unfortunately a major fire disaster happened at our hospital at about 3 am there was a sudden spark from the air conditioner and since there was additional oxygen in the i.c.u. it was completely overwhelmed within 2 minutes. india has reached a breaking point hospitals are turning away patients supplies are running out queues are hours long at testing and vaccination sites many walk away empty handed . the. volunteers are working around the clock to cremate and bury the dead. even if it is night to finish the last body because so much of the body

so that is the reason we want to finish although. several countries have imposed travel restrictions on india to keep the new variant from also overwhelming them. time is running out in the search for a submarine that went missing on wednesday with $63.00 paypal on board and they just navy and ships from countries including the u.s. and australia are searching for the vessel after it lost contact near the coast of bali authorities say the submarines oxygen supply will last only until saturday local time leading to feel is it could be too late to save lives. and it's a race against time and against of the oceans depths the k.r.i.t. 9 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 at 3 am. let's hope we can find them before then. indonesia has deployed several navy ships neighboring malaysia and singapore have also joined the operation and other countries are offering help and oil spill and the submerged and highly magnetic object in the area of the submarine dive has rescuers hoping they're on the right track but if the submarine has sunk too deep it may be impossible for the rescuers to operate. 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 runs smoothly and is only too far. on k r i 9 galah 402 and all of its crew usa for condition. officials say the submarine was in a good state after 40 years of service in indonesia it may have fallen prey to the same group it's been defending. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world hundreds of people have been mourning domesday right black killed by police during a traffic stop minneapolis his funeral came 2 days off the verdict in the george floyd case in the same city the officer who shot writes of parent may by mistake has been charged with manslaughter. there's been violence scuffles between israelis

and palestinians outside jerusalem's old city after protesters were bottom areas when muslims gabba. israeli police put up barricades and used stun grenades to disperse the crowds the far right jewish law of a group chanted anti arab slogans and was prevented from marching to the area. nasa and commercial rocket company space x. have launched a new came on a flight to the international space station for astronauts of the 1st crew ever propelled toward orbit by a rocket pleased to recycle from a previous space flight it's the 3rd time astronauts have flown on a private rocket to space. for. them in russia during. rescue is searching for 3 migrant ships missing in the mediterranean sea say they've found 10 bodies in the say the search casi aboard the ocean viking found the bodies alongside it had gone adrift. was one of 3 that had initiated

a distress signal the ocean viking belongs to a french mine rescue group and says it was conducting the search for the boats in international waters northeast of the libyan city of tripoli. migration and displacement is of course a global problem turkey is currently hosting more than 4000000 refugees from the middle east numbers a surge during syria's civil war which began 10 years ago fun today most migrants trying to reach europe some turkey and not syrians but afghans journeys are always dangerous and often deadly. reports from the eastern turkish that here van where many of those journeys have ended in tragedy. symmetry of the nameless this is how the locals call this place and for a minister and her son parviz it is always difficult to come here. painful

memories are reawakened. motherhood to tears you didn't make. the people who are buried here have mothers brothers and sisters they all have someone who love them but now their families don't even know that they are here it breaks my heart that there is no one who comes and prays for them mobile how did you know. but that is why i'm nina and power this pray here on behalf of everyone else alone. they fled from of ground is done by iran to turkey illegally on foot over the mountains. it's a long dangerous journey many freeze to death or die in accidents and many who don't make it end up here. in the eastern turkish city of van in an unadorned grave with no name. on them. i

myself there is a man here who was found dead in the mountains and once they brought women's bodies their fingers and toes were frozen off from the cold. that. these names as the grave seem like memorials a warning of the fate that looms on this dangerous journey and yet only a few are discouraged by the risk the number of people trying to reach europe why this route has sharply risen in recent years. the route leads through the mountains straddling turkey's border with iran up to 4000 meters high most of those trying to reach europe from a fantasist on pakistan bangladesh take this way. ticky is now building walls everywhere in the region they are hundreds of kilometers long the border with syria has already been closed off the wall to iran is still under construction. human rights lawyer mahmoud cut chances a war won't stop the refugees it only makes the journey more dangerous.

he has in this area been ignoring people smuggling for too long it's become kind of a business sector so many get involved in this because a lot of money can be made in a short time at a relatively low risk. i mean and power vis a few sada still clearly remember their own flight from afghanistan the smugglers took everything from them they say they have been living here in van for 3 years now. the family found refuge in turkey but like so many others they want to continue to woods europe back to afghanistan they say that's out of the question. then they would have lost everything in afghanistan it's a war zone our house was destroyed how can we go back there when there's no safety for our children or. if we have to go back they will kill my son that's not an

option. so they are holding out in eastern turkey stranded in their new existence and they think of those who lost their lives and have buried here at the symmetry of the nameless. on the american is facing questions today as a one of germany's largest corporate scandals the chancellor testified before a parliamentary committee of its investigating the collapse of the payment processing company wild card will make his want to know why medical continued to promote the german company abroad despite multiple allegations of wrongdoing parents marks the climax of a public inquiry into an affair that has time to germany's reputation for following the rules that expose ties between politics and business and prompted several resignations and criminal investigations. more on the story we joint.

chief political editor michael is still giving testimony but tell us what she's been telling the investigative committee so it's all this morning. well she basically says and this is the most contentious issue here why she raised why are cards on her visit to china at the very highest level and she said that simply why a card fitted into germany's overall policy in seeking market access particularly on the financial sector and that that had very little to do with the fact that she'd met up with a lobbyist for wire card none other then the former defense minister here in germany. back she also stressed that she is no longer in contact with him so clearly trying to put some distance between her and him and she said that she still had full confidence in one who her key advisors. simply caller who is her economics advisor and whose wife was also linked to wyatt caught in directly so

that still leaves some question marks the german chancellor very much on the defensive here well before machall rejected criticism of her lobbying company wild card a deputy elections also refused to take any blame out how does that make them look . well it makes. the finance minister who was testifying yesterday look at the very least uninformed although many find that very hard to believe because he was also the one who then started to change the watchdog to basically restructure it and to have somebody else at the top of the these financial watchdog he says he fixed the problem as soon as he was aware of it but there's still some question marks over who knew what when and who should have acted to prevent this from happening with the counter argument being that there was so much criminal energy in why a card suddenly no longer being able to produce evidence for some 1900000000 euros

and that that is always something that policymakers cannot foresee that it happens so here we are it's certainly very damaging either way whatever the truth is for the reputation of this government and in the end machall herself well that brings me to my next question very damaging machall is in the last months of her chancellery how or will this scandal affect her personal legacy what it could leave her somewhat tarnished being of course how to the very least by the very successful lobbying efforts by wire cards which was certainly deeply rooted within the upper echelons of the varian politics to the very least and one could say but at the same time it is only a few more months to go germany is in the midst of a pandemic so yes it will damage her reputation but not grasp on power until those

elections in september romney had a rather leave it there thank you metallica. political editor. u.s. president joe biden has pledged to cut u.s. carbon emissions in hostile $20.00 to $30.00 it's the most ambitious climate target the u.s. has ever 6 biden and now it's the goal at a 2 day search will climate change summit at the white house 40 countries are taking part china and russia have also pledged to cooperate on climate protections but did not 6 announce specific emissions targets for more i'm joined by clarify suggest a climate policy analyst at climate analytics here in berlin clare thanks for joining us how much of a game changer is biden's pledge rights and i think this is a really important game changer and as you said it's the most ambitious climate target the u.s. has ever come forward with to half their emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels and if

we look at the global level what needs to be done to achieve the 1.5 limit set in the paris agreement we have a currently missing a gap between where we need to be where the heading and the new target by the u.s. reduces this gap by about 5 to 10 percent so it's a really important step in the right direction still not quite the level that we'd like to see from the us to be fully compatible with the paris agreement so our modeling suggest they could even go up to 6063 percent reduction but it definitely a really important move in the right direction and so still a way to go but progress and now it looks like even china and russia are looking towards climate cooperation that's a pretty big breakthrough isn't it. absolutely action on climate change cooperation across the world is going to be fundamental and i think it's really encouraging to see a broad coalition of countries that come together at this summit to to commit to continue to act on climate change and as we recover globally from the current virus

pandemic and now we won't we won't get anywhere unless we also have bigger matters like china and russia at the table china came forward and said chemical to the new target last year and it's also said that it will start to phase out fossil fuels from 2026 so definitely encouraging moves there and i think this is all showing but that the paris agreement is working so a key element of the powers of the human is that governments cooperate and that every 5 years they bring forward more ambitious pledges that they really increase their action and line with what science says it's needed for climate change and i think that's what we're starting to see but as you said still still a long way to go to get to really fully 1.5 to be compatible what needs to happen next in order to make those targets. so a few different things 1st of all we need even more ambitious targets to be brought forward by a government so some governments such as australia still haven't brought forward a new target so we really need to see these governments stepping up and we also

need government to stop putting in place policies to actually achieve these targets so a target is nothing unless you're asked to do something towards it so for example phasing out coal phasing out combustion engine cars 7 phasing out also fuel subsidies are all really important steps that governments can make and finally we also need finance so we need governments to step forward with international finance commitments a lot of the vulnerable countries are pretty saying we need support we need support to decarbonize our own economies as we recover from the coronavirus pandemic and but we also need to support to deal with the impacts of climate change on me we saw some encouraging pledges coming forward yesterday on on climate finance but very much still not enough to reach the 100000000000 goal that was set in paris right all today the meeting in focuses on the role of technology and how to make money while fighting climate change is joe biden managing to get business leaders on board is to be able to help him reach his new emissions target

absolutely and i think a really important narrative that the biden and ministration have to have shown is the role of addressing climate change and creating jobs and putting infrastructure in place and building the economy and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic and i think it's clear from the international corporation that we're seeing but also an increasing number of corporations that are coming forward with that there are targets that is really in everyone's interest to take action on climate change and that there are a number of benefits that can be reaped from ambitious emissions reductions fine thank you clarify some from climate climate thanks for time thank you stephanie. as world leaders discounts how to make their economies more sustainable many places in the world are already experiencing that change the u.s. state of texas still pumps huge amounts of oil and gas but some texans have already

found profitable alternatives to fossil fuels. some things never change in west texas and the brooks ranch cowboy still drive bulls on horseback but the western scenery is changing these days cattle herds graze under the blades of wind turbines . and they didn't really you know i thought they were ugly. and then i. found out you know. they're beautiful. the brooks family run a property the size of manhattan to guarantee income during a drought they leased land to energy companies a dozen oil pumps stand on the ranch along with $78.00 wind power generators the noise of the turning turbines makes louis brooks think of one thing and it's not

the environment only the. wind turbine welcomes visitors to the town of sweet water the 11000 residents were hit hard by droughts and tumbling oil prices sweet water was on its way to becoming a ghost town before the wind energy program changed its fortunes. whetsel is a lawyer for gas oil and now renewable energy his saying how the growth of wind power has brought jobs and tax dollars to the town. to transform the everything so the problem tax here was only $435.00. have. it is now 3. today a quarter of the u.s. wind energy comes from texas but natural gas and oil are also booming again some fear president joe biden's plan to clean energy transition could trigger a culture war new versus old energy. dale rankin is

a businessman in the fracking sector who doesn't believe in climate change it is a political movement. it's about having the ability to control the population by. regulating the population through saving the planet feel good. regulation. stopping climate change isn't a common cause in texas and yet thousands of turbines are turning here driven by the power of profit. out from texas to man us nasa scientists are a small step closer to making life on mars possible the perseverance rover has converted carbon dioxide dioxide into oxygen for the 1st time nasa hopes to be able to do this on a large scale in the future and that could pave the way for human exploration on 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 in instrument aboard the mars rover perseverence was able to convert a sample of mars is 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 elektra zadie carbon dioxide makes up 95 percent of mars is obvious fear so it's a great natural resource. moxie 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 moxy 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. some tennis news now rafael nadal remains on course for a record stretching 12 basilan open title after reaching the tournament quarterfinals the doll who's at the bottom of your screen there bate kindness she caught me in 3 sets the standard looked set to be heading for an easy victory after dominating the 1st set but was then picked back by his japanese opponent medulla eventually won on his 2nd match point he faces britain's cameron nori in the last 8 . well here's

a come from behind win on the running track you may never have seen it happened in the u.s. state of utah where the goals followed by 200 meter relay seemed to be an easy win for the home school but out of the crowd came holy the hounds tearing down the track and across the finish line 1st. holly ran without a relay baton but she did get a prize for her crowd pleasing sprint. you're watching the news as a reminder of our top story india has set a global record for new coronavirus cases for the 2nd day in a row doctors have told the news the situation is apple apple apocalyptic in some areas promotions are being conducted around the clock. that get you can always get the news on the go just download our apps from google play all from the app store give you access to all the latest news from around the world

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personal trauma. people took to the chesterfield remember. and they share private footage with us that has never been seen before. back to trouble starts april 28th on g.w. . well it's been a remarkable few days here in germany with the 2 biggest political parties announcing that candidates to replace i'm going to marigold when she steps down after september's national election for the conservative christian a democrat sits on mean last year's chief minister of the largest state of north rhine-westphalia thoughts after an acrimonious campaign battle against rival marcus

clash it's priority will be to reunite his party and the greens meanwhile have chosen county down a lane about balkans that challenger for the chancellorship she has no experience in government but she's promising a radical rethink in german politics focusing on issues like global warming so here on to the point we are scoffed at matt cole who's going to be germany's next chancellor. well thanks so much for joining me here on the show and with me in the studio. who is both an author and germany correspondent for the french magazine le point she says after 16 years of sometimes deadening continuity i'd like to see germany showing more courage and being a bit more adventurous also with a w. political correspondent. who argues that the green counted americans natural

success but this is germany ready for the shake up that she stands for and a very warm welcome to to during skelly of the irish times who argues that. the ultimate kiss of death. campaign before it can even get underway. thank you very much for those 3 talk about you know let me begin with you and ask you to show what has happened in the last 567 days also for people who. well for people outside germany it's now becoming clearer the faces that are going to be relevant in germany in the next couple of months until we go to the polls in september because of course for a long time and i couldn't understand why it took this. long to battle this out it looked as though this you do you still believe that they could go into this campaign with a. figurehead when it's clear it's been clear for

a very long time that she's not going to run again this week they finally decided it's going to be and the greens didn't have that rivalry going on the tool they presented a very silky campaign and they. have stage management now. is there is that now a vacuum looking forward to the election the green sort of court for the 1st chancellor. very she going to fill the vacuum left by. german politics is she now the focus of attention where she's the focus of attention because she's a very particular political person sort of style that we didn't know before she's very young she's 40 of those thing they've ever been some of the as young wanting to be a translating germany she's a woman she has a new idea she says she wants to change this country a country she's also not a style of politician much more open there are other people say well she's like us

. so that's why she's for the media she's absolutely. one food. object or of 2 to right about now is she going to change completely politics is she going to be the next chancellor there. with a big big question mark because i think that the green will probably be part of the next coalition but really the drum had enough guts and you know of courage to decide to put a young woman like that from a party which has been in power but never alone as a chancellor that's really really not true at all just so let's focus on who this is a real no 3 candidates in the running who who for you is so the front runner it all really depends unfortunately there is no clear answer because we don't really know do voters want somebody to fill the merkel sized hole that she will leave when she departs or do they say oh no we cannot just have another type merkel we know we

need to and we need to try filling different holes another style of leadership another style of policy making on the style of risk taking and the politicians don't actually know quite yet what voters want because just as nina said voters are only now starting to realize all right we have 4 terms of america that she actually told us back in 2018 actually we can't so no voters and politicians and i just think this new reality and the polls are starting to come in interesting polls. and it's on we don't actually know yet so it's actually a nightmare scenario politicians are trying to put together programs but they don't actually quite know how they're going to appeal because america has been there for so long because an entire generation of 1st time voters who just don't know anything apart from america but there was a time for america would be a time after but it just depends on our german voters deciding in a time like this let's go for something new or is this a time for security and you know the devil you know or the devil you don't it shouldn't be underestimated i think that you know when i speak to people who have

children you know 11 or 12 many of them ask can a man even be chancellor you know there's a whole generation that doesn't know i'm a chum slow so i think how chances are probably high it especially among 1st time voters then we think now. talking about her being a woman did when you saw her because the greens had to remarkable candidates and back and. well were both universally i think it's fair to say almost universally viewed as remarkable political personalities the man stepped back how much of it and how important was that moment for you personally and for jim in politics. well i think that i don't think i think that the best should win i mean i'm not very much for quotes that the women should be pushed forward just because they're women and i think and i'm very very cautious of that there's no she wants to be seen as

the better candidate and not just because she's a woman she has the right. from what i hear she's she knows very well she's very well informed she's. she when she doesn't do something she really works hard to understand it he's more. speak very well he's very charming but he's also very intelligent extremely intelligent. and so they chose probably the person who who was the most solid and pragmatic she's very conscientious work. and maybe they were a bit frightened that. back would sort of lose it on certain themes i think it's. but they had the benefit of the choice they had 2 very good candidates which is not the case in other parties ok let's rewind a little bit let's go back to the conservative christian democrats angela merkel's party the c.d.u. they've been in power for 4 consecutive terms no wonder their traditional views of

ruthless election winning machine but the battle between the cd use army lushington marcus of the variances the party the c.s.u. who's clearly taken a toll on the conservatives and lots of luck. not only does he understand carnival and how to be a father of the country he also knows how to a certain self smile if necessary. from now on count is which party has the best policies for the future of our country who forms the strongest team to tackle its challenges. but many would have preferred to say. from the c.s.u. variances party into the race and there continues to be rumblings within the. as a result there is also a responsibility to the union only a united union can be successful in the end. a pyrrhic victory for the political

moderate and ally of merkel but 1st the 60 year old have to pick up the pieces caused by an open power struggle including a drop in the poll rating and voter dissatisfaction caused by the party's coronavirus policy as. will the truce in the union last until the election. germany's christian democrats the c.d.u. . begun. i would say that but just look at those pictures i was just imagining i mean lost it's sort of standing much in the c.d.c.'s he was appalled and he's standing there with a cigarette in his mouth and he says looking at the disaster that has been left after this fight this furniture has been destroyed the glasses are broken you know there's beer puddles in the corner and he has to clear all that up 1st before i mean the pubs are closed in germany but before he can even invite any voters in i mean it's to decide what am i selling you know so he's standing there with the

cigarette and this and the broom and he said where do i start and he has 5 months so i mean if he can pull this off he would be quite an impressive figure he's often considered that the less impressive figure but we've been here before him with cold was considered a bit of an embarrassment i mean omran lash it takes a lot of the boxes he meant to be the you know the almost 2 meter tall impressive sort of moving figure that marcus sort of was but he just seems to do a lot of things that germans actually like otherwise he wouldn't be put to the head of the most the largest populous most populous state in germany so you know being under-rated has done a remarkable harm and you know he'll just have to prove that you know although he's a man he can do the job as well and perhaps it's a bit early to underestimate but his own party has really made it very difficult i mean to do all this and 5 months before you can even go out and go out and sell yourself to voters is certainly shortly as they would say we're going to do. his will he go will move to describe.

this is unique selling point i would like to stay if i may with pub because i think is. i think we can even add to that another image that doesn't just stand there is a pub owner but he stands there is a pub owner with a big bruise in his face because he's already been punched and you know he wasn't the natural leader of the c.d.u. he had to fight his way through there as well and so he went into this rivalry with lockwood sudha as somebody who many people saw as a compromise candidate because the other options for the humanities and no but what can what really viable options are you know the pub. and he has to in this important election year he has to communicate to his own party to the party in the varia and he can't address the big issues of our time that is has been a lot of wasting of time for this you for the conservatives i find this incredible

a lot of it has to do with i'm going to medical as well you have to add because of course she would have had to present a natural successor i mean if you're in power for 16 years you've got all the time that it takes and she has taken a couple of attempts you know we all remember that often the line who's now the european commission president was once her favorite and then she presented and i've come combo who's now a defense minister but all of these options were never accepted in the c.d.u. and so to just stunned that after 16 years of michael and to see the. fight this rivalry is just astonishing you top of the people in front so very interested perhaps more interested than you might to be mentioned not too long ago and what's going on in germany of the moment what is the fascination with 1st the fascination is. america it's kind of it's amazing each story i

write there's always. it was about lashon and the greens and they said what does anger the american think of it so it's going to be very difficult for the french to bury i'm going to america to to realize that she's not there anymore she's been much much more loved and worshiped than than she is in germany so that the 1st signal the french are realizing what i mean is you were saying the big the is the end there's going to be somebody and so they're very interested in the greens because we have a green party in france which is. the state where the green party here was about 10 or 15 years ago so very left wing. you know having all sorts of conflict within each other and not at all ready to be made to be to have a president a green president that's far far far away in france so that's very interesting how did the green move of the then change how did they become problematic and ready for the government that's very interesting for them as well and then who is going to descend the colors of the conservatives and why is the conservatives so parties. so

these are a very interesting what was your comment to that question about the journey that the greens have been on whether you know they were. a hippie party that's how they were a chaotic party and tea party many people to know that they're somewhere else they're effectively part of the establishment they all the establishment are they don't want to quote a friend of mine who works for the greens she was looking on she's not a politician she just looked at them dismissed that they're gagging for power and they'll almost do anything for power and that i think is the risk because the people who brought them to the people who have kept them alive for 30 years might not be so impressed by that like the more professional they've been in power once before in the guard trotter from 100-8005 they have to they have to give up some of their illusions about reality that you know needs or will continue to exist wars happened in germany was going to be invited to participate. so they've already lost

. their innocence on that front but there's a lot more innocence they're going to have to lose if they're going to go into power with the christian democrats and already you can see you know they're saying oh yes we are doing so well because the time of course is the heart of politics but many of the green green green are actually saying yes but you're prepared to come from eyes everything for power we almost need more radical than the greens so she's she's presenting herself she's from the pragmatic the reaal part of the party and what won't she do for power and that's when certain green voters their core vote actually start to realize that they will do anything for power there or i mean younger people are already starting to drift away looking for you know the climate fridays for future people are talking about you know if they just peel away in a photo so the greens of they've they've become mainstream and they've you could say they've grown up and the way they've elected this party you could say it's very adult but is that the strength of the greens is that why the greens exist and have they not left space for something more radical to come along and that's what i think is most interesting when i think it's also another dinner ration look at the

green vote i mean the people who used to fight that gore need to feel used to fight against all the hog all fairly nice i mean.