merkel s government facing increasing criticism for its handling of the crisis and a corruption scandal involving deals for facemasks voters in the southwestern state of boston votes and book will decide whether the country s only green party state premier can stay in power for a 3rd term in neighboring rhineland plot and it pulls suggest a close contest between the governing social democrats and merkel s conservative christian democrats with me now in the studio as our political correspondent has brett hats thanks for being here looking forward to the outcome then your analysis is 6 months away from the big federal race but with these 2 regional races tell us well as you ve just said i m leaving she will no longer be the chancellor in germany by the end of this year and the big question is how would her conservatives perform in the polls running up to the general election in september at the moment the conservatives are struggling they re on the back foot and in these 2 regi
of the us to civilian government is promising a revolution to overturn the military coup urged supporters to continue that of finance of curfews and to stay out on the streets tony chang reports now from bangkok in neighboring thailand. what was interesting today was that the former vice president peered in the ethnic clothing of his qur an ethnic grouping he called for all of the different ethnic groups within me and marty come together to get their differences to work together to overcome military dictatorship and to form a federal democracy and that s presumably a message which is intended for the armed ethnic groups that have been struggling against the burmese military in the border is for decades police in london are under scrutiny over their handling of an unofficial vigil honoring a woman who was murdered was at one point police were seen handcuffing several women and pulling them away a judge had ruled the vigil be called off to 2 pandemic restrictions and organizers
numbers they were out again in mandalay despite so many fatalities and casualties there yesterday apparently the security services a bank of there today but they are pushing back elsewhere and again it s the day goes on we get more and more reports more wounded and more fatalities police in london are under scrutiny over their handling of an unofficial vigil on a ring a woman who was killed. police handcuffed several women and pulled them away a judge should rule the vigil be called off to the pandemic restrictions but organizers complied however hundreds of people still turned up the mayor of london called the police response acceptable. a british iranian aid worker detained in iran since 2016 has appeared in court but the outcome is unclear trial comes a week of she was released from house arrest over a separate conviction sagar iraq cliffs nearly 5 years in prison before being transferred to home detention in march police in britain have launched a preliminary investigatio
investigated and a case that could see has stripped of her british citizenship plus. finding ways to perform we look at how some musicians in new york are playing it safe during this pandemic. and in sports the boxing world has been paying tribute to one of the sport s all time greats former undisputed world heavyweight champion marvin hardly the start of the age of $66.00. when our island is the latest nation to suspend use of the astra zeneca crave in $1000.00 vaccine due to concerns about blood crossing a government advisory committee says it s just a precaution and stress that there was no conclusive link between the vaccine and blood clots and referred to reports from norway of 4 serious cases norway denmark and iceland all suspended use. of the vaccine the world health organization astra zeneca and the use regulates that all insist that the vaccine is safe and let s get some of the details now with jonah how he s in london for us journal yet another blow faster zeneca a
a delay that could put people at risk island joins the list of nations suspending the use of the astra zeneca vaccine. 38 protesters are killed in may and mark the head of the sideline civilian government tells people to take defense into their own hands and. a prison sentence ended a week ago but now it means a guard lives husband says how detention could have no end as iran doubles new charges he joins us life. in sport christiane elder comes up with the perfect response to his critics you don t see a strike at silencing the dancers of the 1st off country against calgary. welcome to the program out top story thousands of people have again protested on the streets of london over the issue. to a violence against women but this time the anger and emotion was directed against the police s handling of saturday s vigil for sarah everard the woman abducted and killed earlier this month the government and the london mayor are now putting pressure on the chief of the city s metropol