arms and legs so that demand goes forward and what this is all mean for his flight . well he's still obviously been in prison he was this week transferred to a different prison which has medical ward tuberculosis ward actually his lawyers say that he still is considered by the prison service to be a flight a flight risk so essentially he might you know flee the prison and that means that prison guards check on him periodically including at night which means that they are waking him every few hours the prison service itself has said that his health is satisfactory but it does according to his supporters there is still some risk to his health even now that he's called off the hunger strike he himself says that it will be difficult to come out of this hunger strike that will take 3 weeks as well

according to his post and recently he's been complaining of this back pain that i mentioned but also according to recent blood tests he may be at risk for kidney failure or even heart failure so i think we have to watch this space and it does seem that he is still not out of the woods even now that he has stopped his hunger strike and how have people in russia where you are really your react to to this story to this development. well i think it's worth pointing out that most russians or many russians at least still don't really know who i see now viney is most people aren't necessarily following the story state t.v. doesn't report on it even though he has you know gained more refuge here i think recently with the poisoning last year with his return to russia and also his arrest more people do now know him but among his supporters i think many of those people will be now breathing a sigh of relief after all this week we saw big protests across the country calling

for doctors to be able to see alex a nonviolent people were really worried at those protests that he could be dying some people were even on hunger strike with him over a 100 people across roth russia apparently were on hunger strike with him so i think those people will certainly be very relieved at this announcement d.w. correspondent reporting from moscow thank you. and we turn our attention now to india that country has reported the world's highest daily count of new coronavirus cases for the 2nd day in a row more than 330000 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours well now more and more countries are closing their borders to travelers from india all the spike in infections is a 2nd which much more intense wave after infections dropped off in the winter months experts say new virus variants and recent super spreader gatherings have contributed to the latest surge. mourning their loved ones who

died at this hospital not from cove of 19 but from a fire that broke out while patients were sleeping the blaze was fueled by the oxygen so desperately needed to keep many covert 900 patients alive more than a dozen people died after the intensive care unit was engulfed in a ball of fire. unfortunately made a bit off of quite a bit of 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. and it was completely overwhelmed within 2 minutes norman had to make them to be a problem who're. 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 big cannot be vaccinated out of it being put on by many things are not so good. volunteers are working around the clock to cremate and bury the dead. even if it is night even though i finished the last father day because so much of the body so that is the reason if you want to finish all the and then go home. several countries have imposed travel restrictions on india to keep the new variant from also overwhelming them. i'm now joined by sure he is secretary of indian a public health association delhi and the vice president of the indian association of epidemiologists to a very warm welcome us or thank you so much for joining us i mean very bleak situation in india horrifying scenes that we've just been seeing very palpable fear

. where the government i mean the government seems to have completely lost control of the situation right now. yes drew this is a very grave situation we're facing not only in one part of the country but the whole country all the states are facing the similar kind of situation and there because of bad as you know the b.s.a. hughes population and below we have 162000000. and point 1000000 deaths and have the dva been point 3000000 cases so it's a huge burden on on the system unfortunately the feds but a population by country you know 1000 oblation is very less as compared to any western world and the problem is the distribution of the bits in india you know in

some estate you will find a point. you know bates 101001000 population but enough there you will not find the body into the any standard because of the my distribution of you know these beds having broken. the number is increasing and the problem is because of the you know the people. taking it that he lately taken in very lightly has been some complacency sorry for interrupting you there but i mean the money government is also frankly well has failed in this situation you've got hospitals literally sending out an s.o.s. they are not getting the oxygen they need to save lives the vaccination scheme is in shambles you are the world's producer of vaccines so you know what has the government of mr modi doing to help his caple.

modeler meant business and development in the you know run by the state got named and they've stayed he's actually governing the health and that is way there are a lot of flow carbonation is required menu and it is feed and that is way knowing something you know it is totally. so you take the scent that many more things has to be done but it is not according to what is expected although we are good in many things but bad in other things now let's talk about this double variant that what frankly is that what the world is now very worried about as well so when we share it double vary and does this mean cove with 2.0 or does this mean something else because it really strikes fear in the hearts of many people your double reading means that the matters of the video which is phoning you can be as

easy and you know the i phone in a single person in some of this state and that is way become you know difficult for us because they have more of the really and more pathogenic it is a spreading faster and you do some time you know escaping from the you know antibodies the general inherent immunity which is there in the body the problem now is because of the panic to get authentic that the fear in the population and that is why those are who are being off you know maybe you know substances like you know oxygen and be lateral drugs and you know occupying the beds so that is the problem you know that for felician itself is independent but is weight many of the god meant it in he said feeling here to kake sure are secretary of indian public health association delhi and vice president of and your association of epidemiologists are thank you for joining us and. and we have some breaking news to tell you about

moments ago a woman police officer has been stabbed to death in a police station near paris her attacker also shot and killed by officers at the scene and. the motive of the assailant is yet unknown french authorities are not ruling out a link to terrorism. or the latest on these breaking developments like to bring in the catherine field that she is monitoring the situation from paris not far from the scene where this all took place catherine what more have you learned here is that this stabbing took place in the early afternoon in a home that's around 60 kilometers southwest of paris a female administrative assistant at the police station was stabbed to death as she was going through the secure entrance of that police station we know that she was 49 years old a mother of 2 children she was step to death by a 36 year old man a man believed to be of 2 new zealand origin who had moved to france in 2009 he of

course they come to place when police shot him dead just a few minutes ago the french prime minister has a right to the scene and his 1st words when he got to the scene was to say that the republic has lost one of its true heroines and he said this is a barbaric jest yet of unlimited cowardice and i understand the prosecutor's office has now started a pro. yes they have and they have handed it over in the last few minutes to the terrorist investigations antiterrorist investigators always take over these incidents these types of instance if they believe there is a terrorist link at the moment we don't know whether the perpetrator had any links to any type of the terrorist organization we do know police didn't have or that are telling us at this stage they don't have any file on him ie it hasn't been flagged

at any other time as being alerted by any type of terrorist links that he may have had are there high tensions between police and members of the public at the moment . police have been a target in france fairly regularly since about 2015 if you may recall in the same area western paris mannion vote 2015 also the ministry of assistant in a police station there and her husband was stabbed to death in their homes police stations of frequently being undertaken pretty much anything that's a symbol of the french state has been considered to be a target if you like since those early days in 2015 when we had the attack on the charlie hebdo magazine and that later 2015 but take lot and those attacks that happened here in the center of paris so it's not unusual certainly when you look back at the last few months these types of attacks and have not just looking back

through my files here october 29th we had an attack on a church a nice a man 3 people dead there october 16th last year a school teacher also in the west of paris was beheaded in front of his school and of course we've just got a whole list of those going back anything that seems to be a symbol of the french state is very much considered a target at the moment catherine field reporting from paris thank you for your updates. thank you. let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making headlines around the world. china's president is that he has been laid to rest in the capital germany after his sudden death on tuesday mr devaney was an ally of western states in the fight against the hardest the red the army says he died in a rebel offensive just hours after he won a 6th term in office. moscow says over 20 ships that were turned into their

permanent black sea base after taking part in military exercises there crimea russian troops also begun pulling back a massive buildup of russian military close to the ukrainian border worried kiev and the international community. there have been violent scuffles between israelis and palestinians outside jerusalem's old city after protesters were barred from areas where muslims gather for ramadan israeli police put a barricades they use stun grenades to disperse the crowds the far right jewish group chanted anti arab slogans and was prevented from marching to the area. now sir and commercial rocket company space x. that launched a new team on a flight to the international space station the 4 astronauts of the 1st crew ever propel to word orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a previous spaceflight well it is the 3rd time asked not to fly on

a private rocket to space flight which is them billions. rescuers searching for 3 migrant ships missing in the mediterranean say they have found 10 bodies in the sea the search party aboard the ocean viking found the bodies alongside a dinghy that had gone adrift the rubber bridge was one of the 3 that had issued a distress signal the ocean viking belongs to a french migrant rescue group it says it has it was conducting the search for the boats in international waters north east of the libyan city of tripoli. and on a related. migration and displacement is of course a global problem turkey currently hosting more than 4000000 refugees from the mideast numbers surge during syria's civil war which began 10 years ago but today most migrants trying to reach europe from turkey they're not syrians but afghans their journey is always dangerous and often deadly. reports from the eastern

turkish city of on where many of those journeys have ended in tragedy. cemetery of the nameless this is how the locals call this place and for a mean a sufi saga and her son parviz it is always difficult to come here. painful memories or reawakened. motherhood that is it didn't make going to get you 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 not active but if you get it that is why i'm ina and power of this pray here on behalf of everyone else that alone that they fled from of coniston via 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 without a time 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. the name 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 afghanistan 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 could chance has a wall 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 sectors 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 of a sufi saad is 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. than they were 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 a children or me but 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. yulia reporting there. i'm going marco faced 5 hours of questioning today over one of germany's largest corporate scandals the chance to testify before a parliamentary committee that's investigating the collapse of the payment

processing company wire card while lawmakers wanted to know why chance americal continue to promote the german company abroad despite multiple allegations of wrongdoing her appearance marks the climax of a public inquiry into an affair that has tainted germany's reputation for following the rules while it has exposed ties between hala tics and business and prompted several resignations and criminal investigations all right let's get you on the latest developments now where the cocoa fair is on the story that she's our d.w. chief political editor mikhail tell us about the latest developments. but angela merkel was very much on the defensive and you could see that she herself was surprised by some of the connections that she was quizzed about the fundamental question is why she received the wooden back he's a former minister in her cabinet and only a few days later than raises wire card then knowing that barack was

a lobbyist for wire card well she says she didn't at that point in time and that she no longer has contact with him. she says that this payment service fit into an overarching policy that she had that germany had anyway which was trying to secure market access to particular in the financial sector into china that much her defense but still question marks over her chief economic advisor. how much he knew when and how much his wife was involved in potentially working on behalf of wire cards so this at least raises many questions as well incident. the optics of all of this not very good. absolutely not and although the finance minister who's from the social democrats responded pretty swiftly with the announcement of an overhaul of germany's financial regulator the baffin this leaves

a lot of questions in the room over lobbying and how much access companies to tap angela merkel says that she tries not to work with lobbyist as she advises everybody within the chancery to always go directly to the companies and listen to what they have to say although there were attempts to get more commitment from her side on a lot we were just hotly debated here in germany with particular greens and this is the democrats pushing for more information she wasn't drawn on that at all it's safe to say though that this tarnishes her image of a smooth operation and a transparent operation in the chancery but how much does it tarnish her in terms of her legacy i mean we're in the final months of her term as chancellor of germany will this have a lasting effect on her personal legacy while this was at best her being tricked by a former minister and at worst being very badly informed because she was still lobbying for wild card when there were financial times reports out really questioning.

whether this company was really conducting proper business will leave a suspect i would say on an otherwise fairly solid refutation but it won't make as much as a different pandemic which is clearly questioning her credentials as a crisis manager as a crisis manager became a committee to be chief political editor thank you for your reporting. now european football's governing body you wafer says munich will remain one of the host cities for the european championship following a meeting today well munich had been at risk of losing its hosting rights to choose a new way forward quire meant that spectators should be allowed to attend on our local authorities and the german football a federation have agreed on a plan that would allow some fans inside the city's allianz arena despite the pandemic bilbao and dropped out as host of cities after they failed to provide the

same guarantees. check the start here is a come from behind win on the running track you have never seen it happened in the u.s. state of utah where the girls 4 by 200 meter relay seem to be an easy win for the home school but out of the crowd came. the hound tearing down the track and across the finish line 1st holly rather without a relay baton but she did get a prize for her crowd pleasing sprint. go holly go you're watching the news here's a writer of the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour. alex in about he says he's ending his hunger strike after $24.00 days the jailed kremlin critic made the announcement in an instagram post doctors told him to continuing the strike would put his life in danger and a french police officer has been stabbed to death in paris thank you so very much

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