ah ah ah, this is dw is coming to live from berlin lovigno zelinski on his way to the united states. it's the 1st time the gradient president has left his country since russia invaded in february. also coming up anger and hopelessness in afghanistan as the taliban or women from attending university expiring students. tell

d w. their future has been taken problem and europe's largest to call to me 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. but a lot of me as a lensky is on his way to the united states. the ukranian president is expected to meet u. s. 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 them. or 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. by 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 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, a need more powerful weapons. we will pass it on from the boys to the congress of a president of united states. they are grateful for their support, but it is not enough, but 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 correspond mckayla could those covering this story for us? i asked her about the expectations in the us regarding so lindsey's 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 miss lensky is actually daring to leave his country for the 1st time and 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 thoughts that sent me what do 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 to was 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. the u. s. is set on remaining that key as 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 is it in ski 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 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 heard, rosen wagner is expected to announce a new package of military aid, 14, it will likely contain what one us official called a very important new capability. namely, namely a patriot missile defense system. it's aimed at labeling ukraine to better defend itself against russian attacks, but training personnel on how to use these weapons properly could take up to 6 weeks. mike martin is

a military analyst. i asked him whether he thinks that this kind of new hardware is what ukraine needs to repel and other possible russian offensive. i have to say, i think that that offensive is a fantasy. because you cry, sorry, russia doesn't have the capability to open up another front and 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, of mounts for 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. meanwhile, air raid sirens have been sounding across ukraine today. there is no immediate word of fresh attacks by russia, but residents have to be on their guard around the clock because moscow is targeting civilian infrastructure and as the w's max chanda reports from crime

a task, the bombs can hit at any time. and at 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 all of this is the aftermath of last night's attack. a russian rocket landed here in about 20 minutes past midnight. most likely a russian surface to air missile was used quite inaccurate, but at the same time, extremely powerful. this have a look a single round with a devastating effect. the blast wave took away the roof of the neighboring college and glowed every window in the vicinity volleyball field inside the gym. once the training ground that come with us 1st and volleyball team, 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 recent strikes. have talked, it 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 any one. if they would put it, you know, they want to kill ukrainians and destroy our nation for use of mitchell to not from us. nobody was killed in this. but natalia cushion audio but 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 a bullet 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. but he died in january and then the war started in february like his room was the 1st one you entered. and i slept here. no, i yes, with 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 grandma thorsten outside the clean up 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, vladimir putin has bowed that russia will achieve all its goals in ukraine. in an end of year speech to defense chiefs, the russian president told them the military would receive whatever it needed without financial limits, announced that the russian navy would be equipped with new hypersonic cruise missiles early next year. soon, couple routine also stressed that russia would continue to develop its strategic nuclear forces and that the new sama intercontinental ballistic missile would be ready for deployment. don't in the near future. would you be speech in these up st . look at some other stories making headlines around the world. stay british ambulance workers are joining nurses in striking, overpay health care leaders at warren. patient safety may be effected. the government has refused to raise, pay in line with record inflation for staff in the state. run health care system.

massage rains have triggered deadly flooding in northern malaysia. at least 5 people die well more than 70000 have been forced to flee their homes. buddy is an annual phenomenon in the country, but experts say climate change is likely exacerbating the pop. 3 days after the sinking of a ty warship hopes of finding more survivors or fading. rescuers pulled one survivor and 6 bodies from the sea. on tuesday the vessel sank and rough seas on sunday night with 105 people on board. 23 are still missing. afghanistan's taliban rulers have banned university education for women. it's the latest blow to women and girls who have been stripped of many basic rights since the militant group receives power last year. the united states and the un have condemned the mood of 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 pick for ambassador, criticized the band. i regret to begin my remarks with the very unfortunate news about the taliban directive just announced banning all woman from attending universities throughout all 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 child about. and we have seen since their takeover and 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 in the united states says it will do its best to hold the taliban to account any way it can condemns in the strongest arm. this unassigned 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. afghanistan 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 alley le tv in cobble, he told me, hell, afghans are reacting to this latest restriction on women's rights. i mean, they've been upset this entire time coming back to this idea that if it's a taller bond wants to call it self, the camera is going to have to act accordingly. when it's teachings with kron with the proper amount of money. and whenever these kinds of rulings in edicts come out, they come back and they say, well, are on this for profit months, but none of this is an important loan. and we've seen the people come out, you know, today in the eastern province happening, our medical faculty didn't take their exams. they didn't go to school. they, they protested, you know,

the mail faculty members didn't take their exams and that's good and solid arity with their female counterparts. so people will not 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, 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 did it, 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 are 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 them. you know that be my joy that she told bon spokesmen spend at least a week if not to key in. and the last couple of months, you know, the minister information culture supposed to, i believe, to russia, to a conference. and when they go to the they go on private planes and you know, when they're, they're greeted as a gas and you know, western and regional official comment visit them or they invite them to their

countries. or, you know, there's a hand all of countries that still have active open amenities here, despite not recognizing that all of on. so the truth is none of this pressure actually affects them with affecting our purposes. these girls are mothers, their father, who now have much less money than they used to are dealing with higher prices. who are going to be able to keep warm and heat them called in the winter, and who are finding it impossible to find either even to neighboring countries at this point, or to get a passport. so really, the international pressure has yet to be anything effective to actually effect any important high ranking taller bond or even a low level telephone member. it's only effecting the other one is done on the thank you very much for talking with us. that was on the tv, a journalist in couple germany is dealing with a shortage of basic medicines, especially for children. drugs like paracetamol have become impossible to get in

some places. is partly due to rising demand caused by a surgeon, respiratory illnesses. but other factors including government policy, are also to blame. he has ins, as 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 andre, a leak 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 em all or i be pro fin prescribed to relieve pain and fever in children at slamming the fang 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 pediatrician's, that's a real problem for inside the theory. 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 ended at slightly written by a given him providing 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, there, slats, izod, osman, and hat. 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, those kind of mickey youngest us from the full amount. um yeah. 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 are having to improvise as they do their best to cope with. the shortage sheet of is julius. so deli went down to berlin's sharie tay hospital. it's one of your biggest university hospitals asked how doctors are coping with the surgeon, respiratory infections and a shortage medicines. yeah,

the situation is quite difficult. not just here at the chevy tea, but across hospitals. in germany, there is this big surgeon, respiratory illnesses and that has burdened the hospitals that are already played with a structural problems like funding but also staffing. and we've seen, especially children's hospitals suffering the most in some cases, 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 re directed to children's wards to try to help out their 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 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 help 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, 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. germany has formerly returned to looted art works to nigeria, foreign minister. utterly in about bach,

handed back 20 statues known as beneath bronzes. she described the repatriation as long overdue. the bronzes are among thousands of treasures stolen from africa by colonial powers. this is the moment nigerians have been waiting for after a 125 years. these stolen treasures now returned home a 1st step to right the wrongs of the colonial past. according to germany's foreign minister at the hand, over in the capital i boot jack the region 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 in 1897 from the palace in the kingdom of benin. now nigeria, there resulted 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. as for us with some today just tells us that restitution. israel backed all the promises and the commitments back i've been made. i've been a beginning to be fulfilled, and this is where the bronze statues will be exhibited. and you museum as being built and been in city and southwestern nigeria. the cities bronze tradition continues to this day. i, when i say is a bronze caster 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 google or get it on greets. and yes, and would i say that is why? 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 fight to regain at stolen cultural heritage. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. mm. ah, with

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