oh. this is deja vu news live from berlin hundreds of nigerian schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in the northwest of the country have been bred least local leaders say that they secured their freedom despite many obstacles being placed in their path. also coming up in $21000.00 the secretly filmed video brought down the government of austria now the man responsible is in a girl in prison and fighting actually addition to vienna our correspondent found out why he fears becoming the victim of political persecution and new travel

restrictions come into force between parts of germany and france says corona virus infections increase in one border area doubled limiting the flow of people help to contain the spread of the disease. and it's not just again between gladbach and dortmund this time it's a balancing act for a coach about to leave one club to take a job with the other. i'm sorry kelly walked into the program will begin with breaking news hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in northwest nigeria last week have been released government authorities say that the girls are safe and well and on government premises the students were abducted from their boarding school by an armed gang last friday government officials had been in talks with the kidnappers known. as bandits they

say that these bandits in some far state often kidnap for ransom money and to press for the release of their members held in prison it is nigeria's 4th mass abduction in less than 3 months and has sparked anger against the government. and let's hear now from some tara state's police commissioner. says the condition of those of her . 14 is for lucy was to be sure she was up there doing this to you know your will to. our plane did it to us. how when we see of your circumstances as employable in and then to school and then getting out of school. and correspondent fred money is following the story for us in sokoto in some far state close to where these girls were kidnapped fred tell us what more do we know about the release of these girls. yeah yes. we know that it's the numbers 200 done 7

to 9 girls so it's not to hundreds as have been teen girls as we pointed out so which means that they're saying that this is day to your number of girls that we're up ducted initially not 300 done 17. another thing that came as most of the times prison he doesn't react so fast that this morning he was one of the people already acted and he said that he joins. the 5 minis afflicted 5 meters and the people of zamfara out for their out freedom of these girls and he did promise that his government will bring an end to these abductions so that's that's what has been the reaction on the parents' house so happy at this moment goals to going through make the call to cops to see if they are fine and

then that there will be days today are 5 days and how are those families reacting fred. of course they're happy this is great news for for them i mean they have been spending 3 place nights about 4 or 5 nights without having any information about their daughters we are talking about girls who are between 12 to 1818 years they're very young and the parents couldn't imagine how that what kind of life they're leaving it sort of this is great news to the parents and the people of zion for us didn't he tell his friend money on the story for us thank you. international pressure is growing on me on mars filling military to stop it stanley crackdown on pro-democracy protesters foreign ministers from southeast asian countries are holding talks with the

military junta today in an attempt to tackle the crisis police opened fire to disperse protesters around the country on tuesday according to witnesses security forces have stepped up their response to demonstrators in recent days using tear gas and rubber bullets the u.n. says at least 18 protesters were killed on sunday protesters are calling for a return to democracy after the military seized power a month ago. or earlier i spoke with protester min nini in young gone and i asked him how he feels about demonstrating amid this increase in violence as we start a protest that will lead but actually the military have credit dollar people but i mean military. but i'll tell you know they. did listen i. know a lot well i want to be. dangerous because they didn't you know why. we are fighting. a lot of journalist and going to bomb

a standing by with the view from kuala lumpur so they've just tell us about the situation in myanmar which we know the you know well you've covered it for many many years foreign ministers from neighboring countries the aussie and a group there they're set to hold talks with the junta in myanmar today why is this meeting so controversial. you know so i'm calling some of us are basically saying that i'm talking to the generals and the representative of the generals is giving legitimacy to a military government that is illegitimate and they should nothing gaging in any conversations with the military because they're saying they just don't deserve it but some of the 4 and the other i should say clued in that group of people opposed to having conversations that include the military is a group of ousted myanmar lawmakers who say hey you should be talking to us but the foreign ministers have been saying look we have to engage with the military that ignoring them is not going to help us get to

a solution to this problem is just going to isolate them and they're going to continue on their path so the only way to come up with a workable solution is to give the military generals a seat at the table but how much influence can they really have on these generals so it is something you bring out there because while western pressure sanctions from the u.s. really is not going to have much impact on the general's decision making me m.r. the generals included valued their membership in the so seats in the southeast asian nations they value that membership more than they value their membership in the united nations so the generals will certainly listen to what has to say but agin is generally been a toothless organization now short term the best we can hope for margin is that they can get the generals to commit to no more deadly force on the protesters of the generals commit to that and actually stick with it that would be a short term accomplishment but long term project that help come up with some sort of workable solution that all sides can agree on is going to be

a huge undertaking because right now both sides are showing little room for compromise on their demands it's clear dave that protesting is becoming more dangerous meantime on the ground when you look at the situation there amid a crackdown that's been happening in the past days tell us a little bit more about how that is impacting resistance efforts. yes so you see some of the protesters are out there now they've got some sort of makeshift protection some of them are wearing construction hardhats goggles that you can buy a hardware store and they've got sort of makeshift shields but you know against live rounds i'm not sure how much protection that's really going to provide which is why a lot of the demonstrators they've written on their arms they've written their blood type and the contact information for their next of kin these demonstrators they realize how dangerous this is not only from the number of people who died on sunday. but also they know the who to in past years when they show no hesitation to gun down hundreds of demonstrators at

a time on the streets but some of these demonstrators have said if necessary they are willing to die for this cause because they believe if they do not stand up to this military government now and fight back against those who they believe that any hope of having a true democracy in this country will be lost for at least another generation that sense that sense of resolve is really incredible to witness journalists joining us with the latest on the situation in myanmar thank you. phil let's get a look at some other stories making news u.n. secretary general antonio good ted edge says that he is disappointed that only $1700000000.00 have been pledged at the donor conference for yemen he had hoped to raise more than twice that amount to help people facing starvation 6 years of war in yemen have created the world's worst humanitarian disaster. the by the administration is defending its decision not to go after saudi arabia's crown prince for the death of u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi a white house press secretary pointed to precedent and the need to recalibrate the

relationship with a politically important ally 80 classified report revealed that prince mohammed bin some man likely approved can show just killing in 2018 hours. former prince president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling a court in paris sentenced him to 3 years in jail 2 of them suspended sarkozy his lawyer says that he will appeal the time of action i eman responsible for a secretly filmed video that brought down the austrian government in 2019 is making a final bid to avoid extradition from germany the video appeared to show the leader of austria's far right freedom party offering government contracts to russia in exchange for political funding for the man behind this video julian age says that he will be persecuted if forced to return to his native austria is on me and as if

spoke with him in the berlin prison where he is being held. it was this covert recording that brought down austria's governing coalition the man on the couch soon to be vice chancellor heinz christiane's to discuss his plans with a wealthy russian to buy out a major austrian newspaper for political advantage. when the video was published by german media in 2090. straka was forced to resign and the chancellor called new elections it was a political earthquake to be. going to the video had been a set up the russian had been an actress and the man who arranged the sting remained unnamed. in december however the alleged producer of the video was arrested in berlin and is being held in this jail a whistleblower to some conspirator to others yulian age faces extradition charges

that appear to be unrelated to the so-called abuse if air cocaine trafficking an allegation based on the testimony of 2 witnesses. speaking to the w. in prison mr h. said the case against him is politically motivated. if all you need to lock someone up is 2 people with questionable reputations and strange statements and you can lock up anyone you want to absolutely anyone and that's in austria which already has autocratic tendencies. said in a b.z. he pictured having a system like or bonds hungry for being honest austria isn't so far away from that anymore he says. mr h. was also charged with making an illegal recording but a berlin court ruled that the video did not break the law mr h. believes the separate cocaine charge is being used to punish him for making the video while only appearing to be unrelated. the berlin justice department says it

has no authority to get involved in an extradition case. left wing member of the german parliament believes germany should take a stronger position though you know it was there. i think we ought to look very very closely at the motives for this extradition request and whether we want to comply with it. or whether that would set a totally wrong tone in terms of intimidating those who expose wrongdoing. or i believe exposing wrongdoing like this is extremely important and that should be kept in mind in this case. without an exceptional intervention from german authorities really an age might soon face a judge in vienna a city where his name is political dynamite. and let's bring in 8 of his on in s.f.

who filed that report i mean as we mentioned you met with julian h. in jail he says that this cocaine charge is is trumped up is there evidence to support him. well his suspicion on that account is definitely speculation and he admits that but on the other hand there is not much hard proof of the cocaine charge so the prosecution's evidence is based on just witness testimony and both of these people are people that knew yulian age and one of whom was already convicted of giving false statement against un age neither of whom was convicted of selling drugs so there's no cocaine no white powder so to speak no video evidence no hard proof now at u.n.h. is lawyers allege that this was this is kind of thrown out the wall to see if it would stick so this charge seemingly unrelated to the b.z.

affair is actually totally related in the sense that prosecutors want to get him in front of a court now it's interesting too that with a cocaine charge in on an international arrest warrant the court in berlin does not have to look to see if the case has merit they only have to look to see whether or not the charge would warrants an extradition in this case drug trafficking is a charge that would warrant extradition ok so it looks like at least there might be a higher likelihood that he would be coming back to australia there's a big debate about whether or not he's a whistleblower or a conspirator tell us a little bit more about that. well you in ages lawyers have drawn parallels between him and julian songe the founder of wiki leaks who was sought by the u.s. government for leaking sensitive top secret documents but he was ultimately arrested on sexual assault charges now ulinich his lawyers draw the parallel here

because they say that this is a tactic that is often used to get whistleblowers by. coming up with unrelated crimes now that being said there's a big difference between a whistleblower and a journalist on the one hand and these affair on the other i say a big difference but some people are arguing obviously over the technicalities here the abuse affair the difference here is that you in age allegedly did not just stumble upon a conversation he set that conversation up but if this cocaine charge as yulian age alleges was thrown out the wall to see if it would stick was a device to get him sent back to austria that would nevertheless be a violation of his rights and claiming that a court in berlin as well as the court of vienna have already ruled that that making the video was not a crime i mean it has actually just

a very very briefly did he mention anything to you about his motivation for making the video well he said that he was not motivated in the beginning by any political motivations he got into it as a job he was working as a private detective and was hired to investigate stauffer but as he became involved he was looking at how political corruption in the austrian government needed to be exposed and so that's why he said he ultimately took that risk because he is i mean assess on the story for us thank you. well new restrictions along the french german border come into force today and a move to contain the spread of the coronavirus workers commuting across the border will now have to present a negative p.c.r. test to be able to travel in france's moselle region which shares a border with germany the corona virus has been spreading more rapidly than in the rest of france there's growing concern over the spread of the more dangerous south african variant for example did abuse barbara bizzle went to the border region to

find out more. this year to offer you feel they have been no plays and no music since last year like venues everywhere instead it's been turned into a somewhat unusual vaccination center in the town's mayor who is also a doctor is impatient to get going. on trolls for cross border workers. but it's not through tightening travel borders that we will get on top of the virus. is through. the region has finally received some extra doses of vaccine because the infection rate remains highly with $300.00 new cases per 100000 citizens every week and dr clooney is ready to pitch in for the 1st 3 words what. right left arm it doesn't matter but why does he think his area is being struck so badly.

because the change of heart. is a portal from kewl view the border town of schengen is just 20 minutes away when people move seamlessly from france to germany to luxembourg and back every day what worries authorities everywhere is the rise of the so-called south african mutation and their french part of was it. the south african predominant here than in paris where it's the opposite the english mutation. the outer red curve here shows the south african mutation but can this virus be stopped by further measures at the borders pretty. close to. scientifically something effective. citizens however seem largely ready to accept daily life become even more

complicated because who would actually do what i was going to say for people who aren't. germany globally really difficult. to put out maybe believes the epidemic has already taken hold and it's rising why haven't they done it earlier. it's also normal when people are being fed up with. in the regional capital metz the mayor had feared a total border closure because it would have extremely severe consequences to block everything there will be more controls it will be restrained but maybe it will be necessary in any case the main mistake in the pandemic he things has been made in paris so. we are very disappointed with the slowness of vaccinations. being to move you dr cony wants to personally change that and get his citizens vaccinated as quickly as possible. and let's bring in barbara who you saw in that

report a bit earlier she's joining us now from brussels barbara how are these border checks going to work. there are going to be checks by police but not every car will be stopped by maybe like every 5th or every tends car because the problem in this region is that it is really warm and it has grown together economically throughout the last decades and about $100000.00 people are crossing the borders which affectionately known existence other than just a sign every day so huge amount of movement there so it's very difficult for the police and they're just going to pick out cars but the problem is for the cross border workers they have to present a fresh p.c.r. test every 2nd day already long lines were forming yesterday and front of those testing stations and then there's not enough of them and people are sort of desperate because they said what if i can do it in time can i go to work tomorrow morning so it is creating

a lot of problems for people there and as we have heard there is doubt whether this could help creating a lot of problems also generating a lot of criticism we have to say the e.u. commission has been critical to talk of this a little bit more about how this is impacting the principle of free movement in the block. that is the main problem here brussels of course is trying to defend the area the area free movement within the european union and saying you know you have to be more creative you have to think about other things than slamming the borders closed now in the case of france they did try that they did talk for about a week both sides and said done and said now what can we do and they came up was the sort of half solutions of putting putting the pressure on the workers and the people crossing the border and saying you have to get tested all the time. everybody's things that that is not quite fair and it's going to slow things down considerably but for the e.u.

on the one hand they say the member countries of course are trying to to stem the the rise of the infection and on the other hand we need to protect our economy and the free boarders and that somehow doesn't seem to go together very well and ultimately the goal you know as you've mentioned there is to stop the spread of these highly contagious new variants barbara why do they think that this move in particular could work. because you can't really catch it i mean there is no such thing as a border that will stop a virus people are moving people are going to a shop across the street which is on the other side of the border and maybe somebody is infectious there and it's spreading from there now how will you do this so many see this is a political gesture is something that politicians have to do because they'd need to be seen to to be active to try to manage this but the point is that many in the area moralist everybody we've talked to say you have to vaccinate

people this is the only thing and sort of checking people at the border that's just a stopgap measure a bit of a sore spot for the e.u. right now barbara so thank you so much for that view from brussels and bring us up to date on these new border check measures we appreciate it. as have a look at some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemics. the world health organization's emergencies director says that it is unrealistic to think that the pandemic will be over by the end of this year the global number of new infections is on the rise again for the 1st time in 7 weeks u.s. media reports that former president donald trump and wife melania received their coronavirus shots before leaving the white house both contracted and recovered from covert 19 in the run up to the presidential election and health experts in china say that the vaccine rollout there is slow because it has the virus largely under

control officials say that they aim to inoculate 40 percent of the population by jews. the quarter finals of the german cup are taking place this weekend one of the matches on tuesday night features the battle of the brissie as london gladbach 1st is dormant the game takes on added spice because gladbach coach marco rose will be taking on the team with that he is set to lead in starting this summer. for a coach facing your future employer is never an easy task but glad box mark otos is doing his best to keep the attention off himself ahead of their german cup clash with dortmund. was keep in kind so as and this is in no way about marco toes this is about the team you are changing rooms brucia mentioned a lot about so much and so there is no exceptional pressure on me. also given that it was. the last time the 2 locked horns back in late january blood put

4 goals past dortmund in a convincing just league of victory. but coach rosario's a lot has happened since then. it's a sore we've kind of been going in opposite directions dortmund have found their form with 3 straight wins one in the champions league and 2 in the bundesliga. whereas we just haven't been getting results and. so now mark otoh is a has to try to reverse that trend against none other than his future employer. painting by britain's wartime prime minister winston churchill has changed hands at a london auction for some 7000000 pounds churchill painted the tower of the could to be a mosque at the 1943 casa blanca conference in march morocco he stayed an extra day to finish the painting then he sent it to his u.s.

ally president franklin roosevelt. as a birthday present that the picture was later acquired by actress angelina jolie who has now decided to sell it. up next it is close up on the deputy news i'm sarah kelly and our land thank you so much for watching.

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