ah, ah this is the w is live from berlin, the united states is to send you crane additional weapons worth $800000000.00. the delivery will include heavy artillery and helicopters, washington hopes that will help the ukrainian army depend on russian offensive in the east. also on the program, you craig says it's miss house have knocked out one of the brushes, most important black c warships. russia acknowledge is only that the mosque car has been seriously damaged and police here in germany, uncover an extremist plot to overthrow democracy. they say that groups plans

included kidnapping, public figures like the german health minister of his support for cove in 19 lockdown measures. ah, i'm fil, gail. welcome to the program. he was president joe biden has approved an additional $800000000.00 worth of military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery and helicopters, that's the country prepared to defend itself against every new russian assault that's expected to target the east of the country. murray, u. pole is in ruins. after weeks of russian bombardment, the u. s. says it is once again sending arms to ukraine to stop russia's destruction of the country. for today, the president announced and author us another presidential draw down of security

assistance, valued it up to an additional $800000000.00 tailored to meet urgent ukrainian needs for today's fight. as russian forces shift the focus of their ruthless aggression now to eastern ukraine, ukraine's president expressed his gratitude. we've agreed on $800000000.00 and military aid for weapons ammunition, artillery helicopters and more than i am sincerely thankful for the support that you get that all the need for more arms is urgent. as russian convoys converge on eastern ukraine. analysts say the weapons in the american package, such as long range howitzers are especially suited to ukraine's defense of the eastern don bass region. so you what system like that that can fire at 3040 kilometers away from where you are trying to break up

the military long before it gets too close to you and that's what ukrainians need at this moment. they need to destroy the rushing convoys before they even get to the cities or near to locations. they want to take. the pentagon said it was rushing to send the equipment, but did not provide a time table for the people in the eastern ukrainian city of seattle, rodonna. it's something as simple as walking to get groceries is a calculated risk that could end in tragedy. war has brought life to a standstill though it's a disaster because every 10 or 15 minutes in bam, bam barker, i live on the 7th floor of a 9 floor building. it just imagine boom from one side band from the other. and then you think the roof will cave in until you foil it's, i put asleep. for some, the fighting is too much to bear. a bus takes them away from the bombs. but others are staying behind,

hoping to survive the russian advance. if weapons from the u. s. don't stop at 1st . will they w correspondent young philip schoultz is in the vive in western ukraine. you told me more about the ukranian response to this american announcement. it really is the ukrainians are extremely great for the to the u. s 800. so a 1000000 us dollars and heavy artillery and other equipment is very important so far the ukrainians, especially in the light of a possible and major offensive in the east. as you know, president zalinski has praised president biden on several occasions as a true leader, and this is also reflected by the public opinion here in the ukraine. people really think that the united states ends ukraine's western neighbors, especially poland and the baltic states out through allies in this fight. this is in stark contrast with the public opinion about germany. of course,

a lot of ukrainian says c, germany is the current position as to, to his distance at the moment. right now you've just returned from the port of a desa, which russia sees as a significant at target at what did you see there? well, a desa is getting prepared for the worst. indeed, it's a very important city. it's highly significant, culturally, economically, it's a port city. it's the major port, city of ukraine. but also from a military perspective i, i talked to a high ranking officer and in odessa and he said, sir, the military is very well prepared for a possible offensive. and what i also found astonishing is the courage of the local residence in odessa, they left no doubt that they are ready to defend their city to the last and the town of mack out if i to the west of her can keep another time which

ukraine has retaken from russian forces. what did they leave behind that? yeah, i visited sir the town to day and sir, they left behind to pure horror. you can say destruction and human suffering. the may, i said at least 130 people died and i could see with my own eyes that i would say at least half of the city is completely destroyed. the stories that local residents told us terrible. one man said that his neighbor was trying to dig a grave for his dog and russian russian soldiers saw him doing this. they ask, what are you doing? he tried to explain it to them. this is a great for my doc. and so just just said, well this is your own right now and so shot him on the spot. and so what i also found quite interesting that a lot of local residents told us that they witnessed increasing internal conflicts

as they described it among the russian army. some a higher ranking officers were obviously also irritated by the extreme brutality of some soldiers. so there seemed to be a lot of frustration that ended up in a lot of destruction and a lot of human suffering for the people there. thank you. dr. young philip shots in the viv and that to conflicting reports about the fate of the mosque valve. a flagship of russia's black sea fleet. ukraine says his missiles have hit unsung the vessel of russia has acknowledged the ship has been seriously damaged, but says it's being towed back to port after catching fire. go to the crew on board . the soviet era missile crews have been taken to safety as it turned out, this new ukrainian postage stamp was prophetic, shown off just hours before the incident by president bernardi may zalinski. with

the message, the russian warship always has only one direction. russia blames a fire for the damage and says to ship is still afloat. ukraine now has a slightly different take. i want to get better senior. when you put up in the black sea region, the most 5 warship was hit by next year and ship me sustained damage. the fire started the other ship, tried to provide assistance in the storm and the powerful explosion of ammunition turn this back in, started sinking stuff done with it. the mosque came to prominence at the start of the war being told to go f itself. when he tried to capture ukraine's snake island in the black sea. i was

in the last month, the man behind those words was awarded a metal for his bravery. initially fit killed, he and the soldiers were taken captive before being freed and a prisoner exchange. the moscow with the main shape in russia's black sea fleet, armed with 16 cruise missiles, as well as long range defense system. if you cranes claim is true, that defense system appears to have fail catastrophically. we'll take a quick look at some other a world news headlines will start in israel, where security forces have killed 5 palestinians in the occupied west bank in the past 24 hours. israel's been cracking down on militants following the wave of deadly attacks on israelis. a 12 have been killed in the last 3 weeks. video said

to show hundreds of coverage 19 patients sleeping in cramps facilities in shanghai have been circulating on chinese social media. a strict 0 cove, it policies being enforced in the city, including mandatory medical quarantine for people who test positive beijing denies, forcing people to quarantine in substandard conditions. hollywood actor cuba gooding junior, has mr. forcibly kissing the waitress in 2018 stars lawyers as the admissions part of a plea deal relating to charges that he groped several women. he still faces civil lawsuit for rate and police. here in germany have arrested for members of a far right group on suspicion of plotting violent attacks to so civil unrest, prosecutors say they were planning to blow up power stations and to kidnap germany is help minister car allow to back up as the lighter back has received lots of criticism because of his support for measures to stop the spread of covered 90. the

plot to bring down democracy was said to have been hatched on telegram prosecutor c . far right extremist wanted to trigger power outages and civil warlike conditions . it didn't stop there yet, hint of her boxes to plot. the plan behind this was to kidnap the federal minister of health. profess allowed her back to kill his personal security and accept this as collateral damage on us to showcase the health minister, priest police, and said he was unfazed, man eigen are, this will not affect my own work. i'll continue as before. he is here lout aback, who has supported tough cove. 19 measures has been a regular target of protesters. he said the plot showed that such opposition had been co opted by far right elements. if you the other one, this is about forces, the intent to destabilize the state and democracy as well. they're obviously taking advantage of the corporate 19 protest. it is a small minority in society,

but highly dangerous. we have to keep an eye on that and the via authority said the suspects were affiliated with cove 19 protest groups and the rights burger movement which denies the existence of the modern german state. thus for been the one to the unifying and foremost element of the grouping is hatred against our democracy and its government officials, aunt durham. ricky rules for am foreclosure. in more than 20 nationwide ridge police confiscated firearms, ammunition, cash and gold bars. of the w political correspondent, benjamin alvarez gruber told me more about the suspects who have been detained. so this telegram group with his 70 uses, he had the name united patriots where they have this plans to kidnap germany's health minister. german authority said that full people have been arrested in 2

different regents in germany. there's a 5th one that is still at large, but of course investigations continue to see if there were more people involved and also to track this group that as we just heard. and the report is believed to be linked to both the creating a protest. so the, the protests that we've seen over the past a years since the start of the pandemic, and also to this, if i spoke movement. so, investigations are, i'm going to see how many people were involved in this plan. and what's the government saying? interior minister nancy phaser went to both twitter and also to a statement is saying that we will continue work of protecting a democracy and also that both groups share hatred for our democracy. this was, she said in the statement taking this a very is seriously and of course the government is also looking into fall right

extremism. nancy is a sad that, that is the biggest challenge that germany's a democracy is facing right now. the biggest security challenge and how unusual are plots against german politicians. so there has been indeed an increase of attacks of physical attacks and also on online hate and abuse to words, a politicians we saw in increase last year during the election. and of course, what comes to mind with what we're hearing today with this plot to kit, not the health minister was at the mazda of fight lipkin. he was a local politician in the city of castle. and in 2019, he was killed by a neo nazi the was the 1st murder off a law maker by a fall right extremist since the 2nd world war. so of course, that's why authorities in germany are taking threats to politicians and this plot to kidnap the germans health minister very seriously. and i thank you for that.

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