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of pressure from its western allies. ah, let me bug this is al jazeera la from dough. so coming up, set up, south africa, main opposition holds rallies across the country over power comes that a crippling its economy call for the bangladesh prime minister to resign as the cost of electricity and basic goods stores fighting food shortages leaders from across africa, discuss how to boost agriculture ah, we started breaking news out of berlin, where germany has finally agreed to say, and it's leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. kia has been pleading for weeks for the tanks, which says, are essential in its fight against russian forces. now germany will deliver 14 of

the combat vehicles from its armies. existing stock has come straight to berlin, where dominic cane is standing by. so of course to the long awaited approval has finally been given. dominic it does beg the question, what happens now? well, what happens now? we know it's a company of tanks, that's 14 tanks which will be sent from germany to ukraine. we know also that it's the release of re export rights for other countries who bought leopard twos from germany. they will also be able to send their tax to ukraine. first things 1st, they will need to be training for the ukrainian crews who will operate these tanks in ukraine. the german government says that those who will be using the german weapons will have training in germany. remember also that this is very much a multi lateral side issue as it were. we have the united kingdom already

committed to sending a company of challenger to tax at 14 tax. we know also that as i said, other countries will be sending leopard to tax. and we know also the united states government has said that m one abrams tax will be sent. so this suggestion is there's going to be something round, the order about 2 battalions of tax that a break that down into numbers that suggests something around the order of around a 100 perhaps a $112.00 different tanks will be brought together assembled at some point and will be deployed in ukraine. the question would be whether they would be brought their own mass as it were in one, or whether this will be in installments. that's not clear right now. what is clear is that all of shots has, as it were exceeded to the beseeching requests that were coming from ukraine, but also the clear steers coming from warsaw coming from helsinki, coming from other european capitals that he should really released these tax. well,

now he has done so. i certainly heard you say that germany has been under enormous amount of pressure from its western allies, but peace of mind is widely initial reluctance. how much of a hard sell has this been for, for german voters, for instance. the thing to bear in mind is that german governments of whatever political hue since the 2nd world war, and particularly since the end of the cold war have been conscious of the historical legacy that they as modern democratic germans have for what happens during the 2nd world war and there was this idea that, that german government should not antagonize the russian government and certainly not allow offensive weapons to be deployed readily against russian forces, which is why over the course of the 11 months or so since the war began in ukraine, you've seen if not, reluctance, certainly a slowness on the part of the german government to release certain types of

weaponry. we know that german armored personnel carriers being released to the ukrainians. we know that certain anti aircraft, or anti missile systems have been released to the ukrainians. but those were defensive weapons or weapons to allow our troops to be transported to the front line. they weren't, as it were, active offensive weapons like main battle tanks, which allow an army to punch through a front line and re capture last territory. that's the one thing ukraine was really screaming out for and now it has been exceeded to, but as a say, the reluctance is a, the historical legacy. but also remember that russia and germany had very serious industrial and interest export and import, which has been very seriously affected by this war. many thanks, dominic donna kayla on germany. finally agreeing to send his leopard 2 tanks to you . craig now south africa,

main opposition policies holding rallies nationwide against rolling power cups and an increase in the price of electricity. demonstrators have been picketing outside the ruling amc parties headquarters in johannesburg. both households go without power for at least 6 hours a day. the state and power utility has been in financial crisis for years, dependent on government, bailout monitoring, monitoring developments in johannesburg. it's sort of for me to miller me to the power coach i've been going on for quite some time now since at least 2008. why is it now coming to a head? what's been going on for more than a decade and now people are increasingly frustrated because these blackouts have worse and especially over the last 18 months. so. so i'm away. last year there were more than $200.00. there's about mississippi and this year, so far, there's been blackouts every single day. and the power utility is farmers said that things blackouts will continue for at least another 2 years. they say they want to

manage it so that there is some level of predictability. and that businesses can run the households can run and people are less angry. but the people are still very frustrated by just how badly their lives that impacted. now the reason these are power cuts happening is what is come cause no cheating is that they cut the electricity to certain parts of the country for a number of hours throughout the day to try manage the demand. without that, they could possibly have a complete shut down of the national grid. but you know, the reasoning behind it, most of africans, this is very difficult to swallow because critics would say it's because it's probably what it's because there has been the deployment of officials to that to power utility, which is state owned by the african national congress deployment. of people who are not capable of doing the job. and they're also issued on the supply of coal, the supply of diesel, which is used as a back up to call. but also the infrastructure is aging and hasn't been adequate to

maintain and power thousands of men to have open to haven't been yet. and also others have closed. so it really is a very difficult situation for is from to try and get itself out of the government has said that is going to try and push for clean energy. it's a, it's changed some of the requirements around licensing with things like south solar power, power, excuse me. and so it's expected that maybe in the long term this will improve, but some of the measures taken up till now have been very little and too late. for me to clearly people, there have been learning to live with this for quite some time, but it must be having a massive impact on people's lives and on businesses. to what extent is this deepening inequality in the country? oh, and i think it's very much is the norm for many south africans. it's still very frustrating. it does have all aspects of life hospitals, small businesses, especially small businesses, have been deeply affected because they don't have the money to buy diesel to buy

back up. generators to keep their businesses going. so many of those. and this is also why, as you mentioned the that inequality between the rich and the poise only worsening . thousands of south africans has lost jobs because these businesses are closing south africa really has a 33 percent unemployment rate. that's the official unemployment rate. others would argue it's closer to 50 percent, especially regarding people who have given up looking for work to unemployment has risen. we've spoken to one woman owns a recruitment agency and she says she used to receive bar viewer resumes in the past and now are asked to read through about 5000 a day. and people are dis, but they simply don't have jobs and they're looking for employment. economists say the economy has suffered, it's only going to get worse. investors aren't terribly happy with what's happening in south africa because they can't predict if this is a worthwhile continue investing in because they're just simply isn't a constant electricity supply. so it is very likely that electrical won't suffer. you cannot mclee for me to miller live, johannesburg. thank you. now people in bangladesh are facing their own energy

crisis with fuel costs and power cuts increasing. the main opposition party called for nationwide rallies to demand action on the saw in cost of living. it was prime minister, shake sienna to resign, and a catholic, a government to take over until the elections are held. have a child re, has more. busy from the rally in deco. this is an ongoing protest. this is the 3rd one in this manner. it's been going on since august. the more and more the usa tended to people that are gathered here than just say no appleton in the capital, soccer protest going on in other parts of the country as well as a lot of the city are not just all positions active. it's about people from all walks of life. we spoke to cab drivers, official man, richard polars. we asked them, why are you taking part in opposition? party rally. as i said, we are here to show at this content and driven against the government because they

really haven't been able to pull down the price. if people are struggling here, people with fixed income and low income i really been struggling. the full price has gone up since last year. 50 percent. the industrial gas price had gone up, electricity, electricity price have been high loss around that lives by 5 percent. and the central commodity price has been rising, at least for a year. and now inflation is high, the reserve is law. the businesses are having trouble to input goods that are that wider discontent among the public spirit among the business community. aside from the election, which is scheduled for this year, december all by january, 2024. so. 2 there is also a wide spread demand for a free and neutral election as part of the 10 coin demand by that opposition allies, which is $32.00 party democratic alive. hundreds of people in iraq are protesting against the full and the value of the national currency. there this is the scene

right now in front of the central bank in baghdad. the iraqi deny has been weakening for weeks. i moved up to one head. is there the depreciation of a rocky local currency? the title of this sit in. many professors have come here near the central bank of iraq to convey that a message. they say that if the government will not contain this crisis, then they're threatening to take matters into that at their own hands. they say that the financial crisis in the country, the devaluation of the dina, that has lost 10 percent of its value, has resulted in a major increase in price. is of almost all goods and commodities. adding more pressure to an already over to switch economic situation and the country they accuse state of wishes,

but efficiency of collaborating and money laundering go operations. any operations pertaining pertaining to an operations today was my gave us dollars from iraqi banks outside of the country. and that has resulted in the current crisis. they have come from civil iraqi provinces. as they say, they say they to present several categories of the iraqi society. they say the crisis has severely impacted their daddy lives, that are worried if that price is continues, then it will add more pressure to their lives to family's lives, especially head of the holy month of ramadan. 0 in israel are holding joint military exercises involving more than 100 fight suggests in the eastern

mediterranean, these friday ami say the maneuvers would include training pilots to hit targets and what they call complex situations. the pentagon says the drills aren't directed against any specific country. israelis and palestinians living in israel, of united and protests against the new, far right government, that israel critic say its agenda is a threat to democracy, palestinians for further injustice and discrimination. i'm at my ha reports from jaffa, near television, many protesting poor palestinian writes in israel said the r fast becoming further marginalized major protests against the new, far right government. and it's passed to change the judicial system or occupying the minds of men in the country. these demonstrators and jaffa argue that tens of thousands protesting in television against the government are white to feel the worst and want to save gov democracy. but the few injustices and discrimination

against the palestinians are worsening. and that's being overlooked. this issue, it's the main cause of conflict on business between both sides. and it's thoughtfully against my personal value on order for, for my point of view against the jewelry, these in value. there is it that if you really jewish cities in agile as you see who are a lot of things outreach together, some of them are, i'm kids. i own is i those are a liberal democrat. hello. really look for woman like mad equality. they are running themselves the camp of equality. they are calling for equal rights for both these ladies opinions alike. and they believe that all successive governments and israel have not addressed the root cause of more problems, which is, as the se occupation a,

the protested until the, the accused prime minister benjamin netanyahu, of plotting with his new partners to dismantle democratic checks and balances. but for this is really peace activist. there's one big missing piece in the political. jake's whole, we need to call into the deep oh that the roots of, of the problem which are not only these government, but the whole dishonest regime. we're talking about decades of indoctrination and of concealing the historical facts of what has been going on here from 48 and even before ha, for these protesters discrimination against the palestinians is growing. and the state that will get worse in israel and the occupied territories. as long as it's people are treated differently. i'm mad under sierra jalap. so headed out as era over 100000 people without power as

a tornado ripped through houston. a new leader for new hello doctor. the short presentation with blue and low there. let's look to east asia and japan is dealing with a once in a decade when to storm already canceled flights and cause disruption to transport there. that soft a siberian cold air blew across the north of china and the korean peninsula. bringing some exceptionally low temperatures. it's now japan's time to deal with that brutal cold. we've already had some new record set in a condo. we had an old time temperature low. we also had all time record for wind gusts. and in hon shoe, we had $51.00 centimeters of snow fall over 12 hours. we are expecting more of

those as the winter weather continues. that is going to ease however, up in the very north. but we will see the rain, sleet and snow pick up in the south. certainly by friday. now behind that, we've got on the blast of that cold air dropping temperatures once again on the korean peninsula. but for beijing, will it stand steady at one degrees celsius. thursday into friday now was moved to south asia were expecting the cold to sweep back into rochester in the north west of india. the wintry on where to where the dust ought to ease across the north. it's going to drip down, however, into my roster. and some heavy rain is set to sweep back into sri lanka, suddenly by friday to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide, and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shake ahmad award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation

and honor translators, and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild couches. lou ah, welcome back. you're watching out. just a reminder, what top stories this our germany has finally agreed to send its leopard to tax to ukraine. berlin will deliver 14 of the combat vehicles from its armies, existing stock. and it's also our partner countries to send german made tanks from their arsenals to ukraine. south africa, main opposition parties holding rallies nationwide against power cox and

electricity price increase. most households go without power for at least 6 hours a day. businesses have been forced to rely on expensive generators. bangladesh is main opposition. policy is cooper rallies across the country. there to demand action to curb high fuel and food prices. he wants prime minister shake sienna to resign. the caretaker government to take over until elections are held. that africa leaders are meeting and set a goal to discuss ways to increase the continent. production of food are corresponded. nicholas hawkins and demand the audio incentive goal. nicholas appreciate, of course this is day one of 3 days there, but our the delegates hoping to face the challenges head on well, there's a big challenge in eve. of course, there's plenty of food on the planet, and yet there are more and more people that are hungry, just one number and eve, a 115000000 people. in addition to the 820000000 people in the world

are suffering from malnutrition and are facing hunger. that's the population of russia. that's 3 times the population of france. imagine if the population of russia or france was suffering of hunger today, how would the world react? but the fact of the matter is that most of him are right here on the african continent. and so it's a tremendous challenge for people here in this conference to try to find solutions to this growing problem ending hunger. joining me now is omar enjoy from the international food agricultural development. now you represent the small farmers in somalia, syria and palestine. and you were telling me earlier that they all face similar challenges. what's the challenge for them? thank you very much. the challenge is abad ford security. my was full security, did sustainable investments in the lives and livelihoods of small hold

a farm us astoria. earliest i'm a girl password is in the countries where e flood operates in. mike is as i mentioned, to you a if i wanted director for somalia, palestine, and syria for this summit. the focus for me is somalia. there is a big problem in somalia that the people, 7500000 people on the verge of found men suffering from extreme hunger. what's the world doing about it in what you want to see from this conference? you are very critic in the case of somalia that that people suffering a brunt of them. it impacted us molar. rural farmers. pastorelli is an a require service and the ones affected the most. i do woman and the youth ah, what we want wish to get from here. investments sustainable investments in bo slaves when you feed royal farmers. when you enable rule, little farmers authorities, they feed themselves,

fort security is addressed sustainably. and it also my, it gives them income for their livelihoods. so why are there so many people in africa suffering from malnutrition or hunger? it's significantly lack of investments in these target areas where we walk, which is what rule and famous pastora is a girl. pastoral is a better from us in the, in the rural it is. do you think these heads of states that there's 11 heads a states at this conference? are they able to represent or are they accurately representing the interest of the small farmers that you mention in somalia, syria palace and or across africa? in the case of the countries i represent? the answer is yes. um, however, this is way if it comes in where we engage the government, we walk through government to ensure that we focus on that segment of the

population that you were mentioning, women and girls, 60 percent of those that are suffering from malnutrition or hunger are women and young girls, why then? because they are the bottom of the 4 gym. oftentimes they are the ones that that list are targeted in there. and in the case of effort on our investment projects, 50 percent of our target beneficiaries, a woman 2425 percent are the youth in indoors qantas. so in this conference we're going to be talking about agro business. how can agribusiness benefits? small farmers is about feeding them food, the steel in africa, the branch of what is consumed is produced by a rule of farmers, a growth pastorius and by professors. so investments in that tag, it is the beginning of addressing food insecurity in africa. that of course,

a lot of these countries import their food from abroad. how does let say the war in russia and ukraine effect a small farmer in somalia in somalia did it again, as i said did the day there were full fail. concert getty, france saw dead depend on irrigation water. scott's it is a big problem in somalia. in the case of if i'd, we are investing in rehabilitating um more horse shallow wells using our swanner systems where they pump. i'm frill, i was just in somalia last month and i visited one farmer on average. the farmer spends 20 gallons of diesel fuel pump or water to irrigate his dead pump. our investments would and they get, didn't need to do for that. so it's ukraine. the ukraine war has impacted because

food. our diesel prices have gone up $34.00 times in somebody. is that what needs to be address? yeah, i know they're trying to raise funds. they're saying $3000000000.00 is the amount that they're trying to raise here. the united nation says we need $80000000000.00 to work to and world hunger. do you think conferences like these can actually make a difference? absolutely. we have to start somewhere. and this is a beginning to under a thing that it cannot happen with a big but we have to start somewhere. and that's why this conference is exceedingly relevant. in the case of somalia, it's absolutely very, very timely large i from the international fund for ira agricultural development. thank you very much. now 60 percent of the arable land in africa is not exploited. while it's people might see this hunger as a challenge. there is an opportunity here for the african continent. it could

become the bread basket of the world. if that is, if there is enough investment made in farmers. and that's what people hear and delegates like omar and joy are trying to get across in this conference back to unit many, thanks to you, nick and jewel gas. and putting that into perspective for us now benign is keeping inflation lower than most west african countries to a combination of subsidies. tanks leave and price controls, but the government's measures have been criticized. people say high food prices are forcing families to skip meals and businesses are going under. i'm a dangerous report, some cotton who believes because say their industry is close to collapse. covered 19 and the war in ukraine have pushed up costs and shrunk. profits and they blame government price control. so making business harder. the price already to is vis. okay. we cannot turn this on the big prize off off it. that's him in boots. we are

using these are growing re did so his way are difficult for us to continue to survive. but businesses of received, relieve to wilma ed bill is under of industries received a lot of support from government to back them up after the economic fall out of coven $19.00. in fact, the rising cost of living since in 2021 came down last year, especially towards the end of 2022. for others, government subsidies are helping to keep the price of goods down. the government is largely able to control prizes of many items, especially important food that has helped to keep hold price inflation here lower than in most west africa countries. but officials are unable to come prizes of locally grown food. but the high cost of local produce and transportation remain a source of worry for many i went by the argument,

look where your money is running out and you feel like it's been stolen from you. the thinks an expensive in the market. we wonder how to survive. traders like silver your form, say to bring down inflation. the government needs to help small businesses say relax price control measures only benefit the wholesalers. sometimes we don't make profit at all. for now, benign has been able to avoid the social and economic unrest seen is some african countries due to rising cost of living. but many say keeping it that way will depend on how long and how far the government is willing to go on, subsidizing import and local produce. edris al jazeera, quotable rescuers, they're searching for 8 people missing after their ship sank south west of japan. the vessel was carrying a 22 crew crew members when the captain sent out a distress call during the storm on tuesday night. it sang 3 and a half hours later, 160 kilometers from mag,

a saki patrol boats and search aircraft were delayed by the bad weather. the series of powerful storm systems have swept through the southern state of texas, a tornado damaged electricity lines in houston, leaving about a 120000 people without power to wrench rain and strong winds caused flooding across the city. no serious injuries were reported. the columbia navy, his seas more than 4 tons of cocaine. it was found in this semi submersible ship that was intercepted along columbia's coast for crew members to being investigated for allegedly manufacturing and trafficking drugs. oh, chris hipkins has been sworn in as new zealand prime minister. they followed the support that surprised resignation of just into our turn last week. it faces the task of reviving the government's waning popularity ahead of october's general election. ah.