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who was in moscow for one on one talks with russia's vladimir putin than the new german chance the olaf schultz is in washington dc. he will be meeting with you as president joe biden, in the next few hours and polish present. an online duda has met european union, an u. k. leaders. poland is one of several european countries when us troops adjoining nato forces. in a show of strength. we have full correspondence covering all the diplomatic france hold abdul hamid as in key. if we have dominant cane who is in berlin, can be hauled kits in washington. d. c. plus dealt with dos of jabari who is in moscow for us. don't say it's worth making the point that it's putin that invited michael to russia. what can we expect from this hugely important meeting today? yes, let me put, it was very keen for the french president to make this visit. they've been speaking

on the phone over the past week, 3 times where the russian president to extend that the invitation and the french president had to cancel his trip to mar, say this week to come to moscow. and of course he will travel to kiev on tuesday. but he's already stated before arriving in moscow that we should not expect any huge breakthroughs. emanuel micron spoke with us president on sunday evening, and he said that we should expect to hear the security concerns that russia has and not to expect any unilateral moves by moscow to deescalate the current situation. at emanuel micron is seen very much as a man who's trying to make peace in the middle of all this crisis. he's coming here and currently meeting with lot of be important in the hopes of trying to clarify some of the sticking points that rush has when it comes to nato, as well as the policies and it seems be at the heart of this dispute. the french

president said that this is really the start of a discussion that needs to be continued. it's not just with one trip or one visit that we can expect a breakthrough. it was a sentiment also shared by the kremlin spokesperson and that no major breakthrough is expected. and that to the french president is really trying to understand the russian position. there's also a sense that emmanuel microns really very much trying to position himself in place as a to be seen as a peacemaker. oh, so back home for a domestic audience as well. we have to remember that friend of the french public will go to the post to elect a new president in april. so there is also a very much a domestic agenda for the french president during this trip as well. though so, ironically, while there is diplomacy going on on various fronts, preparation for rule also continues with the us sending more troops to europe. we're hearing about troops also from germany. how does russia feel about all that?

which a general sense here is that you cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war . that is the thought that we keep hearing over and over again from various officials. while the united states continues to say they are interested in di, escalating the tensions by sending troops. they're actually fanning the flames of war. we see are now seeing u. s. troops in poland, which of course shares a border with bell roofs. and that is where nearly 30000 our russian soldiers are stationed at the moment. because, according to nato, they will be carrying out these military drills with bella roofs. later this week, it's one of the biggest military exercises rush has taken part in recent years. and we've been hearing from the bell, russian president, alexander lucas jenko, who says that those troops will actually continue to have drills with the russian army. nearly 20000000 drills are scheduled for this entire year. so there is

a sense that there could possibly be a heavy russian military presence in bell roofs. of course, we see you could see a situation where you have us troops on one side of the border in poland and. and on the other side, you have russian soldiers carrying up military drills with a fellow russian counterparts. and this is of course, a situation that certainly doesn't seem to be help me at east tensions at the moment. okay, also for now. thank you, daughter jibari, that for us in moscow, less tend to kevin a correspondent with the a del hamid hold on what are the ukrainians thinking of this flurry of diplomacy? i mean, micron is in cave to marshals will follow. they feeling a little left out well, they've been saying all along. that diplomacy should be the number one route to be taken at the moment. and we've actually heard from both the president of the muse lensky and his foreign minister dmitri, go labor, are quite angry words at the warnings coming out from the state department. i did.

foreign minister actually said that told ukraine is not to listen to these applica liptak scenarios that are coming, that have been drone, far away into us. now diplomacy is ongoing here and give as well. at the moment, the german foreign minister and helena bab book is here. that should be, she was supposed to meet after her meeting with the foreign minister president, one of the means zelinski, but we just heard that that meeting has been cancelled. the official reason being a scheduling issue. however, there are some thorny topics between germany and ukraine at number one being that germany is not keen on sending any kind of defense aid to ukraine. actually even forbid it, british cargo military flights to go over its aerospace to bring as some

a weapons into this country. and that's a position germany has had all along. and there is no indication that germany has changed from that position. it could be one of the reasons why def lead to german foreign minister is not meeting at the ukrainian president. we don't know, but certainly there are a lot of their new issues. another one being the issue of sanctions. germany has been quite cautious about if and when some sanchez, i'd bose and russia. how far reaching those sanchez would be germany saying that you shouldn't have sanctions that would actually affect the globe economy. so that one idea that was floating about, about excluding russia from this swift payment system, which is basically banning rush of all kinds of international transaction. well, germany is not too keen about that, but certainly it is

a move to show that europe wants to be part of the discover station. it's not that crisis between do u. s. and russia, but it's something that concerns you of a very closely. and the lena bear book is then going tomorrow to visit the frontline in easton ukraine. at the same time here in case you will have the foreign ministers of the czech republic of austria and slovakia. and then of course, it might be that my cold coming here telling the ukrainians about his conversations in moscow huddle not need that for us and care. thank he will. let's get more on the gym and point of view. we can speak to dominic cane on correspondence in berlin, dominic as we were hearing from what other the gym and tonsil has been under lots of pressure domestically and an abroad for not doing enough. so i found the ukraine crisis today that we hear. gemini is to boost troop deployment in nathan lithuania . clearly the pressure is guessing to him

the interesting thing here and the thing that sort of permeates the german response to this crisis. right now you have different journalists, different people writing articles, saying voiced all of shots in germany, where is see what see up to why we not hearing more from him today. we are hearing from him. he's going to be at the oval office with the president, joe biden. and still clearly we can expect declarations of friendship, ongoing alliances, and that sort of thing in public. the question is, what will be being said in private? there is a view, certainly in some governments we heard of ashton ukraine. there is this view that perhaps the germans could be doing more. so we now know that the defense ministry has confirmed that up to $350.00 troops. further troops that is, will be deployed to lithuania to the base they have in routes car. the issue there, of course, is that those troops are at least 450 kilometers from the nearest ukrainian border

. and of course, the country of yellow arrows is between them. so it's hard to see what sort of assistance those troops could provide to ukraine if there were to be a need for troops to be in ukraine. and that's as it were, the crux of the problem here. the german government wants to be seen at the forefront of diplomacy. but it doesn't want to send its troops or weapons to the front lines which appear to be forming on the border between ukraine and russia. that's how to see this right now, so there'll be declarations of friendship and alliance in public in the oval office . but the questions behind the scenes increasingly about what is the german attitude. and why is the german attitude, the way it is? and what do you make of what we were hearing from her about the german foreign minister meeting with ukrainian president? that was jesus take place, but has now been cancelled. yes,

it's all very interesting as, as how it was saying that this shed joining issue, which means that it's not possible for it to take place. and yes, it has been planned that it would take place. so we have this rather interesting situation where in the course of the next 15 to 20 minutes, and lena burbock will emerge and speak to the world's media alongside her counterpart in kia, the ukranian, foreign minister. thereafter, she will go and have talks with the prime minister of ukraine, but not with president zelinski. now, the german foreign office view about this is, it's not a particularly big issue. it's a shared ruling problem. and of course they say that she met us. foreign minister, burbock met the president a few weeks back, so there's no need for a further missing. and yet others looking on may well ask how it can be that such a shuttling share julian shoe could happen. and remember, it's happening shortly after it became very clear that the ukranian government had sent a detailed message to the german government asking for specific munitions to help

us weapons and ammunition to help it in a defensive conflict that may or may not happen with russia. so that's the way to view this right now from the german side of things. it's just a scheduling scheduling issue. it's not so important. it is fascinating that the ukrainian government is quite happy for her to meet a counterpart and the press and to meet the prime minister, but suddenly not the president. indeed and we are watching out for that press conference. so when it takes place, if it takes place we will, of course, bring it t dominick cain for now. thank you. let's turn to the us and let's go to washington . speak to our white house correspondent kennedy. how can, who's standing by? because all i've sold to german chancellor, who we've been talking about is in the us, he's due to meet with president biden has been under a lot of pressure on the crane crisis. what is the u. s. expecting from germany?

well, there is a lot that it's expecting from germany, namely a commitment with regard to north stream to that gas pipeline that would supply gas from russia to germany. this is something that germany already heavily relies on, in terms of supply main energy, but it's not one that's functional right now. and the united states says that if russia invades ukraine, this is something that would not move forward, but germany has been less committal on that. and that is a point of friction. a major point of friction between these 2 world leaders. so expect that when they sit down in the oval office, that this will be a major point of discussion. but add to that will also be the frustration that not just the walk by and white house of feeling, but also republicans and democrats on capitol hill that have been quite critical of

the german chancellor for a number of reasons saying that he has not been supportive of nato alliances, in terms of his reluctance to send lethal weapons to ukraine, to increase troops. and also to say, specifically which financial sanctions he would back if russia were to invade ukraine. the ones that the united united states says need to be punishing and particularly the united states has said with target the aerospace sectors of russia as well as artificial intelligence. and so the united states has been very clear about what it wants, and it has also said that if russia invades nordstrom to will not go ahead yet, it has not secured any agreement with germany. and it is looking to perhaps do so. so this is going to be a major point of discussion to that end. we should point out that the united states has been exploring alternative sources of energy. should to use that leverage and

try to essentially block the supply of natural gas to europe. something that it could do if it desired to as part of an ongoing conflict. so what we saw last week was the united states meeting with cut nations like cut our exploring alternatives . but even cutter has said that they simply don't have enough supply to meet the needs of all of europe. so this is a concern for the united states. this is what they're going to be talking about. the oval office around the 18 g m t hour. then there will be a joint press conference again, times are flexible, but around 20 g m t. kimberly haircut on white house correspondent speaking to us that from washington d. c. thank you. or we can speak now to d. take von cow. he served as germany's and basta and permanent representative to the european union. he joins us now from been in thank you for joining the program

. so. so on assaults, the german chancellor on the fire at home and abroad for showing insufficient leadership in the ukraine crisis. i believe one german news magazine described him as nearly invisible in recent weeks. do you think the criticism of him is justified? well, quite honestly, the german government, the new one isn't paula only soon saw more or less to bugs and the they have to add them to international reality. they need some time for this, and the chance it up is now going to washington is there and we'll discuss what should be done in order to meet russia. aggressiveness at the eastern border of your grade. the, the chancellor goes,

is in washing busy intention to don't good guaranteed german participation and contribution to western unit. however, in a way, as german me also, caesar not only is, let's say the united states look at it. and therefore, i'm pretty sure that they will agree on necessary economic sanctions, including the pipeline in case russia should be side to aggressively cross the frontiers of the eastern frog there. while few craig, germany, of course germany have also sorry to interrupt, sorry to interrupt you. i sat gemini, of course, imports a large quantity if it's gas from russia, some in the u. s. u. s. republicans,

a saying that berlin is in bed with heating to keep the gas flowing. whether that's true or not, the optics don't look good. did i for gemini? well, it depends on the russian side. if so, the hope and the chance of the do everything even go after watching the via key as to what school in order to avoid the item at confrontation because we wish in you also of our dependence on gas. the need burn for 40 to 50 percent of our gas supplies beneath. at present russia that may have been a mistake, would be the let it go that far. but be that's a situation and we have to live with it and to find a way out. however, in case of really a russian aggressiveness, we will stand with the west, there should be no doubt about it. there's

a lot of talk about that goes in all directions and maybe the german government is not be sufficiently clear on it. but the best on unity steroids. when you say, stand with the west, what do you mean exactly? what can we actually expect from germany? who has so far not announce anything tangible and that many i fits at west and i like the little well just mention that we are going to and you mentioned that we are going to strengthen our m o r contingent early, which is 600 men strong to 950 in the 3 area that is very close to to the russian deployment of troops in bed hours. now lithuania is also directly confronted and the united states also strength. so it's through commitment in nato countries,

as we do is latoya and the brit store in estonia. so we are on equal level with our allies in this domain. the only issue where we differ is on ours delivery. and that has something to do with the traditional position of the present, coalitional government in german politics since many years. they don't want to quote tribute to tensions and confrontations by sending weapons into such areas that may me a little bit one sided. fancy even the heath, but there is a fact of life in germany, domestic politics. so all of the other head, your hind. it is also the idea that the german government, which has certain diplomatic long established relations on be ukraine in the

context of the been a farmer with russian lead us with couldn't oh, it's in the days and weeks to come talk in yours. go to, to avoid the worst end to stick to what he pretends to do, namely, not to attack. now we must find out, but in any case, the german government takes the liberty to 1st of all, find out and try its best to promote the reduction of tensions in this precarious area. whether that's going to won't be, we'll see. but that is the german intention. it's in any case, well, in tension. and of course we're reporting that term president macro is sad due to me. it's with their president putin in russia today. at what are you expecting from

that meeting? what can france bring to the table? well, germany and frogs call or grade in town together. so i don't expect much difference in the french approach. if the german i'm no longer active in government, so i can only give you my assessment. ok, thank you so much for your time. he took von nick, jo gemini, who you who served as germany's and busta and permanent representative to the european union. excuse me. i was no, i'm retired. yes, thank you. i was a there but some all i had on the knees out, including find out why hong kong 0 cove at 900 strategies facing a big test and what the authorities doing about it. australia puts out the welcoming math for tourists, often nearly 2 years bought as

a caps and in sports accidents from a thrilling mens down hill event at the beijing winter olympics. details which emma ah you and report says north korea has stolen tens of millions of dollars of crypto currency to help finance it's nuclear, ballistic missile program. and says pyongyang stole more than $50000000.00 through cyber tax between 2020 and last year. separate study indicates as much as $400000000.00 may have been stolen. north korea conducted 9 ballistic missile tests last month. robert bride has the story from sol. this does follow a pattern. we do know that north korea has been accused now for years of being involved in all sorts of nefarious international criminal activity as a way of getting much needed foreign reserves to basically let it survive. it has

been involved, for example, has been accused of being involved in international narcotics in illegal sales. but it does seem to have found a lucrative avenue in cyber crime with another report in 2019, for example, from the un suggesting that north korea had managed to accrue $2000000000.00 worth of digital assets in recent times. with the current economic, dire straits that your career is in, it seems as though it's not going to desist from this cyber crime. because of course, if faced his international sanctions, the impact of 2 years of basically being cut off from the outside world. by the pandemic, it is very difficult to di, economic straits. there are talk of food shortages in north korea and as we get into 2022. still the same question of how to deal with those career, especially given this flurry of missile launches. and caesar is

a stock price if the new yorker has conducted extensive research in north korea is hacking activities. he says the crypto currency market is an easy target for digital tv. it is something to worry, but i do think that some increased transparency on behalf of you know, the cryptic currency ecosystem would help their exchanges. crypted currency exchange is where people buy and sell crypto that have been, they've been hacked no more than once. there was one in south korea, they've been hacked 4 times, you know, the coin stolen from a hot wallet. so that is a tremendous lapse of security and we don't hear about it because there isn't. there is no impulse on behalf of the exchanges to publicize, in fact, you know, study more ordered and better regulated sector might need some more transparency. fantastic work being done by, know, by nation states, but also by some private sector actors. i'm tracing the assets crypto assets

that have been stolen back to the point of which they cashed out or into the currency. and you can just see how sophisticated some of these, you know, money don't bring chains on. so it's really going to take a huge amount of effort on behalf of private sector and nation states. they're producing bodies to get a handle on what's happening there. oh, let's take you straight to care where you cranes, foreign minister has been hosting his german county, cook county, pomp and not holding a nice conference less listening with a with in here i'm for. nobody said a little good. and then as we have been reporting,

it's a big day of diplomacy, while leaders working around the world to try and yvette what the westfield is a possible russian invasion of ukraine. let's go back to this press conference. so we are hearing from ukraine's foreign minister who's been hosting his german counterpart. let's see if we can hear what he has to say. when had to be a good ok, java is. yeah, it's his island. okay. and his asheville inside of winchester, the hawaiian mo plainfield retreat is from afraid we don't seem to have the correct translation. as soon as we get that for you, we will return to the story dispute. israel's police chief has asked for an independent inquiry after reports that investigators

use the controversial pegasus spyware to target citizens. colby shall tie, says the investigation is needed to restore the public's trust. that's often israeli newspaper reported police track several prominent figures using the hacking software. the pegasus program has been used to spy on human rights activists, journalists, and politicians around the world. harry force, it has the story from west jerusalem. the initial response from the police last month had been that there had been occasional use of this kind of technology with court warrants with judges being involved well, according to this report, which is not being referred for an independent inquiry by police so gone. others initial denials, they've been using it for fishing expeditions with an s and with a p h. they just been going out without any active investigation just to see what they can find. and so this is being seen as a real abuse of power and of individual privacy. and the interior minister has called it an earthquake reminiscent, if true,

of the sorts of oppressive actions of oppressive regimes in the 20th century. already the form of communications ministry directors. lemme filbert who turn states witness against nathan, yahoo! he was due to be giving evidence next week. his name had already come up last week and there was a question as to whether he could therefore be giving evidence and whether that should be delayed. now there are other figures including one of the benjamin netanyahu sons, abner, that his phone was allegedly targeted in this way, potentially because they were looking for communications from his mother, benjamin netanyahu wife, sorry, and then the potential impact of her communications on this. and so we have this really mind bending kind of irony here, that benjamin who had been kind of using the n s o software as part of his bid to improve relationships with a lot of regimes, a lot of governments in the region. now there's a potential that the police were using it against netanyahu,

released his close associates in their investigation. the police were saying that they would divisions between those using between the investigation into him and, and it's use elsewhere. but that is something that has to be really investigated and so could this now come to his rescue? oh, let's take it back to kear. we can hear from you cranes. foreign minister has been hosting his german counts upon, i believe the asian people has to be the source of decisions. i think with little of this issue, or she believe, considerably. and nobody else can sure. i 1000000 impose any ideas about foreign policy. i was, i was agreeing to put out another thing that she in ukraine was in your voice. you are great in school, live the day. it was forced to book. yeah. and then it says a very popular question, whether the foreign guests are going to cause a ukrainian authority to this, or that decision for tanya will run a conflict. said,

would you not or been to try again, miss rosalie, please? sure, you said this was our exchange of ideas between france, each number of them my what it would bring that i had the call. we were talking about energy. it was with, with my family and i had to click and do a little development of alternative, give them an agree and the north steering tools. my boy, yeah, probably became a which hon with the life of the all and our she you would share that to leave you want to little to blow pretty will were and pray and his only with no way. and that i had to give my attention to a hydrogen energy, but it was in the national drama drama and congressional to have her new chelisa because over but no 1st shell gotten transfer monica in my scope among you,

which was good for both countries economist so you also karim dash crimea, would you not put out for them? you, maria, are you open from a 1000000 a potential for a new set of informed annalee? not that for them on my article with them, or now they'll have to believe that you mention it li, awaiting for the german delegation. we were, or you were a bicycle perspective green for your base comparison actually spoke about european integration. going to move for in c p as of the walls in your home. or brian of sim, in principal center will the dialogue with julian virus or media ah, moly co discussed issues lead times or media really interested in

your behalf was sure enough short door has shown us or be in there yet. but bang a deal, not reasonably to our maria was a little watermark dash. and there are things in which our positions are different for women. my stomach here for children, one for douglas on the line is that they should be visit or green will not us. but sheila, we'd be doing a ma marianna whole complex, so no to my normal zeal hold the model of civil. i want to thank our natalie in that and she started her visage by visiting a colo course and then memorial jordan to paris, clerk to those people. jenna was williamson, marlo lives who died from a family in oregon. where sure what the more do in the store they were more storage neutral, older model. mm hm. and civil was and this is a year is the 9 will be well mark 90 and then you are city of oh, i'm

a fan means i wouldn't, i was when you're here. it's this fear with doyle herz, international. the recognition share of the jacqueline molina there are they budgeting? okay, thank you. once again, i'm always happy to see you and keep yes, you and i got on my for mine as i did, you are the mid school and that is extra on my side as well. in minnesota, we managed to send me a 2nd time in such a friendly way that every day in a month. i welcome it, said gentleman. oh novia had been long, but the aids in conversation dialogue i and the have known each other and have a realtor. and trusting relationship with each other and this shows how serious

this situation at the moment as i felt and that we have to use all the channels to day too. i don't mind that either. you under a desk, that is why am i about english? you not as journey that's our was announced has changed lightly and i'm very grateful that you are able to have intensive talk to day. and that a v. m watson have the support from d. e o, from nato, that we were able to discuss these as well. and i was able to do it here in kiev on location ones on and to expect her solidarity in our efforts in dialogue with the russia of the art a to get with the u. s server and, and need to be have 1st submitted herb at our written and her responses, sat shows what of the art and how they are interpreting the

situation, how they are asking for the de escalation at it. and did diplomacy is said and ready to have a seat? is that ok with russia? but we also wanted to make an absolutely clear that there will be consequences. should there further aggression aggressive steps happening against the air ukraine summit the of ourselves and together with all our partners and friends of me wanted to oh sure. how many united v are standing here waiting for any teeth, krajina, and how important this to protect them as sovereignty after ukraine and em. i would like to emphasize that a bit my, and visit here and also experts that we will do everything that to know further escalation or should happen. and this is why we have m, m m i and the have prepared various hard to add measures against

russia for this event. and at the have agreed this and prepared with all of our partners. and at this point i would like to or so. and i mentioned our own very close economic an o corporation. and yes, we are also and in the ready, i to silent if the pay a very high economic price since air we are talking about the sd is security and safety of their crane. and here in the ukraine, you can rely on germany and even said to and once i did not run on, not only in this 7 aggressive situation from the russia, but even in the future, we are going to work together very closely and to a v i r m, have of, we have a very close dialogue with each other. and then this is what happened in our last

meeting as well. and this is going to an a signify, or so our future, a clause corporation in the a who in the energy and politics. and then we have spoken a lot about our future projects. how can we make this air further in offensive? and how can be intensified as corporation and, and not my is not in the would like to carry on. lands in terms of high energy use. are also going to come from the outside ambassador will come to the ukraine. i would like to have this consultation also move this forward. and finally, and this is very important for me to publicly emphasize because quite often this gets lost of all. this is the most important matter to fabulous ation of

germany is the biggest supplier of support for the ukraine. and this is going to be a further intensified the end increased. it is not. this is doesn't only mean the financial matters, but also concrete measures such as the support when implementing good reforms, aid for the adults who have been displaced and have to flee because of the conflict. and i also would like to mention that i'm going to visit a military hospital that we have supported here in the ukraine again on the id and our support for the country. we have equipped the hospital

and the in our meetings have changed slightly. my colleague is not able to be present in the location because she has gone to see the mobile mobile hospital that we are going to visit. she is ready, miss organizing. the setting up of this hospital in germany is expressing the study that is due to the ukraine is den, or if you just joining us. that's alina burbock, the germans foreign minister, talking in kiev, hosting a press conference with her, her ukranian counterparts. expressing her solidarity with ukraine, saying that jimmy will do everything that they can to support ukraine and that

ukraine can rely on germany. we can go to hold the mead who is in here, who's been listening into this press conference, ukraine, and many others in europe. have been concerned that the germany is not doing enough when it comes to the ukraine crisis. will they be reassured by what we're hearing today by anna lena? bulk. well, on the surface, it seems as a lot of a diplomatic niceties are being sad. but the crux of the matter is that the ukrainians are very frustrated with germany's position specifically when it comes to defense. ave ukraine had actually sent a letter to germany detailing its needs specifically around ammunition. but germany has so far, refused to give any kind of military support to ukraine. actually,

very frustrated. president vladimir n ski about a week ago or so, had said in a press conference that he didn't understand germany's position in germany, where in the same position as ukraine is at the moment, well, than germany could count on a much more concrete support from ukraine. you had been elena barebones, just saying that she was going to go and visit a military hospital that was built with the help of germany. i think that was a way of a foreign minister is saying we are here. we are helping not into ways you want, but we are here trying to do something and show our solidarity with the ukranian. people behind closed doors. i think the conversation would have been much more robust and it didn't sound from what the ukrainian from a. busy foreign minister dmitri clay by said that they had reach any sort of

consensus on germany's position or ukraine, also wanting germany to publicly say that it was crap. any plans of that north stream, a pipeline going online? any time soon? that pipeline is ready? and you can, would like to see that really linked to the current crisis and 2 ideas, correlation in the threads that is looming over discovery. we haven't heard anything concrete about that. and then the still and the could is conference is going on and i'm sure to fund minister will be asked about that. why is she not meeting with ukrainian president vladimir lensky? that was a scheduled meeting. it was announced by both the presidency here and her office, back in berlin, and then all of a sudden, well, we heard that there was a scheduling issue. is it really a scheduling issue or is presence lensky still frustrated with the position of

germany? and another point i was, i think is worth mentioning is that you have the german foreign minister here. and then you have a french president of the manual, michael in moscow. and both of them actually are trying to push forward to normandy format. that's a format of negotiation that has been created after the annexation of crimea, and it includes france, germany, russia, and ukraine is actually one of the very few forums were russia and ukraine said, face to face. so i'm sure both of them would be pushing that. ok, thank you for that. how the above hamid, the in kiev. let's go to berlin and get the take of dominate cane correspondent that a so we had that from an alina bulk, the german foreign minister. and you were listening in to what she had to say a hold. i described it as a lot of niceties. i think that was pretty 5 point. i'm not sure we got anything concrete out of that,

and i'm not sure the ukrainians did either. one thing that foreign minister burbock did say was that germany is prepared to pay a very high economic price in order to deter russia from an act of aggression. and indeed, if there was an act of aggression then an economic price would be paid. and that's clearly a reference to sanctions, and there are some who would say that that refers to north stream to switching it off, or at least never switching it on. and therefore, accepting that, that will mean that energy prices, both in germany and across europe, would go considerably higher if that were to lead to all russian gas being switched off. so that is a sort of coded reference there in so far as whether we heard new information or not. well, the important thing here is to actually look at the reality of what the german

position is tomorrow. and alina bell box will visit one of those mobile hospitals close to the front line, one of those hospitals that her government has sent to ukraine. and it is quite possible that she might see some of the soldiers in and around the area who are going to be equipped with the helmets that are being supplied by the german government to ukraine. but the point here is that her government, except that it wants to help out, that it can help out when it comes to hospital facilities and to help us. but it won't send munitions. in other words, it recognizes that there may be some form of aggression is prepared to help the ukrainian military in every way it can, apart from giving weapons. that is what this is really about here. so this, this shed drilling issue that president zalinski apparently can't see the foreign minister behind it. we know there is frustration in key f at the absence of human

munitions at the absence of a german presence where he believes that it is most important. and, and i know burbock hasn't given that, nor indeed has a colleague the chancellor. all our shots when he meets president biden, lots of references to aligns lines and friendship, but no actual help militarily for key f, where it matters. that's the view of the ukrainians. money thanks for that said dominic cane there for us in berlin. now let's get a little bit of avenues. it's taken nearly 2 years, but from february 21st, australia is re opening its borders. the austrian government closed the country off to the rest of the world and a bid to control the spread of coven 19 and vaccinate. as many people as possible, the investor avi has more story. throughout the pandemic, the island continent of australia has earned

a reputation for imposing some of the harshest and most sweeping restrictions on travel. strict rules have applied to visitors, permanent residence and citizens alike. almost 2 years after closing the country's borders prime minister scott morrison announced a national security committee cabinet decision to reopen australia's doors. the condition is you must be double vaccinated to come to australia. that's the rule. everyone is expected to abide by it. and it's very important that people understand that requirement if this they can to come to australia. but if you double vaccinated, we look forward to welcome you back to a strike. he also made reference to serbian tenant star novak chalk of which deported and unable to participate in the australian open last month because he was not vaccinated against corona virus. but we just wanna stress that you will need to provide that proof of vaccination. your visa is one thing that your entry into a stride year requires you also to be double vaccinated. and i think events earlier

in the year should have said a very clear message. i think to every around the world that that is the requirement to enter into astronomy of border restrictions were 1st relaxed in november to welcome international students and skills. micros, the latest move is expected to rehabilitate the countries beleaguer tourism sector . we need international bodies to open, i think, you know, because there is a globalized country. you know, you put the body global as economy you're done is mesh in a time. it's exciting. so it's like the end of the period of kingdom this ending. i'm certainly excited when opportunities is what we want to leave the country and come back is great. almost all the part of the country is open. the board is not as yet, but it. so it was really difficult and you know, so many people went to depression because they had got a lot of plans. and so now i'm really happy that got more and has made that announcement visitors with valid proof of

a medical exemption for the vaccines are able to apply for a travel exemption, but will still have to abide by strict cove in 1900 rules that vary from place to place, including a to record teen. if traveling to western australia, the country's largest state is in basra. v o 0. hong kong straight 0 cove at 19 sharp g faces its biggest challenge yet south city deals with record infections . hong kong is followed china's strategy of trying to eliminate outbreaks as soon as they emerge. but they have been more than 2000 cases since january, driven by the contagious on the comm variance to pounds prime minister for me. oh, because she does says he wants to double the coven 90 booster shot program to 1000000 doses a day. by the end of the month, i said 5 percent of the japanese population has received the booster shots nationwide. infections driven by the on the call variance the past 100000 for the

1st time on saturday. it's time for bitter sport. he is accumulating. the people have said a galler enjoying a national holiday following that seems a triumph that the africa cup of nations. the lions of tauranga has been known a b t chips in the final on penalties. on sunday said a gal had reached the final on 2 previous occasions. the country went into the tournament as favorite to send to the highest place african team in the 5th at rankings. a impressive study. i'm only there scoring the winning penalty. and that was more impressive because he misses smoking earlier in the annual time, but disappointment for his live and he made egypt. captain mohammed, sally, he still never wanted the biggest footballing prize on the continent. it was that time lucky day for synagogue coach alley c. say he was involved in that 2 previous finals losing his a coach in 2019 and as a player way back in 2002 c site was applauded as he entered the post match news conference. ah,

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5 tomblin pic, skia grand bow commentate it on the race from manchester in the u. k. floyd's is a barrel of a man, he's not particularly told but he makes up for it big by being very wide. he's not what you class is being naturally, you know, adolescence but he is. he's just these a bit like a rugby forward. you know, he's incredibly strong because he has to hold up that weight. but because he's not tall, he needs to have the, the boat in order to be able to have that in the mentioned to carry a maps along the flat. what ford does the well is that even though he's so big and powerful, he has a very light touch on it that light touch. that able enables him to kind of to see a type align than most other races. and yeah, and yeah, aerodynamically is just thought it little is a little cannibal. it was not

a great day for american. see the song mikaela schiffron and she crashed out the women's giant slalom on her 1st run in china, but still have more chances to win goat. she's hoping to end all 5 individual events. the snow is just incredible. the sky on. oh my gosh. it's just. yeah, it's really nice, but if you do any small errors, you really can't get away with that. i got the worst of it and that turn and yeah, it doesn't happen too often that i'm falling. it wasn't because i was holding back so i can be proud of that. canada's max pirate, one gold in the snowboard slide, sol, event 3 is off. he was diagnosed with cancer parent discover that he had hotch can hodgkin's lymphoma in late 2018, but in 2019. and now he was counsel free after 12 rounds of chemotherapy. now he's an pick champion benevolence, earrings this became the most successful and pick speeds gate in history by

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