find out best documentaries on you to see the world i already subscribe now to d w documentary. mm mm ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. boy demure zalinski urges americans and not to give up on you crank during his surprised visit to washington, zalinski says you frame is still standing in part because he west support. and he predicts next year mark a turning point. the war. also coming up on the show,

the stage is sat for benjamin netanyahu to return to power in israel. he's announced a new government the most white wing coalition in israel's history and cove at night from china. now that beijing has abandoned its strict 0 cove at policy, infections are surging as the virus group of population largely unchecked. ah. hello, i'm claire richardson. thanks so much for joining us. president vladimir zalinski has used a surprise visit to washington to thank americans for their support, calling it crucial in ukraine's fight against russia's invasion in a speech to us. lawmakers, zalinski said no country could be a neutral bystander, and that rush up must be defeated. he predicted that next year would be

a turning point in the war. it is the landscape 1st known trip abroad in the nearly 10 months since russia invaded 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 rush invaded ukraine. in the oval office flight and granite lensky, another wish high on ukraine's weapons list. gonna continue to strengthen ukraine's ability to defend himself, particularly air defense. and that's why we're going to be providing you credit with patriot missile better 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, kept him and he asked me to pass his award and he asked me to best get more person by them. he will understand a stick captain, fall timers, beds are it. yes, he is very brave and he said give it to very brave brazza and i want to give you that is the cross cross for military marriage. that is one god. mm hm. yes. well, um deserve but much appreciated. thank you for joe biden. it was a chance to send a clear signal to russia that the u. s. is in it to win it tonight 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, shenaria sea grain did on fall. you green is alive and keegan. our 2 nations are allies in this battle and next year will be done in point. i know it the boy and when ukraine encourage and american resolve must guarantee the future of our common freedom. the freedom of people who stand for their well use the water mere to 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 been giving to ukraine. and when they take control of the house next year, they might trade a title, the per se, drinks that can spread across to our ukraine or as one at emmanuel as jazz for the reaction from care. what do you craniums think of their president war time trip abroad? ah, well people were at 1st surprised that they president went abroad. remember, i've allowed him, his zaleski had said a time. and again that he wouldn't leave a ukraine until russia who is defeated then. so far it hasn't been defeated. this war is very much still going on, but overall a people are supportive. maybe let's listen to what kevin's told me this morning about this presidential visit to the u. s. maria, i'm confident that 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 no more. so i think that this will increase our support in 2023, and i really hope we will get the weapons. it will allow us to wind up as ward, mom from a from another was blizzard. it was necessary to go there and talk in person. it was a very good decision in my opinion, or another domain though, 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 them additional aides for rocket systems. sounds like a relatively positive assessment there and then well, this comes as we understand there were new error rate alerts in the key of this morning. can you tell us what the situation is like there in the capital? well indeed are they were error, the lights it this morning. there were some strikes across ukraine, not today, not here in the capital, but elsewhere, but that's

a daily reality for people they leave with their threats day in and day out. and the result of those try exert. well, those trucks are often hit a critical infrastructure, a day hits a power generating facilities. and that means that most people, in fact, millions of people across ukraine are a living without electricity. that means they don't have heating at a very cold time of the year. they also don't have a water. are often a forget about a hot water as well. so it's very, very dia, living conditions are most people from a big cities there would go to what is called here, invincibility center. so those are centers of energy being set up for air does in its emergency. the air center is set out by the government where people can charge they froze, they can have an internet connection to continue working. they can also simply warm up a little bit and have a cup of tea. so it is very, very tiring for the entire population. and the problem is that it shows no sign of

warm or of a winding down. they are asked twice every day across the ukraine. and that's precisely why vladimir zalinski went to visit. it's close as i lied, the united states and my knowledge has for us in ukraine. thank you so much for your reporting. and i'd like to go straight from give to brussels and speak to terry short about zalinski strip. terry zalinski chose washington for his 1st trip outside ukraine since the war started. do you think you're up, sees this as a slight? on the contrary, i think that europeans very well understand why president zalinski would go to washington now, and their interest very much converge on this. remember who's on the front line? if you crane were to lose the war, it will be european countries. so i think that that here in europe, leaders would have been keeping their fingers crossed and holding their breath. that in fact, the zalinski strip was, as is as successful as it seemed to be. did he came back with these very high grade

grade weapon systems, weapon systems that europe has not been willing to provide to ukraine at this point? and of course, it's also going to be important that the u. s. has said it will train ukrainians on the patriot missile system. there are european countries who do possess these systems and they may well be pressed to provide them to ukraine. now if there are ukrainians, who can operate them? so i think that europeans very much were on the same side as zalinski here and hoping for exactly this outcome. they all need to keep the americans all in on support for ukraine. the u. s. has plenty to offer ukraine. do you think that we will see so lensky also making a similar trip to brussels? well, coincidentally, or not, the, you just announced the dates for its next you ukraine summit, and that will be february 3rd here in brussels. now the last 2 ukraine summit took place in key last october, and this will be with the european commission president ursula vander lion and

european council. president shaw michelle, who were both at that summit in ukraine. so again, going back to the point the zalinski chose washington, these leaders have both met him and president biden had not. so i think that it is good for everyone that president zelinski was in washington, but i think it will depend on how the war is going. zelinski obviously felt confident enough that he could leave keith for now. and you, who knows what will be happening by february. 3rd, i know there brussels would be very, very happy to see him. confident enough in the war effort and in his own personal safety to be able to visit brussels as he is now invited on february 3rd. he doesn't. terry shells for us from brussels. thank you. as always we can bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines. a chinese and russian navies have begun to join to naval exercise in the east china sea underlining, deepening military and political ties between the countries known as

a joint sea 2022. the exercise will continue until december 27th. any report from the news agency? bloomberg size germany is burning coal at the fastest pace in at least 6 years. levels of pollution from germany's power production are now comparable to those of india and south africa. berlin has turned to other fossil fuels and a bid to replace russian gas. and that's as parts of northern india, including the capitol deli or shrouded in dense fog as the country's pollution crisis combined with wintry weather to wreak havoc on wednesday, low visibility, lead to a major vehicle pile up in the city of wark, poor brazilian football legend pele will remain in hospital over christmas. see doctor say his cancer has advanced and he will now receive elevated care 82 year old 3 time world cup winner was diagnosed with colon cancer last year and has been in hospital since late november. well,

israel's designated prime minister benjamin netanyahu has succeeded in forming a right wing coalition government. he made the announcement after weeks of negotiations with religious and far right. political partners. netanyahu led his party to been the most seat in his barrels, november election, but needed coalition partners to govern. the new governments agreement includes plans for judicial and security reforms. and critics of the coalition are worried about violent rhetoric directed against the countries arab minority. benjamin bb. 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 help of a controversial far right alliance of roofing him, always the pencil knocked on mute cuz looked on the old can be a reasonable prime minister, even if you do not vote for him or not like him,

he can run his 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 village. a sign is an alliance. it's leaders are bit sellers, motorists and each time i've been via been given here during the election campaign has been convicted for incitement and barred from military service because of his extremist views from other blog of death to arabs. no, no, no matter what the yoga, whoever wants to live here in peace alone was alone. but whoever is throwing molotov, whoever is killing children, killing women is a terrorist. miss, so what do we want? oh, that 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 poem and the candidate for getting me and attacking me in order to attack the whole or a and christina community, when he is saying a 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 today assist 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 fees. ben van monthly, and that these 2 people have, i find the according opinions. and that personally also injure 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 an issue. 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 and you need to know is new government, it's likely to be one of the most right wing in israel's history. let's get across to our correspondent rebecca readers and jerusalem. rebecca, as we've just heard in that report, or we're looking at probably the most extreme, a far right government in israel's history. how is that going to translate into

policymaking? that's right, claire. i mean, it must be stated that this isn't the 1st right wing government that the countries have his same, but it is, as you rightly point out the most extreme, we're seeing parties that are part of this coalition that were once conceded on the fringes. now they front and center in israeli politics and that is likely to bring about some pretty big changes. and particularly when you look at the big ticket items, let's take, for example, the occupation and people living under the palestinians, living in the west bank to at least 2 of the coalition leaders, if you will, the, the leaders of the parties that are making up this coalition pro, annexation at their anti to state solution. and so we're likely to see changes there even in the late up to with, during the negotiations. in the late up to this government formation, we've seen promises made more direct control been given to these members of the can i sit in it, especially when it comes to policing, both in israel and in the west bank and as well when it comes to the settlement

policy, so we are likely to see potentially more violence or more more uprising will balance and of course expansion of those settlements. now the other things, particularly in israel, we're looking at a law that has been discussed a concerning the supreme court of the supreme court is one of the only checks and balances on the government. the country doesn't have a constitution, it doesn't have a 2nd house of parliament. so the supreme court is one of the only checks and now the new government are wanting to pass a law that will, is called the override clause. that will mean that the elected government will be able to override supreme court decisions, basically giving it free will to doing what it's like some other policy things that are really ruffling feathers to do with civil rights. and many of the ultra orthodox parties looking to roll back gay rights. you know, netanyahu for his pot has come out and said, you know, this is just fe mongering that he is still going to be at the helm. but he'll be maintaining the status quo. and that this is just as i said, fear mongering and that no one has anything to worry about, but that remains to be seen. but let's talk about netanyahu's return to power

because it wasn't that long ago that an ideologically diverse coalition teamed up to oust him from power. how to israelis feel about his return to the top post, just a about a year and a half later. what? he's a contentious figure, no doubt, but he obviously does have a lot of support in the country. otherwise he wouldn't be heading back to the prime minister's chair. however, there is a large number of people in this country that didn't vote for him and that are concerned about his policies and about the fact that he may not be able to. he, for, he seems very confident to be able to keep his coalition partners in check. but many people he worried that he isn't going to be able to do that when push comes to shove. now, and of course it's not just is riley's that worried you've got allies, particularly the u. s. saying they're concerned i was speaking to somebody from the state department last week. they're definitely internally very warri publicly though and to the blinking has come out and said that they will be focusing on the policies rather than the personalities of this new government, but that they will be coming down hard on benjamin netanyahu. if he's not able to

keep his coalition pon is in line whether or not they do do that, whether or not they follow through with anything, of course, remains to be st. claire about readers for us and jerusalem, thanks has always been reporting over 19 cases are surging across china right now. until recently the country had some of the toughest control measures in the world. but public anger and rare street protests lead to many of the roles being relaxed. now, with experts warning that hundreds of millions of people could soon be infected, chinese authorities have narrowed the criteria for identifying cova deaths. and this means that despite seeing a jump in cases and overwhelmed funeral homes, there have been no official recorded deaths for 2 consecutive days. 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 home. 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, 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 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 street demonstrations and even some called for present teaching ping 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, 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 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 more in 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. we're been calling as chair of epidemiology at hong kong university school of public health and he w asked him if china has the necessary health infrastructure to cope with its new policies. 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's no attempt at the moment to slow things down. and in beijing they're 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 will, will came 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. i was been calling tara of epidemiology at hong kong university school of public health speaking to us earlier. and we can take a look at some other stories that are making headlines at this hour. spain's famous christmas lottery known as al gore go again on thursday with a prize pot of more than 2500000000 euros up for grabs. al corda means the fat one and has been running since 1812 with millions of people taking parts here.

climate activists here in germany have sold off the top of the christmas tree in front of berlin's iconic brandenburg gate. they held a banner reading. this is just the tip of the christmas tree. referring to the fact saying that germany as see only the tip of the climate disaster and he accused the government of failing to address the climate crisis. well, it is an anxious christmas season for many here in germany. the effects of the war in ukraine are being felt with higher living and energy costs, and that's not to mention a surgeon illness as like cov, at 19, and the flu. but germans are allowed to go to christmas market again without any of last year's restrictions. we went to see how residence there 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. off as well can relief after a year of unsettling news. 11 oven coin were meeting up with friends to drink some

spiced wine together. it's something of a tradition for us at so could you soon bye or this is vision of yours by its way, albany. i haven't been here for 2 years. i lost my k was 2019, and i was already 2022, francis relief to 4 fair ground operator, tommy abba, who was forced to counsel the market for 2 consecutive years during pandemic locked downs. i knew the off log is off, was the one of the locked down restrictions upon the sale of alcohol on parking lots and in recreational parks. adama, but a christmas market without mold wine when it is pointless to governor. now food and drink or wants again on offer at 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 just 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 charlatan. both parties market collecting donations for children often by rushes war on their country. as an ins, athena, sports or their own 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 and tidy at bay from this year's christmas markets. ah. you're

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