destination, right? ah, sign, child base documentaries, a never seen before. subscribe. now i came in tree. ah, this is these are the news live from berlin baffled tanks. i now heading for ukraine on both sides of the atlantic, president biden and elses the us will deliver $31.00 of its powerful abrams tanks to the battery field. and ours, earlier german chancellor la sholtes confirmed that berlin will send it leopards to

also coming on. at least 2 people are killed and several others wounded in a knife attack on a train in northern germany. and in goodness, think of football dolphins broke the deadlock after lost when it's to come away with 3 crucial points at their match away at mines. ah, i'm really mohammed welcome to the program. you, as president joe biden has announced his country will send 31 of its m one abrams tanks to ukraine. it marks a coordinated move with germany and other european allies to provide ukraine with modern battle tanks ahead of a potential offensive this spring. biden also promised logistical support and training for ukrainian soldiers in operating the tanks. she is here and speaking

earlier to day i'm announcing that united states will be sending 31 abrams tanks to ukraine, equivalent of one ukrainian battalion surgery. austin has recommended to step because on hands, new crimes capacity and finished her turn achieve his strategic objectives. i'm grateful the chancellor shoals for providing german leopard to tax and will lead an effort to organize a european contribution to track battalions for ukraine. i want to thank the chancellor for his leadership and steadfast commitment to our collective efforts to support ukraine. germany has really stepped up and the full biden's analysis and germany gave the go ahead for a slap as tanks to be sent to ukraine is also a proving requests from other european countries to do the same. initially, germany will send 14 tanks and provide training. i munition and maintenance ukraine

has been asking allies for these weapons. for months as its troops tried to push back, russian forces the words that keith and its allies had been waiting for belinda ok, we will also provide ukraine with leper to maine. will better tank 0 puts fight? many had criticized charles for dragging his feet on this matter. but he defended the timing on israel also look this and i want to say explicitly, it was right. and it's right that we did not allow ourselves to be forced into action, but instead in this issue to focus on close cooperation and continue, it was your thoughts at berlin will deliver a company of 14 lepper, 2 tanks to ukraine. it will also give the green light to other allies that want to supply, keep with tanks. all this is tom, the it isn't, i'm, this is not just about any weapon. this is about one of the best battle tanks in the world. confidence of that's an important potential game changer in this war,

at least in the current face. to listen to your thinking father. further details on the road ahead will now be discussed with other allies who want to cynthia tanks. will let each of these, carrying that she more towards me now for more in washington dc. now colina or la schoultz has been praised for his decision to send these leopard to tanks. but how much of a role did he play in the u. s. has moved to send its tanks well, he definitely played a crucial role only a week ago. and he said that germany would only deliver lou apart to tanks if the united states a delivers abrams tanks. and then as you probably remember, there was this important meeting in germany in a huge time where germany and the u. s. did not reach an agreement and all the sides where aware of what kind of image and what kind of message they were

a giving through this disagreement they were showing, obviously, division and bitin, was asked today in the white house, if shoals are, or if germany had a forced him to take the decision of sending $31.00 abrams tanks, and he of course had no but then he underline and, and he added at, we just want to make sure we're all together. and there was only just a week ago that us officials said that these abrams tanks were not suitable for use in ukraine. what's changed? that was precisely also one of the questions in the background meeting this morning with the department of defense and the spokesperson, john kerry. we answered that there had been many calls and many conversations between biden and charles this week to coordinate not only the tanks, but also the help of the allies are sending to ukraine are planning to central ukraine. he said that today's announcement is a result of great diplomatic conversations, and that unity is and has been their greatest strength. so as you can see,

the main message here is clearly to show that they are not divided. they meaning germany, europe, to european union and the united states are united. and this is probably also important because as we all know, that evaded any enemy in this case where russia could of course, be an easier target for them. as the teacher believes, carrying that she more in washington dc for us. thank you. please say to people have been killed and several others injured in a knife attack on a train in northern germany. the incident took place as the train was traveling between the cities of keel and hamburg lease the rest of the alleged attacker in the town of rockstead. the motive is still unclear, but at this is what the regions interior minister had to say. come on board with we should mention that the passengers intervened very briefly and may

well have prevented the attacker doing even more home theater. we don't exactly know at the moment, but it's definitely the case that many or at least some of the people on the train . the passengers were ready for you with johnny whit is a hamburg based journalist and has more on the incident in northern germany. what we know for sure is that this afternoon, a man attacking people on a train on a traveling pastor at passenger and commute, a train between keel and hamburg. a talked people in a starving attack and the 2 people have died and 8 people have been injured. 3 of them seriously. among these c with the injured people, is the attacker we've been told he's been taken to hospital. there was may him on the train. i witnesses say that the man began to run

a mock that people were running through the train and panic that there were bloodstains on with the train. and apparently the, the fight that the, the attacker was stopped by people on the train and overwhelmed and that this, this disturbance, this altercation then continued onto the platform once the train stopped and boxed it. so a really, really shocking incident. and of course, the, the station itself was cordoned off because a major police operation underway still to this point and train services were interrupted. of course, this all this afternoon, but to a series incident and i'm very, very shocking. the police are using very scanty detail, this thing, nothing at all about the, the, in that with the possible motive, apart from the fact that they're investigating in all directions. so that could be a psychological motive, or the could be an extremist motive, but that's simply not known under to take time to investigate this. and all we know is that the man is said to be in his twenties to thirty's. and that's not, there's nothing, there's no further detail on him personally. and there are sources saying to the,

to the dpa press agency that he hasn't been known to the police in the past for any kind of extremist behavior. but again, that needs to be reported. and, and investigated by the police, and we have to see what, what emerges there though the seems to have been no incident leading up to this attack the seems looking very, very sudden. and it's taken people by surprise. it's a very, very shocking incident. indeed. let us take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. a church official has been killed and a priest seriously injured after machete attacks and spain. the attacks happened at 2 churches in the southern city of august, sir us, he suspect, has been arrested and authority say they are investigating a possible case of terrorism. a court in russia has approved a government application to shut down the country's oldest human rights watch dog. the moscow, helsinki group is the latest organization to be targeted or criticizing the kremlin

. it was created in 1976 to monitor soviet authorities, commitment to respect human rights and freedoms. the european court of human rights has said it will hear the netherlands case against russia over the downing of flight and major 17 in 2014 the militia airlines flight was shot down by a missile fight by russian forces in east cray. nearly 300 people on board were killed. microsoft is investigating an issue that's caused world wide disruption to several other services, including teams and outlook. the companies not said how many users have been affected, but outage tracking websites have log thousands of incidents globally. teams alone is used by more than 280000000 people. snow and ice have covered parcel, northern china as the country sees,

a wave of via cold weather railway st. off work to clear ice train tracks in the closest city of yan tai and state media report local authorities and china's north eastern provinces have issued whether alerts or extreme low temperatures. so would you, a ball told that thousands of people have demonstrated against the ongoing energy crisis in south africa. protest is marched to the office of the ruling. can national congress in cape town, police on the street to separate them from am to support the party is being blamed for widespread power shortages which are impacted businesses and communities. the country to japanese, christine manuel has more on that with the country. experiencing power outage is up to 6 hours a day, south africans could be facing an electricity price hike up just and

a 19 percent this after it was approved by the countries energy regulator. now today's march, which was organized by the country's biggest proposition, the da was about protesting that price hike at the da has gone a step further. it has applied to the high court to stop it from being implemented . so the african say that pricing is simply and affordable and, and just at a time when the power capstone as load shitting a crippling businesses and the economy. now the situation here has been described as a crisis by the will. forty's, but south africans have been told that there is no quick fix and that these power outage is known as load shitting are going to continue for another 24 months. is the sports is now and looking at football and in the bonus vega, those went paid a visit to mines on wednesday. the hosts have struggle to make games. the season that they had thought went deadlocked until the very last minute. that's when

american gerena scored another winner to give them a to one victory. i don't been lined up in mind knowing that i had to attack them in and read without the best known defender. woke up when a mats hummel's was dropped, heading to the bench, wondering how his side would confront along held weakness in defending st paces without him. it took 2 minutes to get the answer. not well. an early blind pleased the manager. jason lee squeezing his head or in the neopost mind said made the perfect stars that had stirred the visitors into action. just 2 minutes later norwegian julian rice and had time to try his luck from distance 11 after 4 minutes. the reply revealing his luck was most definitely in bos, fence and huffed, and puffed pleading for a month's hero. dormant brought one of the bench, sebastian helen on light as he continues to take steps on the way back from kansas

surgery. but he wasn't to be the hero this time, that on felt the same man. who did that last time? ga rayner with his 2nd game winning strike in just 5 days. dockman climbing the table once more, and the young american is again, he's also on wednesday, fryeburg and frankfort had to settle for a point each when they played to a one all draw banjo, column one. he opened the scoring for frankfort a few minutes before her time, the france international banging in his 6th goal of the campaign in style. then shortly after the restart, fivers my tit fryeburg, my task into headed home to level that school christian can tell where they perfect cross into proving he knows how to use his head. so what does all of that mean for the pin,

the sticker standings at the midway point of the season? well, by in our salon top, but only in berlin are now only 3 points behind them. there. followed by leipzig and frankfort, and at the bottom, balkan have fallen back to the relegation zone, where they'll be joined by heter and shaka. watching the adobe news live from berlin. stick around all the latest business is coming up next with my colleague reports of these in a bite with making the headlights and what's behind them. dw news africa. the show that settles the issues shaping the continents. life is slowly getting back to normally on the streams to give you enough reports on the insights.