77 percent. now every weekend on d w ah ah ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a new diplomatic push german foreign minister on a, whenever a balk holds talks with her counterpart in moscow to try to diffuse tensions over

ukraine as fears grow of a russian invasion also coming up the 1st image is begin to emerge of tongue guy after saturday's massive volcanic eruption. they show serious damage, but the full extent is still on no ships carrying supplies are still days away. south africa was badly affected by the, on the problem very and, but now the country appears to be returning to normal with infections and deaths decreasing. so does this mean hard hit? europe will also be able to relax. and another boon for the buddhist league as byron munich strike, or robert levin doff ski is named faith as best men player for the 2nd year in ah, i'm to me so much, gartner, thank you for joining us. german foreign minister on elena burbock says there is no

alternative to good relations between moscow in berlin. she was speaking, it talks in the russian capital with her counterpart, sir gay lover of among the topics on the agenda are the russian true build up on the ukranian border and fears that russia could invade its neighbor bare rock said they would be discussing a host of issues including ones that cast a shadow over their bilateral ties. and the german foreign minister emphasized the importance of this visit. in the next buckingham, the command of the last a few weeks. more than 100000 russian soldiers have gathered meal. the ukrainian bod own enough for no comprehensible reason. it is difficult not to interpret this as a threat, dashti. and so since i took office that a large part of my discussions has may not be entered on the question of following cooperation with russia on deepening common goals with blanket mines on quote. but he and couldn't be ready to the german government, did not choose the situation. these are the 2 at so one home goes out, but it cannot and will not ignore it. avia colonel on van. yeah,

i'll finish austin. beacon let's go right to moscow or corresponded aaron tilton is standing by for us there. hi aaron. we heard the german foreign minister there saying this is difficult to not interpret this as a threat. the build up of russian troops that the border with ukraine tell us more about the tona of this press conference with their counterparts are gay lab rough. well, both sides actually took pains to emphasize their common ground at the beginning level of actually said that the talks were very in depth and very useful and productive in general, both online and bareback. and so gary live rav were quick to emphasize their economic ties. seeing that germany is one of the world's largest economies in russia, at least geographically as large as the country in the world have deep economic ties that are really necessary for both countries, debility, but also the stability of the world economy more broadly. now, in kind of a tip of the cap to analyze bed bugs green party serial number of also emphasize the rule. his country could play in germany's transition away from a fossil fuel based economy by supplying natural gas to germany through the nord

stream to pipeline. now this was something that alina burbock also picked up on saying that russia could play a very key role in germany's green transition, saying that by engaging in carbon are capture in sequestration. russia could eat germany and it's climate change goals at the same time saying that russia can also develop as a production facility for green hydrogen, which is something that germany is in critical need of as part of the transition. but of course, the elephant in the room was very much the conflict surrounding nato's eastward expansion and the fruit build up in ukraine. and they're both sides basically seem to express some hopeful optimism. saying that while i'm in from the view of moscow that you was ready to discuss some of russia's security propositions. but at the same time, there was a little better what was much more guarded in her responses. basically saying that from the view of the you, russia is in violation of many different international treaties, specifically regarding these military threats direct that ukraine and also when it comes to human rights,

specifically pointing to jailed opposition leader alexey nev only, and also the breakup of the russian human rights groups, memorial and analytic book also said that despite those important economic ties, i'm germany in the you more broadly would be considering economic sanctions against moscow. if it doesn't change its tune on a raw on a row of different human rights and security issues. and what is your sense here? i mean, how much can germany in europe actually influence these negotiations on these tensions of ukraine? well, it specifically when it comes to um, the minsk agreement. and um, also the normandy format. basically, these diplomatic formats that were used to kind of roll back the tensions with ukraine over the last several years. they're germany and that you hand play a role. germany is one of the negotiating partners in that format. and on lou burbock said that she was hopeful that that on these talks would then be restarted regarding ukraine on. but when it comes to on the true build of, in more broadly,

the, on the question of whether or not need to continue to expand into the region, then germany in the, you really kind of playing 2nd fiddle. i mean, those are talks that, at least in the view of the kremlin and mosque out need to be taking place between nato, moscow, and on washington. in that regard, germany in the you don't really factor in, so they might be able to kind of make sure that the dialog continues between all parties and up the pressure to a certain extent, maybe play role as a moderator. they're really are playing 2nd fiddle to both moscow and washington in that context. here. these aaron tilton reporting there from moscow. thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world, the european parliament has chosen it's new president, robert m, at solar alarming from malta will be succeeding, david cecily, who died last week, montoya was said to take over the position prior to settle his death. she is the 1st woman to hold the position in 20 years and only the 3rd in history. authorities

in hong kong say they will call more than 2000 hamsters after a pet shop worker a customer and at least 11 of the free rodents tested positive for coban, 1900 official say it's not clear. the humans caught the virus from the hamsters which were imported from the netherlands. the city will now band the sale and further imports of small animals. a blizzard has battered the russian capital, leaving residents knee deep in snow. the heavy snowfall brought traffic in many places to a near standstill and delayed flights and down power lines and trees around the city. the icy weather is expected to last, at least through wednesday. the government of tonga has released the 1st details of damage caused by saturdays volcanic eruption and su nami, there has been extensive damage on 3 islands in the group with all or most houses destroyed the islands. a tata mongol and 44 are being evacuated. communication has

been limited after the countries only internet cable was cut. aid is now on its way by sea to the remote pacific islands, but the distances they are enormous that the closest aid organizations in fiji you'll see there are around 800 kilometers away. a new zealand has also dispatched a naval ship carrying water and other supplies on a 2000 kilometer c journey. and australia is also prepping a major, a delivery, but it is more than 5000 kilometers away. planes are unable to land right now because of a blanket of ash covering the runway of target main airport. now the 1st images of the devastation taken by surveillance plains are starting to emerge. they look like old sepia photographs. but it's because of a blanket of ash, which now covers everything in sight. on some of tongue is 169

islands in the south pacific. these images were captured by a new zealand defense force reconnaissance flight. it's as close as outsiders concurrently get after a massive volcanic eruption. and su nami hit tonga at the weekend. satellite pictures show the capital nuku a loafer before the eruption and after the ashes, proving quite problematic. not just for our water and sanitation because tony collected water from the roofs of household on but in terms of access for the aid from australia, new zealand, and other flight of they need to clear the runway supplies are already on their way. new zealand h. m,

n z at s. wellington is one of 2. royal navy ships heading towards tomba, with water supplies survey teams, and a helicopter. australia is also sending help, including humanitarian aid. with regular communication lines still down. tonga is almost cut off from the world. no one can be sure what thou find when they get there. so what more do we know about the situation on the ground and tongue following those 1st surveillance flights? i ask shane cronan of vulcan ologist from the university of auckland. yes, i think now a picture image of quite some damage. certainly this unami have created quite a damage and it has been around 2 centimeters of s fall over the main inhabited island of duncan topper and a similar amount of ash in the north. and on the positive side of the coin though,

that damage is not as much as we would have expected for such a logic explosion. and i think it's been quite lucky for the people of tongue that a lot of the ash has actually fall and into the ocean. and in places where there aren't islands now, not to undermine the seriousness of it because there are some places in tang. i'm low lying places where the c nami impact has been quite major. now to the corona virus pandemic, south africa was the 1st country to sound the alarm about the on the kron variant. now the wave has passed and other countries are looking to learn from its experience. data shows how the micron buried causes a spike in case numbers because it is highly infectious. so a lot more than previous corona, virus variance, you can see south africa, the 4th wave here was far sharper, but also shorter. but crucially, the micron wave has so far resulted in fewer deaths than previous waves. there were

also, if you were hospitalizations during this wave, some experts conclude that on a cron is less dangerous. but others have warned that many cases may go unreported or undetected. so the real number of cases and deaths could be much higher there warning not to underestimate. i'm a crohn as a milder variance to day is an important day. was he pedo honey brown in 2 years ago, financial problems and the pandemic forced him to close his bond, dressed rent, and kate towns, kylie chuck township. but now he's fine in the re opening over does cost us a lot of things that we need to put your eggs and different buckskin. and also we 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 always knew propose a tip. i thought things that i can do instead of complain, after nearly 2 years, most lockdown restrictions were lifted,

including and nightly curfew. tourists have once again been pouring into the country. they had been mass cancellations following the discovery of the army. crowd variant. life is slowly getting back to normal. here in cape song was decreasing numbers in you covert infections data from south africa suggests, although all micron 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 always that i won't even hear, but the, the name holbert. that is what we're wishing for the day next. everyone is going, i've been allowed connect thing. going outside of the with daddy now, and i hope that god is actually the final thing of this marriage to see slash enjoyment. this has happened as the i'm so happy that the business is grooming people to start making money out of officially open way lost as the sky. touch it

with them business. i'm glad that we can get to come here and enjoy. many scientists also optimistic despite the low vaccination rate by religious dwarf gung plaza says that many south africans had already and infected with the corona virus before the only true waste hospital data show that a prior corona, virus infection, or vaccination, provides protection against severe illness. also with the army chron variant women, and i'm as if you are too nice to be here. dear tide will partridge, allah's injured admission come off, tom would a game didn't or if you get to a situation like this, where nearly every one has had it or has been vaccinated, then you can relax. of course, on the other hand, it is summer here, and the big school break took place over most of the 4th wife. vacation was shorter in europe. school is starting again, and it's winter when people spend much more time together endorsed. or the selfish

winter will know if he makes those are considerable differences. that's why you can't just say, we expect things to go like they have in south africa dusty. but toggling darden idea of oddness a little iffy in south africa, pies or hopes that the pandemic could become endemic. as with other corona viruses, if most of the population has a basic immunity from previous infection or vaccination, higgins will galati hoffman does feel reg, america, officials with the booster info. ellen kong, i still have hope that we can get around regular booster shots. i can well imagine that if everyone has basic immunity, possibly with a specific ami kron booster, and another variant doesn't come as a nasty surprise. then we can keep our immunity up by nature means via regularity. infections with corona virus, and dusky at andre ag macy could be the infect, you image theme, cold of yours and even the texas zone of and i truly have eyes and advocacy reviews

leave no one wants to think about more mutations right now in the middle restaurant and bar, certainly not illness. he believes he already has big plans and wants to expands to other cities. he believes that the prospects was on africa once again. ah, we can speak now too shabby. matthew, he's a professor of vaccine ology at with water sand university in johannesburg. thank you for joining us at now. you tweeted that south africa has reached a turning point in the pandemic. what did you mean by that? thank you for having me. so i think that's feedings during the course of this wave which was. busy terminated by our micron, very much shows a decoupling of infections i and severe disease and death. we su correctly to report that this time dawn, especially in the province we trust initially to be sent out on the con outbreak to halting robins, the number of hospitalizations that transpired was one that compared to what done

spire children to cause it adult, the radiant radio and many of us hospital like they closed sessions, this time rom actually what betty frederick incidentally, infections in that people have been admitted for other reasons. and we're just going so gently testing positive. but more striking was gonna tell it to make the number of people that have died. you didn't, of course, of this particular race in a hotel province, contribution to less than 5 percent of all of the cove at 9. in that, that def transpired since the thought of endemic i. in contrast, the delta v agent way through toronto, easiest way contributed to 50 percent. all okay, depth that the sun's bytes and the thought of been done mixed in a complete decoupling off infections, severe disease and death. and that is despite the relatively low vaccination rate and south africa, if you look across africa only around 10 percent of people are fully vaccinated. so what do you think this on a chron waived might mean for other african countries?

yes, atheist, a spy? pretty modest vaccine company chop, unfortunately in ed for identity. what, yes transpired in south africa and probably many of the african countries is that a large percentage of population he ever developed community and particularly protection against the vietnamese and get because of possible picture. so just prior to the onset of the army conway, when we had conducted a cedar survey, maybe decimal places in south boston where it gets for presence of antibody as a proxy of pot infection. we showed. busy that in this province and the same thing with applied to most other parts of the country. 70 percent of people at tech should have been infected and of course are to for 3 raves. so the number of people that don't develop community against covert 19 in particular against severe disease and death, it's far higher than the number of people that there been vaccinate that in settings such as our own. and the same thing probably exists across the continent. okay, we're more than 3 court this little population. busy after about a community through the course of pos infection. what about in countries where

there are where there's a high number of people who have been vaccinated to how worried do you think that they should be about this on microwave? but i would expect a similar sort of gate coupling to materialize because if it doesn't interior lives and death calls into question out the value of vaccines. and i do believe that scenes and as he has been shown, infect studied in studies from south african, it seems these vaccines, if not, perform to rally in protecting against mildly, through strict are image on the ground. but when it comes to protecting against have yet to see supplies of it seemed to johnson and johnson vaccine as examples. so conflict high levels of protection against severe disease and death. so even in countries where they haven't been moto, i lots of infections in the past. but rated right, i've seen companies, i won't anticipate the same sort of decoupling to materialize backs and ologist happy monday speaking to us, her to harness burger. thank you very much for sharing your insights with us today . thank you. a new book claims to have solved

a lingering mystery in holocaust history. for decades, it was unclear who betrayed the amsterdam hiding place of teenager anna frank and her family to the nazis. the authors of the new book say 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 investigator, the board 30 moral authority scenarios. and i think we can say with quite

a certainty that about 2928 of these scenarios are virtually impossible. the scenario said that the notary arnold from the birth are well known in amsterdam and it over lists of people in hiding. and that's an old that list was yet roof to 63, prince. across the, the home of the annex, the team believes found and back who himself was jewish, disclose the franks 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. i think what, what this new theory is bringing us is not just information about what has happened here in the 4th of august 9044 but very much also about the. busy 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 16 in highlighting the complexities of a dark chapter of history. thousands of athletes, officials and reporters travelling to china for the upcoming winter olympics risk having their online communications hacked through the official app for the event internet security researchers from the organization, citizen, lab and canada are also warning the app could even be used for censorship. after they discovered a list of band words, chinese authorities of asked everyone taking pardon the olympics to install the my 2022 out at least 2 weeks before traveling to beijing. it is aimed at tracking and tracing for the corona virus, but also has a chat function and features like weather reports and check ins at venues and data abuse. internet security expert oliver leno has been looking through the investigation. he has more on this exclusive story for us oliver. tell us more

about what citizen lab has discovered here. yeah, the, the password security vulnerability in the encrypted communication. so in detail, it is about the proper verification of it says l certificates. and because of this weakness or heck hust can still more or less easily private data, for example, the passport data audio messages from the the chat function that is included in the app. and, but also the huge data such as the explanation status of a can be leaked. and i understand they're also concerns about chinese authorities having access to the information that could be hacked here. so what exactly would authorities be looking for? yeah, maybe they, they look for for private communication, for example, they interested in and, but they have also included censorship list in this app. so there's

a file that is called illegal words. and this has find all the citizen lip, but there has not been able to find any evidence that they're just as actively used in the app. but there are more than 2000 votes in chinese and simplified and traditional correct us, and also in t bitten and we go and for example, you can find the word the term. will you for who do you koran? and i think the question is, what such a list has to do with an ad for the olympic games? okay, so we're talking about a vulnerability in the app and this list of terms that could possibly be censored. i mean oliver is the surprising. we do know that china has hosted previous olympics like in 2008. yeah, of course the china is a state of surveillance. this is known. it's the country of digital center censorship, or even the b, b, c, and we d,

w is blocked in the country on internet and why a satellite but this is in china and so the room big games are in the bible. so it's a special air. we are full for the outlets and for, for all the participants. and i think they don't expect such a surveillance there and, but this head isn't that has find out is much more the so they find the vulnerable vulnerability that can be used from hick us from, from 3rd parties. and additionally, december ship list are, i got the impression that, that many of the participants are not very well prepared for this event in terms of digital safety and the citizen depth and research and g o has to come with such research, which could probably be the job of national security auto do authorities or the national under the committee's d w. internet security expert oliver speaking to us. so thank you so much for that reporting. thank you. and we have more details on the citizen lab investigation on

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