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saying they're set political, been debtor against it. and he has strong opinions on russia's build up of troops on his countries bought. also coming up, assessing the damage and tongue up after saturday's volcanic eruption, new zealand and australia sent surveillance plants. communication links with the islands are still down. and the world men's tennis number one, novak joker, which lands in dubai, after his expulsion from australia. what's up next to the serbian player? ah, i'm glad offers. welcome to the program, ukraine's former president, petra, poor shank hope is returning to his country. after a month abroad. he faces charges of high treason and is under investigation. many of his assets have already been seized,

but he's returning in his words to fight russian aggression against ukraine. bruce ankle wants to work with a car current government to prevent a possible invasion. i said, that's bringing it up. is a fee of a bureau chief, marty, as billing or much as what war? can you tell us? well, he has arrived this morning at the airport in care of and he was greeted by his fans over there and has had a directly to the court where he is. ah, he is just entered the court building and her he has addressed his, his followers in front of the court. he is as been calling as you have said, these are charges strummed and i said that he had come back to fight against her, the russian. ah, madness at the border a, together with the government right now, the court has to decide whether he will remain in custody or whether he can walk

free on a bail, for example. ok so, but what kind of a sentence should he face if he is convicted while the maximum sentence for high treason is 15 years? so that would be the maximum, but everything is open right now. the case is a little bit complicated. he has been accused of enabling a deal of buying coal from the separatist response republics in the east of the country. the dannetta and the lou hands 3 pop republics. and that is, or what makes up the charges for high treason dealing a business deal with the enemy butcher. we will have to see the evidence 1st. and there is, of course, an interest also in a persecuting him by other factions, by the current administration. it's very hard to, to, to say, know what the chances are, whether a deal is possible and how good the,

the evidence is. now a germany is foreign minister, analynn babylon is in the ukraine, a 2 day meeting officials, they're what can we expect? well, 1st of all, it's a big signal. her book came to kia 1st and she is flying further to moscow after this visit. this is of course, a sign of support for ukraine arm. i don't expect any specific outcome of this, of this visit. of course, the most, the biggest issue at stake is whether germany will deliver or weapons defensive weapons to ukraine, or whether it will unblock a delivery of weapons by other countries by the nato, for example, or by countries that are trying to re sell weapons that used to be in germany or that were built in germany and that need permission from the german government,

but we haven't seen any signals in any direction so far. a beer chief in care. thank you very much. what his billing other the pacific island nation of toner has virtually lost contact with the rest of the world after some saturday's volcanic eruption cut the country's internet cable. the full extent of the damage to the country remains unclear. new zealand and australia of st. military plains, to survey the situation from above. other flights or deliver or to deliver aid. also planned the underwater eruption on saturday, sent shock waves across the pacific. and army warnings were issued for many countries as far away as peru. and there 2 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 periphery, over 10000 kilometers away from the explosion in tona. the

underwater eruption was so powerful that it was detected around the world. the 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, just into arden, mrs. we are these across a, you know, an urgency here. we want to make sure that we be on the ground as soon as possible . but for our navy basis it will take several days to reach toner. we need to find the balance in a 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 town. we're just not even being out of establish communication. people, any zealand said 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 boats,

which have suffered severe damage. japan was also pitch on high alert. thousands evacuated, their homes, coming to shelter is like less in order to stay safe. delivery to the world. i heard this, an army would be as high as a meeting, but we really don't know her height reach. i thought it would be best to evacuate. so i came here needed to refer these fishermen assess the damage seems echoed and caused lines across the pacific region. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. british counter terrorism, police have arrested to teenagers and connection with a hostage taking incident at a synagogue in the us this weekend, the f. b, i identified the hostage taker as the 44 year old british national capital was killed by police after 10. our standoff president biden has described it the incident as an act of terror. no one else was heard. this was an act of

a winter storm. has hit the east coast of the united states, a heavy snow blanketed washington dc. hundreds of thousands of people were left with our 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, austria chancellor carney hammer has unborn unveiled revised plans for proposed corona barrows. vaccine mandate, beginning in february, in mid march adult residents who don't comply, could face fines of up to 3600 euros. the government aims to have parliamentary approval on thursday famine on hen to brazil. now, where the panoramic has killed more people than anywhere else in the world, apart from the us, the country was slow to buy vaccines after president jebel scenario initially dismissed. the koran of ours, as a little flew by brazilians,

are now being vaccinated in record numbers. the hope is this will keep the death down as ami kron spreads across the country. the army kron wave has hit brazil. the number of people infected has jumped dramatically despite a shortage of tests, leaving many cases unreported. notice a little i am running from one place to the next to try and get tested. i had contact with people who are positive, but i don't have symptom. my early last year, brazil was facing an overwhelming number of coven deaths. it has the world's 2nd highest corona virus death till after the u. s. 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 court in around 70 percent of brazilians are fully vaccinated in big cities. authority say the figure is up to 99 percent. experts 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 downplaying the danger posed by the and the crown waves and says there won't be another luck sound or extra restrictions way. there we go. with health services and a huge pressure. people are hoping at least the high vaccination rate will help reduce on the crunch impact. and here are some or other developments in the current

diverse pandemic. japan hopes to curb a surgeon 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 at 19 from much of public life. the government wants to provide further incentives for people to be inoculated as infection numbers arising and thousands of protesters of march through amsterdam against covered 19 regulations. despite the government loosening some restrictions in response to public opposition. wells number one male tennis player, nova joker, which has landed in dubai following is deportation from australia. a quarter melvin upheld a government decision that the unvaccinated tennis star posed a threat to public health. it's not clear where jacqowitz plans to go next. he traveled to australia to compete of the australian open and hoped for an

unprecedented 21st grand slam with me. after nearly 2 weeks of drama, novak joker, which touch down in dubai now forced to watch the tournament, he dominated for a decade from the sidelines. the fiasco has divided opinion in joker, which is home of serbia, a capital bell, great lit up in support of the star. the president levelled this accusation against australia and for 10 days they were tormenting their to save and torturing because it was not only intellectual with physical torture against an old, your courage and the various home figures which was even worse. that was, oh, richard, come organized against her moles, your career rich, and the guy just not to forget it. she won mine times australian open title,

but for others in a country that has endured one of the world, strictest corona virus. lockdown, joke of inches admission to australia would have been foul play and has been timmy's, anticipate being locked out of their own style. and because of the cat restrictions and all that against me that they'd be like facing the children to have night to play baseball. and i loved it. did they have the cd? missing asthma? here. just i think a joke of it is drama in court has cast a shadow on the tennis court. now fans and players are eager to finally focus on the game and turning to some football new sundays bonuses. legal action saw the what to worst sides so far go head to head, be about below felton's bottom side, foot put on a lively show and the 2 to draw propelled beautiful out of the automatic,

relegation places hurt were 11 points. a drift of bella felt and desperately needed to win before this bottom of the table clash. but host bela felt with the 1st to get on the score sheet through their top marksman messiah a cougar his 7th of the season. but billy felt in front after just 8 minutes. first was soon levelling through jimmy leveling. shortly after the half hour mark the equalizer came down to pace. after the visitors won the ball deep in their own half leaving and collected the pass and simply out ran, billy felt endless and laddie, before keeping his cool in front of goal 11 the half time school and basement side stood even went ahead. midway through the 2nd half half hour nielsen, the goal scorer, literally 30 seconds after he came on as a substitute. but it was another substitute to had the last se,

gonzalo castro produced this thunderbolt as the game ended to castro, the unlikely hero to be la felt the former germany international came out of retirement in december, a remarkable come back salvaging a crucial point. the bill of health, in this relegation dog fights should manage their 1st point away from home this season, but it was too little for a team destined for a quick return to the 2nd division. and as it from me of the news team for now. so it was a misconduct, we'll have an update for you at the top of the hour. don't go away though. our documentary series is op. next of us plenty more news on our website, d, w dot.