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person has died. several more injured. your tacker were probably a student at the university is also get also coming up shoring up defenses. nato sends more ships and place to eastern europe as pierce world. russia could invade ukraine. moscow which uses the alliance of escalating the crisis over a possible attack, but continues its own military build up at the border. plus celebrations in burkina faso in mid reports. the country president is being held by rebel soldiers . the mutiny comes a day after demonstrations calling for the president to reside. as a court in britain says, wiki weeks founder julian, sancha is allowed to appeal against a ruling saying he can be extradited to the united states to face charges of espionage on layla. how can we start with breaking news as we come on the year one person has reportedly been killed and several

others have been injured in a shooting in the german city of heidelberg, according to police and assailants shot at people in a lecture hall at heidelberg university before killing himself, one of the victims has died of the injuries in the hospital. the attacker is said to have been a student at the university. did it before that? i mean, i see so it's closely tracking development. so for us, i mean, what more have you learned about this incident in heidelberg? was you said one person has to come to their injuries originally it was reported that 4 people were injured. apparently that person, one of the people was injured, was in critical condition, and then to come to their injuries. now the perpetrator, according to sources from the german press agency, fled the scene, but then turned the gun on himself. so that makes 2 people who died, including the perpetrator himself. now we don't have any information about the

identity of who he was. some sources say that he was a student there that hasn't been confirmed by the police just yet another has been fake news circulating on social media. one person was even attacked online for being the perpetrator because his photo was circulating, but that's not him so. so far we don't know who that was. now the police also say they don't have any indication if you had a political or religious motive. at this point. the investigation though is still pretty young. this happened just a little while ago. so we're waiting for information about why this happened. no indication if there was a note left, or if he said why he did it and this has really shaken heidelberg. i mean, it's a city of 160000 people. $30000.00 of them are students. so it's really a city built around this university and it's the oldest university in germany, a very idyllic, picturesque city that a lot of international students come to the study. they're a university that was built many, many years ago. and for many people,

this represents germany to give them a constitution of renown. what can you tell us about how common these types of incidents are here in germany? much less common than they are in the united states. for example, in germany there have been terrorist attacks in recent years, but the last, the last attack at a school with the last school shooting was in 2009 when 9 people were killed or that 2002. but overall, there's only been about 6 school shootings in all of german history. so in the past century, when such things have happened. so this is really shaken, not only heidelberg, but germany has turned its attention to the city because there's something that in germany with strict gun control laws, it just is not as common as other countries. like in the u. s. c, start reporting there on developments from the shooting in heidelberg. thank you so very much. thank you. we turn our attention next to our other

top story. our nato allies have put forces on stand by mid soaring tensions between russia and western nations over ukraine. the alliance is sending more ships and fighter jets to bolster defenses in eastern europe. meanwhile, the european union says it is ready to impose, quote, never seen before economic sanctions. if russia invade ukraine, you foreign ministers meeting in brussels, say they want to double financial assistance to ukraine. the group is also holding talks via video with the u. s. secretary of state antony blanca. around a $100000.00 russian troops have mast at ukraine's borders over recent months. the kremlin denies plans of an invasion. brussels correspond jack paris could join us now. he is covering the foreign ministers meeting. jack, our diplomats in brussels, where you are still talking up diplomacy as the solution to this ongoing crisis.

well, that's certainly what they want. as the solution layla, nobody in brussels or in any of the nato member allies really wants open conflict, obviously. but what they're becoming increasingly aware of is that it's becoming even more of a tense situation. we've heard from a number of the foreign ministers of the european union today saying that they're preparing never seen before sanctions. that was the quote from the danish foreign minister on, on the way into this meeting. the question is, what will those sanctions include? how far will they be willing to go really to hit the russian economy. there's a lot of people suggesting potentially, that they could, europeans could prevent russian banks from using the swift technology. it's sort of banking backend technology. the, a lot of russian bangs rely on and removing the, the use of that would have a serious economy, economic effect on the russians. and also there's always these constant discussions

about the north stream to pipeline the gas pipeline that will potentially bring gas russian gas into the european union through germany. and the germans, obviously very keen on trying to avoid that projects being brought into all of this . we'll have to wait and see exactly what comes out of these discussions with the u . s. secretary of state antony blink and the u. s. has said that they are removing their diplomatic so the staff of the diplomats in kiev, the u. k is also said that the e u is not going to make that move yet. they gonna ask him, why exactly the americans are doing that? and i think this is the opportunity for the europeans and the u. s. to try to come back on to the same page has been questions around whether actually the unity between the, the trans atlantic allies is sort of showing some cracks at the moment. talk to us a little bit more about that jack, because obviously as you just mentioned, the u. s. and the u. k. telling there a diplomatic staff in a ukraine a to leave the country. the you says, no,

we're not going anywhere. i'm do they have a different read of the reality on the ground? that must be layla. there must be some questions that essentially the e u doesn't feel that the sort of tension is quite as high as the americans say that it is joseph parade. the e foreign policy chief on his way into this meeting said that that's what they're looking forward to hear from, from secretary of state anthony blinkin. as we say, there's been some sort of differing positions and not always precise unity firstly within the european union. but also between the u. s. and the europeans and jack as we speak. and nato has put troops on stand by and military equipment is being dispatched to eastern europe or what do the ministers make of that development? well, this is exactly the opposite of what russia is demanding. russia has been demanding that nato troops and american troops with withdrawn from eastern europe. and they demand that there are a promises from the nato military alliance that ukraine and georgia will never

become. they to members, nato says it's an open door policy. every country has its own right to define its own security measures. but this increase in troops as well is sort of hardware going into eastern europe, is going to anger the kremlin and probably bolster it to say that this is what they're worried about. they're worried about the incursion of nation nato's border coming all the way up. they don't want you claim to be a native member, because then it would be that nature would go all the way directly up to the russian border. we'll have to see exactly how this transpires, what the russian responses we have heard. some senior russian ministers over the last few days saying that they will react appropriately. what is appropriate in these situations when everybody is concerned that the russians are going to send the troops over the border into ukraine. did have you set jack para co reporting from brussels. jack, thank you. our report is in moscow county,

i've spoke to people to gauge their views on the tensions between their 2 countries . for says, hear from people and the ukrainian capital will new. lucy will move burnberry. i am very worried when you pull things are not easy in our country at this moment. but i hope that diplomats can find an agreement and that there will be peace in ukraine. so you would, if we are okay. but you know, of course i'm worried there are people living here and they are in danger. yoga mostly. i think nothing will happen is just the usual french from the big bonded next door. but sure. bonita, losa, cecilia, myrtle from turn, the machine, there's nothing we can do. i have to walk can feed my family. i don't have time to think about what i will do if something happens with your phone. number is that was your fee. i have friends in kiev, joe and i love ukraine. are you? i'm against war. yes, for the roster. this muslim

a war would be pointless. there wouldn't be one. all we see right now is an attempt to world wide to heat up the atmosphere as an attempt by certain people to make others believe that one site is planning to attack the other. no, ma'am, when you got the always hipaa, we don't want war. ukraine is a brother nation for us militia. why war? this is a political fight, not the, but it escaped, but, but no mas. get my presence here. and over there, do you have something in their heads? at least they don't seem empty. so war won't happen. you boys it let's said take a brief look now at some of the other stories in the headlines around the world, the united arab and where it says it has intercepted to ballistic missiles over the skies of abu dhabi. the attack is the 2nd on the muradi capital this week. yemen who the rebels have claimed the attack and threatened to expand their military operations against the emeralds. the u. e is part of a saudi led coalition that is fighting the romans in yemen. is that another

journalist has been killed in the northern mexican border town of tijuana, the 2nd killing in a week's time. lauder small donado lopez has found, was found rather shot dead inside a car. he was one of a number of journalists who in 2019 expressed fears about their safety shoot, lead mexican president. homo pope benedict, the 16th has admitted to have given false statements during a german probe into sexual abuse. the pope falsely claimed he was not present at a meeting in the 1980s. the expo claimed this did not occur with ill intent. the investigation commissioned by the catholic church, found he failed to act in for child abuse. cases, concerns are growing that a coo might be underway in the west african nation of burkina faso. mutinous

soldiers are reported to have detained president ra hook cabaret. his exact whereabouts are unknown. heavy gunfire was heard around the president's residence over nights and soldiers at a number of bases staged uprisings. the army and many civilians are angry at the government's failure to reign in age a hottest insurgency. and earlier we spoke to w, west africa correspondent, america okoye and started by asking her about a statement that the army is expected to give soon. writes layla, your car writes about that. i mean, a back in, at faso is in a state of uncertainty, a few like are based on what has happened to development. thus, we are following. so yes indeed, where we're expecting that that statement should come from the military. typically, some of the expectations would include who is now in charge, is there really a military takeover and who is going to now be the leader as how long is the

military going to hold onto power? what are the strategies? are there going to relinquish power? thought we expect that all of these details will now be furnished out, you know, to the public, so that by kilobit will know where they are and what is going on really in the country as you do. no, no one has had a where, you know, from the president president himself, aside from what we heard from the defense minister. so yes, we are expecting that that statement from the military should be able to answer all of those questions and even more leila. now the president, as you've been reporting his whereabouts, they're still unknown to, we know where he's being detained. i mean, we do know definitely that he was arrested, add the military camp, but whether or not he is still there is yet unknown ad, you know, that's the events that led to them. a capturing him was quite a struggle from what we saw from images are online and of course from local reports as a swell that's, you know, they're out vehicles among the vehicles that were there. and we saw some

a particular vague i'm sure you have the speech of that now broken and has a blood inside all is unknown whether he's still there or where he has been kept. as we do know, he is taken alongside other officials as or norwood yet we following up on that as we get our their information. lila america, can you please set the stage for us and, and, and walk us through what happened exactly the last 24 hours. and why burkina faso finds itself in this situation right now. absolutely imparts. on the last 24 hours a few like has been more of chaos for by keener fossil. i mean, we started off with a lot of gun battles from different military bases, as they say is for amber mutes very immune to me as soldiers who were shooting. and the government was very, very quick to defend its country. so to say had to say it's not on the military attack and that is still in charge and that all is well,

but that's quite escalated and you know, as we saw that there was a coffee that was imposed, but can up is really as showing that is that dissatisfaction with the state of security in the country and of course the military asking that you know, they need more resources to be able to fight this militancy head on and asking for better welfare also for those who i in the front live on of course one does so does . so these are the issues that i've led lead to what we are seeing now. i, yesterday there was a coffee, impose on, you know, in the city. and then before we now saw what happened this morning, which led now again to the taking their way off the president and of course other officials. but yes, that does heavy presence of military in the, in walk. i do go particularly and we are hoping and waiting for what the next for back in our fossil layla must after corresponding to america or career. thank you so much for your reporting. britain's high court has ruled there,

drilling assange can appeal to the supreme court against his extradition to the us . the decision is the latest and the wiki leaks founders a long battle to avoid being sent to the united states where he faced charges of espionage. he's wanted for wiki leaks, publication of hundreds of thousands of legal documents relating to the of gone austin and iraq. did have you, corresponded bigot mass is at the high court in london. she told us what the next legal steps for julian assange and his steam could look like. well, the royal coats here have decided that is up to the, the highest code of the land, a supreme court to decide whether he can actually appeal against his acquisition. and it's a long battle. he's gone from a low a co to initially said that he shouldn't be extradited because of mental health reasons. but that was appealed by the u. s. and that was basically granted say it looked like you would have to go to the united states and faced the espionage

charges that but now we are looking at julian sanchez appealed. so it's really a long battle. and the background is that jillian assange has been in a high security prison over a 1000 days, is supposed to say that he is, ah, not very well at the moment. his fiancee revealed that he had a mini stroke and we speak to 2 other people. for example, reporters without borders, the organization that campaigns for press freedom and they say they should, he shouldn't even be in prison. that the fast place that he is a publisher on that and what he has done is dead within the law of press freedom say they are actually cooling on the biden administration to drop the charges. and for julian sans to leave prism but doesn't look like this. is going to happen any time soon. he has t a face this battle at supreme court, and then the decision will be ultimately up to the u. k. home secretary. for your

mass reporting or earlier german chancellor, olaf schultz is set to whole talks on the pandemic with regional leaders today to discuss the way forward as alma crankcase. a serge, some politicians are calling for an end to restrictions because the new variant appears to cost less severe disease and vaccinated people. but some doctors, especially those working in hospitals, say it's too early to give a thing all clear. a typical scene in one of germany's emergency rooms an incoming patient is tested immediately for coven 19, and receives the news they're infected with al micron. germany's latest wave has cases spreading faster than ever, and many health workers are also expected to catch the virus. the university clinic and regensburg is bracing for impact. ma'am for them so much was it that we were able to bring in students. we have a part time staff who have increased their workload. and we have teams that work and rotating shifts. teams does understand that the fest and she can gov at at home

and stuff. ha, dr. marcus zimmerman doesn't just lead this hospitals emergency department. he also coordinates with other clinics and physicians in the region to see not if we're still seeing growing infection rates without the staffing to reflect that will be legal. the weekly videoconference of doctors and clinics is an important means to directing the flow of patients. if one hospital is full, they can use the network to quickly find free beds for days. every one in regensburg who's tested positive for coven 19 has had the omicron variant. despite this, fewer among them need inpatient treatment of this cindy with food and swung the other. it's a bit the quiet before the storm was we expect the number of incoming patients to grow and quickly me as, but i'm more worried about the staff than about the patients vendetta. if we have growing numbers of staff out sick, less than treatment at our hospital will be stretched to its limits. hunger house fun on dickinson, coleman, and regensburg, the helicopter unit flies and fixed teams to minimize the significant staff loss.

if only kron cases continue to soar, if been caught up being at a fib, if i'm optimistic that we will handle it, i think we're well prepared. we know where to put our patients and, and who knows, and maybe this way will miss awesome. my, the inflect practical worth of it in conklin has a holes with flexibility and cooperation. germany's medical community is standing together despite the challenges faced elissa parliament starts voting for a new president. today. the favorite is current prime minister mateo, that agi. but some fair, the government will be destabilized if mr. raggy is elected president, it of he is, christine wound up reports from when it's done. this will be a portrait of mario dragging. the man who may very well be italy's next president, the 74 year old technocrat, who hated the european central bank and is currently serving as prime minister. he's widely liked abroad and here at home, or another soon on. well, he is

a very serious person and knows what he is doing or mental thought of allah. he's authoritative. he has the skills recognized at european and world level assembly of your truth for us, he's perfect, but it's political interests and not public popularity that will decide druggies a fate. choosing the head of state is the job of lawmakers just over a 1000 of them from across the country. these great electors, as they are known here, are from all sides of the political spectrum. this is the query nelly palace, the president's office in rome. one analysts put it to me this way. if mario druggie doesn't get elected as president, it will most likely be because political parties cannot agree on what happens after he leaves his office as prime minister regulatory he presented very boldly go as prime minister, maria druggie has brought much needed to be listened to. italy's chaotic politics,

where governments here often collapse after just one year. his departure from the premier ship could plunge the country into political crisis, especially if a triggers and early election. there are 2 scenarios in, in the case of drug is electron as a person of the republic are the 1st one is the, or doesn't agree man to retrieve the political forces that are composing his majority to set up another column. this is the best case scenario. the other scenario is the election of dragoon, but does not a cooperation among fully the parties very difficult to set up another government. in this case, druggists preserve the republic in front of carls might decide to dissolve department and coming back to vote. i think the 1st scenario is more likely ball. we cannot exclude the 2nd one. all eyes will be here on parliament this week. we secret ballots will be cost in person and a coded protocols. the artist only needed a few minutes to finish his portrait. but it's going to be at least

a few days before italians know if mario druggie will indeed be there. next president christina montague reporting there, we can go to christine and rome are right now. good to see you, christine mario. there are you clearly the front runner is the at all interested in becoming it. who's not prime minister use prime minister, becoming the president rather. that is a very good question. layla. in fact, the closest thing that he said to yes, i was in december when he effectively answered a journalist by saying that he was the godfather of institutions and that he was willing to serve where he was needed. so that much we, we at least know in fact the headlines on that specific day here in italy. we're that mister drago is willing to serve as president. you've got to see it from his perspective. somebody was telling me here that if he stays on his prime minister, he effectively has one more year. and so it goes for general election realistically, if you factor in all the campaigning in the summer breaks,

6 months left in office to actually get things done versus a secured 7 term in office at 7 years, sorry, in, in office where he doesn't exactly influence government policy, but is there enough sort of oversight wrong, rice or role of stability basically any other contenders vying for this post? well, this is the thing we don't know. we do know that for example, as silvio berlusconi, the former prime minister withdrew his candidacy. and he is essentially one of the only people who had really come out forthright and say that he was interested in taking the role. normally, you do get surprises. for example, the current president, mr. materials came as a big surprise. and then of course, it could just be generally somebody who is above politics, the constitutional court judge, for example. so it has been known to, to flight thing in us with you. surprised but what we can say for certain is that it's not going to be the former prime minister silvio berlusconi. you already

alluded to this, christine, but i am hoping that you can flush this out for us. how important is the post of president in italy? yeah, i mean, this is not something that you can call a ceremonial role, especially in this country because the president becomes really important when you've got political deadlock after elections, for example. and he's got to step in and bring the parties together and help build and, and a government. we have seen presidents in the past getting involved when it comes to the appointment of presidents, excuse me, of prime ministers, as well as ministers. for example, the current president are mr. marilla blocked the appointment of an economy and finance minister back in 2018 that he felt was far too. you're a skeptic and that would jeopardize italy's relationship with the rest of the european union. so in a country way, governments don't last very long. in fact, mister material as president has, has seen 5 governments in his 7 year term. the president really does become an important figure and many people in this country would like to see mister drug there. because right now he is presiding over a national unity government,

almost all of italy's parties are in his government right now. he's brought a level of stability that people think would be appreciated. right at the top level, christine were reporting from rome. italy christine, thank you for your coverage. this is it renews life from berlin. up next are signs show to mar today which looks at whether a super volcano that is bubbling beneath europe. mites erupt, sometimes to stick around for that while rock and roll and on behalf of all of us here at dw, thank you so much for keeping us. come with with

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