the coronavirus and the code of structural monday to friday on w. . this is deja vu news the live from berlin and the death toll rises as the fighting between israel and palestinian militants intensified its. place. israeli airstrikes pounded buildings in gaza killing dozens and leaving city blocks in growing and hamas leader says its resistance is reading also coming up amongst

militants raining down rockets on targets in israel killing at least 5 people and the most severe attacks on tell of these npr's is full scale war inevitable israel's former president gives us his feel and the coronavirus ranges through nepal pushing being a health care system to the brink of collapse many people worried that their country will mimic the crisis in neighboring india plus the german cabinet approved a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions but doesn't have enough muscle to impress voters worried about climate change. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin in the middle east where both israeli forces and palestine. and militants have stepped up their attacks in the

worst fighting seen in years the death toll from israeli air strikes in gaza has risen to 43 and hamas rockets fired into israel have killed at least 5 the un has called for both sides to stop the hostilities warning of the risk of full scale war . the cycle of violence the world seems powerless to stop israel stepped up its attacks on gaza at dawn. the densely populated city shaken as the bombs fell. and prime minister benjamin netanyahu warns this may only be the beginning. hamas. hamas and islamic jihad have paid and i tell you they will pay a very heavy price for their aggression i say here tonight their blood be on their heads. in tel aviv palestinian militants overwhelmed israel's defense

system with a barrage of rockets it's been many years since residents of the coastal city have been forced to shelter in their cellars the palestinian islam is say they too are ready for conflict. but almost if israel wants to escalate we're ready for it and if it wants to stall for also ready if they want to remove their hand over jerusalem we're ready. violence also broke up between israeli arabs and jews in israel. a state of emergency has been declared in ludd and ever of protesters clashed with israeli police and. it's the worst violence since 2014 and there are fears it could become a full scale war world powers now pleading for both sides to put down their weapons . we are deeply concerned about the escalation between israel and those

launching rockets from gaza and we call for restraint and for calm. but now both sides are counting their dead. and hoping for a victory. and let's get the view now from tel aviv after last night's attacks we're joined by emily rose she is a middle east correspondent at the israeli broadcaster i 24 news from tel aviv i'm really thanks for joining us as we heard in that report very heavy bombing there last night how hard how bad is the damage been. well we look at the major damage and flying in. the imagery and the fear is what still remains. in this violence in the sense that running the bomb shelters throughout the night. some consider a weekly or a monthly or even a daily reality for the lives of those living on the southern border for people living in central israel it is quite. broad about 3

i myself in tel aviv who are running to shelters throughout the night and we see the impact of that mostly in the visuals on the ground with some direct impacts there was a bus that was caught on fire in the hole and just. luckily no one was. close to the airport and. that is really. over overnight. and really. remain a mystery remains of those direct impact though at the mention here of the israeli military saying the. defense missile system overnight. those that were launched overnight. but i mean ultimately though many rockets did

make it through last night so do tell us i mean how much confidence when you talk with people there on the streets how much confidence do people in tel aviv have that the air defense system will indeed protect the city. so a lot of your scene when you're seeing that damage on the ground is not from a direct hit itself but from the shards and the after impact when the missile of intercepted the civilian people who live here are told to go to a shelter once they hear the siren and yet to remain there for another 10 because there's an after effect and it's still dangerous if you're in shelter you're kept safe from those. i can still cause deep damages to homes to property and i myself without a home yesterday that was completely destroyed the people who are right because they went to a shelter underground and they waited there as was instructed by the israeli military that was going to cause damage to a lot of the infrastructure but the people are going to remain if there is actual.

israelis. practice while trying to remain in those shelters specifically the ones around the gaza border where you're seeing it really have a shock value in a surprise as i mentioned is in central israel where israelis are not used to ready to shelters they're not used to having. thought that 1st rocket launched towards the jerusalem area people were caught off guard it didn't exactly know where to go it didn't know where their local shelter was and it took some time tonight so i can tell you the can do israelis are degree over there. emily rose middle east correspondent at the israeli broadcaster i 24 news joining us with the view from tel aviv thank you so much. and we will of course have the view from gaza where dozens have been reported dead as well that's coming up in our next election so do stay with us if you can for that in the meantime earlier i spoke with avraham bag he is the former speaker of the israeli parliament

and the former interim president of israel i asked him if the israeli if israel is being proportionate in its response to the hamas rocket attacks friends what he told by. the local portions in wars poor is war is good on proportion no measure and the situation is not to the judge immediately what happens not this rule hundreds of rockets on us we were on their side it is what led to eat and what led to it is actually a joint interesting joint motivation will include interesting game coming denominator between hamas and netanyahu is conservative government both good not to want to give power 'd to the policy no authority and make peace with it that hamas wants to take over the palestinian authority and promote. its religious and

political agenda up in it and you know does not want to compromise and sit down and . wriggle city issue where the ball is in most writing because it's really lead eventually to palestinian state suppose and id 500 against them it's hard to interrupt you there i'd like to ask you a little more about the political dynamics but 1st if we could just focus on the violence on the ground and and israel's partner because we've seen entire blocks for example being leveled in gaza and i'd like to ask you what the justification is for that. i cannot stand here in the for the government of israel no for the measures of hamas i say that every citizen between citizen in gaza all citizen in jerusalem has the rights to live in peace and as long as the leaders say they did not push and did not do its utmost in order to promote the school city atory missions between the 2 nations is the responsibility of the people are the responsibility of the leadership no he's really

a reaction is not proportioned you know the hamas reaction or or all action i'm not clued ships made in both both because really it right to be in government and the hamas religious government legitimate force as you called both sides illegitimate i'd like to ask you a little bit more about those political dynamics and we know netanyahu facing a tough political battle at home opposition parties currently negotiating a coalition to topple him in fact from power. how how far would you go when you're criticizing the israeli position right now i mean is this conflict being used as a distraction and as an effort to facilitate division among the opposition my suspicion is as good as yours are considering that the you know his old motivation which is very personal he noted to deteriorate the situation but i have no clue i have no foundation for this for the speculation the only thing i can say netanyahu is a prime minister that time after time and again 4 times in the last year and

a hoss the majority of the israelis said we do not want you as a prime minister and a prime minister even in transition who 4 guys were voted out by the israeli company ensuite by freaks and manipulation is not illegitimate needed to lead the people into a war avraham burg we thank you so much for joining us on news to share your your view on what is happening there on the ground. in the middle east former speaker of the knesset we appreciate hearing from you thank you very much. now for some other news making headlines around the world india's covert 1000 death toll past 250001 wednesday but comparisons of official data with that from front line workers suggest that the true number may be several times higher according to the country's health ministry more than 4200 people died from the virus in the past 24 hours a new daily record. hundreds of mourners have been paying tribute to the victims of

a school shooting in the russian city of cazan a makeshift monument was set up outside of the school were a gunman killed several children and 2 staff members on tuesday president vladimir putin has ordered a review of the nation's gun control laws. the death toll from 2 weeks of protest in colombia has risen to 42 the country's human rights ombudsman says that most deaths are due to excessive force by the police colombia's president even duke a has visited the city of cali site of the most violent clashes. the german cabinet has approved more ambitious targets for lowering greenhouse gas emissions it follows a court ruling that said that a $21000.00 climate protection law did not go far enough chancellor angela merkel's ruling conservatives are under pressure to add some muscles for their climate policy they are facing an election year challenge from the green party and the

environment is a deciding factor for many voters. it is the young who have shouted the loudest lately about a looming climate disaster earlier this year the german constitutional court ruled in a case brought mainly by young people that the government is not moving fast enough waiting until 2030 to impose tough burdens on polluters the court said violates the right to a clean environment and the young would be worst affected because they will live with more of the consequences the government knew it had to make changes but of course. we've agreed that we have to act faster as our basic law says you can't just have freedoms for the present generations you have to think about the freedoms for the generations to come. the bill the government is now introducing brings forward the target date for climate neutrality by 5 years by 2045 transport

industry and agriculture it is hoped will in effect no longer in meat in the greenhouse gases and the road to that goal of greening the german economy has been mapped out more precisely 2 by 2030 emissions or to fall by 65 percent compared with 99010 percent more ambitious than under the current plan will it be enough to stay on track in the coming years campaigners are not yet convinced we have. 2045 but now it's really time to. because we don't have. the new plan and should mean the pace of climate action will speed up noticeably sooner some poorer people here will end up paying the price if environmental taxes are increased. but for now younger germans are demanding clone justice and politicians have been forced to listen. and let's get more on that we are joined by

d. that he is chief political editor of. politicians seen seen eager to to make up for some lost ground here on tackling climate change what's the reaction been well all the expected reflexes have already kicked in we've heard of course abroad welcome from anger them ackles a coalition in the social democrats who see themselves having proved that they can do tough climate policy also makers are protesting that it's simply not doable and greenpeace is demonstrating outside the german chancery at the same time the bottom line is that the particularly the environment ministry acted very very fast and the minister responsible almost didn't even try to hide how excited she was how fast this happened in the end let's have a listen into that. flow exactly 2 weeks ago i would never have believed that

i would be sitting here with a cabinet decision for a new climate protection law but that's politics justice put it think the constitutional court ruling 13 days ago came as a surprise but in the end up a positive surprise for climate protection. ok is the german environment minister selling this as a big success 1st of all are people buying it and 2nd of all are the new measures sufficient. well the people will decide on the 26th of september and that's what it is all about in the end that's going to michael's coalition and with them the social democrats whose environment is so we just heard that needed to prove that they can act swiftly and that they didn't want to leave this to the green party as a campaign issue the greens of course. implementing or wanting to see an

implementation of a climate strategy that would see germany climate neutral. and this is something that is welcomed publicly across the board at the same time there's concerns that this could get very expensive for people who are renting flats for german industry as well then we heard from the. trade minister today saying that yes it was all. by himself was a former vironment minister but that of course raises the question why wasn't doable for the past one and a half decades of this government. having been in place so this is a bit of a triumph that's being celebrated a bit too loudly and a bit too close to those elections and as you mentioned it will be top of mind when voters head to the polls in september he did his chief political editor michelle on the story for us thank you. turning to nepal authorities there have extended

a lockdown in and around the capital do until the end of may the number of covert $1000.00 cases is skyrocketing in the nepal prompting concerns that it is headed for a crisis like that in next door india. india's deadly 2nd wave has spread to neighboring nepal. in katmandu health care workers and authorities are struggling to contain a massive surge of kovan 1000 cases in the last 3 weeks the poles daily trajectory has shot up with 2 out of every 5 people tested now returning positive for the virus with hospitals filling to capacity with covered 1000 patients the country's health system has been overwhelmed by the spike patients are scrambling to find hospital beds and oxygen for loved ones. shoot as nice. as

a few saxon's. hospitals are. loose. and communities near to. only able to handle. number of people who need treatment. the threat from cover 19 is even reached the world's highest peak as china announced on sunday it would set up a line of separation on the summit of mount everest to keep chinese climbers from catching the virus from those ascending from the nepal side. along the 800 kilometer open border nepal shares with india the polies fleeing the virus or hurrying to return home. authorities fear even more covert 1000 cases are on the way. and for more on this we are joined by as not head of the red cross

delegation in nepal joining us from kut mon dieu welcome back to the program sir describe to us the situation that you are currently witnessing. yes as your report has just the situation is skyrocketing. just last week and. we're talking about 7000 infections a day with 50 deaths every day and right now we're talking about over 9000 americans that they just yesterday recorded 200 dead so this is one percent. in the polls history. probably the average base camp that you mentioned in your report to do that common to valley and also the for the districts along the indian border. and we understand that in and around the capital come on do a lot down has in fact been extended but that the infection rates are still climbing so i'd just like to ask you you know it seems that the measures are not

working is that also your observation and what more needs to be done. yeah i was just traveling to my office and on to and under lockdown and there was there was very good police control there was. empty i saw the same thing last week but i think that you know within. that power has an open border where india is not restricted by things. spiraling out of control and as your report also mentions hospital pot to get there's a huge shortage of oxygen oxygen cylinder oxygen concentrator oxygen generators. and we are also trying to get this this oh so those applied to the local authorities with the. power across and it's more than 2 years now oxygen it's

still immediately necessary there's also the need for for vaccines of course just walk us through what exactly is happening right now on the vaccination front yeah so far the. per cent pinch vaccinated is about one per cent which is obviously very low and. right now they are they are trying to get more vaccines and vaccines is very much needed and the vaccine this vaccination and the. power across the it also have a role in assisting the authorities on community. and comforting to know vaccination process so vaccines is also a guy in need as much head of the red cross delegation in nepal and a lot of work for for you and your colleagues to do on the ground there we thank

you so much for taking the time to speak with us and give us a little bit of insight into what's going on. thank you very much. well mounting commercial and political pressure has forced german football association president fritz keller to resign it came after a marathon board meeting 2 weeks after he compared one of his colleagues to an infamous nazi judge. once again germany's football federation the t s b finds itself in a state of disrepair its president for its color forced out after he compared one of his deputies ryan a call to the nazi judge and war criminal record on friday. made the remarks in april but the pressure on him to go grew and grew. it resulted in a d.s.p. ethics investigation and the loss of confidence of the federation is members. and

it remarks a completely unacceptable and have left us stunned we condemned them in the strongest possible terms shift if it were tired the irony is that keller was appointed to clean up the federation the man to turn things around after a series of corruption scandals. which is what we have to be so transparent so that at some point it becomes boring to talk about us that psagot does it with that's new. but can i fell foul of a power struggle at the top of the d.f.t. with his general secretary friedrich courteous the seemingly not ready for canada's vision for change and even germany's football federation in need of yet more intervention and joining us here in the studio to talk more about france keller and the german football federation is chris harrington from the of sports he didn't last long as president no he did not say the german football association has been riddled with scandal for years now he took over for its color in 2019 after his

predecessor resigned over except in an expensive watch you know and that same year he won winemaker of the year so you could argue maybe he should have stuck to what he was better at you know because clearly he failed and one of his goals making the d.s.p. is what we call it here in germany so boring you don't want to talk about it the idea that he compares his own vice president to an infamous nazi judge one of the architects of the holocaust if not the darkest one of the darkest chapters in german history completely a no go it should be a 0 tolerance approach you know i like the idea that he is stepping down he does become the 1st president that has to address his own sports court within the german football association so he'll have his day in court as they say and charlie explain himself you know but right now it's good i think that he's gone in a new direction we're headed towards who could replace him well i like to grow but she could become the 1st female to take over the position she put her hat in the

ring in 2019 she didn't win. you know she calls football the last big bonfire in the german society she's from the grassroots she's with the amateur sports representative one of those you know so she's very familiar she believes there needs to be a major renewable she thinks there are structural issues within the organization you know i think a lot of people agree and you know when you look at the country you look at angela merkel why not why can't we have a female president run this organization you know she has my support but we have to wait and see what happens absolutely had to wait and see in the meantime i mean all this backroom drama it does it have the potential to spill over to the patch well you know for one it's already been turbulent all the pitch prior to this drama germany having historic losses and so forth you know in the nation's league stumbling their coach is leaving so we have to wait and see thomas miller might be coming back that could be a bit of a boost harrington did have his sports breaking it all down for us as always thank you ok. you're watching news live from berlin up next

ico africa environment magazine don't forget there's always more on our website t w dot com i'm sara kelly in berlin thanks for watching.

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great piece and i am so proud to be no video coming to you from compiler here in uganda a big hello to everybody today will be taking you on a trip all over you to 4 continent as we investigate some of the many environmental problems that we face here among the topics on the show. how hygiene is what to use clinics and just. how many it was to grow we will. and also africa's breast. and people's lives. that's sometimes. we had to it's what what is that you may be asking not everybody knows that is what is the name of swaziland adopted in 2018 the small landlocked country lies between south africa and once a week less than a year ago most of its clinics did not have access to clean water when the corner

virus seemed to become more than ever before to remedy the situation thanks to an international initiative things are suddenly an old bitter. pill to. anyone wanting to enter. must 1st. for the purpose only a recent development you. 160 the water is featured using. it's available both for the patients and stuff. they come with a lot of microbes. so it's best they wash and so. they eliminate most of the bacteria and. in the south african country. the average life expectancy is slowly around $59.00 yes that's among the

lowest in the world a lack of clean water is part of the problem livestock agriculture and see which contaminate that water making it's unsafe to drink until now. and it's probably only this water to depend on it comes straight from the river and now he's heard that a clinic's is safe alternative so now when we need water they're very clean water and water for free we go down to the hospital long queues form outside the clinics each person is allowed one kind of clean water a day to make the water have been heated to 90 degrees celsius enough to kill most jams and bacteria. is also here to receive the brushing. is becoming an increasing problem because of climate change and water level in the

reserve force has dropped and groundwater has also been affected the station has been set up to monitor the water table we need to understand what to present to our water table. with changes in terms of for the patents and for this work that it's a shore where it's still safe to extract groundwater sofa 10 such observation sites have been set up across the country a central 7 trucks the status of each in real time south africa's water management institute as part of the project and keeps a close eye on what the security in the region groundwater. pollution and once you pollute and what it is not. easy to. purify dead trees original state so that is be concerned so we actively have to put in place mechanisms to assess and protect the quality of groundwater is well is also monitor

is up section the water hit in project was called financed by germany's development bank k f w. prime minister. says improving public health is a major priority for his government and he believes it's key to the country's development when we put health. we had to build the clinics we had to build infrastructure and in that process all apartments were tapped into that relationship and they said we can come and help you and that is the essence of. development corp the clinic project was implemented by a german austrian company 10000 people already have access to safe water every day and soon schools will also be provided with hot water to accompany its construct

and a large solar plant in its what tina. you can. do it now truest dick deeds by alternately not directly but indirectly you can get a final commission out of that that's good business good sense but also it's being a good corporate citizen as well. meanwhile. he says that clean water makes the job easier independent. today a new height in measures it's also much safer for her and what more time has arrived just in time last winter it's now approaching the swat team. that is great what are the sun its energy is just one of the many natural resources we can abuse or use y.c. to make the. lives that. all next story is about protecting the

lives of wild animals every year 25000 elephants for preach approaches in africa most and yeah i don't really consider it a hotspot for poaching there were times people felt they had no other way to make believe it. so jeffrey a thing you know used to come to the forest of to kill animals now he comes to protect them parts of the forest became a refuge and the poacher has become a ranger he and his colleagues are documenting the traces wildlife leave behind and any destructive human activities now that poachers traps like this one are being removed there are more and loads here again. as is that the interview with. the nathan media. is that into with the good is the way he did

it for make of the ice. thanks. to nathan is who. he said no to contend with. the documentation he works on enables inferences about which species live in the only pony endangered species refuge. for once a month he replaces the batteries in the camera traps. the photos will help with the creation of a more detailed census of the forests inhabitants us. to talk. which only lived in this region is one of several species here that are critically endangered but its population is growing much to the delight of the ngos founder when we talk about it just this collie like where you live when you're the only about these destroyed you cannot survive another common if you are doing to

this for so this is how we resolve that one we did come face to reduce the consumption of this frog us food and the 2nd thing that we've done so very well one was a provider boreholes sources of water for their people so that they don't need to come in and wash a used this stream in the month. of the flood. the only pony endangered species refuge has recently been expanded by an area the size of $16000.00 soccer fields thanks to neighboring landowners and churches a significant achievement considering that ghana has lost 20 percent of its forest cover over the past 2 decades. theo we've already heard the balti is an energy from the sun to prove. our next report is about harnessing the winds to generate electricity. the contras the time and to leave that's a cool and then nuclear reactors behind and produce energy in

a clean way that is quite a challenge to supply a lot and lots of energy hungry factories are part of the answer is to build ever bigger and taller vines this huge ring of concrete is just one small part of an incredibly tall tower that's going up near munster in western germany. it will support a wind turbine the segments are so big they have to be put together on site. we're going to. begin with the 1st prototype in 2010 since then we've built in erected more than 2000 wind turbines we even built the world's tallest in 2017 with a hub height of 178 meters. at the moment 13 wind turbines are being built here the energy they will deliver will be needed especially once germany's last coal power plant shuts down in 2038 but the expansion of wind energy is not going

fast enough in many parts of the country says. he's managing director of the company that operates this wind farm which faced pushback from locals that's part of why it can take 10 years for a project to be approved banners like these are one sign of local resistance some people in the region complain that wind turbines are a blot on the landscape. this village is home to an active citizens initiative makes childe is already annoyed that her house is surrounded by wind turbines now they'll be joined by more less than a kilometer away from her farm. you have who i don't talk you can hear the wind turbines from a kilometer and a half away you hear them turning it's annoying when i'm fucking. other residents feel less disturbed. as me steps in they don't bother me i don't have any nearby

only see them in the distance. that i work in a green job myself so i can relate. it's good that we're working toward renewable energy. and getting good bye to fossil fuels and i can foresee also battle for i've seen there are ways to get communities on board meet on each get talk to residents beforehand and had a good experience on this project he offered them a share in the wind farms profits this year my home is this because i what we do is raise the capital for the project from local residents essential to give us a loan and we give them back interest that a fixed rate i'm going to give that could be 5 percent maybe 6 percent less in money for food with and much more that's quite a lot compared to the interest rates of banks offer nowadays and there are few. and experts say the environmental impacts especially on animals are less than many assume. if these kind work strikes are not such

a big problem compared to the number of birds killed on highways or killed by cats . from post cuts. if we really wanted to do something for birds we should consider the impact of domestic cats or the speed limits on the highway that would probably make a much bigger difference for movies if you. nevertheless the industry is working to improve the turbines so they're more environmentally friendly even with blades over 80 meters in length as a dominant that's on just to make the turbines quieter we use flats that help reduce turbulence and reduce noise to help protect the environment we have sensors that register any bats flying nearby. then the turbines shut down automatically. if all the older when parks in germany were replaced with more efficient ones like these the country could meet all its current electricity means but not for long because these needs might soon double with more electric vehicles on the road and

further digitalisation of the economy would have. been caught wind along with solar and by a mass of the renewable energy sources of the future. but every winter by it is an intrusion into nature so this electricity comes at a cost. and that cost is much more than a certain number of cents per kilowatt hour. so this power must be used sparingly. electric cars shouldn't consume 20 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers if we can get that number down below 10 and we can. it's technically entirely possible use of course it should be standard practice to use energy wisely and without waste in industry on the roads and at home this winter park will deliver green power 240000 households. white sun the beaches are beautiful

law it's always us clean house to look a study found that many bitches side for us are highly contaminated with micro. also juice of all decided to take action against states for the sake of the island . paradise. cyprus is a jewel in the eastern mediterranean boasting greek and roman ruins dating back to him to teach. music for beaches and a lot of trash where it doesn't belong in the natural surroundings and residents are cleaning up after him looks at the inspirational initiatives it's a feel good cleaning up beaches and neighborhoods. this check here lee wasn't left by the residents it's amazing all the rubbish that can

be found in the natural areas. the volunteer garbage here is pick up the waste.