linda starts february 25th on d w. ah, ah, this is d, w. news life from berlin, a government, and pro russia separatists accused each other of firing shelves in ukraine's east. as the united states accuses russia are preparing a pretext to invade this despite moscow's claims, to be withdrawing troops. also on the program fear storms hit, parts of europe for several people are killed. is gale force winds, spring, air rail, and very services to

a standstill. add more wild weather is on the way african leaders as a european union to suspend to patterns on covered 19 vaccines. leaders at the summit in brussels, insist they're already doing enough to help africa fight the pandemic. ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. the united states is urged russia to declare that it has no intention of invading ukraine. speaking at the un security council, u. s. secretary of state and to me, blank and repeated warnings that russia is poised to launch an attack. russia insisted that it is withdrawing troops and accused ukraine of failing to implement a previous piece deal. meanwhile, their reports of fighting in ukraine's east with the pro, with the government and pro russia separatists. accusing each other of carrying out

shutting attacks. in this government held village in eastern ukraine, a kindergarten hit by a shell. the ukrainian army says the shell that was fired from the other side. just each of this came up there where you can see this hole in the wall and it fell into place where the kids were going to have their gym class. luckily none of the kids was inside that room. let them get another 10 business after 2 children were having breakfast at the time and were planning to have lessons in that room at 9 a. m. according to their schedule, shes luckily the children were not heard. only the employees were shell shocked. you as president joe biden believes the russian invasion will take place any day now, a boot walker. number one, number 2. we believe that they are gay ball y got braces.

every indication we had with a un security council meeting. you as a secretary of state anthony blinking, want russia was already manufacturing for vacation to justify an attack you, when you, when you, with this could be a violent event that russell game 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, but nobody seeks any excuses for hostile elections. we said 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 police moscow has a mass, some 150000 soldiers around its neighbor. will they

w correspondent, mathias bullying her is in easton, you crated. and the town of kind of toss can near the front line of the conflict between government forces on russia back separatists. i asked him if the shelling of the kindergarten he showed us in his report was a sign that tensions in the region. a growing yes, tensions are growing. that's what we can say. for sure. there has been intense selling for 2 days now. after we left that place where the kinder garden is, the place was shelled again and houses were destroyed and were on fire at night. and the same is reported from other other places, villages and towns along the contact line. so there is a clear escalation here. the ukrainian side blames it all on the other side on the separate, separate side and there is a lot of conflicting information. you always see has not established yet. all of

the details for these fires have often just to refrain from clearly stating or, or b have not been able to to clearly say where it was coming from. but what, what is very clear is that shelling has intensified on this, on this side of the, of the board of shelling on ukrainian villages. we have less information from the other side. right? so very where you are in the east of ukraine. that's a place where the fighting and never really stop to our people. they're afraid of a wider russian invasion. people here are afraid of an escalation of an intensifying of fighting here. as you said, it has never stopped it. there has been fighting for 8 years, although i believe my ears were in place and they were respected at times. they were violated only slightly. and now we are seeing this escalation, that prospect of a wider invasion that would include many other parts of ukraine. they would,

for example, include an incursion or from the north or onto kia, for example. that is something of course, people in other parts of ukraine are worried about. however, the worries here in ukraine do not match the international warnings. the ukrainian government has sad once again that they do not see preparations on the russian side for a full scale invasion arm. and are the people are just watching this carefully, or they are alert, but they're not panicking. and there's this dispute about whether a russia really has paul. so if it's true back from it's border with ukraine, what's your understanding of what's going on? well, it seems that this has not really happened when they announced the withdrawal of troops. there was some activity troops were being moved around,

but the 1st thing is that russia said it would move back to the troops from the western military district. that is those places that have any way close to the ukrainian borders back into their, into their barracks. but they could be deployed quickly again. now what we're hearing from intelligent sources is that they have not really withdrawn many, they have moved them a little bit around, but not withdrawing some or even saying us having said that, they might have reinforced them. or this is based on satellite imagery. there is no head count of course of soldiers, no headcount accessible to anybody else, but the russian leadership of the soldiers that are really deployed there. thank you for that is i think because fundamentally is bullying in easton, you crate, will your crime crisis is expected to dominate the munich security conference which begins to day you as vice president common harris was one of the 1st foreign

representatives to arrive in germany will be annual 3 day policy forum, which was launched the height of the cold war. and for the 1st time since $991.00, russia will not be there. you'll find a full coverage from munich this afternoon. one of the people you'll be seeing a lot of and coverage of the security conference is our chief political editor, mckayla kirk, not welcome, mckayla. let's talk about russia. no russia delegation for the 1st time in 30 years . why? yes, that's a big question. well, clearly russia is not interested in engaging in detail on the goings on, not just over ukraine, but also over other crisis regions. there's a lot to talk about at this munich security conference. but the current stand off, which as we heard not as antony blinkin. also the u. s. president fears could tip over into a hot war at any point. and now it's clearly overshadowing every conversation that

is taking place on the multiple other crises that really me talking about after all, the phoenix security conference, which is seen most importantly as a forum where leaders can meet in the side rooms can have private conversations out of the spotlight while, as journalists are talking here in the full glare, am of the public, it hasn't really taken place if it 2 years now. and so it's about time and that these leaders can meet and with great urgency to have such conversations. russia clearly isn't interested in talking in detail. thank you for that. i. d. w. j political editor, mckenna cutler, the munich security conference. let's take a look at some more of the stories are making headlines around the world will sought in the us, where a judge has roles. the former president, donald trump, must to testify in a new york court, a 3 year investigation into the trump organization hasn't covered significant

evidence of possible fraud is 2 eldest children, vanka and donald junior must also testify. lawmakers in ecuador have voted to allow abortions in the cases of right girls under 18 and rural, or indigenous women will be allowed to terminate pregnancies. up to the 18th week of the women will have up to 12 weeks. anti abortion activist demonstrated outside the courts as the boat took place. the death toll from landslides and flooding in brazil has risen to more than a 100, with dozens more still missing. the historic city of petra patropolis and the hills above that rio de janeiro has been particularly badly hurt after joint mudslide swept through hillside neighborhoods the creek ghost car, the greek coast guard has said it safely, rescued, hundreds of people from a burning ferry. the vessel was traveling between greece and italy when a fire broke out in the early hours of friday morning,

280 people. our passengers and crew were on board. a one person slightly injured the united kingdom's bracing for and the impact of on the atlantic storm is expected to bring strong winds and coastal flooding. it's the latest in the series of storms that have had parts of europe in recent weeks. at least 4 people were killed after gale force winds brought down trees and power lines across germany, germany and neighboring countries, disrupting air rail and a fairy 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 on the fall, his knees. cancellations are precautionary measure because the safety of our

passengers, an employee is our top priority. we don't want to trace being stuck on the open track in these weather conditions. i asked because making sure 30400 or 500 passengers on a train are safe is difficult, especially when the train is also cut off from the power supply on approval on them . falling trees pays 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 millennia. and zane up as it's been called, could be even more destructive the leaders from the african union and the european union are meeting for the 2nd day of a summit in brussels. african leaders are using the event to repeat that demands for waivers of kofi 19 vaccine. payton's, the e u has responded by promising investment in new factories in africa to produce

vaccines. locally. the summit being billed as a reset in relations between the regional blocks. more funding announcements are expected to day. the w correspondent jack paris case in brussels. i asked him about a progress on those demands for more equitable vaccine access. at the moment we don't think so. we know that this is really the big battle between the leaders of the african union as 40 of them here on the 27 european leaders, the, the, the south african president. so rum, oppose that has called this vaccine apartheid regularly, and accused the europeans of preventing the possibility of african people getting the vaccines that they need to get through the pandemic. under 10 percent of africa, african citizens of fully vaccinated with 2 doses. many countries in the european union, a hitting 70 percent of booster doses already, but the europeans simply say that the using the tips waiver, so allowing intellectual property rights to be completely suspended so that

everybody can make these amerinet vaccines wherever they like. that simply doesn't work, they say that there needs to be the know how that needs to be the technological understanding of how to create these vaccines. and that's why they say it's better to, to, to, for them to create factories in and then, and then seldom into africa. as i say, this is the big battle at the summit. but there have been other issues that have been going on yesterday. france said it was pulling out of marley, removing just under $2500.00 troops into other parts of the south region of africa . and that's been a big, big issue, the security issue that, that he does have been talking about as well. a cold war hero here in berlin has died at the age of 101 in the united states. i 1st part of gail halverson, i've known as the candy palmer for his role in the 1948 berlin airlift. following the soviet blockade of west berlin, us forces and lifted vital supplies to their former world war to enemy alderson,

wrapped packages of candy and dropped the by parachute, the children waiting below by make a drop picture of it. that's it. you're up to date to get hot alphas will have more at the top of the hour. with the green. you feel worried about the planning meeting? i'm neil. host of the on the green spot cost and to me it's clear. we need to change. join me for deep dive into the green transformation for me for you for the plant ah.