to olympic officials. we'll have latest in a live report. first this hour a new push for diplomacy. tensions between russia and ukraine remain high. united nations security counsel will convene in the hours ahead with the u.s. ambassador saying this meeting will offer russia another opportunity to find a d diplomatic way out of the crisis. coming as more than 100,000 russian troops remain near ukraine intensifying fears of a possible invasion. the british foreign secretary had this stark assessment. >> we think it's highly likely that he's looking to invade ukraine. that is why we're doing all we can through diplomacy to urge him to desist. >> u.s. said moscow is showing no sign of deescalation. with the pentagon press secretary warning russian president vladimir putin could act at any time. >> he has a lot of options. he has a lot of options available. if he wants to further invade ukraine. and he can execute some of the options imminently. that means it could happen really at any time. now when i say it, it depends on what vladimir putin might want to do. >> ukraine foreign minister says d dip ploem si is the only way forward as tensions remain high along the borders. more from moscow. >> everyone waits for president putin to make clear his next move, ukraine foreign minister said if russia is serious about not having a war with ukraine, then should pull their troops back. leaving the path for diplomacy open. the russian foreign minister said that he was on a track of sorts. sending an urgent demand to nato in the clarify their position on something. >> today, through the ministry of foreign affairs we're sending an official request to the countries of the alliance. with an urgent demand to explain how the fulfill the obligation. not to strengthen their security. at the expense of security of the others if not then explain why. this will be a key issue in further proposals. >> a small diplomatic window open there and the security counsel monday further diplomacy united states calling for a meeting of the security counsel to find out why russia still has a build up of troops around ukraine. russia position until now has been it's got them there. it's on sovereign territory and have a right to do it. this will put russia under further skcrutiny. >> the tlaez o-- more from kyiv. >> abandoned factory near kyiv. is now a training ground for civilians who volunteered to fight off the possible russian invasion. out numbered here by journalists and armed at best with pellet guns. they know they'll be out matched by moscows military machine. they are keen. >> we have a curable moment for the country. a crucial moment. risk that russian invasion might occur. so this why even civilians have to be ready. >> these men believe it's their countries democracy that vladimir putin fears more than a threat posed by european union and nato membership. >> in putin's russia all are completely slaves. he thinks the it's a threat because ukrainians gave to russian and bad example. we show to our neighbors how each free will. must defend his social and national rights. >> you wouldn't know ukraine government says russia has at least 127,000 troops massed on three sides of the country. here in the capitol. no signs of impending war. in the poorer districts where people horde whatever they can to get by. the mood is similar. >> people are relaxed. it depends on the -- someone in your family is from the military or police, it's a completely different mood. >> shelters are opened. just in case. >> the ukrainian gavt is appealing to the population for calm. at the same time dusting off the soviet era bunkers. there is a threat to a young country's democracy. shelter can house 300 people. it even has a air filtration system. kyiv has the capacity to shelter 2.8 million of the estimated 3 million residents. in 5,000 bunkers and the metro system. irony lost on no one here the shelter was built in 1956 to protect against nato striking rush and the soviet union. it's offering shelter against a possible attack by russia. >> north korea test fired his most powerful missile in years. the seventh test this month alone. raising anxiety in south korea and washington. the biden administration says kld like to return to diplomatic talks with pyongyang. they're waiting for an official response. one official says north korea could be using the test to force the u.s. into a weaker negotiating position. let's bring in hong kong. what are you learning about the missile and what north korea says it wants? >> well the missile was launched sunday morning. it flew an altitude of about 2,000 kilometers. and distance of about 800 kilometers. landing to the sea east of the korean peninsula. and it's the seventh missile test that north korea embarked on. in the month of january. a binge of missile launches. it's an intermediate range missile. the first time that north korea has fired this class of missile. since 2017. and i think a lot of the analysts are saying it looks like we're headed back towards the dark days. of 2017. when there was confrontation going on the peninsula. and pyongyang was showing that it was not happy with the u.s. and allies by conducting these missile launches which the u.s. and allies say are banned according to united nations security counsel resolution. monday morning, the south korea defense minister made a show of visiting the military missile defense agency. and units. and urging the military to be on alert. to be prepared for this. the south korea president who states so much of his presidency his waning presidency on trying to reach out to north korea. on face to face meetings with kim jong un. staged a meeting monday after the launch. and warned that it does look like north korea could be heading towards ending it moratorium. on intercontinental ballistic missile launches and nuclear tests. which would ratchet up tensions even more on the korean peninsula. as you mention, a u.s. white house administration official has spoken to cnn. and pointed out that the bidenen administration has been trying to reach out to the north korea regime. sending messages but not receiving responses. unlike the previous trump administration. it appears the biden administration doesn't want to engage in face to face diplomacy. between kim jong un and president biden. but would be open to lower level talks. and judging by the lack of response coming from pyongyang, it seems that the north korea government wants to get face to face meeting. the likes of which we saw several times between then president trump. and the north korea leader. >> all right. thanks so much. in hong kong for us. turning our attention to the middle east. where the united arab emirates destroyed a missile launch site. in yemen. released this video which they claim shows the damage they say the launch site was destroyed after their forces intercepted and destroyed another missile targeting the uae. after a series of attacks initiated by the iran. against the uae this month. we'll take a short break. we'll tell you more about the omicron variant latest variant. as it spreads through dozens of countries. also how the winter games could be impacted as covid infections rise among olympic athletes and officials. we'll be live in beijing. some of my best memories growing up were cooking with mom. so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our f financial plan. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com ♪ ♪ to all the kiss... .that led... ...to this one. celebrate every kiss, with kay. it was a trady. with knockoff batteries, littleiss cupcake never stood a chance. until, energizer ultimate lithium. who wants a cupcake? 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covid-19. this of course as china reports 37 more infections among olympic personnel. joining me from beijing with more. it's meant to be a bubble. a closed loop. is it being threatened or was this expected? we'll never keep it covid free completely. >> this is the assumption most people have had for quite some time. chinese officials acknowledged publicly of the inevitable reality. of course they have been stressing the number of positive cases accounts for a tiny percentage of the total number of games participants inside the closed loop and determined to keep it that way. they are portraying this as a testament to how effective the system has been working. with media saying so far there appears to be no community spread of the virus. within the olympic bubble. it's of course this is going to be an increasingly daunting task for them. as time goes on. and more events kicking off especially given ou contagious the variant is. not most of our colleagues covering the games from within the bubble have arrived here. and one of the first impressions with the high wall. or fences around the their hotel. this in a way is really a metaphor of the sense of disconnect. a lot of ordinary chinese citizens feel about the winter olympics this time around. because not only there's not a single ticket available for sale to the general public because of the pandemic. a lot of them have seen their travel plans ruined or disrupted because of the increasingly tightened travel restrictions especially in and out of beijing. this is the lunar new year period. the most important chinese holiday. on a calendar. people actually now are stuck instead of going home to see loved ones. for those of us who covered the summer games here in 2008 the contrast really seems quite stark. back then there was the sense of anticipation. excitement. and embracing the outside world. but across china. this time if you talk to people on the ground or reading social media feeds, this is more of a sense of annoyance and frustration. and sometimes out right hostility towards the west. especially the u.s. because of all the rising political tensions including the u.s. diplomatic boycott. against those games. because of china's human rights record. >> i can really imagine. it must be a big different feeling there. from 2008. i can only imagine. appreciate it. spotfy says it will add a content advisory to all pod casts that mention covid-19. that move coming after several artists said they will leave the platform if it continues to host joe rogen. spreading misleading claims about the virus. cnn reports. >> reporter: spotty ceo wrote a public letter on the web site on sunday. explaining the rules and how he says they'll do more to combat covid-19 misinformation. it's important to me that we don't take on the position of being content censor. making sure there's rules in place and consequences for those who violate them. he says spotfy is working to add a content advisory to pod cast episodes 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alert. lizards go dormant and can tumble out of the trees. give them a few hours and they'll come back to life. they're just paralyzed because of the cold temperatures. impressive run of cold air into florida. i want to show you what's happening over the next couple days. changes in store here with another system. pushing in across the central united states. and it's not just a blizzard or block buster snowstorm. see the pink color there? that's the most disruptive element. that's ice se cessions expanding from dallas into midwest. that plays out here could be a big time storm system. with a lot of people set to be impacted. look at the ice secretion. outages will be widespread. this is story we'll follow as the week progresses. >> keep the map like that. north of atlanta. thanks very much. i got a quarter inch on my deck. it was serious. now rising tensions with ukraine, russian state media stepping up propaganda. one western host is getting a lot of air time. you can probably guess 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journalists are propaganda. for the u.s. government. creating a provocation for war. >> you have no idea what's happening in our mind. you have to idea about history. you have no idea what russia is about. you have no idea what ukraine is about. history. why we have a problem. >> he hosts a show proudly pushing the kremlin views. and fox anchor tucker karlson. >> he's a nice guy. he's funny. has his own point of view. hates biden and likes trump. so what. >> no irony. in russia, unlike america, criticizing the president is off limits. and never more so than now. in the past year, independent media here have been almost completely crushed. >> it's the feeling of tense. it's all the time. you can never be sure that tomorrow you will be all right. you can never be sure that tomorrow your tv station will still be alive. >> she is an anchor. at tv rain. one of russia's last independent stations. designated a foreign agent. kremlin law that cosan snuff it out. she's familiar with state tv manipulation. how they use western media and play against broadcast colleagues. >> they have just there's a person who says are we going to fight russia because of this corrupted eastern european country that we even cannot find on the map? so as soon as he says something that is not in this direction that they need. he's not going to be a friend anymore. >> in russia's propaganda war truth doesn't matter. what counts is stopping a war they're convinced america is fermenting. >> at this point nato exists to torment vladimir putin. >> facing accusations of being a pro-putin stooj. he defended pro-russia comments and is not a a russian agent. will he lose hi war stopping value in russia? >> come on. this poor guy from fox news. well, i like that russian spy. >> it's not the way any respectable journalist would want to be portrayed. but once inside the kremlin spin cycle here, there's no knowing how the machine will spit you out. >> u.s. lawmakers are getting closer to a deal on russian sanctions. but there are mounting concerns moscow could hit back by slashing fuel supplies to the west. in particular europe. very worrisome for the uae. they get 40% of natural gas from russia. key pipelines of course run right through ukraine. russian invasion would threaten the countries energy infrastructure. europe would be hardest hit. experts say disruptions would ripple around the world. sending prices higher globally. >> she's a professor of international affairs. and director of the geo politics energy project. when we look at the dependence of europe nations on russian energy i want to pull out a graphic. and show people germany. which has of course pushed for the pipeline. it gets 32% of its pipeline gas from russia. 34% of crude oil. 53% of hard coal. how reliant is europe on russian energy? >> well, the numbers you used for germany are either very broad scale indicative of the over all continent. i'd say natural gas as a whole, the continent is dependent on 40% of natural gas from russia. and about 30% on the whole when we look at it for oil. there's very important distinctions. oil is much more easily substitutable. if russia were to stop sending oil to europe. that's not a big deal. oil is easy to transport. you put in a barrel. put it on a ship. it can come from anywhere. it's the natural gas that really gives russia leverage. it's the pipeline that those pipelines that infrastructure that can't be easily replicated over night. almost all of that gas fra russia is coming by pipeline. and if russia were to curtail that, that is the real short term or immediate term vulnerability of europe to russian energy. >> of course russia using energy supplies as a weapon. it's a weapon that can backfire. because selling that stuff is central to its own economy. >> that's very true. that of course this has been the mutually assured destruction dynamic. europeans have really relied on for decade. until recently most europeans especially germany and west european say russia is a reliable supplier. for decades. is supplied energy sources and if it were to curtail it it would have a devastating effect on the russian economy. the question now becomes one of which to what extent is putin willing to make calculations that may not make economic sense. but make strategy sense from his spective. >> yeah. something else you have written about. how important is it for countries like germany and others to reduce the dependence. and the renewable. solar and wind. clearly for the planet but the current tensions clearly illustrate not moving towards them has national security implications. >> it's a good point. i would say to answer your question. how important is it? it's very important in the context of european priorities and really global priorities in the sense of the world needs to move to have net zero emissions by 2050. europe is the most forward leaning region of the world. however we're seeing today is that you can't plan for a few decades out without keeping at least one eye on the ball of the immediate term. because in the short term and even in the medium term. another decade or two. these redepend sis on fos ill fuel producers will remain in the interim. really what is happened here is that much of europe has really tried to live in the future where it's reality is actually still very much grounded in fossil fuel. that reality can't be ignored unless europe wants to open itself up to national security problems. potentially over and over again during this actual transition to net zero. >> more broadly outside of the current tensions, in a political sense, how much power do major national suppliers so called pet row states have over customers? >> this depends on whether we're talking about natural gas or talking about oil. it depends on the state of the market. if we look at the oil market as you know, for decades consumers have been concerned about an over reliance on opec. and those are the oil big oil producing countries that work together and cartel that has saudi arabia, iraq, iran and russia has been working closely with this cartel. if we look at different points over the last decade, sometime this group of countries has had enormous power to set prices. other times it's had very little power and that's just depends on how many producers are in the market. the u.s. has become a huge producer of oil. over the last few years. it depends on what the demand is. and the real vulnerable here for the world going forward is that over the next couple of decades what we don't want to see is supply be reduced before demand is reduced. and it is this tension that we're have to prepare ourselves for. that demand for the energy sources of oil and natural gas may not go down as quickly as supply and it's in that kind of market that these traditional big largely state owned companies have the most influence. >> even at net zero there's still a need for oil and gas. even in that scenario. a fascinating 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three of them on 20. >> absolutely. he was the only one who played this australian open. federer's had persistent knee injuries and djokovic we know about his whole deportation saga but th was still as much as he had a bit of daylight from that perspective he was not considered a favorite to do well with it at all. he just had covid in december and that had come at the tail of a long persistent foot injury. these three guys overlapping as much as they have, if they were alone in this their era i think easily any one of them could be at 25, maybe even 30 at this point with how much they've stopped each other. they really have held each other back in a lot of ways. >> absolutely. we've got one minute left. i wanted to touch on medvedev. it seems he felt no love and respect from the melbourne crowds. >> medvedev had this very long opening monologue in his press conference about the child who had stopped dreaming, saying basically his dreams of what it would be like to be a top level tennis player had not matched up at all because he got so much hostility from the crowd. some of that might be not wanting any intruders, especially nadal at this moment. and part of it is antagonizing the crowd and saying they have low iqs which i don't think has endeared him necessarily to the public. medvedev was certainly crestfallen by this and a bit heartbroken by the whole experience. he'll have some rethinking to do and resettling to do to be able to enjoy tennis in this sort of stage once more. >> yeah, i can tell you trolling australian sports fans is never going to end well for the troller. ben rothenberg, it's been great talking to you over the last few weeks of this australian open. beers on me when you're back. >> thank you. >> a mysterious black diamond weighing more than 555 carats is going up for auction at sotheby's this week. nicknamed the enigma. the origin of the diamond has puzzled scientists. some believe it could have come from outer space. others say deep in the earth. this kind of black diamond called a carbonado can be about 3 billion years old. they've mainly been found in brazil and the central african republic. >> carbonaro diamonds are quite rare to begin with. they are shrouded in mystery as the origin of formation because there's not that many of them found on earth. this is a particularly great example, a beautiful example of one of these types of diamonds. >> now, the diamond's current owner has had it for two decades, but its history before that is unclear. the beginning -- the bidding begins on thursday. so you've still got some time. it's expected to sell for as much as $7 million. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @holmescnn. do stick around. another valuable diamond, rosemary church picks up our coverage in just a moment. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensurere, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitatamins and minera. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪ your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire ♪"don't ya leave" by squeak e clean♪ [doorbell] ♪ [doorbell] ♪ [doorbell] all the delivery. no delivery fees. dashpass. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom," and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, the russia-ukraine crisis is center stage at the united nations in the coming hours as the security council addresses escalating fears of military conflict. we are live in kiev with the latest. plus a live report from the middle east, where the united arab emirates says they've destroyed a missile launch site in yemen. the latest on the series of