ah ah ah, this is the w news live in from berlin tonight and international arrest warrant issued for russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court in the hague is accusing the russian president of being involved in the illegal abduction of children in ukraine. also coming up turkeys president finally

approving finland's bid to join nato birch. apply a bear to one, announcing the move after talks with the finish president in encore, the mood brings helsinki one step closer to joining the military alliance and iran con, sitting down for a talk with d. w. nuge. the former pakistan prime minister says a fresh election is the only way to solve pakistan's current political chaos. ah, i bring. gov is good to have you with as we begin tonight with breaking news, the international criminal court in the hague as issued an arrest warrant for russian president vladimir putin, along with russia's commissioner for children's rights over alleged war crimes committed in ukraine. putin's office has condemned this saying

it's outrageous and not legally binding the foreign ministry dismissing it, saying it's of no significance. sigh. c. c today said that the warrant was issued over hooton's suspected involvement in the unlawful deportation. a transfer of children from occupied areas of ukraine to russia. here's a short statement from the court's president. this is an important moment in the process of justice before dice. is he the judges f with you, the information and evidence submitted by the prosecutor and determined that debt are credible allegation against dease persons for the alleged crimes. dicey c is doing it's part of work. as a court of law, the judges e should arrest warrants the execution. depends on international cooperation. well, enjoying now by the law. professor yvonne mcdermott reese is she has worked with

the you with and with the if, if i get this right, the organization for security and cooperation in europe, it's good to have you on tonight. i want to ask you what the, this arrest fort means for vladimir putin, the symbolic meeting. i'm for the president, has it his world as of today, become a lot smaller? yeah, i think the biggest consequence of say, start leaks in an annoyance and for his cut a get maria been volva biloba, who's been an also subject to an arrest far and says a, the biggest consequence for them is that it becomes more difficult to travel internationally. so the international criminal court has a 123 state parties. and now every single one of them is under an obligation to transfer peace in or am the children's commissioner to the court in the hague to

stand trial. and should he travel to any of those countries, among foods, you know, strategic allies of russia includes most countries in all countries, in europe and south america, a lot of countries in africa. so, and of course, you know, the, the responses to be exact as like, we're not a piracy this in court. we recognize that. but i think they internal aid ad conversations of the like august, this is sad. this has consequences in the criminal. we expect the criminal to just dismiss it completely, but they can't dismiss the fact that these, this arrest war has been issued after lots of work has been done in gathering evidence. right. and we talked me a little bit about what has gone in to the i c c being at a point where it feels like it can legally issue and arrest warrant yet. so. and in order to issue the restaurant, the court has to be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that

declines and i had something come as as. so that is not proof beyond read the bazaar, which ultimately has to be proven at the lower standard of proof, but it's still a significant one. i, i think what's really notable at by dates at particular issued ends of their restaurant is the fact that it's almost implied that there are, there is either that hot, finra issued under thiel or the are coming down the track. because the fact that the effects we were going to keep this an under wraps ad, but we thought of it's important to prevent future crimes of this nature to make it known that this arrest warrant exists for these critique care kinds. i do wonder, are there other theories, restaurants either i there or are in process and the prosecutor has been, you know, he's relatively new in the job, but ukraine has been in the big area focus for him since taking over as cheap as skeeter at the i see, see, he's been there, i think 4 times alleged thousands of pages of evidence and really until various

kinds, not just these particular crimes of the force of the transfer of children, but other crimes, war crimes, crimes against humanity under the statues. possibly even gen site and i, i just noticed that the roof warranty that was issued was issued for blood report, but also for russia's commissioner for children's rights to a woman. and i'm wondering if she is on this warrant arrest warrant is as well because the chances of actually physically arresting her in the eyes of the i. c. c may be, are more realistic. i mean, is, is that maybe a line of thinking that went in to the issuing of this arrest warrant? i think the reason she's the restaurant has been issued against her is that the evidence is, is pretty overwhelming. you know, there is a recording that there of her talking about her own adoption of the child's from one of these occupied cherry trees. her office has been allegedly responsible for

this whole program of transferring ukrainian children and to russian families. and, and, you know, one of the big challenges of international criminal trials is proof, evidence of grief. and this, and it might seem like in the, in the big context of things it's, it's surprising in the sense that, that the scope of the arrest winds is quite narrow and its focus just as far as we know. oh, just on the tooth paper. busy i bought it, it seems like the prosecutor has maybe made a strategic decision by saying we've got some really strong evidence on these. and this is what we're going to lead off with and perhaps issue some more against these people than others in the p chair. while professor yvonne mcdermott rees, we appreciate your time and your valuable insights tonight. thank you. thank you. when shine is a prisoner, she's been paying, we'll meet with his russian counterpart vladimir putin in moscow next week on monday's matter of fact, the visit will be, she's 1st to russia in nearly 4 years,

a criminal official saying that the 2 leaders will discuss the conflict in ukraine, as well as military cooperation, the visit signals a strong show of china support for russia as prudent phases, increasing international isolation over his invasion of your hurry turkeys president richard tie up here to one has finally agreed to finland, joining nato at once. okay, we'll still need to be ratified by turkey's parliament, but it clears one of the finland's last hurdles to joining the military alliance. hungary is now the only need a member who has not approved the nordic countries bit but rainy day in and kara, has a piece of good news thought had since he had the presidential palace ledger day up at the gun greeted to finish. president. turkey has been in the spotlight for dragging its feet in the ratification process,

which new to the other kid thought that in we've seen that finland has taken sincere and concrete steps in order to fulfill their commitments under the trilateral memorandum. you don't make young the agatha and considering the sensitivity demonstrated, and you eliminate our country's security concerns of her and the progress. and that has been achieved. vicki falling that she has invasion of ukraine. fin, leonard, sweden applied for nato membership. all 30 nato members must certify the applications, unlike finland, sued and must continue to wait for the approval from turkey by lumen holders. that fin length president welcomed the decision and repeated his dance that suit and must join nato nato membership. i have a feeling gotta finish nato membership is not complete without sweden. we have so much common interest having it being to

really neighbor santa having in the baltic sea area on our sure. so i would like to see in the news that we really need to the alley us over 32 members had the ones criticism of sweden became more pressing as turkey's next elections are approaching. critics off had the warranty. he wants to win support from nationalist water. now corresponded to shultz. she's been following this story for sedation shows me from brussels theories. good to see you to this. yeah. good news for finland. do we know the when it will be a done deal and a, perhaps more important is hungary going to also approve the membership decision soon? all those things are important now that the biggest obstacle,

what was believed to be the biggest obstacle, turkeys and disapproval of, of both finish and swedish membership is now unblocked for finland. it will move quickly for helsinki. so president air to one to day said he would like to see this ratified by the turkish parliament before elections in turkey. in may, hungary has said it will also prove within the next month or 2, they keep changing the date. so i hesitate to believe exactly which day hungry will ratify. they had said they would do it before christmas. but in any case, this is due to happen within the next couple of months and then it will move very quickly, president nina. so he said he would like to wrap it up on their side before the next parliament is elected. but that's the 1st week of april. so yeah, we're not exactly sure how the timeline or go, but it will move quickly. now in this, it really is a tale of 2 countries, isn't it? we're talking about finland and we also have to talk about sweden. do we have any idea of when or to one when turkey will say yes to sweden's bit. now as

good as the news was for helsinki to day, it was very bad for sweden air to one said they're standing next to president minas dough that sweden embraces terrace. this is the kind of thing he's been saying about stock. com ever since they launched their bins last may. now he believes that the swedish government is far too lax on a kurdish groups that oppose air to one that he considers enemies. and also perhaps more significantly on the p k. k which is labeled a formal terrorist group by every, every country in the u including finland and sweden. the difference really has been that in sweden, it is not illegal to burn a korean and that's exactly what happened in january that would not happen in finland. and so this is one of the big reasons why finland has moved ahead. what is going on? do we know what's going on inside, needed the thinking here? i mean, does the fact that these 2 countries are not going to join at the same time?

the way that they had wanted to originally is that going to have a negative impact on nato and it's stance with ukraine in its stance. you know, to be a bulwark against russian aggression. well, as you say, this is not the way nato wanted things to play out, certainly not the way finland and sweden wanted things to play out. there are a few things going on here. sweden feels like it will be left alone and left a vulnerable by being the only one outside of the nato alliance. finland tries to reassure its neighbor that once were in nato. you'll be even safer. you know, you've got a nato on the side with norway. you've got nato on the side with finland, so no sweden will take care of you. so they're very much trying to reassure the swedes of that. but it does look bad for nato that it wasn't able to to stay in united, that turkey and hungary both opposed to other countries which are best equipped, best trained, wealthiest, most integrated countries to nato, that there were devices inside the alliance. that doesn't look good as you're trying to stand up to russia and, and, you know, been present

a united front in the end. no one really think sweden won't get through. it will just have had to pay a pretty high price in terms of public relations with with turkey. patience is a virtue, sometimes they say the w, siri, shelton, brussels tonight. terry thinking there were too much was scenes along supporters of former pakistani prime minister in ron khan. and he attended a court hearing to appear in court in law hor, today. mr . hondas crisis, political crisis has been going on for such

a dime. do you have anything to offer for dogs? do tingle, gun v a solution right now look, there is only one solution. there was always only one solution, free and fair elections. the reason why there is a political scale right? going by august on because we have a hodgepodge of a government which has phase completely. it has driven, i've gotten to the ground, we have the worst economic crisis in our history of 75 years. we have unprecedented information. we haven't gone drive, didn't gone with unemployment growing. we actually have no with this government because there is no political stability. there's really comic stability. so all we want is, and the supreme court, by the way, as order elections to be on the 30th of april. and then the government is trying to get out of elections. the problems are because the government knows that

a body that has one petty out of 37 by elections. that's good that we will sweep elections. hence they're trying to get out of it. and the other worry is that they're trying to create the situation of chaos. this could easily lead to girls of the where did you find house 13 sizes if i was some terrorist. so if this leads to gail, it would so the government because they already try to get out of the elections despite the supreme court orders on the 30th of april the snap addiction is your will need to mind. you all sorta sorta snap collection of the elections in any case in october. but but, but these election, the provincial assembly elections are right now and on the 30, on the paper. so you don't, they're only a full month's earlier than the, the,

the date of the elections, of the federal elections. but the point is, ask anyone in august, the only way out of this mess are free and fair elections. and do you think that pakistan is in a position to have free and fair elections and under the machine that's operating right now? well, this is my worry. we have a government backed by the establishment establishment is very powerful. and they are citing with a government and they know that the government get on when free and fair elections . so therefore, i worry is that they're going to massively rick, the elections being seen reports that your members of your political party. i trying to a meeting, i mean if you can something and work out this is not true. this is not true. we have not tried to meet and neither me nor budget committed g for army chief up, or we want, you know, whether it is the establishment or the political parties are interested just to get

out of this space for free and fair elections. that's all we want there. there's no other negotiation or in my colleague been join me now from lower beach. i mean, but i listen to what he saying to you. everyone caught, it doesn't sound like a, a solution to this political crisis is anywhere in the make. no, i don't think i'm that this, but i think the crisis is about is going to diffuse. i think that things in boxes, man with a going to get more messy. i focus on will soon have 2 important pro winter elections. and one of the elections will be got it out in the province of been job, which is the most populated and most influential province in pakistan. and we can see that in bonham is making all efforts getting out an aggressive campaign of

getting out this big rallies because he is gone filling back again when elections in the province a fine job. now, of every political party it focused on wants to have a strong court in this province. and im ron hahn. b stabbed that government along with the military fabulous men. a conspiring the act together against him. and then making all efforts to i did was won the election because iraq, hans is the government who is in a week position and he is confident that he will be able to win the elections. i think the situation would it get worse? that would be more confrontations, and today also in the interview, i would clearly see that in bonham was very defined. i yeah, it seems like it's fight is not groomed, is not getting over it or is it also in texas to the question, how far is he willing to go? i mean, obviously he has a lot of support you to we've, we've seen the pictures there and, and he is accusing the military of being in cahoots with the ruling political

establishment partings to get rid of him. and if he can't get the answers and the, the solution he wants, then what's it going to do with all of these angry supporters who were on his side? i think right now in one hand feels like i or he has exhausted all his options. and he has, he has to now fight the entire machine. the back is against him. that's how he portrays him, says to the public. and it seems that public, if with him he has been getting out these big values today we saw, which was when he went to law high to get these b s b s. it was like a festival. people were cheering for him, supporting him. and i think that also a show of power and strength and a message that he's giving to his opponents that look,

you're getting dry. all you can do to crash my efforts and my gun been by them by the government say is that the i'm not doing anything that that additional that got a message via for link or, or does the 1000000 g says that it is the quite isn't there not wasn't a bunch of texts, but in hon leads otherwise. yeah, it's a definitely a volatile situation or correspondence. vinnish. javan mean is thank you. ah, we're germany football coach once we flick is undoubtedly under immense pressure following the teams this dismal showing at the world cup and guitar with 2 friendly matches. just around the corner flic, emitted one big name from his selection. thomas mueller, 33 year old will not be part of the squad, because flick wants to give younger talent a chance to shy. ah,

thomas mueller has been a mainstay on the german team for more than a decade. but football, b, a young man's game. flick is leaving the legend off the roster, at least for now. mueller, as a fresh faced 20 year old, put the world of international football on notice that the 2010 world cur. he was named as the tournaments best young player. and he also won the golden boot with 5 goals. at the following world cup in 2014, germany wanted all a mueller once again, let the offense becoming only the 2nd player to score 5 goals, that consecutive world cups. germany fell hard after that peak failing to make it beyond the group stage in both russia and guitar. mueller was drug by former coach . you are him love after the russia debacle. but recall 2 years later. now with

flicks decision to leave miller of germany's latest roster his international career finally looks to have come to a neighbor or chris chris harrington leader. he's forged was beard. be table to chris when you make than a of the selection. will hardy flake made it clear that he wanted to experiment. give a young kid to shad at the international top level and he has. he has 5 new comers at within those 5 to our current under $21.00 european champions for germany. so they know how to win. hopefully they can bring their energy, you know, back to the top club, you know, but all that, all. i think he was get fine tuned by september. you know, that's when he has to get in gear for the european championships in which germany house in 2024. but you know, the team looks good. a bit of a disappointment at c. thomas miller and some other names. yeah, i mean, was it wise? not to put thomas miller on the roster. you know, there was was short stay after the they were ejected out of the 2018 woke up. he

was left off to the ra, a left off the roster for a short stant, but then recalled, along with a couple of other players, you know, but just looking at guitar, looking at his age, looking, you know, at what he's won, i think his time is pretty much gone, an old man though. he's that an old man, but it is a young man sport. i know it is a young man sport. he has teenagers. it's rather he's competing against the mid feel. you know, when you look at domestic situation, he either he's winning the doing well for bar munich. they looking good to defend their business to get title. so i think it's a win win. and ambridge pressure is on the shoulders of germany, coach onto flick tons of pressure and tons of pressure. i think, you know, his spy could crack it any 2nd because, you know, they've lost that they are winners. you know, historically they've lost a big, a lot of pressure is on him to turn things around in front of the thousands that will be on hand spectating, the spectacular euro 2024 right here in germany. right. chris is always thank you.

thank you. i. let's take a quick look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines from the world of sports in tennis, spain's carlos alcaraz beat canadas, felix alga, alisa book, his place in the to my fine. as in indian wells, masters us open champion, alcaraz had been out injured for 3 months. he's aiming to return to the top of the world. great. it was the janice on tape don't go whom show until a late rally from the indiana pacers put the brakes on one of the best in the eighty's. the pacers beat the walking bucks, 139-2123 and for trailing in the double digits. this also marks their 1st win over the bucks in 10 attempts. blake johnston set a new record for the world's longest surfing session. the former australia pro surfer shattered the previous record of 30 hours and 11 minutes. johnston did not

stop there. he stayed the water on his board into the evening to achieve a full 40 hours well, of non stop. sir 1000 gathered in arkwright gonna to mourn the loss of dna in football or christiane. not so the 31 year old killed in the turkey earthquake last month on his president staff. the government ministers attended the service at the state. health optimist, bought by a widow and 3 children. is, remains were recovered from a collapsed apartment building and turkey on february 18th, nearly 2 weeks after the devastating earthquake struck before we go, here's a reminder of the top stories we're following. for you. the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for a russian president vladimir putin. the court in the hague says that it's for his alleged involvement in abductions of children from ukraine and turkeys president

richard taught you. bear to one is announced that he country is approving finland's bid to join nato. the move comes after talks between everyone and his finish counterpart in and you're watching the dw news. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see that ah ah, with

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