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a storm them as officers in our matter. the state of emergency is declared as protesters. blair protests flat across the former soviet republic, also on the program, the united states. thompson 1000000, new corona virus infections in a day. and president biden makes another appeal. please, please, if vaccinated. now, the surgeon casey's raised concerns over disruptions to public life with the president says the only problem variant poses the biggest threat to the unvaccinated plus outrage in australia. as tennis, donovan jockey ventures grant a special edition to play at the open. despite the silence about his vaccinations status on the decaying urban centers being offered new leases of life, 3 cities will be named this year's european capitals of culture d. w. hatch to luxembourg, to find out ah,

i'm fo gail welcome to the program. protesters of storm government offices in cuz it stands biggest city our mattie and set some a light violence flag during the 4th day of mass demonstrations over searching fuel prices. security forces made hundreds of arrests and use t, a gas and stun grenade to try to disperse the crowds. the president has dismissed the government, declare and declared states of emergency in 2 regions. instead, some caps on fuel prices would be reinstated. i grima to la, you can, nova is an independent journalist from catholic stand. she joins us from prague. welcome to d. w. what are you hearing from your contacts in the country? thank you for having me right now. i, i do not hear much from my friends or acquaintance almighty,

at least because the internet has been repeatedly blocked the entire country. and i'm not sure whether the internet is working now, but i can see for sure that what's up and other messengers have been unavailable. since yesterday, and people who are texting me on this messengers are doing so through vpn, and that's the situation with people on the ground. okay, so the internet blocks, and the only way to get into traffic out is to pretend that you're somewhere else in the world. what is the background to these 2 services is really about the price of fuel. this is definitely not about this one particular thing because the situation, political, economic and social situation and has not been improving the last few years. and i think that after we had changed the president in 2019,

the people were promised change and real political reforms. but in reality we did not happen. and in fact, they became even more repressive. and i think that 2 people got really angry and spiking oil prices was just the last job. and i myself was in marty just 2 days ago. and i weakness the very high inflation and people's struggling economically saving money, even for groceries. so i think that the people's desperation is what we see now, although there are some people who become really violent and now we have seen total care of at least you know, marty because my friends or sources lead to a have seen that the cars are turned upside down in the city, the government buildings are on fire and there have been

a tax on some hospitals and some ambulance machines and also on journalists because some of the tv preventers, for example, they were evacuated from the buildings because the protesters entered and destroyed their equipment right, and tell us about the state of the, the government now who is in charge because the government was either resigned or it was sacked. so let's start there. did they, did they step down where they fired? i think it was more that they were attacked because president a guy today in the morning asset that basically the government is to blame for all of this situation. and we, we had to address to the nation. and he said, the president said that he will act very harshly now because he has become the head of the security council, which is a very important title in complex done,

which is another bias what's holding before recently. and now we don't know where another bias is. but these title basically means that now can control the situation with security both internally and externally. and we have seen some of the changes in the power structure already and to kyle has promised the real political reform. once again, we don't know whether that will come into reality, but the situation is still ongoing, so it's hard to predict what will happen in the next few hours. ok, thank you for that. thanks for joining us. i get him tonight over a 2nd. look, a small stores making news around the world and will start in japan, which says that north korea appears to have launched a ballistic missile into the sea of japan. our prime minister formula, cassia expressed regret that north korea is still launching missiles towards his

country. united nations resolutions ban pyongyang from testing ballistic missiles. nearly a 100 hostages in nigeria have been freed 2 months after they were abducted. but they say they were the hostages, including women and children, were released unconditionally armed gangs in the country often came not for ransom . french president emanuel macros says he will make life afore unvaccinated people, so difficult that they are forced to get the job used a vulgar expression for getting on people's nerves. forget where it seems. the only grown corona virus variant is on its way out without the feared surgeon hospitalizations and deaths as case numbers drop. officials have loosened corona virus restrictions, though they say there is still reason to be cautious. it was just over 6 weeks ago on the 24th of november when the world's 1st case of omicron was announced. the country is a new case number shot up picking at a 127000 in mid december daily infections and dropped by

a 3rd in the week leading up to christmas. and they've been falling ever since. on new year's eve, the government left it a late night curfew. the authorities say army grant is still a threat of hussy can tell us more. she's a medical doctor and public health registrar at south africa university of cape town. welcome to d. w. a doctor at the certainly looks like encouraging news and good afternoon. yes. thank you very much for having me. and it does our announce have started go down. ok. spammers and admissions as well. so, and we're still watching it all very closely. but at the moment it does seem very reassuring. what do you think is behind this? why have numbers dropped despite relatively loose restrictions? well, with all and surgery we seen increase in obviously case that we have to go down at some point and it appears we're on a crown to be much more transmissible than at the variance. and this whole process

has happened a lot faster. and, and so we saw a very rapid increase of case numbers and in november, december, and now we received a return on where the case started to go down again. right. and the world, of course, has been holding its breath watching the south africa experience as showed the rest of the world. now be encouraged by what's happened there or other factors particular for south africa that might have helped oh, so it's, it's quite difficult to say because obviously each country has their own experience are covered. and the situation of africa is, is, you know, it's very particular a couple of things. firstly, we've had 3 large ways before which is given us quite a lot of em protection. and we, and we've had a very large delta driven wave. and in june, july, the other thing is that, you know, it's difficult in austin with over crowding people reliant and having transport not

able to work remotely. so it's been difficult for us to contain and to contain that there were some other countries might have a different experience. and then also at the same time it is summer and people can gather more outdoors and, but at the same time it is also the festive season and the christmas and new year's and holland all the holidays at the moment. so it's, it's untangling, all these different bits and pieces is very, quite complicated and we're still trying to unravel and rebel all of it. and that i, i do still think it is in the dark coming out of africa at the moment is quite reassuring. right. and now there is another another very until the radar this i h u, which was identified in france back in november. is this is this, should we be worried about this, or is it just corona virus doing what viruses do and just changing and mutating?

oh, i think it is really too early to say, obviously we are, we will expect viruses to mutate and to continue to mutate. the real question is, what these mutations, what the, the real world implications of these mutations will be what it will mean for disease guarantee for vaccination. and, and so it's way too early to say how things are going with these would be variance . ok, thank you. so much for joining us, dr. dr. hannah, jose are from the university of cape town. you the that it states where a president biden has appealed to unvaccinated americans to get vaccinated as the usaa records more than a 1000000 new cove. 19 infections in a day that a war is over, how the fast spreading over chrome variant could impact the unvaccinated and the country's health care system. in texas as largest children's hospital, grayson was struggling to breathe. he's just 4 months old and has contracted cobit

19. is just really scary, so i just hump day, you know, he's able to get better. his mother gavia thinks that the youngest of her 3 children was infected at a family, christmas gathering what i'll do, talk to him in like a little, maybe release. i think to him like a thing like he like c grayson is only one of some 70 children currently being treated here for recovered 19 chart. the waste. in the past 2 weeks, covered admissions have quadrupled here. most of the children are unvaccinated. the bar for resilience just keeps moving. you think that i know how we can do this again and then we keep doing it again. they don't have much of a choice. coven. 19 numbers continue to rise. and not just in texas. nationwide some 1000000 new infections worry ported over 24 hour period. more than 95 percent

are being attributed to the omicron varied growing numbers of americans are critical of president jo biden's response. a shortage of testing capacity is just one of the problems confronting the white house. if you're vaccinated and boosted, you are highly protect it. and i'll be concerned about i'm a crown, but don't be alarmed. but more and more vaccinated americans are worried and are calling for schools to be closed, at least until the latest wave has passed. but new york's new mayor opposes that idea. we can't continue to stop our children from developing socially and academically in the support that they need. so we have to learn how to live with co it live with coal would cope with the safe way staff at the texas childrens hospital say they expect the situation to become even more critical in the coming

weeks. even if omicron usually result in less severe cases. than previous variance, the problem is that with so many children and adults infected, even if the percent percent hospitalization rate is lower, we're still we could see more children hospitalized over a very short period of time. so that's certainly puts a strain on our health care resources. healthcare workers are hoping by religious are right when they say omicron will pass its peak by the end of the month. the 2nd look of some more developments in the pandemic starting with hong kong which has imposed a 2 week ban on flight from 8 countries, including australia, india, britain, and the united states. polish present under duda has tested positive for coven. 19 poland has one of europe's lowest vaccination rates and one of the highest death rates. and there are a few restrictions on socializing. well rules on being vaccinated. cypress is tightened, it's regulations. a few people are allowed to gather. socially. testing is now

mandatory for school teachers and for adult travelers. on arrival. australia is prime minister says talestine direct joker, which must prove that he has a medical exemption to play in the australian open or he will be on the next play in home. the well number one intends to defend his title in melbourne this month, and as previously refused to reveal his vaccination status is world number one and the feeling australian open chip in novak joker, which giving special treatment or not people in melbourne are demanding answers that job in the public and the backs, the person who really has advocated against it. hell those, you know, prominent tournaments last summer where the picked up kind of it himself. he's the one that gets medical exemption it's, it's not come down well at all. prime minister scott morrison applied some pressure, making it clear the joke of each one will be treated like every one else.

he must provide acceptable proof that he cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons and to be able to access the same travel. arrangements is fully vaccinated travels . so we are white, his presentation, and what evidence he provides to support that if that evidence is insufficient, then he won't be treated any different to anyone else. and he'll be on the next plane out. so there should be no special rules. then i back job, which at all, just maybe there is nothing to see here. all stray an open organizer stays joke of which had been given no special favor during the process to receive his exemption. they're not allowed to reveal the details of joker, which is exemption application, but they urge the serve to reveal why it was approved, if only to call public outrage. let's take a look at some more stories making news around the world. now. canada is to pay

$30000000000.00 us dollars in compensation to indigenous children who were taken from their families or human rights tribunal found that officials discriminated over decades against the indigenous population around $55000.00 children should benefit this historic settlement, not more. pope francis wants authorities to make it simpler for couples to have children and has criticized people for having pets instead. describing it as a form of selfishness is previously spoken against what he called easier relationships with pets. over the complexity of bringing up children, the issue of a japanese electronics giant, sony says he plans to enter the rapidly growing market for electric cars. the company, c, e o. usually, consumer electronics show in las vegas to unveil a 1st prototype, which is already being road tested. and that wasn't the only surprise at this year show. you might be seeing this 7 seat electric s u, v from sony on the road. soon, 2 years ago, the japanese company displayed an electric sedan at the c e. s,

but it was simply to show off sony's image, sensors and cameras. now the company moves from being a part supplier to being a manufacturer with its own. brent many here wonder with so many auto manufacturers already making inroads in the e v market. does sony really stand a chance? a lot of it has to do with technology. there's a lot of technology was in this cars, and so he has the advantage that they have a lot of the sensors and technologies that they have been building for many years for the cameras and everything else. so it gives them an advantage from that sense drinking of a different kind. as this 9 meter long reusable spacecraft at the c s, it's meant to carry people and equipment not only to the international space station, but also to new inflatable structures that can house humans in orbit something the companies sierra and visions building in the next decade. a hub in space where

tourists can spend the holidays and where biomedical companies, for instance, could develop and produce drugs for people back on earth. space is no longer the domain of governments or it's, it's a, it's a commercial arena. now an companies like sera space and obviously space acts and many others are starting to come forward to develop rocket ships and other technologies to do business and space. the 1st come, manufacturer us exhibited their vehicles at the c s in 2007. now space business appears to be the next frontier open debbie has hit many cities hard in the past. her many urban centers in decline managed to re brand themselves by focusing on culture as why the european union has named 3 cities. european capitals of culture this year, the title comes with funding to put on our year of events and aims to put places

like luxemburg as soon as that on the cultural map. a former steel mill in ash 6 years ago, production here closed down. now the industrial ruin is to become a culture factory, a venue for dance and street art installations tied yo han started work on this piece long before the official program for the european capital of culture was finalized and got familiar. my whole family worked here a working class family. so this means a lot to me and also this, this morbid thing going on here. i like the way everything is decaying again, this is ash 2022 will involve the entire region. the iron and steel industry extended across the border. and so does the cultural project. 19

municipalities are involved 11 in luxembourg and 8 in france. ah, if i am dick, we really want everyone to participate every community, no matter how small we think they're all important. they each have an exciting history and cultural heritage. and of course we want to build it and illustrate it together. oh, fallen on tighten. ash bellville is a showcase for successful structural change. the old blast furnaces have been integrated into a modern neighborhood startups, high tech, and the university are part of it. a few kilometers away in odon leticia, in france, things have worked out well. those looking for jobs had to luxembourg, but the cultural project is a ray of hope. so visually will be good for our young people if culture comes, if they provide work and careers because there's nothing else here lawyer. the mind

just outside the village closed in 1997. nicholas catallo and his friends are now re opening up their grandfather's mind i in or here. now they're mining a rich vein of culture. they are restoring machinery and planned to open a restaurant and an escaped room project. nicholas's grandfather came from italy in ensemble. this pet is a symbol of our immigrant culture. it was the immigrants who made us what we are to day. and we owe that diversity to the mining and steel industries. yours when cold and steal a booming people from many countries came here to work, creating a unique, historical mix of cultures. jason, very, it's great ish is a beautiful city. they also say it's the most diversity in luxembourg or the multicultural heart of europe will soon be beating in this order region.

industrial beauty. it has to be a good thing, a david levitz from the date of his culture desk can tell us why. welcome david. so why does, how does a place like ash, but it's industrial city get get me honor of being europe's cultural capital? well, obviously when people think about european culture or european capitals of culture, they're probably thinking of paris. rome may be berlin, and those were the cities actually, that the e. u was looking at 40 years ago when it started this program along the way that they kind of figured, you know, what, maybe paris doesn't need any extra attention. maybe there some other places that could actually benefit from, from this attention and from being put in the spotlight in this way. places like ash that have fallen on hard times that have maybe lost their industry. and that are looking to re brand themselves looking for new opportunities and can really benefit from gaining the attention of europe's cultural elite lead, say,

and culture really is a great tool for bringing places in a new direction, giving them a new lease on life. um and, and creating new opportunities. and this year that a, that a 3 european capitals of culture, the scattering it around like confetti. so tell us about the other 2, but i will, you know, the, you did something a little different this year. they said, let us have 3 and let them be 3 cities and 3 different countries and they will all be the 2nd largest city of those 3 countries. wrap your head around that. so these are all cities that have that are used to being in the shadow of the bigger city in their countries. so ash and luxembourg, novi sad in serbia and countess in with a way, nia, and now no beside we're seeing here in serbia, has quite a checkered past. it was part of the austro hungarian empire than decades. under socialism. it's best known internationally for when nato bombed it's bridges. in the yugoslav wars, that's his international reputation right there. they've managed to come back and,

and modernize a lot and they're looking to continue to modernize and to re brand themselves really as a destination for culture. we can also take a look at countess in lithuania, also with a waning a 2nd bigger city countess, which has also quite a difficult pass that they're going to be looking back on this year. really traumatized by the german occupation by the holocaust, by decades of soviet rule. but they're also a city with a great wealth of modernist architecture and art and design movements, which they're definitely excited to show off. they're also going to be receiving some major international art stars, including yoko ono and the serbian performance artist marina abram of inch. ok. so all this culture sounds expensive. so how does the you help out where they do pitchin a little bit, they give one and a half 1000000 euros to each of the cities,

which, you know, is a lot of money. maybe it's not a lot of money for you, but they say it's money very well spent. they say that for every euro, or the every euro they spend on this generates another 5 euro's. so i take that to be you saying, go invest in culture. it's a good investment, which is good enough for you. it's good enough for me, david levitz from the date of the culture. i thank you. thank you. and finally, organizations all over the world, coming up with creative campaigns to encourage vaccination. here in germany and entrepreneurs teamed up with a shepherd for a unique stunt. in the push to achieve human, heard immunity, 700 sheep and goats were released and formed into a 100 metre long syringe, and tempted into position with pieces of bread. at the stunts organizer said he was hoping to reach the motions of vaccine hesitant people. where scientific reasoning had failed. this is dw life from bell that he is reminder of our top stories. at

this hour. protestors have stormed government offices in catholics, towns, largest city out mattie president to violence, broke out during a 4th day of mass demonstrations of a searching fuel prices in the energy richer performance. so if republic i'm u. s. president joe biden has shown vaccinated americans to get vaccinated after the country recorded more than a 1000000 new totally 19 infections. inside a 24 hour period, confirmed infections have doubled in the last week of the on chrome very spreads. hospitalization and death rates are lower than in previous white mall. well, the use of the top of the hour made in germany is next. good. with

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