because the issues shaping the concert now with more time to. do all of the transfer to you what's making the hittites and what's behind the way on the streets to give you in-depth reports on the inside. w. news africa every friday on. this is deducted news coming up today india's crackdown under fire for its handling of the worsening outbreak in the country the government also stripped out of the tweets critical of its response is the government. the last crew of. all tool mourns the death of 52 sailor i was in

a submarine accident. i'm british benji welcome to news asia glad you could join us the world's 1st covered 1000 outbreak continues to spiral out of control in india for the 5th straight day on monday the country recorded more than 300000 cases the highest global surges ever recorded the increasing caseload has far outstripped available medical supplies particularly of oxygen the u.s. u.k. germany single pole and the european union among others have stepped forward with help help that's badly needed to relieve the pressure on india's overstretched health care system here's more from the democrats on the show just well. they're not so. duty to the dogs and once again just should be singing guests at once be

able to go on supplies to the single floor they're all still blissfully delete saudi arabia and other countries in the neighborhood as well even china. so little things to support the e.u.'s the us school the now knowledge that we need to ensure that any supply maxime might actually od in jest because this was well thought. you know little deception well democracy the us has been criticized for milking this up like to shoot that scene from what you did over the last few weeks but now i don't want to buy my stats and i'm glad i was accepted the what do you know i don't buy milk prices much like in us one of the us when it's right it's useless stretched during the bad ending and in the midst of the crisis in the country social media platforms like facebook and twitter have emerged as life savers literally indians are shutting pleas for help and information on

availability of beds oxygen and other medical supplies but it's also prompted criticism of the government's response to the crisis criticism that the government has decided to go after last week following a request from the government twitter blocked over 50 tweets in the india the 4 most critical of the government according to a media report the government felt these posts constituted social media misuse some of the post censored but those of organizations and opposition politicians the rich sure some of these tweets but not in their entirety as these have been banned in india a member of parliament from the opposition congress party every month of eddie's tweet pointed to the collapse of the health care system in india due to the more than 200000 cases being recorded daily. a minister in the state of west bengal molloy got alk lamented that the government

had underplayed the coronavirus situation in the country west bengal is one of the indian states worst affected by the rise in cases and for more on this i'm joined now by prefixing our he's the co-founder of all news a fact checking portal in india for the joins me now from about unrest in india think you are focused on a daily basis on weeding out fake news and misinformation online in india did most of the tweets that have been blocked meet that standard not at all there was no misinformation these are people expressing their opinions about the ground situation for example when activant promising saying that it is difficult to get medication nother you know member of parliament from another political party saying that you know the prime minister should be held responsible. a journalist a senior journalist from organization call it would be news saying that you know you criticized him out incident in which happened where the muslim community was

criticized for willingly religious congregation but you're not doing the same for those who are who are similarly his congregation in something or camilla so these are all genuine criticism that the new element of misinformation i hate and does not at all because on meet the standards of twitter as a platform to police these tweets so is the government then using its powers to block dissent on social media absolutely all of these tweets which would be considered critical of the government and the government is forcing platforms and unfortunately the platforms of buckling as well but the government is forcing platforms to adhere to certain lines where you know that dissent is corrupt but you mentioned the platforms are buckling to the government's instructions why. because in india if you have to do business you have to be friends with the

government if we keep talking about ease of business but is ease of business of friends and of we have seen this in other platforms also even in facebook there are individuals who work in very high positions who at one point of time used to do propaganda for p.d.p. so this is not a case of just one platform all platforms in india social media platforms want to do business india is a huge market for them and for them to be successful they have to be friends with the government what exactly other legal powers of the government of india has that allow or to ask source for media platforms to remove content deemed objectionable. so everything is not illegal rant right there can we use things we have seen in india that. you know for example of position political parties or media organizations recently they are subjected to income tax states raised by the enforcement directorate and things like that so go home and can. pressurize

business houses and multiple ways you know whether it's permission for a new building new land there are multiple ways in which a government can love the progress of a business it is not only in legal realms are you know through though they have also used those kind of threats that is you know if you don't take down the set of trees in the past when there's another problem at a hash tag that was stranded government you did use legal threats as well but that is not the government has more means than that to go into many business hours but over all our social media platforms are helping in the current crisis i mean the number of tweets that we have seen for example you have citizens who are meeting and organizing amongst themselves trying to find responses to this nationwide crisis is that major positive to come out of this. he does but these are 2 distinct issues definitely twitter especially has been

a huge platform for you know this kind of crowd sourcing resources and or use as a not for profit organization every month we do get our funding and twitter is one of our biggest platform to be able to do that and that is the nature of the platform and we appreciate that appreciative of that but but that that is a very distinct matter from the policing at all from their inability to take down heat speech. there are multiple times when you have written to twitter about accounts which have been suspended which come back and continue to put out hate speech and which is not which is again the policies and they don't act at all so these are 2 distinct possibilities distinct issues that you know a platform in useful and our platform is buckling under government pressure speaking of buckling under our government pressure do you see in the midst of the present coronavirus crisis is there actually an increase in misleading information and deliberate fake news that is being spread absolutely there's

a huge increase in both medical misinformation as well as political misinformation the last one year has been just. in you know any less amount of political and medical misinformation political misinformation is very closely linked in india to current affairs and it is organized that is it is used to set a narrative so and a lot of it comes from the right wing government so if things are going wrong then false negatives are created using social media so and it is done in a very organized manner and we have seen a huge uptake of it projects that are co-founder of old news thank you so much for breaking that down. thank you and this force continuing updates on the evolving coronavirus situation in india on our website that's to double dot com and on facebook and twitter as well. morning after the country's military confirmed that all 53 crewmembers of

a submarine that sank last week are dead photographs are from the wreckage of the. submarine lying on the sea floor off the island of bali at a depth of more than $800.00 the cause of the sinking is you have to be determined . to. the crew of the some kind navy vessel in happier days singing the indonesian song some part. by the. little did they know that it was a prophecy of their fate. good day kartika one of the 53 crewmembers aboard the sunken submarine. now that he's gone his family hopes that at least his body can be salvaged. since they've been declared dead according to our beliefs we pray to god almighty

so that the body of our nephew can be immediately removed from the sea that way our family can perform rituals according to our teachings. the submarine went missing last week during training exercises of the island of bali. ships and aircraft from various countries search frantically. until the navy discovered the ship's wreckage over the we can meaning there is no chance of survival. experts try to find out the cause of the sinking presidential has offered condolences to those who lost their loved ones. but i. put up with the country what the name. remember this by promoting them one rank higher and i want them with the star medal for their services and contribution and i. got the p.

. but none of the awards can bring the victims back. retrieving the wreckage and remains will be challenging if it happens that all. family members will have to be patient while hoping at least their prayers can reach their loved ones. there's more updates on our website it ever dot com forward slash despite rising numbers of coronavirus cases india continues to hold local elections some 8600000 voters eligible to cast their ballots in the state of west bank gold today the state is one of the worst affected in the current 1000 outbreak in the country massive election rallies yet in the past few months have been in part blamed for this we leave you with these images and we'll see you tomorrow at the same time.

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smart new solutions over still sending our earth is truly unique and we know that the uniqueness is what allows us to live and survive. why do you assume the environmental issues seem global 3000 on d w and on. the 93rd academy awards are now history and in many ways they made history with a scaled down in person event split between 2 locations in los angeles well look at how they reflected the changes afoot in film and filmmaking also coming up. 92 year old japanese artist was the mot is having her mark just ever retrospective in europe here in berlin and the show covers 7 decades of her work.

and in our continuing series 100 german must reads we feature austrian writer joseph ross novel joe a reworking of the good local story. welcome to arts and culture it was a very different oscars in 2021 with the upside being a very diverse lineup of nominees but meanwhile many commentators postulated that ratings would dive and that most people not being able to even see the majority of the films had simply lost interest let's see how it panned out from the center of hollywood prepared to mic to the main los angeles train station mid pandemic a nice room where this happened oh. oh. that was the best actress winner frances mcdormand who led the acting in what was named for best picture of 2020 nomad land a tale of down and out americans living out of their vehicles. and the oscar goes

to. 0 momenta round. it was directed by the groundbreaking chinese born chloe jo the 1st asian woman to take home the best director award. this is for anyone. who have the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves and into late toned down intimate event in a socially just space the winners were more diverse than in years past. and the oscar goes to. judge young you take for example korean winner you know john of the best supporting actress award from the film inari own elected thanks to my 2 boys who make me feel i would then work so. stunned oh i knew it. this is because mommy was. also

picking up a statue with the film judas and the black messiah supporting actor daniel. who in his own way offered a wait one moment it's incredible last incredible moment that. it's amazing legislator over here you mean so i'm so happy to be alive so as a result tonight. you are probably a diverse array of reactions to the top honors amid such diverse array of nominees and winners. diversity writ large at this year's oscars and of course scott roxboro joins me now on the line from bonn welcome scotched now finally it's what i feel like saying after all these years the diversity message seems to have gotten through what stood out for you this time round. well i mean the best picture but it really stood out not only because it was directed by a chinese director but also because it seems really to speak to this moment in time

i mean this is i think a moment for all of us after the year of the pandemic where we're hearing feeling vulnerable where we're perhaps more introspective and and this film really is a very introspective movie about an incredibly vulnerable woman played by frances mcdormand who has lost everything and is living out of her van as a modern day nomad. in some ways this film can be seen as almost a retelling of the american western or of the american dream story and i think it's interesting that it did strike such a chord with the academy this year because i think it's coming at a time when so many people also in america are trying to question question their national miss and the and the stories that they tell each other and i think it's very significant and and really a deserving winner for this year's oscars that's really interesting and great to see chloe's all making history in so many ways only the 2nd woman ever to win best director tell us a bit more about her as a filmmaker. yes she's fascinating i mean she's

a chinese born director but she's probably the most insider director and best seller of american underclass really in all in the whole earth her 1st 3 films and what she does is she basically embeds with the people the stories she telling and she usually works only with nonprofessional actors no matter that is the 1st time she's actually worked with professional actors with francis dormant and the rest of the cast almost the entire rest of the cast are nonprofessionals they're playing versions of themselves and what i find so fascinating about is that she's really taking a very american for the western of the road movie and giving it a completely new spin and also a very female focused point of view and i think that's what really causes her to have such strength as a director now in terms of surprises i guess the surprise ending left a few people cold. yes this is very fascinating they put the best actor award at the end usually that's her best picture goes and i think they did that because they soon like we all did that the winner would be chadwick boseman the late actor who

died last year and who was nominated for his final performance in black bottom but when the award was announced it wasn't one but anthony hopkins who won for his role playing a man suffering from dementia and the father unfortunately mr hopkins wasn't at the ceremony so instead of ending with a very touching moment in tribute to trap with those men we ended with a bit of a damp squib. ok well i'm sure the data isn't in yet but it's interesting that in the lead up to the oscars the overall interest was low many were questioning the point of all of this event especially in a pandemic year how did this ceremony work actually and is is the model outdated do you think. yet the ceremony itself i think given the conditions that had to be produced under was fine it felt felt like almost like a regular normal award ceremony but maybe that's the problem because this this format of the 3 hour long award ceremony really feels old hack by now it feels like a throwback to another era i. especially the instagram world that we live in now

maybe there's something they have to do something new to attract the younger audience or and the young fans i hope they do that for next year's ceremony that'll be interesting to see what that looks like thanks so much for that analysis scott roxboro in boston stay safe. oh when you i cruise on i was just a girl enamored with painting and drawing her mother took away her aunts and paints in the hope that she would lead a respectable life all the artists in her saw no other choice but to escape literally to new york city and emotionally into mental illness over the next 7 decades art was a way to manage her own mind and at 90 to her of the now on show digitally here in berlin is dazzling introspective and complex. huge turn circles draw us into the world of your kusama the princess of paul conducts a major retrospective at the marching gropius bow in berlin pays tribute to the 92

year old japanese artist. so the insiders realizing the desire of her to create needed like a parallel grew worse in which you know she sometimes lives it so the polka dots are way to create also for us a completely different ways of looking. creates whole new world psychedelic and disorienting from the artist had to pollution nations and anxiety attacks flashes of lights and threatening to engulf her installations put us in charge with her in a world. like that like the you know you get slightly dizzy you suddenly think oh what's happening with the floor and if you look longer on the wall you suddenly feel like i was there through the war there is this kind of going into into that so it is of course a kind of way of playing with the way we see our bijan and i think she's very good

in kind of every tainting how we can see and therefore also of course questioning you know what is the normal way of looking. for the past 40 years kusama has lived in a mental institution. in japan but by day she paints obsessive li in a studio situated across the road. i'm not sure if it is a suggestion from my illness or if i wanted to do that we because i am totally absorbed in creating the piece when i am creating my work so everything disappears around me my friends create the work. the retrospective traces her actions to generate over 7 decades of intoxicating

creativity in the 1960 s. kusama left her native japan for new york and found her place in the world of flower children political ever shocking she staged happenings against the vietnam war and against the food dish sexual morality of the time but doctors now adorns of naked bodies to some a certain both history art history she was one of the 1st you know who did make it performances and even at the time in new york that was shocking and i mean that is something of course this has has revolutionized also. that the presence of the body the idea of that we can be naked is of course sexual but it's also true of the inner ability it shows a way of how the human body connects with the environment. to some has recalibrated the world and pushed its boundaries gender boundaries personal boundaries even the boundaries of the universe and chancing and visionary she makes

lots of points about the nature of existence and leads us to ward's infinity. life is finite joseph roth only lived to be 44 years old but in his short career. he wrote a dozen or so novels and huge amount of journalism but most of those novels are habitually overlooked in the modern canon and so this week's pick of german books in translation is job his novel of jewish life in europe that we feel shouldn't be missed this is the biggest jewish cemetery in the euro bisons there in berlin here in germany jewish cemeteries will always be a reminder of the millions of jews murdered by the nazis before the holocaust most of the world's jewish population lived in eastern europe nowadays there's hardly any jewish life there left at all. and.

he was of course novel job tells about life in the shuttle or jewish village his main character a torah instructor named mendel singer faces challenges of biblical proportions like the job of the bible he survives one twist of fate after another and his horrible loss has put his faith. i am alone and i will remain alone during all these years i have loved god and he hasn't hated me all the arrows from his quiver have already had the time to kill me but he's too cruel for that. job was published in 1933 years before hitler took power but even then it was read as a swan song to the jews of eastern europe he was a poet spoke allows us to see and smell the dirt poverty and misery of the shuttle we understand mental singer's struggles with tradition his longing for freedom and his anger with god but it's also an uplifting novel full of warmth and hope the

actress and singer marlina de twice called job her favorite book maybe you will too . don't forget about our website for more arts and culture and until next time. i was going to for months here and he doesn't just. go.

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is the. international medical aid on its way to india as a country faces a devastating so cases desperately needed oxygen and ventilators will rise in the next few days from germany european union united states i'm pretty also on the program russian prosecutors suspended like saying about his opposition movement seeking to label its extremist if successful his political organization will be bought for elections from posting political material online. country hear from the

young athletes bengali gymnasts in pakistan who want to raise the bar for them. but i have struck a lot of suspicion. i'm sure welcome to the program. united states germany and the united kingdom are among the countries pledging medical assistance to india as it blake breaks global records for new covered 19 infections for a 5th consecutive day the european union and the u.s. are sending ventilators and the raw materials for foxy into a situation in india spirals out of control an overwhelmed health care system and cities are running out of medical oxygen hospital beds and even space to hold funerals but. crowds waiting

for a shot of hope as the coronavirus devastates india people keogh outside a vaccination center in mumbai even though the country is a major coronavirus vaccine maker many fear there is not enough to go around. in many parts of the country ill people are killing outside hospitals they desperately need treatment. in delhi animesh kumar is looking after a family member they'd been turned away from 2 hospitals already. all 3 an oxygen only ambulances running out his condition a serious west standing here in the middle of the road without oxygen or hope. hospitals too are running out of oxygen they are already caring for 70 patients with covert 19 that wards a full. the few deliveries that do arrive are simply not enough.

the government is rushing to open new covert 19 wards like this one a brand new center in delhi they say even more beds will be available soon. they'll even where working on increasing the number of oxygen beds on a large scale. within the next few days we will increase the capacity to see fowls and to 5000 beds. we are also preparing $200.00 beds at the intensive care unit will there be no doubt as long as that. but new hospital wards come too late for many victims of covert 19. that class cremation sites like this one outside the capital delhi. the pandemics gristly told is clear. was get more from dr.

he is the co-founder and director of india's a signal strength of hospitals and joins us from dallas welcome to day w how are your hospitals 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 asking for help. but those are not working even to capacity monday or doctors and nurses to work because we are not sure we're not oxygen will run out. and it's been burning out be been 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. 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 are at least stabilizing in them or their not increasing but heat output liebert unfortunately this wave seems to be going eastwards insult words now we are hearing that positivity to it all and all crossing even 40 percent so for the each to person that you are testing 2 people you are testing you getting one positive so the positive id it's a very high in bangalore and all the way it is increasing so we need bussing through it i think a. blessing 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 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 dividers as mutated we have seen double moved into a this is triple. well now so. this is a hugely prevalent in the north part of the north 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 to sort of sit this out and let this this inferno through the country all count the health system can the government somehow get a grip of this. so we are only trying our best to get as much of medical care as possible the fact that the. initial. first known words i think will be one of the bright factors that will stop the pandemic in its . hopefully prevent told we have coming in. delhi. 3000 beds already and they will be starting 2000 more beds in delhi with 2 locks in support of the next 3 days i think that will help in getting his people to oxygen beds in dying getting they recovered instead of letting them stay in their rooms or to places $200.00 metres father with.

a dozen or directions is full of hospital. people who come out of delhi in search of those beds which they could not find in the city. judge from cygnus hospital we wish you well and thank you for joining us thank you well here's a look at some more of today's pandemic developments starting in turkey which is entering a full lockdown from thursday to curb a surge in infections and deaths schools will be closed and intercity travel restricted until the 17th of may their opinion in the searing vaccine maker astra zeneca over delays in deliveries after the company used its supply commitment by 2 thirds this year and 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. let's turning now to other

stories making news around the world in iraq funerals have been held for some of the 82 victims of a hospital fire in baghdad officials say the blaze broke out with an oxygen tank exploded the hospital was treating some of the city's most serious 19 cases victims' families say that negligence and corruption contributed to the disaster. iran has sentenced a british iranian aid worker to another year in prison not nasa needs a guardian radcliffe has already served a 5 year term the high profile cases prompted international condemnation of british prime minister boris johnson immediately condemned the new sentence and said he was working hard to secure that are you about twitter release. the trial of a prominent to procure a dish politician has begun in turkey so how tina dimia tash was leader of the opposition h d p party and is a 2 time election challenger to president the one he's been in prison for more than 4 years on terrorism charges despite international calls for his release.

the officers are imprisoned opposition leader alexei valley have been ordered to suspend their activities this comes as a head of a ruling from a russian court that could outlaw these anti corruption foundation as extremist and threaten a supporters with long jail terms the injunction from the moscow prosecutor's office is the latest move in a sweeping crackdown against president putin's fiercest critic and his organizations. these banks contain the court transcripts the defense lawyers estimate they weigh 12 kilos but that's just the papers that are not categorized as top secret nepalis team has 3 days to read it all then the hearings begin the public prosecutor wants and found these organization to be classified as extremist claiming they pose a danger to russia's stability. has serious consequences it's all about the definition of illegal activities when an organization is officially declared

extremist then even the people who donate money can be taken to court. and the valley runs a network of regional offices they help independent candidates and raise money from the vollies anti corruption fund for more than a decade this organization has been denouncing corrupt politicians nomani says this problem goes all the way up to the highest government offices their best known video shows a palace that allegedly belongs to putin the kremlin denies this donations to this organization would be endangered if they were to be categorized as an extremist group the german government criticized russia. counterterrorism loss to suppress political criticism is not compatible with the principles of the rule of law puts the people who come over as for thursday's the next court date recently of ollie's team organized protests across the country but now they are banned from doing this again. but take a look at a couple lines of sports starting with

a football rb leipzig coach and you leonardo is in high demand german media reporting that he used to leave the club to take over from hunchy flickered by a new nick according to reports the 33 year old could cost the defending bundesliga champions around $30000000.00 euros which would be a record fee for the coach miles once current contract with leipsic runs until 2023 he made history last season by taking them all the way to the champions league semifinals. of the u.n. estimates around 4200000 people around the world are stateless they face a difficult time often denied education identity papers and basic legal rights so these are the challenges facing 2 talented gymnasts living at the moment in pakistan 4 determined to reach their potential in a world that doesn't officially acknowledge their existence sania is one of pakistan's best young gymnasts. as is her sister. but behind their smiles

lies a life of invisibility. many difficulties we have no citizenship i can't take part in international competitions i'm trying my best to get my pakistani citizenship. the girls are part of the country's bengali minority and although both were born in pakistan they remain state less the pakistani government considers some bengalis illegal immigrants they have no legal documents from either pakistan or bangladesh . according to the united nations there are millions of people like them across the world they have no nationality and no country recognizes them as citizens even if they have lived in a place for generations. 65 percent of the population of this community which is a community of $800000.00 people is. and it's a vicious cycle without citizenship the girls are stuck unable to reach their full

potential. we are at this point the best gymnastics team probably in the country we have been winning into school regularly every year for the past 4 years we are at this stage where we can go for international training where we can have access to internet so trina's which it is not possible for us to go do today some of the identity the girls have put a lot of effort into their gymnastics stream and there's been no shortage of athletic recognition. you have people i have been training here for 5 years i've won 4 awards and 2 from best gymnast and my each category. buttressed tonya and it's more than athletic recognition that's needed as long as you deny the right to a nationality is still considered invisible in the eyes of many. as d.w. news life from his remark of our top story medical aid is all the way to india as

a country faces a devastating surge of coronavirus consist to e.u. and u.s. family members of the international community sending supplies was hospitals are inundated with critically ill patients. a feature of that drug awful hard more world news of the top of the hour kris kobach your business update next after that . important news let's get right to the. smoking is healthy poster signs are good for the being. global warming doesn't exist. well not yet come for me to read my mind. the industry is controlling your thoughts here

tends to only you the rails. it's not easy to see. bought. the great books of the 20th century. present day hoaxes. and who's behind the. manufacturing ignorance starts may 3rd on. a possible shot in the arm for europe's tourism sector the e.u. is preparing to welcome american travelers again beginning this summer as the vaccination campaign in the u.s. its stride also coming up with some opening scenarios between the u.s. and the e.u. being discussed how long will african air travel still be grounded we'll get an expert's view and too few too late the e.u. commission is suing vaccine maker astra zeneca what the block claims are insufficient deliveries of colvin. i'm chris cuomo welcome to the program

for more than a year the e.u. has banned non-essential travel from most countries in an effort to limit the spread of the corona but now with ever growing parts of the us population having received a covert job the e.u. is planning to welcome u.s. travelers that have been fully vaccinated the summer. from basketball courts to ballparks a monumental effort across the united states since the start of the year means over 200000000 vaccine doses have now gone into american arms. it's bringing a full return to international travel for u.s. citizens closer and closer and some of their favorite tourism destinations are keen to welcome them back regarding the issue of travel from the u.s. to europe in particular the summer that we really start by saying that we have been following very closely the progress of vaccination indie united states and we we

seek to restore transatlantic travel as soon as it is safe to do so the return of americans this summer would come as a huge relief to e.u. member states like greece which rely heavily on holidaymakers travelers from outside the european union are enormously important to the block and over the past year the continent's tourism hotspots have been missing them in normal times the e.u. would welcome 500000000 people from overseas bringing with them 340000000000 euros in revenue with international tourism accounting for 10 percent of the use g.d.p. . the decision to allow only vaccinated americans into the e.u. comes with its challenges the study how without work what we will probably have is a framework a technical framework so an app with a coat that can show whether you have been vaccinated that can show whether you have been infected with the disease or whether you have been recently tested what

then each an individual member state will make with these results so if you have been tested negative what you can do with it that is up to each individual member states of the e.u. . well once the technology has been worked out and americans start jetting off on that flights across the atlantic europe's beaches stand ready to welcome them. but just take a look at the travel sector the aviation sector in africa around 64000000 passengers flew by air to from and within africa last year compare that figure to 29000 it was more than twice as many passengers as a result airline revenues slammed by $14000000000.00 due to the coronavirus instructions now there could be worse to come with kenya airways this month suspending its flights to the u.k. because of new coven $900.00 restrictions for travelers for more let's bring in.

pan am he's an aviation experts in johannesburg welcome to the program potential we heard about the plans for transatlantic travel here or is there some similar glimmer of hope for african carriers. good evening to give us i think the the problem that we are still facing here enough because he's upset most airline stocks national k.t.s. which is those airlines that we're operating basically across the atlantic and many other destinations and majority of them some of them to fixity close down and some of them they've ceased operation based on the bisque business rescue plans that they have voluntarily entered into so we are not necessarily spent this far as that is consent so some of the airlines that are operating amongst us again continent the low cost carrier and as well as the the this more nations that have smaller.

operations they have been trying so much that they can get back to numb on but yesterday that is the action stop preventing them from doing that and will not spend it as their affair can and i guess we are faced with a mama fuss do you think more carriers on the african continent are going to go under south african airlines has been having problems aaron to maybe facing problems what's your take on that. yes look at the coverage is going to stay with us for quite some time and disaffect and that accompany all of the airlines like south african airways which has announced that they're going to start the open a shouldn't the beginning of july sometimes in july or sometime in june which is something that we get to see and but when you look at it didn't tie up the can contain and it can you know to keep it ethiopia and then you won't move to nigeria

nigeria has started another new airline called it peace they're also trying but as to whether they're going to succeed in efforts that they have put in place in trying to sort of his the situation is fun is the person is going to say and it's something that we have to see how they're going to claim it out and write it out and sort of we can get victim of a potential one of the conditions needed for the planes to hit the skies again briefly if you weren't sure what to cut and off again continents the other. basically in. a free cup the most of what i opened so that is not a problem but the problem is that we got to go outside a 2nd continent sort of we can bring kabul we can bring that tony step was to come to offer because we know we've got to fix safari and so on but the amount of

restrictions within us and the uto prevented that to happen and we waited purely on those present just that are coming in so for us to be able to get better rights that they have to ease the restrictions so we'll be able to do with us potential more dependent here's an expert in johannesburg thank you thank you very much. now to some of the other global business stories making headlines uganda says it will ask its creditors including china and the world bank to temporarily suspend its depth payments as it struggles with the economic effects of depend the east african country is a risk of defaulting on loans after its debt load surged 35 percent last year french energy company total sated rules suspend its $20000000000.00 gas project mozambique as violence escalates the north of the country tall said it evacuated workers and cancelled contracts after a deadly jihad is attacked last month in palma just 10 kilometers from its site.

the european union has begun legal action against british swedish farmer conglomerate astra zeneca over delays in supplying its covert 19 vaccine the company is on course to deliver just a 3rd the number of doses it previously promised this quarter the european commission says the firm has failed to respect the contract contract and has quote no reliable plan for ensuring timely deliveries astra zeneca says the litigation was without merit and holds to resolve the dispute as soon as possible of the e.u. is resolved to go ahead what matters to us in this case is that we want to make sure that he's a speedy delivery of a sufficient number of doses that the european citizens are entitled to and which has been promised on the basis of the contract so the commission has indeed started siegal action on its own behalf and on behalf of the $27.00 member states that

are slightly aligned in their support for this procedure thank you now widespread testing is a critical tool for battling the spread of covert 19 and a cost that many businesses are now having to shoulder like in germany where workplace testing has recently become mandatory. you know bookseller much you know tittle has to offer her staff a coronavirus test twice a week with her business already under strain because of the pandemic the additional costs are hard to bear if you had to live a life going through the financial burden for a small store like this is extremely. including part time staff like we're a team of 8. this sets us back to 1000 euros over a 6 week period. that's really a lot of money you see if you get it. but regionally the tests had to be carried out by train staff or an external service she says this would not have been possible without taking out

a loan now staff can administer their own tests at home. dr tells me i mean since we work several days per week you would really have to take a test every day i don't mind out of myself as question of this i don't know if it is a reliable as you think the accuracy rate the 70 percent and. 200 kilometers further north in the state of mecklenburg western pomerania the 50 staff at this power plant have been getting tested since march the test kits cost $5000.00 euros a month masks and disinfectant and to the cost employees are also offered a free meal to limit their risk of getting infected outside the workplace. prone to exclaim fish for food it's really important for us there are 3 shifts a day we need to do this in order to make sure it remains operational as i think it would be a catastrophe if we had staff hour during shifts we wouldn't have enough people to fill in when we can barely find cover or call for. pamela bogan haagen from the

north german business association is calling on the government to offer more financial support. probably i want to go on said i if there are a whole lot of companies especially small and medium sized enterprises that are really struggling to pay for this they are demanding that the government consider how to support these companies as to cover these costs but of course me going on the bookseller much isn't holding out much hope of that happening with a pandemic showing little sign of abating she's left with no choice but to fend for herself. portugal is the largest producer of lithium in europe and one day it could be home to the largest mine on the continent for our mental which is an essential component for batteries used in mobile phones or electric vehicles but opposition to the plan is growing. no to mining yes to life that's the slogan used by protesters or poles to a mining project a plan to me also in northern portugal while these mountains are rich in lithium

locals do not want this to become europe's let him producing hub. the freak you kill usually the most my brothers and i grew up here keeping the cults that's why for me it's even more meaningful because i know this area ever since i was a kid. we. i'm not against lithium but i'm not in favor of polluting my village and other villages like mine to to pollute cities that are the if you will i dunno the region is recognized as a place of important agricultural heritage by the un british minor savannah resources plans to invest more than 100000000 year olds in the project it is now trying to allay fears that mining operations will destroy the local way of life so riches are under the steiner who designs your best practices and we have a whole. management. to deal with. the

projects development they are hoping portuguese authorities will give it the green light as soon as possible but for many here a sustainable mining project sounds like an oxymoron. thanks for watching every selfish successful that. the fight against the coronavirus 10 damage. has the rate of infection in developing. the latest research. information and context around a virus update. on t w. i'm fearful *. that's the promise of the moment chris still mad. but the only one dancing that way how i am the

criminal content of what internationally. during freezing a brutal we investigate the german border. chris uhlmann. 16. it's tough being a teenager at the best of times during the pandemic it's so much worse home schooling no hanging out with friends massive stress all because of code 19 in fact more and more young people are getting infected in germany the number of cases among teens rose 11 percent adolescents have until recently been tested less because they aren't as impacted by the virus but they could be asymptomatic carriers recent outbreaks or be.