great change. so get ready for the brain of day 40 to the answer to almost everything starts january 15th on dw. ah ah ah, this is the w news live for b, u. s. and germany announced plans to deliver armored personnel carriers to you, correct? german marta and us bradley, infantry fighting vehicles may soon be heading to the front line. we'll look at the different sacred make on the battlefield. also on the program. 3rd day of political paralysis in the united states republican congressman kevin mccarthy loses an 11th

a vote in his bed to become speaker of the house of representatives. despite making concessions to far right makers and growing fears in the netherlands, drugs gangs could be influencing the rule of law. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. germany and the united states say they are now prepared to send armored vehicles to ukraine after speaking by phone, the 2 countries leaders announced that ukraine would receive german made mazda and u. s. built bradley fighting vehicles. the decision follows a french move to a crypt. ukraine with similar hardware. this is the am x t, n r c. it's a french light battle tank that's highly mo bile and fitted with

a powerful gun. now to ukraine's delight, frances donating some of these ahmed combat vehicles. to cave france, if a will, did you france brings a new level of european defense support to ukraine, and i thank president my call for this leadership. we'll get more armored vehicles including french made wheeled tanks, which sends a clear signal to all our other partners. there is no rational reason why western style tanks have not yet been supplied to ukraine. it's important in order to restore security for all ukrainians and peace for all europeans. you will please. zalinski has clearly been frustrated by the west's reluctance to give his country the tanks. he says it's so desperately needs. joe biden has now said the us, we'll send bradley fighting vehicles to help key if they've been used by the u. s. military to carry troops around the battle fields since the mid 19 eighties.

military experts say the bradley would give ukraine more firepower and strengthen its ability entrench wolf m. biden's move falls short of sending in heavy tanks. like the abram, which is what key if really once berlin was reluctant to agree to donate models which are armored personnel carriers. but the sholtes government gave way to increasing pressure to change its mind. the thought that we have discussed supporting ukraine in its right to self defense, even with heavy weapons. and because put in believes that that he can hold out longer. and that if at some point you, crean ran out of weapons and international support, he would win this water duster to our skins, oregon. he hadn't given good. and as the devastation in ukraine mounts the pressure on, all kids allies will only increase straight to cave. then i will join our correspondent,

roman gods, your anchor, welcome roman. so when are these vehicles likely to arrive on the battlefield? and what sort of difference would they make? well, it looks like a major breakthrough because ukraine has been asking for this week also. and for these weapons are for months and now several countries. i said that they would deliver them as to the terms. i would suggest that maybe ammunition will be delivered within days or weeks and some are light tanks probably within weeks or months. and when we're speaking about the german, a patriot air defense system, this will also probably take months because it's a complicated a military am and military equipment and ukrainians need to be trained on that. anyway, they will make a difference because the crania needs and very urgently. there are reports that by ukrainian government officials that roger is preparing new assaults on ukrainian

territory is summing up forces the mobilized, again, getting trained. so the west is trying to support ukraine before that happens and on the front line. and the situation is very, very volatile. and we heard president zalinski say that there's no rational reason why these tanks haven't been supplied before. what reason have allies given well, we, we heard some reasons before, for example, germany said that it doesn't want to be the it 1st or the elect. good. it doesn't want to be alone or to deliver a western or more than western tanks to ukraine. now we know that france did it, and then germany and in and i did. states just followed. i think it was agreed between all nato countries that they would do it. and as for the united states, i think it was definitely discussed during president lensky wizard visit to washington in late december. and of course, we heard in,

in the month before fears in berlin and other capitals in europe, a dirt or a russia might escalade that russia warned against delivery or delivers or weapons in general, and especially heavy weapons to ukraine, threatening with nuclear war arms, nuclear weapons but as we see, a western countries decided not to deliver the main battle tanks, for example, ah, but decided to send light light armored vehicles, infantry vehicles, to ukraine, which will help ukraine to stabilize the frontline and air to and to go forward and may be or for example, french, french or light tanks are said to be good during the urban fighting's, and this is something which is happening now in eastern ukraine. thanks for that roman roman gunter, anchor in cave. i says that

stays where this up power struggle inside the republican party is continuing to prevent the election of a speaker of the house of representatives. this is the most powerful role in congress. the battle from the next leader below a chamber and set 2 engines for day republican from china having coffee failed to get the support he needs from a small group of hot republicans. it's on presidency unprecedented in congress. on the 435 member body cannot start its business until a vote succeed on this side, lost them. and so when get more from peter matthews, there's a political analyst and a former congressional candidate for the democratic party joins us from long beach california, a welcome to the w. so kevin mccarthy is now last 11 votes. why isn't there another candidate? 11 rows of the record to last 150 years. it's quite amazing. and if you think about it, i'll tell you why the candidate yet there may be one fairly soon. but right now today's

jen, it's jenny that here in california, it's january 6th where you are. and that was a dave in for me when the insurrection occurred. washington, d. c. imagine if we were there 2 years ago in this condition with no speaker, no house. that's functioning and no business conducted in how would the country of defend itself or refute counting the votes? it's already i think what's going on. and i think it's about time the republicans get together and start finding another alternative candidate with kevin mccarthy cannot muster the $218.00 votes that he needs, which it looks like. why aren't they looking for an account in it yet? well, because kevin mccarthy is in power to some extent, he was a minority leader for years. he's how many of these people got elected these follow republicans and the only reason still to give them a chance and many chances it looks like, and they're working on some kind of an agreement. these trying to reach by giving a lot of benefits to just 20 members of the recalcitrant caucus, you know, who's actually trying to rebel against the speaker and get what they want. mainly

they want to have things like to see some of the rules committee, very all powerful rules, given the house guarantee to their carcass. they also want to be able to have term limits voted upon right away. and they may thing that they want that come to my coffee, it initially would not give them, but then he has given it to them and they want even more. so that's because kevin mccarthy does still have some pull in the, in the whole, you're probably going to conference, but it won't last for forever. you know, people are getting tired of this and sort of the republican line will over and over again and not find the solution to getting a speaker. it's actually imperative that a speaker be brought in as soon as possible. and i think that would be happening in a few days. i can't exactly predict that long, but it will be happening. so is this latest modification of american political factionalism a little local difficulty or should the rest of us be worried? no is much more the local unfortunately for many of the other countries are allies in the world. the right competitors are looking very carefully at the situation and

are concerned about the instability that seems to be bringing because united states us know which influence throughout the world, especially at this time when we faced the conflicts going on in ukraine and all that and other things other economic with his house and so it was very concerned, for example, the debt ceiling will not get increased, it cannot be raised, which it needs to be for the september budget. and if that's the case, then the out of his mind default on, on money owes to governments and to individual. and i could just create a havoc in the financial markets throughout the world. so united states being so influential the whole world is watching this as we are in america very carefully, and tuning and hoping that they can get it together. the republican party, which has been split so far apart within itself because of donald from phenomenon and coming in. and i think this as a result of trump is going to some extent thanks for joining us. so peter matters former congressional candidates for the democratic party. thank you. thank you.

not to the netherlands where a string of mafia style murder has led many to question, but a drugs gangs, a threatening the rule of law in the country. the high profile killings include that of investigative journalists to peter to freeze. correspondent jack park is in the hague and sense of this report on how attempts to shed light on the criminal forces behind the liberal trading drugs that are coming under pressure from matthew intimidation. a dutch coffee shop where it's permitted to buy small amounts of marijuana. you can even pay with your bank, but businesses like this $1.00 could spend up to $3000000.00 euros buying stock without receipts is technically illegal for them to purchase so much, but it's never prosecuted. that legal gray area here is coming under increasing scrutiny. following the 2021 murder of dutch investigative journalist, peter r. devries. he was part of a team supporting a witness in a case against

a drug kingpin in the 1st place for his eyes family. but also the client, it was a huge blow. yeah. and, and we, we had to look for new balance and, and to, to, um, to hold on to each other to be able to continue. these lawyers have spent more than 2 years under round the clock protection for defending a key witness in a trial against riddle on tarkey. he's accused of ordering a string of murders, including the former lawyer and the brother of the main witness against him. lawyer peter shout and says the trial against 2 other men accused of the related murder of de vries has descended into a mess. it's now headed to re trial after a judge left the proceedings and the deluge of new evidence was submitted. but i say is we should just legally men up against she to asians like dish learn from what is going on here and make changes in the law so that even lash becomes

a problem. the fear is that matthew or intimidation might be winning. journalists like saskia bowman remain committed though. my colleagues are really adamant in writing about organized crime and am revealing what, what's happening air in the country and how dangerous it is and how important it is to fight organized crime. and but they're all more carefully you can say that they're all more aware of the dangerous and we are more yeah. more careful. the local, fresh, older, with the port of rotterdam thought to be the main entry point for cocaine into europe. the netherlands is under pressure from other e u countries. the multitude of court cases around these criminal gangs rumbles on, but there's also a national discussion about what's being done politically. and many of those questions are being directed here to the ministry of justice, asking exactly what is changing to prevent these kinds of crimes. in the future,

the dutch government sent d w. a statement saying it's taking unprecedented action and is investing an additional $700000000.00 euros in the coming years to fight organized crime. i personally think this country is not a riddle with gang violence or anything like that. it's not like a italian mafia or something, but it is starting to get a big problem. every one turns to the netherlands as the prime example of legalization of drugs and how we should, you know, push forward the, to, for example, legalize marijuana and other kind of drugs. and, and i don't know, it's really opens your eyes of the whole reality behind it. and how the netherlands has become an artist, state. the mafia gang has also been threatening people in belgium and germany routing out their influence is significant, not just for the netherlands, but for the whole of europe. i don't get and you can always get dw news on the go. we just download our app from google player from the apple app store. that'll give

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