ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, germany's defense minister steps down. christina lambert, i offers her resignation to chance, are all of shoulds following a series of missteps. most recently and new year's video message widely criticized for being town death. also coming up, hopes of finding more survivors are fading and disney pro, after a russian cruise missile destroyed a residential building in the central ukrainian city. 35 people are confirmed death . dozens of others are still on, accounted for as he was italy's most wanted fugitive. now police have arrested the

cillian mafia boss, my tale massena dinero. after 30 years on the rock, was the us grill in tennis, open gets underway with 20 just on shove, or hoping to make it 3rd time lucky and break new ground for arab women. here for melbourne in our sports. ah, i'm marrying evans dean. it's good to have you with us. germany's defense minister is stepping down, triggering uncertainty at the ministry that's at the center of berlin's response to the war in ukraine. sh. christina lovelace decision follows a series of blunders that damaged her credibility. most recently, a new year's video she posted that was considered toned f. christina lum,

close to sealed her own fate as german defense minister. she posted a video on her private instagram account on new year's eve against the background of celebratory fireworks on at berlin street corner. she spoke about the war in ukraine. war is raging in the middle of europe. for me, this meant that i gathered many special impressions. there were many encounters with interesting and wonderful people, unprofessional, inappropriate, lacking, and empathy. these were some of the milder opinions expressed in the subsequent storm of controversy. it was not the 1st disaster for lambert. she did not really want to become defense minister and never felt comfortable with the job. she seemed out of her depth talking about weapons systems. jackie part is the under god, is designed to protect the critical infrastructure. because it has this tube with which it shoots into the air and can hit objects that are very far away,

even out of hudson can. she wore high heels on a visit to german troops in west africa, which contravenes army rules. she took her son along on an official trip on a military helicopter, which just happened to take her close to her holiday destination. and then there is the war in ukraine, which was pushed her and her department to the center of public debate and focused attention on her handling of weapons deliveries to ukraine. her response was hesitant for 1st major announcement involved the supply of helmets on that adolescent towers. we will deliver 5000 home as to ukraine as a very close signal. we are standing at your side an item. this was met by division . well beyond germany. initially, chancellor, olaf shoulds stood behind his minister. there was the chancellor works well with that and has confidence in all members of cabinet. and of course, that is also true for this minister. duncan,

but the confidence is obviously exhausted. germany is getting a new defense minister. he w t political correspondence. nina has her is with us now for more on there. so you know, we saw that report. lamb christ has been done by controversy for some time. so why the decision now to resign? well, there does come a point in politics when it's just too much and when you risk damaging your ministry and others, if you as a minister cling to a job too long and what does speak in lamplight favor is that she does seem to have acknowledged that and it is something that cannot be taken for granted, but why now? well, in a press release today, she says that the media have been focusing too much on her as a person. she says that that focus essentially makes it impossible to have a proper discussion about the bonus there. and it is true that we did focus on her a lot. she was under a lot of scrutiny. of course, as any german defense minister would have been at the time when there's

a war in europe, but then in her resignation statement, what is interesting is that she doesn't acknowledge her own mistakes that she was involved in all those blunders that we just saw in the communication mishaps and that she never really grew into her job. so there is widespread relief here in berlin that she and the chancellor have decided that her time is up. and that also now that they've ended their speculation phase fairly quickly. they said there's going to be some relief in berlin after her resignation, but is it likely to bring any meaningful change to germany's defense policy? no, it isn't. a chancellor shots made it clear from day one of russia's lot scale invasion of ukraine back in february when the current government was not even 3 months in office. that all the big decisions when it comes to military strategy. but also when it comes to support of ukraine, they ultimately live with him and that is not going to change. now, of course. so it does need to get it right with choosing a lump right successor. you said already his spokesperson said,

just now that he will announce the success are on tuesday, so we will have clarity. and he will ideally choose a defense expert. and especially someone who's a good manager with careers mom and somebody who likes the bonus, where that is vital, that they find such a person. so it's will want to choose somebody from his own cabinet as a bonus, where is undergoing from, sorry, from his own party, the s b d. the bonus, various undergoing massive transformation. but when it comes to the discussion, will germany deliver left to tanks or not all those questions at the moment, the government keep stressing how much of a step up that was for gemini to announce the delivery of 40 armored vehicles of the modern type to ukraine. and the adamant germany is not going to go alone. they'll only take those decisions and closed coordination with international partners. all that is not going to change for the new defense minister, terribly his chief political correspondent in, in a hasn't nina? thank you so much to the war in ukraine now,

and the death toll from a russian missile strike in an apartment building in the city of ne bro has risen to 35. breski workers are racing to find survivors in the wreckage. people haven't gathering in front of the ruins, hoping for news of their loved ones to doesn't residents are still reported missing . ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has said that russian citizens who failed to condemn the attack are cowardly. a correspondent and kia max sander had more on the situation and me pro right, so this recent attacker appears to be one of the deadliest attacks against the civilian population ever since the beginning of the full scale invasion of ukraine . the russians may have attempted to target to eating plants close to the apartment building, but in fact, a most likely a cage 20 to a very on precise ship rock. it hits right into this apartment building which then

collapsed like a house of cards. with a many people still trapped underneath the rubble. as of now the death toll stands at roughly $35.00. many, many people doesn't have been injured. many more are still missing and local authorities are now saying that them after 2 nights out in the cold, freezing temperatures for rescue workers, it's going to be harder and harder to find people pull them out from underneath the rebel alive. the ukranian president zalinski said of the rescue mission would go on as long as necessary, and at the same time, he addressed the russian population. as you already said, pointed out that there was no significant reaction, no acknowledgement coming from the russian population, and called their silence. in fact, quotes, cowardly ad is indeed a devastating attack on millions. now max, i know that you've been doing some traveling in the war zone in recent days, and we're actually able to join a number of police officers on the job. why don't we take

a look at your report and then we'll continue our talk. a school caught in the crossfire, the war is creating extra problems for police. detective alex he said, anti tank grenades from this site found their way into the wrong hands. this footage shows their operation, confiscating them from a civilian position. lou there because renewals mean was it because the people have changed during the war the course of the lot. the sure. now almost anyone can get any weapon they want it without any trouble. it would but a school, the old you, the boys bullying a similar case so you had a tragic end to make each other but a holistic has broken the width of the most of his that time the man gave the military, almost all the weapons he had found a logic of the law, but kept one grenade for himself with him or her know after you experienced some

health problems, he wrote a farewell letter to his mother was for leslie. he left it with his documents, alyssa, and then blew himself up at home. worth of some of them. alex says he and his colleagues are seeing morse with sites. and they were coming practice collecting evidence of new alleged crimes. as we're about to experience, we had north to the off chance area on the border with russia. we have to cross the river on foot. so we've just been asked to turn our phones off and that's because we're moving closer to the russian border right now. the russians are known to be monitoring phone signals in the past have used them to pinpoint their targets. alex and his colleague carina, are here to investigate a strike. it's basic police work in a war zone. to take up much 60 centimeters, deep glass gathering evidence. keeping a record to the owner of this field was making herself

a cup of tea when she heard the 1st impact she hid in the cellar and avoided injury . the evidence will be sent to a lab to determine what it was that hit, but the case seems clear to them. civilians were attacked. it was a war crime. we go virtual, where you can see for yourself that except for the yard of the local civilians were gone. there is no military equipment ah, no military personnel. nicole on the mazda is not even critical infrastructure that the russians loved so much. you earn them on the way to cook, i dont know. maybe they were just aiming for a cornfield, homer at your facility self, who could hold them as lamb? little girl is any picture of the blast? aso damaged her house? you don't think he didn't. the push was in, they are dark. nobody's injured that the house is messed up. thank god i was where i was because something went inside the house was something smashed the window and hit inside. it is full of glass. glutton bloom,

crediting her living room becomes a makeshift police station. i seem to have a good neighbors make statements and shall the officers documentation, cheerful. every one has losses which need to be recorded. the officers jurisdiction ends at the border, but they're doing what they can see when we'll go all the guilty will be brought to justice. see every single one of them to the much. it'll be unavoidable after our victory put him on the f one another. if the time comes argue with alex and his co detectives who have evidence to offer a court level max, that is indeed very challenging. work for those police officer. is that what would you say are their biggest challenge? right, so that, that area around of, off chance get close to the russian border was an impoverished area, even long before the warrant had been dealing with structural issues,

even before that. but these police detectives that we joined there were telling me they have lack of almost anything you can think of. vehicles, equipment they deal with power outages was which makes their job very difficult to process evidence to put it into databases, to process process a witness reports than the nature of crimes has changed as we also saw in the reports, there are a k is going around people can access weapons of war a quite, quite easily at the moment. and at the same time, these communities also have a number of collaborators who work, pass on information to the other side of the border. hell, brush instead of it strikes against the military against civilians. their neighbors, or in fact, against the police, as we witnessed ourselves while we're filming in the police station there, there was a number of mortar attacks in the direct vicinity. and later we only learned that said they had struck the administrative building. where just, just before this had been the police headquarters just 2 days prior to our film. so

to give you an understanding of a security situation there on the ground database next sander and kia forest max, thanks so much for your reporting. we appreciate it. let's get a check now some of the other stories making news around the world. traffic in the boss breast rate has been temporarily suspended after a cargo ship traveling from ukraine to turkey. ran aground. no damage or spills had been reported, and tug boats have been sent to free the vessel. the world economic forum begins to day in davos, switzerland, amid time security, as well as government has deployed $5000.00 military personnel to support local police at the annual event. which regularly attracts large scale protests and demonstrations. italy's most wanted mafia boss, my tail massena donato has been arrested at a medical clinic in sicily, where he was undergoing a medical procedure. he's

a lunch to be the leader of the sicilian cause son austin. i'm off here and has been on the run for the last 30 years. italian prime minister george jim maloney said his arrest was a great victory for the state. let's get more on the story for that rejoined by journalist sima gupta who's standing by for us in the time capital room. so sema, it is quite remarkable that this man, massena donato was on the run for 30 years. so how exactly did the police manage to arrest him now? yes, exactly. i mean, you're absolutely right. it's quite a cool for them. i mean, if he's been on the run for 30 years, they didn't even really know what he looked like to day, and he's managed to conceal his identity. all this time in escape arrested several times before. one of his nicknames, in fact, is diabolic. and he said to have still been giving orders from secret locations and

still very much the leader of the city in mafia casa nostra. what we do know so fast, we're still waiting for more information. but what we do know is that the anti mafia, carabinieri, or the paramilitary police essentially detained him at that private clinic in palatable. the sicilian capital are you was said to be receiving therapeutic treatment, or some news reports or seeing it's for cancer. are we do know are from the answer news agency here in italy that he was receiving treatment at that clinic for almost a year is what they're reporting at. and that he was doing so under a false name. out when the carabinieri carried up that early morning rate this morning and detained him at about 935 local time i, he was sick to have rebuild his identity, saying that i'm cold, my tail massena dinardo. and now he has been transferred to a maxims maximum security prison. now they're half days. speculation that perhaps

are the italian authorities, had information about his whereabouts, perhaps from mafia turn, courts, mafia, informants. that is quite a strong program here in italy to get information from them and that they have managed to pinpoint him and arrest him for sure. this time round, we have seen videos released by the carabinieri showing the moment of his arrest when he was taken in by the authorities. we've also seen video footage of residence in ballard, more people at that clinic applauding at the news of the arrest and even the kind of the navy, hugging each other. great. that this has finally happened as it come up to 3 decades that he's been on the run. that was journalist seen i looked for us in a row, fema, thank you. officials in the paul say both the

cockpit voice recorder and to find data recorder had been found at the site of sunday's plane crash. near the city of harem. search efforts have resumed, but there is now little hope of finding any survivors. the airlines plane was carrying 72 people when it crashed into a steep gorge, pulling another body up from the wreckage of no pulled worst plane crash in 3 decades. authorities have given up hope of finding any survivors being forwarded to bodies and those or did what is been the hospital or religious of bodies afternoon for them that that is very easy to go to them. they're going to get all who did what is out from the sites and the scorched pieces of the plane. a consequence of the raging fire that broke out after it crashed about him.

despite the damage, officials say the flight recorders have been recovered in good condition. they should help investigators trying to work out what caused the crash. the airliner was moments away from the end of its half an hour flight from kat man do. when it came down in the ravine, i witness footage captured the plane veering to the left seconds before it hit the ground. outside the local hospital, people have gathered to collect the bodies of their loved ones. although officials say many of those recovered were burnt beyond recognition. one man was waiting to collect his niece's remains. he then we look for w, everybody in the family, he's in pain. she was the only daughter in the family where all deeply devastated. i'm not able to think how i can console the of the members of my family. so it's

just the latest aviation disaster to hit mountainous nepal. plane and helicopter crashes have killed nearly 350 people in the country since the year 2000. 0, there's been a shock on day one of the australian tennis open, but it was off the court where one of the favorites hometown player nick kiddos announced his withdrawal from the tournament due to injury kiddos that he noticed problems with his knee while playing and exhibition match friday against novak joke, which he'll have keyhole surgery to repair. the damage is trainer says, he'll be ready for most of the rest of the season. but one of the favorites for the women's title in australia is world number 2. onst revore of tunisia. she's twice come, tantalizingly, close to winning a grand slam, finishing up. and as they're runner up in both wilton and the us open last year. if

she trials in australia, she would be the 1st air of woman to win a major. she was 12 years old in tunis, clearly with something special. 16 years later, quarter owns sure is the feature court at the tennis facilities you bore, called home in her youth problem. and coaching a bill malika is training a new crop of young players inspired by the countries. in fact, the arab world's best ever woman player again. and i remember and as a child, she had a fire inside her. she never stopped moving, which made her stand out of gas through ballasa jabbers hitting partner in her teens. oh, mar la beaty, knows well, the own schubert that the tennis world is now coming to know though, i'm either lou on that. what you see of on, on the court, the warrior, the fighter who battles on every point of this has always been her character of

them. but let me go get into the warrior. the fighter made a global impact with 2 pro, 2 victories last year in madrid. and then berlin and then she rolled into the final, at wimbleton, her 1st grand slam final, only to lose 2 elaina rib akina in 3 sets. she was celebrated as a hero, back in tunis, her family and compatriots, proud as could be. jabber continued to win in every round of tour tournaments except the finals, including the next major. the us open lang, my goal is to not lose any more finals that was tongue in cheek. of course, getting to any final is a major accomplishment. but your bore has been there, done that time she thinks to take a title in yes, i like this kind of pressure. i'm gonna put more pressure on myself because i feel like sometimes you just need that, you know, to,

to be one of the top layers. the fire inside, as described by her 1st coach is still there. those who know her best are rooting for major title soon. and early meadows is a sports broadcaster covering the open and she joins us now from melbourne. hello, there are only so serv. war plays her 1st match tomorrow. do you think this will finally be the time she gets that grand slam title? well, if you just heard in that story, she has a remarkable background and she's knowing as the minister of happiness that where she comes from. and this could be her very best opportunity. there's no ashley body who was the former. well, number one is of course the former champion here, the reigning champion here. she walked away from the game. there's no, no me or soccer one of the couple of times in the trailer. and she said her happy baby a couple of weeks ago or

a couple of days ago or so this is the opportunity on the job or she is the world number 2 at the moment in the top 2 said here, of course the greatest story is ag schwab it who is the inaction a little early of the saving impact. she wrapped up her much in straight sets comprehensive, 6 or 75. she's a 3 time grand slam champion and got the better of on that. well at the us open last year, one of the final that she lost last year. so she's going to get the opportunity. it doesn't get much better than the f one. at the 2023 astray lee, and i've been of course, she's the big stop a very a part of the theory breakpoint. but she's only going to become a bigger household name right around the world might be based on well, i know that you've been commenting on some of the matches today and the 1st name. so what's caught your eye so far? i'm going to say, oh, lies were on rough, found the dog and i was, he's

a 22 grand slam champion winner and he won the strongly and he's been lucky of the 2nd time he won the israeli and then have admitted that he was coming into the one feeling a little boy, he was pushed by jack draper that was a 22 time grand slam champion up against a 21 year old breach. type of push team is already managed to pinterest, that opium bit cramped up. the better of the young stuff, and in the end, the dial at bed theory. and now the big stories, the men trying to catch rock by on the dial and not even caught, no back jockey beach. the reason i bring his name up today, even though he's not in action into laura here at melbourne park is cancelled a practice session a little early and he said he was due to hit the practice port at 7 pm. he can't do that. it's the 2nd time he's done it in a couple of days. there are concerns about his fitness. he pulled out of the like international. we had confirmed that the adelaide international, tampa string. so we're taping at fingers crossed that it's nothing serious for the

non promise training. you know, he's been champion of course in the last year as well. he did hit the outside jack . dr. canceling that practice session and had he thought, hey, believe straps or white you say, but we're really hoping it's not bad news to go with the material stories the carpet little earlier. that was journalist, neural meadows, just speaking to us from melbourne. thank you so much. let's take a look now. some other sports stories from around the world. in soccer, barcelona have beaten rivals, real madrid, 31 to live the spanish super camp in riyadh, former buyer and star robert live and dusky goal, health alone to take their 1st trophy since early 2021. when leno messy was still playing, barsoom in gauls, continental europe have beaten great britain, ireland to win the inaugural hero cup in abu dhabi, led by a 40 year old italian, francesco millinery, the continental europeans delivered several singles winds to put their team over

the line before we go, a quick reminder of our top story. germany's defense minister christine alum fake has quint triggering uncertainty at the ministry that, that the center of berlin's response to the board in ukraine. you're up to date on the w news. thanks for watching. ah, ah, with

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