now is the wealth most powerful. this is g w news live from berlin and me. cuts off internet access amid protests against the military coupe around a 1000 people take to the streets largest city of young gone on saturday to denounce the army's takeover riot police blocked the streets using barricades and water cannon. russia expels diplomats from germany poland and sweden

bosco accuses the diplomats of attending a rally for jailed kremlin critic alexina. denounces 54 member states respond in kind as tension in seoul. and before they head to warmer climes into tar munich signed off with a narrow win extending their win this league will bring you the action. a michael thank you for joining us. military who has called off internet access across the nation amid growing protests against this week's coup about a 1000 people took to the streets of new largest city of young gone on saturday to denounce the military takeover riot police blocked the streets using barricades. in

water cannon many in the crowd wore red in support of a recipe for young son to cheat and her and l. deportee protesters are demanding the release. david going to bomb is a journalist who has been covering miramar for many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur. we're seeing reports of a nationwide internet blackout give us some idea about why the government would deny internet access right now the military wants them to not because this is what the demonstrators have been using to communicate we want one another where there are still social media whether it's through e-mail and other methods and they want to make it a lot tougher of them to organize to strategize that's why also they're using the internet to get these their messages and the visuals these powerful visuals out to us and the outside world they want to make it tougher for us to know exactly what's going on inside myanmar keep in mind the military before they went forward this to they had already worked out a playbook of what they would do step by step based on what they saw the public

react the playbook ready and now they're using it dave i'm curious are these protesters a vocal minority or rising groundswell. well some of the more than a 1000 people on the streets of yangon marching that was the biggest that we've seen so far overall the number of people actually doing street marches to demonstrate they are clearly in the minority but we see the powerful images at night of people banging pots and pans from their alms but even the street protests are slowly picking up momentum and they clearly have the majority of the population on their side interesting tactic don't today's demonstration in yangon they ran into a police roadblock where the police were standing in a line there was a barricade set up with barbed wire and you're seeing the demonstrators off at the police water i saw one report where they were offering them flowers keep in mind the rank and file police officers they do not live well they have such assistance level living and so the protests are trying to tell them hey don't stand with us who stand with us it's an interesting tactic to try to get the police over on their

side. protesters are calling of course for the release of aung sun suu kyi she's an immensely popular figure there despite a tarnished reputation in the west of course what does she represent to the people in miramar she represents the fight for democracy keep in mind during the previous into she spent 15 years under house arrest fighting for democracy she is an icon in this country you go around the country see her photograph in people's homes both in the cities in the villages the only person that wobbles her and their history for popularity is her father general aung san the independence hero who was assassinated when she was a girl that's dave going to bomb in kuala lumpur thanks much dave sure thing. germany has summoned the russian ambassador over the kremlin's expulsion of swedish polish and german diplomats russia accuses them of participating in

a legal protest against the jailing of opposition figure alexina vonnie 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 strain. 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. russia alleges the diplomats had participated a print of on the rallies but when insisted that staying informed about ongoing issues is simply part of

a diplomat studious that they had started with the 1st just that burrell the e.u.'s foreign policy chief was the block's 1st envoy to visit russia since 2017 his 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 alexei navalny. my views are going to charge with the rest of the sentencing. and. with the most rigorous. i think and respect i have to convey to minister lavrov our deep concern and great rated i will be able to hear release on the launch of any investigation of peace by joining. the e.u. had 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 for your book well 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 other option 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. some other stories now making headlines around the world tens of thousands of farmers have blocked highways across india to protest against new agricultural laws the blockade is the latest action in more than 2 months of protests farmers have been camping outside new delhi demonstrating against laws that they say benefit big business at their expense. the u.s. air force will review security procedures after an intruder entered the air base their house is air force one the president's plane officials said the man who had no extra blanks was able to get onto a military plane on thursday president joe biden flew home to delaware from the base on friday evening. demonstrators have clashed with police during the

latest round of antigovernment protests hundreds took to the streets of santiago on friday where they grow men with tear gas and water cannons the protests have persisted for more than a year demonstrators are angry about inequality and want social reform. to brazil now where the country's top prosecutor has opened an investigation into president gyre balsa over his handling of the pandemic in the city of. a new more contagious variant of the corona virus has emerged there pushing up infections and driving hospitals to the breaking point overwhelmed with covert 1000 cases clean its lack beds and have little oxygen to give patients. with private at least according to a state government which made this video showed cases. 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 are most afraid of running out of oxygen. we need a lot of oxygen because so many people are. 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 is now the worst affected city in the country the mid meets mismanagement that blind his predecessor. the way the crisis at its peak was managed practically visited genocide on the city rare and. 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 the virus last july he kept meeting supporters. sending hundreds of times his repeated decision for my shit about that 19 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 well i think like i say the chances it works is 0 it was a placebo to give me a challenge least he didn't kill anyone. many also angry at the country slow vaccination program with hundreds of millions to inoculate officials now say hello to more dices of the chinese vaccine sign of back which reported on the 50 percent prevention figures in this brazilian trial. let's take a look at some other developments in the krona virus pandemic here in germany the

number of new infections keeps falling health authorities registered 10500 new cases in the past 24 hours down from 12400 a week ago a nighttime curfew has again been imposed in havana the 1st weeks of this year have seen more corona virus infections in juba than were recorded over all of 2020 and the world health organization has called on vaccine makers to dramatically boost production the w.h.o. stress that almost 130 countries with 2500000000 people are yet to admit and minister a single day. in the bundesliga her to berlin hosted by in munich in a mini blizzard byron weren't phased 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 the capital club before jetting off to qatar for the club world cup but for to were not prepared simply to roll over. lin versus brian

a match up well worth watching is half a typically up their game against the record champions for recently rehired 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 their penalty in the 11 minutes which saw robert lewandowski step up he scored all goals in this season's previous 43 victory over half a this time he was denied by whom the 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 help the force and 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 under dart i but it did not yield any points by and got the win and then hurried off the pitch to catch their flights to the club world cup in qatar. you're watching news live in berlin i'm michel oku up next how a documentary series stocks all on the power of pharmaceutical companies don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on our website. when using 45 minutes. in mexico many places told us right now from the climate change is because the stores this is one place in wasteful just one week. we're going to really guess. we still have time to ask. this.

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