their hopes for the world. turn years after the arab spring. rebellion starts june 7th on d w. place . this is news live from the calls friends for an end to the conflict between israel and the palestinians that israel's prime minister praises his military's efforts and you may next and yahoo says he has no doubts the latest to ask strikes have said hamas militants back many is also coming up spain's prime minister flies out

of the country's north african enclave saying the time to get to friends with a growing crisis of the thousands of my friends across the border with morocco. and defectors from me and mas amin tell d.w. how the country's military regime controls nearly every aspect of soldiers' lives from that finances to bethel tips. and if you can and thanks so much for joining us. calls are intensifying for an end to fighting between israel and hamas militants in gaza francis filed to draw frezza nation at the un security council with egypt and jordan calling for a cease fire but despite international efforts to keep find a solution israel is keeping up its strikes on gaza and hamas continues to launch

rockets into israel. more rockets flew through the skies over gaza light on tuesday but missiles fired from there were intercepted by israel's defense system israel says it responded with targeted strikes prime minister binyamin netanyahu says they will continue as long as it takes to restore security and they're having success. about this i've received your views about many attacks against thomas and islamic jihad they received blows they did not expect i have no doubt that we set them back many years. israel says it's targeting leaders of the militant hamas movement that governs gaza and a system of tunnels used to move weapons. but continued israeli airstrikes on gaza a fueling a humanitarian crisis most of the dead in gaza civilians and thousands of people

were cut off from clean water and have no access to medicines hospitals are already struggling with the covert 19 pandemic a stretched to the limits efforts and now one of the drive of the united nations to try and find a diplomatic solution to the crisis france has drafted a security council resolution calling for a ceasefire but there is disagreement among council nations on the best way forward the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. is demanding action. this is what we are talking about the security council is shameful act. not even expressing a unified position calling for the end of this is a great issue. but as long as rockets are stooping far from both sides into the conflict is nowhere in sight. and small let's cross straight to d.v.d. correspondent tanya kramer in jerusalem hi tania thanks for joining us now israel's

prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying that he asked strikes on gaza have quote taken hamas back many years and yet he's pressing on with the offensive why and for how much longer. well this is a question also that's being asked in israel but i mean this is for his domestic audience there are some there is some criticism of the military complain but all by and large there's a political consensus that this death this complaint military operation against hamas in gaza should continue and that there should be some serious achievement before. it's bombardments the discussion is also moving elf course to where it's you know what kind of achievement. would like to see and what kind of arrangement that will be and how of course this military complain will

be stopped everybody is aware that hamas and also gaza will not go away so they have to come to some kind of arrangement and also that's the question after the firing stops how this will be implemented now with the days we have been talking about international ethics to end the fighting a we any closer to a cease fire agreement. well we understand that there are a lot of efforts within the international community but also here egypt qatar the united nations are trying to engage. the parties so we know medication efforts are underway and we understand that egypt has proposed some kind of talk to you that's a concept of a humanitarian quietening down for now we don't know when possibly for thursday but again last night have also reports in the media here that some kind of seize

should have started on thursday possibly so as to morning it was almost immediately deny it by both sides but that's also not a surprise scene that also in previous rounds of conflict so we have to wait and see whether at some point both sides will stop the fighting now all of this talking is going on of course the human suffering continues what can you tell us about me the situation in gaza so according to the u.n. almost 60000 pilots palestinians have been displaced in the territory. yeah and this number is expected to rise because partment continues and people have been seeking shelter in un schools because the sink it's a bit safe of them to be there some had to house a statement and also a couple of thousands had their houses destroyed in. the un agency for palestinian refugees in gaza is accommodating those people trying to tend to their

needs but of course they're all kind of concerns now also for example coronavirus pandemic gaza had seen very high rates of infection before this ground of hostilities broke out so there is concern about has among house comes officials because people are now in very close proximity but so many people in gaza they have to make a choice between being rather safe and there's no real safe place in gaza or having concerns about their coronavirus state of his tenure crime in jerusalem thank you. take a look now at some other news making headlines around the world prosecutors in the u.s. state of new york say their probe into former president donald trump is now a criminal investigation the move widens a probe into the finances of trump's company the trump organization the former president has in the past said the investigation is politically motivated. in the

u.s. state of north carolina the officers involved in the fatal shooting of andrew brown will not face criminal charges prosecutors said police would justified in shooting brown a black man because he stared his car towards them as they tried to arrest him the killing sparked weeks of protests demonstrators marched again after the decision. police in belarus have raided the offices of the country's largest independent online media outlet touched by and shut down its website to buy has been a key source of information on the opposition protests that started last year the latest crackdown on free media and better us spain's prime minister petra sanchez made an emergency trip to the north african slave sale amid worsening bilateral relations with morocco on monday a record number of migrants crossed into syria to from morocco in

a single day spain's interior ministry said many had already been sent back. they have been arriving all day and night. most of them rich say you to by swimming some 2 kilometers along the coast of morocco or by using inflatable boats or on land by scaling this 10 meter high wall which spain had erected. spanish authorities quickly put a stop to all of that busily rounding up all the migrants and sending them back to morocco definitely not a place they want to return to. the spanish authorities meant business and certainly didn't hesitate using force for some it looked like it was literally sink or swim. spain has sent in more police and military to secure the area the spanish prime minister petro sanchez has also arrived in ca before the trip he made this statement.

my priority as spain's prime minister at this moment is to guarantee the control of transit through the border with morocco provide the cities of seo to emelia with everything they need to resolve the humanitarian crisis as a result of the arrival of people and to proceed with the immediate return of i repeat the immediate return of everyone who has made an irregular entrance to save . a stipulated in the agreements spain and morocco of scientists years ago. the a move. the. migrants from africa have been attempting to get into europe via this beach for years but they have never crossed in such numbers. on some reports as well as this footage suggests moroccan police allowed many of the migrants to cross over into say you to in the 1st place it is because of a diplomatic spat with spain morocco is upset that

a separatist leader who is seeking independence for the western sahara region ruled by morocco is true. only getting medical treatment in spain. officials in madrid say they are now reinforcing security in say you to prevent any further arrivals. and investigation by d.w. news has uncovered details of how the 1000000 man army is brainwashing its soldiers and controlling practically every aspect of their lives news spoke to 3 defectors 2 of whom are high ranking offices the conversations were mainly over messaging apps and through some audio and video calls and we'll be speaking with one of my colleagues who conducts of the end of the investigation in a minute but here's some of what effect has said everything is manas serves they want to turn people into robots who don't think for themselves and if people post political things they can be arrested and put in jail for 3 or 4 weeks.

and joining me now is correspondent jamie conrad who was part of the team conducting this investigation naomi thanks for joining us where are these defectives you spoke to and why did they defect right so can't tell you exactly where they are right now because obviously we don't want to put them into any danger but i can say that you are still hiding in me and mom was desperate to leave but it's obviously difficult to leave given the situation what made it to india where he's also in hiding and they will very clear that they left because they were disgusted at what they saw as very brutal violence against protesters unarmed civilians demonstrating against the take of this you so from what they told you can you tell us what the life of an average soldier is like in manama. but the life of an average soldier it's very very strictly monitored so they have to live on army bases they have virtually no contact with the outside world the army has its own

schools its own hospitals even its own court system and there's a facebook monitoring team so anything that soldiers post on facebook that's the main social media and in the end not is very strictly monitored and they also said there's a very strict hierarchy low ranking soldiers are treated quite badly and on top of that they also have to make mandatory payments into the military's many economic businesses so it's basically a system you know where the army has established a state with the states and soldiers basically power lives too and have very little contact with the outside world so this the system that you talk about is essentially the tool with which the army wields just complete influence right. ok and the just sectors that you spoke to are are they safe now. i wouldn't say they say as far as we know the army's most likely trying to hunt

them down those are putting a lot of pressure on these men's families the men told us about threatening calls that their family members had received basically telling them you know if they didn't turn in their family members they'd be in trouble after that with 3 men severed all communication with their families and also 2 of them as i said us to live myanmar so they have to be extremely kathlyn they're taking precautions they're sleeping in safe houses changing switching their locations most nights but they're very aware that you know they could get picked up that they couldn't end up you know in some kind of a roadblock that keep popping up every now and again so they're not safe from the extremely scared but one man told me you know he stands by his decision to defect because he doesn't want his future kids to think that he did nothing against this as he called it a legal coup so there you know braving braving the rest and trying to keep her safe as they can all right now we can read thanks so much for your reporting. you're watching news here's

a reminder of our top story. pulls out growing for an end to the fighting between israel and hamas militants in gaza france has filed to draw frezza lucian at the u.n. security council with egypt and jordan calling a full a cease fire more than 200 people have been killed in the concept of. what you tell me is up next your business headlines with kris kobach you can also find more news not analysis on a website that steve. thanks so much for talking to. people in trucks injured when trying to try to seduce him to more and more refugees are being turned away. in syria. to spring we look at the demonstrators the elite extreme

lengths to be. told more than 300 people are seeking. the answer. because no one should have to flee. the lead make up your own mind play w. . made for mines. is the north stream pipeline controversy all but over reports suggest dividing of ministration is said to weigh sanctions on one of the main companies behind the project smoothing its past towards completion also coming up we'll get the latest from taiwan where covert vaccine supplies of the winning emitted fresh spiking

cases and us governments spend billions looking for ways to battle impurity coronavirus did we get our money's worth. welcome to the program it would be a big relief for straying to transatlantic relations the united states is expected to weigh sanctions on the company overseeing the construction of russia's nord stream to pipeline into germany that's according to reporting by asio the u.s. government has not confirmed these reports sources within the state department however are quoted on plans to call for sanctions against a handful of russian ships servicing the construction of the pipeline but not the corporate entity in charge of the project. let's get the latest on this from our financial correspondent conrads of booze and conrad this looks like a significant change of course here by washington compared to the previous administration of this is mean that the whole fuss about this controversial project

is over. no chris probably not the discussion about knowledge stream too is too heated and too ideologically charged and despite this potential waiver all of sanctions against the north stream to company the official position of the us government remains we are against this project and we want to prevent it from being finished so we can probably expect more fuss about this project to happen nevertheless of course from a german point of view a way for of sanctions would be positive news it would for example mean that the us government cares for its relationship with germany. and france i thank you. it is to taiwan now and the island nation will was using $400000.00 covert 9 teen

vaccine doses from the kovacs global sharing program today after having gone more than $250.00 days without a single local cold case infection numbers have been rising sharply. hundreds of times when his soldiers are patrolling the streets of the capital taipei disinfecting subway stations and public facilities the government wants to quickly bring the latest infections under control before this outbreak it didn't think restrictions were necessary. the government hasn't been doing a good job lately keeping the coronavirus in check. and that's why we have this outbreak. of course i'm worried i hope taiwan can pull through this. taipei's want want to strict has been hardest hit stores restaurants and fitness studios there have had to close their doors schools are closed for the next few days and large gatherings prohibited panic buyers have already emptied taipei

supermarkets people here assume the outbreak originated in the districts popular tearooms. 600000 people are now in quarantine many undergoing additional testing to reduce the risk of infection but hardly anyone here has had a vaccination shot now the government is promising to ramp up its vaccination program. we will give the time when he's people access to domestically produced vaccines in the quickest way possible will ensure their safety and protect them this will also allow taiwan to return to normal as soon as possible. taiwan's ambitious aim is to make as soon as possible mean by the end of next week let's get more from. taipei when what impact is the current spike in cases having on livelihoods and business. so this is really unprecedented

if we look at a number of the past 4 days just a local just met the cases and how has never experienced this before so the government has already raised we're going to level to level 3 on saturday in taipei all clubs james bars were all shut down so this is definitely hurting domestic consumption such as retail for services and transportation and astri also companies have being urged to allow employees to work remotely for example taiwan's biggest chip maker t s m c a operates in separate teams starting today so the government is really working closely with in dust she's trying to minimize economic damage. taiwan's economy grew at its fastest pace in more than decade in the 1st quarter but the government says the current infection rate will have only limited impact on the economy is that realistic so if we look at the number in the 1st quarter taiwan

g.d.p. expanded over 8 percent year over year the strong growth came from surging demand for electronics and semiconductors driven by 5 pm people people working from home we're also seeing an increasing investment in chip making memory and in petrochemicals textures the government is more optimistic sisters still a very strong demand export demand from overseas where also seeing the u.s. and some you know real pm conscious opening up and it would definitely bring up explorer numbers as well as the break ins highly why it's not affecting manufacturing production the impact on the economy will only be limited to the message consumption so yes it's realistic for now the other years when julian taipei thank you thank you. germany is currently vaccinating at full capacity in vaccine developers has that enormous pace in the

past year it was possible thanks to lavish financial support including from the german government developers of effective coronavirus therapies are ever were left behind and they're wondering if it's likely to stay that way. switching off the coronavirus making it harmless scientists in braunschweig germany gave themselves that task 12 months later they seem to have reached their goal. we become mentally update and most of the drugs that are currently in development treat moderate or mild co 1000 infections but our drug is specifically designed to cure the really serious cases. having to concord high and this research and the 1st clinical tests have been financed primarily by private investors and a state investment bank currently the federal government is providing a total of $50000000.00 euros for coronavirus drug research a funding pot that has to be shared by several companies by comparison 3 vaccine

research projects received a combined total of more than $740000000.00 euros germany's research minister says vaccine trials need more volunteers since that's what costs a lot of money you simply need larger sums because of course you vaccinate healthy people i need many more healthy volunteers to participate in that test the other is starting a therapy with a drug for already sick people in a very targeted way. nevertheless a rethink at the federal level seems to have begun further funding has already been announced. and if you do that we lost many many months simply because the funding was not available to the drug developers we actually can't afford to lose any more time. for the young corette therapeutics will need 50000000 euros for the production of their drug once it is given emergency approval federal funding alone won't be enough they're looking for international investors talks are already well

advanced with one a chinese sovereign wealth fund. what else consigns industry and society learn from dependent that's one of the topics that a high level summits. discussed today among their members their german chancellor going to and kind of in a host and also be participating she is the vice chair of the german government panel on research and innovation and she's on with mean. now welcome to g.w. katarina for all the lunny that governments and societies spend during the spend demick is the return on investment is satisfying. well it can always be improved we know that right but i think if we look into the pharmaceutical research especially with respect to the vaccine research as mentioned in the club before i think we have seen quite amazing results that would have not been possible one and a half years ago now if we look at the research for the treatment of the sickness

there definitely needs to be you know that there need to be some other levers to be raised. now when we talk about the vaccine developers here i mean you mentioned i mean that's that's quite a success coming up with vaccines in such a short period of time was this all the possible because of ample funding. no definitely not if you compare i mean obviously 750000000 euros that's a lot but this is the amount that for example moved in there are not in the united states has just for the production of the vaccines so come had to the u.s. and china for example $750000000.00 is really not all that much what has really worked very well over the last month is that the overall process of developing the vaccine and obviously here we had already very promising research results but that

process of translating research into the final product doing that and the 16 months that was only possible because all of the different disciplines medicine pharmaceutical research my are all g. and you know all those disciplines and they work very closely together we have seen tremendous increase in speed for all those formal process see is for administrate of processes so that it usually takes up to 10 years just for getting the druck to the market and apart from vaccine and coronavirus therapies which other innovations and developments do you see manifesting themselves as we seem to be overcoming to put them. i really hope that the experiences and the earnings we took from those that we need to have different disciplines working to get a biomedical research biotechnology research found the city to research you name it

so get all those researchers together show them how they can work together increase the level of translations really get it into the market into the user and in wall of patients and users as have has been mentioned before and obviously really decrease the time that is needed to apply for different processes to get the final approval from the public agencies and so on so interdisciplinary research put it into translation and really speed up administrate of process the right kind of you know so the vice chair of the german government's expert panel on research and innovation thank you for talking to talk . it was a pleasure thank you. and here's a sorry at this hour the united states is expected to weigh sanctions on the company overseeing the construction of russia's stream 2 pipelines into germany

that is according to reporting by accidents. officially confirmed seems. the social for knowledge one more go ahead and check out a website. slash business or better yet fall off of social media i'm. watching her self a successful. throw on their skirts. women skaters are breaking their taboo. traditions in female emancipation.

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a pipe dream from many. but 1st we meet doctors and volunteers in haiti who are giving women the gift of safe childbirths. there are approximately 5000 different population groups on the us speaking around 7000 different languages we humans can have a variety of skin tones can identify is male or female or neither we're young or old heterosexual or homosexual we believe in a god or many gods or none at all we may have disabilities or not the list goes on humanity is diverse and always has been. and yet equal opportunities are still denied to so many people indigenous peoples for example account for just 5 percent of the world's population but make up 15 percent of

those living in extreme poverty so on less than 1 $1.90 per day. racism restore journey and opposing religious beliefs have led to and still lead to millions of people being excluded this often means they have far fewer chances in life and yet it can take very little to turn this around as a reporter from haiti shows. or northwestern haiti. read 1st. but life here is tough especially for women. ruth follows her grandmother felicity nor neuer every step of the way learning to sew beans at just 4 years old and it was the same with her mother before her but when ruth was born her mother hemorrhaged and died leaving behind 6 children at the age of 70 felicity nor now has a small child to look after she says she's tired and like almost everyone here she

survives on about $2.00 a day but i'm a widow when someone comes by and brings me something to eat i thank god. charlotte is going into labor she rushed to the clinic to see dr cassie on their shelves because he and his team are trying to reduce the maternal mortality rate. a woman should not have to die to bring life into the world that's unacceptable. today the child care haiti clinic is buzzing it's a small victory that so many women are getting their children vaccinated conventional medicine is an affordable to most of them but they get vaccinated ins and medical checkups for you have charge. the heartbeat just normal everything's fine. in front of the clinic a public awareness talk about hygiene the importance of preventive care and birth

control sex is a to boost subject but it can be broached here. was birthed almost always take place at home but there are midwives who want to change that like is my niece was a. back alley and it's important because of the mothers give birth at home they may lose the child or get infections or a rupture blood vessels we can take care of everything in the clinic. faqih day for day. every day the 47 year old is on the road visiting expecting mothers and raising awareness. in no other country in the western hemisphere do so many mothers die in childbirth it's not unusual here for women to have 6 or 7 children and that is a big risk the large number of children exacerbate poverty fathers often take no responsibility and don't provide support. a bit silly our distance is 7 months pregnant just

last year she had a miscarriage but why give birth in the hospital she asks after all she's not sick . i'm not afraid of going to hospital but it works. let's see. i think god will give me the child. most women here think the same way is money's was if knows that it takes time to build up trust. with us that we don't hesitate to call me i'm here for you. that you need stamina your 1st they don't listen to what you say the 2nd and 3rd time too and then on the 4th occasion if you turn up and help them with a chore you start getting through. a. misleading germany was taken to the clinic where she was told that she was at risk of having a miscarriage 4 days she was on a drip. without the clinic on 2 occasions i would

have either died myself or lost my babies the garbage to be able to. work gets around about things like that child care haiti has partnered with german development and relief agency bread for the world who fund is monies awareness raising work and preventive care. as night falls in mar rouge the distance sounds of drumming can be heard. a video ceremony is underway. we do is often linked with black magic but it is a recognised religion in haiti and most people here prefer to be treated by a voodoo healer who summons the spirits and asks them for help. with. 2 2 duct a bit shell has nothing against working together with a buddha he is he says that one gets out of the psyche and the other the body. well

the last minute the healer has already sent many patients to us we help each other it's a collaboration that is bearing fruit it's good for the patients feel. it's 1st thing in the morning and doctor is heading out into the countryside with his mobile clinic also funded by bread for the world. the people who live in maru's just don't have the means to get to the clinic so the clinic comes to them. it brings free medicine and treatment as well as the always warm and friendly dr. crossett that i just love what i do i love it so these are things. the team of child care haiti are pushing their full weight behind trying to improve health care in haiti no matter what it takes but that is cementing trust and helping women and children in particular. seller in the meantime is just about to

give birth she welcomes a healthy baby to the world. hey. hey . it's a girl. one more successful delivery what could be more rewarding healthy mother and her healthy child. children should be given a good start in life and opportunities to fulfill their talents and potential this is one of the un's 2030 sustainability goals the development of social abilities motor and cognitive skills as early as possible a crucial for a child's future and long with health and good nutrition says the w.h.o. . many nations have introduced early childhood education programs including china but most of the children of its nearly 300000000 migrant workers have slipped

through the net. left behind in rural areas in the care of their often overwhelmed grandparents. too little google her grandmother dung is like a mother the 2 of them live together. the 3 year olds parents visit them in the village for only a few weeks of the year. we 1st pay them a visit a year ago. the single grandmother would spend her days looking after the vegetable fields the household and her granddaughter then aged to. the wall i don't know if i need to spend more than 3 hours out in the fields a relative in the village looks after her but once in a while i just go get vegetables when the little ones are asleep. like millions of other children in china or lives in a rural village without her parents who left their home province of the young she

to live and work in the country's industrialized south. once a week a social worker comes to see grandma dong and her grandchild. his leave always brings along new books and games she has work will complete a few simple tasks. he is part of a research project that supports childhood development in rural areas. grammar dung learns that even something as simple as sorting scraps of colored paper is beneficial to war it helps develop her motor and problem solving skills as well as concentration now and as i was just a little older people here in the countryside think all children need is enough to eat and clothes to wear and that that's enough they never think about things like play so i have to explain it to them over and over. n.w. of that. book was mother is on the phone she works in

a factory 900 kilometers away and only gets 3 weeks holidays a year to visit home. it's hardly surprising global shows little interest in the woman on the screen. the child development project is being conducted by a team at the university in the provincial capital nanchang professor the world has been doing research in rural provinces for years he and his students want to show their junk she's chilled. and have a lot of catching up to do. people who are raised by their grandparents often don't develop enough knowledge and skills the same here. here means they're less well equipped later in life for work and the demands of our cities and the future. but this small suitcase is meant to change that and one of you was students one tyranny shows how games can be used to measure early childhood development. but. she's also

visited other poor rural areas here in jan she the students are assessing some 1400 village children with tasks such as these. ones field research began with grandma dung and book war. so how has been progressing. the 2 year old has had a weekly play visit for a year now. have they had any effect. on. how the war is not intimidated by the visitors or their experiments. everything is recorded for later analysis. during a speech test points to body parts here are the feet and the dollars full she says touching the toys belly. no forceful i think out of she can say

a few words and even some full sentences already i have a good impression other children who aren't in the program probably wouldn't be able to verbal express themselves as well while moving around at the same time. he wore he when she grows up i hope she'll get a good education and maybe study at university one day called basketball. but it's a long road from here to university an estimated 25000000 children under the age of 3 live in rural china statistic that doesn't include their older siblings what is the impact on a child when grandparents are the sole caregivers when the child is not encouraged to play that's the case with jihan she is also being tested for the research project today but she belongs to the control group she doesn't have special play visits or receive support. one

tyranny notes g. hands weaker results she still can't perform simple tasks like matching shapes. and she barely speaks a word. her grandmother is understandably unhappy. a year on we're back at work was house she's now 3 years old compared to the neighbor's child she's making a lot of progress. the social worker has been coming for 2 years now with games and tasks even during the coronavirus lock down. how big she can express herself very well much better than a neighbor child. language development and her whole way of communicating are more advanced. what was

grandmother knows she has a part to play here and it does my granddaughter good in the past i didn't give her much attention now i know what's important to spend more time with her. case confirms what professor lewis previous studies in poorer provinces had already shown. clear that children who participate in the program develop much better than children without support they're significantly more advanced in cognitive and motor skills as well as in speech and language of. grammar dong knows that if she continues to play with work well on a regular basis she will be giving her a head start for the future. regular handwashing is easy right and wrong according to unicef 2200000000 people have no steady access to clean water yet hygiene is not only a human right it's also

a prerequisite for success at school and work as such it has far reaching consequences for our lives as.