this is news coming to you live from efforts to move a stranded container ship blocking the suez canal finally make progress and tug boats working around the clock managed to partially refloat the 400 metre long vessel raising hopes that the busy waterway will soon reopen also coming up. in the bloodshed in myanmar united nations accuses the regime of committing mass murder after more than 100 people were killed in protests over the weekend. and germany's chancellor warns that existing coronavirus restrictions may not be enough. if the

16 regional states do not fall into line she may have to contravene stricter measures such as curfews could be on the table. plus the formula one season starts with a bang as world champion lewis hamilton and knox for stopping. by frank. good to have you with us a massive container ship has been just lost from the banks of the suez canal after a vast effort to free it the owner of the ever given says the 400 meter long vessel has been straightened out but it is not yet fully afloat it became wedged in the canal a week ago amid high winds excavators have been digging out the side of the canal while as many as 10 tug boats have been home. the ship back into position the

incident has blocked traffic along the canal which is one of the world's busiest shipping routes. or for the very latest we've got kris kobach here with us from the d.w. business good morning good morning why has it taken nearly a week to get this vessel halfway disloyal looking at 3 factors here 1st the ship is extremely heavy 2nd one has apparently the force with which the ever given has run aground was was quite strong and the 3rd one it is a narrow canal so you don't have really much room to maneuver that said overnight we know that several drivers have told a vacuum vacuum of 27000 cubic meters of mud and sand as you said it took more than 10 tug boats to at least partially straighten out the ever given and it took the mood because the moon actually over the weekend a full moon brought the spring tide which was also helped along there however the

challenges remain you said the still not feet is they have dislodged yet of the ship and the high tide that has been helpful is receding this week so. it's really to the suez canal is is part of the one of the busiest trade routes in the whole world what's the extent of the damage chris to world trade well as experts have been saying the damage is worth about $10000000000.00 per day that will trade $10000000000.00 a day and here's another figure for you because of the ever given blocking the canal according to the canal authority around $370.00 ships on both sides need side the canal waiting for for passage it is impossible to say what the end of those you know individual cargo on each ship is so that could be anything from video games to the toilet paper so it shows you how frail some of the trade. lings

are in in this situation and obviously this accident has been a nightmare to egypt as well these stated can now authorities are losing about $13000000.00 each day in fees of not being able to pass so that office chair i ordered from my home office that's probably built in china might take a while longer still to go to the world commerce in peril because of a ship blocking a canal could this happen again it sounds like an almost refreshing to me simple problem the ship just blocking you canal and. it is the size of the ships that is part of the problem here. and now a days these giant freighters are 4 times the size that they have been 25 years ago the ever given weighs 220000 tons not that might not tell you much but it is the length of the height of the empire state building is essential to have to call it all yeah some call it too big to sail these kind of kind of ships and as they keep

growing yes the danger of that happening again persists chris thank you very much chris cobra from d.w. business now to myanmar international condemnation is growing of saturday's bloodshed there in which the military killed more than 100 civilians including children u.s. president joe biden the european union and the united nations have all expressed anger over the violence calling it outrageous unacceptable and mass murder funerals were held for the victims of what was the country's bloodiest day since the army seized power. a funeral for a 13 year old boy sajjan was killed when security forces in yangon opened fire the neighbors say there were no protests in the area this just one of many funerals held the day after the armed forces day massacre when the streets of myanmar cities were stained and blood. his mother calls out to her son

now gone forever can't you hear me she cries. even though it's now clear to everyone what protesting in myanmar means people return to the streets the day after the bloodbath determined to press their demands for return to democracy there is no sign the military is changing tactics either and no hint they're backing down from their threat to shoot protesters in the head no one is sitting. in you know extremely in a dangerous situation with you know rampaging and the killing spree is going on against the city. there are fears that the situation could escalate further protestors are picking up weapons which are improvised but with the hunt to using more and more force there's concern that the civil disobedience movement may no longer remain nonviolent. 'd as well as mentioned there is increasing international

condemnation of the crackdown by myanmar's military the united nations independent expert on human rights in myanmar says words are not enough there have been voices speaking very loudly of condemnation and concern. that's fine as far as it goes that quite frankly i think those words are really hollow withinside of me and more everyone i'm speaking with they want to see focused unified international action like the secretary general is called for and i think that means in the meaning convening. immediately the united nations security council have this open debate on exactly what the obligations of the international community should be and let nations of the security council stand up and be counted i think there also has to be among those nations willing to take action right now a coalition effort that either has to be unified coordinated sanctions unified

coordinated arms embargo and i think we have to take and it immediately institute accountability mechanisms traditional mechanisms to hold these brutal leaders accountable for the mass atrocities that were missing i think clearly we have crimes against humanity being caused and committed right across right in front of our very eyes and the question right now is what the international community is willing to do about it. well for more let's cross over to bangkok now and speak to reporter ayman time to spend covering events in myanmar for us in touch even covering the coup and its aftermath from the beginning what do you make of saturday's bloodshed. so what we saw on saturday is not completely unexpected we have been seeing the military really escalate its use of violence over the past 6 or 7 weeks really moving out from rubber bullets and water cannons into shooting live bullets and now we're hearing. gunfire as well as farms in

trucks right now we have over 3000 people who have fled into thailand because that's there's been at least 9 bombs dropped in the state in which borders the area and especially considering that saturday was armed forces day and normally there are parades there are sort of celebrations of the military and you know they're being led by a group of people really don't seem to care about civilian deaths what we saw on saturday it was not surprising you mentioned people been fleeing to thailand you are among them you left me on nor a few days ago why did you feel a need to leave the country. so i left because quite a large number of my friends families as well as people i've been in contact with in the civil disobedience both have arrested or are being targeted for rats and you know i personally don't want to go to jail and i don't think i would be productive

in jail and so you know like many other there are people thailand was has historically been the home of the rest this is and it's and i see myself sort of following in that tradition. how do you see this conflict playing out. we've been seeing sort of escalating indiscriminate violence from them at all and they are essentially targeting civilian populations even those who aren't necessarily protest things as we saw in the bombings in qur'an state it's quite likely that a 3rd point protesters will no longer be able to remain nonviolent will be able to convince themselves that this is the correct strategy especially if they don't see courtney actions from the international community. for a meantime in bangkok thanks thanks very much for talking with us today. let's get a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today 2 people died in bangladesh when police were police there opened fire on protesters

on sunday and they were demonstrating against a business by the indian prime minister nuri modi critics accuse his new nationalist party of stoking religious tensions in india and and he muslim discrimination. a dangerous sand storm has hit the chinese capital beijing for the 2nd time in a month visibility was reduced and air pollution reached house just levels anyone venturing outdoors needs protective equipment. you are watching d.w. news still to come should we meet a team of doctors in turkey who climbed mountains to get people in the countries remotest villages actually made it against the credit by. a 1st to mozambique northern mozambique where militants have killed dozens of civilians an armed group is holding the town of palma under siege it's

a hub for international gas projects worth some $60000000000.00 mozambique government says hundreds of local people and foreign workers have been rescued and the french energy group has suspended work on a huge construction project. correspondent adrian creech was in mozambique just before the latest fighting began and he's following developments from cape town he sent us this update about the situation in palm. a very poor part of the country actually the poorest part of the country a lot of people on edge be that the government is not investing and the government is not listening to them then few of them are ready to live and the security forces respond with massive force also taking their families and people who have nothing to do with those radical people and their ridiculous well people thought the whole thing spiraled out of control and although the government has been busy over the past months that they will everything is under control it is not it's basically just been quite successful in keeping journalists out and international observers from the area but the situation is bad when we finally managed to get there last

month we it's terrifying there is from displaced people in the camps there you had stories of children who were taken away a father sort of the picture office 16 year old daughter and said look they just took away when you have to do anything before you gets. there is a decapitating of villages in front of the village and this is has been happening for many months it is still not clear though what the group really once but it appears that it's much more about how and influence than it is about religion. creech their well german chancellor angela merkel says regional leaders need to put an end to the chaos plaguing germany's fight against the coronavirus crisis and a virtual summit last week leaders from both state and federal governments agreed fail to agree rather on the size of measures will says she'll be forced to take more drastic action at the states don't reverse recent relaxations which have seen case numbers rise sharply german chancellor are going to america on wednesday had

the awkward task of walking back a government's newly minted pandemic guidelines for the easter break this unexpected u. turn prompted confusion added to criticism of her handling of the corona cry risk crisis dalby to peace i deeply regret this and would like to apologize to all german citizens. on sunday markel appeared on one of the country's most popular talk shows to make her case directly to the german people she said germany needs a turning point and criticize federal state leaders that haven't yet grasp the gravity of the situation. when the state leaders conference convenes again which is why i'm not for holding an early conference it has to be clear that we have to achieve a consensus merkel says many federal states are being too lax the small state of zoloft has experimented with easing restrictions and the leader of germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia has a very lax interpretation of the corona guidelines. the distribution of roles and

that's what i meant by turning point it's no good because we've all got the same goal i'm convinced of this and that is to guide the country through this pandemic. currently hundreds if not thousands of german vacationers are taking their easter break and new york well at home infections continue to rise german health experts are demanding decisive action. till now only curfews of effectively stem the spread of the b one month 7 variant in portugal ireland and england i think we also need to take this approach and we all can be king as a doctor the new data shows that infections are increasing so fast that rates of $100000.00 which are experts predicted seem all too realistic this should be a warning to us to quickly implement safety measures. medical shares this view and says stricter laws could be necessary possibly

including obligatory tests for companies she also floated the idea of the germany's lawmakers might pass legislation faster than the conference of state leaders i intimate one possibility would be to revisit the infection protection laws to make changes on a case by case basis we're bound by law to curb the spread and currently that's not happening all nick is the. this remains the case now as it did a week ago. let's bring in our chief political correspondent linda crane here melinda the chancellor last week was forced to reverse her decision to essentially shut down the country over easter but she's still not satisfied with the current situation is she. no not in the least she said in that interview that we just saw a few clips from that the situation is very serious indeed that she does agree with survivor ologists assessment that this 3rd wave could be the worst of all the pandemic waves that we have seen and the fact that the regional leaders are not

taking the situation seriously quote unquote does not fill her with joy a characteristic of merkel understatement she also said germany doesn't have much time to get the right measures in place in order to flatten the curve and avert a catastrophe and she made it very clear that she does not plan to sit idly by and watch the numbers go up to 100000 cases new cases a day so a very thinly veiled threat there from the chancellor so the chancellor sees great urgency in this situation what would medical like to see the states do that they're not doing already. well she said that other countries that appear to be getting this new variant too under some degree of control absolutely have relied on harder lockdowns on curfews on further limiting contact between people and that all of

those things need to happen and she also said those measures are actually already signed and sealed by the the state leaders that they did agree at the beginning of march to a phased plan that includes a so-called emergency brake and that emergency brake is supposed to go into effect with numbers rising as they are now and it would include exactly the measures that we're talking about and that's why she said if the states do not comply with what they've actually promised to do then i may need to redistribute the balance of power between the federal state leaders and the federal government that is the so-called infection protection law that was mentioned in that report and that is a not so thinly veiled threat to the state of the regional state leaders either get your act together or i will have to take more of the power into my own hands sort

of the nuclear option as it were germany is still struggling with its vaccine rolled out there's a lot of frustration in the country did medical offer any hope of improvement all of isolation from. she absolutely offered hope of improvement characteristically this was the message that we also heard from her last week terri when you and i listened to her statement to the top of the parliament she said you know we need to be more optimistic when we look toward the future because the fact is we do have a lot of vaccine now in the pipeline that will soon be available to people i stand by my pledge that we will vaccinate all of those who want to be vaccinated by the end of this summer what she didn't do was knowledge any failings on her part or on the part of the federal government when it comes to procure meant of the vaccine and to the logistics of rolling it out and i think that's where

a lot of people would have liked to hear a little bit more. linda thank you so much our chief political correspondent melinda crane so your quick look at some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic worldwide government data in mexico suggests the death toll there is likely at least 60 percent higher than the confirmed numbers given so far over 320000 people in the country are now believed to have died from cope in 19 in the philippines some 25000000 people in greater manila and 4 outlying provinces are back in lockdown after a steep rise in cases and england is easing restrictions slightly people are allowed to meet in small groups and can resume sports such as basketball tennis and golf. well turkey's vaccination efforts got off to a rapid start in mid january when more than half a 1000000 people or inoculated in the 1st few days but the campaign has since

slowed down getting the vaccine to people in the country's vast back country requires special efforts that has one team of doctors literally climbing mountains our correspondent your leon reports. almost 2000 meters high up in the mountains lies the village of alton bedell in eastern turkey the few 100 residents one street are far. and this is the doctor in charge of the coronavirus vaccinations here in the village. they need and i've been to a team come regularly many home visits require some serious climbing but they're almost used to it now. no coronavirus cases have been reported in the dead of 4 months that's why some residents are skeptical about the doctor's visit but they know better how this convinced that her commitment is important. people in the

villages live close together if there is an infection here it will spread very quickly and many don't like coming to the hospitals in nearby towns so we have to come to them. really. or are going to. risk getting his 2nd dose today when the doctors 1st came here a few weeks ago he almost keep them out. i was afraid at 1st here in the village they said the doctors were coming to kill the old people or the elderly die from the vaccination i heard and because of that we were scared a lot of oh it will. they never knows that there is a lot of false information floating around she and her team often tell patients that they themselves have been vaccinated as have their grandparents. that doesn't convince everyone but it did convince ali kazak.

your knowledge of geography i hardly felt anything it didn't hurt at all less than a bee sting. of your. turkey is a huge country and with vaccination campaigns like this the government hopes to show that it is taking care of everyone even here in the most remote areas and yet critics say that the turkish vaccination drive isn't progressing as smoothly as the authorities would like to portray it. the government recently east turkey strict carona measures restaurants are open again and significantly more people are out and about even in high risk cities like istanbul a fast vaccination rollout was supposed to make the reopening possible but it seems that's exactly where efforts are now faltering the government originally promised to vaccinate 60 percent of the population by may. now they say it's going to be

autumn and have them coral from john j. from the turkish medical association things even that is too optimistic fog. the ministry of health has elected transparency since the beginning of the pandemic how many doses of the vaccine will turkey get and when the public is not properly informed about any of this but it is clear that if we continue at the current rate we will need up to one and a half years to vaccinate everyone. in the tin that it then of arab and her team have given the last vaccination for today the way back to their car is once again perilous. the doctors are responsible for 20 villages and as long as there are doses they won't run out of work any time soon. so sports news now in soccer germany beat romania one nil in bucharest on sunday evening the result extends

their record for consecutive world cup qualifier wins to 18 germany took over just just over a quarter of an hour to open the scoring when sasha 3 found the back of the net your human lives side play their next qualifier at home into sport on wednesday against north macedonia in motor sports formula one fans were treated to a thrilling season opener in rain but there was no surprise about the winner defending champion lewis hamilton came out on top a great start for the mercedes driver as he looks for his brecker breaking 8 world title. lewis hamilton stocks of formula one season opener playing 2nd fiddle to pole sitter much for stop and for the pair to turns but calling to choose in bahrain. hamilton's team mate fell to reports us was also in the mix until up $31.00 when a disastrous pit stop put him out of the running the finn had to be content with

the bonus point for fastest lap. with bought us go on a jewel in the desert was on between hamilton and fished up and. the dutchman went in front with just 3 laps to go. but the street outside truck limits in doing so and had to return the lead to the briton. hamilton held on to squeak home by 7 tenths of a 2nd and he sounded like a relieved. pushed up and made a swift exit stage left but it looks like hamilton will face a stiff challenge this year from red cools precocious dutchman. you're watching news just reminder of our top story this hour engineers have succeeded in partially refloating a container ship that's been walking the suez canal for nearly a week salvage teams have been reading thousands of tons of sand to try and free

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