they don't want to. run down there all they want is an answer. and this is one of president biden's most challenging policy dilemmas if he you ask pulls out of afghanistan by may 2021 as agreed to in a deal between he's previous us and the taliban the country could plunge deeper into chaos if the troops stay the taliban could retaliate the administration will be looking if they can to do 2 things the 1st is to withdraw a more measured way that will solve it some stability from the situation in afghanistan and secondly leave the united states and coalition partners with some capacity for counterterrorism and do all of this in close coordination with its nato allies the biden administration has strongly signaled that they will listen to the experts and will remain in afghanistan for the foreseeable future this is

a major policy shift from the trump white house and this will be biden's 1st major policy decision for the middle east and could have a deep impact on this presidency americans have grown exhausted from endless wars and it will be a tough sell to the public that remaining in afghanistan is the best course of action. nato allies welcome the change in tone from the u.s. administration the alliance relies on you as forces for logistical support in afghanistan and secretary general stoltenberg made it clear that nato wants leave before the time is right to clear hands that there may deadline could be extended there's no decision what is the on go event in this case and from what you can only decision to say is let's say he has it is for me and that means he continued but

how they continue remains a big question will report produced by the w.'s brussels bureau chief at xander from naaman who joins us now welcome alexandra so given the intensified fighting from the taliban and the new administration the pragmatic view seems to be the time is not yet right to withdraw or so is anyone likely to argue for a nato drawdown. i don't think so it really seems that there is a common understanding that it's not the right time to pull out the german defense minister said before the meeting started to that she didn't think that there was enough progress and the talks between the taliban and the government in kabul and nato officials also warn that a hasty withdrawal from afghanistan could put nato forces on the ground at risk however it's also true that after 20 years of military presence in afghanistan

allies are growing tired of fighting without and and this applies of course to the you asked and now everyone is waiting for the joe biden administration to conclude its policy review because the u.s. is still the major decision maker here and on the new administration this is their 1st nato meeting so beyond tone what differences in policy and practice can we expect from joe biden. i think it's clear that the new administration wants to use this meeting to draw a line on the trams presidency to to show their commitment to their partners in his opinion piece in the washington post. the secretary of defense alston said that the us was going to lead to again that they were good teammates that they wanted to consult together and to decide together and to act together and this is i

think not only a change of tone but also a change in substance and this is of course something that allies are happy to hear although we also have to say that it's certain that differences are going to remain for example of or the issue of burden sharing yeah let's talk about donald trump repeatedly faulted may turn states especially germany failing to meet military spending budget pledges will by the ministration keep up about pressure yes i think so that we can i think that we can expect that joe biden administration to keep pressing q. or p. and allies to spend more on defense and it's quite interesting that apparently there are ready to make a new proposal on that secretary general's told told us a few days ago that he would like to ask to jointly fund more of the need to work for example right now when the country is sending troops to one of need to us

battle groups at the border to russia it has to pay for everything and stoltenberg would like nato allies to share those costs so this is an interesting proposal it's going to be discussed today tell you that i was under from norman in brussels. demonstrators in manama have gathered in the largest numbers yet to demand an end to military rule opponents of the february 1st coup fear the doubt that the military will keep its promise to hold elections and hand power back deposed leader aung sang suu kyi remains in jail facing trivial criminal charges hundreds of thousands joined rallies in cities across the country despite fears of a violent crackdown. a battle cry for democracy tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of young gone stepping up their open revolt against a military takeover karsh uses roadblocks to keep security forces from moving

around the commercial capital. in this cat and mouse game it appears that for now it's the mice who have the upper hand. internet shutdowns another attempts to disrupt the demonstrations have largely proved futile even the judges assurances of free and fair elections have been met with deep skepticism exacerbated by fresh criminal charges against on sons who cheat. but the young people of this generation don't have to believe in the military's promises they live before and they hold an election back in 1988 so we've already learned our lesson from that piece of history. there's growing concern that myanmar's bloody history could be about to repeat itself the un says it's received reports of soldiers being ready for crackdown in young dawn sparking fears that scenes like this are merely a taste of what's to come. but is this activist told the daily

news they're not backing down no i'm not afraid i'm not afraid we've seen that we have been and if it's only control for years so this is that we have to finish this tie we we went all let's we're given crazy we no longer want every anyone. else. past the world watches with bated breath for many here me and more there's only one way out of this. for with their fists high even if no one knows where the world will beat them. let's go straight to yangon where we join journalists at a main found welcome to day w m the un special rapporteur on their human rights in man ma says he's terrified about signs of an impending ministry crackdown and yeah go on what are you saying that. yeah i mean we've seen the earth collation it from security

forces in terms of who is on the ground the type of equipment they're using as well as any general increase in the frequency or usage of weapons and so from the 1st few days of the protests we really saw no traffic police some riot police for the most part they were staying behind barricades and then as we move into the last couple days we've seen more soldiers on the streets as opposed to simply police but we've seen tanks and armored personnel carriers as well as just more and more usage of proper bullets water cannons and just firing at protesters both in an attempt to disperse people but also seeing people getting beaten and sort of being in the ad. and away from the marchers there's also a campaign of civil disobedience what sort of effect is that having. so the civil

disobedience movement is you know it really started off as a way for civil servants especially to strike and to essentially refuse to cooperate with the government but it has spread to other parts of society as well and so. you know there is a sort of central banks which have largely been shut down because civil servants are not working but also public private banks are also being shut down because of quite a number of people on strike you see that rail rays are being disrupted in myanmar border trade especially along the border which china has slowed nearly to a halt today and the public is joining in on these protests and today we saw people essentially pretending all of their cars as well as try shards of bicycles have broken down in the build the street as a way to both disrupt people who are trying to go to work despite the strike but also to disrupt any sort of security force movement in the city is a mood about. not facing to criminal charges for

a court date was pushed back what are you hearing about a fight. so it's very unclear we haven't really gotten a good. visualization of her situation really since she was taken we get information very sporadically and sort of briefly after the facts on monday she was actually supposed to have her 1st day of trial and instead of that happening she was a man was extended and we were told that her trial would look at today but then yesterday we found out that she had her 1st meeting or she had a meeting with a judge and that an additional charge had been levied against her and then as far as i understand her next court date is actually march 1st now but you know we don't really know what's going to happen in the meantime and she hasn't officially been allowed to have legal representation although the l.t. or. the national level national league for democracy her party has retained lawyers

on her behalf thank you so much for that. journalist a young girl who was part of india's me too movement to judges cleared journalists pretty remind me of criminal defamation after she accused a politician of sexual harassment in 2017. wrote an article as part of the global need to respond accusing former newspaper editor. of workplace harassment claims were followed by similar allegations from more than 20 other women was to resign from his post as junior foreign minister of launched a criminal defamation case against this remark that she hoped the victory would empower the women to break the silence and she is speaking after today's acquittal . is not about me it was about to be mean you spoke about sexual harassment in the media as part of the i mean. this is i don't this is marilyn.

a more news from around the world now hong kong media tycoon jimmy lying has been arrested again even though he's in jail he's suspected of assisting a fugitive who fled china and was captured it say it's the law is due to face a bail hearing on thursday charged with violating china's new security law following his involvement in hong kong as pro to my from but still to come south africa's covert 19 vaccination drive gets underway he talks about some of the hurdles ahead. free speech support for tara we look at the case of the spanish rapper who was arrested thanks to my protests. the nigerian government has launched a rescue operation after gunmen kidnapped dozens of students and teachers from a school stuff say one student was shot dead in the attack stuff also say the students from the government signs college cake. in niger state with dragged away by large numbers of men dressed in military uniforms

a few did manage to escape the local government official says most of those taken with children. other recent kidnappings blamed on 5 gallons. a day double corresponding to the way so interest joins us from the nigerian capital abuja welcome what else is known about this abduction. this tuitions now is that nigerian government has sent military personnel for lease an address to retain agencies who have gone to the pool to try and track these kidnappers and see how the would be able to rescue this school children bob i wouldn't you know unite them with deaf i mean with up to now there is no any new information of what. we had been taking to them and what is happening to them. so we don't know who is taking them do we know why they have been taken. it is not

clear out why had been disobey beside what is known to people kidnapping for ransom but gradually lead to operation is change in the lead tests big deal which he issued after a kidnapping dissin my job is like this title. should if you do i shall eat which is need a blood down on our doctors i'm asking them to tell the government to come out rescue them with the 500000000 and then attack in a school east also more on this december trying to send fiesta people to a bun done with education which has more or less gradually chief because decease not the 1st but the 2nd and he said the tide of talk time on east and going on so what is the government doing about this. is do you turn condemnation which the president house condemn i suck nigerians that he is ready to

make sure. this tent governor will just finish a security council meeting saying that they would do what if id who to get these children bought what to look not in nigeria and see how many distant doubt asked in there and was satisfied with what his. the kind of frustration from the parents. whose children had been taken because the. closed down. screws in for the governments in that remember because it. was just not quite long in nigeria. so much time ok thank you for the correspondent always so. back to south africa which is start of the rollout of its 1st covered 19 vaccination program with president single rob

opposing getting the job in front of the cameras in cape town $80000.00 doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine will be distributed across the country with health workers getting inoculated 1st as part of a research study is comes after the country dropped plans to use the astra zeneca vaccine over concerns about its effectiveness against the fast spreading south african coronavirus variant. all day w correspondent increased sentences update from a vaccination center in cape town. right i mean behind me you can see the vaccination station so this is where the 1st health workers of this hospital in getting their vaccine had to move move of happiness here and let us actually bring in one of the health care workers see a doctor who can call he's been working on the front lines with covert patients and you just got your vaccine i was here with you in late december when there was the 1st peek of the 2nd peak actually of the coverts cases and you showed me around

here it looked quite crowded dozens of people the room where people are vaccinated now was packed with patients back then coughing sitting waiting for a bed now it looks much better but still me why is it so important now for the health care workers to get this vaccine. being a front line worker is very important. for this vaccine been waiting for long to get this vaccine and to be a good become very. very important because we've seen with this virus can we need to create. anything we need to create. a kind of immunity in the community and only will be needed to fight this disease is to get vaccinated and that's why the frontline would need. to be on the front lines so i need to be vaccinated be protected be immunized so that i can continue fighting for the disease and saving the life of the mechanical i thank you very much for your time and all the best for your work but he was not the only one

who got the vaccine obviously other health workers but there was a surprise guest coming here today the president of south africa serum up was also came to this hospital to get the vaccine basically to show people it is safe because in the past weeks there was quite a lot of confusion here you mentioned the astra zeneca vaccine delivery that came here and 1000000 doses 2 weeks ago shortly after was a study was published that said well it might not help against mild disease from the new of the ryan that is dominant here in south africa that's why the government decided to. puts the rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine on hold that was pretty much criticized from a lot of people around the world just to say well it's could still help with a mile to the east but the decision was done by the government now it is the johnson and johnson vaccine that is vaccinated here and you have to remember this vaccine is also not in use in any countries yet it's not approved yet even here in south africa so what we see now the vaccinations are still part of the face free trial and this is where the president said well i have to show people it is still

safe it can still help because when it comes to the johnson and johnson vaccine there were 1st studies that proved that this vaccine can help with a new variant and green crease in cape town a violent street protests broke out in several spanish cities on tuesday following the arrest of cotton. he was sentenced to 9 months in prison for his song lyrics and tweets which i thought to say glorify terrorism and insult the monarchy its supporters say the case is about free speech and several 1000 turned out in barcelona. the. chance of freedom for pablo has said echoing through the streets of barcelona scuffles erupted between protesters and the police with trash container set on fire and shop windows destroyed demonstrators are calling for left wing rapper pablo has to be released from prison. earlier on tuesday police have stormed the ada university

in the country's northeastern catalonia region and the rest it has said who was holed up there with dozens of supporters after he missed a deadline to turn himself in in 2018 the rapper was sentenced to 9 months in prison for glorifying terrorism and insulting the spanish monarchy and some of his songs in tweets they included references to paramilitary separatist groups and called former king juan carlos a mafia boss his case has garnered widespread attention in spain and spurred a debate on freedom of expression after the arrest the deputy prime minister said in a democracy like spain there should be few limitations on free speech. been some of kin doesn't assume we think that in all matters stemming from freedom of expression if nobody's safety is put at risk then imprisonment is not an appropriate

punishment within the freedoms granted by a democracy. the government confirmed that slamming to reform spain's criminal code with lighter punishments for free speech offenses and protection for artistic and cultural forms of expression. so i was in champions league football the ball in paris sounds a man have put themselves in strong positions to advance to the quarterfinals killing on the pace start where they had tricked us p.s.g. humiliated barcelona 41 in the 1st leg of their last 16 tie in spain meanwhile liverpool beat bundesliga side rb leipzig to know it was thanks to goals for mohamed salah and sadie a money coach jurgen klopp said he was very pleased with his side's performance i know i lived pretty well and i know how. they can be footballers and how.

overwhelming they can be in a game from a physical point of view so that's what we had to deal with tonight and the boys played a really good game a really good game but we created one big chance in the 1st half and 2 chances when they. shoot the goals after 2 big mistakes of my team but at the end i think we have to be good chances and be one of the most important topics for a 2nd game that we score when we create. that many chances that's important to score. in australian open tennis stefan illustrates the past staged a remarkable comeback to knock out rough them down in the quarterfinals ending the spaniards bid for a record 21st grand slam title so it's a pass loss the 1st 2 sets before becoming to win the next 3 in a match that lasted more than 4 hours and 22 year old from greece will now face that daniel medvedev in the semifinals as he looks to reach his 1st grand slam

final. it's a reminder of our top stories at base our germany's defense minister has warned against a hasty withdrawal of foreign troops in afghanistan this is nato begins a 2 day 3rd full summit to decide whether to end the war against the taliban. and protest as a memo have gathered from some of the biggest i'm to demonstrations yet with many protecting their back because of broken down and the balance that may come in or supply security forces and the un has more the filings for the force of troop build ups outside the outcome. i'll have more the top of the hour up next on g.w. tonight in germany looks at living and working. every day. cut.

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