the, the, this, the dw news live it from berlin tonight, dealing in weapons, germany restart to arms, exports, the saudi arabia. it's approved the delivery of a $150.00 iris feed guided missiles. and this is a major new turn. lane stopped, weapons delivery several years ago. after the killing of journalists, schumacher shows also coming up tonight, the world health organization says the situation and gaza is too dangerous. now for enough aid to reach civilians and ecuador sinks into crisis, the president. busy as his country is it more with drug games after a wave of deadly violence, the storming of a tv station and the kidnapping of police officers, plus fears of famine in northern ethiopia. authorities warranted civil war and

chronic drought have brought 90 percent of the people in the state of degree to the brink of starvation. the i bring golf to overview is watching on p. b. as in the united states into all of you around the world. well, can we begin tonight with dealing in arms? the german government has authorize the export of missiles to saudi arabia, ending restrictions that were introduced 6 years ago. the sale of a 150 iris t air to air missiles to re odd is a major policy shift for chancellor lock. schultz is government. berlin halted arms exports to saudi arabia. after dissident journalist is jamarcus, shogi was killed in the saw, the console with any assemble, us intelligence found that the solid crown prince mohammed been solomon, had sanctioned his murder. the more missiles like these will soon be on their way

to saudi arabia. that's off, the german government, scrapped a 5 year old ban on arms exports. but berlin still seems on decided on allowing the saudis to get more jets to fight them from the your a fighter is a part of the corporation between germany, italy, spain, and the u. k and saudi arabia already has dozens of them. when the current german government was formed, it said it would not approve the delivery of any more jets. the reason re adds war against who the rebels in yemen. and the brutal killing of saudi general is jamal christology. but the complex between israel and the mass has changed the calculus violin now sees saudi arabia as a partner, willing to stand up for stability or the in the mid least dual credit. if i advise israel knows that it's secure. he also depends on stability in the region and saudi

arabia based on everything we hear. i know and talk about wants to fill the role of stability, usually a 100 from start to teach us fee on finding the around back to tease have by contrast, taking up the fight against israel, attacking shipping in the red sea and firing rockets towards these railing. territory, johns, the show seems to be backing the release of your a fight is but part so is s p d policy. and on the screen television partners are opposed. they say saudi arabia's human rights abuses means it would be a fatal mistake. green co leader because the lying said it would be wrong to let saudi arabia get more. your a fight as this is the fundamental position of our party and i still see it that way. a definitive green light for leasing the croft may be some way off. but with germany already using its owns export band, it seems clear

a foreign policy shift is well underway or, or more. i'm joined now by huntsville cub schindler, he's the senior director of the n g o, the counter extremism project, and he enjoys with the 9th from new york city. mr. chandler, it's good to see you again. i want to start by getting your take. why do you think germany is now in favor of sending missiles to saudi arabia? thank you so much for having me. good to see you again. look, this isn't really true policy shift. we have seen that saudi arabia in the last couple of months has one entirely intercepted to see me solves lying to as well. the of seems already a playing a fairly constructive role in trying to calm the tensions around because i conflict . so this is in my understanding the reason for this policy, she will saudi arabia having iris team missiles in its arsenal, will certainly not please iran and its allies. i'm thinking about hezbollah and

love it on thinking about the who the rebels in yemen. what could be the fall welfare i hope this is also all. busy as part of the respondents to iraq, which has very deliberate lead, racked up increment lee, but racked up the pressure around because the conflict on the one hand, even before the recent assets of nations of time us and i spell that lead of you have a day to day increase of attacks biased paula on northern israel. and since the beginning of november, we have now with 2 days of massive attack $26.00 attacks on by that was these against international shipping which is developing by fast into an actual global economic problem. so, you know, there are signals, many strong signals needed towards iran to say, um that has to be a stop to this. and today's decision by the gym government can also be seen partially as part of that response. that's also part why germany has agreed to be part of that international america and force that is going to secure the ritzy. so

then, so usually this is an insurance policy to, to, to keep it the suez canal basically that, that area secure for world trade as a bulwark against the power of the who 2 rabbits exact. and so the search cut out is not only a major income stream for the egyptian government, and it has a 25 percent less income since that was he started firing. it is really one of the main arteries of little the tray. one tray in dollars worth of goods flow through that narrow, straight every day as our heavy if this whole here tax need, as it has already done to more shipping companies deciding no longer to use the so it came out and threats you have longer transport times higher shipping costs, higher shipping insurance costs. this is a global problem that no one needs in a time. right. and it's your price is already quite sensitive. anyway, the us secretary of state entity bleachers, he commented earlier today on these attacks on these ships that are headed for is

real. i want you to take a listen to what he said. and all i can tell you is that as we've made clear and many other countries make, there will be consequences with these actions. we've also repeatedly tried to make 3rd, oran, as other countries have as well. that the supports that they're providing these including for these actions needs to stop. it's not in their interest to see the complex escalated. and we're not the only ones who sent that message around. and we're not the only ones in that message to iran. what are these consequences going to be though if the attacks continue? well, so far the international coalition of ships has simply restricted itself to shooting down whatever you struck them. and you know, a couple of hours ago. busy it was quite substantial abum carrying drones, uh, cruise me size as well as on the tank ship missiles. and then we had

a couple of days ago as thinking of a couple of people's so far. the quotation has not yet attack. who's the positions on the ground? can human radar stations? me? so i launch sites, but gives me, is a tax don't debate, don't with use or don't stop. i'm afraid this is going to be the logical next. and then let me ask you, before we run out of time, when you consider everything we've seen this week, we've had the arms deal with saudi arabia. but we've also had this diplomatic shuttle diplomacy going on right now between the gardens and is real. would you say that a wider war is more or less likely? now, after this week's diplomatic efforts, a while a wide, a war is really no one's interest, including by the way, he loved any runs into size. however, what we need to still work on is a vision of how god god, without time us should look like. and this is what these diplomatic efforts are about. if there is a vision for guys that the possibility of,

of either regional conflict is going to be much less because tensions are going to go down. but we're not there yet. no one has a clear idea of who should manage guys that how security should be provided and what the status of the policy international authority should be. yeah, yeah. well, maybe that will be a positive pressure there for peace on jacob, isn't there senior director of the counter extremism project? mr. sure, there's always we appreciate your time and your analysis. thank you. thank you so much. the world health organization says not enough. 8 is reaching civilians in the gaza strip, intensified 5 and northern and central garza is hindered deliveries of medical supplies and fuel to hospitals. israel says that its troops are trying to root out from us militants, and carried out these deadly terrorist attacks and israel, 3 months ago. grabbing all the can from a truck, west of kansas city bags of flour, boxes of canned food throughout the territory, gods and space, mass, hunger,

and disease. the un says $1.00 and $4.00 are starving. the majority of guys, this population has been displeased at least once, since the start of the war most depend on cross border aid for survival. those displaced say they are living in absolute desperation lives and we have lost hope. we'd be listening to the news for $98.00 days hoping that the war will end, but there is no hope. all we see is a difficult situation. we're in. we have no water electricity, but since water was scarce, we can only shar once a month. it's taking a total in our mental health and there are diseases spreading everywhere and pressure to allow more 8 and to gaza is mounting on israel. the opening of a crossing at the israel egypt border has not significantly increase the rate of

deliveries. a trucks are often delayed waiting for security checks, but israel's military says it is now increased its capacity for screening. we are ready and willing to facilitate as much humanitarian aid as the world will give, especially essentially like food medicine and shelter. we do security checks on humanitarian aid trucks for weapons. before the enter goes, we have increased our screening capacity considerably. that even when a gets through distribution is another problem. in the absence of security guarantees and intensified offensive around hospitals in northern gaza. vital medical supplies can get to people who need it. most it means that hospitals don't have to. it means that patients don't have food. it means that i'm

to tell, emphasize the care for the patients. you an agency say humanitarian corey doors for aid are needed now to save lives. here's some of the other stories now that i'm making headlines around the world, somalia insecurity minister says al, sure bob militants have killed one person and captured 5 others on board a united nations helicopter. the aircraft was seized after and made an emergency landing in the gal who do the region, which is controlled by the extreme is the official says, one passenger is missing. holdings president andre dude says he'll fight to free his former interior minister and deputy from jail. mario is kaminsky and maci watched you were detained in the presidential palace for abuse of power. it's part of the new governments correct down on the legend, wrong doings by the national this law and justice party who were ousted from power last year. russian opposition leader alexi nev only has appeared in

a video for the 1st time since his secret transfer to an arctic prison to remotely attend a court. hearing. the criminal critics was moved in december and the survey a 19 year sentence for extremism. and for all your grades, president ultimate zalinski has made an unannounced visit to live the way new york kicking off a tour of the 3 baltic states. he again warned the trio of nations that they are not saved from a potential russian invasion unless booting is stopped. so lensky is also discussing ukraine's plans to join nato. and the european union says, you're watching the w news still to come with ukraine's military running sort of male recruits, a growing number of women are choosing to get arms training boot camp report from a trading campus, preparing them for potential combat growth that's coming up in just a month and a south america eco doors president has declared war on drawer games and bid

spiraling violence. at least 10 people have been killed in recent days. soldiers over trolling the streets, schools and shops are closed in many big cities. unrest broke out when a state of emergency was declared over a drug lords, prison escaped. inmates are holding more than a 100 prison staff hostage at the moment. government also stormed a new station and held in journalists captive yesterday online television. well, i'm joined now by steve and dudley, he's the co founder and co director of inside crime. that is a think tank in washington dc that investigates organized crime in the americas. i think you're the definitely the right man to talk to tonight. it's good to have you with us ecuador, it sounds like it is defending if, if it sounds like a civil war at some level, if not, and archy is that what we're looking at as well, that might be a slight exaggeration. certainly they are having extreme problems with criminal

groups. a civil war would require some sort of politics behind this, but this mostly appears to be criminal in nature. in the decree that the president issued yesterday, he named 22 different criminal groups, which really gets you to the heart of the problem. this isn't just one group, they have to corral. these are 22 different groups. a number of them stand out above the others, but none the less, the problem will be there, which is that they are an atomized series of criminal organizations. some of them with connections to international groups as well. so this is extremely complex, and mr. dudley explained was how have the drug cartels, how they gain so much power in ecuador? i mean, ecuador is not a main producer of cocaine, and that's the drug of choice we're talking about. so it's not a producer, but it sits next to the largest producer in the world that producer is columbia,

and it has been increasing its production over the last several years. simultaneously. places like europe and asia had become greater consumers. the code in so ecuador has become a greater transit, a point of transit in a much greater capacity than it was in the past. this is the source of much of the fighting and much of the growth of criminal gangs in ecuador, which by the way, also got their start inside of prisons in ecuador. so this is, this is something that has the institutional failures built into it, but also economics connected to the international drug trade. yeah. what do we know about these gang leaders that you say that the lucas of power or recruitment is the prisons? i'm but are these gang leaders? are they, are they more than just uh, you know, criminal drug traffic, king dogs or yeah, well, i mean they're, they,

they've very in nature. of course, many of them has been housed in prisons for the last several years. prisons have offered them a number of different possibilities, and i know it sounds strange to people's ears when, when someone says that, but in a way it's, it's kind of a place of respite, a place where you can organize a place where you can recruit a place where you can set up sort of systematic ways in which you can take action and criminal activities outside of prison, which is exactly what these leaders have done. one of whom was the one who escaped, the other day was a member of the probably the most powerful, but one of the most powerful of not the most powerful group in ecuador, currently called the tornadoes. and so these are, these are different types of, of, of criminal leaders and criminal organizations with intersections with international criminal groups that have given them increasing amounts of power. in some instances, fire power, knowledge, know how, you know,

i other series of advantages that they didn't necessarily have uh, 5 years ago or so. you know, the argument is the, the drug supply would not be there. if we didn't have the drug demand, particularly in the united states and, and here in europe, that said, and knowing that the demand is not going to go down any time soon, does the government ecuador, in your opinion, do they have a strategy to regain control and to camp these cartels in check, it was interesting to watch the presidential campaign play out over the last few months and, and initially all the candidates had very serious programs that were made to long term, you know, very much socially minded programs, you know, not very heavy handed, but as things have gotten more violent and in particular after the such a nation of one of their fellow presidential candidates last year, you know,

everything got ratcheted up in terms of their rhetoric and in terms of their policies as well. we're seeing them now or seeing the, the new president, the fairly newly inaugurated president, no boil, go at this with a very heavy hand. and the problem is they don't have the foundation upon which they can fight this type of battle. so it's, it's a long road they're facing. but the, but right now they, they are just scrambling just to sort of get their hands around the current situation, which is, as you pointed out again at the onset spilled out of control. steven dudley, joining us from washington. we appreciate your time and your valuable insights tonight. thank you. thank you. thank you. and if he is northern state of grey authorities or warning that the region is on the brink of famine, degrees interim president says at least 90 percent of the people there are at risk of starving. he said the crisis was triggered by the war into gray,

which ended 14 months ago, but also by drought. and a lack of a if you're being government in addis ababa says that the claims are exaggerated. corresponded 1000000. lily philosophy is in ethiopia, involved this report. so this is all that's 70 years old, get bremond seen how goes and his family had been able to have it in present months, barely enough to survive. oh, there's famine, we are starving aluminum and crisis for some days. i'm able to find something to eat. other days i go to bed with an empty stomach. what can we do? where can we go? one could as conditions west ended up, his family and many young people left the area. but most of the leisure being like a brit missing. most of these couple of have died on the a few months i left. it's the result of 4 years of phase rates, including the west, jolting decades,

as well as video by stating what you need help us to raise each other. we have farmers who worked our land when we couldn't do that. we would travel to places where we worked the money, the where can we go now? i'm losing home. i don't have sheep are cows, i can so that isn't it. so then they, you, as was for the program in the us agency for international development, suspended that you might need to the end deliveries. i left the caea of our mazda of crap so scheme in which the popular fee, so to grad and as each of forces had reportedly looted for $8.00 to send in beginning in the markets. based significantly less than a situation with more than 1400 people having to dev. since then, the local administrator in the district has declared a state of emergency for the son that 85 percent of presidents have barely any food

to eat me. people are dying in front of a rise. the government and non governmental organizations have to take responsibility and do what they can to alleviate the suffering. you know, they do it in us. it does have agreed to resume food. identity varies with the improved monitoring for yeah, ignition hopefully between to arrive to meet save debris with the in the god knows what will come next. i want to say we have is mercy, we will eat if we don't, we will die. no, there's not much else we can do with either way on. despite the official time release, people here integrate worry that there was might not see their needs as agend as other crises and forward elsewhere in the wide ukraine needs. more troops and discussions are underway about changes to the way that it mobilizes the

districts. and you draft bill would increase penalties for people who don to the draft and make more citizens eligible for conscription. one source that has so far remains largely in tap women around $42000.00 women are currently estimated to be serving in that ukrainian army and increase of 40 percent over 2021 the year before russia's full scale invasion. at least 5000 of those reported do you have been deployed to the front a currently women can not be conscripted and they have to actively enlist if they wish to serve new training camps or offering women opportunities to prepare for combat roles dw. so when you fall in the car reports tonight, taking a look at the enemy for the building to a basic goals in fi um and open combat in the photos somewhere on the outskirts of keys. only for women. on this, the caea is

a film producer and keeps it almost like she's never touched a rifle before. the show. it's the knowledge skills are very relevant and you can't, we don't know what could come next and all the work drank, gone for years. go ahead and so women can also be useful on the front focus more than put the course in the floor and on this to see a hasn't decided whether she sign up to join the army like she like many others here, wants to be capable. tatiana, his son is in the army. she wants to be ready to join him to, to this was a, can choose something for him. fortunately, running out to fight to the 3rd notion of people and resources. so we have to be prepared through uh, all the volunteers from the army awful women, jo listens on handling the rightful though and put them to the pieces. the piano helps organize the course as well as taking part by 2 ladies. everyone

has different reasons for being here, of course, and people have traumatized that so many women come from other cities or there are women who will under occupation to check these 2 nights. women bring some closer moons like therapy as much as those who come on to overcome that fancy stuff. the whole digital boyd, so like on the 26 year old fields manager wants to join a combat unit in the army, which i saw the budget. also, i'm still learning, trying to call it the 1st time i had to shoot live rounds, but my panic depending upon you all the thing. but now i feel comfortable that she was looking. she has a personal reason for joining the military at home in keys on uh, shows us a husband on 3. he's been missing on the frontlines for over a year. her brother was also fighting and it's also missing. and i believe the russians have them. she spent months trying to find out what happened to them. i

now don't know who has decided to become a soldier and you have changed a little bit. i understand that if i don't do anything, then i will fall into despair and it will only get worse. so i think i'll be able to achieve something there. and i hope that i'll get some information. sure, what's your question for much? she's done her research on our plans to join the ukrainian armies towed a thoughtful gate, which she says already has women. long as the thing maybe it's been oh that yeah, i'm not afraid to die. i'm afraid not to find my husband and brother name though it doesn't return back in the forest. it's clear that there's a long road ahead that says which i know it will be very difficult for all this to work out. a girl like me who is a civilian and who has no experience and wants to become a combat soldier. i will really need to prove myself what to determination is for them and who is increasingly steady. and finally, it's winter here in europe,

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clubs. it's time to to and then when generations class starts january 14th on d, w, the, it sounds like a declaration of civil war. the president of ecuador says a battle is taking place inside his country. just this week, violence has claimed, at least 10 lives kidnappers, or targeting police. people told to stay in doors at night, or they could be caught in the crossfire between soldiers and drug cartel militants . last night the clash was broadcast on live television terror in real time. when government storing the television station, they were very mass. they said they had a message and they had explosive to make their point. i bird golf in berlin. this is the day. the.