a call on the p starts february, 4th calling d w. ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, outrage over a string of media killings in mexico, journalists murdered for exposing corrupt politicians and officials. the government,

under pressure to step up to protection for reporters, also can be got denied a frosty run up to the beijing winter olympics. countries including the u. s. at staging a diplomatic boycott. protest. the persecution of china is muslim. wiggers and america and britain threatened new sanctions if russia invades ukraine, and that has drawn a blistering response from windermere, put in his 1st public comment about the crisis this year. and a manhunt for police killers. poachers are being blamed for shooting dead. 2 officers here, rigidity the men were carrying a legal game in their cock. ah, i bring. gov is good to have you withers on this tuesday,

and on this 1st day of february, journalists in mexico are mourning the murder of yet another colleague, the 4th to be killed. since the start of this year, mexico city ranks is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journals. reporters are being targeted for exposing corruption at the top. the murders have sparked angry protests, and the government is under pressure to make it safer for journalists to do their job. journalists are better to leather, was preparing to record an interview. when he was shot. he died from his wounds in hospital the director of the online paper to lead a worked for money thought me sure can set the team had been receiving death threats for months and the early today, those threats became concrete, 2 vehicles, young, exposing, corrupt administrations and corrupt officials and politicians to day led to the

death of one of our colleagues, the as annoying was you want more to live alone was the response on yes. to lead us killing follows those of 3 other mexican journalists in january 2022 alone. one of them was reporter lewis, the maldonado lopez. she was found shot dead in her car, in the border city of t juana. board of he said that in 2019 she had appealed to mexico's president of it either himself, after becoming involved in a dispute with a prominent politician and media owner, will you think it brought the law been? got the mister president. i've come to ask you for support help and justice because they fear for my life him up order. medina. the spate of killings has put reporters across mexico on edge and sparked protests, asking the government to step up protection for media workers. if i'm on this now,

i went to reagan, harvey, i got the he is a journalist in mexico and a consulted on journalist protection at the world association of newspapers. ivy. it's good to have you on the program of me. the numbers here are really bad. the 4th killing of a journalist in mexico. this year report is without border says 50 journalists have been killed over the past 5 years in mexico. how do you explain what's going on? i'm brent. thank you for having me on it. it's really tough to explain because we're looking at 2 main main causes or main reasons why this is happening. one is the, this real, a tax that goes, gerald is not just of murders murder, or is the most extreme form of a type, but thread. so every time, spying, harassment, surveillance, etc. so this re open tactic is job is that we have been experiencing for the last

15 years under different governments. if this is not a problem of the current federal government in mexico, this is a problem that we have been accumulating for years. but it has accelerated under this government because we are seeing that contrary to what was promised by by for president mandela pezora. i've got to office with campaign platform of eliminating corruption and eliminating violence. there is a total lack of commitment. i would even say a lack of interest on the part of the government for tackling this issue. and so this feels impunity. this makes try against journalist you want published and everybody who thinks about a, jackie, the journalist can can do so with the knowledge that they can get away with it. and reporters without borders labels, mexico, the most dangerous place for journalists in the world. and based on what you're

saying, it sounds like journalists are being targeted, you know, not only from the drug cartels, but also possibly from, you know, all the way up to the highest levels of government. yeah, journalists are being targeted from, from multiple sources. usually it is drug cartels who carry out the most extreme form of a jack. yes. as a nation. we have also been seeing, particularly in the last years ah, this collusion between a criminal organizations, drug, cartels or other criminal organizations and local government officials at the municipal or the state level on all these courses or other security forces, some sort of conflate in order to mask the real purpose of killing a journalist. let's say for example, a local authority has a problem with the journal, the so an assassination company order, but it can be outsource, so to speak, to

a criminal group. and so it will look like a hit by a criminal organization. so there is all these different combinations together. and sometimes the government would minimize that the, the crimes by saying, well, the general, this wasn't really a journal this because he was working on something else of the last case of the below that we saw a response from the federal government saying that he was working on something else, not us a journalist. and so it gets very, very in harvey, we want to remind our viewers, you work as a security consultant for other journalists. and we expect to hear that when we're talking about war zones. but we're talking about mexico. we what safety advice to you, give journalists who are working in mexico. yeah, but i work on these issues because i experienced violence myself as the editor of a newspaper in the wire broke cells and several occasions. so some of the lessons

that i've learned is that each regional bind them because very different what's happening in the truck and where we have the latest killing of a general. it's very different from each one, for example, this model. so we have to get to the bottom of the local circumstances and what are the dynamics, the criminal dynamics, the political dynamics, that fuel violence, against journalist. but the advice that i give general this is you need to have a safety protocol, a safety plan, based on those local dynamics. you really have to know your church and decide the appropriate safety measures. and, and unfortunately this is true. you cannot, you have to be very certain, very aware that you cannot rely on the government for help because they are not helping on the country. sometimes they're making the problem worse. you know, that is

a tragic commentary on the security situation. also on the state of government by the people in mexico, a journalist there in mexico. we appreciate your time and your insights and stay safe. thank you. thank you, brent. with the winter olympics, do do open leader in the week. the united states and other countries are staging a diplomatic boy caught in protest of china's human rights record. growing numbers of coven 19 cases are also worrying athletes who are arriving for the games. beijing is insisting the games will be safe arrival at the airport in beijing. chinese workers in protective gear. welcome the incoming olympic teams and their baggage. then it's a p c r test, before a trip to the venues in the olympic village. where similar tests are to follow on a daily basis. caution, as the watchword changes cross country skiers are being shielded from foreign

rivals. their norwegian coach tells us with this team we have been staying in china full time for the past 2 years. so, and they have been extremely careful. we haven't actually competed that the nationally for 2 years of the foreign athletes who have already arrived. 125 of tested positive for coven 19, and have isolated. it's not clear whether they will all get the negative test result the need in time to compete. the opening ceremony fireworks have been rehearsed. but critics say that china is using the possess of the games to distract from human rights abuses. so this is a case have hers is, is that k to turn this pause arina into stays? political is missy and her tall. 2 white was all those are sizes, but china itself boasts of its strength and promises a safe winter olympics in beijing or the plight of china's weaker community and

their harsh repression. it is lemming large over these winter olympics, with opposition suppressed with in china. many are making their voices heard outside of the country. or washington bureau chief in his poll met a weaker restaurant owner in los angeles whose father disappeared. 3 years ago. these mountains remind book ra kean very much of home. he left china 6 years ago to start a new life in the us. everything seemed to go well until his father, who remained in china, was a promptly snatched from his home during the night of october 25th in 2018. his father owned one of the biggest rigor publishing firms and our king believes that his fight to protect the legal language. and culture was the reason why the chinese government put him in prison. arkwin says his father was leg best friend supporting

him financially in the us. like biggest here. i really scare like he couldn't. her cuddled his grandfather, childrens to his color of his me again. the smiling is fear to see him again. i use this u. s. government then euro, they can do more to pressure on china about the engine. the genocide after his father was detained, mcgraw are keen, opened the restaurant in the larger l. a area he named it to lance after the bigger region in east dungeon, john, where he grew up. one of the most popular dishes is lockman, a dish of pen pulled noodles. we can clean them from the fall lesson harry of china

. we're all here. he's gone in tajikistan, where most of the regions 12000000 wiggers, surprising not many people know about vigorous even there. so many news on the media. so like, i have to la attract them to career like curiosity. dan lester. this t shirt i think it helps a lot like people be asked about vigour. they googled riggers, some of his customers already know a lot about the topic. others are just about to find out. as an american, i feel a responsibility as a conscientious consumer. to understand that the wiggers are inextricably connected to american consumer ship and capitalism. that there are so many companies that have direct or indirect relationships to weaker labor through the forest detention and force labor camps. that the chinese are inflicting on them and have been for so

long. so i am definitely interested in knowing more about them. and i plan to google a wicker later today. or it is rammed up now with some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. heavy gun fire has ruptured in the capital of guinea bison raising fears of another attempted coup in the west. african agent state t. v saying invaders have seized officials and damaged the government powers. amnesty international saying that israel's policies towards the palestinians amount to the international definition of apartheid. israel has rejected the allegation saying its own arab citizens enjoy equal rights. the government has called amnesty claim antisemitic. a court in norway has rejected the parole application of mass murderer under sporadic, who killed 77 people in an attack back in 2011. the far right extremist of serving

norway's maximum sentence of 21 years under terrorism charges the international community stepping up diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over ukraine. the usaa britain are threatening to impose tough new sanctions. if russia invades the country, you a secretary of state, anthony blanket has reinforced washington's support for keep russian president vladimir putin. he has hit back today in his 1st remarks on the crisis. in more than a month, is accusing the west of ignoring moscow's concerns about security, its own security in the reach boy, with the flags of his allies on proud display. ukraine's president announced a huge addition to his nation's army corps, westwood, human. we will create a new political co operation format in europe between ukraine, great britain and poland, voice that was within the next 3 years, we will increase the number of the ukrainian armed forces 210-0000 professional

soldiers. regina army, british prime minister boris johnson, flew to give to meet with zelinski in a press conference afterwards. johnson appealed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. russia invasion of ukraine would be a political disaster. humanitarian disaster, in my view, would also be for russia for the world, a military disaster as well. and the potential invasion completely flies in the face of president putin's claims to be acting in the interests of the ukrainian people in europe. speaking from moscow and russian president vladimir putin accused, ukraine's nato allies of exploiting the crisis for their own benefit. from a loan you volition, their most important goal is to contain russia. that's the thing sham deal in this

sense. ukraine itself is just a tool to achieve this goal in doing this to doing this, can we in different ways? one of them is to, draws not into armed conflict to leave. russia continues to build up its forces in the region, even as diplomats from both sides are still trying to solve the crisis. russian troops are set to hold military drills and bela roost this month. based from camps like this one, just a few miles from the polish border. or i want to bring in our correspond nick connelly. he joins me now from eve. he knows the ins and outs of ukraine. it's good to see you again. nick and then we've got more threats of sanctions being directed at russia. has this visit from the british prime minister? has it helped de escalate the situation at all? why it's definitely all about the optics. it's about a show of diplomatic. so those are to the ukraine. you get the sense right now,

that volume is lensky basically has little in the way of breaks between all the western european and central european leaders here coming to visit him in kiff is definitely not business. as usual, we have the polish premise to day tomorrow, the dutch prime minister in town. and there was little in the way of escalation in terms of concrete steps that with threats of sanctions, as you mentioned. but given that they're already being spoke about. now you would imagine that any exposed russian companies would have longed on their best to remove any assets from the u. k. y u k jurisdictions. but it, ukraine's a very happy to see this. this is the sinus, the ukrainian population that this issue is not peripheral to the agenda across europe. that europe is paying attention to what's being done here on ukraine's borders. and the u. k. has already provided the ukraine army with anti tank missiles. so that is something that has gone down very well and has been seen as a significant contribution to ukraine's ability to defend itself. and as such, something that sir, makes it more unlikely that russia will actually intervene. russian president

vladimir putin, he broke his silence to day. we hadn't heard from him since mid december of last year. and he's accusing the united states of using ukraine to contain russia. now, is that something that is even on the radar in ukraine? i mean, do they see that as being possible at all or do they feel like they're being used as a geopolitical pollen by the grim i think for ukrainians. the fact that they are going to be, as long as they are not part of nature, not part of the you or not closely controlled by russia, they're always going to be tensions around ukraine. ukraine is too big in terms of population in terms of its size, geographically and in terms of its strategic location out of europe, to be a kind of strategic after thought in the way that the country like finland can be. that is a given. i think most ukrainians are not surprised by that. i think the big thing for most ukrainians is whether ukraine is at the table when these discussions are taking place. now vladimir putin has consistently ignored the ukrainians. in recent

months. russian leaders calling ukraine a western vessel and took a any to the u. s. administration. the u. s. for it's part, has made a big effort to try to include ukraine's this format. we even hear ancy blinking, your secretary state saying nothing about ukraine without ukraine at the table. so i found out that ukraine's feeling relatively calm, that they are being kept in the loop. and we know ukrainian president zalinski, he has told both the us and russia, you know, told dian down all of the vitriol here of belt fighting. india is the same time. he's announced an increase in the number of ukrainian troops houses being received in the country with a sort of head being scratched the same time. we had a similar occasion just last week where he came out with the video message telling ukrainians to not panic by to tell it selling. and they didn't mean to buy matches another essentials. and the next day he told the u. s. newspaper that can give one of ukraine's big cities on the russian border could be occupied relatively as soon

. so lots of mixed messaging there. i think there is a desire on the part of the ukrainian leadership to not to be seen to be, you know, saber rattling, not to give the russians anything that they can use against ukraine. say, here, look, ukraine is pulling for fight. but equally, they tried to reassure the population they are doing enough to protect you grain. so i think it's pretty difficult to and probably not much point to look for any deeper logic there. but a ton of great stress for the people here in charge and give. yeah, i mean, we can only imagine what people there are going through every day. it'll be as nic connelly reporting denied from keith as always nic. thank you. we were germany. 2 suspects are being held for the killing of 2 police officers who were shot dead during a traffic stop. prosecutors believe the hunters shot dead, the officers to avoid being caught for poaching. a legal game. the case has caused widespread outreach. the 2 suspects were arrested on monday evening. police

searching their homes, found a large number of guns among them. they believed the weapons that took the lives of 2 young police officers, the main suspect of 38 year old man known as a trader in wild game. the so far remain silent. the other man, a 32 year old has admitted poaching. but why such deadly violence occurred? remains unclear. prosecutors say the 2 officers were both shot in the head. equally egan, the or the female officer, still had her pistol in its holster. she may have had a flashlight in her hand and the papers when she cannot have seen it come in july, isn't dba are close. the officers were on patrol on a country road when the fatal incident happened. they found a number of dead animals in a vehicle and was speaking with the occupants when they were shot. they called for help, but by the time their colleagues arrived, it was too late. even seasoned investigators say they've been shocked by the

killings. skirt me thought of austin. understand. it's not our idea of germany that someone just starts shooting on the street with hunting weapons and opens fire just because he might be caught poaching. that's why this case is so disturbing. another strict, the things to foster parent, prosecutors say there does not appear to be any political motive behind this crime, the premier of the state of rhineland pellets in it where the shooting took place. expressed her dismay at the deaths. police, i, 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 attack these officers are attacking the whole of society. the thing of the kinds of research and the younger police officer was just 24 years old and still completing her training when she died. that fact can only heightened the sense of disbelief across germany at this tragic loss of life. and here are some of the other stories now that are making

headlines. denmark has become the 1st european union country to lift all of its pandemic restrictions. that includes face mass vaccination passes in limited opening hours from boards and restaurants and clubs. the move comes despite record numbers of coven 19 infections. the government says it's now relying on denmark's high vaccination rate to cope with the oh, micron. very. the one health organization, meanwhile, has worn countries not to lift all of their coven 19 restrictions at once. the director of the w a church saying that omar crime should not be underestimated that in cautioning that the virus will continue to evolve, ecuador has been hit by a natural disaster. land lines, triggered by flooding, have killed at least 22 people. buildings in cars. take a look at those pictures right there. have been swept away in the capital. kito. heavy rains have pounded ecuador for months. scientists are blaming global warming

for this. it is a similar picture in brazil where more than 20 people have died landslides, in flooding of the state of south palo have left hundreds of families homeless. the governor has ordered emergency aid. torrential rains and heavy flooding have battered brazil now for the last month. it's a race against time to search for remaining survivors before it's too late. homer, it's still just they think that there are people over there. what may god help them if they are alive? those of 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, looking into some flood victims of still being pulled out of the month. but the hope to find any more is quickly fading. i a desperate wait for those whose loved ones are missing her food. what are you?

i'm looking for my nephew, his wife in a 2 year old child yacht. barbara know they said that buddies are still there under the mud barbara, but until now they couldn't recover them that the lance lights are a frequent occurrence in brazil during the rainy season. here in franklin, that roach others especially dangerous for hail sight houses. there are often the homes of the poor clifton, firefighter se they'll continue operations until all the missing persons on the list are accounted for. both the living and the dead are in some sports news now in f. l superstar in 7 time super bowl winner tom brady has confirmed finally that he is retiring. at the ripe age of 44, brady recently hinted that he was considering his future. but as now confirmed the end of an astonishing 22 year career, he retires as the most successful quarterback in the feel history. he won 6 super

bowls with the new england patriots. the final one with the tampa bay buccaneers. last year, when you gun to god, if you're afraid of flying, you might not want to watch this closely. this video shows a dramatic learning at london's heathrow airport. of course you want to watch, take a look. a british airways plane failed to land on the 1st attempt, as winds from powerful storm cory. look at this battered the runway. oh ah, the aircraft's wheels touched the ground, but the place wave from side to side. due to the wind, forcing the pilot the head back into the air. that is scary stuff. a plane managed to successfully land on a 2nd attempt, pays to have a good part. we'll see you again at the top of the blue with

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