ah, ah ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin a big 1st day for germany's new defense minister hours after being sworn in bars. pastorius meets with us defense secretary lloyd austin, topping the agenda, german bottle tanks for ukraine. also on the program. tyson's por, in to peruse capital in support of ousted president pedro castillo. police are in force and made concerns of new violence in a crisis that has already claimed more than 50 lives. and actor

alec baldwin is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting of a crew member on a film set. he could face jail time. ah, i'm pablo police. welcome to the program. germany's new defense minister bars historian has hosted his us counterpart, lloyd austin here in berlin for talked on ukraine. their meeting comes ahead of nato consultations on friday at which countries are expected to make critical decisions about further military aid. to keep 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 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, self defense, and your contributions of security assistance and training for ukraine's defenders have been invaluable with often, often in history. the federal republic of germany and united states of america then side by side in the approach. but also on the concrete issues. i'm going to be at the infantry fighting vehicle. the patriot a different system or the multiple rocket launchers. but for many in germany in 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 leper 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 contact group session, and then abby's in sullivan, germany, a meeting where the 2 countries might be able to settle the tank debate at least for now. while dw political corresponding bank coming out of our group or file that report and earlier, we asked him if the new defense minister was fully prepared for this meeting with his us counterpart. he probably would also have liked to have a few more days to get into this new role that that's something that the german president funk for just. i may a told the new defense minister earlier today, you have to get started right away in another high ranking politician of the pro business f d p party said that won't be a grace period. so he needs to start it with the talks already. he met the

secretary of the fence. he also had a phone call with his french counterpart. and to morrow of course, will be a big day for a politician that has known this topics. if for several weeks he has been following all this evolution is interior minutes of lois sex. and he also dealt with many of the security topics. and that's something that the german chancellor will of shall set when he announced that boys before his will be germany's new defense minister bank coming out about as gruber reporting there. well, 11 european natal members have announced a new package of military support for ukraine, a meeting of defense ministers in estonia, including the u. k. poland, the netherlands, and the baltic states agreed that they will send heavy artillery air defense, ammunition and infantry fighting vehicles. poland says it's prepared to send a squadron of it's german made leopard to tanks, even though berlin has not given its approval to do so. well, demonstrators have been marching through, perused capital,

lima in support of ousted president pedro castillo. more than 10000 police officers have been deployed ahead of the demonstration as activists from across the country have been pouring into the city. protests began last month after pedro castillo was impeached, following a failed attempt to dissolve congress. more than 50 people have been killed in clashes with police. the w correspond nicole reese joins us now from the yeah. peruvian capital, lima. nicole. great to see you. so these protests have been taking place for weeks now, but they appear to have been growing and spreading across peru. why is that nicole? yes, that's right. at the start spreading towards the lima now, which was not the center of attention for the past 2 weeks, because the main protests are still in the south. where at the moment also massive protest and protest is trying to take several airport in the region. now people

have come to the capitol, lima, because they feel that they are not being hurt, and they are angry as well because they have been, several people killed more than 50 people have been killed in clashes with the police as well in connection with processed and the last week we just had the convention of one more dead in the southern regions. so they want to be her here in the city of lima. and right behind me right now is a small, a protest. actually, a pro governmental a people who are in favor of the president, benevolently just in front of them, of the protest, this war, anti government. and that at the moment here in the city are the majority were protesting just this is on the very small scale. but the city here in lima is living some tension, especially in the central areas where some parts of the protest have also been attacked with tear gas or by the police. so this certainly will be still

a long afternoon and evening coming out of nicole or the protesters any closer to achieving their demands. it doesn't look like me, i'm at the moment and they are still here protesting and say they will stay as long as it meets for you know, what if it do resign for a new congress to become for new elections. but from the governmental side, there is not much movement into that direction. i spoke to some people who were camping at the university syfma who are at the post office. all righty now. and this is what they want it for for lima, for the future. good morning, so we won't, di napoli wanted to resign and conquest to be restructured, and that i saw them, we want a new constitution so that the country can find its way back to p. i suppose you think i, you must. well, there is not poverty. i'm was my fin laura band and most of there is nothing feed, you know, history is waiting for us. i get my mom. that's why we came here today to fight her

. hello, charlie. oh no software, no tower, a sport along the way, waco. now they say we are terrorist, but that's not the truth. that's not how it should be when now asking dana, we'll, i'll try to step down. nicole, it sounds like the protesters are pretty determined what's being said in peru though of a possible solutions to the current situation possible . so since would be for the protesters earlier elections, but at the moment that's only talks of elections in april 2024. and even these are not even approved yet. it's a longer process to get early elections here. it needs to have a change in the constitution. for example, the approval of the congress and the approval from the legislative. that's only a few things that need to happen and that needs to be time for candidates to be kind of elected to be in the process. of course, this would be a solution from the protesters side, but if you look at the reality at the moment it's, do you know we want to be in charge before it was a little castillo. and that was so much unrest in the last few years into real

politically that instability maybe is difficult to achieve and these next weeks as a solution for now, for us to say they will stay as long as it needs and protests, as long as she's that i would love to resign by what happens after if she would resign is a bit uncertain at the moment. and nobody can really predict if he's protest, then we'll actually stop tanks. nicole, nicole reese in lima. let's have a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. the german parliament has recognized the massacre of ethnic. he is ease in iraq as genocide. the move was hailed by his edi community representatives, who attended the session and parliament fighters from the so called islamic state killed more than a 1000 deities in northwestern iraq. in 2014 rescue words

are scrambling to get to 6 people trapped under a collapse to building in the dominican republic. cameras have been wedged into the rubble and firefighters were in contact with those waiting to be rescued. several inhabitants were injured when the 4 story structure collapsed, but no deaths have been reported. morocco has been hit by heavy rainfall and surprised snowy conditions brought 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 experienced one of its most severe drives in 3 decades. a prosecutor in the u. s. city of santa fe has announced that actor alec baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter overshooting on a film set. the incident took place in october 2021. a cinematographer was killed

when a revolver baldwin was rehearsing with, during filming, fired a live round. baldwin denied responsibility for the death at the time saying he was told the gun was quote, cold, and industry term, meaning it's safe to use well, entertainment journalist k j matthews is following this story from los angeles and joins us now. k. jake, great to see you. so alec baldwin has always denied responsibility for this debt. do we have any reaction from him? you know, from the very good go. i think you remember he did an interview with a journalist here that knew as obviously where he said he just could not have pulled the trigger and said he didn't think that he would be charge would be in his words, a terrible miscarriage of justice. but now here we are to day and he has been charged with 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter. that he is in the state of new mexico.

and so far i been looking at all of his social media, usually pretty active on instagram and twitter. and so far he has not released the statement. however, an attorney that represents alec baldwin did release a statement saying that this decision distorts helena hutchins tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. mister baldwin had no reason to believe there was a lie, bullying the gun or anywhere on them and sent back in part of what part of the statement that was released on behalf of alec ball. is he looking at jail time if convicted? yes, that's very, very interesting that you mentioned it because i was looking to see, you know, what does this, these count, you know how, what yell time couldn't get? well, remember, he's been charged with 2 different types of involuntary manslaughter. the 1st type would only give you 18 months behind bars. the 2nd type carries a mandatory sentence of 5 years behind bars. and there really has not been any word

from his camp as to whether or not or plead guilty or take some sort of plea deal, which might get him off the hook from selah, from having any type of jail time. and just having probation, i will still have to wait for back. the shooting has focused attention on film production, safety. what repercussions have there been for the industry? it's funny you should mention it. you know, there is a state senator here in california. this already set you introduce a safety bill basically there were require tupper standards on movie sets. i think he tried it, introduce it at some point last year. it didn't go through, but now the alec baldwin and the armor on the set had been charged with involuntary manslaughter. he feels of this, the state senator here in california, that it will have a better chance of being passed here. and that they're just meant needs to be many more safety precautions to make sure that this hasn't happened. because remember,

this all happened because there were live rounds of ammunition mixed with dummy, right. and there should have never been live ground right on the set at all. and one thing to mention is that even though these 2 people, alec ball in the armor have been charged, we still don't know how the live rounds got to set. we know what company were supposed to deliver the round. we don't know if that company had anything to do with a mistakenly delivering live rounds to the st. certainly a terrible tragedy. thanks. k, j entertainment journalist, kj mouth who's in los angeles. thank you. rudy fuller is the new director of football with the german mans national team. he replaces oliver beer half who stepped down after germany's latest world cup failure in qatar . philip retired as a football functionary after leaving buyer labor choosing last season. but the german legend who won the world cup in 1990. well,

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