i don't know those soon. to get. discovered who. subscribe to documentaries. when historians chronicle the 21st century the date march 11th 2020 may be the moment when our time reference is changed from b.p. to a peak from before the pandemic to after the pandemic today one year ago the world health organization made it official the corona virus outbreak was no longer national or regional it was global a full blown pandemic one year living with the corona virus tonight we remember how

it started hoping that we'll all survive to see it and i'm in berlin this is the day. joel has been assisting this outbreak around the cloak if it is serious please take it seriously t. and we're deeply concerned by the a lot of mean levels of spread and see very teeny one year later we have approximately 2 and a half 1000000 people dead and by the a lot of mean levels will be an option your vaccinating one person each 2nd in rich countries where as imports countries vaccine programs haven't even begun yet we have therefore demanded the us system and. 19 can. be kind.

of come to me. also coming up will the u.s. followed mexico's lead south of the rio grande lawmakers look set to legalize recreational marijuana it would make mexico the world's largest cannabis market. this law does not protect human rights if it doesn't protect those most affected by the war on drug trafficking. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day remembering the past how our pandemic present began it was one year ago today when the world health organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a full blown pandemic over the next 12 months the virus would kill 2 and a half 1000000 people cripple rich and poor economies and expose even accelerate the manatees best and worst tendencies the w.h.s. declaration gave the pandemic and overdue and justifiable sense of urgency and it

gave political leaders a reality check on the evening of march 11th former u.s. president donald trump announced sweeping travel restrictions all flights from europe were halted it would not be long until europe followed in kind borders everywhere around the world began to close for the 1st time in history that were tempting a complete shut down the public life to save humanity from a virus so how are we doing one year into this pandemic reporters have been taking the temperature across the globe one year on israel is one of the leading nations when it comes to vaccination campaigns against comit 19 over 50 percent of israelis have received at least one dose of the vaccine but house officials are still concerned about the new variance and with over 5900 people losing their lives to cope with 19 and this past year the government has often been harshly criticized

for mishandling the crisis but after 3 hard lock downs people are now looking forward to going back to some kind of normality despite the problems and the economic hardships people are trying to remain optimistic and they are reasons for that the 2nd wave was not as bad as productive. especially considering the new mutation of the virus it was was discovered in south africa for the 1st time also vaccination programs have started and epidemiologists believe that up to 40 percent of the population contracted coverts before which gives some hope for the next wave to come. just one year ago at the beginning of the pandemic many americans look to germany was a ration for the country's successful cold at 19 response also horrified by an ever a higher climb the number of infections and casualties here in the united states but the tide is slowly changing in all states like texas are dropping their mask

mandates all businesses there are allowed to go back to full capacity but some are concerned that this is happening too quickly and especially too early a year ago india was just beginning to talk about the coronavirus and many of the people we've talked to with skeptical about just how serious it is over the next c.e.o. india experience one of the down from the world and the highest level caseload of close 210-0000 daily cases now however average cases every day are under $20000.00 and the vaccination drive is in full swing with market airports and even from office is almost returning to normal and many are once again wondering just how filthy they still need to take the crew and iris. the pandemic around the world well from poster child to problem child people around the world are asking what happened to germany in the 1st months of the pandemic germany was praised for how it managed the corona virus outbreak case numbers and death rates were kept low and

testing was rolled out quickly but in september the country lost its grip on the pandemic despite being in some form of a lockdown for the past 5 months germany is now in what many consider a 3rd wave of infections but seemed to fall away suddenly became a painful reality here at the best a company in late january 1 of them play yes was the fast german to come track coach at 19 from a colleague who had travelled from china the german health minister from maine up to mystic there's no cause for concern or. a few weeks later things looked quite different infections were spreading throughout germany in mid march the chancellor took the unusual step of addressing the nation on t.v. . if it is serious please take it seriously to think that there has not been any such challenge to our country since german unity not since what with 2

that has demanded such great joined sudbury tea based anxiousness 100 and called germany's 1st lockdown started the streets of berlin were virtually deserted museums and theatres had to close and the economy came to an almost complete standstill. schools and nurseries also closed the living room became the new classroom but online teaching was difficult as the laptops and software was scott's . meanwhile supplies of protective clothing in hospitals providing no doctors for to keep people infected alive early may nearly 7000 of them diet the high number was relatively low in comparison with other countries infection numbers started to fall the lockdown worked that reduce the burden on hospitals. finally summer time restrictions were eased people return to the streets but the

easing of measures brought new infections. by november the numbers was so high that people were told to stay at home again what became known as lock down life began. for months parts of the population had been protesting against the restrictions. but lockdown light wasn't enough shortly before christmas infection numbers reached such a high that public life was entirely shut down again with alcohol bans in public and even nightly curfews in some places but at the end of the year germany's vaccination campaign had kicked off politicians promise that those who wanted the job would be vaccinated by the end of summer but many vaccination centers remain empty due to a shortage of doses but the 1st rays of sunshine many are no longing for move freedom one after the outbreak restrictions are being lifted bit by bit but in the meantime you taishan zone infection numbers are rising again but what has the

pandemic revealed about our humanity in the united states there's been a big rise in the number of reported cases of hate crimes against members of the asian american community for more let's bring in our reporter rebecca riggers rebecca you've been looking over what's going on here tells more what went right at the start of the covert outbreak last year as it was hitting the u.s. around this time the f.b.i. warned of a possible surge in asian hate crimes across the country their analysis suggested that asian americans would be in danger because quote a portion of the u.s. public will associate covert 19 with china and therefore the asian american populations now that analysis was unfortunately true and the new york city hate crimes task force has reported a 9 fold increase in cases in 2020 on the previous year last month the advocacy group stop a p i hate they ever lay some alarming statistics to say that they've had 3000 reports of hate incidences against asian americans you know everything from verbal

harassment the biggest 70 percent followed by shunning physical assault discrimination and even being spat on now that's alarming because hate crimes overall actually decreased in the u.s. last year by say. one percent but hate crimes against the asian american population rose by nearly 150 percent now we've got some video of some of these crimes being taken place the. hash tag stop asian hate and hate is a virus he you'll see this is quite alarming this one this 91 year old man being pushed now that perpetrator went on and legislated another 3 crimes of similar in this in the city the same day now here we've got a nation supermarket there's a man looking behind he's waiting for this woman to pull out her money he grabs the money and races out causing product commotion obviously the next one shows another shop there's a man comes up he takes this pot plant he walks off doesn't pay for it and then there's a little bit of a hollow bellew there now these are just $3.00 that were caught on camera obviously

they've been plenty more all across the country these are all in california same things a lot of stuff happening in new york so many other things being reported that were on camera vandalism and even though we're going to be showing the most disturbing examples too i mean it really really is where is this increase in reserves were coming from well i mean racism is a new and asian racism isn't new in the united states but as you even said in that intro there you know what does this bring out this is a very stressful time for people what is it going to bring out that perhaps not the best thing of humanity that f.b.i. analysis suggests that link between the virus beginning in china and linking those 2 things but all in the u.s. in particular there is the rhetoric that followed and many people in the community of blaming a lot of stuff for president for president trump's was saying at the time and other politicians and commentators referring to the pandemic as the china virus the khans lou you know it's rhetoric like that is really sort of fueling this so that's at least what many in the community is saying now we've got

a couple of sound bites here from people in boston even the mayor of boston wade and let's take a listen even before the virus was. really in the right thing to this world with feeling it. and it's because of the. claims of racism that they were standing. by the president saying that this is a virus caused by certain people when the president trump. made those claims and use those terms and. we did start to see. race is a wee bit you seem right to getting a. racial slurs. unfortunately rebecca briefly what responses have we seen from authorities wealth exhaust adding to slowly change with a change of administration joe biden in his 1st week of office signed an executive action essentially banning the use of that kind of language in the legislature so hopefully dampening down that rhetoric we're also saying the democrats hopefully

going to introduce a bill specifically addressing this issue so some some changes afoot actually provoking as always thank you thanks. well as we have seen the coronavirus pandemic revealed the many faces of our humanity in the beginning it was difficult for people to comprehend what a global pandemic could mean how we could impact their everyday existence here in europe the reality came crashing in when images of death began emerging from italy we take a look back now at what we were reporting one year ago when italy replaced china as the epicenter of the panda. we begin the day with the dead in italy 3400 people dead it die with 19 infection in a working round the clock countless i were to find these incredible situation today germany closed its borders with 5 of its neighbors a temporary frustration on nonessential travel to the european union if the public

refuses to heed the warnings now it will only be a matter of time until hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed to get this message out to other countries that they have to be prepared. at midnight tonight a ban on flights from europe to the u.s. are strict entry on essentially a ban on entry and this pandemic could easily morph into a global recession that could be worse than the great depression of the 1930 s. absolute rivers and from madrid to new york to berlin stores shops bars and restaurants were closed the day italy overtook china just shocking and incredibly hot treated as the country with the most deaths from the coronavirus quarantine to patients dying alone like the front line between humans and a virus we do not know alone these from the man we love.

mexico could soon be the world's largest market for cannabis mexico's. lower house of congress has voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana use the legislation which still needs final approval by the upper house is seem partly as a weapon in the war on drugs every year drug related violence claims thousands of lives in mexico. mexico's marijuana smokers have every reason to be high their long running campaign to legalize the plant is almost a reality after lawmakers inside the lower house of congress approved a bill that permits recreational use and introduces farming licenses campaigners say the legislation is a step in the right direction. that this law will allow cultivation both self cultivation of a number of plants power passion on property and also associates of cultivation

community cultivation through cooperatives associations and finally the national production. last year mexican police seized more than 200000000 tons of the plant supporters hope the changes will alleviate the plague of violence wrought by the illegal drug trade though on the lists are skeptical among those pushing for a change is a former president turned cannabis lobbyist money and. i'm driving the group of the market to take it away from criminals and that is fundamental it will reduce violence. there is no doubt that what this plant produces benefits people patients and those who are willing to buy these medicines. the bill is expected to sail through the upper house of congress before the end of april making mexico the

largest legal pot market in the water old. and for more on this story i'm joined tonight by laura carlsen she's the director of the mexico based americas program that's an independent think tank on foreign relations lawrence good to have you on the program you know many countries have discussed legalizing marijuana but they never do it what has made it possible in mexico. this is been a very long process in mexico and it's mainly the result as was mentioned a strong grassroots movement but it also comes at a time after a decade of the war on drugs that has had disastrous results in the in the country so there's been a process of rethinking this approach and one of the key elements in rethinking what can we do to reduce the violence that illegal drug trafficking is cousin here in mexico has ben ending prohibition so the movements have gotten together with

victims movements they've gotten together with civil liberties organizations and they've gotten together with certain politicians and parties you know to to create this in which mexico was able to pass the start law that we're seeing now that now will go to the senate to have a joint version that would be law by possibly april so do you think this is going to have a positive impact is it going to help mexico in its war against drug trafficking. i definitely think it will have a positive impact in mexico and it's something that our nation has also been prepped pressing for a long time as we've seen the rice into it once and the bloodshed that's been caused by that were un troops we're talking about 28 grams of possession and 8 plants for cultivation at home but more importantly the law covers the whole chain

of production distribution sales even research and it's one of the most complete laws that we've seen in the world they based it on experiences analyzing those experience in europe in a little way and in the united states of course so i think it will reduce extortion from police it reduces the power of drug dealers traffickers and organized crime it marks a different strategy on prohibition that's more in line with the presidential mandate to prioritize the root causes of consumption and trafficking it conforms with the supreme court decision on individual liberties and it's also likely to generate millions of dollars in tax and terminate revenues at a time when message cuz can trentino and economic crisis due to the pandemic yeah as far as i don't cartels you know it's just a fraction of the market because most of their sales take place in the united states do you think there's going to be a spillover effect here what does this mean for the possibility of having a federal law in the united states legalizing marijuana use.

i hope there will be a spillover effect of course the majority of the population united states according to all the polls is in favor of the legalization of marijuana and many states have already passed that law it's created a real problem that there isn't a federal law in that respect and so by see the direction in which mexico is moving and by also again this process of rethinking the negative impact of the war on drugs militarized approach to transnational tried trafficking it's very likely that will this will become another element in changing the policies there's a new president in the united states he has a history of promoting the war on drugs strategy but there's indications coming out of washington now that the bike ministration is rethinking that strategy and i think by seeing what's happening in mexico there may be

a move toward ending prohibition and looking at regulation and nonviolent ways of stopping organized crime and we will see that it's true there is definitely a change in the year in washington more calls and with the americans program think tank more we appreciate your time and your insights thank you thank you. the european parliament has voted to declare the european union a freedom zone for l g b t people it's a symbolic act and it's a response to growing discrimination in poland for example more than $100.00 communities have been declared oji bt free zones in some e.u. countries and g b g i q people have come under increasing at tact by quality sions religious leaders and other public figures this has led to increased scapegoating of energy bt i.q. pearse's who are for this is framed as a correct to children the e.u.

must be a freedom zone for all of us without exception all right to talk about this i'm joined now by maximillian cross who represents germany's right wing populist a.f.d. party in the european parliament it's good to have you on the program what do you think about this resolution does europe need the resolution. just it is simply and of course it is awfully often all to them to blame poland hungary in particular for the conservative politics. having to bates'. polish interior politics trying to. proselytize cross-court so we have it on a regular basis. when mr mr president let me ask you let me ask you this then let's say in poland if we were to replace the signs with the freezone and say this is

a jewish free zone or this is a black free zone would you be in support you say that's ok as well. no of course not because it is a complete different. free zone and potent does not mean free of educated hubris of it means free of a certain a political approach in every case politics there is absolutely no discrimination and no tax on people but some polish cities and municipalities don't want to have special programs to promote as a t p h u to promote a. deposit at the ideology which is just behind but it's not against the people it's against using special rhetorical having special. programs in it and it's unrealistic what happened here today where would you think

that it would be ok to have some towns here in germany for example declare themselves and free zone and we never used that term because it it it's an invitation for misinterpretation. and i don't know what is the polish political which obviously use a more rough political language don't beat you but you see it we don't want to have certain. programs to promote. we don't want to have politics that is focused on educate you might and stand up classical i share that view but i'll never tell exactly what policy minnesota product can you give my eggs give an example of a policy that focuses on the o.g.t.t. people and not on families. let's say you have. kindergartens and you make

a special training programs to teach you pressure groups all over the groups into this groups and which. as you teach you and say jenna's that is the way to go. we have a gentleman a job that most of us to europe wants to do cause a family that's a typical model in this. choice of and i defend it you know what i mean i just are correct there there aren't any groups that are going into public schools in poland promoting a homosexual or lesbian lifestyle so i think they're you're misinformed and fortunately the mr we're out of time we appreciate you joining us tonight makes 1000000 cried german in the peabody a at the party. and finally tonight an american icon of sorts of celebrating a milestone birthday ken the fashion dollar introduced as

a companion to barbie turns 60 today he was introduced in 1961 television commercial and has since undergone a number of maiko birds to keep up with the times nowadays there are a range of cans to choose from his creator mattel has also released a vintage version of ken in his original look. with the day's almost done the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either of the news or you can follow me a brick off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and that to morrow is another day to see that one. to food. food.

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vaccine for europe regulators approve the johnson and johnson single shot vaccine for use here in the european union. well this gives europe's sluggish vaccination role well a shot in the arm and japan mourns the more than 18000 people killed in the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on this day 10 years ago. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us it is a severe indictment the un's human rights investigator on me and maher says the new military regime is likely committing crimes against humanity with its deadly crackdown on people protesting against last month's coup special rocketeer tom andrews told the un human rights council that the military junta had murdered at least 70 people and that more than 2000 have been unlawfully detained he's calling

for sanctions against the country's military leaders here's more of what he had to say today as of this moment credible reports indicate that mean more security forces should murdered at least 70 people that a president those murdered were fathers sons mother stoners husbands and wives it were educators they were engineers they were students they were many ages that were going to half of those murdered were members of generation c. or young people under the age of 20. matter president of the country and he had bodies being controlled by a murderous illegal regime its current leadership to pitch away to the atrocity crimes that are the focus of the charge of genocide before the international criminal court of justice. there was the u.n. special representative there on me and marc tom andrew speaking his comments followed news that more protesters had been killed when security forces opened fire

on demonstrators on thursday including in the country's largest city yang gong it left more families mourning the loss of their loved ones. she has a son is 2 months pregnant and a husband who is determined to join protesters on the streets of me and. he goes to the protest every day even though i ask him not to. i told him then be trouble if something happens because we have a child and another baby on the way. i'm going and i can't stop and i'm here now thought i knew that i'm what foods children were raised without a father a husband chipman food shot dead by security forces at a yangon protest. there you know danny said it's worth dying for now i know he's worried about people not joining the protests. if so democracy won't return to the country he's worried about democracy now what that has passed away.

the violence isn't slowing down and me in my case the protests are met with the fishes for oppression and well rights group amnesty international is calling a killing spree. more protestors were killed across the country on thursday. the bloodshed not intimidating at the demonstrations. 7 not a lot when you're not we protest peacefully but they crack down on us violently time it's ok the more they crackdown the stronger the revolution is we will continue until we win something now that. 7 the protests started last month in response to the military seizing power and detaining civilian leader aung sun suu kyi. the ruling you into my den my serious allegations against her to date without evidence they claim suit she took illegal payments of $600000.00 us dollars

and gold and pay from her party denied the allegations. the military also reiterated that they will remain in power until the new elections are held but haven't offered a date. that isn't good enough for the protesters who have vowed to continue their demonstrations matter the cost. the european union's medicines regulator has approved the use of the johnson and johnson single shot corona virus vaccine it's the 4th bank seem to get the go ahead in the e.u. and it's hoped that this will help speed up the slow vaccination roll well in trials the johnson and johnson shot was 67 percent effective it's already being widely used in the united states and this news comes as several countries are stopping the use of some batches of the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine after reports that some people have suffered blood clots and denmark has suspended all

use of the vaccine until the matter is cleared up here's the danish prime minister . that fisher said to do this for me i think it's the right decision to put the astra zeneca vaccines on hold for the time being until we have enough medical reasoning for continuing the vaccinations of course i'm as upset as everyone else about this and the potential consequences but it's probably too soon to conclude on this matter but when there's a risk of course it has to be uncovered and put in has saying no to and basically just get his son out right for more now i want to turn to washington d.c. and bring in dr eric feingold dean he's an epidemiologist and with the federation of american scientists doctors good to see you again what do you make of did mark suspending the use of the astra zeneca vaccine is that the right move i think it's a right move in terms of precautionary principle but i don't think it actually go was necessary but i think it's the right thing to do out of out of abundance of

caution there's only been about 30 cases of blood clots out of whom your people vaccinated you need you x. . so i think that is a very low rate and in our trials we did not show excess rates a lot so i think this is just an early preliminary investigation but you're positing it just wildly impressed well isn't there a possibility though that they're being overly cautious here because as we've seen in germany concerns about astra zeneca astra zeneca not being effective in people over 65 has resulted in people refusing to be vaccinated so you know how do you weigh public safety against public trust. yeah this is a very tricky thing because every time we pause. vaccinations it makes the public nervous about it and i think that is that is a valid concern at the same time i think it's even worse if we didn't pod and

later discovered that from our best. there is risk and we should pause so i think in certain ways you know between 2 different avenues of approaches the precautionary principle is still better and the other thing is we do have more vaccines now is not the only back seat and without by suspending it we are stopping all vaccinations no there are still many vaccines that we can use to continue that soon after that's a good point the johnson and johnson vaccine was just approved for use here in the european union today do you think that is going to be the panacea then for this is an incredibly sluggish vaccination rollout that we've been seeing here in europe yet the johnson joins the next scene has certain advantages. does a one shot back see so no follow needed so that means in terms of vaccination when you're fully vaccinated the time window is much shorter and i think also without

any freezing or armaments just like seneca. easier transport by the one shot means very little scheduling follow up and much faster and easier logistics i think it's a game changer and i'm very looking forward to having this rule out more countries will quite you know you say that we really do we have a choice of vaccines all around the world it's almost as if there's a competition among vaccines you know you've got some people saying that they only want to take for example the pfizer buying on tech that they think that's the best i mean is there a qualitative difference here at all. well i think it's hard to compare apples to oranges because the pfizer biotech vaccine overturn a vaccine were tested much earlier last summer before the rise of barry it's and return a much lower epidemic period while for example johnson and johnson the trials were

conducted in a much later fury and with lot more parents in fact dominant marian's so i think you can't quite compare i actually i think if you did them at the same time you would actually see similar africa see and they're looking at johnson and johnson that scene that they have because he seems to grow over time i think that's incredibly promising that with a single this vaccine it grows over time i think all the axioms are great and the more importantly the prevent sincere disease very well and prevent death incredibly incredibly effectively and those are some of the key key things and we're very fortunate to have a choice just one year into this pandemic dr eric 5 joining us tonight from washington doctors always good to see you we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world u.s. democrats are making a new push to enact the 1st major new gun control laws in over 2 decades the house

of representatives today voted in favor of legislation to expand background checks on all firearms sales but the 2 bills will require significant bipartisan support to get through the senate at least 20 people have been killed in a massive fire in a garment factory north of the egyptian capital cairo 24 others were injured in the blaze at the plant the calls has not been identified tens of millions of daffodils are going unpicked because the u.k. government failed to include flour farmers in a scheme to admit migrant farm workers after breaks it many growers have also abandoned exports due to the new e.u. border check us. japan has marked the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake that set off a tsunami and triggered a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant it was the world's worst nuclear disaster since true noble and 10 years on its effects are still being felt.

today 46 pm life in japan stood still for one minute. and people in it walking in the fukushima prefecture join to remember the moment of floor. i can't believe it's already been 10 years since my grandmother died. when i watch videos of march 11th or when someone says the day outloud i think of her and remember only ever see her again. on march 11th 2011 a quake off the east coast of japan released the tsunami it was so powerful it destroyed towns and villages up to 10 kilometers inland more than 15000 people were killed the floods also breached the fukushima nuclear power plant which wasn't connected to the tsunami warning system important safety systems were missing this

led to the collapse of the power supply and the cooling circuit explosions and core meltdowns occurred in 3 reactor units large amounts of radioactivity were released and more than 160000 people had to leave their homes many areas around the nuclear power plant are uninhabitable even to this day and hardly anyone has returned since neighborhoods were rebuilt. on the 10th anniversary of this catastrophe and current naruhito acknowledge that for many survivors the disaster is still not over. i believe that it is important for all of us to unite our hearts with them and to forever stand with the people from the disaster affected areas and the prime minister assured the nation he will never forget the lessons learned from the catastrophe. i once again pledge here that we

will continue to review with life protecting disaster prevention and mitigation policies. can you put it to me but there's only one thing the prime minister did not promise that japan will phase out nuclear energy. the international olympic committee has confirmed that it will buy in corona by was vaccines from china for competitors at this year's games in tokyo china's olympic committee offered to make additional banks and doses available to purchase a bit soever most of the olympic teams have already been vaccinated that's according to the committee the games will be held from july 23rd to august 8th. it's winter in russia and temperatures go low but not low enough for a russian ballerina you know mierda back out the no vote is going viral with this video shot at minus 15 degrees celsius she took to the frozen gulf of finland

dancing as seen from swan lake and posted in protest against plans to build a port because the construction would destroy a beach popular with both people and slung. you're watching t w news efforts will break business news with janell's stick around she will be right that. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons. there are many cancers.