drapes began to. clean the tallest biggest and the most beautiful structures this is how massive churches that were created. with the drills starts april 12th d.w. . this is news and these are our top stories the british royal family has responded to the bombshell interview given by prince harry and his wife and i can markel in a statement the queen said she takes their allegations of racism seriously and they would be addressed quote privately within the family the interview with oprah winfrey was the couple's 1st since they stepped back from their royal duties last year and moved to the united states. we are appalled the united nations has

condemned the police killing of 9 people during weekend grades in the philippines rights groups of say the government of president really good your tax day is targeting activists to silence dissent miller says the operation was against a suspected insurgents but is promising a full investigation. jury selection has started in the george floyd case after a one day delay with the former police officer derek shelvin is on trial accused of lloyd's murder and manslaughter the flight was killed last may while being detained by police in the us it is minneapolis if that you know of the incident or triggered months of racial justice protests. this is the new news from berlin you can follow us on instagram and twitter at news or you can visit our website dot com. today italy surpassed a 100000 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 man to be on a system and that could be 19 couldn't be. used as a pandemic so for a year now we have faced this crisis of almost imaginable proportions didn't you might want to year ago on march 10th italy was put on lockdown becoming for the 1st

time parents are. pretty decent speed into the production and delivery of that since it's actually nations of course the european union you were in that house for 2 years later that we would face a similar emergency. or not. 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. that's you 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 16000000 citizens to stay home in order to stay alive since then 100000 people in italy have died from coated 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. star city star. 60 to 70 percent of patients hospitalized unaffected 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 it's 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 serves as a bum to me has become very. trading on wall street was suspended but

not today's record losses early 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 saudi. oil company around cairo so this as a signal to stop a price war i think the timing could have been. tonight 16000000 people in northern italy about a quarter of the country's population are under a long tail and nobody i mean this is a drastic step it's the most drastic we've seen here in europe they woke up quite sad and they have been today or today they are ready and we are scared and depressed of course a toxic 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. now 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 illegal 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 asian. crisis afterwards also to try to spin the debate in a way that many look like a star in china and china was you know our 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 and 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 already are you know the chinese. said to give. examples that show why perhaps in the 20th century

democracies were cute and useful and good but now for the 21st century vienna only systems that are really suitable face the challengers of the century are systems that are closer to the chinese of us president joe biden has made his debut on the world stage for him 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 up to somebody it's important that it's not only china and russia as a living vaccines to developing countries the and fix them then doesn'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 . a more humane immigration

policy was one of us president joe biden's promises during the campaign taking the fear factors out well maybe living 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. her daily mission is to help refugees to get to the other side as immigrants re fair to the united states on this site people already know her and are called some plea 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 a. hearing. and they need to know that oppresses the fact that they're not alone or to 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 here 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 their hearings in the united states. for them this is the culmination of years of waiting and for sister norma it's an honor to be part of it and screen to mosul. finally this is so. 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. was 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 and nothing yet this long journey is just starting the goal it's not here yet and this

is where you are meanwhile on the mexican side of the border more families who are forced to flee iraq having hoping that the new biden administration will let them in. 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 joined by a washington correspondent. president 1st has been the covert relief package and the fallout dealing with. the siege of the u.s. capitol 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 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 a 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 asylum seekers who have been waiting for their file hearings in mexico and not in 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. but many of the new immigrants arriving at the border don't know hold a state house 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're now at the border to really be in your report you spoke of the need to address the root calls with immigration in central america. is that helping. in a way fear yes then you bite administration policy is trying to put a particular focus on the northern triangle as they call it this at 3 countries what i'm i don't do as i'm as salvador and this is a route to a cause a strategy which means aids to strengthen democracy in those countries to fight gang violence and force 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. with the latest tonight in washington carolyn because i always think you. will the world is still reacting a day after britain's prince harry and his wife meghan gave the 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 know by help of the queen the statement reads the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the ones she years have been for harry and meghan the issues raised particularly that of race are concerning while some recollections may vary they are taken very seriously and will

be addressed by the family privately harry meg and she will always be much loved family members. let's take this story now to london to. build joins me with more twists and turns in this royal drama good evening she used 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 drafting interview with his son and his daughter into it but i think it would be unrealistic to imagine that he would talk decide to replying 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 can be 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 to say this but it was very happy was it 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. 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 up to some of the content of this interview and 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 bones show for the world family is one of the most jaw dropping interviews about that that has happened in decades in fact

since that point i think they gave an answer to us she was making claims that she had doubts as only 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 tough self that some members of the royal family don't 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 to make a mark was far better when he gave his opinion take a listen but they shouldn't they get one way or with 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 or tried to wait

the thing about what color will the baby be here how dark would baby be. i'm guessing and hoping it's just a dumb question from somebody you know. it could just be that simple it 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're very we're all 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 charlotte these words from the father would they use surprise in the u.k. . well i think it's fair to say that father might not be the best place to judge what races allegations what or what made and the visit to see all those claims

however some of the points that he makes about about the royal family and about the the sensitivity all this interview at this time those are those that are 7 shed 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 sussex so this is not a cut and dry issue here that there is you know this does divide opinion to the usual it doesn't typically just a night of the oil 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 championships he's held as the country's top soccer java missed as long as until america has been chancellor now he's 61 years old lived his most famous for taking germany to world cup victory in brazil and

similar to what you may hear about uncle 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 50 years at that point but decided to plow 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 live south to continue more disappointing result followed. and the 6 nil hammering by spain in the nation's 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 the successor to stamp his offer of the on the team the qatar world cup kicks off in november next year assuming to be qualify. for more now i'm joined by the w.'s 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 that much of a surprise for any of the artists as ever since the eurozone 2016 there's been some concern about your home lurves future and coaching really at this german 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 felt 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 or not 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 fantastic bonus 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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