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france takes the lead in europe. diplomatic push over the ukraine crisis, french president emanuel my call is due to call our russian leader vladimir putin in an attempt to de escalate the situation. western countries have worn moscow of severe consequences should russia invading craig, also coming up surveillance footed help police nav the suspects in a german museum. jewel highest trial starts today about the big question remains. where are the missing jims and sport history? beckon's tennis star ross i on the dal surges into the final of the australian open is dream of a man's record 21st grand slam title edges ever closer. ah, i'm rebecca written, welcome to the program. france leads the bad for dialogue with russia to diffuse

tensions o the ukraine, french president emanuel. my call is due to have a phone call with vladimir putin today to determine the russian ladies intentions. meanwhile, the u. s. and germany have ramped up their diplomatic offensive warning that the north stream to gas pipeline could be part of a sanctions package in the event of a russian invasion of ukraine. which and 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, good. i am not ready to go to war with a fraternal people. reflux 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 be his own. also, the up when you are, 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 lesson. you could, you can go for 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. shook aside sir, concerning the document replying to russia's demands, concluded, but there is a response that allows us to consider the beginning of a serious conversation. but on secondary issues global, there is no positive reaction on the main issue in this document. li new. another

chance for diplomacy will come next month when russian french ukrainian and german delegates will meet in berlin for talks of a more. let's bring in our correspondence, emily show and in moscow, and lisa lewis in paris. emily, we've heard from russian foreign minister, sir, guy love rawls, that russia doesn't want a war. can we expect that same line from potent or rebecca? that's pretty much been the line all along from the russian side, that they are not planning an attack. and that also they are free to move their troops for exercises and so on, within their own borders as they choose. it's likely that we'll hear that same line today from vladimir putin. i think it's worth noting, though, that the military threat from the russian side is firmly on the table. on the one hand, there are upcoming joint military exercises with bella ruth, in the next 2 weeks. and on the other hand,

even in the denials that we've been hearing from moscow, there's sometimes a bit of an undertone of a threat, for example, a 3rd, a lot of said there won't be a war if it depends only on russia. so kind of saying that there is a risk and blaming the west for that rest risk, particularly we've heard the kremlin calling the west hysterical and it's response to russian troop movements and exercises. and they often talk about the u. s. and the u. k. the anglo saxons, as they say, as kind of stoke stoking tensions over ukraine. i don't think put in our will announce a de escalation today, because i think that's part of the russian strategy. they want to keep pressure high to get what they want and talks. lisa, what else can emanuel michael offer potent that isn't already on the table? well, it's not so much about what you can put on the table,

but about the different kind of view he's offering on the situation. at the alley there has been telling reporters over the past few days that many countries, including the year seem to be thinking that a russian invasion of ukraine is in editable. but france, this agrees on that they are saying, you know, this could become a self fulfilling prophecy. and we want to prevent that by keeping the channels of communication open. there have been talks this week between the diplomats from france, germany, ukraine, and russia. here in paris, on the, on a 2014 si, fi and east in ukraine, and these talks are to continue in the coming weeks. mind you so far, the talks have also only happened actually on a diplomatic level. there was no meeting between the heads of state is not clear when that will happen. but what it is clear, what is clear, is that the l. e. the will keep trying to negotiate and to de escalate the situation. riley,

st. louis and paris and emily show and in moscow. thank you to you both. let's take a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. there's only a government has pledged $703000000.00 to help protect the great barrier reef. this, in addition to the 2000000000 already promised to shield the ecosystem from environmental threats. the world's largest coral reef was close to being listed as an endangered world heritage site by the u. s. last year. west african leaders are said to hold a summit on the coo and mccain of fossa, the leader of the new military, john to says constitutional order will be restored when the conditions are right. he also asked for international support. the u. n. has called monday's coo unacceptable malawi has declared a state of natural disaster after tropical storm anava made land full. much of the country lost power for several days. mozambique and madagascar were also hit by the

storm. at least 77 deaths have been reported in the 3 countries. the u. s. coast guard is ending its search for passengers on a boat that capsized off the coast of florida. one man same here has been rescued. the vessel carrying 40 paypal had left the bahamas over the weekend. authorities believe this to be a human smuggling tragedy. or 6 man go on trial today in eastern germany over there alleged role in the spectacular grain volt museum jewel. 5th, the brazen highest at the dresden museum, took just 8 minutes investigated, save a saucepan made off with a lute worth at least $113000000.00 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 ties in modern german history. they broke into dresden greenville museum in the early hours of november,

25th in 2019, and made off with $21.00 pieces worth over $113000000.00 euros. it was a huge shock for those in charge. he called in the prison. i don't have to tell you how shocked we are at the brutality of the burglary. fine boss, it's my job here to let you know, as, as i'm sure you do. does that we're talking about culturally and historically priceless pieces, could toys to 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, 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 his shots marked for me, the security measures of the dressed and 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. stoppers with prosecutors charged 6 men aged between 22 and 28 years with aggravated gang robbery and arson. but since i presume the arrested persons are all men, which is all german nationals who come from the so called klan 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. i'm joined now by corresponding emmanuel. shes in dresden. so emma, that trial is getting underway to day. what can we expect?

well what, what we can expect a doing to try our rebecca east to find out about the chain of responsibility here . 6 people are, are accused there have to answer for their responsibility doing these highs. they're a bigger highest data. germany has a known in his, in the, in it's a history to 6 people who belong to the same class as we've just heard into report or we know, or we don't know, are they lawyers or had been asked before the child, whether or not they will talk about the chain of events leading to the highest. we still do not know each day will actually talk and gave more information about what happened at night. as speculation that some of the jewels has been melted down already there will authorities think there's any chance that some of the jewelry could still be recovered. well, i think this will really depend rebeck, on whether or not the accused we'll talk about or what happened or,

or not. they're not on the accuse of a group aggravated earth. have to adapt ny dead. they also stand accused of are so you know, to prepare their highest a day. they use a card. i was a late at burns, a down in a residential parking underground parking lot. these i totally damaged in order as see, civic vehicles. it also in the smoke infiltrated at least one apartments, some on was intoxicated, so they're hard to answer a full all that. and of course, a perhaps or not they would give information as to where at a jewelry ease or, or we might, i remind ad view is that the jewelry, he's a man to a worth is a man to a 113000000 euros. now the city was robbed of some of its most valuable treasures. how have people there been reacting to the start of this trial? well, this had all been very shocking, very extraordinary,

unused back in 2019. and you can really feel there's whole important a d 's. a whole event has been for the city of drake, central people here, interest and just by a seeing how much security was deployed here, interest. and today for the trial, dozens of police cars, thousands of police officers armed with a heavy machine guns. tell you just how tense at the entire city ease, just as these child begins to day or on amersham speaking to his from dresden. thank you very much. as a sport is now in spanish tennis star, rafa le dal has powered into the final of the australian open ebay. italy's motto martini and is a step closer to a wreck or 21st men's grand slam singles title. he'll play either stephanie, sit to pass, or daniel medford have in sundays show pace match. oh,

on the brink of history, rafa nadal needs just one more triumph to become the 1st man to 21 grand slam singles titles. he faced italy's mateo bertina is australia, norton semi final, taking the 1st set. 63 needle is only one the a still you know, once before in 2009, but a 2nd success edge closer as he took a to set lead. bertina managed to claim the 1st set in melbourne and threatened a comeback. but nadar would not be denied. he is level on 20 titles with no back doc, of ich and roger federer, but with federal, injured and 2021 champion, jock of its deported for not being vaccinated against covey. 19 the door has opened for the spaniard. the 35 year old now has the chance to become the most successful men's grand slam tennis by of all time in sundays, final your watching date of the news. as

a reminder of the top story with following foyer, french president, emmanuel, my call is due to have a phone call with his russian count of comp. vladimir putin aim to deescalate the crisis of a you crying in recent wakes, russia has masked some 100000 troops near its border with ukraine. on that sandy is of tape and stay chain for dw use business. coming up after a short break and looking for more news and analysis, there's always our website that's d w dot com. i'm rebecca riches from may and the entire team here. thanks very much for your company. with

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