ah, ah ah, this is every news live from berlin, nato's new actions to deter russia from invading ukraine. secretary general young fulton berg says the alliance is moving more troops into eastern europe and claims that satellite images prove russia hasn't pulled his forces back from ukraine's border. also coming up, we're turning to normal. germany's federal and state leaders agree on a plan to lift most cove at 19 restrictions by march 20th, andrew and doug maker biotech and bills a low well factory for m r and

a vaccines. it's aimed at reducing huge disparities and access to vaccines in africa. ah, well, all right, thank you so much for joining us. rochelle is not, we're drawing troops from ukraine's border according to the head of nato, who and he has the satellite images to prove russia is actually moving critical military units closer to the area. yes, sort, bird moments ago said the nato alliance is now looking to potentially strengthen its eastern flank warning that the russian threat has become the new normal in europe. suttonberg spoke to reporters after a meeting of later defense ministers affirmed their commitment to members in eastern europe on this was about 24 hours after russian president vladimir putin

said some of his troops were returning from the ukrainian border area to their basis. all are welcome all diplomatic efforts on there are signs from moscow. dr. diplomacy should continue, but so far we do not see any sign of the escalation on the ground. norwood rolls over troops or equipment. this may of course change. however, what we see today is that russia maintain some massive invasion force ready to attack, want to take an hour to nato h q, where i'm joined by our dw correspondence at terry schultz. terry nato. secretary general in stockton burg, alluding to russian pressure, not going away. what does this mean for the alliance? well, lately you heard the secretary general refer to what he called

a new normal. and he has explained this before as well. that due to russian actions due to this enormous build up and the feeling of insecurity that it has, it has created throughout the alliance that this may be a long term situation. that even if the current crisis could be deflated just a bit, that the tension will not go away. and that's why the secretary general explained that nato would be moving more forces into eastern europe along the eastern flank. we expect to see in the coming weeks a new nato battalion going to romania, led by the french, and possibly deployments of that sort and other eastern european allies as well. and this is also a message to moscow, of course, that if you wanted a kremlin for nato to go further away from earth borders, all of these actions that you've taken have achieved just the opposite. this is your new normal as well. russia, he wants to say nato being tested by russia at the moment. how are they holding up?

the alliance feels that it has been very united and again, the kremlin has tried to do to work out cracks between allies. it tries to talk to some of the eastern european allies, for example, and get support and, you know, you'll hear public statements. he, ah ah, ah, constantly been especially elfin who i at the and the mac and all moody comes to us . and i was going to audit one money for none of that good one though, lowered with the leash by elfin, the name camella today, the only so nashbow how i'm in la and man like one of the nunen o let the corn are on the same page when it comes to having to stand strong against the kremlin aggression, because you never know who's going to be next. my final question to you or before you go of putin, of course, a demanding since a long time. but ukraine not be allowed to join nato. is there any scenario being

contemplated right now where the alliance would be willing to give those assurances and if not, what can they offer instead? absolutely not as it is a firm red line because that's not just about ukraine, which is not on the front line of becoming a nato ally any time soon. but that would be about any other country that wanted to join nato in mito was founded on the principle of an open door policy that any country that qualified and wanted to join would be allowed to join. so this is something that is not even being considered in the least and as for what could be offered instead, nato doesn't feel like it should have to offer anything to russia to, to make it back down from this build up this unilateral build up along the border with ukraine, so they don't look at it like that nato has offered and is willing to sit down with the kremlin and talk about other issues of bilateral concern. arms control, more transparency and exercises possibly moving where you exercise. i certainly nuclear arms control. these are the kinds of things that they are willing to talk about, that those are not being offered as concessions to reward moscow for what it's

doing on the border with ukraine. very short reporting from brussels and nato headquarters. terry, thank you very much for your continued coverage. german chancellor, olaf sholtes andrew. many, 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 rise and vaccinations with almost 3 quarters of the population . now with at least 2 shots, germany will follow a 3 step plan to gradually remove what the chancellor calls a large part of the current restrictions by march 20th, he out of the germans must keep wearing face mass and take for cautions because and demick is not over get you more on this so our correspondents are political correspond, teresa chopper is following these latest developments to reset what has been

decided. well, let us, as we heard, they decided to gradually roll back all or most of the grown up virus crypts that are still in place as a 1st step. for example, people who have not been vaccinated will be able to go shopping again to stores. that's all other stuff, not just food. if they have a negative test result. and on the other hand, vaccinated people will be able to finally meet as many people as they like. again in private. then as a next step and negative test result will get everybody into a restaurant and claps will be able to open again for people who have been vaccinated. and that's something especially here in berlin. many people have been looking forward to. and then at the beginning of spring, so at the end of march, most of the corona, virus restrictions will be lifted, but not all of them. of course, mask, for example, will stay mandatory in many places, for example, in public transport. and all of shawls has warned germans to remain cautious and

for those that has not been vaccinated. to do so, because as he said, the pandemic is not over yet. germany has been a lot slower than many of its northern european neighbors in easing court of virus measures. why? yeah, germany has been from the start of the pandemic. pretty cautious when hiding the wire virus. and that's not only true for the german government, but also and most german citizens. and that's why it will have shawls. the chancellor now said, germany has weathered the previous waves, but also the army run wave better than many other countries. for example, here, infection rates rows later than in other countries and then not as much, not as fast. and so german hospitals were always able to cope and were not overstretched and this only cron waive. but now that burrows just see that in the last couple of days, the waves seem to peak case numbers are slowly dipping. now they expect the

situation to improve a lot in the coming weeks. and that's why what shows the german chancellor and the state leaders have now decided to roll back the corona virus restrictions or as an offshore himself put it that after 2 years that have been hard for everybody in germany. we finally deserve things to get better know political correspondent to today that hopper in berlin. thank you. german drug maker biotech 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 biotech says it will begin establishing a mobile center in rwanda or senegal. first, by the middle of 2022. gonna also likely to see facility the unveiling was attended by the heads of government of those 3 nations, as well as the chief of the world health organization or violence. hacker 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 said, patents are correspond, christine, lunar, was in the mar berg, germany for the presentation, for the new production units, and tells us now more about bio tx latest move. less than one percent of vaccines that are distributed in africa are actually produced on the continents. 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 exports 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 offer one to have visited the biotech facility him, the german city of marburg. and they said they were pleased with what they sold, 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 like germany where i am today we, most adults have received at least jobs off 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 because i'm talking about diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. so groundbreaking, i will soon begin. and these 3 african countries which are due to receive these containers and we will start seeing production happening within 12 months of that kristen, we're in route reporting there for you next,

brazil flooding and mudslides of killed at least $38.00 people in the city of petro balls north of rio de janeiro nearly a months worth of rain fell on the city and 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 patropolis 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 james bull scenario who was visiting his russian counterparts bloody me. putting in moscow, expressed his condolences and said he instructed his ministers to deliver immediate support to those affected mobiles. at least 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 at the beijing winter olympics, claim all no well has won. france there 1st, alpine skiing gold metal. the 24 year old was a 6 place after his 1st run, but returned with a bang and scorched the ice river course in a stunning 2nd run to win the mess slalom events and claim the gold medal. well having one gold medal winner in the family must be nice,

but there is one particular swedish family that has 2 older sister. hannah oberg went out 1st in the bio blond relay and built a lead to hand over to her younger sister. elvira little sister, that's older nerve completing 3 lapse of the 2 kilometer long course. she did miss a shot standing up at the shooting range, but she made it home safely. to complete the happy family picture. in olympic hockey, the united states was eliminated in a dramatic fashion in the quarter finals by slovakia would just 43 seconds remaining in regulations for vakio sport, a tie in goal to bring the game into overtime. the game was ultimately decided in a shoot out with about his goalkeeper saving all 5 shots. so bucket will face when, who knocked out canada. in the semi finals you're watching

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