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a coup the army appears to be in full control. of the sort of officials and activists are being held prisoner defacto leader. is calling on her supporters to resist. and put on hold for many especially the elderly the clock is ticking but i'm going to. have to be patient because scenes will be in short supply until at least. in the u.s. the deadline looms for president trump to respond to his impeachment charge of inciting the. washington 6 the investigation into the attack on the capitol is gathering pace and in scope.

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us a court hearing is due to get under way in moscow at this hour which could determine whether russian opposition leader alexina bani will have to spend the next several years in jail of on the has been in detention for violating probation and since he returned to russia from germany where he had been recovering from a poison attack he blames on kremlin forces this past weekend saw huge protests in support of the bali and calling for political change across russia police detained more than 5000 people international observers have condemned reports that police beat many suspects in bali supporters have called for more protests today. our moscow correspondent elise sure one is outside the courthouse where that hearing is taking place emily the case has sparked massive government protests antigovernment protests in russia thousands of demonstrators were arrested over the weekend what's the situation there now. well

terry outside the courthouse we're seeing the continuation of the tensions that we essentially saw over the weekend protesters or supporters of aleksandar vinings have gathered outside the courthouse there not being let to access the courthouse the police have blocked off the actual building and also several roads leading up to the courthouse today there's a huge police presence and we've been hearing reports as well of several people being arrested ahead of the beginning of this court hearing today and also several ambassadors from various european countries and other countries for example britain vogue area and austria are apparently at this court today so really huge attention both internationally and also inside russia on what is happening at

this court behind me we're watching live pictures as you speak to us and only we are seeing what appears to be someone being frisked just outside the courthouse there a large police presence or as you say what exactly is alexei know bonnie facing in court today emily. well these court hearing is about to begin he is in court for basically an embezzlement case that was leveled at him in 2013 a fraud case and essentially the prison service here in russia is now asking for his suspended sentence to be turned into real jail time he could face several years in prison for charges that he says are completely politically motivated the european court of human rights also ruled in 2017 that the charges against him were unreasonable and arbitrary but he could face several you know it years in jail.

depending on what the court today decides how much threat emily does the current all position movement in russia pose to president vladimir putin. well i think the opposition movement at the moment poses enough of a threat that vladimir putin himself can no longer ignore what's happening in the country which is very unusual usually putin himself in the kremlin of kremlin officials usually just ignore me they don't even mention him by name and when it comes to protests they usually don't address what's going on on state t.v. but. the protests that we've been seeing have kind of forced the kremlin and putin had to take to television to basically deny accusations

leveled at him by aleksei now viney in you tube investigation that he apparently owens allegedly owns a palace on the black sea he came out and denied that state t.v. has been saying that the protests weren't that big the kremlin spokesperson has been calling the protesters who came out over the weekend hooligans but the fact is that we have for the last 2 weeks seen mass protests with thousands of people taking to the streets across the country which is unusual usually protests are just focused in moscow and st petersburg and i think that really is a threat to putin especially because people say this is not just about any this is about corruption and this is very much about the man in the kremlin himself and we thank you very much correspondent emily sure when there and as emily was speaking we saw what appeared to be several people being detained outside the courthouse in

moscow what were election of bonnie is currently in a sheering he could face several years in jail and we'll keep you updated on the tails on that story as they become available now the u.n. security council is preparing to meet in emergency session to discuss a military coup in myanmar. u.s. is threatening to re-impose sanctions to try to force the generals to stand down be on mars former defacto leader also suchi was detained and hundreds of officials are confined inside government housing compounds the military claims november's election results which showed a landslide win for sue cheese ruling party were fraudulent the current head of the u.n. security council discussed her expectations of the emergency session. we'll want to have as constructive a discussion as possible all me and the contents and range mentions with the idea of all respect people's really special. and that means we're releasing civil

society and civil society to think that it will be all i'm writing a new and we'll want to consider missions that will move us towards and we've got dave greene about on the line now he's a journalist who spent many years reporting from myanmar and he joins us now from kuala lumpur so the coup what has drawn condemnation from many countries the u.s. is threatening sanctions is that likely to have any effect on the coup leaders receive these these sanctions they get and i'm about climates are unlikely to have any impact on the decisions of the general makes because i or any of the generals make because they've been through this for decades an impact on military and have very little impact or real concern would be if there are broad based economic sanctions that have huge impact on the overall economy of myanmar which could take these people most of them live in absolute poverty and make things even worse for

them to back the calculation have to be made by the west would they really want to risk have that happening the key player in a key question is how does china respond because during the days of the dictatorship of. china was their best friend and china could make something over here to ease the economic pressure on them so china's response to any economic sanctions could have a real impact on thing what about the defacto civilian leader aung san suu kyi we understand she's under house arrest again she's calling on her supporters to resist is there any sign that her supporters are heeding that call. well clearly they they they want they are whether she is the most beloved person in the country and the question though is what these people be willing to risk the repercussions if they were to make public demonstrations what we have some point 3 mass demonstrations in the streets of yangon the biggest city in the country that's a real question because in the past if you look at practice or eat the military

they would sometimes put down the price of revolts often violently often with deadly force another thing to question your a lot of the leading activists in this country the people who don't organize the sorts of demonstrations even some of the people who did this back in the eighty's who are very much looked up to some of these activists in the country have been detained and some of the others have gone into hiding so it's really hard to wonder right now who would be the people who would be the kinds of demonstrations if the public were to try to do it any time soon you talked about the military cracking down there are also serious concerns about the situation of the return to muslims in the country what consequences could this could have for them. well the right hands are live in the country almost overwhelmingly in the northern or question rakhine state what has been a horrible situation for them for decades this makes it even worse the military was repressive on them to begin with keep in mind the renderer are stateless they have

their citizenship stripped in the 1980 this just makes matters worse many if you go over the border several years ago more than 700000 renge of muslims fled me on more from neighboring bangladesh due to a military crackdown that has led to accusations of genocide any hope that any significant number of them would be repatriating you know any time this year this decision completely dashed that because why would they want to go back to the country that is now completely ruled by the same military that drove them out and killed by some estimates more than 10000 of them dave thank you very much for your insights that was journalist they going to be talking to us from kuala lumpur. i was take a look at a couple of other stories making headlines around the world today president richard type out of one says he would discuss drafting a new constitution for turkey with his party's allies he criticized the current constitution for containing traces of military influence in 2018 turkey transition to a presidential system that concentrated power in out of one's hands. and an out of

control wildfire has destroyed dozens of homes close to the city of perth in western australia authorities have told many people living in the vicinity to be prepared to fight the blaze as it is now too dangerous for them to leave their properties. now to the corona virus crisis the pandemic is pushing hospitals in portugal to the brink of collapse the country has the highest number of new cases in the world mainly because the new variant of the virus 1st checked in in britain is spreading out of control the situation is so critical that other european countries are now coming to the countries aid spain and austria have offered portugal their help germany is sending a team of doctors and equipment this is the 2nd field hospital being built on this university campus and respond within a few days this time the basketball court is being converted into

a temporary clinic for 150 covert patients. jawad ok usually runs the university's sports facilities but in recent weeks he has also been working as an emergency. sports facilities very flexible and it's very easy to adopt this sport soul to a field hospital more difficulty is to putin site the human resources for to run. these kind of. doctors from germany are among those preparing to work at this temporary corona hospital they are part of the medical team from the german military that is set to arrive in part about on wednesday lispunds largest hospital right across the street from the university campus has been under massive strain for days almost all of portugal's intensive care beds are occupied and there is an acute shortage of equipment the pressure on parts of god's health system seems to

become unbearable ambulances often have to wait for several hours in front of the hospital and before that patients can be at mit and many fear that in the coming days numbers will continue to grow. joe out ok it's getting things set up for the stuff off the makeshift clinic he had mobile homes installed for the medics to take breaks during their long exhausting shifts the mobile home project began 2 weeks ago and is already supported by more than $200.00 volunteers and 50 vehicles. i should i couldn't what work here is pretty emotional last week a doctor knocked on my door and wanted to thank us she said she often desperate i think in addition to a place to sleep the medical stuff sometimes need support 4 to 10 precisely limiting because each day the volunteers think that solidarity is the one positive

thing to have come off the crisis and the fact that germany and other european countries are now offering help is giving an international dimension to that feeling of solidarity. well germany here in germany of the health system is holding up pretty well with the country's vaccination program is continuing to be dogged by problems after a crisis meeting with regional leaders and representatives of the pharma industry german chancellor angela merkel urged germans to be patient she said most would be offered a job by the end of the summer in september. only around 2000000 people have so far received the vaccine in germany the rollout has got off to a slow start on monday political leaders spent the afternoon discussing with the bosses of medical firms how it can be speeded up but despite delays chancellor merkel repeated her clear promise does this by the end of the 3rd quarter by the

end of the summer we'll be able to offer every citizen a vaccine. that said the manufacturers and also told us today that something that they will see can always occur during production and they also will have no prior experience of this but i think the numbers from the different quarters overall are already very relevant. one reason the chancellor is confident he can achieve targets is that the producers predict they will make ever more vaccine official projections suggest the government expects a total of $320000000.00 doses will be available this year but production cannot be ramped up immediately the current shortages are likely to last for at least 2 more months into the 2nd quarter looking back the e.u. approvals process was slower than in some other places in part because it insisted

on full approvals rather than provisional ones the chancellor defended that cautious approach. me a couple more money would not have created more capacity from my own tech was in fact rather launch americans have more options but our initial order of 200000000 doses was very high and we had hardly begun to look at the production side in marburg in germany when the european commission was already negotiating a 2nd contract. but such explanations are likely to be of little comfort to people especially the elderly who have been told to expect to get the vaccine but are so far struggling even to get an appointment. the important thing is that the vaccination data isn't truly reliable people get really frustrated when the appointments cannot be kept because the delivery

bottlenecks and limited resources for that is what annoys people could not so much that they might call up and ask 5 times and what's frustrating is growing as the lockdown drags on the government has sent out a post way back to normality with promises of vaccine now they will face even more pressure to deliver. it's bring in our chief political correspondent linda crane here melinda there was massive pressure on german political leaders at this vaccine summit to deliver more than just words did they. show you know one german newspaper is calling this a placebo. but i think that's wrong of course evil has no effective ingredient and at this summit a very effective ingredient was produced and exchanged namely more facts and more information it was clear from what we heard in the press conference that the

politicians at both federal and state level had not fully understood the complexities of the supply chains of the pharmaceutical firms some of which took part in the summit it was also clear that the federal government hadn't fully understood the state's need for more reliable information for its landing purposes even if that information includes the fact that vaccine quantities in this part of the air until the 2nd quarter will be lower than many politicians had hoped so what we saw at the end was the politicians coming together to say that they understand now what the supply situation is that they will develop a more detailed roadmap for the rollout. by the middle of this month and we saw essentially more reliable facts and information both for policy making but also for the public which is exactly what we heard the person in the report calling for

. chancellor merkel says that all germans will have access to a vaccine by the end of the 3rd quarter that's 8 months from now how realistic is that and how is that message being received. actually she's promising that all germans who want to be vaccinated will have that opportunity by the end of the summer and the there has tables of vaccine deliveries they were reduced as a basis for discussion at this summit absolutely bear her out as we heard in that report the vaccine quantities will remain limited in this 1st quarter the government's been saying that all along the next 8 weeks will remain difficult but after that vaccines librium will pick up significant 70000000 and it's june and a 126000000 doses throughout this summer so basically it looks like the chancellor absolutely is right and experts bear her out. well into thank you very much that

was a cheap political correspondent well the new craig. now to the united states and as the senate there gears up for donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial the former president has until today tuesday to formally respond to the charge against him he's accused of inciting the deadly insurrection out the capitol on january 6th meanwhile the investigation into the ride itself continues scores of people have already been arrested in what is amounting to a probe of unparalleled scope g.w. correspondent stuff and reports from washington. fierce and diehard supporters of donald trump scaling the walls of the u.s. capitol these images showing what is now called an attack on the mark received an insurrection and failed coup attempt in which 5 people died still causes disbelief

and concern shock and anxiety for millions of americans today however just hours after the storming of capitol hill on january 6th federal authorities started multiple investigations in how exactly this happened and who is responsible for it all almost 4 weeks after the attack on capitol hill this fence and the bob were pretty much the only visual signs and reminders of what had happened on generally 6 here but behind the curtains and behind the doors the investigation into what happened and who is responsible for this it's in full gear hundreds of 50 i agents at headquarters in washington and from dozens of field offices all across the u.s. are following thousands of leads federal agents are sifting through an unprecedented amount of evidence including at least 200000 digital tipoffs from various social media platforms was at least 300 people are under active investigation and at least 150 have been arrested so far officials say this was

just the 1st face of what they say is an investigation of unprecedented scope the investigation will shift a little bit from low hanging fruit off people let's say who filled themself attacking and getting into the capital committing one crime or another it will shift now into a more complex and. complicated why is that because now the f.b.i. will look into conspiracy organization in organized crime how much was organized of this attack what was the level of sophistication in preparing for the attack and who was involved. federal authorities say they're in for the long haul when it comes to their investigations and answering these and other questions back on capitol hill the temporary fence surrounding much of it will perhaps also remain for longer than originally planned the interim chief of the

capitol police wanted to become a permanent fixture. astronauts and researchers are meeting in the german city of braman today to discuss the future of manned space flight among the questions they'll try to answer or what their next goals are and what role europe will play the plans to keep using the international space station until 2024 after that it hopes to send astronauts deeper into space on new and more demanding missions. the next frontier a space station in lunar orbit the lunar gateway nasa is planning to build this new lunar outpost in cooperation with canada japan and europe during the next few years it's slated to serve as a research platform and space station. to facilitate these deep space probes nasa has built a powerful rocket about 100 meters high. the astronauts will sit

at the very top of the newly developed already on spacecraft. the european space agency e s a is in charge of creating the service module for the spacecraft this module will supply the astronaut capsule with propulsion electricity and breathing air until now nasa had commissioned all core components to be made exclusively in america up to 4 astronauts can take off with the orient spacecraft. ignition. the new transport systems 1st full launch is scheduled for november this flight will be an unmanned test of the orient spacecraft in space the rocket is designed to launch the spacecraft on course for the moon. once there already and will then orbit the moon under its own propulsion and return to earth after 6 days.

if everything goes as planned the 1st astronauts could be on their way to the moon in 2022. the new transport system will also play an important role in the construction of the space station. the 1st 2 modules are set to begin their orbit around the moon in early 2020 for. the lunar gay. ways orbit will take it over the north and south poles nasa plans to operate future lunar missions from this station. initially remote controlled robots will investigate the part of the moon that is facing away from the earth and the south pole its mission is to explore the available resources. later nasa plans to bring astronauts to the lunar surface from the gateway and the long term nasa will use the outpost as an assembly hangar and test site for

a new space craft capable of carrying up to 6 astronauts to mars. over the next decade the 1st humans are expected to orbit the red planet and then return to the lunar gateway. you're watching d.w. news from berlin coming up next our documentary series close up with the 2nd part of the day of wrath egyptian women and the arab spring i'm terry martin thanks for watching.

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