in delhi following that warning from the indian prime minister and consistent dire news we've been hearing from india it appears one can't overstate how serious the situation it. was as it did duty in india as well as to leave but this is just you efficient to just takes the fighting off that many of these cases must actually be getting the best because the illegality of dying to test is where you need to be actually fighting many villages according to get you to feel as and these events and never die because they cannot act as diagnostic tests final twinges have probably can't stand does what i've won scared people to continue to study but she couldn't find someone to home office. people in the vicinity at times and this means that the outstretched hand of the they didn't play god given imagine the sausage she just

explains in the big cities by the prime minister a message to the single vaness fighting misinformation and by have suggesting vaccine against and seek is value but they don't addressing the health and prospects of gas and not much can be done. so 24000000 recorded 19 infections across india using this warning from the government a little late. and i definitely should be just as the government because there is a belief that they missed the baby for this massive 2nd surge especially yes as decent marched the health minister was saying that as i read it and again and it has fought off the band i think almost however what the government is pushing back hard on any criticism going to spend it. on the ground that it has made no mistakes that have been known missteps by the government and in fact just didn't you do the

job that i do you need to be cheap be treated out a list of statements if you have been eating how any criticism of it is for once and i'm doing the boss thing to blame the state government that is concerned of course than those who do not want to call in the not be able to solve it which was a nice consensus on how they can get into bed fees and i don't mean. that said. reporting from delhi thanks so much. and here's a look at other developments in the grown a virus pandemic singapore has tightened social distancing restrictions dining at restaurants is banned and public gatherings are limited to 2 people authorities in china have ordered mass testing in 2 cities in the central province of on we knew local transmissions were detected and for the 1st time since march germany has dipped below a 7 day threshold of $100.00 cases per 100000 people restrictions can be relaxed if

the rate remains below that level. now while some parts of the world are opening up again as vaccinations increase that's not true everywhere in kenya the vaccine rollout has been slow hampered by a shortage of doses corruption and fear of the job punishing lockdowns continue making daily life even harder mariel moola reports. from paris where a group is sick with worry for her mother she can't afford to buy her medicine since she lost her job due to call but 19. you know i feel so. awful i think the government should stop closing out these jobs that. if they were closing up and giving people food that would be good but now they close up without support but it's us poor people who suffer. so much but the signal me aside. the people who suffer the most under the coronavirus restrictions are residents

like paris and her mother they live in my thought one of them a prison como said homes they depend on their daily work and income and don't hardly able to safe any money. now i cry for my children that they get an education and they don't fall asleep hungry since the pandemic started they went to bed hungry so many times that out of the night curfews and forced by the police were feared another extrajudicial killings or disappearances by the police happen regularly it has become worse because of course at $19.00 and $1.00 boy says. that the other day i was all getting my medicine around coffee time we were running away and i fell the police threatened to beat me i told him don't dare to beat me arrest me he just said to you grandma go home. because you know it's cases like this that make people angry according to local activists 167 people were allegedly killed or disappeared by the police last year despite

a ban on political gatherings due to the pandemic of social justice. roups takes to the streets they protest against the impact of the covert 19 measures and police brutality. do not talk much as you want but to hospitals we want better education we want clean water we want better housing. and suddenly we have to interrupt the interview because the police fired tear gas canisters targeting us. people yes say that the covert measures like killing them because they're not able to beat food on the table they're not able to go to the hospital and also write rape and crime has gone up they say the police was very intolerant towards this protest because of their covert restrictions they just fire tear gas and they actually hit me here on my leg. the challenges of reporting from here one thing i can muster our people feel like they're being choked and one boy doesn't know how to afford a new inhaler she suffers from asthma hypertension and arthritis she is however

more worried about her grandchildren. when they don't even now i was just about to borrow 100 chilling support so we got lunch. when i speak about these things i cry to her wound up on the phone this boy was supposed to go back to school today that i needed to buy a cemetery papers books and pens all that i can only cry to god for help so that the boy can go to school and that it is good thing i do that and. as well of parts of the slowly had to what normal for millions in kenya the pen demick just keeps on making life harder every day. we're going to briefly go back to our top story again in the recent violence that jews here in germany have been facing since the recent clashes in gaza and elsewhere in israel and we're joined again by mike del berg an activist for germany's jewish community and also a social media manager for germany's conservative c do you party welcome back sir

what action do you want to see from german authorities to combat the anti-semitic attacks we've seen this week. yeah unfortunately some people do not seem to understand that takes and synagogues are not an expression of protest against israel so this is simply into cynicism and i expect more security for the syllables and jews institutions in germany but also as street punishment of those people who . you have many friends no doubt and contacts within germany's jewish community how worried are people about their safety. they are they are it's at least part of the pandemic people still try to go to the synagogue and live a jewish life and it's more difficult to live the seuss because some people just can't separate judaism from east and this problem we can see this from the street even a person like me where sick. can be threatened by this by this point so it's very

difficult but there's also another part of that also in social media there's kind of an ally middle east conflict which has broken out supporters from both sides fighting each other alone and a lot of these are spread and this is also a big big problem with jews in germany are facing right now you just mentioned the fact that you were and i'm curious about what goes through your mind before you put it on do you wonder if it might make your target it is possible and you know i don't want to live by fear and i don't want to i don't want this fear to. get to to be the main to be to be the main part of my life but i just know when i got it to be a little bit more careful than i've been before i mean i'm a proud you and proud to be jews in germany and also live in germany my whole life and i'm not afraid to go out outside of my flat but i'm more careful than before

you know as we mentioned you work in the field of social media do you think apps like facebook and twitter play a role in fueling anger. absolutely there has to be there have to be more secret more strict rules against anti-semitism in the internet for example numerous posts by supporters post aggressive pose and anticipated comments on pro israeli expressions of solidarity even threats among then i mean for example in response of response to one of my posts where i called for peace in the middle east i received hundreds of hate comments hate messages and even death threats against me i'm offended and this just goes too far and has to be stopped. that's mike sam who del berg thank you so much sir. a canceled the olympics petition has been submitted to the tokyo city government leaders are under growing pressure to reconsider staging the games this summer over $350000.00 people signed the online petition it will also go to the international

olympic committee most japanese want the games canceled or perspire but organizers insist the event will start on july 23rd. in football now bruce dortmund have won the german cop after a comprehensive win over rb leipzig in the final jaden sanch open their scoring early on with a curling finish early hala and then got his name on the scoresheet and dortmund made it 3 nil before half time to stand again battled in the 2nd half with danny almonte pulling a goal back but dortmund added a 4th goal on the break with holland crowning the victory. a refined from the outer reaches of the solar system is set to be a star attraction when museums reopen in england next week this 4 and a half 1000000000 year old meter ride is going on display at london's natural history museum that fell from a fireball and was found on

a driveway in southern england scientists say the relic could hold the clue to the history of the universe and life on earth. and a reminder of our top story israel is massing troops on the border with gaza and calling up thousands of reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the hama school territory overnight the israeli air force stepped up strikes on gaza as hamas launched over a 100 rockets into israel. you're watching news coming up next in asia india's coronavirus situation prompts the desperate into action these indians in the novel search sending aid home. and is the olympic bubble about to burst we look at the troubled tokyo games hit by safety concerns and waning public support fresh bannerjee we'll have these stories for you and me watching the news

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welcome to news that you could join us in just devastating 2nd wave of corner virus infections has prompted a flood of international relief at least 40 countries have pledged to help and aid deliveries from major world powers including the united states germany the european union have already arrived but the crisis has also its overseas citizens into action with some 18000000 citizens such as myself living beyond its borders india has some of the largest export organisations of the world here's a glimpse at how some of them in the netherlands are sending help back home. becoming a mother during a pandemic thousands of miles from home was a tough challenge for. stuff. but watching a covert crisis unfold in her home country india from where she now lives in the netherlands has proved unbearable for the business analyst i've started getting

news from my friends my relatives. that people are dying and you know my friends and their families are suffering they're not getting oxygen just. because you just hear such like. or do we do a conch shell is among 45000 people born in india who now live in the netherlands desperate to do something she looked towards others in her community. in nearby amsterdam software developer and cricket lover wrote it was raring to go he knew others with high paying jobs who wanted to play their part through local organizations indian ex-pats sprung into action. we all came together we donated money so that doing deals in india or $1.00 is supplying most of them concentrated so we sent about $604.00 millions to india and also we gave funding

for food to these families were affected but i can just imagine what they're going through just trying to help in whatever way we can they've raised tens of thousands of euros no more cricket talk after training no it's all about sourcing and sending more vital materials. here in the hague see what i'm temple dutch people of indian origin like hindu priest to be cashed in adi are also stepping up the field in fact whatever is happening in india has a direct impact on our community here as well to value wants to send positive energy to do those who are suffering. all. different today so whether it's. material support whether it's fundraising. for the pay or the different ways of reaching those people they're.

taking a break from the headlines instead filling her screen with faces of faraway loved ones who are yet to meet her baby found in person she knows the funds and resources she's helped collect are just a drop in the ocean india's staggering called which crisis but for 9 hopes of saving even one life back home. a petition to council that has been submitted to games organizers on friday 350000 people signed the petition in just 9 days it comes as the country faces a full weave of course on a virus infections the capital tokyo osaka and other prefectures are already under state of emergency but the government appears committed to opening the olympics on the 23rd of july a series of test events have been helped to track safety protocols and organizers

say a spectator free olympics is also a possibility none of that has however dampened the growing public opposition to the games. almost nothing has gone as planned ahead of what is still called the tokyo 2020 olympics at a wednesday news conference given by your question please a man posing as a journalist staged a cancel the olympics protest for the olympic committee's spokesman. where. anywhere. we don't want the olympics. not that great no i'm sorry to disappoint you that it was me not the president today obviously would have probably made that stunt a little bit more interesting was 7 the stunt though voiced the same disapproval the japanese themselves are voicing in small protest groups and in big polling data

that shows 59 to 65 percent favor canceling the games in light of the pandemic. i was surprised that the number of people who are against the olympics have increased this much but i guess that reflects how bad the situation of the coronavirus is. but olympics organizers are moving forward and one thing that did go according to plan for them a dress rehearsal of what the track and field competition could look like. a mostly empty stadium save for athletes and officials who've been placed into a virtual bubble. 4 time olympic medalist justin gatlin won the test 100 meters and was a few sivan his crate despite living in a locked down room each asleep to watch netflix to dine and then he was let out to train and compete. this competition here was a precursor to see exactly how you know the olympics can go off.

maintaining a bubble for the athletes to be able to stay healthy and also the citizens of japan to be able to stay healthy with foreign athletes for national coming into the country i think it was a success. definitely different can be hard to adapt but the caution is definitely needed. should the games go off as imagined or imagined this could well be to look world class competitors inside the venue's and the athletes' olympic village. protests on the outside. michael patton is a journalist and runs the thing gets a news agency he thought going out from tokyo michael and being able to cope with the rising cases of coronavirus. well i think the answer that clearly did not marry well no they're not. you know the situation in the 4th way here has

not quite hit the record for the country about it and certainly threatening to do so many you know the smaller rural prefectures outside of japan are hitting some pot totals of cases what's the difference in before and the number of critical cases of people you know people who are on life support that number of hired never been pandemic started so dependent in pretty deep trouble you know compared to what the previous record in terms of the pandemic and where does a country with vaccinating the general public. well as i think it's been well reported japan among you know advanced industrial companies come countries is a right at the bottom of the list i believe it's something like 3 or 4 percent of the country so far has been vaccinated. you know at least once and that's a very low number compared to most countries in this class but at the same time the

numbers have been rising recently in but i mean recently i mean the last week or so and the government believes that most elderly people will be vaccinated by the end of july but this is really going to be too late for you know the olympic situation which should start. in july given all the issues and the fact of the large majority of the public appear to want the games canceled or postponed to help us understand why the government insists on going ahead with the olympic. well there is a bit of a mystery there but they have been so adamant and you know not just the japanese government but the international olympic committee do as well as as essential to come out and said directly or you know we don't care what happens doesn't matter what happens we're definitely going ahead 100 percent and you know this line has taken some people by surprise exactly why they are doing so well we can

speculate you know it would seem that they've put a lot of investment in their sins probably a lot of money riding on it all the facilities the stadiums never thing were built over a period of $8.00 or 9 years so they want to at least make some use of it but there's also the prestige factor which is of course. you know important for the government itself especially the super government they don't want to be the ones that pulled the plug on the olympics and which failed to hold them so i think that's also a very big factor. but michael if it does come down to it home gets to decide which of the japanese government orders of the international olympic committee that gets to decide in the olympics go ahead and. while that has been in dispute fact prime minister earlier you know suga has said that the final say is with the international olympic committee but this these statements have been widely

disbelieved and and even mocked by the opposition parties you know this is japan and a sovereign nation to have to follow the orders of the international olympic committee they had a question that and i think that you know the real answer obviously is the state has the final say you know if prime minister asuka said ok we're not holding them there's no way that the international olympic committee could force him to do so but at the moment his executive plan to make that impacts. not just planes but also potentially. they don't know yet in fact they don't even know if fans are going to be able to attend the event this decision is still pending they're probably going to make it last minute. you know they are trying to do their best to to create a bubble around the athletes to try to you know keep them as separated from the general public as possible and they're also talking about vaccinating most just not all of the athletes. head of many of the citizens of japan in fact so

it's it's a question it's a question have been answered convincingly and in fact you have to say that the japanese public doesn't believe that they believe that to be holding lympics will be some kind of super spreader event with you know thousands of people coming in here from all over the world i was who knows what cope with variance so you know the government has a safe most japanese don't believe a journalist michael in the dough q thank you so much for that update thank you. and there's of course further updates on their debates preparations on our website . and we end this week with this a huge ocean liner in landlocked sichuan province in china. it's a replica of the time tourists to spend to monitor their leader with.

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the big. time i'm going down the road i look to be there or there isn't there a comfort when you are giving. them the way of living they. haven't enjoyed me right through it. down amidst the covered 19 pandemic. deciding how to get someone to stay away. and say. can be a question of life or death. the fears are real and they communicate subconsciously through body language.

while the coronavirus has robbed us of our most meaningful ways to connect with each other it's a little sad it can be stressful to having to take so much into consideration every time you leave the perceived safety of your own 4 walls. the coronavirus has turned the world upside down how has it affected us since the lock down in my researches from the university of basel have been using cameras to document how we adapt to daily life how we behave and how we act and moved during the pandemic. i must constantly decide with my body where to stand and these micro decisions the bodily movements should i sit here 5 centimeters further away these are the things that we're recording these are. all from him and.

since the pandemic began our body language has gained new meaning every day behavior is suddenly risky must be renegotiated or even dropped a lot of nonverbal communication is going on between us all the time. and sure here is a good example of how they have placing themselves naturally in a way in which they can also take their distance and these and micro decisions that he will make constantly. where studying the activity of paper distancing themselves how they really do it marmont by moment and one second day times a smile from. a few days later the experts analyze their findings at the university of basel they discuss and try to interpret every dialogue every action and every tiny bodily movement every one seen at

a time image by image. we witness will work from. the findings from the 100 hours of video material should one day help to better understand humans are social beings the coronavirus pandemic is almost a stroke of luck for this unique research project. we've already had 2 waves now what is really going to happen will there be a 3rd or 4th wave a constant how they were changes that will remain in the long run. that's what's interesting about human interactions. they've already discovered one thing in basle we constantly adapt our interactions to a given risk situation and we do it quickly that's a finding that could also benefit coronavirus strategies understanding how people really tick can help devise rules and measures that people will actually follow.

more in their. store and that report has 19 fundamentally changed the way humans interact with. yes of course. seems to have changed her mind to me. now in order to understand these changes i think we have cool to think about social interaction as even though it might seem an ecology sometimes as having it's all organizational it's all on her and what could be that. is the arrival of a lot of experimental norms. for potential for every. one of the motives of the change but those are the problem. is that sometimes these measures. in. less than a moment community in the end dodging most organic or the awful one who are

actually and this is. fascinating things that we're looking at. a meeting. what about cultural differences. in the germans a good way to close the mail from beijing my personal space. enjoying having all the space because of the pandemic. yes culture of our usually is is a big reason he begins and who. certainly it is you can make things easy for certain kinds of groups rather than others if you did the examples and readings that we have started in. my project which greetings are usually are. but if you look at. those functional aspects you will see that each culture has the same problems to solve we've. crossed filling recommission and.

all going to assume the entry in the rocks from you know what you need and when those are the kind of basic principals. meetings in a way make make possible. for money which they make made possible by mind the subject of huge variation and so if you will if you will rather in your culture a happy form of so far less weight loss which means you need to act in global these times you might have more difficulties then i'm not aware how to format some awful . end of the day it's a connection well. how severe is the impact of social distancing on human connection. yes it was with a sign says we are pretty critical of the. because what we are witnessing with cooley that is a physical reasons which is not always and not over my thinking. was

of course a social aspect is a cultural aspect but we have to think about the fact that this is variable in. their activities that are naturally this them to all or which new unity and the problem with cold reading is that we have to be measured. and at meijer. all these things which are perfectly implementable for certain activities much less for others and the decision how to implement these measures. this is a let people locally and then generate interest. called normative dynamics people who prompted with. this is going to be. telling some of this has to say. well of course it's difficult to say their responses are going into different directions one is that could mean

there's been i remember every experience for us of scientists but also. about what is fundamental in sociality that we want to keep so we want to come back tool on normal sociality and you know weigh those values where indeed it will be before and probably does make. conscious of them but they're also all the things that have emerged during call me there's been a national laboratory for experimenting and they're not the forms of social life and some of the most creative we. thank you very much. and you. time to answer more of your questions now to our science correspondent eric williams. how with a pandemic and. only when the entire world is vaccinated. when

it comes to predicting the future really your guess is as good as mine but if i did have to hazard one i'd say there are a couple of scenarios to choose from the 1st and least likely in my opinion is that will somehow manage to begin coordinating efforts on a hitherto unheard of scale to stymie new outbreaks before they can spend out of control like they have already in country after country any return to anything like a prepared demick normal at least on a global scale will require speeding up and extending vaccine drives in every corner of the planet now and not later and of course the virus would have to play along by not mutating too quickly or or dramatically so soon imaginable scenario one that

a lot of epidemiologists think isn't going to happen. more likely they say is that vaccines won't stop at 19 transmission completely but they will slow it in many places anough to manage the virus like we manage other diseases just think the hiv aids or or measles in that scenario sars could be too would become endemic and possibly seasonal like the flu and would have to be held in check by active measures like like regular vaccine updates and as yet undeveloped medications people would continue to be infected by it and continue to die from it but but over time as large fractions of populations acquire some degree of immunity for at least a while through infection or vaccines a lot of experts think the disease could grow less deadly at least at this is

sayable scale so instead of thinking about when the pandemic will end at to me it now makes more sense to formulate this question as when we get back to something approaching prepared demick normalcy and i think that could happen by the end of the summer in some places like here in europe in many others barring new developments i expect it to take several years that's my guess. finally the games get underway in tokyo in a couple months and organizers have been trying out one of the newest additions skateboarding athletes met at a sports poc to show off their tricks no spectators strict hygiene measures though to keep they concerns about hosting the big event continue to grow 350000

people signed a petition the president of the olympic committee officially. alledged the petition says the committee takes any concerns serious like it's unclear though if they'll be any changes to get us. thanks for watching and stay safe i'll see you again very soon here on the gulf of i.

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