down the east a lockdown will bring everything to a standstill for 5 consecutive days it will take the wind out of his sails of a pandemic and prevent new infections but i know it is a great strain for many many of you hoping to go on holiday over easter but that is a hope we were all have to put on hold and. not everyone germans will still be free to fly in search of some sun providing they test negative before they return home the holy dispute comes amid a backlash over rules that allow tourists to fly to speed but not to holiday within germany. meanwhile the amish to keep schools and childcare centers open with the help of regular testing for teachers and pupils. longer term leaders are hoping that injecting some margin c into their vaccination program will help end the lock down. isn't in a lot of we are in a race to get vaccinated and to feel its effect as soon as possible and for us

there are now 2 main strategies caution and flexibility here. the meeting laid bare the growing tensions between germany's outgoing chancellor and regional leaders a relationship increasingly more of conflict than consensus. so germany is announcing tighter coronavirus measures to combat what chancellor merkel is now calling a new pandemic let's take a closer look at what has been decided the country's current lockdown will be extended to april 18th the extension will include a shutdown of nearly all shops and businesses for 5 days over easter all public gatherings are prohibited and churches will be asked to hold the easter services online many germans like to go on vacation during these the period but the ban on people people holiday inside germany will remain in place but there will be able to

holiday abroad as long as their destination is not listed as a coronavirus hotspot and provided they test negative before boarding their flight home. i'm not joined by political correspondent thomas sparrow thomas the talks dragged on for some 12 hours why was it so difficult to find an agreement. politicians have essentially 2 way between understanding that coronavirus fatigue that is evident among many people here in germany and on the other hand understand the reality on the ground with rising infection with exponential growth with a high number of hotspots and with the prospect of the easter holiday coming up where they fear people would travel more and have more contact that's one element that explains why this particular meeting was so difficult so contentious but this is not the only me the only meeting i had that has been so difficult in the past

the chancellor and regional leaders have also clashed for various reasons and that has to do also with germany's federal system with who exactly decides what can be done and what region and that's something that we've seen throughout the last few months as one issue that has been very difficult between those who attend those meetings. through action but unlike in germany how do ordinary germans think about this well obviously there are still no polls specifically about the new measures it's only been announced a few hours ago and it was something that happened as you yourself mentioned during the night but if you look at how things have developed in recent weeks and when you ask about the possibility of this lockdown extension you will see that there is no clear majority from the german population us to as to what the cause of action should be germans are very much divided into 3 groups of between those who believe that the measures are appropriate those who think they go too far and those who think they don't go far enough the picture is a little bit different dad if you look at germany's vaccination program because

there there is a very clear majority of those who think that it's not going well it'll. do you mentioned there are solution program germany is lagging way way way behind countries like the u.s. the u.k. or israel do you think this is enough is being done to to catch up. i would certainly say that there's a lot of pressure on politicians to increase their efforts to get more done because they've stressed time and time again god that a vaccination is the way out of the pandemic one element that they have put in practice that they're trying to develop in the next few weeks by including g.p.'s and family doctors to the whole administration of the vaccines here in germany it's a big question as to whether they will be able to speed things up immediately but at least that's the hope that officials have and they will help speed up things they will help to make them from more flexible and they will also help to germany to improve its situation when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic on the vaccination program in general thomas barrow the thank you thomas.

the european union prides itself on its open borders between member states but with infection rates on the rise across the continent freedom of travel is being restricted to some borders as governments are trying to slow down the spread of the coronavirus germany now requires commuters from poland to get tested at the border a time consuming and expensive process and we follow one polish construction worker from the border town of slow which is on his long way to work like thousands of poles living near the border rafael mysie ak commutes to germany for one every day . but with the coronavirus infection rate much higher in his home country rafael and his polish colleagues now need to pass a rapid results test at the border twice a week they also need to identify themselves with a so-called commuter pass. by one positive sign is your pass it's been issued by

the german company that has hired you with the. always carry it with you and also your most recent test results in with your team in. order of the. end of. the queue in front of the test site as long delaying the commuters rafał works as a foreman and he has to instruct his workers over the phone as he waits his turn. to get some of the will we need to do to coronavirus tests a week and i don't know what this means in terms of costs i might have to pay for it all myself. before taking the tests the builders have to fill out a lengthy form by hand the bureaucracy does nothing to speed up the process. of the thinking. in that one finally it's rafael's turn to his

surprise he's charged 23 year as. polish community is this supposed to receive one weekly test for free but that information doesn't seem to have reached the test center. that will put us through or go with what i'm relieved that the test was negative and i can go to work. or. soon i'll have to queue up again for hours at a good. all this time wasted and money spent before the hardest death rafał mysie at will be 2 hours late for work. he and his colleagues might have to work overtime today. you're watching t w news still to come. the party is back on in one city or at least how is this happening in the middle of a pandemic of her spondon puts on her dancing shoes and a face mask to find out. but 1st here's

a round up of some of the other stories making headlines around the world officials in bangladesh have begun investigating what caused a massive fire that swept through a refugee camp the u.n. says it is 15 people have died and more than 560 were injured while tens of thousands have been left homeless nearly a 1000000 refugees live in camps in the region i think fled persecution in neighboring myanmar. authorities in australia have issued fresh flood warnings as torrential rains have again pummeled parts of the country officials have ordered 22000 people to be ready to leave their homes potentially joining the 800000 already evacuated the high waters have swept away homes and roads in the worst floods in more than half a century. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has warned germany over its construction of

a gas pipeline with russia speaking on his 1st visit to nato headquarters in brussels blinken said the north stream 2 pipeline running from russia to germany ran counter to the european union's own interests. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said moscow no longer house relations with the european union and only with individual e.u. countries lavrov made the comments as he met with his chinese counterpart the 2 nations affirmed their ties in the face of criticism and sanctions by the e.u. and other western powers over human rights abuses in a joint statement the 2 ministers said no country should seek to impose its form of democracy on any other let's bring in either your correspondent emily show in moscow emily strong words there from the russian russian foreign minister are we going to see a break in iraq russian relations. well i think those

words that we're hearing from said again lover all far more bluster and anger than a real indication that russia will break ties with the e.u. after all in a recent interview the russian foreign minister himself. again that the e.u. is russia's main trade and investment partner and russia is also currently trying to get its vaccines. registered in the u. so it be rather on strategic to break ties completely now i think instead this is a reaction to the e.u. sanctions that were leveled against russia yesterday and it is of course though part of an increasingly confrontational rhetoric that we've been seeing from russia confrontational words and actions in fact russia has been accusing the u.s. and the e.u. of meddling in its in its national affairs over their reaction to the poisoning of

opposition politician aleksey now vining for example in february 3 e.u. diplomats were expelled i think this is russia really showing if you push us we're going to push back this is also a sign and believe that moscow is moving towards closer cooperation with. knox's most called for going to come home to western interests on the world. i think russia and china as today are very much showing their defiance showing a united front as a reaction to u.s. foreign policy and the diplomatic course that the u.s. seems to have taken there was this recent meeting between u.s. and chinese officials which was very confrontational and there was also joe biden calling a killer this week but i don't think there will be a new bloc china just isn't that interested in russia economically i think this is more show than

a real new block forming. did of your correspondent emily sherman in moscow thank you only. at least 10 people including a police officer been killed at a mass shooting in the u.s. state of colorado the attack on the city of boulder is the 2nd multiple killing within a week president joe biden has called on congress to enact quote 'd commonsense gun law reforms. a supermarket in boulder colorado now the scene of a tragic mass shooting the grocery store is popular with families and students many in shock over what happened. early in their. repair and then there are. like. every run every. girl you know we're working through the 3rd group early word for word.

i just sort of big bang like it's kind of weird enough as a gunshot or whatever but. i was just like pi 3 seconds before her another it's like. they're over to her and they had to hear like push up and the. police confirmed multiple loss of life among those killed a police officer official say the rapid response by law enforcement agencies minimized fatalities without that quick response we don't know. if there would have been more loss of life i can share with the public today or this this evening that there is no ongoing public threat that we do have a person of interest in custody. that suspect seen here half dressed being led by police onto a stretcher was seriously injured and is being treated in hospital. it's the 2nd

mass shooting in just a week in the u.s. gun violence is one of the most hotly debated topics in american politics last month joe biden common sense gun reform many will now be looking at how the president will respond. and israel voters are heading to the ballot box today in the country's forced national election in just 2 years voters face a choice between blocs that backlog. standing prime minister benjamin netanyahu and those who seek to oust him at yahoo is running and despite standing trial for corruption the opposition fragmented opinion polls suggest the vote will once again lead to a shaky coalition if one can be formed at all. every vote counts and every detail action of support. and not part 2 sniffs next to the gaza border and south in israel she's out in the streets to remind people to vote she has no doubts about who should remain prime minister benjamin netanyahu. feel

eggless now it's the moment of the elections i'm here to remind people who is the best to vote for him bibi netanyahu made a liquid that's all that could be the 4th election in 2 years it's once again seen as a vote for or against benyamin netanyahu the leader of the likud party ran his election campaign on the much admired covert 19 vaccination drive and the reopening of the economy this time he has several challenges all running on an anything but netanyahu ticket here with his centrist yes a tea party is 2nd in the polls. exley could politician with new hope also aims to replace netanyahu just like right wing enough tony bennett from yemenia who's left it open whether he would join a coalition with netanyahu we have about 3 to 4 live there is anything that they're

. standing divided against that then you know so if you stand together but you are divided. the ability of co-working is very limited so the ability for them to form a coalition that will be able to govern and will be able to survive. is improbable to reach a majority in the knesset the israeli parliament and to form a government parties need to get 61 out of 120 seats for many israelis netanyahu has become an increasingly divisive figure he's been in office since 2009 and he faces corruption charges in court allegations he denies the now of ours mitten yeah it was days are over he has been our prime minister for 15 years that's it we need something new a different prime minister can achieve the rebuttal sure i think baby would be

reelected because there's no one more promising although i want to believe there is someone else i don't really treasure a little i want the same prime minister to stay because he's good for everyone look around you people are living thanks to the prime minister people our life bibi netanyahu. opinion polls suggest that netanyahu slee could remain the strongest party what's less clear is who can build a coalition one still votes are counted. i don't eat us now from tel aviv is dalia sheindlin she's a policy fellow at the century foundation is this election essentially an up or down vote on benjamin netanyahu. that's a very good question because if you ask many of the voters and many of the political campaigns and even political party leaders it certainly seems so i think the prime you know offering that some of the parties are saying is either we will

keep yours and you have been in power which is for example what the shah's party saying which is the loyalist party or netanyahu has committed itself to going into a coalition with him and of course the challenger on the right the breakaway party of doan's are left likud in order to challenge and yeah however it's worth remembering that this really is the units on yahoo as either someone they love or hate not because of pure emotion but because he represents fundamentally distinct views on ideology policy on the core issues that define israeli life from the israeli palestinian conflict to the nature of israel's democratic institutions the judiciary to some extent the economy even socially liberal ideas versus conservative religious views and so it really is our voting on it and you know who in support of the world view and which direction the country will go next. in support of a world who is one thing but with no also be able to profit from the rather

stunning success of the israeli vaccination campaign. interesting leigh it hasn't really changed his electoral fortunes very much so far in polling and we have lots and lots of public opinion polls and they've been very consistent and it's and you know who has 36 seats in the outgoing knesset and his range almost without any variation over this entire election campaign in the surveys has been $2830.00 seeds with a very slight rise towards the end which a couple of surveys gave him 32 seats now that certainly makes him the strongest party but it looks like he will be losing some seats relative to the last election you might look at that at the success of the vaccination policy and the roll out as retaining his votes in a situation where he is vulnerable as you pointed out he is on currently on trial for 3 different counts of corruption many israelis simply think he's been around too long he has been serving for the last 12 years 15 years cumulatively if you

count the 1990 s. and in a normal situation you would expect his vote to drop so perhaps the vaccinations have helped him retain 1st place but they don't appear to be pushing him any stronger and certainly the prone it's on yahoo parties those who would go into the block with in a coalition with them are still not crossing 60 seats in any of the surveys we'll see what happens of course and we can always expect surprises but it doesn't seem like the vaccinations have changed people's minds for or against him pretty close stonechild lived in tel aviv thank you donna thank you. now when was the last time you went to a concert or a big event with hundreds of people packed tightly into one space is offered possible for many of us due to the pandemic but revelers in one dutch city were now able to forget about coronavirus just one weekend they took part in a test event run by an organization that's looking to see how we can best return to

some sort of normality while keeping safe. arm in arm face to face for just one weekend in one park in one dutch city beating hasan people dance like there's no one watching. it feels like before corona like immediately in fact plenty of people are watching doctors government officials and event organizers in an initiative called field lab this is more than a concert and it's part of a series of scientific and social experiments the aim to see how people interact when the loud some freedom from coronavirus restrictions everyone here agreed to wear trackers so that all their moves at the concert can be recorded they will be witness to a little bit where. we don't care would not only be ok they all tested negative to get in and will take another test 5 days after the event if anyone test positive

contacts can be traced. is a doctor in a coded ward she knows what's at stake here and she's confident the risks are minimal everyone there is negative the net searching. partiers are being observed in their natural habitat most people here aren't wearing masks and the experiment requires that the experts don't interfere against bosses one of the doctors working with the film project and he admits to being just a little nervous people are careful at the beginning and then during the party. they will be very much less careful so we want to have the way they party usually because otherwise all the data we would have would be it would be senseless field labs peter libert says he's confident the data will prove that these precautions and if sizes can safely expand i think we can prove that we really can increase the

capacity of fishes maybe in steps maybe starting with 50 percent to 70 or 80 percent and in the end we want to have the real goal is to have 100 percent i really hope for everybody in industry as a supermarket and yet somehow we get out of this as soon as possible but for now dr buss says party's over we do this to allow more to give more possibilities in the future but at this time people really should stick to the rules outside this pile of events in other words what happens in betting he's stays and feeding. you're watching t w news here's a reminder of all the top story this hour german chancellor angela merkel says germany is in a new pandemic as the country grapples with an exponential rise in coronavirus because its leaders have agreed to extend the country's lockdown until mid april and a strict 5 day looked shocked and will be enforced over the easter holiday. coming

up next indeed w. news asia a look out the future of e.u. china relations from a european parliament tyrion sanctioned by china. and the indian woman with sort off the medical skills in a pandemic world. we'll have those stories in just a moment and that's it for me on the news seen him go well for us in berlin thanks for watching.

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