ah ah ah ah, this is need of your news live from berlin. vladimir putin issues a raleigh and call to russians to back the war in ukraine, speaking in moscow shortly before the 1st anniversary of the invasion. bruton 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 nato's eastern

flank. it can count on support in the face of russian aggression. also coming up on the show palestinian officials say 10 people have been killed by israeli troops conducting a raid in the occupied west bank. israel says it was targeting militants and new filmmakers in the spotlight at berlin's international film festival. spanish drama, $20000.00 species of bees tells the story of an 8 year old child's quest for identity . the film is in the running for the prestigious golden bear award. ah. hello, i'm clear, richardson. thank you so much for joining us. president vladimir putin has issued a raleigh and call to russians to get behind the war. and ukraine couldn't addressed crowds at a sports him in central moscow in the run up to the 1st anniversary of the invasion

. coming on friday. hooton's that russia is proud of its horses fighting in ukraine, and that the whole country supports them. he called rushing troops, defenders of the fatherland and said, moscow was fighting for what he called. it's historical lands in ukraine. organizers say around 200000 people were expected to attend the raleigh flo up. or later i spoke to the w. moscow bureau chief, your shadow, he is now based in the lot, be in capital rica after russian authorities closed down the moscow office. he told us what the russian president said to the crowd at that moscow stadium well put in, made a short speech battery or dick speech. he praised as expected. you mentioned this, the russian army, which according to him, is doing nothing but defending russia. by the way, to morrow is russia, russia's defender of father lundy will be celebrated. and today's opulent propaganda concert is exactly what the kremlin has hosted several times before at

moscow's fame collusion stadium, and the same symbolism, the same breath re cuz the same singers could be seen there. by the way, i wouldn't be surprised and surprised if there were some or the same spectators as last year, because many of them were transported with special bosses. and these are the so called b j nikki employees or state companies, teachers and so one. so people who were instructed to join this concert, what was nuclear this year, is that an anti aircraft defense system was reportedly installed to next to the stadium, which shows that the new reality in the russian capital. thanks so much for that uri. could you please stand by? we're going to come back to you in just a moment. and 1st might take a look at another issue. earlier futon said he is looking forward to strengthening ties between russia and china. and we know beijing's top definite one he met put in at the kremlin, was that relations between beijing and moscow will not be influenced by other countries. newton also said he's looking forward to welcoming china's presidential

campaign to visit moscow. was with us. so back over to you, you're a, what do you think beijing's objective is here? what is the importance of this meeting? of course for moscow is obviously much greater than from aging. put in his keen to show that he isn't isolated. as for china's objective, there are we see that a senior chinese diplomat has been traveling to moscow to talk with the russian president, which means that he obviously raised issues that need to be clarified before the chinese president's visit to moscow. you mentioned that such a visit has already been announced. so, and this issue could only be russia's war against ukraine, and china wants to mediate and show to the world and above all, to the united states. that it is a reliable international partner. and also very important for china is to show that it isn't going to supply russia with weapons. and china was expressly warrant against this by

u. s. president biden. now another major issue regarding the war in ukraine is the announcement of the suspension of the new start nuclear treaty that putin made yesterday. can you tell us what the latest is on this as expected, both the timbers of their awesome parliament approved of the suspension of the start? 3 t as a question clear is what's next. and what is the difference between just suspending and leaving the 3 to completely put in some warning of both suspension or suspending may be a signal that the russia is not going to increase the number of warheads. this was also confirmed by the russian foreign ministry. the good news experts say is that russia obviously, is going to continue to report its launches of into the continent, intercontinental ballistic missiles to the united states. this obligation would continue thanks to another agreement between the former soviet union and you as a from 9 to 88. but if the suspended start 3 to practical and no longer works and

that's a bad use, each side will expect, expect divorced from each other. therefore, an uncontrolled, unrestricted arms res could begin, and the threat of atomic war would increase dangerous times. we're living and thank you so much for that update. that's our moscow bureau chief here we were shadow enrica for us. you as president joe biden is wrapping up a 4 day visit to ukraine and poland with a 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 country's worry that moscow could threaten their sovereignty if it's war in ukraine, succeeds or i'd, and has reaffirmed washington's commitment to nato's mutual defense treaty in a speech in warsaw them host. and i earlier asked you to be a correspondent about regard to in warsaw whether biden's visit has delivered sufficient guarantees for nato's eastern members. but a day, again,

thousands of poets and also refugees from ukraine to witness the the preceding c at the presidential palace. and they are quite satisfied that the president biden again reiterated turn 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 heads of state and governments that were gathered there. well, i'm 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 will call them. so here from the baltics down to romania, are committed to defend these east and flank also for the other nato members. so it's like past that they will do together. and can you tell us more about this so called,

who caressed 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 crimea, and started its war in easton, 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. and 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 has sent even more troops, although in poland alone, they already 10000 american troops on a rotating basis. but this is, of course,

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 to victor alba, 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. res vladimir putin and barney, where they're reporting yesterday, when biden gave that speech in a worse i, it is 2nd time bear 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 pollard,

because of its geography and geopolitical in importance is of course the corridor by uses a channel all the help 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. and if you will, of nato activities now. and also united states have committed more troops to poland and also are 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 work on this, but many expert and the media has said, sir, it sabre rattling and it's, it's not so series of putin will not actually use no 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 in warsaw by pro ukrainian protests urged mister biden to send fighter jets to ukraine. this will not happen any time soon. the americans have a said, this is not going to happen because it's too complicated to get these weapons in there and to operate. actually these jets in ukraine em, but it's, it's a bug. yes, they have to listen to the speech of mister putin that nobody is taking this very seriously here. thank you so much for reporting and that update. that's our correspondent, and jamaica reporting from warsaw. as we've heard a number of eastern european nations previously,

part of the communist eastern block fear their sovereignty is once again threatened by russian power. nato has ramped up security on its eastern flank to help reassure those countries. the alliance is deployed extra trips. the baltic states of estonia, latvia 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 e and lesser 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 russia's 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, you rob choices in 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 armed forces including time, solid infantry. i'm out after it 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 logistics 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 ear and missile defense systems and to father of beth, up the number of troops there. i think we should be talking about divisions, more rigid, insignificant, really significant numbers. a band of steel along metro's use them flank to demonstrate other critically 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 poise 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 pretty clear that pu chin has achieved the opposite of what you 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. let's bring you up to speed now with some other stories making headlines around the world's germany as expelling to iranian diplomats after tech. ron sentenced and iranian german national to death. i'm sheed sharma was convicted by an iranian court over a mosque bombing in 2008 supporters allege he was abducted abroad and forcibly taken to iran by mid easy a tropical cyclone has struck madagascar killing at least or people cyclone freddy

hit the island with winds of around a 130 kilometers per hour and heavy rain. the united nations has categorized the storm as dangerous, and it is approaching east africa. nigeria, as presidential candidates, are holding their final election rallies or latino bu, from the ruling all progressive congress party is the favorite to win in saturdays vote. palestinian officials say israeli soldiers killed at least 10 people and wounded more than a 100 others while conducting a raid in the occupied westbank israeli military. that it filters were fired on by gunmen while attempting to arrest palestinian militants based in the city of nobliss. if that israeli soldiers launched missiles at the house and that the suspected militants are now dead, according to palestinian officials of 72 year old man and a teenage boy were among the victim. it was one of the bloodiest battles in nearly a year of israeli raids in the west bank. and let's get across to our

correspondent rebecca ritter's in jerusalem for more. rebecca, what more can you tell us about this raid? well class, shortly after 10 am local time, math is reli defense forces entered that old city of novice in the occupied west bank. they say they were current carrying out a raid to arrest suspected militants in the area. they then proceeded to surround a house with 3 gunman will hold up inside they allegedly, according to the idea that we're trying to coax the gunman to surrender, they refused. and a gun battle ensued. the idea if even throwing rockets at the house destroying the house, killing 2 members of the 3 member militants in there. the 3rd one died as he was trying to escape was killed. i should say, by the, by the idea as he was trying to escape. but we know, of course, as you mentioned that there were huge clashes in suing at what makes this quite

rare this, this raid was, it was done during daylight. normally, these raise a done on the cover of darkness to attract less attention that could potentially mean that the id f. believe that an attack was imminent, that a threat was imminent and that they had to act immediately. but of course, we saw what happened that it was huge. clashes and several other people were killed . i believe potentially, some civilians were caught in the crossfire. as you mentioned, the ages range from 16 up to 70 as some members of the people. some, some of the people that have been done have been quite claimed by the militant groups, but definitely some civilians being caught up palestinian authority, health officials saying more than a 100 people were injured as you, ruddy pointed out. now that death told potentially going to rise as some of those injuries aren't quite severe. we haven't seen numbers like that very rare for these rights. and these clashes that ensued to, to result in such high dec tolls and injury tolls. and late january, we saw

a similar re done also in the early hours of the morning that resulted in 9 palestinians being killed. and from there we saw retaliation attentions very high in the region, and looking to remain quite high, ongoing. claire, given the apparently exceptional circumstances around this rate, have we seen any kind of reaction yet? well, we haven't seen any calls for retaliation. so fall though. all eyes will be turning to gaza. mass militants generally do react to such raise or choose to to such attacks in the west bank. as i mentioned that jeanine raid that was in late january, we saw retaliation from hamas militants throwing firing rockets into israel. we then so the idea of retaliate by, by the sending a rocket into garza. so all i certainly on there we're seeing no, nothing concrete as of yet. we did see also after the attack on jeanine some long

move attacks in jerusalem and some retaliatory violence, their international call for com. antony blinker and the u. s. victoria state visited the region shortly after those the last bite of attacks in january. and he called for com. we've seen the un calling for com, but those calls falling on deaf ears at the moment. so all eyes on goals are whether or not her mass will retaliate, but so found nothing concrete clear. thank you so much for that update. that's rebecca readers for us in jerusalem. while authorities and turkey have started to conduct building inspections after the series of earthquakes that have killed tens of thousands of people, many buildings which are still standing or structurally damaged. and those left homeless have little choice, but to sleep in their cars or intense the vent waits eagerly as his flat here and gassy untapped is inspected to the alleged raj alpha. i'm one of the lucky ones altogether. i've been living in a hotel since the earthquake happened,

honorable roger young wilson followed up on the 3rd floor. this woman told us they moved back in before the building was checked. so got to have to run a st. sleeping in a car for 2 days after that at a friend's shop. we came home after gaston, 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 stop is always the basement to check the load bearing foundations. if witnesses get demolished, it takes about 54 tons because when we see them, which means that the demolish, we are just finishing her test. the procedure and the telling that these are 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 being investigated in turkey for allegedly side stepping, 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 a new home in gassy and tap that no, ma'am. ever the, our home is cracked. we can go back. we took this backpack and flats inside. i had just few clothes when a children i also gave birth in the car after the earthquake. matthew moshef, evident letters in rebuilding in southern turkey, isn't just a construction project. it's now a humanitarian necessity. yeah. savant of some other news now and to

berlin's international film festival, the berlin out there today was the world premiere of 20000 species of beast. 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. the girl doesn't like it when people address her by her birth name, and so she goes in search of the right one and a new identity. here, our reporter and a shop was at the berlin ella, and she told me more about the film. declare 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 b is one of 2 competition films. this year scarring a child as main protagonist. and as you just mentioned, this one was about the 8 year old leads, but who feels that it doesn't really fit in and them 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, and the 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 aunt 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 em finds a new name for herself. she calls herself, lucio. 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 said 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 bridge to do that. absolutely. now we also have another premier in berlin today. it is a german film by christian at sold called

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 in 2020 with on dina, which is the 1st part of a trilogy, where he worked with actor paola and paula bay. i actually received of a bad pun intended, for a performance of that film. and also in a fire pet sold works. it works again together with paula bear. and the story is about am for 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 fillum 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. it is romantic and touching without being cheesy. fabulous. thank you so much for that. update that seat of his reporter and a sofa and carnival season has drawn to a close in venice. and the city is celebrating its oldest tradition. the feast of marys dating back to the 10th century. it celebrates the venetian victory over pirates who had 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 that she is update office. our stay tuned for diabetes, asia with my colleague, bearish benner g, that's coming up next after a short break. you can find more on our website to at d, w dot com. i'm quite richardson in berlin for me and the team working behind the scenes. thanks so much for watching and ah, with

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40 of real time on social media and see if it's in his instrument or the digital battle lines being drawn. the propaganda war for ukraine. russia's war in ukraine. one year since the invasion began. we take a look back and into the future in the union. slowly. in february on d, w. perfect it up in years, asia coming up today. why china keep supporting russia? but where you've grin, aging is officially impartial on the ukraine law, but it's action suggest otherwise. why does it continue to support moscow? and is there a point where the support could become untenable? oh.