i thanks. come on mixed in the arctic. if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with starts december 23rd on d w. ah ah, this is dw news coming to you live from berlin, law visa lensky, to pay a surprise visit to the united states. it's the 1st time the ukranian president has left his country since russia invaded in february. also coming up anger and hopelessness in afghanistan as the taliban are women from attending university

girls tell d w. their future has been taken from europe's largest economy is running out of some basic medicines. our german government policies partly to play ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us, but not me, as zalinski is on his way to the united states. the ukranian president is expected to meet us president joe biden, and to address congress, there will be his 1st trip abroad since the russian invasion in february. it's thought that washington will use the visit to announce the delivery of more advanced weapons to ukraine. presidency lansky 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, some of the 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. the lensky is due to meet with his us counterpart, joe biden, in washington, and address congress by the coin. you know, 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 ukrainian precedence unannounced visit to the front line to meet troops in the city of back loot that he handed out awards to 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 and need more powerful weapons. we will pass it on from the boys to the congress to the president of united states. you are grateful for their support, but it is not enough with united 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 corresponding mckinney cook does covering the story. i asked earlier about the expectations in the us surrounding cholenski visit.

was that the, i mean this is understood as a very strong symbolism and it is meant as such to woods 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, all 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 such. 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. 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 u. s. support. the u. s. is set on remaining that key as a supporter of ukraine to buy this val. 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 of 40 of 1000000000 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 me as a lensky stress, and 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 press a 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 l as we've heard present. but is expected to announce, sir, not only a new package of military aid for kia, it will most likely also contain what one u. s. official called a very important new capability, namely, a patriot missile battery system. it is aimed at enabling ukraine to better defend itself against russian attacks, but training personnel on how to use these weapons properly could take up to 6

months. mike martin is military analyst. i asked him earlier whether he thinks that this kind of new hardware is what ukraine needs to repel. another possible russian offensive. i have to say, i think that that's offensive is a fantasy. because you cry, i swear russia doesn't have the capability to open up another front in ukraine. but let's assume for a moment that it is going to do that. i do think that ukraine carney is receiving the types of weapons and it needs to report an offensive like that. although we have to be careful of amounts to presidents. lensky said it's costing $5000000000.00 per month to keep russia in the war. and we need to maintain those levels. otherwise, ukraine, myself, some setbacks will air raid sirens have been sounding across ukraine today. there is no immediate word of prussia taxed by russia, but residents have to be on their guard around the clock because moscow is

targeting civilian infrastructure. and as the w max on the reports from chroma torso, the bombs can hit at any time. and in any place, the front line is more than 30 kilometers away from this town than eastern ukraine . but every now and then from a coast itself turned towards, oh, well, this is the aftermath of last night's attack. a russian rocket landed here at about 20 minutes past midnight. most likely a russian surface to air missile was used quite inaccurate, but at the same time, extremely powerful to several of the single round with a devastating effect. the blast wave took away the roof of the neighboring college and glowed every window in the vicinity the volleyball field inside the gym. once the training ground that cometh thus firstly, multi, now covered in endless charge the power

lines to have been destroyed. since the beginning of fall, this has been part of the russian strategy across the entire country. on yoda, it's 95 percent of reasons strikes. have talked that submitted infrastructure. i don't know why they're shooting into the city. why they're trying to injure us. citizens in the market, their aim is not to liberate anyone. if they would put it, you know, they want to kill ukrainians and destroy a nation lisa mitchell to not from. nobody was killed in this but natalia pushed out of a lost everything she had. oh, she shows us the ruins of which is hours ago. had been her home here. yes. oh yes, but the young. no, i'm nearly always here a minute. yep, a lot, but when it happened to him, i was away visiting my family. lewis valuable natalia

knows that despite everything, she got extremely lucky. i've never been a yellow them up for the last few years. i lived here alone with my younger son of young lady, but he died in january 11th and then the war started in february. like his room was the 1st one you entered. and i slept here. why? yes, look, now. thank you. natalia doesn't know yet what she will do. she is 67 a pensioner with no other place to go. but even if she did, she says she wouldn't want to leave crime autodesk outside the clean of continues. soon the road will be repaired

by the evening. power will be back despite the horrors and hardships ukrainians have learned to keep calm and carry off. now to afghanistan, where are the countries 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 sees power last year. the united states in the u. n. had 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,

criticized 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 honesty 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 tolliver. and we have seen since there takeover and it also in the past months just a lessening of the space for women. not only in education but access to public areas. 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 from the united states, says it will do its best to hold the taliban to account any way it can condemns in the strongest harm. this unexpected and acceptable stance will have significant consequences or the taliban and will further alienate the taliban from the inner munity and deny them 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. earlier i spoke with journalist ali latifah in cobble. he told me how afghans are reacting to this latest restriction on women's rights. i mean, they've been absent this entire time coming back to this idea that if the tele bon

wants to call itself and it's on the camera that it has to act in accordance with islam teachings with her on the same as the prophet, my mom. 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 islam. and we've seen the people come out, you know, to day in the eastern province of linger our medical faculty. i didn't take their exams, they didn't go to school. they, they protested, you know, then male faculty members didn't take their exams and instead stood in solidarity with, with their female counterparts. so people will not this lately. it's hard to imagine how anyone, including the taliban, could profit from such a ban. 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 it is completely in contravention to

islam. so it doesn't out there case though, we are bring and slum and government to have honest 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 they too are turning against them and saying, you know, this is non islamic, so no one really understands what these seem to think they gained from it. and at the same time, you had people high ranking people within the taliban who were spoke out against us in different ways and said that this needs to. and so this is still the question and they have yet to talk to anybody about it. you know, other than saying yes, we didn't this, they won't talk a single journalist about it to say why they didn't, how they did it. or what the basis for it is. there's quite a bit of international pressure on the taliban to revoke bands like this. and there lots of other bands that they placed on, on women and other groups as well. is there any hope ali,

that international pressure might encourage the taliban to reconsider these moves? no, because international pressure doesn't actually affect that ino ziebell homage. i had that she 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, when 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 cell have active open embassies here, despite not recognizing the tall bond. though the truth is, none of this pressure actually affects them who is affecting our prayers. these girls, their mothers, their fathers who now have much less money than they used to are 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 tal lavonne or even a low level tal upon member. it's only affecting the bill of of on a sun. i thank you very much for talking with us. that was ali, the t v. a journalist in couple you're watching d. w news. let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world's day. british ambulance workers are joining nurses and striking, overpaid health care leaders of wound patients. safety may be effected, the government has refused. there's res pay in line with record inflation for stuff in the state. run health care system. 3 days after the sinking of a ty warship hopes of finding more survivors, our fading rescuers pulled one survivor and 6 bodies from sea. on tuesday the

vessel sank and rough seas on sunday night with 105 people on board. 23 are still missing. a congressional committee in the united states has voted to release a report on donald trump's tax returns is expected to shine a light on the form of presence. finance is including the amount he paid in tax. mr . trump has long fault to keep information about his finances, confidential, peruse, congress says back plans or early elections in a mid to defuse the political crisis, sparked by the ousting of president at ro, castiano. deadly unrest has raw the country since his removal and arrests. the proposals still needs to be ratified in a 2nd, but germany is dealing with a shortage of basic medicines, especially for children. drugs like paracetamol have become impossible to get in some places. in part, this is because of an increase in demand caused by a surge in 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 thought of lay out 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 seat m 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 even toxins 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 pediatricians. that's a real problem for on size as the feel. it means that we off now to rewrite prescriptions and look up the dosage several times over, full tentative medications. and we have talk for 2nd or 3rd choice prescription drugs to come 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, despite coals to numerous pharmacies, after the flat i rises, owed us millions that i was on the verge. of tears because i couldn't help them and i just couldn't believe it. wow. why. and when the little one is crying and says, mom and hurts are mom. i feel like a can't breathe any more. you just feel helpless. oh, those can last mckee,

young us, us 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. to find out more our correspondent julia. so deli, went down to the shari tay hospital. here in berlin, it's one of europe's biggest university hospitals. she asked role, i asked her how doctors are coping with the surge in respiratory infections on the one hand and a shortage of medicines on the other. the other situation is quite difficult,

not just here at the chevy table across hospitals in germany. there is this a big surge in respiratory illnesses, and that has a burdens at the hospitals that are already uh, played with a structural problems like a 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 tay, 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 re directed to children's wards to try to help out there. l assurance 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 a loose in the price caps on medications. here in germany, he believes that that way, lifting this price cap and making it possible for a pharmacist 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 a 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. in while china says no one died of covered 19 on tuesday, despite the relaxation of restrictions and global fears of a surgeon cases there. but some experts say no fatalities were recorded yesterday

because beijing has changed the way a documents, deaths. footage on social media shows crematorium under strain and an increased demand for medical supplies. pharmacy shows. m d fast. the spread of corbett 19 is stretching china medical resources due to limit outside this pharmacy delivery workers wait to pick up or does for the reopening has been difficult for us living. it's a burden on the system to suddenly reopen that when that's not enough medication for every one. other wasn't sort of pharmaceutical companies are stepping up production to meet that demand for corporate 19 drugs. a grand light, a think i can watch out median things. aloe for dante capacity has increased 5 or 6 times compared with normal. the yearly,

so mentioned that it is putting pressure on packaging again. those are so called the managers from other departments i helping out on thought that isn't on the lead . will me, in particular, italian authorities, i trying to buy in more medicines from overseas to make up for shortages at home. the 3rd in good faith has not only left medicines in short supply. it's draining the whole health care system. the operator at this beating medical center tries to re assured a patient's relative. i've tried to call him down. you can invite him, get one more day to bring down his temperature. we are very busy right now, what we will send you an ambulance as soon as it's available. an official report suggest debt from corbett 19 are racing sharply. some experts were excuses. we peak in the next to one to 2 weeks. you're watching dw news from berlin, just reminder the top story we're following for you this hour for laudermill.

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