never be free. and in the bundesliga byron faced 18 day head that it's thrashed and soon one early in the season we have the highlights of their thing she against hoffenheim. a michael thanks for joining us it's now been a year since the world health organization attempted to alert the world to an impending danger declaring the coronavirus crisis a public health emergency just over a month later the global pandemic began on january 30th 2020 there'd been just over 10000 covert cases almost all of them in china thereafter in the late winter and early spring case numbers shot up around the world and they've been rising ever since on january 29th 2021 a year after that initial declaration at least 102000000 people have fallen sick with the virus. to talk about this grim anniversary i'm joined by stephen moore sees a professor in epidemiology at the columbia university medical center in new york and an expert in health diplomacy an early warning signs welcome to deter you professor if you could take a view of this or where are we in this pandemic are we still in the beginning or can you see a very clear way out well i think we're really still in the thick of the pandemic i think that if we had acted early enough it might have been possible to contain it and reduce the offense but at this point it's like most other pandemics in that we're waiting to be able to have a vaccine which we have now and to give it to everyone to slow down the pace of the pandemic but it's still ongoing in many parts of the world including the united states. we've all been living in an alternate universe locking down at home wearing masks keeping distance even from some of those closest to us will some version of that be the new norm simply because we can't eradicate this virus altogether any more than we can eliminate the regular flu. yes and theoretically it would have been possible and possible early on but i think it's going to be to some extent the new normal i think the optimistic view is that we have it least for now in human coronavirus is that have been circulating for a while cause something like the common cold or flu like illness during flu season and this might end up being if one of venture only in till then i think we have to be very careful to prevent transmission and even after there are a lot of immunizations simply because these new parents will continue cropping up as long as the virus is being transmitted from person. professor herd immunity clearly appears to be the endgame here and the best way to get there is with vaccinations how worried should we all be that many people not only still doubt the danger of this virus but also the effectiveness of vaccines i worry about that a lot of calls axion hesitance it's hard not to to get good in here and do in the standard vaccines and in this country only about 50 percent of the people take their annual flu vaccine i'm hoping that the motivation for this will be better but i do worry about that because we will not reach your immunity unless we can get at least 80 percent of the world's population it is. just a quick yes no answers sure one year from now or we still going to be talking about this virus with the same sort of in the same sort of dire context i doubt less we will have gotten used to it in the more immunization. ok but we still will be saying yes stephen morse epidemiologist at columbia university medical center thank you so much for your time thank you. germany has imposed a travel ban on countries most affected by new coronavirus variants the measure affects among others britain portugal brazil and south africa restrictions will remain in place until at least until february 17th berlin says the ban is necessary to prevent a surge in new infections the measures include exceptions for people with the right to reside in germany medical personnel and urgent medical transports. meanwhile chancellor angela merkel has appealed to the public for patience during her country's grown a virus lockdown schools shops restaurants and leisure facilities have been closed since december in her weekly video podcast mikel noted some encouraging signs but urged people to stay vigilant. to all of our efforts the infection rate is dropping. we are making progress but at the same time we must be mindful of the danger posed by the new highly contagious mutation that fall in the coming weeks we must proceed with caution would not to get in a position to reopen schools and take hasn't as the more consistent we are now observing social distancing and following hygiene rules and wearing masks the sooner that will be possible again. for more i'm now joined by devious political correspondent hans braun welcome the german chancellor asking for more patience there this comes as the incidence rate dips but restrictions are going to continue in a travel ban from certain countries has been imposed how has her appeal been received so far. well obviously this is not the 1st appeal of its kind of. government issued and whenever there are official polls. you will find that up to 80 percent 70 to 80 percent of people respond by saying that they support government restrictions and some of them even plead for stricter restrictions on the other hand if you look at society in general and people behave at the fact that infections are dropping not dropping as quickly as everyone had hoped and it seems that in their daily lives people are not sticking as closely to these rules as one might have hoped there is a sense of fatigue in the society and this is why i'm renewing these appeals because there is a real danger a real fear that the progress that has been achieved in recent weeks pushing dom the infection rates could be destroyed by critics of the much more infectious variants that are now available on all spreading in the society not only in germany . as you well know the big story around here has been the slow roll out of the vaccines people are increasingly frustrated on saturday german health ministry on appeal to germans for understanding but at this stage i. speak louder than words. yes and yes indeed i think there was a little bit of too much hope that was raised by the government when vaccination started in late december there was a feeling in society that this was going to happen very very quickly even though it was clear from the beginning that the amount of vaccine that would be available would not be sufficient for everyone initially and then they would all these problems with supplies from various suppliers so that in fact everything that had been hoped for and something that some things have been promised by the government could not be in fact. realized so yes indeed the government is under a lot of pressure and the situation it has become a political hot potato this is one of the reasons way of why there is that. really quite acrimonious dispute with the astra zeneca manufacturer at the moment because polluters politicians all over europe and also here in germany are very much under pressure. political correspondent there hans braun thanks so much hans. russian police have warned the activists not to join protests in support of the jailed opposition leader alexina downing security forces have sealed off parts of cities including st petersburg where demonstrations are planned nearly $4000.00 have been detained at rallies since the values arrest really of this month. russian or thora t's are determined to prevent any repeat of the mass protests which followed the arrest of our legs in a valid need much of sin petersburg has been barricaded against demonstrations planned for sunday officials warn they will crack down hard on troublemakers but that is the only yes the living interior ministry and other loren foresman units will use all necessary means to ensure public order. any violent action against offices or refusal to a bay their lawful orders will be prevented individuals who commit illegal acts will be detained and held accountable but he's got that. a must go to court has ordered novell his brother own leg and several other supporters not to leave their homes they are alleged to have breached coronavirus rules during recent rallies nonsense say their lawyers. the only motivation behind this criminal case is to put all political activists under house arrest and forbid them from using the internet. in another twist russian t.v. has been to a building which the opposition claim is a multi-million dollar palace belonging to president vladimir putin state television says nothing more than a hotel is being built here and a leading business figure insists he is the owner. meanwhile security forces remain on high alert to deal with sunday's planned protests in st petersburg and elsewhere. farmers in india. begun a one day hunger strike to protest the government's planned agricultural loss they say the laws benefit large private buyers at the expense of producers the demonstrations come after a week of on rest that has seen hundreds injured in clashes with police. thousands of farmers are in delhi venting their anger at indian prime minister nerve enter a modi they say new agriculture laws who crush them financially while giving large corporations a big advantage. we have decided that we won't go back unless foreign laws are repealed if we don't have anything then it's better to die here than at home. this one day hunger strike is part of a movement that started 2 months ago against 3 pieces of legislation that passed parliament last september these protests have been the biggest challenge to prime minister modi since he came to power in 2014 he says the new laws are necessary to modernize indian farming but farmers believe the changes will turn agriculture corporate and leave them behind so they say giving up isn't an option not to be able to tell the 3 laws are taken back we are not moving from here but. you know obviously oregon may go to hunger strike coincides with the death of indian independence later mahatma gandhi protesters hope to rehab their image which has taken a hit and recent days because the square mischa's with the police. was farmers here hope the rally on this day of remembrance will reaffirm the peaceful nature of the protests was. in saturday's early action byron has said they're both hoffenheim the visitors had beaten the reigning champions for one earlier this season but this time around they were. so lucky. by and munich with a case of the pre-game goes little did they know that have plenty more to smile about at the end of the match even though they needed a corner to finally break down often times defense not to mention the jumping skills of jerome boy taking his head a from the back of the net to hand by in the lead in the 30th minute a taste of what was to come thomas marino doubled by n.z. 10 minutes later for his 10th goal of the season but not without the help of robert live and off ski sniffed the footwork. by and had barely finished celebrating when hoffenheim put one that just before half time thanks to andre crumb are a choice 13th goal of the season but that's as close as hoffenheim would get laver nasi made it 31 after just 57 minutes. king c c'mon with some slick play and the poland international finding himself in the right place at the right time. the floodgates had opened search cannot riyad it another to see a 41 victory for by and a scoreline that might sound familiar as by an event therefore one loss against hoffenheim earlier in the season. but his legal match days so far byron beat hoffenheim while dortmund and frankfurt both got $31.00 wins or known and god drew just like freeman and chaka in saturday's late game leipzig be live a close in on friday stuttgart beat mines and on sunday cologne will host beulah feld involves berg will play freiburg. you're watching the news up next year's world stories with a look at how germany is paying tribute to the victims of the coronavirus i'm michael o'connor in berlin for me in the entire team here thanks for watching. and life on earth matters are coming to and. a coincidence. previously the earth was just a messy chemistry lab the mission. where the impossible. cut off the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery look at the. moon if earth. starts feb 11th on t w. this week on the world store's. residents are freezing in spanish slums. and forking from dizzying heights in turkey that's we begin in germany where the media is reporting new covert 19 deaths every day a new initiative wants to make a grief more public by reminding the country that there are real people behind these numbers. it's the 8 sunday that caused john schmidt has come here to set out candles a visual reminder of those who have died from covert 19. he's not the only one doing this. germany may have done better than other countries at the beginning of the pandemic but the death toll now stands at more than 50000. and us of what if during the 1st wave of other countries had these kinds of numbers and i felt like we just accepted it here with a shrug. we thought we needed images to make death something you can see. that's why we started this initiative. on a much anybody because. many people come here to talk about the disturbingly high number of new cases others come because they've lost someone who says i'm far from the father it's just a question of where you can show grief or where can you go to experience this feeling peacefully like in a cemetery and that's how it should be here that i'm sorry others want to make a statement to show that the corona virus is a real danger. and they stink it's the feel of the there are so many people who just deny the whole thing we should all just hold back look at keep our distance so that this pandemic ends and not so many people have to die is a few too. even each time as an add another coronavirus memorial in berlin ingrid johnson is mourning robert maas ari a friend from new york he died of covert at the age of $72.00 she says he was a man of many talents i am still on the enter none of his many talents was that he was a lyric baritone and sang in different operas it's always discomforts i think that this memorial here in this historic square is a beautiful place for him especially because so many wonderful concerts have taken place here for him and he would have loved to experience that i mean every afternoon a candle in the german president's residence bears witness after easter a state no more oil service is planned for the victims. cold and no electricity in some cases the conditions are deplorable in this neighborhood on the outskirts of madrid drug gangs are allegedly topping powerlines the residents feel forgotten by the spanish state. it's bitter cold this morning here in kenya that riyadh on the outskirts of madrid some 4500 residents live here in what may be europe's biggest informal settlement since a power cut in october they've been without electricity many inhabitants of moroccan or roma origin most live in poverty conditions how worst in sectors 5 and 6 of the county area because of the cold many like a family now don't even have water. oh this is how would normally wash our clothes and then we'll have our hands by the fire. we don't have electricity we don't have water we don't know what to do. authorities blame the power outage on a search thought to be caused by illegal wiretaps to power cannabis grow operations in sectors 6 most of madrid's illegal narcotics come through here we can film openly here it's too dangerous but people we speak to confirm they too have no electricity. back in sector 5 a mother who wants to stay anonymous invites us into her house the kids are bundled up and tending classes online but just as long as her phone charge and mobile data lost. when they get upset i try to give them strength i tell them imagine you were sick or he didn't have hands i was trying to give them strength i realise that i don't have any more strength myself. it's a similar story for neighbors one man likely died due to the cold and the baby was hospitalized with hypothermia many are resorting to using propane diesel generators car batteries or stoves. it's expensive and very risky says rahma from the neighborhood association. she says that at least 40 people here have suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. people in all let us be a light fires and when they notice that the fire is dwindling they throw on more logs on to keep the house warm and because the fire consumes the oxygen this has adverse effects they wake up with headaches or nausea that is a money order that will need those several n.g.o.s have condemned the situation here. is how to feed my own back door to here now but like i know that in 2017 the authorities signed a regional agreement ensuring dignified living conditions for the residents of the county that we have. been through all this say this is. in this agreement also cover to providing electricity to the settlement we need the electrical some few families have been offered gas heaters and the opportunity to relocate the power utility now wants to shut down illegal taps however many here in kenya that reality feel forgotten i think that if authorities were serious about helping would already have tabled clear solutions. landfill sites and russia are a growing health hazard most garbage is simply thrown away and talks in safety levels at the dumping grounds go ignored for many of the people who live close by moving away is just not an option. this is the lexan skip it it's as big as 45 soccer fields and is just one of dozens of garbage dumps on the outskirts of moscow residents say just a few years ago with the paper was still deep in the ground now it's more of a hill and as a garbage piles up the locals health problems due to the dump lies just a few. 100 meters from the village of novel shop of all. of us hometown the mother of 2 says that some days the smell from the side was so bad she couldn't even open the windows and the kids jaroslava and were often sick video saver finally had enough she and her children moved to clean as city several kilometers away. the little ones were constantly sick one day their pediatrician told me their children have rattling sounds in their lungs i didn't think about it for very long before starting to look for an apartment for us here and clean later after we moved we went to the same doctor surprise surprise the lung rattling had disappeared how did that happen simple we moved away. families fate is no isolated incident. is one of russia's most pressing concerns only 6 percent of the country's gabbert is either processed or incinerate that is the rest is simply dumped environmentalist's of warnings east landfill sites around moscow in particular are a ticking time bomb i rarely conforming to safety standards but they pull you to the soil the ground water and the air. greetings taken by the state civil protection agency show the area surrounding our next inskip it is also contaminated 3 years ago after it is found to that hydrogen sulfide levels were $25.00 times of the acceptable amount. but nothing has been done to protect a local residence you only a few dosey of us mother is another of those affected the 67 year olds house is dangerously close to the dump but unlike her daughter she says she can't move. where. would i go who would i sell my home to without horrible smell outside who cares about someone like me and how would i even get by in the city my pension is 190 euro but i'd have to pay $130.00 euros for a one room apartment. meanwhile the mountain of rubbish keeps growing and there are plans to expand to the. dream job is cleaning the. skyscrapers. she is also the 1st woman to work in this male dominated job in turkey she hopes to encourage others to break free from gender roles. with bucket and cleaning products in hand the crew has to balance along the edge of the roof top attached to a thin wire they slowly move forwards. this red rope is where. gets to work now every move is a matter of life and death are met is laid under the safety rope so that the sharp element edge of the roof doesn't cut into it her life hangs on this thread. now the real work can begin. we are 130 metres up it's a wonderful feeling i really feel free i'm not dependent on anything. apart from my road. users mountaineering techniques she learnt during her training it was hard both physically and mentally but she believed in herself against all odds. going through the training pointless you'll never be able to do that job even my friend said that. 5 years ago mostly you'll most worked inside a highrise like this at the reception desk through the window she always admired the cleaners as they scaled down the facade then she asked they have shelley who's now her boss if he would hire a woman on his sofa all male team. proof that women can do this too. it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman what's important is if you're able to do this risky work or not here. today. is the only woman working in this previously all male domain. she doesn't have time to admire the view of istanbul below the skyline of the city of 18000000 live it's 161 skyscrapers has been totally transformed in the last 20 years. for cleaning up here in wind and weather knowsley illness gets hazard pay meaning she earns a 3rd more than the average in turkey just don't drop the sponge. allow ourselves to. live on clouds. and here's spiderwebs. thinking in the world in a more poetic way. we are to. exclusive interview with. art. deco africa to come back to the fisa when century com has become wondering how. it's possible ecological revolution in southern africa abolishing fenced in grains a plan to keep soil from becoming defensive and protect the habitats of wild animals and setting ancient skilled that's a contribution to a sustainable future you can look out for. in 60 minutes t w. 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