to the level of political institutions in hong kong and more controversial in work no matter who will be elected off or can run in this election there would have to go through that test right before they actually run in the election that new controversial mechanics for candidacy will be set up under the new rules new york that incumbency will be comprised of syria officials within the cabinet so on the executive officers they will be responsible for screening canada's for elections and even the issue of excessive herself all be part of the acting mccandless and also the national the national security police they will take part in that screening process and that draws a very. drastic change in the political system in hong kong these are drastic changes indeed what does it mean for democracy in hong kong

while the aging politicians and also the chief exec to carry them has. given the press. and they both agree and welcome the new changes saying that this is to apply after loopholes so-called look polls to restore the military of hong kong but of course on the other hand critics and specially the opposition can they think this is. effectively spelling and end of their political career and the democratic participation of the general public because under the new rules the republic can get can hardly run in the election and the directly elected see it will be reduced drastically that the representation of their public opinion will be suppressed they think how are people in hong kong reacting to these changes. well people are definitely very very concerned because many observers and analysts

say they swiping the new changes as a huge step back of the democratic progress that have made for decades in hong kong but now it seems like he was reverse of these kind of progress and. 0 under the new rules that people can and will whoever want to run for election in the future will have to be screened by the chief executive and the officials and for the opposition came this is a very big and we may mean ways of activism like after the protest and the national security law and this is indeed a huge blow to them because this means that they have no more peaceful way to advocates their opposition agenda and it's really hard for them to sustain their political lives in fact on the ground and they have less resources by being excluded from the personal institutions in hong kong. from hong kong

there thank you for that update. now trade is again flowing through the suez canal after engineers finally managed to free a huge container ship blocking the vital waterway tugboats for the vessel lot of sand bank allowing it to refloat the canal and egypt is one of the world's busiest trade routes traffic has been halted in both directions for nearly a week. this powerful talk boats that ended the week of maritime disruption the 400 meter long ship ever given told through the narrow swiss can now. sparking relief on monday night from canal authorities. in my officially announced the reopening of the suez canal starting from 6 pm on both sides. from early tuesday morning traffic was finally moving again with over 100 ships already on their way through

the canal. pressure on the salvage teams have been mounting as the maritime traffic jam had grown to over 400 ships. it is full but it will take several days to clear the backlog. the ever given is now being inspected and checked for possible damage but the damage to the world economy has already been done. over 12 percent of global trade passes through the sou-s. and the incident has resulted in the loss of billions of dollars. this program goes to show is the fragility graps of the global supply chain i mean this is a very significant maritime ass or one of only 2 major canals in the world that you know operate in this way in terms of moving ships. and now the delay has also put a huge stress on crews on board that ever given and the other ships that were stuck

behind it. many countries will not allow them to come home to a pastor at the airport about quarantining they're missing their families or missing their children under 3 stress what for them so any kind of delay like this won't be an additional stress for kreutz in a few days the crew of the ever given will be back on the open sea but the ripple effects of the blockage will be felt for some time yet. now the united states is one of the world's leading nations when it comes to covert 19 vaccinations washington ordered a large number of doses early on and the bite and ministration has ramped up distribution since the start of the year the u.s. is a large country but already 20 percent of all adults are now fully vaccinated and that is more than $62000000.00 people among them nearly half of americans over the age of 65 to give you a comparison across the european union only 5.3 percent of adults have received

both shots president joe biden expects to have enough vaccine doses for all adults in the u.s. by the end of may his administration says americans will be inoculated 1st before the country shares its shots with others did it he's all over salad has more. had a university campus in los angeles u.s. army soldiers are now fighting an invisible enemy their weapons of choice. loaded with a bio and pfizer vaccine. just for fun. you share is about to receive her 2nd child to go on and. she is now one of her own 50000000 fully vaccinated americans makes me feel very grateful that we here i mean of course we had the

worst response really initially and now we're having the best vaccine response but i feel so bad for the people in europe right now that i hope that they can get go rolling out the way we are here. the vaccination site at california state university is one of the largest in the u.s. sergeant lewis herrera and his comrades who have been deployed to overseas missions like afghanistan are administering up to $8000.00 shots per day right. very proud to be selected as a member to come out here and do this because at the end of the day we volunteer to protect our country protect the people within it so if it includes administering vaccines and providing medical care that's what we do more here to accomplish that mission the united states have come a long way in this pandemic from the world's hardest hit country to one of the fastest nations in administering the vaccine a pragmatic rollout is one reason

a new kind of vaccine nationalism is another one president biden vald that at this pace there could be enough vaccines for every american by the end of me a little bit about what. the federal emergency management agency takes pride in this new cooperation between the u.s. army national guard and her own authority it is very historic because the federal government has never done about summations site so this is a truly whole government approach we're working together in partnership to make sure that this runs as smoothly as possible that people get in and out when they come here that they're not waiting a very long time and their experience is a good one. while the speedy roll old brings relief for many americans critics say the lack of exports to developing countries might cause new problems in the fight against coal that 19 let's talk about vaccinations now with alona kickbush she's an expert in global health diplomacy based in switzerland and she advises many

international groups including the world health organization welcome to you now the u.s. and also the u.k. looked like they are well on their way to achieving their goals of getting their populations fully vaccinated but if you look at vaccine nationalism around the world how long do you think we're going to see it's going to take to see this type of broad vaccination on a global scale. well we are very worried about this very nationalistic approach not only because parts of the world loses out but also because the countries that are on our backs and they sing so broadly will not be safe until other countries our backs and natives we're seeing new viruses you mutations of the viruses and that is a danger we're even worried that some of the vaccines administered now might not work so therefore it's just pure common sense to actually share vaccines and try to get as many people around the world vaccinators as possible ok when i ask you about

something you said back in february you wrote in an opinion piece for g.w. that quote wealthy countries have still not fully accepted just how serious the pandemic is and we have that quote pulled up on our screen right now can you explain what you meant by that. well the fact is that said they have not fully understood both at home how serious it is sad and how wealthy countries always feel or many european countries we see right now that somehow they'll be able to make their way through it and many of them don't quite recognize and explain to their own populations because that is critical that you need a truly google response this is not just about helping poor countries and poor people this is about making the whole world safe and it's not about holiday travel it's about the economy and it's about a truly new future for all countries not just for some ok you have also said

that western countries could learn something from china russia and india who have supplied cheap or even free vaccines but are their motives really so i'll truest dick. well the question is nobody is really out through stick in this game everyone has a self interest in their play i'm a see that's very clear the european democracies and now all through the u.s. have decided to give money to kovacs and that has been an incredibly important support of the global vaccine initiative but the fact is what we now need is vaccines on the ground we need vaccination and of course in the geo political standoff we see right now between democracies an autocracy as we've seen that the autocracies have taken the road to actually share and make available vaccines and

that is going to be remembered by the poorest countries well perhaps it is then a good sign that the more than 20 world leaders plus the head of the world health organization of call for a new global treaty to deal with future pandemics are you hopeful that they will and managed to get one. well they definitely need to work hard to get one because if we're going to be confronted with the next pandemic and not better prepared not to lee and the whole range of general public health matters but in terms of showing in terms of sharing medication vaccines and diagnostics then with even more infectious agents we are going to lose out so i don't think there is any choice we need such a treaty and it's about time that global leaders recognize this illinois kickbush global health diplomacy expert thank you so much for sharing your insights with us

today thank you. let's take a look now at the latest developments in the pandemic world leaders including german chancellor angela merkel are calling for an international treaty on penn demick preparedness the goal is to use lessons from the current pandemic to protect future generations experts from the world health organization will present their report on the origins of covert $1000.00 later on tuesday the study says the virus probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal scientists say new vaccines could be needed within a year as the 1st generation shots are rendered ineffective by mutations so scientists stressed that a global vaccination effort is needed and health authorities in the city of berlin have stopped administering the astra zeneca vaccine to people under the age of 60 after reports of serious blood clots germany's vaccine regulator has recorded 9 deaths caused by rare clots after people received the vaccine. at the trial of a former police officer accused of killing george floyd in the us city of

minneapolis last year is under way derek shaaban denies murder and manslaughter charges but if he is convicted he could face up to 40 years in jail as the trial opened the jurors heard witnesses describe the harrowing final moments of floyd's life. here it's the video that ignited a global movement against police brutality and racism george lloyd begging for former officer derek show than to get off of him and crying out for his mother minutes into the trial prosecutors played part of this footage to jirus they said show of and used excessive force and that they would prove it in the wakes ahead with key witnesses including the minneapolis police chief so vince defense team put the blame on floyd they said poor health and drugs led to his death and they urged here is to ignore broader calls for social justice you will see this case during this trial in his i agree with counsel for the state it is nothing more than there

is no political or social cost in this court the jury also heard from 911 emergency dispatch a gentle a scary who said that she witnessed floyd's arrest over a closed circuit television feed at an important she called police on should have been and others under his command after growing concerned and my instincts were telling me that something's wrong something not great i don't know what that something was or. police charged with killing unarmed black people are rarely convicted in the us civil rights activists say chauvin is not on trial alone that these cases about fairness and humanity we are here to see the case of a man. they've used his name to lynch a man and then brain the man for the new. calls for justice that encouraged by george floyd's family.

they can sweep as though the rules laws floor. they were all know all there was floored. but what got to tell you we will get justice we would not allow their so call this cruel. cruel so the prosecutor and the killer who. now every day in germany a man tries to kill his partner or ex partner one in 3 attempts the successful numbers show germany has the e.u.'s highest number of reported femicide murders of women or girls because of their gender domestic violence is on the rise in the country and activists say the criminal justice system is failing the victims we met with one woman who survived extreme violence at the hands of her partner this includes ideals urban. anger and grief follow the latest case of femicide in

berlin activists from the nash work against them aside who want to establish this location as a place to denounce violence against women and girls. one of the activists is j. . she survived enough to extreme violence 8 years ago her ex partner almost killed her. he locked me up for 10 hours and choked me until i was nearly unconscious he did this over and over again i was certain i was going to die and he said that he was going to kill me. it started when psychological abuse crept into the relationship slowly their interactions became more and more violent when jane tried to end the relationship the violence escalated in course jane was forced to justify why i should not try to end things soon or. things with the court

process was almost more traumatizing than the incident itself or the entire relationship i felt i was being accused as much as the perpetrator was. the. experts are calling for more gender based training for the judiciary prosecutors some police who deal with cases of domestic violence. we need more measures for working with offenders we need nationwide interdisciplinary case management so we can better assess react to the risk level of those affected in many femicide cases there were red flags instead of being prevented these situations escalation. these women are now engaged in the fight against gender based violence so they can spare others from what they have experienced themselves. and this gives me strength is empowers me and i also feel it's a kind of self-defense when we join together and go out on the streets we are

making ourselves some time aside visible. jane and other activists are demanding that femicide no longer be treated as so-called family dramas or isolated cases in the immigrant community 2 as with the case of home until a mother and daughter who were murdered in berlin last year. but get some more perspective on the story with my only steinle who appeared in that report she's a researcher at berlin's humboldt university and she had a criminal law commission for the german association of women lawyers thank you for joining us on t.w. we know that there is wide support in germany to do more to prevent violence against women and girls and yet germany has one of the highest numbers of reported some asides in the you why is that. so i think one of the fundamental problems is

a lack of awareness and relating to german baseband and the site in particular that silly if you look at femicide which is the killing of women because of their gender some because they were men and women which are curious worldwide of course many different forms like to killing a child is moment killing of sex workers to killing of female babies but also killings out of massaging the bad install community for instance but the most common form of time aside is that intimate partners have aside and this is also the case in germany where done most common form of have a cite is that separation killings like killing by the partner because a woman wants to separate or has separated from him and what we see here is that still in germany people do not realize that this constitutes the form of time inside even a chart and they usually think of it as a curing somewhere else in the world like the purely far away so the whole problem of gender based violence is as area as there is in the world have a problem but here in germany where so much for their we don't even know what

distance and i think that is a really big problem which then leads to many more problems and recognizing to silence and. most problematic tendencies of course and this tendency to there does follow balance if we talk about awareness often if you look at coverage of these cases in the media these this violence is played down it's called an honor killing or a family drama so is the messaging there wrong as well. yes the messaging is definitely wrong and i think it's quite problematic to speak of a family drama or jealousy tragedy or crime of passion or something and that is because it's a it's a very euphemistic apologetic kind of way of describing it it's violence against the structural dimension that put transit as an isolated event something is wrong with the family with the relationship with the person is also often kind of labeling the women the victim as being a part of that as having some kind of fault in it oftentimes you also see that for

instance her and then infidelity is also discussed in terms of a violation goes have been committed against her and the car still has terms changed our perceptions shape our society perceptive to perception of everyone who's dealing with sex crimes and so we have this new geisha of the structural chorus mediation of the gravity of the fans to killing of a human being of one woman because she is a woman which doesn't take part and i think it's very important to change this narrative what about the word femicide itself which you referred to because this is a term that in itself is controversial can you explain why that is. yeah a lot of people think that it's difficult to understand exactly what it means and of course the killing of a woman because she is a woman the crucial question is ok when is this gender based killing when exactly are women killed because it wouldn't but i think if we understand it correctly it's not as difficult as it seems because that we see that in terms it's similar in

terms of all gender based violence it is because the perpetrators has a certain conception of gender based inequality or page or act of conception as the you know woman of being kind of the property of a man and she comes leave him or she has to be punished for even him and i think it's a very useful term in that regard because it shows the structural dimension it raises this it raises that to have a problem which is a concern for all of us for the entire society and not just for individuals for individual problematic relationships or so i will have to leave it there daniel from the german association of women lawyers thank you so much for joining us thank you. coming up next on d w news asia as super spreader events gold this one could be huge millions in india ignore social distancing as they celebrate the coming of spring. and as man march military tightens 3rd grip on power many who can are leaving what more could

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