also to say, i residence the crane, 2nd largest city, half co film. they say a russian force is entering the city. as sporadic fighting is reported in the area and authorities knew he recognized yes can against public say that the he trained emitted for his conducting relentless shelly residential areas and has attacked the fuel. deb sparking a massive blades plus western powers ramp up sanctions against moscow. preparing to disconnect some russian banks from the swift international paint system china they were poses that move saying it won't result from the crying crisis.

and of course, what your crane are. it is important to cover every single type to russia because russia is a threat to europe. threat number one, russian troops occupying ukrainian territory. russia organizers, cyber attacks in ukraine, russia, cuts supply are used to cart supply as long as are ukraine bought. guess from russia, russia, black males, ukraine, etc. of course you create mascot ties, but it's not a threat from any in berlin. thank you very much for your analysis. you and let's talk more about the breaking news that's been coming in to us today about the holding of the note stream to pipeline without chief political correspondent, belinda crane. the chancellor there halting the certification process of the pipeline. i think i can safely say we were both extremely surprised to suddenly hear this happen on this day at this hour. but what does it will me? yes, i think we were surprised to in part because chance the shots has for so long not uttered the words nord stream to in connection with any form of a sanct

which by at them we have somebody mega who are tom stole crane. those nice boys, the weights, soaps, me, but then sal it's lee was mosquito nestled in the videos of it. yeah. was it i woke up brain is biased opinion. well, posing that don't just let me know. probably a good answer she plaza, but it's still telling me they going to look up on me. it's gray lot from work less than they need. so you can on their go to san raphael within the city yet it took up was lethal crane that's most of the street that had come with me stanley masha period. ah, ah ah ah ah a christina. it isn't with us. but i'm on the one, you know, maybe a monday with no difficult the good luck of the life damage here as a fella on your bills. and those are the full review with you. and the security council has called for a rare emergency special session on russia's operation in ukraine as part of western powers attempt to isolate moscow. following a raft of aggressive nato statements and huge new arms deliveries pledged by block members. president putin puts russia strategic d

jonathan crane of d. w. sports is in bay jan. he looks back now on the winter olympics basing has rounded off it 2nd olympic games with an out be closing ceremony. it was directed once again by jang e e e e move. he becomes the 1st man to oversee 2 sets of opening and closing ceremonies after the summer games in 2008. now this was an opportunity for all the athletes to come together and celebrate their achievements from these past 2 weeks . because mas forcing points of view these games provided many memorable, magical moments. sadly though, because of the harsh cove restrictions in place here, very few spectators were allowed inside the venues to see those magical moments contributing to a subdued atmosphere. really making it very difficult to judge whether winter sport has a long term future. here in china and of course questions i beijing suitability as host did linger over the games, but only a handful of athletes felt comfortable enough speaking out a mostly doing so once they reach the safety of their own countries. san mil

with dawn came the bombs, russia attacked sites across he crane. the russian troops that had been amassing on the border for weeks started rolling in, recorded on surveillance cameras by ukraine's board. a police brushes leader vladimir putin announced the military operation in a broadcast on russian t. v. he disparaged ukraine's democratically elected government and asked he cranium soldiers to surrender ukraine's president of a lot of me as lansky introduced martial law. and he made an emotional plea to russians. questions can i'm addressing you, the russian people as the ukranian citizen, bullied, we are separated by a border stretching more than 2000 kilometers. and right now there are 200000 of your soldiers. there are a couple of your leadership has authorized them to move into the territory of another country. and this could mark the start of the major war on the european continent. now you can continue black smoke from a ukrainian military airport and to give in the east of the country. russia confirms that they bombed the site for housing

and few crane that. busy is against it, among other inter, i'll also poland. it just, it does not really wash. we're in the situation i where, where germany has put a stop to, to north stream a to so the company, the country is very much getting in line with its allies. i wonder how worried you are tonia, about a spillover from this concurrent conflict. why should we have more of a spillover than anyone else? i mean, i think there's a general spillover that europe should worry about. but other than that, i think, i mean, we are not, we're not direct neighbors, but, but certainly if russia successful, i think it will encourage you more aggressive behavior. we also said president putin has suggested negotiations in minsk. can there still be talks with mr. brewton, after what has happened. melissa decision for president lensky to make quite clearly not. but i would find it extremely difficult, especially. ready since bella rose susan, the ally of the belligerent, but you know, the city said that the strong do. ready what they want and the, the, we could do what t

it's also about supporting em wet with crane reference. maybe other countries are doing it but, but not to know germany. so i think german might. germany might not be against it if other countries are doing it, but i think it's also about showing that finally germany and, and do european union is more active on this country. so it's not only up to the us, but it's, it's about european security and to show also unity with smaller countries, especially in central eastern europe. and i think it's very important for, for germany and europe. may i ask you what a solution to the ukraine conflict short of war might look like? i think it's very difficult because there are different approaches see from the ration site. they want to have. now these guarantees of their fear of influence a non a to enlargement and they will not get it from the european and western cycles. when do you s side? i think we, we want to have a process with russia on the, on the european security order on, on arms control and confidence building measures. and i, i think this

a good thing to speculate about how the sanctions would be clear is if the russian should invade 0 crane, everything's on the chair, but it doesn't make any sense to speculate as far as when everything is on the table, there should be war, the fun minister said if the russians would wait in radio crane, the doors will be closed for 10 to 20 years. so that doesn't make any sense. and we, our task is to prevent that from happening. and by the way, because you said germany would be isolated, we are the ones that support a crane economically more than any other country does and have the ukranian. so you should leave that out and i just don't think that there was talk and that's for sending weapons into the region. makes any sense in terms of preserving peace and preventing military actions to happen in the middle of europe. a leading member of the governing s p d here, germany, thank you very much. thank you. now stop a round up of some of the other stores making headlines today. shares in facebook on a meta plunged by 20 percent and after hours trading on wednesday, knocking a massive $2000

jonathan crane from d. w. sports is at the beijing winter olympics. here's what he had to say about camelia that lady evers, disappointing day on the ice. camilla valley ava was in floods of tears after her performance sat inconsolable in the results area, desperately trying to process what it just happened to her. we can only imagine the pressure is hugely talented. 15 year old states from russia was under. she taken to the ice, of course, on turn, typing cloud only allowed to compete after sports court ruled. it would be wrong to stop her from doing so because of how young age. but after a week of drama, following revelations, ref out, drugs testing december, that prussia finally took his top dogs to revolve valera, valerie eva lips. i want to steady so unsure of herself. she fell twice, she tumbled more. this was not the body able. we've been used to see and to be honest, it was painful to walks. she still the facing with a gold medal in the team events her name, or whether she even receives that metal remains to be seen. the metal ceremony for tha

okay, melinda crane are chief political editor. thank you so much for that insight on on frank walters time, our speech and we have nina has a, has been attending the election there at the buddhist egg. how. how, how did it all unfold for you though, dana? well, i've been listening to the speech by frank, fight us by a stone my. our old and new president together with newton meet. now he's a foreign policy expert for the social democrats and i have the opportunity now to discuss on fight. i stand my speech with him. so what did you make of this message that from fight i stein maya gave essentially, directly addressed to vladimir putin. don't underestimate the democracy's, wasn't it high time that such a sentence came from a high ranking german official? well, it was a very powerful speech, i must say. very seldom have you heard of fun for the fun, my distressing feet residency talking so directly to the current 1st in international politics. this was quite a speech i must say. and i think that she has not only chosen to send a very

and officials after you cranes. a lot of them is the landscape that he was prepared to discuss. neutral status for his country. leaders agree unprecedented sanctions moving to please the assets of russian. president, putin and foreign minister law. but they hold back on cutting russia off from global bank transactions. ah, i feel gail, welcome to the program. russian forces are closing in on ukraine's capital on day 2 of a full scale invasion here of mass as the city of enter. the defensive phase and ukrainian military vehicles are entering the capital to protect it from approaching russian troops for cities, promising people to take shelter in metro stations have been reports of clashes in and around the city after russia bombarded with missiles overnight. government says at least $137.00 of its soldiers and civilians have been killed across the country . roughly, husband putin has claimed he's willing to negotiate. the ukraine's law means the landscape raised the possibility of discussing a neutral status for ukra

w. chief political correspondent, melinda crane. and nina hazard, who is at the parliament buildings in downtown berlin. nina, shy mar, was re elected with a large majority, but were there any surprises? well, in terms of election results and there were a few minor surprises, of course, of fun fight. i sign my being re elected was not a big surprise after all, he did have the backing of all the parties that are involved in the current government coalition. so the stds, the greens and the if the piece, but also he got the support of from the conservatives from a homely angle on michael's parting of the glitch. massive party. and that gave him a solid majority, got more than a 1000 votes. now 1400 or more than 1400 votes were up for grabs. what was interesting though, in terms of results, and i'm sure that we'll get to the details of his speech later. but just in terms of results was that the candidate who had been nominated by the free voters, the only woman in the race, she got more votes than many people had expected z m would have

it is a drastic rise. intention, it is significant just how significant really depends on how you crane is going to react to that announcement. now all of this, what's playing out today or in these ours is a prelude, of course. what was happening during the past 2 days. this massive op search of violence in the eastern part of ukraine across that line, dividing ukrainian forces, and the separatists. both boss blaming each other to be the origin of that shouting . what is a sign of concern for people here actually on the ground in key of that president zalinski is on the way to the security conference in munich. josh, right now, he wants to be back today, but people are really wonder, what's the situation going to be look like in a crane when he returns d. w, a spanish are reporting from kiff. and here's a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. at least 13 people have died after a deadly storm swept across northern europe on friday, emergency services are battling to clean up the wreckage of the strong winds, paralyzed transport across the continent. the united ki

jonathan crane the reporting from the olympics in beijing. thank you so much. and football now and the weekends. one does like an action got off to an exciting status. mine's hosted live across and the upcoming carnival festivities meant the home fans were ready for a party. and the players delivered a goal frenzy on a stormy night with covet restrictions, partially lifted in germany. 10000 fans were back in the stands and mines all dressed up for carnival season. however, leave up who isn't? we're not clowning around early on. patrick, 6 shot in the 34th minute gave them the lead. thanks to a big deflection. minds fans, prayers did get answered in the 2nd half. aaron, marching with a beautiful, direct, free kick curling at right through leave, a qu, isms, wall. the visitors reclaimed the lead. thanks to lucas elario. the argentinian scoring his 2nd of this season, but 10 minutes later it was all square again. john paul boyd seals scoring. just moments after being self done and minds were not done yet after chaos and sued and live occlusal sparks markers ingber

the sins more support for your crane. the signs are. _ more support for your crane. _ more support for your crane. the signs are. as you _ more support for your crane. the signs are, as you heard more support for your crane. tta: signs are, as you heard from president biden, that they are at least planning for something that could take place as early as in the next 48 hours. that is extremely concerning. next 48 hours. that is extremely concerning-— concerning. and all the while russian forces _ concerning. and all the while russian forces prepare - concerning. and all the while russian forces prepare and l concerning. and all the while - russian forces prepare and train. these, the latest pictures from the country's defence ministry, shopping russian war planes patrolling the border of belarus and ukraine. james landale, bbc news. in a moment, we'll speak to our moscow correspondent caroline davies, but first let's get the latest from the ukrainian capital, kyiv, and our correspondent there, james waterhouse. james, is this confusion now cleared up james, is this co

melinda, germany has been sharply criticized for not doing more to help you crane militarily . some of germany's allies have him question berlin's reliability. what is berlin doing to address those concerns and help ukraine? well, for starters, after quite a long period in which he was scarcely seen or heard on this issue, chancellor schultz is now sponsoring that flurry of diplomatic activity that you mentioned a moment ago. he visited washington this week. he's going to moscow and kiev. and he also did host both the norm detox and the politic leaders yesterday in berlin. and as you say, germany has faced criticism towards reluctance to send defensive weapons to ukraine and is sometimes accused of naivete for thinking that diplomacy alone can solve the crime crisis. but as we heard in the report, germany is stepping up its contribution to deterrence on nato's eastern flag. shelter told baltic leaders yesterday that germany will send $350.00 additional troops to the region, and germany is in fact the lead nation and nato's operation. in lithuania, it already makes up about half

oh, for you crane. so if, as you say implicitly, ukraine and the ukranian people are being sacrificed for us geopolitical interests . why doesn't putin meat zalinski outside the normandy process and arrange a summit so that all this can be explained to the, to the world where there is no problem about such summits actually is. lensky doesn't want to have any thoughts rush of crystal. and then of course, we don't want him to go to combine these with some points of the meals agreement. there, there is a document which was signed 8 years ago and killed. didn't do a thing to implement this document. that was the lens he has, you know, says i, the gun was to their heads and so on. and that's starting to be amplified in nato countries as the a valid support for minsky who is diluted, arguably, oh, actually it allows you says he's not going to implement mescal agreement. but that means that the grain will lose its territorial integrity because males is the only thing which keeps it together. it goes the republ

and of course, what your crane are. it is important to cover every single type to russia because russia is a threat to europe. threat number one, russian troops occupying ukrainian territory. russia organizers, cyber attacks in ukraine, russia cuts supply, you know, used to car supply as long as you brain bought gas from russia, russia, black males, your brain, etc. of course you praise mascot ties, but it's not a threat. i guess money and then thank you very much for your analysis. you. the united nations security council is held in emergency session over the crisis. russia use the meeting to accuse ukraine of shelling residential areas in east and ukraine. the united states and boy promised it would bring new sanctions against moscow. a growing number of world leaders and nato have condemned russia's actions . president putin is now violated ukrainian sovereignty. he sent troops in. he's broken international law. we will immediately institute package of economic sanctions, which i think people would expect talk to not

and i'm just going to turn to melinda crane. now try to ask you if we can look back ah, at frank balter, stein myers main achievements. we're looking at pictures live, i don't know if you wanna explain anything. we're see. this is the yeah, this is the president of the bonus tag. and also the chair of the convention of babel boss. and she obviously is getting ready to speak, which must mean that they are close to having the results there. you see the former chancellor anglo michael still a few se being taken a lot of that going on before they all sit down. again. the tattling of the vote has been a little bit more complicated than normal because in fact, the essentially administrators of this election are spread out all across this building for those coven reasons that we heard. here we're seeing the state premier of bavaria, mac, a soda and and clearly people now getting into place to hear those results. the results are not in dispute, right? it's very clear that the parties backing frank, vanished on mar for a 2nd term. absolu

which me ah, by them we have still been a mega who are tom stole crane. those nice poison soap sleep. what can sell if lee was mosquito nestled to know with what you tell, korean is by it. so yes, no opposing, don't just let out of michelle. oh, probably a good answer she plaza leads to me, killing me said, wanna sort of i me it's gray lot from work less than they need to. so you can on their go to san raphael, mostly sitting it, it was put lethal crane. that's what it says. reach, doug, how come with michelle marsha period? ah, ah ah, [000:00:00;00] i ah, a financial survival guide. when customers go buy, you reduce the price, didn't el, reduce a lower that's under cutting, but what's good for food market that's not good for the global economy. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even from taishan, let it be an arms race is on very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk a lot from claims you train

this is not only about ukraine, maybe it's not even the 1st place about crane. it's about the demand from russia that come and architecture, the security art architecture in europe must be renegotiated. and i think it, ukraine is one part of it, but not the whole picture. and now speaking about ukraine, just how prepared is the country to defend itself in the event of a russian invasion. well, we have seen the influx of military hardware from the us, from the u. k, from the baltic states. but this is all minor equipment. what the ukraine is lacking is air defense, sophisticated air defense, long range, air defense, and what has been delivered as anti tank weapons and also today or this weekend stinger and yeah, croft equipment. but this is only short range equipment. the problem is that the west can deliver, or some countries can deliver as equipment and the ukrainians and know how to use it. but when we talk about complicated complex air defense systems like patriot, this was would mean training. this would mean time, and there is no time to do this. so this re

he had a clear warning for his next host about the consequences of any military action against you. crane is my hand kiff the i'm up here and live. i am once again making clear ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity are non negotiable for germany. therefore, we expect clear steps from russia to deescalate current tensions. he has come to. the german government is clear that further military aggression against ukraine would have serious political, economic, and geostrategic consequences for russia to heal. i will emphasize that to morrow in moscow to forget the scottish moron in moscow dishwasher. archie political editor, mikaela, mikaela, kushner, attended that press conference and keep. earlier i spoke to her about whether chance social says offer 2 of aide to ukraine was too little too late. of we are seeing some signals already coming out of moscow. not necessarily related to this meeting here today, but it clearly german chancellor, ola saw it said we know what to do and it appears that moscow understands that the west has coordinates. it coordinated itself to a degree that the

what impact with his hop on the people from crane and russia? as events unfold? stay with us for the latest news and analysis for moscow on all 0. ah, i will jesse around with this feels like representation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by boxing is my get out take it is, is not even just my thing is the people around like you got to when i'm telling the story about my life is going to take 50 future to do a don't so bad with you. deep award with your documentary witness on out his era. ah, this is al jazeera. ah. you're watching the news, our life from a headquarters in del. how i'm dirty and abigail coming up in the next 60 minutes fighting intensifies in the ukrainian capital and other parts of the country is russia, continues its assaults, talks between delegations from moscow on kiev, wrap up with the possibility of a 2nd round of negotiations to come these escalating violence which is resulting in civilian.

after russia bombarded the city with missiles overnight, cranes government says at least $137.00, the soldiers and civilians have been killed. countries. a russian president vladimir pro, so has claimed he's willing to negotiate. after the cranes presidents the landscape, raise the possibility of discussing neutral status for his country. but the condition of such toys are not immediately clear. with short d, w correspondence, nick connelly on the line, he was in care of and like so many others has been forced to flee a welcome. nick, can you tell us where you are and what's going on? so we've just been heading south west and trying to keep away since like to kind of unclear sites in the geography and kind of try to predict where things happen basically just shows the direction that seem to be the least likely to see fighting . so we're heading to do which is kinda towards the end. but even though we've seen lots of tanks and green tank setting towards kids to join that fight, we've seen worse came to us lots people on the roads, lines outside central station to control that college a

so they can exploit that gain concessions from the west concessions from your crane. so this is why the west is upset. the other you see that's unfolded this afternoon, is that we've received reports that ration backs separatists in eastern new crime plan to evacuate residents in this way region. now this really is a setting tone in this conflict. is it further adding fuel to the fire which the west says his moscow trying to justify an invasion, a pretext to wall? right. so it's been interesting because it wanted to justify you would maybe want to keep the civilians there and just make sure some of them are killed and that with justified the rush intervention but withdrawn civilians is normally a prelude to initiation of our days. you want to remove your own noncombatants from potential combat sound to minimize their casualties. so the, to get them off the road. so example, you got refugees on the road, so it ain't your fear with your troop movements. so it could be seen as a prelude to an offensive eye by making the costs of any offensive to russia and the separatist

now they're actively and hopefully supplying the crane with offensive weapons. i know that the issue of taiwan is highly sensitive for china and human pretty straightforward. the west also allows itself to use that issue for its own geopolitical or tactical maneuvering. do you think there is a fear on there is a risk rather of events in taiwan taking on a crane scenario? me being very, very diplomatic. no, i think it's quite a different case. but as you know, the whole world has recognized that there is only one child in this world, and part one is part of charlotte. so this is a fundamental base of discussion. and for any country including the western interfere into the intel office, it's not something that china what color it, john has already made very strong statement that an interference is not going to be entertained or tolerated. so discussions of a piece for re unification is always on the top of the agenda. and that's something with just a moment. i would say it's quite different from what's happening. you credit mister one, you know that we leave in th

i should say to prevent the you cat crane crisis escalating. so what exactly did the 2 ladies talk about? will t w's? washington bureau chief in his poll has this assessment to hear that the resurrect has basically not changed. and that the president joe, by the repeat of the message he sent out before he was putting that in ukraine attack would bring her and i, i a quote that here a swift and decisive response. he said that in case of an invasion, russia would be hit very hard by sanction sanctions, which also would target specifically the ali galks and also proteins, personal assets. so today's phone call was another sign. the president biden is willing to play hardball. in his poll there in washington. let's go to ukraine. now . mathias bullying is d. w's bureau chief in kia mathias. hi there. how concerned are ordinary ukrainians? about a possible war? if somebody dropped you yesterday or today into the center of gear, you wouldn't think at all and not telling you where you are. you wouldn't think at all that you are in the country, threate

glad to be had a crane in leadership. are you going to repeat it for the 3rd time now scheduled as all solution because i heard the old ride, the earth shine abuse. once again, i will explain it to you, you don't want to wait until the guy was trying to draw attention when the answer to the questions from the previous representative. all the western media outlets, and i wanted to draw your attention to what president said. i resend the problem, you have no time to read. scoop i did with him, the mini nations that describe russian position, but please, i invite him to do that. then you are and ukraine. now, you should also 33 on the fuel. could advise that your cranium counterparts and the people from the ukranian on for this to read that no one is going to attack the cranium people and no one is going to usually aid them. schumacher cranium serviceman that issue in any way. we are only talking about not allowing neo nazis and those who know that, but i can assign to room in the country because now the regime for that crui

johnson crane in beijing. a pleasure. as always. thank you. well, that's all for now of next reporter and have a greek cypriot his fighting to get his family's property back. there's plenty more news on our website. the w dot com, monica jones will be here from the top of the next hour from the team. here berlin take care. see very soon the the battle against cove in the very end is putting health care systems around the world to a test. vaccination campaigns are accelerating while restrictions are intensifying . once again. but are these measures enough to stop the spread of the cron? fax data reports weekly co.

there been various kinds of western training missions, few cranes, military, and then more in the way of bilateral military aid for ukraine by the u. s. by the u. k. recently supplying those 1st lethal weapons from the u. k. recently. but there is no commitment by nato to defend ukraine. and as i said before, ukraine is well and truly on its own if russia were to lead. now this of course all comes in context of the russian troop build up next to the ukranian border on the other side. how the the numbers compare. i think this is a really important point because yet there has been lord kristen from moscow of these u. s. troop movements, but they are tiny compared to what russia is doing in the same region. so these are essentially 2000 new troops being transferred across atlanta from the u. s. 1000 being moved from germany to romania. this is pretty poultry. if you accept the claim from nato, joseph, 3 or stilton burg recently that russia sending 30000 fresh troops to bellows alone . these are excise is being held between pillars of russia in that country that also lies on ukraine's bor

ah, this is dw news live from berlin, an impassioned plea from the ukrainian president bush and the crane is longing for peace. your room is longing. at the munich security conference, ukraine's president followed immediately, lensky calls for more international support and a meeting with vladimir putin as tensions escalated, eastern ukraine, our correspondent visits of time. that's already been the target artillery attacks . plus the winter olympics brought to a close with a ceremony in beijing that set to focus on ordinary people and athletes. ah, i'm pablo fo lillius welcome to the program. ukraine's president followed me to lensky is calling for face to face talks with russia's vladimir putin to resolve the crisis between their countries. moscow, he said to could even pick the location of the meeting. so lensky was speaking at the munich security conference here in germany, where he said ukraine will not respond to provocations in the eastern part of the country, but will defend itself against russian hostility. he also appealed for more support to defend ukraine against russia. on th

e special monitoring mission t crane. i was with another whose presence support's efforts for di luke and confidence building between the parties. it also contributes to easing tensions . he had worked at the same time. we must pay attention to the critical situation of civilian eastern ukraine where united nations reports mention that there are 3400000 people in need of humanitarian assistance, of whom 55 percent are women, and 16 percent children. and we had the furthermore, are, there are obstacles for the delivery of humanitarian assistance. is some of those in need, particularly in areas near the contact line in east tangle crane. we therefore emphasize the importance of not escalating existing tensions as this may cause serious harm to civilians. when are you? sure, in this regard, we call upon all parties not to obstruct the access to humanitarian aid or the movement of civilians in conflict areas. in accordance with their obligations under international law, while he finally, we reiterate the importance of respect

jonathan crane there, that's your news update this hour. i've been f as all and up next reporter with look at what's called buildings cold by offering. oh god seat or accommodation for homeless people in winter by the care that i work, that's hard. and in the end, if you are not allowed to see you anymore, we will send you back. are you familiar with this with lions. what's your story? ready

nater weren't protecting crane military. it's empty, isn't a member, and the whole prospect of ukraine becoming a member was never on the table. and that's the great frustration, particularly of german sansa when i saw it, it says it simply cannot be that there could potentially be a war in europe over an issue that was certainly not going to rise for at least a generation because ukraine doesn't fulfill the basic requirement, it actually has an active conflict. that means it cannot join nato even if it wants to. and even if nato opened, it still was an act of the invited it, which simply will not happen at this point in time. an interesting question that was raised to day is whether sweden or norway, or part of europe, but it are not part of nato would now potentially be able to join in the insulting back said, well listen, there's an open door. it's up to those countries to decide. so what this is really about is not necessarily ukraine simply, but about the right for countries to choose, at which alliance they want to bel

you crane has urged its citizens in russia to leave immediate late. it says russian aggression is increasing. so to the threat of invasion. kia has also called up reservists to be ready to fight. shelling has intensified in the east following russia's recognition of to break away regions as independent states. a corresponded, but he has boating of filed this report from a village close to the line between ukrainian and separatist held territory. it is quiet at the moment a good time to leave for days. now the people in the village of rubica have been under fire. the villages in ukrainian government control territory and is being shared by separatists from the other side. you know, cl additional deliberately and then um the whole night is that some people are still in the cellar too scared to come out. did the kids spent the whole day yesterday downstairs, but at night we went upstairs pregnant because it was just too cold. downstairs a seller is a seller, but lowest bottle, half of the village has already left. the others are terrified. shells of come

r t political correspondent melinda crane. good to talk to you. let's get a round up of some other stories now. french president, my call is calling for a renaissance for the french nuclear industry. he wants to build up to 14 new reactors to power frances transition away from fossil fuels. critics have raised concerns about the costs and the problem of radioactive waste. germany plans to close its last nuclear plants this year. yes, really in government has listed koala as endangered in 3 of its states. the native marsupials are fighting to survive and that bush fires land clearing and route by one estimate kuala numbers have been cut in half. and the past decade, conservation of said, australia must do more to avoid one of its national icon from becoming extinct. and an unnamed woman has filed a civil lawsuit accusing american rapper snoop dog of sexual assault and battery in 2013 the loss. it was filed days before the wrapper will perform at the super bowl halftime show, representatives for the star if not commented on the accusation. at the wi

how does germany as support or do crane video? 30 items joke. yeah, thank you. thank here at this time. indeed. there are many questions on what you meant that we have differences on both various countries, but i am a very open person modem when you, if august, the german ministry moved somebody i don't know about. i have not heard of this because i right now i can see the german ambassador here and i think she is here. not only because the chancellor is here, we meet very often with her. and so i have no doubt about it. i have no questions. this is your rights. i have no questions to the german embassy. thank you for their support. portable johnston all the time i wanted like t i m m as a pre appreciate what the m a k number the trevena message or did for her that this situation and it's not so that the computer on the do on that you do know very well the german legislation and that we are not to exporting of happens in the crisis areas, but we are both providing other supporters of the are the biggest financial supporter of the ukraine. and this is, this is ho

will never be recognized because all these carriers is attributed on russia, aggression in east new crane though, there are not a single russian soldier. so for us it's clear o 4, west. i think it's also clear that it is not a genocide. how can democratic and free ukraine? i provide a policy of genocide, but that's exactly what they're doing. but what we hear in nature media is that 14000 were killed by russian back and separative. it was the other way. what about vladimir putin role in all of this? i mean, is not the case that as you talk about eastern expansion of nato, as this perhaps being an excuse to pull weapons in the united states certainly is boring. thousands of soldiers in it was put in was president when bulgaria, stoney latvia, lithia any remains to voc is renier began the 20th to prague. summit talks when albania, croatia joined. 20 or 9 mill, montenegro 2017 dot nasa dounia read. 2020. i mean, i don't think the problem here is the leadership of vladimir putin is failing, the russian people as more and more countries are getting more native soldiers, more weapons to attack

what's your double crane a's bias? yes, no, opposing. don't just let me know. i'll probably tackle as a shift plaza. they still telling me they wanna shut off on me. it's gray lot from work less than they need to. so you can on their go to san raphael within the city it it will help was lethal crane that's most of the street that had come with me stanley masha pitt ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah for a game that was you went prompting or what the lever head, the same color people from the to the wedding leaving they'd always listen even if they don't know, they don't really know that they are prostituted none of the girls and they do tell him terry, it all being pushed. one way or another. let go of a cheek n 45, a order with beer and thick sport by your hair, off that day hero. ah, when i get when i've been vendor was going been clothes poker took on 9. give me an gal. may have a different type of contract and that's it. that's a good a ah, in the kremlin says ukraine is refusing to negotiate and the military operation will continue while an advisor to ukraine's presi

vladimir putin has now made the decision to go ahead with some form of military action against you crane that sent the tone for today against oldenburg, the secretary general of nato. also talking to a colleague, terry schultz to sally, saying that also nato believes that there is increased risk and increase likelihood, where his words are of an attack taking place to that. these kind of this kind of sense, really setting the tone here in munich, a sense of an extraordinary conference happening with europe potentially on the brink of war. and finally, one step from the german side, which was interesting. now giving out an urgent call for all german citizens who are in ukraine to leave the previous travel warning that the germans have put out was less definitive. richard walker did of you chief international editor. thank you very much. now despite those claims on russia, that it is not seek in military conflicts in ukraine friesland vladimir putin supervise what russia calls shadowed military exercises in the company of his staunchest ally in the region. but lucian, lida, alexander lucas

so he's invested almost 2000000000 since 2014 to a boy, the economy in ukraine, but really what we crane once is weapons. and over all at once, a security guarantee as a timeline to join nato. that, of course, is simply not on the table. it's not legally possible. would you crane already having this frozen conflict with rossa, which well, is now becoming a full blown war in these moments as we're speaking. and so an increasingly desperate loading me as lensky. and now the german chance the european need is vowing that they will stand by ukraine's side. but when they do draw, the line is actually getting military involved in other christina, for us there. thank you very much. and here are some reactions to russia's attack on ukraine. this is what you as president joe biden tweeted to russia alone, is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring in the united states and its allies and partners. we're responding and united and decisive way the world will hold russia accountable. european unions, commission president, also on the line said we strongly condemn russia's unj

i'm resident to be crane, 2nd largest city. ha, call phil, what they say are russian forces entering their city. it's sporadic fighting is reported in the area and authorities in the new the recognizing yes and against the public from the east of the country, say that ukrainian military there is conducting relent, michelin residential areas attack to fuel their face, sparking a huge black ah logan ab watching international nam response to what the russian president is called aggressive language by native member states. vladimir putin has put the country strategic forces, which includes nuclear weapons. units on high alert was really, really do as you can see, western countries and not only taking on friendly actions towards the nation in the economic sector. i'm referring to the illegitimate thank sions that everyone is aware of. whoever top officials of nato member states are also using aggressive language towards our country. that's why i'm ordering the defense minister and chief of staff to put the russian army, the term forces on special alerts. okay, let's discuss it further now

and now our chief political correspondent, belinda crane. what do you make of what the foreign minister said? well, she was meeting with her french colleague, foreign minister lit leon, and both of them were at great pains to put on a very resolute display of unity. and after that statement, she went on to essentially lay out the goals of the sanctions that were imposed by the you yesterday. and which include the momentous decision by germany to defer certification of the nord stream to gas pipeline from russia, which will impose pain in russia, but also some real economic hardship for germany as well. so is she said, the goal is not simply to deter russia from further escalation. yes, that's important. but beyond that, it is to reinforce important norms of international law like territorial integrity . and she went on to say, and i quote, we are ready to pay a high price for a free and sovereign ukraine. and you know, sometimes so the norm of territorial integrity can sound like an abstraction. but let's listen to chancellor, olaf schultz o

then good crane and next country. there are very strong nation and we all support them the whole world. and they should keep from fighting no matter what the cost for their freedom and georgians will help them in any way. and the way we can do it is feel vulnerable. russian military base is a station just a few 1000 kilometers away from the capital. and they're fearful about what could happen next. because given the unprecedented invasion, anything no seems possible in this region. approaches have been taking place around the world against russia invasion if you kind, including here in london. sunday gaga has more from start to balloon tokyo i'm, they root this is the anger over russia's invasion of ukraine around the world. in london, a crowd outside the prime minister's downing street president, making its demand loud and clear. calling for complete economic isolation of russia, worry that many here have to their families back home. i was shocked. my mom called me, it was 5 o'clock, 4 30 in the morning here. it was

that is, a sooner crane becomes a member of nato. that's it. region has nothing to fight for the spheres of influence, as she likes to call, it would have been decided and, and over and game. but we respectfully the, the approach that's been taken so far, that is to say, the nato exercises the lack of full nato membership did give, put in the pretext necessary to engage in the actions we've seen over the last 36 hours if it wasn't for nathan will have found another pretext. because fusion won't ukraine inside of russia does not admit an independent ukraine. fujen is crazy on this has been proven time and time again, starting from his speech starting from the show, shows the trial style way. he made his decisions to invade ukraine and have recognition, so to speak from his people to invade ukraine. look, we are dealing with a psychopathic leader of a very, very big country of a very big army and other nuclear states. and i think that the world should really be mindful of that and not give into his lives on his manipulations. and be aw

lives are risk. ukrainian. shelly. meanwhile, president pacing voice alarm over the latest clara penny crane and urgent care to sit down and negotiate with the da net. and again, later, if there are mal issues of human rights and you correct, what king of has to do is to sit down at the negotiating table with representatives of the dom. unfortunately, we are now seeing an escalation of the situation in the dogs and in an exclusive interview with our team, rushes to foreign minister says that western propaganda unfold. things have been impending attack on the train and mailing attempts to portray bosco as the aggressor school business propaganda fake. but the main thing is that the office of the stakes themselves believe in what they say. if russia withdraws, it's true that correct will not disappear. the bricks for the future are already being late with. hello, that welcome. good evening. it's just gone 7 here in moscow. you watching international . now we'll start with that breaking news from eastern ukraine because the self proclaimed denise and against republics have started. a mass evacu

sports correspondent to johnson crane, who's in beijing. welcome jonathan. so just 1st of all, explain the court ruling to us but essentially the court had to balance 2 things. one is the integrity of competition. if it turns out that ava is guilty of doping, how would it damage that integrity? but the other thing that sets away up is the fairness on valley. eva, she is 15 years old. i sat, she's a protected person under anti typing rules. and that means that she is entitled to less harsha and punishments. and essentially the court said, look, a fatty eva wasn't allowed to compete, and it turns out later that she isn't guilty of de pay, then that would cause her personally significant hom. now the court also said it was unacceptable, but it took 6 weeks for this set, positive doping test to come to light. that clearly is not valuable for what is not her fault, that this is overshadowed her lim, pick games. now we had a press conference today from the court of arbitration for support. there were no questions, but this is what the general secretary matea reb s

a going into crane was flowing into cranes to demonstrate this to will run the hughes. this, if we look at the special services with, we know this when you were in the recent years showing up in the territory of ukraine volume they contingent to summer. there were military im, when your contingent video is not integrating with nato camera. this means the command of the cranium armed forces. he would have a pretty more, as we can not direct he work from nato headquarters. united states does not need to be directly there in cellophane as a set of potential walking regularly, carrying out google exit some military exercises together. only last year, which would be for you a 1000 units. it was due to the vision was thrown with the water from the fuel. griggs referred you to put a claim. the old chest. yeah. we're not gonna in 2020, there were exercises that took place on the territory of ukraine. you move the question and you from go and to on, you're in the loop and there are no less than 10 such excise is plans. if we look at these events like for the great, for the accum