now heard as we mentioned that russia is expelling a diplomat from 3 countries was it the right message for your support al to go to moscow and hold meetings there. first of all we know from my experience most that putin is what a good and making. fun of me a thing could lead us and just what our law enforcement became next week to more. good incapability you want trials of no one and 3 diplomat smoke spelled from moscow's at this. makes fun from not so simple is it mr kabbalist do i understand you correctly that you're saying your support i was humiliated in moscow icing so that's what what we're doing was trying to achieve i think that the privilege. to assist with or to know to a trial someone and of course you plan. to send to you know to send out to

know from russia city diplomats just a monitor shows a visit on their opulence you know not to open for him i want to ask you about your own message because you tweeted today that lattimer putting has declared war against the russian people and that the european union has to act now to protect democracy you also but hell was there precisely to do that to defend these democratic values so what exactly should the european union be doing in your perspective. first of all i think that we know in 1000000 sign of european union we . need to abandon and you hope you know that mr putin can be different let's not gaffing him or you know since about when the jim. unfortunate events in the russia and following could have. the same events which we have seen even in buildings last year and put in his following. no we have it's

a look of. instruments like us against all the prophets so let's let's not gaf and it kind of the notions of wouldn't can be different 2nd of course when you can produce immediately it sanctions against those who. are in prison and though i know who who points on times and on no down arrested human no with him on an into the prison that is once intercepted soon when it to stop immediately also not impure which is kremlin and geopolitical in addition to south i would say that your needs will go into what it deep who started you can have your. relations and its policy to what's russia and when the fortuna is human to come to the gym and exacerbation i would say. i would say that your needs to move from your loss of fear not put on 1st do about it to the after also fear democracy 1st so mr bailey is do i

understand you correctly that you think there is really no more room for dialogue with moscow. well. i suppose that dialogue is used by kremlin look to. that is what we saw during. oral visit of course we can have dialogue about nuclear safety all 6 legs out but. i do not see any and you force ability. to half a dialogue on the human rights of democracy it's what it clears out mr putin is full of. example could shrink experience and he did do still forthcoming elections which will be ultimate are staring you in the september why have to leave it there under yes kubilius member of the european parliament for the european people's party thank you very much for joining us on. so.

well thousands of people have been arrested this week in russia following protests against the jailing of kremlin critic alexina vali around 500 of them are being held at a detention facility near moscow outside their friends and relatives wait for news our correspondent you were seto spoke with some of them. who is number 15 and 9 says this woman asks she's one of the volunteers outside of the sakharov a detention facility at to drive from moscow dizzy spiegel have been standing in the freezing cold since the morning. they wanted to help present friends and relatives people who were arrested to join the protests. some of them are waiting for their sentence some are already serving at. the shame of you 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 if there is sux underwear t. shirts and. 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 were 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 by. these young people say they spent up to

12 hours 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 a 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 detention center the queue has barely moved. they also reduce i take their time accepting the packages and are searching each one carefully at the cup with the police because 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 fortunate to get you but yes of course we're also scared but many people want to keep fighting for their future on the streets you want to push the pedal to the. 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. ok let's get a quick roundup of some other headlines now in me and maher hundreds of students and teachers have joined rallies against the recent military coup demonstrators in young wore red ribbons in support of detained leader aung san suu kyi a civil disobedience movement has been growing since the military declared on monday it would take power for one year. and in the u.s. a controversial republican lawmaker has been sanctioned for promoting cumin on conspiracy theories and endorsing violence against democrat politicians marjorie taylor green was removed from 2 committees after a vote in the u.s. house of representatives 11 republicans were among those voting against her green said she regretted some of her past words but she did not apologize.

now u.s. president joe biden has outlined his vision for u.s. foreign policy in a sphere 1st major policy speech biden said he wants to reassert u.s. global leadership we build alliances and reverse donald trump's america 1st agenda he added that he aims to end u.s. support for the war in yemen and halt the withdrawal 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 model tolls of washington state department 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 mournin starvation the u.s. has given tacit backing to one side of that war no more says biden. this war has to end. and to underscore our commitment we are a new 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 for america the

alliances are our greatest asset and leave you with the plan mostly 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 chasing off and restoring both will be a huge challenge. let's get some political reaction from germany now we have omitted no reporter with us he's the foreign affairs spokesperson for the opposition greens good evening mr harry potter we heard america is back do you find those words reassuring i lost the speech 1st because he embraced the value of diplomacy that's been a lack of this for the last 4 years and then this was a very important issue being addressed and i'm delighted i have course part of diplomacy is. supporting the alliances you're in and the contributing to these

alliances and this is was the president biden promise so good because he's using the right words he's signaling the right direction but what about his actual policy choices what he think of those. well listen look at yemen for example for the last or look at libya does arm twist samples of the off the last 4 years where my government tried to break up initiatives and they just failed in the last 23 weeks we got more results even by the americans than then the german foreign ministry for example for the last 4 years and libya they blamed and shamed the countries who are who are part of the breech of a. day weapons and by without a country and in yemen he just announced that they're going to stop there the support for a pretty saudi arabia which hopefully going to be the end of the war there this is this is was the most important contribution which has been black for for the last 6

years now hopefully we can bring in big and bring to peace to to yemen and this is much more than that germany did for the last years partly because of a lack of initiative and but a lack of courage in this part of the war and of course partly because this is the united states challenge for our system but if by the administration just goes on the way up the coupling we won't follow and we can follow because there are a bunch of. battlefields you have to fight together with the chinese the main one is that of course climate change and there won't be a protection against climate change of the war without cooperation with china and of course the ad yesterday it won't be a job sharing like the america's going to tell us what to do and we just follow the have our own initiatives our own band and our own sovereignty to defend but there are a couple of more issues also north korea for example or the question of digital taxation

which of course is a huge issue for the next where you omit the report of foreign affairs spokesperson for germany's opposition green thanks again for joining us. thank you. now in syria internally displaced people in the northwest of the country are facing increasingly desperate conditions there is ongoing fighting the coronavirus pandemic is a threat and winter has brought heavy rains and bitterly cold temperatures tens of thousands of people fled to live 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 the winter weather is making things worse and they haven't found safety either d.w. correspondent for get a shock a visit a family in one of the camps. to bartend frame standing among charred to ruins the reminder of the horrible night 4 weeks ago when up to that diem lost his 10

year old daughter. in the bitter cold his 10 neighbors were trying to light a hole met furnace when the entire tent went up in flames. the fire spread very quickly there were huge flames and a 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. the youngest daughter also suffered severe burns and the 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 her. the border

with turkey is closed to syrian refugees the mother fatima can barely stand it. so long i hope so much that you come back healthy but i saw the fire. fear the worst evidence the lino. 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 worse people here were cut off from all supplies for days many tents were destroyed age organisations have been doing their best but are totally overwhelmed the situation is made even worse by the rampant coronavirus infection rate in egypt province has risen dramatically. going to be. 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 and disinfectant but given that desperate situation it's not enough. of them. have to fight half family are simply glad that the aid organization 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. and they have enough to lose 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. when they fled the fighting and their rates up the 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. european union leaders are under pressure over the slow progress of the blocks vaccination campaign german chancellor angela merkel has defended the e.u. strategy her government is aiming to offer everyone an initial dose by the end of september that's also where national elections will take place more than 2000000 people in germany have now been injected with a coronavirus vaccine and over 3 quarters of a 1000000 have already had their 2nd dose despite the progress there's a widespread feeling that it's not fast enough. 68 percent of those surveyed said they think the vaccine rollout has been too slow in germany and it's a 16 percent increase compared with a month ago chancellor merkel knows it too this week she called

a meeting to work out how to speed things up. this at least in the past has been slower at some points but i think there were good reasons for this. death and. one of the reasons cited for slowness was that the european union countries acted together the e.u. decided not to issue provisional vaccine approvals as happened in some other places . if i think we did the right thing it's about trust. another delaying factor was the joint e.u. approach to ordering vaccines some say attempts to push down the price meant it took longer to reach a deal. whatever the reason support for the e.u.'s common purchasing policy is dropping only 63 percent of those asked in germany said they thought it was a good idea 7 percent less than in january. the government has promised all

adults will be offered at least a 1st dose of vaccine before the end of september the good news is the number of people saying they intend to take up that offer is steadily rising. let's get a look at some other developments in the pandemic now biotech pfizer has withdrawn a bid for emergency authorization of their vaccine in india pfizer says it will resubmit the bid with additional information required by indian regulators in the us daily infections fell 17 percent of the last week but the daily death toll remains high with more than 40000 virus the in 2 weeks mexico has run out of vaccine doses and no new shipments are expected until mid february and meanwhile the country's hospitals are at over 80 percent capacity and denmark says it will launch a 1st version of a coronavirus vaccination passport by the end of february. to the u.s. now where a man who was left badly disfigured by

a car crash is able to smile once again 22 year old joe de mayo has undergone the world's 1st face and double hand transplant that surgery happened in august and doctors have now called the massive procedure a success and one note some of the images in our report may be disturbing to some viewers. aren't you interested they gave him who hope in the world. i am going to have the face and hand transplant we should get a 2nd chance at life. 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 22 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 then in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st time. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of

physical therapy 2 to mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. in sports liverpool have been barred from entering germany to play their champions league quarter final because of new travel restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus variants the reds were scheduled to play in life sick on feb 16th the german interior ministry has confirmed that federal police denied like 6 application to grant liverpool special permission to enter the country they're now exploring other options including the possibility of finding a neutral venue to play the match. metric formations have started appearing on frozen lakes and snow covered fields in canada behind the epic artworks a retired teacher stomping around and snowshoes to beat back his pandemic blues

along with a team of friends he stomps out his designs after carefully drafting at least 20 artworks have been crafted so far the largest around $400.00 metres long each piece can take up to 3 days to make. let's get a quick reminder of our top story now the european union's top diplomat has said that that use ties with russia are under severe strain following the imprisonment of kremlin critic alexina volley it comes as no volley appeared in court on a separate case this time on charges of defamation. up next our environmental show eco india looks at how to get rid of plastic waste.

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