this is g.w. news wyvern from berlin tonight in germany a call for a harder longer coronavirus walk down the head of germany's conservative c.d.u. party and a possible chancellor candidate says tougher restrictions would slow the 3rd wave of the pandemic and be a group gentil more people are vaccinated also coming up tonight a setback in the fight for gender equality in india look at why the couvade 19 crisis is hitting india's working women harder than men and tensions mount in eastern ukraine after russia defends its real terry movements near the border

ukrainian president accuses small scale of posing a serious threat and the prime minister who's going to court in trying to form a new government at the same time israeli prime minister netanyahu watches coalition talks as witnesses are called in his corruption trial. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome after half a year of lockdowns germany may be headed for longer tougher coronavirus restrictions tonight more german leaders are calling for a harder lockdown easter weekend solo slow down in covert 19 banks in nations in several german states vaccination centers have been closed appointments restricted and local health officials say they are sure. on vaccines the health minister says

that vaccinations will pick up pace in april and supplies increase and local doctors begin administering the shot. one of those calling for a harder walk down is arming law shit he is head of germany's most populous state north ryde was failure and he leans chance there are going to merkel's conservative party. would disrupt open the i mean that's why i think we need a bridge locked on it mustn't we have to build the bridge to the point in time when a lot of people are vaccinated you know i'm. i know that a lot of people are tired of the pandemic. but also that a lot are ready to go a step further and then i may or june to enter a new phase on. my uni in and i large majority of citizens are willing to take this step so that we have a better outlook and more planning security on them to the top and he's in st sylvia in the book at so the bridge to

a breakthrough success in testing and food means we need to double down on a lot of areas feed into and move towards a locked. down divvy i want to bring in now a professor of political science she is here in berlin this evening it's good to have you on the program are mean lush it is his call for a harder walk he has it motivated by the pandemic or is it motivated by his own politics. well obviously both spend them and put things but i think most politics because. it is heading for chancellor he has a souvenir counterpart. does it have from the very at and misses it has been calling for a long time for hot of the fountain as mr lash out in the beginning was the more liberal man said now i think to compete mr zuda and mr lash it also wants to basically go for a hot stance and polls show that a majority of people in germany who support

a top for walked so mr large shit who as you say campaigned to be the next chancellor he only stands to gain in popularity with more lockdowns doesn't. not only gaining popularity but fighting a political fight and fight the the pandemic yes and you are right there is a majority still a majority fought in knockouts having said that the majority is at the creasing in the 1st lock down last year 2nd lockdown we had something like 8090 percent majorities now it's down to st majorities but still a majority but you have resentment in population you have also many straight and then one strange and so we had a huge demonstration in class and in the mix of germany and not sunday so there is contest and people are basically getting tired of left out so it's a sort of poor high society and also there's a big question of who is calling the shots here we know that there's a there's a power battle going on between the 16 german states and the federal government

right. yes and since the pandemic we have been inaugurated to sort of council of the 16 state premiers and which isn't and usual for a lot of german politics and this format has been created for crisis management and now and as i hook their ambitions of mrs smack into and bend on this new institution and to basically govern the crisis on her own i'm not so sure that this will work because the state premiers have a you which is something anything you wrote in germany to play it so out wiping them out of a decision might be legally very difficult i'm sort of let me get your opinion on this how much do you think the thinking of the campaign and the national election which is scheduled for september how much there is playing in the coronavirus policies that we're seeing right now. i think a lot because obviously this is a september is close is just 5 months ahead and everybody wants to get out of this

look out of corona once to get people vaccinated and to back to normal having elections and then the see the who does not have the chance like yet so those who the person who wants to govern will need to show that he can germany bring out of the crisis and so there's a huge competition how to manage this now after so many mistakes or faults that have been arising with vaccination programs and so on so full so there is a real a sort of. i think he had to prove that you can govern the country in a crisis you know it's a good very good point or if you're gay were joining us tonight appreciate your time in your insides thank you thank you. well here's some more of the latest developments in the pandemic new cases in india they have passed 100000 in a single day for the 1st time meaning that india now has the world's highest recorded infection rate britain has confirmed that it will take further steps out

of the walk to beginning next week as its vaccine program continues apace non-essential shops can reopen an outdoor dining will be allowed again and the jerusalem post is reporting that pfizer has halted shipments of its vaccine to israel after the country reportedly failed to pay for its last batch. in india new data has indicated the covert $1000.00 crisis is pushing women out of the workforce at a rapid rate a study by the center for monitoring indian economy says only 9 percent of working age women are employed but that's a massive gender gap that could get worse as the country faces yet another spike in coded cases you've been here a challenger you has taken a closer look children it through has been out of book for more than a year. the 55 year old domestic worker used to cook at several homes in an

upmarket neighborhood but the pandemic has done her life upside down. the law down was really bad for us until a talented we said why don't russians that we do meet it wasn't that i advocate that my employees told us not to come and leave a budget we might bring the widest into their homes and we couldn't do much after that any. chill buys one of many women who lost their livelihoods overnight when the government imports a lockdown lost him. according to multiple studies been conducted recently women work with especially those who work in the informal or the an organized have taken a much harder hit by the call than 1000 logged on that was implemented compared to men a large number of these women have either lost out on work entirely or have seen a shop fall in their infant. is a social worker who helps women working informally she says that while the men can travel to find work family responsibilities mean women have to stay closer to home

. in the unorganized women lost. fabric of. world as domestic help wanted to construction liebeler treatment of the cases of us are still rising it does not look like they will get there. women's participation in the workforce was already declining but the sudden shutdown caused by call that 19 was. india's economy shrank by nearly a quarter in the 1st few months of the pandemic. economists trust says the impact of the downturn has been disproportionately who suffer it's the women they are the more vulnerable in the labor force they're the border educated comparative be there the poor are. comparatively because i don't think the government has done enough with india you provide for drugs both those who who who have jobs they're working less hours so if they're working less hours it fell almost

inevitable that the men are going to have whatever work there is going to be and not women this is an extra financial burden for on top of caring for the sick husband and daughter her own health is deteriorating further limiting her options. and it's going to be difficult to get work. but i have a family to look after i have been trying to get to work. doing some. silva feels she cannot even go back to their lives and there's nothing that the number of life has become a daily struggle. the pandemic in india well here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world in the george floyd murder trial the minneapolis police chief has testified that kneeling on floyd's neck violated department policy the chief said the actions of former police officer derrick show been were not part of police training now that statement contradicts a key argument of the defense which maintains jovan was just doing what he was

trained to do. the united nations says at least 40 people have been killed in sudan's western darfur region during clashes between 2 tribes the fighting started on saturday and is reportedly continuing tribal violence in darfur earlier this year displaced over 120000 people the clashes pose a challenge to sudan's transitional government that seeking to end decades of unrest russian president vladimir putin has signed legislation that would allow him to stay in office for 2 more terms until the year 2036 that changes part of constitutional reforms approved in a referendum last year and has already been in power for more than 20 years. when ukrainian president is expressing alarm about russian troop movements near his country's eastern border in a tweet he called while scales actions a serious challenge to the security of u. great the kremlin has denied st movements near the border pose any threat the

united states has asked moscow to explain what it's calling provocations on the border. ukrainian troops that are russian backed separatists in the eastern donbass region both accuse each other of committing deadly attacks rising tensions after a long quiet days. just a few days ago kiev accused moscow of moving large numbers of russian troops to the a crany and border. this has awakened grim memories of 2014 when russian troops also amassed at the border. moscow should cease military escalation and immediately and unconditionally reaffirm its commitment to a political and diplomatic settlement and a cease fire regime. the kremlin sees no cause for concern saying russia is free to move its troops within its own territory presidential spokesman dmitri peskov has instead warned the u.s. and nato against stationing their troops in ukraine or near the russian border.

such a development would lead to heightened tensions near russia's borders and of course this would require additional steps by russia to ensure its security. since 2014 more than 13000 people have been killed in the conflict over eastern ukraine a peace deal agreed in 2015 has not been implemented both science in that conflict agreed to a cease fire in july last year. joined by our correspondent david stern who's in the ukrainian capital kiev getting me to you david so just how tense is the situation tonight. well i would say the ukrainians and including the government obviously are very much focused on what's happening in the east and on the ukrainian border and in crimea which russia annexed from ukraine back in 2014 as you heard from the report there are reports of. troops and

equipment moving into these areas there's a lot of posts on social media reportedly showing that as well and we've also seen a great deal of flurry of diplomatic activity and statements as we also heard there . ukraine's allies expressing concern most importantly u.s. president joe biden making his 1st phone call to president selenski since biden became president that's very significant but as you hear the russians say that there's nothing to worry nothing to worry about there at the ukrainians are very much focused and concerned with what's happening at the moment on the borders and the timing of this why is this conflict flaring up again now. well it really obviously that's the the key question why now and there are obviously there are a number of. surmises you know theories this is not the 1st time we've seen troops

in it but letting on the border and if this is happening number of times over the last 7 years of this conflict this may be just a pressure con technique should be said also that the peace talks are going have been in a stalemate and perhaps maybe this is a way of bringing pressure on to ukrainians these are what is being bandied about here and in kiev obviously the ukrainians are looking for the possibility that there could be. an attack or troops from going across but it's it's difficult to say exactly at the moment what the russian if there is a plan behind the russian movements what exactly that is we know that u.s. president biden he has sent clear messages about his stance on russia on putin and ukraine did the ukrainians do they feel a higher level of support from the united states at this moment yes well

as i said this was the 1st phone call that biden made to. beyond the what the the other ukraine story the other u.s. officials were saying this obviously is a step in the ukrainians very much welcome this and it was. not long after the phone call and it made his own statement talking about how it might how welcome this was how he felt the support of the united states and obviously this is something that the ukrainians we have been waiting for for some time since biden had become president all right correspondent david stan with the latest in kiev tonight david thank you. in israel attorneys have called the 1st witnesses in the corruption trial of prime minister benjamin netanyahu the prime minister appeared in a jerusalem court today to face charges including bribery and fraud he could go to prison if found guilty 'd the trial as israel is struggling yet again to form a new government. israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu didn't want to appear

in court but he had no choice the judges insisted on his presence while the prosecution read out the charges against him. he's accused of trying to orchestrate positive coverage in israeli media a massive abuse of power. netanyahu denies all charges which is why witnesses were called in. but before they could testify netanyahu left the district court in jerusalem to the cries of opponents. and supporters. who wanted to know i came here to support and strengthen my great leader only as the great he's unique he saved the jewish people and the people of israel i can't beat him they can't i don't to put up with i just demonstrate for the rule of law and for democracy in israel we've been demonstrating for 4 years nobody who has been accused of crimes should be prime minister of israel. and this is the man who would

decide that the netanyahu will remain prime minister israel's president wife and rivlin no political camp received a clear mandate after the elections 2 weeks ago forcing rivlin to choose a candidate to form a new government to help him decide he's been consulting with the various parties elected to parliament. i think and i can say that now after talking to you and the likud party that the people of israel should be very concerned that the situation could worsen enough to drag us into a 5th elections. riven hopes the decide by wednesday ethical concerns may play a role he says hinting at how netanyahu is corruption trial could influence his decision. well midterm and then yahoo is already israel's longest serving leader and he seems to term and to stay in power even while standing trial for corruption

earlier we spoke to off borg a former speaker of israel's knesset and former interim president of israel we asked him what this tells us about the state of israeli democracy it tells us that people both wait time and again and time and again and is a very very persuasive. servant the leader that there is a full generation who was born grew up whole way you could fit into the situation of nobody else but netanyahu so the fact that he is such a strong leader like helmut kohl was at a time in germany like other leaders around the world are worthless so many for so many years is in no way a very good point to his side to the downside of it is it looks as if the opposition known it on the hill which feels it is corrupt it is stuck in a tit he cannot believe her anymore she prioritizes piss on the agenda over the

state's agenda took over at the full see the actions just happen and we can have to do weeks ago so now the jury's out is it possible that netanyahu would have is again once again cabinet or with an alternative to rise and today the negotiations started and we do not yet know the jury's out. boy there speaking with us earlier authorities in indonesia and east timor say dozens of people have been killed in flash floods and landslides triggered by a tropical cyclone if he wins in torrential rain peleg a cluster of eastern indonesian islands as well as neighboring east timor emergency teams are struggling to reach people in some of the affected areas. in this village in lone hundreds of houses the way by a flash flood triggered by rain storms. this man is looking for his relatives who he believes have been buried under their house. on a cd they're a must use for you by any. of these leaders and audi's to see to

complete. dozens are reported dead and the death toll is certain to rise with many still unaccounted for. on the early morning of april 4th of we received reports that some areas have been heavily affected due to the storm trench of rain and extreme weather which also cost very high off so waves. here in the tank our province rescue workers are also trying hard to bring survivors to safety and evacuees have to hold on tight. but damaged bridges and roads ahead for in their efforts about 30000 people have been impacted by the floods indonesia's president has offered his condolences for the dead and called for vigilance is that moneyball but as i urge everyone to follow the

directions of local authorities regarding the danger of floods and then slides due to extreme grain fall down up and did it got. more downpours are expected over the coming days with off show waves as high as 6 metres possible but there is hope to cycle on the. reportedly moving away from indonesia. sports news now sunday's big bonus league games. host had in the berlin when your own were looking for a win that would keep them in the hunt for european qualification and keep their city rivals mired in relegation trouble but they had other ideas. that were forced into a change for the darby. positive kovac 1000 test meant alexander was pressed into service in goal. splurged on by their funds fireworks outside the ground when you own started with a bang. reacted well to push over clichy approvals 2nd minute header.

but there was nothing the stand in keeper could do moments later. a rocket from what and they made it one nil to after 10 minutes. it looked like it would take at least a miracle for her to to get back into the match and won julia right when the referee deemed this challenge on material getting dizzy worthy of a penalty. dirty look at bucky was stepped up and sent to salute to the wrong way 1135 minutes and that's the way it finished after a 2nd half in which no one could quite get it right in front of goal. the spoils shared in the darby to the point and has done neither sight much good. well we all know that covert 19 can have long lingering symptoms such as fatigue and shortness of breath the w.'s london correspondent very good mosse introduces us

tonight to a voice coach who usually trains opera singers now she is using her talents to help long kovan sufferers breathe more easily again blowing bubbles to help with. susie do basic training. she's developed special greeting exercises patients and to some of them is a bit too hard work at the moment but what it does is it just allows you a voice and a little bit of a chance to unpressed. she says it's thanks to susie that she feels well again and is able to take a new hobbies just a year ago she was suffering from a lung infection and needed oxygen 3 months on i remember feeling fill fatigued breathless and literally from my bed to the bathroom i would just get breathless. oh. oh.

oh oh oh. sheba i never dreamed that of all people sing us from the english national opera would be the ones to have had brief arms down to show the heights. in weekly zoom sessions participants learn to relax and improve that posture and most of all to prove and just hold that for a moment we think a lot about loing breathing down because if you're over breathing you're taking in lots of air and actually tend not to be expelling me so just giving people tools to slow things down and get them in the moment is really helpful. being part of a group is hugely important. i could have never imagined coming out of that darkness all by myself so it's been

a huge support system for me it's like my family now we had i guess you can say our common purpose to get better and what be more beautiful way to think. about and heal them at the same time music and meds that have come together in this unique project and it's been so successful that it's now being rolled out in covert clinics across the u.k. . sheba dreams of singing on a real opera states together with others like her and that dream could come true. as soon as could be restrictions allow the international crop plants to states in very special up rock critic patients. greek and true singing.

and we like the sound of that here's a reminder of the top story this hour the head of germany's governing c.d.u. party has called for a tougher walk down to contain the country's coppa 19 searched farming loshon says tougher restrictions are needed until more people in germany have been vaccinated think gets the cover on the box. you're watching the news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight britain lifting its lock downs but giving no lift to the travel sector will be right back.

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see this to come from super flimsy. for. interactive exercises. everything is online and interactive benjamin's aflame with the deluge. on both sides of the atlantic in the us and. the u.k. the speed of corona virus vaccinations is going from fast to faster there are so many vaccinated people that the centers for disease control has issued new travel guidelines in america if you've had the shot you can fly again the british were hoping to hear something similar today when the prime minister announced an easing of lockdown restrictions nonessential stores and restaurants will soon reopen but will there be summer holidays tonight the official line is yes but best not to book anything.