this is day that we knew as long from berlin freed at last the strand of container ship that's been blocking the suez canal for almost a week despite only on the move salvage teams working around the clock has reflowed at the 400 meter long battle that's home to $9000000000.00 worth of global trade each day also coming up thailand prepares for

a wave of refugees fleeing the bloodshed in myanmar thousands are said to have crossed the border and more for on the move after the deadliest weekend since the military coup. the european union's top officials try to hammer out deals with pharmaceutical companies to boost colona bars vaccine supplies and improve the block's sluggish rollout and families ways for their loved ones out for thousands are evacuated from a town in northern mozambique as the mist militants lay siege to palma home to a multibillion dollar gas project leaving dozens dead. on nickel fairly good to have you with us the colossal container ship stuck in the suez canal for nearly a week has been set free egyptian authorities say the balance of the skyscraper

sized ever given was wrenched by tug boats from the canal sandy bank where it's been stuck since last tuesday it's. now back in its normal position in the middle of the waterway this brings to an end a crisis that has been blocking traffic along one of the world's busiest shipping routes. now let's bring in economist vincent from kill institute for world economy welcome to. first off this operation has been watched nervously around the globe why did it take so long to dislodge this vessel. first of all they do much for having me it indeed took a long long time and partly the reason for that is this year science of the container ship the container ship in question is round this long and hence much longer than the notes while so was actually lost with the bow and the stern of the ship and the just made it so much. now the suez canal is part of the one of the

busiest trade routes on the globe do we know yet what the extent of the damage from having a block for this long will be. unfortunately we can't just quite yet quantify the exact damages we heard the figure that you know in large volume of goods every day regularly passes this is no but we don't quite know what the effect of that if it's to lay out its delays or. there certainly will be millions worth of damages to the shipping companies that have lost that still have to pay operating costs for ships that are waiting for the exact damages to supply chains it's you too early to tell exactly the canal is also a huge moneymaker for egypt of course what has this meant for the country. well you're right i mean the egyptians day egyptians day it receives a lot of the revenue from business can now and

a lot of that has been essentially lost in the last last week at least postponed because actually how much of the revenues lost will depend on how many ships have chosen to sail around africa instead of using this was going up. again it is hard to quantify also the economy and if you know it costs or egypt. but there will be some loss of revenue for the egyptian economy now that's whole debacle has really highlighted one of the major weaknesses of our globalized economy will this have any consequences in your opinion on the way the shipping industry currently operates. i mean we we always regarded supply chains are somewhat robust and grew in a crisis and the crisis in this is going to have told us that there are some risks associated with just in time for example and now we're a small selection of goods that probably is correct and we should evaluate the

stability also played chains or a few goods now these are the weaknesses of supply chains that would be remiss to not mention that there are also a lot of strength or of the global economy and especially germany as an economy that is very open to local state we benefit last from a global supply chains so we shouldn't just renationalise supply chains just because of the accident and this was can now speak economist intense drama thank you very much for your analysis thank you. thailand's government says it's preparing for an influx of refugees from myanmar some 3000 people are reported to have fled the country already and more are on the move after a weekend of deadly violence that's drawn international condemnation and the violence may have reached a new level there are reports that the military has launched air strikes and current state home to an armed resistance group. and

these villagers have found refuge in a jungle clearing. they fled their homes at the weekend when they say the military launched aerial attacks on their village. in the. last night we weren't aware that jet fighters were coming and suddenly they randomly bombed and left. late at night the jets came again. and afterwards we heard gunshots. we heard that the jets will come again. you know we were. really an activist group the free burma rangers also reported airstrikes saying they were the 1st in karen state in 20 years. in neighboring thailand preparations

are being made for an influx of refugees. how many refugees are expected we have prepared an area for them to stay 1st after they cross over we can talk about numbers later. it was a weekend of carnage in myanmar the military junta killed more than 100 people in cities on armed forces day while general celebrated with a military parade security forces opened fire seemingly indiscriminately on the streets. it was the deadliest day since the coup on february 1st but it didn't stop demonstrators from returning to the streets. the united nations has accused the army of mass murder and germany has joined

a long list of nations condemning the ongoing violence. this is a shoot it's distressing to see the almost daily death toll from such violence by the security forces in neon markets including children the threats of the rulers against their own population are also shocking. calls for action by the international community are starting to grow louder but they come too late for those who have already lost their lives standing up for democracy in myanmar. while the e.u. is suffering from ongoing back same shortages top officials are negotiating supply with pharmaceutical executives' the european commission the block's executive arm is currently talking to representatives of over $300.00 companies the aim of the talks is to guarantee snow supply to some 450000000 europeans since and launched in late december the block's vaccine rollout has been beset by problems and lag behind

the u.k. u.s. and israel putting in under intense pressure to improve their performance. let's bring in our brussels correspondent since closely following this meeting the e.u. once more maxine's and it wants them fast is this meeting going to help achieve that . in the 2nd quarter of this year the e.u. will receive 360000000 doses of vaccine so a lot more so numbers are really picking up and about that you politicians are rather happy of course this particular meeting now that is sort of tackling the supply chain bottlenecks that the industry faces won't have an immediate effect on the numbers that the e.u. receive us but rather it's a it's something that is for the future of vaccine production throughout this year so you have to understand that the e.u. is basically the pharmacy of the world providing vaccines for the rest of the world

and it is for that purpose that the e.u. has now gathered some 300 companies from 25 member states working together so that they really can. beef up production to 2 to 3000000000 doses a year. and so what can stand in the way of new details coming out of these negotiations and it's really dales that they're looking for isn't an improvement of infrastructure around the block. one challenge for instance is to do it when you will have at these meetings direct competitors that are supposed to work together something that normally is ruled out in the european union so the e.u. has provided legal framework to to avoid a sin are real like that but overall this is really an effort to sit together to work out where do we have to pass it he said everything from food and finish from shipping vaccines around the world packaging them but also to get the supplies the supply chain you really hear is important because a vaccine is

a complicated process so they need particularly intrigued ians and those ingredients but one has to guarantee that they are received by the companies producing them. other countries don't seem to have problems getting their hands on axles though we keep mentioning israel the us why is that so difficult for you to provide for its citizens well 1st of all with israel it's a small country so it's much faster to vaccinate a small country in case of the you were talking about 450000000 people in case of the us the answer is also simple they have been producing a lot of facts but they had effectively an export ban in contrast the e.u. has exported 77000000 doses and the e.u. member states received only 88000000 so they almost export the same amount no what the e.u. really faces is a problem that they do what one could say a year ago they should have thrown more money at the problem and they would have

been well advised to have a conference like this 11 year ago thank you course on and from brussels. german chancellor angela merkel says regional leaders need to put an end to the chaos playing in germany's find against the coronavirus crisis and a virtual summit last week federal and state leaders failed to agree on decisive measures but case numbers continue to rise sharply now chancellor merkel says she won't shah away from taking drastic action if states don't backtrack on their decision to start opening parts of the economy. 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 crew on a wrist crisis but already to peace i deeply regret this and would like to apologize to all german citizens. on sunday americal 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 than bit because 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 zoolander is experimented with easing restrictions and the leader of germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia has a very lax interpretation of the corona god lines. 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 yorker well at home infections continue to rise german health experts

are demanding decisive action. because here is the toll 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. speaking as a doctor the new data shows that infections are increasing so fast that rates of $100000.00 which our 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 that germany's lawmakers might pass new legislation faster than the conference of state leaders in the movement 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 only is. this remains the case now as it did

a week ago. so let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour government data in mexico suggests the coronavirus death toll there is likely at least 60 percent higher than previously reported it provides. an international team investigating the origins of the corona virus says it is extremely unlikely that it leaked out of the laboratory the report concludes the wire is probably passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal the researchers visit at the chinese city of one earlier this year when the virus was 1st detected. in the nation authorities say 2 suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside a church over the weekend were a newly married couple with suspected links to the so-called islamic state some 20 people were injured in the attack in south sulawesi province a woman.