ah, ah ah, this is dw is coming to live from berlin. us present. joe biden tells americans in ukraine. it's time to leave at warning comes as moscow stages. large scale military drills together with bell ruse along ukraine's border further stoking fears of an invasion. also coming up, competing claims to the post of libyan prime minister. risk threatened to tear apart countries and unity government only a year after it was formed. and we'll take a look at ellen mosques, interplanetary ambitions, the billionaire businessman says he's competent,

his face sex company will launch its powerful starship rocket this year. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. you asked present joe biden is urging all americans to leave ukraine immediately saying he will not send troops to rescue americans if russia invades that warning comes as russia and neighboring bell roofs carry out joint military drills. now this is why moscow's recent show of force has the west, so alarmed more than a 100000 russian troops have been moved to positions close to the border with ukraine. and russia has now said to another $30000.00 or so soldiers to battle roost just to the north, while with diplomatic efforts going on here in berlin. for one point parrot point of agreement is that moscow will,

it says withdraw its troops from battle roost. once those maneuvers are over, the russian defense ministry released these images of live, fire drills and heavy armor. the military is of russia and belarus operating as one . it's not just ukraine, that's alarmed by the show of force. in berlin on thursday, the leaders of estonia, latvia and lithuania, met with chancellor shots to discuss the strategic response to moscow's aggression in the region. market is more important than ever to mobilize and to defend the values that are in essential element uniting the grass than allies. nato guaranteed these since the ability for decades and made it possible to achieve collective security level that our country singers today. nato troops are already protecting the alliance, is northeast and flank in the baltic states. in fact,

soldiers like these germans, stationed in lithuania, close to russian territory. the part of what vladimir putin objects to germany has announced it is beefing up its deployment, sending an extra $350.00 bundeswehr troops to join the mission. but chancellor shalt says dialogue is still the aim. we have atan from what we expect from russia, clear steps to reduce the current tensions in the region. we need de escalation. and so it's just a bought destined, at the same time, we already for serious dialogue with russia on questions of european security. look, if a foreign over pish as a chart, the baltic countries are willing to supply lethal weapons to ukraine, such as javelin missiles distant. in some cases, they would need the agreement of germany, which is reluctant to see more deadly arms going into the region that rushes neighbor's fear. such qualms will be seen as weakness. diplomacy and generating dialogue will have

a chance only in combination with the credible to terrance and force poster. any failure in this would send an encouraging signal to russia and could lead to similar tactics and pressure elsewhere. at a separate meeting in berlin on thursday, ukrainian and russian officials also sat down together for talks. the hope must be that all the diplomacy will help to prevent war. all cross straight over to kia, where are correspond. nick connelly is standing by, nick rushes, saber rattling on ukraine's border is getting louder and louder. the u. s. president has urged americans to leave ukraine. now, how are ukrainians coping with the threat of war? well, terry, this is slowly, slowly reaching people here who for months basically had been at disengaging from the news that made headlines around the world where the 6 sort of situation where

this russian troop build up. when ukraine's board has has been the number one story and has been everywhere basically since december of last year. and for most that time, you had a sense the people here ukraine thought this is just another escalation, one of the kind that they have lived with since that conflict worship ran back in 2014 when russia annex crimea. and kent sporting though, separatists in the east and now you see the people will tell you that while we're not panicking, but we have bought some tickets with an open date, or we have withdrawn money from our accounts to make sure we have cashed small donations in case, we need to leave in a hurry. other people will tell you that they will have delayed in getting a mortgage investing. anything that prevents them leaving in a hurry and giving them the freedom to wreck, to a very unpredictable situation. wanting that was spooked, especially the kind of economic elite here in ukraine is that news that russia has if actually blocked off large sections of the black c. m, for military exercises. and news that lots of shipping lines are going to think twice about reaching ukraine's port. so the idea that russia, without doing much without firing shot,

could effectively blockade ukraine's ports and really am crate quality economic damage. that is something that has been taken into consideration and key of with a lot of worry. nick, how is ukraine's military preparing to defend the country in this situation? what's very difficult, if you think about those exercises, those joint russians, but arsenic sizes in the far west of billers, that's basically not very far away from warsaw on the far northwest and flank of ukraine. and then you've got russian excise going on in the black sea in annex crimea. that's basically a frontline of or potential frontline of thousands of kilometers. and it is probably too far, too long, a front line for ukraine to able to mount any kind of very effective defense should an attack happen along that whole lines result of difficulty there preparing for something that is on such a huge geographical scale, even though ukraine's army is a lot stronger now than it was in 2014. and there's talk of potentially getting

people who've fought in that dumbass war, getting those back in. no mobilization of forces. so fighting that something the government is very worried about doing for spooking of the population here. and there's also preparation for a more hybrid attack. lots of scenarios being advanced by officials here in key of that. russia might try and support some kind of uprising or some kind of disturbance within ukraine arrests having been made and police training going on. so basically the government here trying to pair for everything on, on the menu, but without much of a clear opportunity to make a specific plans. nick, thank you very much. that was our, correspond in kia nick calmly. i was catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. the top diplomats from australia, india, japan, and the united states are in melbourne for a meeting of the so called quad alliance. the group is focused on meeting the increasing influence of china across the asia pacific region. the talks will cover

cooperation on health, technology and climate change. the head of london's metropolitan police. christina dick has resigned, or london's mayor said she had not done enough to address sexism and racism in the police force procedure. dick had faced intense criticism over the mess response to the 2021 rape and murder of a woman by serving police officer. the australian government has listed callers as endangered in 3 of its states. the native marsupials are fighting to survive amid bush buyers, land clearing and drought by one estimate kuala numbers have been cut in half in the past decade. conservationists said, australia must do more to avoid one of its national icons from becoming extinct. when we think the years are growing that libby, as year old unity government could be under threat, falling a rift over who should head that government parliament appointed to new prime

minister. but the incumbent is refusing to see power and still has the backing of the united nations. the development has raised the spectre of renewed conflict between rival factions, which divided libya after former dictator, moammar gadhafi was ousted and killed in 2011. arriving in tripoli, one of the 2 men who now claims to be libya's prime minister fatty basheba. a former interior minister was voted in by the countries parliament on thursday and has the backing of militia leaders in the countries east. worthy libya is a democracy and that means the peaceful transfer of power. i am confident that the government of national unity will be committed to these democratic principles, but his rival is refusing to go algal homage. debate has been libby as interim prime minister for the past year and has the support of the united nations, which says it's still recognizes him. here on thursday to baby claimed to have

survived an assassination attempt releasing a video of his vehicle bearing bullet damage powers. later the countries parliament into brook replaced to baby criticizing him for failing to hold elections in december as agreed under it un back to plan law, make his also amended the constitution and ordered elections to be held. within 14 months, on the streets of tripoli, people expressed their dismay at the latest political crisis. libyans don't trust any of them, they keep installing prime ministers and then removing them back and forth. they're not steady. if they were honest, they would let the elections happen. and we would have chosen officially a real prime minister and we would have had a stable constitution. 6 rival demonstrators of picking sides prompt malicious may follow their fears, libya could slide back into a conflict between factions in the countries beast and west,

which have divided the country for years. billionaire, businessman ellen mosque has delivered an eagerly awaited update on a spacecraft. he hopes will eventually take people to other planets, saying he's confident it will test launch this year. the starship rocket is bigger than those that took all astronauts to the moon. it's central to muscular plans to colonize mars. his company space acts is still waiting for u. s. government approval for the starship to carry out its 1st test flight. it's been a difficult week for space x after it last 40 freshly launch satellites to a solar storm. let's get more on this now from keith calling in washington d. c. he's editor of the website space ref dot com. good. happy with us again. so a massive rocket in the making. what's the latest on ilan mosques, ambitions?

well, he gave point a show tonight with the rather prominent job backdrop by $400.00 foot tall rocket, which if it were to fly tomorrow, would be the largest thing ever. fly the labs largest rocket ever built, pick your support. and yeah, you know, a lot of people, there were quite excited, but you know, folks always want more numbers in the media. always wants more details and he's willing to give souls half a half. but it's not all smooth sailing there at space x, i understand many of its satellites have been destroyed in orbit. how did that happen? well, it's not uncommon for the sun to influence earth's atmosphere, whether it's usually predictable, but when something happens like a solar flare, you have maybe a day or so's notice sometimes hours. and in this case, they launch the satellites sun through flare the years atmosphere swell, swelled up in the asked the, you know, the impact was the satellites came in before they had

a chance to go higher up. so it was an unfortunate coincidence, predictable to some extent, but then again, it's, we call it space weather and you know what they say about the weather. how dependent has nasa become on space x for achieving its goals? well, a few years ago, nasa went from you know, flying the spatial which was very expensive to looking at ways to use the private sector to launch cargo to the space station cruise. and they eventually picked several company space. x was one that got both the crew and the cargo and in the in so in years they say the agency w a lot of money, but they've learned how to do things. it asks itself could do. and they've applied that expertise to the big rocket. they were talking about, so in addition, the rocket that we're talking about the big starship, the top part starship itself, is actually what they're going to use for nasa's 1st landing of humans on the move . so there's a lot of overlap here between what space x is doing,

what nasa is doing with a 2 of them are doing together so they depend on each other. ok, thank you so much. that was kate calling. there are the editor of spacecraft off call for go. there's just time to take a look at the return of the last young motus carnival to uruguay capital montevideo ah, the event has returned to the city streets after being canceled last year because of the pandemic. things were delayed slightly this year too, but that was due to bad weather. the carnival's name translates as the colds from the ancient practice, beating drums to call the community together with

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