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hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. diplomatic efforts are intensifying on both sides of the atlantic to resolve the ukraine crisis in washington. u. s. present joe biden held talks with german chancellor, all of schultz biden's stress that germany is a reliable partner and that they will work together to try and find a diplomatic solution. meanwhile, french president emmanuel, my car, travel to moscow for talks with russian president vladimir putin. macklin said the next few days would be decisive in efforts to avoid conflict. putin said he was willing to compromise an urgent diplomatic push. well, ladies met in the russian. good. and us capitals, in an effort to diffuse tension over ukraine in his 1st visit to washington, his german chancellor. oh, laughed shalt sat down with us president joe biden to pursue what they called a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. i have been very,

very straightforward and want with president putin both on the phone and in person, we will impose the most severe sanctions of ever been imposed economic sanctions. i think he has to realize that it would be a gigantic mistake for him to move on ukraine. the impact on europe and the rest of the world would be devastating. one of the biggest targets for sanctions is the nord stream to pipeline project, to bring gas from russia to germany. biden said in clear terms, he would shut it down in fresh invades. but sholtes made no such guarantee, vowing only a unified response would be united. we will act together and we will take all the necessary steps and all the necessary steps would be done by all of us together. will you commit today to turning off and pulling the plug and nordstrom clear?

you didn't mention it. you haven't mentioned it. as i already said, we are acting together. we are absolutely united and we will not taking different steps. we will do the same steps and they will be very, very hot to russia, and they should have them with at least 100000 russian troops massed along ukraine's border. berlin has faced international criticism for its cautious response. unlike some of its nate, her allies, germany has rolled out sending weapons to ukraine. meanwhile, in moscow, french president emanuel mack wrong focus sunday escalation. as it rushes vladimir putin reiterated his demands for nato to stay out of the region. but said he was willing to compromise. he were a deeply luxury and a number of microns ideas and proposals which are probably too early to speak about . i consider quite possible to use and forming the basis of our further joint steps, the leisure measure formula, schlagel. as we, as far as we are concerned,

that we will do everything to find compromises that suit every one of the macro will hold talks in kiev on tuesday before heading to berlin. a long wake of diplomacy for european leaders hoping to avoid conflict from all that speak to go hot man god, he is a professor of international relations at the university of ins, book, an expert on russian and u. s. foreign policy. thanks for joining us. professor. a flurry of diplomacy is under way focusing on russia and ukraine. let's start with that meeting between the german and u. s. leaders in washington. are you convinced by the show of unity between shots and biden? well definitely it was important for mister shows to show that germany's a reliable ally, and that's what he said, you're absolutely united, but it was really noticeable that after biden got confirmed that no one seemed to would not go ahead. after rushing kotia ukraine,

shorts did not want to state that explicitly as well, so we still have doubts whether in the case of a russian incursion in ukraine. the german government will really be ready to stop north stream 2 on the other side bite and has made clear even if the germans didn't do it, we have the means available to stop it and give they'll stop it. ok. the north stream to pipeline project has been a thorn in the side of german us relations for quite some time. but why do you think aside from that, why do you think the 2 leaders are being so vague about the sanctions they would impose? if russia does invade ukraine again, well, it seems that there's some disunity between the 2 sides may be among there is other nato allies as well. if that will not be the case, they will clearly stated what kind of sanctions will be imposed in the case of the russian incursion. but they have not done so we have had statements by biden

administration, officials about what type of sanctions they are envisaging. but it seems that there's still some book to do tonight, at least the germans and the americans on what to do after, after such a military invasion. germany's reliability as an ally has been questioned, particularly in the rest, not least because berlin's refusal to supply ukraine with weapons has transfer sholtes done anything to convince germany's allies that his country can be counted on as a defense partner. well, at least we have the public statements and the confirmations that they are all on the same page. but on the other hand, all members of the german government including miss their book, which was in here yesterday, a concern that they stick to the position not to live up and did not deliver lethal weapons to ukraine. and they have pointed out that they have supported ukraine,

very much politically and economically. so in this respect with regard to delivering weapons at the gym and government is still insisting on its own sovereign position. let's move on to moscow or our french president, a man or woman con, match our president, putin. there, yesterday, putin hinted at a possible compromise in the ukraine crisis. any idea what he meant by that when it was very noticeable that ahead of the talks between put in and mac macro macro stated that a fin lendy sation of ukraine was on the table in anticipation means that ukraine will be absolutely free in its domestic politics. but will be limited in its foreign policy options. this refers to the status of finland during the cold war, which could preserve its independence and democracy only by clearly stating that it will mate remain neutral and non aligned in the conflict between the west and,

and to soviet union. so macro is actually envisioning a dat ukraine takes the same position and i'm not very sure that he is on the same page with the u. s. and other nato allies on this issue here earlier. president american is due in kia today. oh, what are your expectations? there was the full mac mall will concern the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine is undisputable at their trans is a, is a apartment with ukraine on the, on this matter and that france is doing everything. it can to this use the crisis and de escalate militarily. however, what's important is what, what is not going to be spoken about afterwards. name me the proposals that my call has made in moscow to lead me to put in macro needs to find out what the ukrainians think about it. and if there is any chance that ukraine might agree to some sort of neutralization of the country in the future, ok, we're looking at

a diplomatic process that has many moving parts to it, where you've got a con coming to berlin after he's been in kia for meetings with sholtes and other leaders this week. what's to be expected there will actually did. so this is the revival of what was created after the collapse of the soviet union, the vine mar, triangle, germany, france and poland. try to align their foreign policy positions on matters of importance. and i think that mccomb has agreed to such a meeting in debt forward to demonstrate that he's really taking into account eastern european voices and positions in dealing with russia. because in the past, mcroy had been accused that he's too close to russia, forgetting about or but ignoring the security interest of the east europeans and macro this time actually wants to demonstrate that this. this is no longer the case

that he's trying to align his positions with eastern european countries with poland being the most important of them profession. my god, thank you very much for your and so i show that was gerhart, my professor and international relations at the university of bins. book st. look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. in the united states, members of congress held a moment of silence to mark the country's 900000 deaths from covet. 19, the u. s. has suffered more fatalities from the koran. a buyer's pandemic than any other country. in a lease, in the canadian capital, ottawa has seized thousands of leaders of fuel as part of a push to and protests against a run of iris mandates. truckers and other drivers of jam traffic in the city center for 10 days for i minister justin trudeau. we just recovered from the virus himself, has denounced the demonstration saying they must stop being vaccinated against kirby 19 is now obligatory for all adults in the commerce islands. but the country

is going further than most with its enforcement of the mandate. dw is southern african corresponded adrian creek has more from the cameras, capital moroni, a military police, checkpoints, the cast can't pass without develop cova vaccination certificates. the jap against the corona virus is mandatory for all adults on the cameras islands. so i think we already had a lot of time, full sensibility zation. so now we are not forcing people but to we just we just and free on to them to go and vaccinate. critics of president, azalia sumani, call his rule of the critic he issued the vaccine mandate in december by presidential decree. if you forgot your vaccination cards, you are allowed to ask a friend or family member to bring it's here. then it will be controlled. if you

haven't been vaccinated though, all your late for your 2nd zap, you will have to pay a fine hand. he will be brought directly to the vaccination center. in this case, they were brought to the military police hospital around the corner, 58 people where vaccinated the morning. we filmed whether they wanted the jap or not mckesson and much if i took them uncle john. so vaccine on dog bite for personally, i don't totally trust the vaccines. we shouldn't be forced to get vaccinated. vaccination should be debated among the general public and the commerce we need to consent to be vaccinated and not be forced like this. like animals circle, like sheep or cows, where human beings, we have rights when they deserve when additional at the door. we are not in the countries biggest hospital, dr. abraham job yet defended the strict measures. he is one of the coordinators of the national cove at campaign. what are said, she said when he did it. it's a good idea to make vaccination. obligatory senior people aren't respecting covered

regulations like social distancing. castillo vaccination people is the only way we can save lives. that suits us and this is proven by the statistics that you may an issue from remoter less than 40 cov, at patients are currently hospitalized on the cameras islands. dr. gia says none of them are vaccinated. the country is using china sign off on vaccination in its nationwide campaign. several studies suggest 2 doses of the vaccine are less effective against the army. kron variance. doctor jab year rejects. the idea, says barbary it. that's not true left, but there is proof shamay. so there was no point arguing about a to me. we had more than $3000.00 positive cases around the country during the last wave, with less than 10 deaths. somebody back at the check point. the majority of those passing through have had their japs, it is virtually impossible to do anything on the co moros islands. otherwise, it covert vaccination certificate as needed to enter banks,

schools and government buildings and even to take the bus. the t cry, reaching in ethiopia, remains a place of widespread suffering. their accusations of mass rape allegedly committed by both sides in the conflict there. the government is restricting media and humanitarian access to to gripe. meanwhile, regions bordering to grier on a war footing to grow fighters have withdrawn back to their home region. but their neighbors are full of mistrust. did up east africa correspondent maria miller, reports from one town where people are taking up arms. ah lally bellas. rock hewn churches look peaceful in the morning light. they seem untouched by the events of the past months. labella has twice been captured by fighters loyal to the t gray people's liberation front, or tpl ether. now, government forces had regained control. he had better go against the morning

prayers just ended. this church is one of 11 medieval churches cut into rock. it has great symbolic valour with europeans. that is also why the t p l f was for him to conquer this town. at this time of year, one of the holiest orthodox christians, labella is normally full of international visitors and diaspora europeans. but most of them have stayed away worry that fighters could swoop in again from the neighboring t gray region. even though the t p a left promised in december to withdraw all of their fighters back into t grey. his own so many people have fled, as so stayed here. we suffered a lot of stress in your written, got elaine or toward the room to my massa le let us up. they pointed their guns at us so that a 2nd time they came, they raped women and beat and killed b. o. so dumb, dumb, so good luck at the missouri there,

looted in the town and raped and beat women. they looted the hotel, said we have no power and water the go. i. lemme run away from the churches. we meet you on a letter. he used to work as a security guard at this now destroyed hotel. he tells us some of that he grain fighters used it as their headquarters. they left messages on the wall before they left. welcome to state of t gray. and no more at european, i'm to grain the writing says, and this will, this is the way yes. hurdle that thought as his, the giddiness will have the little gray fight as we're having a conference here. preparing for the war on the money. but then they got hit and the hotel was destroyed. if we were here together in or out in with we would have died. they'll tell was probably hit van arm drawn. experts from the dutch and gel packs have identified these missile fragments as part of a bomb fitted to

a turkish drone. turkey has been criticized for possibly selling the drones to with your peers government. the drones are also thought to be responsible for numerous civilian deaths in ethiopia, civil war. in fact, all parties involved in the conflict have been accused of committing atrocities. according to the united nations and rights organizations. this kindergarten is now a temporary camp for volunteer fighters called funnel. oh wow. good group has signed up many new recruits since the t grey rebels 1st attack labella including women imo today sir, is one of them and listening in quality looking at on your end and look with rather it's painful. my uncle and my aunts husband to raise me like my own father, a dead daughter. my friend was like a sister to me was raped,

but she so young minimum with a get a chance to find them. i will fight them to my last breath network. here what is closer to this number, any mr. gun peg? oh, wow. the funny fighters are celebrating 50 of them. i man, not among them a traveling to the border between m horror, antique grey. the volunteer fighter say, they want to defend the border region in case the t p l f attacks. again, what is china's most promising winter sports stars has just taken her 1st gold at the winter games in beijing. american born eileen goose only recently began representing china and has been winning over more and more admirers in her adopted country highly. and who is one of the best known winter olympians in china, despite the fact that she was born and raised in the usa. she's one of the home nations most promising medal hopes at the 2022 games. gu is among the many foreign

born athletes competing to please a new set of supporters in beijing higher for sure. it's not to be ruled out that they will, may be looking for a platform that's bigger and brings them more personal benefits of young her thought. this also proves that china's sports and commercial environment is superior to the united states. sure. your, your make well 18 year old good represented the u. s. at major events before adopting her mother's home country through competition back in 2019. she's become a store of teen china, which features more foreign born recruits this time around than at any previous olympics. i'm not either they represent china and they bring jewelry for our country. i think it's an honor to bring glory to our motherland. well, no matter which nationality you are as long as you bring jewelry for our country.

you are our friend who has become an icon of winter sports in china already. and her games off fall from over off the sky began. she'll go for gold again in this slope, style and half pipe disciplines. and joining me now from beijing is the w. sports correspondent, jonathan crane. jonathan, understand you watched the island gu when a gold metal for china in the big air skiing earlier today, what kind of reception did she get? i think it's fair to say the chinese fans absolutely love eileen. she's all over the place here in beijing. she's on billboards, the features in video is publicizing the games, and she really got a very warm reception. it was a thrilling performance in the big guy, she was trailing, going into the final round. she needed something special and she really pulled it out the back did a trick that she's never done in

a competition before the crowd. absolutely love that. and as somebody who's not really an expert in this, i have to admit, you could see she's head and shoulders above everyone else. she just looked so smooth and graceful, and the as she landed the jump. and of course, when she came in the ceremony and got her award, the crowd cheering out for that to a side by sort of this, she was watched by thomas bochum pung schreider, chinese tennis player, who obviously has had a lot of attention on her people wondering where she is, how she's feeling she was at the event, we understand that she will not be leaving this close loop system. the bible for go back into quarantine, said no more olympic events for her. but she with that with some us back, the president eileen goos, winning jump, did look impressive. jonathan, tell us what made it so special. well, what made it so special is she never even practiced it before properly let alone actually perform it in a competition. now she was telling her report is afterwards that she spends an hour

and a half a day visualizing her moves. so that's what she'd been doing. and she said she discusses everything with her mom. and she told me to actually she was on the phone to her mom before her final jump. and her mom was saying, look, don't do it, don't take the risk, do a trick that you've done before. be happy with the silver meadow. and she said, no, i'm vetoing that, i'm actually going to do it. she did, and she got the rewards. now. just remember there's a lot of pressure on eileen go. she's so huge here in china. she's kind of struggling this geo political divide where, you know, she switched the legions from the united states in 2019. she now competes a china, a lot of people back in the us, not very happy about that decision. she was asked about the pressure that she fail . she said, look, i think i'm handling it really well. and at the end of the day, i'm competing here for myself. she's got 2 more events to come. she could run 2 more goals, but she said that shit the moment, she's just going to focus on the matter. she's got round her neck and enjoy that moment i she should do. jonathan, thank very much our sports. corresponding core sports correspondence,

jonathan crane, they're in beijing. thank you so much. now to the spanish island of la palmer, where people are picking up the pieces after a 3 month long volcanic eruption, some $7000.00 people were displaced during the eruption of the comm, rubia volcano dw nicole reese reports on the challenges the islands islanders now face noises of trucks removing tons of ashes are breaking through the quiet in less montes cleanup works and full swing after the historic eruption of the committee hovel. k. know also on the roof of this bar. i indicated that the ida, we wanted to open again in 10 days. but that's impossible because there's no motor way any more and distances have become longer with them for suppliers. it's challenging here. there's no running water. there's also no garbage collection. so

now we hope that we can open in 15 to 20 days. if you have already moved around, 2000 residents have come back to the areas that were most affected by the rupture unethical. but if you have ok now, they will have to repair a lot. but they still have a home. hasa garritano lost everything mikasa, leave her a mint at my house is literally a few kilometers from here under the lava april, but i couldn't tell you exactly where any more. it's as if this were just one big black desert 0. it's impressive. just impressive. now the architect lives in a flat. despite his plight, he is eager to rebuild the village of told, okay, below the lava all buildings have been dea located. they could be built in their former location and may be built with salmon made from the ashes of the company via her cassie and acres of everything that we could build on the lava could be

ecological and sustainable. i also think there could be a protected natural area for the lava. a big part of it could stay alongside what was once the village of todd. okay, call me or what's now the new village of to do okay. in this case, we all know we're, we're here with broken thick, awesome. but this new told, okay, is still a dream at the moment. the love that you can see here, right behind me is partly still hot. scientists have measured temperatures of up to 200 degrees celsius in there, and that's not all. the volcano is still producing gases. and this means sometimes there is the smell of rotten eggs in the air that sulfur dioxide. so the authorities also need to be aware of the air quality here, because if it gets very bad, they need to evacuate people from the affected areas. and these factors can also intervene with the current works to free one of the islands main roads,

from lava and rocks. it will take years for this area of the island to recover the government is planning denser, housey and now that there is less space building on the lava is not possible for now. hasa garritano knows that, but the by meadows like him, are eager to move on and restore la palmer's identity. you're watching w news live from berlin up next to it's bonus league, her kick off our kick off our bonus leadership. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. with a, with

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