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 a proto mockers the 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 dealing. not just today. almost every day you know not just add to that but also on how the young people from different walks of life time something to activists and protesters and we are all equally angry at the end of it all i mean ted dagne 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 purchases been going on for more than a month so what are you a disappoint 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 use them more because as you know right now we're still worried about a lot of protest and not all to go to such

a rest so right now because the other things that are on that i know if you track them please right now and more than 200 arrested 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 the same character 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 us 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 want to get fresh about the military who is not yet complete is not is the time to 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 and they have to reverse that 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 lots of us but also international communities we are right in that you gave more pressure in texas and china and vocal so is 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 haven't the white house because the u.n. security council and all of many all well you know good neighbors good friends countries the outside the us asked to address the situation but as you all know that china and russia stayed back in the military in wandering the country is not the 1st time they have done the same thing in the past 60 years so we just saw

tired of it and we want the chinese government to know that it's there how lastly intervene at in i want internet they may be military they found out the military and now they are supporting the military is too much for us now we all like our young people 60 percent of the population the military just a small number are full of it again and these thoughts like they are in power actually they are not in power that makes me as young people as what we are internally in power as the time used to and just and we have to leave it there are times i should lay you pro-democracy activist in me and mark thank you for joining us thank you. now to some other stories making news around the world libya lawmakers have confirmed a transitional government to serve until elections at the end of 2021 the unity government replaces 2 rival administrations that have been competing for power the north african country has faced years of chaos and violence since the 2011 uprising

that toppled dictator moammar gadhafi. russia's media watchdog has said it is slowing down the speed of twitter it accuses the social media platform of failing to remove $3000.00 posts containing banned or illegal content now the kremlin has been clamping down on social media sites in recent months for hosting content supporting jailed opposition figure alexian of only. brazil has again reported a record number of daily coronavirus deaths on tuesday almost 2000 people died from causes related to cope with 19 that 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. here in germany a scandal over the procuring of face masks has rocked the conservative political establishment a lawmaker from chancellor angela merkel's c.d.u. party is stepping down over payments he received for brokering facemask deals for local authorities and another conservative member of parliament from the city use

bavarian sister party the c.s.u. is quitting his parliamentary group following claims he accepted bribes. what is being called the mask affair surfaced that the end of 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 lobell have announced they're the parcher from the conservative blocs parliamentary group but while liberal 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 restricting 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. the sister parties c.d.u. and c assume 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 fitting back and right lind to latin it 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. let's talk about the story now with ana my americans she is the managing director of transparency international germany welcome to d.w. now we have 2 lawmakers here who are accused of profiteering from the pen demick directly are you worried that there are many more. yet that could be because we have a general program and in germany in terms of the transparency of to political decision making because we have now 2 cases just mentioned and these 2 persons obviously facilitated the years between the german government and these companies

and act it sort of lobbyists and not as a political decision makers and because we don't have the transparency into context of that decision making the sort of kate gets disk aces accidentally because of the value of good her to investigate they've shown this but the conservatives that we have to say are promising that transparency they said that they're going to clear up all cases of corruption they're going to ask lawmakers now to disclose whether they made any much money in connection with procuring p p e they want a code of conduct is that good enough. well of course it's fantastic that to be is finally talking about this issue and i know the code of conduct and the purpose is very well but it's not enough for example we should prohibit these secondary duties of parliamentary ends to act this is lobbyists that they are. paid so that shouldn't be. feasible for them so i think we need more transparency also

in terms of the. addition of the earnings what they have to not only within scope but they need to have the details to very detailed amount of money that they receive for these actions but all of course we need also will be reduced at that we don't have in germany yet but even more important is to get its footprint that that we need so you just touched on these calls for parliamentarians to disclose any salary that they have alongside what they earn as parliamentarians if they're earning that money legally why is that important. but you can not be both at the same time i was there and you are a member of parliament you or you are no base but you can that abuse your power in your own sake so there's a very clear conflict of interest here so it's ok to have these additional salaries by you should be clear what you are getting that for and we should be sure that

they said not any sort of a conflict of interest this we're talking here about the trust of the society into political leaders and in times of pandemic and covert ninety's is even more important than in normal times if we take a look at the bigger picture here are we talking about a few individual cases in germany or are u.s. transparency international saying a broader trend in other countries as well as people specifically profiting from this pandemic. well we are indeed very devout situation because and this is something to be very understanding we need very far as proles says that this means always also that the process is are not that donor or that if they should be so we need to have a watch dr transparency but also others who have the older view of the process so it should be more than ever transparent the process serious and the should have also investigations if there are some cases that are that's clear not one of my

americans managing director of transparency international germany thank you for joining us here and. thank you 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 having a budget of 37000000000 british pounds 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 and bring in our correspondent there get good 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 boris 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 those 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 spand this 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 that there was a over reliance for example on the 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 $6000.00 pounds a day now the government says this is all being worth it 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 course 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 have 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 in 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 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 you did more money should be spent on nurses and not on expensive consultants our correspondent there good mass reporting there from london thank you let's take

a look at some other developments in the pandemic authorities in the state of russia is that on the northern india have started limiting vaccinations to major hospitals due to a shortage of doses pakistan has started vaccinating people age 60 and over amid a steady increase in coping 1000 cases in deaths and johnson and johnson has told the e.u. it is facing supply issues that may complicate plans to deliver 55000000 doses of its vaccine to the block in the 2nd quarter of the year. you're watching the news still to come on our show a look at the long wait and struggles i have for asylum seekers who were stuck 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 well some recollections made very very 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. this is the discus to be quite honestly no one should be cheeky different because they're the color of their skin aren't being. such or aren't it if they are in. other countries having the how true how perfect and when the sort of. problem that i offered my beach would be picked bullied.

it was someone different in the royal family being makes race heritage myself. and all along. of our community black or white and indifferent so i'm not actually surprised about the interview how the truth was told and i think it was a long time coming 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 unmake and 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. ok let's get a look at some more headlines now 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 . a state of emergency has been declared in hawaii after heavy rain caused flooding and landslides 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. and russia and china's space agencies have unveiled plans to develop a lunar research station today they want to put their research facilities on the surface of the moon or in its orbit moscow was once at the forefront of space exploration but its efforts have been eclipsed by both china and the united states in recent years. u.s. president joe biden's promise to ease immigration rules is being put to the test with thousands of migrant children being held in detention centers along the border

with mexico they are part of a surge of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in central america. met one woman trying to help them on their journey across the rio grande river on the us mexico border. every morning at sunrise. to break. 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 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 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 where our role as a people that care about. people their families

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 of 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. our own 4000 refugees have been living in this camp for up to 2 years now there are 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 says before they go to the other side a total of 25000 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 seemed ok to mosul. finally this is so beautiful i'm tired it has been a day full of emotions and very exhausting. for 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 and 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 and this is. meanwhile on the mexican side of the border more families who are forced to flee iraq hoping that the new biden administration will let them in. we are in there for

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 address the increase of criminal activity in mexico and central america is still going to force families to abandon their hopes. right before we go and on authorized art exhibition is opening in munich featuring works from the elusive artist banksy more than 100 reproductions of the street artists works and some originals are on display a munich based 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 like girl with blue. coming up next on news asia the united states wants it but can india work with its neighbors to bring peace to afghanistan. and

a survivor of the fukushima disaster returns to where it all nearly ended for him. here as founder jean has those stories coming right up on p.w. news asia don't go away.

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