in my our society like there's none of them will come back but they remain in our memories. we will not forget them the fergusons in him. and would mean a studios operatives of correspondents hounds brunt. and so i was definitely very emotional what where can we start how touching was it to hear from a family member of those who had lost loved ones well yes that was i think the point of the ceremony although the president obviously spoke a eulogy it was meant to be a service or a commemoration event for the victims and their families and they were from a very wide spectrum obviously that was the way that they were chosen also the way that they were picked there was a woman who lost her disabled young daughter to convert 19 there was the wife of a doctor who ran a hospital and in his own hospital presumably caught the virus and then died there

was also the daughter of a turkish immigrant who made his family life here in germany and the daughter very young daughter of a man who is very young when he died but did not die of covered $9000.00 he died of leukemia of cancer of a blood but also died basically on his own because of the restrictions and finally there was the son of a woman who was in care because she was suffering from dementia and she too was in a sense left alone because her family was not able to see her during that time is there a reason for the timing of this is why now. so there is no exact reason there has been some debate about this in fact some people have said the commemoration should have happened a lot of other countries have had similar events before with some people say we should be commemorating victims continuously because people continue to die and we

should not ignore that the president himself has said it's now been a year of just over a year since the pandemic struck we cannot wait for the pen to make to end to do this come immigration because we don't know when it will end and so he's saying it's a moment to stand back and to in ascends commemorate but also to gather our strength for the new continuing infections the continuing the 3rd wave as we're talking about at the moment of this pandemic now take into that looking ahead jamie as you rightly said it's in the grip of it that we would write the new infections in recent days what is the government's proposing to do there's been a lot of dispute about what is the right way to go and this dispute has been in fact going on for months mainly it's the central government of under the americans the chancellor on the one hand and on the other side the 16 federal states and their leaders who in fact have. the power to decide what happens in their regions

and what i'm going to america has always been for stricter measures the regional leaders have resisted that and that continues to this day at the moment there are discussions about imposing a central government lockdown a got a new law is likely to be passed for that in this coming week but there's still resistance from the regions so it's not quite clear to what extent i'm going to america is able to push through what she really would like to do a hard lockdown i guess only time will tell but it's got correspondents front thank you. now to some other developments in that pandemic india recorded more than 200 in their t. 1000 new cases on saturday that's more than 3 times the daily case number in the u.s. the world's worst hit nation francis has

given his 1st in person sunday bless and in the vatican after weeks of lockdown. italy is set to begin easing restrictions later this month israelis no longer have to wear face masks outdoors and school food we'll print in the latest steps towards normal life after a mosque vaccination campaign. now moscow has warned it will retaliate against the czech republic after its farce and of 18 russian diplomats who it says . they were behind the deadly explosions at an ammunition devil in $24.00 team plans to discuss the case at a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers on monday. the blast that claimed 2 lives a military ammunitions warehouse in the east of the czech republic explodes in october 24th teen causing widespread damage. 2 months later

another similar explosion. 7 years on the czech government says it found a link between the explosions and russian secret services. based on clear evidence of pain during the investigation conducted by our security services i can say there is well grounded suspicion about the involvement of officers of the russian intelligence service g r u. people who want to see. and these are the key suspects believed to have been in the country at the time of the blast both men are also wanted in the u.k. in connection with the 2018 poisoning of sergei scruple a former russian spy. and 18 russian embassy staffers accused of being military spies now have 48 hours to leave the country moscow has denied involvement and says there will be diplomatic consequences. i'm very sorry that the czech russian

relationship will suffer like this however as the prime minister has said the czech republic needs to react wolfie. check officials are now considering excluding russian corporations from a not coming bid to build new reactors at the ducal vanny nuclear power plant. choosing a contractor for the build has become a symbol of geo political allegiance for the czech republic. its grievances at a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers on monday another sign of growing international anger at russia's actions abroad. scientists say one of the world's largest icebergs has melted away the so-called a 68 had a surface area of nearly 6000 square kilometers and we had approximately 1000000000 tons after i broke away from antarctica in 2017 it's drifted toward the island of sol to georgia in the south are not allowed to raise fears for wildlife there but

satellites sure the formation is now virtually gone broken into countless small fragments. i'm now joined by hugh griffiths easy marine bio jew graf who's conducted research on ice. now we just saw some pretty dramatic pictures of the iceberg melting can you tell us a bit more about its life and times. well this iceberg was one of the figures that we've ever trapped or known about and like twice the size of luxembourg but it started its life as part of a giant floating ice shelf so fresh water ice that's been pushed off the land and starts to float in the sea and eventually the ends break off and float off is what we call icebergs and this one broke off and it was about 12 percent of the ice shelf broke off in one huge chunk and didn't really move for a while and then after about

a year started heading northwards and it then made its way up what we call iceberg alley an area of the ocean where a lot of icebergs travel through and up toward south georgia and it did look for a while as if it might threaten some of the wildlife and the habitat up there because it's such a huge iceberg nearly as big as the whole island but luckily the currents took it just south of the island and the rough seas and warmer water around there really started to break it up but we were surprised it lasted as long as it did it stage for over 2 years at this traveling without breaking out and eventually broke up into smaller pieces and those pieces just melted away so we see that are melting because of global warming. no the icebergs melt just because of the action of the ocean but also the water the warmer water that they're moving into that is naturally warm but we'd also know that the ice shelves that the icebergs come off might be. in danger from global warming so that this was last and see that it came

off but they used to be a loss and a and a loss and b. too small ice shelves further north and both of them disintegrated within my lifetime and they have been linked to the actions of climate change so although nasa and see at the moment we think is fairly stable actually in the future it's been predicted to be one of the hotspots for the influence of climate change and could be one of the places that could go next ok you griffiths encounter it thank you thank you. in the german bundesliga munich have released a statement criticizing the i called hans the flick after he publicly stated he was to leave the club in the summer affleck made the announcement after biosecurity another crucial victory in the bundesliga eric massa and cheaper more team was among the scorers as to be tie. saturday flip side are now 7 points clear of

challenges life says the 5 games remaining minister good title would deflate his servant in 18 months had by him but a club statement is another sign of tensions behind the scenes that i brought is too much show and. pansy flick led by one of their most successful seasons ever last august champions league triumph crowned a campaign in which the bavarians also retained the bundesliga title and won the german cup. but right now all is not well and byron flick has done little in recent press conferences to dampen speculation of a rift with sporting director. yup know my answer for before i inherited a team and they have developed amazingly that last year we had a team which i think everybody knows was better quality wise than what we have this year. as does the minds of. most pundits took that to be

a dig at the club for not bringing in better players and now flick has confirmed that he feels it's time to move on. and find i told the club this week that i'd like to cancel my contract at the end of the season. and there's a song on the fire and it's one of those times in life when you think about things and ask yourself which path you want to take. gets in germany are looking for a new coach in july and flick fits the bill having been you are he loves assistant when the team won the 2014 world cup. many by and fans had already accepted he'd be stepping away but yet another ponders league title in the weeks ahead is sure to cushion the blood. here's a reminder of the top story we've been following for you germany has been painted blue today nearly 80000 people died of covert 19 trancelike in america was among the top officials of the latest ceremony in his eulogy to the victims in germany

president frank about a steinmeier described the pandemic as a doc time thus left a deep sea. watching news after next sports life. thanks for watching. these places and before smashing. step into a golden trencher. treasure map. trotters discover. record breaking sites. to also book form. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken. what

does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus update the code of special monday to friday on t.w. . was one of the best judoka in germany but not quite good enough to make the national. so she changed teams application for citizenship of a foreign country was fast tracked it isn't a war i became congolese to realize my dream of making the olympics and fighting

for a medal in tokyo in 2021. shot also changed her religion born and raised in china it took years until she was able to become a german. proved to be a decisive reinforcement for germany's and pick table tennis team which with her in its ranks celebrated and unprecedented success. over at the rio olympics which came as a surprise. that i'm so happy. it's not unusual for people to change nationality but in the world of sports it's become common practice and also a big business so who profits who are the winners the losers. with 2 very different nations changing story. is an expert in this field to decide taishan for sports science degree was about.

in a new national jersey all wrote the international judo association is a supporter of rapid naturalization wherever they hail from judoka see themselves as a global family where everyone helps each other so much better. i applied to the cap verde islands and morocco to all i also had an offer from the rishis they all welcomed my application she ended up choosing the democratic republic of congo. and will. if you google democratic republic of congo and go to news 90 percent of the stories are really negative and as i otherwise had no idea about the country that was an additional factor that had me worried. all you read about is the corruption all the mass graves being constantly discovered and child labor.

has huge deposits of rare minerals that make their way into the smartphones we use every day it has also been coerced by never ending conflict and civil war despite the introduction of un peacekeepers acclaimed gynaecologist denis mukwege summed up the situation when accepting the 2018 nobel peace prize. it. managed to. did this issue over. the. internet. that haunting history did not put off my breast self made the trip to what remains one of the poorest and most violent places in the world. sure i was scared i was going to a far away country where people live in completely different conditions a country i knew nothing about switching nationality is quite prevalent in sports especially in table tennis shown show now spent 2 years on china's national team

before being dropped like other chinese players shun show now received lucrative offers from abroad she moved to a german club which encouraged her to also take up citizenship. in many. with a manager wanted to apply on my behalf but i said no i wanted to retain my chinese passport but i gave it a lot of thought the manager said that if i had a german passport i could play another 10 years for the club and that's obviously an incentive for shaan shown i had by this point already been living in europe for 7 years winning the champions league and 2 german singles titles she also became friends with. the multiple german and european champion was eager to help her buddy . i'm maid of honor and i are going to i'm sure love what if i was asked a few times by senior officials what i made of sharon as a player and i said that she could be a big asset for the german team and that i would definitely welcome such

a move in front of the question where players nationality is subject to a confusing array of regulations for world championships some show now wouldn't be eligible to compete for another 9 years but the olympics were open to her immediately and. the manager if i fancied playing for germany. i never thought i'd get that kind of chance. i said ok let's try it and i really did make it. amazing. i'm so happy. that. john shown up became german in 20124 years later the rio olympics the german team with her in it's made it to the finals where they sensationally claimed silver. with them the most the gosh i'm so grateful to germany i would otherwise never have been able to compete at the end in pics it was making the switch from china to germany that gave me the chance germany expressed its gratitude to shine show now

with the country's highest sporting distinction the silver laurel leaf and german table tennis also one of course that's why i'm not with 2 other i know naturalized germans and if it's the society we honestly would not have won a medal in rio and of course this means the funding for the judo association and grounds youth programs. for a lot of countries sports authority is changing nationality is evidently an investment in the future. while there are always 2 sides sure i have the option of living my dream and going to the olympics but there's no country in the world that would go to the trouble of issuing a passport in this case for a german. if it did not stand to gain. from hoping. for just a few months it was handed over to. government officials but the

president of the congolese judo association since then she's been competing for the seat to move the school i was touched because everyone was saying it's impossible she's white neither of her parents are from congo so i didn't know how i was supposed to make her congolese what i said was it's a sports nationality which no one understood when it was done i felt very emotional . he. has since gone on to win 2 world cup event and gold of the african championships for her new countries judo association fast tracking her citizenship application turned out to be very profitable. never been a gold medal for congo before and it was marie who gave it to us. that gold medal also meant money for the association is there any benefit from locally born. in fact the team for the tokyo is comprised solely of athletes who. live abroad.

german table tennis the practice of recruiting chinese players goes back decades. to come also even knowing generations we had 3 women in the national team just arrived in germany. where they were competing for places in the european and world championship squads which wasn't good news for everyone and that is the eye of course that impedes our own news programs why should i bother to develop 10 equally good players feyerick government training program only to see those places taken by others that's of. germany is not the only country naturalizing table tennis players from china it's a global phenomenon or. table tennis at the olympics could arguably be called a chinese championship a quarter of male and female players at the rio games were born in china. they

competed for over a 3rd of all nations represented including the u.s. turkey canada qatar brazil and china itself of course. as the number one sport table tennis enjoys world class backing in china you know. look at the chinese women's team 40 players in total but only 5 of them will go to the major tournament the other $35.00 players are just kind of training partners. and a fair number of them will switch to another country as a result table tennis is the world's leading sport when it comes to naturalized players in rio they comprised 31 percent of entrants while the figure for judo was 11 percent. qatar is one of the various countries using financial incentives to attract new recruits the success of foreign born

athletes suddenly representing turkey has also been controversial. the african athletics chief responded the present situation is wrong what we have is a wholesale market for african talent open to the highest bidder the world governing body has now amended the rules to prevent athletes switching. legion's overnight. is an olympic winning javelin thrower and an official athlete representative. world athletics the old i really tighten things up creating new stipulations for both athletes and associations what i know as an athlete representative is that switching your country or your jersey is not always the same we have refugee stories where young athletes have arrived in a new country due to their personal plight. and once they're of course they can't wait to take their passion even up to the international level. and that's completely understandable.

20156 years later she became german and is now considered a major medal contender. also left ethiopia as a refugee becoming a dutch citizen and a world beating the middle and long distance runner but some athletes end up stateless. had to leave the war torn democratic republic of congo as a young orphan but later competed at the rio olympics in the refugee team. at the tokyo games. to represent the same country that other top judoka have been forced to flee from on the other hand the d.l.c. team has won some new fans. i think. that in the olympics i'll be cheering on condo in the olympics. as so often sports is not a level playing field this athlete got

a new passport in no time while this one had to wait and overcome a series of hurdles. it's not felt i could have competed for longer if i'd had a german possible tele out. because i had to wait 8 years to get it. and by then i'd gotten old i call. and in turn again it takes you just one or 2 years to get the passports in my opinion the rules around fan. the international olympic committee could even things up but the world's biggest sports organization has refused to putting the ball in the court of the national associations switching nationalities in the sports world is a bit like table tennis the seemingly endless back and forth and for the time being each country plays by the rules which it sets itself.

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