ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. germany is defense minister stepped down, casita lam, geist offers her resignation to chance, are all off shoulds following a series of missteps. most recently and new year's video message widely criticized for being tone deaf. also coming up, hopes of finding more survivors are fading, and ne pro, after a russian cruise missile destroyed a residential building in the central ukrainian city, 40 people are now confirmed dead. dozens of others are still on, accounted for and he was italy's most wanted fugitive. now police have arrested

sicilian mafia boss my tale massena dinero. after 30 years, the rod plus the australian tennis open gets underway with 2 anesha is on supper, hoping to make it 3rd time lucky and break new ground for arab women to hear from melbourne in our sports. ah, i'm marian 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 and ukraine. christina lambert, i it's decision follows a series of blunders that damaged her credibility. most recently and new year's video she posted that was considered tone deaf. her christina lam crashed,

sealed her own, say, test german defense minister. she posted a video and her private instagram account on new year's eve against the background of celebratory fireworks on a 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 in 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, dagger heart is get out to get on is designed to protect the critical infrastructure. because it has this tube with which it shoots into the air she and can hit objects that are very far away. even out of hasn't 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 in front of towels. we will deliver 5000 pounds to ukraine as a very close signal. we are standing at your side and i as i did this, was met by division. well beyond germany, initially, chancellor or love, schultz stood behind his minister. there was the chancellor works well with and has confidence in all members of cabinet. and of course that is also true for this minister. dan galen. but the confidence is obviously exhausted. germany is getting

a new defense minister. i asked isabelle your chief legal correspondence. nina has a bit earlier. why lamp? i've made this decision now. 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 our 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 say 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 at chancellor, so it's 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, to somebody from his own cabinet as a bonus, where is undergoing from, sorry, from his own party, the s b d. the bonus varies, 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 japanese 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, nina, hasn't nina? thank you so much. let's turn our attention to the war and ukraine now, and the death toll from a russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of ne bro has risen to 40 rescue. workers are still racing to find survivors in the wreckage. people

have been gathering in front of the ruins, hoping for news of their loved ones. 2 dozen residents are still reported missing. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski said that russian citizens who failed to condemn the attack are cowardly. i spoke earlier to our correspondence in kia mac thunder, who told us more about the situation in the 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

had roughly 35. many, many people doesn't have been injured. many more are still missing and local authorities are now saying that after 2 nights out in the cold, the 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 ukrainian 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, because we knew it was mean was it just the people have changed during the war that was served about the sure. now almost anyone can get any weapon they want it without any trouble would. would it but a school, though, the boys bro, you're a similar case. so you had a tragic end to make each other but a holistic as vertical in the width of most of 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, which emma no 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. it was of some of them. alex says he and his colleagues are seeing morse with size, and they're becoming practiced, 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 water 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. vacovich 60 centimeters deep ovula. gathering evidence, keeping a record the owner of this field was making herself a cup of tea when she heard the 1st impact. she hit 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. my god, there is no military equipment ah, no military personnel. nicole on the mazda is not even critical infrastructure that the russians loved so much. give in them on the way to cook. i don't know. maybe they were just aiming for a cornfield, homer at your facility, surf world's in islam world. does any picture of the blast also damaged her house? again? he said it wouldn't look which was in the eye dock. nobody's injured that the house is messed up. you. thank god i was where i was because something went inside the house. something smashed the window and hit inside. it is full of glass. glutton bloom for the day. her living room becomes a makeshift police station. i have him for the neighbors make statements and shall

the officers documentation. every one has losses, which need to be recorded. the officers jurisdiction ends at the border, but they're doing what they can see wooing with all the guilty will be brought to justice. see every single one of them to the mac. 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 of level max, that is indeed very challenging work for those police officers. the what would you say are their biggest challenge? right. so that, that area around the valve chance get close to the russian border was an impoverished area, even long before the war and 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 dealing with power outages was which makes their job very difficult to process evidence to put it into databases, to process processes. 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, help russians direct 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 they had struck the administrative building. where just, just before this had been the police headquarters just 2 days prior to our filming . so to give you an understanding of the security situation there on the ground,

they w max sander in care forest. max, thanks so much for your reporting. we appreciate it. let's get you up to speed now and some of the other stories making news. this our the world economic forum begins to day in davos, switzerland, and that time security. this was government has deployed $5000.00 military personnel to support local police at the event which regularly attract large scale protests and demonstrations. traffic in the bumper, as strange, 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 had been sent to free the vessel. officials in nepal say that both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder had been found at the site of sunday's plane crash. near the city of kara search efforts have resumed, but there is now little hope of finding any survivors. the yeti airlines plane was

carrying 72 people when it crashed into his feet gorge, pulling another body up from the wreckage of napoleon, worst plane crash in 3 decades. authorities have given up hope of finding any survivors being forwarded. 6, did the bodies and those or did been tasked with the hospital bill related up this will be did by the top dog for the that that is very easy to go there. this is going to get all the dead. what is out from the side, from 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 men 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 burned beyond recognition. one man was waiting to collect his niece's remains with everybody in the family. he's in pain. she was the only daughter in the family. were all deeply devastated. i'm not able to think how i can console the members of my family. 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

. let's bring in journalist drew the anti curry, who joins as from catman to, with more on this developing story. so have investigators found any clues to tell us what could have caused the crash? not so far, they have just begun their vesta geishas today, the official or lunching of their work actually as it read began today. and today being a national dave morgan and mark of respect for those who died yesterday. so the flag and the government officials were thrown hard master day and the, the rescue effort being carried out in boca well. those bodies which have been recovered. almost all of buddies have been recovered and doors who could be

given to get a relatives in boca raton, surrounding areas that get done and the foreigners of the bodies of the foreign passengers and the crew members would be flown to got my good tomorrow for post mortem and other things out there after the commission and those things. well, this is what has happened today. and yes, it is. of course this is, this is all that's happened. this old lab from judge today not must react to what you have already heard from the side. yes we, we also know that a paul has unfortunately a history of poor aviation safety. so there have been accidents in the past. why is

that? this is a good question and good discussion has been very intensively asked of buying public through social media yesterday and today and the vision. all authorities have been severely criticized for not doing better work off intending safety standards. do no press start by the international simulation automation i co and it has been very difficult for that regulators door to reduce to defend due to defendant cause except that they were fully cooperate with the investigators on that is going on for some that will go on for some time and they have a $45.00 days beginning today to submit the report and recommendation

provider that off would be would be implemented. but how soon saturday would that be done? is a matter of conjecture at the moment. all right, that was journalist ruba and a car in can do. thank you so much. italy's most wanted mafia boss my tail massena dinero has been arrested at a medical clinic in sicily where he was undergoing a medical procedure. he's alleged to be the leader of the sicilian casa nostra mafia, and has been on the run for the last 30 years. italian prime minister in georgia, maloney said his arrest was a great victory for the state. a short time ago i spoke to a journalist sema gupta in rome, and i asked her how the italian police managed to arrest dinero 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 seemed 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 political 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 in 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 revealed his identity saying that i'm cold, my tail massena dinardo. and now he has been transferred to a maxims maximum security prison. now there have been days. speculation that perhaps are the italian authorities had information about his whereabouts, perhaps from mafia turn, coats, mafia, informants. there 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

carabinieri, hugging each other, a great wolf, that this has finally happened as knits come after 3 decades that he's been on the run. there was a journalist he might look to for us in rome, seem a thank you. oh, there has been a shark on day one of the australian tennis open, but it was off the court were one of the favorites hometown player near kiddos announced his withdrawal from the tournament due to injury could he said he noticed problems with his knee while playing and exhibition match friday, against of a joke of it. you'll have keyhole surgery to repair the damage his trainer says, so he ready for most of the rest of the season. well now one of the favorites for the women's title in australia is world number 2 on stripper of tunisia. she's twice calm, tantalizing a close to winning

a grand slam, finishing as runner up at both wimbleton and the us open last year. but if she triumphs in australia, she would be the 1st arab woman to win a major. she was 12 years old in tunis, clearly with something special. 16 years later, court owns sure is the feature court at the tennis facilities. your board called home in her youth. and coaching bill malika is training a new crop of young players inspired by the countries. in fact, the arab world, best ever woman player, janet and i remember and as a child, she had a fire inside her. she never stopped moving, which made her stand out of gas re ballasa jabbers hitting partner in her teens. oh marla, beady knows, well, the own schubert that the tennis world is now coming to know though i want the little ones that are what you see of on, on the court. the warrior, the fighter who battles on every point on this has always been her character with

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 wimbledon, her 1st grand slam final, only to lose 2 elaina reba keena 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 lay. 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,

a like this kind of pressure. i'm going to put more pressure on myself because i feel like sometimes just a need that she now 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. you're watching the w news coming to you from berlin, and before we go, here is a reminder of the top story for falling. for you. germany's defense minister christine alam guys has quit triggering uncertainty at the ministry that, that the center of berlin's response to the war and ukraine. it follows a series of miss stamps that damaged her credibility. that's the latest sunday that will use this. our ico. india is next with a look at how solar power can help countries like india meet their renewables. but we leave you with some images from south africa where a vineyard has found and then the usual method of pest control. take

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