board in advance the state premiers were taken by surprise in the middle of the night and so was the german public and this is something that simply wasn't palatable to the public at large although one has to say that on content the public still morden upwards of 2 thirds backs tougher lockdowns to fight this pandemic is a leadership style that is more and more being called into question while there was clear discontent with the most recent decisions let's listen in to what ordinary germans think of the latest measures which were only announced on monday. because it's a total catastrophe it's incomprehensible we have to leave with a disease. the whole circus the back and forth and maracle always proclaiming she's invented a new word for something it true really annoys me and often thrown out i didn't know where can a vaccination center and see how the place looks and how people are affected there should definitely be a longer look that. this meeting is just a reaction to all this criticism about the recent decisions. well there are also fundamental questions of the mechanics of festival how to get an extra day holiday although we expect a rolled back on that but also how to handle those travel restrictions or the lack thereof because after all germans are still allowed to travel to me york or their favorite island or to other foreign destinations while demonstrate and i'll put it in the past now we're facing an ever tough a lockdown i've seen that the justice minister has counseled her public appointments so she is clearly being kept busy by this very question and we would expect to see a new regulation that gives germans move breathing space to move room for movement potentially over those easter holidays while as we understand i'm going to machall now no one thing into another push to stop germans from travelling abroad for to stop an increase of the risk to both export the virus but also to bring back more yet more mutations after all germany is right in the midst of the 3rd wave of the pandemic something i'm going to self calls a new pandemic in her very own words. chief political editor thank you very much for this update let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic brazil's daily cope with 19 death toll soared past 3000 for the 1st time the country is struggling to contain a surge of cases many hospitals are breaking point cuba says it will administer homegrown experimental covert 19 shots to nearly the entire population of the competition have made health soar to authorities carry out late stage trials and india's health ministry says a new coronavirus variant has been detected within the country in addition to many other variants of concern also found abroad. here's a roundup of some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour the chinese cities of hong kong and macau have suspended use of the biotech pfizer covert 900 bassy defective packaging was reported in one batch of the drug authorities say they have acted as a precautionary measure the vaccines benefactress say there's no reason to believe safety is at risk. germany has summoned the chinese ambassador in berlin to complain about sanctions imposed on its politicians and scientists calling them unacceptable china was hit by the european union sanctions on monday for human rights abuses against the people beijing responded by sanctioning a number of european lawmakers. an erupting volcano has forced what's amala to close its international airport us from the mountains coated the runway and aircraft. port the volcano south of guatemala city is one of the world's most active it's been spewing out in violent explosions for several weeks now. large parts of eastern australia remain on the water after a week of for lentulus rain emergency services which last year battled on president bush for us and now rescuing residents from flooded homes has its includes dangerous debris lurking in the flood waters. to venture rains have been unstoppable in australia's east bridges roads. cars and buildings are surrounded by water. the flooding has forced tens of thousands of people from their homes to rescue efforts underway to assist those left behind. following the anybody. days of heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks and water levels to rise to day priests making recovery efforts over more difficult. quite dangerous in regards to coming up on the boat one of the main problems we've been encountering is large logs t.v. screens couches car x. things like that scott the waterways are quite dangerous at this point on anymore and it seems that boats are the only option to save those stranded in the terrain we're going to go to. some residents have decided to stay home and to weather the storm people around us not so lucky cows in the extreme of last fall implores going on there and maybe the loss of 5 yards so far i'm lucky several areas have been declared disaster zones with floods and severe weather warnings issued from south east queensland to the border all the time. area and the cost of the damage is already being felt. lose a fair bit closer if the water started only too much they fertile just dropped. so i thought to talk quickly about spawn but any nearer the source or chernobyl. to the touch of walking toward becoming more. in a position to prepare and more public outreach to try to authorities are also offering funds for the displaced they're warning residents to be on high alert. overnight unfortunately some way the conditions have been and weather conditions a locket it was during the day so many communities will experience increasing heavy rainfall and as we advise yesterday about a change 1000 people have been evacuated and regrettably we have warnings now for an additional $15000.00 people that may need to be evacuated. while there have been no lives lost rebuilding the homes and businesses destroyed in this disaster will come at the highest cost. israel's 4th election in the 2 years again failed to produce a clear winner incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory for his right wing likud party but exit polls suggest he will fall short of securing an outright majority and will need to enter coalition talks with rivals the final results may not be known until later this week. in yemen netanyahu supporters declaring there is only one man for them. but this is not the decisive victory that netanyahu and his look could party had been hoping for with counting still underway this polarizing politician doesn't appear to have enough seats to form a coalition government even with the support of his ultra orthodox and national. this rightwing allies he's appealing from all parties to back him school go a little state needs a stable government. not a government of bits and pieces based on personal disqualifications on ambitions a stable government for the state of israel that's what the our demands that's what the challenge is in front of us demand and we must not under any circumstances drag the state of israel to new elections to a 5th election we must form a stable government now you know the book so. young that peter has been netanyahu smain rival in this election but despite his push his centrist party yes shakti is still at distant 2nd. this man and his nationalist right wing mean a paci could now play a key role in deciding who forms a government naftali bennett used to be an ally of netanyahu but he's become a firm critic and has refused to say who hill supporting coalition talks. if. look i will act only under one guiding principle settles what is good for israel. must what is good for all the citizens of israel. binyamin netanyahu is still facing corruption charges which he denies. but he's also won support for the country's successful coronavirus facts a nation program. not enough though to know if this veteran politician will remain israel's controversial prime minister. joining us now for more on that is d w correspondent tonics ramit in jerusalem tanya a very tight race with its yo appearing to hold just the slightest edge walk us through the political minefield he will have to navigate to put together a coalition. you know it's certainly not an easy pass to build a coalition for benyamin netanyahu he had certainly hoped to have a more decisive victory that he could stay the strongest part of it now he has to look for clinician partners to reach the $61.00 majority out of the $120.00 knesset seats he would naturally tune to his allies who are also talks parties to already have pledge and that they would join a coalition with him and he will most likely oust the very far right extremist group of religious zionism to come into a coalition with them but then you would still need to. seats and i can tell you just overnight another party that was at the exit polls when they were published last night at 10 pm they went in projected to be in the knesset the ira party run party there are a small party that haven't really said with whom they want to go into a coalition so everybody's looking at them know what they're going to do and then the other party is. now to bennett's we heard that and the reports of taliban and him you know party he actually has openly challenge prime minister used to be defense minister himself under netanyahu to become the next prime minister he also hasn't said whether you would go with him or whether you go with the other parties that have formed this anything but netanyahu coalition but they're not a coalition yet and coming to that it's also very difficult for his opponents actually to form a coalition because they're coming from very different backgrounds and there was a lot of bad lot at least between some of the parties before this election so they're all kind of questions open that certainly not what israelis wanted to see you know another election that has that is totally income crews of at least for now and pro weeks to come over to. the time you know how has this you know who's coming off the covert pandemic which has been the envy of the world at the ballot box briefly if you can. yes surely the majority of israelis you see that in opinion polls to credit him for the vaccination drive president you know much admired nixon is about you have to say and also of course the health system but he remains a very divisive i think i hear he's polarizing this society and this is always in the background we've been saying that this election has been again you know an election for or against it and yahoo also has to stand trial for corruption charges so that is always in the minds of ingredients and that hasn't given him really the ets you know that many had hoped that he might see as ways somebody has to work for him because off this is sex nation drives the next time up there for us in jerusalem thank you very much for this analysis you're watching the news still to come a maritime traffic jam in the world's most important artificial waterway as a giant freighter runs aground in the suez canal. a 1st anti coupe protesters in myanmar trying a new tactic they've dumped a silent strike calling on people to stay at home and for businesses to remain closed for the day streets are deserted and markets are shot activists at the silent protest is to all of those who lost their lives during weeks of demonstrations against military rule the strike comes day after a 7 year old girl was shot dead in her home by soldiers who had been aiming at her father she's the youngest victim yet of the military's crackdown on protesters and i'm now joined by one of those protesters in me amar who we are just calling so to protect his identity some a 7 year old girl was apparently killed in her home last night by the military understand the shooting happened in your neighborhood what more can you tell us. yes they came in with any warnings and katie all went into inside her house and to search some things and then when they are about and reads in short they punish order knowing that there are. also shown how to look or have a theory or nearby. one of the ways or was shot in the head also and he is not in critical condition we're also hearing that the junta is releasing hundreds of prisoners now does that suggest the regime is bending to the protests yes there is some points to make and to do strike. seems i mean you know the ones you call were from the artwork or the news media that. it's on a strike it's not happening because people are going on to we you know. the people there at least. i have reports know that. one of one of the one of the unknowns even money member was arrested in yemen on jets just now. so how are you personally bearing the strain of these constant raids by security forces how is your morale and the morale feel fellow protesters. you know where we are we have very hard morrow. yesterday we were you know trying to hold all the street so that we can come into our neighborhood and started shooting everyone that our what happened was we got slangs some boats all right and they started shooting live rocks. stars our color was our song grenade one of the killers. went out in front of large extent of meat are not clear here and this is a resounding no you make we have to run very it's not we from there. it was very lucky don't no one can hear that in a seems a 12 people were shot dead mentally. and what a real. thank you very much some one of the protest has for democracy and them off thanks a lot for the time. thank you. as we just heard being a protester in myanmar is becoming increasingly dangerous spoke to one of the leading activists in the country was arrested and her life on a daily basis while fighting for freedom from. united in resistance a vast range of demonstrators and helping them organize this activists fins are among her work puts her at risk of arrest we caught up with her at an undisclosed location watching him she says even if we are afraid we must fight. it's anger against the military she says that is helping people put aside their differences and protest. being in egypt and not there is no army in this country at the moment which defends stability and peace of citizens. there are only terrorists who destroy stability and peace of citizens and commit murders . the demonstrators want an end to military rule but he says a return to the democracy myanmar knew before the february coup is not enough in a minor there's a lack of acceptance for the equality of all ethnic people and autonomy you forgot the neglect of the rights of ethnic minorities and the lack of a democratic system are the reasons why the civil war in our country that has lasted so long you can if we want to move forward into the future we must not take with us the things that happened in the past. besides protests millions of people are refusing to work their aim to starve the junta of the resources to run the country. but a says international sanctions on military owned businesses are also vital. and. i do really hope that common people will stop consuming bloody products every single product of the military has blood and life of the people of our country. and many and the m.r. are risking their lives for freedom from the who into. the ground we must fight this battle and tell we succeed this is become our duty that didn't work. here and despite weeks of a violent crackdown and economic hardship the result of the protest movement in the m.r. remains unbroken. an ultra large cargo ship has turned sideways and run aground in egypt's suez canal blocking traffic on one of the world's most crucial waterways the ever given is 400 meters long and weighs in at 200000 tons several tar balls are at the scene trying to dislodge the freighter historic sections of the canal have been reopened in a bid to ease the bottleneck of backed up marine traffic. or for that story i'm now joined by dr markel yano he's a maritime historian at campbell university in the u.s. state of north carolina as a format merchant seaman has worked on the suez canal himself with the suez canal has been blocked before why is this different. we've had the canal being blocked before but usually for short periods of time there is a grounding in 2017 there were a few a few years prior to that but the ever given is so large she actually went across the canal she is actually longer than the canal is wide and so her back was right now ashore on the eastern side firmly aground and her stern has hit the western side so she is completely blocked blocked a lower level of the suez canal between the great bitter lake and port suez so what kind of an operation is being carried out right now will they have to dig out the ship. they are tempted to try to dredge out areas around her back out to get her out she has about a half a dozen tugs around her with more arriving daily they're trying to pull her out and get her free she's in a very precarious position because with her balance turned ashore her middle is unsupported so you'd be very careful about how they maneuver her the difficulty with her is she is so large she's 1300 meters 60 meters wide 200000 tons so it's very difficult to get that ship of that mass to be able to move very clearly in the meantime cargo and ships are piling up behind her the convoy got stopped heading north yesterday and now today's convoys are all sitting there at the anchorage is what does that mean just give us give us an idea of what this block blockade means for world trade how important is this so it's them now. oh i can't tell you how how essential it is about 10 percent of the world trade moves through there it is the key is called the choke point between europe and asia and you literally see an example of how a choke point can be shut out all the commodities all the goods that need to flow between europe and asia go through that canal the canal was was widened in 2015 to allow deciles like the ever given one of the largest container vessels in the world to be able to transit through oil tankers super tankers are able to use it and every day that the canal is blocked about 50 vessels are unable to make the transit north and south that has a domino effect in ports where ships are not arriving on time cargo is not being moved not being offloaded cars not being on loaded and add this to the impact that cove it has already been having on freight rates we saw a spike in freight rates in december to europe of 3 and a half times normal costs this is going to be just absolutely spiral out of control if they cannot move it shippers right now have to start making decisions whether to send their ships around africa and take a 12 and a half day extra voyage i demoed just receiving reports 1st withholds that the ship is now possibly we float that's a good use of a stop to solve the almost maritime historian out company university many thanks for this analysis thank you. yes he did news here's 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