takers already chos are detained so all we have they they they are not likely to avoid any kind of opposition to what the end of the put it outside or even on the streets so for them is a pretty doomed life for their political career to do to be carrying on in the any kind of form in efficient home home our correspondent with the very latest there thank you so much. now at least 6 people have been killed in myanmar after security forces fired on them during demonstrations they were taking part in protests in the town of neon against last month's military coup which overthrew the elected government in the city of yangon there are also reports that at least one other person has been killed this latest violence comes after the u.n. security council demanded the military restore democratic control in myanmar. it is absolutely essential to respect the results of the elections and to a low for situation reach we move back to a democratic transition. we can speak now to journalist andrew not come sunday joins us from yangon hi andrew so we heard a clear message from the u.n. secretary general there but just hours later we've heard that more people have been shot dead by security forces in the city of my own and also in yangon where you are so what has happened. well it seems like the military kind of chooses random days where it cracks down with much more severity we don't see any difference in the protests we only see a difference in how the military reacts and i think part of the purpose is to kind of instill fear into protesters so that they know any day that i go on the street i could be killed. well if we look at what the military saying the spokesman there are said that today security forces only use force if necessary and said the international community doesn't have any reason to be concerned on the other hand activists say they are being targeted in this crackdown so what is your assessment of the situation yeah i mean i don't think the military is being honest they've been trying to claim that they're only using very soft methods and that other countries would crackdown much harder i mean we're seeing on our peaceful protests often teenagers often young women being shot in the head on a you know a weekly basis so i think that claim by the military is just simply not true we saw that the u.n. security council is demanding the restoration of democratic control and man maher and the military 2 has said the hunter will hold elections soon so do you think that is a sign that these protests are indeed having an impact no i don't think so the military has said since they see is power that they were going to hold elections they've been claiming the reason they seized power is because the last election was rigged they haven't offered any evidence of that i think if the military you can follows through with its promise to hold elections we can expect those elections to actually be rigged and we can expect and all day to probably be banned from participating to see any any avenue for a peaceful resolution to this crisis. it's getting increasingly hard to see an off ramp any type of diplomatic solution the military is really dating. yet it's hard it's hard to see a peaceful resolution right now. journalist andrew joining us from yangon in mian mar thank you very much thank you. now japan is marking the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that destroyed towns and triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster. a minute's silence was observed across the country at 2 46 pm local time the exact moment of magnitude 9 quake struck and set off a deadly wave and bernardo he too and prime minister yoshihiko led an official ceremony in tokyo to pay tribute to some 18000 people who lost their lives nearly half a 1000000 people were displaced in towns around the fukushima daiichi power plant remain on inhabitable. the effects of the disaster are still being felt especially at the site of the fukushima nuclear plant specialists there are still working around the clock to keep the damage in check in a moment we'll have more on the impact in the aftermath of the catastrophe but 1st a look at how events unfolded 10 years ago today. much 11th 2011. japan's east coast is rocked by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country shortly afterwards a tsunami ripped through fukushima prefecture taking everything with it. as an army also cripples the fukushima nuclear power plant leading to explosions and meltdowns at 3 reactors. thousands of people lost their lives as a result of the disaster tens of thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. the fukushima meltdown would count as the most severe nuclear accident since the chernobyl disaster in 1906. to this day there is still only restricted access to 1600 square kilometers of land around the disabled to noble nuclear power plant at around 230 square kilometers from the contamination zone is much smaller but it will remain uninhabitable for decades to come. the fukushima nuclear disaster continues to contaminate the air the earth and the groundwater to this day bags are radioactive contaminated soil life scattered throughout the province it's still unclear where the waste should be stored in the long term the city of tokyo was saved by a stroke of luck wind pushed the radioactive cloud away from the city and out to sea shortly after the catastrophe radiation levels in a large number of marine animals measured much higher than a limit values considered safe in japan today those levels are down significantly. but the fishing industry in japan is only recovering slowly. in order to keep you cool the reactors from melting tons of water a used each day to cool them and the 1000000 tons of contaminated water from the cooling pipes is stored in hundreds of tanks not a power plant but because storage space is limited and the tanks will soon reach capacity the japanese government is considering discharging the contaminated water into the sea in 2022. residents fishermen and environmentalist say that plan offers no solution to an ongoing disaster. we can speak now to journalist sonia glasgow who's standing by in tokyo i sonia can you walk us through the commemorations today yes it's been a very emotional day for ages and especially for the disaster affected areas a lot of unresolved trauma untreated grief has come up has come close to the surface today and not only for the people in been affected by the nuclear power plant but also of course felt it's not me affected areas and in your view and you're out there and actually this 10 year milestone is a point where many people fear that they will be forgotten and their plate will be forgotten specially also in the tsunami affected areas so it's a very difficult day for many people overall i must say really. it's really all inspiring how people have been dealing with this for 10 years now and no end is in sight actually so how would you say the country has changed in the last 10 years. i mean not as much in some ways as as many people had hoped the disaster awareness of course has increased precautions have been taken. for example to make cities more tsunami safe and also to make existing nuclear power plants more tsunami safe but the nuclear industry there's still so much going on behind closed doors there's no transparency people of course cannot trust when a few months off are an issue. they only learn about since and so most people would be quiet if nuclear poker faced out soon but the government is very much. wants to keep nuclear. so you would say that most people in japan do support the use of nuclear power now. i don't know as sorry if i didn't express the correctly actually much more and he is against nuclear power 75 percent according to soviets. they are against nuclear power but the government. yeah there's only one major party now so they can basically push it through. journalists speaking to us there from tokyo thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today. let's get up to speed on some other stories making news around the world u.n. secretary general antonio has called syria a living nightmare after 10 years of conflict there who cherish said syrians had endured shocking atrocities their suffering was now being compounded by economic collapse and soaring poverty fueled by corruption sanctions and the covert 1000 pandemic. us secretary of state anthony blinken has described the violence in ethiopia region as ethnic cleansing and called for the withdrawal of eritrean troops washington's most senior diplomat called for a reconciliation process to restore peace more than 50000 people have been killed since war broke out in november. lawmakers in mexico's lower house of congress have voted to legalize cannabis the bill is expected to sail through the opera house before becoming law it will make the country the largest legal market for the drug in the world for opponents of legalization say regulating the market would curb gang violence. and a high court in pakistan has ordered the government to ban the social media tick-tock it is the country's 2nd bid to outlaw the platform over claims that it is spreading indecent content a previous band was revoked last october following assurances from the chinese own doubt that content would be moderated. today marks one year since the world health organization officially declared covert 19 to be a pandemic the 1st coronavirus cases appeared in the chinese city of groupon officials there claimed a seafood market was the source of the outbreak the virus quickly spread across the world with europe becoming the new epicenter lockdowns and border closures did not stop it from moving and before long almost every part of the world became of infected or rather affected by the pandemic. well germany was initially praised for the way that it handled the pandemic case numbers and death rates were kept low and testing was rolled out of the countries approach has begun to falter restrictions are being lifted despite signs that the country is already in a 3rd wave and bureaucracy is slowing down efforts to save lives through vaccination what seemed far away suddenly became a painful reality here at the vip us to a company in late january 1 of them play us was the 1st german to contract covert 19 from a colleague who had traveled from china the german health minister from maine to optimistic there is no cause for concern or. a few weeks later things looked quite different infections were spreading throughout germany in mid march the chancellor took the unusual step of addressing the nation on t.v. . this is it is serious please take it seriously to say that there has not been any such challenge to our country since germany unity not since what with 2 that has demanded such great joined solidarity based anxiousness 100 and called germany's 1st lockdown started the streets of berlin were virtually deserted museums and theatres had to close and the economy came to an almost complete standstill. schools and nurseries also closed the living room became the new classroom but online teaching was difficult as laptops and software was scott's. meanwhile supplies of protective clothing in hospitals providing no doctors food to keep people infected alive early may nearly 7000 of them diet the high number was relatively low in comparison with other countries infection numbers started to fall the lockdown worked that reduce the burden on hospitals. finally some a time restrictions were eased people return to the streets but the easing of measures brought new infections. by november the numbers was so high that people were told to stay at home again what became known as lock down life began. the months parts of the population had been protesting against the restrictions oh . yeah. but lockdown light wasn't enough shortly before christmas in fact numbers reached such a high that public life was entirely shut down again with alcohol bans in public and even nightly curfews in some places at the end of the year germany's vaccination campaign had kicked off politicians promise that those who wanted the job would be vaccinated by the end of summer but many of explanation centers remain empty due to a shortage of doses but the fast rays of sunshine many are now longing for more freedom one after the outbreak restrictions are being lifted bit by bit but in the meantime you taishan zen infection numbers are rising again. let's bring in our chief political editor michelle accused. so where does germany stand right now. well according to law who is the chief medic of the whole world call institute the chief advisor to the government there who's been seen alongside the health minister on the german chancellor throughout the crisis we are heading here in germany right into a 3rd wave he says we're in the midst of it and this is only a couple of days after the germans saw those long almost 3 months of a lockdown partially lifted some sops allowed to open some schools across the country and the government left that line of always responding with a lockdown to increasing numbers the incidence rate is rising sharply just over the past 24 hours and the big question mark now is after those partial lifting the germany might have to go in to get tighter doc down once again that decision though won't be made before the 22nd of march when angela merkel meets her state premiers again at the same time michelle if we look at vaccinations that there were plans to have family doctors or primary care physicians are start providing vaccinations in their practices that has now been pushed back i mean why has this rollout been still so slow. well the sort of answer is because this simply not enough vaccine to go around this has to do with the fact that the e.u. and germany along with it was late 3 weeks later than britain for instance in licensing that 1st vaccine from biotech and that the e.u. is exporting almost half of what it produces in terms of vaccine it was the rest of the world whereas the united states for instance won't let anything out until every american has been vaccinated we also have the german chancellor criticized this at the same time germany is quite clearly very busy with its own federal structures when a speeding up of the process is needed and there's still those question marks over the astra zeneca vaccine with a lot of germans still reluctant to actually have that particular shot so still many lagging behind here we've also heard the chancellor say there are still a few tough months ahead for the country and critics are saying her government is now essentially failed to handle the pandemic effectively is that a fair assessment. well the german government has certainly failed in having a very fast vaccine rollout it's easy to compare with britain where almost a 3rd of people have had their 1st shot was in germany it's about about 6 percent but if you look at overall deaths if you still compare those 2 countries germany's seen some 73000 deaths britain today to see 125000 so the big question is how will society how will voters actually measure the see in the end come election time but for now there is increasing a lack of patience with the government actually to get going particularly on the issue of vaccines and testing our chief political editor michelle thank you. in the u.s. congress has approved a sweeping pandemic relief package the 1st major legislative triumph of the biden administration the covert $1000.00 bill was expected to be signed into law on friday the measures include direct relief payments of $1400.00 for most americans and funds will also be pumped into vaccination programs and billions of dollars allocated to schools local authorities and businesses the measure was passed without any republican votes protected. brazil is suffering what one doctor has called its worst moment yet in the pandemic many hospitals across the country including in the richest state of south pollo have no beds left to treat cope with 1000 patients the number of daily deaths pushed past 2000 for the 1st time on wednesday bringing the number of people killed by the virus to more than 270000 the surge in infections and deaths is being fueled by more contagious variant that emerge in the amazonian city of menow since january the situation there remains dire but as. has reports many have become complacent. lucy lynn addresses is back to living a normal life and meet john why reach an early date when the health system in the now is collapsed she had been infected with the newest strain of the coronavirus and needed oxygen by the city at run out of feet by the sea was now. its aim to apocalyptic as well as my head the more religious people said it was a sign of the end of the world and i'm probably right it was a night in that i never thought i would experience such a dramatic moment the moment the film that i'm much less seen it's a moment the sea descends to pop forgotten this is the main market in my house even those tours and businesses are only allowed it to operate at 50 percent of their normal capacity and this by the scientists warnings about emergence of more and more dangerous variants the market is always overcrowded. about 13 new strains of think we're on a virus had been that that that in my not was one off then the one is responsible for 60 percent of current infections in the region suggesting that it is more transmissible and that number is on the rise raising fears of a 3rd wave it's good to leave it today at mergence or even more dangerous bargains according to devide ologist who discovered that the ones trying. to squash people to behaviorist scares me because they are seen the situation the worse and yet they continue to live as if things are normal so that could mean that we will soon have a much more serious situation. according to the studies by the field research research foundation the government of vaccines are still effective against the p one strain is but summations center can add mister thousands of those lisper day but even here the oath already is are on the table implement. physical distance is . a possible means when vaccination starts there are always a lot of people but then the crowding goes down when older people confort vaccination because they bring one or 2 relatives and that's what's causes the crowd of the woman. with more than 7 percent of it's the car becomes like united states of commerce on ice where my mouse is located because i've ministered to their most doses today to brazil however it is still a far from containing the virus without social distancing people will continue to die from the virus. the city has made space for 22000 new grapes in the cemetery it's on the horrific forecast of what didn't you call the variance that brings to mind now it's in the our future. let's take a look at some other developments now in the pandemic denmark has temporarily suspended the vaccine produced by astra zeneca after several cases of blood clotting among vaccinated people the european medicines agency meets today to discuss whether to authorize johnson and johnson's one dose vaccine a green light would give the e.u. a 4th license to vaccine and richer members of the world trade organization have blocked a push by over 80 developing countries to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of vaccines for poorer nations now to sports in champions league football in the round of 16 liverpool have beaten bundesliga team rb leipsic to nil to advance to the quarterfinals after also winning the 1st leg mohamed salah scored liverpool's 1st goal in the 70th minute and study on monday netted another 4 minutes later also on wednesday paris unsure montreux one all with barcelona but go through to the quarterfinals on aggregate after having won their 1st encounter. and before we go here's some images of the world's largest religious gathering taking place in india hindu pilgrims from across the country have taken a dip in the holy river ganges to mark the most auspicious day of the command a festival at dawn hundreds of thousands gathered by the riverbank and having to take the plunge in one of several bathing days of the next month off the words are expecting 2500000 people to gather for the festival now because of the pandemic the government test curtailed the festivities and negative test certificates are in theory compulsory. story coming up next on our show focus on europe goes to siberia for air pollution in a coal mining region has turned the snow black. black snow in southern siberia not in for environmental activists it's further proof of the consequences of air pollution into some of. their demanding the relocation of endangered residents. but for many. that's responsible is also a major source of reliable income focused on europe. next on d w. n 2 the conflict zone with 2 sebastian germany's july's focuses on the most felt like these days also sessions a national business is a little strange to just deal with most folks and that is a system that soft and solid my guess is weak from foreigners the christian democrats and andreas nic this is good news policy to junk food lights in favor of business conflicts of. 1516 minutes phone data. by 2050 more than half the world will be living with 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 who live in a competitive world there's a call to it's cool it's too cold more peace to be free but the world is changing to the most important commodity junkers called the free slave. force of water cities for commodity starts march 22nd on d w. hello and welcome to focus on europe with me liz show germany is currently witnessing a record number of people quitting the catholic church one of the reasons is reports of children being sexually abused by clerics there is a lot of outrage in the ark diocese of cologne which is one of the largest diocese in germany for months the arc bishop o'brien a matter of the key refused to publish a report on past child sexual abuse but commissioned a 2nd report many are accusing him of a cover up for a lot of people are very key is handling all the scandal in cologne is a symbol of how slowly and reluctantly the catholic church deals with sexual abuse accusations the secrecy is especially painful for survivors like how kit he was abused by a priest when he was a young boy now he and others are calling for justice a brief warning to some of our viewers that they may find parts of the report disturbing. my tutor come off just great i turn mentor would often. hours of the evening treat. to stroke me. i was about 12. to enter the room. and be told to drop one trousers and bend over the desk of an organ. was. opposite me on the wall. and then it began to. come on. all orifices of my young body were abused. young men to choke up but so beaten. carl how endured 3 years of sexual abuse at the hands of a catholic priest while at boarding school during the 1960 s. . it was true. because they were ordained. and acting in the name of god. and often therefore think of the abuse i suffered as a product of the catholic church. cut told me spall. carl how they once the church to be transparent about the past when rana maria vokey became the archbishop of cologne several years ago he was hopeful the cardinal had vowed to address the church's history of sexual abuse. the syndic. but when vokey learned of sexual abuse accusations against a priest close to him he failed to inform rome and the report investigating sexual abuse in his diocese was not published instead a 2nd study was commissioned many german catholics left the church an outrage vokey realized his mistake and expressed remorse. i made mistakes in my handling of the abuse investigation as well as the related crisis management. i am certainly guilty in this respect for this us i am deeply sorry on her night. many german catholics however want to see real accountability and change mariana aren't is a parish officer in one of colognes poorer neighborhoods. she has been fighting the catholic church's patriarchal structure with broad support from her base. to assemble i told the church leadership must end this uncontrolled unreflected an unchecked abuse of power by the 4th. perplexed about of many people are asking themselves what are these church leaders are talking about. and why should i listen to them when they either a voyage talking about the issues that matter to was or talking away that we don't understand and country relate to because it has fallen out of time. this flowed outside cologne cathedral marks germany's catholic priests carl how like many others has had enough of the church covering up its sexual abuse scandals he says it must finally own up to the past. yes there were and still are perpetrators among ranks now these are not isolated cases this is systemic yes the church protected the perpetrators not the victims. experts on religious law say that in the catholic church power has been concentrated into a few hands for too long. first in fear from that so that became a problem in the context of investigating cases of sexual violence it was up to individual bishops to decide whether and if so how to investigate cases and whether they were serious enough to warrant intervention. in an effort to end sexual abuse in the church pope francis declared in 2019 that all allegations must be reported by clergy but only internally this does not however mean cases are also brought to court. did. government's representative for abuse set up an inquiry committee with the catholic church to get to the bottom of the scandal. it's not his lack of clarity surrounding the clone case has of course again undermined trust and that also impacts ongoing investigations in other diocese of vital in unknown abuse to. the church once former sexual abuse victims to participate in the investigation but carl how care has decided to stop cooperating the fact that the report wasn't published and the way former abuse victims have been treated has triggered too many painful memories for him. the shadows of thought the idea always for corn these are read a whole lot this feels like a repeat of the past on an ordained man does something to you and cancer will support this good us that's what it feels like things. or just standing there was shaking and sweating and recall how you were raped and the effect of article for. those who covered up the abuse for decades could soon be held to account the 2nd report ordered by the archbishop of cologne will be published this month it's expected to reveal the names of those responsible. over the last years many african migrants looking for a better life in europe have fled to the cannery islands the islands are spanish territory but geographically they a much closer to west africa than to the european mainland many migrants arriving here want to travel on to other parts of europe but strict rules make it almost impossible for them to leave and as the number of migrants on the islands grows so does the discontent among locals. this post carried 20 refugees 200 kilometers across the atlantic ocean from morocco to the spanish island of gran canaria. jones and his friends took the same route but instead of staying in the camp they're sleeping in a truck trailer. they've been on the island for 4 months and want to leave. if we put it we want to get we're just being france italy and bridgette germany every day ask where is the surplus. the canary islands has seen and plucks of african migrants and refugees most of whom are from morocco. newly arrived they had to state sponsored camps but many quickly move on. felix alfonzo does volunteer work and assist must promise part residents he has now also working with a growing number of migrants and refugees. then there's an. order for them and the holding income to is like a prison so they leave. their names to reach continental europe. with and many try to board ships so they think they'll have better opportunities and they're. buying up all the. refugees in the camp are feeling increasingly threatening like in the schoolyard hate speech is rampant on social media and there have been several protests by those. goes out to the refugees found one demonstration which reportedly escalated with a phone. when. they drew up right. through on because they shouted they would come in and burn everything down and threw rocks. that were long. record of the even through little fireworks as. those people are horrible. 13 people. manalo santiago was among the protesters he lives close by and the nature of canary island is particularly troubled by the many moroccans arriving. but he stresses that he has always remained peaceful. look on i don't know get him or you know him we can there is you don't want hordes of people pointing you coming for a visit there's no problem but not staying on the island we have our own lives here and i respect these people but there are a lot of conflicts but a good old film we go through to deal with the police have not said that the refugees are leading to higher crime rates residents tempers have heated up during the pandemic they have been experiencing their own hardships. how many people have lost their jobs in apartments and yet these people get everything is the government's fault so it's up to the governments to send them away. alphonso has been hearing comments like these more and more often as he distributes food to those in need some locals are resentful of surprising numbers of migrants waiting in line for free food. felix alfonzo tries to keep the peace a little thought we were busy focusing on other problems and trying to improve the situation in this neighborhood now all of the votes hostage taker backseats well. we deal with migration. these days there are so many mouths to feed that food sometimes runs out and some go hungry but i'm going to put on them for me it's a problem they're giving us less and less food because more and more people from elsewhere are coming and therefore. the tourism sector has also been protesting. many people's livelihoods are at stake and the industry is desperate for every guest during the pandemic. supplies bars and restaurants with coffee and he fears the refugee situation could scare away paying guests. for you the futurists who do come see the situation is bad for our image if they notice how refugees are being handled well what i mean why doesn't the spanish government allow more refugees onto the mainland and could repatriations be sped up despite cove it. we wrote to the spanish ministry of the interior to ask these questions but we didn't receive a response. like many people here felix alfonzo from the neighborhood association is disappointed but not surprised by the radio silence from faraway madrid. but he thinks their strategy could succeed in the long run. the federal government wants to make things hard for refugees and show them the canary islands aren't a convenient stepping stone for entry in europe. but in the end we're footing the bill we go by our block of the city along with the refugees $23000.00 arrived in the canary islands last year nearly 8 times as many as the year before and the boats keep coming. whereas they'll in the middle of the cold with 19 pandemic and many people have been working from home for a year now in the british town of rossendale one woman had a brilliant idea for making ritual meetings more exciting she is inviting special guests to video conferences goats and wherever these animals show up they are sure to turn even monday in team calls into fun experiences. josh mccarthy and her border collie bring home the flock she keeps a sheep and goats on her farm in rossendale normally school classes and wedding parties visit the picturesque venue in lancashire england bringing dot and i dish in her income. but the pandemic has put a stop to that we started selling when your cyber was gardening drink over and out in the gardens and stuff so we sold loads of up to 2 and a half tons of in a day but we don't have a dig. at all so i was very. after. but then she got another idea. and it's probably no coincidence that her cell phone helped make it possible. besides her to meet sheep up in the hills don't also keep some friendly goats down in the farmyard. what about this why don't we. get higher go to prank you work me like a ridiculous crazy i was like yeah that is stupid you know it's a silly idea to bunch one evening last april she went and did it anyway she posted a couple of photos on her home page and i got up in the morning and i had all these missed calls were measures like what have you done i've got like so many people in may they may what's going to have like 200 emails i went out from people who wanted to go. since then the goats barn is being used as a film studio. this is a business video called the boss has a surprise in store also taking part below right is margaret's only the boss and this did the job. it only costs around 6 euros to have margaret's take part. it was fine.

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