1st to hold face to face talks with the junta top diplomat in a meeting at bangkok's airport but beyond calling for restraint and members have shown little appetite for sanctions against the military. question is what can make a difference to them and if you do impose sanctions who will hurt and it will not be the military or the generals who will hurt it would be the myanmar population who were. men mari's proving a test for as young as regional diplomacy and any peaceful solution comes of the dilemma and we can gauge meum us generals without condoning the coup.

and for more i'm joined by michael vick your vatican autos he's issued the director of the center for humanitarian dialogue and is based in singapore welcome mr irvine to hear artist does a regional grouping like ossie on hold the key to a peaceful resolution of the situation in myanmar. i doubt it holds the key but i think that it should keep looking for the key. and i being i mean by that that i think it's very much the responsibility of the neighboring states of the 10 member association of southeast asian nations. to remain engaged to sustain that engagement to continue to send messages. the use of non-lethal force and restraints. making sure that people are not being shot and also calling for dialogue i think that's the role that asin is playing for now

in other words it's not the key but they have to remain engaged and they have to keep trying to look for a way to prevent further violence and bloodshed and how would you judge that in gauge when so far mean we know that the austrian foreign ministers for example have met and the issued a statement that statement was the most of nearly strong enough as perhaps expected how do you think this a good man has progressed so far. well i think the public statement that was made is not necessary reflection of what was said in the meeting and i think unusually i think some member states not meeting sent very direct messages to the representative of the military that came to the meeting or you know it was a virtual meeting that attended the meeting and i think that's quite unusual as well that very direct messages were sent now i do know also that there was no real response from the myanmar side to those messages restrains urging dialogue

expressing concern so i think the public statement was very much meant to sort of preserve. a sort of sense of calm but inside that meeting i think there were very direct messages sent and that was the right thing to do the problem is that not all the countries were doing that so that the 10 member grouping is now fairly divided . amongst those who feel that it's the internal of fats of now monch they shouldn't interfere and those that feel that they owe it to their citizens to back constituency and also to the myanmar people to say something more direct why is there this division and that's something that i want to sort of get at why oh why is there a division like on these 10 nations speak with one voice on something that is clearly a violation of democratic principles. well i think they short answer is that not all the countries of a firmly wedded and committed to democracy. you know in the same way so in thailand

you have a military government for all intents and purposes vietnam is a communist state cambodia is run by a fairly undemocratic strongman laos is a communist state and so the you know you immediately rule out some of those countries and i think for the rest of them lazy in tunisia singapore i think also feel that because of the semi or mostly democratic systems they did there is a responsibility and more importantly i think there's a sense in which this time around there's a sense in which there's a feeling that you should really adhere to a set of norms that are a captured in a in a charter that was frightened some years ago particularly with respect to human rights and preservation of life how do you see response tripping up in the coming weeks given this division and given the role that key players as you pointed out might have to play. well i think that those countries that feel that they should

remain engaged and actively engaged will continue to do so either together as a small a grouping or as individual countries and leave seeing indonesia very much take the lead and i think that's very much for historical reasons and an easy has always been active on important regional issues conducting shuttle diplomacy as the biggest country and now of course as the as the one country but a more or less firmly democratic i feel that there is also a moral obligation on the part of indonesia to push for a peaceful outcome right we leave it there for the time even thank you so much for joining us michael of articulate his asia director of the center for humanitarian dialogue in singapore thank you sam. there with millions are unable to travel due to the pandemic the tourism sector has been below par around the world but some countries are having a swing. by thailand offering golf like a deserving mandatory quarantine to visit

a. life in isolation doesn't have to be hard. it provided enough entertainment people may even enjoy their time in quarantine just like. the 66 year old belongs to the 1st group of south koreans who are spending 2 weeks in bangkok confined to a golf resort. monitor to go do it all think of 41 koreans golfing as you roam around the field was served by over 100 employees it's like emperor scolding. the businessman sas the pandemic has made playing the sport at home nearly impossible so many south korean golf lovers are heading to thailand for a getaway package device by the tiger meant to boost its ailing tourism sector the resort promise is top notch health care and hygiene for the price of $18000.00 euros. from your point of order your one on the go horn to an office

and 3 save coronavirus tests and time to enjoy golfing. run 20 doctors provide daily health checkups in for the guests to while they're staying here. and it's not an expensive program son. plans to spend another month in thailand once to 14 days are over he says other countries should also adopt similar campaigns so travel was one feel like they're in coron teen but in paradise instead. and there is now also a yacht quarantine option available in thailand the government has announced people can spend their mandatory 2 we quarantine on a yacht in cook at what's not to like to india next where 100 year old grandmother is painting her magic on the ubiquitous sari the up to 9 metre long cloth that most indian women wear has become

a canvas for padmavati naya and also welcome source of additional income. is hard at work every day she paints saris india's traditional female garment even though she's well beyond retirement age she recently turned 100. takes me about a month to paint a sari i only work for a few hours every day any more would tire me out i start every day at $1030.00 and work until one. of the week after that she takes a break. she enjoys listening to hip hop music on her smartphone source and terry and he is incredibly tech savvy so this year she couldn't have a big birthday celebration due to corona some instead she organized a video conference call and then my 100th birthday was in the middle of the pandemic. so we had

a video call write. for padmavati family is the most important thing in life she play scrabble with her grandchildren. and to make sure they will benefit from her labor. in the money i earn stays in the bank all of it will go to my grandchildren. likes things the way they are and has no plans to stop working any time soon showers popping up. that's an. issue. elsewhere. for the. rights leader with images of some of those markers.

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for new perspectives the door is replaced by a previous camera doing things differently. come to a place where we reflect on society constantly. open shops and not that many mosques sweetens approach to cope at 19 is radically different it's relied on people taking personal responsibility to contain the virus instead of strict meltdowns. but sweden now has one of the highest transmission rates in europe only its well funded health care system and spas population have stopped its rocketing to the levels of italy or britain. now stockholm has become a haven for young people from other countries as scaping lockdowns. is there

anything we can learn from the swedish way. that's a question alaska doctor of one of europe's largest university hospitals in stockholm in a moment 1st let's take a closer look at how the relaxed swedes have been approaching the pandemic the government has drawn both international praise and criticism for its decision to stay open during the crisis and not all swedes are convinced the country took the right path. at 1st glance this looks like life before the pandemic trends hugging each other and going on a shopping spree in stockholm you're allowed to do this sweet and hasn't imposed a lockdown instead authorities rely on people to use common sense and these young people see this as an invitation to come visit cory maher says he came from ireland 2 months ago to enjoy life and quickly found like minded people.