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the program poland aims to send german made lepper tanks to ukraine. pressure is mounting on its allies, especially in germany to follow suit you as president joe biden is under scrutiny, as lawyers find more classified documents at his home. he says he'll cooperate with investigators will ask about the fallout he's facing with legendary rock guitars. jeff back died at the age of 78. we remember as a pioneer of jazz rock and one of the most influential musicians in the business. ah, i'm nichol foolish. welcome to the program. ukraine says fierce fighting in the eastern town of sola. dar is continuing, falling, conflicting reports about whether the town has been captured, as comes amid

a major shake off at the top of russia's military. as russian president vladimir putin appoints a new commander to take charge of his war. ukrainian soldiers firing at russian positions. internet's province fighting is concentrated around sula, dar, a mining town near the strategic city of back, moot. these satellite images show the scale of the destruction since august of last year. conditions in back mood are dire. there is no heating or electricity. most residents fled the fighting. those who didn't are now trapped or thrown causal thoughts follow. i sleep in the same clothes. i walk around in there, man, since we haven't bade for 4 months nature war score soon. everything will freeze

their coronel so both the kitchen door and the toilet at the shore. hart data. there are a lot of people here. grandfather's grandmother's, no one goes anywhere near the leader of the russian mercenary wagner. group claims it has captured sola. dar yevgeny per goshen, released this picture of himself, allegedly in a salt mine near. so le dar, he says the town is surrounded, but ukraine's president refutes those claims as russian propaganda only boldly put a lot usually will present and are already presenting this to their society in order to support mobilization to give hope to those who are for the aggression but the fighting continues, donuts is holding optimal. if solid are falls, it would no doubt boost russian morale. it could also help president putin to appease his critics who say his war effort is fumbling. on wednesday, the kremlin announced another shake up among the military leadership,

general valeri grass. m off has been appointed as the new commander to head up the offensive in ukraine of direct some of his tasks with turning around russia's fortunes in a war that has been badly legging in recent months. and yet vladimir putin has shown no sign of relenting in his quest to come out ahead against keith. while poland is offering to supply ukraine with german, made leper tanks as part of an international coalition. the announcement follows talks between polish president on j duda and ukraine's will let him years the lensky on wednesday. the pledge puts pressure on germany, which has so far, refused to deliver the advanced tanks to ukraine itself. boy, ukraine needs heavier weapons that has been, keeps message to its western allies for months on top of the list, the german built leopard to battle tank. so far, western nations have been reluctant fearing fo the escalation with

a new killer armed russia. but that might be all about to change over stopping dashes or to be sure we have decided that the moment for poland to decisively support ukraine has comes through an important key. now stumpy accompany a flap and tags will be handed over as part of a coalition. low bottom grammar would go on your car. you'd see the offer from poland. president on j. duda is a welcome one for keith. but there's a catch without germany's approval of the nations cannot supply leopard tanks to ukraine. poland coal for an international coalition to deliver the weapons piles additional pressure on german chancellor, olaf shoals. so far he's been reluctant to commit but as russia claims it's making further gains in easton, ukraine cave says berlin's foot dragging is costing lives of the war,

who only the transfer of weapons will end this war leadership. otherwise the war will go on and on. luxury, the novel, ukrainian cities will be destroyed and ukrainian people killed or what, but we will definitely keep going to the end of the, but it's just that the cost will be very high. i'll, if in low poland and other nato allies are leaning ever harder on the german chancellor to change his tune. away now speak to justin crump. he's a security analyst and the theo of sibling, he joins us from the u. k. mr. chrome. so good to see you again. i want to start with what's being called ukraine's bloodiest battle. we've been getting conflicting reports about what's going on in solid, our an back mood. what's your assessment of the situation was, as you said, and we just started in the report, it is very confused plays by both side differing claims that interests me from different bought the russian military as to what's been going on. i think without the russians have all the c a t,

something are developed around the town and they're not the back. and that situation remains fluid and they've suddenly made some other minor about that towards with itself. sort of dog is considered important because it starts to unhinge the city in itself. so it's kind of a stepping saying to taking bi mode, which obviously the russians would celebrate further, they got a long way to go from there. regardless. this is going to be a stepping stone on the way to the main cities of the northern dumbass like so the, and some kind of a thought. and there is a way to go before the russians are a place to that. so, you know, while it might be celebrated by russia, that they are making some advances, finally off the 6 month or any 20 kilometers and they start line in the don't math . and this was not even a particularly significant strategic objective. they've still got to do putting just a new commanding general in charge of the ukraine operation. this is at least the 3rd change at the top of the mission. what does that tell us about the state of affairs on the russian side?

when this is mainly a political move, we think and touch on the report earlier about the wagner grid and potential political infighting within elements of the russian military and the b. m c's. and of course the government itself. and it is certainly government run on the idea that people are in competition with each other for the bosses favor in almost every level. but typically when it comes to being around m, m a, d is possibly concerned about the kids own independence and apparent success on the battlefield compared to previous commanders and also the m. and so the log in a group is something else that playing out the back button, so dark. and so i think that move has to be seen in that context. it is pretty unusual actually for ahead of nations, entire ground forces we didn't put in charge of the minutes opperation as well. it suddenly questions that he'd be able to do that job as well. so i think it needs to be seen as a political move in as part of that inviting more than anything else. i don't think it will have

a positive operation effect on the battle bill for russia to ukraine's western partners have steadily increased their deliveries of weapons to ukraine. since the start of the invasion now with poland, offer of leper to tanks on the table, waiting for other allies to join. do you think we'll soon see europe in battle tanks joined the war i think it's definitely getting place and the british off of 10 to 12 challenges to tanks, needs to be seen this context as well. the. the numbers being talked about, oh, very high, but it's all about unlocking access, particularly to the tanks in germany, because there are many older versions of the leopard to that are installed. i was actually many in germany, but also london in poland and elsewhere. that could be donated to ukraine, but there's been this fear throughout the conflict, but this was a red line for russia providing heavier equipment. we heard this before when it came to the supply of the multiple loans rocket systems, like high mileage mod that came from germany in the end. but it took a while, i think,

for nations build up the competence of these donations. we're not going to escalate the complex were the best part of the year in and so far nothing has escalated the company with russia. so i think nations are increasingly competent supply of a small number of tags will not be the thing. the escalades will not be the thing that brings the population germany into danger, and i think rightly so. so one might just see a few. now it's all about unlocking much bigger supply because the reality is i have a good the left, the to is an individual tank. what counts is having large numbers of a vehicle like that. and it's certainly better than anything on the russian side. it's liberty designed to be best anything the russians had. and so it will be important be great to have them, but they need lots. they can just have 10 or 12 that would make they need hundreds, which is a berlin is mistaken. and being concerned about the possible reaction to the delivery of battle tanks. and i think it's something that it's right to be concerned about throughout the complex we,

we do have this specter of nuclear warfare that makes it different from the war. again, sadam. hussein in 1990 and 91 say when the invaded q 8. and that means that nato in general has, has been more careful. but the alliances move forward together, i think. and they taken these decisions in such a way that countries and not exposed. so i think the hope is that job went feel that the country is exposed by having time. so because other nations will be doing it a nation's unrelated to will be doing it like the u. k. and the u. s. has already sent heavier infantry fighting because the badly so the door is open and nation to doing this together. so i think that should give it a lot of comfort at this point, especially given the progress of last 11 months, the donations of rocket launches the donations of and check off miss all systems. the patriot batteries been going by the u. s. these are all things that were considered problematic at one time and have now been deployed to the conflict and

that has been no repercussions. so i think berlin should be very confident and i think this is a just to make a huge difference to the gradients. i'm a huge difference because the war on the ground. if it is enabled, security analyst just in chrome many thanks for it. as i have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today, spain supreme court has dropped edition charges against the former catalog. president carla put them on. he led the regions failed bid for independence in 2017 . put them on who fled to belgium. to avoid prosecution still faces other charges. the decision comes weeks after a controversial reform of spain legal code scrapped the crime of sedition. europe's largest known deposit of rare earth elements has been found near the swedish mining city of kuna. the mining company in charge said the newly discovered pear. yeah, i your deposit contains more than a 1000000 tons of the minerals. they're essential for many technologies considered

vital to the green transition euro currently relies heavily on chinese imports of rear earth belief in western germany are continuing to forcibly evict climate activists from a village at the center of a battle over coal mining protesters moved in to stop an energy giant from demolishing the homes to make way for the operations. the government insist the coal is essential to maintain energy supplies. but activists dispute this, they say germany is losing sight of its climate goals. a peaceful protest to his escorted away from a condemned farm house. police raided the building after a tense over night stand off. within minutes. hundreds of officers had flooded the complex to route out hyde ways. jasa shown, it was very scary in the morning when the alarm went off and the police stormed the barricades. it was really a very scary situation. aisd and circles,

they just beat police then turned their attention to the hard core faction. hold up down the street. the barricaded themselves inside what was once residential apartments. it began with a game of cotton mouse but grew more menacing as please try to clear the way. activists through fireworks and glass bottles from makeshift ramparts projectiles drew ever more vulgar. police retreated then made their move. storming the building from 2 sides. a spokesman said police were negotiating with the activists inside my mind enforcement according to my information. one yard has already been

completely cleared and other buildings talks are still under way with the activists to me then leave voluntarily and independently. but the situation is very complex. in the meantime, work has been done on a wide range of buildings. so it's not possible to have a detailed overview. i'll put it this way. we're making progress. progress for the police though, is a set back for activists. and they say for global climate change, i finished your other, i'm feeling very just disappointed whatsoever on this and a little bit last for log. i looked at arts, last stunned, may not save the village. but if nothing else, it's brought attention to their calls. the youth justice department has appointed a special council to investigate after more classified documents were found at president biden's delaware home. earlier this week, news broke, that secret reports had been found in office biden, used after his time as vice president,

that was back in november by law. the classified documents should have been given to the u. s. national archives. after he left office. the discoveries are politically embarrassing for biden, after his sharp criticism, a former president trumps, alleged mishandling of secret documents abide and says he is cooperating with the investigation. people know, i take crush, why documents classified material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully incompletely, the justice department's review, as part of that process. my lawyers reviewed other places, word documents and my of. from my time as vice president were stored and i finished the review last night, they discovered a small number of documents of classified markings of storage years in file cabinets in my home in my, in my, my personal library. let's go live to washington dc. we're are corresponding, mikaela covina is following the story very closely. mikaela. what do we know about

the documents that were found and their level of classification? of course we know that they were classified but we know very little about what they exactly contain. what exactly the level of classification was, we know that we're talking about more than 10 documents, but not hundreds, as was the case in donald trump, where the whole boxes of classified documents were carried out of mar largo, and as far as the legal process is concerned, there is now the special council which highlights that the attorney general garner is taking this very seriously elevating this whole case actually to the level where he actually was in the investigation with donald trump. he came out with a statement not taking any questions, saying that this was so sensitive and of such importance that he felt that this was merited. despite the fact that he was confident that the department of justice could have dealt with this without

a special counsel. so it is drawing full attention, not many documents in 2 locations and do biden's team himself indicated that indeed those documents were in a private office used by joe biden, after he finished being vice president. so this was several years ago. what kind of political fallout could we expect from the for by and especially now with a republican lead house of representatives? huge. we're just at the beginning of this. what is very contentious here is that this finding actually dates back to one week before the midterms in early november. so that raises a lot of questions. and we have a new republican majority in the house of representatives, although there's still a democratic majority in the senate. but that has, in its 1st week of session, already lost an investigation to what they call the weapon zation of the government

against the republicans. it is called by the democrat side, essentially a committee that wants to get the republicans out of the spotlight over the january 6th storming of the capital. it is hugely political and no matter what the legal process here is in the end, it is all about perceptions and nothing else here in this political circuit that is already unfolding over this very case. one has to bear in mind that donald trump legally is in the spotlight and is being investigated for obstruction of justice because he did not hand over those documents with joe biden. he now his team is volunteering these documents the indicated them. there's a question over the delay while we found out so long after the mid terms. but it is a complete representatives reacting and let's have a listen and then come back to you. i think congress has to investigate this.

here's an individual that's been in office for more than 40 years. here's an individual, the set on 60 minutes that we're so concerned about president trump documents lockton behind and now we find it just as a vice president, keeping it for years out the open a different locations that mckayla. this is certainly not a good luck, but where does it leave the 2024 presidential race looking ahead are the key you as parties likely to seek fresh blood with both of their possibly main contenders, possibly tarnish, i think is too early to say whether this really makes it a nother and stand off between donald trump and joe biden. more or less likely, but it certainly isn't helping jo. biden's potential bids to run again at he's very old. c would be above 80. he, you know, it's, it's something that many democrats are also concerned about. if, if,

when you look at the polling amongst the democrat camp and majority doesn't want him to run again. so he needs to win his own party over to a certain degree. what we're hearing from his team is that he is intent on running again, and same seems to be standing there for a donald trump. but this is still an open question here, and everything about this case feeds into this very question. thank you very much. mckayla kootenai in washington dc to nepal. now a country renowned for its mountains and beautiful scenery. tourists from all over the world, travelled there to go tracking and the himalaya mountains. they're usually accompanied by mail, mountain guides, but that's changing. swastika has a dream. the 21 year old nepalese wants to become a mountain guide. even if men keep saying she's not big or strong enough. well, thank you and sun, letty, are you?

i tell them that there is no profession that is only made for mann the so all professions can be practiced by women and men. let them live. i'm strong, even if i look weak. so why should i be influenced by such comment about me selina? the mountain guide, industry, like all of nepalese society, is still very male dominated of the more than 25000 registered mountain guides. very few are women lucky chetry has been trying to change that imbalance for a long time. almost 30 years ago, she and her 2 sisters founded a trucking company to assist women from underprivileged backgrounds. they now have trained over 1000 female mountain guides. sale pretty elijason is the most important thing. most important thing is because of many women, the irish thing understood, made their capacity. i've been able to know what the g, like, what did they have? the porting sheer, the practical training takes place in the mountains. the theory lessons in the

office building, training food and accommodation are provided here, free of charge. lucky and her sister is also put a lot of emphasis on learning english, tricking guy in the sky. net, but actually exists exactly. english is a really i would empower man language for them because while they speak english, they feel like them are, you know, different and you know, concrete in. so this is also really gripping and also in every where english language that they can use. and also did a d y. the next morning we had up into the mountains. it swastika 2nd time on a track with tourists. she climbs for over 7 hours, carrying up to 10 kilograms of tourist baggage in her backpack. finally, the group arrives at the mountain hut while most of them use the evening to relax. swastika wants to get some advice from

a more experienced colleague when i into thing african creating. the most important thing is to have confidence in yourself. and you should also have a good knowledge of the places, the culture, the religion, and the flora and fauna. and communication is important again because dealing with people isn't always easy, isn't. there will be difficult situations to this to man just to minneapolis if the next day it's more hard work as they climb to 3000 meters. the air is noticeably thinner. at the top, the group takes in the spectacular mountain panoramas and experience that swastika definitely wants to have again soon exam with our my latino. it's that i really enjoyed the track of my at the moment. i'm still an assistant, but my goal is to eventually lead the group level appeal settlement. that's what i wanted. and most of all to have

a successful life. arthur swastika is part of a new generation of nepalese women that is trying to break out of the old patterns and i think and rise above the clouds. yet no one of rock music's most influential guitarist jeff beck has died at the age of 78, rolling stone magazine, once named the british rocker the 5th best guitar player of all time. becky explored rock jazz blues and r and b shaping the music world for decades and earning 7 grammys an aid gold records along the way. ah, jeff beck and his vendor strata castor, the instrument, he called his other arm his innovative technique and style with the envy of many guitarists who tried to imitate him for decades. beck was 21 when he got his big break. replacing eric clapton in the yard birds,

his solos help to make some of the yard birds biggest hits, including shapes of things. beck wasn't happy with the band though he left after a year and a half and formed the jeff beck group together with rod stewart. but it was a one off instrumental recording with led zeppelin founder jimmy page and the who drummer keith moon, the remains, one of his most famous vex bolero. this songs primal, almost psychedelic energy, inspired even jimmy hendrix. they continued making albums, but became a kind of musicians musician playing with eric clapton and bb king recording solos for tina turner, kate bush, and most recently collaborating with johnny depp. he'll be remembered by many other musicians who admired him. despite plenty of accolades. jeff back never became

a superstar, like many of his peers. he said that was for the best. ah, watching the w news life amberlynn said you're now for to the point this time our panel discusses sending advanced battle tanks to ukraine. news or back at the top of the hour, upset with ah ah,

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