frankfurt a international gateway to the best connection, south road and radio. located in the out of europe, you are connected to the whole world to experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services or be our guest at frankfurt airport city. managed by from bought lou. ah, ah ah, this is news line from berlin. italy's political leaders convinced their 80 year

old presidents sergio montera is reelected as a head of state for a 2nd term. after days of debate, fail to yield consensus honest, suitable successor, also coming up. ukraine called on the west, not to fan the flames of war. president va, loan, amir, the landscape as mornings of a russian invasion are hurting his country. the west for paris, the central eastern europe, and germany green party, who likes to new waiter is offering the old jewel step aside to focus on their cabinet jobs. you speak to one of the new team in charge. ah, i'm to call for a little while come to the show. after 6 days and 8 rounds of boating, sergio montera la has been re elected as president of italy,

80 year old incumbent had repeatedly said he didn't want to serve another term. but prime minister mario druggie urged him to stay on to ensure political stability in the country mutter rella emerged as a compromise candidate. after all other candidates put forward by the coalition government failed to garner enough support. journalists seem like today is standing by for us in room with the latest fema. it's not every day that a president has to basically be begged to stay in power. what convinced mother a lot to stay on? yeah, if i mean he was very reluctant to e t e o president, already having served 7 years, seen 5 different governments. he was already planning his move out and his other future plans, but i think he sensually it was that sense of responsibility that made him take on the mandate. yes, again, i mean, as you mentioned my drug you,

the current prime minister seeing essentially we saw political stalemate de block over the last 6 days and he reportedly told him, please remain for the sake of the good of the country, of the stability of the country. and the political party leaders also pleaded with him on that front. so really, i think the pressure was simply too much. it's interesting to note that he got 759 volts that's way above that 505 threshold that he needed to park. and there was 4 minutes of laws after you passed that threshold. when it was clear that sergio martha rella will be serving a 2nd term. is it president a popular candidate? 8 rounds, almost a week of voting all to elect a very reluctant candidate. why was such a complicated endeavor? well, the entire process is complicated to, to begin with. the 1st few days it started on monday, the 24th of january,

the 1st few days are really unique to get to 3rd majority in order to get it across. and then it moved to a simple majority of $505.00, but that was the 1st thing. the basic problem was essentially no one block where the center, right, or center left, had enough boat to reach 505. so they needed to come up with a consensus candidate and they could not simply agree, i decide put forward certain candidates. but the other side said no. on top of that, there was concern within each political grouping or party because it's the secret ballot. so party political needed can't control how little members are going to actually cost the vote. so there was also frustration in terms of the delay, many parliament terry and decided open parties as grouping decided to talk blank ballot or to extend. now this is either in protest or in order to continue with

backroom negotiations across parties to find this consensus candidate. so essentially that slight drag dog with so long the rug in rome, thank you. us defense officials or warning that russia has deployed enough forces to invade all of ukraine presidential by meanwhile, has sent. he will send american troops to nato's eastern flank, but ukrainian president malone, amir lensky, has cautioned the west, again stoking fears of russia military action. meanwhile, the president of the federation of german industries, as germany's economy is not dependent on north stream to pipeline has been appoint attention. it might be used impossible sanctions against russia. ones open, it will send gas from russia through the baltic b directly from germany. and for more, i'm not now joined by andrew ross. he's an expert on russian security and defense policy as a german council on foreign relations. welcome to

d. w. ukraine called for com. but there are reports that russia has even started sending blood supplies to its true troops along the border with ukraine. it really does seem like russia is ready for war. how far do you believe who is willing to go here? just the $1000000.00 question. right. so far seems to be the russian capabilities concentrated along your range border, including recently also your northern neighbor bellows. these russian capabilities are soon going to raise just like a level permit russia to take lunch and major up against ukraine. should the russian president dislikes so far, however, it seems to be the very final decision has not yet to be taken. nevertheless, the concentration is indeed occurring both in terms of scale, location, and composition. and us, rather than by wants to boost nato's presence in eastern europe. russia plans to

stage of military exercise and well, a roof mid february. that is really a far cry from b escalation. when do you believe we could see tensions reduce and in what way? this is something easier, too early to tell. unfortunately, right now the trend is quite the opposite. military tensions are growing, but all of the growth of russia military contract concentration in bottles. there are some fundamental laws about official and russian americans concerning this exercise. even more importantly, and the location of the russian groups move to bottles do not correspond to the location of the visually designated training areas. in other words, rush, i am asking groups right along the ukraine by russia border back. there are no training wrong school should be doing an exercise to groups shall not just be on,

not be there about the de escalation more, more credible sign of the escalation would be some kind of a declaratory move. but if the group concentration would start decreasing significantly, unfortunately, there germany has strong economic ties with russia and the gas pipeline north stream to is increasingly mentioned a bargaining chip, but would putting north stream to on the line really have much of an impact on negotiations with russia so far the fate of knocking to, i mean, better, it finally gets commission. so can officially be put in use has been one of the blocking factors. one of the problematic issues in a transfer 20 coherence regarding russia and from the rational side north into has been one of the kind of hopes that russia has been relying on hoping to divide the community to see if the german position of the north city will change and the 3 of

the question about that north will not be funded necessary for government, and this would become the core main position. this would be kind of russia bargaining position and grant grant that when people hear significant spots from the german council on foreign relations. thank you so much for your analysis. thank . so take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. a powerful winter storm packing. heavy snow and high winds has hummel large parts of the us east coast. thousands of flights were cancelled as severe weather alerts were sounded across our region. around 17 spanish rescue workers have picked up 86 my friends who have been stranded in to ding, ease all the canary islands. the archipelago off the coast of west africa has become the main destination for migrants trying to reach a member state spain. germany green party has elected new leaders

to cap off its 2 day conference in berlin. delegates selected 28 year old lucon, a lung who until now had been deputy co leader of the greens and foreign policy expert went newly for the greens are part of the government coalition and germany and are currently embroiled in a scandal overkill with 19 payouts designs electing new leaders, the conference was meant to reassure members the marty is capable of staring germany in the right direction. and we can now speak to ricardo along the greens, new coal leader, and welcome to d w. miss long. first of all, congratulations to the election, of course. what are you hoping to achieve as the youngest ever co leader of the green party? well, i think there's 2 talk we have to handle the same time as to cream party or us. we just charge the coalition and the government. at the one hand, we have to put the things we have now. a coalition pay put into reality from

a child guarantee free to exit of coal. and on the other hand, we have to gain the trust of more people and get more people to engage with person to trust in us, especially in rural areas. and i think we as a party of to play our part in getting these chops to fit together a party did receive huge support and last year's general election. how are you planning to maintain this momentum and reach even more people? i think 1st of all, we have to show that it makes a difference. if the greens are in the government, the life of people is getting better with us being in the government. not the other hand, we need to look at the parks where people still maybe have some feelings off. well, i don't really know whether to trust them, especially people who don't have a lot of income or people who live in rural areas. and to tackle the issues that really interested people and just show them that we are part of this fighting for

their interest. and for their rights, what will your role be in, in that process? where do you see yourself making a difference? first of all, i think that takes you to come and you have to party will be kind of like a link between the government and the one of the party members. on the other hand, then i think that we will be something like a motor for ideas. so we will thing to form in longer terms to test the coalition. and we will have to put forward you ideas. and i think we will also be responsible for showing the queen positions because was in the government who will have to make compromises. this is something normal, this is not something bad, but we still have to see what is the difference between our queen positions and what is happening in the government at the moment. and i think the party will be the one showing that as a member of the executive board of the greens, you are currently under investigation for awarding yourself a coven bonus of 1500 arrows and 2020. you greenlit measures that you yourself

benefited from financially. how do you explain that decision to potential voters? debt case has already been bye to discuss this and last year the money was paid back. nowadays, i wouldn't make the same decision again. i think what is important now. i proud from paying it back, which we are a debt learning from that 3rd party getting better. get yourself new rules within this subject. do you understand, though, that some people would say that that overshadows your leadership role in the party? i would not say that because i think the party today showed that they gave us a strong position with me and i'll be moving for the day a standing behind us. and i think now to parties looking into the future just as so much for us to gain and especially to us so much change. we're going to society from climate protect you to getting pill per your children out of poverty. i think

this has to be the things that we are looking at this moment. we're kind of lung away elect and green party co later. thank you for your time today. yeah, no problem, bye. it and women's tennis world number one asked bardy has won the australian open after beating danielle collins and the final on saturday already becomes the 1st australian and 44 years to win the home title. a 25 year old took the 1st set, 63, the 2nd that was a back and forth battle with her american opponent, taking a 51 lead bardy font back to win on a tie break. the victory is marty's 3rd major title. after the french open in 2019, and wimbledon last year, moving on to the africa cup of nations where host cameroon, have made it into the semi final 2 goals from coll, toko. it can be secure there when against gambia. before burkina, faso b, tunisia to also move forward into the last 4 on sunday,

egypt faced morocco and cynical play equitorial guinea american football superstar tom brady has announced his retirement from the sport after 22 seasons, a 44 year old quarterback played his last 2 seasons with the tampa bay buccaneers, with whom he won the super bowl in 2020 before falling short in the divisional. around this season. brady previously played for the new england patriots and holds a record 7 superbowl victories and the nfl watching d. w. news line from berlin state, you're now for shift living in the digital age. we'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour until then remember, there is always our website, c, w dot com and go further from me and the entire team. thank you so much for watching. ah,

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