this is g w news why from berlin tonight for the 3rd time since the pandemic thinking and france is going into lockdown president microland says the shutdown already in place in some regions will be extended to the entire country for at least one month schools will close domestic travel will be banned i call morns france is close to losing control of the pandemic also coming up tonight more mixed messages the use medicines regulator banks the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine for all age groups it comes a day after germany stop the use of astra zeneca in people under the age of 60 and

pakistan's 1st ever religious school for transgender people it's a safe space for those on the margins of society where some are finding comfort in their faith. by brink off to our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin with the latest evidence of just how severe the 3rd wave of the pandemic has become for europe tonight france has extended its coronavirus lock down for one more month in an address to the nation president said that we will lose control if we do not move now coronavirus cases have risen sharply in recent weeks in france with almost 60000 new infections reported in just the last 24 hours intensive care units are in

danger of being swamped here is the french president. just think you can focus i know how difficult the effort i am asking of you is sick you don't but i know what the consequences are for our country and for our lives. and you also know that we have done everything possible to take these measures as late as possible and up a time when they were strictly necessary and i think these are the times in it but i also want to tell you tonight thanks to vaccination at the end of the crisis is finally in sight. because at this hour you are already more than 8 and a half 1000000 to have received a 1st injection of vaccine 3000000 have received 2 and was president emanuel micron's speaking earlier tonight our correspondent lisa lewis in paris she's been following that address so i asked her which of the measures announced by the french president will have the biggest impact on the french people. well basically as you

said he's extending the measures that i'm place at this very moment in 1000 departments about 30 fronts to the whole of continental fronts and nonessential shops were closed in france because of that and also as you said schools will close that will obviously have a huge impact and there are 2 weeks of high days ahead anyway for schools so basically all schools were closed for one week and then another 2 weeks of holidays and then one week of another online you know another week of online classes with many people of you staying staying at home and apart from those going to primary schools now that will have a huge impact for parents but this is still a lockdown light people will be allowed to go outside days not that one kilometer radius is a rule in place that france had to lock down number one and number 2 last year so the government is really banking on each one's responsibility not to meet up with

lots of people are outside and not to spread the virus like that lisa the president is saying the measures will last at least a month and he also said there is light at the end of the tunnel is this going to reassure people in france that the government will keep this pandemic under control . well as i said it is a look down light in many people here fear it's too little too late really because the government hasn't been cracking down on people so to say earlier at in late january there was a moment where seem to be hesitating to impose stricter measures and then he said no we're not going to impose anything other than the curfew that's been in place for a few months now here and we are controlling the pandemic and many people here in france are now angry that he didn't take stricter measures because now obviously the weather is getting better and everybody feels like you know having more freedom

and they wouldn't have minded so much to stay at home for 2 months for the last 2 months when it was raining really so many people here fear that this is not enough obviously they're hoping it will be enough and that that by mid may as promised tonight that life will gradually go back to normal here in france you know i said that there are about 5000 patients in intensive care now in french hospitals and give us an update on the severity of the coronavirus situation in france. it is very severe especially compared to neighboring countries you know here the incidence rate across france is at about $330.00 that is you know the number of infections per $100.00 inhabitants a week that figure is at about 130 in germany even lower in the u.k. another country such as spain and portugal in france that figure stands at 550 and one intensive care doctor told me just a few days ago that he feared that at the number of intensive care patients in the

paris region would reach 3500 based on the current infections already and that would be 800 intensive care penge patients more than during the 1st very severe wave in spring 2027 it looks like is really you know going down to the wire and many people have been asking for stricter measures for one hour here what about banks and. we know that france is not back to a large percentage of the population there are concerns about the astra zeneca vaccine well that's right according to polls about 60 percent of the french are quite skeptical of that vaccine however when you look at the figures and one of my car tonight announced that about 8500000 french people had already received their 1st jab that's 2 or 300000 more than just a day ago so the vaccination speed is quite fast and the skepticism of astra zeneca

seems at least for now not to be slowing down that speed. r.t.w. sleeps louis with the latest tonight from paris lisa thank you for returning down to astra zeneca corona virus vaccine which today got the backing of europe's drugs regulators for use in all 'd age groups or that came off the back of moves yesterday by germany and other countries to restrict the vaccine for younger people over reports of blood clots that decision becoming possibly another barrier in germany's already problematic vaccination rollout. getting the job in germany has hit another snag overall vaccine supply still short and now shuttered astra zeneca that are available can't get into the arms a certain age groups there's concern over blood clots reported in a small number of people who got the shot so the federal vaccination committee chose to suspend use for groups under 60 with some exceptions to react the

population i'm not about i'm not at all happy about it says decision you can believe me but need couldn't act in the different ways and the moment. but the european medicines agency disagrees. according to the current scientific knowledge there is no evidence that would support restricting the use of beef vaccine in any population the immense chief says there's no proven causal link to the vaccine and cloning and that that benefits of astra zeneca and the fight against hope it outweigh its risks that's not enough to convince the chairman of the german vaccination committee. because we have our own there is solid state tone this fall and then must say that we are not aware of how monitoring is to fall in other european countries since one of the problems you have him a hopes to reach

a scientific conclusion on the back scene by next week. in brazil president joy or boston are always facing one of the biggest crises since he took office one that challenges his very authority in an unprecedented move the heads of the navy army and air force have all quit at the same time and that as the country just recorded its highest daily number of covert 19 deaths the pandemic has also exacerbated brazil's economic crisis millions have lost their jobs and their home. in brazil and long queues for the current a virus. acts in a common and increasingly so are bred queues. as a coronavirus pandemic rages on these people are putting their lives on the line just to get something to ease with a 3 month gap between government financial aid packages putting food on the table is becoming increasingly difficult and with a more contagious variant sweeping through the country increasingly dangerous.

we'll look at the situation if it wasn't for the church handing out this food i don't know where what i ate where what i ate i have no money the pandemic has forced millions into unemployment homelessness and hunger there is living on the streets face increased risk of catching the disease because of this people who are homeless are being offered vaccines in sao paulo. this 2nd wave it came with greater severity increasing the cases much more we believe that this new strain has further aggravated the health of people who already have underlying conditions people living on the streets already have diabetes syphilis hiv and other diseases besides alcohol and drugs and are even more vulnerable. as well no doubt. brazil's response of the crisis has drawn criticism from around the world president jr both has consistently opposed lockdown measures and downplayed the seriousness of the virus once describing it as

a little flu. with the heads of the nation's navy and air force resigning a political crisis has now been added to the mix while the nation is facing well over $3000.00 coronavirus related deaths per day but the infection rate and death toll rising as the virus continues to spread and looks like the worst may still be yet to come. all right correspondent is in rio de janeiro covering these developments good evening to you months years so do we know why the 3 heads of brazil's on forces resigned today at the same time. it was mostly because of huge frustration among them because both had sec the defense minister one day before on monday so they were frustrated about that decision and when they met the new defense minister mr bragg on neto and they were really furious and they show this and they think and it's true that going to isn't strong elio mr president also

not true so the commanders are not happy about that and they see at risk their independence from the brazilian government and that's why they resigned president also narrow he is a former army officer himself he has aligned himself closely with the military what does this rift tell us about his relationship to the military now. it shows that the next week weeks are really decisive and it's decisive who will succeed on the top posts on the in the army and the military's that's decisive on to say how it will go on the relationship between the government and the military forces how the new commanders will react to was false and attempts to pull them into politics to pull them into the arena and that army is still. really keen to not be one big political player so these upcoming weeks are really decisive

and we won we are not sure how it will go out and there are a lot of support for what's in our own lower ranks in the military buddies but the commanders on and the higher ranks are still. more critic critical to what's what's in our and we know this is happening against the backdrop of a pandemic crisis that's just getting worse we understand now the p one variant of the corona virus has been detected across all of brazil tell us more about that. to have this very dominant one here in your janeiro and every state and that's why in all the states in brazil all the regions and you see similar town is the growing numbers in many areas and many regions system the health system has collapsed here in rio janeiro we have around 90 percent of the intensive

care units full of patients who are younger than in the last month due to the ongoing slowly ongoing nation campaign the number of old people in these units decreasing slowly but there are younger patients there i have been there today at such an intensive care unit and i saw for example. patients with severe severe cases of patients around 3840 years that's right here the numbers of people or the patients getting younger and younger multi-user were reporting tonight from rio de janeiro with us thank you thanks. for let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world me and mars military has been carrying out air strikes on its own citizens forcing thousands to flee their homes and seek medical treatment in neighboring thailand daily protests demanding the restoration of democracy face an increasingly brutal

crackdown more than 500 civilians have been killed since the start of february the jailed crimson critic alexei navalny has announced that he is going on a hunger strike this follows a demand by and of all these doctors that the dissident receive immediate medical treatment for a severe back problem of all he has been detained at a penal camp since february he survived a near fatal poison attack last august the international criminal court has upheld the acquittal of ivory coast former president. and former minister scholls play good day they were both acquitted 2 years ago of crimes including rape murder and persecution following disputed elections in 2010 judges who said prosecutors failed to prove their case and italian navy captain working at the defense ministry has allegedly been called selling documents to a russian official in response italy has expelled 2 russian diplomats the navy

captain has been arrested and russia's ambassador has been summoned to italy's foreign ministry the kremlin says it hopes bilateral ties will not be damaged by this affair. well votes are being counted in one of america's most significant labor battles in decades the outcome will determine whether or not a union can gain a foothold at amazon organizers are promising union representation will improve the lives of nearly 6000 people who work for the internet retail giant amazon is expected to push back trying to keep the unions out stefan simons went to alabama to find out more. welcome to bessemer if you have never heard of this southwestern suburb of birmingham alabama you were not alone at least until recently bessemer home to roughly 28000 residents has become a daily news headline a beacon of hope for many but for others it's now a symbolizes

a vicious attack on good old capitalism because. bessemer is now at the center of the biggest and most important labor fight the united states has seen in decades thanks to amazon so here we are at the amazon fulfillment center right behind me here and best of my alabama. this place or better 5800 workers who work here could make history yes history but only in the united states why is that because amazon was successful for the last almost 20 years to fight off any union effort to put cracks in the house off the sauce this is the 1st time that a union has a real chance to get labor organized at amazon local union organizers worked for months on getting amazon workers into the flock flyers and posters rallies and shit like work and this all came about because of this man

daryl richardson. richardson felt things are not all that great at the bessemer amazon fulfillment center if you're late a minute. 15 minutes a automatic way from you. i want. to watch take up so we're just a lot of stuff need to be changed last year contact at the retail warehouse and department store union in birmingham and a representative met with him here. at the dreamland barbecue in tuscaloosa rips and iced tea a plan to unionize amazon was hatched and set in motion. fast forward to today almost $6000.00 workers voted for or against unionization now the votes are being counted union activist alex gould says that won't be the end of it likely but

what is it it's a pro union leaflet ok. if the workers win this vote it's going to be a big struggle for samaras to come to any agreement with them you know the law says that he has to bargain with them but we all know it's a question of power. and there's also the other side of course amazon employees who don't want to you know we are against it and we are very happy with what we are getting is far as benefits we're happy with our working conditions we're happy with the advancement opportunities. speaking of advancement whatever the bessemer vote will be amazon is sure to face more pressure for unionization in the future. transgender people around the world. overwhelmingly muslim country it can be difficult for the religious schools were to join. on this international transgender visibility we visit an institution aiming

to change that the country's 1st ever or religious school dedicated to trans people . a step closer to finding peace for the soul. behind this door pakistan's 1st transgender only madrassa over a dozen students learn about the teachings of the qur'an here every day. founder rani khan decided to open this religious school after she herself both spiritually last. 15 years and went around begging for 5. then one night i had a dream i saw that a transgender friend of mine who had died within a state of great agony that dream changed my entire life and that's why i made this turnaround. can also teach assistance to sue quotes and hope that one day they can

sell them to cover the operation costs she has used up her life savings to open up the much. the 34 year old was determined because she's known a life on the margins of society. most families do not exceptions gender people they threw them out of their homes to turn around doing they start dancing and begging and doing other things i was one of them and. can now ventures to distribute of ring help she tries to convince other transgenders to become her students. those who started to learn the qur'an say religion gives them comfort. peace whenever cite the qur'an and instead of leading a life of degradation it's better to improve my life. khan hopes to connect many more transgender people through islam in the future she encourages others in the

community to do the same. they can also come to life they can also designate a room for prayer and recitation where they can remember a law and make atonement to gain a better life after that. rights groups say pakistan may have well over 300000 transgender people in the country just a fraction of them are practicing islam in this school before the students it's already a milestone greater acceptance and a safe haven. thousands of plaques and sculptures known as the been in bronzes once filled the royal palace of the kingdom of but need present day nigeria and then the british military arrived in sec the palace taking the bronze with it for over a century now the bronzes have been displayed in european museums while pressure is now. on those museums to return the building brands including 2 dozen museums

here in germany. have been mean bronzes have come to symbolize art looted from africa debate over their restitution has gone on for years now the matter has gained momentum in germany foreign minister heikal mosse has called for them to be returned culture minister money could put us wants a conference aimed at finding a solution is this a turning point. this is what's happening or something sensational you could even call it a paradigm shift suddenly the restitution to africa of precious objects from africa is no problem at all anymore that's something really new and it's electrifying the restitution as will happen i'm convinced of it. mean bronzes were meant to be displayed in berlin's new home built farm in a few months time as the heart of the ethnological collection the pression cultural heritage foundation which currently holds the bronzes doesn't want to give up that

idea completely. an optimistic i'm optimistic that the original objects can still be displayed here some could be returned and some could remain here so there could be a continual exchange of items on loan and it was always clear that the context in which they were acquired the context of injustice would be explained its effect is that in $897.00 in the kingdom of british colonial forces looted $4000.00 bronze sculptures in a raid germany 1100 of the stolen goods. there is blood on these objects so do trophies from the colonial era really belong in an exhibition in the heart of berlin and in few music can be seen in many museums around the world the been in bronze those are exceptional art and when they came to europe they highlighted a completely new image of africa as a continent steeped in history and culture they've been in bronzes are of course part of the cultural history of nigeria and been in but they've also become global

. good ones and nigerian authorities take a different view the new museum is planned there where the brands are to be displayed as the country's legal property. woods. national. international order. the bronzes are legacy of colonial conquest french historian venediktov was one of the most important voices when it comes to blooded art her research has revealed that for decades museums have deliberately covered up the provenance of their collections unhindered investigations including thinking it's obvious that museum directors tried to put off having to take action before they retired and simply passed the problem on to the next generation which has us now

it's clear that we cannot and must not burden the next generation with this we have to act in this london there are still no definitive decisions but in general tendency is becoming clear in germany calls for restitution of the banning bronzers are growing louder both within the public and among politicians as here in africa when we were in africa the culture minister of the republic of binny and said he didn't think there would ever be any restitution and if it did happen it would be as important as the fall of the berlin wall and i think we've reached a kind of cultural fall of the wall. well a spanish call yakker in chile has accomplished something that has never been done before the 1st ever double kick flip over a waterfall take a look. ok he started with a 25 kilometer descent down a snow we've all seen of before entering the regions and was forest but the icing

on the cake it was still to come he talked it off by nailing the world's 1st double kickflip in a kayak over a waterfall and the spaniard nailed it on his 1st attempt. no word if you try to do it a 2nd time. all right you're watching the w. news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for will be right back.

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churches with towers that pierce the clouds like skyscrapers are created the be contest of the cathedrals stars people 12th on t w. today joe biden became the 1st us president to issue a proclamation recognizing transgender people at the same time the pentagon on biden's orders reverse the trump administration's ban on transgender people from serving in the military this brings the u.s. in line with germany's military which now has its 1st transgender commander tonight on this international transgender day of visibility we introduce those among us who have been ignored and overlooked for much too long the people who have a right to be seen.