from all corners of india say the new agricultural laws will devastate their income while benefiting big corporations the government says the reforms won't hurt farmers and refuses to repeal them. farmers are india's most influential voting bloc and the growing rebellion enjoys huge support from all parts of indian society . the protesters were just 3 kilometers from where prime minister narendra modi and india's political elite had been a few hours earlier celebrating republic day with a dress cavalry's and a giant parade but his government's offer to put the laws on hold for 18 months hasn't gone down well with the farmers. and no one has today's tough police response in owner money they threw tear gas on us how long of the farm the supposed to keep tolerating this we've made polite requests to them we told them we have no

intent to fight we are peaceful men of libertaria as tensions rise in delhi the farmers insist they will settle for nothing less than a complete repeal. more on this let's bring in our correspondent michelle giles was in delhi mesa breach barricades clashes with police you're at one of the protests this morning what can you tell us about the situation right now. but the situation continues to be tense in derry the farmers managed to reach the iconic red ford in the center of debt this is far off his records that will be decided between the day and the fun of the snow and he was not surprised this was something that was decided upon by the we decided to alter that if little to the city however the now these families have been forced out of the red ford as well there are concerns because a casualty is being deported from amongst the farmers the police claimed that this was the cause of an accident but of course tensions are running high another thing

that is significant here is that even as clashes beat out even as police deploys force and farmers despondent guy and some farmer he does have come out to see that this breach this charge you presented and it was not the plan they did not support the violence to the end actually seen some of the 1st significant cracks from between the ranks of the bard's very complicated situation there let's circle back for a moment why have these laws made indian farmer so furious. well it's important to understand a thing that's important to understand about these laws nichole is how the government beneath them and how the farmer the government said that we are actually opening up your butt unity for almost to sell their told you was outside the government as it needed markets to private buyers to cooperate the government says this will allow farmers to access competitive prices as follows however do not buy

this they were not consulted before these laws were passed and that has caused a deficit of trust the farmer the trial and by as a lot of the relief from the short prices of government markets by offering high prices in the beginning but you when he's depressed places leaving farmers in the lurch he also thing the government the pull back on its stance or the short phrases and this one seems farming and bomb lands for the farmers so the government says that they're acting in the farmer especially interest but the farmers actually want to see a complete repeal of these laws why is the government so intent on having these reforms that. well it will have been 11 giles negotiations and basically been the seems to already are. the government tries to save the farmers have been misled by the opposition by anti social elements and that they do not understand that these laws actually going to benefit them and this is the point the

government is trying to drive home the farmers hold up with see the attitude condescending that the of course no one does better. and the biggest concession the government has tried to make so far is to offer the suspension of these last 4800 runs but as i mentioned there is a significant drop deficit these farmers believe that this government is goal it's with the corporates and will need actions that actually benefit private bias and do not take the wellbeing of the farmers into consideration and this is my understanding strong and demanding that if you looked at all the violence we saw and you wouldn't mean will be detrimental. as well in delhi as always it's big continue to italy now where prime minister does have a contest step down deepening the country's political disarray his resignation has been formally accepted by the country's president this comes after a small coalition partner pulled its ministers from his cabinet earlier this month

the resignation spares counter a possible humiliating defeat in parliament and a vote on judicial reforms later this week but observers say he now may be able to form a new government with broader parliamentary support. we're joined now by journalist philip whelan following the situation in the italian capital philip welcome the prime minister has resigned to what's next for conti and italy. well the 1st step is the consultations of the president of the public as such a matter rather he will begin those tomorrow and they're likely to be fairly swift maybe just 2 days of consultations with parties represented in the parliament to see whether there is a realistic prospect of a new government being poor and and the new government being formed under g separate columns the key question is whether members of the italian veber party

that deserted him recently will return to the fold or if not whether they'll be replaced by centrist politicians who've been never wavering between now opposition and the temptation of joining this central government this seems to me very much a tactical move of course a walk us through what led to conjure believing that this was his best shot at political survival. i think the key element here is this. debate and vote that was settled in the yeah senate for tomorrow on justice with. a justice minister who's rather popular and a lot of. worries and objections to what he was proposing so was very likely that the government would have fallen in that boat which would have been an embarrassing way to have it collapse from power so instead it. has.

decided to anticipate things. resigned himself without before he was actually pushed to do so and i think the prospect now is that if a new administration is formed with a radically reshuffled cabinet he could lure in these extra votes that he needs and he could perhaps coax back to tell you. to return to the fold so i think it's a smart move on his part and in fact it really was the anything really prospect of for him survival this of course i haven't in the midst of a devastating health crisis to what extent has italy's political turmoil affected its pandemic response briefly if you mean because we're running out of time yes well the government's been very much criticized for his handling of the pandemic but there's little doubt that. real collapse of the government and and you.

found would be extremely difficult to have. paralyzed decision making and would really cause a lot of grief i think for the italian people so some kind of new government without elections does look like the best solution now for the plan in from thank you very much for your analysis. so you have to speed on some other headlines from around the world at the sour moscow and tear on have called for renewed efforts to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal between iran and world powers the talks between the 2 country's top diplomats came days after iran urged the biden administration to lift sanctions and reverse what it called the failed policies of the previous administration. colombian president has announced the death of defense minister carlos hold mr he died from complications of covert 19 after being

hospitalized in the capital bogota 2 weeks ago colombia has recorded more than 50000 coronavirus deaths. the netherlands has seen another night of rioting sparked by a nationwide curfew imposed to deal with the coronavirus police have arrested at least 150 people in several cities authorities said rioters were mainly people in their teens that many of whom engaged in looting and other destruction of property . the e.u. commission is calling for stricter controls on exports of covert 19 vaccines produced inside the block the e.u. is worried about a shortfall of vaccines after a manufacturer astra zeneca an ounce it would delay deliveries to e.u. members the company is blaming supply chain problems but brussels has accused it of failing to keep contractual promises all 27 e.u. countries are struggling with slow vaccine rollouts.

this may sting a little but it's over in the blink of an eye getting vaccinated maybe a speedy affair but vaccine rollouts across the you have proved painstakingly slow the blocks executive is pointing the finger at the pharmaceutical industry the european union wants the order and refinance doses to be delivered as soon as possible and we want our contract to be fully fulfilled that's a message for a vaccine developer astra zeneca the u.k. based firm recently announced it would be unable to fulfill its you orders in the agreed time frame astra zeneca says that's down to supply problems in the e.u. possibly here at the belgium headquarter of nova step a company that works with astra zeneca to deliver key vaccine components the astra zeneca jap is due to catch the green light from e.u. regulators in the coming days so last minute news of a 60 percent cut in delivery service came as a nasty shock to lawmakers here in brussels who governments have been rolling out

the red carpet for the pharmaceutical company we do not have the vaccine thanks to them but thanks to public funding the public paid for the production capacity on the deal to secure supplies of the astra zeneca vaccine was an e.u. 1st that brought a big smile to the health commissioner's face back in august 2020 the bloc purchased 300000000 doses with the option to at $100000000.00 more in other words the european union is astra zeneca biggest client it paid hundreds of millions of euros upfront in order to ensure smooth production and supply but with promises unfulfilled the block is not a happy customer the big question is now where have all those 3 produced vaccine doses gone they may have been sold to the highest bidder elsewhere that's why physician and politician peter liza welcomes news that producers may soon be obliged to notify the e.u. before they export any covert 1000 vaccines outside the block. we want to cooperate

but if. you don't play fair the european commission has to show their weapons and the 1st step is to register the 2nd step is an export ben farmer giant pfizer has also been in the firing line recently it too announced delays earlier this month citing production issues that its main site here in belgium produces say they're moving as fast as they can but in the race between vaccine and virus every delay could cost lives. can't matter send us that report and he joins me now from brussels also with us is back at mass in london good to see you both again let's start with you we heard many high profile e.u. representatives lashing out against astra zeneca there what makes them believe the company sold a new vaccines to someone else for the moment that's just a suspicion they have as a matter of fact or ever if you institutions are rather unhappy with the

justification that astra zeneca has provided to a number of questions that have been coming up astra zeneca is a close of company it's producing this vaccine not just in europe but in the u.k. in india and apparently countries like the u.k. or india are not affected by this supply cut of this proposed supply cut and the question is now why is that the case why can the border not evenly distributed to all members and the small concession that has been indicated by astra zeneca now according to reports it's not going to settle that big question for the new. big it is you has reportedly asked astra zeneca today very doses from the u.k. to make up for the shortfall in supplies what reactions are you getting there in london to the whole dispute. the u.k. government is quite careful of the sea they're treading quite carefully as the

vaccination minister said that he is confident that the u.k. will reach its target in the short time the u.k. target is to have the most vulnerable adults vaccinated by mid february and it is believed that the u.k. is on track and that enough doses are already in the u.k. he also said there needs to be some cooperation between countries and that countries need to work together he's careful to avoid a spat with the european union however if the e.u. did go ahead and greedy put some bad on that supports then the u.k. might be hit in the medium tough and again let's talk about this a little bit the e.u. is threatening to tighten restrictions on exports to stem vaccines leaving the block in your opinion is this all just saber rattling or will they actually go through with it but at the moment it's just a suggestion from the commission but member states have already signaled that they like the idea of the transparency mechanism and i guess you're right this is

clearly a warning shot this is the signal to the tech giants or the the pharmaceutical giants and not just astra zeneca bugs biotech pfizer is roll that heather have their main plant in belgium supplying the rest of the world the message is look guys if you don't want to play fair we can make sure that we make your life extremely difficult and that we could even go as far as looking into a ban although that's not on the table at all at the moment to get despite the progress in immunizations the 1st month of 2021 has been a grim one for the u.k. why can't the country get the situation under control. it's obviously trying desperately to get better and it's really 2 stories that are almost running in parallel here in the u.k. like you said the vaccination has been largely successful over 6000000 duces have been administered so yusuf it is a lot of people that all ready a little safe from the virus however we have actually today and reached another

milestone over 100000 deaths according to the corona virus due to the corona virus in the u.k. is definitely one of the countries in the world that's worst affected and the numbers of people in hospital are it's a record high and so even if they are slowly slowly going down we still have this new mutation of the virus that's now dominant in the u.k. it's more transmissible and that's really causing havoc in the country i live near a hospital one of the biggest hospitals teaching hospitals in the u.k. and i can constantly day and night i can hear the sirens and a lot of people in the u.k. are very upbeat and quite to suppress depressed about the state of the virus nervousness around the globe because of these mutant strains to get mass in london and in brussels thank you very much. now with vaccination programs

among the most vital challenges facing world leaders it's no surprise that german chancellor angela merkel focused on that issue in a special online address to the world economic forum the one that normally convenes in the swiss town of davos she urged a fair distribution of such vaccines around the globe warning that countries left behind will remember the slight. we should not delude ourselves the question who receives what kind of vaccination how quickly all over the planet well again create a new narrative if you like because when you receive in such an hour of need help you were remember that for much much longer than the help that has been extended to you in good times now this is the hour of multilateralism. foreign let's speak to delhi is chief political correspondent melinda crane milena welcome what's your takeaway from what she had to say. well much of her remarks was devoted

to lessons learned from the pandemic and her chief lessons learned were regarding vulnerability on the one hand and interdependent on the other and we heard or very clearly say that countries in an effort to address their vulnerabilities in an effort to boost resilience and sovereignty should not forget that intertie pendants may sometimes look like part of the problem but absolutely also must be part of the solution so she issued a strong clear for multilateral cooperation on health on fair trade on digital policy including interesting lee enough regulation of the tech giants she also talked about the need for countries to avoid turning inward and isolationist in that attempt to boost resilience so in that context she said that the pandemic could well see developing countries slip further behind if industrial economies

don't increase their support and cooperation for sustainable development and finally she issued a kind of a diplomatic reminder to capitalist economies that they shouldn't always be counting on the best case scenario but that they need buffers buffers in their health systems for example intensive care capacity buffers in their financial systems and she said that is why in germany did pretty well in addressing the economic consequences of the pending demick the pandemic was of course also a topic in angela merkel's 1st phone call with u.s. president biden yesterday they agreed on working closer together and tackling colvin and other global challenges what else was discussed. well the a pretty long list given how short the call was so they talked about trade and climate policy but they also talked about a number of countries and regions that are essentially on the list of hot spots so

that would be afghanistan iran china and and several more besides ukraine so pretty pretty big challenges there. where do you see some of the biggest challenges and as the chancellor would maybe say areas of overlap well i think every is of overlap are exactly some of the ones that we heard the chancellor mention in her remarks just now so climate policy trade very very important i think both for the u.s. and germany going forward now on trade the chancellor may not find in joe biden quite the advocate of free trade that she might hope for in fact she talked in her remarks about the need to revitalize the w t o 2 review vitalize fair trade but biden has made it clear that he will be looking for a trade policy that also protects american jobs then i think perhaps the biggest

challenge ahead is on china biden has made it clear that he does want a multilateral approach on china and germany has taken some steps toward a more robust pushback of these of the china on issues like human rights but the fact is i think that germany may find itself coming under a great deal more pressure from the biden and ministration to be tougher on china they don't we as chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you very much. to washington d.c. now where democrats from the u.s. house of representatives have delivered an article of impeachment against donald trump to the senate that triggers a trial for the former president for inciting the january 6 answer rection at the capitol is the 1st time in u.s. history that a president has faced an impeachment trial after leaving office. a solemn procession through the halls of the u.s.

capitol with donald trump's future in their hands democrats from the house of representatives set in motion a 2nd impeachment trial for the former president by delivering the single article of impeachment to the senate. article one incitement of insurrection damo been drawn trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the united states the democrats say donald trump's baseless claims as election fraud were an incitement to violence culminating in a speech he gave before congress was set to confirm the election results states we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen you don't see that. shortly after these remarks of violent mob reached the u.s. capitol building. right here riders took over the building for hours and forced lawmakers into hiding 5 people died during the assault.

while several republicans had criticized trump after the riot on january 6th members of the g.o.p. are now softening their stance and are increasingly criticizing the impeachment proceedings were talking about regarding the trial stupid think it's counterproductive democrats say it's important to hold donald trump accountable. look everyone wants to put this awful chapter in american history behind us but sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing the only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability which this trial before. the trial begins in 2 weeks' time a test for both parties and of the sights of moment for donald trump's legacy. and watching to tell you news coming up next in. d.w. news asia more on the show of force from indian farmers and delhi the fear of

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