people. to us. trying to see the. reporter every weekend. this is news and these are our top stories in the u.s. the minnesota jury has begun deliberations in the trial of the white police officer accused of killing george floyd dark chauvinistic charged with murder for nearly one floyd's neck during his arrest last may floyd's death sparked global protests against police brutality and racism. germany's environmentalist greens party have chosen a co-leader of the babcock to stand for chancellor september's election opinion

polls show the greens are close behind i'm going to merkel's conservatives who are heading for a standoff over their choice for chancellor candidates. and russia's prison service says jailed opposition leader let's say novelli has been transferred to a medical facility it comes 2 days off in the belize doctors said he was on the brink of death and needed urgent treatment developed he went on hunger strike 3 weeks go after being denied access to his own medical team. this is g w news from berlin you can find much more news on our website www dot com. after 16 years as german chancellor angela merkel is stepping down in september who

will be her successor it could be her unattainable co-leader of the green party and the greens are going from strength to strings in the polls thanks to her the same cannot be said about merkel's own party to conservative governors who want to be the candidate have spent the last week locking horns and ugly private public fight in the voters say they don't like what they're seeing tonight choosing a chancellor candidate here in germany helped to make the competition green with envy i'm bord off in berlin this is the day. they're involved as a time when all the arguments have been made everything is said and then it has to be decided that i would need to talk to each other in the coming days and he didn't because i'm posting ready to take responsibility. and thus the aim is that the

c.d.u. i'm serious you parties within the federal election wouldn't stocks by given in charge of the decision on whether this offer can be excepted all knowledge cannot be decided by the c.d.u. in the end. also coming up fly like an airplane hover like a helicopter and go down in the history books that is what happened today when a small robotic chopper named ingenuity lifted off and hovered over the surface of mars. amateur data. on. that agenda of her father to her flight. our pride products hard aircraft on another planet. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the woman who could very soon make political history here in germany today the green party announced its chancellor candidate ahead of the national election in

september her name is on the lena fair ball and she is coat leader of the greens she embodies what her party has never had until now a real chance of winning at the federal level after election day unwilling to bear book could become the 1st green chancellor that germany has ever had their books popularity has much to do with being the right person in the right party at the right time in a world focused more than ever on climate change the greens have instant credibility plus their stance on china and russia is considered clear and tough if they own the zeit geist their rivals well they're scrambling to buy into it you could think that after 16 years with uncle americal his chancellor her conservatives would be best equipped to win yet again and you would be thinking incorrectly the 2 governors vying to be the conservative candidate have tried with no success to decide among themselves in private which of the 2 will be the one

political infighting with leaks to the outside polls show americans party falling further behind what they are losing it appears the greens are easily able to take for themselves. with 2 party leaders one needed to step aside and harvick did so making an early now bear book the 1st green chancellor candidate ever in her 1st speech she promised a renewal in german politics and a departure from the status quo. to mrs imagine if i get in must make changes to create a fair country a country where daycare centers and schools are truly the best places to beam a country where caregivers genuinely have the time and above all the resources to care for people so could my country in which the state functions digitally and serves its citizens. a diverse and cosmopolitan country a value space and strong democracy after. the 40 year old

became politically active within the green party in 2008 focusing on foreign and security issues only 5 years later she entered the border start the german parliament at the age of 32 there she quickly and respect for her thorough nasa knowledge of detail she has a degree in international law and spent several years abroad in the us london and brussels she now lives in potsdam with her husband and their 2 young daughters at best see it yet they carefully choreographed announcement came in sharp contrast to the bruising power struggle still going on within germany's conservative party both contenders there were quick to react to bear box candidacy. and i live in a big. bear book and i can promise her that the c.d.u. in germany is looking forward to a fair election campaign. fear. clouds

our own skin it will be about the 1st place conservatives the greens hopefully it will be a fair good and argumentative but also ambitious election campaign. to me so i would be very happy to be a part of it but we are not there yet you know me. well the conservatives us still squabbling internally on any now has already focusing on the general election in september and on becoming i'm going to mecca of success are the talk about this i'm joined tonight by patrick since bork he's a member of the german parliament for the christian democrat party that that's the conservative party of chance or i'm going to america mr since we're going to get to see you again i want to talk about your conservatives just a moment but i have to start by asking you when you look at how smoothly the greens have should spend their chance their candidate you as a conservative doesn't it make you somewhat jealous maybe

a bit jealous on your science of greens deciding was out the party members and made the decision justin close shops and groups behind the party members so in the end i'm not sure if these unity will stay a long time well i mean that's true that you're talking about the inner workings of the party but on the outside it's been incredibly smooth for the greens is it embarrassing for the conservatives we're not in a situation that's quite sure we are struggling about the person who will be old leader in the candidacy floor chancellery so of course a little bit jealous but of the unassigned greens has to prove this unity in the party and i don't think this unity will stay long when we come into the issues of the party come thing so let's see who will be better in the end you know one could say that the conservative would be candidates are mean lush it and marcus is good or they are the astra zeneca vaccine's of this campaign or as underling the bare

bark is the buy on take 5 mcgurn candidates which shot mr since for which shot would you choose. we want to think both at this time and that doesn't mean we will see you know green and conservative coalition at the end i think we need both and in the end some may be i stress any count will make the decision well who do you want to see as chancellor handed it i think on the last chance is representing the bigger sister of the 2 parties and so i think it's in the end of a struggle that will be made by i mean lash out the decision is taking a long time this makes a lot of party members and satisfy it we will involve and you clued the district leaders of the conservative parties so they will get of bulleting also as it seems right now so it's a long time struggle but in the end i think it will be on the last missive where is

there any resolution to this dispute between army and lush and marcus in which mr lush doesn't lose a great deal of authority i mean he is the leader of the c.d.u. your party that's true and i think it's a question that you should mark who some of our he told us that he will accept a decision also see to you then he changed his mind he's looking to if you want kenya holds up it also changing now he said again he will accept a decision of the c.d.u. the c.d.u. has made a clear decision we have a discussion now that some members of the c.d.u. a little bit skeptic but in the end i think it will be i mean lots and marcus and the c.s.u. has to accept that if mr la should if he does not win here and become the transfer candidate can he stay on as party leader a cd you party leader. i think he will stay on in this situation and he

will of course stay on as leader of the got home and not famous fabian he's making such a joke there and so i think that all will be inside the discussion right now and in the end i think we will see that i'm not sure it will be the candidate for chancery for the conservative party you and i we have spoken before about a man by the name of friedrich meretz as a possible chancellor candidate he came close to being elected head of the conservative c.d.u. party but he didn't win but he came close and now there are calls for him again to be the chancellor candidate but how realistic is that hope i think this decision will be made between mark was sued for the variance use you and i mean lush it from the c.d.u. so i think it's just between these 2 possible candidates and i think the decision

will be made very soon and my opinion is that i mean that's it will be the candidate for the election in september and so you don't think mr mintz friedrich miss you don't think that he has any hopes here in you know being some you know last minute surprise in the decision making of who's going to be the chancellor candidate. no i don't think so the political party of the c.d.u. at c.s.u. together we're not waiting for a last minute surprise we are discussing back was the pa to you the whole. leaders of this. little executive board so i think solution mounts will play a very important role in the new government but in the end this just an off chance well maybe something between marcus and it well we will certainly be watching closely to see what decision what solution comes out of those meetings they're taking place mr projects and board member of the german parliament for the c.d.u. the christian democrat party mr since birth as always we appreciate your time and

your insights tonight thank you thank you very much. for now to the pandemic the united states is the country hardest hit by the corona virus pandemic with nearly 570000 deaths but it's vaccination program is by far the most successful in the world where the 130000000 people have had at least one coded 19 jail now that is half of the adult population and the country has now opened up vaccines to teenagers as well. daily training during the penn demick that's how these 2 brothers have gotten through the last month both. get vaccinated yes as promised teenagers the jap the new future being that age is hard enough with the code restrictions it has been even more challenging i think for me it's a mental health and of course like school that thing i was worried like getting

back that they're not going to school and get behind but i think that ways to catch up with academics might with growth and socialization you know it's if that's high that the school has been moved into the living room the boys cond wait to get their vaccine. i think. so that keeps the people my people around me safer and i would keep myself safe to vixie when we bring a little normality back i don't miss school exactly but the people in school because you know it it's really difficult not to interact people and talk to people . and yeah i mean he's an awesome guy he's just really. you know friend. them and additional obstacle mosques. it's very hard to see people's expressions and it just gives the sense of

like you're talking to a wall. this is a body you. know you look at the u.s. this quick move makes nations but what if as in other countries restrictions remained it was definitely obviously my social skills. already not very not the most social i'm going person. say. i think i would not really be good for me that's why i try to go back to school brown is a social worker and sees the huge opportunity in teenage makes the nation teens need to be with their peers and need to be taking social risks and doing things on their own outside of the confines of their family home for a teenager to have the opportunity of x. and i think is tremendous to give them that freedom to move about with

a lot more confidence before both themselves and for their parents that they can go about their lives and do the things that they're developmentally supposed to be doing right now outside of the u.s. most teenagers don't have access to the vaccine yet they have to find other ways to keep going well some countries in europe are struggling to get enough vaccine doses for their populations but that is not the case in serbia where until recently foreigners were being invited to take up the offer of surplus shops where the government has now decided to stop the booming vaccine tourism and has decided to place more focus on getting serbian residents to say yes to corona by was vaccines 1st he wus funny to char reports tonight from belgrade. yes it is the next person in line stern about 4000 doses are being administered here today at the biggest coffee vaccination center in the country has procured some

15000000 vaccines for a population of 7000000 serbia has more vaccines on offer than serbians to want them in fact there's a surplus of russia on all chinese and up other vaccines so the country have been inviting foreigners to take the jams the emphasis is on had on the 9th of april the government decided to suspend the vaccination for a nurse on to food a notice about 30000 had received a vaccine so far a lot of foreigners came back to now it's impossible because of the commission of the government so they need to be a resident here or get married here or something like that. for for now the announcement came after a subi is infection rates began rising again the government had apparently realised he needed to convince more of its own citizens to get a jap 1st at least one in 3 people in serbia believes to some extent in conspiracy

theories that claim that scenes are unsafe. there's the next governor and he will see everyone who got the vaccine will soon die. we had in 2000 i think of it is not safe enough for him and that's why i don't want to get it is to 2 days and that skepticism is also apparent on the great streets restaurants are food open and almost no one is wearing a mask epidemiology so don't buy the vinyl each says the government focused too much on positive news about procuring vaccines why not doing enough to actually stand the spread of the virus because of a popular dish the government and our leader of us. all for a demo see thing that is his more able than anyone on arrows any idea really there to provide that what is needed and he ignores the fact that it 1st

necessary to educate people so far about 1200000 people have been fully vaccinated according to official numbers a high percentage by comparison with other countries in europe but far from enough to be a spent dummy in an afro to increase immunization c.v.s. the government has no started focusing on its own citizens instead of foreigners if you could understand serbian you would be able to read the message on the side of this local bus it says get back since it. was millions and millions of people around the border remains separated by pandemic travel restrictions people living in australia and new zealand are now free to visit each other again the 2 countries have opened a quarantine free travel bubble and for the 1st time in more than a year airports have become scenes of emotional. they. reunited after more than

a year apart families friends and grandparents smooching their not so new born grandchildren for the 1st time and relief as a travel bubble between australia and new zealand finally opens. for business so long is going to have no idea so great that i could come back i'd like shut in syria now this welcome home is testament to both country's efforts in fighting the pandemic they've managed to defeat the virus with strict border controls and quarantine requirements. it was really weird feeling to be allowed to and numerous feels like the breaking the rules a little bit we haven't seen for the for 14 months thank goodness busy man messenger and stuff yes i went to see him there announced at 4 o'clock last she's a tempest for i've booked a ticket that's right away it's been a very long time and so much life is evidence and it it's so nice to see. these are

the 1st steps towards what a struggle here in new zealand hope will become a gradual view with the rest of the world. that we have started like it really is just so wonderful to be up to i mean you know so that's where the vast borders site . the travel bubble had to be set backs for months after small ai breaks in both countries and i everyone is hoping that the bubble will burst. history was made today on war nasa says its mars exploration helicopter with the name ingenuity and successfully slow on the red planet flight controllers in california were jubilant when they received confirmation of the person. the perseverance stood. watch. 60. $5000000.00.

yet. this animation makes it look effortless but making a helicopter fly on mars costs tens of millions of dollars and years of hard work despite being a miracle of modern engineering ingenuity couldn't have made it to mars on its own instead it had to hitch a ride on the perseverance rover tucked away inside the vehicle. once the cover was removed. engineers were able to gradually fun full of the helicopter by remote control from earth. after the final checks the perseverance rover transmitted flight commands to the tiny chopper which began its 1st test flight in an atmosphere then as the earth's stratosphere. in the 1st

31 days ingenuity plans to make 5 autonomous flights. after each trip it will transmit the data collected to the perseverance rover which beams it back to earth and mere hours. scientists ingenuity will mark the beginning of a new chapter in mars exploration as it can go where rovers can't and see things invisible to space probes. scientists hope that in the near future ingenuity successors will be able to go a step further and explore these mysterious caves or other hard to reach areas such as mountains or canyons. thanks to ingenuity we're closer than ever to unlocking new and exciting secrets of our mysterious planetary neighbor and back here on earth i'm joined now by negotiates

a scientist at the german air of space center nicole it's good to have you on the program we know that this helicopter flight made history that's that's clear but why it is being able to have a robotic helicopter fly on mars why is that so important to well you see this was not only the 1st powered controlled flight beacon on mars this was also the 1st photo from folks night of the aircraft somewhere outside the earth testing likened by nasa in the last days to the wright brothers bowman's well and then that one event sleeps 3 the wright brothers the mess for the 1st time to 2 o'clock control china's and that change spurs and just like this we think that based seats might change the way the weeks there are other plans and moons and then everything basically everybody in the and also the system that has that receive. from they on we are able to at the evidence and then on the bounds of the seconds i read today

that the ingenuity has a piece of material in it that is taken from the original wright brothers' airplane so yeah i mean it does it connects flight on earth flight on mars how hard is it to fly on mars. well that's actually really hard there were lots of challenges that a team had to overcome and i have to say test things that many times today but i have to say it again huge bonus of that to make that happen minus just as much as an sending planet and it's even watch and try to make something fly on the last because moss has a very very said that miss you. if you try to fly something on the surface like you try to make it the it's a little bit off the surface that it's really just that we need to do today that's the same as if you would see the tried to have a helicopter fly in such a kilometers over the us census and what many people would know that even even mountain rescue operations and like mount everest very very difficult and some

never through to as useless as you come to so that's a there's a social do yeah. let me ask you about what research you're doing and you've been working on interpretation of data gathered by the camera on the rover perseverence what do you see. yeah exactly i'm a member of the president's rope a science team meant specifically i member of the. team that operates the 2 stereotype models that are sitting on the mast meters and over the top of its office and right now with the robots actually parts of this bucket as for the ones you overlook right now the rover is kind of limited but i wouldn't want to use the word limited because it's a great honor to do this but. basically setting us the communication late that

ingenuity what it's doing it's test site but that's actually quite good because it is some time to review. what we have seen so far on mars and it's a sometimes actually think about where we wanted light from from now on what's the next step for the rover will be the data that's of a debt and all about it. but in general clayton the front left has been suspended and we are sinking right now that's a question that actually ok nicole smith unfortunately we're out of time but graduations do you want everyone on the team working on this nickel schmidt scientist at the german aerospace center thank you. well the day is almost done the comes in she continues online. news you can call me a brit golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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