ah ah ah ah business dw news lie from berlin. brazil says good bye to football legend, pele. the strikers body is lying in his hometown stadium. thousands of fans are paying their respects before his funeral. also coming up to the faithful bid farewell to former pope benedict mourners at the vatican's pray for the foes. first,

pope, and centuries, to stab down as a spiritual leader, 2 millions worldwide. and doctors in ukraine deliver babies under fire as the new year gets under way with more russian missile strikes. ah, i'm marrying a evanston, it's good to have you with us. brazil is bidding farewell to one of its most famous sons. football legend pele died aged 82 of cancer fans have been filing into the stadium in his home town of santos, the public half a day to pay their respects before a private burial service. brazil observed 3 days of national morning following pallet's death last week or earlier, i asked journalist tim vickery to help set the scene of the 24 hour wake. his

coughing came down the hill from san palo overnights to the coastal city of san sauce. it arrived around 4 o'clock in the morning, and even then there were crowds of people there to welcome him back to census the coffin opened. coughing, now is in the centre circle of the field at census. the door's been open for some 2 hours. now people can file past pay their respects full of all sorts. he's political authority, sporting authorities, they are as well in the stands, many bouquets of flowers sent while authorities and celebrities. it will lie for 24 hours. and then to morrow there'll be a funeral procession through the streets of santos. it will pass the house of his mother who still alive at the age of $100.00. before moving on to his final resting place, a cemetery will. they'll be a private funeral for the family, and it's a vertical cemetery is up on the 9th floor, handpicked by pele, with a view of this stadium that he graced for so many years. serrato's in rancho this

world of total close at the front has football club stadium. it was a special place for pele. tell us about his time there. well, this story has a global dimension, a national dimension, and also a local dimension that might be easy for the will to overlook. sense us by the standards of brazilian cities is small. it's less than half a 1000000 people pal. i wasn't born there, but he came there at the age of 15 and he played all of his career in brazil. incense was 18 years for the club during which time they were probably the best club side in the world. now for a city that small, that's an extraordinary achievement, and it's one that they're very, very proud of. so there's a huge local pride here. it's a local moment, as well as well as one celebrated by the world and the country. we know, of course, and pele was a hero in brazil, but she was also admired around the world. but his impact did go even beyond football, didn't it?

well, i think it does because we're talking about someone here born just 52 years after brazil, a boy she slavery, a poor black kid, a one time shoe shine boy who ends up through his own talents and determination. and through the democratic nature of football itself. is form a shoe showing boy ends up shining more brightly than anyone else in the history of the global gain. his legacy globally is, i think, more than anything else to welcome the house that he built. he did more than anyone else to make the world cup this gripping event that makes us all once a down tools for 4 years every month for a month, every 4 years. his legacy in brazil is making them the country associated with winning. the woke up with winning it in style and with winning it in style with a smile on their face for a month every 4 years, with polite brazil with a country that every one wanted to be. there was journalist at 10 degree reporting from rio. tim, thank you so much and brazil's new president is appointing

his new cabinets a day after being sworn in for his 3rd term in office. louisa nancy a little in to sell that narrowly defeated, the outgoing far right leadership, your boss and arrow in last october is election run off. well that is promising to uphold the law and to rebuild the 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 fathers dilemma, we are responsible for most of the amazon and for vast biomes. large aquifers or deposits, oil and clean energy sources. also, 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, refused to perform his last duty or for a visibly emotional lula hood that made his inaugural address to the nation. speaking to the gathered crowds, he pledged to govern for all brazilians. much 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. vogel that i will govern for every one looking to our bright,

common future we and not through the rear view mirror of past divisions and intolerance. ankle, it also 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 of face is a bulging in tray. of rebuilding environmental credibility, tackling soaring, gung violence, and re uniting a deeply divided nation. the former po benedict is lying in state at the vatican. tens of thousands of winters are expected to pay their final respects before been an ex burial. later in the week,

it will be the 1st people funeral in nearly 2 decades. 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 insights saint peter's basilica, disrupted only by the need to document as crowd sneaked around the vatican, waiting to enter the faithful. coming out. try to sum up the experience. aaron umbrella would soon it's a beautiful emotion to see the body, even a little transformed by suffering by. but even, and this is the pope gave us an example of faith when i'm with zoning this, it's an indescribable emotion. i was in front of the pope's body. i didn't realize that he was right there. yeah. that it was really him. i think i'm in there. on

sunday, poke francis praised benedict during his new year's day prayer. tune jamante. see, emmy. can let us all join 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. citing 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 deep is 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 5th, him stand, firm in your faith lot do not be confused. hope benedict will be lead to rest on thursday in a funeral. savish that's expected to draw thousands and historic occasion that will mark the end of an extraordinary iraq which saw to pope's living in the vatican. think of the correspond and band hang out as after that again. and i asked him earlier to describe the scene at saint peter's square. and in st. peter's basilica . the doors to the basilica open there since the early morning. and thousands and thousands of people are lining up on the some beat, the square to get into this enormous huge church, one of the biggest churches in the world. and if you enter, you see this,

this whole this renee since architecture marble, gold and m under the copper law, there's the, the body of pope or benedict lying, not in the coffin, but are on a little pedestrian. and you can, you can see and actually from all sides, people can stop say, a little prayer and say their own personal good bye or 2, though benedict and many did so, and many more expected 40 to 50000 people a day. and amongst the 1st visitors or the president of the italian state child, sasha matter, ally, and also your ken. so i and the private secretary of the pope and his long time lifelong confidence. one was of chorus or rather unusual situation to have 2 parks living at nevada can at the same time. but now that a former pope is dying. what exactly is the procedure for the catholic church?

yeah, it's, it's new altitude, the catholic church, how to proceed with this because the 4800 years not a pope has not buried a pope. and that will happen on thursday. pope francis will oversee that. the proceedings and the service for the late pope. and after that, francis will be the only prob, again in the situation, goes back to normal a. but the vatican is used to these kind of big events and an assembly. so everybody thinks here that it will both be very smoothly and accordingly to a dignified term procedure will pub, francis himself has his share of health problems. would stepping down be an option for him like it was for po benedict. yeah, that's a very interesting a christian vertica, mr. of a. talking about this here, because the hope fred's actually hinted at the possibility that you're too much

stepped on because of his age and his failing helps. it's not very largely, but it's not excluded. and then you would have to have the same situation. a pope frances, 86 years old, and the use of rot singer was only 85 for the resign t w's boundary current reporting for us from the vatican band. thank you. let's get you up to speed now and some of the other stories making news. this our thousands gathered in the west bank town of janine for the funerals of 2 palestinians killed in a gun battle with his really forces a fire fighter update. when israel, the security forces arrived to demolish the homes of palestinian gunmen who were behind the shooting of an israeli army commander in september. the international monetary fund is expecting a 3rd of the world to tip into recession. this year. a fund is predicting a tougher a year than 2022. the downward trend is being driven by

a slow down in the us. china and europe. actor jeremy renter has been seriously injured in a snowplow accident near his home. he's in critical but stable condition. the star is known for his rural and the mission impossible franchise. and as the super hero, hawkeye in marvell films, 2 helicopters have collided mid air in australia's gold coast region. at least 4 people were killed and several others are in critical condition. authorities are investigating france has started screening arrivals from china for coven. 19. it's the 30 you country after italy and spain to introduce mandatory test. officials say the measures will help identify new variance will russians? defense ministry has confirmed that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year's eve attack in ukraine. it happened in the russian occupied an esque region. footed shows the aftermath of the strike with

a large building reduced to rubble and cranes. defense ministry earlier said as many as 400 russians were killed by the showing t w's roman gun. shy ranko has more about the ukrainian attack that killed dozens of russian soldiers. well, we still don't have much details and, but there are a few important things that i would like to mention. first, it looks like it could be one of the biggest successes of the ukranian army in this kind of operation with ukrainian army using the in the high mars systems, those high mobility rocket launchers that the united states provided are in summer 21 and 22 and to, to strike the russian forces or to, to, to do us kind of a pinpoint strikes are we are, they know where, where are there are the flat russian soldiers and, and it was exactly vague like this. we've seen some kind of similar attacks before

. and, but the numbers are, are much higher this time. what could be much higher this time? the russian saying they are, there are 663 casualties, the ukraine, and sent about 400. there are, there is at least one indicator, speaking that the number of casualties is, is higher than the russian army admits. and this is the very harsh and critical reaction by some of russian bloggers in social media are. they reacted and criticized the russian army for not for, for very bad organization. and they were risking a punishment for that because it is prohibited in russia to criticize the army. and for me it is clear sign that something very big has happened. and we've seen just a few days ago, a similar attack in the city of the nest aware m. a former russian government official admitted or gordon, was wondered as he was celebrating. so ukraine uses the time when the russian soldiers are celebrating or russian to phil shells are celebrating. they feel kind of safe, and then ukraine conducts such,

i am very pinpointed strike. and this could be, in my opinion, one of the biggest successes as i've just said, for the ukranian army. well, there are also numerous strikes, unclear by the russian military. there is a strikes that cause power and heating outages, roman can you give us an update on the situation in the ukrainian capital after another night of these attacks? m. yes, m some here and key of so that russia may be using a some kind of a new tactics with. i am drawn strikes nearly every day or every night i would say, because mostly their techs are come at night and earn some expect that may be the russian armies trying to test the ukraine, an air defense, which is a rather good or has become rather goods or since the west has supplied a modern am on modern systems including german iris t. so ukrainians managed to shut down some 2 thirds,

or in some cases 3 fourths of the russian drones. and some observers, he and he of believe may be russians will use more missiles in the coming days when maybe they expect that ukraine and we grenze will have a less rockets or should them down. the situation with energy is relatively stable there. are there work or some of power shortages hearing key of but in general, people are remain very resilient. they say they, they seem to take things as they come, or they are preparing for the an orthodox christmas in the coming days. are you still here? he is he here music and, and people are in a jolly mood. it was a sunny day here. and the winter is, has been rather warm. we have temperatures in ukraine, above 10 degrees celsius. so it's, it's not such a huge problem, or at least in these days, or during the her now the 1st days of this year. exactly. israel been going to rank

of reporting from here, from and thank you so much on despite the relentless bombardment, the new year holiday has brought good news to some of ukraine's young families, dw manuel shall spend time at a key of maternity ward that still delivering babies less than 2 necessary trip in here. we are here in one of keal speakers maternity wards. 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 to graham so we can easily imagine it's was like less blantan by pregnancies this time. so if you're less delirious now fewer birth and no patients names on a usually full board. but one room is still busy around the clock. the neonatal intensive care unit. despite all the care provided to premise, through babies,

and not a 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 women who are giving birth, i cannot go down to the shelter and more richer. we stay with them that they have support element, or both. physically with 3 and morally. if physicians in what i law, we meet alexander a neary 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 was little princess. was there is karen because o, just a few minutes after i give a verse. something was he just knew i was under some that you for

years, something like that. so i, i wasn't so scary 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 alone for a very long time. we have been waiting in the corridor for several hours and 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 i heard these explosions actually nearby. absolutely, and i was curious just as simple as that. i was scared. i would help quite a quite nice conclusion of the year and say like the most present for all the all the hard moments and all the dishes,

just like sola mia. little live came to the world in a water, new crane. but for one moment in the quietness of the sky of hospital life did feel a bit more hopeful. german defense minister christina lamb placed has ignited a political controversy with a new york video message on her personal instagram account. she said the war and ukraine has brought her fascinating experiences and meetings with wonderful people . her tone spark to social media uproar as well as calls for her to resign. and ministry says the video is the minister's personal matter. number 8 was speaking against a background of new year's celebrations, and berlin was raging in the middle of europe. for me, the spend that i gather many special impression there are many encounters with interesting and wonderful people. for this, i wish to express my heartfelt thing with that was germany's defense minister

justine alum christ. earlier i asked the w a political correspondent hans bond how this video has been received in germany. the reaction has been huge. there's been a huge wave of reaction, especially in social media ranging from this belief to derision to anger and many, many calls for the minister to does to resign or to be fired and factor in the media, but also from opposition. politicians, of course, a was also been interesting is that there has been very little reaction officially from the government. the government itself has said it does not want to comment on this. no one has rushed to the defense of the defense minister from her own party. there's been a deafening silence from her political allies. so all in all, i think one can say she's really and caused quite a lot of dismay with this video. well has, we should also mention that this is not the 1st time that the defense minister has

been mired in controversy. what else has she been criticized for? well, one of the things that caused a lot of for a public discussion was some months ago when she took her adult son long on an official trip in the government helicopter, she said she paid for that trip. everything was above board, but it was regarded as a very strange and unusual and 4th step. basically, for the defense minister, there was have been several statements by her about weapons deliveries to ukraine, which have been regarded as inappropriate or not sensitive enough to the needs of ukraine or to the feelings in ukraine. and of course, she is defense minister at a time when a german defense system and the nato defense system, the european defense system is under a lot of strain. so she is playing a central role in all of this and has

a lot of responsibility on her shoulders. under these circumstances, the way she has been operating in recent months has really not just strengthened her position. it does seem that it is quite tenuous at the moment when he mentioned arms deliveries to ukraine. so what can you expect in terms of weapons deliveries in the coming months from germany? the 1st answer to that is more of the same and that's actually a good thing because things do get cut destroyed ammunition gets used. and so more ammunition, more trucks, more defense systems, defense systems and so on. all of that, including things like sleeping bags, how much winter gear and so, and that's all important. but the big question is whether really sophisticated systems will be delivered to ukraine and there germany has been very reticent. the main question is around the major battle tanks, but also air defense systems. i think germany will only step ahead and deliver

these systems if this is done together with nato. and there is some discussion with a net of the net or general secretary is pushing for that to happen. if they decide to do that, then germany will pull along. the political correspondent hands brand hands. thank you so much. you're watching the w news coming to you from berlin or remind her now of our top stories. brazil is bidding farewell to one of his most famous sons, football legend ha, dyed aged 82 of cancer fans and begin filing into the stadium. and his hometown of santos, the public, have a day to pay their respect before a private burial service. the former pope is benedict, is lying in state at the vatican ahead of his funeral. benedict became the 1st pope and modern times to voluntarily resign the dined age 95 after a long illness. don't forget you can always get the w news

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