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shutting down d. w. 's moscow bureau. the move comes and retaliation for berlin's decision to ban russia. today's german language propagate propaganda station and the united states . it spells out a possible russian game plan for attacking ukraine. the pentagon said that it had until intelligence showing that moscow maybe plan eve fabricated propaganda video to justify military action against it's nape. and a major blow to so called islamic state. last night operation took a major terrorist leader off the battleship. you as president bind, says, islamic state, the leader blew himself off as us special forces approach during a raid in northwest siri. ah,

i bring. gov is good to have you with us. the german government is strongly condemning moscow's decision to shut down the russian operations of this network. deutsch avella, the russian foreign ministry, ordered the closure of d. w, 's moscow bureau and his revoking the accreditation of our colleagues there. this is a retaliatory move for the german government's decision to ban german language programming of russia's state media broadcaster r t. earlier we spoke with our moscow bureau chief, uri rachada. we asked him what the decision means for him and his team logistically . and personally. yeah, that affect correspondence, produces camera, men, editors, and so on, according to russian. lo, they are now no longer allowed to work for the traveler. and let me say, when a personal note for me personally and for people who support our coverage from russia, this is a big shock. i've been at the bureau chief and correspondent for dodge of ela,

he in moscow for 7 years. and like all my colleagues, i have loved to reporting from russia even more. we all wore our and we will stay passing that passionate fans of rush by russia. i dont necessarily mean russian politics, but the people over this great country, in my opinion, stories from russia always incredibly exciting and to this country is very rich in culture. we have reported on politics, the economy on sports, and on many, many other aspects of people's lives. here and of course died well a will continue to report on russia in 30 different languages on television, on social media and online. there is no doubt that the country plays a very important role in the built and trying hard to understand it is. it remains extremely important, especially in these difficult times. there is, you're a reseller. there are moscow bureau chief, the german government, is calling moscow's move unacceptable. dw director general peter lindberg said to the statement that the network is being used as

a pawn or we had been expecting some measures by the russian side. but i think this is a total over reacting from the russian government because they're closing the bureau. they, they want us not to, to broadcast anything any more in russia. and i think also that our correspondence must believe, obviously russia is something which is a really over erection. and it's not even a tit for tat measure if you want to see it like this because 1st of all, you can't compare o r t german with the dodge of l. i mean, we have public service broadcasting and not a state govern ment, broadcaster, and on the other hand, we have to see that the russian journalists will continue to work freely in germany and can broadcast whatever they want. so this is not the case with our colleagues, so it's really disappointing to see this, how the russian government is reacting and what will happen next. is there anything

that you can do or we will take legal steps and to try to, to see whether this measures are legal even from russian standards. but this is something which we will have to discuss are in the coming coming hours. but i think legal steps is something we will take and then we will discuss this also, obviously with the, with our institutions here in germany. you know, we have so many dedicated hard working staff working for years in russia. have you heard from them? have you been in touch with them? how are they feeling about this decision? obviously they're also shocked by the, by the measures because everybody was expecting that there might be coming something. and this is also what the foreign ministry in moscow. yes, announced that there will be some kind of reaction, but i think for people who really love to work in russia and they love the german, they love the russian culture they, they are really into, into

a reporting from this, this beautiful and so interesting country. it's hard to accept that they have to stop one day to the other. and so i think they are shocked. and yes, it is something which is, which is also sad for journalists to leave the country on short notice. and in terms of press freedom, of course, the press has been under attack for some time in russia. but what does the signal to you now? well, the press freedom in russia is minimal. i mean, there are some independent outlets, but they're struggling and this is another sign that russia is not interested in. the russian government is not interested in press freedom and freedom of opinion, but i can only say, even if we have to leave the country, we will intensify reporting on the country. so i think this must be also clear to the russian side that we will not just ignore what's happening. russia,

we will report and we will do more and more. did have a director general peter, a limburger. thank you very much. thanks so much. but this decision from moscow comes, is george answer olaf short repairs a trip to russia's capital for talks on you. great. schultz calling the builder of russian troops on your grains quarter. very serious and said that any evasion would come with serious got which job chance or has it under pressure. other native members to take a harder line idea on rush. i spoke earlier to debbie's political correspondence. i mean young and asked him what leverage chance their shots will have during this trip? well, i think the main thing is what we've talked about again and again it's, there's no stream to gas pipeline. it's very important for both russia and for germany. russia wants to sell it more gas through that pipeline into europe. and of course,

any potential decision that's being talked about to stop that going ahead would have inconvenient consequences for russia. so there is some leverage there at the same time. of course, the kremlin knows that germany is very reliant on energy ports, particularly on rushing gas. and so it's a tough call for life sholtes it to say that he's ready to just pull the plug on that as it were. but that's what he said. all options are on the table if there were military aggression by russia, against ukraine, that, you know, they would definitely look up to taking that measure and stopping that, that gas float. there was some young reporting there. the u. s. says that it has evidence of russian plans to stage a fake attack on its own territory as a pretext for invading ukraine. tension between russia and the west escalated that their russia began. massing troops along its border with ukraine,

sparking fears of it in these in the u. s. and some date of allies of sit equipment to ukraine and troops, eastern europe in response. now, officials did not provide a detailed information backing up the claim. here's what pentagon spokesperson, john kirby said about russia's alleged faults, flag plan. you know, we've discussed this idea false flagged by the russians before we made no secret of that. and, and we do have information that it is that, that, that the russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for foreign invasion, which again, is right out of their playbook. one option is the russian government we, we think is planning to stage a fake attack by ukrainian military or intelligence forces against russian sovereign territory. artless. go to our very own oliver salad in washington. good afternoon to you, oliver. so how reliable is this information or this allegation of

a false flag attack? well, brand, 1st of all, are the pentagon is quoting intelligence, and it says, and you just heard the spokesperson, john kirby speak. it says it has evidence of a plan. and so that's really important when we talk about this, now that we point that out, that this plan doesn't exist yet. however, the pentagon does believe there is something in the making and the strategy coming out right now with that information is to discredit the authenticity of a potential video that the pentagon is talking about before it even exists. and that's very important because this conflict is shaped by misinformation, by wrong allegations, and the u. s. government field is important to act swiftly to share that intelligence with the public, so it won't stir up any k as in case it plays out how they predict and how they believe it could play out. with regards to the question,

how that would change the u. s position. that is very unlikely because the u. s. has warned time and time again that they believe an attack is imminent. they just changed their wording and they don't use that word imminent anymore. but of course, russia they want that russia would create a reason to justify an attack. and such a video that they've been talking about would be just what the u. s. for saw. and under these circumstances, of course, the kremlin will have to think twice about this plan if it exists, of course, debbie's oliver's salad with the latest from washington. oliver's always thank you . his round up now and some of the other stories that are making headlines this. our british prime minister boys, johnson has lost 4 more t age as his popularity plummets over party gay. nazi johnson's chief of staff and private secretary and communications director have all resigned and policy unit. chief wen mirror mirror quit over johnson's controversial comments on monday, attacking opposition,

labor leader here starman. the world health organization has said that europe may be entering the end of the corona virus pandemic organizations. europe director says that high vaccination rates, the milder omicron, very it and the end of winter mean europe is set for and i'm quoting here, a period of tranquillity. several european countries have begun lifting restrictions put in place as omicron case numbers began to sir. the economic community of west african states has asked the hunter that seized power in burkina faso last week to propose an election time table. the group held an emergency summit and gone his capital aqua to discuss measures against burkina faso, as well as what the group called 8 dangerous trend of military power grabs in the region, is a matter of great the united states. it says that it has removed a global terror threat in a targeted rate in syria. us president biden announced that an overnight attack by

us special forces resulted in the death of aba ibrahim al, a. she, me, al, karachi, he's the leader or was the leader of so called his womic state. the news comes amid growing concerns that i, yes, may be trying to regroup in the region. a collapsed roof and a dead terrorist leader. the result of a us special forces raid in the pre dawn hours on thursday morning in assyrian village near the turkish border. avo abraham a shimmy. a karachi reportedly blew himself up as about 2 dozen troops, back by air support. moved in on a house. he was in karachi, was considered the head of so called islamic state. he took over the terrorist group when his predecessor died, much the same way in 2019 u. s. president joe biden told reporters after the rate that the group, while smaller than a few years ago, is still dangerous. he referred to karachi by his other name hush. abdulla. i says

as direct to terrorist operations targeting americans are allies in our partners. had countless civilians in the middle east, africa and in south asia. hodge, abdullah oversaw the spread of isis affiliated terrorist groups around the world. after savaging communities, murder, news, us officials say the operation biden ordered took weeks to plan. it happened to mid growing concerns that i asked may be trying to regroup. in january i s attack to prison in ne, syria, in an effort to free it's fighters held there. it took days for us backed kurdish forces to retake the prison, killing hundreds in the process. no americans were harmed in the overnight raid on alcaraz. she's home despite an exchange of gunfire, and one helicopter making a forced landing due to mechanical issues. at least 13 other people,

including other fighters, women and children, were killed as well. u. s. officials attribute the deaths to al karate his own bomb . they said they chose to risk putting boots on the ground rather than an air strike to avoid civilian casualties. the u. s. military has been under pressure to review its targeted strikes, some of which have killed more civilians been initially reported. you watching the w news business is up next when steven beers and stick around. he will be right back. ah. they will say will make the agenda here jeff then the john love and banning them

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