o peak wolf this week on d w a ah ah ah ah, this is dw is 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 sees little ground for optimism in resolving the crisis. also coming up desperation in afghanistan, months after the taliban takeover people are running out of money. many can't feed their families and their children are close to starving. we find out what's hindering aide efforts. and it's often called the world's largest annual human migration. but this year, again, travel in china ahead of the lunar new year is impacted by kogan restrictions. we'll have an update from beijing plus police come 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 jam? ah

hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. the united states has asked that the un security council meet the publicly on monday to discuss rushes, military build up along the ukrainian border. un ambassador linda thomas greenfield, called russia's behavior, quote, a clear threat to international peace and security. germany has also warned that the nor stream to gas pipeline could be part of a sanctions package should russia and bade ukraine. in recent weeks, russia has masked some 100000 troops near its border with you crave 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.

but we were young a little, i am not ready to go to war with a fraternal people like we are slavic. it's not acceptable. there are no threats from the territory of the ukrainian state. therefore, i believe it doesn't make sense to it is almost the up when you want. i understand that there is 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 predicament or to me. but after the u. s. and nato rejected moscow's main demands, including bearing 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. lucas, it's suzanne. 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, easily 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 russia would incur if it by 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 do you say that for sure. where does your cabinet government?

as i said, we've had extensive consultations at every level with our german l. us. i'm not going to get into the specifics here today, but we will work with germany to ensure that the pipeline does not the full scope 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 kia yes it is. it's been law as feeling a long demise, long time demand from keith to stop this pipeline because it's seen in key of as a tool to diminish the importance of offer ukraine as a gas trends. it country which would weaken ukraine's position in negotiations. which one 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 his ukrainian counterpart. vladimir zalinski has this prompted ukraine to increased his preparations for a possible invasion while the ukrainian government has been remarkably calm about all this or, or this situation, a president has said several times that the he will still 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 a to,

to ukraine and notably weapons that can be deployed quickly. and that would inflict a major harm on an intruding army. so um they have of course, been preparations and jerk the goal of these preparations is to deter russia by a signalling 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 o offer deterrence if for the other party, the ukraine would be able to inflict major harm on this army, if even if it cannot, defeating mathias a diplomatic talks are set in tenure in the coming weeks? does ukraine believe an invasion can be averted? i think ukraine is absolutely not sure what to expect and or whether an inversion

is in an and 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 could, if it can be a vert, if it is plan, and if it can be prevented, then it's so talks. but here, thank you so much. should it be as much as spelling of their in kia, say a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north korea has released images of its latest missile tests. the launches on tuesday and thursday were of new short and long range missile systems shown young has conducted 6 weapons tests and january, despite being barred from developing missiles and nuclear weapons. in his 1st address and seizing power, the leader of or keener fossil military junta has promised to restore constitutional order when he said conditions, right. but he also warned that

a trail would not be tolerated. routine of fossil military house did present robbery on monday, after wide spread protests against his government. u. s. coast guard is ending its search for passengers on a boat that capsized off the coast of florida. one man scene here has been rescued the vessel carrying 40 people had left the bahamas over the weekend. authorities believed this to be a human smuggling tragedy. afghanistan is in the grip of a humanitarian disaster. and in the midst of a famine, the crisis has been made worse by sub 0 temperatures in recent weeks. according to the un 23000000 people, or more than half of afghanistan's population, are threatened by hunger this winter, and an urgent need of assistance. some food aid has started arriving at cobble, but much international aid was caught when the taliban took power last august.

scarcity of food means many children are now mount nourished and children's medical wards are filling up. our next report is from the indira gandhi hospital in cobble so weeks hardy had nothing to eat. her mother could no longer breast her and the family couldn't afford to buy milk. 14 days ago they brought her to this hospital and cobble cut off with us because she was much worse before she's fed milk every hour and she can keep it down to the bus because the family situation has severely deteriorated in the past few months. then i have skyrocketed, i have 3 sons and the daughter we were able to buy food. but recent developments of hitches massively, especially the devalue ation of the currency and inflation. i'm a widow and live in someone else's apartment ness sakina used to fee would normally

look after 5 patients. now she has over 20. the number of people currently seeking hospital treatment far out strips capacity was going to get that issue. so for me, she must say more and more of the children we see here a malnourished was this. when you go to our mission, we need more medicine, more space, more stuff and other resources for the many patients in new york, michigan. recently the international red cross has been supporting the hospital with financial aid and medicine. the tara comes from a suburb of cobble and brought her son to the children's ward. jo, most my husband is a teacher. he's not being paid for the last 3 or 4 months. i sold a ring, so i could bring my son here for treatment. the family can only afford tea and

bread to eat. often. there's not enough money for gas for heating or cooking food on. they say my husband will receive his salary, but i don't know if that will happen. last week they announced they would pay and they still haven't. mm hm. so tara has the equivalent of just under 20 years left from the sale of her ring. she doesn't know how she'll get by after that. hello. mm hm. she lou, my son and the son of us, that we can only keep the children here for a maximum of 2 months. we can't keep them any longer because we have to make room for other children. even call me the who do then see which one will at the one a saw. people come to us from all over the country. you'll go to a gym economic visit. the children only go home once they're well enough, but often they're back within a few months when their parents have no more food left to give them world food

program, executive director david beasley has been working in afghanistan to distribute aid . they told d w about what hindering their efforts to help mister beesley could you give us a picture of the humanitarian emergency unfolding right now in afghanistan, afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world with trend over 20 years. at least of conflict with the taliban. and now what we're facing is catastrophic. the number of people that literally are knocking on starvation is door is 23000000 people out of 40000000 people. it is horrific. in fact, i've been there several times of the meeting with families, mothers and fathers. in fact, one mother was telling me how she had to sell her daughter to get food for her family in the hopes that her daughter could be well fed by another family. and so mothers and families are having to choose because they have no money do. if they do have any money, do i buy a cookie? no, to feed my children, or do i buy heating?

oh, to keep my children from freeze to death. this is how horrific it is in afghanistan right now. what kind of difficulties are you encountering in delivering food to the people in need? there, we've been operating in afghanistan before the taliban took over in and quite frankly, it's been quite remarkable. the access that we have, the taliban, i have met with our teams have met with out in the provinces as well as in cobble. and they have assured us allowing us to operate in partially independently neutrally. and dave honored that we've been able to operate, do what we need to do to reach the innocent victims of this conflict if we get the money that we need. and that's our biggest limitation right now we can reach the afghan people without anyone including the taliban interfering with our operations

in that extremely important for us. that is a humanitarian effort. enough sanctions and asset freezes have been applied to the taliban since they came into government and they are hitting the wanted me in afghanistan. hard. should these measures be reconsidered? so the long term solution is not humanitarian aid. the long term solution is going to be the international community figuring a path forward so that afghanistan can revitalize, is economy and move on with his life. because we've got so many crises right now around the world. because if we don't have enough of money more wide, where am i going to get the money to feed all the children in afghanistan? am i going to take it from the children and syria, the children in ethiopia, the children in easier? molly, so this is a very serious issue in the leaders around the world have yet to really sit down and find a pragmatic way forward. otherwise it's going to be catastrophic. as you've said, there's urgent need for funding, not only for afghanistan,

but also for other emergencies. around the world, like yemen and syria, you have many times appealed to the leaders and the millionaires of the world for funding. what has the response been so far? during this coven experience the world's billionaires have made unprecedented money over $5200000000.00 of net worth increase per day. all we need is one day's worth of their net worth increase to really address our short term crisis. is that too much to ask? i don't think so because the world needs the world billionaires who profited during coven, to help the world poor david beasley, executive director of the world food program. thank you. thank you. preparations are underway in 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 corona

virus 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. hayes. oh yeah. because the pandemic situation last year was worse. i also didn't go home. i felt lonely staying here. 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 john ever, i don't want to bring trouble to my hometown, my wife. i've tested negative now, but what if it changes to positive and i have no choice but i am determined to go home. the coming days will see a difficult balancing act. how to keep the army crown variance in check and still allow migrants to return home for what's the biggest festival of the year. in our correspond perio crestwood join just now from beijing hobby on our conditions this

year for the lunar new year holiday better than last year. we're slightly i would say, but i'm just today the district oftentimes announced a really strict measures. now i am the am a residence there, have to undergo daily nuclear testing and they are strict restrictions that you cannot leave. however, he, on the other side of town and child district life goes on relatively as normal. and you, as long as you have your recent test result that is negative, you can leave the city and they are already early signs of the lunar new festival. am. for example, i am a local enable at restaurants. they are close already, am bukosa stuff or he left the city. and yet there's really a balance between 3 things. i mean, of course, of course, are the authorities want to prevent the spread of the virus and the in a 2nd. you have to keep the people happy and give them a chance to visit their family. but 33rd m trouble sees is also very important.

economically you, especially for the domestic spending entity, yet there will be probably one 3rd more trips compared to last year. but if you compare before the pandemic, then it's roughly i'm half of the trips and tickets sold compared to 2019. some places fabi on in china or under lockdown. is it difficult for travelers to know where they can and cannot go? yet this really are an atmosphere of insecurity and there's really one special case . and that is the case of the city of chung and it's really very close to beijing, a model city, a new city plant by the central government and day basically, imposter locked down more than one people or 1000000 people cannot leave the city. they have to stay and endorse, and there's also no trained connections any more leaving the city. but officially it's not called a lockdown that has caused a lot of confusion. obviously this for am political reasons. they call it a voluntary situation. but,

and that does not reflect the reality. and just to day 3 days after this locked on was posted was discovered by international media by a german correspond of deed site. she found young. and that really shows you how well the censorship and the information control. he works if am just outside aging . there is a lockdown of more than $1000000.00 people and only 3 days later, the outside world knows about it. the winter olympics begin in, in just a week from now. how is that affecting people in and around beijing? really not so much. i mean you could argue that the am antivirus mattress are also linked to the am olympic games because it's a sensitive time. but am i mean the games take place behind fences and literally the, the close loop? am the olympic bubble? is it makes sure that there is no physical contact and not even eye contact with the rest of the population. the hotels are fence off their fences outside of the olympic venues and am the residents here?

they cannot buy tickets. so it's really an event that am does not have much to do with the reality of the people and they, the residency and beijing were quite busy with and buying their tickets and deciding whether to go to visit their parents or not. and that was the main topic and not really the olympic games for in thank you so much our correspondent, party and crush mother in beijing. while despite rising covered 19 infection rates, denmark is set to become the 1st country in the european union to drop almost all corona virus restrictions starting next week. prime minister matter, frederickson wants to quote, welcome life as we knew it before cove. it in an experiment that's being closely watched by neighboring countries, denmark's got to this point, mainly because of its highly successful vaccination campaign. it's on everyone's lips, the end of restrictions, even though an estimated $1.00 and $5.00 in copenhagen have had cove. it many are relieved. that was little time now i think people have been longing for this. think

this if the, the prime minister met have had lexan warned people not to underestimate the virus, but said cove, it was no longer a critical threat to society b as to promote for their restrictions over the last 2 years were proportionate. but we've always said we won't have restrictions if they're not necessary. and they no longer jaeger, as indie denmark has already dropped restrictions once that was in september. now, the rate of infections is more than a 100 times what it was back then. the end of restrictions is not possible due to the high vaccination rate. more than 80 percent of people have had 2 jobs. 60 percent have had the booster that makes the illness milder and the pressure on hospitals lower interest and how many would in compared to germany, more people are fully vaccinated in denmark 95 percent of the elderly. i jabbed here. so almost everyone who can be vaccinated has been vaccinated,

that can't be vaccinated uploaded for now. bars and restaurants still have to close as 11 p. m. back from the 1st of february, the party can go on into the night. sh is look at some of the other developments in the pandemic. a medical convoy from the united arab emirates has delivered some 1000000 vaccines to the gaza strip, which has limited access to doses just over 30 percent of the population. there is fully immunized. morocco is building a manufacturing plant in casa blanca to produce more cobra 19 vaccines. it hopes to make over a 100000000 units at this site by 2024. and south korea has reported record hi case numbers for the 4th day in a row with more than 16000 new infections. the health minister says the medical system is stable despite the highly transmissible omicron variant south korea has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world,

sixpence no on trial today in eastern germany of their alleged role in the spectacular green bolt museum, jewel theft, the nighttime smashed and grab job of the dress museum took just 8 minutes. investigators say the suspects made off with lute worth at least 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 the residence 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 a clock in the prison. i don't have to tell you 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 that,

that we're talking about culturally. and historically priceless pieces. could toys, so washing viet 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, an 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 this? he had some off for me, the security measures of the dresden state. art collections here at the dressing castle were excellent and comprehensive. 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. sotheby's little prosecutors charged 6 men aged between 22 and 28 years with aggravated gang robbery

and arson. but in type as own the arrested persons are all men, which is all german nationals who come from the so called clan menu. 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. shed reminder the top story we're following for you today. the united states is asking the un security council to convene on monday to discuss rushes, military build up along the ukrainian border. recent weeks, russia has mass, some 100000 troops near its border with ukraine. up next to the point to our talk program also on ukraine. i'm terry martin, thanks for watching. with

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