revamp our work life our social life our home life. and we generally do most of the caregiving in families looking after young the say i'm the old theory job most nurses are women and they often significantly less than the male colleagues i've spent time with says to learn more about their experiences during the pandemic. here in the hospital there is a strict protocol when it comes to putting on your protective clothing but. it has become a routine she is one of the many female nurses who have been pushing the limits the night for you know taking care of corona fires. there's a secret ballot about the physical strain is an enormous working in this kind of gears exhaust but the psychological component plays a big role too we always have to take care of critically ill patients that's part of our job but now we have seriously ill patients can also endanger us. in a stressful. stressful is also how to have and would describe her last year she it works as a nurse in an old people's home and burden and demick made her job even harder and again the burden of caring for society's elderly was mainly on women. luckily men i increasingly interested in being and my husband does also but otherwise it's mainly women probably because of the pay if it were a male domain then women would also a very different set of aries on guns and asked for. more than 90 percent of the people fighting the daily battles on the nursing front are women and they are up to 10 percent less than their male counterparts according to the chairman federation of trade unions the chances of promotion a slim and they often work nights hammon says she appreciated the gesture when people around germany stood at their windows at the beginning of the pandemic and applaud at the nation's nasa's and carers but it was no more than a gesture now she says women also need to play a role in changing how society treats them even if. my wish for women in this profession is that they stop putting themselves down and that people are aware of their contribution people need to understand that we are not just not as clean as the kitchen wife it's that the world only goes around when we all work together as a team and for that one of us can't get by without the there's and i know for one that in an amish. bagenal is that too after work she likes to go for a walk in the woods to switch off to that is important to support people who work in care for and i would. be glad as i am corona may be here to stay and we need to develop strategies we need enough stuff and i think whitman and whatever else it takes to help us do our jobs. officers on us he told. both nurses i agreed these improvements have to come and they have to come soon. as un under secretary general and executive director of un women she joins us from new york welcome to d.w. the u.n. says the pandemic has erased decades of progress towards gender equality so how do we build back better as we emerge from this mess. thank you so much for having me let me just 1st state that this is the most discriminating pandemic crisis in there it disproportionately affects women poor people people of color. in job losses for instance so if the jobs have been lost a women. if a letter gives a ring is you have just said 6 women gayle's children who have not gone back to school the majority of them i guess. this is because there has always been these underlying problems so building back better is building better but is building big also gender responsive but addressing these underlying issues. area a fun moment for example women have lost so many jobs because they tend to be talks that have unprotected they cannot enforce contracts do not have savings who look to look if put them. into context then how do you know when you hear interventions like this current stimulus you not take it now to them so we have to we men decent jobs we cannot expect women will be hazel jobs in. the fall be able to go to go back to coop and they need economy to get bright. if they previous status quo is not good enough so who needs to do what but in fact before you're outlined a few of those do you see anywhere around the world where where women have fared less badly in this pandemic. basically what we see is that the pepsin. in all conscious obviously sometimes. worse off but we we're not seeing here. but let me just see i can choose this have court underlying drum systems and cause the usual suspect they're not dicks. the social systems are much stronger in. the sharing of unpaid care work. the difference between men and women is not as. we look at the. next generation of women if you like and what sort of lasting effects is this pandemic likely to have on the lives and prospects of young women unless your points are addressed. certainly education is in trouble is you know it developing thanks to this one aust the areas of progress in the last 2 tickets especially has been gill's education it really to be devastating for us to lose all those years because they're very hard to achieve in of course the men outside the labor market. era with even the list of jobs at sing sing in the new skills that's how it played out for the for the e. coli is also its future in the jobs of. this kills that will do not it means that we get it where it will most police was it all something that we need to say let it out through policy extensions the training laws we live in the chattels of hiring of right we thank you for joining us undersecretary undersecretary general. for un women. they cute or they don't news coverage of international women's day includes a special program on our you tube channel merkel's air of a women of power takes a look and leading women in the political sphere the 1st episode features they've been a recent opposition leaders for lana to come off sky. high allies and and on belarus in women who took to the streets and have proven their resilience their strong character to have been around since won't have any doubt that a woman can become the future president of the republic of belarus because women have shown that they can do it they are just as strong as men sometimes even stronger i can do everything i pointed to the whole world i'm not afraid do you think i can't take a leadership position. i think for the full interview on the d w news channel on youtube. now britain's prince harry and his wife meghan have spoken out about their exit from royal life in that televised interview with oprah winfrey magen who has a white father and black mother revealed that while she was pregnant member of the royal family voiced concerns over their son's skin color and not the intense pressure of life as a royal drove her to suicidal thoughts prince harry disclosed that the royal family had cut them off financially and he feels let down by his father prince charles let's go straight to london then where we join the w correspondent charlotte to tell some don't welcome charlotte so i'm guessing the reaction there has been significant let's put it that way. oh yes every you can pick any cliche out of a hand to describe this interview a bum show. explosive people hey shell shocked by some of those revelations i mean just to give you a sense just the fact that they disclosed the gender that child the fact go the fact that they said that they actually married 3 days ahead of the wedding that we all saw on television stars revelations a lot and would have got a huge amount of attention here in the you can around the world but no instead we just had a revelation also revelation this to our what in debt no holds barred interview and it's just so different to what we're used to hearing from the royal family then mantra so don't has been don't complain don't don't explain well the suffixes harriet meghan did post there and of course as you might expect it's gripped people were gone this is whether or not that for or against the the institution of the monarchy now that detractors have been out in force they say that this interview the timing was very insensitive given harry's grandfather prince that is in hospital at the moment they will say of the queues for a long time harry and negative essentially trading on their royal names and saying that they want to step back to avoid publicity but here they are in one of the most publicized interviews in decades that support is and we've seen a lot of nazi coming out of the united states where this interview's been ed there's been a lot of sympathy for the couple and meccan in particular specially the revelations about her mental health and phase that history could be repeating itself we all remember what happened with with how we saw the princess mother of the princess diana so huge reaction here in the u.k. all right so you mentioned a mental health comment that let's start with that what did she say about the state of a mental health. yes she felt that at times she wasn't getting any support from the upset saying american herself but it really does paint a picture of a pants and now coming from the royal family engine as to who this comment in particular was referring to. what is buckingham palace say. well it was expected that this interview would be explosive few people expected it to be quite this explosive ahead of the interview the world family had suggested in newspaper articles that they one going to get drawn into making any comments we think these allegations now that have emerged it does appear that they are likely to have to have to say something whether or not telling gage in a in a real tit for tat there now in the public sphere remains unclear shot themselves in pearl in london thank you. well i should expect those acts of those disclosures to oprah winfrey have caused a stir on social media with the hash tag oprah meghan kerry trending online one of the most discussed of topics is that concern expressed by someone about meghan's child's likely skin color a journalist tara set maya tweeted as a mixed race woman this hurt my soul it's despicable conversations like this are still happening even at this level in 2021 i commend harry for standing up for his family and meghan for speaking out people have no idea how deeply embedded racism can be silicon valley strategist attacker 80 thanked oprah for giving the topic of racism a platform she posted on behalf of every person who's endured silent pain of black women who are victims of micro aggressions and everyone told that their pain is not real that you gave those women a voice tonight in light of the interview old clips from interviews with princess diana have resurfaced many people including the u.s. post poet amanda coleman have drawn parallels to diana's death that the american is living the life down and should have if only those around her and been as brave as she was meghan isn't living a life without pain but a life without a prison and the interviews prompted harsh online criticism of the monarchy with the hash tag abolish the molly trending all day. take a look at what else is going on in the world outside your window of syrian president bashar assad and his wife asma have tested positive for covert 19 are experiencing mild symptoms and will continue their work from home syria has officially recorded 16000 coronavirus cases in just over a 1000 deaths yeah actual numbers estimated to be much higher. at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a series of powerful explosions in equitorial gamey the blasts flattened a military camp and nearby neighborhoods in the largely city batter the president has blamed negligence by soldiers responsible for storing explosives. to protesters are reported to have been killed in me and 100 security forces fired live nation tens of thousands of returns of the streets to protest against last month's military takeover the u.n. says more than 50 people been killed in me a massive as the coup. jury selection beginning in the trial of the former us a police officer derek chauvin over the death of george floyd just a chauffeur he was later sacked george floyd's next to last may while he was pinned to the ground and pleading that he couldn't brady is arrested violent unrest in cities across the united states the judge has set aside 3 weeks for jury selection reflecting the difficulty of finding impartial citizens to try such a sensitive case. downtown minneapolis has the flair of a ghost town these days city hall and other municipal county and state government buildings have been fortified the city spent several months planning and preparing for what is likely to be the highest profile trial in the history of minnesota razor wire brand new fancy and concrete barriers this is how many apple is try to secure the hennepin county government center this is where the derrick shelvin trial will start in just a few hours there will be national guard troops here police will be out in force here to secure the proceedings inside all around town there's a noticeable strain in the air because of the trial. there's a lot of tension especially this defense is going up it just seems. escalation almost like they're already probably the worst if it doesn't say peaceful it doesn't but it just isn't is not served i don't think it will and it shouldn't not in my case and. polish policies but they're not going to change. the trial will begin with a potentially lengthy process of jury selection the court has allocated up to 3 weeks for that. ex minneapolis police officer to reach shelving faces charges of 2nd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter for the death of george floyd the 46 year old black man had been detained by shelving at this street corner 10 months ago on may 25th last year many say what has since become george floyd square is foremost a symbol for the pain and grief this community is still experiencing emotions are running high firmly rooted in deep mistrust for the police and the u.s. justice system steve floyd leads a local neighborhood organization called the adopt a movement it aims at improving relations between the community and law enforcement he is concerned the trial will reopen wounds. as you get more closer we get to the trial the more intense and more emotional the more triggers reappear you know it becomes more from your consciousness that what happened what we went through the last 10 months. minneapolis still shows plenty of scars from the inri protests the rioting and the violence that followed the death of george floyd burned out and completely destroyed buildings piles of rubble surface a reminder of what potentially can flare up and happen again here the worst scenario the big protests get aggressive from the beginning that's the worse. in anticipation of reigniting social unrest during the trial which is expected to go on for months minneapolis has spent millions on beefing up security half a $1000000.00 alone on barricading the city's police precinct buildings however as the world is watching what happens next many here say that there will be a much higher price to pay if justice is not served for the killing of george floyd . a lot of paul was a fall by the. staff and the silence who joins us now from in front of the cold welcome. steffen let's start with the the jewelry how will joris be selected. i am trying to make this very very simple and not too complicated but 1st the court actually at the moment right now just 2 minutes ago went into a recess for an hour because there was a motion filed by the prosecutors to delay jury selection maybe until tomorrow however this will be sorted out and then jury selection happened so how does this happen in december hundreds of people receive a potential jurors hundreds of people receive a questionnaire they had to fill this out 16 pages and of those who filled it out they're invited today and the court is trying to find 16 jurors why 1612 jurors who can sit and do the debating the. trying to find a verdict at some point and 4 alternates in case the judge decides to dismiss one of the other jurors to be selected now what happens today is called what do you and that means that the judge is asking the jurors who are invited to get into the courtroom he will ask them questions about the impartiality about what they know about george florida black lives matter or their attitude towards police is that there is a trial then the defense has to say no opportunity to ask those jurors questions and the prosecution of course to now important is that this is all to find impartial mostly impartial jurors who can make and who can make an impartial but this isn't by the law we're driven by the law and not by prejudices or preform opinions about what is going to happen here. and it's is that normal or is there something about this case which is making jury selection so potentially contentious that the judge has set aside 3 weeks. the process the procedure described is normal for this kind of cases however no doubt this is a landmark case this is a case. almost sounds like a cliche the world is really watching definitely the people here behind me 20 plus groups social justice groups other groups here from around the town as well as from the state and country they are. really really keen on seeing a jury selection with which is fair and impartial what does that mean we talk to people and ask them what does it mean that means that the jury at the end cannot look like 10 white people to black people or. even worse so that partially the impartiality in terms of who is sitting what qualifies to jurors what's their cities that are of their racial background is that right that is important for this trial and of course it is through the world is watching this year ok so we're seeing crowds behind you. and you told us that the security is being a briefed up in a study. done no problem as you see very. sizable crowd here they're going to monitor around town a little bit probably around the court building here right to my left which you can see and there is national guard behind barbed wire there's the national guard soldiers who were brought in to minneapolis station there's a police state back there's nothing to worry about for the police as of now so minneapolis beefed up security wildly and spend a lot of money on this they don't want anything to go wrong here they don't want to be ok for any rights of violence stephens i would say minneapolis thank you. i searched europe today. researchers say that it's just the beginning. because the 2 on virus that can trigger a pandemic with the big monkey be the last mile. up to 60 percent of all diseases already the originate from animal haunt how did this happen and what can we do to prevent it to politics. next. is a master of the art of confrontation this is known for the courage of a comeback mean you good reason you are exploiting the disputed champion. so far with the talk of trying to frighten people you know there's a fire everybody understands that it's absolutely true the conflict zone joined to sebastian because he holds the powerful to account this is a big for your whichever way you like to spin this conflict zone. d w. by 2050 more than half the world will be living with a limited water resources we haven't had to think about our war 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 this cold it's cool it's cool cool more peace to be free but the world is changing too most important for moderates youngsters can be seriously . water city or commodity stores march 22nd on d w. planet earth will soon be home to 8000000000 people until all need room to live that will come at a cost to nature and live as many wild animals. how is the coronavirus pandemic related to the way we live and how might we avoid pandemics in the future. that's imo coming up on today's program. well come to you tomorrow today.