to analyze the fight for market dominance, east versus west beauty stood with the w business beyond ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the faithful bid farewell to the former pope benedict mourners at the vatican. pray for the 1st pontiff in centuries to step down as a spiritual leader to millions worldwide boss on the program. brazil says goodbye to football legend palate. the strikers body is lying in his hometown stadium.

thousands of fans are paying their respects for his funeral. ah. a marina evans dean. welcome to the program. the former po benedict is lying in state at the vatican. tens of thousands of warners are expected to pay their final respects before benedict burial. later in the week it will be the 1st paypal funeral in nearly 2 decades. for 3 days, mourners we'll have the chance to say good bye to port benedict. it's how he and prime minister george maloney among the 1st to do so. the somber mood inside 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 there and and be lame. what's your own? 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 returning this. it's an indescribable emotion. i was in front of the pope's body. i didn't realize that he was right there yet that it was really heavy. but he came in there on sunday, poke francis praised benedict during his new year's day prayer. junior mountain is here, me gone. 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. 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 spirit shall testimony released posthumously. with this unwavering message. stayed 5th him stand firm in your faith while do not be confused. hope benedict will be lead to rest on thursday in a funeral. savish that is expected to draw thousands an historic occasion that will mark the end of an extraordinary iraq,

which saw to pope's living in the vatican. still have a correspondent band. we get is out of that account and i asked him earlier to describe the scene at saint peter's square and, and seen peter as basilica. the doors to the basilica opened their cynthia early morning and thousands and thousands of people, a lining up on the some people a 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 to look 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, sergio, martha rella and also your kens why and the private secretary of the pope and his long time lifelong confidence. one was of course, a rather unusual situation to have 2 pumps living at the vatican at the same time. but now that the former pope has died, what exactly is the procedure for the catholic church? yeah, it's, it's nuances of the catholic church how to proceed with this because the for 800 years, not as the 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 pope again, and the situation goes back to norma a. but the vatican is used to these kind of big events and an assembly. so everybody thinks here that it will both be read very smoothly and accordingly to

a dignified term procedure on pub, francis himself has his share of health problems. would stepping down be an option for him like it was from po benedict. yeah, that's a very interesting her christian, the vatican vista of a talking about this here because hope friends actually hinted at the possibility that your to mad to step down because of his age and his sir failing her health's. it's not very likely, but it's not excluded. and then you would have to have the same situation. a pope francis's 86 years old and the use of rot singer was only 85 when he resigned to w, bantering, going from porting for us from the vatican band. thank you. russians defense ministry has confirmed that 63 of his soldiers were killed in

a new year's eve attack. and ukraine sch, it happened in the russian occupied and ask region for it 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 did have a use roman gunter ankle 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 2122. and 2, to strike the russian forces a $2.00 to $2.00 men do us kind of a pin point strikes. ah, we are, they know we're,

we're either of the flat russian soldiers and it was exactly vague like this. we've seen some, a kind of similar attacks before and, but the numbers are much higher this time or could be much higher this time. the russian saying they are there are 663 casualties. the ukranian said about $400.00. 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 not 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 an ask aware m a former russian government official admitted goes and was wondered as he was celebrating. so ukraine uses the time when

the russian soldiers are celebrating or russian of phil shells are celebrating. they feel kind of safe, and then the 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 cranium capital after another night of these attacks? ah yes, erm some here and key of say that russia may be using some kind of a new tactics with i am drawn strikes nearly every day or every night i would say because mostly the attacks are come at night and earn some expect that may be the russian army is trying to test the ukrainian air defense, which is a rather good or has become rather goods since the west has supplied

a modern am modern systems including german irish 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 key of believe may be russians will use more missiles in the coming days. when maybe they expect that ukrainian grins will have a less rockets or should them down at the situation with energy is relatively stable. there are their work cuz some of power shortages here in 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. is he here music and, and people are in a joly mod. 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, the 1st days of this year did others rather than going to rank of reporting from here from and thank you so much. brazil is bidding farewell to one of its most famous sons. football legend pele died at the age of 82 of cancer fans had been filing into the stadium in his hometown of santa's public have a day to pay their respects before a private burial service. brazil observed 3 days of national morning following pallet's dad. last week short time ago, i asked journalist at 10 vickery to help set the scene of the 24 hour awake. his coffin came down the hill from saint paul 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 there 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, or past the house of his mother, who still alive at the age of 100. 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 cemeteries up on the 9th floor, handpicked by pele, with a view of this idea that he graced for so many years. sir, right, as he mentioned that as well of total class at the sand 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. pele wasn't born there, but he came there at the age of 15 and he played all of his career in bill 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 once celebrated by the world. and the country arena, 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, 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 woke up this gripping event that makes us all once a down tools for, for 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, 10 degree reporting from reality and thank you so much. you're watching the w news coming to you from berlin for we go a quick reminder of our top story. the former po benedict is lying and stayed at the vatican ahead of his funeral. benedicts became the 1st pope, and modern times to voluntarily resign. he died at the age of $95.00 after

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