ah ah ah ah, business dw news ly, from berlin, frances was drawing its military mission from marley. the statement comes ahead of a rest summit of african union and european union leaders. the french withdrawal could have knock on effects for other foreign troop deployment. in molly and the why the saw him also on the program, russia publishes more images so forth. it says our tax return and from drills on the border with you credit. but us satellite images show more troops and equipment

being deployed to that. and at the whitby g winter olympics will join the canadian celebrations on the ice as national pride is restored and bring on the bare berlin international film festival awards. it's stock price for 2022 brilliant allie golden bear goes to the movie. i'll cara, spanish director color, siemens film about and struggling farming family in catalonia, takes the top ah, i'm glad off as well come to the program. france has announced that it will withdraw its troops from marley, ending a 9 year mission against islamist militants. relations between france and the

western african nation have deteriorated since the ruling military hunter, in bomber co postponed elections and announced it will stay in power for another 4 years. french president manuel michael justified the decision to pull out us. we cannot remain militarily involved alongside molly and authorities with who we don't share a strategy or you have a hidden agenda. that's the situation we're facing in. molly french, president of monro mccomb speaking then in a joint statement together with its european partners and canada. france said anti tara operations and molly would seize by june. the issue is likely to dominate a red summit between the african union and the european union that is, county underway and brussels. the obvious jack para has more the strained relations between france and molly. after a 2nd military coup in may 2021 which followed one in august 2020 state fuels like

this, conducted by the military discount is the underlying instability in molly until now, france has retained a military presence of over 4000 troops in this al region but as long wanted to reduce that numbers, and especially to move them out of the former french colony of molly, after the new cooley does expelled the french ambassador. since 2013, the european union has provided a contingent of 1100 troops, a separate mission known as the e. u. t. m. to train molly's armed forces. the european commission says the plan remains to keep the e you mission going. for now, the situation of the u. tim for the moment are there they are present in my li, our position is that we do want to stay engaged in the sale. we do want to stay engaged in money. having said that, no, not at any price from the european perspective, there is another military complication, the arrival of

a $1000.00 mercenary soldiers of the russia linked wagner battalion in molly and recent coups in bikini faso guinea and sudan rule providing a less stable backdrop with african leaders joining a rest summit with the you. the leaders of military coups won't be attending the a u. e. u summit here in brussels. and while security is a crucial issue on the table for the leaders. this is the 1st time they've got together altogether. in this format since 2017, they wanted to talk about vaccines and investment opportunities and they will, but the molly issue is likely to pull focus on the ground. the people of molly are also questioning european motives for the troops deployments. according to some experts, there is an understanding by the population, but also independent observers that this is not the objective is not security only, or that this idea does conceptualization of security is also married with conceptualization around migration management on top of the european missions.

there's also a un mission running concurrently in molly. the country hasn't really known peace or stable self governance in over a decade. and for more on that, we're not joined by de lena go. jo, she's a researcher and security expert on the saw how regents. she's joining us from the army in near as well as france, canada and some other countries are also withdrawing troops from marley. why and why? now there has been a break down in diplomatic relations which was due to the man in transition government potential relations with wagner. group, for example, there was a reaction on the part of the french foreign minister to this and also the noncompliance with echo last monday to timelines for elections post the 2nd queen mattie, as you rightfully mentioned. and finally, i believe the straw that broke the camel's back was the expulsion of french ambassador to malley. and the growing hostility from manney's, new governing military jumped out towards the danish contingent of taco bell. so

the fact that the danes were sent back to copenhagen and meant that there was a very strong reaction on the part of the french but also of other european countries. so should we now consider the french intervention in marley a 9 year mission, a failure for containing some of these armed insurgencies in the tribe border area with the nisha a quick enough i saw and money that can, we could say was not to failure. it's the stated objective of but can was to contain the level of violence and not to allow armed groups to gain as much territory or as much recruits as they were possibly seeking to obtain. but this doesn't mean that it was a success either. and the number of killed civilians, the number of killed armed forces, se, alien armed forces em, but also mean was map present forces m and the number of displace people remains huge. i believe this is a difficult question because we would need to, sienna,

tentative reality with but can potentially never having intervene or, you know, m been subsequent to, to several, you know, to tell whether it was better or worse to have, but can there. so where does this old all these withdrawals now leave the fight against jihad ism and maryan in the whole region? i believe there will be a vacuum of security in the short term, especially for at the gap and the vision that my he and the armed forces of these 3 countries in the tray border areas. there will be problems in the short term and, but this will also lead to potentially into a push for negotiations with some of these angles. no tele, notably the the aldehyde activated group in the tribe where they're area, and potentially in the recruitment base for these. and groups which have relied white a lot in terms of propaganda on the presence of french european forces. and this will perhaps some of their recruitment base once france and european canadian

policy. and i think there will be also much more reliance on our power and which presents a number of risks of a number of significant risks for civilians. given what we have seen with the us experience in places like a bonus house from our pakistan. and, but also mistakes made recently, quite recently french in many 3, i got job a security expert on the sale region. thank you very much. thank you. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines. this are heavy rains. flash floods and landslides have killed. at least a 100 people. in brazil, rescue teams are searching for survivors, but fear of death toll could rise. one of the worst defective areas is the city of metropolis in the hills above rio de janeiro. military leader sandra ogo, dummy bar, has been sworn in as booked in

a fossils president. the inauguration took place 3 weeks after he led to against the elected president. the member seized power, promising to secure the war torn country from the growing threat of g. hardy violence. hospitals in hong kong are struggling to cope with the cities. worse outbreak of coven 19 infections. chinese president agent being as ordered the territory to get the situation under control. and hong kong chief executive carry lamb has appealed to residents to stick to our governments. strict 0 cove, it measure rushes foreign minister say galeb ross says his country wants to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis over ukraine. he also said rushes joint military drills with neighboring bella roost would end as planned. on sunday, his commons come, as russia published more images, that it says show its withdrawing some of its forces from border areas. but the u. s. and nato say they've detected no signs of

a russian troop withdrawal. us president joe biden, and german chancellor, all of shots are urging russia to take quote, real steps to de escalate the situation more on this. let's bring in the w correspondence, commonly in the northern ukrainian city of hark. if near the russian border and make reports, we're hearing hear about mortar attacks in the eastern part of the ukraine near the border to russia. what, what do you know? well this is a place called 3 flo hunsicker, which is literally the, in the far, far east of ukraine on the border with rushes you say, but also very close to that separate to tell territory. we know that this shelling affected and the town and also a kindergarten there. and we understand we not have confirmed reports yet, that children are in the con kindergarten at the moment of the attack. we don't have reports of casualties amongst the students of that kindergarten, but we understand that 2 adults received some degree of wounds and with their

images, a people in bomb shelters. so a bit of an acre up spike in shooting and fighting. there. we have seen continuous fighting in that part of the world for the last 8 years since that separate is conflict began. but now we have weirdly had a kind of quite a time while we had this russian troop build up. long ukraine's borders now may be signed that that is returning to the for that, that fighting there is going to be more prominent. i'm going to see more in the way attention. they're definitely the credit government, very keen for the world to pay attention to this and see that you credit citizens are regularly facing the threat of, of, of death in that part of the world. this conflict hasn't gone away. there are conflicting signals really about russian troop withdrawals. the russians are, say they're pulling back some troops. nato says there's no evidence for that yet. so what are we to make of this? will that thing, there are no observers on the ground, the russians have basically claimed that these are lots of smaller exercises rather

than one big exercise, which if there were more than $13000.00 participants on the internal rules, the russians would have to allow international observers in as there aren't any, this is all based basically on either what the russians say they're doing or on western intelligence using satellite imagery, or to try and work up what is actually happening. the interesting thing is that some of these people, these russian troops leaving crimea actually based institute on ukraine's border. so they basically be moved back to their home based in locations where they could still potentially strike ukraine. so not much of a difference. the major takeaway is that the troops that have been brought in from siberia, from the russian forest, they are not going home for now. so no real sense here in ukraine that this is a major shift. and more really the v as the idea, at least from ukrainian decision makers. but this is just a bluff from russia. i kind of pretend the escalation without much in the way of any substance to it. so many, many experts as security experts and, and observers think that a full scale russian military intervention is now not likely to happen, at least not at this time. what other kinds of pressure is ukraine preparing for

already dealing with well, let's start with the cyber attack. so just in the recent days, have been major cyber attacks on government portal that you need to get a passport or get a better feel child as settled personal data. their banks have been down for hours at a time after cyber attacks. ukraine's main ports are essentially struggling with the situation. the international shipping lines don't want to go there anymore because the insurance say it's just too dangerous. so basically this could be a kind of economic and mental pressure that really puts you on such stress scares of investors makes ukraine is think about what they really want to build their lives here. and whether it's a place you can build a career, build a business, and i think people here preparing for this to be something longer term rush to try and exert an oppressor that eventually ukraine lose its nerve makes mistakes or gives ground without rush actually having to fire shots with its own army rather than through those proxies through those separate isn't on bus, which obviously allow russia that deniability, that it needs in its dealings with the west. me commonly thou correspond,

enrolled in ukrainian city, o'clockish, ukraine. so no russian invasion ask some heart predicted, but no hard evidence of a military climb down either. d w asked germany's defense minister christina lovelace for her assessment for many still an mosque minister. moscow says some troops are being moved from the ukrainian border. nature says so far that is only propaganda. so it be contrast easy now you who on the board, we're hearing things that make us feel hopeful, but we have to watch closely whether these words are followed by actions. most importantly, how sustainable these actions are, meaning which troops are actually being withdrawn into tough. are those relevant to preventing and the tag on that is what we will have to monitor closely. but we also cannot assume that something like this happens in a matter of hours, are still in good shape. there is real fear of war in europe and especially in

ukraine. people there are also afraid that the west might end up abandoning the country that the west will reach an agreement with russia. for example, on a declaration that your grain will not become a nature member in the coming 50 years. would something like that even be conceivable. and the sky quarterly, there are some red lines that we cannot cross even when we are negotiating. this includes ukraine, sovereignty, and international law, and the right to choose which alliance to join. apart from that, one must consider that an admission to an alliance like nato also has its prerequisites. and at the moment, these conditions would not be met by ukraine, who's the policy, it's only on by that. okay, so it would be a longer process. the, but the decision on that matter must remain with ukraine. i don't talk about the most fido coin applied delagarza. my situation remains dangerous, not. that's why nature says, we must strengthen our military presence in eastern europe. could germany consider deploying more troops? they're talking about him, hopefully young. it's got

a guy we have just now strengthened the eastern flank by reinforcing our troops in lithuania with 367 soldiers and corresponding equipment such as vehicles. and artillery bows was that is an important signal. i to levy, this isn't guns. we stick a saw yet now increased our numbers to 1000 soldiers in lithuania. in addition to that, we are support air policing. we also support them with euro fighters. ok, did all fight on on, on his good from do you also support ne, to has plans to deploy new combat forces in south eastern europeans. it's awesome oil passed as it is. and currently we're sending a signal of deterrence. we're prepared as nato, as an alliance to clearly stand by our alliance partners with regards to what it looks like, moving forward, building up the eastern flank in the long term. i think we have to carry out a very precise analysis. we cannot make an adopt decision now time that one to schedule a german government has faced quite a bit of criticism, for example, over the decision to supply. when you steal helmets and no weapons to ukraine,

did that damage germany's reputation shopping my my current, my ukranian colleague, and received great praise for a sustained support for ukraine with us since 2014, we have help stabilize the country to the tune of around 1800000000 euros. that is very much noted hobbies yet to slip several rock among fear. now, thank you. my pleasure. i'll have some more stories making headlines around the world. in brief, germany will lift most of its cobit 19 restrictions next month. chance lola showed sentence 16 state leaders have agreed. a plan to move remove measures gradually. grown of ours infections and germany are falling on. there's been an increase in the uptake of oxidation, almost 3 quarters of population. the has now had at least 2 shots bank issues. gale force winds are sweeping across large parts of germany. bringing wind speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour. in some regions, storm elaina down trees, kohl's,

power outages and lead to the cancellation of flights and friends. so it is one of the dangerous conditions could last for a few days to the beijing winter olympics. now a national pride has been restored for canada with a women's hockey team, beating team usa to claim the gold medal once again. or if marie philip pull out, scored twice and assisted on another gold 30 year old team, captain proved to be one of canada's best players on the us. senator has dominated this event since it was 1st introduced in 1998 wedding, a medal on every occasion with a total of 5 goals too. so well women have had a hand in winning 15 of $21.00 metals for the united states so far either in women's or mixed events. surprisingly none are the possession of to time. olympic gold medalist mikayla schiffer a very last opportunity to win a metal came in the alpine combined event. but the 26 year old rushed out now

cleared away for switzerland's. michelle. he's on to win gold after this near flawless ra hatred. wendy, hold on one silver and italy's feathery cobrin una picked up the bronze the festival jury has been hiding all the top prizes at the berlin international film festival. the golden bear went to spanish director carla simone. her film i'll cut us, tells the story of a family of peach farmers fighting for their future in spain, because foolish has more from the bad in other berlin is a lucky place for car lassie mine. in 2017, she won the barely, not his best 1st feature award. 5 years later, she triumphantly returns with her follow up, feel medicated as claiming the golden there for best picture. i think i consider myself like a little this, please of really nellie,

this is truly our if the am hong i think maybe i should just move here because every time we come something a raising happened, her movie is about her real home. the town got us in catalonia, it tells the story of a family of peach farmers threatened to be kicked off the land they have been cultivating for generations. milton captain menton captain to comb the prize for best leading performance in robbie. corn us versus george w bush. she portrays a german turkish mother fighting to get her innocent. son freed from guantanamo. i would dedicate this award to her robbie corners and all the mothers whose love is stronger than border. thank you so much. love is also at the center of clear denise movie, both sides of the blade, which are in heard the silverware for best directing. oh, happy south korean production. the novelists film was awarded the grand jury prize

and natalia lopez, golardo stunning debut robe of gems, was honored with the jury price in a separate gutter on tuesday. french actor is a very fair, remotely received the honorary bear for lifetime achievement, brilliant time passes, time goes by, but is a bit peer. you will always be contemporary. thank you. fat had to cancel her appearance in berlin due to a covey infection. the only major disruption to a festival defying the odds in unusual times. the 72nd burly nala was a celebration of women in film to out of 5 movies screened or directed by women. but many more told stories about female empowerment, emancipation, and sisterhood. william shaheen ended pamela. oh, in

a memorable press conference british, after emma thompson called out the media industry for promoting self hatred through the unrealistic portrayal of the female body. suddenly women have been brain most all our lives to hate our bodies you twice. funny in front of a marathon. don't move. don't go, don't just don't move. just effective 5th effect it and don't judge it is the hardest thing i've ever had to do. it was one of the rare rounding moment santa bailey. now that generally spoke in softer tones, making the message of movies like i'll get us all the more powerful. so let's bring in david, let us run d, w culture, who's been to the festival? seen a couple of them. i saw the boat before a chorus as a good choice. i think it is absolutely the right choice. and this is what, pretty much all of the film critics i've talked to agree on. this was the strongest movie at this year's festival competition and it comes down to cadillac him on the

directors. real sensitivity handling, very difficult subject matter. of course it is a story that's very close to her. it takes place in her home town. her own uncles were peach. farmers like the family in the movie and she cast non actors in the roles. and that is the story is of this family's love for the land, but it's also the last summer, the last harvest, before they're going to be evicted from their heart, from their farm to a really difficult subject matter which she handles with absolute sensitivity. something we've come to see from her as a director, also in her last film, which one big at the battling at berlin ali a few years ago, which was called summer 993 about a child who was orphaned by aids. so this is a director who really can take on the hard topics and really do it in a very humane way. she's a director that we should keep our eyes on and absolutely will especially now that she's one of the golden bear so that they would have been reporting on this

festival for years. what was different this year? i think the biggest difference for me was that even a few days before the festival, i really didn't think it was going to happen. i mean, just the days in the weeks that led up to it, about half the people i knew in berlin had cove. it including me, it really didn't seem like it was going to happen. so i think, you know, normally at the festival it's the big stars who are the, the highlight are in the center in the spotlight this year. it was the logistics, i mean we had to prove that we were unaided and tested daily and where an f of p 2 or, and 95 masked and keep our distance in the theatre. that was it half capacity even on the red carpet, as a journalist, you couldn't get within a meter or 2 of the stars you were interviewing. so, you know, it's not that often that we as culture journalists come away and say, well, i've been part of this great try logistical triumph. but in a sense that, that was the highlight of the festival. maybe even more than the festival itself. we've been hearing, i mean, you've been telling us about the,

the effect dependent on the festival. but there was all the depend on the goals will had an effect on production of the. so it did, and you could, you could tell that a lot of the movies were made during locked downs, not just because some of the people were wearing masks, but also just the dimensions the production values. take good luck to you. leo grand day with emma thompson. this is a movie that basically play it out in one hotel room. she's a retired teacher who hires a male sex worker to me to kind of broaden her horizons if you will take place in a hotel room. same thing for both sides of the blade with juliet b. it takes place in an apartment. and that was because the director cloud disney who was supposed to do a bigger film with a bigger budget simply could not. and this is what she actually could do during lockdown in france, just very briefly, your favorite, my favorite film, and where they cited rimini the story of a washed up washed up singer who hustles and tries to keep his life together. but

it was not as strong as the winner. so kudos to the winning director, carla simone, thanks for the tip. another one to watch whether everybody who still wants to go it was saying dw news is a reminder off the top stories we are following for you today. france will withdraw its troops from molly by june, ending a 9 year mission against is the mist militants. the pull all the paper, the way for other countries to wind down that policy. participation in training and peacekeeping missions than to you actually did have a news coming up next on d, w, news, asia, the killer of the pakistani social media star walks free. can women put that trust in the rule of law, pakistan, and heritage at risk in asia. we look at the race to save the magnificent mansions of india's past, before they turn to dust off the artist to lovingly preserves thailand's

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