ah ah, this is the deputy news line from bad name ukraine's president calls for tough sanctions against russia. i made fears of a full scale invasion, joined by the leaders of poland and a few. i know a lot of me as the landscape says, europe's future security is being decided in ukraine as the country calls up reservists and prepares to declare a state of emergency. also on the program. residents free parts of easton ukraine as separate as shelly and continues the w visits. a village caught in the crossfire on weight distinguished representatives. the beginning of

a large scale war in ukraine will be the end of the world order. as we know it, crisis foreign minister makes an urgent appeal at the un recording on the international community to take action against russia. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. the leaders of poland. unless you and you say ukraine should be granted european union candidate status because of the security challenges it faces from russia. the 3 leaders issued a joint declaration following talks in cave. they also called on the international community to impose robust sanctions against russia, including measures targeting the north stream to gas pipeline between russia and germany. a germany has now committed to holton its approval process. ukrainian,

president of all of them here as the landscape warned that russia's actions in easton, ukraine will impact the whole of europe. dedira healey replaced her, we had substantial discussions on wishes, actions regarding security. and we are confident that the future of european security is being decided now here in ukraine, unless we have coordinated our efforts on how to count rat washer and how to deescalate the situation was living with bank that were switching on the russian military build up along ukraine's border appears to be continuing images from a u. s. satellite company, i said, to show an enlarged bass in southern bell ruse, just a few 100 kilometers from the ukrainian capital. u. s. president joe biden says, russia's invasion of ukraine has already begun russian troops on the move, their heading towards ukraine's east and border as fighting between ukrainian and

separatist forces continues. far away from the frontline, the upper house of the russian parliament voted to authorize the use of force outside russia's borders. they also approved vladimir putin's recognition of the don yeske and lou haskell people's republics as independent states. but the russian president didn't stop there. he later announced the borders of the 2 republics, include the ukrainian held territories, not just the rebel held areas, nor was it but his knell we recognize of that done. yes. and hans people's republics, which means we have recognized all the founding documents, including the constitution. and the constitution defines the board, us off the don yeske and lou hans regions at the time when they were part of ukraine. nobody mc again, you will, if us, they will. crane. in response, u. s. president joe biden accused the russian leda of setting up

a russian now to take more territory by force. this is the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine as he indicated and asked permission to be able to do from his duma. so let began to so i'm going to began to impose sanctions a response. far beyond the steps we and our allies and partners implemented in 2014 the us satellite company has released new images that claim to show military vehicles messing in southern belarus. even as western nations coordinate a unified response, many fear a full scale attack on ukraine is still part of russia's plans. will they? w correspondent mathias bottega is covering developments from a village close to the line between ukrainian and separate is held territory where fighting has intensified over recent days. and he joins us so

now. oh welcome mathias, what's going on there? so i am now in chrome at all. that's the administrative capital of the donnette screeching region. well, the, all these administrative units have evacuated to after done yet, was occupied by these self proclaimed republics in 2014. we can see here, behind me, a peep people have come with ukrainian frat flags to support or their country in the response to this a, to this escalation. and to the recognition of these self proclaimed republics. um the situation at the border in the village is just along the line of the contact line where the 2 sides stand face each other is dire. people have been a shelled for several days. now. in some villages these shells,

they hit right into the center of the village. sometimes you just hear them somewhere. you don't know where they are. it's a very, very difficult situation and people there are scared. i have taken a look at some of them. it is quiet at the moment a good time to leave for days. now the people in the village of rubica have been under fire. the villages in ukrainian government control territory and is being shared by separatists from the other side. you know yellow, diesel deliberately and then up the whole night. some people are still in a cellar too scared to come out. did the kids spent the whole day yesterday downstairs but at night we went upstairs this pertinent because it was too cold. downstairs a seller is a seller and put lowest bottom half of the village has already left the others are terrified. shells of come down, right in the center of the village. one shall hit the school yard while children

were in clos. others have damaged people's homes. luckily no one has been hurt so far, but the constant stress has taken its toll electricity and gas have been cut off. now gas workers have come to patch up some of the damage or they went. we fix the pipe twice already. we came last week yesterday and today we're here again. well, because quite far away from the artillery positions of the other side, there are 15 kilometers between here and the front line, which is just the range of this artillery that they are using. people who have not experienced this kind of fighting, even during the worst times a few years ago will in our mark her ankle. and her neighbors have tried to make the most out of the cold and damp cellar. but the

effect of the electric heater is limited. she is in and out of the basement constantly those days. but i need to go up now to take some stuff to my daughters place. she is finally leaving with her kids at least to a place nearby. she would like her to move further away until it becomes clear with the latest news from moscow and cleave me. no, i don't know what to think now. yes, i do not yet understand anything. i don't even know what to do next.

it takes just a few minutes and this shelly begins again. can we go back to matessa, putting it under that mathias as, as tensions escalate. reservists are being cold up to do walt weather. ukrainian army has been fighting for 8 years, and many people have been at the front lines during these 8 years and half some combat experienced, even if they're not in active duty. now they are listed as reservists, and they are being called of course to reinforce the existing army, the in this existing a military forces m d, the, the, the fear is that this conflict might escalate, might might escalate into something a to a large scale war. and then the, the, the now active military and conscripts they will won't be enough. so all

these people on are being called back into the positions where they have trained and fort before. okay, today's been another, a busy day with lots of announcements being may will hear from the ukrainian president, followed me as zalinski and then we'll come back to you because we mentioned zone. so very important to see germany's decision to put nord stream to on hold nest. it's important to fully stop this project. yeah. which is a weapon is a weapon that's already being used against teen crane. and because the whole of europe t, t, europe, term it is, i've let me ask you that talking about that gas pipeline project between at germany and russia, that was one of a number of sanctions that was announced that's been announced by the european union. and countries around the world. so how does where mister zalinski and i feel about the support he's getting from the international community

overall, the ukrainian government has been relieved that so many that sanctions have been implemented swiftly. um salons, gath criticize the western partners before for not doing enough not doing enough to deter russia. he would have liked the, some of these sanctions to come into effect before russia did something. and this recognition of these republics is in fact a step into the country. when the russian army will deploy our forces, officially the have been russian soldiers before in these republics. but now officially bring forces into these republics. and this is seen as an official incursion of ukraine's ended, and he would have liked the deterrence to be stronger, to maybe have prevented this. however, this is over now. um he is now calling for a robust response or by the western allies. the 1st steps have been made and, but what he says would rec, ukraine really needs now,

is guarantees security guarantees. um, so this is just the 1st step of from, from the ukrainian perspective. and there is hope that this, that the, that the western allies will stay firm and will escalate tensions if russia escalades to situation. thank you for that, mrs. belinda in easton, ukraine, leer and general assembly has been meeting 2 addresses, crisis ukraine's foreign minister. i called vladimir prudence actions a threat to the world order, and urge the international community to take action to deter russia. un secretary general antonia good, cherish at describe the situation as an extraordinary crisis. we meet in the face of the most serious global peace and security crisis in recent years. and certainly, in my time, a secretary general all this facing a moment of battle, i truly hoped it would not come less get more from her date of the correspondence

of a solid in washington. welcome oliver. so concerned words there from the b u. n. a has the you and been able to exert influence over this crisis. and it's very complicated. fill the united nations are in a difficult position. of course, ideally, the general assembly would come out with a resolution. it has to be on anonymously. of course, a condemnation of the activities, the russian activities in ukraine. but of course, all countries need to be on the same page there. and also what the general assembly decides is not legally binding. it's rather recommendation very much in contrast to what the security council does that had a meeting on sunday. so if they came to a resolution that would be a different scenario. but of course, the other problem is that number one, russia is currently cheering the security council. they certainly can't dictate the

agenda there, but they have vito rights. so it's very unlikely that there will be any substantial outcome other than putting the topic on the world stage of course. and then of course, also the structure of the united nations, which is still very much shaped by the post world war 2. or they have been reform plans, they have not been addressed. and therefore the u. s. position, especially also under president trump was that the united nations needs to be reformed. and what is russia been saying at this meeting of the general assembly? well, in the, in the forefront, the russian foreign minister, lovegrove accused united nations security council security, excuse me, the united nations secretary general rather antonio gutierrez, and taking sites also accusing the west of sending weapons to the to ukraine. of course, the western approach in contrast, has always been russia is not to be trusted here just a few days ago. there was a enormous clash at the security council between u. s. secretary of state entity,

blink. and when he predicted those russian plans and put them there on the stage, generally speaking, the western countries say russia is trying to push their narrative with misleading claims. do you stabilizing the situation there? and that even includes high ranking government officials like german foreign minister on a lena bear book, who accused russia lying recently. right. and so who else should we be keeping an eye on in this meeting? of course, china is very important. first and foremost, they have vito rides as well and they have closed ranks with russia in the past. as you know, feel that they have a common enemy anniversary, which of course is the united states. they both are against vocally against a further extension of natal, towards europe's east, and then china has g, a similar geopolitical interest. they consider taiwan chinese territory. on the

other hand, china just recently said that ukraine is a sovereign country and that they are, that their independence needs to be respected and at the same time also, china has a big economic interest in europe. so it's a very fine line. china is walking on here, is going to be interesting to see how they will handle this conflict. thank you for that. all of a solid, a washington. oh, this conference has last relations between ukraine and russia. that lowest point for years kiff has a recall. this ambassador from moscow, i was considering cutting old diplomatic ties. i wasn't not long ago that new crime had approached russia precedent. 8 years ago. vladimir putin had a friend in key at president victor yena, coach. having pro russia president was very important for ashate men that the board of the forms were installed. it meant that any union with the west would not be possible. and in 2013,

when jani coverage refused to sign an association agreement for closer ties to the you, the people rebelled. scores died, hundreds were injured in the might on revolution. jacobi was ousted, and a new pro you government formed the kremlin, answered back with tanks. and annexed ukraine's crimean peninsula. moscow also through its support behind separatists, in the pro russia don baths region war broke out as the 2 eastern provinces done yet. sc and nuanced declared independence. european leaders brought the 2 sites together for the minced peace accords. but the war ground to a stalemate, a development far from the battlefield, also spiked tensions. in june 2015, russia announced the north stream to gas pipeline. it's route under the baltic sea

would bypass ukraine, meaning kiev would lose billions in transit fees. another turning point in 2019 with vladimir zalinski as ukraine's president. he vowed to restore the don bath region and renewed calls for nato membership. e bartalini, many leaders hint slightly that ukraine shouldn't take the risk of talking constantly about membership of the alliance. because this risky connected to russia's reaction, most of them, but that was a red mine for moscow portrait of a nuclear. no one thought that if you crane create such threats for russia be create similar threats for herself. what are the at the sure what, but also got the root? it was one of proven justifications for the russian troop build up around ukraine's borders. but unlike 8 years ago, ukraine is

a battle harden nation that's about to resist. let's take a look at a more story. so making news around the world level a security forty's. so they fought at a plan by the so called islamic state to carry out 3 suicide bombings in bay root. the country's interior ministry said the targets were shiite religious compounds. instructions for the attacks coming from an iris operator based in a palestinian refugee camp gun. an author, a cleanser rookie robber. shandra says he's relieved to be in germany for medical treatment of being tortured while in police custody and his home country. the writer was arrested in december and charged with insulting uganda as president managed to flee 2 weeks ago after being released on bail. authorities in hong kong have announced compulsory cove at 19 testing for all of the territory. $7400000.00 inhabitants next month. chief executive carry lab also extended strict social distancing measures. you said help from mainland china was required to tackle

a record search in corona violence, cases driven by the army con, very not her bikini, sasa, where all sorts of detained one person was part of an investigation into a deadly explosion that killed more than 60 people at an illegal gold mine a cause of monday's blast in gum. laura, in the southwestern province of pony, hasn't been established. the $63.00 people died in the explosion, which also level houses of routed trees. hospitals in the area, treating survivors. authorities of clothes that the site off in burkina faso, a gold legal gold mining is a large industry and includes many people. but many small mines operate outside the law. ignoring safety and environmental rules get more from a d. w a correspondence or market acoya in lagos. so welcome. authorities are investigating what, what more can you tell us of the state pray feel at once we do annoy is that indeed

the person who was arrested is the owner of the shop or the center of that blast that occurred to me? no, that's a markets is actually just a descent. the mining said i like you did mention that a lot of, you know, inform our mining sites in back in our fossil and that's why something like this happened. in fact, we're not even though it here and very little from authority in terms of the result of investigation. what locals are indeed saying that, look, this market, you can find all kinds of everything if you like, saw there. and that's why you will find out stuff that are probably better in the country like fan life and a dynamite been saw there. and which is probably, you know, one of the major cause of these explosion. so indeed, in the coming there, there should be answers to some of the questions like why is this operational, why is nobody regulated the site and what more can be done actually had to stop at

seeing the sort of explosion that's in or claimed the life of about 60 people an or a hub, a 100 or small injured as you did mention now the getting treatment in hospital feel. okay, so and how big an issue is illegal? gold mining there? clearly it's an issue in back in our fossil as you do know, a gold mine in is the main steve are back in our fossil. in fact, it is a growing producer of gourd, in the continent of africa, the 5th largest. i see me and it's a, it's a big left and it's a part of the economy growing the economy. but unfortunately, clearly they are also informal sides. and so some of this informal sites are, we does go without regulation and you know, without oversight from authorities and which explains why we have this situation that we know that they have thing and no one seems to be regulating and no one seem to pain. so much attention of what is happening, voiced or quit, and who am particularly if i'm election or feel this side is ok. most of those

people while care about who has been there are, you know, set last people have come from different places occupying the up layers, of course, having to do business. but unfortunately, because of a lack of regulation, there are so much of this in for marseilles. or god, mining ember can are fossil and as a matter of fact, it's also the convent conservation of illegal, you know, as partition of this product as well. so it's a huge problem at the moment, or with these, it's now and upfront, if you like, you know, to government officials to say, as somebody needs to do their work at the should the regulation that should be clarence for those who are operating in this sort of places and of course, and make sure that it is a veteran, mentally safe for both the people. why in the mining and those who are around the place as well? feel ok. thank you so much for that. the w correspondent, a macro coyer in lagos. there's been a half a year since international troops pulled out of afghanistan, italian. i'm seized, power running off your answer worked for foreign forces are still trying to escape the new islamist regime. germany has helped more than 10000 people to me. a 1000

small remain. d, w has been speaking with one afghan, who worked for a german angio, and he's now living in a country road somewhere in afghanistan. we can't disclose where this man is staying tonight or his identity for his own protection. i was one of the former local african staff. we implemented projects for germany in afghanistan for many years since the collapse of afghanistan. we can't stay here anymore. we are threatened by the taliban and we are afraid of them. immediately after the taliban seized power in august, they came looking for him. i wasn't home at the time, but my father was. they beat my father badly, and they tortured him and asked him to find me. they gave him

a date by which time he had to find me. the family has been on the move ever since. the man worked on behalf of the german government at an n g o until 2014. he's hoping for a visa to germany. he wrote to his former supervisor, but says he's received no answer. i always ask myself why i helped the germans in afghanistan. why did i work with an organization that doesn't care about us that has forgotten us in the media, they always said the leaders of germany and other countries support those who helped us in afghanistan. the german government says it has approved entry for more than 21000 people since may 2021. but only some have been able to leave afghanistan . thousands are still waiting of many in hiding. this man

also worked for the german army, mostly as a subcontractor, which means he's not eligible for a visa. he says the taliban are looking for him. how much was gordon london hood every day? people who worked for foreigners are being murdered on remote dirt roads law. we have no idea what to do, the funky, what she brooklyn him. back in germany, refugee writes groups accused the german authorities of inaction. if holiday we demand immediate action from the new german government, the sluggish bureaucracy needs to end. whoever needs protection must be allowed to leave the controls highs due of the german government declined to comment on camera . this man will not be returning to his family home. any time soon, he just hopes that the german government will finally help him. let's take a look at what's coming up in just a moment. here on d w. a news asia,

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