>> this is "dw news." live from berlin. russia's enemy of e state, the kremlin's fiercest critic returns to moscow and is greeted by police. alexi novalny is behind bars and says his treatment makes a mockery of justice in russia. coronavirus restrictions are looking more likely for germany as concerns grow over new and more infectious strains of the

virus. new video emerges of pro-trump rioters inside the senate chamber, as the u.s. capitol was being stormed, it comes just a day before the outgoing president prepares to unleash a wave of presidential pardons. ♪ >> i am brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. in russia, the kremlin's most vocal credit, alexi novalny has been put in jail for the next 30 days. he was detained immediately upon return to russia sunday. russian prosecutors say he violated parole terms for a sentence for embezzlement. he says the charges are politically motivated. germany has joined many countries calling for novalny's immediate release.

[chanting] >> let him go chanted novalny's supporters outside the police station. the facility doubled as a quick makeshift courthouse to quickly prosecute his case. after learning he would be jailed, novalny took aim at vladimir putin and urged his backers toise up. >> what are they most afraid of, what are the thieves hiding in a bunker most afraid of? you know it perfectly, people taking to the streets because this is the political factor they cannot ignore. it is the most important thing, the essence of politics. do not be afraid. take to the street, not for me, but for yourselves and for your future. >> novalny is arrested sunday. [speaking foreign language] >> germany and other western

government denounced his arrest. >> the german government condemns the arrest of mr. navalny immediately after his voluntary return to his russian homeland. to charge mr. navalny with the violation of his probation after an arbitrary verdict, that is against any principle of the rule of law. >> the russian government has denied any involvement in novalny's poisoning. the kremlin dismissed criticism of his recent arrest. >> you canfield the joy of their carbon copy comments -- you can feel the joy of their carbon copy comments, western governments can distract their citizens from the deepest crisis the liberal system has found itself in. >> several countries have called on the eu to consider imposing sanctions on moscow, for throwing novalny in jail. he will remain in prison pending a trial.

>> i am joined by a member of the european parliament, and vice chair of the parliament's human rights committee, an outspoken critic of the russian government. good to have you on the program. what went through your mind when you learned aboutlexey navalny being put behind bars? >> well, i mean it is a total disgrace. of course i was expecting like he was expecting this arrest. i mean it is that tradition under pollutants regime to put them behind bars or kill them. it is an absolute disgrace. it has to be met by a very strong international reaction, and especially a european reaction. you mentioned the words by european leaders, there are good but they are not enough. we need action. putin is making fun of all of our principles for way too long.

>> what is that action going to look like? >> what we are trying to ca for in the european parliament is to implement what navalny himself told us to do when he came to the foreign affairs committee. he asked us, if we want to help, this regime which is an ideological and diplomatic adversary, if you want to hurt the regime we have to touch the money, and to send a strong signal you cannot arrest opponents like that. you cannot destroy human rights like that. and, at the same time, your oligarchs spend holidays in cooked us your -- cote d'azur. 1 your tal brent: you are talking about sanctions on

members of the russian government. thatas been done before and it still has not stopped president putin. why do you it would work this time? >> because it was not done ough. what we have t rember is putin's regime is an autocracy at a kleptocracy. they are thieves. they are robbers. ey stole the money of the russian people. and we need to strike thr wallets. i mean, you still have the people who enjoy the benefits of mr. putin's regime spending their money in our capitals, in our resorts. this has to stop. if you want the regime to crumble a bit, then you need to make sure that people who are supporting it, especially by the mone people benefiting from

it, cannot spend their money in our countries. that would work better than a sancon against the russian people. we have to understand the situation has changed with mr. navalny. it is not a usu dissident. you always had dissidents, and the putin regime could silence them. this time you have somebody who actually became very popular, and opposition to vladimir putin. and thats why putin is [indiscernible] and as all tyrants, they are not very brave persons. and when they are constructed. confronted with a strong person, they panic. so we have to support him. brent: we appreciate your time and insights tonight, thank you. let's look now at other stories making headlines around the world. germany's foreign minister was in the turkish capital on monday and welcomed turkey's announcement they will seek a diplomatic solution to its dispute with germany's fellow eu

state, grace. tensions between turkey and greece almost boiled into conflict last year in disagreements and gas as/and and maritime boundaries in the eastern mediterranean -- gas exploration and boundaries in the eastern mediterranean. gold miners are alive 10 remain unaccounted for, stuck for one week after an explosion. footage from state television showed a note being passed through a rescue shaft with the request, do not stop trying to reach us. brazil kicked off its nationwide mass vaccination program against the coronavirus. a 54-year-old nurse in são paulo became the first person to receive the chinese sinovac shot, after it and the astrazeneca vaccine were approved for emergency use. brazil's death from covid-19 stands at 209,000 people, second only to the united states.

the trump presidency's remaining time cannot be measured in hours. u.s. president trump is not wasting these final moments. he is reportedly preparing to issue more than 100 pardons on tuesday, his last full day in office. the list includes white-collar criminals and high-profile convex. -- convicts. reportedly it will not include trump himself. video footage emerge from the new yorker magazine, showing writers inside the senate chamber as the u.s. capitol building was ransacked last week. >> get a snap of that. >> go down the stairs. >> look here. >> ted cruz objected to arizona. >> he was going to sell us out. >> objecting to counting

electoral votes on the state of arizona. >> all right, all right. [yelling] >> this is all good. [bellowing] brent: troubling video showing trump supporters were not aware of which send they were supposed to be for, and against. i enjoyed now by a professor at the school of public affairs, and school of education at american university in washington, d.c.. she researches extremism. we are learning a lot about what happened inside the capitol

january 6. but what did we learn about the political beliefs of these people who stormed the capitol. >> thank you for having me. what we see here is that there is a toxic next of groups from across the far-right spectrum, who combined in that day in a spontaneous and planned violence so we have white supremacist and neo-nazi groups and antigovernment militia groups, a wide variety of qanon supporters and pro-trump voters as well as groups like the proud boys. what brought them together was a fervent belief in that disinformation around the election, the idea that it was illegitimate, that there is government tierney and that they were called upon to rise up against it. so they really do think they are being heroic care. brent: we know there have been -- they think they are being heroic here. brent: there are allegations

some congresspeople collaborated with protesters by taking them on tours the day before the capitol was stormed. do you think there are links between measures of commerce -- congress and the extreme white wing? -- right wing? >> it is still being vestigated and we do not yet know how much people knew about the groups they were giving to her too, hotransparent the reasoning was. did they think they were doing favors for people within their district, but did not have an understanding, or is there something more nefarious at work? that is where we do not know the answers to this in the investigations are going to have to unravel in the coming weeks and require tremendous resources. brent: we know the fbi is investigating current and former members of the u.s. military and law enforcement, who were allegedly among the people who stormed the capitol. we understand also the fbi is invest -- venting all 20 --

vetting 25,000 members of the national guard now in dc. does this tell us there is a link between security, the military, and the extreme right? >> i think for a long time we have had anecdote after anecdote, revealing that there are problems withhat la enforcement, within the military, the intelligence community, security service, and veterans, where we repeatedly see, when there are rest fo violent action, oftenerans are involved or there are anecdotes about law enforcement involvement in white supremacist or neo-nazi groups. what we do not havis evidence or data that tells us how big the scope of the problem is. in germany where there had also been scandal after scandal, they're not have finally been national investigations. i think this is something abiding the administration cannot push off any longer - the biden administration cannot

push off any longer. it's a mandate to ask the department of defense and apartment of justice to create reporting mechanisms that require public accountability for these type of situations. brent: cynthia miller from the american university in washington, d.c., we appreciate your presence tonight. from politics to the pandemic. hey south african variant of covid-19 has been found to be more infectious than other strains of the virus according to one of the nation's top epidemiologists. the variant binds more readily and strongly to human cells but there is no evidence it causes a more severe person of the disease. the variant is behind a recent surge in cases across south africa. scientists are trying to determine their current vaccines are effective against this strain. german chancellor angela merkel is due to meet with germany's state premieres tuesday to discuss tightening covid-19 restrictions beyond january.

infection rates have improved but they are not declining as quickly as hoped. december saw a spike in coronavirus cases, it peaked before the christmas holidays, and the numbers went down going into the new year. but around january 9, they rose again and now appear, we hope to be on a downward trend, but the country is not breathing a sigh of relief yet. there are concerns you covid-19 variance are more transmissible. in germany's southern state of bavaria, certified and 95 masks are mandatory on all public transportation. germany hopes stricter measures will bring down the stubborn spread of infections. >> another bleak, wintry in berlin. the streets are mostly empty and many who go out wear a mask. this seems to be helping, there has been a drop in covid-19

infections, but it is not enough. the government is preparing to tighten restrictions and lynn is saying that is a good thing. -- berlin is saying that is a good thing. >> being stricter makes sense and i hope that will bring it to an end. >> it would be great if people realize it is not getting better and they should stay at home. >> i hope we realize we will have to put up with these restrictions until at least summer. >> the government is said to want to stop office workers from commuting and push them into working home partly because traveling on public transport poses a particularly high infection risk. politicians and health authorities are also worried about the threat posed by covid-19 mutations, which has led to a steep rise in infections in some countries. >> two highly infectious variants of coronavirus have

been detected in germany, one spread through great britain at another through south africa. we have further reports from brazil. >> right now, the pandemic has a firm hold on germany, even though the situation in hospitals and intensive care units is showing signs of easing. brent: 20 seafood tracks descended in london monday protesting restrictions they claim is running their business. it comes as fishermen say they have been unable to export to the european union since the introduction of extra documentation which delays deliveries, prompting buyers to reject them. prime minister boris johnson is calling these issues teething problems, promising to compensate companies for losses due to bureaucratic delays.

but many lifelong fishermen worry this will not be enough. >> scottish fishermen would rather be out on the water but what would be the use? the lego stains --the lobsters he catches no longer reach customers in the eu. he has only been out twice off the west coast of scotland. >> the first tod the catch never got any farther than glasgow. because the paperwork was not correct, that shipment was written off. it never made the journey to the continent alive. >> neil mcqueen's lobsters usually end up at fish markets in the eu, like here in bologna sur mer, france. but at the moment hard any cargo comes scotland. additional paperwork is required including health certificates for life catch, no mistakes allowed. >> the health certificate has to

correspond with the order of travel, the correct truck, or the correct plane. if there is a slightest, if the paperwork does not match up in the slightest way it is rejected. >> many fishermen in scotland feel the same way as mcqueen. in a scottish port town there are a few tracks waiting for fish, crabs or muscles, dustin for europe. -- destined for europe. many fishermen want to wait to see if problems can be solved before they sent their precious cargo into the unknown. an entire region has nearly come to a standstill. many people here are angry. >> i think it is nonsense, absolutely, the end of the line. they have had no help whatsoever. they are out in all weather for us, trying to earn a living. it is shocking.

62% of the scottish population, voted to remain with brexit and this is why. the trait, not just for shellfish, 44 a lot of produce from scotland was going to europe. >> neil mcqueen usually works with three men. now, their future looks shaky. [footsteps] >> we builtp a strong market, and prices increased year on year. it took a lot of years to get to where we were. it looks as if it has all been wiped out, can we have to start again. >> yell mcqueen is convinced there is no easy fix -- neil mcqueen is convinced there is no easy effects. for many fishermen in scotland and elsewhere there is no clear vision for their future. brent: with sports news, belarus has been stripped of cohosting the ice hockey world championship in may.

the move comes following alexander lukashenko's riddle crackdown on protests -- brittle crackdown on protests -- brutal crackdown on protests. a meeting hosted the tournament would unify rather than divide but ice hockey's world governing body says it is quote currently impossible to ensure the welfare of teens and spectators, in della reese -- teams and spectators in belarus. joining me for more on belarus losing its rights to cohost the ice hockey world championship is dw's sports reporter. good evening, chuck. was this the right decision? >> absolutely. i think there was a human rights organizations probably wanted to hear this decision earlier. but as the ihwf set in the statement, there was no alternative. you alluded to what was going on out in ali riske.

-- in elevators. -- balaru-- belarus. with a host of the 2014 championship there were complaints. the situation has changed since then. we had the august disputed presidential election, which lukashenko one but the opposition -- won but the opposition opposed. it would have been a black market -- a black mark on the organization and maybe the entire sport of hockey if they would've allowed it to go ahead. brent: in belarus it did not happen overnight, why did it take so long for this decision to be reached? >> they were chosen to host this world championship back in 2017, over finland. presumably, over that time contracts have been made, the ihhf, said they needed to do their duty diligence before making a move -- due diligence

before making a move like this. i cannot think of another occasion where they have removed the right to cohost a tournament before it has done so with belarus. they were reluctant to do so because it will cost money, and it is a pain, to be honest. but in the end they saw no twice, no other choice. brent: it costs money, and they say follow the money, was their financial pressure here? >> yeah, you know, surely there was. a couple of things, i think these contracts, i do not know for sure, but i assume when you make contracts if you break the contract, i assume whichever side does that will have to pay a penalty, so that is one thing. the more important thing is this decision came today just two days after that check carmaker, -- cech cmaker, the main sponsor of the world championship. i cannot remember where their

logo did not make up the cenr circle of the ice. wh they said if you keep it in russia we are puingut, and then the german oil maker, another sponsor, said the same thing yesterday, that seems to have been the major factor. brent: chuck, as ways, thank you. -- as always, thank you. we have seen creative solution to make art and performance possible despite social distancing. concerts on balconies, on rooftops, on tiny islands. now a project focusing on the impossibilities of art in isolation. take a look. [video clip] >> a german artist has found an interesting way of visualizing social distancing, with actors inside giant pvc bubbles. >> for example, if the musician plays in his bubble, he only

hears himself, and cannot communicate with other musicians at all. the actor only hears himself. i try to depict these areas of culture, and the loneliness of an old person. ♪ >> with his photo project, social distanced stacks, illustrating how social distancing might affect people, and how important closeness is to social fabric. the actors are wearing costumes from plays, and get into their bubbles one after the other. florian has just 50 minutes to take his photos, because condensation forms inside. it takes teamwork. ♪ >> every set i have done so far has its own atmosphere. that is special in itself, the performance. >> a few weeks ago, florian

asked the musicians from the stood guard philharmonic -- stuttgart philharmonic to climb in with their instruments, mid-performance he took this photo. florian is a conceptual artist. in 2014 he published the video experiment, human tracks, on the impact of mass surveillance. in 2015 he photographed refugees to draw attention to overcrowded shelters. in 2019, he photographed young people using smartphones, to illustrate the idea of humans as data raw material. now he is tackling the coronavirus crisis. each scene is carefully composed. the actors each tell a story. during the photo shoot, they act out theater scenes. how exactly does it feel to perform in a pvc bubble? >> the acoustics are pretty extreme, i got your pressure now, but it was interesting.

>> i am excited about the end result. any opportunity we have now to present ourselves. ♪ >> for now, because of the pandemic, florian's only publishing his photos on his website. but perhaps one day they will serve as a testimony to a time when art could only exist in a bubble. ♪ brent: it does not look like fun at all. you are watching "dw news." after a short break i will be around to take you through "the day." stick around. ♪

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france 24 and france 24.com.n >> you are watching live from paris. here are our headlines this evening. the u.s. capitol complex was temporarily locked down this monday during a rehearsal for wednesday's inauguration and for a major fire in a nearby encampment. we will get the latest on that. russia's leading opposition figure has been arrested and detained for 30 days after arriving in moscow on sunday evening. this was his first time back in russia since being poisoned. an independent report criticizes the slow response of the who to