this is d. w. news live from berlin ne unmarked police opened fire to disperse protesters in yangon. the dramatic scenes the latest sign of tension between the military establishment and pro-democracy demonstrators who say they will not back down also coming up european union leaders agree on the need for a vaccination passport as they look to ease restrictions on travel and tourism but chancellor merkel warns it could be months before a new program isn't placed. amnesty international says it has evidence of the worst

atrocities yet against civilians in ethiopia is to grow it reaches its own soldiers from eritrea we're told and. the heart stopping moment that a mother throws her children from a burning building and hope that they're caught by neighbors. i'm simply so much going to thank you for joining us we'll get to our top stories in a moment but 1st we have some breaking news coming in from nigeria gunmen have adopted several 100 schoolgirls there in what is the latest mass kidnapping in the region now they have duction happened at a boarding school in the town of john gave it in some state in the early hours of friday eyewitnesses have told local media that hundreds of armed men attacked

security guards before they took the girls in recent months have really armed criminal gangs have been ramping up attacks on schools and kidnapping to collect ransom let's go right to date of you see why so interesting standing by for us in abuja why so what more do we know at this point. well discuss abducted and leave friday morning in the augusta country school in jan get it town which is on. government president what we're hearing is di nigeria and i meet pos nell and i does pretty foresees dia ha press in these. trying to see how to construct them from would be in far away into the forest into the bushes with this school. it's not yet confirmed i spoke to someone who said they have people who do. over 400 books but what authorities are seeing

now is that pretty 100 us the news develops you said bandits i mean do we know who these kidnappers are and what they want. what you chew and it is odd to hits men that have been a pretty you know zone for a husband if you for many years since the beginning of these bandits or gunmen who i ordinarily hets man but is now spreading to so many people that i get into each day i do mind is kidnapping for ransom doctors look to see for now but when it is time attacking screws it's like don't know christian is changing because initially did just attacking village and see who did come pick so why 20 into schools i did trying to change their operation to look like what dave book will have them have been doing in india not east of did calm and in through trade

to dam this have questions that have been raised which still daughter to school not come out and see that it's clear link between them and boko haram but their operation has changes and even though we kind of. brandish an issue and that does not automatically gunmen does not but not. headsmen usually played leader 5 to us for. a while there have been several large scale kidnappings recently in nigeria what is behind this development. this was in the insecurity is pulled back t. is but is justice is corruption because one of the nigerian newspaper has infiltrated i was able to get access to a group. that did been abandoned for a long injustice that the government didn't take care of them when the time.

on call's and she fled into canada we cut to rust and nobody's doing anything so somebody whose life is in decline when you don't give him what you don't give him he's on head cut cut to riyadh and what else is he going to do and he is being trained by. gunmen in through traditional days from libya down to the. ok to nigeria to the judge to nigeria and you see stretch line of forest right from up to design for all to nigeria. will have to leave it there why so interest with the very latest developments reporting from jeff thank you so much. and. the human rights organization amnesty international says it has added and that eritrean troops massacred hundreds of people in ethiopia northern region last

november it used witness accounts and satellite images to document the atrocities the report suggests that eritrean troops carried out war crimes in their attempts to take control from rebels in the region. this family way they've escaped the fighting in ethiopia. and to found shelter and sit on. w. news met them back in november when they just arrived. hoping that's not a plane or we cried and our children cried with us and they wept in front of us so i think just as shooting started while we were eating we just had to leave. even in . their home in ethiopia has seen almost 4 months of fighting between local rebel forces and the theater in military the latter allegedly receiving support by eritrean troops gaining an accurate picture of events in tikrit has been difficult to impossible journalists have been blocked from entering the region phone and

internet services were at times cut completely and humanitarian organizations have struggled to get in. in early december un human rights chief michel basher lay said there is an urgent need for independent monitoring of the human rights situation in the t cry region for all necessary measures to protect civilians and for accountability for violations that came about 2 weeks too late for this woman and some 800 others in ethiopia as holy city of axim that's how many people are thought to have died in an alleged massacre near an ancient orthodox church a recent investigation by the associated press found the perpetrators were soldiers from neighboring eritrea and a new report by amnesty international backs this up the human rights group says it's collected evidence that ira trained soldiers went on a rampage in acts i'm on the 28th of november after an earlier attack on them by a small group of rebel fighters knesset mary's church witness accounts describe

them roaming the streets and shooting at fleeing civilians with automatic weapons and precision rifles i saw the people being shot on the ground when they were running approximately 10 people or more all of them young men everyone was scared and run away. eritrea's government has denied its forces were involved in any massacre after the a.p. investigation was published the country's information minister called the story a horrendous lie relevant ethiopian institutions had long ascertained the utz of fallacy of the story he posted on twitter fighting in tikrit is said to be ongoing and it will be hard to verify what really happened in axum and late november but in light of amnesty international's new allegations the eritrean government may face fresh questions about its involvement in this bloody conflict that's playing out away from the eyes of the world. riot police have opened

fire to disperse protesters in me and mars' largest city young gone witnesses say they used guns and stun grenades. there were no immediate reports of casualties the protesters have been taking to the streets and that since the elected government was overthrown in a military coup on february 1st the military has now officially an old the results from last november's election earlier this month it replaced the election commission which had ruled the party of one a landslide victory. let's get the latest on this story now we can speak to journalist ayman ton in young gone could you tell us more about what is happening right now in yangon. so what we've been seeing today is. police have decided to target protesters especially at the major junctions where we've seen massive protests every day and really what we're seeing in yangon is an

escalation of force and a continuation of the sort of force that was seen in smaller cities outside and you know where their it's. their puppet and it's much more likely that there are ethnic minorities living in the area and so we've heard reports. and rubber bullets being used you know as as they were sent there there's no. casualties as of now but dozens have been arrested and media has also been targeted including those who are wearing press jackets as well as helmets and at least one journalist was arrested today so there's another escalation you're saying at the same time the military is now officially an old and the election results from november where on sunset she and her party had won by a landslide what does that mean. it's unclear right now what that means so that you know election commission the new one pointed by the military invited all political parties to join that meeting where the results were in all and a little less a little more than half joking and so it remains to be seen how much. influence and

persuasion that the committee representing the elected officials that has formed as sort of militia organization in the. house in terms of other parties how much other parties are willing to go along with you know it and whether or not sort of the people are willing to accept and eventually work with the military pointed leadership as well as local ministry theirs and on sunset she actually hasn't been seen since the military took power so what do we know about her whereabouts at this point. it's completely unclear where she's being held she has had some contact with her party and her lawyers are that's where we're kind of hearing about the ongoing very few details of her own trial but you know her lawyer said a few days ago no news is good news it sounds like she's likely to be in good

health or at least you know the same health condition she was before her arrest but we are not where she's being held journalist in town speaking to us from yangon thank you for that update. thank you for having me. let's check in on some other stories from around the world u.s. president joe biden has authorized his 1st military action since taking office the u.s. air force launched strikes in syria targeting facilities used by militia groups backed by iran secretary of defense lloyd austin said he was confident they had hit the correct targets syrian authorities say at least 17 people were killed. russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been moved from a moscow jail to an undisclosed detention center his lawyers say he has likely been taken to a penal colony that only was sentenced to 2 years labor for breaching his parole while recovering in germany from a poisoning attack. hong kong has started the covert 1000 vaccination rollout for its 7 and a half 1000000 residents people over 60 and health care workers are prioritized to

receive the shots 1st vaccines from china societal back are the 1st to be administered and kong is also struck deals with astra zeneca and biotech pfizer. now the european union has agreed to develop a kopek 19 vaccine passport that could ease border crossings and allow people freedom to travel again e.u. leaders met for a virtual summit to discuss coordination they're already under pressure over a lagging vaccine rollout germany's chancellor says it will be at least 3 months before a vaccine passport system is up and running. with slovaks nations coronavirus variance border chaos and summer holidays at risk there was no shortage of talking points at this virtual e.u. summit during a 4 hour video call leaders try to find a united way forward in the fight against the pandemic the pressure is intense concerns can't just be waved aside with the e.u. lagging behind them vaccination numbers and new variants spreading rapidly across

the continent the b 117 is by now in all member states but one the south african variant is in 14 member states and the brazilian variant in 7 so there's a lot of challenges ahead of us apart from ramping up vaccine manufacturing and easing production bottlenecks the e.u. will put more energy into detecting these more contagious and dangerous mutations through a dedicated program. with spring on its way tourism has made it back to the agenda greek prime minister caucus was one of the 1st leaders to call for an e.u. wide vaccination certificate in the tempted to east travel restrictions and save the summer holiday season that's something all leaders could get behind but how and when exactly this vaccine passport could be rolled out is uncertain. as we expected to be done by summer i am not

a programmer so i cannot make any guarantees like i cannot guarantee vaccine deliveries but the political requirements are to reach this goal within the next few months. but for the moment member states have agreed that tourism and all non-essential travel is not an option. but are brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena is following the latest on the story for us hi alexandra is it at all clear when we could see such passports. well it seems we could see passports within the next 3 weeks that is what german chancellor angela merkel told reporters today even though as we just saw in the report she didn't want to give us a specific date because as she stressed there are still a lot of technical details that they are working on in berlin but also in brussels the european commission would like to see an e.u. wide big scene certificate but if that's not possible they want to make sure that

national certificates are going to be recognized in every member state so certificates are definitely coming and this is progress compared to what we saw at previous summits critics however say that there are still only baby steps under take us through this if you have one of these passports this summer just that mean that you can travel freely in the e.u. like travel used to be well that's of course the key issue here however it depends on whom you ask when you talk to a member states such as austria or greece who are very eager to get tourism back they would tell you of course dad is what it's all about people who have been vaccinated or are immune to cope with 19 can travel or maybe even can go to a restaurant or to a concert of a member states or skeptical most notably friends friends is warning that we don't have any evidence that people who have been vaccinated cannot spread the virus the

french president mark or also said that there are not enough experience now that the young people are still waiting to be in that collated that we cannot allow we allow lay on people to be discriminated against so this discussion is still going on however there is an understanding that such i.d.'s are coming no matter what. yeah xander the vaccine roll of that you mentioned it is still slow and lagging behind here so what have you leaders said that they want to do about that well this trust once again that anything that's necessary has to be done many of them were apparently not very happy with what the european commission is doing cold on the european commission to accelerate their efforts to speed up the rollout to rev up their production and or the law from the law and the head of the commission was so to speak in the hot seat during this meeting and she tried to call everyone down

saying that distributions are increasing that the next quarter is looking better but of course leaders are under severe pressure to show progress in managing the crisis are brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena reporting there thank you as the e.u. grapples with that sputtering vaccine rollout one of its members hungary has looked elsewhere this week it became the 1st e.u. nation to start using china's sino farm back seen non e.u. member serbia has also turned to the chinese vaccine but it's not the 1st time beijing's influence has had an impact on the balkans linda few found out more in her series of reports on china's gateway to europe the new silk road. this is no children's model toy railway.

for the. few who is an engineer overseeing the belgrade to budapest route at the china railway headquarters visitors are shown serbia's showcase model we has traveled all over the world for the new silk road project. over the past few years serbia has blossomed into china's most favored balkan partner beijing has granted 10000000000 euros worth of loans to serbia more than they've handed out to any other country in the region. chinese built bridges and roads that the europeans wouldn't help with. the chinese are like a gift from heaven they not only gave us loans they also did most of the work as well. who you prosing. but the new silk road project has created hardly any local jobs even the construction is largely being

done by a chinese workforce that's been a typical feature of the belt and growth initiative china even imports its own builders the serbian opposition criticizes this stating that most of the contracts with china are not transparent. i'm sure that no one here has a problem with foreign investment but we do have a problem with corruptions when far more money is spent than it should be. specific all should know all this and. this also applies to chinese money spent on observation technology in belgrade produced by tech giant huawei. you see them on the ground months used for counting objects including people and also for face recognition they all have face recognition technology embedded. the cameras were installed practically overnight and without any statistical evidence of a rise in crime or a public debate activists have counted more than $1000.00 cameras in belgrade

already china is one of those those countries they did not recognize privacy as a core of human human rights and the comprehensive of the right or of privacy itself is not the same so for that reason this is this is always questionable whether whether we share information of says sensitive nature with with such companies police and the serbian interior ministry have ignored the interview request serbian chinese cooperation is continuing to grow to one way just opened a new innovation center in belgrade pushing digitization across the entire balkan region. and for the full 2 part documentary china's gateway to europe the new silk road go to our you tube channel at you tube dot com slash documentary now in armenia months of political tensions are coming to

a head thousands of rallied in the capital yet of on in support of prime minister nicole passion young after he accused the military of an attempted coup but those against him also gathered thousands of people to call for his resignation the prime minister has been a divisive figure after armenia's defeat in a conflict with its neighbor as or by john last year. an embattled leader holding on to power for now armenia's top generals called on prime minister nicole push to resign on thursday following months of protests but this time supporters of come out in force stepping in front of the crowd in the capital you're of on pushing young denounce the army's move as an attempted coup. to kick out all the army must do its job too. the army cannot look back the army cannot interfere in political process is the army must of by only the people and the political power

chosen by the people. you ever hear of it leave the rat pack i describe a camera i. put the opposition also took to the streets in numbers. they pressed home the generals demand. there was a war that we lost shamefully and the prime minister who was responsible for that has not left his post and since that day the public it's been demanding his resignation. he was. pushing young strobel stem from last year's war without a job over the region of nagorno-karabakh. in weeks of fighting armenia lost control of large parts of the disputed region and of as a beige on the turret really linking of the exclave to armenia thousands of armenians had to flee their homes and the army suffered heavy casualties. crushing defeat feels the anger on the streets of europe where the protesters have set up

for the long haul. a former olympic women's gymnastics coach in the u.s. has killed himself just hours after being charged with sexual assault human trafficking and other crimes john getter coached the women's national team to a gold medal in 2012 but on thursday the state of michigan filed 24 charges against him that could have carried years in prison if convicted the olympic teams dr larry nasser had previously convicted of sexual abuse of female athletes in a case that rocked the u.s. and global sports. there's been violence near sunset boulevard in los angeles where a pop star's dog dog walker has been shot and 2 dogs stolen the prize the french bulldogs belong to singer lady gaga police say the dog walker tried to fight off 2 gunman but one shot him with a pistol the man is expected to fully recover from his injuries lady gaga is known

to be extremely protective of her dogs she's offering half a $1000000.00 for their safe return. now to the remarkable story of 4 children being thrown from a burning building in istanbul their mother dropped her kids one by one from an upper story window while neighbors gathered to catch them. a mother's love put to the hardest to test. a turkish woman had to throw her 4 kids from a 3rd floor window in order to save them from the flames. residents stretched out a blanket so they could catch them. they were moments of terror but the children made it out safely local media reported they were in good condition. anyone who has kids

will feel a lot more profoundly about this so this is a well there was great despair there was one of those kids that wasn't able to jump down was about to faint. i broke down after i saw. his homelessness it was heartbreaking little time got no one lost their lives a little. the incident happened at a 5 story building in the european side of istanbul. firefighters later assisting bridge the flames sparked by an electrical panel. the mother and 4 other people in the building where else are rescued a potential tragedy averted who will. all right up next the airlines industry has taken a huge hit due to the pandemic they say it is time to find solutions to get people flying again monica jones will have a business in a moment don't forget that you can always get the latest news and information on our website dot com and the latest headlines i felt us on twitter actually that you

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