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talks to diffuse the crisis over you crate. both sides are drawing red lines with european security suddenly caught in the middle also coming up tonight, classes resuming uganda after almost 2 years of a pandemic stop. but some kids say education is now no longer on their agenda. and bands at celebrate as world number one tennis store and they back joke a big wins the 1st round at his legal battle to stay and play in the australian open despite not being backdated. but it's not game set and match just yet. ah, i'm brent golf, it's good to have you with us on this busy monday. we begin with growing fears of war here in europe. a 1st day of talks to ease tensions over ukraine has ended with

no progress representatives from russia. and the us say they made no breakthrough in their discussions of the build up of russian troops and tanks at the ukrainian border. the us and its allies want russia to send their troops back to their barracks. moscow, on the other hand, wants to promise that the native military alliance will stop expanding and will not allow ukraine to joy and agreement, remains elusive. but both sides say the tone of the talks have far, has been encouraged. here's russia's deputy foreign minister, but of what you wanna renew, but actually be to go with the negotiations around russia. security proposal here for guarantee is up, but we're very difficult as gullible solution. how long do you very professional watching. but if you send that in deep blue book and concrete, concordia t m b s. without any attempts to gloss over or avoid any difficult

points away, you go. kita was through glee. we were left with the impression that the american side was taken russia's proposals thought very seriously not wishing to use them. but ashleigh crises committed lessingham artless tried to understand the language of diplomacy to do that. i'm sure now by dimitry, i'm petrovitch, he is a us information in cyber security expert. it's chairman of the think tank silverado. it's good to have you on the program, in a despite the diplomatic niceties, russia and the us have said they made no progress at all today. what your reaction to that i think that's right. one mentally the situation has not changed on the ground. we still have $100000.00 fits or so on the border of the grain foyce to invade. if couldn't, doesn't get his way. but i do think that there have been a few positives today. one, the rhetoric overheated rhetoric that we've been hearing for weeks in the lead up

to the summit has been lowered dramatically by the deputy for mr. rap goff. he talked about how productive the conversations had been. he talked about the need for further conversation and even mentioned that a potential treaty that the west is looking for will not be done overnight as they had been insisting in the league in the fire. and that it may take as much as 8 months or more. and of course, the russians can't keep their troops on the border of your brain for that long start. you think it's positive and lower intentions. but fundamentally, we still faith. the reality that war might make quite may quite be possible. yeah, i mean, we're talking about a situation that is very similar to the cuban missile crisis. for example, the only difference is we're not talking about the threat of nuclear war. now that we are living with the threat of cyber attacks coming from russia, how big of a threat do you think cyber attacks are moving forward? or the russians have enormous capabilities when,

when it comes to cyber. some the most impactful attacks in cyberspace against western targets. like the not patio tax in 2017, that took down so much of the western infrastructure and were launched by russia against the graeme. but then leaked out. they've all been done by, by russian intelligence services. in recent years, so it is very concerned, but i do think that if there is an invasion of ukraine and hopefully there won't be . but if there is one, the russians will have their handful just managing that crisis that they won't want to aggravate the west. any further with direct attacks on them, but let's say to 10 does agreed to bring his soldiers back to their bearings, and we still don't have a resolution that would be appealing to both sides. wouldn't that then give the kremlin, you know, carte blanche to launch new cyber attacks? i mean that would be, it's most effective weapon. well, i think it could be a weapon. i still think that the kinetic invasion of ukraine would be the preferred

solution for him to get what he desires, which is keeping ukraine forever out of nato. if he can get that in legally binding guarantees that he desires from the, from the us. and it is a political, non startup of the us government to do, than he believes that he has that option to invade. and ukraine would then never be allowed to join nato. just the fact by being occupied in part by rushing ships. and we are in winter right now and the ground in ukraine, prose in which makes it easy for russian takes to move it into ukraine if they want to. course that won't be the case. come march and april. does this short time window? does it put pressure on both sides in geneva to find a path forward? well, that was always the concern that putin seems to have been working on this very short time frame where you needed to act realistically by mid march and or back as troops

because he can keep them there forever. and if russians are now acknowledged that they won't get any resolution on their issues in that timeframe which they did today, i think it's a very positive development because it could mean that we can go into potentially prolong discussion on broader european security issues addressed in russia. concerns addressing the concerns of european countries that could take years potentially. in the meantime, of course, we would avoid war, so that i view is the best outcome that we could get out of the situation to simply delay by time for diplomacy to work. dmitri appealed, it's the chairman of the thing, think silverado meter, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you are, let's get a round up. now of some of the other world headlines this. our authorities in new york are investigating the cities worst fire in 3 decades. they're questioning how thick smoke was able to build through

a high rise apartment block. in the broad strapping many families, the death toll has been revived down to 17, including 8 children. several people are in critical condition. an explosion in eastern afghanistan has killed 9 children and will get 4 more officials say, a stand selling popcorn hit a mortar shell, although some reports say that it was a gas cylinder that exploded after decades of more of gain of sand is littered with unexploded ordnance and children are often the victims the german foreign minister handling a bare box says italy has a key role to play in creating a more green and fair europe. i think she's in rome meeting with italy's foreign minister luigi to mile. 2 countries have developed a joint action plan, which also includes cooperation on the thorny issue of migration. a military court in myanmar had sentence austin, leader on song, sued she, to,

for more years in prison. she was convicted on several charges, including possession of unlicensed walkie talkies. the conviction is just the latest chapter in a trial that critics say is politically motivated. last month, the pro democracy leader was convicted of incitement. and the breaking corona virus rules. oh me enlarged, opposed, lead remains and detention confronted with a slew of charges that could see on some suit. she locked up for the rest of her life. the international community has denounced her jailing by me and mars military government, calling to legal campaign. politically motivated, sushi was one seen as a beacon of human rights and a savior of me in march. democracy, thanks to her fight against the military that ruled myanmar for decades. she became the country civilian leader in 2016. but her international reputation was left in tatters after the army suppressed. the countries were hinge of muslims by thousands died and many more were displaced. known simply as the lady,

she remains immensely popular of the countries buddha's majority. since the military puts their way to power civil society, myanmar has been in disarray. clashes between the armed forces and militia groups have left scores dead. and the regime has come down forcefully on widespread protests. the hunter has not relented. they are dead set on preventing sushi and her supporters from returning to power. children in uganda are back in school for the 1st time since march of 2020. that's when rising cases of coven 19 forced the government to impose some of africa's toughest corona virus restrictions. but many students say they've lost faith in education, and they will not be going back to class. uganda is government is warning, a whole generation could be losing out on their opportunity for

a good education. preparing motorcycles. this is american, as daily life now, was 14 when his school closed due to the pandemic. after nearly 2 years there finally opening again, but he's not going back. we announced that into his power. was everything loves in schooling is just sloping down. everything is going stagnant and we need to look for bid tow it to leave. candice father left. now at 16 he has to take care of his 2 brothers alone. i had a idea that everything, it's gonna be easy when he of your books. yeah. when you're doing that integration thing. but not even life got me though without having moves to canada, had already picked up his school supplies in preparation for his return. but now he won't need them. the government estimates a good 30 percent of ugandan students won't come back to the classroom. this elementary school fears that number could be much higher. teachers prepared

together to start school creating class books to renew viez, moving around, deciding news, ship things, eggs, bananas, for ne, quote, this one as illness degeneration. and existing learning crisis has gotten worse. according to the united nations children's fun, up to 70 percent of 10 year olds and low and middle income countries can't read nearly 20 percent more than before. corona, if you drop any school not returning that will have a lifelong implications for you. globally, it's estimated trillions of dollar impact on economies globally do as a result of the learning wall street, many, many experts say more support for global education is needed to help young generations break free from cycles of poverty. when he w reporter julius gumble is in uganda,

he asked students how it felt to be back in class. i how this is that a a back to school? it's a bad match up with gifting. yes. so by vin, with gross down, we had to vote fee under tribute rec, no, wouldn't been to school, not even print off done. but we hope that we continue. we shall go through to more now, but the classes. i finally opened 2 years later. now this is the longest, the government of uganda wanted to stop the spread of coffee. 19. that decision was widely welcome at that time until it passed wide criticism many again and started questioning the rationale of keeping i was close closed when elsewhere in other countries. lena with studies now the schools open, but kids are nowhere to be seen. the government actually expects 3 out of 10 langniss not to return to school across the country,

teenage pregnancies are to their record high, many guzman, nevada ton to school was a families of facing very big financial challenges. some breed windows, we used to support kids did not survive depending on when it comes and institutional level schools have closed, some private schools being out of business for 2 years, us forced them to close indefinitely. and some experienced teachers have also quits the profession. and now some analyzing that what we're seeing today may lead into a big impact, a generation with the wide knowledge gum yet 2 years without school. we're here in europe. many schools, including here in germany, a resuming this week after the christmas holidays, but with the omicron corona virus, very causing a sudden spike in cases here. the move to go back to class is controversial.

i am media and the news. that's the topic in today's english class at the fittest. carson school in london. contrary to last year, lessons are currently given and passing in most parts of germany and not online yet . politicians have agreed that for now, things will stay that way. but the danger of getting infected is high. i have ocean bison. i'm a little scared of being in school because of the corona virus, like they are a lot of people here and we change rooms all the time. like every day i'm together with at least a 100 people. that's no good, especially when you get home and think i could have easily learned this at home and be much safer. muster the phillips and the lease relieved that the schools from maining opened the city. this spot, the army cranberry and the parents are only in charge of helping with homework the weeks of learning from home last year with frustrating the i and then can nadia. i

don't want to watch my own children all day, help them feed them and also do the laundry and shopping me. i don't want to go back to that. it's not the right thing for our family, the fest on my account for owned as familia, homeschooling, fun. learning from home was not a good option, and i didn't learn very much have and i don't want to do it again because it just wasn't any fun. now i've, i can't vasqua my many children feel that way. they have gotten behind and now have the chance to catch up and see friends every day, deciding factors in keeping schools open despite rising case number's local teacher rine pla would prefer compromise from last year. he liked flipping back and forth between life and online lessons. working and half groups and alternating between learning from home, learning from school can be a compromise between a pretty, an epidemiological needs and the needs of the students to learn. so, between the safety of the pedagogues and the safety of the children, but also there need to learn in school where the schools remain open despite rising

case numbers is up to germany, states to decide as far as education goes, they have the final, say, sports news to the star, no back joke of which will widely play in the australian open following his release from immigration detention in melbourne, australia a judge to day overturned the government's decision to cancel his visa over corona virus rules of tournament organizers had granted him a medical exemption for vaccination, but the government rejected bed exemption to day a judge said that decision was wrong, joke of which his family and his supporters were celebrating the decision, but big government could still cancel his visa on different grounds. ah, they were so happy that their hero is free, for now they mobbed any car, even if they couldn't be 100 percent. sure,

novak joke of ich was inside. outside his lawyers office, they celebrated into the night somewhere pepper sprayed in the chaos. outside court to joke of inches, supporters cheered the decision to overturn his visa being cancelled. oh, i mean go with the judge order joke which is released from immigration detention calling me australian government's decision unreasonable. he rolled that joke which hadn't been given enough time to respond to that decision. the serbian had arrived in australia, believing he had a medical exemption to rules requiring a corona, virus vaccine. this it emerged was due to a december 16th cove at 19 infection, but the australian government argued that exemption didn't apply to people entering

the country from overseas. that contradicted what joke of it had been told by tennis australia, the tournament organizers. i'm not gonna blame anyone the conflicting information and the contract information that you receive is because of the changing environment we are in a very challenging via for everyone has been involved in this process. ciocca bitch treated that he was pleased to am grateful with the decision after the court's ruling going on to say he's now focused on the tournament. but the saga is not over yet. the australian government can still cancel joke, which is visa on the grounds of public health. for now though joke of which his family is thrilled with the rather atypical victory over me, this is the biggest victory in his career. he bigger than all his grand slams. ever even winning

on the court is 2nd nature to joke of ich winning in court, however, as proved a lot harder. yeah, and the story as long legs to talk about that i'm joined now by amy lundy, dawn. she's a sports journalist for tennis connected dot com. she's also host with a tennis channel podcast network. it's good to have you on the program. i have the feeling that we may not have seen the last serve in this story. what do you say? well, the australia, an immigration minister still has the leeway to cancel the visa again. so it is quite possible that this is not over yet. but if i were the leaders or the powers that be in australia, i would want this saga to be over will. and that's true, it will eventually have an end. and then you know, the gifts, the investigation will begin into how this disaster took place. where do you see

the biggest mistakes? look, we're in a pandemic. every single government of every single country on the planet is struggling with policy and it's changing so fast with the variance coming and masking and distancing, and the medical advice. so i think that's where the disconnect was. and there was an old fashion federal versus state argument going on, and then you throw in the tennis powers as well. and there was sort of a, a power struggle. and there was not a lot of clarity among thousands of pieces of correspondence between these 3 powers . and let's assume, you know, he gets the visa gets to stay in australia. and he plays in the australian open. i mean, this is a country where 90 to 93 percent of all adults have been vaccinated when he walks out on the court. but the reception could be frosty. is that gonna rob him of his

tennis mojo? frosty is a nice word for and i think i'm actually with, with the atmosphere in australia right now. i'm actually concerned about security. and i think that if they do allow him to play that work, they're going to be a can because australia has been through a lot in terms of the lock downs that they've had there. stricter than most countries here in the united states that they've australia's been stricter, it's been stricter than a lot of countries in europe. so the people aren't really in a mood to except someone who is skeptical of the vaccines and has been able to enter their country unvaccinated. yeah, i mean the rules are rules, but don't you think this also speaks to something we see that goes beyond tennis. that high profile athletes in the public perception seemed to operate in a bubble with different rules and standards. hasn't this confirmed that in

some ways a has and here in the united states we have aaron rodgers, his an american football player who has alluded getting a vaccine, and kyrie irving who's and, and be a basketball player. and you know, sometimes sports can hold up a magnifying glass for life and can really, um, show us what's going on, you know, in the larger picture. you know, it's a very good way of putting it, amy, when the door. we appreciate your analysis to not amy, thank you. thank you. wears a brief look now at some of the latest developments in the pandemic chile has begun administering a 4th dose of the vaccine for vulnerable groups following a sharp rise in infections in neighboring countries. israel has seen its infection rate nearly quadruple in the past week,

reaching new record hodge and experts say an allegedly new cove and mutation dubbed dell to crohn, discovered in a cypress lab is most likely the result of lamp contamination and not a new barrier. that is good news or the u. s. is in the throes of an omicron wave reporting the highest daily infection rates of any country in the world with so many workers forced to isolate some supply chains, have broken down and products like breakfast cereal, soups and eggs are not making it to the supermarket. supermarkets across the u. s. have been struggling to keep fully stocked throughout the pandemic. so many key staff are in isolation either because they have contracted the army, cranberry. and while i have been deemed a close contact of confirmed cases, these shortages are also felt in the nation's capital. while they are dealing with

the impact of some heavy snow storms. meet picking plans have been a major focus because large outbreaks in 2020 le, to shortages. and there are signs of decreasing productivity according to official data. i'm sorry my day to day and i making a me so based soup. so i got all my vegetables that i needed. i had no problem getting anything, and there is quite a few things are missing, but you make up for here and there that i think everyone's disrespectful and doesn't try to hoard anything. we shouldn't have any issues. i don't know, sorry it's, it's annoying sometimes and he can't get the fair but i, it's not too bad. well i my all for those down on the block and typically i get something for lunch. so thought the fan would shut, things were empty. i got something else. let's see how it over throw them full heated up at the microwave and the office. one thing about the past, you know, 18 to 22 months are along the pen. them. it's been as fielder can roll through a day by day. so that's kind of overdue, it maybe see american optimism,

but people here don't seem to be too worried or now there have been many great escapes throughout history, but few was unusual as the one you are about to see, watch closely, a group of more than 80 ostriches, yes, ostriches were caught on camera running through the chinese city of chung though, after escaping from a nearby farm. fortunately, it happened in the middle of the night. the birds weigh more than a 100 kilos each. you know, they can't fly. so imagine running into this gang on your way to work local media, say the ostriches relate a returned to the farm without incident. some did, however, put their heads in the st. you're watching the w news as a reminder of the top stories were following for you representatives from russia and the u. s. r meeting in geneva to talk about the ongoing tensions over ukraine. russia has been massing troops and tanks near its border with ukraine. western

countries fear the kremlin could be planning and invasion. moscow says it feels threatened by us and nato expansion. coming up next, keeping an eye on grandma how china is using robots to care for the elderly. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more rural news followed by the day. i have to see you there. ah ah . ah, with

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