from berlin. tonight, no facebook for donald trump, at least for now. a facebook court upheld the decision to ban the former u.s. president for inciting a riot at the u.s. capitol. also, india sees another rise in covid-19 debts as overcrowded hospitals turn sick people away. we will hear from some of the

volunteers fighting to fill the gaps and to save lives. and while, germany's next shipment of medical aid takes off for india, this time both equipment and experts. and some of the world's most wealthy nations discuss how to distribute vaccines more fairly, also human rights and combating disinformation, at the first you -- g7 summit of foreign ministers in two years. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff, to our viewers on pbs in the united states and tall of you around the world, welcome. facebooks oversight board today upheld the social media giants decision to suspend donald trump's account. it said it was wrong to ban the

former president indefinitely. facebook has previously argued that trump was banned for violating rules against praising violence. that's after years of making exceptions because his comments were deemed newsworthy. now, the oversight board has given the company six months to determine what it calls a "proportionate response." >> thumbs up, but not for donald trump. facebook's quasi-independent oversight board upheld the former u.s. president's band, for now. it said the decision was justified due to his actions, but that an indefinite, long-term ban was unreasonable. >> we are giving facebook six months to conduct this review. it must either restore mr. trump's account, finding that the period of suspension has met its purpose, make the suspension permanent, or suspend the account for a determinat.

e period of time. >> the risks of allowing the then-president to continue were simply too great, said facebook head mark zuckerberg. the oversight board was originally created to examine such decisions. trump has already established his own way to communicate with his supporters, with his new website. his followers can then, of course, share his messages via the major social media and works -- networks. brent: we want to bring in an internet law expert from the institute for media in hamburg. i want to ask you, donald trump responded to his ongoing suspension from facebook by saying that free speech had been taken away from him. is that what has happened? >> kw. obviously not.

body is owed a platform to spew hate. you have the right that the government does not te away your free speh, but not against platforms. but forms have certain duti and international rights, law, that is true, but they he much more leeway to decide what speech is dangerous and how to act if they think that speech is dangerous. brent: the oversight board said the decision to ban donald trump was justified. should facebook have the power to decide what is or isn't harmful to society? >> definitely not alone. that's one of the reasons why the oversight board is important. at the same time, even the oversight board alone shod not take those decisions. we need to engage in a societal dialogue on those topics. this is what is happening. section 230 is being debated in the u.s., an internet law. inurope, the digital services

act calls for more transparency for intnal risk assessments, better assessments by companies. we need to engage in a@@ societl dialogue. brent: this is an oversight or -- oversight board. it's decisions are not binding. are you concerned that mark zuckerberg will use this board as window dressing to make the world think that facebook is doing something that it's not? >> i d't seehat as a danr. it might startut as a fig leaf, but it has really turd into a powerl force for good. of the last 10 cases, seven have led overturning's of facebook decisions and the recommendations thathe board gives to facebook are really powerful. in this case, facebook was being told, it needs to be better in communicating when you close accounts. you need to find out yourself what you did in order to amplify

the ices of those who wanted to destroy democracy in the u.s. the oversight board works. it's a powerful force and should harness for a bettenline speech environment. brent: when you consider the power that these social media giants have, is it correct to say that lawmakers and legislation is still trying to catch up with big tech? as it stands right now, big tech and people like mark zuckerberg have more power than some national governmen do. >> absolutely. governments have not done a good job at all over the last decade to save us from digital capitalism. we definitel need more, and in a way, perhaps, we need to b grateful for what trump did over the last year. he forced platforms to really think deeply about what speech is dangerous, and he forced

states to consider how better to ve our rights online and ensure socia cohesion, also against the platforms that provide online spaces. brent: facebook has six months to come back with a more refined explanation for its decision. it's possible that donald trump could be back on facebook before the end of this year. do you think that's going to happen? >> i don't thinkhat is going to happen. i think facebook will go the way of twitter and make the man indefinite -- make the ban indefinite,. brent: we appreciate your time and insights tonight. thank you. >> thank you. brent: we have some breaking news coming in. a major boost for getting more people vaccinated. u.s. president joe biden's administration announcing support for a global waiver on patent protections from covid-19 vaccines. the administration says it will

negotiate terms with the wto. in a statement, the u.s. trade representative katherine tai said intellectual property rights for businesses are important, but the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic call for extraordinary measures. we will bring you more information as it comes in. we are going to stay with the pandemic. india's ferocious second wave of infections continues to batter its health care system, and a persistent shortage of oxygen is making matters worse. in the capital, many hospitals are taking to twitter to seek help and turning away patients due to a lack of supplies. for weeks now, volunteer groups have been stepping into care for patients cannot find help elsewhere. dw reporters have met ordinary indians putting their lives on the line to save other pple. >> they have spent the last two days right here, on the road in front of the temple.

50 kilometers from home. his son has the coronavirus. he has also developed a severe lung infection. he urgently needs to be hospitalized. but his father says even this makeshift arrangement is a blessing. >> these people are working 24 hours providing oxygen, otherwise it's very difficult to get oxygen or get a bed in a hospital. this morning, i visited 15 or 20 hospitals to look for a bed for him. there isn'a single bed. all of them refused us. >> for the last two weeks, they have been facing a severe shortage of medical oxygen. this is a lifesaving last resort. a free oxygen service run by a sick group. volunteers here consider the risks they are taking secondary to the essential service.

several of them have already been infected. but those here tell us they are not afraid. they say they must do something to save these lives. >> i go home to sleep for two hours. my wife has never stopped me. it's the support we are getting from home that allows us to save so many lives, and this is a time when people are able to -- afraid to help their own infected relatives. >> every few minutes, critical patients are brought in. the group has nine trucks scouring nearby plants for cylinders. the oxygen here is provided for free. if patients continue to be rushed here, many hospitals in delhi have stopped taking in new patients because of the oxygen crisis. they are putting out sos messagesn twitter, begging for help, as they only have hours, sometimes minutes of oxygen left. this hospital is one of them.

the previous night was a close shave, after waiting for hours at oxygen plants, tagging authorities on twitter, and even reducing oxygen those to substances levels to make it last longer, the hospital that supplies in the nick of time. doctors here tell us that supplies that used to last them two weeks now evaporate in 36 hours. they cannot predict if the next round will reach them in time. turning away patients for logistical reasons is heartbreaking for doctors. >> when we refuse, many othese patients are helplessly leading in this profession, because they wanted to help people through their sickness and illness. if they are not able to do that, th by itself is taking an emotional, moral, ethical toll on them. >> a rare few do get lucky. back at the oxygen service, one

man has arranged a bed for his son. immediately, his cylinder is rolled towards another patient. two weeks into the oxygen crisis here. every labored breath is a gift. brent: germany has sent a second shipment of emergency medical aid to india. the first load included 120 ventilators and medicines. this time, berlin is sending a group of health experts to train members of the indian red cross. germany is one of a number of countries, including the u.s. and taiwan, which is sending age to india -- aid to india. >> it's a heavy load for the military transport machine, but what's in these containers is desperately nded. a giant oxygen generar to lp a covid-19 hospital in delhi. >> under ideal conditions, the generator can produce up to 400,000 liters of option --

of oxygen a day. supplying 28 patients in intensive care. >> it's the second batch of emergency help from germany, and one of many organized by the international community. for the soldiers involved, it's more than a routine flight. in this case, because it is a long flight and we are transportingargo that has never been flown this way before, careful preparation and planning was required. but as this is about saving lives, you can incense and increased focus from everyone. >> the team is on its way to delhi. a team in -- of german medical experts are waiting to install the generator for patients that desperately need it's help. brent: here are other developments in the pandemic. the world health organization has announced plans to open a global pandemic hub here in

berlin. it will gather and analyze data on emerging pandemic threats. canada has authorized use of the biontech pfizer vaccine on children as young as 12. it is the first country in the world to accrue the vaccine for children. britain is planning to offer a third vaccine jab to anyone over the age of 50 this coming fall in the hope of eradicating the virus in the u.k. here are some more stories making headlines around the world. 29 nigerian student subducted almost two months ago have been released. they were abducted from a forest free college on the 11th of march. more were taken originally, but some were released. the remaining students are reportedly with police and on their way back to the city. south africa's uae party has suspended at secretary-general, facing corruption charges.

this is in line with the anc is tougher corruption statute, which gives members charged with corruption 30 days to step aside or face suspension. israel's president has asked opposition leader -- the opposition leader to form a new government the day after prime minister netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition before the overnight deadline. if the coalition building a successful, he will end netanyahu is 12 years in power. foreign ministers from the g-7 group of industrialized nations have wrapped up three days of talks in london. at their first face-to-face meeting for more than two years, they discued the distribution of vaccines, including increased funding for the international covax program. the group also had harsh words for china and russia against alleged human rights abuses and economic bullying. the ministers went as far as to say that aside from the coronavirus pandemic, they perceived china and russia to be

the world's biggest current threats. for more now, let's cross to our very own reporter, on the story for us in london. first face-to-face meeting for the foreign ministers in over two years. how much did covid-19 disrupt this meeting? >> well, definitely has shaped this meeting, brent. for a start, the delegations were much smaller than the usual g-7 meeting, and we have heard from the german foreign minister , who spoke to some of us journalists at the sight of the meeting, that there were very strict rules when it came to covid, very strict hygiene rules, even during dinner he had to sit basically behind plexiglas. he said it was brilliant, but again, was better than meeting on zoom. also, that it is really important for world leaders to actually get together

physically, because some of the most important decisions and debates, they are by the water cooler and not on a zoom meeting. definitely a different meeting today than normally. brent: it's important to be able to talk face-to-face. what was top of the agenda? >> well, mostly important for the g-7 countries was the coming together with other like-minded democracies, that's how they were freezing it, specifically from the indo pacific region. they talked about geopolitics, russia, china, belarus, ukraine, to try and form common policy towards threats and towards threats with these countries. also covid, of course, was another big topic. that's how to get more vaccinations to regions that

don't have access to them. of course, that's also of geostrategic importance. brent: our correspondent with the story for us in london tonight. thank you. to help us put all of this into context, i am joined by our chief international editor, richard walker. good evening to you. the global vaccination rollout was high on the agenda during the meeting of the g-7 foreign ministers. are we closer to a solution of how this will happen and how it will be financed? yea -- >> hello, brent. it is becoming a more and more serious issue, isn't it? as the west gets more and more advanced in its vaccination campaigns, but also parts of europe pushing ahead, the gap between the west end the global south is becoming a glaring chasm. we see that, for example, in india. the current epicenter of the pandemic.

only around 10% of the population have had a single dose there so far. india is in a relatively good position regarding vaccinations, compared to many other countries in the global south, given its pharmaceutical industry. there was talk at the g-7, the foreign ministers did talk about it and there was a document at the end of the meeting that was talked through about the covax facilities. the international mechanisms for distributing vaccines to countries in need, talking about supporting that financially. if we look at this covax facility, a number of doses that have been distributed so far, in the tens of millions, when of cose we need millions around the world to make a real difference -- we need billion around the world to make a real dierence. there was nothing substantial in the communiqué about numbers, for instance, about extra funding. brent: we know china's increasing influence around the world, that was high on the

agenda. what do we know, richard, is there a common g-7 approach and how to deal with china -- in how to deal with china? >> china is absolutely a huge issue. if you look in the communiqué, there is a lot about china in there and a lot ofords of concern about all sorts of issues, about human rights abuses in tibet, on assault on freedoms in hong kong, on issues of security in the south and east china sea. on trade and investment practices -- a hugely long list of things. these are all areas where there was enough common understanding to put all of that into the communiqué, but how deep the unity on china goes is not really yet a sure thing. if we take germany, for instance, angela merkel in the last 15 years in power has been a real pusher for engaging with china. just last week, her entire

government held governmental consultations with the chinese government. this was reviving a practice that had gone back many years and been interrupted by the pandemic last year. that meeting came up with all sorts of new plans for cooperation between germany and china. yet, at the same time, on the european level, it looks like the biggest attempt to cooperate with china, wch is a big investment deal which was also an initiative at the end of last year, that could be about to come undone. we are in a state of flux here. angela merkel is leaving office later this year, so one uncertainty about whether the west really is unified or whether to engage more with china, or push back it harder. brent: dw's chief international editor, richard walker. rate to see you, thank you. the german government has announced plans for more ambitious cuts to carbon emissions. this follows a constitutional court ruling from last week

that said the country's current climate laws are insufficient. many are asking whether the new goals are really a commitment to more action or an effort to gain more votes ahead of upcoming national elections. >> the climate activists probably surprised themselves with what they achieved. young environmentalists have long accused the government of not taking action fast enough on climate change, and last week, german's highest court -- germany's highestourt >> ruled they were right. >> young people have reminded us that we are to slow rather than too quick. these rules, according to basic law, assure that not only the three to -- the freedom of those living today has to be protected, but also those in future generations. >> a lot of this has to do with the upcoming national elections.

angela merl's coition government wantso finali plans on how to move away from fossil fuels faster, by next week. the finance minister says the cabinet was unanimous about the changes. >> we are reassessing our climate targets for 2013. 30 -- 2030. we want to develop an intermediate plan to reduce emissions by 88% by 2040, and much quicker than previously discussed, we want germany to become carbon neutral by 2045. >> with the new goals, both coalition partners, the conservatives and social democrats, are showing they don't want the green party to dominate the climate change debate. especially in an election year. brent: a group of belarus and activists -- belarusian

activists has filed a complaint against alexander lukashenko and members of his regime for crimes against humanity. they have undocked -- documented hundreds of cases of alleged abuses, especially during last year's elections, which the president claims to have won. this jurisdiction allows the countries to prosecute crimes against humanity wherever they were committed. her name was sophie shaw, and she was born 100 years ago this week. she became one of germany's most famous anti-nazi resistance fighters of the 1940's. at the age of 22, she was arrested and executed by the nazi regime. now, a social media project is bringing her back to life for a younger generation. the project explores what were

the last months of sophie shaw's life on instagram. >> it's a period piece with a twist. >> its the fourth of may, 1942, and i am about to get on a train . sophie, hurry up. the train won't wait. >> my sister, inga. she has never been late in her life. >> she shares political and private thoughts with her followers. >> she's a freedom fighter, but she is also a normal woman with many insecurities. >> the sies is a patchwork of clips in different media. a selfie video, sophie's bihday pty, animation,

sometimes photographs. they also events that happened on specific days 79 years ago. >> we chronicle every day for 10 months. that's given us the opportunity to tell our audience a lot about sophie shaw. more than you might have managed in a movie. >> the instagram posts and when sophie is arrested for distributing anti-nazi leaflets, the moment when the resistance leader would have had her smartphone taken from her. brent: all right. not one, not two -- count them -- nine babies. that was the surprise a 25-year-old woman from raleigh received at a hospital in casablanca. she was sent to the hospital in

morocco for specialized natal care due to carrying seven children. you're watching dw news. as a reminder, facebooks oversight board has upheld the suspension of donald trump's account. the former u.s. president was banned from the social media platform four months ago for inciting the vionce that led to the deadly january 6 ry at the u.s. capitol. tonight, facebook kicked out donald trump. he won't be returning anytime soon. we will explain, right after this. ♪

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>> israel's president hands the coalition mandate to benjamin netanyahu's main rival. a french journalist is being held hostage in mali. oliver bob -- olivier dubois appeared in a brief video being held by a group linked to al qaeda. vaccines could be about to get cheaper