creation of our solar system with our planet is a good like winning the lottery there was an. earth. storks for if you were real over it oh and b.t.w. . this is do that were you news and these are our top stories a russian court has ordered opposition figure alex a nobel need to present to serve out a 3 and a half year sentence he was detained last month for violating the terms of his probation he was accused of failing to check in with authorities because he was in germany recovering from a near fatal poisoning which he blames on the kremlin. russia but make the coronavirus vaccine is around 92 percent effective that's according to

a new study published by the british medical journal the lancet the findings are based on data from a trial involving nearly 20000 people researchers also found no serious side effects associated with its use. amazon founder jeff bezos is giving up his role as c.e.o. of the company and moving to the role of executive chair in the 3rd quarter the e-commerce giant said he'll be replaced by andy yes the who runs i was on cloud business the announcement came as the company reported a surge in 4th quarter profits and revenue. this is d.w. news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website w dot com. were despite its shocking shortage of coronavirus vaccines europe has paid little

attention to russia's researchers today results published in a british medical journal showed that the sputnik the vaccine is safe and that it works at the same time in a russian court the kremlin critic alexina volney was sentenced to prison european governments see this as an attempt by president putin to silence his biggest threat will the european union protest a sham trial or will it focus on its own public health the new russian vaccine could protect europeans it could also give president putin all the political immunity he needs america from berlin this is the day. putin is a thief and a nutter and that one of the money to be free. no information so far has shown what the accusations are based on a school. in north dakota not found in the situation it's actually frightening to

the illegal student conservation school of the country's los baños. if you accuse someone you have to prove their guilt that is that you can't just say it's a secret or this patient confidentiality it will. push that would mean the family's poisoning the state. also coming up the f.b.i. considers last month's seizure of the u.s. capitol to be a 911 moment and you can see it in the investigation suddenly people are being arrested who just a few months ago would have never been questioned weeks after the attack on capitol hill this. phantom to bob where pretty much the only visual signs and reminders of what had happened not 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. which were viewers on p.b.s.

in the united states into all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with a prison sentence and a vaccine both made in russia today a moscow court sentenced kremlin critic alexina vonnie to 3 and a half years in prison for violating parole the bio lation occurred when the vonnie was here in berlin in a coma fighting for his life after being poisoned with a nerve agent which he blames on the kremlin the timing here is very important today's sentencing took place on the same day that russia's sputnik the vaccine received a major credibility boost early results show that the vaccine is safe and effective against the coronavirus now this comes as the european union is suffering from a drastic shortage in vaccines the russian vaccine until this week had not really been discussed as a possibility for europe and that was before pharmaceuticals pfizer and astra

zeneca announced drastic delivery cuts now the german health minister is not ruling out sputnik the russia could help europe but at what price to save its own public health in this pandemic europe may have to stand by and let the case of alexina volney take its course. the hots for his wife yulia the only goodbye alexina vonnie could manage before he heads to prison. he told the court the charges against him were fabricated a way of intimidating he supposes that all of these offices and this cage it's not . a show of strength it shows their weakness day a week and they cannot jail thousands or even millions of people.

outside the cavalry arrived early in the morning. lines of riot police stood in front of the courts to keep me in but his supporters out his d w 70 showing in moscow reports each. there is a huge police presence in the whole neighborhood around the court where aleksey now by the is being tried today these police vans stand at the ready for new arrests. as the day progressed police detained hundreds of supporters who come to show you their solidarity. a each was no barrier to that here a small act of defiance me and it's a rest in these people's eyes is a small price to pay i'm not afraid to see it's. 3 or 4 hours in. in police. station i believe it's.

close for for my you and i think that. a man's school was almost killed shouldn't they be in prison. for the reasons that he was just only was they couldn't kill him. as evening fell a heavy police presence remains. eve on these lawyers said they'd be appealing the verdict to the european court of human rights. when well for more on this i want to bring in christopher grows up he is the chief russia researcher from the link and he's also a friend of alexey. christos good to have you on the program. let's talk about the volley the person your friend and then i'd like to talk about of all the the public force what what does this prison sentence what does it mean for him and i'm thinking about his mental and his physical will be. well i mean there is

well he was ready for it and then there's what happened today he was ready for exactly this verdict this is what we discussed back. in germany of a couple of months ago he was absolutely sure that he would be arrested and when i ask him yes but they're going to let you out on under house arrest he's not by far the most like outcomes of i'm going to be sent out for a long time and we're not going to see each other for a long time so that was his default expectation then again when i was watching him today he showed all the exterior signs of a heart of a strong strong mom and said. but i can't imagine that he wasn't really depressed at the end of this ridiculous for them it was a long day of deliberation which was essentially a charade and he called it a what did today was an amazing and now moving on to your 2nd part of the question seem to hold all this because he made a 17 minute speech which was amazing i mean it was a mandela speech it was

a presidential inauguration speech it was at that level and it impressed everybody and you i was reading your twitter feed today and you were saying that basically he's being sent to prison. for nothing and at the moment he has no legal recourse i mean it's 2 people actually stopped to think and to read on the background of this whole charade today because he sent over breaching the. parole arrangements over a verdict that has been cancelled invalidated by the european court of human rights and russia is a member of the i mean it is it has to comply with the decisions of the european court of human rights so technically even under russian law this verdict is invalid . yet the russian supreme court did not castle that did not follow the request of the order from the european court of human rights in 2018 and then they said that

he should move imports after the end of his provisions of this he should report on a weekly basis and essentially he was sentenced today for going to have years because he didn't show up during his treatment when he was in germany recovering from a poisoning. of the very important to note that the multi-organ poisoning at that that was it was the product of this of his own government the president of the it has been yeah that's true and that we were following the court proceedings and he told the judge that he had been in a coma and that was the reason why he couldn't report with any authorities but obviously that had no bearing on the judge this prison sentence it's not 10 years it's not 20 years and we know that vladimir putin has the power to make it that way if he wants it is today's prison sentence then in your opinion a sign of putin's stree or is it a sign of his faltering string. i won't say anything you abide by

i repeat you can be sort of the observation that putin had no useful moves when alexei decided to come back to russia alexei's decision actually put them into a quandary because. whatever he did whether he put them in jail or he let him out he will have a problem if he lets him out he will show a weakness that a lot of his core hardcore base is not going to like and if he sends him to prison he's going to capitalize the young people into the streets he's going to make him a martyr and that's exactly what we're seeing now in delayed wee hours of the night of russia we're seeing thousands of young people going out of his feet and this is going to continue for 4 weeks from now on and the only way that within can respond to that is by sending hundreds and maybe thousands of as they call them cosmonauts from the anti rights of the east and that's not going to be a comforting view even police corps for his core electorate because they don't want to live in a real russia that is occupied yet let me let me just ask you to before we run out

of time because what does this mean then for young people because i know young voters are not big putin supporters the social media savvy young russian volney these people are the future of russia so is putin strategy here is it to somehow win them over or is it just to keep them at arm's length as long as he can it's a short term so it's its tactics have not strategy he's only keeping them at arm's length until the next presidential elections but but even these people who never voted before that are coming out on the streets they're going to carve out a significant piece of the parliament both up and and even informal estimates currently predict that at least 15 to 20 percent will go through. to know non-systemic part is to young people are preferred partners ok christo because of the chief russian researcher from billing can joining us tonight from vienna

christa we appreciate you taking the time to share what you know about this sad outcome today thank you. but what impact will not all these prison sentence have on russian relations with the west there's a lot to unpack here and to do that tonight i'm joined by the energy security analyst benjamin schmidt he is in cambridge massachusetts it is good to see you again you know i say again because we've talked several times about the nord stream to pipeline the natural gas pipeline that is almost completed that would bring natural gas directly from russia to germany the treatment of of all me has been used now as that the latest reason for this project to be killed with him being sentenced to prison today what does that do to the chances of nord stream to survive. thanks so much for having me brant and i think that the lead in really

tells you what you need to know about this which is that this should and does have a major impact on projects like north stream too because remember the folks that are are are doing these malign activities this is the kremlin in the kremlin 100 percent owns and operates gas problem which is advancing north straining to i think that you'll see this continuing trend of not just the united states is often reported or poland or ukraine but also a number of nations across the transatlantic community a large majority have actually spoken out against this project since 2015 and it's only gets worse every time the kremlin makes one of these actions whether it's back to its illegal an exception of crimea an aggression in eastern ukraine or a of cyberattacks election interference or of course an extrajudicial assassination attempts like we saw with mr vali calling for putin putin the poisoner today in his

closing remarks when he was attempting to be assassinated by capt chemical weapons we know that the the german government is still behind this project yesterday the spokesperson for the german chancellor was asked about nordstrom to and she said that there has been no change in the government's position and it came at the same time that we heard from the french foreign minister saying that he would like to see the germans killed this project so what does french pressure in this calculus make. i think it really goes to the heart of what we've seen all along as i said it's not just eastern european voices or u.s. voices it's a majority of the transatlantic community that spoken out against nordstrom to and it's because of russia's malign activities and its export of strategic corruption i think this is really hit home when we saw just last week for the 2nd time on an overwhelming basis the european parliament call for additional sanctions against

russia for of all these imprisonment in this case but also it cancellation of any remaining work on nordstrom to immediately and that was 18581250 basis overwhelming majority of europeans of the european parliament are calling for this to be stopped as the united states the biden administration press secretary last week called this a fundamentally bad deal for europe and said that president biden still believes this and during his confirmation hearing tony blinken the incoming u.s. secretary of state actually said that he is determined to do what they recant to prevent that completion yeah i'm wondering too now that the french have come out against nordstrom to well that embolden the bygger ministration to put more pressure on america old to flying only kill this pipeline i think it absolutely will brant i think there is a big diplomatic opening here the likes of which we haven't seen for some time on this issue where the overwhelming evidence is showing the sort of activities that

russia gets up to and those that are saying that this has nothing to do or this this shouldn't be doing anyway to north korean to really don't view you know the direct connection between the kremlin and supporting this project ok energy security analyst joining us tonight it's was valuable analysis and insights into the geopolitics surrounding a pipeline and the imprisonment of alexa evolved into and thank you. thanks mom. the reason i say this in the reason i'm getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on that it's not a big deal that we should forget what's happened or are even telling us to apologize . these are the same tactics of abusers and.

i'm a survivor of sexual assault. it was u.s. congresswoman alexandria kanzi accord has yesterday opening up about the trauma that she and many of her fellow lawmakers experience when the capital was stormed by trump supporters on january 6th that trauma and all the repercussions from that in the siege of the capital led to the 2nd impeachment of then president donald trump meanwhile the investigation into the riot itself it continues scores of people have already been arrested in what is amounting to a probe of unparalleled scope e.-w. correspondent stephens iman's reports tonight from washington. fierce and die hard supporters of donald trump scaling the walls of the u.s. capitol these images showing what is now called an attack on democracy an insurrection and failed coup attempt in which 5 people died still cause us

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 wire pretty much the only visual signs and reminders of what had happened not 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 fleets federal agents are sifting through an unprecedented amount of evidence including at least 2 100000 digital tipoffs from various social media platforms. 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 . if what they say is an investigation of unprecedented scope the investigation would 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 would shift now into a more complex and complicated way why's that because now the f.b.i. will look into conspiracy in organization in organized crime how much was organized of this attack what was the suit 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 wants it to become a permanent fixture. where the german drugmaker beyond tech says that it's planning to produce $2000000000.00 doses of its coronavirus vaccine this year that's more than 50 percent up from its initial projected output now that comes as german chancellor angela merkel is promising that everyone who wants to be banks in a good will be offered the injection by the end of this coming summer that promises giving rise to the idea of issuing passports for people who have been immunized supporters say this would allow people to return to normal life critics fear it could violate data protection law. evan schneider is taking on the corona virus the chief administrator arranged independently to develop a digital vaccination certificate in outing after 2 injections you get it for free

. i think we're the only ones in europe perhaps even in the entire world to have it big companies like oracle or microsoft are still working on it we've already got it from and this is the all to vaccinate certificate on it some personal data as well as the name of the vaccine and data vaccination to make it more secure and correspond to data protection laws schneider had various district data processing center take part the info is now included on smartphones. i hope to perhaps travel again and perhaps get a bit more freedom. now an alliance of high tech companies in the us are working together with health organizations to also develop a digital vaccination passport it could even become a model for the world health organization to use. the international air transport association i atta is also testing out possible health certificates with the

airlines using an app passengers can check in and display their covert test results with this i had a hopes mass tourism will take off again. ultimately people want to be able to have unlimited travel again without going into quarantine that's also something the european union would like to regulate at its latest summit the $27.00 member states discussed what could be done some countries are pushing hard for a similar vaccination certificate. there's no other way around not having at the beginning a uniform system for all 200 nations on this planet however i have my concerns if companies which are well known for other things collect excessive amounts of personal data and are also the ones who would have access to sensitive data about people's health it's done so for if you. could there also be a 2 tier system such as less vigorous rules for people who've been vaccinated for corona virus than for those who haven't critics fear there might even be

a vaccination certificate elite with more privileges other problems to. example we don't know whether people who've been vaccinated could still be carriers and as long as we don't know that then a vaccination passport or whatever it's called is of no use to us. meanwhile the bavarian district of outing doesn't want to wait for the e.u. and keeps handing out its own vaccination certificates its biggest wish though is to return to normalcy. well there are other reasons to be cautious about this idea of vaccination certificates my colleague the reporter jill dougherty has been looking into the flourishing online market for corona virus scams and there's plenty of scammers out there what you find job well any time you create a system someone is going to try and change it and right now many countries require you to carry a coven 19 test result a negative result in order to cross the border that's the case if you coming from france or you came to france or if you're trying to arrive in the usa and that has

made a negative test result of a valuable commodity how valuable well up to $300.00 euros that's according to europol the european coordination body for the policing organizations and they say that they have been busting scammers and fraudsters all over europe including at a paris airport where people were selling them to travelers europol of course did one travel is not to buy them yeah imagine that i mean like trying to scalp tickets how hard would it be for me if i wanted to get of seek negative test result if i wanted to say fly across the atlantic well we decided to try and find out here at d w so we turned to the messaging up telegram where you can find channels offering all sorts of goods and services usually nefarious and we did a really quick search to look up for a kind of a 19 test them of course we found a russian language channel that very quickly offered us to to sell us one full 15 dollars it was cheaper than a test in some places but i wanted to know what we might get from money so i asked

them to send us a sample and basically this sample would look like a it's a p.d.f. file it's a document that looks like it's been printed out from some petersburg globe or a tree presumably it had that would go into photoshop in the necessary details would be changed to match whatever i need this is a very simple kind of forgery really and in fact the person offering to sell me this warned that the little q.r. code in the corner there it wouldn't work if it was ever scanned by any authority so i thought that was. pretty honest of this particular forger to tell me that his product wouldn't even work now this is something that anyone could really do at home in fact i could do it using the exact image that she's sent me the question is really whether it would work if you try and go to an airport and that of course is that is highly debatable but you just know it could be 1900 s. results what about the vaccination certificates right well look for those as well and i couldn't find any probably because they don't exist yet in any meaningful form as we heard in that story that german district is the 1st district to actually

even pioneer this concept and now is when you currently get vaccinated you get a little stamp a little book which would be very easy to fake so right now the world health organization is working on some kind of international standards for a digitized system an airline's are also working on their return but of course once you digitize something you open it up to manipulation so just like the virus itself it's going to be very hard to stamp out this kind of forgers just another reason to get everybody vaccinated as soon as possible joe thank you. well the day is almost gone but the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either at u.w. news or you can follow me at golf team be every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody. boy. oh boy.

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