within the space of 7 days that every year but you agreed last time would trigger an emergency break which is effectively another locked down and the big question now is whether some states will go beyond that and others may be pushing for opening despite this 3rd wave hitting germany so we're bracing ourselves for a very intense debates and now the easter holidays are right around the corner is the german government likely to tighten restrictions for travelers. but doesn't look like it right now extra flights have already been organized by german operators to that favorite island of the germans my york spain and the big question is whether those travelers might be hit with restrictions implemented after they've returned for instance testing at the border right now is no longer a risk area that's something that's determined boarding to the incidence rates locally but the big question is how much of this poses and what requirements

individual region see for those people returning back but it's an important psychological that miss test for the result both of politicians to tackle this that way and germans at large. on. another aspect to all of this germany's dish news website is reporting on another potential mask purchase scandal this time involving germany's health minister yan spawn is this going to be something else to undermine public trust in the government's handling of the pandemic. well just the reporting on it already does after all for him he's a step down already over having made profits from the ranging mosque steals but the health ministry flatly denies this report it says that the husband of german healthiness against iran it was neither involved nor even knew about the company he

works for also trading in mass selling mass to the ministry but what does state is the continuing suspicion that politicians might not of only acted for the public good which is already proving damaging under the magical city of homs. is mishan a curse now we appreciate it thank you. to poland now which is one of the countries hit hardest by cove at 19 in started imposing new lockdown restrictions on saturday shutting down much of public life for at least 3 weeks poland has experienced and exponential growth in cases in the past month its health care system is under strain as hospitals struggled to cope with a search of new admissions. warsaw 1st responders are at their limits and one in every 3 colds they get is a covert emergency more and more young people are coming down with the virus like

this 45 year old mother of 3. she's been sick with the virus for 11 days the condition is deteriorating polson have breathing and now irregular. after collecting their patient the 1st responders have to find a hospital that will take her it's becoming ever more difficult. in the hospital ward the feeling up as in picture numbers rise. more than 26000 new infections were reported in poland on saturday as many as jury november's peak to be 117 mutation has been spreading. the news if the made it 60 to 80 percent of cases could be traced to the british variant it's extremely aggressive in a strip of util saw the health system is under intense pressure including the hospital in ports in central poland there are 35 beds for covert patients and over

50 patients ill with the virus. it would be easier for our hospital if we had more doctors we specially need more. were also lacking stop in almost every department. to fight the 3rd wave the hospital in ports could is trying to vaccinate as many people as it can as quickly as it can poland's rollout is amongst the most rapid in the e.u. you know. it's really important to be here today i'm caring for my disabled son and i don't want to infect him i want to get vaccinated i haven't been sick with covered but my wife died of it. the government has now tightened its lockdown museums schools and shopping centers nationwide will close for at least 3 weeks but online lockdown opponents have been organizing against the measures hotel and

restaurant owners from the group were open are defying the rules even though they could be fined. if we shut now that. i've put the years of my life into this place of my work clothes. but the authorities aren't giving into community opposition the infection numbers are rising too fast for that . let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in tanzania mourners have been paying their respects to late president john fully dined earlier this week his body has been lying in state in dar es salaam the coffin will travel to other parts of the country in the coming days. voting is underway in the republic of congo's presidential election denice us who is so is expected to extend his 37 year grip on power the main opposition party is boycotting the vote which it says is illegal. authorities in

australia have declared a national disaster as rains continue to pummel the east of the country the downpour is causing some of the worst flooding in decades people were evacuated from the country's largest cities sydney as more than 30 centimeters of rain fell in the area in just over a day emergency services are warning of a life threatening situation. in the manning river in new south wales much of the state has been affected by dangerous flash flooding it's causing widespread damage and disdaining lives american sea services have appealed to people not to drive through the flood waters it's not worth the risk you creating significant risk to yourself to your families and also to the person who is who would need to come in and save you record reams of most of the state

some areas have reported the worst flooding in half a century and the dying poor is are showing no signs of abating. we're just inundated at the moment. and the water still rising from a bath and put in a lot of hail oh. yeah this is the worst i've seen it last year just after christmas it was pretty bad as well but not this bad. there's going to be a lot of people that my god i get there has a slot of about i want gets a lawyer the ride will be wrecked and as well i'll spend it in a test and i think a lot of people going to like up coal the government is offering financial assistance to people affected by the floods meteorologists are warning that this extreme weather is set to continue for several days. well on this day 15 years ago twitter co-founder genders he sent the 1st ever tweet on the social media platform since then it's grown to become a place for breaking news mobilizing revolutions but also spreading misinformation

u.w. reporter melanie hall is here to tell us more about 15 years of twitter hello to you melanie so why don't you start by just reminding us of the origins what was the initial concept behind twitter so the original idea behind twitter was to send short status updates to groups of friends to a single number of a text message and that's actually why there was a initially a group limit of 140 characters because that was the much from one of text messages back then distance double to 280 now it was in 2007 that we really saw the growth of twitter and we saw they became a real major source of breaking news and it became a hot place in the heart of a major major events and we also saw that twitter has now since got 350000000 users that's actually dwarfed by its major competitor facebook which has to be 2000000000 but we see that twitter has

a very major place in shaping the public discourse in major events so some real exponential growth among twitter users what about some of the highlights over these past 15 years melanie what stands out for you so basically one of the 1st point spent twitter really captured the world's attention was in 2009 when we had a u.s. airlines flight ditch into the new york the hudson river actually the 1st photos we got from that was actually phone to us it was from a twitch a user who was on a nearby ferry if we also look at how twitter has played a major role in revolutions and posts one example is the arab spring now if you look at egypt in 2011 when hosni mubarak the president then was that ousted some called starts the twitter revolution now some commentators of. actually the the role the role that twitter played in supporting this revolution in 2 is talking was probably exaggerated because when the government did pull the plug on the internets

demonstrators in within the country were still able to organize without twitter but where to really came into its own was getting the message to get news out into the rest of the world and we've since seen that in other places around the world in hong kong now we've also seen how hashtags have played will meet major role in how social movements have mobilized we've seen that in the 2 we also saw the impact lives matter well twitter has also not been without controversy without difficulties melanie what about the challenges faced by twitter so twitter has seen lots of criticism in terms of the way it's handling harassment the spread of misinformation and bullying not twitter has very much that cemented itself as a digital soapbox for politicians and one of the best examples of that would be former us president donald trump was very much his major communication channel but also it also led to him being a major purveyor of misinformation to the point where in 2020 to started adding flags on his tweets when his tweets contained with information that clearly crossed

a red line in january of this year when he very much incited his supporters to storm the capital that led to twitter banning him from the platform and he'll never be allowed back on those that now jack dorsey the c.e.o. has said that he thinks it's the right decision that twitter did him from the site but he's also said that it's a dangerous precedent to ban people from the site like. melanie hall thank you so much for that. all right now to bill in this league of football and dortmund were on the road saturday in cologne where young scoring sensation alan holland grabbed 2 more goals and his compound in both of them to win a point early in the match holland controlled a long pass and poked the ball into the nets to give dortmund a one male lead cologne scored twice to go ahead until the 90th minute when the norwegian popped up again to make it to to the dross and doormen stay 5th in the

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measures are being taken. what is the latest research says. information and context. the coronavirus of the coded special monday to friday on w. this week on world stories. searching for a missing activist in syria. a courageous musician in tempe but we begin in france where between the 1960 s. and 1980 s. about 2000 children from the island of her uniacke were also being resettled instead of being educated they were exploited even at the age of 75 in need and who

are all still bears the deep scars left by his youth the government took him away from his family at the age of 9 as part of a resettlement program he was 1st sent to various children's homes on the island of green young or not road warrior or you or your for you for the fear we weren't allowed to say or do anything we had to follow the supervisor orders if we didn't they hit us they made us do the hard labor at one point or we had to carry but it's of cement on our heads and pour them onto a slab to build a swimming pool somewhere in the walls around the homes or 4 metres high we weren't allowed to go out or to see our families or a group already got bought by were bought for beer he was told he would be taken to mainland france but it took another 9 years and instead of getting a good education there's promised he had to work as a farm hand. or require you to go for you or lowered your car for you because of

all of that we had to milk the cows clean the pig pens plants and harvest beetroot and potatoes the farmers i have been told we were dangerous that we were murderous end of the lives they didn't trust us and treated us like slaves so they hit us at the slightest excuse. about earl working with reporters. he was finally freed at the age of 21 and ménage to set up a business as a painter he tried to forget his past as best he could a country a few years ago when he met his partner marriage or she insists that he needed to find his roots she searched for months sent hundreds of e-mails and managed to get one spectacular result she found in mills older sister mary who lives only in you know they talk to each other daily. are all. i was always hoping to find him and he never gave up my search now he's too far

away from me i want him to come back here. and 2014 france officially acknowledged its moral responsibility towards the so called children of the cause the ministry of the overseas told us that they plan to teach these children's history at school but a meal is hoping for more of the more good more direct we are asking for damages that's perfectly reasonable they have done us harm if i had robbed or killed someone i would also be punished even though money will not right the wrong they have done to us it's like losing a leg or never get it back. but previous claims for compensation were dismissed huge the statute of limitations emir will keep looking for his happiness he's planning to go to in your this autumn to finally reunite with his family.

my aunt to syria where 10 years ago human rights activist tried son saif tournay fought islamists oppose the as that regime and was at the forefront of the revolution before being abducted. my name is resonates with me you are as i was from was was. when protests erupted across syria on march 20th levon rights activist rather and said to me was on the frontline she was key to revolutionary efforts across the country beside her also close friend martin del wish. we meet the human rights lawyer in paris. because. for me the most important aspect of president's personality is a rejection of injustice and willingness to do anything to fight injustice.

when the assad regime responded with a bloody crackdown arresting thousands of activists resume chewer the world would know. she became a key source she had this sort of softness almost frailty to her when you matter of the beginning and you like how she doing this very dangerous job and then as soon as you spoke to her you immediately discovered the sort of steely courage and principles. in 2013 resin fledge regime had to mask for duma a town that would later be dominated by the hardline militant group jaish and islam . present launched women's initiatives forth for the rule of law and documented human rights abuses including those committed by our troubles rather than was targeted several times a bullet left at her doorstep and none of this letter obtained by the w.

threatening her life the words i will kill you repeated 5 times on december 9th 20 so teen armed men stormed her office they abducted resign together with her husband and 2 fellow activists after years of investigation human rights lawyer wish and his team are confident that jaish al islam are responsible for the fate of rozanne and her colleagues resembles that of the civil peaceful movement they try to create a moral eternity for syria. they were crushed between the regime and these islamist groups that in the end terry and as well as. the. 8 years after roseanne and her colleagues disappeared their fate remains one of the great mystery. reese of the revolution but friends and relatives have not given up hope that one day they will know the truth.

now to germany where female tag a bizarre feeling the impact of corona not only is their work on devalued they often and less than their male counterparts. here in the hospital there's a strict protocol when it comes to putting on your protective clothing but if it cuts been back a it has become a routine she is one of the many female nurses who have been pushing their limits day and night for you know taking care of corona virus patients. as a stick of a little bit of the physical strain is an enormous working in this kind of gears exhaust but the psychological component plays a big role too we always have to take care of critically ill patients that's part of our job but now we have seriously ill patients can also endanger us and that is really stressful ever watched was. stressful is also how hammond would

describe her last year she it works as a nurse in an old people's home and bergman and demick made her job even harder and again the burden of caring for society's elderly was mainly on women. luckily men i increasingly interested in being and my husband does also work but otherwise it's mainly women probably because of the pay if it were male domain then women would also a very different set of aries on guns on us for. more than 90 percent of the people fighting the daily battles on the nursing front are women and they aren't up to 10 percent less than their male counterparts according to the german federation of trade unions the chances of promotion are slim and they often work nights if not i'm afraid if. my wish for women in this profession is that they stop putting themselves down and that people are aware of their contribution people need to

understand that we are not just nasa's cleaners or kitchen wife it's that the world only goes around when we all work together as a team for that one of us can't get by without the other doesn't i now for one and in an amish for now but. as i and. maybe here to stay and we need to develop strategies we need enough stuff enough equipment and whatever else it takes to help us do our jobs and as i understand it was all of us here on the board for adultery. both nurses are greed these improvements have to come and. they have to come soon. now me turkey's psychedelic rock star i assume aqil who's not afraid to stand up for women's rights. and families adore her unique sound on turn on the flinching political position it's.

a mini bus ride through a parallel universe and a woman. is in the driver's seat. she loves to bring together traditions and modernity that sounds she revived psychedelic rock a sound that was lost truly popular in turkey in the 1970 s. . how to build them most of my childhood memories are about music and when i dreamt about my future the music was always there for. the fans love the unique mix of turkish music rock and post-punk. and many search gaius abstract lyrics for messages about the situation in turkey. the whole country is a shisha coffee and we as suffocating in its smoke she sings in bottom is that tosh

. of us all working used to log of all it's really become more and more difficult to breathe in this country because there is a lack of justice and rule of law that has deeply wounded this society i feel very injured too it's time for us to stand up for and support each other here in turkey and elsewhere in the world. and. the. guy is most concerned about the situation of the. amun in turkey rights groups warn that domestic violence is on the rise and that the number of women murdered has dramatically increased in recent years. activists regularly organize protests although the turkish government bans most of them but the guy is proud that women still dad to be valid and demand their rights. to the code.

when we talk about women in turkey the word oppression automatically comes to mind it's an uphill battle for every woman here who wants to live according to her own ideas but we won't be afraid we will stick together draw attention to ourselves and organize all organisms all of the things all. for her fans guy is a role model in terms of self-determination and when it comes to speaking one's mind. of.

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