ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, new hopes for diplomacy to resolve the crisis over ukraine. u. s. president joe biden agrees, in principle to a summit with russian president vladimir putin. after efforts by francis and manuel mad call to de escalate tension. also coming up, credit suisse is fighting allegations, provided it, provided bank accounts to notorious criminals following a massive lee conduct the swiss secrets of her and were thrilled to be

back together. tears of joy as australia. welcome back tourists. after 2 years of top restrictions, we meet some of the families reuniting at the airport. and beijing closes the winter olympics, overshadowed by the pandemic politics and the doping scandal surrounding a russian skating star. ah. hello monica jones, thanks for joining us. you as president joe biden has agreed in principle to hold talks with russian president vladimir putin, that's after mediation by french president and manuel. my co aimed at diffusing tensions over ukraine. the kremlin says that's why there are no concrete plans for a summit. a meeting between the lead us is feasible. the white house says the talks won't happen if russia invades ukraine. something moscow says it has no intention

of doing. despite movement on the diplomatic front, russia in belarus are continuing military drills that was supposed to end on sunday . russia, extending military maneuvers to the united states. it's a sign that moscow is showing no interest in d, escalating the crisis. despite that french president emanuel mack cross raised hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough, he spoke to vladimir putin on sunday in 2 phone calls that last it almost 3 hours. he said the russian president agreed on the need to favor a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis. and to do everything to achieve one. but the u. s. is skeptical. secretary of state antony blanket maintains that russia is on the verge of invading ukraine. his old logic,

everything we're seeing tells us that the decision we believe present hooton's may to, to invade is moving forward. we've seen that with provocations created by the russians are separate his forces over the weekend, false flag operations. now the news just of this morning that the quote unquote exercises russia was engaged in belarus with 30000 russian forces that were supposed to end this weekend will now continue the weekend of mixed messages and power plays was paralleled by memorial events in kiev, commemorating the victims of the my dad square protests in 2014 and then on this day there was a turn in the history. the people who died here are our heroes. and we have to remember them. the team done with it of a finger purpose. we need to remember that people gave their lives for ukraine and for our european future, we need to respect and to love it. back then dozens were killed during protests

that ousted ukraine's pro russian president, 8 years later that people here don't want to see more conflict. earlier we spoke to russia, analyst and dw correspondent, constant in exit, and asked him what putin really wants. well i think that what present wants now is international attention and death. he's guessing. and secondly, he wants to continue to pressure. oh, the west to pressure. you cried. who tim doesn't believe that grain is a sovereign state and that ukrainians have their own national interest at all. and i think that you still think the west can do something about it. and in this respect, one fear that maybe ukrainians will have over this meeting between vitamin and with the mediation of macross. i think that putting that k to be officer, he knows the good cop bad cop routine that micro and by now trying to play probably

with him and he is probably prepared for that. all the other hand, i think the last few days actually showed that he's trying to protract pressure without crossing some kind of red line. after which everything is lawson diploma stick with the west and over and only thanks and remain. so i suppose it will not be a meeting that will produce any kind of solution, but it will be a meeting that will for some time pulled off the and that was the w correspondent in russia analyst company exit talking to us earlier. continuing the high level diplomacy german chancellor will have shoals is scheduled to call russian president pooty later today. following on from there in person meeting in moscow last week, a german government spokesman says the leaders will hold a phone call in a few hours to discuss the ukraine crisis. meanwhile,

your foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss security on the continent . the meeting is being spearheaded, i just a barrell, the ears foreign policy chief. he welcome to the prospect of a summit between us and russia's president, but said to a sanctions package for russia had been finalized in the event of an invasion. the 27th you member states are also set to discuss further support for keith and, and john, now bi monthly to vba which wants us from bavaria. he's a conservative politician in germany, and he's also the leader of the conservative european people's party group in the european parliament. good to have you with us, of ukraine's foreign ministers, archie, ukraine's though foreign minister attending the foreign ministers meeting. it says that you has agreed to establish an advisory military mission in ukraine. what exactly is that? what does that entail?

that shows. so there is, oh, great friends that also owns military sidey annex to them. and, and i would add the biggest, the biggest thing, but we can do currently, and that is a positive signal today from brussels, is that we are clear on the sanctions that nobody can split up. the european union together is all american friends. and the list is strong enough to put in those bill will be high. that is the most important that we can do currently to guarantee peace. so you mentioned the sanctions list, but sanctions are not yet on the cards. you yourself, called on the you, you to agree, hard economic sanctions against russia, but when we speak about the war in europe, that is so the threat in front of us and that's by economic arguments cannot be number one piece must be number one argument and my political group, the biggest political group in europe, in parliament, we are very clear for us lawsuit to cannot be continue to. we have to exclude the russian banks from the west on financial system. so swift is on the table. and the

3rd thing is, high technology must be banned from their russian market. so putting can not have access to this that are the 3 main principles we have in mind. and i would wish to see an outspoken, you can, you know, not only to be tar from voting, but also to be tough and clear on the concrete steps we do afterwards. if you have a clear bill for put in, then it can stop in. now, what were talking right now about advisory, a military mission in ukraine. we're talking about potential sanctions. but is that all that you can offer, given the passionate speech that we heard from the training precedents and ends gave them unique security conference over the weekend? well, i fully, i fully understand and i'm fully on the side of visit. and so lensky having in mind that from more than 40000000 cranes are now living under conditions of a possible boring from person. they need a clear signal. is it, is it, is it worth to buy it now for democracy and full of law and for freedom?

is europe ready to open the door for their membership? and i would say yes ukrainians must have a clear idea if they want to join. if they want to be part of the best and role they are. welcome, that must be the main message from our side. so to strengthen sues who are living currently under the feeling of an open door in front of them. that is what he has to do. that is interesting that you would say that because the ukraine foreign minister has suggested in an interview that some european nathan members are currently urging ukraine to back off. it's dr. for nate membership. who is he talking about? is he talking about germany in france? well, everybody see some of the countries, the uncertainty and that is making us weaker. let's be frank about this under the current structure of the european union as a whole is not prepared for the big challenge is on the global stage in front of us . so that's why i think we have to overcome the unanimous vote mechanism in the,

in the decision making process in european level than it is buffering affairs. and we have to build up also european activities on defense and military activities on european level. having in mind that now again, put in by not talking about european security, you know, european leader is sitting there, have been such a been such a meeting will take place in the hopefully will take place in the next days. that gives us a clear idea that you must speed up my stand up, must organize themselves that be a better prepared to organize and guarantee security on our soil. biology modified eva conservative therapy in people's party group leader in the european parliament . thank you so much for your time. thank you so much. and he is a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world firefighters are battling a huge blaze that broke out at an apartment complex in the western german city of ethan early on monday, around $100.00 presidents, our residents were evacuated. officials say that nobody is reported missing the

strong winds from the 3rd storm to hit germany and under a weak, reportedly fuel the fire. in argentina, light rains have provided slight relief for firefighters battling a massive blaze. some 8000 square kilometers have been destroyed since the historic fires broke out weeks ago. months of drought and high temperatures have fueled the place in the countries north. 3 people are dead in iran after a fighter jet, crashed into a school compound. the aircraft was on a training mission and the countries northwest when he came down, killing 2 crew members and a person on the ground, the school is currently closed due to the pandemic. not ethiopia, where a civil war has left tens of thousands dead and billions displaced as government troops and the t gray in people's liberation front battle over territory. and investigation by the united nations found all sides and the conflict had committed violations including using rape as a weapon of war. our report,

marty and miller went to the horror region to meet women recovering from the trauma . and he has a warning. the following report contains descriptions of sexual violence. janette had no chance to run when 4 men came to her garden. we are not identifying her in this report. and english, she got a denali one, put her gun to my air, the other one put a gun to my ribs, couldn't metronidazole. the girl looked when they took me into my house with uncle, for they picked me up and threw me down and set off at one of them put his feet on my shoulder and burned me. why? one of them burned me with a cigarette? cut out another was forcing me to have sex with him. the 4 men raped her for several hours. they left her with ha, v and other infections. and

a deep fear. citizens get in if they come back and take control of the town again, i have to die. i am very scared in this town hike during that raid last november. the men were fight as loyal to the t gray people's liberation front or t p l f. bad men on both sides are using sexual violence as a weapon of war. when janet asked that he grounds why they were raping her, they told her government forces had done the same in their towns to their mothers and sisters. she's doing her best now to build a future and has started a distance learning course. she wants to set up a small business. nathan, her kim and madam, i want to go to school because i didn't attend to school as a child. now education is good for my work to get more knowledge and live a better life than just

a few streets away. a 14 year old girl. she also wishes to remain anonymous. the to grand fighters came to her home to cosign to so we'll go look, go latrina. and one of them said, i will take one of you and al kill one of them are going to bend my sister. faint until i'm rachel. my aunt begged him, but he said no, i will kill you and take one of you or to my sister. so i told him to leave them and do whatever he wants to me, only other clinging up there yet. i was scared at be killed or raped. another thing adorned a fling, but if so i didn't expect to come back. i am, i fear dad die. what had holiness look? he didn't kill her. he raped her for much of the night. since then, she often misses school for medical appointments, but also to avoid gossip and bullying or gotten with that also get by her to silly . but i prefer not to go to school and tell him to sort the people i used to play

with there. but now when i agreed them today, but they don't want to play with me as al ambulance and i took but let jeanette salaam has plans. she intends to become a police officer or soldier herself and get her own form of justice. but i seem to be more distilling, or i say i wish i could find him and kill him. i want him to die by my hand. having we've listened to several other women with similar stories across them. her region . they can tell the world what happened. women over the board in te grey have suffered similar attacks. but the de facto ban on journalists means their voices can not yet be heard. and turning to other news now, credit suisse is facing allegations that it has been handling dirty money for decades. and investigation led by german daily. the pseudocode site on has revealed that her switzerland's 2nd biggest lend, unknowingly managed hundreds of millions of dollars, was suspected war criminals,

corrupt autocrats and drug dealers. as according to an investigation by a consortium of over 40 median august, those stations world wide swiss banks this it rejects the insinuations about its purported practices. let's talk about that now with the business rob was joining in the studio. rob, well, what can you tell us about that today to leak? yes, we have the panama papers, the paradise papers, the pandora papers. well now we have what people are calling this secrets. and this is data relating to 30000 clients of the big swiss land. and the accounts in which they held some $100000000000.00 euros around $9000000000000.00, even around $90000000000.00 euros. and all of this information has been handed over by a whistleblower to torture sites long. as you said, the whistle blow, we don't know if it's an individual or a group, but they have said that they're doing this because they want to expose the immorality of the swiss banking secrecy laws. and that those merely serve as

a fig leaf fig leaf. that they've wanted to remove here, and we've had dozens of media organizations going over these documents over recent months and they say they've uncovered all kinds of links to criminal activity. people who hold these accounts being linked to for example, as a human trafficker in the philippines, you had an account with credit suisse. there's the former boss of the hong kong stock exchange, who was found to have been accepting bribes to allow companies to list on the stock exchange. he was set of a, a credit suisse account some 10 years after being convicted of that and go to a high security prison. but he was able to keep apparently tens of millions of dollars in this account, or there's a criminal activity as money laundering, as corrupt politicians or even an egyptian billionaire. he tried to arrange to have his girlfriend murdered all these people who were able to set of accounts or maintain accounts that were kind of clear tailed, that one should be proud of what the credit was saying about it. well,

credit suisse says that it can't comment on any of these individual cases, precisely because of those very secretive swiss banking laws. but it does say that it rejects allegations and inferences about his business process from this league. it says that the information is very selective or say that its been taken out of context and it also comes from over a very long period. you know, they came back as far as the 19 forties and credit suisse as well that you know, back back then laws, very different practices, very different and people expect different things from financial organizations. but we have to point out that more than half of these bank accounts were set up since the turn of the millennium. so they're not so historically very briefly, rob, what's that do into credit suisse reputation? well, it's doing no good and it couldn't be coming to worst time really had a terrible 2021 is involved in all sorts of controversies, not least the collapse of the green. so capital supply chain financing group. and also the articles capitalist recently very recently lost is chairman because he was

found to have been getting round cove restrictions. so it's coming to very bad time . and it's just another discredited credit suisse. and they seem to be used to trouble by now robots from the business. thank you so much. almost radiance. it's been more than 2 years since they've seen family and friends from abroad. now, australia, as we opened its borders to international visitors, as it eases it's tough grown up virus controls. fully vaccinated arrivals to most states will no longer need to quarantine for weeks in hotels. journalist daniel robinson luasa sickness international airport to capture some emotional reunions. after enduring some of the strictest private border rules in the world, australia has begun its final plan out of the pandemic. true as the now welcome back into the country, often really 2 years, a relief for family and friends torn apart by separation. any fully vaccinated, international traveler from all over the globe will now be allowed to enter.

estrella meaning migrants with family members can be reunited and temporary visa holders can travel freely. more than 50 international clots will land across the capital cities in the 1st 24 hours at a portable, ready, been filled with tease of joy, to speak with lion, to be a pause, and straight into the arms of love to walk with her with her. and we're thrilled to be back together. hey, call us daily home and i'm so happy to be back. yeah, it's exciting to be out here now. so excited for soon i'm meeting mom and then headed home, my family and friends and all the babies that have been on that i haven't been to the last see. the only state or territory international travel is aren't committed to enter is western australia, which brings down it's hard border. on march 3, all international arrivals, we're required to have quoted related documents like vaccination certificates. and to proof of the negative test, this is expected to be

a major bruce to the tourism industry. that was free. pandemic was worth more than 70000000000 euros to the economy, tourism also a pivotal factor for many businesses to survive. the country for locking people in and out of the country now has a new message. welcome back. but these grand opening will take some time to help the tourism industry get back on their feet with operate is preparing for a slow stream of arrivals rather than a huge block sold a month. overall, this is being seen as a positive step and one that has been welcomed by all those you have over the last 2 years, mr. pivotal life moments due to the strict order rules. now that the hot water has come down, the overall sentiment is one of relief and celebration. and i was journalist daniel robinson reporting from sydney airport sports now and after 2 weeks and hundreds of metals the beijing winter olympics are over. the organizers are claiming the games or success despite the controversy surrounding the event. is

a look now back here to some of the high points and lowes. oh, fire words 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 of rigor, muslims prompted countries like the u. s. and the u. k. to stage a diplomatic boy car, china responded by having a weaker athlete like feel a big flay sticking to the script. international olympic committee president, thomas bah, cited his know politics pledge. the position or for the, the i, you see her must be given the political or neutrality of it. 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 du, francesco friedrich and germany's barb sled team, had an unforgivable showing in beijing. but when it comes to the best of the best, out doing all nations was norway. the norwegians top 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. and with controversy threatening to cloud, who it should have been a moment of pride for beijing, the foreign correspondents club of china say their quote, this made by chinese authorities attempts to silence independent reporting in a strongly worded statement released on monday, the f. c. c. c. said government interference occurred regularly during the games. the fcc is disappointed that china has tightened conditions for the press, contrary to the olympic spirit of a more, i'm joined now by china correspondent fabian catch now, who is in a beijing for us fabbing their strong words, they are from the foreign correspondence club of a china, what more can you tell us about those accusations center?

do you stood a square with, with your own experience? yes, some journalist, they have been denied interview requests. another journalists who did a life hit on tv basically i'm what i'm doing right now has been men handled. am another journalist has been followed by mind as well. i'm basically just asking people on the street what they think about the olympics. yet those accusations i can definitely relate to them. they happened to me as well. it's not the norm but it can happen anytime. and usually it happens because m yahoo or new members of the neighborhood committee or local m a security stuff on the ground or ground. they act very overzealous and they think they're in line with the official rules, but they are not. and yet it can happen anytime and of course i should imagine that this is not exactly the kind of press surgeon ping had been helpful for. is it no, definitely not. i mean, some observers argue that china doesn't seem to care any more what the

international community thinks about them, but i would strongly disagree. i'm china wants to be a lot, but what we happen is basically, we're seeing the result of a narcissistic injury. if china cannot be loved every attempt that they do it increasing their soft power failed. so now they want to be respected and we only have to compare what happened in 2008, 14 years ago. and there were the some olympics at that time international journalists that were welcomed and it was really quite open and you could do the independent reporting. i mean, compared to doubt was almost like a paradise. now the attitude that the officials are having to what's international correspondence, it's paranoia. we're really, i'm almost perceived as foreign spies in some extreme cases. so the move really has changed a lot. all right, to china correspondent, fabia and catch my there in beijing. thank you so much. in watching dw news, he is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. use president joe biden has agreed in principle to hold talks with russian president vladimir putin. that's

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