and re imagined dolly's teachings for relevance to. ah, gandhi's legacy starts january 20th on d, w. ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin. germany approved the deployment of its battle tanks to ukraine. chancellor sholtes assault tells parliament his decision to send the leopard to tanks follows intense consultation with allies. it comes as the us appears ready to also send tanks to keith also coming off on the shout. campaigning

kicks off in nigeria ahead of elections next month. we'll hear from young voters about the issues that matter most to them and why they say it's their time to decide the future of the country. ah, hello, i'm clear, richards and a very warm welcome to the show. germany has given the green light for german made leopard tanks to be delivered to ukraine. it's also approving requests from other european countries to transfer their leopard tanks to chief. initially, germany will send at 14 tanks and provide training ammunition and maintenance. remember, ukraine has been asking allies for these weapons. for months as its troops try to push back russian forces. the russian embassy in berlin for its part has denounced germany's plan tank with ovaries as quote, an extremely dangerous decision that could draw germany into the conflict. speaking

to parliament, a short time ago, chancellor schoultz stressed and germany is working closely with its allies. with that and okay, you know, we will provide leopard to main battle tanks to ukraine's flight. this is the result of intensive consultation, along with our allies and international partners. lots along, putnam and i want to say explicitly as what it was right that we did not allow ourselves to drift niche to that. we rely on this closed cooperation. he's in such matters and as ocean angelina, that's so we've been talking about this all week, but how big of a decision is it i put that question to did up is political correspondent simon young. i think this is a massive decision from olaf sholtes and potentially game changing in this war. as the german defense minutes, the board for storage 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 same tanks, particularly those countries also have german made left the 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, there 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 sholtes. 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 sholtes 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 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. 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 so germany was on. but it was a case of making sure that,

that germany and its other leading partners, particularly the u. s. were acting in lockstep. thank you so much for that update. i did these political correspondent, i'm in young and let's get across to the of the correspondent mathias bullying in a keep. but he has reactions in ukraine to chancellor shaw says announcements. well, there is a good amount of relief we all are as well with the politicians as with the general public here, there are means now circulating on the internet. all kinds of people dressed in a leopard skin are that's not only that's something that have a people have been posting before to call for the leopards. and now we have means, like to lensky walking around in a, in body armor. a leopard pattened and or even the national poet starship jenko wearing some kind of a coach and, and a heart in this leopard skin. so people are really,

are celebrating this. it's considered a major, a step in the war, something that would an able ukraine to get back the upper hand on the battle field . and let's hear what some of the people here and keith are saying about this. we have people dying every day. you understand that we don't do it out because i mean the new for him is the want to get this done as soon as it starts with washcloth technica heavy equipment will help, shall not have that. i'm as good when as a battle with our allies, heavy equipment will help a lot because i have no doubt that some new with the show. i think it will be easier for our guys now. well, there will be protected and wounded for many reasons. so high expectations for these tanks, i ukraine's present bodamer zalinski already asking for more tags. he says he needs

hundreds. i do think he's also going to ask for fighter jets next. yes. clear. that's pretty sure he has already in fact talked about f. 16 fighter jets in ramstein when this meeting where they discussed the delivery of the tanks happened and he was there by a video link um and other politicians are like her very well known foreman, ambassador, germany or other deputies of parliament or members of parliament. i have already asked for f 16, that's the next. a big step would be the next big step for ukraine. it's, of course, are still unclear whether this would be possible. i think the wes especially have been very careful about delivering a fighter jet so far, but it depends of course, a lot on the dynamics on the battlefield and on the dynamics of this war. that's certainly the next big demand from ukraine. when i asked more about those dynamics,

ukraine today acknowledge that its troops have withdrawn from solid are what are you hearing from the battle? france yeah, that's not a surprise. so the dog has been taken by the russians. a few days ago the russians were ferber mostly in control, and that means that the ukrainian side is not acknowledging this. this makes the defense of but more, more difficult now, but more to so far hold for the ukrainian army. but sir, of course sir, they have gotten a lot closer. they are now are standing basically north of baltimore with a territory that the ukrainians were holding so far. um, the russians have thrown a lot off manpower and a lot of ammunition in this direction. and there have been advancing, albeit slowly, but there have been at marching in that direction. so the battle around blackmore is not the most important battle on the front lines or the other parts of the frontline are more or less, i wouldn't say calm. of course, they're not com at all,

there's fighting going on, but nowhere as intense as environment. thank you so much for that update that did of years mathias bullying reporting from keith or ukraine's military says it's confident that western tanks can quickly be integrated on the battlefields. let's take a look at how keith could deploy these weapons against 8 numerically superior russian army. oh, 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 in the war began. he had been asking for more infantry fighting vehicles like the german motto 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.

infancy fighting vickers, meaning that they can carry infantry soldiers to the front lines in a protective way, and that they can conduct my glucose and they have guns, of course, and also ems. i tank reparation. protect themselves with all sorts of reduced in the tech. france has confirmed it will deliver the am x 10 r c scout tank crane. the amex 10 drives on wheels is extremely agile and can be used on the front lines to scott out enemy positions the greatest of fights against an enemy that is very strong and obsolete in order to build combined arms and to have strong attack 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 too. since

june of last year, western long range artillery weapons have been operational and ukraine's front lines such as the panza help. it's a 2000 contributed by germany and the netherlands. military insiders use the term combined arms. it's an approach to warfare that nato has trained, and since the cold war military strategist, ukraine, are convinced they can use, combined only to make up for the russian advantage. and freshly recruited soldiers, military hardware, shells, and rockets. ukraine must be prepared for another massive attack like the one in spring 2022 where you are going to get with the nissan and whatever and all of your military equipment bottled flow like are we thought maybe you created i did want to order just a bit of with an army, christine tangled armored on hickey, burglary every emotion in the audio. let albion alco to rush you book. that is why

ukraine keeps asking for more and more tanks from the west in a bid to manage the better equipped russian army with combined arms combat that's for you, the latest on some other world news stories. microsoft is investigating an issue that's called worldwide disruption to several of its services, including teams and outlook. companies not said how many users have been affected, but outage tracking websites have logged to thousands of incidents globally. teams alone is used by more than 280000000 people pope francis has said being homosexual should not be a crime in an interview with the associated press upon to acknowledge the catholic bishops in some parts of the world still support laws that discriminate against the l g b t q plus community. the vatican, however still considers the quote, act of homosexual sexuality. a sin chris hipkins has been sworn in as new

zealand, 41st prime minister, if i was just into our during the unexpected resignation last week. hipkins will have less than 9 months before contesting a talk. general election opinion polls suggest his labor party is trailing, the conservative opposition. we absolutely stains with ukraine of the europe ian court of human rights has ruled 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 in eastern ukraine. the case hopes to officially determine the russian states role in the downing of flight and each 17 forces under moscow command in eastern ukraine used a russian miss all to shoot down the passenger jet, killing all 298 people on board. earlier i spoke to d w special corresponding i abraham, who followed the ruling in strasbourg. she told us what the court's decision means

for the relatives of the crash victims. and also for russia, while 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 an 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, 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 lodged 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. while iran has said it will respond to the latest sanctions imposed by the european union and the u. k. over terrans months, long crackdown on protests in the country. it's one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world and its economy is in crisis. inflation is high and the gap between wealthy and poor is widening a quick look around the fleshy consumer goods on display here. and you'd hardly guess that iran is in deep crisis. but it's household goods industry is struggling and the economic sanctions imposed by the united states and europe are making business even tougher. tiring ha,

the sanctions have made bang, transfers difficult both for imports and exports. for example, we have to buy our raw materials like steel abroad, but to transfer money for it is difficult with upside. but most people, he had know that the main causes of iran's economic crisis, a domestic, they politely referred to endemic corruption and mismanagement as economic problems . that will then we shall, problems are enormous and they have their roots in our national economy. if the economy improved, all branches of industry would benefit and everyone would get their piece of the pie. the jaime, this, our team was allowed to visit the nab factory, 4 hours drive south of terran in cholos. it's the 1st time since anti government protest began in september that the authorities of allowed us to leave the capital . he had to, there have been protests, but the government wants to show that it has things under control now,

just like in to iran, inside the knob, the factory, they say that none of them joined the protests manager monsoon mohammed d gives us a tour. he says there are no more spare parts for the german made machines. so the company is turning to countries who are not imposing sanctions, such as russia and china. the sanctions haven't really affected their production, but trade has become harder in mama's and been we also have customers in india, but they say we can't send you any more money. instead we can give you black fabric for your char doors or rice robbers from us. i told them to stay with us. a limited necessity is the mother of invention. nab has reacted to western sanctions by opening up new markets in asia in the middle east. and they've seen growth despite all the problems. but the protests are a symptom of dissatisfaction in the country, compounded by high inflation. them all that for the muslim, we want our nation and our government every one to sit together. most mistakes need

to be corrected and the problem is between us must be solved to take the pressure off us. you'll love us. but european countries are hitting iran with fresh sanctions. they hope that by keeping pressure on the regime, they can force change. let's bring you up to speed now. when some other world news headlines, classified documents have been found at the home of former us vice president mike pence. his lawyer says the files were inadvertently boxed and taken to his indiana home. at the end of the last administration, the discovery puts pence in the company of former president donald trump, and president joe biden, after documents with classified markings were also found at their residence as jill opposed to the united states. ours, a tornado has torn through parts of the us state of texas flattening buildings and bringing down power lines and communities east of houston. there have been no

reports of any serious injuries. the national weather service in the u. s. has described the damage caused by the tornado, as catastrophic table peruse president dina watson has called for a national troops to and weeks of unrest. many peruvians are angry at the ousting. former president petro castillo was arrested after trying to dissolve congress. at least 46 people have died in the protest. all the water has apologized for those killed, but has ruled out resigning. political campaigns are getting underway in nigeria ahead of next month in general. and presidential elections, or voter apathy has always been a concern in previous elections, especially among younger people. but that now seems to be changing. many are talking about getting their permanent voting cards or pvcs, so they can help decide who will lead africa, largest economy. here's more from d, w only. sure. ah,

it's early. we aimed out scapes of lagos. normally trickle my low beat would. she will be going to his chicken far. but to day is prepared in what he calls his morning cry. com. yahoo. com. 2000 and evolved to do what level he's been doing this every morning since the start of the year. determined to get people to vote. i think that the partner responsibility rests on me. because i realized that i'm, if i take all the lang and so i'm 40, started to be company according to my, my view from my own. and i have to be involved. so financial that you want, you have to invest, do something just wanted to change to thought to school. we've been 93000000 nigerians average. that's a very tindy selection. nearly 40 percent of them are 34 years old. from different

parts of the country. young people can be seen, mobilize them ahead of the electrons. they say is that time to decide if you show up nigeria on day once? yeah, boards to count the huge and sas protests like this in late 2022 are seen as to root of this new young political movement. the it's us was debacle. is aware by the same time in many young people understand the power of organization par of are coming to get that to you know, to demand. so beyond the and so being a trigger. della shaw law was now electra was what now switzerland the houghton that has given this rise, younger voters seem to be looking for something new and fresh. do you want something new? so they just lunch, landed our voices and see if it will make any difference. basically i'm woodson,

i've got to might be busy, i'm young and i just feel like this is the right time for me to do it. and i out of, i thought i used to go and get out be so can get a bit initial. now we have to do these guys wants to voice mail the meal young people are just very got tired and that's it. as nigerians prepared to vote, young people are also preparing to have dare say. earlier i spoke to did other correspondent on they said shakuma who filed that report from lagos. he told us who has the best chance of succeeding the current president. well, we're just the basically among for the election. so 25th of february. so that's next month. our butts are as we speak, our people can ponce to 3 front runners. one of them is the ruling party candidate, the 8 p. c. any form of bala i met to nevada and houston as more like the godfather of lagos, a former governor of lagos was up against her,

a former vice president himself in a form of our 2 club, rebecca, who's when he put up a shot party. the pdp and then you have peter obee who seems to be gaining energy from this huge movement and optimism. so these 3 frontrunners are looking more likely to be out of these 3 will have a president after the elections in february. and what will the main challenge is it be for nigeria as a new president? while you can look no further beyond daddy security problem in the country with the book, aha, rom band is swapping in north east banded 3 and had not central and northwest and bounded his south east. you have, bye, i bob and separate his groups that so focus on balance on non state actors in different parts of the country that has to be addressed by the incoming new president. and is 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 who da hska emerge as bahati successor come after the elections. a whole host of

issues for him 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 elections and not and also have you know violence around poorly units on ballast snatch enough. we've seen by the box that you sent in to pasta just the earlier 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 balance going on to different parts of the country . so many will expect that when they go to the polls, it will be safe for them to have boots. thank you so much for that update that is d w's, alyssa shakuma in lagos. and just before we go, let's get a reminder of our top story. at this hour, german chancellor, olaf schultz has confirmed in germany, will send leverage to battle tanks to ukraine and allow other countries to do the

same. the move comes after intensive consultations with germany's allies and partners training for ukraine's forces on how to use the vehicles is also set to begin in germany soon. that series update at this hour coming up next is made in germany with a story about hydrogen production. and energy supplied for germany. stay tuned for that. or you can check out warnings and analysis on our website at detail. you talk . com and claire richardson in berlin from in the team. thanks much for watching. ah, with

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