this is g.w. news live from berlin greece and defiance and millions are demonstrators mourn the death of a young anti coupe protester shot in the has by a police bullet a week ago her sister urges people not to give up their struggle to restore democracy. also coming up the search for answers continues a year after a racist attack in the german town of ha now left 9 people dead was enough done to prevent it and could it happen again and also at the time farm workers.

are there. now says perseverance rover touches down after a 7 month journey for a place to find proof of life on mars. and she dreams of making it big on the international stage when meeting young football referee from the palestinian territories that's despite religious clerics saying that as a woman she shouldn't be on the field. i'm sunni so much gondo it's good to have you with us and tycoon protests in myanmar have been overshadowed by the news that a protester has died a week after being shot in the head by police the young woman is the 1st person to be killed in demonstrations that were sparked by the military juntas detention of myanmar selected leader aung san suu kyi. her are her.

the 20 year old woman became the 1st fatal victim of myanmar's uprising she was shot in the head by police 10 days ago. but the other that only her condition became worse by the day and then her heart stopped beating. her death is adding fuel to the fire much of the country has been in open revolt ever since troops arrested civilian leader aung sang suu kyi the rallies have been steadily growing in size and the hunter has responded by making mass arrests and by escalating its use of force against peaceful protesters. and the presence of security forces has been stepped up across the country. we are being peaceful why are they using so much force they pushed us violently look at them do they need to act like this we are not blocking any roads they

intentionally use this force they shouldn't do that. tens of thousands of people from across me and mar society have joined an all out strike by refusing to go back to work until democracy is restored. citizens have been coming up with ever more ingenious methods of bringing the country and its traffic to a standstill. these residents are pretending to pick things that from the ground to make it more difficult for security forces to reach the protests. others are overcome by a sudden urge to repair their bikes in the middle of the road. but rights groups are calling for the international community to support these civilian tactics with harsh sanctions on the country's lucrative gems and banking sectors so that no more protesters get killed if you see that. oh you know that i want to

encourage all the citizens to join the protests until we can get rid of this system . she says she hopes her sister's death will ban people even closer together as they resist the regime. journalist dave greene bomb has reported extensively from me and maher and he joins us for more on the story hi dave how is this news of the protesters death going down among the activists. 22 a kind she's become a symbolic figure for the demonstrators ever since doctors said that she was struck in the head by a live round she turned 20 while she was in the hospital and i spoke to people who were on the ground i mean i got on to day demonstrators and they tell me her death is becoming a rallying cry for them that it is just adding more fuel to the protest movement which already has so much momentum as you see by the massive numbers of people out on the streets and they say her death is just giving them more energy to keep going so does that mean we're going to see these protests escalate even further. it's all

signs pointed out that they're just going to keep going on and on with this and it's and it's not only you know like the demonstrators on the streets it's the government work stoppage that we see in a lot of people in the private sector that are better not working off so i mean the un special rapporteur for human rights and the m r says 3 quarters of government workers are not on the job they're striking there's a reuters report that just came out that fuel supplies in the country are running low there most government ministries are closed i mean the economy is taking a significant toll and that's what the demonstrators are trying to do this is where they're hurting those who to the most as with this government work stoppage and private sector work stoppage and we saw images of how they're also taking on very creative new forms to be able to continue protesting i mean how effective has this been. and it's been very effective not only you know with the government effective so far we should say not only would the government work stoppages but they're also

trying to stay in the headlines internationally they know that they're fighting for attention for global headlines so all these different maneuvers are going from the cars that they pretend are are not working the park on the streets the top traffic stop traffic to the colorful costumes or using to draw the attention to the camera towards them toward something interesting creative artwork that they use to try to get their messages out i mean they're doing this in part it's trying to stay in the international headlines and it's work and form so far but are there any signs that the one time might be willing to agree to some individual demands that these protesters do have. i mean i mean really in the short term at least the only thing we can really hope for is that they won't fire live rounds of the protesters i mean that's that's just really the best that we're going to be able to hope for even a long long the head of the when he got in this and he's not going to back down unless he's completely forced to i mean i think what you're more likely to see if there are definite sort of out firing live rounds they did do that on protests in

2798 other times too but the thing is now the world is so different now than it was even in 2007 were so much more connected people are live streaming things some of these protesters even have foreign sim cards of the local network get shut down they can still try to live stream video out of the army's elite where how damaging it would be if they were to open fire but what you might see soon is you might see them go on mass arrests under the cover of night they do not to some degree you might see them step it up but i see no signs that they're really going to cave in to any significant mansion the protesters except not to fire lively journalist david greene thank you so much for your analysis. no problem. germany is marking a somber anniversary today it's been exactly one year since a gunman went on a racially motivated attack and killed 9 people before shooting dead his own mother and taking his own life the tragedy sparked a debate over whether more could and should have been done to prevent it. it was

a night that left a community in shock grief and anger. shortly before 10 pm shots rang out in the center of higher now a gunman entered 2 balls where he killed 3 people. the attacker then drove to another bar across town where he continued his rampage here and in a kiosk next door shooting another 6 people. within 12 minutes 9 people were left for dead 7 more were injured some seriously. the police were quickly able to identify the killer who lived in the area. a few hours later they searched his home and found he had shot his mother and himself. his motive for the attack hatred of foreign as the 43 year old shooter had posted a manifesto and videos online full of conspiracy theories and racist rants.

his victims all had a migrant background. in the wake of the attack there was an outpouring of solidarity across the country. and strong condemnation from the german government. yes this was racism is a poison hate is a poison and this poison exists in our society and is responsible for far too many crimes we stand with all our strength and determination against all those who try to divide germany after last night. one year on from the attack the wounds. still run deep and for many questions remain over whether more could have been done to prevent the events of that charitable night. how big of a threat as far right extremists have in germany we spoke to i don't as

a social democrat member of the german parliament well actually we saw it in the us and we see it also in germany it is a threat to every country but we have it here in a way that we really have to act against it and i think it's so important that people who have a migrant background i mean we call my own still people of certain force generation and if we do this we have to do something also that they don't lose confidence in the authorities in the government and the parliaments so this means yes we have to deal with it yes there is a threat of right wing extremism in this country we saw all these people in front of the parliament i mean for in front of the buddhist taco already and we know exactly that there are not really accepting people like me and all the millions others who have parents who came from turkey or other countries as germans they

just don't accept us and we have to show we need the rest you know like everyone who really fans democracy belong together and we stand together and i think we do it but it's not sufficient we also need answers of course to questions like in this case german law lawmaker ident as it was speaking to us earlier there and we will have live coverage of the commemoration ceremony taking place in hanau later today . let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world china has confirmed that 4 soldiers were killed in border clashes with indian forces last year it was their deadliest confrontation in decades this is the 1st time beijing has admitted casualties in the fighting which also killed 20 indian soldiers the country's recently agreed to disengage at the disputed region. the us says it's ready for talks with iran on the 2050 nuclear deal the biden administration has also moved to

restore policies that were reversed under former president trump tehran repeated calls for president biden to lift all nuclear sanctions saying it would immediately reverse its retaliate tory actions a popular malaysian news site has been fined almost $100000.00 euros over comments left by readers malaysiakini was found guilty of contempt for publishing comments that criticised the judiciary editor in chief stephen gun was cleared of contempt charges media groups have condemned the ruling as an attack on press freedom. trying to immunize people against a covert 1000 as quickly as possible has turned into a scramble to get as many vaccines as possible in theory every country in the world should have access to safe cheap vaccinations through an organization called kovacs which is backed by the world health organization us president biden has agreed to donate $4000000000.00 to this program that will help boost the distribution of

vaccines to poor countries but the plan is currently falling short of its goals. as of its builds on the big idea the kovacs pillar is founded on the principle of equitable access this means any country regardless of their ability to pay has the same access to vaccines but in reality the big idea is struggling as countries race and at times fight to get the populations vaccinated 1st. the head of the world health organization which code leads the kovacs program put it bluntly quote vox emotionalism might serve short term political goals but it's ultimately short sighted and self-defeating we will not end the pandemic anywhere until we ended every were part of the problem is that wealthy countries have joined the kovacs initiative but have also made separate deals with

vaccine manufacturers this is created an imbalance while poor countries are completely dependent on kovacs richer nations are accused of using it as an added extra. and there's another issue the astra zeneca oxford university vaccine accounts for almost all the doses that the kovacs program wants to start distributing later this month but south africa is delaying the rollout over concerns that the drug may not be effective against the new variant which 1st emerged there we don't want to end up with a situation where we vaccinate a 1000000 people or 2000000 people vaccine that may not be effective in preventing hospitalization and severe disease other countries are now stepping in china has only recently joined kovacs it's now offering the program 10000000 doses

but beijing has already sold or donated large quantities of its 3 vaccines to countries around the world. 50000000 doses it being bought by turkey alone. and moscow to profess to do its own deals. iran just the latest to get russia's sputnik v vaccine. the kovacs program still hopes to deliver more than $2000000000.00 vaccines by the end of the year scientists warn if that fails the world will pay the price it's not about $1.00 country versus another it's about one world protected. now to some of the latest developments in the pandemic japan says a new variant of covert 19 has emerged in the country's east more than 90 cases have been found mainly in tokyo brazil's health ministry says the country has

surpassed more than 10000000 coronavirus cases and the dutch parliament has approved an emergency nighttime curfew law after a court banned the measure earlier this week the curfew led to rioting when it was introduced in january. the leaders of germany and france will discuss the future of transatlantic relations with u.s. president joe biden during a special virtual many edition of the munich security conference it'll be an opportunity to show how much or how little the e.u. has in common with the new washington administration chief international editor richard walker gives us his take on some potentially thorny issues. 4 years of the trumpet ministration were a toxic age for transatlantic relations. americal could barely conceal her relief after joe biden's victory it's good and for. president biden we simply have a much wider range of political agreement. but that doesn't mean that the u.s.

and germany suddenly agree on everything they really don't so we're going to take a look at 3 issues that are right at the top of the transatlantic agenda. first up north stream into a russian natural gas pipeline under construction to germany that team biden says must never be completed. because it divides europe it exposes ukraine and central europe to russian russian manipulation and because it goes against europe's own stated energy and security goals the us is even threatening sanctions against companies involved in the project here in berlin the government says that that is no way to treat an ally so the big question is can merkel and biden find some sort of compromise next china the rising giant challenging u.s. leadership in almost every thinkable way and shocking the democratic world with its crackdown on freedoms in hong kong. the u.s.

and china are entering a period of profound confrontation and biden wants u.s. allies firmly on side was on that merkel seems decidedly cagey. we pressed her on this just recently asking why she seemed reluctant to line up behind the new president on china and of global food i believe that it is very important for the european union to have its own china policy you know politico out it's really no surprise that merkel is so cautious china is after all a massive market for germany's export driven economy but there could come a time when biden's. you have to pick sides. finally in the biggest crisis of all for the world perhaps more hope for transatlantic togetherness climate change is back as a top priority for the u.s. after 4 years of denial. john kerry is the new team's climate czar

a high profile name raising hopes that the u.s. and europe can make progress together on cutting back on carbon but there's one thing that transcends all of these global issues for leaders watching biden from here in europe they remember how his presidency began with washington bracing for violence after its very democracy came close to collapse their biggest question will be can biden restore some stability to america because if he can't they fear another trouble could be on the way well as we said the munich security conference is kicking off later today let's talk about that with our political correspondent jared reed hi jared what exactly is the european security community expecting from president biden that he will reset the button on the transatlantic relationship. will suit me i guess they're expecting some attempts at relationship repair and their commitment to multi-lateralism and and some if it's

too i guess undo some of the damage that's been done over the last 4 years and there are signs that things are heading in a positive direction on thursday come on by with the german defense minister told d.w. that dealing with the by the administration there was a markedly noticeable difference in tone in dealing with these administrations and the trump administration she just come from a meeting with her new u.s. counterpart so i guess that is encouraging news but there are significant issues to do with one of them as we heard in that report being china the u.s. sees china as a strategic threat where is the e.u. is pursuing deep ties with china through things like the investment deal it reached with beijing last year also russia germany and the u.s. . significant points of difference when it comes to nord stream to the gas pipeline

coming from russia to germany but they see more eye to eye when it comes to the treatment of political opposition like alexei in the valley in russia sorry some significant differences but signs that point to common ground to given these points what are we going to see discussed at this conference. well this conference is taking place in a pandemic so it's been drastically cut back from what it would normally look like so the pandemic is kind of looming large is going to be discussions on how to better cooperate during this pandemic and possibly future pandemics what the economic recovery from covert 19 is going to look like also talk of vaccines how to make sure that poorer countries have better access to vaccines we're expecting an announcement from the biden ministration a multi-billion dollar if it for this cause also iran by the ministration has

signaled that it would be willing to return to talks with other world powers and iran on a possible return to the nuclear deal that the trumpet ministration left our political correspondent jared reed thank you very much. and if you want to see the whole special edition of the munich security conference you can watch it live on you tube channel at youtube dot com slash t w news starting at 4 o'clock central european time. now nasa is celebrating the successful landing of its most advanced spacecraft yet on mars its space rover perseverance touched down safely inside one of the planet's craters after a nailbiting descent there were bought a vehicle will make history by collecting samples of martian soil to be brought back to earth that could help scientists determine if life ever existed on the red planet. at a time confirmed i am sure that. there. was

a big game at the end of. the moment scientists happy could be a way to. describe the 3rd part of the 1st and this is what it looks like because the 1st images beamed back from os more high quality images will be sent back in the coming hours and days. feel relieved to have be excited ready to get to work or a part of the science team to do some science it's been a long 8 years and we're ready to go. it was a high risk landing. presidents are going about one kilometer per 2nd at an altitude of about 6000 kilometers from the surface of mars. this 7 month journey followed by what scientists call 7 minutes of tarot.

president out of the bird to subsonic bees and he still had them separated. when the probe executed its delicate landing maneuver without help from the os this mission control. over the next 2 he is presently runs will make history by collecting. pulls off martian soil. scientists believe that around 3500000000 years ago this crater was home to a river that flowed into a lake making it a good location to start looking for signs of life. this mission is amazing on its own science technology and catching samples back to earth but it's also part of our bigger exploration plans for right which involve really understanding mars and the evolution of mars and whether there was life ancient life but also preparing for eventually human missions to mars. bringing the

samples back to earth would be another long and complicated journey. involving several of the rocket launches and spacecraft meeting up with perseverance in space to pick up its cargo hold. if all goes according to plan those precious samples without a private back on earth as early as 2031. now to the football official blazing a trail in the palestinian territories hi nina is only one of 2 female referees officiating top level men's and women's matches there now at the age of just $21.00 she's got her sights set on the international. running the i used to worry honey mariam but now the 21 year old assistant referee feels right at home and has high hopes for her future. i dream of being

a famous referee and i hope to reach an international level as an assistant referee . before matches abu maryam takes part in a briefing with other match officials conservative islamic clerics here say this is no place for a woman but abu maryam has to fight those voices to pursue her dream. as long as my family supports me i don't care about anything else it feels nice to be one of the only female referees and i will keep going and hopefully i will continue on this path. it's been 4 years since the palestinian football association allowed female referees every mariam is working her way up through the leaks one day she says she hopes to be officiating at some of the world's most iconic stadiums. before we go freezing temperatures in the southeastern us have had a stunning effect on the state of louisiana the cypress trees growing in the louisiana swamp lands are always

a feast for the eyes and now that exceptionally cold weather has left them under a canopy. right coming up next the date of your special report looking at the u.s. is leadership position in the world and whether it can stand up to or surge and china.

is back in the president's words to the war on clear but is biden's america too damaged to leave a lot has changed in recent years and the big question is our own allies position. richard walker explores that. because america's moment of global dominance simply coming to an end. next r t w. and

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town this is where it is they are. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend r d w. washington . opinion jimmy killing hundreds. an economy on the brink. a nation profoundly divided the bike mirror has opened set by crisis and hope in the rest of the world looks every bit as daunting russia is openly hostile. flexing its muscles. from middle eastern europe to cyberspace. from afghanistan to the persian gulf the u.s. remains deeply in tangled in conflicts it doesn't know how much we're sold. in

europe it faces allies so disillusioned that they're hedging their bets on america pushing the future of the western alliance into question. but in the contest for global power and influence one challenge overshadows all of us in china a new superpower has risen. one with the military might challenge the west. and an economy that's the envy of the world. as washington teetered on the brink can generally try to turn to one china looked on with optimistically. with the things how in a p.c. and found your the shipmate warding america so diminished that china can take sarcastic satisfaction in the state of its democracy think for a moment just how far the tables are turned just 30 years ago george bush sr hailed

an america triumphant it had won the cold war it was in charge no substitute for american leadership the phrase if you're only going to know what american credibility and reliability but no one doubts our staying power the us was at the pinnacle of its power this will remain forces who make a world the way it wanted it to be until a series of disasters made it turn back in on itself and start to ask the track. was that it is america's moment of global dominance simply coming to an end now it states will not be the globe spanning preeminent military power in perpetuity. empires rise empires fall great powers rise great powers joe biden insists that he has no intention presiding over the fall of an american empire america is back

america is back american leadership must meet this new moment of advancing the far turn is i'm including a growing ambitions of china to rival the united states in the germination of russia to damage and disrupt our democracy biden can seem like a relatively minor figure out a transitional leader at the end of his career holding the fort until others can take over but he will have to make some absolutely massive choices for america can't return to that position supremes strength doesn't want to push it it's just for a more modest role. as we'll see later european leaders don't seem sure we ask uncle americal and demand one called why on joe biden's biggest foreign policy issue of all they seem to be sitting on a fence in. late

january 2021. for the global elite china's president xi jinping is the opening speaker at the world economic forum just over a year after the pandemic broke house in his home turf he has a supremely confident message for the world we must not return to the path of the past is the right approach is to act on the vision of fishing with a shared future for mankind it was just the latest sign of china's emergence as a power on a level with the united states one willing to challenge it in almost every way donald trump reacted to will race by making aggression towards china his foreign policy calling card the biden team says it. well pushed back just as hard there were 3 telling signs just as they were getting started 1st secretary of state tony blinken at his nomination hearing in the senate shortly after the outgoing

administration had accused china of committing genocide against the weak a minority in changing lincoln is asked if he agrees so on the on the on the leaders i think were very much in agreement the. forcing men women and children into concentration camps are trying to. in effect re educate them. to be adherence to the ideology the china's communist party. all of that speaks to to an effort to commit genocide think about the weight of that accusation that what's being going on a change is an act not merely of repression but of genocide one happening not in history but right now. a 2nd sign of biden's inauguration away from the limelight on the podium

a guest is clearly making sure stree i'm honored to be here today on meet the people i've never met one time on this was the official representative of taiwan to washington d.c. the 1st ever to be invited to a presidential inauguration remembered like most of the world the united states doesn't recognize taiwan as an independent country in line with beijing's insistence that there is only one china this was a powerful snub to china and a major role is to taiwan and said let's hear a little more detail what the administration has been saying in the big picture strategic competition with china as defining feature of the 21st century china's in games and conduct that it hurts american workers sponsored technological edge and threatens our alliances and our influence in international organizations with what we've seen over the last few years is that china is growing more authoritarian at home and more assertive abroad and beijing is now challenging our security

prosperity and values in significant ways that require a new u.s. approach so what exact new approach really going to be let's start with security in asia itself. china has been expanding its military at an extraordinary pace in recent years especially its navy which is building new ships much faster than the u.s. this huge naval expansion is really about establishing china's dominance of the region through the south china sea and the east china sea. notoriously china has been building military outposts on disputed islands throughout the region despite objections from its neighbors this is partly about staking out military might but it also has huge implications for the world economy a really significant proportion of global trade passes through these waters the

greatest fear of all is that china could one day follow through on its threat to invade taiwan something that's not just a daily concern for the people of taiwan but for u.s. allies in the whole region their power. if taiwan were to be occupied by the chinese military then it becomes almost impossible to defend our entire network. at that point. because at any time they could be invaded from taiwan if they're attacking these risks is going to take monumental efforts from the u.s. in asia in the years to come from investing in the navy to rallying allies in the region to stick together that process was already on to wager in the trumpet ministration with meetings of the close to us japan and india and australia seeking

from there but china is rising so fast that the us would have to shift priorities in a big way to stand a chance of keeping up but it is i think nor were a world in which the united states can aspire to have a dominant position in europe a dominant position in the middle east and a dominant position in asia and that's basically where united states has really been accustomed to. the. top of the list for a brief think is the greater middle east where the u.s. has put enormous resources with the post 911 wars to strengthen u.s. strategists from what was happening in china america got so mired in the greater middle east that it's conflicts that have become known as the forever wars americans are tired of them and polling makes it clear that they want them to end and joe biden has promised to to do that but he's not the 1st president to do so if

you can expect a lot of debate about what ending those wars actually means he did not define winning and trooper effort work in the way that i work he talked about me painting a force to pursuit. terrorism in afghanistan for example and was pretty unspecific with respect to the rest of the greater middle east i'm glad our reject and less wars as their description of what we are doing in iraq afghanistan and other places and i think the proper parallel is sheer americana involvement in germany japan south korea that is what was once. a a current quest becomes a friendship it becomes a partnership the middle east is a powerful example of just how hard it is for the us to shift priorities after it

sunk so many resources into long term commitments worries about israel's security and iran's nuclear program also find it to the region but there's another place where the us has been entrenched for even longer right here in your. more than 70 years of civilian to fold more to the founding of nato the us still has a massive military presence europe donald trump questioned all of this in a way no u.s. president and done before he was particularly aggressive back european military spending which is much lower than the u.s. as a proportion of their economies europe is one of the richest regions in the world and yet it's not able to guarantee its own security if the u.s. has to shift resources towards asia europe is going to have to step up many

european leaders actually agree during the trump years uncle americal often spoke of the need for europe to take more responsibility for its own security side. and then the arms of the now. firmly held off and clinton did. and those look for by. that's obvious and in that regard nearly all those are coming out of that video oh yeah i missed that on those 6 3rd berkeley's and on top i am going to hunt them but that's in theory what about in practice when the rule of the ambitions come with a price tag here in germany for example military spending is causing your g.d.p. has a priest over the past couple of years but is not expected to hit a target of 2 percent for some time to come. and in the aftermath of the run to make government spending cuts come under massive pressure the population i'm used to paying for its own defense and onion c.c.s.

to military action may push back against big budgets or. after decades of depending on the us to such an extent is it really realistic for the e.u. to find it so what we can do underestimate what america has. over the decades and actually on a european we need to get a broader and shared on the founding of the problems that we face this will put europe in the middle of a bewildering number of questions should nato remain the centerpiece of european defense or should the e.u. develop more of its own capabilities cal should europe deal with growing threats beyond the battlefield like cyber warfare and ate i as you can see europe has a long way to go before it can really stand on its own 2 feet so while you can expect the u.s. to keep up the pressure to take on more responsibility the fundamentals are

unlikely to change for years to come and in fact all signs are that the biden team wants to leverage european allies in a new way back something even bigger a coming back with the system. remember she jinping speech at the world economic forum let's catch a little more of what she said the part which was aimed directly at the west to build small circles or start a new cold with it. to reject threaten or intimidate others to willfully impose decoupling supply disruption or sanctions and to create isolation or is strange when we're only pushed the world into division and even confrontation let's break that down for a moment this was she jumping warning the west not to rally together against china

something the biden ministration says it's determined to do not just against china's growing military assertiveness as we saw earlier but also against his diplomatic and trade practices that are increasingly being seen as bullying like when it slapped tariffs on various australian imports after australia called for an investigation into the origins of the corona virus outbreak which all found. coming. you may also not. to move on the lead beijing gave similar treatment to sweden of trip banned chinese firms from its 5 g. mobile data network over security concerns.