report from the heart of brazil stuart's march 9th on d. w. with the news alive from berlin. western lead a step up diplomatic efforts to prevent the russian invasion of ukraine. russia extends military drills by joints calls or more talks to our beds and all out war. high level negotiations are scheduled to come and i was green, remembers victims of the app rise an 80 s ago, which al, that then pro russia president will hear from our correspondence in the capital kid

aging closes, it went to a little bit of a shadow by the pandemic restrictions and open scandals around in russian staff. ah, i am eddie micah junior and you are welcome to the program there. i hope so. be breakthrough in the crisis of ukraine as russia, ukraine on the west join calls for more talks to our beds on all out war. russia is extend in milledgeville drills in bella. luce france says it's president manuel. my call has been told moscow is planning to withdraw its troops. once those exercises, alba, high level talks involving the u. s. gemini and friends. i do in the next few hours . they will discuss the c spy. a nice thing you cream where ration back separatist reagan id, simmering conflict on the lookout as shells fall on ukraine's eastern front

government forces say they have been ordered to show restraint. and they trust me right now. we don't respond to their fire because we're all, there's a shooting at us now at the command, post commando, unusable to live. our commanders don't allow us to file and we are following orders even if there is a wish to respond. or if the vote of deutsch because the enemy is waiting for us to shoot back the mortgage and the police. but if there is no political agreement, things will get resolved. with military power. ukraine's interior minister came under fire while visiting soldiers in the east. he was later brought to safety with navy school we. i'm a civilian, i'm not

a soldier. i'm shocked. say more and i know that the civilians who live here to permanently feel this fear. christina la emmon, though as it seemed like a fear that his approving lives as the crisis intensifies residents of ukraine, separatist regions, boarded trains and buses bound for russia. whose gazelle, my husband said, go away, take the kids and go their physical and psychological health is more important than anything else. meanwhile, russia has extended joint military drills with belarus that we're scheduled to and sunday. the exercises include nuclear capable missiles. nato has joined the us in warning that russia is planning a quote, full fledged attack against ukraine. d, w. 's, nick connelly joins me now from k. i a fellow named aaliyah. russia said it is

extending military exercises in bella rouge. but now we're hearing for me, manuel, my crawling down russia. plans to withdraw south like conflicting messages here. what that is all mean for you green? well, definitely there is a sense that eminem, nicole has we're shown that he's a capable of wishful thinking. here he came to visits very put in moscow just a week ago and basically briefed the press afterwards that he had resolved this conflict and that they were basically a roadmap to get out of this. and what was a found himself being contradicted by the criminal spokesperson? pretty soon after saying that none of the things that he had claim to achieve were actually in place of actually making a deal with france didn't make much of sense because the real important player and this is the u. s. so there's a sense that this might be the same. eminem, a call, spent over an hour on the phone with, i've been put a day talking about for the talks, meeting between our foreign ministers, but no sense that this is really going to change the kremlin thinking. in the short

term, those russian troops, $30000.00 estimates to be in belarus. beyond the end of exercises that was scheduled for today is a real threat to ukraine because sellers in ukraine share a 1000 close to border. so, a 1000 further kilometers that ukraine has to prepare for potential russian intervention on spreading. there is also thinly, so something that is causing cause is will concern here, give an out of the fighting in east in ukraine has also escalate that in recent days. what is the late as you're hearing from best separatist areas, where we've seen those images of civilians being evacuated by the pro russian separatist to russia? there is some debate as to how mass, how big that is, and some traditional this is more media and what kind of a game to try and create a sense of impending war rather than a genuinely kind of mass event. but still people are leaving men in between age of 18. 55 are being called upon to register for military service. dan duffy, there has been a huge optic in fighting there in recent days. well enough in the past months where

we had rush, massing, their troops on ukraine's borders, the actual frontline and dumbass where was been going on for a is, was surprisingly quite a now as if at the, at the, you know, the, the flick of a switch suddenly that has erupt, we saw a kindergarten being hit on the credit control side, people having to flee to bunkers, an air raid shelter. so real sense of tension, then, what all is going on today. ukraine is commemorating the victims of the my than protest in 2014. what's been happening? well, just where i am here on my don square. we've had people day come, lay flowers and candles. and basically, just to remember that often very personal connections to this major event that basically started ukraine off on it's part of going towards europe and turning it back to russia back then when ukrainians went out to demonstrate coastal to europe and eventually set there for russian present packing, we saw russia annex crimea and support those rebels in easton ukraine. and we

talked people here. now they say this is just more of the same that now ukraine's desire to join close to nature and the eu has once again brought russian threats of force against ukraine out and that for them, this is just all just episodes, one long story of their attempts to grow closer with, with europe and the west. now connelly many thanks. the green crisis dominated discussions that immune executed on france. the gathering brought together western political and need to lead us. he greens presidents was also there, and russia stayed away, send and no representative for the 1st time since 1991. when its last day the conference shifted for goes to europe and its role in the crisis unfolding on ukraine's bought a new council presidential. michelle summed up the views of many in the block, any janitor closer offer and the live branch, while russia and debts missile test intern,

tenuous to our most troops. but ladies and gentlemen, one thing is certain, if there is further military aggression, we really, we act with massive sanctions. and just for russia, most b and will be severe. but let's be french. it will be also, are just for us in europe, losing our prize europe seems willing to pay if russia does attack ukraine. because the threat from moscow has not caused division in the alliance. michelle stressed, but cemented unity and unity of purpose. the youth foreign policy chief added in contrast to countries like russia and china, which were undermining democracy and watering down human rights must realize that the main target did not about defending western values is not about defending the west, but upholding shared principles. that on to been come on security and promote

collective goals. the conference was a show of western resolve, but not off dialogue with russia, which was absent for the 1st time in decades. the hope is that blood in me a protein can still be persuaded to step back from the brink of war. to some more stories making headlines around a wild sudanese security forces are fired, tear gas and protest as demonstrating against last october's military cool medic see. one man was shot dead and several others wandered. thousands rallied in the capital, hating carrion posters of people killed during recent rallies. people in molly are celebrating. frances move to full its troops out of the west african nation. french forces have supported molly and tackling radical islamist, malicious for the past 9 years. but relations have sought, especially thought the hour in 2020 that

too, from torrential rains. that trigger, flash floods and landslides in brazil has arisen about 150 rescue workers and residents of the mountain city of metropolis. some 17. i'm just north of rio de janeiro are still searching for scores of people who remain missing trying britton's queen elizabeth has tested positive cove at 19. buckingham palace says the monarch has mout symptoms and will continue with light duties. the queen met a son, his son, prince charles, just these before he tested positive the virus. earlier this month, the meeting went olympics. i've ended with the traditional closing ceremony after 2 weeks and hundreds of metals, the controversy surrounding the event human rights and do been among them. gave way to pageantry the games finished in a snowflake themed extravaganza,

the bats and that stadium. and then make restrictions kept athletes. officials on the media and the tides bubble. we look back at some of the highs and lows. wow, fire works lit up the night sky in beijing to mark the start of the 2022 winter olympics. china's government spent billions in the builder and cove. it didn't make it any easier. the host nations human rights record was put under international scrutiny. their treatment a bigger muslims prompted countries like the u. s. and the u. k. to stage a diplomatic boy, china responded by having a bigger athlete. light the olympic flame. sticking to the script. international olympic committee president, thomas bah, cited his know, politics pledge, the or her position or for the the i you see. her must be given

the are fully tickler neutrality that we are not her commenting on her political. her issues, however, organizers did comment on this display from ukraine. instead of calling it political, the i o. c described it as a call for peace on the sporting front. russia's 15 year old figure skater, camilla valley ava dominated headlines due to testing positive for a band substance. but due to being a minor, while the eva was allowed to continue competing, which didn't end well for the teenager. away from the politics and controversy. china hauled in a record 9 gold medals. 2 went to freestyle skier, eileen, go. francesco free day and germany's bobsled team had an unforgettable showing in beijing. but when it comes to the best of the best,

out doing all nations was norway. the norwegians topped the metals table with a record 16 golds for more than the successful germans. despite the hiccups here and there, the beijing winter games provided plenty of sporting highlights and historic achievements from on the final day of the winter olympics and basie and fabi and christmas join sas. hello fabian, how to china presents itself as the host of the games? well, i mean a china definitely. i'm proof that it could pull off from organizing a winter games drink to pandemic. i'm the olympic bible, the safety concept to state in tech and also presented itself as a wind. us bought nation. i mean, they were winning a record number of gold medals. however, and politically, i think this game was overshadowed by the diplomatic boycott. and to also am,

it did not really represent the yahoo olympic spirit. i mean the slogan was together for she had future. but many observers say that, am the olympics actually revealed? the rising gap between china in the west. you mentioned that they bloom optic. why caused that to happened? do you think china cared about that in any way? yes, ha, do i mean it to the outside? they basically am yam, did not seem to care, but i think they really do care about the image. they want to present a more lovable image that they want to also gain in terms of soft power. and in that regard, they clearly failed and am, there are several reasons for that. and one is also media, not only the political boycott, but also the young m isolated country. i mean, of course we and append demik. however, many athletes, many coaches were really also yet upheld by the, by the safety concept because it was really very strict here in the am city for

example. and there was no connection to the m f. m. population towards the game system. okay, no euphoria. so it was really a very surreal that went against ok. robin crestmarc invasion. thank you. that's all for now. ok. next. our digital magazine chill shift lives out. smart cities. i am ready, mike, a junior, this more coming up on the top of the hour. so don't go anywhere, stay around on the green. you feel worried about the planning meeting? i'm neil. host of the on the green fence podcast and to me it's clear we need to change. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation for me for you, for the plant

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