also these protests and his arrest has been saying that the e.u. should stop condemning what happened that they should stop meddling in russia's sovereign affairs and they've been emphasizing that the rule of law you know exists in russia and that this the decision to put an x in a venue behind bars was fair and correct and today when it comes to love or if we saw a similar line even the lover of specific day was quite a bit of what about ism what i would call what about his and he talked a lot about the protests that have been happening in russia in the sense that he said that actually the police violence that we've been seeing in the past few weeks was not so bad he compared things to the protests that happened before in the u.s. he even said that he had given burrell a video of other incidences of police violence that happened in the west kind of saying you know russian police have been acting completely fine when of course what

we have been seeing in the past few weeks and i've been at those protests is peaceful protesters taking to the streets and the police reacting with a huge amount of force yes they didn't use tear gas but it still seems that there's a bit of what about as i'm going on today he also called for an open investigation into the poisoning of alex enough and he said lover of that the. organization for the use of chemical weapons for the prohibition of chemical weapons that they're just a political organization and that their findings which are that he was poisoned with a military nerve agent that those are just politicized. volleys in cold again today what is this all about. he's being tried today for slander apparently for insulting. world war 2 veteran over his participation in campaigning for the recent changes in the constitution here in

russia now by himself says that this is a political case that he is just that the russian system essentially is just trying to present him as patriotic and of course the scheduling of this trial i would say coinciding with the visit of this high e.u. official is rather provocative considering the condemnation that we've been hearing of these treatment from e.u. officials in the last few days coming back to this meeting what can actually come out of this well i think both sides today both pro and love are off to emphasize that despite. there are differences in opinion particularly over human rights particularly over. me and the protests in the last few weeks they've both emphasized their openness for dialogue and continuing to talk lover off seemed

rather satisfied this is the 1st meeting that the 2 sides have had perhaps they had good personal chemistry and love are often emphasized as well that they had a lot of common ground when it comes to perhaps working out a new iran nuclear deal when it comes to resolving issues in the middle east and they also both emphasized scientific cooperations perth particularly over the russian vaccine sputnik the which e.u. countries now have expressed interest in perhaps buying. sherman in moscow thank you ali. meanwhile thousands of people have been arrested across russia this weekend protests against of all his imprisonment around 500 of them being held at a detention facility near moscow outside their friends and relatives are waiting for news our correspondent yury has shared spoke with them. who is number 15 in the line of this woman asks she's one of the volunteers outside of the soccer

over the tension facility at 2 hour drive from moscow these people have been standing in the freezing cold since of the early morning. they want to help of their friends and relatives people who were arrested to during the protests. some of them are waiting for their sentence some are already serving at. the shame of fear that we have collected warm things this is a sweater this is a blanket because we don't know if our friends in there have anything to cover up with little see but there is some underwear t. shirts and wore gloves just in case all of this is awful but even cried a few times my friends are you there. was. more than 7000 people have been arrested across russia in the past 10 days. the police were

particularly brutal during the last protests in moscow and st petersburg on the weekend and after alex enough on his sentence some time security forces dragged people into police buses for no reason some of them are random passers by several cases are now being investigated the police. authorities argue that the protests were not authorized and therefore posed a security threat in reality however the police officers themselves have at times become a security threat to some you know sent passers by. these young people say they spent up to 2 bellflower loss as a courthouse after being detained apparently they had to sleep on the floor they were sentenced to several days in prison but since prison space seems to be running out they have had to wait for hours in the police bus. it's stuffy one young man explains he says he spent 7 hours in here so far. it's now

afternoon in front of the center of one to tension center the queue has barely moved. the also to take their time accepting the packages and are searching each one carefully in the cup with a missing piece this is all so surreal we don't know what all this will lead to but we want to continue fighting for our rights and our freedom he was going to give him a chance of course we're also scared but many people want to keep fighting for their future on the streets you want to push the limits of wish. more than 500 people are said to be in detention behind to these fans and to more young people are expected to arrive here from moscow current soon especially if the protests continue. tom out of a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world in indonesia activists process at the myanmar military coup outside the country's embassy in

jakarta called for the release of aung san suu kyi and other civilian leaders detained by the military the indonesian government is seeking a special meeting of the bloc of southeast asian nations to discuss the situation in. pharmaceutical company johnson and johnson has asked regulators in the united states to give its vaccine emergency approval if authorized it would be the vaccine to be approved for use in the u.s. johnson and johnson vaccine only requires one shot the 1st of its kind in the world . a controversial republican lawmaker has been sanctioned for promoting you alan conspiracy theories and endorsing violence against democratic politicians but margaret taylor green was removed from 2 committees after a vote in the u.s. house of representatives 11 republicans were among those voting against green said she regretted some of her past words but did not apologize. we stand the u.s.

where president joe biden. outlined his vision for u.s. foreign policy in his 1st major policy speech by sought to reassert u.s. global leadership we build alliances and reverse donald trump's america 1st agenda he wants to end u.s. support for the war in yemen. of u.s. troops from germany the united states is ready to engage with the world again that was joe biden's message from the marbled halls of washington state department here for biden that means foreign policy must be grounded in a multilateral world rather than in defense of america's interests that puts america 1st. is back diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy so the u.s. will once more try to find solutions to the world's problems like in yemen dubbed the world's worst humanitarian crisis years of conflict has destroyed much of the

country killing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving more near starvation the u.s. has given tacit backing to one side of that war no more says by then. this war has to end. and to underscore our commitment we are in need all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales the moved represents a broader shift in u.s. foreign policy that previous administrations have been accused of siding with authoritarian nations in the name of stability but the president wants that to end and he knows he's going to need help for biden taking a stronger stance internationally will mean having to reach out to washington's old allies in europe and elsewhere he ordered a freeze on u.s. troop withdrawals abroad including from u.s. bases in germany the trumpet ministration wanted to pull out nearly 10000 of some 35000 troops based in the country biden will depart from that plan or american

alliances are our greatest asset maybe with diplomacy means standing shoulder to shoulder with our allies and key partners once again the biden administration comes to power with diplomats morale lower and its alliances chafing restoring both will be a huge challenge. a u.s. policy analysts who used to work for the u.s. state department in the past. john kerry how would you describe this new biden dr train and how does it differ from trump's. i think the strongest thing about the new guy doctrine was exactly what he said that return to traditional dignified diplomacy this was not even long speech so every single word had impact including the very location where he chose to give this speech he went

to the state department i think it was a very clear signal that he was in power and diplomats and a close to see in a way that really felt like they were abandoned in the trump administration and i think also as much as this could be seen as policy it was really about tom it was about a return to leadership it was about return traditional roles and looking at our alliances presidency really so many alliances as combative. by talking about collaboration where i think there are a lot of significant things who he mentions perhaps as a european a stronger focus back on europe and i think also being really strong against authoritarian and being very clear that he's not this is not just a policy it's a direct policy against what president trumpet ministration have been doing for the last 4 years. do you think this speech is enough to soothe allies also what some

here in europe saw as a full very difficult is that's a very good question he this was very rhetorical there were a lot of signaling going on talking about. at home leading with example the strength of our alliances again that shifts a little bit more back towards europe but i think they should also europeans should be specifically in the alliance should be a little weary of some of the things he very clearly set he said twice we're going to do things in our own self interest i think you know donald trump is known as an american 1st president that's not what biden is being but there is always going to be an american priority i think instead it's going to be america not alone so i think allies should feel absolutely relieved i think they should feel like they're on more secure certain grounding they know how to deal with these kinds of situations and he's going to be in that traditional diplomacy and space but i also

think there should be weary and really hold the administration accountable for not only returning to normalcy the doing better is biden also send some clear verbal warning shots to china and russia or come that mean in practice come expect biden to take a more muscular approach to america's foes. absolutely i think with russia is about dereck it being it being a strong and clear up front it's directly saying you know we will no longer tolerate some of the things the truck administration either can target line i too we're going to hold you accountable i think with china it's much more subtle there are certain things happen throughout this speech where you know he's not jumping on board with everything china's doing but he also said again when it's our own self interest one of the most interesting piece says was when he named allies he does

trail yet and that may not come to the forefront of everybody's minds but it really reminded me back obama president obama's asia pivot and his really strategic posing on australia as a way for the allies to keep china in check so i think biden is sending a very clear town you know we are not to be trifled with but also doing very strategic subtle things laying the foundation right now to actually back up those words in the coming years missile to thank you very much thank you oh oh. well to syria now where the conditions faced by internally displaced people in the northwest of the country are increasingly desperate the there is ongoing fighting the corona virus pandemic is there heavy rains and bitterly cold temperatures as well tens of thousands of people fled to italy province about a year ago in search of safety away from the assad regime's attacks on rebel territories hundreds of makeshift camps were set up close to the border with turkey

but they lack basic supplies and the winter weather is making things worse. and there is no safety did argue her sponsors begin to shoot at visited a family in one of the camps. and bartend frame standing among charred to ruins the reminder of the horrible night 4 weeks ago when up to fact that i am just his 10 year old daughter. in the bitter cold his 10 neighbors were trying to light a homemade furnace when the entire tent went up in flames. the little fire spread very quickly there were huge flames and the motorcycle and some fuel exploded all the tents caught fire my wife and children were trapped inside only 5 made it out of the homes of. my sister yes i mean try to save our mother and she pushed her out she told her go i'll come out right

after you but yes i mean got caught inside and she died. there youngest daughter also suffered severe burns an aid organization brought the one year old to turkey for medical treatment doctors have sent messages and videos but the family's not allowed to visit. the border with turkey is closed to syrian refugees the mother fatima can barely stand it. so i hope. so much that you come back healthy but i saw the fire i fear the worst ever lose the heel. tragedies like these happen frequently in the makeshift camps in the northern eclipse tens of thousands of people are living here in miserable conditions even basic necessities latrines food heating fuel and medical care.

constant heavy rain has now made the situation worth people here were cut off from all supplies for days many tents were destroyed aid organisations have been doing their best but are totally overwhelmed the situation is made even worse by the rampant coronavirus the infection rate in the province has risen dramatically. now in the of the. we've done what we can and together with other aid organizations and the white helmets we've tried to raise awareness about the coronavirus we've handed out masks scientists in fact and. given the desperate situation it's not enough. of them. have to fight our family are simply glad that the aid organisation has given them a new tent some clothing and even a new furnace but they hardly use it despite the cold they have no money for fuel and they are terrified of using it anyway. my

children and i have a psychological problem in the tent we are afraid to light the furnace when my husband isn't here so our children panic and start screaming when they see fire so it's very very hard for us here. when they fled the fighting and their rates up to fatah thought they would only be here for a few days but now it's been 14 months and they are too afraid to go back home to southern eclipse because the fighting rages on. or more the situation especially of the children i'd like to bring it under the meaning is from the charity save the children joins us from damascus what's the current situation for children in syria's southwest of carbs. you are not for this to be honest it's simply vanity dire. programs and the northwest city are across has at least 1500000 people who have fled there so out of the 10 years of conflict in

addition to about 1500000 people who lived in the it for that means there is massive trash on the infrastructure let alone 10 years obstructive heartache that have left at least 30 percent of the infrastructure across that completely destroyed so simply families now that healing from 10 years of conflict destruction . have to meet the choice of between either dying from the cold or dying you know hitting accident where simply in an area they live now that just doesn't have the infrastructure that can cause them we still have hundreds if not thousands of people sleeping outside hundreds of thousands leaving in tents and many many more lost sleeping in unfinished buildings or answers asses just because the trying to find shelter from the old how difficult is it to get aid to these children are successful and at least. we still do and many others

thankfully do because we're talking about 4000000 people who are largely completely dependent on mate but it is getting harder and harder for example we used to have 2 crossing points to get the aid from taki into syria and the security council as you moved one of them and since july of last year even we've had in peace added one of ours we have less funding than before and now all the aid into northwest city needs through one crossing point at the best of times that is not enough space to have all the trucks all the aid or the medical supplies come and let alone in times like when you still need to get the city medical devices and you still need to get water and it will just simply cannot protect themselves in the current situation. under to mean from save the children on the desperate situation on refugees in northern syria there thank you very much if you. were going to the us now

where a man who was left badly disfigured by a car crash is able to smile once more 22 year old jodie male has undergone the world's 1st face and double hand transplant surgery happened august and doctors have now called the massive procedure a success one note some of the images in our report may be disturbing to some viewers. aren't you shirish giving who hope in a world. i am going to have the flu and the right hand transplant. a 2nd chance and i. been 6 months since operations and speech is still difficult for him but the fact that he can talk at all is a medical sensation. for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of

a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 23rd 2002 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face. in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st. i guess i just kept on with it. but he has not completely recovered from the

operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy killed a male is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. you know on a narrative of. amazing story choose geometric formations have begun appearing on frozen lakes and snow covered fields in canada so the work of aliens behind the epic art works is a retired teacher stomping around in snowshoes to beat back his pandemic blues along with a team of friends he stops out his designs after careful drafting at least 20 up was have been across that so far the largest about 400 meters long each piece can take up to 3 days to make. well that's it

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parties to flash from the painted blue top this is where they are. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend off g.w. and. nobel peace prize laureate uncensored she is back under house arrest in myanmar facing trumped up charges of illegally importing walkie-talkie the military deposed her and the country's elected government on monday declaring a state of emergency for the next 12 months it's head claimed the army's hand was forced by mass voter fraud in november's elections which son to choose party won by a landslide she called for supporters to protest the intervention but is it too late art. titled myanmar crew death knell for democracy.

on. our am welcome to to the point it's a pleasure to introduce our guests yasmin works for the independent social science research institute giga and she says the international community has been living in denial for a long time the military has never really wanted to see real democratic change and be on mars. and with us is felix high joke from the berlin based policy and science think tank. his opinion the coup has put an end to myanmar's liberal and partly authoritarian transition to democracy. and it's great to welcome my colleagues who chief on boomers on from asia desk she thinks the military seizure of power could

lead to deadly violence the military will reinforce a culture of abuse and impunity threatening to end human rights and economic stability in myanmar. so let me go straight away to use. with that mention of deadly violence in your opening statement so far the streets appear to be relatively calm so how would you assess the potential for bloodshed going forward the way that i see it that the reason people are not protesting just yet on moscow is i think for the reason that they are very scared and they know that the military has had a very brutal history of violent violence and the people in the generation that sold the 988 uprising and violent crackdown on anti-government protesters and witnessed their family members slaughtered before their eyes they. well this is a sort of deja vu for them and this is just

a reminder all of what the military is capable of and that the reason they are not protesting get i think they will find more creative ways only time will tell but for now most people the number one concern i think when people wake up in the i'm out on monday was the fear of their security of their loved ones and their own safety can i go back out in the streets as before as before it because they know that in the time when the military ruled it was a whole different life yes when you say the military never truly wanted democratic change nevertheless it's decided to tear down the democratic facade it had tolerated why now. well i think a major reason are the november 2020 alexion in which the n o t was called firmed in power in

a landslide make 3 of the being done some to choose party being on sense that she's party that had basically left the liberalize ation were opening process. and i think the military and the the party it backs the us state had also overestimated their own showing in these elections even though death surprising because it was probably obvious that people still overwhelmingly supported the end of the so i think. being reconfirmed in power was a major reason because the military might have been afraid of us probably afraid that and all the would now push to push further reforms perhaps by amending the constitution off 2008 which the military had drafted originally it wouldn't pursue . many of its domains or by more subtle ways such as making the administration more civilian imply could get it out of military control and so

with this reconfirmation that he and the micro will powerful in in restricting the path the military and felix let me get your take on the same point yes we just mentioned the military had to actually establish control over certain domains in fact behind that democratic facade that i mentioned many political offices and 25 percent of the parliamentary seats were reserved for army officers why is that no longer enough for the literary i think that's not the point you the point is that the military obviously for. reasons unbeknownst to me felt the felt that these prerogatives were threatened. because of this landslide election victory in november 2020 and the fear this is only i can only speculate obviously on this but the fear seems to have been there also said she and the end of the would now make

good on their promise on their election campaign promise to for charter change for constitutional change and also for the further demilitarization that's where i agree just means they can further the militarization of the administration of the civil service of the country and so on and so forth so here we see that some of those awful retiree in preoperative that the military basically safeguarded into the new democratic era where actually in the view of the military threatened the facade was cracking city and this state of emergency is supposed to last a year followed by a free and fair election i'm quoting there that was the announcement made by the military so what's likely to happen during this 12 month period and kemi expect the army to keep its promise that whoever wins the election following that will actually govern. i think there are 2 different sides to the quaint people do

say that the military in nehemiah has had a do keep up to their would that they do fulfill even though those words of promises might be somewhat brutal they have fulfilled what they would do for example if they have always held elections the last elections held after they promised that however. i also think that. the military this coup on monday has also proven just how irrational they are and what they how little they are actually thinking of the well being of the people of nehemiah and i think everything on monday this very cool in itself just shows that the military is capable of a very irrational behavior and that they cannot keep their promises and prioritize the people of myanmar let's hear a few voices from the people of myanmar unsung suit she has urged her supporters to

show their opposition but so far the streets have been fairly quiet none the less the anger is palpable. you know you go i feel the army to the people. when it's this on the civilian government. i don't like to fire people so not all of. our country is just a bird learning to fly and now he army broke our wing so. i'm terribly upset i've been crying all day i've been crying all day he's the bad guy how could you do something like this. yes i mean to hear in that last statement refers to the army's commander in chief. when the national league for democracy. came into power in 2016 the general appeared in

public with unsung suchi he seemed satisfied to work with her so what changed for him personally some didio are saying corruption may be part of stake here is that right. well i think on this point we can really only speculate because the military the military proper of course for us is maybe a black box for a purpose i mean he has been the army chief of staff for a long time already and he seemed for a while as you said to be comfortable with this power sharing arrangement with the military holding the security relevant ministries with the n.l. having the ministries and the functions that relate to the purely civilian jemaine such as labor policy economic policy well we know that he and his family are also involved in a lot of businesses. hold monopolies over certain businesses have interests back. but i think the main which perhaps also relates

a bit to the question of whether the military is irrational i think what we really have to understand that it's a military mindset you know. if the military thinking it's about having to do can they still control the process in the way they wanted and this goes back to my own statement i mean they never wanted to add to have a liberal democracy what they wanted to have was what they call discipline flourishing democracy so you know are they still in control of the whole process and it's also the military as the core is it intact as a unit is functioning are its interests not threatened so i think this is this this is what they're really at let me ask you fairly except to give us a sense of whether you think that many many people in the amar share the opinion of those voices that we heard in that report the fact is so far we've seen only isolated protests in response to monday's coup but would you expect more opposition

would you expect that to gain momentum. i think this is these sentiments are widely shared that's what i would assume at least given the data that's available on this . and i think anger is mounting as well amongst the general population because of the little support the coup actually has and the military interventions into politics generally have very very little support in myanmar because of myanmar particular history however the question seems to be then and what's next will there be some will again momentum will it be one way or the other via twitter facebook is has been shut down effectively as of today via twitter. social media channels will there be some sort of organisational mass protest will people come out in force i

think that's what we need to look out for the city would you say there's anything behind the army's claims that there were irregularities during the election has there been any proof of that from independent observers no so. international observers have said that the election was largely fair and transparent. and also their commentators there are kind of comparing at the military's reaction to after how donald trump reacted after the election claiming that it was rigged and it was a fraud and i think similarily the military is using this tactic to call to kind of told time and the to make to plan the next move and but however most international observers are saying that the it was over 75 to 80 percent that they voted for instance which democratic party that's an international observers have

also been commenting with quite a bit of surprise about the charges against. unsung suchi as i mentioned she's accused of having illegally imported to 10 walkie talkies which seems laughable and hardly like a substantial basis for discrediting a nobel peace prize laureate do these charges nonetheless have potentially serious consequences they do they obviously do i mean the no under which she was charged history notorious it's very wake and it was also used during military rule to imprison opponents that's one thing and actually i think the most important background is that once somebody is convicted of criminal charges he or she cannot run for office again so i think this is the main strategy behind it that they want to keep her from running for office next time when elections are held and. yeah you're also asking whether there will be the elections will be held in

a year's time or whenever i think they might actually hold elections but they will be for they will create an even playing field and part of this is to bar sensitive from running so through elections in november as has been mentioned were in fact one with a landslide by unsung city's national league for democracy despite some recent stains on her reputation the nobel peace prize laureate who spent nearly 15 years under house arrest during her long resistance to military rule is revered at home in myanmar. own sent to cheat is respected around the world she's been the recipient of numerous honors including the european parliament sakharov prize and the nobel peace prize in 2010 her growing popularity combined with mounting international pressure finally forced me m.r.s. military to have to live her house arrest and democratic concessions 5 years later

in l d party won an absolute majority in the 1st 3 elections suchi became the country's minister of foreign affairs in de facto head of government but the military led by army chief men long retained its grip on power meaning that suit she remained a head of government at the mercy of the military. as a result of basic democratic freedoms like freedom of the press and protection for minorities remains elusive during her time in power. is this the end of. physics let me pass that last question right on to you is this the end of unsung suits see the end of her ability to influence political developments in her country well i wouldn't say so. i think there we must differentiate between the formal political process and there i agree was yes needed very much looks like.