it's not good news for the seaview just 6 months before the country's parliamentary elections. well this is sparked debate over m.p.'s incomes here in germany problem terence are allowed to earn money beyond their parliamentary salaries as long as it's declared so if it's legal why should we care well we put that question to the managing director of transparency international germany and my own matters. well you can not be bowled at the same time i was there and you are a member of parliament you or you are nobody but you can act i've used your power in your own say so there's a very clear conflict of interest here so it's ok to have this additional center used by you should be clear what you are getting that for and we should be sure that there is not any sort of a conflict of interest this we are talking here about the trusts the society in the political leaders and in times of pandemic and ninety's it is even more important

and in normal times. since our us president joe biden's promise to immigration rules is being put to the test where thousands of bankrupt children being held in detention centers along the border with mexico have part of a surge of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in central america correspondent. trying to help them on their journey across the rio grande the us mexico border. every morning at sunrise crosses the bridge over the rio grande there to mexico today a 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. here 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. people that care about. people their families and they need to know that press is the fact that they're not alone. this is why sister not in my is here to. 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 says before they go to the other side a total of $25000.00 immigrants seeking asylum have been stuck in mexico for years president biden's administration 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 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 u.s. soil 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 but in the. meanwhile

on the mexican side of the border more families who were forced to flee iraq. ministration with them and. we are on their family and i we had to scape because they said they want to kill us. as long as the root of the problem. it's not address the increase of criminal activity in mexico and central america is still going to force families to abandon their hopes. are japan is preparing to mount the 10000 version of the worst disaster in living memory the massive earthquake and tsunami that caused the meltdown of the focus shima nuclear plant the tragedy killed more than 800000 people and cause widespread devastation in a moment we'll hear from an expert on fukushima of us will take a look at how that is after unfolded. march 11th

2011. japan's east coast is rocked by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country shortly afterwards a tsunami ripped through fukushima prefecture taking everything with it. is an army also cripples the fukushima nuclear power plant leading to explosions and meltdowns at 3 reactors. regular droughts freights over tens of kilometer. thousands of people lost their lives as a result of the disaster tens of thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. at a press conference just 9 months later japan's prime minister at the time yoshihiko noda maintained the situation was under control. but the battle wasn't over the fukushima meltdown would count as the most severe nuclear accident since the chernobyl disaster in 1906. to this day there is

still only restricted access to 1600 square kilometers of land around the disabled tunable nuclear power plant at around 230 square kilometers fukushima contamination zone is much smaller but it will remain uninhabitable for decades to come. and now we have 10 years. out of the accident and we have still 70000 people that. what back to their oh so well in fact it's a human tragedy. the fukushima nuclear disaster continues to contaminate the air the underground movement to this day bags a radioactive contaminated soil life scattered throughout the province it's still unclear where the waste should be stored in the long term the city of tokyo was saved by a stroke of luck wind pushed the radioactive cloud away from the city and out to

sea we had previous release of. any red your region yoshi and in the past but not at this level shortly after the catastrophe radiation levels in a large number of marine animals measured much higher than the limit values considered safe in japan today those levels are down significantly. but the fishing industry in japan is only recovering slowly in order to keep you in the reactors from melting tons of water a used each day to cool them at a 1000000 tons of contaminated water from the cooling pipes is stored in hundreds of tanks not a power plant but because storage space is limited and the tanks will soon reach capacity the japanese government is considering discharging the contaminated water into the sea in 2022. we do not expect in the arm for you run off 40 systems that's that that. you are would take forever

it's a problem of image that's a main point for. residents fisherman and environmental a say that plan offers no solution to an ongoing disaster. well dr alex rosen has conducted extensive research into the fukushima disaster he's from the german section of international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war welcome to d.w. 10 years on how japan done a good job in repairing the damage from fukushima we had big hole japan as it is a modern industrial stage and we really sort of that it's a big chance to really not have this similar cover up as we had in chernobyl back and soviet union days sadly 10 years on as we show no international symposium that we had last week and a lot of chances were missed in the scientific work up was not performed in the way that it could have been so there are a lot of the lessons learned. that we missed in these last 10 years sadly yes

so that that's so that's the the the scientific lessons that could have been learned you say that they were missed and what about actually cleaning up the disaster. well you know if you look at the official numbers in most of the regions that were considered areas that needed to be tipped decontaminated it's around 15 or 20 percent that were actually decontaminated so you know the decontamination is as as you might say a big miss. while there has been extensive extensive work to decontaminate especially the residential areas and such a huge disaster it's impossible to completely eradicate in a matter of 10 years and resell see the effects of chernobyl in germany now 35 years later and obviously 10 years later it's 16 or prefecture there is still a lot of radioactivity in areas like the mountainside or the forests which cannot

be decontaminated rice so by your estimate of 15 to 20 percent of the population was decontaminate about there's a significant proportion who are still out there i just wanted to have a quick look at a quote from a newly released u.n. report which says that no adverse health effects amongst folkish ema residents have been documented that could be directly attributed to radiation exposure from think accident so ok it's sounds as are people lots of people up weren't decontaminated but it also sounds like they haven't suffered as a result. well the. secret is in the wording knoll adverse effects have been documented as what unsecure says the problem is that a lot of scientific research was simply not conducted as a matter of fact only one single disease that has. as radiation as its

potential cause was actually looked at and this is thyroid cancer and in the case of fire of cancer a 20 fold increase in the cases of fire of cancer amongst children focus shima was documented but unsecure and other organizations of the nuclear what we are claiming that this cannot be caused by the nuclear accident but rather by a screening effect which is preposterous if you look at the fact that more than 200 kids were diagnosed with thyroid cancer more than would be expected in a population that is being examined every 2 years despite all of these examinations every year we have more and more kids developing pirate cancer right so it's just i just just just what would times like i said so i just want to follow up on the point about the scientific follow up if i might do you believe that that was just a chance missed or do you believe that that was the scientific follow up was deliberately held back. if you ask opec to

examine the scientific help to save. fuel and you know what to expect if you ask your in the international atomic energy agency to run scientific research on their site they didn't expect thank you for joining us dr it's very clear you're watching b.w. news out live from but then we'll have more of the talk of the day. with .

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to news asia glad you could join us the biden administration has begun an overhaul of america's of gonna sound strategy and it finally wants india at the table in a leaked letter to of can president bush of gunny u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken outlined a series of steps to jumpstart the stalled peace process one of them was a un backed conference of regional powers and stakeholders. we intend to austin united nations to convene foreign ministers and on boys from russia china pakistan iran india and the united states to discuss a unified approach to supporting peace in afghanistan. has a troubled history with its neighbors in a complex web of competing interests and proxy powers but increasingly india is

a new focus for diplomatic efforts to broker a lasting peace the u.s. has made clear that it welcomes new delhi's engagement india has fostered close ties to the afghan government in recent yes in the form of billions of dollars of aid and development last month indian prime minister narendra modi gave his support to a peace process that is led owned and controlled by a goddess them. and joining me now from delhi for more oil he's an award winning journalist and reports on india's foreign relations for the indian express newspapers who were due to welcome indian prime minister netanyahu more the once the peace process to be afghan led an afghan controlled as does the u.s. state department how does the current proposal from antony blinken involving 6 nations make it so. british you know the the

indian position has always been that the gun to start should be of gun owners of gun led and of gun control and it also had you know about 3 or 4 red lines one thing that should be the reduction in violence and women's rights should be respected and the constitutional. principle should be of the. now in that india is finally part of the negotiating table in on of on the part 2 words in afghanistan this has been a u.s. led proposal which which was revealed last week through a letter by the u.s. secretary of state and now india is expected to be finally be part of the table after being on the sidelines for almost a couple of decades now so what does india bring to the table shortly.

india has invested in afghanistan in its reconstruction and redevelopment. in a big gain a major gain the last 2 decades since 2001 after the $911.00 attacks and it spent close to $3000000000.00 in the reconstruction and redevelopment and it has developed that constancy very carefully because you know it essentially wants to counter pakistan's influence in afghanistan which has been of problem for india from in just the specter of terrorism emanating out of afghanistan and pakistan and across the border terrorism has been a major security challenge if you remember about 2 or 3 decades back when after the afghan war sort of ended the the element the

element from the from from the afghan border afghan territory to move to kashmir so that has been a major security challenge for india so india has has wanted that it should be involved in joining of gunnies stance peace and prosperity so that it is able to. you know have a say and not be undecided like you said in there want to come to pakistan's influence been indifferent find itself sitting at the talks table with part disarm and with dry mouth 2 countries with whom relations haven't always been the best let's just put it that blair you also have russia which is been a traditional indian ally who is expected to be at the talks table but most of the pattern too happy with india being part of this process so i'm just wondering how do these 6 nations get together despite these nations having converse divergent interests. well you. hit the nail at the at the right

part what has happened is although the countries have expressed their position that it should be afghan led a gun owner not gun control but all the processes have been lead controlled and owned by other players other actors in in the region and that has been a major challenge part of gandhi stance and the peace process now if it has to take off all the regional players made a decision to live with each other that the india versus pakistan or india vs china russia versus us all the countries have to have the stakes have to have the skin in the game for the peace process to move forward in a in a pragmatic in a feasible manner and that is the major challenge for this peace process which has been fragile as you know in the last year or so that has been very evident. you

speak to the people of iran government as well i wonder how our government officials are viewed the involvement of so many missions in a peace process that is meant to benefit them. yes. you're absolutely right agron government has always wanted it. the peace process to be led by dent but unfortunately as the realities down on the ground they are they are one. entity or one player in this in the in the mix. and as well as the americans. having cut a deal last year now. more country than most of callers are now in the game and this see some this see as not so benign influence and some feeling can contribute to or sort of a positive apos fair for all the constitutional gains that they have acquired over

the last 2 decades surely draw a reliever there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us thank you thank you for. friday marks the 10th anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern japan causing the deaths of some 18000 people the tsunami wave triggered by the magnitude 9 earthquake hit the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant causing a reactor meltdown and the evacuation of up to 150000 people only chernobyl compares to the scale of this disaster. a 300 square kilometer exclusion zone around the power plant remains in place and contains the memories of a tragedy that's to find the lives of survivors i mean it's a ghost town situated just a few kilometers from the fukushima nuclear power plant the only thing left here is memories from march 27th. samuel

cano grew up here nowadays he rarely visits the family home. it lies in the exclusion zone. well it's been too dangerous to live ever since. to call it what i don't find it time missed it still he said i feel more that everything has gotten worse. now there's just silence here. but sammy o'connor is still haunted by the sound of the tsunami. and the image of the wave destroying everything in its path is stuck in his mind. already there in a new well i have to respect nature these are nature's warning signs that you must treat the earth with care and you're going to get to feel. some you know used to work at the power plant now he wants nothing more to do with nuclear energy. one

look at the area explains why the banks littering the ground are filled with radioactive soil an entire city has been eradicated and almost no one wants to live here. cleaning up the damage will take generations thousands are busy on the site of the nuclear plant but the toughest work is yet to come west. there's no blueprint for the work here and even though we're making progress you still come up against problems you didn't anticipate. you can hear what about. the workers recover spent nuclear fuel and make sure the reactors a constantly pumps with cooling water the water is purified but it's still contaminated and it may have to be dumped into the ocean at some point. the area is still in a state of emergency according to greenpeace. we're already in year 10

of the nuclear disaster that will be going on for at least the rest of this century . japan has invested billions of euros rebuilt sounds and constructed entirely new ones but they're mostly empty filled only with those who work at the power plant or the elderly. sammy o'connor who hates the word reconstruction he says nothing will be like it was before. the gravesite of his family lies in the exclusion zone no sure of the anita hill not over but just look at what i have to put on the kinds of annoying things i have to put up with just to visit a grave site. it won't be over tomorrow or in 10 years or even decades from now that's why sammi a condo feels compelled to talk about what happened on march 11th 2011.

and they're marking another tragic anniversary this week it's been 20 years since the famous. valley were destroyed by the. hundreds. thanks to a 3 d. projection for a few hours of. weather 55. centuries it kept of the. recent histories acts of vandalism. i actually have mixed feelings. and i feel upset because the 3 d. image reminds me once again. here. on the other hand i feel happy that we have the chance to see the image of the border again. to see once more the great heritage of mankind and that gives us a good feeling. in the world was shocked when the.

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i learned on. the new i'm going. to be there a prison there. i haven't enjoyed me. return to normality surely that's possible with so many vaccines and with so many people having recovered from covert and immunity passport could so that china has launched one so has israel and chile. other countries are reluctant basing the passports could all sense of security border by society into the haves and have nots. there's a lot to take into account when it comes to a health passport or the digital version which sounds practical but not everyone's

got a mobile phone plus vaccinated people may still spread the disease and not everyone can get the jap then there is the dilemma of data protection i did revamped and international human rights we'll talk to a lawyer about that in a moment 1st this report from used in israel. since september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and christen but only those who hold a green pass the pass issued by is verse ministry of health is given only to vaccinated people of those recovered from cars at 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone is vaccinated so there's no fear and it feels slight and parallelly. are broadcasting the classes that are taking place

here we are broadcasting them for people who still did not vaccinate like israel for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown malls museums and stores have been opened for all but jim so those cultural and sports events will be made accessible to cream pass holders. israel is one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions of limiting personal liberties as they are someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is balance we are not doing that for good you can really enjoy a cultural life you will enjoy both you will enjoy you know going to the gym but in this time of the temporary base on 'd the short term we will let all of people

being vaccinated all recovered from corona 2 of the growing pains it remains unclear whether international travel could also billing to the queen pass for now israel spend go beyond app poetry remain closed to keep virus variants at bay. traveling is not yet on the mind of this group of film time friends into recent memory aged between 84 and 95 they had to play their favorite chinese board game are shown online for the post here after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet i feel like at this point i am free i mean just to be able to talk to people you know how it is it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's ok and remain pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's

a 1st but cautious step back to some kind of normality. and of a new scheme is an associate professor of law at the university of exeter a research focuses on human rights digital lore and data protection so our immunity passports in general a good or a bad idea what do you reckon. well let's talk about or think general they they may contribute to the long term management of the polemic for example by facilitating return to travel to war or to large sports events but at the same time they are even though we can say that it's good news that governments and in new or institutions are looking at considering this passports at the same time they should be clear that they pose a number of questions to the protection privacy it and human rights and that these questions should be taken into consideration so it could be

a good idea to have these national health boards in so far and governments and or new leaders consider these issues and put forward a clear framework clear guidelines and the road map for how we're going to implement the whole 1st ports in the coming months what are the concrete risks i mean how difficult could something like this make life for someone who is that healthy for example. let me into an example that male or straight that so if we think about the bikes in boats or to accord with passports that would start to be required by of storage is to excise public spaces and private spaces based on diet some people would be able to move freely right that would be the case of those that would have been vaccinated or those that would have tested negative for cold. boats are on the other hand we would have people that

would not have access to these places and if they cannot prove they if they cannot have access to the vaccines or if they cannot have access to tests they cannot prove their health status and therefore they would have their freedoms and rights they try to restrict it so that could be the case for example of pregnant women for whom it is not yet considered safe to get a vaccine and now if reimagined that a woman that is pregnant that cannot be vaccinated cannot also afford to pay for a test at an airport for example before traveling well in that case she would be excluded from a variety of places and that's can be quite considerable especially if we think about the caves of progress on women's rights that we have achieved and that's made being a put into question in the case of population of the. order in

a way that it's not compatible with their rights so that's why we need to have a system in place and we need governments to think about it this is the employment of the deployment of this test and these are the facts in nations that would inform the digital help us courts in a clear way and have thought through so that we don't incur this type of risks so what should governments do to ensure that these passports are safe and nondiscriminatory. i believe there are 3 main points here 1st that they should limit the purpose of using this tool so that that's called sunset clause it's right to limiting that to the use it during the pandemic or not going beyond that then the secondly there are they protection and privacy considerations that should be taken into account and that should be beauty into the the zine of these tools for example even if people consented to have their they stored and collected and

purpose for defuses they should still be in the design that the function should still being the design of these products and thirdly there is questions of accessibility and affordability of the tests and the vaccines that should be available to all before any deployment of these 2 and if it is to be joining us from exit england thank you very much thank you. and for more on vaccines let's get you over to our science correspondent eric williams he's been looking at your questions that you've been sending us now he just channel. once you get the vaccine how long does it take to actually walk. this depends on a few different things like which vaccine you receive whether one or 2 doses are involved how old you are and other health factors and when you say how long does it take to work i'd say you can't really put it that way since an immune response

isn't an on off switch but it's more of a sliding scale that grows steadily more reliable over the short to medium term on the other hand that vaccine induced immune response might also tail off and grow weaker over the long term we haven't been giving kobe 1000 back seems to people long enough to know how lone lasting their effects will be might turn out that you for instance need a booster shot somewhere down the road to remind your body that the disease is still out there and still a danger all that said there are some general guidelines that deserve a mention the most obvious is that getting the 1st dose of a vaccine doesn't mean it's time to rip off your mask and party all vaccines at least a couple of weeks to bring the 1st measurable preventive the facts that's how long

the immune system needs to begin mounting an effective response to a new pathogen and before you receive the 2nd dose from the 2 those vaccines you won't have the full blown protection promised by trials that's because of the 1st dose puts the immune system on a word while the 2nd one kind of kicks it up a gear so for example a new study has shown that the pfizer by. on tech that scene was about 70 percent effective at preventing symptomatic infection starting 3 weeks after the 1st dose which is when you're supposed to get a 2nd one that then boosts effectiveness to over 90 percent within the next couple of weeks all in all it therefore takes over a month to reach the full protection provided by that vaccine others take a similar amount of time to unfold their full potential.

there was there and finally some good news gibraltar says it's coming out of lockdown after the success of its vaccination campaign cove it has killed 93 people in the british territory of the southern tip of spain but the rapid supply of vaccine doses from the u.k. has helped turn things around gibraltar now says it's on track to complete vaccination by the end of the month for both residents and commuters from spain is what some of them had to say. remember normal right now a couple of months ago having stepped foot in spain so it's a big part of our lives the struggle for the oh no this is a new series each week and those songs will slow the traveling i'm looking forward to most of my kids have a constable going to hold she was the fact so yeah i'm staying also everybody that works in it you know the way they get it done yeah i was up there to welcome you were going to say i missed having coffee with friends i was speaking to my fridge

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