this is d.w. news live from berlin germany's president has harsh words for the world's super powers including the us china and russia as he opens the munich security conference on culture steinmeyer accuses them of stoking global mistrust and putting national interests over international cooperation also coming up delegates out the conference will focus on the international community's failures in syria looks of

families torn apart by the conflict. going to die in the planes are bombing us the army is very close as the syrian government offensive against province intensifies we talk with a syrian refugee in germany desperate to get his family out of harm's way plus arctic temperatures reach record high speed as scientists warn of dramatic and unforeseeable facts of warmer weather on the icy consonance and in villages legal football dortmund have been battling inconsistency as they aim to remain in the mix at the top of the table will be put to the test by research in frankfurt on friday night. i'm called aspen. thanks for joining me

a laundry list of conflicts and uncertainty over the west's role in the world are the top issues at the munich security conference which kicked off this afternoon nearly 3 dozen heads of states diplomats and top security experts are coming together for the ne all gathering in southern germany the west's dwindling influence on global security has even spawned new term west listening. oh who's who of international politics. with plenty to discuss the host of german president frank. spent much of his keynote speech deploring the decline of internationalism and of european unity he had harsh words for russia china and the us and on saying stuff abundant to our closest ally the united states of america under the current administration rejects the idea of an international community. great again great again if necessary also

at the expense of maybe. fittingly enough it was a former u.s. secretary of state from another era john kerry who made a plea for reviving international cooperation snow country can solve the problems we face of climate change cyber warfare nuclear challenges extremism disease all of these things require cooperation if we didn't have a united nations we'd have to invent it so people need to stop playing with people's fears protesters gathered outside the hotel where the conference is being held they said social problems and climate change should also be considered major security issues this is kind of. house kind of but i know you cannot exclude climate protection from the security issue because it's a huge issue. and war is definitely not climate neutral.

when i buy the conference continues until sunday with debates over the role of nato and the conflict in syria likely to dominate. the chief political correspondent melinda crane is in munich for us. in this address the german president's was highly critical of the big powers we're talking about china russia the united states tell us more what exactly did the german president. well as mentioned in your report he essentially accused them of putting national interests 1st of prioritizing their own perceived needs undermining international institutions and international rules and norms and thereby making the world as a whole less secure he said that when we come to the point that countries see their interests in terms of a 0 sum game meaning their strength is others' weakness and vice versa

that in the end we will be unable to solve the pressing problems that the world faces as a whole problems ranging from nuclear escalation and essentially the decline of the architecture of international arms control and climate change he said very clearly and many speakers have echoed his words following his address that we absolutely must have multilateral initiatives to address these problems and many more besides one of these speeches are one thing but typically the real business happening in a place like the you know security conference takes place offstage behind the scenes what has been going on there behind the curtain. i think there's business on both both sides both on and off the stage tomorrow for example we're going to be hearing from the french president with his push for

stronger nuclear arms control and i think that will certainly be something that will also create some dynamic but beyond that off stage absolutely right there are a wide range of bilateral meetings here because this does bring together so many national and world leaders and just one example of that today on the sidelines of the conference the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of the u.s. secretary of defense mark esper and the afghan president got only met and agreed on what's being called a one week long reduction of violence agreement now as you know the u.s. and the taliban have been carrying on negotiations for some time with the aim of eventually getting a framework it daring in which the u.s. can begin to withdraw its forces but the afghan government hasn't been party to those negotiations it had said that its precondition for an all afghan agreement

that could to set the stage for a peace process and then for eventual u.s. withdrawal is exactly this this reduction of violence where the taliban will commit to showing for one week 7 days that it is able to reduce violence across the board apparently specifying roadside bombs direct attacks attacks by its proxies that it will commit to that and thereby. essentially create a precondition under which the afghan agreement might be willing to sit down with the taliban so certainly that is movement and that happened right here on the sidelines in munich melinda we saw a clip from a climate activist a young climate activist one of our climate security what's the discussion like at the conference about climate. well i have to say after 20 years attending the munich security conference i'm hearing talk about climate insecurity about that nexus between the climate crisis and insecurity in the form of migration insecurity

in the form of massive population displacement and insecurity in the form of conflicts that are fed by drought and poverty that i'm hearing more talk about than ever before and in fact tomorrow i will be moderating in mainstage panel on exactly that issue we're also though hearing many people saying that if we don't get stronger multilateral cooperation we will not be able to address climate insecurity and certainly one of the key u.s. speakers here didn't have much to offer in the way of hope about whether the u.s. would at any stage return to the paris climate agreement yet that is certainly one of the big topics and one of the big driving factors behind many of those global problems d.w. chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you very much. all the syrian government offensive and the provinces leading to

a growing number of refugees people trying to get out of it live or heading for the nearby turkish border the u.n. estimates that 140000 people have fled their homes in just the past 3 days germany is already home to hundreds of thousands of syrians who fled the conflict over the last 9 years and those with family members still stuck in the war zone feel powerless to protect them document one man who fled syria and 2013 hoping that his family would soon follow but now nearly 7 years later that hope has proved wrong. checks the news from syria on social media all the time where did the latest bomb fall who or what was hit while he is in safety here in germany the rest of his family are in mortal danger an eclipse. he is desperately worried. for. heat or drink i think of my children do they have anything to eat do they have

a warm blanket or. his sons mohammad and 9 and 10 years old he had to leave them with their grandparents and if he thought it too dangerous to flee with them if the internet is working he calls them several times a day for a little. while you know what's going on. it's cold the bombing and the plane crash we were where we were. very near our village get us out of here. come and get us. well i want to but i can't we need to get passports for you that and lots of other things i can bring you over here. like going to die the planes are bombing us the army is very close.

the only adult member of the family lets us show his face. people are suffering especially the refugees it's chaos i don't know whether i'm coming or going. everybody is heading north camping in the olive groves sleeping in the open unprotected even though it's bitterly cold. the united nations estimates that more than $700000.00 people from into profits have left their homes many are heading towards turkey but they're not being allowed in the refugee camps overcrowded it's freezing and there's a lack of drinking water and food there is no boy back for them because most of their towns and cities are being bombed out and they are facing a dire humanitarian situation this is why an immediate ceasefire and it's why is the only solution going forward. but there's no sign of that and the fighting

continues. would do anything he could to rescue his children from danger but he can't all he can do is follow events from berlin. nobody notices people see me and think i'm doing fine but inside i die a 1000 deaths every day and my heart goes out to my children and to all the other children. yeah an emotional situation for those watching what's happening in love from a foreign for those on the ground as well and for that part of the story let's bring in david swanson he is the u.n. regional spokesperson for the syria crisis he joins us from turkey now the u.n. says more than $140000.00 syrians have been displaced that's just in the last 3 days by violence is there anywhere safe for those people to go well tragically

the number of people displaced continues to spiral out of control as we speak with thousands of people on the move right now the poor highway area and the m. it which is largely emptied out of its population along with the m 4 area in which communities have largely emptied their we now have this a large wave of people moving northward into a very small shrinking area of land which for protection purposes are they being led across that border or is there anywhere for them to leave and they leave syria . you know at the moment they're being pushed into a very small enclave of area where assistance is limited and protection is limited i mean we now have one of the most densely populated areas in syria all of this in shrouded in more zone in which artillery shelling and airstrikes continue as we speak david given what you've just said i mean is this shaping up to

be one of the worst humanitarian crises of this 9 year conflict. absolutely i mean already we have a 1000000 the number of people displaced this particular wave of displacement is without doubt the largest individual displacement we've had. since the very beginning of this crisis which is almost 9 years old so i'm really really saddened by the international in action in bringing this conflict to an end as humanitarians we are desperately trying to provide assistance to the people in syria there are more than 3000000 people in it live right now and there are urgent need of protection and humanitarian assistance tell me about those 3000000 people i mean our people of course that that either choose to stay or cannot leave it live what are their living conditions like. well i think what's important for reviewers to

understand is up until now whenever the syrian government forces took over an area people were evacuated to it live and in live today is the last opposition held area you belittled for people to flee to there is no place else this is the end of the road and that's why what's happening in england today is so important and comes at such a critical time you know it is bitter cold temperatures right now we have people in women and children shivering at night fleeing for safety not knowing where to go i mean the only way of describing it is it is a crisis within a crisis i mean the situation is going from bad to worse a crisis within a crisis david swanson the u.n. regional spokesperson for syria thank you very much for the perspective. our let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world china says

more than 1700 of its medical staff are infected with the coronavirus raising questions about how the country will continue battling the outbreak the number of infections in china has jumped to more than 55000 the coronavirus has now also reached africa with egypt reporting its 1st case spain's coastguard as real as rescue 86 migrants traveling from north africa including a baby born at sea the newborn and its mother were taken to hospital they are said to be doing well the group included 6 other babies and 4 children all from sub saharan africa. all the entire leadership of the french film cademy has quit over a controversy involving disgraced filmmaker roman polanski his newest film received nominations for the academy's forthcoming sezar awards the french polish director fled from the u.s. after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a teenager in 1977. scientists in antarctica say

temperatures there have been risen above 20 degrees celsius for the 1st time ever this follows the hottest january on record and they're warning that if the trend continues it could have to mattick and unforeseeable facts on sea levels. the news of the record temperature coincided with a big break in the ice on pine island an iceberg 300 square kilometers an area calved from a glacier last weekend. giant blocks of ice have always broken off antarctica as ice shelves but in places like pine island the losses are speeding up scientists are worried there are 4 warning of even larger events as climate change drives higher rates of thaw on the frozen continent. a new study says if temperatures continue to go up in antarctica global sea levels could rise by up to one and a half meters by the year 2100 at chile's escudero base on king george island the ice and snow pack has melted almost entirely this year. it's the 1st time we

see a lack of snow that is so impressive it really caught our attention we left some sensors installed we've see temperatures over 13 degrees which as you know in the last 40 years ice loss in the antarctic has increased 6 fold and as it continues to melt the warm temperatures are also having an impact on wildlife like chinstrap penguins populations of them have plunged dramatically we did find one colony on elephant island very large declined about 77 percent. tremendous loss over a very short period of time and with january of 2020 setting new heat records there's no sign the melt is going to slow anytime soon. germany's federal prosecutor has dealt a blow against a suspected right wing terrorist cell on friday morning raids were carried out

across 6 german states a total of 12 men including a civil servant who are detained they are suspected of planning attacks on politicians and muslims and one of the groups goals was reportedly to disrupt the german state and social order aiming to create quote civil war like conditions in the country he suspects are to be brought before a judge at germany's high court on saturday. by for more i'm joined in studio by carl keller from the german anti right wing extremism activist group and as you watch 1st of all give me some perspective on the size of this operation so there were 13 raids across 6 german states today 12 people arrested i mean this sounds pretty big yeah it sounds big at 1st i would agree but we also suspect that there are other groups out there like them so they need to be more raids like these because we suspect there would be hundreds more of pending similar at. text but

big but we have to see that what further investigation short if there may be is a bigger network what about the suspected motives here so we heard of the suspects wanted to spark a quote civil war like situation in germany what does that mean what we know about this group yes this is a common theme amongst right wing terrorism. actually this is what they plan they want to do attacks on politicians or muslims for example racist attacks anti-semitic attacks to spark civil war does this not a task for those be able to talk about like their take for example like to take on the last year or like their text and it's you the big new nazi network did it from the so-called underground between 200-2007 attacks like these and what

they want is to inspire other new nazis to do the same and more and more new nazis do these kinds of attacks and the state gets disrupted and they want a civil war and what they want is to win this civil war to print back fascism and national socialism this is their idea they discussed ideas like this for years and years they wrote it down in books so this is not an original idea of this group this is a common theme how organized are right wing extremists in germany meanwhile we're hearing there was even a former police administrator who was arrested in this raid. but in general we have really organized structures of new nazis and right wing terrorists in germany and there are a lot of links to the police and oswald to the army in the last years and network of members of the police and of the army were discovered and they had also

a similar plan stay too. weapons and from their place of work from the police and from the army back to their homes to train for the so-called day x. where they wanted to spark a similar situation like to crew poor straighted to day saw their limbs and so we're not surprised. that there's a police member under the accused or with the accused today to mention a lot of other events in germany that had to do with right wing violence that's on the rise in germany left wing violence as well why is that. we are really concerned with psoriasis of terrorism and really really think this is the more serious threat when we look back on last year 2019 dozens of people were killed all over the word by rightwing terrorists fear of them in germany and every it take is

a message like i said to other new nazis to do the same so we are really in a critical situation and we also know if the perpetrators don't get the right consequences and if the networks are not really. the danger is rising those suspects should be brought before a judge on saturday with the group and as you watch thank you very much thank you. all right switching gears and to sports now european football's governing body wafer has banned in english side manchester city from champions league competition for the next 2 seasons that's because of serious financial fair play breach its way for said in a statement merely champions manchester city who are coached by pep guardiola were found guilty of having falsely inflated their sponsorship revenues the way for have also find man city 30000000 euros the club says it will appeal the decision.

by bundesliga now and brucey dortmund have been the german. jekyll and hyde seem brilliant one minute helpless the next their passé form is threatening to derail their title challenge this season after losing to leverkusen last weekend they badly needed 3 points night as in form of frankfort come to town i things on ravelled in a flash for dortmund after being free to up i live or cruising level it was. and then grabbed the winner himself just as she minutes was one of dortmund's big name signings it was a better home debut. despite a stunning 1st goal i. was disappointed randy a game like that when you're ahead after 80 minutes if you want to win it. i don't

think we played too badly. i think we played well for 80 minutes and for 2 minutes we were a bit passive. this city is something dortmund can't afford against and trust frankfurt after a dismal december the eagles have come flying out of the winter break unbeaten and 4 in the league they were queuing up to score as the thumped oaks berg last week i think the pressure is on the hosts i. mean i think don't have to win against us if they want to reach that goal of the championship maybe to challenge for the title and we want to continue our run and that's why i think it will be a very very interesting game this interest of the party that i was with european football in their sights frankfurt will be confident that they can inflict what could be a fatal blow to dortmund's title ambitions i this is news and these are our top stories the munich security conference has opened with

a warning from the german president frank alter shimei are told world leaders that a lack of unity in the west is fueling global insecurity in a separate development u.s. officials at the conference announced a deal with the taliban that could lead to peace talks. the united nations says more than 140000 syrians were displaced in the 1st 3 days of this week by violence in the country's northwest in total more than 800000 people have fled a government offensive to reclaim the last opposition stronghold centered on. china says more than 700 of its medical staff are infected with the coronavirus razor. questions about how the country will continue battling the outbreak that's as the virus reached africa with egypt reporting its 1st case. scientists and article have reported that temperatures there have risen above 20 degrees celsius for the 1st time on record this peak was observed on february 9th

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