indian officials of hospitals scramble to secure oxygen as the crisis threatens to turn into a catastrophe hospitals are overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers of critically ill patients and with hundreds of thousands of new infections each day medical experts warn it will get worse in the weeks ahead also on the program more than 80 people die after a fire sweeps through a covert war in baghdad hospital minister calls for an investigation.

and. beat preventing them from claiming their 9th straight championship at least for another week. and a warm welcome to our viewers around the world on michael. we begin in india where life saving oxygen supplies are running out threatening to turn what is already a public health crisis into a catastrophe the government is already diverting supplies from industry in a desperate attempt to help those in need but with new infection rates breaking global record for a 4th consecutive day the worst could be yet to come. overwhelmed and under supplied this delhi hospital is one of thousands across india besieged by

the country's 2nd coronavirus wave as the dead are carted off patients too sick to move languish on the pavement. helplessness spills into anger. her mother on the verge of death a woman tries this hospital is useless. inside there's almost no room to stand and patients are forced to share beds there's disbelief that hospitals are under equipped to deal with a crisis distraught relatives appeal to the government for help. please. do something and these releasing some hope to the plight of people needed here we believe but it is here we've made here you can leave wards here everybody leave injections. even the medicine health experts blame the surgeon

a highly contagious variant it hit after the government declared victory over the virus in january now it's verging patients. nobody but it got better when encountered with serenity and they shouldn't most people get well by taking care of themselves at home. there's no need to create panic and run to hospitals for little things for service but oxygen and medicine are not little things for people battling to breathe with the underfunded health system in a state of paralysis others are stepping in to help the sikh temple in delhi has secured oxygen for the infected you'll remember their move girl members there are people dying at home because they lack oxygen and others who aren't getting any help from the administration or a hospital we're going to go and we are helping to save lives on the border and without regard to our authorities are now diverting in dusty. oxygen for medical use and wrapping up efforts to get it to hospitals quickly but even when supplies

arrive india will need more than just oxygen to contain its devastating 2nd wave. in delhi delhi has declared a lot dan can you tell us more about that news michael of delhi has declared a highly anticipated lockdown it was already under curfew but now the local government has decided to extend that like another week jenny now the cases of good are not 19 and the number continues to rise 357 people who died overnight are not their records and this is just your perception. that the only way that the court this tide of these infections was to take strict measures to stop them to meet the contact and the government said that this is the only weapon to stem the flow of more infections and bring down the

positivity rate which had gone up to some 37 percent the last couple of days it's gone down to 29 percent so this this trend has continued because the situation in. yeah those images we've been looking at are showing that critical nature i'm curious have asked the national government for supporting getting oxygen how is the government responding. when did india has a federal structure so that they don't keep government agency says it needs more have their local government says they have 700 what they need to 700 tons of great oxygen or that they have 50 percent of that so they've appealed to the national government the national government says it and do all it can but the local government is also these 2 other states in india see who ever has any self this oxygen to send it to delhi because there is an oxygen emergency and the national

government on its. own india meeting yesterday with the prime minister. leave on missions how to make the supplies of oxygen oxygen kargil is he created the air force is being mobilized on forces. to bring the oxygen oxygen has been and if to singapore and. i'm not sure if that is the meat john is of the essence. all hands on deck only about half a minute here i mean but is india getting support from other countries absolutely given the kind of emergency that you're seeing in india has passed the common good generally has offered 25 oxygen generating if you're going to live here in a few days the united states the u.k. or offers france as well as russia said it's going to have oxygen equipment as rent as insulin does so yes a lot of credit coming in but as i said. yes and it's a matter of life and death the. delhi bureau chief and rita as always thank you

very very much. to iraq now at least 80 people have been killed and 100 more injured after a blaze broke out in a covert ward of a baghdad hospital wrecks prime minister must off economy has called for an investigation into the cause of the blaze and declared 3 days of national mourning . it's the stuff of nightmares a covert war would overrun with smoke and flames patients who were already struggling to breathe now on the verge of suffocating. the. rescuers search for survivors in the dark of the night pulling body after body from the gutted wards. these video posted on social media claims to show the moment an oxygen tank exploded and started the fire out.

c in just a matter of minutes the situation is out of control. all of that in the beginning there was an explosion it started from there the 2nd explosion was over there i found a girl suffocating she must have been about 19 and she was suffocating she was about to die. the event has filled anger about a health care system worn down by decades of neglect and left on able to cope with the pandemic officials say the hospital had no fire protection system and that fall ceilings helped spread the blaze the prime minister has now suspended the health minister amidst public outrage. iraq has already been struggling to control curve of 19 on wednesday the number of current of r.'s cases

the past 1000000 the highest of any arab state. let's turn now to some other stories making headlines around the world protesters in paris have rallied near the eiffel tower after france's supreme court upheld a ruling that a man who killed a jewish woman in 2017 will not stand trial. push 65 year old sara halimi out of the window of her flat the court ruled there was not criminally responsible. indonesian president joko widodo has sent his condolences to the families of 53 sailors after their submarine sank at sea the debris of the missing vessel was located on the seabed off the island of bali with all crewmembers aboard confirmed dead. a state of emergency has come into effect in tokyo in an effort to stem a widening corona virus outbreak department stores bars and theater will stay closed for the next 17 days and japan's capital 3 months before the city hosts the summer

olympics. well here in germany authorities are switching gears in the fight against the pandemic after months of struggling to contain a severe 3rd wave of the virus titer national restrictions were put in place this weekend including a controversial overnight curfew our reporter kate brady was out in the capital. it's saturday night in berlin friedrichs signed a strict with just minutes to go before the new curfew kicks in at 10 pm enough time to grab a quick beer all some late night food for the road. right on cue is the clock strikes 10 many local shops begin to roll down the shutters minutes later police arrive to class struggle as from the square. according to federal rules repeated violators of the measures risk a hefty fine of up to 25000 euros for most tonight though it's just

a polite request to head home the restrictions on movement during the late hours have been met with mixed responses. it's annoying but. he was the freedom to foster. acts of. the day we accept it but we can completely understand that it was a gun firstly. i don't think people infected each other so much outside its dimensions he saw us and. our crew i think people will just go home together and keep on partying that that's a problem for the spread of the infection and it's counterproductive. by almost midnight the streets of largely clean it troubled by public transport or by car is only permitted for specific exceptions including work and emergencies between 10 pm and midnight walks and runs are also still allowed including for germany's 4 legged residents now the question remains exactly how long will this even be allowed to

stay in place with several constitutional complaints around the country threatening to already bring the measure to an end should germany's constitutional court indeed rule that the curfew is unlawful it will be a huge blow not least of all to german chancellor angela merkel has been pushing for months for stricter a more uniform response to the pandemic. for now though there will be many. it's a night in berlin and beyond. a bit of sports now and in the bundesliga by in munich travelled to mines on saturday knowing a win would seal the league championship but mines have come out fighting in recent weeks as they bid to avoid relegation and they served up a shock that put viands title campaign on ice. when this league of fans had seen this movie before buying the main feature. of the star in another title with the inevitable happy ending. minds were cast as the fall guy but they hadn't read the

script a 6 game unbeaten run has breathed new life into their bid to speak relegation and they showed their renewed confidence when you're not on work hard you could frontage of and characteristically generous goalkeeping from manuel neuer to put them up after just 3 minutes. and they weren't finished their. drop in price on scored on 37 minutes to double binds his lead. the battle scarred hosts went into the break up against by on for the 2nd time this season last time they shipped 5 without reply in the 2nd half but this time they held firm repelling by onslaught as the champions attacker after attacker. was the man foil this time. he did grab his usual goal 4 minutes into injury time as he posed on alexander to make it 36 league goals for

the season an inch closer to miller's record but it came too late for biron to turn things around and. they must wait a little bit longer to celebrate a 9th street title but the day belonged to months they celebrated as if they'd already avoided the drop coach bill stenson will be delighted to have dealt their relegation rivals a huge sigh. the logical flow. we've got more dortmund beat byrd to nail on saturday to keep their champions league hopes alive and they have a pair of goals from erling howland to thank for a major blunder by ridley baku fed the ball straight to hell and who needed no 2nd invitation to open the scoring it was the young no regents 24th goal of the season and with dortmund a man down in the 2nd half howland netted his 25th the 2nd most in the league there was no stopping him as a forward with only the keeper to beat. up

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