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the u. s. and nato deliver reply to moscow security demands. as top european envoys meet in paris to try and east tension. also coming out the british prime minister still under fire, forrest johnson fights for his political life ahead of the report on alleged rule breaking allegations of locked down parties are fueling calls for his resignation. and driven lawmakers debate expanding the vaccine mandate. there's already a requirement for health care workers. they have to be vaccinated by march or risk losing their job. ah, i'm swimming so much gun are glad you could join us nato when the united states have each delivered bare response to moscow security demands amid tensions over russian aggression to work its neighbor ukraine. at recent joint meetings,

moscow demanded a guarantee that ukraine would never join nato and that the alliance would cease military activity in former soviet republics. now u. s. secretary of state antony blanket, said washington has set out 8 serious diplomatic path to resolve the conflict. he added that the u. s. made no concessions to the main demand on natal membership for kids. and i, speaking a short time ago, nato secretary general can stilton berg said it was time for both sides to improve dialogue and diplomacy by re establishing their respective offices in brussels and in moscow. and here is more of what stoughton berg had to say. we colon rashaw once again to immediately the escalate the situation. they don't firmly believe the attentions on this agreements must be sold through dialogue on diplomacy, not to force or the threat or force. so today, nato has conveyed or written proposals to russia. real don, song wrote, were gone,

so in puddle we do not the states for more of the story, we can speak to gustavo grasso. he's a security policy expert from the european council on foreign relations. hi, gustavo, good to have you with us. we've heard there that moscow has now received a, the written responses to the security mit demands both from washington and from nato . do you think this will move the needle at all in the diplomatic progress? or unfortunately, i don't think it will change much because most careless demands for us britain in a way that actually a rejection of them or a polite rejection us us that might have gotten and now it was i'm, i'm every temple and i, and this was consciously choosing the moscow to write it in a way that i make the west and i to reject it. the thing is what happens down to

will most or use this as a pretext for war, or will some of the, as a said, polite rejections that said that with some concerns and issues, there will be put paul forwards or to negotiate on them. welders be taken as honorable or friends to de escalate the situation. that depends where the russia takes the sanctions threat. seriously, that depends whether russia things start a war and will cause more trouble than even gain from given the increased support of european and us nations, to ukraine, particularly in a military field that remains to be seen with this yet. ok, so you say that this back and forth of these letter is actually not going to make much difference in terms of a diplomacy in dialogue. you mentioned sanctions there and whether mosque i will take that right seriously. and you said that only very severe sanctions will have any effect on blood to put this decision making. so what do you define as severe

sanctions? little things start. russia can only survive the 21st century if it's an empire, not only by land force battles by population, and by governing over industrialized wes, sort of industrialized cities and incentives and that includes ukraine. so he thinks that this is a very important strategic objective for russia, and you will only scare him if you put up sanctions. that would foil the plan for russia being as strong and pointy and survival in the 21st century as you wanted to be. and that means victorian sanctions in the energy sector, one way or the other. and a large decoupling of the european and north american consumer market from russia. because that on the mines rushes financial resources and it's technological and societal bonds to that market. and to, to, to european technology, stella,

such that russia also perceives necessary for being sort of the kind of more than a modernized trade power type. it wants to be other kind of diplomatic, shamming. and even freezing pulled his personal s as, as important. that is, as a message, i don't think it will make him rethink what he's doing, but a lot of medical stuff. is it really that clear that letting me put in is intent on invading ukraine because there do seem to be real questions being asked about that here in berlin and certainly in brussels as well. oh yes, a lot of european countries think that the situation is not that serious. the problem, i mean, i'm a military expert, i'll look from it from really per point. your view on if i looked at the formations, aren't the logistics at the preparation? it's pretty serious um, but you also see other girls than your russia usually uses when he'd leverage his exercises or, or deployments to threaten or to bol kane. ah, d d,

the threats against ukraine have been pretty consistent? the demands have been out there. ah, and the willingness to use military force have been on the line by bruton himself oliver of himself, are at with the same birding consistently over the last 3 months. so i think we should take that seriously. ok, very interesting. we'll have to leave it there. gustaf gretel from the european council on foreign relations. thanks for sharing your perspective with us today. thank you very much. let's get a round up of some other headlines now. u. s. supreme court justice steven briar will retire in june. briar is one of the liberal justice is on the court. the announcement gives president joe biden, an opportunity to nominate a replacement biden's predecessor donald trump secured the appointment of free supreme court justices. the european union has condemned monday school in the western african nation of burkina faso,

the youth top diplomat as calling on the military junta to restore constitutional order and will lease all those detained. starting with the countries ousted president, robbery people across australia have taken to the streets to protest australia day, many carrying the australian aboriginal flag. the contentious anniversary marks the arrival of the british trust earlier in 1788 protest. her say it explicitly links the country's national identity to colonialism and they want the date changed. hope francis has called on parents not to condemn their children. if they are gay. he made the comment in his weekly general audience at the vatican. it is another gesture of outreach to the l. g. b t q. community which has long been marginalized by the catholic church. kurdish lead force to say they have regained control of most of a prison in northern syria. days after it was taken over by inmates. dozens of people were killed when detained members of the so called islamic state sees the

site last week, the u. n. as expressed deep concern about hundreds of children being held at the facility. the battle outside these kurdish lead forces firing on i as fighters inside, hundreds of children were caught in the crossfire. the united nations children's agency says the situation is dire beyond concerned. i mean the, the concern is behind us. we are talking about at least $800.00 children. the prison in our soccer, in northeastern syria, is in a region controlled mainly by kurdish forces. many of the children's parents were i, as fighters, drawn from all over the world. they were detained during fighting in 2019, but drove i asked from the last territory it held in syria. kurdish forces hold the city and control the prison, which was attacked last week by a fighters in an attempt to free their comrades. the children

are probably witnessing across it. no, i should witness. they needed to get out of the prison. the. and this is exactly why we have always, we're a human, a day or a door for yourself and other humanitarian organizations to be able to evacuate those children as soon as possible so that they can finally, we see the children stuck in sight, have been held for years without legal recourse and many of their home governments see them as a danger. even know that the fire fight has ended, their troubles are far from over. german lawmakers have started debating mandatory vaccines to slow the spread of the corona virus. the debate is taking place with the armor chron variant, tightening its grip and sending infection rates soaring to record levels. but lawmakers and the german public remained divided over requiring everyone to get vaccinated. ah,

these people have already formed their opinions on mandatory vaccination. they disapprove. that's why they've taken to the streets of central berlin, while the measures discussed next door in the german parliament incite the bonus tag views a more diverse imminent chancellor will have schultz and his health minister favor compulsory shots for everyone over the age of 18. but some members of their coalition partner parties have different views, is pleasure. all right, i am speaking as a representative of all colleagues in this house who propose a so called middle way. we make vaccination mandatory for people over 50 for those who are particularly vulnerable. everyone else over 18 must attend a mandatory vaccination advice session for that, and that is nick murphy of i saw her in the highly efficient antiviral drugs. also an option, for instance, if want to help protect our intensive care units in our hospitals from overload or mia hi. don't dare of her final verdict to day. but we have to examine these my,

the alternatives to the best of our ability visit on this. and we're from, it's a 1st change of views. he and the bundles talking and pretty much every possible opinion has been expressed by some one or other during the more than 3 hour long debate. the majority of the electorate belief making vaccines mandatory is the right step of the irish vice for the if i'm in favor of mandatory vaccination, because i think we should watch out for each other and find a way out of this pandemic as soon as possible. dust is upon him, you might still indicate the guns really i think it's a very difficult topic, even if i believe every one should be vaccinated because the integrity of one's own bodies basically something nobody should interfere with. and so it's been of yes, i am personally against making lexi nation mandatory for certain groups of the population only, for example, for health care personnel. to me this would be the vs solution. and i say either

you make it mandatory for everyone off on no one out africa with use this divided both in and outside parliament. a potential vaccine mandate won't come into effect before summer. many experts say that will be too late to cup skyrocketing infection rates. we can get some more perspective on the story now with ralph a height. yes. he's a professor of epidemiology and public health surveillance at the hamburg university of applied sciences. good evening to you. does a vaccine mandate? a general mandate makes sense? good evening, from hamburg, from an epidemiological point of view, it is highly desirable for all of us to have a very good immune response against the powers. so preferably on this should be achieved in a way, in a voluntary way, but as a quote of the population in germany is still not vaccinated at all on this,

for politics or for the politicians. this seems to be one of the only ways forward . so do you personally think it would make sense for germany to issue a, a vaccine mandate for everyone over the age of 18? yes, it would be, or in this situation which we are at the moment, it would be certainly helpful for all of us in i'm fighting the effect of this kind of make here. why wouldn't, for example, simply making it more difficult for people who are on vaccinated to access services like going to restaurants as is now the case, why isn't that the better approach than implementing a mandate? as as a search as an epidemiologist, i wouldn't mind whatever waste the best way forward forward, but we need to achieve ohio vaccination re term. so therefore, this, this other approach has been running for quite

a while and it looks like we are not, are having a seeing many changes at the moment. so it would be certainly i would be a supportive for, for, for the developments in the parliament at the moment. yeah, that's true. the vaccine rate of people vaccinated rather is not taking up fast enough. on the other hand, mandating vaccines is very different from what other countries are doing. if you look at denmark, it is actually lifting restrictions. israel had strict policies, it is also loosening up despite a high infection rate is a time that we learn to live with the virus. certainly we need to learn to live with the virus, but it is very difficult to compare different countries in different because we're in different stage that's up and admit, or of the immune response in society. so in denmark, her, most of the high risk groups are vaccinated and at a much larger level than here. and is for the situation is also

a different from what we experienced. they are already using the 2nd booster there in a general level, a broader level. and therefore, we will get there, but to not at this point in time, i would say there has been a lot of help attached to the fact that the on a kron very it appears to be milder. could it change the severity of the pandemic for good? sure, this is what we all hope and so on, on a long term basis. and we are really expect us, but term at the moment where we are so we can see light at the end of the tunnel. but at the moment was extremely high numbers. increasing in germany was relatively low immune response at the societal level. and we still have to pass that on, or before we will get the light in, in the near future. we're not there yet. that message from her. i just professor of

epidemiology in public health surveillance at the hamburg university of applied sciences. good. have you with us you're welcome. thank you. british prime minister boris johnson is bracing for the results of a report that could spell the end of his time in office. and internal investigation is looking into his participation in a series of parties that took place while millions in the u. k. were enduring. corona virus locked out. on wednesday, johnson faced a fresh grilling and parliament over the scandal that's become known as party gate . but once again, he refused to stepped out. i would prefer to be led by laura de la. will he now rosara ango ran high in the yuki parliament as em piece. questioned prime minister boaters johnson lawyer. not a leader looked opposition leaders, one johnson to resign. it saying that he lied to the parliament, critical reset it whatever he says in his statement later today or tomorrow won't

change the facts. isn't this a prime minister on a government showed nothing but contempt for the decency, honesty and respect, but define this country? oh, this is beaca, we love this country, i'm doing everything. you know? of course, of course he wants me out of the way. this is because he wants me out of the way. i caught many p bottles. of course, i didn't know who is here to read as many people may want me out of the way. but i'll tell you the reason he wants me on the way from his he knows that this government can be trusted to deliver the you can leader is in a political crisis over allegations that he attended parties during lockdown article. rick johnson wants to continue in office various other m. p. 's believe he has become a distraction from other important issues facing the u. k. every is sucking

attention from the real issues facing the product and the sort in cost of living have pushed millions of families into poverty. time to get this over with sure. the prime minister, the dog public trust in johnson's leadership is at an all time low. one pool suggests that 2 thirds of the british want him to resign. no one should be above the law even in the prime minister. again, there was a group on the 19th of june. my baby was 8 days old. my mother couldn't travel over to come and see her, she didn't use her grandchild until child was, you know, 6 months old because of restrictions. and you know that all that kind of stuff. the findings of an internal investigation headed by civil so and so gree are expected soon and be strong. johnson's party are waiting on that to decide whether to hold a no confidence vote like you're a christian. for nearly 7 years,

a bloody war has been raging in yemen between who the rebels and supporters of yeomans internationally recognized government. a saudi led military coalition got involved in 2015, and the conflict is seen as a regional proxy war. saudi back to government troops recently regained control of the energy producing siobhan province, dealing a blow to the who these who control the capitol senate, the ongoing war and the fight over natural resources has triggered devastating hunger and malnutrition for the beleaguered population. about 2 thirds of people depend on foreign aid to survive. and we want to warn you that our next report contains distressing images. hi flatbread fresh from a stone oven. it's the specialty of alba, keith bakery, and downtown santa. well, some staff members are busy baking. others are chopping wood for the oven. they used to heat with gas that made their job much easier. oh,

there's no gas because of the war. we don't even have any for a bakery here and then a low have to buy firewood at the wood market. and if there is none, there, i have to go to the valleys outside of san on hon. bye. i will help. i will go ahead and do that. hi, my after 7 years of war conditions in yemen, capital santa are getting worse by the day. saudi arabia is block and gas imports in the military coalition bomb santos airport in december. that made getting access to humanitarian and medical aid even harder. hospitals depend on medical supplies from abroad. the devastating impact of the war is most evident in the children's ward. a mom is 11 years old, she severely malnourished and fighting to stay alive, but the doctors here are overstretched. amo's mother says there's little the staff can do well and yet with the blood we've been here for 5 days and it's not getting

better of you if you she's getting medicine and pain relief, you know, which is very expensive for us. i think that's all we can do to stop us upon that. and if i had one and 10 children and yemen is malnourished, some 400000 and all i have in order to beg bread for the children of his country. baker belong a shut abbey. as to head out to the valleys, he is not the only one looking for wood, the gas shortage and the capital has driven many, empties to the valleys. the fire, what business is gloomy? without a shadow then how did the profit between the vehicle owners and the wood cutters? why alone is worth around $100.00 lay the ab had out in belgrade, 100 lot of lab belong a shuttle. abby has found a good tree to fell. he heads back with a decent load of boy. those who don't own a car to get to the valleys have to make do with the wood market in santa many

women come here in particular none of them wants to speak on camera, but hm. but she, it shows us her kitchen the bakery is too expensive for her. so she makes bread for her family at home. with the meagre means available to her. back in albuquerque bakery. they now got enough firewood to get through the week. there just looked at, it tells me and my staff, a lot of time and energy driving to the bentley and getting the wood at it all has to be paying for the whole body of hulu. but he'll carry on working as long as he can baking bread and a country where more people are going hungry than ever before. with little hope of change and sight us interest rates are set to climb. the federal reserve does plan to raise its key rate in

a bid to fight surging inflation. prices in the us are increasing at rates not seen since the early 19 eighties, driven by energy and food costs. in march, the central bank is likely to raise interest rates for the 1st time in nearly 2 years and wind down its asset purchasing program. that could help cool the economy, which has been overheating and recent months. pushing prices up in chelsea, delaney from video b. d. w business is tracking the story for us. i shall say. what do you make of this news from the fed? this news that soon there will be looking at these, raising these interest rates. right? or for me, i think the shows that this era of basically extremely loose monetary policy of central banks just flooding the economy. the world economy with money is coming to an end. what we heard from the fed today is that they do you soon think it will be appropriate to start raising interest rates. that likely means that they will start doing that and march, and they cited 2 things here. first is the job market. so the labor market in the u . s. has recovered a lot. unemployment as, as back below 4 percent is almost at

a record low. or really the bigger problem here for the fat and for the us is inflation. inflation is out of 40 year high at 7 percent in the last reading. that means for a lot of people, things are getting a lot more expensive people purchasing power is really starting to erode. and so the fed to help offset that is going to have to raise interest rates basically about it's kind of like making money more expensive. it means that people are going to have to pay more to borrow, to get a mortgage, to buy a car as well. as companies, and that should help to bring down some of this demand and cool off inflation. but with that also slow the economy down. yeah, that's definitely a major concern. and a lot of critics say that because the fad has waited so long because they were so insistent for such a long time that this inflation was going to be transitory. that would be temporary . a lot of people are afraid that they are going to have to move very aggressively here. the fed, like we will raise rates at least 3 times this year, potentially for maybe even 5 times. so that is a pretty significant constraint on,

on the economy. so we're talking about people having to pay more for, you know, for mortgages for cars, companies having a hard time raising money. and that could ultimately mean that companies start, you know, not hiring as much. so there, there definitely is a significant trade off for the economy. and what would that mean for the rest of the world? yeah, i mean this, this has implications for literally the entire world. because the fat it for one is in charge of the world's largest economy, what it does, if it starts slowing the economy that will have an effect on the rest of the world . the other problem is that a lot of emerging markets have borrowed trillions of dollars worth of, of, of bonds in us dollars. so once the fed starts to raise interest rates, that means that there are borrowing costs are going to go up as well. so for emerging markets, in particular, for the most one or more countries like argentina and brazil, turkey, this could be a major prices for them. are a big implications there are shelves, delaney from

d. w. business. thanks very much for that reporting. we just have time for reminder of our top story now. the u. s. and nato have each delivered their responses to a russian security demand. submit a stand off over ukraine, top american diplomat, antony lincoln said the us made no concessions on moscow's main demand that ukraine not join nato. meanwhile, nato secretary general gen soleberg said the lines would not compromise on its core principles. coming up next on conflict zone, a pro beijing lawmaker tells dw timms about in there has been no rollback of freedoms and hong kong, despite a prac down by china, say tooth ah ah, ah, ah

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