a d, w d ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin doubling down on diplomacy as tensions mount over ukraine, u. s. and the u. k. threatened new sanctions. if russia invades, drawing a blistering response from vladimir potent, also coming up on the shout icey roads to the beijing winter olympics, incoming athletes already testing positive for coven 19 into countries including the u. s. staging. a diplomatic boy caught over china's treatment of its bigger

minority and outrage. as a 4th journalist is killed in less than a month in mexico. the government is under growing pressure to staff, our protection, former partners ah . hello, i'm clear, richards, and thanks very much for joining us. the international community is stepping up diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over ukraine. the u. s. and britain are threatening to impose tough new sanctions. if russia invades ukraine, u. s. secretary of state antony blank and has reinforced washington support for keith. russian president vladimir putin, meanwhile, has hit back in his 1st remarks on the crisis in a month. he accuses the west of ignoring moscow's concerns about security in the region. russia still in dialogue with the us and its allies about ukraine,

but president vladimir putin express skepticism about the process. so for the film, a glow near the village of the united states, the most important goal is to contain russia. what that's the thing you wouldn't believe in this sense. ukraine itself is just a tool to achieve this goal. virginia. this can be done in different ways. one of them is to draw into armed conflict on across the border and give british prime minister boars. johnson met with ukranian president followed amir zelinski in a press conference. afterwards. johnson warned that war should be avoided at all costs. russia invasion of ukraine would be a political disaster. humanitarian disaster, in my view would also be for russia for the world, a military disaster as well. and i have the potential invasion completely flies in the face of president putin's claims to be acting in

the interests of the ukrainian people. but ukraine are not completely relying on diplomacy to protect them. president zalinski announced a huge addition to his nation's army. web demos was to shop west william. ah no, wait for them. we will create a new political co operation format in europe between ukraine, great britain and poland was to be within the next 3 years. we will increase the number of the ukrainian armed forces 210-0000 professional soldiers. army in a video released hours before boris johnson's visit, soldiers tested rocket artillery systems, just north of the crimean peninsula, which russia invaded an annex from ukraine in 2014. both sides are preparing for war. while the diplomats try to make peace. earlier we asked our correspondent nick connelly in key if, if the latest diplomatic efforts by the british prime minister will have helped a situation. well, it's definitely all about the optics. it's about

a show of diplomatic. so there to the ukraine, you get the sense right now, that volume is lensky basically has little in the way of breaks between all the western european and central european leaders here, coming to visit him in cave is definitely not his usual. we have the polish premise to day tomorrow, the dutch prime minister in town. and there was little in the way of escalation in terms of concrete steps. there were threats of sanctions, as you mentioned, but given that they're already being spoke about. now you would imagine that any exposed russian companies would have long done their best to remove any assets from the u. k. y u k jurisdictions. but it, ukraine's a very happy to see this. this is a sign of the ukranian population that this issue is not peripheral to the gender across europe. that europe is paying attention to what's being done here on ukraine's borders. and the u. k. has already provided the ukraine army with anti tank missiles. so that is something that has gone down very well and has been seen as a significant contribution to ukraine's ability to defend itself. and as such,

something that sir, makes it more unlikely that russia will actually intervene economy for us and keep it there. now let's change our round up and some other stories making news f, as our denmark has become the 1st european union country to lift all of its pandemic restrictions that include face masks, vaccination passes, and limited opening hours for bars and restaurants. the move comes despite record numbers of coven 19 infections. the government says it's now relying on denmark's high vaccination rate to cope with the omicron variance. the world health organization, meanwhile, has warned countries not to lift all their coven 19 restrictions at once. head of the w h o said omicron should not be underestimated and cautioned as the virus is continuing to evolve, is. authorities in canada has broken up a convoy of trucks that was blocking a major border crossing into the us. truckers staged a protest as part of

a larger anti vaccine demonstration. it walked rhodes in the capital of ottawa over the weekend. german police say the motive for a deadly police shooting on monday was likely an attempt to cover up illegal poaching. to men aged $38.32 are accused of shooting dead, 2 police officers during a routine traffic stop. in southwestern germany, lisa, they found wild animal carcasses in the trunk of the car. and details are emerging after a reported coup in a guinea. basil president who morris is so cool and below has said assailants. armed with machine guns, attacked the government palace for hours. while he and the prime minister were inside that the situation is now under control. and is the latest in a series of attempted military takeovers in the west african nation in recent months. most of which have succeeded, ah,

will come fire near the government seat and be so forcing bystanders to seek shelter. 4 hours president obama, osi soccer and bolos whereabouts remained unclear until he addressed the nation, saying several security personnel had been killed and what he called a failed attack against democracy. this i was in the middle of the council of ministers with all the members, including the prime minister. we were attacked with very heavy weaponry for a duration of 5. 0 yeah. but now everything is under control as well. the african union and the un have both condemned the attempted coup. it is for us, clear debtor calls are totally unacceptable. we are seeing a terrible multiplication of goes and all a strong appeal is for soldiers to go back to the barracks and for the

constitutional order to be fully in place in the democratic context of today skinner vessel. and barlow's opponents had accused the former army general, the election fraud after his victory in the december 2019 roles. he had also recently been at odds with his prime minister following a minor government shake home since independence from portugal in 1970 full guinea b. so has experienced for coups and more than a dozen attempted one on journalists in mexico. our morning, the murder of yet another colleague, the 4th to be killed since the start of the year. the mexico city ranks as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. reporters are being targeted for exposing corruption at the top. the murders have sparked angry protests, and the government is under mounting pressure to make it safer for journalists into their jobs. journalists, little better to lay, though, was preparing to record an interview. when he was shot. he died from his wounds in

hospital the director of the online paper to lead a worked for money toward me. sure can set the team had been receiving death threats for months literally today, those threats became concrete till vehicles, only exposing corrupt administrations and corrupt officials and politicians to day led to the death of one of our colleagues. the other boy was you all on one of the little moon was home, but yes, to lead us killing follows those of 3 other mexican journalists in january 2022 alone. one of them was reporter lured the maldonado lopez. she was found shot dead in her car in the border city of t juana board of he said that the in 2019, she had appealed to mexico's president of it,

our daughter himself. after becoming involved in a dispute with a prominent politician and media owner, julio, the, you know, it brought their level bank with the mr. president of come to ask you for support help and justice because they fear for my life. mobile with either the spate of killings has put reporters across mexico on edge and sparked protests asking the government to step up protection for media workers. one year after the army crew that toppled man mars de facto leader on on sushi streets and some main cities were nearly deserted as worker staged. a silence strike in defiance of the takeover and widespread and non violent demonstrations over the past year were met with lethal force has now some pro democracy protesters are organizing into armed groups, but it's an uneven contest as the hunter is determined to hold on to power dameon

mer regimes responds to popular resistance, tells a story of indiscriminate violence from the 1st protesters gun down. just days after the military coup to air strikes. launched in a remote area in december, sending people fleeing into neighboring thailand by him. and that more and more, the conflict is becoming a civil war. and st protestors are deciding to take up arms with downhill fire. we hate the military dictatorship, colorado, and we've decided to end it by routing out the military from the country. he'd all, i am all making out. we promised to help and try our best to finish them off when the war starts on i'll admit of, i will give him a going on model. when you neither are gonna follow when you

a lot of these antoku activists have joined an ethnic rebel group putting their lives on the line against a regime they've sworn to resist their decision. the sign of desperation, of having no other option, i see the stage so to set for prolonged conflict need aside, seems willing to back down. i just very difficult to see how the conflicts will, will diminish, will reduce, ah, in the, in the near term. even in, you know, over a period of several years, neither side may be strong enough to win an outright victory. meaning villages and army bases like this one will continue to burn while the beijing winter olympics are due to open later this week with united states and other nations staging a diplomatic boycott to protest china's human rights record. and that's not the

only thing casting a chill over the games. growing numbers of coven 19 cases are also worrying. athletes and officials. a beijing insists the games will be safe. arrival at the airport in beijing. chinese workers in protective gear. welcome the incoming olympic teams and their baggage. then it's a p c r test. before a trip to the venues in the olympic village where similar tests are to follow on a daily basis. caution as the watchword, china's cross country skiers are being shielded from foreign rivals. their norwegian coach tells us with this team we have been staying in china full time for the past 2 years. so and they have been extremely careful. we haven't actually computed that the nationally for 2 years of the foreign athletes who have already arrived. 125 of tested positive for coven 19, and have isolated. it's not clear whether they are all get the negative test result

the need in time to compete. the opening ceremony fireworks have been rehearsed. but critics say that china is using the possess of the games to distract from human rights abuses. this is a case have hers is, is that k to turn this pause arina into a space or political is m a c and or talk to white was all those are sizes. but china itself boasts of its strength and promises a safe winter olympics in beijing. and before we go, we're going to leave it with a nail biter if you were afraid of flying. maybe look away now because the video we're about to show you shows 8 dramatic landing at london's heathrow airport. he british airways planet failed to land on 1st attempt. as wind battered the runway. look at best, the aircraft wheels touching the ground. the plane swayed from side to side in the wind, forcing the pilot to head back up into the air. a good thing says planet managed to

successfully land on its 2nd attempts. z a z, a z, a z. oh my god. that's your news update at this hour station for our documentary series, a dog film, looking at the rights of vegas tech, and there is more on our website. that's d w dot com. i'm clear. richardson, thanks so much for watching. ah. we're all set to go to eob eob. yes. citizenship a man. we're all here as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to whatever it takes. policeman following w flyer made for mines.

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