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it was it was an incredible feeling the people who were liberated. they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity. have their hopes been fulfilled. 10 years after the arab spring. arabella and starts june 7th on d w. one .
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from the bundesliga to the top of world football german coaches are excelling leading the charge his hands a flick he won 6 trophies with byron in 2020 on the way to becoming you waif a coach of the year mcmanus i like to make my players work to all of this and it does them good then there's the rise of you can climb up from 2nd tier stalwart to best fifo coach. so that distinctly average player to be coaching liverpool that it's certainly a good story for. their success has reset the bar for others with thomas to hold marco holzer and yulia novels man following in their footsteps. by professional football as a shot at you sink or swim. on to the next batch it's already in the pipeline germany's training and instruction program is busy forming some of top. morals top
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coaches. this is the face of the new generation of coaches usually are not young ambitious and highly confident. this man's head coaching career began in february 26th seen when he took charge of relegation threatened hoffenheim at the age of 28. he was the youngest full time head coach in bundesliga history. he's only seen further success since then. obviously me becoming a wonderfully good coach at 28 and having some success has helped open the door for others to a degree the clubs realise this could work but it's really the standard business model that 65 generally close to retirement someone younger comes along and takes your place but it's the same in football also i think with the players themselves the mentality has changed a bit and when you're closer to their own age certain aspects of the job easier and
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it is a bit isolated but in coaching career built on the back of disappointment nuckolls man's dream of playing professional football himself was shattered at an early age . i think i was fairly talented but whether i was good enough for a top international career i don't know these things are hard to predict but when all the injury problems came to a head in 2007 and i sensed i couldn't play pain free anymore i initially wanted to quit football altogether i felt like trying something else was studying business and looking to go in that direction but then the 860 mention offered me an assistant coaching job which i gratefully accepted because i'd soon realised football still meant a lot to me of was going back to doesn't mean awful but by 23 now girls man was at hoffenheim in charge of the under 173 years later he steered the under nineteen's to the national title he. so it is a special report with the players drawing on
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a difficult moment of his own the death of his father when you leon was just 20. per cent a loss of that magnitude obviously helps lend you a bit of perspective about the end of the day it's only football and we've just had a case of a player losing a family member and that's something you can empathize with a few experienced it yourself i like the saying love is power. if you try to help the players where you come in personal matters as well that has a positive effect on their job. i'm together you can be more successful than mine and both will come all come out of. such human qualities are one vital ingredient for novels much on the technical side he also established his credentials early earning his coaching badge with the 2nd best grade in germany's class of 2016. and this is where
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he earned it every year at sports southeast of cologne some 25 coaches take their you way for pro license a prerequisite for touchline duty in the bundesliga head instructor daniel needs is tasked with preparing them for what lies ahead for the moment when you see charge of a professional team and you must be confident about every aspect of the job you want every training session to be highly effective a need a summer understanding of siri as a coach you'll know postie introductory stage. is no stranger to the bundesliga and assistant to both sami and a whole dash mitt. he is currently assistant to stephanie coontz for the germany under 20 one's and he's well aware there is much more to being a coach than knowing all the theory. the most difficult thing in practice is being. i'm for the end and remaining confident in
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any situation. especially when things aren't going so well because that's when the players are keeping a particularly close eye on you. how's he going to respond and now. they're totally chiu name to what you're doing mastering that is the biggest challenge of all for a coach. football is changing in many ways and that's also evident in coaching where a growing number of tacticians are making a mark at the bundesliga level without ever having played professionally themselves . there's a trend towards younger players moving into the senior set up much earlier that leads to a higher demand for coaches who used to working with players who use a level so it's becoming kind of a logical career step from youth team to head coach i think in the past clear cut pronouncements in a rather textile were pretty much the norm you can do it that way now. it's.
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striking the right note while making the necessary tweaks kanzi flick has been giving an extended master class and how it's done at byron he steered them from troubled waters back to international dominance. if you're a good person that something players will respond to i think for them your core values are very important and they'll only really follow you if they feel those values are good i've always known hansie is someone with a great talent for bringing people together and creating a good atmosphere pretty like byron that can make all the difference so i'm not surprised he's having such success as a head coach though you couldn't foreseen things developing quite as they did he probably didn't forsee that himself. pansy flick the coach of the moment having spent long enough in the shadows he was brought in as a miss. system and bumped up to the top job and has brought success from day one
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byron's on field performance tied to his off field connection with the players. whether it's a fresh faced talent or hard boiled veteran. acting quest forced if you imagine it in terms of a stock price it's fairly rocketed since hanzi took over for the club as a whole and myself personally. of. that is a good mentor you know you talk to the spurs pressures young players you know the down to earth guy. he knows you know he was a player once only knows what. he won for leake titles in his 5 years of byron never a 1st rank star but always his own man as former teammate of automata it was recalls. his piece not just pleasant hanzi he's very straightforward when he's got an opinion the stands his ground on it and other handy attributes for
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a head coach for 8 years flick was assistant to national team coach you are clean lurve in 2014 they won the world cup together. i'm not so easy as a vital cog in the chain for us back then as he has great empathy for the players and he'll demonstrate it in crucial situations and he's also a communicator good at getting his message across for me. after that world cup pinnacle he moved into the administrative sphere a fresh challenge which didn't go to plan he stepped down as sporting director of the d.f.t. the german football association after 2 and a half years the next engagement at hoffenheim lasted just 8 months plug was evidently happier out on the training ground than up in the stands and so you can see montana sees someone who lives for football 247 that's also accepted as home if he's at his desk working on tactics in the d. . it is ready it won't be and he'll keep working on his tactics dinner can be
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warmed up again later it was as good an offshoot of that mix of perfectionism and human touch got him in the door at byron as an assistant coach in the summer of 2019 the rest is history after nico co-factors departure flick took over and set the team straight. by the end of the season he'd led them to a stunning travel triumph you wait for coach of the year and a team player as ever. and for that one here alive and you never succeed on your own the coach from the operation but i'm all for sharing what i can say for sure that without everyone pulling in the same direction you could never be this successful focus on hansie flick the players' friend he rose from supporting act to the top of the coaching summit completing the final ascent at stunning speed due to years of hard work to make that possible.
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good. times almost boyish i played 7 years in the bundesliga before winding down my career in australia i had some very good coaches there which inspired me to try coaching myself and i've been to one. i returned to germany 3 years ago and was getting a lot of t.v. work as an expert analyst and now as of last july i'm coaching the i'm tough going for the under 15. in the country. and. i found myself thinking it's all well and good at analyzing other people's work but it's surely much more exciting to do that work yourself if you
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can lay it all out on a tactic school communicating your own ideas about football to young players can you actually do that working with them on a weekly or daily basis also going on with. your school. to see if i could sense that while the theoretical side was something elementary and important to me sooner or later that work out to be taken on to the pitch. got. some of the world's best coaches certainly weren't top level professionals in their own playing days but what i have increasingly notice especially working at youth level is that it's no bad thing to be able to demonstrate what you're talking about if a coach is just standing there with his arms crossed explaining the theory of something
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there's a certain element missing. so i'm pretty glad now that i played at a high level and can actually illustrate what i'm talking about. in 4 months ago and. occasionally someone will revolutionize international football i think it lets you go madrid understood me only really influence the defensive side of things. often as for the prevalent style of pressing deep passing and the heavy focus on vertical attacking i say that with a golf gun nick and you're going club we had 2 german coaches blazing a trail club bunch of. the regional capital of rhineland net. the local football club is one of the bonus leaguers program underdogs now playing their 12th straight season in the top flight thanks
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above all to their remarkable run of coaches. here 20 years ago a veteran player was redeployed as head coach on short notice his name yogen club. uncompromising defender who never played a minute of bundesliga football now in early 2001 with his club struggling to avoid relegation to the 3rd division he was tasked with steering them to safety from the touchline because the best to give you from the outside it does seem pretty exciting to be honest but actually being in that situation is obviously quite different it didn't feel spectacular soul and took up a lot of your time but it was great as well a fortunate life is having the opportunity to do what you want in my case it's the only thing i can do who's on the. bill and as i can't do anything else. it was important to get it right as a coach was an obvious is
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a. stopgap solution destined to have a long term impact and far beyond minds the style introduced by clarke took them clear of relegation for starters and then up to the ponderously go 3 years later clarke has a coach who often doubles up as father figure as well. as me you're working basically with a group of young men who do need a mentor of some sort and ideally that should be the coach which means ensuring the understand why it makes sense to listen to me. what i said to my players right at the start was even if i have no idea about football it would be good for you to engage with me because everyone doing the same things wrong together he's still better than everyone just doing what. i want. next stop for klopp was the rural district joining. over the following 5 years he took the all time
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powerhouse from mid table mediocrity to the top of the pile in germany winning the domestic double in 2012 and even reached the champions league final a year later remains a top man legend. and play good lively passionate football in dortmund and you can create something really special. show total commitment celebrate blocking a bull for throwing like it's a goal winning a tackle like it's a goal like in a football mad city you can do that or if it's somewhere people generally prefer to visit the opera it's harder to generate that enthusiasm but if the love of football's there in the 1st place it can be done. power football combined with a few tactical twists making for a dynamic attacking style points one of the 1st coaches to systematically incorporate his full backs into the forward game
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a typical example here right back look at. capping off his upfield surge with an assist. to. your gun club from emergency promotion at mines to 2 time best fifo coach it's been quite a journey. it could certainly have been worse up to now. maybe also better. we'll never know but from being a distinctly average player in the. place it's getting the opportunity to coach. it's a good story. only a year after the clop era ended in minds they catapulted another coaching prodigy into the bundesliga thomas took home
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a top tactician big on detail but also with an impulsive streak and an already proven knack of bringing through young talents like. he came straight up with him from the under nineteen's. that says a he was very demanding in every training session he's a perfectionist he has his concept knows what he wants and every player has to adapt to that. but he's the master of the match plan a way to top dogs byron munich total instructed his players to man mark the opposition defenders a simple but rarely seen tactic which effectively shuts down byron's deep build up play minds went on to earn their 1st ever win in munich thanks to tuples tactics. that's what. some call it. was a kind of game plan visionary in terms of developing specific measures for specific
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situations. but i have. i think with that and also just his general approach to coaching in football he's had an influence on a lot of other coaches in germany. the game plan each coach has it in his own variations it's a strategic battle of wits every match day offering revealing insights into the foundational football philosophy of those at the top of their trade. has evidently learned a thing or 2 from both your gun club and told us to hold also was part of that 1st mights team to win promotion to the bundesliga a formative experience in its own right. i mean it's fairly simple football's a team sport and obviously at the top level you depend on individual quality. i would but for that to make a difference you need to have
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a functioning team it's often said that teams with a great mentality can beat better quality opponents and. that's a key feature of football. coach is now at the helm in mention gladbach where he's believed fresh life into the entire club putting his own imprint on the team. you have in the movie we used to run into problems if we didn't take the lead around how to pressure the opposition higher up the pitch. we were great on the counter and could sit back and defend very well but we can also press and defend further up. there's still room for improvement and elsewhere but that's an important new facet to our game another way we can win and you can bloodbath play with an extraordinary intensity winning back possession the whole team switches straight into attack mode virtually every pass can now go directly forward it's
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a high speed ambush right through to the finish. line. indeed even given time the concept we've developed with the coach is a very good fit for us pushing forward high pressing we really like winning the ball up there it's a shorter route to go for that because the longer has forged minting glass into a collective who can hold their own against international heavyweights like ray our madrid and interim milan as a result this season they've made the champions league round of 16 for the 1st time next season will be coaching in dortmund. might take are now firmly in. although among the bundesliga elite they've been making waves in europe as well champions league semifinalists last season another indication of the club's potential thanks to their incredible resources julian not
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all smiles as well into his 2nd year directing the project. one staple tactic involves packing bodies into the middle drawing in their opponents in similar numbers which leaves like take with space to explode out wide at the same time they're able to swarm the opposition box as soon as the attack on faults. are set their primary that is duds. the stats are likely to see those compressed into that space in front of our own goalie while still having a lot of players within striking distance of the opposition go that basically means in the middle of the park so i do like us to have a few guys about area get out of. the now goes man system also bore fruit against byron in december tying up the hosts in the center line 6 head
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space time operate in down the flanks it's no fluke that left back and highly neo is among their top players for direct goal involvements. straight in the day and then there is something. 'd quite well. really. thanks to him i think my 4 is getting better and. you are they are novels man will move on to a buyer next season the reigning chaps dished out a record 25000000 euros to lure the coach from life. and can see flick look for. monthly to take over the german national team after the euro's ok live will step down. like.
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6 titles in 2020 flicks succeeded in uniting everyone behind his concept from the off. for defender. that was a crucial factor. he delivered results straight away. gives us a very precise game plan and i think he manages the whole group really well. whether you're a salsa or a substitute. pansy flick speired put the opposition under enormous pressure the defensive line is halfway up the pitch while the attackers focus relentlessly on hunting down the ball from here it's blink of an eye stuff less than 2 and a half seconds between winning back possession and hitting the net. and the coach always wants to see is playing good football. we defend very high up in the pitch and we also maintain an extremely complex shape. he basically just knows
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the best way of setting the team up for a game. to him they've also got incredible penetration when they win the bowl they don't need to knock it around or have 70 percent possessions they have so many quick guys up front they can just keep playing it in behind the defense. with the swift up field field has become an intentional tactic what center forward or bit leavened off ski the ever willing number one receiver. slap on. a striker is having this season life. with the aid of a final polish from the coach that long awaited fee for the best player award is his at last. has lent the record champions a quicker sharper cutting edge one more name for the pantheon of great byron coaches though his reign was shorter than many expected.
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right now on the international stage it's german coaches setting the tone their roads to the top have been manning each man off the ring his own success story along the way contrasting characters all united by passion for the theory and practice of the game and deep she in turn inspiring others still at the outset of their coaching careers always aware that in this line of work things can change very quickly indeed oh. moving. to.
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start so millions can live. a full investigation after a deadly metro accident the train on to the road past collapsed killing at least 23 people we'll bring you the latest from the mexican capital also on the program india's hospitals struggle to cope the number of corona virus infections reaches more than 20000000 come from out of bed. in germany with an aggressive corona virus did not i think fuel to the fire.
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welcome to the program. national and local authorities are promising a full investigation into a deadly metro accident in mexico city at least 23 people died and dozens were injured when an elevated section of rail line collapsed on monday night local residents have previously expressed concerns about cracks in the structure. to keep operation is underway to train carriages hanging above the road creating a daunting rescue operation for emergency workers mine 12 is the newest of mexico city's metro system the train was traveling between stops when the overpass gave way sending rubble and carriages tumbling down onto a busy road bulletins of those trapped to face
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a nervous wait for any news one of. my daughter in law told us she was with my son and she told us the structure fell down over them. and. we don't have any news about my sister they don't have her name in the list we called her cell phone and there was no answer. so some of us are looking for her in different hospitals. god willing we'll find her. rescue workers initially use ladders to gain access to the survivors the 4th artie's halted the rescue operation due to concerns the train could full at any moment a crane later arrived to secure the carriages. there are 79 people hospitalized 2 of them who arrived at hospitals unfortunately died of these people there are 5 people who have not yet been identified in total there are 19 memon and
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60 men there are 3 minus and 3 elderly's and so far 23 people have died in. line tunnels construction was plagued by complaints and there are reports that damage was noticed on the of a pos many s. ago. a straight to mexico city that we join journalist carry on here's an international correspondent at welcome carry what's happening there now. the whole area is cordoned off and they're going to try and remove the rubble and i believe they have gotten all the bodies out and all the victims and been transported to local hospitals what's being said about the cause of this incident. well as your report showed you could see that it was on an elevated. highway an elevated platform there where the train passed over and there
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is giant concrete girders and it's believed that one of the girders had given out and then. it's too soon to tell but it's just a horrific sight you see where that elevated part just collapsed and the 2 trains just v. shaped on to the you know onto each other and on to the roadway below luckily this is a part of the metro system that is above ground most of the system especially in the center of the city is underground all underground and this was above ground and it was also in the median so when those cars did come down they didn't crash onto the busy road way below they crashed into the medium although there was one car that was reportedly crashed and so he was brought out alive miraculously from the crashed car but the victim it was late at night. the metro system had been underutilized because of the pandemic and it has a big area of contagion and it was before the station cell that limited
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a lot of the fatalities but it's just a horrific sight to see just mental cables in the car dangling there are still. there were reports of previous reports of cracks in the structure. yes there was a large earthquake that hit very close to mexico city and there was a lot of damage in 2017 and neighbors and users of that mine had said that they had seen cracks and there had been complaints about it this line is one of the newest that has been built in mexico city it was it opened in 2012 and it has been plagued with problems from the get go there was the inquiries about some of the construction it was close for a year maybe a little bit more in 2014 for repairs and it's just it hasn't been one of the better lines and in mexico city mexico city is a huge metro system it is back up and running now but they're going to ask about
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you know i thorough investigation is being demanded on this the president spoke about it this morning in his daily news conference he said that he will ask for an external investigation anybody who needs to be held responsible will be held responsible and that's quite curious because. his foreign minister right now is current foreign minister wrestler bride it was the mayor of mexico city when line 12 was opened in 2012 and he has himself said that he is willing to cooperate with any invest in any authorities necessary he's at their disposition and he was get to the bottom of why this horrible event that happened john the. mexico city. i know we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world lebanon and israel have resumed in direct talks over their disputed sea border and the u.s. mediation negotiations between the longstanding enemy stalled last year because the disagreements over demarcation lines the 2 sides are officially of war america and
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flare ups along the border. foreign ministers from the g 7 group of industrialized nations are holding a 2nd day of talks ahead of a leaders' summit in june many of the world's biggest you political issues are on the agenda at the london leaching including the military coup in may and now in the war in syria. chief executive says her government is working on new legislation to what she called the spread of misinformation hatred and lies kerry lands announcement kerry during a crackdown on democracy and press freedom within the chinese territory. u.s. tech billionaire bill gates and his wife melinda divorcing after 27 years of marriage they made the announcement of via twitter and say they'll continue their charitable work together the bill and melinda gates foundation focuses on environmental and public health causes with nearly $50000000000.00 in assets it's the largest private foundation in the world. now health authorities battling
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india's coronavirus pandemic of now recorded more than 20000000 cases of coverage 19 the country's 2nd wave is much deadlier than the 1st with many hospitals running out of beds and oxygen the worst affected state is more harassed or in the west but the situation across the country is alarming with record numbers of new cases posted almost daily and blamed in part on a new more infectious virus variant doctors in many states say they can't cope numerous countries including neighboring pakistan have promised medical assistance and the indian government urges everyone to get vaccinated and to stick to social distancing rules. well the double correspondent minear choudhry in delhi told me how india north already is a dealing with this surge of 20000000 cases a little it seems to have gotten into our pledging all now. actually is now being taken out 1st if the government is trying to increase the base of that nation
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process as well just receive the trying to up all those look at life look use and. the strength of the why is the government is also trying to ramp up the reaction to that scene and even today there are a lie of the sentient beings like oxygen and likes to be judged by the situation is such that we are now weeks into the 2nd we and we are still struggling if we talk about day specifically there. is bottle of fresh beyond its capacity and now pressure mounting on the wall the government do an ounce and we should make love don't let it get last year because many including many experts believe that the only way now to break the chain of justice. when a child to die well here in germany the number of crimes carried out by right wing extremists has jumped to its highest in 20 years according to a government report released today interior minister horses they have described
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right wing extremism is the biggest threat to national security report says most of these attacks are motivated by racism it also highlights a new race from creasing the aggressive coronavirus denial movement which has been linked to anti-semitism and to democratic speech and right wing violence. let's speak with a member of the german parliament's interior committee this is a constantine of cooler who's an f.t.p. member of parliament and sits on the committee welcome to d.w. what is behind this this record increase in far right politically motivated crimes . well 1st of all we have to bear in mind that just a few weeks ago the numbers regarding general crime were published in germany with the result that general crime in germany is decreasing europe but pandemic now a few weeks after that we can see that politically motivated crime is increasing
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its even the highest number in decades we are observing at the moment in germany and it is it appears that right wing extremists and conspiracy theorists are using the pandemic to spread their theories to spread hatred and we've been seeing this all around germany in the last weeks and months so just to be clear did do you see do you see this increase then as being right wingers taking advantage of coronavirus rather the peak of an ongoing trend. i think there are both developments at the same time on the one hand there is a right wing terrorism in germany you've been just mentioning the incidence and hano there has been the killing of a government official and has been just a few months ago the other attacks on minorities there are attacks on journalists on several institutions on that and on the policeman we are seeing this all around the country so this is happening and this has been happening already before the
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koran of virus but now these groups are obviously using the frustration that we are seeing in some parts of the society to hijack these manifestations and to combine it with their ideology and i think it is also the responsibility of those who are trying to use their freedom of assembly and they can do that to distance themselves from right wing behavior and from right wing extremism but there's more going on here isn't there because we see right wing extremists acting out on the streets but we also see. the right the far right in germany becoming respectable germany's opposition official opposition in parliament is the day so what is it about germany or about german votes but means they want to vote for these potus i give them respectability. yes it is extremely worrying to observe
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that the f.t.c. in parliament is in part using the same rhetoric that is used by people who are going on the streets trying to attack policeman journalists and members of parliament and they are even attacking city councilor as mayors even in smaller cities so then other taking only professionals but also people who are doing this in their free time so we are really. serving at the moment in germany a decrease in respect toward state institutions and democracy ok 5300 something you visit the left by rio your opportunity to have a go at me i didn't really like my question was about what is it about german society or germans in society or about german voters that means that those far right options are now respectable. well i would say that the pop
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lead this is the development we can see in all european countries at the same time we have the right wing extremists unfortunately in many member state parliament in the european union and we have even heads of state like the. who are going against journalists. fueling just the same stories that are told by the i have the germany put on the other hand there's a special german responsibility when it comes to dealing with our past and i think these 2 developments are combined right now in a very dangerous way especially by the i 55 joining us good to talk a cold something cooler interior fast probe so for the f.t. . what line of sports josie marino is widely considered one of the greatest will coaches of all time is to take charge of roma after this season the italian club has given the portuguese coach a 3 year contract 2 weeks after he was fired by premier league side top of the marina has one dozens of titles and all those including champions league with porto
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with inter milan. as if you're up to date world news out of the top of the hour in just a moment we'll have your business update the day. is of grave the need to keep a lot of people for over gretchen home the 4th time for the most recently that we can unlock. the bottom of the families at the last dragon as well as called the 2 year. degree vote on. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. is the rate of infection been developing.
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measures are being. the latest research series. context. coronavirus and the code of special monday to friday on. pfizer sales on the back of the cold 19 vaccine the pharma firm expects to sell $26000000000.00 worth of its job this year but it's mostly rich countries that are . adding it. a lot of jobs is prolonging the pain in africa even soccer players are on a shaky financial footing we take you to go beyond. the promise of sun and see the portuguese island of madeira tries to lure in the world's growing
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population of digital no lads. this is the business i'm joined now in berlin so happy you can join us we begin with the u.s. pharmaceutical heavyweight fight today it announced a big boost in its sales forecast for a covert 19 vaccines to 20 $6000000000.00 for a 2021 and that's just based on the contracts itself and so far pfizer and beyond tech have significant supply agreements with the united states and the european union despite announcing a big profit in the 1st quarter of the year pfizer is supplying just $40000000.00 doses this year to the un's kovacs initiative which aims to distribute vaccines to poorer countries. profit insurer holders pockets at the same time developing nations are crying out for vaccine doses jory during barrow has more on this for us joy to what extent has pfizer help stem the spread of the pandemic in africa if at
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all. well to be honest genelle the pfizer vaccine or in this case pfizer has done little to help with the pandemic and their reasons for that one is that most african countries being in the noir income countries category of gone for the call box facility which in this case they had to rely on the callbacks initiative to receive the vaccine and also as a vaccine would only be best distributed to countries we've a temperature or temperature of about 8 degrees celsius and most african countries are way above that temperature level and so the storage infrastructure is not viable for most african countries now africa of course has received just 32000000 doses so far in part because of those reasons you mentioned but can you tell us more about why this figure is so pitifully low. to start with the
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think what happened when the convicts vaccine was being ordered was that most of the low income countries which happen to fall mainly in sub-saharan africa could not afford so there was an issue of funding that many african countries had to come last in q when it came to ordering for the vaccine but also we have seen that we the countries that have ordered the vaccine they've only been able to get the vast dollars of the vaccine kenya for it for instance is now trying to see if they can get a variety of vaccines to double up on the 1st round of the vaccine astra zeneca which is now going to require for kenya as a country to have the 2nd round of the vaccine and because of what's happening in india at the moment the call this facility or initiative is paying more attention to india and that means that the law income countries kenya inclusive are likely to
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suffer especially with receiving the 2nd round of the vaccine but many african countries are saying that they would love to get the same vaccination that they had for the very 1st round so this is a resource allocation issue but briefly if they can joy what more needs to be done by pfizer and other job makers. accessibility is important right now because while african countries might have the issue of resource says and funding it's important for the rest of the world as well to be aware that if we are all not safe then nobody is safe at all but we have seen in the cases of the democratic republic of congo they have to send back vaccines because you know they did not think that they would have distributed the vaccines by the time that they expire and saw these a lot of challenges with the expiration of the vaccines as well that maybe the
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manufacturers need to also have in mind the fact that when they're shipping the maxine's to african countries the expiry date and also the storage system might as well die during bear there for us thank you very much for your analysis. now the slow vaccine rollout is prolonging the suffering of africans across the continent as we heard there then this this next story takes us to come on where even professional footballers are having their livelihoods ruined by the pandemic the coronavirus crisis put public matches on pause now many are leaving the pitch for good. football may be king but its star players in the domestic league are far from living like royalty no public games means a big hit to their salaries many are financially insecure some players are already using services like food banks the international federation of professional footballers associations has put together solidarity kits to help players get by
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valued at less than 50 euros each. people more than a year now players have been left hanging because the government stopped matches even before the cove in 1000 crisis the situation for footballers was already very complicated most were in extremely precarious situations you see that the longer the crisis goes on the lack of activity is causing chaos because they can't practice their profession. many of the pro athletes are trying to stay fit and ready for when the government allows public matches again but others have had to put aside their football careers for work that pays better or pays at all. soon the man traded his football boots for paint rollers and says his salary in painting houses is 8 times what he earned on the pitch. you got. guys who are disrespected who can't eat who can't work closer what can i feel if not regret i fear for their future because all they have is football. shit.
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good of. football groups are calling on the government to step in and it has to be estimated 700 professional players trying to keep their financial footing in the middle of the chaos. now let's take a look at some other business stories making headlines. at least 19 people have died and hundreds wounded in protests in the colombian capital bogota over a tax reform plan and the government has been forced to withdraw the proposal aimed at shoring up state spending it's been heavily criticized for punishing the middle classes during an economic crisis. the world's largest oil company saudi aramco said its 1st quarter profit jumped by more than 30 percent to almost $22000000000.00 thanks to strong boil prices the state run company says global demand for petroleum products are recovering but still remains below pretty pandemic levels. now this has become
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a symbol of how fragile global trade can be a massive container ship stuck in the canal the ever give it halted billions of dollars in maritime trade now the shipping company wants the owners of the cargo to share the cost of the damages i took a look at what the fiasco has meant for shipping and global trade. the ever given may no longer be stuck in this was but it's hardly home free it's still detained as the egyptian government demands $916000000.00 in compensation from the ship owners it's another number on top of an already has the price tag from the grounding. so we use to me the cost of $1.00 strips of shoe between $30.00 and $50000000000.00 so you don't that we are very tiny little things in the world the global trade. because you know it could actually so big that looks like a very well. the incident shown a spotlight on how big ships have gotten in the last decades as the link
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manufacturing from asia to growing consumption in the west today is larger ships are able to hold around 24000 containers. so as consumption grows in trade volumes increase design mean ships are going to get bigger and definitely it seems as if consumers. ships right now have also filed somewhat of a back at least if we go also by. that record amount of where $45.00. ships were ordered and most of those were basically in the size of 15000 and not 232-4000 that was there was to prefer that size for full and rest is enormous placing orders by the end of last year but the poets are one part of the story the goods they carry are another the grounding delayed deliveries at a time or the pandemic already caused shortages of parts and products leaving
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companies grappling with their supply chain it's a complex affair and resorting to something very complicated suitable trip because you can't move to solo it but you get on the 4 feet i want to go to start. rebuilding the know how ephraim structure having the complexity cost or all that takes time. but other industry observers say there is a larger discussion to be had beyond the paths that bring products to consumers it's less about thinking about resiliency or localizing supply chains than about reducing consumption about building supply chain models that are not as reliant on constant constant growth big ships little waterways and supply chains that span the world and the effects from the every given incident are still creating ripples because shipping is the strain called in modern capitalism together governments businesses consumers and regulators need to decide what lessons to derive from it
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and how best to act as a result. are you a digital nomad looking for a place to go the portuguese island of madeira might be the place for you the government is working hard to attract remote workers with free high speed internet a work space warm weather and spectacular views. this is the view ehrlich's on to the pub from his office since february the self-employed web developer has been living in the area has set up as part of a scheme or thora does have established to draw remote workers to the island. like a plan or not after a year for lockdown it's good to be outside better living being in the sun and eating outside. he's one of 100 digital nomads in the town of point all sorts the idea for the project came from this man hall who lobbied local authorities to invest 26000 euros to make my dear an attractive place
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for remote work. high speed internet this free for new arrivals as a work space. is we have $6400.00 applications pending it's a really big success will have to expand faster than we thought it was only the pilot project now too many people want to come. just a lot already got this from the most of the clinton system which is in. the arrivals integrate with locals by taking part in your god seminars and walks. in return they bring money to the area by dining out or by simply doing their grocery shopping. and segment of it's very important because they've become ambassadors from our dear office by sharing their experience but you know it's a small investment with a huge impact. the hope is that the scheme will help cement
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madeira as an attractive destination both for work and play. that's it for me and the business team thank you so much for watching. imagine how many fortunes told loved us rode out in the morning climb a tree different office door this is my place is where i'm from just one week. we're going to really just. we still have time to work i'm going. to set. a new year me no new year's recently and how the last 2 years
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