this is news live from berlin to japan sounds that is going to release more than a 1000000 tons of water from the destroyed fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean the government says it has little choice but the decision is stoking anger both at home and abroad also coming up more than 3000000 infections and hospitals pushed to the limit as coated 19 infections soar in germany the federal government says new measures are needed to bring the crisis under control including a mandatory emergency brake across the country. tensions are running high in the us

city of minneapolis demonstrators to fire curfew for a 2nd night to protest the killing of by police of another young black mask the officer alleged to have fired the fatal shot says they mistook the gun for a taser. world leaders condemn a buildup of russian troops along the border with ukraine it is fair to 7 year conflict between the 2 nations could flare up again. and in sports fire in munich have a tall task on their hands when they visit our son's remarks in the champions league tonight for the 2nd leg of their order final face off. i'm sumi so what's going to it's good to have you with us. japan has announced that it will start releasing massive amounts of contaminated water from the fukushima nuclear plant into the sea the water has been stored in tanks at the plant since it

was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 tokyo says the decision was unavoidable and that the water will be diluted to meet international standards before it's released in about 2 years time japan's neighbors south korea and china have condemned the move as have environmental groups and local fishing communities . it's no more than a decade since an earthquake and tsunami devastated into each a nuclear power plant in fukushima but the country and the region will be living with the consequences for much longer. nearly $1300000.00 tons of contaminated water is stored in huge tanks at the daiichi plant enough to fill $500.00 a lympics size swimming pools beyond your cost is around $1000000000.00 yen or 800000 euros and space is running hard. plant operator tepco plans to filter the contaminated water to remove isotopes leaving only tritium it will

then dilute the water until tritium levels fall below regulator e limits before pumping it into the ocean tritium is considered relatively harmless because it does not emit enough energy to penetrate human skin japan's prime minister says the decision this in on avoidable part of safety decommissioning the nuclear plant and then public and you cook we will execute it only after ensuring the process is safe negative rumors must not stand in the way or extinguish the hopes of people in fukushima for recovery. as united would not deny you know same. i don't know. what the decision has provoked an explosive reaction from some of japan's neighbors these korean environmental activists say the plan will torpedo efforts to restore the regional fishing industry if you want to. the japanese government's decision is a sin against the world but their actions will contaminate everyone globally the

many if. you don't know who i'm going with japanese government's decision is not a scientific one but a political gamble that the will is radioactive water is released it will be an irreversible disaster not only for the ecosystem but also for humans the japanese fishing industry itself is also firmly opposed to the plan the 1st release of water was due to take place in about 2 years' time. let's get more on the story with sean bernie he's a senior nuclear specialist at greenpeace and he's joining us from scotland to sean good to have you on d. w. the japanese government says this water will be treated diluted before it's released into the sea and you say that it's not safe why. because through the years since the disaster the japanese government and the owner of the plan to kill a trip have misled have not told the truth the problems of the site including the operations to crew says this water 80 percent of that water billie's tanks still

contains radioactive strontium redo it if i'd seen levels tens of thousands of times above what the government said it was successfully process and gotten so the generals government nur is the science of radiation protection argues that we do actually tritium is not hazardous has no threat whatsoever ok human health. to him certainly is not the most hazardous nuclear material in this water but to say that as a dual risk is scientifically illiterate ok china he said the japanese government has ignored science if you look at what they've done they said that they spend especially 8 years with a panel of experts before they got to this conclusion that they're going to regularly monitor the quality of seawater that they're going to bring and also the expertise of the international energy agency the i.a.e.a. to make sure that they're complying so are you saying you just don't trust that. we absolutely don't trust that the i.e.e.e.

is a promotional each and see the supports nuclear car world white has an absolute interest in helping the japanese government pretend that there's no risk of an exacting richie's with regard to the toughest tourists and i've attended those meetings in tokyo i've read the reports i've seen what's going on and they've completely ignored the alternatives that are clearly there which is not for discharge book for long term storage they had options back in 2015 to remove radioactive tritium those were offers from the us government us nuclear agency the ignored those because they were too expensive and so by choosing not to defend the environment and in fact ignore the public's will in japan and also in east asia japanese government is moving ahead with plans that will ultimately contaminate the pacific to the east china sea the sea of japan that's not acceptable you just said that the alternative is long term storage can you tell us more about what that involves and if that is

safe. so the fukushima daiichi plant according to the japanese government will be completely decommissioned by 2040 to 2051 in other words the next 20 to 30 years that's complete fantasy this site is going to remain contaminated effectively forever and therefore the site can be a nuclear waste storage site so we've been advocating to the japanese government the long term storage in the highest standard of tanks the current tanks have got some serious problems but they could store in long term storage tanks and combine the best available technology to process out 3 directivity that's really the there's no problem there's no issue it's because you know that without risk but this is the one that has the least environmental consequences for the people in fukushima for the fishing industry and for the wider community in japan and in east asia we'll have to leave it there sean bernie a senior nuclear special i think we're in place thank you very very much for

joining us thank you. let's check in now on some other headlines from around the world taiwan has unveiled a new amphibious warfare ship that can be used to land to troops the massive ship is the latest part of a program to modernize the armed forces it comes as china escalates its threats to use military force to annex the island that it says it is its territory. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says he expects the international deal limiting iran's nuclear program to be saved he was speaking after talks with his iranian counterpart lavrov says iran has shown willingness of the u.s. up holds its agreements to lover of also criticize the e.u. for imposing sanctions on iran during ongoing talks on reviving the nuclear agreement. the united states says it is no longer planning to withdraw troops from germany and will instead deploy an additional $500.00 forces u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin made that announcement alongside his german

counterpart on the cuts come collins our austin is on an inaugural trip to europe aimed at boosting defense ties with nato allies amid heightened tensions with russia. germany is struggling to cope with a surge of cope with 19 infections despite being in a soft lockdown for 5 months the number of cases is going up and hospitals say they're being pushed to the limit today the cabinet here in berlin agreed to approve new national measures to try to bring down infection rates these new measures require a change in the law to allow what is being called an emergency brake to be imposed in all parts of the country if certain conditions are met. now this new law would oblige all regions to implement this emergency brake if there are more than $100.00 cases per 100000 people in a 7 day period then a curfew would be imposed between the hours of 9 pm and 5 am and then all non-essential shops would also be closed. chancellor angela merkel welcomed what

she called the urgently needed decision by the government with the with us betty order to improve the situation and to slow down the 3rd wave to break it and turn it around the measures implemented does far by the state and regions don't go far enough our response to the pandemic must be more stringent and consequential consequent. let's bring in our chief political editor michelle or cousineau who is standing outside of the chancellor chancellor a for us mr erle you were listening in to the chancellor's message tell us more about what you have to say. basic all the step of now implementing a national drive a national emergency brake as a long overdue you setting the corona fight on a new 1st thing and what that means is that angle america took germany's corona response next level instead of continuing to gather the 16 state premiers around

getting an agreed paper and then everybody going into their federal state and do whatever they like pretty much she's now making this legally binding she doesn't mean that she can do it alone she still needs that signature on the dotted line by enough taking this to parliament and she's getting the states to agree to it and that would then make it legally binding and there would be an immediate emergency brake implemented at that magic figure of 100 infections 410-0000 people within the space of 7 days and that already applies to pretty much most of the country why is this question of taking a national approach so controversial. because there was a lot of credibility lost when state premiers didn't stick to what they said and kept carving out exceptions for their own state status created a lot of confusion that has cost everybody a lot of public trust who works in public policy and that is also to blame for.

dipping in the opinion polls in these latest infection rates going up once again we are in the midst of 3rd wave here in germany and the majority of germans actually for a tough locks down and people in the street they certainly want to know which rules apply wherever they go and not on a 100 kilometer draw i have 3 different sets of regulations apply you said that the chancellor will have to take this new law to parliament what kind of support will she have for it there. well it looks like she is getting enough support to take it to parliament the big question now is will it be frost track this will be decided this week the parliamentary groups are currently meeting as we speak here so still more intense debates to be heads but this looks like it's definitely going ahead in germany with experts warning hospitals warning that it's simply coming too late

angela merkel has self said if we said a long time ago she said if we wait until those intensive care beds are filling up enough food then it's too late and germany is pretty much nearing that point right now our chief political editor michelle because now with the latest thank you. let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic now in the us how forty's are recommending an immediate pause in administering the johnson and johnson covert 19 vaccine after 6 people developed a rare blood clots within weeks of getting the shot it comes a day after 5055000000 doses of the job started to be delivered to the. india will fast track emergency approvals for covert 1000 vaccines that have been authorized by western countries and japan the country is ramping up its vaccine rollout efforts as it battles soaring infection rates and the director general of the world health organization says confusion and complacency names the pandemic is

a long way from over but proven public health measures could bring it under control within months protesters in the u.s. state of minnesota have taken to the streets for a 2nd night after a young black man was shot dead by police near minneapolis the officer who fired at 20 year old dante wright says she confused her gun with her taser but tensions in minneapolis were already running high before this latest incident a white former police officer that is currently on trial there charged with the murder of george floyd the president is appealing for peace. the last moments of don't have rights life be courted by the body calm of the police officer who fatally shot him. 20 year old reuters a wrist adjoining a traffic stop. he struggles free and gets back in the car then.

police say the footage shows that the office a used gun by mistake. as i watch the video and listen to the officers commands is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser but instead shot mr wright with a single bullet this appears to me from what i viewed in the officer's reaction in distress immediately after that this was an accidental discharge there resulted in the tragic death of mr wright. angus spilled out onto the streets hours after rights killing. a dusk to dawn curfew was imposed to stop further on rest but protesters gathered for a 2nd night in the suburbs of minneapolis outraged by yet another death of a black man at the hands of a police officer. called

president joe biden appealed for calm but we do know that your pain and trauma is just in the black community and that environment is real and seriousness consequential but it's just not justified violence and or a mood. but the shooting of dante wright has fueled tensions in a city already on edge of another of a tourist case not far from where wright was shot derek shows in the officer who killed george floyd he's on trial for murder. world leaders are condemning russia's most recent military activity in and around ukraine the g. 7 group of advanced nations says it is deeply concerned by what it calls russian provocations ukraine accuses moscow of sending thousands of troops to with eastern border in the crimean peninsula kiev and moscow have traded blame over the worsening situation in the donbass region ukrainian troops have fought to pro

russian separatists since 2014 clashes in the region have become more frequent and there are fears that the on resolved conflict between the 2 sides could flare up again. a russian military camp set up suddenly close to russia's border with ukraine witnesses have reported seeing rows of tanks in the area and artillery being moved by train and leaders in europe and the us are trying to find out why. russia's not denying the troop movements but says it's not threatening anyone. in spite of the it's not receiving the questions are being asked what is it that the russian federation is doing on the border with ukraine got the answer is very simple we live there it is our country some kremlin figures have gone further setting up conditions for a possible russian intervention against its neighbor which

a beginning of military actions is the beginning of the end of ukraine. the build up seems to be russia's biggest along the ukrainian border in 7 years. but that was when fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian troops 1st erupted in ukraine's east more than 14000 people have since died in that conflict which has yet to be resolved. ukraine's president polo dimmers alinsky recently visited frontline troops he's called on nato to put his country on a pathway to join the military bloc something moscow has called an acceptable. meanwhile washington is sending warships to the region and says it's closely watching the situation well 1st let me say we are concerned as i've said in the past but we've been of course watching it over the course of the weekend about the

increasing aggression of russian forces on the border secretary blinken and secretary austin are in brussels this week meeting with their nato partners and we will of course i'm sure this will be a topic of discussion the coming week could well decide whether the tensions in ukraine escalate further into the biden administration's 1st international crisis let's bring in our correspondents on the story now teri schultz is in brussels emily sure when is in moscow it is good to see you both tara let's start with you nato secretary general against altenburg and the foreign minister of ukraine to me trickle label made a joint statement a little bit earlier what more can you tell us about what they said. they did sue me but even since then we've gotten the news that nato secretary general still timberg will chair a joint meeting tomorrow of nato foreign and defense ministers was called after is his press conference today with the foreign minister of cool lebo and secretary of

state blinken from the united states and defense secretary austin will come from germany to be at that meeting tomorrow now what we heard earlier from the ukrainian foreign minister whose government had called this urgent a nato meeting he had messages for both moscow and for nato to moscow he said if you dare push further into ukraine than what you've already done an x. in crimea and supporting separatists in the dawn of us this will be a very costly mistake for you to nato allies he said make sure that is the case we need more military equipment equipment we need more training for our forces we need more political support if we are going to deter the aggression that we're seeing from russian forces and to everyone he said if you think that sounds expensive think about the consequences of more war ok emily we're hearing a very strong message directed at brushwood there have you seen any reaction there moscow so far. there have been no direct reactions to that strong

message that we heard there at nato but around the same time of the nato press conference there was a statement from the deputy foreign minister here in russia get a call for and he said that any escalation in ukraine would be the fault of ukraine and what he calls called it's western curators clearly referring there to nato and he said that they are at fault for turning ukraine into a powder keg and russia for the past few days and weeks has been shifting blame as well they have been saying that it's actually ukraine that's moving troops closer to the border and escalating the situation and that any troop movements within russian borders are just russia's business and are purely defensive right we've seen russia deny any claims that it sent troops to eastern ukraine to help the rebels there but officials are also saying the army could intervene if you pray and tries to retake the area by force i mean how likely is that to happen.

and we've definitely heard a lot of strong rhetoric from the russian side including that kremlin official that we heard there in the piece saying he said that it would be the end of ukraine if you crane were to intervene or to harm russian citizens in eastern ukraine of course russia has been kind of handing out passports to people in eastern ukraine for the last few years but i think it's very unlikely that russia actually wants these escalated tensions to really escalate into a war i think this is more saber rattling and rhetoric directed both at an internal audience ahead of duma elections parliamentary elections here this year and also more importantly i think directed at the new u.s. administration they really want to make it clear i think to the new u.s. president that ukraine as they see it is part of their sphere of a. influence and that the u.s. and nato should keep its hands off

a risky game of course because these tensions in this powder keg could potentially blow up even if neither side really wants it right and terry i want to come back to you in brussels or to ask you about another development that we saw today namely u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin saying the u.s. will not be pulling troops out of germany that's something that the former president trumpet threatened instead the u.s. will deploy an additional $500.00 forces i imagine that that is welcome news that nato certainly sumi in any case that would have been welcome news but with tensions rising very close to nato as borders it will be even more so now this announcement came as a surprise to me to officials and to the german government when president trump said is but we know from reporting afterwards that actually nobody moved on this the pentagon didn't think it was a good move to pull out of its very comfortable and well established german bases nobody wanted to do with the belgian government did not get a follow up call from the u.s. about the troops that were supposedly moving here so it's not

a complete surprise that the current administration would reverse that decision but as you said a very welcome one nonetheless. our correspondents teri schultz in brussels and emily sherwin in moscow thank you sports now in football byron munich are preparing for a champions league quarter final clash with power sounds from all the variants need a win to keep them in the competition but p.s.g. as impressive display in munich last week shows bahrain are facing a tough challenge. rarely cast 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. smash and grab 3 to win in munich is a tough. it's a tough task but we're all looking forward to it. but i think games like these are why you play football and why you're here. we want to try to cause a mini upset in paris. chances of.

him there with key players chief among them the injured. 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 on has been p.s. g.'s in different form the parisians latest disappointment was a one. in the league. 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 against. vengeance for last season's painful defeats in the final should be motivation enough for the argentine players to find their feet again on home turf. well robert love and return to training for buying a new nick after damaging his right knee while on international duty with poland byron's top striker is expected to make his comeback later this month either

against by or leverkusen our rights now he's already missed games against r.p. leipsic one here in berlin and the champions league match up versus par sucher mon . been having a career here with 35 going to see goals so far. in tennis russia's dunny admitted there to visit out of the monte carlo masters tournament after testing positive for the coronavirus the world's number 2 ranked player called the news of big disappointment she was seeded 2nd behind top ranked novak djokovic afi event of aid of his now focused on recovery and looking forward to the upcoming major at the french open which is scheduled to start in the main. kite surfer in rio de janeiro have been enjoying perfect conditions hundreds have been speeding across the water against the spectacular backdrop of the sugarloaf mountain the city's famous beaches are closed for general use because of coronavirus restrictions but individual sports activities are permitted the kite surfer say that when conditions are this good they just have to get out there to

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thoughts the great books of the 20th century. the present day hoaxes. the treated like. the train ignorance sort of a 3rd. world war i wasn't there when she died she was probably all alone in a dark hospital room and then her life was suddenly over. except some by all i was crying because i was thinking where is the humanity where's the dignity in this pushing this patient into this back.

home for say both it's unbelievable to see your partner knowing that all is no energy in her body any given couple. if i thought there's so much i want to do and i have dreams i want to live. smom live with just carry on the living a destiny yeah hold on you can't die along with every patient who doesn't make it with me that's how it is it's a soul. a funeral during the covert $900.00 pandemic a small group of mourners are keeping their distance there are no hugs no comforting of others just a final memory. my dad had a far long christmas eve at night and he broke his leg and was taken to hospital by

the emergency doctor it's where 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 us had specially of each. offered rop 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 ports time as his life ended. up for so i try 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 him to say that our dad had

died. but if 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 since i'd say no problem i'll call back that was the problem i should have been more assertive but now it's too late. we only die our own death wants what we experienced out of our loved ones. over and over the feelings of guilt failure and helplessness have all grown during this pandemic. is the man you mentioned a lot of people are experiencing these feelings of guilt. yeah. and i try to free them of these feelings to encourage them to look at what they heard

when the person was alive the relationship they had not to put so much emphasis on those final days but it's hard as i've. those final days are too much schneider's daily work he runs an intensive care unit in some certain burg in southern brandenburg one of germany's covert 19 hotspots here he needs to take a few deep breaths breathing is the unabomber 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 see enough 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 a small ticket a breath in and out of us might feel cold this spilling of the mistrust is the most difficult thing for me what has really changed is that we go to the patients fully covered in protective clothing to accompany them as they die look as if we can't really touch them there's no skin contact or holding their hand or let really miss that i would never have expected it. so sugar to. your head will. spin a pink can't count how many people she has seen die. yet confident. that the coffee is hot ok ya. know the clinic has been pushed to the limit for months now relatives are not allowed to come close to the highly contagious patients even if it is the last chance to see them before they

don't work well. enough to give my best as nurses we do our best to stand in for the relatives but what's missing is a few personal words what we can't do that because we haven't known the patients for years or in some of the relatives tell the patients that it's ok for them to go . lekan say that too but of course the patients feel the difference when we say it enough times that when their relatives say it it really tells them they can let go the 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. many of the emotions which had to break out erupted here in the unit before it 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 were violent hot. for selena pink too there was a moment in the pandemic that changed everything for her. one spot us asked the pups and it was the 1st patient who died who i had to put into a body bag. that was really. awful for me to miss a step that i was crawling because i was thinking where is the humanity and this where is the dignity of this putting the patient into this bag is it so they just thought it was a feeling where i thought no this is not why i became a nurse this time it was too close to the pat. down are. 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 corona virus has

opened a new dimension does it towards what 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's. so important writing attend death certificates it's going they all have the same diagnosis or. want to see 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'd like to have with you what's a preventable discovery. zarb and his work involves trying to see delight in dark times as a funeral director and grief therapist 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 that they can't say goodbye because they can't have physical contact that the visiting rules are so strict that's making dying even more difficult at zarb and has a video blog about death and mourning for which she produces films which she calls coffin stories. she says her aim is to build bridges. as of a nice enough when i get the news that someone is dying then it 1st it's just something in my head the way from my head to my heart 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 pen dimmick do not allow.

in berlin. experienced them firsthand when the virus claimed his mother's life please help 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 this. is why instead i wasn't there when she died. 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 and this is it's also. 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 that her and what 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 i could. play pool never displayed any covert 19 symptoms but back then he was never tempted to play. the civility 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. 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 allowed into the hospital where she died so he couldn't be at her side he could only say goodbye to her grief at the sense of this so 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 been snowing for me it's all very new for me since then it's taken a long time. i come here once a week even if it's only for 10 minutes or so and for that i think the cemetery here is beautiful but i live nearby i often go shopping in the market hall nearby and i think this is the right place for her stuff i can wave at her when i go past all the room.

here in this care home. gift 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 can you laura and her husband were infected he did not survive. this if i was so late. it all happened so fast doc while all of a sudden he was gone i couldn't do anything about it next 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 but he didn't want to go and what did i think of that or this nation so i said well if he's fighting it that he doesn't want it we're all finished. go. 50 years abruptly ended without comfort without consolation without

human contact just before 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 isolation ward too many patients were infected the bed vacated by 100 doors husband was needed again immediately contact say he saw that's really how it happened the husband died in hospital and i had to tell the news of his death after 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 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 saki it's my yeah we were powerless to stop it i did mark it was we had 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 how bad. 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. return 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 me 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 brittania 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 at least i'd stand enough come the season 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. assists zouk leash. on 1st day of oh it's really unbelievable to see your partner lying or know the energy in her body. and the gear that's

on fire i wouldn't wish that our own anyone. 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 fear 5 beaten. for showing us. together. to put in every free minute we find we pray for. i'm sure us that we will stay sighed the dog but she's still with us in all forms and that makes the loss a little easier for us to pay phones off 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 jerk heads the units nursing staff at the moment for 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 this that if i met you on the street i wouldn't recognize you it's with finished and that it upsets me that i wouldn't recognize you it is i wouldn't even be able to think you know because i can see your face shop of 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 finding her way back to life likely my colleague will open up the speaking valve here and then you can communicate with us cooper goes community are you know it's hard to know hello everyone. 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 feel much though. but no one is allowed to come in. otherwise they'd be here every day but i have said see 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 clownish how was it should lovely really really lovely. and i bought the city back with them soon. you know. so it's patients like elizabeth who give i sure hope this fandom ache 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 for that oh you are aware of how fragile it is humans are very fragile so you do all you can instill you lose the series or. the course death is a part of the life then we just carry on small mind fight on and leave the living need us to us who can die along with everything and who doesn't make it too that's how it is still. while we were following i shared 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. the family counselor. has invited the relatives to bid farewell. we'll ask him if death is a lonely one. here just 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 get 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 that this day 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 as i 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 37 year old knows that's not true of everyone some cases have affected him especially deeply. it's been for me finally i was called into the intensive care units before christmas by a young woman 35 years old and seriously ill with coziest psystar a cunt think of it more into. submission of conceit she wanted to have

a blessing to her has always entering her room but the woman still had her phone in 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 and she didn't know whether she would survive it was out on this. or start to meet up this i stood next to her and heard the telephone call to us it was heartbreaking once least not because normal. placidity matter what i've heard into the prayer and gave the blessings of both her and her husband the time the tears were rolling down her face and slade as he then it all went very fast she was sedated and put on a ventilator it was very affects him when. the patient survived but as a cleric i'm fine for knows how important farewells are for the grieving process it's an issue which occupies him a lot currently not everyone is willing to go through with this pain at the end

it's me i also hear some people say my mother is dying can you come and give her a last right 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 off to it's 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 minimum. stephon goal survived coated 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. one of i'm just going to have a monitor you really feel your limits it's a huge problem just to climb the stairs afterwards i feel like i have to breathe and 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. normally i wouldn't want 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 what we want to transplant what's wrong stuff on goal is still haunted by his coma dreams his late mother but also strangers appeared to him in that world between my friend. 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 the nation's belief and we don't know when i woke up out of my coma 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 survive 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 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 do i never thought that i'd give up i wanted to see my children grow up and i have other dreams. stephon goal 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 all now to go. and see the deceased is our advance has produced a video reconstructing scenes with a friend. and i would encourage everyone to ask the nurses to take a. look ahead and take a fingerprint you can do that with an ink pad and a sheet of paper it doesn't take too much time i.

was. that way you have something to look at something to touch to feel that someone is dying. zama been thinks it's time for us to deal more openly with death. when 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. their

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play above. this is g.w. news why from more than 3000000 infections and hospitals pushed to the limit as coded 1000 infections so were in germany the federal. ahmed says new measures are needed to bring the crisis under control including a mandatory emergency brake across the country. also coming up tensions are running high in the us city of minneapolis demonstrators defy a curfew for a 2nd night to protest against the killing. of another young black man the officer alleged to have fired the fatal to.