the the, this is the w news live from berlin high times for cannabis lovers in germany. lawmakers past new legislation in parliament that legalizes marijuana for personal consumption, allowing people to smoke at home and in public. also coming up after 2 years fighting off brushes, invasion, we look at what could be next for ukraine, and ask can keep, keep up the fight. facing ammunition shortages and delays from western allies on funding the war effort and fighting an eastern congo threatens to cut off from supplies to a city of around 2 and a half 1000000 people. we looked at how regional politics is fueling the term while

the i'm sarah kelly, welcome to the program. we begin with some breaking news coming out of germany where lawmakers and parliament have voted to legalize cannabis for private consumption. the new legislation allows the limited legal availability of cannabis with numerous restrictions. even the government says that the main goal of the bill is to crack down on the black market and drug related crimes. but the move faced considerable opposition from medical associations. the, to do sherri and opposition politicians as cannabis will be legalized in germany. the decision came after much debate. the government's aim is to solve a number of social problems by de criminalizing the drug. this,

because it's case infancy, boston principal fellow addresses 3 existing unresolved problems. the 1st problem is that we have increasing kind of base consumption. we have extensive and increasing drug related crime. and finally, we have a large block market that is becoming more and more problematic in which kind of these products increasingly contain toxic additive. so i'll talk to sure by a name on the or 5 some on april, the 1st the band on cannabis which has been enforced for more than 40 years, is to be lifted. it will then become legal for adults to grow 3 cannabis plants at home. adults will also be allowed to process up to 25 grams and public noncommercial conservation and sale will be permitted in limited quantities from july in so called cannabis social clubs. consumption is prohibited close to schools, playgrounds,

daycare centers and 2 facilities and by minus civilization of cannabis has been criticized by parts of the district and law enforcement. both theater above all inefficient and impractical regulations projects and penalties. the german medical association come see it as the age limit of 18 to be too low due to the potential health risks for young people. the german government says it's cannabis campaign will provide people with the information they need to make informed decisions, then that it cannot be so as it comes on when we've shown the kind of based campaign to everyone. every young person will know that if they consume kind of basic ones with me, if they do it regularly, they are damaging their brain under share degrees, thoughts, and get him gemini, as loud as the position party is critical of the plans announced if we repeal the law at the window. next year's election and political correspondent,

thomas sparrow, followed the vote and the german buddhist talk. i asked him if this was the expected results as well. it was suddenly a controversial vote right here in the german parliament. this is the result. saw of many months of very fierce debate here in parliament, but also in german society as a whole about this low and in particular about the implementation of the law. there was a pole only recently which revealed that germans are actually divided when it comes to the support of the law around 47 percent of those were asset base of warranty. they put around 40 percent, said they were against, with the remaining 10 percent saying that they basically didn't have a strong opinion on the matter. so basically, what has just happened today here in the german parliament is the result of many months of discussions for the german government in particular to this is an important moment because they had presented this as one of the main goal is when

they came to power but the main opposition party here in germany as well as other people, the other institutions remain critical about this role that has been passed here. and part of it it's, it's been reported. it's been said that this law is actually quite complicated. thomas, what's the going to be in an actual practice? well, that is actually the key question. saw how it will be implemented, germany's health minutes. so was talking here to the press and he was stressing that this is definitely a step in the right direction. but the previous policy here in germany had failed, that it was time for germany to change. but if you talk to legal experts, if you talk to medical associations, many, they're actually critical about how this will be implemented and what it takes. it will have effects, for example, in the health of young people, but also how it will be implemented in germany's different states and germany, 16 federal states. so although the law has certainly now a past year in

a parliament, there are lots of questions that still remain about how exactly it will be implemented and what the medium to long term effects will actually be. it takes effect in the months time, how will germany compared to other european countries and making cannabis more widely available while germany joins or the european countries that have be criminalized or authorized the they use in different ways. and many people actually see the netherlands as being sort of the european union country with the most tolerant laws in this respect of several and honestly. so i'm actually showing that it's another country that european union, the small country of malta that has specifically the most totally in roles in this respect. so basically what you're seeing also across europe is a variety of laws and regulations which also respond to the debates that are happening in those respective society. because what we're seeing here in germany, what we've seen during germany the last few months, is something that we're also seeing in the european societies as well. thomas

sparrow in berlin, thank you. and almost 2 years after russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine, key remains in the fight. but the battle has entered a new and, and on certain phase ukraine is facing numerous challenges among them. a critical munition shortage political deadlock in the us blocking military assistance and the lack of production capacity in europe. since russia invaded, it has taken control of large regions of eastern ukraine. and currently moscow appears to have the upper hand dw is ukraine bureau chief an economy poses the question, can ukraine keep up to its resistance to putin's war? the only thing we can regret is that we didn't stop active measures of yeah. he means the rule that was brought to my patients message, their recent interview with the russian state, tv woods, the put in and speculation that the kremlin might be open to some kind of deal to

freeze this conflict. you originally, let's say, which is ukraine next. but at london's chatham house think tank, she says bruton still thinks you can take, or if you claim it is clear from both ends, public statements that she's not changing. she's wor, objectives. what i see russia in this. yeah. really believes it has a chance. it has a chance to break ukraine, and they will be breaking ukraine militarily. unnamed russian sources, talking about the potential piece to adjust to districts and tactics. she says. they also will work in the west to actually undermine decision making, to send these confusing messages about the possible ceasefire. meanwhile, not mean ceasefire for them. they would like to see washington actually accepting of food instead of tauriel drab versus victory, and have div was the biggest since the full bus worked last. may many expect

pushing to use momentum gain to try to take all the full ukrainian regions. he's already formally annexed. that's done yet. so, hans, so patricia. okay, so it will be easy. ukraine still controlled sludge waves of these regions. puts in may want to push on, because he actually have the results is taking of div construction forces. many lives west and intelligence estimates for the casualties, the over 10000 dead, 01 russian imagery builder. you can claim that the death toll had reached $16000.00 mike martin the senior visiting fellow and was that is at kings college london. he says that you can, you know, me, can make russia pay a higher price for any territorial gains. defense is much easier than attack. the russians may well be able to take small amounts of ground at great cost, but they don't then it suddenly roll it over and take up his operational data. and i know you guys know that they need to just move back very slowly. their ability to

do that will depend on how well west and support holds up to have to have good ukrainians were fortunate out gunned 5 to one. you promise its supply ukraine with a 1000000 shells in a year failed. while russia got that many from north korea in a matter of months, well, you can, you know, is now on washington. but i think at the moment we were the little bit of a guy political waiting point. everyone's waiting to see what happens with the us presidential election. thank you. from winds. we all going to say, you know, quote unquote the date of the century and from it's going to hand large areas of ukraine to pizza in the ukrainians on what kind of the assumption that they're on there right now. and so they're doing what they can with home grants, innovation, eating targets deep inside russia with long range drones to fix maximum damage options, war economy as ukraine. and his 3rd year full is trying to take the fight to russia

while it waits to see whether the west provides resources have another go on the battlefields. and do us president joe biden has announced punitive sanctions against 500 targets in russia. in a fresh effort to counter what he called putin's war machine, the measure is also seek to punish russian officials for the death of dissident politician alexei, nevada. and the last week targets include people connected with his imprisonment as well as individuals involved in supporting the war, including the defense and financial sectors. one that let's bring into the views janelle milan, she's joining us from washington search. and i'll talk a little bit more about this upcoming sanctions and, and what they might mean as well, as he said, the sanctions are in response to the death of alexi and a volunteer in a russian prison. there also in response to russia's continued a war and ukraine, which of course is entering it's 3rd year tomorrow, saturday. now these,

the sanctions package is the largest single sanctions package a noun in post on a single day on russia. since the war started. it contains over $500.00 targets and these measures are intended to targets off russia as defense, industrial base, its financial sector as well as persons are connected to novel needs imprisonment. it's also meant to cut down on russian oil revenue as well as clamped down on sanctions of asians around many countries around the world in europe, in the east, in east asia, in the middle east and in central asia. and no, of course has package of sanctions cons after the e announce their own package of sanctions as well as the u. k. and the hope really is that this call or the new is that this coordinated efforts will help slow russia down at a time where ukraine is all running out of ammunition. and we've reached

a stage of the war where both sides really up here don't. and, and how effective have previous sanctions been in terms of deterring russia as well as the point of sanctions, is to trigger a behavioral change or really degrade russia's ability to wage war? well then the evidence suggests that those sanctions haven't been that effective at all. if there is something that russian knows how to do it's, it's how to deal with sanctions. there's been some sanctions regime in place since 2014. it's also worth noting that the russian economy has proved a lot more resilient despite the sanctions. the international monetary fund has said that russia is expected to grow faster than originally forecast of this here. you also have the, the likes of china, brazil, and india buying record amounts of oil rushes of war economy also really working

here for the country in terms of providing a boost to weapons production. you have government transfers, boosting consumption among russians. now how far these, this current round of sanctions will really go towards hurting russia. it's hard to say at the moment, but of course this isn't an argument against imposing sanctions that they still provide an enormous symbolic value. they still provide a gesture of solidarity for you praying. but obviously if you, us lawmakers were to pass those up billions of like billions of aid to ukraine, still stuck in the still stuck in the house. well, that would be a bigger show of solidarity. janelle do milan in washington. thank you. stand here to look at some other stories making headlines, a spokesperson for the late russian opposition leader alexei nevada only said that

moscow has set an ultimatum for nevada and his mother to agree to a secret funeral. she has been given 3 hours to make her decision. should she not comply? russian authorities say that they will bury him in the penal colony where he died. spanish prime minister pedro sanchez has visited the site of a fire that killed at least 10 people after it's swept through to residential buildings. in valencia. firefighters are searching the scorched buildings for other victims. a woman who travel to syria as a teenager to join the as lubbock state group has lost her appeal against the british government's decision to revoke her citizenship. show me my big game, fled to syria 9 years ago when she was 15 to mary. and i us fighter, she now resides in a refugee camp there to the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees says that the situation has for reached a breaking point. israel has accused several unreal workers of directly

participating in the october 7th terror attacks. the un responded by launching a probe into the allegations. the head of the un agencies says that accusations have caused 16 major donor countries to suspend $450000000.00 worth of funding. that could severely hamper operations in gaza as soon as next month. recent us into a report said that some of the accusations were credible, but could not be independently verified, while also casting doubt on claims of wider links to militant groups. tamara re fi is a director of communications update on raw the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees. she told us more about the agencies current capabilities on the ground to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians in casa, as if we're talking about garza, in particular,

the agency is stretched to the max because of the ongoing fighting and hostilities in air bombing and are very restricted access to most of the guys a strip on the concentration of people, 1500000 people in the us today at the southern, most of the guy, the strip. and also because of these restrictions on humanitarian assistance or a truck whose truck coming in. but the bigger picture is a big is a picture of a lot of political and financial pressure on the other one that affects its ability to continue working. not only in the but also in the west side, including east jerusalem, syria level and jordan, where we run 700 schools for half a 1000000 children, hundreds and 40 medical centers and many more programs that are today. that's risk . can you put that into context for us because um, you know,

we've heard from your director about how serious the funding crisis is. what does the real world impact on the cuts that you are experiencing on the civilians who are on the ground as we're experiencing today? to a freezing of funding that affects almost half of our budget's requirements for this year. in the numbers, this means that may be all ready at the end of march, beginning of april, half a 1000000 girls and boys who go to 700 and the rest schools may not be able to continue learning. it also means that if we don't get the funding back to 1000000 patients, all palestine refugees who gets up to 8000000 medical consultations per year in our a 100 them 40 health centers might not be able to get their medicines for diabetes, high blood pressure and other long term diseases,

but mostly it means that more than more like almost the entire population in gaza then today relies on there was food distribution and shelters might no longer be able to rely on the right. if we cannot continue our operations to and turning to another complex, excuse me, that was a representative. communicate communications director from monroe. we to turn out to another conflict which is raising international concern in congo. the us has this, we condemned, we're sending violence there and called on m. 23. a rebel military group made up of mostly ethnic tutsis to seize hostilities, immediately. ongoing score, which is between m $23.00 and conk lee, as government forces has caused thousands of civilians to flee toward the eastern city of goma. refugees have criticized western nations for not doing enough to curve bloodshed in the region. the u. s. and the un meanwhile,

blame neighboring lawanda for supporting m. 23. in a bid to control the democratic republic of congo. minimal resources team does even want to, that was forced to flee from the home when it was attacked by m. 23 revel. she had to act quickly to save her 3 children. my brother was killed during the attack article. she died, i think, and they can put the bag in human, is this, the bombs fell on our houses. so thank you sound good and they destroyed them completely. syngenta an adult in the k o. c last side of her husband. she doesn't know where he is or even if he's still alive. but there is no time to grieve for her that brother worry about the rest of her missing from any one. since we arrived here, we've had little food, nice chuckle,

and the children are sick. i thought the initial goal in this class has, between the congolese army and the m. $23.00 rebels have escalated to the towns and villages around the provincial capital coma since the beginning of the year. and as the rebels sees more and more territory, people trying to escape the fighting has been forced to seek refuge in informal camps, around coloma, according to the n g o doctors without borders more than a 100000 people live here in the berlin. go camping down, the rebels are approaching enough to do the men tillery has now reached the boat, isn't even inside to campbell, the caps become heavily militarized. so now and so in the extent, will need to tell that causes a lot of concerns for the population. when it's and threatens humanitarian access law. uh for like said is your money tell? nearby goma a city of 2000000 people is now naturally cut off by road, making it difficult for 8 agencies to reach people. and the rebels could see school

my next. at the camp itself, the conditions was the name. it is the people, many of whom have been displaced multiple times due to revel. attacks were paying the price on the safety, suicide. they were on the absolutely filthy and the crowd of people live in a very terrible situation. right now i'm going to leave the i could well, all 6 full, you're exposed to multiple reasons, especially sexual violence on found a funeral. 6 read it will to, he's got the more than a 100 and whoops, roaming, is done. comical. many of them are taking advantage of the situation targeting vulnerable women. like don't wind up when done when we go to the forest to look for firewood to solve. thought. sometimes they heard us find. yeah, they repo siam. that's how we have to live here. i shoot them back home. she was able to take care of herself and her family. she used to wear because of and now i

only hope is that help any kind will arrive soon. and the mourners in western kenya have gathered to bid farewell to one of the brightest young stars of the marathon world canyon. president william who cho was among those pain last respects to kelvin tiptoe, who died at the age of 24 in a car accident. last october kept him set the world of marathon record in chicago. his widow revealed in a tearful tribute that the couple had planned their wedding ceremony for april. kept them leaves behind 2 children. the people attending the funeral told us what they thought of him. before i could look what people could give them, that has been such a shock to the whole country when we felt that in our local community because he hasn't been such a young card working man off when he worked hard work and done all the. and he

loved our community open. no shit again. i remember him for that good. yeah, of course he became fam because of that title. yeah. so eliminating for that are good websites. i can pass on what they've done, what his determination inspired us as young people. yeah. and what not to be determined and what we do when i find that for those studying or the is doing business doing it, the rest of them are to always do it with determination, with the mind and dw corresponded felix, my number ringa is following the funeral. for us, he sent us this update. kelvin k of tool has been laid to rest here at ne berry in his private farm just outside the door at kenya. in a public funeral, leah drawn the president william brutal lead the country in one in calvin. give to him, and he promised that the government will do everything to help. calvin's young family kelvin has been celebrated by friends from the international community. friends from uh the athletics was and even more not as who got that he. i hated kelvin as

a humble guy and one who had come to me not just before his demise. kevin had anticipated to run the matter up on in just on the 2. i was and many believe that you would be the 1st month to achieve that feet in a competitive milestone. kevin has left behind his wife and 2 kids and nasa is handling it as a giant leap forward. a robotics spacecraft built by a private sector company has landed on the moon. it was the 1st control descent to the moon by a us build the spacecraft since 1972 when as apollo program last put astronauts on the lunar surface. the company behind the mission called intuitive machines, hopes to collect data with the lender, odysseus, to better understand the lunar environment. and finally, a nasa space telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years. the solar

dynamics observatory recorded the flare from orbit as a huge right flash. the sudden the mission of radiation from the star temporarily interfered with radio communications in the us and other sunlit parts of the world . a quick reminder of our top stories. german lawmakers have voted to legalize cannabis for private consumption. the government says that the main goal of the bill is to crack down on the black market and drug related crime. however, the move faced considerable opposition. and almost 2 years after russia's full scale invasion of ukraine chief is facing major ammunition shortages, lack of production capacity in europe, and political deadlock over war funding in the united states. so for now to stay with us next is to the point focusing on putting this war in ukraine. thank you so much for watching dw, i'm sarah kelly, and for lunch,

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depression today? history? we need to talk about here the stories, shadows of german colonialism. 2 years after russia invaded ukraine, its troops are surging on multiple fronts, while a dwindling supply of western weapons and munitions leaves ukraine, outgoing countries on nato's eastern flags are stepping up there warnings that a victorious russia might come for them next, while the death of russian opposition later i'll explain. nevada only served as a reminder that vladimir put in those few scruples will the wes tier to call to step up the fight. today we're asking rushes war on ukraine. no strategy in the west.