ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. germany name's a new defense minister orest. the stories will succeed. christina lamb, who resigned on monday, he takes over the post at a critical time with berlin, under pressure to boost military support. the ukraine also coming up a green deal for europe. you commission president or slough on the line unveiled her plan for a clean tech transition. as the world economic forum kicked off in devil,

switzerland, and china records a population decline for the 1st time. in 60 years it's birth rate has slowed and the face of mounting financial pressures and shifting social ass. ah and i manuscripts mccain, and thank you so much for joining us. german chancellor. allah. charlotte's has chosen a new defense minister boris pistol. wales will replace christina lumber, who resigned on monday, following a series of controversies, bogus postal wheels served as the interior minister for the western german state of lois saxony. for the last decade. chancellor, charlotte said that historic is assertiveness and experience made him the right choice to lead the german army. joining me now for the very latest is needle is

chief political correspondent, nina hossa. nina, can you tell us some more about germany's new defense minister? what will he bring to the job for boys to story is like you say has been or the interior minister of lower saxony, or one of germany, 16 states for 10 years. now that means that he brings a lot of experience in running a big machine like a ministry, add to that job and that is vital at a time when the wound is bare and the defense ministry as a whole is faced with so many challenges and needs massive reform, you do need somebody who has the authority and also the self confidence to push through some unpopular decisions. and many people attribute these qualities to boris historian. he comes from the same party as will have showed the chancellor. the s p d all have showed the chancellor to day again in a statement called him one of his friends and an extremely skilled politician. and

now he seems to be well connected within the sb out also outside of his own state, which is of course crucial as well. if you've got the right phone numbers in your pocket, then you also have to say that he did serve in the military. so he knows the soldiers and the soldiers lives, essentially, and that is vital. people said that if we need somebody now at the home of the defense ministry who actually likes the blunders fair, but you also have to add that with boris pastorius as appointment. now gender parity enjoys his cabinet, is a thing of the past, or the new german government will now consist of 9 male and 7 female ministers. okay, so, and how would you say that his appointment is being received within germany? i'm and he is essentially a regional official, isn't he? but as you say, he does bring a lot of experience with him. like christina lam fests decision to resign didn't come as a surprise to many, which is why the have been

a lot of names that have been floating around here in political berlin for a while. not just since she made this announcement, people did speculate about a lot of people, but nobody had morris for stories on their list. and we're hearing that that applies to the bonus for themselves as well. which is also something that some people, especially opposition, politicians have criticized that he was not the obvious go to person for chancellor shows that he comes essentially. if you want to talk and football terms, he comes from the benches from the b team. the if you will, but the, the s, b, d, politicians, all hail him as being somebody who is extremely skilful. who has the necessarily am the necessary authority, the method necessary at self confidence and that he does no party discipline, and that he understands the topic that he's extremely skilled when it comes to security policy, which is after all vital, at this time when our defense minister doesn't get any time whatever to prepare for

this job, which leads me nicely to my next question. what does this new appointment mean for the war in ukraine and germany? support i'm in berlin has been under significant pressure, hasn't yet to boost military support for ukraine. what, what will change now if anything? well exactly, that is so that is a big thing that this new defense minister will have to swim once he is being pushed into this cold water on thursday this week after he's officially being sworn . and he's going to meet a lawyer, austin, the u. s. defense secretary, who's here in berlin for political talks about how best to help ukraine in their battle against russian aggression. and there is a high level meeting of international defense ministers. then on friday we're also, boris besought is, will be the person that people will go to when they have questions to germany. and of course, germany is under a lot of pressure to supply combat tanks to ukraine right now. but when it comes to

these questions, no matter who leads the defense ministry that chancellor latoya has always said that these decisions do lie with him that he has the last word. whether or not germany will give its consent even for other countries to supply german, made combat tanks to ukraine like the leopard to, for example, which poland has asked for. so and boris to stories is somebody who's probably going to be a bit more self confident than christina lamplight was. he is known as somebody who doesn't shy away from conflict. he's known to have ruffling some feathers also. but he also ultimately is considered by shots as one of his friends and understands party discipline. he knew chief political correspondent, me neither. thank you. or the european commission president or sla funder lion pledged that support to ukraine will continue for as long as it is needed. speaking of the world economic forum in the swiss town of devils fund ally and praised the ear response to russia's aggression in ukraine. she stressed that

in less than a year, europe has freed itself from what she called a dangerous addiction to russian energy supplies. she addressed delegates after all, lena's valencia ukraine's 1st lady spoke. dabbles she called on countries to continue their support of ukraine. let's take a quick listen to what the european commission president had to say. there will be no impunity for these russian crimes and my friends there will be no light up in our stead for support to ukraine from helping to restore power, heating and water to preparing for the long term effort of reckless reconstruction . i just want to say my dearest alana, and i think i can speak on behalf of this whole and this audience here. we are in

it for as long as it takes and stand by our ukranian friends. and join me now from davis is dw correspondence. emily sherwin and here with me in the studio, is our chief international editor, richard walker. and emily, i'd like to start with you if i may also a fund ally and began her speech with a very strong focus on ukraine. she's been speaking for months about the need for unity and cooperation against russian aggression. was that any change in her focus and tone from what we heard today? well, it's interesting to compare her speech today to her previous speech and divorce, which was at the world economic form that took place in may. so just a few months after russia began its full scale invasion of ukraine, and that speech back in may was really completely focused on ukraine. she talked about the use need to reduce its append dependents on gas and oil. and on the need

to come up with a plan to rebuild ukraine to day or the law under lion did, as we just heard, have strong words of support for ukraine. talk about the bravery of ukraine and the necessity of europe to really continue to support ukraine until the end. but that was just the starting off point of her speech. she then went on to really focus on the need for a clean for clean technology in europe. and she really used the platform here at the economic form almost to advertise the u as a really good platform for investment in green technology. she talked about the use plans to cut a red tape when it comes to that kind of investment. and i think, you know, what was kind of running underneath that was a also a kind of sideswipe at the, the u. s. which has just introduced the so called inflation reduction act, which is going to offer tax credits and rebates to businesses who want to invest

and shift all their production to the u. s. when it comes to the green economy. so she was talking about unity, but there was a sense of competition there as well. and really a focus on the economy, the green economy, and a little bit less on ukraine. richards and ukraine, obviously, climate change, green tech, china, the us, what stood out to you in particular from what was left underline saturday. yeah, i think i would it would, would pick up on what emily's talking about this so, so good and to slough underline having a really specific announcement in her speech language. she really got into the detail of, of the approach that she wants europe to take towards the next few years of trying to tackle the climate crisis to investment in clean technology and proposing what they call a net 0 industry act. and that is designed to, to kind of match pretty much what the americans have done with the inflation reduction that so called that emily just referred to. so incentives for companies

to, to do clean tech development within the european union. and i think in line with what emily just said, it is very interesting to, to look at what's potentially happening here because there's been a story very much last year or something since the ukraine war began of how the west is coming back together. how you've seen a revitalized even expanding nato. you see a common purpose among democracy, standing by ukraine. what we're seeing here is an issue where there is really scope for severe severe economic division between the european union and the united states. over how to handle this transition to a cleaner economy and also a transition to an era that may be somewhat di, globalize less with less complex supply chains, leading into countries where there are difficult relationships with china, whether it's russia and trying to bring back industrial production especially kind

of future oriented, green industrial production bring those things back home. and there's a certain risk that the united states and europe might get into a dynamic where they're at cross purposes rather than really kind of working in harmony on this. so i think it's very interesting to see what happens with this proposal that funding line has come through, come through with how european member states pick up on it with add to what extent they like it. and the dynamic that then develops with washington. in the months ahead, emily, if i can just come back to you now, the war is obviously dominating the forums agenda this year. i want to ask you, you know, what might this event in particular achieve in terms of support for you, craig, from its allies? well, it's hard to know unusually, there aren't very many big concrete deals that come out of the world economic forum . it's more kind of place where people can meet and discuss the year ahead. in part,

we did see of course, ukraine dominating in some senses. we heard the 1st lady of ukraine all in the landscape speaking today as the opening speech and also calling for a continued support. and also was interesting to see yesterday i was that the ukraine house here in divorce, which is where the ukranian delegation kind of assembled their events on ukraine. and they started out this forum with a report on kind of support and fundraising. so it does seem that they are a little bit worried that attention on ukraine is slipping to other issues, other global crises, and they want to bring that focus back and get more support. more i d, w correspondent, m leesha. when reporting the from w and d w chief international editor richard walker here with the cd. thanks so much t both. now we're going to take a look at some of the other developments making headlines today. the trial and up censure of the exile,

the better russian opposition leader set lana to kind of sky has opened in minsk. speaking of the world economic forum and doubles 2nd of sky denounced the trial as a false. she claimed victory in the 2020 presidential election. it is now facing a range of charges, including high treason a full commander with the russian para military of back in a group has claimed asylum in no way off to does the thing. and crossing the border in this video posted in december, he criticized the wagner groups operations. he entered in a way last friday and is now facing charges of entering the country illegally. russia announced on tuesday that it would make major changes to its armed forces over the next 4 years. as well as structural reform defense minister shut sergei show who said moscow would strengthen its naval aerospace and strategic missile capabilities. the news follow several serious setbacks cheering. it's year long

invasion root of your grade level is staying in ukraine. the death toll from a russian missile strike on an apartment building into deep pro has risen to 41. off to rescue workers pulled the body of a child from the rubble more than 2 dozen other residents are still missing. your friends, president is calling for foster deliveries of heavy weapons from the west in the wake of this attack, which he is describing as a war crime. another body recovered from the rubble. 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 for making you more open loom of savannah, jim said we are not giving up hope of finding anyone alive. the 1st group is looking for the dead. give us the more help with that to actual place with multiple more them more but doesn't. i remember those who were rescued were rushed to

hospital motion with there are 3 people on the ward, including the 19 year old woman. they were admitted with wounds after the explosion . 2 are in our ward with relatively severe conditions, borrow trauma and head trauma. but after all, more, living your own all across the road from the apartment block neighbors and relatives pay their respects to the dead and try to process their grief 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. in recent months, rushes repeated assaults on ukraine's energy grid, her force many cities to roll out power cuts to save energy in the capital, keith, which is still home to 3000000 people says he authorities have restricted public lighting at night, and this has had significant consequences for people who are out about out and about on the streets he w. sonya found the car ventured out on a dark eve night and sent us this report. during the day, despite the war, the ukrainian capital can look and feel quite normal. but as night falls key, if slips into almost darkness. streetlights are off at many crossings. traffic lights as well.

the dark mix it down, right, risky for those on the streets. booked on wilkes for the food delivery service in keith. 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 other global fellow washer. and her work has become much tougher because of the lack of light is certain suitable. it's hard to ride in the dark, oscar, and if a person doesn't have reflectors in, well, i just can't see them so sure. why did you have to be careful because they could be people on the street, isn't me? the kids were booking and they were potholes and open drains, which you could fall into their mortgage. luther motor booth a yamaha quarter for their shorter both with griffin look a month ago, buck done had an accident. when he hit a cold 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 so for those navigating the city on foot. not the deputy head of keeps traffic. police told me the car accidents involving 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 attacks 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 of this shall go further and look for profit crossing that he or should i follow another person. so we are in a group promise about i bought a glow, stick color for my dog because i can't seem when there's no large in the park, it's very convenient or yeah, all of them live with it. it was dark at the crossing over for people approach me and punch me in the nose and snatch my phones from my pocket with all about the la fontose brawley. but living in the city shrouded in darkness,

can also habits of sites. mentioned. there's a bit of intrigue and mystery in the air also, especially when it's close to the curfew in the snow and around, within was quite interesting to ride along dark empty streets mil rules and quite literally disappear into the night. china now which is the most populous nation in the world, but perhaps not for much longer officials. last a, the population has declined for the 1st time in over 6 decades shrinking by some 850000 over the last year. an aging population coupled with a low birth rate, means that china is now facing a demographic crisis. 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 blame china's decades long punitive one child policy that was only

abandoned in 2016 hello that i'm with 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 does to have kids? the unemployment rate is so high cove destroyed everything. there's nothing we can do next year. we'll have a declining growth again, those 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 eighty's, there's more of us that are from one child family as your boy has a lot of pressure when it comes to taking care of your parents out in improving your quality of life in the future that the laura, your her body alley, for decades, china has relied on its vast population to drive economic growth. now it's confronted with an aging shrinking workforce. you are 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. and we'll be taking a closer look at china's demographic define a little later in d w t. news asia with a melissa, cham, the 1st harrison more stories making news. today. the u. s. state of california continues to be pummeled by unusually heavy rain, causing mud slides and flooding cities from san francisco to san diego. on monday, a series of storms killed at least 19 people in the san diego area and swept away scores of houses. thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes and climate act of his grass. a tune berg has joined demonstrators in western germany for renewed protests against the expansion of an open cost coal mine in the area. the rally took place in the village of kind back,

not far from the flashpoint village of lit, scott and northridge westphalia. it comes just a day after all authorities managed to clear its not itself of climate protested and thousands of people in peru have been traveling by road to the capital lima to protest against the countries at new president dina battiata. she took office in december after 4 melita leda. pedro castillo was ousted, following his attempt to dissolve congress. peru has been gripped by civil unrest. the several weeks with calls for blow ought to install the constitutional assembly and hold fresh elections. ah, they live far from the center of power, but thousands of peruvians are returning to reach the capital. to call for the resignation of president. deena bal wattsey i accuse of former vice president of being a political you surfer with no legitimate claim to the office. police

are blocking the roads to lima where the government has declared a state of emergency but the protest has remained defiant. c none of them i know he had clear on our way, but nevertheless we found that they're trying to stop us. but i did not him, of the police are surely under the command of a current use their pin president, dean of o r t. my daughter, our rights are being abused, gamino, but we won't give up. oh, we got to get there no matter what or nobody, even if it is on foot, benefit amount. we have a corn and a cheese, and we can eat here. well, but we'll go to congress to close it down and to asked miss dina, you supper because they killed us. a wave of demonstrations rippled across the country after former president pedro castillo was ousted in december, currently in custody. he was arrested on charges of rebellion and conspiracy always

after trying to take power in what the constitutional called, called and attempted to despite weeks of violence. but as left dozens of people dead that were wattsey standing firm, but they're refusing to step down for them at the home. but just as he really is, but with a slew of cabinet resignations and allegations of excessive force being used against demonstrates his continuing to mount the watching faces of monumental battle to regain control of the civil unrest and the support of a divided country. the conflict news now and the 5 times run her off at the australian open tennis tournament, and the murray has won a grueling 1st round match over the number. 13 seed in melbourne. murray was up 2 sets early against italy's mateo barret teenie. that was despite the 35 year old, bloodied knee and metal hip, but therapy,

the full back even the match near the 4 hour mark. mary held off a match point in the deciding set. and then he won the 5th set tiebreaker of the nearly 5 hours and the number to seat on the woman's side on the chair, but of 2 nivia is on to the 2nd round of the australian open. it took her 3 sets to 2 feet. tamara did onset of slovenia tba is vying to become the 1st arab woman and 1st from an african country to win a grand slam. and here's a quick reminder of our top stories today. the javin chancellor has appointed florist to story us as his new defense minister. the stories will succeed christina lumber, who resigned on monday, following several controversies. he has served for the last decade as the interior minister for the west and state of lois and european commission, president of la funder lion, has unveiled plans for europe's green transition at the world economic forum and

devil, switzerland. she says the needs max of funding and clean tech to remain competitive . they're watching dw news and coming up next and d, w, and use asia. why china's population decline is so worried for the communist government and what it means for the rest of the world. listen, chat has all that and more just after the break you. i'm and you could mckinnon. thanks so much for being with ah, with

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