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its troops try to push back russian forces, the russian embassy in berlin has denounced germany's plan tank deliveries as, quote, an extremely dangerous decision that could draw germany into the conflict. while speaking to parliament, a short time ago, chancellor shalt stressed germany is working closely with allies event. okay, you know, we will provide leper to main battle tanks to ukraine. this is the result of intensive consultation along with our allies and international partners. one part done, and i want to say explicitly, as it was right that we did not allow ourselves to drift to me that we rely on this close cooperation. in such matters. unbelief that fell from more or less get straight across to our political correspondent, simon young. simon, we've been talking about this all week. can you tell us just how big of a decision this is clear?

i think this is a massive decision from olaf sholtes and potentially game changing in this war. as the german defense minister, both stories has been saying today, not in itself, perhaps because the number of tanks that germany is promising is initially not large. but if it opens the way for other countries to st tanks, particularly those countries also have german made leopard tanks in which of course, as you mentioned, germany is now saying it will not stand in their way if they want to join in this effort. so, you know, that could be a lot of leopards and all the tanks going in to ukraine. that's exactly what president zelinski has said that he, he wants, he's looking for the opportunity to win on the ground. and indeed, in the take back some of the territory that russia has sees. and another thing

about this decision, it could be the 1st step for germany to gain back some of the international trust. it's last that germany can be a leader in the west, in response to this conflict. certainly has been damaged during the last weeks of hesitation by allow shells. yeah, you mentioned that germany last that goodwill in waiting to deliberate over this decision. we're now hearing the u. s. indicating it sounds like it's also going to send tanks. do you think that that is the assurance that chancellor schoultz was waiting for before changing his mind? yeah, well it's not clear what the us is going to announce, but i think what is true is that there are many people here in berlin who are expecting tank announcements from both washington and paris. and that really is the point from our shorts. his point of view, he wanted to act together with the other western nations to show that

these decisions were being carefully weighed in order to send the picture to the outside world. and particularly to russia. of course, that nato and the western countries are not divided in their response. and also to make it clear that no one country was, you know, could be accused by russia of escalating this conflict even further. so what other factors and concerns went into making this decision? because surely, there was concern over russia's reaction to a perceived escalation from germany. yeah, well the, the german government has said from the start that it was worried, as i said about escalating about provoking russia and, you know, that is a concern. but of our position politicians have increasingly been making the point in recent weeks. you know, what is the difference between some of the other help at the heavy weapons indeed

that germany has been sending into ukraine. and these tanks, which are really going to make the difference, you know, the, the, it's already clear which germany was on. but it was a case of making sure that the germany and it's other leading partners, particularly the u. s. were acting in lockstep. thank you so much for that update. i dw political correspondent, i'm in young. well, ukraine's military says it is confidence that western tanks can quickly be integrated on the battlefield. let's take a look at how keith could deploy these weapons against a numerically superior russian army. why does ukraine need tanks from the west? ukrainian soldiers on the front lines in the east and south. they have far fewer tanks than the russian invaders since the war began. he has been asking for more

infantry fighting vehicles like the german mater or the american. bradley agreements on deliveries of both were finally confirmed at the beginning of january. these vehicles bring the infantry to the battlefield. german expert on ukraine, nico luggage from the munich security conference, has long called for their delivery to the embattled country. the infancy fighting vickers, meaning that they can carry infantry soldiers to the front lines in the protected way. and they can conduct maneuvers and they have guns, of course, and also anti tank origin protect themselves. but also to reduce in, in the tech france has confirmed it will deliver the am x 10 r c scout tank to ukraine. the amex 10 drives on wheels is extremely agile and can be used on the front lines to scott out enemy positions to

greatness, to fight against an enemy that is very strong in auxilary, in order to build combined arms. and so has strong a tech forces. it is necessary to integrate infancy fighting vehicles together with tanks and other elements. main battle tanks like the challenger to promised by great britain or the german leopard to poland was the 1st country to promise you praying this heavily arm tank as long as its manufacturer. germany agrees since june of last year, western long range artillery weapons have been for ational and ukraine's front lines such as the pansy hell, it's a 2000 contributed by germany and the netherlands. oh, oh. oh, yeah, i do. yeah. is to integrates different kinds of weapons and vehicles to build

a strong force that is able to break through even a heavily fortified frontline, this is exactly what is needed in ukraine, right? mo, military insiders is the term combined arms. it's an approach to warfare that nato has trained and since the cold war long range artillery like the pansy, how it's a 2000 provide support for behind the front lines. infantry use fighting vehicles to provide cover fire for the heavy armor. spearheading the attack or main battle tanks like the british challenger to for the german leper to military strategist, ukraine are convinced they can use combined arm to make up for the russian advantage and freshly recruited soldiers, military hardware, shells,

and rockets. yeah. well, well know ukrainian military blogger, ye go, levin agrees away. the former israeli army officer points out that russia's armed forces are also attempting to use a similar strategy or a fia of alpha you, me. but russia has shown so far that it can't implement combined arms warfare void that they tried to use this concept, but it went very poorly from the book. combined arms requires not only competent commanders, but also good coordination between individual units have yet not familiar with. and communication and coordination are terrible in the russian army. yes. why did you read russia inherited the skeleton, the organizational structure of the soviet army? seeing, obviously, if it was so let's have a scar. but the kremlin appears to have analyzed the mistakes of 2022. russia's defense minister announced that the armed forces will be restructure. in addition, levin says ukraine must be prepared for another massive attack like the one in

spring 2022. where you are going to the need for armament whenever ends. military equipment has to flow like a river until ukraine has back to its 1991 borders and has crushed the russian army tanks. armored vehicles, artillery, ammunition, all must be delivered without interruption. that is why ukraine keeps asking for more and more tanks from the west in a bid to match the better equipped russian army with combined arms combat. for more on this, i'd like to welcome at nicholas missouri from the center for security studies at e t. e t h is zurick. nicholas, witness decision from the german government to send a leopard tanks to ukraine? do you expect it will make a major difference on the battlefield? yes, i think one's level tanks and other western not main. dental tanks can be integrated into the ukranian forces. it will make quite a difference both on the offensive in order to retake russian conquer territories.

but old sir to 8 the ukrainian defensive essence against both irrational fences. and what is it specifically about the leopard? twos that will make such a difference. leopards were originally designed to fight russian tangs or to fight su, getting in many ways the producers or the actual versions of the ones we're seeing now in ukraine to some extent. so they are very well suited to be integrated into combined onto teams. they are well equipped to all, to fight on the defensive, to withdraw and to delay the enemy. and they are meant by a cruel for so they can alter the field, repair to some extent, as opposed to other russian made or soviet type text or even as they are well suited to be integrated into cranes forth. and surely, it will take a little while do we have a sense of how long it will be before they're actually in action? in ukraine? led to some extent was to depends on the level of ambition that ukraine has.

$110.00 crew it is assumed will be meaning $3.00 to $6.00 weeks to be up to speed or to have a to be common capable. however, of course, it will then also take more time to form set combine arms teams to integrate these things with a twitter re, with mechanized infantry recognizance and so on. so to some extent, we have to assume that the time frame forward, those armed forces to be ready or to be fully operational to the level condition ukraine seems to have, is probably spring or early summer even. and i can tell you, tell me a bit more about what kind of logistical challenges germany might face of providing these tanks to ukraine in terms of training and maintenance. well, it's not just germany, of course, it's the leopard true has quite a few subtypes. we've got to be up to a 4 level to a 5 up to up to a 7, and then that's even national configuration such as the spanish, at the greek one. and right now i would assume that the challenge on the western

side is to have an assessment as to what extent, what countries have spare parts, what versions available, well, deficits, and how can those resources be pooled and coordinated and then be sent to ukraine to some extent alleviate the logistical headaches that the ukranian and i thank you so much for that. that's any questions or from the center for security studies at e t h 0. really appreciate your time. let's bring you up to speed. now with some other world news headlines, microsoft is investigating an issue that's caused world wide disruption to several of its services, including teams and outlook. the company's not said how many users have been affected, but outage tracking websites have logged thousands of incidence globally. teams alone is used by more than 280000000 people hope francis has said being homosexual should not be a crime. in an interview with the associated press,

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the 8 p. c. in the form of bowler i met sooner to houston. as more like the godfather of leg was a former governor of lego soil up against her, a former vice president himself in the form of attic lubbock, a who's winning for opposition party the pdp. and then you have peter obee who seems to be gaining energy from this huge movement and optimism. so these 3 front runners are looking more likely to bid that out of this 3 will have a president up at elections in february. and what were the main challenges it be for nigeria as a new president? while you can look no further beyond that, the security problem in the country with the book, aha, rom band is swapping in north east bounded 3. i did not central and north. yes. i'm down, it is south east, you have the ipod, one separate his groups there. so puck i saw the violence on non state actors in different parts of the country that has to be addressed by the incoming new president. and his also to talk about the inflation and rising cost of things,

the economy and a very, very high youth employment that that will be in the minds of any of the candidates would oscar emerge as bahati successor come after the elections, a whole host of issues from to face a no, no. jerry's election commission has also been warning that violence could disrupt this election. what stats are being taken to prevent that from happening? well, they have been guaranteeing adequate security for the election. so no, not so happy, no violence around poorly units and ballads snatching up. we've seen ballard box such an accident at pasta just early this week. the electoral commission boss, the i know boss himself did confirm that the elections will go ahead on the 25th of february despite their focus of violence going on to different parts of the country . so many will expect that when to go to the polls, it will be safe for them to boots. thank you so much for that update. that is a detail the use of the search of humor in lagos,

or the european court of human rights has rule that the case of the netherlands versus russia is admissible. the dutch government filed a complaint against russia because of a malaysian airlines flight shot down in 2014 and eastern ukraine. the case hopes to officially determine the russian states role in the downing of flight and each 17 forces under moscow's command and eastern ukraine, used a russian mess all to shoot down the passenger jack, killing all 298 people on board was either the special correspondent ion abraham as following the ruling in the hague. i out. what does this decision from the european or of human rights mean for the relatives of the crash victims and also for russia? well, we're here in strasburg. that's where the decision was read just a few minutes ago. claire and, you know, just sitting in the room, there was a representative from the netherlands, a representative of representatives from ukraine,

but no representatives from russia. the russian federation has, has sent nobody to hear this. and that tells you pretty much everything that you need to know about this is that they don't really care. this is not something that they really recognize, but just to give our viewers also just a little bit of context about this court. this court is part of the council of europe, a. and just last year, after the rushes, aggression on ukraine, russia left the this, this particular international organization and also left the european convention on human rights. so it's, it's really more about giving a signal to the victims that they will have their day in court. now this is not really a judgment on, on the case, this is just saying that the court will hear this case, but at the same time, if eventually the ruling finds that russia is guilty, they would legally have the right to a compensation from the russian government because of course, when this happened,

russia was still a party to the convention. also, interestingly, the dutch government is accusing russia of human rights violations for dis, information regarding and age 17. can you tell us what it means by that? well, but what they mean by that is just how much russia has been denying and denying and denying its involvement in this whatsoever. and what the dutch government argues is that, that violates, you know, the, the families of the victims is right to, to information to, to, to holding the truth about what happened to their family members. and what can we expect to happen next in the coming days and weeks? these rulings takes time just to give our viewers a little bit of context. this complaint was lodge in 2020. so this takes, this can take years and we can expect a lengthy process before there is a final decision from this court. thank you so much for that. update that steadily as a special correspondent, abraham and stress one gets

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