ah, not one, not you, not 318 standing ovations for the man who travelled across the atlantic to think his greatest ally in front of a joint session of the u. s. congress, ukrainian president. a lot of years zalinski delivered an impassioned speech that saw more than one observer compare him to winston churchill in the wake of pearl harbor. it was a whirlwind visit to the u. s. aimed at capturing hearts mines ends. resources to fend off ukraine's hostile neighbour. russia didn't take long to respond. the kremlin complained it's concerns were being ignored and threatened that the key of washington alliance would only prolong the suffering of ukrainians. i'm nichol fairly kimberly, and this is the day. ah,

we stand we 5 and we will win because we are united grain america. we also know that prudent has no intention. going to stop in the school. our 2 nations are and eyes in this battle. next year we'll be starting point. i know it. he thought he could break noodle and thought he could break to worst. he thought he could break. it was wrong. wrong. got little boy talks and washington have shown the title. you print, not the united states, the striving for you bring. your grand holds its lines and will never surrender. ah, ah, also coming up, snow ma, get the deep freeze, the polar vortex call it what you will. millions of people across north america

face some of the most savage winter weather in more than a decade. i encourage everyone, please he to local warning. please take this storm in. oh, welcome to the show. a lot of years the landscape is used to big stages and red carpets. after all, he was once a famous actor before becoming a war time leader. but the reception he got upon his arrival in washington was visibly overwhelming at times, even to a man accustomed to the limelight only 24 hours after visiting soldiers at the front line, he suddenly found himself charming, his staunchest ally, during talks at the white house with you as president joe biden, zalinski was promised another military aid package worth almost $2000000000.00. later, dressing and joint meeting of the u. s. congress, the ukrainian leader, thank every american for their support for his country's defense against russian

aggression. there was thunderous applause in the chamber when zalinski, dressed in his army 14th, presented you as mice president, pamela harris, and how speaker nancy pelosi with a ukrainian flag. it was signed my troops in which the scene sung the most intense finding the war. polanski in turn received an american flag, had flown over the capital in his own assistant to some of the highlands of zalinski as historic speech is agreed. honor for me to be at the u. s. congress and speak to you, and all americans against against all odds and doom and gloom. shenaria see a grain didn't fall. you green is alive and kicking. ah!

we did, he did. roger in the battle for minds of the world. we have no fear, nor should anyone in the world have it. you grange gained these recurring, and it gives us courage, which inspires the entire world. our 2 nations, our allies in this battle. and next year we'll be turning point. i know it, the boy and when ukraine and courage, an american resolve must guarantee the future of our common freedom. the freedom of people who stand for their well use, the occupiers have a significant advantage. in artillery. they have an advantage in ammunition. they have much more missiles and blynn us than we ever had as it's true. but our defense forces stand you green,

you green holds its lines and will never surrender. nearly amanda is a former spokesperson to president vladimir zalinski. she's also the author of the book. the fight of our lives, my time with zalinski ukraine's battle for democracy and what it means for the world. and i'm pleased to welcome her today. she joins us from the ukrainian capital. ok, if miss mondanca to see you again. how was the landscape trailer steel any? how was the landscape for a perceived back home in ukraine? oh, thank of this question. actually it was, i think it was a great success in many, many, ah, points from many points of view. first of all,

let me say that it was high time for these 2 strong leaders to meet up and as present bite and sad. it was needed to look into their eyes. and is it asking you this opportunity to finally to saying american people and to thank you know, for the unity of the western countries when they stand for ukraine? hope i is here for freedom. he was very sound and he didn't only sound with his words, but even the fact of how sound his image was when he arrived. just, you know, in, in very casual who d in military color just from the front line. you know, when we were working together, we were traveling and he was wearing such military who used to do that to don boss where russia conducted military action since 2014. and now he shows actually that all his countries, the front line, the kept off ukraine is actually the front line, right? so he arrived there without any project call and he's still, you know,

from the bottom of his heart. but there is one very important message and i think that everyone wanted to hear that message and that message showing bad present zaleski wants peace. and he expects these in 2023. definitely. these words sounded yesterday more, more crucial than ever. and you know, it was important to have this talk was biden, to understand what scenarios are there at the table, and when to expect russia to defeat? yeah, let's talk about this prospect for peace because he said it not only once that ukraine would reach a turning point in the war in 2023. how can that be achieved things as they stand right now? well, 1st of all, let me say that the political elite here and now discusses this message because it comes straight from the office of the president and each came into political elite society earlier than prisons. lansky went to the united states. so definitely the re, some kind of understanding the office of the president and the raw, you know,

chances to fit russia in 2023. and definitely there's that we defend a lot on the west. we depend on the west now financially with it. i'm politically diplomatically and of course military and you know, this new staff from their nike stays to provide as patter, assistance. it was very important because it showed the different level of my engagement of the united states in this war. you know, we ask western, pardon us, not to forget that, you know, we can win this war. we already made russians retreat from ki, harkey, hassan, and we can regain our territories back. and that was the main point of that conversation. to show that the peace can be closed if we make russia sit down at the table. look, russia today said that the patchwork system outdated at the same time with new today, they're getting backbones from north korea, which is ridiculous, right? so definitely we understand that if we want to win the war in 2023 right now, we need to make all the bureaucracy and to train our soldiers to,

to use than usual air defense system like petros or for instance, like, you know, a weapons as tanks allow parts to that we are really asking for a long time. i want to talk about his speech to congress. zelinski received 18 standing ovations. were you surprised by the overwhelming reaction here received by lawmakers? well, you know, of course this is really very, you know, it's, it's really hard as it comes from the heart and for me as for ukrainian as many ukrainians who just will allude to the screens when they had any kind of connection . you know, it was so important to watch every his word because we know that he was speaking from every ukraine who seats here, either in the trench shares on the battlefield or in the rare, you know, like me just one front of the candles because we don't have you know, light and watch and heating and, and he spoke and he tried to make this people fail what we fail. but also he showed

this way of gratitude because we really appreciate how people across the ocean steel are united in 10 months of war. and understand what we are going through though, so that was a very important personal connection and his messages will very strong. so i'm pleased that they were heard and i am, i hope it will implants our future and the west and americans will stand with us as much as it's needed as president biden bullshit. how is voluntary landscape farmer spokeswoman julia mandel? thank you so much for your time to be safe and all the best to you. thank you for having me and merry christmas re, i think to zalinski strapped the kremlin accused ukraine and the u. s. of ignoring russia's concerns. and despite its continued attacks on ukraine, russian president vladimir putin earlier to day told reporters that russia was open to diplomatic negotiations to end the war. a complete could hooligan conflict with

all armed conflicts eventually and with diplomatic negotiations. i mean, you're good and we have never rejected such an opportunity even some wanted ukrainian government that's bar itself from holding negotiations, which it looks quite unusual. i would even say strange to me. but sooner or later you really side. yeah. carina conflict with each other. sit down and negotiate with this sooner, our opponents realize that the bathroom to move and we don't have never rejected that. and let's go straight to russia analyst maria cut answer for the russian perspective. on this, maria, who has been claiming he wants to negotiate away out of the conflict for months now . but his terms are a nonstarter for you free. they violate ukraine's territorial integrity. and he knows that at with the war going quite poorly for him. is there any way he would be willing to compromise?

well, i don't think that ludovic putin 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 an ox. so 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 blake 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 the fact that we'll have and then he will act accordingly . but we have seen that so far he is ready to sacrifice everything and to

compromise on nothing. these remarks, of course falls, landscape 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 for role in feeding the war machine has expectedly marked the 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 wizard to frontline buff mode, where they have his bottles are taking place now. the very same day put in an awards ceremony at the company and for soldiers fighting in ukraine as well as in the same media journalist. so we can see that the difference between those 2 leaders is striking. and these kind of images can affect russians and their belief

in their leader. moscow says the new military aim promised 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 a rush, us escalation game, which essentially boils down to threatening western countries in hope that they will be afraid to further escalation and will be more restraint in supporting ukraine. and we have heard vague, a thrust from the kremlin since february, especially at the beginning of war. they made many, was to lead us alert and cautious about military assistance for ukraine, but given continued on growing, su 4 support a growing support for ukraine that we are witnessing now. the criminal threatening

narrative doesn't work that well anymore. as an analyst, maria, catamount st. joining us from tbilisi, thank you so much for that analysis o. the clock was ticking for benjamin netanyahu, but in his own words, 10 minutes before the deadline, he quote, managed to form a government one that has many people in israel and beyond concerned the designated prime minister will lead to what is likely to be the country's most right wing coalition ever. he made the announcement after weeks of negotiations with ultra orthodox and far right. political partners at me, i was party one most seats in israel's november election. bud depended on a number of controversial coalition partners to govern. the new governments agreement includes plans for judicial and security reforms. critics of the coalition are worried about increasingly harsh, frederick directed against the countries error minority fin him in beebe netanyahu

made soon at 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 hope of a controversial far right alliance. everything always depends on the phone your cars looked on. you couldn't be a reasonable prime minister even if you don't vote for him or not like him. he can run these were learned, he can run conflict to couldn't do it. the question is his partners who are his partners and that's the problem. his partner's the openly anti are up and homophobic ultra nationalist religious zionism alliance. it's leaders are bits i'll, it's more twitch and it hm. i've been via, been given here during the election campaign has been convicted for incitement and bard for military service because of his extremist views of

a block of death to arabs. no, no, no, yoga, whoever wants to live here in peace alone, rosalinda. but whoever is throwing malo tops, whoever is killing children, killing women is a terrorist. miss. so what do we want that to terrorists? critics are concerned about their ultra nationalist religious agenda becoming mainstream and is ready politics and their wearable attacks on israel. it's 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 terrorist, he says this thought ups as he said before, to pay 10 or 5 or 3 years. we are booking about very extreme and racist. a jewish politician party became the 3rd largest political force and the

november 1st election. their strong showing has split the country. if more, i feel are frankly scared and also disappointed. around 400000 people voted for the new confused ben van with which and that these 2 people have my final calling opinions. and that is personally also a vendor me as a woman, the leftists in this country. and also as a and d v person, i think most people voted for because we are 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 always do, and i can tell you that he's true to his words. what are going to cost me? a lot of them you need to know is new government is likely to be one of the most right wing in israel's history. as we just heard on the report there, this will probably be the most extreme foreign government in israel's history. so how is that going to translate into policy making? our correspondence for becker writers has more but it must be stated that this isn't the 1st right wing government that the countries are the same, but it is, as you rightly point out the most extreme. we're seen parties that are part of this coalition that we're once conceded on the fringes now they are front and center and israeli politics. and that is likely to bring about some pretty big changes a 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 and 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 candidates. it 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 to concerning the supreme court of 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

a 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 part has come out and said, you know, this is just fear mongering. that he is still going to be the hell. 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 ah, include brochures or whether we're here. and it goes from oklahoma all way to why only in, in wyoming to maine. so route got to crunch. please take this storm extreme. wish her our boss watch your travel plans leave now. not a joke. i was you as presidential wine warning, millions of americans to take care as a potentially life threatening winter storm moves across the us and canada, freezing arctic air as bringing blizzards an icy winds. too much of the continent.

as it pushes south, east forecasters are warning that temperatures could plunge as low as minus $45.00 degrees celsius. in some areas, the record breaking cold comes as millions hit the roads and the skies for the holidays. airlines have already cancelled thousands of flights. was get more allow for matthew can poochie. he's a meteorologist based in washington dc. matthew, the weather service has called this a once in a generation storm. why is that? yeah, most definitely. it's such a dynamic system from so many different ways because it has like 3 or 4 different ingredients, all which will be very severe. so we start off with the bomb cycle. and so basically a low pressure system intensifying so quickly that it sucks in so much air, small size, and bruce, very strong winds. so on the eastern side you're on the eastern seaboard. i'm in washington dc. right now we're seeing raising just there was the out the window,

but a lot of it with my watches, effect, and strong winds up. and now the new england where we've got you about 90, maybe a 100 kilometers per hour. that goes i causing hills flooding to now we turn to the cold side of the system on the western side, the plains, the upper midwest, bone chilling conditions as iberian air slide itself. behind the storm temperatures . bob act about minus 30 or minus 40 celsius at times, and in between the of the class of the air mass, it is prolific snowball. if you spot with blizzard conditions, all can be at a time at about $100.00. 13000000 americans are expect to travel more than 80 kilometers the holiday, worst possible timing, indeed, and things like these kinds of storms are becoming more and more frequent than what rolled as climate change play here. so that's one of the things we're not exactly sure about in terms of a storm like this. we do know that thanks a human induced by the change, the calls are warming faster than the equator now digest ring, whose job is kind of to balance temperature differences between the equator. and

the polls tend to have to go a little farther up and down a little more weighty to distribute the same amount of heat and kind of do its job . and as result, there is some research emphasis on some to indicate the jets room is becoming weightier, which would allow more significant storm systems to form. i do really want to emphasize that. so that's kind of a very big jump to make resort like this. ultimately, these kind of storms do happen from time to time. they are quite common to some of the year and not as early to this magnitude. this is a bit of novelist, but with whether you are down as if you'd always mountain. how would you recommend people prepare for these kinds of conditions? yeah, that's a really good question preparations. absolutely. he, it really depends on where you are. so the eastern seaboard, like i said, we're seeing way right now, but here's the thing. it's about $67.00 degrees celsius. to morrow we'll have, we'll call a flash freeze basically that cold front for a big storm is pushing through, causing temperatures to plot, below freezing, like 2 hours time. so all the rain all out there right now, all the water,

the release will rapidly freeze like this on major interstate. so bad. usually, eastern seaboard, i think anyone should be off the rose by noon time tomorrow as the snow. we wanna make sure both have a carbon monoxide detectors with fully charged batteries. they are able to surely say not be in the ruins like conditions that served the central us. and then over the planes a to bold issue number one of those, those die strong winds are taking up the snow cause reduced disability. natures travel and number 2 windshields and how it feels like outside are down to about minus 50 degrees below 0 celsius. so we want no one traveling without emergency kit or i better to curl up inside and have a hot cup of cocoa. maryland is samantha county there in washington dc. thank you so much that you that's our time, but make sure to stay in touch while our team at dw is on twitter and myself at nicole underscore for fernando from all of us here on the day. thank you so much

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