this is you know we news line from berlin the battle to succeed chancellor and america a majority of leading members of germany's christian democrats say they support our mean as the conservative blocs candidate for chancellor the poll saying the german people they want his rival also coming up valuing the revenge in iran accuses israel of some petagine key nuclear sites causing

a power outage on sunday to iran says it knows the identity of the perpetrator and has the right to take action plus india reports a new search uncovered 1000 cases authorities hope to stop the new wave by pushing for more vaccinations and many states saying there's not enough vaccine to go route and england meanwhile starts to ease covert 1000 restrictions as a hard lock down and a mass vaccination drive start to bear fruit but the government also has a warning for the population. outlay our thank you so much for your company everyone we start this broadcast right here in germany where the race is on for who will succeed chancellor angela merkel will germans go to the polls this fall to elect a new government and after 16 years of chancellor anglo-american so she's not running again well now her christian democratic union party and its various sister

party the christian social union are close to deciding who will replace americal as the. candidate for chancellor and these 2 partitions are now in the running i mean less chips on the left has already succeeded miracle in one respect he is the christian democrats party leader and also the state premier of north rhine-westphalia but marcus center on the right he also wants the job is the bavarian state premier and leader of the christian social union mr senators national profile has grown during the pendency while on sunday both men said they are ready to take on america mantle a meeting of the city you leadership this morning gave its full backing to here's what he had to say moments ago. everyone wants a decision soon the fact that all the facts are on the table people believe that even the problems we still have in front of us are so big that we should no longer

be preoccupied with no internal party issues but druther with the major tasks that lie ahead for germany today or tomorrow this week and in the coming months you can win this that's what we want to talk to they see as you very soon and find a joint solution or consensual that together will have every chance of winning the elections. so given mr lasher speaking moments ago do you chief political correspondent milind crane joins us now melinda this is basically means that the political leadership contest is basically over now. it's largely decided that the last word hasn't been spoken we heard from the c.d.u. executive committee this morning that they explicitly did not pass a formal resolution but we're issuing a recommendation but one has to say it is a recommendation that carries

a lot of weight we have to remember these 2 conservative sister cards they may be sisters but the c.d.u. is definitely the big sister as mr asserting himself put it and he certainly is not going to go head to head head to head against the c.u. party leadership on this as mr lasher emphasized in those remarks that we just heard it is very important to people in both parties that the 2 sisters speak with one of the voice on this point there for the last quarter won't be spoken until mr lasher and mr circa nique that could be as soon as this afternoon and by the way even then there may be other voices in the chorus here that out a bit of dissidents even within the c.d.u. because the fact is although the leadership has thrown its support solidly behind mr lasher many members of the party that general membership as well as many people in the city used parliamentary group actually prefer mr serbia explain this to us

please and to the viewers that are watching around the world opinion polls have suggested that mr sergio is the more popular of the 2 contenders among the german public why is this seen throwing its political weight behind his rival. indeed just to underline those opinion polls one very interesting poll taken just a few days ago shows that of the c.d.u. voters who gave the party city year and c.s.u. voters who gave the parties their vote in 27 over 70 percent would still vote for these conservative parties if mr bush served were the candidate but if it's mr i shed only around 32 percent would give the c.d.o. and c.s.u. their vote that's a massive difference now why did the c.d.u. under those circumstances decide to go with mr lasher well he is the head of the

c.d.u. and beyond that the city in leadership is known to be concerned about a shift in the balance of power toward but there you go there have been other c.s.u. as there are in candidates for chancellor they did not win in the general election but that was quite some time ago and that was a very different germany whether their bet will crewed right in this case that's a very open question very open question 30 seconds melinda army last night positioning himself all this time as being the most committed of the 2 candidates upholding america's legacy how much will that help him. not necessarily that it would have helped him 6 months ago when germany looked like it was emerging quite strong from the pandemic that is no longer the case many germans are frustrated with the government's leadership in this stage of the pandemic many germans have the sense that germany has somehow lost its stride and they're discouraged with the

scandal over master pyramid within the conservative party there's a sense on that the people part of many people that mr souter would be the bolder more modern more innovative candidate so still a lot of uncertainty surrounding what appears to be this choice well in the crane reporting as ever thank you. when a sifter a shift our attention now to the mideast israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will never allow iran to obtain nuclear weapons mr netanyahu made the comments after tehran blamed israel for samba targeting it's the largest nuclear facility israel has not directly claimed responsibility but israeli media reported that 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 than the times and richmond site suffered

a large scale blackout on sunday just hours after you rhenium a richmond was restarted at the plant the incident took place barely a week after you back talks in vienna on reviving the international nuclear court with iran took place acyclic now some of the other stories making headlines around the world the global chemical weapons watchdog says it has reasonable grounds to believe the syrian regime used chemical weapons in a 28 attack and region report by the o.p.c. w. found the syrian air force dropped a chlorine bomb on the town of said i think syria has consistently denied using chemical weapons in the country's civil war meanwhile ukraine says russia has not answered his request to start a dialogue over the build up of russian troops on his border kiev says moscow has amassed more than 40000 forces on its eastern border and the same number of crimea

russia says the troop movements are defensive. mean mars ousters leader on sun suit she has again demanded a face to face meeting with her lawyers as the military brought new criminal charges against her says she faces multiple charges that could see her barred from office for life she has been in custody since the military seized power in february . india has recorded a new surge in covert 1000 infections daily cases have topped 168000 while that means india has network ordered more infections during the pendent than any other country except the us authorities are hoping to slow the spread of the spread of a covert 1000 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 coup 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 issue or waiting period noisy serving just to help the sick but again no fear devastated by reading moscow and. getting some sort of distancing from the book. home yes we were afraid to come during coven 1000 but nothing should happen to us by the grace of mother goddess ganges everything will be fine there are no problems with. the group. but there are problems for the police who say they are too overwhelmed to enforce the rules. will be here polygon a cure 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 we'll go but make it is for some distance to go 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 is an occupation 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. and meanwhile corner virus and restrictions are being eased in england today non-essential shops hairdressers engines will join

pub outdoor spaces to reopen prime minister boris johnson is calling it a major step towards freedom the openings come after a fast vaccine rollout and falling numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths but the government is also warning people against complacency. 4321 ladies and gentlemen thank you all say it's your 1st free they found out 6 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 through yet. i've been saying these lot socially for a while and 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 jim's 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. been yet really really worried and it's my only source of income so it's a problem of personal 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 has given at least one dose to more than 60 percent of the adult population who. are let's go to did abuse or shell the shell some pill she is on the story for you charlotte mr boris johnson calling this

a major step forward how excited are people about these changes and the what's it like being in london today. that's right later i think a lot of people would agree with george jones and today that it feels like a major step forward it hasn't that been months since people have been able to gather like this any pub out old filth like that think was there i though maybe it's the people who are gathered here they tell me but of course there's not just the good it needs the people who are wanting to have a couple of drinks a day is also great news for the pub owners they've had a very very difficult time we know that across england loss of jobs thousands of jobs have been lost businesses have closed so. it's a day does feel like a major step forward that people are paying for everything from that something old normality to retired. yes obviously all lot of optimism there where you are but health officials continue to warn that people should not become complacent because

there are still many variants that are spreading quickly what we're section's what we mean in place. that's why the government here is still urging caution today reminding people that there are still these restrictions in place now as some of the lockdown measures are being used as you can see a lot of others were made for example illegal dining.