we won't be safe even within our own 4 walls. i don't speak. from the outside nothing much about life in kabul appears to have changed but is people digest the news that u.s. and other nato troops will finally leave afghanistan there is growing concern. over the worrying situation and people believe that if the foreign troops leave the country there will be a civil war. both of them are before the more you know much of the anger here is directed at the taliban which nato forces had hoped to beat into submission. instead the islamist group now controls large areas of the country. and the hard line in our demand to the taliban is to come and make peace with the afghans and government absolutely. but many here are also pointing

the finger at nato troops who've been on afghan soil for almost 20 years. before troops came here we didn't have any problems with their lives if the u.s. military pulls out people will be able to unite again and see peace restored you know. peace though looks a long way off afghanistan's security situation is dire many like teacher parvana as a money now fear things will only get worse. so afghanistan at the crossroads there we can speak now to maryam sawfish she is an international relations advisor and expert on afghanistan thank you for your time and miss sofie you've had some time to digest the news what does that one draw of international troops before peace settlement has been reached with taliban mean for the afghan people and specifically the afghan women. the what role of u.s. troops. surprisingly without any conditions is one that has instilled

a great fear amongst the people of afghanistan because it would draw without a peace deal or even a comprehensive moving a forward on these talks would likely lead to increased violence and one president at levels across the country higher civilian casualties casualties amongst afghan national security forces which are already and in a very alarming rate further erosion of the kabul government and political and ethnic mentation across the country is what are some of the the scenarios that the that the people of afghanistan are fearing could emulate from this withdrawal without a deal and without any conditions with no strings attached now we understand secretary of state to anthony blinken is in afghanistan today trying almost to reassure the leadership and the people of afghanistan that the relationship is just changing what did she make of what he had to say were you reassured. well the

relationship is certainly going to change however the reassurances from secretary of state. at the present moment doesn't come with any sort of concrete measures or concrete guarantees we've already seen aid but civilian aid and financial support for the afghan national security forces which have declined over the last few years and they've already declined compared to last year and the national security forces which are on the front lines of the of not only the the fight against the insurgency but also on the front lines of the global war on terrorism really require the support and so we're not seeing anything concretely the to show us or give us a sure and that this new chapter is going to bring about. more positive or proved scenarios for the country as it stands now with the americans and the international community exiting afghanistan would you advocate for engaging with the taliban.

i think that the people of ghana stand something that we have been able to note and our various consultations with civil society organizations is the only path that they deem. fire to resolve these 4 decades of conflict so a political settlement sitting down continuing to talk is something that the people of afghanistan would like to see happen however when when this happens without any pressure and you can do any leverage is that they doubt whether. those talks could lead to a sustainable peace civil society organizations has continuously stated that they will only accept a peace process in afghanistan that reflects their aspirations one that reflects the dumb and if that doesn't happen then the peace process and the of intervention will well agreement would not likely be accepted and then of course not sustainable . ram safiya international relations advisor and an expert on afghan policy thank

you very much greatly appreciate it. well among the nato troops who will leave afghanistan by september are more than a 1000 german soldiers germany is the 2nd highest number of troops on the ground after the united states they offer training and support to the afghan security forces and earlier this year germany agreed to extend its military deployment because of the worsening security situation on the ground over in the u.s. that forces pull out so to pull the german contingent. and earlier today when you spoke to are thomas silver horn he is the state secretary in the german defense ministry and a member of parliament for chancer america's conservative bloc and we asked him if germany's mission in afghanistan has really been accomplished well 1st of all of the core military go to deploy troops of gunnison was to avoid future threats for

us from afghan soil this core military goal has been accomplished but the political goes beyond the military perspective of course have not been fully achieved and it's remains of the question of for the political leaders for all actors in of ghana's turn how to find to reconsideration to a peaceful development to new elections and to stabilize station in this society which is suffering for 4 decades already from civil war. thomas alone talking to us earlier today let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. u.s. president biden's administration has announced a new round of sanctions against russia including the expulsion of 10 russian diplomats this is in response to interference in last year's presidential election as well as the hacking of u.s. government agencies russian foreign the russian foreign ministry has condemned the sanctions germany and the u.s.

are backing calls for russia to halt its troop buildup along the border with ukraine kiev says moscow has sent thousands of soldiers to the frontier there are fears the 7 year conflict between russia and ukraine could flare up again. security forces in myanmar have arrested one of the main leaders of the campaign against military rule all this comes as the army opened fire on medical workers marching in mandalay killing at least one bystander all this week marks on mars a traditional new year festival but rather than pausing many are opting to continue the anti coup protests. and they should be celebrating the new year festival of 10 john instead they're marching against a coupe i thought their mother. saw the overthrow of their elected leader aung san suu kyi and replaced her with a military dictatorship. crossed me on my protest is

holding flowers are using this week as a rallying cry. but they know the risks security forces roam the streets. dissent is quickly and brutally stamped out. just ask these people ling power and state forced into hiding in caves off to the military to carry it out as strikes in their region. the military seems intent on intensifying its pitiless policy of violence against the people of myanmar using military grade and indiscriminate weaponry. more than 700 people have died since february according to a local monitoring group. but that hasn't stopped the protest is as they continue their fight for freedom.

the un security council meanwhile has stopped short of considering sanctions on myanmar because both china and russia are against it earlier we spoke to political scientist for hard to sound snyder and asked him if the threat of sanctions is pushing me in more closer to beijing miramar is in china's arms even without this military coup it would be closely connected to china but the problem is what else could we do we could condemn it we could just have to sanctions this leads us to this old and familiar debate about sanctions sanctions do have effects but most of the time as we can see in russia and in many other cases they do not have the intended effects they are created for so i would have my doubts without strong words from western countries even military economic sanctions would really change

the behavior of this brutal military regime in the end it will be up to the people who are near they take the courage to do the streets they risk their lives they don't need only start strong words they would need anything else but this is what we do not supplied to them they are getting. rhetorical support but that's it in the end that has been the case in the past and look unfortunately it will happen this time as well. aber hard sense night or political scientists as for university speaking to us earlier today now we pivot to germany where new coronavirus cases have risen to a 3 month high just under 30000 new infections have been registered in the past day and almost 300 people have died that takes the total number of deaths in germany to almost 80000 the government is looking to push through a new control measures health minister you have sponsored as new restrictions are

inevitable in vaccines and testing alone will not be enough to break the 3rd wave it will take decisive action and hard as it is for the restrictions i think. we can already full see that if we don't stop this trend our health care system will reach its limits that's why the situation in the intensive care units is one of the most decisive factors because our main goal in this pandemic is to prevent our healthcare system from being overwhelmed and. the money germany's health minister there well meanwhile doctors without borders has declared brazil's response to the pandemic a humanitarian catastrophe made worse by political mismanagement brazil currently has the world's highest number of daily deaths from covert 19 the country's health care system is overwhelmed with many intensive care units nearly full to capacity

soaring infection rates are being driven by the highly contagious p one virus variant the new strain is causing international concern earlier this week france suspended all slights to and from brazil in a bid to prevent the variance spread. millions of people in the latin america's biggest country are struggling to put food on the table as the covert 900 out break weeks havoc on the economy. fairly or gomez starts her day early she gets up at around 4 am worried about having enough food for her 4 children to have breakfast. i wake up with the feeling of being in agony i jump out of bed in the 1st thing i do is stand guard i'm alive i look at my children and think to myself today i'll bring home some food for them i leave the house early to fetch bread there are days when i can't manage to bring them entering but they run out of the night. lives enough for valor of around

100000 people in sao paolo here and across brazil unemployment hit a record high last year this community association helps people living in marginalized areas to find work. we had an 84 percent increase in demand for employment after the government's emergency aid ended and the number of people seeking help tripled because so many people didn't have any support anymore but it was. in december government aid of around $84.00 euros a month was cut making an already difficult situation for many much worse. the number of people living on less than 36 year is more than doubled many families stopped cooking with gas and started using firewood 27000000 brazilians live in extreme poverty renate tardelli has been researching the fellas for 20 years.

noel bullet data shows that the poorer you are the higher the rates of infection. the more on the periphery the person finds themselves in the higher the death rate from coronavirus. brazil has added 2000000 more people to the marginalised areas in the past year it's not ethical the brazilians have to choose between going hungry or getting the virus it's an ethical. choice. for adults live in the home of sylvia de hayes us she's a cook and the only one still to have a job but it's just one day a week she used to cook in other people's homes but they let her go for fear of infection. that this pandemic is difficult that's going to leave all of us starving and that's apart from all the damage it does to your health look at this q we're all in the same boat. back.

with a shortage of vaccines and hospitals overwhelmed it's hard to see a way forward for people in the lowest social groups who are trapped by both poverty and disease and we can talk now to do a correspondence a year one that ramirez johan i mean we understand that poverty in brazil has almost tripled in the last 6 months what can you tell us and we how dire is the situation in brazil at the moment during this pandemic. basically brazil is going through the worst crisis in its history in 2020 g.d.p. fell down about 4 percent are right now on employment stands over 14 percent of the working population so people it's not very desperate situation and is divided people want to go out to work but at the same time people want solutions to the

coronavirus and the air is carried off getting infected so in this situation everything is a very complicated i was of there are some weeks ago just through with the wall ago i was in brazil and the situation is very very difficult the how the system is in the border of been collapsed and the problem is that we don't see very solutions in the main and in the short term now as what you're suggesting there and reporting what you saw a coven 90 seems to be out of control in brazil but we understand that some officials are making the case or even just easing restrictions why. on the one hand because people need to war brazil is not on latin america in general is not doesn't work like it been or the european union or other countries where it's calm you know in brazil if people go to work they don't have money to

pay their bills and to eat so people need to really to go out on the work and on the other hand some. governments are restrictions be there because they are like joe bolton are a skeptical to go on the virus and even though we are in 2021 and all the overwhelming numbers off infections on beth they continued to downplay. the pandemic and all of these are creating all of these conditions are creating the conditions for a social outbreak i mean the reset began huge discounts in between among the population and also among the political class some people are talking about an impeachment so. outbreak is to really out the corner in brazil if the fundament is not doesn't get under control all right so also a lot of political turmoil during this pandemic in brazil and as we've been reporting france earlier this week closed affectively its borders to brazil all

flights to and from brazil to prevent a very contagious variance from spreading how isolated is brazil at the moment because a lot of people around the world are worried about this variant. many countries in latin america already closed their borders to brazil to get you out void that you won a string of other proscenium says trains could come to other countries when i was in manassas i talked to to divide ologist who discovered to be one strain he told me that there is there are some 30 newest trains in brazil right now so if brazil doesn't control the pandemic indoors they can it can be a very difficult at best affair for the whole region and even for the world because many think we don't still many things about in those trains and we don't know how these news trainees behave because of the scene for example.

her mirrors are reporting thank you so very much. bernie made off the architect of a ponzi scheme that scammed investors out of billions of dollars has died and prison he was $82.00 the former chairman of the nasdaq stock exchange reportedly died of natural causes have been suffering from chronic kidney failure there's a look back now at one of the most notorious wolves of wall street. bernard made off better known as bernie was so disliked at the time of this trial that he had to wear a bulletproof vest to court every day. the man behind the largest known ponzi scheme in history wiped out people's fortunes ruined charities and foundations. he defrauded thousands including a host of big name movie stars and even the new york mets baseball team for decades made off enjoyed an image as

a self-made financial guru whose golden touch defied markets operating out of these downtown new york offices he attracted a devoted legion of investment clients who trusted him completely he was brilliant and convincing people his schemes were safe but is a regulatory environment it's virtually impossible to avoid legal walls but this is something that the public really doesn't understand and you if you read things in the newspaper this is somebody who violate the rule is that it will you know they're always doing this no it's impossible to go on that for a violation to go undetected so in the up or considerable period of call those words eventually caught up with made on his investment advisory business was exposed as a fraud in 2008 and in march 2009 made off pleaded guilty and was convicted on 11 counts for crimes that spanned more than 20 years made off was

forced to leave his $7000000.00 manhattan penthouse apartment and was taken to prison to serve 150 years behind bars made of died in the federal medical center in butner north carolina he was 82 years old. all right some must force years now for your cement bond as they are going to use actually the entire herd to berlin team has been ordered into isolation following 3 positive covert 1900 tests at the club well head coach paul di that his assistant coach and stryker back you know our current eat at home after testing positive for the fires all the rest of the squad and staff have been ordered to isolate together until april 28th they are only allowed to leave their common quarters for training and matches. in the champions league quarter finals manchester city b. dortmund 21 to advance to the next round of aldermen scored early in the match but in the 2nd half man city were just too much to handle the phone in this court the

go ahead goal dortmund to word the last german team left in the tournament also on wednesday we all madrid held liverpool to a goalless draw the result means we all go through to the semifinals after their win and the 1st like now it's been 2 years since a fire ripped through the most famous cathedral in paris and shocked the world many are wondering when not to down will open again while french president a man might come visit the building site to offer some hope and show that french heritage as not been forgotten and that the current virus crisis. moments from april 15th 2019 etched forever in the minds of prescience. of all the french. of anyone who has visited the city of light or wants to someday. but from the

dramatic scenes turning the beautiful monument ugly to the dramatic felling of an enormous oak tree in western france. the 1st of a 1000 hand selected to rebuild the spire and roof of the cathedral. and make it beautiful again. the wood from the trees is being dried some of it on site part of a 5 year reconstruction plan that has 3 years and many miles to go. in fact the work so far has mostly been to secure what was left after the fire and look what i mean all being up. there we are all gather and. to give the. franchise. back to. the french president toured parts of the restoration site on this anniversary of the fire telling workers. each and every one of us remembers where we were 2 years

ago. the emotion that was the motivation of all the catholics watching and of all of us in paris and all of france the people in it and i believe that we can see here the immensity of the work he accomplished in 2 years. 2 years of work on a massive stunningly detailed paris institution dating to the 12th century with 3 years to go to resurrect the french national treasure. thank you so much for watching.

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