or a longer healthier and fuller life. one of the most insightful discoveries in the history of mankind. more life starts february 16th on d, w. ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. the crisis over ukraine escalates us, moves 3000 troops to beef up its presence in europe. russia denounces the deployment as destructive and likely to increase tensions even further. a warning

from scientists, greenland is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet. and faster than ever before, the ice keeps melting faster, and time's running out to stop it. and just the day to go before the winter olympics begin in beijing. mores over china's poor human rights record, could push sport to the sidewalk. ah, i'm gabelle, thanks for joining us. in an escalation of the crisis over ukraine, you as president joe biden is mobilizing 3000 troops to reassure nato allies of washington's commitment to collective defense. the pentagon has emphasized it is not sending troops to ukraine, but added that the build up is meant to deter russian president vladimir. since

from invading the country, kremlin has denounced the true build up as destructive saying it's likely only to increase tensions. another day, another increase intention over ukraine. the u. s. is sending 2000 soldiers to poland and germany one another, 1000 move from germany to romania. the current situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on nato's eastern flank. president biden has been clear that the united states will respond to the growing threat to europe's security and stability. our commitment to nato article 5 and collective defense remains ironclad. the pentagon may declared that no us soldiers will fight in ukraine. ukrainian president followed them to lensky said, diplomacy comes 1st, but no options are off the table. only. we only think about t somewhere. we only think about the return of our occupied territories and only

through diplomacy, lamentation of shall issue. betia. we will not give up with a single piece of our land to day yolanda. we will not give up our territories when they read them, no matter what the price, your captain ah, ah, jeez, but i would nibble on despite the landscape reassurances others are preparing to do battle. if it comes to a fight. former boxing champion vladimir kitch, go signed up for the army. his brother vitaly accompanied him in a show of support. we another week and an aggressor have to understand you, they do it. activity aggressive are duty against you brain. you have to pay huge price for that. when it had to fight leaked documents, confirmed by the pentagon, revealed the back room diplomatic efforts to avoid war. the us offered russia access to inspect key military sites in return for a d escalation. russia says it has no intention to invade ukraine,

but these pictures released by russia's defense ministry showing joint combat drills with ben roofs send a clear message. russia is not backing down a german is john. so all of shaw said on wednesday that he is planning to meet with president vladimir putin to discuss tensions between ukraine and russia. the tradition of shock with of course, i have also spoken with the russian president. and of course, we are carefully preparing everything that needs to be done. use our phone. i will now be going to the us and i will be continuing the conversation on the necessary issues in moscow soon as you know, it's important that the policies of the european union and nato are coordinated. but it's also important that the decisions that we take are the result of sound preparation and hard work. muskets ignore metadata. all, it turns out that olaf showed speaking. then for more i'm now joined by moscow based journalist j cordell jake. so far, germany has given varying signal on this crisis. what will russian leaders want to

discuss with all of scholes when it comes to moscow? yes, french president emmanuel crone has really been leading open the most vocal and high profile figure in terms of europe's response to this crisis. so this is, are those all of shows trying to assess his dominance, get back in the driving seat when it comes to shaping this agenda on russia. and germany probably is the european country with the most cause to play when it comes to putting pressure on russia bar, as we've seen so far, quite high reluctance to do so within germany. we've seen that germany hasn't been sending military suppor. ready it's been pushing back against the idea of letting other countries and german made weapons to ukraine on like other european countries, which have been doing that. but as a germany does have the most cost, in particular over the news stream to pipeline, all it shows is only finally said that he would think about possibly sanctioning not letting that pipeline coming to commission were russia to the ukraine. what i

suppose the message should be taken to moscow is a more clear idea of what that means when, under what conditions would that pipeline come under attack? and would he be prepared to potentially sacrifice parts, the german economy, german businesses, we know there's an energy crisis on going will most go by that he's ready to to pay the price of those heavier sanctions. so as we heard, the us says it will deploy thousands more troops to europe. how is the crime, lynn? reacting the crime in reacting probably largely as you'd expect. pushing back saying this is a destructive move by the us saying that it reduces the options for a political settlement be reached in the coming days. and i think what this really shows is what we've seen long this high rectory coming out from both sides about the dangers of military committee. they report groups that now if you look on paper, of course, this is fairly symbolic. move troops by the us. this is 3000 troops being repositioned

from germany to romania and to poland. whereas the russian side, there's 100000 troops just near the ukrainian border. another 30000 troops going in 2 bedrooms in the next in the next few weeks are the criminal says this simply proves our case. this proves that the u. s. one states circle russia and therefore we have to go back to negotiate table and get those. i in cost guarantees, the new members will not join nato without roches permission. does the russian government perceive the west as united or divide it briefly? if you can? you know, this is the criminal speciality finding divisions in its opponents and driving them through. if we just look at who is met and spoke to over the recent days, he had a hungarian president vick, the old man in moscow earlier this week. and he really feels that if he can find a weak link within the you, he knows they only takes one or 2 members to veto any potentially halting sanctions policy. so he's searching desperate for that. and he's in that context, all of shows visit will come and he really needs you from his perspective. show

unity check what else moscow many times. now let's have a quick round up of some of the other news making headlines today. shares in facebook on a meta plunged by 20 percent an after hours trading on wednesday. not going to massive. $200000000000.00 of the company's value. fall came off. the chief executive mazacco broke, told investors that metal expected 1st quarter revenues to fall due to competition from rivals, such as tick tock. seeing that the 1st time in almost 2 years, new zealand will begin reopening its borders from the end of february. under the new rules, vaccinated citizens entering the country still have to self isolate or can do that at home. instead of in hotel warranty. new data released this week by danish research. it shows that grievance, massive ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to cover the entire

united states with half a meter of water. the arctic is warming faster than any place else on earth and ice melting away from greenland is now the main contributing factor in rising sea water levels. on the front line of climate change, current studies show green lands rapid melt is helping push up global sea levels. they've risen by an average of $1.00 centimeters around the globe. daughter see him all the up the arctic ocean especially is warming up. that's led to this dramatic melting of ice. the ice sheet at the top of greenland is actually continuing to grow. but the ice lower down is melting away, much quicker than what's going on topic. this is free, if you me, i thought all of called this nasa model shows just how rapidly it's happening since 2002, 4700000000 tons of ice have melted away from greenland coasts. that's enough to put the whole of the united states under half a meter of water. rising sea levels are

a threat to us all you can get here and the insulin that see the islands of the pacific countries like bangladesh, but also here in germany. it also plays a role for the german coastline guy. we're already strengthening our defenses. it all costs a lot of money. and so we're also affected by the right and see levels of climate researches, a warning that time is running out it urging politicians to act. now, greenland glaciers, a melting 6 to 7 times faster than they were 25 years ago. and an end to that development is nowhere in sight. begging will become the 1st city in history to host both the summer and winter olympics. when the latter officially begins on friday with almost 3000 athletes competing for glory over the coming weeks, despite having spent more than 3 and a half 1000000000 euros in preparation for the international sporting event. china has found itself central controversy with the build up political, environmental,

and health concerns of dominate, been dominating headlines with the sport at risk of becoming a sideshow. joining me now from bay ging is jonathan crane from dw bowls. jonathan, you've been a big enough for a couple of days. what's it been like living in the olympic bubble? i have to say. it's been a very serious experience, like nothing i've experienced before from the moments we landed in beijing on tuesday, we were greeted at the apple playground stuff and has not master through every step of the apple for p c r u. s. customs and immigration, and then we had to wait in our hotel room for that all important negative test result. thankfully i got it, which means i can answer the bubble properly, but the bubble is effectively a 50 within the 50. we can already be in the hotel games venues. special transport

takes us in retreat. and as you can see behind me, the olympic stadium is that this is as far as we can go within this media compound, we're take it off. we're watching the people on the other side. they're watching us . it's a really bizarre situation. got these. these aren't the 1st games to take place during the crone of iris pandemic. have you have the feeling that paging was able to learn from tokyo? i think in many ways tokyo was to play prince and beijing has taken that and they will say improved on it. the bubble is certainly fostering to hear that forget china has a 0 cove policy. it wants to stop the spread of the virus, eradicates it completely. so what that means in practice for these olympics are we are completely sealed off. whereas in tokyo, there was a bubble, the bubble load, hot holes, local staff could come and go, and all participants could actually leave the bubble after 2 weeks. we have to be within if the entire time of the olympics were closely watch, it is impossible to to leave it really was sealed in at our hotel. it's great. it

off, it really hits home that day, only opens to allow transport see to come and go. and i see president from his box today, they've been having that big meeting today. he was talking about the olympic ideals and ellen peak values, the set, the olympics is about always building bridges, never erecting wolf. i think y'all have any of that probably hasn't been lost on the people here. now, especially for the athletes. how's it been? how is it been for them to prepare under these conditions? yeah, absolutely. not only if they had to worry about preparing for their event, they've also been very worried about the corona virus athletes. we spoke to before they came to basic, were terrified of testing positive. once they got here, even though they would have had to negative tests were right. china has a higher threshold for korean of ours tests. so they were really worried about testing positive and being in an isolation 50. and that really was underscored last

night. the belgian, a skeleton race a came almond's, posted a really emotional video on instagram. she was crying because she tested positive when she arrived. she was in an isolation facility. and then she thought after testing negative, she was going to be allowed back into the olympic village. unfortunately, that wasn't the case initially, she was taken to another facility, she didn't know what was going on. eventually, after posting her video, which got a lot of attention, she was then taken to the olympic village and is in a separate isolation room in the olympic village. but really, other athletes will be looking at her and thinking a hope. i don't end up in that situation. it's a really precarious situation for them. for years of hot potentially could be down the drain. johnson crane from that beijing, thank you so much. now if you have to live in the united states, you might be wondering when that major winter storm that's currently battering, millions of americans will come to an end. well, if local law is to be believed, it could be quite a while. because punxsutawney fill the ground haul,

who can supposedly full cost when spring will begin as disappointed, thousands revellers who gathered to watch the annual event his own works. if phil sees his shadow when emerging from the underground, at means another 6 weeks of winter ahead. and that's just what happened in pennsylvania wednesday. the groundhog day tradition dates back 1886 and that's it for me for now the w business is coming up next don't miss that. i.