and i'm going to tell the time when it comes to being as i know of course always look right in the eyes for a chance perhaps the biggest guns a new hobby of mine i'm going to prove i love to be in the news better up there isn't there a call when you feed him the giving realize that coach is just another way of never they are you ready to meet them to have and then join me right just do it. this is the. second wave of the. prime minister. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against coronavirus. the situation was under control. but the.

storm. that you could join us just. thought it had beaten the us but now the country is one of the worst in the wild it's experiencing a devastating resurgence of the pandemic but the number of new cases breaking records almost daily. also means more. families have to cope with the loss of loved ones. some states like. to control the rise in cases. to flee to cities for their homes. and the country's. many. reporting

a shortage of stocks. and other political leaders have been accused of allowing the virus to spread out of control they're permitted huge political rallies and a hindu festival to go ahead when it was clear infections was. calling on the public to abide by destructions to save the country from an economically devastating nationwide. we have to save our country from going into a complete lockdown and i. urge the state governments to consider lockdowns only as a last resort. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against coronavirus. few weeks ago the situation was under control. but then this 2nd

pandemic wave came in like a storm on the ground and it's a storm that's being a cure. for hospitals with health infrastructure on the verge of collapse the city government has announced. deserted roads. looks just like it did in 2020 at the beginning of india's hoshyar. except now. the daily beast mode is much worse. the national capital has been put on a 6 day lockdown and silence remains again. but delhi's largest over the hospital is a different story even while it is stretched to capacity patients continue to be.

many delegates of those admitted here to camp out right outside the hospital they prefer to be close to their loved ones instead of traveling around. these 2 men have spent the last few days together they met on saturday when both their husbands were admitted with symptoms. to do with set out at 9 am looking for help after being turned away from 3 hospitals she finally found a bed for her husband here 18 hours later. told he's only 33 and even someone like him developed such severe symptoms so suddenly that we thought he stopped breathing so someone with preexisting conditions will be much worse off dina lohan was told her husband could not get the dialysis he needed because he had called with symptoms. she struggled to find a hospital which could treat him for board as he ran out of bread. is it i'm not

worried about myself i just want my husband to be well like he was i don't want anything more i have nobody other than him and my 2 children. both men are doing better now getting admission to a hospital is all the deal with tree during this. india is part of beautiful thing over 200000 here for every day several states are reporting what started in a hospital bed oxygen and even medicine it's probably the worst hit 50 in the country. the delhi government is now converting stadiums and schools like this one into covert facilities to combat the shortage of beds each of the $125.00 beds in this government school will be supplied with oxygen $1500.00 more beds are planned doctors here tell us that these are not foot intensive care the hope is that of patients who can be shifted off but observation and monitoring critical care beds

in hospitals can be freed up struggling to believe still is trying very hard to maintain the pace the infection i mean the speed of the spirit and i don't. plan is to control the speed of it so that the infrastructure of the health care facility. and the lord is clearly immense this 1500 bed hospital is full yet this man suffering from that listeners need help he's also to wait in delhi's fight to help people like him the next few days off lockdown. will be critical. for more i'm joined now by dr rajiv shah he was the president of the indian medical association and recently and joins me from near delhi in yemen and dr shah my bones come in now you've seen the impact of the coronavirus in india up close why are we seeing this

case is. so full. of you know the. and frankly we let guard down people park had a false sense of security that just don't something and elections happening in big big good alleys and villages gathering. and my amounts are being led to the surge and we have such big fertility. and also mutations of a lot of situation we're just waiting. to talk a bit about these mutations we've heard about these double mutations vetter being detected in india are these more infectious then earlier versions of this virus yet this team would want to be but if it didn't

especially when they used time the super spreaders last year that you took not much affected but this time we have seen you mortality rate in the younger people of so and in some cases even in children. and their dog wouldn't have been detected to be done about one leader didn't tell and on. and later the 40 foot he was also the director. on willett chose to state elections as 12 were to be going big week. you were talking earlier about people letting their guard down are wondering if the government to let its got down given that you were talking about these various elections also and religious gatherings that were allowed to progress my 1st treatment was we let our guard down we thought the health police prepared and. we were not really admitting we have

seen shortage of drugs oxygen and. again the government has wanted to do more to their names makeshift hospitals. but what is the reason you think that the government did not take the longest time if i can call it that between some time last year and this year in march when the cases were not so much as now why didn't the government take this time to prepare i think some of the overall sense of all the confidence that they didn't manage number lending that. spreads it is no families it's a huge community spirit. people are getting older. but a lot of people are declaring his legacy and actually we had worked as far as what

we buy but. give me your honest opinion doctor and this is something i ask of you because you walked in there for so many years and you also headed it's a body of doctors again in their fight this current wave. of definite seeing the biggest effect of india is that. other villages and now in the private sector in last year it was the fear take courses and only going to the for this this time but i would take the time when people are not i mean beds and are already working overtime and be concluded based . on immediately i think 2 to 6 weeks we should step in and control of medicines and vaccines. because that everything was. normal and fully before yesterday in the meeting the plan was to be thin delays that drugs

in the states allowing more spirits to have for today. and today that is available off the shelf at a cost. but then a lot of the vaccine supply the stocks are running out and many vaccination centers . or they're given our case by eminent human reason to all of it nucular infinity and then they come to company that even under good candidates of the. sole . mission of the because now we don't even need a group has been the word we. what would you say is needed most at this time in india to fight the 2nd bridge. what is most needed is whatever the my i do must not forget or do on might not do. and people have to relate that mocking and hand hygiene is still the best medicine

. or. prevention is better than cure what sort of fighting do we leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to a doctor or other trauma past president of the indian medical association. and that's all from news asia for today will even though with some images from india which as you heard is gottlieb roughing the severe wave of the cold a lot of. you can check out all the soldiers on the. show on facebook i'm stressed out there but tomorrow if you have a. spine

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new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 get the map. no. there are so must go on has been the macsyma berlin's cultural scene since the start of the covert 900 pandemic over a year ago and as a result certain industries are booming we'll see how that works and also coming up . a sober birthday for her royal highness queen elizabeth the 2nd on wednesday as the monarch turns 95 just 4 days after prince philip's funeral. and german artist jesse strictures work may look like casually misplaced clothes

and undergarments but on closer inspection they're all made of solid wood. welcome to arts and culture cinemas theaters and concert halls may still be closed but one thing can be said of berlin the cameras are rolling as a film location the german capital is positively booming historic production studios in books booked out months in advance and that despite the otherwise chaotic handling of the 2nd and 3rd waves of the pandemic in germany. the backlog. looks quiet but behind the scenes where we're not allowed to shoot things are as busy as ever production is in full swing a year after cold in 1000 shut down everything at berlin's biggest film studio. that year ago we were stunned. every production was suspended the international

filmmakers who were here fled the country. and we were full literally every square centimeter of the studio was filmed and suddenly there was nobody there and of course no one knew how things could continue. but while the berlin government stumbled from lock down to. albert was able to press restart and finish production on big blockbusters including the 4th matrix film starring keanu reeves . there are there are. 3. of you and for that i have him we have at least 3 big films this year and 2 big series or streaming services which are great for the workload because they stay a lot longer to the for the toys and reza feeling that there's no escape from here and canada reads is coming back to berlin the summer promising to shoot up the german capital in the 4th film in the john wick action franchise. is

a need there's never been so much in production as there is right now we can't find crews this year because there's never been as much filming in germany as there is right now the moment. you can't walk 2 blocks in berlin these days both stumbling over a film set like this one for german t.v. epic battle on berlin. the show's producers had 3 series on the go when covert at. german romantic comedy i'm your man even managed to shoot a packed and maskell scene in both house berlin the city's 1920 s. dance club. ah ha 80 extras dancing with each other flirting kissing each other plus a crew of at least 30 people plus the actors but we did it under strict corona conditions. but in good times and.

producers think what's worked for film and television could work for the rest of the city's cultural sector if the government gives theaters cinemas and clubs the chance to reopen. politicians maybe they do not have the time to hear the card for the sector right now just because you know the cinemas the theaters everybody has a concept to go back to work right now. for the moment fans of berlin's legendary nightlife will have to make do with these small screen versions but for the city's film and television industry the party is just getting started. very impressive indeed and joining me to talk about this is our film guru scott roxboro great to see you scott some incredible activity there how have film and t.v. industries in germany managed to get back to production levels that actually.

prepared to make standard. yeah well i mean i guess you could say the film industry probably enough got creative the film and t.v. industry in germany i mean they were the absolute 1st industry to really apply scientific coded safety measures across the board so we're talking about testing about the the latest the mit using the latest medical knowledge and applying it to sort of work protocols and then they did it in the way though that without restricting the type of stories that they wanted to tell so they didn't make any compromises on the narrative so if you take the example that film we just saw i'm your man that opens with that amazing scene in boat house berlin with people dancing kissing and and flirting and that's without mass without social distancing and they were able to do that one of the creative things the producers did in order to do that under code it was they cast actual couples to be the dancers dancing extras so to restrict the number of total households they had and their more reduce the infection rate describe for us the logistics of how

a production like bobbing on from berlin for instance also with hundreds of extras actually operates. yeah it all sort of comes down to sort of isolation and testing so everybody on sac it's tested every day and then your big stars and the most important of the crew like this in a photographer there quarantined in a hotel for the entire shoot then what they do is they have sort of isolated groups for the crew a little bubbles that don't mix at all so if one person in the bubble gets infected they can isolate that bubble but the whole production keeps going on is a really incredibly effective way to keep producing but it's incredibly expensive i talked to one producer who said producing other code it adds another 10 to 15 percent of the budget ok one can imagine so germany is in industry has things more or less under control how does this compare with other film industries around the world scott. yeah it's very different country to country so in countries where the

covert levels are really lower or nonexistent so new zealand australia china now they've got back to business as usual the picture in europe is quite mixed it's still very very difficult to produce shows that cross borders because of the differences in different countries but some people do it it's still know who produced babylon berlin they just finished a t.v. crime show that they produced with a company in norway and they were able to safely if the show's called furia and they were able to safely go back and forth across borders between scandinavia and berlin with their past and crew and to do so successfully they did it right in the middle of the 2nd big cold wave in europe in last winter very very impressive hollywood they've got safety measures in place but the problem in hollywood is the producers are finding it difficult to get into private insurance to cover them so they're coming to germany to get where here in germany they have health insurance the government's coming to support them face very much for that background hopefully other industries can learn from the success and thanks for bringing us that back story thought roxboro in bonn. well on

a saturn note the death of prince philip on april 9th has left a huge void in the life of britain's queen elizabeth the 2nd and after 73 years of marriage how could it not thoughts go to her on her 95th birthday barely 4 days after his funeral and still within the 2 week period of official mourning traditionally celebrations of her birthday are held in june but all public festivities seem to have also been cancelled for the 2nd year in a row. a life devoted to the crown born and 926 she is senator thrown in 1952 since then she has ruled with a constant hand queen elizabeth the 2nd is presidents longest reigning monarch. a lifetime for the queen. seems to be a lot. of these days and prince.

were raised with this is what the queen. has been prince philip companion and supporter for more than 7 decades they have 4 children whether it's scandalous recessions and devastating losses together. this is. did. before. i don't think you think. it's losing. the queen is expected to resume low key duties as this week. keep calm and carry on with the emotion she is most certainly feeling. well on a different note now shane saw nothing that you usually associate with a piece of lace or even. with

a swath of leather but when jesse strikes north takes her machine to a block of oak or law and tree wood that's what you get or at least that's what you're led to believe. underwear and ejected. they all belong to jessie street so. they might look like wheaton deceptively realistic but in fact they're heavy and totally unaware of all the items are inside me to boot and then to move we still a few years to close up the thing i made the point is that i'm making extra hard materials. and that makes me happy i just love to create the illusion that it's a black art but. it's really not stuff that's worked in. the german artists i wouldn't garments not only in the teeth of fabrics texture. the banal in routine to their simplicity. to complete this wrinkle.

she starts with a block of wood and some piece of paper for. me to finish my note if you will hold these approach to how can i convey object into this plan of what how will it end up hanging how does it track down every fabric asked differently the raincoat is more jacob and only in its trade i can't just invent folds the viewer wouldn't stand there and think the faults are incorrect they would just look and say that something's not right. there mustn't. galleries are beginning to take notice of 29 year old jessie strict even if her with precision is still always a full and enthusiastic response from the public in particular her underwear. once i had a visitor who came into a gallery when i was present and she was just outraged saying what kind of an installation is this because she. i thought it was real underwear she was so

embarrassed that she even got to see it but i thought it was a fantastic it gives me satisfaction in my work that she thought it was real underwear i take that positively and not negatively. the streets nasrudin garments of new things and a new purpose. the concrete sculptures by german artists. were dressed with her collection for an exhibition i wore that's a gallery in amsterdam. and it's very hard to believe but april 21st marks 5 years since american music legend prince passed away after an accidental overdose of fenton il well the anniversary will be marked by a select group of fans at his paisley park estate in suburban minneapolis but will leave you now with some memories of the days when he was unstoppable all the best from us until we meet the next time and she's. i'm. not.

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this is huge every news live from berlin tough words for russia's president warns the west not to cross red lines or risk retaliation in his state of the nation address vladimir putin threatens western leaders while tensions rise at home police crackdown on protesters rallying in support of jill kremlin critic a lot speaking of all things also coming up a merger in sebring germany passes new laws to try and contain a 3rd wave of the pandemic areas with high infection rates could now be forced. into lockdown the country's health minister says the situation is extremely serious

and. the seminal moment a guilty verdict for george floyd's killer marks a milestone in the fight against racism but many say real justice is still a long way off prison by unwelcome the jury's decision pledging to bring about change in the u.s. . thank you very much for your company we begin this broadcast in russia where police forces there have arrested hundreds of people at nationwide protests in support of jailed opposition leader alexina valving the protests were called for the same day as president vladimir putin's annual state of the nation address and that speech was to putin warned foreign powers not to interfere in russia's internal affairs

warning moscow would respond in a quote swift and harsh way to what he called foreign provocations which tensions high between russia and the west mr putin focused most of his speech on domestic affairs. and i can turn now to felix a light from the moscow times felix i understand that you just returned from a pro volley protest what was it like who was at the rally. well yeah so as russian protests go it was perhaps not the hugest one but it was large certainly there were perhaps someone north of ah 10000 people in moscow today and several 1000 or many 1000 more around the country in general i would say that the demographic was similar to many not only rallies his core supporters which is sort of young educated cosmopolitan behalves 20 somethings in moscow but

a lot of older people to very much veterans of the russian protest movement in general though the the outlook was a little bit pessimistic because 'd clearly they know that not only is not likely to be ricky released from prison any time soon and serious legal restrictions on his movement are around the corner so certainly a sort of a grim outlook from the point of view of the protesters today give us a sense in terms of you know how rattled is president putin by these protests he's not acknowledging mr valma by name but you know by the by sending the police to crack down on these protests what the set tell us. well it remains to be seen precisely and putin of course never mentions not only by name never refers to him in any sort of substantial way today i would actually say that the police were relatively restrained by russian standards in january resourcing really sort of aggressive violence from really sort of out there policing which still several

thousands arrested so far today we've only seen $500.00 which is sounds about this relatively little by russian standards so it may be that the kremlin insignia but it doesn't feel as much fear from the violent movement right now but that really remains to be seen as i said there are harsh new restrictions on the only movement around the corner so we'll see how this plays out in the next few months felix light from the moscow times thank you for joining us. and to our other top story germany's parliament has passed a new law that will force coronavirus lockdowns on areas with high infection rates the measure ends a patchwork approach by federal states tackling the pandemic with infection rates rising around the country recent polls show the majority of people in germany approve of this latest step to fight the pen demick but it's still sparked some controversy both in parliaments and on the streets. chancellor campaigned long and hard for the new legislation but on wednesday she let others take the

floor there was heated debate down to the very last moment opposition parties such as the right wing populist a.f.d. try to have the vote removed from their agenda drawing harsh criticism from the coalition government minister has it's even if there's no law then there will be no emergency measures and if there are no measures people will get sick and die and the fact that they are now clapping reveals the true hideous nature of this party you've got to go to start the business friendly f.t.p. say they'll challenge the law in the courts. and by that i want to add this there is no scientific evidence which proves that curfews prevent the spread of the virus and to just hope that they will actually make a difference is not enough to justify such a serious infringement on citizens' fundamental rights the average being didn't want to die if so they should tragic but in the end the majority of parliamentarians voted in favor of amending the infection protection act. the

changes affect all cities and districts registering more than 100 cases per 100000 residents over a week a nighttime curfew will be imposed from 10 pm until 5 am contact will be limited for residents from one household to just one other person when the 7 day incidence rate exceeds $165.00 schools and shops will be closed currently most cities and districts are seeing infection rates well above these figures meaning the changes will take effect almost immediately surveys show that a majority of people in germany approve of the measures many are in favor of even tougher measures but that didn't stop a minority from taking to the streets around 8000 demonstrators gathered outside parliament to protest what they see as an unjustified attack on their constitutional rights they now hope that the new law will be stopped either by the 2nd chamber of parliament the been a scot or the courts. and i'm now joined by peter dubroca the

former chair of the german ethics council and i'm told he is a fierce critic of that new bill a very warm welcome professor so let me start off by well playing some words to you that you use your described allies uninspired unbalanced and ineffective what would you do differently. first thanks for having me. you know i'm in line with how being a uniform regulation but i think it's on balance because it nearly leads. economy as it is it can function it can normally function but the younger generation is that part of society which really suffers and it brings so much sekret feiss and we have

found any adequate measures to. protect them and to offer them they're itching to cheat for education you run into an educational disaster and here i expect more balanced more effort in taking the younger generation at the heart of our trying to get the pandemic now i understand of course today there were protests outside the german parliament said the people are you know voicing their opposition to these coronavirus measures do you agree with some of their objections. no absolutely not for me we narrow or i criticise the government for not having introduced a harsh harsh. downing immediately so we have to start with

a harsh downing and then the numbers off failing then we should start with into using an opening of the schools and strict regime off testing and. the next proposal of mine is then also to change the facts in a show trial is a in so far as i think that younger generation students and awarded pupils must get a higher priority in so they are. nearly compelled to go into school. by exposition to other pupils and therefore they are in ohio risk and therefore they have primarily a to be vaccinated peter the former chair of the german ethics council sir thank

you for joining us thank you. i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making headlines around the world from mama to be as stake and over as president of charge one day after his father either is dead he died unexpectedly main opposition parties have called the movie a coupe travels in the country say they will march on the capital of. syria has been stripped of its voting rights at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons syrian forces were found to have the peat atlee used poison gas during the civil war something damascus has denied the country will be able will be unable to vote or hold offices at the global watchdog h.q. police a columbus ohio have shot and killed a black teenager during a confrontation bodycount footage shows an officer opening fire as the teen lunged at another person with a knife people have been protesting following the killing which came less than an

hour before the verdict was announced in the trial of derek show. and that verdict has left many in the us breathing a collective sigh of relief former police officer derek chauvin was found guilty of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter in the death of george floyd well last year he was filmed killing floyd a black man by pressing his knee on floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes the murder sparked global outrage and protests against racism and police brutality people in minneapolis celebrated a verdict as a milestone in the fight for racial justice. we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one unintentional 2nd degree murder while committing a felony find the defendant guilty to the words so many have been hoping and waiting for their guilty on all counts derek chauvin now a convicted murderer at the end of a tense 3 week trial. justice for george floyd what began as

a rallying cry has become reality. thanks just crowds who had gathered at george floyd square the site where he was murdered were overcome by emotion. overwhelmed i'm grateful and relieved so i'm i feel grounded i can feel my feet on the concrete i'm super grateful that this is the verdict and that we can now move to the next case. george floyd slow death has now been seen by millions. while attempting to arrest him last may show been pinned to handcuff floyd to the ground kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes 29 seconds. i can't breathe for some of his final words. floyd's killing on lease one of the biggest waves of protests in u.s. history against systemic racism and police brutality. president joe biden

hailed the decision as an important step toward police reform it was a murder in full light of day and to rip the blinders off for the whole world to see. the systemic racism vice president just referred to or systemic raises this day in our nation's soul but it's not enough we can't stop here. in order to litter real change reform we kid and we must do more to reduce the likelihood that tragedy like this will never happen occur again. chauvin handcuffed and led away will be sentenced 8 weeks from now he could be facing decades in prison. ordered. is force news now the brand new and highly controversial european football super league that was announced just on sunday as crashed and burned after friends players and coaches of teams like

chelsea voiced opposition to the season long tournaments all 6 english clubs abandoned the plan last night the clubs from spain and italy have followed suit while only real madrid and barcelona remain officially involved in the project the super league's founder though says he is convinced of the beauty of the project. right now the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour the lottery putin has warned other states against quote crossing russia's red lines and pledged the response would be asymmetrical swift and harsh mr putin made the remarks amid rising tensions with ukraine and concerns over the health of dissidents a mixing of ali. germany's parliament is faster new long that could mark a watershed moment in the country's fight against cope with 19 the move could force long downs and curfews on areas with high infection rates as strongly battles

a 3rd wave of coronavirus cases. but there is continues right here on our next hour of covert special you're watching the w. news live from berlin now why aren't all get all of us here thank you for your company and i will forward to see you tomorrow get. the little guys this is the 77 percent stuff but for this truth to speak to shoes sure i guess. you know just so i know we're going to. talk to. young people did you have the solutions good future. to 77 percent now. on t w.