on mileage pass, and we imagine that these teachings, 4 elements to gandhi's legacy, starts january 28th on d, w ah, there's a d w news line from by the u. s. and germany announced plans to deliver armored personnel carriers to ukraine, german mazda and us, bradley, infantry fighting vehicles, may soon be heading to the front lines. look at the difference they could make on the battlefield. also on the program a 3rd day of paralysis in the united states. congress, republican kevin,

the coffee loses on 11th june. he's been to become speaker of the house of representatives, despite making concessions to far right lawmakers from his own profit and look at the growing fears in the netherlands at drugs, gangs could be influencing the rule of law. ah, i'm sure, gail, welcome to the program. a unilateral order by russian president vladimir putin for 36 hours sci fi is due to come into effect in this hour, but it has been dismissed by ukraine as a trick. the truth is to coincide with the orthodox at christmas holiday in another development in this war, a germany in the u. s. i back, they are not prepared to send armored vehicles to you crate. do countries leaders announced that ukraine would receive german made mazda and u. s. built bradley fighting vehicles?

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 in a 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 replace. 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 sent 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 matters which are armored personnel carriers. but the shots government gave way to increasing pressure to change its mind. the thing that we have discussed for putting your korean in its right to self defense even with heavy weapons. and because put in believe that that he can hold out longer. and that if at some point you, crean ran out of epin skin and international support, he would win. this was just it. so our skins oregon he had isn't he given good m

and after devastation and ukraine mounts the pressure on all key? it's allies will only increase a journalist at thomas. ve gold's specializes in international defense politics. i asked him how these vehicles might change the situation on ukraine's frontline well, or when we look at the numbers, the u. s. is providing about 50 bradley eyes, infantry fighting vehicles, germany about 14 border fighting because this is not the number you grade needs. so the number of bolt megan shaved, but it's a 1st armored company vehicles coming from the west. and i think that's a difference in itself. now it will be penned where ukraine is going to deploy these vehicles. most probably insert hogs on the front line, which are heavily contested and they are, they might make a difference. right? so we have an armored vehicles which is what we're talking about now. and so those

and light tanks, that one thing, but berlin, like other western allies, is still under pressure to send heavy, more modern bottle tanks. do you think this shift is like me to continue and make berlin more likely to go in that direction? it's a bit early to tell, but we've seen in recent months how germany about other countries as well have changed their stand. they refused to send the heavy weapons in the early stages of the war. then there were a cannons. artillery is gradually changed. now it for the 1st time come the vehicle, and most probably are i would see a change in coming months for main better tanks as well. another german army has struggled with hardware problems last month. all of it's high tech human tanks and broke down during an exercise. and that's just one example with germany, a be in

a position to give, keep all the military support it needs for these vehicles. when it comes to the mazda of you might even say an outdated vehicle, it's pretty old just like a bradley in the u. s. is that from the 19 eighties and most of the support will come from industry, which has all the codes refurbished, which has all the spell power, which has the possibility to keep those engines running. and the whole thing running when it comes to germany, where the germany has to be careful not to hand over too much equipment, it will still need itself. and one example of this is the patrick battery, which has been unbalanced yesterday as well. germany is to deliver patrick defense battery. however, germany a german air force is down to 12 batteries. so even one battery given to your crane

is a heavy blow for the turban apples. thank you so much for that. that's very clear. a journalist of thomas vi gold broken that the us where a power struggle with him, the republican party is preventing the election of a speaker of the house of representatives. the battle for the most powerful role in the u. s. congress is entering its 4th day republican frontrunner having the coffee last 11 successive votes because of opposition from a small group of hard right republicans. the 435 member body cannot done business until a vote succeed. mike holly, peter matthews, is a political analyst and a former congressional candidate for the democrats. he explained to me the global significance of his current us political gridlock. much more the local, unfortunately for many other countries in our allies in the world we've, our competitors are looking very carefully at the situation and are concerned about

the instability that seems to be bringing. because the how to see us know, what's 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 concern, for example, the debt ceiling will not get increased, that cannot be raised, which it needs to be for the september budget. and if that's the case, then the, i think my 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 was 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 is a result of trump, is going to some extent political analysts to peter matthews. now a string of mafia style murders in the netherlands says lead to questions about whether drugs, gangs, or threatening the rule of law in the country. i correspond the jack para has been

exploring how attempts to shed light on criminal forces behind the countries liberal trading drugs. a 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. these lawyers have spent more than 2 years under run the clock protection for defending a key witness in the trial against riddle and tardy. 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, she 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 lesh become shaprall 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 kind of crimes in the future. the dutch government sandy 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. not like a italian mafia or something, but it is starting to get a big problem. everyone turned to the netherlands as the prime example of equalization of drugs and how we should, you know, push forward to, for example, you guys, marianna and other than the drugs. and, and i didn't know it really opens your eyes of the whole reality behind it and how the netherlands has become an artist. 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. well molly coil is a journalist for courthouse new surface in the hey, i asked her if the current drop policy towards drugs. cartels in the netherlands is

controversial. yeah, i mean, i think that this discussion about what jack was talking about to sort of a front door back to a policy as they call it induct, which is sort of it's legal to sell marijuana to consumers. but it's illegal for the coffee shop to be purchasing. and so there exists the sort of underground economy has been discussed for a long time. here, mayors in particular who are have a lot of responsibility for security and protection in cities in the netherlands. have long been complaining about the impacts that this policy leads to. which is, you know, essentially a sort of group of people who are operating in the legal see, are but sort of allowed to sell their product. or, or there is a created a legal market to this, to the product of marijuana to be sold and sort of what the ramifications are. so it sounds like there is an easy fix to, i say, easy, easy fix if you go, well my,

all the of it you either say yes you can buy these drugs and yes, the people that you buy them from can purchase them, or you say no you can't do it, and let's stop all this. now. have you considered a running for parliament in the netherlands and making this point? i think politically, this has become a really sensitive subject here. there are political parties in this country who would like to see the legalization of marijuana be rolled back entirely. people don't like the reputation. some people are particularly in big cities like amsterdam don't like the reputation of this country as being a sort of drugs destination. and people see further legalization as yeah, kind of continuing that and the problems that it brings along there has been a number of times over the years to restrict marijuana purchases, for example, to only residents here that has been met with sort of widespread backlash and a dramatic increase and st dealing. so i think it's a, it's

a really sensitive and kind of complicated subject, but the sort of assassination peter at a priest and this ongoing criminal trial really brought this discussion to the forefront in the netherlands. and do you think there's any truth behind those perceptions that the perception of benevolence is being locks on drugs is actually contributing to the problem? i mean, i think also that the netherlands is the largest port in europe and run it in. and i think any country that is here is going to have a huge sort of norco trade. i mean, this is what happens when you also see this happening and on to work in belgium because they also huge partnering, cocaine is not growing here, right? this is brought into other places. so i do think that like some of the reputation that it gets for this is, is, you know, unfair, unfounded. i mean, it has want to do with the sort of location of the country. but yeah, i mean it's,

it's pretty clear that this weird policy with the cannabis and coffee shops creates a lot of other issues. i mean, you know, it essentially allows people to sort of, you know, exist a sphere. and i think that it's very easy once you are sort of growing marijuana to think that perhaps you know, you could move on to other stuff, since i make even more money. i think thank you so much for outlining that. so clearly i'm only quote, a journalist tonight. thank you. thank you. that's it. you're upside will have more . well, here's what the top of the i with mckinnon have a great day and a wonderful weekend. to put into the know today this meet wanting to a foreign planet in the 16th century, it meant to be captain and setting sale to discover a route jill.