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out to meet its security demands. after a week of high level diplomacy ends and deadlock, all sides refusing to give ground to avoid conflict in ukraine. also coming up germany bricks a new single day called with case record. but despite the $92000.00 new infections, germany's health minister insist government measures are paying off stop it the current 5th way from being a lot worse. plus the lasting effect of bella versus migration stand off with europe. we meet a psychologist and berlin helping a young family process, the trauma of their heroine journey from afghanistan. and another twist in the novak top of each side of the australian government councils is visa or 2nd type that in a star is now fighting deportation just days before the australian open is due to start ah,

on way. like thank you so much for your company. russia has up the pressure on western powers in a diplomatic showdown over ukraine. a week of diplomacy has failed to achieve or break through 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, has 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. city longer liver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. among 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 set protests in east in ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seem 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 unusual positive article. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign,

a compromise can be reached. here 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 ukranian border. here's how the blocks top diplomat, joseph burrell, described. europe's position. we are, you know, water should mommy, a critical moment that will be of proof for europe to be able to act as a political actor. did it be a union, certainly ready to respond directly to any aggression but our preference and natural bass according was our natur, his, that the off dialogue and negotiations. there was a use, a topic diplomat, joseph ross meeting moments ago did obviously. so we 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 negative 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, 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. calming 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 of your

chief international affairs editor richard walker joins is now richard, were these talks do 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 setup 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, bilateral meeting in 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 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. 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, germany's foreign minister will travel to moscow. i understand for talks on you create, what could she possibly hope to achieve?

yeah, that's right. so anna, lena, bear, bog, germany's new foreign minister will be not just going to moscow, but also going to key of to ukraine itself, partly to present herself as the 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 the 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 conflict? we're, it's, it's definitely going to be tough layla. when we look at these, these demands that 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 us with diplomacy in the weeks ahead for the west to try to persuade him to do exactly that. i think every chief international affairs editor, richard walker. thank you very much. richard and ukraine says a number of its government websites have been targeted and 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 see who was behind the attacks.

but says there's a long record of russian cyber salts against ukraine in the past. you can union has condemned to cycle. germany saw a record number of new cove. it 19 cases on friday with more than 92000 infections . it's joined the list of countries reporting armor chron as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. with so many new infections demand has jumped for p. c r testing a, getting a test can be a long wait. these people are waiting to access one of berlin's 11 senate funded test centers. the only place is in the german capital where people can get a free p c. r test. under certain conditions. the high risk of infection warning on their so called corona up a positive rapid test. or if they've been formerly identified as a contact person of someone infected indies, q, most people i infected,

but most of them are so vaccinated and show little to no symptoms. the i can, i had a robot only on my cobit app and my girlfriend tested positive i'm vaccinated and got the booster. but of course i'm worried. i think the berlin city government is not prepared for the current, steep rising infections. and they could of course, open more tests, centers on the kinetic method sent enough anon, non. so we got a quick test from the pharmacy that was positive to sweep bose vaccinated by that. but i wasn't due for my 2nd job until next week. and you're troubling us and i had a positive task yesterday there wait, your is way too long. it should go much quicker. nowadays, everything should go away quicker in this entire queue where people say for 12 hours, i'm really not happy about it. herbs from this new social, the center alone is doing over 800 tests a day. that are other ways to get tested in private facilities. here. dar,

neither cues no waiting time. if you're willing to pay for it. he labord, i'm the cover to did the, the laboratories only have a certain cap city. as of it, we do our best to work with them. if it is argument that the moment it's quite good we go him. yeah, of course it's january, but there will certainly be spikes again in february. he'll be during the winter break or during the easter holidays. here in war through the no sam will surely be difficult again heard really human. despite the situation, the government is confident that it's handling dekaiser swell and better than other countries. info gleiss. so feeling under compared to many other european countries, the p. c. r testing capacity in germany is rather high. in my opinion, we have no shortages here in that regard. of course we're now in a situation where we're approaching the systems full capacity will be on the far lust the steam sun. clayton. with infections to you to the army crown variant on

the rise. japanese bracing again for challenging weeks ahead. 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 a 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 to was just over 70 percent of the people vaccinated . we have a very strong anti raxon movement. so we are looking into a grim months now with the danger of a lot of infection, a danger of

a lot of disease and death as a health professional. when it comes to armor crime, 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 the rights 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, an 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,

hillary to 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. have more than $200.00 this so we are much better off that, 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 any of access. 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've reached the end of a status, you can change the strategy. that is perfectly all right. and maybe countries like spain of 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 content yesterday 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 who reduce these 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 shown montgomery, a chairman of the world medical association. we appreciate you taking out the time to answer a questions. thank you, sir. thank you very much. my pleasure. and here are some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic, hong kong, one of the world's busiest travel hobbs is banning airport transit passengers from some 150 countries. so far, no exceptions have been announced for people planning to travel to the winter olympics. the emily and kingdom of baton has detected its 1st case of the arm across variance at a quarantine facility for foreign tourists and norway is easing some of its restrictions imposed duty on the crown variant, including lifting and alcohol ban at restaurants and pubs. the european

union's war agency says illegal border crossings rose last year to reach their highest level since 2017. the ages he says, nearly 8000 people came into the block from believers that you accuses the government in minsk of flying in migrants from the mid east and then sending them a legally to the polish border. or the number of people attempting to cross the border has now slowed down to a trickle. many people are believed to be still stuck in dire conditions. on the bell russian side. did have a news. talked to an afghan woman who came to germany via bowers and is still traumatized by the journey. a hug for comfort. psychologist maria has shown jack welcomes in afghan family in berlin. they were trapped on the border between bell harris and poland. the mother lost her unborn

child while in a polish asylum center. boiled hopelessly. they are still afraid, afraid of having to go back to their country. afraid of having to go back to poland, her afraid that they won't be understood with their problems. she highly. e. when there is so much fear, woman, it is very hard to start a therapy with noised as average that up yet. e u los, as the family should apply for asylum and 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 poland, we will not go. you will have to will send us big, blunt, honest on but not violin because we have rated bed time from the poland bay to read experience. i lost my child. we had nothing to eat. we want to suffer a lot. pla,

maria. kashana. jack is helping the family with their asylum case. she says the uncertainty is taking a mental toll on them. if aiden as negotiated, it's probably one of the worst things that can happen, putting them in a long limbo after very traumatic experiences. they don't know what will happen to them and their kids. it's like postponing their fears. i'm a little kenyatta langkow. she hopes that more stability will make the therapy more effective and that the family can come to terms with their ordeal. come. here are the other stories that we're keeping an eye on. the office of british prime minister boars, johnson has apologized to the royal family after revelations of more staff parties . of the country was under locked down. from mister johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over the events which are under investigation is emerged to

gatherings to place last april on the night before the funeral for prince philip. the queen's husband. north korea says it has fire to short range ballistic missiles into the sea is the country's 3rd missile test. this month, pyongyang said it was exercising legitimate, self defense. after the us announced it was imposing new sanctions. north korea's neighbors, including japan, have condemned the latest missile, tess, queen marguerite, that a 2nd has celebrated 50 years on the throne, making her denmark's 2nd longest surveying, monarch. she attended a socially distant ceremony to mark the date. queen margareta is seen as a unifying figure in denmark, which some 75 percent of people supporting the monarchy you're selling doesn't, has cancelled no that jack of it's his visa for a 2nd type. 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 raking 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. this trading minister for immigration, alex hawk cancelled mister jack witcher's 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 saint a court in melbourne this year. that will be established when an appeal against his 2nd visa cancellation lands back in the legal court 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 on, 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. you're wanting you to renews. here's a reminder of our top stories this our russian foreign minister, sergei lab roth is demanding a written response from the u. s. and nato, to its security demands over the alliances eastwards expansion. the call comes after a week of high level diplomacy that has produced no tangible results or ease tensions

over russia's presence on the border with ukraine. jeremy has joined the list of countries reporting armor kron as the dominant pro and a virus variance. now accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. that's according to the countries disease prevention center, the robert car institute. they're watching either when it's coming up next sunday, the way news asia, of course in india quits a catholic, bishop accused of raping a nun, a case as drawn, huge attention over allegations of sexual harassment in the church. and pakistan nominates is 1st female supreme court justice. why that matter is a to women in the country all of that a lot more coming up right now with

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