let's return now to our top story and get the very latest from emily, sherwin and moscow. and emily, just to remind our viewers what we're talking about here is these tensions over soaring energy prices escalating in cars extend. we've been having some reports now in the past hours of police using tear gas stun grenades on protesters trying to storm government offices in al mahdi, just walk us through what we've been saying. well today there are continuing protests and cars are done across the entire country. apparently thousands of people have come out in different regions of the country in the biggest city in austin, in which is the former capital. several thousands of people are on the streets and there have been reports as you say, of clashes between protesters and police police using stun grenades of protesters in several cases, actually attacking the police. and it doesn't seem that the authorities have control of the situation. they introduced yesterday a state of emergency in several regions, including in the and in the surrounding regions. but that hasn't help. tha

let's bring in our correspondence on the story we have emily, sherwin and moscow melinda craned here in berlin. good day to both of you and we want to share with you there in moscow. there is a meeting today at the un security council, as we mentioned, will that change anything for the kremlin? well, i think mostly assuming this is just the, the newest site for the war of words between russia and the u. s. that we've been seeing in the recent weeks, so it'll be kind of a new place for them to square off to face off and ahead of this meeting today. russia already said that the u. s. initiative to hold this un security council meeting about ukraine is just a p r stunt from the russian point of view. they've been saying again and again, they never have plans to attack ukraine, that they still don't plan to attack it. and in fact, the russian focus isn't really so much on ukraine at all. it's been in the last few weeks actually on trying to get these security guarantees, particularly on the, on a stop to nato eastern expansion. when it comes to the actual meeting. today, observers have b

emily sherwin is standing by for us. emily, can you talk to us a little bit about the fact that russia has now started combat readiness preparations at the border while yeah, we've just heard that essentially russia will be inspecting over 6000 troops in its southern military district which borders ukraine. i think that's a direct response to the news that we heard in the past few days, that nato will, it's preparing to reinforce its troops in eastern europe, that the u. s. has placed troops on, on military readiness. so i think we're seeing from russia kind of a tit for tat response there, which is what we see quite often from russia. the russian point of view, very much continues to be that they are not preparing for an attack in ukraine, and that they can move their troops within their own borders within russia as they see fit. but of course, it's clear that both these 2 inspections, as well as the upcoming military exercises that rush applies to carry out with bella ruth, on the radian border that that certainly leave

emily, sherwin, emily, um we just obviously heard there the russian foreign minister, a minister survey law of rough in the report saying, and i want to pick up on that last sentence. hope for the start of a serious conversation on secondary questions. what are those b while so russia has made it very clear that they have this main demand, which is that they want nato eastern expansion to stop. the west has repeatedly made it clear, including in that written response yesterday that that is a non starter. but over these past few weeks of talks, there have been some glimpses, i think, of things that could potentially interest russia, even though they made it very clear today. they're disappointed that their main demand on eastern expansion is not being met once again. and some of those things, i think, from the nato point of view, for example, we heard that yesterday free installs in burg could be more arms control deals. they could be more transparency on military exercises. and i think russia would also be interested in arms control deals on a bilateral lateral level with the u. s. afte

w correspondence, lisa louis in west france and emily, sherwin in moscow. and began our conversation by asking lisa about the european union's role and resolving the crisis on ukraine's border. while e u foreign ministers have been telling his hair northwestern france all day long by, it's very important for the united european union to stand together to stand for security in europe. the danish foreign minister said, you know, it's unacceptable that russia is taking us back to dark times to the dock times of the cold war. really. but when you look a bit more closely, it'll be very difficult for the european union to find even a common stands on the issue. given that the threat perception of the different members of the european union is quite different. eastern european and member states will obviously feel more threatened by russia and by a possible conflict ukraine, as opposed to a countries like spain and italy. and it might also be down to that fact to the fact that the european union is struggling to find a common stance that for now there actually hav

the w correspondence, terry schultz in brussels, aunt emily sherwin in moscow now 20 years ago to day, the 1st prisoners arrived in guantanamo bay. the detention camps set up by the us following the 911 attacks and the ensuing invasion of afghanistan in a clear breach of human rights, most prisoners were held indefinitely without trial. he w's oliver solid reports now from the u. s. naval base of guantanamo and the camp that's come to symbolize. one of the biggest us moral failings in the so called war on terror. mm guantanamo, located in a tropical paradise. but the u. s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture mohammed to old slaw. he was held cheerful, 14 years, suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a crime. he was brutally tortured and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder until today. and 134 nights ago i woke up and i was shaking. so skin because i so my, my jacket was the dog and i thought it was someone coming to get in. and it took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe. defense counsel anthony n

diplomatic efforts that are underway to avoid war in ukraine for the view from russia correspond as emily, sherwin in moscow joins us. and in washington, d, w's, carolina, cham, or has the u. s. perspective, emily want to give you the 1st word going into these talks, what will russia's demands, be? or rasa has made its demands very clear. in fact, they issued them in a written public statement. mid december, they have demanded that nato halt, it's eastern expansion. they've made it very clear that they see the, the idea of ukraine joining the nato block as unacceptable. putin has said several times that that is a red line. they've also demanded that nato not station any missiles near russia's borders, or hold military exercises in agreed buffer zones. it's not yet clear what those buffer zones could be, and they also have issued demands for the us directly. for example, they don't want the us to have any military bases in former soviet countries. so the, i would say that the russian side has been going into these talks with a very kind of almost aggressive and dominant stance. the head of the dele

and emily, sherwin in moscow will get their perspective from their want to give you the 1st word, terry. it was a study, in contrast, frankly, that we just saw unfold. nato secretary general seems to lower the temperature. the u. s. deputy secretary of state fairies trident that's true layla better if you listen to more of her remarks. she also complimented russia on sitting through for hours of listening to 30 countries, basically beat up on it for it's, it's build up on a border with ukraine. so i think that both sides and you could hear this in the undercurrent of both the united states and nato, were very relieved that this meeting took place at all. and that it went on longer than expected. simply keeping russia at the table. speaking about these things was considered a victory in some sense because russia had these red lines that it said, unless you, you know, immediately block ukraine from ever joining. we have nothing to talk about. so the fact that there was a 4 hour meeting and that it's possible that talks will go on, is being seen as very positive here at nato headquarters.

and as we tried to establish a connection with brussels, want to go 1st to moscow to emily, sherwin, emily, a good, a back ground or their form. you are the rhetoric now coming from the russian ministry you for a while now is, is not changing. they are still demanding an iron clad guarantee that nato does not expand eastwards. would they accept anything less? well, russia, it seems, came to the negotiating table today again with the same written demands that they issued publicly back in december. the main ones are, you know, they want no more eastern expansion of nato. they want guarantees that ukraine will never join nato. and they also want a rollback on some of nato's activities within eastern europe. now, nato general secretary again stoughton barracks in his press conference just now made it pretty clear that nato would continue insisting on the alliance's open door policy. so that means that other countries can determine their own future, including if they want within the nato alliance. so essentially, that was him denying some of russia's key demands, which i think the russian

still recourse on emily sherwin at moscow. and lisa lea reporting from breast france, let's get you up to speed with the other headlines, the troops from a russia lead security alliance deployed to cause x. don, have begun heading home the concept president called in the forces last week after peaceful demonstrations against rising fuel prices escalated into violent anti government protests. authority say they have now regained full control in the central asian nation. german authorities say they've rescued 65 children from their abusers as part of a probe into a large scale sex abuse network. gleason cologne said the victims range from 3 months to 17 years in age. investigators have identified over $430.00 suspects since launching the investigation. 2 years ago the coffin of european parliament president david cecily has arrived at rome. town hall where he will line and state the 65 year old italian center. left politician died on tuesday after suffering from poor health for several months. his funeral will be held on friday.

and our correspondent emily, sherwin is in moscow following those talks for us today. hi emily. we heard the foreign minister on linna burbock say that any further aggression from russia would mean it would come at a high cost. what did she mean by that? while we don't know 100 percent, she didn't specify what the high cost could be. there has been talks now for several weeks about potential e u and us sanctions against russia in case russia were to actually invade ukraine. there has been talk of personal sanctions against officials, including vladimir putin himself and also talks of financial sanctions. but so far as things are a little bit vague when it comes to the threats from the west. and that means that russia, i think, goes into these talks today with the upper hand. they have the military threat against ukraine firmly on the table, even if they've been saying repeatedly that they don't plan to invade the country. and when it comes to sanctions, i think the narrative here in russia is we've been under sanction for years. this is nothing really new. so i think russia, it

and we have team coverage on this story with our correspondence, emily sherwin in moscow and terry schultz in brussels. terry, the u. s. a native have now delivered written responses to russia's security demands. what's their message? good morning, terry. the message from both the u. s. and nato to moscow is that there is still a chance for diplomacy to get out of this. escalating military buildup that moscow continues along the border with ukraine. and you could see from this very coordinated effort to last night, both in the u. s. and nato, delivering their letters and coming out and holding these press conferences in the evening that they wanted to show to the kremlin that they were following moscow's request in, in issuing, written a written response to the demands of, of moscow. some of which are, are clearly unacceptable to both the u. s. and nato. but they wanted to not give russia an excuse that they had not responded in written form. so there were no surprises in these letters. as we heard from both secretary blanket and secretary general stilton burg, they are offering things lik

emily, sherwin has more. ah, a city turned into a war zone. this is cousin stands commercial center almighty. in early january. what started as anger of arising fuel prices soon escalated into full blown riots. arson and looting. many locals tell us they're still in shock to do as much these motions were. what were they even trying to take here? ice cream butter goes said duck. mit of us apartment is right on the corner of almighty's republic square. the location of the city administration building and the, the center of the recent unrest out of her window, she witnessed peaceful protests turning violent on their cruise. i guess i went a bit nuts. i opened my window and started shouting at the riders. you should be ashamed of yourselves. what are you doing? the people who opened these shops are people just like you rebuilding will take time. the authorities estimate the value of the damage to local businesses in the country at over 150000000 euros. nearly 2000 shops suffered at the hands of the rioters artist and designer mimi ill need sky has

normative format, which includes germany, france, ukraine, and russia. lillian, also moscow correspond emily sherwin, how much of an influence germany and europe indeed ha, come have on russia, germany and even europe a basically have nothing to do with what they've been demanding in the talks that we've seen in the past few days. and, you know, the, the language that we've heard coming from russia in the last few weeks and months in december, russia issued demands on, on a limit to nato eastern expansion. and those demands were issued directly to the u . s. and now i'm after, you know, several rounds of talks last week with the us, with nato, and also with the os c, e. so with european countries, um, russia has demanded that the u. s. and nato issue a written response to its demands. so it seems like russia is basically only really willing to talk to the us um, when it comes to these security and abounds. and in a way, europe is kind of on the sidelines watching emily, the used foreign policy chief, a joseph berella. i saw that the block was ready to prepare for the sanctions against russia. how lo

to do fears of an invasion, standing by and the russian capital, is it of your correspondent, emily, sherwin emily? oh, talk to us about the combat readiness inspections. russia has a now as started. what does that mean exactly? while i think those combat readiness inspections are essentially a tit for tat response from the russian side to the announcement, the amount announcements from the u. s. and also from the nato about troops kind of being moved about truth being ready for action if necessary. on the one hand that underline the point that russia has been making for several months now, that nato and the west really are a security guarantee, rather a security threat for it. and that in a sense, nato has been coming too close for comfort to russia. eastern borders, that's what we've been hearing from the russian side again and again. and that's why they say they need written guarantees from the west that there will be no more nato expansion. and on the other hand, you know, as i say, this is a response to the west. i also think it's important to point out here though, that despite all the

includes germany, france, ukraine, and russia are almost calm now joined by dw, corresponded to emily, sherwin. emily, what can we expect today from this meeting? well on alina babcock is starting her visit here in moscow at the stage 3 took off gallery, which is which you see behind me at an exhibition about europe, which actually was in berlin before. so i think she's kind of starting, trying to start by building some kind of a symbolic bridge to russia, but i think it's clear that you know, she has a tough day ahead. i'm on the one hand on the lena bear book has said that she'll be searching for common ground through dialogue. the russian side, i think, will be really checking her out as the new a german foreign minister. she had rather tough positions about russia and also about the north stream to a pipeline before becoming a german foreign minister. so i think the, the russian side will be kind of listening closely to what she says to day, publicly and behind closed doors on the 2 sides. we'll be talking about bilateral relations, of course. but i think the elephant in the room is the ri

as emily sherwin in moscow, emily, the possibility of more sanctions like the bank transfer system, swift throughout an exclusion of russia. from it. how much of a threat is that for russia? well, i think it's worth pointing out. first of all, that the narrative, at least publicly here in russia is look, we've been under sanctions for so many years. we can deal with anything that they throw at us. and it's true that russia has been heavily sanctioned since they annexed the crimea peninsula from ukraine in 2014. and in the years since the idea of cutting russia off from swift has been floated several times, and russia has actually been preparing for several possible sanctions scenarios since 2014 including that. so they've actually created a parallel russian financial messaging system at the moment that's hardly used and only a few countries are part of that, including bella. ruth, one chinese bank is in that messaging system. so i think cutting russia off from swift would be a painful measure for the russian economy. but russia does have the possibility of kind of in the long term, you kn

let's go to our correspondent, emily sherwin in moscow. emily, again, a flurry of diplomatic efforts underway to diffuse a possible conflict in ukraine. what have you ard? well, i think coming out of this week, it's pretty clear that the russian side does want to keep talking. that would be, i think the main takeaway, and we saw today that letting me put in the had that talk with the french president at minor and my call and there was the talk between lover of and bear book, the german foreign minister here as well. both calls focused on the fact that on russia's reaction to the fact that the u. s. and nato have issued that written refusal of russia's main demand, which is a stop to eastern expansion and the call between put and, and my call today was actually the 1st reaction we've had from putting himself there was kremlin statement after that call, which said that put in express dissatisfaction at the fact that the u. s. and nato had refused that main demand. but he did repeat the russian position that the russian side would study the wr

let's bring in correspondent emily sherwin in moscow at a time. emily, the kremlin, is comparing current tensions to those of the cold war to we take it from that, that the us, the night a response to russia's demands haven't gone down to well in moscow. well, i think what we've seen today from the kremlin is a bit of a mixed response. i would say that there hasn't been some of the outrage in the rhetoric that we've heard in the past. are the kremlin said that putin kremlin spokesperson, rather saw that they said that putin has seen are the u. s. and the nato, a response, and that he would hold consultations and respond at a later date. and it seems that the kremlin wants to take some time over that response. they pointed out that actually nato and the u. s. took around a month over a month in fact, to respond to russia's demands. but also, i, of course, you know, the u. s. and nato here, yesterday, rejecting russia's main demand for a stop to nato's eastern expansion. the kremlin today said, you know, that their views are not being taken into acco

let's get the latest now from dw correspondent, emily sherwin who was standing by in moscow. emily, i hope that you can hear me there, emily, and we want to hear actually from you what your sources have been say. ok, well as you can see there, emily could not hear us. i will try and get her a little bit later in the show. but 1st we're going to take you to south africa. it seems as if the omni cron waive may be on the way out without the feared surgeon hospitalizations and deaths. officials say there is still reason to be cautious, but they have lucent corona virus restrictions, as case numbers drop. it was just over 6 weeks ago, november the 24th. when the world 1st case of omni cron was announced, then new cases shot up, kicking out some 127000 in the middle of december, daily infection cases by the 3rd, in by went up by a 3rd in the week ending and christmas and they have fallen since then on new year's eve and me in time. the south african government lifted a late night curfew, but authority said that ominous. cron is still a threat. so let's get more on this now. we have

we have our correspondent, emily sherwin standing by for us there. hi emily. this meeting was a little bit shorter than than we had perhaps expected. and sergei love has been speaking to reporters. so tell us what you make of what we've seen and heard. well, of sergei lover of called this meeting today, an interim meeting. he said the fact that it was shorter than expected wasn't necessarily a bad sign. as this is part of an ongoing process. that's how he presented it to the press in his statement. he said that the us use the opportunity of this meeting to clarify some of the russians positions. and that the russian side is still very much expecting a written response to its demands sometime next week. and that actually, anthony blinking was essentially preparing for that written response. that's what the russian foreign minister said is saying at the moment to the press in his statements following that meeting, he said that the u. s. had repeated some of its positions when it comes, especially to nato eastern expansion and had talked about the fact that nato

and correspondent emily sherwin is standing by for us in moscow. on emily it's really difficult to get information about what is actually happening inside of kaz extend on the ground. the internet is partially shut down. what are your sources telling you? while the internet, as you say, sarah, has been partially or completely blocked for the 3rd day in a row. now, so many of the people that i've been contacting just simply aren't receiving messages. we do know that their protests continue across the country in several cities. and much of the information that we're getting is of course, official information. we know, as you said, that there's a state of emergency in the entire country. now we know that banks are closed. we know that the authorities are back in control of the airport and almighty. and we also know that the government has just re introduced government controls on fuel prices flashing prices back to their previous level. they were doubled and they were, that was sparks. these protests, as we know, authorities have also said that dozens

and let's go right to moscow are correspond, emily, sherwin is following these talks for us today. hi, emily. this really is a difficult position for the german foreign minister. coming into these talks, you made clear, it is important for berlin and moscow to have a good relationship, a stable relationship, but also defend ukraine's interest at sovereignty. so tell us what to expect from these talks. why think, i'm not in a bad book today as really walking kind of a diplomatic tight rope. she just arrived here in russia from ukraine. and i think that actually heard her tone in the opening statements that we saw ahead of a meeting with her russian counterparts who gave up ross was actually pretty warm. she talked about not only the strain that had been cast by international relations on, on, you know, on relationship on the relationship between germany and russia. but she actually talked about that relationship as a friendship. she talks about historical ties. and she also in ukraine pointedly avoided guarantees to ukraine, that there could be german arms deliveries, which i think w

so let's go right to moscow, are corresponding, emily, sherwin is following these talks for us. hi, emily. there is a press conference going on with those survey, lovegrove and annual in a burbock. tell us what has been said so far so far. it seems like a both fair book and love roth came out of these talks of feeling rather positive, especially considering the huge tensions that we've seen between the west more generally and russia in recent weeks and months over are over ukraine lover of called the talks useful he said that it's very important for russia to have good relations with germany, or of course, emphasizing the importance of trade relations with germany as well. and bear book also said that she hoped for stable relations. she said that despite the huge differences in opinions on us, some issues including on human rights, you mentioned the opposition politician, alexey navine. there's also a lot of issues where of russia and germany have common ground and simply issues that need to be discussed. because russia's an important player on the world stage, she mentioned for

emily, sherwin is in moscow, and marina shrubs is in breast. that's where you foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis in ukraine. it's good to see you both. emily, i'd like to start with you. we heard a clip of survey love rob speaking there are pretty combative tone he was taking. tell us more about what the foreign minister had to say while yes, absolutely. sergei a love of took a combat of tone. and that's the tone that we've heard all week from russian officials at these various talks that took place in brussels and geneva sergey la grove. took this press conference today to repeat the fact that he blames the west thrush blames the west for these rising tensions between russia and ukraine. between russia and the west. he said that the west for the last 30 years essentially has been artificially trying to expand nato towards the east, essentially to provoke russia. and it also seemed today and in the last few days at russia is not budging on its main demands to the u. s. and its main demands towards nato, which had already issued

as des, emily, sherwin reports a handshake that helped end the cold war, but left lingering resentment. back in the 19 ninety's soviet leader mikhail gorbachev allegedly got verbal guarantees from us officials that nato would not expand towards the east. but there were never put in writing. some historians say the story is a myth, but vladimir putin insists it's real. and his press conference last december showed nato's eastern expansion is certainly still a real source of anger for him was listed. yet no one knew we were not another inch to the east. they told us in the ninety's. and what they cheated us us has brought its missiles to our home. they're already at our doorstep. i don't know what there is to understand here. it's obvious. you know, we want to ensure our security when you get your pin, you know, the dispute for you with many russians agree that nato expansion is a threat already around that as on all sides. and then keeping funding and expanding when we carry out military exercises on our own territory. and that's some sort of catastrophe the end of the world. and you'll

w is a brussels bureau chief, alexandra font nomine, and geneva, and d, w, corresponded emily, sherwin in moscow, welcomed both. let's start with you. alexandra. has this meeting lowered tensions over ukraine? those sites have agreed to father talks, and that's actually good news because we can assume that as long as the door to diplomacy is still open, we are not going to see a major escalation on ukraine's border. however, we have to add that it's sub sense that there has been no breakthrough, no real progress. both sides remained very firm on their positions with russia saying that they wanted their demands to be met. and the you as saying that now it's up to russia to de escalate, and to decide whether they would like to choose the pass of diplomacy or the past that would lead to a confrontation and severe consequences. and emily, our monthly break inside russia would receive written responses to it. security demands next week, presumably, moscow's not expected to the us to just roll over. i doubt it. i think that russia went into all of these talks that we've seen this week. and l

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of your correspondence, emily, sherwin and moscow and our correspond with lisa we in breast of france, that's where you foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the stand off on ukraine . good day to you both. lisa, want to go to you 1st because we're expecting the use use top diplomat to brief the press momentarily. as we wait for that to get under way, are we expecting anything concrete to be announced where you are? well, this meeting is not a meeting where decisions are being taken, but it is a meeting. it is an occasion for, for you foreign ministers to come together to find a common stance. and that's what the foreign ministers here have been working on over the past 2 days that have been underlining that this is really unacceptable. it would be unacceptable if moscow invited invaded ukraine indeed. and they have reiterated that thread to impose fresh sanctions on moscow if that were to happen. we also have heard that the, a german foreign minister and alina barbara, is set to travel to care to ukraine and to moscow, to continue talk next week, next week. and she said this morni

going into talks with nato has a long and painful history as d w, as emily, sherwin reports a handshake that helped end the cold war, but left lingering resentment. back in the $900.00 ninety's soviet leader, michelle got a bunch of allegedly got verbal guarantees from us officials that nato would not expand towards the east, but they were never put in writing. some historians say the story is a myth, but vladimir putin insists it's real because and his press conference last december showed nato's eastern expansion is certainly still a real source of anger for him. at least, you know, we knew we were not another inch to the east. they told us in the ninety's and what they cheated us us has brought its missiles to our home. they're already at our doorstep. i don't know what there is. need to understand here. it's all the national, we want to ensure our security when you know your pin, you know, you might, if you've been with many russians agree that nato expansion is a threat. it was already surrounded as on all sides and then keeping offending and expanding. when we carry out military e

are moscow corresponded emily, sherwin or for some further analysis on the story. let's bring in an echo hot bozer. he's president of germany's federal academy for security policy. that's a government think tank. he also, he's also a former ambassador and served as both diplomat in moscow and washington buster, brazil. thanks for joining us. first of all, give us your threat assessment here. how likely is it that russian troops will launch in the pants have been ukraine? so going to, um, i think we need to take that thread seriously. how likely it is herb pops only put, he knows he keeps us guessing. preparations are ongoing and we need to work on the assumptions that these preparations have. some meaning and the meaning is there is a threat. so let's take it seriously. but at the same time we pursue, as we just heard, very actively, ah, the other path, namely that of diplomacy and negotiation. so the threat is serious. you say the u. s. in some european countries see that way to their bolstering ukraine's defenses by delivering weapons to ukraine al germany is ref