a german national has been charged with spying for russia at the german parliament the bundestag the case is likely to worsen tension between berlin and moscow the man is believed to have passed data relating to the bundestag sleigh out to an employee at the russian embassy in 2017 the suspect was working for an electrical firm that carried out regular checks around the parliament german intelligence services have issued repeated warnings about russian spying attempts or cyber attacks for more on this story let's bring in chief political correspondent linda crane who is standing by for us so is there any more information on how this alleged spy was uncovered. no we don't know whether this occurred through normal surveillance or whether the prosecutors were tipped off d.w. did reach out to the federal prosecutor's office but they're not saying anymore for now perhaps we will get additional information in coming weeks and that the latest we need to wait for the trial and of course several notable vents have shaken german russian relations in recent years melinda put put it all into the

a german national has been charged with spying for russia at the german parliament the bundestag of the case is likely to worsen tensions between berlin and moscow the man is believed to have cast data relating to the bundestag to lay out an employee at the russian embassy in 2017 the suspect was working for an electrical storm that carried out regular checks around the parliament german intelligence services have issued repeated warnings about russian spying attempts or cyber attacks. let's get you more on this story we are joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane linda what more have you learned about this case. well from what we understand this man decided of his own accord to hand over the country dental floor plans of the buddhist tug building and then took it upon himself to contact an agent with the russian military intelligence agency the our view in order to pass on the plans we're not quite sure how the federal prosecutors found out about this whether it was through a chip off or surveillance for now they're not saying or so we may have to wait either for furt

give more now we're trying to buy andreas nick a member of the german bundestag and the governing conservatives he heads germany's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us the german government has condemned the jail sentence for alexina is that enough. of the 1st episode we are very concerned but also very 'd impressed by the courageous way that russian civil society protests it gets this development it shows how much or pressure how much tension is there. in russia it is a domestic issue in the 1st place but it is an issue that has an important impact on all international obligations that russia has entered to whether it's the council of europe or the structures and that is why it is an important element of international obligations and contractual obligations and that's what we are pursuing the relief of which are missed in the valley was. detained again was already. rendered obsolete by the european court of human rights a couple of years ago and that is something that the council of europe all its. directi

flog them talk to you and chief political editor michelle has been following all of this in the bundestag for us as we heard their health minister spahn is being questioned by parliament tell us what's been discussed. we expected more of a grilling than he actually got in the end but he certainly was on the defensive over his initial plan to have free instant tests available to all germans shifted from the 1st of march to whatever comes out of that next meeting between the 16 states and german chancellor angela merkel this coming wednesday so the government clearly is on the defense is simply not being fast enough that's on vaccines right at the beginning of the pandemic was on masks and now it's also on the d.i.y. and tests which have been approved today they're not in the shops yet that is something that can spawn the health minister promised would happen over the coming days and over all lingering question what is the concept now as germany becomes increasingly patchwork in who gets to go back to school of which age which shops are open under which conditions and what that next road ma

give more now we're trying to fight i'm trying to sneak a member of the german bundestag and the governing conservatives he heads germany's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us the german government has condemned the jail sentence for alexina is that enough. according to the 1st episode we are very concerned but also very impressed by the courageous there way that russian civil society. gets this development it shows how much or pressure how much tension is there. in russia it is a domestic issue in the 1st place but it is an issue that has an important impact on all international obligations that russia has entered to whether it's the fault of the euro or of the structures and that is why it is an important element of international obligations and contractual obligations and that's what we are pursuing the relief of which a mist in the valley was. detained again was already. rendered obsolete by the european court of human rights a couple of years ago and that is something that the council of europe i

under the same pressure as other politicians to sort of make compromises she try to convince the bundestag politicians yet again that her ultimate goal is to not to overburden the health system and that she feels that this promise that she essentially made has been kept by her and her government and by the state as a whole so this is an angle americal always trying to get other people to agree on the strictest of measures possible so that we can really battle fight the battle against this virus and bring the numbers down and this came out very very clearly and if you look at what was decided in the big round between state premiers and anglo american yesterday and america again wanted the maximum possible extension of the current lockdown measures she wanted them to be extended until at least the 14th of march and there are some state premiers who are under a lot more pressure because of course many people want the restrictions to be lifted and they are going to stand in local and regional elections which are happening on the 14th of march so people from those states that are seeing electio

well following the chance 1st page the bundestag political editor. discussed to germany's latest lockdown strategy was one of the country's leading health experts who has a car lauterbach also happens to be a member of the german parliament the chancellor is a coalition partners the s.p.d. . it's a lot of art and usually the damn tax i didn't mention europe in her address today can certainly be this pandemic alive indeed it is impossible for us to be suspend their meager lawn i was a little bit surprised as i'm sure narco did not mention europe says time we are in this together we can only defeat the core of it and in particular the mutants that are currently running the variance if we keep working together europe is becoming more important or less important vis the new wave of mutations europe is seen to have failed when it comes to vaccinations what has to happen now it is extremely regrettable to say the least said europe indeed in my opinion my personal opinion failed to deliver the vaccine early enough there was too much focus on that to support

live pictures of the german chancellor defending her plan at the bundestag. have been influenced by state leaders. anna: let's get back to john roe , head of multi-asset funds, legal & general investment management. he is still with us. angela merkel talking about the reopening schedule for germany. in london, the reopening schedule, many people all over the world are thinking about this. how does this factor into youret other variants from other parts of the world, i wonder if this changes are thinking about how we will be able to return to normal and when. john: in the u.k. we are deeply scarred by this new variant that has a significantly higher trans mobility rate. when you have a new strain with a higher infectiousness, it will gradually take over and become the dominant strain. europe should brace itself that it will be dealing with a more infectious virus shortly. and the percentage of european casey's is one of the variants with the higher level is rising. from that perspective, we should be careful. if we were to reopen in march, that would probably

a german national has been charged with spying for russia at the german parliament the bundestag the case is likely to worsen tension between berlin and moscow the man is believed to have passed data relating to the bluntest talks layout to an employee at the russian embassy in 2017 the suspect has worked for an electrical firm that carried out regular checks around the part of german intelligence services have issued repeated warnings about russian spying attempts or cyber attacks. on the story let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane who is standing by for us so is there any more information on how this alleged spy was uncovered. you know we don't know whether this occurred through normal surveillance or whether the prosecutors were tipped off d.w. did reach out to the federal prosecutor's office but they're not saying anymore for now perhaps we will get additional information in coming weeks and at the latest we need to wait for the trial and of course several notable vents have shaken german russian relations in recent years melinda put put it all into the bigge

incorporated into the new west german state by 19573 quarters of the judiciary were from the 3rd reich bundestag documents show that a total of $25.00 cabinet ministers one president and one chancellor were former nazis as were many politicians of the cd un s.p.d. who are currently ruling germany. and. the fact that tunis increased. by the mid 1960 s. it was clear the nazi vacation had been a failure in this climate where nazi era judges generals and politicians still held senior positions and you knew nazi party was formed in 1964 the national democratic party or and. the party which tossed in heist is vice chairman off today. and based. on its i absolutely. want to. because in the. investigations showed that these 2.0 death threats actually came from police officers. aiming to be the next generation of. threats were emailed to leftist politicians migrant arjen lawyers and more. often they have been and some. have been the. intelligence figures from 2020 show that up to 320 cases a far right extremism within the german state are being investigated including a regional interior minister who boug

now he wants to run for a seat in germany's government, the bundestag, in september. >> i arrived inermany in 2015 and was brought to an emergency shelter with 60 other people. i was shocked by the living conditions. as a longtime human rights activist in syria, i decided to get involved here again in germany for refugees. i have also worked as an asylum advisor here. reporter: he is no stranger to political activism. in damascus, he worked for the red crescent. he founded an ngo which advocate safer passage to europe for refugees. a constituency was his first home when he arrived in germany. >> i arrived and had my first flat, first job, first friends in germany. i have a strong emotional attachment to it. oberhausen is the city where i started my work. i want to take the next step from there. reporter: nearly six years after angela merkel's famous "i can do this," his is a success story. but migrants are underrepresented in germany, he says. >> i stand for human rights. i have come to europe, to germany, to live a safe and dignified life. i have experienced that feeling. at the sam

the annexation of crimea in 2014 but also as far as germany is concerned, the cyberattack on the bundestagnd also a murder carried out germans alleged by russian agents in berlin. there are lots of things berlin is annoyed about. brent: dw's political correspondent simon young with the latest tonight. thank you. rescuers in india are trying to save dozens of power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after a himalayan glacier collapsed, unleashing a wall of water. at least 26 people are dead and more than 180 are missing. the flood destroyed a dam and washed homes downstream. authorities say the death toll is likely to rise. >> joy as rescue workers recover several survivors. the search is far from over. some dead bodies have already been found. several groups of workers are still believed to be trapped in tunnels, unable to get out. >> since this morning, we have intensified our search operation in a second tunnel. we have information that around 30 people are trapped there and around 300 police officers have been deployed, clearing the tunnel so people can be rescued. >> this is the moment

prosecutors say the suspect worked for a company contracted to check electrical equipment for the bundestaghe provided information allegedly on the buildings and floorplans to the russian secret service. the case is likely to heighten existing tensions between berlin and moscow. hundreds of police officers conducted early-morning raids in the german capital and surrounding regions targeting a band islamist group. officers raided a apartments allegedly linked to the group, which berlin's interior ministry says advocates attacks and promotes islamic state. thousands of protesters supporting the military regime have been out on the streets of myanmar. there have been a number of reports of clashes with anti-coup demonstrators. the u.k. announced further sanctions against the military regime. police continue to forcibly make up -- breakup anti-regime protests. in armenia, months of political tensions are reaching a tipping point. thousands attended rallies today in the capital after the prime minister accused the military of an attempted coup. many turned out to support the prime minister, but

she's head of the bundestag human rights committee busy in some welcome now according to the interior ministry how exactly is china intimidating hong kong was he had in germany well the german government and the interior ministry he confirmed what we already expected and that is that sees the communist chinese parties are i'm also reaches to germany and this is a very crucial thing and we need to address that that threat because it only not only poses a threat to honkers living in exile here in germany but if we go step further that conflict implicates that also every hong kong living abroad living also in other foreign countries might experience the same thing and that's why also countries need to work more together in order to to face this threat and find other solutions other answers that they found so far but what exactly is china doing to intimidate hong kong or is. well it is there you it is very well differentiate we cannot say well this is the way how china intimidates or how security or intelligence services do it there's not just one modus operandi but we see physical intimi

gathering places which often guarded by police the context of an official opposition party in the bundestag being the far right i asked a why are these racist and anti-semitic ideas seemingly so popular here in germany . i mean there may be 2 aspects of this question so for. i think the 1st problem is that we don't acknowledge racism in this country for alarm time we have a temporal social center spatial shifting distortion select off the perception of racism in germany so the racism is shifted in time meaning greater than is treated as a problem of the pack and its being into native and it stopped after not $145.00 obviously not this resulted in a social shift of racism to right wing extremism that means racism was perceived as a problem on the fringe or extreme poles of society which is not the case places them structuring our societies and 3rd variants consisted of a specialty shifting race and was then taken as a problem of call colonial powers such as great britain or france or the neo colonial power but we know that many have also an old colonial history to all the questions open and

or following the chancellor's speech to the bundestag chief political editor here because no discussed lock down strategy with one of the country's leading health experts. also happens to be a member of the german parliament for the chancellor's coalition partners the s.p.d. . it's a lot about and usually the damn times i didn't mention europe in her address today can timely do this pandemic alert indeed is impossible for us to be suspend me go on i was a little surprised as i'm sure nakul did not mention europe says time we are in this together we can only defeat corvids and in particular as a mutants that are currently running the variance if we keep working together europe is becoming more important or less important with the new wave of mutations europe is seen to have failed when it comes to vaccinations what has to happen now it is extremely regrettable to say the least said europe indeed in my opinion not personal opinion failed to deliver the victory in early enough there was too much focus on let's see supporting research and for much less to focus on getting the vaccine avail

and in the bundestag eintracht frankfurt collected 3 important points on sunday after completing a 31 win at hoffenheim frankfurt coach ivy hunter has now face hoffenheim 6 times during his tenure at frankfurt and he's won on every occasion sunday's triumph saw him tracked accent a sparkling run of form and even move up into the champions league places in the german table. with 16 points from a possible 18 this year frankfurt of the in-form team of 2021 every reason then for coach of the hood sets a field relaxed ahead of his trash with hoffenheim. in the 15th many feel it cost each was 63 on frankfurt's left flank and the serbian had the back of the net in his sights keep the last of his shot past all of our men and into the bottom corner to open discourse. hoffenheim drew level directly off to the break with a despot who kept cool in possession before finding the very same bolton corner with pete's finish. but just past the hour more frank put him back with 2 goals in quick succession. first off a cost each free kick was noughties home by defend evan. and 2 minutes later provided an

crimea in $24.00 team but also the princes as far as germany is concerned a cyber attack on the bundestag and also a murder carried out said germans alleged by russian agents in berlin so those lots of things that lynn is annoyed about are political correspondents i mean young with all these tonight in berlin simon thank you. all right it's the biggest event in u.s. sports and it was a big night for quarterback tom brady as the tampa bay buccaneers beat the kansas city chiefs on their homes built in the super bowl brady secured his 7th super bowl title subban the most of any n.f.l. player gave the city of tampa bay a big reason to part. was even the pandemic couldn't keep these fans off the streets masks and social distancing when no way in sight not after the tampa bay buccaneers stomped kansas city 31 to 9 to win the super bowl the victory exceeded all expectations. the crazy to me that brady does and win the super bowl in every field but again like that it is kind of a very much a bit of a box my whole way for you to the whole game with a big stone broke while 'd all my buddies die cal

party and that i had been elected to the bundestag from the electoral district so for moral reasons he could no longer continue my treatment then i asked if i fainted now what would you do he replied that then he would have to help me as a medical emergency case and then i said that if he was alone in the room he could just close the door and you're in there sussed ation press only every 10 seconds. the doctor's clinic has not yet responded to our request for comment over the insurance company involved in the case says it expects patients to get the best possible treatment regardless of their beliefs and the legal ramifications should be looked into it's far from the nation case against safety members and 2019 and a half the m.p. was beaten unconscious on the street and a year later the party leaders car was torched a study found alternative for germany suffers the most attacks of any national party including physical and verbal pay who was refused treatment claims the media has been ignoring her case. i think. it was you know i represent the position of the air of d. and i do not adhe

of crimea into the 14 but also the princes as far as germany is concerned a cyber attack on the bundestag and also a murder carried out said germans alleged by russian agents in leeds and those knots of things that burley and is annoyed about are political correspondent simon young with the leaves tonight in berlin simon thank you. rescuers in india are trying to save dozens of power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after a himalayan glaciers collapsed unleashing a wall of water at least $26.00 people are dead and more than $180.00 are missing the flood destroyed a dam and washed homes downstream along a river bet authorities in utah condit's state say the death toll is likely to rock . joy as rescue workers recover several survivors but the search is far from over some bodies have already been found several groups of workers are still believed to be trapped in tunnels unable to get out. just since this morning we have intensified our search operation in a 2nd tunnel we have information that around 30 people are trapped there and around 300 police officers have been deployed clearing the

to share that feeling trance nick member of the german bundestag and the governing conservatives also head of germany's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe we appreciate it . thank you. but i'm new data shows that russia's sputnik vaccine is more than 90 percent effective western governments had initially expressed doubts about the vaccine because russia started using it before completing the usual clinical trials but now results published in the leading medical journal the lancet appeared to back up russian claims that the job is safe and works and as we report hungry has already begun using the vaccine. truckloads of russia sputnik rolling into hungary the 1st 14000 some 2000000 doses ordered the distribution of vaccines in the european union just not quick enough for hungary. the faster we vaccinate the weakest segments of society the quicker we can lift restrictions on public life. as we've just got to chicago with a shot sputnik be was the 1st vaccine developed to fight cold at 19 russia began vaccinating people with it last summer even though clinic

prosecutors say the suspect worked for a company contracted to check electrical equipment for the bundestag he allegedly provided information on the buildings and floor plans to the russian secret service the case is likely to heighten existing tensions between berlin and moscow hundreds of police officers conducted early morning raids in the german capital and surrounding regions targeting a banned islamist group officers raided apartments allegedly linked to members of the group which berlin's interior ministry says advocates attacks on civilians and promote so-called islamic state. thousands of protesters supporting the military regime have been out on the streets of me in more there have been a number of reports of clashes with anti demonstrators the u.k. has announced further sanctions against the military regime as police continue to forcibly break up anti regime protests. in armenia months of political tensions are reaching a tipping point today thousands attended rallies in the capital year of on after the prime minister accused of the military of an attempted coup many turned out t

some pretty tough questions i would imagine presented before the health minister as he heads to the bundestag today and faces those questions just walk us through a little bit what's expected. absolutely and there's also more of a than a hint of electioneering also going on with general elections here in september again spahn will face questions from the opposition from all parties and he will have to map out what his plan is to deliver but once again it is down to each of those 16 federal states to then actually set up those testing centers make sure that individual citizens can receive those tests and that's been already a hindrance in the past with the distribution of mass but also with the vaccine rollout and that next test really is very close as the minister and i'm sure you will stress this today in parliament will be able to present more than enough testing or actually actual vaccines in those weeks to come which will put the ability to deliver those vaccines under severe pressure here in germany which again is down to the federal state so a lot of internal politics over what is a ver

it does there are so many points of contention the annexation of crimea the cyber attacks on the bundestag and murder carried out by a russian agent here in berlin in 2019 and this week we have these tit for tat expulsions of diplomats in connection to the. democracy protests in russia a very difficult situation even now germany saying cooperation dialogue that's the way forward but when you've got the russian foreign minister talking about preparing for war that's pretty tricky son and young in berlin many thanks all governments across europe are scrambling to contain new more infectious covered 19 variants germany is imposing travel bans on the czech republic and austria is to roll region leader of the german state of bavaria says to roll needs to take tough action as the devil is funny for shot reports. it seems like a deja vu we're driving through to roll the very same stage you know austria that was a major corona hotspot in europe when the pandemic began is making headlines by becoming a hotspot again this time with a new variant from south africa and most cases stem from here shots

of the extension of the mandate that we're talking about right now in the cabinet and in the bundestag this is really a mandate that's about how we shape the next few months this is not a mandate to decide what will follow permanently on a longer term after resolute support after the mission that we're currently engaged in with our nato partners it was a german defense minister there speaking now the outer space a 7 month journey by nasa's new rover comes to a climax later today when it attempts to land on mars the most intense part of the way in the 7 minutes after perseverance hits the martian atmosphere and slows down to land mass to describes these as 7 minutes of terror. 10 minutes to touchdown. the perseverance rover must separate from the spacecraft that has brought it to mars next month position itself to enter the martian atmosphere the friction of which will heat up its thermal shield to temperatures as high as 1300 degrees celsius. while the mars rover inside the shield will only reach room temperature. when perseverance and speed reaches 1600 kilometers per hour. it's parac

the extension of the mandate that we're talking about right now in the cabinet and in the bundestag this is really a mandate that's about how we shape the next few months this is not a mandate to decide what will follow permanently on longer term after resolute support after the mission that we're currently engaged in with our nato partners. it was a german defense minister there speaking the european union's migration commissioner has travelled to bosnia's border with croatia in an attempt to resolve the worsening humanitarian crisis the e.u. has criticised bosnian authorities for failing to rehabs hundreds of migrants after makeshift accommodations at lippa burnt down last year. correspondent marina strauss travelled to the liberal camp to meet and talk with refugees and with local administrators who say the e.u. has left them in the war. a whole life in one backpack. the students. feel. calm and his friends are resting because it's raining at buston yes border with place and because their feet are hurting they tell us it creation border forces have just prevented them crossing but fir

gathering places which often guarded by police the context of an official opposition party in the bundestag being the far right i asked a why are these racist and anti-semitic ideas seemingly so popular here in germany . i mean there may be 2 ethics of this question so for. i think the 1st problem is that we don't acknowledge racism in this country for alarm time we have a temporal social enter spatial shifting distortion select off the perception of racism in germany so racism is shifted in time meaning great to them is treated as a problem of the pack and its being into native and it stopped after not 145 obviously not this resulted in a social shift of racism to right wing extremism that means racism was perceived as a problem on the fringe or extreme poles of society which is not the case places them structuring our societies and 3rd variant consisted of the specialty shifting race and was then taken as a problem of call colonial powers such as great britain or france or the neo colonial power but we know that the have also an old colonial history to all the questions open and this deci

i want to give them a political voice like sign one last hurdle remains in order to get into the bundestag terek allows house to be a german citizen he has already filed for citizenship if all goes well the greens can put him on their official easter candidates by spring. these days you'll find them in souvenir shops all over the world snow globes they were invented in vienna in the end 1900 and surprising surgical instrument mechanic called impaired see his family still making them using the same method he devised more than 120 years ago. shake a snow globe instead you have to turn it on its head and wait until the snow certains then you turn it back over and it's not. having patty the 3rd knows all the secrets about snow globes his grandfather having pouncey the 1st conducted his initial experiments in this workshop in vienna he was a mechanic of surgical instruments and an inventor using a glass bowl filled with water he was actually planning to enhance operating room lighting. it was for what more than 120 years ago my grandfather invented the snow globe by pure charm in the q from so

and a german national has been charged with spying for russia at the german parliament the bundestag well the case is likely to worsen tensions between berlin and moscow the man is believed to have passed data relating to the blunders togs layout to an employee at the russian embassy in 2017 the suspect was working for an electrical firm that carried out regular checks around the parliament german intelligence services have issued repeated warnings about russian spying attempts or cyber attacks. ok let's get you more on this story we are joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane linda what more have you learned about this case. well from what we understand this man decided of his own accord to hand over these confidential floor plans of the buddhist building and then took it upon himself to contact an agent with the russian military intelligence agency the our view in order to pass on the plans were not quite sure how the federal prosecutors found out about this whether it was through a tip off or surveillance for now they're not saying or so we may have to wait eithe