u. s. and e u. s. has improved that and dead air washington wants to increase its military assistance to ukraine. and as you can see, there is a strong support for ukraine in this crisis. i some of a mom of they're joining us from geneva. thank you like summer now the 1st deliveries of aid a supplies have arrived in tom r days after it was hit by a volcanic eruption and it's an army in the south pacific water was among the supplies delivered after toxic ash from volcano contaminated local drinking water communication equipment was also flown in after the islands were virtually cut off from the outside world. more aid is expected to arrive by air and see in the coming days. we cannot talk to dr. mark jacobs. he is the director of pacific technical support with the world health organization and his leading w. i chose tama volcano response and joins us from fiji. marco 1st, a deliveries have arrived in tara, so presumably that means 8 workers on the ground have been able to make a 1st assessment of the sit

u. s. and e u, imposed sanctions on members of his government who was targeted and how were they targeted? well that the, this has been a continuation of a policy of targeting officials of the government for, for human rights violations. as your set up report indicated that there are political prisoners and in nicaragua, substantial number for all the opposition candidates for november. elections are in jail and this is a highly repressive autocratic regime and so those. ready who have been responsible for those human rights violation senior officials and the government i have been sanction. so that is the policy to try to apply pressure by the united states and by the european european union against these officials. obviously there is a very, very serious human rights crisis in their garage where the likes of which latin america hasn't seen for many, many years. and so that has been the response. whether that changes the situation at all on the ground remains to be seen. but certainly there is, yo

u. s. and e. u officials are taking place in norway. the former roman catholic for benedict has admitted giving a false statement to a child, sex abuse inquiry. he says he mistakenly told investigators in germany that he wasn't at a meeting in 1980. when he was archbishop of munich inquiry, found that benedict knew about peter filed priests would fail to report their crimes. those of the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera, after inside story, we'll see in 25 minutes you by ah, what's behind the latest military to indicate a fast so the president is arrested, a soldier's mutiny against a government's failure to stop attacked by our groups. what's required to restore stability? this is inside stored. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm in ron con. it's the african country where military coups happen all too often. in the latest attempt in bettina faso internet is down the main t v. stations under military control. and soldiers say they've detained president russia. campbell ah, tension escalated on saturday when security f

u. s. and e. u sanctions on nicaraguan officials in response to the polls. latin america editor lucia newman is in santiago, chile. she says, will take her use his speech to signal closer ties to china. he really went out of his way to a underscore that point during his inauguration speech, which began with a very, very long list of insults and criticisms against the united states and other european union. both of which he accused of still having colonial aspirations. but then i went, then you'd began to welcome the chinese delegation and he went out of his way as i say, to see it to lead nicaraguans. and anyone else who was listening know that now nicaragua has the support of china. he said that the county's delegation had come to nicaragua under quote, strict instructions from beijing to help nicaragua, that is economically and possibly also politically in exchange. nicaragua broke it to diplomatic types with taiwan in december. if the inauguration itself was delayed by at least an hour and a half

u. s. and e, u diplomats are asking them to uphold basic freedoms. in return for humanitarian aid. tropical storm anna has killed at least 39 people in madagascar. the strong brought heavy rains, causing fretting and much slides in a capital antonin ariba. thousands have been evacuated and several districts remain under high alert, nor burnett burden. mad me has the d test. this is madagascar capital and none the repo. much of it submerged underwater after days of unrelenting rainfall. to storm sent water rushing through the streets. resident pier michelle shows the damage left in the wake law up on you, the power is cut in this area. we have to deal with that and the floods we're never at peace. every one is affected, not only my home, but all the houses in this neighborhood. neighbor vivian does her best to clear the water. her family, a thing for now. we allow fans and needs the water came in and we didn't know how to get it out of the house. so we put the kids on the bunk bed. my husband and i then sorted through our self to see the damage. local

u. s. and e. u, presenting threats of everything from direct sanctions to export controls against russia. if it invades ukraine, which it has repeatedly cited, has no plans to do. while we don't know exactly what those measures would look like just yet. reports of describe them as aiming to worse and the sell off in russian market increased the cost of the country. the borrowing and hurt the value of russia's currency. so joining us now to discuss later, which is well, host of the economic update and author of the sickness is the system. now, professor, what do you make of the latest threats from western countries? wouldn't the measures that they are considering also hurt them as well, especially when we're talking about countries in europe that rely heavily on russia for things like natural gas supplies? well, i think there are 2 things that are notable here. number one, the escalation of what is being threatened and spoken about. let's remember, ukraine is in europe, not in the western hemisphere. russia is a neighbor, we are not. the rest of europe is very worried because the war, if i

u. s. and e. u. officials of taking place in norway earlier on sunday. the taliban met civil society groups diplomats are asking them to uphold basic freedoms. in return for humanitarian aid. di one says china flu, 39 warplanes near its air space and what's being described as the largest operation for 3 months. a taiwan air force issued radio warnings and activated air defense missiles. systems has been no immediate comment from china, which considers the island break away province. a former roman catholic, pope benedict has admitted giving a false statement to a child, sex abuse inquiry. he says he mistakenly told investigators in germany that he wasn't at a meeting in 1980. when he was archbishop of munich inquiry, found the benedict knew about peter file priest, but failed to report their crimes on a canes in berlin. and he explains the allegations against the former pope the central fact that emerges from pages and pages and pages of evidence given by the former pope. just less than 6 weeks ago to this inquiry is he says repeatedly that if he can't r

u. s. and e. u officials is set for monday, or u. k. court has ruled that the we can expand julian, our phones can challenge a decision to expedite him to the united states. that means you can appeal to the supreme court. the u. s. wants to try us sounds on espionage charges after we get it published. classified military documents up. next is witness one years after that was season by by. oh oh all right. i'm ready with john michael with the high level haven't. i'm haven't to play the yet. and i'm with the mom or order by rough with a me a a, a, a, a, a set the felon at via michelle bill. i'm your kids there at thomas. i'm still, i'm is dennis mom. i'm not a lot going to, you know, gone so good. alex not to come laugher. ah, shouldn't be a yada, yada, yada. it's ha, ha, ha, beard, hello, sierra nice hill. with a few more on another how alum again and he couldn't really help walk happen. benny ed bowen, sanisha safin with a home she did have with 0 one moment. okay. second him and his neck and oh, this will help me out. he won. but in

u. s. and e u diplomats are asking them to uphold basic freedoms in return for humanitarian aid. civil society groups have also been involved in the discussions. andreas on brant is the head of the european union delegation to afghanistan. he outlines what's being discussed in these talks. it's been a useful meeting. we have raised all of the very important points that we have raised also on previous occasions where the taliban. but i think the most important thing is that they had their own intra african dialogue with civil society with other non taliban africans. and we, of course, we have made clear that women rights and also the inclusion, the participation of women in the african society is very important. it's important for the rights of women, but also it's important for productivity. and it's important for the legitimacy of the defacto government, because only through internal legitimacy can you aspire to achieve at certain point . external legitimacy recognition is not on the agenda. there

u. s. and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow the u. s. secretary of state and e u foreign ministers are meeting via video link monday to discuss a unified response to russia. from were on the store, i am joined now by d. w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena, alexandro and the foreign minister is meet to day. they'll be joined virtually by secretary of state from the united states. anthony blanket. ukraine is expected, of course, to be front and center. what are you expecting to hear today throughout this meeting? well i think that you foreign ministers are very eager to hear from you as secretary of state blink. and what is his assessment of for he's meeting with his the russian counterpart in geneva last friday. whether he thinks that there is still a chance for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. and as you know, some within the block of feel quite site lions aligned in the current crisis with russia focusing on talks with the you as and to need to to discuss their security concerns. so member states wants to make sure that they know exactly what it's

u. s. and e u. officials diplomats are asking them to uphold basic freedoms in return for humanitarian aid. a political crisis is brewing in honduras after rival politicians elected to competing precedence of congress. it's part of a disputes between party members of the president elect, seo, mara, castro. just days before her inauguration is alexi, o'brien ah, supporters of the liberty and re foundation policy celebrating in the honduran capital didn't cigar at the swearing in of their new president of congress, louise redondo, boulevard, euro from a finance? today, the deputies of the national congress of acted opportunity to protect an action that was intended to be consummated to day, to take control by the criminal structures that have governed this country. they intended to take control of this legislative power. moreover, that's becker's nearby arrival. congressional president was being concerned jorge to leaks oil. lamar earlier today, a majority of 80 out of a 128 members, elected a new bo

u. s. and the e u. i mean, is there a belief that the sanctions will have an impact at all when certainly it's too soon, but these are not the kind of sanctions that would paralyze any economy. they will, however, sting some members of the ortega, family, members of the high ranking members of the military of the communications department and of the electoral council who will no longer have to go to the united states will not be able to access bank accounts in the united states or in europe for example, i did speak to an opposition leader who was an exile in, in re gusty says that while it will not have a really strong political impact in terms of swaying president ortega to change the way he is governing. they will at least send a message to the nicaragua, people that the world is watching and that it cares. thank you so much. lucy newman reporting from chilling still had on al jazeera, the dutch government is sworn and after almost 10 months of coalition taught me more as elsa liter uncensored, she is

colony pacific that we proven there was election formative of we wrote a report and shed it around the world. the e u. u. s. and o, c, e. have all said lucas shank, as presidency is not legitimate, more than a 1000000 voters registered on the go los platform and uploaded their ballots. the results officially announced could thus be compared with the votes actually cast. ah, lee is the channel when you might have thought right from the start. we understood that the internet gave us power to it. it was, it provides protection cabella ruffian society. both from abilene you can talk and you can quickly and easily exchange information and connect with people the spook miss. for some amusing in for bella, russian opponents like tatiana, quote about technology is an important tool in their fight for political change. protests are also moving online and other countries like iran, marci, elena, john uses the power of her 7000000 social media followers to fight for women's rights and iran. from her exile in new york. she posts, photos and videos of iranian women defying the countries compulsory her job law images. t

u. s. and e u diplomats are asking them to uphold basic freedoms. in return for humanitarian aid, civil society groups have also been involved in the discussions and the restaurant brant is the head of the european union delegation to afghanistan. he outlines what's being discussed and these tools. it's been a useful meeting. we have raised all of the very important points that we have raised also on previous occasions where the taliban. but i think the most important thing is that they had their own intra african dialogue with civil society, with other non taliban africans. and we, of course, we have made clear that women rights and also the inclusion, the participation of women in the african society is very important. it's important for the rights of women, but also it's important for productivity. and it's important for the legitimacy of the defacto government, because only through internal legitimacy can you as fire to achieve at certain point, external legitimacy recognition is not on the agenda. there is a broad consensus that we will not reco

u. s. and e u government's a previously accused iran of intentionally growing things out to iran, wants guarantees that you are sanctions will be lifted on its oil sales, marvell carrot that, a massey, 8th round of the vienna negotiations, put them back on the right track, and a good agreement can be reached if the western parties possess the real will. an intention lifting sanctions means lifting all forms of sanction stipulated in the nuclear agreement on the sanctions that trump re imposed on. and that contradict or terms of the agreement. and the latter is in disputed negotiations. we demand guarantees that include not imposing any new sanctions and not re imposing sanctions after lifting them under any pretext. we see that the simplest practical model for this would be when it comes to us exporting oil and obtaining revenues through our banking system. there's an informal and indirect exchange of messages with the americans in vienna, one, we have good words from their delegation. but what is

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. cities, oliver, it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it does not take a diplomacy genius to realize that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. mongolia, the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it wants guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly precisely and on paper. and they have understood that we are not going to wait forever. first. of course, there are plans to drug it on and on, which is 2 things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists increased in ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seem futile. the, some, i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressive country with those people who fight against us now, i can't see anything positive in this. needed positive all at them. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign. a compromise can be reached. at earlier d, w spoke to under russia rod, a senior fellow in the german council on foreign relations security and defense program. and we asked him whether russia really sees the potential of eastward expansion of nato as a threat to its national security. from trying to discuss or understand the russian perspective, what needs to remember that ever since 2008 need to have the promise of taking in georgia and you bring on board. the board has made some clean, committed, once georgia, and you will be member of deadlines. there is no deadline to death, but the promise is still there, and the promises that it and russia keeps considering nito as primary military threat and also the source potential danger for the safety of the rational the ration from russia perspective and future accession of ukraine to need to indeed for the it's another question. however, the alliance does not taking any concrete hands on going to, we're going to do moment ukraine has to look at maybe the crimea ok by the, even by russia as well as eastern your brain. and right now, it doesn't seem to be at least to get all the way to make it to be alliance any time. so feel rushed up even the very possibility that. so to turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world . the office of british prime minister wars johnson has apologized to the royal family. after revelations of more staff parties. the country was under locked down . johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over the events. its emerged to gatherings took place last april on the night before the funeral of the queen's husband. prince philip a u. s. judge has ordered a jail to drug firm executive martin directly to return over $64000000.00 in profits. i intend to follow the advice greatly is notorious for hiking the price of a life saving aids drug, some 4000 present and defrauding investors. the judge also barred him from the pharmaceutical industry for life. around 30 migrants have been rescued from the english channel after their boat capsized in icy waters. one man has died from hypothermia. a growing number of migrants are attempting the treacherous journey. last year, more than 28000 people crossed from france to britain in small boats with go to northern india now where tens of thousands of hindu pilgrims have gathered for a holy festival. that includes bathing in the ganges river. that is, despite a huge jump in cove at 19 infections in india. our next report looks at how pilgrims and the authorities are dealing with the oma kron variant which is driving the search. ah, tens of thousands of people come together to tak

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. it is on the liver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. lucas did not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. going among the kremlin says it's defending itself. and at once guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around a shoe. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly precisely and on paper. and they have understood that we are not going to wait forever search. of course, there are plans to drug it on and on, which is 2 things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea. in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists in houston, ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seem futile. the some, i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressive country with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this needed positive all at them. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign. a compromise can be reached. earlier dw spoke to undress rod se senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations. he told us more about russia's fears of nato's eastward expansion. from trying to discuss or understand the russian perspective. one needs to remember that ever since 2008 need to has a valid promise taking in georgia and ukraine on board. i mean, they made a clean and committed once georgia and ukraine would be member of that lives. there is no deadline, but that's the debt, but the promise is still there and the promises that it and russia keeps considering me to as crime or a military threat. and it was so sore potential danger for territory and for the safety of the rational the ration from russia perspective and future accession, are you going to need to indeed, or the other question. however, the alliance does not taking any concrete. we had an on going to, we're going to do moment ukraine has to look at maybe the crimea ok by the, by russia, as well as eastern your brain right now, it doesn't seem to be nice to get all the way to make it to be alliance any time, so still rush even the possibility of that. so we can turn our attention now to some of the other stories making headlines at this hour. a u. s. judge has ordered jail, drug firm executive, martin shelly, known as the farmer, bro, to return over $64000000.00 in profits, from raising the price of a life saving drug by some 4000 per cent. in 2017, he was convicted of lying to investors and is now serving a 7 year sentence. united nations says at least 108 civilians have been killed this month in a series of government air strikes and ethiopia as war torn t gr i region un is calling on ethiopian authorities to better protect civilians saying failure to do so. could amount to war crimes the office of british prime minister boris johnson has apologized to the royal family after revelations of more staff parties. while the country was under lockdown, johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over the events. it is emerged that 2 gatherings took place last april on the night before the funeral of the queen's husband, prince philip and dutch prime minister mach rutisse, as the netherlands bill relax. some of the toughest coven

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. cities, oliver, it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. going among the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it wants guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly precisely and on paper. and they have understood that we are not going to wait forever foot. of course, there are plans to drug it on and on. switches to things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea. in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists in houston, ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seem futile. so, so listen, i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressive country with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this. when you needed a positive all it. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign, a compromise can be reached. let's say get you more analysis now. did your chief international affairs editor richard walker joins us now? richard, were these talks doomed from the get go? what layla and i don't think so. i mean, we've had a really intense weak of diplomacy, but it was never really to be expected that you would have some kind of massive breakthrough after these initial meetings. we, if we pull back and have a look at what we have here, as we saw in the report earlier, we've had russia massing troops alongside the border with ukraine. then kind of pinning the presence of those troops on the border to a set of demands making that it's making to the west, which would really kind of re architect the entire security setup of europe. trying to make demands, such as that nato not expand any further to the east or to rule out forever, ukraine joining nato. now this is an incredibly difficult thing for nato to consider. essentially, it crosses a red line because one of the principles of nato, as an alliance of democracies, is that every sovereign state has the right to choose its own alliances. so these are the kind of positions that went into this week of diplomacy across the table for each other. it from each other in all of these different settings. you have the us and russia bilaterally meeting and geneva, you had nato and russia. and also this, this grouping, the organization for security and cooperation, your of the o. s. e and russia, as well during the course of the week. so essentially what we have in the end of the week is both sides sort of having set out their stores. the russians making these very, very major demands the west by large, staying very united, in rejecting those both sides now essentially going back home with some thinking to do with some thinking to do in the mean time, richard, germany is foreign minister will travel to moscow. i understand for talks on you create, what could she possibly hope to achieve? yeah, that's right. so anna, lena bear, bog, germany's new foreign minister will be not just going to moscow, but also going to key of to ukraine itself. partly to present herself as the formulas. so, but of course, this crisis is going to be absolutely top of the agenda. now there's one thing that the germans really want to achieve, and that is to get to revive one of the diplomatic for formats which had essentially almost died towards the end of last year, which is called the normandy format. and that is having the french, the germans, the russians, and the ukrainians all around the table as a means of trying to, to find solutions to the conflict over ukraine. now, the germs of the french are very keen to get this back up and running again. but we've also just heard from the ukrainians today that they want to start up talks between the ukrainians, the russians, and the americans. so we could have a certain matter of confusion about what is really the forum to try and make progress in this, in the weeks and months ahead. in a few words, if you can. i mean, is it with the rhetoric being so amped up at times and, you know, talk about ultimatums and non starters. how difficult will it be to walk back from these respective positions in the weeks to come and avoid a possible military conflict? we're, it's, it's definitely going to be tough layla. when we look at these, these demands that the russians have made for vladimir putin in particular to make these demands public. and then to walk back from them without losing face is going to be difficult. but that's going to be the us with diplomacy in the weeks ahead for the west to try to persuade him to do exactly that. i did every chief international affairs editor, richard walker. thank you very much. richard. germany saw a record number of new cove in 19 cases on friday with more than 92000 infections is joined. the list of countries reporting armor chron as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. with so many new infections demand has jumped for p. c r testing. by getting a test and be a long wait. these people are waiting to access one of berlin's 11 senate funded test centers. the only place is in the german capital where people can get a free p, c r test, under certain conditions. the high risk of infection warning on their so called corona up a positive for api test. or if they've been formerly identified as a contact person of someone infected indies, q, most people i infected, but most of them are so vaccinated and show little to no symptoms. the i can, i had a robot only on my cobit app and my girlfriend tested positive i'm vaccinated and got the booster. but of course i'm worried. i think the berlin city government is not prepared for the current, steep rise in infections and they could of course, open more tests centers on the kinetic method sent in the afternoon. we had lunch, we got a quick test from the pharmacy that was positive to switch both vaccinated by the but i wasn't due for my 2nd job and in next week and your trouble, gus and i had a positive test yesterday there. wait, your is way too long. it should go much quicker. nowadays, everything should go away quicker in this entire queue where people say for 12 hours, i'm really not happy about a service from this new swisher. the center alone is doing over 800 tests a day that are other ways to get tested in private facilities here. dar neither accuse no waiting time. if you're willing to pay for it. he la bought it from the cover to take the, the laboratories only have a certain capacity of do our best to work with them. if it is arguable men the moment it's quiet, could you wiggle him? yes, of course it's january, but there will certainly be spikes. again, in february, he'll be during the winter break or during the easter holidays worth of hearing or through those sam will surely be difficult again, heard really ruin. despite the situation, the government is confident that it's handling dekaiser swell and better than other countries. info glass. so field and compared to many other european countries, the p c r testing capacity in germany is rather high, in my opinion, we have no shortages here in that regard. of course, we're now in a situation where we're approaching the systems full capacity will be on the far lust, the sustain son braden with infections to you to the army crown, a very hands on the rise. germany is bracing again for challenging weeks ahead. let's get you up to speed now with some of the other stories in the headlines right now. the office of british prime minister boys johnson has apologized to the royal family after revelations of more staff parties, while the country was under lockdown. mister johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over the events which are under investigation is emerged to gatherings took place last april on the night before the funeral. the queen's husband, prince philip, north korea says it has fire to short range ballistic missiles into the sea is the country's 3rd missile test this month, john yang said it was exercising legitimate self defense. after the u. s. announced it was imposing new sanctions. north korea's neighbors, including japan, have condemned the latest missiles. protests against denisia as president. i said to have been met with water cannon and arrests by the police. demonstrated the demonstrations rather took place in defiance of the government's cove 19 restrictions. protesters are angry over the president, suspension of parliament and attempts to rewrite the constitution, which they say amounts to a coup. they are sailing. guzman has canceled novak jack of the chest visa for a 2nd time. the tennis world number one is due to be taken into the custody of immigration officials in a matter of hours. his pursuits of a record breaking 20 for his grand slam title. now hang on a last ditch court appeal. just days before he's a striding open title defense was due to begin novick, jock of it's trained on center court, still waiting for the australian government's decision. it came late in the day in australia and landed with se

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing citizen deliver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. calling among the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it once guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around a shoe. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly. precisely and on paper. and they have understood that we are not going to wait forever suits. of course, there are plans to drag it on and on the shoes, which is 2 things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea. in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists increased in ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seemed futile. the summer this summer, i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressive country with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this needed to put a table with them. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign. a compromise can be reached. in earlier dw spoke to undress ross, a senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations, and he told us more about russia's fears of nato's eastward expansion. from time to discuss or understand the rational perspective, one needs to remember that ever since 2008 need to has a valid promise taking in georgia and ukraine on board. the board is clearly committed once georgia and you will be member of that lives. there is no deadline to death, but the promise is still down and the promises that it and russia keeps considering me to as crime, very military threat and also sore potential. danger for the, for the safety of the rational, the ration from russia perspective and future accession ukraine today to indeed for the it's another question. however, the alliance does not take in any country, because an on going to, we're going to do moment ukraine has to look at maybe the crimea combined. the eagle, you make by russia, as well as he's doing your brand right now, it doesn't seem to be to get all the way to make it to be alliance any time. so still russia even the possibility that so now let's bring you up to speed with some of the other stories that are making headlines around the worlds. a u. s. and judge has ordered a jail to drug firm executive martin, frankly known as pharma bro, to return over $64000000.00 in profits, from raising the price of a life saving drug by some 4000 percent in 2017. he was convicted of lying to investors and serving a 7 year sentence. the united nations says at least $108.00 civilians have been killed this month. and a series of government airstrikes in ethiopia is war torn. t gr i region. the un is calling on ethiopian authorities to better protect civilians. st. failure to do so, could amount to war crimes around 30 migrants have been rescued from the english channel after their boat capsized an icy waters. but one man died from hypothermia . every number of migrants are attempting the dangerous journey. last year, more than 28000 people crossed from france to britain, in small boats. protest against to me as president chi east side. i've been met with water cannons and arrests by the police. the demonstrations took place in defiance of the

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. cities all deliver, it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it does not take a diplomacy genius to realize that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. among the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it wants guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly. precisely and on paper on bay harbor understood that we are not going to wait forever. but of course there are plans to drug it on and on. switches through things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea. in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin set protests in east in ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seem futile, sir. listen sure. i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressive country with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this look when we needed a positive all it. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign, a compromise can be reached. earlier d w, spoke to undress, rots, a senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations, and we asked him about russia's fears of a potential eastward expansion of nato. from trying to discuss or understand a rational perspective, one needs to remember that ever since 2008 need to has a valid promise taking in georgia and ukraine on board. i mean, the board is clearly committed once georgia and you will be member of that lives. there is no deadline, but that's the debt, but the promise is still down and the promises that it and russia keeps considering me to as crime, very military threat. and also sore potential danger or the territory for the safety of the rational the ration from russia perspective and future accession of you're going to need to indeed go the other question. however, the alliance does not taking any concrete. we had an on going to, we're going to do moment ukraine has to look at maybe the crimea. ok by that, by russia, as well as eastern your brain right now it doesn't seem to be because you couldn't make it to be alliance any time. so still russia, even the possibility of that slave, those tensions for now and to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines at this hour. u. s. a judge has ordered jail drunk from executive martin rally to return over $64000000.00 in profit. only we're early as notorious for hiking the price of life. saving aids, drugs from 4000 percent as well as defrauding investors. judge also barred him from the pharmaceutical industry for life. the office of british prime minister boris johnson, has apologized for the royal family after revelation of more staff parties. while the country was under lockdown, johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over the events emerged to gatherings took place last april. on the night before the funeral of the queen's husband, prince philip and in germany saw a record number of new coven 19 cases on friday, with more than 92000 infections, and has joined the list of countries reporting omar chron as the dominant corona virus variant now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. and with so many new infections demand house jumped for p. c r testing. but getting a test can be a long wait.

u. s. and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow the u. s. secretary of state, and e u foreign ministers are meeting dia, video link, monday to discuss a unified response to russia. or joining me now is the w brussels bureau chief, alexander, fun, nomine. oh chandra, you for ministers are meeting today. they're in brussels, their u. s. counterpart entering, blinking, we'll join them by video link. what can we expect from that gathering regarding the crisis in ukraine while this crisis is of course, front and center on the agenda here. and i, i think that we can assume that the foreign minister is very eager to listen to secretary blinking, and to get more information about his meeting with the russian foreign minister. love, rough day. we'll talk about the crisis. what steps had to be have to be take next and they will be a statement at the end of the day, a statement that is an aiming to 50 you unity. and of course, to, to send a strong warning towards russia. and there will be, i think, 2 things that we should watch out for. one of them, whether they ministers will

and that indeed is also being condemned. by the e u, the u. s. and several other western nations. be interesting to see what a reactionary is to that in the light of the current problems that are bosco's facing with the e u and the u. s. over ukraine will bring you more on that as we get it. now, the world bank says the lebanese government's revenue fell by nearly half last year . the financial institute says g. d p declined by more than 10 percent protest, as have been keeping up the pressure on the government. the local currency has lost 90 percent of its value since 2019 let spring in, hey covey men, he's a project director fort lebanon. the international crisis group joins me now via skype from bay route. good. have you ever, sir, on the program? it's one of the most severe crises that economic collapse is since the 18 fifty's, according to the world bank, is a damning indictment of the economic paralysis and political intransigence. how do you solve this problem out and what reforms to the politicians actually have to do in reality to really get lebanon back on its feet again?

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. cities, oliver, it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realize that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. calling mongol to go. the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it wants guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly. precisely and on paper. and they have understood that we are not going to wait forever. but of course there are plans to drug it on and on. so she has 2 things have already been tracking on since rushes annexation of crimea in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists in eastern ukraine for those ukrainians living close to the russian border talks seem futile. so listen, so i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressor country with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this company needed a positive article. as the russian build up of tramps continues, it still looks like there's no real sign. a compromise can be reached over lorna, i'm joined by mr. under us raj. he is a senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations security and defense program. mr. rodge, it's good to have you on the program. you know, we, we saw back in 2014, in the run up to the annexation of crimea. we saw this pretext, this false flag operation coming from russia. the u. s. says russia is planning to do it again. what's your take on that? when i myself do not have access to classified information as russia specialist, i can say loud and clear that using force flag operations as a tool, as an, as a pretext warfare would indeed not be alien from russia. practices of waging war is seen forestland operations in 2014 and also since 2014 commented, for example, against the polish minority ukraine against the hungarian minority and ukraine. and also several cases in other regions of ukraine as well as a whole in all. absolutely cannot exclude the possibility of russia preparing for wars flag operations. and it comes at the end of a week of high level talks between russia and the west that produced no progress. i mean, do you think there's any room left for any negotiations by the ukraine has initiated the new around the trilateral talks be ukraine, russian, the united states. i don't see it from the rational side to get engaged in any further negotiations.

and weeks to calm. what else can the outside world i e, the u. s. and the e u countries and even perhaps ukraine do. if the key question today despite was gone and geneva is still and should be still, will russia invade ukraine? mean, let's talk about more financial sanctions that relies on, in effect, trying to cripple the russian economy or take a dent it out to the russian economy using the swift system on this channel. we were having a conversation yesterday, not you and i, but on this channel, we had a conversation yesterday where one of our contributors was saying, look, going off to the swift system is all well and good. but the russians operate a similar system that's worth 20 percent of the swift system anyway, so they are insulated, they are safe behind their own financial system. so going off to them with sanctions would achieve virtually 0. and if you offset that against the reality of mr. put in the kremlin, by the time he might leave the kremlin in 2036, he will have be that been president or prime minister for 37 years. you can sanction literally all financially mr. puts in all you wan

u. s president readying for possible deployment, not just airship or warships, but also aircraft, and up to 8500 military personnel. the military coup, burkina faso has triggered international condemnation with the u. s. c. e. u. and regional block eco was calling for the immediate release of presidents roscoe body, a group of soldiers deposed caberry on monday. it's not publicly known, but he is that he's in london, have opened an investigation into government events held during the corona virus lockdown. this is separate from an inquiry led by senior civil servant, sued great. the most recent revelations accused the prime minister of barnes. johnson of attending a birthday party organized by his wife during the 1st lockdown. 2000000 people in beijing have been ordered to get tested for covert 19. the decision came after a series of our briggs ahead of the winter olympics next week. residence in beijing neighborhoods considered a high risk for infection, have been told not to leave the city. the head of the world health organization has a free run to a 2nd term after a secret ballot by the executive board tedra south. how long a place us is, the sole nominee fall the leadership vote in may. those are the

u. s. and it's nato and e u allies. they feel that we're not properly consulted about the u. s. plans. withdrawal forces after doing a deal with the taliban. and they believed that withdrawal was seriously bungled. relations with others, superpowers have not improved in biden's 1st year. an attempt to bridge differences with china, a meeting in alaska, attended by the us national security adviser, the secretary of state. and the 2 chinese counterparts descended into a very public confrontation. and there's been no breakthrough and talks with russia to try and diffuse tensions of ukraine. the administration's most experienced negotiate a wendy sherman led those discussions in geneva last week with another round with the us secretary of state and russian foreign minister expected on friday. u. s. allies acknowledge a distinct change from the trump presidency. the biden administration is trying to communicate and cooperate more, but they say the response to major events has been slow and stilted. sometimes there have been missteps. one western politician told me we were hoping fo

u. s. for increasing tensions, rushes begun more military drills near the ukrainian border and in crimea. the military coup in burkina faso has triggered international condemnation, u. s. b e. u and regional block eco was calling for the immediate release president wash cowboy, a group of soldiers to post colonial monday. it's not publicly known where he is, but he's in london, have opened an investigation into government events held june. the corona virus locked on, this is separate from an inquiry led by senior civil servant a suit gray. the most recent revelations accused the prime minister boris johnson of attending a birthday party organized by his wife during the 1st long term. the global economy is expected to grow by 4.4 percent this year. that's half a percentage point less than previously estimated international monetary funds says the recovery from the pandemic as lost momentum because of a resurgence in cases. inflation is also partly to blame for the i m f. 's latest down great prices and the world's richest economies are at a 25 you high. other concerns include the growing crisis between ukraine and russia, and china's slowing economy. beijing has maintained a 0

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. city longer liver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. among the kremlin says it's defending itself and at once guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly. precisely and on paper on bay harbor understood that we are not going to wait forever. but of course, there are plans to drag it on and on the shoes, which is 2 things have already been dragging on since rushes annexation of crimea. in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin set protests in east in ukraine for those ukrainians. living close to the russian border talks seem futile. sir. listen, shall i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressor country, with those people who fight against us now, i can't see anything positive in this unusual positive article. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign, a compromise can be reached. here foreign ministers have been meeting in the french city of breast to come up with a unified response to russia's military build up on the ukranian border. here's how the blocks top diplomat, joseph burrell, described. europe's position. we are, you know, water should mommy, a critical moment that will be of proof for europe to be able to act as a political actor. did it be a union, certainly ready to respond directly to any aggression but our preference and natural bass according was our natur, his, that the off dialogue and negotiations. there was a use, a topic diplomat, joseph ross meeting moments ago did obviously. so we is in breast france, lisa, mr. morale, describing this as a critical moment. a watershed moment on europe is firmly in the side lies. well, absolutely. people here have been talking to each other. they have been trying to find a common position, but it's been very difficult for you to be taken seriously on an international level at the press conference. right now, we heard that you were standing in solidarity with ukraine, that they were reaffirming european principles of security. that they were actively working on further economic sanctions and they want to be taken seriously and get into the negative negotiating room. that's been very difficult this week as if at all they got a back seat during these negotiations which have mostly taken place between russia and the u. s. directly introducing possibly more sanctions or that is of course what you've been reporting and now. but i mean in terms of the pallet of what the you can do that is really, really narrowing. now. absolutely, and the e is so banking on dialogue. as we just heard, the german foreign minister is going to go to kia, to ukraine and russia over the coming days, enjoy the, the, the french foreign minister has also just confirmed that france and germany would go jointly to ukraine over the coming few days. so they're really trying to multiply contact with the different side, but it looks like that's pretty much everything they can do. they're really banking on appeasing the situation. calming things down so that things can go back to normal and they don't have to take any further measures. lisa, we are reporting from breast or france, so thank you very much for that update. let's get you more analysis now did of your chief international affairs editor richard walker joins is now richard

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing. city longer liver, it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. mongolia, the kremlin, says it's defending itself. and it once guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly. precisely and on paper on bay harbor understood that we are not going to wait forever search. of course, there are plans to drug it on and on, which is 2 things have already been dragging on since rush is annexation of crimea in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin set parties in east in ukraine for those ukrainians living close to the russian border talks seem futile, sir. listen sure. i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressor country with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this book. we needed a positive article. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign, a compromise can be reached. but stock did it. 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 morning that you know, yes, the hasn't been a breakthrough yet, but a talks are still ongoing. and that is a good thing. on emily in moscow rhetoric from the russian foreign ministry has not changed at all. that doesn't bode well. yeah, that's right. we've heard the same harsh tones and the same demands from moscow all week. they've been demanding, as you were saying, a written guarantees from the west, particularly that there be no more eastern expansion of nato, which the west has repeatedly called a non starter. and st. t, i think they're being strategic here in some ways, by keeping the pressure of militarily as, as well. and by not taking that threat off the table, we've heard words about, you know, some catastrophic consequences. should the west fail to compromise with russia? i don't think there are any plans for attack as it were coming out from this harsh rhetoric. and we've heard the russian side say that repeatedly this week as well. but they certainly want to keep the heat up. in order to essentially blackmail the west. i think to keep talking to them on emily as, as, or rather lisa, as a emily at his reporting, there seems to be no flexibility from russia at this stage at least. what are the use options? well the you knows very well that it's options are limited, they are being sidelined doing these talks that have very much happened at primarily between the us and russia directly. and the u has not been that much included in the talks, but they keep on pushing. they want to be part of the negotiations. they're saying we want to stay united. we want to talk to each other besides, as a matter of appeasement, really, they want to come things down in order to prevent an invasion. although obviously they don't have as much leverage porpoise possibly, and h o u. s. and that's what russia has been saying as well. emily, after a week of high level multi lateral talks, all involved remain locked into their respective position. what's next? i think it's really hard to know of what the kremlin actually wants. at this point . many experts said that they went into these talks on with these demands that were very harsh out, no eastern expansion. and that they must have known going into the talks that was essentially a non starter for the west, which is what we've seen this week. and so i think that they were perhaps just trying to bargain high bargain hard and see what they can get al

u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing citizen deliver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. among the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it once guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around you. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly precisely and on paper. and they have understood that we are not going to wait forever, but of course there are plans to drug it on and on. so she has 2 things have already been tracking on since rushes annexation of crimea in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists in eastern ukraine for those ukrainians living close to the russian border talks seem futile. so listen, i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressor country, with those people

why are we seeing sort of this divide and commitment between europe, the e u and the u. s, which seems more willing here, history is repeating itself in 2014. the u. s. was again in the drive in c, because it has less financial, less economic ties to russia. so naturally, it's easier for the us to come with sweet. be in the heart, tate in sanctions. you is much more dependent closer the type was russia historically, economically. so here self harm backfiring effect will take place and you countries some, you know, germany, other countries a less reluctant to bear this burden from sanctions. so here, because we're running out of light sanctions options the, the sanctions that lie ahead of us heartache and sanctions and they will inevitably come with burden sharing, whether you it is ready to align with washington. that's a big question. as maria shanna of the finish institute of international affairs, thanks so much for joining us. now in los angeles, cargo trains carrying packages from retailers like amazon are being looted on and process that in its scale. last year alone

and said it's a warning of further attacks on the u. e. on it go out. there was a lot in response to the belligerent escalation by saudi arabia and the u. s. e. and there are crimes against or blocked people. the missiles and thrown units of our armed forces carried out to successful large military operations. shopping at our armed forces, stress, its full preparedness, to widen the scope of its operation and the coming period of time and to meet escalations with further escalations, our armed forces renewed warning to the foreign companies. investors within the u. s. e to leave as the u. e is declared an unsafe country and the target of our future operations, so long as it's belligerents and siege against him and is not halted. also attempted to appears to be underway in the keenan, faster reports from the capital. one could do go say the president has been detained, that the military base soldiers are taking control of the main television station. european foreign minister say they're ready to impose never before seen sanctions. if russia attacks ukraine, that meeting in brussels for the latest round of christ talks, western nations are conc

u. a has a military presence in yemen, yet it seems of a bold move to sort of send drones over the gulf towards the u. s. e, and to hit the capital of the u e. the. i think that doing this for 2 reasons. first of all, a show of defiance to the saudis, enter their motives because is the thought of the campaign in 2015. the state, the goal was to undermine and defeat the health is far above the obama so hardihood, the internationally recognized president of the a man to come back and through of the country. the houses are saying that despite all those 7 years of massive campaigns against us, we are more powerful than before. not only that, we have managed to further upgrade our military klett k. well, it is to the point where we can launch derring attacks inside saudi arabia. and also, united arab emirates are spoke a while ago with one of the senior healthy officials were hammered up, the said am and he said, we will continue our attacks in both countries and till the saw dealers coalition put an end to the campaign in yemen. an end of the campaign needs negotiated settlement hash. hm. and i think that the international community often say

u. s. and they're demanding written guarantees. rather a written response to their demands from the u. s. and from nato. so it almost seems like the e u is kind of watching from the sidelines, and that includes germany. while the foreign policy chief separate did say that a massive attack by russia, ukraine is not likely, but the block is still preparing sanctions for that. eventually ality. i mean, how has moscow been reacting to that while the threat of sanctions has become something that russians and russian politicians are almost used to and have become used to over the past few years. and i think it's kind of seen here as okay, well we're already under so many sanctions. what difference can, can a new round of sanctions actually make even though the threats of sanctions that we're seeing this time around from the u. s. and that you are rather harsh, including perhaps personal sanctions on president, letting me put in himself. but i think that the, that the russian side is kind of going into all of these talks in the past few weeks, including the talks today with the upper hand. they have the military threat on the ukranian border

u. s. e. u and regional blog echo was calling for the immediately. so president ross cavalry. a group of soldiers deposed the body on monday. it's not publicly known what he is but he's in london, have opened an investigation into government events held during the corona virus locked on. this is separate from an inquiry led by senior civil servant suit great . the most recent revelations accused the prime minister paula johnson of attending a birthday party organized by his wife during the 1st locked on. the global economy is expected to grow by 4.4 percent this year. that's half a percentage point less than previously. previously estimated, the international monetary fund says the recovery from the pandemic has lost momentum because of a resurgence in cases. inflation is also partly to blame for the i m, f's, latest downgrade prices, and the world's richest economies are at a 25 year high. other concerns include the growing crisis between ukraine and russia and china as a slowing economy. beijing has maintained a 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic. but experts, one, it's un