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volcanic eruption, new zealand and australia sent surveillance plates because communication links with the island are still down. also coming up, germany's foreign minister on a lena bear book heads to ukraine and then to moscow as tensions rise over the build up of russian troops on the border. and the world's men's tennis number one, nova joker, which lands in dubai, after his expulsion from australia. what's next for the serbian player? ah, i'm glad elf as well come to the program. the pacific island nation of tomba has virtually lost contact with the rest of the world. after saturday's volcanic eruption cut the country's internet cable, the full extent of the damage to the country. it remains unclear. new zealand and

australia have sent military planes to survey the situation from above. other flights to deliver aid also planned the on the water eruption on saturday, sent shock waves across the pacific. so now my warnings were issued for many countries as far way as peru and bear to people have drowned after unusually high waves, hit the west coast of the americas. ah, this is the aftermath of this unami that hit the shorelines of peru over 10000 kilometers away from the explosion in tona. the underwater eruption was so powerful that it was detected around the world. these satellite images show gas and ash being thrown thousands of meters into the earth atmosphere. communication links to tongue there have been damaged, but the capital has sustained significant damage. ringback says new zealand prime minister jacinta arden, missus,

we're these across her an urgency here. we want to make sure that we be on the ground as soon as possible. but for our navy be source, it will take several days to reach toner. we need to find the balance in the to get the quickly, but to make sure we also get the people and resources they need be as well. and in some cases, we have parts of toner. we've just not even been out to establish communication. people and ye zealand had they received no warning of this in army. even though the volcanoes explosion could be heard in some parts of the country. many were still out on the water, on their bullets, which have suffered severe damage. japan was also put on high alert, thousands evacuated, their homes, coming to shelter has like this in order to stay safe. delivery to recruit the room . i heard this, an army would be as high as a meter, i mean, but we really don't know how hike reach. i thought it would be best to evacuate, so i came here new, the dresser. these fishermen assess the damage were echoed on

coast lines across the pacific region. well that's 1000000000 shane crone and he's vocal knowledge is from the university of oakland shane books and you tell us about this erection just how powerful was it. yeah. so it was an extremely powerful event and so it was very short lived. so when you compare it to other erections, it's quite difficult box. essentially, during the short list containment along eruption, the power it released was very similar to that of the 1991 eruption append to by when the philippines. and so it seems shock waves around the world literally. so pressure away sexually atmosphere pressure waves. they traveled around the world and in some parts the world on the other, on the other side of the globe from, from tongue. i've actually got 2 last one. translate one side of the trembling

around the globe, so remarkable for many of them. so, so remarkable with the nominator generated. so what kind of damage from your experience? what kind of damage can we expect that because we don't hear anything from tangle because communication links that down. yeah, we have some, some recent information now. and the actual on tongue has being has been present, but not as severe as we were fearing. and also the damage from the army being actually less severe than we were expecting. so find no reports of fatalities. so it seems, even though the option was extremely powerful, that enormous damage has not yet been reported in tonga. and it's now just really waiting to see from the small low lying islands with anyone else has been affected

. so this volcano began erupting intermittently in december. but this major adoption seems to come with no advance warning. why is that? yeah, well the reason is fist volcano is located 65 kilometers from any major population seem to so and it's a very isolated no one lives on the on the volcanic island, it's extremely hash environments. there is no car reef around it. it's back to the part of the seas and the elements i've been there. i came down on that island and extremely difficult to keep the equipment running. so the only way to monitor of all kind of like that is to your special like maintenance. and they are often mostly reactionary, rather than providing us a pre warning trained con in that vocal ologist in oakland. thank you very much.

thanks talking germany is foreign minister and a lena bear book is in care of today for talk with her ukrainian counterpart. this comes amid heightened tensions between russia and the west. discussions will focus on the build up of russian troops on ukraine's border disagreements over the north stream to gas pipeline and keeps call for berlin to supplied with weapons. their book is expected to try to revive for way, talks between germany, france, ukraine, and russia. that's the so called normandy format. our chief international editor, rich walker joins me now. is it one of the expectations for today's meetings? yep. well, the beginning of a 2 day trip gearhart, of course, with elena about going on to moscow tomorrow. and it is an introductory trip to both capital. so she will be talking to our counterparts on the full range of issues. but of course, the crisis that's been dominating the news in recent weeks is going to be absolutely top of the agenda. and particularly what she will be doing in ukraine is,

is, is giving signals of support to the ukrainian government in the face of this massive number of russian troops that are amassed alongside the border, 100000 troops. there was so these, creating these fears that are the russians might be about to invade ukrainian territory. once again. and also you mentioned it, babylon wants to revive what's called the normandy format. and this was a diplomatic talks between 4 countries, russia, ukraine, france, and germany, which were aimed at implementing these agreements called the minsk agreements with some of you may remember agreements that were aimed at resolving the conflict in east and ukraine. it goes back now many years. now the germans want to get this, these talks back on track. they're hoping that at least if they can start them on a low level, talking about relatively low levels. she was, they can build a groundwork for, for making further progress. but there certainly are skeptics out there who say the

normandy format over many years fail to resolve the issues. and it wouldn't be up to dealing with the scale of even greater issues facing is now. now the u. s. is warning that russia is planning a so called fall slack attack. can you give us any more details about that? yeah, i mean, it really is striking statements from the u. s. at the end of last week and with the white house saying this, quote, a couple of the things that they said very specific that they pre positioned the russians, a group of operatives to conduct a so called false flag operation in easton ukraine, that these operators work trained in urban warfare and using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against russia's own proxy forces. so the idea that these people were sent in to ukraine would mount acts of sabotage against these forces aligned with the russians in ukraine. and the russians would say, look, what's happening, we need to invade the russians that deny they say, they say that there is simply no evidence for that. but i think this is

a sign of the sort of scenarios that we could be facing in the weeks ahead if we are moving to a conflict situation. and of course, what we had also happened at the end of the, at the end of last week was a massive cyber attack against the ukrainian government, which has not been attributed yet. but of course, there will be suspicions about whether the russians were involved there. and that assigned that there are all sorts of conflict scenarios, short of full scale in invasion that could further d stabilize the situation and, and just add yet more of the sort of fog of conflict to the situation we face at the moment. but to walk with our chief international editor. thank you, richard. let's have a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. form ukranian, president, petro shinkel, has returned to ukraine. a bid to fight dozens of criminal charges. in closing treason portion is being investigated for financing russian back separatists and the don boss region, while in office here. hughes,

the current government of trying to silence the opposition. sweden has him deployed armored combat vehicles and soldiers to patrol the streets on the island of good luck. the military says the deployment is a response to increased russian activity in the region. 3 russian landing ships have recently sale through the great belt, straight and denmark. a winter storm has hit the east coast of the united states. heavy snow blanketed washington d. c. hundreds of thousands of people were left without power in states including north and south carolina and georgia, due to snow ice and high winds in florida. the storm caused a tornado that destroyed a trailer park to brazil. now, where the pandemic has killed more people than anywhere else in the world. apart from the u. s, the country was slow to buy vaccines after president jr. bolton arrow dismissed.

the crown of ours, as a little flew, but brazilians are now been being vaccinated in record numbers despite the president's efforts to disseminate misinformation. the hope is this will keep the deaths down as army con spreads across the country. the army crown wave has hit brazil. the number of people, in fact, it has jumped dramatically despite a shortage of tests, leaving many cases unreported. notice a little i'm running from one place to the next to try and get tested. i had contacted people who are positive that i don't have sent him out. early last year, brazil was facing an overwhelming number of covey deaths. it has the world's 2nd highest corona virus, datatel after the us. but with the latest wave of the disease, there's a big difference. most people here and now vaccinated and civic will be doing. i got cove it last year. and so it's very hard to remember

that time, it was very complicated, a desperate time when we didn't know what would happen. it was uncertain. and this vaccine gives us the possibility to keep going back to baltimore. around 70 percent of brazilians are fully vaccinated in big cities. authority say the figure is up to 99 percent ex but say the success is down to brazil, strong public health system and the history of successful vaccination campaigns. those factors have bolstered public trust in the corona, virus vaccine, despite the president attempts to undermine it. jail both scenario has openly rejected the vaccine and repeatedly spread misinformation. now he's down, playing the danger posed by the and the crown waves and says there won't be another lock sound or extra restrictions way. there we go. with health services under huge pressure. people are hoping at least the high vaccination rate will help

reduce on the crumbs impact. meanwhile, beijing as reported, it's a 1st case of the micron variant. it's the 1st local transmission in the chinese capital. the discovery becomes less than 3 weeks before the bay. jing a winter olympic game was the 1st army cron case in mainland china was detected in december since then. many cities in china have asked residents to stay at home and have launched marsal testing. china has camco occur. one of our cases, low of with it's strict 0 covet and policy. i think that's bringing our corresponded in beijing 5 and the crouch, my father and we have now a seen the 1st case of the on the chrome variant in beijing. tell us more about the current covered 19 situation in the country. yeah, i mean, not really much has changed since then. and the recent numbers are 163 local

infections at the health authorities registered. and that is really a law and international comparison, but compared for a chinese standards compared with yesterday, it's significantly higher. the good news, however, is that there are no additional em cases here in beijing and also in shanghai. both are, you know, our political and economic m capitals here. and yeah, it's really not quite clear harder for 1st i'm a crankcase in beijing. got the virus because we know her a travel history and she didn't leave the city. however, she visited a lot of restaurants and shopping while she took the subway. but it's really not clear how she got infected in this quite worrisome. so with the winter olympics just weeks away, how confident are you authorities in china's ability capability of overcoming these challenges? i would say still relatively confident am he and begging this even on the weekend when the 1st case was detected and all the bought bass are still open to pops or

even the night clubs and we're open am and are the only noticeable changes actually at the testing that the cues in front of the testing stations are much longer. however, so far all the tests came back negative and and yet what abating did a say increase the travel restrictions? so for example, now am you dont only have to do a negative test and before you enter the city, but also after arriving you have to do one more test. it has to be negative, otherwise you are required to do a current tenant isolation. and also am actually there are a resident are, are required not to order males from outside delivery from outside because or the authority said it, they could pull out that the army crankcase arrived from the city through a partial delivery from canada. however, there's no real significant scientific evidence for that father. what kind of impact does this half of the chinese economy right now? well, i mean, the impact will show probably in the coming months,

but also for last year. and we know that the and economic recovery is really slowing down today. the authorities presented the last numbers for 2021. and the g . d p was growing 8 by 8 percent. it's quite high, but from the 3rd quarter to the 4th quarter, the growth is only roughly between one and 2 percent. it's really quite low and also goldman sachs. they allow their prediction for china, for the ongoing year, from 4.8 percent growth to 4.3 percent growth, mostly due to the ami con threat, but also the re, a straight a crisis he and the country fabi. i'm catch mother in beijing for us, many things for him. as of look at some of the other developments in the koran of ours, pandemic japan hopes to curb a certain infections by administering booster shots after 6 instead of the originally planned 8 months. fewer than one percent of japanese have received their 3rd inoculation. france as bart people and not vaccinated against cove 19 from much

of public life. the government wants to provide further incentives for people to be innoculated. as infection numbers are rising, and thousands of protesters have march through amsterdam against covey, 19 regulations and vaccination campaigns. despite the government loosening some restrictions in response to a public opposition. sports news, the world's number one male tennis player nova, jock of ich, as lands in dubai following his deportation from australia. a court in melbourne upheld a government decision that the unvaccinated ernesta posed a threat to public health. it's not clear where joke, which plans to go next. he travelled to australia to compete in the australian open hoping for an unprecedented 21st grand slam when after nearly 2 weeks of drama, novak joker, which touched down in dubai,

now forced to watch the tournament. he's dominated for a decade from the sidelines. the fiasco has divided opinion in joke of which is home of serbia. the capital bell great lit up in support of the star. the president leveled this accusation against australia. and then for 10 days there were tormenting there to save and torturing because it was not only intellectual with physical torture against no joke which and the various home figures which was even worse. that was which has come organized against a mold. your coll, rich, rich and wi de soto forget it to one mind times australian open title. but for others in a country that has endured one of the world, strictest corona, virus, lock downs, joke of inches, admission to australia would have been foul play and has been timmy's. this is

a paper saying that they're on the site and because of the current restrictions and auto pay with face day for children to have my choice to fight this for if i lump nitty the can, they have seen me missing as a hero, to aspire to i think faith, the serb has begged 9 of the last 14 titles. he's now denied the chance to add to the hall, not only this year, but potentially at the following 3 australian opens. unless an exception is granted . joke which is drama in court has cast a shadow on the tennis court. now fans and players are eager to finally focus on the game. environmental groups in germany have released a new report saying the pesticides are causing or they're calling an ecological arm a get on it says millions of people fall ill from pesticide poisoning every year.

the use of such chemicals is threatening not only global health, but also global biodiversity pesticides protect crops. but they're dangerous to more than the pests that they kill. last october, 270 people died and been way in nigeria, poisoned by an insecticide. fishermen poured it into this river then collected the dead fish people drink from this river and they use it to washed. it was a tragic incident, but not an isolated case. people in asia, latin america, and africa, particularly affected by pesticides. recent figures show world wide more than 385000000 people fall ill from pesticides every year. more than 10000 people die. there is no protection against bessie sites for farmers normally. and there are

many pesticides used which are prohibited since years in the european union. one particular high, highly hazardous pesticides, pesticides of high acute toxicity are still in use. the $1000000000.00 industry is dominated by a handful of corporations. together they reached a turnover of 31000000000 euros and 2020 and sales are growing right now. pesticide manufacturers are trying to get new authorization for glasses sate in the u. in the u. you, we are re importing in some way. these pesticides are by contamination. of fruit, which is brought on to european markets. there are statistics that about 25 percent of our food products contain some residues of pesticides. sometimes multiple residues strawberries are particularly contaminated

with so or other fruits and vegetables. studies show a link to parkinson's disease, diabetes, cancer, asthma, and allergies. moreover, pesticides get into rivers and lakes and pollute the ground water. many important insects die in the soil becomes less fertile. this results and even more fertilizer being needed and more pesticides. creating a vicious cycle people i've been rallying in cities across the u. k. to protest against a new bill. they say as an attack on the right to demonstrate the controversial police and crime bill would grant police great a pass to crack down on disruptive protests. but critics say it will also make it difficult to hold peaceful demonstrations. ah, andy smith is rehearsing in his head, his 1st words to his wife emma, a scientist. today she'll be walking free after 2 months in prison in southern england. andy smith could never have imagined that she would ever be behind bars.

oh my gosh that i love her. she's been so proud of her. i, i you know, we have, we have really young nieces is who are that, that the future is not going to be the same future that we had, right. and we have, we have to fight for that fusion. her crime. she blocked motorway. she is part of an environmental group that is pressuring the government to insulate british homes to save energy. they say it's the cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis. terrifying it was coming down to my lawyers. i like that we can fighting by blocking roads for hours, has enraged motorists. the british government has vow to put an end to it in a statement. the home office tells the w freedom to protest within the law is

a fundamental part for democracy. but the police must swiftly deal with the selfish minority of protested, whose actions and danger the public. the u. k. government is targeting environmental activists. it wants to stop disruptive, protest, public nuisance will be new offense carrying a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison, or an unlimited fine. and that's highly controversial. en deos and human rights groups have states many protests. they see the bill as an attack on democracy itself. and even conservative legal observers like the former attorney general, are concerned most problematic. all the parts which give to the home secretary very significant powers to determine what constitutes serious disruption. ah, whereas normally that would be a master left of the bleach. ah, emma smart and her fellow protest as no that that is, rupture is controversial,

but they see no other way and to continue breaking the law, the law is our fundamental right? the if our government is failing, that we can hold that government to account. these are our elected representatives . they are supposed to be protecting the people. and if they are failing at that, then it should be all right to stand up and protest and the response of them to imprison of us is absolutely it's draconian. for the moment the protesters are happy to be outside. but with a new bill, it seems only a matter of time until they will be behind bars. again. you are cindy w. news. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you all strongly. i'm at new zealand have sent military planes to assess the damage of this weekend's o comic eruption. in tonga, the pacific island nation has been cut off from the rest of the world, often erupt and destroyed the country's internet. kate and germany's

foreign minister alena babel is heading to give for talks with ukrainian leaders. discussions are likely to focus on the build up of russian troops on ukraine's border and disagreements over the north stream to gas pipeline between russia and germany. that's it from me and the news seem of fun. i'll be back with an update in roughly half an hour, but don't go away. up next old sleif why football asked to take head injuries morsey and oppose us plenty more news for you on our website. and that's d w dot com, i'm got office in berlin for me and the other team with

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