ah, ah ah, this is dw news lived from berlin, u. s. military reinforcements arrived in europe. the 1st contingent of soldiers have touched down in germany and poland. they've been sent to beef up nato's eastern flank, submit the new crime crisis, also coming up a nerve wracking dig in morocco, where rescue was a racing to save a 5 year old boy who's been trapped down a well since tuesday. and the opening of the winter olympics in beijing, fireworks light up the night sky in the chinese capital that the event takes place

under the shadow of tort authoritarianism and the pandemic. ah, i, rebecca written walking to the program. us troop reinforcements have begun arriving in germany as fears over russia's troop build up on ukraine's borders increases their 1st contention of 2000 additional us soldiers arriving near frankfort overnight with others touching down their poland border with you. crime white house says the troops will protect east and nato members from potential rush and aggression. but russia says there worsening already. high tensions in the region dw alexander phenomena explains what's behind the u. s. decision ah, american f. 15 fighter jets arriving in estonia. a danish frigate deployed to

support nato in the baltic sea. more and more allies are sending troops to eastern europe. it's not a choice, it's the masters as security expert, bruno latino, and berlin made or has to prepare for every possible military scenario. it is not unrealistic, for instance, to think that russia couldn't to raise a border incidence with estonia to distract attention from an invasion in ukraine. to be prepared, the u. s. alone ascending 1700 troops to poland and a 1000 strong units to romania, france wants to send soldiers to romania as well. the netherlands, his considering deploying fighter aircraft to bulgaria. so too is spain. while the u. k made a dispatch troops to estonia and danish fighter jets have already arrived in lithuania, compared to russia's nato presence in the region is still relatively small. but as

the kremlin continues, it spilled up around ukraine, nato, strengthening its defense posture. according to secretary generals told him back the alliance has he been considering deploying new battle groups? in addition to the for multinational battalions already in place. in estonia, lard, fia, lithuanian, poland. the for battle groups were deployed in response to russia's annexation of crimea in 2014 natal members argued then that they cannot ignore russia, breaking international rules and undermining peace and stability. and now nato is confronted again with what they describe as aggressive behavior and its members are responding with reinforcements. putin's goal was to have fewer nato troops close to russia's border, but so far he has produced the exact opposite. the current crisis policy analyst al dinner ransom suggest, has galvanized the alliances. russia's actions,

especially since 2014 have sort of a given nato, a new impetus for it, for its core mission, for which it was established to secure europe, to deter others from invading or apathy, destroying the security order in europe. and yet that doesn't mean natal will send combat forces to ukraine if prudent decides to strike. in fact, the alliance has already ruled a doubt, but many members are increasing their economic and military aid for a queen with the u. k and poland, promising and new security pack. it is of a more let's bring and d, w, correspond, nick connolly and key if make these nato deployments to some countries in europe. what difference do they make for you crime? why think of anything, rebecca? they just so ukrainians, the value of being in nato,

something that isn't on the call to any time, sooner even in the middle term for ukraine. right now. this is all about symbolism of the u. s. reassuring especially smaller nato members with smaller millet trees on that eastern flank on the board with russia. i think the ukrainian doesn't do much ukrainian recent weeks has heard that all it can expect. if russia does invade, ah, sanctions against russia, maybe more weapons deliveries and financial aid, but no need to mit. she boots on the ground here in ukraine, tilting crane only, as you rightly point out you crying is not a night. i remember. but these are, of course nato troops when talking about just talk us through, if you will. you kinds relationship tonight. i so ukraine got a very am kind of elusive a pledge that at some point it would be able to join nato back in 2008 at the bucharest nato summit. but that was never really clearly defined. there was no roadmap to joining us since then. russia has been making very clear that it sees

a native em ship for ukraine as a red line. as it is, us lawmakers have been discussing giving nature, giving ukraine rather at the states of anita plus member, which would allow it to get a u. s. arms more easily. other kinds of support. there been various kinds of western training missions, few cranes, military, and then more in the way of bilateral military aid for ukraine by the u. s. by the u. k. recently supplying those 1st lethal weapons from the u. k. recently. but there is no commitment by nato to defend ukraine. and as i said before, ukraine is well and truly on its own if russia were to lead. now this of course all comes in context of the russian troop build up next to the ukranian border on the other side. how the the numbers compare. i think this is a really important point because yet there has been lord kristen from moscow of these u. s. troop movements, but they are tiny compared to what russia is doing in the same region. so these are essentially 2000 new troops being transferred across atlanta from the u. s. 1000

being moved from germany to romania. this is pretty poultry. if you accept the claim from nato, joseph, 3 or stilton burg recently that russia sending 30000 fresh troops to bellows alone . these are excise is being held between pillars of russia in that country that also lies on ukraine's borders on top of the $100000.00 russian troops or more along russia's border with ukraine. so these really aren't comparable in terms of scale and this is very much a symbolic move, but nothing that really changes the balance of forces while the world. and i don't want to tell i gave her the atmosphere very briefly if you can, how concerned i ukrainians right now? was there's a bit of a kind of disconnect between the world's attention on ukraine and lots of craning, seemingly going about their daily lives without too much of a change when you were, when you talk to them, they often will tell you they are slowly coming up with plan b's taking cash out in case issues happen with the banks and they have to leave in a hurry. so there's a bit of a skin for an expense of a desire to keep on going,

but preparation increasingly for the worst. all right, nick, thank you. date of least nick, homeland give criticism is growing here in germany and across europe over moscow's decision to shut down the russian operations of this channel. toich of ella. the move is in retaliation for german media regulators, partially prohibiting brushes, state media out that r t from broadcasting in germany. deutsch of alice, moscow office is now closed and d, w journalist can no longer work in russia. the russian government announced on thursday that it would shut down d w bureau and revoke the accreditation of d, w. 's journalists. it also said in a statement it would terminate the satellite and other broadcasting outposts of deutsch avella in the country. the measures come after germany's media regulator

blocked the german language broadcasting of russia, state media or t, which began operating in december 2021 under a serbian license regulations say the license does not comply with european law or to journalists are still allowed work in germany. detached, so this is the fact that deutsche of allah has been deprived of its broadcasting license and that its employees have also been denied accreditation is completely unacceptable. get walden, this is for come in acceptable. this violates the freedom of the press and independent media is after all, a sign of free and democratic states soccer that says a lot. i nikos all deutsche of ela, has our full solidarity. look what is that it is already deleted. the german government says russia's actions are in justified and cold at a hostile decision. if my globe is a moth, these drastic measures from the russian side and not acceptable by any means upon

it is a truly aggressive act by help. but we don't need aggressive ag cuz we need dialogue . we need di escalation and not escalation law group. often they escalade, so nish, escalade, so the russian government also said at plans to initiate proceedings, to label deutsch, vela 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 in b y rescue workers in morocco has been working tirelessly for days to save a 5 year old boy who fell into a well crowns have flocked to the village of a ground to cheer on the rescue is official say they're getting close to the boy, but that conditions are dangerous and the rescue is in a challenging phase throngs of people. watch as rescue was raised to save a boy's life,

little ryan has been stuck. 32 meters down this well since tuesday that a him i had i've done. he was playing until the middle of today. he was with me at 1st, but then i looked for him and couldn't find him. you know, after searching were realised that he fell into the well. was it now we are praying to god lonely miss to miss ellen. at less than half a meter wide, the well is too narrow to pull the boy out. rescuers use ropes to lower oxygen and water, as well as a closed circuit camera to check on his health. on thursday, a rescuer was able to go down a parallel hole that had been doug to get closer to ryan watson up there. but i managed to communicate with the child and asked if he could hear me. oh, that there was a response is going helena. i waited for a minute and saw that he began using the oxygen. once rescuers were able to dig

down to the depth where ryan is stuck, they began excavating a horizontal tunnel to try and reach the boy. but the loose soil has slowed their efforts. gripped by the boy's terrifying plight, many have come to cheer on the rescuers or even to volunteer. but authorities of asked them to stand back and let them do the work. bloodless, many people from the region came to besides a be accidents and some even spent the night that it to ryan touched them and every one is praying for him. a drama official said on friday that they were just meters away from reaching ryan, a police helicopter is waiting to take him to the hospital as soon as he is freed. and 2020 tay winter olympic games are now open after a scaled back ceremony at bay. james on conic birds nest state im tickets was sold to international visitors or to the general public in china to try and prevent the

spread of covenant. tate and several countries have declared a diplomatic boycott of the games because of china's human rights record. yet another opening ceremony at beijing's birds nest stadium hall must 14 years on from the 2008 summer olympics. $3000.00 performers took part in the proceedings. as athletes from around the world took a lap of ana in front of a reduced crowd, with only a select few allowed into the stands. many spectators instead enjoyed the fireworks from outside the stadium. disappointed that events will be held without fans. yeah, i think i shall reason pity. we cannot go to watch the games. we couldn't this out . if it weren't for covered we would be very happy with you guys. you guys? yes. oh, sent it again. has a being held on our doorstep. i really want to go watch the events and cheer for it . when it's

a pity this time we can only watch our athletes on tv and on line that. yeah, but i will still cheer them on to. yeah, i all ready, along with haiti, saudi arabia taking part in their 1st winter games with both countries sending just one athlete. meanwhile, the usa have the largest contingent with $224.00 competitors at the games, but no diplomatic representation traveled to beijing. the political sub plot of these olympics is just as much part of the proceedings as the coven restrictions. all those attending events must wear and f, f, p to mosque and get tested twice a day. almost 12000 people are in the olympic bubble, of whom over 300 have already tested positive. it is still unclear whether all athletes will receive their p. c. r. test results in time to compete.

many events will be held on artificial snow. the use of which has been heavily criticized due to the regions water shortage bought as venues open that those 2 athletes organizes will hope that the sporting action becomes the focus of the headlines at chinese update this analyst ha, now the sports life will have more headlines at the top of the next out of the w's crime fighters are back a little bit more africa's. most successful radio drama series continues to end up all episodes are available online. and of course you can share and discuss on d, w, africa's facebook page, and other social media platforms, crime fighters, tune in now the battle against cove it the only co variant is putting healthcare systems around the world to the test.