hi, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, german chancellor, all ive shots joined the procession of worldly, this heading for kevin moscow as western eyes, step up diplomatic efforts to calm the crisis over. you cried also on the program brush and figure skater camila volley of our can now compete in the olympic women's single events after she's cleared of doping charges by the sports court of arbitration. but that may not be the last word on this case. ah

and gave us welcome to the program. germany's chancellor. all of shots is on the way to the ukrainian capital. keith, as fears of an imminent russian invasion are growing. meeting with president vladimir zalinski, their shots is expected to offer ukraine more economic support. but still, no weapons. the visit comes as a staff from the organization for security and economic corporation pulled out the rebel at pulled out of the rebel health city of donates. they have been monitoring the conflict there. western intelligence sources say russia now has more than a $100000.00 troops on ukraine's borders. tomorrow. the chancellor will travel to moscow to urge the russian president vladimir putin to de escalate. the crisis dw corresponded nicolai reports on the challenges facing the german chancellor. on

today's visit to keith, germany's new chancellor is going to keep at a time of unprecedented tensions not just between ukrainian russia, but also between friends. with cave, accusing berlin of sitting on the fence. ukraine, prepare its bomb shelters. the foreign embassies evacuate their stuff. berlin's refusal to follow the lead taken by the u. s. in supplying ukraine. the defense of weapons is key of number one, complaint where other countries have provided entered tank missiles, ammunition germany, his offer to sent 5000 helmets and announcement to provoked amusement and anger in equal measure. young boucher, i hope germany never has to go through what we are going through right now. hold of it never has to feel what we are failing. so mitchell, i am only but if the situation were reversed, we would help you. yes, i would wait. pushed off of under one of these gas pipeline between russia and

germany. nostrand too is the other major point of contention. bucklin is complete, but is yet to be commissioned. and ukraine hopes ever will be granted. the pipeline would allow russia, supplies gas, customers, western europe, without the need for ukraine's pipeline network, allowing the kremlin to destabilize ukraine, ukraine multi, cancelled immediately, as a preemptive, sanctioned to moscow that the west means business will. berlin refuses to spell out in public. what exactly it would do if russia to invade berlin, called a tactical ambiguity, key of spect, germany of trying to salvage a lucrative business project. regardless of the security implications, with no sign for now, that germany is willing to give any ground either on weapons forum of pulling all stream to the left shoals. as his work cut out to convince his ukrainian host that he has their interests at heart. that they can trust him to negotiate away at this crisis when he goes to moscow. all right, let's bring into

w correspondence. nick connelly, he will fall that revolt we just saw and he joins us now from the cranium, capital ne, curb. what can all of shaws really do to regain keeps trust? it's hard to see what he can do after though, basically ver, very difficult weeks of relations between berlin and k of. and as we saw there, germany, not in any mood, seemingly, to compromise on those 2 key ukrainian demands to put sections on no stream to, to basically rule it out ever happening. and to provide weapons. we heard ukraine's ambassador to berlin just yesterday saying that ukraine needed 12000 anti tank missiles and in a hurry and no sign that germany is going to give those. i think money is going to be the big thing. this crisis already costing ukraine a lot. we've seen the current come and the pressure, the government base, the unable to borrow money internationally because of invest affairs of this conflict. so a lot of pressure on the government beyond the psychology and the nerves that you created feeling and money will be very welcome and help stabilize things. well,

as of all a shot is traveling to key, if germany has urged its citizens to leave the country, as many other western nations have done to how is that going down there? yeah, i think this is really a big deal. those images of embassies winding down their activity, amber embassy staff at airports, trying to get out or planning buses to head west towards poland. the unique to that really has cut through with ordinary ukrainians in a way that the big international news stories. the intelligence briefings from the u. s. didn't we heard stories about russia planning, full flag operations, lots of detail coming out of washington there. and the news media getting very excited about that, but most ukraine's, we're just focusing on their daily lives. now they're asking themselves if the foreigners are trying to get out if wealthy ukrainians and now getting out in hurry, should i be worried to should i may be pack a case in case i need to leave my home in a hurry to definitely tensions rising in the sense that this is moving to a new phase, the company they're in here for us. thank you,

nick. let's go straight to get the german perspective from our political correspondent, nina houser, who joins us now that she's gone and i hope she's coming back. yes, there she is. nita we've just heard from, from nick, they the ukrainians, one anti tank missiles, for example. it is, it's very clear what is a shoulds really able to offer them? germany's official position is still that war can still be avoided and that's where germany's view differ somewhat from that of some of its allies. now some are saying that all of shorts could be the last international leader to actually get this opportunity to talk to vladimir putin on tuesday. the meeting is scheduled for a duration of 5 hours and to try and persuade him not to start a full fledged military conflict, all i've showed is going to coordinate. his strategy is talking points with the ukranian president in care of today. and, but the pressure is on and germany does

a still believes in this general track approach, keep russia at the negotiating table, but also make it clear that aggression would come at a very high price for russia and that there would be severe consequences. no love. so it's a still not said explicitly that not stream to would be part of that sanctions package. he's only implied it, at least in public. now what he says, bank closed doors is a different matter. of course. he's also not going to announce delivery of tanks or similar heavy weapons, but germany could send money to ukraine as nick just mentioned. and they're also looking into delivering other forms of non lethal military material as we speak. and they can, above all outline in detail to vladimir putin, just how costly it would be for him to engage in military operations in ukraine are politically corresponded. dina has of there for us. thank you. meta or meanwhile, stocks in europe and asia are tumbling on the back of the increasing tension

between russia and ukraine. trading day began with losses in tokyo, hong kong ant mom by investors. they're reacting to the us government warning that a russian attack on ukraine could be imminent. the negative sentiment fet, through into the european trading day to germany, is dax sinking 3.6 percent. russia's main market for foreign focus companies, slid over 5 percent before recovering slightly and we have more on a vis a market reaction in a dw business with my colleague chanel to milan just a quarter past the hour. but 1st, here are some more stories making headlines around the world to day. thousands of people have rallied the technician capital against moved by president, and he said to give himself sweeping powers over the judiciary. is presidential decrease rapid judicial watchdog and gave himself the ability to block appointments

and dismiss judges. protestors accuse him of undermining democracy. thousands of unvaccinated health care workers have marched through the grief capital, athens demanding the government, allow them to return to work without being vaccinate vaccine. mandate for health workers means those who have not had at least one, those will face suspension without pay pleasant. canada have cleared, protest is blocking a major border. crossing with the us demonstrators opposing vaccine rules and pandemic restrictions kept the ambassador bridge closed for days. authorities arrested some protesters at the site, but similar protests in the capital. ottawa and other cities are still cause of disruption. russian figure skating star camila valley of our can compete at the beijing olympics following a decision by the court of arbitration for sport. the 15 year old help the russians

when the team event last week, but then reports of a positive doping test for a hot medication from december emerged. the court ruled by the over should not be suspended ahead of a full hearing into the case. she's favored to win gold at the women's individual event, which takes place to morrow. of a more on that or when are joined by the w sports corresponded johnson crane, who is in beijing covering the games for us. at done the explain the court ruling to us. okay, jonathan, can you hear me jonathan? yeah, i can hear you can. we've got you on speaker. there seems to be some connection issues with the audio, but yet in terms of what the panel decided alternately, it had to weigh out. but 2 things. one was the integrity of competition. in other words, a fairly eva, as it turned out, would had doped. how would that affect the integrity of the competition?

would it damage it? how would the athletes who are competing also feel knowing that perhaps someone were sharing the ice of them who wasn't clean? on the other hand, i had to look at the fairness on fatty over. she is 15 years old, let's not forget. and as such, she is a protected person on the anti doping rules. and the panel pointed to that it never addict essentially saying look, if we were to start valley eva from competing, and it later turns out she wasn't guilty of doping. how would that affect how you could cause her significant personal hon the panels to criticize the fact that it took 6 weeks for this positive test results come to light. now that there was a press conference idea by cass, i no questions, but there was a statement. let's listen to that. now. the panel considered fundamental principles of fairness, irreparable harm, and the relative balance of interest as between the applicants and the athlete who did not test positive during the olympic games in beijing, but is still subject to

a disciplinary procedure on the merits. following hope was active antidote being dest undergoing in december 2021. in particular, the panel considered that preventing the athlete to compete of the olympic games would cause her irreparable harm in these circumstances. well, there's nothing set in stone yet, is it coming? the no, there isn't anything set in stone. yeah. get hard because either the panels today was looking at whether the provision of a suspension should be listed. oh no. it hasn't actually made any judgment about whether by the eva is guilty of typing or not. because that she is entitled to get her be sample tested, not to be sample, it's effectively backups down to make sure that the original test is out was correct. the i c had wanted everything to be heard in one go. all parties didn't agree so that we can only assume that was on the russian side. the sea has since

come out and said needed, the middle ceremony will take place. obviously the team environmental ceremony was too late. last 3, whatever happens, the individual events that middle ceremony or stay where take place they clearly they wanted a situation where valley ava could come away with to go mental or needs to have them taken away as a due date. so the middle ceremonies are on hold with kimmy level. yeah, that is only 15 years old. what does this controversy tell us about the adults advising? yes we we keep repeating that only that she is 15 years road. freddy is a key factor in this because clearly she's putting a lot of trust in the people around her, whether that's a coaches, doctors or other support staff. so the question is, should she be as solely responsible for the decisions that she's taking or, or what she's actually being told and now water, the water dumping agency is actually looking into the entourage. we've had that

confirmed because it's real echoes isn't there. of, of east germany and the typing regime. there were young athletes who given banned substances under the pretense that they were vitamin site. it clearly is an issue and, and the big problem really is again, russian typing is in the spotlight with a valley aver is found guilty or not positive. the reason why russia's ban was reduced. russia is not even competing under its own name, by the way, because of that, that'd be bad at the russian olympic cavity. part of the reason the band with regina was to protect a younger athletes to give a new generation of russian athletes. a chance to compete is very ironic. now isn't it that it is a young athlete is causing at all this controversy. johnson granted obvious bullets there in beijing for us. thank you. jonathan is a reminder of the top story we are following for you. germans also love shows is on his way to the ukrainian capital q f. m. it's growing fears of an imminent russian invasion is expected to offer ukraine more economic support of no weapons. the visit. com says o's, as see staff full out of the rebel east,

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