good security question mark united nations. cannot have been achieved with so much only to be done and i feel people have to be at the wrong solution my name is on the touchy one and i will acquit to tell you. this is news and these are our top stories the un's human rights investigator andriana maher says there is growing evidence that the new military regime is committing crimes against humanity with its deadly crackdown on people protesting last month's whom he said that the military junta had murdered at least 70 people and unlawfully detained more than 2000 it's. the european medicines agency has authorized the johnson and johnson single shot corona virus vaccine for use in the e.u.

the 4th to be approved by the regulator it also said there were no known health risks linked to the astra zeneca job after several european countries suspended its use over fears it could cause blood clots. a us democrats are making a new push to enact the 1st major new gun control laws in over 2 decades the house of representatives has voted in favor of legislation to expand background checks on all firearm sales at the 2 bills will require significant bipartisan support to get through the senate. this is news from berlin you can follow us on instagram and twitter at news or you can visit our website. the war. when historians chronicle the 21st century the day. march 11th 2020 may be the

moment when our time references change 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 berlin this is the day. the deadly joel has been assisting this outbreak that around the growth if it's found it is serious please take it seriously and we're deeply concerned by the i'm not a mean letter loose of spread and see very cheap 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 that we are vaccinating one person each 2nd in rich countries where as import huntress action programs haven't even begun yet we hope that for a minute to be our system and. 19 can be kind of. a pundit me. also coming up will the us follow 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 humanity's best and worst tendencies the w.h.o. 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 calm 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 that house officials are still concerned about the new variants 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. specially considering the new mutation of the virus that woods 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 some of the ration for the country successful call that 19 response also horrified by an ever higher climbing number of infections and casualties here in the united states but the tide is slowly changing and 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 last skeptical about just how serious it is over the next c.e.o. india experienced one of the down from the world and the highest ever case they would have close 210-0000. now however average cases every day are under $20000.00 and the vaccination drive is in full swing with markets airports and even from offices almost returning to normal and many are once again wondering just how

seriously they still need to take the crew out of iraq. 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 far away suddenly became a painful reality here at the vip us 2 company in late january 1 of them play he's supposed to fast german to come track coach at 19 from a colleague who had travelled from china the german health minister from ain't optimistic there's no cause for concern or. a few weeks later things look quite different infections were spreading throughout germany in mid

march the chancellor took the unusual step of addressing the nation on t.v. . as if it is serious please take it seriously to think that there has not been any such challenge to our country since germany 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 where 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 food 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 lockdowns worked that reduce the burden on hospitals. finally some a 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 height that public life was entirely shut down again with alcohol bans in public and even nightly curfews in some places 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 send 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 rivers rebecca you've been looking what's going on here tell us more what went right at the start of the covert outbreak last year as it was hitting the u.s. around this time the the f.b.i. warned of a possible surge in asian hate crimes across the country there. analysis suggested that asian americans would be endangered because quote a portion of the u.s. public will associate covert 19 with china and therefore 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 i p i hate they have released 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 7 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 big shit with hash tag stuff asian hate and hate is a virus he will say 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 in the same day now here we've got emanation 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 then the next one shows. 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 believe 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 to a minute really really 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. or not by 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 us in particular there is the rhetoric that followed and

many people in the community blaming a lot of stuff for president for president trumps with saying at the time and all the politicians and commentators referring to the pandemic as the china virus the confluence you know it. rhetoric like that that is really sort of fueling this 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 wait and let's take a listen even before the virus was. really in the united states chinatown was feeling it here and it's because of. claims of racism that they were standing. by the president saying this is a virus caused by certain people with the president trump how those claims and use those terms. we did start to see. race is a. bit you see where it's getting. racial slurs. from

georgia. but responses that we've seen from authorities wolf 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 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 are were by these incredible situation today germany closed its borders with 5 of its neighbors a temporary restriction 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 asked to be. at midnight tonight a ban on flights from europe to the u.s. to restrict entry essentially a ban on entry this pandemic could easily morph into a global recession that could be worse than the great depression of the 1930 s. absolutely as and from madrid to new york to berlin stores shops bars and

restaurants were closed the day italy overtook china the edges shocking and incredibly hot treated as the country with the most deaths from the coronavirus quarantine to patients dying alone the front line between humans and a vipers we do not know the spontaneous will last. mexico could soon be the world's largest market for cannabis mexico's. also congress has voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana use the legislation which still needs final approval by the upper house is seen 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 honest just skeptical among those pushing for a change is a former president turned cannabis lobbyist and. i'm driving the group of the market to take it away from criminals and not 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 americans 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 at decade 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 or 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 been

prayer pressing for a long time as we've seen the rise in silence and the bloodshed that's been caused by the war on troops we're talking about 28 grams up to session 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 probation 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 permanent revenues at

a time when message because confronting an economic crisis due to the pandemic yeah as far as 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 of 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 the 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 seen 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 truck traffic you 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 we will see that's true there is definitely a change in the air 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 freedoms 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 tank by quality issues 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 song 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 simple effect and of course it is awfully of it 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 and 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 rezoned 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 hugh person 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 it as a t.v. hue to promote. departed the ideological it's just we're just behind

but it's not against the people it's against using special rhetorical. propaganda programmes in it and it's a way to stick what happened here today where would you think that it would be ok to have some towns here in germany for example declare themselves an free zone and we never used the term because it's 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 that promote. we don't want to have politics that is focused on educates you might hurt us and stand up classical i shan't if you will but i'll never know what policy national product

can you get what exactly give an example of a policy that focuses on the people and not on families. it's that say you have scoops and kindergartens and you make a special training programs to be huge pressure groups all over the groups into this groups and promo which. as you keep beats you and say jenna's that is the way to get. what we have gemini have been that most of us to europe. as a family that's a typical model in this groups. it's choice of and i defend it you know i mean i just are correct there 1 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 next 1000000 cried german in the field with the a at the approach. and finally tonight an american icon of sorts is celebrating a milestone birthday can the fashion dog introduced as a companion to barbie turns 60 today he was introduced in 1901 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 just a few news or you can follow me a british t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and the tomorrow is another day we'll see that one.

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