usually packed investigations into the cause of the crash and rescue efforts are ongoing. and correspondent william yang has the latest for us from taipei william thanks for joining us dozens of death already reported is that number expected to increase. i think the next few hours will be critical at least the only good news so far is the no one is still trapped in the train which means that all passengers have been evacuated but the death toll could increase if those in critical condition now in a hospital might not be able to make it through the night there are also actually more information about why and how the accident happened so apparently the railway authorities informed construction site there round the tunnel since it's a long weekend so they don't expect any constructions to happen during this time so

they just told media now that they are not sure why a construction worker still went up to the site to inspect and he you know his mistake of not properly parking the truck caused it to slide down the slope and run into the train and caused the accident do we have any more details about this this truck i mean that just it was not supposed to be there did somebody forget to put the brakes on or is that all you know for no. yeah so the construction worker he went up to a site that's about 300 meters away from the truck and where he parked it and he did not put the break up properly and calls the trucks down the slope and ran into the truck a train that was just coming in through the tunnel and what we also know is the truck hit a car carriage number 8 off the train and caused it to crash into the tunnel which is why we initially seen only the 1st 2 carriages of the train was outside of the

tunnel and then the rest of the 6 carried just were inside the tunnel creating an increasingly difficult scene for rescuers to back away all the passengers and what we also know is that most of the carriages inside the town award the ones that were deformed and making it very hard for rescuers to try to evacuate all the chopped passengers in the dark and at the same time trying to use utensils think wittman's to cut through the did formed carriages sounds like a horrible situation for the survivors i suppose authorities and grieving relatives want to find out if it is indeed human error but is there a precedent for this kind of oxygen in taiwan would it what is the the history of train accidents on the island. so about 3 years ago the same model of the train actually also had a serious accident that's just a little bit north off the section of the same grayle grow that we saw the accident

happened today the difference is that today's action is called mostly the truck that's slightly on the slope but the last one in $28.00 was pure it was more off the human error. committed by the conductors and the government actually conduct that there is investigation that's actually still going on and the transportation minister said earlier that he was very sorry that his teen could not finalised the . investigation early enough so he expects some political consequences that might calm after the end of today's tragedy. ok doobies william yang reporting for us from taipei thanks so much for that. myanmar's military has shut down wireless internet services across the country until further notice protesters have responded with marches and events remembering those killed by the army daily protests against the hunter's takeover have become increasingly deadly more than 500 people have been killed in the past 2 months the u.n.

security council is expressing deep concern about the deteriorating situation in myanmar as worries spread of a potential civil war. after 2 months of daily street protests a symbolic act brings new hope to the cause of protesters in cities around me and the 2008 constitution a constitution that was designed by the military opponents of the one to have declared void and have written an alternative charta but with members of the democratically elected government detained finding a diplomatic resolution is becoming increasingly difficult elected leader aung sun suu kyi now faces new charges if convicted she could be barred from ever holding office again. her lawyers have only been able to say whoa briefly via video link. we did not feel i'm not able to say whether she is aware of what is happening in

the country due to the circumstances yesterday and today at court she may know or not i can't guess. and it was good to see her today and yesterday by a conference saying she is healthy. the u.n. special envoy for me on my has urged the u.n. security council to act she wanted the country is at risk of falling into civil war activists on the ground say the situation is dire we've been crying of oppression from the military and continuous effort from our forces to this very. civil war you know must try and i i would like you know a few to the united nations to do something about it because we could see a lot of sanctions coming from the u.k. the united states and japan and other european countries but they haven't been any form sanctions coming from that you and. many

demonstrators now believe an alternative force is the only way to return democracy to me and my several of the country's minority ethnic groups already have armed militias some have denounced the coup saying they will protect their territories and protesters. and joining us now for more insight on this from london is kaley long a researcher with an esteemed international is long the u.n. security council is condemning the are the army violence and britain is imposing sanctions on any company dealing with the military but it's not going to have any impact. what we really need to see out of the security council isn't just well it's concrete resolution calls for global hands above 0 and referring to the international criminal court situation as a whole the situation really couldn't be more critical. and the army is accused of disappearing people and targeting children was the objective there.

obviously it's impossible to get insight into the mind of the man the military but this is and i mean it conducts itself with absolutely impunity and point to the post of duction widespread and this is something they have done in the past we have very much of the view that the reason we are in this situation today is because they has been this comprehensive failure to hold them to account previous crimes. and it is we just saw in the report some protesters are creating local armed militias and there are long embattled ethnic groups already armed getting ready for a fight how close do you feel we are to some kind of civil war and myanmar it's a really really dangerous situation that's on conflict already or on the periphery as they have been you know there are these places where that had died down and there was a ceasefire is in place we're hearing credible reports of airstrikes inside the territory of the southeast so with these armed groups if they enter the fray it's

a very dangerous situation and this could be a full blown crisis that i don't think you would even have imagined a month or 2 ago. you know it seems really to have come tragically out of nowhere can you can you tell us a bit more what's happening with the last democratic leader newmar sighing suchi who is now in detention if you think he's likely to stay there. again it's really would be unwise of me to speculate as he has been in serious charges and so we're calling for the release of all those unjustly detained including our own sons who cheat and there are thousands of people who have been arrested since the coup and the crackdown started and not to mention all of those people who've just been shot in the streets. would you be able to tell us about those charges there so that we're able to follow about that case against her what does she accused by the army and she's been accused of basically there suggesting that there is corruption and

and there was a village that they were irregularities with the election they've also hit her with charges of treason and breaches of the facial secrets act so these are really serious charges and and it's something that i'm not sure that she's able to have proper access to her lawyer i understand there was video link and that that something that hasn't been as good as this day and access they beg repeating that there are thousands of people who are being denied access to not only legal representation but today families sometimes in some cases families going down with their loved ones. ok the long thank you for shedding a light on their stories can be long from amnesty international joining us from london. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the american president joe biden has held his 1st cabinet meeting at the white house used the gathering to promote his 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan the senate

confirmed the full cabinet last week biden has hailed it as the most diverse in u.s. history. the dutch prime minister mark who has survived one of the biggest political fights of his decade in power he's narrowly survived a no confidence vote over claims he lied about coalition talks who to has not been forced to resign but his chances of forming a new government have been dealt a serious blow from. belgian police have clashed with a large crowd gathered in a brussels park after a fake concert was announced on social media as an april fools day prank police said that 3 officers were hurt and $22.00 people arrested large gatherings are banned in belgium due to surging infection numbers. thousands of german tourists decide to holiday on the spanish island of may your car during the pandemic are they putting others in danger.

swearing in a new president just 2 days after the government accused the military of a coup attempt president mohammad buzz rooms inauguration marks the 1st peaceful transition of power in decades though the election results are contested by the opposition and violence followed the vote the new administration will be tasked with stamping out is the most extreme islam in the country which the u.n. says is the world's poorest. and i am joined now. on the phone from largo's by dubious west africa correspondent fred fred thanks for joining us this is the 1st ever democratic transition of power in egypt where this is a watershed moment by any measure isn't it. yes that's correct it's very sunday in usual but also in the west africa because. do you need to read that who are changing course green on things so that they kind of thing but

the president resumed if i did the shooting issue 2 times. if they think. it's really important you know. africa is also for the conscience of a hungry news to. me it's very important the. hunger of our. model to get you come praise that you know it's very good for the money. and it just 2 days ago there was an attempted coup according to news reports how stable will his presidency be. this is one of the challenge in the country think. democracy calm she seems to be drawing time ago they haven't like. the democracy. you think when talking to paul long is actually through the mire and. they're hungry

enough and we also know that they're kind of. coming behind them not like divide medicine for efficiency good for the young people and also the open vision because they came behind the car i don't like that i'm not. going to prevent. their charge inside the house and money transactions of the big companies $10400.00 people on the long way to come to. the board some of them. were just looking at some live pictures of that. inauguration ceremony just briefly other. any other issues that he's going to have to deal with in the future quite apart from not how do you overthrown in a coup let's get. through the whole party and you know you well know it is funny promptly being the what do you believe is one of the $230.00. if you think

people who need it he might be called but you don't even know the county fearful that. this only likely not going to. be obviously. didn't go the probably somebody you read into what you thought evolved the feeling of course. if you can talk. of course. all right fred in lego's thank you for that insight. when we come back to germany where fear and frustration are growing as coronavirus cases increase in number of dorothy's reported nearly 22000 new infections on friday even though germans have lived in some form of lockdown since last year our correspondent on hammerstein asked people in berlin to describe the government

spend them a commitment and here's what they said confusing this is can your sick good i've given the circumstances. this thing called for everyone terrible. yeah terrible. these billionaires are not alone according to the monthly national survey. from the polling institute in fact to steam up 79 percent of germans are critical of all the countries managing the crisis it's the highest number since the start of the pandemic only 24 percent are ok with the measures as they are about the same say they go too far while half of germans think current measures are not restrictive enough the country is in the middle of its target wave of the pandemic the number of new infections exponentially with a highly contagious u.k. virus varian now dominant but the vaccination will test been slow and the

chancellor and state premiers can't seem to agree on a course of action. if so many people are so frustrated with the government that maybe they have better ideas on how to handle the pandemic if you were. one day what would you do differently i actually i would look to countries like. singapore or even thailand you know and just. what the different. nobody likes like a hard lock down takes a lot of quality of life away from a lot of people it makes people feel lonely and i want to deal with that with very well from the start opening it up for open discussion letting the ideas come back and go and go back and forth and finding out which is the best idea that's what i would do i would get as much as possible for like everyone. just to make everyone feel safe. feel like we can get out of this because

it doesn't look. like yeah like it's going to be over soon and that's really frustrating. a lot of ideas for the chancellor and her party is under pressure to show a way for what if elections were this sunday the conservatives would only get 27 percent of the votes 6 percentage points down from one month ago. party still has some time to prove it can get it right until september when germany's general elections are held. thousands of germans have traveled to the spanish island of new york this year for spring break for many it's an annual tradition but in the middle of a pandemic as we've just been hearing chancellor angela merkel has warned against this vacationing in times of the current virus is controversial as it is considered a so-called pandemic driver our reporter young philip schultz finds out from tourists and locals whether all the fun is worth all the risk. slowly but

surely ply diploma is filling up with tourists again this is where most germans who book a trip to majorca choose to stay restaurant on us up least every day more beach open up their outdoor terraces. but it's not just the beach that is popular activity has picked up at doctors' offices as well starting this week tourists must get tested for corona virus before returning to germany. one man who you have various options you can make an appointment at the airport then you don't have to wait at all but you pay more as far as i know there are also 2 other places near here where you can take a test so personally i don't think it's all that bad to be honest we won't be doing this again it was nice to get away for a few days but the hoops we have to jump through to return and the fear that comes with being tested is too much what if it comes back positive the whole thing is

just exhausting. despite virus fears the island expects over 40000 german guests this stuff about things locum plea different in the city of new just a few kilometers away normally this location is firmly in the hands of british vacationers but unlike the germans they are not allowed to travel at the moment those who do face have the fines so the mood in town is. 50 just 60 percent of the businesses here will have to close completely. it's simply become impossible to pay rent without any revenue. right now the infection rate on my orca remains low but it has been slowly rising some fear that the island will soon close again completely the fear of the virus in one place and the fear of complete economic ruin in the other no where in the world is the typical dynamic of the pandemic as obvious as in majorca where 80 percent of the

people live directly or indirectly from tourism. power that he gets comments on the back and forth between reopening tourist attractions and re imposing restrictions with his biting caricatures in my local newspapers for him the pandemic has shown that mass tourism on the island is a thing off the past it's like a medicine the right dose is great but too much is dangerous he used to work well on the island but then suddenly 5 times as many tourists came many in the tourism industry are exploited in the eighty's it was better less tourism leads to a better quality of life and as much in the community most of you know what in the meantime several hotels on the island have already been converted into quarantine accommodations this is where some german vacationers who tested positive us state they are required to wait at least 2 weeks before they are allowed to return to

germany. turner sports now in the run up to the tokyo olympics has been marred by controversy again as the ongoing torch relay through japan could be canceled in certain areas the torch is currently touring through the country was strict hygiene protocols in place but now the organizing committees president has said the relay may be called off in regions where coronavirus cases are high soccer's governor had previously announced he does not want to host the upcoming leg in his city around $10000.00 runners are participating in the nationwide tour. rescheduled tokyo games are less than 4 months away and 12 year old skateboarding prodded prodigy sky brown is all set to be the youngest ever olympian when her sport makes a limp dick debut in july she has fully recovered from a life threatening accident last year and is now ready to perform on the biggest stage in the world. scrawny brown is smiling again despite the games being

delayed she's still set to become the youngest ever limpy and sees the positives in the year long wait to complete. my dreams are you know. and can be her and it's. sad but then i realise it was just the right you know we just get more time. yeah better and i got same time right family but the delay of the games was not her biggest setback that year in june she revealed she had suffered how was it full yet the accidental left with skull fractures and a broken left wrist and hand she was unresponsive on arrival at hospital but made a full recovery i'm going stronger actually. isn't doing me stronger but yes it was a pretty hard time right parents site. i mean. there are one receiver for

a back like norway or lime that was it was during her recovery the half british half japanese skateboarder spent more time on her other passion of surfing and may even treated as more than a hobby in future. i actually want to. thank. you. and have your. first things 1st though as her trailblazing debut in tokyo beckons. and a reminder of the top stories this hour at least $48.00 people have been killed in a train crash in eastern taiwan dozens more were injured authorities say the train derailed inside a tunnel after colliding with a truck the crash comes during a weekend of holiday travel in taiwan. the un security council has condemned violence in myanmar but dropped that's right of action against the military junta after objections from china hundreds have been killed by security forces following

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make up your own mind. g.w. made for minds. welcome to echo offer they vironment program brought to you from the large area uganda and germany us always take a look at some of the ideas out there for protecting the environment both in europe and in africa i'm chris celebs in lagos nigeria but 1st before i walk out to buy go post structure. high praise and hello everybody i am sundra to no good here in kampala uganda and yet a week of alone to install for you to do stay tuned and in childish chill here's

a quick preview of what is coming up shortly. simple mike is modest we see how it bends in pain yet he's protecting both elefant on the forest. when moved an artist in ghana he's bringing a new life into the grounds of recycling company. and thinking be how young entertain us here in uganda a town in the ideas into the reality. laws of floating and water are unlovely sight bought aquatic lunch can be something of a pissed when they turn up in the wrong places we've caught a few reports on the trouble want to hyacinth opposed to some communities now on liquor also in coming to the local residents of course of asian it's black men with another invested species that is causing a host of problems there. paddling

through lake olsen has become more of a struggle since the subtle venia plants altered his ecosystem sees richard heene guly a fisherman who grew up in a small community on the shores of the lake the 1st screwing we block sunlight and depletes oxygen from the water suffocating aquatic life. 70 is giving us a lot of trouble. it is affecting my fishing. activity on the part that appeared in the past when i went out to fish i would have a good catch for me and my family by me and i thought now it's become really hard for. this morning a group of local residents from design we have come together to clear the invasive plants from the main entrance to the lake the villages are worried it will spread to other sections that have not yet been affected lake also is cameron's largest natural lake with a total surface area of nearly 40 square kilometers but it's now infested with

water most all salvina nearly 40 percent of its surface is covered as a proliferates the plant also threatens the locals livelihoods. a local marine mammal kinds of russian organization i'm cool regularly organizes the cleanups for 5 years now the team has been striving hard to protect the link from their great sea of wheat to find a more efficient solution by receipts to cu cam has set up a research site in the village he wants to find out if they can use a biological weapon to destroy the water most on a large scale you have a political. ticker. this small bug feeds on slovenia tests from last year issued that it can completely eliminates plans cover in a matter of months i'm cool is already negotiating its deployments with the commute

government but they have been concerns in the community due to fears the bug also eats their crops. biological can crawl using this salvia weaver has been used in many countries around the world including in 15 countries in africa and the best example is that of santa god they were able to get rid of their sort of e-mail within a year using their biological control and the way this weaver works is that if it's specific on this sardinia what happened after eating salvia they just died because they have not arrested twice a month the researcher makes the trip from cameroon's capital young to work at the leak accompanied by colleagues and students i'm cool also collects data on the african manatee the least studied large mammal in africa they're shy by nature and activity night sightings are rare in order to detect the creatures location and movements to kuka muses specialised equipment including. the information gained is

critical for the conservation of the grease will animals so the reason my team and i working so hard is because we want to save the african american which is being threatened by porting which is the illegal hunting of the species and also kryten by accident capture in fishing net their population over or raising and even especially here in lake also where these trade offs are vina has combined into the home thing making the population through even decrease costs the conservation group regularly sends out volunteers to speak to the local community the purpose is to inform villages about the importance of put. the lake and all its natural resources including the manatees they too are struggling to survive. when a manatee gets caught in a net that eats up all the fish even if it's

a 100. the problem is due to the fact that manatees don't have access to enough sea grass it's chucked out by the 7 year so they eat fish. many of these community members have lost their source of income because. local fishermen have plenty of incentive to do all they can to remove the alien plants and preventing sprigg and they hope that aristide to come on his team will soon get the go ahead to introduce the tiny bug that will save the leak by devouring its pesky surface cover for. what an interesting project we know to pay a visit to some relatives of the money the elephants look at. elephants are amazing creatures. difficult to know because they. can't even this entire. forest passed away.

let's take a look. here in france and other wildlife are home free without posing a pretty 2 from us and their livestock living nearby but because they are separated by an electric fence joseph walks for a conservation. human against the fence and oversaw its construction it's solar powered and has proved to be very reliable. in the great rift valley. we did about 43.3 kilometers and it's done now. and now we're there walk we're doing now is the meeting now. and also. into the community so that they can be able to own it must citizen is a forest beekeeper one of many here they belong to the community which has

practiced beekeeping for hundreds of years the bees are kept in traditional wooden hives and the honey is extracted by hand beekeeping is still allowed in the forest chopping down trees and hunting are not. now i am sure. if we took care of why the animals have seen the same way they must look after their cattle or other communities into their livestock crops so we live honey and bush meat and live here in the knowledge that this was like off on a quiet night when you had to do this in the open court in a funny. one of the to protect the forest the indigenous community has been given land and access to water outside its use of karaoke has now turned to tom a little farming. for new york one of his own we don't depend on this is us anymore it used to be the kiss but

a busy time of the you wouldn't see any greenery here more than the ground would be patched up there with me so you know but it's one of the diggers changes are going to test. now it's green everywhere then vitamin tusk really changed the humid air women to me claim that these things are supposed to protect key areas of forest where in full feeds going as rivers the product which receives support from government agencies charitable foundations and the corporate sector has proved a great success and now it is of modern woodland in other parts of the country are being fenced as will. i know me if you. see. forest being. spared for the animals and for and firemen so and i'm quite happy to see such an electric fence set up to protect these animals from going out into the community. and that in turn has protected the community from damage caused by wondering why life. vince's are given the

forests the animals living here and the nearby communities to feed them to florence . we know in town too and s. into our homes still up just today glad to know after learning the technique in here an artist i'm gonna now create anything so new to phoenix in his workshop. just right sundra says there is no professional glass recycling sorting gonna find a way of clearing up some of the waste by turning it into other useful objects here's this week's doing your bits. from all the ones we want our goal you don't give yourself for fear in her heart. the materials used to make this glowing molten blob came from the garbage.

that. we were. glass. gonna doesn't have a formal system for collecting and recycling waste glass so a lot ends up in landfills the only certified glass blower in west africa michael taytay works exclusively with recycled glass his craft requires a lot of patience and experience let down grow a lot though. a little bit of global market would push a lot of fellow. who commute. to work through. numerous steps are required to complete each unique object which takes a makes you know why for righty of colors hatton's shapes and sizes is i catch in creations is sold in a gallery around 11 year as each. piece

is made you can give them a new design in a specification and he will make it on the color for you also his products. and we like the fact that he is to waste into usable lots of funds and to ensure that sustainable glassblowing has a few cheering ghana michael takes a also teaches this traditional craft to young people in his workshop passing on his sustainable methods to the next generation of artists. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our web site forbes and there's a tweet. ashtray doing your big. sharing your story. pretty much the world over these are known to be industrious creatures in english we've been used to chair visit b.s. well like really other insects they are under threats others are for ticks or stalk

overbought region of kosovo is solving your rope their cause official is still working to protect the unique natural habitat where the important pollinators flee a key role. it's usually men who wear this kind of outfit in kosovo they are hardly any female beekeepers in the country sheepish shiela is one of them the beekeeping season might be over but she still checks on her charges. regularly. and electric fence protects her hives from the bears that still grown this area near priestman kosovo's 2nd largest city . the shar manton's national park just to the south is a refuge for balkan links this species of wildcat is critically endangered there are only a few dozen of them left. sheep or shall or has 150 beehives she's the

boss and her husband works for her that's quite an unusual set up but it works for them. they all we like to do things systematically. i start from one and. my husband starts from the other. we like to compete. it's kind of a game to see who can check more beehives. today it looks like a toy once the inspections are done shiner takes care to extinguish the coal in her smoker which is used to come the bees a forest fire could have disastrous consequences. she doesn't have any trouble finding buyers for her organic honey. it sells for twice the price of the honey sold at street side markets be keeping sheep breeding and she's making

are an important part of the economy in kosovo the youngest and smallest nation in the balkans. shallow went abroad to study organic farming methods. nowadays environmental activists come to see her to learn how she applies organic methods to be keeping. the aim is to raise awareness across kossovo of eco friendly farming practices. i attended a workshop in germany i learned a lot about animal welfare which nobody here knows anything about i'm now giving courses to pass on this knowledge i hope people will come to realize we have to protect. and that includes being as they are so important for the environment.