the, the news this is the w news. why? but from berlin tonight, the corona viruses, dangerous delta vary in south africa, titans restrictions as it battles. a 3rd wave of infections will take you to a small town that, whether the pandemic with no infections. but it's not doing that anymore. we're also coming up tonight, wargames in the black sea naida, when ukraine stage, a series of naval exercises. and russia is not happy about it. i think it's a provocation. and wimbledon is back after an enforced lay off last year because with demick and said, are the fans as usual,

star names and rain delays went together, like strawberries and cream. ah, i bring coffee, our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin tonight in south africa, where they are re introducing tough pandemic restrictions. doctors are battling a 3rd wave of infections driven by that highly infectious delta v area. presidents, ram of hosa is warning that the health care system of his country is at its limit. all gatherings and alcohol sales are now banned for 2 weeks. there's a curfew curves on travel and schools have been closed. and that includes one town in the western cape where residents thought that they were on their way to getting their freedom back. no one in the small remote town was known to have been

infected with the corona virus since the start of the pandemic. but that changed in the middle of june, when 3 people suddenly died from cold at 19 related complications, just hours apart. one of them lived in this house, hinrich, or case was a retired minor. he was 75 years old, and diabetic. and then my sister, silicon on sunday morning did something wrong with his chase. he couldn't breathe properly and i said, maybe you guys were under millions and then i thought i said no, he went to east doing fine. my mother must have been putting on some point on his chest to have been to breathe properly. and i told him and asked him, how did you like us to do for you? and if it to be you guys to stay with me. and i said to my

sister, just keep it updated obviously. do we what's going on with the and then we can take it from the the dead raised the alarm prompting local helpful flores. he's to probe displayed infections in the community, tasting revealed that almost a quarter of clear price $250.00 residence, wherein fix it our recruiter is the community spokesperson. he told us people here were caught off guard. this go what he does with a bag. we weren't prepared for it since the last 15 months. we were totally free since march last year when we started here in south africa in suddenly with a bang. and as i already mentioned it, we were pretty bit these kenny price in the heart of the community. but it has no capacity to provide care for people who are seriously ill. because this hospital is about 200 kilometers away. while most people who tested positive,

hardly experienced any simpson, no one wanted to take any chances i was negative, but my, my gaza was so i decided i want to do it for you. course if i was positive, then you will do it for me. all. so that's why i stay in my house in my room, in what i'm saying. also course, i don't want to fix some out of peoples of i don't want to be infected. that's why i want a my residence. agreed to impose a quarantine on all of the plans. 65 households to slow displayed open fiction among the people of this type in the community. everyone isolated from each other and the outside world. however hard it might have been, the exercise proved rewarding. most people are now free of the virus and there is

the general feeling that the worst is over for the brand. but just if people felt safe to come out again with youngsters resuming part time, pleasure like this game of read be fresh nationwide restrictions mean the newly found freedom will be shortness will correspond, christine were filed their reports. he is joining me now from cape town in south africa. christine is good to see you, that small town in your report. it has been hit hard by the pandemic, and i'm assuming that it's not the only one in south africa that is in that situation. certainly not brands and if you look at the level of testing in this country, it's really only providing a small window as to the rates of inspection. only 50000 tests have been administered in the last 24 hours. was very limited scope in terms of what we're able to see the visibility as to how fall infections that's greater. so communities

like clip brand. wow awesome. the outskirts that 500 denali away from these people are far away from most of the public health services. you can imagine that there are many more towns and smoking if you'd like brad in this position. and why is access to health care, particularly in this pandemic? still an issue for a small community. these light clipper on a lot of it has to do with just the geographic location. brent, this is a country that is already having an issue even before the pandemic. there's always been a long standing issue of service to be health care has been a part of that. a lot of people struggle to get access to health services. in fact, if you are privileged enough and wealthy enough to afford private healthcare, that is seen as really a luxury for a lot of people, but for, for the average called african access to clinics, access to hospital remains limited. and then of course, people and communities like this far out in the outskirts, you know, for example,

the brand. there is a 72 kilometers, live off dirt road to get to that community. these people are really out in the fringes. far beyond the reach of you average public health care so that, that people, even in major cities like cape town, struggles to access friends. so there has been issues about investment in the public health side. this is a country that's no trouble. last lot in terms of public funds to, to corruption and mismanagement. so this is a health ticket that is bleeding grant even before the pandemic. and you know, it makes you wonder, is the south african government is giving sufficient priority to the funding of health care facilities? are the ones that don't exist, for example, in the small towns where people will already know and, and it is. so in that report there is a satellite clinic in clear brand in that community in the report, but it is open. it's caught me off again. these are the issues that people have be needs to say. in fact, when people are friends,

they were really at the mercy of donations from, from neighboring communities. people who, who we just took sympathy to their price and, and donated everything from bittman and ointment to keep them going through the isolation period. so that is the reality. and people certainly feel that the government you have to do a lot more for people like that that to me what people told me 40 something for them. the nearest hospital is a 2 hour drive away for it. yes. so many people in need. the w christina model reporting tonight from cape town in south africa. thank you. here's a look now some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. if the o b as government says it has agreed to an immediate cease fire with rebel forces in the t gray region, thousands of people have been killed in fighting and recent months and many more displaced. rebel forces claimed to have taken control of the regional capital. several people have been injured and a large fire in central london. the blaze broke out near the busy elephant and

castle transport hub, causing trains to be diverted. authority said the fire has now been brought to control the cause of the blades remains and no nato in ukraine have begun. major naval exercises in the black sea as tensions with russia run high. ukraine's navy posted these images as the maneuvers open. the u. s. and are leading the drills involving more than 30 countries. the last 2 weeks. the alliance says their intentions, you showcase its commitment to collective defense, russia annex the regions. crimean financial back in 2014. it seems these exercises as a provocation. are for more now we want to bring in doctor c dot caution. he is a research fellow at the royal united services institute in london. he's an expert on naval and marine forces. it's good to have you on the program. this year's drills are the biggest of their kind since they began back in 1997. what does this

tell us then about the situation in that region? well, i think it tells us a few thing. i mean, firstly it's, i think not coincidental that the drills of these sites come on the back of the russian suggestions that it might close off to the black sea such as the fear to foreign vessels for a 6th period. they also come on the back of a fairly concerted sort of undeclared blockade of ukrainian shores by the russian navy. so in many ways, go as well as of this multi lateral nature is a way of showcasing the alliances commitment to freedom of navigation in the area. and what do you make of moscow's reaction and it's warning that it would closely monitor these maneuvers. yes, so i mean there's nothing terribly new about that, you know, rush, it tends to monitor to maneuvers as

a matter of course and occasionally engages in sub threshold provocations. for example, in previous exercises in the high north, it engaged in gps jeremy. so in some ways, moscow's warning band is sort of threatened to monitor these that are not necessarily new. it is worth noting the russian them, or the spokesman on when raising the issue, paid a particular focus to the phoebe and special forces components of these exercises. suggesting that this aspect of what russia considers perhaps most risky to its own territorial claims in the region, perhaps because they might, in the long term, jeopardize the foothold and illegally speak territory. do you think then, that russia sees the potential that possibly as territories could be invaded from, from the c? i mean, that is certainly the claim that you know,

the spokesman general kind of shank suggested. now that may be a capital misdirection on russia's, this sort of justification for assertive behavior on its own, on its own part, including effort to disrupt or harass the sort of foreign best will that they conduct the activities. but no, you know, so we could take them with a grain of salt, but they may also reflect, perhaps russian misgiving, but to be a long term ability to hold onto the territory in the region. ok. dr. cedar casual from the royal united services institute in london. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. my pleasure. a new law allowing a person to end their life with medical assistance has come into force in spain. people suffering from incurable diseases can now ask to end their own suffering when they wish. spain is the 4th country of the european union to allow a citizens to decide to end their lives intentionally. and 4 out of 5 spaniards say

they support this law. as soon on this boy don't take care to keep the photos of a husband safe place. the important memories of him, the time they spent together and the challenges they had to overcome, especially after her husband luis, started the fight against an aggressive type of multiple sclerosis. you will give us the disease, devastating for him. it destroyed him within only 10 years until he died in new york and he was in great pain. it was so bad that he couldn't even stand the weight of the bed linen on his skin. and the pain got worse than usual. there was no drug that could have helped him even a little but the worst thing was, and that is what he always said, that there was no dignity in his life any more than a week. he was completely dependent on others. he didn't have any freedom any more

. he wasn't able to do anything by himself except move his head procedures when left them a little. but now they mark was passed away 4 years ago. all the while he was fighting for the legalize ational euthanasia in spain. he wanted the right to end his life and dignity as a woman. when all has continued her husband fight together with many others until they will listen to in march, pain became the 4th country in the you to approve youth and asia supported by a clear majority parliament. historical moment expenses that the law is now in effect. yes. creation for a dignified death estimates that in densely populated region like madrid, that could be one application for youth and asia per day. per applicant will probably be people who have an advance for cancer and only a few months left to live or those who have to be

a heart long are kidney disease and would also dies within months. years. this is still a lot to learn about. the new law says that and not only people who are incurable, the ill and of an unreasonable hardship can make a request for youth and asia. people with mental illnesses excluded before the request is approved. several doctors into commission need to discuss each case and intentionally long process designed to avoid mistakes. the new law also means that doctors in the death won't have to stay hidden in the shadows anymore. there's survey ones in spain and 15 percent of doctors admitted that they already had help someone at some point. and then there were also doctors who said that they would do it again because they saw it as that you t over the progression to get. i mean there are some conservative publications have criticized the law for putting lives in the hands of authorities . the catholic church reject euthanasia to that resistance is why it took years

for the law to be passed. watson will miss when on an unnecessary wait 3rd one that everyone wants to be alive and that those who ask for the permission to end their lives to it, because they're already tremendously detached from their lives because there's no solution for the suffering for her husband, the law comes too late, but his wife is sure that he would be pleased to hear that from now on a self determined death is legal in spain. and to discuss this now i'm joined by theo, for he's a professor of health care ethics at the protestant theological university in grow again in the data lines. it's good to have you on the program. i understand you used to be a supporter of assisted suicide, assisted dying, but now you are a critic. why is that? i was a supporter in the sense that and, and still am in the sense that i'm

a democrat and i think we have to respect their wishes the wishes of people do die . however, what changed by mind and i saw personally 4000 cases of euthanasia in my country. what has made me change my mind is that i think that the supply of euthanasia really has stirred the demand. if you reckon that in about 2000 the year, 2000, we had about 2000 cases. and now we up to $7000.00 with a tendency to still go up further. so i think that is strange because we live in an age where palliative care means to alleviate the suffering have never been as good as they are now. but mister, let me, let me ask you these 4000 cases that you mentioned. did you ever see any one there who chose to end his or her life? do it in voluntarily?

i mean it was always that person's decision, wasn't it now? yes, i think generally speaking, you can say that there was, there is no abuse or misuse in the sense that people are being forced into it. however, what i see happening is that there's that societal pressure towards considering and so to speak. an orchestrated death as the, as the real dignified and only dignified death. just in the same way as, as for example, flying has changed the hallway, we consider the world. they come our economy friendships, tourism, in the same matter of the availability of youth navia. and my view has changed for hallway, we receive debt will if a person prefers to be in command of the end of their life,

would you say that that has a, a qualitative that's qualitatively better than a person who's in palliative care who may have a long and, and suffering into his or her life. well, generally speaking, as, as we saw in, in the item, i think all people want to live. so i think no one has a wish to dive that people have a wish to be liberated from terrible, terrible suffering. and i think we have to say that if there's any, any year in the history of human kind, but we do not need to kill ourselves. that is in the year 2021. however, i do respect the decision of people to end their lives. but you have to be aware that's what spain has done as the 4th european country is a special especially solution. and that is to allow doctors to kill the patients. in contrast to, for example, switzerland or,

or the american stage where that is possible, that the patient has to do it themselves. here the doctor does it, and i think there are strong reasons to, to, to believe that if the doctor has, has a, has the action, the numbers are much really much higher than, than where the patient has to and their own lives. for example, the numbers in the netherlands are about 8 times as high as in oregon, where assisted dying has been possible center since 998. i'm sure that there were, there are physicians in spain who would probably disagree with you on that. but unfortunately, we're out of time mister the boy, we appreciate your time in your insights tonight. thank you. thank you very much. a large parts of the united states and canada are experiencing a heat wave one village in canada. the british columbia solid temperatures hit nearly 47 degrees celsius at the weekend. that's a 116 degrees fahrenheit,

the cooling dip to beat the summer heat. residents to the water assist her mom rose above 40 degrees celsius in seattle for the 1st time ever. yeah, i mean you just send around. like i said, you can breeze. it's so hard for me. definitely have to issue. yeah, yeah. the pavement, even grounded. like no thank you. go back inside the heat was too much for this farmer's market. very few times that we do close the market early, most of the time of which we've ever had to close the market earliest because because of the heat, i think this is the 1st time we've ever closed early, cuz the temperatures like these are no coincidence. the past decade has been the warmest on record, and the 5 hardest days were all recorded in the last 5 years. the main thing going

on is, is highly unusual weather pattern. but that being said, the climate change is real. our temperatures have warmed here, especially summer nighttime temperatures. and so that has just kind of raised the baseline in made this heat event that much more severe ma, some seem to revel in the extreme temperatures. many environmentalists say this heat wave bears all the hallmarks of a climate emergency. will spain the lead decide to reach the quarter finals and euro 2020 after they be croatia? $53.00 after extra time, and a thriller in copenhagen with the score $33.00 after 90 minutes. bottle mulatto. finally broke correlation, resolve an extra time with spain's 4th go. mikhail i jasa ball then made the game safe with a 5th spain face the winner of france versus switzerland, which is currently underway. in the last 81 of the highlights of the round of

16 takes place in london tomorrow as old rivals england and germany face off. and if you're struggling to pick a winner, maybe you need to listen to the elephant oracle at the 0. in hamburg, you showed up has predicted that germany will win the match at wembley stadium. and if you doubt the elephants credentials, you should bear in mind that she's correctly predicted the outcomes of all 3 of germany's game. right in to this wimbleton fortnight is back after the pandemic forced to take off last summer. and a bad joke of it for the men and ash party for the women are the favorite to win. but fans of the famous tournament on the outskirts of london. i'm just glad to be back. the sun shone early on. the expanse of the all england lawn, tennis, and croquet club fans were in fine mood. there weren't as many as there might have

been because of restrictions, which meant easier access to the traditional strawberries and cream and the glasses of pims. it's amazing. it was the women last year and we heard the one very excited to see the post. just getting on the grounds is cause to be excited. after all this tournament builds itself simply as the championships, wimbleton has been around since $1877.00, so they pretty much have the right to attach any label. they like. the 1st big sporting event we've been to what we see in a long time. so really looking forward to today we'll see some good matches, hopefully the way randall sales. i don't mentioned the rain because then of course the rain came and the covers went out as they so often do inside central court though under a roof. novak joke of which was added against a 19 year old brit jack draper, who actually won the 1st set and had

a stunned crowd on its feet. but top seat, a joke of which one the next 3. and that was that still the oldest and most prestigious tennis event in the world was back. i just thought of nobility again, and therefore we are the here on tv. watch. the whole for the rain clouds did give way, and fans were treated to day one of the championships, a dozen more to go. you're watching the w news. i'll be back after a short break to take you through the day. but 1st, some emotional scenes at wimbleton, where the crowd gave a standing ovation to think healthcare workers for their efforts during the pandemic, they paid particular tribute to sarah gilbert. one of the scientists who created the oxford astrazeneca vaccine the club is invited to the

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