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and buy it to make their fans wait until the dying minutes. but it was worth it. jubilation follows a want to go from go through kimmy. it saves the day for the defending champion. ah, i'm really mohammed welcome to the program german media. a reporting that chancellor olaf schoultz has agreed to send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine and allow all the countries to do to do the same. this comes off the days of talks among western allies over what seen as germany dragging its feet on military 8 for keith . ukraine wants to use the western tanks to reclaim territory so occupied by russia . yeah,

seems to have finally yielded to the pressure german chancellor ala schultz has reportedly decided to send leopard tanks to ukraine and the low other countries such as poland and finland to do so, to lepper tank. so used by a number of nato countries. they're seen by defense experts as the most suitable heavy battle tanks for ukraine's needs. hello to me, it's a lensky. welcome to the news, but says he needs 300 tanks. which model would it put on? there is a lot of talk about tanks. know about the modern, tight i need wars and how this deficit can be failed. fits it. many efforts words, promises or beach, but it is important in reality such that it is not 5 or 10 or 15 tanks to be the need is greater yet, but we do everything and we need to fill the deficit daily session. i thank everyone who's helping us unless the juggle cosmo calls me on us. sean will be 3.

as he spoke, reports emerge from the united states that washington was preparing to send abrams m one battle tanks. while on confirmed such a decision would mark him major turnaround, though it could take months before the which ukraine the m one is a complex weapon system that is challenging to maintain as we've talked about. ah, that was true yesterday. it's true today will be true in the future. again. well, without getting in hypotheticals, any time that we provided ukraine with any type of system, we provided that the training and sustainment capabilities with that, the development common matter, a number of allied countries, expressed frustration with germany over rich reluctance to a low tank deliveries. they needed berlin sign off to transfer their road. they now appear to have it, and the news has gone down badly and russia. course,

these deliveries would bring nothing good to future relationships. they will leave a lasting mark the world. no, wait to see whether you cream gets the tanks it so desperately once and in time to fend off a russian offensive in the spring. well, joining me in the studio is a d. w. 's political correspondent, matthew, more so up shells. finally making this decision to send epa tanks to ukraine. what more do you know? well, several german media outlets began reporting the story in the evening and the according to the reports which are unconfirmed at this stage. germany is planning to send a company of leopard to tanks, which is 14 tanks from the german buddhist. verizon. also significantly pledging to green light, the other nations european allies who also have their own lepper. 2 tanks, giving them the green light to send them as well. and it is understood that poland, finland and norway are preparing to send some of their leper to tanks. now,

as i say this is unconfirmed, but hugely significant development. and it comes after weeks of pressure on all our shots from international allies. and also domestically here in germany. quite brutal criticism of his handling of this people saying that it was too slow to stubborn and needed to show that more courage. at the moment, the defense ministry is not conforming or denying. the story is quite significant in itself to moral all our shot or address the buddhist act. to discuss this and we'll find out then, surely whether this plan is to go ahead or not. and at the same time, the united states is also looking to send abrams tanks. that's right. miss. been quite a significant few hours in the history of this war wheeler, i think, according to you asked me to report the u. s. is now ready to send 30 abrams and one tanks there, there, but 2 tanks that the u. s. has, and that's quite significant because until now the consensus are generally been

that those tanks are not suitable for the warranty in ukraine because for various reasons, not least they, the, the consume huge amounts of and jet fuel, which is hard to source in ukraine. and there's various other reasons they're highly sophisticated and that they wouldn't be able to train ukrainian forces to use them in the time frame that ukraine meets them. so it looks like all of those reports are correct. he's achieved what he wanted all along, which was a really broad coalition of european western allies to commit together to send battle tanks, not just for germany to be doing a loan. so we'll see, we'll see in the next few hours, i'm sure whether those reports are confirmed by the moment and it seems like it's likely all right, that is that he w, matthew mo, keeping close on that story for thank you. well, how long will it be for those, let the 2 tanks to make it to the battlefield in ukraine. i put that question to

defense expert marina mirand from king's college in london. well for a library to tanks, it will be certainly longer do. do establish the necessary logistical lines of why? because we're talking here about 120 millimeter smooth bore main gun which requires need to standard ammunition before the ukrainians were using the front ammunition different caliber of ammunition. it will need of spare parts and other things like support vehicles. so probably if want they want to arrive on the battlefield before mid spring. in addition to that, some of that thanks might need to be refurbished before use. and in conjunction was that the ukranian troops will need to be trained to use those things are much more complex and the tanks that the ukrainians have from the soviet stalks, like the 70 two's. and for the ever,

i'm staying given that there will be 30 it just in terms of logistics. it creates a very happy logistical footprint. and in addition to supplying this special jet fuel and a depleted uranium rounds, which the bronze thank you this so it's quite complex. it will be a very complex logistical exercise to give the thanks to ukraine on a 2nd. look at some other stories making headlines around the world. sweden's prime minister christenson has that restated that they took membership remains his country. you talk to national security priority, sweden and finland bit to join. the blog has been finalized by talking after a right wing politicians stock have been a koran outside the turkish embassy, her as president deena bolo, what a has called for a national truce to and weeks of unrest. many peruvians are angry at the listing of

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the netflix german anti war drum out on the old, quiet on the western front, has 9 nominations, including best picture and best international feature. and the action comedy, everything everywhere. all at once is the film to beat. it landed 11 nominations. the winners will be announced at the ceremony in march. while what are the chances that all quiet on the western front could get that big when he has d. w. 's scott rock tspra? oh yeah, well if i don't think i'll take out all of them, that would be a bit of a bit of a reach, i think. but it 9 nominations is really phenomenal. i mean, for non english language films to do that well is almost unheard of. i've, we've seen like 2 films, roma mexican film from couple years back and crouching tiger hidden dragon, meaning sort of epic or chinese language. a movie, vague book. i tend nominations, otherwise it's never, it's never happened before that a non english language don't get so many nominations. i mean,

i think that almost guarantees all quite on western for a whole while home with a few awards come the academy awards in march. i'm. it's really impressive movie because i say not only is it the 1st german adaptation of remarks or anti war novel, which of course was written in german. and it also really combines sort of the sort of apic war movie that is quite popular a, with the academy awards of, with a very sort of international perspective and a very almost unique perspective, the sort of drip perspective of the ordinary german soldier in the 1st world war, incredibly powerful movie and really great. it's really great to see that it's done so well, at least with the oscar nomination. since forces now and mid week brenda figure action sort, leipzig looking to carry on the form that thought then take a point from lead is by and munich at the weekend. they were on the road again, looking to built, shall come and climb to 2nd in the table this time. and they did this in brutal fashion, jenkins and started the game by gathering in the dock to sing

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