ah ah ah ah, this is did all the news why the from berlin? russia suspends participation in its last major arms control treaty with the president vladimir putin announced that moved during a state of the union address attempting to justify the war in ukraine. joe biden says, nato is stronger than ever. the west president is on

a diplomatic mission in europe. he's due to speak shortly in poland and it will bring you life coverage of his address. in the last, mom, my friends would contact the police kept saying that my time had come to make a run for it. why? why hundreds of thousands of russians have left their homeland since the invasion of ukraine. and new earthquakes in southern turkey strike another blow to recovery efforts. at least 6 people are killed in a region already devastated by natural disaster. ah. hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. russia is suspending its participation in its last major nuclear disarmament treaty with the united states.

president vladimir putin announced the decision during an address to the nation. the new start treaty commits russia, and the last to limiting their stock pile of nuclear warheads came into force in 2011 and was due to expire and 2020 sex. appleton. also warned washington that if the u. s. presumes nuclear tests, russia will do the same. his audience of law makers applauded the announcement of their you. i repeat what russia is, you don't withdrawing from the treaty. no, no. but even ladies suspending his participation. but before returning to the discussion of this issue, we should understand for ourselves what such countries of the north atlantic treaty alliance like france and great britain claim years ago. from and high, we will take into account their strategic arsenals. that is the alliances combined

strike potential, which through our company would barely put them so alliance. i spoke earlier to our correspondent uria shadow in rica, and he told me what russia suspension of the new start treaty means. well, if the purpose of this treated clear is to reduce nuclear weapons, it's the only remaining element of the nuclear arms control treaties system between the united states and russia. and the 2 countries hold together about 90 percent of the world's nuclear warheads, which is pretty much so we should be pretty worried about the suspension of the treaty provides for mutual inspections on nuclear facilities on each other's territory. so that each side can make sure that the other side doesn't deploy more nuclear well warheads than agreed. a month ago, the united states already used to rush off, refusing to assist you, asked those inspections mosque or threatened to withdraw from the treat in 2026 completely. and now this suspension comes put in explained to step by saying that united states,

as united states would be developing allegedly new types of nuclear weapons and process should be ready to conduct nuclear tests. now, tell us your a more broadly about putin's speech. this is his annual state of the union, but obviously this year taking place under exceptional circumstances. what were some of the other major themes? well, it is a more arms west and ukraine is supplied by the west. he said to defer the rush of bush. those arms back away from the russian border. that was probably an indication that russia might try to an x more ukraine and territories in his speech. and any case in any case that this was a warning to ukraine and a warning to the west, 1st of all, to the united states. by the way, just in our after put in speech the russian foreign ministry us among you as, as monkey right? yes, baset or to moscow and expressed a diplomatic protest because of the growing involvement of the united states. still, it is on the site of ukraine. if the said in a statement, basically it's the old fashioned way to reverse all accusations made against russia

and to accused the rest of the same of the same. and put in speech was an attempt to convince the goal to that, that the danger doesn't come from russia, but from the west for russia. now, he is speaking to a domestic audience there. what kind of support does he have almost a year since russia's invasion of ukraine? well, ok many, maybe it, most people in russia have long since given up the attitude to protest motor. what's happening in ukraine was going on there unless the mobilization i faxed to them personally let it be put in. no. so that and that's why the 2nd part of his speech or the, the larger one was about the social policy of his government. also, he said that that the presidential elections who beheld in 2024 so next to get in accordance with rational loss. so is he speech today owner? as the national president clearly wanted to be seen, not only as the president of war, but rather as the president of peace, which is logical if you keep in mind he's ambitious to run for the president's and

next to get one more time. thank you so much for that. update that to d. w. 's uria or shadow enrica lafayette. really appreciate it. and just a short time ago, i spoke to john j sullivan, who served as us ambassador to russia until last september. i asked him how concerned we should be about whose decision to pull russia out of the new start treating. this is so regrettable and irresponsible moved by the russian government . but it's something that they'd already signal they had already in effect suspended, participating in the treaty. some time ago, by declining request that the u. s. made for inspections, which we, which the united states is entitled to have under the treaty. it's not something that russia gives us. it's something we're entitled to under the treaty. they've also refused to meet in this group called a bilateral consultative established by the treaty. we're both sides are supposed to talk about issues under the tree. they've declined to allow inspections or to

meet and discuss the treaty. they'd already suspended participation. what i think significant, clear is proven, went further than that. he said he wants to know what a great britain and france are doing before he resumes participation in the treaty . this is a signal that he is going to withdraw, in my opinion, because the, this new start treaty is a treaty between the united states and russia. only that of an era for arms control in that sense. potentially it's what he's signaling and why is he signaling this because his worn ukraine is going so disastrously wrong for him. this is more nuclear blackmail, nuclear saber rattling by the russian government by president. he's done it before . this is, he's not taking the final step now and withdrawing from the treaty, what he's signaling that he's going to do it. now lincoln has left the door open to restarting negotiations at any time to think there's anything the u. s. could have

done differently to keep this treaty alive, or is this a reader the reason for the u. s. to change it's nuclear posture. will clear. we've been, we've been engaged with the russians to try to get this treaty reinvigorated to get inspections under way to meet in the treaty established process. to discuss issues that may arise under the treaty. and the russians have simply refused, and their excuse has nothing to do with the treaty itself. with the deputy foreign minister said some weeks ago was because the united states is so hostile to russia, in connection with ukraine. russia is going to participate in the new start tree. what does that say about their attitude? even at the depths of the cold war, the united states and the soviet union continued to have discussions on arms control agreements. what guten saying now is given what's happened in ukraine to my

special military operation. if this continues to go downhill, the new start treaty and maybe others. you know why the reactions by me, you're going to be going to be coming. now you stayed in moscow after the invasion of ukraine and all the way up until september 2022. what changes did you observe in russian society since the invasion of ukraine? well, there was a certain amount of fatalism among the russians that i engaged with. many were afraid to discuss their true feelings about what was happening because the russian government has been engaged in an enormous crackdown on independent media and g o z and so forth. i think a lot of people are afraid to speak their minds, but but clear, i'm afraid to say there are a lot of russians who over years being fed russian disinformation are prepared to

believe the absolutely untrue statements by booting today. that somehow the word that he launched in ukraine was actually a war, a war launched by the united states and our allies and partners. we did turns truth on its head. it would make george orwell blush. the, you know, the types of misstatements that he's, he's making when, unfortunately, the russian government has been gazed at disinformation campaign directed at its own people such that they are prepared to believe. many russians are prepared to believe the untruths that present brewton is speaking today. i also want to ask you look at the prospect of a grinding war of attrition in ukraine. what is your view on how and when negotiations between ukraine and russia might be possible? is there a scenario in which they could be productive? i clear, given my experience before the war started i in my involvement with the u. s. government and our efforts to negotiate with the russians to stop the war before it

started. i can tell you from my experience and all i've seen since it began, the russian government has no interest in good faith negotiations with any one over ukraine. president putin is dead set on achieving the goals of his special military operation. he doesn't want to offer him, he doesn't want a good faith negotiations. she wants to render by ukraine, which is what they say would be the cost of negotiation. so i don't see a willing interlocutor on the other side player who would engage in negotiations at this point. only when you thought that he could not achieve the goals of the special military operation, which are where they repeated very often, to de knox. defy and demilitarize ukraine, which i interpret as removing the democratically elected government, and subjugating the people of ukraine. only when he really believes he can accomplish that. would he engage in negotiations and he believes he can accomplish

those quotes today. thank this. thank you sir. so much for sharing your insight, i'm afraid we're running out of time and have to leave it there. but i want to thank you again for taking the time to speak with us on tito by as former us ambassador to russia at john j. sullivan. well, joe biden has followed up a surprise visit to ukraine with talks in poland, white and has been meeting the polish president on j duda and the leaders of other countries on metos eastern flank. the u. s. president says they alliance is stronger than ever. he's due to speech shortly in warsaw and will be bringing you live coverage of my address is 33 dollars and for the coverage of us president joe biden speech. i have it with me in the studio. are washington correspondent, assuming it's almost gonna welcome back to me. and in warsaw at the royal castle hour brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena a warm welcome to you both alexandra,

i'd like to start with you. what are the expectations today for biden's speech in warsaw? well, we have to say that the expectations are very high and with you and you look behind me here at the royal castle, people have been waiting now for hours and is cold and very wet weather. and we have just to remember what fall poland is playing, supporting ukraine. poland is one of the strongest supporters of ukraine. they have delivered $2000000000.00 you as dollars worth of weapons. they have taken in more than 1500000 refugees, and people at the same time have to cope with inflation with storing energy prices . so their expectation is for joe biden to give them hope to bolster them up to tell them that it's worth being there. together and that they can rely on the

you as, as a partner. and at the same time we can expect from his speech also that he is going to build on his case that this is at conflict between democracy and outdoor crusty . and that he is also, i'm going to speak about what's at stake here, not only the success and the survival of ukraine, but also fundamental values as such as stero told yeah, the integrity, freedom, sovereignty there use dad said needs to be upheld. you know, so many people gathered there in the cold. they must be expecting something good to me. what do you think we can expect to hear from bite and speech? you know, i think we can expect president bind to head on many of the same notes that we heard from him during his surprised visit and key of and also many of the previous times that he's talked about this conflict in ukraine, namely that the u. s. and the allies stand behind ukraine, as long as it takes them, we just heard alexander state say, it's exactly right that the u. s. truly believes this administration at least truly

believes that they have built a global alliance to stand up to russia, a global alliance of nato, a global alliance involving european unit countries. allies who have sent military economic humanitarian aid to ukraine over the past year. and that support as the white house describes, it is unwavering. it's especially important for president biden to deliver that message in poland seen as one of ukraine staunch us allies. and of course in this question for the u. s. and incredibly important ally, in fact, us and poland or even talking about a beefing up the presence of, of us troops. there are even further. so it's very important for president by to be back in the place that he was about a year ago just after the war had broken out in ukraine for him to deliver some of the same messages that he delivered back then at the royal castle, a we're alexandra standing right now. i think this is also going to be a speech that is going to be laden with symbolism. that's something we keep hearing from president barton, of course, the symbolic images of him walking through key with

a ukrainian president so lengthy but also here in poland with this large crowd standing behind, alexandra, expecting, and hoping to hear from the us that they will stay the course and we heard president biden, we spoke a year ago and polish. we heard him draw that large arc of history, talk about the last 30 years, the collapse of the soviet union, and what he sees as now this global alliance of democracy's democratic countries were fighting this anti democratic, russia led bur led by vladimir putin that is waging this war of aggression against ukraine. so i think that some of the same that we'll see from him this year and to assure those who have gathered on hand and pulled him that the u. s. a. staying the course to add one thing clear. jake's element, who is the white house national security advisor, he was asked about what president biden will say in the speech. and he said this will not be a direct rebuttal to vladimir putin who, as you mentioned earlier today, that this is not seen as a head to head rebuttal. and that he will indeed be speaking about democracy, about us support for ukraine,

and that they see no need to address the points made by president putin. ok, so they won't be taking those head on in a direct response. i was under, i want to ask you about that global alliance that soon we mentioned there biden has earlier called poland, a crucial partner in support for ukraine. but how important is this high level visit for poland? while it is very important, especially when you consider that many here fear that poland could be next that to put in could to one day decides to attack polish territory and so with that allied territory. so of course, for the polish government, it is important to hear from vine that the poland needs nato. and you asked but that at the same time the you ask and nato that they need. poland. and of course, we can assume that behind closed doors, they were talking about how to give up their number of american troops there. how

to strengthen nato pushed on it's eastern flag. that is not only important for poll, and that is also important for the baltic states, for instance, for all those really up here that they could be next term. we know that to you as administration has already announced to establish a permanent base here to also a station permanent battalion. here they have around 10000 troops here that are rotating. but for poll and it is important to know that there are going to increase their presence and that they will be a reliable partner regardless of what might happen. well, thank you so much of both. that is our brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena. and to me, so misconduct here with me in the studio will be coming back to you shortly. and of course we will be bringing you

a president. jo biden's speech live coming up later in the hour. for now though, we can bring you up to speed with some other stories making headlines around the world. hi. one's presidents as the island will strengthen, military ties with the us side and when side at high ones. cooperation with washington is meant to curb quote authoritarian expansionism, a reference to china, which claims taiwan as part of its territory. and brazil's president lula has visited areas hit by flooding and landslides. at least 40 people have died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. heavy rains are hampering rescue efforts. the extreme weather struck as brazil's annual carnival season was just getting under way. will 2 more earthquakes have hit the border region between syria and turkey. rescue teams are once again searching for people trapped under the rubble. the tremors struck minutes apart just 2 weeks after earthquakes killed

tens of thousands of people in the same hut i province. the latest tremors were felt as far away as lebanon and egypt turkeys, interior ministers. as at least 6 people have been killed, and hundreds of others injured hulu mow, anguish and tattle for the people of turkey and syria. the morning afternoon old quakes struck rescue well cousin hut. i will back to that difficult walk of digging through rubble and pulling out people some of whom did not survive families of reeling under the trauma of so suddenly losing their loved ones. happy province in southern toki felt due tremulous on monday and nearly 90 aftershocks over night. buildings are left sliding on to streets oldest just 2 weeks after a devastating old quake killed more than 45000 people and damaged or destroyed

hundreds of thousands of homes. on monday night this some footage caught the new quakes with and st became the safest place to be coin of who i need to the same feel you the same feeling of unease. we cannot and don't side on if we do, we cannot stay. we don't know, we don't know what to do. god have mercy on us. there's nothing to say. in neighbouring sydney, out to the earthquake, brock knew panic is at the lynette almost at reform is it has everyone started screaming when the old quaker could. people were panicking and started crying and screaming and vote and shot, and i had that old on so long. it's a sad reality of life here, right now. people living on a precipice from one minute to the next. well,

german foreign minister and elena burbock and interior minister at nancy phaser are visiting some of the worst hit areas in turkey today. he abuse correspondent johan has been with them and told us more about the trip. well, the minute message today was, and i believe they've made that very clear. germany will stand by the quake survivors here in turkey and in syria as they battle the aftermath of this disaster . they have expressed their condolences to all those who have lost the loved one under the rubble and almost everybody here in the quite kid region has. they have expressed that deeply felt sympathies and their holla, dairy t. we actually joined the ministers during a visit to one of the tent camp here in the area and pathology in the province of car among marsh. that was one of the rather well organized camp sites set out by the turkish is also management authority office. that is a government agency,

the ministers with speaking with residents, with the chem management, with a team of german metix providing care for people in that particular for people in that particular camp. but that was just a snapshot of the much bigger reality here on the ground. which is a very bitter one. tens of thousands of people are still believe to have no or hardly any access to shelter to meeting electricity, toilets to medical care. this is a massive humanitarian crisis. one of the largest turkey has ever seen. and actually, while the ministers were talking to camp residence and to us journalists, we felt the earth shaking again. there have been more than 6200 after shocks since the 1st quakes hit about 2 weeks ago. so this situation is an ongoing nightmare for people here on the ground. and that was a reminder for the ministers as well. of the situation. people are dealing with here right now. and you are experiencing that new earthquake after all you've seen

in your reporting on the disasters and the communitarian crisis must have been terrifying. can you tell us about what kind of damage it has caused? well, you know, it is hard to get an overview of the kind of new damage that has been closed because the devastation before the latest quake was already massive. entire cities have been flattened and high and neighborhoods. many cities are hardly recognizable any more. and we hear that the latest trauma has caused a massive a panic. but of course, the humanitarian need here on the ground continues of the german ministers to day pledged another of $50000000.00 euros in age, bringing the total amount up to more than a $100000000.00 euros. a pot of that is intended for syria, 70000000 and getting 8 into syria has been, as we, as we know, one of the major challenges we're talking about. emergency assistance like tents,

generators, camping bads sleeping bags. this kind of aid is being brought into the areas being flown in by the german armed forces. so the focus is on emergency humanitarian assistance, but there's also a long term focus. of course it needs to be on, on reconstruction. thank you so much for that update. that's our correspondent, johan reporting and changed cares now. and for. for decades, director steven spielberg has been packing cinemas with action adventures like jaws and drastic park and dramas such as schindler's list and saving private ryan spielberg is now being honored for his life's work at berlin's film festival. a barely nada you can't see. also have to take it to more important than your hobby. steven spielberg is known for telling epic tails, but the directors latest film is based on his own life. i think i'm always vulnerable. uh huh. in terms of the movies i made with a, but this is

a very personal story. it's the 1st time i've taken a privacy public and i've never done that music dreamed nominated for 7 oscars. the fable mens is about a young jewish boy who makes movies as a way to navigate his own dysfunctional family. spielberg made his very own 1st amateur film at age 12. as a teenager, he toward universal studios and chatted up a movie executive. soon he was working there. spielberg's 1st major film for universal was the 1971 thriller dual high speed chase with a murderous trucker. a few years later, his film jaws would scare an entire generation out of the water the 1980. so the beginning of the indiana jones franchise and of course

e t back. can you soul cool? cool. look to the family movie about a stranded alien. and a group of kids fighting to save him, held the record for the highest grossing film of all time. for 11 years until 1993 when spielberg broke his own record with jurassic park. a doing that seems year spielberg's, holocaust drama schindler's list about a german factory owner's plan to save more than a 1000 jews. homer, the film, 17 oscars should be on my trade. very few directors have made as many big budget movies across as many different genres as steven spielberg. but what's unique about steven spielberg's life's work that's being recognized here in berlin is the universality of his storytelling. and that is what resonates with viewers across cultures and generations. spielberg will receive the honorary golden bear at

a screening of the fable max on perhaps next month, he'll be accepting more awards at the oscars. a handsome jewish boy. disliking. and i spoke earlier to our berlin other reporter leader over oh, she told me more about spielberg's latest film. 6 everybody very, very excited here. i can tell you steven spielberg is already here to give a press conference ahead of the big ceremony. now he is, of course, the highest grossing director of all time. not bad for a man who was rejected from film school 3 times and largely had to teach himself. of course, after the ceremony will also, as you heard b o having the german premier of his semi autobiographical film, the fable man's. now this is a film he wanted to make for many, many years, but he didn't actually sit down to do it until the kobe locked down. when he

finally found that his schedule was cleared. and in this film we do see his alter ego, sammy favorable, making 8 millimeter films, and they are actual exact reconstructions, almost exact reconstructions of films. spielberg made as a youngster and the film kind of act as a primer to spielberg's career. we see his relationship with his family and making his earliest films and you can, it really foreshadows what happened later and lead, as you've mentioned, the fact that the festivals also screening several of stillberg films means he's more than proven himself. if you had to pick just one to recommend, what would you say your favorite as well, my favorite place, definitely e t that so i can watch every year. it always makes me cry. and a lot of people know that be a little a cute alien in e t was actually inspired by a, an imaginary childhood friend that spielberg made up, invented after his parents divorce. and of course, a little boy. and yet it is strange from his father. this was also inspired by

stephen's own family relationships. he did have a difficult relationship with his own dad for a long time and family relationships. children being a strange, single mothers. they always play quite a strong role in spielberg's films. that's really heartbreaking in some ways. right now, who, you know, just before i, as you go, have there been any other surprises at this year's berlin? all that you think are worth mentioning? let me tell you about the earth shooting star ceremony yesterday. and not really surprised. this is something that happens every year. they introduce them a lot of upcoming actors from all over europe to the public. and these people are not known yet, but may well become very famous. let me just tell you a few names that have been through this program before. daniel craig, rachel, vice carrie mulligan, alyssa of kander were all in this program before they became famous. so we may well be seeing a lot more from those people. they come to bowie and they introduced to casting agents and have a very exciting week. and i actually was there at the sarah.