ah, ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, an impassioned plea from the ukrainian president bush and the crane is longing for peace. your room is longing. at the munich security conference, ukraine's president followed immediately, lensky calls for more international support and a meeting with vladimir putin as tensions escalated, eastern ukraine, our correspondent visits of time. that's already been the target artillery attacks . plus the winter olympics brought to a close with

a ceremony in beijing that set to focus on ordinary people and athletes. ah, i'm pablo fo lillius welcome to the program. ukraine's president followed me to lensky is calling for face to face talks with russia's vladimir putin to resolve the crisis between their countries. moscow, he said to could even pick the location of the meeting. so lensky was speaking at the munich security conference here in germany, where he said ukraine will not respond to provocations in the eastern part of the country, but will defend itself against russian hostility. he also appealed for more support to defend ukraine against russia. on the 2nd day he took center stage were loading musa lensky, president of the country. all others have been talking about since the conference

kicked off ukraine, a country at the brink of war. he left key, if against advice from washington to make one more urgent call for help. we gentlemen would your good of em all. every one needs to understand that this is not some kind of donation need ukraine to be begging for them. i believe this is not just a broad gesture that ukraine should be bowing down for that you green and my this is your contribution to the european and international security for which ukraine has been serving as a shield for 8 years now. great. not a reliable shield yet, holding back one of the largest armies in the world. these humorous gifts, 3 murders they did. army suite zalinski that his country is not going to be a permanent buffer against that army on gil america. in bilateral meetings, he won the west that nato members could be next. if ukraine is attacked soon and, and the u. s. is convinced an attack is imminent. you do. we now receive

reports of what appears to be provocations. and we see russia spreading. this information lies and propaganda. german chancellor, allah shawls also stressed that moscow stated reasons for security concerns. are a pretext, was the genocide. this is the real problem that there is not the mate membership of ukraine on the agenda. it will not happen the next time i'd even look at the near time putting knows that the situation. but that is something ukraine's president has put up for debate because he would like to see his country join both the european union and natalie. you bought the brake light. ok, now gadget, dwayne it. we're told the doors are open for you, but so far there's no opportunity. you actually teach late and not all the members are willing to see us. they are all members don't want to see us there. would be

honest about it because he opened doors are good, it greets, but we need open answer l a level didn't read great g. everybody did answer us or something he didn't get while in munich, but still hoping to get them before it's too late. and applebaum is a pulitzer prize winning historian and columnist, who has written extensively about central and eastern europe. dw mcculloch has not asked her for her assessment of what she'd heard at the munich security conference . so on the threat of war is imminent. it's hanging over europe. what have you learned of the last 2 days of what could happen of the next? so i can't tell you what's in putin's head and nobody can tell you. and that's interesting in itself, because we now have russia where there is no war council, there is no politburo. there is no group of people who are making this decision.

the decision is being made by putin, himself, by himself. and therefore, the decision as to whether to go through with plans that we know exist it entirely up to him. we know that there are plans to invade ukraine full scale invasion, including an invasion of kiev and including a change of government, including maybe the deaths of tens of thousands of people. but whether he has pulled the trigger on that decision will know in the next, in the next several days. but because russia has become a, you know, an autocracy of a particularly centralized and a particularly hierarchical kind. there aren't really other people inside russia. we can consult to ask for their opinion. and russia wasn't here at the munich security conference. so was this just the west talking amongst themselves? and what's the effect of this threat? there were 2 important things happening at the conference. one was the west

affirming it's unity, which was nice to see. the vice president made a good speech, the american vice president. several german leaders made good speeches. there was an impressive appearance of the german foreign minister, bare bach with antony lincoln, the american foreign secretary. they impressively said the same things, they agreed about the necessity of sanctions. we know that germany is willing to pay it economic price for this and it was a, it was impressive there that they were and there's massive support for that here. now, the descendants, the problem is that the ukrainians who are also here in large numbers feel that's not enough. they, you know, they understand that there could be a full scale invasion. they understand that there will be no western military support for them. and so, in a certain sense, despite this western alliance agreement and so on, there alone and the, there was

a kind of greeting, you know, as i said, dissidents between those 2 views. and you heard it in the speech of president polanski of ukraine, who accused the of standing by of not doing enough. and that was a contrast to the many people who said here, isn't it wonderful how natives, united nato is united. it agrees that this is bad degrees, there will be sanctions. part of nato has agreed to send a military aid to ukraine and that of course might increase in the coming days. but in the end of the day it's going to be up to ukrainians and ukrainians to fight a nay. and that was made clear here. right. ok, well thank you very much for that analysis. like the recent shelling of ukrainian controlled areas which hate a kindergarten among other targets has been blamed on. russian backed separatists are correspondent mathias billing. i visited the area to get a 1st time view of the situation and how it's affecting local residence. the traces

of destruction have been patched up 2 days ago at this kindergarten in the town of stunning, said one sca was hit by a show. now the kids are at home, but of visitors, expected ukraine's deputy prime minister. you li. marvin, he shook is inspecting the damage we do not provoke, we do not want an escalation. we want peace, who on protection and security for our people, especially for those who live here for pensioners and children, and those who cannot protect themselves with images above. with gunfire can be heard frequently mal here and stunted fellow hon scott. just before the minister arrived, we heard heavier tillery the town has been shut for 3 days in a row. no. sugar got the scenarios that are with when there are heavy explosions.

we hide in the sellers. but when it's shelling like this, we're still on the street, although nobody knows. and this all unpredictable was just ones that you and i were standing here now and any think in fly by showing up at a lute little stunted salons cause a small but important place along the front line. a bridge to the other side is open to civilians being one of only 2 checkpoints where people could cross over to the other side. this place has long been spared of a tillery, but now this has definitely changed new yard almost of wood to shoot. and i think it will even get worse, the young girls and i'm not a coward who could reasonable use, i'm afraid for my grandchildren. i wouldn't want them to be scared, and i don't want to see them disabled for daddy of he'll be dealing with the thought. the international observers have warned that the escalation might be the prelude to a larger incursion, or even a full scale invasion. not all of our intelligence does not confirm this. we are

seeing certain steps towards an escalation, as you all can see and hear their shelling happening. but that does not mean that a full invasion is on the way. what doorbell? no, most of the building. but even without full scale invasion tensions remain high here on the front line. here's a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. one of the passengers missing aboard the ferry, a blaze of grease has been found alive. the man was spotted on the stern of the ship. the ferry caught fire in the iranian sea on friday with ram $300.00 passengers on board. canadian police have pushed back against several 100 protesters in the capital ottawa. they seized control of trucks and cleared the streets in front of parliament. scores of trucks left the 3 week demonstrations against the countries coven 19 restrictions, and prime minister, just in true dose. government wildfires in argentine as north are advancing with almost 8000 square kilometers of land have destroyed the blazes are threatening

a major national park and wetland which is home to protect it. animal and plant species. months of dr to and high temperatures have hit the region. an associate of the late jeffrey epstein has been found dead in a french jail. john luke buena had been charged with the rape and trafficking of miners. he was the co founder of 2 modeling agencies funded by epstein, a convicted sex offender authority, se epstein hanged himself in prison in 2019 in beijing after 2 weeks, hundreds of metals and no shortage of controversy. the winter olympics are signing off with the traditional closing ceremony. the organizer said they were happy with how the games had been stage to meet the pandemic with competitors kept in a strict bubble. but they didn't mentioned the doping issue with russian figure skater camila, uva or other controversies did have done the event. well,

for more on the final day of the winter olympics arman in beijing, johnson crane joins us now. hi jonathan, good to see you. now old, the metal events are over. what were the highlights on the final day? while no surprise to anyone, germany, one more cold in the bob said competition, francesco free trish pilots in the fire for man bob to success. now he completes a historic double w. want to go to p on track 4 years ago he repeated the trick here. 2 more goals. germany completely dominant in the sliding competitions. 9 out of 10 go. it's really incredible. but while germany had a flood of golds, it was more of a trickle of team g. b, the british team. i think even trickery, it's probably generous. they have to wait until the final day in the car like before they got back old metal. that was even you had to skip finally for her after 3 previous olympics where she came away without a couch,

you've got to hand someone last, they beat japan and dominant victory in the women's carrying final great success there. and there was also a fast for finland in the ice hockey. now fin, that is always been ever so consistent in saki competition. but this was the 1st time they've been on the top step of the party. and maybe the rushing olympic committee to won their real does victory for them. and i have to say inside the arena, it was the most boisterous celebrations i've seen at these olympics. i filed a through the helmets in the, at a through that sticks onto the ice. they ran on and moped each other, really enjoying the moment and you can't blame, blame them for that can happen to course not. now with all the metals time that i to the athlete to top the metal table that would be norway, with 16 gold medals to raise the hole in the cross country added a gold medal number 16 today. so that is a record no country before, as one asked, i many go matter with it's a windsor lympics. now you might say, look, no way they've got all the snow. it's easy for them, right?

but, you know, compared to other countries, they do have a smaller population. there are countries like germany, austria, reading with big populations who don't get to the top of the metal table. what makes norway stand out, what they really focus on? grassroots and youth participation getting kids involved in this sport early on. germany finish 2nd place in the middle table like they did in pure chang 4 years ago. now that was thanks largely to the sliding success as we talked about in the loo skeleton and pops that didn't so well in other sports and china instead, place them most successful winter olympics ever. how they finished for 9 gold medals that was almost double that previous best from vancouver in 2010. but perhaps more importantly for the chinese government, they finished the hate of the united states. johnson crane in beijing. a pleasure. as always, thank you. and finally carnival celebrations. have returned to the french city of niece after a 2 year absence. spectators enjoyed a lavish gray featuring a king of animals. the carnival was postponed for 2 years. there to,

to be corona virus pandemic. but to see a back that's all for now. coming up. next is our tech magazine shift with a look at energy transition and smart cities, and is plenty more world news analysis and debate as well as sports and business news on our website, the www dot. com, where you can follow some social media. i'm pablo fo lillius from the team here in berlin. take care to the top. next are these places in europe are smashing the records step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you record breaking sites on your back. youtube and know also in book form. sometimes a seed is all you need to allow big ideas to grow. we're bringing environmental conservation to why.