worried about the planet a meal host of the on the grievance, both coast and to me it's clear we means to change the solutions or output. join me for deep dive into the green trends formation. for me to do with ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. washington warns moscow is creating a pretext, or 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, despite a surgeon coven, 19 in india. thousands of hindu pilgrims take the risk and faith in the river ganges as part of a holy festival. and another twist in the novak joke which saga, the tennis star back in detention after australian authorities cancel his visa a 2nd time. ah. hello, i'm claire richardson, welcome to the show. united states is warning that russia is preparing possible, sabotaged efforts in ukraine that could justify a potential invasion us intelligence officials claim moscow was planning to frame the government in kiev as a pretext for invade further into ukraine. let's hear more from

a pentagon spokesperson on what washington believes russia has plant. we have information that they've preposition, a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. m. o. an operation are 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 and a crown when has now responded to those allegations and denied its planning sabotaged 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 its 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. it is on the liver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. lucas did not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for

the western world. going 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 a shoe. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly precisely and on paper. and they have understood that we are not going to wait forever search. of course, there are plans to drug it on and on, 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 houston, ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border

talks seem futile. the some, 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 needed positive all at them. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign. a compromise can be reached. earlier dw spoke to undress rod se senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations. he told us more about russia's fears of nato's eastward expansion. from trying to discuss or understand the russian perspective. one needs to remember that ever since 2008 need to has a valid promise taking in georgia and ukraine on board. i mean, they made a clean and committed once georgia and ukraine would be member of that lives. there is no deadline, but that's the debt, but the promise is still there and the promises that it and russia keeps

considering me to as crime or a military threat. and it was so sore potential danger for territory and for the safety of the rational the ration from russia perspective and future accession, are you going to need to indeed, or 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 the, by russia, as well as eastern your brain right now, it doesn't seem to be nice to get all the way to make it to be alliance any time, so still rush even the possibility of that. so we can turn our attention now to some of the other stories making headlines at this hour. a u. s. judge has ordered jail, drug firm executive, martin shelly, known as the farmer, bro, to return over $64000000.00 in profits, from raising the price of

a life saving drug by some 4000 per cent. in 2017, he was convicted of lying to investors and is now serving a 7 year sentence. united nations says at least 108 civilians have been killed this month in a series of government air strikes and ethiopia as war torn t gr i region un is calling on ethiopian authorities to better protect civilians saying failure to do so. could amount to war crimes 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 lockdown, johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over the events. it is emerged that 2 gatherings took place last april on the night before the funeral of the queen's husband, prince philip and dutch prime minister mach rutisse, as the netherlands bill relax. some of the toughest coven restrictions in europe

hospitalizations have dropped despite a surgeon, omicron variant cases. now shops, jim's hair dressers, and sports clubs will be allowed to do business until 5 pm and to northern india. now where tens of thousands of hindu pilgrims have gathered for a holy festival, and includes bathing in the ganges river at a, despite a huge jump in coven 19 infections there. our next report is going to look at how pilgrims and the authorities are dealing with the o micron variant, which is driving the surge. ah, tens of thousands of people come together to take the holy dip under the watchful eye of police. in some places, authorities have sent up drones to sprinkle holy water on devotees, so they don't come too close to one another. but not everyone is listening to the authorities. yeah,

avenue cut now. now people are standing here on the banks of the river and roaming around without any masculine, nobody is following the guideline. laughlin announcements are being made to urge people to wear masks. what can the government do? nobody is following the rule of negro mazda mignon. asenia, india has recently had a massive surgeon corona virus cases, fueled by the army kron variant from an average of 8000 new cases, a day in november to well over 200000. now some devotees are unfazed. i couldn't without aren't you scared of the corona virus. i'm not scared of it. all right. why not? i believe it's a disease from the past and nothing else. dozens of police and cleaning staff at the festival have already tested positive for the virus. critics say the government has allowed the festival to go ahead despite the health risks out of

fear of offending its hindu voter. base wickenburg once a, but then i got, we are praying to the gods that corona virus will end her mouth your mom and that we become free of this pandemic, beaming. and we can resume our lives like before this. i didn't think it was a bit less aig without getting those prayers will be desperately needed to keep this festival from becoming another super spreader event. and australian authorities have set a sunday morning court hearing to decide whether tennis star novak joke of it will be removed from the country. on friday. the australian government cancel joke which is vsa over cove at 19, and she rolls for a 2nd time. and the 20 time grand slam champion has now 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. no, dec, jock of it's 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 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 no, vic, jock of it's his last appearance on center court in melbourne 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 to some i'm 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 an 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'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 contin need prisons in the country couldn't site. so the demonstrations or, or energized that and see vaccination part of the community. which in turn, the government says, could cause a serious health concerns from, from people that are continuing to, to not backs of night. it's a really fascinating change whether there will be more that comes out in a full hearing and that there'll be other matters as well. but certainly that was the focus last night. so joke of h to face 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 paula. i was in class to say the least. it's, it's, you know, everyone seems to come down one side. you know that i'd say more people are on the and see no back side. the more on the probably never excited to say that this would probably be vastly different if this was roger federal ref on the job would be an understatement joker, which 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 con, trends occasion around whether joe can be, can have the, the job or no. and most people here of course, have had the job is very high vaccination, right? and then not really understanding why they seem to be different rules for job itch as opposed to everyone else. so that's kind of the, the broader view, but exactly what the judge decides is of course what's going to be very important

critical in this case, state peers joining us from melbourne. thank you so much for that update. pleasure here watching the news. reminder of the top story we're falling for you wanting to en, says moscow is planning to frame ukraine's government in such a way that would justify a russian invasion. it comes after a week of diplomacy between russia and western powers. and it with no, thank you news news update at this that were coming up next is world stories that he said here for that. and you can find more on social media at with instagram and twitter and play richardson and berlin from the team. thanks for joining us with

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