now live in independent countries. what remains of the soviet ideology, and how did they live with its legacy? to dream hope and reality of the breakout generation. reporter to day on d. w. ah . ah, this is g w. news ally from berlin, willy stay or will he go, was trailing authorities prepared to make a final decision on whether tennis, char novak jock of edge can stay in the country a day before he set to play in the australian open. also coming up,

washington warns moscow was creating a pretext to invade ukraine again. intelligence officials say russia is preparing a false flag operation. after week of talks aimed at diffusing tension ends in deadlock and as covert 19 surges in india, thousands of pilgrims take the risk in bathing the river ganges as part of a hindu festival. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome. australian authorities have said a sunday morning court hearing to decide whether tennis star novak doc, a bench will be removed from the country, jock of which has returned to a government detention center after another interview with immigration. officials on friday, the australian government cancel jock adventures visa over cupboard 19 entry rules for a 2nd time. the top seated tennis player who is unvaccinated is hoping to overturn

that decision in order to defend his title at the australian open, which begins on monday. earlier i spoke to journalist tonya lee in melbourne and asked her about jack vicious trances in his final court hearing on sunday morning in australia, where he will be questioned by 3 judges. i can't predict what the courts are likely to say and do tomorrow, but i spoke to legal experts who tell me that joker beach has a very good chance of staying. mary crawl, who's a professor of public law at the university of melvin us are sydney brother told me earlier today that judges feel that the government is not playing just weak joker beach and, and that they applying the court to use the judicial system to frustrate joker bit by slowing his case down and bringing action at the last minute and professor crops isn't this, isn't it. and that this is a denial of justice. many of jack ventures,

fellow tennis players, have been expressing frustration over the prolong legal battle. they say they'd like to see the focus of attention be put back on the actual australian open tennis tournament. no, like joe garbage is a, is a, is one of the best players of the history without a doubt but days, no one play and he studied. that's it. that's, that's more important than, than an event and understand the perspective from those sharing people to sherman government. but australian government and the victorian government should have been clear on what is going to happen beforehand. and i think it's not very fair to for person to come here and not be able to play. i yeah, i think that all this could have been avoided like we like, we've all done by getting vaccinated and doing all the things we had to do to come here in australia because everybody knew very clearly the rules. the united states

is warning that russia is preparing possible sabotage efforts in ukraine that could justify a potential new invasion. us intelligence officials say moscow would then blame the government in kiev as a pretext to launch new attacks against the country. it comes after a week of talks between russia and the west, failed to diffuse a tense situation that began when russia began. massing troops on ukraine's border hears pentagon spokesman john kirby. we have information that they preposition, a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. an operation is designed to look like an attack on them or their peep or russian speaking people in ukraine, again as an excuse to, to go in the kremlin denies it's planning sabotage, operations and ukraine. russia and it's localize,

invaded and occupied part of southern and eastern ukraine in 2014. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news at this hour. north korean state media say the country conducted a ballistic missile test on friday. the launch from a railway car was it 3rd launch since the year began. south korea and officials said they detected to short range missiles. that's prompted the u. s. recall for further sanctions on pyongyang. 3 people have been wounded in a stabbing attack outside of school in the japanese capital. tokyo police have arrested a 17 year old in connection with the incident. the victims were to students and an elderly man whose reportedly in serious condition to nami, waves have reached the pacific island of tomba after the rupture of an undersea volcano. new zealand has also issued us unami warning for its coastal areas. the hunger tonga, hunger ha,

a pie volcano has triggered chevrolet to nami warnings. in recent days. dutch prime minister mach router says the neville netherlands will relax. some of the toughest covered restrictions in europe, hospitalizations have dropped despite or surgeon amok. on various cases, shops, jim's hair dressers and sports clubs will now be allowed to do business until 5 pm . well, germany saw a record number of new coven 19 cases on friday, with more than 92000 infections. as joined the list of countries reporting amok on as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases with so many new infections demand has jump for piece your testing. and that's pushing german laboratories to their limit. isn't yet everywhere. lab chief yann's hydrate looks urgent. pc artists awaiting one are almost all the samples from people who might have covered 19 on

the upper floor. technicians extract the arnie from test swabs and concentrated below. come eval mountains of samples. a grueling tossed with 4000 pcr tests each day, medical clinics, testing facilities and individuals. it's the volume and duration of the crisis that's been so overwhelming. me. i'm here moment at the moment. we're all hands on deck that people who start crying that break down. they're so overloaded that they just really need to break and all the typo to combat all the stress. hydro has set up a special wellness room. twice a week. a missouri comes to help the overworked pci test team needing to counteract the repetitive motions of testing. thought of as it is a bit, particularly when they do this movement is that the muscle here in the ball with thumb become stiff. some can't even open their hands by evening hunt. ultima high numbers, exacting precision. and total concentration in shifts from 6 in the morning till

midnight lab work at the limit. but in the engine room of testing, humanity is always at the center. it, i am going behind every testing person, storing a fear, a patient and the child. i'm an old woman saying hopefully i don't have it on the chrome. hopefully i dont have delta at his desk. finally, some quiet hydration goes through the labs results. every 3rd test is positive, mostly with m a crone. that's why the team, it's vital that the increasingly scarce p c r test go to those who really need them . then to get anyone who's just curious or wants to go on holidays. for example, i got the thing that's appropriate at the moment. people with real symptoms should be the ones getting tested for yamaha, and it's for them that everyone here will be back at it again. to morrow. a quick look now add some of the latest developments in the crone of irish demick starting today. frances a, requiring a booster shot to be considered fully vaccinated and be allowed entry to restaurants and trains. half a 1000000 people are set to have their health passed,

deactivated the u. s. health agency. the cdc is urging americans to where the most protective mass that are available to them. and brazil has begun vaccinating 5 to 11 year olds after weeks of delay. due to president boston, narrow govern, balsa narrows governments reluctant to endorse child immunization to northern india. now where tens of thousands of hindu pilgrims have gathered for a festival that includes bathing in the ganges river, that's despite a huge jump in covey. 19 infections. a look now at how pilgrims and the authorities are dealing with the amok on very, which is driving the search. 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, no, i have now. people are standing here on the banks of the river and roaming around without any masks. nobody is following the guidelines. laughlin announcements are being made to urge people to wear masks. what can the government do? nobody is following the rules and equally miser, megan asenia. india has recently had a massive surgeon corona virus, cases filled by the army chron variant from an average of 8000 new cases a day in november to well over 200000. now some devotees are unfazed because i'm not up, aren't you scared of the corona virus? i'm not scared of it knowing 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 critic 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 that that indicates that there was a guy that did ng, those prayers will be desperately needed to keep this festival from becoming another super spreader event corresponded done. namisha. joyce, well on now joins me from dela namisha. it sounds like the government has decided that the political risk of offending hindu voters by shutting down or limiting the festival is worse than the health risk of allowing a potential super spreader event. my good,

that is what many critics believe maybe driving the decision of the state government to allow for this specimen to continue in the state of the issue which is going to be going to election based on. and this comes at a time when the need a actually band of woolly didn't during an auspicious day in the city of high blood, which was the site or what turned out to be another stimulus, who was better meant not steal unit in yet. and we not both local authorities and system, they're doing anything possible to anal people to attend to really why sticking michael would want to cause that is why testing there's commas training, they won't even required to bring vaccinations. go to the kids and recent ard, you see artists as well. but of course, as we can see from the wish was, this is very hard to enforce that a pre mosque being distributed, but many actual thing not to wear them. so to me. sure. what is the government doing to curb the spread of the, on the con? very well all restrictions right now. like who are being made by the state.

governments themselves, many have shut down restaurants, gin, public transport and put restrictions on market basis as well as well. places me to cities like getting in room, i would just seen shop quite at one so in stored might go here with us, but it's we can book, it was like we one great now lose out with lose down in the city. but yes, now let's continue to write down. he had lost aborted. it was a 20 percent, which means that 3 of 10 people been tested in day right now. are dawning all caused it. thank you very much. that's a d w correspondence measured joyce. well, in delhi, some sport now and push your dorman kicked off when the slager match. they 19 with what look like a tough game against visitors, fryeburg. but dorman made light work of the leagues joint best defense to put themselves just 3 points behind leaders. buyer, who plane cologne on saturday. dormant coach marco rosa was greeted with open arms

by fryeburg counterpart christian strike ahead of this one. but even rosa would have been shocked at the visitor's 1st half charity to mom in years. simple header from julian brown's corner broke the deadlock on 14 minutes. the same combination repeated the trick. 15 minutes later, to nail dormant and strikes, mood had turned. fryeburg eyes were understandably on earling holland. but the big belgian was there again for his 2nd of the game and of the season. right on half time, jude bellingham put holland through and to sublime touches. later it was 3 nil. the norwegians 14th legal of the seas, not the black and yellows. taking a rear, strolled on easy street, dormant being dormant things couldn't be too straightforward. fryeburg pill to go back through our med in the meat of which to set up a navy last half hour. but holland made the point safe with 15 minutes to go.

before moda who completed the route 51, the final score a chastening defeat for fryeburg and another welcome 3 points for holland and co as they remain on biomass trail. some more switch for you next when switch live. take a look at why football hassey take head injuries seriously. we'll have more news at the top of the hour until then a michael oke, who invalid from me and the rest of the news team here. thanks so much for watching . can stay with d. w. ah .