the page is on except it with. structuring ignorance. d w. this is g w news longer from berlin tonight america's promise in the fight against climate change the u.s. pledges to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade president biden made that pledge at the white house where he began posting a virtual climate summit today with more than 48 world leaders can biden deliver on his promise and one about china india and brazil also coming up.

a grief stricken family bids farewell to the u.s. black man who was shot dead by police during a traffic stop the officer says that she mistook her gun for a taser plus an about face or is it orders its troops back home after massive drills at ukraine's border tensions remain high after what was the biggest regional military buildup in years and in the years pandemic pain the country sets another global record for the new coated 19 cases hospitals are overwhelmed patients are dying from a shortage of what they need most to survive oxygen. i'm

off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome today is earth day and the united. is trying to make it count us president biden today pledged to cut u.s. carbon emissions in half by the end of the decade it's the most ambitious climate protection target ever set in u.s. history some 40 countries are taking part in the 2 day virtual climate summit that biden is hosting from the white hells and as global warming progress is there's hope that the biden pledge will put pressure on other countries to clean up their at. but in kicked off his address with a sobering summation of society's climate since from burning fossil fuel to inaction in the face of species extinction to rampant deforestation and air pollution in contrast to his predecessor biden said it was time for action and laid out his ambitious climate goals to the some 40 participating heads of state and

government. the united states sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half and half by the end of this decade that's where we're headed as a nation and that's all we can do if we take action to build an economy that's not only more prosperous but healthier fare and cleaner for the entire planet. since the industrial revolution the earth's climate has warmed by around one degree celsius it could reach 2 degrees by the end of the century we are at the verge if you. must make sure the next step is in the right direction. much of the younger generation has been calling for global c o 2 emissions reductions for years now for it seems their voices are being heard. china will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and the chief carbon

neutrality is trying to 60 china has committed to move from carbon peak to carbon neutrality in a much shorter time span than what might take many countries. at times the conference seemed like a contest of the powerful all lauding their own efforts to save the world the e.u. committed to become climate neutral but 2050 earlier this week terminates chancellor said this applied to germany as well you know in final divine this is a herculean task because this is nothing short of a complete transformation a complete change of the way we do business the way we do work in the fall against was and that's the tuesday in the street when the rock most taking part seemed happy to have the u.s. back on board to face this massive global challenge that morning and for more now i'm joined by heather conley she's senior vice president for europe at the center

for strategic and international studies she joins me tonight from washington d.c. it's good to have you on the program the united states today made its most ambitious pledge ever in the fight against climate change is it too ambitious. well i don't think we can be ambitious and nothing as we see as the global changes weather patterns straught alliance global sea level rise we have to be any guesses but you're at your rate and asking the question one's aspirations don't always meet the reality and as chancellor merkel has said what we're really talking about is economic transformation and reorientation and i think all global leaders folly aspire to do really difficult things this is a herculean task that's unclear whether developed countries are willing to alter their economies so significantly to meet these ambitious targets and there's also

the developing countries we heard today trying is president xi jinping made a pledge on reducing the burning of coal brazil's president joe you're both so narrow made a pledge today about preserving rain forests are these promises going to be kept. that's exactly the question i think you really do you have to hold the chinese leadership accountable they are significant player in helping to determine whether we can keep global temperatures to 1.5 degrees centigrade or they have to stop building coal plants in other words are important their construction of coal fired plants continues apace we seen in brazil the devastation of the forest and it has gone unabated will the president responded and seize the destruction of the amazon another important question so at the end of the day this summit is important that the words we really need to hold these leaders accountable you know we know that

this is a turning point so what for the united states when you compare president biden with former president donald trump you can we say though that this leaders' summit is a turning point in the global fight against climate change. i think that u.k. prime minister boris johnson said it best with president binds announced and it really is a game changer for the united states to be this ambitious with its goals now you're absolutely right you have to have bipartisan support for the type of transformation we're talking about whether it's the infrastructure deal that is on the table. highlighting renewables really transforming the american economy we have to have everyone forward that's a big question mark but it is clear american leadership standing shoulder to shoulder but the european union those leaders have shoulder this burden largely by themselves for many years i think it's good to have many friends at the table with

ambitious goals the canadian step forward today the japanese step forward so i think you're seeing a at important milestone on the road to glasgow and 26 and let's hope these leaders to fill their air promises and we will be watching to see if they indeed do that heather conley senior vice president for europe at the center for strategic and international studies ms calmly good to have you on the show thank you thank you but in the united states the funeral is taking place for don't say right that's the 20 year old black man who was shot and killed by police earlier this month it comes just 2 days after a former police officer was convicted of murdering george florida another black man now hundreds of mourners came to remember and pay tribute to rights in day he was killed during a traffic stop near minneapolis april 11th the officer who shot him apparently by mistake has been charged with manslaughter.

and just don't side the shiloh temple where the funerals are taking place as my colleague stefan so i'm in good afternoon to you stefan today we have to say a very sad occasion for the people there. yeah summer summer day saturday the day of mourning here in minneapolis again just a few days after this day filled with excitement and joy after the announcement of the verdict against derrick shelvin murder of george floyd but today was a sad day as i just talked to somebody who came out a few people most people have left most cases left the hearse is on his way with the body off of dante right to be laid to rest in the nearby cemetery and this was a set occasion inside very emotional family was almost the mother was almost not able to say anything it was overtaken by emotion but this is also for many here are

just another stepping stone on the way in the past to real reform to real change not only in minneapolis but in the entire country and it comes in the same. direction the former police officer was found guilty in the murder of george ford all of this coming together at the same time what does this signify for the united states. this is you just not to under there's no it's not possible to understate this is a huge deal and the verdict the 1st time that a white police officer was convicted of murder of like person number one number 2 this is all of course under this paradigm under the roof of what happened to george ward and what happened successfully and to george floyd meaning the verdict the trial that there's another 3 police officers who are going to see trial in august and we're going to have a sentencing appointment of course and date for mr schoen where he will learn how long he will go to prison for what he did however the big picture is that. the

movement which it is here in the united states not just in minneapolis will try to see change on a federal level george floyd justice and policing acts this is going to be debated in the senate and people the black communities people black people all over america and a lot of white people to expect politicians to act this is the time they say for them to act because there is no peace without justice same old model or raelene cries still true ring still true from all of them here today. our correspondent stefan simons there near minneapolis where the funeral for the today right has just taken place stefan thank you. our here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world moscow has summoned the czech ambassador amid a spiraling diplomatic spying prague has now ordered the kremlin to withdraw most of its diplomatic staff from the czech republic on saturday it expelled 18 russians

after accusing moscow of being behind blasts that occurred at a check ammunition depo back in 2014. and algerian author has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for offending islam saeed job but here an expert on syfy islam pledged to appeal the conviction for blasphemy and says he will keep fighting for freedom of thought after being sentenced today at a court in. croatia has been remembering the victims of yes an overarching concentration an extermination camp which was run by the notorious. organization during world war 2 they included serbs jews roma and political prisoners today mark the anniversary of the last breakout of inmates from the camp before it was liberated germany's new emergency coronavirus bill has been signed into law as the country struggles with a 3rd wave of infections the legislation gives the central government the power to

impose local lock downs if rates exceed $100.00 per 100000 cases within 7 days up until now regional authorities have decided on the lock downs. it's staying with a pandemic in the is it really in from a wave of new covert 19 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 new cases in the last 24 hours 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 for. the families of the sick wait helplessly outside of the hospital. india is facing and acute oxygen shortage as covert 19 infections skyrocket. 22

patients died at a hospital in maharashtra state after a leech cut off their oxygen supply. this woman's mother was one of them. was she had any air of 5 days and had recovered there was no oxygen she died in agony she had trouble breathing she died everyone in the ward died but. whatever. 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 but these people at this hospital are refusing to admit him saying there's no oxygen and no bad they're asking us to leave and to take him somewhere else it's not right. abhi global date. 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 sense of decency because there really is measures of the pandemic whether it was their daily kids company count or even just by them to do raids all of them started explaining from october and by january you saw them plummet into really low levels and then there was this feeling propagated 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. on how our public health

authorities trying to combat this unprecedented explosion in code 1000 infections earlier we put that question to our delhi correspondent gys wall. prime minister has come out to be used to the nation to follow what would it look and behavior do you want to join to ensure that not that i'm not going national was they detrimental to the people and the economy is not imposed once again however the government is josh any criticism but went ahead but it was not easy even today they were put into their duties and by the national hockey to argue that arkie to moral status by the prime minister has been quite off because of the situation steve wasn't there one measure to fight out the oxygen does seem so much for example and it was different versions of don't get it was 10 states in the country but once

again when you fight now to the next few days if the measures that it is looking so hot but continue to be on the rights. of all they're reporting indonesian navy ships are desperately searching for a submarine that has gone missing with 53 people on board authorities say the submarines oxygen supply will only last until saturday prompting fears that it could soon be too late to save lives the navy says the sub has probably song $700.00 metres below the ocean surface. it's a race against time and against the ocean's depths the k r a n one gala 402 may have sunk too deep to be retrieved on board are 53 crew members and very limited oxygen reserves searches are focusing on this area about 100 kilometers north of the submarine was conducting a missile firing exercise here when contact broke off officials say a power outage may have a cured causing the loss of control. of the submarines

oxygen reserve capacity in a power outage is 72 hours or about 3 days. so starting from when it lost contact on wednesday around 3 am it could last until saturday. we can find them before then. indonesia has deployed several. neighboring malaysia and singapore have also joined the operation and other countries are offering help an oil spill and the submerged and highly magnetic object in the area of the submarine diver has rescuers hoping they are on the right track but if the submarine has sunk too deep it may be impossible for the rescuers to operate. the president. said the government is doing everything in its power to get the crew back alive. i ask all indonesian people to pray that

this search and rescue operation run smoothly and easily to find k r i n n gala 402 and all of its crew in a safe condition. yeah. officials say the submarine was in a good state after 40 years of service in indonesia it may have fallen prey to the same rules it's been defending. troops. will begin to return to their barracks the russian defense minister ordered the move today after a snap inspection of drills in crimea ukraine and the west have raised the alarm over a recent russian military buildup near the border with ukraine kiev today welcomed the russian pullback while nato says it is overdue. our let's bring in our correspondent ikhlas connelly he is in kiev good evening to you nicholas what's the reaction been to the news that these troops and these forces are going to pull back

giving brant well obviously a lot of relief here in kiev tonight we've seen the markets react already ukraine's currency the strength think it's the euro and other currencies against that news of the end of that direct threat to military action by russia but i think people in ukraine have a lot of good reason to stay worried until they see hard and fast evidence of that . and personnel being drawn away from ukraine's fronted by russia i think people will still be exceedingly nervous there's been speculation today that russia may leave some some missile systems close to the border as a kind of open threat we've seen talk today of closer integration between russia and belarus but others has a long border with ukraine so plenty of leaves there for russia to continue putting pressure on ukraine we heard today that the russian president says he wants to host the ukrainian president for talks in moscow what do you make of that i mean is that

a sign of deescalation. i think this is less than it seems at 1st he said that he can come to moscow at any time to discuss. issues which he said would not. as has been the case the last 7 years russia claims that this is an internal issue between kiev and those separatist regions he said selenski should go talk to those separatist leaders 1st which he knows full well he can politically never do that is not going to happen and he's just continued this russian line that doesn't get more convincing with the time that russia is not involved in this conflict we know well that russian citizens quote. russian security agents were at the very heart of that separatist insurgency in 2014 those regions. and russia has now handed over half a 1000000 possible soon everyone will get a russian passport so basically by saying what he did today he's basically saying you are not on my level i'm going to talk to biden if you want to come crawling to

moscow and ask for some kind of engagement you can try but i'm not going to give you any kind of signs of deescalation speaking of the u.s. president did. criticism from the u.s. from the european union from nato do you think that influenced the kremlin's decision today. putin makes a point of demonstrative lee behaving in such a way it's just that outside pressure from protesters on the streets of russia or foreign countries cannot influence his behavior. i think that's also why the west was relatively quiet in terms of elucidating sanctions or other responses to russia had it put any troops on the ground in ukraine all those threats to the diplomatic back channels i think western support for ukraine has been pretty strong pretty unanimous thing that will have impressed but also in the short term sense he got what he wanted i think you know the roots of all this that interview with biden which biden agreed with the interview and said that that is

a killer that really hurt letterman putin is happy to be cost as a kind of. scary big time opponent of the west what he does want to be treated is as an equal and by calling him a killer i think there was a worry in moscow that russia would be diplomatically isolated in treaty does beyond the pale and by setting up this troop movements he now has a summit on the cards this summer with biden in the short term he's got what he wanted you know it's a very good point to make there nicolas connelly with the latest tonight and nick thank you. will wife. nasa scientists say they are a small step but important step closer to making that possible the perseverance rover has converted carbon dioxide from the martian atmosphere into oxygen for the very 1st time nasa hopes to be able to do this on a larger scale in the future and that could pave the way for human exploration and colonization of the red planet. humans on mars so far it's still

science fiction the red planet isn't just extremely far away it also lacks most of the basic elements that we need to survive including oxygen that means oxygen would have to be produced on mars and the u.s. space agency nasa has just succeeded in doing that instrument aboard the mars rover perseverance was able to convert a sample of mars as carbon dioxide which atmosphere into oxygen the instrument is called moxy the process the moxy is going to use is called solid oxide electrolysis electrolysis just means splitting apart using elec tricity carbon dioxide makes up 95 percent of mars as was fear so it's a great natural resource. moxy shown here being installed in the rover is not much bigger than a car battery the device extracted 5 grams of oxygen during its 1st mission that's

enough for an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes but not only humans require oxygen the main thing you need oxygen for is for the rocking that's going to take them back up from the surface to come back to earth for that rocket to breathe because rockets rocket fuel needs oxygen to burn as well and he's all lot of moxie successors will have to produce exponentially more oxygen if life on the red planet and a safe return to earth is ever to become feasible. well back here on earth in the midst of a 3rd wave of corona virus infections the german buddhist league says it will move soccer teams into complete quarantine it will start on may 3rd when players and staff will be allowed only at club facilities or at their homes then beginning may 12th they will move into what the league calls a quarantine training camp completely shut off from the outside world for the last

2 rounds of matches of the season this after some 1st and 2nd tier clubs postponed matches because of corona virus infections. are at let's take you next to a come from behind win on the running track like i guess you've never seen before it happened in the u.s. state of utah where the girls 4 by 200 meter relay seemed to be an easy win for the home team but out of the blue out of the crowd came there you see or holly the hound tearing down the track and across the finish line 1st of course only ran without a relay baton she didn't need one she has a bone but she did get a participation prize for her crowd pleasing sprint. as i said man's best friend and a fast one too you're watching news here's a reminder of our top story u.s. president joe biden has pledged to cut u.s. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 by made the ambitious pledge at the

opening of a global 2 day summit on climate change that he is hosting from the white house and hundreds of mourners are attending the funeral of dante wright a black man who was shot and killed by a minneapolis police officer during a traffic stop his death has prompted renewed anger over racism and police brutality in the united states. you're watching news wife and from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around we will be right back.

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a little extra. places in europe or smashing the records stick into the trench or. just don't use or. it's treasure for the globe trotters discomfort or some of humorous record breaking sites. also in book form. the u.s. today pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade a movement to brand the u.s. as a leader in fighting climate change but even if america keeps its word europe will still be ahead america's real leadership was hosting today's climate summit bringing more than 40 world leaders together including rivals such as russia and china.