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after meeting with foreign ministers from germany, france and britain, u. s. secretary of state antony blank and says, west and allies are united ahead of crisis talks with russia's foreign minister. also on the program. former pope benedict is criticized in a new report into sexual abuse within the catholic church as a german archbishop in the 1980s he said to a failed to act. despite being told about 4 such cases will hear from a survivor of clerical abuse who tells d w. he has never recovered from his childhood experience. and as the 1st humanitarian aid flights reached tonga, images from the capital show the scale of the devastation massy volcanic eruption and synonymy cut off the pacific island nation from the rest of the world last week . ah,

i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. the secretary of state has been here in berlin, holding discussions with allies about containing the perceived threat of a russian invasion of ukraine. antony blinkin met with german foreign minister, and i'm in a bad off. and that british and french counterpart after us off in care of yesterday, mr. blake and will finish his talk to morrow in geneva, where he's due to me to russian foreign minister. so again, laughter of these meetings widely viewed as one of the last attempts to stop russia logic, an attack on neighboring ukraine. mister blake had said he and other european leaders were on the same page and looking for a peaceful solution for the conflict or collective 8. the goal that, that we share was to seek a diplomatic path to deescalate tensions caused by russia's massing of troops along ukraine's borders. to deter and prevent further russian invasion or destabilization of ukraine. and to address legitimate security concerns put forward by russia

by the united states, by europe, through dialogue, not through regression and german foreign minister and alana. burbock emphasized the importance of standing with ukraine in as i get is only 3 at stake is nothing less than piece in europe. it's existential for us. that's why we have no choice, but to stand up for it unwaveringly and to defend it with a protective shield shirt and bass applies even if that would have economic consequences for us. and he's a mass man for on said the tough leisure, klondike, vincent harden's item. let's have a closer look at these latest statements with a roster sky keys. vetter who's a christian democrat and member of the german parliament and sits on the parliament . so foreign affairs committee, welcome to d. w. or what do you think has this flurry of diplomatic activity we've seen over

recent days made any difference to russia's position on ukraine? hello, good afternoon. no, i really believe this will not have any consequences so far because in parallel, russia has announced several exercises and naval exercises in the mediterranean and pacific and in the atlantic. so it's a kind of competition, but it's very helpful. there's the problematic endeavour. we have seen today with the court and especially also with the wizard of foreign minister, lincoln to berlin. so i am really grateful to this show of diplomatic force. so sure people, i think force russia making a show that we don't care what to do. we're going to do this anyway. is this just part of the game, or do we expect some concessions from one side or the other? in the, in the final stages there is no need for concessions of the western side.

there is only a need to strengthen the trust of the ukraine population in to this protection shield shield, which i know the nobel book mentioned. and we have underlined emphasized that we would like to focus on diplomatic means. and on the kind of sharp, a military support, but not at all of a military escalation, so it's up to russia to de escalate. and it should be a face saving operation for russia. but we expect that the next 8 weeks when the soil in ukraine is still frozen, might escalate. but we need time saving operations also that russia can withdraw. why should ukraine, why should people in, in ukraine, believer that a europe and the west is serious about this when russia is sitting in crimea at the moment, when, when a bow lane has refused to sell arms to ukraine,

and no one will spell out the consequences that russia will face if it goes ahead with it. why should anyone in sitting in ukraine believe that europe will lift a finger? i believe that some european countries are already in supporting ukraine with military means. this is important, and i also want to play for it. on the other side, i see that ukraine needs to trust into the western support because we cannot afford migration or people who leave ukraine. because this was frank would strengthen the position of putin and russia. therefore, we should do everything including to stop nor stream to, to discuss the swift agreement, and also at a certain stage to bring in military support if needed. so we should not exclude anything so that it is not within the calculation of putin that he can split the

european and all right. one potential threat to all these talk of western unity, of course, is if russia takes aggressive action without launching a full scale invasion, then we're likely to see disagreement amongst allies about the appropriate level of response. well, we already see this hybrid warfare on this type of diplomatic games of russia. so we need also to protect ourselves. we need a better public communication, strategic communications, public diplomacy also to our population. we need to be prepared as angela s on alina babel has mentioned. also, there are severe consequences for our own economy. we have to stand aside of ukraine, and we have to protect international rule based order. and this means russia must know that we are ready that g, 7, the european union, and nato,

as well as the normative format, and bilaterally, with the u. s. that we are willing to protect the sovereignty of ukraine. and if this is the case and russia believes that they have also any chance to withdraw their troops and to declare this as a military operation for just an exercise. that's very clear. thank you so much for joining us. a roderick keys vetter, a christian tempered member of the german policy a former pope benedict the 16th has been accused of failing to take action in for child abuse cases in germany. and your report has found that the former head of the catholic church covered up clerical, sexual abuse between 977 and 982. and he was a cardinal, joseph rat, singer archbishop of munich, and friday. one of the most prominent cases involved a priest known as peter h. in 1080, the priest was transferred to the munich archdiocese where he continued to abuse

children. the report was commissioned by the catholic church but carried out by a german law firm and is highly critical of the form of pope's actions in, in getting a total of 4 cases, we've concluded that then archbishop cardinal glancing it is to be accused of misconduct in cases of sexual abuse, o mathias, cat is the head of the organization, aggregate tish, or square table, which represents people affected by sexual abuse in the catholic church. welcome to d w. let's start with your response to today's report. i think it was a shaking moment for the whole church, not only the church and diarrhea and in germany because the world wide abuse scandal which has evolved in the last 30 years or so has finally reached the the head of the parameter it with the polk the former pope

benedict. so this is her yeah, very special moment. but besides the cases mentioned in your report, we have 500 other victims alone in the city and the diocese of munich. it names the pope in this report find the pope the pope was was or it was an archbishop. high level catholics have been named before. is it just because such a big name has been reveal that you think this is this is a momentous occasion or do you actually see this changing anything when he was catched with a line, there was a whole building of lies covering the as you permit my my wording to benedict since 2010 when the scandal for the 1st time you both here in

germany and now we know it was all a big lie. you knew about the perpetrator about peter h and he personally, is responsible that about 20 other boys were abused after after the decision he made to adopt this priest as one of his priest in his diocese and give him responsibilities. so i think this is a very special moment and we have to ask cutting on mike, for example, who was in charge 10 years ago or 12 years ago when this was the 1st time reported and everyone tried to protect the dent pope benedict. what was he doing? maybe? oh, i'm quite sure he is responsible of having organized this cover operator. so i really, this is shaking moment for the catholic church and not only germany, but the world of this report in today's historic allegations was commissioned by

the catholic church will be carried out by a german law firm. is the church now batter dealing with sexual abuse obligations? i know mean the lawyers we are quite clear. there is no reason to believe that anything in the fundamentals has changed since 2010. but we believe that they are, they have become better in training of lay people in protection programs for children. but in terms of dealing with the victims and not protecting the perpetrators, it's still the same old system. so there are major changes are needed in the future . thank you so much for joining us, which is a catch from, i think a tish, which supports people affected by sexual abuse in the catholic church. thank you. thank you for having me. well, let's now go to martin gac hears d,

w 's religious affairs correspondent, welcome of israel. so what can victims expect? now beyond another apology from the church? well, doubtlessly, there will be more apologize incoming from the church, but there are also prosecutors looking at 40 case, apparently that they might proceed on as to what the statute of limitations, etc. sort of might limit their possibilities. we don't know yet. this is a very, very large report. i mean, it's a 1000 pages or so. so, i mean, there is really quite a bit of stuff to blow through over the next couple of weeks. obviously the big story remains the fact that somebody that became the very top of the catholic church was aware of what, not only what's going on his watch within the day us is is that was as a matter of fact, i mean as the word was used a couple of times today it's understood to have conducted himself improperly in relation to for sexual abuse, case of maria and children. and so do you see this as a shaking

a moment for the catholic church or just another report? it's very difficult to say, i mean, in a way, i think that the problem with this entire story, which is now closing on 20 years or so, is that every time that something comes out, i mean the outrages it's brutal and it's, it's a sense of full and complete this belief, and then sort of there is a slumbering back into sort of regularity. one has to admit, as you just ask that there had been reforms that things have changed, that the penalties for sexual abusers have become within the church. more stringent . sort of the cannot make secret, has been lifted. so now things have to be brought to justice. but the fact is that the overall state of the institution has not changed. and one of the things that was said today that was really quite alarming, is that nobody should mistake the case of sexual abuse for belonging strictly to the past. which goes to say that, you know, the things are probably still happening. and so if,

if the institution which it appears to have done has 4 to be inquiries along along the last 20 years. ok. this one was commissioned by the church, which sort of sounds like progress. what is the justification for an organization a built on mercy and looking after each other to impede investigations into sexual abuse within a drugs? i don't think that the church would meet to, to the claim that they are in beating investigations. i think that what the church has generally taken the position is that they are the ones that will conduct investigations. now i think that we can say at this point beyond any reasonable doubt that those investigations have not been sufficient. as you point out, this report and others have come from the intentions of the church to actually shed light on some of these cases. but i think that in a sense, i mean ok. so we have the information, we know what the case is. now the question is, can justice be done?

can this cases be redressed? can we actually, and i think that this is really the most important of all questions. can we prevent future victims and future brief from using children in deus as not only in germany, but around the world? and there's a question that so far, i don't really see, and i've been following this for the last 20 years. i don't see anybody capable of answering it. there is a sense of apology, but there is no concrete statement as to what will be the process by which they will prevent this from happening again. thank you for that. it was religious affairs correspondent martin. yeah, you're welcome. now the 1st aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to tongue has arrived. 5 days after the pacific island nation was hit by volcanic eruption and soon ami, a cargo plane flown by the royal new zealand air force was able to land after a copy of ash was cleared from the runway. now as basic communications begin to be restored, the world is getting

a 1st impression of how badly tongue was hit. these images provide a glimpse of the devastation left behind. this is tongue is biggest island tongue, a top who it escaped the worst of his saturday's volcanic eruption and su nami. but it was still badly hit and all around. there is a blanket of volcanic ash. the ash might have health where percussion, my comp was water, the effects it would have on agriculture and the recovery of livestock and culture, possibly the ecosystem for stocks, we have to have push poison testing. it's now to ensure that people's livelihoods

and local food sources for, for consumption the cleanup has already started as tongue gardens try to restore a sense of order. knowing the outside world is struggling to get in to help. but help is finally beginning to arrive. this australian 8 flight is the 1st to land in tonga. both new zealand and australia are using their naval ships, as well as their air forces to bring in aid as quickly as possible. despite the difficult logistics, the priorities from the tollen government or what we're really working to primarily in the 1st uses, the provision of clean water. that that's the key priority that the autonomy government has asked for. no range of our other stores from shelter. now further

communications equipment and the like to make sure that we arkansas to search so different and for tongan, that age effort can't begin soon enough. as this nation made up of the round, 170 islands tries to start rebuilding its life. a poland is bracing for a surgeon corona virus cases as it heads into a 5th wave. government forecast indicate that this will pink in mid february at about 60000 new cases a day. but a significant percentage of poles are still unvaccinated, only 56.5 percent of had 2 doses and only 23 percent of had booster shots. they w correspondent, jack para reports from the hospital in krakow, which is preparing for its beds to fill up again on ventilators fighting for their lives. none of the 20 people on this coven, 19 ward at crack of university hospital or vaccinated. greg or she has just been

admitted to the ward says he was scared, the vaccine would effect another medical condition. he has rather than have a junior shipper got one of them you convict of until now i didn't know how to vaccine would affect me. but anyway, i'm not an anti vac, sorry voice because the question is now from my doctor how long after leaving the hospital can i be vaccinated? keith evans, when the mortgage the search. right now the case load here is manageable, but they're bracing as infection numbers in poland. surge and my frustrated that people are not getting vaccinated. frustration is a difficult turn to to define. i just wish people trusted or medical experts more weak and weary. the staff try to get the patients moving again. up to half of the patience on this road will end up needing intensive care support. it's so frequent that the staff here at crackles university hospital has set up special pathways

that go underground straight from this ward to the i see you doctors here say currently around a 5th of the people admitted with cove. it don't make it out of the hospital when i remember our 1st wave. we had most sleep, very other people, and a lot of them in thank it. died at to day. age of patients is different. we have patient clar, 4050 years old. there's an ongoing discussion in poland about whether the reluctance to be vaccinated comes from longstanding, lack of confidence in public institutions, a hangover from the communist era, or whether the government's information campaign around the jobs was insufficient. only 56.5 percent of polls are vaccinated with 2 doses. and it wasn't hard to find people on the streets of krakow, who hadn't had it back to shark, whatever vaccinated people also get the virus and they are spreading the virus to

left and carrying and suffering at the place where i was working. everyone who was vaccinated got severely ill, me, and was it vaccinated, and i never got sick and i in your kind of, i mean, forgive him so, so, so sabrina, i don't know what to say about vaccines because i'm not vaccinated. is there something new in the world and i don't know what the side effects might be available some ago, my goals. i shot the gulf, the steel production company, arsenault, midtown, poland, is offering its 10000 employees, a bonus of just over 400 euros. if they prove they're fully vaccinated, they say it's getting results. the response has, has been overwhelming because the program was only introduced on the 21st of december last year. and in the 1st 3 weeks, we received as many as 4 and a half 1000 applications. so it means that 4 and a half 1000 of our employees have been vaccinated. while private initiatives like that might have a local effects. increasing vaccination rates needs

a nationwide effort. poland has passed the unwelcome milestone of a $100000.00 covey deaths and with the low vaccine take up. and with the 5th wave looming, hospitals like this one worn, the number of deaths will spike again, museums and calls at holes in the netherlands have been offering haircuts, and money cures as a protest against cove corona virus restrictions us because the government has now eased restrictions for small businesses like hair salons, but not for cultural values, which have been closed since mid december, mid september. much to that, if to the dismay many dutch people, ah, it's a different kind of into met. so at this concert hall and amsterdam, the orchestra plays 2nd fiddle to a pair of hair dressers. ah, yes, it will say it's so beautiful to, to be here. now in these days,

where there's no possibility for o, predicted culture sector benevolence was put on to lockdown in mid december due to record coven 19 cases, hair dressers, beauty salons and gyms have now been allied to reopen museums, concert halls, and other cultural venues, have not in a protest, action called hare saloon stages and galleries were turned into small beauty parlors or yoga studios. more at the famous vanguard museum, you could get your fingernails painted for organizing this to make the point that we think the cultural sector. so the over, in museums, in particular, a very safe places to visit. the way we've set this up is also according to the rules. there's plenty of social different thing. there's lots of space, lots of fresh air. and we think we just really don't understand why we're close.

and beauty salon is over. this concert had to eventually stop. but the barber of seville would surely have been proud. ah. the scientists have discovered a pristine coral reef off the coast of tahiti. in recent years, of course, much of the news about karl has been about its degradation due to climate change. but a group of french scientists has discovered a 3 kilometer long reef of giant rose shaped corals between 30 and 120 meters below the surface water. they saw to be deep enough to protect the coral from the bleaching effects of warming, ocean currents. they looked like roses blooming under water over 35 meters below the ocean surface. running the depths of 70 metos. these giant color wreaths are growing in what marine biologists call a twilight zone to get enough light, but are shielded from damaged by human activity. researcher lateesha had when

discovered them during one of her dives. it just wonderful. and what is very interesting is that the reef like this is part of the read seems to, to go for ever dispatch of the reef runs for 3 kilometers. it is not bleached or diseased and that's despite warming, ocean waters, which have killed coral reefs in many other places. kill even the fish at different lower diversity than the shallow race. it is different. it probably has different species of corals and fish than the shallow reefs. experts say this coral reef if they for now not forever, and gives hope that there may be other untouched ecosystems out there. waiting to be found. a reminder of our top story at this hour united states has

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