you're watching the news live from berlin a day to honor the lives lost to the pandemic. germany remembers its nearly 80000 victims of covert 19 he then that commemorative 7 as the german presidents described the pandemic as the time that has left a deep ones also coming out. that circle public expels the russian embassy staff it says is who of history did i not talk about i mean you shouldn't devil into 14

moscow paused indications upset. i'm ready my god julia and you are welcome it's been a day off remembrance here in germany to pay tribute studio most 80000 people who have died of covert nineteen's is the pandemic hits the country that commemorative service was led by german president. in central berlin it was he said he chose to see a goodbye and dignity to do those last took over 19 maybe your phone died alone on without families it's also on the make restrictions president was joined by chancellor i'm going to medical another political leader. by family members of some of those who died on the colon a virus he pleaded with fellow germans to do all the. to keep themselves healthy

and to keep others healthy by following and make restrictions in his eulogy president stein my ass folk of the loss of the victims of the sound. today we're focusing not on numbers and statistics but on the people that we've lost women and men from all regions of our country the very elderly but also people of all ages and you know we call to mind their names faces and stories. and for all of their differences and the different ways in which they lived feeling they're all missed by their families and friends by their neighbors and their colleagues by our society. none of them will come back but they remain in our memories. we will not forget them in ferguson's in the. and would mean a studios operatives of correspondents hounds brunt. and there 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 older the president obviously spoke a eulogy it was meant to be a service or a commemoration even 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 took over at 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 and in germany and the daughter very young daughter of a man who is very young when he died but did not die of cold at 19 he died of

leukemia of cancer of a blood but also died basically. because of the restrictions and finally there was the son of a woman who was in a 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. there is no exact reason there has been some debate about this in fact some people have said that commemoration should have happened a lot of other countries have had similar events before 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 pen demick struck we cannot wait for the pen to make to end. to do this kind of memorization because we don't know when it will end and so he's saying

it's a moment to stand back and to in a sense 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 stick into that looking ahead jamie as you rightly said it's in the grip of it that we would record 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 i'm going to americal 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 blocked on a got a new law is likely to be processed 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 locked on i guess only time will tell you the view for its go correspondent front thank you. now to some other developments in the pandemic india recorded more than 200000 new cases on saturday that's more than 3 times the daily case number in the u.s. the world's west nation pope francis has given his fast in person sunday blessing in the vatican after weeks of lockdown it's it is set to begin easing restrictions later this month israelis no longer have to wear face masks outdoors and schools are fully reopened in the latest steps towards normal life after a mosque bus nation campaign. now moscow has warned its war retaliate against the czech republic after its own of 18 russian diplomats with sas military spies for

access spreads they were behind deadly explosions at our nomination devil 2014 at last 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 tain 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 if. 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 2800 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 they'll 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 contract to foot the bill has become a symbol of geopolitical allegiance for the czech republic. its grievances at

a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers on monday another sign of growing international and at russia's actions abroad. let's take a look at other stories making headlines around the world doctors for jailed russian dissidents say he could be close to death based on medical tests received from his representatives a 44 year old is on hunger strike he says authorities aren't letting his doctors treat him for back pain and numbness in his legs. security forces. hundreds of protesters in the south and city of dowry meanwhile in uniform government of national unity as south-east asian leaders to give it a seat at the crisis talks next week and not to recognize the belief that seized power in the faber we call. scientists one of the world's

largest has melted away so-called a 68. area of nearly 6000 square kilometers and we'd approximately 1000000000 tons it's broke away from antarctica in 2017 it's drifted toward the island of south georgia in the south and raised fears for wildlife their. formation is now virtually gone broken into countless small fragments. i'm now joined by hugh griffiths easy marine bio jew graff who's conducted research and i suspect a 68 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 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 essence 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 of this travel it without breaking out and eventually broke up into smaller pieces and those pieces just melted away and we see that it melted 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 warmer but we also know that the ice shelves that the ice melts 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. 2 smaller 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 last 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 thank you thank you. in the bundesliga in munich have released a statement criticizing the i called one c flick after he publicly stated he wants

to leave the club in the summer affleck made the announcement after biden secured another crucial victory in the bundesliga eric massa i'm sure promoting was among the. high flying levels book on saturday. are now 7 points clear of challenges life says with 5 games remaining rooted in the minister title would give flayed his 7th trophy in 18 months a buy in but a club statement is another sign of tensions behind the scenes that are brought to his tenure premature end. pansie flick led by and to one of their most successful seasons ever last august champions league triumph crowned a campaign in which the variance also retained the bundesliga title and won the german cup. but right now all is not well and by and flick had 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 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. ended as 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 hakim lives assistant when the team won the 2014 world cup. many by and fans had already accepted he'd be stepping away but yet another bundesliga title in the weeks ahead

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