ah ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a bloody battle for control and eastern ukraine. russia's wagner mercenary group says it has overrun the town of sola, dar ukrainian president, volota me, lensky and fist fighting is still going on. also on the show, poland offers to supply leopard tanks to ukraine. the pledge piles pressure on

western allies to send in more heavy weapons. we apologize for the video there and german police, clear climate activists from a village due to be swallowed up by a giant coal mine act to say that he makes a mockery of germany's environmental goals. ah, i'm ami and he said, thanks for joining us. rushes, wagner mercenary group, says it has taken complete control of the eastern ukrainian town of solid. our president volota mir lensky rejects the claim and says, fighting is still going on overrunning solid r. as seen as the key to capturing nearby bar mood, which russia has been besieging for months. another salvo launcher, ukrainian trenches. in their months long campaign to take the city of batman,

russian forces have concentrated their firepower on the nearby town of salida. they are claiming progress. further, zillion will go for just airborne units, have blocked. solid are from the northern and southern parts of the city. what russia's air force is targeting enemy strongholds, storm troops are fighting in the city. the assault is led by the wagner group. mercenaries under the command of putin at i, yet gainey for goshen, for goshen, has released this picture of him in a salt minute solider and claims that the town is surrounded. but ukraine denies that solid hours lost and points to rush and losses. looked on much more up, so we see an absolutely irresponsible to put it mildly, attitude of the russian elite toward their military personnel when they die there by the thousands, with a lot of blood, a lot of artillery jewels, a lot of contact combat especially and solid are to day full about is that when you

feel like this is the hottest point in the war to day for the new the ukrainians, amounting a stiff resistance here. and germans applied how it's a, it's 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 on the 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 bible school gradually dw correspondence, sonya felony, carson ukraine and sent us this update. when the ukrainian military says that the fight for solider is continuing, it says it forces are very much holding out and that they're putting up

a stiff resistance. but of course, a defense officials, he would have acknowledged the intensity of the fighting inside the door. you know, they've called it a challenging and, and of a difficult situation. we're also seeing a lot of images on ukrainian social media about the ongoing fighting, you know, 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 an around buck route, which is also inflicted heavy losses on their own. troops has become something of a national symbol of defiant seal to the president zalinski, and his daily address said the fight for son. adar is continuing, and he kind of reverted a rush and 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. dw sonya fall in a car. there. reporting from key of poland is offering to supply ukraine with

german made leopard tanks. but only as a part of a wider international coalition. polish president, andrea duda has been holding talks with florida mears lensky, and leave germany as under pressure to reach a deal with western allies on armin ukraine with heavy weapons. these of the german made leopard to battle tanks. ukraine desperately wants and needs until now. no western country has given such advanced battle tanks to help the ukrainian military, ukraine's, for a minister to me through collab remains optimistic that berlin will eventually relent. 3 level 3 monuments get back to their bob. i have no doubt thought ukraine will obtain german leopard tanks. this because deep down the german government knows their necessary quality. thank you, blink. but i didn't grade that against are clear. the german chancellor, all of 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 armor 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, 2 tanks 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 are 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 ursula funder lion. i have said many

times since the beginning of russia's invasion in ukraine, that i think that ukraine should got get all the necessary military equipment they need. and they can handle to defend the homeland with the final decision on the leper twos in germany's hands, ukraine's qu labor has won the balance refusal is costing lives well, polling needs germany's approval before consent leopard, thanks to ukraine. d. w. political correspondent, catherine lancaster has more. poland can't move at his own will. germany needs to prove if a country that has the german manufactured leper is wants to send it elsewhere. and for now everything's been a bit cryptic. as we've heard today. the polish president, spoken about an international coalition is not entirely clear what he specifically

means by that. and the other hand also the german government this afternoon. said that, well, they won't probably change their stance on delivering leopards or agreeing to deliver levers. and that they haven't received any official requests to deliver leopards yet either. so they said they will stick with their line at least up until january the 20th, when nato allies will meet at the u. s. air base here in germany at 9. so we don't yet have many details. what we, what we do know is that poland actually has quite a considerable number awful part to tags and leverage to tanks at their disposal. they have more than $200.00 and the polish president said that they would like to send one company, which we think is about 15 tanks as a 1st package to ukraine. and what they certainly are doing with this is mounting the pressure on germany with asking for that approval,

at least indirectly. you know, these katherine lunk is reporting for us. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. russia is replacing its commander and ukraine. larry gara, seymour, the head of the army general staff takes over. he replaces sergey sort of beacon who was appointed in october after a series of russians. setbacks on the battlefield. huge over 1000. uganda says its latest ebola virus outbreak is now over. no new cases have been registered in the last 6 weeks. more, more than 50 people have died since the outbreak began last september. a man attacked and wounded 6 people of the godly. no train station in paris attacker was shot by off to the police and taking the hospital with life threatening injuries. flights have resumed in the us following the breakdown of a crucial computer network at the federal aviation administration. thousands of

flights were cancelled or delayed when the system providing pilots with safety and flight information went down. the white house says there's no evidence to back up speculation that a cyber attack caused the outage. dw correspondent mikaela kusha says it will take some time to get flight operations spec to normal. actually it, they don't seem to know themselves exactly how long this is going to take. one thing is for sure flight experts here are saying that this will take hours if not days to ensure that things run again as smoothly as usual. and the initial software problem, all those backups that failed. well, that system seems to be up and running again. but all ready hearing questions out of congress asking as to whether that is state of the art technology really being used by the federal aviation or, or whether there could have been a failure there. and so now everybody in position the backlog is being worked on.

but that looks very different according to which apple you're at. it was stuck at potentially here in the united states. police in western germany have begun forcibly a victim climate activists from a village at the center of a battle over coal mining. protesters moved in to stop an open cast mind from swallowing up homes. the government says the coal is essential to maintain energy supplies, act of his claim, germany as backsliding on climate pledges. in the early hours of wednesday, police began to cordon off the protest camp near la thought, as well as the village itself. using light speakers, they called upon the protesters to leave voluntarily. me, i'd rather her will have her. but some activists are prepared to hang on for as long as possible. climbing out of reach of security forces. their goal to stop energy giant r w e from excavating leg night. the dirtiest form of coal, from deep beneath the village alliance on near by burning the cold from under the

village. germany is breaking the paris climate agreement. and at a time when the climate crisis is escalating, we have to make sure that emissions are drastically reduced. and that's why coal mining has to stop here now gets after. the german government has strike a deal with the energy company to phase out coal by 2030. the demolition of this village is part of a compromise. excavate here now spare others in the future of host? oh does. i'm also tired of signs that a large part of the village is actually earmarked for demolition will not be to banish technologies. we're hundreds of people still live. you will not lose their homes in law which, oh, dos commercials on protests from ball about i do think the protest mead symbols but looks at where nobody lives anymore. kind of the wrong symbol of my knowledge of switches and point where the war in ukraine and the energy crisis. coal has seen

a revival in germany. still, experts doubt that the coal underneath lots of art is really needed. how studies and also other studies show that it's not necessary to mind the cold, especially beyond and below, at the village of little heart and not our best failure. because we do have enough coal in other areas of gods by law and the other mining regions that it's necessary add to to meet the energy transition and also the climate colds. but in the end, it's the energy giant r w e, who legally owns the village and they want to stick to their plans. after all, they expect profits were several 1000000000 years from the additional cold. in the meantime, the atmosphere on the ground remains tense with activists not prepared to give up. 1 1 well to sports now and at the snowboard world cup and austria, the home team has beaten germany in the parallel slalom mixed event. austria's

andreas from a gar, and daniel who being came away with the gold medal and bad gerstein, their german rivals, stefan the bow meister and ramona hoffmeister had nearly won the 1st run. but the latter failed to finish the 2nd run handling when handing the wind to the austrians . well, german supermodel, tatiana petite, has died aged 56. petites was one of an elite group of models who shot fame in the 1990 s. she appeared on the cover of magazines, including british vogue and george michael's freedom, 90 music video. but she kept a low profile living away from the spotlight in california in 2006 proceed said the golden age of supermodel was o. supermodels was over because celebrities and actresses had taken center stage. and a reminder of our top stories day. russian mercenaries are claiming to have taken full control of the eastern ukrainian town of solar dark. but key of says its

troops are holding their positions sold are as seen as the gateway to near by bar mood, which moscow is also besieging, rushing dw news from berlin, christy plaid. then we'll have more about the battle over coal mining and germany. that's with business news next after the break. i'm ami annisa, thanks for your company. with people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families played on the theory for the credit on the administrative.