out of europe, you are connected to the old world, experienced out standing shopping and dining office and johnny alice services. oh, be our guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by frank bought lou ah, ah ah, this is d. w. news lie from berlin. another week of shuttle diplomacy to avoid a war in ukraine to night. the french president emanuel mack wrong here in berlin. just our it's after crisis talks with you. great president zalinski and keith macro

on mit yesterday with russia president who didn't. he says there is reason to hope for de escalation. also coming up former pope benedict asking forgiveness for how he handled the claims of sex abuse in the church. he admits there were mistakes, but he denies any personal wrong doing. and germany's most decorated winter olympian adds yet another gold medal to her tally natalie guys in bagdad has claimed her 3rd consecutive olympic title in the women singles lou. lou, i'm brent gov. it's good to have you with us. we begin here in berlin. we're french president emmanuel back crohn reached the last stop in his 2 days at high level high stakes shuttle diplomacy. aimed at reducing tensions between russia and the west over ukraine. macaroni joined polish president andre duda here in berlin for

talks with german chance or olaf shoulds, who just returned from a wood on one in washington with u. s. president by it's been a busy few days. well, leaders as they engage in a diplomatic push affair to resolve the crisis on ukraine's boulders here under the leaders of germany, france and poland put on a defiant front in berlin. on tuesday. all the guidelines, m. a common goal is to prevent a war in europe, and the deployment of russian troops on the border with ukraine is very worrying. and our assessment here is very much the same as is our position here. this does it . and uncle she in this is the meeting followed a diplomatic blitz by micron who pushed for further talks on visits to moscow and kiev. sure momma, i believe that we have concrete, practical solutions that will allow us to move forward. we have had the opportunity

to discuss this together. i've also had the opportunity to discuss this with president putin, as i have done with my european partners and several of our allies in brazil losing the kremlin denied reports that putin told micron. russia would not further rump up military tensions on would pull troops out of bella roost later this month. that he, that german is foreign minister on a line of bad bulk, also visited east in ukraine on tuesday. she said that could be no military solution to russian aggression. backing kiev, president lensky said he expects more talks to take place sylvia. but as more us troops authentic europe's eastern boulders, it still hoped, but a diplomatic solution can be found. will after so many weeks of diplomacy with these latest talks, will they make a difference?

i put their question to our chief political correspondent, mckellar governor. well, let's be honest to night is not the night where there will be any breakthrough, even on the western side to find any kind of new common line. this is a 3 way debrief in the so called by my triangle format, which had been pretty much dead in the water for more than a decade. but now it emphasizes that any feasible format is being revived. the o. s. c, e and the nato rasa dialogue is continuing just to keep the rasa at the negotiating at the talking table. and i say negotiating because the mono my horn did come back with something that he claimed was new at that to basically he had received assurances from putin not to escalate the situation further to stick to the previous deal. that's the bad uminski agreement. that's the basis of the no,

no more d format talks. so that is room for diplomatic maneuver. that's the bottom line. and that's the over arching good news. but this is only taking shape as we what this subtlety diplomacy continue. that was mc hillock of the reporting there. let's take a look down some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. indirect talks between iran in the us aimed at reviving the 2015 iran nuclear deal have restarted after a short break delegate. say the talks have made limited progress since they resume in november a number of vital issues. however, remain unresolved. german media reporting at the head of greenpeace international jennifer morgan is said to become germany's new climate change envoy. relents. new central of government has promised to ramp up efforts to combat climate change. german 4, administer unwilling to bear bach is expected to formerly announce the new role. for morgan on wednesday, the you in is warning of

a worsening humanitarian crisis in madagascar after a cyclop tour across the country over the weekend, killing at least 21 people. tens of thousands more, have been displaced from their homes. and a gas scar was already reeling from a tropical storm. they killed 55 people late last month. former pope benedict has asked forgiveness for his handling of clergy sex abuse cases in the catholic church . however benedict is denying any personal or specific wrong doing. an independent report released in january said benedict had failed to act against clerics in 4 kings as of alleged abuse. during his time, as the archbishop of munich between 197070, in 1982, the request for forgiveness was made in a letter published by the vatican. it was read out by the former pope's spokesperson comi crediting company on quote, on a vote up post, so soloist, but i can only expressly to all the victims of sexual abuse. my profound shame have

performed. i had gone ja demille, my dad, he had the sorrow and my heartfelt request forgiveness. pet adorn otoh. good on the i've had great responsibilities in the catholic church. dental, few good old. the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places. during the time of my mandate, the vehicle ever more now i'm joined by martin, gac he is g w. religious affairs analyst, he's here in berlin. gave me to you. martin, so the former pope has apologize, but he's not accept the responsibility for anything that happened. so does this make a difference to anyone? well, it has become, i think, part of the part of the process really just, you know, reading about outrageous news on, you know, different types of scandals which usually involve you know,

children being raped within the church. and then within like a couple of days, having church officials essentially express apologies and then the conversation essentially filling out. i think that if you kind of, i mean, if you know the internet is earle matter for the kind of reaction, you can already see that, you know, that bullet is being taken essentially us no more than words and been addict. he is accused of a lie in this report that came out, he's denying any wrong doing, isn't it time for there to be a criminal investigation into this case? well, i think it's fairly time for, you know, criminal investigations into the whole load of cases. i mean, you know, even cases prescribed are probably ones that still an institution that is liable, presumably for you know, people in their care, particularly children. the fact is that the church continues to advance idea that you know, their best place to essentially police themselves in, you know,

it still claims moral authority to do so. obviously, the problem that we have in this particular case and the word that was use during the press conference, you know, what's misconduct on behalf of this on the former pope. is the fact that we have 4 cases in which actually the pope was somehow or other involved. what we also have is his claim that he was not in a particular meeting in which he was in which information was exchange. and, you know, this was actually reviewed by the report. so, you know, these are things that we can actually sort of figure out just looking at it from the outside. i mean, obviously there are all sorts of being of opinions and information. but it is for the german justice system to go in essentially and clarify what exactly that happened and hopefully have people that actually did commit crimes or who you know, he'd them actually pay for what they have done. the, the german catholic church is reporting an exodus of members because of this,

what does the church have to do now to regain those members and to regain trust? you know, the problem with the church obviously study is a very, very large institution. so any kind of change takes a very long time and requires an enormous amount of institutional muscle. for folks have limited sort of a limited amount of time in the policy in limited amount of possibilities in terms of bushing and moving around. so they sure is that you know, you do need sort of a major change, but you also, i think need a lot of outside help. so the states really need to come to the church and start demanding explanations and clarifications. all right, martin got how religious affairs analysts martin as always, thank you or i time to talk about the olympic games. berry, beijing, where germany have one another gold metal in loose thanks to the most decorated german winter athlete of all time. natalie guys and baggage elsewhere on tuesday to

new olympic records were set in a single session in the speed skating event. as the dutch team added more metals to their talent, the netherlands continue to clean up in beijing. tuesdays 1500 meters. so weld record holder keel noise retain his olympic title while teammate thomas co collected silva. coal had put himself in 1st place with him. you will impede record only from noise to immediately set one of his own. when he took to the ice moments later, his gold medal was the 3rd one by the dutch skating team so far at the beijing gains. dots dominance in the rink is matched by german dominance of the lose track . defending olympic champion natalie guys, and veg, navigated beijing's devilishly tricky course with composure and after 2 of her rivals crashed on the notorious 13th corner. her path to the top of the podium was clear. she claimed an unprecedented 3rd consecutive olympic title in the women's

singles. while german teammate anabetta took silva, what a chinese most promising winter's board stars claimed her 1st go to the beijing olympics with a breath taking free style ski jumping she'd never completed before in competition or in practice. in either believe it, american burn island goof took 1st place for her adopted country in the inaugural big air. ski competition or winning move involves spinning 4 and a half times mid air. the 18 year old only recently began representing china. she has found plenty of new admirers. she has there been criticized by some u. s. media for her decision is a closer look now at one of the big stars of these winter games. she was already a freestyle skiing sensation before grabbing gold. if the winter olympic games now, her fan base is likely to get even bigger. so how can you show that she is

a hot topic right now? so we are interested in her and maya her. we should, none from her achievements. you had, she's very good. and she returned to china to represent joining the competition. so we are all very proud. the 18 year old superstar was born to a chinese mother and american father. she grew up in the u. s, but attended summer sports camps in beijing, where her talents were quickly spotted. she formerly switched allegiances from the u. s. to represent china 3 years ago. she's never confirmed whether she had to give up her u. s. nationality in the process. but her joining team china has received mixed reactions in the united states idling who has been accused of selling out and being ungrateful to the country where she advanced to become a world class athlete. so on, jovan is a sports coach based in china who train grew at kemp's and has kept in touch with the athlete. you can see where he thought this kid are on the 1st you is specially

if you i stayed as the coach and she's, she's really amazing, amazing us. in china, she's become the face of countless campaigns for chinese banks, telecom companies, and online retailers. just minutes after her gold medal, when 8 of the top 10 searches on china's leading online platform label, where related to her island, google, china's biggest olympic celebrity has captured the hearts of her fence by storm. the euphoria is expected to get even bigger. she still has 2 more events to come and is expected to reach the podium and those to the recognition of facial recognition of her and generals a still building. and she's, she still has only a teenager with the opening of the game stalked by diplomatic boycotts. and f lead complains over issues from food to current rules. china will be hoping that either goes victory can re light its olympic fire. oh,

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