that we see in job on in the white house talk of strategic autonomy not going away here in europe richard walker our chief international editor thank you so much. well u.s. president's inauguration is not the only story making news around the world today here are some other headlines security forces in mali used tear gas to disperse dozens of demonstrators in the capital bamako on wednesday police also used roadblocks and motorbike convoys to stop people gathering protestors were rallying against the ongoing presence of the french military france has deployed over a 1000 over a 1000 troops in mali since 2013 on an anti terror operation. hospitals in the u.k. are under pressure as daily coronavirus deaths there rise to record levels over $1800.00 people died of the virus on tuesday this comes as a variant of the virus believed to be more contagious spreads across the country health trusts converted cathedrals into mass vaccination centers as the back scene rollout continues. health officials in chile have given emergency approval to a vaccine made by a chinese company sin of back but authorities

widespread fear here in germany and around europe the democracy is on the back foot it has to do his homework. our chief international correspondent richard walker.

widespread fear here in germany and around europe that democracy is on the back foot and it has to do his homework our chief international correspondent richard walker thank you it's a. little earlier. spoke to a leading german politicians european parliament and i asked him what lessons europe can learn from the scenes in washington. with me now is the monthly to be about the leader of the p.p. group in the european parliament the survey you spoke of a warning for liberal democracies looking at what happened in washington how does europe how does the european parliament have to respond to this. what we have to learn of the developments and washington this we have to defend our institutions you can have from non-content different of different ideas different proposals for how to solve the problems of today but you can never attack institutions you can never take into question the counting of votes for example and that is what we have to learn so we as liberal democracies in the rest of the of the world we have to defend our institutions and we have to be very warned about what happened in washington now you lead the largest group in the european par

that europe cannot continue to live totally under american protection and try to sort of hedge its bets on relations with china relations with russia striking developments thank you so much richard walker the douglas chief international editor crush it. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. police in guatemala have broken up a group of thousands of myron's from central america who are trying to reach the united states officers used the tongs and shields to force the migrants back towards 300 border the migrants had camped out on a road overnight after authorities stopped them from continuing their journey north . the kremlin has dismissed cause to free opposition leader alexina volley who's been jailed for 30 days following his return to russia on sunday live on these spent the past few months in germany recovering from poisoning with a nerve agent the kremlin also described as calls for mass protests against his arrest as quote troubling. mount etna europe's tallest and most active volcano has erupted again streams of red hot lava have been flowing down the mountain which is situated on the italian island of sicily volcanic ash has covered ca

that europe cannot continue to live totally under american protection and try to sort of hedge its bets on relations with china relations with russia striking developments thank you so much richard walker chief international editor preceded. and really our go. going to turn our attention now to spain where it community of people living on the edges of madrid say they've been forgotten by the authorities the region has had an unusually cold winter for some residents of madrid 6 shanty town it's proving to be life threatening parts of the settlement have been without power since october and now i see conditions have frozen the water supply did abuse nicole reese filed this report from madrid. it's bitter cold this morning here in kenya of os shanty town on the outskirts of madrid days after the area's heaviest snow falls temperatures are well below 0 yet some have preferred to be outside because they were pretty it's cold inside the house that outside now with the sun you can see on the street the way also cold here but into the issue where they will feel some 8000 residents live here in what may be europe's biggest informal settlement since a power cut in october more than half of them