the reason why they came to lop london summer was that it was too hot in in germany in the netherlands and they said that the hour plus 30 plus 40 is just too much so they decided to go to the arctic where plus 15 plus 28th just perfect for the summer so that's how i would like to keep things are they definitely don't want it to get as warm as it does for the summer olympic games despite the fact that in this tongue in cheek video they're playing volleyball in the snow and swimming in ice. and scientists are confirming salo isn't all that cold anymore climate researcher took up pet of the university of helsinki has a research station near sala your choice he says in northern finland climate change has reached crisis level. the arctic areas in general general are warming faster than the the global average so even double the global average so this would mean

if we talk about 1.5 now global average that would transfer 2 to 33 to 4 degrees. in the in the arctic areas so it this a considerable and very serious issue. salas mayor says they broadcast the seriousness of the situation effectively to the whole world with their humorous olympic ad it attracted a lot of interest on line people discuss about it. i'm quite sure that this discussion goes on. then. we want all sorts of people. share what they have done. while tourist guide t.-mo to how worries about the effects of climate change in the future reindeer herder. has to deal with them here and now. she and her 2 children

regularly have to take extra fodder out to their herd a direct result of climate change. in reenter time when there is snow and sand comes raining water and then comes freezing time so face ice on the snow and rain to have any fault onto the ice without the expensive store bought father the reindeer would go hungry and nina much would have to move her family and livestock somewhere else or give a purty reindeer her son i know has just begun learning how to throw a lasso and care has been 100 years. leaving like these and i hope there is a future for. everyone in the chilly little town of sol in northern finland hopes

there is a future for them here. but without the summer olympics. the spanish city of that i go has had its share of deadly diseases in the past the plague the spanish flu and now with 19 for more than 7 centuries a special group of men has been helping out when such disasters hit the brotherhood of the blood of christ they blessed and bird people giving them dignity in time of death. is one of the brothers he currently has a lot to do due to the pendant make. it's early morning in the spanish city of saturn. cosco is collecting a body for an autopsy. someone has died after falling from a window. i mean the body is in

a public place so we have to hurry up because they need to open the street again. let's see what awaits us going to. get a member of the catholic brotherhood of the blood of christ since the middle ages they have collected dead bodies here in south dakota when someone dies of unknown causes and by judicial order. he is proud of his volunteer work. this involve a good article about the park over the it has to be done when it's all over that's when the feelings of all of it with but now i've got to go to work you need a thick skin and you have to know what you're doing. ok. the man fell from the eats floor is axis bank suicide perhaps as a result of the karuna pandemic because it's not just the virus that kills desperation drives many to take their own lives. i don't know man but it would be

a whole year long we've had more suicides nobody is really prepared for a lockdown like this one it affects your psyche and when someone is already suffering from mental illness it is the final straw for people to go but of a look at a photo. of brotherhood like the blood of christ is out of the takes care of corpses is the only one of its kind left in spain in the last year the brothers were called out more than $500.00 times the tradition dates back to the plague in the 13th century then it was the spanish flu and now it's corona and hundreds of people were dying at the start of the content mick the brothers even had to help undertakers collect the dead. death and disease are a fact of life for the 48 devout men in the brotherhood. minutes then as now many people still feel panic. if we're going to have work or prefer not working

with anyone can in fact anytime anywhere but we're losing control if we're going to that where his people you're looking up with some even keep away from the other people who have long recovered from a covert infection. with alcohol we see that all the time. he has stigmatized and i fucking know. if nancy has had couvade himself he's recovered know his evil to do the voluntary work again. but the sickness has left its mark. i was in hospital for a week and there are people who don't survive it if the young and old it gets to you and the people who are not affected emotionally must be very consistent if there were dozens if you look at. many died aloon relatives weren't even allowed to attend burials. nobody. died of corona in

a home for the elderly. or similar feel are we loved her so much of course we would have said goodbye to her after she died but we weren't allowed to because she lived in another province and the borders were closed yet and yet it would have really helped me to go there and say i love you. brother is confronted with loneliness and death almost every day he's a male nurse and has also worked in a karuna ward. from the local. it's harder to order because that's the problem you can't really process the dead in the morning to. farm owner of. his act his own call with the brotherhood for a whole week to collect the deceased. on calls over 10 times on average at any time

of day or night but he feels it's a vocation thing when given the i'm not planning on stopping it you know i'll do it as long as i can hopefully for the rest of my life but all this other bit. as always he has to deliver the body to the forensic institute in south dakota. then his work is done at the feet of the deceased along occupy his thoughts. travel is a real climate killer we all know that by now but what if we can one day travel to sunny far off the summations without blowing too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere well in slovenia we get a glimpse of how environmental protection and air travel may go hand in hand it's a clean electric and a pretty quiet solution. to. this is what it sounds like when in the electric powered plane prepares for takeoff. airborne in

a 2 seater light aircraft from slovenian manufacturer a piece trail that runs solely on electricity the pilot explains that the plane is as quiet as a vacuum cleaner. right from the start he had the feeling this aircraft would change everything it uses just 110th of the energy of a conventional plane. what we're witnessing here is a revolution in aviation this is the 1st fully electric plane to be certified by the e.u. zevi ation safety agency after a challenging decade in development it's a triumph for pippy style founder evo busk at all it has been compared to tesla's elan musk. after the piece from engine and jet penguin the new milestone on your. electric grid properties proven to be safe is beyond the propulsion saw this is open the plane is powered by

a battery which could be also developed that was the engineers biggest challenge because the goal is to power bigger planes and increase their range so eventually even international flights could become more environmentally friendly. 0 emission flying does not mean flying on battery powered imo hydrogen as a fuel source is an opportunity to fly with 0 emissions also super long distance i think we can look forward to 1000 kilometer flights in the new. decade and simply transferring this to trans oceanic peace trail is now working on a hybrid solution a combined electric and hydrogen powered aircraft because the aviation industry knows the aircraft of the future must be greener and quieter it's far less noisy it's far. less complex operate so start up the engine like you're starting up a home appliance in your kitchen flying over slovenia and this trailblazing electric

plane is a revolutionary but totally relaxing experience. that's it for this week we'll have more stories from across europe next time until then take care and get back. the book. the book. the book. the book.

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this is g.w. news from the european union it's pandemic problems how to slow a covert 1000 surge leaders have met virtually to address a frustrating vaccination. vaccine exports more shots made in the e.u. get into the arms of the e.u. citizens. and with the e.u. in turkey's agreement to deal with the large numbers of migrants and refugees crossing into the e.u. now 5 years old we take a look at whether the accord is working the way it was intended. and still no

budging a huge cargo ship that ran aground in the suez canal is one of the world's most important shipping lanes. welcome to the program leaders have met virtually to figure out how to get on top of a pandemic that's moving into a 3rd wave of infections across the block a sluggish vaccine rollout is exacerbating the issue and many blame lack of supply even though the e.u. produces many of the vaccines here just over 10 percent of people in the e.u. have had at least one shot officials are struggling with how to speed things up. he was a much appreciated guest at thursday's virtual meeting of leaders joe biden was the 1st u.s. president to speak at

a european summit since barack obama leaders are relieved that the u.s. has 3 committed itself to the transatlantic partnership we agreed that we have a strong interest in working together to keep global supply chains functioning and to prepare already for the next challenges to come in this pandemic in an area of pandemics the united states is an important and valued partner to the european union. the global race for the scenes was the most important issue at this summit and even thorough the chance to talk about it with joe biden was welcomed by all some also had criticism. when you warn we as the european union are the part of the world that is not only supplying itself but is also exporting to others in export here and if i may start that's in contrast to the united states and the united kingdom now because said that you

oppose fixing protectionism but still wanted to make sure that the ears own population gets the much needed charts as soon as possible vaccination rollout has been slow in europe and leaders are frustrated vaccine doses produced in the e.u. do not always stay there that's why stricter rules only you experts could be introduced so this situation justifies us putting in place controls on exports i don't accept us being questioned on our morality. at the same time all e.u. leaders agreed to for the ramp up production facilities within the e.u. . here are some of the other developments right now in the pandemic starting sunday all airline passengers coming to germany will have to present a negative covert 19 test before boarding their flights the un's vaccine program kovacs has warned that deliveries from india will be delayed as producers they are pivot to meet domestic demand it's

a major setback for low and middle income countries depending on indian vaccine supply and israel has now administered 2 vaccine doses to more than half its population new infections have dropped significantly most of the israeli economy reopened several weeks ago. the 6000000000 euro refugee deal with turkey has been in place for about 5 years now in exchange for the money turkey agreed to prevent migrants from places like syria and afghanistan from reaching the e.u. which saw more than a 1000000 people enter in 2015 this report now takes us to cos one of the greek islands close to turkey where many migrants 1st come and often get stuck. it's not us home is this movie shack on the island she shares with her parents and siblings. the palestinian family from gaza have had that asylum claim accepted

but they have to pick up the documents from insulin etiam the greek mainland the knowledge that the biggest that we don't have money to travel to get a pass because. so they're stuck just like the other migrants behind this fence. this is a deportation center for asylum seekers whose claims have been rejected twice local police didn't want us to film inside. there. those who end up here have lost all hope of gaining asylum there is no more chance of appeal. interviews with the inmates are not allowed. an aid organization is trying to document who is inside the camp and what happens here but they have barely any information as well as an amount more the argument that the asylum seekers just get called out by numbers they call out the registration numbers of the inmates that's all we know and that there's just one doctor there all the inmates have no information as to

why they're there what they can do now how long they will stay or when they might be deported people not that on their rejected asylum seekers should really be returned to turkey only their home countries but the pandemic has made their return even more difficult thousands are now stuck here. practically it's a really tragic and traumatic situation where they fall outside of the net for support . under greek nor detainees can only be held for 18 months without a trial that also applies to the deportation center in cost but even when migrants get out of here the situation often remains hopeless many try and make it on their own me trashy me from afghanistan managed to get to germany but her asylum claim here was rejected and it is it then means. that cong.

well now did many op who understand you and say ok you forced that calm years well i have. but they didn't like me. back in cos they're preparing for more rejected as. constructing another deportation center for a 1000 inmates. for almost 6 hours on thursday u.s. lawmakers question the c.e.o.'s of facebook twitter and google on the role dissin from asian online played in the storming of the u.s. capitol in january members of congress have criticised the c.e.o.'s for their platforms not doing enough to stop the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories the hearing was the 1st since the u.s. capitol was stormed by pro trump rioters in january it's part of a bigger debate about how to make tech giants more accountable for the content of their platforms the hearing was widely expected to become yet another grilling for

big tech is chief technology correspondent. follow the online hearing hi there so tell us did it live up to the expectations. well william it did i mean those 3 really felt the heat today and you could tell it you know when the hearing was over about an hour and a half to go after those over 5 and a half hours of grilling at the same time you could also really feel the frustration on the other side with the lawmakers you could feel that through the screen this has been the forth on i'm hearing from big tax insta beginning of the corona virus pandemic and there's been several of us of course before that and i've watched a number of the and but that level of frustration that i saw today that was pretty extraordinary and that was really something that you could tell in the questions or

you could see that in the questions that were being asked yeah and we actually have that so stay with us for a 2nd and while we play a clip of just some of those questions. i ask you a yes or no question i'm just looking for a yes or no so please respond appropriately i want to start by asking all 3 of you . if your platform bears some responsibility for disseminating this information related to the election and stop the whole movement that led to the attack on the capitol just a yes or no answer mr zucker chairman i think our responsibility is to build systems that can i know i'm sorry i just want to get i know an answer ok try yes or no. we always been a deep sense of press sponsibility but i think we worked hard this election if it was one of our most abstract of if it's not a yes or a no. congressman it's a complex question mr dorsey yes but you also have to take into consideration

a broader you can see it's not just a technology platforms. like you know what do you make of all that. well you know this was actually the opening question and it set the tone for the rest of the hearing what is remarkable here is that you know for the 1st time with twitter's jack dorsey we do have a top tech executive acknowledging to a certain degree that his platform had some kind of influence on the riot but i think you know that scene also really illustrates that this kind of is a turning point i mean before january 6th people already knew that online hate can spill into real life violence of we've seen that in myanmar for example with for years facebook was used to incite violence against the real hindu a minority but those things happened and brought that didn't happen in the u.s. and what happened on january 6th hits very close to home for u.s. lawmakers quite naturally and now they seem to be getting serious with regulating

the liability of those platforms as well right so let's get into that regulation what is potentially on the table here. well i think you know what's key to understand is that in the u.s. unlike in germany for example social media companies are they essentially have immunity over what's been said or done on their platforms and that's due to a piece of legislation called to 30 it dates back to 1996 actually a time when those companies that were there today were only just founded and what's up food debate now what we've seen today is you know is whether or not how to update that legislation maybe even repeal it u.s. president joe biden has himself called for fully repealing it the companies don't like that idea they want to reform it somehow although they don't agree on the details about that but what the meeting suggest today is that there is momentum building up that some kind of tougher rules for liability will come but i mean make

no mistake it's completely unclear how they're going to look like that's debbie is chief technology course by again thanks very much let's get a round up now of other stories making news around the world joe biden has given his 1st news conference as u.s. president he announced a new goal of administering 200000000 doses of coronavirus vaccine in his 1st 100 days he also warned the u.s. would respond if north korea increases missile testing and he said u.s. troops would probably not withdraw from afghanistan by the may 1 deadline. a judge has ordered the man accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a u.s. supermarket to be held without bail. lisa faces of murder and attempted murder charges following the rampage in boulder colorado another day he will undergo a mental health assessment. low tide has slowed efforts to dislodge

a 400 meter long 224000 ton container ship that's choked off traffic in egypt's suez canal that canal is a one of the most important shipping routes in the world suspending traffic in the suez will almost certainly impact global trade which is already been hit hard by the pandemic. over $150.00 ships are now stuck on both sides of the point on the suez canal where the ever given is wedged between its eastern and western banks the ship's owner says a 50 kilometer an hour gust of wind turned it sideways to straddle the entire canal from bow to stern the $200000.00 ton vessel has run firmly aground tugboats try to haul it free but it's thought containers may have to be offloaded to lighten it 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 long realistic long term solution if this does turn to be something long term really is

to go around the cape and again that's going to add significant delay to the to the good flowing but the salvage team has rushed to egypt and this currently sizing up the problem it's experts say refloating the ship could take quote days to weeks. but each passing day piles on the pressure for the global shipping industry already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic a hick up like this. ever was already scrambling to get back to normal and there have been quite strong demand. and yeah and i wanted to know what the lay on top of everything out front line just how important and how the whole system is. current conditions are not favorable low tide will most certainly complicate efforts to free the ship news for those others stuck in the world's longest maritime traffic jam. you're watching news live from berlin more news

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