artists are telling me a lot of tops and. africa's population is. young people clearly have the solution to. the 77 percent. on monday germany's greens presented their chancellor candidate for the september election and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive today chancellor angela merkel's conservatives presented their candidate in the reaction was overwhelmingly underwhelming arming lush it today won the backing of his party's leadership but a 3rd did not vote for does he have what it takes to lead the conservatives to victory and to fill the shoes of. he says yes but he'll have to convince many in

his own party 1st that what they have in him is a winner and not a mistake i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. the size of i know that some people would have preferred a different result. i think at the time he's not my type and i don't see him as this is science if needed that i am hoping for and that we might meet. the kids as of now what counts is a huge priority has been sensitized to years for the future of our country has. been to well i would have preferred set down i don't think lashon will succeed in becoming chancellor themselves which. is const i mean bloodshed will be the chancellor candidates all parties. also coming up

sweden has one of the highest corona virus infection rates in western europe and yet it has shunned the lockdowns and never mandated wearing face masks tonight we look at sweden's pandemic path the path that many say should not have been taken if they make it much that everyone should make it and should away a mask that would be very important and maybe we could have passed on life. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states into all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the battered and bruised candid if he wants to become germany's next chancellor on monday night the leadership in chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. party voted in favor of making their leader arming law shit their chancellor candidate ahead of the national election in september the decision came after a week of wrangling between la shit and the other conservative who wanted to be the chancer candidate but very in gov mark whose zenaida lusha inserters spent the past

week fighting against each other details from their closed door meetings were often leaked making an unpleasant situation that much more unpleasant wash it emerged the winner a week winner wash it heads the conservative c.d.u. party yet a 3rd of the party's leadership did not vote for him to be the chancellor candidate one reason his unimpressive polling numbers among all voters if army mush it wants to take the reins from uncle americal in september he has a lot of convincing to do among the voters and among his own party members. he came out victorious from the conservative policy now i mean lush at once to focus on battling the potties. what counts from now on is which party has the best ideas to a country's future for me at 1st base who can pull together the best team to deal

with the challenges we're facing or disappear and that's why our party union this cd you and see is you need to head into this election campaign as a team this city you will not win this without this see is you and vice versa here . at team that from now on will be led by him in lash it back to ally carnival king and committed to a strong europe the 60 year old has been state premier of north wind of a scaly germany's most populous state for 4 years and was elected c.d.u. party leader in january. born in the western city of often close to the dutch and belgian borders russia does a former member of the european parliament and fluent in french for the most part his politics are moderate and have really reflect maquettes positions. the long and bruising power struggle within the conservative alliance only came to an end when his very and rival pulled out of the race i mean russian i called i mean lushington

congratulated him also offered him our full support in what i believe will be the extremely difficult election campaign ahead of us we will support him without any sense of resentment and with all of our strength i speak for myself as well as for my party the c.s.u. . the support of german voters however is something i mean lush it will have to work hard for in recent polls the majority do not believe he has what it takes to lead europe's biggest economy. as it is the apparent he's not my type and i don't see him as the decisive leader that i am hoping for and that we might need. i'm his just the other way around he's not determined enough. they conservatives andriy handling it well now they finally have a candidate but they don't even have a program what kind of procedure is that it's like getting

a driver's license but there's no cause and in law. is 5 months ahead of germany's federal elections i mean lashon now faces an uphill battle to defend the chancellery against the greens and succeed. or political correspondents i mean young joins me now simon has been following or mean last year on a rough and tumble way to becoming the conservative chancellor candidates good evening to you simon someone said that among the conservatives there was no best choice for a chancellor candidate they referred to armey lusha today as the cd use 2nd best choice is that what he is. well brant certainly he is as you mentioned the 2nd most popular in the polls of the 2 men who applied for the job but just to give a little bit of context what normally happens in an election year is that both of

these conservative parties get behind whoever is the c.d.u. leader and backs them to become german chancellor and in the past when that hasn't happened it's easily worked out badly for the conservatives so why didn't get immediate support will it comes down to this question of his popularity and indeed his personality i mean lash is not the sort of politician who easily lends a soundbite or who can sort of sway any crowd just with the force of the way he speaks he's often a bit bumbling he gets caught up in the details and seems uncertain at times in front of a microphone and during the pandemic for instance he's tried to strike out on his own he wanted to open up things rather more quickly than many members of the german public he seemed like a man who wanted to sort of set his own plan and paradoxically it seemed a bit weak. as a result and unfortunately for ahmed lashon he had

a strong contender a much more popular contender in the bavarian leader marcus but having said all that it's now won he won 3 to become c.d.u. later in january now he's he's won this battle if he can have some positive news in the months going ahead here in the campaign maybe he can assert himself more clearly and we know simon that army law should he was never groomed by chancellor angela merkel to be next in line and that says a lot considering that merkel has had 16 years to possibly think about who will follow her her party the c.d.u. was not going into the campaign on a very strong footing how much is to blame here. well of course grooming he's difficult because the incumbent leader never wants to bring anyone onto clearly that they might undermine their own position but i think the any leader he could serve as

a leader wanting to become chancellor has to think about what the legacy of angle americal means for them it may well be a question that plays with the votes has come in time in september it is sort of so it to be a continuous he candidate but also say that he's he stands for reform and something new sort of bit of both i think i'm glad machall has stayed out of this competition but you're right it's a rocky start but that may be a footnote as i say if lashing can convince people that he's he's what the country needs and in particular if there's positive knees on the pandemic you know i mean young with the leaves tonight here in berlin simon is always think you. president injuries debbie of chad has died just a day after winning elections which secured him a 6th term in office he was reportedly killed while visiting troops on the

frontline of a battle against a rebel group in little worth the army his name to davies son as interim head of state but the rebels have rejected that transition they are valen to march on the capital. residents of chad reacted with this belief to the televised announcement of president idriss debbie's death. on nazi. martial of chad idriss deby itnow as he did every time when the republic's institutions were seriously threatened not to go to heroic lead in a combat operation against terrorists who had come from libya. he was injured in the engagement and died after being brought back to. the news came just hours after he was declared the winner of the country's presidential election on april 11th.

that would have been the long term leader's 6th term in office that. it's sad news. that the presidential election took place calmly. and just a day after they announced his when they announced his death. was this news this very surprising. on a human level it is touching the water but there are rumors that the information disseminated by the transition council is false no. it wasn't. it is not known why debbee would have visited the frontline or participated in the clashes the exact circumstances of his death remain unclear and some observers question the military's narrative. following the announcement the military council deployed the army around the capital and imposed

a curfew it also just saw the country's government and parliament and name debbie's 38 year old son as transitional leader he heads the lead presidential guard that oversaw. his father's security. debbie was among the world's longest serving leaders but the herders son took the classic path to power through the army in 1990 his rebel forces overthrew that then president in a coup. during his 30 year rule he became a key ally of the west and supplied weaponry and soldiers to the anti jihadist campaign in the south region his unexpected death could spell the beginning of a new period of uncertainty and the deeply troubled region. the u.s. embassy in moscow says ambassador john sullivan is returning to washington for what it called consultations it's another sign of rising tensions connected to

a long list of disputes between washington and moscow there's the alleged russian meddling in u.s. elections to help the kremlin critic alexina balding and the recent massing of russian troops along the ukrainian border as it has done before ukraine is asking the u.s. and europe for a joint response ukraine's foreign minister demitra who labor wants more western economic sanctions against russia and he says the time to act is running out predicting that more than $120000.00 russian soldiers will be near his country's border by the end of the week ukraine's military has begun reinforcing its border presence here is the country's foreign minister earlier today. the cost of preventing the russia fill the escalation will always be lower than the cost of stopping it and mitigating its consequences and i hope our friends and partners understand that. it is way more effective to clearly make moscow understand that

a new stage of aggression will have dire consequences for russia. international isolation and painful and comic sanctions. but what can we realistically expect from the west especially from the u.s. mail that joe biden is president let's bring in jonathan katz from the german marshall fund he joins me tonight from washington it's good to see you again jonathan. what does washington make of the build up of russian troops near the border with ukraine well i think there's a deep concern in washington about the build up it's not only on the dons boss but it's also in the black sea see it as of crimea and i think there's increased concern of course today you saw that u.s. ambassador is coming back to washington for consultations the u.s. has been very clear about to be to deescalate this situation and i think that it washington we're taking it taking it very seriously right now that this is the

biggest military buildup they've seen since 2014 and i think everybody including both in washington brussels or the european side is taking it very seriously what can u.s. president biden do even with his allies because at the end of the day you know ukraine is not a member of nato. that's that's true and the president has said that the u.s. nato will not get involved militarily again this is about diplomacy it's about bringing russia to the conclusion that their actions if they decide to take it in in ukraine and it gets ukraine would be against its interests and so right now there's lots of consultations back and forth minister of foreign affairs of ukraine is correct that the u.s. does have tools in its tool belt including sanctions it can accelerate ukraine's nato membership process as well further excel orating euro landtag integration for

ukraine bringing it closer and so those are some of the things that we're seeing right now we are already saw last week with an introduction of new sanctions focused on a number of items which you mentioned the beginning including response u.s. elections response to concerns about headhunting and afghanistan's concerns about cyber cyber wins as well these are things that i think that the administration is contemplating right now thinking about but i think what we want to see right now in washington i think elsewhere is the escalation and unfortunately moscow in the kremlin is moving in the wrong direction well jonathan why should you graeme believe president biden when he says that there will be consequences if russia moves against ukraine biden also said that there would be consequences for saudi arabia over the murder of journalist jamal coup shogi and the world is still waiting for those consequences. yeah look the this administration from day one has

said that it was going to hold russia accountable for actions that took place over the last several years including i mention the cyber intrusion but also the elections of to ferret afghanistan and so it actually has a proven record of introducing sanctions ever responded to actions taken by the kremlin that were not only talking about what's taking place on ukraine's borders but we're also talking about what's taking place internally at russia as well and so i think there will be a response from the united states and from u.s. partners including in europe to what's taking place and that has happened before it happened even post 2014 when action was taken in crimea and in the ws for the us responded with sanctions and really led the effort to i think to push back on criminal actions that so i expect that it will take place in addition the u.s. has already under this administration continue to provide weapons to ukraine and

that's something that's important it's not only the united states that's doing that but it's other nato partners of the united states that are working to support ukraine security. john that i want to talk about alliances in a moment but 1st i want to listen in to what german chancellor angela merkel said today he had a council of europe video conference take a listen. in and. i have the impression that with north stream 2 we may be waging a conflict and that is much wind and touches upon the question of the extent to which we want to trade with russia especially in the energy sector by dutch and that the here in germany has decided to build new and strange to me but it's a political battle that many see differently and. didn't feel and the in jonathan americal in the past has regarded nord stream too as a matter of energy policy not a matter of geopolitics do you hear her beginning to shift her stance they are.

there is a number of items that berlin is increasingly concerned about one is clearly the situation on the border with ukraine where the chancellor has been clear about the need to deescalate and to step back but i also think the situation with the with meeting opposition figure valby is also of deep concern germany the fact that right now he cannot get the middle of medical attention that he needs he is one of over several 100 political prisoners in russia right now so i think there's a whole host of actions that russia russia has taken there of deep concern to the german government nordstrom to is one of those issues that's been on the table between transatlantic allies it's something that i know that the biting administration cares deeply about president biden that said that he opposes north stream to the u.s.

congress has spoken loudly on this and so there is a potential on both sides if any action is taken you can see a shift possible shift in the german government and i expect that the u.s. will continue to push hard of this issue if germany were to hold. to jonathan would that strengthen or weaken the western alliance these would be russia. well i think that you know the position has been out of concern about energy security in europe and about being reliant on russia as an energy supplier a supplier that in the past has cut off. energy resources when it suited its needs so i think from the perspective of the u.s. i think absolutely the north stream to project not going forward is seen as something that's positive been important for us in transatlantic security and energy security so absolutely. you mentioned the kremlin critic alexina ball that he is in

a hospital now after being transferred from his prison cell do you think western pressure had anything to do with that. but 1st of all i have 00 confidence that mr putin the kremlin will do the right thing in terms of mr ball these health i think there's many people here come to the conclusion that they would like to see that mr putin would like to see him dead and so i think there's no confidence here because his doctors and others are not allowed in and so right now we're relying on the kremlin which is locking political prisoners like mr to volunteer for this type of support this is the same government it just several months ago tried to poison and kill the leading opposition figures so i think that it's really it's important for the u.s. and others to keep focus on this all right jonathan katz with the german marshall fund joining us tonight from washington as always jonathan we appreciate your time in your insights thank you absolute.

most european countries have been relying on measures such as lock downs mask mandates and travel bans to keep infections down during the pandemic but sweden has taken a different path led by top epidemiologist unders take no who does not agree with lockdowns now that's turned the country into and away says freedom of sorts but sweden is now seeing a surge in coronavirus cases health authorities are urging people to follow their recommendations but will they listen to w.'s teri schultz reports. sweden seen as the land of sweet liberty for those chief ing against coronavirus closures curfews and mandatory masks while most of europe has been in various stages of lockdown over the last year swedes have been skiing shopping dining and drinking restrictions in swedish restaurants mean giving customers space and

closing at 8 pm i think we have taken away a round hole for the tables so we have one bank gun jimmy head waiter at the concern in a restaurant in stockholm says sweden's done it right. it's. even learn from czech republic become or taking it we were. just free to freedom the architect of this model state epidemiologist i understand now basically the same as many other countries produce it sounds like a different way of trying to do. maybe a bit more than novices to pinpoint what to do we need to close but tenuous different way has seen sweden record a far higher death toll than its closest neighbors finland and norway a comparison he rejects they all flyers sweden compare very much more true. or straight even germany and sweden these. $5.00 to $10.00 countries for at

least excess more targeted senora but sweden's care homes in particular were hit hard last year and still now hospitals warn intensive care units are nearly overwhelmed in december even the king said he thought the strategy had failed but techno stands by his recommendations he says the only problem with them is that people don't follow them take masks for example understand doesn't believe they're very effective so on public transportation riders are urged but not required to mask up during rush hours few appear to do. so some feel that's a failure of the government's 1000 communications strategy at least journalism professor christian christianson says the lax approach to mask wearing exposes inequalities in swedish society in danger especially minorities you're seeing people who are probably in lower paying jobs service industry jobs must take public transportation their trains in the morning day in day out with hundreds of people

in a small container i think it's reasonable to ask like you know might that not be possible public health problem if they make it more tighter that everyone should make you should wear a mask that would be very important maybe we could have spent some life through a new emergency law gives the government temporary power to impose a lockdown but it hasn't been used well polls show some swedes have lost faith in their country's approach to stuff lloyd blood isn't one of them he still trusts in ender's technology he represents like this different kind of way and crisis in the world we did it in a way where people still could have a lot of their freedom and for me freedom is really important i agree blood support isn't likely to fade quickly last year he immortalized the epidemiologist on his epidermis. on his epidermis well the day is almost done but the conversation

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this is the w. news live from berlin it took them less than a day jurors in the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek show been have reached a verdict within minutes we should know what the jury decided in the case of the death of george floor will their job and be found guilty of murder much of the world waiting to hear a decision that could also be a verdict on the state of the police and race relations in america 1st.

off it's good to have you with us it is a verdict that has the united states and much of the world waiting on edge just a short time ago we heard that the jury in the u.s. state of minnesota has reached a decision in one of the u.s. is most closely watched trials ever the question for the jury will they or won't they convict former police officer derek showman of 2nd degree murder for the death of george florey our correspondent stefan simons he is in minneapolis for us we go to him now stefan what does it tell us when a jury in a case like this a trial like this has reached a verdict in just one day. well common sense maybe and a few experts in law. all and litigation suggests that that. would mean that

this was a fairly clear cut deal now remember those jurors had tremendous job a huge task because they had to get away with all the bias with opinions they had pre-formed or form during the trial had to recollect remember evidence and then here and there ask questions they didn't ask one question stay took their notes with their deliberated for 10 hours total over 2 days 4 hours yesterday and 6 hours today and came back with a verdict so this suggests apparently a good outcome for the prosecution and not so promising outcome for the defense and with that for derek shelf and now however this is not legal reading into tea leaves but that's what experts say it could be could be can also be the other way what i can tell you is that you can grab literally almost the tension and the the

excitement. not necessarily happy excitement but but tension and nervousness here in the air in minneapolis there's a steady stream of people going to the hennepin county government center which you see behind me here there's a lot of press of course we had talked about that yesterday and when it all started from all over the world from all over the united states and of course local press too so everybody is like a cat in front of a hole where the mouse it's now a moment and this is going to be some really tense minutes here for sure and it's different you were there in minneapolis in may of last year right after george. died in you know how palpable the tension was then compare that to what you're seeing and experiencing right now in minneapolis. it's nowhere near where it was last year it's very much challenge. chat channel what i mean by this

is that there are many organizations many groups of many people who are even last year had a bit of a problem with the whole streets and every building right and left a blaze and ransacked and looted. this is not it doesn't look like this will happen again and when i say this i say it doesn't look like it can why can't it because if there is no verdict. kind of verdict the masses see it the black community here expects to be if this is not guilty verdicts a substantial guilty verdict that means more than just manslaughter with has a maximum sentence of 10 years if it's not that then i guess anger bitterness frustration. and and yeah all bad energy you can possibly come up with could erupt immediately again this is for the black community not just in minneapolis but here in minneapolis and in l.a. and other metropolitan areas across the united states in this country this is

a thing about. justice for the black community for black people for african-americans here in the justice system even when it comes to police were telling the when it comes to equality all ok in a phone system you hold on to find places it would say we want to go inside the courtroom for the verdict reading. all rise for the jury. that's about to be read in the trial of the former minneapolis police officer you saw him standing there derek show the judge has just walked in asked everyone to stand as the jury is walking in the judge. all right let's listen in.

members of the jury i understand you ever. remember the jury i will read the verdicts as they will appear in the permanent records of the 4th judicial district state of minnesota county of hennepin district court 4th judicial district state of minnesota plaintiffs versus derek michael show defendant verdict count one court file number 27 c.r. 201-2646 we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one unintentional 2nd degree murder while committing a felony by the defendant guilty verdict agreed to this 20th day of april 2021 at 1 44 pm signed your foreperson juror number 19.

same caption verdict count 2 we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count 2 3rd degree murder perpetrating an eminently dangerous act find the defendant guilty verdict greed to this 20 if they have april 2021 at 1 45 pm signed by a jury foreperson journal or 19. same caption verdict count 3 we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count 3 2nd degree manslaughter culpable negligence creating an unreasonable risk by the defendant guilty verdict agreed to this 20 if they have april 2021 at 1 45 pm jury foreperson 01. members of the jury i'm not going to ask you individually if these are your true and correct verdicts please respond yes or no journey over to are these your true and correct verdicts. german 9 are these your true. yes german 19 are these your true. journal 27 are these your drink or.

journal and these are. you have a german duty to are these your true and you know journal or 55 are these your true and correct verdicts yes. journalists every night in these. journal or 85 of these birds. journal 89 this year. if journal or $91.00 of these huge room were birds yes germinating 2 are these your true and. these are really those the ones with the wall yes. i find that verdict as read reflect the will of the jury and will be filed accordingly i have to thank you all behalf of the people of the state of minnesota for not only jury service but heavy duty jury service and i'm going to ask you to do now is to follow the deputy back into your usual room and i will join you in

a few minutes to answer questions and to advise you further solve all rise for the jury. and you. you're watching the w. news this is our coverage of the verdict reading a former minneapolis police officer derek shove and he has been found guilty on all 3 charges that include 2nd degree manslaughter 2nd degree murder and 3rd degree murder the jury has just been led out of the courtroom and now let's listen in to what the judge is saying today that will order a p.s.a. immediately returnable in 4 weeks and we will also have briefing after you get the p.s.i.i. 6 weeks from now and then 8 weeks from now we will have sentencing we'll get to the

exact dates. in a scheduling order as a motion to have the state. to have the court to the funds into custody. bill is revoked bond is discharged and the defendant is remanded to the custody they have a county sheriff and then further. thank you. ok and there you have it the verdict has been read guilty on all 3 counts against derek serving there yes he's going to be taken away he will be staying in jail waiting and in 8 weeks the sentencing will be read for derek shogun guilty in the murder of george ford. let's go outside the courthouse there to our correspondent stefan saunders he is covering this story for stefan i can hear the horns behind you that there is approval of this verdict. yes absolutely

celebratory honking here go lower right and left. trucks pickup trucks driving by a black life matter of flags and so on this crowd here which you can really see in my background now will swell over the next few hours that is. for those people definitely a proud and and a very happy moment i don't think that they're really actually thought that he will be guilty on all 3 counts given their experience with the injustices they experienced in the justice system whenever a black ever never white person or a police officer for that matter was then the cue to do something wrong against a black person now but this is exactly what happened in this trial that the blue wall the so-called blue wall this cancun off of silence of some supporting and

helping in the shielding police officers who are alleged to have something done something wrong that didn't just crack it crumbled the entire minneapolis police department leadership senior executive leadership spoke against derrick chauvelin what he did and how he did this so people here you can camera can go over there max if you would show the so this is going to be what it's going to be now for the next 3 hours and this is just a small crowd that's the beginning the infancy of what we probably will see now for a few hours and it's just about. you know what we're seeing right now these are people who are going to be celebrating this verdict and you know just a few minutes ago there was a real concern that these people were going to be protesting if the verdict had gone the other way and that the protests the. become violent i mean it is a completely different expectation than what a lot of people have right. here i mean i would call it a common sense or i would at least suggest that there's no reason now to loot or

or buildings in on fire or to seek confrontations with police police law enforcement they will be present they are present he is this they are trying to keep a low profile and not be visible at those. one thing is very clear does people are very happy now they're satisfied with this verdict or with it with the verdicts but make no mistake they're in the for the long haul that is george floyd justice for george floyd that is justice for them but they want to see now reforms not just one police officer one bad apple being. charged and found guilty they want to see reform in the justice system when it comes to how they are policed who is their police who have the latest case just from last week right not one police officer in this district of minneapolis in brooklyn center actually

lives there so they all from outside there's no connection to the to the community this is what those people actually want this is what they say they need to actually stop anything like what derrick showing did and the george floyd case symbolizes the that's what they need to stop this for good yeah it's almost as if we were sitting on a ticking time bomb that has been disowned is that accurate way of describing the tension in the united states so you nailed it. you nailed it you nail it this is just minneapolis think about l.a. next week 30 years and ever so you wrote me king beating and the the resulting rights of there are 30 years so this is an experience the black community african-american community all over america. it's not just since george floyd i don't want to belittle what happened to george floyd but again it is it is something which it goes on for decades and i think really something broke here

something changed as a paradigm change we talked about paradigm change last year when we were when when george floyd happened in after the violence and. riots here and everywhere in the world in the united states so this will be ongoing process in the united states and yes all over the united states law enforcement authorities have prepared for a very very very different outcome of this trial here now maybe everybody gets away with peace and happiness see it today and the next days but you know maybe the next thing is around the corner again and then we could be right where we were before this verdict was read now ok hold on standby just one moment i want to check with my producer we're going to stay in minneapolis right now ok so stefan let's continue talking a told us a little bit through what you just described what you're seeing right now. sorry you have to repeat this. and really talk us through telling us what you're

seeing right now what are you seeing right now now that the bird has been ready.