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met today with ukrainian leaders amid growing fears of a rush. an invasion talks with russia failed last week, but germany wants to try again. also coming out a natural disaster now cut off from the rest of the world. a fiber optic cable bridge to tonga has been severed in the wake of that volcanic eruption. and world men's tennis number one novak joke of it is back in serbia. after being deported from australia, fans in bill grade, you see them there are welcoming home their hero. ah, i'm bring golf to our viewers watching on p b as in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. it did not work last week. maybe it will this week, that is the positive approach that germany is taking the,

with russia aimed at preventing a russian invasion of ukraine, of german foreign minister on the line. a bare bark took that message to key of to day. and she held talks with her ukrainian counterpart, ah, fears of a russian invasion of ukraine had jangled nerves in the region. after visiting a memorial to anti government protesters who died in 2014 on alina babcock says, any solution to the conflict must come through dialogue, not arms, meeting ukraine's foreign minister. dimitra qu, labor burbock offered an explicit gesture of support for ukraine. zoe, daddy teet solidarity. any european solidarity for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. del hyena, that is not up for debate, not for us, and not for me personally, but any further aggression would have a high price. his emphasized that to day, once again, as titian, island on price russia is building up its troops on the ukrainian border.

both the european union and the u. s. a threatened to impose further har sanctions . if russia goes ahead with an invasion. for years, ukraine has called on germany to deliver arms to help boost its abilities to defend itself. calibus, as russia doesn't share ukraine's cooperative attitude towards defusing, the tensions when is a mild construct, muscle planning position. we've a very constructive stance on this matter to me. but unfortunately, my, our constructive nurse isn't mutual on russia's partnership, was vocal to see you've been from kiev burbock goes to moscow on tuesday, where she'll meet russian foreign minister serge oliver of. she's keen to revive for way peace talks in the normandy format, which includes germany, france, ukraine, and russia. i for more now i'm joined by raphael loss from the european council on foreign relations is good to have you on the program. let me ask you about the german foreign ministers said that she is counting on reviving for way piece talks

in the norman, the format. that's how it's known. it includes germany, france, ukraine, in russia. what is most advisable with you? would you say with these kinds of negotiations even think their work? i mean, thought, and, and normandy form. it has not yielded substantial results. all sides are not happy with what they feel. it's all flaw. certainly russia is ukraine. is it still broaden crisis and france and germany and have not been in a position a to, to play a meaningful role? as russia has been a building up and withdrawing forces along the ukrainian border last spring. and now we see the bill up and that then russia is engaged in, again, which started in november and december of lossing is continuing. we see i'm substantial formation is off of russian forces along the ukrainian border sort of sir, commend off of ukraine am and one can certainly hope that that the normandy of for

form it well can be revived. and it looked that out about the book as trying, but i'm not optimistic that her engagement with, with ukraine you lead us and russia, leaders will, will your results in the coming days where you, le, let's stick with the ukrainian leaders for a moment. i'm wondering how much credibility germany has right now in key of germany has not been in favor of supplying ukraine with serious weaponry. germany has refused to kill the nord stream to guess, pipeline which connects it to russia. i mean, how do you go to here with those facts on the table and say we are with you against russian aggression your own pointer discussions in berlin over the past couple of days had been dominated by all the things that jimmy's not willing to put on the table to the fuses crisis name, do you not stream to arms transfers and swift or financial transfer system?

now, one of the above because as offered her ukrainian counterpart to date, essentially german help and to beef of ukrainian cyber defenses and east of energy partnership. now that might be interesting for ukraine in the long term, but it certainly will not help them and a short term facing substantial russian build up of forces along his border that has hurt german credibility and ukraine. durham has some capability, i think, to potentially deter russian aggression against ukraine, but has shown very little results actually make use of those capabilities. and it seems, if we look at what happened the last week, we had the us russia meeting. we had nato russia meeting over c with russia. we didn't see ukraine, really, any of these tables, these discussion tables. and yet we're talking about a war on ukrainian territory, possibly happening. i mean, how do you explain this irony that the country that is going to be possibly invaded

has not been at the 1st round of talks? i think on the, on the, on the plus side we see a lot of engagement with the nato lions across the atlantic ocean. we see natal partners and nato allies and gauging partners such as friend, sweden, us, wall. and ukraine has been involved in a lot of confrontation as well. we see this not today with, with the german foreign minister. i'm talking with the ukranian count about the discussions between american and russian and ukrainian officials, other nato allies have engaged and ukraine as well. so they have a certain ongoing consultation process with ukraine. of course. unfortunately, there's a certain perception that you're right to point out that that discussion. so happening over the heads of ukrainians. there's also some perceptions and interest in other parts of europe. that discussions between the us and russia happening over the heads of europeans, particularly support l. u, so called foreign minister, was quite unhappy to, to, to notice that,

that fact that you're not playing any sort of meaningful role. i think the worries are, are been overplayed here because russia is engaging mostly with the united states at the top as a, as a peer up the united states and wants to be seen for prestige reason does appear at nuclear and i'll certainly plays a role here and not, it's not, it's not, you know, particularly willing to engage with europeans on, on those kinds of issues related to the great, great european security order there. that's a very important point to make their raphael lost with the european council on foreign relations. mister, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. prosecutors in ukraine have set bill at $35000000.00 in their treason case against former president petro poor shank up. he appeared in court on monday hours after returning to kiya. now he is one of ukraine's richest men, that he denies any wrong do it. he says the charges are trumped up against him and

that he wants to help defend his country against russia. perpetual pro shingo flew back to ukraine with hefty charges of treason against him. and yet, outside key of airport, thousands of his supporters stood cheering with no c o b and i salute enough 6 to 30 could hear after meeting his fans pushing co was taken to court for a hearing. he's under investigation for allegedly financing bubble groups in ukraine's turbulent don bass region. the ukranian government considers them terrorists pro shinkel has insisted from the beginning that the accusations are unfounded and were invented by his successor to defame him up for lou, mom say, all right, it's an absolutely faith case in summer we will make the suspicion public for you

every one will have the opportunity to enjoy this unique nonsense. we will see that there is nothing there. people blatchley shall thumb roughly showing among. yeah. if pershing was found guilty, he could be imprisoned for up to 15 years ago. but the former president does not expect these charges to hold water. he says he has returned to defend his country against russia. russian troops and military tanks have been building up near ukraine's border for weeks, many, including pro shinkel yarn invasion are. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world reports from sudan. see, several protesters have been shot dead by security forces and demonstrations against last year's military coup. thousands of people turned out for the largest of protests in the capital cartoon. monday's rallies come ahead of a visit by a u. s. delegation this week to try and revive talks on a return to civilian route. in the united states,

the push to protect voting rights is the focus of demonstrations on this. martin luther king day, the son of the assassinated civil rights leader called on president biden and lawmakers to enact nationwide voting guarantees. several states have passed laws, which observers say, will make it harder for minorities to book a new book. it claims to have solved the mystery of who betrayed the hiding place of anne frank and her family to the nazis a team including a former f b. i investigator discovered a note to frank's father who survived the holocaust naming in amsterdam, jewish council member who was presumably trying to save his own family. historian, say, further investigation is still need. china's birth rate has fallen to a record low new data shows a double digit drop with just over 10000000 babies. born in 2021 authorities

eve, the one child policy back in 2015, but hi cos, encrypt housing have kept birth rates low. the decline ads to pressure on the ruling. communist parties plans to boost national wealth. as the workforce continues to sri, communication with the pacific island nation of tonga remains limited since saturday's volcanic eruption and the soon army that came after it. it's believe the underwater cable that connects the archipelago to the rest of the world was severed during the disasters. there is still no official confirmation of injuries, death, or serious damage in tonga. but that assessment is based on limited information out wine, coastal areas. they have been completely cut off at pre lou to a vile interruption on friday. the hunger tongue hung to hot by volcano,

sent plumes of smoke and dash shooting into the sky activity that seemed to creak. it would prove to be a brief rest spice. the next day, the volcano rumbled to life again in an explosion, so powerful. it sent shock waves around the world. before and after socialize images show had the volcano sea level krazer had disappeared following the blast. with regular communication lines to tongue across all the worlds been relying on satellite phones and images to get a sense of the disaster or we're still waiting to receive information from tom or what is much needed. but we know for sure that there will be needful, clean water because of the options and which really they mention causing lots of our troubles to the water supplies. in taurus,

most of the people collect water through a rain. this is something very dangerous for them to consume. australia, new zealand have sent surveillance flights to help assess the scale of the damage, especially on tongue as i was or islands where there are fears the devastation could be immense. or more now i'm joined by professor bettina shaw. she's a vulcan knowledges at the limbic maximilian university in munich professor. it's going to have you on the program. i understand you have actually studied and done research on the volcano that erupted there on tioga. so explain to as should we have expected an eruption with this much power? well, in a way we could expect that that's 3rd and we know from the records that actually every 1000 years, the volcano is capital for using such a route. that the in passivity actually

is very hard to focus here. it came from the very efficient make thing off the point. my mom, the cold water, which made in that in and when you see the images that we're seeing right now of all just these clouds of ash going up into the air. what does it tell you about the situation on the ground on the island? it's a very good question. that's something we've all the entire community wonders about . it's very hard to grasp and we're all waiting for, from getting insights from the main slides. and we know that that 29 is triggered by the rug. it's tom. well, we know that it hits the others running islands. we don't know yet. the full width of that you saw that we know that it was ash full. they have cell phone records of

small pebbles as long with that, but we don't know the quantity so that can be very threatening. and we still waiting to hear for, for details on that. and do we know how prepared is tonga for this kind of this caliber of a natural disaster? so this jennifer, i'm reckon they're not too well prepared, but on the other hand, and it's very hard to prepare for such an extreme event. and we have, as many we have found in record that happens every 1000 years. so the last one have been 11 hundreds. so to prepare for these extreme events makes it very difficult for it's, it's, it's not in itself that might have been prepared. but now, coupled with ash,

with more than one type. and also, i mean, we're told her is in the world, you know, around the pacific area, this, this ring of fire. i mean, this is where we expect to see this type of unsettled movement and behavior if you will, underneath the earth surface, right? yes. so that the reach has a very active on it, says toner, coming out of the pacific play to subtracting beneath the in the pacific one we have about every 100 kilometers and on the sea or we have a mess of okay, know the what was seen on the ground this little islands, but just the top of a giant volcano which now interrupted. so we know that this region is very active. it's part of the pacific ring of fire the we can expect this, however,

just really in this extreme violence professor, bettina shaw, and joining us tonight from noon professor, we appreciate your time and your valuable insights. thank you. thank you. molly's former president ibrahim rubicon. katy has died of the age of 76. he led the west african country from 2013 until he was alfred by a military coup in august 2020. his death comes as thousands of mullins take to the streets, to protest against international sanctions on the military junta that is now in power a controversial political figure, but a respected one, despite differences in opinion molly ins have been paying their respects at the residence of former president abraham bouquet keita want someone to show his death shocks me enormously because he is a precedent. we fought him, but he was a man of peace. a man of his word cater,

lead molly for 7 years. but his time in office was marked by a struggling economy and the rise of a violent islamist insurgency. then, in august 2020 kato was overthrown in a popular military coup, led by colonel a. sammy goiter. under threat of international sanctions, the military pledge to restore civilian rule by february 2022. but now only a month before the promised elections. the military has backtracked on its pledge postponing elections until 2025. the economic community of west african states has responded with internationally supported sanctions closing borders and blocking trade to the entire country but gone very day. the truth, these illegal and illegitimate meshes, have 3 objectives object to destabilize the institutions, to,

to stabilize the molly and ami to destabilize molly. despite the sanction, the military remains a popular force in money. so when colonel gota cold from allianz to protest this weekend, thousands responded, i know not to be bullied, this is a message to our neighbors have decided to close the door to molly. we already living in a difficult situation and that will add difficulty to our current situation. but log out of my over i'm a through from the passing of former president tie. it comes at a turbulent time for the people of molly, almost 2 years after the military seized power. the return to civilian rule appears a long way away. i'd hear some of the other world news. we're following this. our grease has begun, imposing monthly fines on people over the age of 60,

who refused to get vaccinate the mandate. and els last month levies a penalty of 50 euros for january. it will rise to a 100 euros beginning in february, about 2 thirds of breaches. population is fully vaccinated that is slightly below the european union, f. france has barred people unvaccinated against covered 19 from much of the countries public life. parliament back restrictions today to keep them away from restaurants, sports arenas, and domestic flights. the bill as part of government efforts to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. the wealth of the world's 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. that's according to a report by oxfam. meanwhile, a 160000000 people have been pushed into poverty. says the social justice group, it is calling for curbs on extreme. well, the progressive taxation and other fear measures.

it has been a year since brazil started vaccinating people against coven 19 now, with around 70 percent of the population fully vaccinated. the campaign is being seen as a success, especially for a country who's president, played down the threat of the pandemic. you know who were talking about gyal sanara . he has also played down the current omicron weight, even as case number's rise. brazil has one of the world's highest corona virus death tolls. people are hoping that the high vaccination rate will mean fewer deaths. this time. the army conway has hit present the number of people, in fact, it has jumped dramatically despite a shortage of tasks, 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, but 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 death till 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 kind of 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. a fully vaccinated in big cities, authorities 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 posted public trust in the crone virus vaccine. despite the president's attempts to undermine it. giant both scenario has openly rejected the

vaccine and repeatedly spread misinformation. now he's down playing the danger, posed by the on the crown wave and says there won't be another lock sound or extra restrictions. we're building school with health services under huge pressure. people are hoping at least the high vaccination rate will help reduce on the crunch impact organizers of next month winter olympics and beijing have confirmed tickets will not go on sale to the general public. it's part of measures to combat the spread of carbonite dean. after last year's announcement that international spectators would be bored from attending to dave's decision brings confirmation that tickets for domestic fans will be distributed to targeted groups. rather than just put on general cell. beijing will become the 1st city to host a summer and a winter olympics when the games begin on february, 4th,

offline world men's tennis number one, novak joke of it, she has arrived back in belgrade after being deported from australia following a long legal soc. his return to serbia came on the day. the australian open got underway without it's 9 time champion. back home after a tumultuous few days. no vent jokers which arrived in serbia having been deported from australia for not having been vaccinated against covey 19. but he was greeted at belgrade airport as a hero, his fans and serbia believe he has been mistreated by the stadium. government. after organizes of the australian open said he was allowed to come because of a covey infection in december. this is a shame what it is to lock your failure. this is to say what the world has come to handle, that you need to be forced to do something to take the vaccine. i myself election. i did a double check,

but i think that no one should be forced to put something up with you as the judge . the sentence was his freedom of choice of speech. on the other side of the world, the australian open gotten to wait without it's 9 times champion, winds for the likes of ref, an adult, and they only osaka meant it was almost business as usual for spectators. you our, i think a very highly dissipated decision making. i think it was kind of greg holiday long . it's great that we kind of put it behind us. the best project, which is great as player. i'm just glad the focus is now on what literal he full. yet estallion, i think, joke of it's meanwhile has much to ponder. he may, will need to be vaccinated from may's french open to his bid for a record men's 21st grand slam title is in further jeopardy or a buyer munich. star robert living dusky has been named thief as best men's player for the 2nd year in a row of adele ski became the 1st man to score 41 goals and

a german bonus league of season last term, and has not stopped scoring since the poll controversially miss out on the lawn door to linelle messy in november, but hes now again claimed the other major individual football on you watch the w news. his reminder that top story we're following for you in kiya, germany's foreign minister on elena burbock has underlined her country support for ukraine to sovereignty. she says germany is ready for serious dialogue with russia to deescalate the border crisis. you watch a d. w. news, i'll be back after a short break to take you through the day. stick around, we'll be right back with

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