the events starts may 3rd on d. w. . you're watching the d.w. news live from berlin honoring the lives lost to the pandemic. germany remembers its nearly 80000 victims of covert 19 leaving a commemorative service the german president described the pandemic as the doc time that has left deep wounds also coming up. one of the world's largest icebergs was reduced to chung's satellite footage just shows its massive bulk has fled into smaller fragments we asked the scientist about 15 to cations for the planet's

future. i imagine mike as you know and you are welcome to the program it's been a day of remembrance here in germany to pay tribute to the almost 80000 people who have died of covert nineteen's in the pandemic hits the country that commemorates of service was led by germany president frank about to stand by in central belin it was he said he chose to say goodbye and dignity to do this last took over 19 many of whom died in lone and without their families because of kohen of violence restrictions. the 1st person in germany to test positive for the coronavirus was in late january 2020 . since then as in most of the rest of the world. life has been put on hold in

germany and tens of thousands of families left to mourn lost loved ones. the national requiem provided a moment for germany to pause and reflect on those who would either died because of the virus or had passed away separated from their families due to pandemic restrictions. as a sound be hard to today we're focusing not on numbers and statistics but on the people that we've lost. in the industry for all their differences and the different ways in which they lived feeling they're all messed up by their families and friends by their neighbors and their colleagues by our society like there's none of them will come back but they remain in our memories. we will not forget them they forget sins in the. only

a few people could attend the requiem due to social distancing rules being clue to chancellor angela merkel as well as relatives of people who had died during the pandemic most of the ceremony was given over to them and their poignant stories. 8 days of worry and waste waiting for the doctor to call me every day hoping for a miracle praying that my worst fears would not come true my worst fears came true on the 14th of april i was allowed to go to the i.c.u. to my husband when it was clear that medicine could do nothing more for him. germany's president frank spoke of hope cheering the ceremony germany was able to keep rates of infection in the initial phase of the pandemic due to lockdown measures and social distancing. but numbers started to rise last autumn and now the

country is battling the 3rd wave. steinmeier said by remaining united and caring for each other the pandemic will pass by. words of encouragement for a nation like so many others around the world that is grieving for all those lost to the coronavirus. 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 in germany and the daughter very young daughter of a man who is very young when he died but did not die of color 19 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 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. why now. there is no exact reason there has been some debate about this in fact some people have said that calmer ation 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 not been a year of just over a year since the pen to make struck we cannot wait for the pandemic to end to do this kind 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 stick 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 i'm going to america 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 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 locked on i guess only time will tell it of use for its go correspondent thank you. let's take a look at other stories making headlines around the world the passenger train has

derailed north of cairo injuring around a 100 people 8 carriages run off the railway and the c.t.o. bonna authority said the train was traveling to the nile delta one suo from the egyptian capital. security forces in me on my dispersed hundreds of protesters in the south in the city of daraa way meanwhile in uniform government of national unity southeast asian leaders to give it the seeds of crisis talks that's next week and not to recognize the military unit that seized the figure. the philippines is bracing for floods and landslides storms today edges throws its shows its peak wind is clocking more than 300 kilometers an hour it is the strongest super typhoon ever observed in the western pacific so early in the calendar year. that circle public says it's expelling 18 russian

diplomats the move comes over suspicions that russian intelligence services were involved in an explosion of saddam munition duple in 214 that killed 2 people mostly in 10 has accused prague offering gaging meant tricks and says there will be diplomatic consequences. now scientists see one of the world's largest icebergs has melted away the so-called east 68 hot east at least 6000 square kilometers and we had approximately 1000000000 tons a tight group away from. 2017 it's drifted towards the island of south georgia and the south in atlantic raised fears for wildlife that. 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 a 68 we just saw some food sea 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 tracked to a 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 ends break off and float off is what we call icebergs and this one broke off 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 traveling 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. 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 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 here griffiths encounter it thank you thank you. now in a business leader by a minute have released the statement to criticize and they are called chance to flake after he publicly stated he wants to lead a club in the summer flick made the announcement after buying secured another crucial victory in the bundesliga eric massa promoting was among the scorers as the b. tie fly involves book on saturday so excited are now 7 points clear of challengers lives with 5 games remaining retaining the bundesliga title would give leg his 7th a trophy in the 18 months of buy in but a club statement is another sign of tensions behind the scenes that have brought his tenure to a premature end. pansie flick led by into one of their most successful seasons ever

last august's champions league triumph crowned a campaign in which the bavarians also retained the bundesliga title and won the german cup. but things have unraveled in recent months flix comments in press conferences have fed speculation of a rift with the club's porting director. midget. and now he's confirmed that he feels it's time to move on. it's up and fine i told the club this week that i'd like to cancel my contract at the end of the season. ended as his own 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. it's in the following day fans expressed disappointment that flick intends to leave the club after just 18 trophy laden months. it's very sad they have a great coach and to be honest i think they should get rid of 2 now because to be

honest the coach is so much more important than the sporting director the sporting hands if you can see flick can do whatever he wants he did everything right he won so many titles despite a very difficult personnel situation. now by an executive board has released a statement saying they disapprove of flick making the news public with the team facing 2 crucial games in the coming week by an a well on course to win their 2nd blunders liga title under flick but the latest developments suggest a marriage that seemed to be made in heaven is set to end in a messy divorce. it was indeed i am eddie my schedule now from me on the entire team thanks for watching.

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critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her they feel joy knows from eccles last august. stephanie and helen rathke are passed a couple from the lower saxony and countryside and they eat chips dogs. we want to bring day life in the church together the regional bishop is not a fun user bits you see this is not a story i've constantly going on about it's not my thing we. want to tell the congregation how do you treat church village life and being good go together.

they said don't do best stuff. down. in this you tube clip the couple tell the story of their experience trying to have a child then you must show viewers a cryogenic sperm can tell you they are bringing home. their. sort of positive pregnancy test. thursdays and not think that it's i can't be ellen's excited about the change in her life becoming a mother and starting a family. and how overwhelmed she is with feelings of love for the baby growing inside her him i'm in just half a year and this arm and all our men with a different has hit 10000 subscribers on new cheap making it the most successful program of the evangelical churches new social media campaign in germany the videos

are recorded in the old parsonage of aima and produced by lucas sheen cut from the even jellicoe radio station the system of the 4 of these would have been unthinkable 5 months ago but then with covert came a digitalisation push from the church and now maybe under saddam and heralds a new form of charge on we couldn't imagine before for. stephie is normally bothered by negative comments but one recent criticism came from one of her church members she takes such things to hot and it's getting to her during her latest film shoot. you know what's troubling here is that the host about how i changed my voice i sound selling. off at. my. the church of i'ma with its ancestral hall behind the altar has only ever had male pastors but 3 years ago the congregation was faced with

a choice either they took on this lesbian past a couple or the past his position would surely remain vacant for a long time. stephanie rocca became the pastor in iowa it's a final meeting with a young congregants before their confirmation time to check their shoes before last a rathke asked them to lift up their shirts and examines the saul. ok. ok. ok here. now we got the why does the ones what. there's no price tag still stuck to them but now comes the hard part. the dress rehearsal for the declaration of faith starting with ziegler twins. you also confess your faith before the congregation. i believe in god the father the almighty creator of heaven and. the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the

dead and life everlasting man. that would life good job well done voice one last thing for the pastors to worry about that. but not everyone has learned the confession of faith that well so pastor rocca makes an announcement. if you don't have down i'm just going to call it off tomorrow i keep telling you guys you have to know the confession of faith you're going to recite it alone in front of everyone and i'm not helping you with. the boys and girls don't care that stephanie rocker is lesbian the more excited the whole the confirm and get to have a personal date with the pastor can go wherever they want and she can't back out as a co card is a cool thing to do. not everyone does that. outside

in front of the go cart track they take a rather unusual photo to remember the date with the pastor. as well as now we know we can do anything we want with stephanie and she won't just get mad i will say enough. is that i've never got called garden before so that was nice and just because i'm 35 i can still keep up with the youngsters. at church how wife ellen is teaching the intern how to perform communion. in these moments and the apostle ones are standing up french here we have to turn around and stretch out our arms and sing to the congregation.

and that. ellen is officially the pastor's wife but since she is an ordained pastor herself she voluntarily takes on some of her wise to today's church expects dedication from pastors spouses and partners. on this arm and is something that the 2 pastors do in their spare time only the production costs a finalist from the church's media budget i want to expose it it was that in this video clip from under salmon the couple talks lightheartedly about what it would mean for them to have a polyamorous relationship. ellen writes carex plains that each person has to discover their own needs and about deafness among. the regional bishop ralph meister based in hanover is stephanie and helen rats because boss he's not a fan of and this armin. running around with me for me well they don't make it for me i'm not the target audience it's cool so there are

a lot of things where after 3 minutes i think oh no not again this is really too silly for me now or the whole so far anything on this love story that they're constantly telling us about now i don't need that. the. others do you find precisely that very interesting and that's how it is. for the posters to a you tube channel is part of the per store real work including the story about trying to have a child the bad english that is the cutest one in 5 couples can't get pregnant on their own why. you and the church is silent on this topic right. now that isn't past poor and here's a pastor couple that has gone down that route even of your business is we know what it's like to have a negative pregnancy test in your hands after 2 weeks of you and having spent a lot of money on your wife up with this life and remain silent even though our

fellow churchgoers are going through this trial. this is so tight and past our work means showing people hey you're not alone and giving them hope look we did it. to share human stories that's preaching and that's why we're doing it or i am anyway. the group is preparing for the confirmation church service one of the highlights of the year for the church and the series lending a hand. the setting up the chairs tables and decorations. and i mean on this in a bar. 3 years ago the church community in iowa made a conscious choice to have a lesbian past a couple and they've never regretted saying yes to stephanie and ellen erotica isn't their wonderful pastors for the congregation it was like

a rejuvenated tour and from a very conservative pastor as we were used to to a modern fresh completely new approach we had packed service from the very beginning and i thought what's going on here we'll have to build an extension soon but once they've been. within being on and off one of us my mom and i working together they put the final pieces in place a small stage area in front of the altar and i brought. back. and then the confirmation church service marathon get started with one group after the other 2 to cope with restrictions. twins of the last ones up. so you said yes to our church to your car on and saying yes means to everything.

and that includes communion but it's hard it's great we can celebrate together now this is my life choice to give my said this is my body given for you do this in remembrance of me this. is hiding from corner can call the times we can't shake hands but we can do this. was either side your gift that went to your brother and you give me the other. jesus christ spoke and the light of the world wherever follows me will not block in darkness but will half the light of life. and so go in the peace of the lord the same and. we spent a week in little village and no one had a negative thing to say even off the record. and i remember when i was young and a bit later still when you had to hide it and i think it's great how things have turned out. it's funny how she interacts with

a congregation or takes the church some people see. him sometimes. yes she's friendly likeable and reaches out to people like her and. she they you tube channel is really taking off as well they recently won 2nd place in the small to hero award from facebook and 10000 viewers. in the video reacting to the award stephanie in evolution how ecstatic they are to have one night and say they are overwhelmed while the media and personal attention they've received. one of the well wishes is the regional bishop he senses congratulations via twitter i think graduations to on this aman congratulations to shafiq and elena you're doing great work keep it up.

and design is an all around success but there's still work to do. it out this year and i think the best thing we could achieve is to no longer be different for us to just be us in the church and in the world. and maybe we'll have a channel for seniors about in content or whatever so no one is different i'm more . inclined to them and stephanie and ellen rathke say they may just keep on running their you tube channel until they're old and grey themselves. africa. this image is deceptive because bats are endangered in

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