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 numbers there have been especially high because of the infection numbers in germany's now because. that's a huge before we've received 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 come she warned that the situation in the countries covered wards is worsening since german latest decided to partially relax lockdown measures in early march infections have been rising shop experts are warning tougher measures are inevitable merkel agrees. with seeing exponential growth in 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 relaxed 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 joined now by the time you correspondent thomas sparrow tell us let's start with that 3rd wave that sherman e is facing why are we facing such a rapid rise in corona virus infection when it seemed just a few weeks ago the numbers are falling. it's not only a rapid rise in it it's an exponential growth of this particularly concerning for german authorities we heard i'm going to call their stress just how difficult a situation nowadays is and why probably germany will go back to strict lockdown in fact 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 b 117 variant which was 1st found in the united kingdom 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 out in austria or the czech republic the 2nd reason a 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 very close 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's something that was stressed by angela merkel which is an important point to for example go beyond that very strict guidelines as to who should be vaccinated and when so certainly want to limit 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 the g.p.'s have a very good relationship 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 and 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 told us germany generally are quite frustrated with the back and forth and lockdowns the slow rollout they are frustrated deep 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 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 creatures. so let's go to our son's capital reykjavik and bring in seismologist dr thor burke i was doctor from iceland geo sorry thanks for joining us what kind of threat level are we looking at here is anybody's life in danger. there you know moment what we're looking at is a very famous ship 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 direction that there was a very low and experts are saying that this is happening in the best possible case. best possible place in the in the. 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 clean active areas in the world are you able to learn anything from what's going on now. yes returning it by every hour or so 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 will not close to you have been a space or for a period of time 1st is very small the 2nd it's a completely different type. of 2 option. 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 and. the news from yesterday was maybe it's a dying down or we have an eruption and so will you see what happened last night we had the rapture ok listen so you think items and no way ok i think abbas 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 ok. it was a 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 on top you had different chemistry in the mark my which meant you had more explosive activity 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 way and by this case and break an ass we have is a very small fish correction it's only about 700 metres it's really quite dense the lava found kaine's reached maximum 100 metre this yesterday evening and so it's completely different don't have a tank no matter where and call it so if it's ok if it's an area but it's very beautiful it is beautiful sight less spectacular perhaps but certainly still

interesting to observe scientifically i'm sure dr thorburn starting from reykjavik thanks so much for that let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. officials in eastern 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 they are expected to continue. turkish president recha type air no one has withdrawn his country from the world's 1st binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women in 2011 it is stand both convention signed in turkey was signed by 45 countries and the european union . u.s. president joe biden and vice president campbell harris have condemned asian violence in the u.s. which they say says fight since the start of the coronavirus pandemic biden

implicitly blamed former president donald trump for stoking hate by calling covert 19 the china virus biden's comments came during a visit to atlanta where a gunman killed 8 people in mississauga on tuesday. 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 mode 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 lane scapegoated harassed they've been virtually assaulted and physically of stone killed. the suspect has confessed to the crimes and has been charged with murder in all 8 deaths. and here's a reminder of our top story this hour. german chancellor angela merkel says her

country faces a potential in the new lockdown if case numbers continue to rise she was speaking after a virtual summit to discuss the country's troubled vaccination program national and regional leaders agreed measures to speed up the process. up next sunday to view our digital programme and shift looks at gaming culture there's more news on the need of you news. nick spicer up next is rebecca venters thanks for watching. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context.

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console or in my case on the smartphone games are an everyday part of life for about 40 percent of the people worldwide so it's not surprising that marketing strategist count on the wide reach like with the popular real time simulation game animal crossing your horizons earlier this year it was sold out even democratic presidential candidate joe biden was nearly 80 years old is using the game to reach new voters over 22000000 people play animal crossing the horizons. now you can also use campaign posters the team behind joe biden's campaign has added to the game all of which can be put up. joe biden campaign team are trying to reach specific target audiences. and animal crossing is an effective way to reach a relatively young mostly female target audience. it's difficult to assess

the advocacy of animal crossing or other online games in campaigning but in this case they definitely managed to grab the media's attention has shifted. is not the 1st politician to try using games during an election campaign in 2006. favors the democratic presidential primaries made a campaign appearance in the virtual world of 2nd life he was defeated by the rock he then went on to set up a virtual campaign headquarters in 2nd life in the run up to the 2008 election his campaign. because of the lack of transparency there's a potential danger with political campaigning in online games. with animal crossing and joe biden there's a lot of media attention and. specifically targeted that game but generally

speaking anyone could do that. trumps. the animal crossing. crissy activists in hong kong have been content available to be used to circulate political messages like. whether they like it or not play is a bound to be confronted with political issues and animal crossing for the foreseeable future. to be completely honest i'm not sure that game complaining is a good idea sometimes i just want to switch off radical political groups are using animal crossing to spread more extreme views as well users can flag content but nintendo doesn't have a real strategy to stop hate speech unfortunately the same is true for many other platforms multiplayer games have a huge problem with racism and sexism even if they think it's just fun men and boys are creating a toxic atmosphere online they are still crossing a line as

a recent example from germany shows you know streaming star montana black normally has over 3000000 followers on the video platform twitch due to his massaging list and sexist videos. the 32 year olds account was blocked for a month afterwards montana black apologized for his heavily criticized holiday videos. the outcome from this case is unusual because perpetrators don't normally face any consequences usually it's the gamers who speak out against sexism missile journey and racism who become targets for coordinated hate campaigns this past summer thousands of women spoke out about experiences of sexual violence on twitch and since then they have been numerous accounts of women being harassed or abused online. as a gamer who likes to play a lot especially online she encounters massage mystic insults and games on

a daily basis. i would call some of them very slight insults so they are all the classics you better go to the kitchen and fix me a sandwich. and it just gets worse from there of course. there are no boundaries i've been threatened with rape multiple times on the internet in these situations support from other players is rare. no might. become normal and nobody is really bothered anymore everyone just accepts it ok it's just another insult. not all gamers are racist or massage but the gaming scene in particular has a real problem one reason for that is a lack of moderators to oversee communication on the different platforms. even if it's a big problem and we see that gaming platforms and communities create spaces where this hatred and toxic communication are expressed openly unlike social media

perpetrators don't really fear any consequences for their actions with it's games on facebook i believe more action is needed to stop online hate speech the game is seen as a problem but that doesn't mean that every should offend is prone to violence studies have refuted the killer game misconception still the statics of 1st person shooter games have played a role in terrorist attacks there's even a term for it the game if occasion of tarot. these on line strains on twitch facebook seen from the 1st person shooter perspective the terrorist attacks in christchurch new zealand and hunted germany are recent examples of what experts call the game of terror the terrorist and holly even posted an achievement list online containing objectives he wanted to collect just like in a video game on how. the terrorist posted that racist achievement list online to create a degree of comparability to make

a sport out of it to say hey look at my high score can you beat it. it's a form of game of location that tries to portray these horrific terrorist attacks as playful and game like. how have the boundaries between gaming and reality become so blurred for some people and how do others watch on with fascination. serious games is a term used by some expose to describe games used for educational purposes like teaching politics or history through the doctors the times is a game set in nazi germany and aims at raising historical awareness even one germany's most prestigious computer game award. was made in 1933 the masses were celebrating. we knew that this was the beginning and worst times were to come we knew that the nazis didn't make threats we had to do something this is the starting point in the strategy game through the darkest of times here

players take on the role of resistance fighters some of the tasks include organizing the secret resistance against hitler recruiting new members raising money for protesting this game doesn't need a 1st person shooter perspective to end the fatal paying back at the berlin based company behind the game uses gaming to make history more accessible in a playful way and that's just the beginning. of computer i believe that we're only just getting started with using computer games and the possibilities that they represent especially with education. i'm talking about exciting intelligent games that are fun to play that are educational but not in an obvious way. i believe that usage for these kinds of games will increase because we simply need them. whether it's historical facts. learning about right wing extremism like with leon's character or learning mathematical formulas whilst gaming. education and

computer games are a good match. but leaving serious games aside for a moment computer games. recently taking big social issues and even the future page just picked up on this in fact many games can compete with hollywood movies when it comes to the concept design and music it's amazing to see what game designers create nowadays have a look at this was. epic soundtracks played by no. voice service by famous musicians like. elaborate animations created with the latest hollywood technology games are no longer considered and cultural art form as director of the german cultural council

is a prominent figure in germany's cultural landscape and his handbook on gaming culture he argues that games can be more than entertainment. tell a story differently and the person dealing with the story feels like they're part of the story and have greater control over how the story unfolds. this one example is c. of solitude a game created by german design economy. and this game turns negative emotions like anxiety loneliness or depression into experiences. my game is very metaphorical and full of symbolism it's my personal story it's the story of my life but i don't want it to be told like this happened that happened so i hide it and more abstract things are grown through this world and bit by bit you discover different parts of the story. kentucky roots 0 is a surreal game set in a mystical version of kentucky full of strange encounters the homeless that is

based on the t.v. cult series twin peaks'. character development. becoming increasingly important in action games as well like in god if no for the newest game in the series the laureate craze tells us to deal with bullies of. the blockbuster video game the last of us to only has female protagonists and tells a story about love. games will not be able to get around the broader societal demand that shifting towards more diversity and representation. that's why i feel the gaming scene is still lacking when we're arguing among each other and it is a contentious debate we should also be debating it on panels and at podiums we should ask how could you create this character in this way what were you thinking

have you ever thought about how this can impact society. a broader discussion on games and their content would be helpful i think that in the near future games will be as important as movies or t.v. series which is why they deserve an equally as serious conversation for that same reason game designers and gaming platforms should be held accountable for tackling and removing hate speech what do you think games a cultural art form or are they just something with which to pass the time tell us on facebook or d w dot com and check out our you tube channel for more on gaming culture that's it for me for today thank you and used to.

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