the destination with find out they stuck him entries with the full fly man can entry ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin. mourners say good bye to a former prov benedict. the 16th. the body of the 1st thought to resign in centuries will line state for 3 days ahead of his funeral, as people pay their respects at saint peter's basilica in the vatican. also coming

up another round of overnight air strikes, damages homes, and critical infrastructure in and around ukraine's capital. but keith says it managed to shoot down most of russia's tax problems. plus brazil says good bye to pele, mourners get ready to pay their respects to the legendary football or at the stadium of his former club. ah, i'm glad offers. welcome to the program. the body of a former poll benedict, the 16th is lying and state, and the vatican. tens of thousands of mourners are expected to pay their final respects ahead of been at its barrier. later this week, the vatican has yet to release the guest list for the 1st paypal funeral in nearly 2 decades, but has said as will,

it will include delegations from italy and the former pontiff native country of germany. for 3 days, mourners will have the chance to say good bye to port benedict, italian prime minister, georgia maloney among the 1st to do so. the somber mood inside saint peters basilica disrupted only by the need to document on sunday. poke francis praised benedict during his new year's day prayer. junior martin this year me go let us all joined together with one heart and one soul in thanking god for the gift of this faithful servant of the gospel and of the church. and he is then addict made history in 2013, when he resigned. siting ill health. the 1st point of to do so since the middle

ages. he led the church at the height of the clerical child abuse scandal, offering an apology to victims during a visit to australia in 2008. indeed, i am deeply sorry. was it pain and suffering, sir victims? haven't you? in his bavarian birthplace, a message to from beyond the grave, a local priest rate from benedict spiritual testimony, released posthumously with this unwavering message. stayed 5th him, stand firm in your faith lot do not be confused. parishioners remembered him fondly. over so much, it must be fat that we can be proud that we have at the very end. pope. and when his pope he came home to the house where he was born, that was really a sensation. we were definitely here for that. since it seemed

a bummer to rattle my advisor, he was a very good pope, very dignified. and he also advanced the face. all right, and also i think he inspired young people in spirit. outside saint peters, basilica, crowds have begun gathering to pay their respects a head of a funeral service on thursday and historic occasion that will mark the end of an extraordinary era which saw to poach living in the vatican. a short while ago i spoke with the w correspondence band, legal who is in the vatican, and the asked them about the events currently unfolding at st. peter's basilica with the late pope is lying in state the doors of st. peter's open since 9 o'clock, or for the mourners, and there's a constant procession, a constant stream of people passing a by this podesta of where the body of the farmer pope is displayed. he

said draped into a white and red or an address and wearing a bishop's mitra, very modest and his holding a rosary in his hand. and people are stopping there to pray, to have a moment of silence, and to say good bye and may be also too. okay, to say a thank you to him. and you have to line up for at least 2 or 3 hours now that thousands of people outside of the basilica. and under the collin outside at st. peter's square, you have to go to choose security checks and, and also amongst the 1st visitors or was the italian prime minister, georgia maloney herself a devout catholic, as she says and also your kinsmen, the long term private secretary and lifelong partner of pope benedicts. he was also there and now a constant stream is coming and we ought to expect many mourners and many pilgrims

actually from bavaria from his home town is about normally a papacy ends. when the pope dies, a benedict stepped down voluntarily or voluntarily. i years ago at that's an unusual situation for the church, isn't it? it was unusual for 10 years. actually. he stepped down in 2013 and it since then he was more or less living or quite live in a cloister on the grounds of the vatican at. and now it's back to normal actually for pub, frances, he's the only pot now alive. at this situation was very unusual of 800 years. the surcharge has not seen something like that. and it's very unusual also for the vatican. there's no protocol how to proceed with this. and it's, it's also very unusual that a pope and now oversee the burial of another pope or on thursday. i saw it

briefly. what do we know about the funeral arrangements that the funeral a service will take place and saint peter's square for the $50000.00 people of will to, to come to attend. it's open to the public. there will be no official delegations from around the world as it used to be when a sitting pope dies. it's a modest an event, a according to the vicious also of the former pope and debbie, some delegations from germany and italy. but that's it. and end of the burial itself take place inside the basilica in the body. will it be put into a soccer fark and then lowered into the grotto, z a. the basilica already about 90 popes, a buried. and also this is according to the vicious of benedict, he wanted to be buried in rome. bell ring, they're reporting a from the vatican. thank you. back to your crime. now,

officials say add offenses shot down dozens of russian drones launched at the capital. overnights keeps may of italy glitch grocers, the strikes caused heating and power outages in and around the city. kamikaze drones made in iran also targeted energy infrastructure across southern and eastern ukraine. just as moscow had announced, there was no let up in the tax over the new year's holiday weekend. early i asked the w correspondent, emerald shows for more details on the heavy strikes on the ukrainian capital overnight. exactly, it has come under attack again last night for hours of wait while ukraine an air defense shut down around 40 iranian made, the head drove over the capitol. this has unfortunately become a pattern for the past 3 nights. we've had 4 large scale attacks here over the

capital r n a. it has become of course, quite exhausting for people here because every night they have to spend hours in the shelter when they do go to the shelter. explosions could be heard to day in the city center out with a damages caused to a few buildings and of course energy infrastructure, which is still being targeted by russia. now as you said, the strikes have caused a power and heating outages. how people coping well it's so i would say it's difficult or mentally to cope with it. people have become used to as tricare air, read the lads air, read sirens, birds or the explosions of the past few days have been particularly difficult to cope with because they're really hid the cities center are here, not some far away infrastructure. where does know, you know, our residents, for example, and or, or new year's day or, and myself and the team went to the maternity ward because you know,

day in day out, babies are still being born in home. we've met some doctors there. we've met some mothers and we've asked them, you know, how are they were coping with that situation? may be, let's have a look. most of shipping 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 with her was delirious. because lots of people left to graham we can easily imagine it's was like less blantan. but 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 day care provided to primitive babies, another danger looms over them. with the threat of me silo 2 ounce type, it would be too risky to unplug their monitors and bring them to safety,

doing air red alerts. on new year's eve, dr. still delivered babies while keith was under heavy shelling of a che her go at the power to keep of italian. that of usually when such air alarms occur of, for women who are giving birth, i cannot go down to the shelter and water. sure, we stay with them that they have support on the what i physically for 3 and morally . if essentially in what i law, we meet alexandra newry, whose daughter salome? i was born during the attack. one me sire fell a few 100 meters away as alexandra was in neighbour. since the little girl. this little princess. there is karen. because oh, just a few minutes after i get averse. something who was hit just near, i was under some that you for years, 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. and leona 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 it explosions actually nearby. absolutely nearby. i was curious, just as simple as that. i was scared. oh hale, quite, quite nice. the conclusion of the year j like the most present for all the all the hard months and all that is, it is just like stella mia lee to live came to the world in auto, new crane. but for one moment in the quietness of this key of hospital life did

feel a bit more hopeful did have you smile shar, there reporting from keith. not her months into its war with russia. ukraine is hoping more weapons deliveries will help turn the tide in its favor this year. but so far, key western allies have been holding back some of the high tech equipment that keith once most as the war drags on the ukrainians weapons stalks are running down. give has repeatedly called for the west to hell. apart from the energy aid, of course, ukraine stillness, more weapons and ammunition. because the best way to protect our civilians from russian terror is to defeat russia. can germany send more military hardware from the start? olaf schultz. his answer has been consistent as the pseudo fia community vari, trying to supply weapons are helpful and can be used. found that we have done that

in the past. and we will continue to do that to the success of the ukrainian army, show that we have supplied effective weapons, anti tank weapons, anti aircraft weapons, and a lot of ammunition, few monotone elders foster, too good. so far, germany has delivered around 2000000000 euros worth of military equipment. that's only a 10th of the amount committed by the united states. but it is the largest e u contribution among the arm sent by berlin iris t long range air defense systems whose value is increased given russia's concentration on air strikes. germany has also st key battlefield weapons like mars t rocket launchers and panza help it's a 2000 self propelled how it says in both cases, a lack of spare thoughts is cause delays when those systems needed repair. but they have been effective and more have been promised. what ukraine really want, though,

is state of the art heavy tanks, like the lack of these they say would help when the ground war the german government has so far, refused, pointing out that other nato countries have also not provided the most modern tanks in state berlin has delivered leopards to nato allies like these supplied to check forces in december, part of an exchange deal under which the check sent. soviet designed t 72 tanks to ukraine. evidence according to the chancellor. but germany is doing its bit good minds. on the together with the friends and partners, we have resolutely supported ukraine with money and humanitarian agent, and also with a weapons ego. we will continue the support for as long as it is needed. the us has now agreed to send ukraine patriot defense systems. some of its most advanced weapons, the german government has offered its patriots to nato member poland,

but so far says it cannot spare any for the employment in ukraine. meanwhile, keith continues to ask the west for more of those powerful weapons, much of what it has seems unlikely to make the decisive difference in this war. mike martin is a senior fellow in war studies at kings college london, considering the fact that germany is making the largest military contribution of any country, but only a 10th of that of the us. i asked them if there are countries that could be doing more, there are countries, it could be doing more if the problem is that what's happened until now is the western countries have used up their own stocks that they keep if they ever end up in a war probably because they thought the war might be a very, in 6 months or short period of time. now it's very clear that was going to go on well, in 2023. and in order to get the factories to produce more munitions, the governments have to sign contracts with those factors so they can ramp up

production. and that's what's been happening over the last 6 weeks or so. so rather than it being a question in particular, countries doing more, i think we could all do more britain, the us, france, germany, etc. but it's actually quite a, an administrative question of actually sitting down and signing the paper work. so factories can run production that will look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north korean state media says the country 2nd most powerful, military official, obsolete kim, john has been fired pack. john sean was replaced at the meeting of the party central committee last week. the reason for his dismissal is not known. the international monetary fund is expecting a 3rd of the world to enter recession this year, predicting it will be, quote, tougher than the year will leave behind the downward trend as being primarily driven by a slow down in 3 big economies. the west,

china and europe. the movies are jeremy reynolds has been seriously injured in an accident, as spokesperson said, he was ploughing snow when the accident occurred. incident has left renner in critical but stable condition. the actor as well known for his role in the mission impossible filling franchise as the super hero hawkeye. in marvel films and the c those how's organization says it hopes it will be able to officially declare an end to the coven 19 pandemic this year. but it's warning that there's still a danger of a new, more deadly variant emerging. let's look at where we are after 3 years off the pandemic. since the 1st outbreak in china deal is 6700000 people have died of go with 90. the virus still claims more than 1500 lives every day. but numbers are way

down compared to last year. the w h o continues to recommend vaccination and to says excess to effect of vaccines is still unequal globally, in many parts of the world of it, restrictions have been eased as people learn to live with a virus rather than eliminated. here in europe, northern italy was the 1st region to see a rapid spread of corona, virus infections. at the start of the pandemic, one city in particular, bergamot became a powerful warning sign to the rest of the world. back in early 2020 the corona various picked the northern italian city of burg, emma as the place where it would cost its darkest shadow during the 1st wave of infections for a time. burger mill was the world's epicenter of the viruses deadly outbreak. leading to these haunting scenes bodies of the dead in army tracks, been transported to crematorium in may during regions inside burger,

most hospitals, health workers, battles to keep people alive. i remember the sounds yes, law of a different devices that you were using. at the time we sold for, ah, you know, when we need to give a lot of gas oxygen to her people and her. i am also a kind of smell something with which i remember very well at the height of the crisis. burger, most hospitals did not have enough oxygen and intensive care beds. consuelo localities, 82 year old father digest days. after being admitted a b. i must go pair, told jane to delicate they. luckily nica were discovered from reading the medical records that the day after he was hospitalized. he was given the steep up ventilation helmets. and unfortunately, at that time, there were not enough dose helmets and doctors had to choose who could survive. and

who to lead di amy, my dead suffered a choice to be accompanied to diving men. there are so little a shade that yes, that a companion dog namath cove. its wrath on bergamot was filled by a slow response by officials to detect the virus and enforced measures to contain. it's spread a population of older adults with underlying conditions and a desperately under resourced health care system that had suffered years of budget cuts. we need to worry about doctors in the territory or for genetic proposals and also small after care. please use it in the, in the, in the see tuesday in the territory. bergman won't forget those that were taken away by cove at 19 this memorial is a trivial to them surrounded by a grove of trees, releasing the oxygen so many needed in their final moments. brazil

is preparing to bid farewell to one of its most famous sons. footballing legend palate died last week at the age of 82. a procession carried his body from sal paula to the stadium in his hometown of santos, where he played for much of his career. the stadium will be open for the public to pay their respects before a private burial service. on tuesday, brazil has been observing 3 days of national morning following place death last thursday. for more police death and the arrangements for the funeral, i'm joined by mark oregon from d. w. sports mark. tell us what can we expect from today? well, this is basically the last chance for the public to say their goodbyes to paley. after the 3 days of national mourning, there's no $24.00 vigil at the santos stadium. as we heard, that's the club for what she played, which she became synonymous with school. all those goals for and back in the

sixties and seventies. and so the funds that i've been gathering there before the stadium even opens, they'll be allowed to file in past fairly confident, which will be in the center circle distance of about 5 meters away and say they're say the last get by feel then be taken after the 24 hours he's been taken on his final funeral position, final journey, if you like, just cemetery and his old neighborhood where his mother actually still lives. she's 100 years old. and that's an incredible story in itself. and he'll be laid to rest there in a private setting. now, parents often referred to as the biggest and best football player in the history of the game, but there are some others and i wonder, where does he really stand? i mean there's mar donna. there's becket, ball and a few others a where, where would you put it is you really still there and the top. i mean, personally speaking for me, he is and this is purely personal and no objective at all. i grew up on stories of pale. if you know he was one of those people, you know, a was the 1st star color t,

v of football. if you like. see some of his exploits in the 970 woke up and that was, you know, the video that my dad gave me and said this is the past though. generally generationally, i think in comparison to mother don't know what hailey gives him. the edge globally . i think he has the same blemished record in terms of his personal life. so he's kind of this unblemished icon, if you like, in terms of is all he was a great are in a team full of stars, and i think what put some above everybody else model. i know you mentioned back in both the earlier is probably that this unblemished kind of person that you as well as football ingenious that w sports. thank you very much, mark. and we stay with sports after a jam packed 2022. the sporting world has yet another excited year to look for to on the women's football world cup in july to break out stars in tennis are plenty

of highlights ahead in a busy calendar this year. 2023 is a big year for sport. football fever hits australia and new zealand as the women's football world cup headstone under all eyes will be on the united states as they attempt to be the 1st team to win 3 tournaments in a row in the men's game rail madrid, nor a thing or 2 about winning consecutive trophies. they've taken home 5 of the last name champions league titles. but they faced tough competition from the lakes of manchester city and by a munich to defend their title this season. and formula one, it's probably too early to speak of read bill dominance, but dutch min max washed up and is on a mission to make it 3 titles in a row. louis hamilton is under pressure to make a title challenge after

a poor 2022 season spanish sensation carlos alcaraz took the tennis world by storm when he won the us open in september. it was a breakthrough year for the 19 year old who defeated some of the games best in rough. i on the dow and world number one novak jock of ich, if he keeps it up, alcaraz could be the new young superstar. the tennis world has been waiting for your watching. the wb's is a reminder of the top stories we are following for you. the body of the former pope benedict, the 16th is lying in state at the vatican for 3 days ahead of his funeral. benedict who became the 1st pope in modern times to voluntarily resign, died at the age of 95 after years of age. and ukraine says it has shot down dozens of russian drones that attack this capital heave overnight. officials say the strikes coals heating power outages in and

around the city come because they drones made in iran, also targeted energy infrastructure in other parts of the country. russian forces continued there was sold to cross ukraine throughout the new year's holiday weekend . and that's it from me, and that is seen from all of an update for you at the top of the hour. don't go away though. up next i'll environment magazine, eco, india. looking at how to extend the lifespan of lithium ion battery that's coming up. she'll come out with

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