oh. this is the w. news live from berlin and dozens are dead many more critically injured in a stampede at a jewish festival in israel the path that i. am with we're looking at here is one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters it happened at the 1st big religious gathering to be held since israel lifted coronavirus restrictions. also coming up begging for oxygen to save a relative's life in india people desperately searching for medical supplies as the

country battles a record breaking spike in co 519 infections and deaths. and for lands renowned new national gallery is back in business were stored to its former glory after 5 years of a facelift. the arrow. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. in israel at least 44 people have been killed and around 150 others injured in a stampede at a religious gathering attended by tens of thousands it happened at mount marin in the northern part of the country were ultra-orthodox jews were holding an all my prayer and a dance celebration. wrapped in ecstatic song and dance footage from social media shows the crowd at the annual lag

celebration shortly before disaster struck. at around 1 in the morning i witnesses said they could feel a crush beginning to build. there was a terrible load and what happened then was like a carousel one person pushed another person so everyone was pushed right and left and after 20 minutes people started suffocating so they wanted to get out but no one was able to get out. there were people under me who weren't breathing anymore there were horrible screams of i can't breathe and slowly there were also places where the screams had stopped. my legs were trapped i couldn't move them. face down i could lift my head a little. i tried not to strain too much and keep calm and strengthen my faith god will save us. mayhem unfolded rescue teams

rushed to the scene ferrying the injured to ambulances. children separated from their parents were hoisted into the arms of emergency workers desperately trying to reunite them with their families. 5 police closed off road access and the military was called in to assist efforts to clear the area. of the worst. thing. for us right i'm. sure. authorities say panic broke out on the steps in this narrow passageway after people slipped and fell and those behind them stumbled. many of the victims were either trampled or suffocated to death. it was the 1st large scale religious gathering to be held legally since israel lifted most coronavirus restrictions. but despite their successful handling

of the pandemic health authorities have warned against holding an event of this size. religious festival is particularly popular with israel's ultra-orthodox community police report nearly 100000 people attended the gathering which they say is 4 to 5 times as many as should have been in a location like this. joining us now from jerusalem it is correspondent tanya kramer tania why did this happen. well more more details are now of course coming in one is on the social media all these videos but also i witness have been talking here to the local media and from rescue services now the rescue service has said that the crash started to happen this time peter around 1 am in the early morning local time in the middle of the night when people started to go through

a very small pathway that apparently has been closed in with metal now there they were trying to go it was a little bit up. and slipping on stairs and then started basically to fall over just basically people trampling each other when i gave it misses when i witness said there was no place to go people were just for laying on each other and the 1st calls for help were also received by them some had said you know because of the barriers that were around you know the crowd was just not able to go anywhere when this happened and what are the biggest challenges now because i mean we've seen the death toll in the dozens already we understand that rescue workers are you know trying trying to do their best in the area right now what are they facing. well it's

a very difficult terrain and of course you know there were tens of thousands of people now you have to understand this is a major religious festival and it's meant to be a joyous you know people going there from the also also talks community you know to rejoice at life to sell upright to dance now last year this event was mainly restricted because of the coronavirus pandemic this year it was the 1st time they could gather but it was still in a way much smaller crowd than in the years before so of course it's a bit the question what happened there what kind of restrictions were put at them place and now what we're seeing now is all the injured you know we're talking about 160 people that were injured back here to 2 hospitals but some of them are in critical condition and what also is going on of course people look for their loved ones families. still you know there's a hotline now that people can call it sometimes also

a bit difficult and they also dogs ultraorthodox community with social media not everybody has access to that so people are trying you know to get a hold of what happened and also we're hearing from rescue services a lot of children were separated from their parents so these are all the challenges to have to a lot of are it's a celebration considered to be one of the most important as in the orthodox community as we've been hearing what was different this year could this have been prevented. well this is exactly the questions that are being asked now and this is part of course of the investigation that is going on as you heard i mean the you know there where in previous years before a covert 19 before the pandemic there were more people there so what has happened where there are other restrictions being put in place and a lot of questions are being asked about this password you know where this all

started and of course also the political plame game has already started you know who is responsible for that also people are looking at the communication where. there were calling out and now it's because in hebrew and lot of people the 2 other understand you dish them hebrew so all of this will be part of the investigation but the focus right now is to see you know the critically injured people and to get a family back together again. to see to get people evacuated tanya kramer reporting from israel thank you tanya. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines for in hong kong for democracy activists have pleaded guilty to charges of illegal assembly for a rally in june of last year jailed activist joshua wang is among tens of thousands of people gathered on june 4th to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in

beijing's tiananmen square. the volcano in guatemala has rushing lava currently residents are concerned that it could spread to nearby communities including a densely populated capital city just 25 kilometers away the volcano has had high levels of activity over the past 2 months. let's head to india which is reeling from another record number of covert 1000 cases with over 380000 new infections reported in the last day despite international aid arriving oxygen is still in short supply across the country overwhelmed hospitals have been forced to turn patients away leaving their relatives desperately trying to source medical supplies themselves. a woman banks. all right she pleads. as she tries to find oxygen for her desperately sick

mother. on her father who vanished i didn't get there my mother is very seriously ill and for the past 2 days we've been trying to get a bed in so many hospitals in delhi and. across india oxygen is still in desperately short supply. in the capital delhi volunteers from the sikh community have set up an oxygen center in a car park. good lord people are suffering as begging for oxygen we arranged for cylinders from anywhere we could we student queues her whole nights and sometimes got beaten up by the police. or. russia is the latest country to join an international relief effort. actually that has been wiped in or pouring off i would see. india being or putting

off. assistance from various countries over 40 countries have actually committed to provide us with many of the items that we need most urgently. india is the world's biggest producer of vaccines. but these 2 are lacking as people scramble to get their shot. i think it was something. that. despite all this millions have been voting in the state of west bengal the infection rate there is the highest since the pandemic began. political parties have been criticize. for holding crowded election rallies just when india is recording the deadliest days so far for any country during the pandemic whatever

and we will have much more on the situation in india coming up in our special coverage in just a few hours time meantime in berlin the extensive restoration work on the renowned new national gallery is now complete the building is a cultural landmark for the city and a masterpiece of modern architecture the gallery is set to reopen for visitors in the summer. after more than 5 years the renovation of. calorie is finally complete and for now the famous an iconic museum designed by big meets founder can be admired in its simplest form has a temper of lights on the surface not much seems to have changed the hull is now 2 seconds you're not often hired 19 times of openness this hole is a unique structure no other museum in the world is like it that was one reason to preserve it of course we stuffed lots of technical equipment into the ceiling where it can't be seen the guiding principle for the renovation was as much meat as

possible. maize was big meat found a hole the german born american joint of modern architecture he was commissioned to design the new museum in the early 1960 s. . $1200.00 metric tons of steel were welded together on sites into one piece to form the roof. janks lifted it into place a top 8 killers a masterpiece of engineering that still causes jaws to drop. it was the last meat found a building to be completed the crowning glory of his career these goods produced. the new in action our camera opened in 1968 and became a cultural landmark 1st of west berlin and then of the reunified belin. it

hosted one spectacular exhibition after another and maintained its own mcnicholas and collection of 20th century art but nearly 50 years on it was clear the buildings technology was hopelessly obsolete comprehensive renovation it was in. british architect david chipperfield was a fan before he took a. the renovation job. rather uncompromising piece of architecture was quite shocking very impressive. it's being very identifiable comprehensible you're you know everybody can understand how this works the contract for the noir national calories renovation was immense and the taking 14000 granite plates had to be removed restored and re-installed the entire structure was completely stripped down it was meticulously inventoried and slight to reassemble like a blast puzzle. cleared of unnecessary intrusions

find a stock concept is now restored to its forma minimalistic glory. and with that you're up to date on is up next a documentary looking at the babies born to german women and black french soldiers following the 1st gulf war. you feel worried about the. a meal on the green from spock and to me it's clear remains true. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation for me for you for the planet.