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ah, mariam wise in london, you're watching out his era also coming up with the program. peruse present in a blue article for and national truce after weeks of violent protests. a deadly for those on john williams. front line, new figures show a sharp rise in the number of media workers killed in 2022, all the places i could be. and the multi verse fantasy that scoop the most oscar nominations this year, including one for best actress. ah . the u. s. defense department will on wednesday announce it, sending abrams tanks to strengthen ukrainian efforts. would be a u turn for washington,

which just days ago had argued against sending the m one abrams tags, despite please from keith. ukraine is saying that these heavily armored western battle tanks are essential for protecting lives, and the event of a renewed russian offensive, which is expected in the near future. bassi colleen has more now from washington. a source in the us government has confirmed to me that they are close to finalize in a deal on providing us made m one abrams tanks to ukraine. now, of course, a lot of things can change. a lot of different international players are involved in these sort of discussions and decisions. but the source did say that they expect that it could be announced from the white house on wednesday. this comes after weeks of top military brass saying all the reasons why it wouldn't work to help you crane get these tanks right now. they say things like, the 4 person crew that operate the takes. these are very modern machines. they need a lot of training, but the bigger factor is they need even more maintenance to keep these. again,

very complicated, but powerful tanks running. they said that would in fact take time. there were some complaints that the u. s. uses jet fuel. busy to power these one abrams, but in reality they can in fact run on diesel. so they were asked about this at the pentagon today. why say all the reasons why it wouldn't be immediate and then potentially make this announcement. and they responded by saying, we're also looking at helping ukraine over the medium and long term that seems to indicate that they don't expect if these tanks are in fact sent to ukraine, that they will be on the battlefield anytime soon. again, they need to find the source, are they going to try to build up here in the united states, or try to use that money to pay other countries to give up there and want to abrams tanks? so again, it seems that if a deal is in fact made, if it isn't announced, it is not going to be on the battlefield anytime soon. and that's what the top military brought from us has really been focusing on, is what they see as a very short turnaround to the upcoming spring offensive. but the big question now

is whether germany is going to supply it. leopard tags to ukraine. poland is already made a formal request now, which is there is dominant cain reports on the story now from berlin. this is the weapon system. the ukranian president says his country needs to fight the russians . the and made lettered to main battle tank. seed here during a nato exercise. in lithuania, it's both heavier and faster than many of the tanks. russia is using in ukraine and widely used by other european countries. several of whom now want to re export them to key. if to end the conflict, we need to arm you cry, unfolding aquinas able to defend itself and turn russia is not able to push through with this agenda of imperialism and still incur territory. on tuesday. the polls formerly asked germany to allow them to do just that. the view from nato is clear, while anti aircraft weapons and missiles can defend against air attack and armored

personnel carriers can transport troops to the fighting. the strategic value of heavy armor to punch through the front lines is clear. battle things are, of course important, or both to be able to repel a russian, a new offensive, but also for ukraine to be able to retake territory to, to wind, answer a prevail as a sovereign in the plantation in europe. but there is another angle to a decision by germany to release the leper twos. some believe it could lead to an escalation in the war and to a worsening of relations between berlin and moscow. a kremlin spokespersons said on tuesday, they are all ready at a low point, and that is the problem facing all off shots. the legacy of the 2nd world war hangs heavy on german governments. thanks like these help the ussr defeat nazi germany. and yet, 80 years later, it's modern german tanks that might help defeat russia in ukraine. dominant cane al

jazeera at the soviet woman warrior in berlin. or las patient al jazeera stony is foreign minister, aged western countries to deliver the heavy, heavy weapons ukraine needs. without any political caveats, usually if the political decision is made. so the weapon systems will reach already to the battle ground, maybe week time. but surely, the tanks will demand also to to have a certain instructions to ukrainian and soldiers. and so it will take some time and i hope in poland there will be a search and instruction program start launched. and we need also a support mechanism logistically. but i think the time we will measure, i hope, is going to be in weeks already to get them in the bathroom free. we should

immediately deliver all the conventional weapons what are in our session western countries. and secondly, also without any political candidates. estonia, just ask decision that we are, we are now in a comprehensive amount. we are going to deliver one percent of our g, d, p to military a to crane. and i have consistently made the pledge also to other countries to join that pledge. well, i spoke to benjamin tally senior research fellow german council on foreign relations is also previously worked for the e u on security missions in ukraine. now he told me that germany agreeing to supply these tanks would be a major step for berlin. and a significant breakthrough for ukraine. well, i think it's no understatement to say that it hasn't been easy in the last last couple of weeks. and particularly in the last week, since the ramstein meeting,

where the decision was expected to be taken, that allies would fall into line and agree to deliver as part of a coalition that would have involved germany allowing other countries to export the tanks that it sold to them, which really wasn't no brainer from the beginning, but also that it should have joined at that point to provide its own tanks. when that didn't happen, the frustration became clear and that's been briefings from both sides from washington. it was said that jack sullivan read the riot act to his counterparts in, in berlin. berlin denied this, but what i can think we can see now is that both sides have seen sense and actually done. the best thing for ukraine, which is also in both countries, best interest because ukraine winning this war and winning it decisively and russia being seen to lose is in the interest of all democratic countries. and so i'm glad that sense has prevailed over pride, and that we even may see the abrams tanks, as well as the leopards on the plains of ukraine and developing several senior

officials and ukraine have resigned. as present ramirez landscape take steps to reach out corruption in his government. countries long running battle with graph this taken on a new significance since russia invaded last february and with keep relying on more western support whilst trying to join the european union and top adviser for deputy ministers and 5 regional governors, all left the posts on tuesday. all the 1st to resign was kilo tymoshenko, the president's deputy had of office. he was implicated and scandals over his use of expensive cars, though he denies any wrong doing the deputy defense minister virus life shoppable of has also stepped down following an allegation that his department over paid supplies for soldiers, food. the changes came 2 days after deputy infrastructure minister vessel lazansky was arrested and accused of getting kickbacks of up to $400000.00. and a deal to import generators was asha butler is following. this story for us from

keith will ukrainian present follow to mayor lensky had indicated on monday that he was going to make some changes in government circles because of a number of recent corruption scandals and allegations. what we now know, what those changes all. we've seen a number of top ukrainian government officials who have resigned or have been dismissed the same for a number of regional governors, including as the governor of here, the capital key. now, as lensky says, we are, look, we're at a time of war. there is no place for corruption at any time. there's particularly no place for corruption at a time of war when all politicians or people should really be focusing on the war effort. he is also said that all officials are no longer allowed to go on holiday abroad. they should be remaining in ukraine and very much focusing on that war effort. as i said, look for so lensky. he knows that you have western powers. ukraine's allies are

sending billions of dollars of military and humanitarian aid to the country. they of course, want to know that their money is being well spent and not siphoned off by allegedly corrupt ministers. semanski is also very aware that for ukraine to become part of the european union, one of the conditions is that corruption is stamped out in the country. ah, the president of peru, dina boulevard hayes, called her national truce after weeks allied and protests. but lima is bracing for more demonstrations with another mass rally happening now. crisis began in december of to foreign present. pedro castillo tried to dissolve congress and was arrested. more than 50 people have died since these protests began. yeah, mom will. i will not today what we call for a truce. we call the congress and now i call my dear homeland for national truce to

establish the dialogue tables and better still to be able to set the agenda for each region and develop our people's annual. arianna sanchez joins us live from a capital lima and tell us what is happening there right now marianne, in recent days we have seen clashes with parts of the between some protested and security forces as the demonstration to day remain peaceful. oh yes, mariam to day the demonstrations have remained in here. oh. 2 for the most part, they are, people are going around the, the plaza, sun dean, which is the plaza where most of the people gather here are police are in different parts of the plaza and they are blocking the way toward our, the congress and the presidential palace behind me, many,

many people here protesting they are very angry at the government, very young here. what president, one want this says, she has said in a press conference earlier, earlier today that the protesters are causing a crisis over a crisis. that is she, that the protesters are the ones who have basically killed the people who have who have died in the protest. she didn't put those words, but she said the bullets that killed the people that have died in his last 6 weeks of protest. i have not come from the police, but from from protesters now i have lost contact with you, but if you still hearing me, i just wanted to see that there are clashes that have been flushes in the south of south of lima, about 300 kilometers with the at the pen american highway where,

where police are cleared the highways to try to that have been standing for a few for a few days there can pass in those classes about 13 police officers and that are injured. and also we have seen pictures of a many hundreds of army people of soldiers going into the city of food, nor will not be in the place in the south were most where is the most conflicted area and where there have been deadly clashes. and only in one afternoon, more than 17 people died 2 weeks ago. now what is happening here does not translate to what the president has said. she has said that the protesters are the ones who are causing the mayhem that she was. she's looked at. she's asking for a national, odd truce, but the problem for her is that there is no one who to have

a dialogue with so far. just the few governors, but for the most part, governors in the area of food, not for instance, do not want to speak with our, with the, with the president's committee of a group of ministers that have been there. even the mayors don't want to speak to, to the government people. so it is a big problem to begin this national to see if there is no dialect. mariam, thank you very much. from lima. marianna sanchez, watching al jazeera life from london, is much more sill to bring you off to a very quick break. the judge investigating the deadly beirut port explosion charges a form of prime minister and on the top. officials will say the united nation meet to discuss the crisis in haiti. wag gang violence is spiraling out of control. ah

hello. there will start down under in australia remains very wet across the northern crossed. we could see a system develop over the weekend. is that wet and windy weather swirls itself into something, approaching northern areas of western australia, but for the south of this, a largely dry picture. so a lot of heat here. we are expecting the temperature to come down. however, in per, as the clouds move in, but the sun will be back, it'll be more settled as we go into the weekend. that's not the case. however, for the southeast corner, we could see some fierce thunderstorms pop off here, bringing some damaging winds in the potential for hail temperature. however, suddenly on the up for brisbin and sydney and temperatures have been up across much of new zealand sunshine breaking through the cloud. lots of heat here it is going to get rather sticky that says northerly winds, bro, blow in some moist air. the humidity will certainly be felt. christ church coming in at 29 degrees celsius on thursday,

but the rain is never very far away. we've got a developing system bringing some heavy falls to the south island on thursday. now was moved to southeast asia remains very wet across that central band of malaysia, the malay peninsula seeing waves of wet weather rolling in thursday and also on friday. that sure weather update ah, african stories from african perspectives. machine, the songs of me no mama. and i wanted to share with you short documentary from african film from wanda and bookkeeper, fossil superintendent with sounds of hold and the coach africa direct on al jazeera lou.

ah look at the main stories of following the south. the white house will on wednesday announce it sending abrams tanks to bolster the f. a in ukraine. just days ago, washington had argued, argued against sending the m one abrams tanks, despite please from the crating government. meanwhile, keith is vowing great anti corruption efforts following a string of resignations, a top adviser for deputy ministers, and 5 regional governors left that post on tuesday. and in peru, the president interval a lot, a school for our national truce after weeks of violent protests. but lima is also bracing itself for more demonstrations with mass rallies,

taking place today. lebanon's, head of security in a former prime minister are among several top officials to be charged over the deadly blast at the bay report in 2020. an investigation was reopened on monday after more than a year. the country's top prosecutors also being charged says the prob it should remain suspended. then a 100 reports from beirut. it's been nearly 3 years since one of the most powerful blasts killed dozens and destroyed neighborhoods in the lebanese capital. the investigation into what caused the explosion has repeatedly been sold by political pressure. but a surprise decision by the lead additional investigator thought it be tar, has given back hope to the victims families. we are surprised by the decision. this is the decision and the same time or are happy because the not the norman from more than one year is blocking. now, we have

a little of hope that somebody's something is moving on. the lead judge has released a number of detainees and charged new officials and set dates for questioning and february among them. heads of security bodies like major general abaz ibrahim and high ranking judges, including the prosecutor general hassan away debt. it's a 1st in a country with a history of impunity, but all indications point to the fact that the political and security establishment would cooperate, the public prosecutions response was swift. it rejected the implementation of guitars release and prosecution orders. once again, the establishment 19 to prevent the christmas of justice. in the case of the last, we haven't seen government officials, the traditional official engaging any serious matter with the legal arguments that

have made effectively saying blocking the continuation of the investigation and blocking junk a political campaign against the tar has been led by the group has below who accuses him of bias, the judge has sought to question many of its allies, including a former prime minister hassan dib, who has been charged with homicide with probable intent on the decision to resume the investigation. has started a legal debate. there was no court order, but judge guitar reinstated himself basing it on legal justification. he argued, a judicial investigator cannot be dismissed or removed and that his task ends was the issues an indictment. in the case, families of victims haven't stopped their quest for answers and justice. they want to know who brought the ammonium nitrate to lebanon and who unsafely stored it at the port. it may be a long way for that battle to be one that the resumption of the probe has already re ignited tensions. so they're always, you know,

they route from the front lines of the warn ukraine. her sharp rise in killings in latin america 2022 was another deadly year for journalists and al jazeera was not untouched out on correspondence. she was shot dead by the israeli army while on assignment in the occupied west bank in may while wide at least 67 john listen, media workers were killed last year. the highest numbers is 2018 and an almost 50 percent rise of a 2021. more than half of the killings occurred in just 3 countries, ukraine, mexico, and haiti. each reporting the highest number of journalists death ever 18 of those killed were local reporters who are murdered in retaliation for their work covering politics, crime, or corruption. what we can see is essentially the tip of the iceberg. the killing of a journalist is the worst thing that you could possibly imagine, and it's indicative i think of the shortly to terry deteriorating environment for

dennis. and more generally, we saw a 50 percent increase in dennis killed. also saying a shop uptake record number of dennis imprisoned. done this, threatened everywhere around the world. not just mexico, ukraine, places where we so high levels of killings. gen this under threat. want to take you to new zealand now, where the new prime minister is in the process of being sworn in the the live pictures from the ceremony in the capital. wellington, kris hipkins was the only candidates in the governing labor parties. leadership contests. he replaces in are done who announced her unexpected resignation just 6 days ago saying she was too tired to carry on. adrian brown reports now. wellington, i submit for your signature in a valley below the rumor tucker mountains, the electorate of new zealand, new prime minister, or chippy. as he's known here in upper hearts, high street signs of the challenges confronting him. fail businesses,

stagnant consumer demand and a feeling that new zealand has become a less equal society. having what they classes middle income people. because we seem to be struggling more then the law and higher income people. we don't get much help at all whatsoever. chris hipkins is in the news because of the woman he's replacing. just hinder our turns last public engagement as prime minister testament to what's been a friendly, albeit swift transfer of power. when just inter arden became prime minister, her popularity was undeniable. but her rating stead on a backlash against kobe 19 restrictions increase food costs, rising mortgages, concerns over crime. and people wanted someone to blame. yes, i think she did her absence every stop, either the car that an inch, the shootings and the left. so the thing that she's dish last here, my jo towards cmj,

i know what this job takes and i know that i no longer have enough and the take to do it. justice. last thursday's announcement was one that few saw coming. an unusual acknowledgement from a world leader that she was burnt out vicious abuse oh. on the streets and online res concerns over her safety. she's received death threats. and so her child, her replacement, has called the abusive abhorrent. the next election will be in less than 9 months, which means hipkins may not be in the job long, especially as opinion poll show labor now trading the conservative opposition. our durn is leaving office at a time of her choosing. although she'll remain in m p for 3 more months and at 42, she still has plenty of time to ponder. a new career and the one she's left pinky on the bottom of my heart to the greatest privilege of

adrian brown al jazeera, wellington hate is listed among the most dangerous countries in the world for john les, since the assassination of president joan elmore is 2 years ago the country's spiral into political uncertainty and chaos. the u. n. chief has called for special forces to be sent in and the un security council is discussing a situation or canada is leading the one response on what's happening there. robert, re, can his permanent ambassador and representatives the un told out, is there, are there any intervention that would need to help develop haiti's own security forces were in gauging very directly with the police or sending more equipment. and also making sure that the, the, the military to the police force has the ability to deal with the gangs in terms of the level of support that we can provide. anything we do will also be based on the

learned experience that are a massive external intervention just on its own that says to the, to the, to the haitian police were taking over here. thank you very much. we'll just do this isn't, isn't, doesn't have a sustainable impact. it doesn't last. and the key thing is to build up the haitian institutions. so they have the capacity in the justice system. they've capacity with police. they have the capacity on the ground plus the other political things that need to happen. because there is not at the moment a, a government that is elected that has this, the constitutional support of the people. so those are things that need to happen and together can as we're, we're doing that now we're engaging politically, we're engaging in terms of training and assistance and equipment. we're going to continue to do that and, and with respect to additional forces or whatever. i think that that all remains to be to be seen. the video has come to the eye showing how fast res monterey park

gunman was disarmed, potentially preventing more casualties. surveillance footage shows the gunman arriving at another downs hole in neighboring alhambra. he was then confronted by a bystander, brandon say, who seized his weapon, a struggled with the man for several minutes. of course, at that season, now coming up the contenders. the most coveted award in cinema, the oscars have been revealed. this is norma nations are dominated by block boston . that little big screens around the world care will, as all know, tells us more from new york. this year's oscar nominees a mix of art house films, combined with big budget productions with a mass market appeal. so without further ado and here the nominees leading the way was the mind bending, science fiction, adventure everything everywhere, all at once. the universe and the ram, which picked up a level nominations,

including best picture director and best factors for michelle. yo 2 of the years. biggest box office hits also featured heavily. oh good. including black panther. what kind of forever hand top gun. maverick already combined getting 11 nominations . in recent years, the trend has been oscar nominated films made and distributed by streaming services such as netflix and apple. but this year things are different, and it's now hearkening back to a more traditional hollywood. what's interesting is that this year we actually see big studio movies making a comeback like top gun, maverick and avatar. and these are films that were released in theaters, everything everywhere. all at once, not a big studio movie, but a film that opened in theaters and stayed in theaters for a long time before it. it went online and, and, you know,

these films have been successful. i wouldn't ask the doctor. maybe just doesn't like him. knish films are also recognized with the dark comedy, the band she's of in a sharon being nominated. and the german anti war drama, all quiet on the western front. also in the running for best picture in the past, it was a big deal. if a foreign language fail more international film, got nominated for best picture. and i think it's going to continue to become more of more of a thing because the academy isn't done trying to diversify its ranks the academy, hoping that the award ceremony won't be like last year's drama field show. and that this time around the focus will only be on celebrating the films and the actors. gabriel's hondo ouch is eda new york. ah.