ah, ah ah ah ah, this is dw news why, from berlin, russia. warren's a west time is running out to meet its security demands. a week of high level diplomacy ends in deadlock, western powers refused to compromise on nato eastern enlargement and the kremlin

keeps troops in place on the ukrainian border. also coming up, novak joker bench faces deportation from australia after his visa is canceled. a 2nd time australia, immigration minister says he's acting in the public's interest. the latest twist comes after days of uncertainty and controversy surrounding the serbian tenant stars cove. at 19 data. on the problem becomes the dominant corona virus variant in germany. the public health institute says the fast spreading very it now accounts for almost 3 quarters of cases as new infection numbers continue to rise. and after a landmark sentence is handed to one of bashar assad, former military officers. we looked at the scars left in the long running syria conflict and an 11 year old forced to scavenge through a garbage for his family. ah,

ah, i'm see me. so misconduct is good to have you with us. a week of diplomacy aimed at averting a conflict in ukraine has failed to achieve a breakthrough in geneva, brussels and vienna, western nations. i've been trying to persuade russia to pull its troops back from the border with ukraine so far without success. tensions have sword even ever since the kremlin began massing its troops and tanks near ukraine. many western nations fair, they could be preparing an invasion. moscow says it feels threatened by western expansion and wants guarantees that ukraine will never join the nato alliance. the u. s. nato and the european union said those demands are unacceptable, and they're calling on russia to de escalate. no russian foreign minister, so gay lover of is demanding a response from the west and says that time is running out legal reasons because we are waiting for a written response. we have reason to believe that our western partners have

understood the need to act quickly. precisely underwriting, amid understand that we are not going to wait forever. but of course they plan to drag it out a form of good versus the national association. so despite extensive talks between russia and the west so far, there is little to show for it. but the us says it wants to continue the dialogue with russian president vladimir putin. here is the us national security advisor, jack sullivan. the united states and our allies and partners are prepared for any contingency, any eventuality, were prepared to keep moving forward down the diplomatic path in good faith and were prepared to respond a fresh action. beyond that, all we can do is get ready and we are ready making. let's get more on this story. we have our correspondence on the ground, emily sure, when is in moscow and marina shrugged is in breast. that's where you foreign

ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis in ukraine. it's good to see you both. emily, i'd like to start with you. we heard a clip of survey lab rob speaking there are pretty combative tone he was taking. tell us more about what the foreign minister had to say while yes, absolutely sergey a love of took a combat of tone and that's the tone that we've heard all week from russian officials at these various talks that took place in brussels and geneva sergey la grove. took this press conference today to repeat the fact that he blames the west . russia blames the west for these rising tensions between russia and ukraine. between russia and the west. he said that the west for the last 30 years essentially has been artificially trying to expand nato towards the east, essentially to provoke russia. and it also seemed today and in the last few days that russia is not budging on its main demands to the u. s. and its main demands

towards nato, which had already issued in written form back in december, they've been demanding that there be no more eastern expansion of nato. and they want that written down as a written guarantee. they also don't want any missiles to be stationed near russia . and today, lover was very clear that he sees the us as being the deciding party and all of this, even if the u. s. repeats that it has to talk to its data allies and to european countries. russia very much sees us as the deciding force here, and they want a written response from the us as soon as possible. so russia is not backing down despite this flurry of diplomatic activity. marina, how worried is the european union? and what did they want to do about it? and alina bab, oak, the german foreign minister, arrived here at this venue this morning and told us, you know, it is not really a surprise that there are no concrete result after just one week of talks,

because we won't solve this problem in one week. the problems have been there for more than 2 years. talks have been stalled with russia for more than 2 it to 2 years. the what do you expect? then there was also the chief diplomatic, and the top tier to diplomatic chief. yes. that barella spaniard who arrived after her and said, if russia wants to continue talking, then we are here. europe is here and we're happy to talk to russia. but also foreign ministers made it very, very clear that they won't back down on certain key pillars of european security structure. for example, the sovereignty of your grain and also of other post soviet countries. and emily, you know, despite these diplomatic discussions now no further talks our plan, so what's next? well, i think the russian side is also made it clear that for them this is really the

beginning of a long process for them. this is not just the result of the last 2 years as marina was talking about actually the result of basically tensions that russia sees is having been building for the last 30 years. and it's basically them saying, this is a moment of truth. that's what we've heard from various russian officials. it's kind of hard to know what the russian side wants at the moment. because as we've been saying, the 2 sides are in deadlock with russia, demanding guarantees of no more eastern expansion and western partners saying they want to stick to their open door policy when it comes to nato. but it is clear that by demanding these, written this written response to russian guarantees, russia is kind of showing that it, it could be willing to discuss whatever the response from the west is. so i think there could be further dialogues or gala off today, also said that russia is open for more dialogue going forward. just a quick last question to both of you before we go pulling foreign ministry says europe is closer to war now than anytime in the past 30 years after both of you

covering these talks in this past week, just quickly. where does it look from where you are marina? let's start with you. to be honest, europe has been a bit at the sidelines this week because there you was not really part of high level talks and use your foreign minister ministers tried to play that down a little bit and said the, the u. s. brief. s. and we were kind of part of the talks because some was also part of, of nato. but the u. s. a is an economic power, for example, sanctions are a measure of they can take and they already took against russia, but they're not, they're not really able to, to, to defend themselves to, to, to go there and act in the military way. so to be honest with you, standing by and watching, and emily while russia made it very clear that they want to leave the military threat on the table,

they're not willing to remove their troops from the border with ukraine. i think they're pushing hard, including using that military threat to essentially get some kind of a new security architecture within europe. and they very much wants to be at the table when the world is discussing these new measures, including on arms control. i'm sure when in moscow, marina was in breast. thank you both. now to some other news from around the world, ukraine says a number of government websites have been targeted in a cyber attack. he says, no personal data was leaked, and so far there's been no claim of responsibility. but the disruption does come at a time as we heard of heightened tensions with neighboring russia. the european union has condemned the cyber attack. north korea says it is fired to short range ballistic missiles into the sea. it's the country stirred missile test this month. young young said it with exercising legitimate self defense. after the u. s

. announcer was imposing new sanctions. north korea neighbors including japan of condemned the latest missile test, equipment off korea, ongoing military. i think it's a including, it repeats, a ballistic missile launches are threats to the peace and safety of japan. and the region under a serious concern to all of the international community single gonna could i this and british media reporting another party held at the prime minister's office while the country was under locked down force. johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over staff events under investigation for violating pandemic rules. the latest gathering allegedly took place last april on the eve of the funeral for prince philip, the queen's husband. tennis star novak ciocca, which is facing deportation after the australian government cancel to be so for a 2nd time. the decision comes after days of uncertainty and controversy surrounding the world. number one's covered 19 status and

a medical exemption he received from australian open tournament organizers. the australian immigration minister said he'd revoke the visa on grounds of public interest. this all comes just days before joker, which was due to start as defense of his australian open title. was get more on this a developing story. we can speak to tennis commentators, steve pierce, who's standing by for us in melbourne. hi steve. so tell us more about that. no, no. back to richard. visa has been cancelled again. tell us about the immigration ministers decision. while soon he saw the immigration minister finally made that decision late this afternoon in melbourne, and basically on public health and all the grounds. he moved to cancel that job, which is visa already cancel out. now really the government, the federal government starts and therefore board, they stand in order for us to start on on why never joke of it should be learning the country is never truly being tested because against the cali on monday

throughout the the visa cancellation, if you like reinstated is these are on the grounds, the due process, a procedural failure by go to force, hadn't been followed. so since then, the government's been able to consider its position is taken quite a while to do so. and of course on top of that, there's been these other revelations that come out around joke, which is travel documents and how he's agent able, whoever's responsible ultimately it's him filled it out incorrectly saying he hadn't traveled anywhere else. we know he's traveled by. so the minister for immigration and citizenship, alex hall, cancelled that these a light this afternoon. joke of it has always through his legal team as always indicated that there would be a challenge that would come if that was to be the case. and this evening there will be and directions hearing in the federal circuit court, which will start to i will start to hear the arguments from both sides. so it's very much a moving story and you want you to imagine we'll come to a combination. i did this weekend. yeah, there have been

a lot of twists and turns to the story, steve, i mean, what do you imagine could happen next? i mean, could not actual, could it be forced to leave the country? yes, he could. he absolutely could. or, of course, the opposite could happen, which is that he wins his case again against the federal government. he takes his place in the draw on monday. so it's a, it's absolutely vastly contrasting outcomes that could be. it could be winging his way back to monte carlo. all in fact, you could stay in melbourne for the next 2 weeks and possibly when attends australian open. as i say, it really that will start to become much clearer over the next day or so you'd imagine. or maybe there's even a decision tonight. we remember judge anthony kelly on, on monday suddenly made a decision really before the government didn't stop this argument. so this direction here, it will be interesting. i'll be surprised if it's result tonight. but i do have to say, you know, not a legal expert, but more of a tennis comments, i just thought i really want to pre judge what might happen in these court proceedings. and stevie said that joke of his team is always indicated they would

appeal just quickly. have we heard an official reaction from his cam? now, not an official reaction. not that i've seen, not that i'm aware of. know, apart from to say that there will be a directions hearing this evening so that that won't be an official reaction. that will be more, some legal arguments. i will wait and see if anything comes out instagram or, or some sort of comment from, from that team but nothing to this point in public domain anyway. it's janice commentator, steve pierce speaking to us there from melbourne. thank you for that update. pleasure. now germany has joined the list of countries reporting on the kron as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for more than 70 percent of all new cases. that's according to the countries disease prevention center, the robert cock institute. with such a rapid spread and german health minister car lauterbach is urging those not yet vaccinated to get their shots. quickly. germany saw a record number of new cove at 19 cases on friday, with more than 1902000 infections. experts say measures like masks and distancing,

have helped to contain the advance of the crone, but more might be required. let's get some more perspective on the story. we can speak to toby as quote, he is an apple in the ologist at the sherry tay hospital in berlin. good to have you back on the program. do you think this trend of new daily record infection rates is likely to continue in the coming days and weeks? yes, i expect is to continue on trauma, as i mentioned, is very infectious and the numbers are very high right now. and i expect that the number to continue to rise with intervals rates probably over a 1000 by want to ask you about the impact that that might have. because we keep reading that on the crime is milder than previous variance like delta for example. does that mean that the burden on hospitals in on medical workers is easing or will use? unfortunately not so yes, a micron has mild symptoms,

but this is on average, which does not mean that people are not getting severely sick. and as many people are still not vaccinated, there's a high chance that some of them will unfortunately have to go to the hospital. and because of the high number of cases that we see, even though it's little bit milo and maybe you're not having any symptoms, but if you will get symptoms. and so for the health care system, this is still in a very alarming situation. so the aim for authorities now to try to slow this wave down. do you think that the measures in place here in germany are sufficient to prevent this search that you're talking about? now suddenly good. so wearing mask vaccination is, is key. keeping distance is certainly key, but as far as it can not pretty much be stopped right now because it's so infectious. nevertheless, we should try to continue to reduce a number of contacts wearing mask whenever possible for sure indoors, and just trying to really and go through this way for to get her in

a very respectful way. well, that's very cannot be stopped right now. that's pretty remarkable. to hear that, i mean, why are some of the infection numbers here in germany still lower than in other european countries? do you talk that up to and you know that the masks and social distancing here are other measures. nothing is difficult to say. i don't think that the numbers are if you, if you're looking across several weeks, will, will not be that different than others surrounding countries from, from germany. it certainly started a bit a bit later. we have seen this also in the 2nd way, but i don't think there's a clear difference compared to other countries. we'll have to leave it there. toby ask, what happened to me ologist at the chart, a hospital here in berlin. thank you very much. pleasure. thanks for having me. that some other developments in the pan demik washington wants to double its purchase of covered 19 rapid tests to 1000000000 as the u. s. struggles with the on the kron variant. spain will cap the cost of coven self testing entered in test

kits at just under 3 year olds. the government has come under increasing pressure over high prices. and developing countries turn down around a 100000000 donated cove in 1900 vaccine doses last month. the un says that was mainly due to the vaccines nearing their expiration date. and to some other headlines, the u. s. supreme court has blocked president biden's effort to require employees at large businesses to be vaccinated against cobit 19 or undergo weekly testing. the court, which does have a conservative majority, said the mandate exceeded the biden administration's authority. and the bodies of $900.00. 1 mullen migrants killed a road accident and mexico last month have been repatriated. 56 people were killed when a truck driver lost control of a trailer, carrying more than 150 migrants. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the accident. the landmark ruling by

a court in germany convicting a syrian officer of war crimes has put the serial war back in the spotlight. more than a decade after the fighting broke out, people are still being killed and many more are suffering. the city of italy near the turkish border is the only syrian city still controlled by the opposition. italy was the scene of anti government protest in 2011, that escalated into all out civil war in the country. following a shaky truce, it lib remains home to more than a 1000000 people and thousands of displaced families dependent on scant aid deliveries. many children in these families are forced to scrounge for survival, which is only made worse by harsh winter conditions. racquel can hardly believe his luck. he's found an old solar heating met in the trash and thinks he can sell it for a good price. it's hard for the 11 year old to carry it with just one arm. 3 years ago he lost his right forearm. that had to be amputated after

a bomb attack. i know people don't like me because i'm so dirty that he negotiated them. i get corona from me, mother and i busted. and whenever, at least people think i've infected them, every day, thousands of children scour the dumps in it live. they are society's weakest, and there's little else for them. in this crisis ridden region, the whole day they rummaged through the trash, looking for shoes, jackets, electronics, copper, cabling, anything they can sell with. it's the only way they can support their families. grueling work instead of education in well i didn't get an education and i started going to school when i was a kid for 2 months now that we haven't been given any food in the camp almost. and

it lip is the last opposition stronghold in syria, islamists control the province. despite the ceasefire, there are frequent raids and skirmishes with the syrian army. hundreds of thousands of syrians have lost their homes in the war. they now live in 10th cities like here and murat. miss green in the north of england. this is where ra con lives. with his family. they fled the air raids on their village near aleppo. his father was captured by syrian forces. so now we're con, has to feed his family. these chickens are all they own while os, ironing money on your own is difficult to model out that sometimes people help me carry the bags of trash. yeah, my siblings helped to widens blue some days we find stuff explore other days. we don't. what about a bad know what the known bob? no, what madam. he hits off every morning, sometimes accompanied by his sister fuschia. the garbage dump is 5 kilometers away

. when they get there, the real work begins. reckon often loses out to the other kids. they are stronger than him and let him know that at the end of the day, they take whatever they've managed to find. to a scrap merchant near the dump, he drives a hard bargain and very few are in much i don't like working with trash them as well. i'd much rather go to school and learn something then. but then when i grow up, i could teach others that i'd like to be a teacher. that would, that would be meaningful. what does that mean? so that is so, but that will probably remain a dream for a con and thousands of other children in it live. we can speak now to kristin hallberg. she's an author and middle east expert. and the last time that she went to syria was in october. hi kristen. we just saw the

desperate situation facing many children and families there in it live. what are their prospects for the future? will there are 3000000 people living in the province of the pop of them are internally displaced. people and hundreds of thousands have stranded in the border region with turkey. they have no chance to cross this border. so the international food program of you and the saying the 2400000 people needs 8 there. and the only good news in the sense is that united, that the united nations have just extended the cross border aides that is enabling turkey to deliver direct you minute hearing aid into it for another 6 months. this is the good news. the bad news is that we have an arising number off air strikes by the russian military, for example, on the 2nd of january, for example, a very important want of compensation was hit, so it left 300000 people without water. so the assad regime and russia and seem to

be determined to regain somehow control over this province. we know that it lip is the last region that is not under us. that's control. who is the opposition and how strong are they? will the defective government is the so called salvation government, which was formed by h t. s. hired to heidi at a time, which is the most important or powerful is the mas group there, it's used to be a kinda affiliate. so it is being considered a terrorist organization organization h t as itself is trying to portray itself recently as more moderate, as serving the people providing services for everybody trying to reach out to the international community to be seen as like the government that people have to work with but until now these efforts have failed basically. and how strong as the off that regime will as hut is going to stay in power. he is there with the help of iran and russia. this is why he's heavily dependent on these 2 people. he's

unable to stabilize the country economically because he has to compensate all the loyalists that keep him in power, which means within the military security at the latest, within the economic elite. so and basically the problem is that we see in the international climate now that there are really some efforts of rehabilitation, the sat regime there is talks about re entry or syria into the arab league. neighboring countries are opening up, they are re establishing their ties with the regime in damascus. jordan egypt, the united arab emirates. so this is by the verdict of covenants from yesterday actually is very important because it makes clear that whoever is willing to open up or to deal with this regime is dealing with perpetrators of war again, of crimes against humanity. but last question, chris, and do you think that the international community really has given up on any prospect of change and syria? you know, we have seen ongoing discussions for years now about how to help the seo and people who vowed strengthening the sea and the gene. it's almost impossible. it's very

difficult. the bite and administration is being more pragmatic than the trump administration. that very much tried to kept the international isolation of the us, that regime they are talking about keeping up humanitarian assistance and the west is paying for 80 percent of the u. n. 8 in syria. they are talking about cease fires that don't hold. they are talking about and you know, the defeat of the lennox de that is regaining control in the eastern part of syria, actually because people are so poor that they take the money of these them stayed there. so until now actually international community is only dealing with the symptoms of this crisis, and there is no real broad diplomatic strategy to resolve the war. we have only international actors that are looking for their own interests. and we're talking about turkey of russia. you run that you asked europe so i was involved is going for his own interest without any international coordinated effort to solve the crisis itself. chris and halbert, thank you so much for your insights. thanks to you.

let's get a reminder of our top stories now. russian foreign minister survey love rob is demanding a written response from the u. s. the nato, to its security and demands over the alliance with east words expansion. the call comes after a week of high level diplomacy that is produced no results or ease tensions over russia's presence on the order to ukraine. antenna star, no bad joke of edge faces deportation after australia's immigration minister revoked his visa for the 2nd time. it comes after huge controversy over joke of which is coven 19th status. and after the tournament organizers granted him an exemption from the vaccination require. thank you for watching d, w. mm. ah, with

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