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day of discussions to diffuse, the crisis over you. great. both sides are drawing red lines with european security suddenly caught in the middle. also coming up to my classes, resuming uganda, almost 2 years after a pandemic stop, but some kids say education is now no longer on their agenda. and her fans celebrate as world number one tennis star and nobody joke of age winds the 1st round of his legal battle to stay and play in the australian open despite not being back to me. but it's not game set and match just yet. i'm brand golf, it's good to have you with us. we begin with growing fears of war here in europe. a 1st day of talks to ease tensions over you. grain of ended with no progress representatives from russia and the u. wes say they made no

breakthrough in their discussion of the build up of russian troops and tanks at the ukrainian border. the u. s. and its allies want russia to send their troops back to their barracks. moscow, on the other hand, want to promise that the nato military alliance will stop expanding and will not allow ukraine to join tonight, an agreement remains elusive, but both sides say the tone of the talk so far have been encouraging. here's russia's deputy foreign minister, but of which when you read it, but actually p to go to the negotiations around russian security proposal here, will guarantee these up. but we're very difficult as gullible solution and long do you very professional watching. but if you send that in deep blue book, you and concrete concrete lim, b s. without any attempts to gloss over it or avoid any difficult points away, you can keep. it was through glee. we were left with the impression that the

american side was taken. russia's proposal or very seriously wishing to use them. but ashleigh crises, completely artless, tried to understand the language of diplomacy to do that. i'm sure now by dimitri petrovich, he is a us information in cyber security expert and chairman of the think tank silverado . it's good to have you on the program in 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 fits or so on the border of the grain foyce to invade, if he doesn't get his way. but i do think that there have been a few positives today. one, the rhetoric over here, 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 conversations and even mentioned that a potential treaty that the wash is looking for will not be done overnight as they had been insisting in the least in the weeks prior. and that it may take as much as 8 months or more. and of course, the russians can't keep their soups on the border of ukraine for that long. so i do think it's positive and lower intentions, but fundamentally, we still faith. the reality that war might make when you make quite the 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, but 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? well, the russians have enormous capabilities when, when it comes to cyber. some the most impactful attacks in cyberspace against western targets, like the not petty attacks in 2017 that took down so much of the western

infrastructure and were launched by russia against ukraine, but then leaked out. they've all been done 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 that won't be . but if there is one, the russians will have their hands full. just managing that crisis that they won't want to aggravate the west any further with direct attacks on them. but let's say put in does agree to bring his soldiers back to their barracks. 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 you quain forever out of nato. if he can get that in legally

binding guarantees that he desires from the, from the u. s. and it is a political not start up with us government to do. then he believes that he has that option to invade an ukraine would then never be allowed to join nato just de facto by being occupied and fired by russian troops. and you know, we are in winter right now and the ground in ukraine, frozen, which makes it easy for russian tanks 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 a concern that putin seems to have been working on this very short time frame where he needed to act realistically by mid march and or pull back the troops because he can keep them there forever. and if russians are now knowledge 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. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world and explosion in eastern afghanistan has killed 9 children and wounded 4 more officials say a stand selling popcorn it a mortar shell, although some reports say that it was a gas cylinder that exploded after decades of war, afghanistan is littered with unexploded ordnance and children are often the

military court in me and mar, has sentence, alfred leader, unsung to cheat to 4 more years in prison. she was convicted on several charges, including possession of unlicensed walkie talkies. last month, she was found guilty of incitement and breaking corona virus rules. critics say the charges are politically motivated. authorities in new york are investigating the cities worst fire in 3 decade. they're questioning how thick smoke was able to build through a high rise apartment block in the bronx, trapping many families. and the death toll has been revised down to 17, but that includes 8 children. several people are in critical condition. the u. s. drug maker pfizer is working on a vaccine targeting the omicron variant and says it expects to have it ready by march. the company says it's already manufacturing doses due to keen interests from governments. or children in uganda are back in school for the 1st time since march

2020. that was when rising cases of coven 19 forced the government to impose some of africans toughest restrictions. but many students say they've lost faith in education and will not be returning uganda. is government is warning, an entire generation could be lost. repairing motorcycles, this is america kind 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 allows that it was, bower was, everything was in schooling is just sloping down. everything is brewing, 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 book sia,

when you're me with that integration thing by not even life. got me though, having moves, the condo had already picked up his school supplies and 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 for a viez. moving around, deciding no soup things, eggs, bananas for may include 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 of trillions of dollar impact on economies globally do as a result of worry. while students have many, many experts say more support for global education is needed to help young generations break free from cycles of poverty. is a brief look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic chile has begun . administering a 4th dose of the vaccine for vulnerable groups. it follows a sharp rise in infections in neighboring countries. israel have seen its infection rate nearly quadruple in just the past week. reaching new record highs and experts say in allegedly new coven mutation, that was dub, delta kron and discovered in a cypress lab is most likely the result of lab contamination. in not a new very the tennis darned event joke which will most likely play in the australian open following his release from immigration detention in melbourne earlier today,

a judge overturned the government's decision to cancel his visa over corona virus rules. tournament organizers had granted him a medical exemption from vaccination, but the government rejected the exemption. today a judge said that was wrong, joke of ich his family and his supporters have celebrated the decision, but the australian government can still cancel his visa for other reasons. 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 it 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 canceled. oh, i can go with you in

the judge order. joking, which is released from immigration detention calling the 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 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 any one. the conflicting information and the contract information that you receive is because of the changing environment. we are in a very challenging vaughn for everyone has been involved in this process. ciocca bitch treated that he was pleased and 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 joker, which is visa on the grounds of public health. for now though, joke, bitch, his family, it's thrilled with the rather atypical victory. or for me, this is the biggest victory in his career. he is bigger than all his grand slams. every little winning on the court is 2nd nature to joke, a bitch winning in court. however, that's proved a lot harder or i, there have been many great escapes throughout history, but few is unusual as the one that you are about to see. here we go. is a group of more than 80 ostriches. that's right. were caught on camera running through the chinese city of chung though, after escaping from

a nearby form. fortunately, it happened to be in the middle of the night, so nobody saw them. i'm sure they were on tick tock. the birds weigh more than a 100 kilos. each, so imagine running into this gang on your way to work local media, say the ostriches relate a returned to the form without incident, but they did have to stick their heads in the same to watch the w d w business days as of next week. janelle stick around, she will be right back with people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center.