history of slavery i think will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history class. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on t w. today italy surpassed 800000 deaths from the corona virus a tragic number the latest in a year long series of infection spikes staccato against a crescendo of more and more attempts to flatten the curve europe's pandemic tragedy had its genesis in italy it was one year ago today that italy became the 1st european country to start a nation wide lockdown 60000000 lives threatened by a virus tonight that virus has changed slightly but the deadly threat it remains in berlin this is the day.

we have that for a minute to be our system and that 19 can be kind of as a pundit mix so for a year now we have faced this crisis that's almost immeasurable proportions in the interim out one year ago on march 10th italy was put on lockdown becoming for the 1st time parents. to prove. speed into the production and delivery of it since it's in the ancient course the european union given that the half full it's a year later that we would face a similar imagine see. also coming up a statement from buckingham palace accusations of racism made by meghan markle are

being taken very seriously and as prince charles demonstrated earlier today they will not be addressed publicly. if. you. want to think. that. those who our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day where the pandemic nightmare in italy began and where it could very well be about to happen again it has been exactly one year since italy sealed its borders and told its 60000000 citizens to stay home in order to stay alive since then 100000 people in italy have died from code that 90 tonight doctors in italy are warning of a new perfect storm vaccinations have been slowed only 6 percent of the population have been inoculated the rest risk contracting more contagious viral variants which

now account for 60 percent of new cases on this march 9th just as it was one year ago italy's hospital intensive care units are once again filling up. as a doctor and as an italian having the death toll for the epidemic is painful. but it makes us stronger. and it makes us more determined to fight his continuing health situation. scar says he stopped. december the percent of patients hospitalized and infected with this coded 19 variant. what changes is the contagiousness so it's more easily transmitted we often face entire families arriving wife husband father and son and also the other main aspect

to underline is that the age is lower is not just affecting mostly the elderly but also younger people 40 to 50 years old we have many patients hospitalized between 45 and 55 years of age. but i. italy has also become the showcase of all that has gone wrong with the european union's vaccination rollout last week it only blocked 250000 doses of the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine from being flown to australia it was an attempt to reduce vaccine exports with vaccine deliveries across europe already delayed and smaller than expected and in a move that would have been considered highly unlikely one year ago italy is turning to russia for vaccine help and italian pharmaceutical company will begin manufacturing the russian sputnik vaccine this summer all of this after an

entire year of the pandemic in italy so many lives have been lost so many lives have been changed forever and yet shockingly much has not changed at all take a look at how we reported the exploding outbreak in italy exactly one year ago today. just heard some of the thunder meet has become very. trading on wall street was suspended but not today's record losses earlier today global oil prices crashed demand for oil around the world has fallen and that has everything to do with the coronavirus. adding to that fear now is that while price shock there is going to be more and more pressure it comes off the oil price of the saudi. oil company around cairo so this as a signal to stop a price war i think the timing could have been. tonight 60000000

people in northern italy about a quarter of the country's population are under a long tail now betty i mean this is a drastic step it's the most drastic we've seen here in europe they woke up quite sad and may have been today or today they are ready and we are scared and depressed of course a toxic talk of economics and emotions tonight fear and a fragile economy as the corona virus spreads around the world it's the panic prelude to a pandemic. what was the pandemic here in europe as we reported it one year ago or the origins of the corona virus and the pandemic that topic remains a sore spot for china's leaders after its dismal handling of the initial outbreak of covert 19 beijing is now eager to rehabilitate its image in the world vaccine diplomacy could be the tactic to change the narrative and expand its global

influence as the w.'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 makes his medical assistance with decision from ation. right to the scene afterwards also to try to spin the debate in a way that many look like a star 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 for 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 on supporting into highway bridges in montenegro a coal fired power plant in bosnia and a giant sea port 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 has 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 there is a strong desire to shows up here and already are you a chinese. too 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 vienna only systems that are really suitable face the challenges of this century are systems that are closer to the chinese. u.s. president joe biden has made his debut on the world stage vowing to push back at that idea saying to mock received will and must prevail. and germany's angela merkel says that the west must now engage in this unfolding competition that's up

to somebody it's important that it's not only china and russia that are delivering vaccines to developing countries the and fix them and 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 a new reality a battle for influence and even ideas about nothing less than how to run the world . a more humane immigration policy was one of us president joe biden's promises during the campaign taking that fear factors out well maybe letting in new challenges for the new president there is a new surge of immigration from central america thousands of migrant children are being held in detention centers along the border with mexico correspondent sent us this report from the gateway international bridge on the us mexico border.

every morning at sunrise crosses the bridge over the. day the mission is to help refugees to get to the other side as immigrants free fair to the united states on this site people already know her and are constantly asking for her help. now there is a possibility again to offer a person who is being persecuted and who has a life threat to apply for asylum. after 4 years suborder is finally opening again for immigrants qualifying for asylum many of them have been waiting in mexico for years under inhumane circumstances this is. here. and they need to that press is the fact that they're not alone. this is why is here to guide them and assist them in the process these immigrants

came together 2 years ago and created the informal refugee camp. ever since they refused to move insisting to stay as close as possible to the united states they came from haiti central america and also from parts in mexico where criminality is high that our own 4000 refugees have been living in this camp for up to 2 years now they're only around 200 people living there every day small groups are crossing over to the united states the procedure is long and it ends with a coronavirus test before they go to the other side a total of $25000.00 immigrants seeking asylum have been stuck in mexico for years president biden said ministration has now allowed them to wait for the hearings in the united states. for them this is the culmination of years of waiting and it's an honor to be part of it and screen care to mosul. finally this is hope you.

the full i'm tired it has been a day full of emotions and very exhausting to free them with these families they have suffered a lot and now the united states is opening its doors for them. but i just. once on the u.s. side n.g.o.s are taking care of them around 99 percent have family members or friends living in the united states but this is not the end of their trip up there nothing this long journey is just starting the goal it's not here yet in this. meanwhile on the mexican side of the border more families who were forced to flee iraq big hoping that the new biden administration will get them at the moment we are on their threat to my family and i we had to scape because they said they want to kill us. as long as the root of the problem is not to address the increase of criminal activity in mexico and central america is still

going to force families to abandon their hopes. and for more now i'm joined by a washington correspondent for more who filed that report good evening to you carlina president biden's 1st priority has been the covert relief package and the fallout dealing with the fall well the siege of the u.s. capital immigration policy has not gotten that much attention yet has his administration has been caught off guard by what is happening now at the southern border. in a way yes i have friends because as you said the focus off the president is right now in getting checks and getting vaccine shots in the arms of american citizens immigration issue is not the priority right now but reality is putting this issue on the table it's important to underline that we're seeing how 100 thousands of immigrants at the border right now the number of immigrants that has tripled during

the last 2 weeks president biden promised to reverse the terms immigration policies and that is when he started signing executive orders on this issue and one of the executive orders he signed was to allow the entrance of around $25000.00 asylum seekers who have been waiting for their final hearings in mexico and now the united states as former president trump decided the ones who are now entering the united states are refugees who have already applied for asylum some of them have been waiting for 2 years and now they have finally received a permit that allows them to enter the u.s. of but many of the new immigrants arriving at the border don't know all these details they just heard that the united states is opening its doors and these are people who have a life threatening situations that toll so this is why they are now at the border. of the need to address the root cause of immigration in america. is that helping. in a way feehery yes is the new right administration policy is trying to put

a particular focus on the northern triangle as they call it this at 3 countries what a mile down the west and as salvador and this is a route to a cause a strategy which mean that aids to strengthen democracy in those countries to fight gang violence and with the economy and it will be a kind of marshall plan for central america something that experts estimate that would be a lot cheaper than building a wall or hiring immigration officers and it would provide of course jobs and security in central america and that could turn off the reasons why people from these countries are coming to the us. to really deal with the latest tonight in washington carol even as always thank you. well the world is still reacting a day after britain's prince harry and his wife meghan gave a tell all interview with oprah winfrey make an shocked millions with her

disclosures that a member of the royal family voiced concern over which skin color their son could have and there was no immediate response from buckingham palace to this revelation now the palace has finally broken its silence in a statement is you don't buy health of the queen this statement reads the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for harry and meghan the issues raised particularly that of race or concerning well some recollections may vary they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately harry meg and archie will always be much loved family members. let's take this story now to london to. bill joins me with more twists and turns in this royal drama good evening to use charlotte so we've got a statement from buckingham palace and it would seem prince charles was putting that statement into practice earlier today when he ignored

a reporter's question. is it a vaccination center and it's today declined to comment on the road crossing interview with his son and his daughter into it i think it would be unrealistic to imagine that he would talk to so it's a reply to respond to this before an official statement that came from the palace i think they really would have wanted to put forward a united front and to have carefully considered exactly how they were going to their response because the allegations are just so stop including the one that you mentioned that suggesting racism within the royal household now the same if that's what it was very happily was and i think some of the the key point there is that they wanted to address this privately for i think that means what we're not going to see is a big public tit for tat playing out whether that's going to be enough to you to

quell so much interest in this story really does remain to be seen with that with so many people still having a lot of questions off to some of the content of this interview. today's statement it was the result of crisis meetings at the palace as we understand it right. correct that is what what's being reported and i make no mistake this interview was just bone show for the world family is one of the most jaw dropping interviews about that that has happened in decades in fact that. they gave an interview where she was making claims that she is a very lonely in the royal family now again we have another one of these things to be all and all the implications about the functioning of the world family this is a family drama this is not individuals individual relationships and family and i get to pick some pretty tops off that some members of the world family they all need to process this is well of course they're left crisis talk to figure out

exactly how they want to address this there are countless opinions of bell the harry and megan interview with oprah today megan mark whose father well he gave his opinion take a listen but they shouldn't they get one way over the top with this these stories with oprah and should have waited considering considering that. the queen's age and philip's age they certainly should have waited her tried to wait this thing about what color will the baby to be here how dark will the baby be . i'm guessing and hoping it's just a dumb question from somebody you know. if could just be that simple that could be somebody ask a stupid question. rather than being a total racist i i have great respect for the royals and i don't think they really

were a family or a or. racist at all i don't think the british are racist i think bus and it was a racist california is a racist but i don't think the brits are. sure that these words from the father would they you surprise in the you carrie. and say that head father might not be the best place to judge what races allegations what or when made and with a visit to see all those claims however from the point that he makes a found out about the royal family in a palace is this the sensitivity all this interview at this time those articles that are 7 shared by a proportion of the share of the british public i mean a recent poll suggested that the general public is more sensitive more sympathises rather more with the royal family than with the saw six's so this is not a cut and dry issue. there is you know this does divide opinion.

doesn't deal with the latest tonight of the royal saga. thank you. was a big news in german soccer today national coach you all can look we'll call it quits after this summer's european championship he's held the country's top soccer job almost as long as uncle americal has been chancellor now he's 61 years old lives most famous for taking germany to world cup victory in brazil and similar to what you may hear about on the americal some say you walk in love may have overstayed his time at the top. germany's 2014 world cup triumph was you can miss crowning glory. he had already been in the job for 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 serve to continue more disappointing results followed down to the 6 nil hammering by spain in the nations league in november led to widespread calls for him to step down. live 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 euros being postponed from last year because of the

coronavirus means there is little time for a successor to stamp his offer of the on the team the qatar world cup kicks off in november next year assuming to be qualified. for more now i'm joined by jonathan harding from sports good to see you johnson so let's talk about this how big of a surprise is this. well i don't think it's not much of a surprise for only the artists at ever since the euros in 2016 there's been some concern about your home nerves future and coaching really at this germany side so i don't think it's necessarily a surprise maybe the timing is a little bit on given that the euros are not very far away but i think this is more a case of a decision that overdue rather than necessarily a surprise yeah it is a question the timing is questionable here isn't it we like you so we've got months before the euros why would he announce this now what is a personal choice and i think now has to be respected but it's clear to me and i

think many others that this is a decision that allows lurve to basically do what he likes from here on out and i think one of the big factors in that decision will be that he gets to recall one or maybe all 3 of the players that he retired after the debacle in russia thomas miller by munich spent in front of the people in the season and there's been a lot of conversation about him returning to the national side i think this kind of decision opens the door for miller's return but i think from the defaced perspective it's interesting that the president for its color would say you know this gives us the opportunity to plan for his success it for me is art because quite frankly they should have been planning for life after love a long time ago yet he's been around for a very long time but it's hard for a lot of people to even imagine german football without him definitely i mean he's an absolute legend when you think about what he's done for german football picked it up in a in a difficult spot and won the world cup it was a magical time for german football i think his legacy has perhaps been taken

tainted a little bit by staying on a few years too long maybe that will not serve him well in the short term perhaps in the long term people remember him for what he did achieve johnson harding for b.w. sports johnson thank you. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online and we will see you tomorrow everybody.

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a fortune in the process. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us tonight buckingham palace is sending a message in a statement released earlier today the british royal family says it is set and over the allegations of racism made by prince harry's wife meghan markle the couple made the claims during an interview with oprah winfrey on sunday buckingham palace says the issue of racism will be dealt with privately we'll take you to london for the very latest in just a moment but 1st let's listen again to what meghan marc who sit 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. hauled out there sort of right down there several conversations a conversation with you with harry about how dark your baby is going to be. potential and what that would mean or look like right now for the latest from the fall well charlie just until joins me from london good evening to you charlotte so we know this was an explosive interview serious allegations tell us more about what the royal family has said in response. yes i mean those allegations particularly the claims that you just heard in the interview clip that we're going to need to have an answer of some kind the world family generally doesn't complain doesn't explain that his mantra but in this particular case when allegations of this nature of been leveled at an unnamed member of the royal households this was not going to go away without it being

addressed in one way or another by the royal family and we do now this evening i have a statement and i will read it to you because some of the the one thing i think is quite interesting is the whole family's fountain's to the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for harry and meghan the issues raised particularly that of race the consenting while some recollections may vary that's taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately and carrying out she will always be much loved members of the family now what you have to remember is that although this is playing out in public and raises so many questions with regards to would it which often so interesting same to many of our surrounding race was running mental health regarding freedom of the press ultimately this is a family issue a prime minister that's being played out in a very public sphere that is something that they wanted to address in their statements we will say that they want to address it privately and that is key what we what they are attempting to avoid it seems is a big public showdown an airing of all the no injury here that has been raised in

the interview this is now the world families attempts to to calm the situation and to try and shut down says it's a story you're we saw that earlier today when prince charles was asked in public about the accusations and he simply ignored the question the u.k. public they've had 24 hours since that interview was aired in the u.k. what has been the reaction to the interview. well i will as i'm sure you can imagine absolutely everybody is talking about it you don't need to be a fan or even a critic of the world family to be engaged in the issue that has been raised here i'm sure you can imagine it's been a huge topic on television today it's been paid for already happening in fact one very prominent presented here in the u.k. a journalist has had to step down from his role because we saw just how heated the debate was on play out on our television screens this morning those. who and again

how you make it in the way you wish that they have as their grievances here but it's best to say that it's not been an overwhelming overwhelming support for harry and they can hit the house rules have been a degree of criticism of the way this is played out speaking of those who are friends of the world family thinking that this is extremely just a whale insensitive way for these these problems to be yet. to be used surely children feel but at least not from london charlotte thank you. a supreme court judge in brazil has thrown out corruption convictions against the former president of the country luis inacio lula da silva the enormity opens the way for leave the disability challenge brazil's current hardline leader. in the next election to silva who was known as lula was a crowd pleasing figurehead in the last decade that is until the economy slumped

and he was then engulfed in scandal. he's one of brazil's most popular and divisive figure is now former leader luis enough desilva could make a comeback to politics his bid to run 2 years ago was brought to a halt when he was convicted of corruption charges which he says well politically motivated but now a supreme court has a knowledge of the convictions the court said the southern city of could achieve or did not have the all farsi to child lula instead he must be retried in brasilia has long claimed his innocence. in a tweet he said he's always been right in this long legal battle. the ruling now means lula has regained his political rights his longtime supporters celebrated on the streets of sao paolo. if i were both so narrow i wouldn't sleep peacefully because i'm sure that he'll be passing the presidential sash to lula. elsewhere

some are not entirely convinced. i will not believe a politician who has a ready been arrested for corruption and i don't think lula would be the right person to run our country. and his main opponent a right wing president gyre balsa narrow hopes the image of corruption will stick to lula. lucky 13 has always had a strong link with the work as a party we are not surprised by the decision in that sense. but both scenario has been losing popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic analysts believe the far left could shake up the political scene in brazil's elections next year while lula faces charges and is yet to be tried in brasilia the country heads into an era of growing political polarization. journalist sam kelly is in sao paolo good evening to you says he's been vindicated brazil's president says the court's decision is

politically motivated because telling the truth. well good evening it's a very subjective question my it depends on who's listening on what side of the fence you sit and listen from the beginning the lou has always claimed and you know his so is his defense that's his that he's convictions were politically motivated to stop him running again in the 2018 elections it's true that the cases against him presented very weak evidence and recently we've seen the judge that convicted him or so appearing to collude with the with the prosecutors in the case so you know of course he's saying that he's now being vindictive president johnson are on the other hand your way says that the supreme court is persecuting him and stopping him from policy laws whether it's to enable citizens that are more had than you know laws of this crime and so yeah it very much the paintings are on

the side of the fence you see it's certainly polarized brazil well how popular is lula right now in brazil i mean brazil is is still in the midst of this deadly pandemic could look could he become president again. well look weeks alone so i mean brazilian politics let alone a year and a half until the next election season starts box the leader again currently leads the opinion polls the latest opinion polls by a small margin he has a rather large rejection rate but his rejection rate lower than current president. what we're seeing right now with most of the respected analysts in brazil most of the police respective political consultancies say that does indeed have a good chance of being out to run for and win the presidency and that it's likely

we would see his rejection rate full because right now in brazil. people i think the message you want jobs and health care and the look back on looters times in the presidency when brazil grew and became more unequal when you know people became big it became wealthier they you know it was quality fell the look back and that would have probably called memories what's happening right now. are we likely to see in court again any time soon. that seems very unlikely for where we stand right now but like i say a week is a long time in brazilian politics let alone a year and a half and so with the next election season starts so. most people think it's unlikely as you can see the slowness of precisions your course of europe prosy i'm told that he will stand any of the trial anytime before next year when the election season kicks off basically i think that's very unlikely sam can we then with the

latest from sao paolo tonight sam thank you thanks very much. let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the standoff between the military and protesters demanding a return to democracy in myanmar shows no sign of ending the u.n. says at least 50 people have been killed since the army seized power last month dozens of activists have also been arrested the united nations has condemned the police killing of 9 people during raids against suspected insurgents in the philippines rights groups say the government of president rhodri go. is targeting activists to silence dissent manila says the operation was lawful but it is promising a full investigation japan has decided to stage this year's tokyo olympics and paralympics without overseas spectators because of concerns among the japanese public about covert 19 the games are scheduled to start in july after being postponed for a year because of the and it. here in germany of scandal over facemasks

a lawmaker from chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats is quitting over payments that he received for brokering facemask deals for local authorities and another conservative member of parliament is stepping down following claims that he made 600000 euros supplying facemask. what is being called the mask affair surfaced that the end of february when police searched the offices of georg newsline a member of parliament and prominent figure in the conservative c.s.u. party newsline is being probed for bribery he is thought to have accepted over 600000 euros biomass producer to lobby for its product but the affair doesn't stop here nicholas ruble a lawmaker with chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. party admitted his company received 250000 euros to act as a mediator for mask purchases prosecutors are now carrying out an initial review of his case both newsline and rebel have announced their the parcher from the

conservative blocs parliamentary group but while little bit resigned from parliament effective immediately newsline plans to keep a seat for the opposition f.t.p. party this is not enough for their scrutiny is needed. clarity must be provided to the public millions of people fear for their existence and have seen their freedom restricted and the impression can't be that the few who want to do business from parliament using its letterhead are exploiting this crisis for their own benefit and these are. the sister parties c.d.u. and c a sue say they want to conduct a comprehensive investigation into such practices and introduce a code of conduct that would prevent them. we need to go a whole step further and make it clear that what is legally possible is not necessarily acceptable for us. we need a code of conduct that clearly states that it's not possible or acceptable under

any circumstances to benefit financially from the already active role as a member of parliament. up your. scandal risk spattering merkel's c.d.u. party ahead of 2 important regional elections taking place on sunday in the states of by. in fact i'm back and ryan learned that recent polls have shown a dip in the party's numbers not good news for the c.d.u. just 6 months before the country's parliamentary elections. when finally an unauthorised art exhibition is opening in munich featuring works of the most done authorized artist of all banks more than $100.00 reproductions of the street artists works and some originals are on display in munich base curator gathered what he calls the most extensive collection of the artist's works in one place it includes some of these most recognizable creations such as a girl with blue the exhibition runs until the beginning of may.

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