a slow leak in february on d, w. mm . ah ah, this is, it'll be your news why from berlin? vladimir putin issues a raleigh and call to russians to back war in ukraine. speaking in moscow, shortly before the 1st anniversary of the invasion, gluten describes frontline russian troops as defenders of the fatherland. joe biden wraps up a diplomatic mission to ukraine and poland. the u. s. president reassures natives

eastern flank. it can count on support in the face of russian aggression. also coming up on the show, alliston in officials say 10 palestinians have been killed in an israeli raid in the occupied westbank. and new filmmakers are in the spotlight at berlin's international film festival. the spanish drama $20000.00 species of bees tells the story of an 8 year old child west for identity in the debut film. and it's in the running for the coveted golden bear award. ah. hello, i'm clare richardson. thank you so much for joining us. president vladimir putin has issued a rallying call to russians to get behind the war in ukraine. bruton addressed crowds at a sports stadium in central moscow in the run up to the 1st anniversary of the

invasion on friday. hooton's said, russia is proud of its forces fighting in ukraine and the whole country supports them. he called russian troops, defenders of the fatherland and said, moscow is fighting for what he called. it's historical lands in ukraine. organizers a say around 200000 people were expected to attend the raleigh room. are you as president joe biden is wrapping up a 4 day visit to ukraine and poland by meeting with leaders from the so called bucharest 9, which includes nations from nato's eastern flank. they came together in response to russia's invasion of ukraine a year ago. the countries worry that moscow could threaten their sovereignty if it's more in ukraine, succeeds biden has reaffirmed washington's commitment to native's mutual defense treaty in a speech in warsaw them hosting. so let's bring n d w correspondent, a band regards who is reporting for us from warsaw. burnt. what is the viewing

thereafter biden's visit as he delivered sufficient guarantees for nato's eastern most members. but a day of, again, thousands of poets and also refugees from ukraine to witness the the preceding see of the presidential palace. and they are quite satisfied that president biden again, reiterated to the american commitment to defend native territory. every inch of it, as the president said, for him it says sacred commitment that united states has given. and also the politicians inside the 9 had some states and governments that were gathered. there were a very happy, of course, that the americans are seeing this again and again and again. and i think they believe it, and it's also the other way around the case. of course, also the 9 front states if you recall them. so here for the baltics down to romania, are committed to defend these eastern flank also for the other. no 2 members. so it's 2nd task that they will do together. and can you tell us more about this so

called eucharist 9. how has their role changed in nato since the start of the conflict in ukraine? was this sir booker as 9 group, has already found a 20151 year after the herb russia annexed at the crimea, and started its war in eastern ukraine. and, and now after the full fledged invasion into ukraine, of course, this group is even more important. and now you have 8 better groups of nato in these countries. this is a battalion, 1000 people. this is to show the commitment of nato to defend the territory. and these 8 countries, these 9 countries, sorry, are also asking for more troops. they want a whole brigade that would be $3500.00 people from nato. and they are also asking the united states to send even more troops, although in poland alone, they already $10000.00 american troops on

a rotating basis. but this is of cause in the view of these countries, not enough. they also want more armament more earn logistical support, more interest structure, and not only for themselves, but also for ukraine. this was also a topic here today, but no concrete numbers and no concrete results. and as, and you have to say that only one country in hungary is out of line. victor alba and the prime minister of hungary says he wants to stay out of the war against russia. and all of this, he wants to maintain his good ties with vladimir putin and barney, where they're reporting yesterday, when biden gave that speech in warsaw. it's a 2nd time there since the invasion of ukraine is a fair to say that the eastern flank of nato is becoming increasingly important for us foreign policy regarding the warren ukraine. you can say that the, the center of gravity has changed, or it from west to east, from germany,

to poland because poland because of its geography and geopolitical, urban importance is of cause the corridor by youth a channel. all the held to ukraine goes to a po, to poland, all transports, all weapons are going to poland. 2000000 refugees from ukraine are in poland. so this is the, the center, if you will, of, of nato activities now. and also united states have committed more troops to poland and also our building. and you had quarter here to be able to bring more american troops into the country if needed. and had there been any reactions in war saturday to the sabre rattling comments by russian president vladimir putin. and particularly regarding his announcement of the suspension of russia's participation in the new star training was there was no official word on this. but many experts and the media here said, sir, it sabre rattling and it's,

it's not so series of putin will not actually use the nuclear weapons any time soon . there's more concern about the immediate needs that the of that ukraine has more fighter jets, long range missiles, for example, a tillery, there was a demonstration to day he and was saw by pro ukrainian protests, urged mr biden to send fighter jets to ukraine. this will not happen anytime soon. the americans have said this is not going to happen because it's too complicated to get these weapons in there and to operate the actually these jets in ukraine em, but it's, it's bug you have says they have to listen to the speech of mister putin. but nobody is taking this very seriously here. are you so much fair reporting and that update? that's our correspondent and make our reporting from warsaw. so as we've heard,

a number of eastern european nations are previously part of the communist eastern block fear that their sovereignty is once again threatened by russian power. nato has ramped up security on its eastern flank to help reassure those countries. here lions has deployed extra troops to the baltic states of estonia, lafayette and lithuania, as well as poland, slovakia, romania and non nato member. moldova are also nervous about moscow's intentions. increasing defense spending ramping up ammunition production, putting hundreds of thousands of troops on high hello nato is not the warring part in ukraine, but the company has led to a dramatic change in its strategy. the alliance is going back to its roots assess defense expert ian lisa is reinforced a shift in nato strategy away from thinking about expeditionary warfare, which has been in crisis management, which has been dominating for the last decades prior to thinking again about

territorial defense in a very serious way nuclear strategy is discussed in a very serious way again. so all of these things that we hadn't really focused on for decades are now at the core of debates inside native since the start of rushes, invasion need to allies have continuously increased our support for ukraine, starting with simple anti tank weapons and missiles. and then gradually deploying more advanced weapons, but with ukraine burning through artillery shells and other ammunition much faster than the west can produce them. it is becoming difficult for nato countries to match the war time demand. these problems are not surprising, says richard sheriff, a retired british army general and natal for my deputy supreme allied commander, europe towards the end of the day. if you want to fight, protect yourself, protect your country, protect ground and seize ground back. you need the heavy metal of armored forces,

including time, solid infantry on out are to re on the light. and there's been lack of investment in that, as there has been a complete and frankly scandalous, lack of investment in the sinews of war. the ammunition logistic sustainability require nato has already doubled its forces on the eastern flank. in addition to, for already existing battle groups in the baltic states and in poland, the alliance has established for more in south eastern europe. the plan is to strengthen air and missile defense systems and to feather of beef up the number of troops there. i think we should be talking about divisions, not brigade, insignificant rail is significant numbers, a band of steel along nature's eastern flank to demonstrate on that quickly to russia of nature is ready and prepared to defend itself. so far, allies have reminded united in their commitment to support ukraine and with the

former neutral countries of sweden and finland now poised to join the alliance. nato has become even more relevant, says unders folk rasmussen, former nato secretary general and now adviser to the government in keith. it's very clear that pu chin has achieved the opposite of what he wanted. he wanted less nato. he has court more ne show, but the longer the war drinks on the gray to the risk of an uncontrollable escalation for all its new found strength and purpose. the conflict in ukraine remains a balancing act for nato. or rather shack gorski is a member of the european parliament and former polish defense minister. i asked him how he read it, the chances of a diplomatic solution to the war. well, nature territory has to be protected. and our president biden, yesterday in warsaw,

said that it's a secret pledge. i don't think who jim is capable of attacking nature right now. he's lost half of his army, and he is going to use the other half to try to deliver a punch to the ukraine, which i don't think will succeed. but he has shown that his intentions are hostile and therefore the holiday from history is over. the peace dividend is over and we need to pay attention to defense. so do you think that existing military capabilities are than enough to deter further russian advancement? i think this conflict has shown how depleted are stock sol, how dissolved, particularly western europe is. we need to restart those production lines. we need to restock on supplies and we need to spend more on defense. now bitin is meeting today with the bucharest 9 the eastern,

most countries in the nato alliance of which poland is also a part. what you think his visit will mean for the eastern nato countries? well, these are the countries that feel directly threatened by russia, and i think it would be good of western europeans to show that they feel a pain that they feel a sense of threat. and that's why i think we need to do a spend more money, but also have a european defense worthy of its name. are we seeing a shift in u. s. foreign policy regarding europe, this is after all, biden's, 2nd time in warsaw since russia and made it ukraine. murder. oh yeah. he has planted his standard and kia and tried us credibility to ukraine. success if i were put in, i would conclude that i can't win this. okay. now while the u. s. president is in. busy poland, planting that standard further. we know china's top diplomat is in russia. can you tell us your view of how the war in ukraine has been affecting the global world

order? well, it will be good if china went to play peacemaker. but the chinese communications chinese propaganda toes, the russian lines. so i hope that proposals will not be simple. capitulation terms dictated by putin. china has a unique tongue to play a very significant role in this a and the chinese foreign minister, as i know, promised to high representative immunity over the weekend. the china would not supply lethal aids to russia. i hope the keep to that because the consequences for the, for the world economy could be done by any preferred, i believe, to i one of the things that one he will be sounding out on his trip to rack rushes views on changing things. he finish a proposal to bring about an end to the war. what is poland view on that?

oh, i can tell you what poland views, but i can tell you what my own is and my own is that for this water really and the russians have to conclude that it was a mistake. that the idea of rebuilding the russian empire was wrong. that is beyond russia's capability and that therefore they but it cut the losses and withdrawal. and if china could be helpful in that, that would be that could be a very good thank as radish coarsely a member of the or a p. and parliament speaking to me earlier, we can take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. germany is expelling to iranian diplomats after to run sentence and iranian german national to death. john sheet sharma was convicted by an iranian court over a mosque bombing in 2008 supporters. a ledge he was abducted abroad and forcibly taken to iran. his him as a tropical cyclone has struck madagascar killing at least 4 people. sigh clone

freddy, hit the island with winds of around a 130 kilometers per hour and heavy rain. the united nations have categorized the storm as dangerous and it is approaching east africa. nigeria, as presidential candidates, are holding their final election rallies to boot from the ruling. all progressive congress party is the favorite to win in saturday's vote. allison in officials say at least 10 palestinians were killed and more than a 100 others wounded by israeli soldiers in classes with armed palestinian groups in the occupied westbank. this during and israeli operation to arrest palestinian gunmen based in the city of marvelous. according to the israeli military, allison and officials also say among the victims there are at least a 3 civilians. among them a 72 year old man and a teenage boy. it was one of the bloodiest battles in nearly a year of israeli rates in the west bank. let's get across to our

correspondent rebecca ritter's injured brucell. them. rebecca, what more can you tell us about this rate? well, as you just mentioned, there, claire and just shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, israeli defense forces entered that the old city of nab los to it to search for the suspected terrorists as they call them who hold up in a house. they surrounded the house and tried to, according to the idea of coax out the so called terrorist and they didn't want to come outside. so the idea then proceeded to attack the house and killing both, killing 2 from inside and a 3rd, a gunman, as he tried to exit the house to escape the he was then killed the, then a gun fight ensued. and as we know, several other people were injured as you mentioned, some one in their seventies. another person in their sixties and a teenage boy were also killed. according to the palestinian authority, the health ministry there more than

a 100 people have been injured in some quite severely so that death toll could potentially rise over 10. this is an unusually high death toll. we did see another raid in another city in the west bank, janine in late january and that claim the lives of 9 people during that raid. and that was then met with retaliatory fire from ham mass. and also we saw some attacks here in jerusalem, a synagogue attack, killing several people here in east jerusalem carried out by a palestinian a thought to be in retaliation and several other attack. so this definitely is a rare, right. these rights have been ongoing for nearly a year now. the idea has been going into the west back to conduct these to these raids. and what makes this one rather unique, claire is that happened during the daytime. normally these are carried out overnight, but this one happened in broad daylight as did the one in late january. and that leads people to believe that the, the idea of potentially suspected and even an attack. so definitely a very,

very significant attack, and we'll are waiting to see what might happen next. and have we already seen some kind of reaction to this developing story where the leadership, her, in garza, hamas has condemned the attack. them would say their morning for those that were killed. we haven't seen any calls for retaliation. but as i mentioned as, as with that attack in janine is last month we did see some retaliatory fire coming from hamas. of course that was met with the idea f o m also a m, sorry it a using their iron dome system to thwart those attacks. but we know we haven't seen any a retaliation attempts yet and, but we do. many people here are fearing that they will be attacked both in jerusalem or potentially from the west bank. thank you so much for that update. that's rebecca reuters for us in jerusalem. authorities in turkey had started to

conduct building inspections after the series of earthquakes that have killed tens of thousands of people. many buildings which are still standing are structurally damaged, and those lat homeless have little choice, but to sleep in their cars or intense levant weights eagerly as his flat hearing as the untapped is inspected to the alleged raj alpha. i'm one of the lucky ones. i'll tell you, i've been living in a hotel since the earthquake happened. hon. nevada young englishman, followed up on the 3rd floor. this woman told us they moved back in before the building was checked. so got the got the run, a st. sleeping in a car for 2 days after that at a friend shop. we came home after gas in the city was put back on civil engineers like abdul caddie, olivia, or glue a checking buildings to see whether they need repairing, demolishing or okay. first op is always the basement to check the load bearing foundations. if witnesses get demolished, it takes about 54 tubman's because when we see the damage means that

the militia we are just finishing birth, does the procedure under telling that is heavily damaged a building. so it needs to get damaged, but this ones, okay, you think this building or stand is more than okay? lucky for the people here. although the 3rd earthquake, which hit the region 15 days after the 1st 2 is causing concerns. after the initial quakes, nearly a 1000000 buildings in this region of turkey were checked, and over 118000 had fallen down, or were being marked for demolition over a 100 building contracts as a being investigated in turkey for allegedly sidestepping earthquake building regulations. no government officials though tens of thousands of this cities inhabitants of waiting to hear if their homes are safe. people like norway and her family who fled syria and had made an new home in gassy. unzip,

fitness level at the center of our home is cracked. we can go back. we took this backpack and flats inside. i had just few clothes wanted children. i also gave birth in the car after to earthquake. matthew moshef evident. 1130, rebuilding in southern turkey. isn't just a construction project. it's now a humanitarian necessity. yeah. let's move on to southern, oops, now and berlin's international film festival. the berlin allah. today was the world premier of 20000 species of bees. it tells the story of an 8 year old child who explores her identity during a summer vacation in her mother's home town. in the bass country about the girl doesn't like it when people address her by her birth name. and so she goes on in search of the right one. and a new identity or reporter and a chauffeur is after berlin, iowa. and she told me more about the film declared the film actually just

celebrates or is about to celebrate its international premier just here behind me in the belly, not a palace. and the film 20000 species of bees is one of 2 competition films this year, starring a child as main protagonist. and as you just mentioned, this one was about the 8 year old leads with who feels that it doesn't really fit in. and over the course of the film we found out why we, we find out why it is said during the summer holidays in a village in the bus country. and a little child spends a lot of time with an aunt who is a beekeeper, and slowly and steadily we find out in dialogues with that and, and with friends that she feels as a girl born, a boy feels as a girl. so she has a transgender identity, and at some point in the film, she ultimately m finds a new name for herself. she calls herself lucy. and the story also follows the

family who has obviously different levels of acceptance for this identity and the director and a press conference, a set to day that she was especially interested in bringing together different opinions that are very far apart. and she thinks that cinema, especially film, is a great way, a great rich to do that. absolutely. and we also have another premier in berlin today. it is a german film by christian. that's all a fire. can you tell us what that is all about? yes i definitely can. i just want to say a quick thing about just thought i close on pets out. who is a basically bally not a friend. he has been here for years. he has been in the competition with many, many films and the last a in 2020 with on dina, which is the 1st part of the trilogy, where he worked with act up paula and paula bay. i actually received the silver, bad pun intended for performance about film, and also in a fire pet sold works. it works again together,

a with powder beer. and the story is about 4 young people who spent the summer in a house um close to the baltic sea. and especially one of them lay on a writer seems to have an existential crisis. and this all happens while forest fires come closer and closer to the house. and i have hard to believe that we are already more than half way through the berlin allah. just briefly before let you go, was it already clear who might be taking home one of those coveted bears? well, we're halfway through halfway through, as you said. and there's obviously a lot of bust about which flint could win an award. and one that's really received a lot of positive feedback so far is past lives. the korean american production about to childhood, friends meeting in new york after a really long time in this romantic and touching without being cheesy. fabulous. thank you so much for that update that state of his reporter and

a sofa and carnival season has drawn to a close in venice, and the city is celebrating its oldest tradition faster than marvey dating back to the 10th century. it celebrates the venetian victory over pirates who planned to kidnap 12 young girls. around $3000000.00 visitors come to venice every year for the carnival. one of the most important events is the contest for the most beautiful mask, which is judged by a panel of international costume. and fashion designers. you're watching a d. w means from berlin before we go. it looks at our reminder of our top story. at this hour president vladimir putin has issued a rallying call to russians to get behind the war in ukraine. couldn't addressed crowds at a sports stadium in central moscow. he said, put russia is proud of its forces and claimed at the whole country supports them. don't forget,

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