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make their fans wait until the dying minutes, but it was worth it. jubilation follows a spectacular goal from y'all. so what kimmy that saves the day for the defending champion. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. german media reporting that transfer all of schoultz will to day announce a decision to send german mate leopard tanks to ukraine. he is also expected to approve requests from poland and other countries to do the same. this apparent decision comes amid increased pressure from western allies to scale up military aid for kip. ukraine wants to use the bottle tanks to reclaim territory still occupied by russian forces jam in chancellor. allah schultz has reportedly decide cents left

for tanks to ukraine and the low other countries such as poland and finland to do so to leper tank. so used by a number of nato countries. there seemed by defense experts as the most suitable heavy battle tanks for you creams needs follow to me. it's lensky welcomed the news, but says he needs 300 tanks by the hoarded put on. there is a lot of talk about tanks. know about the modern tiger need, morton and how this deficit can be fail if it's in many effort his words, promises or beach, but it is in poor lemme reality. but there is not 5 or 10 of the building it hangs to denita is greater yet less. we do everything for him and he just filled the debt is really session. i thank everyone who's helping us unless the juggle cosmo gordon, me turn off. john will be 3. as he spoke, reports emerge from the united states, but washington was preparing to send. he runs em one battle tanks. y along

confirmed thought to decision with 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 the needed barrel inside off to transfer the road. they now appear to have it. the news has gone down badly in russia. of course, the deliveries would bring nothing good for future relationships. they will leave a lasting mark the world, no, wait to see whether you cream,

get the tank set so desperately once and in time to fend off a russian offensive in the spring. more let's bring in our political correspond thomas barrow here tours. it's been widely reported that to day berlin will give the go ahead for german made leopard tags to be delivered to ukraine. when can we expect an official announcement? we can expect an official announcement in the coming hours, especially as german chancellor of charles has a planned appearance at the german buddhist. i have a question and answer session. so basically german media, german journalists and analysts are expecting that announcement to come, then it would not be a surprise announcement given all the pressure that the german government has been through all the criticism that the german government has received. and especially considering the fact that only yesterday, after meeting with nato secretary general,

the new german defense minister ball must be sources already basically told allies that they could start training ukrainian soldiers in the use of these battle tanks . so basically we're just expecting to hear the official confirmation on the one hand and then on the other hand, the details of how many tanks journey will send and how that approval process will take place for other countries for other allies who want to send to ukraine. their own german made tanks. what's the back story on this thomas? what led to this apparent decision now? or one element is certainly terry, the criticism that german leaders in particular german chancello, left charles have received because of what allies consider to be germany's reluctant leadership germany. a reticent leader when it comes to sending weapons and tanks to ukraine. but i think it also has to do with the fact that these kinds

of decisions here in germany need a lot of time to be debated. the pros, the cons, all the details need to be weighed within the members of germany's 3 way coalition before that decision can actually been made. so this is the actual story here from a local perspective. the fact that this has taken a long time because all sorts of details need to be planned before that announcement is actually made. however, for germany's international allies, countries like poland, this is a decision that is coming to slow. that is taking too long, especially if you consider what is actually happening in ukraine. so there are different views as to what this decision actually means, what it implies, and what the back story of this is as well. thomas, thank you very much. our political correspondent, thomas sparrow. so what does this mean for ukraine? earlier i spoke with d. w. 's mathias, berlin in kia. i asked him how ukrainians are reacting to reports that their forces

could soon be getting modern bottle tanks from the west. there has been an intense campaign on social media and, and civil society in ukraine for these tanks, for germany to send these tanks and a lot of frustration with the hesitant german position so far. so you can imagine that are, there are lots of people who are now expressing joy. there is the hope that this battle tank will make a big difference on the battlefield that will help the ukrainian army to get into the offensive to get the upper hand again. and so that's why civil society is welcoming this decision and people have expressed gratitude to germany for finally making this decision and the hope that things will change for your cream with these tax so that there are many different types of tanks out there. of course, why has ukraine been asking specifically for german made leopard tanks? so there are 4 turn space basically that are designed heavy tanks, battle

a combat tags are that are designed to meet the soviet army. there is the abrams from the u. s. the german leopard and there are the french and the british tanks, the laclare and the challenges the late letter to i have not been produced in the same quantity. so it would not be as easy to free as a certain amount. we've just heard zalinski talking about several 100 tanks that are needed for, for ukraine arm and between the german and the american version. there is not a big difference. i understand in terms of combat air capabilities, but the abrams are using more fuel and they're more difficult to maintain. it would require more logistics. that's what we've been hearing for the past few weeks. and that's why the germans are the favor. it. they have very good capabilities that designed to fight these soviet t 72 tags that russia is mainly using. and there is a considerable number in a lot of countries. so it's success as an expert. a good is basically

on the basis for it's a for, for why ukraine really wants this tank there is in, there are enough of them as ukraine weights for those new weapons to arrive the tears. what's happening on the battlefield right now? yo is so seeing heavy battles in the east, mainly around the city of boston woods and neighboring settlements, and the russians ha, having the upper hand there, they have a lot more ammunitions and a lot more personnel and a lot more a weapons there. so there make making a lot of pressure. it's still the same thing that we've been seeing in the east since the beginning of the war. the throwing a lot of material and are of personnel towards the front lines and making pressure on the ukrainian or positions. and as my ukraine is hoping to get the upper hand

again by bringing in more heavy weaponry. but he has thank you very much for that update. there was our correspond mathias spelling of their in chip catch up with a few other stories making headlines around the world. today, the human court, the european court of human rights, is set to announce whether it will hear a dutch case against russia over the downing of flight m, age 17. in 2014, all 298 people on board. the malaysian airlines flight were killed when it was shot down by a missile fired by forces under moscow's command in eastern ukraine. classified documents have been found at the home of forward u. s. vice president mike pence is lawyer, says the files were inadvertently boxed and taken to his indiana home at the end of the last administration. the discovery puts pants in the company of former president, donald trump and the president joe biden laughter. documents with classified markings were also found at their residence halls. a tornado has torn through parts

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watching dw news from berlin, just a reminder of our top story, this our german chest, all of schoultz is expected to announce his decision to send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine and allow other countries to do the same. the move comes amid pressure from western allies to scale up military aid for keith. ukraine wants to use the battle tanks to reclaim territory still occupied by russian forces. up next, a documentary film about a group of women in india, joining together to protect their wild life. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching . ah ah, leonardo da vinci's mysterious masterpiece. it is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful.