a, ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. u. s. president joe biden tells americans in ukraine. it's time to leave that warning. come says moscow state is large scale military drills together with bell ruse along ukraine's border further stoking fears of an invasion. also coming up canada's truck blockade spreads to key border crossings with the united states, the canadian government is under pressure from the white house to end it. but truckers protesting corona virus restrictions say they're in it for the long haul and we'll take a look at the on mosques,

interplanetary ambitions. the billionaire businessman says he's competent. his space hex company will launch its powerful starship rocket this year. ah. hello, i'm terry barton. thanks for joining us. us present, joe biden is urging all americans to leave ukraine immediately saying he will not send troops to rescue americans if russia in bates. now this is why the west is so alarmed. more than a 100000 russian troops have been moved to positions close to the border with ukraine. and russia has now sent another 30000 or so soldiers to battle roost just to the north. on thursday, moscow and mintz 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 though worse than allies, nato guaranteed these since the ability for decades and made it possible does shift 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. a 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 gotten from was that we expect from russia clear steps to reduce the current tensions in the region. we need de escalation and all the stuff to bought deshawnda. 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. we'll 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 or cross straight over to kia. where are correspondent 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 a disengaging from the news that made headlines around the world where the sick 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 in 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 and its crimea. and kent sporting those separatists in the so 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 account 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 direct to a very unpredictable situation. one thing that was spooked, especially the kind of economic elite here in ukraine, is that news that russia has, if, 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 north west 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 at, for ukraine to be able to mount any kind of very effective defense should. and attack happen along that whole lives 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 of lots of scenarios, being advanced by officials here and 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. the u. s. is urging the canadian government to use its power to end a truck blockade that's created a significant economic impact around a 100 canadian truckers protecting covenants. restrictions are blocking a key bridge linking canada and the u. s. drivers are refusing to move until the government scraps a rule requiring them to be fully vaccinated. day 14 of a protests that has caught the world's attention. canadian truckers have parked

their vehicles in front of prime minister just introduced office, bringing much of the capitol ottawa to a standstill. originally this was a protest against the vaccine mandate for truck us across into the us. just since broadened out to the fringes and supported by far right. extremists and conspiracy theorists played honestly, i have except the fact that we are the fringe minority. but i'm quite proud to be the fringe minority of hundreds of thousands of girls and millions of spectators yourself on the political spectrum. as being the far right is the protest spreading over night, demonstrators blocked a bridge, connecting canada to the u. s. shutting down a quarter of cross border traffic more than 2 thirds of canadians disapprove. of

the protests and frustrated locals have been making their opinions clear too. well the one about the dog was pointing out some of the pretty of the processors. a lot of them brought their dogs to the present and the hawking is incredibly dangerous for it bothers me, it. i think it strikes what a lot of people feel about what they feel. canadian values are and we cherish freedom and this is not about freedom. but with the truck has prepared for the long haul. it might be some time until ottawa residents get their city back. sketchup on some other stories making news around the world today. a top diplomats from australia, india, japan, and the united states have pledged to ensure the indo pacific region is pre from quote coercion. as following a meeting of the so called quad alliance, the group is focused on countering the increasing influence of china. the 4

countries also agreed to strengthen cooperation on cyber and counter terrorism. president manuel the call is calling for renaissance for the french nuclear industry that he wants to build up to 14 new reactors to power francis transition away from fossil fuels. critics of raised concerns about the costs and the problem of radioactive waste. germany plans to close its last nuclear plants this year. and the australian government has listed callers as endangered in 3 of its states. the native marsupials are fighting to survive amid push fires, land clearing, and drought by one estimate co, all the 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. billionaire, businessman ilan mosque, has delivered an eagerly await an update on the 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. lot of people, it's central to muslims, planned to colonized mars, but has yet to gain approval for a test flight. these pictures are from an animation, mosques, company space x has had a difficult week after it lost 40 freshly launch satellites to a solar storm. earlier we asked keith cowan, editor of the websites website 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 to 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 media 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, 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 flared years, atmosphere to swell, swelled up in the asked the, you know, the impact was of 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 said 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. there are the editor of spacecraft off call. a legal battle is underway at the beijing olympics after confirmation that star russian figure skater, camilla valley ava, recently tested positive for doping. earlier this week,

she led the russian olympic committee team to gold in the team event. but the metal ceremony still hasn't taken place. the russian anti doping agency at pur, suspended by the aber, but then lifted the suspension and allowed her to compete in beijing. the international olympic committee is trying to reverse that decision by appealing to the international court of arbitration for sport on eva's next scheduled event is on february 15th, when she is favorite to win gold in the individual event. for we go, it's just time to take a look. at the return of the las yama thus carnival to your guys' capital. montevideo ah, event has returned to the city streets after being cancel last year because of the pandemic. things were laid slightly this year too. but that was due to bad weather . the carnival's name translates as the calls from the ancient practice of beating

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