why are they a threat to whistle ah, o peak will this week on d w? ah, ah ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the 1st image is begin to emerge of tom god.

after saturday's massive volcanic eruption, they show serious damage, but the full extent is still on no shapes carrying supplies to tara, still 3 days away. also coming up after meeting with ukrainian leaders, german foreign minister, molina bare bulk heads for moscow to try to diffuse tensions as fears. mount of a russian invasion south africa was badly affected by the alma chron variance, but now the country appears to be returning to normal. with infections and death decreasing. so what does this mean for heartache? europe what it also be able to relax, to and another boon for the buddhist league as by a munich strike up all that live on dorski is named 5th as best men's player for the 2nd year in a row. ah,

ah, i'm going to have those as well come to the program. the u. n. says the pacific island nation of tom on software to significant damage and saturdays volcanic eruption. the 1st images are starting to emerge after new zealand and australia sent surveillance plains to the area. communication has been limited after the countries only internet cable was caught. new zealand is also sending ships carrying water and other supplies. planes can't land because of a blanket of ash covering the main airports runway, who at prelude to a violent eruption on friday, the hunger tongue hung to ha volcano, sent plumes of smoke and dash shooting into the sky activity that seemed decrease. it will prove to be a brief rest. by the next day, the volcano rumbled to life again in an explosion, so powerful it sent shock waves around the world. before and after south lies

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 are still waiting to receive information from tara, what is much needed, but we know for sure that there will be a need for clean water because of the options and which really they mention causing lots of our troubles to the water supply. as most of the people collect water through 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 there islands where there are fears the devastation

could be immense. joining us now is shane crone at a vulcan ologist from the university of oakland. shane the we though boy now about the situation until the after the surveillance flights by new zealand and australian plains yeah, good morning. we do, we do a lot more and also some of the satellite imagery that's been collected through the you in our program. and so we've seen extensive damage due to those to nami, and also ash fall across most of the islands. thankfully the actual is not too thick. so mainly around to seem to me to think on the main island of duncan taboo and some of the other islands to the north have looked like they have a little bit ash. and, and this unami damage is mainly combined to 2 or 3 very low lying islands with is major damage. most of the others have relatively well major damage,

but not let's say it's not affecting a lot of we're the housing is. so we spoke of 24 hours ago, and then he was somewhat optimistic that damage and tomba itself from the russian was not the about. i use still optimistic about that. i think the damage is slightly more than what i was expecting and the school damage is about what we were expecting. so that 2 centimeters of ash is not enough to to damage structures, but obviously needs to be cleaned from the, from the s trip. and also it, it needs to be the water supplies need to be secured. and as your previous correspondence mentioned, around 80 percent of tongue and, and use ryan water supplies, particularly outside the main and the main settlement of neutral. ok. is there any

danger of more eruptions you think is there is and so we're working on very simple scenarios. the largest of the scenarios would be the concern that the upper part of the volcano is now very unstable. so after the initial reaction, the top part of the volcano now is, is going to be fractured. it's changed shape a lot. and the concern is that new magma rather than to that of kind of system, it could, it could cause more instability, and therefore more exposure being. so that's the worst case scenario we're planning for. the other scenarios would be that the gas brits magma has now been arrested from the system. and so that the next lot of magma may have an easy path to the surface and the your options may be slightly smaller. so those are the 2 scenarios we're looking at. and because there's no monitoring possible on the

volcano at the moment, we really are relying on having frequent visual observations via satellite imagery to see what is happening at the inside shane connor them. vulcan, algiers, from the university of oakland. thank you. thank. thanks for the interested in germany's foreign minister. molina babel cast told rush i will pay a quote high price if it invades ukraine. burbock is heading to moscow for talks to day to try to diffuse what she called a highly dangerous situation. as russia continues its buildup of troops at the border, at a meeting with ukrainian leaders on monday, she said berlin would do all it could to guarantee key of security fear. so progression invasion of ukraine have jangle nerves here in the region. after visiting a memorial to anti government protesters who died in 2014,

on the lena bear box as any solution to the conflict, must come through dialogue. not arms, meeting ukraine's foreign minister to metro co labor. burbock offered an explicit gesture of support for ukraine. zoe, daddy, kate solidarity only european solidarity for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. i, you know, that is not up for debate, not for us, and not for me personally, but any further aggression would have a high price. his emphasize that to day once again, fission island on price rush is building up its troops on the ukrainian border. both the european union in the us have threatened to impose further harsher sanctions if russia goes ahead with an invasion. for years ukraine has called on germany to the liver, arms to help boost its ability to defend itself. calais by says russia doesn't share ukraine's corporate of attitude towards defusing. the tensions one is in mild,

just took duma. so plenty of police if we have a very constructive stance on this matter. but unfortunately, my, our constructive nurse isn't mutual on russia's partnership. was vocal issue, burbock will now meet with russian foreign minister circ, a live rav in bosco. she's keen to revive for way peace talks in the normative format, which includes germany, france, ukraine, and russia are almost calm now joined by dw, corresponded to emily, sherwin. emily, what can we expect today from this meeting? well on alina babcock is starting her visit here in moscow at the stage 3 took off gallery, which is which you see behind me at an exhibition about europe, which actually was in berlin before. so i think she's kind of starting, trying to start by building some kind of a symbolic bridge to russia, but i think it's clear that you know, she has

a tough day ahead. i'm on the one hand on the lena bear book has said that she'll be searching for common ground through dialogue. the russian side, i think, will be really checking her out as the new a german foreign minister. she had rather tough positions about russia and also about the north stream to a pipeline before becoming a german foreign minister. so i think the, the russian side will be kind of listening closely to what she says to day, publicly and behind closed doors on the 2 sides. we'll be talking about bilateral relations, of course. but i think the elephant in the room is the rising tensions on the ukrainian border. and the security guarantees that the russian side has been demanding from the west, including on nato eastern expansion. and as we heard their book has suggested, reviving peace talks in the normandy format. so with ukraine, russia, france, and germany at the table. so what influence can germany or even europe of on russia,

at this stage? i think that's the big question from the russian side. of germany and even europe a basically have nothing to do with what they've been demanding in the talks that we've seen in the past few days. and, you know, the, the language that we've heard coming from russia in the last few weeks and months in december, russia issued demands on a limit to nato eastern expansion. and those demands were issued directly to the u . s. and now i'm after or you know, several rounds of talks last week with the us, with nato, and also with the os c, e. so with european countries, um, russia has demanded that the u. s. and nato issue a written response to its demands. so it seems like russia is basically only really willing to talk to the u. s. and when it comes to these security and abounds,

and in a way, europe is kind of on the sidelines watching emily, the used foreign policy chief adjust berella, saw that the block was ready to prepare for the sanctions against russia. how long? hm. who didn't stick to his policies in the face of these sanctions. why i think it's 1st of all important to point out that the russian side has repeated again and again that they are not planning an attack on ukraine. but they are also not willing so far to take the mil military threat off the table when it comes to sanctions. from the russian point of view, the west really has no leverage and on russia. i think 1st of all, the u. s. has made it clear that they won't defend ukraine militarily, in case of an invasion. and today we've been hearing media reports, at least that one of the biggest sanctions that the west had been kind of holding

over are russia, which is that the country could be cut off from the swift banking a system that that could be off the table. the u. s. has denied that, but i think it, it looks like even the sanctions arsenault isn't too strong, at least from the russians point of view, which of course, the country has been become used to sanctions over the last few years as well. and sherman moscow there. thank you, emily. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. who the rebels in yemen have claimed responsibility for a drone strike in abu dhabi that killed 3 people. the united arab emirates vowed reprisals fully attack which targeted an oil refinery. ooh, these are at war with the military coalition in yemen that is backed by the u way. medics in sudan say several protesters were shot dead at demonstrations against military cool leaders. thousands of people turned out for the largest of the

protests in the capsule. khartoum mondays rallies come the head of a visit by a u. s. delegation. this week meant to revise efforts to return the country to civilian rule. a prominent mexican photojournalist has been killed outside his home in the northern border city of tijuana. margarita martinez was known for his work covering organized crime and the violence plague city. bordering the us is the 2nd journalists have been murdered in mexico this year. one of the world's deadliest countries for reporters. going to south africa now, which was the 1st country to sound the alarm about the army kron variance. now the wave has passed and other countries akin to learn from its experience. the data shows how the army can vary and causes a spike in case numbers because it is highly infectious. a lot more than previous corona, virus variance, south africa's 4th wave would therefore sharper,

but also much shorter. a crucially, the omitted wave has so far resulted in fuel death than previous waves. the balls of fuel hospitalizations this time round, so some expert conclude that our micron is less dangerous. but others have warned that many cases may go unreported or even undetected. so the real numbers of cases and as could be much higher, they're wanting not round estimate or micron as a milder variant. today's an important day for sea fellow jelly, vanessa who, 2 years ago financial problems and the pandemic forced him to close his boy restaurant and cape towns k, a leach a district. but now he's finally reopening over. it does put us a lot of things that you need to would go eggs and different busking and on. so you need to try and think outside the building because i mean, for me, i don't test the storm from whatever bed situation that i mean i only look for

positive things that i can do instead of completing the nightly curfew was lifted after nearly 2 years torres to once again been born into the country. there had been mast cancellations falling the discovery of the on the cross buried. our correspondent cape town, sent us this. life is slowly getting back to normal. here in cape song was decreasing numbers in you cobra infections data from south africa suggests although omicron is much more infectious. the amount of people that were admitted to hospitals was much lower than during previous waves. many. yeah, hoping that we're seeing the beginning of the end on the pandemic. i so wish that i won't even hear the name hovens. that is what we're wishing for today. everyone is going out in the cloud collect thing going outside and we've been 90 now this month now. and i hope that on record is actually the fine thing over this marriage to see

slash enjoyment. this has happened as the i'm so happy that the business is rooming people to start making money out. kind of officially open way lost as these tie. i hate them business. i'm glad that we can get to come here and enjoy many sciences charles optimistic despite the low back to mation rate. paralogistic both can pricer says that most south africans had already been infected with the corona virus before the microwave hospital data showed that a prior corona, virus infection, or vaccination, provides protection against severe illness, with the arm of cranberry and the london. i'm as if you are too nice to be here, dear tide for a patricia and you can't to a situation like this where nearly every one has had it worse been vaccinated than you can relax. all things fallen under the sides. of course, on the other hand, it is summer here, hope it's you had in coast and the big school break took place over the most of the

4th wave. you know, hopa vacation was shorter in europe if you could. and school is starting again and, and it's winter when people spend much more time together endorse country shooter. and when you met and those are considerable differences because of the central office. and that's why you can't just say, come on, we expect things to go like that happen. south africa, vanessa english, northeast in south africa, price or hopes that the pandemic could become endemic. as with other corona viruses, if most of the population has a basic immunity from the previous infection or vaccination, he util. galati or flu, that i also had a homemaker that we can get around regular booster shots. for i can well imagine that if everyone has basic immunity and another variant doesn't come as a nasty surprise, dive into it, and then we can keep her immunity up not by natural me or me, called directly re infections. when i went to corona virus, rubashaw for my lot under a 1000000 to comp no one wants to think about more mutations right now in the milk

restaurant. certainly not owners, the fellow giovanna. he already has big plans and wants to expand to other cities. he says at the prospect for south africa once again look good i. we are now joined by of can. plaza was in that report. he's head of medical for ology art stellan, boss, university, and cape town. professor. there are differences between south africa and europe's experiences with our micron. as you mentioned that report, how much of a model than can south africa be far the countries in terms of how this variable play out. while we've being the 1st country to be hit by that one we can waive, i think, you know, there are, there are many lots of useful information to be learned from south africa. for example, the extreme contagious in the rapid spread, the high numbers of infections caused and i think that is laying out now wherever on the corner has reached. one has to be careful and when it comes to assessing the

whole picture, i think the report brought across very nicely the invisible sense of relief here. and in that we were expecting a very bad a christmas season. once again, with lots of hospitalizations and severely ill patients, and that hasn't played out, i have to say though that we are still seeing patients. i see it seriously ill and even dying of from me for an infection. so it's not the case of a common code illness lot. on the other hand, a lot of south africans have a pre existing immunity. sadly, not so much due to vaccination, but rather due to having had gov before. and that is a really protective. there is also a very likely a role played by the virus itself, which is less virulent than the previous, very empty, especially doubt, which was particularly maryland and, and caused more severe disease. but that is not enough to rely on as to what one

really wants is to have some underlying immunity. and i have to say also that south africa has paid a very high price in that many people died during the previous wave simply because they could not protect themselves from becoming infected due to the poor, socio economic circumstances of their lives. and that is clear different in many european countries where vaccination rates are much higher. so that is of course good news. but those people who have not been vaccinated are very unlikely to have had covered previously. and therefore are unprotected and may still develop severe disease even from on the chrome. so then there are differences of course, as you mentioned by what can other countries and then take away from south africa when it comes to life after ami. i think what you know, what you can see firstly is, is extreme propensity to spread and how difficult it is to protect against that and help protective community. so i think the emphasis must clearly be on vaccination

vaccination and boosted those is right now. because that is the best bet against me . crohn and john is off against any future variances as well. so even though we can't predict how they will play out, it is, you know, pretty certain that whatever the very, and maybe in future they are huge variance. and that protection from vaccination will, you know, shield you from severe disease. and that is our main to set them up. oh, just for the gun. kaiser in cape town. thank you very much. let's have a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic. france has reported its biggest one day jumping, hospitalization since november 2020. that was before vaccines were available. health officials say they expect amik wrong hospitalizations to peak by the end of january. germany is top public health bodies says the country has now exceeded 8000000 confirmed cases. since the start of the pandemic and canada has become the

latest country to approve, finds us antiviral pill against coven 90. now, new book claims to have solved the mystery in holocaust history. for decades it was unclear who betrayed the amsterdam hiding place of teenage direst on a front and her family to the nazis. the authors of the new books at their research points, to a surprise, suspect her short life, one of millions ended in the holocaust. german born school girl, anna frank. for more than 2 years, the teenager lived with her family in attic rooms, hidden behind a bookcase and nazi occupied, amsterdam. keeping a diary of their ordeal until the family were discovered and sent to the bergen belsen concentration camp. now a research team think they've cracked the puzzle of who betrayed them. that way

investigated about 30 more than 30 scenarios. and i think we can say with quite a certainty that about 2928 of these scenarios are virtually impossible. the scenarios that, that the notary arnold from the birth are well known in amsterdam and it over lists of people in hiding and that's, and on that list was the address to 63 princess book. that the home of the annex, the team believes fanned and back who himself was jewish, disclosed the frank hiding place to save his own family from deportation and murder . the director of the anna frank house museum says it's a fascinating hypothesis, but needs further investigation. why thing, what, what this new theory is brain us is not just information about what has happened here in the 4th of august 9044, but very much also about ah, the did the, the behavior of people, the choices they have made,

decisions they have taken during a very difficult period of time, the mystery of who betrayed the frank family may never be definitively solved. but the research succeeds in highlighting the complexities of a dark chapter of history. organize as of next month's winter olympics emerging have confirmed that tickets will not go on sale to the general public. that's part of the measures to combat combat the spread of cove. it 19 tickets for chinese fans will be distributed to quote targeted groups rather than foot on general sale that's on top of china's decision announced last year to bar. all international spectators begging will become the 1st city to host summer and a winter olympics. when the games begin on february, 4th by munich, striker before 11 dorski has been named 5th as best men's plans for the 2nd year in

a row. the poll missed out on the balloon door, which was given to leonel messy in november, but has now again claimed the other major individual football on fif. many football fans was stunned when robert learn dusky was overlooked in the voting for the balance door. after a record $41.00 goals in abundance, the gas season robert live and ascii. but now the by a munich forward can again say he is the best men's footballer in the world. the fee for prize is broadly equal to the palace door in terms of prestige. and after a 2nd straight when the poll thank the by and staff who flanked him and fell on my prout. i feel a happiness because another thing, this dorothy blank also to my payments to make out is because you all hell who are carter toiling against leonor missy had taken the balin door, but in women's football field, last alone is alexia protests reigned supreme by adding fee for glory to her that

was the men's coach of the year prize went to chelsea's. german bus thought must taco after. he sealed a champions league triumph just for months into the job again. but the night belonged to live on dusky, who would not be denied around this time. it's wonderful that you're watching the w . c. as a reminder of the top story we're following for you. first, images show tall up, suffered extensive damage and saturdays massive, full comic eruption and tsunami. and at least 2 people are confirmed dead, but it's feared that number of deaths and injuries could rise new zealand and australia ascending ships carrying age to the area. and as it see up the date up next is abundantly gar, highlights with kickoff. and of course, you could almost out that i had on our website d, w dot com. thanks so much. ah,

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