[000:00:00;00] ah ah as you see them, the news line from berlin, china joins russia in condemning nature expansion. let me in trouble. the beijing for talks with gigi pig ahead of the olympics. both adults with the west, the 2 leaders signal closer ties in the future. also in the program, european union joints, germany in condemning russia, decision to ban deutsche a valid the w's moscow bureau forced to shut down in retaliation for russia. state media outlets are not being allowed to broadcast in germany on the winter olympics

. begin if you check, i work at the opening ceremony and the chinese capital light up the night sky with becomes the 1st city to host summer and winter games. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. china has joined to russia and criticizing data expansion. chinese president g shing, russian president vladimir putin. i've been meeting in beijing ahead of the opening of the patient winter olympics. this comes with growing tension rushes troop build up on its border with ukraine. statement from the 2 leaders highlights agreement and proposed cooperation on our raft of issues including energy supplies and stemming major protest notes for little to glasgow. more from a journalist or fabian crouch,

my in beijing. welcome fabian. so talk us through the main points emerging from this meeting. yet the meeting was quite remarkable. i mean, what we expected and what also many analysts told me is that both sides will announce some energy deal, some corporation. but the meeting went far beyond that. the statement was already quite a long, 5300 words and had really strong political message is a message that was mainly aimed at to washington and to some degree also to brussels. so both sides or po, oppose, an expansion of nato. the both m. o, m a post, the trilateral em military corporation between m, australia, united states, enter the united kingdom, arcus, and, and basically, they shawl and solidarity towards each other. moscow and paging. they show unity and demonstrate that they have a common and shared

a foreign policy interests and they, that the ex or pulse also m a u. s. lead world order, so to speak. right? and a bit of domestic issues in there as well. that pledging closer cooperation to stem political protest movements. so what is that likely to involve what that's a good question they left to quite wake into cynically speaking, at least from the chinese perspective. am it's hard to imagine why am beijing would still need any assistance or cooperation with moscow to stem protest because that's what they do every day, just to day one activists in hong kong was arrested. why? because he was trying to protest against the olympic a winter games which started today because it's against the national security law. and that gives you an idea how strict it already is. there is no decent or am dissent possible within the mainland. and also in hong kong,

m a protest movement basically disappeared already. so it cannot even escalate any further. so i would guess we have to wait and see what that will mean in the future or, and cross of the big issue is the russian true build up a our on, on its borders with ukraine. what has been china's stance on that and how does today's statement a fit in with that? yet it's quite ambivalent. so a china official stands is that they support a peaceful m solution in the ukraine conflict. however, today, statement showed very clearly that the solidarity of begging is with moscow and m. how far that will go. however, we're not sure. i mean, we know that a baiting doesn't want any further military escalation dreamed, or winter games, because that's the, our state of presenting themselves and they don't want any interference. however, am, if, for example, russia would invade ukraine than it would also be tactical knowledge for china itself because they have the issue on their own. they have a conflict with taiwan. and even though the makers are slightly different and

separate, there is some parallels and am, if a china, for example, see that the west will not oppose strongly a possible invasion in ukraine then. maybe they could also feel more confident in containing toe on. okay, thank you. for that fabric crash more in beijing, let's get more on the european response to that statement from the chinese and russian that presidents will join i. d. w correspondent at jack paris in brussels at welcome jack. let's start with the nato and our nato likely to be concerned about to chide a china citing with russia in this way. or is this just sort of business as usual? i think it was a pretty expected position from the chinese we heard from the chinese foreign minister a few weeks ago saying that it rushes and security concerns when ye go legitimate. so i think nato was understanding that china's position was kind of in this way, but it's quite

a strong statement. phil. they saying that need to should not be expanding. and this is the russian demand that ukraine in georgia should never be able to become nato members. because that would then take the military alliance is borders all the way up to russia and oversee ex soviet states. that would be then in the nato military alliance major though it's position remains the same. it has this open door policy and the nato position is that any country has a sovereign right to decide how it wants to set up its own security arrangements. ok, so that's nato. let's talk about that. the e, which has been sort of sidelined during this latest flare up between russia and ukraine. has there been any response from brussels? the spokespeople today from the european commission as a sort of rebuff that suggested that they've been sidelined because it has really been the leaders specifically the french and german leaders who've been sort of

taking the firmest role in this to try and talk to russia and to try and negotiate the de escalation and also try and play a firm card. but the european union commission today said actually that this is part of a coordinating coordinated effort. and all of the european positions are discussed here in brussels and, and combined to just put forward by particular leaders. right. i mean, they can say that, but putting has made it clear that his business is with the united states and he expects that european leaders to fall in behind that. and president macro, as you mentioned, to said that he's flying to moscow to try and diffuse this. is it too cynical to see this as, as him tried to stress on the, the world stage ahead of electrons in april? i mean, there's no harm for a leader that are in an election cycle to look strong and powerful on the international stage, surely. but i do think the micron is trying to really lead for from the

european position to try and negotiate to the escalation. he's had quite a few phone calls with vladimir putin, russian president over the last few weeks. as you say, he'll go to moscow, we'll have to wait and see how that goes exactly how it goes down. we also know that the german chancellor left shots is planning a trip to moscow as well. but as you say, really, where this comes down to is the negotiations between the kremlin and the white house. thank you for that. jack jack park in brussels. the european union has joined the german government in condemning moscow's decision to shut down the russian operations of this channel deutsch avella. the move is apparently in retaliation for german media regulators, prohibiting russia state media out that r t for broadcasting in germany due to the lack of a valid license. critics, i ought to often broadcast crumbling propaganda on dis inflation. the foreign ministry in berlin said the decision would increase the strain on already tense. german russian relations. though each of alice,

moscow office is now closed and the double use journalist can no longer work from russia. the russian government announced on thursday that it would shut down d w's bureau, and revoke the accreditation of d, w's journalists and russia. it also said, in the statement, it would terminate the satellite and other broadcasting output of deutsch. avella in the country. the measures come after germany's media regulators banned the german language broadcasting of russia's state media, r t for operating with our license. the german government says russia's actions are unjustified. it was with you with german government, strongly condemned the measures being taken against arch avella, the measures are completely unfounded and go against the principles of freedom of the press portraying this as being a legitimate response. the german authorities decision to prohibit ortiz broadcasting due to licensing issues,

is neither legally nor substantively understandable and hugged off. what's he bar? germany's commissioner for culture and media criticize the decision and called it hostile. yes, ma globe is these drastic measures from the russian side are not acceptable by any means. allan, for melissa, shes auditor always for to it is a truly aggressive act as, as in victory. i don't, we don't need aggressive acts. all we need dialogue act is on. we need de escalation and not escalation that so wouldn't managed as colored so the russian government also said it plans to initiate proceedings to label deutsch avella, as a media outlets acting as a foreign agent, a designation that carries further government scrutiny for now d, w, as considering possible legal avenues and says it will not stop reporting on russia . russia. let's take a closer look at this with the w 's editor in chief, manuela casper. clarity. welcome to the studio title. let's start with what

d w is doing about reversing this decision. while our colleagues had to give back their accreditation today at the foreign ministry, unfortunately, but people will certainly take legal action. we have spoken to our solicitors and to lever go and negotiate, of course, also with the russian or authorities next week. or there's already an appointment been made and we see how we proceed from there. and what reason has moscow given for, for closing down d w operations? well, as you had a report or the russian state own broadcaster r t, germany or was told to shut down its services or to broadcast in germany, because they don't have a proper license for darcia avelaire, it's probably, it's totally different because we have a license or had a license up till today to broadcast in russia and now's his license has been taken away. and the reason see russian authorities are given given is retaliation. they

have said that this we are the victims of this retaliation. so just to be clear, the rational authorities, her said we are closing you down because you close daughter you down. exactly. ok. why is 0 is not us understood. why does this matter? why does it matter for whom for us, why yeah. why does it matter for deutsch avella, that russia chooses to close down our brains in that country? obviously, i mean, we need to feed him to report in russia, you can't report, then you don't have accreditation. it's, it's forbidden. you know, that means our journalist can't work from today on, and we have quite a bit of his air and we do extensive reporting from russia. it's a vain, important reach for us, you know, our staff in any danger. well, hopefully not. but they could be in danger if they are declared phone agent,

because that means if say where to do a report then since they have been proclaimed for an agent, they can get a, they can go to court, you know. and so it's that can be dangerous for them, but at the moment, no, our staff is not in danger. and of course, the, and continuous contact the sam and even look after them, we do whatever we can. and so what, what happens is, what are they doing while the 2 governments rankel was unfortunate at the moment. we have to wait or how things are developed. but we have plans, and we will as go on reporting about russia, probably not from russia of a likely not from russia, but from regions around russia. we have offices in latvia and, and other many other countries like and ukraine and so on. poverty, go on to report from there, about russia and we have an extensive network, so don't very good. it's the government is the german government doing enough about

this where you had the statements of a part. so obviously there's an awareness and chancellor charlotte's the visit moscow and hopefully he will talk about our situation so that we don't know yet. okay, so with your, as it stands, your content that the german government is doing enough about the situation with statements and the possibility that this will be raised when the chancellor visits russia next. yes, they trust the german government that they do, but if necessary. certainly. thank you so much for joining us. the w editor in chief manuel casper clack, like german chancellor left shows, is due to visit ukraine and russia in the next 10 days where he'll discuss tensions over ukraine. is a shelter describe the buildup of russian troops on the current border is very serious and any invasion would have consequences. next week's visit will be the 1st face to face meeting between russian president vladimir putin and chancellor shaw

since he succeeded angling metal in december. as cable from the w political correspond that the simon young welcome, simon, aleph sholtes has been criticized for government, lack of visible action in support of ukraine. now we have this flurry of international appointments including meeting with president putin in moscow. does this indicate any sort of change of stance in bel will fill i think the real change is a's one of pace and optics after even the media here of been asking, where is sholtes in recent days in regard to the ukraine crisis. so this visit to washington, which is in fact just the usual 1st visit by german chancellor to see the us president in the white house. i think there he'll, he'll have some work to do to persuade us politicians who are concerned

that germany has been slow, for instance, to put the issue of known strain to the gas pipeline from russia to germany on the table as schultz was now done, to say that that would be effected if they were rushing to get aggression against ukraine. also, i think some in washington have looked to the german reluctance to support ukraine militarily. even though of course, people understand their historical reasons for that. but the whole stance has given the impression there, i think that germany may be an unreliable partner. so that's what shows wants to make clear is not the case. it should be said the by the administration was willing to give a shot. so i think the new german government a bit more space, they haven't proceeded with measures sanctions against german firms over nor stream for instance. but this is, this is now coming to a have shorts will be going to

a key of in 10 days time. and moscow after that, so a germany is really came to play some sort of mediating role on the ukraine crisis . have been doing that for several years. and we're going to see the concern of that more clearly. i think in the coming days i would have rushes up ban on d. w is that is mr. show, it's likely to raise that. i think it's highly likely that he'll raise that with president putin. you know, the government line here has been, it's completely unacceptable. it's disproportionate. there's no symmetry they say with the decision by a german media regulator not to give a license to a russian channel. and you know, the foreign ministry is asking the rational authorities to reconsider that decision . so it definitely will also be one of the things affecting the german russian relationship. but of course there are many other things for sholtes and pollutants

talk about as well. ok, thank you for that, simon. you let's take a look. a small store is making news around the world. nato secretary general dns dalton birth will become the head of norway central banquet, whose term in the lines ends on the 30th of september. critics, for his appointment week and the banks independence, salt of both previously served us the countries of prime minister and finance. germany is observed a minute silence from 2 police officers killed during a traffic stop on monday. the officers were shot in the western town of causal after finding 2 men with poached animals in their vehicles. the suspects who were already known to police, arrested hours later by the british prime minister barak johnson has lost a 5th key aid as his popularity plummets over slew if controversial lockdown. johnson's chief of staff, private sector in communications director, all resigned policy unit chief minear. they're also quit over false claims,

the prime minister made on monday attacking the opposition. iceland has announced plans to end the whaling by 2024. the fisheries minister said she's so little reason to permit waiting after the current license expires together with no way in japan. i says one of the only countries to continue to hunt wales commercially for the 2022 winter and then picks half now opened up the iconic birds nest stadium invasion originally built for the summer games in 22008. it's in use again today as beijing became the 1st city in the world to host summer and winter games. tickets were not on sale to international visitors or to the general public in china. i was selected, spectators have been invited build up to the games has been overshadowed by criticism. the chinese government's human rights record, particularly with regard to the treatment of week of muslims in john province or

several countries, including the united states, us diplomatic boycotts. the international olympic committee has refused to comment on matters. it considers political correspondent invasion, jonathan crates, spoke with. i see present thomas back about politics and the impacts were charged backwards. clearly pains to reiterate the stance that it's a politically neutral organization. indeed, the question of whether sports and politics should mix with a central theme of the press conference. so the, i see the answer is clearly no, but when i was asked specifically about the weakest and their oppression that no comment felt especially jarring. now, human rights groups have urged athletes to use that platform at these games to speak up on such issues. i asked bark whether he could guarantee athletes safety for them to do this in china, he avoided answering that instead made some bizarre comparison about athlete

protests and an actor playing 100 on the stage. but athletes i see, allowed to express themselves at certain times and faces at the olympics, just not during their event for during metro ceremonies, whether any of them will feel, feel brave enough to do so, given the climate here remains to be seen. another big sporting event, a, footballs, africa, cup of nations. cameroon, had been dreaming of gloria at home. but the campaign came to a dramatic and in 1st, a semi final as egypt came out on top, while the hosts were left broken hearted, egyptian supporters save at that moment of glory. the streets of cairo, or jam packed with you for egyptian fan minutes after their qualification for the final of the africa cup of nations. and while they celebrated despondent cameroon ins came to terms with their loss, after they missed out on

a chance to win it all on home ground. the game was decided on penalties were egypt kept there cool and broke the home sites, hearts sundays final pit 7 time champions, egypt against the highly rated cynical side who had chasing their country 1st ever african title sundays game will be special for 2 players in particular. 2 teammates who usually line up together for liverpool and go head to head w's. elisa, a woman takes a look at this years, africa cup of nations, final or added business end of the african cup of nations in cameron, great semi finals, a witness that sadie, a mighty leading senegal against booking. i pass on the 1st 3 goes to want to qualify for the finals and well egypt mohammed fella he did not need to pay the penalty, but i still wanted to go see $1.00 about cameron hob break. i'll come out and have got the top score up to 20 minutes. so that's why it's not meant to be, which means we'll get to the city that i go. lance of santa go against egypt. in that final, it's sad. your money vest,

says mohammed thought liverpool teammates the bet football in africa across the world that everyone can pay witness to that. so who gets to when it will be psycho money? i'm sending off for the 1st time in history up to 2 losses. oh, well, how many feller crown in the big ferry for egypt if they get to win it again, senate go in that find it. and then based on sunday, i now if the february blues have already taken no hold for those in the northern hemisphere. well that it has the 1st a sy fy blockbuster of the year might offer a welcome escape. german director roland emmerich known as the master of disaster films like independence day and the day after to morrow delivered his latest apocalyptic a vision moon for the plot. that if nothing else is after this will be breaking news, the governor has just order a man fall planet earth is in peril after a mysterious force throws the moon out of orbit as it hercules towards earth. chaos

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. look quite small. on priest, there is a reminder of our top stores at this hour, late presidents of russia and china have demanded an end to native expansion. rushes president vladimir recruited is invasion for toast. with these chinese counterpart gigi and pink named ceremony of winter olympics, european union has joined germany in condemning russia's decision to ban deutsch avella. russia said it was such shattering d, w as moscow bureau after berlin, back to german language program to russia state both casa off, te because of his lack of a license. this is a d, w coming up next a news, asia, some of afghanistan's female students have returned to university. what are the tyler bronze plans for women's education?

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