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ukraine, and president biden borne's, key of to prepare for a possible russian offensive as early as next month. also coming up desperation in afghanistan, months after the taliban take over, 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 aid efforts. plus, 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 coven restrictions. we'll have an update from beijing. ah. hello him, terry martin, thanks for joining us. stern warnings from the us have a rushes military build up on ukraine's borders on a phone call. thursday president biden urged his ukrainian counterparts law mister

lansky to prepare for a possible russian invasion. washington is also pushed ahead on the diplomatic front requesting a un security council meeting on monday to discuss the crisis. germany has also warned that the north stream to gas pipeline could be part of a sanctions package. should russia invade ukraine? ah, 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 little, i am not ready to go to war with a fraternal people move slowly, 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, 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 disagreements, ready for the store and come to a consensus. listen, you could, you can go from you. 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. italy need.

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 invades ukraine. here's you us under secretary of state for 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 cabinet government? 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 go straight over to our correspondent, emily. sure. when in moscow, emily, the north stream to pipeline is clearly on the table now among possible sanctions. on russia, how serious is the kremlin taking that while publicly russian officials usually down play the idea of sanctions. they kind of say, you know, we've been under sanctions for so long. who cares if there is more? but i do think that the idea of sanctions on nord stream is serious. first of all, of course, it's an economic factor for russia. this is a huge project. and for russia, you know, the main pillar of its economy is income in oil and gas sales. exports and so on. i think it's hugely worrying to russia that the u. s. is making these back up plans for exporting oil and gas to europe in case russia cuts off supplies. so

creating alternative routes that could be damaging to rushes economy. and i think more importantly, when it comes to north stream to there's a symbolic element. so germany, mainly has, you know, really stood up for this project over the years, despite bad relations with russia or differences with russia. it's always kind of defended this project among the european allies as well. so i think, you know, this huge prestige project for russia if that's really stopped, that would be, you know, a blow symbolically in that sense. but also because it would show that germany and european allies really are taking this seriously, and they're willing to incur some economic damage themselves in order to punish russia. bloody may i put you in is due to talk with a manual in the con, the french president this morning. what are the chances,

emily progress being made there on the diplomatic front? well, i think this is an interesting phone call because it's the 1st high level talks that we're seeing after the written response that russia received to its demands from the u. s. and nato this week. so i think monday, my call will kind of been taking the temperature with what we're putting in what we are putting has been kind of quite quiet actually on this whole issue. and on the question of security guarantees, basically for a month. so i think it will be interesting in that sense, most likely the 2 leaders will also talk about the talks in the norman d format, which happened just recently and their new rounds of talks planned on that. those of course talks over ukraine and the peace process there, including france, russia, ukraine, and germany. but i think for the russians, this is kind of a side issue, the ukraine question, the normandy format. that's a side issue. they essentially want these,

these security guarantees from nato and the u. s. they have been issuing demands to nato in the u. s. so the europeans are kind of, you know, on the sidelines there. but it shows that russia certainly willing to keep talking on all levels and with all leaders. emily, thank you very much. t w's, emily sure. when they're in moscow, catch up on some of the stories making headlines around the world today. 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. tony has conducted 6 weapons tests in january, despite being barred from developing missiles and nuclear weapons. in his 1st address since seizing power, the leader of burkina faso is military hunter has promised to restore constitutional order when he says conditions are right. but he also warned that the trail would not be tolerated. keena foster's military ousted president rocca bora,

on monday, after widespread po, tests 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 believe this to be a human smuggling tragedy. and malawi has declared a state of natural disaster after a tropical storm on a made landfall. much of the country had lost power for several days. mozambique and madagascar were, are also hit by the storm. at least 77 deaths have been recorded in the past 3 in the, in the 3 countries. i've gotta stand 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 in urgent need of assistance. some food aid has started arriving in cobble but much international aid was cut when the taliban took power last august. scarcity of food means that many children are now malnourished, and the children's medical wards are filling up. this 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 he made his. 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 as the prices have skyrocketed, i have 3 sons and the daughter we were able to buy food. but recent developments of

hitches massively, especially the evaluation 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 outstrips capacity, was glued 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 staff 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 that will happen. last week they announced they would pay and they still haven't gotten to them. 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. amazing. she can, i am my son and the son of that. we can only keep the children here for a maximum of 2 months. we can keep them any longer because we have to make room for other children. im even including the who do then see which one i want to saw. people come to us from all over the country. you'll do a jam, megan, i'm lisa. the children only go home once. they're well enough,

but often they're back within a few months when their parents have name or feed left to give them preparations or 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 a 1000000000 trips during the season, which is why it's called the world's biggest annual human migration. but the krona 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 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 does a 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 chron, variant china has adopted a rigid 0 covert policy. focus on mass testing, extensive quarantines and snap lock downs. local authorities are going all out to prevent coven flare ups, especially with events like the beijing winter olympics looming and february. you know, he's in l unable, i'm anxious every day because the pandemic is still quite serious. oh john,

ever. i don't want to bring trouble to my home town on my way. 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 alma chron variant in check, and still allow migrants to return home for what's the biggest festival of the year . just reminder the top story we're following for you here to the on the w news. the united states is asking the un security council to convene on monday to discuss rushes, military build up along the ukrainian border. in recent weeks, russia has mass, some 100000 troops near its border with ukraine. you're watching dw news from berlin up next. we've got a documentary film looking at move hi, thanks for watching. soccer is a sport of many colors.