lose the color of her favorite sexes. traditions prevent her from going to games and play an insurmountable obstacle. little girl football on the peak starts february 4th on d w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the crisis of ukraine escalates. the u. s. is moving 3000 troops to beef up its presence in europe. russia denounced the

deployment as destructive and likely to increase tensions even further. i'm just the day to go before the winter olympics begin in beijing. but worries over china's put human rights record could push sport to the side. ah, i'm gather of us. welcome to the program. germany's chancellor. all of charlotte says, said he's planning to meet with russian president vladimir putin to discuss tensions over ukraine. charles has been facing pressure to take a tougher stance on russia with critics excusing germany of being out of step with its allies in tackling the crisis. he's now trying to reassure people that germany is indeed pulling its weight the to dish. publish awkward, of course. i have also spoken with the russian president, and of course, we are carefully preparing everything that needs to be done use of 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, aka ordinated. but it's also important that the decisions that we take are the result of sound preparation and hard work. muskets ignore metabolic, germany's chance all of shows speaking there. meanwhile, the us, as mobilizing $3000.00 troops to reassure its allies in eastern europe, in the face of ever growing tensions with russia, the us soldiers will not be sent to you, crime itself, but to germany, poland and romania, to deter russia from invading ukraine, accredited, says the true build up will only increase tensions, but washington has decided to stop calling an invasion. imminent 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 ironclad. the pentagon made it clear that no you, a soldiers will fight in ukraine. ukrainian president vladimir to lensky said, diplomacy comes 1st, but no options are off the table. me. we only think about t somewhere. we only think about the return of our occupied territories. it had only through diplomacy, lamentation, and shall issue the issue. we will not give up with a single piece of our land to day the land. we will not give up our territories. we needed them no matter what the prize you're cup enough. ah jeez, but i would nibble on despite zalinski 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 week. and an aggressor have to understand you. they do it. activity aggressive activity against you brain. you have to pay huge price for that. where did it 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 80 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 m o on the germany's role. and all this when are joined by

a stigma who sits on the german parliament's foreign affairs committee for the governing s p. d. of the social democrats. mister stickman johnson schultz is going to moscow will be representing europe and then they to allies or just germany and it's national interest. no, good morning. i think it's clear that we only act together with our allies and therefore, we're talking about a common european position in the comm, nato position, which has 2 points. one is that if the russians were to invade the ukraine, there would be a strong and common clear answer to that. so what i'll tell you that is strong ally rhonda. well, i don't think that it's very smart to speculate in the public about sanctions and things like that issue play chess game. you don't know the other side publicly your

moves get on the other side. that's number 2 of common will is to really try everything which is diplomatic, possible to prevent that from happening. and then the bill of medic talks behind closed doors. i think it has to be made clear that the russians would pay a high price if they should invade the ukraine, yet we should not be thinking or to war. busy in the middle of europe would mean, therefore we really should do anything that's possible in the magic terms to prevent that from happening. and i think there, we should really emphasize this point rather than speculating about, well, you know, you mentioned that it is necessary to find a common solution, a common european and nato solution. but it isn't germany isolated at the moment with firm decision not to send any any weapons. for example

. no, i don't think so. first of all, they are different roles. and we don't find it a good thing to send weapons into regions of 10 in the weapons, won't solve this problem. here we have to talk about the diplomatic formats. as there are 30 or the normandy formats or revitalizing the mens records which both sides not adhere to the moment. rather than talking about more, there is no military solution to that conflicts. and what we also have to accept whether we agree with it or not. that there are different perceptions as far as threats are concerned on both sides. and we really don't agree with the russian position on that. but it's necessary to talk about that to find common ground and to avoid military tension in the middle of europe. to talk about perceptions, chancellor shots now says no stream to they have big but gas pipeline is at risk of

it being canceled. if russia attacks with many allies unconvinced, especially because he called it a private project in december, how much is germany is reliance on russian energy driving government policy. i don't think that this has anything to do with the tensions to produce content we have and i think it's correct. it's an economic project which we have differences about with the united states, for instance, which is normal, that you're not agree with everything between allies and economic affairs. yet, i don't think it's a good thing to speculate about how the sanctions would be clear is if the russian should invade 0 crane, everything's on the chair, but it doesn't make any sense to speculate as far as when everything is on the table, there should be war, the fun minister said if the russians would wait in radio crane,

the doors will be closed for 10 to 20 years. so that doesn't make any sense. and we, our task is to prevent that from happening. and by the way, because you said germany would be isolated, we are the ones that support a crane economically more than any other country does and have the ukranian. so you should leave that out and i just don't think that there was talk and that's for sending weapons into the region. makes any sense in terms of preserving peace and preventing military actions to happen in the middle of europe. a leading member of the governing s p d here, germany, thank you very much. thank you. now stop a round up of some of the other stores making headlines today. shares in facebook on a meta plunged by 20 percent and after hours trading on wednesday, knocking a massive $200000000000.00 of the company's value. the fall came off,

the chief executive mark zuckerberg told investors that matter expected 1st quarter revenues to dip due to competition from rivals, such as tick tock, rescue and clean of assets on the way in ecuador z, a capital he tope after floods caused the landslide. these 24 people died after the rainfall the countries heaviest. in nearly 2 decades, a dozen people are still missing. authorities haven't ruled out the danger of fertilizer. beijing 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 sporting 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 at the center of controversy in the build up. political, environmental, and health concerns have been dominating headlines with sports at risk of becoming a sideshow. 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 it been 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 moment. we landed in beijing on choose day. we were greeted at the apple pie ground staff and has not saved master through every step of the apple from p c. all tasks to customs 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 just these. these aren't the 1st games to take place during the cone of i was pandemic. i 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 that 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 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 back

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 the only about probably hasn't been lost on the people here. now, especially for the athletes, how it's a bit, 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, 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, a skeleton race a came almonds 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 hard work potentially could be down the drain. johnson grain from that beijing, thank you. some of the major snow sol as closing widespread disruption and part of the united states at the moment. but some reveling in this cold weather this polar bear and as chicago zulu can't seem to get enough of the fresh powder stuff hot soon as he's cold is clearly in his element, state of illinois and parts of northern indiana. i expected up to 45 centimeters,

fresh snow by the day. really enjoying himself. you, what should he? w news. he is a remind off the top story. we're following for you. germany's jobs that will have choices said he will meet with russian president vladimir putin to discuss tensions over you frame. and the u. s. at the same time is deploying additional troops to europe in the shop for the diety was ukraine, and it's nato. that's it. a from me of for now, a rebecca that is will have an update for you at the top on the app on gab office in berlin. thanks with we're all set to go beyond the obvious citizenship amend. we're all in as we.