may 3rd. this is a line from international aid to heads to india as the country faces a. desperately needed. in the next few days from the european union. also on the program russian. political party extremist if successful his group.

the academy awards. china she also becomes the 1st woman of color to take. to the program. you know as it states germany and the united kingdom are among the countries pledging medical aid to india as it breaks global records for new cope with 19 infections for the 5th consecutive day european union and the u.s.

is sending ventilators in the wrong materials needed for vaccines the situation is critical or spittal beds are scarce full vital medical oxygen is in short supply. seriously ill cope with 19 patient arrives at the hospital in a rickshaw but he has turned away a side that side displays the number of available intensive care beds. my father 70 years old last night i bought an oxygen tank on the black market for about 440 euros but it's empty there are no beds and no oxygen. india's doctors are comparing this wave of infections through a tsunami this special clinic in delhi is overflowing with severely sick patients. at the entrance to the hospital patients like to see stone trolleys.

please. do something and these releases from the white people lead you to believe it to be with you. at the beginning of the year indian prime minister narendra modi declared the country had beaten the virus with it saw an upcoming elections the government allows huge political rallies to go ahead. and despite rapidly rising infections it also permitted millions to gather for the komei the largest religious gathering in the world where hindu pilgrims pay then the river ganges gatherings are now limited to $500.00 people but the fires has already spread rapidly scientists are fearful about the weeks ahead only 10 percent of the population has been vaccination it. you've got a good government should send people door to door to vaccinate they should concentrate on the us. germany's among the countries sending urgently needed medical supplies as inject comes to grips with the scale of the catastrophe.

he's the co-founder and director. of hospitals he joins us from delhi welcome to. how your hospital is coping. it's much worse than you can imagine. as a doctor as an entrepreneur who is being used to being in control of my life i've never worked for anyone as soon as a result of medical school i became an entrepreneur and i'm used to making decisions and getting them implemented but i feel so helpless now i get more than 500 calls every day from people last thing for beds asking for our city and asking for help. but those are not working even to capacity even though our doctors and nurses are very good to work because we are not sure when our oxygen will run out. and it's been burning out we be scrambling to get patients to safety is going to

have billing to operate rental or does without oxygen be done on hands it's. i hope we needed a beautiful help and i am trying to do your channel that now if we have that people are flying in. instruments and offices and concentrators in doing that things will become better cases are the numbers out at least stabilizing in the north nordic pleasing but it up early bird unfortunately this way of seems to be going eastwards and southwards now. we are hearing that positivity to all and all crossing even 40 percent so for each to every person that you are testing 2 people you are testing you are getting one positive so the positive id it's a very high in bangalore and all the way it is increasing so we need busing through it i think. project will keep broadway want to other parts of the why

hasn't it been hit so badly. so i think we i called it does not me but i think it's even worse than the tsunami we it's like an inferno in the tsunami at least if you cling on to something and let it pass or what do you survive but it's like an inferno it will burn anything that instead of having people dying in their homes and not even getting a. clue bags are not available i think the sheer size of the population and the fact that there are big metropolitan cities congested areas and the miners as we have seen double moved into why this is triple. as well now so . this is a hugely prevalent in the north part of the northern part of the country so a mix of all these factors i think is leading to this huge and for no that's

engulfing it getting it spot so does this mean that india just has a sort of this out and this inferno through the country or can the health system can the government somehow get a grip of this. so we are only trying to get as much of medical care as possible the. vaccination. i think we'll be one of the price factors that will stop the pandemic and it's. hopefully. we have coming in the fact that. there's any $3000.00 beds already and they will be starting 2000 more beds in delhi . in support of the next 3 days i think that will help in getting his people to offices in beds in getting them recovered instead of letting them stay in. 2 places

200. or detections is full of hospital. people who come out of those beds which they could not find in the city. from cygnus hospital we wish you well and thank you for joining us thank you is a. pandemic to from the european union is suing fat c. make astra zeneca. deliveries after the company reduced its supply commitments by 2 thirds this year hong kong and singapore have confirmed that launching a travel bubble in my travels will be allowed to fly between the cities without going into quarantine if they meet strict conditions and israel's health ministry says it is examining whether cases of hot inflammation a link to the pfizer vaccine most reported in men under the age of 30.

nice weather stories making headlines around the world starting in iraq where funerals have been held for some of the 82 victims of a hospital fire in baghdad officials say the blaze broke out when an oxygen tank exploded the hospital was treating some of the city's most severe kovi 19 cases victims' families say negligence and corruption contributed to the disaster. iran has sentenced a british iranian aid worker to another year in prison now the names are garri radcliffe was already served a 5 year term the high profile cases prompted international condemnation british prime minister boris johnson immediately condemned the new sentence and said he was working hard to secure mr nasa mean god iraq's 1st release. german president from delta steinmeier is in paris to meet french president emmanuel macro world they'll discuss european policy in the ongoing response to the covert 19 pandemic that is the french capital is president stan meyers 1st foreign trip since september reflects

a close ties between the 2 countries countries. of course and russia has ordered organizations connected to jailed opposition leader alexina valley to freeze their operations the course is now considering banning mist in the valleys anticorruption foundation and its regional network as prosecutors accuse them of political extremism this is the latest state crackdown against the let's say in the valley as a force of political opposition of germany has condemned the code who've been declaring it unacceptable to use anti terror on those gates political opponents. we can go now to moscow where we joined d.w. correspondent aren't tilton welcome and what effect will these moves have. well basically if the anti-corruption foundation is found to be an extremist organization long term it would basically freeze all of their operations moving forward it would ban their symbols prevent them from actually carrying out any

business in the country and actually slap anybody who continues to work with the organization with lengthy prison terms now we know the head of the organization if they continue to work with the anti corruption foundation and kept it open could face lengthy prison sentences and i think more than anything else what is a bit more chilling is that even people on the ground level in the grassroots level could be looking at jail terms if they continue to work with the organization now it comes at a very inopportune moment both for lex and evolving and the anti-corruption foundation especially moving into this year's parliamentary elections later this fall well the presumption age old being distracted by president putin some so what is it it's about missed in the valley and his organization that the appears to so concern president putin. well i'm not at the sure that concern is the right word of anything i'd say because both president putin and his government patience has run out with election of all the and the team surrounding

him well you have to remember election only is the most prominent opposition figure within the russian country or the russian federation his popularity is only around 20 percent and more than 2 and a half times that amount of people actually say they disapprove of him and the actions of his anti-corruption foundation so you know they are still kind of on the side of the body politic or the mainstream as it were instead because of his branch of 37 offices around the country they've proven to be kind of a potent force for grassroots organization outside of moscow and st petersburg that's part of the reason i think you've seen such an unprecedented wave of protests in recent years kind of spilling out of the major liberal centers in moscow and st petersburg and actually spreading out to a large part of the country now during the last parliamentary elections they were able to use that network to give president putin his supporters a little bit of a black eye and that appears to be something that the mainstream political elite really hope to prevent moving into this year's elections

a quick word on alexei leval they himself how is he doing since the abandoned his hunger strike. well he has either completely abandoned or still is still in the process of slowly taking on solid food and again and we do know that doctors he trusts have been to see him and to check him out now he's still complaining of back pain and numbness in his limbs and the doctors who had the chance to take a look at him his state basically say that they think it's still some type of lingering damage from his nova truck poisoning last year now they're recommending that he actually be brought to moscow so he can seek treatment from a specialist but that's not likely a step that the russian government is likely to allow to talk with you thanks for joining us state only correspondent out until 10 in moscow. prominent politician. the leader of the h d p party of a destroyed president. majority. against him has been in court several times

the opposition politician has been behind. despite consistent international pressure on the court of human rights ordering his release. 2015 at the height of his political success a free man as co-chair of the program h d p he delivered a dramatic blow to president dredge of tired and one the h d p one enough seats to destroy the parliamentary majority of edwin's ruling a party. he was arrested the following year beginning an odyssey of court cases and appeals that have kept him behind bars ever since. my husband is in jail because he and his party have been fighting for equality for democracy and for peace here in the country he mounted an effective opposition this is his only crime to the turkish government on the other hand sees the h

d p is the political arm of the militant p k k which it considers a terrorist organization and. as an enemy of the state. his prolonged detention has been met by protests the 40 year old faces dozens of separate charges and the judiciary is under heavy pressure but no matter what happens a court we will continue our struggle for the truth. during a recent visit to uncurl e.u. commission chief funday line urged president to take action on a ruling by the european court of human rights in december the court again order turkey to immediately released from jail. we have been for example discussing the fact that the european.