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kids of hundreds of thousands in georgia force and for many. who calls. into the program. britain's prince philip husband of queen elizabeth. recent months and had recently been released from hospital the prince stood. for 70 years world leaders have expressed condolences and citizens have to pay tribute. it's been a year filled with pain and isolation for those in the united kingdom with many losing loved ones in the coronavirus pandemic but much of british society is

pausing to give special attention to the passing of one man they hold dear. i have a huge huge amount of respect for the family. actually even just talking about it. the nice break. first we just felt we had to come down here and just being in the. safety and everything else and just be a place the family for the prince philip was wonderful father and a real asset to british life and i'm sure the queen is grieving terribly my wishes to her very sad. it's. sad sad sad he's been with us all through our lives the pair of. people in london and make their way to windsor castle or buckingham palace to pay their respects to prince philip the royal family people not to gather in large numbers

due to the pandemic asking them to make a charitable donation instead. westminster abbey bells ringing once every 99 minutes in tribute. u.k. prime minister boris johnson says his thoughts are with the queen who has lost her husband. so we mourn today with her majesty the queen we offer our condolences to her. family and we give thanks as a nation and the kingdom for the extraordinary life and work. of prince philip you could bring. the government says flags will fly at hard mast all over the country until the prince's funeral his death will also be marked by a 41 gun salute moon on saturday. let's go straight

to the british capital then d.w. correspondent charlotte chance until joins us from london i know you've been to buckingham palace today and tell us more about what you've seen or people have been saying charlotte. well as i'm sure you can imagine tributes are pouring in not just here in the u.k. but around from around the world wild leaders paying tribute to the jacob an umbrella is an icon of public service his decades of public service by the size of the queen and also offering their condolences to the queen and the whole royal family i was at buckingham palace that what was small crowds gathered some people laying flowers outside the palace but the government on the palace here are a recommending that people people instead pay tribute to the jack of edinburgh on an online consulate a book of consolation that's because it's not being encouraged to queues or large

crowds gathered of course the u.k. is still under covert 19 restrictions at the moment so there is a concern about any crowds gathering but there has been a big outpouring of grief for that you can bet imbra who we know has passed away just 2 months shy of his 100th birthday so how will he be remembered. well he is widely remembered as a modernizing figure off to the u.k. rebuilt in the often mall of the seconds oh world war hero also be remembered as i said and that's why so many wildly does all mentioning it for his his public service his sense of duty and responsibility regardless of how you might feel about the world family there is no down saying his sense of g.t.o. him decades by the side of the queen in fact on that 50th wedding anniversary the queen has soap described him as has strength and stay talking about the sacrifices

or alluding to the sacrifices he's made in his years as a consequence of course here we have been remembered as well for his bright personality a lot of people have been paying tribute to his sense of humor and then of course it has to be said he is also being remembered as someone who was known to have occasionally made some more controversial more offensive remarks as well today though a lot of people paying tribute to him in the last that in spam they will stop that he was a husband for the 70 year father great grandfather and grandmother as well as stay with us i shall take a look at a couple of the tributes being paid to prince philip social media starting with the president of the european commission as you know from the life she's tweeted i'm saddened to hear of the passing of his royal highness prince philip i would like to extend my sincere sympathy to her majesty the queen the royal family and the people of the united kingdom on this very sad day u.s.

president joe biden and the 1st lady jill have also sent their deepest condolences saying the impact of his decades of devoted public service is evident in the world because you see his patron in the environmental efforts he championed me members of the armed forces that he supported the young people that he inspired and so much more social it turns him in london this has been a difficult time for the british royal family with the recent very public breakup with harry and meg going to bat explosive interview with oprah winfrey. indeed i mean prince philip has been by the queen's side for numerous to mull shuras periods the one that springs to mind of course is the death of princess diana in 1907 but yes that interview that harry and meghan gave. last month was just the latest in a in a string of controversial moments meghan making some allegations about the way the

palace treated her mental health and of course a very explosive allegation suggesting racism from an unnamed member of the royal family the palace then were forced to respond to that something they weren't expected to do such was the level of controversy surrounding this interview prince philip was in hospital when it was given some people commenting that it was that poor insensitive for this interview to go ahead but the queen has weathered so many storms in the past few doubt that she will continue to weather the storms although very sadly going forward without prince philip by her side. charlotte's also in london thank you. ok we'll take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world now starting in the united states where amazon where house workers in the u.s. state of alabama have voted against forming a union the decisions of blood to campaigners who were hoping for

a new era of worker activism and the president by the southern states have passed so-called right to work bills that the union powers. the volcano has erupted on the caribbean island of st vincent for the 1st time in 40 years 20000 people have been evacuated the coronavirus may complicate the operation neighboring islands want to accept only people who've been vaccinated. they use drug regulator is reviewing the ports of blood clots and for people who refuse to receive johnson and johnson's covert 19 vaccine european medicines agency is also expanding expanding its investigation of astra zeneca shot to include reports of a leading condition. german chancellor angela merkel is to remove the powers of the 16 federal states to decide on coronavirus restrictions and centralize them with the federal government a new plan will see berlin take over when infection numbers rise above 100

infections 100000 people the country is battling a devastating so why infection and regional decision making has led to a confusing patchwork of regulation. if i want to go shopping in berlin i can do that if i get tested before hand here i can do that right in front of the shopping center and the test for free. the testing bird goes in an hour and the shopping can begin with these rapid tests many cities are listening restrictions meanwhile in other places new carpet measures are implemented and curfews put in place. everywhere in the country the rules are different leading to confusion for many. nobody knows anymore what the for accumulations are right now the move you notice but i think it's chaos especially if you look at the different vaccination strategies and belinda very good in lower saxony it's

a disaster it is just not working is not in the mood to politicians like going back and forth and want to distinguish themselves with new proposals but the scientists they're doing a much better job. and they have very clear on what they need needs right now. is in the movie if we look into our mobility analysis and we see that context has not been reduced as much as during the 1st lock down and that's what we need to come back to because we're dealing with the new variant b 117 which is spreading faster the only way to do that through a coherent systematic intensive and maybe shorter knock down look here at the chancellor's office angle america is calling for a strict and nationwide lockdown but federal stay. it's have the decision making powers in the fight against the pandemic and the states have very different views especially now that the election campaign a start i mean lash out from north rhine-westphalia and michael sort of from the

various fighting over the sea to use candidacy for chancellor is the political management of the crisis going out of hand this is a moment or just politicos are going to latisha is always say we have to make long term decisions but actually they're thinking of the next election that's why they want to avoid uncomfortable inconvenient decisions decisions people won't understand but that's a mistake because in times of crises people want security and they are also prepared to take responsibility but politicians have to leave the weight of what is most informative. straightforward covered measures that is what people are calling for here in germany stricter laws could now ensure this the political discussion continues. well they don't lose chief political correspondent belinda crane explain why germany's federal government is taking this action. german law until now has placed responsibility for infectious disease control largely in the hands of

regional authorities and there's enormous variance in the rate of infection across different regions of germany so some rural regions have rates as low as 3030 cases per 100000 residents others go up to almost 300 cases per 100000 residents so there has been a lot of variation in the way that different regional authorities approach this however they do regularly negotiate with the federal government about what kind of restrictions to put into place and all agreed at the beginning of march on a phased plan that would see uniform restrictions in the event of one particular circumstance namely infection rates over $100.00 cases per 100000 residents however that has not occurred and that's because the fact is that there are places even including the capital here berlin that have infection rates over that number and are still trying to sort of sort of do a lockdown light where there might be

a light curfew but at the same time more testing and shopping and that is what the federal government now wants to change an interesting lee enough the federal state leaders say they're ready to go along because i think there is recognition that we need more reliability we need binding plans and we need clarity clarity also for citizens to ensure that they comply with the rules that are put into effect so we could see action as early as this weekend and beginning of next week that will change the federal infectious disease laws in order to give the federal government more power and many citizens waits would say this is long overdue. melinda crane. world leaders are increasingly concerned about a buildup of troops along the road. border with ukraine the u.s. germany and france are all calling on moscow to hold the movement of its forces

there are fears of an escalation in eastern ukraine as donbass region observers say russia backed separatist rebels have repeatedly breached. the kremlin says the current military buildup is a territorial right. the russian state television offers a different way of looking at things it reports that ukraine and nato pose a threat to russia and not the other way around. the narrative present ukrainian soldiers as the aggressors and shows video footage of moscow's response russian troops engaged in military exercises in crimea. what to the west looks like saber rattling is viewed differently by russia from moscow it's a necessary reinforcement of its defenses against the west where young. bush and the majority of the ukrainian military understand the fatal consequences of any actions that would lead to conflict. you know i hope they won't be provoked by politicians who in turn are being provoked by the west especially the united states

. that the ukrainian president volodymyr selenski sees western troops especially those provided by nato as essential backup for his own forces. on the street yet he says of course when it starts and there's an escalation in the donbass region it's a budget everyone can see it when our soldiers are attached and there are casualties obviously we must retaliate i mean if you put it that. a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don bass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance

welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible letting right no further steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable. the people of donbass are less optimistic though the pro russian separatists insist they don't want war either. usually if ukraine takes the 1st step nobody knows where it will end the muslim nicholas witchell from . the kremlin is doing all this to blackmail ukraine and the west. if truth be reinforced if this collision continues even a small provocation will be enough to set things off with unpredictable consequences. russia's defensemen. history says this footage shows recent exercises if the situation escalates t.v.

screens may soon be showing the real thing. the number of people fleeing the violent militia crackdown in is rising many people across the border into india which had a large population of refugees even before the coup 2 months ago. daddy who are worried about relatives back. for the last 6 years henny dollar and how girls have felt safe here in delhi. but it didn't come easy to get here they had to leave everything behind in their need of man much henny says her husband was thought jordan killed by the military now the situation in myanmar is bringing back painful reminders from home again last month when his brother was arrested for demonstrating against the. hospital right now he's in the hospital because when the military have arrested him they tortured him so much that we're

told his fees isn't even recognizable the. protests broke out across non-modern right after the military coup in february this year. since then hundreds have been killed a vested and be deemed for opposing the armed forces in the army on musharraf along the border but the indian government is not happy with the influx of refugees it has ramped up border security to stop them. here and dead thousands have sought asylum since the late eighty's mommy's refugees are disappointed by india's lack of support. requests for information have been pouring into james from mine. who heads the refugee support group here the group has written to indian prime minister nadine's more be urging him to condemn the putsch as a democratic country they are shocked by his silence. human rights

violations you know the where the military torture of the people. in the street and dead body and all but india is doing nothing. when he feels helpless in her safety because she can do nothing for those back home but she believes that the international community should speak up when. sisters and brothers have to defend themselves against the military with their bare hands they don't have any c.v.s. even before the cool henny new myanmar good never be safe again she worries that if things remain as bad as they are far too many people in her home country will end up feeling the same. more news from around the world now starting in greece where police have launched a manhunt after

a fashion crime reporter was shot dead outside his home in athens your career of us was shot i was ambushed and shot several times as he arrived home from work media offices in greece are frequently targets have been fired and vandalism attacks. european council presidential michelle says he regrets his response to your i think commission headed as you know from the line being left without a chair during talks with the turkish president if he could go back in time he said he would enjoy a seating arrangement but respected everyone. rushes loans to rocket carrying a 3 man crew to the international space station it's named after cosmonaut yuri gagarin russian celebrating the 60th anniversary obvious historic 1st flight into space. tobacco farmers in zimbabwe are expecting high prices because of good rains this year as in barbara's africa's top tobacco producer believes are their 2nd biggest export after gold morning from d.w.

correspondent privilege was found here. it busy time farm it is time to sort barrels of tobacco for the ocean floors about $200.00 wicker's i employed at the sea sandra head to farm which produces in average $200.00 tons of tobacco annually the farmer 38 year old it to the wonder energy to go see cool he's upbeat about the years every tens ringback of very positive this is. quality. the yields it's community you could be we all thought that it would enclose well with the quite happy about the quality of the crop this year hoping that that will translate into much higher prices for auction floors are now officially opened for the 2021 marketing season. tobacco is in baba's pride accounting for 50

percent of the country's agriculture exports and 25 percent of the gross domestic product it has become a source of livelihood for many small holder farmers who make up more than 60 percent of tobacco growers this is their ultimate moment where farmers could be disappointed or smile from what they'll get from this market to the highest the price so far that opened on the 1st day of the market was $4.60 about 200000000 kilograms of of to bottle i expected to be sold at visit option flows until the end of august zimbabwe's debacle is in demand making the country the top producer in africa in 60 in the world chain or takes the bulk of the exports. government plans to increase tobacco production to 300000000 grams and that teen if i had $1000000000.00 industry by 2025 government is the result of the corn seed

that strong and principled you ready to put up with interest in supporting shell is immense. it isn't easy god led government to do that we stick with us in the industry you see it is really our feinstein to develop the 3 pronged strategy back on to prevent any josephus farm government's plans are motivating farmers like him to increase their tobacco hic schrage his crop is usually a to hit is but he may go up zimbabwe he's also expecting high yields from other crops juta the good rains are received during the 2021 agricultural season. now to thailand which has a rich boxing tradition and it appeals to all ages and to making 300000 boxes under

15 and one of them is called a tartar he's a kickboxer and some dogs as a calling for a ban on children kick boxing but wants to punch his way out of poverty for his family. packs a serious punch but at what cost time like game can not when i always get bruises on my shame so i have to put ice on them to heal. qatar's mother who's often ringside during his fights has mixed feelings about her 9 year old son boxing . haha friends i do feel pity for my son when he gets hurt i know he's hurt when he's in the ring. but he always tries to hide it and tells me about it later on the way i feel god but i know this is what he likes. so i have to fully support him and. tyler makers have sought to ban boxing for

children under the age of 12 but to no avail research has shown extensive damage could impact children's intelligence levels and brain development. boxing causes brain injuries as weak in clearly seen from older boxers boxers are at a risk of memory loss in the ability to control their muscles and parkinson's disease now. in 2018 a 13 year old boy died after a type oxy match renewing pressure on thailand to ban children from the sport but its popularity in revenue potential has kept it thriving. despite the risk wants to cash it. as you might one day i can afford to buy my mom a house car and earn more money for her. and.

remember that the main income of the family at the moment comes from tata. for example the last fight he had helps pay off all my debts. until the law in thailand changes and children like will be allowed to put themselves in harm's way waiting for a pay day that might never come. well news at the top of the state here now i'll be back in just a moment to thank you for the big stories of the day the. are

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