ah m ah ah ah, this is either we news lying from berlin hard deadline, russia puts the west on notice mosque. our warrens is time is running out to demand its security demands. after a week of high level diplomacy ends in deadlock,

all sides refusing to give ground to avoid conflict in ukraine. also coming up germany briggs, a new single, the corporate case record. but despite the $92000.00 new infections, germany's health minister and system government measures are paying off, stopping the current 5th way from being a lot worse. and the lasting effects of versus migration stand up with euro. we meet a psychologist in berlin, helping a young family process, the trauma of their long journey from afghanistan. also, another twists in the novak jock of h saga. the australian government canceled his visa for a 2nd time. a star is now fighting deportation just days before the australian open is due to begin. ah,

and my lark, thank you so much for your company, everyone. and we begin with those diplomatic talks that have reached a dead end. russia has upped the pressure on western powers in a diplomatic showdown over ukraine. a week of diplomacy has failed. cheese or breakthrough. the kremlin once a halt to nato's eastward enlargement and is seeking a written response to its security demands by next week. but the west is refusing to budge, and so the kremlin is keeping its troops in place on the ukrainian border. 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 u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing to be longer liver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it does not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. mongol to younger the kremlin says it's defending itself and at once 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 drag it on and on the shoes, which is 2 things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea. in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists in eastern new crane for those ukrainians, living close to the russian border talks seemed futile. sir, listen, shall 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. 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. well, i mean, time e foreign ministers have been meeting in the french city of breast to come up with a unified response to russia's military build up on the ukrainian border. here's how the blocks top diplomat, joseph burwell, described europe's position. we are in a watershed mommy, a critical moment that will be of proof for europe to be able to act as a political actor. did european union certainly have ready to respond directly to any aggression but our preference and natural pass according was our natur. is that the author dialogue and negotiations? there was a use a topper diplomat just for us beating moments ago. did you say so?

is in breast france, lisa, mr. morale, describing this as a critical moment. a watershed moment on europe is firmly in the side lies. well, absolutely. people here have been talking to each other. they have been trying to find a common position, but it's been very difficult for you to be taken seriously on an international level at the press conference. right now, we heard that you were standing in solidarity with ukraine, that they were reaffirming european principles of security. that they were actively working on further economic sanctions and they want to be taken seriously and get into the negation, negotiating room. that's been very difficult this week as if at all they got a back seat during these negotiations which have mostly taken place between russia

and the u. s. directly introducing possibly more sanctions or that is of course what you've been reporting and now. but i mean in terms of the pallet of what the you can do that is really, really narrowing. now. absolutely, and the e is so banking on dialogue as we just heard at the german foreign minister is going to go to kia to ukraine and russia over the coming days. enjoy the, the, the french foreign minister has also just confirmed that france and germany would go jointly to ukraine over the coming few days. so they're really trying to multiply contact with the different side. but it looks like that's pretty much everything they can do. they're really banking on appeasing the situation, coming things down so that things can go back to normal and they don't have to take any further measures. lisa, we are reporting from breast or france,

so thank you very much for that update. let's get you more analysis. now, did you, chief international affairs editor, richard walker joins is now, richard, were these talks doomed from the get go? what layla and i don't think so. i mean, we've had a really intense weak of diplomacy, but it was never really to be expected that you would have some kind of massive breakthrough after these initial meetings. we, if we pull back and have a look at what we have here, as we saw in the report earlier, we've had russia massing troops alongside the border with ukraine. then kind of pinning the presence of those troops on the border to a set of demands making that it's making to the west, which would really kind of re architect the entire security set up of europe trying to make demands, such as that nato not expand any further to the east or to rule out forever,

ukraine joining nato. now this is an incredibly difficult thing for nato to consider. essentially, it crosses a red line because one of the principles of nato, as an alliance of democracies, is that every sovereign state has the right to choose its own alliances. so these are the kind of positions that went into this week of diplomacy across the table for each other. it from each other in all of these different settings. you have the us and russia bilaterally meeting and geneva, you had nato and russia. and also this, this grouping, the organization for security and cooperation, your of the o. s. c, e, and russia as well, or during the course of the week. so essentially what we have in the end of the week is both sides sort of having set out their stores or the russians making these very, very major demands the west by large, staying very united, in rejecting those both sides. now essentially, going back home with some thinking to do with some thinking to do. in the meantime,

richard of germany's foreign minister will travel to moscow. i understand for talks on you cree, what could she possibly hope to achieve? yeah, that's right. so and alina barebones, germany's new foreign minister will be not just going to moscow, but also going to keep to ukraine itself, partly, to present herself as the you foreign minister. but of course, this crisis is going to be absolutely top of the agenda. now there's one thing that the germans really want to achieve, and that is to get to revive one of the diplomatic for formats which had essentially almost died towards the end of last year, which is called the normandy format. and that is having the french, the germans, the russians, and the ukrainians all around the table as a means of trying to, to find solutions to the conflict over ukraine. now, the germs of the french are very keen to get this back up and running again. but we've also just heard from the ukrainians today that they want to start up talks

between the ukrainians, the russians, and the americans. so we could have a certain matter confusion about what is really the forum to try and make progress in this, in the weeks and months ahead. in a few words, if you can. i mean, is it with the rhetoric being so amped up at times and, you know, talk about ultimatums and non starters. how difficult will it be to walk back from these respective positions in the weeks to come and avoid a possible military, a conflict we're it's, it's definitely going to be tough layla, where we look at these, these demands of the russians have made for vladimir putin in particular to make these demands public and then to walk back from them without losing face is going to be difficult. but that's going to be the aso diplomacy in the weeks ahead for the west to try to persuade him to do exactly that. i did every chief international affairs editor, richard or walker. thank you very much. richard o, u k. meanwhile, says a number of its government websites have been targeted in

a major cyber attack. he says, no personal data was leaked so far. there has been no claim of responsibility. ukraine's foreign ministry says it's 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. european union has condemned the cyber attack when, until you know, but the other stories in the news right now. north korea says it has fired to short range ballistic missiles into the sea is the country's 3rd missile test this month . young yang said it was exercising legitimate self defense. after the u. s. announced it was imposing new sanctions. north korea's neighbors including japan, have condemned. the latest missile tess, queen might get it that the 2nd has celebrated 50 years on the throne, making her denmark's 2nd longest serving monarch sheet and it is socially distant

ceremony to mark the date. queen margareta is seen as a unifying figure in denmark with some 75 percent of people supporting the monarchy . a guy in the office of british prime minister board johnson has apologized to the royal family after revelations of more staff parties, while the country was under lockdown. the prime minister is facing growing pressure to resign over the events which are under investigation is emerged to gatherings took place last april on the night before the funeral for prince philip. the queen's husband. you're watching, you know, we knew still ahead. no bad jock of it is australian visa is cancelled for a 2nd time on this dime on grounds of public interest. but he hasn't been to put it yet. we'll get the latest on the serbian at tennis start saga. but 1st, germany has joined the list of countries reporting,

omicron as the dominant corona virus, variance. now accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. that's according to the countries disease prevention center, the robert cough institute. while with such a rapid spread, german health minister car lauterbach is urging those not yet vaccinated to get the shot. germany saw record number of new cove in 1000 cases on friday, with more than 92000 infections. experts say measures such as masks and distancing, have helped to contain the advance of alma crohn, but more may be required. german health minister carlotta boss said on friday that current restrictions are preventing the worst of the 5th wave take, wasn't the feel issues. the goal is to stretch out the inevitable guided, which is the increasing number of army kron 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 action we've taken are having the desired effect to evolve. nevertheless, there is no reason to sound the all clear and then going to turn down like to welcome. now professor frank alicia montgomery. he is the chairman of the world medical association. doctor, thank you for taking the time to talk to us daily infections in germany as you know, have reached a new high looking ahead. do you see this pace continuing? yes, definitely. i mean, we have been warned, similar developments have been seen in the united states in the u. k. in denmark, in france. and it's now hit germany, and germany has a fairly low vaccination rate. it was just over 70 percent of the people vaccinated . we have a very strong antibiotics movement, so we are looking into a grim months now with the danger of a lot of infection and danger of

a lot of disease and as a health professional, when it comes to om across, what will you be watching for in the coming weeks? well actually we're looking at it in a very ambiguous way. on one hand, the high content yells at the high, the fact that so many people are infected together with the fact that they are not as sick or as ill as they are with other rides of this virus. this taken together means we will have much more infections, but probably not as many cases in the hospital and on intensive care. so in the long run, this will lead to the immunization of the population, which is something we really, really definitely want because it expectation of the next wave and expectation of next order. we want to have a high immunization rate in the whole population. so we're worried about the next month, but in the long run this might help us to get into an endemic situation, which is much better for the country and much better for the people. ok,

here are 2 topics that i want to address with you. let's start 1st with the vaccination. germany is debating as you know, a vaccine mandate. you are a strong proponent, why? well, the own it would be dangerous to simply let the virus go through the population. we have seen the castle to rates in countries like the u. k or in other areas where they still have a casualty rate, which is about 50 percent higher than that of germany. germany has had 824100000 population in the 1st 3 waves. whereas countries like the u. k. had more than $200.00, so we are much better off, but we have less immunization in the population. so therefore we do not want to have the virus run through the population. we want to vaccinate the population, and now we have the strong discussion with texas. we have to convince them we've tried to have a year to discuss with them. and now it is time to be

a little bit more stringent in trying to introduce a mandatory vaccination. and dr. in the beginning of the pandemic, the focus was very much on reducing infections. bring it down to the lowest possible level. spain, as you might know, is rethinking that strategy at the moment. should house authorities, you feel, adapt policies where we now start to move towards an endemic status? yes. once we have reached the end of a status, you can change the strategy. that is perfectly all right. and maybe countries like spain, perhaps the u. k have reached this stage, we haven't yet, so don't do the 2nd step before the 1st. now we have to achieve high immunization in the whole population and then we can discuss about and then the state. and then we can relieve a lot of the measures which we have in place here in germany. now,

as you know, in my final question to you a doctor, we are currently here in germany experiencing a 5th wave of the corona virus. can it still be stopped? no, that is that is too late because with the contact y'all, city of this virus. if we see 90000 new infections report it, there are definitely many more without being reported because we also have a, a problem in acquiring sufficient p. c. artists. so this, this virus will now go through the population and when it hits vaccinated people, it will be deadly and dangerous. so there is nothing we can stop this way, but we can prevent further waves and that is so important. and this is can only be done by reducing contacts because the virus still needs 2 people, one who is infecting and one who is infected. and if you reduce please contact. so we can slow down the immunization of the population,

which is important. and then of course, we have to do everything to prevent the next wave, which will be in summer autumn of 2022. dr. franco has montgomery, a chairman of the world medical association. we appreciate you taking out the time to answer questions. thank you, sir. thank you very much. my pleasure. the european union border agency says illegal border crossings world last year to reach their highest level since 2017. the agency says nearly 8000 people came into the block from deliveries . they, you accuses the government admins flying in migrants from the middle east and then sending them illegally to the polish border. while the number of people attempting to cross the border has now slowed to a trickle. many people i believe to be still stuck in dire conditions on the validation side. did i mean he was talk to an afghan women who came to germany via

bell bruce and it's still traumatized by her harrowing journey hug for comfort? psychologist maria has shown jack welcomes an afghan family in berlin. they were trapped on the border between belarus and poland. the mother lost her unborn child well in a polish asylum center. loyalty. they are still afraid, afraid of having to go back to their country. afraid of having to go back to poland, afraid that they won't be understood with their problems yet highly. when there is so much fear, woman, it is very hard to start a therapy with nice as reference that up yet. e, you, los, as the family should apply for asylum in poland, the 1st member state they entered, but the family say they spent weeks enclosed asylum centers there, and lack of medical assistance caused the woman's miscarriage. they felt they had no choice,

but to go to germany. we say that if you are reporting us back to bowling, we will not go. you will have to will send us bank level honest on but not full in because we have rated bed time from the poland bay to read experience. i lost my child. we had nothing to eat. re what we were suffered a lot, maria, cause shown jack is helping the family with their asylum case. she says the uncertainty is taking a mental toll on them. of aidan, as negotiated. it's probably one of the worst things that can happen. he's putting them in a long limbo after very traumatic experiences. they don't know what will happen to them in their kids. it's like postponing their fears. i'm a little caveat. glen cove, she hopes that more stability will make the therapy more effective and that the family can come to terms with their ordeal. yes,

failure government has cancelled novak jock of the chairs visa for a 2nd time. the tennis world number one is due to be taken into the custody of immigration officials in a matter of hours, his pursuit of a record breaking 21st grand slam title. now hanging on a last ditch court appeal. just days before he's a striding open title. defense was due to begin novick, jock of it's trained on center court, still waiting for the straight in government's decision. it came late in the day in australia and landed with seismic impact, the strategy and minister for immigration. alex hawk canceled. mr. joker bitches visa on health and good order grounds. and on the basis he concluded it was in the public interest to do so. it's now unclear whether this was novick jock of it's his last appearance on st. a court in melbourne this year. that will be established when an appeal against his 2nd visa cancellation lands back in the legal courts on

sunday. before that he will be taken into some form of detention by australian border force officials. however, the judge and respective lawyers interpret the use of legal language in melbourne on the streets of belgrade. the people's judgment is clear of all did, and i'm disgusted and angry because i did not expect that they would treat the best tennis player like this. i think he did not deserve this the near the forger talk on it. oh, he serves australia no longer exists. if you have a cousin or a river that you should just forget about them. and so a drama for the ages continues in melbourne. the final chapter of a legal fight that may shape sporting history. no shortage of drama there. mark meadows formed it over your sport, sir, joins me to try and make sense of all this facing deportation. were you surprised that the australian authorities decided for a 2nd time running he's got to go?

no, i wasn't surprised mainly because they'd already tried. i mean, originally they tried because he said he had a, an exemption from being vaccinated or to play in the tournament. but actually that didn't actually get him into the country, but then he won his 1st appeal. the judge signed in with him based on a technicality. this time the strain is of kind of going to bit different. they've kind of studies of public health issue, a public interest if you of course, since the 1st court case, we've had a couple of developments. we've heard that actually no activity was positive for covered in december, but went and did an interview breaking isolation rules. we've also heard that actually the form that he filled in to come into his trailer, said he only been in service in the 14 days prior. it actually been training in spain. there's lots of photographs, some pictures of him in spain. he says that was his agent's fault, but he could have checked that himself. now obviously, mister jokers, which in his steam they are going to fight as to the bitter and i think the ass

jillions are as well. i mean, at the moment, jock of it is due to be detained. to morrow, early australian time. we don't know exactly what that detention will mean. does that mean he gets to stay in his hotel? will he go back to the same deportation hotel? he was in, before he's having an interview with border force officials, that's what it's basically been been labeled as. but people will think, why is it got to this stage? you know, joke if it could have just got vaccinated and none of this would have happened. but he's completely against it. fair enough, others will say, why the assailants, even let him get on the plane to allow this saga to start in the way it has. what impact is all of this? you know, us talking about it? it's being splashed on all these headlines. what impact is it? have it on the tournament? one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world is completely overshadowed. of course, as you know, he's the defending champion, the 9 times champion. it's not the best preparation for him. for his tournament, but if he wins his appeal, don't count him out because of the manny is,

i think his former coach boris becker said it best, you know, if he wins this 2nd appeal, boris becker said the australian public will obviously not welcome him. he has to climb mount everest, but if anyone can do the impossible, it's jock of it to be continued. mike meadows did areas for a 2nd great. catching up with you. thank you. ob, next on d. w. farming in urban areas without soil and we have little water bad and a whole lot more coming up on eco india. i'll see at the top of yeah, ah ah, with

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