on t.w. . this is g.w. newsline from berlin tonight more banks and insurance in more countries gone as president becomes the 1st person to receive a corona virus vaccine under the kovacs scheme it aims to supply poor countries with free vaccines also coming up tonight former french president nicolas sarkozy a sentence to jail after a 10 day trial the paris court has found the 66 year old guilty of corruption and influence peddling and a shortfall in funding to avert famine in yemen as the u.n.

a field raises less than half of the $3800000000.00 talk. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome the president of ghana. and his wife have become the world's 1st recipients of a coronavirus vaccine from kovacs now co banks is the global plan to procure and distribute free inoculations to poor countries a 76 year old received the astra zeneca vaccine live on television today is the 1st country to receive vaccines from kovacs and plans to begin vaccinating its population on tuesday nearly 24 other countries will receive supplies next week. as well as battling a 2nd wave of the infection health authorities in guyana are also finding disinform

ation about the safety of vaccines the president said he hoped getting the jab would encourage others to do the same it's importance. i sent the example for this vaccine to see. if there was to have been some that everybody. if you comfortable want to be next it is important that everybody. is that's needed and that's all part of this going to our correspondents. covering gone as kovacs vaccine rollout he joins us from the capital so alan scott has received 600000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine via the kovacs initiative for a population of about 30000000 what sort of effect is that going to have. is very hard to cotch really because that contra until now has not been able to secure

vaccines to vaccinate the population so the 600000 those things are going to be important and efforts to fight the pandemic already got us also working hard to secure some of the boxes from russia and so while that also comes and helps to question at the effort so these vaccines are not a core vox initiative very important to help the country contain the current spread of the virus we know that the president is obviously very keen to spread the message about the safety of vaccines here's a quote from what he recently said on television he said taking the vaccine will not alter your d.n.a. it will not embed a tracking device in your body neither will it cause infertility in women or men so i said how embedded are conspiracy theories about the corona virus vaccines they are where you are i mean where do they come from. so these

theories have been there since the pandemic broke people thought that it was far away from from the continent and so really is not something i was going to hit them once it got to africa and was that this was really been done to wipe the population and so these theories have been there until the vaccine came and we have people who really don't believe in vaccines and so they're actually feed on this and spread it across social media so you will not have a particular group actually accepting responsibility for these but if they are is all over the place and you see many guy news on willing to take the vaccine. has there been growing. these conspiracy theories that are being spread. here it has been growing and that it's why the president has to come out to see that these vaccines are not to the d.n.a. of people and his will and he's going to take it and which he did today to prove to

citizens that indeed the vaccine is safe for them to take it is because this these theories are there and it's widespread and that's our com he came out to a show that he decided to use the minds of his citizens to ensure that you go in for the vaccine to help actually reduce infection rates in the country currently. thank you. well here in europe former french president nicolas sarkozy is facing a 3 year prison sentence a court in paris today found sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling his lawyer says he plans to appeal the conviction sarkozy has been embroiled in several corruption investigations since his presidency ended in 2012. nicolas sarkozy leaves court a convicted man a spectacular fall from grace for the former president once the most powerful man

in france. the court heard how so cozy told his lawyer to offer a magistrate a cushy job in exchange for information about an inquiry into his campaign finances judges found him guilty of corruption and handed down a 3 year custodial sentence the prosecution said verdict was never in doubt so i did. it would have been impossible to have an of a decision. the supplement citizens should be reassured rivera know double standards in france and the digital every is independent that he's. in a post on instagram sarkozy's wife called the verdict unfounded and unjustified and said her husband was determined to clear his name the verdict is a blow to sarkozy's plans to relaunch his political career and it puts him on the back foot before he's jew in court again in next week on separate charges that he

overspent in his failed 2012 reelection bid. but it's unlikely the former president will spend a single day in prison 2 years of his sentence was suspended and the judge said sarkozy could spend for remaining year home wearing an l.a. traffic tag. catherine field is a journalist based in paris she joins us now for more good evening to you catherine what has been the reaction to sarkozy's conviction. well bred pretty much depends who you ask his lawyer of course it is said that it is completely out just that there is no evidence and she will launch an appeal of behalf of her client if you speak to members of his political party the republicans they say they are stunned because they cannot believe that this verdict has been handed down they said there was absolutely no evidence and that this should never even have come to court you ask them members present macro's political party republican marsha and they say

they're really plays develop those because it shows that actually for once the courts are doing their job and i'm quoting here one of the members of the methodist party said it's about time that the courts were doing the votes on us and that was out of the public of opinion polls really in the past that came out in that before well being of public opinion what does all of this mean for sarkozy the politician can he ever enter politics again. brant it's very difficult this man has got 2 more court cases pending one of which involves that 2012 failed attempt to get reelected as president questions about overspending and the hidden costs on national election campaign plus his 2007 successful presidential campaign questions there he's up and course again later this year whether or not he received millions of euros from then libyan leader moammar gadhafi so he's got a lot of the just so much legal questions that he's got to answer so i can't see

that they'll be much space for him to be able to go and find a political campaign not only that brand but politics is moved on a lot in front since he left office in 2012 there's a whole new range of would be president in the wings wanting to have a go at throwing president maccarone from the elisei palace so when the french public when they consider sarkozy are they considering a political has been. oh very much so he's a man who not only himself who's been through the course but also a lot of his men who are around him i'm sorry his chief of staff is head of the presidential palace they've told me in some sort of way in trouble with the rules since leaving office so he's a bit of a has been it was fun when he was there you had several wives he had the model wife who did a photo shoot in a red gun on top of the elise a palace those days are gone he's on the back foot he's 66 years old and here in

france that's now a little bit too old to be thinking of getting back into the political arena that's right it seems like a different world sometimes catherine field reporting tonight from paris catherine thank you thank you are here some are some other headlines that we are following for you this hour 2 u.n. human rights experts say russia bears responsibility for the poisoning of opposition leader alexina volley they're calling for an international investigation into the incident as well as the volleys immediate release from prison the kremlin critic is serving a 2 and a half year sentence at a russian penal colony thousands of police and soldiers in the czech republic are enforcing tight new code 19 restrictions banning people from non-essential travel to other countries 500 checkpoints have been set up to help stop the spread of the highly contagious u.k. coronavirus variant the czech republic is currently one of the european union's hardest hit countries. history was made at this year's golden globes for film and

television the 78th edition sold chinese born chloe gel become the 1st woman to take best picture drama for her film nomad land starring frances mcdormand also became only the 2nd woman ever to win best director at the golden globes were a largely virtual event this year. the united states is calling on the african union to intervene in the deepening crisis in ethiopia's region washington has expressed grave concern over report of the trustees and the worsening humanitarian situation amnesty international has accused eritrean forces of killing hundreds of civilians thousands have fled the region many tell harrowing stories of violence stranded in a border town in sudan burdened with traumatic experiences cinema and grim a are both refugees from to grow by the likely never forget the day that soldiers invaded their hometown. but i knew. they shot innocent people

a subtle 12 bodies they took people's belongings and everything we had. all of that left of the clothes on my back on the end. tens of thousands of people fled the ethiopian army is offensive against the provincial government and. reports of atrocities and massacres of civilians followed the how border reception center has been overwhelmed by the flood of refugees there's not enough tents often just plastic sheeting to fend off the searing heat illnesses are rampant and food is scarce some lucky few managed to get bus tickets to refugee camps farther away from the border. but these facilities are also full now the omer a cuba camp is now at twice its planned passage many children here a 2nd in a she hated their mothers are desperate. i thought of him when we arrived here no

one could give us food for the children we didn't have enough to eat either i didn't have any money to buy food at the market this is the highlight of the. fears are now the upcoming rainy season could bury the camp in mud no one's prepared for that here aid workers predict a catastrophe if steps aren't taken quickly. that the positive that has been built is going to be broken that is it is of that if it is going to be booking again and so there would be but to a point where we have to stop supplying them with it so it's from 0 in the coming weeks it's feared tens of thousands more people could flee from ethiopia over the border and to see don one of the world's poorest countries. it is also referred to as the world's worst humanitarian disaster 80 percent of people in yemen are in need of aid and some 16000000 going hungry after years of civil war today the u.n. held an international donor conference for yemen and the results according to the

u.n. secretary general are disappointing you'd hope to raise more than $3800000000.00 to ward off large scale famine but he got a lot less than that less than half only $1700000000.00 in pledges speaking at the conference ramps. said cutting aid is like a death sentence. well i'm joined now by. country director of the united nations development program in yemen he is in the yemeni capital sun-up mr lippman is going to have you on the program the secretary general of the u.n. he has called the outcome of the donor conference today disappointing what will this mean for the people in yemen. well as the us you had hoped to be able to have it mobilize $3800000000.00 from the outset as a good year the secretary said it is

a disappoint to all to just end up with 1.7 disappointing time but we do see it as a down payment for further pledges and disbursements to the u.n. system and other aid workers on the ground you know want to be able to help the great number of desperate yemenis that i couldn't leave needing assistance so badly so what it means is that at the moment you cannot fully scale up our assistance in yemen to feed the 16000000 people that you were referring to that are currently living in the state of hunger you are in in yemen you know what's happening on the ground talk to me a little bit about the humanitarian situation there well it's absolutely devastating if you have about 20000000 yemenis at the moment that are in need of humanitarian assistance and indeed 16000000 people that need emergency food assistance as we speak so we have a looming famine are on the corner that would really cause famine that i think we

have not seen in the world for decades so therefore. the situation is absolutely urgent it's an absolutely desperate and the absolutely need to fun to come forward as soon as possible for us as the international aid community on the ground here in yemen to be able to assist all these yemenis that require so much assistance. at this moment germany has pledged 200000000 euros to the fund raiser but earlier today the german foreign minister heiko mosque he said this and i'm quoting him as we all know no matter how much we give it is not enough the suffering of the people in yemen is manmade there is hope for real improvement only once we succeed in stopping the fighting. so are we any closer to ending the fighting in yemen tonight. well i think we need 3 things here 1st of course the 1st of course we need to find time to stop and come to

a cease fire the 2nd point is that if funding is not coming through we will not have a basis to work towards a peace but at the same time working on peace is absolutely also absolutely important and i think what is encouraging from our perspective is that particularly the newer income by tradition has signaled this they are giving more he says into the peace efforts of the un and also working with the region to ensure that you can get the parties to 2 people to end this terrible war and get on with it you know what assisting people in yemen but also with the very concrete of the country as a whole this was how do you make make make sense of this we've got a contributor today donor countries saudi arabia pledging $430000000.00 it's actually involved in the war in yemen it's also paying to keep the fighting go

well we work with the with all countries that all member states of the u.n. . so the saudis are absolutely crucial for to peace in yemen and this is also i think way all of us including salue and special envoy for yemen looking forward to working with saudi arabia and other members of the coalition to bring this war to an end and to rebuild yemen. the country director of the united nations development program in yemen still is but we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. or me and mars military chief has issued a televised threat to punish protest leaders today one month after overthrowing the democratically elected government the february 1st coup has prompted weeks of rallies and strikes calling for a return to democracy and the weekend saw the body has cracked down yet with at

least 18 people killed. burying the dead after a weekend of violence by security forces fired live rounds at demonstrators in cities across me and ma this muslim woman was shot in the head while crossing the street the 3 think it salutes of the protest movement draped over her coffin a lot of the. protesters were back on the streets on monday undeterred by the crackdown security forces used tear gas on mass here in young gone under the city's rebel bullets were also in use. her are. also rocket you do not find here is a frontline now because i don't want my son to grow up in this evil era and i'm here for our heroes who died yesterday in the protests. calling for their votes to

be respected but the reinstatement of the government of consul c. ci his party won a landslide victory in november as election city has self appeared by video link in court her lawyers say she's now facing 2 more charges including one for publishing internation that may cause alarm her lawyers still have no access to have. video conferencing begins the can with guards has hootie on the other side and the judge presiding judge this site is called we get out here for any access to the court. to look at. the screen for obvious height of. to look at her face. the army crackdown has drawn international condemnation. but simply arrested top politicians who cheat and also the president when meant must be released immediately the rule of law must be respected speak to you but me and mas army chief protestors have

branded a murderer instead violent to punish the protest leader as. yet hundreds of thousands have faced off against the army over the past month. now as the military steps up its response there are fears that more may end up paying the ultimate price in their struggle for freedom. were earlier we spoke with journal was day growing about kuala lumpur malaysia and we asked him what he makes of the additional charges against on song suchi. i mean this put out a statement that was set up before the 2 actually happened as there were thoughts that it might happen that you basically told the public hey do not back down do not accept this military takeover fight for democracy that's what that publicly refers probably refers to but the bottom line is this it is more trumped up ridiculous

charges. suci i mean if you look at some of the charges they have on her they're using in some cases colonial era laws that you can twist and turn to make anything of violation the bottom line here this new military which to me and mark is just taking pages out of the playbook that the old military was used to use they have been fighting. for 30 years and they can beat her in a fair fight the november election is just one example of that where her party won by a landslide and now the generals are coming up with this way to try to use the country's judicial system which is not independent to try to put her away for good that way because they cannot beat her fair and square was journalist de groot about reporting there are dozens of prominent hong kong pro-democracy activists and politicians appeared in court today they are charged with conspiracy to commit subversion many were charged under the new national security law which beijing

imposed last year critics accuse jailing of using the wall to stifle political dissent. flashing the 3 finger hunger games salute hong kong others using the same symbol as fellow democracy campaigners in thailand and minbar. this is one of the biggest protest gathering seen in hong kong in many months the crowds are here to support some of the city's best known activists brought to court on charges of subversion. they were your highlights and here today sacrificed their future for hong kong and maybe this is the last chance to see them or say goodbye that's why it means so much to me it's all that old model that. the activists alleged crime organizing an informal primary election last year the hope was to select pro-democracy candidates to run for legislative council elections every teen matter in much of the world but it took place shortly after

the national security law took effect and for china's rulers it was a threat one they say was manipulated from abroad. a small number of countries are vilifying china by spreading lies about territories including holocaust they're up to their usual tricks of politicizing and weaponize those human rights issues to interfere in other country's internal affairs and we will resist basis. the activists taken to court in these vans today face up to life in prison if convicted . $47.00 individuals being charged. with chinese in hong kong authorities promise that the national security be used in a very narrow sense. it's clear that iraq is not going to be. featuring for 6 more weeks and with a number of foreign contributions the international community can see the results of the hong kong people we want to judge just to be fair to be independent and to

be objective and give them a fair trial. activists are concerned that the court could be pressured to impose severe sentences in a bid to cripple the democracy movement once and for all. hoping for international support. they say home comes last freedoms are at stake. the berlin film festival is always one of the most anticipated events in the german capital's cultural calendar but this year the pandemic in has forced the $1000000000.00 into lockdown the all the ins has been limited to a select group of critics and industry professionals and they'll watch the contenders for the golden bear the a live stream but that will not stop us from bringing you the highlights starting with 2911 inspired offering you need to tell me the truth you need to tell me what happened i can't defend you do you understand that just think of nothing whatever i said. it doesn't matter. a defense lawyer and her client mohamed 2

old slahi from mauritania is in custody in guantanamo he's accused of having aided the terrorists who carried out the 911 attacks but is he really guilty golden globe winner jodie foster place lawyer nancy hollander like the real person the character is based on she also believes in the law. you know how our country is shaped by that how the world. and if there was ever there was anything that made me believe in democracy in the rule of law it's been me. the film copilot is also based on a true story having to do with 911 astley love say yet a seemingly perfect love story but then he becomes one of the terrorists on that fateful day september 11th 2001. was the man she must have asked herself at some point was that a monster could i really have loved a monster how could i do that but on the other hand she knows very well that he was

also lovable. momentum and yet learned a lesson. the film dissects the main character's pain without making her seem naive that makes copilot into a successful illustration of the maxim love is blind even against the backdrop of the terrorist attacks that changed the world. you're watching news live from. back to take you through the day tonight the u.n. pointing the finger at russia.

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