but. this is the 1000000000 years life from a 1000000 miles military seizing power and the class and the year long state of emergency civilian government officials including de facto leader she have been detained as international leaders urge the military to restore democracy. also on the program the german government meets with facts seen manufacturers of a growing frustration of the slow rollout of the country's cope with 19 vaccination programs. security forces in russia crackdown on protesters defiant in the peace of

jailed kremlin critic and i've seen a valley of tens of thousands take to the streets more than 5000 arrested. and being germany's bundesliga a tightly traveled. 3 goals 3 points moving them into 3rd place in the test. i'm phil carré all welcome to the program. myanmar's military has removed the country's civilian government and imposed a year long state of emergency several elected officials have been detained including the country's defector leader g. the ministry accuses the government to failing to act on claims of voter fraud in november's election several countries have condemned the coup and have called for the immediate release of detainees. it will be televised

news of the takeover announced on military on television this video one of the few to capture the moment a member of parliament was whisked away in a pre-dawn raid. to is anyone's guess. among the many arrested civilian leader aung san suu kyi and other high ranking members of the ruling party national league for democracy in a statement she denounced a coup is an attempt to put the country back under a dictatorship adding i urge people not to accept this to respond and wholeheartedly to protest against a coup by the military the dramatic escalation marks a culmination of a bitter dispute over november election an election which saw party close to victory in the landslide but which the military insists was fraught with irregularities claims that the country's election commission has dismissed as baseless news of the coup has drawn strong international condemnations it's nothing

short of. deeply disturbing this is unacceptable the international community rejects what is happening. there. on the streets of me in mar the coup is seen as a sad setback for many more than a decade after it celebrated its transition to democracy. that only now do. i feel the army assaulted when it states the civilian government and i can have a government elected by people. why not then you are countries just a bird learning to fly or like you know the army procure wings younger than medical that like i told i think i can i. ask me in mars catapulted towards an uncertain future many are rushing to stock up on essentials bracing for an end to democracy

as they know it. now young heelys a former un special rapporteur ter on me and now she gave this reaction to d.w. this is really an outrageous situation and it's a direct assault to democracy and minimize people's will when they elected. their 2nd democratic government. it's going to. and strive for democracy for many decades now i think and it's really too early to see how the situations will unfold in myanmar but i really think that people's efforts to achieve democracy will be set back quite a while so what action can the world expect from germany well you're going hard to chairs the german parliaments foreign affairs working group he joins us from his constituency in the country so west welcome to d.w.

so beyond condemning what is happening in may and what action is berlin proposing. first i'm very much disappointed about the situation now in myanmar we saw a clear democratic election in november we have no question marks behind the result of that election and therefore we see that civil poets in that country so to say also pro-west on poets and won the election and have the right to build a government and what we see today let's gives a lot of question marks i don't know what other powers might be behind that in january there was a visit of the difficult foreign minister of china to the military's to the generals in myanmar and maybe he has encouraged them to to take over power in that country and i ask european union to go into detail behind that but be sought there ok what should germany do now. i think in u.p.a.

on the european level and as the european union we should think about the possible sanctions against those who are responsible for 'd this is that situation we also have to think about civil. economy 8 program we started with democratic majority and democratic government in myanmar this program maybe needs to be postponed or interrupted until a point where we can say we have new and better situation in the country but i think it's too early to judge on that at the moment but this all the questions we have on the table what sort of sanctions and against who. unama and fact if instrument is to sanction those people who are responsible for this military coup because they normally in those countries also driver linger on the road they it was in their credit cards they have and other things and therefore

we have to to be aware that potentially we can sanction them and the 2nd is that we have a program of economic and 8 to that country started with the german he said and other organisations and i'm not in a position now today to say we have to skip that but we have to go into the details a goal behind that doesn't make sense to continue our should be interrupted until. the military step down and give all of it to the people that we heard from a former u.n. weapons on man ma until just before you came along and we heard from from her that its allies china and russia have not played a constructive role in promoting democracy in ne in the account in all showed a brussels pressure put pressure on the country's military backus. this is what i am also afraid of that. generals

stimulated by probably the wizard up the chinese. head of the communist think for department that they encouraged to do that also to it was a situation to score on our way out since i'm not so clear and the region and if if we have a proof for that's there to china or maybe another foreign power behind that would it this might be on the table off the united nations security council and it's off to the european union but at the moment i think we have not no proof for that but we have a lot of questions ok so lots of questions this only happened today i'd be interested to know how quickly you want people to act when should that way when should sanctions be imposed why should germany be reevaluating its economic assistance to me and who we would have to topic off situation in myanmar on the

foreign affairs committee gemini next when state i put that on the agenda because you know all the other parties will agree on that and we have will have a debate on what we have to do and i also expect. a message from the european union from the high representative. and the foreign minister himself through being union because i think it's very necessary that we act. together and not as a single act only from germany but i think we should use the next 24 hours to to develop a common position thank you so much for joining us as funny clear yet and hot a member of the german public thank you good bye then. at some other stories making news around the world starting in hong kong where pro-democracy advocates and media tycoon jimmy lie has been denied bail after being charged with violating chinese tetras national security law it was the 1st major legal challenge to the

legislation imposed by beijing last year. after months of silence india's prime minister narendra modi has condemned a long running protest against agricultural reforms farmers have been demonstrating for more than 3 months events took a deadly turn last tuesday when thousands of foreigners descended on the capital of delhi and clashed with police one person died and hundreds were injured. thousands of brazilians took to the streets on sunday demanding the president's resignation they q.j. a bolsa naro of mismanaging the country's coronavirus vaccination program many also say the president's lack of leadership has led to an oxygen supply crisis in the amazon capital and now. this is d.w. news live from belgrade still to come despite being a tiny minority of protesters calling on the dutch government and covert control measures are getting a lot of attention in the netherlands. first the

european union's vaccine rollout has faced criticism for its sluggish start of meat production shortages but there have been some promising developments pfizer and its german tech of said they could produce up to $75000000.00 extra doses and the german government is to hold a summit with vaccine produces as they try to speed up the pace of connections so what does the german public think. but how about those with. the i feel like if only be you had started to come up with the vaccination strategy months earlier . we would now be at the same vaccination breed as the u.k. . oh it's chaotic not because people have to wait for the vaccine but because the media is whipping up a frenzy the government must tell us how long this is going to take and we simply need to wait. and i don't know that you want to maybe there was to veto down

in terms of getting the vaccine doses to be among them and that's why people who haven't been vaccinated yet are unhappy and you want to be some of i did a farm i know 300 for the pharmaceutical industry i think there's some of the same surely as the sales meeting. as far as the politicians one can only hope that the negotiators have been thoroughly briefed by health and pandemic experts expect her to expound. on immunity. meanwhile germany and austria are plotting to help relieve the overburdened health care system in portugal which is currently the world's worst coronavirus hotspot in the past week it's the highest number of new cases per capita and the highest death rate the state of emergency that has been extended until mid february. tight checks at portugal's borders at this entry point from spain only those with a valid reason are allowed through. and that certainly wasn't the case in this

exchange. the story broke and then you can look at what all of you have been. booked months ago. the board of the school of the if you will are reviewing. ok you can come in. earlier portugal had seen a period of relatively relaxed restrictions now people are confined to their homes apart from essential outings nursery schools shops and cafes are shut the government has entered crisis mode coming to where i think it could be even stricter there are still too many people on the street doesn't know who i'm going to get is that many portuguese still haven't understood that we've gone from being a good career in a country to one of the grandees in proposals that are beyond portugal's intensive care units are struggling some hospitals are running out of beds for covert 1000 patients others are short of medical staff or oxygen supplies long lines of ambulances have formed outside some clinics many patients have to wait for hours

until doctors decide whether they can be admitted and where we're going to buy them off what we have never before treat harsh light we're doing now sometimes we're having to treat people and the ambulance and that's a blessing authorities say the highly infectious virus variant 1st found in britain has cost half of all cases in greater lisbon some patients have been airlifted from overstretched mainland hospitals to the madeira islands more than 1000 kilometers from lisbon. and then there are the many who lost the fight undertaker say they're at the breaking point as they constantly prepare coffins for the newly arrived dead the organizer of this funeral parlor issued a warning for. oh it's chaos it's really chaos so many people are dead. there's no room to put away so many bodies. people should be careful they need to know that cope at 19 is killing for real. whole have already lost my

aunts my cousin my father and my grandfather. now germany and austria say they would like to help treat some of the coal that patients from portugal that helped couldn't come too soon for the portuguese. eskimo from data whose young phillipos shelters in the portuguese capital is been a welcome you know how bad things that. they married at the moment the 7 day everett the worst in europe and then you bury and from britain it's spreading at an alarming speeds some experts estimate that the birds of prey let's i think it's actually grow that thing already in some parts.