ah, a with other respects ah, ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, seeking a way out of the diplomatic deadlock with tensions over ukraine running high. the

united states wants to take the issue to the un security council. meanwhile, the kremlin seized little ground for optimism in resolving the crisis. also coming up police comb through surveillance footage to find the suspects in a german museum jewel heist. their trial starts today. but the big question remains, where are the missing jams? and it's often called the world's largest annual human migration, but this year travel in china, head of lunar new year is impacted by coping restrictions. again, we'll have an update from beijing. ah. hello him, terry martin. good to have you with us. the united states has asked that the un security council meet publicly on monday to discuss rushes, military build up along the ukrainian border. you and him master linda thomas green

field called russia's behavior, quote, a clear threat to international peace and order. germany has also warned that the north stream to gas pipeline could be part of the sanctions package should russia and bade ukraine. in recent weeks, russia has masked some 100000 troops near its border with ukraine. russian military drills on the border with ukraine. these are the scenes keeping the west on its toes. yet russia has repeatedly said it has no intention of invading ukraine. and that even the thought of war between the 2 nations was unacceptable. a position also echoed by residence in the streets of moscow. before we were young a little, i am not ready to go to war with a fraternal people we are slavic, and it's not acceptable. there are no threats from the territory of the ukrainian

state. therefore, i believe it doesn't make sense to be his own. what's the up when you want? i understand that there's a risk of a full scale war. but i believe that the parties will manage to negotiate all their disagreement ready to store and come to a consensus lesson. you could, you can go to them. but after the u. s. and nato rejected moscow's main demands, including barring ukraine from ever joining nato. every one is waiting to see how president vladimir putin will respond. so far, the kremlin has offered a glimmer of hope that a d escalation may be possible by keeping the door open for further talks. so cassettes seducer concerning the document replying to russia's demands, concluded was, there is a response that allows us to consider the beginning of a serious conversation the bill. but on secondary issues loanable, there is no positive reaction on the main issue in this document is li new. another

chance for diplomacy will come next month when russian french ukrainian and german delegates will meet in berlin for talks with no solution to the crisis inside the west is becoming clearer on what costs rusher would incur if it invades ukraine. here's us under secretary of state political affairs victoria new lot. we continue to have a very strong and clear conversations with our german allies. and i want to be clear with you today. if russia invades ukraine, one way or another nord stream to will not move forward. and how do you, how did you say that, for sure, where does your conference go for a moment? as i said, we've had extensive consultations at every level with our german allas. i'm not going to get into the specifics here today, but we will work with germany to ensure that the pipeline does not move forward.

sco over to our correspond mathias bellinger in kiya for the latest mathias. a clearer picture is emerging of possible sanctions on russia for any incursion, including the north stream to pipeline is this kind of support reassuring to key of yes it is. it's been law as feeling a long demise, long time demand from keith to stop this pipeline because it seen in key if, as a tool to diminish the importance of offer ukraine as a gas trends it country which would weaken ukraine's position in negotiations with foreign way. could make, make it more vulnerable, also to military incursions. so this kind of deterrence is what ukraine has been hoping for. us present. joe biden says he believes a russian incursion is likely. he's tried to impress that upon us ukrainian counterpart vladimir as lensky has this prompted ukraine to increased his

preparations for a possible invasion while the ukrainian government has been remarkably calm about all this her or this situation. a president has said several times that her he will should stay carmen. let them or an invasion is not imminent. however, they have also been conflicting messages from the ukrainian authors will say that other moments he has discussed extensively possible scenarios of an incursion. om, what has been going on in the past few days, or was that many allies, notably the us and britain have sent weapons to urge to, to ukraine and notably weapons that can be deployed quickly. and that would inflict a major harm on an intruding army. so they have, of course, been preparations and jerk the goal of these preparations is to deter russia by

a signaling that any invasion would have a high cost on the invading army. it would have devastating effects, of course, on the country that would be invaded and her there is some kind of an idea that you can, you can have a balance of, oh, a fur deterrence. if for the other party in the ukraine would be able to inflict major harm on this army if, even if it cannot, defeating mathias a diplomatic talks are set continue in the coming weeks? does ukraine believe an invasion can be averted? i think ukraine is absolutely not sure what to expect and whether an inversion is in an incursion is imminent at all, or whether this is more of a scenario to get the west talking. but of course,

these talks are important to ukraine because if they, if it can be a vote, if it is plan and if it can be prevented, then it's or talks. but he has thank you so much. should he w mathias spelling of that in keith it's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. north korea has released images of his latest missile tests. the launches on tuesday and thursday were of new shortened long range missiles showing has conducted 6 weapons tests in january, despite being barred from developing missiles and nuclear weapons, thailand's navy has says, an oil spill off the country's eastern coast will take at least 5 more days to clear the leak from an under see pipeline began on tuesday and was eventually stopped a day later. the government says it's examining the impact of the leak on the environment. in his 1st address since seizing power the leader of burkina faso

military junta has promised to restore constitutional order when he said conditions are right. but he also warned that betrayal would not be tolerated for kina. fossil military ousted president, rocca boy. busy on monday, after widespread protests against his government on doris as sworn in its 1st, the 1st female president, former 1st ladies tomorrow, castro unseated the right wing national party after 12 years and power. she's promised to fight corruption, crime, and poverty. her support for abortion and same sex marriage has made her a controversial figure in the traditionally conservative country. 6 men go on trial today here in, in eastern germany rather over the alleged role of the spectacular green vault museum. jewel theft, the night time, smash and grab jaw, but the dresden museum took just 8 minutes investigator say the suspect made all

with lute worth, at least a 113000000 euros, and the stolen gems are still missing. the thieves smashed glass display cases with an axe to gain access to the jewels video, surveillance captured images of what's been called the biggest highest in modern german history. they broke into dresden green vault museum in the early hours of november 25th in 2019. and made off with 21 pieces worth over 113000000 euros. it was a huge shock for those in charge. he called in the prison. i don't have to tell how shocked we are at the brutality of the burglary. i'm boss, it's my job here to let you know as of, as i'm sure you do, does that we're talking about culturally and historically priceless pieces could toys so wishing via 100, the 18th century jewels and artifacts, including this diamond laden polish order of the white eagle were part of the

collection of augustus, the strong and 18th century saxon ruler, who also served as king of poland. subsequent investigations by police indicated the heist was a well planned attack. permission on his asthma for me, the security measures of the dressed and state art collections here at the dressing castle were excellent and comprehensive. in fact. and we can see now that this is not the case if the follows. it was nearly a year before berlin police carried out raids on the stronghold of the so called remo clan. a family of arab origin, notorious for its ties to organized crime. suffolk is with prosecutors charged 6 men aged between 22 and 28 years with aggravated gang robbery and arson. but in type as own the resident persons are all men, which is all german nationals who come from the so called klan menus. and none of

the missing treasures has ever been recovered. experts fear they have been broken up, melted down and sold, and may never be seen again. preparations are on their way and china for the lunar new year next tuesday. that means a lot of people rushing home for the holiday. the country's migrant workers are expected to make over 1000000000 trips during the season, which is why it's called the world's biggest annual human migration. but the current buyers pandemic is casting a shadow over their journeys. the annual trek to be home for the start of the year of the tiger is starting in china's cities. travellers returning home from the capital are happy to be seeing their families. for many, it's the only chance every year to see children, parents and friends. but they're also anxious about traveling during the pandemic engineering. oh, yeah. because the pandemic situation last year was worse. i also didn't go home with that. i felt lonely staying here. and that's why i'm very excited that i could

go home this year and i would cherish the time i spent my family fidel, our before the pandemic. the concourse at beijing train station would be packed with people at this time. this year, the number as more modest though the transport ministry expects 1 point one, a 1000000000 trips to be made during the lunar new year travel season. that's a 3rd higher than last year. but many local authorities are urging residents not to come home as they're worried about spreading, the highly transmissible, alma kron variant china has adopted a rigid 0 covert policy. focus on mass testing, extensive quarantines and snap block downs. local authorities are going all out to prevent coven flareups, especially with events like the beijing winter olympics looming in february. you know, he's in our little, i'm anxious every day because the pandemic is still quite serious. or diana,

i don't want to bring trouble to my home town. my way i've tested negative now, but what if it changes to positive and i have no choice, but i'm determined to go home the coming days we'll see a difficult balancing act. how to keep the arm across variant and check and still allow migrants to return home for what's the biggest festival of the year. do you ever get the feeling that the world has been turned on its head? well, one austrian architect in columbia has quite literally turned his world upside down . the casa locker, better known as the upside down house, is the new colombian tourist sensation is not only the house itself that defies gravity, but everything inside it as well. yeah, even the toilets, hundreds of visitors have already flocked to the new attraction just outside of bugger. tom is hoped that initiatives like this one will help boost tourism, which has suffered because of the pandemic. just reminder,

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