77 percent now every week on d w. this is. from india has just 6 days to turn an increasingly increasingly desperate situation around. as a snap lock down as new covert 19 cases rise sharply in the city a new variant an overload of hospitals are making things worse also on the show who will succeed. her c.d.u.

party's leadership. in his bid to run for chancellor in september's elections but the power struggle isn't over yet man has divisions in germany's governing conservative. pushback against a new football super league is growing with many officials and fans voicing their opposition. says it's the only way to save the school. come to the program india's capital delhi is going into a 6 day lockdown as authorities contend with a huge surge uncovered 19 cases then his chief minister says the city's health system has reached its limits and harsh measures are needed to prevent its collapse the number of 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 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 a 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 fuelling 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 desist then many more will find themselves in the same tragic situation. joined now by professor got a minute from the shocking of a city. near delhi professor india just registered its biggest ever increasing coronavirus cases with more than a quarter of a 1000000 in a single day so what's driving this as far as we know this increase in cases has been driven by newbury and that is one bit in the specific to india b $1.00 which started in the theater by russia and india and that seems to be

driving a lot of the cave but there are other variants and in addition there's a u.k. variant in that it also the brazilian some pieces of which have been reported throughout the country and so it seems as though there is one likely one dominant theory and which is the 617 variant but there are other there into the world that we should be concerned what you tell us about this new variant that's been found in india there . so this new variant has 2 important mutations and these new creations are both known to lead to improvement in the binding the blade is to cells and so that in place they become bored infected automatically the more infected in addition and that's a little more wiring dissuaded me sure what is called units keep that is it's able to evade the antibody that have been created by a private infection of a vaccination we don't know the extent to which immune asleep is important for this data but it certainly is a very important thing to know at the moment and sounds very worrying and it also

seems like more and more young people are getting 6 now how concerned are you about that. it's not completely clear from the numbers it seems as though we're people are still a substantially more distant than the people but it's true that this is also been the pattern with multiple waves in different countries that the older people are usually more to student firstly and the 2nd wave in the river to younger people get infected so this is worrying because it's the only people who wouldn't spread the infection to older people and we're seeing an absolute explosion of people throughout the country and it's a little worrying to think about what might be happening in the next week to 10 days so india is the world's leading maker of vaccines in terms of numbers how how is the country's own inoculation program going so far. currently the vaccinated we've distributed about 127000000 doses of vaccine but only about 17000000 people have received the full quarter of 2 that the will be or all the vaccine that we have to do that so that's still a fairly small number but the rate of vaccination have slowed down

a little bit over the last few days at the peak we were doing it on $4000000000.00 the emissions somewhere between 2.5 and 3000000 per day we would need close to that needed on 10000000 people play date to get to the number of about 300000000 by all of this which with our target. professor got some analysts thank you very much for the subject. thank you. now let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today former u.s. vice president walter mondale has died at age 93 he was 2nd in command during the carter administration and the champion of the democratic party's liberal wing. own bid for the presidency ended in a landslide defeat to ronald reagan in 1984 will make. chad's president's address deby has won a 6th term in office spending his 30 year rule

a position leaders boycotted the vote it comes as the military said it had defeated a rebel group advancing on the capital the capital. germany's chancellor angela merkel said she is very concerned about the health of jailed russian opposition leader lives in a valley and call for him to receive adequate medical treatment statement follows with posts that have ali was on the brink of death after 3 weeks of hunger strike. and we have some breaking news just coming in germany's conservative bloc has agreed on lush it to be its candidates for chancellor in the country's upcoming elections this fall is rival markers or conceded the race just moments ago so let's go straight to our chief political correspondent chief political editor rather for this big news there the city of finally seems to have an undisputed candidate to succeed is that true. yes although undisputed

it was a bumpy road to this we just heard michael souter the leader of the much smaller c.s.u. system party of angular machall is mighty conservative c.d.u. party essentially concede defeat in a competition that really wasn't formal it was a very informal bruising competition where marcos zuda questioned whether i should really be in pole position to be on the ticket pointing towards those opinion polls here in germany which have seen marco sudha continuously in the lead for some time said will have quite a bit of bouncing back to do there was also a late night session which even saw one of i'm going to america's closest allies german economics minister i had my eye back to do it and then do a turnaround today so a lot of bruising stuff a lot of noise to come to the point which was seen as a given that the c.d.u.

is also on the ticket to become chancellor candidate you know stay with us we'll come back to you in a moment let's 1st have a look at this if you can to do it in more detail. americal ally carnival king committed european there are many faces to lash it but does he have what it takes to be german chancellor according to lash of his position a state premier of north rhine-westphalia germany's most populous state and his victory to get there is proof enough his election a c.d.u. party leader in january 2021 put him in prime position to run for chancellor backed by the city's top brass sais he aspires to make the 20 twentieth's a decade of modernization for germany. my only carried out to all my candidacy from my understanding of the german chancellor ship is

a european one is. the whole of europe is watching to see how germany finds new leadership at this time and we need multilateral solution.