this is the w. new slime from the europe front so 3rd wife of the corona virus pandemic but minus one the major vaccine a growing list of countries are suspending the use of the astra zeneca show of a blood clot consensus but health experts insist it inside. also coming up the fun districts meet with more live fire from security forces in myanmar the united

nations calls on the international community to help end the violent standoff that has killed at least 138 people. a young nation but a troubled one can a new prime minister overcome the corruption and ethnic tensions that have driven cos of others for more than a decade. and germany's museums open the doors up to more than 4 months of lockdown the barbary museum and the a building is back as visit this flock to its blockbuster brand exhibition. american held welcome the world health organization is urging countries to keep issuing the astra zeneca vaccine a growing number of countries including germany have suspended its use after reports that some are sapience developed blood clots medical experts say it's likely the reports are coincident. and it just isn't any evidence to suggest the

vaccine is unsafe. another setback in an already troubled vaccination campaign germany france italy and spain became the latest european countries to stop administering the astra zeneca vaccine over fears it causes blood clots. and then. to keep up confidence in this vaccine we now have to give our experts in germany and the european union time to review these recent cases they must also clarify the question of whether the benefits of vaccination continue to outweigh possible risks so just look at your resume and i miss is key because one thing is clear not vaccinating also has serious health implications and that review process is what we're waiting on now. french president manuel mccarthy said his government would await a statement by the european medicines agency due on tuesday before deciding if the vaccine is put back into use. this is your 80 piece on the decision that was taken

in accordance with our european policy is to suspend the astra zeneca vaccination as a precautionary measure in the hope that it will be resumed quickly if the european medicines agency allows it see livy. the e m a only last week declared that there are no indications that people who have received the astra zeneca vaccine are more likely to develop blood clots british prime minister boris johnson who is quick to dismiss concerns over a vaccine that has already been administered to over 11000000 people in the u.k. . we have one of the toughest and most experienced regulators in the world they see no reason to discontinue the back to nation program and they are plenty of the vaccines that were currently using either of vaccines that are currently using the u.k. vaccination drive is racing ahead of the e.u.

efforts to inoculate its population against covert 19 with an increasing number of european countries putting their astra zeneca vaccinations on hold that lead is likely to grow. well joining us now is politico correspondent tom aspera thomas welcome what does the suspension of the vaccine name to an already slow moving german vaccination program. it essentially creates many more questions about this vaccination program here in germany about a very slow vaccination program one of the questions is what to do with all those astra zeneca vaccine doses that are already here in germany but haven't been used we are talking about 1400000 doses that are here in germany but not use a 2nd one what to do with the people who have already received one astra zeneca job what but we're waiting for the 2nd one can they receive a different vaccine meanwhile that's another question that experts are waiting on

the 3rd one this is probably the most important one is what this will mean for germany's overall vaccination goals with not forget that german chancellor angela merkel but other german officials as well promised that every german adult would receive an offer to get a vaccination by the end of the summer and there are already reports that this suspension of astra zeneca depending oversteer on how long it takes could affect that overall goal and could make things much much slower so there are big questions here about what this all means for germany's vaccination plan which as you mentioned very clearly has been very slow it's important to stress that around 8 percent of the german population has been vaccinated at least once since the program began at the end of last year it's almost when we talk about vaccines we invariably talking about trust it's hard to win and easy to lose do you think the people's trust in the german government is still intact on this topic. it is not intact but it's also not completely damaged it's important that the german

government has stressed that this is a precautionary measure the german health minister for example stress that 7 cases related to possible from both sides had been found us part of the $1600000.00 astra zeneca vaccine doses that have been administered so it's low but they wanted to make this decision as a precautionary one waiting for further evidence and they believe that based creates transparency and base in turn creates trust but other politicians here in germany view this very differently they say that this affects trust that this is a mistake that it shouldn't have been stopped and that it should have been continued the whole astra zeneca vaccination while those tests are carried out specifically because we're only talking about very few cases compared to the overall number of vaccine doses that on the one have been delivered and on the other hand being still here but not used to a lower number of people but it's still a tough spot for those who have been vaccinated and the tough spot for what does

the health minister say to those people already vaccinated with astra astra zeneca that if they have specific fears that if they have any indications of possible blood blood clots that they should go to the doctor but again that this is only a precautionary measure that they're waiting for more evidence for more information from the e m a from the european agency and their one studies there that they can then decide what this will mean for germany's vaccination program what this will mean for those who have already been vaccinated as well so it's essentially also a wait and see approach to see what exactly will be decided at the european level before deciding what impact it will have overall on germany's vaccination program the political correspondent in berlin tom aspera thanks so much. ok let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic. 19 cases in germany

are growing exponentially once again that's according to top health officials cases of reason ever since the country began to ease restrictions late last month brazil's president diable sonora has again changed his health minister the 4th during the pandemic infections in brazil. the philippine capital manila is banning those aged under 18 from leaving their homes for 2 weeks starting wednesday cases there are at a 7 month high. well currently the czech republic is among the worst affected countries in europe like elsewhere in the bloc vaccine role life has been slow and while global infection rates are falling the number of people have died with covered 19 in the czech republic is one of the highest per capita in the world. alexandra for naama visited the town of tak off where people have been widely impacted by the virus. the streets of our silent there are no children at the elementary school local shops are closed with new coronavirus

variants raging across the czech republic this is one of the country to worst affected regions. deputy mayor use the poor tries to keep track of the numbers he says everyone here knows someone who died of cope it 19. i realised many of those who died were people my age or even younger. dressing room usually serves me i realised i would never see them again to go fishing watch soccer or have a beer. that really gets to you. in the local health center the 1st responders tell us they feel totally overwhelmed and frustrated there is no hospital in town that means patients with severe cases of cope with 19 have to be transferred to a clinic 50 kilometers away mark kelly in a hunch of us says sometimes she doesn't have the energy to wake up and go to work

the emergency doctor recently lost her father to depend demick and wants me to give you just because i'm a doctor i was allowed to say goodbye to my did and to stay was not until the very last moment. i didn't want anyone to have to see what's going on in covert wards where patients suffocate even if they're. even oxygen don't pain you cannot imagine that my you know what it is a tsunami and you don't get it. exhausted from workers president in resignation and all this while the pandemic rages on across the region top of his less than 20 minutes drive from neighboring germany but the border has been closed this has disrupted the lives of many cross border commuters some have even lost their jobs who had to go through birger pulls through i need a job through but. i am trying to find work but no one wants me.

it's tough the british you know the couple with all that is taking too long people want jobs they have to pay their bills unfortunately this is the reality but with a daughter to hopes to puti mayer is pinning his hopes on vaccines even though so far big c. nations are only taking place here once a week meanwhile dr. pulled herself together every single day so she can keep doing her job hoping that one day soon the pandemic will be over. over more i'm joined by you're a harsh ective a commentator today says in the capital prague heather to get so bad the country had some of the lowest infection rates in europe and now one of the highest in the world. good morning to you well i think we put the food off the pedal especially in summer 2020 and when we were one of the best countries in europe concerning

handling and demick and basically the government was sending the wrong signals to the public in a sense that the words this probably behind us and also in autumn 2020 and around christmas was way too has it's and inconclusive probably and handling the crisis on so-called popular demands having problem entry elections on the horizon in october 2021 and also there is a lack of communication we have now in march 2021 we're still waiting for an official. nationwide campaign concerning vaccination which is just just shambolic and to me on this i think the part of the guild is also on the side of ordinary people so to say in a way that they are not. obeying the rules in the way they should and also i would

say the police should be lots to towards those who are just not probably wearing masks in the public so it's a combination of factors if you will lead to poor communication being one of them from the czech government being a big factor have i since communicated to why it took so long to act as the situation go. i think there is some really crisis in the side the governments above the whole system how to handle crisis because prime minister and they publish repeatedly said that the he is actually the key person concerning the role to fight scene the whole communication of the crisis that the micromanagement we've had already 3 ministers of health in the span of one month just failing to handle of the whole problem we have coalition government the communication between ministries has been quite poor so again it's

a combination of mixture of factors. and very briefly what's being done to improve the situation going forward. well right now we have a look at dol which is the most strict from what feet experience since since last year we are at the pretty much the next step would be to switch off the industry and limit the movement of people in the space of a couple of 100 metres from their homes so i think now the figures we will see next next week in 2 weeks will actually improve and also as the vaccination rollout has improved so this is actually the pall for the way out of the darkness if you can prague many thanks pleasure ok let's take a look now some of the other stories making news around the world. the influential sister of north korean leader kim jong il has warned the u.s. and south korea of a joint military exercises in warned of consequences that could make washington

quote lose sleep it comes as top biden officials begin to visit seoul and tokyo. bridge police have arrested several people during a 3rd night of demonstrations in london over the murder of sara if. anger has been growing over violence against women after a police officer was convicted of killing. many criticize the heavy handed policing of a vigil in the protesters want the u.k. government to scrap a plan to give police more powers to control protests. the u.s. senate has confirmed deborah holland as president joe biden's pick for interior secretary that makes her the 1st night of american to lead a cabinet department it was a top vote as a majority of republicans voted against it because of her support of the great new deal and her position against fossil fuels. or more deaths have been reported in may and not

a local monitoring group claims at least 20 people were killed during protests on monday and funerals are being held for victims of sunday's violence the deadliest day since the unbiased again the country has been in turmoil since the army removed elected leader aung san suu kyi from power hundreds of thousands of people are demanding a return to democracy the u.n. has condemned the crackdown according to the human rights u.n. human rights office to date at least 238 peaceful protesters including women and children have been killed in the violence since february 1st the secretary general strongly condemns this ongoing violence against peaceful protesters and the continuing violation of the most basic human rights of the people of myanmar the secretary general uses call on the international community including regional actors to come together in solidarity with the people of mia let's bring in journalist andrew comes in young gone and the u.n. as we heard calling for solidarity with the people of myanmar is that good enough

for the people on the streets. you know it's to put it simply it's not good enough but people have been expecting a lot more support from the international community i think they've been pretty disappointed by the response and there's been some really clear things that countries can do as outlined by the un special rapporteur our human rights for me and maher which includes imposing targeted sanctions on military conglomerates and helping to build a more coordinated global arms embargo to regret the military from getting weapons andrew families burying their loved ones to die who were killed in sunday's clashes in lot of the rising death toll to the bin these people still think it's with the risk taking to the streets it's a tough question to answer i mean we're definitely still seeing some people turning out there's a protest going on in mandalay right now which has been one of the most part for

protest sites but we also have seen over over recent weeks the protests starting to get a bit smaller. which is understandable at the same time i think a lot of people are more focused on the civil disobedience movement the mass strikes and the civil servants refusing to work for that moment i think a lot of people feel like that's really the most important battleground in the protests or kind of supplemental the middle of this deposed late one son said she was due to appear in court on monday but that hearing has been canceled and there are any updates on her trial and indeed her condition. we haven't heard anything directly about. dirty actually said that he still hasn't been granted our attorney by by the courts which is obviously problematic is that. it has a little out of her personal get

a little out there over to go away and those video links weren't working yesterday and that also it is no problem that basically any of this meeting she are going to be you know super. military representatives who are going to be you know watching and listening to that video call and in the end going thanks so much thank you but what she did the news still to come. out of the cultural drought brought on by corunna virus a brain print exhibition quenches the thirst with a simple team century take on will travel. but 1st to kosovo europe's youngest nation at the club independence from serbia in 2000 and i but it's also one of the poorest people there want better lives and expectations are high that the incoming prime minister will be the one to bring change suppose

government is facing a number of challenges including corruption ethnic conflict and poverty correspondent funny for china reports now from the city of mitrovica on where the new stuff really is possible. a scene all too common on the streets of metro the children begging for food for money for anything in what remains a town with a difficult story in one of the poorest countries of europe. more than half of the under 25 year olds in kosovo are unemployed they feel let down by successive governments who have failed to make a break from the past and to fight corruption. in february people were dancing in pristina the capital of kosovo their hope for change vet event a leftist movement turned political party with all been courting as its leader he wants to end corruption create jobs and promises the new start has seen so many

people leave since the cost of war more than 2 decades ago we want. for the coming years we want more work places. i expect better things to happen and corruption too strong. but not everyone was celebrating some of those images are skeptical the tone remains divided between predominantly ethnic albanians in the south of the city and ethnic serbs in the north this bridge acts as a border between the 2 sides it's blocked vehicle traffic you want out of the city of each works for an ngo. that aims to normalize relations between kosovo and serbia she spent a big part of her life in this buffer zone documents that void the. license plates that's where you're gonna sums up life here serbia has never accepted kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence in 2008.

make dying over serbia a priority if he's serious about people in kosovo to require all of the serbs actually feel that they are in the buffer zone between and caught between 2 fires if this is not resolved what is going to happen is that people are going to continue living from here whether they're. as a matter. corti held the office of prime minister last year a short stint of a few months before being ousted by his coalition partner dialogues syria is not his priority he says we cannot do everything at once some of the things will take longer time for example reform in the education system but certain things we can do immediately for example. bringing back custom terminals to the state.

custom terminals to gain money the promises made before the elections are costly hundreds of millions have been paid to kosovo by the european union much of it eaten up by corruption this is the biggest challenge in court he faces apart from normalizing relations with. or an exhibition of fightings by the 17th century master rembrandt has opened bringing some welcome relief to us germany's museums and galleries where recently to reopen but with infection rights now rising again no one knows how long the doors will stay open. museums in germany can open once again but they have to implement safety measures here at potsdam as museum by revealing art lovers must buy their tickets online get their temperature taken and leave their contact details. the number of visitors has been drastically limited to only a 3rd of what it was in pretend demick times but those who are here welcomed the

reopening. and for me visiting a museum is normal and ordinary and i go quite often and it was pretty difficult for me to stay at home and look at exhibitions online so yeah i'm really happy yeah but i've been good on the centrals if everyone's a bit careful keeps their distance and looks out for each other then i think it can work off and get us. this new normal also meant that organizing the new rembrandt exhibition came with a few challenges for a museum director or to dress tied up. as fellow guest this. village just ticks were extremely difficult pictures of this quality and value are usually accompanied by conservators but that couldn't be the case here so we installed the 6 a bishop along with 26 virtual couriers. each time a picture was unpacked and a value. it was done during a video conference with

a representative of the lenders. by. the results are breathtaking works by 17th century master rembrandt and his contemporaries are an invitation to dive into the dutch golden age of painting and understand how artists reacted to what was new to them turbans carpets and lush fabrics through their art rembrandt and his fellow dutch painters illustrated the beginnings of globalization and showed the influence of foreign cultures during the early modern period a west east encounter but one that was never on equal footing so at best so because it's an owning one of these objects was a real treasure it was a sign of education luxury and affluence so it started a whole trend where the dutch themselves started to be protected wearing turbans even if it times they didn't know exactly which culture it came from they have little knowledge of distant countries and. by the fountain land.

like most of his contemporaries rembrandt never left the netherlands he and his fellow artists represented the foreign as reflected through their own set of values and their understanding of the world. that extended to their many depictions of biblical scenes which they often enrich with exotic elements taking great liberties with the stories. even if their representations were sometimes fanciful the paintings show how artists helped shape a view of the foreign at a time when very few people could go see these places for themselves. alone and this exhibition really takes the visitor to a long ago century and distant countries so the yearning that was associated with these places during rembrandt's time still resonates today.

in these days of drastically limited travel and social contact the museum barberini offers visitors a chance to explore faraway cultures a welcome interlude in these uncertain times. you're watching news up next is kick off with a review of match day $25.00 in the bundesliga don't forget our website is there for more news at any time you need a mapping out thanks for joining us to be our. kick

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