the steely news live from berlin gun crime in the u.s. under the spotlight yet again one person instead and a police officer injured at a school and tennessee the government is looking to curb the spread and use of firearms. us police also say an officer who shot dead a black man in a cart confused her gun with a taser protests have broken out and president joe biden is appealing for calm. and finally it's back to the public england says she are still the easing of covert

19 restrictions as a hard lock down and the mass vaccination drama began to pay off. from a call for early thanks for joining us one person is dead and no police officer injured and a shooting at a school and the u.s. state of tennessee gunfire erupted when police approached a male suspect at a high school in the city of knoxville the injured officer is expected to survive this is the latest in a series of shootings in the u.s. as the government considers ways to tackle the spread of firearms. let's get more on this from w.'s emily dean in washington emily good to have you with us this is of course a developing story what more do we know at this point i

mean we don't know very much more than what you just said we know that one person has been pronounced dead an officer was injured and police has also announced that they have one person in custody but that's not so far. there's no this incident comes amid a spate of shootings in the u.s. what's going on. yeah i mean it seems as the u.s. heads out of what we're seeing more and more shootings across the country and the end of march in late march we saw the supermarket shooting in boulder colorado understood before that we have a shooter killing members of spawn's. so it really feels biden said recently like in the demick but if you look at it if you

compare a little bit across the use this is not necessarily unusual in 2019 the u.s. saw a mass shooting almost every week. addressing gun violence is something he just called a public health crisis was one of president biden's big campaign promises just last week he unveiled a series of proposals to expand gun control but his power and tackling this issue is fairly limited isn't it emily. it is he faces a split some ups and also very slim majority in congress and at the same time of course he faces immense resistance from the republican party and even among democrats there's no real consensus as to what's gone safety bill should look like so it is unlikely that we will see you very quick change safety rules in the future . or down in washington thank you very much.

now staying in the u.s. police in the city of minneapolis say an officer who shot dead a black man during a weekend traffic stop confused her gun with her taser stun weapon relatives have identified the victim as 20 year old dante rights protests broke out and the city where tensions are already running high a white minneapolis police officer is currently on trial there charged with the murder of george floyd last year president joe biden has appealed for calm. protesters versus police in the suburbs of minneapolis tear gas and rubber bullets fired just tainted crown and all too familiar scene by now. hundreds of demonstrators surrounded the police station in the town of brooklyn center after reports of another black man shot to death. during what should have been a routine traffic stop. wright's mother said her son called her when he was pulled

over. getting called over by the bull you. and i thought well why did you get pulled over if you. come over. from the war. zone with. the ground that you were killing came as tensions were already hard with the trial of white minneapolis police officer derrick chauvelin charged with killing george florey last year. and keep taking police killed black people for no reason to try to you know mental health problems so this is the way they learn to stay in solidarity ensure that we're not just in a fear because. we're now is that there's maybe a difference in this world but it's going to be the last time that we all come together like. the times mayor called the shooting tragic and minnesota's governor said he was mourning a mother and wife of

a block taken by law enforcement. the national guard for years moved into place and a curfew is in effect. so take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world at this hour israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has insisted that iran will never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons tehran has blamed israel for causing a power failure at its biggest nuclear facility media reports have also linked the incident to an israeli cyber attack world leaders are trying to revive a stalled international deal limiting iran's nuclear program. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin has arrived in berlin for high level talks he'll meet his german counterpart i mean come tell them about why and other top officials austin is the highest ranking member of the by administration to visit germany so far. russian prison officials have threat. to begin force feeding jailed opposition leader alexei navalny that's according to no follies legal team

the kremlin critic has been on a hunger strike since late march is protesting what he says is a lack of proper medical treatment at his prison facility east of moscow. germany's conservatives are still looking for a candidate to send into the race to take over from chancellor angela merkel after 16 years in office she's stepping down this year and it's not standing in september's election michael sivy you party is backing its later i mean last set but. the head of the varian sister party c.s.u. is also hoping to run for the top. only in lash it versus marcus the race to be the next conservative candidate to run for german chancellor is turning into an old fashioned power struggle on sunday the 2 men agreed the decision should come soon and to respect it whoever is chosen. there are less than

a day later battle lines seem to have been drawn on monday morning at the recently elected c.d.u. leader held meetings with his party's executive and not really a surprise they backed him to be the current did it the man himself sounded impatient to get out on the campaign trail. i knew she. very one wants a decision soon all the facts are on the table the problems we need to solve this so big that we should no longer be preoccupied with our internal party issues but rather with the major turn asks that lie ahead for germany today tomorrow this week and in the coming months morgan indy's of war when you next move not legal. by monday afternoon marcus head of the smaller bavarian c.s.u. had the backing of his party leadership he thinks the conservatives should ponder the candidate question a bit longer not only is he personally more popular than lash out he also claims to

stand for a style of politics that people want. the conservatives have never fallen out of favor with voters so quickly before everything but they're a clear indication of what the public is thinking and we can't cut ourselves off from the majority of people. that mention and some not one certain needs now is public support from the white or conservative parties perhaps from members of parliament worried about losing their jobs if the wrong man leads them into the national election in september if those voices did not materialize it seems very likely christian democrats will be the choice to seize the baton when angle america leads the chancellor later this year. our political correspondent simon young explains why the city you decided to back last said even though the polls show their data is a lot more popular with the german public i think they wanted to give their backing

to their man was just chosen as the chairman of the c.d.u. party back in january so he's got a certain amount of impetus within the party i think there's a feeling from the from the c.d.u. that they are the laws of these tea parties and they should have the priority in big decisions like who's going to be the candidate to run for the nation's top political office so that's why they wanted to i think to just sort of clear this question and clear the air is they probably saw it well says you know we should think about this for a few more days we should listen to what different sections of the party is saying members of parliament and local party associations and have a good think about how we can get up above where we are now in the polls perhaps on the wrong side of 30 percent in these polls he says we can do better than that he's

obviously hoping that a few people will come out and support him and if they do in the next 2448 hours this debate could go on to the end of the week and possibly longer. political correspondence i'm going now to england where people have been enjoying some new freedoms thanks to a loosening of coronavirus restrictions drinkers can now once again enjoy setting a beer and a pub garden and many non-essential shops and gyms have reopened a fast vaccine rollout has helped to bring down infections and deaths. despite the unseasonably chilly weather there was an air of spring across the u.k. as many businesses reopened for the 1st time since january. long lines of eager shoppers formed outside clothing stores in london some brits got their 1st real haircut of the year but for others this is what they've been

waiting all winter for a pint of beer with their friends. british people i mean the way we cope with the british just going to the pub as often as possible so we can do nothing for months and now when i look at that we're back to normal but we're not but it's an old boy so it's not right it's a very strange although my tense point already and i'm speaking straight is great going out and walking out in the high street and seeing everyone smiling every day foods like it fills you with positivity and hope that we're going to get over this it wasn't just patron celebrating the reopening of 4 now the outdoor seating at pubs the owners are optimistic that they've made it through the worst of the pandemic. but we have survived through some of the toughest that have been in in europe now you know what you need to now do is but that's only 40 percent of all you have space that they can attend right now because it's best weather for us

either here in the united kingdom. but we really need to see defoe the removal of restrictions before we can really get back to trading have rules that mean. all right throughout this. health authorities are warning the british to remain cautious another wave of the pandemic is not impossible but if all goes according to plan the government could lift all restrictions by the end of june. and some soccer now bahrain manic are preparing for a champions league quarter final clash with irene gemma the bavarians desperately need a win to keep them in the competition they won last year but he has chased impressive display in munich last week shows veyron are facing a tough challenge but they are in a rarely cost as underdogs but that's how they see themselves as they had to paris in need of at least 2 goals to qualify for the champions league semifinals after p.s.g. smushing to grab 3 to win in munich is this the toughest of gaba more before it's

a tough task but we are all looking forward to it for this i think games like these are why you play football and why you're here by a munich we want to try to cause a mini upset in paris or in postman can buy ins chances of upsetting the odds look slim there with a key players chief among the injured robert leave and. his team mates will miss the potent pull who has rattled in an incredible 42 goals in 36 much as the season . one ray of hope for buy on has been p.s. g.'s in different home form the parisians latest disappointment was a one nil loss to leo in the league as i look at them. it's something that we'll have to look at again at the end of the season. but let's hope that performances start to turn around against. vengeance for last season's painful defeats in the

final should be motivation enough for the argentines players to find their feet again on home turf. for a d.w.i. business when my colleague rob watts remember you can always get all the latest headlines on our website that sting w dot com i'm friendly for me and the entire team in the newsroom here for lent thank you so much for your company. my 1st vice a morsel sewing machine. i come from women are bones by this notion for even something as simple as learning how to ride a bicycle isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to buy say a lot of my home and it took me as them and. finally they gave up and mentored by me and i say this but it returns because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more apt procreates for girls than riding a bike and now i want to meet this woman back home could bones buy them and social

rules and inform them of oded piece of rights my name is them out of the home and i work even. the. president joe biden aims to calm fears about the global shortage in a meeting with major manufacturers he's promised to push for billions of dollars of funding for the u.s. semiconductor industry. correspondent in new york. the holes that would normally housed the how to move a trade off empty this year is it news online we'll speak to one of the organizers of what is normally the biggest event of its kind in the world. this is

a real business on. welcome to the program. president joe biden has reassured car makers and other major manufacturers that the u.s. will invest in its semiconductor industry has been meeting key figures to discuss the global chip shortage that is plaguing many industries automakers are among the worst affected with general motors ford folks wagon and many others having had to halt production plants around the world because of a bottleneck in chip supplies following lock downs last year one industry group has warned that almost one point $3000000.00 fewer cars could be built this year as a result of the semi can the shortage now president biden is now urging congress to back fans to invest $50000000000.00 in chip manufacturing and research as part of a broader efforts to rebuild u.s. industry. one i have here. cheers the way for batteries

broad it's all infrastructure this is the infrastructure. we lead the world all in the middle of the 20th century we lead the world. lead the world again. we began 21st century so by now let's discuss this further with our financial correspondent in new york ends quarter just remind us why we have this chip shortage and why it continues. yeah well 1st production collapsed and then exploded so that's basically what happened in the past 12 months or so so if we think back at the beginning of the pandemic in asia where most also for talks and takes place we had those shut down so less chips got produced and then it was the work from home school that told trend that we've seen 1st there was a high demand for computers and other digital devices so

that was one factor and then the car industry a good year ago to actually cancelled some orders for the chips because they believed that the amount would be extremely slow and that was true about a year ago but then the us kamarck it for example and also globally it came bit much much faster and stronger than expected and so that really caused this mess of shortage that we've seeing right now and this 50000000000 investment is pushing for is this is much about improving the u.s. position in the global chip market is it is about solving the current shortage. well basically at the end it's probably both even if we talk about those says shortage issues that really takes time to build semiconductor effect or it can take up to 2 years so that's why experts are saying this shortage that the receiving right now will go easily deep into 2022 but also if we see

what happened in the industry in the early ninety's basically the united states also production wise was the leading force was controlling about 37 percent off the chip production market globally that by now it's down to 12 percent and then also if you look at ship designs yes the u.s. is still in the driver's seat but china for example is definitely definitely picking up some speed so yes it is also about the dominance of the u.s. chip industry overall we've already heard from intel a couple of weeks ago they're investing $20000000000.00 so now maybe this help from washington but it is going to take time so we are as i mentioned talking at least 2 years as a story will stick with new york sense. now microsoft has announced that

it spying artificial intelligence specialist nuance communications for nearly $16000000000.00 the company provides ai solutions to governments as well as companies in the health telecommunications and retail sectors is microsoft's 2nd largest acquisition after its $27000000000.00 purchase of linked in and 2016. some of the other global business stories making the news greece is opening up to tourists from other e.u. countries beginning may the 14th holiday makers will be able to visit without having to quarantine as long as they've been vaccinated against corona virus or show proof of a negative p.c.r. test the greek government has been pushing for the creation of an e.u. wide vaccination passport and. french lawmakers have approved a ban on short domestic flights they want to abolish domestic flights on routes that can currently be covered by rail in under 2 and

a half hours the government is seeking to lower carbon emissions even as the travel industry reel in the global pandemic. and sticking with france french water company veolia has reached a merger agreement with its competitors sue is the deal brings to an end months of legal battles between the 2 the new combined company is expected to have an annual global turnover around 37000000000 euro. after straights of restaurant and small business owners have scuffled with police and during protests against continued coronavirus stretch and around 200 demonstrators tried to reach the office of prime minister mario druggy but were held back by police in riot gear. over trade is now underway it's normally the biggest event of its kind in the world but things are a little different this year with the showcase moving entirely online usually the city of however would be both sing with guests from. across the globe but the

coronavirus pandemic has made value possible this time so vast holes of the trade fact around are empty the 2021 edition focuses on artificial intelligence machine learning botting it's going to feature live streamed exhibitions and online networking. but i've been speaking to york and co chairman of the ocean message which organizes the hand of a trade i asked i asked him if companies have been struggling to promote themselves over the last year without the help of such events absolutely it's a real challenge for everyone to think about a situation that is not all where you in white to your clients and hopefully new clients from many countries you need a bit you figured out how to organize movie or a life treat you can wince your appliance if you have suppressed road so that is a bit like you look at the case not only on intuition also on presenting in

a new digital format and that is really great and we're all here in the learning curve to understand what is really real world you added to it business so we're at the light it's how encouraged or exhibitors are and i have to do a lot of positive feedback so that we use this show in this way in the pandemic tongue. awhile hanover keeps attracting international exhibitors over it physically only this time in it is developing into a kind of turn the silicon valley big names from siemens to apple and google are investing big it's impart thanks to the various 1000000000 euro hi tech agenda which attracts qualified fashionables and help support a lively startup scene. the intelligent robot arm carefully grips the tomato without crushing it the special thing about this robot is that it sees with the help of cameras it was developed by bees of the robotics founders nicholas out and

stefan last blown up in their munich based startup their aim is to make robots for everyday use and to revolutionize the market can you know what our core innovation is camera based sensor technology this means that we can greatly simplify robotic hardware we can build robots that use simple motors and are controlled entirely by software and cameras that would allow us to build very inexpensive robots that could be used on a vacuum cleaner for examples of all the times it's income to the to have their office in munich's vaca and a subsidized startup center for 35 digital startups here they conduct experiments and work on their business models. because a friend of this week noticed that it's not just the building in the infrastructure that you get here you get exchanged with other founders who have similar issues and that's one of the most valuable aspects there is a large network of mentors including large companies which are available here in

munich in a variety of ways they're increasingly interested in working with startups to develop the great solutions for tomorrow and they can the high tech industry seems to be drawn to bavaria apple has just announced the establishment of its european center for chip design in munich google is hiring 1500 new employees and computer giant i.b.m. opened its development center in munich's high like towers 4 years ago to focus on artificial intelligence. i think we have a lot of advantages we have manufacturing companies here small and medium size companies there are customers and we want to be close to them and we really do have world class universities here where we find the top talent precisely in the areas we need. added to this is bavaria is 1000000000 euro high tech agenda among other things 1000 new professorships are being planned munich's university is the team you and ellen you play an important role in the cooperation with i.t.

companies it being. of course it brings new research ideas and enables our students and junior scientists to work on topics that are really relevant. engineers new stefan last point i had started doing research on their robots at the t u munich and continued in their start up they now build intelligent robots for several companies in germany and here up. sweden where the pandemic means the rave scene is a shadow of what it was in its ninety's however it is trying to make a comeback in the city of malmo. doors on saturday but check this out just 4 people were allowed on the wall at one time tickets for the 12 hour sold out with visitors having to choose a time slot to get. short of

a compulsory lockdown but there have been restrictions on that. so for me the business. has a website. business next time and. when life comes to. drastically changed death. how are people coping with it. is it possible to die with dignity while practicing social distancing. we take a look coronavirus and its victims. because

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first of all it's unbelievable to see your partner lying or the energy in her body and again i'm careful. if i thought there's so much i want to do and i have dreams i want to live. smoke why don't we just carry on the living lest his yeah ok you can die along with every patient who doesn't make it with you that's how it is so. if. a funeral during the covert 19 pandemic a small group of mourners are keeping their distance there are no hunks no comforting of others just a final memory. my dad had

a fall on christmas eve at night just as he broke his leg and was taken to hospital by the emergency doctor it's are they tested him and he was positive for city. on dying so he was put on the covert unit. and then things got really hard up to 3 others. offered rob died 11 days later without his family being able to see or speak to him again. he had been married for 64 years had children and grandchildren a family man alone in a hospital room in 4 times as his life ended. up for so i tried to talk to the nurses to a doctor but they kept saying oh it's a holiday there's no one here someone will be in touch it was really difficult so i thought ok and the next day i called and kept calling then suddenly i got a call from my brother that the hospital had called. to say that her dad had died.

i feel guilty because i should have just done it for the family but i didn't manage to reach them and i keep picturing him all alone in his room. i was being too trusting too considerate to nice whenever i called they'd say there's a staff change over but there's no doctor here right now at 6 i'd say no problem i'll call back and that was the problem i should have been more assertive but now it's too late that. we only tie our own death wants what we experienced out of our loved ones over and over feelings of guilt and helplessness have all grown during this pandemic. is the man you mentioned a lot of people are experiencing these feelings of guilt. and i try to free them of these feelings to encourage them to look at what they heard

when the person was alive to the relationship they had to not to put so much emphasis on those final days but it's hard yes. my those final days are thomas schneider's daily work he runs an intensive care unit in some fashion burg in southern brandenburg one of germany's covert 1000 hotspots here he needs to take a few deep breaths breathing is the involvement terry process that keeps us all alive he has lost many patients the pandemic overwhelmed everyone here including him very thought we talk about death rates death statistics or seeing a 1000 deaths a day. but even i can put it in perspective yes in a 24 hour shift i witness 10 deaths that is my reality here that is what is really happening here what's real. but we can't. transport this reality to people outside

just by quoting numbers from. the house of cards. and then out of this my cold was spilling out of the mistrust is the most difficult thing for me what is really changed is that we go to the patients fully covered in protective clothing to accompany them as they die because we can't really touch them there's no skin contact or holding their hand or i really miss that i would never have expected it . so far so good to. know that milk. pink can't count how many people she has seen die. think. that the coffee is hot ok yeah. i think the clinic has been pushed to the limit for months when our relatives are not allowed to come close to the highly contagious patients even if it is the last chance to see them before

they die work there is. nothing to give my chest as nurses we do our best to stand in for the relatives but what's missing is a few personal words thought we can't do that because we haven't known the patients for years or some of the relatives tell their patients that it's ok for them to go . we can say that too but of course the patients feel the difference when we say it means that when their relatives say it it really tells them they collect go to last and it's. up to now the team has had to keep functioning in an emergency situation and no one knows how much longer it will last it's an extreme experience which has brought the team closer together. feeling to it what's your many of the emotions which had to break out erupted here in the unit that sort of it was something we had never experienced before as i

think every member of staff here has broken down and cried in the corridor or at least once who are violent hot. for selena pink too there was a moment in the pandemic that changed everything for her. when spot us asked the pub and it was the 1st patient who died who i had to put into a body bag. that was green. awful for me to miss a step that i was crawling because i was thinking where is the humanity and where is the dignity in this putting the patient into this back is it. just it was a feeling where i thought no this is not why i became a nurse something like it was too close to the. not always being able to save people's lives is not unusual for doctors and nurses it is part of everyday life in the intensive care unit but the coronavirus has

opened a new dimension does it to it so it was thought there was this situation where you had to think about calling relatives 10 times within 24 hours to tell them that somebody had died it was. so important writing 10 death certificates it's going they all have the same diagnosis or it's more the same on the 8th or 9th call to the family you start to doubt your ability to deliver the news with the kind of empathy you would like to have lots of privileges government. benches work involves trying to see the light in dark times as a funeral director grief there a pissed she prioritizes self-determined dying and grieving she worries about how dying has changed with the coronavirus. ending is this above all death has become much lonely and i think that's what hurts

people the most not just those who are dying but also they left once but they can't say goodbye because they can't have physical contact visiting rules are so strict that make them dying even how difficult it. has a video blog about death and mourning for which she produces films which she calls often stories. she says her aim is to build bridges. as a minister when i get the news that someone is dying then it 1st it's just something in my head so the way from my head to my hot is so much longer than just the distance between my hands it can be very helpful and comforting to really feel it to grow. but to really grasp it you have to be close by which the rules of the pandemic do not allow.

in berlin. experienced that 1st hand when the virus claimed his mother's life has helped me feel. i took 4 weeks off from everything i was written off sick and then i just spent 4 weeks grieving lost in my thoughts. i thought about my mom and about the finite nature of life and this. is why i'm still but i wasn't there when she die. she was probably all alone in a dark hospital room and then her life was suddenly over that's not how anyone wants to leave this world this leaves us all so. i kept thinking how could she have caught the virus and she never left the care home she was in her wheelchair or in bed she was always on the same floor. so i

thought what if she caught it from me i had these thoughts whatever i in fact at her i always went really close to her although i was wearing a mask and when i put my hand in front of my mouth and talked to her as best i could i'd never be able to forgive myself this. whole never displayed any kovac 900 symptoms but back then he was never tested. ability of being responsible for his mother's death still haunts him as does the thought of her lonely and anonymous death just a statistic in the pandemic his mother. says she died on october 31st and on the 1st of november i heard the statistics. i don't recall the numbers exactly but at the end there was a one and i thought that number one of the end and that's my mom.

he wasn't on my own into the hospital where she died so he couldn't be at her side he could only say goodbye to her grief. i decided to write her a letter and i put the letter into were great for me and that was a ritual a way of saying goodbye. now he visits her grave regularly. but i haven't processed my grief yet it's going slowly for me it's all very new for me and it was taking a long time. i come here once a week even if it's only for 10 minutes or so and finish i think the cemetery here is beautiful and i live nearby i often go shopping in the market hall nearby and i think this is the right place for her i can wave at her when i go past.

here in this care how hard she lived in southern germany people have not process their grief either normally it's an open care home but today its core doors are deserted 17 residents died at the start of the pandemic kanya laura and her husband were infected he did not survive. this if i was so sweet. it all happened so fast sucked all of a sudden he was gone i couldn't do anything about it next or big mark and i couldn't really say goodbye to him he'd already been moved on and then a nurse called me and told me that he was on a ventilator that he didn't want to go and what did i think of that just in the shift so i said well if he's fighting it and he doesn't want it we're all finished . go. 50 years abruptly ended without comfort without

consolation without human contact us for i didn't like it but it's not in our hands still why. no one was allowed to enter or leave the home presidential unit one was turned into an isolation ward too many patients were infected the bed vacated by one of yours husband was needed again immediately come down tot say he saw that's really how it happened the husband died in hospital and i had to tell father of the use of his death asked if it will make love most and that same afternoon we had to move 3 of the residents to follow basically on the isolation ward fully packed it was a truly awful moment i just want guns guns surely moment. for weeks on end the people in the home had to find a way to manage between functioning and grieving. but in valley we

weren't expecting it at all and want to hide it was in our residential community and it hit us like a tornado talaga sockets my we were powerless to stop it i did mark it was we had all the protective measures we followed all the rules but still so many of our residents caught it had so were so many deaths it was very hard for us this early mass for us yeah sure hop back. no one was expecting this young woman's death either she had no underlying health conditions the funeral took place among her closest family members but it was just a click away which is how she would have wanted it. written your karma a young influencer from hamburg lived in and for social networks she addressed her last public words full of hope to her fans and followers. whoever is with me

knows no grief whoever knows we can only laugh and forget their troubles at least for a short while with god's help i will get through this. almost 2 weeks later britannia died of covert 19 she was just 29 her life was snatched from her says her fiance a man who they had plans they wanted to celebrate their wedding they had their lives ahead of them. let's unleash stunned enough and calm the seas at the end when i got the news that she hadn't made it off that i was allowed to go and see her to say goodbye but. the other says. on 1st day of oh it's really unbelievable to see your partner lying or know the energy in her body. and again that's on fire i wouldn't

wish that our own anyone interest me one. man who wishes he could have held her hand once more when she was still alive that he could have been by her side now he has friends and his faith to give him strength in his time of grief or fear if i didn't pray for shows as i'm not together. put in every free minute we find if we pray for her. i'm sure us and that we will stay side. but she's still with us in all forms and that makes the loss a little easier for us to pay phones or food for. the patients admitted to the covert intensive care unit in this stuttgart hospital are getting younger we were often here in the 1st wave when most of the patients were over 80 but now many are around 65 and often have spent weeks here. i show you a journey has the units nursing staff at the moment her patients can only sense the

empathy she feels for them. all this had recently a patient said to me she must you know you do so much for me so that if i met you on the street i wouldn't recognize you she would see mr prentice it upsets me that i wouldn't recognize you it is i wouldn't even be able to thank you because i can't see your face shopper privacy so even now imagine how that is for the patient they have to trust you although they can't see your face but often i should knows nothing about her patients either because they are in a coma and their relatives are not allowed to visit them elizabeth has been here since mid december after weeks in a coma she is fighting her way back to life likely my colleague will open up the speaking valve here and then you can communicate with us it goes community are you

going to talk about you know hello everyone ever in her hearing her speak means a lot to her family was there you know it's always seems easy and fun and they've been there for me since the beginning village still. but no one is allowed to come in come on otherwise they'd be here every day but i have said to you right yes it does come as have you been able to talk with your family yes we've already spoken on the phone i can do that. how was it should lovely really really lovely. and i've gone back with them soon. you know. so it's patients like elisa baker to give i sure hope this fandom make has been the biggest challenge of her professional life the 49 year old is a marathon runner so she's used to the long home but her view of life has changed.

quite a bit so that makes you really pensive you are aware of how fragile it is humans are very fragile but if you do all you can instill you lose the saudis or. the coast death is a part of life then we just carry on small mindful fight on and leave the living need to us who can't die along with everything and who doesn't make it too that's how it is still. while we were following i shed work a 63 year old died on the 18 bed unit i sure had to admitted her a few days earlier still optimistic about beating the virus. family counselor ratio klaas has invited the relatives to bid farewell. we will ask him if death is a lonely one. it is distrust of hearts yet we don't know what the patients

are really aware of we just don't know and they get medication to calm them down to stop the pain and the breathing difficulties. are so bizarre we say that this shuts down their sense of what's around them. there is often what we don't know what they really feel for us book authors it's good for the maybe they sense something on a higher level than we know ones so i really don't know if it's lonely or just. amid all the darkness hospital chaplain stefan pfeiffer has to give the people comfort and support he finds it in his face. but the 57 year old knows that's not true of everyone some cases have affected him especially the place. it's been for me. i was called into the intensive care units before christmas by a young woman 35 years old and seriously ill with coziest systolic our current vancouver ignore it in summation of missy she wanted to have

a blessing in the house i was entering her room the woman still had her phone in the hand she was just saying goodbye to her husband so i knew she was about to be sedated because she would be put on a ventilator and would no longer be conscious she didn't know whether she would survive it was out on this. or stand on the top this i stood next to her and her the telephone call to it was heartbreaking once least not because normally. the letter what i've heard into the prayer and gave the blessings of both her and her husband live and the tears were rolling down her face and sneered as if then it's all a very fast she was sedated and put on a ventilator it was very affecting her with. the patient survived but as a cleric fine for knows how important farewells are for the grieving process it's an issue which occupies him and not currently not everyone is willing to go through

with this pain at the end is needed i also hear some people say my mother is dying can you come and give her last rites thing and then i say please come and say goodbye to her minnie and i say no i can't do it because of the coronavirus or that i feel they sometimes use it as an excuse that worries me because i wonder how they will grieve afterwards if they've missed this chance it's really important to say goodbye to the person you love someone who's had such an impact on your life it's a name and. stephon goal survived coded but only just now he's fighting for every breath in physio therapy after $108.00 days in the i.c.u. in a clinic in munich his money is seriously damaged. but as i go straight into a monitor you really feel your limits it's a huge problem just to climb the stairs and afterwards i feel like i have to read then more air than can possibly fit into my bloodstream because all these

interfaces have been badly damaged by the virus it was going through the shittiest . would do nothing to take them recently they did a c.t. scan and the radiologist said your lung doesn't look good there are some parts missing or holes as he put it and that i should think about getting a transplant. stephon goal is still haunted by his coma dreams his late mother but also strangers appeared to him in that world between my family and death. which does it i saw myself on the wire. there was no t.v. but i saw what they were doing to me with about a 10 minute time delay and i thought to myself if you can still see this then you're not dead yet you can see what they're doing to you your mom. the 64 year old's life is not like it was before his illness his lungs kidneys and heart have

all suffered damage he was in an artificial coma for over 2 months and underwent 3 into beijing's belief and we don't know when i woke up out of my coma so doctors and nurses came from all over to see me they were glad i was alive so. if i feel a great sense of belonging to this country because they really look after the people who live here all i can say is it's brilliant if i were in england or america i'd probably be either dead or totally broke by now. patients like stefan gold who survived the virus are a ray of hope for hospital staff it helps to see that their work is worthwhile in spite of all the deaths. of a low dr. thanks for everything great to see you super i'm feeling much better. it's wonderful to see you standing here in front of us without any kind of help.

the rest will follow 2 there is still dynamic yes there is still dynamic left. 76 days in a coma was he afraid of dying. no. good i thought there's so much i still want to do i still have dreams i want to live up to though i never thought that i'd give up i wanted to see my children grow up and i have other dreams. fungal made it but so far nearly 80000 other people in germany didn't so many goodbyes in times of social distancing what can really do if they're not on. to go and see the deceased is our bents has produced a video reconstructing scenes with a friend. in which. i would encourage everyone to ask the nurses to take. off a lock of hair or take a fingerprint and you can do that with an end pad and a sheet of paper it doesn't take too much time i.

pass. that way you have something to look at something to touch to feel that someone's diet is. zahra benson thinks it's time for us to deal more openly with. ms what i really wish is that along with all the tragedy the pandemic has brought us maybe we can spot a few opportunities for instance to charles to ask how we want to say goodbye what is important what maybe we should bring the deceased a little closer to us because we realize now how important it is to say goodbye with all of our senses that it's time for a discussion about this that's what i wish. the pandemic as an

opportunity to talk about the end of life colbert 19 has changed how we die and it will leave its mark for a long time to come. pick

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