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d w. their future has been taken from them and europe's largest economy is running out of some basic medicines. are german government policies partly to play ah, hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. all me is a lensky is on his way to the united states. the ukranian president is expected to meet us president joe biden, and to address congress. it will be his 1st trip abroad since the russian invasion . it's thought that washington will use the visit to announce the delivery of more advanced weapons to ukraine. presidents zalinski has taken every opportunity to appeal for more money, aid and military support. since the start of the war in ukraine,

either one hosting world leaders in the capital keefe on on a virus of all when addressing governments and international institutions with his face, appearing almost daily on multiple screens. in almost 10 months of fighting, though, he hasn't left the country until now. zalinski is due to meet with his us counterpart, joe biden, in washington, and address congress. the one you say it's a visit fraught with security concerns in a letter sent by us. how speak can nancy pelosi on tuesday, members of congress were urged to be present in person on wednesday night session for a very special focus on democracy. the trip comes a day off to the cranium. presidents unannounced visit to the front line to meet troops in the city of back loot that he handed out towards the soldiers and

was gifted a ukrainian flag making this statement. just moments later, lou portals visited, the enemy is increasing his army and our people are braver, a need more powerful weapons. we will pass it on from the boys to the congress of a president of united states. you are grateful professor pooler, but it is not enough, but he is not with them. but washington is one of ukraine's biggest supporters. and what happens here now could be crucial with us politicians preparing to vote on a spending package that includes around $45000000000.00 in emergency assistance to ukraine. or washington correspondent mackay dakota is covering the story. i asked her about the expectations in the us regarding so lensky visit

was that the, i mean, this is understood as very strong symbolism and as is meant as such towards rasa where after all, vladimir putin is addressing his chief commanders at this very day that voted may zalinski is actually daring to leave his country for the 1st time in 10 months of wool. so that's quite a symbolic act. and we are also learning from a senior official this and that there will be a sit down with joe biden, an in depth, strategic talk. and that's the language that was used to discuss the way ahead of course, or with an eye on the u. s. budget in congress right now. the u. s. is ukraine's biggest fonda and it wants to remain as thought that certainly what too wide wants . and he is set on fulfilling his promise of doing whatever it takes to keep ukraine independent and a free country. but overarching, this is strong symbolism with key announcements of a patriot defense system,

a to be sent to ukraine. that is also a key method towards russia. the u. s. of course sir has played a key role michela and helping ukraine defend itself, but it's very costly. is it clear that congress will maintain its massive level of support moving forward? well, that's also a question that was put to a senior official here. and this visit was then described as an important injection of the momentum of us support us is set on remaining. that key is supporter of ukraine to buy this valve time and time again to be the political leader rallying world leaders there. but there is more debate in congress now despite the fact that after some 50000000000, already having been sent ukraine's way more than 40000000000 are in that

new budget that is due to be decided. so it's very timely. we could see all of this happening within the space of one day here in the united states. and that's also why voting is it and sky stress in that he wants to thank the american people for their support with the awareness. yes, most americans are in favor of backing ukraine, but in times of high inflation and pressure here on the pockets of americans, that is by no means a given mckayla. thank you very much. shar, corresponding killer crypto there in washington. well, as we just heard, president biden is preparing a new package, a military aid for key if it will contain what one u. s. official called a very important new capability, namely patriot missile patriot missile battery. the official said this weapon will enable ukraine to better defend itself against russian attacks. moscow says supplying ukraine with patriot missiles, we'll have repercussions. the patriot is

a highly effective surface to air missile system. it would be the most advanced system provided by the west to help you crane repel russian attacks. it typically includes launches along with radar and other support vehicles to help you, craney and forces knock out even more of the missile hitting towards the cities. but russia says, sending patriot missiles to ukraine would be an escalation with consequences. not that yet in our 5 year. we strongly advise those who make my decisions in washington to finally listen. what was the need to be put to themselves? you know, it's and draw the right conclusion from our repeated warnings in any way can apply to ukraine. you including the patriot, along with a personnel servicing them. oh, will remain legitimate priority targets. the russian armed forces are

before the patriot can be deployed, us troops will 1st have to train ukrainian forces that would take several weeks and most likely happen in a 3rd country, potentially germany like any weapon. it does have its limitations. but ukraine has long asked for the patriot to help defend itself and getting it will be further evidence of the west support. so how soon could we see patriot air defense systems deployed in ukraine and how much of a difference would they make? i put those questions to defense analyst mike martin. i mean this is going to be in the new year. the training part is quite a complex system. and so the training pipeline, even if you cut it down, would take at least a month or 6 weeks. the difference, it will make, well, a battery comes with 4 launches. so really what that's able to do is to defend at a point rather than an area. so perhaps maybe key would enhance defensive key or

another city. but it's not going to get blanket coverage across the whole of ukraine. there's talk, mike of russia preparing another major offensive, possibly a ground defense of what the help of belarus or ukraine's allies giving keep the kind of hard where it needs to repel such an offensive. and i have to say, i think that that offensive is a fantasy because you create a sorry rush. it doesn't have the capability to open up another front, new crane. but let's assume for moment that it is going to do that. i do think that ukraine, kearney is receiving the types of weapons. it needs to repellant offensive like that, although we have to be careful of amounts for president lensky said. it's costing $5000000000.00 per month to keep russia in the war. and we need to maintain those levels. otherwise,

ukraine may suffer some setbacks or speaking of setbacks. we've seen ukraine's infrastructure being extremely vulnerable to russian drone and missile attacks. can ukraine continue to endure that over the long haul? yes, i think it can. and what we're seeing is russian attacks on essentially civilian infrastructure and, and russia is doing that because it thinks that it will be able to get the ukranian population to break and give up. but actually what we've seen is that these attacks of cause the ukrainians to rally round. if you speak to you claiming civilians, their view is well if they're destroying our infrastructure, we have no choice but to fight. we will continue to fight and we will win. so it's having the opposite effect to what russia intends. ok, mike, thank you very much. military analyst, my click there. now to afghanistan, where the taliban rulers have banned university education for women. is the latest

blow to women and girls who have been stripped of many basic rights since the militant group seized power last year. the united states and the rent have condemned the move saying it will bring further isolation to the taliban. but they appear indifferent to the international outrage. the news comes as a huge disappointment to thousands of african women and girls, especially those who took their university entrance exams just 3 months ago. it further restricts women's access to formal education. after already being banned from secondary school, at the united nations, there was condemnation of can a sense representative. they're not the taliban picked for ambassador, criticised the band. i regret to begin my remarks with the very unfortunate news about the taliban. st directive just announced banning all woman from attending universities throughout afghanistan as if the situation was in dire enough. this

announcement now marks a new law in violation of most fundamental and universal human rights. a spokesman for the un secretary general said that taliban was failing to keep the word what it is. it's clearly another broken promise from the job. and we have seen since there take over and also in the past months, just a lessening of the space for women, not only in education, but access to public areas and their non participation in the public debate. after the taliban took over last year, universities in afghanistan began separating classes by gender and introducing separate entrance points. now the right to even attend has been taken away. the united states says it will do its best to hold the taliban to account any way it

can condemn the strongest arm. this unexpected, unacceptable stance will have significant consequences or the taliban and will further alienate the taliban from the internet community and deny them the legitimacy they desire. that's gone. the son is struggling economically and has repeatedly called for international assistance. but without the participation of its female population and society, a lot of outside assistance may be hard to come by. a spring in ali latifah, here who's a journalist in kabul. ali, how are people in afghanistan reacting to this ban? i mean, they've been absent this entire time coming back to this idea that if the tele bon wants to call itself in islam, the camera that has to act in accordance with islamic teachings with kron when the saying that the proper man. and whenever these kinds of rulings and edicts come out, they come back and they say, well koran says that the prophet mohammed said this,

none of this is in accordance with this long. and we've seen the people come out, you know, to day in the eastern province of nigger, our medical faculty. i didn't take their exams and they didn't go to school a. they protested, you know, they mail faculty members didn't take their exams and instead stood in solidarity with, with their female counterparts. um, so people will not this lately. it's hard to imagine how anyone, including the taliban, could profit from such a bad. why are they doing this? the answer is not clear. as i said, you know, anybody who has a basic understanding of islam knows that this is completely in contravention to it . so it doesn't out there case though, we bring along the government to have on us on any. if you look at people who even historically would sort of make excuses for them or sort of seem to be on their side even online. the ones not posting in english now the 2 are turning again and

bang, you know, this is non bomb, nick, so no one really understand what they seem to think the game from it. and at the same time, you had people hiring people within the tall barn who were spoke out against this in different ways and said that this needs to end. so this is still the question and they have yet to talk to anybody about it. you know, other than thing? yes, we did this. they will talk single journalists about it to say why they did it, how they did it, or what the basis for it is. it's quite a bit of international pressure on the taliban to revoke bands like this. and there are lots of other bands that they placed on, on women and other groups as well. is there any hope that international pressure might encourage the taliban to reconsider these moves? no, because international pressure doesn't actually affect the ino zebulon much. i had the chief telephone spokesman spend at least a week, if not to in turkey,

in about and the last couple months, you know, that the minister information culture is supposed to go, i believe, to russia, to a conference. and when they go to these, they go on private planes and you know, they're in, they're greeted as guests and, you know, western and regional officials come and visit them or they invite them to their countries. or, you know, there's a handful of countries that so have active open embassies here. despite not recognizing the talent. though the truth is, none of this pressure actually affects them who is affecting our prayers. these girls and mothers, their fathers, who now have much less money than they used or dealing with higher prices. who are getting b. i able to keep warm and heat themselves a in the winter and who are finding it impossible to find these as even to neighboring countries at this point, or to get a passport. so really the international pressure has yet to be anything affect it to actually affect any important high ranking taliban or even a low level galvan member. it's only affecting the other on

a son. and i thank you very much for talking with his that was ali lativia journalist in couple this is the w news. saw sweetest, more stories making headlines around the world. former russian president dmitri macbeth has met with chinese president. she jan, paying during a surprise visit to beijing. the close ally vladimir putin. mister murray that have said talks had included the war in ukraine and fy lateral cooperation. british ambulance workers are joining nurses and striking overpaying healthcare leaders of born patients. safety may be affected. the government has refused to raise pain in line with record inflation for staff in the state run health care system. 3 days after the sinking of a tie war ship hopes of finding more survivors or fading. rescuers pulled one survivor and 6 bodies from the sea. on tuesday,

the vessel sank in rough seas on sunday night, with a 105 people aboard. 23 are still missing. a congressional committee in the united states has voted to release a report on dental on donald trump's tax returns. it's expected to shine a light on the home presence finances, including the amount he paid in tax. mr. trump has long fought to keep information about his finances, confidential germany is dealing with a shortage of basic medicines, especially for children. drugs like heresy. html have become impossible to get in some places. in part, this is because of an increased increase in demand caused by a surge and respiratory illnesses. but other factors including government policy, are also to blame. he has ins in us. this is where piracy html for children is normally stored. as you can see, it's empty. that's because we are no longer getting any supplies softly or via via

miss beverly from van. andrea league vig heads the hospital pharmacy at the university hospital cooling one of the largest clinics in germany. she currently can't restock liquid power, see them all or i be pro fin prescribed to relieve pain and fever in children at slamming leafing, pess of shifting. we've been concerned about drug shortages for years, having to be honest though the situation has never been as bad as it is now, simply because of the sheer number of medications in short supply. if it's hoffman's and the hospital pharmacy can still cover its own needs because it can produce drugs for its own patients on site, it's managed to make up for the shortfall. empower, say them all by manufacturing it here. but not every pharmacy has resources like that. in many cases, the shelf reserve for fever, reducing children's drugs is empty. the pediatrician's, that's a real problem for once i still feel it means that we often have to rewrite prescriptions and look up the dosage several times over. full tentative medications

. and you have talk for 2nd or 3rd choice. prescription drugs become into that slightly written was given, improvising with children's health. even hopper was distressed by the medication shortage. 2 weeks ago, when her children began running high fevers, she couldn't find any drugs to bring the temperature down. she says to spot coals to numerous pharmacies after the flat i rises, old osmond on saturday. i was on the verge of tears because i couldn't help them. and i just couldn't believe it was why. and when the little one is crying and says, mom and hurts are mom. i feel like i can't breathe any more. you just feel helpless . oh does. can little smell keegan, suss from sla now, from here. so how can europe's largest economy have such a shortage of basic medicines, disruptions to global supply chain? so one reason high demand due to

a wave of illness is another. but experts also blaine price caps designed to keep drug prices stable, even as production costs rise. this is put a number of manufacturers out of business for now, children, parents, doctors, and pharmacists to having to improvise as they do their best to cope with the shortage. of course, paula julia so dearly as dell at the shari tay hospital here in berlin. it's one of europe's biggest university hospitals. julia, what's the situation there? how are doctors that are coping with the san antonius surgeon, respiratory infections and a shortage of medicines yeah, the situation is quite difficult, not just yet the sharing table across hospitals in germany. there is this big surge in respiratory illnesses and that has a burdened at the hospitals that are already a plague with a structural problems like funding but also staffing. and we've seen,

especially children's hospitals suffering the most in some cases. and some children's hospitals were running out of intensive care beds to offer children. and we, we've seen that happening across the country here at the chevy test. specifically, they've had to postpone all non urgent operations and procedures to a next year. that is because a lot of the doctors and nurses themselves are getting sick with this wave of flu and other seasonal illnesses. but also because a lot of the staff has been redirected to children's wards to try to help out there . assuring a functional health care system is also the job of the german government. what is the german government doing to address the situation? so on the one hand, the health minister has come up with a draft proposal to reform the hospital system in particular to change the funding

of hospitals and make it possible for each patient to receive more money for each patient's care. and on the other hand, for the medication problem, the minister has also put forward a draft law in which he wants to loosen the price caps on medications. here in germany, he believes that that way, i'm lifting this price cap and making it possible for a pharmacies to pay more for medicine. it will incentivize medicine producers to deliver more medication to germany, but it will also expand the pool of countries and producers that will be willing to deliver medication to germany. understand the health minister is also looking at new laws or possibly to expedite production of generic drugs. how quickly could something like not be implemented? all of these proposals are still draft. they still have to be approved by the

government and then have to be approved by the parliament. this is something that will take some time. and the issue is that the problem is, is happening now the winter season, where a lot of these illnesses happening is right now. and that's why a lot of doctors have also called for some measures that were used during the coven pandemic, to sort of speed up and make it more efficient to find other medicines and other measures like that to be implemented. but the attention is certainly still high, especially now in the height of the winter months. julia, thank you very my char, correspond julia. so deli, they're here in downtown berlin. well, germany has formerly returned looted arch works to nigeria. foreign minister molina bow balk, handed back statues, known as benign bronzes. she described the rep repatriation as long overdue. the bronzes are among thousands of treasures stolen from africa by colonial powers. this is the moment when i jerry and have been waiting for after

a 125 years. these stolen treasures now returned home a 1st step to right the wrongs of the colonial passed. according to germany's foreign minister at the hand, over in the capital, i bowed jack. the return of the wrong says to day is therefore a crucial step towards addressing this chapter in the way that it should be addressed. openly, frankly, was the willingness to critically says, one owns activities. and crucially, by listening closely to the current sons of those who were the victims of colonial cruelties, it is in readiness to talking to listen that made to days returns possible. british soldiers looted the bronzes and 1897 from the palace and the kingdom of printing. now nigeria, there result collectors all over europe, more than

a 1000 ended up in german museums. now germany has become the 1st former colonial power to hand back. some of the artworks more will follow in the coming years for us with some today just tells us about restitution. israel backed all the promises or the commitments back i've been made. i've been a beginning to be fulfilled and this is where the bronze statues will be exhibitors and you museum as being built and been in city and southwestern nigeria. the cities bronze tradition continues to this day. i wayne, i gay is a bronze costume like his father and grandfather before him. he tells us he's only ever known the been bronzes from european museum catalogues. how can i really get the actual details of what brigitte ducked out, your buck to believe it would make also seem very with clearly what up for what i

was producing, you will get it on greets and yes and what i see as well. well, good, happy want you to come back on. i was our pre, the new museum won't be finished for a few years, but already the return of the treasures is a milestone in nigeria as fight to regain at stolen cultural heritage. you're watching dw, those from berlin up next to look at west africa's disappearing coastlines in pico africa. i'm terry martin for me and all of us here at the w. thanks for walking with

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