trim reports from the heart of brazil starts march nights on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night. the roll of rushes nuclear arsenal in the escalating crisis over ukraine. moscow plans military drills to morrow of its ballistic missiles and denies at stoking worries of an invasion of ukraine. at the same time. question back separatists and ukrainian troops are firing at each other, a simmering conflict that could soon boil over. also coming up to night, the big no show at the munich security conference. no russian delegation,

while world leaders and convene to discuss the biggest threat to europe in decades . plus checkbook diplomacy, european union is pledging to invest a $150000000000.00 euros in africa. and at least 6 people are dead as storms batter, northern europe, britain is bearing the brunt. record. winds have already ripped the roof of a giant stadium in london. ah, i burned gov to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states. and to all of you around the world, it's good to have you with us on this friday in the crisis over ukraine. we are ending the week and a more perilous place. the u. s. says that russia now has up to a 190000 troops, positioned along its border with ukraine. to morrow. moscow plans military drills

of its nuclear arsenal. a show of strength that nato says is an attempt to intimidate an eastern ukraine, a long simmering conflict has flared up each side. blaming the other for artillery show, ah, warning to the people of the nets that it's time to go off to the heads of the saint. just regions announced evacuation plans with a dimple gray in the would you want a zillion president of ukraine? let me zalinski will soon order the military to go on the offensive to implement a plan to invade dynette scandal. hence, daniel phillip, as of today, little nicholas will. february 18th would have new a mass, centralized evacuation of the population to the russian federation has been organized. molina, what a thief, we figured out. so women, children, and the elderly are among the 1st to be evacuated, packed on to buses, bound for russia's neighbouring roster of region, despite yet again deny any plans military action. author both to do. i reiterate

that the military and political leadership, ukraine, doesn't plan and not conducting offensive operations in ukraine's easley. the only option for g occupation of the territory that septal to us is the political and diplomatic one political liberalization. according to care, it's the separatists of up their attacks and it's homes like these on their side of the front line, lou. hence that have been caught in the firing line. local se shelling has escalated lately. was written review books recently and inquired for good. and then the last 2 days, every now and then they shoot every now and then they shoot again worse, parallel to las vegas to her doctor rule sure. that denotes to, has seen increased attacks, a car bomb was detonated in the heart of the city on friday evening. the reported owner, the head of the cept just regions military was not inside of the time. the explosion comes just days of us and its allies warned about potential false flag attacks by

russia. so president putin, the solution to the current crisis lies with kevin. just to lose was you. a kiwa of a small cap needs to do is sit down at the gear sheet and table with representatives of don bass and agree on political military, economic and humanitarian matches to end the conflict she and the sooner this happens, but better unfortunately, right now we're seeing the opposite was an aggravation of situation of don best finish it to us in to them. but with kevin, it's alice still warning of impending russian invasion. de escalation appears a distant prospect. if more, nell, i'm joined by the w's nick connelly. he is in key. good evening to you, nick. you know we are exactly where we've been told for weeks now that we would be a place where faults, flags are, are being thrown in accusations. is there any way to verify the truth about what is happening across the front line between ukraine and the russian back separators?

while the main problem there, brent is that most of the in session observers acting on as the o se mandate who they're already there. what made start with lots of those have left and most of the shooting happens at night when they weren't patrolling anyway . you have to run. this is really, really old school. this is not modern, high tech wolf i. this is shelling. these are using weapons from the 904050 sixty's . this is very difficult to kind of reconstructive with health satellites or other tech. if you're on the ground, it's really hard to work out. who shall 1st, who is responsible for this, but it is definitely a weird coincidence after weeks have been pretty quiet as russia built up. those troops along ukraine's other borders, when suddenly, am russia announced that it's drawing tanks back? now? that's a moot point, but still that was announcement. then suddenly the activity, the military intensity that firing dumbass really dials up very, very rapidly. and you know, lots people here saying it's the most intense fire and damaged they've seen in about 56 years since the high point of the conflict that kindergarten shelled here yesterday. we saw people in air aid shelters hiding,

really sense that we're back to where we were at the high point of this conflict, the least in that region of ukraine. but is the ukranian government convinced that that what we are seeing now is a manufactured provocation, and that this is the pretext for an invasion by russia. i mean, just start off with, from the ukranian point of view though, separatists are just agents, vassals, proxies of russia. they, there's no debate of that hearing keith, although moscow would obviously debate that and so for them there, the ukraine point of view would be the rush has just press the button to increase tensions now to win with their aspect at aspect deniability, these all russian uniforms they're involved is a separatist or be it may be holding weapons that were given to them by the russians. and i think the big fear is that there will be attacks, may be killings, may be assassinations in donates, which will then be attributed to the ukrainians as a pretext for then those separatists calling and russian help may be m. diving up tensions on that front line or trying to make some kind of attack on the ukraine.

normally on the other side of the front lines, there them all kinds of potential options they're being discussed here in care of may be a tax on civilian targets, which then would be again put on the ukranian. so of a nervy mood here in clifton, i. yeah. when ask about the mood, you know, you and i have talked numerous times and it always seemed that there in cave the people were much more relaxed about the situation, then say at nato or in washington. now we've got reports at a $190000.00 russian troops may be massed along the eastern, northern southeastern borders of ukraine. has that changed the modem in the public at all? any of the people here have been living with war for years. this is not the 1st time for themselves, they are a lot more resilient than people in other countries for whom this would be 1st time would be. but you, if you get a sense that is changing, we hadn't used a couple of days ago of oligarchs and people, even pro russian politicians in ukraine's pol aren't getting on private jets and

scrambling to leave the country. the diplomats of so being pulled out those kind of human stories connected here with people the way that the kind of us intelligence briefings about full flag, potential flag operations or other russian plans didn't. so definitely a growing nervousness here. and also, particularly, you know, in response to those kind of now as it seems full to the russia was drawing down those tanks. we had been in the week had this pulse of singles, moscow that they would be take people out of crimea, but then it turned out that most us troops leaving crimea would just be set back to their home garrison's, which a close to ukraine anyway. and the in other areas, the of the frontline new troops being added. so actually versus image. and quite the opposite of those 1st signals and no sign that russia's going to back down until it gets some of its months. none of which is for now been full coming. d, w, 's, nick connelly with the leaves tonight from keith. nick as always, thank you. well, every generation in ukraine knows some one who has fault in a war or lived through a military conflict. younger ukrainians say they yearn for peace, stability,

long term prosperity, and they are less certain about what to do in the event of a russian invasion, should they fight for their homeland b. w is funny for char reports to night from keith. well, is not this. a very ordinary afternoon in the life of timothy and yellow slough, except nothing has been ordinary for the 2 friends growing up in a country dealing with constant conflict with its neighbour, russia. they are 19 and 18. a rocket launcher and a ukrainian flags serve as decorations. both are patriotic, they say. but are they willing to defend ukraine? yes, sir. the war for i was thinking about this. i plan to join not the army, but volunteers because we have a very big volunteer force for those of a liquor. volunteer sca cilla team of he wants to go through a front line in a paramedics unit on like his friend paula gallagher. i ship shop,

which nice i think if a big war starts, i will have to leave the country. but i don't want to do this, but i don't think i'll have any other alternative to hard on with our younger don't ratio my level. did you see them back in 2014 timothy, and yet slough where too young to understand the ukrainian revolution and the subsequent annexation of crimea by russia. today, they are old enough to join the army. what would you do in case of a war? a much debated question among young ukrainians these days and there is no clear answer. according to one recent opinion poll, only about half of adults on the 30 would stay and resist. while the other half would move to another region or go abroad. and it's a collaboration onto who shasky who carries out surveys among the generations. says the current aggression is forcing young people to make clear what kind of ukraine they want. a full to the didn't do it, the absolute majority, even of younger generation. see you quinn is a part of european union. that is,

i probably will, don't want to fight against russian army, but at the same time they love ukraine and they won't allow an independent ukraine, timothy, and yet us love read a lot about the history of ukraine and russia these days to better understand what snacks will sell. sure, so that the recently, i was thinking that if we look back on the russian empire and the soviet union times, he says it appears that we would not find a single generation of young people in ukraine, whose life was not ruined by russia. done as well, and this is unfair, this furniture we do, our best serve. the next generation can do better morale, the more say show, oh, that's the nipple cleaners. really aggression in that they don't know what will happen in the coming days between russia and ukraine. what they know, what they want, a stable future for the 1st time in decades, russia is a no show at the munich security conference. the crisis over ukraine dominating the agenda and munich, germany. and the us today called for solidarity in the face of russian security to

me. this scheme, which of course is a lot a show of unity right from the start gym and foreign minister and alina babel and her u. s. counterpart antony blinking took to the states together, setting the tone for the 3 day conference to white her doesn't, isn't, isn't artisan court. there's a new war, impending right in the middle of europe was then speaking to them, russia issues and absolutely unacceptable. threat with their troops build up, you know, i, you know, the, the ukraine about, but also via the, all of us and our piece architecture in europe. these at ease is done, therefore, this crisis is no ukraine crisis. we have to be very careful about our framing. it's a russia crisis course lunches, and i think present hooton's been a little bit surprised at that solidarity at the way that nato has come together.

the european union has come together. ah, we come together individually as partners we come together institutionally, as long as we maintain that solidarity, we will either way, whichever path president putin chooses, will be ready to respond fors of another country by to top. diplomats remarkably in tune rep for key is may have italy clips go however, words of solidarity are not enough in we understand the germany, united states, all france, support. what we need right now. defensive, where, thank you for 5000 pounds, but not enough. we can defend oh country. what just that. but again, germany says it won't send any weapons to ukraine, citing the historical burden of world war 2. like the u. s. it's hoping that can still be a diplomatic solution to this crisis. what exactly that would look like is the

foremost question in munich, not just on stage, but also in the many conversations taking place all over the venue. but with russia absent, the west is more or less talking to itself. or maybe talking about russia on location of the munich security conference is our chief international editor, richard walker. good evening to you, richard. so we've got russia being a huge no show this year, the 1st time in decades. do you think this is a missed opportunity for the kremlin? well i, i think it's a missed opportunity, of course, with them to make their case here. and there's a lot of regret around here that they aren't present. this is certainly a stage that the russians have used for a long time. as you said, this has a long history of russian presence here in munich, a, sag a lever off. the foreign minister as a regular attendee, vladimir putin,

himself made a famous speech back in 2007 when the world began to hear some of his complaints about, about what he saw as the west taking detrimental effect on russian security. back here in 2007, but i think it's also being seen as a potentially ominous sign that the russians on here because potentially they knew that the crisis was going to be at such fever pitch at this point that it wouldn't be good for them to be here, i think the biggest problem for people here is saying that not having them here means that the security conference can't be a platform for dialogue as much as it has been in recent years. essentially it's serving as a bit of an echo chamber now for western countries or voicing similar degrees of sick of concern. and we are seeing particularly at this conference, the us, germany speaking from the same playbook, the, the german foreign minister, adelina burbock. today she offered clarity about what sanctions would look like in

the event of a russian invasion of you, great, ticklish b. i thought shannon, but 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 so rigid barrack mentions shutting down the nord stream to pipeline as a possible part of sanctions. there is something that the united states wants, but that is something that her boss, the german chance o shots, he has been reluctant to say to go that far. what did you make of of that considering she actually said it today? yeah, that's right. i mean, adelina bab bought was as explicit as, as will have sholtes has been vague in recent weeks. i've schultz is simply not gone to the, to that stage of saying explicitly that he would shut down gold stream to if there were military action by the russians against you. craig will though he has hinted

at it between the lines alanine and alina. bab, oak has said this in public, the fool. but what was so striking about it was, she said this just before she then was joined on that podium by her american counterpart, tony blinking. and they sat down for a long discussion in english on the stage here in munich, where the similarity between their positions became incredibly strong. and in fact, her speech too was really absolutely in tune with american positions on this current crisis in a way that all of sholtes his statements alongside joe biden, in washington just a couple of weeks ago. simply once, it was very interesting to see the different dynamics here. yeah, the greens with a hawkish, you are still legation there in munich a bit. so that would have been unthinkable. not that long ago. i'm wondering how much oxygen is there left in the room there at that conference for other security issues around the world. i mean, it's not just ukraine, right?

that's right, and of course there have been events. so many other issues that pandemic, of course, climate change, a whole host of things. but lead is he a, have been voicing frustration that the bandwidth of the international community, the bandwidth of, of these western powers, very much being kind of taken up by this current crisis. a to russia has effectively instigated that we've been seeing in the last few weeks. and alina bab, bug voice frustration about that antonio terrace will say, the secretary general of the united nations in his beach right at the beginning. also, a complained about this, this situation that the well finds itself in, not just referring to the crisis about ukraine, but also referring to the huge divisions between the u. s. in china for get cherish that this is something that is hindering progress on. things like climate change on things like that, pandemic. so suddenly a pretty pessimistic tone from him to set this conference off. and overall,

this conference is very much on edge, but of course, that being driven by the current crisis between russia and ukraine, our chief international orig, walker at munich, security conference rigid, as always, thank you. we're here to look now some of the other stories that are making headlines this our canadian believes have begun to resting protestors who have been blocking traffic in the capital ottawa for 3 weeks. demonstrators angry about covered 90 restrictions have paralyzed parts of the capitol. the crisis is prompted by minister, just introduce to resume emergency power. a u. s. judge has sentence the officer who shot and killed dante right the 2 years in prison, a penalty below state guidelines. kim potter was convicted of manslaughter after she apparently mistook her gun for a taser and shot roy dead last april in minneapolis. the judge called it a case of a tragic mistake. malawi has detected the 1st haze of wild polio

virus in africa in more than 5 years. the strain is linked to one circulating in pakistan where the virus remains in dim polio targets the nervous of making calls paralysis. within hours there is no cure. he can't be prevented, however, by a vaccination of the african union has welcome the european pledge to invest a 150000000000 euros in infrastructure projects. and e leaders made the commitment as they wrapped up a 2 day summit with african leaders in brussels. today that it was their 1st gathering in nearly 5 years security sustainability in trade. they were all of the agenda, but the most controversial issue was access to coven 90 vaccines in treatise one of the african leaders calling. busy for the lifting of coven 19 vaccine patton's is south africa's president serial ramification. he spoke to the w's jack parrot

after the summit in brussels. president ramirez, thank you so much for speaking to the w news after the a u. e. e summit here in brussels. talking about this trips waiver, you have come to brussels with the intention of persuading the europeans to change their vision. and to release the i p on the intellectual property on vaccine so that they can be produced in africa. germany is one of the countries that is most reluctant to do so. how much of your anger towards the europeans is directed towards germany? and what does this mean for africa that this trips waiver isn't coming in place? what other chips waiver issue is not so much and god that is directed of is anyone in particular germany i had a wonderful meeting with the new chancellor. was discourse and we had a good exchange on the issue of the i p waiver. and i explained

to him what is driving us to put forward the arguments that we are putting forward. and i said, in our view, when we are in the pandemic like this, what will get us out of the pandemic should be regarded as a public good. it should not be seen as a profiteering type of instrument or product. it should be what should be readily available. and i think that message got through to him and i did say that we don't want to be receiving comes from anybody's table. we don't just want to fill and finish where we get the drug substance from somewhere, fill it, and then put it on the market. we want to be able to manufacture the drug substance

ourselves. and that is where the real heart of the i, b and i p argument comes in. and i said that should be fairly straightforward. and then again, i argued that this is not for every type of provision we wanted for a set period. and so that we are able to get over this vaccine does this issue to you highlight the real fundamental problems in the relationship between africa and europe? i would say the reluctance off of europe for instance, to agree to reach an agreement on the trips waiver is what we consider relationship or the an agreement on the tips way but would strengthen the relationship, would consolidate it. and i did say as much in the meeting that if we are not able

to reach agreement on this, it would be seen that this was a failure our let's take a look. now, some of the other developments in the pandemic south korea has, for the 1st time recorded more than a 100000 new cases in a single day. there's concerned that campaigning for next month presidential election could accelerate new infections. hong kong has allocated $200000.00 hotel rooms as quarantine accommodation for cobra. 19 patients, hospitals are running short of beds, and germany is expecting his 1st delivery of the nova vax vaccine next month. 1.4000000 doses are due and will go 1st to health care workers. at least 5 people have been killed as fears, storms bad or northern europe, record breaking winds, and disrupt transportation and knocked out power supplies across the u. k. braving the stormy sea, despite warnings to stay indoors,

some people in brighton on england, south coast, remained drawn to the forces of nature. storage unit is the 2nd major storm this week and its sweeping across northern europe with record breaking gusts of nearly 200 kilometers an hour causing power outages for tens of thousands of people. were thirties in the u. k issued a rare red warning for pilots. a southern england including london, was sections of the o. 2 arena roof were ripped off by the storm. so the message along with it is lost to this office has the read weather really stay indoors. so you, this is the worst only based in 3 decades, is for impala inadvertently for ourselves in the hallway, not being out those numerous flights were canceled. and of the ones that did try to land in london heathrow, many ended up being diverted. train services were interrupted as well,

leaving many passengers stranded, less coin, annoyance by i've been able to, well, it worked out quite well because i was able to spend a little bit more time in my system before i had it back up. i'll try to make my way if i have to take a taxi, that's what i'll do. germany, france and the netherlands also issued severe weather warnings. storm eunice is likely to cause even more havoc than its predecessor did just days earlier. norway has claimed its 15th gold medal in beijing to set a new winter olympics record. johan us tinkers both won the men's 15 kilometer mass start by avalon, the claim, his 4th gold medal at the gate. bert dominated from the start and held his composure to sent his country into the history books, norway, canada, and germany previously shared the record of 14 gold medals at a single olympic games. but now the norwegians are out on their own.

you watch a dw news, his remind of the top stories that were following for you. russia has announced new drills of its nuclear missile weapons. moscow says the exercises are planned and denied studying tensions with ukraine. each side is blaming the other for artillery . shelly in eastern view, correct. after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day tonight, the risk of war in you cray, where all we at the end of the week will be right back with with

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