the w's brussels corresponded. terry schultz asked the man at the center of this week's negotiations, nato chief ins. stoughton bare. thank you very much, sir. mister secretary general for making time for us to day. so i want to start off with an assessment by putting spokesman dmitri past gov, just in the last couple of hours. that said the talks here were unsuccessful. now, that's not necessarily a bad thing for needle given what the russians hopes to accomplish. dividing allies, getting promise is not to expand, things like that, but what would be your assessment of how the council went yesterday? i think it was an important meeting, a because just the fact that 13 their dollars were able to sit down with russia after 2 years, you know, meeting in meetings in that or should council was important. the discussions there were very difficult. we were there for 4 hours, but if i thought we had difficulties who discussions i should from you just proves the importance of the meeting. and because we are faced with a very critical, oh

w. terry schultz with the latest july for brussels is always terry, thank you. on thursday, russian diplomats will meet with the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the ofc a 3rd day that will wrap up this week's attempts at finding a diplomatic solution to this crisis. all of this talking may sound like background noise for people who are living in eastern ukraine for nearly 8 years. ukrainian forces have been finding a russian back separatist insurgency, a conflict that has caused more than 14000 lives. now with 800000 combat ready, russian troops just over the border. people live in fear of an eminent invasion, dw, corresponding nick connelly traveled to the front line city of the nets, to talk about the prospects for de escalation. i don't know all of just before the shooting starts, but you see the cats and dogs taking cover. it's like they can feel it's coming here in the front lines. they're done yet. gunfire and shelling a part of everyday life and have been for the past 8 years for the straddles ukrainian soldiers and the few civilians

that's not going to help unity within nato w's terry schultz for the least night in brussels as always, terry, thank you. ah, well how to balance interests and values. it's a problem facing all countries in their foreign relations. germany's new coalition government is trying to find a new approach to ties with china. beijing is germany's most important trading partner at the same time. there are serious concerns about it's human rights record . the w's chief international editor, richard walker, reports july. o hamburg, germany's gateway to the world. handling trade that's made gemini, rich, above all with china. it's biggest trading, honor of all. this is part of the legacy of angler mackerel, who built very close ties with bay ging an approach that wasn't just of our business. she also hoped to bring about change. there's a german expression for this idea, vandal, deutsch 100 or change through trade. the idea that by engaging and trading with a regime like china, you can encourage it to open up politically. but any such hopes have been dashed, paging. suppression of freedoms in hong

w. terry schultz in brussels. the u. s. and nato have delivered written responses to russia, security demands, and terry. it wasn't what russia wanted to hear. it wasn't what russia wanted to hear, but it's certainly what russia expected to hear. no one in the us or in nato has ever pretended they were going to even consider limiting expansion of nato. not just not to ukraine, but to, to other countries who may want to join the alliance in the future. that was a nonstarter and that was made clear from the very beginning, but from what we understand while the letters are still classified. they also contained exactly what has been said to moscow and even said to us openly, that the u. s. a. nato are willing to hold much more dialogue with moscow that they want to much more dialogue, that they're willing to discuss. things that are very interesting for the colon, including perhaps, reduction of military exercises. certainly more transparency, which, which of russia has been unwilling to provide up till now to talk about nuclea

w. terry schultz talking to nato secretary general, you in stockton bag. you can track the latest developments from our team in brussels on twitter at d, w underscore, europe. ah, in less than 4 weeks, beijing will present a winter olympics without real snow. instead, most of what athletes will compete on will be artificial. hundreds of snow machines have been at work creating slopes over the past few months. it's a process that requires huge amounts of water and energy, which is environmentally damaging. it's prompted one scientists to called beijing the least sustainable games of all tar 10 leaders of snow per 2nd. that's how much the machines blast out onto the slopes. and they've been running around the clock since mid november. they have to because this winter wonderland is a far cry from the barren reality of the typical landscape. it rarely snows in the mountains surrounding beijing. even the water has to be pumped from far away lakes to the olympic sites. austrian manuel ship and his team tend to the snow working in high winds and temperatures of a

terry emily? thank you both very much. the w correspondence, terry schultz in brussels, aunt emily sherwin in moscow now 20 years ago to day, the 1st prisoners arrived in guantanamo bay. the detention camps set up by the us following the 911 attacks and the ensuing invasion of afghanistan in a clear breach of human rights, most prisoners were held indefinitely without trial. he w's oliver solid reports now from the u. s. naval base of guantanamo and the camp that's come to symbolize. one of the biggest us moral failings in the so called war on terror. mm guantanamo, located in a tropical paradise. but the u. s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture mohammed to old slaw. he was held cheerful, 14 years, suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a crime. he was brutally tortured and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder until today. and 134 nights ago i woke up and i was shaking. so skin because i so my, my jacket was the dog and i thought it was someone coming to get in. and it took me a very long time

d w correspondent terry schultz is in bruce felt following that verdict for us to joins us for more. hi, terri, a tell us more about this case and this ruling well, so me the case was very interesting because of the large number of defendants. as you mentioned, 23 people were found to have been taking part in this criminal organization, or a should say were accused of taking part in this criminal organization. and they range from mere taxi drivers who allegedly ferried people between c houses and the harbor. up to the ringleader, this 45 year old man bo van, hong, who now has been convicted since to 15 years in prison, and find 920000 euros. we should also mentioned that of these 23 people. several were acquitted today. all of them taxi drivers who were found to not have knowingly taken part in the criminal organization. terry, why is this case getting so much international attention? well, as you mentioned, to me, the case spanned several countries. the victims were hooked into the system in vietnam and then they traveled to europe arriving in various european countries. they were t

close the w correspondent, terry schultz has been speaking with swedish defense minister peter hood to crist. president biden says he believes the president now is likely to invade ukraine. what's the view from sweden? do you think the same? you have 100000 soldiers around ukraine. you have a minute for me to, to access for the russians to embed and we have to have a history around hybrid around to, towards the drain. yeah. and poland. and we have a brute language also from, from kremlin. so that doesn't really impact also on this to tell security situation, including sweden and what's happened if they attack ukraine. we cannot know, but we say that we cannot exclude an armed attack against sweden. and what we want to do now is to be very clear that we are ready to defend sweden. and because of that, we are also doing what we're doing on the island. and what do you think the likelihood is not that he will invade ukraine, but then he will come as far as sweden that he would dare to try to see scotland. i do not speculate about the sort of things but experience during the years. and if y