more prepared demick activities. after 6 months, a current of virus restrictions, people and brands are able to enjoy outdoor dining again. half days, restaurants and bars are open for business, but with limited capacity. frances, many cinemas, theaters, museums are also open and the french back to make their dining out at cafes and beer gardens. daily cove, in 1000 cases in the country have also been falling as the vaccination program has picked up speed. all right, let's find out what it feels like to regain your freedom for i'm during now. right . you don't use me for the weekend. parents are funny. for sure in vienna, ladies great to see you want to start with you funny in vienna. how are austrians enjoying their new taste of freedom? well, that picture behind me, you may suggest not a soul and there's no excitement at all. but that connects to the fact of bad weather. he started to rain a couple of hours ago. so people move actually indoors,

which is possible now for the very 1st time in 6 months, you can done in or dine out. basically, you can enjoy the very simple and normal things that you enjoy before the pandemic having a coughing launch or a slip. so, or any of your favorite dish. in fact, some people were so excited, they got up as early as 5 pm to have a early breakfast here at the river bank of the daniel, and tow through champagne, and all of that celebration and festivity activity. because they say final, you can socialize again and meet people face to face. so yes, these a lot of excitement here. but then again, of course, also people would say don't really want to present a negative corporate test or proof of explanation to be able to enjoy this and you level of freedom. ok, now you both have been out and about talking to some people to take a listen to what some of them told you in the middle. finally, able to go out 1st, middle again somewhere where it's especially good to meet people. chat with friends

. see people think this, everything we haven't been able to do for the past 7 or 8 months will now hopefully be possible again and hopefully this time forever. and hopefully this is my, this is sean and it feels a bit like getting back to normal. i think it's very positive for the restaurants that they're finally able to reopen again in the offspring. i hope they also have good weather so that the people can eat out doors on monday. it's great that the restaurants are open again. i'm really happy about it. yeah, i today feel great. i feel like back to like back to life and to the people in the treat. happy. yeah. just like no, no more than the coming back to natural or things. mean a lot to that mean you know the, the covet 19. it start to finish, you know, when it's opening the this and all the museums and all the public areas. that's

good for us. you know, we feel more freedom. you know, it's good. i'm happy a lot of happy people that you spoke to both lisa in the let's go to the city of light paris. what does reopening look like? where you are? well, if this, if the friends were riding on a wave of and foods, yes, here in paris and across from mind you, the weather hasn't been great either in sunny spelled, just like now more or less. and then also there have been students that have gone through the capital and people have been weathering these. so i'm sitting outside because as opposed to vienna, they're not allowed inside the restaurants and bars just yet, but they're very happy to have their 1st cup of coffee or glasses wine outside beneath the breakfast that cafes and restaurants have been putting in place in just behind me, you can see the loser, the world's biggest museum and visit has been flocking to them in the museum. that

is also often several months later, open today that actually book that tickets online. and they have to wear their face inside and follow certain path. core certain areas actually where they have to go, but they're very happy to come back to the museum and to, to the works actually with own eyes, no, just online. and we know how for regions love their museums and rightly so, lisa, are there any concerns? well absolutely, that is the concern that the reopening is happening too early. actually if you're, if you look at being fax number is in france actually quite high compared to other countries such as germany. the incidence is still at about $150.00 cases 410-0000 inhabitants per week. that is why higher than in germany and france, africa stands in paris. that's the biggest sounds that even 200 sassy and intensive care units are still occupied by lots of caves. patients. that number of patients

in intensive care unit has been gained down, but it needs to go down further and the government knows that. and that's why the president of the minutes is that have also been flocking to outside tires. this today has been and yes, we can have more freedom now, but we need to be careful. we need to fate, careful so that we are able to re open the country even more in the coming weeks. right. so there is still people still have to be cautious. funny in vienna we're arguably cathy culture was invented. do people share the same concerns as the ones that we heard from lisa in paris? they are concerns, if you speak to biologist, if you say that even though right now, the infection rates are comparatively low compared to with france for example. the risk is having opened up everything at once here. it's not just about restaurants, but it's also about reopening hotels, public venues. everything starts today. and then of course, foreigners,

for most european countries can enter all 3 and also from some non european countries without the need to warranty. and so the question is, of course, whether these infection rates are going to stay stable as they are right now, or whether they're going to increase as so many things to reopen at the very same time. and of course, what we do not know that those few cases of the indian vary and that is also here in austria, that a few cases is going to increase to so many, many cases as we have seen early this year with the self african very, and so yes, there is concern, but there's also hope actually that people are going to hear through the protective measures that are in place for reporting for brianna recently we've in pairs. thank you both and let's bring up to speed with some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic. well, unfortunately, india has reported the highest one day fatality rate in the world since dependent

began with more than $4500.00 death. taiwan meanwhile, raised its covert 900 alert level for the whole island nation in respond and response to a rising caseload and militia has recorded a new daily record for infections reporting more than 6000 new cases and football. thomas miller and mass homos have been recalled to the german national squad for the european championship next months after 2 year absences. for each of them coach, you have those as being pushed to recall them after their strong form in the league .

and then well actually we're going to move on, we're having some technical problems. so apologies for that. well, it's a kit she often weird and for a lot of people it's the highlight of the year. the eurovision song contest held every year since 1956 except last year, when it was cancelled because of the pandemic. well, now it is back, semifinals are taking place this week with the main event hosted by the netherlands happening taking place rather on saturday d w max sandra caught up with some fans before the big event. oh, they're getting ready for the world's biggest music contest. dimitry and event devlin and gap or die hard. you're a vision fans. despite the pandemic limiting this year's event, they're excited for it to go ahead in their hometown rotterdam. i was ready to celebrate everywhere to do everything to be all out on the, on the streets and those use a tiny bit more turn down. but the fact that they went to rotterdam made my heart

so happy in 2020. the singers and bands from 39 countries will participate in this years. your vision, like destiny can 18 year old singer from out of the a few my friends. the winner of this year's contest will be chosen here. in rotor dams, a whole arena inside rehearsals are ongoing with lot we own center stage, the next office, switzerland. during rehearsals the seats remain empty, but when the contest takes place up to 3500 fans will fill the arena. it's a big challenge to do that while maintaining safety. during the pandemic, everyone is tested at least once, every 48 hours, to make sure that we don't get any infections inside of the reading compound. and secondly, of course, it's the usual measures it's hand sanitizing, its face mask,

social distance thing at all at all places. except if you're sitting down and can maintain your social distance thing. as a back up all 39 contestants have recorded performances in case of infections or need to pointing jango. mcroy is also excited to finally perform in front of a live audience. again, he'll be singing for the host country, the netherlands. his song, birth of a new age isn't owed to people standing up for themselves with his powerful message . he is one of the front runners in this years event. my song is about resilience, about knowing your own worth, their self worth and realizing that that is the thing that keeps you standing on both of your feet in difficult times. it's also owed to people who stand up for themselves and who claim their space within their society, within the world,

saying i deserve respect. i deserve to be seen. can that the rich? how does the process sharing his music with europe and the world is an awesome thing. but he admitted that he does miss typical eurovision moments. it is a pity that you don't get to me like a lot of the fan. sometimes our fans standing like the venue and that's, that's, that's a nice moment always because they always want pictures. and yesterday they were singing the chorus of my song, you know, and then you get like a taste. you know what it probably usually is that your vision experience the some contest comes at a challenging time this year. but the fans are determined to celebrate their champions. no matter what phone you know, or germany. the netherland, everybody. you where with her, you know, i think there we knew is coming up next thing that we news asia. a look at why them

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the animals themselves. ah, i better manage your welcome to detail the news. a short ledger could join us, one of the world's most exclusive holiday destinations. the motives is now grappling with the surgeon covert 1900 cases. nearly 1400 new cases were recorded by the island nation on tuesday. hovering, a record high that's compared with less than 100 daily cases, reported just one month ago. last week, the mold is decided to temporarily ban travel from several south asian countries. as the region faces a massive 2nd wave. tourists from other countries with a negative p r test may still visit them, all leaves us famed results, but they are not allowed contact with the local population. and joining me for more now or is the minister of state for held in the molly's and acting director general

of health services. dr. sharma here. thank you for your time, dr. my hate. what is behind this southern surgeon corona virus infections in the mall? dave's thank you very much. we are in the process of evaluating this sudden so there are number of factors we believe is responsible for the current surge. one these there are new barriers that we, we are concerned about. and currently we on the investigation which area inside there are and also recently because from a don and a lot of movements have been happening in the measures are little bit relaxed for various reasons. so that may have had influence on that the. so

for the, for us of, for the actual cold for the 3rd wave that we have more, these is not entirely clear. but what we've noticed is from january at the beginning of coffee after a year, we bought a 20 percent increase in cases recently. so we, the numbers are, as you know, roughly we have a population of 600000 people in more detail. and every day we have 1400 to 500 case has been positive right now. so we have introduced some measure it to control the situation, right? you're talking about variance or is the what vitally circulating indian variant? one of the variance you're looking at while we are being closest neighbor, any effect in india,

we will obviously be cautious on on that. so we have not, we have not identified any particular variance. we from time to time, we do send full geno mac sequencing. monty's don't have the capacity to analyze magic very and so we do the piece out testing. and when we suspect we sent samples, so we are currently waiting full of that information, but we up up regulation and the way we are working, we assuming that that is a possibility that we may have very and engine barriers in our community and may be responsible for this search, right, what do you, where are you with the status of vaccinations? i mean last we had the roughly 60 percent of the population had received at least one shot of vaccine. i'm wondering if you think that this is

a vaccine resistant variant. you're dealing with well, you're right. we are actually very fortunate to have a large number of population vaccinated. in fact, our eligible population, 6759 percent instruct, connected with 1st those all the 33 percent is vaccinated. speed 2nd dose completed the vaccination. we don't actually believe that there is registers, but you know, that actual data remained to be seen. we believe up the search easy to do with more of movement happening within them. all of these as well as that additional variance might be circulating in the population. but there is no evidence show that you know, the vaccines i ineffective to the,

the new cases. what we have actually seen is also the cases that are being admitted to hospitals. the, the people are most severe is the people who people who happen to have the vaccination, right? that, you know, there is protection and not people. they are less severe when they get the disease . that if those who have ad vaccination and those who died, majority of them have not received the explanation. right. dr. sharma here, the municipal state for health for them all day and thank you so much for your time . thank you very much. my pleasure. police and bunk their show, but as a prominent journalist for allegedly illegally obtaining information on the country's response to the corona about us band demick, rosie islam was arrested for allegedly photographing documents related to the government purchase of vaccines. islam is well known for investigative reporting on

the country's health sector. she's been charged with the colonial official secrets act, which carries with it the sentence of up to 14 years imprisonment. what even death about them? islam from dw issue has been following developments for us, and he joins me now for more. out of the rosie, you know, islam has been charged with illegally taking photographs of certain documents. does the government have a point where today slam has been working as an investigative jupiter for years? and by this, she worked at the daily newspaper, the most influential daily in the us. how this in country is that the ministry of held on monday to do her job. as a journalist, c, l diddly use her cell phone without permission to photograph some documents related to government negotiations to buy or not us back things. while she was there, according to government, over shell, as you know, she has been edited on george's office breaching a colonial official act. later on the day we get is it possible?

did not be the act was emitted in 923 to prohibit taking photographs of sensitive as the documents without your permission. but it has really been used in the past export think islam should not be punished under the act for getting out her duties as a journalist. elevated actions do not for and that's not true. it has been another issue. press being able to report on the government's handling of the current about a spend demik freely. not really that groups say government track down on the media has intensified to during the course of the crisis in this earlier this month and newark bit to me and i want to say bought another journalist, risking arbitrarily adult daughter and harassment under the widely used to digital security act, it said at least 247 journalist are reportedly subjected to harassment and

intimidation by the state. officials and other affiliated with the government. in 2020 journalists and rights groups often complain about the security act, which limits on the laws emitted. if us they go to fight against fake news by the wording of it is vague and it's probably sounds abroad. more than $900.00 cases are filed under the act. with nearly 1000 people charged and 353 detained. many of them journalist briefly is the press in bunger. there's been muslims by the government. if that's what exposed think some of the newspapers said, published 82 reels. that isn't about how that difficulty kodak has limited investigative putting on. caught up soon and being high level obviously, of that media has optic for self censorship to keep themselves safe. the, at a stop routinized will totally clear morphia among the journalists in the country

of other islam. thank you very much for that. the countries and territories in the region today, marking the both of golf and the founder of buddhism in hong kong. some deputies observed the day by releasing captive animals into the wild practice known as must be released. but this believe it brings good fortune. but conservationists see a different side. the practice has become a money making venture for pet stores and the animals often either don't survive in the new environment or the negatively alter the ecology. the hunt is on to capture and save this turtle. she's a red eared slider turtle. one of the lucky ones captured alive for resettlement. i think she's one of thousands of preachers that rescuers pull from both natural and very unnatural settings. this one near

a drainage outlet didn't make it because i live quite a 2nd. why didn't it's not suitable for these turtles to live in places like these catch water drains or ponds because they're not a local hong kong species. if they were kept by humans as patsy, they won't be able to hunt in the wild. they won't be able to catch the food they need and then they'll starve to death. or depending on the weather, they might freeze or die from the heat or whatever. you call it. like almost done, this rescue group tries to save and nurse back to health tortoise is left to fend for themselves in the wild. that after many were sold at pet stores that cater to buddhists, especially around buddha's birthday celebration. the 8th day of the 4th month and the chinese lunar calendar. they believe the so called mercy release of turtles, lobsters clams, or any confined animal will bring good karma, forgetting,

or perhaps ignoring natural laws of cause and effect. most you really have has potentially multiple different different risks that they put our ecosystems to potential disease bacteria, virus parasites from, from other countries from, from the collection source are all getting dumped without screening or, or without a consideration of, of the public health risk as well the hong kong buddhist association says it doesn't condone releasing animals and admit some inappropriate practices had cause physical harm to animals and threatened the environmental balance. the intent may be to do good while bringing good fortune to oneself the outcome. not so good fortune for the beings supposedly receiving mercy and mercy releases. and that's it for today is of course, born on website dot com, forward slash asia. we leave you today with pictures from south korea where people

have been marking booth that day at temples across the country. we'll see tomorrow by aah! the news. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research information and contact the corona virus? the 19th special next on d. w. you ready to get all the places in europe are smashing all the records into a venture. just don't lose your grip. the treasure

map for modern globe trotter go 1st, some of us wykard breaking on, you know, also in book form the ah ah, where all dreaming of taking all over again. but what really awaits experts say when travel restrictions, these customs cues will be longer than ever published. this won't just be flipping through passports, they'll be test results and vaccination certificates to check her tells will take a tough line to the industry. you will have to adapt to new hiking measures,

like touchless toilets, etiquette all mean higher ticket prices. before the pandemic, venice was overrun with tourists. residents wanted restrictions. careful what you wish for now the streets and waterways are empty. the city depends on tourism. d, w. max and the reports on how dennis is looking to strike a balance as if re opens for business. pay gondola ride is probably the most romantic experience you can have here in venice. even for a veteran candle, yi murder, it's your car, little noise. ground port number, so when we take someone with us, we try to make them live the dream. sonya he is one of the cities, roughly $600.00 gone. the leaves usually cut a lot with the 3 tours a day. but the pandemic has practically run him out of business out over day from october to no, i've only done one arrive in this city just came out of a lockdown,

but said mark square is still be really quiet. the world famous cathy slowly and remains closed during the week before the pandemic streets were packed with tourists from all over the world. $20000000.00 visitors each year brought money, but also changed the face of the city. over the years, venice became almost entirely dependent on tourism and the pandemic with its travel restrictions are locked down. further, laid bare the issue. these cafes here, once popular tourist destinations are not closed due to a lack of customers, but now there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel, though nobody really knows how exactly and when tourism will restart. some have hopes that a new start will bring changes that it was auto is an activist with vanessia dot com. the group installed this counter in the window of a pharmacy. help publicize the declining number of residents. 50900. 65 is the actual number of people citizens living today, here in venice,

that's 30 people less than a week before. over tourism has been driving people out of the city. but the problem is more complicated than that. then it's itself suffered from the fact that the lack of tourism was also lack of evidence work for many, many people. and therefore this is what we are experiencing now. it's a very strange situation. we don't want to much tories him because he would suffocate the place, but at the same time we can't leave without to raise him in a place where everyone lives off tourism one way or another. it is difficult to find a balance. the cities tourism counsellor says that the situation is not unique to venice, but rather venice is in need of a unique solution. right? yeah, no, no, i start having go dentist and then it has not been sold out in

a derogatory sense. all 2 cities have experienced the last few years in the absence of was to protect certain segments of the city. however, it would be essential to obtain special laws for cities such as venice and florence allowed to be able to balance out the relationship between twist and venetians quota you equity, but often report to the stiffness, jani as a 1st step, the city has begun to closely monitor visitor numbers starting next year, tourists will have to pay a fee to enter the city. but more to come to mrs. what some people consider the bad old days give i'll be glad of. i'm older. i would also go back to what it was like 2 years ago. you list people maybe, but it wasn't a massacre like they were saying. it was singable song, the debate over the future of tourism and venice is far from over. but for now,

most people here cannot wait for visitors to return and paper. stevens joins us from our science days to get to the science at a moment. but 1st, when these board is going to reopen, not just the tourists, of course, but people who haven't seen their families in such a long time. i haven't seen my parents in australia for 2 and a half years. so officials that i off spacing well, borders i've not been october 2021. unfortunately, this isn't borne out in australia. it's expected not to be until mid 2022. as a big weight. yeah, i know it's a bit better in europe. so some countries like poland already open with exceptions like you need vaccinations. some countries like denmark is coming to open fully on the 26th of june variance complicating this a little bit. so israel was planning to open up at the end of may not looking like that will be pushed back to the end of june. but still, you know, quite soon. so there's hope, but i mean, even if we can,

should we be going and seeing i love was it's a bit of a moral question. it's really complicated. one isn't, and i haven't seen my family for a long time either. and i've been thinking about it a lot in terms of the pandemic. the things we have to think about the vaccination rates, we have to think about new variance. we have to think about the new infection rates in that country. and then also support a question and it depends on the restrictions of the country you're coming from. both the country are going to i find that quite interesting reading about what flights are doing. so flights have an i filter system that's used and operate in pricing theaters and it cleans the ask artist $40.00 times an hour. some of them are letting you loving people going economy seats in the middle of the aisle. and it doesn't affect the playing with between flights. and so it's yeah, it's kind of cool. but that's why we have government and public house sources to give us indication. at the end of the day it sounds like we're not going to return

to normalcy when it comes to travel it's, it's going to be a different experience. yeah, i think it's going to be so different. you know, experts against experts. the saying that much like $911.00 completely trains the travel industry in terms of security, this is what it's going to be like. now for health, you know, your health is going to be as important as a ticket or a passport. i'm going to see an explosion in technology and apps that shower health data, but there's going to be questions that come along with that many public health experts, according from last to be mandatory in flight. this doesn't have to be a completely bad thing. you know, lots of lots have been on holiday and then got there and you've caught something of the flight and a holiday. and so, you know, maybe that's home. what about what the science says? does that should have lied on it on any of this or, or how it's gonna work out? yes, there was a study in the nonsense journal publish in the beginning of this year. and it looked at the impact of travel restrictions on the import rights of cove it. and what it found was that blanket complete travel restrictions only really benefit the

spread of the virus and limited scenarios. so number one is if you've got a very, very low case load in that country. so new zealand would be a good example to him. number 2 is if, if cases in your country growing and it's about the tip and to exponential, they all says, all nice hit that new variance with consider if you want to keep a new very and out. and that's when they can be useful. but they really caught on governments to, to make kind of tailored approaches to different countries and to use my thought to date data. and it's helpful to us as well to know the april of epidemiological tones. it's not just the case of the content anywhere, any point during the pandemic. you know, sometimes you can in the right in the right circumstances to different people. stevens, thanks for coming. so the world, so the up again, i've managed to book a little trip to the greek islands, fingers crossed the country up again. tourism accounts for about

a 5th of grace's natural. outward travellers will need a negative test or proof of vaccination, and they'll have to fill out a passenger located form. so no quarantine on arrival, which is a good thing. and tourists are also back in washington d. c. it had some of the toughest anti coated regulations is reopening, highlights the nation's steady transition back to normality. the tourism sector does continue to struggle. a great question today on the travel industry from one of our huge abuses, saints and scholars. i'll let derek williams take care of that. oh, he's going to insist that the vaccine is mandatory for travel. oh, no expert on ethics, but i'd like to explore this anyway as it's rapidly turning into a very big issue. decisions are already being made by governance and businesses and universities. you name it about whether or not to grant privileges

or impose restrictions on things like travel based on vaccination status. the 1st point to make, i think, is that all major health authorities are advising people who can be vaccinated to get vaccinated as a way to protect yourself, but also as a way to protect others. and, and that 2nd part is the real ethical crux. by choosing not to get back to needed, you could potentially catch and pass on a deadly disease to other people so, so seriously simplified and boil down. this question becomes kind of a classic face off between an individual's right to choose what's best for them. and what expert authority say is best for all of us. currently complicating the picture is that both individual nations and the global community are still divided

into haves and have nots. is it fair to grant those lucky enough to have gotten a shot privileges like the ability to travel when, when they're denied to those who, who are still waiting for one? it's a tough question. it's certainly not fair, but for me, at least it seems justifiable. things should get more clear cut in a year or 2. i think once everyone has had an opportunity to get vaccinated because they are, we have precedence. many places already have vaccine requirements for, for other diseases. if you want to travel from germany to a tropical country, for example, where certain pathogens are endemic, but you have to get vaccinated against them in advance period. and nobody complains one way or the other, regardless of the ethical aspects. i think most countries will at least impose

covert 19 vaccine related restrictions on people who are crossing their borders. many have already done so me get my 2nd shot before that it will trip to grace. thanks for watching space agency again to say, ah, the me the news the news

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