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that explore fascinating born of heritage sites. world heritage 360. now. this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight hoping to save the summer vacation season from the pandemic the european union unveils plans to welcome towards again national banks the nation's programs are speeding up that means europe's warders could be open to travelers in time for the summer holidays also coming up a dramatically different scene in india hospitals are making emergency appeals for
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oxygen as the health care system crumbles amid the world's biggest surge in corona virus infections plus german police to shut down one of the world's biggest child sex abuse platforms more than $400000.00 people were members of the dark net network named boys town and european reporters see only the alarm about attacks on press freedom they say they are increasing and that the e.u. should do more to defend its journalists. i bring goff to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome european holidays could be back on the agenda for foreign visitors this summer the e.u. executive body has outlined plans to reopen the europe's borders but only for travelers who have been fully. vaccinated with an e.u.
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approved vaccine injury is currently limited to visitors from just a few countries with low infection rates is hoped the proposal will boost europe's troubled tourism sector but it still needs approval from all 27 member states of the e.u. while dressing variance after months of puny pandemic news in brussels finally some cause for optimism as an e.u. press conference the commission is proposing to ease restrictions on nonessential travel to the e.u. to take into account the progress of taxation campaigns and developments in the epidemiological situation well light europe's attractions beckon but potential visitors are likely to encounter different rules in different countries after months of lockdown france will begin relaxing its nightly curfews this month reopen cultural sites and allow cafes bars and restaurants to offer outdoor service in germany overnight hotel stays for tourists are currently forbidden and no date has
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been set for reopening in person dining and many places a nighttime curfew remains in effect and some destinations are even off limits for nonresidents some countries that depend heavily on tourism are pushing for a full reopening in time for the summer to help things along greece as advocated developing digital proof to travelers have been vaccinated or tested negative for corona virus but on a continent where many countries are slow to digitise some worry this proposal could delay rather than hasten their holiday in the sun. our let's get more now from our very much as he's on the story for us tonight in brussels good evening to you georg so tell us a little bit more about who will be allowed to enter the e.u. this summer. essentially brant you have 2 categories of people one category we already know at the moment it entails a 7 countries including for instance australia so countries with a low infection rate and then secondly if you have
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a new category and that is people who have read and let me really read that out to have received the last recommended dose of an e.u. authorized vaccines in other words that means people who have been fully vaccinated in may most cases that means 2 chaps of a vaccine and then a period of one to 2 weeks until the vaccine actually takes effect they can in the future that is what the commission recommends 2 member states enter the e.u. they can also bring their children but they will have to be if they can be vaccinated provided p.c.r. test well these recommendations will be binding across all of the e.u. or are we going to have the situation where some countries make up their own rules as in so many cases the use a couple of states who cooperate and in this case that is also what they hope to achieve to facilitate travel to have one rule that applies for everyone but if member states to choose to opt out they're free to do so at what we have
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a situation is in the right now is rather a lot of member states like greece for instance where the tourism industry is really important who already say we we already apply these measures if you're vaccinated you can already come and spend your holidays and we understand this proposal would have an emergency brake mechanism in it tell us about that well the idea here is if situations occur like in india where you have a double mutant for instance or where the virus is particularly strong then all of the you could shut down there will be an easy agency who gives a warning signal and then again member states can decide if they want to follow that recommendation or they don't all right so this is early may right now can we be sure that this is going to be in place in time for the summer vacations. that is what the e.u. commission hopes basters are meeting this week and then end of may the member states will will decide and there is also a green certificates coming that way the idea is that it will facilitate all of
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this and that will be made available to foreigners who intends to come to travel and spend their vacation and you arrive and we hope for the best year. with the latest in brussels gay or thank you. germany is planning to ease restrictions for people who have been fully vaccinated or people who have recovered from the coronavirus now those people will be exempt from some of the toughest pandemic measures including night time curfews and limits on personal contact the parliament the bundestag is expected to approve the new rules this week but with only about 8 percent of people in germany fully vaccinated the plan is controversial. for months germans have been told to stay at home public life has been heavily restricted it's been a long and bleak winter but now with the vaccination campaign picking up speed here a debate about lifting restrictions for those who are fully vaccinated has begun.
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since easter we've been saying based on expert recommendations that people who have been vaccinated will have equal rights to those who've just tested negative. in some german states that sedated people can already access services that are open to those with a negative test at the moment with the country in lock down that means they can go to the hairdressers and a few other shops but further exceptions are also being discussed being able to meet more people in private for example and an exemption from one time curfews in many areas giving some people their rights back before restrictions are lifted for everyone is hugely controversial and intensive care nurse spoke for many when he confronted the health minister. i don't understand how we can already be promising privileges when we haven't been able to offer everyone a vaccine yet we should only be talking about privileges once every single german
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has been given the opportunity to get vaccinated. but others disagree they say people who have been fully vaccinated don't pose a significant risk of infection so they should be able to live their lives without restrictions so i think it's a question of constitutional necessity to basically people's. freedoms to be taken back because otherwise there is the disproportionate. however this debate may be short lived if germany's vaccination campaign continues at its current rapid pace and may not take long before a lot of the population has been vaccinated and can live a much for your life well to india now where the coronavirus crisis remains the worst in the world right now india's vaccination campaign is slow due to vaccine shortfalls meanwhile the health care system struggling with
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a huge surge of coronavirus infections now approaching 20000000 hospitals are appealing for emergency supplies as they run out of oxygen to treat severely ill patients. there's no room for these patients at this hospital instead they're made to wait outside and left hoping that the oxygen supply will hold out. as ambulances queue at hospitals other means of transport are also taking on a crucial role trains are india's lifeblood tracks holding freight in people across the country's vast landmass like arteries. today they also offer a lifeline this locomotive pulls a precious cargo oxygen headed to the worst hit areas. india's railroads have been drafted into the country's emergency response in other ways to. 11 train coaches have been converted into isolation wards there's
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a separate coach for the doctors that's 12 isolation coaches available here there are 2 oxygen cylinders in each coach and we've set up 9 air coolers as well sprinklers on the ceiling control the temperature 16 patients can be accommodated in each coach and sanitation waste disposal arrangements have also been made. ingenuity in improvisation are doing their bit to stem the rising tide of coronavirus death. but it's not enough to shield the modi government from anger over its failure to prevent this deadly 2nd wave of the pandemic. the backlash was felt last week when the prime minister's b j p party unexpectedly lost an important state election in west bengal. much like the surgeon infections this is not what modi had in mind when he declared the end of the pandemic at political rallies all over india. after this
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miscalculation his political fortunes may be linked to the corona virus more closely than ever. earlier we spoke with our delhi bureau chief and she about allegations made today by scientific advisors that they are pandemic warnings were ignored by the government when the indian company if you ask them but if the ignored scientific evidence they set me said no they didn't they in fact set up a consortium of scientists back in december to specifically investigate if that were any variants of the virus which could get straight to national health now these scientists say that the give their findings to the government in march why didn't that now come out and do enjoy just that nothing was done and when asked why it was nothing done one time to say you know it's our job to give the evidence honestly making is the responsibility of the government so busy implying that perhaps
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science didn't drive letter c. making as much as it should have in this time to make and that was our delhi bureau chief on regent she met with porting there let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has said that the u.s. wants a stable and predictable relations with russia speaking ahead of a g 7 foreign ministers meeting in london secretary said that the u.s. will respond if moscow acts recklessly or aggressive at the funeral for andrew brown a black man shot and killed by police deputies has been held in the u.s. state of north carolina attorneys for his family called his death unjustifiable they are demanding the release of the body cam footage of the shooting. thousands of residents along kyrgyzstan's border with tajikistan 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
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a cease fire appears to be holding now. young activists in me and more have staged nationwide rallies calling for others to join them in a spring revolution witnesses say security forces shot and killed several demonstrators and a series of explosions walked the city of young gone it's been 3 months since the military seized power here in germany police have shut down a major internet platform that shared images of children being sexually abused officials say the dark net site was one of the biggest in the world and have been operating since at least 2019 investigation found images of severe sexual abuse including toddlers several suspects are already in police custody the boy's town website is now offline but until recently more than 400000 members met up on this darkness platform to share illegal images of young boys being abused after
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a lengthy investigation by germany and europe all 3 main suspects were arrested mid april and a 4th is now in custody authorities shut the platform down. all 4 men were arrested on suspicion of criminal activity they're being charged with conspiracy and publishing pornographic content 3 of them are accused of being the administrators of the boys town website the 4th is suspected of being the most active platform member and having made over 3500 posts on sentiment to chuffed to post it so hard whether the men themselves committed abuses unclear this can only be determined after the data has been analyzed even though the raid was successful germany's federal police know the investigation must continue. when you have such a large system and cut off its head you're only eliminating the current administrators the members still exist we have to assume that a similar site will resurface but that doesn't stop us from continuing to prosecute
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those responsible for the website the offenders face prison sentences of 6 months to 10 years state prosecutors believe the suspects will receive multiple years behind bars. and my colleagues you need some you know them is joining me now here at the table she's been looking into this story it's good to have you here we're trying to get our heads around just the numbers here more than what 400000 people were involved in this members of this network how significant is this bust as actually a major german investigators as you said it 400000 members of this platform they shared sexual abuse material of children on this platform around the world so this is huge and they think just to put it in perspective we had another platform that german investigators took down a couple of years ago and 2017 known as elysium and there it was around
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$110000.00 accounts so here it's 4 times as big and investigators are now saying saying it's one of the biggest child sexual abuse platforms on the dark web probably do we know how the investigation worked how you know the police were able to find what was going on and find the people who were involved that we don't know much yet but we know that in general it's really hard to investigate on the dark web because one thing you have to know about the dark web is another part of the internet it's a part that's only accessible through a specific software that allows users to stay anonymous and of course this anonymity makes it really hard for investigators actually to track down the criminals behind it and that's why we've also seen this international cooperation. german investigators other countries were also involved and what i said and i think better still is yeah they basically infiltrate these platforms so they chat with people or users on the platform they try to find out any information they can to
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actually locate the criminals behind it we were talking in the newsroom today to me most of us would even know how to get on the darknet to begin with so the people who have done that even if they weren't the ringleaders here these 400000 should should they be expecting the police to be knocking at their door so. that's something you would expect but as i mentioned it's really hard with the anonymity for investigators and also i mean i've looked at one of the farms elysium that i mentioned earlier the one that was taken down in 2017 and there on the farm people are actually talking about how to evade the law how to stand on this and you think and corruption so yeah they actually know that investigators are after them tough work indeed and yes i'm going over it's good to have you on the story we should be reporting thank you. today is world press freedom day reporters without borders is calling on the european union to do more
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to protect journalists here in europe their annual report says the journalists around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to investigate and report on sensitive stories and europe is no exception independent media in hungary almost completely dismantled europe. to. come in and intervene in regional join a list in poland in distress it will be from so i 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 a threat such and saw its attacks according to reporters without borders. the media situation in the e.u. is deteriorating they strongly criticized the e.u. slack of action in defending the freedom of the press for example in poland it's a verse media landscape is now under threat we visit radio 3 $57.00 in warsaw and
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independent station which broadcast over the internet it's run by some very experienced journalists ana so the 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. doesn't appear has come wasn't fired she resigned from her job as deputy editor in chief ed stand next to 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
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newspapers like jenny because accordingly are very well suited to spreading their message. to suppress my guys that are not so sure. that got the ball when you cut this is 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 loyal outlets. in the world's press freedom index the country is now at position 64 down 46 places in 6 years but the government says it's low ranking it's politically motivated. i think poland is an example of how things should be when it comes to free media and criticism of the government everyone has the right to criticize and then make use of its. public rhetoric. there's an upper house car has a new job at
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a regional internet platform they take over for former newspaper was put on hold by a court in war so for now but as you know by has got its war it. press freedom is certainly key when it comes to democracy in poland. if this freedom vanishes there will be consequences. the problem well known in brussels the e.u. commission says they are concerned but cannot do much about it and we don't have still sufficiently strong religious lation which the thought that the media so it is not so easy to take decisive action journalists in poland wants to fight for their independence just like they're calling in hungary or slovenia but they also see they need to see more action from brussels to defend media freedom in the european union well marking world press freedom day g w has awarded its annual freedom of speech award to nigeria an investigative
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reporter. starting at an early age stood up for women's rights and she called out injustices when she saw them undercover reporting on sex trafficking almost cost her her life. says it's her mission to give a voice to the voiceless by using the power of the written word. well i spoke with a short while ago when i asked her what has kept her going despite the trauma of rape and witnessing murder that came with her investigations. i would say that what has. what's hard about that needs to try to move on i would say 1st god almighty. hope i'm a very cool. cussing. and condi at some point
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yes i did because society used to do rape or that traumatic experiences that i think have difficulty talking about. when and the we know and the children around the story and it becomes very difficult for me to tell it myself. and decides now i guess that other places will be d.n.a. for the children and women but how do i continue contributing my thoughts had 2 scenes with society so i simply had to. have some courage myself to keep moving that many women many children out there young persons who are looking up to me so that keeps me hooey. well you can see the entire interview with born aboard next on the day that starts in about 8 minutes or one of germany's most popular
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tourist destinations reopens this month the island of zoos in the north sea is once again welcoming visitors it's a test to see whether vacations can be safe despite the pandemic or jails and restaurants are happy to have the business back but some locals fear the return of tourism could put them at risk here who have won hello and welcome at least register with the app thing so now you're booked. how do you have your test results i just think it was one of the only one your phone. data collector and test checker this restaurant owner can only admit guests who have checked in with a contract tracing app and can provide negative corona tests this is some void if you want it's a good feeling we're back i'm we're here for our guests that's what makes me really happy. of course there are many requirements that we have to fulfill it's taken a lot of work as a special here hour of us to get in the moment to understand. the
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story i don't think we're more likely to get infected here than at home and schtick because we're being cautious and following all the hygiene rules. in gunson and the tests give us a sense of security and that money and again this is the doctor to test on. visitors to still need a negative test no more than a day old to go to a restaurant and 2 days to stay in a hotel room but some residents think the strict testing strategy alone isn't enough the 18000 full time residents share the islands with 62000 beds for tourists and 14000 vacation homes. proctor south really doesn't entitle to keep track of 2nd home owners when they rent out their places to friends and family how do we know. those people will also be tested get out he got on the death of the fish to test the but they've also helped offset kind of no one asked
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any of us doctors here for opinion make them begin that they should have waited at least 2 months before letting in to respond so the people who live here and work here can reach herd immunity went off the op i've never spoken to should not have started until then money being poured yet we should stop and go from. a normal temperature and a vaccination record the requirements to stay at a hotel guests with 2 jobs don't need to show a negative test so. we've had so many lock downs now i'm using this as a get away from the day to day stress it's important because we want to get back to normal but for hotel owners the situation is anything but normal human mind i would be that lucky i want to get back to work i want to put up guests for the night i enjoy it and i also have to get back to making an income but the day is busy and everyone's looking at us to see what happens if we make any mistakes they'll point the finger but if it works we're trailblazers oh and for lighter.
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eager to get out of the house after more than a year of restrictions germans will be watching still to see if it's safe again to go on holiday. or from the coast to the coliseum visitors to rome's coliseum will soon get a gladiator's view from a new retractable stage a high tech floor will give tourists a clearer picture of what it was like when gladiators fall to the death the stage will include trap doors and a pulley system similar to those used to bring animals in fighters into battle. you're watching d.w. news after short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around we'll be right back.
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in many countries education is still a privilege poverty is one of the main causes some young children like in mine
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shafts instead of going to class others can attend classes have to be finished making. millions of children all over the world who can't go to school. we ask why. because education makes the world more just. make up your own mind. w. made for minds. trick. trades. a lot of. the week's extravagant outfits and glitter glitter glitter. against prejudice i don't hold cable like i did nothing and i'm just dancing and for breaking. the law for little stars on the big stage. stocks
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17. on this world press freedom day a troubling trend more than ever before the safety of our female colleagues is at risk it often begins with women targeted with online abuse it often becomes offline baweja lives too often lethal and she knows that better than anyone. is an investigative journalist who went undercover in.