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ukraine and san secretary of state to antony, blinking back to their beach and his mission to try and de escalate tensions with russia over a possible invasion. also coming up, we speak to the ukranian civilians preparing to defend their country. if russia launches an attack and emergency supplies for tong up, australia's prime minister pledges aid for the country that was hit by tsunami. all the pacific nations are also rushing to send supplies by ship and turkey is hailing a new home grown covey 19 vaccine. as a big success boss, does it really work? ah, i'm good how to if was welcome to the progress the united states says it believes moscow could launch attack on ukraine at quote,

any point. washington is setting up diplomatic efforts to try to prevent a conflict secretary of state antony blanket is in here for talks with president vladimir zalinski. we'll also meet with russian counterparts a lover of later in the week and also speak with a german, french, and british foreign ministers. russia has deployed more than a $100000.00 troops on the border with ukraine, but denies it is planning and invasion. more this developing story, i'm now joined by a corresponded, marty as billing or in the ukrainian capital. a key if somebody is blinking isn't key of the old talks or what are the ukrainians expecting to gain from this visit? well, there has been a flurry of activities and diplomatic visits this week. the past few days, 2 days ago, the german foreign minister was here yesterday, there was a delegation from congress and today blinking all that points to the fact that they

have assessed that a trade, an attack by russia might be imminent. and of course, as long as diplomats are here in the capitol, the likelihood of 1st star russia will start such an attack is lower than when nobody is here. there is of course, a lot of activity engaging moscow in talks engaging allies in talks. so all this is of course, to de escalate tensions to find a way out of a military escalation and a back on a, on a diplomatic way, a get russia to talk to you crane in the west rather than attack or recent developments really sound very serious how does it feel that on the ground to ordinary ukrainians? how real does this threat of an attack feel? very unreal. if you are here on the streets, you will not see any thing that points to such an attack. people go about their

daily lives. you don't see panic buying and your so don't see a foreign exchange rates crushing people are putting all their money in in foreign currency and preparing people are very used to being threatened here in ukraine. this war has been going on for 8 years. and of course, this is a very serious point. the russia has ramped up their threats, but her, you wouldn't say that a, you, people are prepared and people, people have been, or reacting to this kind of threats for a long time. which also means that some people have been prepared to react if russia should really attack and i have met some of them. this is how marta use give, has been spending her weekends in the past few months. she has joined ukraine's territorial defense forces of volunteer brigade designed to support the army and

the hinterland. in the case of an attack, marta is 51 and has no prior military experience. all this stuff that you could just see on the movies on the common taurus, you know, they seems very simple. but in general, when you're starting to do it, it's quite difficult. you need to know how to do it correctly and not to be. and then just for yourself and for your colleague skills, very basic, very important skills. every saturday she swaps as urban home for a training camp. during the week she works from home for a company that conduct pharmaceutical studies and dylan life. she shares with a family and more than it doesn't stray cats, she has taken in it's almost impossible to imagine what will happen if i have to leave it. if i have to just

fight and it will been destroyed, it's good happens. i'm trying to be ready for this because definitely i don't want to present it was, is a on the price of being live onto occupation. if war breaks out would be volunteer. troops would work behind the lines to secure buildings, provide logistics to the army, and possibly even deal with hostile inter trace. there are questions about how effective these troops will be marked as command at the new middle order. it is an architect. he doesn't have any prior military experience. hi, mike ashton. yeah. well you, we are not service mon duty every day because we are civilians who have other jobs . but nevertheless, i have been training for 3 years now and it has already had quite an impact on

ether. william logo, one thing's for sure. the weekend warriors have attracted a lot of attention. marty tirelessly explains in what evasion to journalists from all over the world. even if that means that her face is now well known also to the enemy. it's important not to be scared, honestly, because i am in my country. am i doing anything wrong? and i am just trying to protect my country. i like those on my side. and nobody doubts that. russia's troops are militarily superior to ukraine's defense forces, but martyr. and her fellow volunteers are determined to make an invasion as difficult as possible. a correspondent he has billing or is in care of and as still with us and he has entered, the blinker will go on to meet with his russian counterpart on friday. how much space is there still for diplomacy? after the whole series of meetings between western allies, america,

including germany, is foreign minister, analynn a babel just yesterday failed to yield. any breakthrough while as a good question, nobody knows. of course. what is the real aim, or what is, what, what would russia thinks it can achieve on a short distance? we know what know the long distance goal that is to keep the west away and to bring ukraine back into its sphere of influence. but of course, a lot depends on what they think they can achieve. and one way to a lead their, their, their, their aim or 2 or, or 2 um bring them on track is, is, is to talk to them. and her this is a hope that diplomacy can delay or prevent an imminent attack. are christina mathias filling in cuba? thank you. this national effort to deliver

a to tama is ramping up earlier. the government of the pacific island released its 1st statement since last weekend's volcanic eruption anson army, calling it an unprecedented disaster. the country's only internet cable cut communications remain limited. ash stewed up by the volcano is covering much of the island and is making it impossible for plants to land at the airport. ships from australia and new zealand on the way carrying relief supplies, including urgently needed drinking water because of the enormous distances. the vessels are not expected to reach tara until friday. and i am all joined by jonathan bates, who is the acting un resident coordinator to tell her what are your biggest concerns now a when it comes to a deliveries. well, definitely, um, look at those a couple of things. one is the water situation. so were very concerned in case um,

population run out of water usually does plenty of water in, in top, but they rely on rain water. and at the moment its toxic um and they can't use any of the water in that tanks. and so they have to rely on all holes. ah, and the, the people there, the head of the n d m o, the disaster management operation. i spoke to him today and he's worried that the bull holes wimpy sufficient for all the whole population shops, rules who are running out of supplies of food and water. so what is the key thing? and we're glad to do zealand is a, is on its way with a lot of a lot of a lot of water carrying water, but also the ability to be saline. so that's the most people think they can treat see water and turn it into potable water. so that will make a big difference. and then the other thing is the, the assessment cousin finished. and so we don't actually know the situation and

some of the very remote outlying islands of ha, i region which may be affected and we got reports. but as you mentioned that a couple of low lying islands that have been pretty devastated with all houses are destroyed and even true trees up rooted. and the whole population has had to be of accurate as a very so great a lot. and you there to talk to us briefly about the size of the 8 operation that's needed. can you at least have herb herb sort of a good guess? well, the put the population in these remote areas is relatively small. so it's so going to be manageable. i think the with the ships that are coming on the supplies that are available already. ah, it will be, it will be able to deal with the situation in the main island in target topple. but

in the outlying islands it will require a lot more. but this requires big equipment as well, in terms of generates as power reconstruction, ah, quotes, all sorts of other things. so there's a, there's a very short term which is about survival, which is about shelter, food and water. and then the longer term will be the reconstruction, and that will be a very big operation that will go on well into the future. still at the toner is to launch the offline after the, the sol on the see fiber optic communication cable was caught at the how are you getting information about the situation on the ground? well, several ways. it hasn't been easy. occasionally, some people are able to get some messages through either tweets or what sample and they get, they get a connection from somewhere else and, and, and it works temporarily. and we've got quite

a lot of satellite communication now. so we've set up more sack homes for satellite phones and we're sending a lot more equipment now. v shots on other things to will enable internet through i'm using satellites. i'm not should be set up this week, but the, the cable is going to take weeks to fix it. we don't know the condition of it under the see australia or sent a ship. now to take a look at it that's able to pull up the cable and take a look at it, but it may have been completely destroyed by the, by the erosion because it's quite close to the area of the old k. no. so that's not a short term solution, jonathan register for the united nations. thank you very much. thank you very much . tom not have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the well today. the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u. s. capital as issue

subpoenas to rudy giuliani and 2 other lawyers for former president donald trump. lowest publicly pushed trumps baseless claim, a voter fraud following his election defeat the committee is demanding. the law is sit for the positions in february the colombian politician ingrid betancourt has announced she will be running for president on a centrist ticket 20 years ago, but uncle was abducted by the fork. the country's largest rebel proof and held captive in the jungle for more than 6 years. she returned to politics last year and has promised to fight corruption and economic dispatch. a t and t and verizon have agreed to delay activating some of their 5 g services. off the u. s. airlines wanted could cause catastrophic disruption to add trouble. they say the new technology might affect corporate instruments and random, many aircraft unusable. the canadian province of quebec has introduced new

restrictions on alcohol sales for the unvaccinated store, selling liquor, and canvas will now only be accessible to people who are vaccinated against cove. at 19 rebec has been hit hard by a wave of on the front cases. now for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic, germany has talked to 100000 new infections in a day. the country's disease control agencies says it's recorded more than a 112000 new cases. in the past 24 hours, the surge assume by the highly contagious army chron variant, which now counts for more than 70 percent of new infections. a number of people in intensive care however, is declining it. so germany has controversially tightened restrictions again, closing down clubs. placing caps and social gatherings and barring unvaccinated people from going to bars and restaurants and all that. let's go to our political correspondent hands, plant hans burkhardt infections in germany. that sounds frightening, but is it,

it's certainly a very impressive figure and intimidating in some sense. here in germany, at the same time as we've just heard, the infections have not yet led to a large rise in hospitalization. so not that many people are in hospital with called at 19. in other words, the infections, odd, coal, causing mild sicknesses, milder infections. at the same time, we have to say that this number is probably much lower than the real number of infections. the german health minister himself said yesterday that he suspects that there is double the number of infection from the ones that we have officially recorded. that is because the testing capacity in germany is basically exhausted about a 1000000 and a half. tests are being done every week, but that is enough and is not enough in fact to, to trace every infection in this country. because either you or countries also see

arise infections. how does germany come patches neighbors? well, in fact, the situation in germany compared to its neighbors is still pretty good. one has to say, for instance, in france, which has fewer people, lower population than in germany. it is recording 5 times as many official infections as germany is. the situation is similar in italy, for instance, or in spain. germany has still managed to restrict the number of infections to restrict the spread of the virus in this country. and that i think has to do with the much tighter restrictions that germany has imposed in recent days and recent wigs. but what is happening, of course, is not necessary that people are getting sick, but a lot of people are in isolation or in quarantine because they have been in contact with infected people. and that means that there are people missing and all sorts of

key posts from the hospitals also all the way through to for instance, bus drivers and so on. and as a result, germany recently decided to reduce the quarantined time. people will no longer stay in quarantine. for, for 10 days, but only for a week. i'll place corresponded hands on there for us. thank you hands let's have a look at some other developments in the pandemic. world health organization says the pandemic is quote, nowhere near over saying again that vaccine inequality could lead to new variance. emerging. france has reported more than 460000 positive cases over 24 hours. that's a new one day record. since the start of the pandemic and australia is calling on backpackers to help ease its labor shortage, fueled by the on the chron variant, the government says it's waving its $630.00 visa application free fee for backpackers arriving on work and travel visas within the next 3 months though it is

in turkey, gave emergency approval to a home grown vaccine against gov. 19 last month. government hopes circle back will help to keep more people safe as infections with on the current on the rise. but some experts say the effectiveness of the job is not yet proven. corresponding julia han, we paused from his stumble ah, queuing for a world prim yet at this east and will hospital people have been receiving the taco vac vaccine since the beginning of the year. the 1st cove at 19 jap, developed and produced in turkey to go up to do to go. i have more trust in typical back than in other vaccines because it's made by my own country. it is still there to go up to more. i wish they had launched her go back sooner. i would have gotten it for all my shots school rules up to believe me, it's another. i haven't been vaccinated at all until today. i waited for turco back

because i trust our turkish scientists more than those abroad assume was engaged in for president reggie ty, about one talk havoc is a symbol of national strength with its own vaccine. he says, turkey is one of the most innovative progressive countries in the world and no longer dependent on others the government, a celebrating, talk about as a great success. but how effective as the vaccine, and doesn't protect against only crohn and other potential virus variance. many medical experts here in turkey remain skeptical is in tional from the countries independent doctors union criticizes the fact that hardly any data onto a callback has been published. that is why she isn't recommending the new vaccine. political success, she says, seems to be more important to the government than scientific accuracy, horribly. they are. i can't evaluate how effective this vaccine is,

because i don't have the necessary information. the results of the phase one and phase 2 studies have not been published. we also know next to nothing about phase 380, until we have the scientific fact, we can't consider this a vaccine, but just some kind of liquid on the head argue there. so you see on as in many countries on the crown is behind the number of new infections, rapidly surging here in turkey, the lexi nation rate is comparatively height. about 85 percent of adults have received at least 2 japs. but the uncertainty surrounding took of us is causing concern to call a cock. we don't know much about took havoc yet. that's why i don't think it's very safe reading that i wouldn't take it because i haven't seen scientific data and studies about it. her mom quoted out of the didn't saw what was an old little dition room. we're going to change golden rule. i will get my 3rd dose of by and take to day. i don't trust the turkish. maxine,

i have my doubts. glasses require renewed. m. nora, teen ye, has overseen toko vox development. he says, the warriors are unfounded. the turkish vaccine is a safe and effective as others. it can limit the image of it with you or we have all figures and off studies shoshua. we do not have the slightest concern or doubt in terms of its effectiveness being vaccinated as better than not being vaccinated at all. if turkey voc helps us convinced those who are unvaccinated, that would be one of our greatest achievements. because the lose warrior over the next few months, as many people as possible are expected to also get their booster shots with turkey's own vaccine. and soon, according to the government's plan, to collect will be delivered to other countries to help them. in the fight against cove it china's crack down on descent in hong kong has shifted its

focus from democracy, activists to journalists and recent months. territory has seen several well known media that shut down the fear of being arrested has prompted some journalists to leave, to safer places abroad on destination as taiwan, where dw is joyce lee med up was some of the recent arrivals. just 2 months ago. alan still had hope for his future as a journalist. he brought his prescott with him when he moved from hong kong to ty pay. but they are now worth us after the hong kong use out less. he worked for shut down and made pressure from beijing. i've been a reporter for 6 years over news outlet, so i've worked for a gone one after the other. it feels like my identity is fading away to. this is the 3rd time allen, which is not his real name lost his job in just 6 months. he was an investigative reporter for apple daily, but the police detained several editors and

a paper closed. i used to work closely with the people arrested. it's terrifying and the threat feel so imminent. at 1st i thought things would get better after a while, but then you heard of former colleagues being brought to the police station and going missing. it's like the clearing, frontline journalists pro democracy publications like apple daily stand, news and citizen newest went dog after enormous government prussia authorities have insisted that price freedom remains protected. i recent survey by the hong kong foreign correspondence club found otherwise more than 70 percent of the journalists that they were worried about being arrested to or prosecuted for their work under the national security lol. nearly half the respondents were considering leaving the city song. she whole flight to taiwan 6 months ago, shortly after he was sacked by the public broadcaster r g h k. he host at

a popular satari kotia, which is why the authorities taca to tin lay all this year. that sees i for i left, i was counting down my days laila. when is it my turn to be charged all huddled with those the gala, but no one has the answer on time. so not yourself, not your editor in chief and not the police. once again, it's stressful to live with such uncertainty. eli lilly montalvan though your group secret gama, your husband, goal sound. she whoa now has his own youtube channel. he post clips and comments on hong kong, current of ass, toyota. but the, with the, i now have the freedom that people in hong kong don't have for jojo, like i feel obliged to speak out for them. they go gulker though i still collaborate with people in hong kong at all. and i must consider their safety under the security law that they are unfortunate fate yell holes in all tell to who the lawyer they don't. dugger allen's as his 1st priority as his manual house, after all the trauma. but he plans to keep reporting to stories of overseas,

hong kong and us being a journalist is more than just the job title. it's also a way of life to seek the truth, to think critically and to care for the underprivileged. we can see things through these lenses and continue reporting even without a job titles. but a will be a struggle for allen to build a readership without resources. it's a fate shared by many of his fellow journalists back in hong kong. only day haven't gotten out yet. i believe you with a good news story from the galapagos islands where dozens of giant turtles. i've been released into the wild from a breathing center. after 8 years of coming of age in captivity, it was time for their big day. animals were 1st taken by truck and then ellis did by helicopter to their new habitat, which they will share with 4 other giants total population. looks like they're

already started to come out and show it wasn't it? i mean, you see as a reminder of the top story we're following for you do as secretary of state antony blinking has arrived. and here as the start of new diplomatic, pushed to prevent possible russian invasion of ukraine. moscow denies that is planning to launch an attack on its neighbour despite sending more than a $100000.00 troops to the border ridge. and that's it from me and the team here in berlin. don't go way up. next. this close up. taking a closer look at the rising temperatures in lap lanton, of course, don't forget you can get a lot more news on and then information on our website. the w to go to comp, gout elf, was in berlin. me thanks for watching. ah,

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