the, the, this is the, the we news line from berlin, the leaders of germany, and the us push for more a to ukraine, chancellor or have shots, meets with president joe buying and washington to urge us lawmakers to approve more military aid for keith. the us presidents as not doing so would be criminal, also on the program. competing claims of victory in august on election, former prime minister, novice or reeves of his party has captured the largest number of states, but his jail bravo iran con, uses a i to know has victory. plus the year of the dragon has arrived. as

china and other countries that mark the start of the lunar new year, we'll look at how people in hong kong are celebrating one of the most important holidays in the calendar. the earliest welcome to the shell. german chancellor, olaf shots has met with us president joe biden in washington to pressure the us congress to approve more military 8 for ukraine. lawmakers are working on the bill that would send tens of billions and assistance to kids, but a political deadlock has left the legislation in limbo in washington, where political paralysis has left vital a to crane in jeopardy. germany's chancellor, all of schultz made us stop at the white house, joining in on efforts to push for the funds. and you know,

without the support of the united states, you can have a lot of chance that the country the us is the largest supplier of military assistance to ukraine. the white house has been warning for months. that of lawmakers failed to resolve the deadlock on sending aid. it would hurt to have the ability to fight off brushes nearly 2 year old invasion for the failure message. congress not to support this close to criminal justice outrages the us senate is making progress on a bill that includes some $60000000000.00 in aid to ukraine and funds for other us allies do things in senators hope to pass it within days. but it's unclear if the legislation will be approved by the us house,

where some republicans are strongly opposed. different connecticut is the effect of the sole funds already being felt on ukraine's front lines or us and european official say. the delay is contributing to critical shortages of weapons and ammunition needed on the battlefield. our chief political editor, mckayla prove that wasn't washington for the talks and send us this update. or the talks between us presence, joe biden and germantown, so that all of souls didn't produce any kind of new policy. but they highlights how difficult it is to keep the what's on the policy and track with the existing policies. they've already agreed on both of back in ukraine. they are the largest of the u. s. and the 2nd largest military factor in terms of delivering equipment. and i'm unison. and they are also both stones allies of israel and

on both issues and aids package is stuff in the us congress, essentially running the risk of becoming political. i'm unison in the pre election signed off between donald trump and the current us presence. so by trump has essentially told republicans to block list or at least slow it down and that policy is working. and this also highlights how domestic us policies having more than just a ripple effect in the big crises of the world or not sold goes home with homework for the european union. knows that europe must do more. but the us still fall from the kind of unity decisiveness on the euro figures. it requires 2 potentially at least fill cost of a gap that the us runs the risk of leaving over ukraine. that was

mikaela cruz now reporting from washington to the guys are conflict malware. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he has asked his military to draw plans to evacuate civilians and to feed remaining a most forces in rough. all this comes after the us said it would not back any is really offensive on the city that lacked proper planning. that yahoo says rafa is a strong hold for a month which carried out the october 7th terror attacks against israel. o 8 organizations fear a military operation there would cause another humanitarian catastrophe to another family, left grieving after 5 relatives were killed by use really strikes lot of alma shoots, a loss, both the parents and the name we was sleeping and we suddenly woke up to the

sound of foaming rocks were above our heads and defy. had started off. at the end, i was calling for my mother, father and my siblings. and they didn't on to me. well, that's not without the net. the southern city of rough or east home to over a 1000000 displaced people who fled to the ball, the town seeking safe day. people say they are living in fear of a promise. these really advance other side of the normal. we don't know where to go . they told is the raft who is a safe area for displays, people and we would displays throughout the after being told to leave han eunice most of the situation, but such guys, me, who do we have to go home, our destroyed houses and we have no other choices we are just waiting to die. we are waiting for the moment. if i were execution. us national security council spoke

person junk cab. a said a minute, treat operation, and rough uh would be a disaster and that the us would not support it. president joe biden also gave the strongest warning yet i'm of the view as you know, that the conduct of the response in gaza is the guy is a strip has been um over the top. i talked to bb to open the gate either as really side. i've been pushing really hard, really hard giving you man to turn assistance in to guys. there a lot of innocent people are starving, not innocent. people are in trouble dying. and it's got to stop streets close to rough as q 8 hospital have be left in ruins and often he's mainly prime minister benjamin netanyahu told troops to pass the operations in the states

a few safe areas. lifting garza and i also, and the threats focused on former prime minister, novice, or reef and his jailed rival and wrong con are both claiming victory and the general election khan, who is also a former prime minister, made his announcement via an ai generated video on social media independent candidates back by con, one, the most seats on thursday in an election large by violence and allegations of vote rigging. but now it's true, reeves says his is the single largest party for vision or results released by the election commission show his park hassan muslim league to have taken $71.00 out of $265.00 seats was by claiming to be the largest party sharif admitted they still don't have enough seats to form a government by themselves. man dick relying from the bottom of our heart,

you'll say, that's what i'm going to. we respect the mandate of everyone. i will try to divide whether from other parties, why god no more independent candidates, wouldn't let me get to that. then we invite them to come and sit with us. a gift is me, father is trying to help pack us them out of this crisis, which is the last and the garden. literally all my the size of bed. we can now speak to the w correspondence shuttle shelves, enjoying this from karate, shall know, deals will have to be made for any of the parties, claiming victory to be able to form a government. how do you expect coal listen talks to go to college? the docs are already on the i'm the wrong cons. main rivals, the sure to use and disabilities have had adults and the recording to one adult and dentist negotiations would be got it out in the coming days and weeks. it may be

a difficult situation for anybody to find the government because nobody has a clear monday to form the government of bought the sure nice and those are the bodies. the join hands have the numbers as far as the in prison brand is wrong. cons fundy is concerned, they have the independent candidates, one, not buy one to buy a new body loyalty and the good to switch sides in the coming days. and it's not like it sounds like a long road ahead. the opposition says there was meddling and the election. what credibility is there to those claim? the human rights groups have expressed deep concern about how the demand of, of which the elections were conducted. the people reading claims on the occasions on there and also on the election day the internet assumption access to

find the phone service. ready shut down, dish has only added fewer to 5 round home support as i say that all this has been done to keep the video icons party out of the above. and. ready claiming victory because they think the grading place, but they don't have any credible, credible, improve yet. so if they go to the. busy it's maybe the quotes look into it, but as far as the credibility is concerned, these are, these have been really controversial elections. but just the opposition parties are saying that they can prove it. but if you have to wait so far, it's not on the army of course, plays a huge role in progress done and then progress on the politics. what outcome would its leaders like to see of the army chief

offices, the awesome morning here, just to the shooting, the statement the he graduated on the bodies and the election commission for orleans. the elections of the army said it's, it's new crew. it does not support. ready group, any party, but the concept folders have been talking to mr. grateful for quite some time, especially since tom's i was the, from bob on 2022, hundreds and hundreds of voters. it's funny. i've been stuck in the middle of the tree and they said because i was from baldwin and then a go no conference. ready was scripted by the ministry in washington, both washington on the box on the army, denied his case. so what kind of a situation the all the ones right now? i think they would like to have a government, which is definitely which can be with the security issues on big day boxed on out of this you can on crisis, which is starting, which is quite bad at the moment. inflation is very high, unemployment is driving,

and the security concerns are huge. as you saw on election day, some of the docs, there's no day before the elections back to back last in, but just on which one is here on an a gun. mm hm. so the army is pretty concerned about the security situation under stability. yep. and that's going to be on the wall that you have a civil government which can meet with these crises. we'll have to leave it there. unfortunately, that was several times from karachi. thank you. so much billings of people are marketing at the beginning of the lunar new year and especially important holiday and chinese culture, dw stevie kong reports now from the temple in hong kong, which is a popular spot for people in the city to mark the start of the new calendar a mrs. house phone call right and saying that yeah, off the track and thousands of people flocks to this famous temples to offer the fast in says at the altar at midnight to mock the very beginning of luna. new. yeah . as a traditional ritual worship us belief as early as

a mix. that offerings the best of luck they will have in the yeah. has is also the 1st new. yeah. well we can find people to celebrate without the mosque, again, from hong kong yourself. how soon we covered that quickly? no, no, no. yeah, it's all about good fortune and blessings. many of the people here tell us it's not only something that appraisal themselves, but also the city. because the previous year was a pop one for home comb. it's economic expense performance was way worse than all of his major competitors. um they're also ongoing concerns overseas outlook, especially when china is also struggling with it's. 1 down not to mention the photo tightening of political control. so won't people now have to tell us to take a rest and your life with families. but also hopefully won't the time is striking symbolizes that is prosperity and strength in the upcoming. yeah. con,

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