we didn't know that the trial was taking place until just before it started now viney himself has really condemned what's been happening today he has said that it makes a mockery of the rule of law in russia and he says that what we're seeing today and also what we saw yesterday where his flight was kind of redirected to another airport and so on that that all shows that the man in the kremlin as he says is afraid of him now as you know emily midst of all these arrests has attracted international condemnation is that going to make any difference well that's the question i think that here in moscow the kremlin has gotten used to words of condemnation since kind of the annexation of crimea a few years ago we've been hearing that here in russia fairly often sanctions almost are a bit of a routine so it would have to be

a kind of really hard hitting measures to actually make a difference and really hit home here and russia for example if germany counseled the north stream to pipeline project which is a pipeline connecting russia to through the baltic sea to germany to bring oil and gas that could be a hard hitting measure but so far it seems unlikely from what we've been hearing from the kremlin that it will change course and that will make any difference. to the way that i would say not mine is being treated for example sit today gay lover off the foreign ministry here in russia said that the western reactions that we've been seeing from politicians are just their way of distracting from what he says is the deterioration of liberal values in their countries now what role emily in conclusion can mr vali play now.

well people were kind of asking you know why did he come back to russia at all if he was in danger of 1st of all being arrested because the prison service had already put him on a wanted list even before he came back to russia and also if as he says the kremlin could have been behind his poisoning that's what now viney has been insisting so why put yourself in that danger well he says that he never planned to leave russia at all he always planned to come back in fact he only ended up in germany because he was poisoned and was in a coma when he was brought there that's what he's been saying he's been saying he's not afraid and it's very clear that he sort of sees his role here and that he perhaps is afraid of becoming irrelevant if he if he if he hadn't returned back he could have become irrelevant here this year there are duma elections parliamentary elections and i would say nonviolently has been leading the charge calling for people to vote strategically for the candidate most likely to

a beach the kremlin's united russia party and i think that he definitely sees it as important to lead the charge from russia here even if it means that he has to do it from prison correspondent emily sure when reporting from moscow russia thank you. and as we have mentioned there are no volleys arrests has prompted massive international condemnation u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o called it the latest in a series of russian attempts to silence of all 8 meanwhile the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief joseph burrell called on russian authorities to respect misson of all these rights and release him immediately and german foreign minister heikal mosse reiterating that call. of all these arrest was completely in comprehensible all right well let's see if those words of condemnation will be turned into words of action or rather turn into action want to turn now to your good hearts he is

a foreign policy spokesman for chance on america's ruling a conservative very good day sir great to have you are with us what are the german government's options when it comes to russia. if as i would like to say that the trip back of nobody back to russia is not only a brave very patriotic move of nobody here shows to the people in russia and all over the word he is a russian patriot he wants to change the political situation in its country and therefore he wants to go back and he is now back in russia was all consequences this is something that impresses very much not only people in russia but all over the word and the 2nd i would like to mention is the treatment of now by any in the last month beginning with supposin ng and now ending with that arrest and. is showing that lip service of putting that russia is a democracy and state of rule of law is only lip service and legend the reality is

like in the traditional dictatorship and this is what is now with the bill for people of the world i think the council of europe should now tech all this topic and to discuss how we can in the increase pressure on russia and not only european union but also the council of europe which is responsible for the human rights in your piece in europe as a whole mr hart you just described russian government as a traditional dictatorship or at least the leader of lattimer putin does that mean that it's time has come now for germany to distant not staying till pipeline with russia considering that description that you just gave. i think we have to think about what we as european union as a whole can do to increase pressure on russia to make sure that nobody's treatment comes to an end and he. i asked for immediate release of him the 2nd question is what other right steps to do that we have

a discussion on austrian to in germany i'm not in favor of the boat act but i think that this projects by the way is up to today also necronomicon failure and we don't need to this pipeline to make sure that europe has enough gas in the future and therefore i would would be a joke of history if now germany or other european states might. stop that project and maybe potentially have to pay compensation to the companies that i engaged in this project which is economically a failure from my point if you and those who are driving this project has to face this failure and to is are responsible for the deficit they will have with this project therefore for me not to is only a symbol of more important question is how many russian gas should be except in european union gas net is there a need for making it more diverse and more independent from russian gas and this

debate should be done in europe and therefore the question not the question of the pipe which is who through the gas might come to europe but the question of the russian gas as a whole should be more interesting but we will have this debate i think in the next months here the heart foreign policy stuff stands for germany is all i can service thank you sir for your time let's have to speak now on so many other news from around the globe. more than 20 seafood drugs have parked on roads near the u.k. parliament to protest of problems and getting their produce to the european union many fishermen have been unable to export the to the e.u. rather because of the extra documentation required after brags that the government has said those regs that teething problems should be resolved shortly.

rescuers in china say that well the miners trapped in a gold mine are still alive but another 10 are unaccounted for the miners have been stuck underground for more than a week after an explosion there on monday footage from state television showed a note being passed through a rescue shaft with the request don't stop trying to reach us. brazil has kicked off its nationwide mass vaccination program against the current virus a 54 year old nurse in sao paulo became the 1st person to receive the chinese sign over actual shot after it and the astra zeneca vaccine were approved for emergency use brazil's covert 1000 death toll stands at over 200 in 1002nd only to the u.s. . on chancellor merkel is due to meet where germany's state premiers on tuesday to discuss tightening covert $900.00 stretches beyond the month

of january although infection rates have improved slightly they're not declining as quickly as was hoped according to germany's robert costa institute december saw a spike in corona virus cases as you can see here behind me which peaked just right before the holidays the numbers then went down and around the new year but around january 9th they were those again while they now appear to be on a downward trend as you can see on the graph but the country just isn't breathing. relief just yet there are now concerns that new clothes 1000 variants are more transmissible than the 1st in germany southern state of this area certified and 95 masks are now mandatory on public transport germany hopes that a new round even stricter measures will bring down the stop the spread of infections. and other bleak and wintry week in berlin the streets are mostly empty

and many who do need to go out where a mosque seems to be helping there's been a slight drop in covert 19 infections but it's not enough the government is preparing to tighten restrictions and berlin is saying that's a good thing. i think being strict to make since and i'm hoping this will finally bring it all to an end. and honestly it'd be great if people just realize that it's not getting any better and that they should stay at home. i really hope that we realize that we'll have to put up with these restrictions until at least the summer . the government he said to want to stop office workers from commuting and push them into working from home more that's partly because travelling on public transport poses a particularly high in fiction risk politicians and health authorities are also extremely warm read about the threat posed by covert 19 mutations which has led to

a steep rise in infections in some countries so. highly infectious variants of the corona virus have been detected in germany one very into sprayed 3 great britain the other through south africa and at the moment we have further warring reports from brazil. right now the pandemic has a firm hold on germany even though the situation in hospitals and intensive care units is showing signs of easing. well the korea virus pandemic has brought the house system in italy southern region of calabria to its knees but here part of the problem is it's empty hospitals rather than it's full what several hospitals are now being used there to mismanagement of funds and the influence of the mafia have a reporter max sander met a group of campaigners who are fighting to reopen close down clinics these are not your usual squatters the members of more human thought on tab now are fighting

for a basic need access to medical health care. the group formed by retired medical doctor 94 model takes turns and occupying a wing of this closed down hospital in county 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 would be a need to occupy. for tomorrow invites us to see 1st selves work is still ongoing at the total 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 vittorio constantino 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 a 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 in 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 a better. 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 new critics government contracts for a model says the mafia is behind it. 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 ward. the

people of the like many across the region suffer patients here 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 commandant the ship given a dock. and so they tell us in order to have your rights recognized you have to start a revolution. max and are there reporting from colombia and italy let's take a look now at out of the veld months in the corona virus pandemic the world health organization says cole's at 19 deaths will soon top 100008 week on more than 93000 deaths were reported last week china meanwhile has put nearly 3000000 people under lockdown in the country's north east the measures follow

a surge in cases linked to a traveling salesman who's been identified by local authorities as a super spreader and the japanese prime minister has vowed to press ahead with this year's tokyo olympics is by going public opposition arise in corona virus infections there she had said he hoped the games could bring hope to the world we like to turn our attention now to the u.s. where president donald trump is preparing to issue more than 100 pardons and commutations on tuesday while trump's the last full day in office that is well the list of clemencies includes some white collar criminals and high profile convicts but reportedly will not include trump himself meanwhile all 50 us states are on high alert ahead of wednesday's inauguration of president elect joe biden which trump will not attend some 25000 national guard troops have been deployed in

washington d.c. fears of unrest from angry protesters over the weekend proved unfounded but after the storming of the u.s. capitol on january 6th law enforcement agents say they won't be letting their guard down. because after the storm the head of joe biden's inauguration wednesday the level of security in washington is unprecedented. after the attack on the capitol on january 6th there is a fear of further on rest not just here but across the united states. that's all of this stand that there's a perceived or a real success of the january 6 attack so these organizations are now an old it by setting up if you will deterring future events because of the presence of law enforcement and military death sending a message to people reading as recent as today that many of these organizations

decided that they want to stand down. the investigation into the siege of the capital is posing on comfortable questions why was it so easy for the rioters to beach both the west and the east side of the building. new video evidence of the storming emerges daily it's not clear that dozens of the rioters were listed in the f.b.i.'s database as potential terrorists and democrats are asking if the rioters had inside help from republican officials. that senators of congress are coming through the capitol that i saw and generate their. own recognizance the next day as members of congress there say the silent crowd. do individual republican officials have links to radical groups and if so how extensive are the investigators are ruling nothing odd security inside the capitol has been stepped up with lawmakers now required to submit to metal detectors guns. several 100 arrests have

been made across the country in connection with the storming of the capital. this man was detained in nashville tennessee on sunday. experts believe there are night tens of thousands of far right militants in the united states who could be mobilized by radical organizations. it's going to be a constant challenges we deal with them because it's a they've been radicalized and the embers have grown obviously over the last over the term of this last administration and we're hoping now that we can return some sense of normalcy to these agencies should be restored in the guardrails that were placed for a constitution can be put back in place for not the capital secure the stage for the inauguration to set fisons of national guard troops are on standby they would all be hoping that the calm after the storm does not become the calm before the storm. i want to turn now to sherry berman she is

a professor of political science at barnard college in new york an affiliate of columbia university a very good day professor now outgoing president saddam will trump is set to issue a solar array of pardons on his last day in office up to 100 people could be pardoned has ever happened before. well presidents are entitled to give pardons but trump is act has made much greater use of this power than others and a lot of his pardons have been seen by folks as not just questionable but quite partisan the key question of course that people had in their minds was whether he would preemptively pardon himself or members of his family as your commentary mentioned earlier it seems he will not do that but that would be the biggest constitutional question of all and the sense that it would be unprecedented and the legality of that is quite unclear let's talk now about i mean his presidency has unraveled in

a very spectacular way what will happen after wednesday well that is another excellent question and it's a big debate going on currently within the republican party of course as well as within the united states mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader has given his colleagues the green light to both their conscience when discussions of trying come up when the impeachment trial moves to the senate and republicans more generally are really talking now about what the future of their or it is there is a real question about whether this party will continue to follow in the path of trump even after he is gone from office or whether it will try to shift back to a more standard traditional conservative party i mean this is a this is the big question not just for the republicans but for the united states our democracy cannot survive if one of our parties is dominated by people

who really question the fundamentals of our constitution of our elections and of the norms of democracy more generally so i mean will the movement that coalesced around president trump will they just go ahead and and. get their own party i mean where do you see this how do you see this developing i mean will he go rogue and start his own political party to rival the republican party well i mean look in the united states unlike in germany and most other european countries we have a 1st past the post majority system which carries a very very heavy bias against 3rd parties so should trump try to form his own political movement as opposed to try to maintain control over the republican party he would be in a very strong structural advantage disadvantage simply because as i said our electoral system you know it's a majority or even system so the biggest party is going to when voting for a 3rd party is generally seen as

a wasting your vote however continuing to try to head up a political movement outside of one of the mainstream parties could enable trump not only to maintain a lot of influence but to maintain a level of sort of chaos and divisiveness in the american political system that would really stop the country and the biden ministration from sort of recalibrating in trying to get us back on a course where we can solve all our social economic and political problems so what trump decides to do next whether within the republican party without will really obviously have a great impact on how the united states moves forward all right professor sherry or burma nuff from that barnard college in new york thank you for joining us. pleasure . before i let you go a reminder of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour back home and behind bars the kremlin's fiercest critical action of all that has been jailed for 30 days upon his return to moscow opposition leader was immediately arrested and

hauled before in makeshift courts of ali says his treatment makes a mockery of justice united states and the e.u. are calling for his immediate relief. this is due to reduced live from berlin coming up next is our science magazine tomorrow today on iraq and violent thank you so much for spending as part of a day with us. the but. this

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