context of the. story. this is the deed of you'd use a lot of from berlin germany faces the prospect of a new lock down. chancellor says her country could soon introduce emergency measures to combat rising infection numbers but there is growing anger at the sluggish pace of vaccinations also coming up. of course from the ground as a long dormant volcano comes to life in iceland we ask

a seismologist in reykjavik about the possible dangers. and president joe biden says asian violence is growing in the united states he tells asian american leaders and a lot of the country cannot remain silent as they mourn the victims of tuesday's deadly gun attacks on massage parlors. welcome to the program german chancellor says her country could again go into lockdown if corona virus case numbers continue to rise a decision could come as soon as monday she was speaking after a virtual summit on the country's troubled vaccination program national and regional leaders agreed measures to speed things up but anger is growing. another

rebirth for a german icon bolin stempel fairport was used to bring in food to the city's west during the cold war after closure it house refugees during the 25th crisis and now it's being used as a massive vaccination center. those who he had to get a shot have to shot proof they're eligible. and i received an invitation to die i've been waiting for this that i came here immediately. but until now that teacher is one of relatively few germans to be vaccinated the country's been facing vaccine shortages since it launched its program in december so far only priority groups such as the elderly have received a jab but the government says it is expecting vaccine supplies to increase from my prolonged allowing mess that's in addition to begin. to vaccinate as many

people as we can as quickly and flexibly as possible in the 2nd quarter of 2021 in germany now slogan that's night vets night and then vaccinate some more info. under the plans family doctors will be sent vaccine doses and allowed to decide which of their patients a most in need of protection against 19 and areas along the country's borders with france and the czech republic were received more doses case dumbass they have been especially high because of the infection numbers in germany's night because. that's a huge wave or save more devices than planned from the a year. and they go into border areas which have a lot of cases of specific. but even as the german chancellor promised relief to calm she warned that the situation in the country's covered wards is worsening since german ladies decided to partially relax lockdown measures in early march

infections have been rising shop lee experts are warning tougher measures are inevitable merkel agrees. with seeing exponential growth and an odd number far above why would we great to stop these relaxations if infection rates get too high well unfortunately have to do so. in recent weeks some german high streets of reopen juta that relax lock down soon they could again be forced to close and with widespread vaccination still a government promise it's uncertain when the country will be back to normal. and for more on this joint nobody'd of your correspondent thomas sparrow tell us let's start with that 3rd way that germany is facing why are we facing such a rapid rise in corona virus infection when it seemed just a few weeks ago the numbers were falling. it's not only a rapid rise in it it's an exponential growth of this particularly concerning for

german authorities we heard on their stress just how difficult a situation nowadays is and why probably germany will go back to strict lockdown in fact for german cities like the city of have both already reversed some of those opening steps that we saw in the last few weeks when we look at the reasons one of the key reasons is the presence of those more contagious variants here in germany in particular that the 117 variant which was 1st found in the united kingdom and which now accounts for over 70 percent of tested samples here in germany to give you a bit of context at the beginning of february that percentage was around 6 percent so this gives you a clear idea of why the patriots are a particular concern a 2nd issue with germany's border regions we also saw that in that report but the fact is that many of germany's neighbors are also badly affected by the coronavirus or at least regions of some of those neighboring countries the french region of moselle for example or to roll in aus in austria or the czech republic it's the 2nd

reason and the 3rd reason is obviously the opening steps that we already discussed opening steps come with more contacts more contacts no money come with more infections so this gives you an idea of why the situation in germany is now so difficult not only the general situation but also for for authorities to decide what the next steps will be sure is ok worsening situation obviously one of the solutions for those putting forward is to allow family doctors to begin giving the vaccines but with only a 1000000 doses available to general practitioners in the 1st week that makes around 20 doses per doctor how does that change anything. well if if you're expecting a very rapid change then probably you'll be disappointed but the g.p.s. of family doctors will play a very important role when it comes for example to gaining more flexibility in the process that something that was stressed by angela merkel and which is an important point to for example go beyond that very strict guidelines as being vaccinated

when so certainly want to eliminate which is important here is the flexibility another element which plays an important role when it comes to family doctors or g.p.'s is trust trust has been affected in the call vaccination program which has been very slow and you know that g.p.'s have a very good relationships normally with their own patients so they will hopefully be able to increase trust in the vaccine in particular the astra zeneca vaccine so it's not only about speed it's also about increasing trust it's also about increasing flexibility in a vaccination program which has been criticised since it began last year in december and just really quickly thomas german generally are quite frustrated with the back and forth and lockdowns the slow rollout they are frustrated the that's something that we saw this week also in a poll most germans are actually very critical of germany's current management and that's essentially why german chancellor angela merkel and the leaders met on

friday here in berlin why they're actually going it again next week because they understand that there's frustration they understand that it's fatigue and they need to change the situation as quickly as possible ok thomas sparrow reporting for us on the reaction of the pandemic and vaccine rollout thanks so much. a dormant volcano in iceland has come back to life for the 1st time in nearly 800 years the night sky lit up near the capital reykjavik late on friday the eruption came out for thousands of small earthquakes in the region in recent weeks the area is a seismic hotspot and all air traffic has been halted iceland is home to europe's most active volcanic region. so let's go to us on capital reykjavik and bring in seismologist dr thor burg i was dr from iceland geo sir thanks for joining us what kind of threat level are we looking at here is anybody's life in danger. there in a moment what we're looking at is

a very very explosive eruption and this is a fissure action so we. last evening and throughout the night we had some lava functioning. and we have some lava flowing you can maybe see in the pictures. but it's a very small eruption that it was a very long and experts are saying that this is happening in the best possible case me best possible place in the in the peninsula. regarding infrastructure and people so at the moment it works and it's a small nobody. in danger lucky. and the area of iceland where you are is you know better better than anyone is listed as one of the most seismology active areas in the world are you able to learn anything from what's going on now. yeah we're learning it by every hour. as you mentioned 800 years down the last question in this peninsula. this every option type is

completely different to what you experience in 2010 it were not close to your d.n.a. space or for a period of time is very small the 2nd it's a completely different type. of corruption. what we're learning is that we can have seismic activity in this case outlining including my dad. and then you can have. my own use this time. it could have stopped them through. the news from yesterday it was maybe is it dying down or will we have an eruption and so will you see what happened last night we had the russian ok listen so i think white i'm certain a way ok i think the last time many of us paid attention to volcanoes in iceland was in that 2010 event i'm going to try to say the name of the volcano i think it

was. you could correct me if i'm wrong if i could ok how it was is different what's happening now how is this different from then you were saying it's a completely different type of event. yes so if you think you had this when i start to ok no you had a glacier top you had different chemistry in the mark my which meant you had more explosive activity but was it enhanced by the glacier if the hot magma touching the. ice it would have an explosive eruption. and that the chemistry of this. meant that it was very fine grade so you flew very far far we see that in the wood and but in this case and break and yes we have is very small fish the reaction is only about 700 meters it's really quite dense

the lava fountains reach maximum 100 metre this time yesterday evening and so it's completely different don't have a tank no matter column so yeah it's ok if it's an area but it so very beautiful it is beautiful sight less spectacular perhaps but certainly still interesting to observe scientifically i'm sure dr thorburn i was starting from reykjavik thanks so much for that now larry thanks let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. turkish president recha tayyip erdogan has withdrawn his country from the world's 1st binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women in 2011 in stamboul convention was signed in turkey by 45 countries and the european union. officials in australia have ordered mass evacuations they fear torrential rains and flooding could become deadly authorities are also telling people in sydney to stay

at home the rains are some of the worst in years and they are expected to continue . u.s. president obama and vice president camila harris have condemned the anti asian violence in the u.s. which they say has spiked since the start of the coronavirus pandemic biden implicitly blamed former president donald trump for stoking hate by calling the covert 19 a ton of virus comments came during a visit to atlanta where a gunman killed 8 people and misses parlors on tuesday 6 were of asian descent. america was shaken with these scenes from just a few days ago 8 people were gunned down at 3 different massage parlors in and around atlanta by alleged shooter robert aaron long most of those killed were of asian descent and according to local asian american leaders are just one example of a rising tide of attacks against asian americans the situation has been exacerbated

by the coronavirus pandemic which started in asia. even though the motive of the alleged killer is not clear u.s. president joe biden who met with local asian american leaders in atlanta on friday said change is needed. but we have to change our hearts hate can have no safe harbor in america it must stop and so on all of us all of us together to make it stop police say the suspect denies racism as a motive instead he said he did it to end his sex addiction and attentive ation of massage parlors whatever the motivation we know this too many asian americans have been walking up and down the streets and were waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked plain scapegoated harassed they've been virtually assaulted physically

assaulted killed. the suspect has confessed to the crimes and has been charged with murder in all 8 that's. up next on new sports life looks at a sport set to make its olympic debut this summer surfing has more to give you news dot com and you can of course falls on instagram and twitter i do give you news on exposer thanks for watching. and free t.v. counts for us and for our planet.