w ah ah, this is the w news line for the u. s. search is russia to declare that it will not invade ukraine as diplomats trade demands the united nations, ukrainian government forces and russia back separatists accuse each other of shelling in the countries east. also on the program storms hit, parts of europe, several people that killed gale force winds bring air rail and very services to a halt. more wild weather is on the way and tribute to

a hero of $948.00, berlin, former usa post pilot galle halverson died. he was famous for drop in sweets to children. play. you look back at the candy bomb. it became an icon post with ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. bring those stories in just a moment. we'll start with some breaking news. a fire has a broken act on italian flag ferry, traveling between greece and italy, $237.00 passengers and $51.00 crew, i believe, to be on board the euro ferry olympia, when the fiery parson reported the started near the greek line. that of course, is no report yet of death so injurious the greek coast guard is carrying out a rescue operation. now let's join ga, ga,

called. this is a business editor, kathy kathy maurine english newspaper in athens. a welcome to t w. what will, can you tell us at this early stage? good morning, it looks like the search and rescue operation has been successfully completed. and one person is being transported to the portal or full in order to get treatment at the local hospital. but this is as far as we have got so far. right. so, well that's a, that's good news. i suppose that there are a few casualties. and what is being said about the cause of this fire? well, it looks like there have been some explosions heard on board, but we have not heard of any definitive causes for this accident. it looks like there was a fire that broke out on the 3rd level of the ferry,

apparently. and there wasn't enough time for the crew and the passengers and to get on the life rats and save themselves. i'm just give us some background on the ferry itself is it's a holiday. ferry is a people would use to go to work more or less. it's a link between greece and it's, it's not a holiday very it's, it's a regular cost and she'd been very performs the line between implementing northwest and greece and bring d c in italy. so it's a holiday season has not started yet. this is a regular cost of shipping operation, right. and these families, i normally have quite a good safety record. do they? oh, absolutely. this is a one off really. it's a, this has been

a very safe and sound really very, which are in the past. this type of furnace has not had any problems with my, from some a very unusual accident on board. the 3 get the so fire with thank you so much for joining us and bringing us that what you know of what's happened that ga, ga, couple us from the catherine mary cathy maurine english newspaper in athens. thank you. of the united states is urged russia to declare that it has no intention of invading ukraine. speaking of the united nations security council, you are a secretary of state and to be blank and repeated warnings that russia was points to launch an attack. russia insist that it is withdrawing troops and accuse ukraine of failing to implement a previous piece deal. meanwhile, there are reports of fighting and ukraine's east with the government and pro russian separatist, accusing each other of carrying out shutting attacks in this government held

village in eastern ukraine, a kindergarten hit by a shell, ukrainian and western leaders believe it was truck by pro russian forces no children were injured, but the kindergarten teacher said it was a close call. no later than, i mean didn't want to do business after children were having breakfast at the time . and we're planning to have lessons in that room at 9 am. according to the schedule, luckily, the children were not heard. only the employees were shell shocked. western observers believe the shelling may have been a false flag operation by russia prompt a counter attack. but separate just accused ukrainian government forces of opening fire as well. you as president joe biden believes the russian invasion will take place any day. now a drought move walker. number one, number 2, every the believe that they are gave

a fall flag operation. every indication we have with a back at a un security council meeting you as a secretary of state antony blinking, want russia was already manufacturing a provocation to justify an attack you, when you suddenly with this could be a violet event that russia will blame on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. moscow has already accused ukraine of committing genocide in the eastern don best region, and labeled the false claims as hysteria authorities over. nobody seeks any excuses for hostile elections. we sit, we do not have an intention to do this for days. russia said its troops or withdrawing from areas near the border with ukraine, but the west balise moscow has a mass, some 150000 soldiers around its neighbor. the conflict is far from over.

well, let's go to east and ukraine then, and we can join d. w, corresponded to mathias billing a and the town of a comma tosca near the front line in the conflict between government forces and russia back separatist. welcome, mateus. what's going on that, what is the situation for the last few days or especially the last 2 nights the there was intense shelly more intense than a long time ago. a d o se has not yet established exactly where which is shelling is coming from. but the ukrainian side, the claims that this is coming from these separate is territories. and her commander in chief of this part of the use of ukraine has said that if he, if he thinks that this is an attempt to provoke ukraine into firing back and thus

creating a pretext for an escalation. um, the, the, there has been a lot of talk about falls, flags, operations, et cetera, cetera. however, and they have, has also been a lot of information misinformation spreading around. however, this kinda garden is not a false flag operation of false flag operation that the way that western leaders expected that would create a victims on the other side, on the dunbar side, and create a pretext for escalation. these victims were on the or the, there were, there were victims, there were injuries, but nobody died in this kindergarten. this was on the ukrainian quite a list of the well sort of focuses on the, the russian trip build up at the border. which is being reminded that the fighting of air where you are in east in ukraine never stopped. so, presumably,

this is an upsurge, and given that upsurge of people they're afraid of a wider russian invasion people in eastern ukraine are of course, afraid of an escalation. a wider invasion would be something that the people in the rest of ukraine are more concerned with her and, and the people here are more concerned with an escalation of already existing or conflict. but this, these, these concerns are there. however, the ukrainian side is still maintaining that it is not see signs of an immediate or imminent escalation the head of the security council. the for any security council has just said that again. okay, thank you for that. the w correspondent, matessa, pulling in eastern ukraine. well, the crisis in ukraine is expected to dominate the munich security conference, which begins today us vice president cobbler harris was one of the 1st phone

representatives to arrive here in germany for the annual 3 day discussion forum which was launched the height of the cold war for the 1st time since $991.00, russia will not be there. full coverage of the unit security conference here on the d. w from this afternoon. now we'll take a look at some of the other stories of making headlines around the world. leaders from a european, from the european unit and the african union continued talked to reset the relationship between 2 continents. african leaders highlighted the unequal global response to covey. 91 vaccinate vaccine. payton's to be waived as a policy which many nations opposed talks also cover investment and security issues . the u. s. judges rule that former president, donald trump, must testify in a new york court. a 3 year investigation into the trump organization has uncovered significant evidence of possible fraud. is 2 eldest children,

vanka and donald junior. also, testified will make his in ecuador have voted to allow abortions in cases of rape. women will be able to terminate a pregnancy resulting from right up to the 12 week old girls and 18 years old and rural or indigenous women will have to wait until the 18th week pro choice an anti abortion activist demonstrated outside the court. the vote took place a series of severe storms as lashed pots of central europe. these 4 people have been killed as gale force winds brought down trees and power lines across germany and neighboring countries. while the united kingdom has issued a weather warning, us another storm barrels in across the atlantic. a commute of ferry on the elbow river close to hamburg. people here i used to stormy weather, but not to this luckily,

no one was seriously hurt. shipping for larger vessels has been suspended in many coastal areas in northern germany, west storm, elana hit particularly hard rail traffic is also affected. many long distance trains in particular have been cancelled causing major problems for those traveling from hamburg, go berlin to munich. and for this, these cancellations are precautionary measures because the safety of our passengers and employees is our top priority. we don't want trans being stuck on the open tracking these weather conditions. i asked because making sure 30400 or 500 passengers on a train are safe. it's difficult, especially when the train is also cut off from the power supply from that move along. falling trees pay the highest risk the motorists. several people were killed when their cars were hit in germany and neighboring countries like poland in the

czech republic. emergency services are advising people to stay home if they can, because the next storm is hot on the heels of valencia and zane up as it's been called, could be even more destructive. a u. s. air force pilot galle halverson, who became famous for his role in the berlin airlift has died at the age of 1013 years after he and fellow serviceman dropped bombs on the german capital. allison was part of efforts to keep berlin from starvation during the soviet blockade of the city, and became known as the candy bummer. he was a beloved figure in post war berlin, and kept coming back for special events. gil halverson won berliners hearts for giving them candy when they didn't have much of anything at all. halverson was a u. s. air force pilot during the berlin airlift from 1948 to 1949. when the soviets blockaded west berlin, the u. s. air lifted vital supplies to

a city that it had been at war with only 3 years before there did quite for the halverson himself. later said he had mixed feelings about the mission. bershard dropped, but his attitude changed and he even started giving his own candy rations to children. eventually dropping the sweets by parachute from the air. good picture of it. and no one was startled. yeah. when they didn't bag i gave me a little garment. i had to stick with them when they got so excited, i promise to draw enough for everybody. and so i started dropping chocolate. american confectioners send me all a county we could draw. and the berlin airlift helped to change germans attitudes toward the united states. there war time enemy elverson became a lifelong ambassador for german american friendship. his name will live on in a berlin park dedicated in his honor and set you up to date. i'll have more world

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