the i. am. i am. this is g.w. news live from berlin and serious charges against me in mars military from the un special repertory. the owners. of more military led by. engaging in crimes. he sounds crimes against protesters include murder torture and forced disappearances. also coming up

a scandal is growing here in germany as senior members of angela merkel's parliamentary party are forced to resign over allegations that they have been profiteering from the pandemic. and president joe biden announces 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. the as. i'm so much going to it's good to have you with us we start with a severe indictment from the u.n. human rights investigator on v.n. maher who says the new military regime is likely committing crimes against humanity with its deadly crackdown on people protesting last month's coup special repertory 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 on lawfully detained he is

calling for sanctions against the country's military leaders. as of this moment credible reports indicate that mean more security forces had 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 look we're going to have all of those murdered were members of generation c. or young people under the age of 20 should. matter president the country of need 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 that was the un special rapporteur on the in mark tom andrews speaking there now his comments followed news that 9 protesters were killed by security forces on thursday leaving more families mourning the loss of loved ones.

and like she has a son is 2 months pregnant and a husband who is determined to join protesters on the streets of may and. in the early july he goes to the protest every day even though i ask him not to. the little i told him there be trouble if something happens because we have a child and another baby on the way. to go and i can't stop any money outside me that i'm what foods children be raised without a father or husband chipman food shot dead by security forces at a yangon protest. but there you know downer and he 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 he's passed away. from the violence isn't slowing down and me in my. peaceful protests i met with the

fishes for oppression in what rights group amnesty international is calling the killing spree. more protesters were killed across the country on thursday the bloodshed not intimidating doors at the demonstrations. not a lot you know we protest peacefully but they crack down on us violently but it's ok the more they crackdown 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 made their most serious allegations against her to date without evidence they claim suit she took illegal payments of $600000.00 u.s. 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 are valid to continue their demonstrations matter the cost. and we can speak to an activist now chan is joining us from yang gone and we're not using his full name to protect his identity welcome to d w now we saw in that report that people are risking their lives to go out onto the streets you have also been demonstrating why is it so important to you to continue protesting. it is important for all our. troops all walks of life and even lives as you can see in under people are risking our lives actually so won't let us drop in and out of blood as well it's democracy it's heart of freedom it's what was sort of the country so it's basically it is routine of the country there's

a room she comes in from us individually and so we learn. and then to merge who has to give and hope and you know every judging that our own thoughts and thought we are of. our. own. ok ok we're having a little bit of trouble with the line there so i'm going to jump in just to ask what you're seeing there on the ground if i can ask chan because the military says that force is only being used where it's absolutely necessary and we've heard reports as well that police have been have been saying that that they were told to shoot protesters so could you could you tell us what exactly you are seeing on the ground. you can see in many.

courses are used or not and. just a roast one people on just 2 family members of. the camo people or more and you trucks full of the soldiers and also. and so it's also with the you know in some pieces you could see the machine guns as well and also glance we need don't even need to use it was any anymore you know in more nice and very you know use tear gas on the spot where they scratch and of people if they're ok so you're here facing you're saying a lot of aggression on the street from the military you want to ask you the military what i said they will hold elections do you believe that

i can hear you you know the middle part of the questions already. we just want to ask the military said that they will hold elections do you believe that promise we have shown our our you know. our stockholders and their and also you know we bought it in a previous election and last november 23rd 20 already and then so you know but we do not and. you know. one of the news their elections will hold. and it was proof that. the process was very clear and there were no this is a sign on there you know on the bullets and then also you know it's all secret boards and reported some cases and you know. part is contestants and election ok to file their home place. china to

also you know election coalition and that it will be you know procedure to according to the election laws that. allow why do we need to hold another election and it was proof. of. interest right paul trying. to get to our leaders for it ok we're going to have to leave it there activist chan joining us from yangon thank you very much. and we apologize for the quality of that line there let's check in now and some other stories making news around the world malaysia has introduced a law to clamp down on so-called fake news about covert 1000 of the country's state of emergency half the fines and jail sentences are threatened for anyone who creates or publishes information authorities deem even partly false critics say the law is an attack on free speech. the king of the zulu nation in south africa good will swell a teeny has died at the age of 72 kid been receiving hospital treatment for

diabetes he was an influential leader for millions of zulus the largely ceremonial and spiritual world after the death of his father in 1901. and israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank have detained 5 palestinian children between 8 and 13 years old they were picking wild artichokes near a jewish settlement and israeli rights groups said they were held at a police station for 5 hours in the 2 oldest were ordered to return for further questioning. more now on a growing corruption scandal here in germany that could have serious repercussions for england arkell'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 were 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 for 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 how to ban 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 have forced 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 these major projects

to be scuppered by individual members of parliament who think about nothing but making money. before modernization could take off the conservatives popular for so long and angela merkel will need to show they retain the voters trust 1st chance to do that will come at t. state elections this sunday. well the scandal comes as the number of coronavirus cases in germany is on the rise as criticism grows of the government's handling of the pandemic health minister again spawn says he expects the pace of vaccination to improve but that still depends on whether enough doses can be delivered fast enough he says 70 percent of germans have now received their 1st dose of the vaccine that's around $6000000.00 people spawn warned that many challenge us still lay ahead. maine serious case numbers are rising again slowly but they are rising and imitation is us breading will have to brace

ourselves for some very challenging weeks which will continue to try to balance the necessary public health measures against the normality we're all desperate to return to so. let's bring in our political correspondent julia south delhi for more on the story hi julia you've been listening in to that press conference so what more was said about the rise in case numbers. now we heard last who is the head of germany's infectious disease agency support was health minister said the cases are rising he said we're at the beginning of the 3rd wave of the pandemic we've seen cases reach over $12800.00 today and that is the increase compared to the to the same day last week we've also seen the incidence rate rise that is the number of cases per 100000 inhabitants over 7 days and it is a strong indicator that is used here in germany to look at the. pandemic and decide

on restrictions the list said that the incidence is on the rise especially in young people and also we have seen outbreaks in nursery schools because kids have been started to go back to school now and the effects are being seen he said a lot of this is due to the british variant spreading here in germany and that is putting also more people in hospital and more people and intensive care units he says the way out of this is the vaccine and he says we're already starting to see the effects of the vaccine here in germany with fewer deaths among older people vaccines are supposed to help so what was said about speeding up the pace of the vaccination campaign. yes germany and the government have been criticized for the slow pace of the vaccine but health minister you want to just point out successful things that have happened in the last few months and as we heard earlier 7 percent

of the german population has been vaccinated and he has received the 1st those at least and germany has registered the highest daily number of shots being given on a single day and that is progress he expects more vaccine doses to be delivered at least by april also looking at the johnson and johnson shot that was recently approved the johnson and johnson deliveries coming in by mid april and german house home doctors g.p.'s are going to start and ministering the vaccine themselves also by mid april and hopes that both these things are going to speed up the vaccine rollout our political correspondent julia so delhi thank you. now the austrian state of chitral was one of europe's 1st pandemic hotspots now it is battling an outbreak of the south african covariant the shots at district on the german border has been hit particularly hard the european union allocated at 100000

doses of the pfizer biotech vaccine enough for all the adults there but many fear that it will not work against a south african variant debbie is finding reports simon is relieved to get this message a confirmation that he will get vaccinated on saturday i'm very happy to help. especially science to get new insights about the coronavirus about the vaccines his friend raphael didn't get any appointment for a simple reason in the district of shots and i'm in the district coffin spoke and. religious and yeah that's unlucky for me it's received 100000 doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine allocated by the european union to stem the spread of the south african variety here you must be a resident of shots to receive the japs the mayor here hopes this is a chance to restore the region's image. as an important

region for tourism we want to be attractive again for all those who want to go on vacation we want to offer that in a secure way. and if it's benefits ultimately the whole state of to rule can including the capital in spoke in dire need of tourists to be the east just around the corner that's the hope of governor who wants to spread some good news. we're noticing a decrease of the south african variety we had $193.00 active positive cases now we have $47.00. when it's in this sea been on field sic a complete eradication of the virus and he's the goal only nobody no. factory of the biotech pfizer vaccine will be the medical university of money toward a vaccination plan turning nearby schmaltz into a real role to test. and. we want to see whole many people get infected

despite a vaccination over a period of 6 months and how many still need to go to hospital or will die. he steam will analyze the information provided by its residents giving suit and physical data habits and medical conditions at least 5000 people need to contribute to the study to get valid results and these people are the 1st to get their vaccine under this extraordinary plan 60000 people are eligible and more than 75 percent of them have resisted they are sighs of relief from those who have gotten their 1st job today hoping that soon they can return to a level of normality in their lives because currently nothing is normal here once you are in shots you can only leave you the negative corona test.

now yesterday japan mark the 10th anniversary of the worst disasters in living memory the massive earthquake and tsunami that caused the meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant more than $18000.00 people were killed and there was widespread devastation today around $400.00 nuclear plants are operating world right wide in around 20 percent of these are built an earthquake risk sounds after the fukushima meltdown energy policies worldwide changed only a few japanese plants are still operating many countries are considering a complete withdrawal from nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 fukushima meltdown germany announced it would phase out the clear power. it's the stuff of nightmares a nuclear power station meltdown the disaster at the fukushima daiichi plant sent shock and fear around the world those shock waves hit german chancellor angela merkel and prompted a remarkable policy u. turn just a few months earlier american had decided to keep germany nuclear overturning

a phase out policy of the previous government japan's disaster changed her mind and germany's energy policy. which today i say unequivocally before this house has changed my position on nuclear energy her government issued a moratorium on nuclear power it was a move strongly supported by parliament and by the people. germany's all this plants were told immediately to close all the rest were to be shut down by 2022 when fukushima prompted america's u. turn germany had 17 nuclear power plants 10 years after that there were just 6 and the deadline for them is approaching they can only operate till the end of next year germany's phase out of nuclear energy is nearly done. the nuclear phase out was not only right politically but also the correct decision

even nominally. ministers are part of the old energy where. at the same time germany strengthened its commitment to what it calls the energy transition moving to clean energy production the country set ambitious targets and poured money into green energy generation. last year germany reached its target of producing at least 40 percent of its total electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar but the green party says efforts so far will not be enough to achieve the energy goals set for the future. we really need a great deal of renewable power and the government expansion targets are in no way adequate for solar we need 3 times as much and for wind 6 times as much what we have sadly doesn't add up. there is another problem.

it still covers almost 24 percent of electricity generation and it's a big source of greenhouse gases but the industry employs tens of thousands of people many in the press regions of the country germany does have a plan to abandon coal but it said line is 2038 far later than most other e.u. countries a decade after the fukushima disaster most in germany agree with angle america's the situation to phase out nuclear power but germany's transition to a climate neutral country is still very much a work in progress. u.s. president joe biden has announced a major boost to his country's coronavirus that's a nation program he said the goal is to get to claire independence against the virus on july 4th when the u.s. celebrates its independence day the production and distribution of vaccines will be stepped up in 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 on calling active duty military freema retired doctors and nurses administrator. and it goes to administer the shots and we've been creating more places to get the shot well did you washington correspondent oliver salat is covering the story for us and he sent us his assessment of the u.s. president's address. it was joe biden's 1st primetime address was president of the united states and he made a bold promise all americans will be eligible for the cold that 19 vaccine by the 1st of may and ambitious plan of course a lot faster than initially promised when joe biden took office you said 100000000 doses would be administered in his 1st 100 days now we're talking about 330000000

americans in legible within more or less the same timeframe is right the united states are doing an impressive job at ministering the vaccine which is handed out in stadiums and drive through even in supermarkets and by mobile vaccine teams on the streets but make no mistake with 500000 casualties do is hit harder than most other countries around the world so a lot of pressure is mounting on the ministration and yet big problems still lie ahead being able to vaccinate doesn't mean everyone wants to be vaccinated and there's a lot of skepticism among minorities in particular so the big challenge for joe biden will be to educate and we heard his 1st attempt in his address trying to appeal to all americans to trust science and to get vaccinated. right sports now in tennis great roger federer is comeback has already ended for now the 39 year old swiss has pulled out of the upcoming a.t.p. event in dubai after being away from tennis for longer than

a year due to injury federer reconsidered his return because he said he was getting tired easily he lost in the qatar open quarterfinals on thursday the former number one underwent 2 nice surgeries in 2020 he had planned to return for last month's australian open but he skipped the grand slam and says he will now play in events that will help them fitness before wimbledon. to yacht racing and the america's cup defending champs to new zealand and italy traded wins on the opening day and they did so again on day 2 the defenders had quite the comeback in the 2nd race to level the score and to all the race was tight until team new zealand took advantage of some mistakes made by their opponent and they called their victory a crushing after getting in front by several 100 meters. let's get a reminder of our top story now protesters are once again out on the streets in myanmar to call for a return to democracy after last month's military coup the un human rights council

accuses the 1000 security forces of murdering and persecuting peaceful demonstrators and says they may have committed crimes against humanity. coming up next the u.s. has passed and historic covert relief package and european governments have also been trying to jumpstart their economies for a while all that spending mean too much debt chris colfer talks to a leading german economist next on business thank you.

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