during a hearing in another trial against no volley he is accused of slandering a war veteran for rail reportedly had shot a meeting with the kremlin critic but it's unclear whether he will be able to see him before his departure on saturday well amid that dispute with russia german chancellor angela merkel and french president in manuel mccall held a virtual defense and security council meeting on friday afternoon it was their 1st since u.s. president joe biden took office but the strain ties with russia overshadowed the talks berlin and paris paris have taken different approaches to dealing with moscow after alexian of all he was jailed both however condemned russia's actions. and do you ever use chief international editor richard walker was listening in to that press conference for us and he joins us for more hi richard are we going to see any type of retaliation here from germany or for press. yeah i mean there's

such a litany of disagreements between the e.u. and russia right now that it's almost hard to know where to begin of course the news of these expulsions of these 3 diplomats including one german one accused by russia of having taken part in protests over what's happened with alexei navalny just the latest news to happen something that both leaders did condemn as we just heard but there was no talk of additional consequences relating to that although we did hear from heiko massa's the german foreign minister earlier in the day that that if it stays with this expulsion then that cannot go unanswered was what he said but otherwise there wasn't really anything on in terms of consequences beyond angela merkel saying that the e.u. had reserved the right to continue with sanctions which go back to the poisoning of alexina. last year and both of them going out of their way to stress that whatever

happens with russia the 2 sides need to stay in dialogue with president mark or even saying at one point that europe and russia have a common literary roots and that this was a reason to maintain dialogue so both of them really going a long way to suggest that you know this mustn't mean that somehow cut ties are all suddenly cut ok and richard these 2 leaders also discuss discuss their europe's future relationship with china tell us about that yeah that's right i mean this is not just looking at china this is also looking at washington because one of the big questions is whether the e.u. and the u.s. can find a common line on an approach to china as an increasing challenge to both so i put the question to both leaders what they thought of joe biden's appeal only yesterday that he wants to rally democracies together to push back against china. i believe that it is very important for the e.u.

to have its own china policy which would of course have a lot in common with the united states because we build on common values its. own none the less there are many reasons to work together with china such as climate protection and many other issues we should strengthen multilateralism worldwide. i don't think decoupling is the right way to go especially in this era of digitalization. there are different aspects of the relationship with china but there are partnerships in some areas such as on the climate when since the paris agreement china is a reliable partner and we are going in the same direction of the us but there are other areas where we have competitors such as trade and industrial policy tools and there are yet other areas where there are serious differences of opinion as to teach it rivalries for instance on the question of values. that is to develop. of how do you think those words will be received in washington. you know it's striking

isn't it is hardly a whole hearted embrace of joe biden's appeal there is it both of them really trying to stress that europe wants to find its own way with china and that while they will be world there will be overlapping interests with the united states they they want to find their own approach so i think that will be met with a little bit of disappointment in the u.s. and i think it it's interesting also to compare the attitude towards russia because this is another bone of contention between the u.s. and the e.u. which is so far unresolved is this pipeline called nord stream too which is almost being completed between russia and germany the last few kilometers of that is still to be completed to transport gas from russia to the european union the u.s. sees this is creating a real geo strategic kind of dependence on russia that is very ill advised at this time they have to work out an answer to that and to my core and merkel actually signaling some unity on this today even though they've been questions over whether france really wanted this pipeline to be built so quite

a lot really to follow in the next few weeks as the by administration comes in and as the e.u. and the u.s. try to find out if they can find a common approach to these big authoritarian powers which are really challenging their way of doing things our chief international editor richard walker thank you so much. in syria internally displaced people in the north west of the country are facing increasingly desperate conditions there is ongoing fighting the coronavirus pandemic as 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 have not found safety either d.w. correspondent brigadier visited the family and one of the camps. to bartend frame

standing among charred to ruins the reminder of the horrible night 4 weeks ago when up to 5 am just 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. there 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. 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. i fear the worst ever was the final. tragedies like these happened frequently in the makeshift camps in the northern eclipse tens of thousands of people are living here in miserable conditions there like even basic necessities latrines food heating fuel and medical care. a 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 until 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 the 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 new furnace but they hardly use it despite the cold they have no money for fuel and they are terrified of using it anyway. the land they have been a filthy 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 to say. 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. we can speak now to mark lowe cock he's u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs he's also the emergency relief coordinator he's joining us from new york mark we saw images there of the dire situation in it live what is the biggest threat facing displaced people all over syria right now well i must say that's an extremely graphic compelling disturbing report your excellent correspondent has produced for you there and it tells the truth of what is happening to the 10s of thousands hundreds of thousands . and now is a very difficult dangerous moment for those people because he's the middle of

winter most of our living it is 10 to camp so for me it's just a sheet of plastic. that ain't. more than a 1000 april of last 122-0000 tents destroyed. we have managed to get a 1000 trucks off supplies across the border from turkey in january to help is not enough and we need to get more help to them so that they can get through the winter mark at all of this a global pandemic how is that affected your organizations after it's to help people . yes i mean there's something like 20000 confirmed cases of caves in northwestern syria. so while we're going to need to do is make sure that they are not in the vaccination program as you

syrians talk about in your correspondents report cabinet trying to use mosques trying to do the few things they can really well they need like so many of the people around the world this access to the banks the soonest possible mark if you could send a message to the international community what needs to happen right now to make life better for internally displaced people in syria. when it's the things. in there are or it one of the very shocking and striking things when you see reports like that is you see those children and just like my children just like your children probably in every mentira respect and just like us and they need to say you humans. they need. warm clothes he taking all those material things a mat cost money and we also we also for financial results to help with that they also need an answer the pilot is very ill outbreaks of violence. they said

a man in order has some hope that if it's a nice to be police call resolution this conflict is on for 10 years now people need hope for the future of life being able to get better at 0 point. mark lowe cock u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs emergency relief coordinator thank you so much. the face of against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19. w. . every journey begins with the 1st step and every language of the 1st word going to include the cocos in germany.

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