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he says he'll cooperate with investigation will ask about the fall out. he's facing her legendary rock guitars just died at the age of 78. they'll be remembered as a pioneer of jazz rock and one of the most influential musicians in the bit ah, i'm the cough really tell our viewers on p b s in the united states and all around the world. it's good to have you with us. ukraine says fierce fighting in the eastern town of sola. dar is continuing, falling, conflicting reports about whether the town has been captured. this comes amid a major shake up at the top of russia's military, as russian president vladimir putin appoints a new commander to take charge of his war.

and we seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties there. i apologize. but we want to stick with this topic with the war and ukraine and what the international community is doing to help. now poland is offering to supply ukraine with german made leopard battled hangs ramping up the pressure on germany and other allies to do the same as becoming a divisive issue in germany, which has so far, refused to send battle tanks. instead promising 40 litre, martyr infantry fighting vehicles and of the country producing the leper tanks, germany is likely to have a final say on whether any leopards reached the battlefields of ukraine. poland has

offered to send some of the world's most advanced tanks to ukraine. the german made lipper to heave as welcomed the offer, but there is a catch germany as the manufacturing country needs to agree to the tank delivery so far. german chancellor, olive salts is not agree to deliver heavy weaponry feeling the war could escalate, but there is growing pressure on germany to change this stance. while paying a visit to some german nato troops. germany's defense minister christina lumbered. i was asked where the berlin would agree to the delivery of lepper, 2 tanks because they didn't shy the federal government has not made a decision on whether to handle the battle doug's. but even within the governing coalition, in berlin, they're still debatable whether to send advanced battle tanks in addition to the light or martyr infantry vehicles. by chance, local but hobbit at germany shit support the delivery of a leper tanks with expression to germany should not stand in the wave of the countries or making the decision to support your crane harness. irrespective of the

german decision, richmond tried on bertram croft with no end to the war. in slight germany faces mounting pressure from all sides to make a decision to us and cramp as a security analyst on the theo of civil line. he gave us an assessment of the situation in sole adar was, as you said, and we just started in the report. it is very confused played by both side, differing claims that interests me from different 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 north of back. and that situation remains fluid and they've suddenly made some other minor about that towards itself. sort of dog is considered important because it starts to unhinge the city in fact with itself. so it's kind of a stepping stone to taking by 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 slowly

and some kind of thoughts. 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 months or any 20 kilometers and they start line in the don't bass . and this was not even a particularly significant strategic objective. they still go out to do 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? and this is mainly a political move we think, and it touched 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 successful in 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 door. and so i think that move has to be seen in that context. it is pretty unusual actually for ahead of the 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 that will have a particular positive operation effect on the battlefield 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 during the war? i think it's definitely getting place and the british off of 10 to 12 change to

tanks, needs to be seen this context as well. the, the numbers being talked about on very high. but it's all about unlocking access, particularly to the tanks in germany. because there are many older versions of the leopard too that are installed, 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 mark that came from germany in the end. but it took a while, i think, for nations build up the confidence and these donations were not going to escalate the complex were the best part of the year in and so far nothing has escalated the conflict, rushes, i think nations are increasingly competent. the 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, i think rightly so. so we 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 and it's certainly better than anything on the russian side. it's deliberately 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 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's means that nato in general has, has been more careful. but the alliances move forward together, i think, and they take these decisions in such a way that countries are not exposed. so i think the hope is that job went feel that the country is exposed by having time. so because all the nations will be

doing it a nation's unrelated to will be doing it like the u. k. and the u. s. is 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 we're on the ground. if it is enabled, security analyst just in chrome many thanks for it. and have a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. spain supreme court has dropped sedition charges against the former cadillac president catalyst for them. one he led the regions failed bid for independence in 2017 will determine

who fled to belgium, to avoid prosecution, still faces other charges. the decision comes weeks after a controversial reform of spain's legal code scrapped the crime of sedition. europe's largest known to positive rare earth elements has been found near the swedish mining city of corona, mining company in charge said the newly discovered pear. yeah, your deposit contains more than a 1000000 tons of the minerals. they're essential for many technologies considered vital to the green transition. europe currently relies heavily on chinese imports of rare earth's massive storms continue to batter. the u. s. state of california causing widespread flooding and claiming 18 lives so far. tens of thousands have been driven from their homes and the torrential rains and powerful winds that started in late december. further downpours are expected on thursday and friday. the u. s. 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 back in november in an off, as biden used after his time as vice president 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, trump alleged mishandling of secret documents by now says he is cooperating with the investigation. people know i take crush for documentary clash, one material seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully completed the justice department review as part of that process. my lawyers reviewed other places, word documents and my of from my time as voice pression were stored and they finished the review last night. they discovered a small number of documents of classified marketing storage years in file cabinets in my home, in my, in my, my personal library,

our corresponding mckayla. cuz then washington has more about the documents that were discovered today. 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 whole boxes of classified documents that were carried out of mar lago. 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 this 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. 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 completely different legal case. at the end of the day, it's the perceptions that will matter, and those narratives are being spanned and pushed from both sides. right now we

actually have. 5 mr. mccarthy, the speaker of the house of 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 mikaela. this is certainly not a good look, 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 tarnished. i think it's too early to say whether this really makes m a nother stand off between donald trump and joe biden. more or less likely,

but it certainly isn't helping a jo biden's potential bidder to run again at he's very old. he 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. me. hey, la kootenai in washington dc. russia's invasion of ukraine 10 and a half months ago prompted the formerly neutral countries of sweden and finland to seek nato membership. all by 2 of the alliance as 30 members have since ratified the nordic countries accession. but turkey and hungry are still holding out.

officials seem confident that budapest will eventually agree leaving turkeys president rich of type air to one as the chief obstacle, but not every one in turkey is against the planned expansion. indeed, some have a real appetite for inclusion. this unassuming, local restaurant is an institution in istanbul, nato serfs, traditional turkish dishes, and it's been doing so since 1952, the me in turkey joined the nato military alliance. oh, methodist church is the boss here. and he is proud that he's restroom is so popular with locals and foreigners and like everyone is welcome to join his nato. he says, the grocer, hawk northrop, with my customers, come from all around the world from japan on to china, finland sweden from germany,

the u. s, her throat, not every one can join the need to rely on. this is not on, but in my nato mother. no one gets turned away. i just did every this. up the gallery, that tacky is famous for its hospitality. at the highest political level. however, the world is currently experiencing quite the opposite when it comes to enlarging the nato military alliance. the turkish government has been presenting itself for months. as a gate keeper, who doesn't let anyone in russia's war against ukraine, has raised major security concerns in europe. that is why countries like sweden and finland, which have long been post to natal membership, now want to join. but all natal members have to agree to this. and this is exactly how turkish president, reggie ty it out on is putting on the brakes. he accuses sweden and finland of been

to lenient with groups that uncross considers terrorists including the cottage militant p, k k, which is also on the list of terrorist organizations because i'll let him forgot the countries where p k. k. members can run riot in the streets, was out hold rallies under police protection and extort significant sums of money that should not become nato members up why the saw this would not benefit nato at all. it rather, it undermines its values. edwin blames kurdish militants for attacks and turkey, such as the bombing in istanbul, november he says, sweden and finland a harbouring people with links to terrorist groups and has demanded extra additions to turkey. finland and sweden have promised to take the turkish concern seriously and to do more against kurdish extremists in their countries. but experts think

that ad one's continued obstruction also has domestic political reasons for elections. wants to nurture image as a national negotiations that advances certain scores and all the go much to constant students. there will be no rewrite to nato enlargement on 2 elections. the next presidential election and turkey is set to be held by june 2023. so there is still a lot of time for many unforseen things to happen, but restroom own amended us truth knows, one thing for sure. in his nato, the door will always remain open to everyone. elise here in western germany are continuing to event climate activists from

a village at the center of a battle over coal mining protesters moved in to stop and energy giant from demolishing the homes to make way for operations the government and says, the coal is essential to maintain energy supplies, and activist st. 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 high to ways. yeah, i saw 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. 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 one's residential apart

since it began with a game of cat and mouse but grew more menacing as please try to clear the way. activists through fireworks and glass bottles from make shift 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 new thoughts and according to my information, one yard has already been completely cleared and other buildings talks are still under way with the activists to me than leave voluntarily and independently enough . 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 sad. disappointed for it's vibrant and a little bit last for long. oh, lucia that's last stand. may not save the village, but if nothing else, it's brought attention to there cause he w reportedly on even how much dine has been following the eviction of climate activists and it's at, at, and here's her assessment from the ground all day long. police have continued to evict activists from the houses, the bonds and the tree houses off the looks of at him. some of which he can see behind me and the atmosphere has remained largely peaceful. and there were some clashes between protesters and police, with some bottles and rocks,

fireworks thrown ads and police officers. the protest of says, i have also said that there has been some violence on parts of the police towards them, but largely everybody agrees. it's been pretty quiet and peaceful and the morale among the activists that are still here. and despite the weather, it's been raining and very windy all day, but there is still as staying in the tree. houses am in the houses and barns, keeping them occupied. police count with a couple of 100 that are still in looks a lot and they say it morale is, is still running high. they want to stay here as long as possible. they expect you to, to make this eviction as lengthy as possible. but we also have to see that the she, a police presence and heavy machinery that have started demolition work to off the structures that have been built. you have taken down trees and is immense em. but they want to stayed until the weekend, at least when a huge protest, a split and,

and where friday for future activists among them, the swedish air activists create a tune. merc is coming to live without or as close as, as they possibly can to protest here because if they want to send out the message that the coal that is underneath us village still needs to stay in the ground. the only phenomenon reporting there, one of rock music's most influential. the taurus jeff beck has died at the age of 78, back explored rock jazz blues and r and b shaping the music world for decades. and earning 7 grammys and 8 gold records. along the way, with jeff, back in his fender strat a 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 helped 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 beck never became

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it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route a race linked to military interests. a race linked to political and military, christy, but also linked to man, financial and adventure full of hardships, dangers and death. but jillions journey around the world starts january 19th on time and again, the west has bound to support ukraine for as long as it takes and to do everything and its power to help it and off rush as attacks. but since the war started, everything has proven to be a rather fluid concept for germany. it started with $5000.00 helmets, 11 months.