u. s. right now with his approval rating suffering, and the democrats also as a party struggling to get a thing past. how do things look for the midterms coming up in november? right, so me, historically the party in charge always loses its power after the mid terms. but this time the democrats, i expected to lose not just the majority in the senate, but even in the house. that essentially leaves the president in a powerless position to govern. and on top of that, you're just her mentioned that the divide between the progressives and the moderates of his own party is also much bigger than he and others expected. so when the mid aims midterms will come later in november this year, it will be extremely difficult for the democrats to ask the americans to put them back in charge when they believe nothing has been passed. also because of the internal fighting with in the democratic party. our washington bureau chief in as poll. thank you so much. before we go a real life james bond moment may soon no

u. s. seeing right now? yeah, good question. let me 1st. so you were and this is the mandalay bay hotel and resort convention center. and we are in one of their press conference halls. and what you see here behind me is intel, people actually packing up, they had a press conference here, which was not in person, not life, they had taped something. they played it out. that was the press conference, played something live from somewhere from the seo in to this occasion. and that's it. and now they're leaving intel. i be an intel, microsoft, google, amazon, those companies who are not showing up who up the not for in person presence. and why is that? you mention it because the danger of catching army crone here is? yeah. big as big as a supers freda event. this could be a super spread event. that's why you mentioned that also. we have those test. see if you see everybody who's coming here does not only have to be vaccinated, of course japs, but he also get the test. there are 2 tests in there and you have to supposed to self test every day and

s 2022. so that will be all this and of course new chips, new computing power for our u. t, and driverless driving, even driving, etc. all right, stuff on simon's in las vegas where the c s is gearing up. thank you very much. and we go now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. japanese car maker, toyota sold more vehicles in the u. s. last year than general motors marking the 1st time g m did not lead sales and it's home market since 1931. to we are to sell 2300000 vehicles. that's around 100000 more than g m and 10 percent more than the previous year. opec in its allies of agree to stick to a plans increase an oil output of $400000.00 barrels per day in february, sources from the groups that it expects. the omicron run of ours variance to have only a short term impact on demand. human rights groups have called for tesla to change course. after the company opened a new dealership in the sheen young region of china or ports out of that province have revealed force, labor, mass detention and internment camps. and even for sterilizations against the muslim minority, weaker group, a china rejects any abuse

u. s. right now we're in the heart of new york city times square, and you can kind of get a sense here of how cold it is and how much snow there is here. there are normally be more people out on the streets right now in the morning, but not on a day like this. it's so cold. take a look at this. really just pan down this way a little bit. give you an idea of how the visibility is not that good, you can only see about, oh, i don't know, 2 or 3 blocks down this street here. you know, as president joe biden says, he'll send troops to eastern europe soon to bolster nato forces and intentions. over ukraine, top defense officials urging russia to de escalate ruling parties in italy have asked the current president sergio matter ela to carry on for a 2nd term. politicians have spent the past week voting to find an alternative, but they failed. the u. s. navy is racing to salvage and advance fighter jet from the bottom of the south. china see the aircraft highly classified technology would be a cooper, ch

u. s. right now we're in the heart of new york city times square. and you can kind of get a sense here of how cold it is and how much snow there is here. there would normally be more people out on the streets right now in the morning, but not on a day like this. it's so cold. take a look at this, really just pan down this way a little bit. give you an idea of how the visibility is not that good. you can only see about, oh, i don't know, 2 or 3 blocks down this street. here. you as president joe biden says he will send troops to eastern europe soon to bolster nato. foresee some intentions over ukraine . top defense officials are urging russia to de escalate ruling parties in italy. have asked the current president sergio muttered aloe to carry on for a 2nd term. politicians have spent the past week voting to find an alternative, but a failed. 8 year old marcella has previously said he does not wish to continue in the roll up next is inside story. we have a news are for you at 18 g 60 minutes news and comment. i'll see you that. ah ecolog suspends ano

u. s. right now, john? well, the new year's celebrations were happening across much of the country. some were cancelled, chicago had its biggest ever, but the big grandaddy of them all of the one in new york. and that was definitely far more muted than in the past. usually about a 1000000 people gather around in and around times square in manhattan. last year that was cancelled few doesn't healthcare workers gathered this year. only 15000 people were allowed to go. they had to be masked, they had to be vaccinated. it was a very somber start to the year. pfizer is planning boosters for people 12 to 15, but those those boosters as much as they are helping mute the effect of the micron very and they're not stopping it entirely. and that means people are getting the variant in record numbers right now, and they're not able to get tests as quickly as they need them. the country's got a testing problem. so president biden has offered out 500000000 free tests for people to get. and it's still not enough. so somber start to the year and a bit of a muted celebration for new year's eve later

u. s. right now. well, there will be vigils here in washington in all across the country. the one that police are most concerned about is right out side of the washington d. c. jail. that's because that's where a lot of the writers are being held and their supporters will be outside. so that's the one issue. people are concerned about president biden will be addressing the public and gen saki the press secretary. the white house has just said that he is going to lay it out, as it really happened. laying blame at the feet of president donald trump. trump was to make an announcement on the same day. he has now been cancelled that appearance jo, handled with a letter from washington d. c. john, thank you. canada has taken another significant step in its attempt to make amends for the decades of abuse suffered by use indigenous people. the government says it will pay more than $30000000000.00 in compensation to those who are taken from their families as children and put into state care, jody vance reports from vancouver. this is history making in canada, a press conference to a

it was opened, human rights activists argued guantanamo is where the u. s. lost its moral authority. the infamous prison has violated the geneva convention for 20 years. why has it still not been closed? today? on dw news with this is dw news live from berlin and historic heart to implant and a medical 1st, us surgeon successfully transplanted, genetically modified to take heart into a human patient racing hope that animal organs could ease of chronic donor shortage . also coming up cause it sounds president says russian lead troops will withdraw completely from the former soviet republic within 10 days after violent unrest that he blames on islam militants condemned. ford's failure to uphold human rights. the u. s. detention camp in guantanamo was still open. 20 years after taking on its 1st prisoners, we asked if it will ever be shut down. and tennis star novak brokovich back on court after his legal victory to play in the australian open fans are delighted, but the threat of deportation is not off the table yet. ah, i'm semi someone's gonna glad you coul

u. s. right now we've 8 teen present in new york city where it was 3 percent a month ago. it is now 33 percent, meaning one in 3. people who go in for a test comes out with a positive result. so that's effecting a number of things. but including that, the schools across the u. s. and that's a bit of a mass because we have 50 states. each state has multiple counties in each of those units make their own decisions about when they're going back to school and how so those decisions very dramatically. but a lot of schools are going back virtually only. i've got 2 sons in university here . both of them are going back to school virtually, but the biggest school district in the us, new york city, it's doing it completely different than they are there. eric adams says, the safest place for kids to be is in school. so they're going back to school in person. there's a lot of criticism of that decision, but here in the us, decisions are made on a local basis and that's how they're doing it. but we'll hear more from the president this afternoon. ok. talk to you then about that. thank y

u. s. right now, hospitals and the pressure and the president and the pressure as well. exactly. or just that exchange i think goes to show just how political this had demick has become in washington and across the country. we see 30 percent of the country refusing to get back to native even though they know i'm a crowd is literally marching across the country. filling up hospitals, doctor anthony valgy has been given death threats. he's has the security detail now . when in reality this hearing was supposed to be looking at what the government is doing about the current situation we have find ourselves and now and what is that situation? hospitals are filling up, you've seen those record case numbers. we'll keep this in mind. hospitalizations, usually leg behind those cases by about 3 weeks. hospitals like the one behind me have already several times had to say to ambulances, don't come here. we are simply out of beds, there's a testing shortage in this country. and the, i think the frustration for many of the american people is this administration knew the holidays were coming,

u. s. right now we're in the heart of new york city time square, and you can kind of get a sense here of how cold it is and how much snow there is here. there would normally be more people out on the streets right now in the morning, but not on a day like this. it's so cold. take a look at this. will just pan down this way little bit. give you an idea of how the visibility is not that good. you can only see about, oh, i don't know, 2 or 3 blocks down this street here in new york city in the heart of time square at that. we're at now. this is a big, big winter storm, new york state on a state of emergency as well as new jersey. this is a storm that's coming right up through the north east of the united states. they're expecting a lot of power outages like i mentioned, affecting tens of millions of people, but it's even hitting or harder even north of me in the state of massachusetts. there they are expecting up to wait for this 60 centimeters at 60 centimeters or more of snow in boston, massachuse

u. s. right now we're in the heart of new york city time square. and you can kind of get a sense here of how cold it is and how much snow there is here. there would normally be more people out on the streets right now in the morning, but not on a day like this. it's so cold. take a look at this really does pan down this way little bit. give you an idea of how the visibility is not that good, you can only see about, oh, i don't know, 2 or 3 blocks down this street here, u. s. president joe biden. cecilia will send troops to eastern europe that he had time to bolster, made her forces and detention over ukraine. top defense officials are urging russia to deescalate the u. s. navy, as racing to salvage and advanced fighter jet from the bottom of the south china sea, plains highly classified technology would be a qu for china if it found the aircraft 1st. the f 35 c crashed on monday, it was a tried to landlord aircraft carrier. the west african block eco was has suspended burkina faso, a membership following the military crew that on monday. but the gr

u. s. right now, because you're saying there's a way to deal with this? well, but i mean, we have a lot of experience and the experience is different than being neighbor with russia . it's not a one solution. i mean, there are neighbors to russia with a different story, different history. i respect that when i talk to my baltic colleagues, my polish colleague, minority colleagues, we all have different experiences, but our experience is the one i bring to the table. but you know, it's an experience of being secure also because we are in an alliance. we are next to russia. we deal with our neighborhood in the low tension fashion, but russian know stuff. norway's policy is predictable and long term. we are member of nato. we are solitary, t member of we are allies and we take our obligations seriously. that gives stability and they see no way of threat to, to, to, to our neighbor rush right in the north. as you know, there is so much speculation. now will there be a full invasion? will he just take the dumbass? is he going to use as own profile cortez? is t

u. s. b u k, right up to the border of russia. imagine the reverse. imagine the russians, ah, rather a russian presence ride on to the canadian border with the united states or the mexican border. if there is, there is the refusal to understand to reverse such to put our souls in the position of a country. the last i heard, i think it was 20 your man well walk. oh, the mystery surrounding the death of sex offender and influential financier jeffrey epstein has taken a new turn as art he gains access to u. s. federal document showing the report of his 1st suicide attempt was widely redacted with his own accounts of the incident and highly blanked out, ortiz, danny armstrong has the details. the life and death of jeffrey epstein, billionaire and prolific peter file as a subject mired in mystery and manipulation, the official account of his apparent suicide while held in a notorious new york lock up on charges of child sex trafficking will seemingly be forever murky with regard to his adjustment to a correctional setting, mr. epstein received one incident

u. s. following the $911.00 attacks and the ensuing invasion of afghanistan in a clear breach of human rights, most prisoners were held indefinitely without trial w's. oliver salad went to the u . s. naval base. guantanamo and the camp, that some say has come to symbolize. one of the biggest us moral failings in the 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 to day 34 months ago i woke up and i was shaking. so skin, because i saw my, my jacket on the door and i saw it was someone coming to get him. and he took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe. defense counsel anthony natalie represents an alleged l. k. the terrorist who arrived here in 2006 and since then has been waiting for his trial. guantanamo has been seen internationally as a stain on american history. so wh

u. s. power, right up to the, to the russian border. and the extent to which germany wants to support such an effort by the u. s. g of politicians as not meet consensus here in this country. and yet another wave of accusations against russia, the british foreign office on said it's got evidence of a plot to install a pro moscow government in key. if russia has slammed the claim as nonsense. the misinformation spread by the british foreign office is more evidence that it is the nicer countries led by the anglo saxons, thus escalating tensions around ukraine recall and the british moral fist, provocative activities, stop spreading nonsense and concentrate on studying the history of the taught among will yoke the british government has so far provided no evidence to back its claim of a russian plots in ukraine. but london has named former ukrainian n p. yes guinea, mariah as a potential pro quinlan candidate. he's express prize about that pointing. i've done. he's been banned from russia since 2018 r t sent a request to the british foreign

u. s. right now are politically divisive. there's 2 different narratives depending on which side of the you sit on. how controversial is the issue of policing itself from capitol hill? well, it's not controversial in the sense that all members of congress looks to be protected . i think it is the case that i happen to have always been there as a resource to protect those in congress to ensure that they could exercise their constitutional duties of engaging in legislative behavior. but i do think there is a difference in the way, really, i think partisans on both sides. the i are looking at the events of january, their republican still are not willing to admit that there was violence. there was the extremism and there really was the lawlessness and from analogy that was engage with that day. democrats certainly wanting to bring out those major problems that did occur. but i think what you're seeing generally is. ringback a, an agreement across the aisle that at least our institutions need to be better protected. even if the re

u. s. right. now, how is today's hearing being received when it, you think it's just about straightforward law and matter placing issue? well, as you said, everything is politically toxic right now. a lot of the eyeballs have been on whether or not former president donald trump was going to hold a meeting and event on january 6th or not, as opposed to having eyeballs on these hearings, which had been moving. and you hear the human stories of many of the officers and more than a 150 officers were injured. some were killed, some took their own lives, in fact, after the incidence of january 6, a year ago. and so when you hear the human stories for those that are paying attention, but unfortunately they're still a lot of people not paying attention. those that are paying attention to find this incredibly moving and to be a national ulcer. that still has not been solved to kind of look at the visuals of police officers being thrown up against the wall pinned against a walk. maced in the face, beaten wi

u. s. right now, walking towards russia. yes, we can see that, but i can just repeat the statement that was made by by them that yes, the united states are ready to discuss non station in the strategic and in your grain. they would not discuss decreasing the number of troops in the any country which joined later after 998 while the russian fame and continue to insist that all the countries join made the optim, again, that this shouldn't be literally disarm and shouldn't be left at the russian mercy, this is of course, an starter for not neither for norco. these countries have fridays talks, of very least ease the tension, even if temporarily has the us yet given russia a diplomatic off. busy ramp. no, i don't think that the tension decrease on the other. on the contrary, i think that russia will now explore will never abilities of the rest and try, try to get places and point the points of the, the to heat in order to increase stakes in dialogue with, with the united states. it can be an energy in can be arctic, and also get

u. s. naval base at guantanamo bay, served as a prison for a ledge war criminals, and tara suspects a place where the constitution of the united states does not exist. ever since. it was opened, human rights activists argue guantanamo is where the u. s. lost its moral authority, a place of torture and double standards. that is mostly of limits for a camera. but there's also another side of guantanamo a place where 6000 inhabitants try to go about their everyday lives. in a bizarre contrast to the infamous prison residential areas resembled small town america. some normalcy in a place. full of contradictions. rady you get more, delivers the soundtrack for guantanamo, and she is get most voice. give hello, hello. well, boma to your morning show with the day candles. otherwise one is petty, i'm the analysts court trial in the prison are not part of their coverage a it's not really part of like the culture here. you now that's a, another side of the base. here on this side we have a whole different type of operations going here. the new school allows its students somewhat of a normal childhood, 5 kilometers from the notorious torture prison. good. okay, what are some other things that you kno

also coming up condemned for its failure to uphold human rights. the u. s detention camp in guantanamo was still open 20 years after taking its 1st prisoners . we asked if it will ever be shut down. ah, i'm soon so misconduct is good to have you with us. in a medical 1st, us surgeons have successfully implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human patient. the transplant took place last week. the 57 year old man was too ill to be eligible for a human heart transplant. but he said to be recovering well, so far, medical researchers hope such procedures could one day help ease the chronic shortage of human organ donation. this is the heart used to give dave bennett a new lease on life. in a 9 hour procedure surgeons transplanted the organ, taken from a one year old pig. it was gene edited bread and killed for this purpose. following friday surgery, the 57 year old patient is breathing on his own while still connected to a hot lung machine. he simply didn't want to die, doesn't want to die. and he felt that if he had no opportunity and he was pretty we

u. s. media has been known to follow the more right wing us media and the u. s. permit has been known to follow the mainstream corporate u. s. media, so this is a danger, i mean, i know people in ukraine who think of a, despite the situation being on russia's border, not the u. s. a think of russia and the u. s. as, as equally horrible menaces in this, but they don't think either side really wants war. they think nato wants ukrainian nato, but not to actually join in any ukraine wars as article 5 would require. and they think russia wants nato out of ukraine, but doesn't actually want another afghanistan war or, or any sort of occupation. and so everybody wants a neutral ukraine, but nobody wants to say it and nobody wants to act to make it happen. and so things may spiral out of control in a way that very few people actually desire debit. david, if i could stay with you, i agree with you completely. but if things go the wrong way, who gets punished the most? it's ukraine, the country. they don't want to say once they capture, i mean they're the ones that are o

aggressive regime that came as a result of an open alarm as people there has brought nate, her u s b u. k. right up to the border of russia. imagine the reverse. imagine the russians. ah, rather a russian presence writer to the canadian border with the united states or the mexican border. it's her, it's her. her. it's the refusal to understand, to reverse such to put our souls in a position of a country that last i heard, i think it was 20000000 people in the 2nd world war demonstrations against coded restrictions have erupted in major cities across europe. this weekend, the french are outraged by requirements for every body over 16 to show proof of inoculation to enter public places. while in britain, people want the recent removal of pandemic cruise to be extended to the national health service staff. so let's cross live now to our correspondence. charlotte kaminsky empowers for us and also sherry edwards dashti there in london in charlotte. if i could start with you, please just tell us what's happening right now where you are and the feeling on the streets and pirates. while the procession o

u. s. power, right up to the, to the russian border. and the extent to which germany wants to support such an effort by the you as you politicians does not meet consensus here in this country. and yet another wave of accusations against russia, the british foreign officer, said he's got evidence of a plot to install a pro moscow government's in care of. while russia hit bike slamming the claim as nonsense. the misinformation spread by the british foreign office is more evidence that it is the nato countries lead by the anglo saxons, thus escalating tensions around ukraine. we call in the british for office to stop provocative activities. stop spreading nonsense and concentrate on studying the history of the thomas will yoke. the british government for so far provided no evidence to back up its claim of a russian plot in ukraine. but london has named for me ukrainian and p if guinea more i have as a potential pro kremlin candidates, he seems pretty surprised by that pointing out that he's actually been banned from russia since 2018 r. c

u. s. empire. right. and i think that's at the end. but that, that entropy, that sets in that rod that sits in on a empire like the united states. and we've covered this, this is what kaiser report is covered for the past 10 years. kind of pointing it out. this is what's happening that it's happening. it's decaying, the entropy setting in, but i think it is coming now faster. this is, you know, 1st it happens slowly and then suddenly it always does that. that's the way nature works in terms of entropy. asli happens slowly. you're slowly having aches and pains, and then suddenly you just like collapse, right? well that's what's happening to the empire. so you're going to see soon and it could be this year. it could be the next 3 or 4 years, 5 years. but the, it'll be sudden, whatever, that's a sudden moment in, if you look back at the scale of history, you're going to see that the death of banks. as we know them that have been around since, like the 1400s, essentially a year to see the death of the dollar. and you're going to see the de

also coming up condemned for its failure to unfold human rights. the u. s. detention tamp and camp in guantanamo was still open. 20 years after taking in its 1st prisoners, we asked if the lever be shut that antenna star, no bakovich back on core to after his legal victory to play in the australian open . fans are delighted, but the threat of deportation is not off the table yet. ah i'm see me so much gander. glad you could join us in a medical 1st. us surgeons have successfully implanted a genetically modified pink heart into a human patient. the transplant took place last week. the 57 year old man was too ill to be eligible for a human heart transplant, but he says he is set to be recovering well so far. medical researchers hope such procedures could one day help ease the chronic shortage of human organ donations. this is the heart used to give dave bennett a new lease on life. in a 9 hour procedure surgeons transplanted the organ, taken from a one year old pig. it was gene edited, bred and killed for this purpose. following friday surgery, the 57 year ol

u. s. consider and that's right. so there are sanctions in place. 1 since the annexation of crimea, and 2014, they're considered ineffective. the west is now threatening, and that of course, including the u. s. as well as the european union in canada, a new level of sanctions that could reach from economic boy called to cutting off russian banks from the international financial grid to even some personal sanctions against vladimir putin that has been at blue in earlier years. so that would be really a new level of sanctions that have never been imposed against any country of. 2 course it could hurt the russian economy, but probably it would also hurt of the world economy in all participant participating countries. did we use over sell it with the leaders tonight from washington? oliver's always thank you for the mid fears of an invasion. a growing number of ordinary ukrainian civilians are taking up arms. the city of car keith is ukraine's 2nd largest. it's not very far from the russian border of some women. there's s

u. s. w, right, and so in choice we want to continue to grow. so we have to ask is, has the system funded mentally changed anything that would entice some of those people back and i'm not sure that it has. and so i think you're going to continue to see people looking for these 2 main things, that flexibility and stability at the same time in the public education system is not been able to prove to people that they can have confidence that will be delivered to them and so people are going to look elsewhere. so i think it's absolutely a trend is going to continue as people moving to homeschool, any other hybrid forms of education. yeah, and i know certainly when you're talking about the stability that it provides, i mean professor wolf, i think we've seen over the last 2 years just how damaging it can be when all of the schools are forced to close down. and then the parents have to find some sort of child care for their children that aren't able to go to school. obviously we keep talking about this revolving cycle, but what are sort of the long te

u. s. capital rights joe biden said it was all caused by a web of lies spun by his predecessor, although notably by the gone through his entire other verse re, speech without once mentioning donald trump by name. trump himself, meanwhile, still insist that biden's election when was marred by fraud ne gill martin report. well, we heard us present, joe biden, speaking about the events of the previous year, january 6, in which the capital was stormed. he used solemn and harsh words to describe the events, and he put them squarely on the shoulders of former president donald trump. however, it's important to note he did so without ever saying donald trump's name for the 1st time in our history, president, had not just lost an election. he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. the former president, united states of america, has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he's done so because he values power over principle. because he, she, his own interest is more important than his country's interest in america's interest. and because his bruise, diego matters more to

u. s. president joe biden has defended his administration's response to a surgeon army con cases. he says he's confident that countries on the right track . a u. s. senate committee has met to hear the federal governments take on how it's handling the pandemic. more people are now in the hospital with cobit 19 than ever before. and infections are hitting an average of.

u. s. president touches the senate to pass voting rights reforms. speaking in the battle ground state of georgia and growing criticism of ethiopia as government as more civilians are killed in military as strikes with the world health organization. as warning that half of europe is likely to be infected by the ana kron variant by march. europe is currently reporting the largest number of corona virus deaths and cases worldwide. the w h o 's regional director says that a new west to east tidal wave is sweeping across the region. but hans clued stressed that approved vaccines continue to provide good protection in china and young has become the 3rd city to go into lockdown as part of the government's 0 tolerance approach. around 20000000 people are now confined to their homes and health facilities in the u. s a feeling the strain with nearly 14036000 people in hospital. that's the highest since the pandemic began. don't it came, begins our coverage from berlin with more on the situation across europe. on the face of us, a very bleak assessment. indeed