[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin all over me. zalinski, thanks, americans for their support in person. speaking for the u. s. congress, ukraine's president says russia must be defeated and that next year will be

attorney. it's 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 is now the new government. most bite wing coalition. in the country's history and china's coven dilemma. public unrest forced the country's leaders to reverse their 0 hope policy. with now infections or surgery. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. ukraine's president laudermill zalinski has used a surprise visit to washington to thank americans for their support. calling it crucial for his country's fight against russia's invasion in a speech to us lawmakers. 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. it's the ukranian presence 1st trip abroad since russia launched its invasion 10 months ago. precedence zalinski was given the red carpet treatment as he arrived at the white house greeted like an old friend by z u. s counterpart joe biden. they've spoken many times on the phone, but this was a 1st face to face meeting since russian made it ukraine in the oval office flight and granites lensky, another wish high on ukraine's weapons list. gonna continue to strengthen ukraine's ability to defend so particularly air defense. and that's why we're going to be providing you credit with patriot missile battery 1st and lensky. it was an opportunity to pay his respects to ukraine's because back i knew that i want to give you something. one guy is really,

really hero real captain. and he asked me to pass his award and he asked me to best work to prison. bite him a will. i'm a sam, a said captain fall. hi merced battery. yes, he is very brave and he said give it to very brave brazza and i want to give you that. did the cross cross for military marriage? that is one god louise. yes. well one deserve with much appreciated. thank you. thanks for joe biden. it was a chance to send a clear signal to russia that the u. s. is in it to win it bananas stage is committed to ensuring that the brave ukrainian people can continue, continue to defend their country against russian aggressions. as long as it takes

the president of ukraine next not rooting lensky. a hero's welcome. as he addressed a weird joint session of the united states congress. against all odds and doom and gloom scenario, see a grain didn't fall. you green is alive and keegan. our 2 nations are allies in this battle, and next here will be it turning point. i know it. the boys when ukrainian courage and american resolve must guarantee the future of our common freedom. the freedom of people who stand for their well use brought emerson lensky knows support like this. and 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 giving to ukraine. and when they take control of the house next year, they might trade a title, the purse drinks or ukraine corresponded to manuel shots is following the story in keith. she told us what ukrainians are saying about you zalinski strip to wash it. oh, well terry, i think most people prior to the cheaper, really surprised ad valorem zaleski would leave the country even for a short visit, for obvious security reasons. but also because the ukranian president had said he would a leave until a russian defeat. and that has not been the case so far, but the has led suddenly sent to where to even said, told me about that to be the it had about polygamy. zalinski speech to the congress . he was maria,

i'm confident at my president will handle everything. and that there will soon big piece 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 supports in 2023. and i really hope we will get the weapons. it will allow us to wind up as 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 an artist don't know those. i think it's very good. 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 alerts this morning. what's the situation there now in the cub? oh, there were 2 ellers this morning, terry and that doesn't change this day and day out. there are those alerts all over

ukraine sometimes is not just a lad. sometimes it's sir, 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 capital. 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 building, 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 capital keel sketchup on some other stories making headlines around the world today. germany is burning coal at the fastest pace in at least 6 years. let's, according to a new bloomberg report. levels of pollution from germany's power production are now comparable to india and south africa. countries has turned to other fossil fuels and a bid to replace russian gas arch of northern india, including the capital delhi or shrouded intense august. the country's pollution crisis. combines with wintery weather reek havoc on wednesday, low visibility, lead to a major vehicle pile up near the city of warren brazilian football legend kelly will remain in hospital over christmas, doctor se his cancer has 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 . israel's designated prime minister benjamin netanyahu has succeeded in forming a new right wing coalition government. he made the announcement after weeks negotiations, religious bar, i political partners that in yahoo led his party to win the most seats in israel's november election, but needed coalition partners to go already is realist. hong is serving prime minister. he will now head the most right wing administration in israel's history. the coalition agreement includes plans for judicial and security reforms. critics fear the new alliance will so deeper divisions in the country. then him in baby netanyahu may soon add a new,

tempted to his memoirs published during the election campaign. israel's former prime minister is back, but this time netanyahu seated his return with the help of a controversial far right alliance. everything always depends on this danielle, cuz nathan, yo 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 progress his partner's de opened, the ante are up and homophobic are to a nationalist village assigned as an alliance. it's leaders are bits. i'll it's more twit, and each time i've been via banga via here during the election campaign has been convicted for incitement and bard for military service because of his extremist views. mother black death to arab. no, no, no, no. whoever wants to live here and visa alone was alone,

but whoever is throwing molotov, whoever is killing children, killing women, is a terrorist. miss. so what do we want? grandma debt to terrorists. critics are concerned about their ultra nationalist religious agenda becoming mainstream and is ready politics. and there were attacks on israel. it's are a minority among them elected members of israel's parliament. the connect that 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, terrorists, 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. if more, i feel are frankly scared and also disappointed. around 400000 people voted for the new theatre and vienna switch. and that these 2 people have, i find a according opinions and that is personally also in danger, me as a woman, the leftists in this country. and also as a and g b t person. i think most people voted for ben give 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 an issue. i was working in his law firm when he was a lawyer. i'm also a lawyer about his old slideshow. they always do, and i can tell you that he's true to his words. what are going to cost me la shows in milan?

natania is new government is likely to be $1.00 of the most right wing in israel's history. israel's new government is regarded as the most right wing in the country's history. i asked the w correspondent, rebecca rivers in jerusalem. how that is likely to make itself felt in policy terms . yeah, well terry, i mean it, it must be a stress if this is the 1st right wing government of the countries ever seen. but as you rightly point out, it is being conceded 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 my been via they are both pro annexation their anti to state

solution. and during the coalition talks and the laid out to the formation of this incoming government, they've been handled 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 calls to override 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, that he's still at the helm and he's going be maintaining the status quo and that

nobody has to worry he's going to be serving for all israelis. or how do israelis feel about this new government is taking shape with never and yahoo back at the hill when it's a pretty divided society. you had a little bit of that in the report that we just heard there from my colleague. you know, 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 raised that a worried you know, many of the coalition at, sorry, of the israel's partners, the u. s. for example, their allies. they really concern you. i was 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 lincoln, 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 abreast of keep up to his allies and it, you know, concerns. and of course the concerns of israeli really remains to be seen terry. rebecca, thank you very much. that was her correspondent rebecca readers in jerusalem. covered 19 cases are surging across china right now until recently the country had so the toughest control measures in the world. but public anger and rare street protests lead to many rules being relaxed. now, with experts warning that hundreds of millions of people could soon be infected, chinese authorities have narrowed the criteria for identifying covered deaths. this means that despite the jump in cases and overwhelmed funeral homes,

there have been no official recorded deaths or 2 consecutive days due to coven. at times china 0 called a 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 child walla. 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, we each and 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 in. but then miss 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 street demonstrations and even some called for present teaching ping to resign. grades i read 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 and holly footer. it just should 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 and 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. been cowley is chair of epidemiology at hong kong university, hong kong university school of public health, with reports of chinese hospital struggling and cream. atoria overwhelmed, i asked him how serious the situation really is i think is a very serious situation. i've,

i've seen the same report in by aging that there's really a lot of severe cases at the moment in other parts of china. some cities haven't yet reached that stage, but i don't think they will be far behind. some experts warn that the new career virus or that the career 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, they will be many, many infections in china, within the next one to 2 months. sandy, hundreds of millions, maybe up to a 1000000000 infections in the coming, maybe 2 to 3 months. but around the world, there's also a lot of infections occurring. so the probability of a new sub varying 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. now, china has taken a real about face in terms of its policy. it went from 0 cobra to now having a more dynamic approach as it likes to say, does that those trend is 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 china is 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? no, the vaccines are fine. we've. we've shown in hong kong we compare the inactivate to 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 that 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, or 4th dose and not many vaccines are being administered at the moment from us or been cowling in hong kong. thank you so much. thank. he is a little more stories making news headlines around the world today. spain's famous christmas lottery known as al gorda, began begin on thursday with a prize pot of more than 2 point. 5000000000 euros up for grabs. of gordon means the fact one and has been running since $1812.00 millions of people taking part each year. climate activists here in germany have sawn off the top of the christmas tree in front of berlin's iconic bradenberg gate. they held

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. well, it's an anxious christmas season for many here in germany. at the moment the effects of the war and ukraine are being felt with a higher cost of living and higher energy costs. not to mention a surgeon illness like coven 19, and the flu. but germans are allowed to go to christmas bargains again without any of the restrictions from last year. we went to one to see how residents are faring . 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, 11 ovens coin were meeting up with friends to drink some spiced wine together. it's something of

a tradition for us at the quantity by wasn't thinking of yahoo by its way, albany, i haven't been here for 2 years. i lost my cane was 2019 and now it's 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 locked downs. i live off loggins off was the one of the lockdown restrictions band, the sale of alcohol on parking lots and recreational parks damage. but a christmas market without mold wine is pointless to gov in law. now, food and drink are once again on offer it. germany is 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 mile advisors on 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. one man's joy is another sorrow, unfortunately. ah, the students from ukraine and making the rounds as christmas angels at the charlotte and both paris market. collecting donations for children often by rushes war on their country zones of friends, sports or there are ambassadors of peace, symbolic. he flying over to the palace every day and bringing light the light of christmas time to foster understanding reconciliation and solidarity. right now that's more important than ever before. geopolitical turbulence in economic uncertainty, not even holiday music and energy saving lights can keep them entirely at bay from this year as christmas markets blue stream under the top story. we're following for you this, our ukranian president laudermill zalinski has thanked americans for their support in

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