[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is data be news, live for berlin. a warning from the u. s. president. he says russia has decided to invade ukraine. we have reasonably, the russian forces are planning to attend to attack, to crank in the coming week. the coming days. that warning after another day of high level talks with western allies. but as joe biden still believe, diplomacy has a chance. we'll get the latest from washington. moscow denies planning an invasion

of ukraine as it prepares, tests of its ballistic missiles. at the same time, reports of hostilities in ukraine shepherd is controlled east plus deadly storms. batter, northern europe. britain is bearing the blunt of record winds have already ripped off a rift rather the roof of the giant stadium in london. ah, i'm aaron tilton. it's good to have you with us. us president joe biden has just given a news conference on the russia ukraine crisis, after a call with leaders of major u. s. allies. he said he is convinced that russian president putin has decided to further invade ukraine. let's hear what he had to say. we have reasonably, the russian forces are planned into an intend to attack ukraine in the coming week . the coming days, we believe that they will target ukraine's capital o'keefe,

a city of 2800000 innocent people, make no mistake and fresh pursues his plans. it will be responsible for kit catastrophic and needless war of choice. united states and our allies are prepared to defend every inch of nato territory from any threat to our collective security as well. we also will not send troops in to fight in ukraine, but we will continue to support the ukrainian people. i'm now joined by d. w. stuff on simon's in washington, so joe biden seems convinced that russia intends to invade. do we know how the, what's or respond of this conflict turns out. well, we have heard the most blunt commons so far from the president, i think with what he just said. you're absolutely right. um, but yeah, the u. s. is says the president and say his administration are prepared to

go in impose very, very, very severe sanctions on russia. so with nato alice with european partners, i'm there working actually, and this is a quote from a press conference conference the earlier today from the white house on the finalization of a severe fine old package sanctions package. and what is in this package of sanctions? its of course, final financial sanctions cutting or russia out of the global market when it comes to financing and export controls, meaning that those sanctions are, will be then designed to not allow a russia to import anything from. yeah, the european union and the united states, which would be says the white house, a strategic loss for a russia and a calamity for a president put. but as you pointed out and what the president pointed out there seems to be

a waning waning confidence in the chance of to mop diplomacy for ukraine right now . oh right. so it does seem that there's a lack of competence in a diplomatic solution, but can there be any type of diplomatic path out of a crisis from the perspective of washington? why thing good that was in is still hopeful. americans are still hopeful and the white house is still hopeful, and there is a meeting scheduled for next week between anthony blake and secretary of state and a russian foreign minister. so gay love off, this is supposed to be happening at the end of the week, 24th of february, apparently, but the president made really clear that if, of course, russia also for and let me put an offer for an invasion into ukraine before this meeting happens, then if he is potentially right with his assessment, that is letting me put in. nobody made his mind up on a invasion and on an attack on ukraine and that them a plumbers. he has no chance. however,

i think so far as of now everybody wants to actively here in the united states. he, in washing probably also in european capitals div diplomacy. still a chance that was stephan simons, join us from washington. thank you. the western russia now has up to 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, meanwhile, must go back. separatists are evacuating civilians, eastern ukraine, or from eastern ukraine rather to russia, cleaned the ukrainian army is planning an attack. o wanting to the people up to nets that it's time to go. after the heads of the septic regions announced, evacuation plans, residential gray in the wood, the president of ukraine, the lat, amir zalinski. no. soon ordered the military to go on the offensive implemented

plan to invade that done yet. and honest people's republics, territory, villainous knew it. as of today, february 18th, a mask, centralized evacuation of the population to the russian federation has been organized. women, children, and the elderly are among the 1st to be evacuated, packed on to buses, bound for russia's neighbouring roast of region, despite yet again deny any plan. military action, author belie reiterate at the military and political leadership of ukraine doesn't plan and are not conducting offensive operations in ukraine's east. the only option for the occupation of the people and territory that is acceptable to us is the political and diplomatic one. it will addition mcclintock yet it's the separatists of up their attacks. and it's holmes, like these on their side of the frontline lou. hence that have been caught in the firing line. local se shelling has escalated lately.

but scrutiny view recently, it has been quiet. and then the last 2 days, every now and then they shoot, like every now and then they shoot, la la la la la la la la tour rocher. that jeanette's 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 separatist regions military was not inside of the time. the explosion comes just days of us and his allies warned about potential false flag attacks by russia. for president putin, the solution to the current crisis lies with kevin. just to lose was you a key hockey of needs to do is sit down at the negotiating table with representatives of dumbass and agree on political military, economic and humanitarian measures to end the conflict. and the sooner this happens, the better, but unfortunately, right now we are seeing the opposite, an aggravation of the situation and don best them. but with kevin, its allies still warning of impending russian invasion. the escalation appears,

a distant prospect for more on the crisis in ukraine. i'm now joined by d. w. 's, nick connelly and she of so nick shelling has intensified in recent days in the region and thousands of people have been evacuated. what's your read of the situation what things are definitely hosting up in dont bass in that eastern ukrainian region that has seen war since 2014 but where strange enough things had been a bit quieter in recent months where we had that huge russian troop build up along ukraine's other borders and very little in the way of fighting in recent weeks up till basically the last 2 days where we've seen even a kindergarten on the ukraine controlled side and being shells. although no pupils wounded m images. people back in the bomb shelters where they hadn't been for years, really a very clear escalation. and so many people here in care of the government would say, is a sign that these separatists are basically at the beck and call of the kremlin, able to dial up the pressure in ukraine when russia is kelly's claiming to draw

back tanks and weaponry. on other fronts and but it really weighs weird situation. different reports come in of explosions in the hans today. the deceiving rather than gas pipelines, images of huge, huge people trying to buy fuel to get out conflicting reports, whether men in basic military age, between 1855 are being allowed to leave those up as regions of whether being encouraged or need forced to stay. and sign up for some kind of military action. so very am nervous and worrying situation that we have people here didn't quite to give imagine would go quite so fast. now, the u. s. government is concerned, russia could use the clashes in eastern ukraine as a pretext to launch an invasion is, is also something that ukrainian government is concerned about. definitely, and we've heard in recent days, not just from blood reputed bills from other russian officials, add the word genocide being used, a key of being accused by russian or decision makers out of

a committee. jessica against its own citizens in his new crane or of using weaponry of shelling as though separate as regions and of affecting m civilians. that's something that has really come up and been really pushed by the official russian line in recent days. reports of mass graves of victims, the war from earlier in the conflict being found and now legal case being made. so the real feeling here is that this is a cause, an attempt to find a cause for water, basically have an excuse to carry out to preventive strike gates, ukraine. and the line being that ukraine is trying to take these reaches back with force and that russia would have to come to those separate his age prevent that happening. so definitely sense now here in care of that, this is turning to hotter phase, that after the count, diplomatic, doing a throwing of recent weeks, this is definitely now more dangerous situation. all right, nick, help us understand the conflicting reports about the russian troop build up at the border which ukraine moscow says it's pulling some of its true back. but nato says

they are sending more troops to the region. well that's the thing at the beginning of the week, you had olive shells, germany's chancellor in moscow. and he basically seemed to have been able to change the tone we heard from the russians in the hours and days following that visit, that they were going to reduce some of those troop positionings along the ukraine. frontier take troops out of an ex crimea. but if they satellite imagery that western it as ages the going on is to be believed than they are basically just re distributing those troops. taking them out of alex crimea and bring them back to positions their home garrisons, which are also very close ukraine's borders. and nothing that really affects ukraine security and indeed new troops have been spotted in different locations. so essentially that this was potentially just some maneuvering, an attempt to show some good will towards all of shells, but no real rush and commitment to deescalate and indeed is difficulty. why they would deescalate, with so far, hasn't russia hasn't got any of the things it was demanding. we haven't seen vladimir putin either get a promise from nato to keep ukraine out,

or to withdraw troops from those eastern european nature members. so sense that russia is going to keep on escalating until it sees some return on this pressure being applied to ukraine in the west. all right, that was d w 's, nicole nilly bringing us the latest from ukraine. thanks for joining us. now here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. canadian police of a gun arresting protesters who have been blocking traffic in the capital ottawa for 3 weeks demonstrators angry about cov, 19, restrictions have paralyzed parts of the city. the crisis prompting prime minister justin for dough to serve emergency powers. rescuers in greece have saved to people who were stranded inside a burning ferry for more than 15 hours. so for hundreds had been rescued from the ship which caught fire while travelling between greece in italy. some 290 passengers and crew were initially aboard 11 people are still unaccounted for.

malawi has detected the 1st case of wild polio virus in africa and more than 5 years. the stream is linked to one circulating in pakistan with the virus is still endemic. julio targets the nervous system and cause can cause paralysis with an hours. there is no cure, but it can be prevented by vaccination. at least 9 people have been killed as fear storms batter, northern europe. record breaking winds have disrupted transport 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, remain drawn to the forces of nature. storm 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 authorities in the u. k issued

a rare red warning for parts. a southern england, including london, was sections of the o. 2 arena roof were ripped off by this storm. so the message along with it is lost in his office has the red weather warning stain doors. a still new, this is the worst still we based in 3 decades sprinkler inadvertently put ourselves in the hallway adobe altos, numerous flights were cancelled, and the ones that did try to land in london heathrow, many ended up being diverted, trained services were interrupted as well, leaving many passengers stranded, less quiet annoyance by i've been able to you. well, it worked out quite well because i spend a little more time with my system before i had it back up. i'll try to make my way . if i have to sticker taxi just went out to germany, france and the netherlands also issued severe weather warnings. storm eunice is

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