this become love ah, down got woken eye on me. a 10 artificial intelligence combat loneliness. high. i love stories from the future. starts february 14th on d. w. ah . this is d w. news line from berlin. and nerve wracking dig a morocco rescue is this say that they're close to reaching a young boy who's been trapped down a well since tuesday. they have to be careful not to trigger

a landslide. also coming up, u. s. military reinforcements arrive in berlin in germany rather, and poland. they've been sent to beef up nato's eastern flanks. amid the ukraine crisis. plus politics learn lodge over the opening of the winter olympics in bay jing a week. the wrath has chosen to light the flame. the decision, those accusations, china use the ceremony to whitewash its oppression of the ethnic minority. ah, i beg for solon, welcome. officials in morocco say they're closer to reaching a 5 year old boy who fell into a well. this is the 5th day. he's been stuck down there. crowds have flocked to the village of e grand to cheer on the team, digging a tunnel to the boy. of course, in a moment, to a journalist who's out the scene. first, this report on

a challenging phase in the operation. day breaks in all the morocco. after another sleepless night in a mountain town, hundreds watch on as a risky, tame tries to extricate ryan the earth under ground, growing stony, and stonier, the close a. d. kids get to him a lie money that us able to have. it's very difficult process because of many problems related to the terrain at the site. well, no, he didn't store ability. now. the well is less than $45.00 centimeters wide. and this is where ryan his pain since tuesday rescue, as loring oxygen food and water to him. they've even managed to talk to him. now they're hoping they can pull him out alive. after 4 days under ground, a year missouri, the lawyer had the like, if i could kill him and it's not the, wouldn't i remember what he said to us? but then each of the above, i had him speak myself to think of them. skinner though they saw the light from our

cellphone, and he said to us, dig me out. rooney. he begged us to bring him out of there. about the lonely, it's amazing. he survived the full of over 30 meters. his father had said since that moment he hasn't slept a wink owns and came woo, no. to have people who love us have come to support us when they sparing no effort to save my child. didn't jim collision to wish, as the day draws on, the crowds watching this meticulous rescue operation grow light too anxious to know if ryan will be brought out safely. the fate of 15 year old, his transfixed so many people in morocco, and far beyond as well as the world wide journalist more severe shami is at the site rescue operation. how much closer are the rescue as to saving the boy?

oh hi, it's look so quite imminent at the moment that there is an ambulance, an on site or a passage that has been done. the cramps have been pushed back. people are praying and chanting and the rescue team has gone into the tunnel so. so it's all of the we've heard that's, it's been eminent in the past. a few days. it looks now that it's sam. this is it. can you tell us more about the equipment they're using to save the boy? ha ha, they've used all sorts of equipment from mckesson. been attracted to cut it down the mountain where the well, it's bad, but they also use an apple graphic equipment. the fuse, the family cameras that use the oxygen that apply to well, to supply again with oxygen in the well and also used drills and them and hand

tools. so it's been a very long and complicated process and there, there seem to be no shortage of fact kind of equipment use depending on the challenges that keep rising. and it's a huge response to a very isolated part of the country in the world. what are the chances of bringing him out alive and well? well everyone's hoping that they get this and things that they've been praying and hoping for. people have locked into this isolated town for the last 3 or 4 days with little food and sleep. hebron is on leave praying. they know that their chances are very limited, but they're been encouraged by the signs of a reaction from diane and some of the state. in this morning, i rescued to him that there's high hopes as the chief fair of the rescue operation mentioned. so there is, there is a lot of hope, but obviously it's been 5 days so ah, ah, there it could very well possibly go,

go the other way. most up i can hear cheering in the background there, there, there are huge crowds of onlookers and volunteers trying to help. how's this story managed to capture the world's attention? oh yeah, i think it's the fact that and, you know, this little hero, right. anne, who had managed to survive a fall into a full, almost 40 me to deep. well, that's it. with that is that so tiny, it's almost that you sent to me to add diameter. that makes it almost impossible for anyone out there to get to him. he has been able to communicate with his family . he has been able to show signs of fast strength and death and life. so lab people are just taking on this little guy as their hero and as something to rally and not just north of morocco, when most of the people are, but perhaps a morocco and the rest of the world. most of how deeds his parents actually managed

to find him. you said so far under ground. how did they come across the spot where, where he went missing? what he's that said that he had just gone to ask for an errand. and unfortunately, the well that the timing uses for irrigation and had been left uncovered. and after searching for a young man who had disappeared on tuesday morning in am i, you know, in nearby houses and neighbor and a neighbor. but they, yeah, they, they looked at the well as the last option, after dangling a phone all the way to the, to the bottom of that. well, with that, with a video camera they saw, i am responding and talking to his dad. and that, that was just that almost the west scenario for them. and from dad began this a 5 day story now of trying to rescue him with watching pictures. there was

a very enthusiastic crew and a crowd cheering on their efforts. let's hope that they successful. thank you very much for your reporting. their journalist mo, stop l shami. u. s. 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 frankfort overnight with others, touching down the poland border with ukraine. the white house is they'll protect east and nature members from potential russian aggression. the kremlin says well on the strain 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 made or has to prepare for every possible military scenario. it is not unrealistic, for instance, to think that russia couldn't grades 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 the new battle groups, in addition to the for multinational battalions already in place. in estonia, latvia, lithuania and poland. therefore, 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 alden aaronson suggest, has galvanized the alliance brushes actions, especially since 2014 has 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 potentially 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 it out, but to many members are increasing their economic and military aid for a queen with the u. k and poland, promising and new security pat. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making world news for you. as vice president mike pence is criticized his last boss saying, donald trump was wrong to believe pants would have overturned the result of the 2020 election. president pressure pens to block congressional certification of results off to falsely claiming the election was stolen along to the american. 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 and

pregnant women. starting next month, austrian police will carry out. splunk checks for proof of vaccination fines. start from 600 euros. madagascar is bracing for a powerful cyclone. it's full cons to hit the islands east coast in the coming hours. or he's one of the impacts could be severe, with winds of up to 260 kilometers an hour. pants of madagascar still reeling from deadly flooding of the heavy rainfall in recent weeks. the 1st gold medal of the beijing games has been awarded to norway res, a u haul one, the women sky, affluent in dominant fashion. it's also her 1st individual olympic metal. the controversy clouded the opening ceremony of beijing's iconic birds nest stadium. china pick a wheat athlete to light the cauldron, despite its human rights record against the ethnic minority. w. suppose correspond

. jonathan crane is in beijing for us. i asked him, what has the response been to her role in the opening ceremony? certainly raised a few eyebrows that decision on human rights groups of accused china is engaging in a cheap 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 more than 1000000 week muslims her in the so called a reeducation 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 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 cove. 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 into china. but that doesn't really help people like japanese eric french. so he was a real gold medal hope for germany in the nordic 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 current virus tests. we've heard about his situation today a bit in a couple of press conferences by the germany 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. 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 or the new mixed events. and these ellen 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. and that brings you up to date on all the news and benches all and thanks for watching. ah ah, canada, i work hard. and in the end if.