turned vertically in the roadway the strategy is for quick hit gatherings and then a retreat to avoid security forces. and in mandalay police again arrived with a vengeance slowed perhaps by the bricks. but the sound of armaments can be heard as yet again protesters make a run for it avoiding arrest or much worse at the hands of security forces. security forces like those who took john maher but now detained a member of the overthrown and l.d. party armed personnel snapped pictures and got such a drive off with their detainee who is no doubt aware that 2 fellow party members have died in police custody in recent days the troops also found the keys to john maher's vehicle and decided to take it into custody as well. let's talk about all of this with tim's action lady approach to mock received activists in yangon in me

and mark thank you very much for joining us now as we mentioned you have been out demonstrating and there are people out demonstrating today again despite the threat of violence from the military junta how determined are you and other activists a to continue what you're doing. not just today. almost every day you know not just add to that but also on how the young people from different leaders to some walks of life time something to add to theirs and protest and we are all equally angry at them as if we are all instead doing what's going on and so yeah we are out on the street protesting almost every day you said that you are all equally angry and i want to ask these protests have been going on for more than a month so what are you a despoina looking to achieve is it still reversing the coup. we have not sure what the future holds for us right now because the military tends to tend to use more escalate escalation and. when they are despising the crowd they

tend they are more using foul and they're used in more force us even right now we're still worried about what the tester and novelty of this is such a wrestle right now because the other things are on that by a lot of track and police cars right now and more than 200 arrests right now so we don't know what you just will for us but for us we are all it might go forward because this is not the 1st time the military come into such crime against the people in the amount they have them to think that the minorities in their rooms and now to all of us right now so i think on its own ration all the time i act well for what it's for what's going on but what is the number one priority right now that you want to achieve with these protests. we want to eventually we want to get pressure to the military that's the 1st priority right now when you get fresh about the military who is not yet complete is not. cool so they need to realize that this

is still not yet suspenseful and we are all resisting attempts so that's what they have to realize that they have to reverse the coup right away and at the same side do what happened this way we need continuous pressure that's why we're getting out of street almost every day as well not to us but also international communities we are right in that you gave more pressure in terms of sense and and so it was this this is what we hope right now they have to immediately back down and go back to barracks you mentioned what you want from the international community and we mentioned already that the u.n. security council sailed to reach a resolution condemning the coup is that disappointing to you and what do you expect going forward. oh yeah we had to write that because the u.n. security council even though many o.l. you know good neighbors good friends country they have signed the a fast to address the situation but as you all know that china and russia stayed

back in the military in one day the country is not the 1st time to give them the same day in the past 60 years so we just saw tired of it and we want the time you've got to know that they have obviously into you know what internet cafe and the military they found at the military and now they are supporting the military gets too much for us now we are all like oh young people are 60 percent of the population then not 20 just a small number want it again and these thoughts might be actually not in that you can be as young people as well we are in to empower us the time that needs to and just and we have to leave it there are tunes i should lay you pro-democracy activist in myanmar thank you for joining us. thank you. let's get around to some other headlines from around the world a state of emergency has been declared in hawaii after heavy rains caused flooding

and landslides now the move came after a dam overflowed on the island of maui forcing evacuations and destroying homes officials say the dam was scheduled to be removed this year due to its poor condition. greece's prime minister has condemned protesters who attacked a police station with petrol bombs in the capital athens the violence erupted after thousands of people turned out to demonstrate against a video of police officers beating a man over the weekend authorities are investigating the use of force in that video . and brazil has again reported a record number of daily coronavirus deaths on tuesday almost 2000 people died from causes related to cope with 19 as follows the country's deadliest week in the pandemic so far authorities are warning that health systems across brazil are on the brink of collapse. and here in germany a scandal over the procuring of facemasks has rocked the conservative political establishment a lawmaker from chancellor angela merkel c.d.u.

party is stepping down over payments that he received for brokering facemask deals for local authorities and another conservative member of parliament from the city use the varian sister part of the c s u is quitting his parliamentary group following claims that he accepted bribes. what is being called the mask affair surfaced that the and the february when police searched the offices of gail 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 lobel 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 liberal have announced they're 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. also the sister parties c.d.u. n c a sue say they want to conduct a comprehensive investigation into such practices and introduce a code of conduct that would prevent them. i think 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. the scandal risk spattering merkel c.d.u. party ahead of 2 important regional elections taking place on sunday in the states . by then 15 back and right limp in latin it recent polls have shown a dip in the party's numbers not good news for the seaview just 6 months before the country's parliamentary elections. that report from our political correspondent julie delhi and she joins us for more hi julie we're talking about a scandal here involving lawmakers who were involved in corruption themselves and profiteered from a pandemic how is the public perceiving this. the reactions from the public go from dismayed to angry to disappointment and it's understandable after a year of the pandemic having been through restrictions on their personal freedom

people losing family members people losing their jobs and seeing politicians gain financially from the crisis is unacceptable for many and the issue is one of an ethical kind for most people even though what the members of parliament did may even be legal investigators are looking into this fact the fact that members of parliament use their influence and their role to make money during a pandemic is a problem ethically for many people and it is that the credibility credibility not only of the members of the c.d.u. but also of politics in general and politicians are aware of this risk for example the leader of the cd you called on members of his party who may have done similar deals to come clean and efforts to try to clear the air what about the political implications here because it is

a big election year in germany and now chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are roiled and scandal do they have a clear strategy. the implications are clearly quite important for the c.d.u. ahead of this big election year starting with local elections but in 6 months time we're going to see the parliamentary election with the likely change in the government also with merkel departing and politicians are trying to make clear within the c.d.u. that this is an isolated issue that it's not a systemic issue and they're trying to make clear that they will hold people accountable in cases like this they're doing so by also proposing a new code of conduct for parliamentarians who are within the parliamentary group of the c.d.u. ensues you but this may not be enough also because pressure is mounting on the party with regards to the coronavirus pandemic after months of lockdown many people are starting to doubt the government's strategy to come out of the pandemic and the

vaccine rollout has been very slow so this is starting to trickle down within the poll's and see you has to pay attention to this our political correspondent julia so delhi thank you very much well england is facing its own pandemic spending scandal the parliamentary watchdog says the country's coronavirus test and trace scheme has not proven its worth despite costing nearly $27000000000.00 euro so far british prime minister boris johnson promised the scheme would be world beating when it was announced in may last year but lawmakers say there is no evidence that it has reduced the number of corona virus infections or achieved its aim of preventing further lock downs it was also criticised for using expensive private contractors. let's go right to london to bring in our correspondent. there were huge expectations for this scheme so 1st of all can you remind us what

it was supposed to do. well yes to step back in time to last spring and remind everyone that this was the time when but always johnson had promised that this was going to be this world beating test and trace system and the aim was going to be to find people very quickly who tested positive of the virus and then crucially to find the people that they had been in contact with so that these people could then isolate and that this could then just help with the spread of the virus and isolate the positive cases now has it been successful that's the big question the u.k. is one of the countries most affected by the corona virus remains one of the country's most effective and over 120000 people have died of the virus and now this parliamentary watchdog is essentially saying that this very expensive scheme hasn't proven it's worth does that mean that it's failed. yes the

group of m.p.'s to find out whether it's delivered value for money the money that's been spawned is really staggering and this is also what the m.p.'s emphasize emphasize they said it's around $37000000000.00 pounds that was set aside for this scheme and they criticize starts there was over reliance for example on a very expensive consultants so a lot of private companies help the government with this test and trade scheme and these consultants cost in some cases over 6000 pounds a day now the government says this is all being west that they for example point to the fact that when the new variants were found in the u.k. the so-called brazil and south african variants that people were found quite quickly and that the spread of these particular variants was stopped and that only a few cases were found and spread in the u.k.

so the government of calls defending this scheme and how are people reacting to this assessment. quite a lot of gossip i would say there has always been criticism particularly about the many private companies that were set up instead of relying on for example on on local knowledge of g.p.'s and public health authorities the trade unions have been very critical they said for example it's not enough money to help people to isolate so there's no point and finding people that would have been in contact with somebody who was positive but you actually help have to help them to stay at home and many people and low paid jobs for to do that and that the government money was too little also interesting from the nursing union they said this is really too much money being spent on consultants and then when the nurses learn that over $6000.00 pounds a day was paid to a consultant when the nurses pay is actually really very moderate it shows that.

more money should be spent on nurses and not on expensive consultants our correspondent there good mass reporting there from london thank you. you're watching t w news still to come on our show a look at the long wait and struggles ahead for asylum seekers who were stopped in mexico during the trump presidency. but 1st the british royal family has responded to the damaging interview given by prince harry and his wife meghan markle in a statement the queen said she takes their allegations of racism seriously it is the 1st step in an image repair campaign for a monarchy in crisis. and buckingham palace broke its silence on the tell all interview a statement issued on behalf of the queen reads the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of her challenging the last few years have been for her in

macon 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. the accusations that make and marco experienced racism after she joined the royal family have set off a heated debate in britain. if the disc is to be. militia which it is different because of the color of their skin who are going. to such or are you to be are and i don't think she was telling the how true how perfect and it was on the sort of the part. that i offered my beach with. it was someone different in the royal family being makes race heritage myself. of our community black. friends so i'm not actually surprised about

the interview on how to treat it was told and i think it was a long time call me. allegations of racism towards macon are not new prince harry said in the interview that racist coverage from the tabloid press was a large part of why he in macon left the u.k. and moved to the us. the interview has ensured the couple are back on all the front pages but they say they wanted to share their side of the story u.s. president joe biden's promise to ease immigration rules is being put to the test with thousands of marc rich children being held in detention centers along the border with mexico they are part of a search of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in central america. i met one woman trying to help them on their journey across the us mexico border.

every morning at sunrise. bridge over the. day a 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 constantly asking for 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 the border 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 he 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 a long and it ends with a coronavirus test before they go to the other site 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 for sister norma it's an honor to be part of it and screen care to mosul. finally this is so beaut. i'm tired it has been

a day full of emotions and very exhausting and it's really the mood for these families they have suffered a lot and now the united states is opening its doors for them. but i was. once on u.s. soil n.g.o.s are taking care of them around 1009 percent have family members or friends living in the united states but this is not the end of their trip. this long journey is just starting the goal it's not here yet but in this. meanwhile on the mexican side of the border more families who are forced to flee i writing hoping that the new biden administration will get them in the moment we are in there for my family and i we have to scape because they said they want to kill us. but we. will fight 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. sports now to champions league football in the round of 16 wonderfully getting dortmund have drawn to 2 with severe but advance to the quarterfinals on aggregate young norwegian scoring machine early holland netted both of dortmund's goals he has now scored in every champions league game he's appeared in this season also on tuesday porto have advanced to the quarterfinals even though they lost $32.00 to your ventus of the result left them level on aggregate but porto go through because they scored more away goals. it's the end of an era for german football national coach york him to step down after this summer's european championships the 61 year old led germany to win the world cup in brazil but has been haunted by a string of defeats ever since. germany's 2014 world cup triumph was your committed scrapping 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 the south to continue more disappointing results followed. a 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. it's all the timing of his decision is good it means there won't be any speculation about contracts cheering the euros. now it means the decision has been taken and there is clarity and it could even give the team a boost knowing that it's the coach's last tournament and he'll want to make use of that this blocking on the liverpool's german coach jurgen klopp has already ruled himself out of the running to replace lurve if that's the question we want to ask if i were there before to drop off for the benefit of quarter of the draw national team in the summer and all the euros being postponed from last year because of the coronavirus means there is a. little time for live successor to stamp his all for at the on the team tickets all world cup kicks off in november next year assuming he call the.

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