ah ah ah ah, this is day deputy news live from berlin, russia and china join forces to oppose an expansion of nato thought of a potent joints changing, paying for the start of the winter olympics in beijing, both at odds with the west. the 2 latest signal close ties ahead. also coming up, the german government condemned russia's decision to band this network, deutsch avella and data please. moscow bureau is shot down after germany's move to

block the german language programming of rushes state broadcaster state past the winter olympics, kicks off in beijing in the next hour. human rights concerns have overshadowed the run up to the games, thought b olympic committees pledge to stay out of politics as left athletes, uneasy. and in the u. k. for the fallout from the party gate scandal, 5 and bars. johnson's advisors have now resigned as fresh amounts on the prime minister to do the same. ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. the ladies of russia and china have pushed back against pressure from the west and demanded an end to nato's expansion . this comes amid growing tensions over the cross as a new crime rush, as president vladimir putin has met with his chinese counterpart changing pang. and beijing both saw say their relationship is at

a historical high point. they're pledging close a co operation on energy supplies and on standing major protest movements. the 2 ladies will later attend the opening ceremony of the winter. olympic games was lim, journalist, family encroachment, as in beijing and spain. following the too late as may tang fabian potent and shame making a joint call to limit nato expansion today, some of that message for us. yeah, i mean 1st of all it's really important to see that this statement contains 5300 words. it's very lengthy, it's quite surprising that because most observers expect that more is symbolic deal energy deal. and, but this is really a strong political statement. yeah. they're against to now to expansion nato expansion. they basically blamed the nato for creating an ideological cold war mentality. why, of course, i'm sure that for example,

the u. s. would blame you m china and russia. exactly for doing the same, namely forming a block against the west. so i, i would say it's really a very strong political statement. and of course young we have to wait a little bit to get a deeper analysis on them because yeah, it's all quite fresh right now. in indeed, but put us in, put it in context for us is china now directly involving itself in russia. ukraine issue where it's a display of solidarity of china speaking, russia and also vice versa. m, russia pledged solidarity towards china for the taiwan conflict. that's also and i mean there are a lot of similarities, but the official stance of beijing. is it once a peaceful solution, a for the ukraine? but i mean, of course, for them it's very important to follow it closely. and i don't think they want to get involved,

but they want to gather knowledge technical knowledge on because they can apply it to how they deal with their own crisis. namely the taiwan crisis. and the 2 ladies have also pledged cooperation to stem political protest movements. what would that involve? what am concrete measures we still have to see, but i mean, just one hour before, before. and hong, hong kong in hong kong, that was one protest arrested. and i mean, that's basically what baiting is doing. the paging blames color revolution apparently started by the u. s. without showing evidence, i must note m for yoke creating instability and rushes doing the same for m. ukraine. so they share the same position on that and they don't want interference by other countries that are also involves. for example, she's young. china doesn't want any interference by the west for the human rights violations. am, same for russia. so i would say it's a continuation and

a very confident propagating of their message. and i didn't expect that in that sharpness actually. all right, sadly, and thank you, jen was to have an catch before us in pinching for a look at the european response. that's car cross over to brussels and a w corresponded jack pack. jack china is now supporting hooton's call that nato stop any further expansion. what kind of reaction has that prompted in brussels? well, i don't think we're gonna get any specific reaction from nato to be honest. with you rebec from us because we've heard the very same things as we've seen this troop build up on the, on the russian border with ukraine. we have heard from nato saying over and over again, and they did submitted a letter outlining the nato position, which says that any country can become a nato member if they should want to. that's the, this is this open door policy that nato holds, which says that every sovereign country has a sovereign right to,

to join the nato. any sort of military alliance that they want. should they wish to do that for their security and oversee that is of red line for the russians? they are very concerned that potentially ukraine and georgia would eventually it's not likely to happen anytime soon, but could potentially join the military alliance that they see is antagonistic. and that would bring that alliance right up to the russian border. so you think nato unlikely to respond publicly, but they are likely to be worried about this development. surely. all or do you think the view is in brussels, that china is just helping conan out in a difficult situation. i think this was an expected statement to be honest with you . we saw she's in ping me with the chinese president, his 1st meeting in about just under 2 years with the russian president, president vladimir putin. this is a sort of big moment for the 2 of them. and as we've seen this tension grow between russia and the west over the true build ups. but also those tensions with china as

well is important to say there are no diplomatic missions from a number of countries, including the u. k, the u. s. australia and others to the beijing olympics. this time over human rights concerns. and china is pretty upset about that. so what we're seeing is sort of $22.00 countries to 2 big international players that are having big troubles with the west sort of come together as fabio was saying, this is a huge document there. it covers many, many things, agreements on nuclear, on i to space on dealing with biological waste, etc. i think it's, it is a strong statement. it's significant that these 2 countries, these 2 big global plays that are really at loggerheads with the west, are coming out and trying to make this strong statement together. jack, thank you. database jack packs from brussels and i got the german government has condemned moscow's decision to shut down the

russian operations of best channel deutsch avella, germany's foreign ministry said the decision would put a renewed strain on already tense. german russian relations authorities have closed down t w's office in moscow, revoking accreditations for all our journalists there. and his band deputy broadcast in russia as of today is being seen as retaliation after german media regulators banned the german language programming of russian state broadcast are take the day before because it doesn't have a broadcasting license for germany. deutsch velez moscow office has to close by order of the russian government. the decision came after germany's media regulators banned german language programming of russia's state media broadcaster r t for operating without a german broadcasting license. d w's director general, pita limburger called the russian government's decision, a disappointment, and a total over reaction. 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 um, 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 for the team at d. w's moscow studio. losing their press accreditation in russia takes a more personal toll. yup. that effect correspondence produces camera, men, editors, and so on. according to russian law, 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 shocker. i've been at the bureau chief and correspondent for deutsch 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, marashi i dont necessarily mean russian politics but the people of this great country for now d, w is weighing its options and considering possible legal avenues. an editorial note here, we'd like to stress that the statement from our moscow bureau chief, uri rochette, or in that report, was recorded yesterday february 3rd prior to that band taking effect. a dw broadcast, not only news about russia in english, but also has a huge russian language department. the editor of dw russia service arena, philip tova joins me now from bon urena. thanks for joining us. was this band by rational authorities to be expected? well, it came as a who truck for, as i have to say, clearly we expected some retaliatory measures from the russian government after r t was been in germany. but we never expected that these meters was, will be so hard. we never expected that we will have to shut down our office in

moscow. we never expected that. all our colleagues there, it's about 20 in plays will lose their cretaceous. so the answer is yes, the meters were expected and no, it was not expected that they would be so hard. right now, the state of press freedom has become increasingly difficult in russia, not only for d w. what can you tell us about press freedom there the state of france rhythm has drastically deteriorated over the last few years. in fact, there's been a massive clamp down by the, the russian authorities on independent media. many of them have been labeled for an agency, meaning that they are now due to their subject to a bigger extra government's crew to near and have to report to the russian authorities on all their financial transactions. some of them had to relocate their stuff to other countries in order not to be abide by this measures. and if we look at these statement by the foreign ministry from yesterday,

and their russian authorities may also consider putting though travel on this is a foreign agents. what do you think will happen? i mean, especially in regard to our colleagues there, what are you hearing? well there are many open questions now. first of all are legal questions, technical questions? what do we know for sure that our office in moscow is not allowed to be operating anymore? since 9 am local time today, our comics have to return their press accreditation cards to the foreign ministry til 16 pm 2 until 4 pm a local time to day. that means that they will not be legally allowed to work as journalists in russia any more, anywhere in russia, whether the band will be lifted or when it be lifted. also, it means i'm clear. on some journalist associations in germany have already demanded that the german government raises of this question, brings it up and all the shows brings it up during his meeting with the modem and

put in which is supposed to take place in the next few days. so whether it will happen and whether this meeting at all wheel bear, any fruit, it remains open or in a thank you very much for bringing us up to speed databases. urena. phillip over in bon rushes, ban of d. w comes as german chancellor. ola shoulds, prepare the trip to moscow for talks about the crisis in ukraine. shells called the build up of russian troops on ukraine's board. a very serious and said any invasion would come with consequences. the german chancellor has been under pressure from other nato members to take a hard line on russia. now let's get more now from our chief, political correspondent, melinda crime. melinda. so another issue that, of course, being the banning of this channel has been added to chance to the shelters agenda. what has the government been saying so far? germany federal commissioner for culture and media, claudio haute criticized the decision as, quote, unquote, wholly unacceptable. and said, russia had drawn false equivalence between r t,

germany and d, w basing her argument on responsibility for content. she said quote, d, w is an independent organization. this means that unlike our tea, russia today, the german state does not exert any influence on programming. and germany is foreign ministry said moscow's measures had no basis of whatsoever. a spokesman also firmly rejected the comparison between torture villa and the broadcaster r t. and in fact, foreign minister and elaine, a bare buck already conveyed that message to her russian counterpart survey love rough when she visited in january. and she pointed out that because of the central role that state media had played under the nazi regime, no broadcaster, that is an official arm of the state can obtain a license under german media law. well, german russian relations of course, already pretty 10 said the ukraine stand off has put chancellor shells in

a difficult position with germany's allies. hasn't it? absolutely tensions have been building ever since the annexation of crimea. and starting with a major cyber attack on the buddhist tug in 2015, that was proven to originated with russian hackers. then followed by cyber attacks on leading german politicians, dis, information in the run up to last year's elections. and in 2019 russian security services coordinated the murder of chechen national in broad daylight in a berlin park. and finally, it was germany where russian opposition leader alex saine of only was treated after his poisoning and 2020. when he returned to russia, he was promptly arrested for having missed a parole meeting. he couldn't possibly have attended while in hospital, and that too fell like a slap in the face. meanwhile, germany has however, maintained close commercial ties with russia, including construction of a new gas pipeline that will take gas from russia directly into northern germany. the allies have been pressuring the new government to put that project on the table

as part of a potential tough package. of sanctions, if russia does, in fact move forward with aggression against ukraine, chancellor shall have been perceived to be sitting on the fence about this. foreign minister burbock has been clearer saying it must be part of the package of sanctions. but we are now seeing some movement on the chancellor's part. he said there will be a high price to pay if there's aggression. and he is trying to washington on monday to talk to president biden before he goes to moscow. right, melinda, thank you. they'd have his chief political correspondent into crime about him why beijing winter olympics are officially opening to day after a troubled run up in which the sport itself has often been pushed out of focus by other issues. a groan of ours pandemic and china's human rights record have dominated headlines until now. oh, with less than 24 hours until the games officially open,

the bullets go clouds over beijing showed no signs of clearing. despite the repeated efforts of, i will see president thomas back to resist what he views as the instrumental ization of the olympics. pct, danger greeks, you with that the, if for the games would be used for good would come in between those that the political tensions which were higher at the time between as part i now things and, and then others. if her there, the games would not be conceived to be neutral. they would not have her survived. therefore, 1000 years australian open spectators were accused last month by china of politicizing sport. after tennis fans handed out whereas pangs whitey shirts back to confirm that he will meet the chinese tennis star who disappeared from public life in

november after she accused a high ranking communist party official of sexual assault. thanks, wiley, to retracted that allegation, that there are concerns he may have done. so under duress it's a necessity to, to respect her and then to listen to her and how she sees her, the situation, how she wants to to live her life. china's treatment of weaker muslims here and she's young province, has prompted countries like the u. s. and the u. k. to stage a diplomatic boycott of the beijing games, asked for comment back sighted his know politics pledge the position, offer the seat must be given the political neutrality that we are not commenting on political issues as the cut and rises on a basis and picks surrounded by political intrigue backs,

insistence that they be kept out of the games remains unwavering. they w correspondent jonathan grind crane is at the birds nest stadium in beijing and anyone today he sent us this message. looking ahead to the opening ceremony. i think it's gonna be an interesting opening ceremony, but the issues thrown in the games aren't going to go away anytime soon. and it's not just about human rights and it's not just about puncture. why we've got environmental consent. we've got the corvette virus and questions that are whether the game should actually taking place at all. some human rights groups have called this the genocide. in fact, the united states government refers to genocide when they talk about the week as jang provinces. for that reason, the u. s. and some other western countries are going to boy caught the opening ceremony. after you've already heard rushes of a futon is here. you know, had been solomon, china want to use the opening ceremony to show off its coach and its history. and i

quote, it's reading this to pursue well piece. now this opening ceremony is going to be directed by the same person who directed the spectacular ceremony in 2000. and now you said the summer olympics, so we can expect something perhaps equally spectacular tonight. t w's johnson crime in beijing. well, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. british prime minister boris johnson has lost a 5th key aid as his popularity plummets over a slew of controversial lockdown parties. johnson's chief of staff, private secretary and communications director of all resigned policy unit chief manero mertsa, also quit over comments. johnson made on monday attacking opposition, lay belated kitch darma, rescue teams in morocco, a racing to free, a 5 year old boy who's been trapped in a well for days. the child fell into the 32 me to date well near his family's house

. as he was playing on tuesday, authority, se oxygen and water have been sent down under the child is still responsive. tongue, as a prime minister has extended the nations lockdown for 48 more hours after another coven 19 case was found. that brings the total number of infections on the remote archipelago to 5 tongue, remained virtually covert free until january, when international aid arrived after a devastating volcanic eruption and tanami the economic community of west african states eco was, has asked the regime but seized power and became faso last week to propose an election time table. the group held an emergency summit in gone as capital accurate to discuss measures against became fossa, as well as what the group called a dangerous trend of military power. grubs in the region, at least in columbia, have arrested 5 people after a large hall of cocaine was found hidden inside an ambulance police search. the

vehicle off to the driver claimed he was transporting a cove at 19 patient to hospital, but couldn't name the facilities location. some 60 packages filled with cocaine were found inside. i take a look at some of the latest of elements in the crown of ours pandemic india's official death toll from the koran of ours has now raged half a 1000000 people. experts believe though the real toll could be 10 times higher. the world health organization has said europe may be entering the end of the pandemic. high vaccination writes the milder ami con variant and the end of winter main. europe is set for a quote, period of tranquillity. and a south african biotech company says it's made its own version of madonna's cove at 19 vaccine. they hoped to test it in humans by the end of this year. the united states is calling the death of the later of the so called is law. make state a milestone in the fight against the group. president joe biden said hunter,

abdullah blew himself up during a us special forces right in syria. 13 others, including women and children, were killed in the operation. but it's not yet fully clear in what circumstances. the ride follows growing concerned that i asked may be trying to regroup in the region. a collapsed roof and a dead terrorist leader. the result of a us special forces rate in the pre dawn hours on thursday morning in assyrian village near the turkish border. abo abraham, a shimmy r 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

his director tourist operations targeting americans, our ally and our partners, had countless civilians in the middle east, africa, and in south asia. hi, jeff duleigh oversaw the spread of isis affiliated terrors groups around the world . after savaging communities and murder reduces us, officials say the operation bitin ordered took weeks to plan. it happened to mid growing concerns that i asked may be trying to regroup. and january i attacked a prison in ne syria in an effort to free it's fighters held there. it took days for us back kurdish forces to retake the prison, killing hundreds in the process. well, 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 than initially reported. and finally, the dodge city of god damn europe's busiest port has given the green light to dismantle a historic bridge. for very wealthy customer, a bridge will be temporarily taken apart so that an oversized yacht under construction, can pass through on his way to the north sea. the vessel which is 127, made his long and fought, he made his high is said to become the world's biggest sailing yacht. when it's launched late to this year, it's believed to have been commissioned by amazon founder jeff bezos. one of the world's richest people, you're watching daily news, his reminder of the top story we're following for you. the german government has

condemned russia's decision to ban deutsche of elop. russia said it was shocking de w at moscow bureau after berlin band, german language programming of russian state, broad constant r t. due to its lack of license. they w director general paid a limber called the move by moscow, a total overreaction and promise legal action. no forget, you can always get d w news on the go. just download our app from google play old from the app store. that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news. and if you're part of a new story, you can also use the de w app to send us the photos and videos of what's happening way you can use update this our to the point is coming up next, looking at turkeys future future under o, tuan will have more headlines for you at the top of the hour. i'm rebecca, written in the him,

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