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united states pledge to keep talking to ease tensions over you cried. reading in geneva, russian foreign minister. so guy laugh ralph tells us counterpart on to be blinking, but moscow has no plans to launch an invasion, despite to russia's troop build up on ukraine's border. also on the program. is it time to start treating cove? it like any other things? no elder, i'm evacuated, spain is considering doing just that. and ah, yes figure miklos barry 70 hit bad out of hell is died. age 74. will look back at the legend career at the time. ah, i'm fil, gail a welcome to the program. secretary of state, and they blanket and russian foreign minister,

so guy laughed off of and today's high stakes talks over ukraine. the meeting in geneva was held in the hope of reducing tension and red, growing concerns at russia's preparing to invade ukraine. russia's mass, tens of thousands of troops near ukraine's border. but mister love, rough insisted, his country has no plans to invade both sides or keeping the door open to diplomacy . you are saying it would respond in writing to russia. security demands. next week . we'll hear 1st from antony, blinking, a man from survey laughter of that's the choice, the grocer faces. now, you can choose the path of diplomacy that can lead to peace and security, or the path that will lead only to conflict. severe consequences and international condemnation. the united states and our allies and partners in europe stand ready to meet russia on either path and we will continue to stand with you crisis. so i spoke frankly about this with tony blankenship and he agreed that we need to have a more reasonable dialogue. 0 so i hope that emotions will decrease,

although there are no guarantees with guarantee. well, let's say what tyson baka made of today's talks. he's a senior fellow at the job and council on foreign relations here in berlin. welcome back to d w. i have today's talks made any difference to the stand off. i think that it is again, just about keeping those lines of communication open. but i think that both sides are pretty dug in. and now the united states, along with its european partners, need to run os contingency plans all scenarios in the event that something occurs. then usa, it will present russia with a written response to it. security concerns next week. do you expect to see real compromise or just a way to perhaps help russia back down and say, face well, anything that would provide russia a, an off ramp in this without compromising, as you said,

without compromising nato's bedrock principles, including the open door principle. the principle that democracies can join nato, the principle of article 5, that is the borders of nate or insoluble. i think anything that that should be on the table, anything that could give russia that offering. but it's, it's hard to envision what that would be, and that includes definitely pulling back us presence in nato allies. has russia succeeded in turning this ukraine crisis into a big boys game between moscow and washington and renovating everyone else? germany, france, the u. k. even ukraine into the position of bystanders. that is certainly one of its objectives or what one of putin's, let's say diplomatic objectives is to elevate the status of russia back to the status of the soviet union. that there are 2 big boys that you mentioned on the block, and they need to negotiate at eye level with each other rather than involving the

rest of europe. and the idea of kind of drawing the map going back to y'all to is definitely something that they would like to see tony blankets a trip through europe was it was basically to counteract that to say, you know, 1st we're talking to ukraine, then we're talking to the european allies, and only then we'll, we'll talk to russia because we want to consult with them because they're, they have to buy into any kind of diplomatic or any kind of diplomatic solution. will that make their minds a note by might not where we have, we have the example of afghanistan and america's hasty withdrawal. they were consulting anyway, so russia's kind of got it right when it says what the u. s. decides that the rest will find a way of following i think a, b, b, a biden administration has learned a lot from afghanistan, that you know, not planning for our contingencies and not consulting appropriately with allies. we've invested, had invested so much over 2 decades. was something that they don't want to repeat,

and that's part of the reason that they're really putting course, this robust effort in consultation of the white house itself. or at least i think of 4 or 5 page list of the levels of concentration in nato, with the, with member states, with the always to say that this is a multi lateral crisis, is not a bilateral crisis. and this is not a super power crisis. this is russia, bowling, its neighbor, and you know, shaking the condiments of the multilateral system, talking to thank you for explain that so clearly tyson box from the german council on foreign relations. thank you. take a look at the most doors making headlines around the world. the so called islamic states is launch one of his biggest attacks in syria since it was defeated there in 2019 the militant group targeted the wire on prison encourage control northeast in syria, where thousands of virus fights is a health report, say dozens of ice fighters have escaped aid has arrived for the residents of

opera in western garden after a massive blast level building on thursday authority. se i'm initial investigation shows a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine collided with a motorcycle and another vehicle. please confirm 13 deaths and revised down from 17 the health minister for you haven't seen the rebels a 70 detainees were killed and asked drugs carried out by the saudi lead pro government coalition, humanitarian group say several children and civilians were killed. the strikes targeted a jail, a communication to help and destroy buildings into cities. doctors local hospital say they're overwhelmed with injured victims. you got an author question, she b bash. basha, as announced, has appeared in court judge with insulting countries president after he posted comments on social media. lawyers representing the prize winning writer said and medical examination showed evidence of torture is to rashly russia. russia has been

arrested several times since the publication of his 2020 novel, the green barbarian, which deals with high level corruption in a fictitious, in a fictional country that be one of the highest corona virus vaccination rates in the world. a spain is now considering a pandemic exit strategy. the government says it's time to start treating cove. it like any other endemic, seasonal respiratory disease. this might be a view that results with the spanish public, but it doesn't yet have the backing of the experts. they don't lose young philip shots reports from mildred cafes full of people enjoying the sun in the spanish capital. some guests may even have called it the infection rate is breaking records by the day. but it seems like almost nobody cares. apart from a general mass mandate, few measures are being taken against the virus. but i mean,

like we must free ourselves of this fear. you can't live in constant fear on the other. another the most el than yoga damage that this virus can still do has lessened considerably recently. funding there they say it in i think we are learning to live with the virus just as we have with a flu virus and with others is getting on day at a man. they know this relaxed attitude is partly based on spain's vaccine nation success. more than 80 percent of spaniards have been jumped at least twice, while the number of hospitalizations has been rising for weeks. the high death rate seen an earlier waves has been absent. that's why spain government has now taken a radical step. there will no longer be mass testing are strict quarantine rules in the future. instead, the infection rate will only be estimated if flu instead of a deadly pandemic. this is how prime minister sanchez wants to treat the corona virus in the future, and he sees them serve as a pioneer in europe. but they're also critics that say that it's too early for such

experiments. they point out that many spanish clinics continue to work at their limits. one of spain's leading experts, isabella sola also are just caution. she conducts research on the corona virus at the national center for biotechnology class leaders by emerson gun. but we must stay prepared for surprises. the virus development is simply unpredictable, of course, at once to keep spreading, that may result in a weakening of symptoms that it causes. but the opposite can also happen. thankful pianist matters of what the hell of an idea at the moment. it seems as if it's the people in spain who want to surprise the corona virus with their new attitude. after 2 years of pandemic, they seem to no longer one to believe that the virus can still be dangerous. ah, there today is the 1st rest day in footballs, africa, cup of nations tournament. so let's take

a breath and review development so far. handling mark meadows from d. w. sports just happened to be walking by. i glad you could spare at the time are as though the group state has had lots of surprises. what have you made of the gauge? well, actually the tournament started off quite slowly. lots of one nill winds, but in the last week it absolutely exploded into life. so many goals. so many shocks. i mean camaros, what an amazing story. this is a tiny island nation in the indian ocean eater than 50000 people. and they went and beat garner, one of the big hitters of african football ghana. now out of the torment camaros or in the last 16, they're still dancing in the streets of the capitol maroney as we speak. and then we had algeria, the holders out in the group stage. i mean, they were meant to be one of the favorites. i mean, really mar, as the mazda city style was meant to lead them to another title. and it's all gone very badly wrong. okay, so but yeah, but we like taught them with surprises or what about the, the organization of the event itself?

i think given we didn't know if this tunnel was even going to happen until the week before because of cove it cameron is in a pretty good job. there's been a few problems with the pictures. the pictures look very bare. i mean, originally they wanted to play this tournament in june and july, last year. so you think about, what would the pictures have been like then? i'm but on the plus side or with the referees, we've had ruined us salim, up more. can sanger become the 1st female to referee amends? african nations cup match, and africa is well ahead of the curve. if you think about european football championship to men, they hadn't had a we a one, a woman referee yet. so congratulations to african for that. on the flip side, we had one referee who got a little bit confused in the mallet unity. again, he blew for the final whistle. after 86 minutes football matches last 90 minutes. we think it was heat stroke, but that wasn't a good look, right? look at then to the last 16 starting on sunday, how do you think it's going to patterns? well the some really big clashes. i mean, matches that could have been the final we've got nigeria against to near on sunday

. i'm thinking nigeria probably the favorite for the whole thing. now, wednesday with ivory coast egypt and of a massive game on a monday, cameroon, against co morals. i think tomorrow is a fairy tale. my end there, i was actually at the nation's gulf in 2017 when cameron shocked everyone to win it . obviously their home this time there's more expectation. i think no become or sons, but going forward that might be as far as they get on. i thank you for that. mark matters from d. w. school. one of the biggest voices in rock music has fallen silent. marvin lee at a better known as meat loaf has died at the age of 74. he sold more than 100000000 records in korea that spans 6 decades. so he is a look back at his life and vacancy. oh

us sing a meat loaf died on thursday at the age of 74. i was finger whose real name was marvin lee a day initially pursued a career in musicals and 1st affected wider attention. as eddie in the rocky horror show it to be a music baby. oh no. now album back out of hell came in 1977. it's so 43000000 copies. ah, the hits followed, but his career suffered at times due to truck related problems and disputes with the right to of his hit songs. jim steinman, he was happiest on stage performing for his loyal and devoted fans. that's easy. the fact that they have bought tickets come to shows.

and the majority of my loved one, i'm done. that's been the best present then you can ever get. ah, now the big man of the rock ballad has gone. but the music lead zone. ah ah, oh, key that's it show up to date. i'll have more world news at the top of the hour. a news asia with berrish battery is next. i'm good.