this is due to any news tonight from berlin just to 6 days in india to turn an increasingly desperate situation around the capital daily into is a snap lock down as new over 1000 cases and dates. a new variant and overload of hospitals are making things even books also on the show. who will succeed and get a makeover c.d.u. posses leadership back. in his bid to run for chancellor in september elections but the power struggle isn't over yet and has caused divisions in germany's governing

conservative bill. to blast pushback against a new football super league is growing stronger with many officials and fat boy seeing their opposition but the league's chairman saying it's be only a way to save the sports. hello i'm christine wonder what it's good to have your company show india's capital diddy is flowing into a 6 day lockdown as all 40 is contained with a search in covert 1000 cases dandies chief minister says the health system has reached its limits and harsh measures are needed to prevent its collapse the number off confirmed new infections has been breaking records almost daily.

many in india thought they had got the better of the pandemic but now the country is being overwhelmed by a devastating new way. no city is as badly hit as delhi. as cases explode hospitals there are at breaking point. some patients are forced to share bat. and there's an acute shortage of oxygen. this is the chief minister says the system has reached its limits. the beds for covert 9000 patients offering up rapidly patients are being admitted to the hospitals very quickly intensive care beds are in short supply and less than 100 i.c.u. beds are available in delhi. authorities in delhi had already imposed a lockdown over the weekend ordering all but essential services to close. local

leaders hope the decision to step up the measures will help to mitigate the crisis some welcome the restrictions but others fear if they're not allowed to work the consequences could be drastic. it is essential that there's a lot down here because right now the virus is spreading a lot. the problem with a lot of town is as daily wage and as you get 100 to 300 rupees a day well we go how will we eat well we sleep is the government going to come and give us this daily wage. but now with one in 3 tests in delhi turning out positive the government say it must act to avert a greater disaster the fear is that the surge in cases is due to a new more infectious variant of the virus they're calling on people to be more disciplined about sticking to the rules. but critics are also asking why religious

festivals and political rallies that's a fueling cases as participants return to cities like delhi are still being allowed to go ahead. for tens of thousands of families such questions come too late. and if current trends persist then many mall will find themselves in the same tragic situation. and i'm now joined by a correspondent in a child who's in did he get to see it many are so india has just registered its biggest ever increase in coronavirus cases with more than 270000 in a single day what is driving this what exactly has triggered such a good day just thinking really just far more action than what we saw last year but did i expose was saying that the new new jersey barrier didn't use change as

they're calling it has something to do with it it's just going to be just and what we saw in the 1st read last year but another thing to note is that there are large gathering which were allowed to go month including the go millau which is one of the largest in doing just that $200.00 thousands of people every day were gathered in one place and often getting there have been going back to different states and just remarked i was taking for half the direction along with them awfully like to go to the body including the garbage and the body which is the national party i would organize the election rallies in different states so alarmed that i got it to happen and actively organizing such gatherings had a lot to do with why beyond the jewish minear india is the world's leading make of of all vaccines how is the country is own inoculation program doing. well india had been struggling in the past few weeks they were all strong at least 10 states which had concerns and they were running out of back things up like i did

on a board last week for down and i want to be from the back and city of delhi which might pull hospitals have to stop the vaccination process but do we do it on time for 70 because they had another supply as well and even the mathematically manufacturers have been saying that they are running out of the better do they're not able to meet the demand the latest on this is that the document just by the way did so was financial support of the acting won't actually in the hawkins ramp up the production also because for me it was the images that actually should process to everyone. now countries around the world have had put india on a no travel list the british prime is a farce johnson has just canceled a planned visit to india what impact is a slight need to have on the nation well if you just talk about you can have the one window definitely this war because panic also because only feeling or just have been given so there's a lot of uncertainty surrounding the shuttle lands but guess what it's done so as the north was supposed to come to india to dock about the tree and indian economy

has been suffering quite a lot. so the government it was a lot down last year we've all seen that so in terms of our business as well in terms of create such travel that you know what we definitely have implications on the trip so. that's when your child the reporting for us in delhi thank you many are. now let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world this week climate activists critter has urged the global community to address covert 19 vaccine iniquity calling for all of the world's most vulnerable to be prioritised back has also donated 100000 euros to the codex scheme for global access to that 19 separate helped by the european drug regulator that year may is to issue a recommendation based on the use of johnson and johnson's kovac 1000 vets scene is reviewing a small number of cases of rare blood clots among vaccine recipients in the united

states that year may previously said it believes the benefits of the shot. the risks and britain's bank of the bridges bank of england excuse me and the treasury are looking at launching a new digital currency dubbed brit coin finance minister richie soon and said he wants to create a more high tech financial services except this comes at a time when cash payments are generally on the decline in the u.k. party g to the pandemic. jimmie's ruling conservatives appear to be a step closer to ending a showdown over who will stand as their candidate for chancellor at elections this fall senior members off and get him a close c.d.u. party floated overnight i am wide margin to back to run as the conservative candidate for chancellor but lash it is still competing against marcus siddha who heads the cd used the variant sr policy of the c.s.

unit the conservatives have yet to put forward a unified candidate ahead of september's election. and news chief political editor. has been following that story for us very closely hi michelle so the city is top crossed they've picked i mean. while his rival marcus it accepts this decision. was already being widely reported sighting close's sources close to him that he will accept this at the same time the accepted. he said he would accept pretty much what the upper echelons of the party say 8 days ago so we've seen 8 days of doubt being so within the c.d.u. without us it is actually the right candidate so we do expect him to accept it we do expect our minister to then be formally presented as the chancellor cans that bart and there's a big but there is

a debate raising within the conservative camp here in germany whether that is indeed the right man to have on the ticket simply because the polling we're seeing here in germany still shows marco sudha way ahead although he's from the much smaller bavarian sister part of. mighty c.d.u. so formally we nearing conclusion of that but that debate is still raging elections just 5 months away right michel how damaging has this power struggle been or medicals conservative bloc. well if you look at the polls it doesn't look like this suffering in the polls because of this yet one might say the big question is how much of a debate how much infighting you will see in the aftermath of this that has been damaged as top candidate has huge doubts hanging over him marcus that it will be in a position to say look i told you so i said i was prepared to step forward and this

is a far cry from the kind of unity we're seeing for instance among the green party which was known in the past for a lot of infighting the leaving up to it leading up even to election day merkel style stability politics appears to have leftover very own party now that she is no longer standing on that ticket and that is something that will have to be working against in these coming months of the campaign but now everybody is waiting with bated breath what marcus pseudo will say shortly in bavaria and whether he will accept this vote for good or right that is chief political it is a michigan a following that story for us you can follow it with that which is pushing regular updates thank you michelle and now to the latest look at global priest freedom according to reporters without borders the outlook has never looked so bleak a new report says the pandemic has made the work of journalists hard at reporters without borders is annual indic singles out scandinavian countries as having the

freest media norway and finland come out on top germany is no longer in the leading nations but is well ahead of the u.k. and some of the world's largest countries rank much lower india and china for example come in numbers 142 and 147 respectively last is the small east african country of it retrain it falling this year behind last korea. to football now where the backlash to the proposed european super league is growing from fans governments and also facials top clubs from england spain and italy once to form their old midweek 20 minutes separates 2 champions eat now the president of the year the of the european football governing body u.s.a.'s the proposal is quote disgraceful and self-serving close place but the civil league's chairman says it's been created to quote save the football something that he needs to say is crucial

and they have spiraling costs jewing the coronavirus pandemic. the so-called beautiful game is turning ugly leeds fans making it clear how they feel about the idea of a super league before the match with liverpool one of the cops involved the protests extended to the league's players. and football is for the fans their shirt stretch and even to the air but liverpool's own coach jurgen klopp says he's against the idea. no i don't think it's a great idea it's not a situation i heard today that i will resign or whatever so good. times get even tougher would ever be more. liverpool or one of 6 english clubs signed up alongside free from spain and 3 from italy they've been threatened with expulsion from the way for competitions you wait

for this president is not mincing his words. these idea is a speed in the face of all food bloggers and our society as well so we will not allow them. to take it away from us currently germany's biggest clubs in munich. not involved the report suggests that being courted if you want to follow ideas of a united football of us which we connect with football is football in future. maybe just like an enterprise. it's most important for the owners of the clubs to make as much money as they can on monday nights the super league chairman broke his cover round madrid florentino perez arguing the super league would benefit everyone . what we want to do is say football so that it can live peacefully for at least

the next 20 years without stress and without having to say 200000000 euros have been lost the situation is very dramatic i think. these fans would disagree with the savior attitude as they battle for the soul of again they laugh. at. their story they're. the people who survived the catastrophe remember. and they share private footage with us that has never been seen before. back to chernobyl sorts of people 26 on t.w. .