democracy i'm building the biggest thing in the world. is this spirit of freedom and architect motions. this kid starts december 25th on d w. ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin, while the mule zalinski. thanks, americans for their support in person. speaking for the us congress, ukraine's president says russia must be defeated. and that next year will be a turning for his 1st trip abroad since the start of the war. also coming up,

he's back. the stage is set for benjamin netanyahu to return to power in israel. he's announced the new government, the most rifling coalition in the countries. and china is covey dilemma. public unrest force the country's leaders to reverse. there's 0 proven policy. but now infections are search ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with 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 brushes, invasion in a speech to u. s. ball makers, 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 port. it's ukranian presence 1st rip 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 be providing you credit with patriot missile. better training people continues. firewall, i mean a sincerely artists inspire husband, inspire a world with their courage and aaliyah chose resilience and resolve in the future.

thank you so much use of course. thanks. my bottom sport. thank squan gris and thanks for mom. just ordinarily bold to your wondering people. american lady, 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 joe 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 ukranian presidents, a speech to a red 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 followed him. is lensky 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 or ukraine corresponding to manuel shows is following this story in kids. and what, what are ukrainian saying about zalinski is trip to washington?

oh, well terry, i think most people prior to the cheaper really surprised ad valorem is zalinski, would leave the country even for a short visit, for obvious security reasons. but also because that the ukrainian president had said he would a leave until a russian defeat. and that has not been the case so far, but perhaps let's have a listen to what t them said, told me about that visit and about for la demy zalinski speech to the congress. he was maria, i'm confident at 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. not much of, i think that this will increase our support in 2023. and i really hope we will get the weapons it will allow us to win harper's war mom from a, from another was grizzers for it was necessary to go there and talk in person. it

was a very good decision, in my opinion, for another domain though. sure. i think it's very good unless it is especially pleasing that we will be supplied with a large amount of weapons who will specifically the fact that the us will give an additional aides for rocket systems. m a, you're in the capital there, keith. i understand. there were new air rave words this morning. what's the situation there now in the cup? oh, there were 2 alerts this morning, terry and that doesn't change this day in day out. there are those alerts all over ukraine sometimes is not just allowed. sometimes it's her air strikes and massive air strikes are dark, it rush and star get with my thoughts with the kamikaze drone, they target the electricity, the power generating our facilities infrastructure are here in ukraine and what it means for ukrainians is that millions of people are plunged into darkness,

millions of people don't have access to a heating to our hot water eat is the case here in the capitol. just to give you an idea, d r d r electricity grid usually operates on pre will level at a capacity of a 150 percent. at right now it operates at only 30 percent. it means that only a critical infrastructure such as hospitals, for example, are still run on d, on the normal greed and all the rest, all the other buildings, sir, at residencies, et cetera, residential buildings, et cetera. they just run on generators. it is a constant power gets to very difficult situation and the situation doesn't look like it's changing because those airstrikes continue. emma, thank you very much. our correspondent emma shaw's and ukraine's carbuchia catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. the chinese and russian navy had begun to joint naval exercise in the east china sea underlining

the deepening military and political ties between the countries known as joint c. 2022. the exercise will continue until december 27th. germany is burning cold at the fastest pace in at least 6 years. that's according to a new bloomberg report. levels of pollution from germany's power production are now comparable to india and south africa. the country has turned to other fossil fuels in a bid to replace russian gas. spain's famous christmas watery known as l gordo began on thursday with the prize of more than 2 point. $5000000000.00 euros up for grabs of belleville means the fat one has been running since $1812.00 with millions of people taking part each year. he israel's designated prime minister benjamin netanyahu has succeeded in forming a new right wing coalition government. he made the announcement after weeks ago she

ations with religious and all right, political partners at yahoo led his party to win the most seats in his rules, november election, but needed coalition partners to govern ethan yahoo! is israel small to survey prime minister will head the most white wing administration in israel's history ha big or the coalition agreement includes plans for judicial and security reforms. critics fear the new alliance will so deeper divisions in the country. benjamin vivian 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 sealed his return with the help of a controversial far right alliance. everything always depends on the, on the articles latanya, how can be a reasonable prime minister even if you do not vote for him or not like him. he can run is roland. he can run conflict, 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 are to a nationalist religious zionism alliance. it's leaders are bitterly, it's more twists and a term i've been via, been given here during the election campaign has been convicted for incitement and barred from military service because of his. ringback extremist views, a death to arab no, no, no, no. your guy who ever wants to live here in peace alone, rosalind. but whoever is throwing mala tops, whoever is killing children, killing women is a terrorist. miss. so what do we want? grandma pam. dead to terrorists? critics are concerned about their ultra nationalist religious agenda becoming mainstream and is ready politics and their wearable attacks on israel. it's are

a minority among them elected members of israel's parliament thickness it are getting me 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 def thorpe's, as he said before, a 10 or 5 or 3 years, we are spoken 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. if more, i feel air, frankly scared and also disappointed. around 400000 people voted for the new theatre. been van monthly and that these 2 people have, i find according opinions and that is personally also in danger, me as a woman, the leftists in this country. and also as a and d v person,

i think most people voted for ben gives me or because of the security situation in israel, we really want the security to improve. so push it. i think people are longing for someone who does act to not only talks, milligram will seem. i personally know bank of year and she, i was working in his law firm when he was a lawyer. i'm also a lawyer, but he told me slideshow they all with the and i can tell you that he's true to his words. when again the hospitals natania was new government. it's likely to be one of the most right wing in israel's history or more. let's go to jerusalem, where dw is rebecca richards is standing by forest. rebecca is rose, new government is regarded as the most white wing in the country's history. how was that likely to make itself felt in policy terms?

yeah, well terry, i mean it must be a stress that this is the 1st right wing government of the countries ever seen. but as you rightly point out, it is being considered the most right wing so far. proving a further shift to the right that we've been seeing continually growing over the last couple of decades here. and that's likely to bring about some big changes, particularly on the big issue items. when you look at the occupation, for example, and lie for palestinians in those areas. several of the coalition members, as you heard in that report, they're a bit low, small trish and it's a mob been via they are both pro annexation their anti 2 state solution. and during the coalition talks in the lead up to the formation of this incoming government, they've been handle a lot of direct power when it comes to policing, both in israel and in areas of the west bank and as well as in the settlement policy. so we are likely to see potentially more violence, but also an expansion of the settlements there. now when you're looking inside

israel issues with the supreme court or under the spotlight, the new government wants to bring in a rule cold. the override falls to override that the elected government, i should say, is able to override supreme court decisions. now, the supreme court is one of the only checks on the government. so that would end essentially remove that check and allow the government to do as it pleases are. there are other concerns when it comes to civil rights, particularly gay rights. there's ultra orthodox parties in there that are saying that they're gonna band the jerusalem gay pride march for example, and other things like that. so people are very concerned netanyahu's. his part is saying that this is just fear mongering, but he's still at the helm and he's going to be maintaining the status quo and that nobody has to worry he's going to be serving for all israelis will help. do israelis feel about this new government is taking shape with ness on yahoo back at the hill. that is a pretty divided society. you had a little bit of that in the report that we just heard there from my colleague. obviously there is a lot of support for benjamin netanyahu,

or he wouldn't be heading back into the prime minister's chair. but on the other hand, is a lot of people that are very worried and his, his opponents is saying that they worry that he's not going to be able to keep this coalition together. that he's not going to be able to keep these coalition partners in chicken. it's not just, of course, is riley's that a war aid, you know, many of the coalition at, sorry, of the israel's partners, the u. s. for example, their allies, they're really concerned, you know, speaking to somebody from the state department last week, they've been having talked with the government. they say they are internally very concerned about what's going to happen. you've got a secretary of state antony blinking, though, saying publicly that of course they're going to be judging this government on its policies and not on its own personalities if you will, and that they will be holding benjamin netanyahu to account for the coalitions, actions. but whether or not benjamin netanyahu can keep these coalition members in check and, and, you know, keep and keep breast of old, keep up to his allies and you know, concerns. and of course the concerns of israel is really remains to be seen. terry

. rebecca, thank you very much. that was her correspondent rebecca readers in jerusalem you are watching g w. news still to come will look at an app that is helping visually impaired. people in madrid experienced the beautiful christmas lungs brightly. there's the 1st cook 19 cases are 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 though led 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 co deaths. this means that despite the jump in cases and overwhelmed funeral homes, there were been no official recorded deaths for 2 consecutive days. at times china 0 called it 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 hogs still available to the child waller. there were also containment camps. entire city blocks and neighborhoods locked up and barriers built to prevent free movement. china 0 covet rules were some of the most strictly imposed anywhere. residents were repeatedly told 0 cove. it was the only way to keep them safe. george indian legion, we must unswerving lea at here to the principle of people 1st and life. first, the trilogy of curbing imported cases and domestic resurgence is and the policy of dynamic 0 cove. it found it. but then this fall cases began to spread rapidly. despite the strict policies many chinese experienced for the 1st time,

someone 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. she jumping to resign. c reg, 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 covey rules in 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, 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 relaxed 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. and from hong kong were joined now by ben cowling. he's sure of epidemiology at hong kong university school of public health. welcome to the program. we're hearing reports professor of chinese hospital struggling and cream atoria being overwhelmed with kobe deaths. how serious is the situation there? i think it's a very serious situation. i've. i've seen the same report in beijing on this as

really a lot of severe cases at the moment, or in other parts of china. some cities haven't yet reached, i stage, but i don't think they will be far behind. now some experts warn that the new career virus or that the current a virus in china could develop mutations and, and variance that these could be emerging in that large population. as the virus spreads, do you share that concern? i'm concerned in general around the world. this winter, there will be many, many infections in china within the next one to 2 months. certainly hundreds of millions may be up to a 1000000000 infections in the coming maybe 2 to 3 months. but around the world, there's also a lot of infectious occurring. so the probability of a new sub varian, ovarian emerging, could happen anywhere. hopefully it doesn't happen. i don't think there's a unique risk in china that there's a risk for that happening anywhere in the world. and we need to keep an eye on the

virus to, to see what's happening, to see if is changing in any way. china has taken a real about face in terms of its policy, went from 0 cobra to now having a more dynamic approach as it likes to say. does that, does trenice health infrastructure have what it needs to cope with this new policy? i is clear that it does not, and something i'm very worried about is that there's no effort to slow the spread of infections and to flatten the curve a month ago, there were a lot of measures to keep cases at a minimum, those have been relaxed because we have a new strategy now of, of allowing the virus to circulate, but there is no attempt at the moment to slow things down. and in beijing that dealing with a lot of very severe cases all at the same time. if those could be at least spread out over 2 weeks or 3 weeks or 4 weeks instead of one week, that would make

a difference. so i really hope that we'll, we'll have about some mitigation measures which the rest of the world was doing one year, 2 years ago. and it has moved on since then. china still has to go through this phase. let's talk vaccines from a chinese using it's domestically produced vaccines. do you think that that will be enough for it to deal with this surgeon covered cases, or will it need outside help? know the vaccines a fine we, we've shown in hong kong, we compare the inactivate vaccine we use here with the pfizer, m r n a vaccine head to head against omicron that pretty comparable that for older people, they need a 3rd dose of an activated vaccine. and is this so many people in china who are older and you haven't had that 3rd dose? they've maybe only had to the other issue to be aware of is the one year ago the to those coverage was already in the 80 percent above 80 percent range now is 92

percent according to letter of commission. so a lot of people were already fully vaccinated a year ago, and actually that the 3rd dose hasn't been used that often. so. so there's many people whose protection may have come down and could benefit from a 3rd dose or 4th dose. and not many vaccines are being administered at the moment . what's been toweling in hong kong? thank you so much. thank you. so catch up on a few other stories making news today, part of northern india including the capital, delhi, or shrouded and dense fog as the country's pollution crisis combines with wintery weather to wreak havoc on wednesday, low visibility, lead to a major vehicle pile up near the city of gorge. climate activists here in germany have sold off the top of the christmas tree in front of berlin's iconic brandenburg gate. they held up a banner reading. this is just the tip of the christmas tree saying germany is

seeing only the tip of the climate disaster. they accused the government of failing to address the climate crisis. brazilian football legend pele will remain in hospital over christmas, doctor se his cancer is advanced and he will now receive elevated care. the 82 year old 3 time world cup winter was diagnosed with colon cancer last year and has been in hospital since late november l. mold wine, gingerbread, and sparkling lights their holiday staples that fill the season with warm enjoy in many places. ah, often it's winter. well here it's where it's winter right now. ah, december's gloomy darknesses has lit up with christmas light installations in madrid and app is helping visually impaired residence share in that experience. oh, it's the season for dazzling lights on winter nights. a sight,

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