[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is where we news live from burlington german chance olaf short's calls for an urgent de escalation to avert war in ukraine after a face to face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. shaw says diplomacy is far from exhausted and lasting. security in europe is only possible with russia put in signals. his country is open to more talks also coming up big air at the beijing winter olympics. we'll take a look at the dairy devils who took home metals after the last of the women's

snowboarding events, and an omar's 2 french actress. he's a very fair, but we'll get a life time achievement award at the berlin film festival. we'll take a look at her 5 decades in the movie. ah, i'm like thank you so much for joining us. we open our broadcast, which shaw says shuttle diplomacy just a day after german chancellor help talks with ukraine's present for latimer zalinski in keith. he's now met with vladimir putin in moscow. schwartz was facing criticism back home for his tight lipped response to the growing threat of a russian military attack on ukraine. but the chance i had some strong words in moscow saying it was political leaders, quote,

responsibility to avoid war in europe. and salts had a strong hand to play in moscow. germany is economic importance to russia and the all important north stream gas line. while after the talks, shorts also had strong words of criticism for russia's military build up on the border. taken with, we are all agreed in nature and the european union about this illusion. and that is what should make it possible to find a solution. however difficult and serious the current situation is, i refused to consider it to be hopeless. courageous and responsible action is what we need to show now and again, that's when one more thing for my generation war in europe has become unthinkable. and we must make sure that this remain, so it is our absolute duty and responsibilities heads of state and heads of government to make sure that europe will not see an escalation into war. we are also willing to continue the discussion process, but we will look,

but in all these question, which i have mentioned need to be seen as a package without m separating the most important german security is, is from them. the other question south of the security will to discussed in the context of the ukrainian conflict. the key of government refuses to keep to the immense agreement as we all know. and i also, he refused to implement the 2015 agreement. wanted taken out to moscow, where did of usa chief political editor, mikella casner is there for you. mikayla you are traveling with the chancellor. what is your overall assessment of the mood during this visit? take us with you where you are my apologies,

mckayla. we do not have audio so we can't hear you reporting. i obviously see your lips moving, but i think we're going to try and resolve that audio problem. and in the meantime, mckayla, i'm going to go to richard who is here with me. we're gonna try and re establish, take a right now. all right, richard, want to go to you 1st while we're sorting out those audio problems. is war at this moment in time, less likely in eastern europe, or is it too early to tell? i think it is too early to tell. i think you would say after these talks or just rather similarly to other rounds of talk solias of so far so good. the mood was was relatively located between the 2 of them. there are a couple of flash points, which i'm sure we'll get to in a moment. but the overall situation that we're looking at today does have, for the 1st time in many weeks, a certain opening of the prospect of some de escalation after ratcheting of de escalation over many weeks. the russian saying that they're pulling back some of the troops that they've had surrounding the ukrainian border,

that they're pulling those back to base. and we don't have confirmation of that yet . we're gonna have to see of the next 2448 hours with those movies really take place. whether those troops really go back to bass or whether they go to other fort positions. but that's the context in which this press conference took place. will have short saying that he saw that as a positive development, but that he will be hoping to see that more troops will be pulling back. and then both leaders saying that they want to keep talks going on. but certainly quite different tonality about what their expectations of those talks are. and i want us to talk more about that interplay between these 2 very, very different personalities. or let's put it that way because a mikaela coroner, who is in moscow. she was given the 1st question during the press conference that the 2 leaders held. i want to play that 1st and then we'll pick up after that to let's roll the tape. will you rule out in europe whether you want or no,

just that is exactly why we made our proposals to start a discussion. you a very important exchange there. what we just witness. it was an important exchange because 1st of all, what we heard there from pigeon are answering the sailors question is that he doesn't want to warren euro. but then he started attacking nato and saying that we've seen war in europe in recent decades. back in the ninety's when nato attacks the former yugoslavia. then in his response to this, all our shoals said that that was a totally different situation. there were fears of genocide taking place, and that is the reason for nato's intervention in yugoslavia. then vladimir putin came back at that and said, and he repeated a claim that he also made just last december. that what we are witnessing in the don bass in these breakaway rebel republics in east and ukraine. he said that that is genocide. now of course, that is an extremely questionable claim. there's no real credible claims or anything like that is going on in,

in don't. but i think it was revealing the of the kind of different world views of the 2 men then of things. and it was concerning because this claim from vladimir pushing that genocide is taking place in that eastern region of ukraine, could be understood as preparing a pretext for military action to prevent this ostensible, just really interesting, those parallel really realities and people basically talking along each other want to ask you as well about the other main topic that kept coming up. economy ties between germany and russia, and the n word, north street, north stream to that's right. vladimir putin at the very beginning of the press conference saying that he was confident that all of sholtes with somebody who would be pragmatic about the economic relations between russia and germany. and that's code for saying that essentially he believes hope so all ourselves is somebody who, who doesn't want to undermine this very,

very important energy relationship between the 2 countries. there isn't currently centering around is controversial pipeline node stream to we prepared a little report on that just to explain the situation where we can just quickly play that this must be the most controversial piece of infrastructure in the world right now. nord stream to a gas pipeline that connects russia to germany. it's recently been finished, but it's not yet up and running. and it has a lot of enemies. environmentalists hate it because it pumps a fossil fuel. ukraine's president hates it because it undercuts his country's pipelines. and the u. s. hates it saying it'll make europe too dependent on russian gas now, with russian forces bearing down on ukraine's borders. u. s. president joe biden says one false move would be the last straw world. the notion reg,

nordstrom t re go nor stream to go forward with vision by the russians, just not going to happen. this was an awkward moment for german chancellor oliver sholtes for years he didn't sisted the north stream to had nothing to do with politics. meeting biden, last week, he was under a huge pressure to follow the u. s. line, but instead he spoke him generalities. now we will be united. we will act together and we will take all the necessary steps and all the necessary steps would be done by all of us to get help somehow won't bring himself to say the words nord stream to. and this vagueness has brought him a lot of criticism of the us and from other allies, with all this pressure and with europe seemingly on the brink of war. what's holding him back? the answer lies in his party. the social democrats, it's long prided itself as

a bridge builder with russia and gnawed stream to makes landfall in a state governed by the party. it is not, it's susie asked about speaking publicly about, you know, losing not stream. it would be, it would create a major role within his own political family. much depends on what happens next. any military action by russia would force schultz to make a decision. but for critics of north train to this is all too late. we have said from the very beginning that such a, an under c, a gas pipeline to germany will or could, at some point be used by russia as a geopolitical lever. and we see that this is what the credit is doing right now. for all our sholtes, it's the 1st big taste as chancellor of what can happen when international pressure and domestic politics collide. it could be the 1st many richard server port there,

richard. did he get any closer to uttering the word north stream too? well, he remained unspecific on whether he would put sanctions or no stream to in the event of military action, but he came very close to, to saying it was, it was a strong implication. let's put it that way. so the formula that he would use was something along the lines of if face military action, every one knows the political reality. so that it, this kind of is in line with what he said in the past that everything has to be on the table. but he doesn't want to spell out for the reasons we just saw in the report exactly what it means, but no seem to certainly featured very prominently in the press conference and vladimir putin being very explicitly. he wants that pipeline to go online. or should walker the w's chief international editor. thank you for your analysis. and i believe we can take you now to moscow. russia t w's chief political editor,

mikayla christner is there for you. mikaela. we can hear you hopefully loud and clear. you are traveling with the chancellor, take us with you, give us a sense of what the mood has been like throughout the day. off certainly the child that didn't come empty handed and as he stepped off the plane and already we were getting reports that some of the troops amassed down the ukrainian booked up would now be sent back into their previous positions that this slight i'd say down scaling of the threat, and that did set the mood for the day so saw it's brought from keith, what he was yesterday, but in between he went to button and it guarantees basic by ukraine that it will take a further step to woods fulfilling it's part of the so called minsk agreement, the minsk process and aids put 3 draft laws on the table which it is supposed to

deliver. now this is something that of letting of putin actually and acted as if it hadn't really happened. he said that ukraine still isn't rudy. a doing dash here, but certainly something in the tone the conversation changed. and what is really still unclear is whether this was a tactic rush and tactic all along. and or whether there really was the contribution made of by pushing that process along at which wasn't easy. to secure from the ukrainian side either. so that's why we are, it looks like the immediate threat is cooled off the tomorrow and the older nobody said it officially. it would be rather odds if that were to take place. but as you can tell this system to receive where i'm sending, it turns through little i'm white there. i'm now getting back to with the other important developments that were reporting today. a russia claiming that to some troops are returning to their basis. do we know if,

if that topic has at all come up during their bilateral one on one meeting? well, it appears it wasn't necessarily a deep discussion about it, but it certainly is a sign and it would make it much more difficult to now go into a full offensive a just 24 hours later would be make signals also to russian public because that's not forget that vetting the putin is speaking to russians when he is in international press conference like that. we also heard talk from the defense ministry that some of the objectives of those maneuvers as it was cold and were met . so that would allow for that step at the same time, a stun warning from vladimir putin who said he didn't want wool either. that to you . yes, he would still engaged in further talks. at the same time, he would not allow it to happen that at things get changed, which had been difficult to for the russian side. so he would see those dragged out as he put it. so

a bit of time bullet through diplomacy for now with still very uncertain a map ahead. we understand that the chancellor said that some aspects of russia's demands are worth considering. do we know what he meant by that? well, is if he is, i mean, what we've heard from the chance of time time again is how could it be that there you could go to? and if is that the reason is, is supposed to be a country wanting to join nato, which can't legally do so probably for a nice the generation anyway. and what, and what i saw it is a video it's done on in wants to do is actually sit down and go through details and find new entry points without crossing that red line. if allowing russia to build a sphere of influence. and basically, calling the salts on who could join nato. well, not now. there is still clearly are 2 different positions as well. so it was filled

out by all i saw it. but the seems to be willing now on both sides to go further into the detail and see what can be it's hate chief, i'm sounding vague because that's exactly where the process is standing right now. and one of those entry points are security guarantees for russell oils in terms of what weapons are stationed. did abused chief political enter, michelle at christner, reporting from moscow. okay. and i think you want it, i know, but the other stories and the headlines right now, russian opposition figure alexis volney has gone on trial again and a new case that could see his prison term extend it. he's currently serving a sentence in a penal 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 former campaigning afore south where he is. presidential elections

has begun. the 2 main candidates are li jay knew of the ruling min show party and you so you'll of the conservative people, our party would face an uphill battle to gain voters support after a series of scandals. canadian prime minister justin trudeau has is issuing rather an emergency emergency powers to and protests against pandemic restrictions. police have cleared a truckers blockade of a key border crossing into the united states. but the drivers are still blocking others and occupying much of the capitals business district. ah, it's a headache that canada's government hasn't been able to shake, protested in part trucks, still digging in outside parliament and clogging the streets of the capital ottawa . elsewhere, convoys of vehicles still mobilizing some border crossings. as the nationwide protests entered their 3rd week,

prime minister just in trudeau invoked the emergencies act. it gives the government broad powers to intervene. the police will be given more tools to restore order in places where public assemblies can constitute illegal and dangerous activities, such as blockades and occupations, as seen in ottawa, ambassador bridge, and elsewhere. these tools include strengthening their ability to impose fines or imprisonment. treatment rule that using the military and set the measures would be time limited. with canada's on the con wave subsiding, it has already started removing some coven 19 restrictions. the protest is key demand. on monday, the province of ontario announced an end to proof of vaccination requirements and capacity limits for businesses that the premier made clear. this was not a concession to the blockade, paralyzing the capital city. today's announcement is not because of what's happening in ottawa or windsor,

but despite it to those who are still there to those of you who are there with a sole objective of causing disruption and chaos will be serious consequences for this lawless activity. oh, what started his protests against vaccine mandates for truckers has grown into a rallying point for opposition to canada's government. provincial authorities have hesitated to move against. the protest is citing the threat of violence and a lack of manpower. they now have federal back up that protest to say that's not enough to make them back down over the winter olympics, or where stunning scenes at the big air venue as the women snowboarding events concluded, were the anti gasser taking gold. the austrian pulled off a cab double cork,

1260 on her final run to move into 1st place. she's one back to back. olympic gold's in big air. new zealand says joyous. a dusky senate took a silver also epic games. one of the biggest stories has been eileen goose, who has claimed another metal for china. she missed out on golden skiing slope. style grew seemed to be out of metal contention entirely when she fell during her 2nd run. but an assured final attempt saw her claim silver. meanwhile, switzerland, matilda came home to gold with a spectacular run, including this backwards jump. stunning the fact that american werner eileen grew is competing for china is one of the biggest stories of the games. and we asked our correspondent invasion jonathan crane, how closely the local audience in china are following her events. while they are

following her very closely indeed that server metal performance has been on repeat on chinese television. it seems like she really is the face of these game, hugely popular here for there is a choice because i didn't do that. no forget, was born and grew up in california. she switched allegiance to china in 2019. so she really kind of straddling a geo political divide, you trying to keep 2 sites happy, and it's not easy for her in the u. s. she's accused of being a traitor. who's accused of setting out to china. 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 basically says, look, i'm here to inspire people. i mean, in,

i'm inspiring people to take out wouldn't to support say, you know, the press conference is often feel like just as much of a performance is the performance on the competition. jonathan crane therefore you in beijing. now let's go back to berlin organizers of this year's berlin. international film festival. have received some bad news. french scream legends, isabella bear, had been due to receive an honorary golden bear. but unfortunately, she's tested positive for coven 19. and now can't come and pick up her lifetime achievement award this evening in person. in a career spanning more than 5 decades, isabel repair has appeared in over $130.00 films of various genres. she's gained a reputation for playing, intelligent and audacious characters. often with a chilly reserve at the age of 19, she was already acting alongside european film stars, such as eve, montague, and uncle,

me schneider. she soon became the muse of art house director club shall point. government rule with her quiet, distanced acting style. she hints at the hidden depths of troubled characters in the piano teacher, she played a neurotic woman who engages in a sado masochistic relationship with one of her music students. her deep despair never rippling the surface of her tightly controlled self possession. the performance earned her golden palm award at the 2000 to come film festival. ready in the 2016 thriller l, she played a video game producer who was raped. her character refuses to be a victim, and seduces the rapist, pulling him into a game of guilt and revenge. that role earned her an oscar nomination and a golden globe award in 2017 cementing her international reputation. isabel repair has also been a frequent guest at the belly, nonna. she's appeared in 7 films and the competition all highlighting unexpected

facets of the actress. 6 in 2002, she displayed her comedic talents in the ensemble film 8 women for which the entire cast one a silver bare award that up now is quite difficult with black people. wow. in 2018, she showed her vulnerable side and the playing of philosophy professor, whose husband leaves her for a younger woman over the heaviest repair, avoided the cliches of the jilted wife, whose life has turned upside down, showing new perspectives. oh, blue. and this year's belly knowledge is the world premier of her new film about joan in this tale of love, life and memory is a penitent, past stars alongside german act allows idaho, and gives yet another extraordinary performance. and we can take you now to

nico ferla, who is at the berlin ala, near the red carpet nicole, the guests of honor a big no show how big is the disappointment? it is huge irene, her receiving the honorary bare for her lifetime. achievement really was one of the big highlights of this barely nala. well, she is feeling well, so she will be and the ceremony to night, the gala is going ahead. she will be there via video link. this is unfortunate, but it's not a huge shocker. the organizers knew what they were signing up for when they decided to go ahead with a festival in the middle of, of hen demik. and at that risk, that risk of people dropping out really seems to be the only one they are willing to take. the coven protocol here is extremely strict. everybody heading into the cinemas has to be double vaccinated, has to be tested on the day. there was

a strict mask mandate indoors and of checkpoints here and there. and that leads to quite a bit of a logistical challenges every now and then you can see people running around not really finding the exit or the entrance not knowing where to go. getting stuck between the checkpoint. and i've talked to a couple of people who've actually missed their films because their own test results didn't get there on time. but everybody is a good sport about it, because these are the times we live in and it's better to be safe than, sorry, let's talk movies. nicole, what caught your eye? well, did ain't letesi mom came here. cried lassie mon excuse me, came here to present her 2nd feature al got at us and it was an overall extremely beautiful movie. it tells the story of a family of peach farmers in catalonia and how they struggle with the changing of the times and how the generations go about it differently. the ensemble was easily the best i've seen at this festival, and that might be due to her approach. she only cas amateur actors for this film. people who are actually from the region she to pick them who have lived on farms

and worked in the fields their entire lives over them. this is much more than justice. we'd gig this is them taking their plight for better working conditions and better pay to an international state. all right, nicole frederick reporting of from a, the berlin olive. thank you so very much and thank you for watching. i will see that the company, our again,

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