this is g w news live from berlin iran is vowing revenge after it accuses israel of sabotaging a nuclear site causing a power outage on sunday tehran says it knows the identity of the perpetrator and has the right to take action. also coming out india reports a new surgeon covert 19 cases authorities hope to stop the new wave by pushing for more vaccinations but many states say there is not enough vaccine to go around. england starts to ease cope with 19 restrictions as

a hard luck town and fast facts a nation drive start to bear fruit but the government also has a warning for the population. the battle to succeed until america will heats up to benefit themselves or to become the center right candidate for chancellor in germany's election in september. plus 60 years ago today it was an event that changed the world soviet cosmonaut yuri that it became the 1st human in space we ask our russians today feel about his achievement. i'm serious so much going to it's good to have you with us the european union is warning against attempts to derail talks aimed at salvaging the nuclear agreement with iran this comes after iran blamed israel for sabotaging the country's largest nuclear facility israel has not directly claimed responsive. but media reports

there say an israeli cyber attack was behind the incident a spokesman for iran's foreign ministry said his country will retaliate against israel in due time the natanz enrichment site suffered a large scale blackout on sunday just hours after you rein him in richmond was restarted at the plant the incident took place barely a week after in new back talks in vienna on returning the u.s. to the international nuclear pact with iran. let's get some perspective on the story now we have by indecl dorf he is an iran analyst thank you very much for joining us what do we actually know about what or who was behind this cyber attack . at this point obviously we have to make some educated guesses and i think that the fact that attacks like this have happened before and that that has always been an open secret that that any israeli operation was behind it we can

assume this time that this is the case again but as you already pointed out a lot of speculation is going on and nobody has claimed responsibility so far but it would be the most likely scenario and mike ok so let's talk about what happened because iran says that these state centrifuges were damaged tell us some more about this infrastructure and why it matters why it's important. this is a key nuclear enrichment site in iran and obviously a key target for those who assume iran is in fact pursuing a. nuclear program that is supposed to produce nuclear weapons in the end right now there are talks going on in yemen as you already hinted to and we have over the last week seen in the tend to tack on an on this like tanker that has been supposedly carried out i think israelis and this nuclear facility is critical for your wants in richmond. and its progress in enriching and it can be assumed that

this progress and. the development of new centrifuges was supposed to be. undermined and that's what this attack i assume has been about well iran says this is also israel's afeard to sabotage these negotiations in vienna that you mentioned where do those talks stand right now. there has been in fact some promising signals that the u.s. and iran in particular in directly conveying messages to each other through europeans the chinese and the russians were also party to this through the nuclear agreement that they are trying to find their way out to reste or the nuclear deal that was signed into a new 15 and israel has been an explicit opponent of this and with criticism coming from the prime minister but all the other parts of the israeli leadership that this deal should not go ahead and this is why everyone assumes that israel has been behind these operations to halt these diplomatic talks going on and as you

said and i'm still a lot of speculation what and we're not sure but it is not the 1st time that iran has claimed that its nuclear plant was sabotaged so how vulnerable are their plants for outside attacks. well we have to say that on the one hand obviously the security detail in all of these nuclear sites is quite advanced but at the same time cyber operations. carried out by by mossad for example are obviously of most high tech quality one could think of and i don't really think that any security set up can in fact protect. against these attacks and that's also the reason why one can assume that the mossad has been behind it because of the high advance operations skills that are necessary to in fact conduct such an operation iran analyst joining us from to saddam thank you

very much my pleasure. now to some other stories making headlines ukraine says russia has not answered its request to start a dialogue with the buildup of russian troops on its border kiev says moscow has amassed more than 40000 forces on its eastern border and the same number in crimea russia says the troop movements are defensive. mian mars ousted leader aung san suu kyi has again demanded a face to face meeting with her lawyers as the military brought new criminal charges against her sochi faces multiple charges that could see her barred from office for life she has been in custody since the military seized power in february . and protests have broken out in the u.s. state of minnesota after police fatally shot a black man relatives have identified him as 20 year old want to right the state governor says he is closely monitoring the situation tensions are high in the state as the trial of the former police officer accused of killing george floyd takes

place. india has recorded a new search in cold with 19 infections daily cases have topped 168000 pushing india past brazil to become the world's 2nd worst hit country authorities are hoping to slow the spread by imposing new restrictions and trying to persuade more people to get vaccinated but many states are complaining of a vaccine shortage fears are also growing that many are failing to observe rules on social distancing. from the banks of the sacred beaver ganges brimming despite india soaring infection rates millions are expected to attend the coo mayla festival covert 1000 tests are required to enter the area but other precautions are ignored still worshippers have faith that they're safe. for their baby boy i'm sure waiting 30 more you should. just be have

a little put you know them down time by reading moscow in my ear. finding some sort of difference in principle. yes we were afraid to come during covert 19 but nothing should happen to us by the grace of mother goddess again jason everything will be fine there are no problems. but there are problems for the police who say they are too overwhelmed to enforce the rules. we are appealing to people to follow the guidelines but in the riverbank area social distancing becomes difficult if we try to enforce it severe accidents or situations like stampedes can occur. prevention measures in india very luck downs are in force in many areas including maharashtra the hardest hit state it's also home to mumbai india's economic powerhouse. across india another event is attracting attention the so-called

vaccination festival a 4 day drive to accelerate the national rollout. india's inoculation program had been relatively successful but several states are reporting vaccine shortages in contrast to this festival authorities hope the vaccination festival will help bring infection numbers down. for more on the story let's bring in. she's standing by for us in delhi hina misha on the one hand we're seeing this dramatic surge in covert $1000.00 cases and at the same time millions of people seem to be gathering so why are there no we're structures in place. well to me there are all stupid distractions and be good at the who. are supposed to show up well when they get to start if it gets to the spinners on the backs of to look down that people are also expected to maintain social distancing from family that

univision of the sense of it it is usually it looks he wants and it's been reduced to a month because of global search but of course it will be pretty sufficient that's what i'm trying to do you have come to record saying this is just not possible or believe florists with crowds this massive didn't create did it not if they go about finding people meeting all stampede similarly in detail actions going on i don't a country we have seen massive political realities had what by opposition parties as well as the. party remnants generics will the massive rallies to itself so why in the country is imposing other restrictions that often so on specially monster tits that such events and that allow them to be in the us as humans we will as the spike even for them and the michelle we heard about the south 4 day vaccination drive what could that achieve. not to me it's not like i don't like the prime minister to julian to utilize his white or platypi to look the

to the people to join out west to get vaccinated has not yielded vaccination restless and if it is how do we do a day over 2 decades now but of course i didn't come to the flu vaccine miley has impressive numbers all right on over 100000000 people or don't i don't mean you don't just haven't missed it but once again you can decide what mission it's not that large number is still behind talk it's and this finding out what it is maxine hesitancy to do just a little is an effort to counter that however school far have not seen it just live up to you now to our correspondent michelle dies while they're reporting from delhi thank you very much. let's check in now on some other developments in the pandemic germany has surpassed 3000000 infections the robert cock public health institute says more than 78000 people have died from or with covert 19

china's top disease control official says the country is formally considering mixing cold $1000.00 vaccines to offer greater protection against the corona virus that's after data show china's domestically produced vaccines were less effective than some alternatives and australia has scrapped its target of an ocular leading its adult population by a tobar health authorities say the astra zeneca vaccine should no longer be given to people under the age of 50. coronavirus restrictions are being eased in england today non-essential shops hairdressers and gyms will join pubs outdoor spaces to reopen prime minister boris johnson is calling it a major step towards freedom the openings come after a fast a vaccine rollout and falling numbers of coronaviruses cases and deaths but the government is also warning people against complacency. 43. 1 ladies and gentlemen take your seats have your 1st break they found out it's been

a long wait for this pub in london but it was ready to open its doors the moment restrictions were lifted after midnight on april 12th and for these pum goers it was not a moment too soon to think you know it's been too long i've been saying these lot socially for a while when she just gets a bit well not least almost good to be. tough measures have been in place in england and in other parts of the u.k. since early january to suppress a surge in corona virus infections that swept the country late last year along with outdoor service at pumps and restaurants on monday gyms and fitness studios were also allowed to reopen as well as hair salons and non-essential retail shops that's good news for many businesses which have struggled to stay afloat amid several stretches of lockdown over the past year. yeah it really really worry and it's my

only thought of income. for a lot of pressure on all family as well. britain has had europe's worst corona virus outbreak with more than 127000 confirmed deaths but infections of hospitalizations and deaths have all fallen thanks to the lockdown and a mass vaccination program that is given at least one dose to more than 60 percent of the adult population. let's bring in our correspondent in london. is standing by for us hi charlotte it's good to see you i imagine a lot of people are pretty excited about these reopening sedate so tell us what the atmosphere is like in london today. that's right i've been seeing images of people queuing up outside shops you had in that report just said the excitement for many it being announced go outside in pubs again at the moment there were some who even sat outside at midnight to mock the easing of these restrictions with with the

points all to do so a lot of excitement here in the u.k. in england at the moment but i think you really do have to bear in mind the toll that the last year has taken on the u.k. we had a number of. u.k. has one of the highest death tolls in the world over 120000 people have lost their lives to cope it has been in a now very strict restrictions particularly over the last few months where it's not been possible in various points even to meet someone from another more than one person from another household outside it's clearly also taken a huge toll on businesses as well many jobs lost many businesses having to close so this is easing now. for many here in england is being seen as the 1st mate or is a major step towards some semblance now of normality and a good deal to the u.k. successful vaccine program overhaul for about oh it's now have now received at

least one dose of the vaccination and of course months of lock down dropping case numbers fatalities dramatically here at the same time health officials are warning that people cannot become complacent charlotte so what restrictions do remain in place. that's why the government is edging people to behave responsibly today and going forward prime minister boris johnson has said his road map out of lockdown is cautious an air of bastable so long town is being eased in stages this is the the 2nd stage of the easing of restrictions but what that does mean is there are some stood in place for example and mixing indoors with members of another household not go out hospitality industry opening up outdoors today but not indoors that still to come next month foreign travel still not allowed so a lot of a lot of those restrictions are still in place botts the prime minister saying over and over again that this is now

a one way road to freedom so we are expecting those restrictions to be over the coming months w's charlotte shell simple reporting from london thank you to germany now and the race for who will succeed chancellor angela merkel germans go to the polls this fall to elect a new government and after 16 years as chancellor angela merkel is not running again now her christian democratic union party and its bavarian sister party the christian social union are close to deciding who will replace medical us a conservative candidate for chancellor and these 2 men are in the running i mean lushes you see on the left of the screen here has already succeeded merkel in one respect he is the christian democrats party leader he's also the state premier of north rhine-westphalia but markets are on the right here also wants the job he is the big very instant premier and leader of the christian those social union is that as national profile house a grown mightily during the pandemic on sunday both men said they are ready to take

on ugly americans mental a meeting of the c.d.u. leadership this morning gave its full backing to lush. well let's bring in our chief political correspondent melinda crane for the very latest on the story she's following this time melinda as we mentioned the studio executive committee has given its backing to lash so tell us more about where things stand right now mr boucher to speaking at this very moment after having received the backing not only of the c.d.u. executive committee up but also of its broader leadership now that was expected the leadership is known to support him and we have to remember as you said these are 2 conservative sister parties but the c.d.u. as it were is the bigger sister mr sitter himself has said so and he said that he would certainly listen to what the bigger sister had to say so the bigger sisters

leadership has in fact said that mr lash it is their man but they did emphasize in their own press conference that this is not a formal resolution that they have taken but a recommendation and mr lasher himself speaking to the press has not said i have now that one he has essentially been emphasizing his characteristics as a good chance the candidate and as someone who very much would follow in the shoes of chancellor merkel namely a pro european leader somebody who can integrate both the party and the country and he's talked a great deal about the need for strong pandemic management now in this 3rd wave so attempting to essentially display his leadership credentials in this press conference on a very very crucial day for his political career it is crucial and nothing's final yet melinda so which of these 2 men is actually more popular. well actually mr

sergio is very much leading in the broader polls a poll taken last week shows a nearly 20 percent difference between the 2 men with mr server far and away the favorite for many germans if they had to choose the chancellor directly right now other polls have had similar results and we are hearing some vendors of the c.d.u. of the chancellor's christian democrats saying listen we need to look at what the broader population thinks and what the c.d.u. basis based membership thinks and what the regional cd us association say even the economics minister of germany paper outlier came out just today and said what the executive committee has to say is not the final word however it is a word that carries a lot weight our political chief political correspondent linda crane following the

very latest developments on the story for us thank you so much. you're watching d.w. still to come on our show 60 years ago today it was an event that changed the world so be it cars may not yuri gagarin became the 1st human in space. that's coming up in a moment but 1st look at some more headlines a tropical cyclone has damaged several towns on australia's western coast leaving tens of thousands without power tropical cyclone serota hit the coast around 550 kilometers north of perth an area that rarely experiences tropical storms there are no reports of injuries or deaths. in the center right candidate in ecuador's presidential elections has claimed victory veteran banker he had more lasso won over 52 percent of the runoff vote he campaigned for open markets and foreign investments as a way to we start the economy that's been hit hard by the pandemic. sports

now in golf you take him out say yamba has become the 1st japanese man to win a major title after claiming victory at the masters martin yeah must start at the final days play at the augusta national course with a 4 shot lead a shaky spell on the back 9 on sunday almost put the wind in jeopardy but he held his nerve on the 18th hole to finish one stroke ahead of his closest challenger and claimed the famous green jackets. in bundesliga football minds boosted their survival chances with a late victory against cologne the 32 win continues their climb up the table but the result means the end of the road for a cologne coach mark of skill has been fired with the team stuck in the relegation zone. marcus gives dos cologne had a one in 7 games at home coach would have feared the worst when mind scored with their 1st shot on goal john paul put the finishing touches on

a neat new. clothes and were handed a way back into the game on half time penalty the verdict on 3 to do is equaliser just reward for cologne's efforts domination continued in the 2nd half the free kicks finding its way to elliott scary headed the hosts since which is a lead. to football can be a cruel game when you're fighting for survival cologne barely had time to enjoy that goal as minds hit back with a sucker punch. but devastating council rounded off by kareem only see. the visitors had found their way and it was another break down the left that won them the game in injury time. play on 3 pereiro the minds hero poking his shots past emotionless t.-mo for. heartbreak for the hosts who seems not to believe what they were seeing but the

reality came quickly. after the gain you stole given the sack with cologne in big big trouble. russia is celebrating 60 years since the cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history as the 1st man in space the city of st petersburg put on a laser show on sunday to mark the anniversary garance achievement made him a national hero and head of moscow with victory in a space race with washington and that 1st flight still captures the imagination of russians 6 decades later. the ousting off into the unknown and a place in history. inside the forestall kwan rocket was eureka garren as soviet air force officer. he became the 1st man in space orbiting the earth for 108 minutes and the 1st human to see the planet from the

heavens but i'm watching the forest the rivers the clouds by the time get darren ejected out of his space capsule and parachuted to earth he was a soviet hero. he was celebrated by people and leaders alike . corralled crammed into moscow's red square to cheer him. 6 decades later homemade tributes skybound. hundreds of space and to use yes gathered to launch cardboard and plastic rockets into the air in st petersburg celebrating cosmonaut extend a pantry living memories flooded me across kim was part of the ground control team at the launch 60 years ago.

we had a few sleepless nights before april 12th so on the day we felt anxious to be honest i really needed to sleep but i was so tense i couldn't even close my eyes we had to keep working. the mission showcased the soviet union's technological elite 1st into space before the united states. the goal of the launch of eureka garren had a colossal propaganda effect it became so important because suddenly we were cooler that the united states the only. guarantee success supercharge the space race and cemented the soviet union as a space superpower a position that russia still holds today to the international space station

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when stories for me. but i can. report the story of an. integral hasn't boston that i. write was a major source of exploitation in the british raj the colonizers. which led to hunger and despair. but. a sustainable. something magical that's how the dutch bond describes extracting pigment from an indigo plucked the timing and external conditions must be perfect it is the only

way to get exactly the right shade of indigo the 42 year old says his own mood is critical. that. when we 1st leaves. it when you're citing a known effect of. seeing his affinity for indigo today it is hard to imagine that the dutch pun had envisioned and entirely different going to be about for himself 15 years ago when he completed his master's degree in geography. suddenly changed after his father's untimely death and opportunities led him to the station of natural dying with indigo. it is a physically strenuous process which requires scientific position and artistic ecstatic both of which the church has done in moscow.

of a himalayan movement that is binding but if i was off it's nonpolluting natural diet through a sustainable supply chain that has been built around producers like. me is a social enterprise that creates commercial opportunities in textiles and die making for natives of. the region it began using indigo as a way of connecting the people with the mountain ecosystem years ago. also learned. that it was a crop of. specially. when it was obliged. by the british government that the farmers hacked were going to go as a contractor crop a percentage of their crop had to be nickel and they were given seeds on very high

interest rates leading to a lot of starvation debts suicides and so on and so forth looking at that it was it was a tough subject even ventured into the moment but a 3rd toward indigo i had people just telling me that hell can i even plonk about working with. mahatma gandhi considered the father of modern india was among foment to lead a revolt against forced indigo cultivation in 1918 this war was the 1st of its going to provide a clear direction for india's freedom struggle culminating 30 years later. on independence from the british coloniser. today and he hopes to transform the idea of the color indigo as one that resonates with prosperity empowerment and sustainability. 300 who have been

creamed and indigo cultivation are growing the dye crop and rotation that food crops using organic farming techniques. this not only increases soil fertility because of indigos nitrogen fixing qualities but also provides much needed additional income for the producers. over the last 3 years and davy from des goli village has been planting a small patch of her farmland with indigo together with the crop once a year by 2019 she and $10000.00 rupees the plant also keeps wild animals away. that she knew were bought in i began growing indigo because i know it would. if some magic farming rice for example meant having to kill hannah constantly for wild pigs monkeys and other pests damaging to crawl through what next i'd need i always worried about whether

there was anything left for me and then my live but it got me before. compared with the synthetic version of the organic garden is much cost but also more eco friendly . the crop cycle last about 90 days because 10 to 20 days of live and nearly guarantees an income provided the crop isn't damaged by unseasonal rings or other effects of climate change what began as a small experiment has blossomed into a sustainable and african sea to scoff indigo when you change that in short or donna and self-sufficiency the productive are mainly sold in india but are also exported to countries such as germany japan or the us comment about it beyond through our nerves are seen by people around the country i'm not going to turn off our hard work and we are really proud of it and i do it feels good to know that people appreciate and. you.

with the himalayan indigo project the pigment seems to be bringing in a new kind of. healing the wounds inflicted by the british east india company on the community in the land where it has gone. now like many grassroots organizations across india embodying an ocean of connected decision making and self determination emotional sweat lodge which was the guiding principle during india. and badminton in this curious connection and finding solutions for more and more people and organizations can benefit from it.

so these are all the moments where people have actually tried to claim that for all my toes that affect our lives we should be the ones who are taking decisions all be central to the decision making we can't leave it to governments and corporations and so on. it's what i was actually a very ordered concept in india comes from ancients good joes and then doing the inventions movement against the british colonial rule it was popularized by many different movements such as put in since the moment on the naval and others where the british were trying to take control over our production systems on agriculture

and so on. and then on the budget especially in his book ins what i was and then in the moment but what's important is still realize that it's not just about india's independence from colonial rule about a nation's independence. it's actually much more about an individual and of communities hard on me and freedom but responsibility to other peoples and other communities around the mean freedom which means it encompasses a deeply ethical we'll being of living it encompasses myself restrained so that i don't impinge on the rights of others to live. in india the concept of development has been taken all the same from the west in

that. since and we have been boys did all that successive governments have been boys did either to state socialism or now increasingly capitalism betweens their g.d.p. growth are still happen at any cost which means you can cut down for those who can . bring out over to learn you can do anything you can displace millions of people in the pursuit of this kind of their will upon cunt fortunately in modernized development we seem to think of ourselves as apart from nature we have to figure out how we are actually part of the reason sort ourselves understand that other species have their own right to exist that everything around us has has a spirit of being order is in is is something in itself which needs to be respected . for the last 40 years what i've seen is a lot of communities in india and other parts of the world that are actually practicing in some senses different notions of what arch for instance women farmers in different parts of the country cleaning food so we're going to be which means

complete control over everything to do with food you know the seeds of the land the water the knowledge of our movements to reclaim community control or forests in central india and other parts of the country. to build in the notion of swear are which is a deeply political and economic concept of independence and autonomy as they said but also the responsibility to the rest of nature and so the course would argue but also radical ecological democracy in the sense of trying to rescue the word democracy from its current leader liberal interpretation where we think elections is about democracy actually democracy is about power of the people we each have within ourselves inherent power to take decisions or be part of decision making many other values that are explicit or implicit in this for instance the value of solidarity not one but addition but cooperation the value of working with nature as a common is not as a private property the value of rights of all species the value. living simply

because if you if you consume more and more and more you're actually impinging on the rights of other communities or on other species the value of diversity so that i respect your ethics and your ideologies and your beliefs and faiths and you respect mine. you have to fundamentally order the economy in order for people to have much more control over their own productive resources and in order for these sorts of occupations also to gain respect and be something that also encourages young people to get into them rather than everybody running boards and machinery and industry and so on. self-reliance or ottoman advertise become quite a buzzword in india these days everybody seems to delays their crisis tells us that

we have to be self-reliant but the way in which it's being manned and the kind of packages that are being pushed out actually pushing people more and more towards commercialization privatisation. with equal swaraj many many things happen one is that for instance we make the centralized state a much less important probably even withers away and each of us begins trying to stand how we can take control over our own lives with as i said responsibility for others as collectives as communities wherever we are.

like. we have to recognize that other species and whole also have rights and that their value was not only by how useful they are to humans but the way the world runs in sustainable can we expect industrial for example to use this as a guiding principle accompanying. here only outskirts of bundling a city on internees his main island java something is being cultivated that could be of great value mushrooms they rarely draw much attention there are many species with many varied properties some and are showing others contain medicine allegiance here they are the raw material for an innovative kind of textile. more serious appearing real to be kind of sustainable future leather the curious cruel mycelium vegetation part of the fungus that can mimicking perfectly michel

and without any be your p.c. or any chemical on 10 minutes but 3 of the reason you grow comes from a family of mushroom farmers in 2012 he and some colleagues founded a startup for call me mushrooms but they quickly changed tack to focus on my still young they are committed to developing a sustainable animal friendly fashion industry compared to animal mysel of whether it is having a really huge advantage in environmental impact for example we can share much less water we don't have to kill harry while we can move vertical farming so we can save some space and it's also i mean it's a really last carbon emission they feed their mushrooms with organic waste such a sort of just. their company micro tech sources it locally.