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ukraine. u. s. and you k pledge fresh sanctions if russia and bates offer a tense meeting at the un security council. also coming up. no more mosque saw help passes in denmark. it's one of the 1st you countries to scrap most po, 19 restrictions. can it lead the way out of the pandemic? and it's been a year since via mass military sees power in a coo. we'll look at that point as if it's stop resistance to its rule. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome diplomats are wrapping up efforts to prevent a russian attack on ukraine. u. s. secretary of state entity blinkin is due for another call with russian foreign minister circ a lever off the u. s. and u. k of threatened further sanctions. if russia invades ukraine, it follows an emergency session at the un security council that resulted in angry

exchanges between us and russian envoys. around the table, the keyword was provocation. rushes envoy accused the us feeling hysteria over ukraine. looper. we're going to go to the discussion about a threat of war is provocative in and of itself. we, you're almost calling for this. you want it to happen. you're waiting for it to happen is if you want to make you words become a reality. the threats of action, if rushes, security to bands aren't met is provocative. are encouraging. diplomacy is not provocative. the provocations from russia not from us or other members of this council. this is the largest. this is the largest, hear me clearly mobilization, approved in europe in decade,

the crime in march. remember that ukraine is ready to defend itself. at the same time, we support the need to keep diplomatic channels with russia open. ukraine is not going to launch military offensive, neither indian bus nor increa mia, nor anywhere else. ukraine sees no alternative to peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflict. more than a 100000 russian trips or mass ukraine's border, sparking concern from the usaa did here a p and allies that russia will make some sort of invasion within weeks. and we continue to engage in non stop diplomacy and to deescalate tension attempt to devil to improve security or for allies and partners, or for all of you for that matter. but with rushes continuing to build up its forces around ukraine. we are ready,

no matter what happens after the un security council meeting. russia responded in writing to us proposal aimed at d, escalating the ukraine crisis. more high level diplomacy is expected this week, even though talks of so far fields to ease tensions. erie, whichever was our moscow corresponded, yuri, is there a diplomatic way of solving this crisis? i think everybody hope so, ben and there are plenty of negotiations going on at different levels at the moment . as for the security council meeting yesterday, russia has criticized the decision to hold it using 1st of all, the white house of unacceptable interference in russia's internal affairs and calling the media at the meeting. a p. r. stunt for the u. s. government. at the same time, moscow has repeatedly emphasized that it doesn't want a military solution, but a diplomatic one. so or the one hand moscow says, hey,

let's talk. on the other hand, i'm not that way. however, i do think that the effect that the highest you and body has tried to deal with the issue as at least as symbolic effect on the kremlin. also at the same time, russia is putting forward demands, it knows the west really just can't deliver on. what's moscow solution to this then? while i think moscow maintains that all russia is doing is moving as a troops within its own territory, enter that russia. it has never, or has never intended to attack your grain as kremlin also complained that the international community isn't bothering to learn about the reason of the escalation in the tensions between the west and russia. and from the russian point of view, been as there is just one reason for that. and that is that, that the nato has come to close. rushes bought us, however, the kremlin has consistently ruled out a military solution to day later,

a russia foreign minister lover off and you are secretary of state lincoln are going to discuss the issue on thorn or the earth. russian, diplomatic, diplomatic efforts yielded nor result when they both spoke earlier. this month we'll see are what will be the result of today's talk later. what about these new sanctions? the washington and london are threatening against wealthy russian oligarchy is, is that something that the could sway moscow in any way? well, i think it's hard to say whether the new sanctions will actually work or reportedly these new sanctions. i bought the money and let's call them financial possibilities of their each rational oligarchs, specifically, in the u. k. ah, russians have been buying property in london for years, bringing a lot of money into the country into the united kingdom. are russians are apparently the 2nd largest group after people from the united arab emirates who buy property in london. and the problem is that nobody knows exactly where their money

comes from. but if it's doubtful a whether this kind of sanction can punish the russian state, or if all this money no longer is invested in the u. k, by the stays in russia because of the sanctions. then the sanctions would probably punishes the oligarchy, but benefit the russian states rather than harm it, given this money will be spent within russia. and what about the russian people household is going down with them? well, a russians have become skeptical about nato and many things that a natal and not the only the ship is to blame for the current escalation intentions with the rest. for example, because natal wants to send more troops to the east, but a war with ukraine would be deeply unpopular at home and to most people consider the whole discussion about it. totally exaggerated as there isn't a sense of in a minute to war. he and moscow and to nobody in this country can or wants to

believe that the russians would kill ukrainians. why many people i have, i hope many people i have spoken to a cole, a brother nation. exactly. a lot of them have relatives there and the other way around. you are a great to talk to you. thank you very much for the analysis. now round up of some other stories making world news today. the british parliament is grilled prime minister bars. johnson over an investigation into a series of parties held at his downing street residence during the code 19 lockdown. finding show he and parts of his team failed, and leadership and judgment. johnson's apologize. it says he will not step down, heatedly assured the house. a federal judge in the us state of georgia has rejected a plea deal for 2 of the 3 men convicted of killing mount ovary. the agreement would have seen travison greg with michael, father and son, pleading guilty to hate crime charges to avoid trial. to denmark has become the 1st country in the european union to list almost all of its cov 19 restrictions. it

mocks to return to life as it was before the pandemic, according to the country's prime minister. as of today, faith must health classes and limited opening hours and no longer necessary than myself. already say, a high vaccination rate will help them cope with the mother on the front barrier of a 60 percent of adults have received a booster. only a few restrictions remain in place for unvaccinated travelers at 10 months for us. but infections a soaring, michael bank, peterson, is a political scientist. he leads denmark's largest project on pandemic behavior and advises the government. a lot of people are surprised about this move. is it justified? so the justification is that we are no longer seeing a very significant pressure on the hospitals. and in order to legally have restrictions in denmark, you need to be able to justify it as

a societal threat. and, and right now it doesn't seem to be what it, what about the threat on the mobile? so what, what we can see is that also the elderly actually in favor of lifting the restrictions . that doesn't mean that, that they are not concerned about getting infected button to provide me the data that we have suggest that they will handle the risk themselves. they have been isolating through january, and they will most likely isolate through february as well. and we can also see that the general population of denmark is also oriented towards that there are some who are vulnerable and, and motivated to, to still try to protect them, even though that restrictions have been lifted. and is there less why? because they suggest or, or believe army kron is the variant that's going to be spreading. i mean, is this an attempt by the government to allow on the current to spread it become

the dominant variant? i don't think it's, it's sort of a deliberate strategy to actually allow omicron to, to spread it's, it's more that in order to stop omicron from spreading, you need extremely severe restrictions. and those are very, very difficult to justify, given that they need to be justified within the context of danish law with, with reference to, to the sort of critical threat to society. so this is not deliberate, a strategy to have omicron spread, but is just very, very difficult to stop this bird about me crohn just briefly. you reckon other countries should be following. so ah, so i think the are costs involved with this strategy and but on the other hand is also cost to keep restrictions. and i think each country needs to figure out on their own, what is the exact way that they want to handle the trade off?

what are the preferences off the public in each country about how to handle the tradeoffs between infection control and, and, and freedom of movement and, and so forth. so i cannot say that this is the right choice for all countries or what i think also the country should be very, very clear about how it makes the tradeoffs that it's making. it's a pretty big is the way out of the pandemic. political sciences, michael bank, peterson, thank you very much for your analysis. you're welcome. i one has taken a 0 covert approach to the pandemic with strict rules on entry into the country and mandatory quarantine and testing. for some, it's meant being away from family. for the longest times. elsa child spends most of her time alone with her new born because her husband is a pilot. he must quarantine for 5 days in a hotel and 9 days at home. every time he lands, despite being fully vaccinated, all household responsibilities fall on our says show does. it doesn't fancy. i'm

practically a single mom because my husband is always absent with ozzy, so long. i'm always worried that if something urgent comes up, no one can give me a hand bull. it's also unfair to our son because he doesn't have a bonding with his father. michael, who is currently hotel, is just 20 minutes away from home, but he can only communicate with his family by phone. in the past year, he has almost always been either up in the air, flying long hall flights or in isolation. he was absent from all his wife's pregnancy, checkups before the birth of his son, now his missing out on the growth of his new born. hi josephs is sole goal. i was confined for 190 days the past year. it's unbelievable that we've done nothing wrong on itself, but were treated like prison pencil just because we've been out of the country. the government thinks we're the dirtiest group and have to look us up mentally. i've been down in the dumps she is on her. during the early days of the pandemic,

taiwan was praised globally for his prompt decision to close bodice and imposed 14 day quarantines on all arrivals that has kept cases down to less than $20000.00 and does below full figure so far. but the south route island may be a victim of his early success. as the world reopens taiwan struggles to exit the sero cove at strategy. despite the 2 dos, vaccination rate, reaching 74 percent health express. se people in taiwan have had a 0 covert mentality for too long as a low tolerance in any outbreak. and with local election assuming at the end of this year, the government is seen to have the incentive to open up. as a public opinion continues to highlight a danger of the firas with the c row cove at mindset, every case is treated to like a grave threat to public health and a disease carries a stigma. i was a chance that people with travel history, especially air crews,

are labeled as potential infection control breaches. cleaning, sid eagles 0 cove. it is a dream to achieve that. we have sacrificed a lot, including the well being of us air crews. how may i help the government will relax the rule soon until your full guy set. but she might have to wait longer. the 30th into depend, i make that still no sign of border reopening or relaxation of cove. it rues. it's been one years since mia mazama overthrew elected leader on sunset. she and ceased power in the united states. britain and canada have announced new sanctions against the hunter, talking to members of the judiciary. you and chief antonio who terrace, would the world to put more pressure on me, most military rulers, in a statement he says, in the past year has been an intensification and violence, deepening of the human rights and humanitarian crises, and a rapid rise of poverty. the multiple vulnerabilities of all people across me in mind, its regional implications require an urgent response. in recent

a security forces in me a might have arrested dozens of people to prevent a nationwide strike to mock the anniversary over the last year of political turmoil . thousands of others have been killed, the taint off like they hunt a year on from the coo and myanmar and things look relatively normal on the surface. but a pervasive armed presence betrays a country firmly under military control. on february 1st 2021 on the sign, so she was ousted from her role as de facto leader of the civilian government. after the military placed her under arrest and handed power to the country's top general. these only will be as you go away. the generals claimed without evidence that there had been massive voter fraud to explain their take over 2 cheese ousting led to massive protests. thousands of people took to the streets, her joined resistance groups. the military has retaliated with

a bloody crock down. according to the un, at least 1500 people have been killed, but that brutal effort to crush dissent and at least 11000 people have been arrested and detained for voicing their opposition. some 9000 people are still in custody. and 290 have died in detention likely due to the use of torture, says the u. n. a year on, on democracy, looks a long way away for me, and mark will as speak now to aim in their political and pulitzer prize winning journalist from me and my in exile in bangkok about a year ago. you tweeted that the crew had forced you to flee your country for the 3rd time. what led you to that? yes, so i left me about 10 months ago are due to security concerns. at that time, the military had begun killing people in the streets. a number of journalists had

been arrested and we were also hearing from people that are those who had were being subject to torture, as well as have any devices. and then the counselor received with a band on independent media. it's hard to get a true picture of what's going on in me and mom, what is life like? they're under military bruland and a panoramic it's been quite difficult to get a good sense of what's happening in the market. it's not just because people are and who bought reporting from excel from outside the country, but also because things look so different from place to place. so for example, in a big city like you go, you know, things may look fairly normal on the day to day, but occasionally people will see bombings and drive by the fascination attempts. whereas people and more rural areas might be seeing ariel don't bartlett's as well . it's sort of active before and public banking out forcing tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people to sleep. and so for the cold situation,

it's been relatively come for the last few months. but over the summer, i was faced with a 3rd wave of called the bank teen and somewhere between 10 and possibly a couple 100000 people were killed. looking at the sort of funeral home numbers and looking at the numbers of access that you mentioned, bombings, assassinations, killings in the streets. what, what can the international community do for the international community can do quite a lot to help. i think a number of countries are already on the right path. i'm really pressuring the, the regime to release political prisoners to come to the table and to sort of a relinquish their unjust feature of power. we've also seen people at the various countries engaged in various sections and boycott machines. i think what else can be done is for dish national community to have arms of are going to have a much more coordinated effort and try to get the machine to come to the table to

negotiate actually power back to like to the visuals in the country. so how optimistic you about ever returning to me in my, or anytime soon, i think it's not going to be safe. for most of us who have actively criticize the regime to return to the country. i think it's not going to be safe for quite a long time. i mean, hopefully the regime is able to be toppled to either the nations or perhaps it may fall to the pressure being placed by the direction that it's based on multiple fact everyone in the country right now. in fact, if you are reporting going keeps you keep your hopes up high as well. good. talking to you today on the w now round up of some other stories making world

news today. in mexico, another journalist has been shot dead while working in the western state of the child on the man was reporting the local government corruption. it's the 4th such killing in less than a month. reporters without borders says mexico is the most dangerous country for journalists. hundreds of people rallied in bolivia as capital opposed to protest violence against women followed outrage over the case of a serial rapist. it received a 30 year sentence for homicide, but was released on medical grounds after serving just a few years. the man was re arrested last week after the bodies of 2 women were found buried at his own in ecuador, at least 11 people. the dead out the record funding for get a massive landslide buildings and causing the capital key to swept away by torrents of water on sunday. heavy brains have pounded the country since october. scientists say global warming is a major contributing factor in offensive. military hunter says it has restored

parts of the country's constitution. the crews lead up. paul henry, i will serve as head of state for a transitional period. you have to spend a fucking faster membership in the organization after a military coup last week. more than 20 people have died in brazil after heavy rains, landslides and flooding in the state of sal palazzo has left hundreds of families homeless. the states, governors of arised, emergency aid for affected areas. brazil has been experiencing torrential rains and heavy flooding since december. it's a race against time to search for remaining survivors before it's too late. homer, it still just, they think that there are people over there. 1 may god help them if they are alive . those i was you yesterday someone was calling for help. today he is not calling anymore. they are trying to get the body out, they are dead or alive. some flood victims are still

being pulled out of the mud. but the hope to find any more is quickly fading. a desperate weight for those whose loved ones are missing her through. what are you? i'm looking for my nephew, his wife, and a 2 year old child. we are brought along. they set the bodies of steel. dear uncle the mud about, but until now they couldn't recover them that the landslides are a frequent occurrence in brazil during the rainy season. here in frank without roach, others especially dangerous for hill side houses that are often the homes of the poor little firefighters. say they'll continue operations until all the missing persons on the list are accounted for. both the living and the dead. 2 men have been arrested in south west germany after the fatal shooting of 2 police officers. its actual place during

a traffic stop in the early hours of monday. the arrest came on monday evening, just over 12 hours after 2 police officers aged $24.29 were shot dead. the main suspect, a 38 year old wild game trader, turned himself into police. police at earlier appealed to the public for information on his whereabouts. a 2nd suspect was arrested shortly afterwards. his connection to the shooting is being investigated. a search is still ongoing, as investigators haven't ruled out other accomplices, the premier of the state of rhineland platinum, where the shooting took place, expressed her this may at the killings. it probably tie every day. police officers are on the streets for us everywhere to protect society and to be there for the community to sign. and those who attacked these officers are attacking the whole of society. the thing of the guns of the saft on the 2 police officers were on patrol on a country road. when they stopped a car, they reported by radio,

they had found dead game in the vehicle. they then called for help seeing they were being shot at that by the time their colleagues arrived. it was too late. the shooting shocked fellow police officers, yachts and the colleague who of our colleagues have died. we know them personally when we worked together. um, we were friends, but it has touched us does. and i'm sure many cheers have flowed this morning and will continue to flow. osmond the up north, northeast. what exactly happened at the scene is still unclear, and potential motives for the shooting are still being explored. and the little reminder of the top story were following for you to south us and russian diplomats clashed over ukraine at the you when security council, the un accused russia of destabilizing europe by massing troops, de ukraine's border. russia said the u. s. was stirring up hysteria and it says that it had no plans to invade

and diplomatic efforts continue will be reporting on that throughout the day. also billions of people around the world is celebrating the lunar new year. the year of the tiger was welcomed with traditional dragon dances and praise across se, asia and beyond. leave you now with some of those images of those celebrations. bye bye. ah mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. oh,

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