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should do more to be. a creature from the deep. south african film. documentary prize at this year's oscars. i'm welcome to the program. scientists in india are accusing the government of ignoring warnings about the emergence of new more dangerous coronavirus variants of advisors his ministers failed to impose large scale restrictions despite being alerted in march the you know loud huge political rallies and religious gatherings to go ahead now these super spreader events of since been implicated in the 2nd wave of the pandemic sweeping across india causing record numbers of deaths and

infections. india is struggling as the pandemic 2nd wave crashes over the country death and desperation are spreading so too is the fear that the government can stem the search and end india suffering. when the cases started rising up on the other side of land. but turns out that if you put in the 1st week that the governments have no idea they're not prepared for anything if you don't have enough mental leaders in one hospital forget about all those whatever you need for the entire city or the entire nation in just one example a dozen kovac 1000 patients died this weekend when a hospital in the capital ran out of oxygen supply for nearly an hour and a half of them in days of the. patient. is oxygen they need support because babies are to be so cross city. to the

increased 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 variance. prime minister narendra modi faces intense criticism over his handling of the pandemic and his decision to allow state elections to go ahead and made this urgent cases despite heavy campaigning his party failed to win the key state of west bengal or to make significant gains in other state assemblies. straits to the indian capital that will rejoin the news that delhi bureau chief and we touch a welcome return what response is the indian government given to these accusations

from scientific advisors when the indian company if you ask them but it ignored scientific evidence it certainly said no they didn't they in fact set up a consortium of scientists back in december to specifically investigate if that any new deadly variants of the virus which could pose a threat to national health now these scientists say that the give their findings to the government in march 5 of them have now come out and to enjoy just that nothing was done and when asked why it was nothing done one scientist said you know it's our job to give the evidence honestly making is the responsibility of the government so busy glee implying that perhaps science didn't drive to see making as much as it should have in this pandemic over this last week barely a day has gone by without there being talk of record breaking numbers of infections in india how concerned are people about very government's handling of the pandemic

. really people are really concerned in the last 2 weeks the situation hasn't improved hospitals are still under incredible strain and in the midst of all of this there's an unseemly squabble which is broken again between the looking government in delhi and the central government with jenny gotten saying it's simply not getting adequate supplies of oxygen under india's federal system it's the central government which distributes and allocates the amount of oxygen which each state guess and while this bickering is going on the courts have got in the high court to the supreme court and the people at this stage and losing loved ones they don't want to hear this kind of bickering going on and difficult course concern is really high and growing and so as this bickering continues what again what is the government's response to these accusations of complacency incompetency and

mismanaging this emergency when this is not the biggest and emergency trail that india has ever faced and the government says it's doing all it can to bring situation under control ridge they've had numerous meetings high palate meetings they've legalized the air fills to get oxygen containers they've got the army in to set up field hospitals to this day they're doing everything they can in their power not people must have put it on the ground see it missing they little do you want to head straight to it right now because it's a question of this in my village and then believe that the government is in complete denial in the way it's handling this crisis and there's covert 19 task force has pushed for a nationwide a lockdown is that likely to happen. well decline is still a few weeks at a glance at no look precedent of a national lockdown and this is because he doesn't want. to

risk the loss of the line to. apologies for that technical problem from i think we got that just move on and take a look at some more off today's developments in the pandemic and pharmaceutical company pfizer is actually in talks with the indian government about speeding up the approval of its coronavirus vaccine to help combat the country's surging caseload india's northern neighbor nepal has suspended all domestic and international flights until the 14th of may as a country struggles to contain soaring infection numbers and travel to the european union could soon become easier the european commission has recommended the removal of pandemic travel restrictions from travelers into the bloc who are fully fascinated with an e.u. approved jap. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has criticized china for acting in what he called increasingly adversarial ways but he stressed that

a military confrontation would be against the interests of both nations secretary lincoln arrived in london on sunday for a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers with china one of the issues on the agenda. in manama states nationwide rallies calling for others to join them in the spring revolution witnesses say security forces shot several demonstrations instead and a series of explosions rocked the city of young gone it's been 3 months since the military seized power. thousands of residents along kurdistan's border with stan have been returning to damaged homes days after being forced to flee from clashes more than 30 people died in a flare up of tensions between the 2 former soviet states a ceasefire now appears to be holding. the police here in germany say they have shut down a major internet platform that shared images of the sexual abuse of children

official said the site on the circle dr net was one of the biggest in the world with more than 400000 members and have been operating since at least 2019 a months long in international operation coordinated by europol there to a series of raids in mid april and the arrest of 3 men in germany and another in patrick why. well you need a 70 vote from the d w digital desk cancer research the issue of child abuse to organize through the docket for the w magazine program shift but welcome to the studio. how significant is this latest series of arrests major sensation for a german investigators i mean this platform boys town we're talking about people around the globe shared videos and images of sexual abuse on this platform it is said to have had 400000 members so it's really

a big if you put it in perspective the last big platform of this kind that was taken down in germany that had one 100000 accounts and now we're talking about 400000 members around the globe so that actually makes it one of the biggest platforms of this kind right that we know of presumably and that brings me to my next point because of course the illicit activity is the done in secret is dark web so that there must be particularly difficult to to to investigate yes indeed they are i mean what you have to know about the dark with is that it's a different part of the internet so that you can only access through specific software which allows users to remain anonymous and of course this anonymity makes it really hard to investigate these platforms which is why we've seen also this international cooperation right now you're a pole germany initiated the task force other countries were involved that you as in that their lands and you know what investigators basically do is they try to

infiltrate these platforms they try to talk to the members in the chats to just get any kind of information they can to have an idea where the atman might be located to take them down in the end well 400000 member of the forests here in germany so that a lot of peace. well i would imagine just waiting for the knock on the door yeah we would hope that but still i mean now they arrested the admins but we don't know if they can actually get to other users as i said this anonymity makes it just so hard to actually locate the people and also the people that use these platforms they they talk about encryption methods in chats that we see on these platforms so they are aware of the fact that they might be taken down and now we also have to worry about actually taking to another platform which often happens so i mean it is a big sensation of course this bust that this platform has been taken down but you

know we have to see in the future that there hopefully won't be any other platforms of this kind talking to thanks for joining us. well today's world press freedom day the organization reporters without borders is calling on the e.u. to do much more to protect freedom of the press in europe there are new reports says journalists around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to investigate and report sensitive stories and europe is no exception. independent media in hungary almost completely dismantled their european. fortunately to. come in and intervene in a regional join a list in poland in distress you couldn't imagine having someone to tell me what i'm allowed to write about and what i can't write. female reporters in slovenia facing verbal attacks every day. we are becoming such.

attacks according to reporters without borders the media situation in the e.u. is deteriorating they strongly criticized the e.u.'s leg of action in defending the freedom of the press for example in poland it's a verse media landscape is now under threat. we visited radio 357 in warsaw and independent station which broadcast over the internet it's run by some very experienced journalists ana so though in work for the public broadcaster toy car for more than 3 decades until last year when he was fired he says for opposing propaganda in favor of the ruling party. it was our bosses the program directors they would tell us what topics to cover and what topics not to cover it was our supervisors who were our census. does not by has come

wasn't fired she resigned from her job as deputy editor in chief at stand mixer hardly last year the regional newspaper was bought by the state run oil refinery. i think they'll want to have reports showing them in a positive light. there will be national elections in poland in 3 years. regional newspapers like that because according the our very well suited to spreading their message. to suppress my cousin they're not so sure. they got the ball when you cut them off since the law and justice party came to power in 2015 the government broad public broadcasters under its control in addition it has huge state advertising to favor a loyal outlet in the world press freedom index the country is now at position $64.00 down $46.00 places in 6 years but the government says it's low ranking

it's politically motivated. but i think poland is an example of how things should be you.