capital ran out of oxygen supply for nearly an hour and a half of one of the means it will be manned missions. is the oxygen they need support because these are today so across the city. didn't increase demand in the hospital a court in delhi says it will start punishing government officials for failing to deliver lifesaving items but it's impossible to give what is not yet available the international community spent the weekend sending supplies grieving relatives and scientists blame elected officials for the catastrophic situation saying they ignored medical advice and warnings about dairy and. prime minister narendra modi faces intense criticism over his handling of the pandemic and his decision to allow state elections to go ahead and mitt disparaging cases despite heavy campaigning his party failed to win the key state of west bengal or to make

significant gains in other state assemblies. for more let's go to our delhi bureau chief for me and we said the government in fact been warned about the more dangerous virus back in march why was that warning ignored apparently. well that's a good question get out in fact this consortium of scientific advisors was settled back in december by the government itself and its specific task was to look for variants of mutants which could cause a trace to public health now this is a group of scientists who tend national universities sent give their findings to the relevant authorities in march as you mentioned and if you want to spoke to 5 of them and asked them what happened why wasn't anything done and one of them said i job is to provide evidence for the job the policy making is that the government basically implying that means hard science did not drive policy making as much as

it should have so how angry are people over this lack of policy making by the government. people are getting angrier by the day i'm in a dead heat with the situation is really grim hospitals are still without oxygen some of them they're running out of bands of life same equipment plasma drugs and people are getting more in law abidin concern since there is the management to deal with this crisis just to give you an example i was not of meeting with my colleagues today and one person said i haven't done any work today i'm running around organizing a bed for someone in another county didn't show up at the meeting she's trying to organize an oxygen cylinder the people here are feeling so bricks so let down by the system and they are now linked to the must see an individual acts of kindness everyone in the city has been touched in some way or the other so anger is growing so the anger is growing and how is the government responding to

a growing. well this is one that was has emergencies that india has faced and the government says it's doing all it can to bring it under control and they point to what all the reasons they've had in the last 2 weeks. on me they will bless the employers to get oxygen tank is to set up hospitals these announce measures to set up oxygen generating all of these will take a bit of time to become effective for the people who are angry they need help right now it's a question of debts and by the end i'm not very happy with the government and the sick the government isn't denied but it's nourishment of this crisis today in delhi thank you so much i. know some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic the pharmaceutical company pfizer is in talks with the indian government over speeding up the approval of its coronavirus vaccine to help combat the surging

caseload that india's northern neighbor nepal has suspended all domestic and international flights until for the 14th of may as the country struggles to contain its own soaring infection rates and travel to the european union could soon become easier the blocks executive has recommended allowing all travelers into the block who are fully vaccinated with an e.u. approved job. today marks world press freedom day and what better day to reveal the winner of the w.'s freedom of speech award this year we are honoring an investigative journalist from nigeria on early age she's stood up for women's rights and called out injustices we'll speak to her in a few minutes but 1st some insight into some of her most challenging investigations . few things excite to body of 40 more than finding a good story. out of things is fiery. red the crew aboard one plane

through really on to our last in a good thread in male sexual gun. overbore has been speaking out against injustice and she was a little girl encouraged by her father she decided to become an investigative journalist. i watched we met being paid i watched killing drain banks ritek unjustly. i was there in the famed ben pointing east and also a latino thing when i'm walking free that's the environment i'm coming from so that really laid the foundation for what i now was in to give voice to the voice live with the power to rethink the world. those worries work sometimes involves changing her identity all his stories affect her personally but none of them impacted her life as much as her 2013 investigation into nigeria's human trafficking mafia the

story unfolded on this street alan avenue a popular hot spot for prostitution for 7 months of war he was an undercover sex worker here it was the toughest most frightening and most challenging investigation one she wasn't prepared for she was raped abused and so to people beheaded in front of her. that i see that it's a depression. that was the trauma. the press from out 6 trends. are right for panic attacks at some points it's a great record that becomes the side out. of war he is still recovering from that experience has story served as the inspiration for the netflix film on o.t.r.a. shall not she's made several other award winning investigations and is adamant she's not stopping anytime soon. and here's what did i use director general peter lim book us to say about this year's d.w.

freedom of speech award winner and all that she has changed she is a courageous woman but i think such an award will also help her for her work hopefully also for security but we also want to empower other journalists who work on and investigate the job and who are in dangerous circumstances when we see that nigeria has fantastic journalists and we from dutch abella we work together with a lot of media houses in nigeria but i think in general it is important that we help investigative journalism in africa that we also help female journalists in africa and i think we can contribute a bit from our side from with this freedom of speech will speaking then i am delighted to be joined from lagos by it's a bore of work on regulations again on the award my 1st question is on the sex

trafficking investigation that was actually made you go undercover you knew it was dangerous did you. thank you very much for the hour or. was me. on this as a guest again. is that something years ago when i was on the graduates i love. because. that really got me interested in anything you might have akin and i had in mind i still. sung in front of friends some very. tense is young please wait while the traffic lights and that really got in it interested in anything human trafficking so wait it really really clouds are going to close contact and its wings and i wonder was it brunette like this in or not in the 2 of you so when we met i had to pause. and i call that as it does have

this edition. so did you have any repercussions from nigerian authorities are the revealing some of the most distressing aspects of sex trafficking going on in the. well i can say precisely after the investigation into all. the morning it's still receiving strange call those. numbers that being on the call as in the als. using it correctly and we're sending me a. very terrible test message is a way to get you a concert run for long and that has led the lens will watch my back. very security conscious i had asked change the location.

so i changed the kitchen of. let's talk about the netflix trial that is inspired by your story what impact did that have on your life. let me state that netflix movie is and that a shot of my work my body didn't inspire and there's a difference between padlocked and got good works the movie that had that asian or made a geisha. can beat it had a very. weak because. that is showcasing. really really made a shot across as well as well. so it is is it is very sad at least in my house. it's

a very negative. point. to bora-bora this year's winner of the w.'s press freedom award congratulations again and many fans. thanks of march. seculars not some of the other stories making headlines around the world israel's government watchdog the state controller has said his office will launch an investigation into friday's deadly stampede at a jewish festival 45 people were killed in the crash which was the deadliest civil disaster in israel's history the government independent agency said it could have been prevented. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has criticized china for acting in quote increasingly adversarial ways but he stressed that a military confrontation would be against the interests of both nations clinton arrived in london on sunday for a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers china is one of the issues on the agenda.

young activists in miramar have staged nationwide rallies calling for others to join them in a spring revolution witnesses say security forces shot several demonstrators dead a series of explosions rocked the city of young gone it's been 3 months since the military seized power in a coup. residents along kyrgyzstan's borders with to have been returning to their damaged homes days after thousands were forced to flee from clashes more than 30 people died in a flare up of tensions between the 2 former soviet republics ceasefire now appears to be holding fast. police here in germany say they have shut down a major internet platform that shared images of the sexual abuse of children officials said the side of the so-called darknet was one of the biggest in the world with more than 400000 members and have been operating since at least 29 t.

3 men were arrested in germany and a further suspect detained in paraguayan in a series of raids amid a probe they followed a months long international operation coordinated by europe all. over more of the story let's bring in our political correspondent reza topper she's been following this for us how did this network come to light. well we don't have all the details yet gad but what we do know is that these criminal investigations were quite complex and took several months am at the heart of them was a task force and it was instigated by germany and organized by europol and a lot of countries then wolf the netherlands and sweden for example but also australia the u.s. and canada and what we also know is that the content uploaded to this platform was really shocking the 400000 members shared graphic images and video of children

being sexually abused mostly foreigners and some of them very very young. there is a work do we know about the suspects that are now in custody. 3 of them were apparently admins of the platform so they were managing the platform 2 of them germans and were arrested in germany and the 3rd one is a german who has been living in southern america for while and was arrested and pollard why they have between 40 and 58 years old and police say they not only gave technical information to the members of the platform but also advice on how not to be caught by authorities and the 4th suspect is another german man 64 years old and he was apparently the most active user of the platform and uploaded more than $3500.00 posts to it all of them are now in custody and face charges but police say the more arrests are to be expected globally and the platform itself is offline no

of course but the data ses is now being used to identify and rescue victims. thank you to. a swimmer from the media mob wants his country bands from taking part in this year's tokyo lympics saying a regime involved in genocide is doesn't deserve to be part of the games when ted has been a vocal critic of the country's military rulers he says that olympic participation risks legitimizing the regime. is one of neon must top swimmers based in australia he's met the standard to qualify for this year's tokyo olympics but despite all the training he's put scenes with cheating that he says he won't now take part even if selected because of the military coup in his country. there should be an international boycott of the never let the committee and of any of them are teams being set to the global sporting events because that

those themes will be use as propaganda by the military regime to legitimize their rule and their life. when ted over competed for myanmar of the 2900 southeast asian games with the unrest continuing in his country he's calling on the international olympic committee you see to intervene. at the very least i expect the i.o.c. to send an investigative team to myanmar if they can because i do have fears that many of them are athletes are being intimidated or threatened to either participate in the olympic games or an international sporting events. when. drene may not of course off the starting blocks. which for him a restoration of democracy in myanmar would be a much bigger victory. the german football association wants its

president to resign after he compared his deputy to an infamous nazi judge for its color admits he made a serious mistake but is refusing to stand down is been in the job for 2 years the association is the world's biggest single sports federation with more than 7000000 members. well joining me now in the studios jonathan crane from sports jonathan what is this all about well this is all stem from a meeting that took place just over a week ago it was a meeting between top officials in the german football federation and during that meeting for the president referred to one of his vice presidents running a call thrice now why is that significant will run on friday was that as you said an infamous nazi judge he was involved in violence a conference in 1942 during that conference it was the final stages of the holocaust being planned of course the mass murder of 6000000 jews why the comparison will write a cult is a judge himself in munich in munich now and the president for its kind of has

apologized for his remarks which were clearly then in the south during this private meeting so holy heart football fans ordinary people reacting to this scandal well i think there was a lot of outrage and i think is being taken seriously by the german football federation there was an emergency meeting at the weekend between the associations that make up the german football federation during that meeting a statement was released saying the remarks were completely unacceptable calla lost the votes of confidence 26 to 9 now i mention his apology the apology hasn't been accepted by ryan a cock i think that speaks to a white a power struggle inside the federation on one hand one side you have fritz calla on the other side you have coke and the general secretary freezer's curtis is very much a kind of old guard versus new caliban you know the other 2 the old guard in this in this dispute i think it's a d.s.p. the gentle federation has what 9 presidents in 5 years and something like they've

been getting for presidents pretty quickly after after a lot of stability beforehand exactly. how much is that overshadowing the game is the of be trying to redefine itself what is this clearly it's not a good look for german football is that i think it was an internal discussion where they were worried about the federations image calling for whole if there were changes you have to remember fritz keller was born in 29000 to clear up a lot of the math and now it seems like they're back to square one with all the problems resurfacing on them granted thank you very much you're welcome. staying with football then has a bellini return to action in the bundesliga on monday night after a 14 day coronavirus coroutine the team is currently 2nd from bottom in the table and now faces a run of 5 games in 13 days so the match against relegation rivals minds could be a defining moment in that battle for survival here to berlin season came to

a halt maybe april the last match they played was against blood but when they didn't leave if he had that draw he did a 3 game run where i had to pick up 5 points but their momentum was put on hold after coach start i did several players return positive covert 1000 tests currently and 17th on the table here to have 3 matches to make up starting with minds encouraged are done i believe they can do enough to free themselves from relegation danger the guy from these 3 games we need at least 4 points at least i'd be happy if we get more 97 it doesn't matter but it has to be at least 4 that's what i expect from the team and they'll have to deal with that pressure and i don't think it's too much pressure because it's an achievable goal i think they'll manage it. covert 19 has kept some hits of players still sidelined. goalkeeper rumah you are

start suffered badly and is out for the rest of the season. with no real match practice hansa face an uphill battle when they meet mine it's a side riding high after defeating byron meaning. one of the world's top selling artists is beaming a message of hope for the post pandemic age is dawning david hockney has created a giant animated sunrise lighting up london's piccadilly circus the video is also on show throughout may in new york los angeles tokyo and seoul the 83 year 83 year old painter drew the op but i just home in france on a tablet computer. and i was the tail of an 8 slim to see creature and her human companion a film about that bond just won best documentary feature at this year's oscars my

octopus teacher is streaming on netflix and portrays the unusual friendship forged by the octopus and a south african filmmaker in the waters off cape town. hall stops. being a strange. thing it's a captivating tale of friendship south african filmmaker and naturalist craig foster was intrigued by a young octopus he found in an underwater forest near cape town fausto began to document their daily interactions and the most wild him and his fellow directors this curiosity turned a personal video project into a full length documentary. i think it's lots of ways and we incrementally so built it to be something that could appeal to a group who are not only interested in this sort natural history in this environment but the sort of everything grace going through as

a human being is sort of their relatable things he's dealing with guilt disappointment so he's conflicted about things he's trying to sort of overcome security and patience and determination always of human qualities that are being questioned serious story it's just that the context is very i'm familiar . and the effort is welcome on ground in cape town. not because it had a profound effect not just on a winter's dinner to take him to find something. that made you want to do something or. you know how you had to honor. it's a lesson in how humans and nature can co-exist in mutual appreciation. you're watching t.v.

news coming up next on news asia why india is governing party failed to win a q regional vote despite a shoo complain of. plus we look at india's record on press freedom and how the government is trying to shape the narrative on the coronavirus past. although have a lot more coming up with my colleague of melissa shot. at the top of the op so there will have a world news update for you on galveston for the let's watch. the full.

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media especially when the government in power has shown.