[000:00:00;00] news, ah, this is news line from berlin, a russian trooper drive down, or are we deployment around ukraine? moscow releases footage, which it says shows its troops leaving crimea. but nato's chief says the alliance has seen no evidence of a withdrawal, and is accusing russia, increasing its military presence around ukraine. also coming up german drug maker biotech unveils

a mobile factory for m r n a vaccines. it's aimed at producing huge disparities in access to vaccines in africa, plus, well look at a frenchman lighting up the slopes on route to a gold metal in beijing and also take a look at how a swedish sister act stole the show in the by applied ah, am i lack. thank you very much for your company. a day after russian president vladimir putin said some russian troops were being sent back to their basis from positions near the ukraine border. the u. s. and nato say moscow is actually moving critical military units closer to the area. the european union is urging moscow to

take real steps to de escalate tensions and to follow words with deeds. meanwhile, nato ministers are meeting in brussels to reaffirm their commitment to elias members in eastern europe. while questioning russia stated willingness to negotiate a solution to the crisis. here's nato chief un stolberg. we have a heard the songs from moscow about her readiness to continue diplomatic efforts. but so far we have not seen any the escalation on the ground. on the contrary, the percept, russia continues, the military buildup the nato secretary general. they're speaking moments ago and we can take you to nato headquarters, our bureau chief, alexander van norman, is that following developments? they're very closely for you. alex is natal being tested by russia, and how is nato managing? yes, layla. the answer is yes sir. russian president vladimir,

put in his definitely tight testing the alliance. and it's unity sending mixed signals from moscow and trying case to, to form, to see some cracks in this unity. because he of course knows how difficult it is for the 30 members of nato to have a common position and to stay firm on that position. they all have different interests. some of them have very close economic relations with russia. some of them used to be former soviet republics, and of course, they are afraid they have a border with russia, so they have a different concerns he but so far we have to say that nato has remained to united in its dual track approach towards russia. so they say they are, of course, continuing their diplomatic efforts. they want to have a meaningful dialogue with russia, but they also are ready to father provide deterrents and defense in eastern europe

. many nato allies have started ascending additional troops to eastern europe, and that is something that there are going to speak about this year. again, nato secretary general stoughton back has made clear that russia's actions will have long term consequences, meaning they will be an enhance need to present in eastern europe, defense ministers today we'll talk about an additional battle group to be place in romania, one that would resemble the 4 battle groups already in place in the baltic states and poland. alexandra, president, putin, is demanding that ukraine not be allowed, never be allowed to join nato. is there any scenario being contemplated right now where you are, where the alliance would be willing to give those assurances and if not,

what can they offer instead? so barring ukraine from nato is off the table. definitely, there has been some confusion or a confusion or some irritation if you will, after the german chancellor left shoulds, a sat after his visit to moscow that you know, your queen is not likely to become a natal member anytime soon. but nato secretary general, he has thrust once again at that nato is not giving up its core principles, the right of every independent country to choose whether it would like to become a member of nato or not. and nato is ready to talk to russia about other things. and things are confidence building measures that could lead to more transparency when it comes to military drills, for example, or troops movements the w, brussels for chief alexander phenomena reporting from nato headquarters in brussels

. i wanna thank you or before the announcement of her draws outside estimate, put the number of russian troops close to ukraine's borders at 130000. that's including $30000.00 involved and exercises in neighboring bella roost. the build up has happened in stages, but it has given russia the opportunity to flex its muscles and shown the scale of the potential threat to ukraine. russian fight jets patrol the skies above bella. ruth, on the ground, russian marines practice combat drills with a bellow ruffian army. just some of the 30000 or so russian troops taking part in the launches military exercise held between the 2 neighbors. since the collapse of the soviet union in russia is no than lending grant region. more footage,

released by the russian ministry of defense. this time one of its tank units involved in another military exercise. and in the south, russian wolf ships openly train in the black sea. the country's military build up her ranch. ukraine has been no secret. even if getting accurate numbers has been hard. satellite images released this week have shed more light. these jets were photographed on sunday at an air base in crimea. an area annexed by russia in 2014 and images of military helicopters were taken near the russian city of sa lottie. not far from the ukrainian border. on tuesday, moscow announced it was withdrawing some of its forces. hours later, the ministry of defense released these images would ship maintain show troops

leaving crimea. meanwhile, ukraine's military is a fraction of rushes. it's active duty troops and just a quarter of its foes. we even if civilians are being trained up to help bridge the gap some members of nato have been providing ukraine with military aid. but it's hard to compete with a nuclear power. even if it says it doesn't want war. meanwhile, ukraine is celebrating a day of unity called by president of a lot of maria zalinski to mark the occasion. people care at the national flag at the olympic stadium in the capital key. ukrainians were also encouraged to raise the ukrainian flag from buildings and to sing the national anthem. some

u. s. officials had previously warned that today might see the start of a russian invasion and to boost morale. mister zalinski had this message for ukrainians. hello, we are all united by our wish to live, to live in peace, to live a happy life with our families, parents and kids. we have the full right to all of this, because we had home here in ukraine. nobody will love our home as much as we do, and nobody can defend our home as we can. i wish you a happy unity day. my blue yellow ones, happy day of unity of ukraine in the east and west in the south and north. it works only together and when it works, we are strong. i was retreat to see the ukrainian at present. there dw correspondent nicolai is in the north east and ukrainian city of harkey near the

russian border. and nick of the russian defense ministry says that some military drills have ended and troops are, were drawing. has there been any independent verification of this? what are you hearing? well, that's the $1000000.00 question right. there are no international observers allowed at these russian exercises, in theory, they should be there, but russia says that they are lots of small exercises rather than one big exercise which would fall under the rules that would require international observers. so this is basically guesswork, i guess it, us intelligence will be following this closely. and it's as in the last few weeks where the world's journalist had been trying to interpret satellite imagery of russian tents and russian logistics to pose and try work out if that means more or less people on the ground. but certainly ukrainian, the ship is not convinced and says that they will only believe this once they see hard facts. and i'm not going to go by these announcements or you and be moved to

be more relaxed and to stop their preparations. i think this is definitely too early and there's a sense here that this was announcement that was made for all of shorts, visit to moscow yesterday as a kind of sign of goodwill. but with his re translates into facts on the ground is really open. so is, is it still a very much it attends time for people in ukraine? are people still bracing for a possible invasion? it's kind of an extra situation that when you talk to me when you ask them 1st off, if they feel worried, people will basically say, no, we've been living with this fate years since russia annex crimea, and stoked that conflict in the east am. but when you ask them a bit more about what they're doing in their lives, how they're preparing. many will tell you that they have bags prepared and ready to go. should they need to leave in a hurry? many will tell you that they were particularly shocked by reports of some of ukraine's richest people and some of its most influential pro russian lawmakers leaving the country on private plains in recent days. a sign of for many here that

those people knew more and we're taking the consequences out of that knowledge. so there is definitely an anees, a weird enough. the closer you get to the russian border here, khaki, which is 40 kilometers away from the russian border. though a less people seemed willing to engage with that reality, i guess it's normal human psychology. the more helpless you feel, the more vulnerable you feel, the less likely you want to think about things. so definitely a slightly different feel here and can give, but certainly overall a feeling that this is more serious and previous escalations. and that if the root countries wealthiest people have decided this is dangerous than maybe ordinary people should do to very tenure situation that you described. there are, today is ukraine's a day of unity. how are people marking it? well, this is a pretty extraordinary holiday. lots people we spoke to, hadn't even heard of it because it was only cold out, but was all only thought out by volumes. let's get to you 2 days ago. so this is a totally new holiday. people still having to go to work, but we did see flags on government building resource school children in the

national costume. we saw people seeing the national anthem, i think for some people, yes, it is signed that the companies re taking the initiative and showing that they're not scared, they're not going to panic. but it isn't something that is translated into the lives of most of the people we saw here. in fact, you did have your correspondence. nick holly reporting from harkey. few crane. thank you. a say now, but the other stories in the headlines this our the european union's highest court has ruled that brussels can cut funds for member states that disregard democratic standards. the case has major implications for poland and hungary. both countries are accused of undermining the rule of line, could now lose billions of euros and e, you recovery find amnesty international says to grind fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang rape. dozens of women and girls and ethiopians. i'm horror. region, previous investigations found evidence of abuses committed by all sides in the year

long civil conflict. a month after a massive oil spill in peru, authority say less than a quarter of a nearly $12000.00 barrels spilled into the pacific. has been cleaned up. beatrice near the capital, lima were main deserted, and the local fishing industry is at a standstill and brazil, flooding and mud slides have killed at least 38 people in the city of patropolis, north of rio de janeiro. nearly a months worth of rain fell on the city in just 3 hours. the disaster has left hundreds homeless and the death toll is expected to rise. desperately digging in the search for survivors through mud and debris, houses were dragged down this hill by a mudslide. people could be heard screaming for help trapped in their destroyed homes. the mud slide was set off by heavy rains that hit the city of federal police in

a mountainous area of rio de janeiro state. the firefighter department said more than $25.00 centimeters of rain fell in the region within 3 hours. that's almost as much as during the previous 30 days. the area had already seen hundreds of deaths after heavy rainfall in 2011. brazilian president jacob was sonata who was visiting his russian counterpart, vladimir putin and moscow, expressed his condolences and said he instructed his ministers to deliver immediate support to those affected at least a 180 soldiers are working in the area to help with the search and rescue efforts authority say that rescue and recovery operations are still ongoing. there are fears that the current death toll could rise further. german drug maker by on tech has unveiled a mobile vaccine production unit,

meant to bring vaccine manufacturing to africa this year. the facilities are actually made of shipping containers and by on tech says it will begin establishing a mobile center in were wanda or senegal. first by the middle of 2022. ganna is also likely to see a facility. the unveiling was attended by the hands of government of those 3 nations as well as the chief of the world health organization. well, biotech has been criticized for refusing to open its patterns to other manufacturers. but it said today it would not pursue legal action against breaches of those patterns are correspond, christine were, was in marburg, germany for the presentation of those new production units. and tells us more about bottex latest move. less than one percent of vaccines that are distributed in africa are actually produced on the continent. and that's just one illustration of the extent to which africa relies on other countries for the supply of medicines.

now this initiative by the german pharmaceutical biotech is effectively the export of many labs. these are shipping containers fitted with the technology and the equipment needed to manufacture vaccines locally. it's not the pasent waiver that many in the global south have been calling for, but it has been hailed as a significant step in terms of progress towards getting africa to be able to produce more medicines. locally on the continent, the presidents of ghana, of cynical are for wonder visited the biotech facility him the german city of marburg. and they said they were pleased with what they saw. these are the recipient countries, and that will be receiving some of these containers or these mini labs. so to say, just to give you an extent of what the situation is right now in the pandemic. we have heard a lot from people in africa about the hoarding of vaccines as we speak less than 10 percent of africans are fully vaccinated compared to countries or germany where i am to day,

where most adults have received at least 3 jobs of the vaccine. now this is not going to address immediately the vaccine inequity on the continent, but it's also throwing forward to other diseases that we have on the continent predict, potentially using the m r in a technology to treat those. i'm talking about diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. so groundbreaking, i will soon begin in, in, in, in, in these 3 african countries to which are due to receive these containers. and we will start seeing production happening within 12 months of that casino reporting german chancellor. all a short sir, and germany, 16 state leaders have agreed to a gradual step by step plan to lift most pandemic restrictions by spring. the meeting was spurred by falling corona, virus infections and arise and in the in vaccinations, rather with almost 3 quarters of the population. now, with at least 2 shots,

germany will follow a 3 step plan to gradually remove what shoulds calls a large part of the current restrictions by march 20th. he added that germans must keep wearing face last and take precautions because he said, quote, the pandemic is not over. and earlier we asked people on the streets of the capital berlin, what they think about easing restrictions. although we should wait another 4 to 6 weeks until just before easter, that's the right time. as long as everything happens, gradually, it's a good idea. but you have to be careful that things don't get out of control. i'm really looking forward to it. i think it's about time, it seems a bit too much right now, i think, and we'll have to show the corolla past every time you go into store. i've never done that before. so i think it should be nice. oh, i think you're about 2 weeks behind england to be honest with you and i think is possibly the best thing we can do because we all get back to normal. we all have to get some sama, not normality in our lives. and if we don't do it now,

we will never do it well at the prospect. a few rules, sir, is the music to the ears of corn, growers, and club owners. here in the german capital berlin's fame night, life has been hid, especially hard by pandemic restrictions. it feels like light at the end of the tunnel. for these 2, my club managers. we've covered mountain restrictions set to be lifted. the l g b t from b clubs. fruits could be reopening and just a few weeks as it's a schooling on the spring now and after 2 years, it's now time to open up again. you're not just because we and the employees. such woods are waiting to get started, but also because of, i guess it's unimaginable to good 2 years, not being able to go for a dance and berlin, hospitable. my clubs like this one didn't have it easy during the pandemic. for the most part, they had to stay closed. but club culture is a big part of buttons,

identity, and one of the main reasons, tourists come and visit berlin is slowly coming back to life. k v. 19 cases are decreasing, and visitors are returning to the city. they are free to visit museums, restaurants, bars and shops. albeit with restrictions, masks are mandatory and you have to be vaccinated or recovered to enter. now, clubs could be re opening at the beginning of march. the only worry it could come with restrictions to how many people are allowed to enter for shorts. that is a problem with an anti. and so we'll escalate with that up in a way in which it's only profitable if we're operating at full capacity with us. it's not viable fast to run up just 50 percent capacity of gifted but at least

there's now hope that these rooms could be coming back to life soon. let's bring you up to speed now with the stories. they're making headlines around the world. a u. s. gun manufacturer that made the rifle used in one of america's deadliest school shootings has reached a historic settlement with victims families. remington arms has agreed to pay $73000000.00 to relatives of those killed in the 2012 sandy hook massacre. the family of a filmmaker killed on sent last year are suing the actor, alec baldwin, lawyers claim baldwin ignored safety rules before firing the gun. that ended camera woman, alina hutchins. life during filming a western, a criminal investigation is underway. to night is awards nights at the berlin international film festival. despite from demick restrictions, the stars are back on the red carpet and audiences back in front of the silver

screen. so which film will scoop their bell and all is ta prize a golden bear. here's a look at some of the contenders. the standard performance of the festival came from german turkish actress milton cup tongue, as the title character in robbie: a corn us versus george w bush eat. unless i job you couldn't us the follies? georgia, the bush? no. just looking in please identify contrast via ish o in zones. it's the true story of a loving mother who fought for 5 years to get her son released from guantanamo prison. you miss him, he. he will show you, but i will describe it misty. this is a good look, i mean is the uh, because really captain's rabbit is a force of nature who doesn't lead anything. german bureaucracy, social norms or the u. s. government stand on the way of getting justice for her

son. justice is nowhere to be found in robe of gems. the debut film by mexican bolivian director natalia lopez, gay ardo, a moody impressionistic look at the violence and brutality of the mexican drug wars . the film divided critics. but many agree it was the most visually arresting film in berlin this year in both sides of the blade, french director clare denise managers, to be both stylish and intimate. her story of a woman caught between 2 men is deceptively simple. but the performances by juliet, be nash, as von so long dog are subtle and emotionally devastating. they come to the berlin festivals most moving love story is the chinese film returned to dust director li. really john's gentle tale follows a pair of outcasts and a forced marriage as the e count in existence in a series of small villages. they're constantly uprooted as farming communities are

torn down to make way for urban expansion. that's interesting. but politics are subtext here. the real story in return to dust is the growing love between mom and glee, ying, an affection that is never sentimental and all the more affecting for its restraint . at the beijing winter olympics claim on the well has won france there 1st, alpine skiing gold metal. the 24 year old was in 6th place after his 1st run, but returned with a bang and scorched the ice river course in a stunning 2nd run to win the men's slalom events and claim the gold medal. well having one gold medal winner in the family is nice, but there is one particular swedish family that has 2 older sister. hannah oh, burger went out 1st in the bios, lawn relay and built a lead to hand over to her younger sister. elvira little sister had to hold her

nerve, completing 3 lapse of the 2 kilometer long course. she didn't miss a shot standing up at the shooting range, but she made it home safely to complete a happy family picture read stuff. now before we go, a story that shows you, you should never underestimate a man in his fifties, the greatest sir for who has ever lived. kelly slater. here, who you see here, behind me, is competing in a world surf league event at the age of 50. he celebrated the milestone just days after winning at the famous pipeline event. that incredible feet means that this event at sunset beach is not just part of some sentimental. we're fireman tore. it means that slater, who 1st one the world title, back in 1992, goes into the new surf season. as the number one ranked surfer in the world, ready to show the youngsters. how is that great stuff here?

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