our services to be our guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by fraud. ah ah ah ah ah, this is b that were you near sly from berlin, a bloodied battle for control in eastern ukraine, the head of russia, wagner mercenary grove, says they have taken complete control of the town of solar dar, but ukrainian president zalinski rebuttal. the claims and says fighting is still

going on. meanwhile, colin's president tells whatever the landscape his country is willing to supply ukraine when leopards battled tanks, the statement adds to the pressure on western allies to boost their support with more heavy weapons. also on the show, us air travel is thrown into chaos after a technical glitch force is all domestic flights to be grounded for several hours. the department of transportation has launched an investigation into the costs and it says to be the last, every year for space travel will hear from a former nasa employee will tell us why. ah, i'm nicole for a shower of yours on p b. s and the united states and all around the world. thank you so much for joining us. to night, the hand

a rush as private militia. the wagner group says they have full control of the ukrainian town of sola. dar ukrainian military command statement contradicts the claims and says fighting is still very much going on. taking the town in the eastern don bass region would likely appoint russia on track to encircling neighboring bah route, which it's been trying to capture for months. now. another salvo launch at ukrainian trenches in their muslim campaign to take the city of bottom. would russian forces have concentrated their firepower on the nearby town of solid or they are claiming progress? there isn't any of those we just airborne units have blocked solid are from the northern and southern parts of the city. what russia's air force is targeting an m strongholds storm troops are fighting in the city. the assault is led by the wagner group. mercenaries under the command of putin at i, justine,

for goshen progression has released this picture of him in a salt mine your solider, and claims that the town is surrounded. but ukraine denies that solid us last and points to russian losses of them a bunch more up. so we see an absolutely irresponsible to put it mildly, attitude of the russian elite towards their military personnel when they die, thereby did thousands a lot of blood, a lot of artillery jewels, a lot of contact combat does especially and solid art to day full of that is that when that my, this is the hottest point in the war to day for the new the ukrainians, amounting at stiff resistance here and german supplies. how it, sir, is battering russian positions before shifting location. shoot and scoot along a slow moving front line. but a more modern, the deadly impact of such high precision strikes is captured by

a drone used by ukrainian soldiers and solider to acquire targets. russian unit comes under fire and is forced to withdraw after heavy losses. a determined to fight for every inch of territory will pay a high price for any progress, a good battlefield over the years, the bottom spook gradually. and with russia apparently making gains in the battle for the town of solid. are we asking w correspondence on your phone? a car for the latest news with the ukrainian military says that the fight for solar dot is continuing. it says it forces are very much holding out and that they're putting up a stiff resistance. but of course, defense, official fuel have acknowledged the intensity of the fighting incident are, you know, they've called it a challenging and of a difficult situation. we're also seeing a lot of images on ukrainian social media about the ongoing fighting buildings reduced to compete shaleigh plumes of smoke rising up in the sky,

photographers on the ground, they're speaking of the situation there as a living. hell. and i think for you cream, you know, the fighting incident in and around buck route, which is also inflicted heavy losses on their own. troops has become something of a national symbol of defiance to the president zalinski. and his daily address said the fight was on the door, is, is continuing, and he kind of rebutted russian claims that he had gained some success in the area . he said the don, yes, up front is very much holding and that everything is being done really to, to strengthen ukraine's defenses. solid are, is seen as a gateway to back wharton both sides in just mention that there have suffered huge losses in the fight over background is being called a bloody battle of the war. why the fixation on that place? in particular right. a buck route is just, you know, 10 kilometers salt offs on a dotted booth is the site in the, in eastern on yet the region where, you know, you're creating forces have been really locked in

a bloody pitched battle with russian forces. but also with fighters of the russian muscling of the wagner group. they've been locked in battle since last summer. and we've seen really kind of brutal combat fighting in that area now for, for russia, capturing back north is important because it has made buck booth, something of the centerpiece in it's kind of broader portions border campaign to kind of occupy the entire don bus region. the analysts have also been seeing that, you know, capturing buckman would also open up a path for russia to, to get closer to other more important cities in the area like come across kenslowe against which are in ukrainian hands. and i think the main reason for russia capturing a buck most of the really important because of his hand, russia a significant success. after really months of humiliating a military defeats. we often talk about the marg margaret. when we talk about back, what can you tell us about the role of the mercenaries in the fight? there was the wagner group is, is, is

a private or russian mercenary group. it has recruited a lot of prisoners from russia within, within its ranks. and it's played an absolutely leading role in that offensive in the east, in an around buck vote not. they are known for their brutal tactics in our experts here to have described their fighters as really cannon fodder being sent to the front lines. and the founder of this group is a russian billionaire. businessman, you've guinea gulshan. he is a close associate off off russian president ludovic 14. and unless of said that for, for him, you know, capturing buckman, he views it as, as a kind of a trophy to kind of boost his own political standing back home in russia. a w i f i n car, n k a. thank you so much for that update a while. poland has said its willing to supply ukraine with leopard battle tanks, but only as part of a wider international coalition. the statement came during a visit by polish president, angie,

do dad to levine where he met voluntary zalinski. the comments increase pressure now on germany to find consensus with western allies on army. ukraine with the heavy weapons and keep considers are vital to winning the war. these of the german made leopard to battle tanks. ukraine desperately wants and needs until now. no western country has given such advance bottle tanks to help the ukrainian military, ukraine's for a minister to me through collab remains optimistic that berlin will eventually relent. or, you know, through monuments get on to the bar. i have no doubt thought ukraine will obtain german leopard tanks. this because deep down the german government knows their necessary wallet. duncan looked but i didn't agree. young's air clear, but german chancellor. oh love, sholtes has been digging his heels in saying he doesn't want his country to go it alone in delivering the tanks for fear of escalating the conflict. the heavy

leopard tooth equipped with a cannon and a state of the art defense system and aba would be a big boost to ukrainian forces. the german government argument of not wanting to act alone would be hard to maintain. if britain does decide to go ahead and deliver its own challenger to tanks, ally nations have been pressuring berlin to allow them to send lepper to tongues from their own stocks. without the approval of the manufacturing country, germany or the nations can't supply them to ukraine. among them is poland which wants to send lepper tooth as part of an international coalition is currently around 2000 lepper. 2 tanks are in service. in 13 european countries calls to supply the leper twos are growing louder. not only from other countries, but also from european commission president us to la fuente lion. i have said many

times since the beginning of russia's invasion in ukraine, that i think that ukraine should go to get all the necessary military equipment they need. and they can handle to defend the homeland with the final decision on the leper two's in germany's hands. ukraine's collabo has warned that balance refusal is costing lives of little love and have a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world today. russia has replaced its top military commander in ukraine again. larry gor ross, him off the head of the russian army, general staff has been put in charge. he replaces sergey sore of akin, who was only appointed in october following a series of successful ukrainian counter offensive resolution. police have begun forcibly evicting climate activists from a village in western germany. protesters have occupied lutes at odd for 2 years to prevent it from being destroyed to expand a nearby coal mine. a government says the coal is needed to ensure energy security,

while activists say germany is backsliding on its climate pledges. us lights are gradually resuming normal operations after a system outage forced the federal aviation administration to ground all aircraft in the country. the f. a had ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures for several hours. the grounding, delayed thousands of flights and caused the cancellation of hundreds more. presidential biden says he has ordered a full investigation into the incident. he was official say, they have found no evidence of a cyber attack. and we asked you to be a correspondent, mikaela cruz now how long it would take to get us flight operations back on track is what she said. actually, they didn't seem to know themselves exactly how long this is going to take. one thing is for saw flight experts here are saying that this will take hours if not days to ensure that things run again as smoothly as usual.

the initial software problem, all those backups that failed. well, that system seems to be up and running again, but we'll ready hearing questions out of congress asking as to whether that is state of the art technology will be being used by the federal aviation also, or to you whether there could have been a failure. there, so now everybody in position the backlog is being worked on, but that looks very different according to which airport you are stuck at potentially here in the united states. mckayla cooper. now, a german parliamentary delegation arrived in taiwan earlier this week for a 4 day trip. the group of about 10 lawmakers met with a time when he's president and other top officials in taipei. their visit comes against the backdrop of rising tensions in the region. china claims taiwan as its own territory that it will seize one day by force if necessary. they say aging has condemned the trip and criticize visits to the self. rhode island by foreign

politicians as deliberate provocations. now dw spoke with 2 members of the delegation in taipei and asked them whether germany would consider providing taiwan with weapons for self defense as it did for your queen. we had a very interesting many conversations the last 3 days, and that's not the question. the question on the view of the politic here is that we are that we are looking for maybe a different kind of economic investment of china. this is a big threat and the military things are no topic. and i think there are really good partner here in this area. but you said the war in your current is a wake up call for the whole world, right. but germany resisted providing ukraine with weapons until after russia invaded. wasn't it too late? shouldn't germany learn the lesson with taiwan? only you can't compare it. crime to europe in countries in the heart of europe. it's really close to, to germany. and the difference if it's not

a. busy question of moral or war is war and that is that and it's everything, it's terrible about. the thing is that it's in europe and we have to protect. we have to help crime because otherwise m russian won't stop by think if you, if you, if my colleague said it's a wakeup call. she's 100 percent. right. and it's awake calling that sense that it under a law on the lines, the severe notice of the systemic competitions when and that there is not only putin, there is also the rapid change. the nature of the chinese government is undertaking under siege and paying and what is necessary for your opinions is 2 and 3 germany to care about this pacific question. the chinese government is objecting to

your visit, what your response? the good news is. it's not so astonished moment for us, we are. and how could i say that the ambassador is not happy? the chinese that we traveled to taiwan? it's not really a surprise, but the good thing is that we are in a free country and sold the best i could say whatever you want this, it's right in a free country. and the 2nd good news are that we are free, elected member of parliament. and so as a parliamentarian, we could travel wherever we want chinese presidents, she says taiwan as a purely internal matter for china. and he reserves the right to bring about reunification by force. what do you say to that? that's where the aggressiveness is coming from. from beijing that he talks about

the possibility of military re unification. in his words, an ad that you can learn and see here, we've learned that nearly every day, that concrete maneuvers even across the media, median line of time on straight. so obviously he wants to have these military options to been, sir, been taken serious, and we say that is unacceptable. thank you very much. that's all interview. thank you. the world health organization says you can, the latest outbreak of the bowl is over. it was the 5th outbreak of the don strain of the virus to hit the country and it has no vaccine. w h o is african director called it one of the most challenging evil outbreaks in recent years. no more patience in this makeshift a bore. luckily, nick, in sight, the beds are finally empty. and this is a moment to celebrate. the deadly outbreak of her bola,

in uganda has ended. authorities give credit to the committed health workers. i'm really, i really feel so so great because he has one of the people who was the 1st line health walker. i'm really happy was, i'm still alive. though some of our own wonders in uganda was hit by the outbreak in september last year. around a 140 people were infected, more than 50 people lost their lives. the outbreak was caused by the rear, so downstream, for which there is no proven vaccine. as the number of cases spiked, the country emboss, blocked downs, unaffected 80th. and hence stuff was mobilized. the global community is learning a lot from this success. this success

is not only of uganda, it's a global success. and the global health community will learn and follow uganda. directly to thief spreads with a bodily fluids of infected persons. it often causes fever and bleeding and has the fidelity rate of foot on 50 percent. the end of outbreak offers the rest by to communities who have lost hundreds in federal outbreaks that had hit the country. 2022 was one of the biggest years ever in space. exploration, and saw the deployment of the james web space telescope, which has been sent back stunning images of the universe around us. and also saw a successful and crude test mission back to the moon. the 1st of the ryan flights. there's plenty more to come. this here here is and preview of plans for 2023. 321 boosters indication and lift off. it said to be an

unprecedented year for private and commercial space missions. a couple of different firms working with nasa, for instance, we'll be putting landers down on the surface of the moon in the next few months. some of the research they'll conduct will pave the way for future manned missions to our nearest celestial neighbor and aerospace manufacturer. boeing looks set to finally begin shuttling astronauts back and forth to the international space station with its star liner. the spacecraft passed muster on an on crude flight to the i ss rival space x has been carrying astronauts up to the station for 3 years and its crew dragon spacecraft this year. it's planning to send for space tourists on a mission called palerose. dawn copies all of igloo. go for doc. that's slated to last at least 3 days and incorporate the 1st ever civilian space walk

down the road. another mission as planned with its starship launch vehicle, a top the company's super heavy booster. it'll be the most powerful rocket ever built. moving farther out into space, we'll see the return in september of material from the asteroid venue. the round trip cyrus, rec spacecraft, which took samples from the surface of the near earth object, has taken 7 years to complete. a few weeks after the rebel from venue arrives back on earth. nasa has pencilled in the beginning of a trip to another asteroid. this time, one rich in metal. the mission will take the psyche probe way out into the solar system to the asteroid belt. far beyond the orbit of mars, it will collect data on the super heavy asteroid psyche 16 and isa is also breaking new ground in april with the launch of

a trip to our solar systems largest planet. the jupiter icy moons explorer mission or juice was 0 in on the gas giant and some of its frozen satellites. after completing an 8 year journey to get there. an exciting year for space research and travel in 2023. so many exciting space missions are planned for 2023, the head of math and says it will be a game changing here or short while ago i asked after a biologist and former nasa employee keith cowan, if he has a personal favorites that he's looking forward to this year, a person they were in. it's not maybe not just nasa, i mean the one that i'm really personally looking forward to is juice jupiter. i forget what it means. it's a mission from isa to go to jupiter. they'll take a while to get there. but then it will eventually be studying one of the moons, very closely fibro academy. so as an, as, while just, i'm most interested that. but some of the other stuff that's coming up on,

for example, there's going to be a launch of possibly the starship by space x is the biggest rocket ever built times 3. so if that happens at just going to get everybody dropping the pencils and watching screen, if it isn't for that, so use, it's got to get launched on manned a because the one up there does work. so they're launching it with nobody inside to bring the other guys home. that should be interesting. um, but the overall, you know, between that and the missions that are already in place. i, again, there's just, i'm busy, everyday covering space. let's put it that way. at space activity, thinkable, picking up speed as act as my perception or has there been a space revival of sorts? i would go. revival. i think it's just things are speeding up as more countries and more companies and more people putting more things in more places in space. and actually, it was interesting, i did, or another interview earlier this morning about the,

the problem we're having here in the states with their travel and traffic and so forth. and i said, well, by the way, all the stuff we're putting into space, we need to come up with a plan to attract that stuff to the so much of it now. so if anything, the issues are more, how do you manage all the stuff than just getting people interested in putting things up there? that's the longer problem and talking out people interested in putting things out. there is a fax and boeing are just 2 of the commercial players in the game. we heard about them in the report. how much of a role do they play currently in pushing for a crucial advancement? well, space ex has a spacecraft that one version you can launch with just cargo and board. the other one he could launch with astronauts. and there's some astronauts up there now and a space, ex spacecraft. there was a problem with the russian. so use crack, which is totally different in the outside, but does the same thing. and so the discussion was to we launch one of these, or another, or both or so forth. and, you know, they finally finally came up with

a plan to launch a russian spacecraft empty that everybody comes home in the new one and they throw away the old one. but they had toyed with the idea of splitting the crew that had to come home and half half coming in the space x capsule and the other half coming on to russian spacecraft. when the boeing spacecraft finally becomes operation with people, you'll have 3 options. so again, it's sort of like you go to a party, somebody's house and somebody's car breaks down. somebody else has a car, you get a ride home. if you all came in the same car, somebody's gonna be changing the tire. oh, now that you mentioned russia with everything going on down here on earth in the war and ukraine, but also growing tensions with china. where do you see global co operation in space going this year? well, there's a new log on earth in that is ilene arctica where you have many countries have made claims over the past century or so there's dozens of countries to their own stations and so forth. everybody cooperates don't. it doesn't matter who you are,

what flag, what language, if there's an accident, everybody. those in the resources. i lived that ever base camp for a month and we had an avalanche to kill several people and everybody from everywhere just came in to help. that's what you do when you have a crew or a mission in a really extreme environment like space. and that's what happens up on the space station. you don't really see a little bit of politics here and there, but for most part, when you're up there, your crew, the big seat doesn't matter where you're from. the interesting thing is we get along better and space that we do on earth. so maybe we're learning something interesting up there about you know how to get along with each other, that we can apply back on earth just to thought. we don't have much time, but i don't want to ask, oh, if we missed something, are there any budding new space projects we should be watching out for? there are still flying under the radar. you with the interesting answer to that is i don't know, but i wouldn't be surprised because you can now watch spacecraft or this big for $100000.00 about the same in euro's and your small countries like depaul and so

forth that are launching now. and every one of those has thousands of students and people in those countries who never had access to space before. so let's, i would love to be totally surprised, caught off guard by something like that. but just today, web space telescope, you're us, discovered it's 1st planet. it's about the size of earth doesn't seem to have an atmosphere. i didn't expect to see that that just popped up out of nowhere. we're going to see that every day from now on, crossing our fingers for pleasant surprise as coming our way asked our biologist. keith calling, always great speaking to you. my pleasure. and some sports before we go at the snowboard world cup in austria, the home team has beaten germany and the parallel slow mixed event, austria's andreea's foaming n denila being came away with a gold medal in buck gus stein or german rivals, stefan val, my son and i'm on a whole my so i had narrowly won the 1st run, but the ladder failed to finish the 2nd run, handing the when to the austrian. no elegant has agreed to step back from

his role as french football federation president, following an emergency executive committee meeting, the committee was discussing the claims of sexual harassment that have made been made against the 81 year old. the federation itself is the target of an investigation ordered by the french or it's minister after claims of sexual harassment and bullying in the organization surfaced in french media station. you're watching the w news from berlin. stay with us now. after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day of the season with a, with

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else. currently, more people than ever on the move worldwide in such a better life. so why, but i want to go back and yeah, like, i don't have any reason to but there's no reason that's moving from you. yeah, i believe something great is coming very, very so. yeah, we need more about love valley story in for my grand reliable news. how my grants, wherever they may be. oh, how can a city, once famous for its sparkling wine be turned into the scene of the most gruesome fighting of the war in ukraine? the bloody battle for buck most has been going on for months and countless lives have been lost. the head of the buckner group reportedly calls it the meat grinder desperate for something to happen, russian financed mercenary.