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i'm british welcome to news asia glad you could join us more than 3000 people have died of covert 19 in india in the last 24 was a new record for the country this makes india only the 4th country in the world after the united states brazil and mexico to cross 200000 deaths during the coronavirus pandemic this at a time that india added more than 1000000 cases in just the past week alone the reality of these deadly numbers plays out in india's hospitals and medical facilities every day stretched to the limit they are running out of supplies primarily oxygen people desperate for systems have done to social media pleas for help are being posted and those who can are responding with information on

platforms like facebook instagram and twitter. such as this he was in mumbai who is saying that oxygen is available for those in delhi and the sikh temple in gaza about city in northern india this user in the southern city of bangalore posting verified information about someone who can help deliver medicines to elderly patients staying alone and this group of covert volunteers in western india with again very find information about beds and oxygen being available in the city of not poor in western india. and joining you know the possum responsible for that last tweet you saw imitation thing from team india he joins me from putting in western india and we also have a young who is working in the city of bhopal in central india to help those battling the current crisis welcome to both a few things i'd like to come to you 1st how are you collecting information and being able to verify what you are posting is the basic.

idea what it is. across the nation and boarded with information. and information social media. can. be that if i do every day reading all the linked in it because then and even if i do and then people's information on. how would you know as i understand you are doing much the same thing as mutation in bhopal but you are also helping out with the community kitchen in your city. yeah viet a 151 and then some of them are to help a nobody getting ventilate those and beds for people but that a large number of attending so what's the big thing outside the hospital get not allowed to go in and the family members that inside and it's

a long endless wait and since it's still down and that on most shops open so restock decided to stock a community kitchen for them it's a good outsourced thing and people have generously donated and get stuck to the kitchen baby can give them food water. all of these things so that you know bill becomes addicted better but it. is time that you set up team as source india last year as the 1st wave of corporate infections was hitting in india and i need to mention here that you want and in maharashtra state which is possibly the worst affected state in terms of corporate infections in india did you ever imagine that things would ever get these spat. like in defoe's to the lake and it was like they were not had a lot of discord again they synthetics nation was it people are getting it's needed he never taught there the even if he does it can be led i mean does. this much

impact i get it was not we had imagined. it is something that hits me hard as well because i would never have imagined like you in it is potentially that things would ever. become as bad as they are in india and therefore pooja i wonder if you think it is essentially left to citizens such as yourself and need to organize help because the system is not being able to cope. it's a huge prices and the government is doing what it can and to the best up its ability and i feel that everybody has to join hands and you know somehow back to the situation and sitting at home via deceiving callers and sometimes people are just bad making also so be they go squads and give back to give them some emotional

support because it's not family also so many people article but positive and everybody has gone through a similar. thing so we can you know counsel them help them and the in fact one tree has to unite and everybody has to stand together the government is going what did you also have to nice to the occasion i think. busta mean for you i mean as buddha was saying i think nearly every indian or somebody who's been affected by this crisis what is it like for you to be able to run this network of volunteers and to provide information to other people knowing full well that people in your circle might be affected so basically think lee my fiance got to take. guard last month it was like i've never talked like that in my family haven't seen somebody how they thinking if they caution and if that thing sold this is something of an icon i cannot see that that is something

i don't do that he cannot imagine what that what is happening i don't have the facing new problems. do you think india could have been better prepared for a potential 2nd wave. i am actually the fausto we have that tape as it was a lot of the migrant labor but you know it came as a joy we know what. the bear. was by the need to know about the situation when this bad because the frost it wasn't so severe so i didn't i don't think anybody expected this like i know my mother to school because it i know i am going through the same thing and that have so many others also and it's happening in every house so the magnitude you want all of this going on nobody could have imagined you know mit is one last question to you do you think the work that you're

doing through team india s.o.s. when only keep expanding and the what that you would have to show in the on a daily basis will only become more and more as we go along into the next few weeks . i can tell you that because not expanding i don't want to say or did you have a decade of one thing to be thinking of going to people. and it takes the most going deeper than even the time mind bloody quest so we have elated i know and accordance in the $62770.00 won't be but i'm joining in today so and the even have this much stand to be a not too late yes didn't see flake the whole give more and we have left people in the us. we leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us if they are seeing and younger thank you very much for their fuel for the work that

you're doing for finance citizens thank you with india struggling countries around the globe have been lining up to provide help oxygenate for funds and other supplies of i from u.k. with more on the way from australia germany and other countries. also the worldwide indian diaspora is contributing what it can hear some london based volunteers sharing their experience the temple was very quick in setting up a fund raising campaign. and you know it was overwhelming support our online websites the telephones here at the temple ringing hard and fast i have phone calls coming from our pakistani friends and muslim friends they want to have a look look listeners please advise with charity we can do it we want to do it because it's not it's not your problem it's the united states humanity problems

whatever we can do we should out it is so so yes they are coming together and we had reached over $100000.00 pounds of donations which we transferred quickly to india. got translated into medical provisions non-medical provisions therapeutics people you know. were able to benefit from the donations of the british asians and while those donations make their way into india the virus begins its spread outside there's concern in neighboring nepal after a rapid rise in corona virus cases attributed to the strain of the virus causing havoc in india the nepalese capital caught on to is already struggling with increased hospital admissions and resources stretched say in. nippon bracing for another wave of corona virus infections. citizens in common do are lining up to get their tests hoping to be negative as cases surge in

a rapid speed. the shop or rice feud by the more infectious mutant strains from neighboring india. cities have already become hotspots and doctors feared that the capital soon follow. the situation at a border town of reflects what's happening in india and i call it many india. if the same thing replicates in a densely populated city like cut under the situation would become much more difficult. for the. vaccine efforts in the himalayan state are complicating the situation about 7 percent of the poles population have so far received a shot. of a country struggling to procure more doses as it relies on supplies from india. their authorities have prioritized their own needs as the situation runs out of

control. that could soon be the case in nepal if the trend continues in katmandu the health system is already stretched people are struggling to find hospital beds for their sikh family members. that. were brought into the hospital in an ambulance as he was facing briefing difficulties the doctors haven't attended to him. everyone's busy. busy and worried as the more infectious variants also hit young people and children harder than before. it's a crisis that's set to become worse here before any improvement. and last week nepal's former king and his queen deciples a difficult one of us off and on in from the in india the more than 2 month long hindu festivals or millions take ritual dips in the river again just floating

social distancing rules and covert precautions and despite the bins to stop the last devotees took a holy dip yesterday relieve you of those images and see you tomorrow about. i'm secure in the they were that hard and in the end this is a me you're not allowed to stay here any more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with lions and the what's your story.

'd on the numbers of women especially in victims of violence and. take part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. you are not a visitor. you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. from empty offices and shops to healthier buildings and more green open spaces the coronavirus pandemic is up ending our city centers and look at the opportunities this might bring for urban renewal and also coming up. cityscapes as an art german artist you would it was fun bismarck carefully crafted steel and cement to

create his noise start a revival of demolished rouer valley architecture. welcome to the show well depending on where you live your experience of the kovac 900 pandemic will of course be different but i for one can't remember the last time that i went to a cafe or a restaurant or even spent a moment in the shopping district simply because we don't go there anymore with everything closed and most commerce now taking place online well as a result vast stretches of the city have literally bled out and this raises a lot of questions. once the current crisis is over we'll ask cities become more green than gray. we only work or will we continue to live there. could empty stores be revived with completely new functions. architect kristoff believes the current crisis is an

opportunity to bring diversity to city centers. the current crisis is actually a catalyst to deal now with the shopping precincts all over germany because change is going to come there's a reason why they're in such a sorry state. shopping precincts like this one in frankfurt were already in financial difficulty before the crisis struck but since the pandemic shoppers tourists and commuters have stayed away online retail and home offices. retail spaces are now shuttered the demand for office space is also decreasing shopping and business districts. functionality is the definite development. draw is the city the european city thrives on social and functional

diversity a street like this needs people living and working and doing business. all . together with mike youssef from the frankfurt city council plans to transform the room a whole neighborhood in the city center it still takes some imagination to envisage the new district the plan includes a generous green area and will serve a range of purposes at the moment it's a commercial and ministry area but the idea is to build $20000.00 apartments close to schools retail sports facilities and commercial estates the aim is to diversify and place more importance on avenues parks and courtyards in this respect the future room a half will be revenue of late 19th century urban planning we don't want to just recreate that period we want to take the qualities that make up those districts and

are very popular and implement them here that's what drives us. people who live in small city apartments need green spaces but how can this work in the inner city how can we create affordable housing space is in short supply and simple tiny asli preserve green spaces. and joining me to hash this out is my colleague mike a clear welcome mike and i'm just wondering do we have any answers to some of those questions is there hope that our inner cities cities could become more livable in the. thing there is absolutely hope because what should we do with all this emptiness and in the cities and not only in the bigger ones also in the smaller towns they have the situation is even worse but at this point. the owners of these large store surface stores are still in limbo they're still not willing to lower

the rents this is the situation now. as architects as we saw right now are already working on creative solutions also full pocking carriages for example there we have a good one in none back in bavaria space was missing they had to build something new so they decided to use the roof of a car park and now we have one of the most beautiful cannot gardens in town with a huge garden hopefully we see right now and a big wall to protect the children of course yes i've been planning in the past that was always more like traffic management traffic will disappear with the kommersant of course and it's terrible for all those people who losing their jobs now but it's also an opportunity a very good chance for the communities to reclaim more space ok but you know as we heard in the report i mean this idea of diversity in the city center is bringing

the people back into the inner city that's really what typical cities in europe have always been about in the past and yeah you're right we had it all but the opposite in the last decades and gained over crowded expensive cities disastrous traffic and gentrification of course. everything was focused on consumption but i think it's always in the mix and a very good functioning neighborhood is the one with kindergarten senior hopes with small shops get a response restaurants and all in a small distance and what we have now despite the pandemic when we still have is a housing market housing market that's out of control that's of course not only the case for inner cities but that's also the same for these suburban shopping complexes absolutely the shopping centers the huge small don't have. much of the future here in europe we see the nation and in the united states they know the

problem very very well they have a couple of malls and shopping centers and their reasons for being in california they are currently repurposing one there will be shops and offices still also apartments culture and sports facilities so what's you know with what we know now what's stopping us from repurpose ing all of these empty buildings as fast as possible really. yet here in germany for example we have a very difficult building regulations. those regulations were written in the time of course when space was not of issues and of course nobody was talking or even thinking of home offices so there's a clear line between living and commercial space but hopefully this will change very soon well obviously hope is a good thing we've got lots of it and it'll be interesting to see where we are a year from now and thanks very much for those insights micah kluger because of course the transformation of urban centers for the future leads perfectly to the

idea of learning from the buildings of the past german our history was fun bismarck's his project noise start recreates demolished structures from germany's ruhr valley area for a new kind of reckoning with the architectural choices through the ages. a miniature city on the move. not architectural models but own sculptures of buildings. 21 striking buildings typical of the industrial region for. bismarck the journey from berlin is part of the project there are broncos schools swearing pools and many residential towers typical of the 19th sixty's and seventy's high rise buildings with names like goliath and giants all the originals have long since been demolished during

a march shoot down. the our cities destination is. a major center of the steel industry and europe's largest in the land ports. it's an unusual car frank john even though it weighs tons. the structures are perfectly positioned in the new home at the 2 spoke north landscape park which has been part of the trail since 2010. the sculptures reflect industrial history. is india. public buildings that once belonged to this industrial landscape because they were built for the people who worked in industry here even the churches as work numbers

increased so did the construction of churches and now they are empty maintaining to churches is more expensive than demolishing them. so these decisions were made for financial reasons and china the top. team from the burning studio is responsible for the detailed work on the 1st song. and for ensuring the foundations are precise millimeters matter everything has to fit perfectly. the kind of going on a building here the north and the put its own front on so the employees are not exact images they are our interpretations we try to capture the aura it's not a precise downscaled version there is abstraction certain details remain others are left out when translating into other materials you also have to change things

a bit of. business and then after 10 days of construction noise is finished the sculptures are intended to provoke debate. a suit kind of architecture we need in 50 years 50 years ago we thought we needed this but now we don't do we need them what are the mistake to tear them down these questions are always relevant they never get old and ideas about what is beautiful and what is constantly changed to. the graveyard of a vision of the future downscaled buildings testimony to term attic structural change in the rule region. and to finish up here's our grab of some of the other culture news in brief beginning with news of one of pop's biggest female stars dozens off britney spears

friends demonstrated outside a los angeles courthouse on tuesday to end the pop star's conservatorship case which in 2008 led a california court to place her under a unique legal guardianship largely governed by her father will spears's request to speak directly to the court has been granted for june 23rd. and the best series and programs have been nominated for this year's bafta t.v. overlords in britain with steve mcqueen's and fellow g. film series entitled small acts about the lives of west indian immigrants in the london all of the 1960s to the 1980 s. the. film series leading the way with 15 nominations and of course binge worthy t.v. has been helping many of us to weather continued coronavirus lockdowns so that's

a good chance to see how the chips will fall there and will be interesting and maybe even catch up on a series or 2 now on that note it is time for me to sign off so all the best from myself and the team here in berlin based on our feet as a. to .

ensure the conflict zone research shows last year germany was seen as a role model in fighting the coronavirus 10 damage now a 3rd wave is hitting the country hard america's party is slipping ahead of september elections as germany prepares to move on from merkel even wants to see her she leave the party and her country my guest this week is your good heart spokesperson for the conservatives parliamentary for. me. it was 26 thing that's like a bunch of the queen because i want to see a gemini was for me the last few years have been quite o'brien getting ready and. then i'm going to go much higher but when it comes to gemma because on the whole though was look right in the eyes for a chance but perhaps the biggest guns are new all the blood i'm going down the river and i look to be in the news better person they're

a come but when you've been to most of the giving your realize it's called just another way of never they are you ready to meet the jevons then joining me right just do it. and you hear me now oh yes we can hear you and i last year's judgment starts now with your new uncle our mascot and you've never had to have been surprised to self with what is possible who is medical really what moves them want. to talk to people and follows her along the way maurice and critics alike join us from apple's last stop. frankfurt. international gateway to the best connections road and rail. located in the heart of europe you are connected to the whole world. experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. be our guest at

frankfurt airport city managed by from. this is the w. news live from india's cobra death toll passes 200000 across the country infection numbers are rising and the crisis is being compounded by shortages of oxygen medical supplies and hospital staff also on the program. international negotiators hold a 2nd day of talks to try to break the deadlock over being divided island of cyprus . and the collapse of the european super league to of english football on its head

i said now turning to germany for a structure that might prevent future breakaway attempts. put the ownership. in the premier league. until gail welcome to the program. or the 200000 people have now died from covered 19 across india as the country continues to see record daily rises in infections and deaths medical aid from the international community is now arriving as hospital struggle to cope with shortages of staff and supplies including oxygen many overwhelmed medical centers have had to turn away the sick. a covert 1000 ward in a hospital in delhi this hospital like so many full to overflowing medical staff

stretched to the limit some falling ill with the disease themselves one reality in india's coronavirus emergency and here's another eye wall and receives oxygen outside a sikh temple. she's not alone there's no room for these people in delhi's emergency wards relatives are left to cope with severely ill patients by themselves one woman describes her mother situation. it's the one we tease she's having once been fever and now she is not even a bigger body for the last infatuation was in yesterday in the night it became 6 pm now it is what. a long line outside the supply of people doing what they can to save their loved ones some get the oxygen they need. but there isn't enough to go around. saying go home and if someone is dying there then let them they have nothing to do with our pain they have no one in their house who's ill.

the state of delhi is reporting one death from covert 19 every 4 minutes and the hospitals can't cope with the growing numbers of patients so the commission grounds are struggling to cope with the rising number of deaths. the funeral pyres a burning day night. delhi is one hotspot of india's covert 1000 emergency maharashtra state in the city of mumbai is another here vaccination centers run out of supplies on wednesday india is one of the biggest producers of vaccines but it doesn't have enough to vaccinate the next 600000000 people who will become eligible for the job. that they're telling us that injections are not available as vaccines have not arrived i registered to come here 3 days ago i came all the way across the city and now they tell me. so they've given me a helpline number and told me to try again tomorrow. well. amid

the frustration and suffering this 105 year old man and his 95 year old wife has survived a covert 19 infection the family says they want that story to give hope to others for many fighting the disease hope and prayers are all they have to help them. straighter d.w. is delhi bureau chief amrita cheema welcome reason let's start with a situation where you are in the indian capital and feel the situation is still remains very grim the number of cases has been rising but the death toll is at a record high and hospitals are treated to capacity it's not just hospital oxygen supply some of the larger hospitals have mountains 2 percent now oxygen but some of the smaller hospitals are still sending out distress signals saying if they're running out of supplies and sources oxygen now the beds are running out medical staff is running out of medical staff it's just think of the positive so they can

come to what it is a very grim situation. and so what are the options for people when they know the hospitals are full but their loved ones are still nonetheless seriously ill will eating doctors encouraging people to stay at home and this their patients are really critical and this is 99 percent of the people who have poor did not critically in but now given the daily has a population of roughly 20000001 percent of 20000000 is still a threat number of people and of course when people have plans who are in a critical condition because against hope and they rush towards hospitals some dental just don't get in and get languishing at outside the hospital hoping they'll get some medical attention someone knocking but most are not and turn even lose their lives just reading ahead. critics say that this crisis out was avoidable avoidable is the indian government taking responsibility for

a situation that appears to be out of control. the indian government says it's doing all it can prime minister not even the all these has several high powered meetings the last few days he's announced the setting up of some 500 oxen generating plants the local government in delhi has also announced small events will be available in a couple of weeks but for the people who are right in the eye of the storm at the moment all of this comes too late and he said critics feel that this 2nd wave of the government completely unprepared that he did not use to line up the trust we have to bolster capacity to strengthen the infrastructure the health infrastructure and now we're in a situation where the ask roundly for measures which are coming or to leave this in a lot is still the work by vaccination and as of today everybody over the age of 18 can't register to get vaccinated in the 1st of many authorities believe and cool

that this may have break the chain of transmission and all of a number of cases and take the street off the head into structure so it was a given that. in the future is a failing that the best crisis is picking or authorities expect certain words to come. when i think what the medical prettiness he's saying they're expecting this to make the 2nd rate to peak sometime by the end of the 1st week of me all middle of may and it only start raining in the fields by june and july this still i think high days ahead before we see any improvement in the situation. i'm research in delhi thank you so much. u.n. secretary general i tell you can terrorists is holding meetings in geneva with the leaders of the divided island of cyprus to try and find common ground between them the island has been split along ethnic lines between greek and turkish cypriots for decades the hope is to use this as

a springboard to resume peace talks that have been stalled since 2017. time seems to have come to a standstill and for russia it's largely greek population fled during turkey's invasion of cyprus in 1974 the once popular tourist destination has been stripped of life ever since in a nearby village. eeks out a living from the arid landscape the farmer is disappointed that peace talks between the turkish and greek parts of cyprus have been unsuccessful only see years . we can do we want the same opportunities that the e.u. and the rest of the world offer the greek cypriots the sanctions against us should be lifted and we should be recognized as an independent state. the president of turkish controlled northern cyprus arison tar and turkey's president wretch up to air to one post $1.00 to $2.00 state solution that would formalize the depression

of the island the un and the e.u. favor a federal solution with 2 states under a central government. to. take a different position. based on a 2 state solution for health a century we have been negotiating. but leftist groups recently took to the streets to demonstrate for a federal system they want to see cyprus united and ankara sway over the island curb. the turkish cypriots in the north are divided. the few border crossings between the north and the south are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic un peacekeepers have patrolled the ceasefire line for decades . anger over deadlock negotiations is also evident in the greek part of the island. the current government has.

from corruption to environmental destruction to. leading the peace talks to then. people on both sides of the divide are united in their frustration with their leaders. this is and of course this is disillusionment has grown over the past years and expectations are extremely low a few people expect the cyprus dispute to be result many don't even know that talks are being held. but those talks will have to be successful for life to return to the abandoned streets of the russia. well in football the european super league who cause a huge uproar among state fans especially in england where 6 premier league clubs and us that they were joining the breakaway league and then back down to try to prevent future defections english premier league is looking at some major reforms

on the matter of greater manchester is back in the bottle that used here in germany the w. correspondent shot at chelsea repose. could this set the ball for english football meet f.c. united of manchester's youth academy that training for a club doing things differently. if the united and run by the fans. were just ordinary people. who actually love football and i've got a passion for football it's not a business all of the money's made goes back into the football club back into the community. in order that we can try and you know climb the leagues. and continue to make a statement as to there's a different way let's see united was sent off in 2005 in protest against the takeover of premier league club manchester united by an american billionaire they're now seeing a surge of interest upping their membership by roughly 20 percent over the last week alone it's driven in large part by the actions of 2 clubs just

a few miles away manchester united and manchester city are among 6 english clubs who last week signed up to a new european super league which abruptly collapsed on to outrage from fans for many it's a watershed moment. terrible idea just the money grabbing a time by billionaires who know nothing of the game don't care for the fans don't care about grassroots football in the u.k. to demise is pretty nice the out of an is pretty terrible but falls along power an . excessive incremental. vulture capitalism is paris become a baseness today's arness for a long time. so it's not trying to do in terms of football still love the sport but we just never know when subsaharan is where you know they haven't got the clubs at best it's all about the money for. the super league debacle has supercharged cools for change here with everything from the ownership structure of clubs like

manchester united to regulation now being publicly debated and many are looking to germany as a model there's a growing chorus of voices calling for english football to emulate germany's 50 plus one model that would give found the majority voting right giving them the final say is now transcending football and gaining political traction it's the supporters over generations that have built these clubs the german model car recognizes and holds them in trust for generations beyond the current generations the need to build those clubs whereas here i think what's been brought over to us in the last week is that these great clubs could be taken from us in a heartbeat the result no power to stop it the government is now running a family review into english football with the german model among the reforms being discussed but the skepticism meaningful change is possible in the meantime fun and clubs like f.c.

united of forging their own path proof that an appetite for fun that growing i think it's. time for change. events of the last week of just demonstrate it and spites me fortunately we were more than 50 plus $100.00 . and i think there is an opportunity now throw the supporters groups to continue to do the right a large gap to many in england the idea of simple being for the fans can feel like a thing of the past to united it's a model for the future that i can't. michael collins the american astronaut who took part in one of the most. famous space missions of all time has died at the age of 90 he flew the apollo 11 come out to module in 1969 his 2 crewmates neil armstrong and buzz aldrin became the 1st of people to land on the moon because of that he's often called the forgotten astronaut mike collins died after a battle with cancer. this is day w.

news is a reminder of our top story. and discovered 19 death toll has now passed 200000 numbers are rising faster than poppy bought a new more infectious coronavirus fare. from gulf we'll have more world news at the top of the hour kris kobach is your business and updates in just about every day. more people have to say here's to us. that's right. piece reporter every weekend on t.w.

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