oh magic. discover the world around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. with this is day double the news live from building a looming report on alleged locked down rule breaking has the british prime minister fighting for his political future. course johnson price is more grilling

in parliament this hour. while awaiting the release of the inquiry. allegations of lockdown parties have triggered a wave of public anger and calls for his resignation. also coming up, jim and lawmakers square up for debate or expanding the vaccine mandate. healthcare workers already must get the job from march or risk losing their jobs. and russia shrugs off the u. s. threat of personal sanctions against president vladimir putin of the ukraine crisis. we'll talk today in paris help diffuse tensions. a for a red line is crossed ah, i'm anthony howard walk into the program. first. johnson's political survival is in question ahead of the release of an internal inquiry. it could come as soon as today,

report looked at multiple alleged lockdown parties at the british prime minister's residence, the london metropolitan police have also opened an investigation into the gatherings . johnson maintains that no rules were broken. the pressure of the party get scandal is growing by the day and against that backdrop parliamentary question. time has just begun at westminster. let's go, there lives now in this is, of course, the opposition's chance to apply further pressure to the prime in select joint question. tom now live from westminster in one second. it recognizes that the 3rd visit to the north aren't much better transparency. right? the do you think open to negotiate and objectives? just a go say general magenta. we've been very transparent, claim businesses, both myself, many severe entity, the whole sector have met with businesses and engagement businesses. as we will be to more out exactly what our job is all which are to deliver for businesses inaudible which is to rectify the problems that are happening, businesses in no law, we need to correct the protocol id. you need to show some flexibility to make that

work. but the final question should the minister told young mister speaker, when it comes to negotiations with european union, this government told us we could have our cake and eat it. ah, we have a ha. i ambushed by cake, my business is in northern ireland to cry, you know, to certainty. so when will this government funded aid beat off and deliver a veterinary agreement? oh, well i love you. this may call it, i'll ignore the cases of okay. as things unfold their, westminster, we're going to gen, join our correspondent burg, at mass. now in london, bergen bars johnson is expected to come on under fire to day. is labor hoping to close in on a political kill here? definitely and i was just citing policy number 10 downing street and really

bringing how that this is not your ordinary wednesday the, our crowds outside cameras outside people's that is overflowing on the pavement. so everyone here in britain is really looking to what the prime minister has to say today. so he is accused, his government is accused of having parties leaving dues serving cake and wine during lockdown, while ordinary britons really couldn't afford to do that. and this is what the prime minister today will be. questions in parliament where we are, in fact, he's just standing up now to set the microphone backlit. we'll join him again now to reconcile and build a shared peaceful and prosperous future. mrs. speaker this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties, i shall have father such meetings later today. my remarks with dis, the prime minister agree to the chancellor of the exchequer writing of 4300000000

pounds, a fraud. that 454 pounds of every household in the country that went by rickly into the pockets of fraudsters. oh no, of course not mister speaker. i can, well, i can tell him. when we take it, we do not support to prove those are those who steal from the public purse mister speaker. but what i can tell what i can tell her is that everybody in this country should be very proud of because of a huge effort that was made by lord agnew and others to secure ventilation to secure the b. and at the time, captain hindsight and others, and mister speaking reg, tracy, thank you mister speaker. my local hospital with george elliot has recently issued all of that stuff was in volunteers with the metal in recognition of the work that

they've done and continue to do through the cobra pandemic. with the promise to join me in thanking them all for the incredible work they've done, including the specialist team, such as palliative care, who've had to act as surrogate families for patients who relatives you've been able to when it able to attend. because restrictions and when it comes to following that late in issuing a national service metal for all of our key workers who are doing such an outstanding job in keep our country going for the pandemic. alyssa? yes. of course business. because like my honorable friend and our i'm pleased that so many of the volunteers at the store foot georgette, it offers who have been recognized in the a crazed years, almost as i've seen the the metal that they are proposing. and i think it's, it's lovely. mrs. speaking a guy told the house before, oh, we're establishing a u. k. commission on coded commemoration to consider how we can commemorate everything that we've all been through. and the commission will also consider how

we can recognize the courage of frontline workers. no cancellation of the opposition kissed alma thank you mister speaker, and can i join with the prime minister and his comments in relation to bloody sunday? the minister of code says the ministers who knowingly mostly parliament will be expected to offer their resignation to the prime minister belief that opposed to him by mister speaker, of course. but let me tell the house. i think he is inviting your question about an investigation which is, you know, mister speaker, i can't comment on which are which he is a lawyer. the speaker will know that i that i can't comment on. and what i am focused on is delivering the fastest recovery a tony from david, the fastest booster rule out 400000 more p a book on the payroll is not in there

before the pandemic began. and i don't see a policy tomorrow. this is beaca. i, he talks about, he talks about people being out of work in the my case at that point. i don't understand why he wanted. we are launching a plan tomorrow, and this is because half a 1000000 people of wealth into work. i think a promise to said yes, he agrees the code does apply to him and therefore if he misled parliament he must resign. on the 1st of december, the promised to told this house in relation to partition locked down. all guidance was followed completely in number 10 from dispatch books. on the 8th of december looks critical. he said it. on the 8th of december, the prime minister told this house. i have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerge. the walls no party since acknowledges the minister of quote

applies to him when he now resigned. oh, mister feca. cynthia cynthia surveyed about to bid restrictions. let me just remind the highest and indeed remind the country that he has been relentlessly opportunistic for. yes. yes, it pulled from one side to the other and he would have kept us. he would have kept tossing knocked on in the song he would have taken us back into looked on christmas gluten free. and if precisely because we didn't listen to captain hindsight, we have the cost is growing economy in the g 7. this is peter, and we have got all the big calls, right. so let's just rejoined our political correspondent,

big mass in london now and burger is outside parliament. burger, i guess, in a very rural cust question. time as you would expect, we have our answer as to whether the prime minister will go gently into the night while he is not looking like somebody who has resigning that's for sure. and he hasn't given any hint of this so far. so really it's up to, he's and piece to judge him. it's about the conservatism piece here. they all going to follow this and are going to decide whether they think that he is the right leader for the country. because you have to remember it's really about the moral authority, i believe about this whole government. it's the allegation that not just one or 2 events have taken place. that might have been a breach of locked on rules, but it was a whole culture inside government, inside dawning suite and across other government authorities where what, where, where people, how i q is there is somebody thank you very much.

somebody is talking and i can't really understand what he wanted to say. right. but i think it's about a different issue. burger ala, most things along question time continues in behind you, and i understand you're having some difficulty hearing me right now. but we're waiting at 2 inquiries to land. how is that going to change the landscape? we think when those inquiries land, we have that further information. now. where are you that? yeah, where are you waiting for 2 inquiries. so one is by the metropolitan police and that's on the way and we understand it's going to take quite a bit of time. the other day is an internal investigation. it's a government investigation being run by a civil servant and we expect that to be coming out very soon. we understand that div inquiries actually finished built. that is the question of when it will be reported and will it be reported in full and so far dead boys. johnson has sat here

in parliament that he's not going to make any comments until we know exactly what this inquiry finds out. but a big, big day in british politics. they deb leesburg mos in london. thanks so much. all right, let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making headlines to day talents. navy has been deployed to control a crude oil spill of the east coast of the country. official say some 160000 liters have leaked from a pipeline in re on province. navy helicopters have been spring chemicals into the sea in an attempt to disperse the oil slick. 3 people are receiving medical treatment after a large explosion in the greek capital athens. the blast damaged and office block and smashed near by a store fronts. in a busy part of the, in a city was of the explosion was not immediately clear. demonstrations had taken place in more than a dozen cities across mexico to purchase the murders of 3 journalists already this

year. in the border city of t, a one or 2 journalists have been killed in the space of a week. officials say more than 90 percent of murders, journalists and rights defenders go unsolved in mexico. germany is reported its highest ever 70 incidents right of code 19 cases registering over 900 infections per 100000 people. health authorities recorded 164000 new cases in a single 24 hour period. rise has driven largely by the armor chron very it chancellor. olaf schultz is pushing for a vaccine mandate as part of germany's containment strategy. lawmakers in parliament will debate compulsory vaccines later today. legislation has already passed requiring vaccines for health care workers, starting in march and vaccinated staff could be shut out or even fire. we spoke to a nurse who works in a cove at ward herself, but says she won't get vaccinated,

whatever the risk michelle, again from today, sabina saluda is working as an alternative practitioner. she offers her patients homeopathy treatments. on other days, she works as a nurse in an intensive care unit. when the pandemic started, she volunteered and a cobit ward. even local newspapers reported on the story. as mcclendon 20 settling of ease, little fawn above him, it is a small intensive care unit. but over 50 percent of it was occupied by corona virus . patients of us have during my shifts, i really experienced how desperately patients were struggling for air. and with that, that really got to me, everybody puts in dod vocation album, loft, living in from her own experience. she knows that the disease has cost many lives. however, she doesn't want to get vaccinated against coven 19, even though it will be compulsory for health care workers and germany from much.

and that ammonia instead of being vaccinated with the vaccine who's effect, i can't assessable. i'd rather catch the virus. naming. of course the at that could go badly, but then i would rather accept death on my own tom and i ran kind video my taught a phone call from him lawmaker and dr. paula p shutter voted for compulsory vaccinations. she wants to prevent patients from being infected by nursing stuff. oh, this one's gonna average out medicine for all of us working in healthcare. it is our job that we do not put our patients at unreasonable risk on. and the coven. 19 vaccination is extremely safe. which is why it is acceptable to enforce it, to protect our patients. chosen, sabina believes an alternative therapy not in vaccinations, despite all the scientific proof that they work. most health care workers are vaccinated, but sabina could now lose her clinical job. voted us okay, so come on,

doug and mine are by should that really happen and my employer would say 50, but we are a danger to the patients van. then i will accept that and then i will not work there anymore. and now at our biden, that she would then be missing out on several 100 euros a month. but that won't change her mind. she says she will remain unvaccinated. i'm doing now by andrew almon. he's a member of the bonus tag for the free democrats. he's also a medical doctor, specialize in it in infectious diseases, and he sits on the bonus tox parliamentary health committee. welcome to you and governments of policies and draw up laws to implement them. so why is the bonus talk? having a so called orientation to buy? why doesn't the coalition that you'll parties a member of just put forward its own draft law on mandatory vaccination? because this debate is a very intense debate about a medical ethics, ethics,

and conscious as well. and i think it's very important as a democratic elected a member of parliament to ensure that the debate is over all areas of interest and importance in the discussions pro and cons. i think this is pure democracy that we're practicing in the german parliament today. there are plenty of a common tied to say that your party, the ftp, is the reason that they rod through many if they pay lawmakers who will not back mandatory vaccination. why is that? well, i'm not quite sure if it's really the pre democrats, or who are stopping or, or opposing a possible mandate vaccination. if you listen carefully to the other parties prior to the election, nobody wanted mandatory vaccination. and this was also not put into the coalition contract as well. however, the data has changed situation in the world,

and especially in germany has changed due to the delta variant in december, and especially now with the only crime variant. now in january, so we have a totally different database and the discussion needs to be put in place again about mandatory vaccination. but it's basically a proof of the vaccine certification this case medical and, and health care which as of old age is already face mandatory vaccination. why not the whole adult population at this point? well, due to our constitution we, i think we have a very solid constitution and we have to ensure that the mentors that we are taking are reasonable effective. and it is not over boarding basically. and if you look at the data, patience in the i see you, they are basically over the age of 50 unvaccinated adults, about the age of 50. this is the evidence, the medical evidence that is in place. and the younger generation do show up on the

i see you but not to the extent as the elderly. and we have to be sure that our health care system is up and running. and we also have some catastrophes in back in december. when you look to saxony offering yeah. or even in southern bavaria, where the i see use were overloaded, overwhelmed, and patients after stroke or heart attack or car accident, where it have to be shipped out by plane or helicopter to other sites in germany. 2 years into the pandemic, andrew floor. mike is managed to agree a mandatory vaccination law. how quickly can it be implemented? the implementation of the law could be done a willy quickly. this is not a question of implicate implication is basically more question. what do we really want? there are a lot of details that have to be discussed. for example, my proposal is for mandatory consultation by medical professionals that have to be

i also certified of course, if for those who are not vaccinated as of yet. and then next step would be the proof of vaccine certification. if we do not increase our vaccination rate in germany, the other groups are planning to go straightforward for the mandate of vaccination of the elderly. and we have to find some kind of a majority of course, beyond the borders of the parties to ensure the best results and ensure the best proposal for our country. andrew holeman is a member for the bonus tag for the free democrats. andrew, we thank you so much for time. you're very welcome. the kremlin has said a u. s. threat to impose personal sanctions on russian president vladimir putin would be destructive. president joe biden says he might take that action if russia invites you, crime. for way, talks between germany, france, equine, and russia in paris. today i'm to defuse the crisis. german and french leaders say

they're committed to resolving the situation through diplomacy, but they have also renewed warnings that moscow would pay a heavy price for invasion. several western nations have already put troops on alert and stepped up arms deliveries to ukraine. and eagerly awaited arrival at keith airport. military equipment sent by the united states to shore up ukraine as it braces 4 possible russian invasion. it's their 3rd shipment, but it's not enough to resist a bigger and better equipped army government official say bitter headphones. it will please help us to convince the german government to be more proactive akiva through a geren of year we urgently need defensive weapons of oven visits online. we're alone and, and we're not in night. so i know you, nobody will send us troops, not even the american, his honor. we have to defend ourselves, but i didn't. but germany's new government has not answered the calls at

a meeting with french president, a man where micron and berlin chancello left. charles, once again ruled out sending heavy weapons to p. f. forgiveness. good. there are reasons for this, which of course do stem from development over past years and decades plots to mrs. nevertheless, we have of course done a lot to actively support economic development and victim and the development of democracy in ukraine, with financial possibilities, spell and international responsibilities that we have just gotten diva little. and that's why ukraine knows that it can rely on germany. and i think that also shows politics to a large extent, an approach that has earned berlin, heavy criticism from some must, its eastern european partners and from kia itself. and while german and french representatives prepared to meet with their ukrainian and russian counterparts on wednesday to seek it of magic solution, some ukrainians are preparing for the worst on the outskirts of their capital.

these civilian volunteers are undergoing military training to defend their country on their own. if need be looking at some other news now and people across astray, they have taken to the streets to protest australia day, many carrying the aboriginal flag. the contentious anniversary marks the arrival of the british to australia in 1788 protest to say it explicitly links the country's national identity to colonialism and want the date changed. women have taken to the streets of quito, ecuador to call for legalized abortion last june. the constitutional court decriminalized pregnancy terminations, but only in cases of rape, conservative president g m, or law. so, as announced, he will veto any abortion bill that goes beyond that ruling. your so you know, in the, or is marking republic day with its annual parade in new delhi colorful event. marx, that they india, adopted its own constitution back in 1950 spectacle showcases india's military

might, as well as its cultural diversity. but for a 2nd year, spectator numbers were down due to corona virus restrictions or new exhibition in the southwest and german city of barden barden is drawing attention to the beauty and the plight of the world's coral reefs and a threat from climate change. but there's a twist, the burden museum crowd sourced to project from thousands of dedicated crochet fans from around the world who using just their fingers hooks and yarn, a fashioned, a masterpiece of handy craft in honor of a natural wonder. ah, a living wander rendered didn't crochet. thousands of women have spent hour after hour clicking their needles in deep concentration. a collective effort to mingled with an ecological message. literally the day we started our project,

christine joke, that if the great barrier reef ever died out, al woolley reeves would be something to remember it by and in 2005. that was a joke. twin sisters, christine and margaret, that time fast called on people to crochet corals in 2005 together. they wanted to build an entire reef. little did they know they would be hitting the zeitgeist on the head almost 2 decades later. combining climate change in environmental protection with their own feminist approach. when we started the project, we didn't know how many people might participate and we thought maybe 2 thirds women, one 3rd men, but in fact it's been 99.99 percent women of the 20000 more than 20000 people have now participated. but it's the celebration of the women's work that is the important thing. or one of these women is maddy ashton, a cow as

a crochet enthusiast. she is particularly proud of the project. you hop on go fung me the i know i started with one and within 2 months i made around a $170.00 of them. they weren't easy to make money comes on, fox saw her style. and what might look like simple stitching is actually complex mathematics called hyperbolic geometry. an hyperbolic styles into yardage or flu, hyperbolic refers to the area that's created by adding another stitch from marson. this area then goes bigger and bigger. he eva grows her, built on for the carl is increases its chances of survival. mel nimbly kaiten somebody you know, at this crochet reef, feminism needs maths, but also environmental awareness. not all the corals here shine in bright colors. some like bleached and ill. others are covered in plastic or rubbish,

reflecting the reality and the world sees. before we go, his reminder of the top stories we're following for you. the south british prime minister bars johnson has pushed back that harsh criticism from parliament of alleged lockdown parties, new total inquiry, if the allegations could come. as soon as to day johnson faces he calls to resign and parliamentary questions over the scott, i was hoping way i'm, we need to sorted, i'm, i can and as i continue, that's all the nice for now up next eco africa that's coming up after short break i'm anthony. how'd in berlin i'll have enough news update for you at the top of the hour. stay with ah,

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