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leaders say they are already sending hundreds of millions of doses to the continent . ah, unlike thank you so much for joining us. we begin this broadcast with the latest developments in the crisis over ukraine. russia's military has announced extensive drills of its strategic nuclear forces. moscow says the exercises are planned and denies stoking tensions claim and counter claim continue. russia insists its forces are withdrawing from the border region and a simmering conflict has flared up again and east and ukraine. each side is blaming the other for artillery shelling for month, these tanks, signal to threat of a russian and to ukraine. now some of them are retreating from ukraine's botto

rushes, defense ministry, seeds, military drills. and these places are ovo. and that's all it ever was. ukraine doesn't believe it when it was done was liter not conformed the russian claim of troop withdrawals. this is not happening. there is only a movement for forces and equipment. we are watching the russian troop divisions, which number 129001. and if we add naval and air truly, this figure reaches 149000. when emily figured his full dead whiskers, those sort of david, these tensions are storing more rapidly in east on ukraine for yours. the don boss region has been fighting ground between government forces and russia backed rebels . they blame each other for the damage of the conflict. caught in between many ukrainians have migrated to say 4 places. this village, for instance, has only 5 residents left. and this kinda garden was the target of

a recent shelling. the show on your born you'll. i was knocked backwards. i immediately understood, there was smoke and windows breaking everywhere, but from yells upon your lot. bustled them through. all of this, russia has announced for the military drills starting saturday, they will be testing their ballistics and crews messiah with president putin overseeing the operation. russia again said these are just regular drills and not a threat to ukraine. well, earlier we spoke to d, w, so mathias, a billing, or near the front line in the eastern town of sierra don't ask and we asked him about the u. s. government cautioning russia could use the clashes in east and ukraine as a pretext to launch an invasion. well, there's always this fear of a false flag operation and the more selling is happening in the more probable it is

that this can be somehow used. and that both sides can present victims and also the side, the separate side might to a claim that they are defending themselves. the ukrainian side is very aware of this the yesterday. the general who is in charge of this part of ukraine of the eastern front has said that they are expecting this and they are expecting that the that they are not responding to the shelling. that's what they claim in order not to create such a pretext. mathias believe they're reporting out for the 1st time in decades. russia has snob to a major international summit in southern germany. the ukraine crisis is dominating the munich security conference, german foreign minister on a lena bear bock and her us counterparts. antony blinking, i've called for solidarity in the face of russian demands of the 2 stress that

moscow would suffer unprecedented sanctions in the event of an invasion. russia has since no official delegation. it was last absence in 1991 1st part on location at the munich security conference is our chief international editor, richard walker. richard, a very pivotal moment for the conference to be taking place absolutely later. and of course, this is really the, the question that is on everybody's lips. you can hear the chatter in the background, probably in the holes behind me. we have a lounge. is it just just alongside as here, where you have all sorts of delegates politicians, members of the military? you have some spooks in there. a think tank has all essentially asking each other, what they think is going to happen. how dangerous this this situation is. what is putins next? move going to be, and the sort of steady drumbeat of news coming from the region from the russians

about those exercises taking place with their nuclear forces. also from those rebel regions in east ukraine. now talking about evacuating a numbers of people from there, but those kind of bits of news only adding to the concern here that something really very dangerous might be imminent. russia richard has not sent an official delegation for the 1st time in decades. a missed opportunity. well, i think of course, that's the way that the organizes here of presenting it saying that they really want, they always want to provide the russians with the ability to, to get their message across. and they're very sad that that isn't happening this time. and it really must be stressed, it that the russians really have made use of this in the past. sag a lever after the russian foreign minister is a regular here. vladimir putin himself made a very famous speech here, back in 2007, where he started to formulate a lot of the,

the demands and the concerns that he's been formulating recently in this crisis of 15 years ago. the world heard about a lot of those for the 1st time. so certainly being seen with regret. i think for some a so slightly disconcerting a consent that these absence may be deliberate because the russians are planning something. at the very least, i think the russians know that they would not get a very, a warm welcome. here at the moment is certainly among all of the western delegations here. they are essentially exhausted what the russians are doing right now. richard, i heard that the munich security conference, a described as the ground 0 of diplomacy on the ukraine crisis at the moment. i want to take a listen to what to you. a secretary said, anthony lincoln said a short time ago on the state of tensions with russia over ukraine. mistake listen . even as we are doing everything we possibly can to make clear that there is a diplomatic path that this has to be resolved. the differences have to be resolved

through dialogue through diplomacy. we are deeply concerned that that is not the path of rush isn't marked on and that everything that we're seeing, including what you've described in the last 20 for 48 hours, is part of a scenario that is already in play of creating false provocations of then having to respond to those provocations and then ultimately committing new aggression against ukraine. richard, is this crisis going to eclipse all other security issues? yeah, well, it certainly domination the agenda here. and there been some expressions of frustration about that from, for example, the un secretary general antonio guitar issue, who made the opening address at the conference just earlier. he was talking about not just this crisis, but also about climate change. about the pandemic and welter of other challenges

that the entire world faces. and anna, lena babylon, also the german foreign minister. but also expressing a frustration that this crisis, which is sees, is being completely instigated by vladimir putin by the russian side is distracting the world from a great many, much more urgent things. but it's the reality, this ease. now the reality that we face these east, the crisis that has the world is gripping the world's attention. you just mentioned, you know, the munich security conference being sort of ground 0 for diplomacy on this crisis . will the sad fact is that it isn't that because the russians are not here. so there's a risk here that this develops into something of an echo chamber with everybody here agreeing a no russians here to take part in those conversations. but of course, the message is coming from here, aren't going to just stay here. they're obviously bring broadcasts around the world . they will be heard by the russian side to the messages here certainly will be

getting through. but he really is a shame that there isn't a possibility for dialogue here. very important observation that you are making there. richard. i also want to listen to us to listen to the german foreign minister. you alluded to her short moment ago. she had something very interesting to say regarding sanctions on russia. take listen. b, i don johnson and i, we in germany are prepared to pay a high economic price. therefore, for me and for us for all options are on the table just including nordstrom to richard. i lena bear bog there mentioning the north stream to pipeline, seeing the quiet part out loud, something that her boss, the chancellor, all i've shown has been very careful not to do publicly. are we seeing here a shift in policy? no, i don't think we are what we are seeing is a different member of the government carrying up making the message more clearly than her boss of shelter. and abeline, alina babcock,

has said this before. she said this even in parliament in her speech a recently she mentioned, they said that nord stream to would be a packet involved in any until sanctions confirming something that all i've sholtes doesn't want to say. and this will have been music to the ears of tony blinking her us count about us secretary of state, who just after that speech by angelina burbock joined her on the podium for a discussion. just the 2 of them with the incoming chairman of this conference that was a remarkable show of unity between these 2 a top diplomats of the us from the german side. what was so striking about and the lien and bad bug speech was that not just on nord stream to but on really everything she said it was absolutely in tune with the american line on things from for example, framing of the crisis saying that this is not a ukraine crisis that we're looking at here. this is

a russia crisis. and also in terms of the sort of big picture of where we're at in international affairs. and alina burbock, stressing that europe has to get involved, or in the competition between democracies and autocracies, around the world, this kind of battle of the systems that the americans are trying to drum up support for among western democracies. these are things that you wouldn't necessarily hear all of short saying so strongly, and olive shows just recently standing as long side, joe biden, of course, not referring to nod stream to, causing some consternation in the u. s. it. it's a very interesting to see those messages from adelina burbock and his relationship between her and tony blink. and how you as counterpart or develop in the months ahead. remember, she's only in office for a couple of months, but really pinning her flag very closely to the u. s. line on a whole range of issues. did other your chief international editor, richard walker, reporting from the munich is security conference. richard,

thank you. now the news out of the russia ukraine border leaves ukrainian experts wondering what could be next. washington correspondent, oliver silent, spoke with a ukrainian citizen. living in the united states worried that he might lose his homeland. he may be 5000 miles away. but vitale desi, jenko is still close to his homeland, to ukraine, who was harrington turned cra, did everything come on the right, a manager in new york, those elk a restaurant? the crisis back home is the number one topic for him and his colleagues. and toys me a lot, but it's not these as faint promotional, and now you get to know those pieces are news every day. does not help want to have a good day. i'm very worried. i'm very concerned now they said that some things my actual happen anytime soon. and i just some days i can i just sleep right. new york city's east village is home to the largest ukrainian diaspora in the united states

and estimated 80000 people here have ukranian roots. the neighborhood hosts the ukranian bank, a school and several restaurants. the tale has been living in the u. s. for some years. a country that gives him more opportunities, but above all security, he says, his biggest concern are his parents back home in kia? see that he was sure not, not that the night may be because we only have one child and he is not living with us in ukraine. that's why we are staying calm. i don't know how we would feel if our son was in ukraine. maybe we would have to worry every 2nd. these tribune, the utmost at the united nations security council, russia on thursday, accused ukraine of genocide and the separatist controlled areas. you a secretary of state anthony blink encountered russia is searching for

a pretext for war outside the u. n members of the ukrainian community demand tougher a sanctions against russia. we cannot rely on thanks if there were past 78 years ago, to turn the tide of russia. russia is used to those sanctions. russia has now changed its financial structure to actually have more financial reserves under sanctions that before we need new sanctions, we need them now. not after. now, many here are growing frustrated with how the situation has deteriorated. in recent weeks. it's terrifying. we're going to lose our home country. we don't trust anywhere. so both in reading, we just want to see on facts and zanna, we will believe it drops or going back. russia should keep in their territory elite ukraine to be in a way that ukraine desires to be free. country independent, counting muffins, veronica to 6 plymouth. the tale and his colleagues remain hopeful. the diplomacy will eventually prevail if as good daughter in

a couple moments as they are far away on this and yet so close to their homeland ukraine. let's take a look now at the other stories in the headlines right now. hundreds of people were rescued from a ferry that caught fire while travelling between greece and italy around 290 passengers and crew were on board. reports say to people are still trapped and the ships car deck. the rescue operation is ongoing. lawmakers in ecuador have voted to allow abortions in cases of rape girls under the age of 18. indigenous women and women from remote rural areas will be allowed to terminate pregnancies up to the 18th week. others will have up to 12 weeks. anti abortion activists demonstrated outside the court as the vote took place. a court in india has sentenced 38 people to death for a series of bomb glass in 2008. more than 50 victims were killed in the explosions

that wrought the city of alma dabbled in the western states of which at the world health organization says it will help 6 african countries to set up facilities to produce m. r. n. a vaccines against coven. 19, the news was welcomed at a summit between the african and european unions in brussels. the w h o program was created to help a poor countries produce m r n. a vaccines domestically during the corona virus pandemic. and after which countries bought up most available vaccines, south africa, the only country in the group already producing em or any jobs. while the president of the african union at mackie sal said that producing vaccines in africa is a big step. but it's not enough. live workload, loma one real challenges, we need to be able to buy vaccines that are being produced in africa because there

will be other parts of the world that will produce much cheaper vaccines. so it is important that over and beyond technology transfer, we also purchase the vaccines goals. obviously, intellectual property is an issue as well. but i think the urgency now is this technology transfer takes place. and our colleague d w christine wound was, is in brussels, where she is covering this all important gathering. christine, how significant is this announcement of a vaccine technology transfer project to the continent? layla in a context where little more than 10 percent of africans are fully vaccinated compared to around 70 percent in europe. this is not going to bring an end to the pandemic on the continent, so to say, but it's meaningful. i in the sense that it is allowing for some local protection of vaccines to take place that something that a countries in africa have been calling for, especially because it's really been

a struggle as they have been at lamenting the vaccine hoarding that we've seen in the pandemic, so it's meaningful. also beyond the pandemic, because this very technology is going to be used to create vaccines for diseases on the continent like malaria and down the line and cancer. but it's not at what the demand at that african countries, according for i, it's not the answer to that. and they still want a wavering off the patients. and in fact, that south african president went as far as saying that that gesture, lifting the patterns would be former colonial powers giving back to the continent. so it's meaningful, but it doesn't address the immediate challenge of the need to ramp up vaccination on the continent of africa right now. while, so that begs the question. i mean, this meeting i understand was meant to be kind of a reset, a fresh start with a bright, with ties between you and african leaders. has it at all, lived up to that in a sense, it has, i mean, the fact that the summit was pushed back by 2 years because of the pandemic. we

with this, i, that the souring of relations between these 2 geopolitical neighbors. in that time, much of it was, of course, around how the pandemic had been handled, the travel bands, the vaccine hoarding. and so there was a lot of disgruntlement, particularly on the side of, of the african counterparts, are coming to brussels, was really important for everybody involved. these photo ops, these face to face meetings at being able to engage. because much of that hadn't been happening in the pandemic. and of course many had criticized that that europe had left africa out in the cold. and, and so you keep hearing it from both sides that there is this need to reset the engagements to make this partnership more of one of equals whether or not the summit actually does that. probably not because african leaders are going back empty handed in terms of some of the demands that they came to brussels with. of course they are taking back some promises some more financial commitments, but it's not exactly what they were asking for. if you speak to some african

presidents, we caught them a long as they were coming in to the summit, asking them how they feeling. thumbs up, a smile here and there. but they didn't get everything they came for. in short. christine, one of our reporting from brussels, christine, thank you. now, while the debate over vaccines supplies continues, germany's biotech has unveiled plans for new scale down manufacturing plants about the size of a shipping container. they could produce millions of doses of corona, virus, vaccines in africa. other diseases could also be targeted. these containers could help advance the global fight against covered 19 tiny vaccine factories. model, a units developed by german farm affirmed by on tech to produce m r f exceeds you can build it on stock for example, and you can deploy very quickly and you scale to a new sites you want. and then it became very clear um that this is the perfect case actually for, for africa. at the moment,

only about 12 percent of the african population has received 2 vaccine shots by aren't access. it's by own tanner's could initially produce up to $50000000.00 doses per year, making africa less dependent on in parts. at the same time, the company's c. e o. over shaheen made it clear by onside won't suspended succeed patient. but he also said the company won't challenge vaccine copying and africa mega. recognize that, that vaccine vaccine equity is not given at the moment. we had a wonderful meeting, was our partner from africa and, and one of the most impressive statements our was laws that vaccine equity is not about the past is about the future. shaheen well, come some african leaders on wednesday at the company's projection site in my book to present the new project while some criticized bound tax initiative. saying the

european build solution is not local enough. senegalese president mackey sell says it's historic for jewel. my birthday finally puts an end to vaccine injustice during a pandemic that has affected the world. yeah, martin lamond on, we have experienced that the african continent was left alone because africa only produces around one percent of the vaccines that are administered on the continent to look wanted in the future. by anti also wants to use the bi on tenors to produce vaccines against malaria or typical osis. the 1st prototypes will be implemented in render, senegal, or south africa. by the end of this year, millions of people in the u. k. have been told to stay at home as the country braces for an atlantic storm expected to expect it to bring destructive winds and

coastal flooding. gales have battered much of europe in recent days. at least 4 people were killed. as high winds brought down trees and power lines disrupting transport links. 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 lodge 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 for this. these cancellations are precautionary measures because the safety of our passengers and employees is our top priority. we don't

want trains being stuck on the open track in these weather conditions. i asked because making sure 30400 or 500 passengers on the train are safe is difficult, especially when the train is also cut off from the power supply from a school for normal operating. falling trees pose the highest risk, the motorists. several people were killed when their cause 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. at the winter olympics and beijing, china's free style skier, eileen grew, has won her 2nd gold medal. the san francisco worn scare was part of the u. s. team when she was younger, but then switch to china in 2019 in the half by final goose sort higher than any other skier. as she completed back to back ariel tricks. her 2nd run was the best

of the day and secured gold or norway has claimed it's 15 for a gold medal and beijing to set a new winter olympics record. norway's johan said 10 chabot one. the men's 15 kilometer mass starts via fly to claim his 4th gold medal at the games bow dominated from the start and held his composure to send his country into the history books, norway, canada, and germany previously shared the record of 14 gold medals at a single game meanwhile, russian figure skater, camilla valley. if i had a heart breaking performance during the women's free skate competition on thursday, oliver stumbled and fell several times as she finished 4th end in tears. the 15 year old was favorite to win gold in women's figure skating, but it was uncertain that she would have received a metal after she tested positive for her balance of

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