2 for more security more freedom more dignity. of their hopes been fulfilled. where does the arab world stand today. 10 years after the arab spring. rebellion starts june 7th on d w. you're watching news asia coming up today gasping for air india's hospitals are running out of oxygen for kobe patients the crisis is getting worse will the government be able to do something about it. and what it means to be stateless in pakistan that these girls can't take their talents to their limits we take a closer look. i'm

melissa chana thank you for joining us as india's covert crisis continues to hammer its health care system a shortage of oxygen is making matters worse in delhi hospitals are taking to twitter to ask for help and turning away patients because of low supplies as. reports volunteer groups are now having to step in to help. nation hop has been lost to these right. under in front of a sikh temple 50 kilometers from. the sun past the crew one of my. has also developed a $60.00 lung infection. he needs to be hospitalized but his father says even this makeshift enjoyment is a blessing for these people who are working 24 hours providing oxygen to little because otherwise it's very difficult to get oxygen for them to get a bed in a hospital out this morning i visited 15 or 20 hospitals to look for back for him

and you know there isn't a single but all of them refused us. from the last 2 weeks. that he has been facing a stiff your shortage of medical oxygen. this isn't life saving nostrils not a free oxygen service run by cars ahead of a sikh group 12 years you are considered the just the arctic king to be secondary to the central tenet of service in the cause and several of them have already been infected. but don't hear tell us the aren't afraid these see they must do something to save these night. gergen david i go home to see what was it be the time right over my bypass never stop voting on the above is the main support we are getting ready for him that is allowing us to proceed so and he likes and this is a time that people are even afraid to have i don't really talk to. every family member. of going to. the group has 19 trucks that are already

nearby finance person and. the oxygen is provided for free as patients continue although the rush to kill many hospitals in delhi has stalled taking in your patients because of the often crisis they're putting out f o f messages on twitter begging for help as they only have are some basic minutes of oxygen left. this hospital is one of the previous night was a clue she after reading for hours at oxygen diving authorities on twitter and even reducing that student loans to subsistence levels to make it last longer oh the hospital got supplies in the nick of time doctors here tell us that supplies that used to last them do reeks now evaporate in 36. they cannot predict if the next round will reach them one tank turning of the patients followed just a good reason is heartbreaking for dr wendy to fuse many of these patients.

in this profession because it's because they wanted to help other people through their sickness and in this if they're not given. that by itself is taking an emotional. toll on a very few who do get lucky. back at the oxygen so this simha has finally managed to early age a bed for his son immediately the cylinder is dual towards another patient. who reads into the office engine crisis here. every live good breath is a gift. joining us and we should gys well who filed that report and mischa on monday and official from the federal government insisted that there was no shortage of oxygen anywhere in the country well we just saw your report why on earth would he say the opposite. so be ironic if that

technically he is not doctored use of a large quantity of oxygen more stop it is useful in doctor to book as this but given the crisis point one of the right now it has been be directed for medical use the real challenge for what has been transporting this oxygen because most of these clowns are next look at it next to the innocuous misuse them now most of the insurgent produced in india is towards the east of the country as the headless who points out the crisis of operating in the center and west of the actually transporting oxygen is not simple if you cannot fly it out so the indian air force have been engaged so i ought indeed to do with the slides and express trains likely to dent deep these rocks it off such as that those that have been outfitted to look lost but it's but this process is of course slow because the still aren't enough don't cause this do not adopt little bursts and this is causing the bottleneck that

is exacerbating the crisis that they're seeing in the country it's really fascinating that logistics has been something that people have had to think about a public health officials have been warning of for months both about a covert search and an oxygen supply issue which they could have clearly planned for so why were they heeded and what have they been saying about fixing the problem . well yes the site destroyed it many experts are not quite doing out that it was a sponsor earlier even when it comes to addressing some sport issues even to my production issue with this move then have at least 200 you won't even have a way to build this kind of a mass of soldiers not predicted even though there will continue bombing that we should put it at least a slight uptick perhaps even was a significant uptick for example it took many almost 6 months for the government to slaughter standards for the establishment of someone 60 lots of dots attached to

a hospital it's not an oxygen type that's right beside a hospital the transport issue would be sought however book more studies of model police so that jet now going forward the government has said they would be transporting nitrogen johnson do lots of dance they would be using microbes and 1st transport oxygen that was all imported ied from different countries have sent out 8 even in the form of cylinders but with that kind of transport but of course at this point let me just speak to really do not need to be just to test negative. diagnostic tests in the december got to dining out of bed it's running out of medicines so inch and or there is a problem even finding care for more spacious in addition cities like mumbai have been a very big coming up the boy who wants these are missing in cities like delhi need help patients find beds find care find appropriate hospitals and the lack of this is causing chaos in big cities as well as relieved at lots of challenges facing the

country guys who are always thank you for joining us and as her report showed many people have stepped forward to volunteer during this crisis spoke to one health activist who described how she and her colleagues are coping. i mean i think it's extremely distressing you know a lot of us are not getting enough sleep really usually walking around the clock that have been b.s. you know some of us have been sleeping once in 48 hours. date is a sense of you know despair when you're not able to help patients. you know you are having to help patients get oxygen at home but now we also get s.o.s. calls from patients when admitted in a hospital and that's a complicated because when somebody just out the you for an i.c.u. bed you also have to ensure that the hospital has adequate oxygen and you know we're not we don't have access to a system resources to be able to go all of that and i think i don't think a lot of us actually processing the emotional at all that this is taking you know

a lot of young volunteers are dealing with cases where patients are not surviving i think that is this you know gender feeling of guilt for not being able to do everything to do really save the patient and i think that all very very aware of the limitations that we're facing. you know out for number as a public we get constant calls for help just want to some people are not able to respond to some people. but but yes we're trying to set up a more organized form of you know providing support and psychosocial support to each other. and in fact yesterday i spoke to. him and asking her if she can do some group sessions online for a while and deals so that we can deal with this collective trauma that all he's seeing and i also and he and i also feel you know what the what's going to happen once all of this you know goes down.

then stateless without documents saying you're a citizen of one country or the other can't happen if you become a refugee or migrate across borders where government doesn't accommodate new comers the u.n. estimates there are about 4200000 stateless people in the world but that figure is likely much much higher and the impact of not having official identity plays out in the most unexpected ways here's one story from pakistan. sagna is one of pakistan's best young gymnast. as is her sister. but behind the smiles lies a life of invisibility. many difficulties we have no citizenship i can't take part in international competitions i'm trying my best to get my pakistani citizenship. the girls are part of the country's bengali minority and although both were born in pakistan they remain state less the pakistani government considers some bengalis illegal immigrants they have no legal documents from either pakistan or bangladesh

. according to the united nations there are millions of people like them across the world they have no nationality and no country recognizes them as citizens even if they have lived in a place for generations. 65 percent of the population of this community which is a community of $800000.00 people is. and it's a vicious cycle without citizenship the girls are stuck unable to reach their full potential. we are at this point the best gymnastics in probably in the country we have been winning in to school regularly every year for the past 4 years we are at this stage where we can go for international training where we can have access to internet through trina's which it is not possible for us to go do today some of the identity the girls have put a lot of effort into their gymnastics stream and there's been no shortage of

athletic recognition. and they have people i have been training here for 5 years at 14 awards and 2 for best gymnast in my age category. but 1st it's more than athletic recognition that's needed as long as you deny their right to a nationality they still considered invisible in the eyes of many. that set for wednesday there's always more on our website www dot com for it slash asia check us out on social media as well we leave you with pictures of india's health care workers and volunteers thank you for watching until next time and good bye.

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the french revolution the battle of trafalgar and of course the battle of waterloo who springs to mind napoleon bonaparte of course 200 years since the french military leaders untimely death in exile we take a look back at his controversial legacy and also coming up. as cultural life trickles back into the eternal city our reporter talks to romans who are setting their hopes on a swift return of the italian capital's pre-planned popularity. and still shining bright at 60 as george clooney celebrates the big 60 you take a personal look back at the american actions korea through the ariz of one of his collaborators. welcome to arts and culture france is marking 200 years since the death of napoleon bonaparte the self declared former emperor who seized power during the french revolution has traditionally been celebrated for

his military prowess and efforts to expand france's empire but in a modern era where europe's colonial past is increasingly being dissected his legacy has taken on an new more sinister meaning many people are now rediscovering his more controversial initiatives such as the reintroduction of slavery after it was abolished france's youngest leader since napoleon is president and. despite calls to boycott the anniversary the strong critic of today's so-called council culture is set to lay a wreath at the former and put to bed. and my colleague adrian kennedy joins me now adrian why is the way he's being celebrated quite so controversial. for many the ways that napoleon is worshipped as a national icon in france is at best on reflects. if not downright offensive now there are those who celebrate him as

a military commander who built an empire in the starfish to morton centralise state but for all those fees war mongering tauron to suppress the more. and reintroduce slavery now this new exhibition is called napoleon is no more. one of many marking the bison team does it do if i finally do well this exhibition actually focuses on the way that napoleon sought to define his own legacy in his final years after being exiled to sing by the british this exile in the former emperor's death far from his beloved france was depicted in many arts works and contributed to establishing him as a martyr figure even the english poet. came to see him as something of a persecuted or romantic hero a flawed genius if you like and that image of napoleon has persisted it has of

course it's a great story and it's been brought to the big screen a number of times 1st and foremost in 1927 this is. a classic french silent movie hollywood of course came home on the heels they had to go to. napoleon was played by want steiger. this is the 970 movie waterloo so it's all recently this was the predominant white the problem was depicted in popular culture swashbuckling hero adventurer who defined french glory if you like but now this image is being challenged right in the wake of vocal anti racism protests in from. the podiums reintroduction of slavery in 82 has become the subject of debate now descendants of slaves. have been speaking out insisting that it's not

appropriate to celebrate napoleon saying that slave descendants to still today feel they have less resources that it's difficult for them to seek success and that they are barred from certain things so it's not just the. it's it's has relevance to today ok but historians have also been going at it teeth and nail have been. there from the podium foundation says it's a shame that this has been brought up in the anniversary year is saying this is part of the bad side of council culture but dominique telephone from the. slavery memorial foundation says it's not rewriting or raising history it's enriching history as you said it will lay a reef to commemorate snorts to celebrate the occasion and she will condemn slavery as an abomination in a speech like right very good adrian my colleague adrian kennedy thanks so much for

that background thank you. now one of the great capitals of european art is of course rome if you've visited your now the city is packed with archaeological treasures and usually chock a block with tourists for a movie a year that's obviously not been the case but even the most famous cultural institutions have struggled to stay afloat with lockdowns now easing across italy they gradually reopening to visitors but how many will come. sunday reports from the eternal city. before the pandemic this square in front of the coliseum would be packed with visitors on peak days they would wait in line for up to 2 and a half hours to guide. tells us now the archaeological sites have reopened she could be back in business if only there were visitors. many of the. trouble. mostly. getting. the

2022 because we hope. to. open the borders. we. because of the change each month but the numbers within the. new is that as before culture as well is taking center stage in the country's reopening efforts like all the telly and cultural institutions they tout through that oprah has had a difficult here having to rely on streaming and a few outdoor events. sylvia a member of the women's choir is certain better times are coming. and we had great expectations we hope that this moment will mark the end of the dark times we're live in. her choir is practicing for his 1st performance coming up in front of a life audience with far fewer visitors allowed and singers having to keep distance

from each other it's not ideal but even having this opportunity means a lot to her credit. seeing again the public will be a great moment of great hope and a great showing for everyone that. italy was hit hard during the pandemic and 14 months in people are experiencing fatigue their reopening is welcomed by many but this calculated risk as italy's prime minister mahathir rocky put it could have an forseeable consequences according to experts mostly ficci day it always it's very difficult to take a calculated risk during an epidemic because at the very moment we realize the virus is reemerging it's always too late that the. tour guide ellen and really on the other hand would like to see a further easing of restrictions such as official guidelines on tourism that would make it easier for people from other regions of italy and even overseas to visit

and connect with the city's rich heritage i want to go back to my job i want to actually show people all the visitors that are coming to roma all these i want to may not all my camel. and what would be waiting we love newco for would want to see everybody go to seeing everybody here pretty soon italy's government is planning to further ease restrictions of the coming weeks how this will influence the pandemic only time will tell but for now these small steps are inspiring hope for the future. how indeed now it was a few years ago but do you remember dr dog roth t.v.'s hottest emergency doctor well george clooney certainly does because it was the i'm award winning american

act as breakout role he's gone on to hollywood domination acting in directing and producing dozens of films and even finding time to champion human rights causes now this week clooney set of rights his 60th birthday we got the lowdown on his highlights from one of his serial collaborators who goes off the bottom of the georgia rarely has a fictional bank robber been this charming. the 1st time he writes. to him great to smile or rather sweet only for you being held up. very pretty smile around his smile turns 60 years old this week george clooney heartthrob superstar and hollywood hero the actor and director has a well earned reputation for charming everyone he encounters. as seen in this german t.v. interview from more than 20 years ago. whined that they are the most important

things. cops. most important things are friends. among those friends is a german cinematographer martina hula who lives in berlin and los angeles he got his start shooting commercials and music videos which then led to jobs in hollywood job shortly someone's going to learn but george and i met on the set of a film called the american georges someone who keeps working with the same people he's got a kind of work family around him he doesn't put on airs he doesn't lose his temper on set and he's friendly to his crew and he has a lot of respect for the artists he works with conservative. yes he. charm and vulnerability are among the qualities that make clooney is hit man in the american so interesting. camera captured clooney is dramatic and elegant portrayal after that shoot in italy the 2 met up again there in 2018 for the mini

series catch $22.00 an adaptation of the satirical antiwar novel set on a u.s. military base in the mediterranean during world war 2 clooney directed 2 episodes and played a neurotic major they say he said. their film collaboration's even took martine wood to the arctic for the midnight sky the post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure was visually lavish as both director and lead actor clooney showed his typical lack of vanity relying completely on his team . it's good sometimes there are actors who say don't shoot me from there place the light over there george has never done that with midnight sky at some point i said if we do it like that with you live from below you look older and he said yes that's the right thing for the character he was playing a dying old man and it didn't bother him that he looked like one this is all false it clearly has long used his celebrity to draw attention to. political issues even

before marrying human rights lawyer amal clooney but he's also known for not taking himself too seriously as shown when he accepted a best actor oscar for his role as a cia agent in syriana george clooney. such as man alive $97.00 to talk to time sexiest man alive but even they get older but george clooney seems to have a relaxed attitude towards aging maybe because he didn't become a star until his thirty's now entering his sixty's he's settling into character roles and working as director and producer which all offer the prospect of a long career to come. write stuff at the end of this edition but of course there's more on our website thanks for joining me and goodbye .

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company's decision to suspend donald trump. account they say the social media platform is justified in banning the former us president after he encouraged violence that an indefinite ban would be wrong also on the program. health care system country now accounts for nearly hoff the world's new cases premier tory i'm still working around the clock on hospitals and stuff overwhelmed joins one doctor on his 27 hour shift. in nigeria the news of the final group of kidnapped students is released their return comes a day after parents staged a protest in my old forester's return. welcome to the program facebook's oversight board has upheld the social media giants

decision to suspend donald trump's account but it said the company it was wrong to suspend the former presidents accounting definitely and has given the company 6 months to determine what it calls a proportionate response facebook and twitter have previously argued that donald trump was banned for violating their rules after years of making sepsis because his comments with the newsworthy facebook suspended the trump account 4 months ago for inciting the violence that led to the deadly january 6th to write the w.'s chief technology correspondent janish attended the virtual a press conference with the facebook welcome a youngish so why are they deciding to keep him off the platform well you know essentially what they're doing today is they're putting the ball back in. court if you will they're telling facebook ok that is a position you have to bank what they have said today in their ruling and their

decision is that facebook was right to suspend trump after. what happened on january 6th for a while but facebook's physicians to then turn that and into a permanent ban and just kind of outsourced the decision to the facebook oversight board is wrong and that's why they're saying and for example one of the members of the board the former danish prime minister helle a turning schmidt told journalists earlier the oversight board is clearly telling facebook that they can't just invent new underwritten rules when it suits them so who is this this oversight board with where they come from where they do but it's a board that was. sort of like. brought to life a year ago by facebook it's funded by facebook it's 20 technology experts from around the world it includes former politicians it includes journalists a lot of lawyers academics and it's funded by facebook but the idea for it is to be

independent and to assess you know very prominent cases of content moderation right so the code sends a decision back to facebook says yes you can do it with the new rules but you have to put a time limit on it facebook then comes back and says i will put this time limit on it and the end of it all does donald trump get to say no i still object well i don't think donald trump really has a say in that the question is going to be what is facebook going to decide in 6 months from now because that is sort of the recommendation that the board gave to facebook the decision to uphold the ban is binding but. the recommendation to look into this again and reassess it in 6 months is nonbinding so we will have to see what facebook is going to do but facebook will have to make a decision but then the next 6 months what to do about donald trump's account i don't understand. what is known by. you said the facebook of the bow to send this

back to facebook and said i made a nonbinding ruling that you. to get back to us in 6 months so if a school doesn't get back to them in 6 months of the non-binding ruling then who has what to say about what that is a very good question you know there's nobody to enforce this and so what it doesn't have to get back in 6 months no it doesn't have to get back but then this whole sort of like idea of an facebook oversight board which is supposed to be something like a supreme court of facebook if you will you know it would be sort of like well it's going to be put to a test knows for sure there is a thing there are thousands hundreds plenty of social media sites out there so why is this decision by facebook or their board significant well it is significant because a facebook is still the largest social media platform in the world plus facebook owns instagram so in donald trump's case we're talking about almost 60000000 followers that he can communicate directly with and who knows you know donald trump might you know decide to run again for office at some point and it's going to be a very decisive question whether he will have those channels to communicate with

his followers ok good talk with you thank you for that chief technology correspondent kyung delco. trump has responded to the board's decision by assuming a statement describing social media bans as an absolute disgrace and an embarrassment to the country for. india where covert deaths have surged to another daily high in nearly 3800 as the burden on the country's health care sector becomes increasingly unsustainable the situation is so bad that many covert patients have had to turn to volunteers for oxygen because they can't get into hospital meanwhile the situation inside medical facilities is deteriorating because of overwhelming patient numbers and shortages of supplies and staff so much so that medical students have been brought in to help. running low on sleep junior doctor. dresses and protective gear to begin

a 27 hour long shift. he's only 26 years old and hasn't even finished his medical training. we had a friend. for this to the surgeon. who received the work you've been here mark made but that we're just human. at this point i think we're being told to do this. work if you're not there and i just want to be. there is a severe shortage of oxygen and ventilators at this hospital and others across delhi many people come looking for a bed for a sick relative but these are also in very short supply patients and relatives crowd every available space in some cases people lying close enough for patients to touch one man is in a storage room surrounded by billions of medical waste real hans's the sounds of

his workplace haunt is sleep. that song is going to be you know even ready yet you think that the the the the the. the that continues to be was not you know the. patients rush from hospital to hospital hoping to find someone who will admit them many are turned away left to die on the street oxygen supplies the transported by armed guard and crematoriums work around the clock. might be the people to be. before that because. if they. beat you it might take a wonderful. after 27 hours in the e.r. roland says he could sleep for 2 days but a friend with the sick father calls. agrees to help knowing that in reality there's

not much he can do. is take making headlines around the world india's delegation to the g. 7 foreign ministers meeting in london itself isolating after 2 members tested positive for corona virus the group of leading industrialized nations is discussing the distribution of vaccines at the end of 3 days of talks india's foreign minister will attend via video link. israel's president reuben rivlin has asked opposition leader yand to form a new government day after prime minister binyamin netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition before an overnight deadline if mr le pen a coalition building is successful here mr netanyahu is 12 year premiership. africa's a governing a.n.c. party has suspended its secretary general pace. who is facing corruption charges the moves in life and ceased to corruption statute which gives members charged with

corruption 30 days to step aside or face suspension. the german government announced plans for more ambitious cuts to carbon emissions the changes follow a constitutional court ruling that the country's current climate laws are insufficient but many are asking whether the new goals are a real commitment to more action or an effort to gain more votes ahead of upcoming national elections. the climate change activists probably surprised themselves with what they achieved young environmentalists have long accused the government of not taking action fast enough on climate change and last week germany's highest court ruled they were right now politicians have to respond young people remind us that we are too slow rather than too quick we need to take action more quickly because it's of rolled out according to our basic law not just the freedoms of those living today has to be protected but also the freedom of future generations. to go good

that's the one thing the decision to speed up germany's transition to renewable energy has a lot to do with the upcoming national elections chancellor merkel's coalition government wants to finalize plans on how to move away from fossil fuels faster by next week finance minister all offshore said the cabinet was unanimous about the changes you hadn't declared we reassessing our climate targets for 2030 years we have to achieve more early on and we are formulating a plan to reduce emissions by 65 percent we want to develop an intermediate plan to reduce emissions by 88 percent by 2040 and much quicker than previously discussed we want germany to become carbon neutral by 2045. 1000 from one for. with the new goals both coalition partners the conservatives and the social

democrats are showing they don't want the green party to dominate the climate change debate is specially in an election year now to nigeria where 1st reports are coming in that 29 students abducted almost 2 months ago have been released they were kidnapped from the greenfield college of forestry and could do in the state on the 11th of march more were taken ridge labored some were released in meaning students and i reported to be with police on my way back to do a city. thing at the latest from nigeria commercial capital lagos where we join the correspondent for the welcome fred what war can you tell us. is a couple of dozens of students have been released these are students who have been in captivity for 2 months. and they have been released after

intense negotiations that's the news that we're getting and with the help of former president obasanjo he was also involved that's what we have also learnt and also a committee of parents were meeting today and they made they said that they told us that they made all conditions their bond it's one tip and then that's how the students were able to be released and returned to their parents ok so this talk of negotiations and meeting of conditions is this sounds like some sort of deal was done or a ransom was paid. i mean no one knows whether a ransom was paid but we know that they needed millions of money in the 1st place and also they needed some of their people to be released some of the bandits to be

released so basically we can't just assume that that's why those are their conditions and if their parents say that they made all those conditions and the government of nigeria met all those conditions yes we can assume that maybe the government did indeed pay something and also probably did some of the members it sounds like a very lucrative business fred we kidnap 30 students and in exchange we get our men out of jail and you give us lots of money yeah does that actually shows how powerful these bandits have been and on the other side shows how the government is completely losing control or if these bandits these groups. you know have to decide what the government has to do and say it comes for the freedom of schoolchildren it means that they are indeed

a very powerful and this is becoming some sort of business. in lagos nigeria thank you. just time to remind you of our top story facebook's oversight. company's suspension of donald trump's accounts the former u.s. president was banned from the social media platform 4 months ago citing the violence that matter of january 6th. and it is david gergen virus death tolls reach some not all time high nearly 3800 but with hospitals are overwhelmed the true extent of the truck believed to be much higher. next.

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