term report from the heart of brazil starts march 9th on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin is diplomacy, finally working unconfirmed reports this morning of russian troop movements away from ukraine's borders. a possible de escalation as german chancellor schroeder becomes the latest western leader to travel to moscow for talks with president vladimir putin sholtes born ahead of his trip that any russian attack would trigger immediate western saxons.

ah, i'm gabels as welcome to the program. germany's chancellor offshoots arrived in moscow for talks with russian president vladimir putin on the agenda, as of course, deescalate intentions ah, ahead of his meetings. so it's visited to world war 2 memorial and paid his respects told stalks with putin come a day after the chancellor's visit. to kiff shoals said he would warn russia that any possible invasion of ukraine would lead to immediate sanctions. and in the last hours, russia's defense ministry said some of its troops were returning to their bases after completing military drills near ukraine's board up. however, other drills are still underway. moscow has always denied that has any plans to invade your crime?

it's the crisis meeting to de escalate tensions over a looming thread in ukraine in key of german chancellor olive shoals reiterated his support for ukraine. the military activity was those of the russians military activities on the ukraine border are incomprehensible to us about this. if we therefore expect russia to take clear steps to deescalate the cut intentions for germany, it is clear that for the military, aggression against ukraine would have serious political, economic, and geostrategic consequences. you for russia, venison for was long to forget. close to ukraine's border russian military drills are on despite the threat of sanctions and forces continue to amass. the key question is whether a diplomatic solution is still possible, especially with one sticking point. ukraine wants to join nato and russia doesn't want a member of the security lions on their doorstep. ukraine's president,

bloody mule zalinski, says that's not up to russia. the bar please leave the snot. this is here, the many leader of say that ukraine shouldn't constantly talk about nato membership because of the risk of a russian reaction may be more. i think there's no hiding any more than i think we should be sincere. those, the series of people, if our decision to make for the us me is the easiest thing you thought was in the spirit alive. allah, charles will now negotiate with the other side of the table, your money. let's bring in our roman conser ranko from the w. a. russia you train and eastern europe, department rahman. we are receiving reports that some military russian military forces are returning to that basis. and i believe we also have some pictures that are circulating on russian media. how reliable are these information?

well, we're still have to wait and see. we have that in an announcement by the russian defense minister that some troops are pulling back after the exercise. we're seeing those pictures on the russian stay t v. they are shown, this was an endless footage of tanks being loaded on trains presumably to go home. what you cannot verify that. and it's been a huge, a huge exercise in different parts around ukraine. so we still have to wait and see . maybe some trucks will stay, maybe some, some tanks or other equipment will stay. so it's too early to tell. it is important though to, to point out we have seen in the past hours, several signals of the escalation from russia. president putin talk to his defense minister and to his foreign minister, and the foreign minister said we could continue talking to the west and put it wouldn't said okay. and we had the president of the spokesperson of the russian president, me 3 pasco, also saying that, put in president,

poaching is for negotiations. so we have some signals from moscow and we have those pictures. these could be a sign of the escalation, but again, it is too early to tell, and it is too early to say that the crisis is over. but some, some definitely some good signs that. so what can be expected from the meeting between put in and show the day then? well, it is very unusual that russia is so to say, rolling a red carpet for chancellor sholtes by sending those signals it's, it's very unusual and i think it's a good, a good thing and i shoals will probably not talk to mr. president, putting about some strategic issues like nato not moving further east, which russia wants. but i think shoals would talk to put in about ukraine, about the means agreement to political implementation of that. and especially about the next summit of the so called normandy format was germany. france, russia and ukraine. germany pushes for that

a summit to be held in berlin. probably russia was reluctant to do that, but maybe shorts will, will deliver. and maybe a shoulds will persuade, put in to do such a meeting and to meet ukraine in president lansky. that would be a huge success, but it depends on how far ukraine and zalinski are ready to go for that. and we'll find out in just a few hours, and of course we'll be covering a short visit to moscow throughout the day. thank you. roman, going to rank from d, w. 's, russia, ukraine, and eastern europe department. and now we're joined by thomas vaughn. he's a member of the conservative c s u, a position group in germany is parliament and to their spokesman. transatlantic relation, mrs. obama, this visit has been seen as some last ditch diplomacy. but president putin has made it quite clear that he wants to hear from joe biden. is that going to limit what all of shows can achieve today?

i left the, in a lot of bilateral talks of tires politic level in the last days. and now it's the last minute attempt, indeed of chancellor charles in order to avoid war, it's up to put in our $0.02 in the us for de escalation. so what do you make then of the signals of the escalation that my colleague just mentioned, the to withdraw, which is still unconfirmed. and also what lover of yesterday said about diplomacy? still a way to go about russia did everything. what is needed for invading the ukraine? more than 140000 troops at the borders of ukraine. any equipment which is needed. so russia is in a position rear, in any nation is it could be a matter of hours or more than bees. in this situation, which is most alarming,

any attempt of the escalating the situation should be used. and her gentle shows may hopefully bring some news from his sir talks to president lensky it yesterday. and keith. so there is a lot of room for negotiation at the table, but on the other side, even if it succeeds to de escalate the situation right now at the borders of ukraine, we have to realize that the confronted situation of russia. what's the sebring? countries will stay for the foreseeable future. so international reaction to an invasion of ukraine will come in the form of more economic sanctions. but russia already is under a lot of sanctions. will the threat of more sanctions actually work the rest her breast and partners stand united and this is a most important message, not only to russia, but also for our public in our western countries. and it goes far beyond economic

sanctions. the entire relations between russia and the western countries is at stake. so we have also to talk about, for example, the nato, russia founding act, and all the treaties that have already been infringed and violated by russia. so a lot is at stake and that's why the price is very high. we have to be prepared to beer own costs in the rest. and this is what has been made clear in our coordination among our partners. and we will, if you are prepared and we are willing to impose significant costs to russia, if there is an escalation. and that's why russia should come to the table of negotiations. now, one of the significant cost that germany could bring into this bargain is the gas pipeline, a north stream to, to not let it go online and cut off a gas supply from russia is germany really ready to hold north stream to

this? a pipeline is not operating yet, so yes, germany is ready to include this north gym to pipeline into a variety of sanctions of the recent countries. but not only this pipeline, the entire energy supply of the western countries from russia. it should be part of the discussion and much more of only nor seem to or the energy supply is at stake. and that's why it's very serious. and it's important that we stand united. we are prepared to be on cars because the cost of a military escalation will. anyway, the matters much higher than the sanctions we should put at the table to missouri on a spokesman for trans atlantic relations. fully opposition see su party. thank you

very much. thank you. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. russian opposition figure alex in a valley has gone on trial again in a new case that could see his prison term extended. he is currently serving a sentence in a penal colony, colony, and russian. prosecutors are now accusing him of stealing almost $5000000.00 from donations to his charity. amnesty international has described the trial as a sham lisa and doris half surrounded the home of the former president of the united states demanded his expedition. the u. s. accuses won orlando hernandez, of corruption and involvement in drug trafficking. mister anders left off his last month following 8 years as president and denies all charges. when the skier, eileen go, was back on the slopes, representing china at the beijing winter olympics. today,

the american born free styles miasca, who now competes with china, one silver in the women's free ski slopes style by the barrister martyrs needing a brilliant 3rd round run to get herself on to the podium. oo place, 2nd, behind my tooth rim. oh, of switzerland. who won gold, but who remains one of the stories of these games. and to talk more about this story, let's bring in the w. suppose correspondent jonathan crane from bay. jing jonathan, american born girl, was competing for china again today. how close are the chinese actually following her? her journey will they are following her very closely indeed that silver metal performance has been on repeat on chinese television. it seems like she really is at the face of these games, hugely popular here. but there is a twist because island grew that's not forget was born and grew up in california. she switched allegiance to china in 2019. so she's really kind of straddling

a geo political divide. you trying to keep 2 sites happy, and it's not easy for her in the us. she's accused of being a traitor. is accused of setting out to try and that she's incredibly market. suppose she's got multi $1000000.00 sponsorship deals on both sides of that divide in the west and in asia. and she's been criticized but not necessarily using her platform to speak out on human rights issues, for example. now, just as she's got tricks on the slope, she's also got tricks and press conferences because she's asked about this. and she always manages to avoid it quite success successfully. and she facie says, look, i'm here to inspire people. i mean, and i'm inspiring people to take out winter sport, say, you know, the press conference is often feel like just as much of a performance is the performance on the competition? well, the big story, these games is a camila vajella as she skates to day 24 hours on from the decision that actually allowed her to skate despite doping. allegation the where is that discussion

standing now with the discussion is still raging and i don't think it's going to go away any time soon. it will surely that dominates and probably overshadow to nights, competition in many ways. because while there is a lot of sympathy for valley, eva, she is just 15 years old. we keep saying it, let's repeat it 15 years old. there's a lot of anger at how this is played out. now. i just want to read you a treat from megan to hamilton. she's a canadian of fig estimates and she said, how is anyone going to take the women's events seriously? we have, we're just told illegal drugs and abuse are okay. hey, today was had a bit more detail about what sally. eva's lawyers argued in that hearing yesterday . basically, they said that the a positive test was caused by contamination from her grandfather's hot medication. now of course, that will need to be proven at a later date valley eva has also been speaking to russian television. she says she's happy to be competing, but he's emotionally. ty,

at that's not really surprising. so we'll just have to see how that affects the performance tonight. she is, of course, the go bundle favor for the event. doesn't cry, and d, w sports. they're reporting from beijing. and that's it from me and the new scheme of fun for now. don't go away though, a seem busy is up. next he has all the businesses for you. i got f as in berlin, thanks for watching. they've had no peace for decades. people of iraq countries devastated. and there's no end to the point. how did it come to this this is revealed and

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