[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, but all the meals, the lensky, thanks americans for their support in person. speaking port u. s. congress crane's president says russia must be defeated in the next year. the attorney for his 1st trip abroad since the story,

but there's also coming in these back to the stage is set for benjamin netanyahu to return to power in israel is announced a new government most like wing coalition, in the country's history and china's dilemma public unrest of course, the company's leaders to reverse there's 0 policy. but now infections for surgeon ah. hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has used a surprise visit washington to thank americans for their support. calling it crucial in his country's fight against russia's invasion in a speech c. u. s. lawmakers, the lensky said no country could be a neutral bystander,

and that russia must be defeated. he predicted that next year would be a turning point. is the ukranian president's 1st trip abroad since russia launched its invasion? 10 months ago. president zalinski was given the red carpet treatment as he arrived at the white house greeted like an old friend by his u. s. counterpart joe biden. they've spoken many times on the phone, but this was their 1st face to face meeting is the start of the war in ukraine with lots to discuss there in the oval office, another show of solidarity, a mutual praise from both lead us in a continuous strategy crazy building defense, so particularly care defense. and that's why we're going to provide you credit with patriot missile better training people continues firewall, i mean as and certainly i just inspire husband's fire world with or courage in

holly chose resilience and resolve for the future. thank you. so much use of course. thanks my boss board. thanks congress. and thanks for mom. just ordinarily bold to your ordinary people. americans made the president of the united states and the president of you great. this visit is an important one for both presidents. mister zalinski came to washington with a wish list with military hardware right at the top for j biden. it was a chance to send a strong signal to russia to the us is in it for the long term night stages committed to ensuring that the brave ukrainian people can continue, continue to defend their country against russian aggressions. as long as it takes next step for the ukrainian presidents, a speech to a read joint session of the u. s. congress entering the house to a hero's welcome. he delivered

a christmas appeal to the hearts and minds of america. we do not judge and compare whose life is easier, your well being if the product of your national security, the result of your struggle for independence and your many victorious we. ukrainians will also go through our war of independence and freedom with dignity and success. for laudermill zalinski no support like this in washington will be vital in the months or years of fighting ahead. but it's not guaranteed. some republicans are concerned about the billions being given to ukraine, and when they take control of the house next year, all could change. so what do ordinary ukrainians think about the lens is visit washington or ukraine correspond?

emma shaws has been asking residence in the capital. keith maria, i'm confident and my president will handle everything and that there will soon be peace in our country. i'm only thinking positively that everything will be as good as possible and we will be heard of the machine. so i think that this will increase our support in 2023, and i really hope that we will get the weapons it will allow us to. when heard was oregon from from another was blizzard. it was necessary to go there and talk in person. it was a very good decision, in my opinion for analysis, i don't know, it doesn't. i think it's very good unless it is especially pleasing that we will be supplied with a large amount of weapons. specifically, the fact that the us will give an additional aides for rocket systems. well, tomorrow, let's bring a domain. teela. sug ramos. so here she's a security expert in a senior lecturer at kings college london. thanks for being with us. so ukraine's

president will return from washington with a promise of more american aden weaponry, including a patriot missile system. how important is that support for ukraine's war effort? i think it has a very important aspect. one of the fact that they are the states is completing further to the protection of ukraine, especially at a time when it has suffered data so much from sort of the direct bombardment from the russian side on cbs, an infrastructure on energy infrastructure. so the system can help better protect certain areas of ukraine. ah, you know, from, from these attacks it's a very, it's sort of a very sophisticated, very well developed system done that provides protection, you know, through sort of non range me savvy system. and i think it to, you know, in certain areas where it's going to operate,

it's going to be quite effective. i think what is important is that it also shows that the united states is really committed to ensuring that ukraine can survive some of these attacks. and hopefully, ukraine, we get more of the systems in the future. might take a bit of time for the training. but we, you know, there is hope that by february 20 frankie, 30 ukraine would be able to operate, assist in russia, says it will regard the sending of patriots to ukraine as an escalation. what do you make of the why certainly russians are worried because they find this very sophisticated system closer to the order. but i wouldn't worry too much about russians, reaction because russia, russia has always sort effect and you know, that it won't react to any kind of support that is provided to ukraine. and in fact, you know, there is a limited effort. you know, there is limited of what it can do,

what they said sort of suddenly starts using nuclear weapons, which seems that really for the moment, really not, not to, not to really in, you know, one of the possibilities. russia keeps threatening about it, but the fact that, you know, iranian me satisfied, might be used by russia. you know, that, that, you know, it justifies very much or so the, the supply of these weaponry, i think that, you know, the ones who actually often escalating other russians, the russians started really bombarding the whole of ukraine. so this is really a response to our russian escalation rather than an escalation from, you know, from the west and not ukrainian side. i think that question really has tried to, you know, to respond to the russian escalation, run the other way around to mckayla. thank you. for talking with us that was don't want you to suck ramos. so from king's college now to israel,

where the country's designated prime minister benjamin netanyahu had succeeded in forming a new right wing coalition government. he made the announcement after weeks of negotiation with religious and all right. political partners at yahoo led his party to win the most seats in israel's november election, but needed coalition partners to govern. and netanyahu is israel's longest prime serving prime minister will had the most right wing administration in israel's history. ha. maybe the coalition agreement includes plans for judicial and security reforms. critics fear the new alliance will so deeper divisions in the country. oh, then you mean maybe netanyahu may soon add a new chapter to his memoirs published during the election campaign. israel's former prime minister is back, but this time netanyahu seated his return with the health of a controversial far right alliance. everything always depends on this danielle, cuz nathan, you know, can be

a reasonable prime minister even if you do not vote for him or not like him. he can run these were learned, he can run conflicts, he can do it. the question is his partners who are his partners? and that's the problem. his partner's the openly anti are up and homophobic ultra nationalist villagers, scientism alliance. it's leaders are bits i'll, it's more twitch and each time i've been via, been given here during the election campaign has been convicted for incitement and barred for military service because of his extremist views of a block of death to arabs. no, no, no, no, yoga, whoever wants to live here in peace alone, rosalinda. but whoever is throwing mala tops, whoever is killing children, killing women is a terrorist. miss. so what do we want that to terrorists?

critics are concerned about their ultra nationalist religious agenda becoming mainstream and is ready politics. and there were attacks on is roads, are minority among them, elected members of israel's parliament. the candidate are getting me an attacking me in order to attack the whole or a and put a senior community. when he is saying good death though terrorist, he says this thought ups as he said before, to pay 10 or 5 or 3 years. we are booking about very extreme and racist. a jewish politician party became the 3rd largest political force and the november 1st election. their strong showing has split the country even more. i feel, and frankly scared and also disappointed. around 400000 people voted for the new empties in vienna with which and that these 2 people have,

i find according opinions. and that is personally also danger me as a woman, the leftists in this country. and also as a and d v. d person, i think most people voted for ben give me or because of the security situation in israel, we really want to security to improve. so push it. i think people are longing for someone who does act and not only talks, milligram will seem. i personally know bank of year and he, she, i was working in his law firm when he was a lawyer. i'm also a lawyer. yeah. but he told me slideshow they all with the and i can tell you that he's true to his words. when i get to customize those channels, i mean natania is new government. it's likely to be one of the most right wing in israel's history. it's catch up on smell stories making headlines around the world to day. authorities in the bahamas say disgraced crypto exchange. founder sam bank been freed,

has been expedited to the united states to face criminal charges. us prosecutors accused the f. t x founder of stealing billions. customer deposits to his associates with now pleaded guilty to charges over the crypto exchanges collapse. climate activists here in germany of sawn off the top of the christmas tree in front of berlin's iconic brandenburg gate. they held a batter reading. this is just the tip of the christmas tree saying germany, you're seeing only the tip of the climate disaster. they accused the government of failing to address the climate crisis. brazilian football legend tele will remain in hospital over christmas. doctor say his cancer has advanced and he will now receive elevated care. the 82 year old 3 time world cup winner was diagnosed with colon cancer last year and has been in hospital since late november

covered 19 cases or surging across china right now until very recently it had some of the toughest control measures in the world. public anger and rare street protests lead to many rules being relaxed. experts are now warning, hundreds of millions of people could soon be infected, and chinese authorities have further narrowed the criteria for identifying cova, dest. this means that despite the jumping cases and overwhelmed funeral harms, there been no official recorded deaths for 2 consecutive days. at times china 0 call that policy looked like this empty streets and some of the world's largest cities like shanghai here, 28000000 people are nowhere to be seen. other times it looked like this with aggressive scenes and supermarkets and people desperate to grab some of the sparse food and supplies. i'm still available to the chinese walla. there were also containment camps. entire city blocks and neighborhoods locked up and barriers

built to prevent free movement. china 0 coveted rules were some of the most strictly imposed anywhere. residents were repeatedly told 0 cove. it was the only way to keep them st. george indian. we each and we must unswerving lea at here to the principal of people 1st and life. first astrology of curbing imported cases and domestic resurgence is and the policy of dynamic 0 cove it found in but then this fall cases began to spread rapidly. despite the strict policies many chinese experienced for the 1st time, some one close to them getting sick with cove it. and as cases spiraled, so did public discontent. in late november, a rare showing of public descent erupted in multiple parts of china. oh, there were st demonstrations and even some called for present teaching ping to resign grades. i beg the kind of public outcry,

unheard of inside china then 2 weeks later, a change of heart from the government. the health department announced the loosening of 100 cove. it rules, you know, jim, holly footer, it just it how so she, our focus will be increasingly science based and targeted lucia, we should firmly correct oversimplification or a one size fits all approach and avoid taking excessive policy steps. even gamma on december 7th, china loosened measures, allowing home quarantine, reduce testing, and making it easier to travel. chinese authorities and state media largely ignored the protests and accusations that 0 cove had failed. instead, they've been insisting the relax policies are due to a weakened corona virus. but weakened or not, the infections have been spreading rapidly, creating fear and anxiety, and further disrupting an already fragile economy. experts warn china could soon be

facing a peak of up to 800000000 cases in the country, which they say could mean as many as one to 2000000 deaths in the coming year. scroll straight over to our course to ah, correspond fabia incredible in beijing. fabi and we're hearing reports of chinese hospital struggling and crematorium be overwhelmed? how serious is the situation there? yes, the 1st speak nationwide. on the tron wifi and china has clearly overwhelmed the health system. of the big cities, he, enraging, we've seen that doctors had to go to work despite being infected because you know, the virus was so white spread. i would estimate that in the, in a city district in beijing, probably up to 80 percent of the population has been infected in the last 2 weeks. so there were of course, also long queues in front of a funeral homes and the chrome atoria are working overtime. so i mean, it was really an extreme stress test,

but it seems that the worst in beijing is already over. now the number of recovered people's also increasing and bringing back life to, to the city, for example, or with crowded restaurants and, you know, traffic picking up. but in many other parts the infection rise is just starting. and i think the biggest stress test will happen in the provinces, namely those provinces where the health system is not as developed as it is here in the big cities. after acting for months on the assumption that the virus could be stopped entirely, a house the government or the and come to terms with the actual scale of the crisis in space. where i mean, the government basically decided to change the criteria, how it counts and covert depths just when you really the weight or was exploding here. so now it is a very strict are what actually constitutes

a death by covert and that leads to very absurd official data. for example, to day officially, there were only 3000 am symptomatic, a covert infections, and 0 new depths. of course, this is not plausible, and this is and basically to whitewash the pandemic situation. in my opinion, this is quite irresponsible because it leads to the assumption that the virus is less dangerous than it actually is because of course people are dying, but most of them do not show up in the official statistics. and that makes it also very difficult to really holistically assess the situation in the whole country. now, china is using it, sir, domestically produce vaccines to fight the pandemic. do experts their fabi. i believe that will be sufficient. what i mean, the gold standard of exceeds r m r in a vaccines and namely, oh yeah, weston, where since they are more efficient than the chinese ones. but i mean, the chinese of excellency also efficient, but it is crucial that you need to have at least 3 doses,

3 shots of the vaccines to be efficient against omicron. and am, i think the biggest obstacles is not whether they use m domestic or foreign vaccines, but mainly whether the elderly, the vander will pur people here want to get vaccinated. there was a lot of hesitancy and, and also there was one big mistake that the government did a since last year had put all the medical resources into our current teens and all the locked on measures. and that has slowed down the national vaccination program really quite a bit. so what they do now is of course, remarkable. there's a lot of, you know, speech em how they want to vaccinate the people. but of course it's too late and too little. this is not a battle that can be won, this is only damage control of an thank you very much. that was fabi on crest from there in beijing the u. s. supreme court is being asked to rule on an important restriction on immigration title. 42 is a public health measure introduced by the trump administration. it allows people

who request asylum at the border to be turned away to prevent the spread of covered 19. the biden administration says it cannot keep the pandemic policy in place long term. but conservative lead states argue that ending it will open the floodgates as the fate of this law hangs in the balance. growing numbers of migrants are crossing into the u. s. every day. in the border city of el paso, texas, the mayor has declared a state of emergency d, w sumi, so us gander has more. ah, the sacred heart church in at bethel. it's one of the oldest perishes in town. now it's become a refuge. migrants have been gathering here every day to receive food and clothes and shelter in doors at night. and the air from venezuela may the dangerous journey to the u. s. with her 2 children, mother and sister, she is clear, she cannot return home and face violence and hunger. once again, you're bas amber,

your i went hungry and i don't want my children to go hungry again. i don't want to tell them that there's nothing to eat as i tell them there's nothing to eat. they have vomited on me. i don't want to go to venezuela right now. with this situation . i don't want it. more than a 1000 migrants are arriving in el paso every day from countries like nicaragua and venezuela. shelters are already overflowing and resources running thin officials say, if the pandemic era policy title 42 with lifted, the number of migrants could triple the pastor, a sacred heart church, father, raphael garcia believes the u. s. can accommodate millions of migrants, but it cannot be up to border cities alone. his church and local n g o schools are operating beyond capacity. the problem is becoming a big burden. in many ways, it's very in humane how people are being treated here. this bottleneck or this far all europe, that's what i'd like to go because this is a point of entry. so unless you can move people quickly, you end up with

a disaster here. a crisis here for an in my cruise of the n g o border network for human rights. the crisis is a symptom of a broken system. her organization lobbies elected officials to reform immigration policy on a whole. it's been almost as soon as we hope that people are given to process with dignity, with respect that they can present cases. and it will be up to a judge to determine whether they stay or whether they don't stay. amid that political battle migrants here are in limbo at night, the temperatures in a bar, so dropped below 5 degrees celsius. that's very much money order. now that the church hosts dozens of families in this former gym. they receive hot food access to showers the bathroom. but there are far more people than available space. the rest stock up on a hot meal to good against the cold and the uncertainty. but they don't want to let

more people through me will give them asylum in the united states is denying asylum right now. even though it's a country to fight for asylum writes, for now, these migrants bundle up for another long night on the street. well here in germany, it's an anxious christmas season for many at the moment the effects of the war in ukraine are being felt with higher living and energy costs, and not to mention the surgeon illnesses like over 19 in the flu. but germans are allowed to go to christmas markets again with out any of last year's restrictions. we went to one see how residents are pairing. ah, mold wine, twinkling lights, and seasonal cheer for many germans. a visit to the annual christmas market like this one here in berlin. offers welcome relief. after a year of unsettling news,

it wasn't often coin we're meeting up with friends to drink some spiced wine together. it's something of a tradition for us at the cartoon by orders in thinking of yahoo by a sleigh albany. i haven't been here for 2 years. if i lost him, i came, was 2019 and i was already 20. 22. francis relief to 4 fair ground operator tommy abba, who was forced to cancel the market for 2 consecutive years during pandemic lock downs. i live off loggins are for the one of the lockdown restrictions and the sale of alcohol on parking lots and the recreational park. saddam, but a christmas market without mold wine when it is pointless to golf in north now food and drink a waltz again on offer a japanese roughly $3000.00 christmas markets. but prices are noticeably higher. inflation is dampening the festive spirit and vendors income. not all the regulars managed to return this year in the might of i system here him

and honestly someone else operated the stall before as well as the one over there, but they didn't survive the 2 year break. so i said, okay, i'll jump in and run boat stalls. i'm the one man's joy is another sorrow. unfortunately, the students from ukraine and making the rounds as christmas angels at the charlatan bike, pat his market, collecting donations for children, often by russia's war on that country. as an, as a friend, the sports are fair on ambassadors of peace, symbolic. he flying over to the palace every day and bringing light. this is the light of christmas time to foster understanding reconciliation and solidarity. right now that's more important than ever before. geopolitical turbulence and economic uncertainty, not even holiday music, an energy saving lights can keep them and tidy at bay from this year's christmas markets. ah, you're watching the w news. just reminder the top story we're following for you.

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with you with daniel bernstein will do anything to prevent his children from going hungry. but in britain that's not easy at the

moment. the country that's actually rid food distribution, help the poorest. but the number of people in need is exceeding capacity. when will that govern and talent? focus on europe next, on the d. w. complex own with sarah kelly, my gosh, this week on conflict zone is our noun, foreign policy expert who has spent most of her career analyzing vladimir putin, russia. fiona hill joined me from washington where she has advised you as the presidents and co author the buck on whether she thinks the wise heading was this good plan all along or hadn't dec ethan power changed hands conflict zone in 60 minutes ago on d. w. ah,

devastated with cars carry money, effects of climate change, i mean felt worldwide before a station in the rain forest continued. carbon dioxide emissions have risen again. young people all over the world are committed to climate protection. what impact will because change doesn't happen on its own. make up your room, mind d. w. lead for mines with hello and welcome to focus on europe. it's good to have you with us. christmas is