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all the major a film festivals, the building olive ah away like thank you so much for your company. everyone. german chancellor, olaf schultz and ukrainian president of a lot of years zalinski have held crisis talks and keep over the mounting threats of a russian invasion of ukraine. chancellor schultz assured his ukrainian counterpart of germany's continued support and set the west is ready for serious dialogue with russia over security matters. the chancellor had to fly to moscow. next were talks with president vladimir putin. he had a clear warning for his next host about the consequences of any military action against you. great. is my hand. kiss the i'ma here and live. i

am once again making clear ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity are non negotiable for germany. therefore, we expect clear steps from russia to deescalate current tensions he has come to. the german government is clear that further military aggression against ukraine would have serious political, economic, and geostrategic consequences for russia. i will emphasize that to morrow in moscow to afford it. does fetish moral in moscow dislike the german chance either speaking moments ago dw chief political editor, mikaela christner is travelling with the german chance that we can go to her now in the ukrainian capital mikaela, the german chancellor again offering diplomatic aid to little too late time will tell em of, we are seeing some signals already coming out of moscow. not necessarily related to

this meeting here today, but it clearly german chancellor, all i saw it said we know what to do and it appears that moscow understands that the west has coordinates. it coordinated itself to a degree that there could be some swift responds because we're hearing that to vladimir putin and sergei le rav his foreign minister, came out today and said that there may be a chance for further talk talks. and that's exactly what, what amusing lensky ukrainian present and german chancellor saw. it's in this building behind me, the residence of the president we're talking about today that there needs to be a diplomatic process that it's worth going the extra mile and continuing the talks . so some potential silver lining on the horizon that am making clear that everybody is on the same page when it comes to sanctions may pay off. at the same time, there were some mixed signals over nato membership after ukraine's ambassador had

been misinterpreted as it is being said here, that ukraine may not insist on wanting to join nato, or that something that amused lensky said he definitely still wants to pursue that . and to answer all f salt said, well, that's not really a current issue anyway, because legally ukraine couldn't join, would that still remaining conflict area with russia over the annexation of crimea? so very complex here, but a clear message from german chancellor. so it's that we as in the west know what to do if glad he put in a very me put in for real crosses that border launches any other attack. how has that message been received by his host the ukrainians? well, he's thankful he said it for the support to buy germany. although there is continuing criticism over the fact that germany will not deliver arms to ukraine. there's really no sign that that will change any time soon. although there now is a list that dummies looking at whether they can deliver other equipment in

a military context like am at night vision equipment, that kind of thing. and that is ongoing coordination and dummy's also pledged an extra 150000000 in loans here. so the germans hosted didn't come and empty handed. some recognition amongst a lot of criticism for germany. if you ask people here on the streets at that it, germany is indeed certainly economically and politically standing by the side of ukraine. next stop moscow. mikayla where chancellor schultz will meet with the russian president, president putin. what will he try to avoid doing? let's start with that. he will try and avoid coming into a situation where vladimir putin says something like he did after the visit by a french present. manu him a call saying that this was not the format to find any kind of solution i've been traveling with the answer today. his advisors are being considerably how can i say

modest about their expectations? what can be achieved by germany alone, by their chance are alone in moscow? and the german perspective is that a continuation of talks is already a success in itself. if those gloom and doom predictions don't become reality that already this week, potentially even wednesday, there could be an attack. so there is a search for continuous threads of dialogue using all formats. and while at the same time sending the signal to moscow that yes indeed, if they want talks for real meaningful talks that germany, you're of the west remains committed to sit down and talk about what that could mean as an outcome in the end. as long as there is no crossing of that red line, meaning the territorial integrity of ukraine, being violet violated once again, one has to say, by russia final fast, 20 seconds. is there

a sense that president is prepared to cut a deal with germany? that you wouldn't cut a deal with germany, it's it. germany is not the player. he would want to cause a deal. where does become wanting is become clear is that he wants to be at eye level with the united states. u. s. president bite has picked up the phone to him a couple of times now, so he's already achieved that goal. what the outcome will be is on a completely different page and that may still take quite a bit of time. did have your typical editor, mio, electric, nor reporting from keith ukraine. thank you. and as a mikaela alluded to a rush, as a top diplomat so sergey live, ralph has said he still sees a chance for agreement with the west over ukraine. but mr. la ralph told president vladimir putin in a televised meeting that he didn't think the talking should go on endlessly. beast shows the good it. is there

a chance to reach an agreement with our partners with on key issues? from marshall's abortion ellipticals the book we've clifton or is it an attempt to drag us into an endless negotiation process? we'll use good louisiana, although endless conversations about resolving issues that need to be resolved today. but as head of the foreign ministry, i must say that there is always a chance of solutions you sooner and that was the russian foreign minister speaking there, a powerful flag and how are, is, and alice specializing in the russian military. and he's based in moscow, russia, sir, thank you for joining dw news. we just heard there from the russian foreign minister saying it's still not too late to get back to the negotiating table. the president has clearly said, diplomacy is finite. reality on the grounds suggest that tensions are not diffusing

. the build up is continuing and russian build up is not being reversed. so are they saying one thing and doing something else? well, actually know you not totally incorrectly interpret what puts in law for talking about. they were not talking about ukraine or just about ukraine. they're talking about the whole issue of the confrontation between russia and the west, and russia, and united states. and then the situation is very serious. and actually we are moving into the territory where there can be direct american, the russian military skirmishes. actually they're already beginning, which could lead to a direct russia, american war going nuclear very quickly. so we're in a much more dangerous situation. just simply about what's happening with ukraine and much more serious situation. a does feel like a very tenuous a. com is, is a,

is the wrong word. i mean, there's so much tension in the air before where it is. looks like a storm on this looming threat of military conflict. is that something that you see unfolding in the next couple of days? so the russian military right now we're at a super heightened state of readiness, deployed into a field below kinds of battle station positions. and not around ukraine, only, not exclusively, but also another parts, including the strategic mo, new queer forces. and there was a skirmish and in the close to the korea islands between the numbers reported were an american virginia class submarine, and the russian and the submarine ship. another anti submarine assets, and that's very, very serious because russia says that this is an incursion in durham rushing territorial waters. but the problem is that brush claims the entire sea of

a horse goes in there at dory, a water switch. the west does not recognize and the c a beholds is a so called best im a fortress where rush and strategic nuclear submarines patrol and hide. and from there, they should shoot their booster willis as with nuclear warheads, that united states, of course, you know, what i understand from your answers is that you feel bad in some sense, war is inevitable. but war, as you know, is incredibly expensive. it's unappealing. the world today is very into interdependent and interconnected, what really is in it for russia? no, russia has time and again and goodly president, putin and he is. lieutenant sir, said the crash has no intention to invade any country attack any one. but as they like to say in the eighty's and seventy's and may go headquarters in brussels and tensions can change over night, actually they can change in an hour. what's important not intentions as they are declared, but capabilities. the capabilities right now that russia has deployed as

a foot, its entire military machine on total readiness, top top total readiness to go. that's very, very dangerous because that means the capabilities to go to war are present. the good news is that this crisis will over blow somehow very soon. in the coming week may be 2. there should be a decision to either go or be to begin the escalating. you can't actually keep the higher the state of readiness back already is that the russian military are but much longer than a couple of weeks you have to begin to deescalate or you go to war. i don't know what it's going to be. no one actually knows that even the american intelligence apparently does not know that decision will be taken in the credible paval flag. and how are russian military analysts faced and moscow? russia? thank you for talking to us. ukraine and russia will be top of the agenda for

global leaders and defense experts at the much watched nunez security conference. later this week, did over you knew, spoke with the chairman of the conference, wolfgang issues about the crisis and the threat of war. because his eating a you are preparing to host one of the world biggest conferences on security at the end of this week. how concerned are you that we could be witnessing a war by that time? well, like everybody else might him and i oh, i'm personally deeply worried. oh, i wish i could be confident to say that next weekend or we will be talking about negotiations on arms control, the escalation mechanisms, et cetera. but i am as deeply bored as so many decision makers and, and, and analysts. in recent days, the u. s. has been intensifying its warnings and it is explicitly saying that there

could be a full scale war all the way to kia. do you believe that is a plausible scenario? you always have to make a distinction between the capabilities and the intentions. regarding the capabilities, everybody knows not only the, the intelligence community we've all seen the satellite pictures of the own number of troops, equipment, or armaments, et cetera, a mast around the gradient border. so the capabilities for doing that exist, surely. so there must be, that must be of course, a, it cause of enormous concern. now regarding the intentions are, i would be skeptical i until proven otherwise. i would think that any responsible russian military commander,

and i would also hope in the russian political responsible leader would think about it. if you, if you come to the conclusion we could take care if then the question is, how are we gonna hold key f a for a month, for 6 months for a year or for longer and, and how much will that cost and how many lives might it cost over the longer term. so these types of considerations would, i would hope lead russians to we're not to go down that road. now. all, i shall say german chancellor take center stage this week on tuesday. he's going to be in moscow. he seeking de escalation of the situation. what can he achieve that so far? joe biden, man, when my cause many others have failed to achieve, i think the best hope we can f, and i would imagine that that is his expectation would be that he can serve to make bread in put in continue what he's been doing for the last couple of

weeks, nobody talk, being able to come back from moscow and saying to that to the public, president putin is willing to continue this discussion that i've just had with him . that would be as good results as chancellor shorts could bring home. i'm sure that he would not be able to come home, would say i achieved something which joe biden mccoy and, and, and all the other leaders who recently met with president putin. i've, i've been able to talk him into something that they have not achieved. i think that is not a realistic expectation. hulking michigan many thanks for the time. stay. thank you . thank you very much. ah. to the winter olympics in beijing now and it was a story of redemption for a french do oh. in the figure skating ice dance as gabriella

a bacchus. and dio mercy's there on cleaned gold after falling shorts in the previous olympics, while they set a new world record with 226.98 point speeding the previous record. they had set themselves 4 years ago, address torn during their routine cost them their victory at the young chang, games where they could only secure a silver metal. kaylee humphreys has claimed the 1st to ever gold metal in the women's more noble events which made its olympic debut. and beijing, i'm phrase, was competing for the united states. having previously won 2 gold and a bronze in the 2 women event for her native canada. but she switched countries after a lunching harassment within the canadian bob bob system. she only became a us citizen in december or in the women's re styles skiing aerials. so china says you were among tao has one her 1st ever gold metal.

she was runner up as so she in 2014 and had again settled for silver again in the mixed aerials at these games in beijing. but she prevailed in the singles event to claim and emotional victory, and the 1st ever chinese gold in women's area dependence . meanwhile, has been confirmed that russian figure skating star camilla valley ava can compete at the games following a decision by the court of arbitration for sport. the 15 year old help the russians win the team event last week, but then reports of a positive doping test for heart medication from december emerge, the court ruled valia fought should not be suspended ahead of a full hearing into the case. she's favorite to win gold at the women's individual event, which takes place tomorrow. and it always forced corresponding to johnson crane is

in beijing at the games. and this was his explanation of the court's ruling earlier in terms of what the panel decided. oh, to really 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, 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 friday 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 in a verdict essentially say look, if we were to start value from competing and it later turns out she wasn't guilty of doping. how would that affect how you could count cause her significant personal hom, jonathan crane, reporting from beijing. their bell in allah has made a name as the most political of all the major international film festivals went out after a lukewarm, started spi,

getting to live up to that reputation. over the weekend. the competition put women front and center, focusing the limelight on the fight for their rights and those of others. bobby corners is a woman on a mission. one that might seem impossible that'll see or take on the us government . and when and last reasons movie robbie corn us versus george w bush tells a romanticized version of a true story that of a german turkish mother seeking justice for her son moved that innocently detained in guantanamo. the men in guantanamo z. it's. it's when you're detained in guantanamo this no perspective. you kind of know this is no hope pro it's kafka. ask look then so i was lucky to meet murat, his mother revere anna, an enchanting, wonderful, cheerful woman, who is also funny leave or not. that's who who moss hold of call met him captain

brings all those adjectives to life. and it's her stellar performance that turns this story of david and goliath into a heart warming tale about the boundless power of motherly love. phyllis nod cinematic directing debut call. jane introduces us to a club, destiny, women's network, providing safe abortions in 1960 s, chicago. a distant past. one might believe. i think women's rights in the united states you're talking about. they have not moved on one bit since the events of that film. and it's something again we, we touch on at the end of the call jane, you know, hey, let's go get equal pay. yeah, you'll be waiting until where long dead for that me. k eric drama and the passengers of the night uses politics as a means of triggering our collective memory. shallow gains boom portrays elizabeth,

whose life changes drastically around that time. form. swami dead all is elected president of france. she's a very ordinary woman. that's what i loved about her and she's going through what a woman of her age i left by her husband with our children having did mine. and john just very basic things. it was okay. forced to reinvent herself. the film follows elizabeth in her years of transformation from broken spirit to lie ins and against all odd ocean and before the end of middles presidency. and he w, as a stacy prevents, is at their bell. and allah for us, stacy, good to see you. okay, well let's you know, take it away. what caught your eye? well, it is valentine's day, so i caught my eye. i was stories of love

a more lieber, but not the rom. com. j lo type. love stories. know this is berlin. allah love story. it's pain, it's self sacrifice. it's filmed with extremely long pauses on the 1st selection that we took a look at. it's called a year and a day and it follows the, this young couple celine and ramon as they try to recover from the trauma of the terrorist attack at the batter, claun theater in paris in 2015. and so it goes back and forth between what happened that day and also how they're trying to live and, and go on and ramon is very stuck. he needs to talk about things regularly. and it frustrates his partner celine who just wants to suppress things and put it behind her. so we see that going back and forth and how it test their relationship. it

also take to look at how racism and somehow how racism sometimes plays a factor, a role in how people look at different things. for example, this story with ramon was the police were pushing him to say that an arab person did this, you know, and so i, so there it's, there's a little bit of that kind of interplay as well as stacy some more easy viewing. or is i'm totally incredibly rig film says in the alps that apparently brought berlin audiences to tears. tell us about that. yes, this, it was so sad, so powerful, but it took a long time to get there. it was slow. the beginning was like 45 seconds of just looking at a rock and i'm not kidding. and i thought, i'm not going to make it to the end of this movie. but he got, it became really powerful. it's called a piece of the sky. and it's a swiss german,

a co production and it's written and directed by mikhail co. and it tells the story of this young couple right, right before they got married is where the story line picks up and see the man marco, he suffers from a tumor and it changes his personality. and you see how his partner anna has to struggle with this, protect her daughter from him. so there was a really disturbing scene with that. and so it looks at how love sometimes isn't enough and how a loyalty is sometimes hard to give. so it was a very powerful movie. you have to see it. i bring tissues. bring tissues are looking forward to hearing so much for louis facing the coming days. happy valentine's day, stacy referenced reporting from the belin. allah. take

a lovely it's february 14th a day when much of the world celebrates the power of. 1 love from secretly sent cards to surprise proposals is no end of ways to mark valentine's day. now, these love struck scuba divers found an alternative way to show just how deep their love is. they took to the depth to show their affection for the greek island of alanis us with the hearts and love messages. it was organized by the islands tories board to promote the island as a venue for romantic weddings. and you can even book a ceremony. i mean, the way that doesn't spell love reminder the top story that we are following for you right now. german chelsor, olaf schultz and ukrainian president vollmer zaleski, have helped crisis talks over the mounting threat of a russian invasion of ukraine. chest

a short reiterated that germany stands firmly with keith. this before his meeting, tomorrow and moscow with russian president vladimir putin. you're watching it renews ally from berlin. stick with us news. asia is up next week for rush. banner g, i'm label rock and berlin on behalf of all of us here. thanks for watching. ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

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