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have reach him in person like this is 10000000 people in the world. they have no nationality and they don't belong but everyone has the right. everyone has the right to say like ah, ah ah, this is d w news line from by laying the german foreign minister on the line. a bad ball. kohl's talks with our russian counterpart in moscow to try and diffuse
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tensions over ukraine as fears, grove, of a russian invasion also on the program. the 1st image is emerge if tonga, after saturday's massive volcanic eruption shows serious damage, though the full extent is still on no ship's carrying supplies are still days away . africa returned for something like normal, despite being badly affected by the owner. convent virus infections and death are decreasing to what lessons can the rest of the world. and we'll look at how athletes and other for the system next month's winter olympics in beijing could be at risk to the flaws in an act that china says they must download. ah, i'm fo gail, welcome to the program. germany's foreign minister says there's no alternative to
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good relations between moscow and bird. then on a nina bareback was speaking a talk in the russian capital with her counterpart. so gay, love roth, amongst the topics on the agenda of the russian troop build up on the ukrainian border. fierce russia is getting ready to invade its neighbor. was bare box. it talks would cover a variety of issues including some currently casting a shadow of a bilateral ties in annette nottingham. the man in the last few weeks, more than 100000 russian soldiers have gathered near the ukrainian bod own enough for no comprehensible reason. it is difficult not to interpret this as a threat to shoot. and so since i took office, a large part of my discussions has may not be entered on the question of furthering cooperation with russia on deepening common goals was blanket mines. i'm quote, but he and current directly to the german government did not choose the situation. these are the 2 at 100, but it cannot and will not ignore it. are buchanan on van?
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yeah, i'll finish austin. beacon let's get warranty w correspondent, aaron tilton in moscow. welcome, aaron. so i am the german foreign minister there, addressing this issue directly. how did sir guy love raw response? well, mr. live rav and also emily arbor stressed, the importance of bilateral ties quite extensively throughout their comments today . now, mr. lamb for of, and only about seem to kind of agree to disagree when it came to some of the security concerns. and some of the questions that the german foreign minister raised there in the clip we were just hearing. however, they both signaled that both the you and germany were ready to come to the negotiating table when it came to russia. basically, i'm willing to start talking about a joint security framework for the continent. now, when it came specifically to the question of ukraine, really the elephant in the room and the eastern expansion of nato love ra of seemed, indicate that he was open for dialogue. but really, when it comes to that issue,
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i think moscow really thinks that the ball is more in the court of washington, and it does the european union. he did make that point. he said that russia's when he for security assurances from the u. s. before it would continue any, a talks about ukraine, so it's hard to escape the, the idea that he's not really taking the german foreign minister seriously. i hate to agree with you, but i definitely do. i think this was more a cordial, polite visit among neighbors than really one where moscow was hoping to hammer out some type of permanent deal with regarding nato in the ukraine. because, i mean, really at the end of the day, they think that i'm joe biden. the man in the white house is really the person they should be talking to when it comes to nato and nato expansion, eastwards. so i think of anything this was moscow basically opening the door to one of their most important trade partners. but when it comes to real diplomatic movement, that's going to have to take place on a very, very different level, you know, between washington in moscow and a little bareback has been one of many western def last to say that if russia
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invite ukraine, they will be serious consequences. russia has lived with european western sanctions for years. and now is these threats likely to have to make any sort of impression on it? oh, to be honest. no, i don't think it is because from the russian perspective they're in kind of a no loos situation here. now if it comes to an actual armed conflict, that's going to be something that, at least from their perspective, they're going to start, which is also i have to stress, not something that they are actually interested in. they realize that because anglo miracle is no longer really leading germany and doesn't at, isn't kind of serving as a voice within europe that europe is kind of still shuffling its cards, figuring out what its political footing is. so they're not likely to want to engage any type of military conflict. ukraine at the same time looking to washington. joe biden is still dealing with the cova pandemic. he still has the republican party at his back, which will never support him in any type of armed conflict abroad. so russia really realizes they are not facing strong military opposition in ukraine,
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from western power. so they're in kind of a, a no lose situation if the status quo is kept up. if this pressure campaign keeps up, ukraine will never be able to join nato. and if they force it a little bit more, they might be able to change symbols, political facts on the ground. so it's kind of a no loose situation for them. and when it comes to the sanctions, well, you know, since you've crane conflict started years ago, we've been seen round after round after round of sanctions and they've had no effect. i mean, the economy isn't great here, but people are still going to work. they're still making money. there's so putting money in the bank, so no, i mean really the sanctions aren't really a tool that seems to be able to impress moscow. ok, thank you for that. aaron are and tilted in moscow. well, german chances are all i've sholtes. meanwhile, has also been discussing the situation on ukraine's border. this time during talks with nato secretary general. and dalton burg here in berlin. chantelle said that russian aggression towards ukraine would trigger strong reactions that would come at a high political and economic costs. and he urged moscow to de escalate the situation
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by reducing fruit numbers on ukraine with nato chief invited russia to join nato allies. you ran to talk and emphasize the importance of dialogue, intention to high on the implications for you or the w sir, chief international editor richard walker. can that tell us more? welcome, richard. so we have another invitation to more talks of, from nato, to a russia. we're going round and round in circles here it appears. well, yes, tells him, but as we just heard in what you referred to, they're saying that it's important to keep talking in a situation that is as tense as this is at the moment. and yes, so he says that he has today invited the russians and the nato allies to another round of talks in this body called the nato, russia, russia, counselors, one of the bodies that had talked last week. and this will flurry of diplomacy that we've been seeing. now somebody's message here is that he wants to show to the
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russians that nato is willing to engage on a range of issues around it, concerns over security. but he also was stressing very strongly that it would not to this, it would not discuss what he calls, core principles, things like sovereignty and territorial integrity. the kinds of things that the russians are currently throwing into question with regard to ukraine. so trying to draw a line between what's up for discussion, what's not up for discussion, because we'll see whether the russians are interested in responding to that in the hours and days ahead. so much of the core issue. so your visual revolve around international organizations, whether it be that you all night or, or whomever, what is germany's position? what leverage does germany have within these frameworks? well, i think all eyes really are on germany at the moment. it's no surprise that anthony blink in the u. s. secretary of state is coming here to germany this thursday on
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a brief visit to europe. his other stop will be in ukraine. really show that you, germany, is, is, is absolutely critical voice in one area, and that is how far off the west prepared to go in terms of sanctions. if russia does go ahead amount of attack on ukraine. now, the big question has been about this. russian german pipeline called north stream to a gas pipeline, which is recently completed, has not gone into operation yet. and whether germany is prepared to say they will put a stop to that pipeline. if russia invades, now, there's been a real doubt about whether germany was prepared to do that the social democratic parties of that's the main part in the government. here the policy of charles ledger of shots we just saw there has historically been very much connected to this pipeline. but now in that press conference with the install from bug off shots for the 1st time indicating that he was prepared to consider putting a stop on the north street to pipeline. saying that it's clear that in the event of
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a military invent intervention against ukraine. everything up will be up for discussion that will cause a lot of pleasure in washington will be glad to hear that. and that will be seen as assigned to russia. germany, which is traditionally been a power that is always trying to kind of mediate between east and west, is prepared to take a tough line. thank you for the abuse of chief intellectual as richard walker. let's take a look at some more stories making news around the world. now. therapy in parliament has chosen the new president, roberta met solar 8th, a conservative lawmaker from malta to succeed that david saucily who died last week . 43 year old is the youngest person ever to claims the job. and on the 3rd one to hold the position in the parliament, history of british prime minister barak johnson is denied, suggested that he lied to parliament about lockdown parties at his office. he said no one had warned him the gatherings might violate strict cove 19 rules in place at
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the time is on the growing pressure to resign over the scandal. findings from a government. inquiring i do early as early as this week, authorities in hong kong, so they will cold more than 2000 hamsters after a pet shop worker customer and at least 11 of the creatures tested positive covian . my team. officials say it's not clear whether humans, court virus from hamsters which were imported from the netherlands. the city will now been the same for the import of small animals of united nations as the pacific island of tonga suffered significant damage in saturday's volcanic eruption . first, images have emerged after news, even then the australia sent surveillance plains to the area. communication has been limited because the island nation's only internet cable was cut. new zealand is also sending ships carrying water and supplies as planes current land because of the ash covering the main airport runway they
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look like old sepia feta graphs. but it's because of a blanket of ash which now covers everything in sight. on some of tonga 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 soon army 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 tom
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collected water from the roofs of household. but in terms of access for the aid from australia, new zealand, arm and other flight of they need to clear the runway supplies are already on their way. new zealand h. m. n, z at as wellington is one of 2. royal navy ships heading towards tomba, with water supplies survey teams under 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. now to south africa, the 1st country to sound the alarm about the army con corona virus variant. now the wave has passed and other countries are looking to learn from their experience.
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data shows how micron are causes a spike in case numbers, because it's much more infectious than previous variants. south africa's 4th wave was therefore sharper, but shorter crucially, the army chrome wavers, resulted in fewer deaths. and previously, there were also few hospitalizations. and this is that led some experts to conclude that our micron is less dangerous. others though are warning that many cases may have gone unreported or undetected. so the real number of cases and death could be much higher. they're wanting not to underestimate army crime as a mild of variant. today is an important day for the pillow, honey born in 2 years ago. financial problems and the pandemic forced him to close his bond dress to rent and kate towns, kylie chuck township. but now he's fine in the re opening over does caught us little things that we need to put your eggs and different buckskin. and also you need to try and think outside the goals. because i mean, for me, i don't cast
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a storm from whatever bed situation that i mean i always knew proposal tipton. i thought things that i can do instead of humbling after nearly 2 years, most lockdown restrictions were lifted, including in that he could, a few 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 cobra 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 of the pandemic. i so wish that i wasn't even here, but the, the name po, but that is what we're wishing for today. everyone is going, i've been about connect thing going outside of enough data. now that's how long i
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hope that only god is actually defined. seen of this merit to see slash enjoyment. this i should happen as the i'm so happy that the business is booming. people to start making money. outcomes of officially open. when last, as these tyesha types hit this in business, i'm glad that we can get to come here and enjoy. many scientists also optimistic despite the low vaccination rate by religious to wolfgang plaza, says that many south africans had already infected with the corona virus. before the only runways, hospital data show that the prior corona virus infection or vaccination, provides protection against severe illness. also with the army tron various women than others. if you are to like to hear dear tide for a patricia, allah's entered address, gamma tom would a gave to or if you get to a situation like this, where nearly everyone has had it or has been vaccinated,
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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 wave vacation was shorter in europe and school starting again. and it's winter when people spend much more time together endorsed. or the selfish winter will not be made. so those are considerable differences. that's why you can't just say, we expect things to go like they have in south africa. dusty backlog ones are gonna be of oddness. enlightened dorothy in a suit, 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, who galati hoffman does feel only america officials with a booster info at home. com. 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 variance doesn't come as a nasty surprise. then we can keep our immunity up by nature means via regularity.
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infections with a corona virus, and dusky dandridge. ag macy can be to infect you, image beam co love your sons of evenly tetra zone of. and i truly have eyes and advocacy jim buells early because no one wants to think about more mutations right now in the middle restaurant and bar, certainly not own as he pill. however, he already has big plans and wants to expands to other cities. he believes that the prospects was on africa once again. for let's say, take another look at this with a professor parachute who's leading for ologist, a chance at south africa, ministerial advisory committee on covey. 19 vaccines. a welcome to d, w. we just seen a busy bar there in cape town with few masks being worn and most pandemic restrictions in the country have not been lifted. i'm, we heard the professor price, they're talking about
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a natural immunity. this is this the sounds like what, what politicians have often talked about, living with the virus robin regarding against it? yeah. yeah. i think i think we will be living with a virus. i think it's not going to disappear. we won't eliminate the virus that will be that's i think as both gung mentioned earlier. i think what we're trying to achieve, the kind of aim is to kind of have this voice with us and it to state to state that we can tolerate it. like we tolerate the for, and demi corona viruses which cause a common cold. i think that's really what we're trying to get through. so away from the severe disease with overloading the hospital and people in the i see you in ventilators and a very much more manageable, very much more tolerable upper spots to check. and fiction does what you have for. and you seem to have the south african seems to have achieved this despite quite a low vaccination rate. i think it's something like 30 percent of the population
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has had the shot which, which seems quite low. it is low and nothing is actually disappointing the law. but surprisingly, we tolerate to this epidemic very, very well on the right of hospitalization. the rate of dis, via disease was very low. part of it could be that we don't test to the same extent as you do in europe, are testing a numbers are much lower. also, you must remember a lot of our population done at x is to help k. so this probably is quite a bit under notifications, but having said that, we still got it. we still pretty sure, pretty confident with the data that you've got, that this was certainly a very much milder disease in terms of severity hospitalisation. so on, in our previous ways, i think a lot to a large extent it is because the population is largely immune to ready. and we know this form for prevalent studies, antibody studies,
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and samples of blood that the level of unity is very high. romania for nationally and, and so that the rest of the world was, was looking on as, as a move through south africa. and what can we, in, in europe, and it did the rest of the world learn than from countries army from wave you know, i think one of the things you, you mentioned earlier about people not wearing most and so on. i think that's probably the exception that bar and capture and that you mentioned, i think largely in the country people are reasonably good about wearing most public spaces. in fact, he's actually a criminal offense, not to, but people are reasonably good. i think that those, those fiction precautions the wearing of most the avoiding or social functions are keeping physical distancing. sanitizing, as i think those are main still important. how important a role that plays is africa. i'm not sure. i think the countries in the northern hemisphere can maybe maybe learn a bit that you can't simply just drop them now the,
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it with the pending is not over. maybe there's something which can be learned from south africa, who says, as we mentioned earlier, outdoors, some of the people on holiday and so on. that may also play a role in the difference. i good talking to you. thank you for joining us. professor. professor barry show from the south africa ministerial advisory committee on covered 90 thousands of athletes, officials and reporters traveling to chime if an ex months winter olympics risk having their online communications hacked through the offense, official app, internet security researchers from citizen lab in canada. also warning the app could be used for censorship. after a discovery list of bad words, chinese authorities have asked everyone taking part of the games to install the my 2022 at least 2 weeks before traveling to beijing. it stated a mr. track and trace corona virus contacts, but it also has a chat function and features like weather reports and venue checking with a word with professor ron dba to his director of the university of toronto citizen
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lab, which investigated this app. but welcome to d. w. professor at talk briefly through your finance well, the findings are pretty straightforward actually, although very troubling. and i would say also not very surprising given the context of software development in china. we registered and downloaded the application, my $22.00, which as you say is mandatory for all athletes and journalists and visitors to the olympic games to install on their phones. and we discovered some disturbing features. one is that it has terrible security, bad encryption protocols were used in this software, which would allow anyone along the network path that the data flows a why fi network, for example, to intercept communications important parts of the communications and also even spoof websites. in other words, send information back to
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a user pretending to be something that they're not in a fraudulent manner. we also discovered that it has a feature to report what's called politically sensitive content, which is certainly striking, although we don't know to where that information would go. and lastly, we discover that there is a about 2000 keywords that are related to content filtering mechanisms. in the application that haven't been turned on yet, but which would band conversations having to do with sensitive top topics in china like those having to do a sion jang or to bat and the chinese government. and so when you list all these, these, these apparent floors, do you regard this as a visas, being oversights, or built in flaws? well as difficult to say for sure, of course, because we don't know the back story. i should say that we have
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a vulnerability disclosure policy at the citizen lab that we do for all of our reports of this type. and many weeks ago we disclose this to the organizers of the games, but received no response. so we don't know what the actual story is behind it. if it looks as though though based on prior reports that we have done, that it may simply be negligence on the part of software developers. this is very common in the data ecosystem. in china, you routinely see all sorts of encryption flaws built into software. in fact, not that long ago, the citizen lab discovered such a flaw in china made soon soccer platform that many people use during the pandemic. but you know, this is also an authoritarian regime that has a long history of weakening encryption and of course surveillance of its users. so, you know, either way, it's something that i would advise everyone who is attending the games to be aware
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of because it puts their data at very serious risk. and i thought that was going to be my next question. because if this has been mandated either how, what should i be about to using this app? well, 1st of all, i was in instructing or giving advice to anyone, particularly a journalist traveling to china. i would recommend not taking your regular phone or your work phone. i would recommend taking a burner device, not trusting the network anywhere within china because surveillance is extensive there. what this adds though, is the insecurities that we discovered out a layer of potential criminal fraud and abuse as well, which is very disturbing. so, you know, you, you'd have to go in really thinking about your digital hygiene anyway. and this just adds to those concerns in a very serious way. i could talk to you. thank you for joining us,
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professor on dba from the citizen lab. be university of toronto. and you can find out more details of the citizen lab investigation on our website that state w dot com. now in so bowl a slimmer wilkinson guy will become the 1st female referee to officiate, amends africa cup of nations much later today. a 35 year old will take charge of games wins in bob when guinea or female reference quartet another tournament 1st. or can sanger has been a 4th official during the tournament and has extensive experience officiating. women's matches including the cup analytics that you're up to date. well, well here's the top of the, our kick off is next with the highlights from much de 19 in the policy with
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