coven 19 special. every thursday on d. w. ah ah ah! this is the w news live from berlin. the crisis over ukraine escalates us is moving 3000 troops to beef up it's presence in europe. russia denounces to deployment as

destructive and likely to increase tensions even further. the warning from scientists, greenland is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet and faster than ever before. experts say time is running out to stop it. and have people had enough of facebook. the sides reported a drop in daily uses for the 1st time ever. parent company sees share prices plummet and blame stuff fresh from rival also just a day to go before the winter olympics, begin in beijing, but boring over china's core human rights, michael could push sport to the side lights. ah, i'm dev office. thanks for joining us. german chancellor has said he plans to meet

with russian president vladimir putin to discuss tensions over ukraine shows, has been facing pressure to take a tougher stance on russia. with critics accusing germany of being out of step with its allies in tackling the crisis. he is now trying to reassure people that germany is indeed pulling its weight the tradition of a 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 fun. i will now be going to the u. s. and i will be continuing the conversation on the necessary issues in moscow soon as 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, alit drama, chance all of ashanti speaking there, and our political correspondent, julia. so deli is standing by for some analysis stood out that what's known about the upcoming visit of the chancellor to moscow. we don't have that many details.

shell said it would happen soon, so we'd expect it maybe to happen after a shots is trip to washington d. c, to meet with president joe biden, which is happening at the beginning of next week. schoultz has said that he has been in communication with put in and this is an important point because there is some this satisfaction in germany with shots is role with shots is presence of some say he's sort of been missing in action in the last few days. so he had to make clear that yes, he is in communication with 14 and yes, he is working on trying to find a peaceful solution to the tensions in the situation between russia and ukraine. and this visit to putting comes probably at a important time for shots to reassure both people in germany and germany's allies abroad,

that he is not missing in action that germany is there and that it is also working together with, with its allies. it's also a time for shawls to show, put in where germany stands at the moment with the new government at the until now only the foreign minister analynn a bad book met with her counterparts, lovegrove in moscow. and we've, we know that angle america, the previous chancellor had a good working relationship with putting all along. so now it's time for all of shows to show putting where he stands. well, did george managed to clearly communicate where he stands yesterday? he reiterated germany's position or his government's position that it's held for the last few weeks with a focus on diplomacy shall said that any violation of ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty will have a high price tag. something that we've heard time and time again. and he said that

germany is going to work as hard as it can to try to prevent any aggression from russia. and he also put a focus on economic support for ukraine to try to make ukraine as economically independent as possible. there has been no mention of any delivery of weapons or any other kind of measure because the position of the government is to not deliver weapons to ukraine at the moment. of course, julia saw deli there. thank you. meanwhile, the u. s. is mobilizing 3000 troops to reassure its allies in eastern europe, in the face of ever growing tensions with russia. the u. s. soldiers will not be sent to ukraine itself, but to germany, poland and romania, to deter russia from invading ukraine. the kremlin says the troop movement will only increase tensions, but washington has decided to stop calling an invasion. imminent saying rushes

intentions are still unclear. 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 iron clad. the pentagon may declared that no u. s. soldiers will fight in ukraine. ukrainian president followed them either to lensky said. diplomacy comes 1st, but no options are off the table. we, we only think about t somewhere. we only think about the return of our occupied territories. it had only through diplomacy, lamentation of snow, isha 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 meet them, no matter what the prize, lee, your captain up cheese bravo, nimble 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 vitale accompanied him in a show of support. we're not weak. and any aggressor have to understand you, they do it activity, aggressive, or duty against you brain. he have to pay huge surprise to that. we're ready to fight. bleak 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 of the w correspondent. he calmly is as standing by and, and keith ukraine, a. nick, the u. s. is down bacchus rhetoric no longer saying that an invasion of ukraine is imminent. how's that being received way? well, what i think the important thing to stress here is that that decision is not based on a change in the intelligence that is basically at the request of the ukrainian side . so at that extra situation with the whole world press has focusing its tension on ukrainians. borders with russia that russian troops build up. a talks of weapons from the u. s. another west village to ukraine, and the same time you had ukraine present volume zalinski going out, and basically downplaying the whole threat, warranties talk about other things are releasing lots of kind of upbeat video messages to people here in ukraine saying they shouldn't go in panic by shouldn't go by essential supplies of should in said, cold street and getting on with their lives. i think this is basically due to

ukraine being very worried that any further talk of escalation, any further talk may be of mobilization of reservists. here ukraine could cause a wave of panic, people to do unforeseen things and actually hinder ukraine in its efforts to prepare for any kind of conflict with russia. so you had basically a request from kiev to watch him to the same time is asking for support to please doll down the rhetoric and you know, help us to calm things down on the home front. so as we heard earlier, germany's johnston will have shoals or will visit moscow. is there any reaction to that in ukraine? was certainly going to be lots of i think you have on that visit. and what is said there, i think obviously throughout this crisis, ukraine has been expecting and indeed in some cases, demanding much clearer. positioning from berlin on that called a woods and even sick, more plans on potential sanctions against moscow. ahead of any potential or russian intervention here in ukraine, that hasn't happened. germany has refused supply,

defensive weapons, ukraine, something it's cause a lot of disappointment. so i think in terms of the bigger picture, i think we have jimmy alone will not be able to give the russians the guarantees on nato enlargement that they want. but i think that the central topic carries no stream to that gas pipeline, leading for russia to germany, where the ukrainians say they want that to be dead in the water. whatever happens that if he ever goes on stream, that will be a threat to ukraine. security will make it easier for russia to destabilize ukraine if it doesn't need ukraine's the transit countries. the gas am unlikely, based on what we know for now, that the germans will satisfy those you pregnant quotations. so there's lot of a shuttle diplomacy going on a right now to day turkish president recipe ad one is ado there in kiev. what else ukraine's got them a want of from that visit? i think in a word, drones and the ukraine's been buying ever more military kit from turkey and especially the barack tar drones military jones that we use 1st time in don bass

last autumn. i think the russian government was slightly taken aback by how successful, how effective they were in combat and seemingly behind closed doors is done as much . it can't prevent turkeys blowing. ukraine with more of those drones. and i think for, for the tech shop, this is about showing that turkey is a diplomatic player in this part, the world we've seen turkey involved on the side of as a, by john, get some money in that conflict over going a car back last year. and that's something the kremlin definitely doesn't want to see turkey or throwing its diplomatic muscle around in this part of the world, which it sees at as it's backyard. and we've heard from anchored them, offering themselves as mediators between ukraine in russia, russia rejecting that for now. so everyone really showing presence here and, and potentially coming with some drones into, for the credit on our correspondent nicoli in care of their thank you, nick, let's have a quick look at some of the other stores making headlines today for 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. fill after self isolate. i can do that at home instead of o t l court. northern ireland, agriculture minister has ordered an end to all post breaks at checks on trade with the rest of the u. k. britain and the you are currently talking about reforming. the northern ireland protocol. allan says, any unilateral change to that agreement is a breach of international law. benny gans has become the 1st is railey defense minister to visit bahrain. it's the latest high profile diplomatic trip since the countries normalized ties. israel's reconciliation with several arab nations broke with decades of arab league consensus against recognizing israel until it finds a peace agreement. establishing a palestinian state are says in facebook on a mess up. plunged by around 20 percent off to our trading on wednesday, knocking and massive $200000000000.00 of the company's value. chief executive mark

zuckerberg had warned investors in a call earlier that meta expected 1st quarter revenues to decline your competition from rivals such as tick tock. if the stock doesn't rebound before trading, resumes on thursday, it will rank as the worst day in the company's 10 year stock market tenure. and one of the biggest one day falls of any company on record. let's get some more of this from my rope. water dw, business rope. what's, what's going wrong? that facebook for witnessing a real turning point for the original social media giant. because for the 1st time, and it's 18 year history, it seeing the number of people using its platform fall in 3 months. so that was the end of last year. around a 1000000 fewer people were using facebook every day than they were. is that a lot previous 3 months? well, in the grand scheme of facebook? no, it's not 1900000000 people use facebook every day. but the thing is,

it's not the fact that it is a falling number. it's well that it's a big falling number. it's about that it is a falling number because facebook in its entire history is only seen the number of people using it's site increase. and why is it doing that remarkable? it's been pretty clear about to quite frank about it really saying that they are losing particularly younger uses to platforms like to talk and you cheap because people's taste, the changing and the more bad news for matter and that their revenues are also slowing. why is that? because they're making less money from advertising, which is always been a big money spinner for them. the reason for that support is that many of them, if they're losing people off, so using the site and they're making less money, also companies are advertising but less at the moment because supply chain problems means they're already struggling to meet the demand that they're currently gone the last thing they want to do is attract more uses. but, but there are also problems with privacy as well, like privacy policies that been introduced. for example by apple that taking real told on the likes of facebook. in fact, facebook reckons it's going to take

a $10000000000.00 hit from the apple privacy policy changes alone this year. so let's talk about the impact these messages had on, on, on the market. yeah. so as you mentioned, 20 percent, in fact, 22 percent wiped off the value of metis shares. and after hours trading on or street, which is in a vast, vast drop it represents, as you mentioned, $200000000000.00, which is bigger than the of grease. you know, this is a huge value job and something that is really spooked the market in general. not just facebook, it's had a knock on effect for other social media. we saw shares in twitter for which we saw shares in snap for we saw as in pinterest all go down because they're starting to see that if growth is slowing at facebook than we are really seeing a change in how people use social media in general. well, that's a good point. the face of social media is really changing. the stucco back has. how

does he have a plan for that? well, the change of the name towards the end of last year from facebook to matter of the parent company is a really big hint that they're not pinning their future hopes on the platform. facebook itself. it's also a huge hint as to what they are pinning that hopes on, which is this concept of the mess of this virtual reality world where we can all move around playing, meeting people, working, but most importantly, consuming buying things. and that's a great idea. and then we can all imagine happening in the future, but we are only imagining it at the moment, and it's going to require a huge amount of investment. facebook already invested 10000000000 in this concept last year, but the need lots more and that makes it of real gamble because that investment isn't gonna pay off for many years yet. what was the w business? thank you very much, rob. but even before friday's official opening the beijing winter olympics, are mired in controversy,

concerns about human rights abuses. and the rising number of corona virus cases are causing a shadow of the games. the olympic torch relay has already completed its 1st circuit with more than 500 barris carrying the flame through the chinese capital. almost $3000.00 athletes will be competing for sporting glory. some are worried, the competition selves are at risk of becoming a slideshow. sharon billions have been invested into making sure beijing 2022 is successful. sports fans can enjoy over a 100 events across a range of disciplines. but the build up to these games has been about so much more than sports politics. for instance, some nation have declared a diplomatic boy called over human rights issues, including the us and great britain. they will send competitors, but no ministers or officials. environmental concerns have also been raised with organizes reportedly spraying more than a 1000000 cubic meters of artificial snow. once a competition site,

china has been criticized over the impact of this process. meanwhile, organizers have threatened athletes with punishment for any behavior or expression that they deem to be in breach of chinese law. will expect the i o. c, to rigorously enforce its own rules, limiting protests, facial recognition only being in the olympic child. thing, there are very strict rules. so for the middle ceremony and during the competitions, they cannot express their opinions down at home from china shipper and she'll say i'm going to young other occasions. it's like a press conferences or during interviews and it's offering to express their opinions in the box. they need to be responsible for what they say to the sounds. i don't know if i were young, but i don't know if i was due to cobit athletes, and journalists will be kept in secure bubbles, while no spectator tickets will be sold to the public organizes say,

health and safety up paramount, bela of course cove. it counts and measures are still on top of our agenda. we are okay young. we have been taking effective measures and everything is under control . without a safe games, there would be no games. so we will make sure that the health and safety of all participants is our top priority jim car. i'm sure frontier shortly. more than 30 new covey cases were reported to olympic authorities on wednesday alone. and as many feared, athletes are seeing their preparation disrupted by tight quarantining rules. after coming into contact with someone who tested positive last week, belgian skeleton racer kim mailer mans has shared the distress. this has caused her on social media. some of you have read the good news that i was sent out of dice lation facility. we thought this meant i

was allowed to return to the olympic village and will be treated maximum as a close contact. am on the way to the village. ah, we did not turn to the village, but the ambulance went to another facility where i am now the i o. c has since promised to return mail, amanda, to the limpid village. but such distressing episode could have consequences on performance. if, as expected, the pandemic is proving to be one of many headaches for organizes of beijing 2022. joining me now from bay ging is jonathan crane from dw sports. jonathan, you've been a big enough for a couple of days. what's happened like living in the olympic bubble? i have to say, it's been

a very surreal 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 saved master through every step of the apple from p. c. all task through customs and immigration. and then we had to wait in a hotel room for that all important negative test result. thankfully, i caught 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 all games venues. special transport takes us in between. and as you can see behind me, the olympic stadium is that this is as far as we can go within this media compound, what dates it off. we're watching the people on the other side. they're watching us . it's a really bizarre situation get hot. just these. these aren't the 1st games to take place during the corona virus pandemic. have you have the feeling that beijing was able to learn from tokyo?

i think in many ways, tokyo with the plea prince and beijing is 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 it the entire time of the olympics were closely watches. it's impossible to, to leave. it really was sealed in, at our hotel is crated 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 olympic values. the set, the olympics is about always building bridges, never erecting wolf. i think the only about 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 test for, right, china has a higher threshold for in a virus test. so they were really worried about testing positive and being in an isolation 50. and that really was underscored last night, the belgian skeleton race a came marlins, 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 for another facility. she didn't know what was going on. eventually, after posting her video, which got a lot of attention,

she wasn't taken to the olympic village and isn't a separate isolation room in the olympic village. but really, other athletes would 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 hard work potentially could be down the drain. johnson grain from that beijing, thank you something new day to release this week by danish. me such as shows that greenland massive ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past when he has to cover the entire united states with half a meter of water. the arctic is warming fossil than any other place else on earth and ice melting away from greenland is now. the main contributing factor in rising c will to 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. dot see him all the up the arctic ocean especially is warming out. 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 lowered down is melting away, much quicker than what's going on topic. this is free, if you me, i thought, wow, call 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 hear any incident that's even 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 sea level climate researches. a warning that time is running out the 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. meanwhile, a major snow storm is causing widespread disruption in the, in possibly united states, with some actually reveling in that cold weather. this pola bear and asked chicago, so can't seem to get enough of the fresh, powdery stuff. hudson, as he's cold, is clearly in his element as state of illinois and pots of northern indiana. i expecting up to 45 centimeters by the end of an absence. gonna love it. you want to be to be news. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. the pentagon is sending $3000.00 troops to east of europe's as the ukraine crisis escalates. further, that force will be for the american presence in the ridge. russia has denounced to build up as destructive saying it's likely to increase tension. jazz that the tech

company, mehta, which owns facebook, have plummeted more than 20 percent. social media company blamed competition from rivals as facebook. we reported a drop off in its numbers of daily uses for the 1st time ever. and that's it from, you know, the new steam funnel don't go away. focus on europe is up next. and as of course, a lot more well news as well as sports and business and entertainment on our website, d, w dot com. i'll have an update for you at the top of the office. thanks for watching. ah, with

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