find new fragments of the dead sea scrolls to corning it's the most significant discovery in decades. and a hell of a homage thanks for joining us the european union's medicine regulator says the benefits of the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine outweigh the risk of any possible side effects that's off for a number of e.u. countries suspended the use of the shot she too isolated reports of blood clots in germany it's a blow to an already sluggish vaccination campaign. every adult in germany has been promised a vaccine shot before the end of september without astra zeneca that will be hard to achieve the immunization program is about to be expanded including 3 general practitioners like dr saurabh farhi me in berlin he was getting ready to give the jab to hundreds of his patients every week now he's been put on hold as. we were prepared to start vaccinating we wanted to get going early we've spoken to the medical bodies set everything up here in the practice and alerted many of the patients. and then came this big surprise. the government says if it is asking people to get the vaccine it has a g.t. to inform about potential risks but many doctors say the cautious approach will cause delays. i think they've not done the vaccination campaign any favors but safety 1st i think it was important to put patient safety at the center of things so it was the right decision then you need to publish the information behind it immediately. the european medicines agency is to give its verdict about fears that astra zeneca causes blood clots on thursday but even if the vaccine is given the go ahead for a 2nd time confidence in it has been dented from the information that we get is that the value of astra zeneca is greater than the risks but of course having any risk is not a nice feeling for this country i don't know if. that actually the risk of getting other people taking this back time is worth it or not because we were not being very clear about this situation if i had the choice i would take my own tech but if i had no choice it would take astra zeneca. doctor for he me hopes downs will not get the upper hand with the 3rd wave of covert infections approaching he says that would be bad news. coming. up as an answer as i can only say from what i hear many people are still willing to take it of. course. germany has a shortage of vaccines a problem that will be much worse if hundreds of thousands of astra zeneca doses stay in the box. well earlier we spoke to lawrence young professor of molecular oncology at work university he criticized the move to suspend the use of the ashes then a vaccine these are all the result decision actually when your own regulator the. vaccine is certain and where all the data that we have so far cross the u.k. and europe suggests that the rate old blood clot development in vaccinated individuals is no different from the unvaccinated general population so i think it's a worry to paul's marks a nation particularly at a time when infections are rampaging through europe well let's take a look at other stories making headlines around the world thousands of people are fleeing a suburb of me in mars' largest city a young gun is one of several areas where the army has imposed martial law to repress democracy protests the u.n. says security forces have killed at least $149.00 protesters since the military seized power last month. the syrian military says israeli israel launched a missile attack on suburbs of the capital damascus but it said syrian air defenses shot down some of them herself before they hit their targets adding that there were no casualties. the u.k. is threatening to lift a cap on its nuclear warhead stockpile as part of a foreign policy overhaul prime minister barak's johnson also announced in parliament that person will pivot its foreign policy agenda towards asia. an american intelligence report just released says russian president vladimir putin authorized efforts to try to help donald trump win last november's presidential election but intelligence officials found no indication that foreign actors attempted with the vote. and the new u.s. secretary of state and 3 blinken is touring the asia pacific and he's pressing the biden administration's mission to keep a lid on the growing power of china 1st stop was japan and then south korea a key u.s. ally but ahead of his arrival the sister of north korean leader kim jong un want to washington of a joint u.s. military exercises in the self in chung's 1st salvo aimed at the biden teen she says it should stop causing a stink. well that speaks to g.w. correspondent all of a sudden to fly for us in washington d.c. and get more details on this so some very strong words coming from the sister of the north korean leader kim jong il and oliver tell us more about what she said and also how it's being received in washington. now that's right well no direct response there to. you know you also remarks the sister of the north korean dictator and senior aide kim your own warning the united states basically to remain clear of north korea. as she put in her own words secretary of state anthony blinken however in a recent interview gave a broader assessment on the relationship with north korea and he said that north korea is a bad problem that has gotten worse over time and he's certainly referring to the north korean nuclear program that continues to be a big concern for the united states. joe biden of course now blinken also said that the biden administration has been trying to reach out to north korea via diplomatic channels since february and those attempts have been ignored by the north korean regime north korea now with the remarks of commuting one sister showing some force by issuing that warning and that is certainly also a response so that now we know that the former u.s. president's relationship with north korea didn't exactly go to plan what does the current president joe biden intend to do differently. yeah well 1st of all donald trump of course tried at the time for a new approach that was unheard of in diplomatic circles these eye level meetings and bilateral with kim your own as you remember no result came out of that critics say the only result is that it emboldened kim your own and it was also breaking with the former u.s. position and that is no direct talks with north korea as long as they're still working on their nuclear arms arsenal so north korea certainly to that end preferred to donald trump as the president joe biden announced involved that he would review the north korea policy considering sanctions as well but considering also diplomatic incentives and the ultimate goal however stays the same and that is advancing the denuclearization of the korean peninsula right that is details on of the sinus life for us there in washington d.c. thank you all of us. to mozambique now where rebels are targeting children as the country battles an insurgency a new report from aid agency save the children says militants up having children as young as 11 years old in the northern province of combo delgado as violence there continues to displace thousands of families are reporting marriages and mass kidnappings w.'s age increased reports from the island of quick. we are traveling to cuba in by island where the united nations world food program is planning a food distribution program. but our boates journey ends at the halfway point the tide is going out so we have to continue on foot the area is dangerous on the close by mainland there are still regular attacks by islamist insurgents. fortunately we don't know really. how to risk everything. we've been on the road for 3 hours through the sea and the mangroves then we meet the 1st locals and finally we reach the remote island which was attacked by terrorists last year. they looted the village and murdered 2 people when we reached the food distribution venue the local hadifa ministration tells us the terrorists also kidnapped 30 children. all of us are 16 year old daughter of one of our boys one of the missing children she disappeared without a trace. these people are just evil they come from far away take away our children and don't even tell us why what they want i am sad i'm angry i just don't understand. me she was there when when i was kidnapped you almost ended up in the same situation themself. they said we are taking you with us to our camp we will train you and to teach you to shoot and make you a soldier but 5 boys 2 girls and myself managed to escape on the way there. after they said they wanted to make the boys into soldiers what did they say to the girls. who will make them our wives. so far there has been no international outcry because the news do hasn't got out of the island without electricity or telephone network almost one year on many residents live in fear of another attack not a single soldier has been stationed here to protect them up to now. well champions league football now in the final set of matches in the round of 16 the title holders a buy in munich will play wednesday but choose their nights match ups included german club mentioned against the best club in the english premier league manchester city and city advance with a 2 nil went and 4 nil overall in the 2 match series in the meantime real madrid also moved to the quarterfinals by finishing off italian side. now israeli akio just have discovered new fragments of the dead sea scrolls a collection of jewish texts found in the west bank and the 1940 s. and 1950 s. excavators also found a number of other relics experts according the this the most important discovery in decades the ancients treasures were found joining in operation to protect desert caves from looting. rice against antiquity thieves and these archaeologists sift through caves looking for signs of ancient life. scrolls and parchment have been turning up on the black market which led the israel antiquities authority to intensify their operations in the judean desert. this is known as the cave of horror named after 40 skeletons were found here 60 years ago. and there are signs robbers have already paid a visit but they didn't dig deep enough. marking ologist discovered fragments of 2000 year old biblical texts. what we found is new fragments of a scroll that we have known before that had been discovered in 1000 fifties and early 1960 s. but what we found is new parts of the puzzle of this rather large manuscript manuscript is of a translation into greek of the. 12 minor prophets. and that from the bible the fragments are believed to have been hidden during the bar kochba revolt and armed jewish uprising against rome. they weren't the only discovery researchers found a 6000 year old mummified skeleton of a child coins clones and remarkably a 10000 year old basket thought to be the oldest ever found well this is by far the 1st place it's the most amazing thing guy and counted i found they seem and my life it's kind of huge it contains between 200 leaders and it's all intact this is as far as we know the most biggest intact back of the oldest intact basta that we know of archaeologists the findings will lead to more understanding of the beliefs of a little understood jewish sect. fascinating well up next is that documentary called off film taking a look at the history of slavery and human trafficking you can also find a much more on our website w dot com seems to take care of by. more than half the world will be living with limited water resources we haven't had to think about our war i think that era is over it's a financial product like any other financial. aid is changing the most important commodity through it all be free for all it's a missing city or commodity starts march 22nd on d w. this is the story of a world whose borders and territories were drawn by the slave trade a world where violence subjugation and profit imposed their own brutes and forged empires. as a people a backbend there was no oil slaves were the driving force behind these emerging empires. in the 14th century europe discovered that it was located temptingly close to one of the planet's most important trading regions. we tend to forget the riches that were produced back then in africa. the catalan atlas where did europeans appetite for conquest it mapped the winds for the benefit of travelers it also provided information on the military strength of different nations and it provided an economic map tracing the trading groups toward africa and its resources. a small kingdom was the 1st in the rush to seize control of the coasts of africa portugal. in its wake a new network of slavery routes was drawn. very began this was a plot to give project they were coming out of the crusades fight induced mortal what most times today is out so part of the adventure to africa was to. bears look really secure themselves and also maybe secure advantage or again small groups. lisbon the largest city in portugal and the only european capital on the atlantic coast at the mouth of the take the discovery monument evokes nostalgia for a time when the portuguese made the world their home carved in stone some 52 meters above the water the heroes of portugal pioneers of the conquest looked triumphantly towards the ocean that gave them such wealth and prestige. they are headed by prince henry the navigator the architect of a perilous project to open up a new trade route via the atlantic ocean his aim was to bypass the muslim rivals in the mediterranean and gain access to africa's gold coast in the 14th century the portuguese succeeded in ousting the arabs from their territory the kingdom now had free reign to begin its campaign of conquest promising gold and power henry the navigator convinced the nobility to follow him in this adventure. remember the navigator was the crown prince in a way this mythical figure this great christian portuguese prince was portrayed as very devout and it will be coming don't get going to the different he started out commanding a brand of raiders pirates who took prisoners before they get. to brave the atlantic and ocean few european sailors had dared to explore prince henry had a new and revolutionary kind of vessel. callus. sailing ships that were capable of battling storms in the open sea. the portuguese established a sea route taking in the coast of west africa. kept by her daughter the islands of arguin and cape verdi in. each mile covered was a victory over the muslims who were present on the entire northern part of the continent. portugal has traditionally glorified its great explorers forgetting that most of them built their fortunes on the slave trade. today lisbon is undergoing a facelift after the discovery monument renovation work extended to the district as construction progressed the riches of the 1st world city resurfaced by chance workers uncovered the foundations of the former commercial harbor. in the space of one century lisbon became the richest capital in europe some distance ahead of paris london or amsterdam chinese vases parts from indonesia ornamental class where from a cow and amid the shards of earthenware from all over the world a woman skeleton was also found. in the initial d.n.a. tests revealed that she was an african slave buried without a name or gravestone. the archaeology of slavery a relatively recent field is exuding a long untold history the fate of the 1000000 africans who were shipped off to europe between the 15th and 18th centuries. the bardos in the can this was an extremely brutal predatory economy the portuguese were disembarking and arms in and rush to capture the inhabitants of these african groves starting with mauritania and then senegal home to many poor fishermen because they were captured with nets on. each mission you dozens would be captured and loaded onto these ships to be brought back to your book about this interview poorly don't know up. in various locations between morocco and more autonomy are prince henry's mercenaries kidnapped unarmed civilians deported to portugal these 1st captives were unloaded in the 1st port on the way home lochalsh. passed on this coastline one morning in august 14th 44250 men women and children who had been captured on the atlantic coast were sold to the highest better it was a major event the 1st spoils brought back to the country by the portuguese conquistadores they had set off on a quest for gold but they came back with slaves the event was so highly anticipated that ghomeshi did sort out the chief chronicler of the realm travel to the beach in person to record the event. the following day it was the 8th of august early morning because of a. cruise began to work their boats unload their captives and take the mission all as ordered. so mad the faces down white with some note on the other hand were rolling with grief some looked to high heaven fixing their locomotives shouting and out up to it as if asking the father nature of file. others be their chief with their palms all through themselves flat on the around others made lamentation in a song like manner after the custom of their homeland. and though the words on their language could not be understood by use their sorrow was understood indeed. a sorrow that increased when those in charge. dividing them came and started to split them one from another to make even groups. to do this it became necessary to take children from parents from husbands brothers from sisters. grid no rule was kept each captive landed where luck would have it. too these are our describes an extremely violent scene for your children taken away from their mothers screaming ripping clearly what he is witnessing makes them very uncomfortable for it's a soul. things changed after that to go part of why they had to justify it all up when they did so by pointing to the civilization brought to the savages. or to guess what of condominium disembody. in the early 15th century human trafficking was common throughout the mediterranean in portugal but also in the south of france spain italy and sicily most of the slaves came from the balkans in southeastern europe traded via the ports of cyprus constantinople and. back then africans constituted a minority within the slave trade. in list that these proportions would soon be inverted the 1st african captives deported to portugal would be followed by countless thousands more. on the street of the negroes well one of a few alleys that are the only reminders of when this neighborhood the biodome know campbell included a ghetto reserved for africa. ans. 1453 the holy war between christendom and islam resulted in the latter's victory. constantinople the last remnant of the byzantine empire fell into the hands of the ottoman empire the christian side of the mediterranean was now separated from lands further east with the movement of slaves from the balkans also blocked for christian europe the conquest of the atlantic was now vital. christendom to ash had reached a all made up and the whole area where they'd been acquiring slabs for slaves. was now christianized to islamicize. there was only one region to head for africa becomes associated with slavery as a result of these developments. officially muslim leaders and the catholic church condemned the enslavement of free people but in practice the demand for slaves did not diminish and justified continued raids. in these societies people were driven by religion because they weren't fanatics that term is probably too modern. but religious motivations or conquering islamic areas to convert them to christianity were very important since the papacy supported portuguese expansion by granting rights to colonize. the wall couldn't easy. to take revenge on the muslims pope nicholas the 5th gave the portuguese his moral endorsement thanks to the vatican support they could continue raiding africa with complete impunity. portugal's national archives in lisbon are home to the romanos pontifex issued by the pope that gave the portuguese carte blanche and established a legal framework for the enslavement of africa. we had formally by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the force it came off. to invade surcharged capture bank wish and subject some some pagan and other enemies of christ and reduce their persons to perpetual slavery. perpetual slavery to words decreed by the highest catholic authority that amounted to a sentencing of innocent africans to words that would justify everything in the name of god. with the pope's blessing the portuguese ventured further and further south along the coasts of africa there caravels and strategies were copied by other european nations eager to take control of african gold and slaves flemish german english generally and the nation merchants from across europe invested in the atlantic adventure. some of the last the african. i want to it's not as if africans were passive towards european merchants entering villages to collect individuals and put them in captivity. elements and captivity lists to see if the ethnic african societies had their own power structures of wild eyed me they had a capacity for initiative and they negotiated discussed the terms of relations with european merchants that would be about bought i think limited. to secretly both to get the tipping point was when the portuguese entered the south atlantic beyond the equator and the us entered a new economic space economic don't know why are they came into contact with the kingdom of congo which would play a big role. for $271.00 the portuguese took possession of an island off the african coast uninhabited virgin and fertile so to me also provided a secure harbor 150 nautical miles from the mainland it enabled them to keep an eye on the region's most powerful state the kingdom of congo. kong always an interesting case of african history very different from everywhere else when the portuguese got there they discovered that there was a king there was a what they called a kingdom and not only that it was an area where there was no islamic influence at all portuguese entered into relations with the the king of kong on virtually an equal basis and so there were muslims there was no they were was no hostility on the basis of religion. and for reasons i don't think we fully understand they the the king of kong of congo. decided that he was going to.