ah, around the world, more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge as to why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin here our top stories, washington warrens moscow, is creating a pretext for an invasion of ukraine intelligence officials claim russia is

preparing a false flag operation after a week of talks aimed at defusing tension ends in deadlock, also coming up on the show, germany breaks a single day covered record. despite $92000.00 new cases, germany's health minister insisted government measures are paying off staffing the current 5th wave from be much worse. and another twist in the novak job of it, soda the tennis star back in detention after australian authorities canceled his visa a 2nd time. ah hello em claire richardson so glad you could join us. the united states is warning that russia is preparing possible sabotage efforts in ukraine that could justify a potential invasion. u. s. intelligence officials,

claim mosque. i was planning to frame the government in care of as an aggressor, as a pretext for invading further into ukraine. let's get further details from the pentagon spokesperson about russia's plans. we have information that they've preposition, a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. or an operation designed to look like an attack on them, or their peep or, or russian speaking people in ukraine, a again as an excuse to, to go in the crime. one has not responded to those allegations and denied its planning sabotage operations in ukraine. russia has also signaled it could walk away from diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. moscow is seeking legal guarantees that need a won't expand eastward and a written response to it. security demands by next week. but with the west refusing to budge the kremlin is keeping its troops in place on ukraine's 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. 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 through 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 sure. i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressive country with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this look when we needed a positive all it. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign, a compromise can be reached. earlier d w, spoke to undress, rots, a senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations, and we asked him about russia's fears of a potential eastward expansion of nato. from trying to discuss or understand a rational perspective, one needs to remember that ever since 2008 need to has a valid promise taking in georgia and ukraine on board. i mean, the board is clearly committed once georgia and you will be member of that lives.

there is no deadline, but that's the debt, but the promise is still down and the promises that it and russia keeps considering me to as crime, very military threat. and also sore potential danger or the territory for the safety of the rational the ration from russia perspective and future accession of you're going to need to indeed go the other question. however, the alliance does not taking any concrete. we had an on going to, we're going to do moment ukraine has to look at maybe the crimea. ok by that, by russia, as well as eastern your brain right now it doesn't seem to be because you couldn't make it to be alliance any time. so still russia, even the possibility of that slave, those tensions for now and to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines at this hour. u. s. a judge has ordered jail drunk from executive martin rally to return over $64000000.00 in

profit. only we're early as notorious for hiking the price of life. saving aids, drugs from 4000 percent as well as defrauding investors. judge also barred him from the pharmaceutical industry for life. the office of british prime minister boris johnson, has apologized for the royal family after revelation of more staff parties. while the country was under lockdown, johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over the events emerged to gatherings took place last april. on the night before the funeral of the queen's husband, prince philip and in germany saw a record number of new coven 19 cases on friday, with more than 92000 infections, and has joined the list of countries reporting omar chron as the dominant corona virus variant now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. and with so many new infections demand house jumped for p. c r testing. but 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 this. so called corona up at positive rapid test. or if they've been formerly identified as a contact person of some one 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 coby dap 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 rise in infections and they could of course, open more tests centers on secret magic mad at central enough anon, non. so we got a quick test from the pharmacy that was positive and to switch bose vaccinated by

that. but i wasn't due for my 2nd job and next week and your trouble go. so i had a positive test yesterday there. wait, your is way too long. it should go much quicker. nowadays, everything should go away quicker in this entire queue or people say for 12 hours. i'm really not happy about it. herbs from this new social dis center alone is doing over 800 tests a day that there 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 capacity. as of it, we do our best to work with them. it is argument that the moment it's quite good. we go him yet, 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 worth of hearing or through the low sam will surely be difficult again heard really to him. despite the situation,

the government is confident that it's handling the crisis well and better than other countries. info glass, so field and on the embeds are 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 for the last, the sustain, some clayton with infections to you to the army crown of area. and on the rise, germany is bracing again for challenging weeks. ahead and let's turn now to the drama that is gripping australia and the world's australian authorities have set a sunday morning court hearing to decide whether tennis star novak joke of edge will be removed from the country. on friday, the australian government cancelled joker ventures visa over cove at 19 entry raw's for a 2nd time. now the 20 time a grand slam champion has handed himself in for detention after

a 2nd interview with immigration officials. just days before he's a striding open title. defense was due to begin. now that jock of each trained on center court still waiting for the australian government's decision. it came late in the day in australia and landed with seismic impact. this trailing minister for immigration. alex hawk cancelled mister 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 no vac jock, of which his last appearance on center court in milton this year that will be established when an appeal against his 2nd visa cancellation lance back in the legal court. on sunday. 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. that 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 brother 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. let's bring in it steve peers, he's been covering the australian open for more than a decade, and he joins us now from now. man, steve, a lot of back and forth in this tennis drama a where do things stand now? claire, it's, it's fascinating. it's one day i just moved to a whole different realm. and here we are again with joking, which i'm being interviewed this morning as we just heard that. and then he'll face a brief directional procedural hearing. we're expecting

a full hearing of the federal court for tomorrow sunday, australia time, which will ultimately decide his fight. but what, what's interesting also here is from what we heard from the brief court hearing loss. no, it is that the government appears to change tack and not be pressing any further on the medical exemption side of what its original problem with showing up in australia is in a more focusing on again what we just had around that an antique vaccination sentiment and the fact that he's continued presence in the country could inside. so the demonstrations all energized that and see vaccination part of the community, which in turn the government says could cause serious health concerns from, from people then continuing to to not back. so it's a really fascinating change, whether they'll be more that comes out in a full hearing and there'll be other matters as well. but certainly that was the focus last night. so joke of it and

a brief federal court hearing this morning and then we understand he'll be in detention in some form or another until that sunday. here. he mentioned those demonstrations are they representative of the national sentiment in general? what are australians making of this case? it's polarizing class to say the least. it's, it's, you know, everyone seems to come down one side, viola. i'd say more people are on the and see no back side. the more on the pro neb excited to say that this would probably be vastly different if this was roger federal ref on the job would be an understatement. brokovich has never been a hugely popular figure down here. and that is, of course, one of these problems around the world is that he's, he's number 3 in that picking order. but you get the sense that most people are of the few that why of the rooms different to him, an outside of the actual detail of, you know, that content cation around whether joe could be, can have the, the job or no. and most people here of course have had the jap is very high

vaccination, right. and then not really understanding why they seem to be different rules for jock of ich, as opposed to everyone else. so that's kind of the, the broad of you, but exactly what the judge decides is, of course what's going to be very important critical in this case state periods. joining us from melbourne, thank you so much for that update. pleasure. and that's your new update. stay tuned for the business headlines that's coming up next with now to my law on and don't forget there's more on our web site did of the dot com or social media that instagram and twitter w news. i'm a richardson in berlin. thank you so much for joining us. these places in europe for smashing the records have been to uphold

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