77 percent, and d w ah, there's a d w news line from a big 1st day for germany's new defense minister hours after being sworn in chorus historian that meets with you as defense. secretary lloyd austin, top in the agenda. german battle tanks. when you craig, also on the program i'm leaving because with such a privilege, ro come to responsibility their responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead. and also, when you are not using the prime minister just in the order and shocks,

the country by quitting nearly a year before term is due to alec baldwin is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting of a crew member on a films that he could face jail time. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. germany's new defense minister boris piss. doris has hosted his u. s counterpart, lloyd austin here in berlin for talks on ukraine. their meeting comes ahead of nato consultations on friday at which countries are expected to make critical decisions about further military aid for keith. germany is facing mounting pressure to allow allies to set german tanks to the front lines that a busy 1st day in office. shortly after getting his certificate of appointment,

forest historian met his us counterpart, lloyd austin, both of them signals the unified stuns. i'd like to thank the german government for all that it has done to strengthen ukraine's self defense and your contributions of security assistance and training for ukraine's defenders have been invaluable. did often negotiate often in history. the federal republic of germany and the united states of america then side by side in the approach. but also on the concrete issues i was going to be at the infantry fighting vehicle. the patriot air defense system or multiple rocket launchers. but for many in germany and further fields, 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 lead hud tags 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 contact group session, and then abby's and silva, germany a meeting where the 2 countries might be able to settle the tank debate at least for now. what we thought was filed by political correspondent, benjamin l virus grover, and i asked him how ready the new defense minister was for this meeting with us 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 member saying that his interior minister of

lower saxon, he also del, for many years with it topics of security. and this is way, way also appointed him to this critical, critical position of, or in times of war. okay, so germany taking a lot of heat from its allies at the moment for blocking the supply of these german made a leopard tanks to ukraine. what we're hearing is germany will drop it's 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 today. 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 emerson aveson sullivan, 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 leopard tongues to a ukraine. that's always a difficult topic for the german chancellor. he was pressed specifically on this.

it tanks also a few days ago, the world economic forum in divorce, where he said that is important that jimmy 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 report there were also mentioned in the piece of germany would wait for the u. s. to sent the ap ramps tar 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 he lent he has been asking for repeatedly to sent at main battle tank to santa battle tanks, to ukraine as quickly as possible. i knew that a band benjamin, the alvaros, said gruber, political correspondent, regardless of that at u. s. at germany on passover heavy tanks,

11 european nato countries of announced a new package of military support for you. craig, a meeting of defense ministers in the stone that included a breton pole in the netherlands and the baltic states agree that they would send that heavy artillery air defense, ammunition and infantry fighting vehicles. poland says is prepared to send a squadron of it, so german made a leopard two's. even though berlin has not given its approval. my very happy is look at some more stores making headlines around the world. germany, parliament is recognized. the massacre of ethnic disease is in a rack as genocide, the move was held by you see the community representatives who has 10, who attended the session in parliament fighters from the so called islamic state killed more than a 1000 disease in north western iraq in 2014 rescue scrambling to get the 6 people trapped under collapsed to build in the dominican republic camp. been

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of their most polluting industries of all our meeting and their investors. and as someone needs to spread the message that the fossil fuel era needs to come to an end and the future belongs to renewables and m that message, it's certainly not coming from those people. so we're, he, instead a lot of talk about getting to net 0. do you think that world leaders and business leaders will actually deliver? i think m was this business leaders. i doing very good job p. i am demonstrating that they know their climate change vocabulary very well by now. m. congrats. am batch clam address isn't about nice words and air, the green rhetoric. it's about substantial change and ending the am fossil fuel expansion. and if you look at the business plans of the big philosophy and see the around the world, all of them most, almost all of them plan to expand. so am clearly they're not drawing the line here when it comes to instruction. they're not clearly not planning to stick to

a climate targets so someone outs will need to stop them. who is a know about thank you so much that a new zealand were prime minister jacinta arden has shocked the country by announcing her only resignation till i've had labor party to a landslide re election victory 2 years ago. but now says february, the 7th will be her last day in the job, 8 months before the next election. just in the arden lead newsline through the pandemic terrorist attack and natural disasters. she now says she is ready to pass on the baton and so today i'm announcing that i will not be seeking really chin and in my tomb as prime minister will conclude no later than the season of february. i know what the job takes and i know that i no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. it's that simple.

husband became the was 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. but while in office how compassionate response to the ma shooting at a christ church mosque in 20191 her widespread praise. we a nuisance parliament wanted to change the nation's gun laws less than a month later, voice wisely. 4464, and a government's go hard. go. early approach should the pandemic is partly what got her. a 2nd home in 2020 newsline quickly shot borders and imposed

a prolong lockdown to stop the spread of the virus. but paul suggest a popularity has waned in reason once a plan to boucher 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 to 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 voted for here. so like i was never surprised. i mean, actually i was a bit shocked, shocked that she for matalin little, you know, i kind of thought that she was going to be in it for the long haul. it was, it was a shot. it is a shame to see an effective leave. a 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. a prosecutor in the u. s. city of santa fe,

as announced that the actor alec baldwin, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter over a shooting on a film set. the incident took place in october 2021. a cinematographer was killed when a revolver. mr. bolden was rehearsing with fired alive route. he denied responsibility for the death of the time, saying he was told that gun was cold and industry term, meaning that it was safe to use. well asked entertainment journalist k. j matthews, in los angeles. if mister baldwin had already had reacted to the charge. well, you know, he has not responded specifically, usually is very both on social media, whether it's his 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 movie set as part of what he says. we also have a statement from hannah, who terrors, remember she is the armor, her job, on the se, would have been to make sure that the like gun had only dummy 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 motion when 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 chargers bring jail time? yeah, what they're saying basically is it can 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, char, to persistent director, david hall. he's already agreed lead no contests for the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon. i think the key thing here is, if you 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 and 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. now 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 a 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 he failed to do that for that character. i'm sorry, i'm a journalist or catering matthews and my franchise that you're up to date more? well here's at the top of the hour, stephen basically has your the dumping business update next. good day with we got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, no magic corner chat, hot spot for food chairs and some great cultural memorials to boot d w, travel off we go. are you ready to get a little more extra.