ah, ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. u. s. present job wide and tells americans in ukraine. it's time to leave. that warning comes as moscow stages. large scale military drills together with bella roost belong ukraine's border further stoking fears of an invasion. also coming out competing claims to the post oblivion prime minister. a rift threatened to tear apart the countries unity government only a year after it was formed. and alarming news about the state of the world's oceans

. we'll ask our environment reporter, what can be done about the twin threats of plastic pollution and rising temperatures. plus we'll get a look at elan mosques, interplanetary ambitions, the billy in their business van says he's confident his space ex company will launch its powerful starship rocket this year. ah. hello m terry martin. thanks for joining us. you as president joe biden is urging all americans to leave ukraine immediately saying he will not send troops to rescue americans if russia and bates. now this is why the west is so alarmed. more than the 100000 russian troops had been moved to positions close to the border with ukraine. and russia has now sent another 30000 or so soldiers to better roost just

to the north. on thursday, moscow and mince began joint live fire drills, escalating an already tense situation. 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 an essential element. uniting the western allies, nato, guaranteed the 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 anton from austin. 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 the thunder. at the same time, we all ready 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. but russia's neighbors 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 posture. 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. for the very latest, let's bring in our correspond at nick connelly in kia and our chief political correspondent, melinda crane. here in berlin, nic rushes saber rattling on ukraine's borders become so loud that the u. s. president has urged americans to leave the country. now. how are you craniums coping with the threat of war? well terry, i think there was basically a phase or when this crisis started late last year, where there was

a huge dick disconnect between the world's media, making this the number one story and indeed tanks being seen on the russian side gate coming close the board and all the satellite images, but it hadn't really trickle down here to what are ukrainians hoof often enough thought this was just another escalation of the con. they've seen time time again in the last 8 years since russia annex crimea. but i think now you will, you are sent to people, even though they're keeping com outwardly and tell you that there. yeah, this is normal that they know that they have an issue with their northern neighbors . they will then also tell you that they've withdrawn money from bank accounts to have cash. ok, so need to leave in a hurry. they've delayed decisions like getting a mortgage. some businesses are investigating city of new offices. it's, it is closer to the you in nature, in western grain, moving away from the russian border. so a bit of a kind of gets a frantic disconnect there between outward calm and increasing preparations for conflict. melinda, we've seen a flurry of diplomatic efforts this week aimed at ending the crisis. has any

progress been made? well, amongst those efforts was a german hosting yesterday of talks between russian and ukrainian representatives co hosted by germany and france. and in fact, this is the 2nd round of such talk. so within just a little over 2 weeks after a very long break beforehand, this is known as the normandy format and has as its focus the 2015 minutes agreement. and that these talks are aimed not at resolving the current build up of russian forces, but at trying to address tensions and ongoing fighting in eastern ukraine between government forces of ukraine and pro russian separatists. so yesterday's talks did go on for 9 hours, no concrete outcome was reached. but german media reporting that negotiators said

the discussions were difficult. revealed deep discussion and did a division over the very substance of the agreement. but that all for parties said they absolutely want to talk to continue and cranes negotiate or confirmed that the talks hadn't rob progress but said that there had been a complete ceasefire for several days last week, which he called a strong result. so here in berlin, that is viewed as progress. nick, russia has assembled a massive army on ukraine's borders. how is ukraine's military preparing to defend the country? and with difficulty in a word? because given the fact that there are russian troops in belarus for those exercises, ukraine theoretically has to prepare for a russian intervention on a huge, huge, huge area from the fallen north west of ukraine on the border with bellows and poland to the black sea. and even though you cranes all me, is a lot stronger now than it was back in 2014, when russia was based, able to pick off crimea with little in the way of resistance. that is

a scenario that most european armies wouldn't be able to deal with. on top of that, it, russia has huge, an advanced when it comes to appa and naval power. and then did scenarios being prepared for here in cave of it, into some kind of internal and unrest. russia trying to create some kind of pretext for intervention with protests. so the police here very wide that that is something that could be on the horizon, but ukrainian official saying that this is after a country that has been at you for the last 8 years. and there are hundreds thousands of ukrainians who fought in that conference in east new crane, who would be ready, and with some a preparation to go back to serve. if an intervention would actually take place. melinda, germany has been sharply criticized for not doing more to help you crane militarily . some of germany's allies have him question berlin's reliability. what is berlin doing to address those concerns and help ukraine? well, for starters, after quite

a long period in which he was scarcely seen or heard on this issue, chancellor schultz is now sponsoring that flurry of diplomatic activity that you mentioned a moment ago. he visited washington this week. he's going to moscow and kiev. and he also did host both the norm detox and the politic leaders yesterday in berlin. and as you say, germany has faced criticism towards reluctance to send defensive weapons to ukraine and is sometimes accused of naivete for thinking that diplomacy alone can solve the crime crisis. but as we heard in the report, germany is stepping up its contribution to deterrence on nato's eastern flag. shelter told baltic leaders yesterday that germany will send $350.00 additional troops to the region, and germany is in fact the lead nation and nato's operation. in lithuania, it already makes up about half the forces in a 1200 strong multinational nato battle group there. and in fact, germany's the only e u. member country contributing to that battle group. so i think here in berlin,

there is a sense that that is in fact deterrence and not simply diplomacy, and that germany is demonstrating result. melinda, nick, thank you both very much, but a crate are tree. political correspondent, nick connelly are correspond in t f. now fears are growing bit libby as year old unity government could be under threat following a rift over who should have that government. parliament appointed a 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 specter of renewed conflict between rival fractions, which divided libya after former dictator mall mark about the was ousted and killed in 2011. arriving in tripoli, one of the 2 men who now claims to be libby as prime minister, fuzzy by shaka. a former interior minister was voted in by the countries parliament on thursday and has the backing of militia leaders in the countries east. why the

libya is a democracy and that means the peaceful transfer power. i am confident that the government of national unity will be committed to the democratic principles. but his rival is refusing to go out to a 100 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 on thursday debate claimed to have survived an assassination attempt and releasing a video of his vehicle bearing bullet damage. hours later the country's parliament into brook replace to baber, criticizing him for failing to hold elections in december as agreed under it un back to plan. lawmakers also amended the constitution and ordered elections to be held within 14 months. on the streets of tripoli, people express 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 efficiently a real prime minister. and we would have had a stable constitution. 6 rival demonstrators of picking sides found malicious may follow their fears. libya could slide back into a conflict between factions in the countries east and west, which divided the country for years. sketch up on some of the 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. a 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 tribute. the head of london's

metropolitan police chris dick, has resigned after london mayor said she had not done enough to address sexism and racism in the police force procedure. dick had faced intense criticism over the met response to the 2021 rape and murder of a woman by a serving police officer. the australian government has listed call is as endangered in 3 of its states. the native marsupials are fighting to survive amid bush fires, land clearing and drought by one estimate quote. numbers have been cut in half in the past decade. const conservationists said australia must do more to avoid one of its national icons from becoming extinct. when we think scientists have long warned about the effects of plastic pollution and the world's oceans. now a review of studies shows that despite awareness, the problem is getting worse. the world wide, fine for nature warns that pollution will quadruple by 2050. the issue is high on

the agenda at this week, one ocean summit in france, researchers and industry leaders for more than 40 countries are discussing ways to better protect the oceans. the world is warming, and the polar ice caps are melting and the oceans. they are melting into filling with plastic review by the w w. f one. the substance has reached every part of the ocean. we definitely reach the point where the system is overloaded and where we enter or where we will be edge. because the problem seems to become, or will grow bigger over the couple of a coming years, because the producers of plastic already stated that the food was more so we the fear that more plastic will end with the oceans. and the commission in the, in the oceans to micro nano plastic which great,

biggest problems the temperatures across the oceans pose. yet more problems us research is found out. the hottest temperature is recorded in the oceans between 18701919. and look to how often the sees around the world beat that range in the years that followed. they found that in the year 1900, the oceans hit that peak less than one percent of the time. but by 2019 temperatures across the world sees be that record 57 percent of the time. animals like polar bears are watching their habitats disappear. the best could bill, but last by the end of the century. the heat as pushing species, such as great white sharks into new waters. this means that other animals like theaters causing their decline, increases in the heat of the ocean. this is the main cause of cold bleaching. bleach reefs are more likely to die. the outlet for the ations and the creatures

living within them is a troubling one and dw environment reported on getting the run. john, who help file that report is with me now for more good to see our oceans are now more polluted and warmer. it seems that at any time in history, uh, what does that mean? how bad is it? for thing that used to be seen of extreme are now considered normal. and i guess when we're older, we'll look back on these temperature them thing, but they were actually very cool relative to what will experience in the future when scientist told me yesterday, when the studio said that extreme climate change, it's not some hypothetical future possibility, but it's an observed historical fact the climate has already changed. and i mean, you might think, well, why should you care about this? i mean, she told us on a path level, it's not something that necessarily moves me. but it's important to remember that this humans to this is about people as well. and i think some, it's about 3000000000 people in the well to rely on fish of the primary source of

protein. this massive, it's not just about the animals. and of course the oceans effect, the climate, it's all one big system. up. the damage is so severe already. what are the chances that it can actually be rolled back? there's a lot that we unfortunately cannot rolled back. so some of the changes that have happened kind of bear to stay, all we can do is maybe think about the future and how we, how we address that. the plastics that the w w. f study for about plastic found that even if we stops polluting years with today, the amount of might crew plastics would double roughly in the next few decades as previous classics break down. on the other hand is also important to remember that some of the fish population than other species, they could be careful with good conservation. i mean, if the species being hut by climate change and plastic pollution,

and on top of that where we were fishing them, i mean there are some things we can do to make sure that they do recover. now there's this summit being held in breast in france, dealing with the oceans. what are the decision makers that are attending that summit, that ocean summit? what are they hoping to achieve? so what we're going to be hearing this morning and what kind of aside the last couple of days have been is that the main focus is on making better pledges to cut pollution, thinking about plastic to protect more areas of the sea and to climate change. now one thing conservation groups are really hoping to see kind of this push to kick start this process to get this un treaty, which will be kind of discussed next month, a legally binding treaty. hi. see, this is important because in the countries do kind of have some level of environmental governments about that. what is surrounding them. this huge stretch of the ocean that kind of one kind of put it to me that it's basically the wild

west. that's a little cad taken about it, that people can almost, it feels like people can do anything. and let's see what that legally binding treaty turns into it. thank you very much for your insights. our environment report . i didn't run just well. corona, virus infection, numbers appear to be dropping in india. that's good news for the country's health care system, of course, which, which includes community workers play a crucial role. they go door to door to check on people and help them. but these workers on the front lines feel they never got the recognition they deserved, and in new delhi, thousands have gone on strike. these the men are angry for 11 days now. they have been locking in are 2 years old in the heart of new delhi. they are primary health or ongoing body workers, as they are known during the last 2 years. they have been at the frontline of the pandemic at the jostled level. they distributed masks, promoted vaccinations,

and raised awareness level to lock downs. and corona writers, waves without any protective equipment for themselves, and owned as little as $60.00 a month. we want even given sanitizers, we arranged for mosques, gloves and sanitizers on our own, so that we could continue our work. now, i've worked for 26 years and just job, but i'm not entitled to a pension. this is why they're protesting for basic work. could i get no protection? i've lost 3 family members to corona virus, yet i went to walk with my toddler in tool because we were told we cannot take leaves. houses for workers here are demanding better working conditions and more b. 1 am ronnie has done and i'm been by the center for 9 years. she says she's so booked that she doesn't have time for her own children. the government doesn't value women's labor. think we will work

a lot for very little wages as women. we end up accepting the stomach because we figured at least we're earning something because unemployment has skyrocketed under this company. and bodies were 1st set up decades ago to fight child hunger. and my nutrition in viet booming like johnny helped monitor the health of children and their mothers and distribute food ration with this immediately to families and body workers like john, you have close access to the 1000 people. they each have under their care. so over the years they have been charged with looking after many additional social benefits and are now handling extra duty is to help out jordan and demick without any added compensation just by bit increasing workload. these local, it's not only recognizes more than 2 years. one of the key demands of these products is with them to be given the designation of permanent employees of the government. and to also receive the benefits that come with that on monday. but

this would include health insurance, pensions, and vacation goals, which unit is just the, the government is reluctant to take on. the see the got in system blatantly exploit the men's labor. they are not going to do things then to make them ordered, but they are in a service which is blue shield, which is essential and without words, even government non function. i believe that god maintenance trying do it at another job. it's been supported responsibility that any government is yet to respond to these to death. these women are now fighting to travel through the country to pull out what dc are the forms from this political parties are making to brooklyn. to catch up on some of the latest developments in the pandemic, australians will now need to receive booster shots in order to be considered up to date with vaccinations against coven 19 the netherlands is aiming to drop most of its corona virus restrictions by the end of this month,

the government saying that record infection levels had a limited effect on hospitalization, numbers, and the sell china poll morning post is reporting that china will support hong kong in dealing with its latest outbreak. the post reported the beijing would help hong kong testing capacity and shut up another quarantine facility. billionaire, businessman, ellen musk 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 astronauts to the moon. it's central to mosques, plan to colonized mars, but has yet to gain approval for a test flight. these pictures of from an animation must company space x has had a difficult week after it last 40 freshly launch satellites to a solar storm. earlier we asked keith cowling,

editor of the websites space ref, dot com, about mosques ambitions in space. well, he gave point a show tonight with the rather prominent backdrop by $400.00 foot tall rocket, which if it were to fly tomorrow, would be the largest thing ever. fly, the lads 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 be always wants more details and he's willing to give so 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, if 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 notice sometimes hours and in this case they launch the satellites sun

through flare the years. atmospheres swelled up in the ass the, you know, the impact was that 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 crews. 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 that the lot of overlap here between what space x is doing, what nasa is doing with the 2 of them are doing together. so they depend on each other. ok, thank you so much. that was kate calling their the editor of spacecraft off call. now an update from the beijing olympics, it's been confirmed that star russian figure skater, camilla valley ava had tested positive for a band substance back in december on monday of this week, she and the russian olympic committee team won gold in the team events in which the award ceremony never happened. the russian anti doping agency had lifted a provisional suspension, allowing valuable to compete at beijing. and the international olympic committee is trying to reverse that decision by appealing to the international court of arbitration for sport. the case will be heard for valley avis next scheduled event on february 15th just

a reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on dw news, u. s. president joe biden has told americans to leave ukraine saying he will not send troops to rescue us citizens if russia russian troops invade the warning. com says russia and baler is carry out live fire drills near ukraine's border further stoking fears of a conflict. to the point is next on terry martin, thanks for watching. ah ah ah, with

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