our mission, ah, to analyze the fight for market dominance. east versus west. beauty stood with the w business beyond ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. brazil prepares to inaugurate louis anacio little of the silva for his 3rd term as president. thousands of his supporters gather in the capitol, outgoing leadership. your bull scenario is snubbing the ceremony. will speak to our correspondent in brazilian, also coming up,

ukrainians wake up to more russian missile strikes and the new year. despite the violence, doctors do their best to deliver babies under difficult conditions will get more form. our correspondents here and croatia changes its currency to the euro and joins europe. passport free, shang an area. the 2 milestones come exactly a decade after the bulk and nation and joined the european union. ah, a marina evans dean. it's good to have you with us. brazil is preparing for the nor duration of its new president lewis in our seo lewis da silva. it will be his 3rd term in office. huge crowds of the supporters are gathering for the ceremony in the capital, brazilian, the left as politician in only defeated the ongoing leadership year,

both scenario in last october, the election run off both and ro has left the country and has yet to recognise lewis victory. dozens of foreign delegations are also attending the non duration our correspondence nicole reese is in brazil. yeah. and i asked her about the atmosphere at louis nogier ation and of people there are already celebrating indeed, they are celebrating. i met velocity of land as though and in front of it to vera crowds of thousands of new lo supporters. and they have been there yesterday already singing and celebrating all dressed and red and raising their flags. in the meantime, i also have observed the arrival of state b to us, for example, where the columbia president is already around the area and we're just waiting for lula to make his appearance as well. and this all comes as the security is boosted

to the maximum as well. obviously the crowds need a proper security system here just a week ago that was a bomb planted viable. so narrow supporter. so that was one 1st threat. and yesterday they also found somebody tried to plant a bomb bomb device here, closer in the areas the securities on high alert, but the mood at the moment is relaxed and cheerful. i would say, well loser of course is no stranger to brazilian the politic. this is going to be his 3rd term, so not consecutive term, but the 3rd term. nonetheless. what can brazil expect from his presidency this time? well, lula has promised that he will tackle poverty in the country and it's quite different from when back then when he was president. and now we have seen a plunge in inflation last year, up to 12 percent. many people live in the very deep off at 2 years. so this is one of the main things to address. there is

a study saying that the number of people who don't have cannot access has risen from 6 to 16 percent only in the last 2 years. then of course, there's the amazon grain or is that he also wants to address. he wants to protect and more, and then he needs to unify this country because only one by very slim margin of 1.8 percent. so people need to be convinced that he really can do the job again. i talked to some people in the streets here, i'm brazilian. so let's take a listen to what they say. i thought, i think this is not what brazilians would want video, but he won the election fair and square that. so the right loss on the left is back . we hope that they can become a good government id in their 1st year thought from our crossman ball. when i kissed fell asha c r i kiss fell my, the most important issue is that he delivers everything he promised. they're told, kelley put on that they, are we throwing off though, because he gave his word. however, if he does,

then he deserves to be where he is omitted the presidency, county civil garlic, all crazy. they got another not ready for this. no, i'm not. i'm not going to lie. i don't like it on there. it should be about scenario again before i voted for bell scenario. so let's see how this new government is going to be there. if i don't think that there was a lot of stealing resilience continue to vote for lula later either. but you know all the molena. okay, well, i call you mentioned that yourself. i mean lula one only by a very small margin said there are clearly many people who have a lot of reservations about lula. can you tell us more about why that is? well for one thing, although lula has been president in the past, he also has gone to prison for corruption. and although after 18 months he was released. this of course sticks with many people. still. on the other hand,

when i asked people on the streets, they also said, well, actually all the petition, the hands on the story that sticks to them, and they most of the time have to do with corruption. so they have to choose between one a bad choice and the other, they say, you know, but i think this is a prison sentence that he received back then a has stuck in some people's minds. and that's why they might attend to verbal sonata. and it's also probably a choice of sites also not always from right wing and hula is more on the left is meta. so that makes also some, some decision making. their d w's corresponded. nicole re, is for us in brazilian. nicole, thank you. russia has marked the new year with a fresh wave of attacks on ukraine, ukraine's defense forces say moscow fired at least 20 cruise missiles. but life goes on even during the most intense bombardment,

ukrainian doctors have been delivering babies over the festive season. most of it to happen here. we are here in one of keal speakers, maternity ward. but because of the all the hospital is almost empty just before the russian aggression up to 25 babies were born here each day after war starts. we have was delirious because lots of people left graham's. we can easily imagine it's was like less blanched by pregnancy. this time, so if you're less newly worse, no fewer birth and no patients names on the usually full board. but one room is still busy around the clock. the neonatal intensive care unit, despite all their care provided to premature babies, another danger looms over them. with the threat of me silo dance tie, it would be too risky to unplug their monitors and bring them to safety, doing air red alerts. on new year's eve, doctor's still delivered babies,

while keith was under heavy selling a chi, her college applied to the key for the thing is that of usually when such airlines occur of women who are giving birth, i cannot go down to the shelter and more richer we stay with them. the defense support element, although the physically for 3 and morally is actually in what i law. we meet alexander a newry whose daughter salome i was born during the attack. one me sire fell a few 100 meters away as alexandra was in neighbor. since the little girl this little princess does. there is karen because, oh, just a few minutes after gave a verse. sonton, who was he just knew i was under some that if her ear something like that. so i, i wasn't so scared because i had my child. but in general i wasn't dreaming about

such day for my little girl during the night. it was also very scary. ah, because s saran was there it alone for a very long time. we have been waiting in the corridor for several hours alone that also gave birth at the same time to a little boy named live. i was actually in the active face of giving birth already and apparently is exclusions actually nearby of soul to nearby. i was curious just as simple as that. i was scared. oh, how quite a quite nice a conclusion of the year for the most present for all the all the hard monks and all the dishes. so just like sola mia, lita live came to the world in a water, new crane. but for one moment in the quietness of this key of hospital life did feel a bit more hopeful. did have

a correspondent manual. shes file that report. and i asked her earlier to tell us more about the new parents. she spoke to in the key of maternity ward whether the parents had a house is over obviously in even or under even more stress than any other citizen trying to take shelter from the incoming, me sorry, on the incoming drones attacking kia. imagine you have 1st i mother and you have to take into account that to my be shelves, either any moment birth. what really struck me at this hospital was the resilience of doors or goes her parents, sir, or the inner piece that sir, or they die. i encountered this morning when i talk to them, and if you can hear around me, also the resilience of people here i'm hearing as sophia, squaring the center of key if and key if despite having been attacked 3 times over, the past 2 days was midsize with drones where keith remains unbroken. then that's

really something a remarkable to witness. he has of course, we've been reporting about the incredibly massive bombardment that ukraine has been suffering at the hands of the russian forces among the wall. how are people coping? where do they get this courage and this resilience to keep going i would say they don't have a choice. this is they home are they have been under attack since february, but they are here so they have no choice but to cope with the situation. of course it is very scary wearing the middle of the night in the middle of the day, whatever you're doing, whether you're sleeping or you're working, you have to run to a shelter and to give you an idea last night or attack or involve the $32.00 drones kamikaze draws that were shot down over a key of these attack lasted for hours and you know, when you sleep is constantly broken when the threat is constantly over your head.

of course, your fear, of course, it's a completely destroys, you are a normal way of life, but the people here just decided that they will, you know, fight against bad. you sir, me down people, here is the holidays. it's a new year. they are confident in ukraine's victory, and this is a spirit of resistance or you know, that they draw in order to not break the w's. ma, nauseous reporting from here. m a. thank you so much and do stay safe. croatia has moved closer to the rest of the european union. the balkan nation has begun using the euro and joined the shang and passport free travel zone career had to meet strict economic conditions to qualify. border formalities between croatia and slovenia were officially abolished and we can now speak to stephen beardsley from dw business who joins us from korea,

shes capital zagreb stephen. good to see you. so a real milestone for croatia i how is the public reacted to it? well, marianna is safely historic day for croatia, as you mentioned, becomes the 20th country to join this currency union and only the 2nd from the former yugoslavia following its neighbour slovenia. or there's a lot of excitement and apprehension here were standing in front of the central bank and. 2 they put up a number of projections here about new currency, which people have in stopping at. they've been talking, they've been taking pictures of this is something that banks and businesses here have been preparing for for quite some time. and there is a 14 day period down which people can pay with both currencies, but they will only receive the euro. at the same time, you can tell the cashiers are already having trouble with some of the exchange rates. when rit waitress told me that actually she just kept giving back money and corners the old currency because she couldn't do the math anymore. so it might take a little bit of adjustment. now mentioned the apprehensions

a prices here in croatia have been rising recent months as they have been across europe. and there's a few. the exchange rates to the euro will be, will help push things up even higher. and that that will mean a more coming out of their pockets. there's also a lot of nostalgia for the kona that that is the currency of croatian independence . and that's no small thing. nasty answer. the concerns about possible price increases, but what is the anticipated impact on this switch to the euro for croatia? economy as a whole it's been almost a decade since croatia has joined the european union. but i would say that this, what we're seeing right now, this and the admission into that shang, and passport free area. these are really some of the most visible and going to be some of the most felt changes in that, in that time period. it's, it's 10 years a since that's happened, it's that it's an, it shows how much change group has gone through and how much sovereignty it's willing to give up for that hope of economic benefits. now advocates say that what this is going to do is it's going to a smooth business friction,

it's going to increase investments, going to help out the tourism sector, which is the biggest sector here. a critic say, however, that this is one step too far in terms of sovereignty a. so that remains to be seen that they're gonna be one voice out of 20. now to help control the euro, and they're not going to be the biggest by far. so that is a concern here. but for now, a lot of excitement about this introduction, steven beardsley from the de leon business reporting for us from zagreb. steven, thank you so much and your up to date now on dw news, stay tuned for shift and marian i haven't seen from me and the entire niece team. thanks for watching her. i'm skilled that if i knew that tags and in the end is a meeting you are not allotted to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar.