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b. nato's eastern flanks and the you crank prices also coming up and nerve wracking digging morocco, rescue as a racing to save a 5 year old boy. he's been tracked down a well since tuesday. and politics lodge of the opening of the winter olympics in beijing. a weaker athlete is chosen, said light flamed, drawing accusations, trying to use the ceremony to whitewash its oppression of the ethnic minority. ah, i've been phys all and welcome us. reinforcements have begun arriving in europe. his fears increase over russia's troops build up on ukraine's borders. the 1st contingent of 2000 and additional american soldiers arrived in frankfurt overnight with others touching down the poland border with you cry,

the white house as thou protect easton nathan members from potential russian aggression. but the kremlin says thou lonely strain, the high tensions in the region t w's. alexander nomine explains what's behind the u. s. decision. 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. nato has to prepare for every possible military scenario. it is not unrealistic. for instance, to think that russia couldn't trades a border incidence with estonia to distract attention from an invasion in ukraine to be prepared. the u. s. alone is sending 1700 troops to poland and a 1000 strong units to romania. france wants to send soldiers to romania as well.

the netherlands is considering deploying fighter aircraft to bulgaria. so too is spain. while the u. k made its patch 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 its build 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, latvia, lithuanian, polen, the for battle groups were deployed in response to rushes annexation of crimea in 2014 nato. 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 alden a ransom suggest, has galvanized the alliance rushes actions, especially since 2014. have i given nato and you impetus for it for its core mission, for which it was established to secure europe, to deter others from invading or advocacy destroying the security order in europe. and yet, that doesn't mean nato will send combat forces to ukraine if putin decides to strike. in fact, the alliance has already ruled it out, but many members are increasing their economic and military aid for ukraine. with the u. k and poland, promising a new security pat nick colony. yet,

nick connelly is al, corresponded in kiev. how much of a help at these nato deployments to parts of europe for ukraine, nick whiting. they certainly show ukrainians, the value of nato membership. that solidarity and willingness to support smaller countries in times of tension. but also ukraine is not in nato and has no medium or short term perspective of becoming a member. so i think it's, you know, it's clear that ukraine will not get native boots on the ground if russia were to learn some kind of intervention. think the really important thing to bear in mind here is the scale. these couple of 1000 additional nato troops on the eastern flank are pretty, pretty small in terms of a comparison with the russians who have tens of thousands, if not more troops in the region, especially those russian exercises in belarus. nature, general secretary styles and book saying russia is planning, sent 30000 troops to those excise which are just the borders of poland, lithuania,

so i'm not really comparable in terms of the scale. yes it, ukraine obviously needs or wants more direct military aid. it's appealing to germany. what difference would a german contribution make? why think this request to weapons is not so much just about the weapons. there is nothing that germany has to give that is so unique that of the nato countries couldn't supply ukraine with. i think this is just a real desire here and care for germany to call a spade a spade. as you know, the cranes would see it to name cool rush or out name this an aggression or by russia against ukraine, and not to try and play a some kind of intermediary role. and many ukraine's been frustrated by germany's reluctance to call off the no stream to pipeline which basically links in russian energy dependence in germany for decades to come. and this, these calls are all just part of a desire for germany to really show up for ukraine and to risk some diplomatic

damage with russia. and in setting up for ukraine, whether or not that's gonna happen for now. the, the, the poll showed that there's not much support among the german public for weapons deliveries to ukraine. and we've not heard anything in the way of positive singles from german politicians. d, w, and conley in kia. thank you. teams in morocco have been working tirelessly for days to save a 5 year old who fell into a well. crowds flocked to the village of e grand to cheer on the rescuers. officials say they're getting close to the boy, but conditions are dangerous, and the rescues in a challenging face. 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 i am i am i've done was 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,

realize that he fell into the well as it has now. we are praying to god lonely ms. de ms. 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 optic. but i managed to communicate with the child and asking that 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. blood was many people from the region came to the sides of the accidents and some even spent the night that the 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. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making well news. austria's mandatory vaccine laura's gone into force after being signed by the president. it applies to all adults except those with medical exemptions, mpic at women, starting next month. austrian police will carry out random spunk checks or proof of vaccination. fine start from 600 euros. madagascar is bracing for a powerful cyclone. it's focused to hit the islands east coast in the coming hours . authorities one, the impact could be severe with winds of up to 260 kilometers an hour pass of

madagascar, a still reeling from deadly flooding of the heavy rainfall every 6 weeks. the 1st gold medal of the beijing games has been awarded to no ways to raise a yo how one the women ski, athlone in dominant fashion. it's also her 1st individual olympic metal. the winter olympics opened after a scaled back ceremony at the iconic boats nest tickets. what sold to international visitors all to the general public in china to try to prevent the spread of covered 90. yet without 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 stems. many spectators instead enjoyed the fireworks from outside the stadium. disappointed

that events will be held without fans. yeah, i think i really need some pity. we cannot go to watch the games. we couldn't tell if it weren't for covered. we would be very happy in case you guys. yes. oh. sent it again. hm. so 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 yes, but i will still cheer them on to yeah. he already, along with hazy, saudi arabia are 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 travel to beijing. the political sub loss 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. the doors to athletes organizes will hope that the sporting action becomes the focus of the headlines we'll get to that. joining me from aging is, do you suppose correspond? johnson tray it see that jonathan, the final torchbearer at the opening ceremony as we have all heard was a weaker athlete. how does that sit with human rights?

yes, certainly raised a few eyebrows. that decision are human rights groups of accused china, of engaging in a cheaper propaganda ploy essentially say look, the way you guys are free. they can even take parts. and olympics opening ceremony though, try telling that to the more than 1000000 week muslims her in the so called a re education center is human rights group. say that's genocide. they say they're being held there against their will. i'm forcing women to have sterilizations. china, of course, does deny all of this saying they're not engaging in human rights violations now at the athlete was 20 year old, didn't go a lumberjack. she actually competed today in the cross country for its part, the international olympic committee has defended the move to include her in the opening ceremony, saying ethnicity was not a factor on another topic, we hear some arrivals of tested positive. the covert does that include any athletes yes, certainly there are a few athletes within that number of f. u. i should say organizes today announced

45 new games rated code cases 25 of those were athletes or other team members. now they are hopeful that the cases will start coming down once this closed loop system that were all in starts to kick in properly. a lot of the cases that we're seeing the positive cases, a probably what people have brought in from abroad here in china. but that doesn't really help people like japanese eric french, so he was a real gold medal hope for germany in the north, combined and event which as its name suggests, combines to event ski jumping and cross country. he will certainly miss the fast of his 3 scheduled event. he's got a race against time to be fit for the other 2. he needs to record 2 negative corona virus tests. we've heard about his situation today a bit in a couple of press conferences by the gemini ki, make called his situation unacceptable. the reason is very small, there's not much space for him to train or anything like that. so this is something athletes ready to want to avoid. and really briefly we've got some metals up for

grabs today. yes, 6 meadows intel up for grabs teresa your whole as you said, one, the 1st one. we've also got a metal coming up in the short track speedskating. it's one of the new events where the new mixed events and these alan pit games. and that is an event speedskating sort track that china at the host traditionally do very well. and so they could be getting their esco metal raisa. jonathan cranium beijing. that's your news update this. our next reporter takes us on a night bus. that's helping the homeless in berlin. i've been this woman thinks for wanting a like, ah, are you ready to get a little more extreme?

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