stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of a sow's are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters to mindanao. former u.s. president donald trump will not be returning to facebook at least not now today the oversight board at facebook known as the facebook supreme court upheld the ban that was placed on trump earlier this year but it was not a black and white decision the board said the ban was justified but it also said making the ban indefinite was not it told facebook to come back in 6 months with a more thoughtful decision in other words mr zucker burge this is your job not ours in politics this is passing the buck and facebook this is whatever mr zuckerberg

wants it to be i'm for golf in berlin this is the day. doesn't have the power. we're giving thanks but 6 months to conduct its review i believe it's going to be a catastrophic mistake that there are real disagreements about where the limits obama and speech should be either restore mr trump's account the harm that. being that on the platform and. make this respect. or suspend the account part of the period of time this causes a lot of problems that a lot of states here big mistake they should be doing it. also coming up when the next outbreak is about to break out there will be

a number anyone in the world can call a burleson number today i'm on to announce mr director general said to us that the w.h.o. up and made good at it to make intelligence will be established here and this was the full support of the german. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states. and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with a ruling on facebook's decision to ban former u.s. president donald trump after the january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. facebook kicked out president trump high profile controversial decisions like this are why facebook created an oversight board last year a group of 20 former politicians activists and journalists to deliberate these social media giants biggest decisions members of the board are to be independent yet they are selected and paid by facebook today the board ruled that banning

donald trump was the right decision but how that decision had been reached was too vague so in 6 months facebook is supposed to come back with a more thoughtful polished final decision this means that donald trump could return to facebook later this year in washington lawmakers are calling the board's decision disgraceful republicans say c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is acting like the arbiter of free speech and democrats say facebook allows itself to be used to spread lies especially when it brings in advertising revenues i want you to take a listen to what one of the facebook oversight board members said today there isn't one of us who say that everything is in this decision is exactly how different an individual one sitting by me did actually have an enormous agreement on that that was right a facebook. message on from the capital that was in all of green about. my 1st

guest tonight is a member of the facebook oversight board to john samples is vice president at the cato institute that's a libertarian think tank in the united states is for samples is an authority on free speech and the 1st amendment because the samples it's good to have you on the program i want to ask you are you at liberty tonight to share how you voted today. i am not i am ever going to be at liberty to do that and what and why is that did the did the board decide to keep it secret or were you told by facebook to keep it secret. we have a charter that is established a number of legal devices that established the board and its independence from facebook and this rule is among others and let me say i knew think in this case that and it found it to be the case that keeping an unlimited not disclosing who

voted how who was on this panel or so on has been very useful both in. fostering deliberation about the issues we deal with but also of course it can protect the personal security of members in some cases so people know who's on the board you could go to the. central website and find out but specifics are retained and i think that's a very valuable thing yeah i mean we're not disclosing for example in your locations a night to protect you when you joined the oversight board did you ever think that being a member would involve issues that could maybe jeopardize your personal safety. i was aware as an abstract idea that that could happen but frankly i didn't expect that and i was out walking this morning between interviews and i reflected on the

fact that it's possible but you know i still don't think it's a real trend and i believe i'm correct about that that's probably not true for all members of the board there is we live throughout the world and you know there's different levels of risk let me ask you about the decision that came out today it basically throws the ball back to facebook what do you want facebook to do in the next 6 months. i would say what it does is return the accountability for that decision where it belong to begin with it's very important to understand that this decision is not about mr trump or his policies or his presidency it's rather from the board to spect if about facebook itself facebook does content moderation on its platform it takes down things it put leaves them up at the supposed to do that according to its rules and ultimately also

according to international norms covering freedom of expression. it's important for accountability that they make these decisions and not pass them along to another group like say the facebook board so what we're saying is you have to decide this according to your rules the problem with the original decision was they applied a rule that did not exist at the time they also need to so they need to make a decision within 6 months and the time frame is there because we think they also need to change their policies in various important ways and we've laid those out in the decision with d.n.d. believe facebook is going to follow the board's advice as i understand it your rulings or decisions are not binding. the ruling we made about they ask this question we gave mr trump an indefinite suspension for his account is that

right or wrong is it you know is it justified or not that our answer yes or no to bad is binding right they have to do that they've agreed to do that the policy advice that follows from that case is advice they have they don't have to follow it up they have to respond to it and i think in this case they will want to consider these very closely and will in fact follow up on the east because i think they're very much in facebook's interest to build out their capacity to make consistent decisions did facebook answer all of the questions that the board had for it as it was trying to reach a decision. no it did not we talk about that in the decision and it did answer most of them but there were other some decision sub questions were not responded to the rules we have govern the board. permit that but we had hoped that facebook would die answer all of it was made i think on our in

for a better decision and the good sort of collaboration with an independent relationship that we look for there were questions that you didn't get answered i think one was if it did facebook data on its users and that allow advertisers to micro target people in the run up to the insurrection i mean do we know did facebook make make money on the mob. i don't know we didn't confront that in the context of this decision because it wasn't didn't go to the question we were trying to answer now what we have done in the policy is indicate that facebook should go back and see to what extent it was you know its systems its design and so on and i was a drop in the past few months i think for some reason i think they're already doing that and we certainly want to encourage them to continue down that. mr john samples

from the facebook oversight board mr samples with the take your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you for having me. could it is humans one day become an endangered species scientists say we are not only grappling with the coronavirus pandemic and a climate emergency they say humanity is also facing a sperm count crisis analysis suggests that sperm counts in the west have dropped by over 50 percent in the last 40 years and if the downward trend continues it's fear that the planet could be facing what scientists are calling a sperm a get and by the year 2045 scientists say our modern life is behind this decline on healthy lifestyles which is smoking and obesity and exposure to dangerous chemicals found in plastics cosmetics and pesticides. well my

next guest is one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologist and she is sounding the alarm in her book entitled kill dale and how our modern world is threatening sperm counts altering male and female reproductive development and imperiling the future of the human race. i'm joined now by dr shanna swan the i kind of the i come school of medicine it's good to have you on the program let me just ask you about this picture that you paint in your book it's a rather dark picture of the human race by the year 2045 conceiving a child naturally will no longer be the norm why why is that well we don't really know what's going to happen in 2045 are gay to go through 2011 however if you were to project the decline that we're seeing which is the rate of more than one percent a year you can extrapolate from 2011 and see that by 2045 you would get very close

to no sperm at all now that's not possible this curve is going to have to be or often level off but nevertheless it will do so at a very low rate of sperm concentration we are already very low of the current level and at least in 2011 when we last looked was only 4x7ww years. and. millions per milliliter and that's down from 99 * so 99 back in not that long * ago 197399 1000000 per milliliter was a good half the sperm count but now in $21147.00 is not very good because even though it sounds like a lot 40 is the point at which people men start to be considered suffered because it takes longer and longer to conceive a pregnancy so she extend that line down further you can see we're going to pretty soon all are you know the majority of men or at least half of them will be below

$40000000.00 per milliliter if we're not there already and that means that many many couples will have to use assisted reproduction if they can afford it and if they can succeed at it and you know this is this your book of as i was reading your book it reminded me of the movie the graduate there's a scene in there were a young dustin hoffman has given career advice and he's told that the future is plastics and we have plastics now we have the chemicals that are in them is that where the danger lies is that what is causing us to have these low sperm counts for example. i believe that that is an important part of the picture it's certainly not the whole picture so chemicals in plastics including those that make plastics soft and flexible those that make it hard are chemicals that interfere with their body's natural hormones and once you do that particularly in pregnancy you are messing

with the ability of that particularly male because it's testosterone that's going down the ability of that male to develop fully and when you interfere with a male still valid meant then you impact his later sperm function so we have drawn a line if you will from the mother's exposure to these plastics dustin hoffman was asked to cope and to live and work with to development of the male infant at birth and later decrease sperm count and infertility that link has been made both in animals and humans you write in your book and we've got a quote we want to show our viewers the precipitous drop in sperm counts but we can pull that graphic up there we go the pacific is drop in sperm calles is an example of a canary in the coal mine scenario the sperm count decline that maybe mother nature's way of acting as a whistleblower drawing attention to the insidious damage human beings have wrought

on the built and natural world i'm wondering is this canary only dying in the western coal mines i mean are we seeing these same infertility problems in africa for example. so the paper that you're that you referred to earlier and i refer to it was reported on declines in western countries because that's where most of the sperm count studies haven't got however for til it is a number of women for it to start number of children born to a woman is declining all over the world not just in western countries and it's to climbing at the same rate as sperm count is declining so that we believe that once we get our point have we have data from the non-western countries we'll see a decline there as well and we're seeing individual studies reporting that so i

don't believe it's a phenomenal western countries on this one go but a minute left let me ask you do you see signs of hope particularly here in the west that we are getting the chemical problem under control. i don't believe that we've come to grips with this problem in the e.u. there is more progress because in the e.u. there is a policy called reach under which the chemical has to be proven safe before it's put into the market and for example in the e.u. there are 1100 chemicals banned from personal care products whereas in the u.s. there are only 11 so we have a lot further to go in the u.s. but also in europe there are many many chemicals in in commerce that have not been regulated properly ok shanna swan professor of environmental medicine and author of the book down the how our modern world is imperiling the future of the human race

for this one it was good having you on the show we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. sure thanks for having me and i. germany and the world health organization say that berlin will host a new global monitoring center to help prepare for and prevent future public health threats such as the 19 pandemic the global hub for pandemic an epidemic intelligence will collect data it will monitor risk and it will help drive innovations that could be 1200 new cars exposed in the global systems and epidemic intelligence and interconnected world and demand it risks need to be identified as fairly as possible to prevent rapid global transmission of an infectious disease hosted in bed linen that deadly it you have will be a global center that works was pontus around the world to leave you no visions in

pandemic and if you did we can tell you just did surveillance and are not a fix the hold will allow us to develop tools for that sort of predictive analytics will also give us tools for managing joining epidemics and w.h.o. to make an epidemic intelligence can make the difference for a safe future there are signals that may occur before epidemics happen vitus's move fast buck data can move even faster. are for more on this i'm joined tonight by mr deland shannon borg a member of the german parliament here in berlin for the opposition free democrats mr zuckerberg it's good to have you on the program the director general of the w.h.o. today said that the pandemic has exposed gaps in the global systems for pandemic an epidemic intelligence is he telling us that the w.h.o. has been asleep at the wheel in the past year year and

a half before this pandemic began. i think we all have to learn some lessons and one lesson is that we need much more data collecting and data using and for this this cop is a good trust in the right direction and very proud in germany to get it and if they believe this is the place for it but it's only a small small. you have to do much much more and also the w.h.o. i think should do some thing more than just to give up to germany where this is a this is a big win for the german capital on why was berlin chubs. i'm not sure about that maybe we have a separate institutions of the federal government like that or what constitutes kate i which is central institute in germany to obama's and to make

ideas how to deal with demick i think that many might be a reason and also maybe reason maybe the german government is giving $30000000.00 euros or dollars to pay this institution do you consider these $30000000.00 euros do you consider that to be money well spent. no doubt because it is that a very good step and we're very happy to have to stop here in germany and berlin but it's just very small step to do much more than just look at the data in germany maybe you know that in germany we have a big problem with the data which have to be collected on the weekends to more than one year of. the german authorities are not able to provide the correct data of the inflammation information infection insurance weekends so if you don't have good data doesn't help the op so the 1st steps there should be generally you

should do is much better with the data collected in germany we did this is that because on the weekends people don't work even in the pandemic people have not been working for the health officers that you would you think they would. make you know we can't. ok well that's maybe they've been you know maybe that will change we don't know the german health minister today yet spot said that nation states need to be and i'm quoting here really transparent now how do you read that it's not a criticism of china and the way china handled the beginning of this pandemic. well that's the we have the impression that china does not get all the data they had on the other hand. it's temporary or generated 20 trying to be on you that in china pandemic it's coming on and i think all the european governments all of the general didn't really react properly so it would have had much more data

from gen up but even with the data we got. we didn't deal with them in the correct way you remember that from former u.s. president he pulled out of the w.h.o. and pulled funding out as well president biden has returned to the w.h.o. but there's a question about the w.h.o. being fit for purpose what's your opinion is it. the need to w.h.o. and it's very possible that all the countries also germany is looking to the w.h.o. no doubt but maybe b. could improve it but that. does help is a very small part of it i know that you sit on the german parliament's health committee. is berlin the right place to have a pandemic pub i mean i know a lot of people today when they heard the news they were surprised pleasantly

surprised but they were surprised. saying that it's a good place we're happy with this we are proud to be a show is giving is projected to germany to belittle i think it's a good place very good mr villain should in bourg the german parliament for the f.t.p. party mr burke it's good to have you on the show we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you very much. her name was sophie show she was born 100 years ago this week she became one of germany's most famous anti nazi resistance fighters in the 1940 s. at the age of 22 she was arrested and executed by the nazis now a social media project is bringing her back to life for a younger generation the project explores what would the last months of sophie scholz wife have looked like on instagram it's

a period film shoot with a twist it's the 1940 s. but selfie scholl has an instagram account and true to the social media platforms format she mostly films a self. produced a face the 1st of may $942.00 days and i'm about to get on the train sophie hurry up the train won't wait. my sister she's never been late in our life the resistance activist shares her political and private thoughts with her followers. of course safety is our hero our resistance fighter but she's also a normal woman with many different facets and with insecurities. the instagram series is a patchwork of clips in different media a selfie video of sophie's birthday party and imation sometimes photographs they all show events that happened on specific days 79 years ago. but seen

more to give intact we chronicle every day for 10 months. that's given us the opportunity to tell our audience a lot about safety shell if you would. it was for more than one i'd have managed in a movie like. the instagram posts and when sophie is arrested for distributing anti nazi leaflets the moment when the resistance leader would have had her smartphone taken from. for the project can be found on instagram it is in german and to take a look follow at bin sophie show. where there is no sperm count crisis here are not one not 2 talking about 9 babies that was the surprise a 25 year old woman from mali received after giving birth in casablanca on wednesday the woman had been sent to morocco for special prenatal care after she

was told that she was carrying 7 babies the 2 additional little ones they came as an additional surprise doctors say that all 9 children and their mother are doing well getting some rest while she can. the day is always done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter. t.v. we'll see you tomorrow but.

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this is g w news live from berlin tonight bypassing patent protections to fight the pandemic is this the key u.s. president joe biden throws his support behind the idea of tossing intellectual property rights out the window in order to ramp up vaccine production around the globe also on the program new facebook for donald trump at least for now facebook's oversight board today it held the decision to ban the former us president for inciting the riot at the u.s. capitol the board says the ban was justified but that making the band indefinite

that was not. also coming up in the seas another record rise in coded 1000 deaths as overcrowded hospitals turn sick people away we'll hear from some of the volunteers fighting to fill the gaps and to save luck this. is good to have you with us we have breaking news this hour u.s. president joe biden has announced support for a global waiver on patent protections for covert 19 bank seems the administration says that it will negotiate terms with the world trade organization though in a statement u.s. trade representative catherine tie said intellectual property rights for business are important but the quote extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic call for

extraordinary measures. didn't you corresponded all over salad he is in washington d.c. covering this story for years good evening to you oliver explain to us what you as president joe biden what you see advocating here well brand as you know with every vaccine that is currently used around the world to fight the covert 1000 pandemic there are intellectual property rights and that essentially means that only the company is holding these profit he rides is allowed to produce those vaccines and that of course includes all those big names like bio and take pfizer johnson and johnson and what president biden is suggesting is he's basically proposed following a proposal that was initially made by india and south africa back in october and that's supported by $100.00 countries worldwide and that is to lift those property rides and pave the way for the production of cheap vaccines as specially of course looking at developing countries in asia and in africa so countries that are hit

particularly hard by the virus and that at the same time hardly have any vaccines available at this point and you know the 2 most effective vaccines out right now use new technology in our in technology does this mean that these types of vaccines could soon be available to every country around the world at a low cost. well i think they are rather targeting the other technology that's used the vector of vaccines but essentially the idea is exactly that that the don't think science would be made available worldwide of course there are negotiations to be held at the world trade organization that will take some time because of the nature of the devil you know it takes a lot of other countries to participate there and to agree but the goal is that other companies would be able to produce those vaccines before asking without asking beforehand and the reasoning of course is that the pen demick can only be fought globally otherwise you will have new variants new mutations off the type

we've been hearing of course about in recent weeks and months and that the vaccines that exist at this point in the long run would not be effective anymore and that could certainly backfire in the long run to dubuque or spawn over salad in washington with the latest on this breaking news all over thank you and my colleague janeiro demoing on from our business desk will be here after this news bulletin with more on how markets have been reacting to this news stay with us for that are going to stay in the u.s. now facebook's oversight board has upheld the social media giants decision to suspend donald trump's account but it said that it was wrong to ban the former president indefinitely facebook has previously argued that trump was banned for violating rules against freezing by alliance and that's after years of making exceptions because his comments were considered newsworthy now the oversight board has given the companies 6 months to determine what it calls

a proportionate response. thumbs up but not for donald trump. facebook's quasi independent oversight board up held the former u.s. presidents ban for now it said facebook's decision to suspend trump's account was justified due to his actions but it also said an indefinite long term ban was unreasonable we are giving facebook 6 months to conduct this review it must either restore mr trump's account finding that the period of suspension has met its purpose make the suspension prominent or suspend the account for it determine a period of time facebook ban trump at the beginning of january as did twitter and you tube after trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol building. the risks of allowing the then president to continue were simply too great said facebook had mark zuckerberg the oversight board was originally

created to examine such decisions trump has already established his own way to communicate with his supporters with his new website his followers can then of course share his messages via the major social media networks and here are some more stories that are making headlines around the world $29.00 nigerian students abducted almost 2 months ago have been released they were kidnapped from a forestry college in could do new state on march 11th originally more were taken but some were then released the remaining students reportedly now with police and on their way back to kaduna city. south african's governing agency party has suspended its secretary general who was facing corruption charges the move is in line with the agency's tougher anti-corruption statute which gives members charged with corruption 30 days to step aside or face suspension. israel's president has asked opposition leader yere loppy to form a new government

a day after prime minister benjamin netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition before a midnight deadline if lockheed's coalition building a successful he will end netanyahu has 12 year rule. india's ferocious 2nd wave of corona virus infections continues to batter its health care system and a persistent shortage of oxygen is making matters worse in the capital many hospitals are taking to twitter to seek help and turning away patients due to a lack of supplies for weeks now volunteer groups have been stepping in to care for people who cannot find help elsewhere d.w. reporters know michel yes while ensuring have met ordinary indians who are putting their lives on the line to save others. the nation house has spent the last 2 days right. under the lord in front of a sikh temple 50 kilometers from home. his son asked to quit one of my eyes.

and has also developed a severe lung infection. he only gently needs to be hospitalized but his father says even this makeshift enjoyment is a blessing. but these people are working 24 hours providing oxygen to linda's 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 a bed for him and there isn't a single that all of them refused to let me. for the last 2 weeks. then he has been facing a studio shortage of medical oxygen. this isn't life saving the last resort a free oxygen service run by cars ahead of a sikh group one in 2 years here consider this just going to be secondary to the central tenet of service and sick because in several of them have already been

infected. but don't see it and that's the arm to feed they see they must do something to save these nights. book and they need i go home to see football was it the time i took my bike has i have a stoplight even if the i'm in support we're getting from that isn't always nice to see. i mean he likes and this is a time that people are even afraid to have their own infected religious. every few minutes. of going to. the group has 19 trucks doubting me of my plans to sit in. the oxygen here is provided for free at patients continue although we rushed to help many hospitals in delhi have stopped taking in your patients because of the often cry for putting out s.o.s. messages like 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 plants diving authorities on twitter and even reducing that student loans to subsistence level is to make it last longer the hospital and got supplies in the nick of time. doctors here tell us that supplies that used to last them 2 weeks now evaporate in 36 ounce they cannot predict if the next round will reach them one time turning over patients followed just to good reasons is heartbreaking for doctors when needed fuels many of these patients hopelessly in this profession because it's because they wanted to help other people through their sickness and in this if they're not given. back by itself is a big thing and in most modern people all of them are very few who do get lucky. back at the optician simha has finally managed to injure bad for his son

immediately the cylinder is to woods and out of the chute. 2 weeks into the off engine crisis here. every live good that is it is. foreign ministers from the g 7 group of industrialized nations have wrapped up 3 days of talks in london their 1st face to face meeting for more than 2 years they discuss the distribution of vaccines including increased funding of the international kovacs program the group also had harsh words for china and russia for alleged human rights abuses and economic bully the ministers went as far as to say that besides the coronavirus pandemic they perceive china and russia to be the world's biggest current threads are for more now let's cross to our very own big she's on the story force in london good evening to you bear get the 1st face to face meeting for the foreign ministers in over 2 years how much did cope with 19

disrupt this meeting. well definitely as she has shaped this meeting brant for a start the delegations were much smaller than they were usual and then the usual g 7 meeting and we have heard from the german foreign minister heikal mass who spoke to some of us journalists at the side of the meeting that there were very strict rules when it came to cooling very strict hygiene rules and that even during dinner he had to sit basically behind plexiglass and he said it was brilliant but then again it's better than wheaten on zoom and also that it is really important important for 4 leaders for world leaders to actually get together a get together physically because some of the most important decisions and debates they are you know by the water cooler and not on as you meetings say definitely a different meeting today the normally do i mean it's important to be able to talk

face to very use and what was top of the agenda. well mostly important for the g 7 countries was to come together with other like minded democracies is how they were phrasing it mostly from the india pacific region and they took mostly about really about geopolitics and you mention it russia china better lose a ukraine or. 2 to try and form a common policy towards threats and towards threats in this with these countries also kovi it of course was another big topic and that's how to get more vaccinations to regions starts don't have access to them and that of course is also of geostrategic importance to the storyboards in london tonight's thank you. our sports is now champions league football and chelsea have beaten real

madrid to mill to advance to the final team of vanna opened the scoring for chelsea midway through the 1st half and mason sealed the victory with only a few minutes left in the game chelsea will now face manchester city in an all english final on may 29th german bundesliga club here to berlin have fired forward germany and arsenal goalkeeper yens lehmann from their supervisory board after he sent a racist message on tuesday lehmann sent a what's app message to sky sports funded and former germany international dennis i'll go in which he referred to him as quote a token black guy lehmann later tweeted that he had contacted all go to apologize it's. all right not one not 2 but 99 babies that was the surprise a 25 year old woman from mali received after giving birth in casablanca on wednesday the woman had been sent to morocco for special prenatal care after she

was told that she was carrying 7 babies the 2 additional little ones came as an additional surprise doctor says that all 9 children and their mother are doing we'll. you're watching the news my colleagues and i will be up next with business news stick around she will be right back. every day. for us and for our planet. the idea is is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make seduced greener how can we protect animals and their habitats what to do with all our waste. we can make a difference by choosing reforestation over de forest.