experience outstanding shopping and dining offers, enjoying our services all be our guest at frankfurt airport city. managed by frappe waterloo, with the w news line from berlin. a big 1st day for germany's new defense minister. i was after being sworn in bonus pissed order, so meets review effects. secretary don't often offering the agenda you have in the battle times when you christ holds on the program. actor alex volpe,

where the spacing charges of involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting crew member. on a film set, he could face jail time. many of the french workers strike against president macros promised to raise the retirement age. and i'm leaving because with such a privilege, ro come to responsibility the responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead in all started when you are not using the prime minister, just saying the odd shocks the country by quitting nearly a year before i took you to act. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. germany's new defense minister boris historian has hosted his u. s. counterpart. lloyd austin here in berlin for talks on you christ. that

meeting comes, i had of nato consultations on friday at which countries are expected to make critical decisions about further military aid to keith. germany is facing mounting pressure to allow allies to send german made tanks to ukraine a busy 1st day in office. shortly after getting his certificate of appointment, forest historian met his yes counterpart, lloyd austin. both of them signalled their unified stance. i'd like to thank the german government for all that it is going to strengthen ukraine, softer french, and your contributions of security of systems from training for new crimes to friend bruce herbert and valuable these off to negotiate. so often in history, fight the federal republic of germany and the united states of america in augusta and side by side in their protocol. but also on the concrete issues i walk in to be at the infantry fighting vehicle. it's about the patriot air defense system. here or the multiple rocket launchers but for many in germany and further afield,

one thing is missing battle tanks for ukraine. something that beneath the show of unity is turning into a growing dilemma for both countries. according to media reports, germany would allow german made leopard tanks to be sent to ukraine. if the u. s. agrees to send its own. while there is still the vision within the german government on that matter, yes, officials have insisted that washington has no plans to send us may tanks to ukraine for now. expectations are growing ahead of friday's meeting of the ukraine defense contra group session had ramped then abbeys, and seldom germany. a meeting where the 2 countries might be able to settle the tank debate at least for now. our political correspondent, benjamin alvaros gruber file that report and i asked him how ready the new defense minister is, was a for this meeting with his u. s. counterpart. so was definitely pretty quick. he met the german president who

also told him, you need to get started right away. then he had a phone call with his french counterpart and then the meeting that we just saw in the report there with air the u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin. but that's something that the german chancellor also stressed when he announced who would be his new cabinet members saying that his interior minister of lower saxon, he also dealt for many years with it, topics of security. and this is way, way also appointed him a, to this critical, critical position in times of war. okay, so germany taking a lot of heat from its allies of the moment for blocking the supply of these german made a leopard tanks to ukraine. what we're hearing is germany will drop its objections only if the u. s. sends those tanks in 1st, a sense it's tanks in 1st to we presume that this was on the table to day. we presume that it was on the table to day and that it also will be on the table to morrow on friday with this important meeting of option aveson silva and germany.

and that's something that was already mentioned in a press release by the u. s. department of defense saying 10 countries in counting, we'll have a meeting on the side line of the contact group meeting focus, particularly on the issue of getting lepper tongues to a ukraine. that's always a difficult topic for the german chancellor. he was pressed specifically on this air tanks also a few days ago, the world economic forum in divorce, where he said, that's important. there germany has sent several heavy weapons already mentioned as several of them, but he has not answered yet. if germany also wants to send a these tanks, we have this media reports. there were also mentioned in the piece of germany would wait for the u. s. to sent the ap ramps taught air tanks, and then germany would continue to center this leper talks to ukraine. so there will definitely be it takes center stage at this meeting of the ukraine air defense group in the amsterdam where they will talk about further arms deliveries and very

important. and what a ukraine, pres, ukrainian president, followed him as lens he has been asking for repeatedly to sent at main battle tank to santa battle tanks, to ukraine as quickly as possible. i who that her band, benjamin, the, alvaro said gruber, political correspondent. okay. it says it needs some modern equipment like the left or 2 in order to break through russian front lines and ukrainian tank units. say they'll be able to quickly integrate the new technology on the battlefield. a ukrainian base in the hockey region. the area has been under russian fire again since the weekend of tatiana high to moscow and her medical team are looking after this tank brigade. the men have been stationed here for weeks or more was person chemical. so i was good, isn't that these are russian project childs nearly every day and night. they fire at my colleagues and our ambulances at the moment,

we only have 2 of these vehicles at least, this one survive. the shana hi to moscow inspects the vehicle. they use as an ambulance, that has to hold out a while longer. there's no money to replace it. that worries her, they're more and more bullet holes. mission a professional necessary to much. these are all old cars that volunteers donated to us citizen official and that if they buy up cheap old cars, then they bring them here and give them to us fidel osha thumbs. well, yeah, we then were pad them all the time at a month to month or so because they keep breaking down. no, my 1st question. it's not just the makeshift ambulances, a tank officer, michael, a tempo is worried about the condition of his own vehicles. used to live, this was the more no, we're fighting here with old tanks from the soviet union. listen, i'm spot with the same tanks. the russians have often,

with the quote have an advantage to break through the russian front lines. or we need more modern main battle tanks like the leopard to technician of the china. you sleep. so far, his unit has been using old soviet t 72 battle tanks from the early 19 seventies. the tanks have seen a lot of use and some of them are badly damaged. hence the push to get leopard twos as soon as possible and so i them to go. it was lou there. i'm sure our soldiers will master the modern technology. what is with the soldiers, who have combat experience with the t 72, you will learn to master the leopard. very quickly. withdraw told to do much ripka enough to see what the in the little part the soldiers here are waiting for russia to mount. another major offensive doctor high to moscow is going to stay here, though she could earn much more money. and keith dominy situ. i'm exhausted tired all the time. i'd like to go to my little daughter who's waiting for me at home.

but i know that the soldiers here need me more, even when i'm gone for a short time, i worry about how the men are doing denisha. then on at this phase hopes that the new modern tanks will arrive soon. i'm in and my mom is a defend soundless with the war studies department of kings college london west or why you crime you so desperate for these tanks while ukraine hasn't got any tanks or many hanks laughed and whatever it was using those were old soviet hangs and obviously to gain a competitive edge, especially in light of the fact that the russians have billed actual on the hands along the front line. ukraine is in desperate need for tanks. and as a matter of fact, they are asking for some 2 to 300 tanks, which is a significant number. but this number indeed, makes sense because sake would be integrated to conduct defensive as well as

offensive combined arms operations as defense and lester marina myron. now regardless of that to you as germany and pass over heavy tanks, 11 european nato members have announced the new package of military support for you crate. a meeting of defense ministers in estonia, including a britain pole in the netherlands, and the baltic states agreed that they would send that heavy artillery air defense, ammunition and infantry fighting vehicles. poland says it is prepared to send a squatter of its own. the german made leopard to tanks, even though burn has not given it to prove that there is a look at some or stores making headlines around the world. german, the parliament has recognized the massacre of ethnic e z d in iraq as genocide. the move was held by you see, you see the community representatives who attended the session in parliament, a fighters from the so called islamic state killed more than

a 1000. you see the northwest in iraq, in 2014 raw has been hit by heavy rainfall and surprises. no we conditions are bought by strong winds. although the snow led to travel disruption in central regions. the rain has been welcomed by farmers and agricultural experts in the country. last year, morocco experience one of its most severe drought for 30 years. rescuers of struggling to get to fix the people chopped under a collapsed building with the american republic. cameras have been waged into the rubble and fire fighters are in contact with people waiting to be rescued. several inhabitants were injured when the 4 story structure collapsed. no death have been reported. sweeney climate activist gretta turnbull because accused of global fossil energy for a fueling. the destruction of the planet. she was speaking at the world economic forum in davis. she presented a letter that she and the other activists had written to energy companies demanding

that they stopped exportation to a fossil fuel reserves. what it is that the united it's where a prosecutor and the city of santa fe has announced the actor alec baldwin, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter overshooting on a film. the incident happened in october 2021. a cinematographer was killed when a revolver. mr. bolton was rehearsing with during the filming a fire to live round, and he denied responsibility for the death at the time. so he was told that gun was cold and industry turn many. it was safe to use and same agenda psychiatry matthews is following the story from los angeles. welcome k j ali bolden society and he's always denied responsibility for, for this death. how's he reacted to the news that he will now be charged? well, you know, he has not responded specifically. usually it's very both on social media, whether it is twitter account or is instagram account. but this time we do have

a statement from his attorney, basically saying his decision distorts. elena hutchinson's tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage. of justice, mister baldwin had no reason to believe that there was a lie bullet in the gun or anywhere on the movies that as part of what he says. it also had a statement from hannah, who cares? remember, he is the armor, her job, on the se, would have been to make sure that the, like gun had only done the bullets in it, and they're saying he failed to do that. so he's also charged. her lawyer has released a statement saying hannah is and always has been very emotional and sad about his tragic accident. but he did not commit involuntary manslaughter. so that's what they're saying to their representatives. and it'll be interesting to see if either of them take the social media or to put it in their own words, how they feel about bill of being charged with involuntary manslaughter. and do the

source of charges bring jail time. yeah, what they're saying, basically, is it because it's involuntary, it can be up to 18 months and neither of them have shown signs of pleading any type of guilt at all. i remember there was another person that was also, i believe, charge the 1st assistant director, david hall. he's already agreed lead no contest for the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon. i think the key thing here is, if you've heard from the district attorney earlier today saying they had no way believe this was done on purpose. they recognized that no one meant to shoot, obviously kill alina hutchins, and that it was an accident. but after their investigation, they found that there were a lot of protocols on this set with regard to safety. that was not followed. and alec baldwin, although he was the actor, he was also the executive producer. and we'll keep what's key about this. it was not his job as an actor, to make sure that the bullets were not real in the gun,

that was the job of the armor and the assistant ag. however, when you take the job of the executive producer of the entire film, that is one of your duties now to make sure that the overall said is safe in all times. and what they're saying is you'd be able to do that k j, and i'm a journalist, a country matthews, and los angeles. and now to peru, a capital lame as pricing for a more mass protest in support of ousted to present petro castillo. more than $10000.00 to police officers have been deployed to have a variety of demonstrations across the country of poured into the city, protest forgotten last month after president castillo was impeached. following a failed attempt to self congress over 50 people have been killed in clashes with police in the southern and these regions since then. law correspondent nicole reese is in lima and i asked her for the latest from the protest.

what thousands of people have been arriving here during the last few days. they are coming in buses or their own transport from the southern regions where we have the main protests and the escalations. and many of them now are getting on the way to the protest here. and lima, and it's the quite 10 situation that is police everywhere on the streets. you just mentioned that it's over 10000 police officers. they right here in the capital to make sure that the protests are safe and secure. and there's also lots of, lots of people were very motivated to raise their voice to ask for the resignation of the novel, out of their current president, and to also condemn or the violence that has happened over the past few years past for you a few weeks they have been at the moment more than 50 are people who have been killed in connection to these protests and many here are condemning this and it makes them even more worried and angry as well. and talk us through what these

protesters won't because i'm standing here at a campsite and there, there have been roughly 1000 protesters coming here. it's a university site just right behind me at the entrance. and there's a lot of posters are saying that the knob will outline and the conquest to be restructured. and that i turned in and we want a new constitution so that the country can find its way back to p ice. it was easy . i it must. well, there is not poverty, i'm was me feel more abandoned. not that there is nothing feed, you know, history is waiting for us. my mom, that's why we came here today to fight her hello charlie, or north form of where no tower is for longer away waco. now they say we are terrorist, but that's not the truth. that's not how it should be. when no asking dean, it will go out to, to step down the coal or torches, i must be quite concerned about the potential for violence. the

potential of islands is given up, but from both sides i would say just yesterday and also today um it was confirmed as there's 2 more a death in connection with the protests. one person was a shot in the head, the other one in the rest and they died. and that's why the tensions here are also very felt and there is a lot of police. but on one side the violence also can come from the police. there's also on the other side of, on some, some protesters who are more prone to be more violent during these protests and where things could get tense. so this is a long time going already for a few weeks, but this is not over now. this protest is gonna start in a few hours and then we will see the, the scale of it really also the scale of the violence to day. thank you for that. so nicole reese in lima out of france, where more than a 1000000 workers have joined strikes and protest over president macros proposed to pension reforms. and most public transport isn't running at many schools are closed

in a rush of unity or friendship. trade unions have joined the action. the president wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. a see as people with a clear message for president mackerel, hands off our pensions. the huge crowds here in paris and across france, a reflection of the deep unpopularity of the proposed reforms. according to a poll this week, 68 percent of the public are opposed. every french trade union has come out united against them. many critics say hiking the retirement age would hit manual workers, hardest enjoying cut it all by the people who work 2 more years because most of them, especially those with strenuous jobs, shift workers, night shift jobs, jobs in the production sector, cleaners, noise runaway workers conduit to more years or if they do,

they'll retire broken of us is that that's what's at stake. no, she said, it's a social issue. do you want to retire sick or even die before you get there? or do you want to enjoy life deadly. but mich crawl, insist the reforms are essential if we want to be fair between the generations and save our pay as you go system, we must do this in countries that are living longer and longer, where we have created strong and fair system. so based on the quality at a time when you have fewer and fewer working people, and more and more pensioners so that if you want the packet between the generations to be fair, you have to carry out this reform before plus a death at little. but with french companies posting, record profits, processes say there are other ways the pension system could be funded. the government hasn't yet introduced the reforms in parliament. but trade unions warned that if it doesn't abandon them,

this wave of opposition will be just the beginning. journalist john lawrence, and 8th in paris, he talk me through today's action. it's been a big day for strikes and demonstrations in france today. i'm now most of the demonstrators have gone home, leading a few members of what they call the black blocks the far left and kissed militants as they called to throw stones at the police for about 20 rests in paris and more around the country. the c g t union, one of the biggest unions involved today says 2000000 people were out there demonstrating today, 400000 of them in parents. the actual figure is probably rather lower than that. but even the employment minister has conceded that the mobilization today has been very big on the strike from the education minister says them 42 percent of school teachers didn't turn up to work today. it was the same for just under half of the

work is in the state electricity company and around a 3rd of the public sector workers over over on strike. so we have a several dozen schools which i didn't open it, 'til and a lot of trans cancelled. now this isn't the 1st or wiper for public sector strikes the head, france in the last few years. how significant to the latest well, i would say this is probably the biggest tested the strength so far for an annual maximum of the trade unions are. i'm particularly an unusually united against this pension reform. in the past, the pensions issue has been one that is brought down. governments know to be the government object. she writes problems as you pay, which fell off, strikes, paranoid, the country to the 3 weeks, and that's a pension for my food or thrown in the bell in parliament.

although mac from my friends party has a supposed to be conservative. the socialists and, but also the extreme left very strong on these 3 right. also quite strong part of it now or against this. even if you can get his bill through parliament. how things are really decided on this issue in france. it's about how hard the strike spite. can the unions bring the economy to a whole to the way that they did in 1995. and what will public opinion do we heard in your piece? just now? 68 percent of the public at the moment, against the reform for a high number isn't it? and so that doesn't look so good for macro, but perhaps as strike goes on, maybe people get fed up with a disruption and rally to that's what maximum spanking one of the case was your mr . john laura's and i speaking to me earlier from paris, now a new zealand,

a prime minister, just in his shock to the country by announcing an early resignation. she let a labor party to a landslide re election victory 2 years ago, but now says february, the 7th will be her last day on the job. 8 months before the next election. just in the arden led newsline through the pandemic. a terrorist attack and natural disasters. she now says she is ready to pass on the baton and so to day i'm announcing that i will not be seeking re election and then my tim as prime minister or conclude no later than the 7th of february. i know what this job takes and i know that i no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. it's that simple father and became the world's youngest female head of

government. when she was elected in 2017. at the age of 27, she quickly gained global recognition for her brand of liberal and inclusive politics. the following year she had a baby becoming the 2nd elected leader in history to give birth while in office. how compassionate response to the ma shooting at a christ church mosque in 20191 her widespread praise. we a nuisance parliament voted to change the nation's gun laws less than a month later. voice wisely for $46.00 for level 2 and a government's go hard. go. early approach should the pandemic is partly what got her. a 2nd dome in 2020 newsline quickly shot bordeaux's and imposed a prolong lockdown to stop the spread of the virus. but bold suggest

a popularity has waned in reason. once a plan departure has come as a surprise not only to those who support her, but also those who don't i think she was an excellent leader, and i'm devastated that she's staying, she's resigning. now. it was time for her to go in and no one in the right. mine would have been by that for sure. like i was never surprised. i actually i was a bit shock. chose shop, but she for them to tell a little, you know, i kind of thought that she was gonna be in it for the long haul. it was, it was a shock. it is a shame to see an effectively the like that go. but i guess nobody's a replaceable pardon, says she has no plans yet for the future. other than spending more time with her family. just don't remind her of our top story. germany's new defense minister

potter's restorative health talks with this u. s. counterpart and void often in berlin. this comes ahead of a wide and meeting of european defense ministers on friday. the u. s. are based in ramstein in southwest germany, wellings under pressure to allow the delivery of leverage to battle tanks to ukraine. i will look at that issue and we'll look to what the republican control of the house of representatives in the u. s. has will, might mean for americans involvement in ukraine asset in a moment with me in the day otherwise have a good day and i'll see you next time with with,

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and governments that go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work, how they can send for, and that's how they can also terribly watch it. new to japanese, new defense minister has had an eventful 1st day. i was after being sworn in bodies . pistole was in a face to face meeting with his u. s. counterpart lloyd austin at both pledge, continuing support for ukraine, but neither commented on the issue. the key of most wants to hear about when either countries supply you cry with heavy battle tags, or in germany's case just get out of the way of those countries who want to. i'm so gale in berlin and this is the day oh.