[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lying from berlin, ukraine's president urge, as americans to keep supporting his nation's fights against russia. during his visit to washington volunteers, the landscape receives pledges of military assistance, including the patriot air defense system. russia responds by accusing the u. s. a.

fighting a proxy war. also coming up. the stage is set for benjamin netanyahu to return to power and israel. he's announced a new government the most right wing coalition, and israel's history. and coven 19 sweeps through china. now that beijing has abandoned straight 0 coal with policy infections or surgeon causing international alarm. ah, i'm nicole for like, it's good to have you with us. ukrainian president villa, premier zalinski is back home after a surprise visit to washington dc. he end of the journey by stopping in poland work he met with his polish counterpart on j duda and age to do does said the leader spoke for about 2 hours hosting on social media zalinski,

something discussed the years. quote, historic challenges due to a all scale war, while in washington's landscape, predicted that next year would bring a turning point in the war, but stress, ukraine still very much relying on continued support from its western allies. precedents zalinski was given the red carpet treatment as he arrived at the white house greeted like an old friend. but as you as counterpart joe biden, they've spoken many times on the phone, but this was their 1st face to face meeting since russian made it ukraine in the oval office flight and granite lensky, another wish hi on ukraine's weapons list are gonna continue to strengthen ukraine's ability to defend itself, 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 captain. and he asked me to pass his award and he asked me to best good work personally by them. you will understand a said captain fall hymer spencer? yes, he is very brave and he said give it to very brave brazza and i want to give you that the cross cross for military marriage. that is one god little yes. well on deserve but 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 benighted 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 person lensky and heroes. welcome. as he addressed a weird joint session of the united states congress against all odds and doom and gloom. shenaria c. u. grain didn't fall. your 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 and courage and american resolve must guarantee the future of our common freedom. the freedom of people who stand for their well use

water mirrors on wednesday, no support like this or 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 reacting to zalinski strap the kremlin, akins, ukraine, and the u. s. of ignoring it concerns. and despite russia's continued attacks on ukraine, president wandering, put an earlier to day, told reporters that russia was open till diplomatic negotiations. and the war here are complete to shiver, ruling on conflict, the sense all armed conflicts eventually and with diplomatic negotiation, alina gregory, and we have never rejected such an opportunity with some warranty, beautiful, ukrainian government that's barred itself from holding negotiations now which it

looks quite unusual. or would have been say, strange or tim pneumonia, but sooner or later you will decide yeah, carina conflict with each other. so just sit down and negotiate with sooner. our opponents realize that the bathroom and we don't have never rejected that. and let's go straight to russia. analysts, maria, cattle monster for the russian perspective on this. maria, who doesn't claiming he wants to negotiate away out of the conflict for months now . but his terms are a nonstarter for you bring the violet ukraine's territorial integrity and he knows that and with the war going quite poorly for him, is there any way he would be willing to compromise? well, i don't think that a lot of put in is ready to compromise, at least at this moment, the stakes are too high for him. it's either only going forward whatever sacrifices that means for their russian people or defeat, which will be devastating for the regime. and potentially dangerous for human. his

family, he will never compromise on crimea, for instance, which was an ox by russia back in 2014 and other 4 ukrainian territories. that's russia legally say after a february, probably after having a knox ukraine's territory at this point, moscow wants to seal the deal. but still, at this point, there are so many instruments available to vladimir putin, such as black mailing western countries with gas on which watering ukrainians, making it difficult for them to leave in home. so without electricity and water now that he has leased instruments, he will see what kind of a fact that will have and then he will act accordingly. but we have seen that so far he is ready to sacrifice everything and compromise on nothing. these remarks, of course follows, and i excuse visit to the us. how did the meeting go down with the public and the media in russia?

well, not surprisingly, russian state media, the place and massive rolling feeding the war machine has a expectedly marked as a landscape. the news coverage saying that he was the prostrating himself to americans. this kind of support from the media coverage is especially important for putin, since he's in as many believe fears. the rivalry with the ukrainian president, for instance, takes alaska's was a to frontline buff mode. where they have his battles are taking place. now, the very same day put an awards ceremony at the crumbling for soldiers fighting in ukraine as well as the state made a journalist. so he can see that the difference between those 2 leaders is striking . and these kind of images can of thought to russians and their belief in their leader. moscow says the new military, a promise by the united states will only prolong the ukrainian peoples what they

call suffering and has warned of consequences. now, the suffering is, of course, brought upon the ukrainian people by russia, so how big are fears of an even greater escalation? now, while this rhetoric can be part of for russia escalation game, which essentially boils down to threatening western countries in hope that they will be afraid to further escalation and will be more restrained in supporting ukraine. and we have heard vague, a thrust from the crumbling since february, especially at the beginning of war. they made many western lead us alert and cautious about military assistance for ukraine, but given continued on growing. so for support of growing support for ukraine that we are witnessing now, the criminal threatening narrative doesn't work that well anymore. russia analysts, maria, cut him on st. joining us from tbilisi. thank you so much for that analysis. federal

prosecutor here in germany has arrested an employee of the country's foreign intelligence service for allegedly spying for russia. the suspect, who has only been identified as carson. l is accused of sharing state secrets with moscow. and that will use political correspondence. simon young joins me now. with more, let's see if we can bring him up, simon. and tell us, what do we know at this point? yeah, this man is a, an employee of germany's foreign intelligence agency. the b and d is a german citizen. and he's been arrested on the orders of the federal prosecutor accused of spying for russia. a he is alleged to have passed information that he obtained in the course of his work to russian intelligence services during 2022. and he appeared before federal judge on

thursday, accused on a charge of treason, and he's now being held in custody. his appointment that his workplace and all the locations have been searched. and there is now an ongoing investigation which is a very sensitive investigation. in fact, the head of the b, n, d, has said that it's important that further details of this and not made public because doing that he said just helps. germany's opponents who want to hom, germany, and he went on to say that russia is a particularly at ruthless and violent actor. so this is a very serious information leak, right at the heart of germany's intelligence establishment and political correspondence. simon young. thanks. let's now take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. and i've kind of sound dozens of women have rallied in the capital kabul to protest

a ban on women and dreams. universities. a tall man announced the measure earlier this week, prompting international condemnation. female students have since been turned away from university campuses across the country. the alleged boss of asia as biggest crime syndicate dubbed ages l. chapo has been extradited to australia. chinese born canadian said she loved faces, drug trafficking charges and a suspected of waiting. one of the world's biggest suppliers of illegal methamphetamines hearts of northern india including the capital delhi, are 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 of near the city of gal rock for spain's famous christmas lottery known as any go to though began on thursday with a prize pot of more than 2 point. $5000000000.00 euros for grabs at

a gordo means the fact one and has been running since $1812.00 with millions of people taking part each year. you know me, israel's designated prime minister benjamin netanyahu has succeeded informing a right wing coalition government. he made the announcement after weeks of negotiations with religious and far right. political partners at yahoo led his party to win the most seats in israel's november election. but need of coalition partners to govern new governments of free rent includes plans, orange, additional and security reforms. or critics of the coalition are worried about violent rhetoric directed against the countries arab minority phenom in beebe. 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 health of a controversial far right alliance. everything that always depends on this danielle

cousin 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 these were learned, he can run conflict, he can do it. the question is his partners who are his partners? and that's the problem. his partner city opened the ante are up and homophobic are to a nationalist village a sinus alliance. it's leaders are bits a lot, 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 arab. no, no, no. 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

o dot to terrorists? critics are concerned about their ultra nationalist religious agenda becoming mainstream and is ready politics and their wearable attacks on israel, our minority, among them elected members of israel's parliament. the candidate for getting me attacking me in order to attack the whole or a and put a senior community. when he is saying good death though, that i raced. he says vis thought ups, as he said before, 10 or 5 or 3 years. we are poking about very extreme and racist. a jewish politician party became the 3rd largest political force in the november 1st election. their strong showing has split the country even more. i feel, frankly scared and also disappointed. around 400000 people voted for than you

have been with which and these 2 people have, i find a calling opinion and that personally, also me as a woman left in this country and also as a person. and i think most people voted for ben, gives the air because of the security situation in israel. we really want the security to improve push it. ah, i think people are longing for someone who does act, and not only talks, milligram will seem. i person you know, ben kabir, and is she. i was working in his law firm when he was a lawyer. i'm also a lawyer, but he told me slideshow they always the on. i can tell you that he's true to his words. what are going to cost me lush? ovula newton yo is new government. it's likely to be one of the most try doing in israel's history. take away a correspondent rebecca writers is in jerusalem and told us more about what to

expect from the new government. now it's not is roused 1st, right? when government obviously bought it is to this day the most right when government that the country has seen and many of the coalition parties were once considered on the fringes. now the front and center in his writing politics. this move further to the right will likely osher in some pretty big policy changes. i, including some things that have already been guaranteed in the coalition, talks in the lead up to the formation of this government, such as more direct control over the policing in israel. and in much of the occupied territories, that'll be handed over to one of the ladies of the extreme rights in the government . as well as more direct direct control to some of those extreme coalition members over the administration in the west bank and many here. it fear that that will made further expansion of settlements and then potentially more violence here in the region. now inside israel, the new government wants changes made to limit the powers of the supreme court.

they want to make it possible for the elected government to override decisions made by the court effectively giving the government almost unchecked power. this will undoubtedly serve netanyahu himself, who is facing trial for corruption charges. there are also civil rights and particularly gay rights, that a to be rolled back cl to orthodox factions of the government wanting to roll some of those rights back. many people here are concerned about these changes, but then yahoo has accused the critics of fear mongering and his valve to preserve the status quo. he says he's going to be a prime minister for all israelis. over 19 cases are surging across china right now until recently the country had some of the toughest control measures in the world of public anger. and rare street protest led to many rules being relaxed. now, with experts warning that hundreds of millions of people could still be infected, chinese authorities have narrowed the criteria for identifying coping deaths. this

means that despite the jumping cases and overwhelmed funeral homes, there have 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 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. watch indian legion. we must unswerving lea at here to the principle 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, 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 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 in holly footer. it just showed 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 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. and calling as tariff epidemiology at hong kong university school of public health . and we 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 is 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 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. that has been collin chair of epidemiology at hong kong university school of public health to the united states. now where millions of people are under severe

weather warnings as a major winter storm moves across the country. freezing arctic air is bringing blizzards. an icy wind. much of the country as a push, as se forecasters or warning that temperatures could plunge as low as minus $45.00 degrees celsius and some areas a record breaking cold comes as millions hit. the roads on the skies for the holidays. airlines have already cancelled thousands of flights. and let's get more on that from matthew caput a. he's a mini are just based in washington dc. matthew, this is being called a once in a generation storm. why is it so special? why is it so in tex? hey there, good to see you're exactly right. a really is, was in a generation because all the moving parts, each of which is having its own impact. for starters, we have an upper level low pocket coal there, little pressure and spin this helping intense by 8 surface disturbance causing what

we call bama genesis. basically the ragged strengthening of a surface or nesting place really great lives. now because of that, it's sucking in air from all sides. so on the eastern side of the eastern u. s. coastline we're seeing winds ride northwards, warm moist air flooding, rains, and damage winds. on the back side side, beerin air is cascading down southward. ross, central u. s. the plains causing windshields down to minus 45 to minus 50 celsius, actual air temperatures down to minus 40 celsius and dangerous conditions for anyone outside with sub raising weather, always out of the gulf of mexico. that in between those 2 here masses clash, you get heavy snow blizzard conditions all coming at a time of year. when about 130000000 people are expected to travel more than 80 kilometers or more of the holidays. very bad timing. you said it there were looking at minus $45.00 minus 50 degrees. how dangerous is that for the human body? it's a kind of thing, the human body cancer mind,

a lesser actually protected and really indoors for books across your with west and north central u. s. in order to year, we're advising that anyone has to drive more than just like a minute or. ringback to have an emergency can your car because if you break down, you know, it only takes what a couple minutes before ross by the citizen, actually damage or even kill your skin and started losing lives and stuff like that . a very quick either after one can succumb to the coal, which reason we say don't bid on authorities reaching you in time. don't travel. you don't have to. if you're in that part of the us, really, hawker down, stay home and stay warm and talk about the authorities because earlier, similar, not as intense storms have knocked out power to millions and killed hundreds. are the authorities in the areas affect that now better prepared than they were those previous times? i think that's a really good point. you bring up, you know, about 2 years ago, february 2020. you had a big event in texas where it's actually a piece of the polar vortex broke off, and rock very cold temperatures down the lone star state in the process. pretty

much wipe down the states power. we're not, no power for 1000000 customers. and i think we learned a lot of lessons since then during that event, it was with taishan, so ice freezing, rain, snow that prevented a fuel from reaching to power plants and, and resolving power generated that will be a case this time or cod who is a company in charge of texas power red says they got this this time. we'll see if that actually is correct. but i think the bigger issue really will be the winds impact on travel rather than power averages. and the timing, as you say, is very poor on this meteorologist. nothing can poochie there in washington dc. thank you so much. thank you. pleasure and some sports now. sweden sandra naslund continued her magnificent run of form with her 13th strength freestyle ski cross world cub victory on thursday. the greatest ski cross champion of all time extended her own record to 33 podium topping performance is falling. a dramatic big final in northern italy olympic champion,

naslund has captured gold and all 5 world cup events. so far the seas and the international olympic committee has decided to allow men to compete in artistic swimming for the 1st time at the 2024 paris games. a maximum of 2 men can be selected among 8 athletes in the team event. that is due to include 10 nations artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized. swimming has been an olympic event since 1984. mm. and you're watching d w as doc film as up next. stick around for that. i'll be back at the top of the hour. hope to see them. ah ah ah ah

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