this is the news live from berlin that india is hit by a 2nd wave off the corona virus as cases sort of almost 100000 for a 2nd day running to state as one prime minister in that interim ody to open up vaccinations to more of the population also coming up for overarching to ensure that the wrongs of nuclear program is permanently verifiably constrained top diplomats head to vienna to try to brace you that you brought a nuclear deal with tehran refusing to talk directly to washington what are the

chances of progress. and once they were going to the kremlin but now russia's communist party politicians all crying fall he heads to the city of seattle to meet a local politician who's determined to have his voice heard at the do not. call for a hard knock down in germany they head off and get a magical c.d.u. party and would be chancellor ses tougher restrictions what's slow the 3rd wave of the pandemic. hello i'm christine one it's good to have your company. indian state leaders all calling for a wider vaccination rollout has the country faces a staggering surge in corona. iris cases nearly 97000 new infections were reported

on tuesday that's hovering near monday's record high many hospitals are now being overrun by patients for example in the west a fix it stays. this is in disarray to state and host of the commercial capital of mumbai it's announced new restrictions including a night curfew that so far 165000 people in the country have died from coal that 90 . and i'm now joined by the daily bureau chief cheema good to see you what is driving be current surge of infections hi christine yes it came just one shot because the freddie easing under the pandemic and then has high numbers of the leak and what's driving it it's very alarming for the legislature to energy and do you feel is a host of new newton and delivery issues on the virus which of english which are much more into just multiply much faster and they are transmitting treat

times the rate then the in the 1st wave so that is a big one in there and also. just to you know you just people have become complacent people that are abandoned it was behind them the virus is very very much here and people are probably a girl appropriate measures right and every service comes as or perhaps has prompted state leaders to call on prime minister narendra modi to open after the nations to more of the adult population how is that vaccination rollout going on. now this is the world's largest and vaccination drive as india likes to see how it's expanded the vaccination program just last week they allowed everyone to live the age of 45 to take the chair simple and that awful is that it should be able to everyone and that is a possibility that is like it will happen in the future and all go you know india

is doing very well when you look in terms of numbers of people vaccinated india's population is daily modest less than 5 percent of the people in india have received distrust vaccine and less than one percent have received a 2nd dose of the vaccine it's a long road ahead kristie. and in the meantime a meter what kind of restrictions are in place to to curb the spread of infections that the earliest measures something that you mentioned in the worst affected state a morass just. by as the commercial capital of the country they have night time go fused they're also implementing containment still when they are injections and just as of in the interactions they are trying to avoid big super spread events like this or the last religious festival but i have to say and the ultimate responsibility lies with the people of the country they have to follow measures

which the government is encouraging to do follow for example reading must social distancing washing their hands because if the people themselves are not convinced of much covering these measures it's a huge challenge for the government right that is daily here in chief thank you amrita. and staying in india unemployment has hit women the hardest showing the pandemic the number of women in the workforce has fallen dramatically compared to men and the situation could worsen further as the country faces a mother spike and co that 1000 cases the money the child tree has our next report . it through has been out of work for more than a year. the 55 year old domestic worker used to cook at several homes in an upmarket neighborhood but the pandemic prestone her life upside down. the lockdown was really bad for us. we survived on rations that were donated to us on

a high as. my employers told us not to come we might bring the wider us into their homes we couldn't do much after that any. one of many women who lost their livelihoods overnight when the government imposed down last year. according to multiple studies and surveys conducted recently women work with especially those who work in the informal or the unorganized fictive 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 there. is a social worker who helps women working informally she says that while men can travel to find work family responsibilities mean women have to stay closer to home . in the arnold and i think the women lost. fabric. as domestic help wanted to construction legal treatment in the cases of us are still

rising it does not look like they will get their. women's participation in the workforce was already declining but the sudden shutdown caused by call that 19 was a severe blow to. 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 destroyed. who suffered it's the women the other more vulnerable in the labor force the border educated comparatively dared the poor. comparatively because i don't think the government has done enough. actually provide for drugs both those who who who have jobs they're working less hours so if they're working their 1000 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. so bob feels she cannot even go back to her as there's nothing there for her life has become a daily struggle for survival. now diplomats on the world's most powerful countries all missing in all strains capital vienna today for talks aimed at salvaging the iran nuclear deal u.s. president joe biden's administration wants to revive the accord but has said that requires negotiations now iran is refusing direct talks calling for sanctions to be lifted for nations will mediate between the 2 sides 2015 agreements to lift iran's nuclear program collapse after then president donald trump withdrew and reinstated

sanctions on the country now the u.s. and iranian officials laid out there ahead off today's talks our overarching goal is to ensure that iran's nuclear program is permanently in verifiably constrained in that on a permanent and verifiable basis iran will not be able to obtain a nuclear weapon. who to call whether the joint commissions agenda produces a result or not depends on the europeans and reminding the us of its obligations and the americans acting on their commitments. and when i'll go to our brussels correspondent for more on this story hi terry good to see you so as we have heard these talks are being described as in direct talks what he said is about what that means and and what is going to actually happen today. good morning well the indirect talks are because iran has refused to sit down directly with the united

states at this point and so the european union as the mediator of this deal will shuttle between the sides along with the remaining members of the iran nuclear deal so that britain france germany russia and china so they will meet with iran in one meeting and then they will meet with the u.s. in another meeting it's unclear how many of these sessions there will be or if the e.u. will be shuttling between the 2 sides and as small as as this seems or as incremental as it seems it really is a big step for the negotiating process that has been stalled now since president trump pulled out in 2018. as i just mentioned biden's administration wants to revive the of course is the realistic prospects that that both sides will simply sign up to that original treaty once again. from the u.s. side i think it's unlikely that they will sign up to exactly the same nuclear deal

except as perhaps a 1st step toward broadening it and the biggest reason for that is because while the biden administration is a long way from the trump administration and how it's handling this it believes it's a useful full deal 5 while imperfect there are what's called sunset clauses in the original deal which means that some of these restrictions on iran's nuclear program will lift some as early as 5 years from now and that has always disturbed the u.s. administration and it was simply as far as they could go with the original deal in 2015 so i think that the biden ministration will want to see more permanent as state department spokesman ed price says permanent restrictions on iran's nuclear activity the other thing we can parse from his statement is that it wants to be sure it's verifiable which means that iran cannot restrict the international atomic energy agency from doing inspections. terry just going back to the talks today what

would 6 system look like at the off today well because you never know how these things go i think that if they get to the end of it at least one round of talks with with each side i think that certainly the e.u. will be declaring it a success even if no substance is is really achieved on this 1st day and that will be an achievement but i think that both sides were saying they didn't have high hopes for any major breakthroughs but the fact that you have the negotiators in the same town already is a step forward and that's how the u.s. is describing it and i believe iran feels the same way they have long been calling also for the iran nuclear deal to be fully implemented by the united states again that report from. brussels for us thank you terry. and here's a look at some more stories making headlines around the world the death toll from floods and landslides in eastern indonesia and neighboring east timor has climbed

to more than $100.00 and fiftie rescue is also urging for dozens more who are still missing a tropical cycle caused the damage for cost is expected it'll gradually move away from lead and in the coming days. and mozambique's ministry says it has regained full control over the coastal town of palma jihadists from a group linked to al qaeda attacked it late last month palma is located near a natural gas projects with some 60000000000 dollars aid groups say tens of thousands fled the fighting. and jordan's prince hamza has pledged his loyalty to the cane in an apparent resolution to end president of public feud within the royal family who is the hoff brother of jordan's king abdullah had been under house arrest for allegedly plotting to destabilize the country the king's uncle reportedly mediated the solution. a volcano

in iceland has opened a new several 100 meter long fish which has begun spewing lava hundreds of people have been evacuated the volcano has been erupting since late march having previously been dormant for nearly 800 years. now russia's is vista newspaper is reporting that jailed kremlin critic alexina vonnie has been moved to a sick ward the opposition politician was jailed in february and has been on hunger strike since last wednesday in protest at the lack of medical care now with parliamentary elections list and 6 months away although all cracking down on kremlin critics but they could be facing new threats including from within the traditionally loyal communist party. emily show and travel to the southwest and city of subtle ways she made a local politician who's determined not to be silenced. in the footsteps of

language. that anchor sees himself as a politician of the people just like his communist forefathers but he has a huge social media presence but that and because you tube channel has over a 1000000 subscribers fight for your rights is the motto here. his social media accounts show him fighting against corruption and for more equality including as a representative in the regional south of parliament and beyond that anchor doesn't shy away from criticizing the kremlin and the ruling united russia party. it's your actions the actions of the russian government of your president of your united russia party you gave our national riches away to oligarchs. now bund that includes facing what he says is a political campaign against him local politicians have accused him of corruption for monetizing his social media accounts he could face

a criminal case that could prevent him from running in the upcoming dumas elections . the government is afraid of people uniting uniting around a concrete political program which provides an alternative to the course they have taken. throughout my whole career during the many hours of live streams online or in my videos i never asked people to follow nicholai blundering co. i'm just asking people to be political if you don't like what i say follow your own line. the main thing is to not give up. in russia there are traces of the soviet past everywhere including in south of the communist party is still popular here and across the country even though critics say the party ultimately follows the kremlin line but even russia's so-called systemic opposition parties have recently become an outlet for people's anger at the government where. last year the arrest of

a popular governor from the right wing liberal democratic party led to weeks of protests in russia's far eastern city of. every monday need to live on that anchor has his office hours the 35 year old spends most of the day with constituents people stand in line for support with issues from benefit applications to problems with corruption. i've placed my hopes and think oh i heard how he talks to people and i've heard his speeches. in russia they don't like people who tell the truth it's always been that way so if he's trying to get the truth out to people naturally he becomes undesirable to the government if you can see how he acts at all as parliamentary session c.i.'s uncomfortable questions the authorities don't like that but. experts agree that the kremlin might try to keep people like john that anchor out of federal politics. ahead of the duma lections the kremlin makes clear arrangements with the main opposition parties about which candidates

can run and what results they should get they don't want to let anyone in who will rock the boat. but despite attempts to intimidate him isn't ready to give up. people today are hungry for justice and for truth they don't trust the authorities on the whole. i went into politics to prove to citizens that lawmakers can work honestly. that anchor is already preparing his campaign for the duma elections and he hopes he will be allowed a fair fight. germany may be headed for longer tougher coronavirus restrictions despite having spent almost half a year in some form of lockdown infections are high across the country and the vaccine rollout is still sluggish now in response to the crisis more state leaders are calling for a hardened lock down one of them is on in the shift he is the head of germany's most populous state and the head of chancellor i'm going to. have not until now he

had opposed strict. enough during a visit to a vaccination center last week the approach of him and other state premiers to the pandemic broadside from the chancellor. his salvo in return a call for more talks and tougher measures. and that is why i think we need a bridge lockdown. we have to build the bridge to the point in time where a lot of people of oxen a truth i'm on my own. i know there's a lot of people are tired of the pandemic but also because a lot are ready to go a step further i'm uninsured so in. that it wants more people working from home and stricter curfews produce fewer restrictions as possible for schools and kindergartens he says he has allies including the chancellor but not everyone is on board. i think a lot of what mr lasher says is unclear bridge lock down this temporary with what

measures are not supposed to go on until many people have been vaccinated what does all that mean i don't think lisa lusciousness thought things through so i can't see any point in calling the state premiers back for talks earlier than planned so in a minister position confidence is a. problem is simply the time we've lost one for a month we've known that the numbers are going up so it's clear that we need decisive measures now. and she. is a man next to lash it is a leading german intensive care doctor and he warns. be nice for the next fortnight or so we expect the number of infections will continue to grow we'll have 5000 cope with 1000 patients in intensive care the situation really is very dramatic. and the health minister says vaccinations will not break the subway if only about $10000000.00 germans of how the 1st job so far. thomas fare he's

political correspondent good to see thomas so the heads of the needle. posse i mean that should calling for a hard time without a support does he have and how likely is it that he will get his way. well i mean gosh it on german chancellor angela merkel haven't seen eye to eye in recent days in fact on going to merkel openly criticised for his coronavirus management as head of the state of north rhine-westphalia and then actually pulled back and also criticized those comments by the german chancellor but when we look specifically at the need or at least that desire for strict measures here in germany that is something that i'm going to merkel the german chancellor has stressed on various occasions she has reportedly been stopped by leaders regional leaders who want different kinds of measures and that's the reason christine why now there's all discussion about what path germany should go in the next few weeks with the should

be centralized measures that have a pic of all for the whole of the country whether there's a need for another meeting between german federal and state leaders a quick a meeting the next one is planned for april the 12th all these are issues that are being discussed now obviously a lot it's proposed and we sold out in a piece has been criticized by other state premiers who consider it too imprecise so it'll be such an interesting to see how that debate moves on in the next few days ahead of that very important meeting to decide whether germany goes into a stricter lockdown or whether it meant maintains some of the policies that it has had until now it's almost as i was just saying jamie has been in some form of lockdown for the last 6 months now what is the general public sentiment towards the idea of a tougher and longer look down. this is interesting christine because actually a majority of germans according to a poll this month view would favor of the possibility of imposing stricter measures

here in germany so that's something that obviously john politicians are very much aware of but on the other hand there is also a lot of criticism from the germans towards the way the government both federally and regionally have handled the coronavirus pandemic about the fact that there is a lot of confusion in fact a majority of germans have stressed that they've lost track of what measures are a pickup will wear on the way and so this is also something that politicians are very much aware of and that's why the pressure has grown and continues to grow on them to make a clear position on where germany is going to be heading in the next few weeks all right that state of news political correspondent tom aspire thank you thomas and now here's some more of the latest developments in the pandemic new zealand has announced that it will open a travel bible with australia on april 19th it will allow quarantine free travel between the neighboring states and starting next month singapore will accept visits is to use

a mobile travel pos containing digital 6 if it's folk over $1000.00 tests and vaccines it is one of the 1st countries to adopt the initiative and new data from israel suggests that the vaccination off adults also protects unvaccinated people living around them so far more than hall of the israeli population has been inoculated. well north korea has become the 1st country to drop out of this is tokyo lympics save they made the decision to protect athletes from covert 19 now south korea has expressed regret over the decision saying it had hoped the games would provide an opportunity to improve relations the pandemic has already pushed back the olympics which were originally for 2020 and organizers have scrambled to put in place preventive safety measures the event is to to begin in late july. first flashiest a city manager pep guardiola ses he thinks it's possible his club could mount

a bid to sign dortmund superstar holland his comments come as a surprise as he previously said the club could not meet the enormous austin press the timing was also interesting as claudio decide page dortmund in the 1st 8 off a champions league quarter final on tuesday. we already knew guardiola want to the champions league title as much as anyone but we didn't know it was beyond victory against dortmund on tuesday night he also like so many others wants the german side's most prized position being whole and sweden seriously don't love to see. that they just core does amount to what is not easy to find in the past honestly so i think that's 20 years old with the numbers to speak for speak for himself is a fantastic striker and everybody knows it's all a blind guy who realise there's a real struggle. and that's why some say the price you could bring is high as

150000000 euros and maybe that's why pick guardiola was not just papering price on holland but trying to gently persuade the club's interacting ownership to spain's like they've never spent before so far the club have decided not to spend. not close 100000000 or more than 100000000 for play maybe in the future is going to happen when the club is necessary for improve the team the club the team for the next 510 years for many reasons. 2 months left to run on the current season and every of a suitor will have to white and now it seems not so much if he believed dortmund but rather from where exactly he will reunite. and a reminder of the top story this hour what indian state is all oil in quite a wide a vaccination rolled off as the country faces a staggering and coronavirus cases maybe 97000 new infections were reported tuesday

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