>> this is your world news live from dw in berlin. things for joining us. -- thanks for joining us. is this what a cease-fire looks like? ukraine admits that it has lost a key town to russian separatists. >> more talk from athens. the greek prime minister says no compromise and no rush even though a crucial bailout deadline is nearing. this is a deep freeze. arctic weather puts that she'll on tens of thousands of people in the u.s.. a news's just coming in, ukraine

says it has lost control over much of -- government forces still have the upper hand in some parts of the key eastern town but separatist leaders say that there militia has about 5000 troops surrounded. >> a correspondent is standing by. first, we had to the war zone. >> pro-russian separatists advance towards debaltseve. they are backed by tanks and artillery. these images were broadcast on russian television. journalists trying to reach debaltseve are reporting heavy shelling. here, a gas pipeline burns after being hit. the rebels are close to taking this strategic rail hub. separatist leaders say they control 80% of the city. including the rail station on the line connecting the rebel held cities.

separatist claim to have captured more than 300 ukrainian soldiers. ukraine says a number of their soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours. the government accuses russia and the rebels of disregarding the terms of last weeks peace deal. >> unfortunately, the russian federation and the so-called people's republics are not honoring agreements. the hope of peace is being destroyed. the situation looks only likely to deteriorate further. >> it is unclear how many ukrainian soldiers are surrounded in debaltseve. it could be thousands. well the fighting goes on, neither side is withdrawing heavy weapons. the chance offered by the agreement is slipping away. >> let's handed over to our man

in moscow. kia has lost debaltseve -- kiev has lost debaltseve after weeks of fighting. what are they saying? >> i have a question. ok, we haven't got the line. marcus, a question for you. this is starting to look like a lot like the annexation of crimea rough. this is a key town. is the kremlin still denying that is troops are intervening? >> yes, the kremlin is still denying them at least we have no other information so far but i would argue that this is quite a different situation. we had a well operated and executed secret operation to

take an to annex crimea in which federman cutin admitted that there were russian troops on the ground. here in eastern ukraine this lingers since april. the kremlin is still denying that there are russian boots on the ground. experts argue about what putin's endgame really is to create a so-called freeze and conflict to create -- prevent ukraine from joining western alliances or whether it is to bring about the downfall of everything that the revolution stood for. >> all the while there is meant to be a cease-fire in place. tell us, it would be interesting to know how much influence that putin has over the pro-russian separatists. >> moscow officially pretends

not to have that much influence or at least limited influence there. they are arguing that they are not a party in this conflict or in this war, that they are only trying to broker and bring about peace for eastern ukraine. but think basically, we are seeing so many times that they have some influence, we have seen that in minsk, when it was cutin who pushed hard to make the pro-russian rebels to sign the agreement last week. >> thank you very much. sorry we cannot bring you kia that the moment. vladimir putin is visiting hungary. >> putin first pay tribute to the soldiers that defeated hungary's nazi occupiers.

the russian president then met the hungarian prime minister for talks on energy issues. yes faced heavy criticism from within the european union for his perceived closeness with putin. >> russian backed forces are poised to take debaltseve. the russian president is an hungry. could you tell us what is vladimir putin's strategy when it comes to hungary and the eu? >> letterman -- vladimir putin's visit caught the government by surprise. he invited himself to hungary. he said he would like to come a few weeks after chancellor merkel and the government was not in a position to say no after flirting with russia for

so long and after talking about eastern partnership, eastern opening. he is coming to hungary to show that he still has a friend and ally in the european union. this is the first time that he comes to an eu capital since last june. >> was this a big step for people? what set of support is there for him? >> well, it is a very delicate situation. he tries to cut back a little bit from his previous rhetoric and he is now talking about eastern opening so much but there is no way out. they are talking about a ukraine and the gas prices, it is also important to see that he just visited the ukraine this week and he is going to poland the day after tomorrow, so he's

trying to show that he is a loyal ally of the european union. >> obviously they have a lot of business to talk about. i gas deal being on the agenda. we can take you back to kia where frank is standby. so, they have lost much of debaltseve after weeks of fighting. what is the line from the government? >> they made it clear that there is only one side to blame, the rebels and russia. he said, this is not a violation of the agreements that was agreed last week the tween the german chancellor and the french president. obviously russia is not able to bring the rebels to appoint to step back.

another officials of the presidency put it in other words saying that it is mr. putin who wants debaltseve. the international observers here are trying to get into the town during the whole day. they were negotiating with russian generals, with ukrainian generals. one negotiator had the pressure -- the impression that there was the [laughter] -- one official said that there was not pressure on either. >> the cease-fire is holding out outside because it looks like they have -- will stop funding was they've taken the key transport hub. >> most people say no, they say

what the rebels want is a sustainable power state. the path there occupying at the moment, only 40% of the whole of the territory. everyone is asking how will this territory survive without a harbor. >> thank you. moving on in the war of boards between greece and the eu. germany escalated on tuesday. if greece's new left this prime minister refusing what he called black model -- blackmail. >> their new partners have been given until the end of this week to accept an extension or lose assistance. the government will not copper. as for many greeks, the prime minister is the hero of the

hour. his attitude is unyielding. that greece will not given to psychological blackmail. not the words of a man about to copper mice. he called for the parliament to vote on social reform bills in defiance of the ballot obligations. those reforms need money and the country is already loaded with debt. the next loan repayment of 1.4 billion euros is due in march with the same again in june. in july and august, international lenders want another 7 billion euros. with other repayments greece has to repay more than 22 billion euros this year. the greek finance minister says yesterday policies demanded under the terms of the bailout are doing more harm than good. but, his eurozone partners have captain's the stand by its

agreements and ask for an extension. -- have asked athens to stand by its agreements and ask for an extension. >> was they do that, we can allow flexibility. they can put in their political priorities. of course cover we will see whether the program is on track. >> there is one decisive question in all of this. that is where the greece wants this program or not. so far, no one has been able to understand what greece actually wants. >> athens now has until the end of the week to strike an agreement in the eurozone. >> the ongoing uncertainties over greece and the tattered cease-fire had a surprisingly muted effect on markets this tuesday. our correspondent sent us the summary from frankfurt. >> no solutions, no agreement the greek remained the main

topic. traders are nervous but there is no panic despite a much higher risk of a greek exit. economists are putting chances of greece leaving at 50% much higher than the week before, putting pressure on the euro. positive economic data supported the markets, the index of german investors sentiment rose to the highest level in years. >> we can stay for look at tuesday's numbers. the dax is off by a quarter of 1%. a mixed day, the euro stoxx 50 trading slightly higher. u.s. shares are back in the mix. up very slightly, trading at 18,000 38 points. the euro a tad higher against the greenback.

a u.s. federal judge has temporarily suspended president barack obama's controversial immigration reform plan. the ruling gives opponents time to mount a legal challenge to the program, parts of which were due to take affect on tuesday. >> the democratic president five past congress and issued an order to spare about 5000 immigrants from deportation. the white house is to appeal. still to come we have this story coming up. >> an in-depth look at the neighborhood in which the alleged copenhagen shooter grew up. our correspondent is there and came across some very strong views in his reporting. stay tuned to find out more. >> a peek at what will be going on in this evening's champions league action. we are staying tuned.

>> welcome back. people in denmark are still emerging from the shock of this weekend's deadly shootings. >> parliament has observed a moment of silence in honor of the two victims. lawmakers including the prime minister bowed their heads in memory of the film director and a jewish security guard. copenhagen has been on high alert since the incident. police shot dead the attacker in a neighborhood where over a quarter of residents are immigrants. here are the impressions. >> the district in copenhagen a former working-class neighborhood that many immigrants now call home. rockets, palestinians, and pakistanis. the area has gained notoriety

for gang violence. the sound of gunfire is common. the area was home to the man police say went on a deadly rampage. this is a muslim activist. for decades, he has been working to promote human rights, peace and tyler and. he says more and more gang members are turning to religion and that concerns him. >> religion has become some kind of new meeting point for a lot of people because they are searching for some kind of identity and sometimes they have found it in the gangs, a way of meeting each other but more and more people are also getting related with their religion and trying to find an identity within the religion. >> the consequences of radicalization have been made painfully clear here in copenhagen. police say they have and i on

the suspected gunman and knew he was a risk. some people lay down flowers at the spot where he was shot. he has plenty of sympathizers, many here expressed approval or at least condone his actions. >> this is our teachings that whoever insults or profit, his judgment is capital punishment. that is what he did, this young brother. >> he returned fire. if you look at it, he did not kill any civilians. he doesn't care about the danish people, he kills jews. >> such views worry him. they feel hatred in general and mistrust towards muslims.

he has noticed a gradual shift towards attitudes towards islam in denmark. >> i feel hurt, i feel sad and i feel that people are watching me somehow. i am more afraid of, people might be using it politically to say that either religious group or ethnic background are terrorists by nature somehow. and that would be sad. >> denmark has always been seen as open-minded. last weekend's attacks can now put this tolerance to the test. >> to discuss what appears to be rising anti-semitism, we have got the rabbi daniel -- with us. you have personally experienced anti-semitism. can you tell us what happened to

you and if you think that attacks are on the rise? >> the attack on myself happened over two years ago. this was when i was attacked by a group of juveniles, young adults who had basically been beating me to the hospital right in front of my seven-year-old daughter. all show issuing threats of violence against my family. as happened in 2012. since then, i don't think the numbers are relevant. what is very relevant and very scary actually is the fact that hatred of jews, anti-semitism is much more acceptable all over europe, also in germany. it is much more open and aggressive. >> is not just your case, it is the feedback you are getting. >> many of my committee members are really concerned and most of them state very clearly that

they are not willing to be recognized as jewish. >> in light of the recent attacks we have seen in jews, the israeli prime minister has called on europe's jews to move to israel. what do you make of that call? >> the idea of immigrating to israel is always somehow on the table, specially if we regard the situation as it is in france or a huge pressure with anti-somatic hate crimes. this made the number of jews from france who are migrating to israel explode over the last 12 months. before, the numbers were around 1500. now they have been rising up to 7000. so, there is always a number of jewish people who consider immigration as a legitimate option.

as for germany i don't see this as a necessity right now since the situation is not as bad as in france or in scandinavia greece or hungary. but, it is always somewhere in our consciousness, that if things go really really wrong then you at least have this option open. >> thank you very much for coming. to the u.s. where 50 million americans are sitting in the path of another fierce winter snowstorm. >> this time it is sweeping across the central and southern states and is expected to dump snow all over the east coast. >> >> this is an something you see every day. firefighters removing ice on the building. it is so cold here in pennsylvania that water meant to distinguish a blaze frozen to icicles. nor is this a common sight.

but this car accident in virginia was just one of many. even the manager charged of the country was inconvenienced. after arriving back from vacation, u.s. president barack obama had to return home to the white house in a car instead of his usual helicopter. as he and the rest of the capital slept, snow plows work the streets. there will be less traffic on tuesday. federal offices will remain closed. at the niagara falls, the subzero temperatures make for a different experience. >> i am feeling like i'm losing my nose right now. >> but for some, the weather created a wonderland. >> these are creating clouds

from the mist. this is wonderful. >> and nature will continue its extreme went to recourse through much of the week. >> there is nothing a bit hotter as the carnival in rio is winding down. >> lots going into the costumes. >> a peaceful might in rio, not on your life. monday was the last night of the parade and that means that carnival fever was at its geek. it was also the end of the somber competition. 12 schools will represented. most came from the poor neighborhoods in the hills around rio. it was born there more than a century ago. the dance has gone mainstream. tens of thousands gathered at the famed parade route. the spectacle is a break from everyday life.

in the country scandal ridden politics. >> everyone taking part in the work. this is a moment of joy, people can forget the life and their financial problems. we can forget all of that here. >> it is an indescribable feeling to go in with my school. i don't know what to say. >> amazing, just fantastic. >> the city dances to the sound of the drums still don. when his school is crowned on ash wednesday when the carnival ends. >> and just miss from now, one of europe's biggest names will enter the knockout phase in ukraine. >> buyer unit taking on -- they will not be taking on their opponents lightly.

they cannot really be on set on the home advantage. >> they used to play their home games here. but of the war in eastern ukraine has forced them to abandon the arena. it now lies in ruins as do the clubs offices. they found a temporary home in the western city, a long way from the fighting. the german fans who have traveled say the conflict has not put them off. >> i'm not worried about this. it is too far away from here. apart from fears about hooligans and the opposition fans, i have no problem at all. we trust that ukraine will keep us safe. >> this is the arena. where they will face off. ukrainian champions are struggling.

there are currently five points behind the leaders. but, they made it through the champions league group stage and their coach says he wants to give fans something to cheer. >> we try to give our support. in the satisfaction to see our team play. >> the match is about more than just football. >> we will keep you updated on that game. stay with us.

>> hello from berlin with a compilation of the week's highlights. how young designers are promoted at berlin's fashion week. heavenly choreography how they

get thrown to dance in the sky. and versatile material . >> fashion week has been on the other side of the gate. there's always room for up and coming designers to get their work into the spotlight.