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hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. european leaders are making a diplomatic push to defuse the crisis surrounding ukraine as russia, a masses, troops on the countries borders. french president manuel my call, visited his ukrainian counterpart of a lot of meal zalinski and t of on tuesday. he then joined the leaders of germany and poland in berlin to demonstrate what the 3 called a united stance to keep the peace in europe. amid the crisis. was listened to, some of the main messages like lines of a common goal is to prevent a war in europe and the deployment to russian troops on the boulder with ukraine is very worrying. and our assessment here is very much the same as is our position, as does it didn't, to mama, 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 lose it. for more, let's bring in, bruno, to touch. here he is the deputy director of the foundation for strategic research. that's a french independent thank tank. thanks for being with us. bring up multiple diplomatic initiatives. are on their way to resolve the russia ukraine crisis. would you say that france under a manuel mac hong is now the main player in leading those efforts for europe. well, not the main tie at her clearly mccomb thought that he needed to take the initial deer. i saying he is madison to survey that he will be the only leader and talking to basically, teens. lansky was clearly at his initiative, which is to be followed by the chancellor charles laser in a few days a has a treaty or some kind of dis,

america momentum. so i would say it's been leading away, but he certainly in nevada, beyond the ah, no european leader who is going to play an important role in trying to saw this crisis. she say momentum is now building in these diplomatic efforts. president con claims he received assurances from president putin that a d escalation in the rush. ukraine crisis is possible. now. russia has been down playing any talk of progress. what's your reading of the outcome of mr. mcclellan's shuttle diplomacy this week? well, 2 things. first of all, and there's a value in diplomacy in itself, meeting face to face a leader as my host on and as charles will do for 456, i value in itself because it allows the leaders to gauge each other and know each other's attention. i'm not saying that my whole looked into put in sol as former

president bush. one said that there is a value in itself in the meat, in the long meeting face for a. there's a war community case, and that's a class you would anticipate russia saying something like, of course we made no commitments whatsoever. well, i say latency, of course, korea to say that so rush us from as to who was driving forces from bell rats after the a sciences. and i going to take place in the coming days and then it would be very simple to verify. ok, present to con, made reference though, to concrete, practical solutions for the ukraine crisis and for addressing rushes security concerns. what exactly do you think he's talking about there? he's talking about 2 different things that you see there are 2 separate, tries to both france, germany, colon and the united states and others are trying to rule. there's one try, which is circle normally the format,

which is about the implementation of the mint agreements about the future of ukraine and countries credit as been successful in rejuvenating a format, which everybody thought back in november. that was, that was pretty much just the 1st right. the other tribe is the more broader discussion on the circle secuity architecture in europe. and this is about arms control. this is about confidence and security building measures. and that's discussion is obviously also taking place of the u. s. russian level at the nato, russia level. but there's a european input in that discussion and that's what i was referring to, is that in us issues the crisis. and what do i know in order to cancel? what um the super disciplines are and new buddy knows what they are, not even sure that miss america does not know much more. he returns to paris. just briefly, do you see a crow coherent strategy for shaping the european security architecture between

europe, the u. s. and nato in a way that would satisfy russia? well, the 1st of the answers, your question is yes, there's a good here and strategies that despite what many come today it take to say europe and the united states, france, germany, and the u. s. are pretty much on the same page here. there are new and so of course, but i don't see any significant divergence, indian, or friends who are choices regarding these issues. and that's what really matters is as a unity of europe. and there is a unity of the west high b nuances. now, do we saying that we can produce options and solutions that are acceptable, those to us and to mr. grant in? unfortunately, i don't think so on the swear determines comes into play, because evenly, if mr. brewton does not as yet. and she had decided to

a to, to, in buying a major military operation ukraine. we had to deter him to discourage him from thinking he could achieve meaningful military results without suffering. extraordinary severe analyses bruno to deputy director of the foundation for strategic research. thank you very much for talking with us and you catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world. today. indirect talks between iran in the u. s. famed at reviving the 2015 around nuclear deal have restarted in vienna. after a break of just over a week. officials say the talks have made significant progress. under president trump, the u. s. unilaterally withdrew from the packed in 2018. at least 14 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a landslide in columbia. the incident followed heavy rains and mountainous region, and the center of the country rescue team say fear new mudslides could follow

firefighters in oklahoma city in the us are battling a massive blaze at a construction site. the cities fire department, so the fire was in an unfinished hotel or apartment complex. and parts of the building had collapsed. no injuries have been reported. canadian prime minister just intruder has vowed to bring an end to a trucker protest against pandemic restrictions. now, in its 2nd week, the protests of gripped canada and paralyzed parts of the capital, ottawa, bringing the business district to a standstill and blocking the busiest border. crossing with the us or what police are requesting back up from across the country as they struggle to contain the truckers almost 2 weeks into their seat in these protest is brush off another frozen auto morning. each day the hundreds of camped out truckers adjoined by support is the movement that began in response to

a vaccine mandate has grown into a catch all for anti government sentiment. the truck has say they're staying put in till they get back what they call their freedom power determine are you to continue to the protest while if you take a shot of my drug, you'll see my tires are off. so what does that tell you? auto residents have faced harassment and there are reports of hate speech. after a court order has stopped, the protest is from constant honking. the truck has began revving their engines instead, filling the air with diesel fumes. police say they have slowly started to regain control of central ottawa seizing fuel supplies in an emergency parliament debate. prime minister justin trudeau defended the government's pandemic response. we've been working with provincial premiers right across the country to

bring in the kinds of restrictions, the kinds of mandates that have saved canadians lives. everyone is sick and tired of lock downs of the measures. we have to do of the sacrifices we've had to make. but canadians have continued to step up over the past 2 years. been there for each other, been there to get vaccinated. more than 80 percent of adults are fully vaccinated and has been broad support for government measurements. but sympathy has grown for the protesters as canadians tie of restrictions. rallies have sprung up around the country in solidarity protesters have partially blocked the busiest border crossing between the us and canada. a quarter of all trade between the 2 countries normally crosses the bridge, sparking fears of shortages now to the beijing winter olympic sand snowboarding as big as star sean white. the american has today qualified for the half pipe final

in pursuit of a 4th gold medal. there were some early struggles for the 35 year old, but he made it through he announced in the run up to beijing that he would retire after the games is competing at his 5th winter olympics. max merrill from d w. sports is here to talk about it. so snowboard star shawn white, he's back in action today at the olympics and beijing, his final olympic games. what do you think is chances are max of winning, another olympic metal is certainly one of the favorites. but you know, his qualification was very shaky in his 1st, ron early school, 24 out of a 100 points off to we took a full and he needed a really big 2nd rung to make it into that final top 12 to qualify for the gold medal competition and he was at risk of crashing along with the alpine skia mikaela . schiffron is compatriot who's in her 1st 2 events both times and not been able to qualify. and she's the one of the biggest stars in the games like he is we can see him here in his practice footage,

the kind of tricks he pulls out. and in his 2nd run, he managed to land a really a really good run. 86 points out of 100, then he's over twice as old as some of his competitors here. age. 351, his 1st gold medal and sharon way back in 2006 as a teenager. and then one gold medals and every olympics since then except the so she, when he finished forth. and he still this really big draw. there was a big crowd, not just fans, lots of volunteers, other athletes and team members coming to watch him. and he is going to have a struggle in the competition for the gold medal because the top qualify human herano of japan score to $93.00 in his 2nd run the 2 times silver medals, definitely at medalists. some are definitely someone to watch out for and why is the only snowball to ever to school at to 100 perfect schools so he can always pull it out of his back, but he's got competition. ok, the starboard of that, of course, is a very fun event to watch, very entertaining. but there's a lot going on at the olympics that we don't know about. a number of scandals have been reported sporting scandals. i understand. tell us about it yet. just now.

there's a developing story where metal ceremony in the teen figure skating has been delayed because the russia team, who technically of one the gold metal it's being held back to, to quote an emerging legal issue. and there are some rumors about that being a drug test with one of the competitors, there's an unconfirmed, we'll keep an eye on that for sure. and 5 women were also disqualified just a few hours ago. and due to their suits in the ski jump, they were deemed too big and didn't comply with regulations all regulations of really strict down to what underwear you can. where are you? where you her, the seems on the suit at germany's kathrina outhouse was one of the disqualified women in the 1st ever mixed ski jump. and she says, this is how you destroy nations development and an entire sport big blow for her. and the speed skating also, some scandals. the koreans are going to the court of arbitration of sport. and a chinese skate was caught on film, sliding a market into the skate of a canadian competitor during the race wasn't penalize very,

very controversial. just briefly, max coded, is it a big problem at these olympics? well, so far we've had over a 150 athletes and team officials test positive. there was some strange moments already. we had the rush of canada women's ice. hockey match delayed for an hour, then they played with 52 mosques because the russian team had not yet had their coven results received. as so very strange they and the conditions and also the food and the isolation facilities have been heavily criticized by athletes. we really feel like it's not just the way they are being treated when they test positive. so definitely stuff to work on for the organizes their next. thanks so much back merrill from d w sports. you're watching g w news. just reminder, the top story we're following this hour, germany, french and poland have expressed their commitment to the sovereignty of ukraine. leaders of the 3 countries met in berlin as part of ongoing talks aimed at easing tensions over of russian military build up on the ukraine board.

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