ah, where is india headed in? this is the moment to unleash on violet bars. gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on d, w. ah, ah, this is the w. y from berlin. germany names a new defense minister, forrest restore the us will succeed. christina lambert, who resigned yesterday, he takes over the post at a critical time with berlin, under pressure to boost military support for ukraine. also on the program, european union commission president addresses world leaders on the opening down the

world economic forum and promises continuing and steadfast. you support for ukraine? china's biggest annual internal migration begins hundreds of millions of people travel to their home towns to celebrate the lunar new year with health experts, a warning about the potential for a surgeon covey. 19 infections. ah, i'm fill gale. welcome to the program. germany has a new defense minister. i bought a restore. yes. world reprice that. christina lambert was lambert to resigned yesterday following a series of contrivances. the last decade mister historic has been the interior minister of the german state of lower saxony, german chancellor o. left shoulder said mister historicity assertiveness, and ex appearance made him the right choice and to head to germany's armed forces.

wound is then, we'll see the bundeswehr not adapted the new situation that has arisen with the russian war of aggression. and it is important to me to involve the soldiers are very closely make sure they're part of the process. it's hiding and emit fully him . and they can count on me to stand up for them whenever necessary is for the stand . i want to make the bundles where stronger for the times the head, who decide to fall. or i asked our chief political correspondent, nina hossa. what qualities, sir? but boris for stories are, brings to the jo, a buddhist. the stories has been a lower sac sinise interior minister for 10 years now that is one of germany, 16 states. so he has experience in what it means to run a big machine, a big ministry with a lot of bureaucracy in an important state. and that is vital because of course,

the pin is there, and the defense ministry. they're facing massive challenges. they're facing a pressing a to undergo massive reforms. and they do now need somebody at their helm who can push through unpopular decisions as well. and boris, his stories is known as somebody who doesn't shy away from conflict, so he brings definitely those leadership skills. he comes from all of shows his own party, the s p d. so there's social democrats. and he, in, within the sbc is considered to be one of the conservative ref representative. some people am have accused him of being a law and order person because he does take a tough stance sometimes when it comes to defending the rule of law. and then also, boris piss tories and perhaps most importantly served in the military when he was a young man. and that is not something that you can take for granted, especially not within the s p d. but also, it's not a prerequisites or here in this country to have served in the military to then become the defense minister. and that was definitely something that changed now

with russia's war on ukraine. now, one thing i do have to add about boris herb historian says, appointment is that some people are criticizing the fact that all of shows no longer has gender parity. in his cabinet, germany now has 9 male ministers and 7 female ministers rights. while they are in advance for most of that, his opponents conflict after him is doing well. i mean, how is his appointment being received? it did come as a surprise, i would say almost to everybody and not just to ask political pundits here because of course there had been rumors for weeks and months or christine alumni resignation didn't come as a surprise so. so people had been discussing names, forrest, their stories was not on that list. and that is the main point that the opposition are now criticizing. they're saying will have towards didn't really have anybody to go to. and he chose somebody's essentially from the 2nd a rank. but they also criticize him for not having an an international profile yet they say he will have to do a very quick and undergo

a very quick learning curve if he wants to tackle all those issues. and some people, as i say, criticized the fact that he's a man, not a woman. right? so trying to the top of germany, defense ministry, but no change in the countries policy on ukraine. while he will have to learn to swim instantly after his official appointment. this thursday, because the u. s. defense secretary will be here in berlin, and he'll want to talk how best to supply ukraine with weapons. how best the west concert, a support ukraine. militarily. there is a big, high level meeting of international defense ministers on friday at ramstein military base, or where we're hearing that there is a bit of movement. germany could agree to give its consent, potentially, so that other countries can deliver combat tanks to ukraine. now that is of course, something where germany has come under a lot of pressure in recent weeks and months. germany so far is not willing to

deliver those combat tanks itself, but might give its consent so that others can deliver those german made tanks. but whatever those decisions imply are all have sites. the chancellor has made it clear that they lie with him no matter who leads the defense ministry. thank you about nina. chief political correspondent, me, the harder or the president of the european commission has promised that support for ukraine will continue for as long as it's needed the rest of the world economic forum in this rest, out of diverse ursula on the line of praise. the use response to russian aggression in ukraine, and reminded her audience that europe had taken less than a year to free itself from what she called a dangerous addiction to russian energy or address or follow that of ukraine's 1st lady alaina's alaska basilica called on the international community to continue its support for ukraine. he has more from the commission president. there will be no impunity for these russian crimes.

and my friends, there will be no lead up in our steadfast support to ukraine. from helping to we store power heating and water to preparing for the long term effort of reconsider reconstruction. i just want to say my dearest alana, and i think i can speak on behalf of this call and this audience here. we are in it for as long as it takes and stand by our ukranian friends. more than a, from our chief international editor, richard walker. welcome richard. so ukraine, very much at the top of the agenda at a dof us on a focal point for ourself on the line. once again. yeah, absolutely. really, this just pervades so much at the moment as we just heard when talking about the, the next german defense minister, they're going to be really focused on this was the la funder line and making this

was opening address at, at diverse and getting across that message with ukraine's 1st lady in the audience, we just heard her addressing her directly. they're just saying, we are with you as long as it takes. but for the line also using this opportunity to try to put the case across, that europe is actually dealt very well in her take home a situation with her, the invasion in providing support to ukraine, both financial and military support. but also in this huge project of try to wean itself off. russian fossil fuels, which had become, you know, the major supplier of particularly natural gas to germany and other european countries. and sort of and developing away from this dependency which had it, which had existed over many years in record time. so is so trying to put across that in her rise from the european point of view, this effort to support you crane and learn the lessons of what's going on with this

invasion that europe is doing well on that front. and what else do that for you? well, i think it was interesting to see what she had to say about climate change, which she linked of course, to, to this transition away from, from fossil fuels. but, but the new economy that the world is entering into where clean energy play such a huge role. and this is not just an economic question, is also very political question. and the question that relates to trade policy. now background to this is the united states. last year, the bike and ministration put through legislation called the inflation reduction that which wasn't so much about inflation as about climate change. this was all about trying to encourage companies in the united states to get into clean energy to get into electric cars. that sort of thing. lot tax breaks that sort of subsidies and to, and incentives to companies to get into those businesses in the us. the europeans cried foul and said, well, this is anti competitive practice,

because this is how you know, our companies don't have so much access to this. now, she has announced essentially europe version of this called net 0 industry acts that european commission wants to get through. and said that the europeans are really trying to negotiate with the americans to, to try to change the american rules. but there's a risk here that you have the, you in the u. s. quite at cross purposes. and the huge projects are trying to turn the energy system, turn economy green with each side sort of supporting its own industries. and that could be a sort of a driver of this sort of era of globalization that some economists warning about that could potentially be a risk to economic growth in the years ahead. and we like to hear much about china this mission. yeah, well as a funder line, talks about china, it with a view to some of these issues. but we also heard from a leading member of the chinese government, michael, you her who is a vice premier. so she can ping a chinese president, didn't show up, but you her did come the 1st in person, a 10

d a dad was for years now off to japan, demik from china. and he was very much in sort of reassurance mode. there's of course, a lot of concern about the, the security tensions, the, some new cold war atmosphere between the u. s. and china at the moment. there's also concern about what's going on in china's economy that is very unstable exit from this 0 covey policy. there's been a north for sort of air of crisis around trying to huge real estate sector. chinese economy has not been growing very well. and it's been concerned that she's in pain, is trying to turn the economy into almost sort of marxist direction with great estate control on things. then in recent years, and he was coming out and saying essentially, don't worry, we're getting back on track back to growth. and we're going to keep our economy open, and that was a very important message that he wanted evidently to get to. the lead is a big business. who is basically the big audience that you have

a diverse of course, they will of laptop that message as a signal that the child is not retreating to some sort of, some sort of old school communist attitude towards the economy. thank you for that . actually for international edison, richard will thank you. crane read the death toll from a russian miss file strike on an apartment building and denise pro has risen to 44 after rescue workers pull the body of a child from the bubble. emergency services to working to find more than 2 dozen residents who are still missing. the bombing was one of russia's deadliest single strikes on civilians. your current president is calling for faster deliveries of western heavy weapons in the wake of the attack, which is described as a war, cry is look at some other ways russians, the invasion of ukraine is impacting the world. a former commander with russia paramilitary, wagner, greenacres, claimed asylum in norway after deserted and crossing the border. in this video

posted in december, he criticized the of the groups operations entered no way on friday and faces judges of entering the country illegally. russia has announced that it will make major changes to its armed forces over the next 4 years. as well as structural reform defense minister survey show you says that moscow will strengthen its naval aerospace and strategic missile capabilities. the news follow several serious setbacks during it's a year long. invasion versus addresses, repeated assaults on ukraine's energy. great in recent lancer, forced many cities to schedule power cuts to save energy in the capital key, which is still home to non 3000000 people. city authorities have restricted public lighting at night, leading to significant consequences for people on the streets. the w sonya found the car ventured out on a dark key if night and sent this report during the deed. 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 and had many crossings. traffic lights as well, the dark mix it down, right, risky for those on the streets. book done works for a full 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 dock of other brothers dollar washroom. hot work has become much tougher because of the lack of light isn't suitable. 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 that you have to be careful because they could be

people on the street from you. the kids are booking and there are potholes and open drains, which you could fall into their morning who did their motive with the yamazik, with her father's motor both within a month ago, booked on had an accident. when he 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. not the deputy head of gives traffic. police told me the par accidents, body pedestrians have 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 on attacks on ukraine's energy infrastructure. everyone here has a story about the dock holding their respiration. it's really dangerous. i'm wondering how i can cross the road to the other side. but shall i go further and look for proper crossing? or should i follow another person?

so we're in a group plan was about 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, little of them look at 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. what was the all about the la fontose liberally, but living in the city shrouded in darkness can also habits up sights mentioned. there's a bit of intrigue and mystery in the air, especially when it's close to the curfew and there's no one around with them. it's quite interesting to ride along dark, empty streets. liberalism and quite literally disappeared into the night is look at some more headlines from around the world. start in belarus where the trial of the exile, the opposition leader has begun in men's confess, lana had taken off sky was being tried in her absence, unused a speech to the world economic forum to denounce the court proceedings as

a pass. i should claim victory in the 2020 presidential election, but he's now facing a range of charges including high treason and usually heavy rain in the us state of california is continuing to cause mudslides and flood cities from san francisco to san diego. on monday affairs of storms that killed at least 19 people in the san diego area and swept away scores of homes. thousands of people were ordered to leave home clams. activist gothenburg has joined demonstrators in western germany, renewed protests against expansion of an open cast. coal mine in the area rally took place in the village of kay and back not far from the flashpoint village of looks up north running west bay. it comes just a day after all authorities, a clear climate protest out of south itself. china has announced its 1st the declining population for the 1st time around 60 years,

world's most populous country, accounted 850000 your people at the end of 2022 than in the previous year. due to an aging population coupled with a low growth rate, we annual mass migration for china's lunar new year holiday has begun with millions of people returning to their home towns and villages to celebrate with their families. but health experts, a warning about the holidays potential effect on china's coven 19 outbreak. leaning you? yeah, means being on the move. travel hops across the country are packed with people, having home to celebrate the holidays with their families. memories of lock downs and travel restrictions are slowly fading from china's collective conscience. i off. i haven't been home for about 2 years ago. he. i'm so excited right now. so happy young emmy. oh, to no arms to my parents in 2 years. if it went to

the pre holiday, but that's gripping, the country stands in contrast to the atmosphere in the cove. it 19 boards of chinese hospitals are a doctorate. this hospital and in ye city towns, the chinese broadcast has cctv that he seeing an upset and critical k that 19 cases mostly affecting the elderly. yoko ha ha ha ha. been in the member of severe cases is climbing. dodger was patient in rural areas. i pay less attention to the mild symptoms at the early stage of infection and failed to receive time treatment. speaker connelly auto predominated us, which it since paging abandoned its 0 cove, it approach hospitals have provided clues that the corona virus is wreaking havoc and china right now. especially those hospitals found by foreign camera crews and mobile thing uses last saturday,

the chinese government announced that nearly 60000 people with coded 19 had died in hospitals since last month's policy change. and that's a big jump from earlier official figures. you should i that statement fall at an accusation by the world health organization that beijing as heavily under reporting deaths from the virus aria sharia. but the total number of deaths, including those outside of hospital, is likely to be much higher than 3 years into the pandemic. health experts fear that this lunar new year travel season will intensify the current outbreak. but like citizens and other countries, china is learning to find a balance between caution and the desire to live a normal life again. eric fagel dang is a washington based epidemiologist. 3 years ago he was one of the 1st to alert the public about the pandemic risk of covered 90. i welcome back to d. w. and what do you think?

did you think this luna new year holiday is likely to become a massive coverage, super spread or event effects around me? the luna year holiday in china is bigger than christmas. thanksgiving and most major holidays in the west combined. it's one of the greatest migrations in chinese society and, and as you heard, you know, some people have not returned home and over 2 years. obviously this is, you know, welcome for a lot of people, but epidemiologically, this is going to be super spread. i hate to say there is no way to not put it in a pretty start term. so basically rule china has even less doctors, nurses, hospital gets her power per capita in less taxes to health care services. and it's going to hit the rural areas really hard to china's cheap epidemiologist already said that the next big way will be after the lunar new year and it's going

to hit rural china really, really hard. and so the given that i think there's quite a high level of vaccination in china amongst most people but, but it's lower amongst the the old. so just extrapolate for us. lots of people gather for luna. new year you have a surge and infections. the authorities presumably are cognizance of this and ready for it. so how do you see it unfolding? well, unfortunately, like you can't ready for a search of this thought. 5, especially since vaccinations are very low in the elderly. you know, the over a 130000000 elderly chinese over the 60 are under vaccinated and the ones that are back to the back to the old vaccine. not the newer on the contract scenes. and so it's, and the roof trying to especially heavy in a lot more elderly and retirees. so there is no in terms of the actual number of

people get infected. many cities are reporting 607080 percent of population get infected and rural china is not, you know, small population, the bulk of china population isn't rural and medium sized cities. so i think this is the next stage of the, you know, let it rip and debilitating, huge numbers of people. and i think that's going to have domino effects into trying to decide if a lot of children actually are raised by grandparents in the rural areas. while their mothers and parents, fathers go work in the city. so the domino effect on chinese economy was going to be much larger people think about. and what this pandemic has taught us is that one countries and problem is not necessarily just the problem. we all. busy need to, to pay attention so should be paying, paying attention outside of china and what's going on there. yeah,

absolutely. because what happens in china doesn't stay in china in terms of economic fall out. now the variance in china, not any worse than what we've already seen outside china is still very vulnerable, almost any variance, in fact, chinese population because they're so probable. but, you know, in terms of medicine shortages, you know, children, pain, medication fever medication that there's a worldwide shortage of many other cancer medicaid in china. we're going to be disrupted if the economy is dropped it. so i think we already see the work forces in europe, us being disrupted by a coven along cobra. and this is still has not fully hit china yet. ok, once it does, i think i know supply chain issues. they all have robotics that's an apocalyptic vision. we thank you for it. epidemiologist, erica, i good thing. this is the climate change has brought extreme weather patterns to much of africa in the continents north east. the horn of africa facing

a 5th consecutive year of drought, a short reversing global climate pattern. scientists were at a loss for how to bring water to the region to save it. until now, a new study shows the solution might be hiding underground. but it's the worst drought in 40 years here in somalia. makeshift camps like this, when near the town of by dora, has sprung up on mass as hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee bone dry conditions. many a herders whose lifeline is their animals. they totally depend on regular rainfalls . really that we will come here above the list. i think it is becoming very difficult for liberal to sustain the lives them having the room turned droughts in the horn of africa are becoming more frequent and more devastating with time. people in this already water, scarce region,

can no longer rely on the long range between march and may and the short rains between october and december. whilst livestock said come, and more than 37000000 people in the horn of africa are facing acute hunger. people might be sitting on top of their lifesaver, huge amounts of groundwater. scientists found that most countries in africa would actually have enough underground water supply for more than 50 years. plus, the study shows this water storage is even increasing despite the poor rainy seasons. this is because of the now more common heavy rain showers. they can most effectively refill the water stored in the ground to become ground. water. rainfall needs to be intense enough for the water to quickly infiltrate the soil. these short but heavy downpours fill up dry riverbeds. the water then seeps into

underground deposits. these findings are extremely exciting, says the agra economist, alaric sandra, who has had years of experience working in africa, come up there is a great opportunity and a huge untapped potential. if you can access that, you can increase yields in a fairly short time by $100.00 to maybe even 400 per cent. so there's a very big potential to increase production in africa. i said, show up tonight, small world news at the top off the i kick off. it's next to the look at some of the most impressive one. does luca teams of 2022, with a, with

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