a possible russian invasion. the u. s. a. nato offer more dialogue, but no concessions to moscow. security demands the kremlin says it's views are being ignored. also coming up germany's catholic church in crisis, the archbishop of munich promising reckoning and reform after a report detailing a hundreds of cases of child sex abuse, dating back decades. a solemn tribute germany parliament marks holocaust remembrance day with a special ceremony commemorating the millions of jews and other minorities who were murdered by the nazis during the 2nd world war. and it's often called the world's largest annual human migration. but this year travel in china had a lunar new year is again impacted by covet restrictions. we'll have an update from beijing ah. 2 i'm soon he's almost gone to thank you for joining us. we start with the diplomatic stalemate between russia and the west over ukraine. the kremlin says there is little optimism for easing tensions with the u. s. and nato, after both rejected russia's key security demands. the kremlin insisted on legal guarantees, barring ukraine from joining nato and the withdrawal of nato forces from eastern europe. russia has mass more than 100000 troops on its border with ukraine, fueling fears of a potential invasion. for these soldiers, the threat of war is a familiar one. the ukraine and army has been fighting rush them back separatists in the countries east for more than 7 years now. but their story in the face of the late as escalation with another. but you should not be panic, want them if you do while or when that person is crying and swearing, it would be a fiasco. a few panic to go. i so we need to stay calm, play them all other calls on his voice via in the streets of the capital, key of some residence, struggle to keep their spirits up. is for joyce, i am hoping for a peaceful solution. i can't even talk about this without trying. i am for peaceful negotiations award. on thursday, russia offered a glimmer of hope that com could still prevail after the kremlin kept opened the door for talks. despite the u. s. in nato rejecting its demands. suca, so it's suzanne you the clue. as for the content of the document, there is a response which gives hope for the start of a serious conversation on secondary questions for the stupid. but in this document was, will there was no positive response to the main question. ok, so was it's usually when you another chance for diplomacy will come next month. when ration french, ukrainian and german delegates will need 4 talks in berlin. we can speak now to journalist j cordell in moscow for more on the story. hi jake. we heard the russian foreign minister sager, lover of in that report saying there is hope for the start of a serious conversation on secondary questions. what could that be? yeah, felt very much like deja vu here in moscow today on the one hand, giving a little bit of optimism and on the other hand, almost immediately shooting it back down. so for a minute, russian foreign minister said a lot of said he has been what he has woken the response by the us over the secondary issues. know the things like talking about possible military mental deployments in eastern europe. it's about open up communications or military exercises and maybe even some corporation on things like cyber, between russia and nato, russia. and the us now about to find a good most go, has made very clear from the very beginning multiple times. that isn't really what it's interested in the main crops of what it interested in is the guarantee from nathan and the u. s. that ukraine and also georgia would never be admitted as members and lab work today accused the u. s. of being quite cross the response of only picking out the things he wants to talk about and completely ignoring the substantive issue of the center. jake, if we look at the bigger picture here is russia essentially demanding a new global security arrangement in europe. that's basically by way of looking at a yes from a fundamental point of view, russia says it does not feel secure with the current situation with how close nato and in particular, nato troops and nato long weaponry has come to moscow. we've heard a lot of may preaching many times over recent months and even recent years talking about how he's really scared about the missiles reach moscow in 5 or 6 minutes if they're positioned in easton ukraine. now, nate, so on the other hand, would say it's purely a defensive alignment dates. russia is the stabilizing force, particularly around ukraine with each troop off. so this war of words war of deployment has already escalated and only look, set to continue. escalating is a fear in many capitals. would it be accurate to say that russia is perhaps looking to establish a europe before the time of nato's eastward enlargement? that's one of russia's key demands, has been the us and nato troops, which all of their troops with their equipment back to where they were in 1997. russia hasn't gone so far as to say, the countries have to leave nato, but he doesn't want any serious military presence there. these are the countries that used to be in the former warsaw pact. the former, formerly allied with the soviet union. and this is part of rhetoric, who is why the agenda in terms of asserting a sphere of influence in eastern europe because he feels the soviet union. russia go quite a rubbish deal at the end of the cold war from his perspective. and he wants to push back on 9. now he's here with you in a position where you be can and he was strong enough to push back on now and do these latest developments this back and forth on the security demands. and the response from natal in washington does that make a russian incursion, more or less likely? when nato has said there is more worried about the situation now than it was 2 weeks ago. and we heard yesterday, nato secretary general in stoughton bug specifically point thing rushes military exercises with bella. ruth, as a real point of concern, he said that russia has used these kind of military exercises in the past particular crimea, to kind of, to, to disguise a future invasion. and on the fundamental point of view, if you look at the fire, power and weapons have been pulled in both the ukraine and eastern natal members from nato. and also around russia's board with you came from russia. you look at the simple fact, they were creating more firepower on the ground, which does increase the risk some fair. on the other side, the fact they are keeping open the dialogue, the fact that the document the us presented, is going to apply to me to the desk and he's analyzing it. the russia hasn't dismissed these tre away. people can look back as a possible sign of optimism, journalist j cord l, speaking to us from moscow. thank you for that analysis. we can get a round up now. some other headlines, the liberal u. s. supreme court justice steven briar has formerly announced his retirement presidential biden repeated, has promised to nominate the 1st black woman to the court, to names topping the list of potential nominees or a u. s. court of appeals judge content, g brown, jackson and california supreme court justice, leandro kroger's gratitude, highlands navy says an oil spill off the country's eastern coast will take at least 5 more days to clear. the leak from an under see pipeline began on tuesday and was eventually stopped a day later, the government says it is examining the impact of the lake on the environment. the use drug regulator has approved the use of pfizer is oral antiviral pill to treat coven 19th. the european european medical agency gave the green light to the drug packs loaded, which will be given to adults at risk of severe illness. here in germany, the archbishop of munich has been responding to a damning report released last week about how the archdiocese handled sexual abuse cases in the catholic church. mccardle guy had mach said he was ready to take moral responsibility for the church. his failings during this time, but that he won't be stepping down. last week's, independent report was heavily critical of former pope benedict, the 16th, who himself headed the archdiocese from 977 to 1982. the report is the 1st formal accusation that benedict did not stop abusive priests, but instead allowed them to continue working with children. true abode or level co. bob had he knew about the abuse and he didn't stop it. a new independent report has found full ma. pope benedict failed to act in full cases of child sexual abuse by catholic clergyman. the case is date back to the time before he became pope, then known as joseph rat, singer in the late 19 seventy's and early 19 eighties. he was the archbishop of munich, and phrasing and southern germany. the reports found that under his watch, abusive priests were allowed to continue their work in the church, while victims received no support. the allegations could shatter the former pope's legacy at all. ma'am, he mentioned in dodge law, people in germany, no longer trust jasa fraud singer, the former poet, you see the catholic church in germany is in a serious crisis alone. many people are leaving the church to many are doubting their bishop life. and i'm you many are calling for more action to finally be taken . perhaps also that the state should push forward with investigating the abuses and compensating the victims for miss boss up for farm carp. roxanne has already admitted he made a false statement during the investigation. it found evidence he was at a meeting where an abusive priest with disgust after he had repeatedly claimed he didn't attend. he now says that with an oversight he's previously denied any wrong doing. and as yet to give a full response to the findings. but the reports, commissioned by the catholic church and munich, found abuse, was widespread and suggested a culture of cover ups. it found at least 495 cases of abuse in the archdiocese of munich between 19452019. the real figure is thought to be far higher. you spun the fog. it is an interesting question, is whether that singer could also faced legal action. no one knows whether the diplomatic immunity he had as a pope, which still protects him as someone who has resigned his pope and now lives in the vatican as a private individual, even as own eva he can leaped to you with dish. is it a few months time, theoretically, we could expect to see lawyers and germany following a lawsuit or pursuing legal action against joseph lat. singer he who at the time and munich did not tackle cases of abuse, but covered them up. the self connect had still not for touched at the former pope is now 94 years old and he's facing mounting pressure over his mishandling of sexual abuse within the catholic church. a scandal that reaches far beyond germany . we can speak now to our religious affairs analyst martin gac high martin. i would ask you about what we heard from cardinal ryan had marks to day saying that he accepts moral responsibility and that he hadn't done enough to help victims. what consequences do you think that we will see for him and other church leaders? you know, i mean, the big question, curious whether persecution will mature into sort of a case and sort of this priests. i mean, i think the number is somewhere around 40. i will be brought to justice. you know, we can only run and press then. and generally, it would seem that the amount of effort they require and the amount of willingness for the church to turn in and actually provide proofs would, would it's a pretty told order that being said, i think that, you know, this case basically shows a church in a complete state of this repair that can simply not police itself. if we look at the report it also, as we mentioned heavily incriminate the former pope benedict. do we now have complete clarity on the world that he played and all of this? no, we don't actually because obviously ultimately, especially after he became pope, i mean he was the person with the ultimate authority in terms of over seen the leasing, controlling and sort of accounting for bus gates and current cases within the church case of abuse of children. what we do know, however, is that number one, he was aware of one set of cases in his office which was, which was meaning pricing. and what we also know that he lied about not knowing, you know, the details of those cases. it is not clear whether he was involved in allowing this particular breach, which was moved from one parish where he had abuse children to another parish where he would continue to have use children to work with him both in that decision. but that's the kind of information that an investigation would need to bring out and he would give us full clarity. what do you think is important for the victims now? well, i mean, you know, the question for the victims has been for a very long time and will continue to be redress essentially bringing justice for crimes committed the bed. i think that the bigger question that we have at the stage when we realize that, you know, the, the knowledge of the fact when all the way to the top of the church. and as a matter of fact, you know, the abuses continued and it was not just germany or not just mentioned, but across the world we're talking about hundreds of thousands of cases. it's quite clear that know there is a political responsibility that comes to the states that have an absolute responsibility to act against the church in order to actually protect future and possible career victim. so i think that the change is that now the big choice, much, much broader and we have a much better idea of what was happening at the top of the church concerning abuse gauges or religious affairs analysts. martin got, thank you very much. you're welcome. the german parliament has mar, taller, cost, remember, and stay with a special ceremony, including tributes to victims and witness testimony. remembrance day marks the day more than 75 years ago when soviet troops liberated the ocean with extermination camp. 11000000 men, women and children including 6000000 jews were murdered in the holocaust. she survived the delays inch that concentration camp, which she entered with her parents when she was just 7 years old. 20 members of english, our back has family, were killed by the nazi regime. she endured horrible conditions, antilles inch that for 3 years and was bedridden for, for more. such was the dire effect on her health. to day on holocaust memorial day, alabama warned the german boone, this tug that anti semitism is still alive. oh papa no. oh, and i still have very clear memories of that don't time mention o at time of terror and hate live. the sadly this comes a has returned and hate of the jews has become commonplace again in many countries of the world, including germany. either this disease has to be cured as quickly as possible. the merc? yeah. hi. how call echoed by the president of germany's parliament who said january 27th is not only a day of remembrance. voices this being off and talk to day is also a day of shame for what previous generations of germans have done. shaw shame that the perpetrators never showed a few. far too few had to answer to the courts. far too many got off with punishments that amounted to a mockery of the victims of the old fog light. also in attendance was israel's parliamentary speaker, mickey levy who recalled how democracy can descend into tyranny high. so it is here, a new look within the wall for this building i room which stand a silent stone and still witnesses. he had them. oh god, we remember and knew how fragile democracy is gone. and we are reminded of our duty to protect it at all. cost landfill and his levy recited the jewish mourners prayer reading from a book used by a german jewish boy on his bar mitzvah. a little he broke down in tears. oh, i mean to love never again. the call that echoed through the german wound as sag on this day of remembrance. as the world marks holocaust remembrance day, a debate has ignited in the us about how it is taught in schools. that after one school board in the state of tennessee voted unanimously to remove appeal. it's her prize winning book about the holocaust from its curriculum. the graphic novel called mouse depicts used as mice and nazis as cats. the school board objected to some violent images. a few curse words and one image where a character is drawn in the nude, the books author arch, giggle, men whose parents survived the holocaust called the decision demented and orwellian . and we have our reporter, i'm in s, if with us here in studio to tell us about the story. he also happens to be a tennessee native. i mean, thanks for bringing the story to us. i mean, it is hard to imagine a book about the holocaust that doesn't include violence. so what exactly was the school board objecting to you here? but an irony here to me is that this book was chosen and is chosen in schools around the country. i mean, it was taught in my school as well because it does not to pick the hard cause with gratuitous violence. so it's, it's chosen as a book that does it in a way that is approachable for 8th graders as people from 13 to 14 years of age. that's not a child. so it's not people have never seen violence before. a lot of the debate was focused not just around the violence, but around the language as well. let me just show you what they were talking about . to give you an idea what the one man says. it shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids. why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff? it's not wise or healthy. and then a woman who is not on the school board, but she is there as an educator. she says, i think at any time you're teaching something from history. people did hang from trees, people did commit suicide, and people were killed over 6000000 were murdered. i think the author is portraying that because it's a true story about his father who lived through that. now you can see that there's a, this is the debate that people are having about this book. and unfortunately, she for the people who want to keep using the book, she's not in the school board, and it was voted down unanimously our people reacting to this decision on all, this is a popular book around the country and a lot of teachers were outraged and some of them took the twitter to say this was the best book that they've ever used to get 8th graders to really be interested in his history and learn the horrors of what happened during the holocaust. a couple of people even offered any students from mcman county who wanted to read the book, could just message her on twitter and she would send a book to them for he, we should say, says in the u. s. at the moment, part of a larger debate over what should be taught in schools, and what books for example should be banned. so tell us more about that. but so the culture war is raging in the us. now the left is not shy of making its own demands on content, or we've seen a lot of things on hulu and streaming services like hulu, being taken down because of actors wearing black face, or saying words that people find offensive to minorities. but on the right, you see the focus being kind of directed toward a schools the curriculum also library, is there a library associate association united states that they'd never seen so many demands to take books out of school libraries? a lot of that is focused on the horrors of slavery and also l g, b, t, identity and sexual reassignment surgery. so the culture war is raging and i don't think we've seen the end of it. and mouse is just the latest victim. did that is, i mean, as if reporting for us there. thank you so much. now, how would you like your government to give you money to travel? well, that is exactly what's happening in argentina. the government's pavia program is fueling a domestic tourism boom and helping the industry mount a big come back after pandemic shut downs. millions of argentines have been taking advantage. a few essentials and they're off. these 2 couples are boned for murder, platter argentina's, most popular holiday resort. and thanks to the government's previous a plan, they are saving half of their travel costs. it's already elbows 3rd, previously vacation. my bodies have also they look, it's great for consumers like us for level celia, our rather than we can go in a bargain holiday yet. and i mean they get in again, and it's a plus for the government whether they go or not. because at the end of the day, it all helps the economy good. that promotional enter it, emma. the government hopes to recruit up to 80 percent of the cost of the subsidies through taxes together. and it's a boon for the hotel and astronomy industries too. they have suffered badly during the pandemic. they're also benefiting from the pesos drop in value. i believe her previously is a wonderful tool to promote tourism. we've had 2 very hard years moodle i some of you in just in the mean for most people, the exchange rate means it's not possible to holiday abroad. think out of them. that's why our offers are attractive and why we are no competing. well, even more so with the subsidies from the previous k plan, whatever. but these subsidies have long been a source of criticism. is a country with a high budget deficit and some 40 percent of the population in poverty really in a position to subsidize holidays for the middle and upper classes. but those, some economists view the program is problematic. they also see its advantages. dumble the sierra took it so it's not true that he's subs this benefit. only the middle class a little good. he may be in the sense that only these people can go and holiday. the guy printed out for the tourism industry usually employed low skilled people. members of the lower classes left left. so at the end of the day they also benefit because they keep their jobs. i mean if it's younger, said it seems like a win win situation. that's certainly true for alvaro and his friends who are enjoying a relaxing sponsored holiday. preparations are underway in china for the lunar new year next tuesday and within the big rush to get home for the holiday. the country's migrant workers are expected to make over 1000000000 trips during the season, which is why it's called the world's biggest annual human migration. but the coven 19 pandemic is casting a shadow over their journeys. the annual trek to be home for the start of the year of the tiger is starting in china. cities. travellers returning home from the capital are happy to be seeing their families. for many, it's the only chance every year to see children, parents, and friends. but they're also anxious about traveling during the pandemic. hayes. oh, yeah. because the pandemic situation last year was worse. i also didn't go home. i felt lonely, staying here with her, and that's why i'm very excited that i could go home this year and i would cherish the time i spend with my family fidel our before the pandemic. the concourse of beijing train station would be packed with people at this time. this year, the number as more modest though the transport ministry expects 1 point one a 1000000000 trips to be made during the lunar new year travel season. that's a 3rd higher than last year. but many local authorities are urging residents not to come home as they're worried about spreading. the highly transmissible, alma kron variant china has adopted a rigid 0 coven policy. focus on mass testing. extensive quarantines and snap block downs. local authorities are going all out to prevent covered flareups, especially with events like the beijing winter olympics looming and february. you know, he's in a little, i'm anxious every day because the pandemic is still quite serious with john ever. i don't want to bring trouble to my home town on my way. i've tested negative now, but what if it changes to positive and i have no choice but i'm determined to go home. the coming days will see a difficult balancing act. how to keep the arm across variance and check, and still allow migrants to return home for what's the biggest festival of the year . the cold snap and the eastern mediterranean has now hit jerusalem with snow covering the ancient city. it is the heaviest snow jerusalem has experienced since 2013. the wintry weather is caused traffic disruptions and residents were advised to stay indoors. but as you can see here, some people just couldn't resist the laura of some seasonal fun. we have a quick reminder of our top story. the u. s. has rejected russia's demand to bar ukraine from future membership in nato. instead, washington has offered a new diplomatic path to end the crisis. russia has said its views have been ignored, but it will continue dialogue coming up next on our show to the point, our guest discovered discuss whether germany is letting the west down over ukraine stay tooth ah, with who to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives, the dire warnings bound as russian forces digging on ukraine's border and diplomatic todd stall calls for germany to play a more active role are also growing louder is isn't letting it's wise down. join us on his point to the point with d. w. press control. and we'll get 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. in genuine use, a global network of companies, banks, and operators. we will provide those services to anyone operation, the criminal economy. where conglomerates make their own laws? they invade our private lives through surveillance. hidden, opaque, secretive works through what's vague. it doesn't matter. the only criteria is what we'll hook people up. we shed light on the opaque worlds. who's behind the benefits and why are they a threat to us all opaque worlds this 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