a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don't pass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible letting right know better steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable. the people of donbass are less optimistic though the pro russian separatists insist they don't want war either. knisley if you crane takes the 1st step nobody knows where it will end the muslim. which of. the kremlin is doing all this to blackmail ukraine and the west. troops are reinforced if their school ation continues even a small provocation will be enough to set things off with unpredictable consequences. russia's defenseman. history says this who teac

both sides are playing with fire ukrainian president selenski wants to show strength as he visits his troops. what is clear to everyone is that if our soldiers are attacked if there are casualties to meet him we have to fight back if you put it. this conjures up memories from 2014 when russian soldiers were also stationed at the border supporting pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine who sought independent status 14000 people died in the conflict and there is a living fear that this could happen again a previously agreed peace deal has so far failed to be implemented. is that you just are we are afraid for our children i have another 5 year old in kindergarten how are they supposed to cope you know we are afraid of every noise. if there is a loud noise somewhere the children get scared and hide. is a russian attack on ukraine in minutes. because you know let's drill a little bit deeper on what we can discern about russia's strategy here i actually have seen some commentators suggesting that an attack couldn't be imminent simply because the conditions on the ground would be so pro

both sides are playing with fire ukrainian president selenski wants to show strength as he visits his troops. what is clear to everyone is that if our soldiers are attacked if there are casualties the mission we have to fight back if you put it. this conjures up memories from 2014 when russian soldiers were also stationed at the border supporting pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine who sought independence status 14000 people died in the conflict and there is a living fear that this could happen again a previously agreed peace deal has so far failed to be implemented. the destruction we are afraid for our children i have another 5 year old in kindergarten how are they supposed to cope we are afraid of every noise. if there is a loud noise somewhere the children get scared and hide. is a russian attack on ukraine imminent. because in the let's drill a little bit deeper on what we can discern about russia's strategy here i actually have seen some commentators suggesting that an attack couldn't be imminent simply because the conditions on the ground would be so problematic at the m

both sides are playing with fire ukrainian president selenski wants to show strength as he visits his troops. what is clear to everyone is that if our soldiers are attacked if there are casualties diminish then we have to fight back if you put it that. this congress that memories from 2014 when russian soldiers were also stationed at the border supporting pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine who sought independent status 14000 people died in the conflict and there is a living fear that this could happen again a previously agreed peace deal has so far failed to be implemented. the destruction we are afraid for our children i have another 5 year old in kindergarten how are they supposed to cope we are afraid of every noise or use if there is a loud noise somewhere the children get scared and hide. is a russian attack on ukraine imminent. let's drill a little bit deeper on what we can discern about russia's strategy here i actually have seen some commentators suggesting that an attack couldn't be imminent simply because the conditions on the ground would be so problematic at the mo

that the ukrainian president volodymyr selenski sees western troops especially those provided by nato as essential backup for his own forces on. the mission here he says almost and starts now there's an escalation in the donbass region it's a bunch of everyone can see it when our soldiers are attached and there are casualties obviously we must retaliate i mean if you put it that. a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don't pass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible letting right know there are steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable. the people of donbass are less optimistic though the pro russian separati

kremlin line that russia is just a mediator an internal ukrainian conflict not an active participant selenski were to agree to direct negotiations with the separatists russia would be off the hook diplomatically and ukraine's president would himself being extremely hot water at home potential win win let's go all day w. our correspondent marina strauss in brussels welcome marina so what can the european parliament to do if it decides that russia does need to be punished for exactions against ukraine especially given that russia is already under sanctions by the e.u. and others. members of european parliament are preparing a so-called resolutely to impose new sanctions on russia this time if russia for the escalates a situation at its border with ukraine or even considers an invasion but it's actually not the parliament that decides it's e.u. countries and last time their foreign ministers met it's not a long time ago a couple of days ago they decided not to impose new sanctions on russia they only ask russia to further deescalate but there's one thing many people here in brussels can agree on

president selenski is proving tougher than i think the russians in to support it and as was mentioned possibly this is an effort to test the new biden ministration we know that other countries are doing this north korea with this missile test and so on and you know biden has a record with ukraine a strongly supporting the government but the u.s. of course is strapped it by a bunch of challenges at home and abroad so maybe the russians are probing the depth of the u.s. commitment and i would also add in the european and trans-atlantic dimensions i think the you know there were some talks between the presidents of russia has and germany and france and maybe they russians think they see an opening to try nixon white differences between the allies i think all these factors may work but again there's not expect taste of. imminent military action particularly since the u.s. took a very firm stand it had president biden for the 1st time called the president of ukraine we've also had changes the phone calls between other senior u.s. and ukrainian leaders probably heard richard there talk abou

both sides are playing with fire ukrainian president selenski wants to show strength as he visits his troops. what is clear to everyone is that if our soldiers are attacked if there are casualties the mission we have to fight back if you put it that. this congress that memories from 2014 when russian soldiers were also stationed at the border supporting pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine who sought independence status 14000 people died in the conflict and there is a living fear that this could happen again a previously agreed peace deal has so far failed to be implemented. the destruction we are afraid for our children i have another 5 year old in kindergarten how are they supposed to cope you know we are afraid of every noise. if there is a loud noise somewhere the children get scared and hide. which is a russian attack on ukraine imminent. because you know let's drill a little bit deeper on what we can discern about russia's strategy here i actually have seen some commentators suggesting that an attack couldn't be imminent simply because the conditions on the ground would be

in february alexander president selenski took measures to silence 3 pro russian broadcasters in ukraine and also to sanction the oligarchy who owns them that all of our captains to have close ties to put in is the russian troop buildup partly a message to selenski that he went too far in essentially trying to shut down russian propaganda machines i think the message is more to the west no nato crane as i said before but indeed i think it's a big mistake of it to close down the. 3 television stations will broadcast in russia because still in eastern ukraine and more people live in eastern ukraine than in the west of the korean train i mean they tend to listen also to russian programs and that steers more tension inside of the country than than brings the escalation so i hope that this mistake somehow will be taken back and what i think it's tremendously important is that approach and meet because they. form a different format or in the minsk format this meetings with the germans and french they didn't materialize they didn't bring. more progress for peace so let's go to develop probably

that the ukrainian president volodymyr selenski sees western troops especially those provided by nato as essential backup for his own forces on. the mission here. and it starts now there's an escalation in the donbass region it's a bunch everyone can see it when our soldiers are attached and there are casualties obviously we must retaliate i mean if you put it that. a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don't pass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible. no further steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable. the people of donbass are less optimistic though the pro russian separatists insist they don't want war

on russia to pull its troops back from the ukrainian border ukraine's president followed a near selenski proposed a summit that would also include moscow which fears is preparing an invasion. the conflict dates back to 2014 when ukraine's pro russian president was ousted in a popular uprising moscow backed separatists have occupied the eastern region ever since russia says its recent military buildup is a response to nato threats and ukrainian provocations. ukraine is gearing itself up for a battle the country's military is in better shape than it was july war in 2014 but its firepower is no match for russia's military might. we are preparing we have a saying if you want peace always be prepared for war we are ready to meet an enemy on an island. the current buildup of troops along the ukrainian russian border has been described by the u.s. and nato as the largest there since 2014 a cause of great concern for the ukrainians. is there is no split between danger or intimidation of war and danger or physical will usually russians come by and those sorts and now we'll see because attention i

in paris and angela merkel joined by video selenski called for a summit involving all 4 nations. iran says it has begun enriching uranium at 60 percent the highest level it has achieved so far the process takes around closer to the purity needed to produce a nuclear weapon a suspected israeli attack on a key facility has complicated talks aimed at reviving tehran's nuclear deal with rule power. the united nations is warning that conditions are worsening as a result of the conflict in the northern ethiopian region of. the u.n. says people have begun to die of hunger and sexual violence is still being used as a weapon of war. the u.n. is warning of an escalating humanitarian crisis in northern mozambique where than 600000 people have been forced from their homes by islamist militias many more are facing food shortages. travel to region plagued by insecurity. from the the islands off more beeks northern coasts look like paradise but life on the ground is increasingly difficult as one of the last islands that have been spared from islamist attacks a flood of refugees has more than do

time but not to talk about the dots newton says that this is an internal ukrainian issue and that selenski needs to talk to the so-called separatists this is a device that russia is using to misc portray to create dissin from asian and make it appear that there is an internal ukrainian goblet with separatism spontaneously decided to to fight against the ukrainian government that has fought a false narrative russia invaded ukraine created the separatists arms them trains them equip them controls them controls in hand pixilated ministrations there as well and then is trying to force a let's deal with them as if russia has nothing to do with the problem so his refusal to meet with zamansky about the don't bus is really the significant part of that statement and you say that putin is telling it is using this fall to narrative president biden also says that he's now in the white house what should the by did ministration do on the ukraine issue. well the most important things that we need to be doing and it's not only the united states it's germany is nato it's the e.u. we need to be taking acti

both sides are playing with fire ukrainian president selenski wants to show strength as he visits his troops. what is clear to everyone is that if our soldiers are attacked if there are casualties the mission we have to fight back if you put it. this conjures up memories from 2014 when russian soldiers were also stationed at the border supporting pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine who sought independent status 14000 people died in the conflict and there is a living fear that this could happen again a previously agreed peace deal has so far failed to be implemented. the destruction we are afraid for our children i have another 5 year old in kindergarten how are they supposed to cope we are afraid of every noise. if there is a loud noise somewhere the children get scared and hide it so it's a russian attack on ukraine in minutes. because you know let's drill a little bit deeper on what we can discern about russia's strategy here i actually have seen some commentators suggesting that an attack could be imminent simply because the conditions on the ground would be so problematic a

a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don't pass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible letting right know there are steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable but it has also divided the nation. there are still reasonable people that won't happen in the 21st century it's the other most of the so in my opinion this is a provocation by the west we shouldn't pay any attention to it this is. usually russia shouldn't interfere in ukraine it's bad enough that we've onix crimea i'm for ukraine civil proceeding with all the problems will be solved very soon. the people of donbass all. less optimistic though the pro

kremlin line that russia is just a mediator an internal ukrainian conflict not an active participant selenski were to agree to direct negotiations with the separatists russia would be off the hook diplomatically and ukraine's president would himself being extremely hot water at home potential win win for putin. d.w. our correspondent marina strauss in brussels welcome marina so what can the european parliament to do if it decides that russia does need to be punished for aids actions against ukraine especially given the russians already under sanctions by the e.u. and others members of european parliament are preparing a so-called resolutely to impose new sanctions on russia russia this time if russia further escalates the situation at its border with ukraine or even considers an invasion but it's actually not the parliament that this so it's countries and last time their foreign ministers met it's not a long time ago a couple of days ago they decided not to impose new sanctions on russia they only ask russia to further deescalate but there's one thing many people here brussels can't agree on

a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoughton bad selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don't pass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible letting right know better steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable. the people of donbass are less optimistic though the pro russian separatists insist they don't want war either. useful if ukraine takes the 1st step nobody knows where it will end the muslim. kremlin is doing all this to blackmail ukraine and the west. troops are reinforced if their school ation continues even a small provocation will be enough to set things off with unpredictable consequences. russia's defense ministry says this footage shows recent exe

have the sputnik 5 vaccine which the russians would readily make available and so do you think that selenski is you know throwing in the towel and you know this is the his last shot at it too may remain relevant in the leader of his country because his public opinion numbers are drastically down go ahead. as mary mentioned that once the whole reasoning won by so much of a hard time i think primarily because he advocated finding a true peace in resolving a negotiating any kind of flip flop or cleanly on that is that the hard right that is pushing this the us obviously special of the current players and probably pushing out if you listen to the rhetoric coming out of the us really kind of gives mixed signals and more towards were wholly behind. ukraine madness and reestablishing control of the donbass and and taking back crimea perhaps similar to what happened in georgia maybe he has more support than what many actually does maybe microland and merkel or you you don't hear that same type rhetoric it's basically more. yes. so. dangerous direction and i think he thinks the us whatever is going t

or or or 3rd just given that we were struck that russia have said that the ukrainian president mr selenski is welcome at any time in moscow for talks shouldn't president dillon's he should he take up president putin on that offer. well let's get the sequence in here right president zine ski proposed to president putin that he will go to moscow to talk about peace in the don't buy us putin responded that he'd love disease olinsky any time but not to talk about the dots newton says that this is an internal ukrainian issue and that selenski needs to talk to the so-called separatists this is a device that russia is using to misc or trade to create dissin from ation and make it appear that there is an internal ukrainian government with separatism spontaneously decided to to fight against the ukrainian government that has fought a false narrative russia invaded ukraine created the separatists arms them trains them equip them controls them controls and ham pixilated ministrations there as well and then is trying to force a let's deal with them as if russia has nothing to do with the problem so hi

that the ukrainian president volodymyr selenski sees western troops especially those provided by nato as essential backup for his own forces. on the street yet he says of course when it starts and there's an escalation in the donbass region it's a budget everyone can see it when our soldiers are attached and there are casualties obviously we must retaliate i mean if you put it that. a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don bass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible letting right no further steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable. the people of donbass are less optimistic though the pro russian separatists

line that russia is just a mediator an internal ukrainian conflict not an active participant or selenski were to agree to direct negotiations with the separatists russia would be off the hook diplomatically and ukraine's president would himself being extremely hot water at home potential win win for putin. in the un secretary general antonio terrorists is holding meetings in geneva with the natives of a divided island of cyprus to try and find common ground between the 2 sides the island's been split along ethnic lines between greek and turkish cypriots for decades the hope is to use this summit as a springboard to resume peace talks that have been stalled since 2017. time seems to have come to a standstill and for russia it's largely greek population of fled during turkey's invasion of cyprus in 1974 the once popular tourist destination has been stripped of life ever since. in a nearby village. east out a living from the arid landscape the farmer is disappointed that peace talks between the turkish and greek parts of cyprus have been unsuccessful only serious. we want the same opportuni

president joe biden making his 1st phone call to president selenski since biden became president that's very significant but as you hear the russians say that there's nothing to worry nothing to worry about there at the ukrainians are very much focused and concerned of what's happening at the moment on the borders and the timing of this why is this conflict flaring up again now. well it really obviously that's the the key question why now and there are obviously there are a number of. surmises you know theories this is not the 1st time we've seen troops in a political letting on the border and if this is happening number of times over the last 7 years of this conflict this may be just a pressure con technique should be said also that the peace talks are going to have been in a stalemate and perhaps maybe this is a way of bringing pressure on to ukrainians these are what is being bandied about here in kiev obviously the ukrainians are looking for the possibility that there could be. an attack or more troops moving across but it's it's difficult to say exactly at the moment what the russi

lation zinn the country you have i've been called selenski this weekend for the 1st time so it's clear that i think this is a lever he believes he can poll in order to maintain his relevance in order to maintain his position as a as a world leader of porton and at the same time kind of throw meat to his hardliners and encourage as much support as possible in this kind of war effort and i think ukraine does still very much see itself as a country war i speak to ukrainian friends about this all the time and they say whatever our assault on for example russian language might be whatever our compromises are on basic human rights because we are fighting a war and that psychological element that has kind of persisted since 2014 is never going away in my view mary i mean ok this is a very delicate delicate balancing act but you can't do it forever ok you can't you know prepare for a war rhetorical and even even the material you can't keep up that tempo for long or else you look like a loser you you don't look like a leader and then why should people have confidence in you i mean i find this t

and ukraine have called on russia to pull its troops back from the ukrainian border for the maid selenski met him i knew in my car in paris and i'm kill american joined by video link selenski called for a summit that also included my scope. and i will castro is standing down as head of cuba's communist party the move brings an end to the leadership of castro and his brother feel that they ruled cuba for more than 6 decades castro says he's handing off to a younger generation. some of hong kong's most prominent pro-democracy campaigners have learned the price of standing up to china's increasing power of course has handed down sentences on $10.00 protest leaders over mass demonstrations 2 years ago the spite the crackdown remaining anti-government activists say they haven't given up hope. they've just been handed a sentence for participating in protests yet they are still calling for hong kong is freedoms. media tycoon jimmy lie was among those sent to jail to produce a painting in huge pro-democracy protests by. in 29 taint. he received a sentence of 14 months. and if. it is not but there

want to change the situation in ukraine but wait he wants to get all of the present immediately mr selenski has not who has pliable as lattimer when they expected him to be an inexperienced as he was coming into politics from a completely different area and the area of interest in mr selenski has actually shown some courage and some decisive in this recently when he went after the draw russian media empire belonging to one of russia latin it wouldn't come in ukraine closing down 3 russian t.v. channels and severely weakening the influence of pro russian narrative you create. a new government has taken part in slovakia replacing the one brought down by a cover 19 vaccine scandal a secret deal came to light involving buying 2000000 doses of russia's sputnik v 18 barbara ports. swearing in a new government and hoping to turn the page on a terrible year for slovakia's ruling coalition president says i'm a couple to over praise the coalition for reaching an agreement in 4 weeks you know unfettered contesting the real fulfillment of the success of your agreements will be if these government conti

you know i would point out that if ukraine indeed was this united the selenski would not continue to live here the right there is the ukrainian nationalist because if you create would actually live up to its obligations under the minsk agreement and talk to us you would very quickly see a green nationalist march through keep so there is a strong limited what can actually be done so also when one should not confuse this there with ethnic russians are supposed to russian speakers as well and the overall . i wouldn't disagree that that they're the conflicts obviously pushed greater unity in ukraine in terms of standing up for their sovereignty. but to suggest that suddenly everyone is on the same page and to russia. down to russian policies i definitely would not agree with every poll indicates this is well that is something that everyone does not support you know and against russia ok i'm afraid we are out of time so we are going to end it then let's thank our guests very much victor leverage me hi-lo we need ski and glenn decent and thank you to 4 g. you can see the show again any tim

this cat and mouse game between the prosecutors and the volley supports and ukraine's president selenski has been speaking within the last half hour or so it looks as though a meeting with russia's president vladimir putin is on the cards in the near future . well vladimir's lenski is once a meeting with vladimir putin last week invited putin to meet him in donbass this is this region of ukraine being currently controlled by separatists russian backed separatists lansky said to putin come and meet me here and we'll talk putin's office last week said well putin is going to meet him in donbass but he's willing to meet him as a lansky to discuss bilateral issues by saying that that excludes discussion of donbass and crimea but the landscape has moved it forward a bit it seems in the last in this last. in this last half hour by saying he's told his office to contact the kremlin to try and arrange a date and a time and selenski says he's he's got a positive feeling that this meeting will happen. brought us with reporting live from moscow but many thanks indeed some breaking news for you now i

ukraine's president of the dimia selenski says he expects to meet the russia's vladimir putin soon tension between the 2 nations has been escalating in recent weeks russia closed access to the car straight on saturday and amassed large numbers of troops in ukraine's border before pulling them back. as an update on the situation from money to form in ukraine. ukraine's president followed made zelinsky says it is likely he will meet with russian president vladimir putin to discuss the conflict in eastern ukraine zelinsky also saying that both sides were at the finishing line of an agreement for a new cease fire now this comes of last week president putin saying that selenski was welcome any time in moscow to discuss lateral relations putin said he wasn't prepared to discuss the situation in eastern ukraine instead the russians are insisting that ukrainian leadership speak directly to the separatist leaders in eastern ukraine and that is something that ukraine has so far always staunchly refused to do you know the developments the ukrainian president told the financial times newspaper that he

with these the military whoever was behind it the whether it was the americans who were egging on selenskithe russians took it sufficiently seriously that they actually moved massive numbers of forces to the border and have said explicitly that this is not just oh wait you know casual military maneuvers long planned in advance they said we are responding to aggressive moves by nato this is said. that we moved off course of the board it in response to aggression by nato so this was a serious business and now i think heads have prevailed now what exactly happened whether it was the intervention of macro markel whether. the white house sudden you realize what what you know they've really bitten off more than they can chew but there seems to be an attempt to walk things back i think that probably explains why so that biden initiated that bizarre phone call with yeah. and this decision not to send the warships of the black sea because that was a very dangerous that was and you know i think they realize in the white house that it's an explosive situation given the tension now in ukraine the send

that the ukrainian president volodymyr selenski sees western troops especially those provided by nato as essential backup for his own forces. on the shia just zamost starts and there's an escalation in the donbass region it's a budget everyone can see it when our soldiers are attached and there are casualties obviously we must retaliate i mean if you put it that. a few days ago zelinsky paid a visit to nato secretary-general un stoltenberg selenski stressed that the western military alliance is ukraine's only way to end the war in don't bass experts in moscow say that statement would not have gone down well in the kremlin. any cooperation between ukraine and nato any help from the north atlantic alliance is a red flag for the kremlin. but that doesn't mean that all members of the alliance welcome ukraine's desire to join nato as soon as possible letting right know there are steps towards membership are not on the agenda. a clear statement that gives many in russia hope that a war is preventable. the people of donbass are less optimistic though the pro russian separatists insist they d

together where we zelinsky met emmanuelle mccrone in paris and anglo-american joined by video link selenski proposed a summit that also included moscow but so far russia has refused calls to pull back leaving ukraine fearful of an open invasion. broke castro has announced his resignation as the head of cuba's ruling communist party putting an end to 6 decades of rule in the country by members of the castro family role who took over as president from his brother fidel in 2008 has said he is passing leadership on to a new generation. reserve you. asked for me my task as 1st secretary of the central committee of the communist party of cuba and with the satisfaction of having fulfilled my duty and was confidence in the future of the country. with those words to the communist party congress and i will cause. announced his retirement from the frontline of cuban politics it has been 6 decades since i was prouder fidel castro came to power following the cuban revolution of the 1950 s. and i will cuss through has played most of his life a 2nd string to his product 1st as a good commander later as a

of years unless he met a man you would not call in paris and angela merkel joined by video link selenski called for a summit that also included moscow. and we turn to politics now and the bitter feud in angola merkel's conservative party over who should stand as her successor and run as chancellor candidate in september's general election. the 2 contenders bavarian premier and c.d.u. party leader that continue to hold discussions on friday evening with the party already sliding in polls members have called for the dispute to be settled by the end of this week. and for more on this let's go to the chief political editor make it a coup for who's following all the latest developments here in berlin. how close are these 2 men to finding a decision. well we thought they were closer than they actually were we expect to see that they might come out on friday he think that deadline has passed now there are calls from within the own parties if you screw calling for a settlement by the end of saturday by the end of the week is what they both have ballots and that interview taishan might be by the

or or or 3rd just given that we were struck that russia have said that the ukrainian president mr selenski is welcome it it is time in moscow for talks shouldn't president to linsky should he take up president putin on that offer. well let's get the sequencing here right president zelinsky proposed to president putin that he would go to moscow to talk about peace in the don't buy us putin responded that he'd love disease lansky any time but not to talk about the dots newton says that this is an internal ukrainian issue and that selenski needs to talk to the so-called separatists this is a device that russia is using to misc for trade to create dissin from asia and make it appear that there is an internal ukrainian government led with separatism spontaneously decided to fight against the ukrainian government that has fought a false narrative russia invaded ukraine created the separatists arms them trains them equip them controls them controls in hand pixilated ministrations there as well and then is trying to force a let's deal with them as if russia has nothing to do with the problem so hi

near the lens he met a man you would not call in paris and angle to merkel joined by video link selenski called for a summit that also included moscow. germany is seeing its biggest spike in corona virus cases since january 1 of the main reasons is the slow pace of vaccinations fewer than one in 5 germans has received a 1st dose the rise in cases has prompted a warning from medical workers that intensive care units are being pushed to the brink debbie reported tessa valter visited a berlin hospital that is close to capacity. we're at the intensive care unit in berlin scatty tests hospital half of the patients here suffer from culvert 19 dr thomas kuhn again his team have their hands full and the beds are filling up. their lungs. slowly you can see that there is an increase at the moment when not yet in a situation that brings us to the edge of what we can do with your crown but we know that if the numbers continue to rise we could certainly have problems go through the hellish program we have incurred on in recent weeks the number of covered patients in germany's icy use has been rising

or or or 3rd just given that we were struck that russia have said that the ukrainian president mr selenski is welcome it any time in moscow for talks shouldn't president should he take up president putin on that offer. well let's get the sequencing here right president zine ski proposed to president putin that he will go to moscow to talk about peace in the don't buy us putin responded that he'd love disease alinsky any time but not to talk about the dots newton says that this is an internal ukrainian issue and that selenski needs to talk to the so-called separatists this is a device that russia is using to misc trade to create dissin from asian and make it appear that there is an internal ukrainian gunflint with separatism spontaneously decided to to fight against the ukrainian government that has fought a false narrative russia invaded ukraine created the separatists arms them trains them equips them controls them controls in hand pixilated ministrations there as well and then is trying to force a let's deal with them as if russia has nothing to do with the problem so his refusal to meet

saving madrid you can prosecution returning his networks to the airwaves is a key kremlin priority if selenski wants progress on donbass putin insists it should go and talk to these to the leaders of the separatists in eastern ukraine financed and armed by russia. it's all part of the kremlin line that russia is just a mediate an internal ukrainian conflict not an active participant or selenski were to agree to direct negotiations with the separatists russia would be off the hook diplomatically and ukraine's president would himself being extremely hot water at home potential win win for putin. and we are joined by sergey lavrov inskeep in brussels he's a member of the european parliament for the german green party. the e.u. parliament is discussing the situation at the of russian border what action do you want the e.u. should say. i think the most tangible would be probably the 3 main points of the resolution which is about to be adopted by the european parliament number one is the call of all the major political parties for member states to step up their military support. for ukraine in terms

within ukraine issue so he's not sure whether putin would be willing to discuss that but selenski says he's told his chief of staff to fix a date with the kremlin the news from the kremlin at the moment is they don't know when it's going to happen but they haven't said it's not going to happen. ok ben a smith there very latest live from moscow berna thank you. hundreds of arrest warrants have been issued in terror same connection with an exile businessmen he's accused of attempted coup against president a wretched type errors of i'm back in 2816 brazil serger has more from istanbul. the operation by the security forces just started in the morning as a part of the investigation initiated by the chief prosecutor of istanbul and it is an heiress warantee issued for $532.00 suspects and the sources are still under way so 459 of them the suspects are still on duty military personnel which is a very high number among them 158 of them are the member or the general command of the gender marries and 233 of them are a number of the land forces 46 of them a force is 41 navy forces and 22 are the

as he was coming into politics from a completely different area of the area only interest in mr selenski has actually shown some courage and some decisive in this recently when he went after the draw russian media empire belonging to one of russia's latin it wouldn't come in ukraine closing down 3 pro russian t.v. channels and severely weakening the influence of pro russian narrative you create. a minneapolis police sergeant testified that the offices of straining george floyd could have ended their actions once he stopped resisting day for the trial of a fuller police officer accused of floyd was highly emotional floyd's girlfriend spoke about the couple's struggle to break free from opioid addiction. reports not from minneapolis and we do want some viewers you may find some of the images in his report disturbing this image of george floyd adopted by the black lives matter movement after his death is recognized all over the world as a symbol of police brutality and it is based on a selfie kind of business. that's according to georgia girlfriend courtney ross who was the 1st to testify o