now with all sorts december 23rd on p w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news live from berlin. president followed amir zalinski on his way to the united states. that is the 1st time he's left ukraine since russia invaded in february. also coming up on the show, anger and hopelessness in afghanistan as the taliban bar women from attending

university. the decision sparks global outreach. can the international community do anything to help? and mountain concern in germany as a growing number of infants are hospitalized with our s v, but a vaccine to protect new borns from the virus could be just around the corner. ah. hello, i'm clear, richardson, thank you so much for joining us. already. rizza lensky is on his way to the united states, where he's expected to meet president joe biden and address congress. it is his 1st known trip abroad since russia's invasion of ukraine in february. and it's thought that the us will use the visit to announce the delivery of more advanced weapons to ukraine. presidency landscape has taken every opportunity to appeal for more money,

aids and military support since the start of the war in the ukraine. either one hosting world leaders in the capital key 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. zelinski is due to meet with his us counterpart, joe biden, and washington and address congress by the one you it's the visit fraught with security, can send in a letter sent by us how speak can nancy pelosi on tuesday. members of congress were urged to be present in person a 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 black moods. that he handed out towards the soldiers and was gifted a ukrainian flag making this statement just moments later. portal this as the enemy is increasing its army and our people are braver and need more powerful weapons. they will pass it on from the boys to the congress, to the president of the united states. you are grateful for bad support. it is not enough that you like to welcome. 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. so for more on this story,

let's get across to washington dc and our correspondent mikaela coroner. so we have president zalinski that 1st trip abroad. he is using it to meet with president bite and at the white house. what do you think he is going to be hoping to get across to day? well, there's a lot of symbolism playing into this as we saw, russian president vladimir putin oversee his defense minister, basically announcing that the russian military will be expanded here as symbolic meeting in the united states. romeo lensky. visiting by far his most important and biggest factor, the united states, the u. s. president. yes. but also u. s. congress that has sent some $50000000000.00 in assistance already ukraine's way and is about to potentially do the same. this is a crucial day in washington d. c. where

a almost 2 trillion budgets could be decided upon and vote him is zalinski. it has been increasingly making the case that he needs more weapons and he needs more sophisticated weapons systems. and that's why we're not just announcing to 1000000000, that's what we heard from a white house official in extra assistance, but also cruise to the of the deployment of a patriot defense system. which could be a game changer both in defense technology, but also diplomatically with moscow. were ready warning the united states not to use it, that it would become a valid target as well in this fight that the united states under a democrat controlled congress, as you mentioned, has sent tens of billions of dollars of age to ukraine. this year alone, a, do you think that the lensky trip now is timed in part to turn up the heat on republicans who will be taking control of the house of representatives in january next year? well,

a white house official described this. i just want to reach out to you an important injection of momentum in the relationship a, particularly with congress. increasingly there are going to be in the future congress that comes into power in january, some hard, right? voices from the republican side who don't want to. and i quote, write a blank check to ukraine, so yes, it's crucial to keep congress on board both for this budget to go through, but also into the future. to biden promised that he would do whatever it takes and state with ukraine, as long as it takes both on the international stage, but also 3 axle which has to be backed by the american people. now poll says that a majority is behind this. they want to see support for ukraine, but the debates could become more uncomfortable. hence, it's so important that voted mid savanski. if he takes his risk to leave, the country comes here. and this is after all,

not just of where most of by far of the aid comes from that's going into ukraine. but also it is the capital of the west that is being defended in ukraine against russia. thank you so much for that update that is mechanical for, for us in washington dc. so as we've heard, president biden is expected to announce a new package of military aid for key f. and it will likely contain what one us official called a very important new capability, namely a patriot missile defense system. and it's aimed at and enabling ukraine to better defend itself against russian attacks. a training personnel on how to use these weapons properly could take up to 6 weeks. well, mike martin is a military analyst and we asked him earlier whether he thinks this kind of new hardware is what you crane needs to repel another possible russian offensive. i have to say, i think that's 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 amounts to presidents. lensky said it's costing $5000000000.00 per month to keep rusher in the war. and we need to maintain those levels, otherwise, ukraine, myself, some setbacks. meanwhile, vladimir putin has vowed 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. he announced that the russian navy would be equipped with a new hypersonic cruise missiles early next year. i'm so good and put in also stresses that russia would continue to develop it, strategic nuclear forces, and that the new sr mat, intercontinental ballistic missile would be ready for deployment in the near future . upper. no,

no. and that's as 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 dw max at santa reports from cram a tourist, the bombs can hit at any time in any place. the front line is more than 30 kilometers away from this town the eastern cream. but every now and then from a coach itself turned towards 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. the settled 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 the volleyball field inside the gym. once the training ground that come with us, firstly bolton now covered in endless short, the power lines to have been destroyed since the beginning of fall. this has been part of the russian strategy across the entire country. i knew that 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 know from us. 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 any minute. yep. a lot. but when it happened to him, i was away visiting my family. what's 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, yet again reading, but he died in january and then the war started in february like his room was the 1st one you entered with. and i slept here. no, i yeah, look, no, thank you. natalia does 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 crum autodesk outside the clean up continue. 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 all serge impatience, but respite we can take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the worlds. germany has sent its 1st batch of bi onto cope 19 vaccines to china. for now at least only german nationals living in china will benefit it follows a deal between beijing and berlin, china's otherwise sticking to its policy of using only domestically produced vaccines. british ambulance workers are joining nurses and striking overpay health care leaders. have warned patient safety may be affected. a government has refused to raise,

pay in line with record inflation for staff in the state run health care system. monsoon rains have triggered and deadly flooding in northern malaysia. at least 5 people have died while more than 70000 have been forced to flee their homes. flooding is an annual phenomenon in the country, but experts, a climate change is likely exacerbating the problem. and 3 days after a ty, warships sank in the gulf of thailand. hopes of finding were, survivors are fading. rescuers pulled one survivor and 5 bodies from the sea. on tuesday, the vessel sank in rough seas on sunday night with 105 people aboard. and 23 are still missing. let's go to afghanistan now where the taliban rulers have banned university education for women. it is the latest blow to women and girls who have been stripped of many basic rights since the militant groups. he's power last year . united states and the u. n. have condemned the move saying it will bring further isolation to the taliban. the taliban for its part appears indifferent to the

international outrage. the news comes as a huge disappointment to thousands of african women and girls, especially those who took the university entrance exams just 3 months ago. it further restricts woman's access to formal education. after already being banned from secondary school, at the united nations, there was condemnation of got a sense representative. they're not a tele burns pick for ambassador, criticized to bed. i regret to begin my remarks with the very unfortunate news about the tolerance directive, just announced bunning all woman from attending universities throughout upon a stock. 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 say that taliban was failing to keep the word what it

is. it's clearly another broken promise from all of us. we have seen since there take over 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 nath kinda stan began separating classes by agenda 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 in the strongest terms. this unexpected, unacceptable stance will have significant consequences for the telephone and will further alienate the taliban from the internet community and deny them the legitimacy they desire. that's kind of stone is struggling economically and has repeatedly called for international assistance,

but without the participation of its female population in society. a lot of outside assistance may be hard to come by. let's get straight across to cobble and journalist alley, ltv, ali. what has the reaction there been to this ban on university education for women? people like stepping out, they're making statements, you know, in the products that are being, are higher and not men are not attending their classes. we had a university for a couple university, you know, to resignation as a result of this decision. so people are trying to find ways to make their stand. no, but obviously when the word 1st came out, you know, around this time last evening people were upset because it was, it was another reminder that the taliban keeps talking about this idea of islam,

a camera and saying that we want to bring a truly islamic society on and on, but anybody you know, honest on who understands the basic fundamentals of the muslim religion will say that there is nothing in the religion that would ban girls from going to either secondary school and 32 provinces or university in every province in the country. and that domestic pressure, you mentioned how effective do you think that will be in pushing the taliban tor potentially reconsidering this move? i'm for sure. hold on. is guilty of the same thing. i want to go public before it in that they don't really listen to the people and they have this vision of what they think of on the avalon culture are and what the people want. but what we've seen repeated the, you know, we saw that with the fiscal republic, and now we're seeing with islam. the cameras is that the people in charge of the country are completely off base with what the actual people country want. because the truth is, when they 1st did not allow teenage girls into secondary schools in 30 to 34,

probably ever since then, people have been speaking out including, you know, elders and officials from several provinces of the country have repeatedly made statements and repeatedly said we don't want and even higher numbers of the tolerable, have diluted it. but for whatever reason, there is a segment of them that cannot get this vision that has nothing to do with culture or with the religion of islam out of their mind. and what about international pressure we heard in our report there that banding, women from education could make international donors even less willing to help out going on out of what is a dire economic situation. do you think that that could play a role in changing the tale? bonds calculations at all? no personal distinctions. and the restrictions and whatnot have not affected the fall of on official whatsoever. you know they've been traveling the world they've been going on private. john, they've been living in other people's houses all the time. they gain enjoying great salaries and you know,

traveling the country and doing what they want. they faced no difficulty if the international community respond by restricting even more aid and even more development funding and things of that nature. the only people that will suffer are the avalon people including the winning. so that had not worked up until now, and it is like, it is not likely to work in the future. what has to happen is that the taller bond official sounds, who are living in other people's houses who are driving other people's cars, were traveling the world who are having western officials, including i believe german come and visit them and speak to them where they're embassy still open, you know, from, from regional neighbors until there's real pressure on them directly as officials, none of this will matter. and you've also mentioned that this latest move is just the latest in a string of moves to exclude women from public life. how much further do you think

they are willing or likely to go? i mean, at this point we did, we say the truth is they could go back to their way of the 1990 s, which would be heretic because, you know, the one thing that people were saying up until now is that okay, at least it's not as bad as the ninety's, at least we have some level of freedom in some ways to express ourselves in some avenue. at least they go outside to a shop to go visit friends to go to school, to some extent, things like that. what could end up happening and this seems to be the trajectory is that they could ultimately end up going to their way the 1990, which is quite surprising because, you know, for instance, when i worked at another network i had spoke to them for the ministry base and virtue say that he wanted to create a department of women's affairs because their ministry took over diminished women's affairs. that network never heard that part of the interview. but where's not talk? if that were the kinds of plans you had, how does any job with that? ok,

thank you so much for that update. that's allie. let's see. in couple really appreciate it. we can bring you up to speed now with some other stories that are making headlines around the world. peruse, congress has backed plans for early elections in a bid to defuse the political crisis. art by the ousting of president pedro castillo, deadly unrest has rocked the country since his removal and arrest the proposal. still it needs to be ratified a 2nd votes. my ill on mosque says he will step down from his role as ceo of twitter. once he has found a replacement attack billionaire had promised to abide by the results of a twitter pole in which more than 57 percent of users voted for him to resign. the changes he's introduced at the social media platform have been heavily criticized by users and advertisers or winter has arrived in the northern hemisphere and with it. a huge surge in patients with respiratory illnesses,

a so called triple demik has left many hospitals overwhelmed. there are effective vaccines for 2 of the diseases behind it cove, at 19 and influenza, but there isn't one against the 3rd pathogen r s v. but it does look like back of be changing soon. respiratory since it's your virus or rsv can pose that particular danger to newborns like andrea's because the inflammation and mucus causes can block the tiny airways and their lungs, like in many places in the northern hemisphere. pediatric hospitals in germany are currently struggling to cope with a crusting wave of infant patience lies. first of bethany lamb, it usually chaos breaks out in the late afternoon. yes, they have her then the emergency room is full. i lou and no more beds are available . kind of i and bitten me on my poor assistance, spend hours literally hours on the phone like trying to find

a free bed for the children that's often. and although generally pretty harmless for adults, the virus can also hold dangers for the elderly. unlike other common respiratory diseases like influenza or coven 19, there are still no authorized vaccines to help reduce the ravages caused by r s. v. despite decades of efforts, it's proven difficult to develop them. their long overdue was ours. is the number one healthcare burden under twos in there. as in the winter season, arsie bronchitis is massive. how can mother many babies die from it in modern western countries because needs to put the supporting therapy with oxygen. ah, it's very good, but if you have archie vaccine stop this baby communes, hostile even in the 1st place. now options could be around the corner. and rsv vaccine candidate developed by pfizer for expectant mothers will be submitted for approval in the next few weeks. it's been shown to also protect their newborns directly after burse and

a pfizer vaccine for the elderly isn't far behind. rival glaxo smith klein is also seeking approval for its rsv vaccine. next spring. important steps forward and protecting the most vulnerable from the worst effects of a potentially deadly illness. well, protect yourself and protect your family. that is the motto for gone has latest cove at 19 vaccine drive. it's a push against a possible surge in cases during the christmas period. when many people will be traveling to see their families and gone out has led the way on vaccination on the continent, but still only half the population is fully covered. that's partly due to hesitancy, but also because of access it is sprint of salt. this team has yet arrived to locally de now rural community against covey. there is

no electricity here. busy communities are scarce and health information even more saw. we ain't a guinea, savannah built of ghana. the plan is to vaccinate 1400000 people in just over 5 days. they miss of transportation is on his hour to lodge and, and on pace. any theory rennison is really difficult to get here because of the valleys you have to cross out what 7 or 5 reviews before you go to the people. the vaccinations t each have it daily target. they move from house to house, trying to reach everyone with support from community mobilization groups like rise, ghana in the up ice region banner has a good record of breaching communities in remote regis. previous vaccine drives have been successful for other diseases, but the coffee vaccines have been met with much resistance by many gun. yes. bobbo all a little said the vaccine was meant to reduce the well population away. others also said it was family planning for the women, and among the news was all over that vaccine computer supposed to 2 different

diseases or even kill you if you take advantage. not only or will this region is home to nobody communities and has got awesome, an influx of my grand, deep roughly an insecurity in neighboring countries. somewhat villages here think the best way to avoid covey is to stay isolated. they are my, they're not going and i think this disease affects people in the cities, not as here in the villages when, if it were only at risk because we go to the cities and they also sometimes come to us. so what i don't like that one at a to slight that pest in ghana. so protect yourself, protect your family, was a message agent, people to get vaccinated against cove it this festive season. the tune begins and that a long drive to the next village to save lives in gown as remoter regions in to keep his place as africa's leader in vaccinations. just before we go, let's get

a reminder of our top story at the sour polymers. lensky is on his way to the united states in his 1st foreign trip since rushes invasion of you cried, is expected to meet with you as president joe biden. and to address congress coming up next in dw news asia. why the rest of the world is worried about the explosion of krona virus cases in china. after the end of its the 0 kofi policy, that more is coming up next indeed of the news asia with my colleague of energy. until then, of course, always more on our website to that is i d, w dot com. thanks much for watching. ah ah,

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