this is news coming to you live from berlin germany chancellor under pressure as new coronavirus infections surge was forced to apologize after reversing plans for a strict easter shutdown she's back in front of lawmakers today as germany struggles to contain the 3rd wave of the pandemic also coming up an unexpected find

italian inspectors uncover almost 30000000 doses of vaccine in a astra zeneca factory the company insists it was not hiding shops another provocation from north korea japan says pyongyang fired 2 ballistic missiles into the sea the 1st such test since u.s. president joe biden took office plus one of the world's most critical shipping arteries remains as low tide. stuck in the suez canal. and a hotly anticipated eruption and icelandic volcano back to life after 900 years lying dormant locals flock to the rivers of la both but they've been warned not to get too close.

i'm terry martin good to have you with us germany has recorded over 22000 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours that's according to data released on thursday is the biggest jump in cases since january chancel are going to school is under pressure over her handling of 3rd wave of the pandemic she'll face parliamentarians in just under an hour opposition politicians have criticized her abrupt u. turn in canceling a strict nationwide shutdown planned for easter the idea of a strict ethan lockdown had many here in germany. and the chancellor has said if acknowledged the measure was a mistake in an extraordinary address to people. here on the need to shut down was proposed is the best of intentions because we urgently need to slow down and we've pressed that way but the pandemic never that this proposal was a mistake and you know and feel a mistake must be acknowledged by folks and above all it must be corrected soon as

possible. place was about the same time i am well aware that the sentai a situation is causing added incentive. i deeply regret these and i ask all citizens to forgive me for. the sudden rollback of the measure i did feel to the fire especially for opposition parties at the parliament will. just cause this perfect chaos whose perfect start yesterday was like this 2 days slide spats nobody knows what the rooms are anymore and the knowledge of a faded from the chance of though she takes responsibility that nobody really knows what the submission in. the chancellor's decision this serves respect however it also means a deepening crisis trust when it comes to the fight against the pandemic just because government has failed in its wages 5 just hand them

a coffin and now we need caution and common sense to be able to overcome the 3rd way. political aren't the only ones being left with more questions than answers germans are increasingly but why is that by the government's handling of the crisis . we can't at the time how can it be that people who have means can fly to new york but nobody's allowed to travel to who can island where their prospective go measures to curb infections and. death and i am going to globally just clarity so people get set clear deadlines is a clear schedule on how to go forward with definition but i'm not really impressed that they've changed the rules and in fact we had wanted to travel but unfortunately now we must stay at home. and it's good on the one side but i don't think it's enough. it is the 1st time that the chancellor has admitted so openly

that there was a glitch in her decision making but why some see to move as a lot of others see that as part of the germans government's hit and miss approach to the pandemic. our political correspondent thomas sparrow is following the story for us tell us why do you turn from merkel on shutting things down over easter. essentially terry because she was being criticised on most fronts because of that decision she acknowledged herself in an interview with german television that only intensive care personnel had actually supported decisions or basically everyone else was either critical or at least had plenty of questions and uncertainty about the move uncertainty and by the way also merkel acknowledged in that remarkable apology because it's important to stress that this was extraordinary german media have reported that this is unprecedented that i. had not apologizing any of the previous crises that she had managed to talk with if we talk about the financial

crisis the refugee crisis now the coronavirus crisis this just gives you an idea terry of the importance of angle of merkel's message and how controversial it is as well because it has generated many opinions here in germany where the some actually support the chancellor for coming out publicly and stressing that she made a mistake others have actually said that this is just that this just shows that the extent to which i'm going to merkel's power here in germany is waning when there are only few months before that very important federal election in which germans will elect her successor. as we saw in a report there told us many people in germany are frustrated with the government's handling of the pandemic what's going role. there's no doubt terry that there's frustration here in germany there's uncertainty about these various lock downs that decisions that are then made and then reversed there's confusion in particular about what measures apply when and where and it's important because although

germany was actually lauded was actually praised for the way it handled the 1st wave of the pandemic with its track and trace methods with its comparatively low death rate now the situation is very difficult both during the 2nd wave and the 3rd wave and this is something that's hitting that's affecting the german leadership style as well a lot it's affecting obviously politicians also angela merkel's conservative party c.d.u. and it has to do with various issues a very slow vaccine rollout all the problems with the 3rd 3rd wave to try and bring numbers down so there are various different issues that explain why this particular 2nd and 3rd wave is affecting germany in a much stricter much stronger sense than the 1st wave in which when he was actually praised you mentioned the political fallout there thomas how damaging is all this for medical c.d.u. party just 6 months ahead of the general election. i'm glad michael will not be

part of the election in september but she has obviously an interest in make sure that has c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc is strong ahead of that election and what we're seeing is that the c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc is receiving criticism from all sides it's also losing a lot of support and from that perspective it will be interesting to see if they can recover and how they can recover ahead of that all important election in september always thank you very much that was our political correspondent tell us sparrow there. will be addressing the german parliament in just over an hour from now we'll be carrying that speech the chancellor speech for you live here on d. w.t.v. well in that speech medical will also address plans for a virtual e.u. summit beginning later today leaders will grapple with how to contain a 3rd wave of the credit virus crisis sweeping across europe and whether to start blocking exports of the astra zeneca vaccine to the u.k. the drug maker has failed to meet its huge delivery targets the e.u.

says millions of doses just found in italy are earmarked for use in the walk for donation to poorer countries. there was great excitement when italian authorities found 29000000 doses of vaccine in this astra zeneca bottling plant near rome italian press had reported they were destined for the u.k. . astra zeneca has so far failed to meet its either delivery targets according to the european commission and delivery of 120000000 doses was originally agreed for the 1st quarter of 2020 pounds after huge shortages the number was reduced to 30000000 by mid march only 21000000 vaccines had been to live it it's not clear exactly where the truth nice astra zeneca states that 13000000 at the takes his were intended for export to low income countries and $16000000.00 to the e.u. the company also said it was incorrect to coolest a stockpile because the vaccine doses needed to wait. quality control once the

files had been felled. and the ongoing rather vaccine distribution in the e.u. the e.u. commission maintains the block has been disadvantaged some $10000000.00 are being exported from kate and from e.u. to u.k. and 0 all those are still being exported from u.k. to e.u. and that's why the e.u. only wants to allow exports to a 3rd country in fact countries also supplies vaccines to the e.u. heads of state and government will decide on this proposal at thursday's east summit. earlier we spoke to our correspondent yard matters in brussels we asked him who is to blame in this latest round of finger pointing between the e.u. the u.k. and astra zeneca. clearly astra zeneca has not been able to keep promises it has made i think that's a fact then the u.k. obviously made a lot of good brick matic decisions but also they have the quantities they had the vaccines and

a lot of those vaccines as we have heard have come from the european union not just by not just astra zeneca but also biotech pfizer and madonna 10000000 doses what the e.u. was not aware of what they did not calculate in their strategy is that the u.k. had a u.k. 1st clause in their contract so one way of looking at it is i think is to say that the e.u. was a bit too naive was trusting too much into open markets in their strategy of getting vaccines. now to north korea which has launched 2 ballistic missiles according to south korea and japan it's believed the 2 short range missiles flew 450 kilometers before landing in the sea analysts say the country has a history of testing new u.s. administrations with missile launches and other provocations to force the americans back to the negotiating table. for more we're joined now by josh smith a reuters correspondent based in seoul good to see you just tell us what are we to

make of these missile launches are they a message to the new u.s. administration or something else well north korea conducts these kinds of tests for multiple reasons not least because it provides them a good practical experience for improving their weapons and also getting strained their troops but it's impossible not to see this in context of the new administration and the review divided ministration is conducting right now it also comes as you mentioned after north korea rebuffed by these stations attempts to reach out to them so in many ways this underscores what we heard from north korea in a statement last week which was that it's not interested in speaking to the united states but that it does come back to the negotiating table it wants to do so on its own terms when course these missile launches raise alarm bells in the region what can you tell us about how south koreans are responding to this. substratum fischel

is here voiced concern they can be in the emergency meetings at national security council and said that they were working closely with u.s. intelligence services and other allies to address this at the same time the moon administration here has been very eager to try to restart. north korea so while they're likely to continue to voice is concerned they in other ways may downplay this in an effort to try to get those talks going again and what are the prospects for getting those talks going again now that we have a new administration in washington. well as we saw during the years under the trumpet ministry north korea can turn on a dime going from fire for fury in 2 major summits which trump so it's difficult to predict but at the moment many analysts don't expect north korea to return to talks quickly not least because they seem quite focused on issues at home including

economic problems and kind of fighting the ongoing accruing virus problem just thank you so much for filling us in that was correspondent josh smith from the reuters news agency consult. now just round up of some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a funeral has been held for the youngest victim so far of security forces in myanmar the 7 year old girl was sitting on her father's knee when police shot her the authorities have released hundreds of detainees as population grows to last month's military coup the u.s. senate has voted to approve president joe biden's choice of rachel a bind to become assistant u.s. health secretary she's the 1st openly transgender person to be confirmed by the chamber despite strong opposition from republicans the bund was confirmed on a boat $52.00 to portie 8. in the u.s. city of boulder colorado

a candlelit vigil was held for the 10 people killed on monday when a gunman opened fire at a supermarket the 21 year old suspect will make his 1st court appearance on thursday he faces 10 counts of murder and an attempted murder charge. a look at some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic india added more than 53000 coded 19 infections overnight it's the highest daily rise in 5 months the country has almost 12000000 cases the 3rd highest number behind the united states and brazil the u.s. has now surpassed 30000000 confirmed cases the new milestone comes as public health experts said more than 25 percent of the u.s. population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine and belgium is reintroducing strict law measures in response to a surge of new infections schools are to be closed on monday and residents will have limited access to non essential businesses. brazil's

coast in 1000 death toll has topped 300000 the 2nd highest in the world behind the u.s. right wing president has launched a crisis taskforce the break is being fueled by a local dairy and of the coronavirus sonora says vaccines are all the way but anger is growing. brazil's grave diggers have never been busier with reports of overflowing marks the cannot bury the dead fast enough families given little time to process their grief so we are in a situation that affects the whole world and no one has so far been able to contain it. only the united states has paid a higher price under fire president yarrow of all snarled try to soothe public anger in a t.v. address. i want to count down the brazilian people and to assure you that the

vaccines are guaranteed by the end of the year we will have more than 500000000 doses to inoculate all the population very soon we will return to normal life my sympathy goes out to all of you who have losses in your families i mean. but as he spoke to the people they pounded their pots and pans in protest. from the windows and balconies of rio de janeiro sao paolo and beyond they made their feelings had some chanting bolsa now roll out. even amongst the vaccinated the frustration at the government's handling of the pandemic runs deep. i really believe that we are as we are because everything was very badly managed since the beginning i never imagined living in a country where the president of the republic is in denial so that made everything

difficult for everyone. and he said to my hacks a nation has to be faster faster a lot of people are dying they are very sick. meanwhile pan american leaders are warning that exploding case numbers in brazil are causing the virus to spread faster in neighboring countries. low tide overnight has slowed efforts to. logs one of the largest container ships currently stuck in the suez canal where it's blocking dozens of cargo vessels and tankers creating the world's largest shipping jam efforts are ongoing to dislodge the ever given owned by transport perm evergreen before it further disrupts the global shipping system the suez canal is a choke point for world trade it connects asia and europe and sees 30 percent of the global container shipping volume every day it's also an important transit point for oil and natural gas one reason why oil prices surged 6 percent wednesday the

question for shippers now is how long will it take to pry the vessel out. more than $100.00 ships are stuck on both sides of the canal after the every give and wedged itself between the eastern and western banks the ship's owner evergreen says a 50 kilometer an hour gust of wind up the ship into the canal walls the 200000 ton vessel which stretches 400 meters is believed to have partially run aground much smaller attack boats are now trying to keep it from. realistically there's no quick fix here if the ship can be can be freed up and moved moved around we can then get good good flowing again the only real realistic long term solution if this does turn to something long term really is to go around the cape and again that's going to add a significant delay to the to the good flowing the current conditions have only added to the walls low tide means the efforts to dislodge the ship will be delayed

a couple of days so the world's biggest shipping jam could even get longer. the torch relay for the tokyo olympics has resumed after a year long delay 10000 runners are due to carry the torch from fukushima to tokyo on a tour through all of japan's 47 prefectures but as the olympic flame makes its way to the opening ceremony on july 23rd organizers still face plenty of problems. the countdown has begun the olympic flame has started its journey through japan and here in focus the relay usually marks the moment the public excitement over the games picks up but this time around the situation is different. concerns that the olympics may lead to a rising coronavirus cases in tokyo have seen the events popularity plummet surveys suggest a majority of people would support the games being postponed again or even cancelled

. despite worries over the international olympic committee and its president thomas back have always insisted the games will take place this. the organization makes most of its revenue from broadcast and sponsorship deals related to the summer and winter olympics so a cancellation would be a major hit to the i.o.c. and many sports federations officials in japan have also faced scrutiny most recently as both the olympic creative director hiroshi society and the president of the organizing committee mori resigned over sexist comments they had made organizers hope that these troubles and now behind them and that the torch relay can reignite japan's support for the tokyo olympics and joining us probably japan as caroline is covering the run up to the olympics for us holding a torch relay with tens of thousands of people in the middle of a pandemic sounds tricky how does it work. hi terry thanks for calling

yeah i mean the rules are simple no crowds. of course masks and only clapping so loud so no voice shouting. yeah it's a strange i must say i have i have seen the kick up of the treasury just morning on your life channel it was only a transmitter there not even on the big channels. on t.v. or anything else and i must say the atmosphere was kind of intimate. obviously there was no no clapping no no crowds but therefore i was able to hear like music every single word that the barrows were in exchanging and they were excited of course those that excitement also like jumped on to me and yeah the committee. has also had the idea that on one same spots like for example i'm

standing in the castle in front of the castle in show talk where the torch will pass in except you 2 months that on these like famous they won't allow like what most popular players to carry the torch in order to avoid crowds ok well so a subdued kickoff there people in japan accepted that the games are really going to go ahead are already protests expected. i would say there is basically no excitement there has been only no excitement and also the torch relay day the kick off won't like change a lot i think. their recent latest haul. that 80 percent of the japanese. and the olympic games. are like delayed again. i think that the recent decision from last weekend's. loss and some also last time

is from the i.a.s. will be allowed into the country in the in the summer. will raise a bit more acceptance for the games but i can say yeah it's it will be tolerated but there is no clear excite you can see it tonight there was no excitement are it people or people who are in real health risk so i can understand that for sure tell us you know 2 high profile members of the organizing committee have resigned recently due to comments made about women what sort of fallout has there been from that. also in an incidence inadvertently shed light on existing problem of sexism in japan but i think in the short run that won't really change anything because sexism is very deeply rooted in cultivated ensconce society. christina thank you very much just one more we were just wondering how things are going to shape up in the coming months because the olympics are going to be in july what can we expect we know in

their. sort we're going to have to leave it there caroline thank you very much that was caroline back talking to us from kyoto japan. well sightseers have been flocking to a spectacular volcano volcanic eruption in iceland level has been flowing since the melton 1st started spewing fire a week ago but hikers trying for the perfect selfie are being warned not to get too close. to love above spits and paws out of the crater of this. it began erupting here on iceland's rake most poignant last friday the 1st time in around 900 years. so perhaps it's no surprise that thousands of people have been flocking here to witness this rare event. trying to get as close as they dare.

for that perfect picture. i mean the love of the we are just so close to us. haven't seen anything like. the hike is getting hungry some of us the live as a giant grill but this does come with a warning. 2 days ago the guy that tried to cook up some bacon on the love made. to stay away from it. there have also been warnings of a comic relief. before the eruption there were more than 50000 lakes here in just 3 weeks. they were caused by a large body of molten rock known as magma which has pushed its way to the south. it's unclear as to how much longer this volcano will continue to erupt from now the

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