here are to cut carbon emissions by the end of this decade by at least 50 percent and that is essentially the u.s. doubling its previous commitment that was made under president obama and if you listen to climate analysts and energy analysts here they do say that this is a pretty ambitious agenda on veiled by the by the administration today heading into this 2 day a climate summit you know the key here is going to be to see how the president wants to implement this but what biden's the vice minister ations officials here have been saying is they want to send a message to the rest of the world that the u.s. is back in the driver's seat that it is able and willing to lead on this global climate change crisis and so this is about destruction kind of throwing down the gauntlet and what the key here is going to be to see how other countries respond what commitments they make to this effort well indeed will he get support from the other countries because the u.s. has been notoriously absent these past couple years. yeah it certainly has labor

and we know that you know global trust in the u.s. as a leader on climate change certainly has been eroded over the last 5 years with president trump pulling the us out of the paris climate accord rolling back he environmental protections president biden is trying to do is to again to show that the u.s. is back in here to stay and we don't see a broad consensus already from some of the u.s. as partners we saw german chancellor angela merkel showing her support for president biden and also japan coming into the summit saying they're going to cut missions by 46 percent by the end of the decade but the key here is really going to be what america's rivals commit to so china was invited to speak at the summit and president obama really is looking for a commitment from china from russian president vladimir putin and so that is going to be key to whether america is successful in this new phase of climate diplomacy what we live means concretely for the u.s. though i mean will he be able to get the support that is needed to implement these

ambitious plans well that is going to be tricky so we know that republicans are already digging in their heels calling this a quote radical climate agenda and we know that the president the democrats don't have a large majority in congress at the morning at the moment rather so it's going to be difficult and we know the republicans are saying this is a plan an agenda an approach that's going to cripple the economy and kill jobs and be very bad for american businesses as well while president biden has assured that's not the case this is a plan that's going to create jobs and he's looking for broad support there which he does have for most democrats so really the key is here going to be how he manages to couple this plan with creating jobs and convince people that this really is good for the country so he's the most kind of correspondent in washington d.c. thank you for your reporting. and germany is of course taking part in the summit as well and just on america welcomes president biden's pledge this is what she said

just moments ago i'm delighted to see that the united states is back is back to work together with us in climate politics because that can be no doubts about the well meeting contribution if we really want to fulfill our ambitious goals and the national contribution of the united states for 2030 is a clear is standish illustration of your ambitions that is a very key and important message to the international community thank you but they said thank you organizing this summit this is a judean time because this is nothing short of a complete transformation complete change of the way we do business the way we the chancellor there speaking just a little while ago let's get now the german perspective on the biden climate an initiative and the for that like to welcome mr you one flush bar to he is a state secretary in the german federal environment ministry sir thank you so much

for your time so what do you make of president biden's ambitious new climate pledge . first of all be absolutely happy that the u.s. is back as a chance also said in her speech i mean that was didn't stop to work on fighting climate change during the last 4 years we work together with canada china india but of course it is essential and important to have such a big economy such a big country back on board and of course we appreciate. you as are catching up with the new kaga just announced by the president they do so. cuttings emissions by 50 percent around a bit more until 2030 it's a major step forward compared to 1900 it's about 40 percent and europe is doing more we have going for 55 percent at least by 2030 but it's basically the same

track towards climate neutrality until 2050 now climate protection of course is about the future of the planet the future of our young people and they are increasingly unhappy with the job that leaders are doing currently what do you say what do you want to tell those young activists in germany like friday for futures and extinction rebellion who are very angry about the establishment the failure to take stronger faster action to stop global warming. well of course we appreciated from the very beginning the pressure this young people are making and they're quite successful and some somebody i wish they could enjoy more the successes because it was not expected bill that the whole world is heading for climate neutrality already by 2050 us and i was a you. north korea just

a nonstop financing. facilities outside the country so many many important countries are on their way and we have done much more and this would not have been possible without the pressure from the streets because a pressure from the young people their success and sometimes i wish they could enjoy it a bit right you know him the fast part the new state secretary at the german federal environment minister thank you sir for your time i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the indonesian navy has launched a search operation for a missing somewhere rain with 53 crewmembers on board contact was lost on wednesday as the sub was conducting a drill off the island of bali australia and singapore have also deployed ships to support the search. the son of child's late president has addressed the nation after still in power mama. said his military council would

ensure democratic elections will be held in 18 months time opposition parties are calling the military takeover a coup rebel groups warn they plan to march on the capital. spanish prime minister by their scientists has pledged to give up to 10 percent of his country's coronavirus vaccines to latin america and caribbean countries this year spain will make the donation because it has an ocular aid it half of its own population while i miss you sanchez was speaking ad and i dare oh well american summit where the leaders accused rich countries of hoarding vaccines. at least 4 people have been killed and several injured in bomb in a bomb explosion. a car park of a luxury hotel in the pakistani city of quetta dotel was hosting the chinese ambassador who was not present at the time of the blast no one's claimed

responsibility for the attack. you're watching video we do still to come. in the mid we're going to think of matches goodman pick up of big oil and to keep their season alive. but 1st india is reeling from a wave of new covert 1000 infections engulfing the country like nowhere else in the world the world's 2nd most populous nation has recorded the world's highest ever daily tally nearly 315000 cases in the last 24 hours well this latest spike has overwhelmed the health care system and some hospitals in the capital delhi have already run out of the oxygen needed to keep people alive. families of the sick wait helplessly outside of the hospital. india is facing an acute oxygen shortage as covert 19 infections skyrocket 22

patients died at a hospital in maharashtra state after a leak cut off their oxygen supply. this woman's mother was one of them. was she had been here 5 days and had recovered there was no oxygen she died in agony she had trouble breathing she died everyone in the ward died with. hospitals in india are flooded some warned they will run out of oxygen within hours. there are a lot of my son is 32 and has the virus his oxygen level is running low these people at this hospital are refusing to admit him saying there's no oxygen and no bed they're asking us to leave and to take him somewhere else it's not right. abhi global war day. oxygen supplies are being rushed across india after delhi's high

court ordered tanks to be diverted from factories to hospitals. recently religious festivals and political rallies have been allowed to go ahead giving the virus free rein to rampage through the population. people love them to a sense of decency because it really is measures of a pandemic whether it was daily has come to the 1000000 deaths count or even just by the duty rates all of them started explaining from october and by january you saw them plummet to really low levels and then there was this feeling again to be written by experts that we had actually at a turning unity. relatives of the dead are lining up to cremate their loved ones as

india's health services crumble before people's eyes. t.v. correspondents and them such as well joins us now from delhi heartbreaking scenes there. i mean we're hearing about the desperate shortage of oxygen of hospital beds just describe what is it like right now in delhi and across india. situation is absolutely a desk like you said mitchell is acknowledging every day of patients begging for their genitives exulting to be allowed michigan to homosexuality because falwell and the as doctors breaking down and down to talk about how they're supposed to be giving life to the patients but they get not even give oxygen just this evening the day government is out but it is just 6 private hospitals that have been outlawed now last courts haven't been there for this national and lodge and see their steps

and there should be a few supply of oxygen that the government must write a plant but we also have each track to protect its own resources even though the documents have discarded stead for example day leaders up there he sits on oxygen it has to get in across state borders and out of all it's a. big block and the borders so the situation is definitely desperate it's not important it was a ghost ship is it not don't try to didn't but the number is going to do to be high and patients going to new order and how are authorities trying to combat this well fatal explosion of covert cases in the. let me do one see up here the national policy so far and i know the prime minister has come out to be the nation to follow what it will change behavior do you want to tell you just go do ensure that not that i'm not the national law down there was a detrimental to the people and the economy is not it will do once again however

the government is josh any criticism but went ahead but it is not easy even today that includes the debt is held by the national park you the party that arkie to moral standing by the prime minister i have been quoted all because of the call that situation steve will in day one measure to buy out the ox search gives does seem so much rationed for example the temple's different versions of don't get it was 2 states in the country but once again we only fight not until the next few days if the measure that is working. but continue to be on the right does have a her sponson in charge us wall of reporting from delhi thank you very much let's talk now about some of the other developments in the pandemic syria has received its 1st shipment of astra zeneca vaccine for the kovacs program well more than 200000 doses have arrived now in the country and germany approve legislation allowing it to impose nationwide lockdown measures when infection rates rise above 100 or 100000 people in

a 7 day period up to now measures have been applied regionally and a piece new fashion and drug maker pfizer has confirmed that fake doses of his career and a virus vaccine were seized in mexico and poland the fakes were selling for as much as 2000 euros a shot. we turn our attention now to russia and ukraine because moscow has ordered troops massing on the ukrainian border to return to their barracks while a russian news agency says that the country's defense minister and now it's the move after a quote snap inspection of drills in crimea ukraine and the west and recently raise the alarm over a russian military build up near the border with ukraine he says it's monitoring the situation and is in some regions. moscow correspondent rather emily sherman is covering this developing story for us emily what's behind this would draw

well from the russian perspective at least when it comes to the rhetoric that we've been hearing from the russian side this all kind of make sense for the last few weeks we've been hearing from russian authorities including from the russian defense minister that the troop build up on the ukrainian border is just part of a routine drill and they've been denying that it has anything to do with escalating tensions between russia and the west and of course between russia and ukraine as well and what we hear today from the russian defense minister fits into that you know he said russia has proved that it's capable of defending itself and that's why we're withdrawing our troops so a sense of objective chief there if i understand you correctly so this sign of is this a sign of deescalation now. yeah i think it is and i think of course what we're hearing from the russian side when it comes to that rhetoric that i was

just talking about of course these troops on the border that was a political signal that was i think saber rattling and yesterday of course we had flooding near putin speaking to the nation and talking about the fact that the west has to recognize russia's red lines and that they shouldn't cross russia otherwise they will regret it also kind of fits in with that saber rattling that we've been seeing on the ukrainian border there but it seems that the president decided that russia has achieved its objective and showed the west showed ukraine that they shouldn't mess with it and i think this is clearly also a signal to the new u.s. administration they really want to show the u.s. and the west in general that they see ukraine still as part of their sphere of influence and that the u.s. should keep its hands off and not cross that red line and we sure when reporting from moscow thank you very much.

now for you in brazil dortmund kept their champion in this league hopes alive after to win at home to a victory sees them cut the gap to the elite competition slots to 4 points with 4 games of the season remaining. durham and as usual turned to the youngsters with champions league qualification hopes hanging by a thread of their opponents when you don't work also chasing a european sports and that was that you almost got off to a flying start with just 13 seconds on the clock marcus inverts and co the shot against the crossbar an early let's hope for dortmund. but the hosts grew into the game so when i was offered marco royce and the captain should have put goldman to head in his short role thomas league wide. royce made amends though in the 25th minute when he won a penalty the seem to be little contact from on young keeper router and although he

saved holland's book kick royce followed up and bundled the full list of bits of pill to swallow for the visitors who felt the penalty was harsh and almost managed to clear their lines. in the 2nd half they went agonizingly close to equalising when max cruisers free kick can and off the post replace showed dortmund keep him up in hits got a feather light touch on the ball to turn it on to the post and keep his side ahead . with time ticking away dortmund made the win safe within the wreckage counter-attack rafael guerrero doubled his side's lead with a smart finish pass the stubborn loser. dortmund's more experience does deliver a 2 nil when it gives them a fighting chance of making the top 4. and rules were again in 3rd place needed a win to stay ahead of frankfurt in the bundesliga standings and they got it at

stuttgart wellsburg was up a goal in the 29th minutes went about their course to took advantage of the center a pass to manage his 20th go of the season right between the goal keeper his legs well that puts they chorused 4th in the league is scored was what went on to a 3 point win. now here's what the point of the standings look like when just 4 match days left in the season. by a munich has extended their lead to 10 points meaning one more win will assure them yet another title leipzig meanwhile are 2nd followed by will's work and frankfurt in the 2nd half looking at the very bottom shocker are out after more than 3 decades in the bundesliga. the spanish city of bilbao says you a father has dropped it as a host of june and july as european championships bobo was supposed to be one of the 12 cities to stage matches for the tournaments but authorities there were fused

to meet you a 1st condition that fans would be allowed inside the stadium despite the coronavirus pandemic here in germany munich is also at risk of missing out for the very same reason as bobo wafer is expected to make a final decision tomorrow. now cinemas theaters and concert halls remain closed around germany but in berlin the cameras are rolling again as a film location the german capital is booming and its historic production studios in bubbles beric are booked out months in advance here's a look now at an industry that seems to be booming despite the pandemic. the back lot of studio babbles berg 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 coven 1000 shut down everything at berlin's biggest film studio. a year ago we were stuck in 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 filled 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 lock down albert was able to press restart and finish production on big blockbusters including the 4th matrix film starring can you read. there there is a. this. 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 but 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 one called it.

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. 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. that johnson. because should. 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. 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. are you watching you do this is a reminder now of our 2 top stories this hour u.s. president joe biden has pledged to cut u.s. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 president by the way the ambitious pledge at the opening of a global 2 day summit on climate change that he's hosting and india is battling an precedented surge in covert 19 infections a country record of the world's highest ever daily tally killing 315000 cases in just the last 24 hours health care infrastructure has collapsed and parts of the country. don't forget so you can always going to do use on the go just download or out from play or from the app store they'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if

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