moscow accuses the alliance of escalating the you brain crisis and of being hysterical. a, continue its own military buildup at the border. also coming up, fears grow that a crew is taking place and the west african state of brook, you know, fossil report, bay, the military has detained the president, following an army off rising and gunfire. the presidential policy and a court in britain fads wiki league boundary. julian bond is allowed to appeal against a ruling. thank you, can be extradited to the united states to face charges of espionage. ah, abbacore boston. welcome to the program. nato allies and brussels began rather you foreign minister as wanted double financial assistance to ukraine. group is holding talks. the video with u. s. secretary of state anthony, blinking after a hun for a 1000 russian troops have a mass and cranes borders over recent month. the kremlin denies plans of an invasion. i'd go straight to brussels, we're buried. she alexandra phenomena is standing by alexandra, you foreign minister is meeting today virtually with us secretary of state antony blank, and of course ukraine. and it's absolutely frightened center. as these tensions ramp up, what more can you tell us about what's coming out of this meeting right now? you foreign ministers have already issued a quite strong stamie through the club, dart of out the out us rushes continued and aggressive actions and threats against ukraine. they also made it clear that any father aggression, again steve quinn will have massive consequences and severe cost. they called on russia to the escalades to abide by international law. and they also expressed their support for ukraine, for the country. so territorial integrity and sovereignty. and in addition, as you just mentioned, the repeat commission has also announced that there are preparing an additional financial aid package for ukraine to cope with the economic fall out of the crisis . i vander ivy mentioned off the top nato. troops have been put on stand by military hardware has been deployed to eastern europe. the u. s. is ordering families of diplomats in kiev to leave the country. does the west believe that russian attack is imminent right now? while tensions are certainly high, and i think that everyone here in brussels and in particular, the foreign ministers know that this is a critical week with regards to the crisis with the u. s. and need to set to present a written responses to russia. security concerns and the fact that nato allies among, than many europeans are sending additional troops of ships and fighter jets to eastern europe is also very telling shows that allies are concerned and that they want to strengthen their defenses there. and that they want to send a signal to russia to deter russia from attacking ukraine, making clear that there should be no miscalculation, that there will be consequences. let's talk a little bit about germany. alexandra repeatedly said that it stands by ukraine, but there has been some criticism of berlin that it's not necessarily a reliable, a partner as ukraine would hope, for, particularly with regard to helping with military or other weapons. but more can you tell us about berlin's position there? the german foreign minister and alina bad luck was asked about the german position on ukraine here. because this position, as a you mentioned, has been criticized as ambiguous. and she, once again as stressed, her dad said the german government is tending with ukraine that it is ready to support the country politically, economically, financially bad. so she also said that she wants to give diplomacy a chance, or the german government is hoping for a diplomatic solution of the crisis. dw brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena reporting for us there. thank you very much, alexandra. our porter is in moscow and he had spoke to people to gouge opinions there on the tensions between their 2 countries. first, let's hear from people in the ukrainian capital. well, lucy will move burnberry. i am very worried. listen on your things are not easy in our country at this moment, but i hope that diplomats can find an agreement and that there will be peace in ukraine. so you, would it be a little crazy? but, you know, of course, i'm worried there are people living here and they are in danger. yoga mostly my think nothing will happen is just the usual french from the big bonded next door. but sure, bandito muscle associate level of internet assume there's nothing we can do. i have to walk. can feed my family. i don't have time to think about what i will do if something happens with your good news. there was yes, g. i have friends in kiev, joe and i love ukraine, girl you. i'm against war. yes. for the roster christmas room. a war would be pointless. there wouldn't be one. all we see right now is an attempt to world wide to heat up the atmosphere at an attempt by certain people to make others believe that one site is planning to attack the other. no, ma'am, when you had josefa, we don't want war. you, queen, is a brother, nation for us will. this is a why war this is a political fight with cisco, but most of my presidents here and over there, do have something in their heads. at least they don't seem empty. so war won't happen any more. concerns are growing that a crew was underway in the west african nation of burkina faso mutinous soldiers are reported to have detained president rock, cowboy. his exact whereabouts are unknown. at this time. heavy gun fire was heard around the president's residence over night and soldiers at a number of bases staged uprisings. the military and many civilians are angry at the government's failure to rein in the g. hottest insurgency, we're gonna bring in d. w. west africa correspond it. a mako koya who's standing by for us a mocker. we're hearing reports that the president has been detained. do we know more about where he is and why condition he's potentially in rights? abby, indeed that's report is correct or early hours of cause us, you do know there was heavy gun battle really close to the presidency and of course, within the presidency. and that's when he was detained by the ministry. add the military, come from the you may do some reports. what gets him from local media? i suggest that he's not just, i'm easy, wasn't that didn't just go out and pick him all the definitely must have been a struggle because the way, you know, vehicles, emerald vehicle, fleets of the vehicle for the presidency that you know, with shots and all of that so yes, we do know that he's been taken out the still information on his new quest. catchy at us. we are following to develop in the story as it develops. so we know that in the coming hours there will be more to see buds. yes, indeed, we know at this point that he's been detained. abbey. certainly a situation that you're watching unfold there, but i do need to ask you, what is the situation in the capital right now? the president is detained. what is the sense that who is in control right now? right, that's a very crucial question abby, that she was, because i'm sure everybody would want to know. definitely it's chaotic. i mean, if you look at the images that we are seeing, imagine, are you remember that there was coffee place? but again, while the people slept, if you like at the, was these are that gun battle that's led to now the arrest of the presidency. the president cavalry. however, what that does is that there's definitely tension. however, as often you know, the government were led to play. don't play that yesterday when they said, you know, they were still in charge of. but again, we know that the people are asking nancy to support in the military. this action is really a bald statement. you know, that, you know, kind of contrasting what the governments say when it says, you know, if in child and that everything is on the control, apparently things are not on the control. it's not clear within chad, but we do know again that these is a military action and that's as it develops, that shows should be a statement. typically that's how these things on for what we expect end up. we hear more, you know, as the story unfolds. abby ws africa correspondent, i'm ok acoya. thank you very much for your insights. really appreciate it. let's have a look now. some of the other stories were falling for this hour. the united arab emirates says it has intercepted to ballistic missiles over the skies of abu dhabi . the attack is the 2nd on the admiralty capital this week. yemen who the rebels have claimed the attack and threatened to expand their military operations against the amorous b. u. e. is part of a saudi led coalition that is fighting the rebels and yemen of a deal. and other journalist has been killed in a northern mexican border town of t one up the 2nd killing in a week's time. laura, this maldonado lopez was found shot dead inside a car. she was one of a number of journalists who in 2019 expressed fears about their safety to the mexican president. i me one former pulled benedict, the 16th, has admitted to giving a false statement during a german probe into sexual abuse. the pope had falsely claimed he was not present at a meeting in the 1980s. the ex pope claimed this did not occur with ill intent. the investigation commissioned by the catholic church, found he had failed to act in for child abuse cases. britain's high court has ruled that human assange can appeal to the supreme court against his extradition to the united states. the decision is the latest and the wiki leaks founders long battle to avoid being sent to the u. s. where he faces charges of espionage. he is wanted for, we can leaks his publication of hundreds of thousands of documents relating to we have gone to font and rock wars outside the courtroom. as saunders fiance, stella morris broke the news to a crowd of supporters. what happened in court today is precisely what we wanted to happen. the high court certified that we had raised point of law, point of law, of general public importance. and that the supreme court has good grounds to hear this appeal outside the court house, where that ruling came down just a short while ago beer. again, this is exactly what assange and his team was hoping for, a chance to fight extradition to the united states. what's the reaction been where you are? we just heard from his fiance there? well, earlier when the reaction was made, when the decision was made public, there was a loud cheer here. ah, by ye, julian, us on just many supporters who are crowding outside the court house. and you have already played a little clip with us, his fiancee, stella, morris. he said it was a win. however, it is a bit of a partial win because it by no means means that he is going to be free. he has to appeal to the supreme court and only then will be a decision about his expedition to the so it could actually still be that he will be sent over and then a face charges of espionage in the united states for fil, a possibility to be for there to be a trans atlantic extradition talked worth a little bit about the legal process moving forward. what does that look like? well, the royal courts here have decided that is up to the, the highest code of the land, a supreme court to decide whether he can actually appeal against this acquisition. and it's a long battle. he's gone from a lower court to initially said that he shouldn't be extradited because of mental health reasons. but that was appealed by the u. s. and that was basically granted say it looked like you would have to go to the united states and faced the espionage charges that but now we are looking at julian sanchez appealed. so it's really a long battle. and the background is that julian assange has been in a high security prison over a 1000 days. he's supposed to say that he is, ah, not very well at the moment. his fiancee revealed that he had a mini stroke and we speak to other people's freaks on through posters without borders, the organization that campaigns for press freedom. and they say they should, he shouldn't even be in prison. that the fast place that he is a publisher on that what he has done is dead within the law of press freedom say they are actually cooling on the biden administration to drop the charges. and for julian sans to leave prism but doesn't look like this is going to happen any time soon. he has to face this battle at supreme court and then the decision will be ultimately up to the okay. home secretary dw, correspondent, beer good mos in london. thank you very much. farragut breaking news coming out of germany here in germany. rather this hour. several people have reportedly been wounded in a shooting attack in the south western city of heidelberg, according to police. an assailant shot at people in a lecture theatre at heidelberg university. police say the attacker is dead for more on this developing and breaking news. bring our correspondent emanuel shots emanuel. it's unfolding. and it's, it's an ongoing situation right now. what more can you tell us about this incident? well, right now, we still do not know how many people have been wounded. indeed, you mentioned its police, confirmed the loan. again, man has wounded several people that d, a perpetrator was dead, they didn't give any detail on as to how this has happened. they had asked police as asked on twitter earlier on to avoid the area where the university easy. so we have in the city of heidelberg, where this happened in on a university campus. so the operations, the situation is still a very much ongoing depress office of the university. so a decline to give any details on the incident, we waiting for more information from police. they also said police as so say, gave some details about the weapon use. it's a long barreled weapon that was used in the a sold so long alone again. man who wounded several people, we still do not know how many people are injured or we don't know anything about the gravity of those injuries. it's very much an ongoing situation. d. w correspond emanuel. shes thank you very much for that update manual. the head of the world health organization has said the world is at a crucial juncture in the coven. 19 pandemic, w h o director general pedro's braces says it's dangerous to assume that the highly transmissible arm across variant would be the last variant to emerge. stress that now as the pandemic enters its 3rd year, globally, conditions are perfect for more variance to develop and urged resilient, or brace those urge countries to work together to bring the acute phase of the pandemic to an end. it's difficult and that out of noisy answers, but doubly joe continues to work nationally, regionally, and globally, to provide the evidence, the strategies, the tools, and the technical and operational support countries need. if countries use all of these strategies and tools in a comprehensive way, we can, and the acute phase of the pandemic, this you here in germany, chance are all of shawls is said to whole talks on the pandemic with regional leaders today to discuss the way forward as alma kron cases search, some politicians are calling for an end to restrictions, though, as the new variant appears to cause less severe disease and vaccinated people at some doctors, especially those working in hospitals, say it is too early to give the all clear. a typical scene in one of germany's emergency rooms an incoming patient is tested immediately for coven 19 and received the news they're infected with al micron. germany's latest wave has cases spreading faster than ever, and many health workers are also expected to catch the virus. the university clinic and regensburg is bracing for impact. ma'am for them so much was it that we were able to bring in students. we had a part time staff who have increased their workload. and we have teams that work in rotating ships, teams to some extent at the fest in and she can go, but it hasn't stuff other dr. marcus zimmerman doesn't just lead his hospitals emergency department. he also coordinates with other clinics and physicians in the region to see enough if we're still seeing growing infection rates without the staffing to reflect that will be legal. the weekly video conference of doctors and clinics is an important means to directing the flow of patients. if one hospital is full, they can use the network to quickly find free beds for days every one in regensburg whose tested positive for coven 19 has had the omicron variant. despite this few were among them need inpatient treatment. this cindy whitford im school, i'm the other. it's a bit the quiet before the storm us. we expect the number of incoming patients to grow and quickly me as well, but i'm more worried about the staff than about the patients. vendetta. if we have growing numbers of staff out sick, less than treatment at our hospital will be stretched to its limits on the house phone. on dickenson, coleman, and regensburg, the helicopter unit flies and fixed teams to minimize the significant staff loss. if omicron cases continue to soar, if been caught up being at a 3rd with i'm optimistic that we will handle it. i took, we're well prepared. we know where to put our patients and, and who knows? and maybe this wave will miss us. might say, inflect collecting, cloth, of and, and can cause a house with flexibility and cooperation. germany's medical community as standing together despite the challenges faced. let's take a look. now, some of the latest developments in the pandemic from around the world. chinese authorities have lifted a month, long locked down on the northern city of g. on the move comes a day after commercial flights resume to the city. with 13000000 residents, tough restrictions for francis unvaccinated population. going to force on monday restaurants bars, sporting events and long distance trains will be off limits without a job or prove of recovery from coven 19. and the pacific nations of carry boss and samoa have entered lockdown after international arrivals tested positive for corona virus. the islands had almost completely avoided any case for 2 years. in the last parliament starts voting for a new president, be a secret ballot to day. the favorite is current prime minister mario draggy, but some fear that the government will be destabilized. if draggy is elected, president, do not believe is christine when, while reports from rome, when it's done, this will be a portrait of mario dragging. the man who may very well be italy's next president, the 74 year old technocrat, who hated the european central bank and is currently serving as prime minister. he's widely liked abroad and here at home or another. so normal, he is a very serious person and knows what he is doing or mentor a roller. he's authoritative, he has the skills recognized at european and world level among assembly of your truth. for us, he's perfect, but it's political interests and not public popularity that will decide druggies a fate. choosing the head of state is the job of lawmakers, just over a 1000 of them from across the country. these great electors, as they are known here, are from all sides of the political spectrum. this is the query nally palace, the president's office in rome. one analyst put it to me this way. if mario druggie doesn't get elected as president, it will most likely be because political parties cannot agree on what happens after he leaves his office as prime minister regulatory he presented very boldly go as prime minister, maria druggie has brought much needed to be listened to. it's an easy, chaotic policy where governments here often collapse off to just one year. his departure from the premier ship could plant the country into political crisis, especially if it triggers an early election. there are 2 scenarios in, in the case of drug is election as a person of the republic. ah, the 1st one is the doesn't agree man to retrieve the political forces that are composing his majority to set up another column. this is the best case scenario. the other scenario is the election of dragoon, but does not a cooperation among fully the parties very difficult to set up another government. and in this case, drug is 1st love the republic in front of carls, my decide to dissolve department and coming back to vote. i think the 1st scenario is more likely ball. we cannot exclude the 2nd one. all eyes will be here on parliament this week. we secret ballots will be cost in person and a coven protocols. the artist only needed a few minutes to finish his portrait. but it's going to be at least a few days before italians know if mario druggie will indeed be the next president . harrison, the other stories were keeping an eye on for you. this. our western diplomats are meeting in norway with the taliban for a 2nd day of talk on have gone, is found growing humanitarian crisis. a taliban spokesman called the talk a step to legitimize the african government shock the law as made the comment after meeting with women's rights activists and human rights. defenders on armed men and sudan have detained human rights activists. a mirror osmond after a night time rate on her home. incidence capital cartoons as, according to our, my sister or detention comes after what active say has been a campaign of arrests of civil society and pro democracy figures in the military takeover in october. the french fashion designers, hearing glare, has died glares, dramatic designs defined haute couture. over several decades. his work was warned by celebrities like diana ross, madonna, lady gaga, and hardy b. the frenchman was also a dancer acrobat, and an avid body builder. he was 73. i don't want to go to the bonus like i now we're on sunday barn munich, easily beat heritage berlin, re establishing byron 6 point lead at the top of the table. i had a dormant with her when byron remained firmly in control of the title race. ah fire munich visited the blue side of the capital for their clash against struggling hair to berlin. the reigning champions had beaten her tongue in 6 of their last 7 meetings, fire laid on the pressure and struck 1st through current into lisa kingsley coleman's cross found his fellow frenchman who beat his defender to the ball and finished with a strong header. at the 45th minute mark thomas mueller got himself on the score sheet doubling. byron's lead, joshua kim ich delivered a well placed free kick which mueller flicked into the net for his 7th goal of the season. that made it to neil for buyer and going in to half time, much to hurt those dismay. the 2nd half, some more goals as lee roy sunday pounced on a sloppy ball, played out by hurt this goalkeeper. alexander, swallow, easy pickings for the buyer and forward. who was quick to slot the ball into the open goal. ah serge number you finished off a lovely through ball to make it for for byron. further adding insult to injury. ah, an error from substitute diet open mcconnell saw byron's clean sheet go up and smoke. but you're going eco, comes go with a mere consolation for one, the final score as buyer and extend their lead at the top of the buddhist. make a table back to 6 points. meanwhile, the african cup of nations burkina faso, has advanced after a victory over got ball. and despite the strife in the country, as you reported earlier, bands of the team found space to celebrate the emotional when the match against the ball went to penalty kicks and then extra penalty kicks before burkina. faso took a tense victory to move on to the order final. the shoot out score was 7 goals to fix the 2 sides had played to a $11.00 draw. and after extra time, the other match of the evening saw 2 new z i shock nigeria, one nail after and jury. i had moved through the group stages without a single loss. such needs yet is also into the quarter finals reminder of the top story. we're falling for you here in germany. several people have reportedly been wounded in a shooting attack. in the south western city of heidelberg, police have confirmed that the assailant shot up people at the university there. they also say the suspect is dead. this is dw news. barish banner g will be with you after the break with d. w. news, asia, i'm abby, quite often for all of us here. thanks for being with us. with ah, with soccer sort of colors and the children in this mountain village to know the ball. ah. where's blue, the color of her favorite cane, but sex it's traditions, prevent her from going to games and play an insurmountable obstacle. little girl football on the peak starts february 4th on d. w. welcome to the dark side. where intelligence agencies are pulling the strings, there was a before 911 and after 911, he says, after 911, the clubs came off where organized crime rules and genuine use a global network of companies, banks, and operators. we will provide those services to anyone, operation, the criminal economy, where 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