a war in europe. made fears of a russian invasion and you cry and the u. s. a. nato offer more dialogue not confessions to moscow security demands. the kremlin says its views on the crisis had been disregarded. germany's parliament marked holocaust remembrance day with a special ceremony. millions of jews and other minorities were murdered during world war 2 in notting run death caps and the u. s. federal reserve capes interest rights steady for now, but says a high is coming soon to cool down inflation. ah, i'm anthony. how'd it's good to have it with us. russia says it will consider an offer from the us for more dialogue over the ukraine crisis, but insists its views have been disregarded. the, the nato had formerly rejected moscow. sweeping security demands refusing, among other things to roll out future night. a membership for you cried, embracing wakes, russia has mast some 100000 troops near its border with ukraine steering fees of an attack. a military exercise on the ukrainian border. russia is flexing its muscles while washington has handed over a written response to moscow's demand. or response to russia reflects what i said in heave berlin and geneva. last week. we're open to dialogue. we prefer diplomacy and we're prepared to move forward. where there is the possibility of communication cooperation. if russia deescalate, is regression toward ukraine, stop the inflammatory rhetoric and approaches, discussions about the future security in europe. in a spirit of reciprocity, our responses were fully coordinated with ukraine and our european allies and partners with whom we've been consulting continuously for weeks. the response was delivered personally by the u. s. and plaster to russia. mosque i once, nate, i to close its doors to ukraine. something washington is firmly opposed to. nato has also sent a written reply rejecting moscow's demands. while we are hoping for, i'm working for a good solution, the escalation, we also prepared for the worst under there for in parallel with our efforts on the dialogue track. and we are also, i'm increasing the redness. our forces are an a dollars of also increased the, the preston sir, partly to conduct surveillance to monitor, to have the best possible picture of the development, sir, in, in, in their under crane. but also to broad a reassurance sir, to, to alice in paris. there was diplomacy at a lower level. the no mandy format brought germany, france, russia, and ukraine together for another round of talks or some fog vinson over. the very fact that the work of enormity format has resumed is a very positive signal, like we had really very comprehensive talks voe. they weren't easy. let's call it a key, an audit of where we are today. why and when la sherwood near us, the next meeting will take place soon, maybe even in 2 weeks, and it will take place in berlin. we agreed to continue our dialogue. lodging it showed yellow. has the u. s. and its allies, russell with rushes, demands of frosty atmosphere spreads along ukraine's border. let's go to d. 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 nuclear arms policy. to talk about, you know, reduction of risk in the arctic. things that used to be actually on the table frequently between the west and russia and has fallen by the way that the wayside has tensions have risen over the years. so these letters contain exactly what moscow was led to expect and they can't pretend otherwise. and interestingly, terry euclid isn't the only country feeling threatened by russia's military maneuvers at this moment. his that's true. and, and this really happened since 2014, when, when countries end nato itself, when it was taken, unaware by, by russia's invasion of, of ukraine. and it's annexation of crimea, because then it was clear that the moscow was no longer playing by the international rules that everyone had gotten comfortable with, and that it would cross borders and sees territory. so now with this recent build up, nobody even knows which borders of moscow would consider off limits. and that's why sweden and finland are, are feeling a bit under pressure. and sweden, in particular, has this nice, beautiful island sitting out there in the middle of the baltic. sea right off the coast of kalynne and grad, so not so far from russian territory. and from that island, if you were to seize it, you can control access to the baltic states nato allies. you also can, can cut off access to finland, a partner of nato. so this is a really crucial geo strategic location. and so i thought i needed to go to got, lend the swedish island and see for myself just tell vulnerable. it might be in normal times, the only large groups of foreigners coming to got land or the $1000000.00 tourists who flocked to the swedish island every year. but now the swedish government is preparing for the possibility of unwelcome visitors as russian president vladimir putin's military maneuvers spread concern far beyond ukraine. we cannot exclude an armed attack against sweden. and what we want to do, yas, now is to be very clear that we are ready to turn sweden and the course of that. we are also doing what for doing owned island. mclaughlin. kirkland is a do strategic prize jewel in the baltic sea, a central for nato's access to its baltic allies and its swedish and finish partners. from this island you cannot control both of the air and sea waste in the region. garland was a key military asset for sweden, for centuries, until 2005, when the swedish government assessed post cold war tensions as so low that it disbanded all the permanent military units here in what turned out to be just wishful thinking. that's why the swedish government has been re arming the island since shortly after russia's seizure of ukraine's crimea region and has intensified it in recent weeks. that glockland could be next in the kremlin site is no longer unthinkable for swedes watching the russian government continue to escalate. a bit like a game of chicken were one of the drivers rush on this case as you're stronger steering wheel out the window. so we're having to unfortunate to some kind of crash and my view defense minister hook this believes the country has enough friends to feel safe, even without being a member of nato. we have deep corporation with united states who have us, you chaos. we're a close partner, we are a name to partnership. we have a north nordic solidarity, a doctrine, and we also have the solidarity doctrine in the repeal in union. but being a partner to need, oh, doesn't provide the guarantee of mutual offense that allies get and will pull yonce in head of the swedish parliament's defense committee feels his country needs. we can hope we can assume we can the wish that we get the support from nato, but we can look, no uncle would join the alliance. a recent poll shows an increasing number of swedes support nato membership. but that still only amounts to about a 3rd of the population for now anyway, if something very serious would happen in this part of the world, mister bolton decided on something in the baltic region here. i think we would apply very quickly. but then the question would be whether nato would accept a country already in dire straits, especially if got land were gone. the great pace, tearing at least me to ask the question, is there a real fee that got lind could see a russian invasion? you know, the swedish government is against nato membership, so it is certainly not trying to raise fears among its citizens, that it would need even more security guarantees than you heard the defense minister give there. but at the same time, moscow is so unpredictable as we saw with ukraine in 2014, as we're seeing again now that no one can say what vladimir putin might do. they can only, they can only measure what he's capable of doing. and that's a lot and very quickly. so what the swedish government is telling me is that they have to prepare for things. they don't even want to imagine. and that means be ready. just in case that's a decision the kremlin takes the deputies, terry schultz reporting from brussels. thanks so much. now let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making headlines today. and there's been an oil leak at a refinery near cruise capital lina, 30 said happened during work on an underwater pipeline at the lap on pier refinery and by spanish energy giant rips off work as a still trying to clean up a major oil spill, which took place 10 days ago, badly needed international aid has been delivered to the pacific island nation of toner vessels from australia, britain and china have now arrived bringing water plus basic medical and sanitation supplies. alan kingdom was devastated by an under bought a volcanic eruption and soon army 2 weeks ago. it destroyed villages and knocked out communications. germany has seen another record number of new corona of new covey. 19 infections, the countries disease control center, the rob clock institute registered more than 203000 new cases in a single 24 hour period that some 70000 more than the same time last week. experts say the increase has been driven largely by the army. kron very la german parliament has marked the holocaust remembrance day with a special ceremony that includes tributes to victims. witnesses testimony and music . ah, blue tech, one of the guest speakers was 87 year old holocausts of either in our bucker. she described her traumatic childhood in the to these inch the concentration camp and urged unity in the face of hatred. the speaker of the israeli parliament also addressed lawmakers more than 75 years ago when 70 soviet troops liberated outwards concentration camp. millions of jews and other minorities were ultimately murdered in the holocaust. ah, how they know deep. oh, and i still have very clear memories of that dark time. go in at time of terror light and hate to you. we sadly this cancer has returned and hate of the jews has become commonplace again, in many countries of the world, including germany. the, this disease has to be eradicated as swiftly as possible. your height of more. in this i'm joined by our chief political editor, michela kirchner, mchale a holocaust survivor in our back of their mentioned anti semitism in her speech. do you think her message got through to politicians? it suddenly got turned to politicians. i spoke to here in parliament about the overarching question that was hanging in the room. today's weather, this will get message. we'll get through to younger generations. and there's, that's also why the we remember campaign is also turned to take talk. and we heard the, a president of the israeli kinessa it the parliament and mickey levy, they're basically called on how to convey this message to the youth that it's about standing in for values that a future under rate of generation should understand, you know, it, it never fails to really hit me when you hear a witness account that this truly was a mist childhood. we also heard there in all the her show a and butterfly brute, which reminds her of one and a half 1000000 children that didn't get to live that childhood. those lies that they were supposed to live because of the holocaust. so quite clearly the message that yes it is a dark past, but it's still here in the to day. and there was a very emotional moment where and she concluded her speech and then the speaker of the connect that came to embrace her to hug her. and because it is such a human, such an emotional moment, that horns also those generations that follow that nobody can escape from. and can the pledge from germany that it doesn't even want to escape. that responsibility that it takes responsibility, something that was also recognized by the speaker of the kinessa to levy there. you mentioned in the speaker of these rather parliament, the kinessa, mickey livi, took the opportunity to say a haber pair, let's take a little now you describe what was used by a jewish chairman, boy by slim wash nights, his bar mitzvah. on the 22nd of october 1930 acre, with an april or shortly before the november program. or you do aud kelly, also known as crystal niger leticia, shortly before that life hardly thought he was meant to live. so was chatted, mitzi or begin monga was shattered by reality in germany. a mother do mamma, this prayer book, ebony which against the background of the atrocities of the holocaust hail bore silent witness. light the walls, a stone and steel of this building feel good dish. so you, slade, i will now read their kaddish. prayer for israel. it good out kadesh and how about belmont debowski? cure day family. manhood day. it's must balcony vehicle ever miss you before you hon. oh, be on the corner or buffet. the horn. betty sale burger la bisman curry v mo. a man. oh sir shalom. be more bubb hoover comma vs is shalom. allen, no corn? oh, i knew to the alba to the album mikayla. heartbreaking it a breathtaking moment. if we can describe it, is that what was that moment like when that emotion was, was brought in today? yes. really. i mean it's, it's actually almost and painful to what are the also the frustration of the holocaust survivor in our home for her. they're trying to really convey that message into the present of, of those horrors of the past that are simply unimaginable. they are really hard to really take in and understand. so we had in the rank and file of politics there. but at the end of the day, it was a room full of human beings trying to make sense of the past and trying to really bring this message into the future with a tangible sense of fear and concern that against the backdrop of a rise in anti semitism also in germany in the whole world that those lessons may not have been learned and never again is what to make. you levy said was the concluding message that that needed to be understood. and bab abbas at the present of the jump. parliament said, well, this happened in broad daylight, so yes, it's unimaginable. it happened and it must never happen again. and that is katie, the work, those politicians in that room, but across the world have cut out for them. because of not many thanks. many holocaust survivors who are still alive to day with children at the time they were imprisoned. they doubly made up with one woman held in germany's bergen belsen cap. she endured unspeakable horrors, but remained determined to bear witness. i should warn you that our next report contains graphic images that some viewers may find disturbing. gone to the barracks, their bodies, the lice and the disease. but even nature cannot fully reclaim this site. because for now, some is still passing on what they know. the 1st thing that hit us was the smog and the smell. it was a terrible smell. and then you, through that smoke, you saw people. and there were people by the really skeletons and, and the shuffling along, lugs, zombies. and thou shuffle along and off collapse and die. marla trib itch is back at the place which nearly killed her. bergen belsen and nancy concentration camp which killed tens of thousands of others. the 91 year old is here to tell her story. with ever a few a living survivors, it feels increasing the urgent to pass it on. when she arrived at bergen belsen, marlo was just 14. she had already spent years in a ghetto, in hiding and as a slave laborer. she was polish, and jewish, and every one in her family was either dead or missing, a part from her cousin anne who was 7. the girls arrived together. they were so over crowded. they had no room for us. and them a dead bodies all over the place and the piles of bodies and piles of naked twisted, decaying corpses. it was a horrific sight when british forces liberated bergen belsen. on the 15th of april. 1945. they found tens of thousands of unmarried bodies and $60000.00 prisoners on the brink of death. whether moments that you, you didn't think that you would survive off. so lucy didn't sing, anybody would survive. people are just dying at such a rate. and it was obvious, even if helped it didn't come when a deed, i mean the whole camp would have just died out health to mentally after the war mana and her cousin ann was sent with other children to sweden. and then a letter arrived from modest brother ben. he had survived a different camp and made it to the u. k. she soon went to join him. for many years, molla tripage didn't talk about her childhood experiences. but now she feels she has a duty to speak about the past, while she still can ok, let's take a look at other things making headlines around the world today. again, a fossa is military hunter has met with members of the asked a government. the former ministers have been ordered not to leave the country without permission. military seized power on monday and detained, picking a facade democratically elected leader. the crew has been condemned. internationally, music streaming provider, spotify pulling neil young's music from its catalogue. this comes after a request from the singer songwriter young objected to the streaming service airing, a popular podcast, criticized for spreading misinformation, about covey. 19. earlier this month, hundreds of scientists and medical professionals signed the letter urging spotify to remove the job. rogan content or the federal reserve will begin rising interest rates in march. it's a departure from pandemic era policies that have been in place since march of 2020, picking the benchmark rate to 0. the federal chairman jerome power says the move is designed to temper economic growth. americans have st. dick, i'd decades high inflation rates lightly eating into wage gains and household budgets. the fed chairman added that he thinks there is quite a bit of room to raise rates without quote, threatening the labor market. so steven, this late from date of the business is following this, steven high and investors around the world have been eagerly awaiting this decision . was it so important was you probably know the u. s. economy, the reach goes way beyond the country's political borders. and especially because much of the world has adopted the u. s. dollar as essentially a reserve currency that makes decisions like what happens with interest rates, very important that gives them a ripple effect around the world. basically what the federal do is take some of the steam out of the u. s. economy. inflation is really risen very quickly, supply shortages of added to that problem. and so by raising rates that discourages investors and normal people from investing from spending money. and so that means that economic activity pulls back. this affects overseas companies who are connected to the u. s. in some way, doing business there, or they're connected with us dollars. that's many, many companies. it also affects countries who take out debts in us dollars. that's a fair number of countries as well. and that even affects emerging economies think india, south africa, brazil because we noticed that when interest rates at home in the u. s. rise, a lot of capital comes out to go secure those interest rates. so it could be a problem for them as well. right? so it's going to affect a lot of people, how big a shift is this really? in some ways it's not a shift. the, the fed has been telegraphing this for weeks. it's been clear with the way prices are going that this was coming in another way. it is a big shift, 2 years in which the central bank and the political side of us are both on everything that they could at. what was a crazy liquidity problem that happened when the panoramic hit, and when restrictions went into place, they have largely seen in america that has recovered it, especially with jobs, especially with consumer spending consumer sentiment. but there's a new dynamic that's come out as well, and that is with inflation with supply shortages. and around that there's a bit of uncertainty still. how much to get back to bringing those prices down that we don't know. they talked a little bit about the ripple effect. what is this going to mean for europe? well, in europe, they're still not quite ready. tap on the brakes. we're talking about europe. central bank growth here doesn't quite have the same prospects as it does in the u . s, look at germany has been hit hard by supply shocks. for example, energy prices across the were very high end. you know, the u has said that it wants to raise interest rates perhaps next year 2023 summer saying it could come as soon as 2022. there's also another concern that you have to keep in mind. the euro's on has to keep in mind, and that is that borrowing is already very hard for countries like italy that are sitting on a lot of debt. it doesn't really want to make borrowing that much harder. that could be dangerous. and so that's always in the back of the euro zones. mind steven, basically from de w business. thanks a lot. oh, before we go, the snow, the cold snap in eastern mediterranean has now hit jerusalem with snow covering the ancient city. it's the heaviest snow. jerusalem has experienced since 2013 wintery weather has caused traffic disruption, and residents were advised to stay indoors. but as you can see, some people just couldn't resist the loop of the bit of fun. now a reminder of the top stories were following for you, this l d, u. s. has rejected russia's demand to buy gig crime from future membership in nato in the state of washington has offered a new diplomatic path to the end of the crisis. russia has said its views have been ignored. we'll continue dodd archbishop of munich and said he takes moral responsibility but one step down after a damning report on clergy sex abuse and the 1980s report has faulted exploit benedict for his handling of several of these cases. while late the arch dies watching d w. news live from berkeley, and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines. conflict, conflicts on with tim, sebastian is coming up next after a short break with ah, with who into the conflict zone with sebastian the streets of hong kong, a quiet these days. the pro democracy movements have been tamed. this week we talk for a 2nd time to regina, long time law maker in hong kong legislative council ahead of the prob, aging new people's party. what kind of future for hong kong now? conflict with d. w. with this issue, when i arrived here, i slept with people in a room, 9th and it was hard. i wish i even got white hair is learning the german language. hit me a lot. this kids to me and create a bunch trinity to interact with. you want to know their story, migrant verified and reliable information for migrant. one of mankind's oldest ambitions could be within reach or what if it really is possible to reverse aging researchers and scientists all over the world for in a race against time? ah, they are peers and rivals with one daring goal to help smart nature. more life starts february 16th on d, w. the streets of hong kong a quiet these days, the huge demonstrations of recent time long gone. the pro democracy movements have been tamed.