this summer's european championship he's held the country's top soccer job almost as long as uncle americal has been chancellor now he's 61 years old live is most famous for taking germany to world cup victory in brazil and similar to what you may hear about uncle americal some say you walk in love may have overstayed his time at the top. germany's 2014 world cup triumph was your committee that's traveling glory. he had already been in the job for 8 years at that point but decided to plough on in search of more success. 4 years later and the mood was very different as germany returned from the world cup in russia having been dumped out as holders in the group stage. the fans were in shock but still lives out to continue more disappointing results followed. the 6 nil hammering by spain in the nation's league in november led to widespread calls for him to step down. lurve had been due to stay until the 2022 world cup but ahead of qualifying games later in march he has suddenly decided to give clarity he has announced he will leave after the european championship for june. he will hold a press

rising slowly and so impatiens in the population has been growing over the last few weeks and so uncle americal has had to concede that now the pressure is so high you to open up and to change that strategy because you can't have that solution of only ever extending lockdowns again if that's because strategies clearly coming to an end and so many of the state leaders insisted that they think that the health system can still coping even if we have slightly higher numbers than the ones that machall wants because we just need to put more effort into speeding up the vaccination process and into being really quick when it comes to the national testing strategy and tell us you know what this is now going to mean in practical terms when it comes to day to day life. well if you look at the graph it is very complicated so essentially as a normal german or as a person living in germany you will need to know where your local area stands in terms of numbers of new infections and depending on that number your regional government can then make decisions over the next few weeks which areas can open which spee

elections yet yeah that's right these elections they've started the countdown to september when uncle americal plans to step down after 16 years in power and there really is no clear no definite successor to her is there. well her favorite and she does protest to marks over that is just the cane and the leader of the c.d.u. posse very recently but then he isn't that terribly popular across the board and just thought that this defeat is the 1st thing that happened body was in office and he's up against the most likely mouth of sudan who still blanks come out of the closet with him really wants to add to the race that he is the more popular of the 2 although he too has been hit over corona recently and that decision we're told will be sometime after easter still quite a while off with the c.d.u. party still in limbo on which course it will take all right our chief political as a republican if not on what is going to be an exciting election year here in germany michela thank you. it began as one of the arab spring xb oldest uprisings it became one of humanity's biggest crime scenes 10 years ago t

newsline from berlin tonight the mayor culpa from uncle americal germany's chancellor apologizes over easter lockdown playing on brickell today reversed a decision to send the country into a 5 day coronavirus pandemic shutdown saying the plans were not feasible and that they were a mistake also coming up the vaccine that was out of sight italian inspectors find almost 30000000 bats seemed to exist inside an astra zeneca fact the company insisting it wasn't hiding and being.

elections yet yeah that's right these elections they've started the countdown to september when uncle americal plans to step down after 16 years in power and there really is no clear definite successor to her is there. well her favorite and she does protest to mark's over that is just the cane and the leader of the c.d.u. posse very recently but then he isn't that terror the popular across the board and just thought that this defeat is the 1st thing that happened body was in office and he's up against the most likely mouth of sudan as he still blanks come out of the closet with really wants to add to the race that he is the more popular of the 2 although he too has been hit over corona recently and that decision we're told will be sometime after easter still quite a while off with the seaview party still in limbo on which course it will take all right our chief political as a mechanic of on what is going to be an exciting election year here in germany michela thank you. it began as one of the arab spring xb oldest uprisings it became one of humanity's biggest crime scenes 10 years ago today in

our minds do it and we do it together with a very different story here in germany chancellor uncle americal is lashing out at the country's regional leaders for not reversing plans to ease lock down restrictions in the face of rising infections in a rare television interview last night she warned that the federal government may override state premiers in a bid to curb a 3rd wave of the pandemic. chancellor angela merkel may have backtracked last week on her plan to shut down germany over easter but she isn't backtracking on her idea that more action is needed to stop the rise in kobe in 1000 cases. we now have to employ the appropriate measures with a great deal of seriousness and some states are doing that others aren't yet. the chancellor and the regional state premiers had agreed to reverse openings if there are too many new cases but with numbers rising states are hesitating to do so mix of says she won't sit around and wait for a case numbers to keep growing the government could push for parliament to change the law to decrease the premier's influence. as one possibility is to modify t

up on some other stories making headlines around the world today a member of parliament from uncle americal c.d.u. party has died after collapsing on a flight back to germany from cuba colleen shunts was 53 the cause of death is unclear the tabloid is reporting that she was not traveling on business science had recently been caught up in a law being scandal involving. scientists say of all kind of corruption in iceland kogo could go on for several weeks hundreds of sightseers a flaw to the volcano south of the capital reykjavik tens of thousands of small tremors rocked the area for weeks before the volcano began erupting. the main opposition candidate in elections just held in the republic of congo has died a spokesperson said brees parfait called died as he was being transferred to france for treatment for coated 19 he was the main rival of president denise gesso who is expected to extend his 36 year hold on power. a group of 8 hong kong pro-democracy activists released from jail in china have been detained on their return home they were arrested at sea last year on charges of illegal bord

were in the 2 years leading up to the start of the crisis so 64 percent approval still makes uncle americal germany's most popular politician and the moment. correspondent. thank you dana. we're going to lebanon now where the currency plans to record low this week sending people back onto the streets for a new wave of protests a crippling economy economic crisis has gripped the country and there's only a caretaker government in place to oversee much needed reforms the protesters are demanding an end to decades of political corruption and mismanagement. protesters blocking roads with garbage containers and set tires on fire as the lebanese economy deteriorate the people are getting desperate. i'm a hungry man in the beginning of my life i should have a future all these guys this year the sunni the druze in the christians are dying of hunger they have no work with us they have nothing where we supposed to go so bad no wonder you last week hundreds marched in the capital beirut demanding local banks allow them to withdraw money many banks have blocked access to cash due to the city because i'm

famous for taking germany to world cup victory in brazil and similar to what you may hear about uncle americal some say you walk in love may have overstayed his time at the top. germany's 2014 world cup triumph was you can miss crowning glory. he had already been in the job 50 years at that point but decided to plow on in search of more success. 4 years later and the mood was very different as germany returned from the world cup in russia having been dumped out as holders in the group stage. the fans were in shock but still live south to continue more disappointing result followed. and the 6 nil hammering by spain in the nation's league in november led to widespread calls for him to step down. live had been due to stay until the 2022 world cup but ahead of qualifying games later in march he has suddenly decided to give clarity he has announced he will leave after the european championship for june. he will hold a press conference on thursday but in a statement said i am taking this step very consciously full of pride and with enormous gratitude but at the same time with an unbroken level of mo

turn from uncle americal with those in opposition calling for a vote of confidence on her government. position as chancellor i call on the chancellor to ask the question of confidence in accordance with paragraph 98 of the rules of procedure of the german bundestag because she is not only admitted her own inability the lack of competence of her ministers out my and spam is obvious but because she has obviously lost the trust of part of her coalition factions ahead of what really crucial elections in september and a number of important local elections taking place beforehand we're seeing no wasting of time when it comes to jumping on this u. turn for political capital however no matter how you cut this it is not a good look for all the german government we discussed of the possible reasons behind the chancellor's decision with and m.e.p. from the alternative for germany party. it is a result of the protests from outside politics and they've moved in her own party. there are a lot of trouble more members of parliament she had no choice her politics on corona and co but it's completely f

elections yet yeah that's right these elections they've started the countdown to september when uncle americal plans to step down after 16 years in power and there really is no clear no definite successor to her is there. well her favorite and she does protest to marks over that is just the cane and the leader of the c.d.u. posse very recently but then he isn't that terribly popular across the board and something this defeat is the 1st thing that happened while he was in office and he's up against the most likely mouth of sudan as he still blanks come out of the closet with really wants to enter the race but he is the more popular of the 2 although he too has been hit over corona recently and that decision we're told will be sometime after easter still quite a while off with the seaview party still in limbo on which course it will take all right our chief political as a mechanic of the north on what is going to be an exciting election year here in germany mikhail thank you. it began as one of the arab spring xb oldest uprisings it became one of humanity's biggest crime scenes 10 years ago toda

newsline from berlin tonight the mayor culpa from uncle americal germany's chancellor apologizes over easter lockdown plans today reversed a decision to send the country into a 5 day coronavirus pandemic shutdown saying the plans were not feasible and that they were a mistake also coming up the vaccine that was out of sight italian inspectors find almost 30000000 bent seem to exist inside an astra zeneca fact the company insisting it wasn't hiding and the gentle eruption that is how locals in iceland describe this volcano after 900 years it is actively again and hikers can stay away from the rivers of welcome. to our viewers joining us on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin tonight with a change of plans and an apology today german chancellor angela merkel canceled a controversial shutdown scheduled over the easter holiday the chancellor saying the hastily drawn up plans were impractical and a mistake just one day ago maryland state leaders agreed on a 5 day strict lockdown schedule to begin april 1st but following criticism and confusion me

several german states are pushing to extend strict coronavirus restrictions beyond chance that uncle americal will meet regional leaders on monday to discuss rising infection rates. as it were up to date data in-depth stories reporter is next they'll be more news headlines at the top of the hour until then there's always our web site at state dot com you can download our data news app as well or follow us on social media where at the w. news i'm rebecca rivers in berlin for me. and the entire team here thanks very much hope to. cut. by 2050 more than half the world will be living with limited water resources we haven't had to think about our water or worry about. i think that era is over this is the crisis of our time it's a financial product like any other financial we live in a competitive world just call to its core it's blue cool water used to be free but the world is changing the most important commodity junkers. recently. saw her city for commodity starts march 22nd on g.w. . as the from the dives it does i asked my job means working through data and want to dine means to us humans but

elections taking place in september when we know who we will know who will be the successor to uncle americal. it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war when syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict to millions of civilians displaced the country's economy is also being ruined and according to the u.n. half of syria's children don't know life without war. well here's what the syrian city of homs looks like after 10 years of fighting ok to it in the west of the country it saw some of the fiercest battles and enjoyed a 3 year siege government forces recaptured it in 2014 the city is currently undergoing reconstruction young syrians have also paid a heavy price so most half of those aged between $18.24 surveyed by the red cross have lost someone in the conflict with many suffering injuries and selves 2 out of 3 fled their homes and almost half lost their income most of the young syrians surveyed still struggling to meet basic needs such as food here are some 1st hand accounts from people who were forced to leave their homes. i was annoyed grade when the problem st

vaccination program here and many is mixing with lockdown fatigue and many are beginning to ask whether uncle americal still has the right approach when the chancellor 1st directly address the nation on covert right at the beginning of the crisis she vowed that her government would think on its feet. these are standard this is a dynamic situation and we will continue to learn as we go along so we can change course and react with other instruments adam and any time. biotech pfizer came up with that instrument everyone wanted the 1st market ready vaccine but germany and the you had vaccinated just over 5 percent of their people by the time israel celebrated vaccinating almost its entire population taking the european way may have prevented an e.u. meltdown but it was painfully slow and the too late course the vaccination effort was slow to get going going off and it's only now that germany is adding rapid test centers and home testing to its pandemic strategy months after austria merkel's new approach of opening up as mutations gather pace is the wrong move says the opposition i don't think that the mea

news here's a reminder of our top story this hour chancellor uncle americal has warned germany's states to toughen coronavirus restrictions and stop straying from agreed pandemic measures as covert 19 cases soar in the country america is facing a backlash after erratic policy changes last week. you're watching c.w. news up next is world stories all the more news as always at the start of the next hour of a marital from berlin thanks for tuning it. they've been robbed of their soul that's what are people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. countless cultural artifacts were brutally stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe. these things left movies that have yet to heal what should be done with the stone north from africa. stolen sold on t w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series continues from the all of us odes are available online to get more so you can share and discuss on w africa's facebook and other social media platforms crime fighters tune in now. this week on the wound stories. greece and hope in corona stricke

get more now from do you have your political correspondent and i know she has a manual we heard uncle americal speak for a bit in that report what do you make of what she had to say. well there were several things that were quite interesting when she talked about fighting protectionism protection is an american never made it a secret that she sewed the only way out of this pandemic by all of this crisis is by giving a general a come on response to depend on it by definition the crisis is global the pandemic is global and only by cooperating we see a way out now tonight she reminded that even if the e.u. succeeded in vaccinating its entire population well that wouldn't be enough because because of globalization because of the global aspect of the pandemic well if other countries don't succeed in their vaccination program well the virus could always reappear now there's also something she mentioned about looking after our own after looking after people here in europe to get vaccinating vaccinated well this is tricky this is. not getting enough vaccine at the moment dece has to this has to change

this summer's european championship he's held the country's top soccer job almost as long as uncle americal has been chancellor now he's 61 years old lives most famous for taking germany to world cup victory in brazil and similar to what you may hear about on the americal some say you walk in love may have overstayed his time at the top. germany's 2014 world cup triumph was you can miss crowning glory. he had already been in the job for 8 years at that point but decided to plough on in search of more success. 4 years later and the mood was very different as germany returned from the world cup in russia having been dumped out as holders in the group stage. the fans were in shock but still serve to continue more disappointing results followed down to the 6 nil hammering by spain in the nations league in november led to widespread calls for him to step down. live had been due to stay until the 2022 world cup but ahead of qualifying games later in march he has suddenly decided to give clarity he has announced he will leave after the european championship for june. he will hold a press conferenc

famous for taking germany to world cup victory in brazil and similar to what you may hear about uncle americal some say you walk in love may have overstayed his time at the top. germany's 2014 world cup triumph was your can miss prettyman glory. he had already been in the job 50 years at that point but decided to plough on in search of more success. 4 years later and the mood was very different as germany returned from the world cup in russia having been dumped out as holders in the group stage. the fans were in shock but still earth out to continue more disappointing results followed. the 6 nil hammering by spain in the nations league in november led to widespread calls for him to step down. live had been due to stay until the 2022 world cup but ahead of qualifying games later in march he has suddenly decided to give clarity he has announced he will leave after the european championship for june. he will hold a press conference on thursday but in a statement said i am taking this step very consciously full of pride and with enormous gratitude but at the same time with an unbroken level of mot

this is a pretty extraordinary interview by uncle americal one that we really haven't seen during her extremely long 15 years plus in power and what was so really strongly about it was her expressing exasperate about her own inability to get the situation in germany in the pandemic under control so the backgrounds of the situation here at the moment is we're just at the beginning of what could turn out to be a really quite large 3rd wave of the pandemic driven by the mutation of the virus which 1st emerged in the united kingdom and killed many tens of thousands of people there towards the end of last year beginning of this year and now angela merkel has been trying to get on top of this by holding. meetings on a regular basis with the leaders of the federal states within germany to try to rally federal states around taking a tougher line which is she is no 2 want to what we've been seeing is many federal states not going as far as she wanted to and there was one meeting especially last week where the federal states didn't go as far as i wanted to this ended up being something of a tre

elections yet you know that's right these elections they've started the countdown to september when uncle americal plans to step down after 16 years in power and there really is no clear no definite successor to her is there. well her favorite and she does protest to marks over that is just the cane and the leader of the c.d.u. posse very recently but then he isn't that terribly popular across the board and stuff that this defeat is the 1st thing that happened body was in office and he's up against the most likely mouth of sudan who still blanks come out of the closet with really wants to add to the race but he is the more popular of the 2 although he too has been hit over corona recently and that decision we're told will be sometime after easter still quite a while off with the c.d.u. party still in limbo on which course it will take all right our chief political as a mechanic of the north on what is going to be an exciting election year here in germany michela thank you. it began as one of the arab spring xb oldest uprisings it became one of humanity's biggest crime scenes 10 years ago today in

being overwhelmed authorities say variants of the virus are driving the rising numbers chancer uncle americal and regional leaders will meet on monday to discuss further steps. let's bring in delhi and chief political editor michelle a questionnaire for more on all of this hello to you me. so what do you expect from that meeting to take place monday between markell and state leaders well according to that draft that is already circulating which comes from the social democrats and of the government here the lockdown is to be extended but we have to be careful what we call a lockdown because basically some shops are open most children are going to school in some areas depending on where you live and the being so vague already indicates what i would expect to see on monday which is a further fragmentation or if you want reason lies ation of germany's approach to this way which is now gone beyond the $100.00 incidence rate so that's 100 infections but 100000 people within the space of 7 days that every year but agreed last time would trigger an emergency break which is effectively another locked