to go out but we're going out anyway. so we've been going out for 22 days and we haven't rested yet we are going out every day we keep fighting for the fallen heroes we will fight until we win. the military also attempted to suppress the spread of information revoking licenses for media outlets and detaining journalists from the day one military. terrorist you have broken says doubt but we managed to report back on satellite and on social media. about that we already got journalists arrested at you know when you're. just now you know. it has got arrested again most recently protesters say they will continue to gather across the country daily acts of defiance in the face of mounting risks to their lives and freedom straight to young

gone then joined by journalists aiming found welcome to d.w. let's let's start with those protests and arrests in yangon we heard from some activists that some of those who were being pursued by the police have been allowed to leave wondering what's happened to the office. so we've seen this a number of activists have been arrested as well as party leaders and just anyone who is very openly gay leading the movement of dissent against a military coup we've also seen that members of the national league for democracy party that won the election in 2020 have been pursued more rigorously and in fact we saw one official who was actually detained by police and has died in their custody the police are claiming that he died a heart problems i have but you know upon examination of his body his family has been able to see that he looked like he had sustained quite

a number of grocers and showed sides and he was essentially beaten to death right the military power the start of last month of i've been in charge now more than a month of protests have continued with the military response has become more deadly is there any indication of the protests are actually having any effect. so i think an important thing to remember about the civil disobedience movement that's happening here in myanmar right now is that it's not just a protest movement that's in the streets it is also paired with a sense the campaign and sanctions on the military infrastructure in the country so there are protesters out on the streets who are demonstrating their dissent as well as showing that the military will not centrally run the streets of myanmar but you also have a movement in which civil servants are leaving their jobs in the hundreds and in fact even this week we heard that over 200 members of the ministry of information

have left the ministry and are now joining the civil disobedience movement and there's also a generally a country right that's happening of military own military operated brands you know even if they're not owned by the military are behaving in a way that is beneficial to military rule such as paying taxes or simply not saying anything on the face of the rights given all these different what's the military response or is it purely what we've seen in the tell you very violent crackdown in the streets or is there an attempt to sort of win people over other talk to talk people and explain to us why this might be a good thing. yes so you definitely do see that in state run media so miller has a number of outlets all television a number of radio as well as a few state run newspapers that are essentially acting as propaganda arms for the

military regime you have military officials coming out giving statements writing stories essentially talking about why the protestors are wrong the benefits of military rule and. evidence or you know what evidence that they can show about election fraud which is how they have claimed legitimacy for conducting the coup in the 1st place. i see thank you so much for bringing that to to us. young go. to united states judge there is begin the process of selecting a jury in the trial concerning the killing of george floyd in the u.s. city of minneapolis judge peter carey hill delayed the process from yesterday after an appeal court ordered him to consider an extra murder charge against white a former police officer derrick show in which the sjogren's already accused of murder and manslaughter the death last may of george florida

a black man sparked violent unrest in cities across the united states. correspondent stuff and simons joins us now from in front of the court welcome stefan how is the jury being selected this seems like quite a contentious process. the court needs 16 jurors to select 16 jurors and that is 12th in the jury box and 4 alternates in case the judge decides to dismiss one juror during proceedings later on however so they just started to judge the prosecution. attorneys as well as the defense team introduce themselves to the 1st batch of potential jurors which will be question now why is this important and why did the job schedule this for 3 weeks or 3 weeks for jury selection is because of course it is important to get impartial jurors and that is the challenge. but also the quality that means you can't just put 10 people on the

jury and people it has to be even out in the job as well as the prosecution defense team is to find those people in minneapolis who by the way hopefully haven't seen the video we all have seen for a year ago and many times when police officer x x police officer in minneapolis. put his knee on george floyd right so one killing but to charge a 2nd degree and. explain the difference to the jury have to choose one or the other. ok so what is 2nd degree murder is the intentional murder or the if you caused the unintentionally the death of another person that 2nd degree murder that is the charge that carries see in minnesota up to 40 years imprisonment 2nd degree

manslaughter is you are risking magically negligently the death of another person that carries about 25 up to 25 years in prison one way or 'd another the judge and the jury can find that only one judge charged stakes or 2 and remember there's a 3rd charge which the appeals courts lets the supreme court now has to decide if it can be introduced to it to this whole ruling at the end of the process but again 2 charges for now one an intentional cause of the death of a person 2nd the risking the negligent driskill of the death of a person right steffen simons i got that thank you for that. dozens of countries are looking to china to lift them out of the pandemic beijing says it will give away nearly half

a 1000000000 doses of coronavirus vaccine around the world after being widely blamed for the 1st outbreak of corona virus it's key to repair its image but critics say vaccine diplomacy should not be mistaken for gold will be dudley's chief international editor richard walker reports. in a europe ravaged by covert 19 this is what hope looks like belgrade serbia waiting in line for liberation from the pandemic but these injections are about more than public health they were flown in from china to a presidential welcome chinese state t.v. on hand to capture the moment just the latest part of a massive pandemic rebranding exercise that mixes medical assistance with decision from asian. crisis in afterwards also to try to stem the debate in a way that many look like it started in china and china was you know the 1st country to report that what's happening here is something that goes well beyond the

pandemic and far exceeds the scope of china's official diplomatic missions like here and. it's a much bigger campaign folks lobel influence it's been building up the years i will continue long after the pandemic is over. the most visible driver of this is the belton road initiative a project spanning more than 100 countries that is redrawing the map of china's economic power in a single region in europe chinese funds of poor ring into highway bridges in montenegro a coal fired power plant in bosnia and a giant seaport in greece that may yet become the largest in europe. and you can see signs that these investments can translate into political influence. like at the united nations human rights council where china won a show of support last year for its controversial suppression of freedoms in hong

kong 4 out of 5 countries backing china had signed up to belton wrote these efforts to shape global perceptions come right from the very top china's president xi jinping was the opening speaker at this year's virtual davus meeting exuding confidence and positioning beijing as the world's greatest champion of global cooperation and their strong desire to show us up here already are you a chinese those 2 said to give. examples that show why perhaps in the 20th century democracies were huge and useful and good but now for the 21st century the only systems that are really suitable place the challengers of the century are systems that are closer to the chinese of u.s. president joe biden has made his debut on the world stage vowing to push back at

that idea saying democracy will and must prevail. and germany's angela merkel says that the west must now engage in this unfolding competition that's not just somebody fogger it's important that it's not only china and russia that are delivering vaccines to developing countries the and fix things then there isn't 50 it might seem like madness that lining up for a vaccine can mean picking sides in a geo political battle. but that is shaping up to be our new reality a battle for influence and even ideas about nothing less than how to run the world . i spoke about the idea of vaccine diplomacy with quarterly chad there was a hug area the european parliament for the reason you euro group she also sits on the parliaments of foreign affairs committee welcome to be w. hungary so far is the only a new country that's accepted china's a sign a farm foxy is richer all right to go to living this way.

well. indeed administered many many doses of the chinese that seem viewed as the enemy a frugal but less the for a good so many under due to the fact scenes are. granted to hungry as is your concern about the use of the chinese vaccine purely on medical grounds or do you do favor the idea that china is using a vaccine as a sort of lever for influence around the world. while i think the the general population is is a generally concerned about the the whole situation about the unfolding of this new disease which is still very new to many many of us and also the trust in these new vaccines that still has to be gained and i think in the face of such a difficult road to walk down a split decision i think the best way to establish this trust is to rely on

scientists rely on experts rely on the european medicines agency so that everybody can say that the vaccine that is administered is a safe and has the has the approval of the european authorities off i'm not saying that the chinese accent is bad and the saying this is bad i'm just saying that we should have waited until the emmy grants its approval do you believe that the public across europe has faith and confidence in the euro. union to to administer face of oxidation rollout. well. it's very important to pronounce the many european countries the small countries in particular just like my country hungary is in a much better situation as a member of the you as a member of the common procurement as they would be without the european union so it's very important to know that however there were of course many problematic

points during the contracting and administration of the vaccines and i dearly hope that the european commission will take seriously the legal requirements set down in a contracted 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 as parliaments and we need that. i'll ask you the question here do you believe that people have faith in you to administer this vaccine rollout well because it is going to come about so far. it's just a bit noisy here so i think the people do not specifically trust the e.u. ordinary governments or to local authorities they just want help and i think the e.u. still can't be of help office systems and we need to build back this brand that was a bit badly tarnished over the course of the past weeks ago joining us

from the european parliament's foreign affairs commission. now the european parliament has voted to strip parliamentary immunity from 3 of its members who led the 27000 cattle on independence referendum they are the former president of spain 70 autonomous catalonia region colors push to go on to other form of cotton and officials fled speight after the referendum and went home to him saints in the european parliament they could now face extradition to spain which ruled the referendum illegal and charge them with sedition. well carla's pushed him out joins us now from brussels that welcome to the w m are you upset that so many members of the parliament voted against your. while those exactly many members is this i think is the lowest of the poor 3rd to a petition of the wave of immunity there is close to 300 any peace who

refuse to vote in favor to leave our immunity we'll last immunity yes but finally the results are sending a clear message as a political question and there is some debate in the european parliament that's what the public is there for just to be clear on the figures 400 voted to strip you of immunity 248 voted against that number 45 abstentions just so we're clear on the numbers why do you think of a database to you. normally when. you see the figures concerning the weight of immunity normally there's a kind of union unanimity. not in our case we succeed. to explain to share with the rest of colleagues that there is a clear clear political question it's not

a typical cre cream you know issue but it's a political one and as a political. course not interfere and the independence of the parliament would be protected. you made that explanation babe rejected it and voted to vachel immunity a belated is there nothing behind it other venue you think very very bad just being political. i guess well we must remember that the beginning of that is. a political disagreement with the spanish state when we decide to call for a referendum in 2017 and the danes then they used the panel court to prosecute a political ideas and they put in prison 1000 people from 9 to 13 years in jail. for organizing ok that's

a straight out saying the book has been written let's move on do you expect now to be extradited suspected. will say not we are leaving here since the 3 years and 4 months this is the 3rd european arrest warrant thing and does. the rez where dropped or houston case if used by the german justice will see what will be the decision of the belgian just but in the case of our former colleague they'd be say they decide these generally to refuse extradition. and probably that he's possibility they will decide the same the same in our case i don't know we don't know exactly right and looking at the because that you defended which brought you to the public eye that of catalan independence do you believe there is still an appetite in your home country for independence. while the time dependence movement is

a strong and the never in the last elections we collect well the highest support in our history 74. members of the cast on parliament are in favor of independence for the whole of $135.00. and we collect 52 percent of the popular vote so this is the struggle for we never received before that shows we are fighting that in the line that the people of the mind of the people are demanding if you say a strong supporter of a socialist still beats you i wonder do catalan separatists still regard you as their leader i do maybe think they do they do very maybe thing but you are no use to them because you are hiding there in belgium. i.e. he was not running for president in the last elections it was clear in that sense

yes you are right the system which party won the elections but with less support than. the national party received 3 years ago so the catalan movement the catalan parties in favor of the dependent one the majority. who is exactly the leader there isn't a movement of the millions peoples supporting it and it doesn't many of my situate my personal situation before me and after media will be political leaders defending the same ideas that is the question the kotecha foreign woman doesn't depend of my personal situation of course we thank you for joining us carlos post about former president of spain's catalonia region. thank you very much. not a sport the big news in german football national coach is going to step down after this year's european championships in june and july the german football federation

said he asked to be released from his contract a year early a 61 year old has been in charge of the german national team since 2006 and lifted the 2014 world cup in brazil and what's been the highlight of his turbulent tenure . and how or from did over to support can tell us what a welcome and there's a big surprise it was a surprise in that if i was his manager are 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 off to bed 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 into thought 2420 in rio and

12018 was a disaster public humiliation in russia if you are 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 in the team lacks energy and he had to go he chose he's tough we're ok so why now is just months before the euros interesting question the team struggled for 3 years in football you've got basically 2 leaders to pull 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 humiliate 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 into a stale group of players phil who have been listening to this message man no noise been listening. do you get the 15 years he's getting sick of that message maybe this list of white from the shoulders that gives them a china job 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 that coming they can't knowing that this is going to be obvious or. for a clear thank you. i've done more football coming up next on the u.w. without borders legal show at kickoff with a review of much state a $24.00 i'll be back at the top of 8 hour with more world news i'm going to. malls oh boy.

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