ah, ah, ah ah, ah ah, this is the w news lie from burly. the crisis over ukraine escalates us is moving 3000 troops to beef up its presence in europe. russia denounced the deployment as destructive and likely to increase tensions even further. half people had enough of

facebook. these sites reported a drop in daily use us for the 1st time ever, blaming tough pressure from rivals. and just the day to go before the winter olympics begin in bay. jing but worries over china's poor human rights record should could push sports to the side like a bowling from scientists. greenland is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet and faster than ever before. experts say time is running out. ah, i'm gabelle as well come to the program. germany's chancellor will have shawls has said he plans to meet with russian president vladimir putin to discuss tensions over ukraine. charles has been facing pressure to take a toughest on russia,

with critics accusing germany of being out of step with its allies in tackling the crisis. is now trying to reassure people that germany is indeed pulling its weight the tradition of ultimate, 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 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 metal treatment, transfer all of a shots speaking there and are political corresponding julia. so delhi 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 show set, it would happen soon. so we expect it maybe to happen after 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 shawls. his role with charles is presence of some say he's sort of been missing in action in the last few days. and so he had to make clear that yes, he is in communication with putting and yes, he is working on trying to find a peaceful solution to the tensions and the situation between russia and ukraine. and this visit to put in 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 counterpart lover 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 shots to show putting where he stands. well, did george managed to clearly communicate where he stands yesterday? he reiterated in 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. that 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 wanted, julia saw deli there. thank you. meanwhile, the united states is mobilizing 3000 troops to reassure its allies and eastern europe in the face of f, a 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 true build up will only increase tensions, but washington has decided to stop calling an invasion. eminence saying, rushes intentions remain 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, they declared that no u. s. soldiers will fight in ukraine. ukrainian president followed me to 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 and only through diplomacy, lamentation of shall isha, betia. we will not give up with a single piece of our land to day yolanda. we will not give up our territories. we needed them no matter what the pricey. yeah captain, ah, ah, jeez, 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 activity against your brain, have to pay huge surprise to that. where is it to fight leaked documents confirmed by the pentagon, revealed the back room diplomatic efforts to avoid war. the us suffered 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. and earlier i spoke to d,

w, corresponded nick, calmly and tift, and asked him what's behind the u. s. decision to stop describing a russian invasion of ukraine as imminent. 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 the extra situation where the whole world's press has focusing extension on ukrainians, borders with russia that russian troops build up. a talked of weapons from the u. s . another we're selling to ukraine. and the same time you had ukraine present volume, zalinski going out. and basically downplaying the whole threat, wanted 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 and buy a central supplies and 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 in 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 have basically a request from key of 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 chance that we'll have shoals, or we'll 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 caught a words and even sick, more plans on potential sanctions against moscow. ahead of any potential, a russian intervention here in ukraine that hasn't happened, germany has refused supply defensive weapons, ukraine's and it's caused 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 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 country for gas am unlikely, based on what we know 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. they're in kia. 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 barrack tar drones, military jones that were used 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 prevent turkeys blowing. ukraine with more of those drones am 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 am involved on the side of as a by john gets armenian, that conflict over and gone 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 with offering themselves as mediators between ukraine in russia, russia rejecting that for now. so everyone really showing presence here and em, potentially coming with some drones into, for the young a correspond nicolai in t if there thank you. next ton of a quick round up of some of the other story. my story is making headlines today. benny gans has become the 1st is really defense minister to visit bahrain. it's the latest high profile diplomatic trip since the countries have 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. new zealand will begin to reopen its borders and phases, starting at the end of february, fully vaccinated citizens and visa holders from australia will be allowed in 1st, under the new rules vaccinated citizens entering the country will be allowed to quarantine at home instead of in a managed isolation facility shares in facebook owner meta plunged by around 20 percent and after hours trading on wednesday, knocking a massive $200000000000.00 of the company's value. chief executive mark zuckerberg had warned investors in a call earlier that matter, expected 1st quarter revenues to decline due to 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 ad well, the biggest one day falls of any company on record. let's get some more of this

from my rope. watch the w 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 it platform fall in the 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 falling number. it's well that is 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, for this, there's 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 of the money because supply chain problems means they're already struggling to meet the demand that they're currently gone. the last thing i want to do is attract more uses. but, but they're 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 see what 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 a vast, vast drop it represents, as you mentioned, $200000000000.00, which is bigger than the of greece. you know, this is

a huge value job and something that has really spooked the markets 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. this is like a big has a 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 something 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 i need lots more and that makes it of real gamble because that investment isn't going to pay off for many years yet. robots dw business. thank you very much, rob israel is maybe may soon be able to put away their vaccine passes. israel was one of the 1st countries to introduce the pass. from sunday. it will only be required at high risk areas such as hospitals. will health care workers are battling record to cope with 19 infections. since the early morning or early on has been on duty on a coven ward, an elderly patient needs oxygen and some comforting boards. a coven. warts at this hospital in tel aviv are extremely busy. so barbara,

there are a lot of cases. in fact we have new and takes every day for when one is released. another is submitted at night till either numbers are on the rise. we always experienced a delay or even when the general infection rate scenes lower, we at the hospital are still dealing with the higher numbers from the to had previously. your dear mother, full of holy mother, fame, valley finish wine. though over all ami grown infection rates show signs of slowing down. the number of patients and hospital remains high. is where it was one of the 1st countries in the world to roll out a rapid vaccination program. over 65 percent of the population have been vaccinated twice, but only 48 percent. have had a 3rd booster shot so far. in january, those and the most vulnerable categories were offered a 4th. oh, i began her career fair. well, ethical talk during this way of most of our patients have been elderly. it reminds us of the flu. the complications are comparable. people are dying now. the way they

would die from the flu shot. also, if you're a, people are dying of all micron and i was from a 3rd, i'm a friend. most patients on this board a vaccinated elderly people with underlying health conditions working on the ward is exhausting for every one. adding to this hospital. it's like other institutions are struggling with stuff shortages due to the highly contagious ami grown variant . high numbers of doctors and nurses are in quarantine, is who function codes depakote. it's the 1st time we've been at full capacity here in israel, but we're dealing with it. the government, that's just how it is, is the say, and it's our job to look after patients and a little but it's definitely hard. and there's a lot of barna among the staff section like what if it got to lots of a theme. obama save a whole day. we have to work very hard, told them that we're happy to do what's necessary fluffer, but yes,

it's exhausting. and it doesn't look like it's going to end soon. although i'm personally hoshevely optimistic and he shit. kenya, casey is of the museum, and for now everybody here must keep going, do the best they can for the ongoing influx of patients and hoping that the peak of the current wave will soon subside. that. so look, now some of the other developments in the pandemic south korea's daily infections have surpassed more than $200000.00 for the 1st time the nation is experiencing a search in cases after the lunar new year. holidays, australia, australian officials say the country has passed the peak of our micron, but warns that it won't be the last wave of the variant. more than 50000000 doses of the coven, 19 vaccine have been administered, that and barley, indonesia is welcoming back its 1st international flights. in nearly 2 years, a dozen passengers are said to arrive from tokyo on 1st day vaccinated tourists must still quarantine for 5 to 7 days upon entry of the belgian skeleton

re. so kim mailer, months has been brought to the olympic village and begging, after the io. c intervened on her behalf, following an emotional appeal on instagram by the man's had tested positive for over 19, on arrival in the chinese capital. i was taken to an isolation unit. after 3 negative p. c r test. she believes that she would be taken back to the olympic village, but she was instead transferred to another isolation facility elements has now been transferred to the athens accommodation inside the village. though grace has raised questions him about the severity of coven protocols and the games. joining me now from bay jing is jonathan crane from d w sports. jonathan, you've been in virginia now 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 choose day, we were greeted at the apple pie ground stuff and has not saved mazda through every step of the apple from p. c. all tasks to our customers in immigration and then we had to wait in our hotel room for that all important negative test result. thankfully i caught it, which means i can enter 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. got 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 was to play prince and beijing has taken that and they will say improved on it. the bubble is certainly fostering to hear. don't forget, china has a 0 cove. it 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 is it's impossible to, to leave it really were 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 olympic 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 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 for, right, china has a higher threshold for printer virus tests. 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 mullins 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 have 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, i hope i don't end up in that situation. it's a really precarious situation for them. for years of hard rock potentially could be down the drain. johnson crane from that beijing, thank you. something new day to release this week by danish research is shows that greenland 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 other place 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 1.2 centimeters around the globe dot 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 low down is melting away, much quicker than what's going on. topic that the see if you me, i thought well of called this nasa model shows just how rapidly it's happening since 2002, 4700000000 tons of ice have melted away from greenland coast. 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 engine and that's easy. 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 rise in 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, am major snow storm is causing white spread disruption in the parts of the united states. but sama reveling in the cold weather. this pola bath in a chicago zoo can't seem to get enough of fresh powdery stuff. hodson, as he's cold, is clearly very much in his element. the state of illinois and parts of northern indiana expecting up to 45 centimeters by the end of that he's having fun. you're watching d. w. news. he has a remind off the top stories. we're following foyer. jama chance that we'll have shots has said he will meet with russian president vladimir putin, to disgust tensions over ukraine. and the u. s. is deploying additional troops to

europe, and to show solidarity with ukraine and its nato allies. jazz in the tech company mess out, which owns facebook half plummets moment 20 percent. the social media company blamed competition from rivals as facebook reported a drop in its number of daily uses for the 1st time. and as it from me and the new steam for now don't go away. off next is conflict. so with tim, sebastian, i've got overs in berlin with with

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