this is d.w. doos live from berlin and serious charges against me on mars military from the un special rapporteur tor bush growing revenues this year more military led by the. closure. he says crimes against protesters include murder torture and forced disappearances also coming up a scandal is growing in germany as senior members of angela merkel's parliamentary party are forced to resign over allegations they have been profiteering from the

pandemic. and president joe biden announcing an ambitious new vaccination timeline for the united states he says there will be enough doses to cover all adults by the end of may clus several countries suspending their use of the astra zeneca jab they say it's a precaution until they can rule out a potential link to blood clots. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. a severe indictment from the un's human rights investigator on myanmar who says that the new military regime is likely committing crimes against humanity with its deadly crackdown on people protesting last month koop of a special rup a tour 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

is calling for sanctions against the country's military leaders as of this moment credible reports indicate that mean more security forces have murdered at least 70 people that a president those murdered were fathers sons mothers daughters husbands and wives they were educators they were engineers they were students they were many ages but more than half of those murdered were members of generation c. or young people under the age of 25. better president the country of me and more is being controlled by a murderous illegal regime its current leadership perpetuated the atrocity crimes that are the focus of the charge of genocide before the international criminal court of justice. and that is the un special rapporteur on myanmar tom enders speaking his comments following news that 9 protesters were killed by security forces on thursday leaving more families mourning the loss of 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 asked him not to. i told him there be trouble if something happens because we have a child and another baby on the way. i can't stop and meow thought i knew that. foo's children would be raised without a father or husband chipman food shot dead by security forces at a yangon protest. there you know down or any 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.

of the violence isn't slowing down and me and my. peaceful protests are met with the fishes for oppression and war rights group amnesty international is calling a killing spree. more protestors were killed across the country on thursday the bloodshed not intimidating doors at the demonstrations. my lot i knew that we protest peacefully but they cracked down on us violently it's ok the more they crack down the stronger the revolution is we will continue until we win something now that. 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 poteet denied the allegations. the military also reiterated that they will remain in power up

until the new elections are held but haven't offered a date. isn't good enough for the protesters who have vowed to continue their demonstrations not at the cost. of a spring in journalist and knock him send his joining us from the young gone enter tell us we just heard strong words from the un special rapporteur tour accusing the military of murder torture of forced disappearances crimes against humanity is that what we are witnessing right now and me on what are. yeah i think he built a really strong case for that like he said we're we're seeing a pretty systematic coordinated widespread use of murdering peaceful protesters torturing people in detention. seems to be coming from an order straight from the top so i think he made a good case that we are likely seeing crimes against humanity you know the military

for its part and says that force is only used where necessary the protesters however seem to have been on armed so i mean you know what is everybody making of the military's defense of itself yeah i mean i just think that it's being dishonest we've seen the military shoot on our teenagers in the head at peaceful protest so i think we can't really trust their word they've told us all kinds of things that aren't true like that there's some 3rd party killing protesters from the shadows so yeah in this case a i just don't believe that they're being honest. meantime we have the country's former civilian leader aung sang suu kyi she is now facing new charges they are alleging that back in 20172800 she was illegally given 600000 dollars in gold bars by a political ally how significant are these charges and and what could they mean for

her and for the pro-democracy movement in the country yet these charities are a big deal previously she had been charged for violating covert 19 restrictions for illegally importing walkie talkies we had always felt like these were placeholder charges while the military tried to figure out something more serious and it seems like this is what they've decided to go with we've seen high ranking government officials sentenced to as much as 30 years in jail for corruption charges so it really feels like the military is hoping to use these accusations to permanently sideline i'm suchi from politics and we've also had the military saying that they will hold elections soon if anyone by not. i think. most people think the military might not hold the elections at all there's

also kind of if they do hold the elections very little faith that those elections will be free and fair i think at the very least the end of the you would be totally barred from participating in the elections and you might see the end of the bard and the elections breakdown top of that anyway journalist and would not consent joining us with a view from hong kong thank you. thanks. get you up to speed with some other stories making news around the world bill asia has introduced a law to clamp down on so-called fake news about covert 1000 in the country state of emergency as the fines and jail sentences are threaten to for anyone who creates or publishes information authorities dean even partially falls critics say the law is an attack on free speech. israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank have detained 5 palestinian children aged between 8 and 13 who were taking wild

artichokes near a jewish settlement and israeli rights group says that they were held at a police station for 5 hours the 2 oldest were ordered to return for further questioning. officials in argentina say that forest fires in the patagonia region this week were set deliberately 7 people were injured and more than 15 were missing when the police's ripped through the popular tourist area hundreds more were evacuated. during the the judge in the george floyd case in the us city of minneapolis has reinstated a 3rd degree murder charge against derrick shogun the former police officer now faces 2 charges of murder and one of manslaughter floyd oh it died last year when children knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes. well more now on a growing corruption scandal here in germany now that could have serious repr questions for angela merkel's conservatives 3 members of her parliamentary party have

resigned in the past week after allegations that they misused their positions as members of parliament to make money to are accused of profiteering from the pandemic another is said to have exploited links to a foreign country to enrich himself. learnable newsline helped man 3 resignations in 3 days all by members of the bundestag from angela merkel's conservative block in each case claims of corruption have forced them to step down . and line face allegations they lobbied for companies to get supply contracts coronavirus facemasks lobel has admitted his firm received 250000 euros for such help their resignations prompted this stern warning from the c.d.u. party leader. i don't know if there are other such cases i couldn't have imagined a case like the one involving lobel but if there are come clean now or we will take action. on thursday that call was answered by christian democrat mark helped among

according to reports in desh beagle the accusations against him relate to tourism advertisement for azerbaijan in a newspaper he publishes hauptmann denies receiving money or allowing such business activities to influence his actions as a politician but conservatives are promising they'll clean things up. 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 ditties that members of parliament carry out as part of their job. up your. the allegations of sleaze or force the cd you want to the defensive health minister against bonn has felt the need to publish the names of all bundestag members who

spoke with his ministry about the provision of protective masks. and party leader in lash it in his job for less than 2 months sounds increasingly worried by what's been dubbed the mosque scandal. skeete neil i am focused on modernization over the next few years i don't want to allow this major project to be scuppered by individual members of parliament can think about nothing but making money. on us before modernization could take off the conservatives popular for so long and angela merkel will need to show they retain the voters trust that 1st chance to do that will come at tea state elections it is sunday. and we are joined now by florian tung carr he is a member of the german parliament for the opposition f.d.p. party he is also the deputy chair of the bundestag parliamentary committee for the scrutiny of elections immunity and rules of procedure welcome to the program thanks

for joining us as we've heard 3 members of parliament from governing parties facing corruption allegations what's your reaction to that. i mean in fact it's also there's also a 4th case the executioner geisha is on and the complex receiving benefits from from potentially from john so if in the fall case but he has not so far to resign and i think this is really annoying and so you cannot call the. cases anymore. in that short period of time so many cases that emerge and i mean the party leadership of the conservatives is not yet sure about the list is already solicited for their cases will emerge and i deduced i do see a big moral have to fall before the whole of parliament people are suspicious of course whether their representatives are acting in line with 'd ethical and legal

standards and so there's a big damage in particular for the christian democrats also for the parliament of the whole and we have to react decisively to regain confidence and to avoid further cases ok so what could that decisive action look like because i mean as you've highlighted there are these scandals they've given new urgency for example to a lot to set up lobby registry a lobby registry for companies trying to influence the german parliament critics are saying that the draft however so far is nowhere near as tough as compared to other countries what's your opinion. yes i mean this is a striking ad because christian democrats in particular who opposed to troops for a long road history they argue that it should primarily because i thought not at all mental institutions so this is an issue of coverage of the registry and we are now discussing this for several years and i've talked to misty about

this council now nonces the pressure to adopt the registry still and in the spirit of this which means still some are about we also need further steps to increase the rules and strengthen the rules of the political to the members of parliament themselves we have seen in the for the cases off newsline and little for instance but apparently members of parliament sometimes found or established companies which are one person companies owned and yes directed only by themselves with no food or employees with no food or business handley and. an ethical or even legal business around after their payment their receipts these companies and there's a lack of transparency i think we have to work on companies owned by them it should

be more transparent to the voters to see what they are doing so then so then what more can can you and your party tailor because we know the chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc has asked its lawmakers to provide a written guarantee that they have not profiteer from the pandemic measure shouldn't all the parties in the bundestag ask for similar public assurances from their bundestag members. i think it's good in fact in reality it's going to it's a problem but christian democrats have a spot that they. require requests from all there and peace such a declaration that they did not personally benefit is a political reaction it's that it shows a certain concept of course we have in our profit of course astara members to announce any personal in involvement. as far as if there was any benefit or compensation and that is the expectation we would have our and

piece but are not involved in such deals that if they have how. to organize the supply of protective material which is a good thing they have correspond with the members of parliament and not receive any direct or indirect material the material benefits from we. don't have any and any idea any evidence that any of our m.p.'s could have could pass and receive such benefits and notes ok we have to leave it there german opposition lawmaker florian tunker from the f.t.p. party thank you for talking with us on the unions. for the better us president joe biden has announced a major boost to his country's coronavirus vaccination program is that as the goal is to declare independence against the virus on july 4th when the us celebrates its independence day production of the distribution of vaccines will be stepped up and

a major logistical effort will have enough vaccine supply for all adults in america by the end of may that's months ahead of schedule and remobilize in 1000 of vaccinators to put the vaccine in ones or calling active duty military fema retired doctors or nurses administrators. and to administer the shots and we've been creating more places to get the spring and teller millard who is joining us now from dallas texas with a view from the united states we just heard there biden saying that there will be enough vaccines for all adults by the end of may as to its weeks ago said it would be by the end of summer so how is it that this timeline is now being moved up well it really has to do with the supply according to what the president johnson and johnson is working with merck after talks with the white house fighting this

counting on that production plus continued work by the dirt and pfizer to get the vaccine supply up higher than it currently is. tell us how are because i mean you know parallel to this announcement by biden and you know as as you're mentioning you know ramped up supply from from these companies you have the experience of americans who want to get vaccinated to you know who are going on the respective websites of their states trying to make appointments. and it's a difficult process so you know binds announcement does this now mean that every american who wants a vaccine will be vaccinated by the end of may can be vaccinated. it really depends on the distribution policy from the various states because they're the ones who are determining where the vaccine goes as set of living hospitals or pharmacies buy direct from the drug companies texas announced thursday

it was making the vaccine available to people 50 and over starting on monday but other states in areas including washington d.c. and illinois are keeping a vaccine availability just to 64 and up so supply will have to keep increasing before other age groups are let in but it also depends on the state and the district ok meantime on thursday we have this massive mammoth 9.1.9 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package signed for the american public people are set to get stimulus checks if they aren't below a certain amount of money what is this going to mean for the u.s. economy and potentially also for the vaccination strategy. from a vaccination strategy it really depends on which side of the aisle your listening to i took a look at the bill earlier and it says if i read it right that 7500000000 is going

to health and human services to carry out activities to play and prepare for promote distribute administer monitor and track cope with $1000.00 vaccines there's also $6000000000.00 for the vaccine supply chain and a 1000000000 for vaccine confidence act. making sure of various different to age groups and communities feel safe about getting the vaccine so that's plenty of money however it depends on what the vaccine figures show at a later date it's possible there could be another vaccine stimulus package down the road they're 6 why not go for a 7 tele millard with a view from texas joining us journalist with n.b.c. news thank you. thank you. and president biden urged americans to keep up coronavirus hygiene measures including wearing a mask but

a number of states including texas have been loosening restrictions in response to falling infection breaks it up is all over salad reports from the state capital of texas austin where some people are celebrating what they see as a return to freedom others however are concerned at the prospect of a new surgeon infection. a different kind of texas barbecue on the day they have all been waiting for the mask mandate is history and members of the w.t.f. biker club burn what they think is a symbol of suppression was 'd. it is an extremely happy day for us we are elated out here we put this event together and invited the community to come out and it's been a great turnout and we are all celebrating you know our freedom and that's really what this is about. at the university of texas in austin vaccination is under way but with new variance spreading many here is think that it's still too early to

drop the mask mandate we're nowhere near herd immunity so. myself i'm going to wear the mask it truly doesn't mean the pandemic is over and i think it could like we were into another spike i honestly think it wasn't a smart decision made by avid i know that the his next 2 months march and april are very important and crucial in 2 countries like being able to be a morning call the pandemic mask or no mask the topic remains highly controversial in texas and it could end up in the courts. the city of austin has issued its own mask mandate and that has led to a new dispute the state of texas threatening to sue the city of the mayor doesn't drop his mask mandate the question of wearing a mask continues to be a highly divisive topic here in texas and across the united states borrow. nor taylor ziebart has reopened his brewery but continues to demand masks for his customers he says the state left him and the hospitality industry alone with the

pandemic with an ass mandate it gave us a little bit of power to enforce these rules and it's the onus is on us now too. p. for people safe and keep the public safe and we don't really have a you know a last line of defense there within the state friend or foe for now although w.g.s. by good club members that they've given their mess to the police. one of the european union has been lagging behind the us with its vaccination rollout use medicines regulator has now given the green light to johnson and johnson said that shot almost 2 weeks after it was approved in the united states in trials the johnson and johnson job was 67 percent effective at preventing people from getting colds at 19 its advantage over the others currently available is it only requires a single dose this approval comes as several european countries paused the use of

the astra zeneca vaccine they say it's a precaution until they can rule out a potential link to rare instances of blood clots 3. denmark norway and iceland have temporarily stopped all use of the astra zeneca vaccine after some people develop blood clots authorities say it's very rare and there's no known connection to the vaccine but they want to investigate there for sure to do this 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 which 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 when there's risk of course it has to be uncovered and perhaps a not amnesia course just can see from. the european medicines agency says so far the data shows the incidence of vaccinated people getting blood clots is no higher than unvaccinated ones of you echoed by the british regulator 11000000 doses have

already been administered across the u.k. . those countries that have decided to pause delivery they've made a choice on aung balancing risks i think ultimately it's likely that this will be found to be not a. not a cluster that is causally related to the vaccine but that choice is to wait until they've actually proved that. the french health minister said he saw no need to suspend use of the astra zeneca vaccine france and germany are among the e.u. countries that will keep using it. when we call to respond if it ratio which are the benefits from the vaccination as at this stage judged to be higher than the risks and of course investigations into that are in progress in france and other countries. intensive research will now be carried out and only time will tell whether the health authorities in denmark norway and iceland were justified in

making their difficult decision. they're watching to give you news after sharp right global 3000 takes in reports from iran india kenya and iceland so do statins if you can for that thank you so much for joining us i'm sara kelley in berlin there's always more on the web site e.w. dot com ticker.

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