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him who's in new delhi. so liz details pretty scanned to the what do we know at this stage? hello, next. the only official confirmation. so far as from the indian air force, which tweeted saying that a helicopter carrying the chief defense staff general the met with an accident, they said in could no, not do. and that they have ordered an investigation to look into exactly what caused the accident. we know that they were 14 people on board, including other senior army officials and the senate roberts wife. and the search and rescue operations are continuing because a government official and not has said that at least 4 people have died around 3 have been taken to hospital the to be a burn injuries, but they believe that there might be others who are missing. now general defendant, robert is actually the 1st chief of defense staff,

the 1st person to hold the position of chief of defense staff in india. he was a former army chief before the newly created position in january of last year to inform, to ensure rather a transformation of india's horses. and he's the head of the army, the navy and the air force is the highest ranking position in the indian armed forces. now the helicopter was traveling from the base and salute and nodded to not too far away to a defense service college in wellington, where he was to attend an event. it is a mountainous area though, and there is a lot of a lot of it is, has a lot of forests. now we can see from the aftermath of the crash, the wreckage of the helicopter is completely in flames. now the chiefs of the various defense have been missing since the crash,

the indian parliament is currently in session and the defense minister is about to address parliament very soon with more information about the crash or at least we'll be back with you later on this unfolding story thanks very much indeed. liz, with percent of the new delhi. all right, within the past, germany's federal parliament has confirmed left schultz as the new chancellor. yes, the social democrat is replacing anglo american levy office of the 16 will be in shortly. so the incoming coalition government has promised to step up efforts against climate change and the pandemic. amongst other things, let's say straight away to step vessels joins is from the presidential residents in berlin and step. so schultz formerly elected and was just about an hour. so he'll be sworn in at the merc, leora very much over. absolutely

. around 20 minutes ago. the new chancellor of shoals arrived here at the palace of the precedent. franco, well, to stein mario, he's going to be formerly appointed here before going back again to parliament to be officially sworn in a historic day for germany. absolutely, because after 16 years of i'm going to is this new man. and of course, a whole generation grew up with glamour. they have never experience another chancellor. so all of shows is here. he has promised quite a change to this country. he has promised to modernize the country you said stepping out of the president palace right now. i can show you a little bit of what's happening here behind me. he has also said that he wants to strengthen the foreign policy is an important issue for him. so he is actually really from this change. although joining the company was promising continuity,

he was sort of copying on good behavior. he's also seen as very common matters similar to his free disaster. but during this whole coalition building, he has promised change to germany. he has built this for the 1st time 3 parties coalition, and he is now deliver the 177 correlation agreement with some really far reaching changes to find out a little bit more about who is charles, who traveled to his home town. hamburg a special discount for all of shells. hair cut, a little joke from barbara batch of, i'll got to celebrate. the new chancello happened to be an old friend. they met when both are working for the s b day, the social democratic party, and hamburg toys. there was long for me does all of us attack it's especially day because my good comrade, my very sensitive comrade, been a powerful position as chancellor and i will keep my fingers crossed on the wounded

. this is really dissolved. i can't even explain how special this stays for me, but i do need a clear 63 year old child who was raised by social democratic parents joined the s b day at the age of 17. after working as a labor law attorney was alexis mayor, and hamburg in 2011, leading germany 2nd largest city shows, shows himself as a pragmatic and as times tough mere. he came on the fire when rioting broke out during the 2017. g. 20 summit in the city. it's him hamburg all, i'm sure was faster. that's the politician and a leader. now we have to show not only can easy germany, but also guide you through difficult times tackling the cobra. 1900 damage and security threats at its border shoals will lead to 3 parties government with the greens and the liberal f. they pay a novelty in germany. the coalition as a now to them bishop 177 page deal that should modernize germany by speeding up the

energy transition and improve welfare provision. but it's the that the 4th wave of the cove had been damaged. that will meet all his attention 1st, we need to be able to make the decisions past. and that also means he has to lead the coalition and not go into endless debates and compromises with half of his cabinet posts given to women. charles wants to show you serious about change, his foreign minister on elaine. a bad bulk of the greens has announced the tough of found on russia and china. but some wonder if shoals has what it takes the lead internationally. i think his lack of car smoke is a weakness. now his, his advisors keep telling us that this is going to be a strong chancellor that can bring people together and that behind the scenes he's the person that can do that. but certainly he hasn't shown that he can convey and

can bring people behind him. germany will find out soon enough because the country takes over the g 7 presidency in january. an important moment for shoals to convince those who still have doubts, batch at organ has none. i mean, it listens, takes it in and does not forget. he will think about it before he makes a decision that is all of and he should just stay all of that. then he can do anything above own. i'll go hopes a new chancellor. won't forget his old friends and will still visit him for some good advice. while many here in germany will be pleased that the new government can get to work very soon because this whole political transition happened at the same time as this. that the 4th wave of dakota 1910 damn it gets basically holding the country in its grip. so that's definitely the 1st job on the table right in front of ola shoulds and his team that will be appointed in the next few hours

after he leaves this presidential palace all of shows. he'll go back to the boon to start to parliament. and then the ministers will also be sworn in the cabinet consists of half women and half men, which is also a sign that all of shows is hoping for change. and then this, this other issue, of course with rush and threat at the ukraine border. he also has said that that's a serious issue that he is following very closely. and germany is, of course, a very important power here in europe and a leading for so also europe is waiting for this cabinet for this new cabinet that's by demand that's walking here. behind me, all i show is going now to parliament to be officially sward, and they all waiting for him to deliver to show that germany is here leading again in europe are set. thanks about that last in the in berlin and will be boxed up a little bit later. is that things developed there in germany?

but let's take it on in the meantime, we can speak to david wilf, who's deputy director of the better office at the gym, marshall fund of the united states and joins us live now. also from a berlin suit of the shult says, big shoes to fill as he got what it takes. now, certainly after 16 years of angle, americans who has undeniably been a strong leader or a recognizable leader for germany. he does have strong shoes to fill, but at the same time, you know, all of shop has a lot of experience. he's worked his way up through his party joining at a very young age and has had several skin to them the party. and don't forget, he's also served as vice chancellor for the past 4 years with abeline medical. so he's seen 1st hand what it needs to be chancellor of germany, very much in merkel. what sort of changes do you foresee, especially internationally? well, so i think you're right in the sense that there are 2 ways of looking about change

. i mean, the coalition, 1st of all is quite novel. there's 3 parties, a federal level that are getting together for this traffic light coalition. that in itself is quite a 1st for germany, it's a center left coalition, but the to be is also going to be a moderating force along with all our shops is considered a moderate within his own party. i think looking more palpable change on the domestic front a lot of the ambitions and the coalition. busy agreement are tied to the theme of modernization and transformation, and you'll see that in the next generation of germans, the coalition wants to expand the right to citizenship, wants to invest in infrastructure, whether it be digital infrastructure or hard infrastructure, rails roads and bridges. and also wants to lower the voting age to 16 on the foreign policy front. i think there will be more continuity. but at the same time, i think germany is coming up to a time where it's hard to square that circle or balanced commercial interests with

national security interest or interest or actually transatlantic interest because of the pressure coming from the us regarding brushing, right, i was going to say, because the balancing the relations with, with russia and they try to on the one hand and those with the united states and all that's going on, say, with russia on the board of ukraine is going to be tricky. a tricky balance against it will certainly be so, but i think at the end of the day and the coalition agreement and the rhetoric on the campaign trail makes it very clear. the transit atlantic relationship and european cohesion still will trump relations with russia and china. i think germany realizes it needs to be economic engine of europe, and that's why it's so difficult to extricate itself from these trading relationships. but in terms of the universal democratic values that it shares along with you partners and with the united states. i think that's something that the,

the 3 parties in the coalition want to preserve or to, thanks for that. so today will be from the german motional fund of the united states. thanks a lot and also on the use are including a court in malaysia hope the corruption convention of former prime minister, 90 president says, who can stay out of jail for now. and no junk of h appears on the entry list for the study and open despite questions over his cubic vaccination, the status that will be coming up and for ah, the funeral of a sri lankan man beaten to death in pakistan on friday is under way in his home country, a crowd attacked pre, entered dia, whatnot, before dragging him into the streets and set him on fire staff at the factory where he worked at accused him of destroying a religious poster. like stones prime minister says more than 100 people have been

arrested. i let's cross to myself and this is outside the victims home in dump off campus in relying and also the incident post spot widespread outrage. tell us what's been happening. there's been her sort of almost disbelief, particularly standing here in his home, having spoken to a members of his closest family. it's very, very clear that that reality is yet to set in his wife is, you know, trying to come to terms with what exactly transpired on friday. she did sort of urge the justice be done that the full arm of the law be used to ensure that perpetrators of this, essentially this dastardly act are brought to book to ensure that in future this doesn't happen again. but she is, she is very much a sort of, you know, taken aback by the proceedings as are his young sons. now it's

a very close knit family. there were 6 siblings in the family. and incidentally, the 3 boys of which brianna was the youngest. all walked in pakistan, they did all been working for more than a decade there and they have never come across any violence of this scale or nature . so they are all trying to come to grips with the fact that their, their, their youngest brother or son or husband is no longer, i mean, his mom is sitting right at the entrance of the house, which you see just over my shoulder, a rib proceedings for the final right have started and those religious proceedings are and where he is, his mum basically said, oh, she brought up these 6 children almost as a single mother after her husband passed away for 31 long years and his heart breaking for her to see her youngest son come home in a seal coffin, his injuries. we're too brutal for even an open casket. so that's the mood here,

sort of almost disbelief and deep, deep grief when the figures, if not a one off occurrence by any means, is it blasphemy allegations of low to dozens of deadly attacks in recent years? have people been held to account? yes, that's the problem. i mean, so far it to be in a rear slippery slope. and the one thing that one hopes is that the sacrifice of brown, the commodity of our dinner will pave the way for a crackdown on this sort of violence. that is what the family says, that's what the broader community says. but this is not the 1st, but they certainly hope that his life was not lost. and when we are hearing that there have been arrests. the latest is that using cctv the printer police have roped in a more suspects and taken them into custody. we did hear the pakistan prime minister pledge that under his watch, betty hopes that no more incidents like that which happened and cl code last friday

will happen again. but these are all words. it's rhetoric until such time that we see some concrete action to ensure that no one is basically subject to this kind of violence, torture on the grounds of blasphemy or, or any other reason, just the sheer brutality of it or is, is unspeakable. indeed, her no live there, her man, thanks very much for that. and we know fernandez reporting reference sherlock a salvage company has been contracted to remove a chemical ship. it caught far off each were like coasted. may every express poll cause to environmental damage after it is filled hundreds of tons of hazardous chemicals and plastic of the ocean dead marine life, including turtles and whales, was to hold beatrice. sri lankan authorities said it was the nation's worst maritime disaster. the u. s. president has repeated its warning to russia's leader, invade ukraine and face severe sanctions. virtual court between joe by noon

vladimir putin on tuesday and did with no breakthrough. brewton complained about nato's attempts to develop what he called ukrainian territory. our white house correspondent, company hoggard, as this with a massive build up of russian troops, new ukraine, shared border, and u. s. intelligence indicating an invasion of ukraine could happen early next year. u. s. president biden met virtually with russian president vladimir poo. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours. potent denies. russian tends to invade ukraine, calling it fear mongering. but the u. s. president made clear today that if russia did tough economic sanctions would follow. i will look in the eye and tell you as president biden looked, president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014. we are prepared to do now. that reference is to the russian annexation of crimea from

ukraine, that prompted us sanctions. biden also told potent, the u. s. was prepared to assessors militarily. we would provide additional defensive material to the ukrainians above and beyond that, which we are already provided. and we would fortify our nato allies on the eastern flank for its part. russia is seeking assurances from the west that ukraine will not become a member of the north atlantic treaty organization, something the ukrainians have pursued for years. the u. s. national security advisor reiterated ukraine can associate with whoever it wants. when analyst believes joining nato is unrealistic, it ought to be clear to them that we're not coming to the rescue. so you get to have to live in nest, rushing out a u. s. security guarantee. there were also questions about the controversial nord stream to pipeline which runs from germany to russia and whether it could be used as leverage and discussions over ukraine. the white house says it will pressure the

german government to stop it. if russia invades the biden administration, will continue to work with its european partners promising a coordinated response. should russia ignore their warnings? president biden will also speak with ukraine's president lensky on thursday. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house? well, brett brian is president of the global situation room consultants in a former us diplomats, and he says the biden needs to be tougher with putin to get russian troops off ukraine's border. a lot of what we heard from jim sullivan as well as from the read out. this is all stuff we have tried before and without much success. so i don't see a new recipe. and quite frankly, i'm concerned that we're really playing on putin's terms here. i mean, this question of whether or not he will choose to invade, let's not forget,

he's got troops already in eastern ukraine, new hans could do that. and crimea, we're not talking about getting those troops out. quite frankly. why didn't needs to show that he is not going to give ground to putin on this one, and then he can hold the western alliance together. and obviously, after the unilateral withdrawal from afghanistan, there's a lot of concern cross the nato alliance in america's reliability in its strength. and so by didn't really has to perform on this. one will see this 1st discussion with prudent on the question of invasions did not resulted in any concrete result. and now it gets kicked down to the foreign minister. then we'll see what they can come back with. one of the ways in which we historically have been effective is when we can promote transparency, when we can promote good governance initiatives, when we can shine a bright light and some of those dark corridors in moscow and the kremlin. and

we've already seen with the efforts of alexi enough only the opposition leader. how effective that can be with the russian people. malaise, his former prime minister, nyja ra, zach remains defiant after an appeals court up held his guilty verdict in a corruption case. he wanted the judge to throw out his 12 year prison sentence and $50000000.00 fine man. he pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges tied to his involvement in a multi $1000000000.00 state funds or st. louis reports now from boucher you dismissed the guilty verdict against 90 percent damage. the former malaysian prime minister was sentenced to 12 years in prison and find at 50000000 dollars last year for illegally receiving $10000000.00 from a former unit of state investment fund. when i'd be, i'd like to see that i am very disappointed ah, in the judgment, deliberate, by a court of appeal this morning. ah,

i have lost my voice to file an immediate appeal to the court has temporarily suspended the sentence, pending the appeal and hardship remains free on his supporters, dozens of whom had gathered outside court on wednesday. say he's being persecuted to live, the better he will. we feel extremely said that the appeals court has upheld the sentence. now jeep is a leader who sacrificed so much for the people and the country. the court rejected no jobs defense. he had acted in the national interest and said evidence showed the former lead in you ought to have known the money in his accounts were from illegal proceeds. the court of appeal in a unanimous decision to uphold nudges conviction, said the case in which more than $10000000.00 was transferred to no jobs. personal bank accounts was a national embarrassment. this is the 1st of 5 trials involving one entity

to places u. s. in malaysian authority say one half $1000000000.00 was stolen from the state investment fund. it was anger about the one and do the. 6 brookfield allegations that lead to lunch at school with that was the 1st time at lost power since malaysia gained independence in 1957. nature has been trying to mount a political come had simply bang and his party returned to par last year analyst. so while the conviction is set to work for logic, it's too early to write him off for unity. as long as the legal appeal of the legal process on going, you will try very, very hard to stand in the mass general election. i mean, possible get back to the office of the prime minister. polls are not due until 2023, but could be called as early as the middle of next year. florence louis al jazeera patricia, malaysia. toby,

900 cases in south korea have gone past 7000 in one day for the 1st time. prime minister kimberly says he is concerned about the increasing number of critically ill patients. he says he almost on variance is contributing to the rising factions . home treatment for patients is being considered to reduce pressure on hospitals. talk to alice time, specializes in disease prevention, ms many women's hospital. and as a former associate professor at the some, some medical center, she says cases started climbing also south korea ease measures back in november listed many restrictions including allowing visitations to long term care facilities such as complex hospitals and nursing homes. unfortunately, we did not take into account the amount of waning of community that had occurred, especially in people older than 60 years old. and so with measures lifted,

there was an increase in community transmission which we expected. but unfortunately, there was also a huge spike in break infections, especially in people age 60 and above. and that's what caused a huge increase in the number of hospital admissions. and unfortunately, in november, i saw the largest number of public related deaths in south korea since the onset of the pandemic. i think it's too early to say what the true virulent of the on variance is throughout the whole spectrum of disease. although we do suspect that it is much more transmissible than the delta variant. and even in korea, we are seeing cases of breakthrough infection. our 1st 2 cases had been fully vaccinated with the maternal vaccine. and then they had got the chronic infection. i was traveling in africa and so the armor cranberry is,

is in the community already in korea. and my biggest concern is that if we see huge increases in cases that inevitably always leads to increase in hospitalizations. even if the disease is last severe. zimbabwe has reported its highest number of daily code 19 cases since the primary starts with more than 4000 people, just pull 2 from 5 just were reported. for is will say most people are experiencing mild symptoms and all recovery at home. a u. s. federal judge is brought to the last president, jo biden's coded 19 vaccine mandates. the businesses, the routing says the move to force millions of federal contracts to get vaccinated, exceed governmental authority. this follows the blocking of compulsory vaccines for health care workers last week. so i had here an out 0, fulfilling a boyhood dream,

a japanese billionaire, the latest tourist heading out of his well i didn't default algeria versus egypt and around that again. oh, tiana. with hello. thank you for joining in storm berra has done quite a number on the republic of ireland and the united kingdom. this was a weather bomb. so that's an area of low pressure that deepens within a certain period of time to the deeper the low, the more intense it is and blast it with powerful winds, especially along the welsh coast. we saw it's hop wind gusts, 138 kilometers per hour. let's not just talk about the wind will show you nearby manchester at the crosswinds, what pilots were up against. and the winds will still be a factor on wednesday toward a bit south west of ireland and also the northwest. we'll see wind speeds here of

about a 110 kilometers per hour. iberia also impacted by this wild weather. so rain and snow snow levels have dropped to 800 meters, so above that, $2.00 to $10.00 centimeters of snow. below it, 40 millimeters in 12 hours and howling winds of 80 kilometers per hour. swath of snow through the alpine region. rain returns for the west coast of italy for central and northern parts of the country. and then that storm system in the eastern med slams into the levant bay route, looking to see wind gusts of about 70 kilometers per hour. speaking of those fierce winds for northern parts of egypt, that's going to stir up the sand in dust and impact places like cairo with the high of 19 on wednesday. that's it. ah, from the out.