along mileage and re imagine that these teachings are relevant to us. ah, gandhi's legacy starts january 20th on p. w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is d, w sly from berlin. russia launchers, mother, wife of missile attacks against ukraine, killing at least 5 people to the city of ne pro, dozens or wounded missiles. also target infrastructure and several other cities,

including the capital key is also coming up. germany's defense minister may be on her way out. media report suggest christine alum crashed, is ready to quit. pressure has been building on her for months. ah. hello monica jones. welcome to the program. ukraine says at least 5 people have been killed in the south eastern city of ne pro, after russia launched its 1st major wave of air strikes this year. officials say dozen small were wounded in the strike on an apartment block. rescue. searching the rubble for victims that they still be trapped. authority say other missiles had critical infrastructure and how chief and live if the capital key, if was also the united kingdom has now confirmed, it will send to challenge

a 2 tanks to ukraine. these will be the 1st advanced tanks given to ukraine by its allies since the war began. keith has been pleading for more modern weaponry, if a month and hopes the british decision will put greater pressure on germany to allow the delivery of its own a leper to tax. let's bring in aaliyah sandra. she is the editor in chief ed euro, my down press, and joins us from here. very good to have you on the program. so we here air raids, alerts has been in place across ukraine all day. what can you tell us about the situation now? it is that a very black day for the city of new pro, where a russian missile has an entire section of an apartment building our most recent data. at least 5 people have been killed. 27 injured, including children services. there can be no mistake. russian engineers,

they get very precise coordinators for these missiles. this was an intelligent attack. there could be no mistake in this because these missiles are very precise apart from that infrastructure. objects have been heads all around the country, emergency blackouts are in place. so i know that at least to thermal power plants will stop working after the strike. and this is a consequence of each russian missiles on ukraine. objects are permanently disabled, they are disabled for some time and all repairs are made as a result of the country has more and more black on spends more and more time donald tricity. so unfortunately, the situation will continue until you create is given the weapons that are used for russia from outside of the long range missiles it is asking for that it requires

life, right? these russian, malia here years on russians before their lunch break, right? i'll be talking you talking about the weapons that ukraine has been asking for for a long time. well now the united kingdom suddenly has announced that it will send a challenge to times, to ukraine. the russian embassy says, in the, okay, the embassy has warned at this will only intensify the conflict. do you think that that is a real danger? i think the real danger is that ukraine will not get enough weapons as quickly as it needs. and the more and more people will be killed like a new pro, like are being killed for muscle starts every day. and it's really a really lucky and some comp brushes funding for scores of on train soldiers and spray. they're just getting getting math or they're killing ukrainians every day longer that those drugs,

all the more people saw green was given. i didn't use quickly so we can so let's be so i think there is no prospects for any. i mean, good, the only the only with come in is if you claim with this has happened the sooner. so you're saying, well, the situation is bad enough as it is. ok. what about the overall morale in ukraine? especially in how people holding up. you've described it earlier about crucial energy infrastructure being destroyed, obviously more deadly attacks there. how is morale? i was holding off an over moly majority of ukrainians, ukraine's victory as the total recapture all lands occupied by russia as the only possible outcome of this war. ukrainians understand that unless russia fully driven out of its territory, the tax will continue,

the bloodshed will continue. they did or not, they don't see any talks. russia any concessions. russia as a real chance for peace because they know that rational only regroup. so by the way, just met the russian missile strikes all around the country as the premiums were taking shelter in the metro concerts for sporadic concerts from home taking place all around because it's celebration of the new year by the julian calendar and create songs for a song a song, a. ringback because no matter of the missile strikes a matter of the black ones, we find new ways to cope because nice know that we must hold on. great victory. well, thank you so much audio shondra. i'm sure. thank you so much editor in chief ed. you're a my don press, thank you so much for for taking the time and sharing all this with us. thank you. thank you. meanwhile in germany,

media reports suggest the defense minister is planning to resign. christine alum, praise has come under scrutiny for a number of blunders, most recently, and unofficial new year's message that critics found distastefully. she also allowed her son to fly with her on official business in a government helicopter. lam. page 2 is a member of chancellor will show the social democrats has taken heat for failing to reform, germany's military fast enough and dw sir chief political correspondent, nina hossa. as a more on that story for us and, you know, 1st of all put it into context for us if you would, if the defense minister resigns. how serious would that actually be for the government now, especially with the ongoing war in ukraine. you know, monica, i believe that it's already a big deal for the government, even just those rumors that she has announced her intention to resign that

essentially make her a lame duck. and that is something that nobody can want in a situation where one of the wealthiest countries in europe, germany, one of the most important countries when it comes to the western rip, responds to russia's aggression against ukraine. when this country is then busy with itself, trying to find out who could potentially succeed her. that is not a good situation to one can only hope that the chancellor puts an end to these speculations very soon and ultimately says whether or not he still trusts. christina lum place to be the right. defense minister. having said all that, many people said from day one that she was not the right person for the job. you mentioned some of her blunders that were a lot of communications mishaps. you don't get the feeling that she's getting more and more comfortable with this job. so i'm not expecting her to hold on. so who would be the right person for the job? are there already speculations about who could be the likely successor? well of course, there are already

a couple of names that have been floating and incidentally 4 months already. because as i just said, christina lum plate was never seen as somebody who was the perfect person for this job. and there is, for example, the parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, if a hugo and who is being mentioned in those rumors as potential successor. and she would bring 2 advantages. one, she's a woman and that is something that is important because we'll have so when he started his 3 way coalition managed to establish n a, a balanced cabinets. so 50 percent men, 50 percent women. and that is in favor of if a hurdle of course, and then she comes from says his own party, the s p d. and one thing that electrodes definitely doesn't want and really can't need at the moment it would be a major cabinet reshuffle. so he would have to choose somebody from his own party or else all the tricky and negotiations would have to go on with the other parties

in this government. right. and apart from our domestic politics and the impact on domestic politics are, what would or can quit, can we expect from a potential successor could the resignation if it happens, be the kind of turning point in germany, security strategy that the title vendor that we talked about so much no, it couldn't because all of shows made it very clear from day one when russia launched this full scale invasion of ukraine back in february. that all things defends and military delivery of weapons, etc, that they are ultimately his responsibility. and that he has the last word, so i don't expect to see a major change in strategy. now the german government always argues that qualitatively speaking. it was already a step hop when they announced that they are going to sent those 14 mazda armored vehicles to ukraine. but of course, pressure is growing for germany or to also sent proper tanks, the leopards,

or even just to give their consent to other countries. sending those german made tanks to ukraine, press it internationally, but also from his own government where his own deputy of about having said jimmy shouldn't stand in the way of other countries want to deliver those tanks to help you. crane gemini, doesn't necessarily have to go with them. germany doesn't want to go to a loan. that is something that the german government keeps dressing, but if other countries are now sending combat tanks, of course, this argument is no longer valid. thank you so much. d w chief, political correspondent, nina has are, there police have clashed with climate activists in western germany where hundreds of people are protesting the expansion of an open cast. coal mine activists have been occupying village off let's set out which is set to be demolished by german energy giant r w e. it police operation to remove the protest. this has been taking place for

several days. large anti cold marches are taking place near the town with the swedish climate activist. a great afternoon, burke among the taking hops, dw report early only on hammerstein a follow to the eviction of climate activists from lots of out for us. and she has war about the latest protests despite heavy winds and heavy rains. thousands of protesters many more than expected came to the neighboring village of kind back today to protest in solidarity with the last few remaining activists who are still holding out in tree houses. and underground tunnels, in lieu sad that said to be demolished for the expansion of the neighboring coal mine. am greta tune back the sweetest freitas for future activist i can and spoke to protesters. and she said she called the deal with our w. e between german government and our w. e. a shame. she also said that there are similar things happening elsewhere in the world. and that it's,

there's the need to connect those struggles. and she said that as long as the coal is still on the ground, the fight is not over and that was definitely part of the atmosphere here to day. when a lot of protesters left the orderly route to that was planned to break out and merge towards lit cigars and surround the village em. but the village was the form. a village at one has to say because it is almost completely demolished, but it was defend advise police. there were some scuffles between police and protesters, police use water cannons, and to defend the lines around lit up. but what is for certain, what we saw here today is that the climate movement has not given up yet. and it wants to keep fighting and sending out a message from here. that's as long as the coal is still under ground. and they are going to keep up the resistance time now to take

a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. iran says it has hanged a british iranian national allie reza at barry was a former top iranian defense official and convicted for spying off spying. for the united kingdom, you case, foreign secretary says his execution will not go unchallenged. iran has one of the world's highest execution rates. china conferred to nearly $60000.00 co that related death in just over a month. that's according to the 1st official figures released since beijing made an about face on its 0 co policy. the relics ation was a response to protest and has helped fuel a wave of infections. protesters have clashed with police in tunis. thousands of opposition support has rallied in the to decent capital, accusing president chi side of a power grab it was the 12th anniversary of uprising us top of the countries long time dictator to deja has faced months of political turmoil and economic hardship

in united states. republicans in congress have launched an investigation into the troop withdrawal from afghanistan in 2021. k interrupted when the us pulled out of the country and the taliban were to control a bomb attack at capital. apple kill to more than $170.00 african civilians. sense 13, we were still watching dw news coming up after a short break. our technology show shift, looking at how drones have revolutionized the movie industry. i'm monica jones and berlin from me and the news team here. thanks for watching. the only way i can be on the top is to create my own empire. discover