i don't some great country more used to. double trouble we got. to get out of the. this is g.w. news live from berlin and hundreds of nigerian schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in the north west of the country have been released local leaders say that they secure their freedom despite many obstacles being placed in their paths. also coming up at $29.00 he may secretly filmed a video brought down the government of austria now the man responsible is in

a berlin prison and fighting extradition 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 as for run a virus infections increase in one quarter area but will limiting the flow of people help to contain the spread of the disease. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with some breaking news hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped a northwest nigeria last week have been released government authorities say that the girls are safe and well the students were abducted from their boarding school by an armed gang last friday government officials had been in talks with the kidnappers known locally as bandits they say. but the bandits him some forest 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. let's hear now from some forest state's police commissioner through carr says the condition of the. 14 is on the loose who wished to be sure it was out there doing this to get over it will to. our plane did it to us all. when you see if your sub consensus was employable in and then to school and get enough work and correspondent 5 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 279 girls so it's not 200 as have been teen girls as we reported. so which means that they're saying that this is that your number that of girls that we're abducted initially not 370. 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 who you acted and he said that he joins. that defiant is affected 5 movies 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 what has been the reaction on the parents' house so happy at this moment girls as to going through medical checkups to see if they're fine and didn't they

there will be days today are 5 days and how are those families free acting frag. of course they're happy this is great news for for them i mean they have been spending 3 piece nights about 4 or 5 nights without having any information about their dogs we are talking about guards who are between 12 to 1818 the very young and the parents put it in my gene that what kind of life. so this is great news to dependence on the people of zion for students. is fred move on the story for us thank you. international pressure is growing on me on mars ruling military to stop its deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters foreign ministers from southeast asian countries are holding talks with the military junta 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 one month ago earlier i spoke with protester a mini me and young gong and i asked him how he feels about demonstrating amid this increase in violence as we start the protests only actually the military have credit dollars but how many more thank you or yeah but i'll tell you know. listen i want to protest but you know i was all i want to be but here and now it won't dangerous because you know they did it you know why. we are fighting. oh i. and let's get more on the international pressure mounting on the of mars

military i asked journalist david greene about why today's talks between us and foreign ministers and the one temperament that is illegitimate and they should not being gauging in any conversations with the military because they're saying they just don't deserve it but some of the ology 4 and the other i should say included 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 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 they 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 value their membership in the association of 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 if the generals commit to that and actually stick with it that would be a short term accomplishment but a 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 turtle estate going to bomb speaking with me earlier here some other stories from around the worlds. the biden administration is defending its decision not to go after saudi arabia's crown prince for the death of u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi white house press secretary jens sakhi pointed to

precedent and the need to recalibrate their relationship with a politically important ally a declassified report reveals that prince mohammed bin solomon likely approved killing in 2018 was. former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling a court in paris sentenced him to 3 years in jail to have them suspended sarkozy's lawyer says that he will appeal the conviction. new restrictions along the french german border came into force today in 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 in order 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. and barbara vessel went to the border region to find

out more. you feel there's 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. and trolls will cross. why not. but it's not travel borders we will get on top of the virus. through vaccination. the region has finally received some extra doses of vaccine because the infection rate remains high e. 300 new cases put 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 this area is being struck so badly.

when question because the change of heart. from kyon view the border town of shane is just 20 minutes away with people who 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 in the french part of. result of the south african baroness 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. so you can close down scientifically. citizens however seem largely ready to accept daily life becoming even more calm. kate it is

who would actually say for people working in germany. difficult. 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 it closure. they 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 thinks has been made in paris. we have are disappointed with the slowness of vaccinations. being to move you dr clooney wants to personally change that and get his citizens vaccinated as quickly as possible. a man responsible for

a secretly filmed the video that brought down austria's government back 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 the man behind the video you'll see an h. says that he will be persecuted if forced to return to his native austria. 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. discussed 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 2019 it was forced to resign and the chancellor called new elections it was a political earthquake. 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 a 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 d.w. in prison mr abe said the case against him is politically motivated. need. 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. under a left wing member of the german parliament believes germany should take a stronger position though you look at what they're showing 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. and with that now you're up to date here on news coming up next it is the serious films interesting with us if you can for that i'm sorry kelly and thanks for watching. hi i'm neal and i'm game did you know those that 17 trillion landed on them or killed worldwide but it's not just the animals total suffering it's the argument if you want to know how it went to the priest alcohol should change just as easy to.