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eastern enlargement and the kremlin keeps troops in place on the ukrainian border. also coming up as on the cross becomes the dominant corona virus variant in germany health minister, lauterbach found a note of encouragement. germany's measures are slowing the spread he says, but he stresses the need for more people to get poster. after a landmark sentences handed to one of bashar al assad's former military officers, we look at the scars left 5, a serious conflict and an 11 year old, forced to scavenge through garbage to support his family. and novak joke of edge faces deportation from australia after his visas cancelled a 2nd time. after days of uncertainty over the tennis players, factions, vaccination status, australia's immigration minister says he's acting in the public's interest. ciocca ventures, lawyers are appealing the decision ah,

ah, i'm serious, almost gone, it's good to have you with us. russia has up the pressure on the west in a diplomatic showdown over ukraine. a week of diplomacy between russia, the u. s. and nato has failed to achieve a breakthrough. but the kremlin says it wants a written response toward security demands that would see a halt to nato's eastward enlargement. by next week, the west ones, russia to reverse its military build up along the border with ukraine. russian snipers ready for action near the ukrainian border. just some of the military exercises being carried out by moscow, as it continues to threaten its neighbour. russian troops have been massing along the border for weeks. his tensions between the 2 nations grow. these satellite images taken at the beginning of december,

had already stoked fears that moscow was planning to invade ukraine. over the last few days, there's been a flurry of diplomatic activity as the us nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. cities all deliver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it does not take a diplomacy genius to realize that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. among the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it wants guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly. precisely and on paper on bay

harbor understood that we are not going to wait forever. but of course there are plans to drug it on and on. switches to things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea. in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin set purchase in easton ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seem futile, sir. listen sure. i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressor country, with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this book. we needed a positive article. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign, a compromise can be reached. let's get more on this story. we have our

correspondence on the ground. emily, sherwin is in moscow, and marina shrubs 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 love rob speaking there are pretty combative tone he was taking. tell us more about what the foreign minister had to say while yes, absolutely. sergei 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 thrush 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 at 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 of 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 elena, bad luck. 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. the talks have been stalled with russia for more than to eat, to 2 years. the what do you expect? then there was also the chief diplomatic, and the top tier 2 diplomatic chief, yourself 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 then, 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 as 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 dialog. sergei lever off today also said that that russia is open for more dialogue going forward. just a quick last question to both of you before we go. pulling foreign minister says, europe is closer to war now than any time in the past 30 years after both of you covering these talks in this past week, just quickly worded the 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 that you was not really part of high level talks and usa is foreign minister ministers tried to play that down a little bit and said that the u. s. brief. s. and we were kind of part of the talks because some of us are as a part of, of nato. but the u. s. and 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 a military way. and so should be on us that you standing by and watching. and emily?

well, 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 want 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 and ukraine says the number of its government websites have been targeted in a major cyber attack. he says, no personal data was leak. so far there's been no claim of responsibility. ukraine's foreign ministry says it is too early to say who was behind the attacks, but says there is a long record of russian cyber assaults against ukraine in the past. and the european union has condemned the cyber attack. let's get

a round up of some other headlines now. north korea says it is fired to short range ballistic missiles into the sea. it is the country's 3rd missile test this month, john gang said it with exercising legitimate self defense after the us announced was imposing new sanctions. north korea neighbors including japan, have condemned the latest missile tests. britain is prince. andrew has been stripped of his title, his royal highness, along with us military affiliations and royal patronage of the prince, is facing a civil case in the us over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17, was virginia to fray is doing the prince claiming he abused her in 2001 and the office of british prime minister boris johnson has apologized to the royal family after revelations of more staff parties. while the country was under locked down, johnson facing growing pressure to resign over the events which are under investigation. it's immersed into gathering took place last april on the night

before the funeral for prince philip. the queen's husband. germany has joined the list of countries reporting alma crohn as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. that's according to the countries disease prevention center, the robert cock institute. with such a rapid spread, german health minister car lauterbach has urging those not yet vaccinated to get the jap. jeremy saw record number of new cove at 19 cases on friday, with more than 92000 infections. experts say measures like masks and distancing, have helped to contain the advance of alma crohn, but more might be required. and the german health minister said on friday that current restrictions are preventing the worst of the 4th wave. the seal is this. the goal is to stretch out the inevitable guy from that, which is the increasing number of omicron cases who stricken and reduce it in such a way that we get through this wave with as few casualties as possible. vic coleman

. and from what we're seeing so far, so the actions we've taken are having the desired effect of whoever. nevertheless, there is no reason to sound the all clear and i'm going to throw in the wrong deed abuse. a ton of sparrow is following this story for us. hi thomas. we're seeing these record infection numbers here in germany. what more did health officials have to say about the situation? actually, health officials here in berlin held a press conference not long ago to me in which the different sides of germany's corona virus crisis were evident. on the one hand, the fact that germany has not been as affected as other european countries. by the current on the kron situation. we saw the health minister there himself stress, that current measures are actually effective. and they have helped precisely to make sure that that wave is not as bad as we've seen in other parts of europe. yet at the same time, the situation is very difficult. health officials stressing that germany will be in

very difficult territory, that the numbers of infections will continue to increase, that hospitals and labs will probably be overwhelmed. and that the situation will continue to develop in a negative way. and that, that's why authorities still have to be careful and look at what measures can or could be implemented to try and stop this record an infection that's important to me to stress. it's a 3rd consecutive day here in germany that we see this record numbers of infections . and as such, it is indeed a very difficult situation for the countries apart. difficult indeed. i mean, how is the country coping with the surge? well actually there were some measures implemented not long ago, for example, to restrict what people can do in public life, for example, where they can go to restaurants, what they need to do to go to, to restaurants, of the public places. and that's something that for many germans is positive,

in fact, between 40 and 45 percent of german, depending on, on different polls that you see say that current measures here in germany and now adequate with the rest. saying that they either go too far or don't go far enough. it'll be interesting to see to me what authorities do in the next few days, and in the next few weeks, when germany sees that strong increase in corona virus pace is driven by the army chron. variant as we heard from the country, public health institute, the robot cough institute and whether new measures are actually necessary. as we see those numbers increase will just over 72 percent of germans have 2 shots of the vaccine in the government's aim is to reach 80 percent. why is that target proving so hard to reach? in particular, because there are still many unvaccinated people around 20 percent of, of germans still have not received a vaccination. and in fact, something that the german authorities stress today here in berlin as it domain has a particularity, and that particularity is a high number of older people who are, who have refused to take their vaccination. so that's obviously one of the reasons

why authorities time and time and again and again today in that press conference, stress the need for people to actually take up the offer and get the vaccination. also older germans who may be at risk d. debbie's hemisphere reporting for us there is always good to talk to you the landmark ruling by a court in germany convicting assyrian officer, 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 protests and 2011. that escalated into all out civil war. following a shaky truce, italy 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 mat 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 the mikey corona from me mother and i was, and whenever i had these people think i've infected them every day, thousands of children scoured 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 since it lip is the last opposition stronghold in syria. islamists control the province. despite the ceasefire, there are frequent reigns 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 rene 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. good, while us ironing money on your own is difficult, but i think sometimes people help me carry the bags of trash. yeah. my siblings

help to widens some days. we find stuff explore other days. we don't what our day by the know what the known bad know what madam. he heads 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 lee. and i love, i don't like working with trash than is that 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 that would be meaningful. does that mean sally? and that is so, but that will probably remain a dream for

a con and thousands of other children in it live. we could speak now to kristin hell berg. 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? well, 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 the 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 8 steps is enabling turkey to deliver direct humanitarian aid into it for another 6 months. this is the good news. the bad news is that we have a rising number,

all air strikes by the russian military, for example, on the 2nd most generally, for example, a very important water pumping station was hit. so it left 300000 people without water. so the assad regime and rush on seemed to be determined to regain somehow control over this province. we know that it lip is the last region that is not under our sides control. who is the opposition and how strong are they? will the defect of government is the so called salvation government, which was formed by h t. it's hired to heidi at a time, which is the most important or powerful is the mas group there, it's used to be an al qaeda 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 effect 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 am basically, the problem is that we see in the international climate now that there are really some efforts of rehabilitation, the saturday there is talks about re entry or syria into the arab league. neighboring countries are opening up the i re establishing their ties with the regime in damascus. jordan egypt, the united arab emirates. so this is my, the verdict of confidence from yesterday actually is very important because it makes clear that whoever is willing to open up on to deal with this regime is dealing with perpetrators of war, again, of crimes against humanity. chris and halbert speaking to us earlier.

now tennis star novak joke of ich, is facing deportation after the australian government cancelled a visa for a 2nd time. the decision comes after days of uncertainty and controversy surrounding the world. number one's covered 19th status and a medical exemption he received from australian open tournament organizers. the australian immigration minister said he had revoked the visa on grounds of public interest. joke of it, who was unvaccinated, is due to start his defense of his australian open title. and let's get the latest with tennis commentator, steve pierce in melbourne. hi steve. so novak joke of it's a visa has been cancelled again. tell us more about the immigration ministers decision soon. the immigration ministers decision which came through late afternoon on a friday afternoon in melbourne. he says that he decided on this occasion to re cancel if you like a joke, which is visa was done on health and good order grounds,

which was an interesting title on the situation. especially given that the original reason the federal government didn't want josh, which in the country is never actually being tested. but nevertheless, he has chosen to cancel the visa, but that doesn't in any way. mean an immediate deportation of never jock a bitch, his lawyers of immediately challenged that decision and there's been a federal circuit court. 3 directions hearing this evening, which is heard a little bit more detail on why the minister chose to, to re canceled that these are. and one of those reasons that he guy was that there was a very rude risk of inciting. and she vaccinations sentiment by chuck a bit, staying in the country. it's really unclear what happens from here. but what is clear is that novak joker beach has an 8 a m appointment with immigration officials to yet another entity. ok, so you're saying it's unclear what happens from here, but could you take us perhaps through some of the possible scenarios,

i mean could no back joke of which be deported? yes, he could. and he could also play in the astrology and either so it could go one or 2 different ways and the judge in within the federal court. this will now go to the federal court. and the judge seems very aware that the tournament starts on monday . and although this is extremely unusual, and it seems that the court is of the understanding that they do have to man likely quickly side for the weekend. they've got this extraordinary situation of an interview jock, which is being permitted to be at his lawyers office tomorrow. and he will do so, i think until around 2 o'clock, melvin local time. after that it's unclear whether he would then be taken back into detention if a decision is still not been made by the federal court. so i suppose it is the obvious thing, isn't it? that this could go a number of different ways, but does those, the particular ways it could go is joker beach could be completely clear, immediately hold that these are and then that would be at the australian open. he

could complete all the federal court, could find very much on the government side and back up their decision to cancel his bings, in which case he would almost undoubtedly be deported to morrow pending. when that decision comes down from the federal court. quick last question, steve, what a stroke of it's saying about all of us. he's not made any public statement to. 3 to this point, i don't think i'd be very surprised while the court proceedings are on the way whether he chooses to make any public statement. i'm sure his legal thing are advising against that. so i think anything we hear from now until the court case is done will come out through through the proceedings of the federal court, tennis commentator, steve pierce with the latest there from melbourne. thank you. thank since a reminder now of our top story, russian foreign minister survey lab rob is demanding a written response from the us and nato to insecurity demands over the alliances eastwards expansion. that comes after a week of high level diplomacy that produce no results, nor did it ease tensions over russia's presence on the border to ukraine. coming up

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