make up your own mind. oh, d, w made for mines. ah ah ah, this is the w used live from berlin, doubling down on diplomacy, his tensions mount of ukraine. the u. s. s. u. k. thread new sanctions if russia

and base after a tense meeting at the un security council also coming up. it's been a year since we had most military seized power, and i could look at the what is efforts to stop resistance to its rule and other journalists shot dead in mexico, the 4th killing in less than a month. we'll take a look at some of the dangers journalists face. ah, i've been fooling welcome. diplomats are ramping up efforts to prevent a russian attack on ukraine. u. s. secretary of state entity, lincoln is due for another call with russian foreign minister. so guy lever off the us and you cave threatened for the sanctions. if roger 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 key word was provocation. brushes. envoy accused the u. s. a feeling hysteria over ukraine, muddy looper. we're all gonna agree. the discussion about a threat of war is provocative. in and of itself. we go to your almost calling for this. you want it to happen, or 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 de bans 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 approves in europe in decades. the cramming mass, 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 in creamier, nor anywhere else. the grain sees no alternative to peaceful resolution or the ongoing conflict. more than 100000 russian troops or mass near ukraine's border, sparking concerned from the west indies, european allies that russia will mount some sort of invasion within weeks. and we continue to engage in non stop diplomacy and to de escalate tensions. an attempt to devil to improve security or for allies and partners for, for all of you, for that matter. but with russia's continuing to build up its forces around ukraine. we are ready no matter what happens in the us and russian foreign

ministers are due to have a phone call in the coming hours with more high level diplomacy expected. later this week here, 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 accusing. first of all, the white house of unacceptable interference in russia's internal affairs and calling the media at the meeting. a p. r, stand for the u. s. government. at the same time, moscow has repeatedly emphasized that it doesn't want a military solution, but a diplomatic advance. so on the one hand, moscow says, hey, let's talk on the other hand and not to 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 deliberate. what's moscow's solution to this. and 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 to 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. today, later, a rush us for a minister lover off and your secretary of state lincoln are going to discuss the issue on thorn or the earth. russian diplomatic,

diplomatic efforts yelled at 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 oligarchs. 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 the air of 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 with in russia. and what about the russian people? how's all this going down with them? well, a russians have become skeptical about nato, and many things that nato and not the only the ship is to blame for the current escalation intentions with the best. 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 cold,

a brother nation. exactly. a lot of them have relatives there and the other way around. you're a great to talk to you. thank you very much for the analysis. now round up of some other stories making world news today. and you report by amnesty international says israel's policies towards palestinians. amount to the international definition of apartheid. israel rejects any such allegation, saying its own arab citizens enjoy equal rights. it's brenda, the report is anti semitic. human rights watch accused israel of a party last year. the british parliament has grilled prime minister boris johnson over an investigation into parties held at his downing street residence during lockdown funding. so he and part of his team failed in leadership and judgment. the prime minutes johnson has apologized. it says he will not stand down followed a federal judge in the us state of georgia has rejected a plea deal for 2 of the 3 men convicted of killing mout. aubrey agreement would

have seen travison gregg with michael father and son, pleading guilty to hate crime charges to avoid trial to felony. denmark has become the 1st country in the european union to lift almost all. it's covered 19 restrictions. the prime minister says it marks a return to life as it was before the pandemic. as of today face must health passes and limited opening hours and are the necessary. that muscles already say a high vaccination rate will help them cope with them. on the, on the comm variance of a 60 percent of adults receive the booster only a few restrictions remain in place for an vaccinate travelers 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 the data that we have suggested 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 very, that's going to be spreading. i mean, is this an attempt by the government to allow on the current to spread and 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 oma crunch spread, but it is just very, very difficult to stop this bird up all micron. just briefly do rec, and other countries should be following. so ah, so i think the are costs involved with a strategy and to air. 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 trade offs 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. a year ago me a massage me over through elected lea. don't sense a g and c's power in a coup. the united states, britain and canada, now announced new sanctions against the haunted talking talk. members of the judiciary, you and chief antonio terrace, urged the world to put more pressure on me a most military bulls. in a statement he says,

in the past year there has been an intensification and violence, deepening of the human rights and humanitarian crises, and a rapid rise of poverty. multiple vulnerabilities of old people across me. and myra, it's regional implications, require an urgent response. in recent, a security forces, and mima arrested dozens of people to prevent a nationwide strike to mock this anniversary. over the last year of political turmoil, thousands about this have been killed, detained off like their homes, 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 to cheat 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 and his own to go away. the generals claimed without evidence that there

had been massive vote or fraud to explain their take over 2 cheese ousting led to massive protests. thousands of people took to the street or joined resistance groups. the military has retaliated with a bloody crack down. according to the un, at least 1500 people have been killed by the brutal effort to crush descent 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 speak now to aiming 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?

yeah, so i left them are about 10 months ago are due to security concerns. at that time, the military had become killing people in the streets. a number of journals has been arrested. and these are also hearing people that are those who had been subject to torture, as well as having the 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 are more rural areas,

might be seeing ariel don't bartlett's as well, and sort of acted 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 comp for the last few months. but over the summer, i was faced with its 3rd wave of cold 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 the numbers of access that you mentioned, bombings, assassinations, killings in the streets. what, what can the international community to for the traditional 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 relinquish their unjust feature of power. we've also seen people at the various countries engaged in various sections and boycott regimes. i think what else can be

done is for dish national community to have arms, a bar go home, they have to have a much more coordinated effort and try to get the machine to come to the table to negotiate actually turn the power back to elected officials 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 either the oceans or perhaps it may fall to the pressure being placed by the direction that it's facing on multiple every way in the country right now. in fact,

keep your reporting going keeps you keep your hopes up high as well. good. talking to you today on the w. l. round up of some other stories making will use today. but can you fast? i was military one to says it has restored parts of the constitution. could lead up on the w bar, handle actors transitional head of state, african you know, suspended booking faster. following last week's take over in turkey, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside israel's consulate in its sample to protest against the plan visit. by its way, the president isaac cancelled turkish president bridget, ty, a bad one and had so good looking to improve ties and made plans for possible gas pipeline. between the 2 hundreds of people have rallied in olivia's capital, a pass to protest violence against women. it was outrage when a serial rapist was released on medical grounds. the man was re arrested after the bodies of 2 women were found at his own landslide, triggered by flooding,

his killed at least 11 people in ecuador buildings and cars. in the capital, people were swept away, heavy rains and pounded a foot over a month. scientists blaming global warming. more than 20 people have died in brazil after heavy rains, landslides and flooding in the state of south palo have left hundreds of families homeless. the states governor was authorized 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 is go to school. they think that there are people over there. 1 may god help them if they are alive. those of you yesterday some one was calling for help. today he is not calling anymore. they are trying to get the body out. they are dead or alive . i need some flood victims of still being pulled out of the month,

but the hope to find any more is quickly fading. a desperate wait 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 born all they set, the bodies are still there under the mud, but, but until now they couldn't recover them. that li, landslides are a frequent occurrence in brazil during the rainy season. here in franco that roach, others especially dangerous for hillside houses that are often the homes of the poor cliff firefighter, se they'll continue operations until all the missing persons on the list are accounted for. both the living and the dead. yet another journalist has been killed for carrying out their duties in mexico. it's the 4th such murder so

far this year. 3 men gun down for a battle tornado on monday, lay to work for a news outlet in the city of c to quarrel. was trying to expose corruption. mexico was considered the most dangerous country for the press laskey for the 3rd year and a rogue, according to report, has been orders more. we've got t w's out. sympathetic always head of talk shows and mexican himself. and we heard the, some of the numbers there, the 4th person killed this year, and 50 journalists have been killed in the past 5 years. according to reporters without borders. how do you explain the situation? i mean, it wasn't very shocking where we're given an i d. w espanol for that as well. but i can tell you, journals are just doing their job. and it's because they're investigating the relationship between organized crime and government officials that they been killed . they are exposing by name, government officials and politicians,

and suddenly or after they've done bad duty or killed. i mean in this case, in one of the recent cases we have low dust maldonado. she was working and investigating corruption on state state on media outlets. and and then she was killed. they were telling me that this isn't just a problem with organized crime. it's also a problem with the government. yeah, that's right. it's a government official for ari bought as well. i mean, we know that and we're talking about the most dangerous place in the worlds for journalists and, and mexico. not even a, a war zone. is it? right? is nothing changing on the ground because with we were just saying 50 journalists killed of the past 5 years. it sounds like this is something that's been going on for a long time. this dangerous situation. yeah, unfortunately, nothing has changed on the ground has been,

there's been tries on doing that journal is have to go to the store. i had to go to the recent last phase 2 math approaches in different in different cities, throughout mexico to a claim, more protection actually, in the last 1015 years, they have to gathered themselves in order to know how to protect themselves. i'm in even journal was that it didn't work together from different outlets. they the, the have come together to define guidelines that i sort of lead them to better protection. and whenever they have to do with injures job, li called themselves and assess 1st to your situation and then give them a mutually protection. is sad situation. the journalists are being left to fend for themselves. but now we see the international media like the w a following the story closely include the w, english and german. but what,

what needs to actually change what, what do we have to see change or on the government level? because i guess all of these international media is going to put some sort of pressure on the ultimate, isn't it. arrows right? and mexico has already a mechanism of for protection of journals. and he won't write defenders has been already at 10 years working. and previously they had a subdivision at the attorney general's office to better investigate situations or perpetration against journals and him. greg, defenders, it is not working, isn't really working to destroy, as i just mentioned a few moments ago, noticed one another. she was under protection of this macon and she was killed as in the morning press conference of mister low, but sober adored nixon. president. she asked for help because she was furious. shouldn't be, shouldn't be killed. and they just need,

i mean the mechanism and we're funding and we're are but mostly funding and depressed it. and also, i mean that's what some ngos also accused needs to get more for a bit of role to the journals because he's been depicting them a mostly that a sounds like a, it's not only a serious but very complicated situate is already completed and were, were formed, i will keep an eye also on d. w as by you and the other and the other language as 50 yelton would say, from our spanish department. great to have you in today. and thank you. and a reminder of the top stories by following fully us in russian diplomats class of ukraine, that the un security council, the u. s. q. brochure of destabilizing europe, by messing troops, new ukraine's border. russia said the us was stirring up hysteria and insisted it had no plans to invite what you did when you use coming up next in d, w. 's,

asia. we look at the spiraling violence in me and mouth. the conflict now widely considered to be a civil war and how effective has the global response been? non human rights activists gives a sense. coming up next, d, w, news, asia with brush energy. speaking of asia, billions of people there are celebrating diluted new year. the year of the tigers being welcomed in with traditional dragon, dances and praise of cross se, asia and beyond leave you now with some images of those celebrations. a bye. ah ah ah

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