ok, terry schultz in brussels. thanks so much for that. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making use around the world. mean mars military government has begun releasing prisoners as part of an amnesty to mark the countries union day around $800.00 prisoners are due to be, pardon me, and more has been in turmoil since last year's qu, with more than 1500 protesters killed during a military crackdown over 12000 arrested. mexico's president has vowed there will be 0 tolerance after another journalist was shot dead, a bear lopez who ran an online news site was killed late on thursday. his was the 5th such killing this year. the mexico routinely ranks as one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists. according canada says, authorities may remove protesting truckers who have blocked the biddies border. crossing with united states. it says the truckers must leave the ambassador bridge by saturday evening, days of demonstrations against vaccine mandates for drivers have paralyzed cross border trade. and the truckers p

i'm joined now from brussels by our nato correspondent terry schultz. a terri, the bite in white house seems to believe at this point that outright conflict is where this crisis is. in fact, heading are they sharing the intelligence behind their thinking? with nato alex they are michael as they have throughout this crisis last night. nato ambassadors met in an urgent session at 7 pm, pretty unusual for a friday night here in brussels, and to share the details of what was coming out of washington. and i think we need to be really careful to underscore that the white house isn't saying with 100 percent certainty that they believe putin has made the decision to invade. but something happened yesterday that made clear to me, michael, just how credibly allies are viewing these new assessments. and that is that until now, european governments and the european union as a whole, had resisted advising their nationals to leave ukraine. the u. s. has been doing that for some time, but the you said this is so damaging to ukraine. it's, it's terrible for the economy

i'm joined now from brussels by our nato correspondent terry schultz. a terri, the bite in white house seems to believe at this point that outright conflict is where this crisis is. in fact, heading are they sharing the intelligence behind their thinking? with nato alex they are michael as they have throughout this crisis last night. nato ambassadors met in an urgent session at 7 p. m. pretty unusual for a friday night here in brussels, and to share the details of what was coming out of washington. and i think we need to be really careful to underscore that the white house isn't saying with 100 percent certainty that they believed putin has made the decision to invade. but something happened yesterday that made clear to me, michael, just how credibly allies are viewing these new assessments. and that is that until now, european governments and the european union as a whole, had resistant advising their nationals to leave you crazy. u. s. has been doing that for some time, but the you said this is so damaging to ukraine. it's, it's terrible for the econo

i'm join now from brussels by our nato, corresponded terry schultz. terry, the bite in white house seems to believe at this point that outright conflict is where there's crisis is heading. tell us more about what u. s. national security advisor jake sullivan had to say. well, you heard jake sullivan, very much sounding the alarm in, in specific ways that we haven't heard before about what may be coming just in the next few days. he was also careful. i'd to to say that there don't know for sure that this is going to happen. that of russian president vladimir putin has given the order to move ahead with an invasion. but certainly the rhetoric is much, much stronger than we've heard in recent days. and that's why everyone is, is very much on alarm, not just in washington, but here in brussels with nato calling its ambassadors into an emergency meeting last night to just expand a little bit more and why the u. s. seemed show, convinced to so certain that to russia is in fact going to evade into in vedo ukraine. michael, we don't know that they're certain,

terry schultz reporting from brussels and nader headquarters. terry, thank you very much for your continued coverage or meanwhile, ukraine is celebrating a day of unity called by president vladimir zaleski, to mark the occasion. people carry the national flag at the olympic stadium in the capital key. they're also being encouraged to raise the ukranian flag from buildings and to sing the national anthem w as officials had previously warned that today might see the start of a russian invasion or to boost morale. mister zalinski had this message for ukrainians. hello, we are all united by our wish to live, to live in peace, to live a happy life with our families, parents and kids. we have the full right to all of this, because we at home here in ukraine. nobody will love our home as much as we do, and nobody can defend our home as we can. i wish you a happy unity day, my blue yellow ones, a happy day of unity of ukraine in the east and west in the south and north. it works only together, and when it works, we are strong. ours, which re good seen a

w correspondent, terry schultz sat in brussels. welcome at terry. so we seen that us forces arriving in romania. what are they there for? yeah, feel not just in romania, also in estonia, also more us forces in poland. and the thinking here is that the u. s. and the other nato allies who are also sending other resources, want to try to deter the kremlin from thinking that there is any way that it can win a war, not just with ukraine, but of course, anything that would spill over the border into nato countries. i mean, this is largely about a psychological impact, really trying to convince russian president vladimir, that this is not in his interest. i expected that next week when nato defense ministers meet here in brussels. we will also see more deployments right there to romania where the secretary general was to day. the french have offered to lead a battalion in romania like the ones we've seen in the baltic states and poland. and this is something romania has been asking for for a long time. and now with the build up right there in, on the borde

we go now to brussels in our nato correspondent terry schultz. as promised earlier, terry, germany now withdrawing embassy staff and citizens are following a similar action by the united states are highly reactive. that is something that other nato allies are likely to follow to think. other nato allies have actually preceded germany in doing this, a germany is, is not among the 1st as a, as i mentioned earlier, the european union had resisted doing this for fear of seeming to alarmist him for harming the ukrainian economy and, and sort of the sense of, of safety of ukrainians themselves. but yesterday, as word of the new u. s. military assessments came out, you started seeing one by one european governments, nato allies. norway was the 1st one i noticed, and then the netherlands, and then the u. k. and then lat, via, than denmark, they started really increasing. and then after this meeting of, of nato allies last night, where the u. s. a shared it's its latest military assessment. you saw even more announcements come out last night. and today, n

thank you, terry schultz with npr. i want to _ go to npr. thank you, terry schultz with npr. i want to know— go to npr. thank you, terry schultz with npr. i want to know more - go to npr. thank you, terry schultz l with npr. i want to know more about the deployment of the an rf forces, please, how many will be sent where, from where, how long will it take to get there? thinking about military mobility is always, and what has changed in your calculation about the threat to nato territory that has led allies to make the decision to deploy this for the first time in history for the purposes of collective defence, thank you. purposes of collective defence, thank you-— purposes of collective defence, thank ou. ~ . . ., thank you. well, what has changed over the last _ thank you. well, what has changed over the last days _ thank you. well, what has changed over the last days is, _ thank you. well, what has changed over the last days is, of— thank you. well, what has changed over the last days is, of course, . over the last days is, of course, there _ over the last days is, of

and for more of this, we can go over to terry schultz who is reporting for us in brussels high terry. so what stands out to you from these lead documents? are there any a clear differences between the u. s. and nato responses? hi, sammy, i'd. the 1st thing that stood out to me was just how similar the documents are to exactly what we were told were in these letters. both nato secretary general stilton burge and u. s. officials had given public statements, saying that this is how they responded to russia, and i'm not saying i didn't believe them, but i'm still struck by just how much we did know about what these letters were and therefore why they were kept classified. the nato letter is just 2 pages long and quite general, while the u. s. response is 4 pages because the u. s. has more details with which to respond. it has missiles, which nato doesn't, and russia asked more of the united states. so the u. s. letter talks about what the u. s. is willing to do if russia reciprocates, including going back to arms control agreements that have fallen by the wayside. limiting and, and be mor

that's terry terry schultz in brussels at nato headquarters. has talked to, to me through months at auction, who's a research associate for eastern europe, the german institute for international and security affairs, which i think talked in berlin. welcome to d. w. do you expect this to stop with the invasion of ukraine? ah, good evening. i don't think that this is going to stop or the invasion of ukraine based on, on what president fulton has said earlier when he announced the, the invasion of it. it seems that the objectives are wider and it seems that ukraine is just an element of the russian strategic architecture. the way they view is that it has to be stablished in europe because they are talking about continue to talk about the security guard entities that russia demanded about making ukraine notarized and not allow leads to get closer to nita countries. so i believe in my assessment that this is just the 1st step in the a wider strategic content that the russian government has. you mentioned these security guarantees that russia has ask

and join now from brussels by our native course on terry schultz . terry, germany also now withdrawing embassy staff and advising citizens to lead ukraine following, you know, as we just heard, similar action by the united states, the binding ministration seems to think we're at a point of outright conflict. are they sharing the intelligence about this with our nato allies? they do seem to think that outright conflict is at least very possible, more possible than it has been up until now. and they are sharing that intelligence you heard from richard that president biden held a video call with key european leaders and last night at nato headquarters. there was a meeting of all 30 nato ambassadors to share the intelligence from the united states . and as something was, was really striking after this meeting and leading up into it nic. and that's that until now, european countries had really been resisting the usaa moved to pull it, said it to pull their citizens out of ukraine to advise them to leave. and once this intelligence just started coming out

schultz. terry nato. secretary general in stockton burg, alluding to russian pressure, not going away. what does this mean for the alliance? well, lately you heard the secretary general refer to what he called a new normal. and he has explained this before as well. that due to russian actions due to this enormous build up and the feeling of insecurity that it has, it has created throughout the alliance that this may be a long term situation. that even if the current crisis could be deflated just a bit, that the tension will not go away. and that's why the secretary general explained that nato would be moving more forces into eastern europe along the eastern flank. we expect to see in the coming weeks a new nato battalion going to romania, led by the french, and possibly deployments of that sort and other eastern european allies as well. and this is also a message to moscow, of course, that if you wanted a kremlin for nato to go further away from earth borders, all of these actions that you've

i'm joined now from brussels by our nato correspondent terry schultz. a terri, the bite in white house seems to believe at this point that outright conflict is where this crisis is. in fact, heading are they sharing the intelligence behind their thinking? with nato alex they are michael as they have throughout this crisis last night. nato ambassadors met in an urgent session at 7 p. m. pretty unusual for a friday night here in brussels, and to share the details of what was coming out of washington. and i think we need to be really careful to underscore that the white house isn't saying with 100 percent certainty that they believe putin has made the decision to invade. but something happened yesterday that made clear to me, michael, just how credibly allies are viewing these new assessments. and that is that until now, european governments and the european union as a whole, had resistant advising their nationals to leave you crazy. u. s. has been doing that for some time, but the you said this is so damaging to ukraine. it's, it's terrible for the econom

a correspond terry schultz. now, with a debrief of an exclusive nato briefing she attended a little earlier. so what i've been told by this western intelligence source is that they very much fear that if the piece of the invasion continues as it has up until now, that key of could be encircled and fall to the russians within 24 hours. of course, i mean that is not a 100 percent certain assessment, but this is what it looks like now from the success that the russians have had in taking over the country all the way to the capital. they now control this official says, all of ukrainian air space. they controlled both the military and the civilian airport in a near cave. so this of course is a very, very key asset for the ukranian government that has been lost. this official also fears that that putin does intend to go all the way into the capital and try to remove president zalinski and replace him with a puppet president that would carry out moscow's wishes. so the assessments are very, very dire at the moment. nat

let's go straight to at nato headquarters and join d w correspondent, terry schultz, who was the at that press conference. so welcome, terry. one of the points that mr. dalton burger made in his opening remarks, he was talking about a new normal for european security. what else stood out for you that what we heard from secretary general stilton burg today is that nato has decided to activate. it's nato response force. this is, it's very high readiness, rapid response force for the 1st time for purposes of collective defense, it's been used for a natural disasters and to protect public events. but this is the 1st time these forces are going to be used, sent to the eastern flank for deterrence and reassurance purposes. now secretary general suttonberg did not tell us exactly how many troops were going to be used, or exactly where they be going. and from, from which garrison's they'd be coming, but we would expect to see this in, in the next very few days because that's the purpose of the rapid response force. so i think we'll be seeing some movement very soon. and we've heard of the reason

of corresponding terry schultz. now with a debrief of and exclusive nato briefing, she attended a short while ago. so what i've been told by this western intelligence source is that they very much fear that if the piece of the invasion continues as it has up until now, that key of could be encircled and fall to the russians within 24 hours. of course, i mean that is not a 100 percent certain assessment, but this is what it looks like now from the success that the russians have had in taking over the country all the way to the capital. they now control this official says, all of ukrainian air space, they control both the military and the civilian airport and in a near cave. so this of course is a very, very key asset for the ukranian government that has been lost. this official also fears that ha, that putin does intend to go all the way into the capital and try to remove presidents zalinski and replace him with a puppet president that would, would carry out moscow's wishes. so the assessments are very, very dire at

schultz joins us live a terry. what can we expect from the virtual native summit that is taking place today? hi. well, i think everyone is trying to show a sign of unity against this invasion that happened despite the most powerful countries in the world, warning that it should not. and so after the european union leaders met last night, it was important to bring the united states into the equation, and that's done here at nato. so you'll see the 30 leaders come out with a joint statement, of course, demanding that russia stop its invasion of ukraine, threatening that to make it pay a high price. but at the moment, you know, they're going to be sending reinforcements to their own border. but the sad thing is they really can't do a lot at the moment to help you crane their tornado troops. they've been sent to support the security of nato members in eastern europe. but are these troops going to be staying there for longer? i that's certainly unknown at this moment. what nato likes to remind moscow is that those troop

terry schultz is in brussels, where nato is headquartered, and oliver salad is in a washington oliver want to go to you 1st. why this deployment now has the security situation changed? layla, you just heard the pentagon spokesperson and john kirby as speak. so he basically outlines that this decision comes as a response to the ongoing russian to build up not only in western russia near the ukrainian border, but also in bella, rural. so russia continues to send troops into the area. and that, of course, is a concern for the united states as well for its allies. what kirby also said as a view, as continues to be not sure if who didn't really decided to invade ukraine, but it certainly has the cap of capability to do so. and therefore, he made clear that these troops, the 3000 troops that are sent to the region now are not sent there to engage with russian troops. neither are they sent their to enter ukrainian soil. so what we are looking here at right now is a symbolic move, given that some 60000 us troops are already stationed in europe, is an additional 3000 is really not as much as a

thank of corresponding terry schultz. now with a debrief of an exclusive nato briefing she attended a short while ago. so what i've been told by this western intelligence source is that they very much fear that if the pace of the invasion continues as it has up until now, that key of could be encircled and fall to the russians within 24 hours. of course, i mean that is not a 100 percent certain assessment, but this is what it looks like now from the success of the russia.

terry schultz and brussels, thank you very much. and the world of sports is also reacting to russia's invasion of ukraine formula. one has canceled the russian grown pre scheduled for the end of september. in the wake of the onslaught, the russian grown pre has been a fixture of the racing calendar for a number of years since formula one authorities agreed a deal with a country back in 2011. prior to friday's announcement canceling this year's raised formula one driver is about to have federal had declared his intention to boycott the event. if it went ahead saying it would be wrong to stage a race in russia under the current circumstances. and this year's champions league final on may 28th will take place in paris instead of the russian city of saint petersburg, european footballs, governing body. you way fun named the stud, if false as the new location for the final moving the game from st. petersburg gas from arena in response to the russian invasion of ukraine. in a separate move german football club, chalka announced that they

terry schultz is in brussels, where nato is headquartered, and oliver salad is in a washington oliver. want to go to you 1st. why this deployment now has the security situation changed? layla, you just heard the pentagon spokesperson john kirby is speak. so he basically outlines that this decision comes as a response to the ongoing russian troop build up. not only in western russia near the ukrainian border, but also in bella, rural. so russia continues to send troops into the area. and that, of course, is a concern for the united states as well for its allies with kirby also said as of u. s continues to be not sure if who didn't really decided to invade ukraine, but it certainly has the cap capability to do so. and therefore, he made clear that these troops, the 3000 troops that are sent to the region now are not sent there to engage with russian troops. neither are they sent their to enter ukrainian soil. so what we are looking here at right now is a symbolic move, given that some 60000 us troops are already stationed in europe. an additional 3000 is really not as much as a big numb

but we've heard from my colleague terry schultz earlier that there are cyber attacks that could take place. and nader is preparing for these sort of cyber attacks and also the baltic states and poland are. but in these times we never know we. we also thought that the russia would not attack ukraine would not attack a key of so nothing is impossible. that's right. everything on the table. we're gonna start with that update for us from brussels. thanks so much for taking the time. i want to turn now to china. it has come under pressure from western countries for so far, refusing to label rush of attack on ukraine as an invasion. us president joe white and said that any country that backed russia's invasion would be quote, stained by association. and in a news briefing this morning, the chinese foreign ministry, spokes person hit back saying the country who is reputation will be stained, is that which interfered in other nations internal affairs in the name of human rights. and which went on to wage worse. so let's find out more about what that means from a d w. washington bureau chief

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 ankle. that maneuvers include tests of nuclear capable, ballistic missiles, b o r, a g o o. these are just exercises, but this gale is massive. russia launched ballistic missiles as part

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 and 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 rigid walker dw chief international edits. i thank you very much. now this fight, those claims from russia, that it is not seek in the military conflicts in ukraine. president vladimir putin supervise what russia calls shadowed military exercises in the company of his staunchest ally in the region. but lucian dida, alexandre, look a single. the maneuvers include tests of nuclear capable ballistic missiles. the la id. oh oh, these are just exercises, but this gale is massive. russia launch ballistic missiles, i

terry schultz. terry, what can we expect from the virtual summit that's taking place today? well, the most important signal coming from this summit is that there is trans atlantic unity against what rushes doing. nato is where the united states comes to stand beside its european allies. and that's a really important point to make, especially as you mentioned with the u. s. sending reinforcements of troops to, to reinforce the allies there along the russian and belarus and ukrainian borders. so this is a really important signal to send to the kremlin, although all these words, of course, we're not enough of a deterrent for vladimir putin and the nato troops that have been sent to support the security of nato members in eastern europe. were these troops sent to stay for a longer period of time? well, initially what's called the enhanced forward presence, and that's in the baltic states. estonia let be in lithuania, along with poland, were sent to basically reassure these allies after russia's 1st invasion of ukraine in 2014 and the seizure of crimea. they were not meant to sta

first, watching that press conference at nato headquarters was our correspondent, terry schultz. terry, a brutal act of war with the words by that a. her secretary general, your thoughts very stark words coming from nato secretary general young stilton burg today, criticizing russia in no uncertain terms and praising the ukrainian armed forces also for what he said is their bravery in repelling this attack. but yes, nato is definitely on alert, very disturbed by this. what secretary general silverberg said was all of their attempts to make sure it did not come to this. and now the worst has happened. nato is strengthening its forces in the east. what does that mean? that's right to the north atlantic council met this morning in what's called article for consultations. and that is when one of the allies, or in this case more several up to 8. i think i called this article for consultation today. that means they feel a threat to their security, so that makes clear just what the problem is for nato here. yes, the invasion is taking place in ukraine. but nato member countries border u

t w's, terry schultz reporting from brussels. terry, thank you so much for your continued coverage or you know, before friday's official opening the beijing winter olympics, are mired in controversy concerns about human rights abuses. and the high number of corona virus cases threatened to overshadow the event. almost $3000.00 and athletes will be competing for glory. but is the sport at risk of becoming a shy sideshow? billions have been invested into making beijing 2020 to an extravagant festival of competition. but the build up has been about so much more than sport. politics, for instance, some nations including the u. s. and the u. k. you have declared a diplomatic boy called over human rights issues and wilson competitors, but no ministers or officials. meanwhile, organizers have threatened athletes with punishment for any behavior or expression that they deem in breach of chinese law, and will expect the audio see to rigorously enforce its own rules. limiting protests they show out. now in the olympic charter, there are ve

terry schultz attended an exclusive nato briefing late yesterday and gave us this day brief of what was said. so what i've been told by this western intelligence source is that they very much fear that if the piece of the invasion continues as it has up until now, that key of could be encircled and fall to the russians within 24 hours. of course, i mean that is not a 100 percent certain assessment, but this is what it looks like now from the success that the russians have had in taking over the country all the way to the capital. they now control this official says, all of ukrainian air space, they control both the military and the civilian airport in a near keith. so this of course is a very, very key asset for the ukranian government that has been lost. this official also fears that that putin does intend to go all the way into the capital and try to remove president zalinski and replace him with a puppet president that would carry out moscow's wishes. so the assessments are very, very dire at the moment. nato is not going to go in and, and join the ukrainian side by side in this comb

the question though, and if you just remember your interview with our colleague, terry schultz and brussels who had a. 3 who had sources saying that key might be taken within 24 hours. of course that raises the question, what do those weapon deliveries? you know, what do they bring at this point in time? and we have to ask a question and some days was too little done too late. they're really right. you know, oliver, i suppose it's a gross understatement. to say diplomacy appears no longer an option. it's not lost on some of us that this invasion was launched on the same day. the u. s. secretary of state was scheduled for more talks with his russian counterpart. how will biden and his team reflect on what really happened in the diplomatic lead up to this invasion? and that was really chilling, a michael on really to listen to present by and when he explained how of western leaders, including german chancellor schultz and french president manuel mccall, how they found, followed their diplomatic efforts, traveling in and out of the kremlin in order to get to a diplomatic solution, while at the

terry schultz in brussels for the latest on this story. terry, good day to you. what stands out to you from these leaked documents? hi, so me. well, actually, the 1st thing that stands out is how similar they are to what we were told were in the letters. both native secretary general young stilton berg and u. s. officials have laid out in various briefings, their positions, and what they said they told moscow. and now we can see on these documents that that is exactly what they told the russian government in the language is, is extremely similar. not surprising at all. both sides, both the u. s. and nato are repeating that they hold russia are responsible for the current escalation, the current tensions. and they mention specifically that russia has illegally seized crimea and has forces elsewhere in ukraine as well, which will surely get under the kremlin skin. but there was, there was nothing surprising here in either of those letters. and are there any differences you're seeing between both the u. s. and the nato responses it? well, the u. s. response is, is d

the question though, and if you just remember your interview with our colleague, terry schultz and brussels who has. 3 who had sources saying that key might be taken within 24 hours. and of course, that raises the question, what do those weapon deliveries? you know, what do they bring at this point in time? and we have to ask a question and some days was too little done too late. they're really right. you know, oliver, i suppose it's a gross understatement. to say diplomacy appears no longer an option. it's not lost on some of us that this invasion was launched on the same day. the u. s. secretary of state were scheduled for more talks with his russian counterpart. how will biden and his team reflect on what really happened in the diplomatic lead up to this invasion? and that was really chilling, a michael on really to listen to present by and when he explained how of western leaders including german chancellor schultz and french president manuel mccaul hall, they found, followed their diplomatic efforts traveling in and out of the kremlin in order to get to a diplomatic solution, while at

my colleague, terry schultz was just speaking earlier to yen sultan back. he is the secretary general of nato, and she asked him, what nachos assessment of the situation is of it chimes in with the u. s. position . and he did talk about an increasing risk and an increasing likelihood that the russians will be making a move. so the nato secretary general speaking to d w, just a few minutes ago or so, a seeming to confirm, at least we're not going quite as far as joe biden, where he really point blank said he thinks the putin's made that decision. but certainly moving that direction. okay, richard, i just see that the chair of the munich security conference is, sheena has taken the stage. so as you that we are joining now and listening to i am extremely relieved and delighted that how do i say this? against some odds against some odds? the president of grain has actually decided not to cancel his trip to munich, but to come here and to talk to us and have a meeting. so the way this is going to work is that the president will make his, his speech, his address.

the question though, and if you just remember your interview with our colleague, terry schultz and brussels, who had a who had sources saying that key might be taken within 24 hours. and of course, that raises the question, what do those weapon deliveries? you know, what do they bring at this point in time? and we have to ask a question and some days was too little done too late. they're really right. you know, oliver, i suppose it's a gross understatement. to say diplomacy appears no longer an option. it's not lost on some of us that this invasion was launched on the same day. the u. s. secretary of state were scheduled for more talks with his russian counterpart. how will biden and his team reflect on what really happened in the diplomatic lead up to this invasion? and that was really chilling. a michael on really to listen to present by him when he explained how of western leaders, including german chancellor of schultz and french president manuel mccall, how they found, followed their diplomatic efforts, traveling in and out of the kremlin in order to get to a diplomatic solution while

terry schultz with m p r and d w. mister secretary general in the, in the next statement, when you say that we're deploying additional defensive land and air forces to the eastern part of the alliance, additional maritime assets and increased the readiness of, of forces. is this now today more forces being sent as a result of the fact that the invasion has now happened? or are you there referring to what has already been done as, as reinforcements? i understand say core will now have the ability to assemble the b, g, b, j t f without coming back to the knack for approval. and finally, are you still willing to sit down with president putin or other representatives of the russian government after this? or are you suspending your offer to hold talks on other issues and the nato russia council? thank you. this invasion dawson coma surprise. we are warned against it for months on the sand. leah, while happened this morning during the night, will something like the allah, the security and intelligence services have predicte

and then they'll dishes and we'll go to terry schultz from our national public radio. hi, thank you very much for taking our remote questions. mister secretary general, i'm do you worry that i, that russia is declaring that it will also recognize this sovereignty. you can, can see my fingers over a parts of, of ukraine that are currently controlled by ukranian forces. that seems that it would, it would make the, the probability of conflict a lot higher and with the baltic states and other other neighboring allies calling for yet more support, even more, the nato has done so far. what more can you do right now, practically? not what you've done so far, but what more can you do in the very near future in the next 2 days to reassure those nervous allies? what you have seen is a bit to make signals from a moscow on the weather day. i recognise 3rd, the territory between the russian border and the conflict line, or recognized the assa donnette scan landscape. people's republics. ah, the whole territory of the 20, bloss. oh, but anyway, this is a step changed. this is a furt

terry schultz, the ukrainian government says dozens of its soldiers have been killed despite there's, they're promising and all out. the french with dawn came the bombs rusher attacked sites across ukraine. the russian troops that had been amassing on the border for weeks started rolling in, recorded on surveillance cameras by ukraine's border police brushes. lida latimer, putin announced the military operation in abroad. call some russian tv. he disparaged ukraine's democratically elected government and ukrainian soldiers to surrender. ukraine's president followed amir savanski introduced martial law. and he made an emotional plea to russian questions can. i'm addresses you the russian people as a ukrainian 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 yet. 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

the question though, and if you just remember your interview with our colleague, terry schultz and brussels, who had a who had sources saying that key of might be taken within 24 hours. and of course, that raises the question, what do those weapon deliveries? you know, what do they bring at this point in time? and we have to ask a question and some days was too little done too late. they're really right. you know, oliver, i suppose it's a gross understatement. to say diplomacy appears no longer an option. it's not lost on some of us that this invasion was launched on the same day. the u. s. secretary of state were scheduled for more talks with his russian counterpart. how will biden and his team reflect on what really happened in the diplomatic lead up to this invasion? and that was really chilling. a michael on really to listen to present by and when he explained how of western leaders, including german chancellor of schultz and french president manuel mccaul hall, they found, followed their diplomatic efforts traveling in and out of the kremlin in order to get to a diplomatic solution whi

our correspondent terry schultz is standing by . she's been covering today's events at nato headquarters. good evening to you, terry. so the head of nato to day. yet stoughton burke, he said that this constant threat by russia to european security is now the new normal. so what is neither going to do about i think they're hoping this is not the new norm old, but with russia continuing to send forces to the border with ukraine. as you heard, as secretary general styles and berg say, there need a feel like it doesn't have any choice. and so what it, what a defense ministers are discussing here and with what has actually been discussed to now for, for weeks leading up to this meeting is that, for example, in the coming weeks france would lead a new battalion in romania. and there may be other presences like that established in other eastern european countries. the baltic states, of course, are getting a troop reinforcements from the u. s. the u. k. and other countries, poland the same. and as long as russia continues, it's build up ver

let's go right to terry schultz. she's our correspondent there are at nato headquarters. she was at that press conference a little bit earlier for us. terry, when we spoke earlier, you said it was an unusually emotional statement from yan stillberg. something you don't usually see there at nato headquarters does more about what you, you made of what we've seen coming from nato today. that's right. when the secretary general spoke earlier, he called it a brutal war. he said, war has again been unleashed on this continent in a way that we never expected to see again after the 2nd world war. he made clear as he did in that sound bite, that we just listened to, that russia is to blame for this. but also that everyone here feels for the ukrainians, what he called the brave ukrainian men and women who are now fighting back against this attack. but at the same time, everyone here knows and in ukraine as well that the ukrainians are on their own. when it comes to the military battle, no boots on the ground is come, are coming from the west. what exactly is nato doing in response,

all right, terry schultz in brussels. thanks so much. time for looking out. some other stories making news. mean mars military government has begun releasing prisoners as part of an amnesty to mark the countries union due around $800.00 prisoners are due to be pardoned in mar, has been in turmoil since last year's crew with more than $1500.00 protesters killed during the military crackdown over $12000.00 to risk, mexico's president has vowed there will be 0 tolerance after another journalist was shot dead, a bear lopez who ran an online news website was killed late on thursday. his was the 5th such killing this year. mexico routinely ranks is one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists. protesters blocking a key bridge between canada and united states over vaccination rules have defied judges order to leave. protesters want the canadian government to scrap vaccine mandates for truck drivers. the blockade has paralyzed a key north american trade route for days and the truckers protest in canada has sparked a copycat action in france. police the

schultz attended an exclusive nato briefing earlier today and gave us this debrief of what was said. so what i've been told by this western intelligence source is that they very much fear that if the piece of the invasion continues as it has up until now, that key of could be encircled and fall to the russians within 24 hours. of course, i mean that is not a 100 percent certain assessment, but this is what it looks like now from the success that the russians have had in taking over the country all the way to the capital. they now control this official says, all of ukrainian air space, they control both the military and the civilian airport in and near keith. so this of course is a very, very key asset for the ukranian government that has been lost. this official also fears that that putin does intend to go all the way into the capital and try to remove president zalinski and replace him with a puppet president that would carry out moscow's wishes. so the assessments are very, very dire at the moment. nato is not going to go in and, and join the ukrainian side by side in this combat.

the question though, and if you just remember your interview with our colleague, terry schultz and brussels who has. 3 who had sources saying that key might be taken within 24 hours. and of course, that raises the question, what do those weapon deliveries? you know, what do they bring at this point in time? and we have to ask a question and some days was too little done too late. they're really right. you know, oliver, i suppose it's a gross understatement. to say diplomacy appears no longer an option. it's not lost on some of us that this invasion was launched on the same day. the u. s. secretary of state were scheduled for more talks with his russian counterpart. how will biden and his team reflect on what really happened in the diplomatic lead up to this invasion? and that was really chilling, a michael on really to listen to present by and when he explained how of western leaders including german chancellor schultz and french president manuel mccaul hall, they found, followed their diplomatic efforts traveling in and out of the kremlin in order to get to a diplomatic solution, while at

take on this last go to an attorney, schultz and brussels. welcome terry. so we're so again, stoughton burger there, as us forces arrived in romania, what did they therefore fill their part of nato's effort to reinforce it's eastern flag. they are not sent there. the u. s. forces as a nato mission. that's something that's not taking place at this time, but they're just one of the elements that's being built up in light of the threat coming from russia very near to nato's borders. the french have also offered to lead a new battalion that would go to romania and be more of a not permanent presence, but a. 6 long standing presence like we've seen in the baltic states in poland. and that's something that nato defense ministers will consider next week and are very likely to approve. this is something romania has been asking for for a long time, to have not just us troops, but a more solid and a larger nato presence on its board. sorry on its territory in order to, to bolster it against russian threats against all of the eastern allies and has nights are spelled

ah oh, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. join chance with love schultz has arrived in washington for talks sure to be dominated by the 10th security situation here in europe. shows his 1st meeting with chancellor as chance were with us president joe biden is being over shot it by the threat of a new russian invasion of ukraine before leaving for the wes sholtes said he would discuss with biden how to continue to make clear that military aggression against ukraine would have a high cost for russia. berlin's nato allies, including the u. s. or unhappy with germany's refusal to provide ukraine with defensive weapons, but short stressed that the decision is in line with a longstanding german policy on arms sales. to bonus li gillham's for years, the german government has followed the clear course of not delivering to crisis owns on not delivering lethal weapon to ukraine for monday program. that was my predecessors policy. it was right then and it remains right by the way. and this is really important to me that the majority of

welcome to the progress german chancellor of schultz has arrived in washington for talk sure to be dominated by the 10 security situation in europe . shows his 1st meeting as chancellor with us present. joe biden is being overshadowed by the threat of a new russian invasion of ukraine before leaving for the wes sholtes said he would discuss with biden how to continue to make clear that military aggression against ukraine would have a high cost for russia. for linds nato allies, including the us, are unhappy with berlin's refusal to provide ukraine with defensive weapons, but short stress that the decision is in line with a longstanding german policy on arms sales. if honestly gillham's for years, the german government has followed a clear course of not delivering to crisis owns on not delivering lethal weaponry to ukraine from one to forget. that was my predecessors policy. it was right then and remains right by the way. and this is really important to me that the majority of german see it exactly as i do as the government does. and as my predecessor deadening says, that but not everyone see

ah hello, i'm terry margin. thanks for joining us. sherman chance the olaf schultz has arrived in washington for talks sure to be dominated by the 10th security situation. here in europe shows his 1st meeting as chancellor with us present, joe biden as being overshadowed by the threat of a new russian invasion of ukraine before leaving for the wes sholtes said he would discuss with biden how to continue to make clear that military aggression against ukraine would have a high cost or russia berlin's nato allies, including the u. s. or unhappy with berlin's refusal provide ukraine with defensive weapons, which hold stress that the decision is in line with a longstanding german policy on arms sales. to bonus li gillham's for years, the german government has followed the clear course of not delivering to crisis owns on not delivering lethal weapon to ukraine from one to forget. that was my predecessors policy. it was right then and remains right. by the way. and this is really important to me that the majority of ge

w correspondent, attorney schultz, who was the at that press conference. so welcome, terry. one of the points that a mister salter burger made in his opening remarks, he's talking about a new normal for european security. what else stood out for you that what we heard from secretary general stilton burke to day is that nato has decided to activate. it's nato response force. this is it's very high readiness. rapid response force for the 1st time for purposes of collective defense, it's been used for a natural disasters and to present to protect public events. but this is the 1st time these forces are going to be used, sent to the eastern flank for deterrence and reassurance purposes. now secretary general suttonberg did not tell us exactly how many troops were going to be used, or exactly where they be going. and from, from which garrison's they'd be coming, but we would expect to see this in, in the next very few days because that's the purpose of the rapid response for. so i think we'll be seeing some movement very soon. and we've heard over reason, days at this, this invas

i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah. people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families please on the reason for these correct only with extreme ross getting 200 people with.

welcome at terry. so mr. ste oldenburg, they're saying, well, we did everything we could to diplomatically, this is russia's doing. what else did he have to say? this was a very emotional press conference by the nato secretary general. something we don't see very often here at nato headquarters. he called it a brutal war. he said that conflicts had now been unleashed on this continent of a scale and type that we never expected to see before here in europe. and he was very clearly as you heard there, laying the blame on rush up, but at the same time, praising the ukrainian men and women in uniform. he's he said, who were so bravely battling against this attack. and i heard that also from inside the meeting this morning where 8 allies said the ukrainian invasion post, a direct threat to their security. i heard that one of them said that that the threat actually ranks up there with the threat from 911. so clearly people here at nato headquarters are very, very worried. okay, so we have a conflict at the m

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