demick it is at the same time debating almost nothing else but the leadership struggle within the conservative c.d.u. aman laughs at its leader clearly they're eager to start fighting other parties and stop the infighting but it has been very bruising indeed leading members of the party came out and in favor of marcos he conceded defeat but not without stressing that he had a lot of grassroots support particularly and his party secretary general stating that he would have been the candidate of the heart so we're still quite away from harmony within the c.d.u. an ominous it faces a bit of an uphill struggle here we'll come back to you in a minute but 1st let's have a look at this if you kind of a. little more detail. merkel 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 lashon 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 me can you go to all my candidacy is from my understanding of the german chancellor ship which 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 solutions to every problem that is a global one. group bollen all smiles but how can we move to lot of rather lose. the 60 year old ryan plan this commitment to europe has been years in the making. born in the western city of afrin close to the dutch and belgium borders blush it is a former member of the european parliament and fluent in french his family even claims

to be descendants of charlemagne founder of the holy roman empire. across the atlantic he wants to push for more cooperation with the u.s. particularly on climate and trade policy some of his comments on russia syria and china however have raised eyebrows in just one instance in 2014 his warnings against demonizing russian president vladimir putin for the annexation of crimea and him the title of course land fish they are from some critics a derogatory term for people who take a soft stance on putin's russia as leader of the german federal state with the closest ties to china concerns about protecting german export industries have also led to his more lenient stance towards the world's 2nd largest economy drawing allegations that he puts business interests above security for the large part however his politics a moderate center ground and merkel less making him a longtime ally to the chancellor that was until the cove in 1000 pandemic despite

merkel's repeated calls for unity from state leaders lash it has often opted for a looser interpretation of measures to tackle the pandemic but poll crisis communication has seen his popularity plummet with vytas not only in his home state stability and continuity used to be the key to success among german vytas now it seems lash it will need to be more than just the final and merkel if he wants to fill his shoes in the chancellor. so what are his chances then of actually succeeding. chancellor. well his conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. still stands solid in the polls ask the strongest party as we speak and we also have seen in the latest poll coming out that the infighting didn't cost the cd you bought the big question now is with marco suvir who was just defeated having hold

a lot better than i am in lost it in the past will he be able to turn the tide will he be able to position himself with the voters and also 1st of all with the grassroots within his own cd huge party he is seen as we saw in that report as something of a male macko he stands for continuity and when he faced the press just a few hours ago he also stressed that in this city you must remain a centrist party while there was a very strong conservative wing that called for more conservative in back in that conservative block that is still a vocal group in the party so it's not going to be easy for. particularly because the greens very unlike what they're known for are presenting a very united front at this moment in time but has praised the transparency of the procedures in his statement earlier but you said voters. didn't mind so much are

german voters just ready to get on with it. well you also spoke of involuntary transparency because a lot from that very bruising meeting was leaked directly to the press i think it's still an open question whether the germans will forgive lightly that the. party was after all is in government right now spends an entire week in the midst of the 3rd wave of the pandemic the most dangerous one talking about itself rather than how they want to deal with this pandemic right now how they want to prevent hospitals from filling up that was heavily criticized also this is certainly lack of kerosene that aman loss it still is working against he will have an uphill struggle and he will have to prove that he has what it takes he goes into this as someone who's on the defensive rather than riding high in the opinion polls it's an uphill struggle

for him. politically. thank you michel let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world germany's chancellor angela merkel has said she is very concerned about the health of jails russian opposition leader alexander valley call for him to receive adequate medical treatment statement follows with that of all he was on the brink of death of this week's on hunger strike. great health crisis of activists pitted. the global community to a dress code 19 vaccine inequality calling the world's most vulnerable to be prioritised to back has also donated 100000 euros to the seeds for global access to vaccines. weekend european drug regulator the e m a will issue a new recommendation later on the use of johnson and johnson's see it's reviewing a small number of cases of blood clots among vaccine recipients in the u.s.

he previously said it believes the benefits of the short outweigh the risks. the protesters took to the streets of the u.s. city of minneapolis on monday evening as the city braces for the jury's decision in the trial of. a white former police officers charged with the murder of a black man george floyd the jury concluded its 1st day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. to the central african republic of china now where the army says president address to be has died just one day after he was declared the winner of elections that secured him a 6th term in office to be was it 40 killed while visiting troops on the frontline of a battle against more than rebels the 68 year old came to power in a rebellion in 99 he was one of africa's longest serving leaders i'm joined by our west africa correspondent fred who has just returned from chad after covering those

elections fred this is a shocking development what more can you tell us. yeah that's correct it's really shocking because i mean it doesn't last night announced the results that he warned almost 80 percent of the votes and then. there announce he's did the it's really sure and then what is more shocking news to hear that himself was on their feet i mean who does not who is the president that we have hired in recent times and had to go in the butterfield and then we hear that he has died on the bus to feed so it's really shocking but also there have been such rumors people have been saying that probably this this president he was not going to finish this town he's. so good at the sense there's any foul play involved. yeah definitely because

that's really when they're in charge and i was talking to some of the people on there we're seeing there with do you believe in that he's not going to finish. but again you're just wondering why would anyone seeing such a thing but there is a feeling there is a sense. was there what actually probably they are the ones behind instead of their bonds as it has been announced by the army because really no one can tell how if you want to connect how the people way out actually talking about here is poor simple remove war in this town and what has just happened suddenly there is a sense that this could be definitively the fall so who will take power now the army. his son that he is his son.

he's actually announced this event this in time actually near the same time president idriss deby came to power in 1980 his work this again in coal mines. in the military he's seen as the most powerful i mean after i mean after his father was and just died so he's the one now going to read the transitional. government for it what does that mean for the whole region that. i'm in the whole region this ahead he's already in town more days. these days and child was initially seen as one of the 5 countries that actually was trying their business to fight back but now when did did all the president in these did he

now it's right in going to west in this situation and then of course the child inside of the country this is the beauty of the country itself is i'm afraid that is going to be what it was. during his west africa correspondent fred mooney thank you fred you're watching the news still to come how to capture and clean up the growing mass of space junk now the european space agency will send out the trash collectors to solve the problem. but 1st new cases of the coronavirus are rampaging across india and the world's 2nd largest populations now struggling with inadequate supplies such as hospital beds and oxygen tanks to keep people alive now delhi has declared a 6 day locked up in a desperate attempt to gain traction and slow the spread of the virus and its variants. india's grave diggers have never been busier.

as clover 1000 goes on the rampage the dead keep coming. crim a tory or 2 are inundated with arrivals in some cases dealing with 3 or 4 times more bodies than usual. relatives left to endure agonizing waiting times. we've been waiting out here since 9 am now it's 1 pm and we still have to wait another 2 or 3 hours for our turn there are only 2 furnace is here and since morning we've been waiting and there are hundreds of people like us also waiting here. in the capital delhi is the worst affected city police enforcing the 6 day lockdown check that only essential workers are on the move and that business is remain

closed in an attempt to stop a rampant virus. among the recent cases former prime minister manmohan singh has been hospitalized after testing positive. as health experts monitor the trend there are concerns that india might be facing a new variant of the virus. increasing across india more often the thing that what might be happening is that something that is. moving through the population of people who are yet to cause infection and therefore spreading fast. following criticism that it failed to stop the spread the indian government now says every adult will be eligible for a vaccine from may. a desperate attempt to stop

a sweeping virus that's leaving a seemingly endless trail of death. now looking beyond our planet's horizon the increasing amount of trash is all wincing scientists say the amount of space junk there is massive and potentially dangerous this week european experts discussing new plans on us deal with space debris including sending us a new fleet of orbital trash collectors. earth is slowly being wrapped in a cloud of debris experts estimate that nearly 130000000 pieces of scrap metal are currently orbiting our planet most are only if you know meters in size but there are also tanks rocket stages and old satellites because of their high speed even small fragments have the potential to cause significant damage as a result space junk is now being monitored radar and laser systems can see

objects between 5 and 10 centimeters large they can also show where the debris is located if a collision is imminent satellites and even the space station can be programmed to change course to avoid the debris but your medical asians have already occurred more than once like in 2009 when a discarded satellite crashed into a telecommunications satellite that was still in use this created a cloud of thousands of pieces of debris today this junk still circles the earth and space debris like this could cause further collisions leading to an uncontrollable chain reaction. now it's why researchers and engineers have decided to clean up the trash in the earth's orbit. they want to catch tumbling satellites with huge nets from a safe distance like catching fish in the ocean their goal is to pull the space

junk out of the danger zone researchers have already conducted initial tests. the european space agency is working on robotic systems that can grab satellites and they'll push them towards the earth until they burn up in the atmosphere in 2025 scientists will launch clear space once a demonstration satellite it will capture a drifting $100.00 kilo rocket stage bring it out of orbit and burn up with it as they descend to earth. clear space one will be the 1st step towards space junk disposal of a more on that when are joined by the nasa physicists that the german aerospace center so how soon will we get these a trash collector robots and how dangerous is this. it will we will 1st see did the demonstration 1. 125

and after natalie have to to see whether there is actually commercial business for example. activities to be because there is need of course someone to to find. every. indeed did did every is is is dangerous and what you want to do with these activities is to to develop technologies to remove large objects from space because if large objects are you strong very naturally they create a lot of a lot of new green earth. whiteley's these kind of activities of can we catch it all i mean there's an awful lot of it. floating around that. no i mean what what what can be done is to really remove the most dangerous objects and these are large objects massive objects as are hundreds having. no metric tons in lower earth

orbit because these other sources of new devery if they would collide still go least remove these lot of the moment be able to catch all jets and space those debts just. so we're not in the way forward about one crash roughly 10 in 10 years ago that's not really very much so how. much sense does it make to spend all that money to send a crew up there. good it's a good question from simulations weeks these kinds of crashes statistically every 5 to 10 years so we already. have for the next for next crash still just speak. and the idea would really be to remove only don't object which almost sounds at it in which at the highest potential to create a lot of degree it's also from an economic point of view it's doesn't make sense to

try to move all objects from across base model emmett's that and as a physicist at the german air space center thank you for thank you. to football now where the backlash to a proposed european super league is growing from fans government officials 12 top clubs from england spain and italy want to form their own midweeks ornaments separates us 1st champions league president of the governing body of european football has called on the english clubs in particular to come to their senses of the super league's chairman says the tournaments has been created to quote save football. 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 clubs involved the protests extended to the elite players earn it and football is for the fans their

shirts threat 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 or today that i will resign or whatever so good. times get even tougher would ever be more than. a year liverpool are one of 6 english clubs signed up along side 3 from spain and 3 from italy they've been threatened with expulsion from the way for competition this president is not mincing his words. these sadia is a speed in the face of all food. and our society as well so we will not allow them. to take it away from us currently germany's biggest

clubs by in munich and brasil dortmund are not involved the report suggests that being courted that we want to follow our ideas of the united football of us which we connect with football or is football in future. mainly just like an enterprise. it's most important for the owners of the clubs to make as much money as they can on monday night to see if the leaks chairman broke his cover round madrid florentino perez arguing the super league would benefit everyone. and it was worth it 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 as we don't think. these fans would disagree with the savior attitude as they battle for the soul of again they laugh. fisa president john and johnny infantino added his voice to the

growing up to the post super league speaking at the us our meeting in frontin infantino said fifa strongly disapproved of the break we're told him and hinting at consequences for those involved if song. elects. to go their own way. then they must live. with the consequences of their choice either he or even. you cannot be house. or house. what you need of your news here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you germany's governing conservative blog cause agreed on a single come to the full chop suey c.d.u. and the c.s.u. bought his. unified backing. in the september and his rival model so that i can see the race and the public battle within germany's conserves if system.

child's president hundreds. died while visiting troops battling all the rebels to be's death becomes shortly after he won a 6 in all shapes the 16 year olds came to college in the rebellion of 91 of africa's longest serving me. and india seeing its worst surge in corona virus cases delhi has entered a snap 6 stay locked up new infections and deaths skyrocket the new variants overloaded hospitals are making the situation even more difficult. you know we knew still to come in to. the founders of this group in pakistan forces the government to consider expelling the french ambassadors of the countries is it appeasement or democracy of what.

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