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organization predict half of europe population could get infected with the fast spreading on cranberry. and by the end of the winter, also coming up no back, joe cavellas admits to errors in his travel papers that allowed him to enter australia. his participation in the australian open hangs in the balance while the immigration minister considered cancelling his visa against russia and nato. start talks in brussels, the kremlin wants to be alliance to stop expanding eastwards nato. once russian assurances on european security, but expectations are low that either 5 will get what it was. and a rapturous birthday celebration and humbug. ah, the city's albany marks 5 years since it opened its doors to the public. oh,

i'm so be so much gun that's good to have you with us. the world health organization has warned that more than half of europeans could become infected with the alma kron variant. within the next few weeks. corona virus infections across europe or reach in record numbers. france has just seen a daily record of 368000 infections, italy, a seen cases more than double in 24 hours. germany reported over 80000 new code 19 infections on wednesday. that's more in a single day than at any time during the pandemic. it comes as the government brings in even stricter rules for those who are on vaccinated. and let's bring in our chief political editor, michelle christner. she's joining us today from the german parliament time. he said it's good to see you. so chancellor, olaf, charles is going to be facing questions from lawmakers in the buddhist dog for the 1st time today. what can we expect to see from him?

well, 1st of all, we'll see a statement from him and we expect him to talk of course, again without the pandemic. and of course about his continuing aim to introduce mandatory vaccinations. not just for health care workers, which had you to come into force by mid february. that's a very active debate here in parliament right now. over the very question of mandatory vaccinations. and with, as you mentioned, that spike, that highest number to date in davy infections above 80000. and we are also seeing here in parliament, the strictest regulations ever ev, relating to the vaccination and testing status, those who are not vaccinated actually the impedes even need a p c r test to actually take part in the democratic process today. so there's an acute awareness of the significance of the situation. yeah, indeed. and this government is also facing criticism for not being prepared enough for this wave on a cron wave. i mean tells more about that. well actually anyone you talked to here

will now to the by now actually freely admit that of preventing that on a cron. they wave from coming into full swing somewhat fell between the cracks of the hand over the government at the end of last year. at the same time, the debate of a mandatory vaccinations many feel has been dragging out for very long time. we are not seeing a government proposal for that, it's left to individual and not just to decide depending on their own conscience, but also to put forward cross policy and proposals that could be mandatory vaccination, also relating to age. so still more debate, tougher measures. now. yes, if you want to get into a restaurant here in germany, you have to be boosted or you have to be double vax recovered and faxed and have proof of a negative test. so life is still complicated, getting increasingly complicated for those who are not fully vaccinated. even

boosted our chief political editor, michelle, give not the problem for us. thank you very much. let's get some more perspective on the story now. we can speak to cause i pilot, he's a director of european bioinformatics institute and a pandemic advisor to the german government. thank you very much for joining us here on d. w. i want to ask you 1st of all about this warning from the world health organization that half of all europeans could be infected in the next 6 to 8 weeks. can you put that into context for us? does that mean that, you know, the worst is still yet to come? well, the only one is very fast spreading bits bits. the fact and we saw that already in other countries. you had some numbers from france. i think we can learn a lot from the situation in the u. k. well, only one is already seems a while, but dominating factor. and in this case, in this, this spread, of course, very,

very heartbreaking. why don't the other hand, the good news is bad fixing nation was pretty successful in the countries and where it was successful and one of the next native american n boosted these people will be pretty well protected. i do want to ask you about that. however, because there are some concerns here in germany, for example, about some of the tests that are in circulation also about breakthrough infection. so do we actually have the tools that we need to break this on? the kron waive. so we, we will have a huge waste of unequal in germany. it's unavoidable. the thing is that we need to spread it out as much as possible, so that not too many people who get infected too quickly at one time and that as many vaccinated fully vaccinated and boosted as possible was these ones are really

very well protected. and we need some by as much time to get as many back, fully vaccinated and boosted as possible. then it is not such a disaster as it may sound. there have been some predictions that we could soon be treating corporate 19 as an endemic disease, like the flu season. do you believe that we will see that in the near future? well, just because we wish that we can treat it like the flu season that's needed will happen. so it would be great if we come to such a stage, but as long as not the whole world is vaccinated and we have it under control world wide, there's always the danger of new variance coming up, which are more fly rhythms and more dangerous. as once before, well, the one is

a good example, it's highly infectious, but it's relatively mild compared to data. so, but if you would combine the, the spread speed of spread with only one with the danger of death. even danger, more things, then we would be again back to a very different point. so this time i think it's dangerous because it quickly, but we have the tools enhanced in our hands to miles to make the effect miles for the populations which had well protected. we'll have to leave it there up while the director of the european bioinformatics institute and pandemic adviser to the german government. thank you very much for joining us. thanks for having me. good bye. with covered 19 infection rates, a spiking in many places around the world. some countries are counting on vaccine booster campaigns to stop the spread. now one of those countries is indonesia. it launches its booster campaign today with around 4000000 infections and 150000

deaths. the world's 4th most populous nation has been hit hard by the pandemic. the health ministry is pledge to vaccinate more than 208000000 of its 270000000 people . use scared matters visited one factory in bundling on the island of java, ramping up production for the booster. dr. indonesia vaccine production in full swing. what you see, these bottles is the chinese, you know, vaccine. the number one immunization available here. then in rainy is in charge of the process in a factory and bundled her team assembles components important from china and the mix. up in the pandemic access, dakota 19 vaccines has been limited. of course when buying, we have to rely on external funds. if we had our own job to supply people, then it would be affordable. that way,

there's more accessibility and more even distribution of the vaccines and indonesia, down call. the, since the pandemic broke out, raney has been walking round the clock and stayed on pharmaceutical company. is also hoping to develop its very own vaccine, an exciting process for a scientist. but reiney says it's also challenging for her as a mother of 2. especially if things don't go according to plan. and now if that's where we have this, tam caught the valley of death in the manufacturing process. some products here end up just as a prototype and never make it. you have to bear in mind, vaccines will be given to millions, billions of people. so they need to be affordability, and the, and the key objective is to be cost effective and efficient. for female scientists like known in rainy are still in minority in indonesia. despite the fact that at university women in this field are the majority, 8 out of 10 undergraduates of women among students at the medical faculty next door

. analyzing, covet 19, swapped us as a much needed skill, the states, but only one out of 3 of these female students will move on to a doctorate degree, and i am only thing, it must be been escalated. there are still a lot of stereotypes when it comes to professional science by that many feel a professional teacher or a government employee will just make more money and has done it so many women are discouraged from continuing their studies as a scientist youngblood ah, by an american, i don't mind, you can. elaine mamma, we need to act in ourselves if we really love science, but the government should also facilitate and support us in this endeavor. it could be more funding, more laboratories and learning opportunities to cease audience. ah, city that level i put it in her. indonesia has so far, fully vaccinated, more than 40 percent of its 270000000 people. but with the arrival of army run, even more vaccines are needed. the country now launched

a booster program early in an effort to prevent the next wave. now to some other stories making the news around the world. british prime minister boris johnson is facing growing public outrage over allegations that he and his staff flouted lockdown girls and 2020 to hold a garden party. the media obtained a leak email invitation to the gathering center. more than 100 people us president joe biden has called for an historic change to senate rules in order to pass to sweeping election bills. his voting were forms would expand access to polls and create national election standards. biden is seeking an exemption from the senate's super majority will, so that democrats can override republican opposition to the reform for people have survived a helicopter crash in a residential area of philadelphia and the us authority say, the pilot managed to avoid power lines and numerous buildings before coming down

outside of a church, it is believed that the pilot had mechanical problems during the flight. authorities in eastern mexico have discovered dozens of people hiding in a cargo truck heading to the us. people police say 38 people from central america were found in the truck after a crash into a retaining wall on the highway. some did suffer minor injuries. and a vigilance been held in new york city for the victims of a deadly high rise apartment building fire in the bronx. residents brave the cold to remember the victims. fire officials believe a malfunctioning electric space heater cause sundays. blaze that killed 17 people. novak joke of which has admitted to making errors in his travel papers that allowed him to enter australia to play in the years. first grand slam tournaments the tend to star has also admitted to a failure to isolate after

a claim. corona virus infection last year. this new information has been given to the australian government, which is considering whether to cancel his visa a 2nd time joke which won a legal battle on monday, allowing him to stay in the country for now. we'll see. peers has been covering the australian open for more than a decade, and he joins us from melbourne for the latest on the story. hi steve. so he mentioned there that no back joke about has given new information to the australian government. can you tell us more about this information and what it could mean for his prospects of playing in the australian open? just say me, well, i mean that the funny thing is that it was, it was information that the strata government really had already because you know, that is such a, a public figure that it wasn't really in any great doubt that he had traveled to spain and serbia, in that 2 week period before he traveled to australia and yet he's travel documents which obviously border force in the government and which will release just recently

to the general public. you could clearly see where he'd mark that he hadn't travel . so this is more of a public exercise coming out today and trying to, trying to get on the front foot where again, he's found himself on the back. so he's, he's come clean if you like. although he did blame, he's agent for the mistake saying a member of his team and his agent is truly sorry for the human error. so in a sense, not really taking ownership of that. and you also alluded to the inconsistencies around his kind of 19 result. the positive result which, which he received when he was back in europe, and then there's these images of him attending a kid's function and other things during that period when he supposedly infectious . and when exactly did he get that kind of 19 result. that doesn't a huge amount on his, these replication, but it's not, doesn't look good. the joke of it, certainly the travel document era does. and of course, the original kind of 19 infection in the last 6 months,

which the government still hasn't tested as to whether that would also be cancelling. it will the stand off seems to be continuing between no actual convention, the australian government. where do things go from here? really interesting to say it's been sitting with the minister for immigration, alex hope nasa what 3 days or so he seems to be going through the prices. he's saying that this new information means that even more time and detail needs to go into his decision. but you know, the optics are really awkward here for the federal government in australia. they've got an election coming up. is the sitting well with the public? is it not? is it sitting well on the world stage? is it not? what do they do this in a damned if they do damned if they don't? but if they want to stay true to their concept of keeping the board is for fair and equal for everyone. keeping out those who they believe shouldn't come in then they really should cancel his baze of whether it goes that we'll find out in the next 2440. i asked him steve, we're speaking to us there from melbourne. thank you so much. thank you.

nato russia talks have kicked off in brussels as tensions are rising on the ukrainian border. the meeting is due to run for about 3 hours and it comes during a week of high level diplomacy. initial talks between us and russian officials on monday ended in deadlock. russia is pushing for written guarantees that there will be no more nato expansion towards the east and that ukraine will never join the western military alliance rushes defiance stance. going into talks with nato has a long and painful history as d w, as emily, sherwin reports a handshake that helped end the cold war, but left lingering resentment. back in the $900.00 ninety's soviet leader, michelle got a bunch of allegedly got verbal guarantees from us officials that nato would not expand towards the east, but they were never put in writing. some historians say the story is a myth,

but vladimir putin insists it's real because and his press conference last december showed nato's eastern expansion is certainly still a real source of anger for him. at least, you know, we knew we were not another inch to the east. they told us in the ninety's and what they cheated us us has brought its missiles to our home. they're already at our doorstep. i don't know what there is. need to understand here. it's all the national, we want to ensure our security when you know your pin, you know, you might, if you've been with many russians agree that nato expansion is a threat. it was already surrounded as on all sides and then keeping offending and expanding. when we carry out military exercises on our own territory, then that's some sort of catastrophe the end of the world. and you'll see that with a few sites. these talks with nato are important for everyone, for the west and for russia, the goal,

it's better to come to an agreement and not just a verbal one, but a written one. so boucher, what is a preliminary graham is do you have ukraine trying to join nato basis and things being station directly at the borders? i think everyone should keep to themselves if you live in america, then stay there and don't meddle in the affairs of another content. from the work continue, western officials have been reporting that russia is massing troops on the border to ukraine. russia, meanwhile denies planning an attack. analysts say the truth build up could be vladimir putin way of flexing his muscles to get what he wants. and then you're what, what she was, it's empower for a potent to go down in history. he wants to be able to say, i created the foundations for russia's national development and results, the main foreign policy problems. i stopped to nato eastern expansion and returned russia to its former glory. i believe you did put in is hoping russia can come out

on top in the latest tug of war with nato. even today, the cold war divisions into east and west still shaped the thinking in the kremlin . while those talks are taking place today and our brussels bureau chief, alexander phenomena is covering them for us. hi, alexandra. we saw the russian perspective on these talks there. what is nato's response to that view? nato officials have rejected sta, gremlins claims, dad's name, toys, posing a threat to, to russia. there are saying need to isn't a defensive alliance, whose main purpose is to protect its members. they're also saying that the 2 rounds self and lodgement in 1999 in 2004 was not meant to, to threatened russia because nature is not seeking confrontation with russia. a bad to they say it is a right the right of every independent nation to decide for themselves whether they would like to join me to or not. and we also have to add that actually after the

and of the cold war, nato started to reduce its troops in europe. and it was russia's increasingly aggressive behavior that changed at, for example, after russia's illegal annexation of crimea in 2014 only, then nato started to strengthen its poor showing its eastern flank. well, if we look at what's on the table to today, a russian officials already met with us. diplomats on monday there was no progress there. so why should this meeting with nato be any different? well, to me, i'm not sure that this meeting here is going to be much different after all. no one here really expects at breakthrough. however, of course, ne, 2 is front and center on the agenda, and it is the significance that 13 nato members states are coming here together with russia because the nato, russia council that was designed for such

a dialogue was dad for almost 2 and a half years so now they have a chance to talk to each other and to express therapy, but grievances and what about within the alliance or nato partners, fully united on how to speak with russia while they want to present themselves as united. and they have agreed that there will be severe consequences, political and economic sanctions. if russia uses force against ukraine, however, we have to say that they are not old on the same page when it comes to the question of how severe those sanctions are going to be. france and germany, for example, have always been reluctant to inflict too much pain in russia. and the new german government is sort of ambiguous when it comes, for example, to didn't you know, stream to gas pipeline. and the question whether that will be canceled if we will

go next. we would see another aggression against ukraine or brussels bureau chief, alexander, phenomenal reporting for us there. thank you to homburg now where the landmark elk fillum, when a concert hall is celebrating its 5th anniversary, it has been held as an architectural masterpiece, and it is popular with concert goers. despite the spiraling costs, it ran up during construction. on tuesday, the venue marked its birthday with a special concert. ah, the o for the money in hamburg is more than a concert whole. it has become a symbol of modern germany, a cultural landmark of the 21st century. it celebrating its 5th anniversary with a whole week of concerts. oh, the main adversely concert features, the n d r l film ony orchestra led by ellen gilbert with contemporary classical

music composed by among others, john adams. the words have been selected to make the most of the unique spatial and sound properties of the venue. ah, the elfin, the money opened to much fanfare in 2017 angle america attended his german chancellor as did current chancellor left shorts, then mayor of hamburg. ah lou, the planning in construction was fraught with difficulty in the end. it took more than 10 years long,

let them planned. costs exploded from 77000000 to 789000000 euro over the last 5 years, 2900 concerts have been staged. despite cove it over 3300000 guests have been able to enjoy the unique l family experience. now 5 years own from the overdue opening, negative memories have largely been replaced by positive musical memories. tuesdays anniversary concert was another night to remember. ah

i before we go, we want to take you to japan, to me, to new superstars who have made their debut at tokyo, wayne, or do a pair of baby pandas. the 6 month old twins mail cob jowl, and his sister lay lake were born athens you. they were initially palm sized pink creatures. and now they're the size of toddlers and about a 1000 fans lucky enough to win tickets and a lottery. we'll get to see the 2 over the next 3 day. ah, let's get a reminder of our top stories now. germany has reported 80000 corona virus infections in a single day, a new record. meanwhile, the world health organization says over half of the population of the european region could become infected by the end of winter. if tighter measures are not put in place at representatives from nato and russia have started high level talks and

brussels, i'm had rising tensions on the ukrainian border. russia once written guarantees that there will be no more nato expansion towards the east and that ukraine will never join the western military ally. coming up next our show made in germany explores the future of travel and china, high news and information there. for all of us here in berlin, thank you for watching with a with

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