it comes to the sense of the humans and see the rightful bulls who have decided to put their trust enough. my name is jenny perez and i work at the w. ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a diplomatic frenzied to avoid war on europe eastern border. frances president minority mccall arrives and the ukrainian capital key of for crisis talks with the

president below theresa lensky. following his meeting and moscow with russian, president, putin. mccall says the coming days will be decisive in finding a solution. also coming up the vaccine mandate imposed by presidential decree and being enforced by the military. revisit one african country going further than most to stop cove at 19 and at the beijing winter olympics, one of the big stars of the games us born, i lead good claims gold for china in the sky. big air with a breathtaking trick. she had never completed before. ah, i'm see me so much gonna glad you could join us. diplomatic efforts are intensifying as world leaders attempt to de escalate the crisis around russia's troop build up on its border with ukraine, french president in my door. and my call is now in tia, where he is holding talks with ukrainian president fellow demure so lensky as fears

of a possible russian invasion. mount. the meeting comes after my call, sat down with russian president vladimir putin in moscow. on monday mccall said he believed there would be no further escalation in the conflict following that visit with putin. and let's go right to key if we have our corresponded nick calmly standing by frost, following those talks forth today. hi, nick of tell us what has been happening, what you've been hearing, because we understand that mccoy has been talking about that visit with the flooding report and yesterday. well, it quite this, an extorting meeting. the 2 ladies spent more than 5 hours together, and there was a press conference in the grand m kremlin palace press at a considerable different distance from the leaders because of co restrictions. but this considerable confusion about what actually was agreed upon. there were signals coming from the french camp that behind closed or some kind of grand deal to at least reduce the risk an escalation, next few months had been cut. what exactly are the terms would be how that would

play out, wasn't clear, and in social media ran that story. and just in the last hour, we've heard the criminal spokesperson coming out and denying that some agreement has been reached. that escalation, for now is off the table. so seemingly quite a big difference in takeaway between what the french thought they'd agreed with are achieved with russians. and what vladimir putin saw them offering him. i think there was a constable expectation at this meeting because france had been a lot more careful in terms of its rhetoric. had been a lot more clear about wishing to em offer russia security guarantees and a lot less em outspoken in its support for ukraine. ukraine sovereignty than say, the united states, the u. k. and lots of eastern european countries. so some sense that that meant on my call could play that role of the a mediator between the us and russia over this issue. but again, for all the meetings, all the aspect together, versatile in what i see has been agreed on there. so what do you think that

messaging means for him? i can't meeting today with low miss zalinski. what me key of here has seen an extraordinary marathon diplomacy. in the last week, we've had pres, prime minister, we had the german foreign minister yesterday for the german chance the coming next week. so extraordinary amounts of to magic energy being put into this. i think the basic line here in care of is fair, that france is willing to do some kind of deal at ukraine's expense to and banished the prospect of war and escalation in this part of the world. we heard from the french am circles yesterday about her finland ization of ukraine. what that means is that ukraine would somehow be guaranteed its sovereignty at the price of not being able to join western structures. nature with you as was the case during the cold war when finland wasn't part of the direct soviet sir influence, but wasn't allowed to join any western clubs. had a lot of soviet influence over its decision making. that obviously is a red line for ukraine. something they're very scared of, and people in ukraine will say, we try to in the ninety's, ukraine,

had nuclear weapons, gave those up in return for written guarantees of sovereignty from the americans from the brits and the russians. and then back in 2014, the russians disavowed the and a and its crimea and gal supporting separatist nieces ukraine. so the line here and ukraine is that this country is too important. it's too central in europe, and it has too many people to just be given some co neutral status and are forbidden from making its own decisions about who it ellers with nick connelly reporting dera in kiev. now, after my calls visit to ukraine, he's doing the german capital berlin later today for he will hold talks with chance or left shawls, and poland president angie dude up chancellor shorts for his part as returning from a meeting at the white house with you as president joe biden, the 2 leaders pledged to work together in the crane crisis with bite and brushing aside any doubts about berlin's reliability. as a natal partner, germany is one of america's closest fellow. it was a rule. well, come to

a german chancellor, olaf shawls at the white house, in a show of unity. the 2 leaders met to discuss the situation in and around ukraine bowen. but her keys sticking points turned that talks remained naught stream to the pipeline, built to transport gas from russia on to the baltic sea to germany. us opposes the project and expects germany to take a clara stance on it. i'm at the ongoing crisis. schoultz was reassuring, but stayed vague. we will be united, we will act together, and we will take all the necessary steps and all the necessary steps would be done, but all of us together. meanwhile, biden was very clear about the notion read. nordstrom t would go north stream to go forward with an invasion by the russians. just

not going to happen. the pressure is now on germany to sharpen it stands. we can get some perspective on this story now with so there david wilts, she is a senior trans atlantic fellow and deputy director of the german marshall funds berlin office. i so that's good to see you. i will ask you about this meeting we saw between joe biden and olaf shoulds. if there was an overarching message, it was that we stand united. we stand together. how convincing do you think that message was good to see you to so me. i think that joe biden definitely have the back of chancellor all off shells because he's had a very hard couple of weeks. he's had a hard time turning around the narrative that germany is not a reliable al i or it's sort of the weakest link in the trans atlantic relationship . so this trip to washington was really done to regain credibility and also to assure joe biden and the white house that he and his government is

a lock step with the united states when it comes to the conflict in ukraine. and i think he has to do a number of things which he did do. he emphasized that germany is the largest donor to ukraine. the defense ministry just announce that it's going to send an additional $350.00 troops, which was already planned. but there are accelerating the time table to lithuania to the eastern flank of nato, and coordinate was allies on strong economic sanctions. nordstrom's to was still left a little vague, but that could be 2 choices. advantage as well. terrible. if you look at the details of what was said, they were asked by a few reporters about what is on the table. if russia does invade ukraine again, why do you think they were so vague about the sanctions that would be implemented? i mean, it could have been that all of sholtes was looking to sort of please a domestic audience that he still didn't want to necessarily put nordstrom out there right away and looks at it as the point of leverage, especially since he's also due to be in moscow next week,

but at the end of the day, i think the message was very clear from president bite. and he said that nordstrom, too, would not go forward if there was a further incursion into ukraine territory. and because of shoals as response, i don't, i can't imagine that the pipeline would go forward. instead, it would be dead on arrival. if russia takes another aggressive move at the border, you mentioned some domestic pressure ferla fuels. what do you make of the fact that he couldn't even mentioned the word the nord stream to well, there are a lot of splits within his party. still, there are many s p d members that see russia as a country that needs to, that needs to have, you know, we have to have dialogue with this country. and they see economic cooperation as a way to open up russia. but i think this belief or this value system is a thing of the past. this idea of vondell doors handle or change through trade

because of rushes aggressive moods. ukraine is clearly the victim here. and don't forget that this vondell through handle idea happened under the backdrop of deterrence. something that germany is still very shy to move forward with in terms of sending lethal weapons to ukraine. overall, do you think chancellor sholtes did enough to convince germany's allies that his country can be counted on as a defense partner? you know, i think there will be certain people that are not convinced by his messaging in washington. but what counts is that president biden stood alongside him during the press conference and said that germany is a reliable ally. that was very clear. so he has his back, but now it's up to germany to deliver. if there is an aggressive move on the part of russia, will germany act in coordination with the united states? will there be any hesitation? will germany be a partner to the united states when it comes to also confronting china?

these are all questions that are on the table, and it will now be in germany's court to react. so the david will senior trans atlantic fellow and deputy director of the german marshall funds berlin office. good to talk to you. a scared a quick round up of some other stories now. australian prime minister scott morrison apologized to a former staffer who said she was sexually assaulted inside parliament house in canberra, brittany higgins revelations triggered a review of the legislature is working culture. we it found that more than a 3rd of parliamentary staff had been bullied or sexually harassed at work in which and police in the canadian capital ottawa have seats thousands of leaders of fuel as part of a push to end protests against corona virus vaccine mandates truckers and other drivers have jam traffic in the city center for 10 days. prime minister justin trudeau who just recovered from the virus, has denounced the demonstration,

saying they must stop. one of the countries that has already implemented a national vaccine mandate is the camaros islands and the indian ocean people. there don't have a choice. the presidential decree to vaccinate is being enforced by the military. d . w, southern africa correspondent adria increased traveled to the commerce islands, capital maroni, to find out how the measure is being carried out. and what people think of it. a military police checkpoints, the cast cans, pass without develop covert vaccination certificates. the jap against the corona virus is mandatory for all adults on the cameras islands. so i think we already had lot of time for sensibility zation. so now we are not forcing people, but to we just we just sir, and freon for them to go and vaccinate critics of president as early as sumani call his rule autocratic. he issued the vaccine mandate in december by presidential

decree. ah, have you forgot your vaccination cards? you are allowed to ask a friend or family member to bring it here. then it will be controlled if you haven't been vaccinated though all your late for your 2nd job, 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 or on the corner, 58 people were vaccinated. the morning we filmed whether they wanted the jefferson or not mckesson and much cheaper to get more confused of oxen 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 and circum like sheep or cows where human beings we have rights when they deserve when it does yonah door. yeah, yeah, not in the countries biggest hospital, dr. abraham job here defended the strict measures. he is one of the coordinators of

the national cove campaign. what are the chin table needed? it's a good idea to make vaccination. obligatory senior people aren't respecting covered regulations like social distancing. vaccination people is the only way we can save lives. let us and this is proven by the statistics issue from ramon to less than 40 covered patients are currently hospitalized on the cameras islands. dr. b, assess, none of them are vaccinated. the country is using china sino farm vaccination and it's nationwide campaign. several studies suggests 2 doses of the vaccine are less effective against the army kron variance. doctor b rejects the idea poverty. that's not true. there is proof for somebody, so there was no point arguing about her to me. we had more than $3000.00 positive cases around the country during the last wave, with less than 10 deaths. i'm going to be back at the check point. the majority of

those passing through have had their jets. it is virtually impossible to do anything on the camaros islands. otherwise it covert vaccination certificate is needed to enter, bangs, schools, and government buildings and even to take the bus. and we can get a quick round up of some other developments in the pandemic. new zealand prime minister jacinta arden has warned that the pandemic will not end with the on the cron waive. and the country must prepare for future variance. hong kong has limited public gatherings to just to people as the chinese territory grapples with record infections and strict sticks to its dynamics. 0 code 19 strategy, and several us states have announced that they will lift indoor mask mandates for schools and other public spaces after the crown search. ah, to the winter olympics, one of china's most promising winter sports stars has taken her 1st gold at the

beijing games with a breathtaking freestyle ski job that she'd never completed before in competition or practice. american born eileen gu took 1st place for her adoptive country in the 1st ever freestyle sky, big air competition at the olympic games. her winning move involved spinning, 4 and a half times mid air. the 18 year old only recently began representing china and she's found plenty of new admirers in her adoptive country since making the switch . she has been criticized by some us media for her decision. and here's a closer look at one of the big stars of these winter games. eileen, 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 nation's most promising medal hopes at the 2022 games grew. is among the many foreign born athletes competing to please a new set of supporters in beijing hired 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. yamaha. this also proves that china's sports and commercial environment really is superior to the united states. sure your, your make well 18 year old girl represented the u. s. at major events before adopting her mother's home country for 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. how much they represent china and they bring jewelry for our country. i think it's an honor to bring glory to our motherland. no matter which nationality. you are as long as you bring glory, 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. dw sports correspond, jonathan crane is in beijing, and he watched who's run. he spoke to her after her feet and told us all about a very special day for china up again. i think it's fair to say the chinese france absolutely love eileen. she really is the golden girl of the spacing olympics and she really didn't support them today. in the big competition, she was trailing, going into the final run and needed to pull something special out. the bag and see more than to live at landing a job that she never even tried before. much to the delight of a few 100 chinese fans watching now afterwards. do told us that she speaks to her mother before her runs and she was told by her mother phone try anything risky, don't do it. just be happy with the silver meadow. and she said, no, i'm be showing that she went and did it. and then she's got her 1st goal of this competition. she has 2 more chances to win gold medals and these and then pick

games for the moment. she says he's just going to soak up the moment, enjoy the med around her neck and focus on wants to come a bit later. austria mathias maya became the 1st man ever to win an alpine skiing gold metal at 3 consecutive olympic gates. myers place 1st in the men's super g event, adding to gold medals and sochi in 2014. and in john shank, 4 years ago, he raced down the hill and just under one minute 20 winning by just 4 hundredths of a 2nd in football synagogue. victoria's team was treated, the hero was welcome when it landed back in the capital to car a day after winning of the africa cup of nations for the 1st time. ah, tens of thousands of fans flooded the street to celebrate the historic victory and president mackie, sel declared monday of public holiday, senegal b, egypt for 2 on penalties and the final in, cameroon, after the match ended. no,

no. you're watching d. w still to come on our show rebuilding from the ashes people affected by last year as volcanic eruption on the spanish island of la paloma plan to build back better. we'll have that story in a moment, but 1st here in germany, the government is being sued by an afghan worker who was left behind when german forces withdrew from the country. international troops pulled out of afghanistan. last summer. germany had plans to help. we settle more than 20000 former local staff, but only a fraction have actually been brought to germany. a several german echoes are now supporting the lawsuit of an afghan teacher who argues germany is not fulfilling its duty to protect its former staff member against taliban threats. for more of the story, we can speak to carl cope who works for pull out xul. that's an organization that

is supporting this a legal case. carl, thank you for joining us. tell us more about this case and who it's being brought by. and who are these afghans we've been left behind? this is several, and plaintiffs worked in a police corporation project coordinated by the african ministry of interior. and so they work on behalf of the german government and the implementing partner. it's the society for international cooperation, the implementing part of the government concerning the sport. so they work for the gym authorities and they are in the field of police corporation in the field of teaching human rights issues and so on. they work all over the country and they are kind of on size. they are in a life threatening situation and they are left behind and they appeal to the

authorities. take us in, we are written, christie, who critically abuse. please take us in and there was no response and then they started soon the german government to get the reason let's it, you're going to get a lifeline. and how can you tell what is the german government saying? well, why have they not been able to insure these people safety ok, there are 2 different aspects. one is concerning. the local service forces, sometimes they have a freelance contract and maybe days a german definition day. i'm a part of the rescue program and we say ok, the taliban make no distinction. whether you have a freelance contracts or set the contract. they are all correct because they work for the germany uses. so this is one aspect. the 2nd aspect is there is a very care what the situation concerning the registration,

the registration. so maybe one part of their appeals are in limbo situation. so we have all the legal strategy to see with the german government to grant the highest speed in a life saving manner. and meanwhile, new government, the 3 strong women, different ministry, have a chance to solve the cases and solve the whole issue. there is a protection get concerned definition of this local working for the dates. it's about, it's about this 67 persons, but altogether 3000 persons who are still in limbo waiting desperately to get the lifeline to get to we exit strategy. that's it. thank you very much, car cut from pool as well. thanks for that update of the situation. thank you.

now a month long volcanic eruption on spain's atlantic island of la palmer last year devastated homes and villages a right in the lava path. several 1000 people were displaced by the comedy, a high russian deed up is nicole reese reports on the challenges and opportunities as islanders begin to rebuild their lives. noises of trucks removing tons of ashes up, breaking through the quiet in less montes cleanup works and full swing after the historic eruption of the converter. vehicle volcano, 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 is no motor way any more and distances have become longer with homer for suppliers. it's challenging, he left there is no running water. there's also no garbage collection. so now we

hope that we can open in 15 to 20 days, that he has already moved around. 2000 residents have come back to the areas that were most affected by the rupturing of vehicle. but if you have okay, know, they will have to repair a lot, but they still have a home hotter, garritano lost everything. when we carsa liter, 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 hero. it's impressive and i'm 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 even be built with sam and made from the ashes of the comedy 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, allow a big part of it could stay alongside what was once the village of today, okay, call me or what's now the new village of to decay. in this case, we all know we're, we're really thorough. kinetic awesome. but this newton, 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. in 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 dense, a housing now that there is less space building on the lava is not possible for now . hosp garritano knows that, but the by meadows like him, are eager to move on and restore lap alma's identity. that's it for a new show coming up next, our documentary program close up takes an inside look at the james, controversial winter olympics. stay truth . with

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