this is news coming to you live from berlin a wave of condemnation after a russian opposition leader alexina bonney is arrested in moscow the kremlin critic was detained at a moscow airport just hours after he departed berlin where he'd been recovering from a nerve agent attack that almost killed and dozens of his supporters were also arrested also coming up mismanagement and mafia interference or putting italian hospitals out of action during the past dammit we meet the doctors campaigning to get the prius closed down clinics reopened. and they've seen their colleagues dive coated

19 now kenyan health workers are going on strike calling on the government to do more to protect them on the job. hello i'm terry marchant good to have you with us the u.s. the e.u. and canada have called for the immediate release of kremlin critic alexina vonnie he was arrested after landing in a moscow airport on his return from berlin if he had been in germany recovering from a nerve agent attack last august which he blames on the kremlin russian authorities said they've detained abani for violating the terms of a suspected prison sentence suspended prisons. a kiss goodbye and he's taken it was. arrested at passport control just minutes after expressing hope

he might go free anybody who says i'm not afraid. to go through border control cross the border and go home i know i'm right actions against me are fake. just minutes earlier the plane had landed unexpectedly at moscow's sheremetyevo airport it had been diverted from a different moscow airport where it had previously been expected to land. dramatic scenes unfolded police arrested dozens of supporters who wanted to greet the kremlin critic personally authorities had declared their presence illegal and blocked access to the terminal with police vehicles some kremlin observers say the response shows the russian government is afraid of. me is dangerous otherwise they wouldn't want to imprison or kill him but he was fearless and now he's also famous even outside of russia that is exactly what the kremlin doesn't

want. who are recognized by 70 or 80 percent of the population and who cannot be controlled. august 20th last year was admitted to hospital in siberia after he lost consciousness on a flight wife asked president vladimir putin permission to send her husband to germany for treatment surprisingly the kremlin allowed it. was treated for several weeks at the charity hospital in berlin during this time german army scientists found evidence that the russian had been poisoned with a nerve agent novacek other western experts came to the same conclusion. russia meanwhile dismissed the allegations as a political ploy by the west and has so far refused to investigate the attack asked about. his annual press conference that when you responded with mockery. relation to it that i become one who needs him if we had wanted to we would have finished

him off with a gun to putin was responding to allegations that a so-called killer squad from the domestic intelligence agency the f.s.b. had poisoned him but instead of addressing these allegations moscow has now put behind bars. and we have team coverage on this story emily sure when is our correspondent in moscow and jailed readers at our parliamentary studios here in berlin and only in a volley barely survived the poisoning last august why did he decide to go back to russia where the same could happen again. well you know terry i think all opposition activists here in russia know that it's risky to be a kremlin critic and that's what they regularly tell me people regularly tell me that they would be even willing to die for their cause and i think that you can probably say the same about alex enough we saw in that statement that he made at

the airport upon his arrival that he says he's not afraid he has said in the past that leaving russia was actually not his choice he was brought there in a coma and that's why coming back isn't a choice either he never questioned that choice that's what he has said repeatedly since he woke up from that coma he knows i think though also that if he didn't come back to russia he could run the risk of potentially slipping into kind of irrelevance going forward political irrelevance by not being here in russia in the country especially ahead of parliamentary elections here duma elections in the country which are scheduled to take place later this year where alex in the vinyl plans to lead the charge on this kind of strategic voting strategy which he's been advocating where he wants people to vote for the candidate most likely to beat bloody near putin's united russia party well the arrest has drawn massive

international condemnation u.s. secretary of state mike has called it the latest in a series of russian attempts to silence me and use foreign affairs chief your support called on russian authorities to respect the rights and release him immediately jerk watched the german government saying about the bodies arrested in russia. well german foreign minister hiker mosse has called for in of on these immediate release he said that in a volley return to russia of his own free will and he described russia as these postal and political harm and said it was in comprehensible that he had been arrested upon his arrival back in russia mass also repeated the german government's position that alexei novella he was the victim of a crime last september. described it as an attempted murder with

nerve agent there of course had been fears over finale safety upon his arrival in russia and last week a government spokesman was asked whether it had whether the government had tried to discourage alexina valmy from going back at all and what stiff inside that the government spokesman said was that the government was glad that alexei novelli had recovered enough to a point where he felt ready to return home some countries are calling for sanctions to be imposed on russia in relation to this case doing you know if germany is likely to join those calls for sanctions. i think it's probably a little bit too early to say that yet but what german germany has repeated is that it wants russia to invest the energy that it is currently using in prosecuting

alexei navalny and use that energy and actually investigating what happened to him what we found out over the weekend is that transcripts of interviews carried out by berlin prosecutors with alexina valley were given to russian prosecutors and what the german government said was that now it has these transcripts and it also has forensic evidence like blood tissue and clothing samples that all of these together is more than enough all that it needs to to carry out a thorough investigation into what happened to alexina valley the government saying that any investigation should be carried out inside russia. emily alexina is clearly a thorn in vladimir putin side how is russia likely to deal with them though. well i think that for the kremlin certainly going forward having alex enough i mean

back in russia is as you say a thorn in their side certainly an inconvenience as i said ahead of the elections which are coming up we don't of course know what will happen to alex in pretrial detention now and the prison service has recommended that his conditional service his conditional sentence rather on an old embezzlement conviction should be turned into real jail time it could mean that could mean that could be put behind bars for quite a long time we don't know we do know that if there are sanctions if there are words condemning russia from the e.u. as we've been seeing that kind of in a sense is old news for the kremlin and they'll probably just continue doing what they want. and really. jared here in berlin and thank you very much to you both.

now it's check on some other stories making headlines around the globe today police in guatemala have fired tear gas and used batons against thousands of migrants from central america who are pushing north towards the united states it's thought the migrants are hoping joe biden's incoming administration will be less tough on migration than the current one. in south korea the billionaire defacto head of sound so jay widely has been jailed for 2 and a half years on russian charges this comes after the high court in seoul overturned lee's original suspended sentence he was convicted of bribing an associate of the former president park on may 27th. china's economy beat expectations in 2020 growing by 2.3 percent it was boosted by a strong 4th quarter this makes it the only major economy to avoid shrinking last year as countries struggle with the impact of covert 19 beijing's tough measures to

contain the virus are thought to be one reason behind the growth. well the credit buyers pandemic has brought the health system in italy's southern region of calabria to its knees but here part of the problem is it's empty hospitals rather than its full ones several hospitals are not being used to to mismanagement of funds and the influence of the mafia reported my son have met a group of retired doctors were fighting to reopen calabria is closed down clinics . these are not your usual squatters the members of a mental unpaired now are fighting for a basic need access to medical health care. the group formed by retired medical doctor 94 moto takes turns and occupying a wing of this closed down hospital in cody at the southern italy. it was absolutely unthinkable 10 years ago and after so many years that this hospital has

been in operation after so many years of work and all these people who have worked here in this time that there will be a need to occupy. for a motto invites is to see 1st selves work is still ongoing at the vento constantino but was so few staff the hospital is no longer classified as such. this radiology unit used to do more than $20000.00 screenings per year now it's less than $300.00 the victoria cross and tina was designed to serve a community of more than $80000.00 people but after decades of mismanagement and mafia meddling in the health care system it now finds itself unable to meet even basic requirements for treating patients and this in the middle of a global pandemic like the hospital and carry out the there are 17 others in the region that are out of service the pandemic has it brought to light systemic mismanagement the infrastructure such as the oxygen ports at this hospital could be used to treat cope with 1000 patients but without doctors and sufficient funds they

are useless. doctor for model takes us into a separate wing built in the ninety's this part of the hospital was never properly put to use a well equipped hospital room for disabled patients now serves as a storage space leaving the 66 year old with a feeling of great bitterness. i have been a doctor in this facility for 40 years and to think that i can sister people that i can't give answers is absolutely frustrating. the health care situation the entire region of calabria is so dramatic that it was placed under the supervision of the national government 10 years ago causing even further cuts to the health budget battle. in the past hospitals were closed in order to pay off debts what we're working on now is to recover doctors nurses health personnel and above all facilities in emergencies me 80 beds so that it's anything. but

a little. mafia infiltration of the health care system is another issue a look at the hospital roof shows an elaborate solar panel an air conditioning system acquire through lucrative government contracts for a model says the mafia is behind it. that's what i thought i'd be able to lead an air conditioning system would be useful if it were accompanied by the fact that there are patients inpatients if there are no patients and the question arises why is this being done and why isn't the ultrasound machine for the cardiology war. the people of the like many across the region suffer patients are currently need to travel more than an hour to get to a functioning emergency room which places a large burden especially on the elderly. the members of move you mental one 3rd of them want to continue their fight to the end until their hospital is reopened under

the watchful eye of come undone the ship give out on a dock. and so they tell us in order to have your rights recognize you have to start a revolution. similar to some other developments in the corona virus pandemic worldwide the united kingdom is ready to launch the next phase of its vaccination program offering shots to the over seventy's and those seen as clinically extremely vulnerable more than 3800000 people have already been a vaccination in the u.k. authorities in brazil have granted emergency approval to 2 coronavirus vaccines they have a shot manufactured by chinese firms to novak and the vaccine from british partners presented to an oxford university and more than 70 tennis players headed for the australian open have been quarantined for 2 weeks in melbourne after several positive tests from other passengers aboard their flight to australia. well as europe the u.k.

and the us race to vaccinate their populations against covet 19 africa has so far secured only one 5th of the vaccination doses the continent needs the african union says it has secured 200 $70000000.00 coded 19 vaccine doses which will be made available this year this will supplement the $600000000.00 doses obtained by the world health organization's kovacs alliance for africa but some african nations aren't willing to wait guinea is now testing the russian backed scene sputnik piven has ordered 2000000 doses south africa has ordered 20000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine and kenya has ordered 24000000 which should start arriving by the end of next month that's not soon enough for many health workers who feel they're being exploited they've gone on strike to demand better pay medical coverage and adequate protective gear the w.'s reports now from nairobi.

dorcas loves her job as clinical officer a big part of that though was to work closely with covert 1000 patients then one day she got sick herself i survived call then i went through a lot of problems after i was infected i didn't have a medical problem i didn't find a good source i was supposed to go on oxygen my blood of my sons were infected it was very traumatizing she survived 9 of her colleagues did not and then another shock she had to pay the expensive hospital bill from our own pocket for over a month now she's been on strike with her nurses and medical lab offices more than 30000 according to the unions their demands include protective health insurance and compensation for families in case of death. if any of our guys don't have a nice to. have fun millett is going in destitution.

and as if that is not enough then they tell you if you do not go back to that and save working environment we are going to start. indeed have to work across kenya have lost their jobs for participating in strikes the government says illegal we put the health care workers demands to the cabinet secretary of health. we have more than enough people in this country since october this year we have the most generous. insurance package that has been given to the civil someone's they do have somebody to meet issues raised me the us for example believes in the payments and so on the reason for those delays says the health minister is the current economic situation. nobody is denying that he should be getting your money you should. it's overdue to meet right but we're also seeing that wind it is this is the country let's also if this is to get them you know make it look

like you have blackmailing the government but does the weakest point. as dorcas doesn't feel protected by her employer she's awaiting the covert 19 vaccine kenya expects to receive the vaccine through the kovacs facility among other sources but experts say a 60 percent vaccination target is needed to achieve herd immunity on the african continent meanwhile wealthy nations have reserved more than half of the vaccines even though the home to only 14 percent of the world's population so they've kind of some selfishness to say live a fuss resign it now for people i think the issue here is that global responsibility should sue countries of as many as you want for your country but what is your responsibility to ensuring there while be safe to be safe that's also dog has wished for herself and her colleagues how do you feel about them and the penny and have african countries get the vaccination later yeah. we feel

like we are not going see that let them move here that's a little never at least to you hopefully we're going to give them a mission. kenya 1st tranche of $24000000.00 vaccine doses is expected to arrive next month door because now hopes the vaccine both finally ensure her safety now to the u.s. where police arrested an elected official on charges relating to the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol coit griffen a new mexico county commissioner and founder of a group called cowboys for trump was also planning to travel to washington armed with a rifle and a revolver to protest joe biden's inauguration security at government buildings across the country has been beefed up ahead of wednesday's ceremony. omid vehicles protect the state capitol in georgia national guard troops were out in force across the u.s. after warnings that trump supporters would gather for more violent protests over

the weekend but they had little on their hands to protest has failed to show in large numbers in utah only a handful of heavily armed pro trum demonstrators gathered outside the statehouse. in michigan to the mood was a far cry from the scenes america witnessed only 11 days ago when a riot a small boy stolen and the u.s. capitol. or. her story to restore us here we're. talking. 30. 1 protest said that right wing social media platforms had discouraged supporters from turning up. and a lot of people on the or off especially on the right were saying you know not to go because they believe that there may be violent attacks left for fear you know

that after the capitol riot they didn't want to be seen as violent that's why a lot of them are out to. the real test of how far trump supposes are willing to go will come on wednesday when the eyes of the world will be on washington d.c. for the inauguration of joe biden. to be as william croft is following the latest developments in this story william the u.s. was bracing for widespread protests 5 violent trial supporters on sunday those protests didn't happen but there's that doesn't mean the danger has passed does it . no terry it doesn't was bracing and is bracing you we should all be reminded that the f.b.i. and other law enforcement officials are seeing a threat facing starting over the weekend and going through inauguration week through at least thursday inauguration being on wednesday and possibly even beyond

officials are looking at this is maybe ways perhaps because law enforcement officials are now have their ears perked up after the january 6th violence at the capitol that might actually put any plans to rest that there may have been for inauguration but the other scarier option is perhaps these threats will just be more diffuse that they'll kind of simmer under the surface that will be kind of a whack a mole as we approach inauguration day that maybe there won't be one big event like we saw at the capitol last week or maybe they'll be smaller and so be harder to contain all the focus is very much on that inauguration itself on wednesday $25000.00 national guard troops standing by in washington d.c. to deal with the possibility of violent malls but security officials are also apparently concerned about possible insider threats what more can you tell us about . absolutely those 25000 that is about more than double of the normal

national guard president's foreign inauguration defense officials speaking to associated press if they are worried about insider threats within those national guard troops apparently vetting is a very normal thing for the military to do for its troops but the f.b.i. is stepping in to doing additional vetting and that's something very unique we should be reminded that national guard troops their so-called weekend warriors they're just average members of men and women of the public who serve as a bit of time in the military for the extra pay or to do some service to the country and then they go back to their communities their churches their families so it's really a reflection of everyone in america and people who might be more prone to wanting to you know have access to military training and we should be reminded what happened last week at the capitol that members of the military retired and active members of law enforcement local politicians were involved in this mob violence there's now investigations ongoing if there was insider help from capitol police or

from even congress people themselves so the insider threat really is quite quite present william thank you very much as william cohen cross to get some sports now and after unexpectedly being kicked out of the german cup last week by munich have boosted their bundesliga title ambitions with a tight win over freiburg after the close rivals were all held to drawls the reigning champion secured a win to extend their lead at the top of the table. a cold and wet afternoon in munich was the setting as the reigning champions hosted a fly book side on a hot streak coming off a stretch of 5 straight wins in which they've averaged 3 goals per game. but by and have the league's leading goalscorer and they got off the mark off the 7 minutes robert live in dusty setting a new record for the most goals schooled in the 1st half of the season 21 to his

name already. the hosts have the better chances but fly book equalised just off to the alamo as striken eels pietersen extended his record hole of blunder stick a goal scored as a substitute a stooping header is 28 coming off the bench but by and have the last laugh this goal didn't set any records but was remarkable the same i see roy's sunday using a rather unconventional technique to set up. he tucked away the winner in a 21 victory that ended 5 books impressive run and gives byan a 4 point gap at the top of the table. just a reminder the top story we're following for you here today on the view news the united states and the e.u. and canada have called for the immediate release of kremlin critic alexei nobody who was detained shortly after landing back in moscow he had returned from germany where he'd been treated after being poisoned with

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