researchers and scientists all over the world for in a race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring goal to help smart nature. more life starts february 16th on d, w ah, this is d, w. use life from berlin. u. s. military reinforcements arrive in europe, the 1st contingent of soldiers touch down in germany and poland. they've been sent

to beef, nachos, east and plank submit. the ukraine crisis also coming up as a tropic role. i had no right to overturn the election. a brand republican rebuke, the donald trump, as vice president mike pent speaks out against his election claims and politics. lou lodge over the opening of the winter olympics in beijing, a weaker athlete is chosen to light the flame. the decision draws accusations, china, use the ceremony to whitewash it's oppression of the ethnic minority. ah, i'm painful and welcome. you. as reinforcements have begun arriving in europe as fee as increase over russia's troop build up on ukraine's borders. the 1st contingent of 2000 additional american soldiers arrived near frankfort overnight,

without his touching down near poland border with you, right. the white house says they'll protect east and nato members from potential russian aggression. but the kremlin says they'll only strain the high tensions in the region. d w 's alexander phenomena 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 is even considering deploying new battle groups, in addition to the 4 multinational battalions already in place. in estonia, latvia, lithuanian, polen. the for battle groups were deployed in response to russia's 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 al dinner runs and suggest has galvanized the alliance brushes actions, especially since 2014 have. i 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 nato will send combat forces to ukraine if potent 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 i also have correspond nick connelly. how much of a help these nato deployments offer ukraine certainly show ukrainians, the value of nato membership that solidarity and willingness to support smaller countries and in times of tension. but of c, 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 nature boots on the ground if russia were to learn some kind of intervention. i think a very 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 stilton burg saying russia is planning, sent $30000.00 troops to those excise which are just of the board of the poland

lithuania. so i'm not really comparable into 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 in care of for germany to call a spade a spade. as you, the cranes would see it to name coal rusher out named this an aggression or by russia against ukraine and not to try and play a some kind of intermediary role. and whether you could be frustrated by germany's reluctance to call off the north 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 dramatic damage

with russia. and in setting up for ukraine, whether or not that's gonna happen for now that, that 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 joan politicians. d, w. 's name conley, and he had thank you. officials in morocco say they're close to reaching a 5 year old boy who fell into a well is, is the 5th day he's been start down there. crowds have flocked to the village of e grand to cheer on the rescue as conditions a dangerous and the operations 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 better him, i've done what he was playing until the middle of the day. he was with me at 1st, but then i looked for him and couldn't find him. after searching realised that he fell into the well as it has now,

we are praying to god's 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 up there. but i managed to communicate with the child and asking that he could hear me. oh, that there was a response. and 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 accident and some even spent the night that the to ryan touched them and every one is praying for him. a drama officials 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 world news. austria is mandatory vaccine. lor has gone into force after being signed by the president. it applies to all adults except those with medical conditions or exemptions and pregnant women. next month, austrian police will carry out spunk checks, full proof of vaccination. fine start from 600 years. madagascar is bracing for a powerful cyclone. sh. it's full cost to hit the islands east coast in the coming out. authorities one, the impact could be severe with wins about the 260 kilometers an hour of madagascar

still reeling from deadly flooding of the heavy rain. falling recent weights and studies found climate changes causing the highest glazier on mount everest. to rapidly melt scientist say its ice would be completely gone by mid century. really, 2000000000 people rely on water from the himalayan places for drinking and irrigation. for the u. s. vice president mike pence has hit back against his ex boss. donald trump's been claiming that pants could have overturned the 2020 presidential election result. the pens now says that's wrong. it's a rare voice of descent within the republican party which has refused to distance itself from unsubstantiated claims. the election was raked. the invasion that shocked the u. s. on january 6 last year, supporters of donald trump stormed the capital building. spurred on by his claim that he lost the election because of fraud. inside

a joint session of congress was counting the electoral college votes. outgoing vice president mike pence played the traditionally ceremonial role of presiding over the session. but the mob outside believed pence could do more. trump to day. still think so. this past week he said mike pence did have the right to change the outcome. unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power. he could have overturned the election. pence has now publicly contradicted that assertion. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more on american than the notion than any one person could choose . the american president left probably so. but with the next election more than 2 years away. it's clear who has the upper hand in the party.

republicans have moved to punish 2 of their own lives. cheney and adam kim's anger for their roles, and the democrat lead congressional investigation into the capital storming select . yet another sign of the grip, donald trump still holds in the republican party and his lingering influence within american politics. the 1st go metal at the beijing games has been awarded to no way to raise a jo. how on the women's ski, athlone in dominant fashion? it's also her 1st individual olympic metal. a controversy clouded the opening ceremony at beijing's iconic birds nest stadium. china pick the weaker athlete to light the olympic cauldron, despite its human rights record against the ethnic minority. he w spots correspond jonathan crane is in beijing for us. i asked him, what has the response been to her role in the opening ceremony suddenly raised

a few eyebrows that decision human rights groups of accuse china of engaging and a cheap propaganda ploy. essentially say look, the way you guys offer it, they can even take part and lympics opening ceremony. try telling that to them more than 1000000, where you can most limits her in the so called a re education center, human rights group, say that genocide, they say that being held there against their will and forcing women to have sterilizations. china, of course, does deny, or they're saying they're not engaging. and human rights violations now at the athlete was twins hero didn't go as much as you can pick it. today. in the cross country fritz part, the international olympic committee has defended to move to include her in the opening ceremony, saying ethnicity was not a factor on another topic. we hear some arrivals of tested, positive covert. does that include any athlete? yes, certainly there are a few athletes within that number of f you i should say,

organizes today announced 45 new games rated coded 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 into china. but that doesn't really help people like japanese, eric france. so he was a real gold metal hope for germany in the north combined an event which as its name suggest, combines to event ski jumping as 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 to negative current virus tests. we've heard about his situation today a bit in a couple of press conferences by the jeremy k 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 really do want to avoid. and really briefly we've got some metals up for grabs today. yes, 6 meadows in total up for grabs trees a yahoo! as you said one, the fast one. or we've also got a metal, a coming up in the a short track at speed skating. it's one of the new events or the new mixed events in these element games. and that is an event, a speed skating short track that china. the host traditionally do very well in so they could be getting their fisco met lisa, jonathan cranium aging. and that's your news update the sell up next. don't film tells us what we can learn from. athletes is animal relatives, the pipes in vegas window and watching we're all set to go on field. yes. citizenship when we're all in as week.