you. this is e w news live from berlin is the cold war poised for a free play. the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the i.m.f. treaty effective february second. and the u.s. says that it will call out of a key nuclear disarmament pact in six months if russia does not stop violating it get reaction from moscow also coming up germany's biggest lender deutsche bank posts an annual profit for the first time in years but is it is not to stave off

a merger with a private lender and the big rush is on as millions of chinese packed trains to celebrate the lunar new year with their families our reporter joins humanity's biggest annual migration. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the u.s. says that it is withdrawing from a key arms control treaty the secretary of state might pump aoe announcing that the u.s. will suspend its compliance with the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty with russia tomorrow saturday and withdraw from the accord within six months if moscow does not and alleged violations of the pact moscow has denounced washington to washington's decision the us in the soviet union signs the i.m.f. treaty back in one nine hundred eighty seven but the u.s.

says that a new generation of russian cruise missiles breaches the terms of that pact here's how u.s. secretary of state my pump ale what he had to say. russia's violation puts millions of europeans and americans a greater risk blames to put the united states at a military disadvantage and undercuts the chances of moving our bow out a relationship in a better direction. it's our duty to respond appropriately when in agreement so brazenly disregarded in our security is so openly threatened we must respond. so let's get more now from d.w. correspondent emily sherwin who is standing by with the latest from moscow for the russian reaction to secretary pompei of announcements and we've already had that reaction emily the kremlin essentially vowing to take measures in response to pump ayos announcement what are they likely to be well that's hard to know at this point sara but the foreign ministry actually said that they reserve the right

to respond i think this is more likely to be a response to the rhetoric we heard on the u.s. side and just the the russian rhetoric as it were russia really doesn't respond well to the language of alternate him and i think they're making that clear with this harsh response the other thing i think is just basically a testament to how bad relations have gotten we've heard a lot of anti u.s. rhetoric in the build up to this decision head of the decision today russia was accusing the u.s. of not sticking to its international obligations of not being open for dialogue at all and i think what we'll continue to see in these next six months when the withdrawal the withdrawal period is basically both sides continuing to trade accusations and we know that russia for its part they say that they're ready to talk in order to keep this pact what would it take to get those negotiations to happen in a way that's productive. i think that any

movement on the i.n.f. treaty at this point is largely impossible i might say especially because russia has all along denied actually violating this treaty they have been attempting this month again to show to the world and to the u.s. as they say this missile that apparently violates the treaty they kind of showed it off just around over over a week ago and they say that the u.s. simply doesn't want to listen now the u.s. position of course is that russia is in violation so it's kind of hard to see how the two sides would agree especially because experts say that actually for both sides it's in their interest to actually leave the i.n.f. treaty which doesn't include countries like china ok so say we have a withdrawal from the treaty within six months as we've heard highlighted how does this affect russia's strategy well not

too much in some ways because the i.n.f. treaty actually covers ground launched missiles and not missiles that are launched from the sea and a military expert that i just spoke to said that essentially for russia this is just a matter of tweaking existing cruise missiles that they already have and what we see here i think is. a difference between talk and what is going on behind closed doors because some experts say that actually russia has been wanting to leave the i.n.f. treaty for years now in fact putin in a speech in two thousand and seven said that that he would leave that russia would leave the treaty if other countries like china aren't included so perhaps this is a case of russia kind of having its cake and eating it too they can accuse the u.s. of being at fault for violating for violating the treaty or for leaving shirking its international obligations but also they can get what they actually want and

really sure when in moscow thank you. well meantime here in europe the end of the i.n.f. treaty reawakens memories of the cold war nuclear standoff the continent was still divided between the soviet occupied east and the nato alliance in the west speaking after today's u.s. announcement chancellor angela merkel said that a window of dialogue with russia should stay open. it's clear to us that russia has violated this treaty and that's why we need to speak to russia from the german side the foreign minister and i will do everything we can to enable discussions within these six months. let's get more now on the e.u. reaction to this u.s. decision to pull out we're crossing over now to bucharest romania where correspondent our vessel has been covering you foreign ministers meeting barbara welcome to you we just heard from the german chancellor is she reflecting

a common e.u. position on the u.s. decision to pull out of the i.m.f. treaty. largely yes because there is dismay of course all over europe was pretty much all european governments that the street need now is coming to an end even though everybody appealed to the two partners to still in gauge within the six months window that is left open to the beginning of august but nobody really holds their brass that this is going to happen but if you sort of take the next step and look at what comes behind that then directions very somewhat because the consequences from this are that you have particularly the baltic states and countries like poland feel acutely stressed and and they say that they don't say it but they don't expect that there might be a new stationing off american science on there so they would greet this however on the other side in western europe it discussion as we had in the cold war about

three argument about the stationing of american missiles on the german french or spanish soil ward so certainly sort of be really is divisive and sort of would really bring people back out into the streets so nobody wants to return to that time everybody you refer to it we don't want to go back to the cold war yeah i mean that is the big fear right the fear of a new arms race is that something that you're also hearing reflected there. it was all over the place today here into crist's pretty much every minister who sort of stepped out of the door and commented on the end of the looming end of the n f treaty said we are going to be the victims this was the main pillar of european security architecture and it is now falling away and it is being replaced by nothing it is being replaced probably by

a new arms race and europe is sort of the bystander hopeless and helpless and can't really sort of do anything against this and is watching this really in fear it was trepidation so that was that's the main emotion if you look to the reactions of ministers here in bucharest and we've heard that many want to save this training so let's talk about what's being done proactively what are european powers doing to make that happen. i mean there have been some attempts if you look for instance the two german foreign minister heikal mass he did travel to moscow he did try to talk to sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister and but the direction was sort of cool we know lover of i mean he's been in the business for decades and he has a particularly sort of. cold smile if you doesn't want to engage through something and somebody and so he. really got sort of the cold shoulder in russia he traveled

to washington as we heard he talked to the american administration but he didn't really find any open ears there either so the attempts they are making more or less bound to fail and they know this barbara vessel with the view from back in you foreign ministers meeting in bucharest thanks barbara. let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world at least sixty people were killed in monday's attack by boko haram militants in northeastern nigeria that's according to amnesty international the united nations says that tens of thousands of people have fled from the city of ronn to neighboring cameroon because they fear further attacks judges that the international criminal court have ordered the conditional release of laurent gbagbo former president of ivory coast he was cleared last month on charges of crimes against humanity the conditions involved residing in an i.c.c. member state ahead of a final prosecution appeal against his acquittal ordered and the world's biggest

annual human migration is under way more than four hundred million chinese are on the move to bring in the year of the pig which begins on february fifth that means an estimated three billion trips by rail road and air as people head home to celebrate with their loved ones our reporter boarded the train from beijing to the tongue. it's the start of. a six one seven headed west the loo new year millions leaving beijing for the provinces. inside the trains are crowded not everyone has a reservation. just to get creative. secured a seat the twenty five year old engineering students going home to see his parents will be the first. spring festival for the chinese it's like christmas for

westerners it is a holy day and everyone reunites with their families so it's really important for us. like many chinese. family once a year parents and children. and travel expenses. and it's no short journey outside the. inside these girls are killing time but they're in high spirits. now they're heading home. we want to have fun the last thing i'll do is my math homework. everyone a happy new year. and then it's time for lunch apart from singing and eating there isn't that much to do.

it's a chance to catch up on sleep. gifts are a big part of the new year ritual. bringing something for the kitchen. after six hours on the train who reaches his destination and is ready for the fist ditties to begin. he's looking forward to the food and fireworks the year of the pig brings with it plenty to celebrate. yet i'm very happy and excited to finally i'm with my family i really miss them home is always the warmest always on earth for me not i'm going to win she. at home is dead is waiting for her so you know the journey is over but millions of others a still on the road and looking forward to a fist of time with their families. and our largest lender to bank

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