you know it's. this is news life from russia expels diplomats from germany poland and sweden bosco accuses the diplomats of attending a rally for jailed kremlin critic alexina e.u. denounces the low point will its member states respond in kind as tension short also coming up. the u.n. calls for maximum restraint from authorities in demonstrators in india as

a nationwide road blockade gets underway in protest at new agricultural laws that farmers shape benefit big business and their expense. and before they head to whom are climbs into tar by an unix sign off with a narrow win extending their goodness lead good lead we'll bring you all the action . i'm michael thank you for joining us germany has summoned the russian ambassador over the kremlin's expulsion of swedish polish and german diplomats russia accuses them of portis of painting in a legal protest against the jailing of opposition figure election the kremlin made the announcement while the european union's top diplomat was in moscow he described the block's ties with russia as being under severe. it was supposed to

be a day to mend strained ties between the european union and russia but when 3 diplomats from sweden poland and germany were expelled from russia friday evening the message was clear and so was the response. also 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. in. this. russia alleges the diplomats had participated a print of on the rallies below and insisted that staying informed about ongoing issues is simply part of a diplomat studious that they had started with the 1st just liberal the e.u.'s foreign policy chief was the blocks 1st envoy to visit russia since 2017 is meeting with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov aims to keep lines of communication between brussels and moscow open but tensions continue over the imprisonment of

criminal critic alex a novel me. going to charge with your arrest and sentencing. and. with the most rigorous. that you can respect i have to convey to minister lavrov our deep concern and great created i will be able to release one to launch an investigation of peace by joining. the e.u. had to put additional sanctions on hold and while lover of stressed that russia wanted to improve relations he did not mince words. we have gotten used to the fact as i have already mentioned that the e.u. more and more often uses one sided restrictions which are not based on any legitimacy at this stage we have to assume that the e.u. is an unreliable partner or your. not done with that throughout the visit was barely over when the diplomats were expelled and despite all efforts to improve

communication some actions speak louder than words. so how will the european union respond to the expulsions of some of its diplomats from russia earlier we put that question to bruno latte a senior fellow at the german marshall fund. 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 author 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 is no unity in the e.u. around this so that window of a portion of 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 which means as a diplomatic relation is pretty late it's pretty slow. the un is calling for maximum restraint from indian authorities and farmers as

a nationwide vote blockade gets underway the blockade is the latest action in more than 2 months of protest against new agricultural laws tens of thousands of farmers have been camping outside new delhi demonstrating against laws that they say benefit big business at their expense the movement has been largely peaceful drawing the support of international celebrities but a tractor rally last month saw clashes between farmers and police. let's get the latest from d.w. correspondent misha jaiswal in delhi hina maisha last week on india's republic day farmers protests turned violent do you expect more clashes today that might be to believe located primarily symbolic it extends only from the role of dixie pm local time and in addition of course have said to david be excluding danny as i just don't love the north indian look at phoenician

a truck plant in thought to ensure that there is no hope of the widens but the delhi police and security forces international capital i'm not getting any johnson's $50000.00 additional security plus net have been deployed across the national doctors region security has been beefed up at the border points read the book just let me help head right now that ickes have been pleased and some have even seen what did and it was on standby so why policy they would not let this go test and violent security forces are definitely on the look you should give us a little perspective here why is it so difficult for the government and the protesters to come to an agreement. well the key issue show michel is that both the government and protesters are standing full on one point misstep just not able to reach an agreement on the policy they will only prolong the split at randy's laws i completely dissolved the government says willing to meet the problem

. and work the government can offer to. repeat. the do not want to lose them completely because this is the big bill bennett bridge bombers in the long run and all of the simply not understanding the intent of the goal the promise how i will find this condescending and out of the system that this went on deeply into their trilogy was mailing me to reenable the last fall crits and this is a list refused to date nimish as you well know the issue has also gotten more international attention with celebrities like we are now or environment campaign or better terms or voicing their support for the farmers what's the impact of all that but michael international attention came out early as a few months ago when canadian brands to justin trudeau began by just bought this particular incident this week with celebrities tweeting out wasn't meanly on

twitter and it also gained attention because there was a lot of international treats and condemnation on social media and as a pushback in celebrities started to be doing as well and led by the ministry of external affairs that don't usually is specifically saying that outsiders must operate i mean does matter they must understand more and again drawing attention to the fact of the claim that these protests are limited to a strong number of protests that the government is trying to make will shift and that people should not jump the gun by claiming to know more than they do so or the government is getting more aggressive in its pushback as well especially after the public divide. in delhi thank you michele. here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world at this hour about a 1000 people took to the streets of me in moore's largest city of young gone on saturday to protest the military coup earlier this week riot police blocked the

streets using barricades and water cannon the crowds were the largest yet to protest and come amid an internet blackout. the u.s. air force will review security procedures after an intruder entered the air base that has this air force one the president's plane official said the man who had no extra legs was able to get onto a military plane on thursday president joe biden flew home to delaware from the base on friday evening. to brazil now where the country's top prosecutor has opened an investigation into president also naro over heels handling of the corona virus pandemic in the city of menow a new more contagious variant of the virus has emerged there pushing up infections and driving hospitals to the breaking point overwhelmed with coded 1000 cases clinics lack beds and have little oxygen to give patients. we crave it at least according to

a state government which made this video showed case of the new hospital ward with 80 fresh beds. but this is closer to the real situation i'm in now for a makeshift clinic with a couple of oxygen tanks patients fighting for breath and this is worrying that things could soon get even worse. we're most afraid of running out of oxygen. a lot of oxygen because so many people are sick. just bad in the isolated amazon the virus the 2nd wife is also washed over brazil's mega-cities these graves in rio de janeiro testify to its toll with some 800000 deaths rayo it's now the worst affected city in the country. it's mismanagement that play into his predecessor. the way the crisis at its peak was managed practically visited genocide on the city of rio de janeiro lives that could

have been saved were lost and this is sara lee. of this fault the federal government's response and the country's leader. even when he was ill with a virus last july he kept making supporters. sending hundreds of times his repeated dissing from my shin about. comparing it to the flu and promoting a cure which hasn't been proven hydroxy clerk when but now he's admitting that drug might not work. like i say the chances it works is 0 it was a placebo i can't find a give me challenge least you didn't get. many also angry at the country slow vaccination program with hundreds of millions to inoculate officials now say the older more dices of the chinese vaccine sign of back which reported on the 50 percent prevention figures in its brazilian trial. in the bundesliga hurt up early

in hosted by munich in a mini blizzard byron weren't fazed by the elements winning one nil to go 10 points clear at the top of the table the bavarians had hoped to make short work of their capital club before jetting off to qatar for the club world cup but her we're not prepared to just roll over. lynn versus by on a match up well worth watching as half have typically up their game against the record champions for recently retired coach paul darvill i it was a 1st home game back at the helm and his side put in another strong effort by and did win the penalty in the 11 minutes which saw robert levin dusky step up he scored all goals in this season's previous 43 victory over how to this time he was denied by whom he yosh line back between the posts under the new coach and repaying the faith. however he could not prevent by in scoring 10 minutes later kingsley

commom benefited from a hefty deflection the frenchman put in a lively performance and was rewarded with a slice of luck. after the break how to hell before it kept counter-attacking they even hit the back of the net just before the hour mark only to have the goal ruled out for an offside position in the build up. the capital club put in a strong performance in their 2nd game and adonai but it did not yield any points by him got the win them hurried off the pitch to catch their flight to the club world cup in. some entertainment news now in a big loss for fans of screen and stage oscar winning actor christopher plummer has died at the age of $91.00 the canadian born had a prolific career spanning 7 decades but he was best known for portraying can't

think gaylord's on trial in 1965 percent of music longer enjoyed a late career renaissance at the age of 82 he became the oldest academy award winner in history taking home the oscar for best supporting actor for his role in the 2012 film began. christopher plummer you're watching news live from berlin on like a local arts and. culture news don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on our website. dot com thanks for joining us. it's about billions. it's about power. it's about the foundation of a new world order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. putting her up there's

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