the as you said and there's also a bond company that is involved in the construction of the and internation cans the disks in young production and construction corp and they're the public security office is targeted by these sanctions so very specifically targeted and not a broad sanction against some branches of the economy or politics very limited sanctions actually you could say ok specific targeted sanctions what impact could they have. but they're more or less only highly symbolic because it's a political signal to was beijing. and the last round of sanctions was what was in 1989 after the tiananmen square massacre these are the 1st sanctions and this is to symbolize stop here it's it's enough but the u. does not want to risk any economic ties with china these ties would go on and the you also secured and investment treaty with china just

a couple of months ago so this is not the focus it's only a political symbol of political signal to what's china debbie has banned record reporting there from brussels thank you baron but let's get the view from beijing now on this story corresponding mature sproing is standing by for us there hi mathias have you seen any reactions there to these e.u. sanctions. there's no official reaction yet but what we're reading from chinese newspapers from state from the state media is that china is preparing counter measures what these would look like is not very clear and how they will all what impact that will have is also of course not clear what we can see although from these sanctions is that. while all these 4 individuals are certainly among those who have planned

these atrocities that are called the genocide by many people one name is missing on this list and that's the head of the paci in this in general. who is seen as the architect behind these policies and who is sanctioned by the u.s. the u.n. has let the top off the hook and sanctioned his deputy so china will certainly note that this gesture this symbol of. not wanting to. get to be too tough on the community is not ok meant to stay there because pressure from the e.u. there is coming as a diplomatic dispute with canada is also heating up and now the canadian government is accusing beijing of hostage diplomacy at the start of another trial of a canadian citizen accused of espionage former diplomat michael covered was arrested 2018 and formally charged with spying last year the case against

a 2nd canadian national facing the same charges opened last week canadian diplomats have been refused access to the proceedings canada maintains both cases are retaliation for its arrest of a senior executive in the telecom giant while way so many has and has been provided any details on the exact charges facing michael coverage here. beijing is accusing him of leaking state secrets to. to abroad so this is an espionage case he's formally charged with espionage when we mention that he is the 2nd canadian citizen on trial and china what is behind this case as well you have mentioned it kind of use this as retaliation or hostage diplomacy and it's pretty safe to say that chinese officials themselves have said that canada held the clues to releasing the 2 of them so there are clearly. clearly.

a negotiating value for china it's pretty safe to say that they are hostages at the same time diplomats journalists they have been denied access to this trial why is that. while this is does not come as a surprise china classifies politically sensitive trials as. national security cases and then they deny access to and the budgie to these $2.00 to $2.00 family chinese nationals tried in so similar circumstance just to gloria's sometimes. and also to foreign diplomats of course china is breaking international law by not allowing diplomats in and it is also breaking mutual agreements with canada but this does not matter i think it's not

a surprise that they would not let. these 2 canadian citizens are as you said materials that essentially hostages their hostages those larger dispute what kind of support can the canadians hope for here. well i think there is of course public support from governments and from the public outside of china not only canadian diplomat showed showed up at this at the site of this trial today but also many others from other western countries from the us from many e.u. countries. so this support is of course something that might have an impact on the conditions that have on but. there's very little that can be done directly canadian diplomats have had very little access to them during these 2 years that they have been in jail and especially since the pandemic broke out how

to cut off visits and tiredly so the only thing is probably that can help them is attention correspondent to spoiling our reporting there from beijing thank you. let's get a round up of some other headlines now a member of parliament from uncle michael c.d.u. party has died after collapsing on a flight back to germany from cuba cabbage plants was 53 the cause of death is unclear the tabloid billed as reporting that she was not traveling on business times had recently been caught up in a lobbying scandal involving azerbaijan. the main opposition candidate in elections just held in the republic of congo has died a spokesperson said police a fake died as he was being transferred to france for treatment for covert 19 he was the main rival of president and assess who gets so who is expected to extend his 36 year old 36 year hold rather on power. scientists say a volcanic eruption in iceland could go on for several weeks hundreds of sightseers

have flocked to the volcano south of the capital reykjavik tens of thousands of small tremors rocked the area for several weeks before the volcano started erupting . now europe's biggest economy is poised to further tighten its lockdown restrictions german chancellor angela merkel is meeting with regional leaders later to discuss the path forward that is amid growing evidence in germany that a 3rd wave of the coronavirus is beginning the country has registered almost 8000 daily new cases in the fall a steep rise in cases was brought under control by a 2nd lockdown but since some restrictions were eased at the start of march as you can see here there's been another spike scientists fear cases could jump to a new high now the exponential rise in cases comes amid growing protests against current restrictions thousands of people rallied in germany and elsewhere in europe over the weekend police say some 20000 people demonstrated in the german city of casal making it one of the largest rallies of its kind so far in germany this year

scuffles broke out between some of the protesters and police resorted to using the tons pepper spray and water cannons to disperse the crowds and police tweeted that there had been repeated attacks by protesters against emergency service workers. let's bring in our political correspondent thomas a sparrow for more on this story hi thomas as we said there we see these 2 pictures you have protests against lockdown measures you have infection numbers rising and now chancellor merkel is meeting with state leaders what measures are they going to be discussing. and that gives you an idea assuming of just how difficult the challenge is for authorities during that meeting today because of the one hand they have to understand the certain coronavirus fatigue that people here in germany have many want to actually further reopening step but on the other hand they have to look at the situation on the ground not those rising cases the exponential growth of more and more hotspots here in germany so what can be expected today is that they'll pull the handbrake on those reopening steps that they had presented

a few weeks ago that's why there is discussion today here in berlin across germany that germany will go back to a sort of strict lockdown and dissolve as is something that's affecting people across the country also businesses across the country and d.-w. news visited one of those businesses to see exactly how they're being affected by all these restrictions. about along here this homemade chocolate cherry cake is a favorite with customers at the moment they can only serve it to go. but that doesn't cover her costs at all by now she's accumulated a debt of around 35000 euros. if germany were to tighten restrictions again she'd be forced to close. a 2nd about a loss of hope. if the 3rd lock down is actually put in place then i would definitely have to shut down for good. think because i'm taking out 2 loans which

i'll have to pay back. time on i just wouldn't know how to go on. many businesses in germany fear for their existence some have already given up meanwhile cases in the country are increasing rapidly just weeks after restrictions were eased and schools and some shops reopened. more people are on the move exposing themselves to the risk of infection. researchers warn germany's vaccination rollout has not progressed enough to counteract this. often gets heated it'll get into talk even if we've already vaccinated many of the elderly there is still a large proportion of vulnerable people who have not been given the job in fits into it so i mean we still haven't vaccinated enough that's why the number of patients in intensive care units will rise again. many people in germany are torn at the prospect of tighter restrictions. or guys that i'm not thrilled to because

it's been going on for a year now and at some point you're really done with it all i live indoors people i'd rather be open and just live it's boring it's good to feel that there are many cases now and we have to be careful. that. if we keep everything open then infection numbers will go up and that's a problem. but if we close everything that means many businesses will go bust bankrupt. because still hopes to avoid bankruptcy she still wants to sell her homemade cakes for many years to come. here thomas we saw there people are frustrated that the vaccination campaign here has been so slow is there any indication that it is going to have better. it has definitely been slow sumi if you compare it for example to other countries like the u.k. israel the united states or even within the e.u. there are different reasons for that from bureaucracy to supply problems and that's

the reason why leaders actually made last week to try and speed up that vaccination program it's been said time and time again that to this is the way out of the of the pandemic so this gives you an idea of just how important this is the next step here in germany is to involve g.p.'s of how many doctors so that they can administer some of those very important coronavirus vaccines is on the one hand expected to help speed up the program but it's also expected to give it some flexibility which is also very needed in these times germany has a very strict procedure in place who can receive which back which vaccine when and then as well as that is another issue here which is trust and it is also expected that by using family doctors by including them in the process then trust in the vaccine can be increased you know that family doctors and g.p.'s have a very important connection to their own patients as a relationship of trust that obviously the german government is aware of in thomas meanwhile as these issues continue the german health ministry unspun is facing some tough questions over

a controversial facemask contract tell us more about that. that's correct so the contract refers to one that was signed between the ministry of health on the one hand and a company for which spawn's husband actually works and this is obviously raised a lot of questions here in germany both the ministry and the company involved have denied any wrongdoing but this comes on top of an already very difficult time for i'm going to mow cause conservatives and spawn is one of them because the conservatives are involved in another mosque mosque procurement scandal which has finally affected the conservatives in recent years service in recent polls so this just gives you an idea of another problem here in germany it's not only about vaccines and only about rising coronavirus numbers it's also about this problem that i'm going to cause conservatives are now facing our political correspondent thomas sparrow thank you. it's now the u.s. city of miami in florida has imposed a nighttime curfew after crowds of party goers ignored social distancing rules

restrictions are likely to remain in place until after easter city is one of america's tourist hot spots. thousands of people flock to southern florida every year if the spring break this time that the takut of an emergency crackdown. huge crowds have brought chaos and disorder to miami beach the authorities response the posses of. you i feel like you know i don't know i don't know if anybody learned from last year's experience we did in the sense that we know younger people are going to know we're lives i'm hoping they did but i think a lot of younger people are feeling like they want to get out and go crazy we're trying to let them know don't do that don't come here to do that. a curfew from 8 in the evening until 6 in the morning aims to put a stop to the hot posturing that you see in restaurants trashed and fighting break

out in the streets. visitors have mixed views on the side knocked down. or. those doing a they be what is out here joint to be and you know it's a good vibe but they want to shut it down to 8 o'clock he will go somewhere else or take their money somewhere else so it is what it is what people live i think it is a good idea even though it's fine out here like we want to be out here no one i think it's a good idea for everyone should be like you know i get kicked in their own place he's yes i mean it's kind of sucks but at same time there's been so much fun out here and you know like you got the warm weather here at the beach there's nice. tourism is florida's highest earning industry last year spring break was one. if the 1st major casualties of the pandemic. beaches were closed as america went into

lockdown. a year on even stricter measures are in place to remind gravitas that the pandemic is far from over. australia is set to evacuate thousands more people from sydney suburbs as the region grapples with its worst flooding in decades heavy rains have swelled rivers across new south wales state causing widespread damage emergency services fear that more than 50000 people could be displaced as forecasts show more rain is on the way. a desperate attempt to save a stranded horse. to wrench will rain and flush floods in the straightest states of new south wales have cut onus off from that the most for many creatures help has come too late. at least 18000 people have been evacuated from their homes as rivers and dams overflow.

some are trying to shore up their houses as best they can ahead of the looming waters. others have already seen their homes ravaged by the flooding. a wave we think can. tap but everything's. gone. but. you've got to be thankful for. that but residents have been warned that the worst may still be to come and told to brace for a difficult week ahead. australia is being tested once again. the east coast of australia predominantly south wales grocery store so in south east queensland his price to be extraordinary deluge over recent days. in many places rains are expected for at least the next 24 to 48 hours but i feel worse. the

extreme downpours battering a stray east have course the worst flooding in half a century having already battled drought bushfires and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic over the past year community for a feeling pushed to breaking point. and we can speak now to poppy brown she's the director of the australian red cross for new south wales and the australian capital territory poppy thank you for joining us as we heard dozens of communities have been isolated 38 areas have now been declared disaster zones put this into context for us how dire is the situation right now well yes it has been a very difficult few days here and. as you want to hire say to be 18000 people evacuated we've supported over a 1000 people in evacuation centers there's a people had nowhere else to go. in some areas it's a once in a century flood event and a lot of these areas suffered in the bushfires about

a year or so ago interact as well so particular it's been a particularly hard couple of years for those communities and this is just one more setback for them so we're trying to do all we can to support them in this situation but it is a very difficult time and you know what are the biggest challenges you're facing right now. so one of the things we're facing is the fact that the waters have risen so quickly so in some areas people have had to be woken in the middle of the night they've had to evacuate just the clothes that they are wearing so we've had people come to evacuation centers here just in which close with their children with their animals and they're in shock they've been traumatized you know all their possessions are in their homes so it's been very very difficult for those people and also a lot of concerns about their livestock in the farms and things like that so yeah

it's it is a very difficult time but our communities are very strong and resilient so we will bounce back but all the agencies and the government is trying the best we can to to help our communities at the moment with tens of thousands of people already displaced and more rain forecast i mean what are you telling people and how they can protect themselves. here so what we're doing is we're very much ensuring that everybody has an emergency plan and if people are in those areas they look like they're in danger that what they should do is they should. go and stay with friends and family should pack up their homes if they need to move to higher ground and make sure they follow all of the instructions of the sea services and then that they will be safe but we don't want to have his people in need to be rescued in the flood because so far we have had no loss of life so we want to make sure that it stays that way if more rain does come are you worried that the situation could get

worse. absolutely so it's a very volatile situation moment i know that. in the sydney area the big dam that big water dams that supports the sydney area it's currently spilling over every single day enough water to fill sydney harbor that's the amount of water that's going into the rivers in that. and then they come downstream in this instance let's say we're not over the worst. bets that we send you have off think is cos that the rain eases and the flood situation eases because a lot of. life into the impacted poppy brown director of the australian red cross for new south wales and the australian capital territory thank you very much thank you. to bonus like a soccer now in a big day for 2 teens hoping to escape relegation both had cumberland and mines

posted upsets how to hold off the biggest surprise victory over leverkusen. the berlin coach paul dyer day knew he had to win lose this one and it would slowly become mission impossible for his team to survive in the big league. so i had to push forward like seldom before totally overwhelming labor crews and right from the start and that paid off they scored in the 4th minute with a rocket of a goal courtesy of the all vice euros i point with an excellent set up by midfield dynamo matteo gone dizzy and dirty look at bucky one nil for hair. the berliners kept pouring it on and in the 26 minute one back what looked like a last ball to set up much criticised brazilian striker much. and he smelled a goal. to neil for hair to and coutinho was back on the scoreboard after more than a 1000 minutes of play without a goal. and it wasn't over yet just 7 minutes later colombian john cordova made it

3 no. and that's how it ended with no goals in the 2nd half. really for character but they also know they have a long road ahead and leverkusen have some work to do also. byron munich striker robert love and bosky has been honored for his footballing prowess with an award from his native poland he received the commander's cross of the order of polonia restitute one of the country's highest honors a from president in warsaw the polish striker has been on fire the season after a half track have trick rather over the weekend he is just 5 goals away from gad mellows record for a single witness think this season. all right coming up next on news asia myanmar scar an ethnic minority feels the brunt of a renewed crackdown by the me and mar military. and to india and the united states

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