this is live from. diplomats from germany sweden poland as tensions rise of the jailing of kremlin critic alexei valley visiting. put on trial again the european union's foreign affairs chief says relations with russia at an all. time german chancellor condemns expulsions as unjustified she commented following a joint defense and security meeting with the french president. in turkey has again refused to the field since release prominent and i'm sure 1st. to bring you the

latest from our correspondent in this town. war and found more suffering. from freezing temperatures make life harder for syrian refugees sheltering proffers . i'm from gal welcome to the program. germany has some of the russian ambassador over the kremlin's expulsion of swedish polish and german diplomats accusing them of taking part in illegal protest against the jailing of. the russian announcements as the european union's top diplomat joseph roe was in moscow describing the blocks ties with russia as being under severe strain. the e.u.'s goal is to keep communication channels open as their foreign representatives to visit moscow and

there are some opportunities for cooperation during his meeting with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov the e.u. representative you know several said the russian vaccine sputnik movie was just one of them but neither side has any illusions about the low point their relations have hit and the elephant in the room is alex enough i think respect they have conveyed to me. i want to. get. release. over this by. russia's foreign minister argues the e.u. is behaving more and more like the us always threatening with new sanctions. with the most we've become accustomed to these unilateral and illegitimate measures and we have adjusted our positions accordingly we assume to the e.u. is no longer a reliable partner. but europe. elsewhere in moscow journalist waited

outside a district court during a hearing in another trial against me he is accused of slandering a war veteran for rail reportedly had sought a meeting with the kremlin critic but it's unclear whether he will be able to see him before his departure on saturday. well those diplomatic expulsions overshadowed a virtual defense and security council meeting between the leaders of germany and france on friday afternoon it was the 1st meeting between anger america led to manual macro since u.s. president joe biden took office but the 2 leaders have been pushing differing solutions towards worsening relations with russia both condemned russia's actions is anglo-american. on things it's an all can his preparing a meeting we were also informed about the expulsion of german swedish and polish diplomats from moscow in connection with demonstrations connected to mr not bound.

by any. we consider these expulsions unjustified and we believe this to be yet another expression of what we're seeing in russia it is far from the realms of the rule of law at the moment in. bruno a letter is a senior fellow specializing in security defense at the german marshall fund welcome to t.w. is germany's response likely to go any further than somebody in the russian ambassador for a good telling off. well i think 1st of all we need to understand that the events today were not a coincidence this is really russia showing its muscle telling the look what we can do we can expel your diplomats of certain you member states even though the top foreign affairs chief of the e.u. is with doesn't town actually trying to appease relations so this was really poor ring on oil on fire and let's be frank a significant diplomatic provoke ation from russia to europe so i think there's 2

options for responses the countries to whom the diplomats belong germany poland sweden could these sites for instance to some of the ambassador but also decide to for instance expel russian diplomats from their own territory this this could be one option at the national level i think the order of should and would be a e.u. wide response from the european union and then of course we talk about sanctions. sanctions of course are complex issues only last month where you foreign affairs ministers were sitting down in brussels around the same issue they failed to agree on imposing new sanctions on russia there's no unity in the e.u. around this so that window of a fortune at the last the next the fortunately might be perhaps next month there will be an e.u. summit in brussels for heads of state and governments and there of course leaders could examine the possibility to introduce new sanctions having said that though

the summit as only next month's which means as a diplomatic or delegation is pretty late it's pretty slow right somewhat suit to unpick that i wondered if that perceived lack of unity amongst you members is why russia has chosen to do this and and if not what is behind this this hardening of attitude from russia to choosing to make this calculated insult. i mean of the hardening of russian foreign policy it's all to do with domestic interest so we need to understand whatever russia does abroad it's serves a domestic interest so it serves the kremlin as a tool to tell its people that look we have an adverse or we have an enemy and a country must unite so there's this is behind the kremlin hardening position especially in these difficult times for russia where people are actually protesting on the streets against the kremlin so in terms of the european union you know

also here of course nothing is black or white it's a gray there is a level of unity which extends the e.u. . thinks about russia you know we've seen that the e.u. has agreed to condemn russia all member states we see that you has agreed on sanctions in the past so there is a level of unity but when we talk about real hard responses there the picture is a bit more complicated you have inside the e.u. countries that want to hard response and you have other e.u. member states that are a bit more soft on this issue good talking to you thank you so much for joining us a bruna letter from the german marshall fund. this is d w news of live from now moving on the european day european union leaders are under pressure of the slow progress of the blocks of vaccination campaign german chancellor i'm going to machall has defended

the e.u. strategy government is aiming to offer everyone i mean initial dose by the end of september as also when national elections will take place more than 2000000 people in germany have now been injected with a corona virus 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 that'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. to 7th in the path 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 or. 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. this is daily news live from berlin still to come refugees are under represented in german politics from these a man who's hoping to change that and with a seat in the german parliament come september. first it will take

a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world hundreds of students and teachers in maine man have joined rallies against the recent military coup demonstrators in young gulf war red ribbons in support of detained leader i was hung suchi a civil disobedience movement has been growing since the military declared on monday that it would take power for a year. judges at the international criminal court in the hague have ruled that he does have jurisdiction in the palestinian territories so this could lead to investigations of alleged war crimes committed then israel which is not a member of the i.c.c. he insists the court has no jurisdiction. of course in turkey has again rejected an appeal for the release of a prominent businessman and philanthropist ozment kava has been in prison for more than 3 years accused of espionage and attempting to overthrow the government following a failed coup in turkey 2016 human rights groups have denounced the proceedings as

unjust politically motivated and says' detention is aimed at silencing him. portraits of. adoring his empty office. for over 3 years the turkish human rights activists has been behind bars in the meantime a senate you know has been running cobbler's on a dollar coup to a foundation on his behalf. it promotes intercultural understanding and human rights projects even if that is becoming increasingly challenging. they fight people like us who advocate closer integration with the european union amicable ties with one's neighbors democracy and peace or living in a paranoid atmosphere or dissidents are condemned and simply branded terrorists. turkish authorities have accused kabul of both supporting leftwing terrorism and

plotting an islamist coup. initially the public prosecutor accused of having bankrolled the 2013 gezi park protests but no evidence was ever presented to back this up even so the turkish president everyone is convinced that kabul is guilty. all through jellied there are foreign forces seeking to spark unrest in other countries you know none of that today on behalf of these people in turkey. is now behind bars. couple o. was arrested in 2017 and held for nearly 1200 days in this prison just outside of istanbul the european court of human rights demanded couple is release and when a turkish court complied his wife i should headed for the jail to collect him but within hours authorities issued a new warrant for his arrest. the closest you stop believing in justice when you experience something like that. there's no justified reason to keep. up in jail not

a single reason. but they can fabricate one at any moment you know. what. supporters view him as a cultural philanthropist to forge understanding between peoples the turkish authorities however is just a dangerous agitator. let's take a closer look at this case with the correspondent dorian jones in istanbul welcome daughter why does the turkish government salesman is a threat. well he is a giant of turkey's non-governmental organizations in fact in many ways he's a father of some of the most important ones his for entropy has helped to set up some very importance to choose sions turkey's non-governmental organizations and is also a distributor of european union funds to many of organizations and while his work

at that initially was helping to bridge the divides into society between the secular and the religious and and also helping to build bridges between the kurdish society and and turks. more recently with this more for a tarion shift of the government as critics see it n.g.o.s have been crucial in documenting and seeking to hold the government to account over these aren't democratic moves and the prosecution of color is in many ways is sending a very powerful message to the whole of non-governmental organizations that no one is safe and speaking to many who are working in these movements they said it had a profound chilling effect on all peoples walks. of life was not in court today but several european diplomats were so was this just symbolism or are we to expect international pressures trying to secure his release. well i think there is this concern that the presence of the european diplomat is pretty much symbolic given the fact that relations between taken e.u. does seem to be on a positive track both sides are talking about

a reset in relations and now critics and cynics may say that this is probably a factory is a turkey is due to renegotiate or a very important refugee deal with europe next month which is key to keeping large numbers of refugees and people migrants seeking to end to europe but there are also diplomats who point out that they say that the president one has given a commitment to major democratic reforms even a new constitution now those reforms are expected to be unveiled in the next coming weeks and you're will be looking for want to make good on those words and that could be a factor why europe is holding back on its criticism also i think europe is also looking to the united states with the new president joseph biden he's made it very clear that human rights will be a top part of his foreign policy agenda and i think that they all are talking about co working together between europe and america in a coordinated approach towards turkey but at the moment you speak to people in the angel as human rights workers in this country and opposition parties which claim

they're increasingly being targeted for prosecutions the silence from europe is alarming and then a feeling of abandonment and it's been expressed by many of i've spoken to. turkey's a member of the european court of human rights which in 2019 called for immediate release so how is turkey being able to disregard that. well present heard one is dismiss it out of hand saying that they're not going to follow it they say that it was basically wrong and that stance has been taken echoed by turkey's constitutional court which again rejected the european court ruling even though the european court is a higher judicial body than any court in turkey but the moment given the fact the european court has no powers to enforce its decision and the fact that europe is rome is remaining pretty silent the moment turkey really feels he can act with impunity. dorian jones in istanbul thank you.

that's a syria where internally displaced people in the country's north west are facing increasingly desperate conditions as ongoing fighting they could run a virus pandemic is a threat to winter has brought heavy rains a bitterly cold temperatures tens of thousands of people fled to italy province about a year ago in search of safety away from the us that regime's attacks on gravel territories hundreds of makeshift camps were set up close to the border with turkey but very very basic supplies the winter weather is making things worse they haven't found safety but they w correspondent begetter should have visited a family in one of the camps. to bartend frame standing among charred to ruins a 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.

to build a 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 8 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 evidence the. tragedies like these happened 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. a constant heavy rain has now made the situation worse people here were cut off from all supplies for days many tents were destroyed aid organizations 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. how i'm 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 about so 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 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. but then they have the 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. has been more than 5 years since john. and chancellor angela merkel told the country

and the world via shaphan das we can do this at the height of europe's migration crisis in the year that followed germany welcomed more than a 1000000 refugees and many now call germany their home they're under represented in political life or one man's hoping to change that he's only been in the country 6 years but he's hoping to join the parliament in september's elections the w.c. money well shows as the story. this is terry collaterals a 31 year old legal advisor from damascus he's one of the half 1000000 people who arrived in germany using the park a route he applied for asylum back in 2015 now he wants to run for a seat in germany's parliament deplaned a stark in d.c.'s elections in september. it's been 5300 called arrived in germany in 2015 and was brought to an emergency shelter along with 60 other people i was shocked by the living conditions there is

a long time human rights activist in syria i decided to get involved again here in germany for refugees in. fact if you give you should i mention here i've worked as an asylum advisor here. mention god by the terrigal ause is no stranger to political activism back in damascus he worked at a red crescent and here in germany he co-founded a desirable or c. bridge and n.t.o. which advocates say 4 passes to europe for refugees allows turn to the green party in a constituency that was his 1st home when he arrived in germany in order to invest and i arrived in north rhine-westphalia that's where i had my 1st flat my 1st job and also my 1st friends in germany so i have a strong emotional attachment to it oberhausen is the city where i started my

political work on a bigger scale and that's why i want to take the next step from there. nearly 6 years after and the americas famous weekend duties terry allows his endeavors in his country of adoption is a success story but refugees and migrants are random represented in political bodies in germany he says. is this image for the mention. human rights i've come to europe to germany to live a safe and a dignified life i have experienced that feeling. but at the same time i was appalled by the situation of refugees. by their living conditions here. i want to represent those people in parliament with my candidacy there are many debates on refugees but nobody actually. it's why i want to give them a political voice like sign one last hurdle remains in order to get into the bundestag terek allows house to be a german citizen he has already filed for citizenship if all goes well the greens

can put him on their official easter candidates by spring. these days you'll find them in souvenir shops all over the world snow globes they were invented in vienna in the end 1900 and surprising surgical instrument mechanic called impaired see his family still making them using the same method he devised more than 120 years ago. shake a snow globe instead you have to turn it on its head and wait until the snow certains then you turn it back over and it's not. having patty the 3rd knows all the secrets about snow globes his grandfather having pouncey the 1st conducted his initial experiments in this workshop in vienna he was a mechanic of surgical instruments and an inventor using a glass bowl filled with water he was actually planning to enhance operating room

lighting. it was for what more than 120 years ago my grandfather invented the snow globe by pure charm in the q from so he happened to find some semolina in his mother's kitchen and he tossed some in the bowl of water and it sucked. water and floated down to the bottom of the bowl very slowly he thought it looks like it's snowing in this cloth box he's a cool shot how the idea was born from the snow globe pretty quick. his grandfather found a miniature version of the basilica and mariette santa an austrian pilgrimage site he painted a pedestal with shoe polish and glued on the church setting it in a glass globe in 1900 he applied for a patent on the world's 1st snow globe the flakes fluttered down gently thanks to the viennese formula. yes meant for my father was the 1st to produce the mixture of snow that we used to the tree you're nuts my secret so far i'm the only one who

knows exactly how it's done. directly next to the workshop is the family's own snow globe museum the denise snow globe is a top export 3 former u.s. presidents have one on a shelf. like this snow globe for the obama family i think you gift given by a resident of vienna on a visit to the white house the company presently starts more than 350 motifs. remember and you guys in a beautiful perfect world and that's been my world for over 40 years. and cozy world where it always sounds. oscar winning actor christopher plummer has died at the age of 91 born in canada christopher plummer had a prolific career spanning 7 decades but he's probably best known for but frank

captain from trap in 1960 five's the sound of music enjoyed a late career in a sense of the age of 82 he became the oldest academy award winner in history taking the oscar for best supporting actor for his role in the 2012th film begins. as if you're up to date i'll have more world news at the top offbeat out i'll be back in just a moment to take you through the day. of a good day. of

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