differently. what do they do with their power. who cleans up the rango starts marching on t.w. . this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight the european union and new sanctions against russia a threat or promise foreign ministers of the e.u. countries say they've backed punitive measures aimed at those responsible for the jailing of crippling critic. will go to brussels for the latest also coming up tonight morty use agents this time on me and mars military becomes after hundreds

of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets and in a general strike plus blowing grounds dozens of its triple 7 aircraft following a catastrophic engine failure that left a denver suburb littered with plane debris and from global warming to a glacier warning how climate change is melting away iceland's famous landscapes possibly forever. i'm bring to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome tonight europe is holding russia to account today foreign ministers of the european union agreed to sanctions against 4 senior russian officials who they say are responsible for sending opposition leader alexina volney to prison the same sins are expected to be

formally approved by the e.u. in march russia has called the move unlawful. alexander mutter that's why. i like seeing that. protesters in brussels reading aloud just some of the names of the nearly 400 people they say are behind bars in russia for political reasons. they gathered outside the european council headquarters ahead of monday's meeting to demand the e.u. . inside one particular case was set to be discussed in detail how best to respond to the jailing of opposition leader alexina vonnie. here in brussels today we will discuss whether to order the imposition of a new sanctions on russia in particular as a result of the conviction of nevada and the fact that he has to serve his sentence in a labor camp. shift. the result came fairly quickly with the blocks

27 foreign ministers voting unanimously to clear the way for fresh thank sions the measures are expected to include asset freezes and travel bans for high ranking officials involved in the imprisonment of nivelle me the move as likely to set the e.u. on a collision course with russia moscow has previously threatened to retaliate or even cut ties if new sanctions are applied. despite this new vanny supporters believe targeted sanctions are the only way forward. you know we're. such a close allies the most the parts of the christmas. column these. russian.

who are for. the details all of the sanctions are yet to be worked out but will be announced in the coming weeks only then will it be clear just how effective they might be are for more now i'm joined by the brussels correspondent teri schultz she's on the story for us tonight good evening to you terry so what more do we know about the people who are being targeted by these sanctions well brant the e.u. doesn't release the names of the people who are on the sanctions list until they're vetted approved and published but we do find out about the identities from other sources and what we know about these 1st 4 people is that they are going to include the prosecutor general of russia the head of russia's investigative committee the head of the prison service and the head of russia's national guard now these people are by no means nobody's there pretty high up the food chain in the kremlin but they are not as close to russian president vladimir putin as the supporters of a lesson of only would have liked these they gave in fact

a list of $35.00 names that they would have liked to see sanctions being put on and those include these wealthy inner circle of russian president putin the only guards and the reasoning behind that is if you make president putin's inner circle uncomfortable they'll put pressure on him to change his ways but. said it's not that easy let's hear how he explained it. so when you say particularly large well maybe we don't like it but we have to prove that these people but it is going to be sanction has a direct participation on the fact that we want to sanction when we. deal with sanctions on the case of not on me we have to sanction the people who are directly related with the sort of arrest sentencing. or his progeny so gerri what impacts are we hoping to see or is the e.u.

hoping to see by taking these sanctions moves against these 4 people this is a really important move brant because it's the 1st time the e.u. is using its global human rights mechanism to punish perpetrators of human rights abuses so of course they hope that the direct message is that you can't simply poison your political opponents you can't detain 11000 people simply for expressing their political views it remains to be seen whether russia does anything differently because of it it may just ignore this at the same time the e.u. says consistently that it wants to have a better relationship with russia that it wants to return to a constructive relationship but it doesn't look like the things are going in that direction and you know we heard earlier that russia was threatening to break off all ties with the european union if there are these new sanctions i mean is that a realistic threat. we may well hear more bluster from the kremlin along those lines they certainly will be very unhappy that these new sanctions will be going

into effect next month at the same time there the kremlin really can't afford to cut all ties with the e.u. certainly not all financial ties it's the number one natural gas supplier to the e.u. and frankly brant can't afford to turn off that money tap so we may hear more harsh words but we're unlikely to see a complete break of ties all right good to be used to results with the latest tonight from brussels terry as always thank you well the european union has also agreed to say action meehan mars military over the coup that took place 3 weeks ago diplomats say the sages could target companies controlled by the army the u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez has called on the army to immediately halt what he calls its brutal force and repression thousands of pro-democracy protesters again flooded the streets of major cities on monday as a general strike to shut down businesses across the country the marches continue despite threats of lethal force from the generals. rallies

across the country despite threats of violence ahead of monday's general strike me and mars military rulers raised the stakes warning demonstrators they were risking their lives if they continued their quote riot and anarchy undeterred tens of thousands again flocked to the streets in the biggest act of defiance yet seen in this standoff. was. scenes like this have been nonstop since a coup ousted democratically elected leader aung sun suu kyi 3 weeks ago the killing of 3 people by police has only served to make many protesters move defiant many have quit their jobs on hold to keep up the fight and they say it's worth the cost. but. today is

a day for countrywide protest we don't want to stay under the control of a military dictatorship so we came here to join the protest regardless of lost salaries nothing will happen to me if my salary is cut but if we stay under the control of the military dictatorship will become this slaves that. it's a sentiment felt in all corners of the country in the capital naypyidaw all the same defiance was that. i'm joining the nationwide protest as a citizen of the country we must join the protest in this time without fail. so i've closed down my factory and join the demonstration. you know i'm joining the protests to fight against the gentle we don't want to be governed by the regime it's not worth working for the sake of a group of people will fight against them until we win i'll join the protests every

day. i. a generation unwilling to give up their freedom and return to a military dictatorship like the one they were born under. earlier we spoke with a journalist. and we asked him what makes it so different this time that protesters in myanmar are willing to face soldiers and willing to take the bullet 1st off keep in mind that these people they got a taste of democracy these last few years it wasn't great there was a lot of promise democracy was struggling to transition to democracy this country after 50 years of military rule but they got a taste of it and they also saw the economic tonight opportunities that were starting to open up and they don't want to go back to that and the parents and grandparents of today don't want their children to grow up the same way that they did secondly you know one of the signs that you seen protesters hold up is you messed with the wrong generation and that goes to this smart tech savvy generation

that has been live streaming demonstrations out even when local data networks have been shut down some of these demonstrators have foreign sim cards to try and get that video out and the generals are keenly aware of the tech savvy lot of these demonstrators and the generals realize that if they were to open fire mass numbers of demonstrators that that video and information is going to get out relatively quickly whereas in 20071008 they could try to suppress that for a while. that was journalist dave there on the resistance in myanmar let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines this hour in israel thousands of volunteers are working to clean up a massive oil spill that has forced beaches to close authorities are investigating the source of the spill which is affected wildlife such as turtles and seabirds it's been described as one of israel's worst ever ecological disasters former u.s. president donald trump has lost a supreme court appeal against his tax returns be released to prosecutors the manhattan district attorney is investigating trump for possible tax and insurance

fraud despite the court ruling secrecy rules mean the tax returns will not be made public russian president vladimir putin has hosted his villa russi in counterpart alexander lukashenko for a winter sport filled meeting in sochi the pair with skiing and rode snowmobiles in the black sea resort and when they were warmed up the think putin for supporting bella ruse financial british prime minister boris johnson have set out plans for easing coronavirus restrictions in england measures will be lifted in 4 steps starting with the reopening of schools on march 8th johnson says the threat from the virus remains substantial he said the route out of lockdown should be cautious but irreversible. our let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic the death toll in the united states is expected to pass 500000 today u.s.

president joe biden will mark the grim milestone with a moment of silence and candle lighting ceremony at the white house so vikki has called on other european union countries to help with its quote tragic coronavirus situation so lucky as foreign minister has requested an advance vaccine shipment as the country battles a record number of cases and the world's biggest banks the maker india's serum institute says it's been told to prioritize its production of the astra zeneca vaccine for india it asked other countries to quote be patient. communities of exiled weaker muslims in turkey fear that china's recent ratification of an extradition agreement with ancora could see them deported to china to face show trials or even imprisonment and torture turkey hosts the largest exiled population of we girls in the world $50000.00 of them they're now urging

turkish lawmakers not to approve the extradition arranged. her father her uncle her grandfather several members of shamsi a family what arrested or detained in china because their weakest. for weeks has been joining protests in front of the chinese consulate in istanbul where everyone here has missing relatives everyone here is hoping for a sign of life this ng didn't set them up like these photos are all we have we're not dangerous we just want our families back 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 you know news that may come close to a lot of stories like shamsi as can be heard by the dozen in the streets of the 18 hole in the istanbul district is the center of the exiled legal community in turkey

but now they're safe haven seems to be threatened turkey could soon rectify its extradition treaty with china for decades we guess fleeing persecution in china have found sanctuary here in turkey the country house one of the largest diaspora communities in the world but now many tell us they no longer feel safe. like useful he works as a cook in a we go restaurant the thought of possibly being deported war is him. going to go there so if turkey sends us back to china they will put us in jail forever or shoot us dead. lawyer represents many legal refugees he has a folder full of extradition requests from china there have been no deportation so far as ag in the pressure from beijing is growing is it upon them is that initial most especially during the coronavirus pandemic chinese investments have become

very important for turkey's. troubled economy 2 major chinese mobile phone companies have recently announced that they want to invest here and to he relies on the chinese made vaccine i think china uses all of that to exert pressure on techie . with. china has given turkey massive financial support and recently is with investments in infrastructure in ports and bridges but also with credits and loads however this has not affected the turkish position on the weed as the ruling party says. 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 again so we get brothers and sisters mothers. shamsi ikey cheeks says she has always been grateful to the turkish government for its support of the

weakest the cheat the extradition agreement with china the right to fight she feels her name could also appear on a deportation list bunch up this by my own activist the fact that i'm searching for my father and other relatives makes me a criminal in china's eyes and now i'm afraid that what has happened to others could one day happen to me that. i but she does not want to give up her protest be silent disappeared in the crowd she wants for the fate of a family to not be forgotten. the aircraft manufacturer boeing is facing another setback airlines have grounded more than a 100 of its triple 7 jets worldwide that after a jet engine caught fire over the u.s. city of denver over the weekend large sections of the engine broke off and fell down onto a neighborhood boeing says with that engine type should not fly until an investigation

has been carried out. moments of horror for the 231 passengers and 10 crew members aboard the boeing 777201 route from denver to honolulu one of the plane's engines exploded into flames and debris rained down to the ground. and it was late the worst 20 minutes i was just brain and i was like being a kid no. i was in years these believed all these by gauging that we had landed for mon. and my life would be ending late that. the plane made an emergency landing in denver no injuries were reported but united airlines announced that it would ground 24 aircraft until the national transportation safety board finished its investigation. a total of $128.00 boeing triple 7 zar affected the large twin jets are grounded for the time being most are older models

and that includes the 26 year old united plane all of the boeing 7772 hundreds in question have pratt and whitney p.w. 4000 engines. boeing has delivered 6900 of the planes. japanese authorities have now issued a flight ban as a precaution affecting japan airlines and all nippon airways this is not been the 1st problem with the boeing triple 7200 on december 4th there was a similar engine failure. or it will bring in journalist an aviation expert julian bray he joins me tonight from cambridge this debris it's good to see you again let's talk about this triple so that in question the pilots of these planes they are trained to be able to fly these planes with just one engine is that correct. that is correct and fact not only did they fly this plane with one engine but they

also flew it with the other engine in flames and a very calm need to see the routine checklist and checked everything out and realize that they could extinguish the problem so they requested that they return today and. they did and they landed 23 minutes later nobody was hurt everybody got off would you believe the aircraft itself was largely on damage it's just the area around this particular range and yeah i mean it is amazing is that people are saying it was a miracle that they were able to land and no one was injured what about the reputation of boeing right now this definitely has to be another blow for the company. well it's the reputation of prophet and whitney because these triple 7 say that i have a prophet and whitney engine and this is their trademark i can show it to you here

and it says on a dependable engines. i'm afraid they'll going to have to change that or you could have the option of rolls royce engines fitted to it now u.k. airlines do have these crowds but they fit with rolls royce the rolls royce of the aircraft isn't grounded nor so i should say that the u.k. has also excluded this take rack for its type from u.k. and space until the investigations are complete so it's quite a thing it's going to be a major investigation already the black boxes that the flight data recorder and the flight voice recorders have been recovered and they've been taken to a live artery in washington and they're going to be decoded and also you'll find that throughout the world everybody is checking these a across very closely and we understand over the weekend there was also

a similar incident with the same type of boeing plane a cargo plane over the netherlands i mean it's rather bizarre that you could have this type of accident happen the same weekend the same plane what does that tell us about these engines. well these engines are state of the arts they have signs its fans fans inside off color which is very unusual in its it is peculiar to this type of engine not only the solid these ones are hollow and what scenes of how. one has fractured long fractured right. and that is actually knocked into another one that pushed. through the side fairing and then through the the front cowl and so these bits of the engine were detached and they fell into the neighborhood as we've heard luckily. but that's the problem with that

meanwhile the engine is still operating normally with flames coming out of it that you got back to denver airport yeah and luckily no one was hurt in the engine expert julian bray it's always been very it's good to talk with you we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you here make peace with nature that is the call from the united nations environment assembly tonight representatives from nearly 200 countries are meeting virtually to address urgent environmental issues most pressing our global warming pollution and protecting nature. and the district of nairobi environmental activists someone a man and his youth group are planting trees for the kind that instead of waiting for politicians to take action the trees have all been donated and the work is voluntary. they've got to go big things do big things you can do a small thing but don't do nothing that is the worst thing about. the united

nations would like to see more people plant trees and join the fight against environmental pollution. the amount of competition produced worldwide has doubled in the past 10 years according to a new report by the un environment program. bio diversity is also under threat around a 1000000 animal and plant species face extinction and the ongoing climate crisis is having serious consequences the un environmental organization has called it a war against nature and strongly advised as the world to make peace the 2 day meeting is taking place online rather than at the u.n. headquarters in nairobi due to the coronavirus pandemic one of the most important questions will be what will happen to the many billions of euros from the global code that 908 found as ever well we are faced was a choice we can all old economic and social structures was traditional economic recovery or we can and fast stable susa

future. germany had already committed an additional $68000000.00 euros last year to support developing countries during the pandemic. in iceland the effects of climate change are plain to see melting ice has resulted in radical changes to the islands famous landscape science is where they are now they are sounding the alarm over the pace of global warming and its effects on the country's glaciers they fear that iceland is approaching a glacier free future the beauty of. the glacier lagoon is breathtaking. baby icebergs balled up out of the water it's as though time has stood still and we're seeing the earth as it was in the great ice age. but appearances can deceive the lagoon is less than a century old and it's expanding every year because of global warming the lagoon

is filled with water and noting from the brave democrats get when you know what is happening here. you have a lot of us and you know well it's it's very beautiful. it's the glacier is paying. sniveled good moon sun and other glaciologists explain that the glacier is retreating rapidly leaving deep gorges which fill up with its melt water 10 years ago they claimed she was here and i just walked here. and that's the surface of the ice here so i remember it very clearly the little has increased fourfold since the late 1970 s. but those are quite quite different from on this for 2 years i think the power. gone back about 2 kilometers. and even not growing but also

being. less and less. melting has left holes inside the ice caves where we can see the ice stripping away. if global warming isn't tackled this huge ancient plaisir will disappear over the next few 100 years through. and we have been more and after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight easing england out of the coronavirus lockdown we'll be right back.

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