this is being hotly debated on both continents. stolen soul starts april 13th on t.w. . this is e.w. news live from berlin germany's chancellor merkel u. turn over a stricter easter lockdown calling in i expect a crisis meeting merkel overturns a decision to send the country into a 5 day shutdown she now says the plans were a mistake. also coming up israel is back in political deadlock the country's fulfill action in just 2 years returns in decisive results long serving prime

minister benjamin netanyahu claims victory but exit polls suggest he'll fall short of a majority. and miramar is set for more anti coupe protests today and there are reports that security forces shot dead a 70 year old girl becoming the youngest victim of the military crackdown. and that australia the wild weather is easing but it actually continue. emergency services rescue residents stranded by the worst flooding in decades one has a dangerous debris lurking in the floodwaters. i'm going to have our 1st welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel as council plans for a stricter plan to. nick shot down over the easter break following an unexpected

crisis meeting with state leaders merkel said they hastily drawn up plans own mistake this comes just a day after the leaders had announced a 5 day hard lock down from april 1st which would have shot most shops and church services but they face criticism and confusion over how the measures would have been enforced there was also anger at domestic holidays being restricted while some international trips were still allowed here is chancellor merkel speaking at a press conference just a short while ago. i think it's a mistake must be acknowledged as such and to powerful it must be corrected as soon as possible. at the same time i'm well aware that this entire situation is causing added uncertainty i deeply regret this and i also own citizens to figure out for me. let's bring in our chief political. story for us

michelle head of government claiming their own decision was a mistake asking for forgiveness even that's highly unusual isn't. yes that's quite a remarkable move it was a statement she didn't take any questions and the last time she did this was when she made a statement against russia over than involving poisoning. at the same time this is rather unique because she stressed that this was her mistake and her mistake alone after all this is a piece of paper virtually signed off on by all 16 state premiers here in germany it was her late night proposal that in the effectively ended almost 12 hours of negotiations and what appears to be issue over her leadership style we're hearing criticism all around that this simply pops out that people didn't have a chance to see what is coming also german industry pushing back german churches

were not consulted after and then suddenly being asked not to hold services on the most important day for christians and so this all amounted to a policy rollback now and this very very public apology clearly from a leader who is no longer in the race for the next elections that may well make a difference this certainly damages leadership while i'm stopped the majority of germans was still behind in ever tougher lockdown what else beside this apology to factually. basically for now she's sticking with the formula that was hammered out looking at the 7 day incidence rates here in germany that emergency brake which would roll back some of the openings that had been agreed on will now kick into place all around the country but it certainly isn't a picture of unity a tour and it actually raises more questions that need to be debated still open is what happens about foreign trips this is something that angela merkel was also set

against and this only added to the confusion that germans were able to travel to me york while they were not able and so on able to travel within their own state i would expect some more clarification there but clearly there's an end to machall leading this crisis management this is all quite clearly and visibly and tangibly for everyone now down to every individual state something she wanted to avoid right at the beginning of this crisis and throughout. well you just mentioned this is she just maybe saying that she's fed up and this she's saying to the state premiers after enough of this you do it. no that's not her style it's all of she's a woman who very much emphasizes the duty she's a moderate and she likes to forge a consensus this was very unusual for her to spring this upon her state premiers in the middle of the night and it clearly backfired not just on her but also on those

individual state premiers although there was some applause from experts also from the medics association here in germany which felt that this wave break a knock down was needed so this is more and more about leadership style rather than the concrete results of this gathering and it raises yet more questions which will now be solved very much recently so it's a it's a shift in how germany deals with this crisis and it clearly is a crack in. leadership while this living legacy that she is and it raises a lot of questions how she will try to lead this over the coming months because she's lost a lot of credibility here. chief political editor thank you for this analysis i mean here just mentioned the medical profession let's speak now to dr johnson's he's the head of the german association of critical care emergency medicine dr

johnson looks like these the shutdown is going to be this isn't going to be a strict as we expected what do you make of this u. turn now what does it mean for you. so the german intended as a situation of to the candidates and then merge the mess and we said weeks ago before the last meeting of chancellor merkel with prime ministers of the 16 states that we. set to go on with the lockdown until and of march the decision 3 weeks ago was to open so we acknowledge that the infection rates rises daily and now we are above 200 incidents 410-0007 days so. it was clear that they have to a stuck to their decisions 3 weeks ago we also said that is was quite a good decision to do a wave break out lock down as she your correspondent just named it over these 2

days but on the other hand we have to acknowledge that the decisions seem to be not very popular and many people political and as well the inhabitants of germany they are not quite satisfied with this decision so i was quite astonished to just hear this new decisions and that will mean and that was quite good formulated by your correspondent burnin the ups and downs in the decision and at this moment i think everybody is does. we are we are looking in the next days our obligation as physicians is to heal people to safe from 19 we are not political decisions. to be made they should secure the people from getting the infection and can i just

interrupt you there without these strict lockdown measures in place what are you seeing coming for german hospitals and how far away are they from breaking point especially the intensive care units. so we we see that the last 7 to 10 days the numbers of covert 19 patients is rising not as quick but the number is rising so if you don't start to lock down. a lot of people go without. stopping and go to shops we will see that the infection rates will rise so. professor wheeler from the robert costa institute stated 2 weeks ago that he fears that the number of infections per day will be above $35.00 of the day around the world is that it will be quite much at the moment 2.5 to 3 percent of these numbers

will need intensive therapy so this would be higher number true true well for 40 days after easter so in the intensive care medicine we always see the developments and 10 to 14 days later we see what happens with and then them it's and so we set at the moment we have rising figures and we must state that the british the patient the the 117 is quite much more infectious and it seems to be more aggressive so we have. a lot of old people vaccinate at this moment but the people between 60 and 80 years they are not x. and so they are at risk and we fear that they get the infection of the b 117 and that will take a back cause when they get cold with 90. dr we on since thank you very much for take the time to talk to us i thank you.

time now for a quick roundup of some other stories making headlines around the world the chinese cities of home call in macau of suspended use of the biotech pfizer covert 19 vaccine defective packaging was reported in one batch of the drug authorities say they have acted as a precautionary measure the vaccines manufacturers say there's no reason to believe safety is at risk. germany has summoned the chinese ambassador burleigh in to complain about sanctions imposed on its politicians and scientists calling them unacceptable china was hit by european union sanctions on monday for human rights abuses against the we go people beijing responded by sanctioning a number of european lawmakers. israel's 4th election in 2 years has again failed to produce a clear winner incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory for his right wing likud party but exit polls suggest he will fall short of securing an

outright majority and will lead to a coalition talks with rivals the final results may not be known until later this week. may netanyahu support is declaring there is only one man for them. but this is not the decisive victory that netanyahu and his luck could potty had been hoping for with counting still underway this polarizing politician doesn't appear to have enough seats to form a coalition government even with the support of his ultra orthodox and nationalists rightwing allies he said painting far more parties to back him in the school little state needs a stable government. not a government of bits and pieces based on personal disqualifications on ambitions a stable government for the state of israel that's what the our demands that's what

the challenge is in front of us demand and we must not under any circumstances drag the state of israel to new elections to a 5th election we must form a stable government and now you see both of us up. yeah i love peter has been netanyahu smain rival in this election. but despite his push his centrist party yes shah teed is still at a distant 2nd. this man and his nationalist right wing yamuna party could now play a key role in deciding who forms a government enough tali bennett used to be an ally of netanyahu but he's become a firm critic and has refused to say who hill supporting coalition talks. if look i will act only under one guiding principle. of

what is good for israel. much of what is good for all the citizens of israel. binyamin netanyahu is still facing corruption charges which he denies. but he's also won support for the country's successful coronavirus facts a nation program. not enough though to know if this veteran politician will remain israel's controversial prime minister. who protesters in myanmar try a new tactic they've dubbed a silent strike calling on people to stay at home and for businesses to remain closed for the day streets are deserted and markets are shot activists at the silent protest as to all of those who lost their lives during weeks of demonstrations against military rule the strike comes day after a 7 year old girl was shot dead in her home by soldiers who had been aiming at her

father she's the youngest victim yet of the military's crackdown on protesters. and i'm now joined by one of those protesters in me a mahu we are just calling sam to protect his identity sam a 7 year old girl was apparently killed in her home last night by the military understand the shooting happened in your neighborhood what more can you tell us yes they came in with any warnings. they all went into inside her house and to search some things and then when they are a bunch of leads in short they point to shorter knowing that there are. also shot at or look or have a theory or nearby. one of the ways or what started also and he is not in critical condition. we're also hearing that the junta is releasing hundreds of prisoners now

does that suggest the regime is bending to the protests yes there is some points to make and to do strike. seems you know the ones you called were from there were. news media that. is on a strike it's not happening because people who are known to be you know. the people there at least. i have reports know that. one of the one of the i know the money member was arrested in angola just just now. so how are you personally bearing the strain of these constant raids by security forces how is your morale and the morale feel fellow protesters. you know where we are we have very hard morrow. yesterday we were you know trying to hold all the

street so that we can come into our neighborhood and search shooting everyone there or what happened was we got clarence some boats all right and they started shooting live rocks. stars our color was our song grenade one of the cooler. when i have spent a large extent of meat or not a critter here this is a room so. we had to run very certain words last week from there. it was very lucky there were no one can hurt. in a same day 12 people were shot directly mentally. and what a real. thank you very much some one of the protesters for democracy in the i'm often slow food time we're going to india now it's been one the years since the country announced a complete nationwide lockdown at the time it was the world's strictest last week for 68 days today the country is racing to vaccinate its population against the

coronavirus the pandemic has pushed demand for frontline medical workers to an all time high not just in india western countries are busy hiring medical stuff and many come from the southern indian state of corolla we sent our correspondent in michigan as well to corolla where she met some of the latest recruits plenty. ungentle grew up in and out of hospitals as a severely anemic child she was often admitted for treatment. but that traumatic experience spock tram bishan i really got inspired by the ministers who cared for me because of them i really wanted to be a nurse i want to earn a lot to look after my family and as for the last 2 posts to something. extraordinary in my life and she plans to do just that

which is why this morning and you isn't headed to the hospital she's going to english class. for decades now nurses like anju have been emigrating from the south indian state of keller. to work in hospitals in the middle east and europe and undo plans to move to the u.k. with her family to take up a nursing job the country is easing these are processes. and offering food and accommodation books for applicants. but still needs to pass an english test to qualify. she's joined an each week course offered to nurses who need to boost their english skills. many of these women have already worked in covered 19 wards. something suited these classes of welcome brick. but all of them also seem to be itching to get back and they want to take

their fight global pandemic this country or india compared to the western on this especially the u.k. so i guess i know that i can do the same for them also we have managed to contain the pandemic in the 1st few months it was it was a mortal for the whole world and i really believe that we can do the same in all the other countries as well i believe that this is a really strong and this pandemic has really mordred as 2 faces released and our skills have improved international recruiters seem to agree the state sponsored consultancy where these women are being trained has helped nurses emigrate since the seventy's but they've never seen demand like this double salaries chartered flights interview reverse an expedited results are becoming the norm. comes during a pandemic the north has become the real warriors the world realizes that even

soldiers can't do anything no one can except nurses all the health care workers they are fighting so the demand for them is higher. for and a movie be as much about helping fight the pandemic in the u.k. as about securing her child's future play here. education. to my sense. of humor be better in his future and can answer anything untrue believes nothing is all about. it may be why she's unafraid of leaving behind all she knows to save lives far from home. some of the other developments in the pandemic brazil's daily covert 19 death toll has soared past 3000 for the 1st time the country is struggling to contain a surge in cases many hospitals are breaking point cuba says it will administer

homegrown experimental covert 19 shots to nearly the entire population of the capital have an eye by may as health authorities carry out late stage trials and the e.u. is introducing tougher controls on covert 19 vaccine exports the step is meant to ensure supplies of the job and help boost the block's sluggish vaccine rollout well for more on the e.u.'s latest move i'm joined by a man in brussels girls not us why is the e.u. doing this and why now. but there are there from the perspective of the you the e.u. is basically the pharmacy of the world exporting as many vaccines as no other country in the world 41500000 doses have left the e.u. destined for other countries including for instance the u.k. which received 10000000 doses but do you in return received basically if you stay with the example of the u.k. nothing and so what the e.u. has now. done is asking member states who export vaccines to carefully

consider whether those exports are justified and they basically added the criteria so far the criteria was is the company fulfilling their contract so in case of astra zeneca that wasn't the case and so vaccines exports were stopped and now what they're doing is to say we need to look at the epidemiological situation in the country where vaccines are destined for it are they ahead of us in the vaccine process and secondly reciprocity they want to see to what extent are countries where our vaccines from europe are going sending us vaccines back and so these are the new to keep my tyria so what does that mean you're mentioned what it means for the u.k. but what does this mean for countries actually depending on vaccines from europe well the vaccine no sharing scheme for really countries worldwide the so-called cure back scheme is is now is not affected the kovacs scheme rather is not affected

by that but it does mean of course for countries like the u.s. like in the u.k. that have their own vaccine scheme that an export ban might be on the table. mothers in brussels the 1st thank you carol. to australia now a large part of the country remain underwater after a week of relentless rain emergency services which last year that's old unprecedented bushfires and now rescuing residents from flooded homes has its includes dangerous debris lurking in the flood waters. to venture rains have been unstoppable in australia's east bridges roads. cars and buildings are surrounded by water. the flooding has forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. rescue efforts are underway to assist those left behind. alone you know anybody. days of heavy rain have

caused rivers to burst their banks and water levels to rise de vries making recovery efforts all the more difficult. coming up one of the problems we've been encountering. couches things like that are quite dangerous at this point on and it seems that boats are the only option to save those stranded in the terrain. some residents have decided to stay home and to weather the storm people around us not so lucky as in their. neighbors are. so. lucky several areas have been declared disaster zones with floods and severe weather warnings issued from south east queensland to the border area and the cost of the damage is already being felt.

a fair bit closer if the water started almost too much. so i thought to talk quickly about. the. fruit there and. authorities are also offering funds for the displaced they're going residents to be on high alert. overnight unfortunately some conditions have and. many communities will experience increasing heavy rainfall and as we had 5. 1000 people have been evacuated and regrettably we have warnings now for an additional $15000.00 people that may need to be evacuated. while there have been no lives lost rebuilding. the harms and businesses destroyed in this disaster will come at the highest cost.

you're watching the news here's a reminder of all the top stories this hour german chancellor angela merkel has unexpectedly counseled plans for a stricter lockdown over a step back allow the crisis meeting today with state leaders following criticism over the plans for a 5 day shutdown she now says the plans are not practical and a misstep. i'm got of zimbabwe and there's more world news out of the top of the hour thanks for watching.

eco africa. animal conservation by a long chain software developers in south africa are making it possible takes away a lot of the iraq for scene and and surefire to walks people really care about glitches protect. from the environment. your able to find

a lot of our conservation work for ricky through the country. now for go. on to. read the real talent resides. i come from there are lots of people in fact know the breed and if you could lead not just democracy that's one reason i'm passionate about people and aspirations and they can sense. the mission the book is fried chicken but ends up in the form of the bun in one and i remember thinking at the time if the barley in broken hill was anything can happen if people come together and unite for a while. but i do the news that often confronted difficult situations more conflict between does the us down i see despite my job in france because he does on policies

and development of the spotlight and issues that matter most hungover food security question martian isolation. or not has been achieved with so much more needs to be done and i think people have to be at the heart of solutions my name is on the fact she's on and i work at the devil. hello aand welcome to africa where i'm in show co-produced by n.t.v. in uganda the image area and. i am. with

orange is michael st hi chris how are you today very well sondra thanks a lot and a warm welcome to all you have you also out there for me to have a lot is tall for you on today's program so let's quickly take a look at what we have coming up. we investigate plus to go is doing only victoria. see how on the entrepreneur in cameroon is recycling banana trunks. beilin how women in the gambia are talking the country is huge plastic waste problem. what does block chain have to do with nature conservation month and you might think that 3 young startup entrepreneurs in south africa have found it a trip to platform it allows users to trade digital animals if it helps the environment at the same time let's take a closer look at how it works. with. happy

lions with nothing to worry about these big cats other fin the game reserve in south africa are protected but conservation initiatives like these cost money and drumming up donations requires a lot of time and effort together with 2 friends and fellow nature lovers jason sims came up with an idea to make the 18 to animal conservation more attractive with the aid of modern technology. all of us grew up in south africa and. all of us. expanse the bush. love those experiences us as children and crying up we want to preserve that and we've all been following blocked technology for a while and to be able to put that together and merge those 2 passions was was

really special for us the 3 friends live in cape town and work as software developers every transaction in the digital block chain can be carried out 60 entrants parent li most importantly it is recorded so what is their idea exactly all of our different conservation partners on the wild cards platform these conservations have certain types of animals and species that they look after and for every animal that they have we represent that is a unique digital artwork on the block chain that only one person can have and if you own this wild card you essentially pay a monthly amount to actually support that organization and you can see that money essential flying directly through to that organization and he's on the wild cards digital clock why he didn't buy and sell rare animal cards using crypto currency with each card there is a back story details of its purchase history and even the photo of the animal in

some cases and every month 20 percent of each card's asking price is donated by its owner to a conservation organization of their choice $1.00 of the 1st organizations to benefit is that while tomorrow fund an american ngo that wants to open up a corridor for wildlife migration and south africa the corridor will reconnect animal populations and the pin the reserve and the east among the lisa wetlands park which are still divided by fencing. before the fencing can come down the corridor needs to be cleared of invasive vegetation. it's an l. and t. and the green members and all the landscape restoration crews are seeing to that. let the cat. out it's really important that we remove these plants. otherwise the animals eat them and could die. and they also get skin disease and sometimes.

great canning is the general manager of wild tamara funded south africa the conservation organization has received more than 45000 euros in funding through wild cards the money went toward training to remembers and covering the cost of transforming what was once a pineapple farm into a wilderness area. how it works do you not know unfortunately and what i do know is you know that we are able to find a lot of our conservation work directly through cryptocurrency and and through organizations such as wild cards. while cards make supporting conservation simpler and more direct. because it takes away a lot of the bureaucracy and purifies a to what people really care about which is protecting the environment the wildlife in the pin the game reserve will certainly benefit if more funds are generated but walcott scientists are also aware of this attractive aspect of this game. block

change exactions consume large amounts of energy and have a huge c o 2 footprint around 30 kilos of carbon transaction you can uses a lot of electricity and the size is concerning and i actually don't believe it's sustainable but also taking a step a step back if we were to use the traditional financial system we would be paying you know all of the resources of the bank employees driving to and from work and all the construction of those big buildings but it's a huge concern and we are going to reduce that as much as we can over time as as new technologies come out we'll move to those technologies that are more efficient so while christ has a dollar might get to solve finding a modern efficient way to help protect critically endangered animals without adversely contributing to the already critical climate crisis. from south africa to germany more precisely to the former borders but once separated east and west

germany to say more of the strip of land is a thriving nature reserve they have been even some sightings of links some dry can you tell us more about during the communist era this was a well guarded sparsely populated stretch of mont but in the last 3 decades it's been reclaimed by nature we escorted a by we're just on a trip to what used to be the summer border and it's now an extraordinary by a top. this was once a heavily fortified border dividing east and west germany today it's the hearts national park one of germany's largest nature reserves the park has been overseen by biologist going to cost ever since its creation 30 years ago. the unique thing about this national park is that we're giving nature nearly 25000

hectares of space to do what it wants. it's rare to have such a large forest area with no connection to the timber industry. where nature is free rein to show what it can do. back when the national park was created staff had to start from scratch a stretch of no man's land 100 metres wide was known as the death strip because the communist border guards were under orders to shoot anyone trying to cross in 1989 soldiers were still patrolling the border the barbed wire and concrete fortifications were practically insurmountable. 3 decades later nature has filled the deathstroke with new life to build the birch trees have managed to prevail so many herbicides and pesticides were used here there's hardly anything would grow and yet so much has happened here in the past 30 years as

a few up. and it's not just the plants that are making a comeback several rare animal species are also reclaiming their natural habitats a hidden camera has captured the latest arrivals a leaks the predatory wild cat died out in this region around 200 years ago but today more than 100 animals have settled in the area thanks to the intervention of staff. there were links in the hearts region for a long time. until they were killed off by us. they deserved to be back in the hearts and so we started reintroducing them in 1904 and 95 and for bill graham it was a successful undertaking which took a lot of hard work the biologist has spent thousands of hours in the woods carefully documenting nature's campaign to recapture its territory along the former

border. but staff at the national park are now facing their biggest challenge to date. as far as the eye can see. there used to be a huge spruces here. long drought and rising temperatures weakened the trees and bark beetles finish them off our journey continues on words to the national parks the highest point. at 1100 meters above sea level we reached our destination the park and. this listening post which used to be sealed off was used by east german and soviet secret services to intercept communications in the west. today it's right next door to the botanists hyde enjoy a garden with hundreds of plants. this means that at least in part the park has returned to its original state over the past 30 years and that makes us really happy. but he's not done yet going to cost him plans to

carry on until one day east and west have fully grown together again for good. if he is a sailing board made from 100 percent recycled plastic with us reported on eat when it was still under construction now he is going on an awareness to own the watches of like toria and were a bit. from a distance it looks like a typical sailing boat but it's not it's actually made of recycled plastic objects and covered in repurposed flip flops inspired by the traditional dow trading vessels it was built on the kenyan coast and is now plying the waters of lake victoria. what's particularly unique about this one is that it is the world's 1st recycled plastic sailing down our hope over time is to create sector industry where people are able to build small boats traditional boats canoes was. etc also from

recycled waste so it's just showing you that you can push the boundaries of what is possible with waste materials. the idea was born on the island of lama virtually car free the people here rely on donkeys carts and of course boats to get around. for centuries local fishermen have built their own wooden doubt a craft handed down from generation to generation. boat builder ali skandha and his team wanted to see if they could construct one of the traditional boats out of plastic. substituting wood with plastic posed a challenge but it also has benefits. we save trees when we use this because every part of one piece of shit so you're going to have a lot of trees. the islands coastline like coastlines all over the world is increasingly littered with plastic waste only part of which is generated by the

islanders even more washes up on it shores. the boat builders and the community regularly collect plastic on the beaches and take it to a recycling plant on the mainland to be processed. after being shredded the plastic is melted at a high temperature and molded in the shape of the boat frames. and. it's a great circulate color me to the waist we can here we process that separate the difficult the plastic the 9 usable stuff. and ali and his team doing a fantastic job putting together. the crew have already sailed from kenya to zanzibar in their plastic down and are now touring like victoria they hope their project will raise awareness of marine plastic pollution and inspire others to take

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