oh, can i on new dates that i can artificial intelligence? combat loneliness. i like to see. yeah. hi. i love stories from the future. starts february 14th on dw. mm. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, and nerve wracking dig in morocco. rescue as say, 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 at land. slight,

also coming up madagascar, braces for the arrival. my clothes bought said i, as the storm bears down on the island, gaining strength as it makes its way across the indian ocean. ah, i beg drizzle and welcome officials in morocco said they're closer to reaching a 5 year old who fell deep into a well. this is the 5th day. he's been start there. crowds of flocked to the village a be grand to cheer on the team. digging a tunnel to the boy. it's now entered, a challenging phase of the operation. day breaks in no, 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 said digging, get to him a lie. melia did us

a bill. so it's very difficult process because of many problems related to the terrain at the site. well, no, he didn't or been looking up. the well is less than $45.00 centimeters wide. and this is where ryan has been 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. is it a de la had he like a blanket dilemma? it's better, wouldn't i remember what he said to us? but then which of the above i had him speak myself, jim to get them skin. i think 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 fall of over 30 meters. his father hallett says, since that moment, he hasn't slept a wink almost okay. we'll know to have people who love us have

come to support us, while they sparing no effort to save my child the injured in collision to wish. as the day draws on, the crowds watching this meticulous rescue operation grow. they 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 it. well as the world wides, journalist mor sabelle shami, his aunt, the site of the rescue operation. how much closer are the rescue as to saving the boy? ah, hi, it looks so quite imminent, at the moment that there is an ambulance, some onsite or a passage that has been done. the crops have been pushed back. people are praying and chanting and the rescue team has gone in through the tunnel so. so it's all of

the we've heard that 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, to save the boy? ha, ha. they've used all sorts of equipment from mckesson. been attractive to cut it down the mountain where the well, it's bad, but they also use their tipple graphic equipment. the fuse that family cameras that use the oxygen to apply the 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 fat 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 and of 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've been encouraged by the signs of the reaction from diane and some of the sit. 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 of i can hear hearing 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, 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 for an 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 taken 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 in morocco and the rest of the worlds, most of how deeds his parents actually managed to find him, you said so far on the ground. how did they come across the spot where, where he went missing? what he's that said is that he had just gone to ask for an errand. and unfortunately the well that the timing to use is 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, 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 the, almost the worst scenario for them and from dad began to sob 5 day story now of trying to rescue him with watching peaches. there was a very enthusiastic crew and a crowd cheering on not their efforts. let's hope that they successful. thank you very much for your reporting. their journalists most stop l shami will bring you the latest as it comes. u. s. reinforcements have begun arriving in europe as fears increase over russia's troops build up on ukraine's borders. the 1st contingent of

2000 additional american soldiers arrived near frankfort overnight with others, touching down the poland border with ukraine. the white house as though protect easton nato members from potential russian aggression. the kremlin says they'll loan 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 master, says 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 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 unions to romania. france wants to send soldiers terramina as well. the netherlands is considering deploying fighter aircraft to bulgaria. so to 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, it spilled 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 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, albion evanston suggests, 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 natal 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 a queen. with the u. k and poland, promising a new security pat let's take a look at some of the other stories making well news now and are for you as vice president, my pence has criticized his last boss saying donald trump was wrong to believe. pence could have overturned the result of the 2020 election president. trump pressured pence to block congressional certification of results after falsely claiming the election was stolen through the american. austria's mandatory vaccine laura's going 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 on spawn checks for proof of vaccination. fine start from 600 euros. madagascar is bracing for the arrival of cycling bats of i is expected to hit parts of the island in the evening. the storm is gaining

strength as it blows across the indian ocean. the gale force winds are expected to reach up to 250 kilometers per hour. heavy rains have already begun along the eastern coastline of madagascar. authority say that's it. i poses a serious threat to millions of residents. just last week, tropical storm anna swept over the island, killing at least 55 people to the island, still recovering from that tropical storm. and now this cyclop, tatiana does, he is program director for madagascar. it save the children and joins us from the north east of the island for leaf groups have warned of the ferocity with which the cycling will make landfill. what's the situation? oh ok. thank you. i saw this situation in not in the east of the gas car, it's not, it started to rain since this morning. you know, the cycle on the side categorize as an intense cycle with more

than 200 kilometer of gas. and now we are expecting to have floats, reba we run out of there we run out. so we really expect in for people in a to b eat by long. we just now, i mean it is. it's sorry. we were just looking at april, making up and bags and trying to secure corrugated iron roofs there. i mean that's not going to do too much when you're talking about 200 kilometer per hour winds. how do you prepare for such as like learners, especially after such a devastating tropical storm? yes. so the government and the other n g o, what you mean by the got,

i'm starting to prepare the list some days ago. but you know, we just done. i just passed a few weeks ago and i we're trying to parents, but we are a friend that whack me the stock so far. housman heat, the heat don't meet people's, it's not, not because we are really afraid of the impact. fundamentally, we're not sure about the impact, but we are expecting that it will be really disaster for the office of the town that does the program director for madagascar. it's save the children joining us there from madagascar. thank you very much for bringing us up to date. thank you. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you rescuing

a 5 year old boy trapped down a well for days. these are live pictures here that we're watching coming in where to say they've entered a tunnel to gain access to ryan who fell down the shop on tuesday. of course the problem is they're only meat is away from the boy, but they're digging could cause a landslide. that's what they're worried about. they brought in heavy digging equipment, excavation, equipment, thermal monitoring equipment, and a trying their best to get this boy out of life. as i've said, he's been down there 5 days now. we'll keep monitoring that story for you and hopefully bring you some good news. thanks for watching d w and ben franklin you again very soon i we're all set to.