ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. germany name's a new defense minister. bodies restoring us will succeed. christina lambert, who resigned yesterday, he takes over at a critical time with berlin, under pressure to boost military support. the ukraine also on the program. european commission, president ursula on the line addresses world leaders on the opening day of the

world economic forum. promising the use continuing and steadfast support for you create the untapped water supplies that could help with draft stricken communities in the horn of africa. scientists, pine met at ground water reserves are increasing despite long periods without rain that have become more common. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. germany has a new defense minister, forrest pissed taurus will replace. christina lambert act was lambert resigned yesterday following a series of control passes. i for the last decade, mr. pastorius has been interior minister of the german state of lower saxony in our faces, the formidable task of overhauling germany's armed forces. after years of neglect,

you'll also have to oversee key decisions on military support to ukraine. boris piss story, this is an old hand with a new job. taking the reins of germany's military during times of war and europe. he told reporters he was ready for the test on ya. d modal disability and respectfully enormous task before me finished the ministry of defense. it is already a great challenge in peacetime and even more in times when germany is involved in a war indirectly. but i am, i am aware of the responsibility and the great significance and em all the more grateful that i have been entrusted with it. at harvard on that i will throw myself into this challenge with 150 percent from day one. along for the last 10 years, pastorius herself does interior minister in the state of law saxony furnishing a reputation as reliable and unafraid to speak his mind. chancellor,

allah sholtes hopes those qualities will help steer the armed forces through considerable change. s. mitchell, i'm fine, don't. he is not only a friends and good politician, her position, but also some one who has a lot of experience and security policy fruit there. the who has worked very openly and closely in his previous function with the bonus via on to and to also possess as the strength and calmness needed for such a big task as the face of the current changes. pastorius will have plenty to do at a ministry known as a career killer. modernizing the military, strengthening, fighting forces and handling weapons supplies to ukraine. opposition figures have called on him to turn germany's site vendor or turning point into a reality. so he needs a steep learning curve and he has to start quite soon because the expectations on,

on germany, arnold lowering the r a will increase in the next months. therefore, he has to show leadership and to bring the site and when the into practical terms and practical experience for the others. the story is will have no time to settle in his 1st big appointment, a meeting with his u. s. counterpart in berlin. later this week, when i asked actually political correspondent, nina hoss, i want boris per se doris's appointment will made for germany's policy on ukraine. well, he will have sir lances swimming instantly after his official appointment this thursday, because the u. s. defense secretary will be here in berlin, and you'll want to talk how best to supply ukraine with weapons, how best the west considered as 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. gemini 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 at 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 to ukraine, while the death toll from russian. the military strike missile strike on an apartment building in dundee, pro has written to 44 after rescue workers pull the child's body from the rubble. emergency services are still searching for the more than 2 dozen other missing residents. the bombing was one of russia's deadliest single strikes against civilians. ukraine's president is calling for faster deliveries of western heavy

weapons in the wake of the attack, which is described as a war cry. and he's a look at some more ways that russia's invasion is impacting the world. a former commander with the russian part of military a wagner group has claimed asylum in norway after dessert. crossing the border and medford f posted this video in december, criticizing the groups operations. they entered no way on friday and faces charges of entered in the country illegally. russia as it will make major changes to its armed forces over the next 4 years. defense ministers, i show you said that as well as structural reform. moscow would strengthen its naval aerospace and strategic missile capabilities. the news followed several serious setbacks during it's year long invasion of ukraine. russia's repeated assaults on ukraine's energy grant in recent months of force, many cities to schedule power cuts to save energy and the capital case,

which is still home to where 3000000 people sit. you authorities are restricted to public lighting at night, leading to significant consequences for people on the streets t w's. sonya found the car ventured out on a dark key of 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 of slips into almost darkness. streetlights are off and at many crossings, traffic lights as well. the dark mix, a downright whiskey, the doors on the streets bogged on wilkes foot, a foot delivery service, mt, taking orders to customers around the city. go few isn't until 11 pm. so much of

his work is in the inky dock over there. broadest dollar washroom, hot work has become much tougher because of the lack of light, with weakness, with low. 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. when you have to be careful because they could be people on the street to send me the kids and put them in there. a pot holes and opened drains, which he could fall into them or did they motiv with a yamazik, with their for their shorter both within a month ago, walked on, had an accident. when he hit a cub 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 keeps traffic. police told me the car accidents, embodied destiny 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. ireland don't attack on ukraine's energy infrastructure. everyone here 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'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 live with it. it was dark at the crossing a movie for people approach me and punch me in the nose and snatch my phones from my pocket. what does the wall and what telephone of the brolly? but living in the city shrouded in darkness can also have its upside vision through there's a bit of intrigue and mystery in the area, especially when it's close to the curfew and there's no one around them. it's quite interesting to ride along dark, empty streets, liberalism and quite literally disappeared into the night.

and the president of the european commission has promised that support for ukraine will continue for as long as it's needed. addressing the world economic forum in the swiss town of diverse social lafond, the line praised the eas response to russian aggression in ukraine. and reminded her audience that europe are taken less than a year to free itself for what you called a dangerous addiction to russian energy. our address followed that of ukraine's 1st lady alina zalinski, is the landscape called on the international community to continue its support for you. credit is more from the commission president. there will be no impunity for these russian crimes. and my friends there will be no let 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 whole and this audience here. we are in it for as long as it takes and stand by our ukranian friends. well the w editor in chief, manuela caspar claridge, is it divorced. she asked us to the founder line, what she meant when she said the e, you would support you cried for as long as it takes. yes, it is very important. fast to support the brave ukrainian, the courageous people in many different fields. her 1st task for europe is to support financially. we have accepted a, a package of 18000000000 euros for the year 2023. and the 1st tranche has been approved yesterday of 3000000000. it's crucial to keep the state of ukraine up and running, paying salaries, for example,

hospitals running schools going on. then of course, military equipment is of utmost importance. here it's a task of the member states, but i think personally ukraine needs the military equipment that it can handle and that it is asking for like what, for example, well, as it is not the european union who is a owning any kind of a military equipment it's the member states who have to decide on, but am always positive on advanced material advanced equipment. because if they can handle it, they and they need it, they should get it. then of course, we care for the round about 4000000 ukrainian refugees. and we work hard with ukraine on any topic that is helping their economy. we have for example, there security lanes. 60 percent of the grain of ukraine has been exported via these routes by a land or through the european union. are all, for example,

we have synchronized our, an energy grit, electricity grit with the ukrainians. so we're doing everything to keep the economy up and running, to support financially to support militarily and of course morale. so all had lunch from around the world. now. no trial of belarus is exiled, opposition leader has begun. immense atlanta to can of sky is being tried in her absence and used a speed to the world economic forum to denounce the court proceedings as a fast. i mister carrasco claimed victory in the 2020 presidential elections in bedrooms, but it'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 killed at least 19 people in san diego area . and so that way, scores of houses, thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes. climate activist gretta

thornburg has joined demonstrators in western germany for the new protest against the expansion of an open cast. coal mine in the air rally took place in the village of kay, and bear not far from the flashpoint village of a lot to wrath in north rhyme. westphalia came that it comes just a day after authorities that cleared climate protesters out of itself to peru, where thousands of people have been traveling by road to the capital lima to protest against the countries new president at dina bol, what a she took off in december after the former leader pedro castillo was ousted, following his attempt to dissolve congress. the rule has been gripped by civil unrest for several weeks with cause for bogart to install a constitutional assembly and to hold fresh of actions. they live far from the center of power. but thousands of peruvians,

i re tempting to reach the capital to call for the resignation of president deena bal, wattsey they accused the former vice president of being a political you, sir. per 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. no, lemme that i know they are clear on our way. but nevertheless, we found that they're trying to stop us. if he did not him, of the police are surely under the command of his 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, then let him out. 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 only after trying to take power in what the constitutional called, called and attempted coup 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 bal wattsey faces of monumental battle to regain control of the civil unrest and the support of a divided country. a china is the most populous country in the world, but perhaps not so much longer. officials say the population has declined for the

law for the 1st time, and more than 60 years shrinking by around 850000. in the last year, an aging population coupled with a low birthright means 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, blaine, china's decades long punitive one child policy that was only abandoned in 2016 hello. beijing is now trying to encourage families to have more children. but 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 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 and 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 as well as 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 at the 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. i, melissa john will take a closer look at china's demographic, a decline in d. w. news, asia, that's in about 10 minutes. i climate change has brought extreme weather patterns to much of africa in the continent northeast the horn of africa, facing a 5th consecutive year of drought. short of reversing global climate patterns.

scientists were at a loss or for how to bring water to the region to save it from devastation. until now, a new study shows the solution might just be hiding underground. 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 are herders, whose lifeline is their animals. they totally depend on regular rainfalls, slow of the we will come here above the list. i think it's become very difficult for liberal to sustain the lives them in 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 refilled 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's a great opportunity in 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 hooked up with all the off. the world bank has allocated money to explore this and the private sector is already drilling in some places if tapped into on a large scale ground water could be a game changer for the continents most vulnerable regions. so how easy would it be to access those water reserves? i asked michael singer who is one of the studies authors and professor of physical geography at cardiff university. well, it's going to require a significant investment. has to be coordinated across the region at national and

sub national and you can rural levels. so the, the money needs to be there, the technical know how and then some knowledge about where water might be more accessible than others. right. and is that likely to happen? do you think? well, we're making recommendations suggesting that there is a water storage underground that should be looked at and investigated by the, the correct authority is water resource authorities, et cetera. and also international funding bodies that might end up investing in this sort of project. but we, i don't really get involved in the sort of details of implementation. so, has this water always been that you think, or is it a product based changed weather patterns? well we know that this region has always had ripped very intense rainfall when the rain does occur and that in some seasons, that extreme rainfall seems to be increasing, which could be

a symptom of climate change. but associated with that, we also see declining total amounts of rain that are being delivered to the region . so the 2 were kind of in opposite directions of one another. the droughts create challenges as your previous story mentioned. people scrambling for water resources for pasture land for their animal livestock death, but also very poor crop yields. whereas the deeper storage of intense rainfall under ground could actually support a long term water resource that could be leveraged for a whole range of different activities. if used wisely and do it, and if this across the whole of the continent, is it just restricted to certain areas? explain to us the extent of your, your survey. so our study really focused on the horn of africa, dry land. so can, yes,

somalia in ethiopia which are the area experiencing these extreme drought conditions where we've had 5 successive seasons of failed rain and the 6th one that's projected for the march april may rainy season. so it's a really dire situation where we see wildlife life. dr. and people were moving into great food insecurity. so does this mean that scientists now know what to look for? so that so that more of these discoveries can be made in other water stopped at regions on the continent? i think so, i think we pointed out a way of, of analyzing the historical record to try to understand how water storage underground is changing and what that might do to support future populations become more resilient to the effects of climate change and briefly then, so are we talking about this water being used for drinking and washing or we

talking about being used for farming. and i would say in the 1st instance, shallow wells can support drinking water supplies for rural communities, maybe each well supporting $2.00 to $5000.00 people. but over the long term, there could be white scale investment in, in pumping force, supportive agriculture, right? although, you know, there are potential problems associated with that, that can lead to over pumping, as we've seen in other parts of the world. good talking to you. thank you so much for joining us, professor michael singer from college university. and you know, in sports, russian and bella ruffian flags have been banned from the australian open tennis tournament. following a complaint from the ukrainian ambassador fossil mirrors new chain co saw that russian flags have been brought into the stands during a match between the ukrainian kathrina binder and russian camila iraq. him over. a

later rush study on bedford f was asked to sign his country's flag after a 1st round win. flags are normally allowed at melbourne park, but organize as if the 1st policy for the 2 countries involved in the invasion of ukraine. and 5 time australian open runner up, andy murray has won a grueling 1st round match of the number. 13 seed in melbourne. murray was to set up early in the match against italy's mateo. but a teeny is by the 35 year olds, a bloody ne and metal hip, but better to be fought back to even the match after around 4 hours, mary held off a match point to the deciding set than one. the 5th set tiebreaker. after nearly 5 hours in the women, zach game, i number 2 said onstar bow off to nicea a suit. the 2nd round it took her 3 sets to defeated tomatoes, it on shack, off slovenia. cuba is vying to become the 1st arab woman. and 1st from an african

country to win a grand slam tournament is remind of our top story this, our german chancellor has appointed forrest restored his as his defense minister is to pursue this will succeed christina lumber, who resigned on monday, on multiple contrivances. he served for the last decade as interior minister, the northern state of lois, actually the w, use asia 8th. next week melissa chant, taking a closer look at china's populations declined. i'll be back at the top of the good thing with

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