rage online. some calls out the political strains between the e.u. and turnkey others say it reflects how women are treated in the country time between the 2 sides. of this film d.w. brussels correspondent bob welcome barbara so a mistake or an insult when you think. now that depends on whether believe we believe in coincidence in father christmas are not really this really does look as if the turkish side used this occasion to upstaged. the council president michel michel vs the president of the european commission the executive branch of the e.u. slush fund the line and then they also might of course just might have been a touch of the good old fashioned old fashioned misogyny at play here all this we do not exactly know but the optics we had devastating diplomatically speaking so

this isn't on the samples because the fallout on social media was just devastating . hashtag sprang up get her a chair and one of the members of the european parliament from the. speeches if i had invited president are going to my house i would have offered to him a chair in spite of the fact he's a man so yes there is of course laughter but there is also the 2 courts of this that once again the e.u. . to be looked really to look really bad on the international stage so how has the european commission reacted to this. you could really for the last 2 days for the literally hear the grit their teeth when they were answering hundreds of journalists question how was this allowed to happen why did child michele not give up his chair immediately to earth life on the line now we can't answer that

question and the you commission sort of around and said oh we rose above the occasion but seriously shot me self one in this that i mean what a foolish thing to do to let the situation go ahead he will never learn of this and then on the other hand maybe also a certain lack of grit or flow from the line because she could have just walked up to the turkish president and said oh mr president is a possible that we lack charity should we maybe ask for money what would add to it has done that he would have been made to look really bad so the 2 of them sort of didn't really manage the occasion and the 2 of them are now very angry with each other and brussels is sort of having a big laugh of of course the continuation that politically this is just stupid thing to happen barbara thank you so much. israel is

marking its annual holocaust remembrance day and honor of the 6000000 jews who died in the genocide led by nazi germany. sounded across the country for 2 minutes this morning and stood in silence in traffic to a standstill the country's leaders took part in the. event marks the anniversary of the $943.00. ghetto uprising one of the most significant acts of jewish resistance to the holocaust israeli on german air forces have been cooperating to on the holocaust victims of one of the camps where jewish people were once murdered one israeli pirate shared his experience of taking part in. a joint flyby over germany and the doctor concentration camp last year for the 1st time the german live in the israeli air force honored holocaust victims together for this young israeli pilot it was

a very personal experience. for the last year of germany's specifically the fly over over and over an issue was probably the most important thing definitely wasn't anything that i've done in my army service and one of the most important things i've ever been a part of in my whole life and it was such a such a great symbol of how humans can get over even the worst and the darkest conflicts and the worst things that can happen. especially for me as well my for my grandfather was a pilot in the british air force in the 2nd world war and on my other side obviously my family was. murdered in the holocaust so for me it was very very special as an active fighter pilot he can't be fully identified he emigrated from a steal yet as real one of his grandfathers was a spec fire pilot in the royal air force in world war 2 a scorching raids on nazi germany he survived and moved to israel his grandson followed in his footsteps. when you think about the past and what happened you know

in the darkest times 70 years ago. you know i guess the worst enemies almost now we're flying over germany together as a team but i think it really really shows the best side of humankind how we can forgive each other and you know we still remember the storm and what happened and learned about it but. we can move on together and be friends meeting with other young germans was an important part of the joint military training last year another we keeping the memory of a shared past a lie there's still people in the world who want us to be destroyed as a country and as a people and i think that remembering what was in the past is the key so that word it won't happen again in the future. others take a look at some more stories making headlines around the world will start in russia alexina found me has been diagnosed with 2 spinal disc home years according to his

lawyer imprisoned russian opposition leader is said to have lost sensation in his legs and hands just in the valley is on hunger strike in a penal colony. rescue crews have boarded a cargo ship abandoned in rough seas off norway since monday of a ship began listing dangerously when its cargo shifted in stormy weather its crew was evacuated by helicopter ships now being towed to a porter avoiding a potential fume spill. protesters in northern ireland have hurled explosives across the so-called peace walls and clash with police in belfast a bus was hijacked and set on fire violence has flared over the last week fueled by the pandemic and opposed to brag trade barriers with the rest of the u.k. . in sport there were 2 champions league quarter finals 1st legs on wednesday night parry sound should man be defending champions by munich $32.00 from a smaller level the scores for the title holders particularly

a goal settle the result of p.s.g. and thomas 2 calls chelsea the perfect night in porto a 2 no when has them perfectly positioned for the return leg in london bilbao in northern spain is one of the city's fighting to host this summer's european football championships but now it risks being cut off cut from the list after the spanish football federation said local restrictions would make it impossible for spectators to attend that puts it on a collision course with the european football's governing body you wait for it says city's must allow fans at stadium lose their right to host little bow has now submitted a plan to us for organizers to permit some fans to attend joining a spade is the football association of ireland which says it cannot assure fandoms in dublin as well a final decision on the host city is expected on the 25th of april. intel is the french open will be delayed by

a week because of coronavirus restrictions are tightening across france it will now start on the 30th of may last year's event was delayed by 4 months with crowds limited to just a 1000 people every day rafa nadal will defend his title after will not record extending 13th the french open last year on their while eager to share on tech of poland is the reigning women's champion. this. bizarre is the art market is going digital investors are spending enormous amounts on artworks that exist only in digital form until now digital art was so easy to copy that it didn't make any sense financially but now that has changed and the implications for the art market are huge. the magic word is n f t or non fungible token and it's revolutionizing the art market this technology records the owner's identity in a blank sheet while the work itself remains publicly visible on the web for anyone

to see. so and it is a technical stand there to make additional work of art were any good that any i. s. it was unique so you get it all going well to me. was the artist's what was the size. and that you bought it and it you are the rightful owner in this online gold rush a flying cap sold for $650000.00 but 21st several 1000000. crypto cats were virtual basketball cards sold for millions. and now christie's has got on board auction ing every days from artist people as its 1st tokenized piece. the sale not only meant recognition for digital art but

it's helped christie's reap millions in a win win situation. over at us get him of us and i think when there's money at stake people take things seriously so many people who used to not really take this art form seriously are now having a closer look and that's great and of course the artist who created this work will go down in art history on that site so it's like a conspiracy so i'm scream. the buyer was a singapore based fund that had made a fortune with crypto currency 90 percent of the bidders at christie's were unknown is a new crypto elite divvying up the market. people they're all right now. they're . i'm to the market. with a really open i don't have much knowledge of the art market and our enemy. and just really i like that could up end the traditional dominance of art galleries

and museums when it comes to determining what art is valuable and important for crypto art could turn out to be an unprecedented speculation bubble but even if that bubble bursts it's still likely to shake up the art market. that situ up to date i'll have more world news at the top of the hour melissa chan has d.w. news asia in just a moment and of course as always at news and updates around the clock on the up downloadable most of the op stalls and of course on the web site d w dot com. or .

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south korean media harbinger of a conservative swing in the country oh it's too early to say we take a closer look and see what this means for regional security and stability. class india reports a damning record of cold the cases as they face as deadly 2nd wave of the pandemic can the country cope. i'm melissa chan thank you for joining us south korea's 2 biggest cities and seoul have held their mayoral elections and the results show a conservative sweep this could mean trouble for president progressive democratic party particularly with presidential elections taking place in just under a year frank smith reports the election of new mayors for their capital city soul

here in the port city of busan might not seem that important because after all they're just by elections and the numers only hold office for about 14 months but they are indicative of a broader sea change in south korea and politics if we go back just a year the democratic party $180.00 out of 300 seats at the country's national assembly and then of course yesterday they took a trouncing the question is how influential will destroy result be in terms of next year's presidential elections to take place in a boat 11 months are we going to see the conservatives hold on to a favorable public sentiment if we do then we're going to see some very different policies out of south korea even in terms of international affairs with a much harsher hardline policy likely toward north korea and a perhaps closer alliance with the united states. joining us is do

young kim in seoul with the center for a new american security do tell us a little bit more about what it means for security in the region whether a conservative or progressive party is in power in south korea thanks for so much for having me you know it will be a delicate dance for the u.s. and south korea in the remainder of this year because the current president the current progressive south korean president has about a year left because they are already yet odds on exactly how to achieve the shit shared objectives on north korea now it can expect they will try to work together but i would not be surprised if they experience some tension along the way you know it's too early to predict what happens next year in south korea's presidential election but if a conservative candidate is elected we can expect the eye of the allies to be closely aligned in dealing with china north korea but if

a progressive wins again then we can expect some discord and and some tension in the alliance when they're trying to deal with north korea and china. and our north korea the associated press just quoted kim jong un of knowledge ing the country is facing its quote worst ever situation and we know north korea also withdrew from the tokyo games and it's closed its borders ever since the start of covert a year ago what's going on. you know i think their withdrawal from the tokyo olympics i think it's another indicator that it's north korea sees the virus as the biggest threat to its survival more than what they call a u.s. a hostile u.s. policy now they have isolated themselves basically by closing their border with china by ending nearly all trade with china which is north korea's biggest benefactor so you know we've seen reports that it's overseas north koreans like

diplomats are not allowed to return home so i suspect north korea might continue to refuse direct talks with washington out of fear of possibly contract again importing the virus now the pandemic has also caused north korea to basically double down on self reliance and centralization to try to revive their struggling economy rather than continuing with economic reforms that have allowed cos i'm market activities until now to remain a source of economic growth now they might go back to even the old barter system but north korea has proven to be very resilient even in the harshest economic times so you know i do not think we should be quick to think of any doomsday scenarios of potential collapse or what now or what not now you know condone their leader he's also apparently trying to mask his country's weakness with exaggerated displays of

military strength by holding military parades we saw that earlier this year by advertising nuclear weapons capabilities you know in statements and verbal ie you know he seemingly does not possess and even testing missiles that we've recently seen. do we have a sense of the by the administration's approach to north korea and to the 2 koreas . you know we are still hearing that there they are wrapping up their policy review but you know so we'll have to wait but according to what we've heard publicly from president biden and secretary of state blinken you know i think the contours or the main principles are already out there and they really are that the bio administration is definitely open to diplomacy but they're also interested in types of pressure tools to to try to you know to to elicit north certain behaviors

that the international community wants to see to perhaps even the right to impose some costs on some penalties and some buy aleisha is that north korea might have conducted everyone's always wondering this but should we expect to see more missiles fired by pyongyang any time soon. you know i think so because north korea always has a military imperative to continue testing they need to test as much as they can to try to perfect their technology now there's also a political element to this too you know some of their political calculations come when it when it you know in regards to timing of when to test these types of weapons and that's where i think you know sometimes they factor in things like you know big american holidays or big big american events but you know we have seen them just very recently edge test their short range missiles and these are very dangerous missiles these short range missiles can actually start

a war or even be used very early on in a war so i think this is where you know the biden ministration you know president biden has said that he will respond to further tests will have to wait and see how he responds and i think you know i think washington will need to impose some type of penalty because all types of missile tests are violations of u.n. security council resolutions and not to mention the threats in south korea and americans living in south korea. can thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me. india is reporting daily records of new covert cases on thursday it topped more than 126000 with my russia state an epicenter of this new 2nd wave of the pandemic i.c.u. beds are quickly filling up health officials are worried and in some places clinics

face vaccine shortages. rolled up and ready for a 2nd shot prime minister narendra modi among a growing number of indians to be fully vaccinated against the corona virus. india has now surpassed the us as the world's fastest vaccinating country with more than $3000000.00 shots being administered each day and yet the virus is outpacing vaccinations in the country is now well in the midst of a severe 2nd wave the new new variant is spreading fast. views. dispiriting bird you just you might in were that it was what did this you to send this exam are being served and what babies are made there this is going to do in don't suppose in the coming. weeks or months even. to try to stem that surge restrictions have been reintroduced in many states the capital delhi just the latest to impose a nighttime curfew. and the country is facing an added challenge

a vaccine shortage maharashtra state home to the financial hub mumbai has raised alarm bells announcing it may have to hold facts in nations for up to 10 days health officials say they cannot afford to slow pace. almagro there's a stock of $1400000.00 vaccines available in maharashtra and if we vaccinate $500000.00 per day then the stock will last for 3 days i want that immediately this stock should be increased and more vaccine should be kept. diminishing stocks at a time of surging cases india's covert deal looks far from over. we have been here cadre from delhi bureau with us many air india is one of the world's biggest vaccine manufacturers how can they be running out well indeed i don't use tapes which have been raising concerns or a shortage in that sense

a claim puting my rush out which is the worst $68.00 now in the country now why do what explicit whiling expressed stress reduction that mean they're not able to manufacture interviews and many magazines as required now either when a lot of the c.e.o. of a student institute of india which is the largest that the manufacturer says that we really need to actually do need to be increasing demands and that standards to do it actually needs to actually go out of the government to be able to do so and the other that the manufacturers also need to base up their production to meet the increase in demand now there are people who are saying that the vaccine diplomacy. is what is going to the state now it seems we are exporting a lot of that scene but the government has been seeing that gave not exporting that in the last of their planning by indians but another thing to note is that the what we saw at the kid is just the given number of cases soaring india didn't it's that an export to meet the domestic demand now what impact will this temporary shortage

of vaccines have on this new wave of the pandemic well it will definitely leap days 80 raising among people b r barely into the 2nd b. of the pandemic and the floods are saying that the 2nd wave of spreading much faster than the last one and the continuous predominate messages by the governments of the beginning has been that the only way to deal with all of it is going to new vertical washings and that's a nation now in such a situation when we are well into the 2nd even begin to see the number of cases beaking and this day if there the shortage it will definitely be able to cause a huge concern. many year chadri thank you so much for joining us. that's it for today you can find more on our web site www dot com for slash asia check out our facebook and twitter as well we leave you with pictures of people including the prime minister all across india getting their coded 19 vaccinations that's as the country keeps breaking records for new corona virus infections thank

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problem in society we have at the moment everyone is afraid of making a mistake what may happen if we don't do. the pandemic has changed life as we know it. but what comes next. will our fast paced lives pick up again. will we continue to innovate regardless of the cost. live lives profit driven. and globally connected. or has this pandemic sparked irreparable change. how will we live in the future after the pandemic. hello and welcome to the 1000 special i'm seen beardsley in berlin well this week

we're taking a look ahead at life after the pandemic for what it means for cities 2 economies and even nutrition a recent study has linked higher obesity rates with higher cova death rates the world obesity federation report says cova death rates were 10 times higher in countries where the population was on average overweight further almost 90 percent of coppa deaths occurred in countries with high obesity rates the report calls for people living with obesity to have priority access to vaccines. i mean while the pandemic itself has increased hunger and malnutrition around parts of the world take brazil for the 1st time a whopping half of brazilians don't have access to safe and nutritious food that's according to reddy pence on a local food research group lines are swelling by the day at soup kitchens and food distribution points in the country experts say the sharp increase in food insecurity is due to job losses caused by the pandemic. is

assistant professor at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine and she joins me from london good to have you on the show what has the pandemic taught us about past choices when it comes to nutrition. and that mike has taught us that. that disruption and disruptive events and i locked out duty to changes in defeats that we eat and the choices that we make. take that shows that people certainly have changed my diet in a band i might do better and less well some people that improved and i had some for others and many diets wes and what exactly that if i did it wasn't that because i spend my time at home because i wasn't because other things in a supermarket where i have to have more time to. their meals for example we don't exactly know yet but diets have certainly changed do you think that some of those obesity rates we mentioned just previously that that may lead some people to

rethink perhaps the way they're eating does it give people time during the pandemic what is it that makes people have a rethink. i think certainly an issue there and what might be really interesting is to see kind of isolate that group of people that started eating better started eating more fruits and vegetables and remember this comes in a. system where or in a world where a very small proportion of people actually adhered to sufficient freedom fashionables and. different guidelines in countries or by the w.h.o. quite a small percentage of hairs to do that and you see that in a pandemic proportion of people have very much increased. consumption of healthy food such as printing vegetables and legumes and reduced unhealthy foods whereas others didn't so what would be really important and a kind of

a lesson that we can take as you. defend make when going forwards in terms of systems and diets but if you check this to see what what are those barriers that were removed by depend that meant 40 people and that led to these improvements of their diets in can we used to learn a little bit of about what sort of leverage points we have in a food system in supermarkets in homes of people in perhaps even their skills on how to cook certain foods from from scratch that would remove those barriers for others as well so that they could improve on their diets this one it sounds like you believe that some of these changed habits whether good or bad could stay beyond the pandemic. yes absolutely i think people certainly and again we're talking a little bit more about the group that experienced in him improvement of their diets. might also be the ones that kind of got a little bit more in touch with. what they're actually doing on

a. daily basis that is last running out of the office going to the supermarket and buy a ready to eat meal and it's more cooking from scratch so you will be more aware naturally how much salt goes in there fats that cetera and and if you more of the unhealthy or don't if it's that we eat too much of it we also say so yes i guess. i just want to say we've also seen during spend to make the food supply itself has changed what is that meant for nutrition in terms of getting fresh food. yeah it's a difference a really important lesson and something that perhaps. some scientists have been warning about for a while but our food system is really quite fragile you see it in the u.k. i'm most familiar with the environment here but south certainly also in other countries and in europe and in fact actually everywhere globally and what we see is that most countries also have. to have food stocks for

only a few days here very much dependent on other countries once to pour disclosed that don't really follow this program to. stock supermarkets work for example but we also see that disruptions and in this case it was a pandemic but it could also be a natural disaster of climate change. rest in the stuff we saw at the sourcing from that that we could certainly lead to all of a sudden products not being available in a supermarket or prices going up and especially trees and fresh polls and we do get them often from. countries that are owner of full 2 types of disruption and that could ultimately lead for example to increased prices of fruits and vegetables in new supermarkets which naturally them which disproportionately affect those that are struggling a little bit in buying their daily supermarket was going so the friendship i'm sorry to say that the bridge that also apparently newquay is obviously been changing some of the supply lines as well as want to ask how can we better plan

food supply lines when we know what we've known from the pandemic and from bragg's that for example are there any lessons there. yes absolutely i think mapping out where everything is currently coming from how much of that is for example domestically produced what sort of like a story can stocks do we have an r.v. and certain pivotal food groups that are particularly. vulnerable are non brasilia and in that sense and if there are ways how to inform to consumers but also to producers. about these vulnerabilities and see how perhaps there are some substitutions to make back to make systems much more sustainable and make sure that the supply is resilient really quick because it could mean more growing locally for example instead of importing stuff yeah absolutely and especially

because you know in a more sustainable world we would be looking at improving our. consumption anyway so. that what we would need to find ways to source the space which gets me locally not to say that trait with. lower income countries or so is a bad thing per se of course daddy peace depend on export richer countries to global north as well but certainly looking at ways how to minimize the next inanities for your health but also what he or i are meant to be something that we can improve upon or to leave it there pauline show big thank you very much london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. over to our science correspondent now with a question that goes straight to the gut. you hear a lot about the micro biome in health what is it and why is it so important. the

term micro biome describes the entirety of the microbial community that inhabits an organism like a human it's made up of a huge number of microorganisms even conservative estimates say that there are more microbes living in or on you then there are cells in your entire body carrying your own d.n.a. but because most microbes are much smaller than body cells if you put every one of them in your micro biome on a scale it only way a couple of kilos with with most of the microbes coming from the gut the average human is home to over 10000 microbial species many of which play for example vital roles in digestion and over the last half a century scientists have discovered that the make up and the balance of those

species in an individual's micro biome plays a fundamental role in health and can be linked to many medical conditions just look for instance at a recent large scale study on aging and the micro biome the authors found that in the elderly reduced populations of common bacterial species in the god were associated with overall better hell's aging people whose bacterial balance remained more static over time didn't live as long on average although it's really tough to clarify cause and effect in a system as complex as as the human micro biome links to both health and illness have been established in fields from from allergies. science to cardiovascular disease to to neurological disorders like like all spotters it'll take a lot more research though depend on exactly in what ways it's important to specific

health issues but many common diseases might one day soon be treated by tweaking a patient's microbiology. or science expert williams there that's it for our show today thanks for watching as always stay safe and we'll see you again soon.

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