ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, germany's defense minister steps down. christina lamb price offers her resignation to chance are all on the shoulder falling a series of missteps. most recently a new year's video message widely criticized for being tone death. also coming up, hopes of finding more survivors are fading into the pro. after a russian cruise missile destroyed a residential building in the central ukrainian city. 40 people are now confirmed

dad. dozens of others are still unaccounted work and he was italy's most wanted fugitive. now police have arrested sicilian mafia boss must hail massena dinero after 30 years on the run. plus the australian open tennis gets underway with tunisia is onst job are hoping to make it 3rd time lucky and break new ground for arab women. 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 been at the center of berlin's response to the war in ukraine. christina lamb, place decisions follows

a series of blunders that damaged her credibility. most recently and new years video, she posted that was considered tone deaf. christina lum question sealed her own fate as german defense minister. she posted a video on her private instagram account on new year's eve under 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 daggett heart is

getting get on, is designed to protect the critical infrastructure. because it has this tube with which it shoots into the air and can hit objects via that are very far away. even i'll have hassan 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 absence of towers, we will deliver $5000.00. how many do you claim 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 allah,

charlotte 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 again. but the confidence is obviously exhausted. germany is getting a new defense minister. i asked the devil as chief political correspondent, nina has that. 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 bundeswehr. 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 a 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 wide spread relief here in berlin that she and the chancellor have decided that her time is up. and that also now that they've ended this 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. 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. he 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 bundeswehr 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 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 with the new defense minister, terribly his chief, political correspondent, nina, hasn't nina? thank you so much. let's turn our attention out to the latest in the war in ukraine

. the death toll from a russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of ni pro has risen to 40. now 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 cranes, president lanier zaleski said that russian citizens who fail to condemn the attack are cowardly. oh, earlier i spoke to our correspondent in kias mcsaunder, who told us more about the situation in any 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 rocket hits right into this apartment building, which then collapsed like a house of cards with a many people still trapped underneath the rug less if now the death toll stands at roughly 35. many, many people doesn't have it injured. many more are still missing and local authorities are now saying that 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 civilians. 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 for 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 mules melissa, which also 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 with with it. but a school though 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 that time. the man gave the military almost all the weapons. he had found a lot of alert,

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 and melissa, and then blew himself up at home. it was if some of them, alex says he and his colleagues are seeing morse with science. and they were coming practice collecting evidence of new alleged crimes. as were 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. take up much 60 centimeters, deep hole glass gathering evidence. keeping

a record 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. my god, there's no military equipment or no military personnel. nicole in the mouth is not even critical infrastructure that the russians love so much to earn them on the way to cook. i don't know. i thought maybe they were just aiming for a cornfield, homer at your facility self, who could holds an alarm world. richard is in the blast also damaged her house. he didn't, the bush 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 declared the balloon for the day. her living room becomes a makeshift police station. yeah, think 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 to ring 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 tomorrow. if we another. if the time comes argue with alex and his co detectives who have evidence to offer a court on your mobile program, max, that is indeed very challenging. work for those police officer is the what would you say are their biggest challenge? right, so that, that area around the off chance get close to the russian border was an impoverished

area. even long before the war 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 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 held russians direct strikes against 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 and the direct vicinity. and later we only learned that said they had struck the administrative building. where i'm just,

just before this had been the police headquarters just 2 days prior to filming. so to give you an understanding of a security situation there on the ground, italy is nak, sandra in care forest. max, thanks so much for your reporting. we appreciate it. let's get a check now some of the other stories making news this our the world economic forum begins to day in davos, switzerland, a mid time security. this was government has deployed $5000.00 military personnel to support a local police at the annual event, which regularly tracks large scale protests and demonstrations in western germany to activists who had hidden in a self dog tunnel to protest. a coal mine expansion have left the site. they were the last 2 protesters remaining near the village of loose adopt which is slated for demolition to extract the coal underground. well, italy's most wanted mafia boss mateo massena donato 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 costs and also mafia and has been on the run for the last 30 years. italian prime minister, georgia maloney said his arrest was a great victory for the state. i spoke earlier to journalists, him a go to in rome, and i asked her how the italian police managed to arrest an arrow now. exactly, i mean, you're absolutely right. it's white 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 arrests 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 said in marcial, cause or 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 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. seeing that i'm cold, my tail massena donato and now he has been transferred to a maxim's maximum security prison. now they're half 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 take in by the authorities. we've also seen video footage of residents in palermo. 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 after 3 decades that he's been on the run. that was journalist for us in a row seemed to thank you. officials in nepal, say both the cost of it, the voice recorder and flying data recorder had been found at the side of sunday. a plane crash near the city of 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 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 tasked with the hospital facilities of this bodies. because for them that, that is very difficult and then they're going to get all the dead. what is out from the sites and the school 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 burned beyond recognition. one man was waiting to collect his niece's remains that i hadn't b, like bravo, was everybody in the family in pain. she was the only daughter in the family where all deeply devastated. i am not able to think how i can console the of 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. ah, there's been a shock on day one of the australian tennis open, but it was off the court were one of the favorites home town player and nick, giddy august announced his withdrawal from the tournament due to injuries. kiddos said he noticed problems with his knee one playing an exhibition match friday against navarre joke of edge. he'll have keyhole surgery to repair the damage his trainer says they'll be ready for most of the rest of the season. well one of the favorites for the women's title in australia is world number 2 aunts jabber of tunisia. she has twice come tantalizingly close to winning a grand slam, finishing it or as run her up at both wimbleton and the us open last year. and 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 jabber is the feature court at the tennis facilities board called home in her youth. and coach an appeal malika is training a new crop of young players inspired by the countries. in fact, the arab world's best ever woman player, can it on? 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 marla beaty knows, well the own schubert that the tennis world is now coming to know. though a lot, the lou on what you see if on's, on the court, the warrior, the fighter who battles on every point on this has always been her character of them. maybe go get it 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 elena river 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, 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. wilma, the fire inside, as described by her 1st coach is still there. those who know her best are rooting

for major title soon or earlier, as far as broadcast or nearly meadows at the australian open. whether this is the tournament for on starboard to win her 1st grand slam. well, as you just heard in that story, there, she has a remarkable background and she's knowing as the minister of happiness that where she comes from and beef 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, you know, and she said her happy baby just a couple of weeks ago or a couple of days ago. sorry, this is the opportunity on the job or she is world number 2 at the moment in the top 2 said here of course the greatest or is ag schwab. it who is inaction a little earlier this evening and actually wrapped up her time at grand slam

champion and got the better of on that as well at the us open last year, one of the final that she lost last year 30. she's going to get the opportunity. it doesn't get much better than the 12023 astray lee. and even of course, she's the big thought a fairy a part of the theory, bright point. 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 thing. so what's caught your eye so far? i'm going to say, oh, lies were on rough, found the dog tonight. what was he? the 22 grand slam champion when i and he won the astronomy and opened last year. the 2nd time he won the israeli and then have admitted that he was coming in to be feeling a little longer. but he will push should i by jack draper that was a 22 time grand slam champion up against a 21 year old bridge stripe. a push team is already managed. a pinch of that opium

bit cramped up the better of the young stuff. and in the end, the advent theory, and now the big story isn't in trying to catch rock, found the doll and not even caught knowing that jockey beach. the reason i bring his name up today, even though he's not in action until tomorrow, here at melbourne pot is cancelled a practice session a little early. and he said he was due to heat 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 aren't concerns about he's being pulled out of the satellite international. we had to the adelaide international, you pan string. so we're keeping up being is cross that it's nothing serious for the non promise training and i've been champion, of course, in the last year as well. he did, he brought outside just dr. cancelling that practice that men had. he saw i have really strapped or white, you say, but we're really hoping it's not more bad news to go with the material store is the compet little early on. that was journalist,

early meadows speaking to us from melbourne. thank you so much. gina la, la brigitte, the italian actress who achieved global fame in the 95900 sixty's, has died at the age of 90. 5. loved to get us started several european and american movies during her heyday, including the, the devil, one, mrs. campbell and veneta, and she was regarded as one of the 1st major hollywood sex symbols. after her movie career waned, she established a successful 2nd career as an acclaimed photo journalist. you're watching d. w news coming up next in d. w. news, asia. we'll take a look at why hong kong has become a hot spot for medical tourists and indonesia puts 5 men on trial over last year's deadly stadium stampede. but are others escaping accountability

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