i think it's only the beginning of this. cycle or shimon regimes starting february first one on d w. this is two w.'s line from berlin kenya's leading opposition figure stages a mock inauguration in the nation's capital tens of thousands turn out to witness raila odinga challenge to the newly installed government will in a symbolic protest spark more deadly unrest after kenya's disputed election we're live in nairobi also coming up a breakthrough on refugees the parties in germany's coalition talks hammer out a deal allowing refugees to bring family members to join them and naming and shaming the u.s. releases

a list of high profile russian politicians an oligarchy retires to the kremlin part of a measure passed by congress to punish moscow for meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. great to have you along everyone will we start in east africa where kenya is opposition leader raila odinga has taken a symbolic presidential oath of office in a mock ceremony in the capital nairobi while thousands of a static supporters of war were on hand at the swearing in event which can be as attorney general has called an act of treason i think a boycotted a rerun of the country's presidential vote last october calling it a sham i asked people assembled the government to cut off the signal of television channels broadcasting the event and police later fire tear gas to disperse

opposition supporters. well after the ceremony you rile a dingo updated his twitter profile to call himself president of the republic of kenya and in a tweet showing him at the market on gratian a day that described himself as graciously accepting the mandate granted us by the kenyan people. all right catherine a mando is covering this story for us in nairobi catherine set the scene for us how did this mock inauguration in the middle of the capital happen. well it started out with throngs of people coming from especially kibera which is one of the opposition strongholds and my very and also far and wide they all came to the central park who park to just see this inauguration take place. before the documentation did take place there was some skirmishes between

protesters and police but we did see police restrain themselves compared to the protests that we've seen over the last couple of months and off to the swearing in . said that you know this is the beginning of the end of electoral injustice and this is the beginning of election reforms what he means by that they get to see so that's what we saw and then when you spoke when we spoke to some of the people on the ground off the swearing in they said that they're willing to work with the previous government is a joke you know the previous government referring to now the ruling party but the country seems to vida because if you look at the ruling party strongholds this saying that this could be the end of right loading and his legacy given that it seemed like a sham because it was important to notice that he wasn't in the presence of his running mate. or two of the principals which showed that maybe nasa is a house divided however. said that there will be an explanation as to why the

principals were not with him and why he was standing alone but the support his supporters seem to not really mind that he would he took the oath on his own all right well let's talk a little bit about the government's response how did they go down with that. well the government has responded in two very contradictory ways in the sense that the police did restrain themselves we have had reports of police killing at least close to one hundred people if you if you look at the kenya national human rights commission report but then other human rights organizations say that over the past couple of months more than two hundred people have been killed in protests including ten children so today we saw some restraint which seems like the government was almost compromising but then we saw the shutdown of television stations including. affiliate station which is one of the strong local stations they have been shut down and you know until now people are asking why are

we not seeing why are we not seeing this news on or why are we not having news or information on our t.v. screens so people are questioning the government's motives in that in that sense because that saying that if the government can get the media then when no different from uganda there were no different from ethiopia and that's a big concern right now briefly if you can catherine give us a sense of the mood in kenya are there still a lot of people out there contesting the outcome of the election well now it's a matter of who which president do you follow so we have two presidents we have a president of the people and we have the officially placed president a president who kenyatta so but then the people who are saying that who can yes or should be the first to start dialogue because that's the only way to move forward otherwise if it continues like this it will be a country that is more divided than it was before we're going to want our reporting

from nairobi kenya thank you. all right well back here in germany the two the country's two main political groups have made a major breakthrough in coalition a go she asians chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and the center left social democrats have reached an agreement on refugee family reunions that involves a monthly cap on refugees already here bringing their family members to join them in germany it's been a sticking point between the parties during their negotiations. well in the past few years hundreds of thousands of syrians have fled the civil war at home to seek refuge here in germany you know you spoke to one refugee from syria who is hoping that his wife will be allowed to join him here. her son hasn't seen his wife since he arrived in berlin two and a half years ago he came to germany with three of his brothers. cousins wife alone

in lebanon has requested entry to germany on the grounds of family reunification. she hasn't yet received a response. and. i hope my wife can come here has and says. he knows that he's among many refugees hoping to reunite with their families . but he and his brothers have little chance of bringing their relatives here the german government expects refugees like him to return home at some point if they're not in danger of persecution the u.n. disagrees with this policy the need for protection is the same you cannot predict conflict is significantly. a need for protection individual persecution for example because political. people need to be with their families we have to see the situation from a humanitarian perspective it's not right that people should be separated from

their spouses and children for years at a time and this is a question of humanity. catherine is unsure why it's difficult for refugee families to be reunited here imagine he says if germans were in his situation all alone in a new country without family in any case he's adamant that returning to syria is not an option there's nothing left for him to do but wait for the decision from the authorities and keep in touch with his wife every day online. the russian president has criticized a u.s. decision to release a list of rich and powerful russians who could become a target for sanctions a lot of it is that the move could damage international relations as a whole his prime minister dmitri medvedev yes is named as are dozens of ministers and nearly a hundred all the guards to release was ordered by congress in response to allege russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential campaign. all right we can talk

more about this subject now with. our moscow office miele let's start with this naming and shaming list that the trumpet ministration released at the white house is not imposing sanctions so is there anything for the russians to worry about what has putin said exactly about this. well putin said that this is an unfriendly act and will complicate u.s. relations u.s. russian relations even more at the same time he made some sort of jokes basically saying he is offended that his name is not on the list so he doesn't take it too seriously his prime minister dimity made be they have said that this list is doesn't mean anything and his deputy arkady dvorkovich said that russia is going to monitor the whole situation right now they don't plan to retaliate or this is at

least not the plan today it may change in the days to come when it's lecky member of the foreign relations committee of the duma he said that russia and the u.s. are in some sort of war i'm not sure what he means but by the word war what is even more important that the russian ruble was a little bit on the pressured late at least today in the early morning and that some shares of important russian companies like noted sneakily that they went south all right now let's talk about this other arguably the bigger russia related story a coming out of the u.s. so right now that of a cia director mike pompei are saying that he expects russia will meddle in the twenty thousand mid-term elections in the u.s. has the kremlin responded to that. well we haven't heard right now anything from the crown man and the cia director mike bumpier spoke about his expectations he expects as russia's going to meddle in the mid-term elections but at the same time he also made clear that he expects that there will be free and

fair elections in the u.s. so as i said before here in russia oh no there's no officer reaction to that but i went to the duma of spoke with some members of the duma and they basically see repeat what they said before we have meddled in the us elections we have done we have not done this in the past and we will do this in the future so this is for me a sign that the relations between russia and the us a really bad and i don't think that this is going to change anytime soon we just search reporting from moscow russia thank you. all right now we're to some of the other stories making news around the world. catalonia as parliament has perspire on a vote to formally real like the separatist leader carlos but you marked as the region's president the speaker said the vote would be postponed until they had legal guarantees for pretty ones immunity if this is arrest if he returns to spain and is currently in self-imposed exile in brussels belgium. romania has

sworn in its first female prime minister amid a wave of anti corruption protests. becomes the third head of government within a year the european union has criticized new legislation which opponents claim will make it harder to prosecute high level corruption in. ireland is to hold a referendum on reforming the country's near total ban on abortion prime minister a leader at a car says he will campaign for change in the vote at the end made ireland currently has some of the strictest abortion laws in europe and poll suggests a majority is in favor of reform women obtain more as many as one hundred fifty stranded skiers have been rescued from a broken down chairlift in austria armed forces helicopter the holiday makers to safety from the mountain in the southern state of styrene there were no reports of

any injuries. the world anti-doping agency says it's looking into a possible security problem with the bottles that are used for drug tests on this after a lab in cologne told the organization that the bottles could have potentially been opened manually the international olympic committee says it's concerned by the findings. they're meant to be tamper proof but these sample bottles are said to be easily manipulated the revelation first reported by german journalist. comes after the bottles were examined at the anti doping lap in cologne the lab found the bottles could be opened manually when a frozen this sports lawyer is furious he says testing at next month's winter games will be floored. in south korea where we can forget it because the head of germany's olympic movement has urged the world anti-doping

agency to act. we. can only ask in the coming days to clear out this matter and if you'll pardon the pun they need to plug the hole in these tests once and for all. the problem dates back to sochi in twenty fourteen russia success at their home once again undone by evidence of state sponsored doping the man who provided that evidence for director gregory rich cough is now in hiding in the united states among his allegations the security service the f.s.b. was ordered to break into sample bottles. and russia have consistently denied state sponsored doping but these latest revelations raise questions about the security of samples worldwide. art before i

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