Civilians flee the Northern Region as the deadline for local forces to surrender expires. The governments message to the outside world will handle this crisis on our own. Welcome to the show. One of the greatest Football Players ever to have graced the pitch is with us no more argentinian superstar. Diego armando maradona, died on wednesday after suffering a heart attack at only 60 years of age. He was revered around the world and worshiped and his home country. Ever since he kept and argentina to world cup victory in 1906, lets take a look back at his life, a life of extremes, full of ups and downs, his doctorate aside. This is the last public photo of diego, armando dawna, after a successful brain operation, early november, hed been visibly ill for some time. He was the coach for a top argentinian team, but the 60 year old was having trouble staying on his feet. Marathon i grew up in a poll suburb of corn as it is. His rise to stardom was b. T. R. His goals spectacular. The striker with the number 10 shirt had his career highlight at the 986 world cup in mexico. He dribbled his way through, confused and helpless. Defensive lines i, his hand assisted goal against england will go down in history. Marathoner later, mischievously called it the hand of god. He became a National Hero in argentina. But after the great rise came the fall, he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for years. After his brain surgery, he was going through detox, but marathoner suffered a heart attack. The magical and talented marathoner will now receive a state funeral fitting for one of the greatest footballers. If not the greatest of all time. Argentinas stunned football fans forward onto the streets when osiris following news of maradonas death, some held banners, thanking him while others waved flags. Some grieving fans also gathered and boca juniors stadium where maradona played early in his career before moving to europe. He later returned there before retiring. Lets take a look at some of the 1st reactions coming out of argentina. No, good if i cant believe it, its incredible that you think that all the bad things can happen. But then they see that they cant. It turns out were all mortals, you know, its that im just doing it, but i feel a bit like its a bad dream. You know . That is my feeling that its a joke. I want to believe that its a joke. Get a good, its going to be the 1st thing. My 12 year old son said to me as a mom, marathon a died. I couldnt believe it. I did this special love him, but i didnt feel that it didnt matter to me. Maybe they are good. Doesnt mean totally shocked her and to be frank, thats why this doesnt want to come out. I think it was a great guy who didnt have very good relations around him. Who was taken advantage of a lot to get through to them, which is the editor of the when osiris times James Granger. And james, good to have you with us. The news of married, honest passing, has shocked football fans around the world. Whats the mood like in one of cyrus . I mean, as you can expect, one of overwhelming sadness, grief. Theres some celebration in there, of course, as well, because its going to cheat more it did for the national team, especially. You know, isnt to do, you know, a camera in the background. There are thousands of dollars, which is one of major landmarks and one of our years and they rule, you know, dancing and celebrating his life as much as they are. Mourning the government has to create 3 days of National Mourning something unheard of for a football player, frankly. But to argentinians, he was much more than just that. Right . Yeah, i mean marathons personal story obviously plays a lot into that. But i think it really what he, what he was was an example of what you can achieve. It was a guy who grew up in a vicious shanty town in overwhelming poverty. You know, stated, aim was he wanted to play in order to buy a house for his model, which obviously he did and then some. And i think really what he did was break through a ceiling back to 64. And the worldwide fame he achieved, obviously shows that is stunning, was appreciated wide and i think really will go into a period now if you will of grief. Almost everyone that learns from maradona inspired a whole generation of argentinian Football Players, messi. Of course the most prominent among them. Whats his legacy going to be on and off the pitch . Well, i mean, its difficult to say i mean, murder or misuse of similar on the pitch in many ways. But the so different in terms of carrots. I think what, you know, the president over to finance this today said that, you know, diego was a genuine man and thats very true. Is someone who spoke his mind always, no matter what trouble we got himself in. And i think, you know, in terms of his coaching career, his legacy will not be so strong, but the memories that hes forged to make it took argentina in his chosen sport to as high as they could possibly go. And i think those that kind of, that kind of achievement will never quite be matched on the same level. Given the way that the way that he played in the way that he was an inspiring, i mean everyone wanted to watch James Granger and went to cyrus. Thank you very much. You know, as militia it wont be easy, but we will try. Those were the chancellor Angela Merkels words as she presented an extension of germanys coronavirus restrictions into the new year. The measures in place since early november will be temporarily eased over christmas. Her announcement came on the same day that her countrys daily death toll from cope with 19 surged to a record high new infection rate just still not falling fast enough. Thats why the German Government is tightening restrictions. Know, to save christmas, the countrys most important family holiday. We need another big effort, patience, solidarity and discipline. For the taste, once again, that social contacts will be tightened until december 20th, only 5 people from 2 different households gather privately. Recommend already know its a rule. Children under 14 are exempt. The hope is that families to come together over christmas and new year in groups of 10 schools in december. But holidays will start a few days early this year to allow families to quarantine before fish devotees began. The tradition of new years eve will also be limited displays in busy streets and squares. The idea is to avoid big parties encroach period shouldnt become a risk when we start the new year in january. We want to still be at the level weve achieved with all these precautionary measures. Included the states can tighten measures depending on regional and local infection rates. Leaders will meet again mid december. And if you fiction numbers, the measures could be extended through january. And thats another stories making headlines at this hour. Police are questioning a man who rammed a car a gate at the office by german chancellor Angela Merkel and caused minor damage. Police say 6 years ago, the man and the same karo were involved in a similar incident at the same location. U. S. President has pardoned former National Security advisor, michael flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the f. B. I. About interactions he had with russias ambassador to the u. S. It was the highest profile. Pardon granted by trump, since he took office if the o. P. s Prime Minister ill be off, lead has asked the International Community not to interfere in the conflict in his countrys take right region. The Central Government had given leaders there and also made him so render by wednesday night or face a merciless assault on the regional capital, mikhail, a home to house a 1000000, people, hundreds have already been killed and the government offensive. Many more have been forced to flee to refugee camps. This baby boy is just 2 weeks old. The newborn doesnt even have a name yet, but hes already been through much more than he should have said i gave birth in the hope that is it with no one to help me. His mother says, she says people brought her in the baby to a refugee camp and that shes been waiting for help for 2 weeks. Many people here have similar stories and there are new arrivals every day. More than 40000, people have fled the fighting in the ethiopian region of teague right across the border into sudan. People have commented all sorts of conditions with actually nothink. No money, no more clothes, no food, no contact with people. Never off course everyone here off guard to help. So its a painful 1st few few days and weeks. Its hard to get, a true sense of whats happening on the ground in t. , gride. Some reports speak of thousands of people dead, but this is difficult to verify because of an internet blackout restricted media access and blocked telephone lines. Ethiopian Government Troops are said to have surrounded the provincial capital, mckayla, and i threatening a major offensive if the leaders of the tea gripe Peoples Liberation front do not surrender. Ethiopias Prime Minister who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, doesnt appear to be pushing for a peaceful solution. Hes demanded the International Community, stay out of the conflict. The highly aggressive rhetoric on both sides regarding the fight for me anyway, is dangerously provocative. And it risks placing already vulnerable and frightened civilians in grave danger over the border in sudan, those who made it out of just trying to get by the young mother who recently gave birth hopes her child wont be forced to grow up in a refugee camp. Now while the coronavirus pandemic is taking its toll on humans, some creatures appeared to be benefiting from the socalled new normal whales, for example, seem to be very much enjoying quieter oceans. Things to the drop in shipping traffic. Scientists say its a once in a lifetime chance to learn more about the worlds biggest mammals. This boat used to be a fish trawler. Now its a whale watching boat with about 50 tourists on board. Its located in the norwegian sea, off the island of endianness. The huge Marine Mammals are retreating more and more because the ocean has become too large for them. Hear the sound waves behave quite differently. Underwater than on land. Whales can feel this, knowing they recognize sounds very well, even over great distances. So we maneuver our boat very carefully so as not to disturb them. We even have an extra choir propeller. But now because of the corona virus pandemic, the number of ships headed north of scandinavia has dropped. Most cruise liners are docked, the ocean is calm for marine researchers. Its a unique opportunity to understand the worlds oceans. Better scientist garryowen cement. His students have been studying light and noise pollution. He says you can observe the impact of the corona lockdown on nature right here in the trondheim few words. I recently saw 2 or 3 pilot whales. Although its not a scientific finding, i can say one thing ive never seen pilot will so close to the city center in my entire life. To live with this device, marine researchers observed the Water Quality off trondheim, a standard procedure, but there researching other tendencies as well. They want to find out how the underwater world has been affected by this sudden silence. Theyre interested in behavior of all aquatic creatures from tiny organisms right up to the giant whale, how they eat, hunt, and communicate undisturbed by human noise. Gears Research Colleagues have been told a network of underwater microphones in the atlantic and north sea. Since the coronavirus lock down, noise levels have dropped by 25 percent in some places. The researchers say it may not have been this quiet in 150 years. And wanting to delay a new life from berlin up next, the untold story of audio war in their hour documentary about the u. S. Student auto warranty, or who died after being sentenced to 15 years. And i know its korean labor camp in 2016. Ill be back with more world news at the top of the hour for me to call for the latest on the entire news team here in berlin. Thanks for watching. And you hear me now on. Heres were going to leave you and i last years german song. Im going to a map and you never surprise yourself with what is possible. Who is magical, really, what moves. I want to talk to people on the way. Maurice and critics who want to join us from eccles livestocks an airfield near atlanta emergency doctor mike flicker is embarking on a special mission destination. North korea, they said this is a medical evacuation. We need you to go and bring him out. A mission to retrieve u. S. Citizen on a warm beer last seen in public 14 months earlier. A prisoner of the regime of north korea warmongering between rivals, kim jong un and donald trump is that its speak. They will be met with fire and fury. Like the world has never see the silent mission on a difficult route. We elected not to use south korea, china, or russia to help us plan a days later on a warm beer is back home, but hes fatally ill. Severe brain damage says the coroner, cause unknown. Was it torture . For me as parents become pawns in a game played by president trump, who later announces that the north Korean Leader knew nothing about warm beer. All i can do is shake my head. Try to be allies right. When the state department sends emergency doctor mike flick, eager to north korea. His plane of choice is still in africa. The carrier phoenix air often evacuated bola patients. But for this mission flecking or insists on the best plane and the best team, he doesnt even tell his family where hes had it. I didnt tell him exactly where id been a till the mission was over because it was becoming more and more apparent that this was a special mission. I told him i was going to korea to pick up a patient. I did not say north korea and phoenix errors headquarters, a 2nd team led by chief operator dent thomson has to solve a logistical problem. The plane not be allowed to refuel in pyongyang. Currently there are certain sanctions that are in place between the Us Government and the north korean government. And for us to pay for anything, we would have to get special permits, which we simply did not have time to do. On the morning of june 10th 2017, a saturday, the plane takes off on its mission, is joined by 2 male nurses and 2 u. S. State department representatives. With refueling stops in montana and alaska their flight takes them halfway around the globe to northern japan. And hopefully on to pyongyang, the outskirts of cincinnati, ohio, although warm beer grew up here in the suburb of wyoming. I had 1st, his parents dont answer our inquiries. They arent seeking the spotlight. The town has modest and affluent neighborhoods. Auto warm beers father runs a medium sized business. Although the oldest of 3 children is the pride of both his family and his high school graduation, she holds the commencement address. His future is mapped out college in virginia, a scholarship, a planned semester abroad in hong kong, but 1st, a new years adventure, north korea books through a chinese travel agency. Its slogan, we take you to destinations, your mother would rather use they away from he joins an international group. They have a great time hes left with an indelible mark on me was such a lovely, lots of hope is a lot of people who were on that. So a model absolutely, absolutely devastated the past. Every year the agency touts their dazzling travel highlight. The alcohol flows freely, the tour guides make sure everyones on a good night. I had my dad, my pal are the nights are long and pyongyangs only hotel for foreigners and autos group has fun too. It isnt clear whether they also took on the challenge of the forbidden 5th floor, but many tourists have done so in the past. But there it is, the staff floor with hallways full of propaganda slogans. You know, the hotel Surveillance Center is also located here. Tourists are usually just admonished me to them, they act innocent and run on this new years eve. However, the cameras capture someone taking a poster from the wall. It is 1. 57 am and it is according to the trial on a warm beer. Instead of leaving north korea with the others on january 2nd, hes taken into custody on c. R. The simply of the top of the show to go out, soak up the way the law family said to him, oh, thats the last well have a sea of you on because we got on so well the drums and just chuckled at me. But of course there was a huge irony of my way to be told he didnt know what was going to hop a book that was the last time anyone asleep. So had 2 months later, north koreas propaganda televises a stage confession, an entirely fair open government of the d. P. R. Were here for good from this point. I made the worst mistake of my own life, but we think its own never should have allowed myself to be a more the United States administration to commit a crime in this country. A show trial with obviously coerced statements, perhaps in exchange for a pardon. 16 days later, warm beer discovers that his hopes were in vain. He has publicly sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for subversive activities. His condition from this point on remains uncertain. Just shortly before takeoff. Dr. Mike fluke eagar is given the few details known about warm beers condition. I had one small written note, one paragraph about his condition, saying he was in a coma, that pyongyang friendship hospital. Thats really all i knew except that he had been hospitalized for 15 months. Was flickinger worried about the threat of war . Not really. He says, i think i had felt that the relationship between north korea and the us had been bad for a while. You know, i thought if this door had opened to bring a warm beer back then and there in negotiations to east things a little bit. In fact, north koreas sudden diplomatic efforts surprises. The u. S. Negotiators. Mickey bergman is one of them. Since one beers a rest, he had been trying to gain access to him with the help of u. N. Contacts. Bergman works together with bill richardson, the former governor of new mexico and former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Hardly any other team is as experienced in dealing with pyongyang as they are in general, the only available the richt channel that we have all of the people that represent the united nations. In this case, the individuals are people that know the governor from before they know me from before. So thats of the record channel. But at the end of the day, they are not decision makers. And if you want to get to a deal, when you want to get to an understanding, you have to be there in person. So the 1st priority is ok. How do we get ourselves invited to know if the area to make sure that we can talk to the people who can make decisions about this . It was different in that you knew that auto warm beer by the North Koreans was considered Something Special because he was from the midwest. He was an attractive young man and he was an allamerican. Boy. You knew this one was special because it got a lot of t. V. Coverage from north korea. The trial where the young man was in trauma. He was very upset and he was carried around and you knew that this was a very sensitive time and United States north korea relations. So the North Koreans you knew early on would use them as a bargaining chip to get Something Back from the United States. They always use Political Prisoners as bargaining chips. They want something in return. Would that be typical that the u. S. Even made suffered physical talk show of physical violence. The North Koreans are very tough on interrogations and their prisons are not ideal. Sometimes they make these Political Prisoners work in the fields so labor is involved. Do they specifically torture . I dont have any evidence that they do. Do they treat the prisoners . Well, no. I think were the North Koreans fall short is just an International Standard of allowing consular visits. Sometimes they do, sometimes they dont. It depends on the prize of the person or that they hope they want to dramatize it as much as they can. Insiders call these contacts between north koreas u. N. Representatives and people like richards the new york channel. For a long time. Its been the only connection between the 2 countries here at the palm restaurant. It is kept alive with steak and lobster over meetings that take place every few weeks. Mickey bergman believes hes close to a breakthrough. Hes told to come to pyongyang. We got the invitation. And when i went there, even on the plane on the way, i did have that fantasy in my mind that im coming back with photo. d swedish diplomats also pressure pyongyang. There is a meeting of diplomats and all slow, but no progress is made. I was told that look, dont, dont be disparaged. Theres a saying in korea that it takes a felon hacks to bring down the tree. And my response was, i hope i dont need to come back again. You know, however, more times than all to get it happen. But i get the message. The camera jeems seems to buy time, keen to use warm beer as an asset. Kim wont negotiate until he feels protected by his new nuclear weapons. Get the news on. At the un general assembly, north koreas delegation ignores both the threats and the insults made by the newly elected us president. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. North korea is still studying Donald Trumps behavior waiting for new insights. The Obama Administration and north korean relationship was not good. The policy was strategic patience, more sanctions, more sanctions, the North Koreans. They werent happy with that obviously. And they saw in a new administration. Well, maybe, you know, we show that were ready to deal and auto warm beer is, is the closest think that to a concession but what was it that convinced beyond yang to allow ailing on a warm beer to be evacuated . Does the regime believe america will be grateful or is warm beer already so weak that they just dont want him to die as their prisoner asks himself the same questions until his crew suffers the 1st setback. When they reach the porro, that evening, their flight seems doomed. The local Flight Control center doesnt have the information it needs. The plane is grounded. They told me that the japanese air traffic control, because there was no relationship with north korea. Did not want to let us fly directly to north korea that what they would have to send us to another route to a country that they did have a relationship with. And that at that point we would fly and i called back up to the u. S. Department of state and got a very high level person on the phone. And i said, heres a scituate