contest of the cathedrals. the 12th on t.w. . this is the news live from berlin tempers flare at a meeting between the united states and china the 2 sides clash at their 1st talks since president joe biden took office the u.s. calls beijing a threats to global stability and china accuses the u.s. for sick also coming on. germany resumes the use of astra zeneca vaccine but health

officials warn it's too late to stop a 3rd wave of infections with cases already rising despite a knock down to speak to a doctor about the government's faltering vaccination. and as protests continue in myanmar we look at how the country's military leaders are trying to prevent the rest of the world from seeing what's going on. thanks for joining us u.s. and chinese diplomats have clashed their 1st meeting since president joe biden took office the 1st face to face talks got off to a confrontational start with both sides attacking the other among the issues brought up in the meetings we're in alaska where human rights the coronavirus pandemic and china's military build up in the south china sea. the secretary of

state and the blinking accuse china of putting global stability at risk also discuss our concerns with actions by china including actions wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states economic coercion toward our allies each of these actions threaten the rules based order that maintains well stability that's why they're not merely internal matters and why we feel an obligation to raise these issues here today but china wasn't having any of that chinese communist party foreign affairs chief young year fired back by questioning america's status as a leader on the global stage. when on when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the united states we hope the u.s. side will think about whether it feels reassured saying those things because the us does not represent the world it only represents the government of the united states

would welcome on this we're now joined by jessica berlin she's a us political analyst based here in germany and of course the w.'s china expert clifford cohen and here in the studio with me let's start with you jessica this was not really promising stars in the 1st face to face meeting was it. not at all the u.s. delegation really came out swinging and the chinese delegation was not shy about of swinging right back but let's bear in mind that this is not a surprise we knew already from both science and in the days in advance that it was likely that this would be a contentious conversation and behind closed doors is really the question how did those conversations evolve how is the u.s. administration attempting to redraw the lines and reassert their authority and their position in the chinese american geo political arrangement. that there was also a strong push back from china what does this tell us about beijing's view on this

relationship but clearly john is going into these talks feeling very confident it's coming out of the pandemic its economy is growing strongly and it's feeling more comfortable house for many years they were wondering how things are going to be post trump and now they they've seen that the u.s. is actually kind of sticking to the similar line to trump except that he's also bringing the u.s. also bring its allies with them so it's come out swinging i think into these talks just got what does this tell us about the biden ministrations approach on how to deal with china in the future. yes well they by administration is making crystal clear that the trump era is over america is back and they're not going to shine down from talking about human rights and from making very pinions heard but let's remember that the big elephant in the room here is taiwan and as

was mentioned by the biden ministration and previous weeks they see a real threat to taiwan coming from china in the coming years and they are trying to place the markers now stay away from taiwan and also they really really need the chinese government to be a stronger partner on dealing with north korea we do so in setting the tone in this way that biden ministration is making clear to their chinese counterparts we expect you to be a more responsible player in there as a regional power and as a global partner in dealing with the security issues but the chinese delegation for their side is of course standing up and saying look america you are able to use your economic and military power to advance your own interests in the world so why shouldn't we it's basically a political version of takes one to know one. looking at this confrontation really is it any corporation going to be possible in the future

between the u.s. and china. i think a lot of this is negotiation on china showing has always shown that it likes to be a tough negotiator. we also had an incident today with one where one of the canadians has been detained the trial started you know in china no foreign diplomats were allowed there china sort of laying out a table that sort of say that we're we're going to stand our ground and we're feeling confident i think where there will be cooperation maybe will be on things like global warming and they're definitely going to be looking for more cooperation on trade because they will need to get rid of they want to remove some of the sanctions that have been imposed recently so i think that we will see cooperation but china is very keen to be a tough party in this negotiation. jessica thank you both very much now let's take

a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a canadian business man accused of. going on trial in china michael spencer seen here and 20. n.b.a. star dennis rodman has spent over 2 years in custody canadian diplomats weren't permitted to attend the opening of the trial and all the charges politically motivated. demonstrators have rallied in the u.s. city of atlanta to show solidarity with the asian american community this after a gunman killed 8 people including 6 women of asian descent and shootings believed to have been at least partially motivated by racism many cities are stepping up their police presence in areas with large asian american populations. tanzania has its 1st female president. who has son was sworn in as head of. state following the sudden death of john mica fully she will serve for the remainder of his 2nd 5 year term which ends in 2025.

german health minister young star says germany has resumed astra zeneca vaccinations a day after the european medicines agency said the drug is safe and effective as germany works to restore public confidence in the vaccines bomb underlined inoculations remained a central plank of the strategy to end the pandemic but the complaint would take time with infection numbers are rising a new variance causing a large share of the cases sponsored germany was now dealing with a 3rd wave escaped europe does not yet have enough vaccine doses to stop the 3rd wave through inoculations alone even though the e.u. can now count on the reliable live you have dropped to 0 says it will still take several weeks until all those groups are completely vaccinated only then there will be people to talk about it for a collusion of restrictions so we still need to be patient. let's bring in our

chief political correspondent lyndal kremlin is that true is there really a shortage of vaccine in europe we keep hearing about millions of doses in germany going on used. there absolutely is a shortage in europe and in germany that will ease up in april in the 2nd quarter of this year but for now there is no question there is not enough vaccine available so the implications at least at european level are that there is a very serious talk of the export stops on vaccine material that is produced here in europe not allowing that to be exported to other countries and that's under discussion here in germany as well and we heard the health minister of germany saying they're very clearly germany is heading into a 3rd wave with exponential growth and that we simply don't have enough vaccine material right now now d.w. did actually look at evidence to try to clear up this idea that millions of doses

are going on used and our reporters talking to regional officials about 10 days ago we're not able to confirm that at least not at that level in some regions there seem to be some very few doses that get prepared but not administered in general it's a slightly different picture when it comes to astra zeneca and in some regions of the country there do seem to be some doses of astra zeneca vaccine that are going on used now that may have something to do with the vaccine skepticism that has been reinforced by all the back and forth on the seneca for example if it's safe for older people and now of course the decision this week to stop that scene's using astra zeneca temporarily of course won't have eased mistrust in that vaccine. germany's federal and state governments having another corona meeting today works

and we expect another lock down briefly if you. that's certainly what the health minister was calling for this morning he said looking at the exponential rate of infection they should be moving toward much harder steps however we've seen a patchwork the last couple of weeks with a number of states going in the opposite direction saying they do want to keep opening things up so it will be interesting to see if we get more clarity by the end of this day melinda crane thank you and we're now joined by dr dick kiley he's the medical director of the biggest vaccination center in germany in hamburg really on the front line there doctor with regard to the supply of doses in your advanced nations and do you have enough.

net no we don't have enough capacity is a lot higher than what we have right now so we're waiting for more of those that is off the vaccination material so when you hear about in other parts of germany when you do you hear from your colleagues that they have lots of stock lying around. not really there some stock yes but that is for the 2nd dosage so that material is kept back for the 2nd dosage because the supply chains not always work as we. are supposed to and we would expect so sometimes we just have to keep some of those are just in stock just make sure that we don't have to cancel appointments that we have enough x. nation material for the 2nd dosage. it's been a roller coaster week for the astra zeneca vaccine how damaging has the decision been to pause the shots to germany's vaccination program. well we are expecting more discussions with the was the people that get the vaccination but there are

some polls 'd that show that only 2 percent are more skeptical now than before so that's a good sign because on the other hand the decision by the polit institute to make that short stop actually is also a good sign because it shows people that we really closely so have a closer 'd valence of our nation program of our vaccines and that should make more trust rather than make people who are skeptical well you have also suggested a new vaccination strategy to use the astra zeneca vaccine on the elderly and the biotech funds of icing on the on can you explain your reasoning behind it i think we have to go by the scientific evidence that we have and that clearly shows that that's and has a very good tech scene in general it's also very good for the elderly and now we also see the data from israel that shows a quite on take that has proven to be very unsafe efficient also with the younger

people in transmitting the virus that net leads me to the conclusion that that vaccine where we know that now that might be also the case that's what i think about we don't know that yet that mixing so biotech would be a good example younger people that are the ones that have more context and those are the ones that contract the virus more and more even especially in the 1st wave of this busy and then we could save their asses and account for the older people which it makes for them the biggest effect you know keeping away from the hospitals and preventing deaths from over. but the united kingdom decided to focus on getting as many people vaccinated as possible with one dose been delayed the 2nd dose was it a mistake for germany to not pursue that strategy. i don't think so because the biotech bio biotech vaccine was the 1st one that we had and that was also that was that the gap between the 1st and 2nd those was only 3 weeks anyway so that it would have not made a much much sense to delay that the for the 3 weeks but with

a vaccine that was 3 months it might make sense but in germany we took the other path because in the beginning we only had my own take on what and that's was a nick that we only have since very. little in germany many have said that the bureaucracy was also a big part of the fact that we still haven't vaccinated enough people what's your experience housebroken see him did you and your job not really it might hinder us when we have more vaccine material but with the lack of the vaccine material that is the single and only reason why we are not vaccinating enough people right now all the other things are side effects that don't really have an effect on the numbers that we've actually. in terms of isolation are you worried about the so-called south africa variant well we are watching that very closely where we have we have that with the british variant i think we have the

vaccines are working of course we're looking at the south african variant but right now it's not has not shown a big effect in germany the bridge variant to be 117 now becomes the more and more the more the most predominant variant determinate but as we see from data from great britain the vaccines are good for them to talk to dick the medical director of germany's biggest vaccination center in hamburg thank you very much for the time you're welcome. well germany has faced criticism for being slow to vaccinate even before the astra zeneca shot was poised to w.'s chief international editor richard walker spoke with germany's foreign minister heikal moss who says it is crucial to get more people vaccinated quickly. gets an economy it's important that we step up to the pace of vaccinations are over the next few weeks because

otherwise you will lose the trust of our own population. that's the most important point for me. of course we would have hoped by now to have vaccinated many more people in germany but in april and may will have such large amounts of that scene that the numbers will go up significantly. it's also crucial to fight the pandemic in order to make sure that the hospitals don't get so full of intensive care patients that they can treat everyone. with no illusions that the problems that have arisen the mistakes that were made have of course have a concert or overall impact on public confidence in governments. in germany but also in other countries across the european union and your. interest. in that case do you see the e.u.

as ultimately responsible for the mistakes that were made during the accident doesn't feel like i'm awful at it because i live i think everyone knows that mistakes have been made at every level. it's a process that we hadn't been through before i hope that we never ever end up in another situation like we had last year all over the world and of course especially in europe. so yes mistakes were made at every level european national right down to the regions of individual member states and we all have to do everything we can to make clear that we have learned from our mistakes. germany's foreign minister. tool to which it will. now searching at 1919 infections have forced some of france's most populous areas into a limited lockdown again starting this weekend the capital paris has been hit hard

and hospitals are struggling to cope france recorded nearly 40000 new cases on the government has all that stalls to close for months. the covert war that hospital in southern paris and the feis of france is good why have patients struggles to stay alive this massive machine pumps oxygen into his body allowing his heart and lungs to rest and iron lung for the 21st century the stuff in this ward of bracing for even more patients paris's infection rates a surging for now this hospital is cutting could it stop a worry that could shine. the elastic is getting tighter and tighter we're not at the breaking point at the moment when we're getting very close we have the impression that the breaking point is not far away but we're. paris in the north of france worst affected by this stood wide so far hospital emergency wards in the

capital and nearly full more and more sick parisians have been suffering from day 117 the variant 1st reported in britain even the city 6 pm curfew doesn't seem to be effective against it well that's that's how little they say and we haven't found a good solution in the past year and then a year from now what would be in lockdown number right only widespread vaccinations can prevent that from happening like many you members france has been suffering from a vaccine shortage causing a slow rollout. the vaccination numbers for paris a worse than the national average leaving the city vulnerable against the 3rd why. france's prime minister says vaccinations will soon pick up allowing these new lockdown measures to be reversed soon. the british challenge of the coming weeks will be scaling back the 3 stricture surely to have that now allowing

locke to return to normal as we tax night more like. it is the case numbers rise there's undoubtedly more suffering ahead before relief comes right now for take is stronger than hope. in myanmar museum urging that security forces have shot dead 8 people during a confrontation with opponents of the military coup that local news outlet miramar now says 7 people were killed in the central town of on bunk this is mobile phone footage we're getting from the scene where people have also been wounded one person died of their injuries after being taken to a nearby hospital. and these like this is increasingly hard to come by and get out of myanmar as the military continues a brutal crackdown on dissent that crackdown has affected protesters and the media itself the u.n.

says at least 5 local news outlets have had their license revoked including myanmar now in addition more than 30 journalists have been arrested kase on way here is one of the local reporters and editors who were taken into custody sometimes under threat of death members of the foreign press have also been targets such as jane zoya a photographer for the associated press it's believed many jailed journalists are awaiting trial and in the chain prison facility that's notorious for human rights abuses they could face 3 year jail sentences on charges of spreading false information let's take a look closer look now at water journalists face as they try to give us a full of. picture of what's going on in myanmar. these police offices in yang gone charging after anti military demonstrators and a journalist taking photos of it all several police around ten's or as he tries to

get away one puts him in a charcoaled he's then handcuffed and dragged off this happened in late february 10 zorse pictures were to be sent to his employer the global news agency a.p. outlets like a t w then by this material so journalists like him are critical for international media to be able to report on me and mom instead tens or is now behind bars he and a growing number of journalists and media workers in myanmar and facing up to 3 years in jail under vague charges of violating a public order law. or one of the. tens or was arrested while he was performing his work according to the video recording and pictures published in the news he was arrested while doing his job this is not related at all to the public order law he has been charged with of that's what they are accusing him off. the wall and as.

it's estimated that over 200 people have been killed in myanmar in a brutal crackdown on largely peaceful protests since the military's takeover on february the 1st getting information is becoming trickier to the military regularly shuts the internet down and it's blocked some social media sites it's also withdrawn the licenses of 5 major media outlets. no one is safe and the military government especially these days you know at the nighttime the reagan really didn't know media. and media bias and that's where one of my daughters got right at that time at his house already prepared that there. are indeed banners mean. there will be no no more press freedom. a decade after the end of the one to me and the military is back in charge it's a major setback for press freedom and for journalists on the ground it means facing

censorship threats and intimidation once again. across the world have been closed to visitors because of the pandemic with no humans around some animals have actually started to get bored zookeepers in the czech republic end up with a novel i did succeed. and since and. things were getting a bit slow for the local chimpanzees at the safari park to work in the north of the czech republic zeus' staff set up a online streaming service with another zoo located in about 170 kilometers away. that is the project that was created here is one of the elements of how to extend enrichment for these animals to offer them a greater source of entertainment and keep them occupied.

large screens were set up at both gardens of the chimps at the 2 locations who are carlo and bruno connecting the 2 groups of chimpanzees now both groups spend a lot of time watching each other see. this all the time of the flood about they started watching it just like we watch t.v. or when we were in the cinema even with the same behavior with the details they sit in front of the screen take some goodies nuts or something like that they sit down and really watch it like people at the movies the similarity there is obvious. streaming service might not make up for the lack of crowds but at least it keeps the primates out of monkey business. you're watching the news here is a reminder of all top stories at this hour diplomats from the u.s. and china have traded barbs at the 1st meeting since president biden took office

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