ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. the faithful bid farewell to the form of pope benedict. the 1st pontiff to resign in centuries will lie in state for 3 days. so mourners can pay their respects at the battle. also on the program and other round of overnight as strikes, damages, homes and critical infrastructure in ukraine. but keith says it's shot down. most

of russia's attack, drops, glass, lieu of a silver returns to power. in brazil, he was sworn in as president and a ceremony. snubbed by his defeated rival. ah, i'm kehoe f as well come to the program. the body of the former pope benedict, the 16th is lying in state at the vatican. tens of thousands of mourners. i expected to pay their final respects before ben at its barrier. later this week. it will be the 1st paypal funeral in nearly 2 decades. first 3 days, mourners will have the chance to say good bye to pope benedict, italian prime minister, georgia maloney among the 1st to do so. the somber mood inside saint peter's

basilica disrupted only by the need to document on sunday. poke francis praised benedict during his new year's day prayer. junior montes, hear me, and 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 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? the victims, haven't you?

in his bavarian birthplace, a message to from beyond the grave, a local priest read from benedict spiritual testimony, released posthumously with this unwavering message. state hit him, stand firm in your faith. lot do not be confused. parishioners remembered him fondly. almost almost miss. it must be fact 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. seems that sound of a mature idle, i are wiser. 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 had 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 sought to pope's living in the vatican. short while ago i spoke with d. w. correspond a band legal who is in the vatican and asked him about the advance kindly unfolding at saint peter's basilica where the late pope is lying in state. the doors of saint peter's open since 9 o'clock or for the mourners, and there is a constant procession or constant stream of people passing a by this podesta of well, the body of the former pope is displayed. he is 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 maybe also took it to say thank you to him. or you have to line up for at least 2 or 3 hours now that houses of people

outside of the basilica are under the collin outside at saint peter's square. you have to go to sue's 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 go against wine. the long term private secretary and lifelong partner of pope her benedict. 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. it's about normally a papacy ends. when the pope dies, a benedict stepped down voluntarily or voluntarily a 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 pauper, frances, he's the only pope now alive. this situation was very unusual for 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 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, 40 or $50000.00 people of will and 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 they're sitting. pope dies. it's a modest an event,

a according to the vicious also of the former pope. and there will be some delegations from germany and italy. but that's it. and end of the burial itself take place inside the basilica. the body will be put into a soccer fark and then lowered into the grotto. so of the basilica already about 90 popes, a buried. and also this is according to the vicious of benedict who she wanted to be buried in rome. bell ring, they're reporting from the vatican. thank you. back. if rain in air defense is shot down, dozens of russian drones launched at the capitol. keith overnights, the mayor of italy, crisco says there strikes calls, heating and power outages in and around the city. drones made in iran also targeted energy infrastructure across southern and eastern ukraine. there was no let up in attacks over the new year holiday. and earlier i asked the w correspondent in

manuel shows that in kiff for more details on the latest strikes. exactly, it has come over or under attack again or last night for hours of wait while ukraine an air defense showed down around to 40 or iranian, made, her head drove over to capitol. this has unfortunately become a pattern for the past 3 nights. we've had 4 large scale attacks here over there, capital r n a. it has or become of course, quite exhausting for people here because every night they have to spend hours in the shelter when they do go out to the shelter. explosions could be heard to day in the city center or with 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 pod. heating outage is how people coping well,

it's so i would say it's difficult a mentally to cope with it. people have become used to as tricare air, read the lads air raid sirens, birds are 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 our 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 the home. we've met some doctors there. we've met some mothers and we've asked them, you know, how they were coping with that situation. maybe let's have a look. most 2nd year we are here in one of keir 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. but we can easily imagine it's was like

less blantan where pregnancy is 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 older care provided to primitive babies, another danger looms over them was no threat of me silo. drones tied, 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 chai, her call at tablets, had the key for the tenant that of usually when such air alarms occur of women who are giving birth, i cannot go down to the shelter anymore. richer we stay with them. that they have support on the what i physically with 3 and morally, if essentially in what i lot 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 neighbour. since the little girl this little princess was there is karen because oh, just a few minutes after gave a verse something. 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 that her scary. ah, because as saran was there 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 we had these exclusions actually nearby absolutely 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 moments and all the dishes, souls just like sola mia liter live came to the world in water, ukraine. but for one moment in the quietness of this key of hospital life did feel a bit more hopeful. and i you spent some time in this maternity ward. what was the mood like? well, it was a strange because as we've seen into employed sir, dis, maternity award is not as busy as it used to be a pre war because there are millions of ukrainians who fled a country to begin with. oh, so we have less or less babies been born each day there are doctors are there of

course are are staying mothers. they gave birth even doing an air red s i ran even when they had her. they have miss ice falling really near by. so that's really how you know, that's really something to witness and that was also something impressive to see is to see the resilience. and those people are still, you know, a working in hospitals and of course to their mothers who give birth in such conditions. did a manuel shop there in the key of thank you very much, emma. germany's defense minister christina lumpish has ignited the political controversy with a new year message posted on her personal instagram account. she says, the warrant ukraine has brought her fascinating experiences and meetings with wonderful people. a tone sparkled as so sparked robert, a social media uproar, as well as calls to resign. the ministry says the video is the ministers,

private fair? ah, what is raging in the middle of europe done for me? this meant that i gathered many special impression. there are many encounters with interesting and wonderful people. for this i wish to express my heartfelt thing no less bring indeed of your political correspondent, hans bach. hans, the what's been the reaction to this video? well, the reaction has been wides. there's been an enormous reaction. one might even say, party, possibly because this at the beginning of the year, not much else as much else is happening. it's rains from derision to anger, to cause for resignation, especially from the opposition. the control of a c is around the fact that she is standing in front of fireworks and talking about the war and ukraine. didn't mention ukraine didn't mentioned any sympathy for ukraine, didn't really talk about her role in the situation. it was

a total miscommunication. and so yes, that has been a lot of calls for her reaction for her resignation for her firing. why, from the government side, that has been a refusal to comment on the situation and there's been no support at all from her political party. now talk to me about the political background of this controversy here in germany. well, she is the german defense minister at a time when there is a war in europe when the german army needs to be refurbished drastically with 200000000000 euros that have been assigned for that to a german army. that plays a major role in nato in europe, as german defense minister, who has to play a major role in europe. and of course, there is always the question of weapons that germany has been supplying and should be supplying in future to ukraine. something about which she has talked often and not has, has not been very clear in her position. so she's at

a central position within the german government. and such, this kind of miscommunication by her really reflects on the entire government and on her road. as defense minister you mentioned germany's weapons delivers. let's get an idea of germany's military to ukraine before we come back to you. as the war drags on the ukrainians weapon stocks are running down, give has repeatedly called for the west to hell. apart from the energy aid, of course, ukraine still needs 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 so the fear of immunity very trying to supply weapons are helpful and can be used felony. 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 is anti aircraft weapons often with a lot of ammunition. few wanted to another foster, so 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 wants, though, is state of the art heavy tanks, like the lack of these,

they say would help when the ground for 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 the supply 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. the germany is doing its bit good minds. on the, together with the friends and partners, we have resolutely supported ukraine with money, humanitarian agents, and also with a weapon siegel. 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 deployment 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 on fund is still with me on the defense, mr. christina has been on the fire since taken off is more than a year ago. and after this latest controversy, do you think that she will be able to keep her position while she was involved in another controversy earlier this year? for instance, when she took her son along on an official trip on a government helicopter something which he defended afterwards and have been several occasions when her statements on weapon supplies to ukraine have been regarded as inappropriate. yet at the same time, one has to say she is in a key position in government at the moment. and it's a very difficult time for all of shows the chancellor to exchange his defense minister to replace her because of all the tasks that are ahead because of all the difficult decisions that have to be made. but one has to say it's clear and it's

been very characteristic today that there has been no defense of her from her own party. nobody has been rushing to defend the defense minister today. so it does seem as though her position is somewhat tenuous at the moment. did you political correspond? hands on there? thank you. fan either to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines. the international monetary fund is expecting a 3rd of the world to tip into recession. this year fund is predicting a tougher year then 2022. the downward trend is being driven by a slow down in the us, china and euro north korean state media say the 2nd most powerful military commander after leader kim jong on has been fired back. john sean was replaced at a meeting of the ruling party. it's not known why he was sacked. 2 helicopters have collided mid air in australia's gold cause region. at least 4

people were killed and several others on critical condition. authorities are investigating the oxy, jeremy rana has been seriously injured in a snow plow accident near his home. he's in a critical but stable condition. the star is known for his role in the mission impossible franchise. and as the super hero, hawkeye in mothers trans has started screening arrivals from china for cove at 19. it's the 3rd country after italy and spain to introduce mandatory tests . officials say the measures will help identify new variance and the world health organization is hoping to declare an end to the coven 19 pandemic this year. but officials war there is still a danger of deadly new variance emerging. let's look at where we are. after 3 years of this pandemic since the 1st outbreak and china lilies 6700000 people have died.

b corona virus still claims more than 1500 lives every day world wide, but numbers away down compared to last year. the w h o recommends vaccination and says access to effective vaccines is still unequal. globally, restrictions have been eased in many parts of the world. people learn to live with a virus rather than eliminated. well, scientists in europe are talking about coven 19 becoming endemic, rather than being a pandemic. but a plata is a biologist from the university of mines. he told us what that means. well, the situation is such that the numbers of new infectious have been stabilized throughout europe in the recent wakes due to it, despite the fact that restrictions have been lifted. so there is some sort of relief. but however, you might call it pandemic, or in the virus, it's not gonna still causes a number of infectious and also deaths. and so we have to lose watched the

situation closely. and we have to remember that other research viruses like flu or r s virus, are now called leading to an increased rate of hospitalization and an increased vertical for nurses and doctors while already exhausted after 3 years of condemning . so we have to watch the situation, villages to build a plot, the speaking there to us earlier, louis enough, you let us silver is appointing his new cabinets after being sworn in for his 3rd term as president of brazil, he narrowly defeated the far right outgoing leda. diable to narrow it last october election. ronald flu is promising to uphold the law and rebuild brazil's economy a new year and a new leader for brazil. as louis ignacio lula da silva returned to the presidency for a 3rd term. in his 1st speech to congress,

he pledged to combat deforestation in the amazon and restored trust in the countries ecological credentials. some of his full 5 if dilemma we are responsible for most of the amazon and for vast biomes large aquifers. or to posits oil and clean energy sources. we will address these issues with sovereignty and responsibility. we will share these achievements with humanity in a communal way, and never with subordination though. the form a union leader received the presidential sash from representatives of brazilian minority groups. an act normally conducted by the outgoing leader. but j, a boston, i wrote, refuse to perform his last shooting or full of visibly emotional lula hood that made his inaugural address to the nation.

speaking to the gathered crowds, he pledged to govern for all brazilians. math jeremy did is you, i want to address those who voted for other candidates who did that. i will be the president for 215000000 brazilian men and women and not just for those who voted for me. vogue over. i will govern for every one looking to our bright, common future we and not through the rear view mirror, and we pass divisions and intolerance ain't galindo's. following the formalities, lula met foreign leaders and dignitaries, including argentine president, alberto fernandez. king philippe of spain and the german president frank vall, to shy maya it was a day of ceremonial,

pomp and celebration. but now lead a face is a bulging in tray. of rebuilding environmental credibility, tackling soaring gun violence, and reuniting a deeply divided nation. and on the same day, the new president is sworn in brazil is also bidding farewell to one of its most famous son. football legends paley died edged 80 to love. cancer fans have begun falling into the stadium in his home town of santos. the public have a day to pay their respects before a private burial service. brazil observed 3 days of national morning, full of his delays. death last week you watching t w's. he is reminder of the top stories were following for you. the body all form of hope. benedict is lying and state at the vatican before his funeral. benedict became the 1st pope in modern times to voluntarily resign. he died

h 19 and ukraine assault on dozens of russia. drones that attack the capital keith that strikes false heating and power outages, drones made in iran, also targeted energy infrastructure elsewhere in the country. that's it from me and the new steam phenomena i haven't seen. we'll have an update for you at the top of the hour of next dw news asia benfor sewland coming up after shortbread. don't miss gabelle was in berlin from me and his team here. thanks for watching. ah

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