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russian foreign minister survey law tells us counterpart on to the lincoln. but moscow has no plans to load invasion despite russian troop build up bomb ukraine's border. also on the program. is it time to start treating cove? it like any other seasonal illness, highly vaccinated? spain is certainly thinking about it. and you are seeing a mic low press, no info, he's 70 head bath out of hell. has died. age 74. will look back at a legendary career and entertainment. ah, i'm fo gail a welcome to the program. you are a secretary of state and to the blanket on russian foreign minister survey laughter off of and today's high stakes talks over ukraine. the meeting in geneva was held

in the hope of reducing tension. i'm it growing concerns at russia is preparing to invade. ukraine is to love rav inserted. his country has no plans for an invasion, despite the presence of tens of thousands of russian troops near the ukrainian border, at least their talking. but with relations between the us and russia. at an extreme low point, the 2 countries top diplomats had radically different goals. the u. s. to avoid russian military action in ukraine. we've been clear if any russian military forces move across ukraine's border, that's a renewed invasion. it will be met with swift, severe, and a united response from the united states and are partisan allies. russia has said it wants security guarantees from the west, including denying nato membership to ukraine. russian foreign minister,

sergey live ra, said he hoped for a d escalation. we shouldn't have graded, so i spoke frankly about this with tony blanco's uses and he agreed that we need to have a more reasonable dialog, bullard. so i hope that emotions will decrease, although there are no guarantees will suit booths. i to guarantee because you. meanwhile, ukrainians are preparing for an invasion that could come any day. the satellite photos are said to show russian military equipment near the border. tens of thousands of russian troops have also been station nearby. in the east, where any invasion is expected to begin ukrainian soldiers took heart from blinking the european trip. forgot to sign up was an aircraft. i think now when we faced this really tense situation, this is very important for our country, for sure. it shows that we are not alone that we have support here on with a russian threat. we can count on our forces and our allies power is selena. so it says, however, the u. s. has ruled out

a military response to any russian invasion. instead, it is outlined a range of possible sanctions. russia says it doesn't want to get bogged down in endless talks with the us. but both sides say they will indeed keep talking. well, let's see what tyson barker made of today's talks. he's a senior fellow at the job in 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 that you're a thursday. it will present russia where the written response to it security concerns next week. do you expect to seeing real compromise or just

a way to perhaps help russia back down to 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, 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 relegating 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. well, that they might know by might not to where we have, we have the example of afghanistan and america's hasty withdrawal. they without consulting any one. so russia's kind of got it right where it says what the u. s. decides that the rest will find a way of following. i think that a e, that the, the 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 forth this robust effort and consultation of the white house itself, or least i think of 4 or 5 page list of the levels of consultation in nato with the you, with member states, with the always to say that this is a multi lateral crisis. this is not a bilateral crisis, and this is not a superpower crisis unit. this is russia, bowling, its neighbor. and i, you know, shaking the condiments of a multilateral system, talking to and thank you for explain that sir. clearly, tyson baka from the german council on foreign relations. thank you. we'll take a look at the most orders making headlines around the world. now. start in syria where the so called a slam. it stays as long as one of its a biggest attack since he was defeated there in 2019 the militant group targets had

big iran prison in curtis controlled north, east and syria. a thousands of ice fighters are being held report said, dozens of ice fighters escaped. the health minister for yemen, who the rebels says 70 detainees were killed in air strikes, carried out by the saudi leg pro government coalition, humanitarian group, say several children and civilians were killed. the strikes targeted a jail telecommunications have been destroyed, buildings into cities, doctors, local hospitals are overwhelmed with injured victims. you gotta be you got an author quinn's are russia. basha has appeared in court charge with insulting countries president after he posted comments on social media. lawyers representing the prize winning writer said a medical examination showed evidence of torture. mr. rashid, but she has been arrested several times since the publication of the 2020 novel, the greedy barbarian, which deals with high level corruption in

a fictional country. with one of the highest corona, van corona, virus vaccination rate. in the world, spain is now considering its pandemic exit strategy. the government says it's time to start treating covered like any other seasonal and demick, seasonal respiratory disease. it might be a few that resides with a spanish public, but it doesn't yet have the backing of experts. the w xian philip shots reports from madrid, cafe's 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, we must free ourselves of this fear. you can't live in constant fear on the other. no, the, the most el than yoga damage that this virus can still do has lessened considerably

recently funding there they say it him, i think we are learning to live with the virus just as we have with a flu virus and with others. seeing as 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 or 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 one's to keep spreading, that may result in a weakening of symptoms that it causes. but the opposite can also happen. thankful pianist masters of what the hell of and out here. 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. is a look at some more, a quick developments, and they pandemic starting in india, where the capital delhi will remain under curfew over the weekend to curb the spread of only cron the world health organization has recommended that the bond tech 5, the vaccine be given to children between 5 and 11, it's previously only been recommended for use on older children. and ireland is

planning to drop almost all of its a covey restrictions from saturday. after a certain cases did not lead to a significant increase in the number of people requiring. i see you care. island is one of europe's most vaccinated countries. with those rest day in footballs, africa, cup of nations tournament. so let's take a breath and review development. so far, handling mach meadows from d. w sport just happened to be walking by. i glad you could spare at the time are, as of the group stage has had lots of surprises. what have you made of the gauge? well actually the tournament started off quite slowly. lots of wall nil winds, but in the last week it absolutely exploded into life. so many goals, so many shocks. i mean, cameras, what an amazing story. this is a tiny island nation in the indian ocean, 850000 people. and they went and beat garner, one of the big hitters of african football ghana and out of the torment camaros. or in the last 16, they're still dancing in the streets of the capital maroney,

as we speak. and then we had algeria, the holders out in the group stage. i mean, they were made 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. what about the organization of the event itself? i think given we didn't know if this toner 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 pitches. 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 was the pictures have been like then. but on the plus side or with the ref, rees, we've had rwanda's salim up mac and sang, 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 for men, they haven't had a we, a woman refer yet, so congratulations to african for that. on the flip side,

we had one referee who got a little bit confused in the mileage 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. let's look at then to the last 16 starting on sunday. how do you think it's going to potters? well there's some really big clashes, i mean, matches that could have been the final. we've got nigeria against to nicea on sunday. i'm thinking nigeria probably the favorite for the whole thing. now, wednesday with ivory coast egypt, another massive game on a monday. cameroon against cameras. i think cameras is a fairy tale. my in there, i was at seattle mason scope in 2017, when cameron shocked everyone to win it. obviously their home. this time there's more expectation. i think they'll be ca, morrison's book going forward. that might be as far as they get on. i thank you for that. or mark matters from d. w. school. american singer meatloaf has died, age 74. he was best known for his hits back out of hell. and i do anything for love

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