on the starts february, 4th oh, d w. ah ah ah, ah, ah, this is d w. news live from berlin, france takes the late in europe's diplomatic push over the you crime crisis. french

president, a manuel mat crawl is due to coal op russia late of vladimir putin in an attempt to de escalate the situation. western countries have one last go of severe consequences. should russia invade you crime? also coming up desperation in afghanistan and mom, soft of the taliban takeover, paypal a running out of money, many can't feed their families and their children a close to starving. we find out what's hindering i'd efforts and sport history. beckon's tennis. dow raphael nadal surges into the final of the australian open his dream of a man's record 21st grand slam title is ever closer. ah, i am rebecca writ is welcome to the program. translates the bid for dialogue with

russia to try to diffuse tensions over ukraine, french president emanuel, my call is due to have a phone call with vladimir putin today to determine the russian latest intentions. meanwhile, the u. s. and germany of ramped up their diplomatic offensive warning that the nod stream to gas pipeline could be part of a sanctions package in the event of a russian invasion of you, crime hush, 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 a little, i am not ready to go to war with a fraternal people 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 his own, almost 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. listen, he could, you can still see me. 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. shook aside sir, concerning the document replying to russia's demands bootable. there is a response that allows us to consider the beginning of a serious conversation. but on secondary issues loanable, there is no positive reaction on the main issue in this document only you. another

chance for diplomacy will come next month when russian french ukrainian and german delegates will meet in berlin for talks of morland's bringing out correspondence, emily show and in moscow. and lisa lewis in paris, emily, we've heard from russian foreign minister, sir guy leverett, that russia doesn't want a war. can we expect the same line from vladimir putin? well, that's essentially the line that we've been hearing for several weeks now and even months from the russian side that russia doesn't plan to attack ukraine. and on the other hand that they're allowed to move their own troops within their own borders as they see fit. i assume that that will be the line that let me put and takes today as well. but the kremlin has made it clear that they're open for more talks. they're currently studying the u. s. and nato responds to their demands. but it

does seem like russia wants to leave that military threat on the table. on the one hand, we have upcoming military exercises, joints, military exercises with bella roofs in the next few weeks. and even in some of the rhetoric, there's an underlying threat. i think today we heard from said to a lover off the foreign minister here, and he said that there won't be a war if it's up to russia. so almost kind of shifting the blame. there's been a lot of talk about western hysteria today, lover of also talked about those arms deliveries from the u. s. and the u. k, for example, to ukraine as stoking tensions. and i think let me put in, we'll also not talk about a de escalation today. i think this is part of the strategy on the russian part to leave military tensions high, essentially as leverage in talks going forward so that they can keep pushing for what they want, which is those. those guarantees that there will be no more nato eastern expansion

. and lisa, looking ahead to that phone call. what else can my new offer that isn't already on the table? well, it looks like it's not so much about what he can put on the table. francis offering a different view on the situation. the olivia has been repeating over the past few days to report that the u. s. and other countries seem to be thinking that a russian invasion of ukraine is inevitable. now, france doesn't share that view. they are saying we shouldn't resume this will happen in any case that could turn out to be a self fulfilling prophecy. france is betting on keeping the channels of communication opened. there have been talks this week here in paris, between france, germany, ukraine, and russia. on a 2014 seas fire in east in ukraine, another round of talks. and what was planned in about 2 weeks in berlin. now mind you, these talks for now are taking place on the diplomatic level level of russian. the russian president vladimir putin seems to be unwilling to meet him on my call in

person. but what seems to be certain is that the l e. the will be trying to reach out to him and to de escalate the situation. while he said, thank you lisa louis comparison, emily show and in moscow, thanks to you both may take a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines 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 yawning has conducted 6 weapons tests in january, despite being barred from developing missiles and nuclear weapons. west african laid as a set to hold a summit on the co, the cane of fossa, the leader of the new military june to says, constitutional order will be restored when the conditions of right. he also asked for international support, the u. n. has cold mondays, qu unacceptable. malawi has declared

a state of natural disaster off the storm. tropical storm anna 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. afghan astound 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 u. n. 23000000 people, more than half of afghanistan's population are threatened by hunger this winter, and an urgent need of assistance. some food has started arriving and cobble but much international aid was caught when the taliban took power last august. scarcity of food means many children and now malnourished, and children's medical wards quickly filling up this next report 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 fed milk every hour and she can keep it down to the best 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 out strips capacity. was image glue. yes, letesha. so formation, you 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 me. recently, the international red cross has been supporting the hospital with financial aid and medicine. to 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. 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. 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 off to that low income, isn't she lou, 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, including the who do then see which one with the want to saw. people come to us from all over the country. you'll moodle jim economically. so the children only go home once, they're well enough, but often that back within a few months, when their parents have no more food left to give them well, food program, executive director, david bailey, has been working in afghanistan on the distribution of aid data. but he's at julia sal deli, had a chance to speak to him in berlin about his work. 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 any one 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 on a 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 this 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's poor david beasley, executive director of the world food program. thank you. thank you. watching daily news still to come unsolved questions longer as the trial opens for the suspects in germany's green vault. joe heist at 1st 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 more than a 1000000000 trips during the season, which is why it's called the world biggest annual human migration. and the pandemic is casting a shadow over their genies 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. oh, yeah. because the pandemic situation last year was worse. i also didn't go home. 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 omicron

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 covered flareups, especially with events like the beijing winter olympics looming and february. you know, teasing l. i little, i'm anxious every day because the pandemic is still quite serious. or john, 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 army crown variance in check and still allow my grants to return home for what's the biggest festival of the year? earlier we spoke to correspondence have in catch mary beijing and asked him if the conditions this is for the lunar new year holiday are better than last year. this

really are an atmosphere of insecurity. and that's really one special case. and that's the case of the city of chung, and it's really very close to paging m a model city, a new city planned 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 m 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 imposed, it 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 i am just outside aging, there is a lockdown of more than one me and people and only 3 days later the outside world knows about it. they w southern credit. now then, let's take a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic. a medical convoy from the

united arab emirates has delivered 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 casablanca to produce more. coven 19 vaccines. it hopes to make more than a $100000000.00 units at this site. by 2024. south korea has reported record high 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 army kron variant. south korea has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. while a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines today, a group of canadian truck drivers staged to protest with their vehicles against the government's vaccine mandate for cross border drivers. they due to arrive in the capital ottawa on friday, industry officials say 90 percent of drivers commuting between canada and the united states are already vaccinated. is trailing government has pledged more than

$700000000.00 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 coal, rafe was close to being listed as an endangered world heritage site by the u. n. last year on juris has sworn in its 1st female president, former 1st lady yamato castro, unseated the right wing national party after 12 years in power. she's promised to fight corruption, crime, and poverty. her support for abortion and same sex marriage is made her a controversial figure in the traditionally conservative country. 6 men go on trial today in eastern germany over there alleged roll in the grain volt museum jewel. 5th. the robbery at the dresden museum took just 8 minutes investigated, say the suspects made off with the lute worth at least 130000000 euros and the stolen. james, 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. a pause in italy. i don't have to tell you how shocked we are at the brutality of this burglary to this i'm, it's my job here to let you know, as i'm sure you do find that we're talking about culturally and historically priceless pieces once as tuition and quote, joy. so washing 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 haste was

a well planned attack. for me on this he heard from me the security measures of the dresden state. our collections here at the dressing castle were excellent and comprehensive. that we can see that this is not the case is 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. prosecutors charged 6 men aged between $22.28 with aggravated gang robbery and aggravated arson. when clave as the arrested persons are all men, but all german nationals who come from the so called klan mill. you none of the missing treasures has ever been recovered. experts fear they've been broken up, melted down and sold, and will never be seen again. and joy

now by correspond an emanuel shaft in dresden. so, emma, their 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. they're half to answer for their responsibility. doing at these highs the biggest, highest, her dad to germany has, are known in his, in the, in it's a history to 6 people who belong to the same class as we've just heard in the report. or we know, or we don't know their lawyers or had been asked before the child whether or not they will talk about the chain of events leading to their highs with steve, do not know either they will actually talk and give more information about what happened at night, as speculation that some of the jewels have been melted down already. do authorities think there's any chance that some of the jewelry could still be

recovered? well, i think this will really depend rebeck, on the whether or not the accused will talk about or what happened or, or not. they're not on the accuse of a girl aggravated her theft, her dad and i dared. they also stand accused of art soon. you know, to prepare their heist a day or they use a card, i was a late at burns or down in a residential parking underground parking lot. these are i tele damaged in order a c civic a vehicles. it also in the smoke infiltrated or at least one apartments some on was intoxicated, so they're hard to answer for all that. and of course, or perhaps, or, or not, they would give information as to where at a jewelry either or. or we might, i remind ad viewers at the jewelry he's a man to wears, 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 filter so important a d 's. a whole event has been for the city of dre central people here interest and just by or seeing how much security was deployed here, interest. and today for the trial, dozens of police cars, thousands of police officers are armed with a heavy machine guns. tell you just how tense at the entire city ease just as these child begins to day. ryan enter shall speaking to us from dresden. thank you very much. some sport now in spanish tennis star, i found the doll has powered into the final of the australian open. he bade italy's

mateo bear attorney and is a step closer to a wreck or 21st men's grand slam singles title. he'll play either stephan off to pass or daniel medford, irv in sundays, show pace match. oh, 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 betty name is astray, norton semi final taking the 1st set. 63 needle is only one this trillion open once before in 2009 but a 2nd success edge closer as he took a to set lead. martini managed to claim the 3rd set in melbourne and threatened to come back but no doubt 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, joke of its deported for not being vaccinated against kobe. 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 sunday's final you're watching w news is a reminder of the top story. we're following. foy french president, emmanuel, my call, is due to have a phone call with russian later. vladimir putin ain't to deescalate the crisis of ukraine. in recent wakes, russia has masked some 100000 troops near its border, waiting crime attorneys update this out. our debate show to the point is up next. today the guests on the panel discussed the russia ukraine conflict and ask if germany is letting the west down and have more headlines for you at the top of the hour and go, wait. ah ah ah ah

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