ah yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, ah. ah, business dw, news ly, from burly ukraine cause for more heavy weapons from the west of the russians attack on me pro, rescue teams. there are still searching for 29. missing people in the wreckage of an apartment building 40 are confirmed dead. and that number is expected to rise.

also coming up where they can amik foreign kicks off in davos, switzerland where the war in ukraine climate change and fairs of a global recession. taking center step plus china records a population decline for the 1st time in 60 years. it's just a matter of time before it loses the distinction of being the world's most populous nation. ah, i've got out as well come to the program and we'll get to those stories in a minutes. but we start with this breaking news that boris to story us has been named as the new german defense minister. he will succeed, christina lambaste, who resigned on monday, following several controversies. he has served for the last decade as the interior minister for the western state of lower saxony. and for more on this gentlemen,

our is dw chief, political correspondent, and nina has in berlin. nina, briefly, who is the new defense minister? well, the news just broke a couple of minutes ago and buddhist historian is somebody who is a well known figure in germany. he has been around for a long time. now. he is currently the interior minister of low saxony. that is quite an influential state. one of the 16 states here in germany, and he hasn't made himself and known it, particularly for his heart, stands when it comes to how to deal with refugees when they become criminals. and he actually sometimes strayed away from official party lines from the social democratic party lines when he asked for people to actually be sent back to countries when they were threatening to commit crimes. so he is somebody who is

confident, i want to say with all of this. and he comes from all of choices. the chancellor's party, the social democrats, and he also served in the military. so this is somebody that all our shots chose, obviously for his qualifications, but we all didn't have him on our list for speculation. now what does this mean for the war in ukraine and for the germans support? now ultimately it means that the bonus is going to get somebody out there. hell, who really understands the armed forces. and he is somebody who, like, i say, has a certain degree of authority which is needed because the ones there is undergoing massive transformation. they do need a skilled manager, they need somebody who really is influential as well, who knows other people in political berlin, for example. and when it comes to all the decisions about the supplying ukraine

with weapons, none of that strategically is going to change because both it's lawyers is going to be working very closely with all of shorts and the chancellors made it clear that all those decisions ultimately live with him, lead up your she's political correspond, nina has of there. thank you very much nina. i'll will of course, have more in depth reporting on the new man at the home of the defense ministry and germany a bit later in our programs and other ukraine where the death toll from a russian missile strike on an apartment building is expected to rise past 40 to day rescue workers in me pro are still searching for 29. missing people in the rubble. but chances of finding survivors are slim, ukraine's president is calling for faster deliveries of heavy weapons from the west . in the wake of the attack, which he described as a war crime, another body recovered from the rabble. rescue as say,

they have little hope of finding any one alive under this mess of twisted concrete . but they keep up the search any way, making you more open law mfc done a james that we are not giving up hope of finding anyone alive. the 1st group is looking for the dead deal with them. i'll help with that too. absolutely. with logical mazin more but not on a team of those who were rescued were rushed to hospital not from the you know, there are 3 people on the ward, including the 19 year old woman. they were admitted with wounds after the explosion . to our in our would with relatively severe conditions at barrow trauma and head trauma. christy, what, at all more, living at our re i crossed the road from the apartment block neighbors and relatives pay their respects to the dead and try to process their grief.

similarly with it could have been any of us in that place, people, children, this is a community reeling from profound loss. in all of that one story of hope, this man's elderly mother was rescued from the building unharmed. then he found his cat, a small comfort in a time of tragedy. on for the latest on that i spoke earlier with our correspondence on your follow up in keith. when the search and rescue operation has continued overnight in that south central city of denise road, there are several people on accounted for. but of course, as they saw on your report, hopes are fading. a fighting survivors under the rubble. after you know, 3 nights in sub 0 temperatures, and of course the dead torn is rising by the hour, dozens of people in hospital including children. we've also seen

a huge outpouring of help from villages in and around. ne pro denny pro. um, you know, that there have been reports here in the media of, you know, municipalities willing to take in the hundreds of people who have now become homeless. there are also reports of some of the residents affected or internally displaced. people, you know, people who have fled from regions like a headphone and cod, keith and of move to the ne pro. and i think for them this experience is especially traumatic losing everything are all over again. and ukraine's deputy defense mister animal yard has said that the missiles that hid that building is a russian x $22.00, a ballistic missile. right after that attack, we saw statement when ukraine's air defense forces saying they do not have the means, the equipment to detect or shoot down these types of missiles. so that has raised a lot of concern, you know, and, and, you know, strengthened calls for the rule out of advanced air defense systems like the patriot from the u. s. so yeah, you ventured out in the dark, in the capital, key of where city authorities have restricted public lighting with serious consequences for people out on the streets. let's have

a look at your report. during the deed, despite the war, the ukrainian capital can look and see quite normal. but as night falls, keith slips into almost darkness. street lights are off and at many crossings, traffic lights as well. mm. the dark mixed downright whiskey. the deuce on the streets. booked on books for food to the b service mts taking orders to customers around the city go few isn't until 11 pm. so much of his work is in the inky talk of author. broadest solar washer work has become much tougher because of the lack of light. this is futile. it's hard to ride in the dark, oscar, and if

a person doesn't have reflectors in them, i just can't see them. so sure. all the ones you have to be careful because they could be people on the street. it's only the kids are booking and there are potholes and open drains, which you could fall into their mortgage. luther motor with a yamazik with their for their shorter both within a month ago, booked on had an accident. when hit a curb in the dark, he smashed all the reflectors on his bicycle. the streets in the ukrainian capital are clearly not safe at night. and that's especially thought for those navigating the city on foot. now the deputy head of keeps traffic, police told me the par accidents in boarding pedestrians had gone up by a whopping 80 percent since last october. that's when the city was forced to introduce rolling blackouts. in response to russia's debilitating miss silent don't attack on ukraine's energy infrastructure. everyone sure has a story about the dock holding there was spoken, it's really dangerous. i'm wondering how i can cross the road to the other side.

but i shall go further and look for a proper crossing or should i follow another person? so we are in a group of farmers subaru. i bought a glow, stick color for my dog, because i can't seem when there's no light in the park. it's very convenient. or yeah, all of them love it. it was dark at the crossing. a movie for people approached me in front of me in the nose and snatched my phones from my pocket. what was the wall and what the la fontose brawley. but living in the city shrouded in darkness can also habits up sights mentioned through there's a bit of intrigue and mystery in the air. he also blew freshly when it's close to the curfew and there's no one around within one's quite interesting to ride along dark, empty streets and movies and quite literally disappear into the night and so on and still with us on it. one of the biggest problems for the city

will as we saw in that report in or the, the police here see that the biggest problem was really car drivers. being unable to see pedestrians and really knocking them over. we've had reports of people with for talent, with a serious trauma, injuries, head injuries, but also fatalities. and the police here have started a campaign now to try and encourage people to, you know, where brighter jackets and courts rather than black clothes that you know where, where people with the car drivers could actually see them. they've asked them to wear, you know, reflective elements. i've spoken to parents in the city who are quite worried about their children going out on in the dark to the park. they kicked them out in reflective of clothing. and you know, police of also said that one of the bigger problems is that in districts, whether a frequent power outages, the traffic lights don't function so couldn't officers are now being trained to kind of manually regulate these crossings at big junctions. the other problem a little bit is crime now, is incidents of looting and theft have gone up in certain districts with some

criminals taking advantage of the dark. but the policy, you know, overall crime hat is down a since since keith was forced to introduce these blackouts last october. the w sunroof on a car in key of their thank you. the world economic forum kicks off in davos, switzerland to die. politicians and business leaders from around the globe are expected to focus on fears of a global recession at the cost of living crisis. but climate change has been the main driver for protests in dollars. oh, protests on the streets of divorce. at the start of the world economic forum, the demonstrators are demanding more climate justice and faster action against climate change. their answer to the question of whether the conference can help improve things is clear. oh no regards dave or some residents and of all seemed to agree. meanwhile, politicians and c, e o 's from all over the world make their way to the small swiss mountain resort.

almost $2700.00 participants, including around 50 heads of states and governments are here seeking solutions to international problems. they will also discuss consequences of the russian war against ukraine and how to co operate in a fragmented world. we're here gathering all these different communities to really try to say ok, what is it that we can do at this little moment around these critical issues to come together and try to in a collaborative manner, 1st table, certain solutions. and then of course, try to implement them as well. but not all major heads of state are coming to the world economic forum. us president joe biden and china said of state she. jan ping for example, won't be there. china is the most populous nation in the world, but perhaps not for much. longer officials dare say the population has declined for the 1st time in more than 60 years shrinking by some 850000. over the last year,

an aging population coupled with a low birth rate means china is now facing a demographic problem. a busy beijing st. belies a burgeoning problem. for the 1st time since 1961, china's population has fallen. birth rates have been sinking for years. many experts plain, china's decades long punitive one child policy that was only abandoned in 2016 hello. yet our beijing is now trying to encourage families to have more children that many chinese say they simply can't afford to either there's a lot of pressure to have kids, but who dares to have kids? the unemployment rate is so high cove, it destroyed everything. there's nothing we can do next year. we'll have a decline growth again filled out so that we feel that the economic pressure in young people is quite high,

especially for those from outside of beijing living here. here that's already difficult. oh, for those of us born in the eighty's, there's more of us that are from one child family has got the law has a lot of pressure when it comes to taking care of your parents out in improving your quality of life in the future. the laura, you'll have ally, ally for decades. china has relied on its vast population to drive economic growth . now it's confronted with an aging shrinking workforce. un experts predict this is just the start of a long decline with india soon set to overtake china as the world's most populous nation. that's it for me. thanks for watching. ah, imagine how many portion of love us heard out in the world? climate change to very often story. this is my plan, the way from just one week how much work can really get.