these are senior partners. there's a warning for exception one from the superpower we become dependent on. chinese greed we. start feb 19th on g.w. . very well welcome to focus on europe with me liz show things are not calming down in russia ever since the arrest of kremlin critic alex a now volley people have been taking to the streets across the country the response from the authorities has been violence and intimidation security officials have arrested thousands of critics are condemning the acts which they say are targeting

not only opposition politicians but anyone who dares to protest. just recently a russian opposition leader alexei now vollmer he was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison and many of his supporters have also found themselves behind bars with jails overcrowded some protesters have been brought to a detention center outside the capital moscow friends and relatives often have to wait for hours outside in the bitter cold to bring the prisoners basic supplies. it's minus 15 degrees celsius and herman has been on his feet since 6 am. he's one of dozens of people waiting to give parcels to the inmates of the robot detention center. berman is here for his flatmates fiddler to bit cova she was sentenced to 5 days for participating in anti-government protests in moscow. we've collected

warm clothes here's a sweater that blankets. you even knew for friends of anything to cover up with. underwear t. shirts and gloves just in case you think it's just terrible it's even brought to tears. my friends and there. were over 7000 people have been arrested since the protests began the police have been especially brutal in moscow and st petersburg they've even taken people away who had nothing to do with the protests just because they happened to be in the area. and this group of young people had to sit in a freezing police van for 7 hours they were told there wasn't enough space in the jails for them. these images show conditions in the sun hover over detention center near moscow overcrowded cells inmates having to share the bare metal bands there's

an open latrine right there in the room carmen's flatmates by planets that cold also had to endure these conditions. after 5 days spent lana is released she's relieved to be back at home with herman in their kitchen. she says she was unable to contact the outside world during her incarceration and was overjoyed to receive herman's parcel. ok. we suspected our friends was standing behind the fence. but we worried about them. we thought they might be worse off than we were at least we were inside and not out in the cold. the thought that happened was that looking out for me helped a lot. she shows us a video from when she was arrested she and other protesters were standing in front of the jail where opposition activists alexina all knew was being detained the

police surrounded them and arrested them one by one. so they could be someone close to. here for was kidnapped. even if he arrested a legal basis it was totally unacceptable from a humanitarian viewpoint. the law abiding citizens respect our constitution not doing anything that's prohibited and suddenly this happened on top of that we're told it's right. it's wrong simply awful svetlana tells us she didn't get anything to eat for the 1st 3 days after her arrest because she was taken from one police station to the next and nobody felt responsible. she was so tense the whole time that she's only just begun to realize how inhumane the situation was she chess. at 1st i thought i would

leave the child to get everything. but it's in the but now i'm becoming aware of things in retrospect. i'm wondering why we were treated with so little respect for thought. and i keep thinking about how any human in this whole system is just like a reporter the shenyang. all. like many other protesters herman and stedman i did not take to the streets only because not only was arrested they were demonstrating against the current political system more generally if. they're going to do their version we young people have to have a different russia to live in russia where we have the freedom to decide our future has. the story to cut the russians or the system why the powerful rake in the cash and then try to tell us how to behave this system is wrong about us he. said privately. many of the detainees have now been released and they

think much the same way many want to take to the streets again to protest against the system. for years the e.u. has had a tense relationship with vladimir putin but the russian president has often been unfazed by appeals from brussels right now there are calls from germany to hits putin where it hurts the economy some and activists are demanding an end to the construction of the controversial pipeline nord stream to it's supposed to transport natural gas from russia to the german town of nein through the baltic sea axel forte is the mayor there at the moment he and other residents are caught in the political tug of war between moscow and belin. this is where north stream 2 ends the 2500 kilometer pipeline is said to run from russia through the baltic sea

to the coast from one is supposed to look in northeastern germany at the german end the infrastructure facility with its massive pipes and heavy duty safety valves has been ready to go since the summer of 2020 but look means mayor acts of forked is worried the pipeline might never be operational even the fist about i'm firmly convinced that we are that is germany and europe as a whole still need the natural gas from north stream and. we've begun shutting down nuclear power plants and our phasing out lignite coal but until the time when we are able to power everything by renewable energy germany and europe's energy needs have to be met so i see natural gas from pipelines like nordstrom as indispensable . some 130 kilometers of pipeline have yet to be laid on the baltic sea bed but controversy surrounding the project is stalling progress it concerns the supplier russia and may prove to be north stream tucson doing even before

opposition activist alexina his arrest many were calling for a halt to the construction as a means to exert political pressure on russia's president putin in a mean there's a different view. is it right to tie a case like for example to a project like nord stream to the uk or should it be considered in isolation. especially when the facts at least as i understand them aren't so clear as to warrant sanctions against the russian government. if in the whole i find novell nice case is reported by media very much from the valise point of view. and the arguments of russia's government get brushed aside or disregarded in the heat of the added value. no i mean and russia have a long history in the 1960 s. the soviets built the biggest nuclear power plant here and what was then is germany . many of its employees were russian and they lived here.

their mark remains in the community to this day. means beaches are largely deserted these days only a few locals are outside and they share much the same view. of the valley is not important but not stream is for all of iraq can we afford to throw millions or even billions to the wind they ought to find some kind of compromise because when i think the pipeline has to be completed. only one man we spoke to was more critical . reason the longer they were only a dependable partner for as long as it was good for them it was often not always for leadership and i wouldn't do this project for political reasons was a mishmash. the baltic sea gas pipelines have become a bone of global contention pitting russia against the united states both have natural gas to sell to europe and want the strategic edge the u.s.

has threatened sanctions against germany should europeans opt to use only the cheaper russian natural gas. prices from the local trade association sees natural gas imports as a purely economic issue he says politics should stay out of it. is good for one moment on the board or do you need gas suppliers make their beds and whoever offers the best price and the best service will win the tender $100.00 and the deal is linked to a customer decides that sanctions on through. the people of the mean don't want their home to become a stage for well politics but tend to side with what is familiar is this also there is no denying that we don't want to give up our close ties to russia. we have a past with russia and that past wasn't all that bad it was only flicked down at the beach locals are also happy to receive other russian imports.

whiskey or vodka i'm used to vodka but whisky is not so bad. now actually i'd rather choose. where our side it's vodka no question whatever the spirit of choice many here would toast the day when natural gas flows from russia to no mean they just want freedom and a better life but we are an ethnic minority in china most are muslims and they are facing persecution in their home country at least 1000000 are being held in so-called reeducation camps some have given reports of forced labor and even rape and torture 50000 weekers have fled to turkey. cheek is one of them up until recently she thought the country was a safe haven that welcomed her and others but now many are afraid that they may be deported. was her father her uncle her grandfather

paul for shame sake it chics family was arrested in china because their weakness. in iraq on the medical market for weeks has been joining protests in front of the chinese consulate in istanbul. everyone here his missing relatives everyone here hopes for a sign of life. he's invisible much like these photos are all we have we are not dangerous we just want our families back the only evidence that but i don't understand why they're not being released and why nobody talks to us maybe they are afraid of us or afraid of the truth but you know yes that's make them call feel that. 5000 files are piled up in this car 5000 disappeared week is shamsi and the other demonstrators have tried many times to

hand the documents over to the chinese consulate but they have not been admitted not today either 1. at age 15 shamsi it came to east on board she grew up in she in junk the home of the muslim league a minority in china the father wanted her to go to high school in turkey now she is studying she wants to be a nurse. shamsi has not had contact with her family for years a friend of her mother's who also lives here in istanbul is the only connection to her old life. from what i know my father was arrested in may 2017 and taken to an internment camp and she junge for reeducation as the chinese authorities call it i think he's in a terrible situation i. seen many videos on social media where we get as

a force to labor in the camps and in the factories one of these people could be my father all of the. stories like shamsi is can be heard by the dozen in the streets of satan born of the istanbul distrait is the center of the exiled we get community in turkey i but now they're saying tree seems to be at risk turkey could soon ratify its extradition treaty with china many we guess who used to feel safe here are now afraid to. use of a mouse for example he works as a cook in a we go arrest wrong the thought of possible deportations war easy and even more than all the economic problems brought by the coronavirus crisis. to look good there so if turkey sends us back to china they will put us in jail forever or shoot us dead. lawyer our gain

represents many weaker refugees he has a fake folder with extradition request china many we guess who used to feel safe here are now afraid to. use of a mouse for example he works as a cook in a we go arrest wrong the thought of possible deportations war easy and even more than all the economic problems brought by the coronavirus crisis. to look good there so if turkey sends us back to china they will put us in jail forever or shoot us dead. lawyers are going represents many weaker refugees he has a fake folder with extradition requests from china there have been no deportation so far as his ag in but pressure from beijing is growing.

especially during the coronavirus pandemic chinese investments have become very important to turkey's troubled economy 2 major chinese mobile phone companies have recently announced that they want to invest here and he relies on the chinese made vaccine i think china uses all of that to exert pressure on turkey. with. chinese capital has become increasingly important for the turkish economy in recent years comport for example one of the country's largest container terminals is now majority owned by chinese consulate so is istanbul's fulton celebrates does this make turkey more accessible to chinese interests the ruling a party denies that. this extradition treaty with china is about criminals we have similar agreements with 32 other countries it is extremely wrong to present it as an agreement against al we get brothers insistence. on that you see

a kid she has always been grateful to the turkish government for its support of the weakest but now she feels that something is changing and. should the extradition agreement with china be ratified she fears her name could also appear on the deportation list bands up there i am now an activist the fact that i search for my father and other relatives makes me a criminal in china. and now i'm afraid that what has happened to others could one day happen to me. but she does not want to give up her protest be quiet disappear in the crowd. she wants for the fate of her father and that of the many other disappeared weakest to not be forgotten. in spain almost 2 and a half 1000000 people work in the tourism sector the spanish island of majorca is

an absolute visitor magnet beautiful beaches and a legendary nightlife attract millions of people each year but just like everywhere else in europe the copen 1000 they make has hits in majorca tourism sector pretty hard now beaches are deserted many locals are drifting into poverty because they have lost their jobs in hotels and restaurants they are hoping that the summer will bring back some visitors be it for a nose or locals palmas sunny winters normally attract plenty of tourists but there are just a handful of people on these beaches. almost everything is different on the island these days. despair is growing and the few visitors can feel the somber mood and unusual emptiness. wouldn't a thought it would and this bank on it get off the pace and really sad when i got.

here is a good sentiment at least in public to me or can i buy your cars. due to the high infection rates on the islands almost everything is closed bars restaurants and the large hotels. tourism has come to a standstill. scenes like this are now part of palmas new cityscape people waiting patiently for a free food package for example at the tar door aid organization. prior to the corona crisis 200 meals were distributed here daily that number has now risen to almost 2000 all the pandemics effect on my orca has been brutal and although the government gives out subsidies they're often not enough and this is the case for india i know say that and her partner she lost her job as a hostess in a hotel. that here's how we got to the military side many people line up here that

i'm not ashamed to be here but when i just find it sad to have to ask but i mean we've been a few in need of a camille i love them to live up to that tony organizes the aid programs for target or the organization is financed solely by private donations he says majorca social structure is slowly crumbling. that's when i was the yemeni people who had long been on the fringes of society. not to see normal families children let them be able to work since the summer. about how was that with. the aid organization also run shelters tony showed us one just a few blocks away up to 80 people can stay here. more and more locals are trapped on a downward spiral and are losing their homes as a result of losing their jobs. majorca has just under 1000000 inhabitants

a 3rd of them are now living in poverty. danielle chavez from argentina is sharing a single room with his wife and 3 children. until 6 months ago they lived in an apartment and both parents had jobs that. hotel. almost had jobs emerging really well. well and then suddenly the virus came and things began to go downhill he was in because. the people of majorca have been hit hard by the crisis. but activist is demonstrating with others in front of an apartment building to prevent an eviction. mohamed el from morocco has been pressured by as landlord to move down as he can no longer afford the rent. despite the pandemic there are about 10 evictions in palma

every week and it's the moment the most. efficient a friend's apartment or on the rise and families are squatting in places because they have no other options are being. mohammad is lucky with the help of the protesters his eviction has been cancelled for the time being. many people on my orca are angry they're demanding the government's resignation and say state aid has arrived too slowly or not at all politicians argue the lock down cannot be relaxed because the infection rate is still high and intensive care stations full is not a month. it's normal that people process and we understand that but at the same time our main priority is to improve the health situation there has to be less pressure on hospitals after all human lives are at stake. the

times are tough but the people of majorca are showing solidarity restaurant owners distribute food packages to those in need of and among them jose money on the border goes yes who is fighting for the survival of his business. i mean up. until now the state has only provided subsidies of 1500 euros a year i'm going to get him a call but i don't think it's that we want to help those who are worse off than us this is going to be our worst year ever got out it see if the government is just talking or actually action because we are already in a dire situation and we must tell them when the market will go. at noon they distribute a hot chocolate. and a sandwich people receive their packages like hesitation and they know all too well either that when your guy is heading into another tough year then it will be

a long time before vacationers return to the island. from a holiday island now on to a winter paradise that is also experiencing the absence of tourists in france the skiing season is basically over because of the coronavirus skill lifts are not operating but the shutdown is not stopping some from going out for winter sports anyway many are escaping to the snow covered peyronie's in search of some action. thank you. the 1st lesson in sushi is anyone who looks backwards falls. these days many beginners are heading to the truly nice and with good reason. the school and with the lift stations are closed because of the pandemic so you can go snowshoe hiking or cross-country skiing you don't need lifts for either little to make

a. mountain deadly week dilute make sure nobody runs a risk of an accident in the ocean except for avalanche dangers. to small as this are still a loaded friends. live from it's a different kind of exaction than skiing. you can reach other places almost natio high. above all it's peaceful calming and not to talk crowded because this is this a bastard this is an authentic nature experience which is exactly what we're looking for in the truth. the fact that many people are hungry for nature is a boon for the french economy this new she manufactures orders have shot up from 30000 peers 210-0000. we are drowning in order here we don't know how to manage to do both but it's a positive stress better than begging the government for

a loan or asking for financial aid as far as covert 19 is concerned we are one of the lucky ones also. snowshoe hikes in the mountains give people a chance to breathe fresh year without masks and expedience nature. from 1300 to 1700 meters and back down again. replaced skiing. but issues he don't need skillet city could breach in the mountains and escape the stress of the pandemic at least for a short time. like to try it out some time but that does it isn't enough snow in this region well that brings us to the end that's on europe for today take care and see you next time.

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this is day that we do is live from berlin germany's chancellor defends extension of the country's lockdown i'm going to medical at mit to shortcomings in dealing with the 2nd wave of coronavirus infections and says the extended restrictions are necessary and proportions also on the program in day 2 of donald trump's impeachment trial democratic prosecutions reveal previously unseen images of rioters breaking into the u.s. capitol building. i'm still going to welcome to the program. we begin here in germany where the chancellor has admitted to failings in dealing with a 2nd wave of corona virus infections and going to medical told parliament the government has not been careful or fast enough opposition members jihad as she

defended the decision to extend the national lockdown germany streets will remain empty and it stores closed for another 3 long weeks at least because while in fiction numbers keep falling worries over dangerous me tysons remain germany's lockdown will be extended until sunday march the 7th but those despairing over bad pandemic here can go a week earlier than that to the south lawn schools in kindergartens will begin reopening in february already and the government has set an ambitious new target for the 7 day in fiction right. chancellor angela merkel told parliament that while people are exhausted by the pandemic restrictions this is no time to be opening back up again. not just the others also of course to the research is still ongoing but we shouldn't doubt the assessments of many experts here in germany and abroad

again i have only 3 mutations a more aggressive and significantly more contagious than the original virus. merkle in the state premiers haggled over the next steps long into wednesday evening the states insisted that schools and day kids should reopen michael would have preferred more caution on this point by ended up giving in as she's done before merkel sought to remind the public of the thousands of lives the pandemic has ended in germany. in the fashion. well over 60000 people have now died they are around mothers fathers children relatives friends who we can no longer protect morning game it's always on our minds when we make decisions in this pandemic is that. the vaccine rollout in germany has been much slower than hyped to the opposition it's an obvious failure of the government. form pounding we've gone

from masters of the pen to make last spring to europe's vaccination stranglers today our vaccination centers have been empty for weeks millions of citizens stuck in queues for hours on end and you say nothing's gone wrong we're behind remain behind greece behind slovakia on vaccinations. even though here sell loans will begin reopening in a few weeks they'll be subject to strict hygiene measures many other businesses though it will just have to wait for better times. or following the chancellor's speech of the bundestag chief political adviser to discuss germany's lockdown strategy with one of the country's leading health experts professor carla laughter also happens to be member of the german parliament for the chancellor's coalition partners the s.p.d. . it's a lot about and usually the damn times i didn't mention europe in her address today can germany do this pandemic allies indeed it is impossible for us to be to spend

their meager lawn i was a little bit surprised that i'm sure nakul did not mention europe's this time we are in this together we can only defeat the core of it and in particular the mutants that are currently running the variance if we keep working together europe is becoming more important or less important with the new wave of mutations europe is seen to have failed when it comes to vaccinations what has to happen now it is extremely regrettable to say the least as europe indeed in my opinion my 1st opinion failed to deliver the victory in early enough there was too much focus on the 2 supporting research and for much less to focus on getting the vaccine available process but there was much too little focus on let's save production lines and that was much better in the us so therefore in the run for sexy in your was somewhat defeated we cannot afford to run into his problems

a 2nd time then he addressed the 2nd vixen challenge here because that would not be the only opportunity for us who can was a vaccine vs 2 he was most the shots to the new waves of vaccinations he has to become much quicker in europe then we are currently we have to get better we have to deliver in the future as the old folks in france also has not been vaccinated at all even outside of europe but at the same time you have to be able to deliver the vixen for 2nd rather boosts around in order to protect against dangerous mutations in particular that are coming from south africa or brazil and there isn't much more to come left side is short. so there's the imminent threat of another wave and public patience is wearing thin how are you balancing that out we have to explain why we cannot open up currently that we are in a very dangerous. people.

as i would call it that we have to lead to get a good grip of surprises at the moment if you do that it is an investment for the next couple of months a real investment for the next couple of months in the next 3 or 4 weeks we if we deliver in the next 3 or 4 weeks we will be in a position to really control the next couple of months aren't as a summer then vaccination or lard is gearing up kind of about thank you very much. let's take a look at some more of the stories making headlines around the world starting greece where the capital athens has gone into a new lock down schools and non-essential shops have been closed until the end of the month new cases of hospital admissions have jumped the latest restrictions on top of the tough measures already in place. and resume president alexander lukashenko says he has defeated a foreign blitzkrieg to overthrow the hardline leader denounced 6 months of protests against his rule is rebellion directed from outside the country and

opposition claims the election he won last year was rigged. u.s. president joe biden has announced new sanctions against the military regime that seized. on of ousted leader. chains closest aides was detained in a wave of overnight arrests tens of thousands of you taking to the streets to protest against last week's. now to the united states where prosecutors in the impeachment trial of donald trump revealed a new video footage showing the violent mob breaking into the u.s. capitol building the former president is accused of inciting the riots in january in which 5 people died. on the 2nd day of the impeachment trial democratic prosecutors wasted little time to make their case. they used security camera footage to reconstruct in painstaking detail how the rioters worked their way into the inner sanctum of u.s.

democracy coming within touching distance of the politicians inside. as the riders reached the top of the stairs they were within 100 feet of where the vice president was sheltering with his family and they were just a feet away from one of the doors to this chamber where many of you remained at that time. you can see the vice president pence and his family quickly move down the stairs the vice president turns around briefly as he's headed down the other footage leaves little doubt about the mob's violent intent. what recordings of police radio calls show how the embattled officers lost control of the situation. we were doing there why we were there are. 4 younger. or what our true hero your.

were murdered and your. reviews are when you work up when i was growing up were. the rioters did finally manage to breach the senate floor prosecutors say they acted at donald trump's behest was this was not a coincidence none of this was donald trump over many months cultivated violence praised it and then when he saw the violence his supporters were people who love he channeled it to his big wild historic event democrats hope these dramatic images will convince some of their republican counterparts to vote to convict the former president. with millions of americans watching the televised proceedings the intensity of the prosecutor's arguments has

reverberated far beyond the senate chamber. straight to washington then where would you join d.w. correspondent stephanie seaman's who can talk us through day 3 of this trial welcome stefan what are we expecting. we expect the balls up to 8 hours more deliberation more democrats and house impeachment managers in this case prosecutors if you will make in their case narrowing in on the lek of remorse of donald trump which he showed after the incursion occurred on jenner's 6 this is their main effort today and of course with this also again narrowing in and making sure everybody understands that trump played what they say absolutely central and critical role in all of this not just on generally 6 withholding speech but also before long before by denying that the election was up to par and saying it was raked or stolen and so on egging the people on to actually do what

they then did on generally 6 we saw in the report the prosecution showing senna's this disturbing footage of some of the riots and what else does it do to try to convince republicans to back them and to vote to convict. that's basically by today also showing that there is actually physical damage to the capital left behind so and that again those senators who sit there those republican senators who the democrats want to convince to vote with them for conviction of donald trump that they were so so so close to actually really good physical harm the house impeachment managers will also focus and with that that is of course also the same effort to make those republicans through each side and convict all trump they want to show how many many people staffers support teams in the capitol who work there

every day how much of psychological emotional damage they are suffered from what happened on generation 6 so again it is going to be a very factual and very very detailed presentation today we expect but also very very emotional this is for it to democrats i think and for the house impeachment managers they think the key to get a few republicans to vote with them right and how is that the american public taking this washington psychodrama. well it depends on what channel you're watching here if you are subscribing to be a watcher all for example fox right conservative right wing. lead then you will sporadically check in probably if you're all watching other networks c.n.n. on the middle of the left c.n.n. has received then you will watch this if you can all day long no doubt there is high interest in what's going on there and you know yesterday was critical because

for many many millions of americans that was hard to watch it was hard to watch for me this footage yesterday we were there generally 6 to relive this kind of was tough so yeah american public is interested millions are watching but i wouldn't say that it's for the entire country on. the 1st stove so to speak it's not on the front burner entirely for all of americans but for a large large large number of them of course stephens ilands in washington thank you. organizers of the oscars haven't i was a very different looking awards ceremony this year as the movie industry continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic because to be of motion picture arts and sciences says this is the event will be live and in person but from multiple locations including its traditional venue i would still be theater the decision to

decentralize the ceremony is a good prioritizing public health. in sports a report say you shero amaury a president of the tokyo 2020 allin picks organizing committee is to step down on friday 83 year old mr mori made a sexist remark that when you talk too much but you're in a japanese limpy committee meeting this month after some $400.00 workers quit their volunteer post with the games earlier this week tokyo organizers revisited its position as president reports a replacement has already paid for. it's a reminder of our top stories at base our german chancellor i'm going to america has admitted to failings in dealing with the 2nd wave of corona virus infections she was jeered at by the opposition in parliament back she defended the decision to extend the not a lockdown until the 7th of march. and of all world news of the top of the hour stephen be as they has your business update in just

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